December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM - Regular Meeting

Description: 
The President asks for approval of the agenda.  Are there any additions or deletions?  

"The agenda is approved as presented."
OR
"The agenda is approved with the following additions/deletions" by consensus.  

Description: 
Recommendation: 

Resolved that the Royal Oak Schools Board of Education approves the following minutes:

November 6, 2025, Special Meeting (Finance & Facilities)
November 13, 2025, Regular Meeting

Description: 
If you would like to make a Public Comment:

• A person may address the Board on an agenda or non-agenda item by completing a note card located inside the Board Room and place the card in the basket prior to the citizen public comment period.  
• Each speaker is limited to three (3) minutes.  If you need more time, you are offered a second opportunity to address the Board at the end of the meeting for an additional three (3) minutes. 
• Please address the Board as a whole and not individually.
• Please avoid mentioning specific staff members by name.
• Public comment is not intended for the exchange of dialogue. This is a time for members of the public to express their views. We are paying attention to your comments and appreciate them; however, school board members do not respond to public comment during the meeting.  
• Questions that arise from public comment shall be referred to the superintendent, or their designee, for review, study and possible future response.
• Thank you in advance for your cooperation.  

Description:  The consent agenda generally consists of routine matters as well as items we have covered during this meeting or another board or committee meeting. All items are documented in the minutes, which are published following the meeting at which they were approved. All of our committee and board meetings are open to the public and public comment is an item on each agenda. We invite members of the public to join our committees. 

Description:  Recommendation:

Resolved, that the Royal Oak Schools Board of Education hereby approves expenditures as processed in the amount of $8,278,140.82, for the period of November 1, 2025, through November 30, 2025. 

Description:  Recommendation:
Resolved, that the Royal Oak Schools Board of Education approves the request from the Royal Oak High School art department for a student field trip to Rome, Italy, scheduled for March 29 to April 7, 2027.

Description:  This agenda item presents the first reading of policies that we are updating due to legal notices from the State of Michigan. 
 

Description:  This agenda item presents the second reading of policies that we are updating due to legal notices from the State of Michigan. Many of the changes are merely pronoun modifications or updates to language. Policy 7541 is being rescinded, as a new policy has been drafted in its place.

Description:  OCSBA has submitted two (2) proposed resolutions to member school districts for their review and response.

Resolutions that are approved by at least nineteen (19) member school districts shall be the official position of the association as interpreted and pursued by its Board of Directors.

Description:  This resolution is in response to HB 4588 that is now moving through the state House, which proposes that school boards be partisan.

Recommendation:

Resolved, that the Royal Oak Schools Board of Education approves resolution #1 as presented.

Description:  This resolution aims to reinforce the importance of early intervention programs and calls for increased attention and funding to support them.

Recommendation:

Resolved, that the Royal Oak Schools Board of Education approves resolution #2 as presented.

Description:  Recommendation:

Resolved, that the Royal Oak Schools Board of Education approves the 2025-2026 General Fund Amendment #1 as presented. 

Description:  Resolved that the Royal Oak Schools Board of Education authorizes the Superintendent to finalize and sign a contract with Blackstone Building Company in the amount of $197,715 for Royal Oak High School Athletic Storage Building.  Additionally, 10% for contingency. 

Description:  Resolved that the Royal Oak Schools Board of Education authorizes the Superintendent to finalize and sign a contract with Baruzzini Contracting LLC in the amount of $70,521 for Royal Oak Middle School Pool Swim Blocks.  Additionally, 10% for contingency. 

Description:  Recommendation:

Resolved, that the Royal Oak Schools Board of Education approves the 2026-2027 Schools of Choice numbers as presented. 

Description:  Recommendation:

Resolved, the Royal Oak Schools Board of Education approves the regular personnel changes as presented in the board packet.

Description:  Committee Reports:
Wellness
Arts and Preservation

Upcoming Events:
December 16, Board of Education Special Meeting – 6:00pm
December 18, ROHS Jingle Bell Jazz Concert–6:00pm
December 20–January 5, Winter Break
January 6, Communications Committee – 5:30pm
January 6, Curriculum Advisory Committee – 5:30pm
January 6, Bond Meeting–6:30pm
January 8, Finance & Facilities Meeting—special time, 5:30pm
January 8, Board of Education Meeting—special time, 7:00pm