We'll kind of assign articles to various peoples in in the club. Um, and then we put out the blast usually on on uh Mondays and through that then that's when people usually get an email that's like, "Hey, come check out the website and see what's new." So it's on the school website. Uh, no. So it's uh Dartmouth High Schoolspectrum.com if you want to check it out. Okay. Spectrum.com. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You're welcome. Anyone else? Nice job. um along those lines. So the podcasts, is it every Friday that you have a new one? It couldn't possibly be. So yeah. No, it's usually we try to shoot for it twice a month. It doesn't always come out that way, but that's what we try to do. So So then when you do your blasts on Monday, you'll alert people if there's a new podcast.
We were 67% free reduced. It made no sense for us to send a letter home telling parents to bring a sack lunch on Thursday for the field trip. We took care of that. Okay. So um uh we do uh supper programs, CACFs, those kind of things. I know you're already doing that program, but uh we do all those things. Essentially, if you want to do it, we'll find a way to make it happen. Uh also catering, any banquetss or or staff breakfast, you know, inservice things. We're glad to do all those kind of things uh to help you out. Okay. Hey, I wanted to talk about the bid process a little bit here cuz it's it's something that is highly regulated by KSD. This is not something we would probably if we could deise our own system, we probably wouldn't do it this way, but KSD does it.
And that's not guaranteed, but there's a really good chance we get it. So, that would cut a lot of it on top just up with that one right there. And while I'm here, I might as well keep talking. Sorry. But um most tennis courts get resurfaced every five years. Our tennis courts right now, it's been since I was in high school. So we're if we do end up doing something like this, we'd have to get uh those resurfaced also would be the smart thing to do because we're pretty far behind on that one. I do not know how much that is. I could ask because they get theirs done. They're on schedule every five years and I go over there tomorrow. I'll I'll ask on that one. There's a USDA grant for that as well. Yeah. Yes, that's correct. Um there's a USDA grant and I don't know if we've ever actually applied for it when we've redone it, but there's a USDA grant to where I think it's, don't quote me on it, $5 to $10,000 a court to resurface, which if you apply for it, you get it.
Um, so we're just keeping our eye on it because we want to be able to do right by our families, but we also have a fiduciary responsibility. um you know to our employees to our taxpayers to spend our money wisely. So that one I'll keep you up to date on as we know more. But that's the one if there's anything that I think is likely to happen it's that we would lose our community eligibility provision and our community is not used to having to do the forms. And the other thing I wanted to share with you federal minimum wage is just over $7 an hour. like 735. I think 750 an hour is federal minimum. Federal poverty standards are based on federal minimum wage. In Arizona, our minimum wage is almost double federal minimum, which means families here, we have a lot who are working poor, both parents are working for at or barely above minimum wage, would make way too much money to qualify for federal pre-launch.
We didn't I don't I don't have it memorized. We didn't we didn't talk about JICG yet. Uh, unless you did before I joined the committee. 2425. Tell me what it's called. Tobacco use by the what? Tobacco use by students. JICG. This says this says complete by the end of the year. So maybe we're not done with it. Yeah, because we only got as far as the alcohol. We were still trying to figure out the differences of the alcohol, but I think the policy is literally like one paragraph. It is. So I would go ahead and skip that one just in case because we don't want to look like we were pretending we did it. But I bet after the community council we'll be able to cover it. So would would we have JIC then? Because that one says nearly ready for the lawyer. Which one does it say?
I don't know that answer. I don't know that answer. Once the properties are up, will we collect our tax on those properties? We should once they uh once they do building permits, we'll start getting our uh we will get a um we'll get our big hollow portion. It's that uh impact fees right off the bat and then uh this was my guess is that this was in place of impact fees. No, we will get impact fees. We get impact fees. We get impact fees. Yes. And that's a separate thing. Oh, I do know. I don't have that in front of me, but I do know how much that is, too. It's uh there's a formula for that depending on what they end up. I haven't seen the building permit yet. So, depending on how many units, how big the units that is separate. And then after uh those buildings are up, then we will and kids when we people start moving in, that's when we start billing at the end of the school year.
And we know we've got some challenges as a community. Starts with equity. We've got issues with equity as far as uh the curriculum and the extracurricular activities that we offer is not on par with our our neighboring districts. We've got equity issues from building to building when you consider the vintage of Lily Lake and CMS compared to a country trails and a PK and and how are those students uh do they have the same amenities in those two building and those different buildings. We also have equitability issues within our buildings themselves where we have students that are in mobile classrooms and students that are in the building and the challenges that come with how do they get distracted as they move from the the mobile classroom back to their specials in the building. If it's a rainy day or a cold day, there's distraction of trying to get get back to the focused on learning and also the safety issues that come with being not in the brick and mortar building as well.
Middle school, we're going to do the air conditioning in the office. Um, high school lights for the kitchen walk-in, clean hood in the kitchen. Um, we're going to try to fix a hole in the wall in the leaky faucet up in the biology room. Uh, we've got a gun safe that's going to be installed. Um, we've been asked to for safety purposes to have a gun safe um outside those life skills classrooms. Um, vocational building annex. We can replace that door to the greenhouse. We can replace the ceiling towel over there where needed. We can also look into the HVAC. I didn't put this on the list. We look into the HVAC in that annex building in that greenhouse area because greenhouse is not usable without that really. So, junior high jam air handlers fixed or replaced? You and I have talked about that. Have you No, I think we're I think fixing would be the way to go there.
They really wanted to place a premium on things like flexibility, on options for students and really student customization. You'll see a lot of um student choice and opportunities and experiences with what they'll be able to experience in their four years. So as our next slide comes up, one of the things I'm wishfully challenging it to come up. Uh the next two slides will actually be a handout that I can provide to the board at a later date if helpful or if needed. Um I mentioned I think there should be one before that Cindy. I mentioned that there's one base or standard diploma and while that's true, the state of Indiana has tailored additional options really to the tune of six options for our students. So there is the base diploma still um but then there is also a level up for honors seal opportunities for our students and those honors seal opportunities would come within the areas of enlistment enrollment and employment and then there's the highest level an honors plus seal also in the areas of enlistment enrollment and employment.
So, can only imagine I have some ideas of I know who's going to end up winning because that's just who they are. But I'm just glad I'm not getting a pie in the face. So, are you going to acknowledge her? Yeah. Michael. So, we're wrapping up. You ready? All right. Stand up here with her. No. Where's Josie? Oh, there you go. Leaving a lasting legacy. So the lasting impact of Patty's leadership on students and staff and our community, the strong foundation is set for all future growth and success at Landis Elementary [Applause] School. More pictures more pictures. Sneaky sneaky. Say by having I told you no. Wait, let's change. She's leaving. She can't do about it now. It's true. Questions, comments, concerns, or as Dr. De would say, life problems. Yes. Came from Dr. Deal. I do. You good? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Yes. Does that have any implication for their GPA in terms of like how how that gets factored in or are the classes they're taking in eighth grade still counted toward their high school GPA? How does that work? Yeah, it would not it wouldn't have any impact on their overall cumulative GPA. It would on the yearly GPA, but the overall final GPA, it all would get be they can take a class in eighth grade and still counts on their high school transcript and their high school GPA. Got it. So if we were trying to like if a student wanted to take a weighted class for example in high school, the recommendation might not be to have the deferment in middle school if they wanted to keep their high school transcript with the weighted class student and what they have available in their schedule considering summer options and things like that.
But it really opened up my eyes to, you know, the balancing, the planning, um, the difficult decisions that school committee members have to make with regards to policies and procedures and, you know, what your specific roles are within the community as well. Um, and then I took that. So I did that in my first year and then my second year I was the finance liaison from the school committee, but I was an active full member of the finance committee and that in itself as well. So, I was able to take that knowledge I had developed about the school budget and understanding all the different aspects of it. Um, and I was able to bring that up to another level and truly start understanding all of the different needs and wants of all of the different town departments. You know, the fire department wants another station.
Uh right. That'll be included. Yeah, that'll be included in the in the uh like that weekly email. Yeah, it's on the website. I'm totally impressed you guys are ready to make a lot of money. Well, actually media I don't know journalists but yeah very competent. So from start to finish how long does it take to create a podcast from developing the questions to the actual interview to the post editing? I would say few hours. Uh um so the actual podcast takes around 30 minutes. We just do it during pace. Um but I I think our staff writers and our editors definitely put a lot of time into research and developing questions um throughout the week before the podcast happens. Um so I would say maybe a couple hours and I'm not really sure how much editing Mr. Higgins does before he posts it. Um, but I think he adds some intro music and then he posts it.
So, it it isn't our RFP. It is KSD's RFP. So, um we did a feasibility study here um a few years back. Um but the uh RFP um bid process essentially you have to request that from KSD. Uh it takes about I don't know 15 20 hours to fill it out. It's not a it's a lengthy document maybe about 75 pages and you have to uh find a lot of information to fill that out. Um so the request for proposal goes out to every company that is on the state list. I think there's about 17 or 18. Uh you will not get 17 or 18 bids cuz those include state hospitals, prisons, um all kinds of stuff that are on the state list, not necessarily just K12 companies that do K12 um deal. And that's all we do um is K12 food service. So this is a 5-year fixed price contract.
So we could end up getting between the grant for the new courts and resurfacing the old courts over 100,000 towards it. Coach, when they resurface the old courts, do they like have to go back in and repaint lines on them? How does that work? Yeah, it's basically a clean slate and we choose a different color combination when we did it. If it was me deciding, I think we'd do a dark green and a dark gray because I saw I think Derby does that and it looks really slick. I think to give us or give central planes colors would be my thought process. I know I missed a lot of stuff in there probably, but So, you're coming today just to Are you asking the school like to get behind it or just allowing you kind of the green light to see if you could raise funds?
So, it's a double it's kind of a double whammy. We have a lot of people who wouldn't qualify because Arizona wages so high, but who neither can afford to feed their children. So, would the state be involved with this? National School Lunch Program. If the state decided to um make up the difference at all for districts, that would be an appropriation either from the legislature, which has not even introduced a budget yet, or it would be through the governor's office. But it's highly unlikely that they're going to float millions of dollars in free lunch budget that was 900 million over spent because of ESA last year. The state involved in that would be helpful. It would be. But yeah, so those are some things that's that's a biggie right now. We've talked a lot about that in our leadership meetings. Um otherwise US the it's the dismantling of US DOE has little to no impact on us.
JIC. Is that the alcohol? Sorry, I don't know the codes. If you could tell me the drug by students. It's still red in the 2324 review completed, but it says nearly ready for the lawyer in the 2325. And it's what? One more time. Sorry, I couldn't hear you. J I But what is that about? Drug and alcohol use by students. I think that one we can go ahead and cover because uh the only part that's it the only part that we hadn't finished was um like the bottom paragraph. So, it looks like uh drug and alcohol use by students, JIC, and then student bullying, harassment, intimidation, that's JIC K. And then uh student interrogation, searches, and arrests, that's JIH. Student concerns, complaints, and grievances, JII, and the and the uh regulation to go with it. Uh student discipline, JK. And then that one we've already done.
We'll build for the kids that lived in that district. So once the building so while the buildings are being built we'll get impact fees and then after kids people have moved in and kids are coming here then we'll start at the end of each year we send them a bill you had 10 kids here they were here this many days this is what it is this is what our cost per pupil is but we don't get a part which you were asking we don't get a part of the property tax no right this is in replace of that yeah this is to make sure I guess So the village's concern was making sure that we're made whole for the kids that are going to school here. That's what they're trying to do here because that's what we had told them when they we heard about it.
All of those are today issues and how we address those are going to be only amplified when we have growth coming with it. So, we got to find solutions that are going to be scalable, in a way that's going to address that growth, but also in a way that's going to we need to come up come to those solutions in a way that's going to be very transparent. It's going to be heavy in community involvement, and it's going to be in a way that's going to allow the community to trust the recommendations that come from that master plan. So, with 56 years of working with school districts, we've kind of developed a master plan we think is very proven and and is solid. Um, it really relies on two steps. The first step is focus on facts and we're going to talk about each of these topics in a little more detail.
I think each of them could be repaired and I don't know that we really want to go. with everything else that we need. I don't know that we I think fixing those is probably the better way to go than I think something needs to be done with them those there and at the high school because they sing quite often to us and you're talking the main gym. Yeah, the boiler. Yeah. Oh, the boiler. Yeah. Um athletic complex. We're going to try to repair the back stops. Uh continue with the fence replacement. Explain to me how far we've gotten with that replacement. So, we've gone from last or our last little section we did, we replaced the um the pieces that were out along the parking area by the softball field, which was in in really bad shape. That was the last section that we got.