Okay. Okay. So, uh, Pat and Rich came to us a couple months ago and asked us for help on uh, two roofing projects. Um, as John said, for Flint Springs and Lincoln. Um, they are part of the triplets, the three matching buildings. And um, mainly focused on the flat roofs. So those are membrane roofs and we also focused on siding and signage. So if you go to Andrews, you'll see there's already siding and new signage on that building that was done a few years ago. Um because the way the buildings were designed, you can actually get water infiltration through the brick wall and then ends up inside the building. So the siding is a way to stop that. And then new signage just helps dress things up and um and make the because we take off the old stuff and put on the new. So, we designed both of those projects and we did put them out to bid, which is the next item, which I'll talk about here shortly.
Dr. Mhalland. Thank you, Madam President. I uh present the proposed 25 2025 2026 uh meeting dates for the board of education for your review. Thank you. So, uh, Dr. Mahalland, board, do you have any questions or comments regarding the proposed dates? And so, you'll see, do you have one? Okay. Um, the public might notice that there are some months where we only have one meeting and it is a combined work session and board meeting. A lot of that is typically due to the school calendar, breaks, um, other events that happen. So, if you just notice that and you're in the public and you see that we have some months that there's one meeting, it's still two meetings, but it's in one date. So, um, just wanted to clarify that. So, thank you for that, Dr. Mahalland. All right, we will move on now to our financial update with Mr.
We don't know if it was dust, dirt, or something. Pollen. This is uh number 23 with it on Hollist. That is Jack Mcgallagat with a big flag flying in the air. See? Yeah, that is going to be John Kramer with a one minute I believe penalty. I think I heard that properly. This is going to be a really good chance for Hollison. This is Roby with it. All right, let's see how do Sherburn can weather the power play. What a save. Abstice. He gets better every game and he's great. That was a a great play right there. Tough tough throw, but he did what he had to do right there to get it downfield. Olen fighting the goalie a little. Good effort. Almost intercepted right there. I think Fowler just missed it. All right. And the power play is over. And there's 10 seconds left.
Goes in and out off the post. Grace Howard picks it up quickly. Gets the ball over to M Whitler. M Whiter is off and she gets the ball over to Lucas. Luke looking to do something. She goes by one, goes by two, takes a shot, and what a great save by Davis on their end. [Music] Davis throws the ball up to Hermovic. Mov defenders. She goes by. There way she can get by. She throws the ball over almost intercepted by Angelina Trullio. The ball gets out of bounds. Trulio will pick it up. Get the ball in bounds. She sees space. She gets the ball over to M. Whitler. M. Whitler gets the ball to the restraining line. Let East girls all get there so they can set up the offense. Spartans still up three nothing with just over four minutes to go in the first quarter.
So, I'm kind of a stinker about that. You're going to have to do it. And I'm not going to run you down. And I don't expect mom and dad to do it. So congratulations to all of you and best of luck in the future. And again, thank you to Mrs. Dookie for being here to present all of those scholarships. Congratulations to all of our students who did win scholarships tonight. We know you're going to put that money to good use and uh we're just so darn proud of you. So that part is over. Now we're going to get into some outstanding seniors. Uh Mrs. Zechman's going to take charge. We will recognize outstanding seniors in a variety of areas. All right, we're going to start with outstanding senior in art, Carly Cole and Sarah Gford. [Applause] Outstanding senior in band, Khloe Gosny and Isaac [Applause] Rinker.
Um, keeping the extra elementary extracurriculars, late buses, pausing increases to walking, maintaining middle school and elementary class size, maintaining benefits for all PAR professionals who were earning them in 20 around 2013 when we last stopped last were hiring full-time pairs. Um, maintaining the team structure which is um, so fundamental to the identity of our middle schools. um and so on, right? We go through there. Um the uh yeah, wonderful, wonderful things that again, if we go back to this slide here, are just a portion of that 16 million that's missing from our budget just to be average. as well. The uh the application included around $8 million which would go to a half a million would go to maintenance reserves which is a um which we have depleted that reserves in order to balance our budget in prior years to a an un uh unrecommended level.
I was up in Vernon and uh I was just amazed. Not not only and I I know that you're probably I don't want to steal your thunder so you're probably going to talk about the the entire experience. I only got to see part of it, but um I was not only amazed at the athleticism and the dedication and commitment, but just how well this team represented our district. So, I want to give them a round of applause even before we recognize them. Excellent job. They're all wearing their medals here tonight. I can see so I was I was very very proud to be standing with you guys. I know it was pretty cold. So, um but uh but thank you for letting me uh be there. So, ladies, yes, it was very cold. I was freezing but um it was a lovely lovely day. The weather was beautiful and um I just think a great time was had by all.
But do you think it's fair that coaches are one and done? A player's given multiple opportunities to correct their behavior, attitude, and effort before they are disciplined or dismissed from a team. But a coach or coaches in this case are severely punished and it's one and done. How is this fair? Something you may not know or may not have asked is how many chances this player was given. It wasn't a oneandone like the coaches were. And if you want to talk about inappropriate language, the player was warned, disciplined, and punished on more than one occasion, almost daily. This certainly was not the daily ritual of the head coach or any of his coaches. Was the question of inappropriate language by the players addressed during the investigation? No. Thank you. I'm just going to call you Mr. Ruby. I can't I can't read the first [Applause] name.
A student shared, "Mrs. Bean is the most supportive and positive teacher I've ever had. While teaching and while we just speaking to her, I always felt happier after talking to her or after I've left her class." Congratulations, Jill. Next up, math teacher Bill Davis. The care shown by Bill is evident through his support of students as both scholars and individuals. He makes difficult classes fun and easy to understand, providing additional resources for anyone needing assistance. He also takes action in situations that call for quick response. As one parent wrote, "My kiddo is constantly mentioning Mr. Davis, and that is huge." Congratulations, Bill. Next up, teacher assistant Melissa Ross. Melissa is motivated to work with her students. She's an effective communicator, consistently using students communication devices. She's inclusive of students in all educational activities. Her nominator shared, "She loves the students and they love her." Many of them yell out her name and hug her when she comes to the classroom.
Here we go. Our 202425 pencil award winners for boys cross country, Mr. Brody [Applause] Curtis for girls cross country. Carly Chambers [Applause] You can go out and take a picture if you want. Football. Logan Hicks. [Applause] boys golf. Jacob [Applause] Hall, girls golf. Grace Yurion [Applause] boys soccer. Liam [Applause] Bivvens, volleyball. Megan Bullyard [Applause] Boys basketball. Are you guys scared of me or what? Scoot up. Boys basketball. Sam Donald. [Applause] girls basketball. Sam [Applause] Schmookie, boys bowling. Anthony Hour should be right here. Girls bowling. Maddie Brandenburgger. Cheerleading. Lucy Moore. Scholastic Bowl. Joshua Drooley, [Applause] baseball. Logan Bosch. [Applause] girls soccer. Jessica [Applause] Beerley, softball. L. Van Bruigan, boys track. Chase [Applause] Hendrickson and girls track. Hayden Ty. I think they're all still a lot of them are still out in the cafeteria, but always like to give one more round of applause for all of our Pencor Award winners this evening.
My role is engineer notebooking, loading, and the reason why I like robotics is just have fun. Hi, my name is Rosabelle. I'm in third grade. I I drive, load, and robotics is just fun. All right. And real quick, we have one member on this central team that is actually at a track meet uh right now. um Isaac and he's again from Smith and has been on the worlds a couple times now. So, as you've heard, the students on both teams share a common love for robotics. It pushes them to think critically, work together, and find creative solutions. Robotics isn't just about building robots. It's about building skills for life. These students learn teamwork, problem solving, and time management. Also, how to adapt to challenges, which are all vital skills for life. Their passion and dedication not only help them succeed in competitions, but they also inspire their peers to get involved in STEM and explore the possibilities that robots has have to offer.
I'm truly filled with excitement and hope on what we can do together leading learning and loving together and see how we can elevate Covington to the next level. Again, I wish I was there tonight. I can't be, but I will be coming soon. Hopefully, we will be moving in the middle of June and I'll hit the ground running at the beginning of July. Have a wonderful evening and I'll see everyone soon. All right. Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting to order and recognize that we have one member absent, uh, Heather Martin. Everybody else is present. If you would please stand.
Heard the recommendation of the administration to approve the curricular resources for adoption for use beginning. Yes. Mirez, is this Scholastic Pressure? We used them before. Do you know for the ELLL ENL course for what we're looking at here? Yes, that is the Scholastic that's used. Um, it's also used in art class, same publisher that we've used at the high school and it's used um sporadically, you know, throughout elementary as well. So, previously, correct? We're just kind of like this is new for the ENL class, but it is a vendor that we have worked with before in terms of the publisher. Yes, thank you for that question. Other questions to all favor signify by saying I carry action item 4.02 resource purchase. Thank you, Mr. President and board members. I am also here today to request that the board approve the purchase of the following curricula for amplify ELA linko for Spanish which will be at the high school and reveal and Alex mathematics which will be at the middle school again starting in the 2526 school year.
As you look through that list, did anyone have any questions on anything specific on the prepays for March? No. Okay. Total prepaids for March 2025, 334,96166. And then if you'll recall the um board meeting for March was a little early due to spring break. So you authorized me to go ahead and do a second AP. So that's what's next in your packet. So that second AP for March 2025 dated the 27th. Total on that was 19310. And then we'll have a list of claims that are dated today. as you had um a chance to take a look at the claims that are um in front of you.
Um, pretty straightforward projects and we're actually cleaning up a few things as well in the mechanical rooms below. Um, because the mechanical systems the building has changed since they were originally built slightly. So, we're going to clean up some things in the process. So, pretty straightforward. um projects would be finished um this year and contractor that I'll talk about here shortly uh is eager to get started. Thank you, Terry. When you say finish this year, will they be starting? I mean, if we award the bid, they'll start in the summer or fall or uh they asked to start uh tomorrow if they could, but we told them we'll probably at this point wait till the end of school and uh get started because they unless they have material on hand um we don't want to have any safety issues.
Matt Miles. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Dr. Smith. In front of you, you have our March 31st uh end of month reports for both the general fund and the transportation fund. Um happy to present both funds. I'll just start with the transportation fund which is up first. Um again we get those revenues uh twice a year. So you don't see much in the revenue throughout this time of the year but our expenses are trending uh actually a little better than expected which uh translates to a beginning or an ending balance as of uh 331 a little better than what we had initially projected. Similarly, on the general fund side, um revenues in total a little ahead of expected and our total expenditures a little less than expected, uh yielding an ending balance of just shy of $13 million currently. Thank you for that, Mr.
Oh, and number seven, I think just went fivehole on Archie Absus to get Hollist on the board for the first time. And that was Ethan Anastasia. Very nice goal. Uh, literally six seconds left in this quarter. So, just in time for these Panthers to get on the board within the first quarter and then they they won it too. So, good little timeout and such by Ash uh Holathan and um great great first quarter. It's four to one. I almost said Ashland because that's what the uh boys baseball team is playing right now, which we're hoping they're doing fine out there. I think the game's about to start, but we're going to take a twominut break while teams talk it over. We'll be right back. [Music] All right, I'm joining the broadcast now. This is Brad Kandle alongside CamRandle and Elsa Suko. And I'm still here, folks.
Kenna Marino does a dodge. goes by, takes a shot, gets it by the goalie. Nice job by Kenna Marino. [Applause] Ken Marino with her eighth goal on the season. [Applause] 90% of that game. Addy Jordan on the draw this time. as Po comes away with an another draw. Gets knocked away by M. Whiter. Matt Whiter takes off down the field. Whiter up over the restraining line. Gets the ball over to Calib. Calib to Marino and gets knocked away. M Whit were quickly there to pick scoop it back up. Gets the ball back to Kenna. Kenna over to Calib over to McKnney. Ball's thrown away as Hermovic is met by Jordan Mckne trying to knock it away. One of them gets called for something. Addy Jordan knocked the ball away from Hermovic trying to throw the ball back to the goalie. Now Finn with the ball.
Mr. Felipe, would you like to come up to present the FPLA or business awards? Okay. um for outstanding business and and uh business technology as well. So uh we have Jonathan McAuliff, business essential, Nava Sharp. Business law we have Chance Heg and Sage [Applause] Favor. Entrepreneurship we have London Ernest [Applause] financial legit. We have Shaye Buck, Lane Griffith, Key Hobach, Nava [Applause] Shorp. Okay, now for FBLA. Uh outstanding senior for the night. Uh some people say that leadership is acquired and uh learn. Uh some say that leadership you born with it. I personally say that leadership is acquired uh practice and learn by practice and through experience. So that's what I strongly believe on. So tonight we celebrate a young leader that embodies the spirit of tomorrow. Uh throughout this year we had him u I mean we have many many challenges in FBLA and uh he kept smiling kept smiling know when to speak know what to say and know how to react.
And then about 7.6 6 million to capital reserves to fund the necessary infrastructure improvements that we've had to put off to survive. The only way a district survives when it's 16 million 15 million below adequacy per the state and 16 million below average according to their other data source. The only way a district survives in that type of situation is by making decisions financially that aren't sustainable in the long term. capital reserves. We have our buildings need a lot of work. It's a health and safety issue. This is going to let us do that. The one element of the uh reductions that have been presented so far this spring that we are staying the course with is transportation for two reasons. budgetary savings projected to be at least 800,000 and it it works. We already outsourced twothirds of our bus routes. Um it has become harder and harder operationally to continue to maintain our own transportation department.