001Call to order the meeting of the Board of Education scheduled for Tuesday April 15th here at 7 p.m. It's wine dot City Hall 3200 Biddle Avenue Roll call please member Bevin partial here member Kane here member Kinney here member low Cicero here member Martinez here member Webber Here president sir Kovach here Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I Pledge allegiance to the flag and to the one nation rights Recitation of the vision and mission statements trustee Kinney will read the vision statement and trustee low Cicero 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 April 1st 2025 work session is was
002included in your packet Secretary Martinez review the summary and found it to be in order and acceptable as presented I move approval of the proposed summary from the April 1st 2025 work session be approved as presented and or amended support any discussion All right, please attach the role well attached motion carried. Thank you. All right special orders reports. Dr. Anderson All right I am happy to invite up the principal of the Lincoln Center Bill Bolton who in turn is going to talk about the Lincoln Center's partnership with Westcroft Gardens Okay, so as as stated, I'm Bill Bolton. I'm the president So we operate a program for students with autism and we also serve students with cognitive and emotional impairments ages 5 up to 26 So for our students who are 18 and up we're working
003on helping our students with job readiness skills You know, so for example our students who work at our greenhouse learn more than just how to plant water and shovel But they also learn important soft skills such as how to ask for help social skills and being part of the community So we're so proud of our partnership with community grown gardens. That's our in Grosil. That's the That's the the greenhouse that works within what Westcroft and so to tell us more about our partnership We have our transition specialist Jen Spicer and one of our students Colin Smith who attends our satellite program at Roosevelt High School I'm Jen Spicer. I am the transition coordinator over at the Lincoln Center and this is do you want to introduce yourself or do you want me to? Uh, I
004can okay. I was gonna say my name is Colin. What is your name? And Colin is one of our students who attends one of our satellite classrooms at Roosevelt So part of our programming is implementing community-based instruction and work-based learning one of our sites that we Go to is community grown gardens, which runs part of space from Westcroft Gardens on Grosil So Colin and I wanted to share a little bit about that He's the expert because he attends all the time more than anyone, right? We just have to say next slide when we're ready for the next I can do you want to do that? Are we ready for the next slide? Okay So the Lincoln Center students have been traveling to community grown gardens on Grosil as a job site for close to ten
005years now next slide It's a nonprofit organization that promotes inclusive education opportunities Engages the community and addresses food and securities through year-round urban agriculture They donate what they grow here. Okay They have a hoop house system that provides the ability to grow year-round and it allows our students to work throughout the school year So these are photos of students working during the winter months Skills that students work on include garden maintenance following instructions from staff, which is what they're doing In this picture planting seeds moving compost using a wheelbarrow Watering the plants and shoveling compost and soil. Did I forget anything? Okay, and then the next few slides are just pictures of our students working inside and outside of the gardens So these are in there's students working outside shoveling wheelbarrow. Which what's your favorite
006thing to do there Colin? Shoveling the compost and moving it. Okay So more students of students working pictures of students working outside We can keep going. Oh, and is that yeah, I think that They're watering here and more planting students planting seeds and maintaining the inside gardens There's the compost. That's what you always is a that I think that is you can't was that you can I think is that you in that picture in the great hoodie? Not sure They The gardens continues to have a positive impact on our students and many have shown interest in pursuing Work in this field and included in their post-secondary goals in their transition plan in their IEP Colin is one of those and his post-secondary goals in his IEP. He shows interest in working in landscaping and in
007gardening And then we hope to continue this partnership for many years to come and there's a good picture of Colin right there All right with a couple of his buddies Is there anything else you want to share about? Westcroft you look forward to going when it's your turn to go right? It's is it one of your favorite things to do at school Okay Hey Colin, Colin, do you take a bus? Do you take a bus to the to the gardens? Yeah, probably. Yeah They take the Trinity bus Well, thank you any questions any questions for the team? No, I just have to say that I'm continuously Grateful and impressed by our special education team and how many life experiences they provide our students It's not just about academics, but you are truly equipping them for
008a meaningful and productive life Thank you. Thank you Thank You Maybe the Wyandotte Garden Club could take some tips from our center-based programs Mr. Bevin Herschel is the president of the Wyandotte Garden Club over here. So He's a good person to know There's some gardeners here Awesome. Thank you. Yeah at this time just to let you guys get on with your evening. We'll go ahead and let you Exit so thank you for coming in today Appreciate it. All right, it's gonna make the hearing of the public A little quieter Hearing of the public Wyandotte 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
009limited to three minutes per person members of the board of district employees will not answer questions during public commentary So anyone wishing to address the board at this time? Seeing none we'll move on to the action agenda number one bond resolution Alright by resolution adopted on January 21st 2025 this board board authorized the issuance of not to exceed thirty one million seven hundred thousand dollars of 2025 refunded bonds For the purposes of refunding the portion of the issuers 215 school building and site bonds which are callable on or after May 1st 2025 and are due and payable by May 1st 2026 through May 1st 2035 inclusive May 1st 2037 and May 1st 2041 they have a motion, please I move approval of ratifying the sales of the bonds to Huntington securities as directed by this
010Board of Education by a prior resolution dated January 21st 2025 and directing the applications of bond proceeds support Okay any discussion just for the public's awareness this is a Process that we've been involved in for the last several months to refinance and at this point in the process where we're just required to take a vote to issue and this is important to know that entire process is to bring down the Amount for the test taxpayers, so so by getting a better interest rate We're we're saving the taxpayers money All right, let's take a vote member Bevin partial yes member Kane yes member Kenny yes member low Cicero yes member Martinez Yes, member Webber. Yes present circuit. Yes motion carries The second item today. We have a couple retirements We would like to announce the following
011staff members will retire on June 30th 2025 Michelle Mann's teacher at Wilson 228 years of service with the district and Beth Mechelen a paraprofessional at the Lincoln Center 24 years of service I move acceptance of the following resignations for the purpose of retirement of Michelle Mann's and Beth Mechelen after a combined 58 years of service to wind up public schools and thank them for their many years of Dedicated service to the children of wind out and Wayne County and wish them well in their retirement years support any discussion That's a very long tenure for both of these folks especially as a paraprofessional with our center program That is awesome And of course Michelle Mann's Aaron's favorite seventh grade English teacher, so we wish them both well in their retirement All right, let's take a vote.
012Please member Kenny. Yes member low Cicero. Yes member Martinez. Yes member Webber Yes, member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes Yes, motion carries congratulations ladies 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 seven five nine six zero zero to you. We have a motion okay, I move approval of Board of Education bills in the amount of 707 dollars and 67 cents and bills and vouchers in the amount of eight million one hundred two thousand three hundred five dollars and ninety seven cents support any discussion All right, let's take a roll call. Please member low Cicero. Yes member Martinez
013Yes, member Webber. Yes member Bevin partial. Yes member Kane. Yes member Kenny. Yes Yes, motion carries. All right committee of the whole discussion agenda Our next meeting will be a work session on May 6 2025, which would be 630 at the Board of Education Announcements dr. Anderson just couple wanted to say thank you to all the volunteers and participants at Saturday's unified basketball event I was able to be there last year. I was not able to be there this year, but I did get updates from Miss Swift and she said it was a huge success. And so it was another another great event And so congratulations to everybody with that I did want to update that I am doing my second round of student Superintendent student advisory council meetings. I've met with the seniors and
014the juniors This time guiding the conversations a little bit. We've been talking about artificial intelligence and talking about cell phone technology use In schools and bullying and so really enlightening conversations and a Lot of great feedback from those students. So thank you to them for spending time with me I bribed them with a little Caesar's pizza, but I also know that That it's it's great to getting the insight from them. And thank you for joining me the other day with that That was great discussion. Yeah, they were very very open with their feelings. And then finally, yeah Just a reminder that there is no school on Friday in celebration of Good Friday Okay board members announcements and I will I'll put in there also to say if there's anything that you worked on in the
015first quarter Our goal was to do show more media engagement So if anybody wants to share anything, we're now firmly in the second quarter But if there's anything you did in the first quarter that you want to talk about we'd love to hear from you Announcements anybody. Yes, go ahead. Go ahead. I did my annual Cat-in-the-hat for reading in March the kids and that was it went over. Well, they loved it It was able to do five classes. So well nice. Yeah that really is so much fun. It is I have a good time with that I hate wearing that makeup Yeah winter guard last at the last meeting I told you they took second place district-wide and and this last time they took Second statewide. Yeah, so very very proud of them. And if
016you haven't seen the wind up magazine They dedicated a whole page to our music department, which was really lovely So I'd like to thank the city for that and lots of concerts coming up. So check your calendar I enjoyed going to Jefferson Elementary for the math and science night Member Martinez was there as well. I was at a station talking about rising sea levels. So I'm an expert on it now if you like chat about it It was really enjoyable, so I just want to shout out to Mrs. Eskin and her entire team there who really put on a really wonderful night. The kids really enjoyed exploring different math and science I think another thing to note about that were the number of volunteers from the high school in the middle school as well that
017we're Also working at the tables. So it was really fun to see they were very into it as well Jefferson also had their wax museum Yeah Fifth graders did a great job with that. Mm-hmm. They always do. Yes, there were quite a few of us who were at the Distinguished grads and the NHS induction as well. That's always a really great event And I'm always impressed with the number of previous distinguished grad a winner award winners that come back and show up We had a distinguished grad come back was 94 believe 94 years old went on to a career in Virginia and doctorate and She came back for the distinguished grad flew in from Virginia for the ceremony and was telling us about her life and so it's really Fascinating stuff. It really does make
018you think about just how interconnected we all are here I mean all roads lead back to mind that right and always One more thing. Sorry as Springs upon us Keep your eye on the Roosevelt High School botany Facebook group page Because they'll be having their Mother's Day sale coming up and then they have their native plant sale that they do in Conjunction with hoods. So are they still doing that? I know they started a little bit ago. Yep That's cool because if you can't make it during the week they they're yeah All right, if we're good, I will entertain a motion to adjourn a motion to adjourn