Resolution of the Detroit Board of Education to Request Federal Investigation into the State of Michigan’s Operation of Schools and Pre-Schools Receiving Federal and Municipal Tax Dollars within City of Detroit under the RICCO Statutes & Other Violations of Federal Law

Whereas it is abundantly clear to this duly elected Detroit Board of Education, that the State of Michigan is orchestrating the systematic dismantling of the Detroit Public School System;

Whereas to achieve these ends, the State of Michigan has used illegal and extralegal methods in the aforementioned dismantling and;

Whereas among those illegal and extralegal means are the following:

1. The State of Michigan did issue $12 million dollars to the Detroit Public School District (DPS), and those funds where loaned to DPS’ principal rival and competitor, the Educational Achievement Authority (EAA), to keep said competitor afloat and solvent.

a. The EAA was otherwise ineligible to receive said funds and thus the DPS district was used as a conduit, past thru (or launderer) of these funds.

b. The DPS district received interest as a kickback for its cooperation and complicity in this civil money laundering scheme.

c. The funds were never authorized or presented to the Detroit Board of Education as required by PA 436 of 2012.

d. These funds were neither approved by the State’s Emergency Loan Board, nor authorized by the EAA as the recipient Board.

2. The Emergency Manager refused to post, report or even account for the salaries, resources, and allocations that were owned by DPS and were diverted to form the EAA.

3. In a blatant disregard for the accepted conventions of accounting, the Emergency Manager, Roy Roberts, did enter into a contract with himself as Emergency Manager and President of the EAA when transferring DPS property to the EAA.

a. The only schools that could be “made” eligible for the EAA were the schools that the Emergency Manager failed to intervene in their status as a priority schools.

b. In this transfer, the Emergency Manager of DPS schools, intervened and acted as transferer and recipient of the property of those schools as well as the students of those schools, including students that were honor roll students and therefore not themselves failing.

4. Contractors that were simultaneously Board Members of the EAA, in a disregard for Conflict of interest statutes did vote for contracts to themselves.

5. Contractors and subcontractors who had spouses who were competing for the same Federal Headstart and Early Childhood Grants as Detroit Public Schols, when said contractors neglected to submit the DPS Head Start Early Childhood Grant proposal to the Federal Government allowing those contracts to be steered to certain vendors.

6. In blatant disregard to The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) , the

EAA school system illegally obtained access to confidential and sensitive DPS student health information which they used to recruit students into the EAA.

THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED, that we the Detroit Board of Education do hereby request Federal Intervention, in the aforementioned matters, to rectify this grave conspiracy of injustice to tax payers, voters and students in the City of Detroit.