001Uh, Miss Block >> here, >> Miss Fields, Miss Moore is excused, Mr. Murdki >> here, >> uh, Mr. Morris is here, Miss Shuelt, Mr. Westfall. Uh, please stand up and join me for the pledge of allegiance to its nation andice for all. Okay, starting off with good news. Um, MASB reward recognizing trustee Kathy Fields and board treasure, uh, Mr. Waiter. >> All right. Thank you. Uh, I did want to put in the good news tonight that I had received in the last about week and a half a communication and press release from the Michigan Association of School Boards. And they were putting out what school district uh board members throughout the entire state of Michigan were being honored with awards. And I was very happy to see on the list that Kathy Fields uh was
002one of the ones being honored by the Michigan Association of School Boards. Um she is receiving a level one certified board member certificate from the MASSB. Uh and it is a a true statement of uh the dedication that Miss Fields has put forward in terms of learning her role and taking on the professional development and uh all the items that MASB provides to board members throughout the state of Michigan. So I wanted to take this time and recognize uh the work that she has put in and I'm very proud uh that she is receiving this award from MASB. So congratulations Kathy. >> Thank you. Also, before we kind of move on to the next part, uh if you've noticed, especially I think if you're in the online audience, uh you're seeing a little bit different
003camera angle than we've had because uh we have upgraded the uh capabilities and the uh technology that we have here in the boardroom. So, we're in the process of getting all new microphones. I know we have a few still on back order that are coming in. Um, but uh it's going to make us to be able to have better presentations in this space. Uh, better to use this space for professional development purposes during the school day. Uh, just for a variety of items and it's really good to see this moving along and have this capability. So, >> Okay. Moving on to the agenda on discussion items. Um, move revisions and approval of the agenda policy number 0166. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Miss Fields. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Morris.
004>> Miss Fields. >> Yes. >> Miss Moore is excused. Mr. Midski? >> Yes. >> Mr. Morris? >> Yes. >> Miss Shufelt? Yes. Mr. Westfall? >> Yes. >> Miss Block? >> Yes. >> That passes. Six. >> Yes. Okay, thank you for that. Moving on to discussion items. First item being uh 2026 2027 -ate worksheet. Mr. Ross. All right. So, I've got an -ray presentation for Hold on. Wait for the presentation. who needs a presentation. Uh we'll we'll catch up when it pops up. Oh, there it is. So, I'm going to introduce -ate really quick since we've had some change over. Um on the first slide, it kind of shows the importance of technology in the district. Uh what -ate does is it allows us to have access to highspeed internet access throughout the district and it
005supports our growing technology needs as the needs arise. U it also creates digital equity so that we don't have to be uh we don't have to have a ton of money to be able to afford these things. Uh -ate comes in two different categories. Category one is the delivery of these services. This would be similar to you having internet at your home. So that's covered a cost of only 10% to the district. Uh and then there's category two which covers things like internal network cabling. Uh if we were to reable a building, uh your wireless access points and the accessories that go with those up into and including the installation and labor. And it also helps us create these collaborative learning environments that you can only have with this type of technology. Um and helps
006us keep up with everybody else. Slides three shows us how it works. Uh again, with category one, we get discounts of up to 90% on those deliveries. And then with category 2, it's a discount of up to 85%. You'll see that later when I show you the costs. Um but it's spec is specifically designed to support K12 districts and uh libraries across the United States. And if you want to know where the money comes that pays for it, uh you just get your cell phone bills and you'll see that there's an FCC search charge and those go to support the -ate program and in order to get the things that we need we have to go through a competitive bid process and do our due diligence before we go ahead and make any moves. Uh
007on slide four it shows what the impact is specifically to our district. Um, again, you don't have to be in a wealthy area to afford these things uh because we have -ate to help us with those services. Otherwise, and you'll see on a later slide how much those things would cost without the - program. Uh, it also allows us the ability to have our network infrastructure current. Uh, another thing with category 2 is the network hardware. So without updated hardware, it doesn't matter what speed internet you have, you're just not going to deliver the speeds that that you're purchasing. Uh on the next slide, um I Kathy, I skipped a slide for you to keep it short. So what I did was I went straight to the recommended bids for approval. Uh so you'll see
008that uh for the Well, what are we doing? one, uh, you're probably aware of the utility building that's moving in the next year or so, and what we need to do is make sure that the Fiser building has internet access and ability to get to district resources. So, with that being said, uh, we had to do a category one bid that would supply that service. We had two bids. One was Crown Castle, they're our current service provider. Um, then the other one was AT&T. Uh in bold, you'll see that uh over an 84month uh contract, uh we'll be saving almost $34,000 going with our current provider, which is Crown Castle rather than AT&T. The biggest reason for that is because we already had a Crown Castle circuit that was pulled out before the demolition of
009our board, old board office. And so that's been sitting there unused for, you know, since that time. Uh, and rather than having to run a new route from PRC over to the new Fiser building, Crown Castle was just able to reuse that and we recoup those costs over the remaining length of that contract. Uh, the onetime cost of doing that move is $58,560. Um, now our estimated cost, again, we're only paying 10% of that. So, our upfront cost will be $5,860. And then u the 84mon monthly reoccurring cost is $287 a month. Uh again that'll equate to a cost of $28.70 a month because we're only paying 10% of that. The other bid was a category 2 bid. Uh there was some network hardware in there to finish off a refresh around the district. And
010then there was also I think there was just a little bit of a refresh for a couple closets that needed some new network switches. Uh we're also upgrading a couple UPS's around the district to help stabilize when we have some power issues in those areas. Uh so with that being said, uh we only had one bid and that's due to channel locking. So Cisco will in our area only sells through one vendor. So, we really don't have much of a choice since it's channel locked. Um, so the total cost of that project is $46,335. Uh, now the -ray estimated cost, which is what we believe that our cost will be, is $6,867.60. Uh, the reason why I say it's an estimated cost is because with category 2, sometimes the amount is 81% and it's up
011to 85%. And how that works is there is what's called SPI and the bear billing. And both of those work a little bit differently with SPI, which is what we prefer. We have our vendor actually go through USA to apply with the 471 on our behalf. And then the 471 is the documentation that we have to provide to USA in order for the approval to happen. So with that being said, what uh we would prefer that our vendor does that on our behalf. saves us a little bit more time, but also allows those billing credits to be build upfront. And then with all of those bill credits, uh we essentially don't see a bill until it kicks in. Um so it's an up upfront thing rather than us having to pay the full um construction
012cost of the 58,000 uh and instead they pay it and then they see the reimbursement. Now Barrow Works where we file the 471 to USAC, they approve it, we pay the full amount, and then we get the reimbursements over time. Uh, the other thing that we did was, yeah, I think that's it. Pretty nothing complicated there. It's pretty standard. And we're reserving a lot of our category 2 budget over the next five years here because we're entering a new rate cycle this year. Uh, an rate cycle is five years. Uh, with our student count, we're We're expecting around $1.1 million in e-ate funding that we're allowed to spend over the next five years. And we're keeping as much as possible doing the bare minimum because we can utilize category 2 funding for the high school
013when we start having to reable that and we'll have those needs. Um because that's probably going to be in excess of around quarter of a million dollars to rewire that building. Um other than that, I don't have much else. So, do you have any questions about that? >> I don't think so. Thank you very much. And then you ready to present on your second discussion item? >> I am. I don't have a presentation for this one. This one will go pretty quick. This is our standard spring uh grant purchases that we make. These uh this year it's just things uh laptops, Chromebooks, and smartboards. The smartboards, I'll go with that one first. That's 39 additional smartboards that are going to complete the project over at Hoover and West. And that's for a total of 132,62460.
014Um last year we did half of our middle schools. This year we're capping that off and finishing that project with uh the laptops. These are 70 laptops to support staff and students at a cost of $59,335.50. and Chromebooks. We have four different quotes that we're asking for approval for. Uh with um the elementaryaries, we have,242 Chromebooks that we're asking to purchase at 437,56.92. At the high school, this is our normal cycle uh for the 9th grade level, and it's $123,133.50. And then we're doing uh 360 Chromebooks for each of our middle schools at a cost of around $165,000 about uh the grand total of these three items that are completely grant funded uh was $928,1052 is and that's what we're looking for uh approval for on that one tonight. I think that's all I have
015for that. So, does anybody have any questions about any of that technology? >> Uh, I just have one. Um, and it's relevant to this, but not exactly on this topic. Um, what is our attrition rate with the Chromebooks per year due to student misuse or etc.? >> Yes. So, what we It's a really good question. I have a lot to say about that. Um, and uh I won't bore you with too much, but yeah, we're it depends on the level. Uh, did a study last year and we were at about 20% and doesn't mean that it's to they're totally destroyed devices though that's a 20% damage rate at a minimum. Um the high school's a little bit better in the elementary schools. We saw a drastic improvement where we brought them back in the classrooms
016I think three years ago at this point. Uh so we made a decision where we're going to bring them back into classrooms in the middle school level as well and we're doing that next year. And part of this uh this purchase is to do a little bit of a refresh so that we have good technology for years to come in the classrooms. Um that was something that we talked with the principles over there about and everybody was in agreeance because of that high rate of damage. But with that being said, uh the high school rate is a little bit lower. We're looking at around 15% damage rate and that's not great, but that the the norm for most school districts is 10 to 15% at that age group. So I wouldn't say we're bad there.
017But at the middle school, we were definitely higher than from the norm. Um, so what we're what we're trying to do here, you know, the other the other side of this is normally we wouldn't purchase quite as many as we're doing here. There were the funds that were available. And the reason why we're doing it is there's a shortage on chips >> and there is a shortage on memory. And a lot of these companies are designated designating their business and consumer markets into the AI data centers that are going in which I think we're all guilty of utilizing it and we love it but it's hurting us. And so, um, I've also heard from an insider that HP is pulling quotes that they guaranteed through the end of the month and saying that they're no
018longer honoring it and they can get away with that within the REMC language. So, at this point in the year, they can do that. Um, so HP's pulling back were a Dell shop uh in a Lenovo shop. So far so good. Um, I was I'm Yeah, I'm hearing a report though uh on Thursday from one of my reps because he has a Dell call today actually. So, I'm hoping for good news that they're going to continue to honor the quotes that are current. Um, but specifically with the elementary, we did go a little bit higher than we normally would for a recycle uh on this year, but that's going to put us ahead of year and I'm really hoping that next year we don't have to do any cycle. We're just doing small amounts for
019maintenance at that point, >> which like I was saying at the elementary level is pretty minimal. >> Appreciate that. Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Okay. >> Thank you, Mr. Ros. Moving on to discussion item three, uh, roof bids. There are five of them. >> Good evening. >> Evening. >> So, we put out some bids for the next round of roofs that we'd like to get replaced. Um the first four buildings we did receive four bids each and then the last build uh building Taylor Parks we received three bids. So for um Kenyon to replace zones one 1A and two uh we received four bids. Shriber roofing for $884,300. Sheena roofing was $999,900. Lutz roofing was $935. I'm sorry, $935,110 and Royal Roofing was $1,614,800. Um after looking through the bids, um
020we recommend going with um Shriber Roofing to complete the the roof replacement at Kenyan Elementary. Uh the second roof we put out, the second bid was for McDow Elementary. We received four bids for that also. Uh the first bid from Sharper Roofing was1,252,000 $252,600. Sheena roofing was1,485,780. Lutz roofing we received $1,262,100 and royal roofing was $2,39,500. After going through those bids, um we recommend going through Shriber Roofing for that that building. Also, the third building which was Moody, uh we are looking to replace zones one, two, and three. We received four bids for that roof, that building also. Shber roofing was 1 million $3,900. Uh Sheena roofing was1,1 1,70,790. Lutz roofing was $992,860 and Royal Roofing was 1,62,800. Um after checking those bids, we recommend going with Lutz Roofing on that building. The next roof
021was Randall to replace zones one, two, three, 3B, four and five. We received four bids for that. Shreber roofing was $1,241,500. Sheena roofing a,286,50. Lutz roofing 1,212,60 and Royal Roofing was $1,856,800. We recommend going with Lutz Roofing for that building. And the final building we had was Taylor Parks to replace zones one, one A, 1B, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Uh we received three bids for that. Shriber roofing was at $442,800. Sheena roofing was at $42,700 and LUTs roofing was at $655,200. and we recommend going with Sheena roofing. And that's all I have. >> So, if I may, what was the um deciding factor on all these bids? Was it it being the cheapest? >> No. Um we we've worked with all three contractors. >> Okay. >> So, uh we just basically, you know,
022we just went through their we went with by the price, but we also know their work because they've done work multiple times in the district. >> Okay. So, that that's how we we decided that >> I just wanted to say I like how you uh break it down by buildings. That saves a lot of money that way because I've seen other groups they they bundle the buildings together and you don't get the best price. So, thank you for doing that. >> We've tried that before and it was outrageous. >> It is. Yeah. When you you don't bundle and save with this. You really don't. >> Right. No, you don't. You don't. >> Now, my question is, is this coming from general fund? Um, >> yes. >> Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought. Okay. Thank you.
023>> Yeah. I was going to clarify that because it is we talked about it in the budget amendment at the last meeting that this is covered in that but um there is an infrastructure grant with the state of Michigan that we are trying to tap into but we haven't seen the application yet. It's my my sources who I've been talking to and trying to figure it out. Uh the latest I heard is March 1st. They're going to have that out. But so yeah, I'm going to do my best to make sure that we we grant fund this if possible, but as of right now it'll be general fund. >> Yeah. And after our first round of roofs we did last summer, we did see probably a 60% decrease in our our repair costs. So, I
024mean, it it is helping. Um, these are the next set of roofs that u that really are need to be done. >> And how long do they last for? Are we estimating? >> Um, they they la they're warranted for 20 years. Um, but they are these roofs last at least 30 35. I mean, we've had the well the roofs we've had on now for, you know, some are 30, 40 years old, but there is a 20-year warranty on all of the roofing. >> Thank you. >> How How does this bring us along? Because I know this was part of our strategic plan. Roofs were very much part of it. >> This would be 10 buildings. 10 10 out of 18 that we had re-roofed. >> Yeah. the buildings that only have some of the roofs
025that are getting replaced. What does the other parts of those roofs >> The other ones were replaced in 2017. There was >> So they're still fairly >> Yeah. So they're still We still got another 13 14 years. So there was I thought there's no sense in, you know, replacing what we still have a warranty for. So >> yeah, >> I just wasn't sure if >> like there were issues with those parts of the roof. Should they be looked at replaced or whatever? No, we we do a a six-month inspection every, you know, two twice a year, and those those areas of the roof are still in great shape. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Can I ask a quick question? >> Yeah, absolutely. >> So, I noticed that of these buildings, you're really working with
026three different companies, right? >> We are. >> Does that mean that they could start all around the same time? >> Yes, we are going to start these day one of summer. So, uh we will start the the first day there's no students. Last year we did do it when we had students in the building and there was an issue with some of the smell you know for so we just decided you know we'll wait um and we'll start this like you know the second week of June. >> Okay. We know leaky rooms are the top of the town. >> They are and this is probably the worst time of the year now with a thaw. Um yep. So we've had some some issues but you know we haven't had any issues with our new stuff.
027Um but we have had you know some some you know freeze thaw that that causes problems every year. every year. >> Correct me if I'm wrong. The ones we did last year and why we started while there was school still in was because those were in desperate need compared to what we're doing now. >> They needed to be done ASAP. That's why we started those early. These uh we are going to hold off until school gets out. >> You're starting the the tile work too, the ceiling tile at West too, right? >> We are. I don't have that bid yet. I'm bringing that forward in the next few weeks. But we are um we do have I did put out bids for to replace the ceiling and lights at West Middle School. Yes. >> Any
028other questions or comments? >> Thank you, J. >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay. Moving on to uh item four, section 27 L, TPA, TFT, TACSA, and 26M. >> All right. So, um, tonight I'm bringing forward to the board, uh, fourus, one for each of our, uh, bargaining units. Uh to give you a little background on what theseus entail is when the state was putting together the budget last season and during the budget season there was a big push for there to be some sort of relief given from the state of Michigan to public school employees when it came to the increasing costs of health care and the increasing costs of retirement. And so as that process morphed and you had the different proposals going back and forth between the house, the senate, the governor,
029um what it came to in the final product is this pot of money that is called 27L. And what the budget required us to do was that we were going to get a set amount from the state, which was roughly $770,000. And then it was our job to take that money, split it amongst our employees and uh bargain with our unions as to what that looks like and how that breaks down. So essentially, it was money that was given and it had to go to employees of the school district. And what I have before you is the the documents because it had to be bargained that we officially have to vote through and put that money out to our employees. Okay. Any questions or comments? No. Okay. Uh, moving on to public comment pertaining to
030agenda items only. Is there anyone else? Anyone that'd like to speak to the board about agenda items? Okay, let me just read this little bit real quick. Thank you to all of you who can be with us tonight. We understand the importance of continuing to keep you informed and providing an opportunity for you to be heard. Public comment will begin with those in person and then move to our online audience. For those in person, please step up to the microphone and state your name and address for the record. And the in after the in-person comment, our online audience will need to raise their hand uh find the hand raise symbol for our moderator to recognize and unmute you. Please take into consideration common courtesy. Refrain from any personal attacks and keep your comments to three
031minutes or less. We will provide and and assist with timekeeping so each guest will be able to monitor their own time and know when to conclude so all who wish to speak will have an equal opportunity to do so. As a reminder, if any questions arise during this meeting or through other avenues, Superintendent Wager or his designate will work to provide answers in a timely manner. Please note that the views and opinions expressed by individual board members are their own and do not necessarily represent the official position or consensus of the board of education. Also note this portion of the meeting is reserved for comments regarding business discussed on this agenda only. There will be another opportunity for comments later in the meeting uh for general comments. I would also I would like to remind
032you remind everyone excuse me that this is a public meeting held in accordance with the Michigan Open Meetings Act. This meeting is being audio and or video recorded and the recording may be broadcast or made available to the public. After you >> uh hi my name is Amanda. I just had a question about the roof bids. There was I think it was about a year ago there was a big old letter that went out about saying that Taylor Parks was originally going to get closed down. So, I'm just wondering if we're putting like roof bids on a school that's going to be closed down. What's going on with that? Because that was the last I heard of it. I haven't heard anything else about that. And I just know that we've talked about putting money
033towards things that hasn't happened before. So, for that to be out there, just kind of want to know what's going on with it. >> Yeah, I can answer that real easily. Yeah, we communicated a while back that all the work that was in that utilization plan is not going forward at this point. So, as of right now, every intention is that Taylor Parks is remaining open. So, yep. >> Thank you. Anyone else in person? Is there anyone online? >> Okay. Thank you. Moving on. Action item number one is the budget amendment. It is recommended the board of education approve the budget amendment that the amendment that the chief financial officer presented to the board on February 4th, 2026. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Miss Fields. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr.
034Morris. Miss Moore is excused. Mr. Madarkski. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> Miss Shufelt is a yes. Mr. Westfall. >> Yes. >> Miss Black? >> Yes. >> Miss Fields? Yes, >> that passes 6. Number two is the 2026 2027 rate worksheet approval. It is recommended the board of education approve the 2026 2027 - rate funding request for category 1 and category 2 spending between the Taylor School District and selected vendors Crown Castle and Incom regarding the intro infrastructure and network connectivity upgrades for the 2026 2027 school year as presented. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Miss Black. Is there a second >> Support by Mr. Morris. Mr. Madarkski, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris, >> yes. >> Miss Shufeld is a yes. Mr. Westfall, >> yes. Yes. >> Miss Block, >> yes. >>
035Miss Fields, >> yes. >> Miss Moore is excused. That passes 6. Number three is the 2025 2026 technology grant budget approval. It is recommended the board of education approve the 2025 2026 technology grant budget for the purchase of classroom laptops, student Chromebooks, and smartboards between the Taylor School District and selected vendors. Peopledriven technology, CDW, Bloom, is that right? >> I would assume so. >> And for regarding the annual purchase cycle for technology needs for the 2025 2026 school year as presented, is there a motion? Motion >> motion by Mr. Morris. Is there support? >> Support by Miss Fields. >> Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> Miss Shufeld is a yes. Mr. Westfall. >> Yes. >> Miss Block? >> Yes. >> Miss Fields? >> Yes. >> Miss Morris? Excuse. Mr. Madarski? >> Yes. >> That passes 6.
036Number four is the Moody Elementary roof replacement. It is recommended that the board of education approve resolution awarding the contract for Moody Elementary roof placement for zones 1 2 and three to Lutz Roofing of Shelby Township, Michigan in the amount of $992,860. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Miss Fields. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Westfall. Miss Shufelt is a yes. Mr. Westfall. >> Yes. Miss Block, >> yes. >> Miss Fields, >> yes. >> Miss Morris, excuse. Mr. Madarkski, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris, >> yes. >> That passes 6. Number five is the McDow Elementary roof replacement. It is recommended that the board of education approve resolution awarding the contract for the McDow Elementary roof replacement to Shriber Roofing of Taylor, Michigan in the amount of 1,252,600. Is there a motion? >>
037Motion by Mr. Madarski. Is there a second? >> Support by Mr. Morris. Mr. Westfall? >> Yes. >> Miss Black? >> Yes. Miss Fields, >> yes. >> Miss Morris, excuse. Mr. Madarkski, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris, >> yes. >> Miss Shefelt is a yes. That passes 6. >> Number six is the Kenyan Elementary roof replacement. It is recommended that the board of education approve resolution awarding the contract for Kenyan Elementary roof replacement zone 1A and 2 to Shriber Roofing of Taylor, Michigan in the amount of $884,300. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Miss Fields. Is there a second? >> Support >> by Mr. Morris. Miss Black. >> Yes. >> Miss Fields? >> Yes. >> Miss Morris? Excuse. Mr. Madarkski? >> Yes. >> Mr. Morris? >> Yes. >> Miss Shufelty? Yes. Mr. Westfall? >> Yes. >>
038That passes 6. Number seven is Randall Elementary roof replacement. It is recommended that the board of education approve resolution 2564 awarding the contract for Randall Elementary roof replacement for zones 1 2 3 3B 4 and 5 to Lutz Roofing of Shelby Township, Michigan in the amount of 1,212,60. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Morris. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Support by Mr. Madarsski. Miss Fields. Yes, >> Miss Moore is excused. Mr. Madarkski, >> yes, >> Mr. Morris. >> Yeah, >> Miss Shufelt is a yes. Mr. Westfall. >> Yes, >> Miss Block. >> Yes, >> that passes 6. Number eight is the Taylor Parks Elementary roof replacement. It is recommended the board of education approve the acceptance for bid 2666 and award a contract to Sheena roofing in the amount of 42,700
039for Taylor Parks Elementary School roof replacement of zones 1A 1B 2 4 5 6 and 7. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Madarsski. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Westfall. Miss Moore is excused. Mr. Madarkski, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris, >> yes. >> Miss Shufelt is a yes. Mr. Westfall, >> yes. >> Miss Block, >> yes. >> Miss Fields, >> yes. That passes 6. Number nine is the memorandum of understanding with TPA section 27L educator compensation. It is recommended the board of education approve the memorandum of understanding between the Taylor school district and the Taylor principles association local 60 regarding the distribution of section 27L to educator compensation fund for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Miss Block. Is there a second? >>
040Support by Mr. Morris. Mr. Madarski. Yes, >> Mr. Morris. >> Yes, >> Miss Shufelt is a yes, Mr. Westfall. >> Yes, >> Miss Block. >> Yes, >> Miss Fields. >> Yes, >> Miss Moore is excused. That passes 6. Number 10 is the memorandum of understanding with TFT section 27L, educator compensation. It is recommended the board of education approve the memorandum of understanding between the Taylor School District and the Taylor Federation of Teachers AFT Local 1085 regarding the distribution of section 27L2 educator compensation funds for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Miss Fields. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Westfall. Mr. Morris. Yes, >> Miss Shufeld is a yes. Mr. Westfall, >> yes, >> Miss Block. >> Yes, >> Miss Fields. >> Yes, >> Miss Moors.
041Excuse. Mr. Madarkski, >> yes. >> That passes 6. Number 11 is the memorandum of understanding with the taxa section 27 L educator compensation. It is recommended the board of education approve the memorandum of understanding between the Taylor School District and the Taylor Association of Central Staff Administrators Local 214 Teamsters regarding the distribution of section 27L2 Educator Compensation Fund for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Miss Block. Is there support >> support by Miss Fields? Miss Shufeld is a yes. Mr. Westfall, >> yes. >> Miss Block, >> yes. >> Miss Fields, >> yes. >> Miss Morris, excuse. Mr. Madarsski, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris, >> yes. >> That passes 6. Number 12 is the memorandum of understanding for 26M section 27L educator compensation. It is recommended the board
042of education approve the memorandum of understanding between the 20 the Taylor school district and the Taylor school support staff association TSSA regarding the distribution of section 27L to educator compensation funds for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Is there a motion? >> motion by Mr. Westfall. Is there support? >> Support by Miss Fields. Mr. Westfall. >> Yes. >> Miss Black, >> yes. >> Miss Fields, >> yes. >> Miss Moore is excused. Mr. Madarkski, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris, >> yes. >> Miss Shufelt is a yes. That passes 6. Moving on is the agenda consent agenda. Policy number 01 6.1, policy number 6470, policy number 8640, and policy number 2304. Minutes from the committee of the whole board meeting on February 4th, 2026. Consolidated items, payment of current bill, certified, non-certified, and administrative reports. Out
043of state overnight field trips, out of state overnight grant grant funded conferences. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Morris. Is there support? >> Support by Miss Block. Miss Block. >> Yes. >> Miss Fields. >> Yes. >> Miss Morris, excuse. Mr. Darkski. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> Miss Shufeld is a yes. Mr. Westfall. >> Yes. >> That passes. 6. Over to you. >> I'll give you a break. >> Thank you. >> Got to remember to turn on my microphone now. So, >> um, thank you very much. Uh, I do have a few things I want to touch on real quick. Um, the first one is something that has been going around, uh, the news lately and, uh, across different platforms of media. And this regards uh one of the vendors that
044lots of schools use across the state of Michigan and that would be uh LifeTouch for school pictures. Um currently right now uh we are in the process of going through and reviewing the relationship that we do have with uh Lifetouch. They do not provide school pictures to all of our buildings because uh typically school pictures have been left to building level decisionmaking. And so we have three of our buildings who do not use Life Touch. they already use a different vendor. Um, but as I say, we do have seven others that do. So, in light of what has been going on and what's being reported, uh, we're just taking that moment to review what that relationship is, to review, uh, what privacy standards are put in place by Lifeouch or any, uh, picture company that
045we go ahead and, uh, partner with. Um but we are taking that moment to take this seriously and to uh give it a good look and see exactly uh what the nature of these allegations and those pieces are. So uh I don't have answers as of tonight because this just came to light uh I want to say to me last Tuesday right before uh I left for the national AASA conference. So I knew when I came back this was going to be one of those first things on my plate is to do that review and start looking into uh the nature of our partnership with them. But um that is what we will be doing going forward. Um onto other items. Uh we said this last week uh that we are having a groundbreaking ceremony
046for when we start the work on our athletic uh fields. That is going to be March 26th is when that is going to take place, the groundbreaking. Uh we are hoping to get started with the actual work and get things rolling uh as soon as we can in March. But this has been an exceptional winner. It's felt great today, I know, but we needed to hold on like today so that we can start and make sure everything proceeds as needed and everything will be on time. So, but we are going to start celebrating this uh upgrade that we are bringing to our athletic facilities on March 26th. Uh third thing I have tonight, I want to thank the board uh for supporting me in going to the national conference last week, the ASA National Conference
047on Education. Uh it was always a great opportunity for us to for me to not only get learning and talk to vendors and talk to different superintendents around the country and bring some of the good things that they're doing back to our district, but it is also a place for us to share the good things that we are doing and share some of the things that uh we can help other districts with as well. Um, I do want to share one of the most interesting things that I had happen to me is I I attended a certain roundt session and I sit down and it's being presented by a superintendent from Connecticut. And he says to me, he's like, "Oh, where are you from?" And I said, "Well, I'm the superintendent of the Taylor School
048District in Taylor, Michigan." And he looks at me and he's like, "Get out of here." I said, "Why? What's the deal?" and he's like, "I started my teaching career at Kennedy High School when Wayne Hamilton was principal at Kennedy High School." So went halfway across the country to run into a fellow superintendent from Connecticut who started his career here in Taylor schools. Uh Paul Breton, he was a English teacher is at Kennedy. And then it got funnier because as he starts to do his intro and he's introducing himself to the whole group that was sitting at his table for this presentation, he then goes, "Well, and I grew up in Dearborn, Michigan." And I said, "Wait a minute. I grew up in Dearbornne, Michigan." So again, halfway around the the country to to find somebody.
049I grew up in the same city and we both were teaching in Taylor schools uh at the same time. Him at Kennedy. I was at West at the time, but uh just crazy coincidence that that we had that happen. Um I will say we we got a lot of good information for things that can tie to our strategic plan. One of the big ones as we have in our strategic plan goals is centered around uh staff wellness. And I attended a session that had some great materials that we already have a lot of and it seems like we can just take a lot of the tools we have, organize it in the manner that this district in Wisconsin had done. And it'll be pretty easy lift for us to to make that happen uh and
050meet that goal that we put forward as a board to to better meet the needs of our staff. Um, and that was just one example. Like I said, lots of other things that that we did bring back as well. Um, I also made sure that when I was going around because they have a hall where there's different vendors and they're kind of providing what services and what things they can bring is I've heard loud and clear from uh the community and I've heard loud and clear from my student advisory group that there is a concern with safety in our schools. And I think it's a concern everywhere, but there's particularly that's been voiced. Um, so when I talked to uh Michelle Marshall, our director of security before I went uh to the conference, she wanted
051me to reach out, make sure I was checking in with some vendors that might be able to provide us other options in terms of keeping our rooms secure and doing that piece as well. So, uh, it was great to be able to to network and get that information that that she requires for her job. Uh and finally uh as I said one of the great things is the opportunity for us to share and uh I ran a session for other superintendent uh where myself and Dr. Anderson from we do schools presented about our student advisory program uh and they upgraded us from last year I presented uh and it was just at a small round table. Well, this year was a full auditorium, but it was in the last time slot on the last day
052of the conference before everybody was ready to go uh out and have dinner and do all those pieces. So, it was a little more intimidating to be like, "Oh, I'm the last thing stopping you from going out and uh getting on with your day at this point." But it was a great presentation and it's great to be able to share how much we do here in Taylor schools and in we do schools who partnered with me on this how much we are allowing students to have a voice and be part of what we do and be part of uh the the decisions we make at this level. So uh last thing like I said that that's the conference. Um but unfortunately I do have to close on a more somber note uh tonight. So, uh,
053if you've seen, uh, in the news, you know, our Taylor Schools community, we had quite a tragedy last week, uh, when one of our young students, Jacob from Hoover, was uh, struck uh, by a car on Eureka Road and he passed away as a result of being struck by that car. Um, Jacob was a student who was new to us. He'd only been with us a week, week and a half. Um, but it was uh something to say how much of an impact he had already had on the Hoover staff and the Hoover family. Uh, that several of the students uh or and the staff had really commented about the positivity and what he brought in that short time that he was there. Uh, it was also when I was on my way to the
054the conference as well. Uh I had the opportunity to speak to the ecourse uh superintendent Josh Talison and uh because that is where this young man had gone to school before coming to Taylor and he said only the the nicest things and uh how what a great student he was while he was at Ecourse public schools as well. So uh quite a tragedy uh for this to happen to this young man and for this to for that to befall that family. In addition to that, uh, one of the long members of our community, the Taylor Schools community, uh, Terry Dangerfield, uh, senior, uh, had passed away last week as well. And he spent 37 years here in the Taylor School District as a mechanic. He was a product of the Taylor schools uh, for his
055education, for his schooling. And when I reached out to uh his son, Terry Dangerfield, who is the superintendent at Lincoln Park, uh he shared that his father had nothing but pride for the fact that he had tailored roots and that he went to the school district and that he put 37 years in in the school district as a bus mechanic. So, our thoughts are going out to to Terry's family as well tonight. And that's why I do want to close with a moment of silence uh for Jacob and Terry. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you for that update. Um items scheduled for next agenda, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026, uh is good news and student representatives. And now we're moving on to the general public comment policy 0167.3. Is there anyone like to address
056the board on any topic? Okay, let me just finish off this part right here. Um, as mentioned earlier in the meeting, we we will now open the floor for general public comment. The same guidelines previously outlined will remain in effect and any questions at this meeting, Superintendent Wager or his designate will work on getting those answers to you in a timely manner. We'll begin with those in person and move to our online audience. >> Hi, my name is Amanda. Um, I just had a question. when we send out permission slips because my child just got a per two permission slips actually and they were both very different but they were both relatively about something that didn't have to do with school necessarily but one of them was yes I want my child to go or
057no I don't want my child to go while the other one said I don't want my child to participate moving forward if we have to send permission slips home can we just put yes or no on all of the permission slips because what I mean if you a parent doesn't get it or doesn't see it for whatever reason, then the kids opted into it already. But if you have the other one that says yes, I want my kid to go or no, I don't and the parent doesn't see it and they don't fill it out. What happens then? So, it just gets a little bit confusing. Why are some permission slips have a yes or no? And other ones it's just an opt out. So, if maybe moving forward we keep the yes, I want
058my kid to participate or no, I don't. So, it doesn't get confusing. We don't have parents like what are you guys trying to hide type deal. >> That's that's very reasonable. Thank you for sharing with that. We can have some uniformity in our optout forms for sure. >> My name is Martin Giuliard. I live at 6708 Beach Daily Road. First thing I want to ask is, are all these meetings recorded? >> Yes. >> So, there are a way that I can get the >> Yep. on our website. >> Okay. The other thing is, can I get a listing of everything that these bonds have been used for since you've gotten them and what moving forward you're going to use them for? >> I think you would need to reach out to uh Becky, make sure
059you she has your uh contact information. She's my administrative assistant and then we can provide information from there. >> Okay. I also uh run a podcast here in the city called Taylor Uncovered and I offer that to any one of you that would like to come on um and answer some of our questions. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Now to the superintendent just to follow up on this because we've been asked this a lot. Wasn't the last big thing we used to bonds for the athletic field was didn't that basically close out that that first trunch of bonds? >> Yeah, pretty much. Anything that was in that first round of sales, the last big piece was the athletics that is going forward. Anything else that we're planning or coming down the road
060would require us to be in the sales of the the next two sets. >> Thank you. That's what I thought. Yeah, >> we covered that previous meeting. Yeah. >> Yep. >> Anyone else in person would like to address the board? >> Is there anyone online that would like to address the board? Hello. Uh, Bethany Pavey, 6036 Mayfair Street. Um, I just very quickly wanted to draw your attention to the parking lot that services both Kenyan Elementary School and West Middle School. Um, it's rough. So, I know we're in the middle of winter right now. Um, but at the beginning of the school year, it was rough. And I'm sure you can understand that it's just gotten in worse shape as winter has gone on. So hopefully somebody can find somewhere in the budget to um
061do some serious repairs instead of patchwork to that parking lot. And that was all I wanted to say. Thank you. >> Thank you for sharing that. We'll definitely look into it. >> Yeah. Yeah, and I can say uh Jack and I have spoke and one of the big things we're doing is uh when the grant opens for the infrastructure from the state parking lots is very much on our list of what we want to ask money for. So, >> okay. Is there anyone else online? >> Hi, can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Hi, my name is Courtney Pratt. Um I was just wondering if there's any clear answers. I've been contacting um Superintendent Mr. Wagger multiple times on this. Um there was an individual listed on the district website as a certified teacher a
062while back. Um yet Michigan credential record showed no certification. After I raised the concern, I was told it was a system transfer error and it was just kind of dropped at that. Um that individual has since been removed as a teacher from the website but reclassified as other and still in that room. Um I have sent multiple emails to the superintendent and have not received a response. So tonight I'm asking publicly if the board could tell me or write to, you know, the community who is the certified teacher of record in the ASD room at Kenyon. Um, and what credentials do the current staff members hold in that room? Because from what I can tell based on the website and based on looking through the educator credential system of Michigan, I don't see anybody in
063either of those rooms with a certified educator other than a sub permit. Um, and that's not, you know, the greatest. Um, and I also wanted to address one other issue, the recent ICE protest involving students from the Taylor School District. I know this has been huge on social media right now with lots of districts, but um, social media showed that our students walking out in large groups um, marching down Goddard Road, chanting profanity and disrupting the school day. Um, district policy does allow that these students have expression. I do see that in policy, but it does state that only when it does not interrupt learning or create safety risks based on what was posted on social media. That's from Tik Tok, Snapchat, lots of different outlets. Um, this was both disruptive and unsafe for these
064students. I mean, you had as young as freshman kids walking down Goddard Road by themselves, some without parents parental notice or understanding what was happening. So, my question was, how is this handled? Um, when a protocol, what is the protocol when students leave campus in large groups like this? And what is being done to prevent another walk out like this that puts these students at risk on a main road? Not only was it upsetting to see our city represented this way with students chanting profanity at cars as they drove by, but also to think that, you know, my child or anyone's children could be walking down Goddard Road without any knowledge um is really concerning regardless of the situation at hand or what they're protesting. That is not acceptable. Our job is to send our
065kids to school every day and your job is to protect them. And I feel that you letting them leave the school in large crowds and walk down main roads is not protecting our students. I'm asking for accountability. I'm asking for clear answers on this. And what is the protocol moving forward? Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Um, any other comments online? >> Okay, that will conclude our public comment period. Um, board member comments. Would anyone like to uh, you know, make a comment? >> I would I have a question for one question for Jack and then I have something to read. Excuse me. Is there when we vote on on when there's multiple like the roofs, do we legally have to vote on them separate or can you present them separately and we can
066vote on them? >> I could answer that for you >> all at one time. Uh, we could have revised the agenda to approve them all at the same time, but having it go one at a time would allow Jack to articulate himself on why he thought each person was or each bidding group was the right one for that particular. >> No, that that's not my point. My point is that was in discussion and he went through everything for us >> in the actual vote instead of voting each one separately. Could we have I didn't know if there was something you had to follow that we had to do it separate. >> No, it's it's just you know if if maybe you only want to approve three buildings instead of five or something. I mean I
067think that would be the only reason >> separately. >> Okay. Um the other thing I have is is we just received a another handwritten note from Sue uh Vocal. She's a volunteer and the vice president of the board of fish and loaves. And I'd like to share it with you. Uh she said, "Dear, dear Taylor school district personnel, I'm writing to thank you for all of your help and kindness with our recent SE Santa's Magic Forest fundraiser. You really were a lifesaver for this event. Eureka Heights turned out to be a wonderful place for this initiative. I hope you had the opportunity to visit. I felt it was the best place yet to host the forest. There was a certain feeling of serenity and wonder which was verified by many who attended. Again, thank you
068for helping us raise much needed funds and for helping to make this a fun event for many. So, I want to thank her for the nice comments. I know I went I know I saw Corey, Mark was there, Mike was there. So, it was it was a a good event. >> Absolutely. That's it. >> Thank you, Mrs. Fields. Would anyone else like to uh share a comment? >> Uh John, you might be able to answer my question. Um regarding the protests, can you touch base on that at all? um on how like as a district we could or couldn't or what those might have looked like as far as like preventing or >> Yeah. So obviously this was an issue outside not just in Taylor but um school districts throughout the So this was an
069issue outside not just in Taylor but school districts throughout the state and throughout the country. Um, and so in general, students have a right of uh, expression within our school buildings, but there's a case going back to the area of the Vietnam War that says that that students do not have unfettered rights. And so if their expression causes a material substantial disruption, uh, a school district may in fact um stop that expression or and or discipline a student for that that expression. But there has to be that actual substantial disruption. Um, and then we also have the right as a school district to maintain our our actual rules and policies. So if we have class from 8 to 850, so we can require students to be in class and if they leave the class um
070we can provide them um with a tardy or an absence and and follow our code of conduct as we would for for anything else. um students could still express themselves but they can have consequences for that expression as well. Um I don't know the details about going down Goddard. Obviously that's not necessarily a student expression issue. That becomes more of you know if we have we we do have obligations to maintain safety of our students. And so you know if they're leaving campus I don't know off top of my head if we have off-campus or excuse me closed campus language in our in our in our uh code of conduct. Some school districts I work with do and I that became an issue um when I was looking at this last week. Th those are
071some of the nuances we'd have to get into for each individual building you have. >> Okay. >> If that answers your question or not to some extent. >> Could you uh email us >> limitations to us? Like if we have 60 kids coming at us, like how are we supposed to be like, you know, you we only have so many security, so many adults. You can't put your hands on the kids, you can't do this, you can't like what do you do? So, >> correct. I mean I just with some other what this was not in Taylor but I was asked questions like what do can we lock the doors? Can we handcuff kids? The answer no we cannot do those things. >> Um so but we can enforce our our code of conduct and
072our and our policies regarding attendance um and other things if we have you know specific things in our code of conduct regarding some of those expression pieces. In the 90s, we had a small walk out at Taylor Center High School and those students walked out and they were not stopped. They walked out. The the teachers who were missing them and the administration that knew them, each student received a day off of sus in suspension. The one they had on Goddard was after school. I drove by it. They were doing their thing on the corner of Gddard Beach daily expressing themselves, but that had nothing to do with the school time. So, as far as stopping them, I think that's only going to stir up more of a problem. Um, these are young adults. So, following
073our school code of conduct and them having to be accountable for doing that. Absolutely. I was just going to ask if you could send us a little bit of a more thorough opinion on that when you have some time in the near future. >> Absolutely. >> Appreciate it. Thank you. >> Right. Because it sounds like once school is out, they're just citizens and any traffic control so forth would be on Taylor PD. Wouldn't be our responsibility at that point. Right. >> Right. Unless they were >> like for any other protest or anything. Yeah. >> Unless it's extracurricular activities that they're involved. But but yes. >> Yeah. That's that is where you get into some interesting points because if it's after school and it's disrupting the flow of our buses or it's disrupting how our after
074school activities runs or athletics then it still could be deemed under the law a significant disruption of of the school. So it would all depend on the the nuance and exactly how things play out. >> But there were two two separate >> Yes. >> walk outs. One was after school and the other one was during the school time. >> Yep. Okay. >> Yeah, I agree with Mr. Morris. I'd like to get a copy of that, too. That's I'm glad you asked for that. >> Any other comments from the board? >> Okay. Uh, moving on to adjournment. >> Motion by Miss Shufeld. >> Second by Mr. Mardski. Uh, Miss Moore is excused. Mr. Mardski. >> Yes. >> Uh, Mr. Morris is a yes. Miss Shufelt. >> Yes. >> Uh, Mr. Westfall? >> Yes. >> Miss Block?
075Yes, >> Miss Fields. Uh, we that carries 6. We are adjourning our meeting at 7:04. Enjoy your afternoons and evenings everyone.