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Bay City board approves annual policy updates, handbooks and staff‑training resolution
Summary
The Bay City Public Schools board approved routine annual items including parental involvement, student fees, wellness and family engagement policies; approved student and staff handbook updates and the 2026–27 staff-training resolution; the board also approved an honorary diploma for a longtime employee.
The Bay City Public Schools Board of Education approved a series of routine policy and handbook updates and a staff‑training resolution during its regular meeting.
After previously noticed hearings, the board moved to approve the parental involvement policy (6400), the updated student fees policy and the wellness policy; each motion was seconded and recorded as approved on voice votes. An administrator explained the family engagement policy (6410) must be approved annually for compliance with federal Title I grant reporting; the board approved that policy as well.
The board also approved changes to student handbooks for the 2026–27 school year and updates to classified and certified staff handbooks. An administrator thanked staff for extensive end‑of‑year handbook work; board member Stephanie Marquez Klein seconded the staff‑handbook motion on the record.
The board approved a staffing‑training resolution for the 2026–27 school year that lists trainings required by state law and the district's plan to deliver them (via an online vendor, district nurses and outside facilitators). The administrator said, "the ones you see tonight are required by law," noting insurers recommend additional optional training to reduce risk.
On a consent agenda item, the district described its summer support for 'backpack families' through mailed gift cards. The administrator said the district budgeted $15,000 in the general fund for the program and that this year's card distribution will cost $12,630; "one‑student families got $300 and for each enrolled student they got an additional $50," the administrator said. The administration will include an explanatory letter with the mailed cards.
The board also approved an honorary diploma for Lynn Dystel in recognition of long service the district said she provided.
Outcome and next steps: All routine policy approvals and handbook updates passed on recorded voice votes; staff will proceed with required Title I uploads and training scheduling and will mail the backpack family gift cards ahead of summer.
