001District Board of Education regular board meeting and information study session. Today's date is April 17, 2025. Happy Thursday everyone. If I could have we us all stand for the pledge of allegiance 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 all. This is a demonstration of Wirecast. Wonderful. Can I have a volunteer read our district mission statement? Yes, Dr. Rodriguez. Yes. Thank you so much for reading. Yes, it's right. [Laughter] You had us all full. Will the clerk please call the role? Mrs. Ber, present. Dr. Kavanaaugh, present. Mr. Herd, Mr. Lopez, present. Mrs. Moore, present. Dr. Nibbar Martinez, Dr. Rodriguez, Mrs. Strode present. Miss Williams core miss present. Thank you so much. I am aware that Trusty Herd will
002not be here this evening. Looking for Dr. Martinez. Hopefully she'll be in soon. All righty. This is a demonstration. Moving on to Are there any public comments on agenda items for this evening? Seeing none, um approval of May approve approval of our minutes. Our minutes, excuse me. May I have a motion, please? Madam President. Yes. I move that the minutes be approved as presented. May I have a second? Second. Wonderful. May the clerk please call the role. Mrs. Ber, this is a demonstration of wirecast. What? You want to do it again? No, I don't want you to do it again. I've got all these voices like coming at me. Not mine. Vice President Lopez said, "Not mine." No, not your boy. We We had decided that we Let's do this. Let's just continue with the
003roll call vote. Okay. For now. Thank you, Mrs. Ber. Yay. Dr. Kavanaaugh. Yes. Mr. Lopez. Is a demonstration of wire. Mrs. Moore. Yes. Dr. Rodriguez. Mrs. Strode. Yes. Miss Williams. Yes. Motion passes. We are going to decide what we're going to do about the minutes. Approval of the minutes sooner or later. Okay. Some days we don't, some days we do. We need to really decide if we're going to take a a a vote or not. I thought we stopped doing it. Then I thought it was on the agenda. So, thank you everybody for your grace on that. All righty. Moving on to our presentation. Um, we have a presentation. Um, superintendent, would you like to speak on that? I would love to. Thank you so much. Um, good evening everyone. I'll have my comments later
004for uh the superintendent's report, but uh we like to do these presentations uh before we get into the heart of the matter because presentations like this are really kind of are really wonderful. Uh Jessica is going to give you a lot more information, but we're going to recognize today our nationally board certified teachers. This is a really really distinguished um award. This is something that our teachers have to work very long and hard to be uh certified as really kind of top-notch teachers throughout the country. And we're really really quite um honored that we have so many teachers that actually fulfill this requirement. So, uh, Jessica, if you don't mind going to the podium and, uh, kind of explaining a little bit more about this, uh, and then also, of course, to congratulate our wonderful
005winners who we will, uh, uh, celebrate, uh, here publicly. Thank you. This is a demonstration of Wirecast. I'm just checking. All right. Good evening, board members, Lancing community, and our guests in the audience. Uh tonight it is my honor to recognize and celebrate a group of outstanding educators who have achieved one of the highest honors in the teaching profession. The National Board Certification. The National Board uh for professional teaching standards is a rigorous voluntary certification program designed to develop, recognize and retain of Wirecast is often referred to as the gold standard of teaching credentials. In order to earn a national board certification, teachers must complete an extensive multi-year process that includes four main components: content knowledge, differentiation and instruction, teaching practice and learning environment, effective and reflective practitioner. As our superintendent said, this process is
006not only time inensive, it often takes one to three years to complete, but it's also deeply reflective. It requires educators to examine their practice, align it with rigorous standards, and demonstrate how their teaching inter in impact student learning. National board certified teachers exemplify the very best in teaching. They are experts in their content areas, skilled in meeting the diverse needs of our students and deeply committed to continuous improvement. Research shows that students of board certified teachers learn more and perform better. We are provide we are proud to have these dedicated professionals demonstration and tonight we celebrate their hard work, perseverance and their excellence. It is my honor to be able to present these awards to our staff tonight and at this time I would like to present certificates to the following educators who are nationally
007board certified. Round of applause for that. So, as I call up your names, if you please come up to the podium, I'll present you with your certificate. And if you'll please stand here, and then I think they're probably going to want to get I think that'd be really great. So, got the camera ready. All right. Fantastic. All right. Our first educator that I would like to um present the certificate to is Regina Bloomline. She is from Everett and she is earning has earned her national board certification in English as a new language for early adolescence through young adulthood. Regina please just young too. This is a demonstration of wirecast. Great. All right. Our next educator is Karen Hora. And I know that I think she was not able to attend tonight. She was attentive on
008the invite. She was really trying to work hard to get here. She is a teacher from Eastern High School and she earned her board certification in physical education. So really proud of Karen and her accomplishments. We will make sure we get this to her. Our next educator also from Eastern High Schoolman and he has earned his national board certification in mathematics. Yay. Um for adolescence and young adults. Several of these educators, I would like to say, have had their national board certification and some this is their second time um to earn um or to keep their credentials up, I I guess I should say. And also this is recognized by the state of Michigan. Um and so we wanted to make sure for our newcomers that are coming on and also for people who've held
009these for years um years to come. So our next person is uh also from Eastern Robin Lindell in the area of school counseling. We have another one from Eastern High School. We have Elizabeth Perez and this is in the area of health education early adolescence of wirecast. [Applause] And of course, last but not least, we have a teacher from Guyire Park. This is Kathy Shrock in the area of uh generalist in early education for a national board certification. [Applause] This is a demonstration of wirecast. [Applause] This is a demonstration of wire cast. Are you smiling? That's a picture. This is a demonstration of wire cast. I'll see you in a couple weeks. I'll see you there. Thank you. This is always so awesome to acknowledge our educators who are educating our scholars and all that
010good stuff. So congratulations again and thank you so much for serving the Lanc demonstration of wirecast. Moving on to we have another proposed or excuse me presentation B our 2025 proposed general fund budget from superintendent. Please help me pronounce your name. Melma. Melma. All right. Come and join us please. Good to see you again. Thank you. Thank you. Are both of these on or only one? No. I want to make sure. Okay, thank you. This is a demonstration of presentation. Uh I know my assistant had sent out ahead of time, so that should have already been part of your packet. So, we are going to kind of roll through that if that's all right. Uh before I begin with the presentation, let me say thank you once again for having the opportunity to come before
011you tonight to discuss uh some of the great ways the ISTD partners with some of our local districts. Obviously, we're proud of what we are doing in partnership with our local districts. We're exceptionally proud of some of the progress that's been made with our local districts. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the exceptional value uh that is happening here within the Lancing School District. When we're looking at some of the sort of demonstration on the wall behind me and some of the things that are happening, it's awesome to see the achievement. It's awesome to see the success stories and those are going to pay significant dividends for this community. So, congratulations for all the hard work that this team is doing. It's it's duly noted. It's welld deserved. So, pretty cool stuff. Also, in
012front of you before I begin with my presentation, I had laid down information um that you may have already seen, but it's just good to keep firsthand, which is respect to the programs and services. We provide information annually on our profiles of service of how we provide that. That is specific what you have in front of you just for a demonstration of our last year. Um so, that's information from last year. we add to it every year, but it's just always kind of neat to see the different ways again that we try to partner to make sure that we are providing great value to our local districts. Um, so good information that's on there. Always always like to be able to bring that forward, talk about it because this is the partnership and that's the
013important thing for us. So, I will jump into our uh our uh budget for those of you who may not be familiar with respect to this process. Uh public act 234 of 2004 uh specifies that school district must provide their general education budget to local boards of education by May 1st. Uh local boards of education have to take a resolution. We always uh would hope that they would be in support take a resolution uh by June 1st that is submitted back to the board of education for the ISD and then our budget has to be passed by June 30th just like any other school district here within the state. So uh 20 for statute still stands and that gives me an opportunity and excuse to be able to come out and visit lots of our
014our local school districts. So today we are going to chat of wirecast is this my queue here. All right, perfect. Thank you. I'll pay attention to that as well. All right, we're going to chat about the general fund and overview. Uh what you will see is uh there's about $57 million that we have proposed uh kind of four basic areas our early childhood the instructional programs uh the supports to provide in in instruction as well as ways we try to collaborate to maximize efficiencies of resources um in our budget what you would see our revised budget shows that we had $60 million of revenues demonstration of wire next year again as I mentioned we're proposed 57 million if you were here last year I brought a budget that was closer to about $49 million. What
015changed? I think it's important to note that there were a couple of revisions. First and foremost, we've seen a continued expansion in GSRP, $6 million uh with respect to GSRP, which is awesome when we think about the value that it's brought to our youngest learners. That's an incredible investment. Um beyond that, uh the 97G was a statewide collaboration that is there to help provide cyber security uh protections for districts throughout the state. This is a demonstration of wire. So those were funds in, funds out. And then finally, the last item of note, and I think this is important for boards to see, is substitute costs. I wish we weren't seeing the increase that we've seen with substitute costs. It's been a continuous increase since the pandemic. Now, let me also go backwards. We probably had
016missed the boat prior to the pandemic considering we were paying almost the same amount in sub fees is what I made when I came out of a teacher prep institution. This is a demonstration of wirecast and so those 25 years in between we hadn't really adjusted salary schedules. So we knew we had to adjust but the pandemic has continued to cause challenges when we look at uh getting substitutes inside buildings. And of course, we know some of that is exacerbated by our continuous challenges with the teacher shortage. So, we're working behind that. We want to make sure that that's uh is an important area that we continue to collaborate around as superintendent. But when we look at what's changed, sub services is something we have to continuously be aware of. Uh I think many of
017you know that is a consortium that we provide is a demonstration of wirecast. So those costs are something we do al together to be able to gain the efficiencies, the economies of scale. Moving on to our next slide, what you would see are where the revenues come from. The lion share of our revenue comes from state funds as well as those other transfers. Some of those as I just mentioned like the sub costs for example uh with respect to our expenses uh the outgoing and other and then our support services are the two largest areas that we've got there. So pretty straightforward with respect to uh where the revenues and expenses come from. We do levy a small millillage less than demonstration of wire general fund that is a charter mill. It brings in about
018$2.4 million in revenue. Beyond that, when we look at where the revenues are at, we have at this point in time, obviously only the governor's budget. We've not really seen a budget out of the Senate. We're hopefully anticipating that will be here in the next couple weeks. The House budget that was passed as a continuation budget. We are not taking that at this point in time as necessarily uh an actual budget that will be negotiated. We believe that's something that will be held in obeyance until or hopefully not until they are unable to pass a budget. So we don't really consider that at this point is a demonstration of wire information. So we have the governor's budget. That's what we've based this proposal on. Um and I think this is an important here uh important
019topic for us to continue keeping our eye on is where the governor's budget will be, where those other two budgets will come in, and then the timing. Since 2011, it's been a bipartisan effort to try to have the education budget completed by June 30th because our budgets have to be completed by June 30th. To the best of my knowledge, in all but two years since 2011, there's been a bipartisan effort and has been successful. I will be shocked if we have the education budget done by June 30th this year. That's why I think the House passed the continuation budget because they're expecting there going to be challenges. I don't think that's news for anybody, but I'm just giving where my prognostication is and the best information I have in my conversations with those downtown. I
020think we're in for a challenging uh budget process. This obviously is a demonstration long enough to remember when we never had budgets prior to that point in time. Great districts will continue to make good decisions that are in focus for their students and staff. And I believe this board will continue to do the same thing as will our board. When we look at our expenses uh of what's there um there aren't a whole lot of changes that we have uh a small change with respect to a math position. Our math scores throughout the ISD uh are not in the position we wish they were at. We wish they were higher and so we're investing some funds in there. We also have to invest some funds with respect to CTE. Uh Perkins funds requires that if
021your math scores are not state average invest more into it. So, we're combining some of our general fund uh budget dollars with some of our CTE dollars to work on hiring a math consultant to continue to assist with that. Um contracts are up for negotiation this year as as many other districts. So, that's something we always uh kind of keep out there as well. Um but we think that we're doing uh with respect to finances pretty stable job. You look at our budget, I think you'll see it's pretty stable as well. One thing I will note uh we are continuing to investigate ways in which uh artificial intelligence can supplement not supplyation of wire inside classrooms. I think that's a really neat uh neat thing for us to be able to explore at this point
022in time. It's a tremendous time of innovation when we consider both operational and instruction. There's tremendous value that we think is there. And so u some of our local districts are also in this bandwagon. I know Ben and I Ben and I have had some conversations. I know this is an area that you guys are looking at as well. we think it's the right spot to be at, especially as we want to implement some of these companies to make sure they aren't taking advantage of our students and staff. So, let's talk about some of the areas that we've got there. Um, the programs and services. Uh, what you'll see is a demonstration of wire goes into our student instructional services, the MTSS. Much of this uh are those systems again aligned trying to make sure
023that we are there supporting with respect to the continuous improvement process for schools thinking about math thinking about literacy thinking about science in an area that we didn't have much prior to the pandemic but has become an ongoing area and that's the school mental health services that's a big thing that's a real big thing as we've seen an increase in referrals every year since we have added that team um this isation of wire We want to make sure that those services are there. Those are valuable. Um, oops, I went too far there. Beyond that, our instructional programs within the two uh of the budgets that you're going to look at that are narrowed down inside the overall budget. The two areas that are the lion share are early childhood programs and the instructional programs themselves.
024The instructional programs are primarily the subsuit system and academy. Because we currently don't have the early college, last year we had positioned ourselves well. We had done research with our partners at LCC. This is a demonstration of wirecast. You remember correctly last summer there was legislation that passed that allowed that students who graduated now attend early college or excuse me community colleges for free. That made us pause and try to figure out why would dual enrollment why would early college not be in that same spot as well. Are we spending dollars in the best way? So we pause at this point in time. We'll continue to advocate that for that at a legislative level, but that's on pause. When we jump into the largest uh bucket inside our general fund and its early childhood, I
025mentioned that there was initial $6 million brought in from where our budget is a demonstration of wire where it ended up. We're going to continue to see I believe investments when we look at the governor's budget and I would hope that we would have support in both the house and the senate in this area. The value we get is tremendous uh for all for the dollars that we invest versus the return. It's huge. Makes a difference. We're keeping our eye on this because we think there's tremendous value and obviously what Lancing school district has done in the total pre free prek for all has been fantastic. So we love how you guys have attracted students in in the preschool programs and what you've done there. Our instructional services uh the data trying to bring data
026we have significant sums of data. How do we make it manageable? How do we use it? where do we look at uh ways in which we can collaborate with learning management systems and different SIS teams as well as uh the AI that we're doing and then finally our last bucket there is the other and that's a lot of our tech work as well as the collaborative services that we provide uh where many districts we might provide business services tech services communication services pupil accounting those type of collaborative services uh that districts are in the need of so those are kind of the big budget as I referenced we bring this to you uh as we move our our board meeting in April up to make sure we bring it to you early. Uh we ask
027for a resolution of support by June 1st. We will be making our budget decisions prior to July 1st as statutoily required. What questions might you have that I can answer? Trusty Williams. Thank you Jason for the presentation. First and foremost, I have one part one question A and B. So is this budget for all the ISDs that we see listed masons.com and all of them or is this budget just for the Lancing area? So this is just for Ingam intermediate school districts. Right. When I say Ingum inter when I say the ISDs everybody that's collaborative and so Mason all of that. Yeah. The 12 traditional districts. Yes. So what percentage of that would be considered what you're asking lancing for? I know we have to approve the overall but what percentage would be for lancing?
028Yeah. So, what of of the dollars that are listed in this, how much is this directed to land? Is that what you're asking? This is a demonstration of wirecast as far as there isn't anything out of your budget that comes towards us. Okay. Thank you. Although, if you'd like to contribute, I you know, I wouldn't if you want a donation. I'm I'm more than willing if you're No, we're not. No, I would I would like to be Mr. Lopez. Thank you very very much. Every year with this positive attitude, you are coming in front of this board for approval of the budget. This is a demonstration of wirecast. You know, I had to cleaning my papers sometimes and I find out yesterday you report to the community and really that is so transparency to the
029community for the 12 district that you that you serve. Um beside that I want to congratulate your administration and our administration for the smooth transition for bigman center. I think that's demonstration of wirecast and how we can educators can work together and I hope that we continue that because it's our kids it's our young people they need the help and we need to be together and we know that we are going to need this collaboration in the future the community um the same thing I asked them to be alert the bigman center is a is is a precious place for our students to be there and to take care of the student they need the most. Then this is a demonstration to be sensitive and to be really generous in that particular uh work for
030the education and all. But congratulations to your administration and our administration here because um was was at the beginning kind of not clear but after that you know we are all working together. Thank you madame president. This is a demonstration of wirecast. You probably are asked this question all the time. But Waverly School District, isn't that in county? Yes, sir. So, is it part of your Yes. How did that happen? [Laughter] Well, uh, I don't know if I can give you an exact history to that, but I can proudly give you an approximate history. Uh, the ISDs were created in statute in 1962. This is a demonstration of wirecast. Districts kind of had to make a decision with respect to where they would end up. I would believe that aspects of the Waverly district because
031we have many districts, not just Waverly, that exist within multiple counties. So we actually are spread into seven different counties with our 12 traditional districts. And my assumption at that point in time is that the uh leaders with inside that district believed that they probably held a closer community of interest with respect to those in the Ingam area than possibly some of the other outlying areas. I think this is a demonstration of wirecast which is the Resa to our our west of us was probably not as developed at that point in time. Probably didn't have as many large districts and so my guess is they probably wanted to collaborate. I don't know that for a fact, but that's my best assumption going back to the history of when uh when IS were around. That's good.
032Thank you. All righty. Thank you. Yes, Trusty Stroke. Awesome. I know that uh one thing that I love to hear about is how much we have been able to support the GSRP and know knowing that that continues to be something that demonstration of our supports our families as well as would potentially be continuing in the budget and passed through the House and Senate. Um, we know that as a community there's been some things coming down the pipeline that may have caused some alarming concerns surrounding the preschool um and continuing to have those programs housed and funded. Uh, my first question is can you speak to just a little bit of that breakdown for the community and those folks watching as to um maybe some securess? This is a demonstration of wirecast. So I I'll I'll
033speak to the best that I can and I I'll jump into what I believe you're you're directing this towards in this head start. So there is deep concern from us throughout the state. In fact, this was a conversation at our superintendent meeting this morning about the concerns that has happened with respect to federal support for Head Start. There's been some uh discontinuation of some of the services at the federal level and that is alarming when we consider some of our most vulnerable populations and the supports that are provided to those students. So we've been advocating on that behalf of this is a demonstration of wirecast director early childhood prior to this meeting to talk exactly about this because I knew she was at a meeting with state officials today from my leap to discuss where
034some of their plans were at. And if I remember correct there are over 200 students from the Lancing school district that are served by Head Start. So this is a real problem for us. We need to continue to elevate and bring forward. Um within the Lancing school district I know that you have blended and braided programs through your GSRP. Some of those are GSRP with tuition. Some of those are GSRP with tuition and Head Start. And so that makes a difference when we consider is a demonstration of why today was for districts to continue with their plans for programming with Head Start being a partner. So that's the best advice I have from the state. We will continue to lift this up and advocate for this because this is an important topic for us. Uh
035beyond that and I'll hit one more topic. Um just opening the door when we talk about some of the federal issues that I'm I'm bringing forward when I speak to our local boards is Medicaid. So in aggregate $6 million is brought into the intermediate school district for Medicaid services services between our 12 traditional districts. Medicaid is being heavily discussed uh with inside Congress with respect to potential changes. The Medicaid services, excuse me, the Medicaid fee for services that we receive are for those students with special education services that have been provided. In other words, if I had an IEP that said that I was to receive 30 minutes of occupational therapy services every two weeks, the IEP says I must have those services. If they cut the Medicaid dollars, is a demonstration of wirecast. My
036concerns are real because $6 million would be a significant blow to all of our districts. We have rallied as intermediate school districts throughout the state. We've looked this up. In fact, the governor even spoke to the challenges with Medicaid today. The report that that uh Superintendent Schner and I got this morning is that we finally started to see some push back from some of the uh Republican congressmen and women um that they're concerned about cuts to Medicaid. But we are lifting this up as loud and as far as we can because those services are a demonstration of wire think about what we're doing for our kids and our community. So those are two areas that I have some pretty big big concern and thank you uh so much for being able to have that transparency
037and openness surrounding that conversations because we do hear it in the media. There's uh parents who have had concerns and we continue to advocate and uh give the best that we can. So thank you for lifting that. The only thing that I uh have a question to and this is also another thing where we may have a pin in it, right? Because there's things coming down the pipeline. When we talk about that demonstration of wirecast, um what is the potential workaround or barriers that you see uh based off of what's coming down as to um why we would not have that completed? I know we we speak about it in code here, but uh for those watching when we say there's a possibility that may or may not happen by that deadline, can you just
038speak to that just a little bit more for us? So I think Superintendent Sheldon and I have a very good relationship with our local legislators times on certain topics and then the pulse that we have with local legislators is there's concern that the house and senate may not be on the same page and many times by April 15 we not only have the governor's budget but we at least have one other leg in the stool of a budget that's there. So the fact that we have neither of those legs in the stool is concerning from my lens as a superintendent. Now it's not the only time but it starts to be concerning and especially when you start to hear some of the the delays that are happening. It makes me is a demonstration time after
039the budgets are delivered. Now the consensus revenue estimating conference is still set for May. After that point in time usually they get very serious but if we haven't seen a budget from either the house or the senate indications right now is that the senate will be there before the house. We don't know when the House is is is intending. That's my best intel right now. If they haven't delivered a budget prior to the consensus revenue estimating conference, which tell us exactly how much money we've got in the budget, it's going to be hard to have honest negotiations. So, I I think this is something is a demonstration of wire to try to encourage and emphasize that it is significantly better for us in education to have these budgets completed prior to July 1st. But I'm
040just also preparing that they may even be possible this during this year. Awesome. Well, thank you so much and uh for lifting that and clarifying that um I certainly understand and see the paths that is happening before our eyes here. And so when we get to talking about funding and budget and noticing uh the media and the things that is occurring, uh we want to just speak to those demonstration of wire a little bit of uh safety and security around that. So hopefully that clears uh that up for us and the people that's watching. Thank you so much. Absolutely. Thank you, Trusty Boyer. Yes. Hello. Good evening. Thanks so much for coming tonight. Um I know it's been a long day for everybody. So I just have some quick questions just on some information. Um
041you talked really fast and I loved it. It was awesome. So um really quickly on slide number four is a demonstration stated the general fund budget for both years includes recently expanded initiatives to directly support prek and I know we say that often like oh there are supports. Could you please take a few moments to talk about those expanded initiatives? So much of this is around the number of classrooms that are being served within the Oh caught up. I was trying to go backwards for you. I think I went too far now. Get to the right slide. This is a demonstration of Wirecast. Here we go. All right. Um, with respect to early childhood and the services that are there, if you were to go back not even five years ago, we did not have
042near the amount of students that are being served in GSRP classrooms throughout this ISD. And so our staff has worked very very diligently with not only our local school districts but also community- based organizations to talk about the value that early childhood programming brings. And so we've worked to a demonstration of wirecast best that we can to notify our communities parents within our communities of the opportunities of free prek for all. In a perfect world we'd have 85% of our students attending. We're not to that level yet. Now, some of that is because we still have parents throughout the ISD. So, not just here here within the Lanc School District, but throughout the ISD. Some of that is because we have parents who make choices to go to uh either private preschools, private daycarees, uh
043things of that sort as well. So, it doesn't necessarily mean that students aren't being served in that capacity, but we want to make sure that we provide a demonstration of wirecast something we tremendously value. And we know that the curriculum with inside the GSRP programs is a vetted curriculum that is uh based on making sure that students are prepared for uh making the step into kindergarten. And so when we think about that, that's super cool. We also want to consider there are significant other programs and services with inside our early childhood. We have the great parents great start program. We have the great start collaborative um which are very much centered around engaging with families and communities. the demonstration of wire services that are there. So our early childhood programs actually start at birth. They
044don't start with GSRP. So we actually run playgroups for parents to help to talk about what is valuable ways uh to interact students and get them socially engaged. We work on prenatal care. We have services that go out uh for community engagement that we are continuing to focus on. We have a grant for that that we're working with the tri county area to talk about how to engage on this topic more holistically and we're continuing to look at um early is a demonstration of wire means we can identify students at a younger uh age we can provide services that quite often then uh either mitigate or reduce some of the challenges they might be having with special needs. So those are all functions within our early childhood program. we have uh over 75 staff members
045that work within that department that are spread out throughout the SISD. So that has continued to grow um with some of the the funding that's been available. Thank you. I appreciate that. And just for clarification because I'm wrapping my administration this budget, we are simply saying as a board whether we support or disapprove. So, like you would be able to say the Lancing School District Board of Education supports this budget, right? Okay. I just want to make sure those who are watching and that those who are here understand that your budget does not stop with us. Correct. So, yes. So, I just want to clarify all 12 locals. We ask for a resolution of support. Our board will make the final decision at our meeting on June 16th is a schedule for our board meeting.
046This is a demonstration of wirecast. If it's not a resolution of support, um you're actually asked to explain why as part of that when you send it back. So that way I think we're aware. Yes. All that if we disapprove, we we're supposed to give you changes. So we have feedback. Yeah, for sure. So I like that. Um two more question three more questions very quickly. So on slide five, you have your general fund expenses outgoing and other and knowing that this is something that we're going to say, hey, we support this general fund expenses. What exactly falls in that? that cuz I see instructional programs 26% support services 35% and then outgoing and other. Can you give us some things that are considered that outgoing? So I can I can hit on a couple
047things right away. So um the 97g grant that I referenced which is the my secure we actually this has been a multi-year grant. We've received about $9 million from the state. We have collaborated with MAISA which is the executive association that supports ISDs throughout the state as well as tech directors from around the state to provide the cyber security protections. So there's a base layer of support for districts throughout the state. is a demonstration of why example of other dollars, right? So there are services that we provide, transportation services, we have consortiums, we have uh consortiums again for technology services, business services, communication services, um uh payroll services, those are things that could be outgoing and other as well. So there's a tremendous amount that we spend that can be cyclical in nature that can
048come from both sides. Um, so it's just it's a it's a matter in some ways of the function that's out there. And I actually have that chart up so you can kind of see where some of those others are at. This is a demonstration. Second to last question. On slide number six, you said revenues decrease from 2024 to 25 mainly due to a one-time my secure grant. And so is is that a annual grant that we can apply for? Oh no. Okay. So it was just one 97g my secure is the cyber security grant. We applied for that uh a couple of years ago. We were successful in getting that again on a statewide basis. Those dollars directly flow then back to the state organizations that are doing that work. Our belief is with a
049demonstration of wire how many cyber attacks have been thwarted that we'll be able to go forward here in the future and bring that we are still in uh so we're kind of this last year was our first year of implementation. We have record of the documentation of how many cyber attacks have been stopped, including um I can give examples of districts not too far from here in which there were bad actors that were actually inside their systems. It was detected. They were stopped. The crazy thing is is the email works and the internet works of wire stop. Had that been continued, you've seen for districts with uh within our media area what has happened when cyber cyber attacks have hit and those districts are down for days. There's a direct impact on instruction, there's an
050impact on families. And so our base when we look at 97G has been how do we protect the things that you need to operate a school? When we think about HVAC systems, electrical systems, security systems, just those base things, if we can protect those base things, we can at least get kids into spots. This is a demonstration of wire like those that you highlighted earlier and you talk about the national board certification. They can take care of kids. So that's those are dollars that that came in. We are spending those right now. We have some amazing uh data and we've shared that with uh legislators already and so we'll probably a year from now be advocating uh to try to talk about this, why that should be ongoing. Thank you. And then last question because
051we have this nice Yes. I love this. Thank you. Can you speak some to this because there are numbers at the bottom like payments from the Ingam ISD as well as talking about special edition of Wirecast. Yes. So we have a unique funding formula with respect to our special education uh dollars. So there's about $105 million that has brought in aggregate for the ISD for special education. Those are between uh state funds, idea funds, as well as local taxes. Uh about 50 million of those dollars actually flow back to our local districts based on the formula that we have. So what you're seeing there are are part of the dollars that directly flow back to districts um based on the formula that is set up. We have a demonstration of wire working through how to
052improve that formula. We are happy to say at this point in time we have submitted that to MDE for their approval. uh that's been there now for I think the last uh three four months uh and we will hopefully have an approval here within the next couple of months uh to be able to continue to move forward. But there was a a lot of work that was spent in trying to create a system that was uh more equitable uh that reflected the the challenges of what we're serving with students today because that that formula had not been updated since 1998 and so reflecting the differences of student demonstration of where students are at. Um and just overall how do we how do we set up a structure that's going to be able continue to be
053be able to be collaborative especially when we think about changes in spots like Beakman and how that works as well. Thank you. I appreciate you. Absolutely. Thank you, Trusty Boyer. I do have a question. If I don't any other board members, if you don't have any questions, I would like you to share what project search student enrollment would be and also Northstar students enrollment. This is a demonstration of wirecast. All right. So, I'm going to come back to project search in just a second. Okay. Put a pin on that. I'll come back to it. Northstar is the uh program that we operate for students with emotional impairments. Okay. And so we had uh when the program started, which was now 18 years ago, it was started in a trailer. It lasted in there for 17
054years. When we purchased the trailer, it was 28. This is a demonstration of wirecast with the support of superintendent here in the ISD when we restored the uh aspects of erosion that had happened to our from to our special education village due to Headley. We used funds from that to actually create the Northstar school so they had an intentional spot. Those students had some dignity uh because operating inside a trailer that flooded on a regular basis was a huge problem. Um, and so it's a neat neat school. Uh, there are staff that are out there. In some ways, it operates very much as a day treatment program. This is a demonstration of Wirecast. Um, but those are students that are served inside our Northstar school. I would love to have you out and tour at
055some point in time. We we cut the ribbon uh not this past August, but August of uh was it 23. So really cool. Project search is one of the most fun things that that we get a chance to do. These are students that are transition based students. So they would have to be students with special needs that are over the year over the age of 18. Project Search comes to us as an international uh organization. This is a demonstration of Wirecast. Talks about an intense one-year apprenticeship process for students to be able to gain real world experience. And the goal is when they graduate, they've got jobs. Wonderful. And so we had two project search sites. One was at the state of Michigan, one was at Michigan State University. Unfortunately, the pandemic hit and we
056lost the site in the state of Michigan. I It's one of the reasons I would love for the state employees to come back because we had tremendous success there. We still maintain the uh site at MSU. It's super cool to see what those students do. is a demonstration of wire buses to working on how to how to actually fill out forms from applications to the real world experiences they are getting inside from uh veterinarians offices to uh food service to uh we've seen students that have assisted actually with inside regular office structures and sometimes inside laboratories. Some of these students are incredibly amazing doing repetitive tasks, things that we might find boring after a while. are fantastic with. So, Project Search is a cool thing. This is a demonstration of Wirecast statewide and so there
057are sites throughout the state, but we are proud to have one right here that we collaborate with Michigan State on I love to see your excitement talking about these projects. Thank you so much for sharing. Are there any other questions for superintendent this evening? Jason, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate the collaboration. [Applause] All righty. and we will be able to um vote on on this later under our new business on our agenda this evening. This is a demonstration. Moving on to our officer reports. Um I have Dr. Kavanagh, would you please report for our secretary this evening, please? Absolutely. Thank you. So the secretary's report for April 17th, 2025. First, some communications and announcements. On April 25th, there is no school. On May 9th, there is no school. It's
058a professional development day. The 202526 transportation application is now open for existing district families. Transportation application is available on parent view and please have that submitted by July 13th. Again, that's for existing district families. On May 14th, join us for the party celebrating Reading is Fundamental or RIFF's 50th birthday. That celebration will be at 400 PM in Francis Park. And lastly, the next three meetings of the Board of Education will be on May 1st. We'll have a regular board meeting. On May 15th, we'll have a regular board meeting and anformational study session. And on June 5th, we will have a regular board meeting. That concludes the secretary announcements. Thank you, Dr. Kavanagh. President, yes. I have a question about um the transportation application available. Can we how the the families are going to find out?
059Do we have a plan or in the schools or how how we are going to do that? Yes, of course. Yeah. So, the parents have had uh many many uh information uh attacks, be it uh emails, phone calls, whatever. But I'm happy to turn it over to Christina to talk all the different ways that we've uh let the families know. While she's getting the mic, I also seen it in our parent um newsletter. Yeah, thank you very much. Um, so we are regularly sending out weekly text messages, um, information updates through parent square emails, um, to all of our parents to remind them to fill out the application for next year. So, we keep giving them updates on that. Obviously, we've mentioned it now at a couple of board meetings. So, it's another avenue that
060we're doing. We have information posted on our website. Um, and we are translating information for parents as well through parent square to the text messages. Um, and just a reminder for all parents, if you have a gas card, please hang on to it for next year and do not get rid of it. Alrighty, Dr. Rodriguez. No, that is great. Yeah. I mean, it is if you don't know how we can tell the parents. That's right. Thank you. Then there is no question coming from heaven. No, it's something we need to know. The board need to know. the parents ask me then I can tell them hey you had to read you had to go here you had to go there but for me don't know it will be not doing my job but thank you
061very much for asking no thank you yes um trusty Williams um so it says that it's in parent view and I was sitting here playing with it to make sure it didn't come up in parent view but I see that it's a PDF when you open the PDF it takes you someplace else so can we make sure that that's illustration of why So, it is meant to work like that. It goes to an external application. So, when you click on it in parent view, it is meant to have a popup and then take you to an external application through there. Is it supposed to take you to books? Because that's where it took me something called books. Nope. I'll double check it. I was just in it today and I didn't experience that issue. So,
062I'll double check it again and I'll show you shortly. Sure. Wonderful. Thank you. Alrighty. There's no more questions um about our secretary report. Moving on to B, our um facilities committee. Um, vice president, a demonstration of wirecast. Thank you, Madam President. You're welcome. Well, the facilities committee met on u April 14th at 12:05 p.m. and adjourned at 12:36 p.m. We did receive information on the updates on Mount Hope and uh and Willow in Mount Hope. Uh the fencing is was underway. I think it's already done. Um they were um this is a demonstration of wire cast working on curbs and gutters. Um also they they have placed the uh sidewalks on most of the space and um certainly uh at the drop off bus drop offs. Uh they're also working on the cafeteria and hallways.
063So, it it looks really great as as they're as they're putting the finishing touches on this school in um Willow. Uh the entrance has been worked on and it's got a big W. This is a demonstration of wire cast. could also be West Lo, could be um they they they're working on the office space areas and and they're working on the outside walls, etc. Also, they've got a lot of uh um MEPs going on, mechanical, electric, and plumbing uh that is uh going in. Um so, it it's looking good. They've got some uh this is a demonstration of wire also the the work on solar panels is going to be uh initiated pretty soon. I'm not it's not yet there but uh solar panels will go up on this school. Um that's that was the
064update on the on the schools. Mhm. Um going to the um um bids bid requests. We have uh and they're in your packet. We have one for Hill uh center renovation summer 2025 registration of wire. This is to um storage trailer. Let's see commercial uh moving se Okay. This is for the moving um company that's going to move stuff out of there and then put it back. So this is for Corgan uh moving systems. They're they've been doing a lot of work for the district right now. So they're pretty much uh know the ins and outs. So that's one. The next one is also uh moving services for Luton to Wood Creek. This is a demonstration of wirecast. This fund the the first one is a CTE fund. This one is uh from the uh
065bond fund 22 bond fund. the uh moving services the same for Mount Hope uh at Wood Creek to to New Mom Hope. Uh again, this is from the bond uh money. The uh the next one is purchase of service refrigerated van and I'm going to pull that out of the of here because this is a demonstration of wirecast. So, we're going to have to vote on it. Okay. Separately. Okay. Okay. Um following then we have the um the uh bid package uh war category 2A demolition and and abatement um at Wood Creek and this for GSRP renovations. We had two vendors asbestos abatement inc from lancing kalois. This is a demonstration of wire cast from sinking fun. The next one is the uh work category 4A masonry for Wood Creek. Again, um again, this is
066a sinking fund expense. The we have the uh 08A alum aluminum wood window. Um this is for uh Wood Creek GSRP renovation. Uh this is Aaron Glass is a demonstration of wirecast is a low bid and it's a syncting fund expense. We have the Wood Creek uh again GSRP carpentry work and interiors. This one is syncing fund funds and integrity interiors some lensing is a lowest bid. We have the uh uh wood creek again continue renovations floor covering. So superior floor covering recommended of wirecast sinking fund as well. the uh continuing with uh Wood Creek GSRP renovations. This is for painting uh Niles Construction Services of Flint was awarded this contract was recommending this contract. This also sinking fund. The um the next one is still for Wood Creek JSRP. This is for specialties. This
067is a demonstration. I think door handles and stuff like that. Christina, this one's actually for uh whiteboards and uh corkboards in the classrooms. Okay, this was uh recommending the product resource company out of Lancing. Continue GSRP is uh mechanical and plumbing. AJ Miller Mechanical Inc. better lensing was the lowest bidder sinking fund. Uh this is a demonstration of wire and techn technical category. Hannah Electric LLC from uh Eden Rapids was the lowest bid on this project. And let's say syncing fund expense. We have the um work category 31A site work for Wood Creek. Um this is recommended for Anderson Fischer and Associates out of Mason. This isation of Wirecast. Um next we have the U for Wood Creek no Sexton door replacements. Uh category 8A is um doors, frames, glazing, hardware. So Aaron Glass is
068again the recommended the company contractor and that's out of the fund. The following is the U interior. This is a demonstration of wire door replacement and air conditioning. Integrity Interiors go to Lensing is a recommended uh contractor. And then we have the uh painting again for Sexton. Um the Niles Construction Services out of Flint is the recommended contractor syncing fund expense. And then we had the U. This is a demonstration of why our guest work at Sexton and Miller Delton LLC out of Jackson was the lowest uh bidder and it's a syncing fund expense. And finally uh we have the uh electrical work at Sexton and this is Hannah Electric is a recommended candidate uh contractor again from sinking fun. Those are the uh contracts we reviewed or the is a demonstration of wire results
069and they're here for your consideration for approval. Thank you so much, Vice President. Um lots of work is is getting done. I love that. Um looking forward to seeing the the outcome, the results. So, thank you so much for that. Um may I have a um motion that the board of education approve items A through F as presented? Madam President. Oh goodness. No, no, no. We We can't. Yeah, because he has to recuse himself. Oh, so we can't do them all. Okay. This is a demonstration. Yes. I'm requesting that the item um the purchase of food service refrigerated van be pulled D because u I I'll be abstaining from that vote because a family member of mine works for uh the company that is that we're purchasing the van from. Okay. Okay. So that means
070I need can I have a motion for the board to approve items A through this is a demonstration of Wirecast and then can I go down to the next? Okay. A through C. May I have a motion? I mean you need a motion. Yes, I need a motion. Madam President, I move that the board of education approve items A through C. Okay, hopefully I'm not confused. Um, so it was um moved by Ber and second by Williams. Um, all of them except for Oh, duh. Okay, thank you. The Yeah, I can say it again. So, A through C in a demonstration of wirecast. So, can I do I need to go back and I can just Okay, state it that way. Thank you. May I have a motion that the board of education approve everything
071A through everything but D. Madam Yep. Madam President. Yes. I move that the board of education approve approve items A through C and E through F as presented. Thank you. Moved by Trusty Boy. I thought that's what I said. Moved by Trusty Boyer. Second by Trusty Williams. This is a demonstration of wire cast. May I Is there any discussion at this time on the bids. I had a question. Um I was looking at Sexton's um recommendation for their doors. There's quite a few doors and it says front door. I'm like, how many front doors does Sexton have? I just know that main front door. So, um I I think there's around eight, but we're looking at the main entrance. We're just doing some additional work on that main entrance. just a little bit of follow-up
072work, but the majority of this work is actually brand new doors in the stairwells and the transition areas within Sexton. Okay. Okay. And so what about the air conditioning? That is in the annex. Just in the annex. Yeah. So the annex has partial air conditioning right now. About a third of it has AC. So we're going to complete that portion this summer. Um and then look forward to potential AC in future years. Okay. So we're just breaking down the air conditioning. Okay. Sexton. Understood. Sexton is huge. Yes, it is. All righty. That was my question. Is there any other questions in regards to our bids? This is a demonstration of wire. Please call a roll call. Mrs. Ber, yes. Dr. Kavanaaugh. Yes. Mr. Lopez. Yes. Mrs. Moore. Yes. Dr. Rodriguez. Mrs. Strode. Yes. Ms. Williams.
073Motion passes 70. Yep, that's right. 70. Perfect. Alrighty. Can I say it again? All righty. Moving on to Madam President. Yes, ma'am. I would like to make a motion that the board of education approve item D as presented. Oh, you bless your heart for going back. All righty. All righty. I love that. So, it was moved by Trustee Kavanaaugh to approve item D and it was seconded by Trusty Williams. Um, any discussion about D? Uh, Madame President. Yes, Vice President Lopez. For For the record, I'm I'm abstaining from this vote. Thank you. I'm recusing not abstaining. I'm recusing from this vote as a family member works for this company. Thank you for your integrity. I appreciate that. This is a wirecast. No discussions. May the clerk please call the role again. Mrs. Moyer, yes. Dr.
074Kavana, yes. Mrs. Moore, yes. Dr. Rodriguez, Mrs. Strode, yes. Miss Williams, motion passes six zero. Perfect. Alrighty. Can I say it again? Moving on to our superintendent report. All right. Uh, good evening everyone. Uh, again, I'm getting used to being at the end of most of the business. Uh, but it's nice because it allows me to kind of speak on some of the things that have already been done. I want to start with the transportation because it was one of the conversations we had. And I have good news. Um, as of the 16th of April, we have 2,442 requests for gas cards and 24,440 assigned gas cards. So, there's only two two out. You know, usually there is a little bit of a lag one or two days. KATA is actually a perfect 615 to
075615. But the good news is that with the Dean routed, we have 3,448 routed with 3,634 requests, which means that not only we're below 300, but we are allowed now below 200 in terms of our not routed. We have 186 as of again April 16th that are not routed. And again, as a reminder, that doesn't mean that they can't go to school. It's that the families are either using the gas cards or the CAD cards, but still would like a Dean transportation ride. But again, you know, my promise to this community was has always been to highlight this until we get that to zero. Um, but the good news is really over spring break, there was a a time to kind of settle uh look at the numbers, look at the routes, and we were
076able to bring the unouted numbers from over 300 to now below 200. So, we're pretty proud of that. Again, we owe it to every family to be able to get to school efficiently and easily, and we are certainly working on that. Um, you heard a conversation, uh, from the superintendent of the ISD and our wonderful board about Head Start. Uh, you know, one of the things I want to make sure the community knows is that we work very, very closely with Head Start. We are thrilled with our relationship with Dr. Nobles. We're thrilled with our relationship with the local Head Start programs. They are using Head uh um Harley Franks. They're using Kendan. We work very closely with them. But we do know that there is some possibility of some federal cuts, federal changes. And
077I want to make sure that anybody listening at home and certainly any board member knows that if you know a family that is in Head Start that needs any sort of support if if anything happens, please know that we are at the ready. One of the things about having universal prek, one of the things about having the space and having the teachers is that we are able to support these children. But again, nothing has happened. But I want to make sure that people know that if some something does happen, please please please reach out to uh your Head Start folks, they will reach out to us or feel free to reach out to us directly. Um there's a lot going on uh in Washington DC. Uh typically federal education policy doesn't impact as much on
078the local level, but with things like Head Start and things like title like title one, title two, etc., those things do impact us. So I don't want anybody to get scared or nervous or think that something is occurring yet in our district. But we always are hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. So if anybody is associated with or has children in Head Start, please please please feel free to always always talk to us and we will support you as best we can. And again, I want to give a big shout out to our local Head Start folks. Uh Dr. Nobles and others who have really been um really great partners. Nolan has been a terrific terrific partner and we thank her for and her staff for that. The last thing I want
079to point out is today we celebrated uh these wonderful amazing teachers who got the national board certified. I appreciate very much what Jessica said about how intensive this is one to threeyear process but to put this in perspective 61% of teachers in Michigan are nationally board certified. We're actually the six 46th state. So we have we are one of the lowest. I mean the fifth lowest, right? So we are the 46th state in terms of percentage of teachers that are nationally board certified. The fact that we had six just today that we are recognizing means that's already 1% of the the certified teacher uh pool. I think we have something like 598 um uh teachers in that pool. Six would be already more than 1%. So the fact that, you know, we as a Lancing
080school district have almost double what the average in the state of Michigan is is something that I think people should really uh be proud of. You know, for whatever reason, there might be a sense that the education in Lancing is not as good as it it truly is. But when you look at facts like that where we have that many nationally board certified, which is so much higher and so much better than the state average, I hope that really shows you that our teachers are really working not only to support the children in the classroom today, but bettering theirelves as educators to be even better tomorrow. And so I really want to congratulate those and also to note that we have something like four or five I I don't know the exact number that are
081actually in a program with Teach Michigan to continue to get their certification as well. So even if we got four more and that would bring us to 10, now you're talking about you know well past uh you know doubling what the state of Michigan's average is. Uh it is really tremendous. We are very honored to have such uh terrific teachers and I hope that what that speaks to in the community is we are trying to really push our staff and our staff wants to push themselves. This is a volunteer program uh to become better uh in the classroom uh to support our kids. And you know all I say and I've said this a lot lately is you know it's time for the community please come visit. If you've been away come see our schools.
082come see the amazing work uh that's happening in the facilities, seeing what happens in the classroom, see our programs, you know, you know, our sports teams, our music programs. I was just at Dwight Rich the other day and their music program, they now have four full classes of band. It's something we haven't had in years. Uh just know that we are we are getting there and I want the community to really know and to reach out so that you can come see the great work. I mean, you've got the the work on the walls to prove it. You've got the district goals on the walls to prove it. But we know, we understand that the district is still thinking. They're still questioning. They're still looking with a little bit of a suspect eye. But the
083greatest thing is the proof is when you see it. So, please know that, you know, transportation's getting better. Our teachers are really nationally board certified. We're doing all these things. We've got universal prek. We're moving really forward on a lot of things. and please just come visit. If there's a school in your neighborhood that you've been thinking about like, well, maybe maybe I should take a look for my kid, just just knock on the door. Just call us. Just reach out uh because we want you to see uh the great things that are going on in the district. So, I really want to thank the the board. I want to thank the community for moving us forward in such a great way. And with that concludes my report. Thank you so much. All right. Thank
084you, Superintendent. Wonderful. Alrighty, moving on. Yes. Yes. Did you have a question? Sorry, Madam President. I do. Mhm. So I I can you speak possibly or Jessica what may be hurdles that maybe some teachers are maybe hesitant to become nationally board certified and how we can encourage them as parents and the community please. That's a great question. I'll start and then I'll turn it over to to Jessica. So thank you so much for asking that question. Um you know it's a lot of work. You know it it is this is an intensive program where they actually videotape themselves teaching they have to write. They have to do a lot. So, I appreciate if you're a first, second year, third-year teacher, you're just trying to like get your, you know, your legs underneath you. Um, but
085we actually have been with the partnership with Teach Michigan have been incentivizing and supporting teachers to do this, but it is it is a hard job. It's it's hard to get there. And I mean, Jess, you know the program even better than I do. So, when I was a teacher, I had colleagues go through this. And when we say it's intensive, that doesn't even capture the the spirit of this. It is exceptionally intensive, lots and lots of time commitment. Um the Teach for America program that we're a part of is really great because they get to be part of a cohort. So I do feel like they at least have colleagues to lean on and encourage each other and they have mentors in the program. So I do think that that is one of the
086reasons why we're seeing many of our Lancing teachers now getting board certified or thinking about it. But if you're on your own um as they have been in years past, it is it is very difficult. Um, I remember one of the teachers in my school had binders literally this tall full of documents and prep and for portfolios and things. So, they do find it super rewarding, especially can when you can go through with a cohort. So, I do think Teach for Michigan has been wonderful to have in our district to be able to have those um people to lean on and say, "What are you working on and how how are you doing that?" So, I think the isolation in some cases across the state of Michigan could be difficult. So, we're really happy to
087have cohorts of people going through now, but I really do think it is um time is the big commitment. I do know that the state of Michigan is incentivizing this for teachers so that teachers with board certification do receive $10,000 in addition to their salaries per year. So, there is a push in Michigan to have teachers go through the program, but it really is just a commitment of time because in some cases it can take up to three years to get this. So, and and that's the reason why only 61% of teachers, you know, in Michigan are are doing it. Yeah. Great. Any no questions. This is a demonstration to our um new business. Um on our agenda, we have the Ingram Intermediate School District proposed general fund budget. May I have a motion? Madam
088President, here we go again. Uh Trusty Strode. Madame President, I move that the board of education express its support for the Ingome Intermittent School District proposed general fund budget as presented. It was moved by Trusty Stro, second by I think it was Trusty Buller. Alrighty. Um, this isation of Wirecast. Anyone? Yes. I just like to highlight There we go. Mic's on. I'd just like to highlight a few things uh that was captured tonight surrounding the approval uh support uh to move with this decision. I think it was very clear capture of what we are doing and the proposed movements even with some of the challenges that are being faced uh coming down the pipeline uh with budget changes and etc. We still are doing extremely well when it comes to our budget. um we're in
089a really good spot and I think that goes to how hard uh our teams are working to ensure we're in a good space. So I think the approval of this is uh a testament to that and we do know that there are uh plans in place of action in the event that things may or may not come down later that affects our affects our district. So thank you. Thank you for lifting that trusty strode. Any other um just quick question and this might be for Ben because you're in contact with Jason. So this um document it provided 23 24. Do you know when maybe 24 25 would come out like the numbers when they're usually reported? Uh I I don't this is certainly run by them but what I can say is I think they
090handed this out about two months ago. So my feeling would be up to date. Yeah. Exactly. Thank you. Alrighty. Well, could the clerk please call roll call vote please? Mrs. Ber. Yes. Dr. Kavanaaugh. Yes. Mr. Lopez, yes. Mrs. Moore, yes. Dr. Rodriguez, yes. This is a demonstration of wirecast, Miss Williams. Wonderful. Motion passes 70. Moving on to our public comment on non-aggenda items. Do we have any this evening? Okay. Wonderful. Now we are. Can I have a a motion to go into close session? Madame President, yes. I move that the board of education recess into close session for the purpose of considering material exempt from disclosure as is permitted in the open meetings act. This is a demonstration by trust Dr. Kavanaaugh and second by vice president Lopez. We are now in close session at
0917:17. Yes. Oh, you are amazing. I thank you. And that's the audience, y'all. Yes. May the clerk please call roll call vote. Mrs. Ber, this is a demonstration of Wirecast. Pardon one second. the reason. Yes, we we cited the reason. It's it's on our Thank you so much. I'm not going to do anything about it, but I just wanted to let you know. May the May the clerk please call the role. Mrs. Ber, yes. Dr. Kavanaaugh, yes. Mr. Lopez, yes. Mrs. Moore, yes. Dr. Rodriguez, yes. Mrs. Strode, this is I'd say yes. But I also can I clarify while we're going through the the Yes, it was clear that the purpose is on the agenda and I just want to let you know that it is considering material exempt and from disclosure as permitted in
092the opens meeting act. So I'll let you clear that up there and yes, thank you so much Trusty Stro for clarification and it's clear. All right, Williams. Yes, it motion passes 70. We are now going into close session at 7:18. Thank you very much. This is a demonstration of wire. cast. So moved. All right. Trusty Boyer. Yes. Dr. Kavanagh. Yes. Mr. Lopez. Mr. Lopez. This is a demonstration of wirecast. Dr. Rodriguez. Yes. Mrs. Strode. Yes. Miss Williams. [Music] This is a demonstration of wirecast. Yes, I just I just um because the last board meeting I was at, I did have a conversation with Ben and so I want to make sure that I stated um in regard to how comments were taken and then addressed that in no way, shape or form am I superintendent
093character or any impropriety. And I want to go on record by saying that because I do not want anyone to look at this board as if we are trying to catch our superintendent up. That is disrespectful and I believe it diminishes the effect and the work that we are trying to accomplish in this district. And so I just wanted to go on record with that. And so I did talk to Ben and just saying that was not my intent and I want to go on record with that. This is a demonstration of why. Thank you, Trusty Boyer. Dr. Rodriguez, thank you. I attending uh the governor meeting with the students at Easter High School. I talked with every one of the students. They were there were about 12 and every one of them goes to
094the university. Nine to Michigan State University. Two to Li Community College and one to the club over there in in Nor the University of Michigan. This is a demonstration of wirecast. The speaker, the student speaker was one of the best speak speeches that I here from anybody. And if you had without the students like that, I mean these students, they had their life for success in the future. Thanks to the Lancino School District. Thank you, Madame President. Thank you, Dr. Rodriguez. Are any other questions or comments from our board members this evening? Dr. Cavana, thank you. Very quickly, um I just want to lift that a few days ago the governor made an announcement in Eastern High School relevant to students across the state, but of particular interest perhaps to students in our district, which
095is that there um if you fill out your FAFSA um so that is the form that you fill out in order to get financial aid um when you go to college. if you fill out your FAFSA and then if you text uh a number, I think it's like 85550K tickets. Um if you text that number, um then you will be entered into a drawing for um there's there's a few $10,000 winners and a few $50,000 winners that would then be put into um your students education account. Um, so just by filling out the FAFSA, which is a great idea to do anyway if you have a student who is collegebound and interested in what sort of financial aid package they can get. Just by doing that, you can be entered to win this additional money
096from the state. So, it's a great opportunity. It's a great incentive for um students who are interested in financial aid for college. Thank you. Thank you. Um, Dr. Kavanagh Jada, I hope you heard that. That's my daughter. This is a demonstration of Wirecast. Trusty Strode. Yes. Uh very quickly too, uh that was a great um participation. We were able to go to and support our students and have conversations about their excitement for higher learning. So go ahead and text those numbers. I do want to uplift earlier in this meeting, we were able to recognize our teachers who were able to be nationally certified and that is such a big big big deal for our district and we want to continue to encourage our uh fellow teachers who have not uh had that opportunity just yet
097to go forward. We are excited about learning in this district and growing with our staff and the teams here. So, I just wanted to uplift that we were so excited to recognize them again uh earlier in this meeting. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Strode. It's amazing to um celebrate our educators and our scholars. I'm so excited. Um any other comments from our board members? Is Trusty Stro or I say it's Trusty Strode, Trusty Herd. Hi. I I made a personal commitment, Madame President, that um at every one of the meetings when you give me a chance at the end, I want to say if you've been teeter tottering in your mind about whether to send your babies to Lancing for us to educate them, come on home. Come on home. Thank you, Trusty Herd. Thank
098you. All righty. At 10:42, meetings adjourned. Good night. Good night. Sleep tight. I'm so I'm so tired.