001Call to order the organizational and business meeting of the Board of Education for wind-up public school scheduled for Tuesday July 15th 2025 held here in the City Council chambers of City Hall Roll call, please member Bevin partial here member Kane here member Kenny here member low Cicero here member Martinez Absent member Weber care president circuit here. We have a quorum all right We're going to begin with introductions today actually board members are going to give some background about themselves since this is our organizational meeting How long they've been board members term expirations and just a kind of facts that they want to share about themselves Because this is kind of the beginning of our 2025 26 school year for us all right, so Can I start with you you can all right, and then we're
002just going to come? Okay, hello. My name is Kelly Weber. I have been a board member since 2022, so this will be my third year Currently I am a legal risk and compliance manager for a national lender mortgage lender I have a child in the district. He's going into ninth grade, so yay go Bears Roosevelt Bears And and I married I've been married for 21 years to my husband And we reside here in wind up and have been here for the last 18 years Thank you all right, Miss Kenny Hello, my name is Cindy Kenny. I was born here in wind up raised have been to find that schools the whole time graduated 1977 from Roosevelt and That I attended Wayne County Community College and received an associate in business Then I got associates in
003nursing and then went with Judy mercy and got my bachelor's in nursing I just retired in February from Coral health Wayne as the sepsis and stroke coordinator and ER nurse after 37 years So it's been a little change. I've been a little busy with the house But it every says you have a lot of fun. Well. I've been doing nothing but work, so I'm hoping I have fun And I have been on the board for this is my third term my 11th year And I was elected in 14 and started serving in January of 15 And I've thoroughly learned a lot from a lot of people here And I hope to learn a lot more and I enjoy working with the kids I go to schools and just do what the teachers want me to
004do I'll say what do you want me to do today? And that's what I do so because they're the boss so but that's it awesome. Thank you art escape I'm Kathleen Kane a lifelong resident of Wyandotte and went to wind up schools graduated in 1975 I'm a fifth year on the board. I've served as secretary for two terms treasurer and vice president I taught for 34 plus years 33 of those years were here in wind up public schools I taught in Washington McKinley and Garfield Wilson and Roosevelt throughout those 33 years I traveled nationally and internationally with the RHS a capella choir from the year 2000 through 2020 I served as department chair for over 20 years until I retired in 2020 I Continue to direct and conduct the Wyandotte Academy youth choir which is
005made up of Children from wind up public schools. I serve as camp administrator for our marching band camp I oversee and assist with many fundraiser fundraising opportunities for specific events here in the city For a music department in connection with different places in our community. I sing in my church choir I am married 44 years this September to my husband Robert. We have two beautiful daughters Cassandra and Angela Who both went to wind up public schools? Grandchildren Zoe Daphne Cooper and Maddie and Zoe and Daphne both attend why not public schools? I am Wendy low Cicero. I have been this is my entering my third year on the board And I have three daughters in the district attending RHS and two at Wilson my husband of 15 years in world was at 16 Is a
006lifelong resident attended Wyandotte graduated in 1989 I am a Wyandotte transplant and have been here the last 15 years or so and I work as a marketing director for a non-profit association And then in my free time, I'm wherever my kids are softball Tennis whatever they're doing My name is Nick Bevin partial and my husband and I live here in Wyandotte I was elected most recently in 2024. So I took my first term took office at the beginning of this year I previously worked in Wyandotte public schools. I was an instructional aid at Monroe Elementary back in 2019 to 2021 I'm currently a kindergarten teacher at here on public schools and Outside of advocating for our kids and our schools. I love gardening so I restarted the Wyandotte Garden Club and Yeah, so if I'm
007not helping kids somewhere, I'm probably planting a flower Thanks. All right, and my name is Teresa Sinkovich. I am a fifth generation Wyandotte residents of Our charming historic waterfront community here. I've lived here my whole life But as a homeowner with my husband for 31 years, we've been married and living on the south side We're proud south side residents close enough to walk to the art fair We have our two children are both graduates of RHS One is a graduate of EMU and working professionally in the Ann Arbor area and the other one is currently I can't believe I'm saying this Junior year of EMU is my my baby Professionally, I am an educator who has spent 32 years in education I've taught at the elementary middle school alternative high school and college level and
008most recently in the last 16 years I've been Field supervisor for EMU College of Education working with beginning teachers as they start their career As in the board I was seated in 2019 This is my second term and I would say the highlight of my board service of course is always reading to students I'm a big advocate of literacy, of course being a former elementary school teacher Serving as officer, but I think the highlight of my service is just working with with my board colleagues I've learned a lot from them We're continuing to learn and grow together and it just learning to kind of grow and work with them professionally and personally has been a Highlight of my service. So thank you Alright that concludes our introductions of ourselves for the year So we're ready
009to get to work now, which means we need to stand and say the pledge. So, please join me the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and 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 vice president Kane will read the vision statement and trustee Kenny will read the mission statement the 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 The reading of the minutes the proposed minutes for the school board meeting and work sessions held on June 24th 2025 are included in your packet board members Secretary Martina has reviewed these minutes and found
010them to be in order and acceptable as presented may have a motion Please I move the minutes for the school board meeting and work session held on June 24th 2025 be approved as presented Of support. Thank you. Any discussion? All right, seeing none, please attach the roll roll attached motion carried. Thank you All right, special orders and reports. Dr. Anderson. I am we have a few people in the crowd today So I am going to first start by bringing up our director of human resources Tanya Brody who's going to introduce you to some of our new staff members you administrators and some teachers Good evening board members Yes, I first like to say thank you as always for giving us the opportunity to come here in person and say hello and giving that There's new
011staff members an opportunity to introduce themselves I know that they're excited to be here just as much as we are excited to have them and starting in their new roles We'll start out with mrs. Margarita Shammy who's not new to the district She's long-term employee, but she is starting in a new role and we're very excited for her So go ahead and start with Am I supposed to say a few words? Well, good evening. I'm Margarita Shammy. I've been in the district for 20 years now 17 of those years We're in the special education department in the last three years. I served as the assistant principal at Wilson I'm very excited for this opportunity. I am very passionate about all things Wilson middle school. I love that age group I think there are a diverse
012group of kids you get them as kind of like elementary babies and you send them off to the high School, so it's a very unique age. I love working with those students and my passion and my desire is to Help them grow into amazing individuals And so we focus on the whole child at Wilson and we try to make sure that we cover all the bases from their emotional Needs to their social needs and of course their academic needs. So I'm very excited for this opportunity Thank you And I'm very excited to introduce our new assistant principal at Wilson Lee kubicki I thank you very much for excuse me having me tonight. I want to say thank you to the board very much So for the vote of confidence in me, I'd like to thank
013miss Shammy as well for bringing me on board I'm really excited to be here. You know a couple months ago. I had the opportunity I was the assistant principal at Renton junior high in here for Huron schools And I had an opportunity to do an instructional walkthrough at Wilson I was kind of enamored by it and so it just coincided with the fact that there was an opening and I had an opportunity To apply so I'm very very thankful to be here. My wife was in the district for 20 years I had experience here. I was at Roosevelt a number of years ago I originally started teaching in Southgate and I was laid off In 2013 had an opportunity to come here really enjoyed that experience Was out of education for a couple years just
014due to some Economic constraints in terms of the market at the time was able to get back into education as a teacher taught I've taught middle school. I've taught high school I've been an administrator for two years. I was a assistant principal For the last two years, I really believe in restorative practice My goal as an educator is to meet with as many kids with with the time that I have during the school day every day I did that in my previous role and I want to continue that opportunity here So thank you very much for for this opportunity and I look forward to speaking with everyone the families the students of wind-up Greatly in this upcoming school year. Thank you. Thank you Liam. Please tell Adrian we said hello Good evening. My name is
015Stacey Bukowski. I'm the new assistant principal at Roosevelt So thank you very much for this huge opportunity. I am thrilled. I came come from Wayne Westland schools I served as the assistant principal that I was the principal at the middle school I was interim for a year and then I served as principal for a year I love getting to know kids and hearing their stories. I'm very involved in my schools I'm kind of a work junkie when it comes to throwing myself into my work Me and my husband actually found why and that during 2020 when we just needed to go for a car ride And ended up being one of our favorite places to visit. We've come down here for a lot of the fairs The taco hop a couple years ago and fell
016in love with the community. So when I saw the posting come up I'm like, I'm absolutely applying and I immediately felt like I was at home. So thank you for this opportunity I am thrilled. I am excited and I am so pleased to meet you all Hi, my name is Donald a few I'm just just want to thank you so much for giving me this opportunity as a new fifth grade teacher for Garfield Elementary I graduated from U of M Dearborn and I was able to student teach at McCullough Eunice And I'm just very excited to be able to apply my skills and my creativity and everything that I was being able to learn at U Of M actually into the classroom more I was able to take over a classroom for about six weeks
017during my student teaching and it was very scary but also exciting The people behind me my mom my brother and my nephew My brother graduated from U of M and he's a teacher at Harper Woods and my mom was a teacher for 25 years at for Dearborn at Salina Intermediate and She's now retired But I just was raised in a household of teachers and I've always excited about teaching I always wanted to teach and I have now been a martial arts instructor now for over seven years and I have been training myself for over 11 years So again, thank you so much for this opportunity And I just want to be able to apply my skills and everything I've learned in my new fifth grade class and just be that Ultimate role model for them.
018So thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Welcome. Yes Welcome home, everyone. Thank you so with that I'd like to give them an opportunity to To exit and enjoy their summer or you're welcome to stay if you wish I always have my plug for ice cream and this is a good night for it. So right around the corner There's a good place, but we thank you guys for coming out, especially in July and we look forward I look forward to working with all of you guys in that just a couple weeks. So enjoy every minute you've got All right, we will continue with our regular business the hearing of the public wind up public schools Board of Education welcomes public discourse Now is the portion of the meeting where the public may address the
019board those who wish to speak should approach the podium Start state their name. Oh my goodness 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 willing to address the board at this time seeing none? We'll move on to our action agenda for our organizational meeting All right We get my ducks in a row here All right Presidents the president's duties include presiding at board meetings appointing committees and chairpersons calling special meetings and work sessions official board spokesperson chairing strategic planning committee legislative relations network representative member of the wind up public school scholarship foundation substitute member for board advisory committee meetings and Review of board meeting agendas with the superintendents. I Move
020to nominate Teresa Sarkovich for to serve as board president. All right seeing no nomination nor other nominations Can we take a vote please? Member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes member Kinney. No member low Cicero. Yes member Weber Yes, President Sarkovich. Yes motion carries. Thank you. All right Moving on to the office of vice president the vice president's duties include performing in the absence of the president I'm now calling for nominations for the office of vice president I move to nominate Kathy King to serve as board vice president Support. Thank you. All right Seeing no other nominations. Let's take a vote. Please member Kane Yes, member Kinney. Yes member low Cicero. Yes member Weber. Yes member Bevin partial. Yes, President Sarkovich. Yes motion carries all right Treasurer the treasurer's duties include official signatory for all
021checks review and sign all bills and claims I'm now calling for nominations for the office of treasurer I move to nominate Carrie Martinez as to serve as board treasurer. She's not here The person who is being nominated does not need to be in attendance. She's a duly elected board member and so she is Eligible to serve. All right Seeing no other nominations. I will call for a vote. Please member Kinney. No member low Cicero. Yes member Weber Yes member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes, President Sarkovich. Yes All right Secretary the secretary's duties include signing all official documents of the district including minutes of meetings diplomas and meeting notifications I now call for nominations for the office of secretary. I nominate Wendy low Cicero for secretary Seeing no other nominations. I will take a vote.
022Please Member Weber. Yes member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes member Kinney. Yes member low Cicero. Yes, President Sarkovich. Yes motion carries All right, we're now going to move on to committee of the whole discussion agenda Our topic for tonight is the 2025 26 board budget discussion. All right Everyone okay over there? Okay So discussion on the board budget in your packet you had the category of expenditures For our own professional development board members So you'll see what our expenditures were for 23 24 our 24 25 proposed and actual and then we need to have a Proposed budget so I just like to offer up a little bit of time for discussion now For what we had from the previous year and where we think we might need to be for professional development for this
023year any discussion So we ended around What's I don't have it in front of me today, but around there 11000. Yes Our proposed budget was 11 and we spent 10 5 5 5 37. Okay, so we were just under our proposed Okay, maybe we should go up about 1,500 because the cost might go up for classes. That's what I think 2000 yeah, two might be bad. I think the Conferences in Traverse City, which it is gonna be a little more more travel Okay, I would rather see more and not use it all then to be caught not having enough agree. Yeah So I agree. I was gonna say for transparency sake Can we just share what the community what professional development for the board looks like like what does that involve? Yep so the Options
024for poor board professional development could be a class that we attend virtually online The beginning board member classes are all virtual and those are available for board members to take at their own pace online There's also a number of higher like higher level classes that you can take like if you want to take that There's a budgeting class in the beginning slate, but they could take advanced budgeting or you could take kind of other things There's conferences that are held periodically. They hold two that are virtual during the year. The winner one is usually a virtual one and then The spring and the fall conferences are both held in person and they move them around the state They're either usually in Lansing or in Traverse City So board members have an opportunity to go and
025that's great network networking opportunity For board members to meet with people who serve in other parts of the state And then the other option is to have some we have some in service come in for us Sometimes if there's something that our board wants to work on like we wanted to work on our board self-assessment So we did a self-assessment last fall and then we brought in a facilitator to kind of go over that with us So we could set our board goals in January and we've been working on those Going forward so with sometimes we have an in-house As well the state also does provide some Reimbursement in our packet here. You can see that there was some level of reimbursement There's the beginning classes those 100 levels on all the basic topics are
026reimbursable to us at a hundred dollars a class and then Some of the other classes like if you wanted to take one when we did One about open meetings act that was a reimbursable class because that's an important skill that we should all have and we all learned Together to take that class so we paid for that, but then we were reimbursed from the state at a hundred dollars a person So we try to encourage board members to take those classes because we feel like an educated board serves our community best Because we are kind of familiar. We're obviously we bring our own professional Viewpoints to things some of us have educational experience above us have financial experience, but you can't be an expert in everything So those help us actually guide us a little
027bit better and then help us work better with the superintendent Who's managing all those aspects of the district? Thank you. Mm-hmm any other thoughts so the if we were at 11 What what is your proposal then you're saying 1,500 more or 2,000 more? What do you think Cindy? You're the one who brought that forward. I'm thinking at least 13,000. You want to say 13 set for our budgets go up So, okay. Yeah, I mean we we will if we don't spend it. We don't spend it. Sure. Yeah, right No, I agree over budget either exactly. Okay, right. Yes No, I because I always want to encourage people to take as many classes as they feel like they are have the capacity for and I You know, we don't want to get to next maybe spring
028and say oh, well, sorry, we've run out of money You can't take any more classes till July. So, okay. All right, so then um Cindy you're gonna be the I mean Cathy you're the motion maker, right? So can you just put that amount in? Yes, if that sounds good When you make the motion for that and then we will Vote on that next. All right I think so. Yep. Go ahead. I move approval of the 2025 26 board professional development plan and budget of $13,000 support. All right. We just had discussion any last thoughts No, everybody's good. Okay, let's take a roll call, please member Weber. Yes member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane Yes member Kenny. Yes member low Cicero as president circuit. Yes motion carries All right, next one. That's fine. Mm-hmm. Yeah, all
029right, so Designation of depositories annually we designate where we're going to keep funds that come in from various places including the state So included in your board materials is a listing of depositories recommended by the director of finance These depositories will be used to secure school district funds during the school year Listed depositories are appropriately insured and are improved depositories for public funds in the state of Michigan I move the following financial institutions be designated Excuse me institutions be designated approved 2025 26 depositories for the funds of the school district of the city of Wyandotte citizens JP Morgan Chase adivia credit union Huntington Bank and Michigan liquid asset fund support any discussion These are the same places that we've been using we have good relationships with these folks. Okay, if there's no discussion Let's call
030the roll, please member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes member Kenny. Yes member low Cicero. Yes member Weber Yes, president circuit. Yes motion carries All right Upcoming meetings August 12 2025. We'll have a work session at 6 30 p.m. At the Board of Ed office I would just remind board members that we talked about being more paperless at our board meetings so I'm going to encourage you to Dig out your Chromebook wherever it is and fire it up and charge it and bring that ready to go We're gonna try to have more handouts and more of our Work be on that so that we're not You know wasting paper and then and we're also we can be more efficient too if there's something that Our present presenters are working on they can just drop it
031in the drive for us And then we'll have it right in front of us and we can kind of scroll at our leisure So just a reminder we're gonna be working towards that and then on August 26 We have our next regular meeting again here 7 p.m. At City Hall We'll be going on Bernie's tour on the 12th I believe we're gonna do that on the 26th before the before the meeting okay So that'll get Bernie as much time as possible to get his projects done Yeah, because they're still working the 12th is a little early to do it at the work session, so yeah We'll have that ahead of time. It won't be an official meeting We'll just take we'll put it out to board members depending on I don't know what he's gonna
032want to show us so you all Can give us a timeline based on? Travel and whatnot, but then all those details to you. Yes, we'll land here So maybe do note to yourself maybe to plan a little bit earlier for that night to go On the tour to see what Bernie's been working on with these guys All right consent agenda because 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 is interested in copies of reports recommendations information Please contact the superintendent's office at seven five nine six zero zero two We have a motion, please. I move approval of the Board of Education bills in the amount of $125 and the bills and vouchers in the amount of eight million seven
033hundred forty eight thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and forty nine cents support Any discussion? The vouchers are you at the ledger in front of you all right. Let's take roll call, please member Cain Yes, member Kinney. Yes member Lucicero. Yes member Weber. Yes member Bevin partial. Yes, Mr. Kovich. Yes motion carries Bills are paid all right dr. Anderson any announcements. Just a quick one. I had a chance last week to go down I'm sure all you did to Street Fair. I You can your choices were stifling heat or torrential downpour I chose stifling heat, but I what I noticed was there are a lot of our students Down there in both of those two weather conditions Working in various capacities I know Kathy Kane and her crew of music students were there keeping the
034streets clean I saw smiling faces making lemonade and then also in some of the vendor booths, so Just want to say how proud I am of all of them all those students who came out and those were tough conditions So I know they did it with a smile on their face, and they said I'm proud of them Board members any announcements or what's spring up this time? I just wanted to Say that I hope teachers and students are enjoying their summer break And a special shout out to our maintenance teams and our teams are working through the summer especially in our very warm building, so Thank you for all you do very much appreciate. Are we still on task with a scholarship dinner on the 25th of September? Yes, okay. I just wasn't on that
035calendar. That's why okay. We we can make sure to add the Blue and gold for the foundation foundation and the weekly And the board memo, and then we'll put it sure awesome good question all right I will take a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn part