Colleen Cirocco

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This concludes the DPSCD Curriculum/Academics Committee Meeting. The next DPSCD Regular Board meeting is scheduled for Tue 2/10. For more meeting coverage, check out documenters.org.

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Meeting adjourned at 6:01pm.

ADAPT Trailer YouTube video by Skillman Foundation

Here is the link to the documentary trailer that was mentioned at the beginning of the meeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZlf...

Motion to adjourn - passes at 6:01pm

2. Founder of an app for teachers to buy and sell culturally driven lesson plans.

Would like to present their vision in person to elementary school students and teachers.

1. cont. Charles Wright school - paving and fencing should have been done before. They've been waiting since 2018.

Doesn't agree with the way the money is being spent.

Public Comment.

1. Was glad they clarified about Greenfield Union - is it the old part, the new part? The language matters. A lot of schools don't get the credit because of the lack of language - shortening names of schools, etc.

Motion to tie-bar items 5.02 – 5.09 - approved.

Motion to approve the tie-bar - approved.

There is discussion happening around the items that Vitti presented on - everyone seems to have a different mic volume so it's hard to follow the questions and answers.

Item 5.04 would be paid for by an external partner. The student marching band would have the opportunity to perform for an international audience in Basel, Switzerland, a program that ran last year as well.

The board has requested that Vitti give a broad overview of items 5.01 – 5.09

Motion on the floor to approve the proposal.

Motion carries.

A board member asks what this plan looks like in terms of timeline.

On track for Fall 2027.

Vitti states that he has not looked into the baseball question - board member suggests even having access to batting practice.

A board member asks if the need for baseball/softball practice area at Cass was considered. Suggests looking into creating practice area for golf teams.

This slide summarizes all of the requests for capital projects that Vitti has just gone through describing.

Here is a proposal for a new track to be built for Detroit Lions Academy.

The original budgets for Pershing and Cody High did not include Health Hubs - this slide shows the financials behind adding this service to those schools.

This slide includes the district's recommendation for paving and fencing repairs required to meet standards.

Here is a list of properties that the district recommends using wooden boards to secure, rather than demolishing them.

Here are the district's recommendations for vacant building demolitions:

Here's a description on why the cost for this project has increased.

This slide describes a six series plan to use funds for different maintenance and repair projects in the district.

This slide describes the increase in their fund balance, which has an audited surplus of $73.5M

They don't track after school homework help tutoring generally - but they do track students who are in academic interventionist programs against students who are not.

There is an increased spend on tutoring - a board member asks how that new process is being tracked, since every school is doing their own process.

I think I missed something because Vitti states that there isn't an academic side to this program - that it is to increase attendance.

This slide goes into detail about the increases in expenses over last year.

This slide describes the revenue increase - which includes increased interest, per pupil revenue, and at-risk funding

This slide is a high level overview of the budget amendment.

They had an enrollment bump of 246 students over initial estimates.

Expenditures increased by $51.8M - including increased security and police presence in schools, a technology refresh, maintenance and repairs.