001It is Monday, August 18th, 2025, regular board of ed meeting. Um, before we do the pledge of allegiance, I do want to note that our trustee Melissa Dodge did resign as of today. So, she will be taken off the voting roles and her position has been posted as an open board seat. So, with that, we will go to pledge of allegiance. Trusty heart, can you lead us, please? >> Pledge 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 justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Here, Carlos Harp. here. >> Cindy Holder >> here. >> Mark Kimell >> here. >> Chrisa McAlpine Taylor. >> Absent with notice. >> Gloria Thompson >> here. >> Public fundamentals. Public input is fundamental
002to the operation of Madison District Public Schools. Our public has an opportunity to speak at every board of education meeting. A period of time known as public comment is set aside at each meeting to give parents and other citizens a chance to speak directly to the board about school related topics. Anyone who wishes to speak to the board must fill out a request form and give it to the board secretary before the meeting begins. Comments are limited to three minutes. The board of education accepts comments made during public comment from anyone who follows these guidelines. Public comment is one of the many information sources that the board uses before making decisions in the best interest of the children who attend Madison District Public Schools. The board also works with district staff to address citizens questions
003and concerns. And we did uh indeed get to requests. The first one is from Amy Conrad. Uh come on up. Welcome. should not be. It should light up green. Want to just take mine? >> I didn't even realize you were wireless. >> Fancy. >> It should. >> Thank you. Does this mean I have assistant superintendent powers now? Yes. >> Fantastic. >> 30 seconds. >> Yeah, exactly. >> First of all, I'd like to apologize for my attire. I've been um in my classroom all day, as many teachers, you know, who are working out of contract hours, so I'm not board appropriate, but I am pre-classroom appropriate. So, hello. My name is Amy Conrad. I'm a second grade teacher at Madison Elementary, and I'm asking, why should teachers stay? Sometimes teachers stay because of loyalty to students
004and families. But we have a school of choice district with an open door policy and our student population is transient. Why should teachers stay? Often teachers stay for salary. But Madison has frozen their pay scale. So this year, last year and the year before, including moving forward one year, salaries have remained static and they have not even adjusted for cost of living increases. There is no change in sight. Last year's triggers in the teacher contract were not honored. When we pressed as to why, we were told it got ate up. Why should teachers stay? Sometimes teachers stay because there aren't really other options. But right now there are plenty of other options because teachers are in demand. Madison of any school district in the tri county area pays the least to their teachers. So financially
005there's no incentive to stay. Even teachers who have been in district for decades with ties to the community have left because they've had to look out for their family first. None of this is new news. We've sounded the alarm, but unfortunately nothing has changed. and teachers aren't staying. As of this writing, there were 11 Madison Elementary School teachers who had left this summer and 20 staff throughout the district. This means that the teachers who have chosen to stay, including myself, will be dealing with a nearly 50% teacher turnover. Our routines will be disrupted or broken as we struggle to onboard nearly half of the educational staff and this will be an added burden on top of the already difficult behaviors we are dealing with from students. So my question is what is your vision for
006me and for others? We want to remain at Madison and we would love to retire from Madison, but without considerable change, that plan is not feasible and staying is not sustainable. And so I sincerely ask you without pointing fingers and with the goal of working together, how do we move forward? Thank you. >> Thank you. And next up, Mr. Jason Pitz. Welcome, sir. Hello. My name is Jason Pittz. I'm a student here at Madison High School. I'm here today because there are things happening in our school district that a lot of us don't agree with, and I feel like it's time someone said something. First, I want to talk about the situation with volleyball coach, coach Rebecca Chamblas. She's more than just a coach. She's someone who supports the entire community. Checks on her players
007help family give back in ways most people don't even see. I know this personally because I've been there with her at community events, helping at car washes, showing up to support, and working to make Madison more known. She made a real impact. Taking her out of that volleyball position would hurt the volleyball team and the relationship she built with students and families. Another issue is live streams of the board meetings. Not everyone can show up because people have jobs, sports, responsibility, responsibilities and lives. They still care about what's happening in our district. Stopping the live stream just keeps people out and it's not fair to the community that wants to stay involved and informed. It also feel like too much is being controlled by a small group of people who think everything has to go
008through them. If you don't agree with them, your opinion gets ignored. But leadership should be about listening and working together, not making all the decisions behind closed doors. On top of that, not paying teachers fairly is hurting our district more than anything. I understand that the money is not right for Madison right now, but without teachers, you won't have clubs, sports, or electives. The things that actually draw students to a district. You can also lose constant staff who boost test scores and help students succeed. When teachers feel unsupported, they leave. When they leave, programs disappear. And when programs disappear, families pull their kids out and look for a better opportunity somewhere else. That's exactly how it shrinks. With all due respect, President Holder and Trusty Mark Kimble, in my opinion, I feel like you are
009not being respectful to everyone in the community. A lot of people in the district had told me in the community and showed me that they are losing faith in Madison because they feel you are not listening to them or treating them treating everyone fairly fairly. This has created an environment where people don't want to support our district anymore and that's not okay. The way our district is being viewed right now is not good. And I truly believe the part of the reason is because how situations are being handled at the top. As a leader, you should not be acting like this. I want to be clear. I'm not just speaking for myself. I'm speaking for students here at Madison and for the staff who feel like their voices don't matter. Everyone deserves to be heard
010and respected and included what's happening here. Thank you for listening to me. >> Mr. Pence, just so you know, from now on, names are not allowed, >> okay? >> You you can't speak or call us out individually. Just FYI. >> Thank you. >> That's always been a real Thank you. We're not I'm not going to argue with you. Thank you. All right. >> It's fine. I don't. >> And next up, I do appreciate your comments though, sir. You've been very supportive of this school and administration report. Superintendent goals. >> Thank you. So before I share my goals, I do want to take a moment to say thank you to our staff that as you guys know and it was stated that we have lost a lot of staff members and I do want to tell
011the staff members that we do have. Thank you. I also want to take a moment to say thank you to our admin team because in the event when we lose staff members, we have to have principles work day and night to make sure that they are replacing and interviewing staff members. So, I just want to say thank you to all the building principles just for all their hard work. They worked all weekend. They did interviews on Saturday, Sunday, and they have done a great job with selecting staff members as well as thank you to Pam for working day and night and making sure you get those offers in. It means a lot when we have a team that's willing to work beyond the hours to make sure our kids have a teacher in front of
012them on the first day of school. So with that being said, I do want to pass over I got your feedback regarding um the goals for the school year. You guys can take one and pass it down and once we agree on these I can definitely you need one more post online. So some of the goals that I have basically around my evaluation are making sure that I uphold each pillar of the evaluation, making sure that I am strong in leadership, um adhering to all policy and governance, making sure instructional leadership is strong, communication, organization management and professionalism and ethics. The main projects I do want to focus on this year is making sure that we increase student achievement, implement budget interventions to align with staff and enrollment. That way we can hopefully rightsize by
013the end of the school year. And I do want to stress that the budget that we have is a predicted deficit. So we're going to try to do everything we can in central office to make sure that we don't go down that path or not go as far down as the path. also continue the MSBO certification in HR securing additional funding. This year we were able to receive 31A funding and that's for safety and securities. I just received the 35M grant to pay for elementary literacy materials, title funding, summer discovery and 31N funding so that we can have those services, those social work services for our students even though the grant is only for one year. It really means a lot to have additional mental health staff in the building. Also continue with conducting staff
014and student audits in November and March. Those are the times around count day to make sure our staff align with our student population. And last but not least, the major project is to make sure that we maintain a balanced budget and increase fund balance for the 2425 school year. questions on that trust. >> Um, I have a question in regards to the overall goals of the district and to grow enrollment. How is it after the last meeting and the meeting before that we talked about this? Nobody is answering these phones. This is the time of year where you get enrollment and all the money we spend to get the phone to ring for no one to answer it. It it just is beyond me being in business to think that this is how we're running
015this district with the money problems we have that we're ignoring potential enrollment calls. >> Can I reply? >> I mean, nothing's been done since the last meeting since we talked about this. So the problem with the phones is that this is not something that we as a district manage. Like there's not a site that I can that I can go on and I can say, "Hey, let's fix the phones." I have been in contact with Oakland schools. We have a plan in place, but the problem is is that it's another third party vendor that they're going through. >> But this this is the same phone system that years ago you would call, someone would pick up the phone and answer the phone. I don't understand what's so difficult about that. So the thing is is
016that a lot of phone systems have changed over the years and a lot of phone lines are more so up todate where you can log in and you can fix things. It's kind of like it's the still old the old school switch. >> All right. All right. The solution to that is have one phone line put in and publish that number for enrollment. Someone answer that phone. It's that simple. So that is >> I can't believe that all this time's going by with potentially people wanting to enroll their students and nobody's answering the phone. In fact, you can't reach anybody at that board office at times. And that to me is very frustrating. And and as far as uh I was locked out of my email, it took from the first time I called Monday
017to finally get Travis to address this was Thursday night at five o'clock. How ridiculous is that? Four days to get a call back for to get into email. >> Well, one, Travis is not last week, as I stated, when we have issues with emails, we have to put in a ticket on the website and there's a link. So, Travis is not a direct Madison employee. I apologize for that. If I would have known, then I could have had it fixed. But right now, there's nothing I can do about the phones because I don't have access to the system. It all goes through Oakland schools. There's a ticket in. I'm going back and forth with Oakland school. >> The phone should be a priority and it should have been a priority all summer. >> It has
018been a priority, but it's here's my email. >> Nothing's done with it. >> Here's my email. It says I asked for it to be changed from the auto attendant and something has been done. One of the things you guys asked me at the last board meeting was to post on the signs updated phone numbers to all the individual schools for enrollment. That has been done. So, it's not like I'm ignoring it. This email was just sent through and they said that this what we're trying to do is have an auto attendant where it go to 3,400 to reach our front office. And this email right here says this is not something we can change on on our own. We have to engage a vendor to do the programming. We are reaching out to them and
019they are trying to figure things out. It is totally out of my control. >> But this is months now. In fact, this problem's been going on for over well over a year. >> We can invest and look >> you call call any other school district. I called Lanere for the heck of it and a person answered the phone. Can I help you? >> Well, if we can >> What's so hard about that? >> We can invest and look into updating our phones and getting a new server and that way we won't have that issue. If that's something you guys want me to look at, >> another another huge money spend. No, I I don't want you to spend that kind of money. I want someone to fix our phone so that when it rings, someone
020can answer it. >> Okay. >> I can't believe this system was designed for to not work that way. >> We're losing incredible opportunities here with potential phone calls. >> Most of our enrollment goes straight to the school and online. Has there been a complaint that says we have not enrolled anyone? >> Yes. on on on Facebook. Yes, there's been people that complain they can't talk to anybody. >> Okay. >> And one of these children would add to to our budget problem. It's that simple. I don't get it. >> I don't It's very frustrating for people to tell me they can't reach anybody at our board office. And then I try myself and I go round and round in a maze. Can't reach anybody. Did you speak with Pam? >> Pam, >> I spoke to Pam
021finally about my email. She was the only one that picked up the phone after multiple attempts of calling the board office. >> I I give I give Pam credit. She picked up the phone. But this is something very simple that someone should be sitting there answering the phones. Can I help you? Some people need to be held by the hand with this stuff. Okay. >> Why we're not doing it is beyond me. I I don't get it. Anybody else? I just was looking it over because I have the communication Okay. I would say commitment to the 24hour reply for staff and board inquiries. Can we just make that change? They have a problem with that. Which one? >> The strategies. The last one under strategies. Okay. >> On the page two strategy. >> How do
022you want it changed? >> Just add staff and board inquiries. >> Patricia, you're fine with that. >> Everybody else, we're fine with that. That was the request that had been given to me. Um, anybody else on anything else? Um, are at a point. We do need to approve these. Correct. >> No, I don't think you have to approve them. I just present them. >> All right. We'll we'll leave it. If we do, we'll come back to it next time. But I know we definitely had to agree on goals. So, I'm glad that's done. Consent agenda. All matters listed under the consent agenda considered to be routine in nature by the board of education will be acted upon by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items. If any member of the board
023or any citizen requests discussion of an item, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and will become the first item of business under the board of education action items portion of the agenda. Tonight's consent agenda, approval of the minutes of the board of education for the regular meeting, August 4th, 2025. Approval of the August 1st, 2025 through August 18th, 2025 check register for payment as submitted in the amount of $354,7996 and approval of the personnel report submitted by Human Rights Resources on August 18 as of August 18th, 2025. Five. Um I just have a question about the HR report after we um have uh motion and support. >> President Holder >> Trustee Chamblas, >> if you're going to question the HR report, don't you have to amend the agenda to remove the HR
024report from the consent agenda? >> I just have a question I'm not asking for. Oh, I see what you're saying. I just want to make sure that the HR report is complete because we had a staff member that said there were 11 people gone and I was looking I was trying to find the list that I had. >> I think it's because >> I submitted on Wednesday so that she can create the packet. So as of Wednesdays >> Okay. Well, I don't want to approve something. If we have people that have resigned as of the 18th and we don't have them in front of us, >> I don't want to approve it. >> Do you follow what I'm saying? >> But how do we do that when I have to have the board agenda due
025to you on Wednesday? >> Do you have a list of the people that have resigned as of the 18th? >> Follow what I'm saying. President Holder, >> Trusty Chamblas, >> I'd like to make a motion to amend the agenda. I would like to remove the HR report from the consent agenda. >> Thank you. I'll support just make it its own individual or not. So, I need a motion to approve A and B, the minutes and the check register. Madam President, Trusty Thompson, I'd like to make a motion that we approve the minutes. >> Hold on. We have to vote on the motion to amend first. >> Oh, there we do. >> Motion. >> Any discussion? >> We'll call vote. Rebecca Chamblas, >> yes. >> Carlos Harp, >> yes. >> Cindy Holder, >> yes. >> Mark
026Kimble, >> yes. >> Gloria Thompson, >> yes. Motion pass. >> Next up to approve A and B. We have motion by Trustee Thompson. >> I'll support >> Trustee Chamblas. Any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote on just A and B. >> Gloria Thompson, yes. Cindy Holder, >> yes. >> Mark Kimble, >> yes. >> Rebecca Chamblas, >> yes. Carlos Hart, >> yes. >> Motion pass. >> Now, next up is the approval of the personnel report submitted by the human resources on August 18th. >> We have full positions that we haven't accepted as resigned. >> So, we have to motion to move that to four to six. >> No, it's the next one up. The first item of business under board Action items. This is board of education action items. >> That was not part of the
027motion. We were going to keep it a separate line item. Do we want to make it 61 before AMB? >> Trusty Chamblas says yes. Trusty Thompson. >> Yes. >> So we want to move it to 61 4 AM. Next close session is joke here. Oh, you still need to get the list. You can print it for it. >> Huh? >> How would you like me to get it to you? >> You can print it while we're in close session. >> I didn't figure it out. Is let me see. is going to be here. Different is it than this one. above and beyond this list. >> Okay, we just need a motion to go into close. Joe said he's got a 7:30 ETA which is minutes from now. So, >> Madam President, I make a motion
028to go into close session. >> Thank you. Support I'll support. >> Any discussion? >> None. Roll call vote, please. >> Cindy Holder, >> yes. >> Gloria Thompson, >> yes. >> Mark Kimell, >> yes. >> Rebecca Chamblas, >> yes. >> Carlos Hart, >> yes. Motion pass. We were all in close session, so we weren't able to get it printed and we don't have access to the printer. So we can It is 8:39. Uh, new business is policy and bylaw updates minute reporting. >> Yeah, you're on the wrong agenda. >> Wait, what? >> This is August 4th. reporting minute reporting. Remember last week or last board meeting, you guys wanted to have a conversation about the detail of the minutes and um I just put that on the agenda for new business and to discuss that possibly
029we can train the secretary to take minutes as we are live on the computer >> or they could replay the meeting later and take notes too. It doesn't have to be in real time. Anybody else? Trusty Chamblas. >> Um, so our policy does say that the board secretary is supposed to be the one that takes the minutes, but we just had Miss Kennedy and then um everything. Um, I think we should ask Chrisa, trustee um, Macalpine Taylor if she's comfortable taking notes at board meetings or if that's not a position that she wants and then whoever could do it. But I definitely think it should be the officer that is the secretary that does it. >> So I can put that back on the next agenda. >> And then go ahead. >> Go. I was
030just going to say I think we all agree it needs to be more detailed than what it is right now. Correct. >> Everyone agrees. Okay. Go ahead. >> Yes. Thank you. Then the next item on the agenda, we always said we wanted to keep this was facility usage and just let you um just have the conversation of where we are and what our plans are. And I did mention that we were someone did reach out to us about renting part of the building at ECC, but the numbers were so low, it just was not a financial gain for us. It would probably cost us more to lease the space than to then to not lease the space. So, we did not move forward with that. >> So, I guess for the requests that were made
031earlier, I think we do need to have a conversation um about what our student count is. Do we need to look at consolidating a building? Um it is not something we can do overnight. >> Especially um little ones. I know the amount of money that it took to renovate that building to make it um legal >> for little ones to be there. So you can't just move them. Um because I know that was maybe a suggestion, but I think that especially when we know exactly what our building capacity is, I think we need to be more frugal with the space um for everyone's sake because we don't if we ever have an emergency anything that we have tried to to say for now it is completely dissolved. >> And I do want to add that
032when you decide to re revamp or re assign grade levels to buildings, that's something we have to plan at least a year in advance because you have to go to MDE. You have to get approval to say, hey, we're changing this grade band in this building and we're removing this grade band. So most people think that, oh, it's easy to just say, hey, we're going to close this building. But when we close a building, we have to say, "Hey, where are we going to put the kindergarteners? Where are we going to put GSRP students?" And how are we going to make this happen? And once that plan is created, then we have to go to MDE to get approval. So, it's bigger than just one decision. >> Right. Right. And it might not be that
033one that >> uh I think uh for it to work, we have to look at all the buildings. Absolutely. >> And see where we're at >> because they have to go somewhere. Yes, absolutely. And we want growth. >> It has to be a move that's going to make sense for growth. >> But we can keep it on the agenda and constantly have that conversation and once we start school, we can definitely let you guys know numbers. ECC, they are constantly enrolling students. One thing about the GSRP program, those are the four year olds. Even though they apply to us, we have to wait for the county to release them because it's a federally funded or local is it federally or Michelle? Is it? Yeah, federally funded program. So, it has to go through through different
034channels. So, the kids apply to us, we accept them, and then we send it back and then they the county says, "Hey, you can have this kid in your GSRP program." >> Anybody else have a question or comment? Trustee Chamblas. >> Um, I think when looking at facility usage and the considering of consolidating buildings, we should also look at the land, the lot of land that we have that has nothing on it and see um what it cost us to maintain and taxes for that lot every year. um and if there's any true benefit to having it just because I don't think if we're looking at consolidating buildings then just vacant lots of land are really what we need to have >> there specific area that you're thinking of >> um I believe it's the
035one right out here next to the high school in front of that little house >> we have a little space there >> I want to say Mr. Kimble, you would know it. We purchased it for like 100. Was it 100 110? >> 30,000. >> It was only 30. >> It was really cheap. That's why we bought it. It was only 30. It was on the market for 110. It was offered to the school district for 30. >> We felt it was important to secure that piece of property than to have a oil lube or dispensary go in there, >> which was >> plus we own the land behind the house. Uh we were going to approach the homeowner to see if we can get something on the house itself, but that person was extremely hostile
036because of their dealings with uh the former administration was very very mean to her. So I don't know what the >> I think she's there >> situation is now. I believe the house is vacant. Um, I think state laws would prevent a dispensary from going that close to an elementary school. Um, but either way, I just think if we're looking at closing down buildings, which does limit our ability to grow in the future, um, it would be a I think a better road to get rid of vacant land first and see if that's an option just to see what the taxes are, see how much maintenance for it is, things like that. >> So, I'll just keep that as an ongoing agenda. that item, I'll just add it to old business instead of new. That
037way, we can always have the conversation. >> So, do you want it to be appraised or just >> No, I just want to know how much like our we pay in taxes and how much we pay to have it maintained. >> Just want to be clear. So, >> it's time up. No, >> that for facility usage. Next up, upcoming financial commitments. This is going to be an ongoing probably why don't we do it every other month until we get to a point where we are caught up. Um that way we can look forward as opposed to dealing with everything today. Um, Trustee Harp, um, this was kind of your request. I thought it was a great idea. Did you want to explain why you requested it? >> Thank you. Um, I'm tired of dealing with
038everything as an emergency, right? That's not how we should operate. And I'm not blaming anyone. I'm not blaming the administration. And I'm not blaming the superintendent. It's just how we fell into this, unfortunately. Everything feels like an emergency. It doesn't have to be that way. We need better time to plan. So if it takes an additional meeting, just to plan, actually look to the next quarter, to the next year, you know, I just I I'm tired of lastm minute things. That's not great. It's not a great feeling. It's not a great way to operate. So, that was the idea of let's plan it out. Let's have set touch bases at meetings where we just look at what's coming up um budgets, contracts, any any possibility of expenses uh start uh start of the new year.
039That's not something we can do the week before, right? I think it was uh heard uh before the previous school year ends or is ending, we should be looking to the next year already. >> So that was the idea behind it. >> Um I had a question trustee Chamblas. I know you had volunteered to maybe try to do some lead work and I realize it's been only a short amount of time. Is there uh anything that you were able to come up with or do we need to kind of look at staying staying the course as far as a Pontiac busing situation? >> So, um I actually that night um a community member reached out to me and there's a mall there that is no longer in use. And so I've been emailing and trying
040to find the corporation that owns them to get a hold of them to see if it's possible. Also, um, the Meyers that's there, I'm going to take a weekend trip out there and kind of go videotape it and kind of look at some different buildings and see what they look like and then send it and see if it looks good to everybody else. Um, but I have been reaching out to the owners of the mall there and I don't know why I'm drawing a blank on the name of it cuz I didn't expect to mention it tonight. Um, but yeah, so a community member actually reached out and said the mall there has open space for buses to turn around and it's not in use, so it might be something good that we could do
041and the parking lot is not that bad. >> Just as an update. >> Yes, go ahead. I do have an update about some upcoming expenses and I do want to say that we have applied for about two grants and the reason why so for tonight's agenda there is a approval for curriculum for elementary school purchase. The reason why that was last minute was because we just found out last week we got the grant. So, a lot of federal funding coming down the pipeline is coming down last minute and it's not fair, but it's just what we're dealing with. For example, we applied for another grant where we're trying to get some support staff. And I emailed the MDE department and I said, "Hey, we're trying to start the school year. We need to know when
042the budget is going to be released, if we're going to get this grant because it's going to determine if we need a teacher or not." Their response was, "We will not have an answer until September 30th." So, unfortunately, I will apologize in advance, but we are getting lastm minute grants that's allowing us to make these purchases. But, as soon as I get approval of the grant, I'll make sure I send you guys an email to say, "Hey, this is coming down the pipeline. We got it approved. Please know that this is probably going to be on the next agenda." So, I definitely got keep you guys updated when these grants are approved. Can I add a comment? >> Trusty Herb. Go ahead. >> I am not mad about funding coming in by no means. Even
043if that is last minute, I am not upset about that. I'm never going to say no to that. It's just everything else. But no, I saw that and that's a wonderful thing. Thank you. >> So, that is basically it in terms of like upcoming financial. We do have one more approval coming down the line for syncing fund, but that was just released today and I'll make sure that I send it out the week before it goes on the agenda so you guys can do research. Uh, Superintendent Perry, can you let everybody know? I know you sent it to us board members. We um >> Trusty Thompson and I were asking about lunches and seeing how a lot of schools were advertising they were going to be charging for lunches. So you had checked for us
044and just >> put everybody in the know where are we at with all of that. >> It's part of the free lunch reduced lunch program. >> Yes. So, let me pull up my direct message because I don't remember everything. >> Um, >> yes. Pulling it up now. So, basically, just so the community can know, there has been concerns about free and reduced lunch, if our kids are going to be funded, if we're going to have funding because of all the federal changes. For example, our consolidated app, that's title funds. We usually get title one, title two, title three, and title four. This year, we were only given title one as of last week. So, we're still waiting for federal government, the federal government to release funding. And one of the concerns was that's going around
045all the school districts is federal food funding. So, basically, there are two types of funding. You have state funding and you have federal funding. So, the state funding is supposed to be impacted by a $200 million cut for universal free meals that can potentially happen this fall. However, we are covered because we offer free lunch for all students. So we basically if you have a certain percentage of kids who meet this financial threshold from 25 to 60% then we're covered. So our kids as of today because it can change when we leave tomorrow or when we come to work tomorrow as of today our students are protected in terms of being funded for food. >> That's awesome. >> Anybody else? Okay. Then we will move on to uh approving the personnel report submitted by human
046resources on August 18th, 2025. Anita Maker in support. >> President Holder. >> Trustee Chamblas. >> I make a motion that the board of education approves the personnel report as presented. >> Thank you. >> Trustee Thompson supports. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please. >> Carlos Harp, >> yes. >> Cindy Holder, >> yes. >> Gloria Thompson, >> yes. >> Mark Kimble, >> yes. >> Rebecca Chamblas, >> yes. >> Motion passed. Next up is the book purchased using the 35 M grant everything. Oh, all right. Thanks. Uh administration is requesting board approval to purchase the intro to reading curriculum in the amount of 113,626.34 to be paid using the state 35mm >> for the professional >> grant. Intro to Reading is a comprehensive researchbased literacy program designed to strengthen reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills for students in
047grade K through five. The curriculum offers aligned instruction resources, assessments, and intervention supports to meet diverse student needs and accelerate literary growth. Teachers across the district have already been implementing into reading into their classrooms with positive results. And this purchase will ensure all K5 classrooms have the complete set of materials and resources needed for fro free full program adoption. The goal is to provide a constant high quality literacy framework that supports early reading proficiency and lays a strong foundation for future academic success. It is recommended the board of education approve the purchase of the intro reading curriculum using 35mm funding. Need a maker in support please. Madam President, >> Trustee, >> I'd like to make a motion that the board of education approve the purchase of the into readings curriculum using 35mm funding. I support.
048>> Trustee Chamblas supports. Any discussion? >> None. Roll call vote, please. >> Cindy Holder, >> yes. >> Mark Kimble, >> yes. >> Gloria Thompson, >> yes. Carlos Harp, >> yes. >> Rebecca Chamblas, >> yes. >> Motion passed. >> Hang on. Slipped. >> I'll adv26 district professional development plan. administration is requesting the approval of the 2526 district professional development plan which outlines the district's professional learning priorities, goals, and activities for staff. The plan is designed to support continuous improvement, enhance instructional practices and align with district strategic objectives, state requirements, and student achievement goals. Approval will authorize implementation of the plan for the upcoming school year. It is recommended the board of education approve the 2526 district professional development plan. I need a maker in support, please. >> President Her, >> sorry, Gloria, go ahead. >> Trustee
049Thompson moves to the board of education approved the 22 TW 20, I'm sorry, 2526 district professional development plan. >> Support discussion. >> I have a question. >> Trusty Kimble, >> what what is the cost of this program? So, it's not a program. Basically, throughout the year, we have PD days for staff and we have to get that approved by the board, by the state of Michigan. So, it just basically says, "Hey, these are the things we're going to cover on the day we have professional development." So, for example, the first day of school, Wednesday, Thursday is a PD day. Um, November, we have a professional development day. So, the PD days on our calendar. >> Okay. So this program is not costing us any money. >> No, it's just topics that we are going to
050educate our staff on. >> All right. Thank you. >> And I believe the last thing on the agenda is adjournment. >> Roll call. Roll call. >> Oh, we didn't vote. >> Stop. >> Not at all. >> Roll call vote, please. >> Rebecca Chamblas, >> yes. >> Carlos Harp, >> yes. >> Cindy Holder, >> yes. >> Mark Kimble, >> yes. >> Gloria Thompson, >> yes. >> Motion passed. >> Next up is adjournment. >> Uh, President Holder, >> trustee. I make a motion to adjurnn. I'll support. >> All in favor? >> I carries 901. >> She doesn't do not that I'm going to vote against a journ.