001good evening everyone it is thursday june 16 2022 at 5 30. i would like to call this public budget hearing of the lansing school district board of education to order will the clerk please call the role dr body dr cavanaugh miss hodgin mrs lawrence here miss lil g mr lopez mrs moore president dr rodriguez mrs willis president miss lil g here quorum is present thank you very much any additions to the agenda this evening okay seeing then we'll move on to presentations we have a presentation from mr john lang and miss kim adams on the fiscal year 2023 budget take it away oh thank you for this uh chance to present to the small quaint group tonight um is the presentation being loaded on yes there we go all right thank you so of course
002what we are presenting is our budget proposal for adoption by the board for next fiscal year starting july 1st so oops um we're going to talk about our no more normal assumptions you know the things we know the things we don't know going into the budget uh what sort of revenues we're projecting expenditures look at a four-year trend of our budget and expenditures and revenues and then welcome to any questions that you have so what we do know retirement rate for ors was going to be an average of around 28.64 this year and that's just the average across all the different uh groups and and what their benefits are and what their rate would be expected in and then also the um district payment for health insurance of course the state if you don't know
003uh there's a hard cap on insurance of what the districts are responsible to pay for can pay up to and that usually is increased by that 3.7 percent every year and it's a different amount for single versus two-person versus family insurance so um uh and they just increase it for each of those levels each year by that much uh property taxes and there will be something in the uh regular board meeting on certifying or ratifying our property taxes for next year just something i wanted to point out is that every year we had to do a calculation for a heavily rollback which if you don't know what that is that's where we have to calculate if uh property tax values increase over the rate of inflation um because of inflation this year and property taxes
004this is the first year and i think three years where we didn't have to do a rollback and what that means is we have to reduce our millage so it can't be higher than the rate of inflation so as property taxes have increased we haven't been able to actually collect all those revenues but because of the increase in property taxes we're not actually losing more revenue now that's a whole different discussion of what we lose with the headley rollback and possibly a future discussion of being able to recapture those in the future uh that'd be another vote but that's again another discussion for another time um and that also that could affect both the general fund operating revenue and then the sinking fund uh the debt for our bonds that doesn't change that's not affected
005by the heavy rollback and as noted that's the 4.1 mills is what we had sold to the public for as far as passing the new bond in may that there would be no millage increase on the bond all right what we don't know state aid adjustments for per pupil revenue uh the current year is eighty seven hundred dollars per people from the state for state aid revenue uh we're projecting or we're budgeting at a four hundred dollar per people increase um which uh it sounds like a lot but it's actually conservative to what the current estimates are um some of the uh lobbying groups that like michigan school business officials and some other groups that uh work with the legislators they're thinking it could be as much between five and six hundred dollars per pupil
006so we budget always on the lower side just to be conservative and make sure we don't over budget it is the state they can do what they want you know whenever they want so but based on what the revenues are have been this year it's looking very promising to possibly have even more of that this year so that'd be an increase up to 9 100 per people as we're budgeting for this so that's what our budget will reflect um then also enrollment we're budgeting at 9 417 students next year and that's the fte based on what would be the fall and fall count of this year and the spring count of this past february and they're going back to or they did this year and continue with the 90 of the fall count and ten
007percent of the prior spring count um so when you we talk about that that's what how that calculation comes into play there and kim is going to talk about revenues good evening for our revenues we have three main categories we have our local revenues which are miscellaneous our property tax and facility rentals and leases we also have our state revenues which are the state aid payments that we receive each month and or the ingham isd special education revenues and then for federal we have the em isd medicaid outreach for the ingham intermediate school district we receive special education tuition county special education and center-based program revenue we also receive transfers from other funds which is really just the indirect that we can charge out on food service expenses and then our categorical or grant revenues
008which are local donations or state grants such as at risk and gsrp or federal grants such as title 1 title 2 or esser grants for next year's budget we are estimating 268 million eight hundred nine thousand dollars in revenue um and that is comprised of the buckets you see to the right the biggest share is our grants this year with 53.3 percent of the revenues expected to come from grant sources all right i'm going to talk about our expenditures that we're budgeting for next year and of course the largest portion in any district deals with this too is that the cost of staffing uh wages and benefits normally for most districts it's between 70 to 80 of their revenue um or expenses excuse me and uh so we're in for this uh slide it's just
009showing what our our non-grant wages and benefits are which would be around 97 million dollars um the next category is our non-categorical force departments and schools and that's what we budget for their discretionary spending departmental budgets such you know would be the transportation the operations facilities purchasing my office and all that that's around 36 million dollars school budgets that's their per pupil discretionary we give them uh i believe sixty five dollars per pupil this year so we increased it from fifty dollars per people last year um so they can use that for supplies or you know whatever they need for their school that they can use out of their general fund budgets the hold harmless that's noted there that 647 000 that's a little bit new that's new this year and part of that discussion
010is the uh superintendent scholars talked about the school-based budgeting that we're going to progressing towards and that's pushing out as much dollars to the schools to use however they want um as uh the whole harmless part of that this year is that if they had some positions that they were funding last year or the career as we're ending that or or some other expenses that they would not have been able to afford this year because of the budgets that they have we are providing that in the general fund so they didn't have to put forth or didn't weren't able to fully find something that they want really wanted like a literacy teacher or something like that you know that if they wanted a 1.0 literacy teacher and they only had the grand funding for our
011uh you know a partial ftd we provided the funding this year for that but um part of that discussion is then the following year is that it's all going to be on the schools and they get to make those decisions on what they want to use their funds for the grant funded budget as kim said we always match the revenues to expenditure so 143 million in grants is same as expenditures and that could be for staffing that could be for supplies anything that the school needs for those uh and as far as staffing um we have the bargaining group breakdown for each of those categories and whether they're uh general funded or grant funded and how many staffing we're expecting for next year um so at this point we're projecting 951 staff for and this
012is fte when i say staff um for the general fund and 248 for the grant side so 1199 total for next year for staffing and then just kind of looking at some trends for enrollment and staffing so uh how they've gone and this is the general fund so one of the things i want to discuss is like okay if you we are projecting lower enrollment then why are we increasing our staffing so part of that discussion is another thing that the superintendent has uh um had for our plans is that the title one funding traditionally we've used for uh half of our wages and benefits for kindergarten teachers so half is always general fund half is title one and then also there's a portion that we use title one for gsrp staff the preschool staff
013uh this year we're pushing those dollars out to the school so they have more title one funds to use we're using general fund to cover all those salaries now or other than the gsrp there's a gsrp grant for that but otherwise the kindergarten staff are i'll give you a hundred percent general fund schools get those extra dollars to use however they want to um so that means that there's ft that previously was covered in general fund and i think it's combined 42 fte between the kindergarten teachers and the gsrp staff that will now be general funds so that's the main point of that increase there and same sort of chart for what kima talked about for revenues on the expenditure side there's the grants of course again match the 143 million wages and benefits 97
014million on the general fund side and the discretionary just under 38 million so you can see how those percentages break down like i said there's grand staff that are are part of those wages or wages and benefits are part of that grant so when i mentioned that 70 80 that included all funded staff that way as a percentage of what the total is all right so then a four-year sort of trend um as you see for our revenues in uh the 2019-20 school year we had about 456 million dollars in revenues last year 166 million excuse me 2021 school year and then this past year with a big bump up because of uh the essers grand just over 212 million and that was presented in our budget amendment two weeks ago and then for our
015next year we're projecting about 268 million now we didn't get a lot of new money a lot of that is because of how late the state awarded esther's funding we just didn't have time to spend those dollars so some of those rolled into next year as far as what was part of the total budget for revenues and then the four-year analysis with the expenditure side um again total expenditures there for each of those columns so what the main point of this is showing the effect on the fund balance and where we're trending on there so at the end of 2020 we're just at 10.5 million in fund balance and at the end of 2021 we had added about 4 million in fund balance and then this past year again what we presented a couple weeks
016ago putting it out up to about 44 million and then uh for proposed for this year using about 10 million of that fund balance to use for this year now the uh bulk of that is what we just talked about as far as the kindergarten and the gsr peaches and bringing those into the general fund um there's some other things with just regular wages and benefits that increase that we talked about and then one of the other uh larger uh things that we're budging for and kind of just hedging against is our actual health care costs um as you know the board voted i think it's three years ago to go with a self-funded option because of claims and how we estimate claims for the cost of the self-funded and then what we have that
017the employees share is it's we also we have that gap in if there's any difference in that there's a cushion that we need to do in case those don't match up if claims are higher than expected versus what we have for employees here covering all that um so this we don't normally do this for the for kind of hedging against and putting a cushion in there but the early trend showing uh we get a quarterly report from set say that manages this uh insurance and the early claims through uh i believe was in march show that we potentially could be about two million dollars over that threshold so it's only three months of data we'll monitor throughout the year and then we wouldn't really know until the end of december when that clean period ends
018where we're staying so as we're monitoring those quarterly reports well we can adjust that budget as needed but just to have that cushion in there um then as far as the fund balance overall i just wanted to point out that uh yes it is high what uh kind of the state and auditors and all experts recommend is that your fund balance should be around 15 of what your total expenditures are in revenues um our normal historical in the past several years budget is around 160 million 15 of that is around 25 million superintendent and herself have had these conversations about where's our sweet spot that would be good so as again we're using about 10 million of that in our budget this year or projecting at least that maybe about next year as some more
019things happen some more programs or whatever we could use about another 5 million and that would put us right at that 25 million and then at that point is when we want to have pretty much the same revenues expenses and state at that level point of around the 25 million keep it around that 15 so if that all makes sense in a dollar sense i know not everyone's financial but i just kind of went through that real quick just to give you an idea of what we are i have discussed as far as our plans and the fund balance so and that is it so um happy to answer any questions that you have mrs logee thank you as always for super high quality presentation and data my question is on slide four so you've
020already calculated what enrollment will likely be for next year and i guess my question is uh is this changeable like obviously if more people enroll than we think are going to enroll and that changes the count it could go up um but like is there some other count that will happen that could change this or is so to get to this number we we request uh enrollment projections from two different companies and then um christine tolker and and superintendent they look at that usually as far as what the trends are what kind of any early enrollment is especially with kindergarten because those are the new students coming in and then they just come up with a number amazingly when we discuss this together i think uh superintendent threw out 9418 and was told her throughout
02194 16. separate answers and so that's why we came up so but that's a again looking at the trends that they're provided to us and what our own numbers are showing us but again this is just for budget so um if we're budgeting that revenue at that amount with that many students and again talking about the per pupil the more students we get the more state revenue we get you on top of that okay thank you yeah and and just to follow up and thank you for that great answer john is we want to be conservative when we schedule this but of course you know the goal is 11 000 five and our hope is that we're going to go high we just want to be careful um but yeah that number if it goes
022to 96 97 that just means we get more revenue and we get to hire more teachers when would we know that number sure so it's the count window right so when we do the official count in that month of october like when we talked about that whole thing last year that's when we'll get that that audited number so we're being conservative here uh it was really funny we blindly had to pick the number and we were two kids away from each other and of course we had looked at the the company's results as well we feel really good with this in fact it's probably pretty conservative but we wanted to be careful on two things and it's good for the board to know one is when we created the online school we got quite a
023bunch of students from outside of the district because they really wanted it we feel that now as kovit is abating not getting rid of but is debating a lot of those students are going to go back to their kind of home district in addition um we're doing the universal pre-k which is really adding a bunch of kids but pre-k doesn't count for count so you know you'll see those numbers hopefully in two years but so you know we figure we'll kind of maintain where we are in 94 uh 17 is about right so dr rodriguez i wanted to follow up the great question but we already i was asking about the pre-k they were included and i heard they are not included we cannot count them um projections are always complicated they're not going to
024go there but base h you got 143 million dollars and as a budget and then you have revenues equal expenditures but when we had later 34 million and you call that and things do is safe for the district do you mean you are not spending all this money correct so the way we have to budget for grants is that it's a dollar in a dollar out um so that's why those match there i think that's what is that what you're asking no but i don't think i how we are getting 33 million dollars in the sun in the foundation so how we get 34 million if we spend what we got right so the general fund is the only one that affects the the fund balance because we can't um most grants are reimbursement based
025so you can't request more funds than what you're actually spending so that's why the revenue for grants matches expenditures um so the the change in the fund balance is really just a reflection of the general fund of what we're using in that so that's yeah you are telling us then the van balance of 34 meters is going to come from the general um correct yes now how we are going to spend 143 million dollars in one year um great point great question that's our friend ben brown that's a great question because it's so important they are giving us money and i'm going to say and we are not changing education so then it's important for me to see the future and use this money for equity diversity inclusion curriculum a new vision for the district
026if you have this money and you didn't have it before i can see a different district that is a separate member yeah i think that's a really great question so i'll answer it two ways one is the number looks very high and in some respects it's inflated because some of that money really we should have seen last year but we didn't get it we had budgeted for it we had done stuff but because it's grant money we were told or we were thinking oh it's going to come in this fiscal year it ended up not so this is money that you know we're already thinking about spending on things like you know the air filtration systems and the masks and things like that but it does also allow us even though it says revenues and
027expenditures depending on those 143 million the essers money we can actually supplant a little bit so there is a chance that we'll be able to pay for some of our people with this money which will then allow us to have fund balance money and then do the things that you're talking about could we highly invest in let's say dei could we highly invest in extra tutors absolutely so what uh my hope and certainly what we have to do both for federal law as well as for the district is once we kind of close this down we're going to start to talk about what are we going to do with this money and in fact for the tranche 3 so essers 3 you actually had to and we did pull the community and say what do
028you want us to spend this money on and so we have those responses and a lot of it was you know the the uh honorariums for the staff uh you know the retention recruitment stuff a lot of it was uh you know uh increasing uh salaries uh for certain positions we know that it's hard to staff the medical assistants you know we'd like to continue those medical assistants all of those things are possible with this but you know this 143 it's not all essers it's other grants as well but we'll go through that and i'll certainly defer to john and kim to talk about that but i know it seems like a really high dollar figure which it is uh but we'll we'll we'll talk about how we're going to spend it and as one
029of my responsibilities is taking care of be aware of them in categorical money that is what i will be checking more next year during the whole year but i want to help i want to help and how we do things better because having more money doesn't mean we are going to have better results and then we do something different so and just to add on to that the the presentation that miss benavidez did a few months ago on grants that's she talked about everything that kind of goes into that so again as superintendent mentioned it's it's the it's the essers it's the title one it's the at-risk it's the magnet funds it's the reap grant that's about ten nine to ten million a year all that sort of stuff that's all in that so um
030but definitely we yeah if you would like to know i mean we can certainly show you you know what how all that 143 million is made up of yeah and the plans to use it yes yeah dr rodriguez oh i i'm sorry i looked right at doc mr lopez and said dr rodriguez mr lopez that's you right mr lopez i'll respond to anything except okay i'll tell you later staying with this uh categorical how much of this 143 million is is carry over from other budgets too because you don't spend categorical some you you have to some you can carry over so i think that that's also part of of this number and so i know that we were presented with a slew of grants that we get uh maybe at some point in time
031we should know what carried over from those grants and and any of those budgets will support the programs that were intended to support and for how long and uh and see how that turns out because you know all this categorical funding um we need to be careful because you know we can start programs and then not be able to fund them next year or the year after because this money is not going to be available so as we look at the um essers and all that um let's be careful not to start any programs or higher staff that we're not going to be able to to afford in in the future in two or three years so that's part of the categorical you know dilemma you know sometimes thank you mrs moore yes i just
032have a question what um fun would our mental health therapist come out of or our counselors or maybe our college advisors i'm curious to know where would those funds come from uh well different categories would be do you know so the graduation specialist i'm not sure if they fall within one of the categories you're speaking of but those are typically funded with the consolidated which would be your title one and then you have counselors which are typically general funded but this year we did receive a 31-0 grant which helped fund some of the new counselors that we hired this past year and what was the third one i'm sorry mental health therapist or special ed or like just our general population high schoolers just in our schools k through k through 12. not just special
033and i'm just trying to translate that into what position that that's the question for you yeah sure su so i mean to be honest everything that that robin's talking about you're you're basically saying the wonderful adults that can help our kids in our schools and so they have different ways that we can fund it which is really nice so for instance there was a brand new state grant called 310 that we qualified for and that paid for school counselors it also paid for extra nurses um but in general any sort of employee that's going to come out of general funding right so that teacher will do that but we also have at-risk funding we have title 1 funding um so what's nice is some of these uh grants we can use to pay for mental
034health specialists and behavioral specialists and things like that and you know at the end of the day that general fund that's what we get to spend everything for um but i have to give credit to the state um they were really great this year and they spent uh they created a special fund called 310 just for mental health and nurses and things like that we applied for it we got it and it helped to really defray the cost but i will point out what um uh mr lopez talked about is with a lot of these grants they give you the money at the beginning and then you got to pay for it later so with 31-0 they gave us a hundred percent this year then they're going to give us 66 next year and then
03533 and then we got to pay for them all right so we're trying to make sure that we're conservative with our budgets so that we can keep those wonderful people for years to come and the reason i'm asking is because i know for a fact at everett high school there are two counselors and i actually asked what the case load was for the counselor it was 700 students so it makes sense that we would have more counselors in the school so that was my question like where where is this fun where is this money coming from how can we um how can we uh provide positions right for our students so absolutely so those kind of positions i don't see them being grant funded because we need those in the school that's right although i
036will say and and this is a longer conversation that we'll probably talk about when we have the grant conversation is when we say grants sometimes like essers they just go away some grants what we would call grants are so part of our history and our statutory rules that they're not like title one title one's been around since 1965. if title 1 is going away america looks different right that's a whole other conversation so we can start to say we care so much about um counselors at everett at the high school that we will say title one is going to be part of it so you don't have to worry that the title one money is going to go away but there are some grants that will go away like 31-0 or essers or whatever so
037but your point the most important thing is we need more counselors in our high schools and we need to lower the uh the case load absolutely other questions from board members thank you thank you [Music] any public comment on the budget okay then we're gonna roll right along board members if you need to take a moment or eat i invite you to do that here tonight uh we're gonna start our regular board meeting right now same people are here um mr lopez is here too will everyone please join me for the pledge of allegiance thank you very much any additions to the agenda this evening we had enough of them enough for those this week any public comment on agenda items okay then we're gonna move i don't have my updated there we go um
038we're gonna invite pastor sean holland to the podium and pastor holland you can get started there or there wherever you want very well you can get started whenever you're ready we do have a presentation that we would like to get it loaded um we didn't we don't have specific copies but we do have a presentation if that's possible you want to just tell us about yourself for a minute i would my wife would have a problem with that but i'll do it for for purposes my name is um pastor sean hall and i wear a couple different hats in the community uh i do i am the senior pastor of the episode of worship church for the last 20 years been working in the community but i also uh serve as the director for transformational
039leadership for one love global and we hold much of the racial equity work that is centered where youth are centered in that work so we hold my brother's keeper as well as trht which stands for truth racial healing and transformation where lansing received a five-year grant from the kellogg foundation of close to a million dollars that we've come to the end of that five-year grant period and i also serve as a social and emotional learning specialist helping districts across the country implement seo strategies k through 12. and so we're here today we're excited my colleague is here with me chianti saxon we're excited to present a pilot program that we began to talk to superintendent children about about maybe nine months ago for high schools and middle schools and so yeah so my name is
040sean holland some people know me as mordecai some people know me as horn and holland i'm a jazz saxophonist and um and as you probably in school i would be deemed as adhd [Laughter] my aces goal would be through the roof but i love lansing and have four children been married 26 years and we moved here in 2004 because we started youth programming to help students who were matriculating from high school to college coming out of urban centers to michigan state university and we noticed that there were some serious um i would say learning gaps and uh emotional supports so we started um at one point we had seven different campus ministries lcc cooley law michigan state university of michigan western michigan da da da da right and really was about how do we develop
041curriculum and support networks for students who are coming out of a relationship-based model into a research based model and how do we how do we how do we merge that how do we support students in that effort so we found out that if you're going to make a difference you got to go back to high school you got to go back to middle school you got to go back to elementary school and so we've done mentoring programs in the city luton elementary um and so we've had a wonderful wonderful opportunity to serve this community and so i'm glad to be here on tonight and thank you again as we are waiting for this presentation to be loaded i guess i'll i'll add something which i mean as we vamp um i mean everybody knows i'm
042new here right although i'm starting to not feel so new here which i really appreciate uh it will be a year in like two weeks um this community is incredible i think that everybody knows that and there's so many wonderful people in lansing that want to help and sean has just been such a great advocate for doing what's right by our kids and when we were talking about this project and then we finally got it off the ground after like bajillion tries and it's all thanks to him i had zero to do with it um you know they had such a successful time these are the kinds of things i want the board to see but also to be proud of it's this is our community these are wonderful people that live here that care
043about us and it's because this board has been so thoughtful about opening up the doors to the community that we're able to to do this so um i yay nay yay we good maybe so this pilot program was is designed to help students to really elevate the voices of students to hear what their concerns are but to also collaborate with other community organizations that are touching our youth and provide additional support to come alongside to the district and this program that you know this pilot program cost community nine thousand dollars we got no funding from the school district we got it cost us nine thousand dollars and it was just a scratch of what we could do and the results that we could see evidence based data driven and so um i'm going to introduce
044kiante saxon he's he um is the maestro behind the implementation we had a whole team whole collaborative team across the community and so again we are here to represent uh one love global uh we are a michigan-based social enterprise that leads racially equitable systems and for transformation community organization youth leadership development and social entrepreneurship so i want to invite kiante to take us further all right way to uh way to hold it down mordecai way to hold it down um so like you said my name is keonta saxon uh my official title with one love global would be creative director uh but you know as we know in community organizing you wear a lot of different hats uh for the privilege of the everett youth assembly i took the lead uh organizing role and i
045know you know a lot of times people come in here and you know they're talking numbers and dollar signs and budgets and all of that uh i would like to appeal to you in a in a different way i like to appeal uh to your hearts uh and so first thing i want to do is talk about one love global uh what is one love global and as you can see here on the slide we are a michigan-based social enterprise that you know leads racially equitable systems and transformation uh we do that through the pathways of community organizing youth leadership development and social entrepreneurship okay um essentially what that means is we want to see change in our community because we know uh that there are some iniquities that are going on in the community
046whether it comes through environmental economical educational et cetera et cetera and our mission is to uh change that i believe okay the clicker does work there we go the clicker works uh so again the mission is to transform communities so that black children uh not only black children but black children indigenous and people of color uh you know experience justice peace healing opportunity and abundance notice that says and abundance and not in abundance uh we believe that abundance is its own separate category and we want to make sure that we are doing what we can to facilitate that space for our children uh we envision a global uh liberation where reparations uh for bipoc people experience radical love of self community and planet right again so this all ties into our mission and uh what
047we get to do now is talk about the everett high school youth assembly right and what i want to do is focus on the why uh why did we decide that this was necessary uh as you can see here we have a couple uh you know categories here that we feel like are very important to expand our children's uh you know educational experience but also expose them to right and so we talk about youth art and hip hop and scl which is a hot button word right now and stem and robotics and leadership and development youth entrepreneurship uh these are all things that we wanted to expose to the children but more importantly they said that they wanted exposure to themselves right and from our position we wanted to go in throw this assembly give
048them a space for them to raise their voices and so that way we can hear from them how they want these things implemented so that way we can be the allies that they are telling us that we need as well as be the guidance that we know they need as well um hello welcome to the party [Laughter] uh this one we can go ahead and skip uh we can go ahead and skip that as well and we can go ahead and skip that as well so again uh what i want to do is immerse you in this process okay so imagine trying to create something uh you know from scratch right build it up to the point where we are connecting with individuals such as self-superintended uh individuals such as principal boyle's a newly implemented
049principal you know in at everett high school uh sending emails trying to get contact information going back and forth trying to set this thing up uh you can imagine that it took some time to get to where we ended up being able to have the assembly and so as we go through that we also decided to go ahead and have a takeover week essentially right where we go into the school uh for an entire week we take over their lunch periods right we are just there to build relationships with the children because we believe we only work as fast as we gain trust right and so we need the kids to understand that you know they can rely on us and can trust us so we're there we're eating lunch with them we're playing games
050with them we're introducing them to you know what one love global is we got music going on they're telling us what they want to do and you know we're doing uh step dances and hustles and you know tick tock dances because that's huge in the community right now um like you were having fun and embracing them and showing them that hey there is this space out there where the community wants to put their arms around you in this way but also understand we want to take it to the next level so during that day we're there every day for an entire week again through all the lunch periods just getting to know uh you know each student especially the ones who are very vocal and i promise you there are a lot of those um
051and it was such just just imagine how much joy in in in relationship building was going on during those times to the point where now we can tell you know the students that hey we got this huge assembly that we want to throw uh you know at x amount of day and we need you to be there we want you to fill out you know this survey and tell us exactly what you want us to talk about uh so what we learned through that process was that community partners are ready to support uh it didn't take a a huge effort to get a lot of cross-organizational json no support with this uh you know wanting to say we want to be a part of that how can we help uh we had teachers and staff
052full support of all of the teachers and staff that were there who were able to experience what we're doing and saying hey we haven't seen anything like this come in here yet like this is phenomenal and you know again essentially at this step we're just building relationship um you know we we reached we were able to reach 90 of the students uh you know granted around the time that we were coming in it was towards the end of the seniors uh educational tenure but we had seniors come back just to attend the assembly like imagine that what senior you're gonna get to come back to high school um and so like that was phenomenal and we also understand that you know though i'm not approaching you with you know dollar signs and things like that
053right now uh we do need support you know from the board and from the district just because you know you guys have a lot of influence and power to be able to grow this into what we want it to be uh so going back through the assembly uh i want to take you there to the day of uh not only have we spent the entire week um you know asking students what they wanted to talk about what was impacting their quality of life uh you know since you know coming back from covid and not only did we spend the hours and having the conversations with you know principals and you know administration and getting sound set up and having community partners come in and set up tables and get in the gym ready to go
054and you know all of these different parts of what it takes to do community organizing uh we are now approaching with these findings so what we found out out of all the students that we surveyed 69 of them said that they were affected personally or have lost a close loved one due to gun violence right um and that is one of the major reasons why we set out to do what we do we can recognize that gun violence is impacting our youth at an astronomical level right now in our community um and without getting into too much of the details we know that we can do something to fix it uh it's not a huge problem that we can't solve we're coming to you with the solution uh 47 of the kids uh you know
055say that they are concerned about their college and career readiness so what are we talking about as we get kids going through our educational system and they're approaching you know the time that they're either going to make a decision to get ready for college or you know go into the workforce and or go into entrepreneurship which they're not even really being exposed to right now um they're not they don't feel ready they don't feel prepared for it and so they're like a preparation as a failure on all of our ends right and we need to step up and fill that gap uh 42 racism and discrimination uh is a huge problem uh you know what they're saying and we'll get to some quotes later that can highlight that uh 41 percent bullying right it's a
056problem in school right they're they're worried for their safety at school because of uh you know running into their bullies and what are we doing to not only intervene for the bullied but also the bully right they're bullying because of a situation that has happened to them that maybe they're not talking about they don't feel comfortable talking about it they can't get into the counselor because there are only two counselors in the stool in the school right uh and then 38 with mental health right and that number to me i'm sure is much higher than what it is but the the safety right to be able to the comfort to be able to come forward and express that i'm having mental health issues it's though it's much higher than it was back when i was
057in school it's still something that's a stigma where it's like oh no we got to push through right we don't need to talk about this it's not a comfort level yet with that and so 38 of students said that they are having some kind of mental health issue as they're moving along and so when we look at these things these are what the kids are saying are the issues that need to be fixed right and so instead of coming with our own individual approach what we think should work we want to listen to the children to the students and say what what can we do to elevate your quality of education to elevate your quality of your learning experience elevate the quality of your life um and these are the things they're telling us it's
058right here we got to sit in a room in a gym full of students uh you know however 1500 students that go to everett we set three separate assemblies so we're there for the entire day we said three separate assemblies for two hours a piece so that way we could get through all of the students right because of covet rules we weren't able to get everybody in the same spot all at once but we didn't want to let that you know cause a hurdle we wanted to make sure we got all of the voices that we can imagine a microphone very much like this and we're saying here students tell us what your problem is we're having seventh and eighth graders running down from the stands lining up to tell us right about bullying to
059tell us about racism to tell us about mental health and they are passionate about you know these things and to sit and watch very much like you guys are watching me right now and to hear them you know so eloquently uh you know affirm themselves in that space we sit and we're like okay what are we gonna do about this right because they're telling us exactly what they need and with that we just want to make sure that we're coming to you showing you that hey this assembly it was the big you know rah-rah whatever it is you want to call it and it was necessary and needed again according to the students and the staffs themselves but we need to move forward right what's next well how do we continue to remain accountable how
060do we continue to make this sustainable um and that's where you know we come in with working together here's some quotes from the students when especially when it comes to violence it says lost my cousin to gun violence and it broke me imagine a student right in between the ages of you know 14 and 18 years old claiming that they're broke broken because of gun violence in this country it is easier to get a gun than an abortion our police are incompetent these are coming from students at everett high school and if they're you know have the ability and the capacity to make these assertions uh i know we can see it for ourselves and so how are we going to address those words right when it comes to bullying school doesn't take racism seriously
061white people saying the n word and teachers doing nothing about it teachers lacking the skills right are doing nothing when kids have mental breakdowns so they're telling us right now that these things are happening inside of the school and our answer is two counselors uh you know for 1500 students that i'm sure at some point all of them need some guidance right um mental health everett needs more counselors look i don't even have to say it it's coming from their words i tried to talk and there was no one to help right i feel unsafe i need help i'm dot dot please help and so notice these things aren't formulated to be be pretty we took these verbatim and left them as they were so there could be some grammatical errors it may not make
062you know a grammatical sense but we wanted you to see verbatim from the lips of our students at every high school what they're saying uh the issues are and uh you know last but not least uh you know working together um i'm gonna briefly touch on this and then i'm gonna invite mordecai back up to to finish this portion of the presentation but we need to work together um essentially right there are some some things that we can do whether we're talking about easter whether we're talking about uh data-driven programming which is you know our our mission right is to continue to get data-driven programming into these schools so that way we can address the very issues that the students are saying that they need those are the problems and we you know we have
063the solution for it so we want to work together so thank you for listening i'm gonna go ahead and pass and bring back up mordecai so we have a big ask you know you gotta go and you gotta ask right so we have a very big ask 2016 a presentation like this was made to the board and there were other extenuating circumstances and there was a decision made to do something different so we're here now in 2022 and what we're going to ask you to do is to be a leader in this region and embrace the nbk challenge again and when we talk about the mbk challenge we're talking about a k through 16 comprehensive approach on how we support students and so when we talk and i'll and i'll show you this slide so
064that you can see so milestone number one this is this is providing a safety net under our students making sure that students enter school successfully and that starts with prenatal postnatal care and that's what we're building in the community milestone number two obviously we know literacy is is a huge deal for third grade readers right reading effectively by third grade milestone number three and then graduating successfully and it is here at the assembly where we were able to get a grant from leap and for the first year we are now doing a pitch contest for youth we have 50 youth out of that assembly who have registered for freedom summer a nine week summer program teaching them how to be leaders and so we're we're going to divide the students up and we're going to
065give them ten thousand dollars as they um come up with ideas that will solve problems in the community so you see that line we want to start building a new pathway for youth civic and social entrepreneurship starting right around middle school so and then milestone number four post-secondary education milestone number five entering the workforce and then milestone number six reducing violence so we're not talking about just intervention we're talking about prevention and so the challenge that we're talking to you today and we're in in the challenge we wanna we want to you know present is simply partner in building this youth entrepreneurial pathway um work-based opportunities for students and um we have we have corporate sponsors um superintendent schiller and i talked about having a one-to-one mentorship how important that is well we need to
066scale that and we've gotten a 250 000 commitment from the kellogg foundation the money's already in the account said if you can raise 250 we've already given 250 towards closing the achievement gap and racial equity gaps for students across metro lansing the 250 is already there and so what we're asking is for this board to embrace the nbk challenge imagine what would have happened if this board would have embraced that in 2016 where we would be today with all of the funding we are in unprecedented times due to covet and you know technology we have an opportunity to do something for our students that we didn't have in 2016. and so again we want to um put that challenge embrace the mbk challenge invest in youth you invest in lansing and in michigan take questions
067mrs willis thank you and i appreciate the presentation and the partnership and the work that you're already doing um pastor hollins can you do me a favor i need help connecting what you showed in those six milestones to the youth entrepreneurship pathway so is the youth entrepreneurship pathway another word for the mbk six milestone challenges are these two different well this is um something additional that we've added in okay that what we've what we've seen across the country is that um youth actually have the answers for the future we have to create the pathway and so right now this is what we've been talking to leap about and so the united nations has a 2030 goal um as it relates to the global youth civic and social entrepreneurship and what they're saying is that if
068a city has an ease of doing business if there's an ease of doing business for adult entrepreneurs then it makes it very easy for children and for youth to enter into that pathway as well so we're building collaboration to say what would it look like to begin to mentor youth for civic and social entrepreneurship as well as entrepreneurship taking the place of baby boomers who want to retire but have no success or and so what we're talking about is is building something that we don't have in place and that middle school they're already tick-tockers they're already have their own youtube channel they're already entrepreneurs what we're saying is we need you to take that that ingenuity and have it be civic facing not personal facing right so again putting that pathway there uh at the
069third milestone to be specific to your question sure okay so that that more applies to the third milestone could you i'm i understand the concept as it's working at everett could you tell us a little bit more about what mbk would look like in the lower elementary grades i think um for the lower elementary grades what we're talking about is focusing on literacy and focusing again on entering school successfully and we know that the statistics 2019 at 63 percent of households in lansing are led by single women single moms so we understand that we have to do better in how we support families and so part of that piece that k235 piece is really involves a parent involvement and engagement piece which is super huge right and as well also restoring the economic factors to
070single parents that are trying to do their best and raising their children so there's a transportation issue there's an economic issue that impacts children there's and how they enter school successfully thank you we want to scale this also everett was the pilot we want to take it to every high school every middle school right and bring it so we had kids turning corners there were kids that that were able to get mental health support during the assembly right so we're talking something that that we want to scale this isn't just one love global this is all of the community i saw another hand miss lg you said k through 16 does that mean like ages 5 through 22 yep and how do you engage and track with students once they're not in the school district
071anymore yeah so we have we have a group called ppm peace prosperity youth movement and part of that is giving students a home while they're in high school but also supporting them that whole link between high school and college supporting them post graduation is also important um that's where we have the fall off and supports like you're out of school now you're grown you know how it used to be you're 18 you're out we don't have to worry about that's not true anymore and so we have ppm that continues to send care baskets to students that are in college to continue to connect them to work opportunities to continue to connect them to economic opportunities within the district and so that's very very important because it's not just college preparation but it's career some won't
072go to college but they need that additional support furthermore when you look at the gun violence in the city a lot of the gun violence happens with that very crucial age right that post graduation so what do we have we need a net for them as well and so i hope that answers your question we've been working with michigan state university as well um well there's some breakthrough technology in bringing stem and bullying and so dr aslam dean aslam we've been working together a robotics program that actually detects empathy and some of those seo those soft skills and so there's this one program where uh the one robot is bullying the other uh robot just picking at it and then this other robot kind of comes across the table and is there to support right
073and then all three robots start dancing you know what i mean and so like how do we how do we make stem accessible for our low-income students we understand that by 2030 it is estimated that there will be a 69 million dollar dearth in teachers across the globe right now we're at 1.6 million shortage in teachers technology is moving at such a rate that is unbelievable so we have to begin to we so we're saying that this this is a decade of innovation that creators are winners we have to do something different and so we are appealing to this board to embrace the challenge let's build this community and let's let's raise up leaders i've pitched to the mayor this should be the tech center of the midwest all the talent we have here we
074should be known for something and so that's what we're building and we want to thank you for your time thank you very much pastor holland thank you moving on from to report from superintendent this evening mr schultener thank you so much and certainly i wanted to thank sean and the just wonderful work that you do but i hope that you know all seven of you listening at home and a big shout out to john mcgraw who's listening from iceland uh that's gotta be a record for all of us um is that this district knows the incredible people in this city our doors are open this happened because sean approached and said i want to help kids and i said great who are you and i was like fantastic you love children let's make this happen
075and you can see what comes out of that because success breeds success and and the positivity and the just all of this is good right and and i just hope that this is the beginning and and you know that we're going to be supporting you what that looks like we'll figure it out but we know that there's so many great people in lansing that care about our kids but we need to figure out how we open our doors wider so that they feel empowered to do work like this so thank you both for coming and we really look forward uh to that um absolutely so you know i usually give my my updates and i will um you know school's over amazing uh i can't believe we made it um you know the idea that
076we're now here uh post uh the end of school um just congratulations i mean congratulations to everybody uh the teachers the parents the kids the staff the board the world i mean this was a rough year and the fact that we were able to get through it is is really really incredible but you know all of you know that when i when i got here we did a kind of uh an assessment of what are the the big things we've got to deal with and you know busing we've been really working very strongly with with our busing and with the gas cards and cada um you know covid uh if you notice again all of you watching uh we do not have our masks on today that is because this incredible wonderful board made a
077very strong i think the correct decision to keep masks on for the school year the school year is now over and so you know we're hopefully turning a corner i certainly urge everybody to stay super safe and get vaccinated and wear a mask if you need to if you want to um but you know covet was a big deal but you all know that that the third one this year was was special ed and you know sometimes history happens quietly uh sometimes things happen without anybody knowing and and i asked eileen to be here uh because something happened yesterday at about i'd say 2 45 p.m um that that is something that's worthy to talk about and so eileen if you don't mind can you just come up to the microphone and and tell the
078board what happened yesterday at about 2 45 p.m yes i'm really thrilled to be here to share this um this information but yesterday at about 2 45 we met the goal of having 100 of all of our ieps completed [Applause] just to kind of give you a little bit of data behind that when i stepped into the role in october um the the fall count had demonstrated we were about 600 ieps late and it became an immediate goal to make sure that we did not have a single late iep going into the following school year so um the sc team um with the support of uh superintendent scholdener and deputy superintendent kak just worked their tails off and got the support of all the special education staff i just can't can't tell you all of
079the people that were involved in getting this done but everybody just buckled down got it done followed through contacted parents parents were wonderful in joining us in virtual iep meetings and making sure that they were in attendance so just like i say it was a huge team effort and i'm just so proud of everybody and i just wanted to say thank you for all of your support thank you somebody on the special ed team uh said that they think it's at least been 20 years if not longer uh but we did it and it's because of eileen because of sergio uh because of our staff because of our kids because of our parents but it's also because we believed we could do it we set a goal the right goal the legal goal uh the
080correlation you could the legal goal we uh is is is at it but but for 20 years you know people said it was impossible i remember when i first got here i was meeting with somebody who'd been in the district forever they'd have been retired and i was talking about special ed and they're like not a chance not a j it's never and i said no we're gonna do it and we did it because we have the people we just have to have the vision and we just have to have the fortitude and i really just uh thank eileen and sergio and the entire team so fantastic now go home please because you're always here way too late um the other thing of course is so that's just that's just the baseline right is is
081just doing the legal requirements right but the next step of course is the enrollment the graduation the attendance all the things that we're doing and i just want everybody listening at home in the audience to know we really are making moves um the the initial graduation rates this year look good um last year we were i think in the 62 63 range um it looks like we're going to be better than that you know the goal is 85 i'll have much stronger numbers in the next month or two but again we're meeting with the high schools every week uh we're having state uh monthly meetings with the special ed sorry with the graduation specialists um things are really really moving um this year was hard for a zillion reasons but i hope people are starting
082to see that we're we're turning a corner and i think that's emblematic of the change that's coming here are we making mistakes sure do we have a lot of places to go sure are we perfect absolutely not um but i think that this board needs to be commended for having faith that we can do it uh and for supporting the work that that we're doing um you also know i typically spend some time uh every time about a holiday an event something um this coming weekend is is juneteenth it is for some people a new holiday uh i think in the last three or four years the mainstream media to use a phrase uh has started to to talk about it more federal holiday but but for those of you who certainly have been uh
083in the black community uh that have been part of of american history and understanding uh juneteenth has been a a celebration for for well over a hundred years and and i think it goes without saying to to not only talk about it to celebrate it to to be thankful for it but also to understand that this is a celebration but it's also a lot of people think of it as a call to action there's a um i want to say a researcher a mitch catchin who who has a great phrase about um juneteenth and and mitch says to celebrate to educate and to agitate and i think when we think about how do we make a difference how do we increase the special ed stuff how do we do what what sean was talking about
084we have to understand that we of course have to celebrate our wonderful kids and celebrate the great work that's being done we also need to educate because by educating we're going to become better but sometimes we also have to agitate um you know agitate's not a bad word when you put your clothes in the in the washing machine you agitate them so that they can become clean you got to move it around a little bit and i think that as a community this is the time for us to think really critically about how how do we how do we make the change how do we be okay how are we okay sorry not grammatically correct um how how can we be the change that that agitates so that things get better and i think that
085juneteenth is a kind of wonderful example of of a holiday a celebration but is about remembrance of something that's happened but also about a history that needs to become better this is a country that is to be a more perfect union we need to always remember that and i hope that you know if you celebrate this weekend if you you think about if you do good work um and and we think forward about what do we mean how do we celebrate the incredible work that we do how do we educate folks about how to do things even better and how to agitate how do we stir things up so things can become even better and so i think it's just i love that idea about juneteenth but i also think that that's an idea of
086life it's the idea of the district it's the idea of what we need to do so with that i just want to thank everybody for an incredible year i'm not going to say a great year our attendance rates weren't weren't great kovid sucked bussing didn't work so well there was a million things but it was an incredible year people worked so hard they they left it all on the field to use a trite phrase and i just hope that that everybody gets a little bit of time off they can get refreshed and that they're ready to to rock and roll the last thing i'll say is for the last two days we've been doing professional development with all of the district leaders and it was fun because i got to go back to my old
087role as professor and we spent hours i mean six seven hours together at wainwright at halleck and we went over what's our new focus and our new focus is what our focus needs to always be which is instruction instruction instruction how do we get the best to student achievement and it was so wonderful to see these principals and these district leaders circle around work together collaboratively and really think what are we going to do next year so that student achievement is at the center and that our kids can learn so again i want to thank everybody for that and really say say thank you to the board for an incredible year i'm done thank you very much we're going to move on to routine matters in old business this evening first up we have uh
088committee reports facilities committee mr lopez thank you madam president um the facilities committee did not meet this month but we're scheduled to meet on the 18th of july maybe sooner we did we did meet this month no we met last week oh i wasn't here then no yes you were anyway we talked about security in the buildings we talked about some security upgrades that we're gonna make in the buildings maybe i was but i didn't even hear because okay my hearing aids were giving me problems i would love to do an update but but but since i was here and was not here i will give the opportunity to give an update ms lg of what was asked and talked about we talked about security updates that's the one it was the big one yes
089yes yeah okay see the only time i checked my memory so it was the security um of the buildings update uh from from staff um and of course uh this came as a request from president lawrence that based on what's happening in schools and how are we how what is the status of our buildings how do we protect our children so it was very interesting conversation and superintendent was also present and had a lot of input so all to say is that we have some good stuff we have some not very good stuff but i think we're working to make it better and the superintendent will come and give us an update and to see where we go based on that conversation but it was very very not it was intensive not intense intensive and
090everybody was uh really um uh giving us their their best information and and of course with the far news com four new schools coming up you know that will be very secure that's in in the future as well so that was the the the one subject or item on the agenda was school security and how it works in the license school district so we'll be back with more information dr rodriguez thank you thank you mr lopez um and this is luigi um we are talking about security it's going to be a topic that is going to be with us are we having an um kind of um review what kind of the security we need in the school what kind of security we have now or how we can do anything we don't know if
091we have security today or not a kind of them um find out what what we have now and what do we want to go that is exactly what we talked about in the meeting what we how we currently secure the buildings what is working what are opportunities for us to be better and what are different programs or practices that that are brand new that we can implement throughout the district to make the buildings more secure but right now is no rubrics in how a building is secure or not oh yeah right so we are taking professional advice from people like director black bruce lanky um different people who know a lot more about building security than i do and we are implementing best practices and and thinking about ways to make our buildings more secure
092it's not me and guillermo missy and sitting there and saying well we think that there should be no i'm not talking about members we know that we don't we do what we can but um i'd like to know before where we are and where you want to go where where where we are right now so and i don't know if anybody present to me this sounds like a great retreat topic or whatever but the team is so important that we have to do it every day anyway and also to to the question which i think is really appropriate um one of the requests from the committee was to have an iss directly about this so that we can really talk about it on bank because you're right not only because of what happened in texas
093and oxford but school safety student safety teacher safety is incredibly important and i think it really behooves us to have an iss and we'll try to have it we talked about either july or august thank you um and this is a process and i understand that i don't but we have to move and thank you we we are i want the board to know that we are um [Music] taking really big steps like making a large investment financially and in terms of personnel and we are taking really huge steps to make sure that our district is more secure and we will be really excited to share that at our iss because the intention with the iss is to have it exactly like you're talking about dr rodriguez talk about where we are or where we
094were what what kind of participation we need from staff and students and families and what we're going to do in the future that's new and better looking for the superintendent to have some of some of those rubrics of of sorts at that meeting so that we can have a visual of the uh of each other buildings yeah because it's this security has is so so complex oh yeah it's not only about the building it's many other cultures there that we had to they had to be together any other questions okay we'll move on to promise report mr lopez thank you um well as we all know the promise meeting was the promised dinner and thank you for all those who attended thank you for our schools that that participated we had a lot of children
095and parents and uncles and friends it was great and so that was our meeting and speaking about that um uh that that was held at jackson field uh logged in stadium commonly known and um i want to thank taylor parsons who is the manager of the lugnuts and the stadium its well so he made it happen with uh with the promise of director uh and so thanks to him that were accommodated it was a different kind of dinner but it was a certainly uh i think more of a fun place to be uh with uh with other folks it was more like a meet and greet really and and then of course the presentations and and the performances from her from our students in the various schools was was great so if anybody else has
096you were there you won't have any comments please feel free yeah okay anyway thank you for that and that's that concludes my report thank you mr lopez equity committee mrs willis just chiming in that the the promise um event was amazing and the performers were outstanding and that finale with phil denny out on the field with our kids was just that was amazing it was really good so and it was good to have the um the informal atmosphere where families were able to mingle and students were engaged and it was it was nice the weather was perfect um i asked uh justin sheehan who ordered the weather and he pointed up to the sky and i said give that guy a raise because man it was the best weather um okay on to my equity
097committee report so i believe that um president lopez president lawrence told you guys last time sorry president lawrence told you guys last time that we received um our formal report so next steps i'm working with the superintendent around some sort of fanfare or engagement and and publicity around the release posting on the website getting some engagement and letting folks know we aren't shying away from the information in the report that we're leaning head on into it and then i'm continuing to work with dr sarah o'neil um to stand up our advisory committee for fleshing out next steps um so that concludes my report madam president any questions from mrs willis where'd your baby go papa to the rescue policy committee dr rodriguez thank you mr president i sent an email to neola path gregor asking
098him for days to meet and we are going to with the agreement of the other two board members and their administration july 19 and on time and the main thing is to go over the officer's response and policies and um security policies without any if you don't find out what kind of policy we can start working on and maybe we had to go along with what the security um work is going to be that we were together and that that is i think the board for the approval of the nine different policies that you approved last and the last meeting then anything else i don't have questions thank you dr rodriguez moving on to our ad hoc committee on strategic plan mrs moore all righty good evening everyone i'd like to report that our um
099strategic plan meeting was held this monday or lat the past monday um attendance was a little low only because school is out right everybody's on break and everybody deserves a break but i do want to report that the steering committee did complete the audit of the pre the previous strategic plan goals um the tentative debt timeline for it to be complete was june 17th so we did uh make meet that goal um between june and august the msu team will be consolidating themes from the input sessions surveys and the district report our equity report um msu team met with doctor is it odd neil or o o'neill okay o'neil last week and she asked that we included a statement and ensure that there will be a member of the equity uh the equity audit on
100every sub yes and dr rodriguez thank you on every subcommittee so that the work of the equity audit committee is reflected in the strategic plan so i'd also like to report that we will be meeting every other monday every other monday so it's going to give us a break for the summer michigan state will be attending our retreat this summer or this yeah this summer in july to uh present how far we are alrighty so that uh concludes my report uh madam president thank you very much questions for mrs moore okay and treasure support again good evening um i would like to report um for the periods of may 1st um 2022 through may 31st um the bidding the beginning cash investment balance was 36 million 276 752 receipts totaled 17 million 618 0.89 while
101disbursements equaled 17 420 426. the net the excuse me um the internet transfer totaled 270 764 excuse me um the money the monthly transfer to the general fund for 2016 and 2019 bonus bond expenses were 700 and oh yeah hundred and five thousand eight hundred and twenty one the general the ending general fund cash and investment balance on may 31st was 37 million 969 49999 the general fund cash and investment balance is 21 200 9543 greater as compared to the same time last year donations received during the month of may 2022 totaled 1 357.98 madam presidents this concludes my may 22. treasurer's report thank you so much any questions for mrs moore miss logie could you share where some of those donations may have come from just curious you know i always struggle with cedesco
102i can never get that right but um they gave a thousand dollars for the purpose of the promise fund black bud gave give giving fund for the eco lab a donation of 15 capital area united way rift donation 337.98 in amazon beekman donation five dollars thank you for all of your donations we truly appreciate it yes we do thank you mrs moore moving on to our consent agenda for this evening our consent agenda our consent agenda includes the approval of the june 2nd regular board meeting minutes and june 2nd closed session minutes and receipt and approval of the may 2022 treasurer's report may i have a motion madam president mrs martin that the board of education approved the consent agenda as presented it's been moved by mrs moore supported by mrs willis i'm getting ahead
103of myself will all those in favor of adoption of the consent can i can i say something about them yes any discussion i think my name is missing from the minutes well sorry you're off the board i just realized there's this i wonder if i could uh i think i was here yeah we will make that correction thank you for pointing that out any other discussion on consent agenda items will all those in favor please signify by saying aye any opposed motion passes moving on to action items this evening first up we have approval of fiscal year 2022 2023 tax levies resolution may i have a motion oh man i'm president mrs willis i didn't study up on my shirley impression i know and president i moved at the board of education [Music] we're adopting
104the mills no the heavily loudly okay i move that the board of education adopt uh recommended motion that 18 ad valor valorial mills as reduced by the heavy amendment shall be levied in 2022 on the taxable non-homestead and non-agricultural property located within lansing school district as adopted and presented to the board in the resolution it's been moved by mrs willis supported by miss hodgin any discussion john is this different than what we normally do i don't know i've never seen that okay just so everyone knows rachel why don't you take it away just want to make sure that everyone understands that we are not raising taxes or leveraging any new taxes against anyone this is just us passing the resolution that says that the money that is owed to us based on the mills that
105are applied to non-agricultural and homes non-homestead properties must be collected by the district we do this twice a year thank you thank you surely any further discussion will all those in favor please signify by saying aye any opposed motion passes moving on to adoption of fiscal year 2022 2023 budget resolution may have a motion mrs i move that the board of education adopt the fiscal year 2022-2023 budget resolution as presented it's a move by misalgi supported by miss hajj in any discussion well all those in favor please signify by saying aye any opposed thank you moving on to our ratification resolution may have a motion and president i recommend that the board of education approve this election food service contract renault no nope see huh i don't see i don't see i am so very
106sorry recommended that the board of education adapted ratification resolution is presented it's been moved by miss hodgin supported by miss lg any discussion madam president can we get a summary of uh something yup what just happened yes so this is just a ratifying resolution to for the board to approve the sale of the bond the bond dollars which happened last week tuesday so it's the board has to prove that we actually sold the bonds and can uh award those bonds to those sellers 58 million worth okay thank you that goes along with the resolution it's the ratification of the resolution of selling of the bonds perfect thank you any further discussion will all those in favor please signify by saying aye any opposed motion passes moving on to the 2022-2023 said exo food service contract
107renewal may i have a motion service contract renewal that they will approve this so the extra food service contract you know okay finally it's been mishajin supported by dr body any discussion yes madam president i would like to discuss the contract so is this part of the cleaning as well no it's just the food okay wonderful i think we're doing a great job however i would like to see more um vegetarian options for our international students um so yeah for all students for all students yeah yeah but especially you know our students that have different you know um their menus you know their selections thank you hello yes i need that our students need it so i just wanted to share that is that is there all right that's all right [Music] um i i
108just want to um say that i very much appreciate what um what robin moore is saying um we we have had an incredible increase in students to our district uh many of them are afghani many of them eat halal i think that it is incredibly important for a diverse and incredible district like ours that we are able to feed and satiate all of our children in a wonderful way and so mark i very much appreciate you being here um not only should we have vegetarian options and halal options but certainly uh making sure that our kids feel uh full both in mind and body so thank you for saying that further discussion will all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed motion carries and we are now at our closed session
109may i have a motion thank you i made a motion that the board education recess into a closed session for the purpose of pursuant to open meeting act 15.268 section 8. subsection one z for strategy and negotiation sessions connected with the negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement is either negotiating party requests a closed hearing so and they open meet enough section a8 considering material exempt from this closure under another stature sorry i did some digging about open meetings act and it explicitly says it has to be a two-thirds majority roll call will the clerk please call the role dr body miss hodgin yes this is lawrence yes mrs liu g yes mr lopez yes mrs moore yes dr rodriguez yes mrs willis yes motion passes thank you very much 704 we are in closed session
110so you could i have a motion i motion that we accept the executive team contract as presented it's been moved by mrs moore supported by miss hodgin any discussion mrs willis thank you i just have to make this point of discussion i while i appreciate the superintendent's efforts um to get these contracts to us and have us review them and i strongly support um the team and the work that they do and believe that he's building a strong team to help support this district i am going to be voting no um for the contracts i have just some concerns that i know i've raised with the superintendent but i don't want the executive team to think that my no vote is a lack of support for them so i wanted to just explain that before
111or the superintendent um so i just wanted to explain that before we took our vote thank you any further discussion will the clerk please call the roll dr body yes miss hodgin mrs lawrence yes miss lil g yes mr lopez he left sorry uh mrs moore yes dr rodriguez yes and mrs willis says no yeah so motion passes thank you very much uh no new business any we have public comment on non-agenda items i will start with samuel dimaggio mr dimaggio please join us at the podium you have three minutes within which to make your public comment the board typically does not respond to public comment and you can start with your proper venue but i want to complain about employees actions i i've got a bunch of stuff here that you can have a
112thing but this is about it's about an event that occurred may 19th and uh to support to make it short i was a substitute teacher that day at uh that dwight rich a gardener and uh me and a student with a little bit of touching okay it ended up the principal kicked me out police came and uh okay so and so that by by afternoon i was i was kicked out of uh uh the red rover system so i could never substitute again in the lansing schools okay uh now i understand the the i mean if you want to know what the event is uh you can be on this first page of what happened exactly what happened the police came okay now this is why i'm angry at this employee who i believe was
113the principal i don't know please do not identify what employee you're referring to by name or by position do not okay because we have a policy that the people who make public comment are not allowed to slander or defame district employees the employee in question had three times she could have she or it could have identified themselves they never identifies with herself to me not when she came into the room not when she was with the hallway with the students not when she told the security guard to escort me out the door she never identified i still to this day do not know who she is okay i do not know uh the that employee knew i was having trouble in the room she didn't send any help to help me uh now the the
114npr i don't know if you guys are the the uh employee performance pro i'm from any of you are are familiar with it uh it's this she's by that afternoon she kicked me out of the system now it's supposed to you're supposed to provide as much information as possible she said she spent 24 words explaining the say 24 words explaining the situation and there's there's three actions she could have taken she could have just given me a warning uh it excluded me from the building or it could be from the entire system she took the most punitive action okay she's supposed to sign the damn darn thing and she doesn't even sign it okay uh uh the npr this the her her little bit failed to say there was a another adult in the room
115okay she never even mentioned that she didn't even talk that i tried to call this person once and she would not provide me with zero information again i still do not know who this i think i know who it is okay my biggest complaint is this person had me escorted out of the building uh took allow the student i guess she had no choice to call it the police call his parents and the pirates came call police and i never had a chance to talk to her before she did this before she escorted out she never heard my story of what what happened thank you thank you mr dimaggio our next public comment participant is mr randy watkins mr watkins i would like to invite you to the podium you have three minutes within which
116to make your public comment hi uh randy watkins i'm the first vice president of the lansing branch of the naacp and i am here to express our concern over the desegregation plan uh once again the school district provided it to us what we feel is the last minute we have not had the opportunity to work with the school district to review the plan with plenty of time to provide comments with plenty of time to work with the district in order to hopefully alleviate some of the issues that we see we signed off on it well let me take one step back when i was the education chair for the branch i was here under the previous administration and expressed these same concerns that the desegregation plan is given to us before the deadline and we
117have not had the opportunity to work with the district to see what the issues are and to help that is why i'm here we signed off on the plan this year but we signed off we sign off under protest and i am going to recommend to our branch that when this comes up again if the school district has not worked with us over the previous two years we're not going to sign off we were disappointed in some of the findings that we saw in the information we were given and as i said if we are not given the opportunity to help i'm going to recommend we we not sign off on the plan the next time thank you thank you very much report from secretary thank you mr president i am very happy to show
118what the superintendent says about the celebration juneteenth celebration this coming this june 19th i juntin is a federal holiday in the united states commemorating emancipation of slave african-americans it is also often observed for celebrating african-american culture originating on glasbeston texas it has been celebrated annually in june is various parts of the united states since 1865. next meeting will be thursday july 7th at 6 o'clock and july 14 we will have informational study session at 6 pm we won't have meeting thursday july 21st has been canceled thank you mr president thank you dr rodriguez i want to take a moment to acknowledge one of our family members and team members who is moving on to greener pasture is that the same greener pasture who got a new job that's all i mean um susie corbin susie
119has been in the district for a number of years and has been through a lot with this board and with this board president in particular um susie i tickled his funny bone i guess um i really appreciate everything you have done i wish you the absolute best in your new adventure um i hope that we stay in touch and i see you again you have been a pleasure to work with you've been a good sounding board a good friend and i really am excited for you to have this new opportunity but we will miss you [Applause] oh dr rodriguez thank you i want to play the ball and then i will be in a conference starting june 23rd i will be the naleo national association of latino elective officials in chicago and i am going
120to be attending one or two conferences about equity and education i also attended just before yesterday the civil rights michigan civil rights conference in an education and i attended the equity in education conference and also uh we are attending the conference a multicultural curriculum and the superintendent was one of the speakers in the afternoon at michigan state university um i think continue learning especially the news inequity dei is something that we had to change our minds in the way we were thinking and the way it should be doing things in the future and i i use any opportunity that i can to abn i and 83 to be part of the future thank you dr rodriguez i thought you were retired i guess i retired from many other students i don't want to talk about
121hey any other comments from board members this evening with no further business before the board at 8 14 we are i can't adjourned it