001[Music] All right, we are going to go ahead and I have a roll call, please. Mr. Antoine is here. Miss Bounty here. Miss Bowman here. Mr. Boyer here. Mr. Mchi here. Sorry. Miss Iicor here. And Miss Rice is on her way. All right, let's rise for the pledge, please. I pledge algiance 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. All right. As we approve tonight's agenda, I just want to read a couple amendments that I know to the amendment. So can I have a motion to approve the agenda and so move by. So the amendments um we are going to the amendment is to for item B employee services resolution 60A which is policy 6002.
002We just want our to table that discussion for right now until we can get some more um legal advice and have a policy committee meet again to look into that. Uh we are adding resolution 67 which is on the back. We have a separate sheet for that application. And then just kind of a housekeeping item amend to move um item O close session after our last public comment. Any questions? All right. All in favor of that amended agenda? I opposed. All right. passes. So we are going to move on to our first presentation of the night which I know is a kind of a June activities. Thank you. Mrs. L. Okay. So this presentation [Music] um so this presentation is to provide the board of education and the public the information on our millage rates
003our debt levy for the 2025 summer collection and how it relates to our our budget. First we want to talk about the debt fund. We have $2.9 billion in taxable values for all properties within the district. We need 3.8 5 mills levy to pay for our debt. They have an estimated fund balance ending this year of 2 almost $2.9 million and changes in our expenditures. At the end of the year, we look at all of our budget items and we see where we budgets have some money left in their line and we gather all that to put towards fund balance. We had an additional transfer to community service fund. We'll talk about that in just a minute. employee stipens, any severances for employees that are leaving, and class- size overages, we pay those out. RVA
004tuition, we look at that to see how much we have left there and legal fees. In addition, in our operations and maintenance uh function, we have some vacancies that were not filled, so we um put that towards fund balance until next year. Um miscellaneous supplies, we have the utilities that are all in our operations and maintenance budget. So that's we try to predict what we will end the year with. We've had some additions to buildings. So we're kind of seeing whether our electricity and the gas usage is is appropriate for what we've got budgeted. Also in transportation, we had we vehicle repair parts. There was money left in that and fuel and oil. And we usually do have um money left over in these funds. We try to budget generously for those. I just want
005to touch on this really quickly because this is the last time I think we're going to talk about this ever. Um the ESSER funding, we had a little bit left, $55,000 in the SR3 formula left to spend in 2042. So we are done. It was expended by September 30th. And then SR311T, which was for a specialized population of our students, we had $228,12 to spend. So, we've also fully expended that on September 30th of this year. Um, I just want to let you know that we're currently being audited by MDE for our User expenditures. So, I'll let you know the results of those um that audit when that's done. It's been going on for a couple months now. Okay, there we go. So this at the end of this year, we're expecting that we'll have
006revenues to exceed our expenses by $1,49,88 and we expect our fund equity to be $18,80,17 or 23.63% at the end of 2425. So I know this is small, but if you look the green column is where I want to focus. We had to adopt budgets, year-end budgets and original budgets for four other funds. And this is our community service and child development fund. So this is the preschool and child care sack. Um GSRP goes through this fund. This is the one where in the last column there we had talked about how we needed to supplement the community service fund. We talked about um in our amendment about $250,000. We needed more than that. And you'll see in that third fourth line, it's $664,000 that we need to move to the community service fund. We can't
007adopt any budgets that are in deficit. So, it's important that the general fund um supplement this this fund temporarily. um myself, Miss McFarland, Miss Beck, and Miss McBetty, we're all going to work this throughout the next year on monthly meet on this and work towards um improving that budget and find figuring out what we can do to make that um more uh sustainable on its own. Okay. So that's going to end the year with about a fund balance of $27,768. We also have to put uh adopt a budget for the bookstore. That's just that's run by the students. It's they you know the merchandise that they sell and the things that they purchase to create their merchandise is flows through this account. We expect them to end with the fund balance of about 59,000. They
008they're a sustainable program, self-sustaining program. And then our food service in the green column there, again, we've um was a universally free breakfast and lunch that um that fund has been accumulating fund balance and we've recited last year just through our audit that we needed to come up with an expense plan, excess fund balance spending plan. So, we have spent some We bought a truck this year. Um, we have some other things we know we're going to need to do. And if this continues in the same direction, we're going to have to spend some other um come up with some a new plan and submit that to the state. It's it's a little bit difficult to do because we've bought a lot of equipment, but we know we have a um some cafeterias that are
009going to get remodeled a little bit in the future. So, hopefully we can use some of these funds for that. And then the last one is the student activity count. This is the um fund. This is where students uh raise funds and then the students use those funds for activities that that they do. And that's that's very self- sustaining. Um that will end the year with almost $1.3 million in fund balance even though they've used some fund balance this year. So, our budget assumptions for 2526, we have a blended count of 5,324 students as of April of 2025. Our plant ran real point enrollment projection with some modifications that we've made from knowledge that about our enrollment um our own uh enrollment is 5,357 FTEES. So we are uh projecting a 33 FTE increase for
010next year. So, the legislative proposals that we um fill in our other part of our budget or the is one of the other um unknowns about our budget is the governor's budget was proposed at $392 per pupil increase or 4.1% to $10,000 per pupil. And right now we're at 9608. Remember that. State Senate's budget is $400 per pupil or 4.6% 6% increase, $10,08. And then the house budget is $417 per pupil or a $4.3% increase or $10,025 per pupil. The house budget is very unique and it's used $1 billion in onetime funding to give additional um funding over and above the foundation allowance. So even though it says $10,25, they're they're projecting that they will give additional funds to districts. We're uncertain is this is a sustainable uh uh budget for that after this year
011and the budget process will continue through lancing and they have to adopt their budget by September 30th. So I'm not sure Dr. Robinson may have you know a you know more of a a sight on where when he thinks that budget will be adopted but it has to be done by September 30th. So, we are going to use the governor's budget for our projections. $392 per pupil increase for $10,000 as our foundation allowance. If you remember, we briefly talked about this at the workshop that the 147 A4, which is our mixer's C cost offset, is of what's concerned in the govern of concern to us in the governor's budget. In 2425, which is this p this school year that we're just finishing up, we received almost $2 million to offset the um what was equal
012to 5.75% increase in retirement rate in 2526. There is that one point or almost $2 million is not in the budget for us to receive. However, the pension rates did not reduce themselves to five by 5.75%. It's more of a two to two to 3%. So our estimated increased retirement costs are $1.1 million or $388 per pupil. So as you see between $388 and 392. That doesn't give us a whole lot of um extra money for the next year. So, as we have done in many years, we've gone through the district leadership priorities process and we are maintaining our five elementary math interventionists who were who were funded through a grant this past year and will be funded through the general fund. One will be funded through a grant and the rest will be through
013general fund next year. Equitable sustainable contracts, those are contracts that we negotiated just recently or are still in negotiations. our CPA version three, an RVA coordinator, our new math curriculum. We've added additional funding to the cycle of interdependence and capturing kids hearts program. Those were priorities for district leadership. So if we look at just a portion of um the spreadsheet that we used to come up with our our budget numbers, we you can see we used our assumption of 5324 from the April 2025 state aid status report, our state aid increase of $392. That would give us an additional almost $2.1 million in additional revenue. The state aid per pupil we've projected to be $10,000 with the governor's proposal and enrollment to be 5,357 FTEES, an increase of 33. And that would give us an
014additional $330,000 for a total state aid increase of $2.4 million. Some other things that aren't necessarily revenue, but they add to the bottom. They add um a positive to our bottom line is staffing turnover. When we when people retire, we usually hire at a lower um a newer and lower cost employee. Our 147g Nipsters, they're 3% cost offset. There's an additional 323,000 that we're going to be getting this year. And then we'll talk about this in just a few slides, but our our fund balance spend down will be $2.8 million um for next year. We're also transfer projecting to transfer food service $125,000 and that would be total to appropriate of almost 6 million $5.9 million. So, some of the expenditures that are uh increased or are legacy costs that we have are the contracts
015that we have with our with our um collective bargaining groups that we've already bargained and those needed to be added to the budget. Added retirement costs that I spoke about a few slides back with the 14784 of $1.1 million. uh enrollment positions. We have 3.67 FTE and enrollment positions that we needed to add. I think most of those are the high school. Is that correct? High school and middle school. High school and middle school. $358,770. And then next year, I'm projecting a transfer just to be safe to the community service fund of $500,000. Service contract added costs. Those are things like our insurance, um our custodial contracts, our lawnmowing contracts, things that we already have uh signed on the dotted line and those are extra costs. And then former grant transfers, these are the math
016interventionists that I talked about. And then former grants to general fund for the safety expenditures. we the 31A um our safety costs or for some of our contracts will exceed what were being allocated in the 318A. So there's just a little bit. So 85,000. So our total expend I'm sorry before you go too far but before this you had stamp reductions on there but no money next to it. Was that just because we didn't it's not like we um we didn't eliminate any we didn't eliminate any positions. Okay. I was like I was confused. Thank you. These are the these are the three groups of leadership priorities that we have discussed. Um we'll go into those in further detail. Um I think Dr. Robinson's got that in his report. So this is just a breakdown
017of our revenues. Our local revenues, the 18 mills generates $10.4 million. local revenues other that would be like um gate receipts those types of things $1.6 million. The state aid foundation is $43 million and state aid other that would be categorical grants and other allocations of $15 million. We also have federal grants and other of $6.3 million for total budgeted revenues of $76.9 million. So, we have a projected student FTEE of 5,357 at $10,000 per pupil. So, the state's total foundation grant is 53,570,000 minus the 18 mills that the state assumes that we're going to collect of $10.4 million. So the state chair of our per pupil foundation allowance is $43,136,8. This is just a pie chart just to show you how much we rely on the state for our funding. 76% of our funding
018comes from the state and the next would be local revenues. So it is significant um what the state generates for us in and adopts in a budget is very important to us and we it's important for us to see what they do going forward. Our expenditures we are in the people business. So most of our expenditures are in salaries and benefits. We do have maybe 15 to$16 million in purchase services and other types of expenses. So, our total expenditures are $79,775,296. And this chart again demonstrates that salary and benefits, which is the blue and red, are 79% of our expenditures. And this is typical for any school district in the state. So at the end of 2025 2026 we expect expenses to exceed revenues by $2,819,23 to uh take our fund equity to 15,260,814 or
01919.13%. Oops. Go back. And we still need to adopt budgets for our community service fund, which is if we want to look at that last column, um you can see that I have the incoming transfer from the general fund of $500,000. We expect them to uh add to their fund balance slightly next year. Also, the bookstore is still sustainable for next year and our food service fund depending on whether universally free uh breakfast and lunch continues. That's what we are going to budget for right now and that will uh continue to add to fund balance. Um we will we will amend that as we decide on some different excess fund balance expenditures for that fund. And then our special revenue fund which is our student activity is also expected to add to funds next year.
020So going forward what we need to do is we will complete the uh financial audit for 2020 425 and actually the auditors are doing some of that work right now. We'll continue to monitor the state's budget because that's important to us is that's a big part of our equation. And then we'll look at fall enrollment and see if we are on target for fall enrollment. So we'll be making an amendment sometime late fall or early in the winter. And I did give you, I'm sorry, I did give you this was what I put in the packet. There was an uh a little bit of a typo down in the by $1,000 and didn't change the bottom line, but I just wanted to make sure you had that that correction. So, I'll take any questions if
021you have any. So, a couple of uh editorial comments um before we um offer the special public comment for the budget hearing and then we'll close the budget hearing presentation and move into the rest of the um regular meeting agenda. Um the you know the state has a constitutional requirement to approve the overall state budget by September 30th. the legislature has made a commitment um uh to do it by June 30th because local school boards are required to approve a budget by June 30th. And so uh it just seems to make sense that they would tell us how much money we're going to get um so that we can um so you know the past couple years this the legislature has been able to do that. Even last year, we remember, you know, um into
022the wee hours of June 30th, um they they ended up passing the budget. Um albeit after we had our budget hearing in in this June meeting. Um so, you know, when I look at that, they they didn't have any um work going on around the budget um last week, but tomorrow they'll be back in session. Um, and I envision, you know, three pretty long days of this week and then a couple days the beginning of next week. Uh, and hopefully, you know, we'll know where we stand. Um, it's always nice when we get these three legs of our state government's budget proposals earlier than we've seen um this year because we can kind of triangulate the data. So, uh, I think as Vicki kind of referenced, you know, we're working on conservative estimates, um, if
023there's some changes, you know, in regards to, for example, the 1474 and they are going to offset some of that cost, you know, we would be in a more favorable position. Likewise, in the House's proposal, there's some categorical funds that aren't included in that super payment that um that um, Mrs. Zaski talked about uh and that raises some concern because those are going to affect our bottom line. Um so we like when we like when they put it all into the foundation grant because it just makes it easy. Um but in some cases it takes a while for the lobbyists and that um to sort through pages and pages of detail in these bills to really understand what's behind the scenes. So um I feel pretty comfortable uh about what we've done based on what
024we know. Uh I feel really confident in our enrollment assumption and things that we can control. Um so one of the good things is from a checks and balances standpoint, the board knows this maybe for the public is, you know, our audit for last year, we we don't wait till the fall to do that process. We're we're probably one of the first districts that's on um the the list to be audited. And so, um, the business office takes on doing that in July, um, which which, you know, in some cases might not be considered the most favorable time if people want to take vacations and those kind of things, but uh, um, so I'm really hopeful that the state's going to figure this out and we'll know in the next week and a half. Uh,
025if not, we've also had years where it's gone all the way into August. Um we're also kind of anxiously waiting to see where some of the um disagreement around some of the federal funding is going to shake out. Um so next year uniquely could be a year where maybe we have to do two budget amendments. Um but I think as as Vicki has shared, you know, late fall uh or early in the new year um we'll definitely be able to make things right. Um, I trust my executive director of business services a lot. Uh, and I also know, um, she budgets very conservatively. Um, so, uh, I think we're in a good spot. I would also mention too, there was some emails from the state that are worth reading. Um, I know one of them
026was a 30page document, but it spells out a lot um, with the proposed budget. So, if you have time to take through to read those details, it's informative. So you know you have a better understanding of what we're facing too. So Mrs. if we could have that unique public comment specific to the budget hearing presentation. So at this time because this is the time of year we do the budget hearing. We have a public comment just specific to that. So if any of you would like to come forward and make a comment or ask questions now would be the time. going twice. All right, we are going to officially close the budget hearing for 2025 and we are going to move on to our consent action items. Do I have a motion? So moved. Moved
027by Bonnet. Support by Bowman. Any questions? Okay, see none. Uh all in favor? I I I post oppos. All right, we will move on to our annual June approvals and these are things that we approve each year kind of housekeeping items. Um and we did separate them out. So the first one is our membership into the Michigan High School Athletic Association for the upcoming 2526 school year. So moved by Bonik. Support by Antoine. Any questions? All in favor? I opposed. Item two, the MASB, which is the Michigan Association of School Boards membership for 202526 school year. So moved support moved by Bonnik support by Antoine. Um the only question I had Dr. Robinson maybe in a a future workshop we could have u maybe some clarification and a breakdown. I know there are benefits that
028we receive um that may or may not exceed you know the cost that it is to the district because it was just shy of $10,000 for us to belong to that each year. Um, but I know you you sent out some information about it with maybe a future workshop in Oklahoma so we can have clarification on it. All right. Any other questions? All right. All in favor? Opposed? Okay. Item number three, the virtual online course provider. Um, it's GET Michigan virtual and Lincoln learning for our Romeo virtual academy. Can I make a motion? Motion by Bowman. Support. Support by Chahakei. Any questions? All in favor? I opposed. Item four. This is our pay for participation fees for this upcoming school year. Um if the public and board remembers, I believe it was two years ago,
029we voted um have the option to suspend the pay to pay paytoplay fees and that will be approved on the annual year as we are able to do so. So uh we are able to do that for um the upcoming school year. Do I have a motion? So motion by Anf fun support by Bonnik. Any questions? All in favor? Opposed? And then item number five, this is the storm water management consult we get from Arc Environmental. Motion. Motion by Bond. support by Ber. Any questions? All in favor? Opposed? All right. And we're going to move on toformational updates, our communications. So, um, we have no we have no communications for this evening. Okay. and we will move on to committee reports. I will go ahead with curriculum. We have four committee reports this evening. So
030all of you got uh the notes from our last subcommittee meeting which was June 2nd. And at this meeting we discussed um some things that we do have four resolutions tonight uh pertaining to curriculum. The first thing we talked about was our math pilot and academic services along with teachers that work together landed on uh bridges for mathematics and this is for the elementary level and this was and correct me if I'm wrong this isn't correl but we are there's two components of that um the number corner that will be started in this upcoming school year with a full adoption of bridges tier one in the 26 27 school year. Okay. Um, one of the questions we just had was there any uh price discounts if we approve a longer year contract and Burgess does
031not offer that. So, this will be for next year. Uh, we talked about the middle school. They um would like to use illustrative 360 which is just an update to the current curriculum that they used uh has some more words stories and uh support for teachers. Um, and the building thinking classrooms is part of that. And then the high school math, uh, they don't have any, um, decisions at this time, but they are looking for potentially a third edition to come out for their college prep. Um, and then we spent a little bit of time on the personal finance graduation requirement. So that was something that we voted on before. Um, it is something that is required for the class of 2028. So the current sophomores, incoming incoming sophomores uh will be required um to
032take a personal finance. We already have offered that at the high school, but it will be a requirement for most kids graduating um starting in the year 2028. So, we talked about different ways that we can um implement that and different uh credits that can cover that and working together with uh our teachers at the high school level to even get creative with our economics um and different classes that can cover that. And then we looked at our ELA curriculum for Roma High School. We did approve that uh last year I believe but they are looking for some supplemental materials um for some novels and we were given a list to look over and one of the neat things that came out of that is a couple uh the 12th grade English teachers were thinking
033of ways to be creative to encourage kids to read especially when they're in that capstone project and it's just hard to motivate them. So they put together a nice list that corresponds to the different pathways that kids are in and can choose models based on that. Uh we looked at the update for the student parent handbook and code of conducts which was very minimal. Um and then we have some resolutions ahead tonight. Uh 63A and C and resolution 64 uh are all from this curriculum subcom the last couple months. Any questions for cracking up? All right, we'll move on to safety. Okay. Um, we had our uh safety subcommittee meeting on June 10th. Um, we met Sergeant I don't know if I'm going to say this correctly. Patrick, is that correct? Um, they call him
034Sergeant Petri for short. Um, of the county sheriff's office. He's the new Washington Township substation commander. Um he attacks he attends our district's uh quarterly security meetings. He reads all shift reports so we can stay informed on the incidents in our district and our area um all free shifts. Um and Washington Township has been very supportive in providing the necessary resources for uh optimal operations. Uh we then discuss the annual district safety focus which is the relocation and reunification process. Um it's become an RHS project-based learning effort. Students from the RHS video production and drone classes are creating videos. Eventually, the hope is for all grade levels um to show students what the relocation and reunification process entails uh specific to their school. These uh high school students have taken a really excited interest and
035ownership of this project, determining necessary personnel and resources for more effective operation of this process. So, that that's really good that they're uh involved in this. For our March meeting followup, we discussed the parent outreach events specifically for the fall of 2025, uh the digital detox event hosted by Kenny Spears from Positive You and the wellness fair. We're going to keep them separate um possibly in September or October um and make them available to all grades and families in the district. Um, a large portion of the meeting centered around inschool violence prevention and incident notifications. Due to the bullying incident that was brought to light at the last board meeting, which the school board had no prior knowledge of, several board members asked for all RMS administrators to attend this meeting for clarification. The board
036expressed the need for more timely reports and updates on Siri's incidents and expulsions. We discussed shield staff needing to be better informed of incidents and expulsions to improve student safety as well as the importance of shield staff professionalism and handing confidential information involving students. The subcommittee acknowledged the need for improved communication. So administrators will start giving weekly, possibly daily briefings to the shield staff depending on what's taking place that week. Lastly, our hearts safe certification update. Um to my knowledge, all Romeo schools are now hearts safe certified. Is that correct? Um our district nurse has worked diligent diligently to make that happen. So that's really good. So that's done and that's all I have. Any questions finance? Well, our finance committee met on June 16th and basically everything that Miss Laskkey covered is the meeting
037is our report. Um unless um Miss Bowman or um or Mr. Boyer has any additional information. Can't do it better than I know we could. No. Okay. Lastly, facilities. facilities was also short and sweet. Um we had a quick meeting on Monday the 16th as well. Was it the 16th? Well, we could go Monday. Um because it's summertime, there was um the Art Mellow staff gave lots of updates as to the work that was going on in group two projects. um what's happening with our outdoor um athletic facility and the need for a track storage shed. um talked about the group three projects as well which included the site work at Cwell Academy um renovation, the locker rooms, fire alarm and then the stuff that was just starting up um which includes the parking lot
038at Hamilton Parsons in the playground, the Hel parking lot, the playground, Washington playground, RHS renovations and the drink fountain replacements. Um, we also just talked about a potential turf option um on some consortium pricing at the Merail High School courtyard project that you know we had some back and forth with bumps along the way. Um, and then we spent time on the change order update, one of which which is on your board agenda tonight. Um, that is for the R&D development that has to do with the locker room as well. and um kind of went over a few things that were happening with sinking fund and then also just an update on the elevator over at the administration of the building. Um and then also I know I asked the question I'm forgetting what MTT
039stood for. um trades m multi-trades multi-trades I knew it was trades something um MTT position uh that we are filling and uh that is about it unless anybody has questions on um just a couple things in my report tonight um Mrs. McFarland's here Mr. Maria is is out of state. Um so we're we're doing a flashback when it was just this is um for K12. She doesn't like to remember those days. Um but uh got a couple updates working on ahead. I enjoyed visiting Indian Hills today for summer skills that began today. So, um, a summer skills is being hosted by Indian Hills this year because of the parking lots at Hubble, uh, being redone. And we had, um, let's see, six classrooms, actually eight classrooms. Um, and so most of the students are kids
040going into first grade, into second grade, into third grade. And then we have two classrooms of English language learners. Um, through a grant, we were able to lift that program up this summer. Um, and I will say all of the teachers of summer skills are Romeo teachers. I remember when I first started, we couldn't find any Romeo teachers to teach summer school. Um, and we had to hire subs and and other uh certified teachers from the outside. So, very pleased that they're all of our all of our staff. Um, secondary uh credit recovery began today. That's also hosted by one of our high school teachers, Miss Diner. Um so they started today and then um our academic services is still hiring. Um we have a middle school assistant principal vacancy and um we are back
041to the table for special education supervisor. Haven't found the right fit yet. So the next slide I will talk about our group three priorities. Um, so were there any Rob sent me a really lengthy email single space mind you um about the bridges of mathematics adoption if anyone wanted to know any more information. Mrs. Iikor was correct. Um the purchase is for both number corners and the tier one instructional materials, but next year we're just going to roll out number corners uh with a full adoption in the 2627 school year. Um cycle of interdependence um that is trying to continue to add to our budget. So when there are years where we don't necessarily have fund equity that we can purchase curriculum. Um, I remember when I first started, everything was open source because we
042really didn't have any money. Um, so it would really benefit just this math adoption for K5 is um I think a little over $200,000. Um, you know, ELA is is expensive. So, you know, we haven't even talked about science or social studies in the last few years. And then capturing kids hearts. Um it's to continue to support uh Romeo Middle School, which I don't know if we announced they earned a rising star award from Capturing Kids Hearts. Um one of uh I think 40 schools across the country to receive that honor. Um and so continue to support them and and Hamilton Parsons. And uh we believe we have a path forward for Amanda Moore um to join the Capturing Kids Hearts um team and um receive training for that this year. So um the the
043money that was attached to that um that's uh at most I'm hoping we get some federal grant dollars. Um we used some grant dollars this year for some of the things with um our contract for capturing kids heart. So, just waiting to hear about title two from the feds. Questions about uh the group three priorities. This is a good time to ask that. A question I had the capturing kids hearts. Um that is that an annual fee? I know it's a little bit more in our packet just because I know you're adding two on there, but will that be? We're only adding one elementary. Hamar already did it. Um so after the first year um the real the the heavy cost is the first year of two days of implementation training. Um we are moving
044to a district um license. So with three buildings uh district level we can see there they give surveys um to parents, students and staff. We will be able to see those results from a district level and not just buildings. So we can get an aggregate with that. We did add a day for a traction visit um which means that district leadership um will be able to go with one of the implementation coaches to the three buildings which I think is important for the continuity of the program as well as sustainability. Um, so district leadership will be able to go and depending on the day I'll invite, we can have a full team. We can invite board members. Um, but we can go and see the implementation at each of the three buildings, get feedback from
045that implementation coach for us to continue to support the three buildings. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. I had a question about that. Um, is the goal to get all the elementary schools uh under this program? Is that the goal long-term goal? I'll take that question. No. Okay. Uh, no. The the schools have an autonomy to choose that curriculum for themselves. We know that uh Indian Hills is heavily down the road with leader and me and Washington is probably four or five years into caring school communities. Um, so it's more of schools that might be moving away for something need a little bit more structure and formal. So, um, so no, I mean, we'd always entertain that. I mean, uh, ultimately Caption Kids Hearts would wants a district by design model. Um, but, you know, we'll
046the school and the staff, you know, it needs to be right. We don't want to force anything on anyone that isn't ready for it. What what is way different now for us is we have schools that are a year in and we'll be two years in. And so, um, we have more internal capacity to help other staffs understand what it is and decide whether it's right for them or not. That was a great question. I'm also here if there were any questions about the student u parent handbook changes. I know that's not on the slide anywhere, but if anybody had any questions, they were pretty minor. I think the biggest one was athletic code of conduct but they have to be in school all day to play which didn't think we were why didn't we
047have that right so that was per Mr. Smith and Mr. for hospitals request. It used to be half day. Y you didn't have to be in school all day to play in the game. Thank you very much. That's all we have for tonight. All right. So, we are going to move on. Our first public comment. I do not have any sheets that pertain to tonight's agenda. So, we are going to move right into our action items. A few of them. So, I'm going to begin with a resolution 59. That is our personnel update. We had some some changes, some new hires. It's always exciting when I were able to do that. reservations of so do I have a motion motion motion by support by Chahakei any questions the only thing I have to add and
048I think I asked Mrs. butler learned this before, but um if we do exit surveys or anything, it's just it does catch my eye when we have a couple assistant principles, you know, resign from the building. I know there's lots of reasons why people might do that. So, we we do send exit surveys to everybody who either resigns or retires. However, I can't force them to fill it out. So, I get back what I get back and we take that information and fix things. It's a it's a written um not face to face, right? Okay. All right. Can we get that report? Can we have those? Sure. That's what they choose. If they choose to turn up, right, any other questions or comments? All right. All in favor? Opposed? Right. Motion passes. Uh, letter B,
049employee services resolution 60A. We are going to table that. We made that amendment earlier. Uh so we're going to move on to 60B. That was a policy update 6003 um regarding the firearms and other weapons communication that will go out each fall. I have a motion motion motion by support support by any questions. All in favor? All right, moving on. Letter D, employee services resolution number 60 uh C board of education policy update. This is 6004 uh dealing with our school crisis responses to closures moved. Moved by Bonnet support by Chahakei. Any questions? All right. All in favor? Opposed? Letter E, employee services resolution 60D. This is the policy update 8002 of the American with Disabilities Act. Just changing some adding some language. So moved. Moved by Bonnik. Support by Blair. Any questions? Just a
050reminder, these did go to our first reading at our last meeting. So we had quite a bit of time to look at these. All right, moving on to business services resolution number 61. Motion, we get a vote on that last one. Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, letter E. Uh, I know we got a motion in support. Did we get a vote? All right. All in favor? Opposed? Sorry about that. Moving on to letter F, business services resolution number 61. That is the 2025 final budget. Motion. Motion by Antoine. Support by woman. Any questions? Vicki. All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Uh letter G, business services resolution 62 that is in regards to the 2026 original budgets. So moved moved by Bonnet support support by Ber. Any questions? Okay. All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Letter
051H, academic services 63A. This has to do with the district leadership priorities uh for our K to5 math adoption which was discussed during curriculum. Motion motion by Chahakei support Bowman. Any questions? All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Letter I, academic services resolution 63B. This is district leadership priorities with the K12 cycle of interdependence with Ms. McFarland explained about in her report. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion by moment. Support by Antoine. Any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Letter G, academic services resolution 63C. This is also a district leadership priority with the capturing kids heart programming for the upcoming secure. I have a motion. Is that bonic? Yes. Okay, I have a second support. Support by Chiaki. Any questions? Okay. All in favor? I opposed. All right. Moving on to letter K, academic services
052resolution 64. This is the school year student parent handbook. I'll make that motion. Motion by Bonnik. Support by Bowman. Any questions? Okay. All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Moving on to our facilities resolution. That would be number 65. It's the 2021 bond change order approval that facilities report referenced. Motion support. Motion by Antoine. Support by Vick. Any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Moving on to letter M, business services resolution number 66. This has to do with the transportation fees for the upcoming school year. So move support. Moved by support by Antoine. Any questions. Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. And business services resolution 67. This is what we added and was amended at the beginning meeting. Uh this is uh the application for the preliminary qualification to the department of treasury
053or moved moved by bonnet support by chahaki and you have a separate sheet. We can see that movement online. Any questions? See none. All in favor? Motion passes. So we are going to move on at the beginning of if you're following along in your agenda the beginning of the meeting we amended to move our close session after our last public comment. So we are going to move on to any board discussion from the building district hands anything. So we are going to move on to our last public comment and I do have a few slips up here and they all are on the same topic which is fine but we will keep you to um three minutes. So we'll kind of give you a 10-sec warning if needed but um the first one up is
054Ryan Nickel. Actually I'll go last. Pam. Okay. Thank you. All right. So, I'm gonna do All right. Um, is it Tali Schmidt? Okay. How did I say your first name there? Yep. Go right on up to the microphone. Could you repeat your name? I'm sorry. I think I mispronounced it. No, you said Right. Studies. Okay. All right. So uh I have a question regarding the parking lot situation with the seniors and I want to ask if you at the board consider any other alternatives to just ending the tradition or the doing the wrong thing. Was anything else to replace the tradition discussed? So we don't answer questions directly but if you want a followup to that question um we can definitely reach out to you. Okay. Uh so to the award I wanted to ask
055uh how big was the risk of being fined by the government due to the debris found in the waterways. I will go ahead and write all your questions on the back of your form and we can reach out to you after. Okay. And the last question was uh why did it take so long to communicate the whole student body about the issue uh since the since you guys got notified about it in September I think so and we only really got anything back from you in April. Can you repeat your second question again? How big was the risk of being fined by the government debris and waterways? That was all. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. All right. Next, Maxwell Alter. Yeah, same thing as him. Just a couple of questions uh regarding
056the parking lot. Um, so I've got here just uh was there any attempt to uh communicate the problem with the parking lot uh regarding the paint in the waterways before the decision was made to remove the tradition? And then I've also got here uh why was construction on the parking lot moving so quickly as opposed to other projects such as the uh basketball court basketball court and like the baseball diamonds at the high school. Can you restate that? The last one. The last one. Yeah. Yeah. Um construction of the parking lot. Why was it moving so much quicker as opposed to projects like the basketball court at the high school and baseball diamonds? That was all. Thank you. All right, Julian Hill. So, um I'll do my best to kind of uh rephrase these instead
057of questions as uh as we are all kind of part of the same group, but um just wanted to um ask some similar questions and also some other things. Um so, I have a couple questions I'll ask and then I'll switch more to um concerns. Um one uh question I had were was uh were there multiple water tests done um at different points in time? Um and if so when would these tests have taken place and also um was there any sort of outlier or was it sort of an increasing trend as uh as the test continued and uh another one we had um I guess coming to this meeting now we kind of learned it's more of an annual thing but just to confirm what was the reason for the water test being taken
058in September and if So, um, was this something that was mandated by the government or was this something that was, uh, discretionary? And then, uh, one final question before I move on. If someone were to prevent a viable solution going forward, would there be any sort of consideration to possibly change or improve the tradition or possibly to reinstate the original tradition with some sort of way to mitigate the effects of the water damage? So, um, one final thing I'll add, I originally had this as a question, but I'll sort of rephrase it. Um, I think a lot of students right now are kind of concerned at the lack of communication from the board. Although the meetings themselves are public really nobody at the high school level is inclined to um attend the meetings or to
059uh view the meetings at all anyway. So um we would just ask that there would be a little bit more of a inclination to let the students know what's going on with the meetings especially it's something that could be implemented at the high school itself by um say through the video announcements or something like that where students can let the uh whole student body know what sort of things were on the agenda what sort of decisions would be made um just to make sure that students are informed of the decisions especially ones such as the tradition of parking lot that would really have a great effect on them. So that's all I have for you. Thank you for your time. I'm gonna have um Isaac and then Ryan, you'll be last. Thank you guys for
060having me. I do have some. So the problem what I found is that the school board wants to stop the senior tradition of handing the parking spots um because of environmentally unsafe and it's also due to students drawing inappropriate stuff on it. I guess from what the revenue problem said. Um so the solution that they stated was that they wanted to get a rock like the excuse me I am a little nervous but um what they wanted was a rock like the library. So the only problem to this is that there is not enough time in the school year to paint the rock. Like for one student to paint it once, you would have to paint it twice every day for every senior student to paint the rock because of how many students there are
061due to how many school days. And um it also depends on if a rock ever shows up too because that's what Mr. Osman said was that he was also looking for something in machine to set and move the rocks to the area. Um, so what I recommend is that I did do some research on environmentally safe paint that you can find at Home Depot and you could limit the student body to buying that type of paint if you don't buy paint that flakes off and goes into the storm. Um, and then there's also you can also do like signup geniuses like NHS does. I know the robotics team also does sign of genuses because they're also looking for parents to help and monitor the painting of response due to inappropriate designs. And then I also
062suggested like in Mr. Oswell's email is that you go to the student body and approve designs sorry I approve designs that students have so that they were also you can also limit that That's about all I have. But thank you. Thank you. We'll finish up with you. Good evening. I uh so you've you've heard from the students really. I I just came here for some moral support uh for my son and for the rest of the student body who came here. Uh I think it's um encouraging to see the level of engagement on this and I hope that that just them being here kind of starts to speak volumes about how important this is to a large part of the body. Um as as I kind of pushed Isaac to you presented right we think
063that there are other alternatives to just killing a tradition that has been going on and many students have looked at for many years and kind of looked forward to that then got kind of yanked out from under them. uh you know the summer before their senior year started and it's um the the response was good and I have a daughter that's that's a year younger to be one of the junior class. The response was kind of overwhelming and so I would just implore the board to look at the alternatives because I think there are many options that we can go here of which have been laid out this uh this evening as opposed to just cutting this tradition as a whole. um you know the rock has come up and the logistics of the rock
064and you know 400 student body you kind of lose that opportunity that every student has to kind of make their mark right a lot of high school and everything gets kind of washed into obscurity and this is one of the few things that each student gets to touch gets to put their own mark on and gets to stand by day after day throughout their senior year um you know going to a rock kind of blends that out to a general consensus of what the class is and you tend to lose the quieter voices who um don't always get the opportunity to express themselves kind of in this way, right? They get swallowed in the mob that becomes high school. We've all been there, some of us more recently than others, but um I I would
065just ask you kind of look back at the time. look at these students here who are out to kind of support this opportunity for themselves. And I would just challenge the board to see if there are alternatives. Uh and I I think there's a community outreach out there that would be willing to come supervise, support, clean up, you know, do the things necessary to help uh avoid the problems that the school districts are seeing. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Um I know normally we don't answer questions directly. I did record all of these questions, but it's I think it's pretty relevant and it's an easy question to answer. The board actually found out about that decision after all of you did. It is not a decision that the board made. That's not something
066that um we are involved in. So, please know that. I'm not saying that to throw anyone under the bus. Um but I think sometimes there's a misconception that the board is involved in every little um detail of uh work building operations and we are not. Um just a a quick story. I was approached last fall by someone who said, "How could you how could the board cancel homecoming floats?" And I'm like, "I didn't even know that that was canceled." So, just know that there are um you know, things that take place at the building level and we trust our administrators to make those decisions. But I do appreciate um all of you coming respectfully and sharing your thoughts. Um we will reach out, you know, in the next week or so to try to answer
067these questions that you need help with. um a little bit better. Miss, could I just add? So, we don't always get students here. So, I just think it's really important teachable moment as well um that you're kind of seeing a a body of government. Um and the reason we don't engage one-on-one is because if it's not something we voted on, we can't speak as a board. So, Miss Ior could say, "Yeah, we should do whatever kind of paint." and I could say, "Oh, we should do a," you know what I mean? We would be giving you misinformation because it's not something that we've actually had action on. So, that's why we don't um do it as a board. Now, you'll get a phone call and and there could be communication and then stuff could come
068back and then we would be able to have our like individual opinions, but because it isn't something that, you know, we've discussed as a board, it wouldn't be something that we could respond. So, um, I hate looking at students and not being able to at least let you know the why. Still doesn't make you feel any better. You took a a Monday out of your time. Although, air conditioned buildings probably a little better than being outside. But I just want you to know that cuz it it pains all of us to not, you know, give you our opinions back. But it wouldn't be right because we act as a board. Um, so even if it was denied or agreed, whatever, it it comes to that decision. So that's the why at least. We need the
069details. We'll look into it for you and more of us or some of us will get back and encourage you. But I want to second great job. I mean, it's it's very cool to see that more of you getting involved politically, come in, talk, a little nervous, whatever. You guys did a great job. I I love that. that I hope we get a lot more students doing that cuz you guys did a very good job. I know I asked you questions which sorry we couldn't answer and you know covered that for you but good job guys. Could I I know this is out of decorum but is this something that the board can weigh in on? Um it it is not ultimately our decision but we can take this and share it. Share your concerns.
070I would encourage you guys to come up with something. I mean, the passion that you guys are showing right here by standing up there at this kind of stuffy meeting and talking to us, that's that's I mean, that's kind of incredible. Come up with something. Share the information you've gotten. Research, come up with a proposal. Get some signatures. Come up with something. It might not It might not happen. All right, but why not? you come this far, right? Maybe maybe there's something out there that that you guys can think of that's not necessarily painting parking spots, but that is sort of relevant to, you know, congruency, you know. So, I I challenge y'all to dazzle us. Yeah. But to answer your question, no, it is not something that that the board believes in. But, but
071thank you very much. Any other comments? Okay. And I have a motion to um adjourn this meeting and go into close session. Support motion by Bman's uh support by call. Yes. Yes. Mer. Yes. M. Yes. Yes. Would you make the motion?