001call to order the regular board of education meeting of J uh April April 14th at 6:30 p.m. Uh will we all stand for pledge of allegiance and Wells is going to uh help us with that >> flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. >> Thank you. This is our first opportunity for public comment. A member of the public may address the board briefly for up to three minutes or request to be scheduled on a agenda in the future meeting. Please note that students will be given priority to speak on any topic. The first public participation portion of the meeting will normally be limited to 30 minutes, one half hour and will be limited to agenda items or only. The
002second public participation portion will be offered at the end of the agenda and allow for other comments. Individuals addressing the board should observe the rules of common courtesy public participation portion of the meeting cannot be used to make personal attacks against board members, district employees, or students. And we don't have any. None. Okay. Um then we'll move on. Can I have a recommend a motion to approve the agenda as printed? >> Hey Tim, can I um and we don't have to do this this way and I meant to tell you this earlier. Would you mind considering either for the future or we could tonight um putting administration and board committee updates underneath our action items so when we have guests that are helping present um I know it's been long days at work for people.
003I was just thinking we could switch those. We could do it tonight or we could just consider that for the future action item. >> Yeah. That way when we have like Brian Puffer here with us tonight and when we have other guests um because I know we had a work day today >> and they'd probably like to get home. >> Okay. Yeah. me and uh Rachel, we can talk about that maybe at our next meeting. Okay, we'll keep it this way for today and then talk. >> Then how about I make the motion to approve as printed? >> Okay, >> supportwick. >> All in favor? >> I opposed hearing none. Motion carries 70. Um and our student showcase will be Heritage School Highlights, Uno Club, and Inclusion Week presented by Wells, Regina, and Sophia. Well,
004hello. Thank you for having us here tonight. Um, we are honored to be here and uh, my name is Megan Degrand. and the principal of Heritage School. And with 35 days left um in this school year, we have been busy learning and growing and celebrating. And so when we thought about what we wanted to share today, this was easy. And so I have my team with me. We have Mr. Cochran, Mr. Brunette, Miss McKini, and Mrs. Etienne. Um and we are going to first start off by sharing a little bit about the week that occurred just before spring break. And we call that our inclusion week. Um and this was We'll get there. Thanks. Um, this was an intentional week that we were celebrating our students um and all of our differences and coming together
005and and we had a full week. It was kind of baked into our March's reading month and fit really really nicely. Um and we had we started with some schoolwide activities, an anti-bullying um bulletin board that students contributed to um a unity chain and we'll you'll get a um closer peek at those in the following slides. Um we had rotating ability stations that teachers could sign up for. Um our morning announcements were packed with fun facts out of a book that celebrated diverse um abilities of students. And then we had a grand finale at the end of the week where we invited Dexter's um unified um basketball team to come to Heritage to play and it was really great. We also had some dress up days in there. Buddy up days, Inside Out days, wearing
006blue for anti-bullying, rock your socks for Down Syndrome awareness. Um and then a team day on Friday for that basketball game. Um and it was great timing in the community. There was also um the Koopy Classic, a wheelchair um competition um rugby and then also a fundraiser um for the T-Wall Foundation. And so I'm going to let um the rest of my team members kind of share some more details about this awesome week. >> All right, good evening everyone. So, just a couple of quick schoolwide activities that we started the inclusion week off with was the uh stick together against bullying anti-bullying wall. This was an activity that students participated in uh in their gened classrooms with all of their peers and received some prompts such as uh inclusion is or kindness is or I
007can be inclusive by and then coming up with their own ideas. This is a great way to promote student voice. Uh, and so this was something that was posted prominently right outside of the cafeteria. Um, and it grew and grew and is uh was just taken down the other day, but definitely had that ability to kind of promote that positivity and kindness throughout the building. And then connected with that was the we all belong chain. Another classroom activity that teachers prepared um and and our uh building inclusion team prepared to get students involved and working together. Again, the prompts were, you know, how can we make others feel like they belong or how can we be kind to others and students were able to participate by sharing their ideas. Uh, this is also partly in
008connection with some of our other anti-bullying work such as our speakup protocol that we do shortly after winter break. Um, but this was just again one piece of inclusion week and a way to get every single student in the building involved. All right. So, we have some slides next from our ability awareness day where teachers could sign up and bring their classroom and we had six different stations where students could rotate through and just learn about different um disabilities and differences. So, our first station was um for students with visual differences. So, students explored some different texts um written in Braille. They learned the braille alphabet and they also did a timed reading challenge where they had to read a text that was like a 12point font, a fourpoint font, and a 72 point font
009and then compare notes on it. Uh we also had a hearing differences station where students learned different American sign language signs. They also listened to a video which simulated hearing loss to see what that sounded like and they got a fun ASL um symbol swag to take home. Oh, sorry. And then our third station was physical differences and adapted sports. So, um kind of to go along with our fifth grade winter Olympics curriculum, um students learned about um some special Olympic activities and the U of M rugby um wheelchair event that was happening in the community that our school was invited to attend. Um and just practice some different jumps and talked about like how that might impact them. So, at this station, students were shown some different tools that students might use if they
010have some sensory um challenges. So, their favorite was the little like you can see the one student with the blue kind of like cuddle um like cover that is on. There's like a weighted vest. There was a bunch of different fidgets at this station. Um this was a fan favorite. The kids loved this one. at the next station. Um, I was showing students different learning differences that kids might have and how we might accommodate those learning differences within the classroom. So, we used line guides. Um, I showed them like a typical home link that students might do and then showed them some organizational like supports that might be on the page that could help different students. We talked about learning differences. they had kind of connected that to the fact that everyone has learning differences
011and our brains are all different. And then at this station, um, we had students getting the chance to look at alternative communication systems. You'll see in this picture too, we had connecting students from the high school, um, come and they actually ran some of the stations and they were running this station. Um, they got to get familiar with like an AAC device. Um, and they did a great job just participating, being inclusive, sharing how they are leaders of inclusion at the high school um, with some of our students. >> So, at the end of the week, as Megan mentioned, we had a basketball game. Um, not to dive too deep into unified sports, but it's part of the Special Olympics of Michigan. Um we're on I think our fourth year of having sports at Heritage.
012Um we this year we've done uh soccer to start basketball. We just wrapped up and we're going to do track. So we're expanding it. It's a lot of fun. It's um been really unique. We have not had the opportunity until this event for our students to play in front of our students. So we were able to invite over 12 classrooms, which is roughly half of our school to come observe. It's all logistically we could squeeze into the gym. Um but we were able to set it up and um invite parents too. So we crammed everyone in. It was a huge logistical nightmare but um admin more than supportive. I mean everyone in the building pretty much participated in some way to make this happen and it was amazing. So we can kind of peek at
013some of the photos from this. Um we had two very special referees. Uh Mr. Cochran was one of them and Mr. Dan, our custodian. As I said, everyone pitched in. um helped referee the game. Uh we had 21 athletes on our team. Um the peer athletes who helped students who were on case load um applied. They had to fill out an application at the beginning of the year and indicate what their interests were. Um and we very carefully select those who have a natural inclination to support others. And um this it was just really special. Um go to the next one. Just some more pictures. Um unfortunately we lost. It was it was a barn burner that went right down to the final final shot. Um, and I think what I was most impressed with
014was our student peers that came and watched were so kind and supportive and cheered on and it was a really authentic and unique experience and a lot of the kids who participate in this team may never have a chance to play organized sports especially not in front of a crowd like that. Um, so it was just a really great event. Um, I think there's maybe one more. Oh, we had pizza at the end. So, we were able to fund pizza through our snack cart. Um, we had run a snack cart at Heritage in years past and um were able to have enough funds and um Cottage actually cut us a really great deal and so we were able to also feed Dexter at the end and kind of come together and it was really cool
015to see Dexter and Selene, they all kind of uh intermingled and became friends. So overall, it's great and thank you to the district for allowing us to do something like this because like I said, it's it's a logistical lift and everyone pitched in and did their part. >> And I'll just say in that last slide too, one of the things that I think we were most proud of um is just the collaboration that went into all of this. And um it was pretty special when we put out the opportunity to make signs for all of the athletes um that we even made signs for our friends from Dexter. And so each of those athletes left with a little um celebratory poster um certificates, things like that just to um you know bring it all together
016in the end. Um and so and then our final picture is just we just celebrating all of our students and um it was a great experience and inclusion week was such a special event. This is the first This is the first year that we've done an entire week at this magnitude and our staff really we could not do it without them. These three um organized it and just kind of put it all together for everybody to enjoy which is great. Um next up I do want to introduce our UNO Queen and Mr. B Mr. Burnham and then three of our awesome Heritage fifth graders to come up next and show you a little bit more about what happens at Heritage. Who knows game? Beat the Uno Queen. >> I got that. >> Hi, my name
017is Wells and I think Uno Club is amazing. One reason I like Uno Club is because you meet new people. I met my best friend Anthony at Uno Club and now we play at recess a lot. You can you also learn new rules that you can use with your family such as the six seven rule, stacking and normal uno. Another example is that guest teachers come in every Monday and I got to meet so many teachers I never even knew existed. So, as you can see, I think UNO club is amazing and I think you should, too. Um, hi, my name is Sophia. I joined the UNO club shortly after arriving in the United States. English was not my first language and I struggled to speak it. How h however having to talk with people
018who didn't speak Spanish gave me I'm sorry. It gave me the opportunity to practice and improve my fluency and also meet new friends. Mrs. Shamburgger always made sure that no one felt left out. She always reminds me >> include anyone who doesn't have a group to play with. >> Um, okay. I think the Uno Club isn't just about having fun. It's also about making sure everyone feels included and part of a happy community. >> Hi, my name is Regina and Uno Club helps me make friends by when we play, we have to talk to new people. So, I make friends there and that's where I got to know Sophia better and now we're besties. Back in fourth grade, I was new and I had no friends. But I made a group of friends that spoke
019the same language as me. And that's how I felt more included and happy in Uno Club. >> Hi, I'm Kathy Shamburgger aka the Uno Queen. >> Hi, I am Ryan Burnham, fifth grade teacher and known as Draw for Burnham. And we started um Uno Club at Heritage. This is our third year. And um I started it because I felt like I wanted to have fun with students. And then um and then I started playing and I got Ryan to join in. >> I joined because I love Uno and I like also being very competitive with the students. >> It's a good time. But it's been a good opportunity for them to put down their screens and interact with each other, play with their friends, and make new friends. We start um all of our UNO
020club um days off with talking about um what what do we what do we do first? We make sure that everybody has someone to play with. What does it look when somebody's looking for somebody to play with? And um then we discussed the rules and uh some of the kids like to play draw you know stacking >> stacking six seven rule new this year that we all but uh it's been a great experience to to include everyone and um and just have a lot of fun while the kids have fun too. Yeah, it's been a great place just to like I don't know just be a part of a community like a small thing that I can just hang out and with awesome kids whether they're you know coming to the United States or have
021been here their whole lives or just whoever it's just a very like welcoming environment and these are great these are three awesome examples of what the whole group is about right we have about 30 of us who are just we're here to play and have fun and whether it's with our best friends or someone we've literally never seen before it's just nice to have come together with a group of students that are young and just can be friendly and be awesome and have a good time. So, >> and practice those social skills. We usually get about 50 students who sign up and um throughout the uh semester we'll have those that can't come because of other sports or uh commitments that come up. And so that makes the um the groups um much smaller and
022not much. I mean, there's still like 33 kids, but it's um it's just it's just a lot of fun. >> Yeah. It's also I think one thing that I really like is having guest like teachers come in or celebrities as we call them. And I know I think one of the pictures up there is of some of our SEAL staff, you know, with those those giant cards and and they just I mean they're so bought in and I think the kids really enjoy it, too, whether it's their teacher or a teacher they've never even seen in the building before. So it's such a good inclusive environment just for everyone to come together and >> just play a simple game, right, that everybody can understand and play. >> And the students get not only build relationships
023with each other, but with also the staff. And so we take those pictures of the staff and we make sure that they're in the the student announcements, one um to kind of create some excitement, but also two so that they remember because sometimes they just go into uh forcef habit and they leave and they get on the bus and then we get these phone calls. Oh, oh, it's so forgot. Or I get an email, they forgot and I got on the bus. So, um Oh, it's a good time. It's really good time. So, >> with that, >> thank you very much for your time. >> Thank you. Can you um can we get a picture together over here by the >> picture? Ready everybody? Okay, now we're going to move on to the administrative and
024board committee updates, superintendent updates. >> Thank you so much and thank you all the heritage folks here tonight joining us. Um, as we begin tonight though, I want to share this is a very exciting time of year in Seleneria schools and spring brings many of opportunities um and lots of incredible things as we just saw. But I do um want to share some of those things, but I would not feel right about doing that until we acknowledge um that we've lost an educator in our community. So Steve Garlic um we lost Steve last week. Steve served this Lane area schools community in a number of roles including his in the SWWC. He was a familiar and loved presence in our school community, often at school events, supporting multiple games and many students, always showing up
025for them. And so we continue to hold his family and our and our colleagues across the district in our thoughts. This morning though, um at 10 a.m. we officially launched our updated programming information for Selenary School's early childhood programs. And so those are posted and available on our website. Um, as I've talked about from this table before, we continue to strengthen and expand support for uh expand those programs for our families and our youngest learners, little hornets. We know and our team knows and our educators and teachers know that these experiences make a big difference. We know that research shows when children have access to strong preschool and early childhood pipeline programs, they build all of the skills that we need them to have and as a foundation for kindergarten. So, just a couple things.
026We've been very intentional about what the experience that we've launched this morning looks like. Um, you can get all kinds of information directly from our website. It links you to exactly where you need to go um with contact information if you have questions. Um, we we had a commitment and we've shared that before to listening to families, staff, and community partners about expanding access and refining those pathways. So, you can find those offerings listed. You'll see increased availability for tuition free options for four-year-olds. Um, as well as continued programming for our three-year-old learners and still some tuition based programs. Investing in our youngest learners continues to be and I will talk about it every chance I get up here um as something that we're really focused on in Selen area schools to serve um our
027district for generations to come. I wanted to acknowledge again Selen High School uh students in the music program. Just phenomenal stuff happening there as um as always. Uh recently several students participated in the MSBA State Soul and Ensemble event. Uh very very competitive event and there's like,00 um ensembles and thousands of soloists that apparently all get together and continue to participate from the state. Um and we had many students who uh stood out at that event and and the list I think was 26 when I counted. So, I'm not going to read all those names, but um just wanted to thank them. Incredibly proud of them for continuing all the great work. And if you get a chance, I know there was a couple of elementary concerts tonight, but if you get a chance to
028go at any of our um great uh music f, you know, music events, always a great time. Uh I want to take a moment also to talk about a couple of uh celebrations and things to keep on your to note the date for. Um, I encourage you to save the date for Tuesday, May 5th. Um, at 400 PM to I think around is 7. We'll be working with our partners, the Seleneria Senior Center for their public ribbon cutting grand opening and all of the wonderful projects um that they're going to be launching and enjoying um in that in that building in this in the middle school. This is a wonderful example of how we've worked together in all stages of life from early childhood to our um bond projects at our senior center. tonight as
029we have I believe one bigger item and Mr. Puffer is here to share that. Congratulations to all of our CARES grant recipients. Um really shout out to a couple newer grants that I saw on there. Um and just another example of how uh that continues to impact our community beyond the walls of Selen Area schools and our buildings. Uh and so it benefits the entire community and so looking forward to that tonight. Um, you also may see tonight um that we you also may see and hear from um our board members at the table that we had a finance meeting a little while ago and uh a couple hours ago and so I know that they'll be sharing next steps on the car's renewal um of that millillage uh continuing to support and benefit the
030entire sling community. So speaking of things we're highlighting that some great work that we've been done. I did want to also share that um we are hosting the design for learning summit summit um on April I think 24th this is an opportunity to highlight our steam center which was made possible of course by the investment of our community through bond initiatives we're going to be hosting this summit um it really brings together a wide range of participants so there's going to be some of my colleagues there superintendents from across the state ISD partners curriculum leaders and CTE staff so CT is a big focus as well um The entire day is focused on um how we design learning spaces and experiences and really just showing off our steam center to colleagues. Um and also just
031a little shout out that um some of my students um will actually be joining that day um in so I'm excited to show off selenary schools to them. And we also have represent representation of course from our own team. The amazing Cara Stemer and Trent Trout are co-presenting with the sessions um alongside other local district staff. And so another way we continue to highlight the great work that that students but also adults are doing um to support steam in our our district. Uh I also want to shout out Selene Singularity. Uh this was a while ago just after our last board meeting believe um we had the on the first Saturday of spring break um we had a big robotics competition there. They actually invited me to open it which is like really exciting um
032because I just think some of the work that's being done there in those robotic spaces with collaboration really across the state are really powerful. So and that stood out to me. Uh thank you to the Selen Middle School Science Olympiad team for inviting me to their end of season celebration. Just a really nice um chance to to hear kind of like them relive some of those competitions from throughout the year. you know those like moments where like I think the bus broke down one time. I don't think they talked about that. That was I added that. But um they you know just all of those challenges and the resilience that they had to overcome. So it's really nice to to see them and meet parents and see all the great work happening there. um had
033the opportunity to attend also the Selen Chamber of Commerce, state of the county legislative lunch last week and it was a nice opportunity to connect with people um from across the county and the deeper connections of education and services across the county. And um also speaking of the chamber, I would be remiss if I didn't congratulate Tim Austin for a citizen of the year award um through the chamber and I had to say I thought about taking out but congratulations on that. That was really exciting. But also wanted to shout out Clay and Code. They are doing a great event for us. It's called Sculpt the Future of SAS. It filled up. I Jackie, you clarified I could say this in two days. It filled up. So I'm sure everyone's excited to hear that. I
034would be looking of course to maybe maybe we'll do another one. Who knows? Uh but that filled up. It's at the end of April and I'm just really looking forward to having a unique experience. Uh folks will make something and then also be able to contribute to our strategic plan. Uh we are continuing to lift up the many voices of our district in that work. And so this is a busy season. I want to point out that last week was assistant principal week. So sir Cochran's already left, but we have a number of assistant principles in our district who um contribute to the daily work of our students. And of course we know Mayber will provide opportunities to celebrate staff, teachers, and principles um because that just goes day after day of all those celebrations.
035So uh thank you for allowing me to share some of these updates tonight. Thank you. Um, our student representative Jillian Hayes is not here, but she did um, send me something along to say and um, so on behalf of her, the juniors are in their biggest uh, test week. So, a reminder to eat good food, get good sleep, and try their best and don't overthink it. Um, I guess they had their SATs today. >> They did. >> Okay. So, um, and then I guess I'll just go into my updates. um circle of excellence reception will be um held on April 23rd at 5:30 in Travis Point as well as the chamber also is having their May 8th on May 8th uh the chamber will have women in business um spring event at the EHM professional
036building and you can go to the chamber um websites www.sleenchamber.org. We also as a board were invited to tour the Selen Middle School work, the bond work that's being done there. Um the senior center, cosmetology, science olympiad space, robotic space, girls that code. Um just a ton of work going on there. Um renovating the old um uh garage and everything else. So that was really impressive. So that was nice. Thanks. Uh uh just a quick update for the policy committee. Uh but we are um uh narrowing down some days to meet and continue uh that extraordinarily important work uh and trying to uh uh get through that as diligently as possible. Um and just a reminder to all of our young drivers and all drivers that it is uh distracted driving awareness month. So, something
037to keep in mind when with all of our new drivers and I know a couple of my neighbors are starting driver's ed this year, so I feel old. Uh, but uh just a reminder to everybody to uh drive safely. Give you an update on our athletic committee meeting that we had this morning. It was our second meeting and we have our own version of UNO club that we have been participating in. So for the our very first meeting, we did um a card game that focused on some teamwork and creativity and we logged and got some feedback of what the performance was on that first meeting. And so our second meeting, I kind of applied the four two of the four C's from the Selen Compass, particularly with communication and uh creativity. And so what
038we played this exact same game again, but we had a little better communication. and we set the whole thing up and our performance across the board for everybody improved over 150%. So it was a really good exercise and how to work together and get to build relationships with everybody involved. And that was kind of the theme of our second meeting today is I feel like uh we really kind of broke through kind of that initial getting to know everybody. So, the first items we talked about the student handbook and revision updates, but what I was impressed with was athletic director Ashley Mantha is that she was going to leverage off of not just having a policy, but why we have certain policies so you get a little bit more buy in there. Uh, assistant superintendent
039gave us an update on the structure of the athletics and the communicate community education. We continue to work on that uh structure. The third item was the athletics round table and we kind of decided this might be a consistent theme that we'll have for most meetings. It was a very open-ended opportunity for everybody to just discuss how things are going. Particularly the word that came up today was the culture and how do we continue to build the culture of Selen athletics which is obviously at the top of the list on many that you see. Uh then we talked about uh assistant dire or assistant athletic director Pike and Matt and Ashley continued to discuss the long-term planning and some of the maintenance issues that we're going to face. So it was just a very productive
040meeting. I feel like we're getting a lot of buyin from all the stakeholders and look forward to working with our next meeting. >> Sure, happy to. Uh on March 26, I gave a talk at the Selen Area Senior Center about AI in schools, uh K12 schools. And I just want to share that the attendees wanted to recognize and appreciate that our teachers are doing an admirable job of meeting the challenges of this new technology. And uh I just want to echo their comments that we we're doing a remarkable job. On April 7th, I had the honor of attending the doctoral defense uh for uh high school principal Theresa Stagger. Uh I've served on a lot of dissertation committees and I can state without hesitation she did a remarkable job. Uh her work on communities of
041practice and professional learning communities will really provide some guidance to schools everywhere uh to improve their professional development strategy. So congratulations of course to Dr. Stagger. Um today the finance committee met to discuss uh insights gleaned from the 2024 2025 bulletin 1014 that the state puts out. It compares and ranks spending uh among districts and among the 850 plus or odd uh districts and um it we're still digesting that one. We also discussed the as as as Dr. Kowalsski mentioned the renewal of the CARES and sinking millages and the language for that is going to come to the board for approval in the next two weeks. So at the next board meeting looking forward to that. And finally, uh, we touched on school of choice and received a count day update from superintendent and the
042assistant superintendent for finance. And the numbers are looking rosy. I won't give you the the exact details right now, but they are looking rosy indeed for this district. Over to the next person. >> Thank you. Um, so we will hear from Brian Puffer soon on the CARES grants. Uh, so we will finalize those in a few minutes. Uh we had our first meeting for the strategic planning committee. Uh we've discussed the process. We reviewed the work that we have already done which included a lot of stakeholder involvement. Uh we examined some strategic plans from other districts and we identified priorities for our particular district. Uh in the near future we'll be collaborating with district leadership groups including the SEA which is informally the teachers union. uh SASAA, the admin association, and ESP, the educational support
043personnel. So, we're looking forward to that work. Uh I wanted to give a shout out to the SMS robotics team, Hornet Hackers. They had a field trip to DTW uh with Delta uh and it was an opportunity for them to sort of see what their what their future looks like with uh technology. Uh it was a three-hour tour. It was very engaging and we were very appreciative and I was glad that I got that opportunity. So, thank you. I did also want to say uh kudos to uh Heritage for their inclusion week. I know that it was an intentional week and I appreciate it. they shared uh the interactive stations. Um because while you might walk through your day with kids who have who are deaf of heart or hearing, who have vision um differences
044or who use talkers, getting that exposure to what they have to do to communicate um gives them insight into uh the struggles that they go through in addition to being everyday students. uh and you can see even from the UNO club presentation afterwards how that work is carried through on a regular basis. So it's an intentional week, but I see that they work hard to do that uh every day of the school year. Uh and then I did just want to say um sending well wishes to Steve Garlic. I had the opportunity to work with him at the high school for a few months. Uh, and he was a riot every time I saw him and I know that he was a ray of sunshine for the high school staff and that he will be
045missed. Um, just to build off Nate a little bit, we had two meetings together this morning. So, we did our foundation for Selen Area schools at 7:30 and then did um the athletic committee meeting at 9:00. um totally agree with everything that that he said. Uh had no idea he was such a maestro of leadership uh interactive exercises these past couple of meetings. So that was fun. Um but just the feeling I think of the meeting and discussion of culture and positive experiences for uh student athletes and their families and their coaches um and the importance of academics. So I appreciated that as well. Um, the whole meeting was such a good feeling and I think we're we're getting some really nice positive momentum and we look forward to welcoming them to a future board
046meeting so you all can hear what they're up to because I'm I'm really impressed. So that was great. Um, with regards to the foundation for Selen Area Schools, we're getting ready for Stacy Rumps's last day. Um, she'll be leaving us at the end of our fiscal year and academic year in um, June. And so look for new information coming up about the future of the foundation. Um two new trustees will roll on in June also while she rolls off. Um and it was a really nice discussion around our hall of fame recipients. So you might know that in the fall we have a wonderful reception for them usually on Friday night and then I'm sorry uh we have a reception for them. I believe that's Saturday night and then we uh exhibit them at the
047game on Friday and and um and sing their praises. And what I really liked about that conversation was how much it means to the Hall of Fame recipients to get that honor from the foundation. Um and that these are people that care very very deeply about our school district and have given back whether through volunteerism or teaching or excellent um alumni who have gone to do really big things. Um, so that was really nice to hear about. Um, and I'm looking forward to joining Rachel at her very first superintendent supper on Monday. Um, superintendent circle supper. So that will be great. Um, right before spring break, I attended the DEIAC meeting. Um, they had a guest uh, they had two guests from the youth Seline Youth Council and you all might have received that email
048as well. there's a cookoff on May 9th and they want to know if the board of education would like to participate. Um the DEIAC did take them up on their offer and they will be um doing that cookoff with them. So you can get more information from the Selen Youth Council. Um we reviewed data from the survey that we participated or I should say they participated and I observed in from the last meeting. Um ranking kind of top objectives in the critical areas for the committee. Um those critical areas just for your information are structure systems policies and practice of diversity, equity, inclusion. Number two safety, healing and empowerment. Number three, recruitment, hiring, development, and retention. Number four, DEI, learning, curriculum, and assessment. And objective number five, community partnerships and communication. Um to that last
049and particularly they also discussed how they could partner a little bit more with um committees of the board of education or within the city or townships and community and specifically identified um our sexed um uh sexed board and and the SEAK um to kind of work with those two groups coming up. So that was really nice to see. Um that's it for me. Okay, thank you for all the updates. Uh, we'll move on to the action item. Can I have a recommended motion to approve the the round two distribution of CARES discretionary funds in the amount of $28,64 as recommended by CARES Advisory Council and submitted by Brian Puffer, director of community education. The breakdown is as follows. Family Friday food, Selene Alt High School, Alternative High School, $2,6606. Robotic Advances, Selene Heritage First Lego
050League for $3,68. Little free library city of Selen ACC GS Troop 40180 for $1,739.70. Selen adaptive manufacturing equipment lab education lab uh Selen STEM boosters for $15,000 and pole vault pitmats for Meline Middle School track and field for $6,129.70. >> I'm happy to make that motion. >> Support McVy. Okay. Thank you. Uh, as you can see in front of you, we had nine grants submitted for $62,63128. Five of those grants were fully or partially approved. Um, totaling 28,64, which was the remainder of our balance, fund balance left for this year for the CARES grants. Um, you can see there are four grants that were not voted on. That's why they have zeros there. And those grants will be submitted for round one in the 2728 year. If the organization wants to submit and just a
051quick review how we decide which grants we vote on first, we have our meeting, we ask questions, then all the board members have to vote one to 10, one most likely to approve to number 10. That average sets how we um vote on the grants. So that's that's that process there. Um, also for the five grants, we're first-time award recipients. So, that was really neat to see on there as well. Um, and then basically that will conclude, if these are approved tonight, they'll conclude our CARES grant process for this year and then we'll open up again for next year. Um, those grants will that whole schedule will be available by July 1st for the following year. >> Any questions for Brian? Uh uh just one thing uh to point out in case we need to
052uh correct it in the agenda. The robotics uh grant is missing 60 cents from the agenda as as read and printed. >> I I think they just fully funded at 15, didn't they? >> No. No. Uh no. I'm saying uh >> the first leg >> I'm saying on the agenda, I think we have the incorrect value. Okay. Any other questions? >> Hi. Um, how much for next fiscal year do you anticipate the total um volume being for the the >> the amount? Yeah, >> it'll be just be just about 100,000. >> Okay. Thank you. >> For future planning for our friends listening and thinking about this for next year. Okay. Thanks. >> Definitely. >> I thought it was nice to see the number of grants. >> Yeah. >> Sometimes >> this year we think we
053had the most grants for the first three rounds we've had pre-COVID. It was really nice to see and a lot of different ones too. So yes, that was nice. >> No other questions? All in favor? >> I opposed hearing none. Motion carries 70. Thank you, Brian. >> Thank you. Okay. Can I have a recommended motion to authorize the consent? Well, I guess I'll read this first. Uh, the consent agenda is listed on the agenda and will not be read aloud. The motion noted will allow for the authorization of all listed items without discussion unless a member of the board requests that anyone or all be considered individually. Can I recommend a motion to approve the consent agenda as printed? >> So move stubbin. support Hansen. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed hearing none.
054Motion carries 70. Um items scheduled on the next agenda. >> Right now we have a presentation scheduled um from our teaching and learning and pathways. Um some changes we'll be making to the ed program. And then of course we'll be bringing you the resolution for the uh CARES renewal. >> Thanks. Um last uh public comra member of the public may address the board briefly for up to three minutes or request to be scheduled on the agenda for future meeting and we don't have any. Uh, the next board of education meeting will be held on April 28th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. Can I recommend a motion to adjourn the regular board of education meeting April 14th, 2026 at 7:16 p.m. >> Motion Ties >> support Berwick. >> All in favor? >> I opposed hearing none. Motion
055carries 70. Thank you.