001Please join us in the pledge of the on the pledge of the allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationy andice for all. Thank you. Can I have a volunteer to read our mission statement? Trusty Williams, please. Our mission statement is to provide a high quality education in a culturally safe and nurturing environment that supports all students to live purposefully purposeful and fulfilling lives. Thank you, Trusty Williams. Could the clerk please call the role? Dr. Kavanaaugh, present. Mr. Herd, Mr. Lopez, Mrs. Moore present Dr. Navarus Martinez present Dr. Rodriguez Mrs. Strode Miss Williams Quir is present. Thank you. Are there any public comments on agenda items? Seeing none, we will move on to the approval of our minutes. Are there are there any corrections to
002the May 1st minutes? Seeing none, any presentations today? Moving right along. Alrighty, we'll have our first report from our secretary, uh, Dr. N Martinez. So, um May 23rd we have a planning and records half day for our elementary schools. May 26th there is no school because it is Memorial Day. Um our eighth grade families are invited to Lancing Tech'sformational party on May 21st from 5 to 7 at 5815 Wise Road. Our second annual Everett Memorial Mile will be in May 25th. Uh packet pickup will be on race day morning starting at 7:45 a.m. at the track and registration is needed. Um our next board meetings, we have May 22nd, uh special board meeting, June 5th, regular board meeting andformational study session, and June 26 public hearing at 5:30 p.m. and regular board meeting at 6:00
003p.m. Thank you, Sue. Yes, Dr. is going to be the special board meeting. Our special board meeting will be at 6:00, Madam President. Yes. Um are we doing the 21st and the 22nd or just the 22nd? After we receive all of our applicants um when it's actually um the application has closed, but once we receive all of our applicants, then we will then go from there. Okay. Oh, thank you. You're welcome. Welcome, Trusty Herd. I was Thank you for for attending tonight. I do want to make note that I was aware that trustee um Strode will not be in tonight and trustee um Lopez will not be here tonight and trustee uh herd has joined us. Thank you for joining us. Yes. Thank you, Madam President. I do have to leave early, but I wanted
004to be here for as long as I can. Thank you. Thank you so much. So, Trusty Herd's arrival 603. All righty. Wonderful. Moving on to our uh facilities committee. Um Doc or Trustee Lopez is not here tonight. Will someone you'll be reporting? Wonderful. Trust Dr. Kavanagh, please. Thank you. Um the facilities committee met this past Monday, which was the 12th. Um present were Mr. Lopez and myself. Um first, we got an update on some of our building projects. So, as you may have seen if you've driven past u Mount Hope schools, um we're getting really close there. Uh we saw some kind of finishing touches being done, whether that's putting the paint on the, you know, gymnasium floors. Um getting ready to get bleachers put in. Um so that's where Mount Hope is at. It's
005almost completed and things are looking great. Um we also got um a report on um Luton. So Luton is scheduled for um for construction next after we get through our other projects. Um and so we got an update there. Um, obviously parents have been providing input into the design process. Uh, and so we are at the point where we're starting to get ready to move forward with a final design. So that's very exciting. Um, additionally, you'll see on your agenda we have a number of purchase recommendations today. Uh, and I will walk us through them so that we feel comfortable voting on them after that. Uh, I may defer to Christina, Miss Tokar, a few times here uh, just just in case since I'm filling in for Mr. Lopez. Uh, but our first p purchase
006recommendation is for replacement Chromebooks. So, the Chromebooks that we purchased were made in 2020, which means they are about reaching the end of their expected life. Um, and so we are uh the first bid that you're seeing here is for um 596 new Chromebooks to replace uh the outdated or broken ones that we have. Um, next up, we have some uh a painting recommendation, interior painting. Uh I want to flag that you might notice that we did not go as we typically do with the lowest bid. That is because um the two lowest bids, one of them was an incomplete bid. So it did not include everything that we needed to have done. And then the other one was a brand new company that had no experience with the sort of job that we were
007looking for. And so we were uh there were some concerns from the facility committee about that. Uh so that is why the um the paint bid um is recommended to go to this company that we've worked with uh many times previously. Um up next you'll see sorry um up next you'll see a bid for uh weight room equipment and flooring for Everett High School. Um again you might notice that we are not going with the cheapest bid and that's for the same reason. The other bid was incomplete. Didn't have everything that we were looking for. Um but Rogers Athletic Company, the bid that we are hoping to move forward with, um the idea would be that then we can use them for other projects moving forward so that um we can reduce the cost of
008repairs or parts, etc. if we're using the same vendor at all of our schools. Um so that's that one. Sorry, I'm moving forward. Um we've got a change order for the Hill Gymnasium renovations. Um and Miss Tokar, I'd love it if you could chime in on this one. your son. Okay. Thank you. So, um part of this is that um I um if the board remembers that we received a community, uh grant for our Hill gymnasium. So, we're making improvements because we also have the community center at Hill. So, we're making improvements to the gymnasium. Um thankfully, our bids came in much lower than we had originally planned for the updates. So, we have some additional monies to contribute to other projects. So, what we would like to do here is replace all of the
009glazing or glass um that's in the top part of the gym because it is much older. So, we want to put in new windows and new glazing outside. Um so, that's one of the new projects. We have several other things that will be coming as well, but this is a much larger project. Some of the other things that we will be doing in the gymnasium as well is putting in the very large fans to help circulate air um to help with energy efficiency. Uh we're looking at replacing the scoreboards um and also replacing all of the basketball hoops in addition to some of the other projects we had already planned. So that's what this change order is for. Thank you. I knew I was going to mess that one up. Next, you'll see there are
010five in a row that are really similar. So these are electrical upgrades at uh five different schools. Um and what you'll notice is we went with um one of two vendors for each of them. So, S Centennial Electric is um the recommended bid for three of the projects and for the other two Summit contractors. Um those are two companies that we're already working with on other projects. And so sometimes it kind of makes sense to bundle those together. Um and so that's what you're looking at there. Um I think they were the lowest bid for almost all of the bids anyway. Um and then the last bid recommendation is for the Everett High School stadium lighting retrofit. Um and so that is a very exciting up update uh that we're doing. Uh and you'll see
011there is just one bid for that particular project. Um so that concludes my uh report from the facilities committee and um I'd love to hear a motion from folks or questions. Dr. Rodriguez. Thank you. Um the first one recommendation to purchase a replacement Dell Chrome books. had what they had to do that with the facility committee is that m instructional materials good question that's a that's a great question um I I don't have an exact answer to that except for traditionally when we purchase large orders of technology it comes through the it has come through the facilities committee um and so that's we just continue down that path but I think that's a great point that it is a type of instructional material at the same time of it also being part like hardware. Um,
012and so sometimes the hardware and items come through the facilities. Yeah. And you know, I love the question because this one you kind of can choose. A lot of times when you're purchasing in bulk, if it's something like computers, it can be considered hardware or part of uh, you know, buildings, facilities, etc. You also can use instructional. I think historically, and this is way before I got here, historically we would use facilities money for those big purchases because we would get facilities money in this big chunk rather than, let's say, take money away from a school who would need to buy 10 books or, you know, 15 pencils or whatever like that. But if the board would like to move, you know, Chromebook purchasing under that, I think that's fine. I think Christina and the
013team was just kind of following years and years of experience. But it's a great question madam. I I I think that you know doesn't bother me. I want to be sure the instructional material is is had different kind of process and different kind of the people in charge the facilities committee they had different kind of skills people. Absolutely. And also um and and I really appreciate that point. I think also the history of replacement. So if you're saying like let's choose this kind of textbook or this kind of curriculum absolutely instructional if we've always had computers and they're now end of life and we're now replacing the the computer I think facilities has tended to do that because of just it's a it's equipment right but I think again it's a really good point uh
014Dr. Rodriguez and I think that we could certainly at the facilities committee have that conversation of do you want to shift it over or keep it there. Thank you for the explanation and because now the computers and these tools are instructional materials. Yeah. Then we have to see in the future how we can do better. That is all I think that would be a great question to take to the committee. Um Trusty Williams. Madam President, I'm just a little concerned that it was only 596 when most of them was pushed out in 2020. And is this just for our students online? Is this just for in the schools or because I I just feel like there should be more. Sure. So, our technology department, that's a great question. Our technology department does a great job
015of refurbishing devices and repairing devices. So, these 596 are to really get to the ones that we're unable to do that with. and kind of that first that very first set that we started to buy during the COVID times. So, we will continue to see this cycle where we're going to continue to need to replace them, just not the whole mass at the same time just due to the different repairs we're able to make. And so, is that a segue to say if you are a student who has a Chromebook who has not brought it over, you need to bring it over so we can check it out and then move back. Yeah. So they need to kind like work with their teach I would say students work with your teachers first and teachers will
016work with your principles within the building and then we have technology specialists that visit the buildings throughout the day. They will pick up damaged devices, replace them with devices. So we've also have we've had some added stock before that we've using to replace this entire time so that students are not going without. We've kind of depen or depleted our added stock and now we need to add to that so we can continue to replace. But yes, if students, if you have damaged devices, please make sure you let your teachers know. Um, and teachers, please communicate with your principles and we'll make sure we get those work done. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you, Miss Williams. Are there any any other questions from our board members this evening? Yes, Trusty. I had I had a
017question about the interior painting um bid and more um procedural. How do we um I I should preface by saying I trust the facilities committee. I can't be on every committee. Um and I trust that they're doing great work. Um, I just sometimes um since being on the board have grown maybe a little weary that the little guys will never get our bid um because um I know one has to build up a portfolio or whatever, but we took a more expensive bid because somebody new um perhaps didn't have the capacity. I'm more interested to know how did we come to that? Could they not do the job? Or is is it because they've not done a major gig like this one? I just would hate to send the message to business owners, even new
018business owners in this community, that you don't have a prayer with the Lancing School District if you're not one of the big guys and you've not been around for eons. Absolutely. Thank you for raising that. And that is certainly not the intention or the practice. Um, but I think Christina, Mrs. Mrs. Tokar, can speak more clearly about uh yeah, about our bid processing. No, that's a great question, Trusty Herd. So, thank you for that. Um, I will say a couple of different things. One, Murelz, I would call a little bit smaller of a company and we've worked with them continually. So, a lot of the great painting you see on the exterior of our schools, all of those really cool designs. Morelz did a lot of that great work. They just recently did a lot
019of the work in the sex the new Sexton hallways where we put up the new fatheads. Um, so I definitely don't want that to come across. The newer company is actually not a small company. It's a company that has a lot of experience in warehouse painting and not really that interior business office school painting. We kind of didn't want this large of a job and important of a job for the entire interior of Everett to kind of be the first trial. It doesn't mean that we won't continue to reach out for them for a bid. Um we're going to continue to do additional painting this summer. Um Sheridan Road's going to get some new interior paint several of our cafet um and our small elementaryaries. And so we reach out, we have a large cadre
020of painters, um, union, non-union, small, minority, women don't, and we reach out to the entire cadre and say, "Come bid. Some of them are super busy and don't. Some of them do continue to bid." Um, and then we actually try to divide up the projects as well because we also know that like we like to share the love. So definitely don't want to I want to make sure that we're not sharing or spreading that either. Thank you. Yes. All right. Thank you, Trusty Herd. If there is no more questions from our board members, may I have a motion? Madame President, I move that we accept the recommended bid A through J. Thank you. As presented, second. Moved by Trustee Williams, second by Trustee Herd. Um, all in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose? Motion
021passes. 6. Moving on to our policy committee report. Dr. NZ Martinez. Yes. So, the policy committee met on May 5th uh at 3 pm. Um I was present myself uh Dr. Nino Rodriguez, Mr. Herd, um uh Alex and uh Mr. Seriok were also in attendance. The we reviewed 17 policies uh PO2264 non-discrimination on the basis of sex and education programs or activities. PO2266 non-discrimination on the basis of sex and education programs or activities. PO0131.01 bylaws and policies. PO 5460 graduation requirements. PO4304304430 leaves of absence. PO2340 field and other district sponsored trips. PO8640 transportation for field trip and other district sponsored trips. PO 5320 immunization. PO5330 use of medications. PO5330.01 epinephrine auto injectors PO5350 student health well-being and suicide prevention. PO8510 wellness PO850 food service PO8320 personnel files P 0143.1 Public Expressions of board members PO950
022school visitors PO1210 board superintendent relationship. The committee uh after reviewing all of those uh has decided uh to uh put the following for first reading. Uh we have nine of them and it is PO2266 non-discrimination on the basis of sex and education programs or activities. PO0131.01 bylaws and policies PO1430430 and 4430 leaves of absence. PO5320 immunization, PO5330 use of medications, PO5330.01 epinephrine auto injectors, PO8510 wellness, PO850 food services, and PO8320 personnel files. The following um will be rescended up once we approve to PO2266, which is PO2264 non-discrimination on the basis of sex and education programs or activities. Um and the policy committee still continues to review the following committee um uh policies with guidance from our lawyers Niola and Thrun. PO2340 field trips and other district sponsored trips. PO 5350 student health wellbeing and suicide
023prevention. PO 0143.1 public expression of board members PO 9150 school visitors and PO1210 board superintendent relationship. Um, the committee would like to uh investigate a bylaw which describes committee composition and one that would allow the ability to create temporary or ad hoc committees as well since the committees are currently not on uh in our policies or bylaws. And once all policies are approved, we will share with um uh with the staff and um so that's ongoing for us the committees and ad hoc Wonderful. I do have a question. Um, are these our spring updates that are before us today? Yes. Okay. Yeah. Wonderful. All righty. Um, yes, Dr. Rodriguez. President, I move that the board of education receive the policies for the first reading as presented. May I have a second? Second. Second by Trustee
024Williams. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes 6. Thank you. Moving on to our superintendent report. Uh good evening everyone. It's a pleasure to see you all of you. Um as uh always I want to share with transportation. Uh I've got good news. Of course, not perfect news, but for the uh gas cards, we have uh 2,461 requested and 24,456 have been given. So, only five differential. Um and usually that's just because uh you know they're asking for it yesterday and we'll give it to them in a couple of days. Catacard 625 and 625. So, everybody who's received a catacard has gotten it. And then the good news is uh 3,593 folks have asked to be routed and 3,418 have been routed. So the differential is now at 175 which is uh
025a lot lower than it's been over the last couple of weeks. Again, if you remember, we kind of had a a couple of requests or a lot of requests um after spring break. And so this we hope is just Dean and our team working together. Of course, the dream is to have anybody who wants to ride a yellow bus be able to ride a yellow bus. Um but I mean at least uh happy to report that it's uh under 200 uh which it hasn't been uh for a little bit. Um again, we still work very closely with uh our families. If you want a gas card, if you want a CAD card, please please please let us know. And of course, if you want to ride on a dean bus, especially, let us know if
026you've moved, if you're changing schools. We want to try to route you as quickly as possible. And then, of course, if you are uh, you know, coming to the district for next year, it the website is open, right? They are ready to take uh your bus information. We really really uh want to make sure that starting next year everybody gets a bus uh that need it that want it and that of course are eligible for it. Um but the earlier you let us know the better cuz these kinds of routings do take a little bit. Uh I love that we have magnet schools. I love that we have schools of choice within our district. But if you live by the airport and you go to North, which is awesome, that's a long bus ride and
027we want to make sure that we know where you live so that we can make sure to get those bus routes uh available for you. Um, other things I want to congratulate our schools for uh finishing up MSTEP uh testing. Uh we know how much uh that you are working on that. We really appreciate the staff uh and the students and the families for supporting. Um these are very very draft numbers that we're looking at. Uh but things are looking like they're going well in positive directions. Because they're draft, I can't necessarily share them publicly, but I do know that uh we're really starting to see some great gains. And I want to really commend uh our teachers who have really shown a tremendous ability especially those teaching the new ELA kind uh curriculum. This
028is the first full year of CKLA. Uh we are seeing some tremendous tremendous growth from children and I really want to thank our teachers for that work and of course the students and families who are supporting it. Uh I also uh you know want to thank everybody that came out for the kind of educator appreciation event. Uh last week was uh the teacher appreciation week and teacher appreciation day. We didn't have a board meeting so I couldn't say this but the the idea that our faculty and our staff and our employees come to work every day with smiles on their faces care deeply about our children. uh it's the least we can do to have a day of, you know, hamburgers and fun games. But, you know, please know that that one event only speaks
029uh to the the little that we did on that day, but how much we care and how much we appreciate what you've done. And what I really appreciate is this has now been two years in a row. It's going to become a tradition. People really, you know, it's a really wonderful thing. And you know that on top of our celebration for all of our staff that had worked 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, having a little event for them as well. Uh these are the little things that uh we hope resonate and we care deeply about. Um and then lastly, um I want to really uh thank facilities and all the other folks. I really hope that the community drives by the new Mount Hope and Willow and even people might not even
030know that Atwood has a brand new gymnasium. Uh we're starting to see real examples, tangible examples of the bond money and of the changes that we're doing to this district. Um one of the things that was approved, you saw electrical upgrades for a bunch of schools. What we didn't mention is that electrical upgrade is for air conditioning. Like we really really have said to this community it was unacceptable to have schools without air conditioning and we were going to make sure that that was going to be fixed. You're starting to see that where really by the end of this summer, almost all of our classrooms two years ahead of schedule will have some kind of air conditioning. Um, you know, I appreciate the families that will say to me, "Well, Ben, I went to school
031when there wasn't air conditioning." And I say, "Yeah, and it sucked, right?" You know, and so the more that we can do for our kids, uh, you know, study after study shows that when it's super hot in a classroom, it's very hard to learn. It's very hard to teach, you know. So, yeah, we can throw a party with hamburgers, but, you know, what shows real respect to adults is that they don't have to walk into a classroom that is 90° uh inside. And of course the same goes for the kids as well. So I really want to thank uh everybody for that. But really just to the community, all of you listening at home and all of you, you know, certainly here is please see the magic that's finally happening, the buildings that are going
032up, the air conditioning, the new things. uh because you know and I can say this as a superintendent uh employees can't necessarily say this is what we're what we did see though is there were bonds this uh this go around not here uh that were beaten and beaten pretty severely. A lot of bonds were not voted on and for whatever reason maybe school districts didn't make a a a relationship with their community. Maybe school districts didn't knock on doors and say how important this is. But I hope that everybody listening and everybody who cares about Lancing sees that we're really good shepherds of your tax dollars. And so if and when we ever do go out for another bond, if and when we do ask so we could rebuild another building and another building, please
033see the great things that happen when we pass bonds because really really special. A brand new school Mount Hope, a brand new school, Willow. There's going to be a brand new school at Luton. uh air conditioning in our classrooms, new love for Sexton. We're putting in a lot of new things at Sexton. Please, please remember that when and if there is ever a chance for the community to be asked again. I'm not saying we're doing anything now. I'm not I'm not uh but I just know that what I saw in and around Mid Michigan this year were a lot of bonds got voted down. And I just want to make sure that we are doing right by this community so that if and when we ever do ask again that you say, "Yeah, well look
034at what they did in Lancing. Look at that amazing new Mount Hope and look at that amazing new Willow and the and the and the fences and the air conditioning and the paint and the things uh of that nature. So again, I want to thank this community so much for all the love that you've given us over the years and we hope that that certainly continues and that we're doing uh right by you uh and your tax dollars. So with that, I want to turn it over to our president and thank you very much. Thank you, Superintendent. Alrighty, Dr. Rodriguez. Thank you. Thank you superintendent. Um if you go close to man hope and will one other thing you can read. Thank Lancing for supporting us in the ban in 2022 ban and it's in
035different place in different dimension and I think I go over there and I I enjoy so much to read that because that is what the community gave us. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Rodriguez. Are there any other questions for our superintendent at this time? Wonderful. Well, we're doing great work in Lancing, so that's good to hear. Um, moving on to our new business, we have before us a um resolution um for our ISD board of education candidate. May I have a motion, please? Madame President. Yes. I move that the board of education approve the resolution as presented. Second. Moved by Trustee Kavanaaugh, second by Trusty Williams, but I believe we need to put a slate for Do we need to We need to fill the blanks. I don't have the resol. Okay. Do I have
036a Do you have it? You got it, Dr. Um Martinez. N Martinez. Okay. All righty. So, do I Hold on. too. Still see the same thing. Okay, thank you. All righty. Thank you for your patience while we figure this out. Um, this is Okay, great. So what we have before us this evening is um a resolution to designate um elections for our ISD. So um this board does um approve the designation of oh I'm sorry in accordance to with section 6142 of the revised school code MCL 380 point 6142. The board desires to designate Michael Flowers as the district proposed representative and Erin Shore as an alternative. No. Um we um what we member to go to the meeting and the to vote on every We send one representative to vote. We don't need to
037know what we are doing here. Yes. Thank you. And I Dr. Niver Martinez actually is our representative and alternative our alternative I believe is Miss Nino. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. So in that section then and I'll go ahead and read that section. Thank you. In accordance to I'll reread it. Um section 6142 of the revised school code MCL 380.612 this board desires to to designate um secretary uh Nava's Dr. NEZ Martinez as the district proposed representative and Dr. Nino Rodriguez as an alternative alternative alternate excuse me designated representative in the event the designated representative is unable to attend and further desires to direct said representative and al alternate to vote on behalf of the board for a specific candidate. Thank you. So it was moved by trustee Williams. Oh, no, no, it was moved
038by Dr. Kavanagh. Right. Thank you. Moved by Dr. Kavanaaugh and then second by Dr. Ros Trusty Williams. Okay, now we can go to our second half. Got to vote. Oh, okay. Perfect. Got to vote. Still more blanks to fill in. That's what I thought. Still more blanks to fill in. Then we're going to vote after we go through the whole process. Okay. Per our parliamentarian who's sitting right next to me assisting me. Who gets paid the big bucks for this? All righty. Um, now therefore, be it resolved that the board does hereby approve the designation of Dr. Nver Martinez as the representative of this board for the electoral body. Which body will elect three candidates to the vacancies on the ISD board on May on Monday, June 2nd, 2025 and Dr. Nino Rodriguez as an
039alternative um or alternate, excuse me, in the event the designated representative is unable to attend. Two, the designated representative and alternate are further directed to cast a vote on the first ballot on behalf of this board for for Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Excuse me. I'm sorry. For um Michael Flowers and Aaron Shore for two six-year terms and That one. We don't do that here. The only thing you represent is your vote. Yes. Yeah. Do I just want to do? No, we don't do that. Okay. That's it. But they want to do it that way. So, as a board, we need to guide me through this process. Thank you. So, as a board, we have the information before us in our packet. We need to decide who we're going to um vote um to be on the
040ballot or vote on this position. I don't feel like this is flowing. Trusty Williams, we just sent me as a representative when we got there. two of us we discussed and then we selected so as a whole you sent us to be the so we don't have to do that oh it it so okay you already did it oh okay I I want to make sure this is parliamentarian this is from the law firm so I can't speak to Okay you can't speak to the law firm okay I get it um all righty I don't Oh, I'm just playing. I do. I do. So, how we can select somebody without Well, we have their information. We were given Yeah, we I understand. Yeah. Yeah, we're giving the information. So, I have But the the we
041are voting already supporting somebody or we didn't have the final vote over there that we are promoting somebody. We don't supposed to promote anybody before the people vote. Right. So you so you two are going to right you're going to go and you're going to vote on behalf of the board because you are our representatives. Okay. Wonderful. Exactly. Thank you. So at this time it's been move we have a motion on the floor by trustee Kavanaaugh. Moved by Trusty Williams. Second by Trusty Williams. All in favor act. All in favor? Um everyone say I. I. I. Any oppose? Motion passes. Uh 6. That's all right. That's okay. That's right. 6. Moving on. Moving on to um to see to be to be um may I have a motion? Well, actually, we probably want to give
042a little history about our um hopefully new ad hoc committee for employee and alumni rec um recognition. Actually, we actually we recognized our employees um last week, which was wonderful. Um Trusty Herd um lifted that this is something that we should do and I think that we should and so um Trusty Herd will be leading us in this charge. We will be chairing this this ad hoc committee. Um may I have a motion on the floor to uh approve this committee? Madame President, I move that the board of education develop an ad hoc committee on employee and alumni recognition. It was moved by Trustee Williams. May I have a second? Second by Trustee Kavanaaugh. All in favor, please say I. Signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes 6. Wonderful. Congratulations, Trusty Herd. Do
043you have um I feel like you got words. Well, you know, I I think that it is wonderful. Thank you to you, Madam President, and colleagues. Um, it's high time, um, that we make our voices loud and be heard about all the wonderful things that happen in Lancing. I graduated from Lancing schools and there are a lot of people like me who are shining stars, um, that maybe our community doesn't know about. And so, um, I do have to leave the meeting um, to go and perform. However, um I did want to take an opportunity to say in this vein that if you have been wondering whether or not you should bring your kid back to Lancing to learn with us and maybe we can make them a shining star as well, like so many
044of our uh faculty and alumni, it's time for you to come on home. Y'all have a wonderful evening. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Herd. Trusty Herd will be exiting at 6:39. Uh oh, I think I've got Okay, back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back. Thank you for the Allr All righty. So just for clarification for the um ISD um election, we had to get clarification on the actual process and we will need to take a vote on this and you all here as a collective body and you all will take it to the ISD. Okay. So if I can have I need to resend that motion. Do I need to parliamentarian come back get the chair to reconsider motion approved. So, we
045want to reconsider the motion that was approved and then we want to put it back on the floor and then Dr. Kavanagh can then put the slate then I can reread Okay. All righty. At this time, we're going to call for a fivem minute recess. Um, it is 6:42. reconsider the previous motion. I second. Wasn't previous because the previous was I would like to make a motion to amend the motion that I had made previously with respect to the resolution. I second that. All righty. Moved by trustee Kavanagh, second by trustee Williams. So to vote on reconsidering All right. Now, may I have a motion on the floor? No vote. Oh, take a vote. Take a vote. Okay. Um, all in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion passes. 6. Now the resolution. Madame President, now
046the resolution. Okay. I would like to resolve that the board of education approve the resolution as presented. Whereas one, the bianual election of the board of Ingam Intermediate School District, Michigan, the ISD board will be held Monday, June 2nd, 2025. And two, the members of the ISD board will be elected by an electoral body composed of one person designated by the board of each of each of the constituent school districts. And three, in accordance with section 6142 of the revised code MCL 380.6142, this board desires to designate Dr. Dr. Nvarez Martinez as this district's proposed representative and Dr. Rodriguez as an alternative designated to designated representative in the event the designated representative is unable to attend and further desires to direct said representative and alternate to vote on behalf of this board for a specific
047candidate. Now therefore be it resolved that one this board does hereby approve the designation of Dr. Dr. Nvarez Martinez as the representative of this board for the electoral body. Which body will elect three candidates to the vacancies on the ISD board on Monday, June 2nd, 2025 and Dr. Rodriguez as an alternate in the event that the designated representative is unable to attend. Two, the designated representative and alternate are further directed to cast a vote on the first ballot on behalf of this board for Michael Flowers and Aaron Shore for the two six-year terms and Joel Garing for the one partial term two-year seat. I second it. Wonderful. It was moved by Trustee Kavanaaugh and second by Trusty Williams. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes five. Oh Lord. Have my mic on.
048Jesus. Alrighty. Let us take a break. Um here you go. Got another one. Okay. Thank Allrighty. Perfect. Thank you. Alrighty. Moving on to um moving on to CC. Um amendment. Amend university or excuse me um the board of education to develop no wait a minute wait a minute the board of education approved the amended University of Michigan Sparrow Hospital athletic trainers contract as presented. May I have a motion? Madame President. Yes. I move that the board of education uh approve the amended University of Michigan Sparrow Health Athletic Trainers contract as presented. One second. Moved by Trustee Nver Martinez, second by Dr. Rodriguez. Um, may I have a um, all in favor? Please signify by saying I I I. All righty. Any opposed? Motions passes 5-0. Wonderful. Dr. Rodriguez will be leaving us. Thank you, Dr.
049Rodriguez. Your exit time is at 650. Thank you so much. We no longer have a quorum, but we don't have any business that we need to take care of at this time. So, now we can move on to our um public comment on agenda item. Non-aggenda items. Pardon? Non-aggenda items or non-aggenda items. Thank you. Jesus. Alrighty. Alrighty. Now, um it looks like we have three individuals here. Um I please do not charge it to my heart if I do not pronounce your name correctly. Um Orly Rivet I please join us at the podium. You have three minutes to um address the board and the board typically does not respond. Thank you for being here. Is this on? Oh, and you can hear me. Thank you. Good evening and thank you. My name is Oral Lee
050Rivet, Ms. Ora to the prek fouryear-olds. I have felt blessed for my position. I am a 21.5 employee of the Lancing School District in Michigan. A 21.5 employee can only receive overtime pay if they have worked over 40 hours. Working over 21.5 is acceptable. However, you cannot be paid less than your regular wage. My title is new and assistant. I was asked to help and fill in for an associate teacher. When I received my paycheck, it showed that I was making a dollar less for working more. Basically, that's what I did. Worked for less money. how the district gets around paying my regular wage by reclassifying me as a substitute associate teacher which starts lower than my regular pay. I was told this is how the contract works and there is nothing that can be
051done about it. If this is happening to myself, it's happening districtwide. I have worked approximately 25 hours in this classification. This equates to approximately $25. I am asking to move the district forward by being able to jump in and assist the students and the teacher. Example, one morning I was called at 8:50. School starts at 8:30 and they had a field trip that day and were in need of an associate teacher. I was there by 9:15 and the field trip went off without a hitch. This is a simple fix. Please leave me at my regular classification and wage. Pay my normal wage wherever I assist. I'm not asking more than my regular pay. In the Lancing School District, is saving a buck okay or is losing an employee better? All the thank yous in the
052world can't replace looking at your check, seeing less, and feeling like less. I am an Everett and a Michigan State University graduate. I am retired from MSU where I hired thousands of students and full-time employees. Never have I seen a contract or a policy that you would work more and get less pay for jumping in and assisting the district. I am asking for the practice of reclassifi reclassifying at my level to stop an immediate and immediately be reversed. A quote from Martin Luther King Jr., the time is always right to do what is right. And I thank you so much. Darn, the mic wasn't on. Sorry about that. You have three minutes to approach the board and we typically don't respond. Thank you. Good evening. I'm Jackie Henderson Milton and I'm bringing um I guess
053my feelings on um school expulsions. Um I have an a grandson that um has been exposed exploed has been expelled from school and it says according to your policies 5605 students with disabilities regarding suspensions and expulsions. There are supposed to be other means and rules to deal with this. And my family has provided documentation stating that he was seen a psychiatrist which also brings into play that he was never evaluated or been given or even thought had been given to this. This also goes hand inhand with your policy 5610. What are the considerations? What about my nephew's due process? I am appalled that our black and brown boys and girls are being criminalized and expelled or suspended at a higher rate when you ask what happens to and and and I need to ask you
054what happens to the funding that is provided after the child is expelled because we've been left to our own devices to find something you know other means of education while he is out for 180 days and Like I said, we are told that there's funds for this. And why is it that our black and brown children are treated like harassers? How? However, when they are being victimized, just nothing happens. But then they're presented as the problem. Finally, we are told that we cannot appeal the board although we were it was presented to us that we should have the opportunity to do so before legal actions are and will be taken and that wasn't the case. Um we feel that there should be something for a a teenage a young teenage boy 13 year old he's
055out of school for 180 days. What are we supposed to do? He It's a good thing that we're retired and we're home, but what if we weren't? He'd be left to his own devices somewhere. And that's all I have. Um, ma'am, typically we don't uh comment. My only uh request is if you could just stay after so we can have staff talk to you uh so that we can look into the situation. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Jerry Milton, would you like me to go through my spill about three minutes and all that other stuff? I will. You go. All righty. Good afternoon board. My name is Jerry Milton and as my wife Jacqueline Milton, I'm here standing before you because of my grandson. I am a disappointed grandparent because my feel that my grandson
056was uh I wouldn't say picked out but he was targeted in a group and the investigation proved biased against him and they chose the board chose to expel him expulsion for 180 days. But with that, they told me that I cannot use any Michigan uh resources for school. We have to go outside on our own. Like my wife stated, there was funds that were supposed to be set aside for the children that were paid for the roll call you guys have every year, you know, the count. So that he is counted in that. So now that he's out of the where's that money go and what do I do with my grandson? Like my wife said, we are retired disability. If we weren't there like most parents can't be there, what would my grandson get
057into? Cuz then that's now it's 180 days that he is out there with no direction like the board member heard said. Let's make Lancing great again. I am a product of Lansancy school. I'm proud of Lansancy school. I want my grandson to be that. I want him to be a productive person, you know. And my other fact is the testing that you guys provide every year for the school. So now that he's out, what happens with that? You know, we got to go with virtual schools. um the process of sending paperwork here, sending paperwork here when we right here in Lancing. And I feel that we this says no child left behind. And what this is happening, if you put these kids in expulsion like this, you're leaving them behind. That's why we have this
058big crime rate of going on because these young men don't have anything else to do but get in trouble. We are supposed to be trying to help them. I am myself a deacon in the church and that's what I tried to do. I'm not here to condemn anything. I just want to come here to ask questions because I was told that the three board members when they made their decision that I couldn't appeal it. And I don't understand that because you can appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court of Justice. Why can't we do it here? And I thank you. Okay. Alrighty. Um, with no more comments, public comments on agenda items, are there comments um from our board members at this time? Madam President, if Yes. Uh, Trusty Williams, I want to
059say thank you to Riff yesterday. They had a great event at the park yesterday. Unfortunately, my granddaughter, whom I took um to get her familiar with the district and everything because she was a student in the district, didn't want to get off the bus. They had a school bus out there and the kids were enjoying it. They were able to actually kind of drive blow the horn and everything, closed the doors. They had other things out there. I didn't get to stay past 5:15, so I missed the superintendent's remarks and I miss Sergio being there, but we had a really great turnout. Um, I saw families coming in by the droves. It was really, really nice. The only thing I got to eat was ice cream, but I heard all the food was good. Um,
060so thank you, RIFF, for that. It was a really good event. Also, um, with teachers appreciation last week. I got a phone call. North is one of my schools. So, I kind of dropped in into their meeting and their training and just kind of observed and watched. They had a really good, productive meeting. and I got to see the superintendent come on and do his uh comments throughout the whole district. Yeah, I was paying attention and then I just kind of left. But just if you have the opportunity as a board member, please drop into your schools, offer your services. Um I was able to visit several of my schools over the last few weeks and told them, hey, we can come help you guys pack up at the end of year. That's that's why
061we're here. We're here to add support. So again, schools, we are here as your board liaison to do that. And thank you all for the jobs that you are doing. You are doing wonderful. Thank you, Trusty Williams. And I missed you yesterday. I was there. So, I think we had just missed each other. On the bus. Oh, I didn't get on the bus. I was I didn't get to get off. Yeah, I didn't. It was a wonderful event. Um, wonderful. I I work in the library, so literacy, um, reading is fundamental and and RIFF's been around a long time, so celebrating 50 years was amazing. Um, Dr. Never Martinez, did you have something? Yes. I wanted to just put a reminder out that tomorrow we're having the Latino recognition ceremony um and uh you know
062at 6 o'clock so hopefully the community can make it out and support our students. Yes, thank you for sharing that. Okay, if there is no more business before the board meeting adjourned at 7:03 have a wonderful evening.