He dabbled in real estate, owned a stock brokerage house, and he loved sports and was a sometime boxing promoter. Now, Brazie paid half for the team in cash. The other half Lennon took as notes, promisory notes, which Fris expected to pay with the profits he naturally expected from the team that had just won two World Series. But remember this fact because that's going to play heavily in the legend of Harry Fris. Now under Fris socks had a pretty good year in 1917 but the White Socks over in Chicago they won the pennant and the series but 1917 turned out to be a difficult year for baseball. The fight for the Federal League with the Federal League had left many clubs struggling and America entered the First World War later that year and there was a draft which can threatened to deplete major league rosters. With young men being drafted to fight, many teams didn't have enough players to take the field.
Our top view looks north on Wind Street in Burlington in late 1949. The Crawford Farm would be on our right in this view. Below is an identical view taken less than two years later showing the new bridge for Route 128. Now it's June of 1951. We can see asphalt being laid in Burlington near the Cambridge Street interchange. Um, the DPW, they had a lot of problems with drivers, bicyclists, even mothers with baby carriages who took the liberty of test driving the nearly completed highway in the weeks before it opened to traffic in Waltham at Trapella Road. The highway passed under this unusual concrete hunch beam bridge. Again, taking a nod from the designers of the Merit Parkway, you can see how the different overpasses were deliberately and at no small cost varied along the 22-mile stretch of the new highway. Here in the vicinity of the future Route 20 interchange in Waltham, we see a steam pile driver at work in October of 1950.
So some people may want to be brought back to where they were born. So you might want to go back to Haiti, you might want to go back to Brazil, Portugal. We can help arrange that ahead of time so we know the steps and can go through the steps with your family of what needs to be done. So then at the time a passing doesn't occur and you say, "Well, what do we do?" We're doing it so that it makes an easier transition on what's going to be a difficult time for your family. Making it a little bit easier at the time. I don't know who here has experienced loss. Eventually, unfortunately, we all will. What we do is we ask a lot of questions. So we get a little personal because information like our legal documents such as the death certificate need to be filled out at the time of death and that's going to be the only legal proof of a passing has occurred.
So um so I'm just going to put that up there, the 750 and then So option three, the Friday PD, I think uh Dominic had costed that out for you guys at 1.1 million. It's definitely well above the threshold of our budget. Um something to maybe table and get deeper uh information into that as we go along. Um longevity at 20% is costed out. The A to B I I don't think that this is accurate. Um I there are so many different schedules in our system at this point. This is one of the things that the compression committee is working on. So we're trying to simplify the schedules so that we can have a good um view into fixing compression. I have an a compression update, a couple of updates for you guys today and I will get to that um a little lower in the options cost, but the A to B salary schedule that's understated.
If you didn't see it, you got to go look it up on YouTube. It is dramatic and it's really cool. Um, then you guys went at overtime and you barely lost by two points and they fought so very hard. They played Hamilton Huskies and and this I'm not a basketball guy so but like from sitting in the stands it looks like Hamilton had control of this game all the way up towards the end and they they had one fatal mistake almost and that was underestimating the Gilbert Tigers and their will to win and they never stopped and so heartbreaking but at the same time so fulfilling to know that we had a team of athletes who just didn't know when to say when. And so we're very proud of you. If you would I talked a lot about the game. It's like Sports Center tonight.
Here comes another domino. The Socks had the same problem. So they called on one of baseball's best pitchers, that's young Babe Ruth, to take first base on his off b off days. And Ruth immediately began displaying this amazing prowess with the bat that stunned baseball. He was hitting massive home runs in large numbers for that era. Remember, this was the so-called dead ball era. People couldn't figure out how this kid was mashing these loosely knotted up balls over uh uh baseball fences. He was so hot with the bat that the New York team, now renamed the Yankees and owned by a brewing magnet by the name of Jacob Jacob Rupert, offered Harry Fris $150,000 in cash. That's a lot of money any year. It was certainly a ton of money in 1918, but here's the interesting thing. FZ turned him down. Now, with American troops on the ground in France, the government announced a work or fight rule in 1918.
In areas along the new highways alignment where the soil was wet or of poor bearing capacity, clusters of deep piles had to be driven in the ground in order to support bridge abutments and peers. On August 23rd, 1951, the 22mm long stretch of Route 128 opened with a series of ribbon cutting ceremonies in each town through which the highway passed. In Wuburn, fireman Robert Perry, would take movies of the event, which includes Governor De, that's the large man in the brown blue suit, receiving a gift of a briefcase made of Wuburn leather, by the town's mayor, Francis Murray, who by the way also happened to o own one of the larger leather shops in Wuburn. Perryi took his camera and took this following movie of Route 128 after Governor De got in his limousine and drove north on 128 to the next ribbon cutting ceremony.
So, whomever your next of kin is, if you have again a house, if you have even a vehicle, you have accounts that need to be closed out, that's what your children are going to need to prove that taxing has occurred to get whatever is transferred over to them or to your beneficiary. When we meet with your family ahead of time, we we give them a planning guide. So, any of our dignity locations, we take care of that. We do have Portuguese speaking um colleagues as well as Spanish speaking colleagues. So we are able to translate. I just actually came from one Phil. So we do have different versions of the planning guide too. So we have a Portuguese, an English, a Spanish, and we even have in some cases different religious planning guide. So if you're Jewish, we also have that as well. We don't not yet.
It it's not 62,000. It's definitely way more than that. Um if we were talking about just one schedule, because I wasn't a part of the conversation, that may be why uh that number looks low to me. So, if you were just looking at uh like maybe just a teacher's uh schedule. Um but AB schedule across the district that's too low of a number. I didn't recalc it because uh it it gets picked up in some of the compression work that we did. I'm happy to recalcul this um for us but let me know at the end of today and I can do that. um the secondyear cadre certified that option was very complex and I need excuse me I need a little more defining information so I can determine who that includes pull those values and and get a a a cost on that I apologize I wasn't able to cost it out I would need you guys to kind of discuss option nine a little deeper and Dominic's there to help guide to figure out how to identify So that then we could cost this measure out for you.
Um but if you want to talk a little bit about your team and then let them introduce themselves, that'd be great. Yeah. Uh I'm coach Savannah Bix. This is my first year at Gilbert. Um super proud of my team. We're missing quite a few. We have the seniors playing Powderpuff. We got a couple kids at club tournaments right now. Um, but the to kind of piggyback off the game, uh, they I mean we were down by about 18 at one point and most people if you know you're down by that much. It's really really difficult to come back and try to make it a game. Um, but it's just a testament to my team's resilience and how hard they work. Um, it's nothing that was a surprise to me or anybody that would followed us all season. We have a super resilient and hardworking group of girls.
That meant if you were of draft age, you either worked in the defense industry or you fought. Baseball owners went to Congress and argued successfully that baseball was good for the country's morale. An argument, by the way, that would work again in the Second World War. And the worker fight rule was lifted for ball players until September 1st. That meant the season would be shortened by a month. Well, but what about the World Series? They asked. Well, since the series was not part of the regular season, the owners further argued and they got an extra 15 days to play the World Series. But 1918 was a year where the babe was proving to be a handful. During the summer, he told his manager, a guy named Ed Barrow, that I don't want to pitch anymore. And since there seemed to be enough pitchers on the squad, Barrow put him in the outfield.
And I'm going to see if we can get that movie Whoops. to operate. [Music] And give me just a second. Mina can vouch that we had this working earlier. And I think you just have to press the play button, right? I should. Yes. But there I can't see the play button. Oh, darn it. So, let me see if I can do it. So, I'm just going to move the move forward. You can see As he turned his camera behind Dever's limousine, he caught the thousands of people who were following the governor's limousine up Route 128. And so, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to show you the very first traffic jam on Route 128. Okay, that actually worked. That is engineering ingenuity right at work. Thank you so much. All right. Well, we've completed the northern portion of Route 128. Now, we can start building the southern portion, and that began in 1953.
We do have we do have French though. I do have a French version. Um because I know that's a little bit close. Um so what we do with the planning guides again, we ask about 120 questions. So it's going to be your social security number, which a lot of people have a give have a hard time knowing it if you're waiting at the time to give that to us. And that's something that's needed and you have to contact at the time of passing. But then also it's going over even some of your family history that's needed. So even just answering some of those questions makes it take the burden off of your family from having to answer all those questions at the time and it really just becomes a review. We also go over if you want to be cremated, if you want a full body burial, sometimes we even have now green burial um which is basically just natural no inbombing, no preservation in your place in the earth.
Um contracted sub was pretty easy. We have that one at the 38,000. We also had option 12. Um putting it in those different groups brought us to a $500,000 total 2% all. Uh it's a little more expensive. It's a um and change. Pernal leave was another one of those kind of very um layered conversations. I'd need to know you know some approximates like how many days are we talking about of a benefit uh and some of that those uh other discussions will need to be mapped out. We also have some you know I think legal situations behind some of this and definitely would have to update governing board policy um specifically. So, if I can get some more detail on parental leave, um, happy to cost it out where it sits now. We're not able to do that. And because of that, we're not able to cost out number 16 to update the policy for 15, option 15.
Uh, incredible student athletes, um, leaders in the community and just incredible young women. Um, and so state championship, I have to kind of shout out uh Isabella Ivy. She was the one that hit that shot. Um, I've been Yep. I played sports for a long time. I've coached for a long time, but that was hands down the craziest thing I've ever witnessed live. Um, and although we lost, I, you know, nobody was really talking about that. They were talking about the shot forever. So, um, you know, incredible moment and hopefully we're back next year. And so, here's here's some of my team. Uh, my name is Isabella Ivy and I'm a senior. My name is Ray Love and I'm a junior. My name is Contessa Ivy. I'm a freshman. My name is Kayn Ramos. I'm a freshman. My name is Milan SA. I'm a sophomore.
But when Ruth Ruth slumped badly in June, and then ignored a take sign from his manager, he was benched. Ruth got angry. He jumped the club, joined a shipyard ball club in Pennsylvania, but he soon found out that they wanted him to pitch, too. Why not? He could bat. He could hit. He was like a show Otani, right? He went on. Um, so then he returned to Boston. He figured as long as he's got a pitch, he might as well play in the major leagues. He went on in 1918, even with his absence, to hit 11 of the total of 87 home runs that were hit in the American League that year. And when he pitched, he was close to lights out and had a 13-7 record and got the Red Sox back to the World Series, which um here they are, your 1918 American League pennant winners, who would play the Chicago Cubs in the first and only World Series to be played entirely in the month of September.
What's interesting and what I'm sure you will notice is how much of the new highway was built near the alignment of the old ad hoc 128. Because here in the southwest portion of the metro area, which was less developed, the roads were more direct and they the ad hoc 128 actually followed the alignment of where the new highway was going to be. And you're going to see that shortly. It's 1954 in this view showing the reconstruction of the Highland Avenue overpass. Again, it was one of the first bridges to be constructed over the old 128. But you can see that they had to tear that overpass down and rebuild it to accommodate the wider highway that was going to need to go under it. Now we seeing earthwork along the old 128 in denim in the late winter of 1955. If you look behind our that uh uh machine, you'll see a Gulf gas station and that road is the old 128 again coming pretty close to the alignment of the new highway.
at a cemetery. So, we go over all of that. If we go over, do you want to be viewed? What kind of services are you looking for? Are you looking for something at a church, at the funeral home, um are you looking just for no services? So, we go through exactly what you want and then we price that out. So, with us, you can go on a payment plan because we know at the time not everyone can come up with the fee for a cremation or a funeral. We know it's not something um that's inexpensive. We know that it can cost a little bit. So, this just makes it more feasible for families is when you pre-plan, you can go on a three, a 10, a 5 year if you want payment plan. And then once that's over, your cremation or your burial is paid for.
Um, ELLL weighted, what a fantastic uh, option. um just this one's very cool. But what this does when you weight those kids, it gives you about six additional teachers with, you know, using this year's counts. Um and that costs the 514,000, but it um aligns with two goals. So, uh without any effort sped, uh again another weighted option um 378. the two options together are more than the 750 just kind of when I was adding different numbers up. Um but that's the cost for that one. Um the continuing the free healthcare option is already in the budget and already been approved by the governing board. So I marked that green. It's a done deal. Um the blue green are the compression committee dollars and then the other green was the the psych um psychologist market demand. I want to talk about that for a minute.
My name is Summer Johnson. I'm a junior. My name is Adriana Mumbberry. I'm a sophomore. [Applause] Um, again, you what a great season. It it like you said, people aren't going to remember what the score was. They're going to remember the shot, but like I said, they're going to remember the fact that Gilbert High Tigers, they don't give up. And so, that scares people more than anything. Congratulations to you guys. Do you shake hands with the board? We'll take a pick. Well done. All right, guys. Center up here. Let parents get their shots. High Tigers. Well done. And last but not least, um is speech and debate. Is Joey from Gilbert High here? No. Oh, thank you. Well, Joey's not here, but let me tell you about him. Joey from Gilbert High qualified to compete in the National Speech and Debate Tournament, United States Exemporius Exemporaneous Speaking, placing sixth at the Arizona District Tournament at Brophie College Prep this month.