001Keeps Yeah Call to order the meeting of the Board of Education scheduled for Tuesday May 20th 2025 held at 7 p.m. At Wyandotte City Hall 3200 Biddle Avenue Roll call, please member Bevin partial here member King here member Kinney here member low Cicero member Martina's here member Webber here president circuit bitch here perfect attendance. Good job. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Recitation of the vision and mission statement secretary Martinez will read the vision statement and treasurer Webber 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 Reading
002of the minutes the proposed summary of the May 6 2025 work session is included in your packet Secretary Martinez reviewed the summary and found it to be in order and acceptable as presented I move approval of the proposed summary from the May 6th to 2025 work session be approved as presented support any discussion Pretty good with the minutes. All right, please attach the roll roll attached motion carried. Thank you All right special origin reports. Dr. Anderson All right I would like to start by inviting up the principal of our Joe Brighton skill center Katie Brad Who's going to talk to you a little bit about our programming there? Hi everyone Katie Brad principal at job also cookie delivery lady And principal at Joe Brighton skill center by day We are here today to talk to
003you about our awesome community classrooms that we have at Joe Brighton skill center Joe bright our mission at Joe Brighton is educate empower prepare and one of the big ways that we prepare our students for life after graduation is through our community-based Classrooms and our work-based learning experiences and that's not possible without our community partnerships. So Today we really want to recognize our community partnerships in the downriver area and all the businesses that open our doors up to our students And staff to come in and really have hands-on Unpaid work experiences Secondly, I really want to recognize the staff of our community classrooms We have five community classrooms at Joe Brighton and they work so hard to develop these sites Get new sites and foster connections and relationships with people at these sites to continue
004welcoming our students into their businesses semester after semester and Thirdly, I want you to really recognize how wonderful our students are doing and how they prove to us every single day that have given the Opportunity they can and you're gonna see a little bit of that in a video toward the end But right now I'd like to hand it over to a few of our community teachers that are here with us tonight. Miss Amy bias Hello, we also have Tia Bozzo and Matt Fergerski and Erica Jenks with us So Katie, I'm gonna say a few things that are a little repetitive Katie did a wonderful job but we are here tonight to showcase our Joe Brighton community students and Highlight those local businesses that provide our students with the opportunity to extend their learning and
005experiences beyond the classroom without these businesses We wouldn't be able to provide this opportunity to our students and it helps prepare those students for eventual competitive employment and We currently have 28 businesses that have opened their doors to our students and we're grateful for their generosity their dedication And their commitment to our student success we would like to Have you help us return the favor by either supporting those businesses and just acknowledging the fact that They give their time and give our students the chance And so our wind-up businesses that we have are the detail shop Golden leash Henry Ford wind-up hospital Indian lanes Jared Anthony salon and spa Joe's hamburgers our very own Roosevelt and Wilson middle school and Trinity Church What a white furniture wind-up child development center wind-up DPS and our yak
006arena in Riverview We have the Rivergate health care center and Walgreens in South Gate Currently we have Applebee's big be coffee crunch fitness downward downriver gymnastics home buys red Robin Mexican Gardens the South Gate ice arena and stay bridge sweets and in Taylor we have Best Buy Macy's ogas and Kudos, so it's I mean it's we're just so blessed and we want to continue to Grow throughout the downriver community, and we just want to say thank you to all of them. So thank you Oh the video yes Joel roll it for us Let's get to The plane private plane they'll be on the box. Let's get to work They're given cuz I'm working for them Like a jerk I get a check on Friday, but it's already given cuz I'm working for them awesome Thank
007you for your presentation board members comments or questions that you have for the transitions team Nick I just want to say that I'm continually blown away by how much our educators believe in our students and providing them the skills to live a fulfilling and purposeful life after high school and as a teacher it just makes me so happy because I know I believe in my kindergartners every Day, and I'm I'm just Speechless at how much you do. Thank you Awesome other board members comments questions. I just really am. I'm sorry go ahead carry carry I just have a question is there a I believe we got it in our board packet But a list of the businesses that we can you know share with other people so that they're Also supporting and thanking those businesses
008Awesome Kathy, I was just gonna say I was in the board office Speaking with Becca about a week or so back and a couple of the students were dropped off by bus And I watched them come in those kids walked in there was no fooling around They were there to do business, and they get it was just it was really impressive Awesome anybody else have a comment or question for the team Good, we always enjoy not just because you bring the cookies Although I have to say I don't need these cookies because I just bought them from the TLC fundraiser So I'm gonna have to freeze or repurpose these I know I I was thinking my sister probably deserves some cookies My nephew's a freshman, and he can eat a lot of cookies So I
009probably will drop some off for them which is helping us share the good will but thank you We I absolutely try to support these Businesses and and I can all of us can amplify the message by sharing on our own social media and in our own circles with Who we should be supporting because the people who support our kids should absolutely get our business and our dollars for sure Awesome, and I'm really impressed with your marketing materials here. This looks great. It's a great messaging Okay, I'm excited to hear that Sorry, I'm jumping the gun. I'll save that comments a wonderful segue. Okay. All right, dr. Anderson as we Wonderful segue as we talk about another program that that utilizes a strong community partnership and so Our Wyandotte transition program on have Cindy Taylor a
010director of special education and student services come up She's gonna introduce the staff from Wyandotte transitions program. Good evening mind up or thank you for having us here and I just have to say I'm so proud as a director of the staff that we have in Wyandotte and what we do for students and Katie you do a wonderful job running Joe Brighton. She filed. She really has found her niche. She does an amazing job there You do it Anyways, I am very happy to be here to tell you about Wyandotte transition program I am NOT going to do the talking because I'm gonna allow the people that are running the program to share what Wyandotte Transition program is I do want to tell you that this is a program that services over 17 districts in
011the Downriver area they are able to apply and have their students attend. They have to meet the criteria This is a post-secondary program for students that are in a search effort of completion Like I said, I'm gonna let everyone else explain what our program is at the end. There will be a nice video I would like to introduce Michelle Nestor. She is our intake coordinator for WTP Stephanie Armiette gonna raise your hand She is one of our teachers We have two teachers and she's going to come up and talk a little bit about the program as well And also Connie Sellers is going to come up and tell you what a typical day looks like in the Wyandotte transition program So I'm gonna turn it over to Michelle. Thank you So looking back at the
012past five years, it's amazing to see how far this program has come and evolved Both Cindy and Adrian Kubicki were instrumental in getting this program up and running even with a pandemic hit They didn't waver from their convictions They saw a need for programming for young adults with disabilities who didn't receive a diploma Who still needed some additional programming but also did not qualify for Act 18 programs like Joe Brighton So that left them it's kind of I hate to say fall through the cracks, but unfortunately there wasn't programming WTP as you will see provides these students with the opportunity to receive much needed instruction to help them obtain the skills They need to be successfully employed Along with daily living skills to assist them and working towards in reaching their personal goals of the
013students have successfully completed the program I'll either had a job Have left with a job I'm sorry were offered a job or I've had something in motion or lined up to help them with additional programming beyond what we have to So with that again, I'm gonna have the teachers come up and talk about it but the best way I can describe our program is like an accelerated version of Joe Brighton for students with mild or cognitive impairments giving Them those same opportunities that they desperately needed So I'm Stephanie army act. This is Connie sailor sailor. So what you have in front of you is our pamphlet that we put together that we will attach with our paperwork that we send out to businesses when we are trying to gain new businesses for our students And
014then we also have a flyer there that lists all of the businesses that are supportive of our students as well So we just thought we would kind of go through the pamphlet a little bit So it kind of explains our program and then Connie will elaborate a little bit more on what a typical day looks like for our students So we have a similar mission as Joe Brighton to prepare students for employment and adult life through hands-on vocational and daily living skills So some of the highlights of our program is as Cindy had said it and Michelle had said as well as was established in 2020 Which also was the year of kovat? So I've only been in the program two years Connie's been in the program a year and a half So there's been
015some some speed bumps throughout the five years of the program We're partnered with 30 businesses at the time We made the pamphlet it was it was a little less than that And the highlight of our program is the potential for employment opportunities for our community business partners upon completion of the program So we focus on Vocational experiences that develop both functional and employability skills for our students through participation in authentic Hands-on worksite based learning within the community We offer community-based instructional opportunities focused on skills needed for independent living And participation in their community as well We participate in a travel training program that provides educational experiences to increase Ability for individuals with disabilities to access community through public transportation And we also work on functional daily living skills That are integrated into our curriculum to
016support independence and practical life application So kind of as Michelle was summarizing Students are at least 18 years of age Have a mild intellectual disability Received a certificate of completion from their high school And are in need of employability skills and functional academic skills and daily living skills to support their goals that they have for their adult life a Typical timeline for our program is it's intended to be two to three years, but it is based on individual need We've had students that have gone beyond the two to three years And it's a team decision and making sure that we're not ever releasing a student or graduating a student without having the proper supports and plan in place So yeah, that just kind of summarizes Our pamphlet and then on the back or just some
017of the current districts that we're servicing Okay, and then I'm gonna talk about kind of like a typical day at WTP. So The students come in they come to breakfast and then they come to our classroom for morning work And then we check in with them Monday through Thursday. The students go out to one of our 38 work sites And that would be for their morning site a staff Go around and we check in on them We help foster the communication between them and their business partner if there's something that they need or something that we need to work on We're there to help and support them. They come back to our classroom for Lunch and then they go back out for a p.m. Work site We have a couple all-day sites where the students
018are there all day. They leave in the morning They come back in the afternoon and then on Fridays We're in the classroom the whole day so on those days we work on daily living skills including cooking and laundry We love our new space. It has a full kitchen and a laundry room and it's great for us Will you tell them where that space is? Yeah. Yeah, we're at Roosevelt High School And we're in what was it before? So it's great, yeah, I think it was home ec at one point so and some of our We also work on functional academics some of the things that kids love on Fridays are our cooking lessons So we cook in the afternoon and we they plan the meal and they get to shop during the week We go
019to Meyer and they'll shop during the week and then they get to cook it which is great And then they get to go to the gym Which is always a class favorite and classroom shout outs where we shout out students for their hard work during the week So they're just some of our highlights that we do during the week So yep, and now we have a video. Okay, Joel, you can roll it Hi, my name is Aaron and these are my favorite things about the program and favorite work sites my favorite work sites were discount dance show back maintenance and whiskies on the water I Enjoyed doing dishes mowing the lawn drooling and taking off tires After completion of the program, I will try to find a vocational school around Grand Rapids I will miss
020all the friends I have met like Chuck Dan and Ed and the teachers. Thank you My name's Maria. My favorite worksite was working at Stevenson Pets along and the Downriver grooming company because they are less stressful. It was more quiet after completion of the program where I Could get a job. I would like to work with pets are a Filing job, but I will be helping out at home until I get a job I will miss the teachers and parents I have Had over the years. I will miss my school friends, too My name is Chase Here are some things I will miss for WTP My favorite work sites were the early childhood center the baking memorial district library Tuggles and tequila crime was six Brick house and firehouse pot at the restaurants. I enjoyed
021dishwashing at the ECC in the library I enjoyed hanging out with kids with some story time in that After completion of the program, I plan to getting a job as a lunch shave for the ECC and I'll miss my friends solid naked sitting in my chair. My name is Vicki. My favorite work site was Comfort sweet Coworkers Amazing and helpful after completion of the program. I will start looking in passes, right? I will miss the teachers and students. I'm Jacob and my favorite works. I was firehouse. I got along with the staff specifically my supervisor and my manager After I finished WTP. I planned to work at Ken's crew and Taylor I'll miss the work sites and trying different experiences. Hi, my name is Julie My favorite work site was Copeland Center at the funeral
022home. I enjoyed working outside after completing the program I will be looking into being a construction worker or as a backup I My favorite my favorite website was when the flowers because Because I like running about different flowers after completing We didn't have the program. I'm going to like this that Program I will miss everyone My favorite work site was whiskey's on the water. This can't dance out of repair I like talking to everyone and getting to know them and have them helping them out After completion of the program, I plan to go to focus on to pursue working in construction I will miss getting to know everyone But I will I will miss the most is the teachers Board members questions or comments, I just have a comment You know as a parent of
023a child that's in the special education department This to me is very heartwarming because he will be able to benefit from this in about four years So I'm very excited about that. Thank you Awesome other comments I just want to say how great it has grown and evolved in just five short years Especially with two of those being kovat years So kudos to all of you and the staff that have made this happen I agree was very gratifying to see every year that listed. I like how you highlighted I've every year those new businesses cut cropped up That's a lot of work to go out and recruit those businesses and and kind of make those connections So we appreciate that I think one thing that really stuck out to me is what a lot of
024the Students said was that they talked about the relationships that they had and I know that Just having you know, two daughters graduate from RHS It's hard to make friends once you're done with high school, right? You you have to kind of go out and make your own community for yourself No matter what path you choose and I just appreciate the opportunity for those students to kind of form a connection and community Within them, you know The groups that they work in or cook with or whatever that that's how you make your way in life as an adult, right? We you need your people around you. So I I love that I think that was one of the big messages that I think you should be singing about as well Just that the social aspect
025of it for our students is awesome Yeah, I would just like to say that we are very fortunate to have all of you It was about four or five years ago. I called Cindy and I said Cindy I'm at this restaurant It is so cool. And I was 300 miles away. She said Kath we're working on it But we are so fortunate to have you to be able to to have a program like this and The businesses how the I am overwhelmed with how the business has always come out for our students It's amazing The relationships Thank you Usually you get more than you gave in the first place when you reach out a hand, right? The warmth that you get back is the thing that is the reward. That's awesome. I appreciate that. Thank
026you All right, dr. Anderson just one closing comment I have a chance to get out and visit some of the sites and you know, I talked to the business owners I introduce myself and they say the same thing every time they say we love having students here. So You know, we're very grateful to our businesses for for the partnership But I know they're also grateful to the transition program for the student help. So I hear it every single time they just they say they can't wait to get to do it again and they feel you know, if I happen to Visit right when they're there's their time is ending and they're in transition. They're sad to see somebody go But they're excited about a new student coming in. So Thank you to all those businesses
027for they're helping us out One quick announcement then I'm gonna let those who need to transition out be able to do so Quick shout out to some of our board members for MSB Michigan Association of School Board They do awards given out for different classes given throughout or that they take throughout the year So the following board members have earned awards for attending classes and conferences through the Michigan Association of School Boards Teresa circumvich who won the community or who earned the community relations specialty and the level five master diamond Cathy Kane the data skills specialty and Carrie Martinez level one certified board member level two award of merit and level three award of Distinction congratulations to all of you At this point if anybody needs to transition out, I do know it's uh, it's
028May and we Still have a couple more weeks of school left. So let you go and get ready for tomorrow Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I always love seeing you. All right, I'll give them just a minute. So transition See what you did there. I Didn't even mean to do that All right 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 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? Seeing none we will move on
029to the committee of the whole discussion agenda All right, we have a little bit of policy work to do here friends So during this portion of the meeting we're going to discuss the new and amended policies and board members I just want to draw your attention to the Agenda you'll see now that we're noting on our agenda. What parts of the strategic strategic plan We're linking our actions to so we can tie that back. Just like dr. Anderson ties his work back to that We're also tying our work back to that. So that's kind of a new I Don't know Endeavor that we're undertaking and it might take a while and not everything that will link back cleanly But I just want to point that out. That's something new and you'll see that going forward
030on our agendas So the following policies were recommended by Miller Jensen and reviewed at the May 6, 2025 work session Kathy kind of led us through the 2000 series. There's a few changes in 2005 thousand six thousand and eight thousand and so We want to have a little bit of time to discuss that now because we're gonna take a vote a little bit later But we want to just discuss those policies. You've got the full text in your packet board members So I want to open this up for discussion now They're also in front of you here and the changes are in front of you So anything that you want to talk about now Now is the time to do that because we had a quick discussion that we had a discussion at the work
031session We went through but you've had time to sit with it now Anything in here that you want to bring up or discuss? should we Just make a comment that a lot of the changes and updates are Advised by Miller Johnson because of updates and legislation that's not necessarily as a result of anything but rather just Standard business it is it's some housekeeping stuff. They either are changed because there is a lot legal change There's a law that's passed. There's a court case that demands a change And yeah, these are these are a little bit housekeeping. I know that Vice president Kane has reached out to all board members We're gonna begin a comprehensive policy review now in the summer It's part of our just regular overview to make sure that everything's up to date
032So we will be getting into those more deeply, but these are just yeah changes that came up any discussion on these Yeah, I think we were clear yeah Kathy did a great job of giving us a good summary To help us, you know prepare us to go through these after in a little more detail. So no surprises. Thank you And it's all very clear Alright, so you have the text in front of you everybody on this side good Awesome. All right, so we'll be clear to take a vote on that All right. Number two is the Wayne County ISD Risa election Wayne County Risa ISD election scheduled for June 2nd So our board needs to adopt a resolution Designating a representative and an alternate to cast ballots on behalf of the board. So those people
033came to you in your packet This is not a competitive election though. There are two seats and there are two candidates So you kind of see who we have so we just need to discuss voting for them and then we're going to have a talk about kind of the operations of that so the Folks were handed out in your packet any discussion about any of those No Everybody's good with that. All right, and then as I just as a functional we actually need to vote on June 2nd And during the work session Kelly you indicated that you would be willing to go and cast that vote for us Are you still I am still looking still good for that still good Okay, and then Nick you're gonna be the backup in case something happens Yes,
034we have to go on that day to cast the ballot in person which that's just how they run it Everybody's good with with the two that we have and choices. Awesome All right, if we're good that we can move on from committee of the whole discussion agenda to our action agenda All right, number one first and final reading of the new and amended policies We're recommending a first and final reading for the new and amended policies in the 2,000 series 5,000 series 6,000 series and 8,000 series to be held at tonight's meeting. We have a motion, please I recommend a first and final reading for the new and amended policies in the 2,000 series on which is 2006 the 5,000 series which is 5,014 the 6,000 series changes are in six thousand two and six
035thousand three and 8,000 series eight thousand to Be held at tonight's meeting support any discussion Okay. So just to be clear, there's two motions here. The first is we're saying we're just doing a first and final These are little cleanup things Normally if we were doing a big policy change We would do a first reading and then we would wait till a future meeting and then actually vote on that But these are small changes that are just done to kind of Make changes based on legal things. So we're recommending a first and final So right now we're gonna vote on that that we are gonna take a first and final and then the next vote is we're actually Voting to adopt those policies. Okay, everybody clear. Yes. All right, let's take a roll call, please
036on this member Bevin partial Yes, member Kane. Yes member Kinney. Yes member Lucicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes member Webber. Yes, President Serkovich Yes motion carries. All right So now we can take a vote on those actual policies because we've all agreed that we're okay doing it in one fell swoop Go ahead. Oh, I recommend the new and amended policies in the 2,000 series which is 2006 the 5,000 series 2014 the 6,000 series 6002 and 6003 and the 8,000 series 8002 be approved tonight. These will take effect upon the adoption of each support. Okay discussion Everybody's good. All right, roll call, please member Kane. Yes member Kinney. Yes member Lucicero. Yes member Martinez Yes, member Webber. Yes member Bevin partial. Yes and President Serkovich. Yes motion carries All right, so those are adopted and then we
037will work on our continued work on our comprehensive review beginning this summer All right, dr. Anderson. All right is hiring season and we are excited to bring forward some candidates for next year Due to retirements and transfers we need to hire teachers after following appropriate personal protocol and completing team interviews the director of human resources and I recommend probationary teaching and contracts be awarded to Beth Bobian and Marissa Pelland at Madison and Brian was orc at Roosevelt and Wilson effective immediately for Bobian and Pelland and a June start date for was orc I Move approval of probationary teaching contracts be awarded to Beth Bobian Marissa Pellin and Brian was orc effective immediately for Bobian and Pelland and a June start date for was orc support a discussion We're gonna take a vote and then you're
038gonna bring the folks up. All right, let's take the vote member Kinney Yes, member Lucicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes member Webber. Yes member member Bevin partial Yes, member Kane. Yes and President Serkovich. Yes motion carries Now I'd like to invite up invite up our director of human resources Tanya Brody Go do them all once Let's do that everybody hold tight All right for speech and language pathologists hires due to retirements and transfers We need to hire speech and language pathologists for the 2025-2026 school year after following appropriate personal protocol and completing team interviews the director of human resources and I recommend probationary professional contracts be awarded to Kristen LeBeau at Monroe and Dakota Watterson and Garfield effective for the 2025-2026 school year I move approval of probate probationary professional contracts be awarded to Kristen LeBeau
039and Dakota Watterson effective for the 2025-2026 school year support any discussion Take a vote, please member low Cicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes member Webber. Yes member Bevin partial Yes, member Kane. Yes member Kenny. Yes President Serkovich. Yes motion carries all right now I will invite Tanya Brody up who will in turn invite our New hires that are in attendance tonight. Thank you. Good evening board members Tanya Brody director of human resources So yes, we have well first of all, I'd like to thank you as always for continued review and approval of the candidates that we bring forward to you There are believe three out of five could make it tonight So we will have them come up and give a brief introduction and say hello to you And I know there are some familiar faces
040and some returning wine dot people, so I think Okay, hello everyone, my name is Marissa Pellin I recently just graduated from Michigan State University with my bachelor's in special education go right I'm also a wine dot alumni, and I'm very excited to start my teaching career as Madison Bear Hi good evening. I'm Kristen LeBeau speech language pathologist The next academic year will be my 10th year as an SLP. So a nice milestone year to transition into being a wine dot employee My husband and I got married and wind up in 2016 we've lived in wind up since 2015 and my father is actually a Roosevelt alumni class of 1977 so I am happy to have a professional home that is super close to my actual Little bit Everyone I'm Brian was Orick. I'm returning to
041why not I'm a 2015 graduate of Roosevelt And I'm currently doing finishing up my fourth year at Taylor High School as the band director, and I'll be moving to Roosevelt this year for my fifth year as First year as a bear so super excited, so thank you all for having me. Thank you Welcome home Now knowing that everybody has important work to do I'm gonna let them also Exit if you would like to or you're welcome to stay and talk more about budgets and policy exciting choice gender that we have Congratulations friends and welcome home truly It's awesome man Bernie the cheese is gonna stand alone here I'm just give just a second to clear out all rights turn my page here. I love hiring season All right, so the budget for the county State
042law requires local boards of education to review their intermediate school districts proposed budget and to support or deny support by June 1st 2025 Wayne County Regional Service Agency Otherwise known as Risa our intermediate school district sent copies of their proposed 2025 2026 budget to review the budget will be submitted for formal approval on June 2nd 2025 Wayne County Risa Board of Education meeting I Move approval for wind up public schools to vote in support of the Wayne County regional service education Agency proposed budget for 2025 2026 support All right discussion about this we spent some time on this at the work session And then we also got a very nice Handout from Wayne County detailing exactly how they spend their county dollars here right here in our district I'm a lot of it is in
043support of our act 18 students And then of course the enhancement millage supports a lot of our technology Anything further having had time to look into that very nice glossy Hand out that they had everyone's good with it. That was nice. Yeah, yeah Yeah, I thought they did a good job with that I don't I don't remember them in the past doing it quite so detailed for our district and really laying out exactly what? We haven't they've never done that so their classes to all week that week. That's good in the morning Yeah, I think it's good to tell districts exactly what they're getting because I think it's it there's as we learn, right? There's a lot of pots of money that stuff comes out of and it's good to know what is coming to
044us through our county tax dollars Okay, if everybody's good, let's take a phone call vote member Martinez. Yes member Weber. Yes member Bevin partial Yes, member Kane. Yes member Kinney. Yes member La Cicero. Yes president sir. Yes motion carries All right, Wayne County ISD Risa election Wayne County Risa ISD election is scheduled for June 2nd. We will need to adopt a resolution designating a representative we had a little chat about this during the Committee of the whole discussion agenda So I'm gonna ask the motion maker for the evening to make the motion and then we can have discussion on those candidates If something if we need to go ahead, okay, I move the resolution to consider does it. All right. Yes. I'm sorry Let me start over. I move the resolution to consider designation of
045electoral representative for the June 2nd 2025 biannual election and further resolve that Kelly Weber be appointed as a designated representative and Nick Bevin partial as an alternate on behalf of wind up public schools Oh, I'm sorry Kelly and Nick are directed by the board to cast a vote on the first ballot on behalf of the board for candidates Linda Jackson and James Barry support Okay, any discussion and these are also long-serving board members Many of us know them through the our work through MSB or through other interactions. So I Think that that's another reason probably why they were not contested right there. Well, no Okay, any discussion about? This we good. No take a vote. All right, let's vote please member Weber. Yes member web and partial Yes, number Kane. Yes member Kenny. Yes member
046la Cicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes, sir Yes motion carries Next up we have the Guidance Center the Guidance Center Annual voluntary assessment of one dollar per student is requested from the Guidance Center for a total of three thousand six hundred and twenty eight dollars Services are available to our community through this program. It's a valuable resource for our families I move approval of payment to the Guidance Center's 2025 2026 voluntary school assessment in the amount of $3,628 support any discussion just that there's such a vital Resource for our community. It's a bargain. Yes. Yes. Yes Let's take vote member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes member Kenny. Yes member la Cicero. Yes member Martinez Yes, member Weber. Yes, President Serkovich. Yes motion carries Next up we have joy back to boilers We had boilers in
047the wintertime and now we're this is a little bit more planned The director of operations Bernie Bowers and myself recommend approval of the following bid to purchase two new boilers at Joe Brighton we recommend the Detroit boiler company in the amount of 588 thousand seven hundred ninety three dollars to install two new clever and Brooks boilers This will be paid with Act 18 funds. The work will be completed by October 30th 2025 I move approval of the bid from the Detroit boiler company to purchase and install two clever Thank you clever and Brooks boilers for Joe Brighton in the amount of 588 thousand seven hundred ninety three dollars This will be paid with the Act 18 funds and the work will be completed by October 30th, 2025 support. Okay discussion Mr. Bowers is here. You
048had the bid in your packets. I Will not complain about my furnace who knew burn-up boilers are so expensive Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's that stamp My furnace and air weren't even close to that Okay, let's take a vote member Kane. Yes member Kinney. Yes member low Cicero. Yes member Weber. Yes, excuse me member Martinez. Yes Member Bevin partial. Yes, and President Serkovich. Yes motion carries All right. Next up we have Jefferson Elementary bathrooms the director of operations Bernie Bowers and myself recommend approval the following bid from Shaw Construction to remodel the four main bathrooms at Jefferson Elementary in the amount of 344,800 dollars this work will be done using sinking fund with work to be completed by August 31st 2025 I move approval of the bid from Shaw Construction to remodel the four main bathrooms at
049Jefferson Elementary in the amount of 344,800 dollars this work will be done using the sinking sinking fund with work to be completed by August 31st 2025 support Okay discussion. We've talked about this at a previous work session as well This is something that is Jefferson staff and students are going to be very happy about this because it's been something that has been long kind of Much needed yes much desired and in that building is a hip-hip array. Thank God Yeah, and I'm glad that that you were able to I know it's tricky with the space you have right I mean configuring it so Doing those walkthroughs with them crucial. All right, but everybody's good to vote. Good. All right, let's call it member Kinney Yes member low Cicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes member Weber. Yes
050member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes, President Serkovich Yes motion carries So on behalf of the director of technology the next thing we're going to talk about is projection and sound in meeting places the director of Technology Justin Ellsworth and myself recommend approval the following bid to improve common meeting spaces with better sound and projection capabilities Detailed information was included in your board packet director Ellsworth reviewed these at the April 1st 2025 work session we recommend approval of the following bid from forte in the amount of one One hundred and fourteen thousand seven hundred and twenty one dollars and fifty five cents There will be additional fees for installation that will be brought forward at a future meeting This project will be funded through the Wayne County enhancement millage. I move approval of the bid
051from forte in the amount of 114 thousand seven hundred twenty one dollars and fifty five cents This project will be funded through the Wayne County enhancement millage support a discussion Dr. Anderson can handle anything Be great, okay, let's take a vote member low Cicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes member Weber. Yes member Bevin partial Yes, member Kane. Yes member Kinney. Yes, President Serkovich. Yes motion carries Next we have the advanced algebra one course that our director of curriculum Jessica Shipman talked to you about at the last work session the advanced algebra one course as presented at the May 6 2025 work session is recommended for a formal adoption for the 2025-2026 school year I move adoption of the advanced algebra one course at Roosevelt High School starting the 2025-26 school year support Okay, any discussion we've
052talked about this a couple of times actually Yeah, I think it's important to note too that this kind of puts us in alignment with the area and the schools right are In our surrounding area as well. So this is for what your freshman Yes, okay. Yeah, this is the honors program. Yes, we'll be moving our order of Math from right now. We're taking geometry as freshmen. We're gonna move it. That's why algebra Yeah, which is what the rest most of the rest of the county is doing if not all That's good and then that anyone who doesn't because there's an opportunity to take it at the middle school But if you don't take it at a middle school, you're you can then take this class as an honors selection in high school All right, let's
053take a vote member Martinez. Yes member Webber. Yes member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes member Kenny Yes, member low Cicero. Yes present circumference. Yes motion carries Next up. We have a retirement to announce Chris Cret in maintenance I will retire on June 30th, 2025 after 31 years of service to the district I move acceptance of the following Resignation for the purpose of retirement of Chris Cret after 31 years of service to wind up public schools and thank him for his many years Of dedicated service to the children of wine dot and Wayne County and wish him well in his retirement years support Let's take a vote member Webber. Yes member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes member Kenny Yes member low Cicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes, President Serkovich. Yes Congratulations Next the we have
054a proposal for the organizational meeting the administration proposes that the board's organizational meeting be scheduled for Tuesday July 15th 2025 at 7 p.m. In these council chambers here at City Hall I move scheduling of the organizational Board of Education meeting for Tuesday, July 15th 2025 at 7 p.m. In the council chambers of wine that City Hall support Any discussion we have the calendar out a couple weeks ago for you to note this Okay, let's take a vote member Kane. Yes member Kenny. Yes member low Cicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes member Webber Yes, member Bevin partial. Yes, President Serkovich. Yes motion carries This one is hot off the press Bernie Bowers has been working on this one for a very long time off-street parking for TLC busing lane the director of operations Bernie Bowers and myself
055recommend approval of a proposed bus lane at TLC at the City Council meeting on May 19th 2025 City Council approved a bus lane on Electric Street at TLC director Bowers has worked with the city engineer Jesus Placencia and the city Cement contractor on this project to install a parking lane with a proposed bid not to exceed $155,000 this project will be paid out of Act 18 funds I move approval of a bus lane on Electric Street at TLC. The project is not to exceed $155,000 and will be paid out with Act 18 funds support any discussion I just think the the residents in that neighborhood will be relieved by the Flow of traffic that will be not as not stopped up. So thank you Bernie for really spearheading this and Making easier for both the
056drive bus drivers and the community Yes, although Bernie I've gotten really good at going between those buses without hitting my side view mirror You won't need that skill anymore And I want to think what it was, you know, it didn't bother me Well, I want to thank City Council for working with us on this. It's a win for for everybody Even just putting the the students like that much closer and just as a safety aspect just making sure that then they can safely exit and Just I don't know it gets a little it's a little tight over there. I see. Yes Okay, let's take a vote member King. Yes member Kinney. Yes member La Cicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes member Weber Yes member Bevin partial. Yes president circuit. Yes motion carries All right consent agenda
057because 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 or recommendations or information, please contact the superintendent's office at seven five nine six zero zero two I move approval of Board of Education bills in the amount of $935 and bills and vouchers in the amount of nine million eight hundred thirty six thousand eight hundred fifty three dollars and twenty six support any discussion All right, let's take a vote. We'll pay the bills member La Cicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes member Weber Yes, member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes member Kinney. Yes president circuit. Yes motion carries all right, uh Because many of the whole discussion agenda continued our next work session is June
05810th, 2025 630 at the Board of Education Announcements, dr. Anderson. I just a few Just wanted to let the community know that we let our seniors out into the world Last Friday, and so they have a number of events still coming up We have our honors night tomorrow and we have graduation programs for both our center programs and for RHS Following Wednesday the 28th, so that's coming up Congratulations to the RHS rowing team finished strong at States this past weekend and good luck to all of our other teams that are going into their end-of-season tournaments at this this week or or next and Like to thank everyone for their patience. We have some new road construction They are finally fixing the Oak Street tracks And so I know that's created some some detours for some
059families me included as I come into work But I know that we'll all think our tires and our rims will thank us Those tracks about tough well that one track is a Canadian track and they have to make the decision to fix it because we went Through this several years ago when we all just had to keep calling them and they finally came and say yeah long overdue depends on the railroad Yep, okay. Thank you board members We have a vote Yes, and another meeting in June don't we yes, so this is our work session And then we have one two weeks after that on the 24th For our regular civil meeting right here again on the 24th Okay, Nick and then Kathy all right, I was just gonna say I know our next official
060board meeting is not until after school is out so Congratulations to teachers and students for making it to June, and I hope you enjoy your summer break I'm a teacher as well, so I'm looking forward to that Awesome all right Kathy, so I had the pleasure of speaking to each one of you sometime this week or you know last week and We have to annually review our bylaws and our policies and so In speaking with all of you we were thinking about trying to get it done before we broke for summer, but I think better way to go about this is if you would do what I ask and go ahead and look at the policies that are on the Google Docs Drive and Think about two or three that you would like to look
061at you know and prioritize them and think about who you would like to work with Preferably not the person that you worked with last time so last time Carrie, and I worked together And so she and I will work with someone else this time if you would email me what your preferences are as far as what? policies you'd like to work on and Who you'd like to work with I? really don't think there's going to be much change because it wasn't that long ago that we did this and Miller Johnson is really good about keeping an eye on things as well, so I think what we're going to do is if you could get to me by June 10th with your preferences and take your time through the summer and Then just have it ready
062by September when we come back that way you and your partner or partners because we're going to end up with three groups one group of two or two groups of two and one group of three and And then you do it on your own time, and then if you have any questions just reach out The one place that we might see the most change might be in those operating procedures because those are the newest additions for us So I did ask Cathy to work on those because I've already found a couple of years Some of our just typos, but just some things in there, so I thought all right. That was my original thing so the other thing was is If you can work on a policy other than the one that you last worked
063on So that you get a feel for the other ones as well and fresh eyes. It's always fresh eyes. Yes Cool all right, so if everybody's good with that. We'll let the policy chair handle that I'm happy to delegate that to Cathy and let her manage that whole thing Little bit, but your teacher skills are going to come in No, I feel like I'm making assignments. This is right in your right in your wheelhouse. Okay, anybody else? One oh yeah, please. I just wanted to give a shout out to the Wilson staff and the chaperones for a successful Eighth-grade trip it looked like the kids had an amazing time. They also tied together. I thought this was really cool. They got to see The musical the outsiders which is a book that they every eighth
064grader right now reads they watch the movie they read it they dress up and you know in in costume and they also got to See the musical on Broadway, too So I thought that was very special in a great way to tie that trip together to what they've been learning so yeah Good job job. Well done. Stay gold I think I would have loved to have heard the discussions about what's different from the movie versus the play versus the book I want to if anybody wants to have the discussion send me an email. I want to get in on that That's one of my favorite books for sure and one of my favorite movies as you know all those 80s heartthrobs are in there So it's a good one Awesome, and I want to send
065a shout out to the Wilson robotics team for competing this past weekend They have their competition and look like they had a lot of fun. So good job. Go Wilson All right, anybody else take a motion to adjourn. I'd like to just say today today. I did Interviews with the juniors this year, and I had a blast That's I talked to kids and there was a lot they didn't I mean they just were very thankful to me And I just opened up and I what I followed the guidelines But I just kind of brought it more down to their comfort level because they were like very scared. I said, I'm the last person So you don't have to worry you can say what you need to say and but they were very said, thank you
066They said also, thank you. You told me stuff that no one's ever told me. So that's awesome. Yeah, so it made me feel real good That's great. You see your professional experience to pass that on to these friends just entering the workforce That's awesome if you have if you're a board member you haven't had a chance to do pathways interviews they come around every year about this Time of year and I recommend these even taken even if you do one hour out of the day It's it's just fun and you do feel you do feel so bad for them when they come in and they're so nervous I know it's one girl's like this. I said just relax. Yeah, let's breathe a little bit. That's awesome. Yeah. All right I'm good for everybody's go take
067a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn support