001I don't want to get all in your business. Call to order the meeting of the Board of Education scheduled for Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025, held at 7 p.m. at Y.DOT City Hall, 3200 Biddle Avenue. Roll call, please. Member Bevin-Parshall. Here. Member Cain. Here. Member Kinney. Here. Member LeCicero. Here. Member Martinez. Here. Member Weber. Here. President Cerkovich. Here. Perfect. That's a great job. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Recitation of the vision and mission statements. Trustee Weber will read the vision statement and Trustee Bevin-Parshall will read the mission statement. Vision statement, a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community that develops a resilient, innovative, and engaged individuals. Mission
002statement, collaborating and inspiring to educate, engage, and empower all. Thank you. All right, the reading of the minutes. The proposed summary from the September 9th, 2025 work session is included in your packet. Secretary LeCicero reviewed the summary and found it to be in order and acceptable as presented. May I have a motion, please? I move approval of the proposed summary from the September 9th, 2025 work session be approved as presented. Support. Any discussion? Everybody's okay with the minutes? All right, please attach the roll. Roll attached, motion carried. Thank you. All right, 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
003will 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? All right, seeing none, we'll move to the action agenda. Just a few orders of business tonight. First is a teacher hire. Due to a transfer, we need to hire a resource room teacher at Wilson. After following appropriate personnel protocol and completing team interviews, the Director of Human Resources and I recommend a probationary teaching contract be awarded to Felicity Castiglione, effective for the 2025-2026 school year. I move approval of a probationary teaching contract be awarded to Felicity Castiglione, effective for the 2025-2026 school year. Support. Any discussion? Details are in your packet. Call the roll please. Member Bevin-Parshall. Yes. Member Cain. Yes. Member Kinney.
004Yes. Member LoCicero. Yes. Member Martinez. Yes. Member Weber. Yes. President Cerkovich. Yes, motion carries. All right, next. Excited to announce that we have found a school psychologist. We need to hire a school psychologist at the Lincoln Center for the 2025-2026 school year. After following appropriate personnel protocol and completing team interviews, the Director of Human Resources and I recommend a probationary professional contract be awarded to Marissa Gerby. I move approval of a probationary professional contract be awarded to Marissa Gerby, effective for the 2025-2026 school year. Support. Any discussion? Please call the roll. Member Cain. Yes. Member Kinney. Yes. Member LoCicero. Yes. Member Martinez. Yes. Member Weber. Yes. Member Bevin-Parshall. Yes. President Cerkovich. Yes, motion carries. All right, bringing forward a recommendation to put guardrails at the tennis courts and at the football stadium. So the Director
005of Operations, Bernie Bowers, met with secure environment consultants regarding outdoor athletic safety and security. After reviewing the RHS tennis courts, RHS football field, and Wilson athletic field, an event assessment report was provided with their recommendations to install guardrails in front of the tennis courts on 7th Street and install guardrails at the football field parking lot on 7th Street. A total of $15,200 will be paid to Owens Fence by sinking funds under MCL section 380.1212 of Michigan Legislature for school security improvement. I move approval of safety guardrails to be installed by Owens Fence in front of the tennis courts on 7th Street and at the football field parking lot on 7th Street at a cost of $15,200 to be paid for by sinking funds. Support. All right, any discussion, questions for the superintendent? We did not,
006this kind of came to us after our last. I think it's a smart idea. Yes. My only question was, we're putting them for the tennis courts at 7th, but we don't feel we need them in the parking lot, the ones that are at the parking lot, like where everyone parks. No, because I think the issue that we were looking at was the amount of speeds that they could get coming down the road, which obviously we've run into now twice at night, but if students were out there using those facilities, we'd want something to stop a vehicle from going out. What's the timeline in terms of affecting fall sports? It shouldn't affect, it should be actually done in the next two weeks, and it will not impact our use of the facilities at all. It'll be
007on the outside. Excellent. So it's only, the football field is only gonna happen on 7th Street, correct? Yeah, the two vulnerabilities are when you are going southbound, so if you're going southbound past the garage, you crash into the tennis courts, and if you go southbound on, I'm not sure what the street that is, it's right where the practice field is. If you were to keep going straight, which years ago, somebody did, threw it right into the field, and so those are the two vulnerabilities that we're looking to address at this time. Oh, that's maple. Yeah, because that happened twice. That's maple, that goes right into the back lot, Becca, right? It's Elm, and then there's maple. Elm is the first street, maple's the second. Right. Because I grew up there, so. Okay, everybody's clear on
008what's going in? No questions? No problems. Okay, this is, we're gonna take a vote on this, even though the amount is not, go ahead, let's take, call the vote. Oh, excuse me, member Kinney? Yes. Member LoCicero? Yes. Member Martinez? Yes. Member Weber? Yes. Member Bevin-Parshall? Yes. Member Cain? Yes. President Circlevich? Yes, motion carries. All right, Bernie can get to work on those. Items on the consent agenda are routine, and there's little need for discussion. One motion can complete this part of the agenda. If anyone's interested in copies of reports, recommendations, or information, please contact the superintendent's office at 759-6002. I move approval of Board of Education bills in the amount of $125, and bills and vouchers in the amount of $8,269,634.41. Support. Any discussion? All right, let's take a roll call. All right, let's take
009a roll call. All right, let's take a roll call. Member LoCicero? Yes. Member Martinez? Yes. Member Weber? Yes. Member Bevin-Parshall? Yes. Member Cain? Yes. Member Kinney? Yes. President Circlevich? Yes, motion carries. Bills are paid. All right, Committee of the Whole Discussion Agenda. Work session, the next meeting will be October 7th, 2025, 6.30 at the Board of Education. Dr. Anderson, announcements. Just some quick ones. Just a big thank you to the community for our block out cancer events. The football game was a roaring success. I know our soccer game was also a successful endeavor this year, and right now, volleyball, girls volleyball just started playing in their block out cancer. So you've got football blocking and you've got volleyball blocking. So they're all doing their part for childhood cancer research. We have Count Day right around
010the corner. Wednesday, October 1st is Count Day, and so we encourage everybody to help us by making sure students are on time for every class and so we can mark them present for our state funding. And then this week is Homecoming Week, and so my apologies to the parents in advance for late night crazy hair days and pajama days and other things, but the kids really love it, and so we have a different spirit days at different schools happening all over the district, and our big homecoming game is on Friday versus Whathaven, so. Dr. Anderson, just for the community, could you let them know what the route is for the parade? Yes, so like last year, our route is slightly modified. It's gonna stay this way, I believe, going forward. Rather, we're gonna start on
011Oak Street, as we always do, go down to Biddle. Instead of going to Eureka, we will be turning on Maple and coming up towards the school, and we'll end in the back of the school. So Eureka just proved itself to be challenging for our police department, and we wanna be good partners and stewards, and so that was a difficult one to close off for traffic, and so Maple gives a little more of our hometown neighborhood feel, and so anybody is able to see us anywhere along that route. So I look for my Jeep, because it's gonna be in the parade again. So. That's what happens when you have a Jeep. You get drafted into hauling some court members along, which is super fun. All right, board members, announcements. Yes, Downriver Fan Fair is this Tuesday,
012something that was started by Mr. D'Angelo years ago, and it has grown, and a lot of really, really good high school bands, and Alma's band will be here. And I think this is probably their second time, or third time. At least, yeah, it might be the third time. They're really, really enjoyable to watch. So this is the 20th year. Is it? Yes, 20 years ago, Mark started it. Downriver Fan Fair, and it begins at 5 p.m. Come on down, for sure. The other thing is I would like to thank the board for reviewing policies. They have been reviewed all at this point, and we will be discussing a couple of them at our work session on October 7th, I believe it is. But all in all, we're sitting pretty good. Good, yeah. It's important that
013annual policy review is an important part of our work, just to make sure. We do have, obviously, legal counsel that keeps us updated of changes that happen either through court cases or laws that change that we need to match with, but it's just important that we look at it. And it's very important, I think, that we all know what our policies are. Kathy, I appreciate you running that, and also being diligent about moving us around to give us different sections to dig into deeply. It's good to know what our policy, and it gives us a chance to all kind of look at it with a closer eye, so I appreciate that. We'll have a good discussion on the 6th. Well, and it was nice to work with different people. Yeah, it's nice for our collegiality
014as well, I agree. All right, other board members, announcements? All right, I will take a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Support.