001Okay, we're going to call the meeting to order. If we can rise for the pledge of allegiance, please to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. We're going to move on to our Golden Apple Awards, Mr. Scaling. >> Yes. Thank you, Madam President. I would like to turn this over to Miss Mir. >> Thank you, Mr. Scaling. Our first Golden Apple Award is for Sherry Kaplan. Sherry, can you step up? Yes. Miss Kaplan is a social worker at Wald Lake Elementary and she was nominated by Christine Moore because Sherry has a heart of gold and shares her generosity with everyone she encounters, lending support throughout the day while meeting with students. Sherry is at dismissal every
002day, even when she's not assigned to check in with students and hold them accountable across their learning spaces. She also regularly brings in treats for staff and coordinates social outings that help the team connect. When something doesn't work with a student, Sherry is ready to try new approaches using tools like social stories and checklists to help students succeed. Sherry is a true team player and a positive voice at Miss the Chaos. She brings both creativity and structure to problem solving and demonstrates consistency that inspires both students and colleagues. Her wealth of experience has given her a deep toolbox of strategies. And she approaches every interaction with a balance of firmness and flexibility. Sherry, thank you for all you do for our students, staff, and families. It is our honor to recognize you this evening. I'm
003very humbled by this because I think everybody in our building deserves this. Um, just want to say thank you. I'm gonna start with this. That's all I'm gonna say. The Betty Campion Support Person of the Year Award, Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, Madam President. The Betty Campion Distinguished Support Service Award was established in 1990 to recognize the many contributions support persons make to the learning community in Oakland County. The award is named in honor of former Oakland Schools Board member Betty Campion. Mrs. Campion served on the Oakland schools board of education from 1978 to 1992. Prior to serving on the Oakland schools board, Miss Campion served 10 years on the board of education for the Wald Lake Consolidated School District and 21 years as a PTA member. Nominees of the Betty Campion Award are members
004of local school district support staff who go above and beyond the call of duty in creating a supportive learning environment. It is our pleasure to welcome Mrs. Julie Aean, principal at Wald Lake Elementary to induce introduce and recognize our Wald Lake schools Betty Camp award recipient for the 2526 school year. Thank you, Mr. Scaling. My name is Julie Aean and I am the principal of Wald Lake Elementary. It is my profound honor to be here tonight to recognize a woman who is quite literally the magic maker of our school. She's Wald Lake Elementary's principal secretary and Wald Lake School's Betty Campion Support Person of the Year, Mrs. Christine Ahern. Chris started as a parent of four young children in the district and then when they were off to school started off as a parah substitute
005in Wald Lake in 2009. She has served in multiple pareducator roles across the district over the last 17 years. She brings such a wealth of knowledge to our office from her vast experience working and volunteering in our schools. Whether as a fourth and fifth grade classroom para educator or a special education para educator in a classroom for students with emotional impairments or her multiple roles in the PTA, she brings valuable insight, ideas, and skills to our school community. Chris has been a champion of students in our district for over two decades, but her journey to this role started with a moment that perfectly captures who she is. She was interviewing for this position remotely from a coffee shop while on vacation. The Wi-Fi failed. We could see her, but she could not see us. In
006that stressful moment, we got to witness her true character. She remained calm, focused, and kept a sense of humor throughout the technical chaos. We knew in that moment that she was exactly who we needed in our elementary office. For the first four and a half hours of every single day, Chris is the only secretary in our office. It is a whirlwind of phones, the doorbell, deliveries, guest teachers, band-aids, ice, tears, laughter, and so much more. Even when everyone seems to need something at the exact same moment, she handles each need in person with care, compassion, and a genuine desire to help. Her personality sets the tone for the rest of the school. Light-hearted, ready to help, and leading with a human first mindset. The elementary office is a place of constant multitasking and sometimes big
007emotions. Chris handles it all with a sense of humor and a calm confidence that everything is fixable. She doesn't just meet deadlines, she anticipates needs before they arise, creating systems and making life easier for every staff member in our building. Whether a child is visiting for that band-aid or a big emotion, Chris treats them as she would one of her own four children. Last year, when a student was facing a child care issue in the morning and needed a place to wait before school, Chris didn't just offer to supervise her. She used that quiet time to build a life-changing bond. Just today, when a student was sent to the office to reset, I walked in and that student wasn't just sitting there. Chris was down at her level coaching her to reflect on what brought
008her to the office and what action she could take to turn the day around. She turns office visits from moments of discipline into teachable moments and soontobe celebrations of progress. Because Chris has been a Wald Lake parent and PTA leader herself, she validates our parents' voices. She helps talk through concerns with them, offers ideas of how to handle them. She facilitates donations of food, clothing, and gas, and grocery gift cards for our families in need with such dignity and reassurance that our families know they are never alone. They trust her and express gratitude for her kindness and compassion. As a principal, her presence allows me to lead with my full attention, knowing that our home base is in the most capable of hands. She is my confidant and thought partner, as she is to many,
009trying to make our school the best it can be. Chris, you are truly that magic maker. You make Wald Lake Elementary a better place, a place where staff, students, and parents all feel that they belong. You make me a better leader and I'm proud to call you friend. It is my distinct privilege to present you with the Betty Campion Support Person of the Year Award. I'm behind the scenes personally comfortable spot for me to be. Um, but if it wasn't for true leadership to help guide and teach and demonstrate the the ongoings of what go on in the school and what what's needed and what you can offer and the ability to do just that and to be able to support an amazing staff. Children who we all adore and love and love to see
010grow every day. and the families that are very much the reason why we are all here to help support them as well. It is true honor to be a part of a wonderful team that is full of support which makes it so much nicer to be able to support them in all capacities. So, thank you Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association recognition. Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, Madam President. I'm happy to turn this over to Miss Gohansky. >> Thank you, Mr. Scaling. Um, I'm going to invite Mrs. Kristen Dudinski first to head on up to the podium. Um, as you know, the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association holds its all-state program every year in January. And uh we have some honores, some very talented student musicians in our band and orchestra programs who have
011performed uh and been selected to perform this January at the MSBOA uh program. And so I'm excited to welcome Mrs. Kristen Dazinski. She's our secondary instrumental music department chair. She's going to be calling up the students for recognition. Uh and then I'd like to invite Mrs. Kaplan, our board president, to join me. Um, we have some certificates to recognize our our student musicians tonight. And uh when uh when you call them up, Mrs. Dudzinski will have them line up here with us and then uh families will be able to have a nice photo op for you at at that time. >> All right. Thank you so much. Good evening, everyone. I'm Kristen Dinski. Tonight, it is my pleasure to recognize an outstanding group of instrumental music students from Wald Lake schools. This year, 10 of
012our bandon orchestra students were selected to participate in the 2026 Michigan School Bandon Orchestra Association, All State Bands and Orchestras, which is one of the highest honors a student musician can achieve in the state of Michigan. The selection process for All State is extremely competitive. More than 2700 middle and high school students auditioned, performing challenging etudes, demonstrating mastery of scales in sight reading at a high level. Only the top performers for each instrument were chosen for these prestigious ensembles. Being selected is a true testament to each students dedication and musical excellence. These students represented Wald Lake schools with pride as they participated in two days of intensive rehearsals with distinguished conductors. Their experience culminated in a performance at the Michigan Music Conference in Grand Rapids this past January. Achieving success at this level is no
013small accomplishment. It reflects not only the hard work and commitment of these talented students, but also the support of their families and the dedication of our instrumental music staff who are honored to work with them each day. In addition to our all-state recognition, we are proud to celebrate a remarkable achievement in music composition. Noah Springer, a student at Wald Lake Western High School and an Eltos saxoponist, had an original work selected for performance at the Young Composers of Michigan Premiere Concert. This marks the second consecutive year that one of Noah's compositions has been selected for the Young Composers of Michigan Premiere Concert. Last year, he premier premiered a work for full orchestra, and this year his piece string quartet number one in B minor was selected for performance. At this time, we will recognize each
014student, calling them up by name. Mrs. Gohansky and Mrs. Kaplan will present each student with a certificate. Students, please remain standing in front of the room until all of you have received your certificates. Then we'll take a group photo. First up, we'll recognize students from the middle school allstate band. They are Brady Kusen from Sarah Banks Middle School on clarinet. Nicholas Hoovers from Sarah Banks Middle School on tuba. Nicholas Small from Sarah Banks Middle School on clarinet. and Jace Troder from Clifford Smart Middle School on baritone saxophone. From the middle school orchestra, we have Thomas Sirahal from Sarah Banks Middle School on viola. Joel Kaine from Sarah Banks Middle School on violin and Cos Okano from Sarah Banks Middle School on violin. From the high school band, we have Gustav Feloso from Northern High School
015on baritone saxophone. And from the high school for full orchestra, we have William Damron from Western High School on cello. And then Sia Frell, who's unable to attend tonight, but she is from Central and she plays the obo. And then finally for the Young Composers of Michigan Premier Concert, we have Noah Springer from Western High School and Elto Saxophone. And congratulations again to our All State and Young Composers of Michigan students. >> Sure. We'll be quick. >> Sure. We have other teachers here. >> If you're one of the music Perfect. One, two, three. >> Anyone else need Perfect. All right. Thank you. Just give everybody a second. I was gonna say first thought, second thought. Okay, while everyone's getting organized here, we're going to move on to the parent advisory committee annual update. Mr. Scaling.
016>> Thank you, Madam President. Miss Mir. >> Thank you, Mr. Scaling. The Walt Lake Consolidated School Special Services Parent Advisory Committee or PAC consists of parent representatives who have children receiving special education programs and services. Um, our PAC president, Corey Hensley, is going to come forth and she's going to present an update on the pack activities over the last year and their successful work in building an active and sustainable pack. >> Thank you, Julianne. I thank you for the opportunity to present this evening. The Wald Lake Special Services Parent Advisory Committee, also known as PAC, is dedicated to empowering and supporting parents of students with special needs. We work closely with administrators and teachers across the district. And this evening, I will share with you our year to date. >> Oh, I'm sorry. You're welcome.
017>> While IDEA does not require special education advisory committees, the Michigan Department of Education does require each ISD to establish a parent advisory committee with at least one parent from each district as a member. members serve a three-year term and give advice and feedback to administrators and families on how the ISD programs provides programs and services. Denise Dunn and I currently serve as members of Oakland school's parent advisory committee. PAC's mission is dedicated to empowering and supporting parents of students with special needs to ensure that every child receives an inclusive, equitable, and highquality education. We strive to provide resources, advocacy, and a unified voice. We envision a thriving, inclusive Wald Lake community where every student with special needs is supported to reach their fullest potential from early childhood through transition to adulthood. We serve as
018a bridge between families and the school district. We collaborate with local agencies to support parents. We also work closely with teachers helping them access resources and that benefit both students in students both in and out of the classroom. Why it matters? The pack matters because we are here to ensure that every child regardless of ability has the opportunity to thrive and every family feels respected, informed, and empowered. We hold four learning opportunities each year and invite agencies and organizations from around Oakland County to share their information. Prior to each meeting, administrators from special services department hold conferences or also known as coffee hours to allow families to meet and ask questions. We started the year with a parent resource fair and a funding update provided by Oakland schools. Parents are always interested in summer camps
019and extracurricular activities. So in November, we shared those resources. In January, the Ark of Oakland County presented on guardianship and power of attorney, all important topics. Finally, in March, we chose to host an inclusion event, which I will discuss in a later slide. Inclusion week this year was held March 23rd through 27th. I am proud that this is our third year of district-wide inclusion week. During this week, schools choose different activities and the themes centered around inclusion. From rock your crazy socks for World Down Syndrome Day or wearing camouflage to show that you can't hide kindness or wearing your favorite sports gear to represent that we are all part of a team to finally the high school inclusion basketball games. The upper left picture is Wald Lake Central's ASD teachers. They're carrying a chain link
020with inspiring messages written by our Wald Lake Central students. A few examples of the messages are amazing, you are strong, we are all important, everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and valued. This chain was then carried out by athletes at the inclusion game against Wald Lake Western. The lower right picture shows smiley faces colored by Wald Lake Elementary students to celebrate all of our differences. And the bottom left picture was taken at Wald Lake Western's inclusion game. PAC wanted to do something special during inclusion week. We knew we wanted to show appreciation to our teachers while promoting inclusion, recruiting schools to register as Special Olympics unified champion schools. We took it a step further and thought it would be fun to involve administrators and the Wald Lake therapy dogs. I think everyone had a great
021time and we're thankful for all of those who participated. The top left picture features staff and Kathy Burr from our Special Olympics of Michigan. We are thankful to Kathy for helping to promote and recruit schools. The middle feature uh the middle picture features Wald Central senior Khloe Schneider who sang the national anthem without music. She did a beautiful job and brought tears uh to many and she should be very proud. The bottom feature bottom picture features numerous admin who volunteered as cheerleaders for our athletes. So we appreciate them who stood on the sidelines uh cheering with their pom poms. I think they had fun. Uh and then the pictures on the right are our Wald Lake therapy dogs who provided a great halftime show and Wald Lake Central students uh and Western students can be
022seen there uh during the halftime dance party. We always have a dance party during the basketball games. All put on a great show and we look forward to hosting inclusion event again next year. Move on to unified sports. Currently there are three offerings at the high school level. Uh soccer is played in the fall, basketball in the winter, bowling coming up in the spring. At the middle school level this year, we offered weekend clinics uh for both basketball and volleyball. And finally, unified archery just started. This is a club sport and available to all ages of students. Uh it is a club and it's being played at uh Wald Lake Northern. And our goal as a pack is to offer league play uh in the middle schools, not just the weekend clinics. Save the date.
023May 13, 2026 is our shining stars at Wild Lake Western. We will recognize those who are nominated uh those who support students with special needs. All are welcome and we hope to see everyone there as this truly is a great evening. What's next? Some things that I have on my mind, Denise has on her mind as well. Uh we're looking to sp PA pack is looking to sponsor one field trip each year to program classrooms because we're looking to build our pack. Um and we want to create that recognition. So we want to sponsor one field trip uh to a program classroom. We look to continue our mission that each school register as a unified champion school. We currently have two high schools that are registered and one elementary school and I'm in the process
024of helping Wald Lake Northern get registered as a unifying champion school. We look to expand unified sports across the district, especially at the middle school level. If any staff member is interested in leading a sport, PAC is here. We have resources to help you support that through that journey. So, please reach out. And finally, we hope more staff and families learn about who we are and what we do because we truly are here to help. So, thank you for the opportunity to present this evening, and I'm happy to take any comments or questions. >> Mr. Lipet. >> Thank you, Mr. Hensley. Uh this was my first opportunity to be part of uh I was at the unified basketball game and and let me just say as a as a parent and as a a member
025of the community. Uh it is impossible uh to not be overwhelmed uh by the spirit and impact of that event. So thank you to everybody who who makes that happen and you can be sure that at least for myself I I am thrilled and again privileged to be part part of in the future whatever else you have going on. It's going to be definitely interesting to me. One thing I do want to mention is I was particularly moved given this was my first time. I didn't I didn't know what I was about to see or experience. I was particularly moved that the last section of the basketball game was without parents or teachers or anybody um with with our students and um and having them take control and having them feel empowered >> uh to
026um to score and to to you know support their uh fellow basketball players was very meaningful and I just wanted to comment that for me that was the most impactful moment of the day. So thank you. >> Thank you >> Mr. Mr. Seagler, >> first of all, again, congratulations. Uh, I was appointed this year to the special education advisory council. And at our last meeting, uh, actually it was Wednesday. I was mentioning everything that we and you and uh, Denise and parents have been doing in the district. So if you get some strange phone calls or emails, your name is out there. But it was it was marvelous and to watch the camaraderie, the teamwork, the it wasn't a competition. It was just to go out there, have a good time, attempt to score a
027basket, and if you didn't, attempt again. And if you didn't attempt as many times until you did score the basket to give these children the esteem and pride that they deserved. And our community is very fortunate that we have this program within our district because I know many districts in the state do not have this. So again from me, thank you very much. >> Thank you. I would also like to thank you. You and Mrs. Dunn are doing a fantastic job and I appreciate being included in the events and to watch the students and the faculty and the parents. The engagement is you you can't even, you know, say how it makes you feel and the feelings that you get watching everyone feel included and everyone participating and the happiness and joy that it brings.
028So, thank you guys for all that you're doing for Wild Lake and for our students. >> We really appreciate it. >> And that's why I tell just come to a game. Come watch a game. You'll cry. You'll you'll laugh. You'll have so much fun. I I enjoy. >> And she's not kidding. You will. You will. >> Yeah. So, thank you. Appreciate it. >> No, thank you. We appreciate it very much. >> We're going to move on to textbook recommendation. Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, Madam President. Miss Gohansky. >> All right. Thank you. I have a few lined up here. Um, and just as a reminder, these are recommendations for textbooks. Um there is the the traditional 30day or monthlong window for uh board consideration and and review of materials. So the first one that I'm
029going to be reading about is our AP US history textbook and um a little bit about this one. So to align with our current AP standards and guidelines, uh the committee met this year to determine that uh the new textbook for the AP US history course. Our current textbook is from 2013 and is no longer in compliance. After meeting several times, reviewing several textbook options, the committee recommends purchasing the American Pageant 17th edition Wadssworth Sengage Learning 2020 in the amount of $70,460.50. 50 cents which includes the textbooks as well as a six-year digital license. This process has been endorsed by administration and a motion for approval of the textbook adoption will be presented at the May 7th, 2026 board meeting. So those materials will be available uh Mrs. Byer will have them uh available for
030you if you uh would like to take a look at those before the May 7th meeting. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move on to the next honors chemistry, Mr. Scaling. >> Yes, thank you, Madam President. Miss Wuhansky. >> Thank you again. So, to better align with the current standards and guidelines, uh the committee met to determine a new new textbook for honors chemistry. Uh the current textbook, Living by Chemistry, is from 2015. And after meeting and reviewing several textbook options, the committee recommends purchasing Living by Chemistry, the 2026 edition, in the amount of $49,386.96 from the general fund. This process has been endorsed by administration and a motion for approval of this textbook adoption will be presented at the May 7th, 2026 meeting. Thank you. >> Thank you. We're going to move on to
031public commentary and I happy to see everyone here. Welcome. Um, if you've never spoken with us before, we just ask that you pay attention to Mr. Lipit. There'll be a timer over here. Um, you have three minutes to speak. You're sorry. Um, it's your opportunity to address the board. The board's going to listen to your statements, questions, and or concerns. We're not going to have a conversation. If follow-up is necessary, a member of the superintendent staff or a board member will get back with you. You have three minutes to address the board. Please keep an eye on the timer. If you're getting close to your time, Mr. Lipid will give you a reminder to wrap it up. Um, please finish up your comments at that time. And we ask that all speakers ref uh remain
032professional and refrain from any personal attacks. Thank you. Our first speaker is Mandy Harless. Hello. Okay. So, okay. Um, my name is Sandy Harless. Um, and I just want to go into saying that, uh, There needs to be an investigation done at Sarah Banks Middle School. Um, several incidents that happened. They refused to send over incident reports and the principal should resign or be fired today. Uh, the reason being she sent my kid home in the middle of winter and no way to get in the house. No coat. He didn't call me. She didn't call me all because he was locked out of his locker. Failed to write an incident report. Failed as a mandating reporter. Now another incident has happened. No incident reports given. when I've asked several times asking for all homework, principal
033Jennifer Van Wagnet and assistant principal Anthony McNamera refused sending the schoolwork. Uh Anthony McNamera should be fired for failing to report and failing to send homework. Sarah Kellen, principal secretary, principal Mrs. Van Wagnan has made several false 911 dispatch police reports, sending police to my house, snickering and laughing while making the 911 calls after threatening me and going even further. Um, the principal Van Wagen has come to my house with the police. I have class tonight, but I'm here instead because I already made a complaint to the superintendent, the deputy and board, and you all have fa failed. My next complaint is going to the civil rights division. My son has a right to a higher education and a right to be taught in a safe environment and the homework needs to be sent home.
034Thank you. >> Thank you. Ryan Crazeneck did I say that correctly? Close. Close at all. Close. Nobody ever gets Byron. Byron Kinak. Good evening. Uh, I only have three minutes. Good evening, board and the rest of the audience that disappeared. Uh, my name is Byron Kraak and my wife Dana that's right there. And I uh have lived at 719 Sibly Court Wixom for 39 years. Our home is one house from Wixom off Maple. Um, couple recommendations. First, we already have a middle uh we already have a middle school a few miles from the proposed site location on Pontiac Trail, one quarter mile east of Beck Road. Gistler uh currently houses the offices of the school administration. I think I was there today. The rest of this large school is not being used for classes. seems
035like this option would be the best uh fiscal decision for taxpayer dollars. Second, using the proposed location would really put pressure on an already very busy intersection at Wixom and Maple Roads. This intersection uh becomes very busy all day during the work week. The four corners of the intersection cannot be enlarged. There's a cemetery, a dentist office, and two historical uh site markers there. Third, if this location is uh chosen, uh at the um city council meeting, somebody stood up and said there might be a road near the back of the proposed site uh that that could reroute the traffic uh onto Pontiac Trail addressing the heavy tra traffic flow at Wix and Maple Maple Roads. This would also address traffic flow directly in front of the school during times when school buses and walking
036students would be arriving and departing school. Traffic westbound and eastbound on Maple will back up and also maximize flows in those direction. You may also think about adding a walking bridge to assist parents and students to to uh traverse north and south sides of Maple Road. There will of course uh need to be crosswalks with traffic lights and yielding blinking lights for people not able to use the walking bridge due to handicap concerns. Um keep in mind that uh plan your handicap parking out very well because the handicap uh administration people look out out after it will be there. Um, there are no plans showing on the blueprints to have sidewalks on the south side of Maple running from Wixom down to the front of the school. >> 30 seconds. >> Okay. Well, I'm almost
037at the end here. As managing director, uh, I opened four theaters at AMC Entertainment. The last two were at six and seven miles on Hagerty. The Leavonia 20 in the first year attracted 1.2 million people. At times I had as many as eight or nine thousand people entering and exiting at the same time. I've gained a lot of experience in planning the efficient movement of people. I hope this school system will take my suggestions seriously. Traffic flow studies should be completed before continuing the proposed wrap up your comments. >> Those students those studies are critical to the accurate dist determination of track traffic flow. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Next is Mike Hilverique. >> Not close. >> Oh, okay. Well, good. At least I got one. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you
038for letting me address my uh subject this evening. Um it's been several years since I've had uh children in the district, but uh uh they received very good education between uh Gsler Middle School and Wald Lake Western. And I'm very happy and proud of that. And what I'm here tonight is not to talk about something I'm proud of. Okay. Um, I live on Winona Drive, which backs up to the uh Airline Trail in the subdivision directly across the street from Wald Lake Western High School. Okay. Since the renovation of the high school and the new drainage, we have had massive flash flooding in our backyard that is causing massive ro erosion and it is a true safety problem. A grown adult professional swimmer if they fell in it would not be able to swim. I
039can provide uh video if anybody would like to provide an email address. This has been addressed to the city of Wixom and it would seem at this point that fingers are pointing at the high school as the source of our water issue. Okay. City officials, if they haven't already, will be addressing this to the district. Okay. So, I just wanted to be on record that I believe the high school construction and the drainage I I can't really envision that proper studies were done about the impacts of the runoff water. That's it. Thank you again. Have a great night. Thank you very much, Steve Brown. >> So, I win the award for the easiest name so far, I think. Uh, Mr. Heldink, uh, I I just found out about your situation today. I I can share
040pictures with you as well about that, but I don't want to take up too much of my time on that. I want to talk to you this evening, and I appreciate the opportunity to address you. I'm Steve Brown, the Wixom City Manager. Um, my mayor, Pat Beagle, is also here with his wife, Moren, and we appreciate them being here. Um, I wanted to take a a bad news, good news approach to what I'm going to talk about tonight, and it's relation to the new Wixom Elementary on West Maple. Um, we had to conduct a public hearing on March 10th because we felt like we were not getting uh our concerns heard by the school district when it comes to this construction. Um, we had about 70 people show up to participate and why did they
041show up? They had concerns about your new Wixom Elementary on West Maple. We share those concerns um because we think it's basically the school district about to repeat a bad formula uh with a new school in the city of Wixom. Um they have a traffic study that the district's conducted that they claim shows didn't need did not show a need for a road improvement. That's contrary to my common sense because you're adding a ton of traffic on a two-lane road that's next to residential district. You're going to have a problem with traffic. Uh there's existing problems that we see at Moonlike Elementary and Sarah Banks Middle School. It's a debacle day in and day out and we're going to have another situation. It's likely going to be worse because the new school is going to
042be in a two-lane road. Uh finally, the traffic consultants of cities hired has looked at it and see it completely differently and see a lot of need for improvements of road uh on West Maple. We're talking deceleration lanes, a center turn lane, uh a signal potentially at school entrance, improvements as was mentioned to the signal at uh Wixom Road and Maple. Um that's the bad news. The good news is since the public hearing, we've had a better level of engagement with the district. Doc Dr. Lans has been more available and engaged with us. Uh he's agreed to add sidewalks, which were mentioned earlier by the gentleman that spoke before me, a grease trap on a sewer. Uh and more information has been provided for the fire department to do a real review and make sure
043that the school is constructed in a way that's going to be safe and accessible by public public safety. But we must do something on road improvements on West Maple. the city, not the district as it should be, is paying for a conceptual design of a roadway. That's going to be available at the end of this week. We're looking to have a discussion with the district next week about that. Um, that's something we're looking forward to. We really need to translate talk into action. We have a good level of talk going on right now. We need to see action. There must be improvements to to West Maple uh to prevent a repeat of Lon Lake Elementary and Sarah Banks Middle School. Bottom line. And back to that existing situation at Lon Lake and Sarah Banks, I'd
044like to say >> the district really needs to work out a better way to train to handle traffic at those schools. It just has to happen. The city's willing to work with you to come come up with a way to do that. We've provided plans in the past. They have not been implemented. They should be implemented. So, we're looking forward to what we hope to be cooperative, collaborative discussions leading to action on the road at the new Wixom Elementary to avoid a repeat of the situation that's unacceptable already and likely to be worse at the new school. So, appreciate your time. Thank you for the opportunity. Uh, hopefully I got that done. I used to be able to talk pretty quickly. Hopefully, I'm inside of three minutes. Good. >> I appreciate it. Thank you. >>
045Thank you very much. See, we are going to move on to administrative commentary. Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, Madam President. Miss Homer. >> Thank you, Mr. Scaling. Just wanted to do a little bit of a shout out for our payroll department implementation of the teacher contract. We're very happy that that was ratified and this April 10th pay was one that was very difficult for the payroll team and they put every effort into making sure that every tea was crossed and I was dotted in in conjunction with working with the HR department. So, we appreciate all of their hard work and continued efforts to make sure that everyone gets paid on time and correctly. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Hamka. Thank you, Mr. Scaling. It's been a busy few weeks. As you know, a lot
046of the students received their their um scheduling cards. So, um that helps us guide our staffing process, who we're going to hire, what classes are in demand, and things of that nature. So, that's been pretty exciting. And uh I appreciate the families and the parents and everybody involved who helped push that process along because that data is very important. And then um recently I went to a Michigan State University job fair. I enjoyed meeting a lot of excited you know vibrant ready ready to go teachers. So that's been very fun and um uh things are going well with HR thanks to all the hard work payroll has done with the teacher contract. Thank you. Thank you Miss Mir. >> Thank you Mr. Scaling. So, we are working pretty hard around summer learning period and some
047of the summer learning opportunities for our students with IEPs. And so, we look forward to continuing to do some more planning and parents getting information about extended school year services and other services that will run this summer. So, we're kind of excited about that and we have staff that are pooling and volunteering to step forward to work with our kids this summer. >> Thank you, Miss Gohansky. Yes, I echo what Miss Mir uh mentioned regarding summer learning. So, in learning services, lots of uh learning opportunities that will be uh coming forward for our elementary students, our students that are multil- language learners, our middle schoolers, and our high school students who are either interested in uh credit advancement, grade improvement, or also looking for credit recovery, those that need a little bit of extra support.
048So, that information will be coming out and and being shared shared soon. I just talked to principles yesterday about that. Um the other great news is on March 26th, right before spring break, uh we held our review with Cogna, the accreditation, um third party accredititor, and we are accredited. So, yay. We continue to be an accredited school district K12. We are really excited about that. Uh I know that there will be um some information and presentation that I would like to share with the board at an upcoming meeting. So, we'll make sure we get that information to you. But, um, it's great to know that, you know, we continue to march on as an accredited district and they give us lots of positive feedback about the work we're doing. And, um, as far as their
049feedback on, uh, um, you know, any any critique, it wasn't necessarily things we weren't doing, but to keep doing more of some of the things that we're that we're implementing. So, I'm excited to share that with you at upcoming. And also, a shout out to Corey Hensley. I don't know if she's still here. She is back there. Um, I could not have made been the announcer for the uh the unified uh basketball game without her sitting right next to me making sure I had kids names. Uh, some of the jerseys were easy to read, some had names on them, some just had numbers, and I had a long roster in front of me. So, thank you to Corey for helping me, but that was just again echoing what Mr. Lipet said, uh, just a joyful,
050very positive spirit and, uh, really enjoyed the time. So, thank you for including me in that. Thank you, Mr. Durkin. >> Thank you, Mr. Scaling. Uh, the community relations team is proud to share the spring 2026 edition of the learning newsletter is out, should be in homes now. We do have copies available in the lobby, uh, highlighting students, staff, and programs across the district. Uh, this edition also features two distinguished alumni, Super Bowl champion and Wald Lake Western grad, uh, Cody White and Olympic gold medalist and Wald Lake Northern graduate, uh, Connor Halabuk as well. So, we're really, really proud of this edition, not only not only for that, but also the all the amazing things also featured in here. Uh, we encourage our community to take time to explore this edition and, uh, to
051help us continue to celebrate the stories across the district. Thank you. Uh, I would like to just take a moment. Uh, this is National Assistant Principles Week and I'd like to, uh, recognize all of our assistant principles in the district. uh they do a fantastic job of not only um supporting the functionings of the schools that they work in but also support teachers, students and families. Uh they and they also contribute to the success overall success of the district with their participation in uh various committees and initiatives. So thank you very much them. We have a fantastic assistant principal staff. Thank you. >> Thank you. Board commentary. We're going to start with Mrs. West. >> Thank you Mrs. Gavlin. Um just wanted to um I was able to attend the unified basketball basketball game and
052it was really phenomenal and I'm just impressed with what these students have done. Um just the joy they bring alone, the smiles on their face. You can't help but smile and enjoy it. Um think about brought tears to my eyes many times just watching them. Um but thank you to you Mrs. Hensley and Mrs. done for all you've done because you haven't just been here for inclusion week, but you've been here on the pack for many years now and um that's a lot. You know, it's always it's always enough to like raise your own children, especially if you have special needs. There's extra on top of that. So, thank you. Um also, I know that um we have SATs, PSATs, MSTEP, all these standardized testing is coming up in the next couple weeks, few weeks.
053Um so good luck to all the students with that. Um just I encourage parents to just encourage them to try their very best. Um if your best is you know whatever that's okay you know you it's we want you give your very best what you can do. Um so I just you know have a good breakfast so you're ready you're not worrying about your grumbling stomach. Don't worry about what your neighbor is doing on their test and how fast they're finishing. Um this test is only an example of what you can do. So, I just good luck to all of our students with that. >> Thank you, Mr. Smith. I'm I'm jumping. Yes, Mr. Smith, pay attention. >> Stay awake. >> Better stay awake. Thank you, Miss Kaplan. I just want to say happy spring
054to everyone. Uh hopefully everyone had a well- rested spring break um and everything like that. Congrats to the award recipients tonight, the students and staff. Uh just amazing what we have in this district to show uh all their skills that they have. I want to say congrats to uh Scott Lindseay for his award that he won from our district um last night that we attended. I still don't know the exact educator of the year or friend of educ something. Congratulations Mr. Lindsay >> education through OP. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> For his long-standing service in the district. I just want to say if he's watching or whatever just uh thank you for his uh many years uh that he taught me uh many years ago. So want to congratulate him and to the Wixom uh community.
055I I did attend the public hearing with Dr. Lans just as a as a listener I guess just to listen to things. I come with my 20 plus years of local government experience myself knowing full well what you have to do uh actually working with uh the assistant city manager and my other one of my other jobs. So knowing him and uh in my current role of my professional life, I will say that um I have investigated the intersection and it is on our radar just so you guys know with the road commission. So just wanted to let you know as you're as you're here. Um I want to say as well to what Mrs. West said, good luck on testing. I think my daughter at CHS, she has to do the PSAT next week,
056which she's not looking forward to. But uh good luck to all those uh testing and like you said, make sure you rested and everything. Just try your best. And to the spring sports, to the guardians, the parents, everyone, the students that are going to be out there uh on any field or whatever it is that I will be between volleyball and football and track. It's going to be a busy season this spring. and to the performing arts, all the wonderful events that are going to be coming up in the next couple months. It's gonna kind of just fly by. So, it's gonna be amazing. And I just want to say as my two adopted schools, I look forward to the Dublin talent show next week that will be at Wald Lake Northern. I can't wait
057to see that. And to I hope to attend some wonderful Wald Northern events to kind of uh help out there with some of the students there. So, thank you, >> Dr. Zelner. You are making sure that we're awake. Thank you, Madame President. Um, I also want to give a shout out to Mrs. Gordon's class who let me come read to them during I got to be a mystery reader and it was the highlight of my day and we read um the book press here and it is such a fun book. If you haven't read it um thank you to my co-workers who all weighed in on I took this job very seriously which book I was going to bring to mystery reader. is very serious um decision, probably the most serious decision of my tenure
058so far. Uh also want to give uh a note to my seniors out there. I have two seniors with whom I live and now that we are past spring break, the senioritis kicks in to overdrive. You are not done yet. Um so keep at it. Uh this is a pretty exciting time. Uh, we have not only spring sports, spring shows, we have concerts, and you could think of the SAT and the PSAT as your academic concert of where you show off everything, you know. So, I just want to uh encourage everyone to do their very best out there. And to all my spring parent, spring sports parents out there, uh, the bathrooms were open at Walt Lake Western last night, so that was pretty exciting for me. Um, I also wanted to acknowledge Mr. Dan
059Love who won at McCall uh the 2026 Innovative Tech Professional Award. Mr. Scaling was there and a few other Wald Lake friends were there to cheer him on. And that's a pretty huge honor for those of us who work in as I do in my day job in a tech educational technology land. Mr. Love seeing him up on the stage. I know it was on the social media. So, thank you to our communications team for getting that out. And finally, I just want to acknowledge that tomorrow is the GLlisten Day of Silence. Uh GLlisten is the gay, lesbian, straight education network. It began uh to acknowledge the bullying, harassment of uh LGBTQ youth in our communities and schools uh and to acknowledge the silencing of those students and the impact of that silence on their
060rates of mental health, their safety, and their flourishing. And so, um, I'm not sure if any kids are participating, but if you see someone silent tomorrow, that's what they're doing is just to bring awareness to that issue in our schools and communities. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Lipit. >> Thank you, Madam President. Uh if any of you want to feel uh old or ineffective, um have your child explain to you explain to you how to use an AI tool to get work done in your professional life. Um this is what happened to me this past week and it actually aligns with with some of the focus I've had these last few weeks about learning um best practices and seeing what is out there from an AI standpoint and its impact on education. And that's
061when we came across this week the Rand Corporation uh released their study about AI as it impacts students here in Michigan and some pretty interesting statistics uh came out of that and I just want to share some high level stuff uh with you folks out here today uh and that is uh we'll start with this um just in the last six months AI usage from our student base uh has jumped from 48% to 62% of students are now using AI either daily or weekly in their uh in their uh weekly work. Uh what is most striking is not just the usage itself. It's that twothirds of students themselves now believe that AI is harming their critical thinking skills. And I hardly can speak to it to the same degree that Mrs. Cohensky or Dr. Zelner
062or some of the other folks uh on this table at this table probably could. Uh that is an alarming stat right there that the students themselves are aware of this. Um most of the folks that use AI, most of our students do not view using AI itself as cheating. Uh they uh explain assignments with it. They brainstorm with their peers. Uh they do drafts and revisions of writing and that in itself is not seen as any form of cheating for AI. Uh but according to the RAND study, it's not a technology issue. It is a policy issue at the state level. Uh so schools according to the study are behind on this trend and it is if not already impacting us uh will soon have dramatic impact on how students learn. uh one-third one-third of
063students report now having uh no clear uh let me rephrase this only one-third of students report uh having clear schoolwide rules with regard to AI use hopefully I said that correctly did you guys understand what I just said good so the deeper issues it's not just about technology there does appear to be according to the rand study a teaching and system uh design issue uh there are risks according to the study if we do nothing uh including critical thinking and problem solving. Uh there is of course academic integrity issues that we're all aware of and there's issues around growing inequity about who has access uh to AI and how best it can be used. Uh what does leadership do? Well, I think we're all on top of that. I know we're already down the path.
064If Dr. Lans were here, I know he would want to talk about this, but clear consistent guidelines uh in the use of AI, publishing, communicate, and overcommunicate uh those things. um redesign the assignments that uh require thinking not just answers. Uh using AI responsibly and critically involves how we teach our students and support our teachers with the proper tools uh that they are going to need. I know this is a statewide study, but having uh the sense that this is going to impact Wald Lake schools in the future uh is something that I think all of us are going to be keenly aware of um not just for this next uh school year but I think uh absolutely permanently in the future. Uh lastly, I'll just say if we get it right, AI according to
065the study and I agree with this can actually enhance learning rather than limit it. Uh we will not allow it to replace thinking altogether. Uh so with that, I will stop on the AI stuff and just uh end by saying uh congratulations to the University of Michigan on their national basketball championship. Go Blue for all of those. I had to use this moment. Uh I'm really proud to be an alum and proud for anyone associated with the university. So go blue. And that is all. >> Yeah. >> Well, thank you. This is Crafted. So, first, um, I want to I hope that all of the kids who got to go on a memory-making spring break trip had a wonderful experience. I got to chaperon the combined choir and orchestra trip for Wildlake Western to Chicago
066and it was um really rewarding to see students get to see a Broadway show for the first time. We saw Hamilton which was phenomenal. And then um they went to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and heard Tchaikovski and Rato pieces and it was um I I've not been to a symphony that I loved like that. It was really special. Um so I hope that lots of kids got to make memories um and that um you know I'm I'm just grateful that our community p pulls together from a fundraising perspective to make sure that all of our kids can go on these trips regardless of their financial situation. Then we got back to um back to Wixom on late late Sunday night and a bunch of students and staff um were working on the stage at Wald
067Lake Western on starting on Monday and my student turned to me at about 7 o'clock at night and said, "There is a disturbing number of students in this building working really hard on spring break." And I just wanted to say I was so amazed by the talent that was in I was in the performing arts area, but the Wald Lake perform P performance ensemble was rehearsing this incredible rhythmic thing on bells that sounded phenomenal. And there were, you know, people on the stage and there were kids in the sports wing. Um I don't know all the adults that spent a lot of time on their spring break um working really hard for our kids. So I'm grateful to the kids and I'm really really grateful to the adults that are supporting those kids' hard work
068and their dreams. Um want to echo the point that this is testing season. Um I'm the parent of a junior. It's really a rough week next week. Um and parents look at the schedule, read your email. It's a pretty complicated week. Um, if you're at the high school level, kids are coming at different times. They're doing a very different schedule each day to accommodate all the testing. Uh, so it's not just about having your kid in the headsp space. I think it's also about the parents getting our heads in the headsp space, too. Um, we have like signs up on the refrigerator about who's going where at what times. Um, and then we turn the corner and it's AP tests. Um, and it's the same thing. It's going to be odd schedules and we just
069got to keep calm and communicate with our kids and you know we model the energy that we hope they bring to the test. So calm, breathe, eat a breakfast. Um and then we're going to turn the corner and it's going to be commencement by the end of May. So all those concerts, all those lasts for the seniors and um the fifth graders and the eighth graders. Um enjoy every moment you have. you'll blink and they'll be graduating from college. So, um, have a great one and, uh, that's it for me, >> Mr. Seagler. >> Thank you. So, last night I had the pleasure of attending the Oakland County uh, government relations committee meeting and our key topic was the budget and the impact on education and the upcoming budget. Uh for those of you who
070have not become familiar with the school finance research collaborative, please get a hold of me and we can get we can go over it because that is what we're hoping a lot of this year's budget is going to be based on. Mrs. Om, please correct me if if I'm wrong in anything I say. We're looking to get increases in weighted funding. Uh we have a target timeline that we would like to see utilized based on the SFRC. And you have to realize, I believe it was 2018 when the SFRC came out. And it basically, for lack of better terminology, gave us a base funding recommendation of what we should have per pupil in the districts. And if I remember correctly, at that time, I think Wald Lake was roughly $12,500 SFRC base. And then more
071money, different money for transportation, different money for English to learn language, different money for different programs. That was all based on a weighted formula. Well, we're still at roughly 10,500. So, we can see how much good that did at the time, but now people are beginning to look at it and say, you know what, this is truly what we do need to educate our children and to do it successfully. Uh so we're looking at that and we're they're looking at removing the $164 million spending restriction in in the budget. Uh they're looking and we're hoping now because I think things are turning. We thought we would see a budget the end of June, the early part of July. I'm beginning to hold my breath on that a little bit because I don't think we're going
072to see it. Uh, House leadership wants to cut the budget by over 800 million in state spending reductions with a large portion of that being out of education. Uh, and you know, we're getting a little bit worried about that. The other thing that we're looking at is the House bills uh 45 4556 4557 uh which recently passed that rem you know that already removed the Michigan merit exam essay essay portion as we know it. Uh we know we're looking at water safety bills for the schools that's pending. uh you and the Senate did advance their youth digital safety package. Uh but that could in effect interfere with instructional practices that we are now teaching in the class in the school. So we're going to have to watch for that. Uh what's getting a lot of
073attention right now is letters K5 uh and the implement imple implementation believe it or not for 2031 2032 and uh so you know we're looking at that. Another thing that is happening is the teacher prep program, House Bill 5646. There's a bill out there that would limit the amount of elections we could have or or change the dates of the elections that we could have that's sitting in the house right now. Uh you have a extortion community education uh bill that is on the house floor that is also drawing a lot of attention. Uh lastly, there's a student discipline reform package, Senate Bill 886 to 888, and that could really put our code of conduct into question. Actually, it could put every code of conduct for every district in the state uh into an issue.
074Some of the other things that we're looking at is, and this is still a concern because of the way grants have been rewritten and programs have are are being rewritten out of the education fund. Right now, we are going to take 1.8 billion and give that to colleges and universities. Uh, I'm sorry, but you know, most colleges and universities have endowments. They have more money in some of their endowments than we could possibly spend at spend in a multi-year period, but we're still taking the money from the school aid fund and adding that uh adding that to their to their tills. And then from a federal standpoint, the issue is it looks exactly like last year's and it looks like a gutting of public education. Now we know we went through a lot of trials
075and tribulations last year. We did a lot of speaking and you know things settled down at the end. But here it comes again this the same package being brought forward and the only clear increase on the federal side for K12 funding is for charter schools. The the proposal includes additional funding to expand highquality charter schools. Still does not leave still has not tightened up on the guidelines for charter schools but leaves us right where we are. and uh it is also aligning with the administration's stated emphasis on school choice. So, we're going to have a lot of uh fun as this comes to pass over the next few months. We are we finished last night with uh doing some draft letters, doing some draft communications that we can send to our representatives. I will be
076forwarding that to the PTAs in the event that we need to get this out real quickly because uh again we could be in a very tough spot from a budget standpoint going into next year because we're we're not maintaining we're not maintaining with the rate of inflation with the money that we're getting and I look I'm looking at Mrs. O and she's shaking her head so I think I'm pretty good on most of this right now. Uh so we have that uh for my colleagues here at the table. We have a the spring institute March 1st and 2nd at MASB headquarters in Lancing if you want to sign up for some classes. Uh we have our Oakland schools election June 1st which will be bringing something forward for in the May meeting. Uh we have
077our awards banquet. We also have behind the scenes in Lancing on May 20th and we're already uh planning summer institute if you want to put it in your calendar August 8th and 9th in Kalazoo. So thank you. >> Thank you. >> I'm just going to say congratulations to all of the award winners that we've had here tonight that you know Mr. Lindsay last night you know we had reflections short while ago. we're at that time of year and at that season that we have the wrap-up. So other awards, you know, you have PTA awards coming up soon. So just, you know, congratulations and keep chugging everybody. And then I'm going to take a slightly different perspective since I'm a little bit older than some of my colleagues at the table. And yeah, yes, I said
078some I said some um that my children are no longer in school. And I just want to give the perspective of when you're in it, you feel it. But I just want everyone to take the thought that enjoy this time. Enjoy the stress of your kids having testing. enjoy the stress of all the activities because you never know when they're not going to be there for you to have that stress anymore. It's the same thing. We were having this conversation before the meeting with regards to our elderly parents that, you know, we're all going through that too and having, you know, our parents demanding things that, you know, when they were not elderly that we didn't have those issues. Um, but enjoy it because one day they won't be there to have those issues. So,
079I just want everyone to just take a breath. You're all going to get through it. The kids are all going to get through it and you're going to look back on it and whether there's funny family stories, you will all make it through to graduation, which is coming rather quickly. And that's the end of the stress at that for the moment for that week. So, I just want to encourage everybody to keep chugging that way. Now, we're going to move on to the consent agenda. We have the approval of the minutes for the March 24th, 2026 special meeting minutes. Personnel recommendations of new hire, retirements, resignations, and leaves of absence. We have the financial reports for February 2026. Dispersements in the amount of 18,360,256, balance sheet and statement of revenues and expenditures unodudited and investment
080schedule and the head start head start director's report for March 2026. Mr. Seagler, >> I move that the board of education approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Support. >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. 70. Moving on to purchases over 50,000. Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, Madam President. Miss Gohansky. >> Thank you, Mr. Scaling. Uh, the reading units of study. Uh the 2026 edition of this current board adapted reading units of study curricular resource is now available. Administration recommends purchasing this these updated materials from Heinman for use in our grades three through five classrooms as well as additional materials for special education staff and our instructional specialists. The updated resources offer online access to materials for both instruction and intervention. And this aligns with the K2 classrooms that already have
081these updated versions released in 2023. This purchase totals $88,888.80. Yes, I triple checked that because that seemed weird to me. And this would purchase would come from the general fund. And I I just want to state these aren't different from what we're using right now. Uh the board adopted resources in grades three are very lengthy. Um, I know that, uh, one of our, um, community members, Mrs. Rust, who's talked with me quite lengthy over the last several years about literacy, came and reviewed those K2 lessons when we were taking a look at those uh, back in 2023 and said, "Wow, I wish that these were available back in the day, right? So, the 35 units are now streamlined. It makes it much easier for our teachers to access uh, their their units, um, plan for
082them. they're not as as hefty and wordy. So, it's the same units that we're using. They're just streamlined and we have a lot of teacher support in asking for those because it will make life a lot easier. So, I just wanted to give a little a little extra information on that. Madam President, >> I move that the board of education approve the purchase of updated materials for grade three through five reading units of study as well as additional materials for special education staff and instructional specialists from Heinman totaling 88,8880 uh from the general fund. Dear Lord support >> discussion. >> Okay. All those in favor? I >> opposed. >> Motion carries 61. Moving on, Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, Madam President. Miss Cohens, one last time. >> And back to me. Uh, this next purchase
083is for the elementary science kits, uh, ECA science kit services. The elementary science program is a kit-based hands-on program that's investigative and administration recommends purchasing materials via a two-year contract with ECA science kit services. This is for kit management, which includes replenishment of materials in each kit, inventorying of kits, delivery of kits, and rotating those throughout the school year to all 12 of our district elementary schools, and frequent communication with our learning services team and planning for that. This 2-year purchase totals $215,484.90 and will be paid for from the general fund. >> Mr. Eagler. >> Good evening. I move the board of education approve the purchase of elementary science kit materials via a two-year contract with ECA Science Kit Services to provide science kit management totaling $215,484.90 from the general fund >> support >> discussion.
084I just want to say I benefited from a ton of hands-on learning in the Walt Lake schools when I was in elementary school here, including the young astronauts program. Just needed to say it. Um, shout out to Mr. K from uh Maple Elementary. Um, I love that we're doing hands-on learning in science and I think this is an excellent investment. >> Anybody else? Okay. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. 70. It awards Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, Madam President. Plant Moran Realpoint, previously approved to assist and advise move management services for the 24 bond program, has provided a recommendation for physical move services for the district relocation work in 2026. Upon completion of the post bid review and analysis, the project team is recommending a total award recommendation of $227,325 from 2424
0852024 bond funds. The total award recommendation includes a contract award to Michigan office movers as well as district contingency for potential unforeseen tasks that may arise and require physical move support. >> Mr. Smith. >> Madam President, I move that the board of education approve the total award recommendation in the amount of 227,000 $325. Yeah. $227,325 from 2024 bonds funds for physical move services in 2026 to be provided by Michigan office movers including contingency funds as presented. >> Support. >> Discussion. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. 70. Mr. Scaling. >> The project team has reviewed the proposals for phase two of the district-wide security film project and recommends the award of trade contracts based on the lowest responsive and complete proposal. The project involves the installation of security film at secondary entrances
086and select interior locations throughout the district as well as the installation of access control hardware at the secondary entrances of Sarah Banks Middle School and Walnut Creek Middle School. The total award recommendation for this project is $377,713.31 from 31A safety and security funds. >> Mrs. request. >> I lost the place. Um, I move that the board of education approve the award of trade contracts for phase two of the districtwide security film project totaling 377,713.31 from 31A safety and security funds as presented. >> Support >> discussion. >> Madam President, >> Mr. Lit, >> do we know Mr. Scaling is this the first purchase from 31A fund for the district? No, >> no, no. >> I mean, since >> it does not. >> Okay. >> The board meeting that you missed, we had a >> Got it.
087Got it. And then silly question. The word film, I'm assuming it's not actually film. It's these are electronic. Like they're storing it on electronic means, right? >> No, no, no. It's It's window film. >> Oh, it's window film. >> Thank you for that. I'm like film. Is this 198? >> No, no, no. Thank you very much. No, no, >> they're window films. >> I'm like looking that I'm like, am I reading this right? So, thank you very much. >> Any other discussion? >> I just want to say thank you. Thank you for doing this. All safety protocols are important and I appreciate that. >> Thank you very much. >> All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion carries 70. Mr. Scaling. >> Yes. Uh the project team has reviewed the bids received for the athletic
088renovations at Wald Lake Western High School. The scope of work includes the renovations at the baseball and softball fields including site grading, irrigation, turf, and fencing as well as cracked filling, resurfacing, and restriping of the tennis courts. The project team recommends to enter into standard forms of agreement between owner and contractor per the attached summary of awards. The total award recommendation for this project is $1,796,9050 from syncing fund. Recommendations include base bids for each trade category including recommended mandatory and voluntary alternates. >> Mrs. Mrs. Grafton. >> I move that the board of education approve entering into standard forms of agreements between owner and contractor per the attached summary of awards totaling 1,796,90.50 from the syncing fund as presented >> support >> discussion. Okay. All those in favor I opposed. Motion carries 70. Mr. Scaling. Thank
089you, Madam President. Uh, quotations were received for uh, for the 242 24 bond program furnishing packages phase one Gistler ESC phase 1 furnishings from multiple furniture contractors. Each furniture contractor has referenced the cooperative bid contract utilized to determine pricing within their quotes. Administration recommends the procurement of the furnishing packages totaling $756,188.3 from 24 20 24 bond funds as presented. >> Mr. Seagler, >> I of the board of education approve the furnishing package for phase one of the Geyser Education Services Center totaling $756,1838.3 from the 2024 bond funds as presented. >> Support. Sorry. >> Discussion. >> Not >> Mr. Seagler. >> Not a discussion, but you know, I just want to let people know that we a lot a good majority of the equipment that was in Geyser has been repurposed into other buildings throughout the
090district. And as we are opening this and we are move moving the adult transition program and other programs into this, there will be a need for new furnishings and new equipment going into the building. Further discussion. Okay. All those in favor. I >> opposed. Motion carries. 70. Mr. Scaling. >> Thank you, Madam President. Uh quotes were received for the 24 bond program furnishing packages phase one Northern High School Phase 2 furnishings from multiple multiple furniture contractors. Each furniture contractor has referenced the cooperative bid contract utilized to determine pricing within their quotes. administration recommends the procurement of the furnishing packages totaling 371,764.14 from the 2424 bond funds as presented. Just as a side note, the previous bid and this bid both came in under budget. Madam President, >> Mr. Lipit. >> I move that the board
091of education approve the furnishings package for phase 2 of Northern High School totaling $371,76414 cents from 2024 bond funds as presented. >> Support discussion. Okay. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. 70. Mr. Scaling. >> Yes. Quotes were received for the 24 20 24mon program furnishings packages phase one western high school phase 3 furnishings from multiple furniture contractors. Each furniture contractor has reference the cooperative bid contract utilized to determine pricing within their quotes. Administration recommends the procurement of the furnishing packages totaling $419,53343 from 2024 bond funds as presented. Also, this bid came under budget. Madam President, >> Mr. Lipet, uh, >> I move that the board of education approve the furnishings package for phase three of Western High School totaling $419,53343 from 2024 bond funds as presented. >> Support, >> discussion. >>
092Okay. All those in favor? I opposed. >> Motion carries 70. Giving Mr. Scaling a workout tonight. Mr. Scaling. Uh, Wald Lake School's transportation department has participated in the city of Wald Lakes's annual Memorial Day parade for many years. It'll be the third year the department has participated in Viewfest at the Detroit Zoo and the first year the department will participate in the Wixom Library Tons of Trucks event. This year's Memorial Day parade is on Monday, May 25th, 2026. The Wixom Library Tons of Trucks event is on June 23rd, 26 and Viewfest is on July 12th. administration support uh administration supports participation by the Wald Lake Transportation Department and the Memorial Day parade, the tons of truck event and viewfest by allowing to use one bus for each event. Wald Lake and Dean Transportation employees will
093donate their time to drive the bus, attend the event and claim the buds bus afterwards and we have enjoyed a great partnership with the city of Wixom and are happy to continue to participate in these events each year. >> Dr. Zelner Hey, uh, I move that the board of education approve the request of the transportation department to use one bus each for the Wald Lake Memorial Day parade on Monday, May 25th, 2026, the Wixom Library Tons of Trucks event on June 23rd, 2026, and the Detroit Zoo Viewfest on July 12th, 2026. >> Support, >> discussion, Dr. Zelner. I love this so much. As a former Boy Scout and Cub Scout mom at the Wald Lake uh Memorial Day parade, I'm excited that the buses are going to be there. And I always think about when
094we had COVID and there was no buses. It was so sad. Seeing a bus is the best. So, thank you to the transportation department. >> Any other discussion? >> No. Okay. All those in favor? I >> opposed. >> I was just saying we should throw candy. >> Yeah. >> Motion carries 70. >> Finally, we have the proclamation of volunteer recognition week. While we honor individual volunteers as well as outstanding staff members through our Golden Ample Award program, we do feel it is appropriate to honor the legions of volunteers we have working throughout the school each day of the school year. The week of April 20th through April 24th, 2026 has been designated as Wald Lake School's volunteer recognition week. I'm going to read the pro proclamation here, so bear with me. Whereas the week of
095April 20th through April 24th, 2026 has been designated Wald School's volunteer recognition week to recognize the excellent contributions of all volunteers throughout the district. And whereas the volunteers of Wald Lake schools are an outstanding group of volunteers, each and every one of them essential to maintaining the quality education we offer our students. And whereas although the board of education has honored volunteers on an individual basis during the year, the other devoted and dedicated volunteers in the district have received little formal recognition for the distinguished service. And whereas our volunteers are highly valued members of the Wald Lake Schools family. Now therefore, we the members of the Wald Schools boards of education and administration hereby proclaim April 20th through April 24th, 2026 Wald Lake Schools volunteer recognition week and thank and congratulate all our district volunteers
096for their excellent contributions to the education of the students of the Wald Lake Consolidated School District. And I second that. And with that, we are adjourned at 8:28. Thank you all. >> Drive safely and have a good night.