WLCSD Board of Education Meeting - June 4, 2026

001say we're going to call the meeting to order at 7:01. If we can all please rise for the pledge of >> allegiance. Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you all for being here. We are going to move on to our Golden Apple Awards. Dr. Lans. >> Thank you, Madam President. I'm happy to turn it over to Miss Mure. >> Thank you, Dr. Lans. Our first Golden Apple Award recipient is Katie Craft, our ASD PAR educator at Oakley Park Elementary School. Katie, can you come up to the front of the room? Most people are really uncomfortable. >> Katie say >> Katie was nominated by Amanda Gosset for helping to create

002a supportive, inclusive, and student- centered environment where every learner can thrive. She consistently brings compassion, patience, and positivity to her work, building meaningful relationships with students and helping them feel safe, valued, and encouraged each day. One of Katie's greatest strengths is her calm and steady presence. In challenging situations, she approaches students with patience, understanding, and care, creating an environment where students feel supported and empowered. Her ability to remain composed and encouraging helps students navigate difficulties while building their confidence and building trust. Katie is also deeply committed to meeting the unique needs of every learner. She thoughtfully adapts lessons, strategies, and supports to help students succeed and improve outcomes for all. Her flexibility and creativity ensures students have access to the tools and encouragement they need to reach their fullest potential. Thank you, Katie. Your impact

003is felt every day, and your care and dedication truly makes a difference. It is our honor to recognize you this evening. >> Thank you. Our next honore is Olivia Bennett, ASD PAR educator at Oakley Park Elementary. Olivia, can you come up to the front of the room? No, >> she's not here. Okay. >> All right. Thank you. We're going to move on to the kindness matters awards. Dr. Lance. >> Thank you, Madam President. I'm happy to turn over to Mr. Hus. Thank you, uh, Superintendent Lens, uh, board of education, cabinet, audience. The purpose of the kindness matters initiative is to honor and recognize those individuals and organizations who exhibit kindness and care towards others. These are people who demonstrate kindness on a frequent basis, go out of their way above and beyond to make others

004feel better. They lead initiatives in their school, in their community that benefits others or inspire others to show kindness. We have four 2006 kindness uh 2026 kindness matters recipients tonight. I believe we have we'll make you feel uncomfortable one at a time and then collectively so we can get some pictures. Thomas Roek. Thomas uh Roek consistently demonstrates kindness, compassion, and unwavering support for students and families. Known for going far above and beyond in his formal role as an assistant principal, he takes time to advocate for students, communities with uh community members and families and ensures that young people feel supported and understood. More than just an assistant principal, he is trusted. He is a trusted mentor and child advocate whose patience, care, and dedication make a meaningful difference in the lives of countless students. Is

005that an award? Is uh Lucas Brown here? Lucas, come on, buddy. It's okay, Mom. You want to come up with him or That's okay. Lucas, this this is an outstanding young man right here. It's I know I feel the same way, buddy. It's okay. It's all right. A lot of places to be tonight outside playing, but I know you no place you'd rather be than right here. Uh Lucas Brown exemplifies kindness in its purest form. He has a natural ability to notice when others are struggling and quietly offers comfort through kind words, sharing, and simply being present. Lucas is incredibly generous and often uh putting others feelings before his own. Whether creating handmade cards or making someone feel included, Lucas has a special gift for helping people feel valued, cared for, and important every single

006day. Lucas Brown, Shannon Cypriano. Shannon's here. Yep. All right. Shannon Cypriano uh embodies kindness in everything she does. As a behavioral interventionist, a mentor, and a leader, and a problem solver, she supports students and staff with empathy, calmness, and unwavering compassion. Whether helping students navigate challenges, uh leading initiatives that foster inclusion, and belonging, or simply offering a listening ear, Shannon helps make Wald Lake Elementary a place where kindness, confidence, and connection thrive. Shannon Cypriano. Huh? Katie. Yeah, we have one more. Katie uh Moseri, I believe she's from Oakley Park. No, no, Wild Lake is unable to I'll leave this with you. Unable to be here tonight, but that is uh Katie. So, um Lucas and Thomas and Shannon on behalf of the kindness matters committee, thank you for all you do. Thank you for spreading

007kindness and making cards and putting everyone else first. Um you certainly all three of you are a role model to all of us. Thank you. >> Congratulations and thank you. We're going to move on to Foundation for Excellence Awards. Dr. Lens. >> Thank you, Madam President. I'm happy to turn this over to Mrs. Jackie Gerwin. >> Thank you so much. All right, I'd like to invite Matt Nahan, executive director of Orsa Foundation up here to an accept award for outstanding support and generosity. If any of there are actually quite a few of our board members here today. So, if anybody else wants to come up here and we'll shake hands and give out a come on up. All right. Now, if ORSA Foundation is a new name to you, don't let that fool you. They

008are absolutely not new to supporting our community. Orsa Foundation was formerly known as the Relentless Care Foundation, which was part of Community Financial Credit Union, which is now Orsa Credit Union. A lot of name changes, same great people. Got it? All right. So, here's what I really want you to know about them. When I went back through our records, I found that since 2018, Orsa Foundation has contributed $33,400 to the foundation for our support for our grant program. That is remarkable. About two years ago, they made an intentional shift to focus their giving to things that are deeply meaningful to them. Economic stability, affordable housing, and strong communities. When we talked a bit about what that could look like in Wald Lake schools, it came down to something simple. Making sure that every student had

009what they needed to succeed. Specifically, they wanted to reach students who needed a little extra support, whether that be adaptive equipment, special education tools, or financial assistance so that no student is locked out of any opportunities here in our district. The impact has been real. In just the past two years, ORS Foundation funding has helped bring new appliances to our cognitively impaired classroom at Wald Lake Central High School so they can continue moving forward with their life skills lessons. They funded electronic language translators to help staff communicate with students still learning English. And more recently, they helped provide adaptive gym equipment for our high school special education students. I had the privilege of having Matt join me and his partner Laura um who was unable to be here tonight uh for some of our grant

010presentations this fall. And I have to tell you, watching them in that moment and the joy they saw, you could just feel how much they genuinely cared. They are the absolute definition of walking the walk. And we are lucky to call Orsa Foundation a true partner. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for helping us make every student get the chance for everything they need. Couldn't happen without all of you. Shout out >> so nice. >> All right. So, next up, I'd like to invite uh Michelle Toé from M3 Investment Services, who will also be getting an award for outstanding support and generosity. M3 Investment Services has supported the foundation for over 20 years since co-founder Michael Burnernhard first got involved with the FFE. What began as a connection through his role as a

011financial planner turned into a mission dedicated to making an impact on staff and students in our district. In 2010, we hosted our first golf scramble with M3 Investments as one of our sponsors thanks to Michael. Sadly, he passed away in 2015, but support from M3 Investments has continued on. Through Michelle and Michael Pasendorfer, their current president, M3 has continued to show up for us every single year, and we are now celebrating our 17th annual golf scramble. Their support goes beyond a sponsorship check. They've donated raffle items and giveaways and specifically they make a point of letting their clients who have reached the age of the required minimum distribution know that the FF is a wonderful place to send some of that money. It might sound like a small thing but it really has meant a

012great deal to the foundation. And then there's Michelle specifically. Every fall she sponsors a retiree reception as a way of giving back to the district that helped launch her career in financial planning. I love that about her, the way she gives back. And I especially love that she truly understands what an education foundation is because she is the president of the South Lion Education Foundation. She doesn't just support us, she lives this life. It's easy for companies to get caught up in growth and forget about the relationships that got them here. M3 Investment Services is not that kind of company. They work hard to provide outstanding financial guidance to the Wald Lake School staff and at the same time they don't lose sight of the bigger picture, making a difference right here in our classrooms.

013At a moment when many of us are feeling uncertain about the economy and when some of our sponsors have had to pull back, M3 Investment Services has stepped up, increasing their commitment this year to a platinum level sponsorship. That says everything you need to know about who they are. We cannot thank you enough for the connection you've built with our district, with the FFE, and with every student whose life is better because of your generosity. Thank you so much. Now, awkwardly, I'm going to call Brian Feld Posh out of line here for the uh he is the marketing coordinator at the Wald Lake Schools Federal Credit Union. And Cara, you can come on up, too. Um Cara is the CEO of Wald Lake Schools Federal Credit Union. They are also receiving an outstanding support and

014generosity award. I have no doubt that Brian could sit down with any one of you in the audience and make a very compelling case about everything a small credit union has to offer. But if you ask me, the greatest thing is the strong community connection they provide. You know the old show of cheers for those of us that are old enough? It's just like that. You walk into their credit union and everybody knows your name. They don't spend money on advertising because frankly they don't need to. Their reputation speaks for itself and it has for years. They're not just a wonderful financial institution. They are a partner in this district in every sense of the word. Warriors for Warriors Pinkout game. Yep. They're there. Legacy scholarships. Yep. They're there. Therapy Dog program. Yep. FFE. Yep.

015PTAs. Yep. They are involved in everything. But what really sets them apart is their support doesn't just stop with writing checks. They give their time and energy, too. Every year, they help us sell tuition expedition raffle tickets right at their branch. They help share the information with their customers. And when we launched our Superstar Staff Awards a few years back, they jumped on board immediately, sponsoring two $500 prizes for winners drawn from all of the nominees. This means every dollar that we raise through that program can go right back to our mission. They sponsor our golf scramble. They've shared extra income with us. They've given us gift cards. And honestly, they say yes to just about anything we ask for. But beyond generosity, what I want you to know is these are generally wonderful people.

016Friendly, warm, welcoming. They make you feel like you are part of their family. Thank you, Wald Schools Federal Credit Union, for everything you do for the FFE and for our community. We are so lucky to be your partner. >> Thanks, Dan. Okay, so Brian, get back in line. Marsha, come on over. Our next couple of awards are going to be our Michael Burnernhard Legacy Awards. I mentioned Michael earlier, but he was a big part of the foundation well before I got here, but he had a serious dedication to helping teachers and students within Wald Lake schools. And this award honors the fact that he did that without caring about recognition. And the couple folks here that I am honoring are very much the same way. So, Dr. Marsha Bey. I'm not exaggerating when I say

017I have never heard a bad word about Marsha. In fact, it's pretty much the opposite. If you say her name, somebody will light up and say, "Oh my gosh, I love Marsha." And you know what? They're right. Everybody loves Marsha. Marsha's always been the person to walk into a board meeting and instantly the energy increases in the room. Her enthusiasm is contagious and her heart for this community is very real. Over the years, Hers Speedy Orthodontics has given tens of thousands of dollars to PTA fund runs, booster clubs, sports teams, and yes, the FFE. But today, I want to talk about Marsha herself. Marcia joined our board back in 2016 when her two children were still in the district. between one running one of the best orthodontic practices around and cheering on her very active

018kids from the sidelines. I really have no idea where she found the time, but we are so glad she did. If there's one person who will always be the first to say, "What do you need? How can I help?" It's Marca. She's a master at selling raffle tickets, usually selling more than any everybody else. Sometimes everybody else combined. Uh she gave her time organizing donations and raffle items for the golf scramble. made sure FFE information was front and center in their busy orthodontic office. And when we launched our kindergarten welcome kits, Marca was first in line to sponsor it and make sure that it was successful. And here's one of my favorite things about her. She doesn't just show up herself, she brought her kids along, too. She encouraged them to get involved with the

019FFE. And I can tell you, they are every bit as wonderful as she is. They volunteered at events, brought their friends along to help, and honestly, the world is a better place because of the entire Bey family. So, while we're beyond thrilled that her kids have headed off to college, and are out there doing great things, we were genuinely sad when she told us she was moving out of state. But here's the thing about Marsha. Even 500 miles away, she still hops on our Zoom calls. She still asks what she can do. She still to this day is making a difference in Wald Lake schools and the FF from halfway across the country. We are forever grateful to you, Marca. And my final award is not to somebody standing in front of us, although she

020should be um but certainly somebody who is not uh unknown to this audience. So, Dr. Marcy Augenstein, please come up. When I think about Marcy, I honestly don't know where to begin because there's so much to say. Marcy wasn't just a principal. She wasn't just a mom to two wonderful boys or an FF trustee or a friend. She was all of those things all at once. And she brought the same fierce dedication and protectiveness to every single one of them. I've known Marcy personally for 10 years. And I'll be honest with you, knowing she was on the board of the FFV was one of the reasons I was excited to take it on this job four years ago. Here's the thing about Marcy. She's a problem solver through and through. She could calm a crying

021student, navigate a difficult conversation with a parent, because there's a few of those, and rally behind her staff in whatever battle they were facing that day. She could do it all before lunch in 3-in heels without even breaking a sweat. So hopefully dealing with me was easy in comparison. Marcy was my go-to person for so many things and especially when I needed to start a conversation. Okay, I need you to be honest with me. Marcy's ability to see how our decisions as a foundation would play out in real life classrooms was invaluable. Sometimes things look great on paper and land very differently in the real world. And Marcy had this remarkable gift for seeing that before it even happened. She kept us focused and I have no doubt saved us from making more than a

022few mistakes over the years. She always made sure we stayed true to our mission, supporting excellence in Wald Lake schools. When it came time for reviewing grant applications, she was no nonsense and she never lost sight of the importance of keeping equity across all of our schools. I know it was never easy for her to recommend turning down a grant from one of her own staff members, but time and time again, she put the needs of many ahead of the needs of one. Marcy is simply an exceptional person in her career, in her community, and in her life. So, honestly, it's no surprise at all that Novi schools snatched her up as their director of secondary curriculum. We were sad to see her go, but Novi gains something very special, and we hope they realize

023it. Marcy, we are grateful for the time you gave us and the marks you left on the district. Thank you for letting us be part of your world. >> Thank you. everyone. I think one of the awesomest things about Walt Lake is the relationships, the team, like as I'm looking to my principal team, I'm like, "Oh my gosh, they're all here." Like, "My and and just and the teachers and Keith, like you're here, you showed up." And and that's what happens in Mic, right? People And I I miss them dearly. I miss you all and I wish you all well. So, thank you very much. And I'm going to invite our awardees out for pictures. >> Congratulations and thank you all. We're going to move on to the annual sports recognition. Dr. Lans. >> Thank

024you, Madam President. I'm happy to turn it over to Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, Dr. Lans. It's my pleasure to introduce Mr. Brian Swinhart, our district athletic director. Thank you everyone. I appreciate being here. So, I still get pregame jitters doing this stuff. It's like my watch goes off and says, "Your stress levels high doing this and getting in front of here, but um I do love and enjoy it." I want to truly thank um the board, Dr. Lans, uh Mr. Scaling, everybody that's been involved for for the support of athletics. Um we have been able to do a tremendous job over the last few years, a lot of activity in upgrading our facilities. Um, so I just want to say thank you for your support and everything you guys do over uh for athletics.

025I do believe and it's as I kind of go off of this, there's there's no greater honor than to be called coach. Um, everybody um to have back and to and to have kids come up and see and to say coach, there's no greater honor. And tonight I want to we always talk about our coaches and thank our coaches because they make tremendous sacrifices away from their own families and everything for the betterment of their team because their passion and their love for the game. And I want to reference I don't know if you know Kirby Smart the head football coach at Georgia talked about the three costs of leadership. You ever said that? And he said that one of them is and this is part of what our coaches go through. You have to

026make hard decisions that negatively will impact somebody. that you care deeply about. And that happens because they have to prioritize the team, their standards over the individuals. And I think when you look at coaches and coaches that care, that is a very difficult thing for them to do. Despite their best efforts and despite whatever, you know, their their efforts to do that, they still are going to meet with disapproval again. Yeah. Because they have to hold kids accountable. They have to correct kids. They have to do those things. And again, for coaches that care, it's a very difficult thing to go through. And finally, they're going to be misunderstood and won't get the chance to defend themselves for why did you bunt in this situation? Why did you run? Why did you run the ball

027in third and long? How come you pulled my kid out of the game? And those things, they'll never quite understand that. And that dan that that part of coaching makes it very difficult. But the rewards, the success, the relationships, the memories greatly outweigh those costs of leadership that they go that our kids go through and understand. And one of the things that we really have been focused on over the last years is trying to work with our athletes and our students to make sure they have the best experience. And and it's hard for me to reference um Bo Sheckler as a Michigan State guy, but I did read his book um Bo Sheckler's book. And one of the things that stood out for me, and I talk about this all all the time, was there's

028a point where Bo talked about his assistant coaches were upset with the captain of their their team because he wasn't leading in the locker room the way he was supposed to. And Bo said, "It's not his fault. it's our fault for not teaching him how to lead properly. And so that's been a driving force over the years and especially over the last two years and culminating this year with I think what was probably one of our best years that we had in terms of working with our amazing staff that we have, our our building athletic directors that we have to to work with our athletes and coaches. We had four sessions. We started off the year in November with a player coach retreat. We brought our players and our coaches together and we had them

029work together on and our goals when we did this were the player coach relationships talking about what was important and how to really establish a a proper and connected relationship between the coach and the athlete about the understanding the roles and how co the roles and what um how those roles impact when we're coaching and or not coaching and away from there and team cohesion. One of the things we did, we put them in separate rooms and we said, "Coaches, I wish write down you wish the athletes knew." And then the athletes, you I wish the coaches knew. And then we brought them together. And it was what was interesting was both of them had the same message. I want the coaches to know that I care. I want them to know I understand that

030I want to be a part of it. The coaches want the kids to know I care that I really I'm invested in that. And that was a key component. And I felt like it was a great opening session that we had in the fall. Um, and I want to thank Dr. launch for this because a few years ago when he was a deputy superintendent, he pushed me to really do this to take that next step and when we started doing these workshops every year, I felt like it really made a true impact on that. So um I want to thank you for that. Then we went to Michigan State Youthport Institute and they had um sports psychologists, they had youport institute, they had college coaches and we talked to them about relationships, healthy relationships and

031also that component everyone talk about the mental health and that's not about always saying hey everything's sunshine rainbows pizza parties you know all that stuff. It's about how we can really truly build our relationship with with between the coach and the athlete so that we we can communicate and do things and have that proper mental health. And then finally, we well then we had a sportsmanship summit that we brought in here where the kids themselves set up the the parameters for sportsmanship, how they were going to act. They they did um an ad campaign, social media, and did some really good things that we talked about to help develop that understanding for sportsmanship. And then finally in the spring brought in a sports psychologist that came in here and we talked about those same things

032again. Mental health of the of of yourself. How do you the athletes how do you take care of yourself? How do you make sure that you're you're that you are handling stressful things not only away from athletics but also in athletics techniques for dealing with stress for improvement those types of things and then how stress impacts performance. So what we hope is the com the culmination of these things is that we've been able to work together and I felt like it was one of our best years of of developing these programs and our athletes leading um and being successful on the field. So tonight in this in the spirit of those things and what um and our athletes we're going to you're going to talk about some of the best athletes in in our district

033and the best athletes in the state. you're talking about. We're going to have state champions. There's going to be state qualifiers. And what's most important that'll stand out that we're doing is the number of academic all-state individuals and team members that we have that really truly embody what the the student athlete is about and that balance. So, um while this presentation continues to roll, I'm going bring up Jessica Fischer from Wall Lake Central to talk about her honories. Good evening everyone. Uh, thank you for being here today. My name is Jessica Fischer and I serve as the assistant principal and athletic director for Wald Lake Central. I have the privilege of recognizing our outstanding student athletes. And athletes or athletics is about way more than just competition. It's about the discipline, the resilience, the balancing

034of demanding schedules. our students are not only competing at a high level, but they're also meeting those rigorous academic expectations and finding success in both areas. And a big component of that, um, Mr. Swinhart talked all about it just a second ago, was those athletic programs that we ran this year, those four different sessions that's really helping us build a stronger athletic program while also balancing those needs of academics and that stress level that can occur. Okay. First, I'd like to recognize some of our team accomplishments in skiing. We had state qualifiers for a team sport. The following athletes, Bennett Minnelli, Matteo Dun, and Tur Devitz. In swimming, we had state qualifiers for the relay 400yard freestyle relay, Abigail Sutton, Melanie Ortiz, Hannah Song, and Helen Parro. We have academic team honors for both our

035football and softball teams that demonstrated excellence in the classroom and all received academic all state. Our unifi program received hu two major awards this year. We became a national unified champion school and we also received the honors of being the only school selected in Michigan and they only pick one per year for the ESPN honor roll school for the state of Michigan. We had some individual academic honors for several athletes who earned academic all state. Marissa Carol in water polo, Sophia Medler in water polo, Hannah Song water polo, and Jay Siver for baseball. We have another individual athletic achievement that went to an equestrian rider, Maline Pavick, who earned multiple honors, including district and regional championships, a state provisional championship, recognized as an outstanding female athlete of the year for Central. She also helped establish

036the e division with our Michigan Intercolastic Horsemanship Association for riders with disabilities. That was a mouthful, but she did a lot of really great things. Um, in swimming, BA uh Diego Baka uh qualified for states in both the 100 butterfly and the 100 backstroke. In bowling, Connor Martin state qualifier. In girls hockey, we have Ava Sofa receiving first state first team all state in defense. In track and field, we had multiple state qualifiers. Uh Dylan Acres, Sienna Carson, Nick Jaden, Eric McFarland, Paige Haylor, who got high jump all state third place. Case Lane, Paul Vault, all state fourth place and school record holder. Uh Mad Mesa, discus all state fourth place. And Addie Wilson, discus state runnerup. And then our relay team qualifiers were Aaliyah Matthews, Bryce Hirschman, Michael Verga, Josh Connor, and Joshua Dured.

037And then finally, our uh boys volleyball team plays tomorrow in the final four. So, please wish them luck. We're hoping to get the state championship that year. Thank you for continuing to support our student athletes and our athlete programs. It really does mean a lot to us and that the fact that we get to come today and share all about it. I get the honor of uh introducing my colleague Dan Holland. Dan, would you make your way up here? >> All right, good evening everyone. Like Jess said, I'm Dan Holland, assistant principal and athletic director at Wall Northern High School. Um I'm honored to be recognizing these Wallally Northern Knights tonight. Uh, one unique thing is after spending many years at Smart Middle School and then as my first year as athletic director here at

038Northern, I've been fortunate enough to have watched, you know, many of these students begin their athletic journey as awkward but hardworking middle school student athletes. They've grown up to be dedicated, passionate, and empowered young adults. And it's really been fantastic to see that growth and coming this year and seeing kids I haven't seen in four or five years. And just the growth they've had academically and athletically, it's just been amazing. So, I just want to start off with uh with some of our team accomplishments. We had six teams reach uh reach the academic all-state status. That was our Northern uh football team with honorable mention, our boys basketball team, our white caps unified h United hockey, uh our softball team, and our girls swim and dive, which was also an all-American team, as well as

039our boys swim dive, which also achieved that all-American status. As far as individual academic and academic all-state honors, we had 22 athletes this year. As our soccer players, we had Nolan Mckenry as honorable mentioned who was also continuing his career at the college level and also Nathan Bruss. At football, we had Max Cooper, Landon Long, Brady Martell, and Justin Reed. With our swim team, we had Maggie Lathwell, Olivia Leswak, Vincent D. Rose, and all three of them reach achieved all-American status as well. In volleyball, we had Morgan Parsley with honorable mention, and she's continuing her career at the college level, Oakland University this year. And in hockey, we had Asen Atwood who was our freshman team goal um award and at the state level. And we also had Brad Bellinger, Brady Failic, who also received

040the Perseverance scholarship winner for the Michigan State High School Hockey Association along with Alex Green and Colin Nelson at that academic all state. At baseball team, we had Luke Mayan, Brandon Jones, Sam Monoselli, and Aiden Zimmerman. And Aiden is also continuing his care college career playing baseball at Calvin College. With girls water polo, we had Samantha Sup, Meredith Weekes, Brooke Marriott, and Mia Harding. Also, those two also received some regional recognition for their efforts. For our state competitors, we had 21 athletes compete at their state contest this year. Starting off this fall, we had Finn Gamarath and Nikolai Dogrren at cross country. For wrestling, we had James Moore, who came in fourth place in the state this year in his waist class. We're very proud of that. And for golf, we had Cooper Betta, who

041also will be going to Albian College to compete at the college level. For gymnastics, we had state qualifiers with Aubrey Atwood and Kate Anderson. For swim and dive, there's a list of them. We had Madison Fenner, Victoria Houston, Mia Rosener, and the next few were also finalists at the state level. Those were Josie Beny, Brooke Marriott, Heidi Zesca, Molly Zesca, Kyle Hugleberger, and like I said, all five of those were state finalists. And at track we had Nikolai Dalgrren, Danny Sedlock, Jordan Krebs, Jackson West, Nathan Bruss, Finn Gamth, and Anna Weinberger. And Nathan Bruss and Finn Gamth qualified at three different events at the state level with uh Anna Weinberger was our regional champ at PV Vault, and she also is competing at the college level along with Finn Gamth. So, you can see we're

042quite proud of the accomplishments there. At the regional level, we had our boys teams were co-lvc champions uh with only with Lakeland for all all wins in the regional level. And our boys lacrosse team made a regional qualifier this year, first time in program history. So, we're very proud for their accomplishments at that level for that team. And at the national level, I had our archery team had 25 archers compete in the Eastern National Tournament. So, you can see it's a long lineage of things from the local level to regional and all the way to the national level. So, we're very proud of the hard work all of our kids put into their sports academically and athletically. And as Jessica said, we've had teams just wrapping up their seasons and we're looking forward to competing

043to recognize and their accomplishments. And I just want to thank you to our community and to the board for all of you for supporting our high school athletes on their journeys as they move forward. Thank you very much. And I'd like to introduce uh Bronson Goodself from Western High School. Good evening and thank you Dan for introducing me. Um, good evening everybody again. My name is Bronson Goodsell and I am the athletic director and assistant princ. Tonight is about celebrating our accomplishments of our student athletes and their commitment to excellence not only on the field, the court, but also in the classroom. Now, this is also a recognition of our coaches who invest countless hours developing young people not only in skill and performance, but in character and leadership. This is also a celebration of

044our families and the dedication that they have provided their athletes and the opportunities whether it be in the high school season, travel, and everything in between. This is also a celebration for our board and your commitment to our athletic programming and our community partners like the credit union for m enhancing our athletic experiences for our athletes. We are proud of our athletes and what they have accomplished this year and we're grateful for our coaches who have supported our athletes along the way. First for our team awards, the following teams were academic all state competitive cheer, boys basketball, girls basketball, boys golf, football, and softball. As a state finalist, we had our competitive cheer team travel to Mount Pleasant where they uh received a fourth place finish. For our athletes that were academic all state for

045competitive cheer we had Avery Campbell, Elizabeth Davis, Emmy Barlay, Hannah for Kennedy Gilbert, Payton McFersonson, Ellis Bees, Mariana Gonzalez, Macy Braz, Janelle Fiser, and Madison Crawl. For boys golf, we had Chris Kolinsky and Gavin Roberts. For football, we had Lucas Hoffmier, Pasha Goofy, Jack James, Brady Tagai, Jesse Cervant, Dalon Orand. Well, sorry, I'm going to basketball. We have Don Orman, Kellen Krsnik, Cayto Lee. Softball, Sierra Gistler, Mattie Ferand, and Michael Gross. for baseball. For state qualifiers, we actually have Gavin Roberts who is competing this weekend at Fair State for golf. For girls swim, we had uh Melanie Ortiz for girls swim in Abig Abigail, excuse me, Suton. For track that took place last weekend, we had Sed Bakamora, Rodney Eninsley, Kiara Haver, David Crawl, Grant Haver, Timman Dogen, Dennis Basco, um, and Malcolm Ross II.

046And while they qualified for states, in third place, our 4x 200 received third place, which was Rodney Enley, Tim Dugen, and David Crawl, and Dennis Basco. And lastly, um, Rodney Eninsley actually w was the state champion in both the 200 and 400 meter. He will be continuing his career at the University of Michigan. For all state honorable mention, we also had a basketball player Dean Lewis and other all-state athletes. We have Lucas Hoffmier for football, Adriana O'Connell for hockey, and Donovan Triplet. I want to say thank you again to the board and thank you Brian for your commitment over the years to our athletic programs and making sure that it is more than just the game but athlet uh but more than just the game and that these individuals need support and success both on

047and off the field. Thank you and thank you everybody and have a good night. >> So as I'm retire and I thought about coming in a Hawaiian shirt and all that but then as I see Dr. lines kind of look at me like, "Yeah, not only that, but I thought about Chuck Frooning. His famous last words were," finish, run the last lap, finish it, and doing it right. And I've worked really hard to try and do that and and to do this. I do want to a quick reflection. When I got my first job as an athletic director at 32 years old, the the AD passing AD, I said, "Hey, can you help me?" He said, "Yeah." came in for 20 minutes, showed me where everything was, and he said, "Brian, it's buses, officials, and

048opponents." Now, I thought, "Okay, yeah." At the time, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what And focusing on that stuff. And and it really it is that because we want our athletes, I mean, there's nothing worse than if officials don't show up or a bus isn't there or something's happening. And that is that is that is priority number one. But to me, it goes far beyond that. And I would add a fourth person, a fourth thing to the people. It truly is the people that you're around and you work with and what you're about. And I would say and for me in reflection on my career, there's three things I always I wanted to be able to say. Number one is I cared. I deeply cared about Wald Lake. It's why I had my I moved here.

049It's why I wanted my kids to go to school here. It's why I work here. Is I cared deeply about Wald Lake and the people and everyone that's there. And there's a Harry S. Truman. He said there's, you know, here lies Jack. He did his damnest as the on the tombstone talks about that quote and for me it's I want that's what I want like I worked hard I really made a commitment and gave everything I had for that and finally and this is most importantly and I truly hope it that I made an impact that I made an impact on the district on the kid the student athletes the coaches the people that are there everyone that's involved and the people that I worked with every day and it's like if I did those

050three things um I'd consider myself lucky and it has been an honor to serve this district, to serve Wald Lake, and to serve everyone that's in here. So, thank you very much. I appreciate this opportunity to do it. >> Congratulations, athletes, and thank you, Mr. Swinhart, and congratulations on your retirement. >> Say we're going to move on to the teachers college advancing literacy partner school work presentation. Dr. Lans. >> Thank you, Madam President. I'm happy to turn over to Miss Goansky. >> Thank you, Dr. Um we're going to uh get our presentation pulled up and our team's going to assemble over here at the podium. I think it's really fitting that we follow the sports recognition. Um Mr. Swinhart talked a lot about the importance of coaching. Um and we know how important that is

051for our student athletes and and actually professional athletes, right? they have coaches as well because we know that in order for us to get better at our craft and to get better at what we're doing, one of the best ways and and and really one of the most effective ways to do that is through coaching. And so I'm excited to talk to you today about our our partner school work um just about a year ago when we brought our partner school uh contracts forward to the board for consideration and for for approval. One of the things that was asked at that time was we'd really love to see some outcomes. we'd really love to see a presentation on this. And so I'm joined today by our literacy leadership team uh for the district as well

052as members of our partner school um uh impact sites. So our schools that are actually receiving this. So um I'm going to go ahead and introduce them if do you guys care if I do that? Okay. So Michelle Black right behind me is our K12 language arts and um ELA and social studies curriculum coordinator for the district and and helps to coordinate all of our partner school work in uh at on the ground level. Uh Christine Titus, as you know, is our instructional specialist at Hickory Woods Elementary. Next to her is Lisa Shannon, our principal at Hickory Woods. Um Carrie Oonnell, our principal at Wixom. Uh Julie Aean, principal at Wald Lake L. and Kelly Smith, our principal at Oakley Park. So, I'm just so thankful that they would uh they were all able to

053be here. We're missing a couple of members of our literacy leadership team for the district. That is Debbie Faber at Keith. She was not able to join us this evening. And then also Carolyn Kevlin, the uh instructional specialist at Oakley Park, and she was not able to be here, too. And I hope I said Debbie Faber was the instructional specialist. Yeah. Okay, good. Just making sure. You know, sometimes you get in the mode, you just want to make sure you remember everybody. So, thank you to to the members of the team. Um, we're going to go ahead and um talk a little bit about Partner School. Um, so the Advancing Literacy uh um group is really part of Teachers College at Columbia University. Um we've been partnering with them for the last uh number of

054years, probably a good five years, I would say, following COVID. Um, just highlighting a little bit about them. If you didn't know, Teachers College at Colombia is actually the number one graduate school in education based on the US News and World Report. And just a little plug for our Spartans, um, Michigan State is actually the number one undergraduate school for education. So, what does Advancing Literacy do for us? They do a lot of system level implementation, right? They develop that teacher expertise. So, getting back to that that coaching piece that that we've been talking about tonight, the ongoing coaching is really showing educators how to implement research-based literacy practices and then building coherence across the system. And our four schools there, as you can see, our current four schools, Wixom, Oakley Park, Wald Lake L,

055and Hickory Woods, all were partner school sites this year. One of the amazing things um about partner school is that uh it's job embedded coaching. So they come right into our classrooms. They work right in our in our schools and work right with our teachers. And you can see a number of things that they do to impact that. And over 100 staff this year were impacted just by their their visits. And so I just want to want to want to highlight that. Um, John Hattie, Professor Hattie, um, who's out of Australia but has is worldrenowned for his research and education. Um, one of the highest effect sizes. Um, one of the biggest impacts you can have on student achievement is building collective teacher efficacy and that is helping teachers to understand that their skill set

056has an impact and there's outcomes, there's positive outcomes from what they they can do. and coaching is one of the the key pieces in developing that. So, I just want to want to talk about that coaching is is researchbased and it's proven to have a great impact on on student achievement. And so, um thank you to Sorry, Lisa, your face is like right up there. Sorry, Lisa. Place she's a placeholder for us. But, um uh we were able to partner with Mr. Durkin in community relations and most specifically Jason Lewis um in on his team who helped uh kind of document our a little bit of our journey with partner schoolwork this year and we're really thankful for for his help in putting this together and thankful for the team. You'll hear from some of

057them on uh on this video presentation today. So I'm going to go ahead and play that and then we'll we'll continue on. What's the most happy? Excited. >> Excited. >> Maybe rumble. Maybe thunder. >> Awesome. >> Student outcomes are improved um by an investment in teachers. >> Teachers College, they're always bringing the newest research, um newest readalouds, all the all the wonderful things that we always want as teachers. >> I would say it's made me better. I mean, I I think about where I was at two years ago when we started this program to where I am now. could look between end of kindergarten and end of first grade because that's really where your kids are are going to be moving into >> in person in the school in the classroom work demonstrating practicing receiving

058live coaching and feedback planning together. Um that is the way that we really get real improvement in student outcomes. I love that they come in and they work with our specific students and then we get to go into classrooms and see it done in front of us. the things that we've learned, we've been able to go back like the next day and use it right away in our classrooms. So, it's not something that you have to spend a lot of time prepping. >> The kids want to be in the groups. They want to know when it's their turn because the activities we're doing, they kind of feel like we're playing, I think, but they're they're foundational. You know, we're talking about vowels. We're talking about, you know, things that they need to know. >> You're

059welcome to join in with me if you can if you want. You can see it and join in like a shared reading. >> They also take on the teaching a little more because again, it's so appropriate for what they actually need. So, you see it more in their writing, you know, in their reading. They're using the things that they're learning. Um, and then I think all that carries on to their reading. It's it's definitely um I've seen growth in the things that they can do independently. Now, >> he's sad again, but really he's not sad, he's worried cuz the dog ran away. >> What I noticed the most with my teachers is their confidence and taking risk to try something new. um to take that professional development that we're given. They see it modeled and

060then they're able to take that back into the classroom. >> I do feel much more confident that my kids are getting what they need. Sometimes I I wish I could get those kids from 10 years ago back cuz I feel like I would do it better this time around just because I know so much more. Teachers just don't get enough time to watch other people teach. Um and so that's what myself and my team are doing so much of. And I just think I think it is a difference maker. I think it's one of the things that the best districts have figured out how to do. >> Our staff developers have been amazing in just meeting the needs of our teachers so we can meet the needs of our kids. >> You know, I was

061so excited when I saw that great video. Um, should I just be able to click to go forward? Sorry, Lisa. We're gonna get your face right off the screen here in just a second. Sorry about that. All right. Um, so as you can see and as you saw in the video, those staff developers, they work with us. How many times a year, Michelle? >> Three to four. >> Yeah. In each building. And then leaders. >> Do you want to Here, I'll let you go and say that. Oh, no. No. >> So, um, those the teachers college staff developers, they come and they work with us throughout the year. And so, there's a cycle for them to come in, um, three to four times in each of the buildings. Um, they work with K5. I know

062that in the video you saw some of our teachers talking kindergarten, second grade, but they do work all the way up to third, fourth, fifth grade. We just couldn't get Jason out to the upper L site in time. He was a little busy that day. But, um, it really impacts the entire system. Um, I think in one of the clips you might have seen, uh, Lisa sitting there and observing. Um, I, uh, pop in and observe too. and that um teachers college has been wonderful enough to also provide some uh some coaching for principles. So, principal lab observations so that principles can come in and say, "Okay, this is this high quality um um high impact instruction. What should I be looking for as as an administrator? How can I help, you know, when teachers

063college staff developers aren't here? How can I be helping staff?" Um, so that's one of the amazing things about about being right in our schools. Um, our literacy leaders is something that we just conceived. Was that was last year our first year for it? So, one of the things we wanted to try to do is say is and we've talked to other uh partner school sites from around you know our our local area as well as talking to teachers college and they said that you know one of the ways to spread this beyond those four schools is to think about expanding it to other leadership and growth opportunities. So um uh Michelle and and members of the team worked and we identified literacy leaders across our our buildings so that it's not just the the

064building sites. Uh teachers college hosts lab observations and we have 72 teachers in total from all across our elementarymentaries that also take part in an additional uh lab day. one um member from each grade and every elementary school is representative represented and our junior kindergarten has also done two full days. Um teachers college has worked that in to help bridge that gap with our youngest learners who will be entering a full year of kindergarten next year and so eight of our kindergarten junior kindergarten teachers um took part in some coaching this year as well. So this is the big part, right? Like what impact does this have on our students? And so we were really intentional about looking at data this year. Really intentional about thinking about students that um and and tracking some of

065that growth. And this is literacy impact data from all of our elementary schools, not just our partner school sites, but the work that partner schools uh that the staff developers come and do with us. I was um very clear with them last summer that this was um was a research piece that we wanted to implement this year and watching some data. So they were very intentional about coaching strategies and helping teachers. So, it was very aligned to our school goals, our district goals. And what we wanted to do was not just measure third grade, third grade, third grade, third grade, year-over-year, but really follow a cohort of students. So, we took a look at students that traditionally for a few years had fallen into that one grade level behind range and um or close to

066or just eking over that grade level um um marker and who might be tentative learning learners and say how can we really impact them. So, the strategies that the staff developers were working with us on this year was spread really throughout all of our all of our buildings and um you can see that impact data there. We saw reading growth from this group of students about 313 students in that cohort that we were monitoring. Um 47% increase in ongrade level reading. That's not growth. That's not like 47% of kids made growth. 47% of the students in this cohort reached grade level solid grade level status. So we're really really proud of that work. You can see in the spring of 2025, the same group of kids, only 5% of them were on grade level and

067that 5% was like barely squeaking over the the the threshold. So, we're really really confident in the work. It's it's making a difference. And so, what about that partner school impact, the really the really close impact sites? um we saw a seven and a half percent higher average growth out of those four schools than we did out of all of the other elementaryaries. So um not only is it making a difference at all 12 schools, but it's really having a a much broader impact even at our especially at those partner school sites. And you can see the breakdown in grade level range. Um so where it says grade one spring 25 that was this group's kindergarten proficiency, right? So 3.4% of this group as kindergarteners were reading at grade level and now in first grade

06852.5% of that group is on grade level. So you can see the the the progress over time there and you can see some grade levels really made some some remarkable progress and that's one of the things we want to talk about and look more into is what's happening at particular grade levels maybe across our system that it's having greater impact. Um, and I don't know if anybody wants to say anything about about any of our data or anything like that. Anybody from the team? Okay. All right. Um, I know that we heard from teachers that were highlighted in the video, but one one of the other intentional things we've done is sought feedback from teachers who have been involved in partner school and literacy leader work. And so, um, Michelle pulled some of those quotes.

069And I know it might feel a little bit corny, but everybody here on the team, thanks for thanks for joining in and playing along. Um, each of us are going to read an anecdotal quote from from one of our teachers, unnamed, just anonymous quotes, but we thought it was really important for you to be able to hear their words about this work and what it meant to them as professionals. So, I'm gonna go to the back of the line and I'm going to let Michelle start us h out with that. >> Thank you. We've picked a few, but honestly there's 20 or 30 more similar. Um, but this teacher said, "I thought the entire program was excellent. I love going into other schools and seeing everything in live action with students at my grade level.

070I've actually got two. It is always more powerful when information is passed on by teachers who are currently in the classroom. Teachers are more likely to buy into something if it is presented in that way. And then the second one I have is I have looked forward to each session we had this year with Natalie who you saw in the video. I think we need to continue to focus on this work and stay committed to it so we can continue to support teachers and have opportunities to share what we learn. Hopefully this will help us stay consistent with our teaching between buildings. This was very meaningful time to collaborate amongst the district with teachers and with staff developers. I feel like a better teacher because of this experience. This project is a key element when

071it comes to teacher training, coaching, professional development, and leadership within each building. >> This project was amazing. I love that classroom teachers were given the opportunity to be part of this and were then put in leadership roles in their buildings to teach their colleagues. Being able to watch Natalie teach and work with small groups has been so amazing. We don't often get the chance to collaborate and watch one another teach. And so I'm so thankful to the district for supporting this work. And then I have the last one. I think every elementary teacher should be able to experience working with staff developers. It was such a wonderful way to grow in my expertise. So that brings us to next steps. I've been really fortunate to be able to meet with the the literacy team behind

072me um as well as our elementary principles to talk about this project, its outcomes, and what we hope to do um in the coming year. We really loved the focus on this feedback from our teachers just within this last week of taking a look at some of this data from our principles and looking at the growth data that we saw in this group. Um it really does build that collective efficacy. Our teachers are very like empowered. They feel like they've made a real difference and they really have made a difference in students um progress and achievement this year. And so we've loved this. We really want to continue this. We really want to keep this going into next year. Um we're thankful with our our partners at uh the advancing literacy group in Teachers College.

073One of the the uh couple of ideas that we have as part of these strategic next steps for next year um we would like to expand this system a little bit not through any cost. The cost base will stay the same and I know we have this as an agenda item later today at the meeting. But what we have um kind of been planning and prepping and sort of strategizing and Michelle's been key in talking to the the staff developers is um we'd like to partner our partner schools. So rather than just have four sites, we'd like to bring two additional sites together and partner schools so that there are three um three partnerships of schools and so we can expand that that focus and intensive partner school work in their in their buildings. So

074no additional cost for us to do that. We even asked Teachers College, are you sure we can do this? And they're like, yeah, that's great. So we're going to be bring we would we would love to be able to bring those those teams together. Um, one of the other really uh, important pieces and we've been talking to them over the last year and a half or so is the new dyslexia legislation in the state of Michigan. Um, the great thing about Teachers College and one thing that makes me really happy about sticking with them as a provider is that they are going to tailor um, their specific coaching in use of using our new dyslexia resources next year. So, we're really happy about that. They're they're very key and strategic in doing this. It's not

075just about our our, you know, one particular curricular resource. They're they're expanding that and they're really involved in um the research around the science of reading and how they can bring um power to teaching using these resources next year. And then um the last piece is the um staff developers. They're going to focus that teaching even around our strategic plan work. um for those of you that are familiar with a lot a lot of those action plans, things like expanding classroom lab opportunities for staff. So, uh they're really key and integral in not just our our student growth goals, but in our strategic plan goals and in really helping to develop that that teacher collective efficacy that really has an impact on student achievement. So, that concludes our our presentation and I'm happy to uh

076take any questions that the board has and any of us up here are ready to ready to answer any questions you might have. >> Mr. Seagler, >> not questions as much as point of pride, if you will. Um, you know, literacy is our foundation. What I see here is a profound impact on our staff as well as on our teachers. Um we are learning from each other. We are adapting if you will best practices from each other and we're allow we're taking that into the classroom at student level and uh you know when you talked about one of my keynotes was are we able to help the and I identify the dyslexic students uh I'm very happy to hear that because I know that we there's always been a gap there's always been an issue

077uh We try to address it, but this might even streamline that and help us as staff and with our students. And thank you for doing this. >> Mrs. Craftton, >> um I'm a data person and you verbally said a data point that I think I wrote down maybe a little bit wrong. So the slide is about the focus five um subset but you verbally said something about the growth in the impact schools or the partner schools. Can you just restate it so I can >> I am more than happy to. So we took a look at uh school by school and looked at the growth across the grade levels and then we looked at the growth that was um just within the partner schools. So we compared the partner school sites to the average of

078all the other schools and our partner schools had on average 7.5% higher growth than the other schools. All schools grew tremendously but our partner schools had that little extra edge. That's why we like to spread the wealth and share that coaching model across more schools. >> Great. Thanks. >> Anybody else? >> Thank you all. Thank you for all the hard work you're doing. We appreciate it. >> Thank you guys. too. >> So, we're going to move on to the bond update. Dr. Lans. >> Thank you, Madam President. It's my pleasure to introduce Mr. Kevin Donnelly from Plant Moran Real Point. Good evening everybody. Kevin Donnelly with Plantar Moran Realoint. Happy to be here tonight. A little disappointed everybody left. Apparently they didn't want to hear the bond update. So I'm happy to be here. Uh

079we have a lot of exciting things going on with the bond which we'll cover here in a few minutes. I'll try to be as informative and brief as I can. So just a quick update we'd like to give on on what PMR and the team has been working on. Um, behind the scenes, we have uh an update um related to our quarterly dashboard that we provide. Um, current and ongoing project update and what's next for projects a little bit further down the road as far as where they're at with planning and design. Just some updates from our end. Um, as Dr. Lawren can attest to, there's a lot of meetings that are ongoing behind the scenes with not only PMR, but the project team. So, those continue. Uh the board has seen a lot of

080major recommendations come through over the last several months for the 2024 bond. We'll give a little further update here on those projects, but those are the 26 and 27 series 1 and two projects. A lot of design meetings are kicking off for the next series of projects which we're all participating in. Um Julie can attest, we actually traded a few emails today. We're continuing to work on cash flows and kind of predict things as closely as we can. Uh there's move management planning going on behind the scenes for this summer's projects. Uh finance and accounting, which is more of an ongoing maintenance continual thing related to the projects. Ebuilder is fully up and operational for the 24 bond program. Uh we're doing monthly and quarterly um reconciliations on the bond with uh Julie and her

081staff. Uh and we're assisting where needed on any of the information to support the bond sales. uh schedule and budget, continue to work with the team to coordinate, collaborate, um look at opportunities to improve and communicate on the schedule. Uh logistics and phasing, which I think was part of the spring, call it early spring presentation that Mr. Wills gave. Uh but we have a lot of plans going on for the projects that are ongoing right now. Um obviously updates which we'll talk about here in a few minutes with uh with commitments and budgets and ebuilder and we have a series three um sale of the bond closing here shortly. Um all of the professional services that are going to be needed for the 24 bond program have gone to the board um and have been

082approved. So we don't anticipate any further professional teams coming forward for approval. um and all the contracts related to those um services have been completed. Uh there might be some additional solicitation um for any supporting um services as needed to continue with our current firms. So we we developed this dashboard that's quarterly. Uh it goes on the website. It is really a two-page highlevel summary of where we're at with the bond program. Uh it includes a financial snapshot. Um really in the lower lefthand corner just kind of a summary of what projects are ongoing and current with a real call it elementary bar style schedule there to the lower right. Uh next page is is to the left is a highle summary of what's included in each bond series with progress photos. So we developed

083these quarterly. This one was developed here uh for the second quarter. We'll be issuing one here in the next several months for the third quarter. So, what's ongoing right now? We have a lot of activity. We have a real busy summer um and continuation beyond summer for some of these projects, but all of these projects here have gone through the board over the last several months and probably total close to about $110 million worth of awards. uh Wixom Elementary School. It doesn't seem that long ago that we were doing our groundbreaking, but if you've driven by there lately, we're going vertical with the building. Um coming out of the ground, steel is being erected, masonry walls are going up. The big push right now and the real next milestone is to have the building substantially

084enclosed before the weather hits this uh this winter. That way, we can continue with interior finishes. So, that project is scheduled to be open and operational for the start of school 2027. uh Western High School, which is a continuation of multi-phases, but this is the last phase of work, phase three. I'll talk about some of the phasing and turnover dates there here in a moment, but that's ongoing with um phase completion and an overall completion of December of 27. Uh we're going to be doing the athletic pieces of that project here starting this summer. Uh that includes baseball and softball field upgrades and resurfacing of the tennis courts. Uh the Northern High School remodeling is ongoing and will be complete this summer ready for the start of the school year and Gesler um which has

085many phases actually a couple different key phases to it. Um the first phase which is the adult transition and special ed will be completed and turned over for the start of this school year. Um and then the next phase which is predominantly the administration portions of that building will be completed and turned over um December of 26. Uh the caretaker's house was uh a project we did direct and that project is complete. Um hard to read from where I'm at but hopefully you can see it and look at it at your leisure but there there's a couple phases I want to point out here related to a couple projects. I already talked about the Geesler phase turnover, but over at Western in particular, um we have multiple phases within phase three, if that makes sense.

086Um we're turning over phase one here at the summer, uh which includes the particular areas that I have highlighted and then phase two is being turned over before the start of the school year with the balance of phases three through five being completed uh in 2027. Some other ancillary projects that are on this list that I didn't note in the page prior. Uh we're doing L systems throughout the elementary buildings this summer. We have uh phase two of the security initiative being completed this summer and um some ongoing technology projects as well. So really this is just kind of a summary of active projects. Um there's roughly I didn't count them I'd say 10 or 11 projects that are ongoing. The one at the bottom here um is in planning and we'll start in 27

087and that's for the elementary all the elementary playgrounds. Just some uh highlight progress photos starting with Wixom Elementary. These are always good to put on the website but as I mentioned earlier we're going vertical with uh with Wixom. structural steel masonry is ongoing. Gesler, a lot of activity predominantly, if you drive by, you probably can't even tell, but a lot of the activity is going on inside of the building with retrofitting those spaces for adult ed and uh and special ed. Uh then obviously the administration which will be turned over as part of phase two, but we're in the uh in the rough phases quickly transitioning into the finished work. Wald Lake Western. Just some interior progress photos there. And I mentioned earlier the athletic improvement piece of that project is going to start here

088um yet this summer, probably yet this month actually. And um it's being funded from the sinking fund and that includes the um baseball softball improvements and the tennis co tennis court uh improvements as well. This has been in all of my presentations. It's really just a highle summary of what's included within each series of work. Obviously, we can't get all $253 million all at once. So, it's broken out over time which projects are in those particular series. This is good for uh really for the community to understand. and then a high level summary of each building of what the scope is at each location. So what's next? Um these are predominantly series 3 projects that we have kicked off as far as planning. Uh a lot of the elementary buildings are going to be tackled

089as part of series 3. That includes Commerce, Metobrook, Pleasant Lake, Hickory Woods, Keith, and Dublin. some other projects that are also part of series three which include um improvements at the operation and maintenance facility. The next phase over at the outdoor ed I mentioned earlier the elementary playgrounds which are going to start in 2027 and then we're going to improve at all locations the monument signage for um for the sites. So those projects have been kicked off um or have been in planning. We would expect a lot of these to come to the board very similar to what we've done in the past um in the fall of this year. Um we're going to be bidding them and then bringing them to the bringing them to the board for approval. Fortunately, the first projects we

090brought for the 24 bond program, which were the ones I mentioned earlier, we had a very favorable bid environment. So, we're looking very good on our budget. Wish I had a crystal ball to say that's going to be true in the future, but things are looking pretty good in the bidding market right now. So hopefully all these projects hold the same. That kind of wraps things up as far as an update. I'm I'm certain I thank you for your time and I'm certainly here to answer any questions that you have. >> Thank you so much, >> Mr. Smith. >> Thank you for that. Uh this is on the website. Just again, where is it at just for the public? >> Where is it on the website? >> Just so people know, >> it's under the

091bond tab. >> Bond tab. Okay. Thank you. Uh, and you answered my question. Thank you for are we seeing costs increasing because I know in my world I'm seeing a cost increasing for all kinds of products. So, it's good to see that we're doing that. Uh, either one of you, uh, when will we potentially be as a board in Gistler? >> We hope to have our first board meeting in August there. >> Okay. >> Or or the first scheduled one right now. A the August 20th. >> All right. um with that with um I think I mentioned to to Dr. Lans about it when you're looking at some of the interiors. I noticed when I've been I've lived a lot in a lot of the middle schools uh this season it seems I've noticed a

092lot of paint chips like things just upkeep is that going to be included in this these projects is kind of looking through refreshing painting things that are up on HVAC systems and whatnot. We do evaluate all the buildings annually and then we see where it can fit into the budget. Currently, repainting of entire areas is not in the bond budget, but we do have other budgets that we can take that out of. >> Gotcha. And then the same goes with at specifically at CHS with padding and stuff. Same thing. Yep. >> Looking at that. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Thanks again for your time. Appreciate it. >> We appreciate it. >> Have a good evening. Okay, we're going to move on to budget. Dr. >> Lans, >> Mrs. Homer, >> we'll

093say Mr. Dley's probably wrong everybody. >> Thank you. So in actuality this is going to be in three segments which is appropriate that this was placed right here in the agenda from the standpoint of view that really all of this is about resource allocation and so far we've talked about you know the instructional comp component of it when we touched on the teacher college and we're also talk about capital improvements which al also touches on to the millages that we're also going to be presenting which is servicing the debt for the bonds that were issued to provide those capital improvements as well as syncing fund. So this first part of this is the public hearing where we really to actually talk about those millillage rates. So certainly the tax rates you know those support the

094program services and opportunities we can provide to students and we touched on that already in this meeting. So that was very opportune time to be talking about this as well. So we're going to go back to a little bit about the basics the mills right because each one of these will be expressed in mills. So what is that? is just a unit of measure used to describe the property tax revenue and how it will be you know uh the allocation will come out of those property tax revenues in a millillage form. A mill is equivalent to $1 of property tax for every thousand dollars of taxable valuation which it is different in terms of the valuation versus assessment. Just remember that when you're looking at those bills that's a difference. So for an example, 1

095mil of a property tax on a $50,000 value of a of a value taxable value of a home would be $50 per year. So just again pretty basic, but back to those basics sometimes is a good reminder when we're talking about this. So what is our taxable our taxable rates that we'll be having for July 1st of 2026 and what do they support? So the general fund again remembering that school districts only can actually go to the voters for certain types of millages and the general fund really it's about the the headley mill whatever we're capped at the 18 which we don't receive the full value of that the majority of that goes to the to the state but how does that impact our budget that's our teaching and learning the things that we've been

096talking about currently our day-to-day operations as an example our payroll and benefits 78% of our budget is made up of payroll and benefits for our employees ES the source of those particular funds is the state school aid which again doesn't come directly to us that flows through the state aid fund but is the other portion of it is collected from the Wald Lake school tax base where does that come from the six mills would on the principal residents industrial personal and commercial property goes to the state of Michigan again doesn't come directly here 330 mills again on those same principal residents qualified agriculture qualified forest commercial personal and industrial personal property. That is what comes to the district as well in terms of the debt. And then of course we have the non-h homestead which

097doesn't seem to be showing up here but in this particular slide but that's the other piece of that taxable value operations the debt fund which supports as m just mentioned the bond funds that were issued and authorized by the voters and appreciate the support for that those funds. So that was original funds uh provided for the capital improvements that Mr. Donley went through as well as the future capital improvements that will be supported by that. So again that's a specific largecale bond projects the new school like new school uh construction renovations capital improvements and purchases that he just spoke about in his presentation and again that's collected from the Wald Lake tax base based on the previous bond approvals. Overall that is not increasing for the coming year. it still will remain at the 4.05

098mills on all properties. The syncing fund which I believe a portion of what Dr. uh Mr. Donley went through is also part of that capital improvements. Again, these are all restricted in purpose. They cannot be used for operational purposes. And for the syncing fund for this particular instance, it's capital improvements, security upgrades, instructional technology, and school vehicles. So when that that syncing fund is actually approved by the voter is restricted by the law that's in place at that time and again that's collected from the Wald Lake tax base and for this year we did we're subject to a Headley roll back on that which put it to 04294 mills on all properties. So this is the summary of expenditures for the proposed 2627 general fund. We'll go into that more in more detail in the

099third component of this presentation, but the local property tax mills goes directly to support this $21 million budget. Of that, about $36 million comes from property tax locally. For the sinking fund, it is about $3.6 million, which is not represented here, but is one of the funds that will be part of the resolutions that the board will consider under the capital projects piece. And then for the debt, it's about $27.5 million that would be generated in the current year. All right, KB, I don't know if this is Oh, there it went. Sorry, I wasn't pressing hard enough apparently. So, this gives an opportunity for us after this is the public hearing portion of it that that will conclude that piece of it. So, if there's questions that anybody has on the millages and what they

100support, certainly open to questions. Okay, we're going to next component. All right, go. We're just going to hit some of the positive highlights or financial highlights for 2526, which again is part of the general fund or the resolutions that the board will entertain later in the meeting. So for state funding for 2526, if you remember last year, we did not have a budget either. So and that was not passed until October. So in terms of what we were looking at last year and where we have ended the year, our student count was more stable than the prior year when we were talking about this at this time. Our state funds for cost offsets which again the the state allocates some resources to offset some of our cost in our budget relative to offsetting any types

101of enrollment declines that we have. So that enrollment stabil stabilization funding continued in this current year. The transportation allocation again to offset transportation cost was renewed for 2526. The 51C which is a state allocation pertaining to special education and offsetting some of the cost associated with that. We received a prior year and a current year reimbursement above and beyond what we expected at this particular point in time. And then the state during their budgeting process because of the retirement rates and those types of things gave us a special $1.4 million MIPER offset, which that's what that stands for, the MIPERS is what the uh retirement cost is typically called. Under state grants, you'll remember we had the mental health, school safety dollars that came in and a fairly sizable chunk this year, far more than

102we expected, over $4 million. But of course, there was some controversy associated with that and some of the terms that had to be accepted by the board in order to receive those funds. So, Wall Lake opted to do that and we have been using those resources to offset some of the cost associated with some of our supplemental costs that are typically in our general fund. In addition, at risk funding supporting those ancillary services for our atrisisk students increased in funding for 2526 interdist resources which typically is from Oakland schools for us. The PA18 again is a millage flow through to the district to to offset our special education cost that came in higher than we expected at this particular point in time. They typically provide in March an estimate of what that revenue or cost

103offset will be and then they refine that as the year goes by. In addition, they had some one-time allocations from some of their particular funds that were above and beyond what their uh policies would provide for. So, they distributed those appropriately and proportionately to the various districts. Other types of things from 2526 are employee salaries and benefits. The cost that was budgeted was much lower than expected. Some of those positions that we had budgeted initially were unfilled. Our retirement rates came in lower than expected and are continuing to trend lower along with some of those other types of refinement of expenses that we do at this time of year. We also had some offsets to that just like we all did in our own home relative to utility cost and increases in fuel. We'll see

104some of those trends again in 2062 27. Okay, there we go. Sorry, I apologize. This clicker is not working very well or is operation arrow. I don't know. So, the 2627 proposed budget is our third and final component to it. Can I just click through the >> maybe? Can I just click through it with you using email? >> Okay, I'll just use the oldfashioned way. So, in terms of the five big indicators in school district budgets, we have the revenue side and the expense side. The revenue side, as you can see, is fairly limited. A school district doesn't have a lot of control over the revenue since it's governed by the um per pupil allocation that comes from the state and the student enrollment. That's the majority of our funding that comes through. Certainly we

105have grant resources and those play an important role in the budget but they're usually very restricted in their purpose. So the perpetual allocation is determined by the state. The student enrollment we always take a look at that. PMR provided an analysis for us at one of the last board meetings and we base that on use that for our budgeting purposes. On the expense side of things, the employee wages and benefits as I already mentioned 78% of the budget is based on that. That's our people. That typically might be a little bit higher. However, we do have some contracted services like transportation and our custodial as well as when we have to fill in some of our key positions with contracted services when we can't fill those p positions with service with uh people. Retirement is

106a pens pension and defined benefit rate. Of course, that is instrumental the cost that we pay for for our employees for eventually when they retire. We pay for that on a dollar for-dollar basis and on average that can be you know um for retirement purposes it's about 27 26 to 27 cents for $1 of salary and for our FICA it's another eight cents for every dollar for our benefits those types of things that runs about 20 cents for every dollar of salary that we spend so again we're talking a large portion of our budget goes to that inflation as I already mentioned and we all have been impacted by that. That runs about 4.1% in Michigan right now. So that's pretty significant. So what does that mean for our budget and our assumptions? Um we're

107assuming at this particular point in time, again, we don't have a past budget, so we're basing it on the best information we have currently. They all three arms of the government seem to be rallying around a $250 foundation increase or 2.5%. compare that to the 4.1% inflation that I just mentioned. But again, we're grateful for whatever increase that we can, but we're certainly hope that that's what's passed. But there's certainly lots of interplay between all of those arms and how that what that's going to look like. So that remains to be seen how that will impact us. our foundation, our student count, which is another component of important component of how we derive our revenue budget. We're budgeting for 11,727 FTE, which sounds far more exact than what it is, but it's about a decline

108of 75 from our May of 2026 state aid status and full-time equivalent means is equivalent to a student. So, uh, we know that we're going to lose that $1.4 million and that 27 L for Mipers's offset. So that's been removed from the budget and then we'll have some changes in the rate structure impact on the cost off offsets meaning the retirement rate. So you're going to see that both on the revenue side and on the expense side of things adjustments to the special education allocations that we talked about that that for from the prior year that hit our prior year adjustments and our current year adjustments. Right now we remove those from the budget and we'll see what remains to be seen for into 2627 associated with that. Other revenue as mentioned PA special the

109PA18 special education allocation from Oakland schools we received our March estimate which is lower than what our final estimate was. So again that's been removed along with those one-time allocations. the state and federal grants, we rely on those for a lot of our resources for our supplemental uh services that we provide to our students. So the uncertainty on the state level which is impacted by the federal level about 40% of the state budget is based on federal money including Medicaid funds and so that trickles down to us and then we will have direct impact for any of the federal grants that we have like title one, title two and title four. There's lots of discussions about how what that's going to look like, what the allocations will be, how they'll be handed down to the

110state, and how the state will hand them down to local district. On interest income, again, that's based on the interest rate. We'll have a change in our our chairman. So, we'll see how the monetary policy might impact our bottom line relative to our interest income as well as for that recruitment. of of our indirect rate. Personnel expenses, as we've already mentioned, we've incorporated some assumptions relative to our teacher and support groups. We know that those um certainly in terms of the cost of our employees is not going to go down and nor is um in terms of the allocation that we need to make sure that we treat our our employees appropriately. PA152 healthc care costs, that's the cap, is at 3% starting January 1st of 2027. However, still lingering is that House Bill 6058,

111which would uncap those rates and make put more of the cost onto the district if that's uncapped. Again, still lingering, just kind of out there in the shadows. We'll see what happens. We keep hoping and praying that doesn't happen, but it would impact the state as well. So there may be some incentive for them to kind of figure out a way to make that go away. So on again on the on the expense side of the side of things, the grants, the federal and state uncertainty will impact that as well about right now we have about $21 million or so incorporated into our budget for state and federal grants. Again, which provide needed support and provide some cost offsets to the general fund. And again, the reduction in the overall retirement rate actually will provide

112a positive impact on our expenses by reducing cost. So, we've incorporated that as well into the budget. And then other expenses, property insurance, just like your own home. We've had uh our property carrier has indicated we've had are going to have an 8% increase this year. utility and fuel cost. That obviously again impacts all areas of our operations from our transportation to our heating to our facilities as well as for our electrical rates will be increasing. If you recall the board was um did pass our contract for 10 years to fix our rates or at least provide some relief from that. It doesn't fully fix them, but it does provide some caps in there that will help us and some prepayments on those contractual services. Again, that same thing. If we have increasing employee costs,

113so do our contracted services and they like to pass that along with to us and obviously they need to be able to have, you know, re retain their services and make sure that they are an ongoing operation. So, finally, here's the 2627 budget and review. As far as a very high level in terms of our revenue, we have three four major sources. our local sources which is comprised of our property taxes, tuition and fees, interest earnings, other local revenue and again for total local sources of 42.3. State sources which is primarily comprised of our foundation allowance along with our state grants of about $129 million. our federal sources, majority of that is certainly grants. There's a small portion associated with some Medicare revenue. And then in district sources, again, that's at PA18, special education resources.

114The expenditures, they had three major components. Instruction, supporting services, community service, and other. Again, instruction is pretty self-explanatory as you can see there. the supporting services again that's to support the instruction. We can't you can't do what we do above there in the instructional side of things if we don't have those supporting services to provide the needed support to make those schools the schools run in the way that they need to be able to run with um in addition to the indirect support of students student services through pupil support instructional support etc. under that community services. You may wonder what that non-voted debt service and leases. That is leases that we have had for our computers over the past. We've been fortunate enough to be able to fund some of our our computers now out

115of the bond funds. That was reflected in the application PQ application. So the bottom line is we had 195,000 $196 million essentially in revenue that we're budgeting with $21 million of expenses. So, how does that impact the fund balance or what we would call our checking account or what you would know as your checking account balance? Essentially, we are looking to take $5.3 million out of that checking bal checking account balance or fund balance. Uh, our projected fund balance at the end of this fiscal year is to about $38 million. So, the projected fund balance at the end of this 2627 year would be 32.7 or 16.71%. Again, that sounds like a lot of money, but when you actually divide out that $200 million on a monthly basis, that would be if it the expenses

116were spread evenly over those months about $16.8 million of expenses per month. So just to give you a sense of our fund balance history in Wald Lake, you can see back to 20. Uh the re auditor recommendation is for a 15% fund balance to maintain financial health and make sure that you have the necessary reserves to be able to continue your operations. As you can see, we've certainly gone above that 15% by a small amount. Um but certainly a lot of that was built up based on some grant funding and making sure intentionally from a strategic standpoint of view to build some fund balance for some needed um financial challenges that we're going to be coming down the pike. So our future challenges and opportunities, we always like to look at those, right? Sometimes it

117doesn't feel like there's many opportunities, but there always is. Our state budget continues the cost shifting of higher education costs into the K12 school aid fund. Or you can look at that as a reverse. They've shift money out into the higher education. Either way, it leaves the state school aid fund in jeopardy for being able to fund K12 schools appropriately. The federal b budget policy will continue to put pressure on the state and local school district budget. As we mentioned, don't expect that to be going away anytime soon. The rising cost will strain school budgets as well. Um again, no differently than our own home budgets. Declining enrollment continues to be a concern. Grant support for services that we've mentioned before will likely continue to return to the as a general fund responsibility and we'll

118be need to be prepared for that and assess what things need to be adjusted accordingly to meet that challenge. On the positive side of things, we're it is expected that we'll have the continued funding for the mental health and safety grant, not to the level that it was currently this year, but certainly looking that at that as a as a continued resource for opportunities to improve both of those areas in the district. And then expanded support for atrisisk students again in 2627. And then finally, the continuation of the free school meals program, which does not directly impact the general fund, but certainly has a direct impact on our families and our students. So, what is certain for our future at Weld Lake? Resource allocation will continue to prioritize instructional programs and services that support the

119success of the students we serve, as demonstrated tonight in all of our presentations. So, at this point in time, I'm going open it up for comments and questions. Thank you, Mr. Seagler, smiling at me. >> Having lived through the days of the 5% or 5.7% if I remember correctly, uh I'm glad to see we have been able to put some money away. U gives us a little bit of breathing room, but not a lot. And I know we will have to look or the administration will have to look and present to us recommendations, cuts, and changes. Uh I will share with my colleagues what I am seeing from other districts within Oakland County because everybody is going to be faced with the same situation. uh and it makes you appreciate what we're doing even more

120so uh in our cuts and I'll wait for my comments on the budget until uh board board commentary. So, thank you for everything you're doing. >> Thank you. Anybody else? Go ahead, Mrs. West. Mrs. West is sorry. >> She wins. >> Um I just want to say thank you. It's budget is a lot. there's a lot to really understand and um there all nuances and so you made it really clear like really easy or easier to and clearcut to understand each break and breaking it down. So I really appreciate that. Um I know it's a lot of work but um for us at the board and you know for the community it's been very beneficial. So thank you >> Mrs. Grafton. >> Mrs. West said what I was going to say so thank you. >>

121Thank you. Any other comments? >> Thank you so much, Mrs. Ober. >> Thank you, Mr. >> Okay, I'm gonna ask the board real quick. Do you Anybody need a rest? >> He's gonna get a candy. Okay. Does anybody need to take a recess for five minutes or you guys good to keep going? >> Okay, I guess we're going to keep going. >> Nope. I'm good. I'm good. Thank you for asking, Mr. Smith. I'm good. I wouldn't have given you a choice if I needed to. >> Oh, we will. Okay. Okay. >> Okay. So, we are going to take a five minute recess. Um, so we will be back at 8:50. and you have three minutes to speak to the board. There's a timer right here on the wall, so please pay attention to the timer

122if you're getting close to your time. Um, Dr. Zelner will remind you to wrap up your comments. Dr. Zelner, if she pushes a few buttons, I'm sorry. You know, um but she'll inform you that you need to wrap up your time. Please, please keep all um comments and commentary professional and refrain from any personal attacks. And with that, we are going to start with and I apologize if I don't get this right. Mr. Ramirez Abdul Abdul Nor. Close. Not close. Okay. >> You didn't have to add the extra R and Ramirez. >> Okay. >> Uh, good evening everybody. Um, thank you for listening. So, I was here in November talking about teachown access. So, I want to report on that. Then I'm going to give you a couple of lowhanging fruits. I hope the board

123and upper district administration take as an opportunity. We finally got some access a month later after here in November after we were told last year in Clanganger and earlier PL that there's no access to the parents. The access was 20% what it should have been took few months lots of training and we have a wonderful principal that advocated for that and Dr. Ple was also advocating for that. Finally in the last fifth IEP meeting of this year because our concern continued to grow we were given better access but that's also the same time which we question the assessment level and because teach time the strength is individual curriculum but we told no she's on the lowest that's the assessment finally there was an admission by the IEP team oh no there is a lower level

124because as we use other tools at home it was obvious there has to be an ABC there has be one 123 unfortunately we lost another year and so that's teach's story and I think the board should out to them to the district students or people you represent to have an investigation what's going on in teachtown why is this the tool what's the training what's the support we cannot just blame it on one case manager one teacher and I don't by the way I don't need a call I don't need an email I'm making you aware there. It's up to you to make an open action and let me speak more than three minutes because there's other lowhanging fruits if you're interested to talk and and I don't want to blame anybody individually. Everybody cares in

125the system, but they need a process. That takes me to the next press. There's lack of processes in the district, especially special education. That's put us in the wrong placement. We have um the principal are the king and the queen of their castles and for especially special education minimally verbal kids profound autistic not just somebody who's has one delay this they become a critical factor and last year we refused a tour before we were pushed into PLE this year we contacted two principles one welcomed one refused the And I spoken to some of you to some of you before. Is there a process? And I was told they shouldn't be and I understand they shouldn't refuse a tour but there need to be processes. That's one example. I'm going to go over the three minutes.

126So it's up to you if you want to listen more. >> 15 seconds. >> So obviously you don't want to listen more. Uh it's up to you. I will pass on some of the notes I passed on. There is a lot of opportunity as I hear athletics and everything you guys are missing hanging fruits and for all >> I'm sorry your time has finished >> including what happened in one of the middle school on >> where is the accountability for the teachers >> so I'm disappointed you're not willing to listen to more thank you >> I'm sorry three minutes is the limit thank you next we have Mr. S Miller. >> It's so empty in here. Good evening. Tim Miller Commerce Township using pronouns he, him, and his. Technically, I'm addressing the school board, but

127this is really for Wald Lakes District residents. Funds from school bond issues cannot be used to pay teacher salaries or other general operating costs. They're specifically designated for capital projects like building, construction, and renovation. This means that while bonds can help improve facilities, they do not directly support teacher compensation. Michigan's public school funding has seen significant changes over the years, particularly in relation to inflation. While there have been increases in funding, the overall purchasing power and classroom dollars have not kept pace with inflation. Currently, Michigan ranks 14th lowest in the country for average overall effective tax rate and is lower than all neighboring Great Lakes states. And our current state legislature shows no inclination to fund our schools properly. So, it's up to the counties. If we want teachers to be paid what they deserve,

128we need taxpayers to step up. That is why it is important to vote yes on the Oakland County Enhancement Village on August 4th. It will be used for academic, staff, student, and safety investments. In the meantime, contact your state senator, Jim Runstat, and your state legislature, Matt Maddock, and tell them to stop messing around and fund our public schools as they used to be funded, like back before Republicans started cutting taxes to benefit the rich and diverting funds to charter schools. Thank you. Happy Pride Month. Remember Junth and together we can end gun violence. >> Thank you. Okay, we are going to move on to administrative commentary. Dr. Lans. >> Thank you, Madam President. We had a number of presentations today. So, if it's okay with cabinet, I'll go ahead and speak on behalf of

129all of us. Uh first, uh great and I'm sure that many of the board members will speak about this also. We had a fantastic set of graduations a little while ago. So, thank you to our principles and their staff for making it a f a wonderful event where everyone was honored. I've had the chance to go to a number of schools in the past couple days and I'm I'm very confident that we will have a smooth end of the school year and that's because of our great staff, students, and our community support. One of the reasons why I was in the schools is Leia Lakes Area Youth Assistants was kind enough to allow me to be part of the boredom bag distribution. So for a number of our schools, for our entire fourth grade classes

130in those schools, they receive a bag that has roughly 25 items in it from how to bake some goods and they give you the products to do that to a Frisbee to a Rubik's cube to a book. And so the purpose of that is for our fourth graders to maybe hop off the screen and do some hands-on learning and continue their learning throughout the summer. Uh this Friday, tomorrow, thanks to Mr. Durkin and our bond team, we will have for the Wixom community the opportunity to sign the steel beam that will be going up in a couple weeks. There were two choices. There was a 30-foot beam that we would have had to receive a uh permission from the city to bring down there and it we it would have been a crane and that

131that would have been quite a production. So, we decided on this sixoot beam that'll be down there and is available for the Wixom school community to sign. And finally, I'd like to personally thank Brian Swinhart for his years of service to Wald Lake. This probably is his last board meeting and certainly his last athletic recognition. And I do remember the conversation we had two years ago. I also remember meeting him the very first night that I was here at the board being approved as the HR uh assistant superintendent. And Brian has been a wonderful colleague to work with. And for as much as he said that I've spurred him, he has certainly helped me with my learning. So, thank you, Brian Swinhart. Thank you, Madam President. >> Okay, we're gonna move on to board commentary.

132Dr. Zelner, >> thank you, Madam President. Um, first of all, also, congrats to Mr. Swinhart. Congratulations on the retirement and congratulations to all our award winners. That was so fun. Um, Mrs. Cohansky, we are going to miss you. Thank you for everything you've done here. You know, I've been cheering you on as in your journey and I'm thrilled to see what you'll do in Aenddale. Aenddale, you were very lucky to get her. Uh, thank you to all of the staff and everyone who made graduation such an incredible experience. It was so much fun and I loved uh seeing all the students and celebrating all of their hard work and their time here at Wall Lake Schools. Um, also I just want to note that right now, uh, speaking of the safe schools that we provide

133for all of our kids, right now it's June is pride month. This has a particularly personal meaning for me. Um, our schools exist to serve all of our students and every student deserve that same feeling that we felt at graduation. they deserve when they walk through our doors to feel seen, valued, and safe. And it's a commitment to the kind of learning environment where all people can focus on growing and becoming who they are. Um, so I just want to say to my community, you belong here. Um, we are so lucky to have you as part of our Wald Lake community and um, I'm happy to celebrate you. And finally, as we say goodbye to this school year, just want to remind everyone to make good choices and yes, pick up a book and solve

134that Rubik's cube. Uh I want to see how everyone does at the end of the summer. That is all. >> Thank you, Mr. Smith. >> Madam President, yes. Uh congratulations as well to all the seniors. Uh it was amazing to be a part uh of that commencement for the three of them. is truly one of those honors that you have as a board member that makes this all worthwhile are those moments. Glad I was able to attend. Uh in the last month or so, I've had the pleasure of attending the CHS band and orchestra concerts and it's just truly remarkable to see uh the growth from sixth grade to 7th grade to eighth grade and then hopefully that they continue on into high schools. And just I want to say kudos to all the amazing

135students and teachers leading them. It's really amazing what we have in our performing arts and uh music. Congrats to Wald Lake Northern softball three pet repeats as district champions. Uh I want to congrat Mrs. Lens, our wonderful music teacher from Dublin Elementary for being recognized in the 50 plus music teachers who make a difference issue. I know my kids absolutely adored her as our music teacher at Dublin and uh it's really great. I want to continue on that and uh show that honor to her. I want to say congrats to all the students. uh as we've mentioned throughout today, uh being recognized for athletic honors, but as well as amazing academic honors and um other things that have been going on as these the end of the year has been shown just how truly remarkable

136our students are and how well-rounded they are and the amazing uh attributes that they have and that they're provided here at the district. Uh congratulations and all the best to all those that are retiring this year. I know there's many teachers on the list uh and staff members that my kids are sad to see go uh but I know that they're going to enjoy the retirement. welld deserved. Uh thank you for all your time and to those that are continuing on teaching. It's just been an amazing year and thank you for all that you do every day for our kids. Uh thank you to Mrs. Cohensky as well. Congratulations on your new journey. We'll miss you and uh your expertise at this table, but we know you're going to do well in Aenddale. I want

137to thank you to the staff and volunteers who made my daughter Natalie's eighth grade DC trip a huge success. Apparently, she's coming back in about 20 minutes uh from there, so it'll be a long journey from DC. I'm so happy that we're able to still offer these type of experiences to our students. So, that's amazing. Uh among many other remarkable things that are going on in June, June is also men's uh health month. So, I just want to say it's a focus on men's and boys physical health. It's not only about fitness, annual checkups and heart health, but mental well-being is equally important because mental health is health. So, I just wanted to acknowledge that uh during this. So, check in on everyone. small steps uh to care for mental health can lead to significant

138change. So, let's build a culture where boys and men feel safe speaking up and reaching out as well. Uh during this time, as we head into the summer, remember to still check in on everyone. Like you said, read a book, get out there, be active, don't just sit on your phones. We're going to be working on things through that summer for my own kids as well. Uh and just be out there for each other. Just really be there. I wish everyone a wonderful last few days of school. I know next week will be more bittersweet as well in my family because we get to watch our eighth grader do the clap out and then go to Wald Northern for their promotion ceremony. So get to see my daughter do that. Happy Father's Day to everyone.

139I don't think I'll see anyone during up. >> Yeah, you will. >> We'll have another meeting. >> Oh, we do have one more. Well, still happy Father's Day to everyone and I hope everyone has a fun, restful, and safe summer. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. West. >> Thank you, Mrs. Gavlin. Um, just want to say congratulations to our graduates again. Um, be proud of yourself whether you were top of your class or you made it through by the skin of your teeth. Um, it's not easy for everybody. And so I just want to let them know that like be proud of yourself, keep working hard. Um, find your passion and just choose to go with that and try to, you know, be your best self um, as you go into your future endeavors. So,

140um, with that, I really want, you know, keep encouraging those graduates to be themselves. Um, and keep working hard. Um, for our retirees, thank you so much for everything you've done for our district. And Mrs. Kohansky, thank you again. So, you'll be missed here, but we appreciate you. So, thank you. >> Mr. Seeker. Aren't you going to be here for our next meeting? >> Yes. >> Thank you. So, I can save that. >> Thank you. >> Okay. I appreciate that. Uh, you know, graduation again, it was phenomenal. Parents, students, staff, it was a great day. uh when I tell other colleagues throughout the state that we did all three graduations in one day and they looked at me and they said your board must be some very dedicated and tired people and I said yes

141we were. So um I've had the pleasure again of spending a little bit of time in Lancing over the last few weeks. uh had the opportunity to have a very intense discussion with Representative Kelly a few weeks ago that I've told most of you about. Uh I also had to had the opportunity of seeing uh some of our local representatives while I was there and it was great. But you know the key word for us and our key concern is the budget. Uh if any of you listen to Representative Hall when he was in Meno, he said some words that literally scare me and that is well we might have a 90-day budget and we'll let the newly elected representatives worry about it at that time. We've again those were his words. Utter chaos, fear.

142I don't know what's going to happen. But when we look at the at the budget, you know, we're looking at weighted pupil count formula. The governor center proposals establish a weighted formula for at risk and English learn language funding following recommendations from the school finance research collaborative. And the one thing about that is if for those of you who remember 2018 they said, you know, roughly $12,500 base for the districts plus plus. Well, if you want to put it in today's dollars, that's $16,640. Uh, and we're only getting 10,300. So, I think we've got, you know, we've still got a large gap. And as Mrs. Omar said, it doesn't match the rate of inflation. And we've got a few things to look at. uh 31A is still being still in court and still being refined.

143They have redefined some of the uh verbiage in that uh in regards to mass casualty event, but it still needs a little bit more tweaking. We were fortunate to uh participate in that money. Uh unfortunately, next year the House is only recommending $146 per per pupil, which is drastically less than what we saw this year. Uh free meals, again, they're still looking at it as a categorical. And yesterday, there was some very hard discussions on that. Uh also when we talk about meals, there's some new refinement as to uh what is allowable to be served in school or offered in school and that includes popping and candy. We're looking for a refinement on the verbiage for that because if we don't, that means it's sporting events or after school activities, you're going to have to

144have two lines, one for the adults and one for the students. Again, a little bit of chaos. uh universities, colleges. We're still looking at a drastic cut from 1.3 billion to 1.8 billion out of the school aid fund to help fund those institutions that can have endowments and have fundraisers and charge tuition where we can't. Uh the thing that scares me, and I mentioned this to Mrs. or two is the fact that right now there's not a lot of talk on the budget and that's very scary. Uh that means if if things happen at all that's going to be very hastily done and very hastily put together and we could uh see the wrath of a lot of people. The other thing that is on the uh agenda is the House has put forth bills

145aimed at uh property tax reform to the tune of approximately $4.1 billion. Unfortunately, they don't have a plan to backfill that yet. So again, uh when I say we might have to make some phone calls, write some letters, and get a hold of some people, be prepared. Uh, I was actually going to call Mrs. Glasser and ask her to have the PTA liaison on standby if we if we do need them because we might need to react real quickly. Uh, so I mean, we've got a lot to look at. We've got a lot to consider with the budget and uh if we don't have it then, you know, the the chaos ensues as to what we saw last year and we keep our fingers crossed. So, I'll keep it short and sweet tonight because I

146could have brought all 30 pages of the report, but I won't do that. >> Thank you, Mrs. Craftton. >> Great commencement. Thank you for all the hard work. We got four more days to push through. Teachers, staff, students, I know it's hard. We're going to make it. Then you can take a breath and then you can read your book and enjoy the outside. Thanks. Congratulations class of 2026. Commencement was fantastic. I appreciate each and every one of the board members for being there and helping that day. Um it is a long day and I appreciate each and every one of you for being there and participating. Um Mrs. Cohensky, I'll keep it for next week. Um since you will be gracing us, but but we will miss you. Um summer's coming. Enjoy it. Take some

147time to relax. take some time to recharge, you know, spend some time in the sun, spend some time reading your books, just enjoy. And thank you to our staff and everything for a wonderful school year um for 2026. Now, we're going to move on to the consent agenda. We have approval of the minutes for the proposed May 7th, 2026 regular meeting. We have personnel recommendations, new hires, retirements, resignations, financial reports for April 2026, dispersements in the amount of 24,892,374, balance sheet and statement of revenue and expenditures unodudited and investment schedule. We have purchases under $50,000 class link staff and student online an access management systems. Logosoft one-year annual software license renewal not to exceed $46,46960 from the general fund. Gold Book Toolkit annual renewal of Endnome Inc. Partial district membership 30 or excuse me 80

148user access professional development and technical support 49,200 IDEA grant fund and then we have the Head Start teachers report from May 2026. >> Madam Mrs. West. >> May I move the I move that the board of education approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Yes, you may. >> Support. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. 6. Moving on to purchases over 50,000. Dr. Lans. >> Thank you, Madam President. Happy to turn over to Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, Dr. Lans. Skyward, the district's information system is a valuable tool allowing the district to collect and host student data efficiently and securely. Its compreh comprehensive features provide the ability to track academic progress, attendance, activity participation, and other critical student information that's necessary for school operations, state and federal compliance reporting. Administration rec recommends

149renewing the contract for year two of three commitment totaling $145,500.30 from the general fund. >> Madam President, >> Mr. Seagler. >> I move the board of education approve the purchase of Skyward K12 student management system year two year two of three-year commitment annual software license renewal totaling $145,500.30 from the general fund >> support >> discussion all those in favor I opposed >> motion carries 6 Dr. Lans >> thank you very much right back at you there Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you Dr. response. Microsoft 365 offers a range of tools and features that significantly benefit the Wald Lake Consolidated School District. M M365 includes essential apps like Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams, which facilitate seamless collaboration and communication. It provides robust security features including data loss prevention, threat protection, and identity management, ensuring the safety

150of sensitive information. administration recommends purchasing the annual software license renewal totaling $114,750.70 from the general fund. >> Madam President, >> Mrs. Grafton, >> I move that the board of education approve the renewal purchase of Microsoft 365 A3-5 faculty one-year subscription in a comp TSG for $114,750.70 from the general fund. support >> discussion. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. 6. Dr. Lens, >> one more time, Mr. Scaling, and then we'll give you a little bit of a break. >> Thank you, sir. Google Workspace for Education Plus is designed to support large-scale digital learning environments with advanced tools for teaching, learning, and administration. All user accounts are provided with drive storage that has search functions and able to provide easy access to files and information. It supports interactive lesson design and implementation by

151providing teachers and staff with a learning management system. The Google Classroom administration console centralizes advanced security and analytic tools to manage Chromebooks, monitor accounts, and access, and be proactive against threats. Administration recommends entering into a three-year contract with year one of three totaling $59,670 from the general fund. >> Madam President, >> Mrs. Craftton. >> I move that the board of education approve the purchase of Google Workspace for Education Plus annual software license renewal three-year contract with year one of three totaling $59,670 from the general fund. >> Support >> discussion. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries 6. Dr. Lans. >> Thank you very much, Madam President. I'm happy to turn it over to Miss Kohansky. Thank you, Dr. Lans. Um, I have for you the Educ Renaissance Learning three-year renewal. Um, for the

152last several years, the district's been building our data system for our MTSS process using the Educ Climber platform through Renaissance learning. It's an essential component of our system to support all students needs and has been an efficient place for the K12 building teams to be able to quickly access student academic attendance, state assessment, benchmark, I ready assessment, and other intervention planning data. Our building teams utilize Educas and have come to appreciate all the features and functions that it offers. administration recommends a three-year renewal totaling $27,75.99 from the 31A at risk grant fund. >> Dr. Zelner. >> I move that the board of education approve the purchase of Educ Climber Renaissance Learning 3-year renewal for 27 2775 $27,75.99 from 31A atrisisk grant fund support >> discussion Mr. Smith. >> Sorry, this Thank you, Madam President. This

153just came up as I'm reading this. uh if guess it's a big if if uh we move away from I Ready this will allow any of the assessments that Okay. >> Yeah, that's a great question. Thank you. Any it's agnostic so we can up we can disconnect the the um sync with I Ready loading its data and we can upload a different assessment system if that's what we choose. >> Yes, >> Mrs. West. So just to reiterate that all these different com software components they all work together to like so we although on the front like a family may not look at it and see like each component but it's used in the background in order to gain full access and a better picture of what the students learning. Correct. >> The edge climber would

154be more in the background. What Mr. Scaling recommended is more in the foreground because that gives us access to the Microsoft suite to email etc. Okay. So, it's a little bit of both. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. And Dr. Zelner, >> uh, I just want to make sure I'm understanding this. This is a three-year renewal. So, it's we wouldn't be looking at this again for >> You won't look at it again for three more years. Correct. >> Anybody else? Okay. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. 6. Dr. Lans. >> My pleasure. Turn it back over to Mrs. Kensky. >> Thank you, Dr. Lans. Um uh related to our earlier presentation I have for you the teachers college advancing literacy partner school contracts. Uh the district's partnership with Teachers College at Columbia

155University has yielded strong results and will expand next year to include two additional elementary schools while creatively structuring the services to provide six schools professional development and coaching for the cost of the three school model that or the cost of the three that um or four I'm sorry that that should say four. All elementary schools will have access to coaching and non-partner schools will continue to be supported through the literacy leaders cohort uh that was highlighted today in the presentation. The work will also align more closely with the district's dyslexia resources which are UFly phonics and e education with that's through imagine learning and leveraging teachers college expertise in their science of reading research. So the total cost is $123,750 and will be funded again through that 31A at risk grant. Mrs. West, I move

156that the board of education approve the teachers college advancing literacy partner school work contracts for $123,750 from the 31A grant fund. >> Support >> discussion. Mr. Smith. >> Thank you, Madam President. Dr. Lans. Uh, Miss Kansky, whoever. Uh, is it a secret who the next two additional elementary schools are or is it have you chosen them? >> So, it and it's really funny that you mentioned that because all the principles, you know, it's the pick me, pick me, pick me, you know, everybody loves the work and so people are really excited about that. Um, we're in the process of making that selection. So, it's not top there's nothing top secret right now. We're just still going through some data and looking at where it would make sense from geographic location kinds of things because partnering

157those schools, they might need to be a little more closer in proximity. So, there's some factors we're considering, but before the by the next board meeting, I should be if you're interested, we'll probably have that answer. So, >> that's a nice way of saying it's top secret. >> Totally top secret. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for this, too. I think this has been a great addition to Wildlife Schools and I appreciate that and great work. Mrs. Titus, any other discussion, Mrs. West? Um, I also want to say that I really appreciate from the presentation earlier, it really showed with the data that um of the growth that our students are making with their literacy. Um, so I am excited about seeing this and how it's improving the classrooms and helping the

158teachers help each other and and you know essentially the stu students which is what our main focus is on. So thank you very much. >> Anybody else? Okay. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries 6. Dr. Lans. >> Thank you, Madam President. I'm happy to turn over to Miss Mir. >> Thank you, Dr. Lans. Teachtown Encore K12 is a standardbased alternate curricula utilized in our K12 ASD, MOSI, and SXI programs. Aligned to the common core essential elements, Teachtown ensures that our students receiving instruction in our ASD, MOSI, and SXI programs have a standard-based curriculum with a scope and sequence that is vertically aligned for GA grades K12. administration recommends purchasing the annual software license renewal of Encore K12 Teachtown student subscriptions and the purchase of grades 68 and 912 manipulative kits for $74,17969

159year one of a two-year agreement from the general fund. >> Mr. Cap, >> Mr. Seagler. >> I move that the board of education approve the annual renewal purchase of Teachtown Encore K12 totaling $74,17969 from the general fund >> support. Um yes, Mrs. West. >> Um considering that we Mr. Abdul Norah came in and you know had concerns regarding Teachtown. Do we know specifically what the concerns were as far as like where the problems were for Teachtown and how we can resolve it so that way we don't have loss of learning for these students. >> Yep. So to be clear the students were still able to access it. The challenge was allowing parents to access it with this particular situation. We are aware of that and we are solving that problem. Mhm. >> Mrs. Mir, I

160have one question. You said 68. Is it 6 through 8th and 9th through 12? Correct. Or is it 6 and 8 and 9 and 12? Okay. Just want clarification. >> 9 through 12. Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. Appreciate that. Mrs. Grafton, did you question? >> Just thank you for clarifying that question. Dr. >> Any other discussion? No. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. 6. Dr. lands. >> I'm very excited for my part. >> Woo! >> Asbestous abatement at Wald Lake Western. Yes. Wall Lake Consolidated School District solicited and received bids for the procurement of asbestous abatement for the services of Wildlake Western High School. The bid process was facilitated through the mutual efforts of PMR and our administration and the project team. The recommendation from the team is to award the

161trade contract to quality environmental services LCC in the amount totaling $68,500 from the 2024 bond fund. >> Mrs. Kaplan, >> Mrs. Craftton. >> I move that the board of education approve the trade contract as presented for Quality Environmental Services LLC to provide asbestous abatement services at Western High School for a total amount of $68,500 funded from the 2024 bond proceeds as recommended by the project team. >> Discussion. >> Nope. Okay. All those in favor? I >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. 6. Dr. Lens, >> I brushed off on my abatement, too. >> Yeah, you you did. >> Dr. Lans. >> Yeah. >> May I ask you what happens with the abatement then? >> Well, I have absolutely no idea. >> Okay. >> You brushed up on it, but that that's where we're at. >> I

162do know that most of the asbestous found now are in the door frames. So, it's been removed from from most of the school, but that's where we're finding it still is in the old door frames. >> Thank you very much. >> For sure. Thanks for the question. Don't touch the door frames. >> I appreciate it. No, >> he he did. >> The project team has reviewed the bids received for the new maintenance warehouse at the Gistler Educational Services Center. The project team recommends entering into a standard forms of agreement between the owner and contractor for the attached summary of the award. The total award recommendation for this project is $2,47,873.39 from the 2019 bond funds. You'll see that this is different where it's 2019 funds. We still have uh some money left in the 2019

163and it's best practice to close that out as quickly as possible. This also was not part of the 2024 bond as we did not know if what we would be doing with Gistler when we put the bond out to our community. We didn't know we would need a new warehouse. And so this is an addition scope of work to converting Gisler to the Gisler Educational Services Center as we will eventually abandon this building. >> Mr. Mr. Seagler, >> I move the board of education approve the trade contracts as presented for the new maintenance warehouse at the Gao Educational Services Center totaling 2,47,873.39 from the 2019 bond fund. >> Discussion all those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries 6. Back to you, Dr. lands. >> Thank you very much. The project team has reviewed the

164bids received for the signage at Wald Lake Western High School phase three and the Gistler Educational Services Center. The project team recommends to enter into standard forms of agreement between the owner and the contractor for the attached summary that you received. The total award recommendation for this project is $104,250 from the 2024 bond funds. These are are internal signs for the most part. There's a few of the signs are the outside new outside signs for the Giser Education Service Center, but most of them are identifying this is an office, this is a classroom, etc. >> Thank you. >> Oh, Mr. Smith, sorry I'm >> present. No problem. I move that the board of education approve the trade contracts as presented for the signage at Wald Lake Western High School phase three in the Gistler Educational

165Services Center totaling $14,250 from 2024 bond funds >> support >> discussion. Okay. All those in favor >> I >> opposed. Motion carries 6. Back to you Dr. Lans. >> Thank you Madam President. Mrs. Ome started a little bit earlier. Based on the provisions of proposal A and the change in the Michigan business tax in 20112, the mill rates required to generate the homestead and non-h homestead millage rates for 2026-27 will be 17.6699 mills and all non-homestead properties. Principal residents qualified agricultural qualified first and industrial personnel will be.3301 mills and 6.3301 mills on commercial personal properties. to satisfy the debt obligations for 2627 4.05000 mills will be levied on all properties for debt and 0.4924 mills on all properties for the sinking fund. >> Mrs. Craftton, >> I'll go for it. I move that the board

166of education approve the following mill rates. 17.6699 mills on all nonhomestead properties. 3301 mills for principal residents, qualified agricultural, qualified forest and industrial personal properties, 6.3301 mills for commercial personal properties, 4.05 mills on all properties for debt, and 0.4924 mills on all properties for the sinking fund. In addition, this mo motion will serve to authorize the board president and board secretary to sign the 2026 L429 2026 tax rate request reflecting the authorized millage rates >> support. Well done. >> Good job, Mrs. Craftton. Okay, any discussion? >> Thank you once again, Mrs. Zmer for all your hard work on all of this and making it possible for us to understand at least some of what you're saying. So we thank you. >> Okay. I'll just say for me to understand some of what you're saying. Okay.

167All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries 6. Back to you Dr. Lans. >> Let's keep it going. Miss Summer >> administration has evaluated the budget line items and adjustments have been made to reflect 2526 revenues and expenditures more accurately for the general school service special revenue and capital project funds. Administration recommends the 2526 budget amendment resolutions for all funds be adopted as presented. >> Mr. Kaplan. >> Mr. Seagler. I move that the board of education adopt the resolutions to amend the 202526 budgets for the general school service special revenue and capital project funds as presented >> discussion. Okay. All those in favor >> I >> opposed. Motion carries 6. Dr. Lans >> why don't you wrap this one up Mrs. O. >> Okay. Bring it home. Public hearing of the 2627 general

168operating budget presentation provided information about the composition of the revenue and expenses projected by the 2627 general operating budget inclusive of the general operating mill that support a portion of the general fund activities as well as other millages authorized by the voters of the district for the restricted purposes indicated. In addition, the administration has developed budgets for the school service, special revenue, and capital project funds for the coming fiscal year to reflect their expected financial performance based on information currently available. Administration recommends the 2627 original budget resolutions for all funds be adopted as presented. >> Mr. Smith. >> I move that the board of education adopt the resolutions for the 2026 27 original budgets for the general school service special revenue and capitals project capital projects funds as presented. >> Support >> discussion all those

169in favor >> I opposed. Motion carries 6 Dr. Lans. >> Thank you very much Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you sir. The board of education delegates the superintendent or his designate the responsibility for supervising and controlling the district's secondary athletic activities and hereby accepts the constitution and bylaws of the MHSAA. The district adopts its own rules, regulations, interpretations as minimum standards as published in the athletic handbook as the governing code under which the Wald Lake schools shall conduct its program of athletics and agrees to primary enforcement of said rules. Excuse me. rules, regulations, interpretations, and qualifications. In addition, it is hereby agreed that schools that host or participate in the associations, meets and tournaments shall follow and enforce all tournament policies, procedures, and schedules. This authorization shall be effective from August 1st, 2026, and shall remain

170effective until July 31st, 2027, during which the authorization may not be revoked. >> Mrs. West. >> I move that the board of education adopt the Michigan High School Athletic Association membership resolution as presented. >> Discussion. Okay. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. 6. >> Okay. I guess I get this one. Say we had the superintendent evaluation. say as a board we meet and we discuss the superintendent's progress um and evaluate his year. This year we did that um in a closed m a closed session before this meeting. Um I'm pleased to say that Dr. Lans has received a rating of effective which is the highest rating that you can receive on the superintendent evaluation. We're very pleased with where he's at and we continue that we hope to grow and continue moving

171forward as we are. >> Thank you, Madam President. It's been a pleasure working with the board. I appreciate your support and I appreciate your feedback and I'm looking forward to next year. >> Thank you. Says, I move that the board of education adopt the completed year-end evaluation for the superintendent as discussed. >> Discussion. >> We've already had discussion, >> but we've had discussion. I'm just telling you. >> All those in favor? I >> I opposed. Motion carries 6. Dr. Lans, >> Mr. Scale, you're going to earn your keep for the next few minutes here. So, go ahead, sir. >> It's my pleasure, sir. The Lakes Area Youth Assistant Program offers services to youth and families, including summer camp, counseling, family education, and summer playgrounds. The program is sponsored by the cities of Wald Lake, Wixom,

172Commerce Township, Wolverine Lake Village, and Oakland County Probate Court, and Wald Lake schools. administration recommends the continued support of the program. >> Say, I'm going to read the motion. Says, I move that the board of education approve a where am I reading? A district cash contribution to Lakes area youth assistance of 5,700 and an incon comp contribution of telephone and office space cost for the 2627 fiscal year. and further that the superintendent is authorized to execute the Lakes Area Youth Assistance Contract for 2627 services as presented. >> Support. >> I just want to say as the chair of Leia, I appreciate the district and I appreciate the support that Leia receives from the district. Um the boredom buster bags comes from that. Um and that was just our first stop today. We have more deliveries

173to be made. Um but thank you for on behalf of Leia for all the support from the district. Any other discussion? All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. 6. Dr. Lans. >> Thank you, Madam President. Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, sir. The White Lake Wolves Youth Football and Cheer Program is a community-based nonprofit organization. The White Lake Wolves program is respectfully requesting the continuation of support with a 50% reduction in rental fees consistent with the rate granted during the 2526 school year. Madam President, >> Mr. Seagler, >> I move the board of education approve a 50% reduction in the athletic field rental fees for 2026 2027 school year for the White Lake Wolves football and cheer program in accordance with the board policy 7002 AR fee schedule school facilities >> support discussion >>

174Mr. Smith >> what is the Dr. Lance, what is the threshold again that uh I have to declare that my son is in the White Wolves? So, do I have to recuse or Yes, >> you should abstain. Yes, sir. >> I will abstain then. >> Any other discussion? >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I opposed and an abstension. So, motion carries five and one abstension. Moving on. Dr. Lens, >> Mr. Scaling, why don't you keep charging through this? >> Well played, sir. >> Oh, >> that was >> the Commerce Chargers Youth Football and Cheer Program is a community-based nonprofit organization that maintains a strong partnership with Bald Lake Central High School. Commerce Charger program is respectfully requesting the continuation of support with a 50% reduction in rental fees consistent with the rate granted during

175the 2526 school year. >> Dr. Zelner. >> I move that the board of education approve a 50% reduction in the athletic field rental fees for the 2627 school year for the Commerce Chargers football and cheer program in accordance with board policy 7002 AR fee schedule school facilities. >> Short discussion. >> I have a question. >> Yes, Mrs. West. Um, being that it seems like each year each of these come forward asking for a 50% reduction, we give it to them. Is it a consideration that we could make where we just go ahead and have a 50% reduction and just leave leave it there or like how does that work? >> Well, if we did that, we'd be reducing it 50% for everyone that rents our facilities. >> Okay. >> So, as the board policy, if

176you would like a reduction, you must request it annually. The board has an annual decision to make rather than a blanket. >> Okay. Thank you. I appreciate the explanation of why we don't do it as a whole. >> Any other discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. 6. Back to you, Dr. Lens. >> Mr. Scaling, could you brave doing one more? >> I don't know if I can brave another. >> He was trying really hard to come up with what that was going to be. over. Uh, the Wald Lake Braves Youth Football and Cheer Program is a community- based nonprofit organization that maintains a strong partnership with Wald Lake Western High School. >> The Wald Lake Braves program is respectfully requesting the continuation of support with a 50% reduction in

177rental fees consistent with the rate granted in the 2526 school year. >> Mrs. Kaplan, >> Mrs. Craftton. >> I move that the board of education approve a 50% reduction in the athletic field rental fees for the 2627 school year for the Wald Lake Braves football and cheer program in accordance with board policy 7002 AR fee schedule school facilities. >> Bada boom bada bing support. >> All right. Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries 6. Moving on to consideration of support for enhancement mill countywide informational campaign. What this is is that we have been asked by Oakland schools um to participate in a contribution for advertisement forformational um resources for Oakland schools to put out around the enhancement mill. So that's what this is about. says, "I move that the board of

178education approve a contribution of $5,000 from the general fund in support of the enhancement mill countywideformational campaign." >> Support >> discussion. Mrs. Grafton, >> um, Dr. Lans, am I remembering correctly that this is currently budgeted for? This is not additional dollars. >> We do have money in our communications budget to cover this. Yes. >> Great. Thank you. >> Any other discussion? Mrs. West. >> So this will be a general speaking regarding the millillage. Correct. Across the board for they'll go out from Oakland schools. Correct. >> So it's not going to be specific to each district. >> Correct. >> Thank you. >> Any other discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Nay. >> Motion carries 51. Moving on to Oakland County Schools Board Association, new resolution, bylaws and amendments. I'm going to hand

179that to Mr. Seagler. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Cap. I move the board of education approve the proposed resolution, bylaws, and amendments of the Oakland County School Board Association bylaws and resolutions as presented. >> Support. Any discussion, >> Mr. Zler? For the greatest part, it was clean up on verbiage and uh bringing us up a little bit in some things that we had overlooked in the last few years and uh just streamlines all the process. >> Any other Yep. Mrs. West. >> Overall, I feel like most of this is pretty standard. Um there are only two things I really didn't completely fully support. Um, one was under the early childhood mandatory kindergarten for all 5-year-old children. Um, and not that, you know, obviously I sent my children to kindergarten. I think it's good for most

180children. I think there are some cases where maybe, you know, waiting another year that parents should have the opportunity to choose whether that's the right situation for them. Um, so I don't support mandatory kindergarten. Um, because I think there's a lot of other opportunities for children at that age. Um, and then also, I know it's not going to be a popular opinion, but the free universal meals. And that's only because I think that we need to make sure we support the people who are of low income base and that we have people who are making six figures and you know if not more and they're receiving free nutrition and you know they can afford it. So I'm thinking like I'd rather see it where we could go ahead and you know support those who cannot

181afford the nutrition of course and like I just don't see why we need to do it for everybody. So that's where my concerns are. Any other discussion? Okay. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> Nay. >> Motion carries. 51 word subcommittee update. We're going to move on to the bond subcommittee. >> I think we did, but I'll let you guys decide. So we met as a subcommittee and reviewed the presentation that was given tonight at the board meeting. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> Was waiting for a little bit more but okay. >> And the committee also did provide some feedback so that we could do some adjustments to the presentation to make it more user friendly >> and and he did respond to our feedback and we saw those edits tonight. So

182thank you for that. No, and that's part of the process is we appreciate that advanced viewing because it makes sense to us because we're living it every day and so to have others to give input on it, we appreciate that. >> Okay. Well, Mr. Smith, I'm going to put you on the spot. >> You want if you want to talk about what we did in the >> the board policy. >> So, we went through uh we met uh as the three of us as the the policy committee there. We discussed, I believe this was the last uh iteration to catch up from uh Miller Johnson to put us in compliance with um a lot of the new laws that have been in place with the new MCLs that are out there. And so these were

183just to be consistent with those new changes. >> Thank you. So next we have um board policy review. The board policy as Mr. Smith just said we um committee and administration have reviewed the proposed board policy updates which are being provided for the board's review with an anticipation adoption at the next scheduled board meeting. The updated policies are in alignment with the current laws before I'm like like posting you know should we wait one minute so we get it to 9:45 or you know do we you know >> I think you're good. >> I think I'm good. Okay. I'm going to adjourn us at 9:44 and 43 seconds. Have a good evening.