May 20, 2019 at 7:00 PM - Regular Meeting

I. Opening of Meeting

I.A. Call to Order 

I.B. Roll Call

I.C. Mission:  Nurturing Each Child, Educating All Students, Building World Citizens

I.D. Approval of Agenda

I.E. Approval of Minutes

I.E.1. May 6, 2019 regular meeting

I.E.2. May 13, 2019 special meeting

I.E.3. May 15, 2019 special meeting

II. Recognition

II.A. Edgewood Village Scholars

II.B. East Lansing Archery 2019 Nationals Tournament ~ Louisville, KY - The National Tournament is for individual archers who score in the Top 10 at a State tournament or for teams who have a high enough qualifying score. There were 15,550 archers at this year’s National tournament in Louisville, Kentucky. Three Elementary East Lansing Archery archers (5th graders from Marble School, coached by P.E. teacher Casey Bain) qualified for the Nationals tournament: Duncan Larzelere, Griffin Bruce, and Immanuel Hartley. Duncan and Griffin qualified in the regular Bullseye competition. Griffin and Immanuel qualified in the 3-D competition, where you shoot at lifelike animal targets.

II.C. Physics Bowl Results - Our  students finished 2nd in Region 07 (Delaware, District of Columbia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Virginia, West Virginia), Division 2 (2nd year physics students) in this year’s American Association of Physics Teachers Physics Bowl test. We were second to Carmel High School in Indiana and one point better than Troy High School (the 3rd place school). The team score is based on the top five student scores. Our top five were: Shiangyi Lin, Noam Drews, Owen Marable, Ibrahim Elsadek, and John Ahlin (who had the highest score on our team).  

II.D. Jingting Lin and Eliza Lane are the State Champions in the Michigan Science Olympiad for the model airplane flying event called “Wright Stuff.”  In this competition students built precision, delicate, propeller driven planes powered by rubber bands. It’s a lot of work and dedication and very sophisticated engineering. Their volunteer coach (and model plane expert) is Brian Turnbull.

III. Student Representative Report

IV. Superintendent's Report

V. Bond Update

VI. Consent Agenda 
Motion:  The Board of Education approve the consent agenda to include the following items:

VI.A. hiring of Adam Orange, 1.0 FTE High School German teacher at MA Step 5 level, effective August 26, 2019

VI.B. unpaid personal leave of absence for Glencairn at Red Cedar Music Teacher, Erika Bridge for the 2019-20 school year

VII. Public Comment:    This is the opportunity to address the Board.  Speakers are to confine their remarks to five minutes.  If a speaker requires more than five minutes, after all other persons who have requested to speak during this part of the meeting have spoken, that speaker will be allowed additional time.  The Superintendent or other district staff may comment to clear up or avoid significant misunderstandings. 

VIII. Action Items

VIII.A. Ingham ISD Board Election
Motion:  The Board of Education approve the resolution designating the school district's election representative and alternate and to cast a vote on the ballot on behalf of the school district as presented.

VIII.A.1. Designate representative and alternate to cast a vote on behalf of the school district on June 3 at 6:00 p.m. at Ingham ISD.

VIII.A.2. Name two full-term candidates for which a vote will be cast on behalf of the school district.
Candidates are: Christopher Eaton, Michael Flowers, Erin Schor

VIII.A.3. Name one partial-term candidate for which a vote will be cast on behalf of the school district. 
Candidates are: Lori Zajac 

VIII.A.4. Roll call vote

VIII.B. Board Protocols
Motion: The Board of Education approve and adopt the Board Meeting Protocols as presented.

IX. Board Discussion

IX.A. Transportation during elementary bond projects

X. Committee Reports 

X.A. Academic and Technology Committee

X.B. Facilities Committee

X.C. Finance Committee

X.D. Intergovernmental Relations

X.E. Personnel Committee

X.F. Policy Committee

XI. Announcements 

XII. Adjournment