Check out our notes for the January 19 Ann Arbor Public School Board of Education Meeting. The meeting was held in person at the Courtyard Marriott at 3205 Boardwalk, Ann Arbor. The meeting aired on Zoom and on Xfinity Channel 18. The district typically posts the recording split into segments the day after the meeting or Xfinity Channel 18 will often replay it. The agenda for tonight’s meeting is available online.
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Call to Order
Roll Call
Based on who I see and hear in the meeting and who voted on various items
Present: Kelly, Baskett, Lazarus, DuPree, Gaynor
Absent: Querijero and Johnson (at roll call. I will update if they arrive late)
Other Attendees: Swift, Osinsky, Bacolor (virtual), Minnick (virtual), Lauzzana (virtual)
Agenda
The Agenda is available on Board Docs. This is the approved agenda and will include any updates and results of any votes.
Gaynor: Our organizational meeting last week was incomplete. Are we going to finish it off and read off committee assignments
Lazarus: I will address that in items from the board
Motion to approve by Kelly. Seconded by Baskett. Approved by Kelly, Baskett, Lazarus, DuPree. No: Gaynor. Absent: Johnson and Querijero
Public Commentary
As is our practice, we do not cover public commentary. I believe there were 7 comments tonight available in BoardDocs. One comment was presented in person.
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Clarifications
Swift: I appreciate everyone who has spoken by submitting or coming in person. I do understand from IT they worked with the principal to correct that situation. I appreciate you making us aware and will have someone followup tomorrow. Very much agree with your perception that should not ever occur. Normally I get comments on why so much is blocked, so I know IT is correcting that.
Lazarus: The comments submitted in writing are available in BoardDocs (we have linked above)
Board Committee Reports
Finance Committee
Lazarus: Finance committee met last week for a discussion on summer paving project we’ll hear later. Plus the standard December monitoring report. We also had a nice discussion about things we should consider as a board. I think we’ll continue that discussion for future budgeting purposes. Those comments may come up during monthly monitoring report
Superintendent’s Update
Swift: Trustees you have a copy of the update attached.
I appreciate the celebrations of MLK day across AAPS. Students and staff engaged in lessons and activities honoring MLK and his non-violent methods to ensuring equality and justice for all. Students have celebrated used virtual assemblies, guest speakers, interactive read alouds, virtual tours of national civil rights museum, and interdisciplinary lessons focused on his speeches. Our HS students participated in a virtual symposium for the second year in a row that was district wide for all high schoolers. Across all our HS students and staff participated. Appreciation to keynote speaker State Representative Yousef Rabhi.
Equity work in district continues. AAPS leadership team participated in ongoing leading for equity series. We are focusing on 28 concreted strategies to become more equitable school learning community. Next week is our next equity learning together. – culturally responsive teaching and learning for all staff from 2-4p.
This week we are coming to the close of semester 1 for 2021-2022. Students at Middle school are taking exams and wrapping up work. New semester begins on Monday, January 24. High School at Community, Huron, and Pioneer are taking final exams this week and working with staff on plans for makeup exams. Our team is taking extra effort to ensure all students are supported to wrap up their semester. We understand we will have more than typical needing makeup next week and plan to use most of next week to wrap up. Parents can look for that information coming from school principal or reach out.
Several of our commenters spoke to our schools transitioning to virtual. I want to address our current reality. Cases remain high among staff and students plus community. With the current surge we do have staff shortages. Trustees I know you’re aware we’ve been working to hire additional staff. We know there are additional steps involved in becoming guest staff but trusting a class to an individual is a process that requires steps. We’ve been mobilizing staff. Teachers cover, members of my team. That’s how we navigated through the fall. What’s different in January is the number of absences. We’re averaging 20-25-30% of teams short staffed on most every day. We updated morning and evening. Moving a classroom or grade to virtual is never our first choice, but it is necessary when we can’t provide proper infrastructure and supervision in classrooms and schools. The level of absences has indicated full schools. At King there were multiple classes and grade levels impacted. We do keep schools open when outbreak occurs in one classroom. We have that situation. Particularly, we are seeing issues with food, transportation, custodial, and IT particularly impacted. We’re taking a number of steps with priority of holding in school learning. We know students and staff need to be together when we can safely do so.
We do expect 2-4-6 weeks more of this ahead of us. We hope it is shorter. Here are the steps we take when mobilizing every tool we have
- Daily monitoring of COVID data and related staffing and student impact
- It’s not just that staff are positive for COVID. The number of staff with child or immediate family member home who is ill
- monitoring attendance data
- confirming coverage
- mobilizing staff across schools
- covering as many classrooms as possible
- winter increase in daily rate for guest teachers and employees. We’ll keep it through march. It has helped us. We have 300+ regular active subs in pool of 700 who are not all active.
- We mobilize my team and central leadership
- Deliver professional learning virtually to reduce staff exposure
- Essential meetings outside of school hours as much as possible to dedicate day to learning
- When unable to staff for safe in school operations, we will transition a classroom or building to remote.
This week we have 3 campuses in virutal and 27 in in-person staffing.
Our hourly employees are having impact for themselves and families. We are concerned about those absences that hinder our ability to offer safe in school learning.
We are operating 75 of 97 transportation routes each day including all special education and preschool. We continue reassigning personnel as needed to cover as many routes as needed. It’s been a tough week with additional positive cases on transportation staff and 2 resignations yesterday. I’m being very transparent and stating facts as they are.
We may need to continue to modify operations. Similar position with food and nutrition and custodial.
I want to give a shoutout to parents and students on affected routes who are going the extra mile with carpools and helping get kids to school. In my 30+ years, we’ve never had to take a step back. It’s not what we want to do.
Custodial teams are working double time, working weekends and can catchup. But with buses it has to be a specific time and place. We have hired as many as we can, increased hourly wages to top pay in the area and benefits as well.
I get questions about student attendance as well. We’re hoping to see continuity of learning through January time of omicron disruption. We understand moving in school to virtual is a challenge. Your aware we saw strong attendance during first 4 days back on virtual learning averaging 89-92% with students live online. As we return to in-person we hover at 87% overall. Two observations is school buildings on a virtual status generally achieve higher attendance rate (~5-6% higher). We also see an increase in attendance when transition to virtual occurs. Those have nothing to do with the decision process. When we check attendance rate for January 2022, we hear attendance rates are lower across the country. We compared to January 2019 and 2020 in before times. Dr Dan Berger, just completed his doctorate, looked at 3 dates. Tuesday after NY Day, the Wednesday of the following week, and the Tuesday after MLK day to see how it compares. In all cases the number of absence were very similar to 2022. So far, student attendance is very similar to 2019 and 2020 both pre-covid. Given all we are experiencing, I’m proud attendance is strong.
When students do need to miss class because of COVID, quarantine learning program is available and any student may access. When we send out the superintendent’s update, I will include the link. We’re seeing 50-75 in the QLP each day. Per state attendance audit requirements, we are not allow to consider as present for attendance records. But for our community, it’s the continuity of learning. I want to give a shoutout to those teachers we hired for the fall. At elementary, they start with a morning meeting, then proceed to assist with schoology assignments for their own classrooms.
In addition to the QLP, we have completed 10 vaccination events about 1500 students and 200 staff boosters. A shoutout to Ms Bacolor, Ms Margolis, and the entire team. It’s an all hands on deck with Rec & Ed, nursing staff. My favorite is the after room with a dance event as they wait post vaccine. There’s dancing, coloring.
One of the big things folks have asked about is the updated school guidance. Ms Bacolor will be joining because we know folks might have questions. It happened over winter break that the CDC updated guidance. Then we were waiting for MDHHS and WCHD to update school guidance. We have transitioned to update our school protocols to keep with guidance from WCHD. School nurses have been implementing how the new protocols work and to collect data from the implementation of those guidelines.
Universal masking, many students and staff are upgrading masks. We do have masks available in every school. Vaccination and boosters from 5-18. I’m delighted we saw many 12-15 yo at our clinic getting their booster. The protocols are a general guideline. The nurse is the public health person who analyzes with parent and school. The response may be adapted as necessary. We are monitoring data to determine how effective current protocols are.
Bacolor (joining by Zoom): We’ve been implementing new protocols without making a big deal of it. The protocol changes support district’s goal of keeping students in school. More options to return sooner from isolation and decrease the number of students who would have been put in quarantine previously. Narrowing it down to high risk exposures.
1 – Vaccination status matters for staff and students ages 5-18. Unvaccinated or partially vaccinated are more likely to get sick, and more likely to be put in quarantine after exposure at home or school. We’ve put a strong emphasis on vaccination. We’ve probably had more clinics than most districts.
2 – For students & staff who test positive there is a possible reduction in isolation. Can return on day 6 with improvement of symptoms, agreement to wear a high filtration mask, negative rapid antigen test still strongly recommended.
3 – Significant reduction in students placed in quarantining. Contact tracing is limited to high risk situations. As AAPS resources allow, we will continue to do test to stay that we have been using since mid-November. We’ve already done test to stay at 3 buildings. One area we are being more strict is our interpretation of mealtimes. WCHD considers meals low risk. But we all know students are unmasked for short periods of time. In an abundance of caution during omicron surge we will contact trace involving meals and snack times. We know omicron is more contagious. That is a higher risk situation. For unvaccinated, asymptomatic students it doesn’t make a difference. They are going to stay in school and not quarantine.
4 – Case notification and response process has changed. The emails will still continue to happen. But we’ll be batching with total cases for a day instead of individual letters. Response will look different. We won’t be calling parents and contact tracing as often. We anticipate doing less of that. we’ve had close contact with WCHD. For those who have tested postiivet he past week, you know the process is different.
With a decrease in time spent on case investigation, our team can focus on supporting healthy and safe practices in school including new guidance. Or allowing test to stay – as staffing and supplies allow. We are low on testing supplies. We have been promised more, but they’ve been delayed.
What can parents do to prevent school transmission
- Monitor your student every day. We’ve updated the daily screener.
- If your child has symptoms, please keep them home until they can get tested.
- If student becomes ill during the day, they will go to health room
- If anyone in home tests positive, we need your to keep kids home. Home exposure is more likely to transmit, so we need to be very cautious
- If you haven’t already get your 5-18 student vaccinated and boosted.
- Unvaccinated students will be required to quarantine in high risk situations like in high risk situations – sports, masks off, outbreak in building, carpooling, etc.
- Be ready to provide consent for your student to be tested at school. If they have symptoms or if we can do test to stay. We are quickly reaching out to parents and asking for consent via an electronic signature form.
Detailed guidance will be posted tomorrow.
Swift: I also want to emphasize that there is no expectation that folks should return to work or school if they are not feeling well. We continue to emphasize folks need to take care of themselves. I know as the nurse team talk to folks you are helping them understand that distinction.
Lazarus: Thank you for all the hard work you’ve done on this
Trustee Questions on Health Updates
Gaynor: This might be for Dr Swift. My understanding is it allows for 5 extra sick days if they test positive but not more. So they’d have to use their other days if they still feel sick.
Swift; Ik know they are making allowances beyond that. I’ll follow up with you
Gaynor: Of course the concern is that they may come back too early
Swift: Our fundamental rule is no one should be on campus with any symptoms. If we observe symptoms that child will be placed in protocol.
Gaynor: I want to make sure I have it right, a test is recommended after 5 days but not mandatory.
Bacolor: Yes. Parents also have specific education for parents whose students want to come back to address from a clinical perspective the student’s readiness to return.
Swift: And the agreement that the students will wear the higher filtration masks. IF not we’ll keep the longer quarantine.
DuPree: Can you tell us how patient education is delivered. Is it immediately after a positive case.
Bacolor: It will be shared in a consistent way. It will be written and translated. We are still working on that as protocols are revised. Nurses are talented and skilled at talking with parents. This is their thing. Each school is supplied with child sized high filtration masks so if a parent needs to access one for their child to return, that is available to them. Part of returning is the ability to wear that mask all day.
DuPree: Thank you and a shoutout to our nurses
Kelly: I’m thinking of how it will work. How will they eat lunch wearing a high filtration mask? Are we segregating students?
Swift; That’s an interesting question?
Bacolor: We are still working through that. If they’re at the 6 day period and not experiencing symptoms, we are counting on them not being very infectious. This isn’t an exact science. For a brief period they can remove their mask to eat. The rest of the day we want them to have their mask on.
Lazarus: Thank you. we’ll have the information on the front page right?
Swift: Yes
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Monthly Budget Monitoring Report – November/December
Swift; Trustee Gaynor has pointed out that as the year progresses, we see impact of cumulative impact of decisions to increase hourly rate and wages. November, December is where you start to see the reality of where the budget will land. Ms Minnick will walk through where we are. She was also in the revenue consensus conference most of the day Friday. We know over the coming months we’ll be working through the process with trustees and community for the 2022-2023 budget. The best way is to be excellent stewards of the funds we have for this year.
Minnick (Virtual): The December report is largely cumulative and will include the November numbers.
In general fund we see a decrease of about $3.9 million in cash and investments from 2020. Expenditures are slightly elevated in December. There were 3 payrolls in December which typically happens 2 months in the year. Also large values in covid response funds.
In the general fund as of December 202 we collected $107M in revenue. This year we’ve collected $114M. Expenditures last year were $107M vs $119M this year. That’s a 11.5%. On income, last year we had a lag in property tax collection. It has rectified ourself this year. On expenditure, the extra payroll month was earlier in 2021 and had some additional COVID expenditures.
Last year end of December fund balance was $20.8 million. This year it is $16.4 million.
This year compared to budget, we have collected 43+% and spent 44.5%. We’re half way through our year and about 40% through our school year. The percentages are in a reasonable range of our budget
Trustee Questions on Budget Monitoring Report
Gaynor: I’m no longer on finance committee, but had about an hour to look over the reports. On page 7, budget for the year our expected ending balance is a reduction of about $6.7 million Year to date we’re at $5.7. I know we were expected to have a lower fund balance, but this is over 80% of the expected drop at the half way or is it expected.
Swift; I’d start with a note that ESSR payments are still outstanding. I know that’s one big item that’s not in yet
Minnick: Yes, you are right. This is as of a point in time and often last year we’d talk about how it changes with costs incurred in the summer. We have been expending monies in covid response – PPE, staffing, retention, costs of goods – but we have not received all the ESSR dollars. Once we collect those it will help mitigate impact to fund balance.
Gaynor: Thank you. I want to be assured we’re not on a further decline than predicted. Thank you for correcting the typo. Doesn’t it also affect the total line. We don’t have to go through the detail and make sure it’s correct in the final document.
Swift; We’ll make sure it’s corrected.
Minnick: I will mention I verified the resulting numbers are correct and they are. We’ll correct and issue the right reports.
Gaynor: I also asked because there are thousands of line items expenses and you clarified a few for me. A few I want to bring up for the public. $408K to city of Ann Arbor treasurer. I can read your response it was the city cost recovery fee for new fire suppression systems (and we did have a presentation on this in May 2021). A line said center for responsive and you explained it was training Responsive classrooms for elementary schools. There were a few in code and it was Verizon Wireless and I couldn’t make sense of it.
Minnick: That’s the way the vendor’s name comes across on the purchasing card.
Gaynor: Dr Swift another item I mentioned as payments to Courtyard Ann Arbor, I assume those were for the meetings we have here. I know there are questions why we are meeting here instead of in schools.
Swift: Before we move to that, I want to say it is rare for an inaccurate number to come through at any level. I want to clarify the totals are correct onthose slides. It was a typo only in one spot.
Minnick: Correct.
Swift: We’ll get that corrected. Regarding the expense to meet in this location. It is really a cost savings. It’s not anyones preference, but has been brought about by staffing shortages. We require a team of 4-5 individuals to setup, break down, and clean. This cost is actually less especially since so many employees are on overtime. We are about 30-35% down on custodial staff. Even more than financial, it seems out of whack for a meeting that can occur elsewhere to take precedence over cleaning and regular sanitation in schools. Third, we have also limited individuals in our buildings. We are required to accommodate a crowd by Open Meetings Act. We’d have to see cases come down to a level where we’re comfortable having people attend.
Gaynor: I heard a comment of can’t we clean after ourselves. We do a lot for $130/month.
Lazarus: It’s unusual a district our size doesn’t have a facility for board meetings. It is much more feasible to be in a hotel. We have a policy in place where our buildings are closed to the public. As a parent, when my daughter has a dentist appointment, I can’t go in the building to get her. To open a building late night to the general public would be in my opinion more feasible to do it in this space. We have to make commitments to the hotel to ensure we have a space for our meetings. Once we can get in our building safely and staff can accommodate the public, we have to do what is needed.
Kelly: I have a macro level question. I was looking at audited number from June 2021 because I remembered our total being lower than what I see here. It looks like this year we’re on track to hit ~$300M vs $223M.
Minnick: May I just calrify are you referring to fund balance.
Kelly: No general fund expenditures
Minnick: Last year was $272M at June 30.
Kelly: It’s a complicated question. I’m comparing to $272M on slide 6 when we look at expenditures for this year, they’re at $149M now at 45% thorugh the year, if we doulbe it would be quite a bit more.
Minnick: The $149M is the balance left this year. We’ve spent $110M.
Kelly: That’s really helpful. I wasn’t comparing apples to apples. Would you predict at this point we’d see any dramatic changes related to ESSR or otherwise?
Minnick: Typically at this time the fund balance will continue to grow. Certain payrolls in July and August go back to the current fiscal year, or POs in July for purchases made in June. The way to project the ending balances is we have accounted for that in our budget. It includes a variety of supplies and contracted salaries and benefits. Now we become aware of state funding levels, enrollment, grants. As we move through the fiscal year we keep an eye on those assumptions. At this point in time, we’re seeing an increased level of expenditures with cost of goods and labor. It is concerning and I’ll keep monitoring. At this point we’re keeping an eye on it. Once we get the revenues from the ESSR grant dollars that is a significant amount of money and will improve the look to the general fund. Our monthly comparisons are points in time comparisons and we have to look at what’s happening. Fund balance is a point in time, expenditures are cumulative.
Kelly: We have to be careful with our expenditures, but haven’t had any real surprises.
Lazarus: I do have one question. Last Friday you went to revenue consensus meeting. Do you have any information for when we’ll start receiving those ESSR monies. It’s been a year and the money hasn’t trickled to local level.
Minnick: Sorry, I’m having difficulty. The economists and state budget office and other folks presented their forecasts for the revenue of state of Michigan both general fund and school aid fund. The consensus was aligned across House fiscal agency, Senate fiscal agency, and state budget office. Fiscal 2022 is expected to be below 2021 but higher than projecting las May. Appears to be projections of surplus in balance over the next few years. This is just one piece of the puzzle. As we move through the spring, the governor will release the budget in February and will indicate how they intend to spend those surpluses. Then the state an house will release theirs. Then in May they will reach consensus. Hopefully in June, but sometimes in July state will come to agreement with school aid bill. Those are all estimated times based on historical timing.
First Briefing
AN-2071 Summer 2022 Paving Projects
Swift: It’s normal in February that we start bringing forward our summer work. Mr Lauzzana is joining us for a lighter than usual paving project. These are to extned the life of the paving at these schools
- Logan
- Pattengill
- Pittsfield
- Wines
We want to extend our gratitude to the community for the bond and sinking fund for maintaining our properties. A few years ago Mr Lauzzana and our team had all our properties assessed for paving. We’re in a better position and have caught up and can keep up.
Lauzzana (virtual): In alignment with commitments to promoting health and safety, we’re providing drawings and specifications that were bid for paving and sidewalk improvement. They’ll reduce our environmental impact with lower carbon solutions for paving and concrete with up to 17% recylced content in top course and 27% in basecourse of asphalt. This is becoming industry standard in asphalt. Less common but growing is our concrete specification with 35% slag or 25% flyash – substitutes for the carbon intensive cement.
We received 4 qualified bids with the Best Asphalt of Romulus was $237K and we recommend a 15% contingency, a total of $272K from bond program funds.
As Dr Swift mentioned this is lighter than previous years. We’ve done some catch-up, but we do have some coming up in the future that are expensive.
Paving is expensive, by patching at Logan we can extend the life of the lot by hitting certain areas. At Pattengill the front main parking lot is in good shape. The back access drive with the dumpsters is badly degraded. The top course will be ground off and a new layer added. Some concrete will be installed at the dumpsters. The heavy trucks degrade the asphalt. We’ll get more life with the concrete.
A little patch in main parking lot at Pittsfield and redoing the 2 aprons that connect to the raodway.
At Wines they have a few patches. They are queued up for a big replacement, but we have other construction there this summer and this will buy us a year or two before a major parking lot reconstruction
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Trustee Questions on Pavement Replacement Briefing
Gaynor: Thank you for this work. It’s a relief not to have major paving. I also appreciate the carbon lifecycle impact. It doesn’t seem like very much. What stood out at Pattengill is there’s one description that says alternate to remove hydrant and water main replacement. Is anything adding to the cost of this?
Lazzauna: It’s more expensive than you think. Mobilizing the equipment is a big expense. The alternate is work we’d like to do but not sure we would get a good price, or see what the cost is before we roll it in. In this case we did accept that alternate. I don’t have the exact number of it. We did get 4 bids. While it’s not several million, it was nice to see we had another bid that was $12K more. It gives us some confidence the pricing is reasonable. We have worked with Best Asphalt in the past and they’ve done excellent work for us.
DuPree: I think. itwas slide 3 with Pattengill. RThe purple part you’d be grinding things down instead of a complete replacement. Can you help me see what that means and cost comparison.
Lazzuana: Asphalt parking lot really has 3 components – base of limestone, then 2 courses of asphalt a 2″ base and a 2″ top. Depending on degradation and amount of traffic, if the base is deemed to be in good condition but it is just old on top, it is more effective to grind off the top 2″ and lay down a new top course. I can get back to you about approximate cost differential. It can be quite a bit more cost effective. You see it used frequently in municipal roadways.
Lazarus (I think): It is substantial savings. Whenever you can do it you do it.
Kelly: I have a question about the recycled content. Does it have any impact on the durability of the work that is done?
Lauzzana: Our specification is modeled on MDOT. The thinking is it’s not full recycled content it’s 17and 27% is felt by MDOT and others in the industry that it doesn’t significantly impact the longevity.
Kelly: Are there states with good roads that set different standards? (I’m glad I’m note taking on a recording as I had to pause to laugh at this question.)
Lauzzana: I do not know. I know in Michigan it seems like our roads fall apart faster than anyplace else in the country.
Kelly: I’m mostly being facetious. The second question about recycled content is does it have impact on pollution on production? I know asphalt is pretty much terrible but its all we’ve got.
Lauzzana: Asphalt is basically a petroleum product. It is heated up and the recycle process is when you remove it and take it to the batch plant is there whether it’s recycled or not. The carbon you’re saving is the extraction, processing, and transportation of the virgin asphalt.
Kelly: And of course keeping the old out of landfills. Are pervious surface alternatives appropriate for smaller projects like we’re facing, or bigger comprehensive projects in the future.
Lauzzana: People are hoping pervious paving will become cost savings. But many are 2-3x the cost of what we’re doing here and is not cost effective. I have seen interesting use is where you have like a fire access lane that isn’t regularly used by traffic. It can be an aesthetic choice to justify the increased cost.
Kelly: I understand we have a bit of time before those projects.
Baskett: Can you review start and completion times.
Lauzzana: Summer 2022. Once school is out depending on mobilization and availability and we plan to be done by middle of August.
Baskett: So return in the fall we’ll have brand new patched up pavement.
Second Briefing
There are no second briefing items
Consent Agenda
The board will vote to approve
- Minutes of the January 12 Organizational Meeting
- Approve Donations
- Bach Elementary – 3 Honeywell HPA300 air purifiers donated by Tracy Swinburn, Nina Eusani, and Lorin Dobkin
- Bryant Elementary – grant from Keri McDonald to update their library with more diverse and inclusive chapter books
Motion to approve by Baskett, Seconded by DuPree. No discussion. Unanimously passed.
Board Action
The board voted to approve a closed session on January 26 at 6:30p to consider a periodic personnel evaluation of the superintendent
Motion to approve by Kelly. Seconded by Baskett. No discussion. Unanimously passed.
Items for Agenda Planning
DuPree: A few months ago I brought up having a presentation by mental health supports and also learning what our counselor
Swift; We do have that as part of a study session in 1Q2022
Items from the Board
Kelly: I’ll let you know now, Washtenaw Association of School Boards will have its legislative breakfast on Monday the 24th. It is open to all trustees and superintendents There is no registration, but a Zoom link will be sent out. I will send out if you don’t get it.
Lazarus: That meeting is by Zoom?
Kelly: Yes
Gaynor: I haven’t had a public coffee in some time. I’ll be hosting on my Facebook and it will be virtual of course.
Lazarus: I would like to announce I have spoken with every trustee over the week and appreciate the conversation and talked about your interest for committee assignments. They’ve been posted to the board section of the website. Everyone has been informed via email.
Gaynor: These are routinely announced at organizational meeting. I request you announce them now. I note I have been named to no committees.
Lazarus: Yes, and we had discussions about that. I can go through the different ones.
- Standing Committees
- Governance: Lazarus, Johnson, DuPree
- Planning: Kelly, Lazarus, Querijero
- Performance: Johnson, Baskett, DuPree
- Executive: Lazarus, Kelly, Johnson
- Auxiliary Committees
- Finance: Querijero, Lazarus
- 2019 Bond: Lazarus, Baskett, Johnson
- Taskforce for Environmental Sustainability: Querijero, Johnson
- Community Service Committees
- City Schools: Baskett, Querijero
- Transportation & Safety: Lazarus
- Michigan Association School Board Legislative Relation Network: Baskett
- Regional Alliance for Healthy Schools: Baskett
- Recreational Advisory Committee: Johnson
- Student Hearing Process: Kelly & DuPree
- WASB: Kelly & Querijero (Alternate)
Gaynor: I would like to formally protest not being named to any committees.
Lazarus: Your protest has been noted.
Adjourn
Motion to Adjourn by voice vote by Kelly , seconded by DuPree, Meeting adjourned at 9:11 pm.