Central Lake News Special School Board Meeting May 15, 2017

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[0:00] special meeting of the board and held it in the public we have this meeting for a
[0:07] couple of different reasons one is to present to you the community financial
[0:12] situation we are in and also is to listen to ideas listen to
[0:17] comments and hopefully everyone can get a better understanding of where we are
[0:23] right now and gravity in this situation there will be another time at the end of
[0:31] the meeting for guests and public comment so if you want to wait here
[0:34] that's fine and if you want to talk then that's fine if you want to talk now
[0:38] that's fine as well but we're asking that you please the
[0:42] state and stand please and state your name and address that way we know you're
[0:46] in the district and because of respect for others and the amount of people in
[0:51] the room we ask you to keep it between three to five minutes that way everybody
[0:55] who has feels present some talents as the opportunity to do so so as you can
[1:03] see there is only one action item on the agenda tonight we'll be hearing with
[1:10] that as we continue on so with that we will open up or guests in public comment
[1:17] also as well for any for respect of the process and respect of any ideas that
[1:26] may come forth we will not be responding to any
[1:31] with that Nouriel I also coach something a third basketball my concern is getting
[1:39] more money into the school so what I'd like to propose - we have a few coaches
[1:45] that our staff and I say continue paying those people but for the volunteer
[1:50] coaches such as myself a couple others that aren't staff you make that a
[1:54] voluntary position and you cut my pay I wouldn't want to see pay to play for
[1:59] students because I know a lot of students couldn't afford not if you can
[2:02] see that I'm alright I was down to eight kids four seven seven eight very
[2:07] passable sorry I had eight on these eighth grade and five on the subway you
[2:14] take away that I'm dumb three four kids or pay to play so I say make voluntary
[2:20] positions as coaches that are not standing so part of the entry staff
[2:25] people in are getting paid that's eight to twelve people right there there's
[2:32] some extra money right there and then also open the school on the summertime
[2:37] to have different courses because we have the Cleo camp Cleo which is great
[2:44] but open it up senior high through junior high I'd spend a little bit more
[2:49] but do a culinary or arts course and charge the parents with that I pay
[2:55] daycare fifty five bucks a day per kid I'd rather send my kid they were calling
[3:00] Eric's course for a day four we have a lense on me because once I get to school
[3:04] once I get to college you move on to apartment lot of kids only know how to
[3:08] do the laundry they make peanut butter and jellies and
[3:10] that's it so make them culinary arts to a small engines course do photography
[3:17] take advantage of resources that we have area and it's time for the community to
[3:23] step up and offer those types of things as well I'm at the beginning stages of
[3:30] winemaking and I'd love to teach courses Cathy pen does a lot of fitness stuff so
[3:36] I think as a community and a larger audience is greater to Tiger she could
[3:41] volunteer here time to do a class and all the money that's brought in
[3:45] twenty-five thirty-five dollars per person donated to the school my wife
[3:50] today art class over in Bel Air shorts for one
[3:54] night for 35 bucks she said there was 20 to 30 people earning $1,000 a night in
[4:00] there I us-ally caring help save a position or two it's my father try to
[4:09] figure out how I can increase my revenue
[4:13] now I'm not really smart on that leash Margaret really when it comes to school
[4:17] hours and all the things that but I do understand like I belong here in this
[4:24] room but you can make $50 a week and spend $75 a week and make that work on
[4:30] budget I just know for me I just cannot see as continually cutting staff there
[4:40] are teachers here out of the tenure system use it and not in effect
[4:44] I don't want to see anybody but I certainly don't want to see anybody lose
[4:50] their job especially when they already cut some what's already already
[4:55] surrendered solution and so I think that maybe I'm not offering a lot of ideas
[5:03] but I agree with everyone in the room that's saying maybe just figure out how
[5:07] to get more money part of it is quite cost but I think that's kind of easy
[5:15] that's the easy way you know that's kind of an easy just absolutely just
[5:19] eliminate something out there there's but my niece Megan King and but I also
[5:32] know that being out of school work school isn't a business they're not able
[5:37] to just generate our that was the business of you who are not doing
[5:42] they're really creative and sell something cheap but that's not going to
[5:47] do it and our teachers our biggest asset so I'm I just feel that this not I think
[5:56] it helps anything I think this is the problem and that is not just a
[6:02] centralized problem
[6:06] teachers are under the spotlight and
[6:14] paying for education is not a popular right now I think that Senator Leyva's
[6:25] and almost all schools are suffering food I think the school works done their
[6:30] jobs we've done the best they have been able to do firm position to make I can
[6:34] as someone that's spent a lot of time with her as a student I just want to
[6:40] inform the people that are making that decision how much she does for school
[6:45] she does so much for that much as well in high school and goes above and beyond
[6:51] what she has to do she does many jobs that she doesn't get paid for that I
[6:56] know many students have a few that if she's not there anymore no one's going
[7:01] to take off all those jobs and we're going to lose a bunch of the activities
[7:05] that we don't love so much and that help our school and that help our students
[7:09] and also she not only does those jobs but she goes out of her way to buy the
[7:15] students that are involved in those and just make sure they're okay and make
[7:20] sure that if they need any helping is at home so I just want to encourage all the
[7:25] decisions to be made to not only look at the job that should be paid or also all
[7:33] and I've been listening to everything and I only hear what we need to cut back
[7:40] on spending and I don't hear anything about how we can increase income and
[7:45] something not wise I haven't heard anything about today is something called
[7:50] pay to play I attended a different school the same class as our school that
[7:58] did pay to play off their Iowa's in volleyball basketball track everything
[8:06] from middle school to my freshman year at the school and it was alleviating
[8:11] when I came here to be able to not have to pay for it but I do think that with
[8:16] the amount of kids at our school that do sports and do like all these other
[8:22] activities I do think that would be a great start for like increasing our
[8:27] income instead of cutting back and so
[8:38] some information with you last week on the things that I do in your district
[8:45] hopefully to make a difference with students leadership opportunities
[8:55] guidance whatever whatever it might be that came to mind after I left here
[9:05] again four years ago I was asked if I would take the PE position and I said
[9:16] well whatever was best for the school and so prairies are like a computer and
[9:23] library that's available with more formal type not a teacher not computers
[9:32] teacher in the non only certified teacher in science or in fact each other
[9:36] I created the curriculum for computers based on the state standards because
[9:46] there was a long and that's what was just shared with you program that I've
[9:51] put together are to make sure that our students were getting a good education
[9:58] any opportunity aren't adorn the blue stool that offered at which quite
[10:02] frankly I think pretty awesome that our kids are functioning especially with I'm
[10:10] staff and so narrow it's having to take tests on computer starting in third
[10:15] grade and state have some access over to that and we
[10:24] talked about the evaluations and and such and I am highly effective where I
[10:31] rank in the numbers again I want to go back to the fact that I'm teaching
[10:37] something I wasn't certified to teach but got my scores I've continually gone
[10:42] love teaching PE in computers and be highly effective