Yeah. The one is uh what would you do? So he gave a story of what would you do and when you get a chance read up on it is touched by an angel. So that segment that came on channel 7 years ago I guess but it was good. It was just the crux of of his message was just helping people in need. Don't take people for granted. Don't have a respective person. this person look well. I'm going to treat this person a certain way with dignity, but with this person here, he or she doesn't fit the script and they do not deserve my undivided attention. So, that's basically what we're saying. So, it was a homeless person end up helping what she thought was a homeless person and like 90 people stepped all over this person. So, we just need to help our fellow man.
We need to help our kids, continue to help our kids in education like we're doing and look at our kids as just there's a need and we address those needs. So very good conference overall. Great. Oh, one other thing and I'll share this with you uh more conversations. You know how passionate I am about early learning. So I think it was Virginia Beach School District. They actually had a director of community engagement and they actually had a bus to go around to different neighborhoods all colorful that's very attractive for kids to come to for reading. It was a reading bus and it was very successful. They got a lot of hits. So more to follow. I pass some information. Very colorful. You know how kids like, you know, they like the ice cream truck, the bells and whistles of ice cream trucks. But this particular truck had all the colors on it and they had teachers engagement with with that.
So I thought that was a hit for early learning too. Yeah. Yeah. A little bit more colorful. So all right. So that's about it. Okay. Any other board updates? Okay. Administrative updates. Turn that over to Dr. Cara. I do not have any. Okay. This month, you said it was going to be uh before I get a motion on the consent agenda. Um well, first off, superintendent, would you read the items on the consent agenda? I sure can. Uh under superintendent report, item one, we have approved regular meeting minutes of March 21st, 2023. Item two, approve regular meeting close session minutes of March 21st, 2023. Item three, approve committee of the whole meeting minutes of March 14, 2023. Item four, approve committee of the whole meeting close session minutes of March 14, 2023. Under business, item one, approve board of education financial report. Item two, building and grounds work order report.
Item three, approve a payment of 687,456 and 1 cent to CCC Holdings, Inc. for work completed at Creek Money High School. Item four, approve a payment of 28,310 and40 cents to RL Soho for work completed at CSK. Approve for number five, approve payment of 424,34768 to RL Soho for work completed at Creek Elementary. Item six, approve approve the payment of 113,267.70 again to RL Soho for work completed at Creed Elementary. Underneath personnel and culture, we have approved the personnel report which consists of approving the certified staff employment, leave of absence, return from leave of absence, resignation, educational support staff employment, leave of absence, return of leave of absence, and attempt to retire, reassignment and resignation and dismissal. Um item uh for D is teaching and learning and that's for the uh JRTC board of ed consent memo for the overnight field trip application and again at the high school for the marching band and color guard consent memo for the overnight field trip application as well.
And that is it. Okay. Before I get a motion on the consent agenda, are there any items that board member I would like to have taken off to vote on separately? Okay.
Hearing none. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? Moved. Second. Who second? I did. I think. Yeah. Dr. Did he say it to Who else said it? I said Oh, you can have it since it's your No, no, I wrote it now. I insist. Give it to you, T. I wrote it. I did have a couple questions if that's right. Yeah. Ken, uh, high school timeline. Has it changed? Um, I know we are waiting for rooftops and I think a transformer. Are we still on pace for September? I think we're on I I actually think we're on pace for October. I think that's what I mentioned. So, I think midocctober is what we looking at, but no further delay so far. I I haven't heard of any, but I can find that out. So, I'll see. um CSK, CIT, Moro and and ELC where we do you know where we're at building wise percentage wise um we're getting close right yeah I think we're about 95% again the big one is u at Talala and ELC is it turning on of the chiller and then the testing and balancing over there u besides that I'll get I'll get an exact update uh in the FI just so we know that uh where we're at but we're probably about 95% and we're not we haven't released sending the retention yet?
No. In fact, if you look at the payments, there's only one payment due for the 22 work. Uh everything else is for 23 actually. So, yeah, we're still holding on. Okay. Any other questions or comments on the consent agenda? I I just want to give my condolences to the family of Miss Grainy who passed away. Um she was a great teacher. I know it has nothing to do with this, but it just made me think of it with the with the personnel. I I had two two kids that had her. one was studious and one wasn't and they both loved her. That's how good that's how good she was. So, um I just my condolences to her family. Well, thank you. Okay, roll call. Yeah, real quick. I do. I have one. There was there was a concern by a staff member on public comments.
Did we get that rectified? Yes, we did. Can I go back and look at I did. We we amended the minutes and I I responded to each of the staff members who reached out to us. Okay. So it was what we have in our change because I looked at so I didn't see. Yeah. Okay. Great. I'm sorry. You said it was changed. It was changed. Okay. To to what we have here now. Okay. To to make the corrections for their for their thoughts or Yes. Okay. So I guess and I'm only trying to get an understanding. If they weren't here to express that, how do we put something in minutes if they were not here for that board meeting? If I am I Well, I think uh I think the issue was is that an individual spoke for everybody and and represented she was speaking for everyone and several staff members said timeout those views don't may express her views but not all of us.
So we amended the minutes to reflect. That's and I'm just really asking for it to get an understanding as to how because I I just assumed that if you weren't here, you couldn't change the minutes like that, but I I don't really care. I'm just trying to learn. Okay. Yeah. No, we we caught it before there being a proposal. So, and I do have one other question. I did kind of hit Ken up on this in the financial report. This again, this just kind of stands out. I'm looking at it right now on page 26. And it talks about a oil change for a white truck. And I thought it was pretty pricey. It $358. I don't know if that's can is that kind of I know gas is going up and that's relevant to oil. Okay. Why don't we'll check in with Mr. Brown that what it is.
You know, it's another one down that down below from the same company. I guess it's a maintenance. I just thought that stood out a little bit. Okay, I'm not being picky, but there's another truck that had oil changed on it for just 207 207. Yeah, I'll check it out. So, yep, I will take care of that. It just seemed a little high. That's all I had. Okay. Any other comments or questions? Okay. Roll call, please. Brown is an I. Mrs. Galbreth I Dr. Hall I Mr. Sales I Mrs. Walters I Vice President RP I President Albert I motion carries. Okay. Next up is action reports. Can I get a motion to approve a resolution authorizing purchase of property at 690 West Exchange Creek, Illinois? Moved second.
Any questions or comments? Uh, that's our new upright. Yes. Did we get the inspection done? Did we do an inspection? In the agreement, it says that we do have time to get the inspection. So, I'm working with the attorney to get a a firm in order to come out and do the inspection. We don't know of any. I would prefer going through our legal department so that we're covered on this in case there's anything. So, they're working on finding us and then we'll get the inspection done. Actually, I'll get a quote on it first before I get it done and then if it's reasonable, I'll give it. Okay, that's still on your agenda. Yes. Yes, it is. All right. Thank you. And Ken, what was the purchase price? Purchase price is $750,000. And it does include not only the building but all the contents in it.
The people includes all the contents. Okay. Great. Okay. If there's no other comments or questions, roll call, please. Brown is an I. Mrs. Walters. I. Mrs. Galbreth. I. Dr. Hall. I. Mr. Mr. Wallace. Hi. Vice President R. I. President Albert. I. Motion carries. Item number two. Can I get a motion to approve a proposal and award a contract in the amount of $114,585 to custom for post construction cleaning at Val Moral Elementary, Creek Elementary, Talala Elementary, and the Early Learning Center. Moved. Second. Any comments or questions? Yeah, I talked to Ken about it. Um I know we got this today and I went through and printed a bunch of pages. So, both contractors provided a bid bond and a performance bond. Correct. Yes. Um last week the contractor was stating, you know, that we that they have to move stuff. They need two man. They need a uh a machine.
When I'm going through this bid packet, I I don't see anything of what the person was saying. So there's even a a spot here that I highlighted that if there is a way to expedite the return of furniture to its respective areas, the owner will make the arrangement. The owner is the school district. So there's nothing in here in some of the things that he was saying. Uh perform dust mopping and sweeping using an angle broom, microfiber dust mop, or other necessary tools to complete the job safely and efficiently. If you go through all the bid specs and even the addendum, I haven't seen anything in here that's requiring a lot of the things that he was mentioning last week. He said that those were answers were given to him at the non-mandatory meeting. They were not in the RFP. But if you look at that RFP, the RF RFP says specifically bid was written.
But what I'm saying is when he said he didn't see him, he stated that it was answers that he got to his questions at the non-mandatory meeting. That's why they're not in there. Right. He said there were addendums sent out. Supposedly there were Yeah. He said there was there's one addendum sent out. It said and it said that whatever questions or questions he had the answers would in that document said that the answers will be posted on the website. Yeah. So I I don't know if you looked at if anybody else looked at it but going through all these pages I could not find anything that he was saying that was that was detrimental. That's correct. Everything is pretty much and this is a bid a bid packet, right? Okay. And it's sealed. So, as a contractor, you have to read through this very carefully and that's how you go off of because when you turn it in, that's what this is what you're going off of.
So, I kind of just wanted to double check everything because some of the things he was saying, what was it us? Was it the district or was it But if you read through this, it's pretty clear. And what also is in that bid package, it gives him an out to if he had any issues and wanted to file a complaint. There was a process to do that. Again, I I gave Keith kudos and King kudos on the one bid package for lawn service and that mirrors that's a good package too, right? They hit all the points. Yeah, there was some little cav caveats in there regarding landscaping. Okay. And the definition for a bidder and they it was given the definition of a bidder as a landscaper and a contractor as a landscaper. Yeah, those are hiccups. I I get that. That's should not be a problem.
But you covered all bases, Keith and Ken, in that RFP. You covered all bases. very well well in my opinion well written and and Bill attests to that. He read it. I'm not sure who else read it but I did get a chance to digest most of it and again what struck me was he had an opportunity to formal file a complaint with the board and I was expecting to see that tonight or something but he didn't do it. So good job. Any other comments? Oh, yeah. One one thing. Um, we expect the scope of work to happen. There is some uncertainties there because we don't know for sure when the contractors are going to be finished, but it says between we expect them to work between three days and a week. I think that's the time. That's what it was. Three days, right? Three days and a week.
And but I think it was a point in that contract that says that they have 30 days something to cancel or we have to terminate the contract, but there's only a week of work we want them to do, but we got we giving them a 30-day grace period. Again, that's not a showstopper, but that was one thing that kind of caught my eyes. That's all. Okay, roll call. Brown is an I. Mrs. Galbbert present. Dr. Hall. I Mr. Swallish. Hi, Mrs. Walters. Present. Vice President RP. I President Albert I motion carries with five eyes's and two abstensions. Two presents. Okay. Um before we get a motion on item number three here, uh Ken, could you talk about the insurance committee's recommendation? I can't. Um so thank you for your patience on that. I know it went quick. I know I hadn't made a comment last week.
So, um I did share and put up to board book uh the rates the insurance committee met at 4:30 today. So, here is the bottom line. Medical insurance rates are there is no increase. It is 0% increase. Um that has to do with work that all has done for us on our behalf. Also, the committee's recommendation to go to a self-insured program and also to not I'm sorry, a fully insured program. And thank you fully insured program and also bundling all of our things with Blue Cross Blue Shield. Uh originally the on the health insurance side the rates came in at a 3.9% increase because we bundled everything they gave us a discount and what was left was.9%. So uh went back I had a little conversation with them all went back negotiated and we got 0%. So there's no increase to our employee needs or to the district.
On the dental side, there is a 9.4% increase. It started at 17 and went down to 9.4%. The numbers on that, and I've shared that with the board, it's about a total of about $32,000 of which 12,000 is absorbed by the employee and about 20,000 is absorbed by the district. So, to me, that cost is minimal uh in that. So uh it's great news uh to the district to the employees especially on the medical insurance rates. So that is what is in on board book now. Uh Mr. Alrech I put all that data up there. We released that today. The recommendation has come from the insurance committee to accept those rates and can vision stayed no increase because we had a guarantee for a few for a few years. So that stays the same. Everything else is really staying and the accident and the other there's another optional one but those are not going up either.
Correct. Those are not going up either. So just the dental has the small increase if you have your family on it. If you have a family on it because the the district pays for uh single insurance. Um so we we'll cover that cost for family or spouse. That is uh an additional cost that will be picked up. Okay. Okay. So out of all the insurance the only increase is 32,000 as a whole to the district. As a whole well to the district only 20ome,000. So but 32 essentially yes that's it for the employ right. So with it being so small is there there's no way we can I mean I know we can approve this tonight but 12,000 is there any way we can absorb that anyway? um you have union contracts you have to worry about because that's part of the union contract is is picking for that.