001Call to order the meeting of the Board of Education, scheduled for Tuesday, February 17th, 2026, held at 7 p.m. at Wyandotte City Hall, 3200 Biddle Avenue. Roll call, please. Member Bevin Parshall. Here. Member Cain. Here. Member Kinney. Here. Member LoCicero. Here. Member Martinez. Here. Member Weber. Here. President Sirkovich. Here. Please rise for the National Anthem. Just want to take a moment and say a huge thank you to our jazz band and our bearded super senior, if you don't mind putting your instrument down. So can you introduce the members of the ensemble to us, please? Everybody, let's just stand up then. Start from down there. That's Avery, Henry, Brian, Marcus, Xander, Luzalina, Ivory, Andy, Jamie over here, Keegan, Joey, Alessio, Maddox, Ben, and Shailen. All right. Excellent job, everyone. Thank you guys for being here and
002taking the time out of your evening to perform for us. We're going to do a short little recess to let you guys get packed up because you can get home, get your homework done, and then we'll continue on with the meeting in just a few minutes. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Zorick, it was great to see you playing with the kids. It brought back memories of good old Jay Stewart. Thank you. I love to do it, and it also helps. Yes, yes. Thank you. It was lovely. It was lovely. Thank you. We'll give them just a minute or two to get themselves situated. This? I don't even know why that's up here. That's hilarious to me. We're not doing it. You know, when I walked in, I saw that this was sitting right next to
003you and I was like, oh, thank goodness. We're not here. Yeah. Love you, Dad. They break down pretty quick. The drum kit's going to take a lot of time. That's okay. All right. This is the one. It's a good one, isn't it? Right? I'll try it. Would you like me to put these to you so we can share it tomorrow? You just say, next. He'll swipe it for you. He'll just say, next one. Go with that. I love that. It's a big nine. Love it. Next year, I'll get my ALMA. Yes, absolutely. That's crazy. That's crazy. It's done very well, though. They're very efficient. Wow, they're good. I know, it's only 06. It's pretty good. I love to see it. I have one of those things that goes on the top, like a top string.
004Those band parents know what's up. It's a random flute. He just snagged a flute and dipped. Thank you, Brad. That's very efficient, very impressive. Those band parents know what's up. They sprung into action. It was great. We'll continue with the regular order of our meeting. Recitation of vision and mission statements. Secretary LaCicero will read the vision statement, and Treasurer Martinez will read the mission statement. Vision statement. A diverse, equitable, and inclusive community that develops resilient, innovative, and engaged individuals. Mission statement. Collaborating and inspiring to educate, engage, and empower all. Thank you. Reading of the minutes. The proposed summary from the February 3rd, 2026 work session is included in your packet. Secretary LaCicero reviewed it and found it to be in order and acceptable as presented. I move approval of the proposed summary from the February
0053rd, 2026 work session to be approved as presented. Support. Any discussion? Seeing none, please attach the roll. Roll attached. Motion carried. Thank you. Alright, Dr. Anderson, special orders and reports. Yeah, today we have a couple special guests, and we have some staff here to introduce them. So we have Melissa Swift and Melanie Sikorski, along with RHS Principal Ben Reynolds, who are here to talk to us about peer-to-peer. Good evening. Tonight we are here representing Roosevelt High School, along with the peer-to-peer program that is throughout the district. We have several of our high school peers that are here to provide you with a showcase that demonstrates the purpose of our program and its evolution. We would like to show how Wyandotte is not just providing inclusion, but we are creating true, lasting, and meaningful friendships. My
006name is Melanie Sikorski, and I am the peer-to-peer coordinator. My name is Melissa Swift, LRE Specialist. My name is Natalie Lesko. I am one of the students in peer-to-peer. I am Cooper Schaefer. I am one of the students in peer-to-peer with my peer, JR. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Okay. I don't know. May I cut? That's it. Okay. Next. Go ahead. My name is Riley Hawkins. I'm also in peer-to-peer. Do you want to say your name? Come here. Come say your name. Say my name. My name is Tilly. My name is Tilly. Good job. Hello. Hi. My name is Abigail Magoni, and I'm also a peer-to-peer. Here it comes. We're good. It's there. Yep. It's good. Yep. And then if you just say next slide, then they'll go to the next slide.
007Next slide. Thank you. Okay. This was just us introducing ourselves. Okay. This is how we started in the very beginning of the year. We started with a little thing where we went to the cafeteria, we brought all the peers down. There are multiple peer-to-peer classes. So we brought each class down with different classes of peer-to-peer. And we did a quick little speed dating. So what we did is we introduced ourselves, some things we like about, like, or some things we like. And then we would compare, try and find, like, the same things we like and just try and find who's our best fit. And then that's when we would further go along and choose our peer, which is very funny because always every year turns into a fight on which peer the person gets. Yes.
008That's how I met JR. There was another girl in my class named Lily. But I did have to kind of battle with to get JR. We had to settle that one. Either way, I would have been happier with whoever I had. And then for me, I ended up getting two girls, one's Kamiya and one's Taylor. They aren't here with us today, but we have grown a great relationship and it's so fun to see. And then that's how Talyn and Riley. Next slide. So the medium of exchange at our high school is what we do with our peers every day to how we further our friendship. And the lady you'll see at the middle school and elementary schools, we do have peer-to-peer all over the district, not just at the high school. Next slide. All right.
009For our grand marshal event, each year our program basically selects students to be grand marshal to lead homecoming. So this on the screen is Jayden. He is paired actually with Luke, who is normally a part of our presentation, but him and Sean are at senior night for basketball today, so they could not join us. But it was really cool because Jayden wanted our school officer, Mr. Cole, to guide him during the parade. So that was really cool to see. It was very emotional. It was very cool. But we do this every year where we have a grand marshal. They walk with us during homecoming and they lead. So that's a really cool event that we do. We can go to the next slide. Yep. Next slide. And homecoming. So we have one homecoming. All of
010our center-based buildings are allowed to be at our homecoming. It isn't inclusive of homecoming. As you see in that picture, you see Jayden and Jerion, who is Luke's peer. In the right picture, you got Lukey in the middle, and you got Blake and his two peers on the left. Next slide. All right. Unified sports. If you look at my shirt, that's actually what I'm wearing right now, along with Riley. So this is our sports. They are our peer sports, but we also have the peers who kind of coach them. We play with them on the court. It's really cool. It's really fun. We have basketball, track and field, and bowling. We just finished our basketball season. We get to go to the Pistons Arena and play, which is going to be really cool. It's really
011fun. We have an officer game every year, which we just got done with. It's very competitive. It's the coolest thing. But yeah, it's just another inclusive activity that we do. Next slide. So we also did a kindness chain. For this, we partnered with DECA. This is part of my DECA project, Stand Up, Speak Out. We went to the Lincoln Center and made a unity chain with all the students there on Unity Day. We also did, in the next slide, please. Oh, that's the leadership launch. But the leadership launch, we went to the, it was more, not county, it was more district, not district. What would you say? It was like our regional. Yeah, there we go. Regional launch. There was a whole bunch of different schools that we did bring peers. Some are not here
012today, but we did bring Talon. Talon, did you go, did you have fun at the leadership launch? Yeah. Yeah. Next slide. So peer-to-peer party. This is a really fun event we do every year. It's a lot of planning. We create a big party. We usually do in the cafeteria, as you can see. I remember my junior year when I couldn't even be in this class. We would go down to the party because it was just so fun. It was inclusive. We play music. We have snacks. There's activities to do. Everybody has a great time, no matter who you are. It's so fun to do. It's just, it's so inclusive and everybody has so much fun, no matter who you are. It's a really great event that we do every single year. Next slide. So that's
013back to my DECA project, Stand Up, Speak Out. We also went to the Lincoln Center on Halloween in Washington Elementary School. We passed out brutal bullying suckers at each school. Then following that, we did a unity wall at the high school and we did it at the middle school. It was kind messages wrote on each heart that a student or staff made. We hung out in the cafeteria for about two to three weeks. Then we went to the middle school, like I said, and it was about, I don't know how long it was up, but it was very popular. That one we had them just write on the actual heart itself to make it flow a little faster because it is more structured at the middle school. You didn't see how many participated too. Yes,
014for both the Trunk or Treats, which is the Lincoln Center and the Washington Elementary. And we also did have the middle school help, middle school speed up program, help make our suckers because at the high school we can't do everything. Next slide. I wasn't here for this one. Okay, so we, okay, gratitude at Washington Elementary. We do a lot of different activities that we do at each of the elementary schools. This was just one of them. This was for, this is Thanksgiving one. Yeah, this is the Thanksgiving one. We do a lot of little snack projects or just like projects we can do. This is another one that we did. We do them every month, I believe, right? So we join in on the PBIS clubs at Washington and we take students, our peers there
015to assist with those. Next slide. So like we said, this time we went to the middle school and that they did, this was more Thanksgiving again and looks like they made. This is the Skittles ones. Oh, yeah. So basically it was the Skittles and each Skittle represented a different, what was it, a motion or a thing? Yeah, so we did, each different Skittle represented something else and we had to like, was it write down or say? We had to say what we were, what like kind of is for you in each like flavor. So everybody, they all just love the Skittles, long story short. Yes, there's always food involved. It's a great motivator. We can do next slide. So gratitude at the high school. That is in our peer-to-peer class. We just came up and
016did what we do every day. That time we colored. Had everybody come up and color each class, so there's three classes. That is, who's in that class? It's me as in that class. That's the second hour. Kylie. So yeah, that's the second hour class. We're just coloring. I mean, it's something we do every day, but that was just mainly focused on the gratitude just like at the other schools. Next slide. Okay, so the gratitude parade. This was another thing I wasn't there for, but wasn't it? Yeah, we just at the Lincoln Center and our students assisted. We also had Roosevelt students, the cheerleaders, football players there to help out with the parade. On the left, that's Zach. He's actually a junior. He's not even in peer-to-peer, but you can see that's just more of how
017much people want to be involved in this class. They willingly go to these. They sign up for them. Literally, they fight for permission slips to go to these. Zach is an underclassman, and they've been recruiting him back to be the mascot, the Lincoln Lion. Next slide. So this is our high school presentation. We went to the Wayne County Community College with the race program, and we presented this exact presentation with a little more to the Cole County. That was other schools that wanted to start a peer-to-peer program, and they just kind of asked us questions on what we thought and how to start a program and how beneficial it can be. Some of them even had their program already up and started. They just wanted to know better advice on how to get it up
018and going as popular as ours is and how fluently ours works between all different schools. So we had a lot of questions. It was about a 55-minute presentation, so it was definitely a cut down from this, so there's so much more we could talk about. But it was really great. There was a lot of different schools, a lot of different questions. Next slide. So we have a peer-to-peer basketball tournament coming up, March 14th at 1 p.m. at the RHS gym. This is our biggest fundraiser for our program. We invite everybody to be there. It is our bands there. Everybody is there. The whole school tries to come do it because it's the biggest fundraiser that we have and our self-sufficient program. Next slide. So this is our assistant principal, Mr. Hickey. If you don't mind
019playing that video, this is his input on how our peer-to-peer program runs so smoothly. In the booth. You might just have to tell us what he said. Well, Luke was interviewing his dad. Oh, Sean, I'm sorry. Sean was interviewing his dad. And he was asking Mr. Hickey why the peer-to-peer program was important and why they decided to start the program. And he made a comment how all of the students in that building are his students. And that was really meaningful. And if you go to the next slide. Doesn't say Mr. Reynolds. It's Mr. Reynolds. What did you say, Mr. Reynolds? But Mr. Reynolds was asked also why did you enable the program to start in the beginning? And allow our staff to continue the program, I guess. And I think this year are going to
020be better people. And I really think we feel the benefits of the program, not only for the students in the class, but just having the experience that most high school. Next slide. So the next slide is going to be Sean and Luke. It's just their input on how peer-to-peer has affected them. Sean was saying how he's grown with Sebastian. He's not very vocal very much. And has grown to actually have a good relationship with him every day. And he talks to him every day. And they just do stuff. And then do you want to talk about it? Yeah. And then for Luke, he. So with Luke, he really emphasized on how much you realize how everybody is so alike. There's not many differences. Like he continues to go on and say how everybody likes cookies
021just like how he likes cookies. And Durian and Jayden likes cookies. They all love to hang out and eat. And how much they love to play basketball. Literally every day. I'm in the same class as Luke with our peers. And every single day they're going down to the gym playing basketball with everybody. They're always out with the. I don't remember which gym class it is, but they just go out with a gym class that's currently in the gym. They all play basketball. And it's a great time. And they go around and eat cookies too, apparently. Next slide. So in conclusion, peer-to-peer support is an elective course option for our RHS seniors. The students have the opportunity to get to know the special education students within the building who have a variety of disabilities. ASD, cognitive
022impairment, severe multiple impairment, and et cetera. They spend one class peer together a day to bond and build a trusting friendship. The class has been a huge success. The students are benefiting in so many ways to look forward to spend time together. This class has helped bridge the gap between general education students and special education students. It also demonstrated to the rest of the school's population, our border community, that our differences don't have to separate us. They can bring us together. One more little thing to add. So today we got to hear from our students about peer-to-peer, and I think they did a great job. But I would like to also share the impact that it has on families as well. It obviously has a very positive impact on all of our kids, but at
023the end of the day, most parents all want the same thing. They want their child to feel loved, accepted, and to feel a true sense of belonging. Peer-to-peer is an elective class, but we aren't just filling a schedule here. We are opening doors to genuine friendships. I've sat through countless IEP meetings where parents went from feeling anxiety to tears of joy, just from us showing them pictures of them hanging out with their peers, eating cookies, or coloring, or the simple things that kids like to do together. Seeing a student go from a face in the hallway to leading the homecoming parade as grand marshal is a big deal. When a parent sees their child not just included by a mandate, but celebrated by their community, it changes their entire outlook on what their child can
024do. On behalf of Ms. Sikorski, myself, our students, we would like to thank the Board of Education for supporting this, our superintendent, our administrators, our satellite supervisor, and our community for supporting peer-to-peer and giving us the opportunity to share this program with you this evening. Thank you. Before you guys step away, I do have one thing that I'm a little bit upset about, Talon. Did I see a picture of you playing Giant Uno in that slideshow? Next time I need to be invited, okay? I want to play Giant Uno next time. That's their favorite. Okay, well I want an invite next time. Yeah, we need to come. Board members, do you have any questions or comments for the peers while they're with us here? Anybody want to share anything? I do. My son is actually
025a wonderful beneficiary of the peer-to-peer program. And I will tell you that has changed us as far as how we approach him now because he's easily able to tell me if something is wrong or tell me when he's happy or sad when he wouldn't come out of his shell before. So thank you to all of you for doing this. It's changed my life. It has. Thank you. Thank you, Kelly. Other board members? What's your Nick? Yeah, I just want to say it truly leaves me speechless. This is what every school community strives for. And as a teacher, this is what I strive for in my classroom every single day. So thank you both for mentoring these students and thank you to students for participating and making Wyandotte a place where everyone belongs. Absolutely. Other board
026members want to share anything? Yeah, just really quick. No, I just want to also compliment the presenters. You guys did an amazing job. It takes so much courage to get up and speak in front of people. And you did it effortlessly. So great job. Thank you. It's lovely. Wow. Absolutely well-deserved. Very much. That's awesome. Kathy, what would you like to add? I just want to say thank you to all of you for being here and thank you for making Wyandotte a better place. Absolutely. I always get the last word. And I want to piggyback on what Carrie said and just thank you for showing us a student-led presentation. It's always our best day when we get to see something that's student-led. And I really appreciate that. Actually, I was thinking about when we hired Dr.
027Anderson, the board all had to say something that we were proud of. And that was a question that he wanted to hear from us. And I said our inclusion program, but that was in 2023. And I think about how proud I was of it then and how far you all have taken it since then. And just hearing that people are dying to get into this class and are really kind of hoping to get into it as an underclassman and it's a desired thing I think is awesome. I really love to see Wyandotte leading in this space. We've always been leaders in this space, but like you're really putting us on the map and I just so appreciate that. And I hope that beyond high school that I see you all in, you know, leaders in
028the space continuing, whether it's in special education or not. Whatever field you go into, there's a space to lead there for sure. Thanks so much for coming today. We loved it. Thank you. Thank you guys. And we'll let you guys exit out. We'd also know you guys have homework to do as well. Enjoy the rest of your evening. Yep. We're going to add Brandy to the orders and reports. And then I'll just do the motion. Okay. Brandy. You okay to come up now? All right. Now I'm going to invite up Miss Brandy Nusser, who's going to just give a brief overview of what budget amendments there have been. And then we'll bring that up for a vote here on our regular agenda. Hello. So the 25-26 budget revision is impacted mostly by three different ways.
029We have some declining enrollment, which is an unusual in the state of Michigan in general. We have some state funding adjustments and some increased staffing and benefit costs. Our fall count shows a loss of 150 FTEs in general fund. And although the per pupil foundation allowance increased by $442, so it's now up to $10,050 per student, we are still experiencing an overall revenue loss. Our general fund revenue decreased by $338,000, while expenditures increased by $1.5 million from the original budget. We continue to carefully review staffing needs through attrition and maximizing grant opportunities while maintaining the board's 10% fund balance. It is important to remember that a 1% variance can give us a $675,000 impact to our fund balance, so we will carefully monitor that. The current budget revision projects an available fund balance of 10.6%.
030And I will present the final budget to you along with the 26-27, that sounds crazy, along with the 26-27 original budget that will come to you late spring, so May or June board meeting. So thank you. Thank you, Brandi. Thank you. All right. We're going to move on with the hearing of the public. Windup Public Schools Board of Education welcomes public discourse. Now is the portion of the meeting where the public may address the board. Those who wish to speak should approach the podium, state their name, and address the board. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. Members of the board and district employees will not answer questions during public commentary. Is there anyone wishing to address the board at this time? Hello, everybody. Don Ice-Noggle, 1302 13th, Windup. I just want to
031say the jazz band, that was awesome. Just beautiful. And then the peer-to-peer students, what they did up here was very awesome and cool, too. And what they said is true. But since they brought up the basketball tournament, I thought I would put a little more advertisement into it. The tournament is March 14th on Saturday, March 14th at 1 p.m. at RHS Roosevelt Gym there. And just like the students said, this is their biggest fundraiser. We started this back in 2019. The first year was a pretty good success for doing it for the first time. And then with COVID, we couldn't do it to 2020 or 21, but we started back up 2022. So we've been doing it for six years. And it's been an awesome event. And so if there's anybody out there that would
032love to sponsor, that'd be awesome, too. But the main thing, I think the best thing, and I was inviting everybody up here, according to Dr. Anderson and all you guys, if you can come to the event, it starts at 1 o'clock and it's basically over by 3.30. You're going to see a lot of love, sportsmanship, caring that you don't see in real life. You'll see at the game. So I invite you all to come if you can. And I've seen some of you there before, so you won't regret it. So that's what I wanted to say. And again, awesome job by peer-to-peer in the Jazz Band. Thank you. Thank you. Joyce Magel, I have a question. You mentioned sponsors. If anybody wanted to sponsor, how did they go about doing that? So if I can
033turn to Becca over here, I know she's put it on their website, I believe. Absolutely. There's different ways you can buy, I think, goodies for the concession stand to buy, like big things of Doritos that they can sell at the concession stand. I'm not sure if there's a shirt opportunity, but I'd be happy to look into that and put that out there. So I kind of misunderstood the question a little bit. She actually said, so we need to buy shirts. Usually Unified or Special Olympics would help us with the shirts, but some of those funds had to go towards the regular Unified team to purchase shirts for them for their track season, which is cool, you know, because they haven't had it for years. So we already got the medals, so we're good with the
034medals. But it's anything, you know, just coming to the tournament and it's whatever you want to pay at the door, or, you know, not pay, but donate if you want, or you don't have to donate. Still come and have fun, buy some concessions, and just have a good time. The money goes towards the peer-to-peer program for special events, like they said, you know, that they put up here. It's a really good event. It's really been successful, but unfortunately, the last few years, especially after COVID hit, sponsorship has gone down a little bit, but we're still there. We're hanging in there, so that's good. You know, we're hanging in there and everything. So, but it's just a very good time. And I thought your question was, is how people could, if they wanted to, I know
035we put a flyer out there, and Becca put it on the district website, and I know Melissa has put it on Facebook, our Facebook page. Their Facebook page, too. We can share it out on the socials. That's a good idea. Thanks. You'll love the event. A lot of you have been there, so you know what it's all about. These kids give their love and their heart out to it, and we think we have it bad sometimes. No, not at all compared. So, they're awesome kids, and they show their love. All right, thank you. Don, don, do you need any baskets to raffle off? No, we aren't doing any of the, the only thing we're raffling is tickets, you know, 50-50 raffles and stuff like that. That you're talking about back when we used to do
036it with our union with, we had basketball tournaments to support families, and then we kind of switched over in 2019 and everything. But thank you for asking. I appreciate it. But if you're looking for something, you know, concessions or anything, you know, if you want to donate something there. Perfect. Any other questions? It feels good. I haven't been here in a long time. Yeah, it's good to see you, Don. So, if there's anyone in the community that does want to sponsor, all they really need to do is contact the board office. Yes, if Becca didn't mind giving out her phone number. I'll do it at the end before we close out, okay? My announcements. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Thank you, Don. Good to see you. All right. Moving on with our action agenda.
037So, our first item is the general fund budget revision for the 2025-2026 school year. Attached for your review and action is the first revision of the district general fund budget. This revision reflects updates in student enrollment, staffing changes, associated benefit costs, and finally allocates necessary funding to any unplanned and unfunded activities since the original adoption in June of this past year. Details of the revision are attached. It was initially presented and discussed at the school board work session held on February 13, 2026. The director of finance and I recommend approval of this revised budget. I move approval of the revised budget for the 2025-2026 school year as prepared by the director of finance. Support. Any discussion? We did have a pretty robust discussion at our work session on the third. Any further thoughts or questions
038while Brandy and Dr. Anderson are here? All right. Let's take a vote, then. Member Bevin Parshall? Yes. Member Cain? Yes. Member Kinney? Yes. Member LoCicero? Yes. Member Martinez? Yes. Member Weber? Yes. President Sirkovich? Yes. Motion carries. And Brandy, thank you to the whole team for preparing that for us. We appreciate the work you put into it. All right. Dr. Anderson? All right. Thank you, Dr. Anderson. Ms. Sotnikowski, we get the call for approval on approvals. Okay. After following your appropriate personal protocol and completing team interviews, the director of human resources and I recommend a probationary professional contract be awarded to Jessica Boardman. I move approval of the probationary professional contract be awarded to Jessica Boardman, effective immediately. Support. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Member Cain? Yes. Member Kinney? Yes. Member LoCicero? Yes. Member Martinez? Yes.
039Member Weber? We also have a teacher hire. We need to hire a special education teacher at Madison Center. After following appropriate personal protocol and completing team interviews, the Director of Human Resources and I recommend a probationary teaching contract be awarded to Lena Kiriuk at Madison. I move approval of a probationary teaching contract be awarded to Lena Kiriuk, effective immediately. Support. Any discussion? Let's take a roll call, please. Member Kinney? Yes. Member LoCicero? Yes. Member Martinez? Yes. Member Weber? Yes. Member Bevin-Parshall? Yes. Member Kane? Yes. President Serkovich? Yes, motion carries. Welcome home, both of you. All right, Secretary Waiver for Diplomas. It's the tradition of the Board of Education to waive the secretary status each year so that the Vice President, Treasurer, and other trustees have the opportunity to sign diplomas of their own children, relatives,
040or close friends. Approval of this motion is for this purpose only. All other duties of the Board of Education Secretary remain with Board Secretary LoCicero. I move approval of waiving the Office of Secretary for the sole purpose of signing diplomas. Support. Any discussion? Anyone? We'll get the list from Rebecca in a little while, and then you can sign next to whoever you would like to sign, and it'll save Wendy a few signatures for the hundreds, otherwise, that she will be signing. All right, let's take a vote on that, please. Member LoCicero? Yes. Member Martinez? Yes. Member Weber? Yes. Member Bevin-Parshall? Yes. Member Kane? Yes. Member Kinney? Next, we have School of Choice for non-residents, the enrollment option. The school board met at their work session on February 3rd, 2026, and discussed the unlimited and limited
041School of Choice options for the 2026-2027 school year. This additional enrollment creates extra funding to help support and maintain programs. I move that the Wind Up Board of Education exercising the option permitted by section 105 of the State School Aid Act of 1979, as amended by PA 300 of 1996, will, for the purposes of section 105, accept an unlimited number of applications of non-resident students from outside the Wind Up School District, who reside within the Wayne County ISD for enrollment for the 2026-2027 school year. And we will operate an unlimited School of Choice program from April 15th, 2026, through August 7th, 2026. Support. All right, we've covered this at numerous work sessions. We've had numerous discussions about this, so any final thoughts or any discussion before we take a vote on this? I just think
042it's important to know that, or to thank you, Dr. Anderson, for providing the pros and cons of each choice and giving us all the information that we needed to make this important decision for the community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, anyone else? All right, seeing no other comments, let's take a vote, please. Member Martinez, support. Member Weber. Yes. Member Bevin-Parshall. Yes. Member Kinney. Yes. Member LoCicero. Yes. President Serkovich. Yes, motion carries. All right, next up, I have a list of some retirements. Some of our contracts have a March 1st trigger for some incentives, so we're getting more and more retirements, so I have a few now, and I'm assuming we'll have a few for our next meeting as well. The following staff members have submitted paperwork to retire. Kristin Gervasi, Washington Elementary, 25 years
043of service. April Ritz, Madison Center, 15 years of service. Kelly Rutkowski, Wilson, 30 years of service. Kelly Steyert, Roosevelt, 26 years of service. Susie Stiles, Roosevelt, 25 years of service. Dawn McBride, Garfield, I'm sorry, yeah, 31 years of service. Amy Bias, Joe Brighton, 21 years of service. Ann Robb, Roosevelt, 36 years of service. Dorothy Saunders, Joe Brighton, 21 years of service. Heather Capote-Powell, Wilson, eight years of service. I move acceptance of the following resignations for the purpose of retirement of Christine Gervasi, April Ritz, Kelly Rutkowski, Kelly Stewart, Susie Stiles, Dawn McBride, Amy Bias, Ann Robb, Dorothy Saunders, and Heather Capote-Powell after a combined 238 years of service to the Wind Up Public Schools, and thank them for their many years of dedicated service to the children of Wind Up and Wayne County, and wish them
044well in their retirement years. Support. Any discussion? It's a lot of institutional knowledge. Wow, yeah. And just to, you know, thank you for their service, and I hope they enjoy their retirement. Absolutely, well-deserved. We're not done with them yet. Not just yet. We have work for them to do until June. Absolutely. All right, let's take a roll call vote, please. Member Weber? Yes. Member Bevin-Parshall? Yes. Member Cain? Yes. Member Kinney? Yes. Member LoCicero? Yes. Member Martinez? Yes. President Serkovich? Yes, motion carries, congratulations. All right, consent agenda. Because items on the consent agenda are routine and there is little need for discussion, one motion can complete this part of the agenda. If anyone is interested in copies of reports, recommendations, or information, please contact the superintendent's office at 759-6002. I move approval of bills and vouchers
045in the amount of $11,531,371.21. Support. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Member Bevin-Parshall? Yes. Member Cain? Yes. Member Kinney? Yes. Member LoCicero? Yes. Member Martinez? Yes. Member Weber? Yes. President Serkovich? Yes, motion carries, bills are paid. All right, committee of the whole discussion agenda. The next meeting will be the work session on March 3rd, 6.30 p.m. at the Board of Education office. Announcements from the superintendent. Just a couple, I just wanna give kudos to our staff today who were in professional development. They met with Dr. Anthony Muhammad for half the day and was split between two sessions, and then they were in their buildings for other building-specific professional development. So while our families are off, many times our teachers are back here, all of our staff are back here working. And so today was one of
046those days, so I wanna say kudos to them. Just to remind everybody, I've been going around with meeting with staff at different buildings on their lunch hours. I bring them Joe Brighton cookies. Gives an opportunity to share what's on their mind. We have our student advisory committee that will be meeting again here in the next month for another session. And then obviously our community cookies. I do one month in person and one month virtual, and so those are always at the bottom of our Friday note. Thank you. First, do you have any announcements? Nick? I was just looking at the district calendar, and before we meet again, our secondary students will have parent-teacher conferences. So just a reminder to our families to head to the schools and participate in those conferences. When education at home
047is a priority, we know that our students will excel better in the classroom. And at the end of last month, we had Roosevelt students who participated in the FFA leadership contest district competition. So congratulations to all those who participated. Future garden club members. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Other announcements? I just would like to remind everyone that this is Women's Heart Month. That's my shirt that I am wearing. Yes. All right. And just to give you some facts about what our heart does, it's only the size of your fist, and it will beat over 100,000 times in your lifetime. It pumps 2,000 gallons of blood through 60,000 miles of vessels in your body all the time. It is the only organ that works 100% of the time. It doesn't get a break. And what an interesting fact
048is about the heart is, as it grows in size, like when you want to build your arms, they get stronger, but when the heart muscle gets bigger, it gets weaker, because it has to pump harder. Like this, it has to pump harder, and not as much blood goes through the heart and back into the lungs. It stays in the lungs, thus you're getting your congestive heart failure. So, and I'll tell you right now, over 100,000 people die every year of heart disease. Women are in the lead. It kills more women than all cancers combined, and there's a lot you can do to help yourself. Got a lot of women here, but you men need to listen to this, too. So. Aye aye, Captain. I said aye aye, Captain. Thanks for that, Cindy. Thank you, Cindy.
049Thank you. I'm gonna keep everybody healthy here. All right, that's good. We need that. I would like to remind everyone that the City Club Chili Cook-Off will be held on Sunday, February 22nd. It's at 3 p.m. at the PRCU 162, which is on Oak Street, on the corner of Oak and 14th. The proceeds for that are going to benefit the Wyandotte Scholarship Foundation, which is a great organization that we all support. Cindy, they were looking for, so I emailed that out. They were looking for some baskets, so if you're interested in donating a basket, that might be a great place. I'll try to do one for you, because I won't be there. My plane leaves that day. Okay, yeah, they said that you can get them to Kelly. I'm sure they can drop the donations
050off Thursday, the 19th, from six to seven, or get them to Kelly. And it's a five dollar ticket, and it's all the chili you can eat, and a chance to vote for the people's choice, and just to kind of see our friends and neighbors and enjoy a treat. Other people, let someone else do the cooking first. Chance to support the scholarship. Absolutely. All right, anything else for the good of the order? All right, I'll take a motion to adjourn, please. Motion to adjourn. Support.