Saline Area Schools: Board of Education Meeting (05.27.2025)

001right here. Good. How's it going? Guess what? Good evening, friends. I'd like to call to order the board of education meeting for May 27th, 2025. Uh so standing as you are able please uh we will begin with the pledge of allegiance led by none other than Rick Visil. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationy for all. Thank you very much. I even had the camera set on you. Thank you, sir. There you go. Little momento. Um, there would have been a superintendent's recognition, but our uh one student cannot make it this evening and the other student is going to be coming in late from uh uh uh coaching tennis. So, when Tommy gets here a bit later in the evening, we'll move

002this to number six. Um, I'd like to pass the microphone over to Superintendent Steven Lunch. I'm retiring. Well, someone's retiring. Who's running this show? I I think we're calling Carol up to um talk about retirees. I can't do I'm retire. Well, you can do everyone but you. I'm retired. You're retiring me out, man. Good evening. Um, thank you so much for allowing me to come up tonight and excuse me, honor our retirees for the class of 2025. Um, on behalf of Selen Area Schools and the board of education, it is my absolute privilege and honor to give a u warm and heartfelt thank you to the Selen Area Schools class of 2025 retirees. Um unless you are in education and you do the work that we do or you sit at the board table every

003other week, it is really difficult to understand the amount of teamwork that is required by a number of departments with diverse expertise required um and needed every day to successfully run a school district. We operate like a small city and I say that all the time and we rely on each other um in order to run like a welloiled machine so that we honor all students at the magnitude and success that the Selen area schools can provide. It is about the people who collectively make up a learning community that is safe and clean and nurturing and provides nutrition and is rigorous and engaging. um one that has state-of-the-art facilities, one that is diverse and supportive. Uh it's really important to be inviting every single day, and it's important to be organized and inclusive to make

004every student a priority so that we can reach um so they can reach their individual potential. Without a collective effort, it is impossible to do our jobs. In tonight's group, we honor 17 retirees for a combined 412 years of experience and you'll often hear me say institutional knowledge. It is their unwavering commitment to education and students that has allowed the Selen Area Schools to be a destination district for kids and families, but also for employees. Thank you to their dedication for their years of service. We're super fortunate to have many of the Selen Area School retirees share their parting thoughts and words of wisdom and the slideshow that Jackie Martin has put together and that will um continue to play through and if I remember right Jackie will put it up on the website so

005that people can see it throughout the summer. Um, last spring, uh, Miss Martin worked with the high school writing center to create a poem titled A New Beginning, um, which has become our new tradition starting last year in 2024. So, reading the poem this evening is Cara Davis, executive director of teaching and learning, and I'll invite her to the podium. Yep. I'll add that. Yep. Thank you. And thank you again to all of our retirees. As a veteran teacher and colleague in this district for over 27 years now, I feel very proud to be able to send you off with this poem. So, thank you all. A new beginning by students at the SHS writing center. In halls where wisdom's whispers flow through every space and every row, you've sewn the seeds of ideas and

006light and foster dreams to take flight. With gentle hands and a heart so wide, you've been a beacon, been a guide through seasons changes in years that flew. In all you've taught, they carry you through new visions, creations, and designs. The stories told, the shared times, each activity planned with care so true. Each student noticed all you do. You've walked these halls with grace and might. Turn timid minds to soaring flight. With patience, love, and steadfast cheer, you've shaped futures year by year. Now, as you close this chapter's page and step onto a freer stage, may joy and peace your days fulfill with memories sweet and moments still. Though you depart from this old place, your legacy it leaves a trace in every light, in every heart, a timeless, cherished, wondrous part. So, thank you

007colleagues for all you've done, for battles fought and victories won. May your new journey be as bright as all of the minds you've set a light. Thank [Applause] you. So, why is Miss Davis reading that, you ask? Because you will all get a framed poem. Um, and what I'd like to do after I thank a few people, um, is call up the retirees that are in the audience today and have them come up. You're going to stop by the table in the back, grab your poem, framed poem and a rose, and come on up front to be honored. And then once everybody's up here, then we'll take a picture with the board of education. So that can go out as well. But it is really important as I mentioned earlier we are a welloiled machine

008and and we start working on this early. Um but thanks to the HR team um the coordinators that work behind the scenes um thank you to Betty who works tiredly tiredlessly to help us with all this and Jackie and um for uh the SWWC food um group that came tonight. And it was interesting. All of the gentlemen that came with Danielle were all hot food um students. And so that was mostly cold food, but they came to prep the hot food. And I was asking what they preferred and and so that was interesting. So, thank you for all of the folks that helped this evening. But really, most importantly, thank you to our 11 retirees that are here this evening and all of our retirees that dedicated over 412 years of their lives um toward

009students and and making our community better and and um helping kids fulfill their dreams and and what they want to do. So, I will start with Nate Bush. Nate um taught industrial technology for 24 years. So Nate, if you want to stop by the back table, Betty will give you your frame and your rose and you'll come up front. Laura Washington is going to be the rose wrangler. Yes, Laura, thank you for wrangling roses. Try and say that 12 times. Wrangling roses. Christy Kundiff, special ed teacher for 23 years in the district. And I also want to thank all of the um uh spouses and partners and and uh students, kids of teachers that came this evening. That really means a lot. Trish Far, special education teacher for 23 years. Mary Howie Visel, special population

010coordinator for SWWC, 19 years. Jeffrey Kazee, high school social studies teacher, 20 years, which I just learned uh Jeff's taken a gap year before going back to school. I didn't know gap years are for us. I I have to remember that. So, thank you, Jeff, for teaching teaching me that. Steve Lotch, district superintendent, 28 years. Nate Lampman, high school band director, 28 years. Sue Fan Lynn, director of Pooh Corner, one of my favorite names of a program. Pooh Corner for 19 years. Carol Meltchure, principal of Alternative High School, 37 years. And Carol made it back last week for graduation, so we appreciate seeing her in the building last last week as well. Kimberly Mun speak speech and language 26 years. And then Deb Palmer, PAR educator, three years. Deb had worked in another district and

011she does much more um including par educator. We see her morning, noon, and night. She works games. She's in the buildings. and Deb Palmer has retired um from Seline with three years. If there's anyone else in the audience that was able to come and didn't RSVP, let us know because we'd love to honor you. I'm going to pause, make sure we're not missing anybody. And then again, with all of you here, we'll we're going to take a picture with um the board of education. Jackie will will work her magic. We just want to thank you all for everything you've done over the last 412 years and the significant the significant impact which we'll never know as educators the the imprint you we all have on students and and the we we'll never know how much

012we impact them and help them um figure out what they want to do when they grow up. So, thank you for everything you've done and we'll take a moment to get some pictures. Thank you. We're ready to get back. Are we okay, Ben? Great. Not yet. Because there is no public comment this evening, we're going to scoot right down to number six, a response to previous public comment. And actually, I would like to take a few moments for my own little commentary. Each year around this time, the Michigan Association of School Boards, the MASB, acknowledges milestones in training and additional service for our trustees. This year, on behalf of the MASB, I would like to present two pins. Count them two. Trustee Tim Austin has earned a pin uh the award of merit. what uh

013to uh reflect the completion of the 100 level CBA trainings and an additional 45 hours of credit. He didn't even know you earned it. Congratulations. Good job. And in addition, Vice President Jennifer Stein received the master board member award. This award reflects completion of nine advanced level credit courses and a minimum of 368 credits of service. So, congratulations, Jennifer. Well done. Is this for you? Thank you, sir. I love the golf clap. Thank you. Sure. And in addition, there's one more award to announce and that goes to board president McVey who received a new specialty award for community relations. Congratulations. Well, thank you very much. Do I get a pin, too? You do. You You get a pin as well. Thank you. It's always a lot of fun. And our new board members, uh, at

014the end of this year, if you've completed your 100 levels, uh, you will be eligible for your board member pin and possibly even an award of merit. Ask him how to get his. I don't think he's quite sure yet. Okay. I think it was for the interrator reliability and the superintendent thing that you did and all your other showing, just showing up. Excellent. Thank you. Uh, I'd like to uh uh entertain a motion to approve the agenda as printed. Uh, so moves stubbin. Darcy Berwick is seconding it. All in favor, please say I. I. I. Opposed? Then we have ourselves a 70 agenda. Thank you so much. We have action items. Uh, four of them right now. I' I'd like to first of all entertain a motion to approve the resolution in which which designates

015Michael McVey as a representative of this board to cast a vote for three candidates to vacancies on the board of Washington Intermediate School District on June 2nd. They are as follows. Um and we will fill in those names as we go along. Do I have a motion? So move stubbin support to the thank you JT. Now um at this point there is one number three at the bottom is uh there's only one candidate as you all read in your packet Dorcas Musili uh and so she would be by acclamation but we still have to cast that vote. So that leaves two remaining spots. Uh we have Mary Jane Tramanton, Diane Hockett and Eric Roberts or Eric John Roberts. And uh we I'd like to start the discussion on which names we or how we'd like

016to vote uh for these. I just personally I am going to support the two incumbents, Mary Jane Tremonton and Diane Hawkett and just leave it at that. Whoops. Comments from any other board members? Tim, that that's who I had uh marked on mine, too. I'm not actually taking a vote right now, but we are uh we are going to be Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I would just um in future iterations, it'd be nice if uh I saw that one of the candidates um included a little bit Diane included a little bit more information. It would be great on their bios if they could include just a little bit more for future discussion items. I mean, we could Google and do other things, of course, but um I thought Diane including some of the

017very helpful things that she did help me want to support her. So, it sounds like you're supportive of Diane Hawket at this point. So, so at a certain point, I'm listening for other names uh before we have to uh put this to a vote. Um, at this point I'm hearing only Mary Jane's name and Diane Hawett's name, and that counts for the two candidates, unless somebody wants to argue vehemently for one of the other one of the three that I haven't mentioned yet, please do so. Red. Um, I I will say that I my support does favor with those two individuals as well, but I do want to recognize the fact that Eric did come and visit us, the fact that Eric did spend time with us. He did send us a number of items.

018Um, I think Eric would would do a really good job. It's just I'll be honest with you, like if there are two individuals who have just done a really good job and I don't find any reason to not continue to to support their candidacy going forward. So, I think he just got caught in a really good pool, too, right, of of candidates and what have you. But I wanted to say how much I appreciated um his enthusiasm and his, you know, putting himself out there. I get that and I appreciate that. Thank you. But to be clear, I would stay the course. All right. Well, here's what I'd like to recommend then, unless I hear from others. Uh I'd like to enter this is for Betty's uh three names. Mary Jane Tramanton, uh Diane Hockett

019for the second third year term, six year term, and Dorcas Musili for the um sorry hang for the uh for the two-year term and put it to a vote. Then all in favor, please say I. I. I. Opposed. Okay. Thank you very much. Uh and by the way, if the vote ends in a tie, I was informed about this. If the vote ends in a tie at WISD and Darcy, if you're there on my behalf, you should know this as well. Uh you are a free agent. Once you cast our vote uh for these people, that's the vote. But when it if it if it is a tie, then you are a free agent. You can vote uh your conscience or your heart or your liver, any part you'd like. Thank you so much. Uh

020I'd like to entertain a motion to Thank you very much, folks. Uh, I'd like to entertain a motion and Betty will take care of the rest of that to support uh the resolution authorizing the WISD to place the question of authorizing the millillage for career and technical education purposes on the November 4th, 2025 ballot. And I'll pass this over to Oh, first of all, before Steve comments, could I have a motion, please? So move. That's Tim Austin. Darcy Burwick, who's very quiet because her mic's not on. That's okay. Better keep it off the whole meeting. Hang on. Is it working now? Say something. Oh my god, it's working. Thank you, Steve. Yeah, I just wanted to talk a little bit more about the millillage proposal in that it is for the expansion of CTE programming

021across the county. Washington County, as many of you know, is one of the few counties in Michigan that doesn't have a tech center. And even though this millillage is not per se to go to build a tech center, it is to expand programming and we need to be, you know, more competitive as it relates to manufacturing jobs in Washington County and beyond. And we're ripe um to do that. There's a lot of momentum with career teched programming. It just so happens that we have the SWWC here tonight to talk to us on our annual update. But um you know there's a lot of passion around this area right now and we feel that the time is now to capitalize on that. Um Ryan Row has expanded in his role as career tech ed director in

022county has been doing a very uh good job of you know looking at expansion of programming especially on the east side of the county which we know there are um more opportunities needed for our students. So, um, and in addition, we have a career teched advisory committee working towards, um, um, the millillage proposal, and I plan to stay I'm on that, and I plan to stay on that even after I retire. I'm really passionate about, um, seeing this through. So, thank you. Is there any discussion from the board on this matter? Only a comment, enthusiastic support, and I'll see you at the poll. Similarly, super excited for this. Takes um a lot of people to make the world go round and we need every one of them and appreciate everyone's contribution to that. Brett, the

023one thing that I I I I enthusiastically support this as well um because I think it will increase availability of programs for students especially like across the county. I see this a little bit as like a an equity issue too for helping some of those areas where like there might not be as much reach or much availability for these programs. Like I think about where I teach in Manchester being in the, you know, more in the southwest corner and some of those kinds of things. So I think this would expand and grow some of those programs and it'll strengthen our programs here as well. But um so I just think that this is good for the entirety of the the county. Um, I'm mindful of our tax base and our taxpayers. And if I didn't

024think that this was a really good use of funds to support kids, then I wouldn't be as enthusiastic. But I I don't sound as enthusiastic as I should, but I am. I'm very much on board with this. And thank you. I did want to say I wasn't quite 100% convinced until Ryan Row spoke about this uh wash being a CTE desert of sorts and really great graphic of the rest of the state and uh was plunk in the middle of where an area where you should not have expected there to be a desert. So let's uh land this plane and take this vote. All in favor please say I. I oppose hearing none. Thank you so much. the we have supported the putting this on the ballot. I'd like to entertain a motion to approve

025the closed session minutes of May 13, 2025 for the purpose of collective bargaining 8C of the Open Meetings Act. I'll let Brad uh start this one off. Just looking for a motion. Done. Motion. We can read the close session minutes. I'll second it. Thanks, Tim. I was scanning the audience to see who might not know what we're doing quietly for a minute and a half. We're reading close session minutes that aren't available to the public. So, but this is probably not your first board meeting. So, okay. And with a motion from Gerby and a support from Austin. All in favor, please say I. I. I. Opposed. Great. We have a motion. Finally, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the MHSAA 2025 2026 membership resolution as submitted by Superintendent Lotch. is required to maintain

026membership for junior, high, middle, and senior high schools and must be formally adopted by the board of education. So move Steen go Hornets support. Thank you. Do we have any Steve? Did you want to comment on this or? Yeah, I just wanted to um you know, we sign off on this every year, but I did want to read the primary tenants of it just so everybody understands what we are signing off on. Um it talks about the board of education um governing body hereby delegates the superintendent uh the responsibility for the supervision and control of set activities and hereby accepts the constitution and bylaws of said association and adopts as its own rules, regulations and interpretations as published in the current handbook as the governing code under which the said school shall conduct its program

027of intercolastic athletics and agrees to primary enforcement of said rules, regulations. interpretations and qualifications. So that's in essence what we are signing off on and I just think it's important that we know that that's our um course of action each year. That's it. Any comments from the board, questions, queries? I have one little question. Sorry, Brad, did you have something? Um I just had a question on the dates. um because we're academic fiscal, but I didn't know if this needs to follow that. And I was wondering why it said August 5th. Um or I'm sorry, August 1st versus July 1st. I think it's because that's technically the start of the next sport athletic season which begins in August 1. They start, they say that's the beginning because there's sort of that dead period through July.

028And I believe that's why they're doing Yeah. Yeah. Dead week. Um, August 12th or 11th is back to But that makes sense because the official date back. Okay. Yeah. Officially it starts in August and then Gotcha. Okay. Thanks. Great. Unless there's anything else. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Great. Excellent. Thank you so much. We are now part of the MHSA. I'd like to introduce two fabulous people, Cara Stemer and Trent Trout, who will introduce themselves a little more thoroughly. And I think you brought an entourage with you. Yes. Okay. So, I'm going to start and then Trent will follow up um with a separate presentation. So, Okay, there you go. Thank you, Ben. All right, so thank you for having me. I'm Cara Stemer. I'm the director of the S SWWC.

029My second time presenting, but I thought I would just kind of backtrack and share a little bit about what the SWWC is since we have some new board members and in essence of the millillage. Um, I just thought it would be for anybody watching kind of what is the SWWC. In hindsight, after we've done all this research, I think we're all guilty as charged for not branding ourselves better, so people are aware of what CT is. Um, so that's kind of my personal push. So on the screen, um, rather small, but what the SWWC is, the South and West Consortium, we are made up of six school districts, Chelsea, Dexter, Manchester, Milin, Lincoln, and Seline. And um we accept 11th and 12th graders into our career and teched programs. So it's an applicationbased they're application

030based um students. We primarily go out and focus on the 10th grade students at all those districts and encourage them to apply. Um and again we're primarily working with 11th and 12th grade students. Roughly about 920 students are sitting in our CTE classes. We have programs at Dexter High School, Chelsea CTE Center, which is across the street from Chelsea High School, and then here in Seline. We also have our building trades program, which is offsite this year in Dexter. And then also our cosmetology program, which is across from Walmart on Michigan Avenue, and as you all are aware, it's moving to the middle school shortly. So, we're excited for that. So, that's um pretty much kind of an in essence what the SWWC is. It's small, but here are our 23 programs. 24 if you

031include work-based learning. Um, again, I tried to just highlight this. We had a new student and parent guardian familyformational uh webinar last week just again to kind of now the students are accepted into our programs. Our enrollment is is settled and we are just looking at how we can educate our students on what to expect. um because I call it I often call it controlled chaos with students moving between schools and some are on the bus, some are driving and what that looks like. So, our 23 programs, you can go ahead to the next one, Ben. Thanks. Um I'll pause there and just highlight some of our staff members. Um what an honor to be here and present on the night where a few of our important staff members are leaving us. So, seems like

032last year and this year we've had some um some retirees that that meant a lot. So, I've had the privilege of working with them as a marketing teacher um for you know since 2012 I was hired into that role and then to see them um leave and I'm charged with the of finding their um replacement. So, that's always that's been a challenge um just because they mean so much to our programs. But these are this uh the teachers that were hired last year, meaning this was their first full year. I say last summer. And then we also have a couple postings this year. All of our hireers, I want to say I feel are doing an exceptional job. Um they fit right in. I know we've talked about where do you find CTE teachers? Because

033you know, back in the day it was, you know what, let's cut CTE and it was all collegebound. Um, you're going to hear me say tonight that we shouldn't be um competing with AP classes and any other classes we should be complimenting. So many of our classes align with those students that are collegebound. And I have some data to show with uh to share with you. But anyway, um so our new programs or our um our new teachers I should say again fit right in and we see on there a couple um vacancies. Um Mary's being one. She was a special population coordin coordinator. That role specifically supports all six districts with uh breaking down barriers. So her role will be to support be supporting students um who speak a different language who might be

034have move be moving around because of military might have IEPs. That role is to go around and um support to make sure that they're successful in their CTE experience. And then we just recently hired Sam Hot to replace Nathan Bush for the video news production um and photography teacher. He was the career and teched technician in that role for two and a half uh two and a half years. So I feel like he um will step in. He knows the ins and outs of that program and has some background um within video news. So we're excited about that. And then Nicole Lapman also um is leaving us to go enjoy enjoy retirement with her husband Nate Lampman. Okay. So, I'm gonna This is our enrollment. Again, this is specific to Seline only. And I apologize

035that it's small, but basically um enrollment Seline specific enrollment for next school year. Um went down about a percentage. So, right now we have 438 students that have enrolled. Um I shouldn't say it went down. I'm sorry. It it it increased um went down last year and now it's it's increased. So, when we talk about the vocation mill, I'm just going to kind of tie it in. So our house just to put things in perspective we only have so many seats in our classes and we had to share those with six districts. So um when we look at health science specifically we had we have 40 seats between the two hours and we had over 85 applicants and so we're charged with who deserves to you know who do we give the that spot to

036in that seat and or in that class and it's it's hard. It's students want to know why they didn't get selected. Um and so if that m that mill when that millillage passes, especially after your discussion tonight, thank you. Um when that passes, I foresee us hiring another teacher, creating another lab, and then increasing enrollment um in that specific program because health science is one of the top five um industries that we see growth in. So that's important. Another weight list uh program is cosmetology. So that too um we share it with Ann Arbor but I know I just got a phone call from Ann Arbor CT director asking do we have extra space because they um have a need and we have a waiting list as well. So those two are just two examples

037of programs that have um a waiting list. Okay. So this kind of starts our recruitment strategy. So, how do we um you know, brand ourselves and make others aware of what CTE is and what the SWWC is specifically? So, this year we had our SWWC openhouse. We paired this with Selen's um openhouse for a try too and I thought it worked well. Um, you may have attended or have been made aware of our business showcase that we used to have and that was kind of intentional to to piggyback off COVID and the feedback from staff and staff specifically was that it almost became too commercialized and we didn't get students in classrooms to see the labs. They were more there for the businesses. And then when one business called and asked if they could sell

038memberships, I was like, "Okay, this isn't the purpose of this night." So, we need to rethink this. Um, and so we've kind of gone back to just a simple open house. Um, we had our CTE student council members, uh, providing, you know, guidance to families as they found their way around Selen High School and it I thought it was a phenomenal event. Feedback was good. We had all our off-site programs in the commons and it was a good uh it was a big point of pride for us this year. So that's one way kind that starts off the recruitment strategy. And then we also host the 10th graders. So on on January 10th, it was a snow day. So we had to put it into uh January, but uh we had all 10th graders from

039all six districts come to our to Selen High School. Once again, we had all programs there and students were um encouraged to select two programs to go visit. And again, ideally that happens before our open house so that they would bring family members back to then go and visit. But because of the snow day, we had to be flexible this year. But great turnout. Again, our CTE student council members members uh are hosts for that day and they walk around and share best practices. So, that's exciting, too. Uh all of this is piggybacked with um hashtaggethired. So, I'd be doing a disservice if I didn't mention Mary Viso's role in this. So, she this is kind of she created hashtaggethired. It's been a very meaningful event. So we have local business partners come and they

040pretty much they hire they teach students the skills of interviewing talk to them about what you know best practices are within their industries. So that was a fun event and then that in essence would tie into potentially getting work-based learning opportunities. So these students are looking for for work in those industries and this is a good start a good kickoff to that. So we'll go ahead and Yep. This is a slide. So, every year um the state of Michigan does a follow-up survey and we ask all of our seniors within six months of graduation to provide us data on what they're doing. How are they utilizing their skills that they learned in their CTE class? And I just I thought this piggybacked nicely with um with the hashtag hired. So if you can in the

041focus on the upper left corner of the quadrant where it says 96,000 students are enrolled in some type of work-based learning where they are becoming made aware of programs or industry. So guest speakers coming in field trips that's the highest number because that's probably the most accessible. Uh but then as you move to the right the numbers decrease and that's just because it gets more um you know a little more investment. there's more investment with time and and scheduling for students and so forth, but the goal would be to have that bottom left quadrant as high as the top left because that means they're having real thoughtful internship experiences. Um, so anyway, just 105 students are engaging in workbased learning. That's we need that in our industry. We need kids to get out there and

042utilize their skills that they learned in their in their CTE class. And then on this slide specifically um so when we look at the data that I'm speaking of this is found on the CTE Michigan website um 33,000 students roughly took the survey uh and when I say u what the feedback shows so 33 took the survey and this is when I say we're not competing we're complimenting and the the bottom left uh graph shows that 62% of those students are enrolled in college or a university. So once again, we are not, yes, we have traditional trades, but it's important to know that we have students that are collegebound. Um, that also is not the end- all beall. I mean, we have students that need to go into careers. I know I may be preaching

043to the choir, especially with what's going on in our economy right now. But, um, so it's important to know that because I think that is one stereotype that I continue trying to break down is just that we you you have many choices in CTE. And then another important piece uh is the 77% I always tell the students this when we have an our awards ceremony. 77% almost 78% of students say they are using the skills they learned in their year-long CTE class where they're at 6 months later. I think that's super super important. So I always tell the students never should you be sitting in your CTE class saying when am I going to use this? You will be using it when you go to work that day or when you graduate. And I think

044that's the power of [Music] CTE. Okay, next slide. All right, so again, just a um a little bit uh one of the requirements from the state of Michigan is that our career and teched programs when they're under Perkins uh five, which is a fun federal funding model, when you're under Perkins 5, you have to offer some type of credential to the students. And I tell them this is your competitive advantage. So, when you're sitting in a CTE class, you are you are being taught um a a certain skill set and then earning a credential to put on a resume to talk about during an interview. And that once again, if you're sitting, you know, in a row with candidates, that could be the thing that sets you apart is that you have that skill set.

045I will take a moment um and Trent Trout's going to follow up on this again. and he's done a phenomenal job. But um you know just with our automotive program, my my worlds collided when uh Justin Sly, our automotive teacher, it's a two-year program. Those students are walking away with our ASSE certification. So when I'm sitting in at the um at the car dealership in the service station and it says ASSE certified technicians on staff, like my world, it was just an epiphany, right? Like this is what our students are being set up to accomplish. They can leave school and go and work immediately in uh a service station. And I think that's phenomenal and that's the power of these credentials. So when you're under Perkins 4, a few of our programs are still under

046Perkins, I'm sorry, under Perkins 4 and when they move to Perkins 5, this is required by the state. So we have to be offering it. So that was the point of that slide. Thanks. And then of course you this is a lot um of what you hear in the in in the limelight if you will, our CTSOs, our career technical student organizations. So FFA, um, DECA, Skills USA, and I put pictures because I like to tell stories through pictures. And, um, 31,000, almost 32,000 students participated in one of these organizations. And I will tell you, just as a former DECA adviser, um, this is life-changing for students. If it's not traveling, if it's not getting their first um, professional outfit to wear during competition, again, I think it's just this is where they will tell

047their stories. I've had students write college essays about it. they find their success and their identity in these programs. So, thank you for supporting it because um and and hosting and honoring those students because they are very very prideful when they are um in those competitions. It's fun to watch them um succeed in those roles. And then lastly, just kind of to wrap up, um, again, I I want to re-emphasize or again that we are not competing with AP classes and all these other classes where I, you know, when a parent says, I we can't fit it in our schedule. Well, let's find a way we can. Um, and it starts with the counselors, it starts with career counselors, it starts with us out in the community talking about what this can do for you.

048And the the best is when you know I'm talking to a parent, they're like, "Oh, I didn't know that was a CTE class." Absolutely. It's a CTE class. And it's our job to do a better job of identifying that so they understand what career and tech is is and it looks different um traditional, non-traditional, all of the above. So, I'm going to pause there. Uh Trent was going to follow up with his specific because this is a huge uh um honor what he's going to share with you momentarily, but I can take questions if anyone has anything specifically about the SWWC before he talks about his um computer integrated manufacturing program. Jennifer and Brad. Um I have a couple and I I um so the first thing I I recalled going out to a Habitat

049for Humanity type um location with another trustee um a few years ago and I'm thinking about what we just voted on and this being on the ballot in November. So if there's an opportunity from now until November for trustees to get involved maybe highlight some of these programs again to your branding comment earlier and I won't get into that considering you used to teach marketing so I know what you're doing there. Um, but if there's any help that we can provide and kind of highlighting the the um the programming within the community by visiting, you know, the house that they were building in Ipsy that I got to go to or doing things at the high school or Dexter or Chelsea or anything else. I think that that would be a really good opportunity. I

050mean, in the health sciences class, I haven't done that yet. So, um, so think about ideas because we can kind of help um, support you in different ways up until November. Um I had one question about um speaking of marketing. So marketing and accounting are within the consortium and I I do agree with you that there is a little bit of a branding thing some work to be done there, right? Um especially if you want to increase enrollment and get get this rolling for the election. Why is it that um our business classes uh primarily sit within the high school? So like supply chain, personal finance, intro to business except accounting and marketing are sitting in the consortium. Why is there a separation? That's a great question. So we they're just not state approved. Not

051just not not a state approved career in teched. So the state only approves certain classes. Um so marketing and accounting are one of them. What we're finding specifically with accounting, the enrollment has struggled in that. So, as again a former business teacher, we have half the school going into business, but yet that's one of the smallest departments and you know, I it's just such a large umbrella and you know, if a student takes APEN, then they have a hard time taking a full year CTE class. So, again, it's it's what does that schedule look like? But to answer your your um question directly, it's just because marketing is a state certified program and we don't have those in all of those classes. Um and it it it takes money to you know like build a

052lab and again the vocational millillage would help that so that we can expand programming as well. Um but accounting specifically I had an epiphany this year when I was talking to the sup the princ the the six uh principles and superintendents that accounting is offered as electives at all the home schools. And so students again when it comes to scheduling they're picking do I take a a trimester or a semester of accounting or a full year you know so for I mean I will sit here all day and say my my my youngest is a business major and I made her take accounting. I made her because it's just going to help you when you get to the next step. So it's necessary but they can get that a little bit taste of it if

053you will as an elective at their home school and then not have to take the full year. So that's one of the reasons um you know that we may see that come out of the consortium and then put in just a different class that you know doesn't there's not competition at the home schools. So some of that is just communication and what's been there as electives. Great. Super helpful. Thanks. I think it's a definite area for opportunity for the high school overall. I mean there are a lot of kids going into business that Yes. We talk about it with our counseling staff all the time. Yeah. And I'll own my bias on this one, but um but great. Thank you so much. All right. Um, first thing I want to say is that I want

054to thank you for having such high level programs that do provide uh, excellent credentiing for kids when they're done for my my my kid is an example of a kid who AP biology, AP calculus, like he's way smarter than me, but yet like he's also going to be I'm so grateful he's going to be part of health sciences and he's going to become a CNA at the end of of that process. So, like I I'm thankful that my son gets to have both of those experiences and I think it would be awesome if he was able to to do other things. Um, I'll be honest with you. So, the my question and my wonderment is about graduation requirements a little bit. So sometimes um I'll I'll be honest, you get caught up in the scheduling

055process as a parent trying to make sure you get all your your boxes checked and then like some things fall under fine arts and then you're like well I got to get two, you know, this many credits of fine arts. I almost wouldn't mind seeing a world where those two things were separated and there was a dedicated especially if we're going to do millages and we're going to support it where there was a CTE pathway and some type of thing where now my student now my now my son feels like he could also do the auto tech piece because you know what now it doesn't impact his ability to choose something else he might need as a graduation requirement. Does that make sense? And in order to be able to do this S SWCC health

056sciences thing, he really had to work with his schedule because it's a big piece with the two hours or the two hour block. Yep. Especially in the spring, the last trimester. So anyway, I just wonder is that related to the Michigan Merit curriculum or is that related to just conversations we could have? No, the the Michigan Merit curriculum does honor they have a whole CTE. Um so for example uh without like welding you can earn your algebra 2 credit in welding if we are covering a certain amount of curriculum of the algebra 2 in welding. So we there is a sheet that we have that all the counselors have and so but I caution everyone and I I will say this because um it is really meant for students that that is their pathway. It

057is not meant for every single student because I'm not sure that some of our local universities and college will honor that credit for that class. So I want I always when I when I talk with students and I say you can get that credit for welding, but if you are looking to go into something at Michigan or Michigan State, you got to make sure that they're going to accept that credit and and sometimes they don't. And I don't want to set students up for failure. Um, the other thing is we have some students that are and that will go on scholarship and play division one sports and and right now they aren't on the same page with those CTE credits for the Michigan merit curriculum. So that's a conversation we're having. Um, so it it's

058again that Michigan merit curriculum they I I they do honor certain credit for our CTE classes, but really it's meant for the specific student that that is their career pathway. Um, so I always I'm that's okay. I'm I will honor that credit, but as long as you know that there's a potential. So it's important to know your career path. And I want I want you to know I appreciate that perspective a lot, right? Because we don't want to take seats away as we can tell from programs for kids that want to do it as as a career, right? However, I just love the fact that kids and and young people can be versatile too and learn how to weld but also be doing something else for a career. So I appreciate that. Thanks. Also, our

059classes are they complement one another. I mean, you could take welding and computer integrated manufacturing. You walk through the Toyota Research Center and again, that was another aha moment when there you have everything that's in Trent's lab and then everything that's in the welding lab. And I'm like, this is a one-stop shop for two of our programs. So, they again, it can be a one-two punch, 11th and 12th grade, and be set to go and, you know, become become hired by some of our local um companies. So, yeah. Thank you. So, I just want to say, you know, I think um the Southwest Washington Consortium is like a gem of Seline and we I I feel like we sometimes take it for granted and um I think our students take it for granted as well.

060I you know, you walk through the open house and just amazed at what kind of opportunities that these kids have. So, I'm thankful for that. I've got two kids that are at Michigan State now and they've all been they both been through some of your programs. So, they're part of the 61.7%. But they talk to students at their they're they're a class with and they can't believe the opportunities that they've had here at Slane. And you know I that's why as a no tax kind of guy I'm completely in favor of this millillage because it get will give more opportunity to other students to have these same opportunities and and and maybe help us you know take maybe not take it for granted and and our students will be more happy with it. Thanks for

061saying that. Yeah, we would love every student that wants to take the class to be able to take it because I always tell students if you take that year-long class and you walk away and you're like, "That wasn't for me." That's fantastic. That's a win for me, too, because now you've just just saved yourself either money or time and and discovering that as well. So, to me, that's a win. U most of the time they end up realizing it's what they want to do. But yeah, I love the stats that you gave. Um, and when you were starting to show some of them, question popped in my head and you answered it. So, I really appreciate that. 96.7% graduation rate for the kids that are in these programs compared to it was 80 something, 80

062point something comparatively. Um, that's huge. Um, you focused on the 62% that went to a four-year college or university, but I also noticed that 29% went to community college. And with the recent changes in Michigan, I think that's a huge success, too. So that's 90 90% plus of the kids, if I'm doing the math right. Yep. I had to highlight it myself. Yeah. Are going on to postsecary formal education and probably a lot of those from community college are also going to a four-year college. I would assume if we can get data on that eventually, that would be uh fantastic. And I don't want to um I don't want you to take your time and educate me because I know a lot of members of the board already uh know this a little bit more.

063But one of my questions is as I was looking through the curriculum list and the enrollment for each section, a lot of the business related stuff which translates into uh college great uh had more enrollment than some of the other ones. is one of the bigger challenges for weight listing because you you had mentioned like cosmetology. Is it because that curriculum is more hands-on so there's less room to do that? What is a way that we can combat that or is there a plan with the millillage if it passes to be able to expand on those? So a couple things um specifically with cosmetology you have to have a certified cosmetologist. It's 1:10 ratio. So if you go beyond that, we have to increase staff because we need to have a certified um cosmetologist on

064staff. So specifically about that um also their program. So you that they earn those students, they take that class their junior year, they work through the summer and then their senior year as well. So they earn 1500 credit hours to be able to sit for the state certification um test now at this time. So we we've looked at especially with attendance going down and you know just that's been a huge kind feat as we all know is just getting students to come. We're looking at could we do offer a diff not the full gamut if you will for cosmetology but maybe focus um on hair or I'm sorry on nails or you know like eyelash just different parts of the overall um overall license. And so that would offer possibly allow us to enroll more

065students if we didn't create that 1500 hour requirement. So again, we can only have 20 students um 20 juniors, 20 um seniors and we're at max because we have four staff in that facility. So and it's just a lot. And to answer your question, the numbers are lower in our um I would say our more traditional classes just because of safety and because of the space. um we lower our cap because again when Trent is trying to teach he has how many different machines in his in his facility in his classroom and it's like there's only one of him right so we talk about can I turn my back on a student when they're working on that machine so to your point marketing I could have 28 students but not necessarily um in those classes

066even health science I mean so much as hands-on that you know it's that's a piece to it is hiring more staff staff and offering more sections so that we can um but that need that means space and again that means money and the vocational mill that's the whole purpose so I'm hopeful that people will understand the why yeah thanks for that question yes I could stand here all night so thank you for listening Trent has I know he's eager to um so Trent's going to talk about a huge grant and we specifically he lived through this year um Prime and he received it. We learned of it in last fall in the beginning of the school year, but he wanted to live through it and um so he could speak to it. Um but it's

067a huge honor and we have one of the project managers, Sarah Walker, here from Prime um has joined us. So she actually wrote a letter that I'm going to pass out to each one of you while um Trent goes ahead and get started. Good evening. Yeah, I think my presentation will follow up perfect with Caris. you guys can actually see some of those opportunities in in real real time. So, uh, for those who don't know me, I'm Trent Trout, manufacturing instructor at the high school. This is my third year teaching now, so still fairly new, but I'm really enjoying it. Um, but I wanted to take some time to highlight the grant that we received from Education Foundation. So, first off, the uh theme education foundation works to inspire, prepare, and support the next generation

068of manufacturing and engineering. Um, and they do this through bright mind student summits, theme prime prime programs, scholarships, and more. So, last year we applied to become a theme prime program. And I'm proud to say that we are one of 118me prime schools throughout the US, 50 of those being in Michigan. Um, so the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Partnership Response and Manufacturing Education program has not only provided us with a multitude of resources in order to better prepare our students for the future in manufacturing engineering, but they have also supported us with nearly $360,000 in equipment curriculum and professional development. So you can see here we can highlight some of the equipment that we actually received. So all this equipment, it's important to note that it comes with those industry recognized certifications. So each piece

069of equipment that they donated comes with a separate certifications for students. Um so we were fortunate enough to receive a Snap-on Sterup precision measurement inspection kit, a Fanic cobot, VerSurf 3D gauge CMM arm, Festo Mech Lab trainer, Festo AC/DC trainer, Festo mechanical drives trainer, a Stratus industrial 3D printer, and much more than that. So you can see kind of some pictures of some students with the certifications. So, this is our first year getting off the ground, but we were able to pass out a lot of different certifications this year and get hands-on with a lot of the equipment re we received. So, that's kind of the the grant that came through. That's all the equipment received. Now, how has that affected us this year in manufacturing? So, first off, competition is a big thing in

070in our CTE programs like uh Cara was saying. So, this year we had five different manufacturing based competitions. So, that's the most that we've done so far um since I've been there. These competitions range from local college competitions as well as national level competitions. Uh proud to say that the four we've attended thus far, we've podium at least one podium finish at each. So, that's really awesome. We had a really great year. Um and one of those finishes, which you may have seen in a couple articles, ended with a $10,000 grand prize for one of our uh high school seniors. So, that was really cool, really great for him. But uh we have Skills USA nationals coming up as well in June. So that'll be exciting to see how they do there. So in addition

071to the competitions um we've also done a multitude of field trips for the students. Uh probably a record number this year as well. Um so we're able to go to a lot of these different industry partners in the area. So Lee Bear, Zoler, Kiosera R&B right in our backyard. So that's really nice for the students to be able to go there. Um as well as we've had the chance to go to a couple different trade shows this year. here. So, we went to the Automate Trade Show, which is focuses on automation. Um, and it allows the students to kind of connect with some of these industry partners that could be potential future employers. So, it's really cool for them to see all this different equipment and the newer stuff. Um, as well as the rapid

072TCT, which is a 3D printing convention. Um, and SME Education Foundation hosted a Brightmind student summit there. So, that was really cool for the students to go. they got to kind of engage with different businesses, go on a little um a little scavenger hunt throughout the industry show floor and see some new stuff, talk with some industry partners. So, that was a great way that that SM was able to support us as well. So, and then kind of the last piece of that puzzle is the certifications um just like Cara was talking about. So, this year, uh we issued 128 of the precision measurement certifications. So, those are micrometers, calipers, um tape and rule. So, those are starting at the freshman level with some of my intro classes and then they go all the way

073up to the senior level. So, the students have the chance to earn certifications freshman year all the way through their high school career and then they're able to take those certifications with them whether they go straight into the workforce or they go to continue their education. Um, we also issued out over 246 Titans of CNC certifications. So, those um are made up of CAD, CAM and CNC certifications. So, the students have to first model their part in On Shape. They submit that to Titans of CNC. Then they have to create the program for it. Um, and that's done in Fusion. They also submit that. And then the final step is actually cutting it out on the CNC mill. So that's cool. They actually get to cut it out. There's an inspection sheet. They get to

074go through the full inspection process, use that VerSurf probe arm that we got through the grant this year um to do the final inspection and then I sign off on it and I submit that to Titans of CNC. Um, the last certification that we only had a couple students do it this year, but the HOS certified operator. So, I'm looking to hopefully implement more of that in the future. Um, but we had two mill operator and two lathe operator certifications. So, that is followed with some online tests from HOS. Um, and then a hands-on test with me. They walk through the machine, set up a part, run a part, make sure they know what they're talking about, and go through that full certification process. So, just a last thank you to um the SME Education

075Foundation for the grant, SWWC as well as Sleen Area Schools for the support in our program. Uh we had a really great year this year, so I'm super proud of it. But if you guys feel free email me questions, I'm happy to answer questions here. As well as on my LinkedIn, I post updates about competitions, field trips, what the students are doing. So thank you. Before you sit down, any questions, quick questions from the board? Go ahead, Jennifer. I love your LinkedIn. You know that he if you're not following him on LinkedIn, his posts are great. And even if you just give it a quick like, it shares with your entire network, which could be other um businesses or organizations that um they can partner with. So, please keep doing that. I love to see

076my friend Ann other day. That was awesome. Um and I just really recognize Sarah, which who are you? Okay. Hi, Sarah. Um I just wanted to because the audience and anybody watching doesn't have this this nice beautiful letter. It says Trent instructed this is a part of the letter. Trent instructed each of his students to shake hands and introduce themselves to the numerous employers and subject matter experts at the conference. The effect was contagious. By the end of the event, hundreds of other of students were doing the same. Several sponsors andme members were so impressed with Trent students that they asked to participate as volunteers. Like there's no better testimonial of these students being good ambassadors of Selen Area School. So, thank you for modeling the way. Absolutely. Thank you. I uh did a little

077research while you were talking about the uh the Stratus F170 because I have a little tiny 3D printer in my office at home. Okay. This is freaking amazing and it lives in Chelsea, I assume, or uh there Chelsea does have one as well, but we have one at at the high school now. So, okay. So, these are these are state-of-the-art cutting edge tools that are absolutely phenomenal. And I I love that our students are having a a taste of how they work. Yes. Yeah. Did you have to uh go through much um modification of the building in order to to print because this this is thermmo grade? Yeah. So the the really cool thing um and this actually was really evident with the uh recent skills competition. The students completely use that stratus. So they're

078able to actually take some of these designs and come up with some crazy stuff. And now that we have dissolvable supports on the Stratus printer, they can print whatever they want, throw it in the dunk tank, and all the supports are gone. They don't have to worry about removing them inside little holes or anything. It's It's very cool. So, it's cool because we have the kind of hobby level printers in the classroom, and then they can also use the industrial printers, so they get to see both sides of it. I'm not even going to look at the price tag because it's out of my range. A question, Darcy. You have a very great workspace with a lot of machines. Did you have to get rid of any other equipment to make room for all of

079these these new things? Yeah. Yep. Yep. So, we've been moving some equipment in and out. Um, so most of the stuff that came from the theme grant, uh, we were able to fit in spots and I'm still rearranging stuff, but then we also, um, received from a state grant some new manual mills. So, we sold the old manual mills, replace those the new ones. So, kind of upgrading equipment as I go. And I eventually I'll run out of space, but for now, we we're making it work. I know. And I appreciate it. Um when I walked in there I said this was not my um uh wood shop class from when I was in school. I recognized nothing. Thank you for the work that you do. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. So how much of your

080time, energies, all that are you spending on professional development and learning and bringing up dispute on all this? I appreciate your dedication and this is what I'm getting. This this past year has definitely been a lot of that. Um, I've been, is it six weeks, I want to say, of professional development. Um, different trainings, getting certified myself so that I can certify the students. So, I'm wrapping that up. I've got a couple more to either do this summer or kind of sometime next year. Um, but it's cool being able to go to these different um, trainings, learn from other instructors, get certified, and know that I can certify my students as well. Well, I appreciate that enthusiasm. Yeah, thank you. I was going to say the same thing that um I think your enthusiasm for

081your students shows through both here and in the pictures and that's that's got to be great for them to have you modeling both that enthusiasm and like learning to talk to people which isn't easy for high schoolers sometimes. Um, and then I wanted to thank the theme representatives for uh that amazing gift of uh money and capital and and this very nice letter honoring our students, you know, sort of on behalf of the Selen community. Thank you for the um you know, the work you do to help fund great teachers like Mr. Trout and all of our other teachers in this program. Well, LinkedIn is down for the for the last five minutes, but I will be certainly checking out your you know, I was I was clicking the QR code. I Absolutely. All right.

082Well, thank you so much and I appreciate that and thank you for joining us this evening and yay. Um, if we have questions that, you know, we will send them to you. Absolutely. Feel free to stop by at any point, too. I'm always happy to show off the shop and what the students are doing. That's fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, since we have our clapping hands all warmed up, I'd like to uh interrupt your presentation for just a second. Uh Tommy has come straight our student or one of our two student reps. They Kate was unable to make it tonight. She will be here next next meeting. Tommy was out coaching tennis this evening, right? Last minute replacement. And we just want to say say a few words uh about your service

083this year. And I'll let Dr. Lodge Right. So, we'd like to thank both our student representatives, uh, Tommy Almond and Kate Sonnen Day. Um, Kate couldn't be here tonight, but um, I want to uh, present to you both uh, $500 scholarship and read our uh, little Hornet plaque here with gratitude for your time, insight, and leadership as a student representative to the board of education for the 202425 school year. Thank you for bringing student voice to the table and helping shape the future of our schools. With appreciation, Selenary Schools Board of Education. So, thank you Tommy and Kate. And oh, Tommy is going to University of Michigan next year and Kate and Kate is going to the University of Tennessee. Oh, okay. Getting there. Terrific. All right, we're gonna go ahead and [Applause] We're gonna

084call an audible and ask you to take a picture, Jackie. I know you don't like to miss any of these. I gave I gave Tommy the option of saying something before he left, but Tommy, he was going to. Okay, great. Uh I just want to say thank you for the opportunity to get to know the board of education this side of uh uh service and public policy. It's been a interesting in more ways than I thought it was going to be. Um and I also want to say thank you uh shout out to some of my teachers that kind of in inspired me to do this. uh I took AP gov and uh I came to some of these and when the opportunity presented itself I kind of had that background knowledge and that kind

085of drive to to do it. So thank you to my teachers too. Um and I guess but thank you so much for all the opportunities and the chance that I was able to have to be here with you guys. So thank you. I got to say, Tommy, you were here for some of the most interesting board meetings we've had and some of the driest and you and through it all. You you you hung through it. And yeah, thank you so much, Tommy. I appreciate it. I'd like to hand the podium now over to Lauren Gold, who is the chair of our policy committee for an update on first readings on some policies. Sorry, I was just trying to get the policies out so we could talk about them. That's page 19 in your packet. Yeah,

086I know. I gotta get to 19. So, um I guess we'll just go through them one by one. Do we need to re I don't recall. Do we need to read the entirety of the Okay. I didn't think so, but it would be greatly appreciated if we could just hit the highlights and I'm sure Darcy and I will help you with that. That is indeed what I will do. Um so the first one is policy 5330.01. Um this was uh revised at the request of u both niola because there are new legal immunity provisions set forth such that the school personnel is not liable for either using an epinephrine administration or not. Um, and then, uh, our very sharpeyed and smart, uh, school nurse, Karen Harvey, noted that we are now not just using epinephrine

087pens or needles, but also we have nasal spray available. So, um, we changed that language and we also sort of clarified the a little bit about the, um, procedures for who gets notified when a student has an event just based on my knowledge of events and mostly Karen's knowledge of events here at school. Um, and so those are the changes made there. Can I just ask a quick question? um this policy, this change of language, is it my understanding that it is slowly working its way through the legislature and will eventually with this will we're ahead of the game in other words? Yeah, exactly. That's kudos to Karen that uh she noticed when the policy came up for other things that it really leaves out a new, you know, a new form of and so

088it just brings the policy up to date and yes, I think probably everybody else will be soon to follow. So, do we need a motion for that one or do you want to go through all of them? There's no motion yet. We're just discussing at this point. So, okay. So, that's the first one. Uh then we get to policy uh 7540.09. This is a artificial intelligence uh policy um that basically just talks about keeping all use of AI in accordance with state and federal law as well as board policy. Um so it's the these policies are going to probably continue to change. Speaking of Jay, as the technology continues to change, but this is just uh a needed update to clarify and put in writing our policy regarding AI. Um the next one is the

089staff technology acceptable use and safety. Um this sort of updates the terminology, references authentication and adds some cyber security procedures. Um and so this this is for staff. We had already approved updates for students. So this just keeps the two policies in line. Uh the next one is uh policy 5500. It really this one overlaps with uh 7540.09. 09, but it's talking about academic honesty as uh it pertains to AI. And then the last one is um a policy that had just not been um uh discussed in Seline, but has been an older like you know in the 2020s Niola policy. Um so uh this is talking about security for our facilities and um gives the superintendent discretion to um it doesn't ask the superintendent to do anything in particular but gives the superintendent discretion

090to um use new security technologies as needed and as felt appropriate by the superintendent and uh the director of security. That's it. Big thanks to Betty for all of her help in preparing everything. Always. Are there any questions that you the rest of the board can pose to Darcy, myself, or Lauren? I have one. And seeing as how Dr. McY was on the committee, I'm assuming this would get addressed. Uh but for uh for uh let's see for the artificial intelligence use uh as it pertains to uh how it's used in the district. Um would it be prudent to explicitly indicate that no personal identifiable information of students or staff should ever be put into an AI engine? I want to say that data security and cyber security is a policy that exists right now

091somewhere in the sets of policies but I I don't know if we need to make something specific but let's look into that. Okay. All right. So at the yeah I mean most of the AI engines are open and a lot of them are free and that's because they're learning and they're using our information to learn. So it uh when when I'm when I'm teaching community supervision professionals about AI, I have to warn them constantly to not put personal identifiable information into those. So that that was just one thing. Um I know this is a first reading and it's going to evolve considerably. I just I just wasn't sure. But if it if it's covered in under other policies, um I that's probably sufficient. I just wanted to make sure. Well, if it is, we could

092certainly make a reference to it from this policy as well. Thank you. So, can I just ask, are you looking toward having disciplinary consequences if a student were to put their name or identification in, or are you just looking for the teachers to make a point of educating students about why not to or both? Maybe both. Um I don't want to I don't want to make a statement on what if any disciplinary policy should be adapted to that. Um other than part of the policy should be that staff and students should not put other staff and students personal identifiable information into any AI engine. It also sounds like you're identifying a best practice that may or may not be covered in the policy. Yeah. I mean typ typically when like if they wanted to if

093a teacher wanted to teach something uh about how to do an analysis on grades you would use an ID for a student rather than a first name last name just as an example but um it like I said if it's covered under other policies about how personal identifiable information is used then it doesn't need to be in here it's just because the engines that are out there are learning from everything that we're putting in there. That's one of the things that because this is so new and I know it's also going to change this time next year. We'll be having this conversation and they'll be talking about agentic a ai uh and this free wide openen system stuff may cease to exist in any schools anywhere. So uh but it's good to keep our eyes

094and attention open to it. Brad, you had a question. Um I just have more of a comment. So I just would caution about the disciplinary side a little bit and the only reason I would say that is because u I could speak to my knowledge as a teacher that like this stuff is so evolving and so new to us in the classroom that we can make mistakes we didn't know we were going to make and that we were going to do and that we were going to Right. And so like I could see a place for authentic and meaningful like I would like to see it more like presented in like a professional development stance or some type of thing so that we can constantly be learning and saying hey you don't want to do

095that but you might just make it would have unintended consequences potentially if we put it in like the discipline portion of our AI policy. That's just my I I agree. That's why I said I didn't want to comment specifically on it. As a teacher, I can tell you it's just complicated and our kids know more about it than we do. So, it's scary and and it is evolving a lot and a lot uh I mean this isn't hasn't been included in a lot of professional development yet in my industry. So, I know it's not in other industries and it it's growing so quickly and changing so rapidly. And California is actually the first state to use this in corrections. So it's it's really I I don't want to comment on disciplinary action because I don't

096know what would even I just think we should have a little space for for quoteunquote grace, right? And learning. Well, the reason for my question there was just was actually just because I thought we could put it in administrative guidelines like not we but the you know the teaching and learning team could put it in their administrative guidelines and professional development if it was sort of a hey this is the reason we want to talk to the kids about this. It really doesn't have to go in policy. That's that was the only reason that I was trying to clarify. It could maybe be um and we can get Jay's opinion on it, but if there's already a policy about what staff and students can do with other staff and students information about posting online or

097anything, it could just be included as this would be an offset of that or an offshoot of that and it might already be covered by FUPO law too. And so in that regard too, yeah, I mean it it well it probably most certainly is. I'm just looking at it from people don't realize, you know, they put it into an AI engine and they think it's just for their viewing. So that that's what I'm afraid, you know, because they don't understand the difference. In June, thank you for bringing up, Mr. Gman. In uh Jay Gman, our technology director, in June, he and I are sitting down to have a conversation about some archaic language regarding videotaping and not taping over videos of surveillance, etc. So I will put that on the agenda to have a conversation

098with him about that language too with the permission of the policy committee chair. Right. Anything else? Thank you very much for the first reading. Smooth, uneventful. Wow. Anything else, sir? This brings us to administration board updates. I will let Dr. Lot start off. Uh, I will be very brief. Just want to thank um thank everybody for honoring me and the other retirees. When you know, Carol points out 412 years of service to the district. That's quite a lot of institutional knowledge and and and service. And I know that I've I've felt proud over the years to be part of such an outstanding staff in in every every capacity in every facet. Um it's been it's been a great journey and I've been um very lucky to be part of it. So thank you. We'll start

099at whatever end you want to go start. Jennifer Stein, we'll just make sure that Ben can catch up. As a perfect segue, Steve, um, we might have all written a little something. Um, so here's mine. As we celebrate all retirees tonight, the team wanted to be sure to recognize your specific contributions to Selen Area Schools. Because we know that you do not like a fuss, uh, and that you really appreciate trustees being brief. We will try um we will try to say something uh short and sweet from me. A deep thank you for the many many years in the district focused on children and staff. We spent your first two years as a superintendent together when I was president and we did it in a pandemic. I am so grateful for your calm uh your

100empathetic and collaborative partnership during this time. It meant so much to the district at a very critical time. When we went through the hiring process for your role back then, we received hundreds of emails from community members and staff. I always believed to share the voices that we should share the voices of those that we serve. So, I picked one and wanted to read an excerpt from one of those letters written by a staff member at Pleasant Ridge. Uh, quote, "His support and loyalty to Selen School shows in his dedication an impeccable record within our district. Dr. Dr. Latch is what makes Seline a great place to live, work, and have my own daughters receive an excellent education. Dr. Latch has grown both as an individual and educator, and continues to make all of those

101strides in Seline. I cannot think of a better candidate that is prepared, experienced, and as genuine as Dr. Steve Latch is in leading Seline schools for the foreseeable future. I felt and I feel the same way about you being in this role and also doing the same for my children. So from the board, we are making you a very small plaque in celebration of your special advocacy around STEM and we will hang it in the new space this fall when it opens at Selen High School. Thank you, Steve. Anyone else want to chirp up now? We were going to, but Jennifer disrupted Jennifer used her disruptor uh voice and uh changed that. Oh, we'll start with Tim now. third. Um, so I did want to thank Tommy and Kate and their chairs here um for

102their involvement on the board. They they have uh experienced uh some interesting board meetings over the last year and um and and really of all the years we've had um student reps, they they really have had some really good questions and and stuff. So they were really engaged. So that was really good. Um then also our wonderful staff and then seeing them. We had so many staff members that um were honored today and um you know we they they've touched a lot of lives in 412 years. And then specifically with Steve, um, you know, Steve's very relational and very personable. And, um, I go back to years ago. I I I don't even know how many years ago. It was, probably six or eight years ago, probably six years ago. We were going through a

103tough time on the board at that point in time with some things that were going on. And, uh, I I was kind of, once again, maybe not in alignment with the rest of the board on some of the things. And Steve came up to me after the board meeting and said, "You know what, Tim? After every one of these events, I'm gonna call you and tell you how it went." And so he did. And he stepped up. And he didn't have to do that, but he did. I appreciate that. All right. Um, I want to start out talking about our graduating seniors and that we get to celebrate them next Sunday. And I'm excited to do that. Specifically, um, Tommy and Kate want to thank them as well. and just um it's just a good

104time. Uh seven and a half more days, right? Staff and students and and we we aren't counting the minutes. I swear we're we're counting the seconds. But um but the SC the fact of the matter is we're going to get there. We're going to do this and it's it's awesome. I also want to send out and thank all the retirees for who are in attendance tonight and just any of the other retirees who couldn't join us. I have a tremendous amount of um respect and admiration for a number of those individuals. They impact our kids' lives and so um you know Carol talked about it being like a city and we all do like have our part and uh every single stu every single person does did an important job for students, right? And all

105of those jobs are important and and so I want to make sure I recognize that. So, one of those uh retirees is indeed Steve Lotch. And we've all agreed to, you know, roast him tonight a little bit here. So, um so here's my Tom Brady roasting thing, or I'm going to try at least. So, you should know I first met Steve Latch. I had an interesting my my I was thinking about when I met him. I met him at a cornhole league. Um a friend of ours was hosting a cornhole league in Ipsellani Township. And Steve was the his principal at the time. And so I remember going there and I I met Steve Watch and aside from the fact that he's a terrible cornhole player. Um he's really bad, but like the but the

106reality is that he um he came across as like just a really humbling, positive, and affirming person, right? And I remember thinking, man, he'd be a really good principal. He'd be someone that I myself would would like to work for, right? And so I just remember you leaving that impression as we were standing on the deck up top after after cornhole because you know it wasn't all about the cornhole but we'll move on. Um and so you know Steve's uh trajectory kind of took off like a rocket ship from there right and he got promoted to director of curriculum and and and there's that. So uh I want everyone I think everybody who knows Steve knows this but his work ethic is topnotch. I mean like I'd always heard about his infamous Google calendar and

107but then like you start reading his emails to the student or to the you know families and Steve's everywhere right like I mean I bet you there are staff who like look left and right just to make sure when they walk into a building or into a room that he's not there already. Um, and so like it you do a lot of things for this district and you want to be unsung but yet you're a champion and very visible for us too and and my students know you. My kids know who their superintendent is by name. They can point to you. They can say hi to you. They can shake your hand. All of it. So, uh, now I will tell you as a trustee in in January of 2020, I one of the things

108is you're really nervous. It was like my f our first meeting ever and I I'm trying to find my voice, but I'm like part of this new team. And one of the things that gives me great pleasure and joy is like I think that was the first vote I ever took was appointing you as the new interim um superintendent. So yeah, did I make the motion? I bet I did cuz I was just like, I don't know, let's go. So anyway, so we nailed that decision then and uh I think we also nailed that decision when we hired you later that spring. Okay. So, and I can go on and on and on and talk to you about Steve's dedication. I could talk to you about his notebooks and his composition books and I can't

109imagine how many composition books. He has stuff in a room somewhere that Laura is going to have to help him get rid of. I mean, it's got to be a dumpster full. Um but the guy just he is dedicated. He takes notes. He and and all of it. And I also want to know on behalf of the finance department who has been paying for all of those composition books over the years. But um but but seriously, Steve, I want to thank you for your dedication to students and Seline families. One of the best decisions I think Selen has ever made was to support you for superintendent. I thank Scott Graden for preparing you well and taking you under his his wing. and you have made an impact on this school district that will far outlast

110your time here and so it was a a great pleasure and you have a caring manner. You deal with students and staff and families and you have a legacy that will be remembered around here for a very very long time. So I'm thankful that the top of our stationary said Steve L is superintendent and uh thank you Steve for for serving our students and families and me. I'll start with a a couple of things. I did want to say congrats to our uh seniors who are um looking forward to graduating this weekend and to uh Kate and Tommy for being fantastic student reps this past year. Uh, I was also honored to to watch the retirees. Um, sort of almost a a sunrise to sunset viewing for me because Sufan from PU Corner was here.

111Uh, and then one of my son's senior uh, senior year teachers was here as well as some in the middle. So, that was uh, exciting to see and I'm happy for them. They've all they've all worked hard and earned it. Um, I did want to add that I am excited about the SWWC uh the CTE possible millillage that's coming up. Um, while I understand it, you know, it's a tax on us now. It's also an investment in our futures and we're putting those kids into the workforce in the some in the very near future. um and who will be a part of our lives be it as a CNA a cosmetologist someone who is working at machinery at solar or leapair um or you know they're working on our computers and cyber security um so

112yes it's a small shared tax and but it is a long-term investment in ourselves as well as them and Steve so I've only uh been with you in this role for a few months Uh, and I think I know you uh the most uh from PTA and PTO. I think probably over 10 years. uh and uh worked with you through the district parent council meetings and different events and uh the guidance and expertise that you brought to those conversations and looking to move each school and the district forward uh in in doing what's best for students and incorporating families into that and the community was a really holistic IC uh view to take for our district because we're very student focused. But what goes into creating that experience for them is very broad and uh

113deep and your support and work in that did not go unnoticed. It's very much appreciated and you will be very much missed. So, thank you. I do I will say a quick thing. Um, I just have two I only have two memories of Steve. Right. Yeah. Right. The first one when I first met him and the last time be before he became superintendent. So, I just want to share this really quickly. He uh I was a a humble professor at Eastern Michigan in the teacher education department. And I was on a committee for a retreat and we needed some guest speakers, some superintendents or assistant super or cara Davis's to come out and and speak the tech the learning specialists and I said, "Well, why don't I just go in my own backyard?" I, you

114know, I hardly knew the schools. I hardly knew where Liberty was. And I Sally is her name. Waltz. Patty Waltz. Sorry. Thank you. I knew it wasn't Sally. Sorry. Anyway, and I said, "I want to meet your director of learning." And uh he said, "Oh, that would be Steve Lodge." "Oh, it's great. It's great. Well, how can I meet him?" I said, "I don't know." She said, "What do you mean?" Said, "Well, what is he in his office?" She said, "Probably not." He says, "Why?" He says, "He's everywhere. He's everywhere but his office." And so eventually we did I didn't even meet him before we dragged him over to the golf course where we're having the retreat and he did his thing and then got up and ran out the door. But it was great.

115That was my first meeting with the famous Steve Lodge. The second time was during the interviews for superintendent and we and I have interviewed hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people for really interesting jobs and this was my first time for superintendent. We gave what 10 15 questions or something like that and they had roughly three minutes and 23 seconds to answer each one equally. Steve nailed each one. The timing was immaculate. He answered the questions perfectly. added a little nuance and flavor and style and flare to every single question and and answer he gave. So when Brad made the motion, let's just let's just move to nominate ask Steve to be superintendent. Yeah, I I may have seconded that because it was really clear. It was a very short putt. It was a case

116study for how to answer questions well in an interview. He did really exceptionally well on that. And uh after that, you know, then he became superintendent. It all went to plot, right? No, no, no. I was going to say and then I've enjoyed I've enjoyed my three years of working with Steve as su as as a as board president and I'll pass it over to anyone else down the table who wishes to say something. Okay. So, um I would like to start with also congratulating both the retirees and the graduating seniors. Um, and um, I'd also like to mention that it was Memorial Day this past weekend. And so I'd like to honor any uh, Seline families who've lost loved ones serving the country um, or Sum Seline alumni. I'm sure over the years there

117have been many who uh, lost their lives um, fighting for the country. So um, I just want to mention that. Um, on a happier note uh, I would like to thank Steve. Uh it is obvious that he started as a teacher and is a teach has a teacher's heart. Um he taught me a lot about being a board member and about how education works and I've uh that's true of many people in central administration but he sort of spearheads that and uh that's been really um uh helpful to me as a both as a professional and in this role. So I'd like to thank him for that. Um my um own students would be uh uh sad if I did not mention their uh fondness and appreciation of Snow Day Steve. I can't believe that

118I got to mention it. I thought that someone else would have mentioned it for sure by now and um uh there you know it was appreciated. I think, you know, that that just goes to show a certain amount of humility and humor that uh Steve brought to the role and being able to kind of identify with the students, which is a really important thing for any teacher. Um, and you know, I love that uh out of all the things he could have picked, there's a picture of him driving the bus. And I reached out to um former trustee Jenny Miller because I know she had worked with Steve a long time. and she said, "Don't forget to highlight that he's always there to help uh at a olympics or refereeing games." Um, and you know,

119he just always has teachers backs. So, I can't take entire credit for that, but I reached out to Jenny because I knew that even though she's not here, she would uh want to lend her voice as well. So, um, thank you for all you've done for Selen Area Schools. I'm sure your legacy will continue to uh live on. and thank you for all the work you've been doing on top of everything else lately to help smooth the transition uh to Dr. Kowalsski and uh thanks for being such a great representative of our schools. Uh I would like to thank uh Tara and Trent or Cara and Trent. Man, got those letters mixed up. So Cara and Trent uh for the presentation today. I thought that was great. Um, I hope to see that on the

120ballot this November and encourage everybody to vote uh for that. Uh, congratulations to the seniors and more importantly over the next couple weeks here, be safe in all your decision-m that you do. Um, uh, just uh uh enjoy the time, but also make good decisions. Uh, congrats to all the retirees. Uh, I'm sorry I couldn't make it uh to the reception uh before the meeting, but congratulations to all the retirees. Uh, I did not put anything formal uh together uh for Steve, but I jotted down my notes and um I think uh I think everybody has realized so far in my few months here that I don't uh I'm not afraid to say what I mean. So, uh I will say that Steve is by far the hardest working superintendent I have ever seen. And

121I um no matter what uh anybody thinks of Steve or disagrees with Steve or agrees with Steve, they cannot say that he is not one of the hardest working people we've ever had in this district. Uh by far. I show up to things where there's eight people and Steve is three of them usually. So, uh, uh, the Science Olympiad that that Darcy invited me to, it was Darcy, me, Steve, and my daughter that that showed up. And, uh, my daughter was like, "Is that the superintendent?" I said, "Yeah, why is he here?" I said, "Well, because he's involved." I He is. Uh, Steve, you're involved in everything. I I see you everywhere. Um you're you're always willing to be an advocate for the people that are not advocates. Um I think that's huge. Um you

122follow up uh uh uh Brad mentioned it uh about the notebooks. Uh so in our meetings and I see you writing the notebooks. I remember getting a follow-up from you like a month after we talked about something and you had to remind me what I asked you about. Uh so uh but you follow up uh without without fail and you absolutely explain everything thoroughly to the point that I've had to ask you to please just just keep your email short to me. I don't need that explanation, Steve. Just just a yes or no would be great. Uh but um thorough, hardworking, dedicated. Uh, I I I think those are three really strong characteristics I really hope Dr. Kowalsski can inherit from you and and do that for our district as well. So, thank you. [Applause]

123You're not gonna say something, are you, Steve? No, you already did. We'll give you a chance to write write something for the next two weeks. The last board meeting. Thank you, Mr. Goodman. When you're ready, I would like to finish my uh I'd like to finish my uh comments with a quick update on the uh board's contract negotiations with the SBA. I just have three slides I want to walk us through. Ben, the first slide. So this slide demonstrates the district's most recent proposal as of May 13, 2025. During the 2025 school 256 school year, eligible employees will receive steps and lane changes and a step is a 4% increase. There will be an additional 4% increase also on the salary schedule during the next year 26 to 27. uh eligible employees will receive step

124and lane changes and a step again is 4% increase. There will also be an additional 2.5% increase on the salary schedule. So this offer represents a 14.5% salary increase for certified staff on steps and a 6.5% salary increase for certified staff off steps over a two-year period. Next slide please sir. So uh this slide reflects the current salary schedule and it demonstrates the salary changes to the schedule over the next two years and we will uh post the entire proposed salary schedules on the board of education website for review. Finally, slide three just gives you an example. This slide provides an example of one certified staff member who was hired in 2425 on step one under the BA lane. Uh the highlighted cells in this example move us through 2025 26 school year and then

125into the 2026 27 school year uh just to see movement for this sort of sample. So if you've never seen these tables before uh this is just a quick easy way to figure out how to read them. And I'll leave it at that. Thank you. I'd like to entertain a motion to and uh you can pull that down anytime Ben. I'd like to entertain a motion to uh recommend the consent agenda as printed, please. So moved. Gold LLG. Thank you. Support seven. Seven. Um all in favor, please say I. I. I. Thank you. Opposed. Great. Okay. Uh items scheduled on the next agenda, sir. Right. We have two uh scheduled reports in an athletic review of the department and then I'll be giving a state and future of the district. State of the district address

126state of the district. My last one we do have one public comment two public comments that's coming up. I'll be mentioning that at right after the public comment. Uh, so we'll start with Ruth Jane's taxpayer. I'm gonna have to use your little step stool. Well, we have one for I saw that was so great. Use the top. There we go. Now, Ruth, since There we go. I'm tall now. You've always been tall in our hearts. The podium will move. I saw that. Yeah. Yeah, I saw that. Uh Ruth, before you get started, uh I just want to draw your attention to our secretary who will be timing. Uh at one minute, 30 seconds remaining. She will hold up the yellow book and at the red uh book, we bring out the hook after three minutes.

127Okay, this isn't going to take long. Thank you so much. I am a taxpayer. I have no children. I do like a strong school system. I'm very happy with the school system, but I am a senior and I am very upset with the millillage. And this literature that came out to get seniors to vote said we were going to get almost 4.5 million in improvements to our senior center. And my understanding is that we're only going to get between two to two and a half million. So, we're down $2 million by my math calculation. And that's all I'm calling about. I'm here to complain and just let you know that yes, I you know, I didn't I haven't come before because I have a homeowners association meeting that conflicts with your board meeting, but it

128was cancelled tonight. That's why I came. So, I didn't get any of my friends from the senior center to come. But, I can tell you, I just want you to be aware that we are all mad. So when you go to ask for another millillage, you may not get us. Just I want to know to tell you that. So and I don't know what to spend the $2 million on. I don't have an agenda. I would speak to Nancy and people at the senior center, but I understand discrepancies of maybe a hundred,000 200,000. I am a CPA. I'm an attorney. You c a CMA CM CPA. So I don't expect it to be 4.48 million. I realize there's rounding errors, but 2 million is a little bit too big of a discrepancy. We call that

129a material difference in accounting. All right. So, there you go. That's all I want to say. That's why I came. I was going to write you a letter, but it was easier to tell. Thank you very much, Ruth. I appreciate it. I wish you would consider re-evaluating how you're spending your money for the senior center. Sarah from SME Prime. I'm afraid I can't quite make out your last name. Walker. All right. I'm sorry about that. I'm a left-hander. My handwriting is atrocious. But as soon as you say it, it's I can see it. Thank you. Thank you. Um, so I'm actually I just wanted to take a moment and speak in support of CTE. I know that Ryan Row had mentioned to you that we are in a CTE desert here in Seline and you

130are, but that I I want the board to understand that part of the reason that we have a CTE desert is because I think that the community here in Selen and in Arbor in general is very academic. You have U of M in your backyard, Michigan State, there's a lot of important schools here and a lot of parents are saying yes, go to college, go to college, go to college. Um, but I think that I I want to say a moment that you need to have your academic students taking CTE courses. And I'm going to give you a story uh my story about how I got to be where I am and let you make your own decision. Um, so I grew up in Flat Rock, Michigan. I graduated high school in 2007 and I

131was an academic student. I was told during my time at Flat Rock that I was not allowed to take CTE courses because I'm an academic student. And to quote my high school counselor, CTE is for the dumb kids and that's baloney. And I think that I think that you know that. Um but this is something that the the wider portion of America needs to understand as well. Um I ended up taking the welding class when I was there at Flat Rock High School and I graduated and I went to work as a welder. I didn't go to college right away and it gave me a wonderful opportunity to practice all of the math skills that I had learned in high school. Made me um develop an appreciation for the CT programming that I had there

132and um it helped me save a lot of money because I did a couple courses at County Community Colleges welding program and I took a couple of math classes. I I figured out what I wanted to do essentially and from there I went to university and because I was working as a welder I was making more money than my dad. So I graduated from Fair State in 2012 with a bachelor's in welding engineering technology and um by the time I was 30 I had a master of science degree in career and technical education and was debtree. I had no student loans. How many of your students can say that they can both do a CTE type job, whether that's welding, um, machining, robotics, technician work, and also have a higher education degree. There are not

133many, but I I think that we need that because my time working as an engineer has taught me that the best engineers are the ones who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty. I I think that that's important, and I just wanted to take a moment and say that. Um, I'm now doing a PhD at Western Michigan University in workforce development. So, I was I was an academic student like many of your students here in Ann Arbor and I have thrived because of my CT program. Um, I had an excellent teacher and I had an excellent mentor when I graduated who was also a former welding teacher and they taught me to work hard and that has carried me all the way through. So, I hope that you can share that and that passes through

134and is in support of your CT programs. Thank you. Thank you for that added flavor for the argument. Appreciate it. The next board of education meeting will be held on June 10th at 6:00. Please note that change of time at 6:00, not 6:30. Uh we are starting off with a budget hearing. I'd like to entertain a motion to enter into close session of the board at 8:35 bio break. 8:35 uh with the intent to re-enter open session by 900 pm for the purpose of collective bargaining 8C of the open meetings act. Under 8C, a simple majority vote is sufficient. Uh do I have a motion, please? So move. Tim Austin. Brad Gerby. All in favor, please say I. I. 7 it is. Thank you. We'll see you all sitting back here at 8:30. Thank you.

135Unless of course you're moving chairs around, Darcy. Without objection, I'd like to re-enter the open session at 9:53. Just give me a second, please. Like to entertain a motion to I'm going to carefully read this. to establish a portion of the district's 202526 school calendar specifically through November 30th, 2025 pursuant semicolon pursuant to the Michigan public education employment relations act. The board has the right to establish a portion of the calendar school calendar even though there is no formal agreement with the association. That is the motion that I am entertaining. So move Stebon supported tides. J Tisidus. Do we have any discussion comments? No at this point. Thank you. All in favor please say I. I. Opposed. Great. Thank you very much. Uh I'd like to entertain a motion to adjurnn please at 9:54. Motion

136tissy. All in favor please say I. I I thank you. I'm going to tap us out.