Uh most of the site work, especially in the athletic sides, are complete. Tennis courts, uh softball and baseball. uh new LECC exterior. Lot of curving sidewalks going in and hopefully in the next two weeks we'll see some asphalt going down. Again, some exterior work. Interiors moving along. Uh glass fronts going in the conference areas as well as the ceilings and floors being completed. And again, more interior work going on. Great phase two. We now have a construction trailer on site and that'll really gear up in June. You can see a demolation shoot as well as some tuck pointing going on on the outside of the building. Uh we continue on with roof work and our HVAC work at Indian Creek, Harrison Hills, Scouse Test and Cresy. Thank you for those updates, Mr. Smith.
what a plan like that if if that's the decision that we're going to go, how does that plan look? Um, you know, we I know that our families are are buying devices for our students to bring in MacBooks, Chromebooks, Windows-based computers that they're they're allowing and we're allowing them to do that. Um, but what that does is that leaves us open for additional um safety and security issues by not having complete autonomous control of the device. So, the students have additional ways. Um, for instance, if a student brings in a MacBook, they can very easily open up iMessage and and text with their friends in the middle of the day and it looks like they're working off their device. Um, if we if we own our devices, we can look into programs such as um Harpa or Harper or or GoG Guardian um at our elementary schools or even across the entire district, which will allow our teachers to actually visually see at any given moment in their class what the kids are on.
So you can see the eggshell. It's after the sperm and the oite got together. They make this single cell egg. It looks like two, but it's actually a little bit uh you know it's actually just before nuclear fusion. And when what happens now is once it goes there's two cells, four cells, eight cells, 16 cells. See those two cells go in the middle? That's the intestine precursors. See how all the cells are getting smaller? because each one is dividing, right? It started out with one cell with the DNA of this animal. Each cell has the same DNA as the original cell, but look what they're doing. It's now it has about 550 cells and those cells are turning themselves into a worm, right? Okay, think about that. All the information for that thing, that process happening was contained in that eggshell in the DNA of that first single cell, right?
Um, you know, how much is that? Off the top of my head, I'd have to look it up. I I don't know. Um, and then, um, you know, there's definitely, uh, the professional learning time. There will be several days devoted across the the school year. So, you know, that is time that we're paying staff that we're devoting to this work. Um and then I think the the harder to quantify is um what Wanita had shared is what is the the personnel cost? How much time are they devoting on on doing this task? So um it it is a lot um and we will certainly try to try to get you a quantifiable figure to to get back to you on that. Well, I realize this wasn't uh considered when we established the budget this year because this just got approved in the springtime. Correct. So, uh I have to ask it because the budget is just so high.
That is because one was never done. I last had any communication on this matter March 12th from the superintendent. I was told he would be presenting his findings to the board and I would not be able to review them prior. Well, here we are 2 months later and I have no idea what was said about me or my character or what was even presented about me. Where are the ethics in that? Any self-reflection would tell you they're awesome. Despite all of this happening, I continued to be involved with the administration. I was chosen to be on the steering committee for the elementary bond and also a founding member of our new school education foundation. I was one of the very few that publicly advocated and defended the bond issue, took verbal punches left and right, and was repaid by my coaching position being posted and sent out on a district-wide email.
So, it's um it's not a happy thing that's happening there. And so I'm hoping that with the advisory council and and some different things that we can get that back up and running because I'm losing some kids because parents are pulling their kids from, you know, obviously from the daycare. So then they're going to take the kids to wherever's convenient for them. So we know of at least probably between eight close to eight probably eight to 10 kids that are leaving us. So that didn't help us either. So it puts us in but I know Bobb's gonna Mr. Murphy's is going to talk about this a little bit more and share with you some of the the other situation along with our library issue. I did want to share with you that staff and students wanted to share with you a copy of our of this year's um my thought yearbook.
Right now, I'm debating to send my stepdaughter to Prescuit in the next year. It's this is a joke. This is should not even be a discussion. And this is the problem with Chun Valley School District. They get good people, kids respect. How many kids are in the Chun Valley school district total in Chin High School? Anybody know? About 800 800 almost threequarters of them, I think. I don't know if math teachers in here or not. I'm horrible at math, but either way, that's a hell of a lot of damn kids that have respect for an officer. If you guys think about getting rid of him, you're done. I mean, it's might as well's wipe. It's done with the school district at this point. It's getting bad. You guys better wake up. Everybody, there's a lot more problems in this district. And like my daughter has already said it once that need to be said again.
So would that mean that we would need to change the matrix that we use for for discipline because in terms of consequences the we have a range of items uh to to uh to use when determining consequences and the range is exactly the same for alcohol and for drugs. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I that you know that's not my I mean I guess as long as we're clear that like the law requires this that you as an administrator notify law enforcement when some when a student is in possession of a dangerous or narcotic drug versus you don't have to call the police if a student is in possession of alcohol. on it. And I would probably as as a board member and as a board would probably, you know, like we've said in this committee before, air on the side of caution in terms of like the least amount of times we have to call the police as possible or involve kids in the justice system as possible.
Thank you so much for all you do. [Applause] Okay, we have three very special retirees to finish up with our recognitions tonight. So, I get the ears right, I want to make sure here. First, I want to call up Heather Wick. Heather has served Big Hollow for 30 years. 30 years at Big Hollow. And we won't give you this, but uh we have a little tradition we've been doing the last several years that you're uh there'll be a tree on campus in the back with your name on it as a retiree from Big Hollow. So that steak will be next to a tree. All right. Should we get a picture here? Okay, next we have Jackie Kohler for 20 years at Big Hollow. [Applause] And last but not least, we have Don Smith, also with 20 years at Big College. [Applause] And that would it for our recognitions.
So that is why I wanted that incorporated into our mission statement. The next thing I wanted to do is look at our core values. Similar to the mission statement, we had a whole page of them. U they were value statements. They were great, but nobody could remember them. So, I wanted a small we wanted to cut them down to as few as we possibly could that still covered everything we do. And we came up with um empathy, professionalism, integrity, and courage. I did not know until we were preparing this that we share two core values with the school district. I I hadn't looked at your core values. I also have to admit we call them our epic core values, EPIC. Well, that that though wasn't on purpose and I'm terrible at word scrambles. So, um after we had the four words, I had to Google what does PCI and E what kind of word can you make out of this?
You know that's not something that necessarily needs to be decided today. So that's something we got to discuss. So, you said we're we're save if we make a decision by September, you said, right? Uh, not I guess not necessarily save more money, but uh we just don't need to know the exact repayment term that you plan on choosing uh today. You would have extra time. Uh we're currently planning to sell these in September. So, we would just need to know close to the sale date because that's when the final interest rate rate and the structure will be locked in. Okay. Okay. All right. Great. Any other questions? No. All right. So, I have a motion, a second on that uh adoption of the final bond resolution. All in favor? I. None opposed. So, all right, Caleb. Appreciate it. Yeah. Thanks for having me. You're free to go.
So by the time you hit that national levels right that you're at your best. Doesn't matter where you place or not but you're there. Be thankful. We are thankful I should say that you guys have taken the time to get there. Go ahead guys.
Mr. Trout didn't like that. So, uh, yes, I don't think that because we're just now awarding the bid, I don't think it would necessarily be a change order. Um, Mr. Thornsbury is the one that made these drawings for it. And, uh, I don't think that that will be a problem. Like, if I really were going to be nice, and I almost could sense what Kenny may have thought too, is that Vikings in front of the unit J. If it was turned 40 uh, 45 degrees, made a little bit bigger right in front of that trophy case. to me that would be if I'm thinking of that space right might look really good but you know he's the artist not me but that's not here there I appreciate just having Terry take one more look at it and in including Mr. Butler in that conversation so we'll certainly do that any other comments or questions yeah um I think that uh Mr.
Board, are there any questions regarding the blue ribbon updates? Sounds like everything's moving along great. And I believe we might have a board visit here soon to see the new construction at the LEC. So, thank you for that. All right. At this time, we'll move on to 3.02 update on bids for Forest Glenn. Mr. Roger Smith. Madame President, Dr. Smith. Members of the board, uh we received bids on April 25th. There were 13 bid categories over 38 contractors bidding. Uh bids came in at or below estimated costs. A good competitive bids. the GMP contract for Gore Core and Garcia for Forest Glenn Elementary room edition and also playground edition is 7,876,553. The total project both soft and hard cost is uh around 10 million and we will be recommend recommending recommending uh the approval of the bids and uh GMP to core and Garcia. We do have Scott Hunt here with Ratio, the architect of the project and of course Core and Garcia uh being our CMC.
Um, obviously programs like that come with additional expenses, but um, we're trying to figure out what is the best direction for the district to go in to take control. I don't want to say take control, but to provide um, our students and our families with the highest level of support and security features that we can. And I know that's something we're going to probably talk about in the subcommittee you guys have. But yeah, I gotta I gotta tell you, we we tried in Hampton and Wilber moving forward in that direction. We're gonna have to definitely survey parents because a lot of parents have invested in computers and invested in technology for that as well too. But the best way and the only way for us to be able to completely control the security of technology is when we have those devices, we own those. We can control what's going in and out of those devices.
And I'm here to tell you that today we still can't tell you how that works. We can give you some of the rudiments of it. I can tell you a little bit about differential gene expression and so forth, but I we can't say, "Oh, yeah, it's obvious how that happens. Let me tell you how it happens, right? I mean, it's mostly we can just describe this amazing process, right? and tell you little bits about it, fascinating, amazing things about it that have been figured out using genetics and molecular biology, but still the the mystery remains. So what's the deal? Single cell egg goes to 550 cells. That's the larve, right? And so they all have the same DNA to begin with. So you know what happens is different genes are turned on and off. So that's what we've been studying now for decades in this field of molecular biology and genetics is how are genes regulating each other so that that information is elaborated so beautifully to make the worm.
We have to uh be very very careful uh and know what every dime is going toward and I understand this this is a mandate but I'd like to get that figured. Thank you. So, I just want to be clear that what we're talking about here are the actual policies and the content of those policies. And I certainly appreciate the question, Teresa. Um, but I do want to make sure we contain our conversation here at the policy level to that information. That might be a conversation to bring up um at the finance meeting if if possible. Okay. No, I think this is the time to ask it. I'm sorry because we don't really cover all the I appreciate that. I appreciate that. But I do want to keep on target with the actual content of these policies. We have a number of them on here and it's very easy for us as a group, I think, when we're talking about finances to kind of go down that path.
Totally blindsided. What an intentional, careless act. You cannot name a bigger slap in the face, professionally and personally, than to do that. At a time when we didn't need any added drama, the superintendent could not even wait two weeks for a formal board vote to post my coaching position. That act alone should tell this board everything about his character, morals, and leadership. He told me the buck stops with him. No, the buck stops with you all. Do not continue to give your information from a funneled bias source. You can ask questions. You control this district, not him. From my short time coaching and being involved with the steering committee, I have realized how toxic this culture is. The distrust from the community and the administration can hardly be measurable. Actually, it can. Yes, 305. No votes 793. That is a call for change. We have got to get back to a high standard of excellence where losing is okay but winning is expected where students and teachers come first not second and where there is not a gap between our community and the school.
Thank you. answer anything. Did you have any questions for me? Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item number nine, the gym floor refinishing. Okay, so we had uh the gentleman that usually does our gym floors, him and his family are not doing gym floors anymore. So we reached out to a company can courts in Monazuma, Kansas and visited with them. They came out and looked and this gentleman thought as long as we kept our high school getting refinished every year um with at least a couple coats on it that we would get at least two to three more years out of our high school court before we had to sand it all the way down to bare bones and kind of start over. So um we put his floor estimate for two codes $3,900. Um we had to go ahead and try to get some dates locked in because he was pretty busy for the seventh and eighth.
Everyone's heard it. Have a good day. All right, Miss Angela Moody. Oh, hi. I apologize. Oh, my name is Angela Moody. I am a parent. Um, I apologize. I was not totally prepared. Honestly, I just heard about this and my heart sank. Um, I have a daughter that graduated last year. She's been in Chino lots of years and Chino has been fantastic for her. She was president of I think like everything you can be, played volleyball, gave her heart to the school. She has loved officer not. And I first had the opportunity to meet him when he came to her graduation party last year and my husband and I, we sat on the porch with Officer Noddeden. He shared his heart for these kids and I was blown away. Now, I had heard of Officer Native because obviously I think it's been um said here tonight that he has loved incredibly and um and I don't even know what even brought this to the board today, but I do know that I have met a man that has heavily invested into not only my daughter, but multiple kids around campus.