Well, yeah. I only had two kids and somebody with a passenger, you know, four passenger car around. Regarding the insurance, they cover a million dollars of general liability insurance on each automobile and a million dollar accident policy. They have a $4 million sexual misconduct liability insurance policy for all of their drivers. They have an umbrella or excess policy. So they own. So they're addiction company. And so are they locked yet or um based in Colorado? Yeah. But they have local Right. Right. Operators. So I just curious today from the online meeting. This two-way or is it single out? I mean um to the departure, correct? Because they can pick up after that. This is just a the backup plan. Just never know one from the next who who could be in this situation. you would actually since Okay, so Neil did submit all of this paperwork to us and for some reason the actual contract not included in the packet.
Thank you. My name is Claire Herendine and I'm also a sophomore. Uh my name is Gwennneth Kaiser and I'm also a sophomore. My name my name is Lauren Rust and I'm also a sophomore. Well, how about a nice round of applause for these students? It's amazing. Okay, board if everybody here at the table, everybody's going to come up. We're going to get our picture taken with these great students. Okay, another opportunity for a picture with Mr. But this is one of your bigger groups, Mr. Butler. So, we're gonna be very impressed how you pull this off. People might have forgotten Stay there. All right. All right. All right. Uh again, thanks for the the youth of Huntington the North and their their good things. Moving on to E3. It says Superintendent Trout. Well, it is, but it's been delegated to Mr. McGlo. Oh, okay. It's the Okay, the new guy.
And while that may not mean much to anyone that spoke volumes as a parent that they are quickly bringing to their hearts and minds the impact of the teachers around them. And so thank you for our educators that it does not fall on deaf ears and hearts for thank you for all that you do for our children. So thank you. Well said. Yeah. Um, I was able to attend the ISBA president's virtual roundt with several other schoolboard presidents across the state. We were able to share some big wins from our our districts and it was um very encouraging to share some of the Lawrence excellence around, you know, around the state. So, that was a privilege and an honor. It's also helpful to talk to other districts and see what's impacting their students universally as ours and what unique um challenges and opportunities we have.
Um what exists though is someone prior to my starting in July or August put in this random $2.4 million encumbrance in the system. I have no idea. It's it's dozens of different line items like a portion of my salary, a portion of Al's salary, a portion of teachers is encumbered. So any salary incumbrances, salary line incumbrances you see are part and parcel to that encumbrance. It's almost all salaries are encumbered. Um, again, I said I I don't mind having extra encumbrances in the system because honestly, all it does is make it look like you've spent more money, which is probably where I'd want to be unless, you know, we were way over before we close the year. I will certainly zero that out because it doesn't make sense to keep beyond the end of the year. And I'll pro I'll certainly do it before I provide another report.
Yeah. Program cell death which we all do, right? Every minute. Every minute of every day. Yeah. Put a plug in for study. Really? Yeah. So you wonder what a Nobel Prize is. Maybe you can take this out there. Nobel Prize. There were four Nobel prizes so far for studies of this this animal, right? and at least two for Drosophila, I think. Yeah. Yeah. So, these model organisms. Yeah, it could be. Let's give it to them. Yeah. There's a warm fly competition. Yeah. But the key thing is Yeah. Yeah. So, you can tell what they are because we actually have a chart, right? Nowadays you can do things like you can take you can actually engineer the genome of the worm to produce for example fluorescent proteins from a particular gene that allows you to say oh this is when that gene comes on this when it comes off you know and things like that.
Um, I think that pretty much covers the highlights of the policy, but a much more extensive policy talking about all the legal requirements. Um, particularly if there's questions of a parent of what vaccines are required and so forth. This really spells it out without having to go into the statutory language. Terry, um, this is just a format. I printed the documents off the agenda. the highlighted uh areas that you changed or added. Uh I didn't see that. Did I miss that? No. So the the packet that you received, Terry, was with all just the straight CA policy and I added that in to show you here's the cave policy and these are the additions that we would recommend. I try not to alter the cave policy um without showing you and walking you through what is there. I appreciate that. No, I was just did I get the question papers?
Um lots of schools were there. We went to Odora. Um, God gard may several schools were there. So, they want to make a statewide um program basically. So, like if one school is doing something then other schools can see what they're doing. Wonderful, wonderful day collaboration. We were there for 2 hours and it was nonstop. And basically at the end they were like what do you want to do to be part of this? it was very very valuable. So I'm going be sharing that um coming up next next Friday. So that's the update on the school foundation. And then the other thing I do want to say is about lifewise. So I have met with members of lifewise. Um that is no secret. Um it is no secret that I did express and have expressed um that I do encourage you and um I know that it's not the answer that you want from me as a board member, but I encourage you to think outside the box.
Okay. Okay. So, there is a motion for an amendment to the motion. So, now I need to delete the contractor to delete the contractor's name in order to allow Mr. Murphy a chance to speak with Scottish. Do you want to put a dollar figure in this new motion or no? Yes. Yes. Okay. Within $500. So to allow allow both contractors to bid specifics and we're going to go with the lowest bid. Yes. As long as they can. Yeah. Okay. So, there is an amendment to the motion. Is there a second on the amendment? You wanted to say I'm sorry. Say to include the extra concrete. Yes, that's what that's what we're doing. That's what because Scott, right, is to give Scott the chance to chance. And if he comes in lower than that number, that's who we'll go with. If he comes in higher, we'll go with the other provided they can just get it in the second.
And then to the good part, the really good part is the special needs rodeo. Um this Miles puts this on and it's fantastic. I don't know why there's a an O there, but okay. It's just a random O. It must be. Um so that that was a picture from this year. And then next, um, horses with heart. This was at Territorial. I just got these pictures off the internet because I didn't have the actual pictures of the horses, but they're tiny. They're tiny like that. And that's for the little bitties. And then and then we have Unified Sports. These are um some pictures Jinda Ballard shared um of Unified. And she is she and her team, they are just amazing. what blessings to this district they are for all that they do for our kiddos. Um, kids love this program. And I think that's Yeah, that's it.
Yes. Yeah. Okay. So then the next paragraph here, it just there I'm wondering if we just put exactly what we put in the drugs and alcohol, but just change it from drugs and alcohol to this. Um cuz we're just saying disciplinary actions and supportive services. And yes, we'll contact law enforcement if we need to. So that would take the place of that paragraph or that's an addition. Yeah. No, take the place of this a recommendation for expulsion. Wow. Yeah, cuz this one's like going real hardcore compared to the like other ones. I mean, this we came we did this one in 2013. I bet we did the drug one has been updated because of all the other stuff. You smoked a cigarette. You're gone. So, how how would you guys feel about the replacing changing it to the blue one? What do you think, Mr.
We're so close. So, um just don't vape anyone listening. Sorry, I had to say that. Just don't do PSA. Uh if you want to go to the next the next slide, please. So, these are just some of our referral numbers. Now, you can see that there was an increase in 23 24 that could be from a variety of things. Uh that could be the fact that we eliminated tickets for fighting and disorderly conduct. So when somebody did have a a fight that we deemed necessary in our in our workings that we had to take some action, we weren't writing tickets for those anymore. We decided that tickets weren't the way to go. So we ended up referring some kids. And so our our uptick in that might have happened from that. But I don't know if that's the fact because we're still having that same practice this year.
Softball dugouts will be repainted. Paint crew will take care of that. Um, we're looking at painting the awnings. We talked about dueling doing that in the letters on the grade school. Um, paint for the junior high gym. Going to look at the crew to take care of that. Uh, we're talking about adding an SRO space. We're looking for a vendor. Uh, we've got a couple hints on who would do it. Um, I think we've got a place to do it. It's just a matter of getting the guy in here. I think it will take care of it. It's going to be an office. It's not going to be large. It's going to be six by 10. And I got a feeling you'll probably get it done. What was the original bid for that area? 2 230 something,000 to redo that whole area. Think you can get this done for under 10.
My recommendation would be that we table this approval till next meeting. That way you would have an opportunity to contract that. But I do think this is a really creative and necessary solution for us because we have had some really difficult situations that Laura has had to um make significant adjustments to daily schedules and kids not getting into time or getting late getting those kids to school here late. So this is really good option for to support those students and their families. Okay. So, so you need a motion from me to table this till next meeting. I will extend my first motion and ask for 6.1 to be tabled until next. Okay. 6.1 until the next. All in favor? I oppos. Okay. Motion carries. Sorry, Michelle. That's it. No, I Yeah, I know. Uh okay. So at this point I need a motion to discuss 6.2 which is the children's re this um was shared with you in a agenda update last week.
So, um, we wanted to, uh, take a couple of minutes here and give you an update, a legislative update. Um, I know board, you're asked frequently out in the community. What is the new, what's the impact on us, uh, financially and and Pat's going to share those details with you a little bit. I want to give credit where credit is due. The slide that you see up on the screen right now is generated by Mrs. Smith. even though she can't be here this evening, I want to give that the credit. So Pat is going to talk to this plus a few more items from the last legislative session. So Pat, we'll turn over to you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Trout. So as we've been hearing in the news from the legislative session in terms of funding for schools, um the the news is not great, uh but it's not as bad as it once was from some proposed legislation.
So that was wonderful. Um I'll turn it over to Dr. Smith at this time. Thank you, Madame President and members of the board. My comments will be short, but we have a lot that's going on, but we first just to put on the record send a special thank you to our Secretary of Education, Dr. Jenner who did visit uh ELC Mary Mary Castle um Miss Llland and Dan Kousnik and team they were there to see our teacher apprenticeship program which was outstanding and so we thank her for visiting taking time out she did recognize it in her statewide newsletter and the board needs to know about that also board uh you've been very busy last week the board of education participated in our retirement celebration thank you Carla Johnson and the HR team for putting on an outstanding evening celebration of our retirees. Reminding the board we only have one meeting this month, but we are very busy.
All right. So, that's just that was something that was already encumbered in there. It's a bunch of different things. Salaries are not encumbered. So, in your opinion, we're in good shape, but we it's not like we have crazy extra money. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Yeah, we're we're trending as as far as I can tell, we're trending very even to where we should be with the understanding there are some items that are in this budget that weren't necessarily intended to be. So, for example, um like there is fund in the budget, right? We haven't assessed it to the towns, but in the budget there literally is still in the line for um the SRO that never happened. I think was intended to come out of the budget. I think we've had that conversation and there's a few other line items that are in there. So um you know the intent is we should be within or below budget.
So we can trace these cells characteristics of these cells in terms of single gene activity. I mean one thing that we've recently started working on is that the the proteins that help accompany the micronas you know to the mRNAs and and make them function um have you know uh I mean the they have develop well um neurological diseases. Yes, the mutants. And so we've really uh recently um connected with families of kids who have mutants in their proteins that work with the microase. And we've been able to make those same mutants in our worms. to see how that changes how the micronas interact. So they're not, you know, working, you know, in a neurological, you know, system, but we can see how things change. And what we see is that, um, by mutating those, they're called argonauts, we find that the argonauts can't release the micronese.
But we typically accept cave policies with very minor revisions. This one had quite a few which is why I did it on the version to go over tonight. No, thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that, Kelly. Thank you. Questions from other committee members. Again, it's a pretty extensive policy, but uh you know, given the regulations and the circumstance of the regulations at the state level around this stuff, it's really important that we adhere to that.
I personally um do have concerns about the safety of students leaving schooling and um there are other I believe that there are other curriculums that could do similar. I understand like not all kids stay after school and not all kids do summer programs. Um I think that there are other ways um it's no secret also that I used to work at a school and so when there was no school for a day 100 kids would attend and go to a field trip. So maybe it's a program that could be on non-school days. I have said this before and I'm saying to kids tonight please consider thinking outside the box and looking for another curriculum. And I I do know about life and um all those things but I do think there are some other avenues that um were missing um because we're not thinking outside box you know consider other avenues um I have talked to school administration um and I am also concerned about school safety and you know I don't let my granddaughter go to school every day to wonder you know she may be across the street for for during the day and those kind of things and it is you know it is the administration's responsibility um to us and to all of you to keep your kids safe.
I'll visit this motion. Okay. Okay. There is a second to the amendment, Josh. So, don't made the amendment and then Josh seconded that. All right. So, at this time, all we are voting on is the amended amendment to the motion. Yes. So all those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. The amendment passes 7 to zero. Now the motion the amended motion is for the complete concrete project including the goetween pad within 29,500 to be completed this summer. So, all those in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes 70. Okay. So, I'll need you to say that. Okay. So, the new motion was for the entire concrete project, including the pad between courts, to be completed this summer for 29,500 or less. Okay. 29,500. Yes. Okay. That was who made that motion? That motion. So the motion was by Kayla.