June 12, 2024 at 5:00 PM - Board Agenda

Description:  Approval of the Agenda as presented.

Description:  A. Paula Finfrock - Wanda Jubb Visionary Award 

B. Truth-In-Taxation Public Hearing - 2024-2025 Budget 

Description:  The financial status of the district is represented by the Balance Sheet and Financial Statement for May 2024. Attached are the Cash and Investment Report and a list of payments for the month of May which are presented for your review and approval. 

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Description:  Adjustments to grants and end of year activity necessitate a final amendment to the 2023-2024 budget. The Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act stipulates that changes in the adopted budget require a resolution which becomes a part of the minutes. The following resolution will update the adopted budget and more accurately depict our financial status in those funds. 

Description:  Each year the Board of Education must pass a resolution to adopt a budget for the upcoming fiscal year or a continuation of the previous year’s budget by June 30. The 2024-2025 "Truth in Budgeting" information was presented to the Board in a budget hearing at the beginning of the meeting. The 2024-2025 allocated millage rate to be levied is .2000 mills generating tax revenue of $600,620 to be used for general operations. The 2024-2025 voted millage rate to be levied is 1.7455 mills generating tax revenue of $5,241,916 to be used for special education. The 2024-2025 voted millage rate to be levied is .9942 mills generating tax revenue of $2,985,685 to be used for career and technical education.

Description: 

We are requesting approval for a bonus in recognition of dedicated staff to our EUPISD team to be paid in September 2024. This retention bonus will be paid to those working for the EUPISD in the 2023-24 school year and still working as of September 6 and will be paid with the last pay in September 2024 as follows:  

 

On or before February 29, 2024 - $500  

On or after March 1, 2024 - $250 

Description: 

This is a request for Tammy Hazley, Assistant Director of Education, Stacey Miller, Behavior Specialist, and Ruthanne Stark, Special Education Supervisor, to attend The National Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) Conference (November 6-8, 2024) in Savannah, Georgia with registration, travel, and meal costs not to exceed $2,065 per person with all costs covered by the Special Education Supervision Account Funds.  
 

Additional Requests:  

Tammy Rutledge and Patricia Jones are requesting approval to attend the ACTE CareerTech VISION 2024 Conference in San Antonio, TX, December 4-7, 2024 with costs, $3,150.82 per person, covered by the Michigan Career Placement Association.
 

Lindsay Brindley is requesting approval to attend the Visible Learning Conference in San Diego July 7-10, 2024 with estimated costs $2,256.30 covered by the REAP Grant.

Description: 

This request is for permission to contract with the University of Florida for $6,000 to provide: UFLI Foundations Training, Two-half day virtual sessions (up to 200 participants). This is appropriate for special education intervention and Tier 1-2 Reading Instruction. 

UFLI Foundations Training: Is a structured phonics intervention to support students with lagging skills. UFLI Foundations targets the following foundational reading skills: 

• Phoneme blending and segmentation practice 

• Accuracy and automaticity of grapheme-phoneme correspondences 

• Decoding automaticity of words with previously learned concepts 

• Decoding and encoding practice 

• Reading and spelling irregular words 

• Reading and spelling connected text 

Additional request for permission to contract with Creatively Focused for $23,925 for the following:  

• Develop professional learning content as directed by our experts in areas of targeted need 

• Professionally digitize ISD Developed content for asynchronous/on-demand learning 

• Provide access to a library of digital materials already developed by creatively focused and selected by our experts to meet the needs of special education providers and administrators on a wide array of topics in an asynchronous/on-demand format 

• All content created by us or for us will remain our property and can be utilized even if we end our relationship with Creatively Focused. 

Description:  To transition to the Thrun Policy Manual, all existing NEOLA Board policies, bylaws, and administrative guidelines must be repealed (including all policies and bylaws that by their terms require a reading(s) or hearing(s) before repeal, modification, or adoption), with the exception of existing Board policy 5517.01 concerning student bullying, which requires a public hearing before being repealed and replaced.

Description: 

For non-union and administrators that have at least an "effective" rating or higher, we recommend the following:  

For those working the July-June calendar, a 4% increase if they were hired before February 29; 2% if hired in March or April; and 0% if hired in May or June. 

For those working the October-September calendar, a 4% increase if they were hired before May 31; 2% if hired in June or July; and 0% if hired in August or September. 

Description: 

For contracted staff through EDUStaff, we recommend the following:  

For those working the July-June calendar, a 4% increase if they were contracted before February 29; 2% if contracted in March or April; and 0% if hired in May or June.  

For those working the October-September calendar, a 4% increase if they were contracted before May 31; 2% if contracted in June or July; 0% if contracted in August or September. 

Description:  Bids for the parking lot expansion at the EUPISD Learning Center are due June 11, 2024. The bids will be presented at the board meeting.  

Description:  It is necessary to go into closed session to discuss upcoming bargaining for both Support Staff and Professional Staff Collective Bargaining Agreements, both set to expire on June 30, 2024.

Description:  It is necessary to terminate the closed session and reconvene to an open session.