I know the guardrails are a little bit of money, but it is softball season. I'm glad to see that um Mr. Boswell helped out with the overhang because the neighbors were complaining about that, the the foul balls being popped up. So, I uh I appreciate that. Um about the budget really quick, I just think that it could have been shaved a little bit more in my opinion. I think that we're spending a little bit too much on the secondary law firm which is up over 100% from previous years. And I think that that needs to be addressed as well as non-statemandated jobs. Like these jobs need to be looked at and evaluated and see if they're truly needed in the district. Nancy cuts up 484 of Ambessum Avenue. I have seen over and over again in the recent days of themies taking place. In 2009, we initiated at Garfield High School thematic learning communities which were even more in depth than what I see with themies now.
So, we're simply working on the four parking lots at Crest View, Riverview, Salomony, and Lincoln uh this summer. Cool. Uh I'll ask my question in a minute, but I'll I'll look for a motion to uh motion first. I'll make a motion to approve EMB paving for the parking lot renovation as presented. Do I have a second? Thank you, Mr. Mer. By the way, second. Thank you, Mrs. Miller, for the second. Uh, on to questions. Um, so from that discussion though, we do kind of have a a at least a framework of what we need to do for those tennis courts. So, we we kind of have an idea from a budget perspective and what we may need to do in the future. Yeah. So, the initial thought was just a a small amount of milling and then resurfacing. As they looked at those, the the cracks and the damage was far greater than that.
Right now I see themies are basically pathways and I am hoping that they will be given the true uh consideration that they deserve because I feel if we had continued with them but we did not because the Abbott secondary education initiative kind of disappeared and so did the ourmies here. They were very important and would have led kids on a definite pathways to their careers. I am hoping that we are taking a very serious look at this so that once again they do not disappear. But with that I have an extreme concern because it's going to rely on the teachers that we have. Garfield has very strong teachers and it really scares me to see the possibility of them looking elsewhere when they don't have the benefits that they need. They're going to look, they're going to go somewhere. We don't have great salaries here.
And it's more of a down to the the base and rebuilding up from there. Similar to what we did here at the high school, particularly at Crest View because that's where the the middle school tennis teams uh practice. Uh they do play their matches here at the high school, but both Riverview and Crest View combined play or practice at at Crest View. So that would receive the most of the attention. Uh the courts at Riverview are mainly for uh physical education classes, but there's about $100,000 court, right? Uh roughly just under that. Yeah. Okay. All right. Any other additional questions? As core samples, all that stuff will be done. Making sure the pavement's all good and the stuff that Yep. Cool. Thank you. Hearing no additional Sorry, I'm on the other side of the flowers. I know. I didn't see you. It's a beautiful flowers, but it just messes the sight lines up.
And what's going to happen if they leave? We're going to see new people coming in asking for astronomical salaries. So, we're really not going to save money when we have to pay them more when we could be taking care of those that we have. We have the teachers in the early college program. Bergen praised us for the amount of teachers we had that could carry out that program. And I do want us to give recognition to those teachers who are working with those kids. We need to credit not just the high school teachers everywhere. You heard Danielle talk about it. That's been the foundation of our schools. That's been the strength. And I have seen many kids leave our school districts and have high success stories. And I want to see it even grow and get better. Thank you. [Applause] Good evening, Nancy Classen, 458 Land Avenue.
Did you say the projected cost on each tennis court was $100,000? Just slightly under, you know, that's what they were telling us, and we just didn't we just didn't budget that amount. So when Becky and I are putting the budgets together this summer again, one of the one of the things on my list is for us to come come circle back around and look about if we're going to do it, let's do it right, you know, and so the it's pretty extensive, but to go clear down to the base, do what we need to do. We just need to all lot some more funds for that. And that's what we'll do that. As a reminder, uh on the courts that Huntington North did, um that was a combined project with the West lot. if you remember. And so that whole project plus an extensive amount of base that had to go in to get that to uh suitable was part of a $1.2 uh million dollar project with six courts plus the lot and so on.
Um, before I start, I didn't see anything in the budget, and I know it's because the teachers that you're hiring because we are not in compliance. I'm going to ask that you look at your music educators. Um, I believe there was one let go two years ago that was not replaced. and with the six elementary schools and I believe four elementary teachers and then the two that are here and Miss Franca will be leaving and I know that you said that she would be replaced and in speaking with Miss De Mo the high school um they could really use you know another teacher possibly maybe a shared teacher between the music uh with the middle school and the high school to cover, you know, general music classes. So, good evening. On March 19th, the city of Garfield had a music in our schools month concert held at the Garfield High School.
But most schools it'll come in somewhere just above or below 100,000 a court depending on the time of year. Any other discussions that I make sure get everyone hearing? None. I'll call for the vote. long. It's my It's my problem. I'm never going to live up to Brian Warpuff's 30-minute meeting. Uh that motion carries 50. Uh moving on to update on the summer uh CPF projects, which should be a good update. Yes, Mr. Wall. Just uh for the board's information, just some of the other projects that we're working on for this summer out of the capital projects fund. Uh first of all, flat roofs at uh Andrews, Flint Springs, and Lincoln. Uh those bids are due tomorrow, I believe. Uh we'll have the bid opening for those. Um the sighting around the gym and cafeteria at Flint Springs in Lincoln, just like was done at Andrews to prevent the water intrusion, is being done.
At this venue, the high school and middle school band played together. The high school choir sang and the middle school and certain elementary schools got to sing with them. Also, the musical students for this year's production of Frozen, which was fabulous, performed. I will say it was definitely a lovely showcase of the arts. The parents were beaming who were there, and it was truly magical to see a high school senior singing a more popular song and all of a sudden the younger students singing along with her at the same time. Sorry. Um, I come to these meetings month after month promoting the arts within this city and baby steps are being made and there is potential that is pretty remarkable if we just stop for a second and really look at it. I will say I was disheartened because not every elementary school was represented and I did not see any current board or potential board members for the election that attended.
Uh part of uh the playground uh for the preschool at Flint Springs uh with surfacing and equipment will be done this summer along with fence um around the K1 area. Uh we're also able to replace a tractor, a gator for Crestview Middle School, uh a a scrubber here at the high school, and then also carpet quotes for the Horseman Library. Uh K1 and three four pods at Lincoln, the steps at Riverview and the cafeteria wall, and eight classrooms at Salomony. Uh also on the list for carpet as those quotes come in. So, just an update on other things that we're doing with capital projects funds this summer. Cool. Uh, could we get that list added to board docs at some point, too? Because it wasn't in there. I was looking for it. That'd be great. Moving on to eye policies, Mr. Trout. Yes. This is just your first reading.
So you missed out on an amazing opportunity. And when the high school musical production started and the littles K to five broke out in song and interacted with them, um parents were beaming. Some were in tears. I was upset because my younger son in third grade was not in included in this. His school was left out. So I think in the future we need to try to make these events more equitable. Um speaking on the band as well, there is potential there to grow and I think it needs to happen not in baby steps. Not in baby steps. That needs to happen rapidly. Um I would I would really like to congratulate um sorry I lost my place. Miss Lester, Miss Peterson, Miss Francika, Miss Revena, Mr. Ebles, and Mr. Gets on a lovely performance that let the parents see their kids perform. It was truly a magical event, and I hope to see you all at the next one.
You have a month uh to look these over. There is a lot here. Um, Mrs. Gray and I have been working diligently uh on this process. We are uh making some serious headway through this, but I'm I'm just asking for you to uh at any point in time you have any questions about any of these over the next month. Don't don't hesitate to reach out and see me and I'd be more than happy to meet with you to go through whatever you would like to discuss. Okay, sounds good. I am going to tell you right now I am not happy with 2461 recording of IEP meetings and case conferences. I really would love to discuss that with you at some point too. And I would also note that there is a bill in the legislature to make that policy not legal. So yep, I will gladly have conversations with you.
Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else, please? Dolores Capzy 107 Midland. Before we go any further, I don't know if you've been reading the FBI reports that have been being put out with these QR codes, any links that are in them. They've been finding that the hackers have been getting into the links and then getting into through uh people's personal accounts through their phones. So before we go any further using uh technology that AI might be hacking through, we might want to just doublech check with our IT department and make sure that we're safe. Okay. Um the other thing is if you don't mind, I just want to thank and acknowledge the uh the Garfield security team. They're not only exemplary in their service but and dedication but the excellence that they bring to every single school event and and and and person not just the students but persons in our district is not repeated in other districts.
No, I would I would welcome that. But what I am saying is these meet all current state statutes and laws. So we're current now. I say that and the legislative session ends right at the same time you're going to approve these. So I may be coming right back around on a few of these and hitting them again, but as we sat here today, this makes us current with these. Okay. So I appreciate it. Uh do have fun. I know it was fun reading through some of these as well. Uh moving on to J1 item discussion for board members. I know. I was sitting there looking at it too. I'm really shocked that I didn't. I can't I do appreciate the kids bringing those. It was a great little extra treat. Um I do have a bunch of stuff listed on the thing that I was going to talk about.
I don't know if you're aware of that. They are phenomenal and I would like to see them honored somehow because they've been doing it quietly for years and I mean decades. You don't find this level of of um knowledge and skill in other districts. It's not there. So, I think that maybe if we can somehow come up with something to to uh honor them and have a maybe in the summer, whatever it is, where people can come outside, maybe go up to Belmont Hill and and we could acknowledge them. There's a grand stand up there. Um people can just come and and appre show their appreciation. Okay. And as far as the IT goes, can we have a list of or explanation of exactly what's being done with this IT? We've been talking about it 1.9 mil, but what are we getting for 1.9 mil?
Um I will just because John has mentioned it a couple of times. We're down to 69 bills that ISBA is tracking uh from 184 uh from when they switch uh houses uh switched chambers. Uh so there is still a lot out there. Um I still don't know what's going to happen with Senate Bill One. I still don't know what happens going to happen with the budget. every time I get an update, there is something unique in it. Um, uh, just, uh, I'm gonna I know John sent out a thing about the spring regional meeting May 8th for ISBA. It is a good time. It's a great time to network with other board members if you can make that meeting. And then the last one I'm just going to mention is the September 15th and 16th fall conference for ISBA uh, down in Indianapolis, a two-day event.
What's going on? Okay. Uh at the last meeting, I had asked what is the acceptable and customary practice for response time as mandated by the local, county, state, and federal levels. Mr. uh Tomco, if you could please respond to that. Also, uh, any public business questions, topics that we bring up at a meeting should not be held, I'll meet you privately. There are no private meetings. Anything that is public should be kept as public. Um, if you can, and I know you can, it's within parliamentary procedure. If you can build into the agenda a public concern response whereby the superintendent answers each question made by a citizen during the prior meeting. You state the citizens well I wouldn't state the citizen's name. I would use their initials and I also have a problem with coming up here and giving my name or anybody's address because there's a lot of crazies out there.
Uh, that's what I've got for right now. Anyone else? John's already shut his computer off, so that must mean we're done on that move. Uh, I'm looking for a motion to adjurnn. Motion to Thank you. Second. Second. All in favor say
So maybe if we come up with a situation, a process where if you want to ask a question, we could submit our name uh and phone number, not phone number and address. And maybe Miss um I'm sorry, I don't I don't want to mispronounce your name. Derek, Derek, maybe you could just put a number on that I would be the seventh speaker or whatever, but you would have my name rather than it being broadcast throughout the entire world. Um, I think that we could uh state the citizens initials and their question before answering it. The other thing is um for Mr. Tomco, you just mentioned uh the ReadAcross America program. Uh I I don't know, but 30 some odd years in Garfield, we had Read Across America. It was nothing new. Also, in writing, if you could bullet your vision, if you could bullet your vision of innovation for students at all levels, pre-K through high school, I do not want anybody else's ideas.
I want your ideas. I would also, it's funny that these kids were here today to receive an acknowledgement because it was something that I was thinking of. Um, can we have a five-year integrated plan for an afterchool free program that where where students we can enhance students safety, physical and emotional development and creativity within a social structure. For example, I wrote this be prior to self-defense classes, swimming, singing, ballet and jazz, dancing, painting, drawing, learning a new language, and the like where kids don't have to pay for it, but it's after school, but we're still educating them with something that we can't offer during the day. Okay, I'm done. Um, also, um, I just want you all to understand that again, we're not stupid. We see through you. Thank you. Doing a lot of things already. Daniel Marcelo, 66 Crackell Street. Um, so I just want to understand why every month I've been coming to these meetings for quite some time.