Um due to the fire code, the breezeway, if we include the breezeway, it cannot be totally enclosed. It could have a roof over it, but no sides. And they're estimating it's going to have to be about 25 ft away from the existing building. So, the modular total that he has with all that included is a little over 1.2 million. We do have the concrete work in from um Scott that came over in a little over $60,000 and we're still waiting on uh some numbers for plumbing, electrical, and dirt work. Um, but we're looking in the range of I would anticipate probably 1.5 total in cost for that. But, you know, like I said, it's gonna, you know, the part that really concerns me about that is just the safety issue of the outside of the building. You know, it's not going to be enclosed with the breezeway and, you know, how are the kids going to get in the door?
So, sorry about that. Um, so my section of the first is, um, I know Matt's not here, so we'll go right into school choice. Um, I have a a a form for you below. If you could pull that up for us, Joe. Um, the attached. You're going to see it should be in your not has a copy of this. Very late, right? It's in Oh, I didn't see it. Yeah, it's in there now. I texted I was like, sorry, I I apologize. Right. It was in the Yeah, it was just in the drive. I always get paranoid. I'm missing something. Yeah. No, no, I apologize. So, this um after many conversations with myself and um Lisa and John and Cindy, um this is school choice recommendations for next year. Um at the elementary schools both in Verlin and Boston, um after consulting, we don't have enough for you guys.
Is it going to be card swiped? Are they going to get in and out? Like, there's a lot of just safety issues that really concern. Did he say what the code issue was? He didn't say. He said something about the only thing he brought up was the fire marshal. Our Kansas fire marshal is what he brought up. So specifically, I don't know. So how much more would it be to put a sprinkler system in? I think if we put a sprinkler system in within a certain distance from the school camera, I think that we would have to sprinkle the whole building. So once I get some more information on the plumbing, the electrical, um, talked to turn some information over to Mark last week and that was just last week. Um, the city superintendent, so he's supposed to be getting me a little information on that and waiting on some more information from the dirt work from a bone side of it.
Sorry about that. We can share if there's one. I have it on my computer. Oh, there you go. After consulting with the principles in Berlin and Wilson, we are saying there is no room for school choice students at the elementary level. At the high school, um we're being very um specific on their grades that we believe um based not with this room, but with the recommendations at the lengthy conversations with the advent team, Lisa, Rich, and Renee. Um so right now at the different grade levels we're recommending um for school choice um and again this is community conversation grade seven um we have four open slots um in grade 10 we have three open so it' be a total of seven kids students that would be for open um for school choice if school committee agrees on that. Um just a couple of things that you need to be aware of as well too with regards to school choice.
So So could you enclose one side of it and not the north side? and put like I don't know the answer to that. What if it wasn't fully enclosed? Exactly. But screened off for most of it. You've seen then bus stops they got enclosure here but then some are open. Yeah. Let me ask him what other options we could have to try to get some more safety in there. So that's closed and see what he says. Is that because it holds students? because we got this going to the wait room and that's all enclosed. You know what I mean? That's and that's but that's not a classroom. Or if you had Yeah. You just like an 18inch gap along the bottom of it. It's not enclosed, right? But it would still protect. You might have to store exits or like a gate you can flip open to exit if you had to.
Um when we're looking at the students that are graduating from our class, um this year graduating total um Lisa is um 63. 63. And please appreciate the amount of kids that are coming in in grade six is 94. Um so there's a big uh gap of students that are exiting and students that are coming in. Um, we're also looking at the school choice numbers in relation to what middle school looks like and what high school looks like. When you're looking at that number in grade seven to four, that would round that off to 80. If you guys approve that, we're looking at the grades in middle school in the teams and the four classes per team as well, too. That would put that class size at basically 20 in each one of those. Um, take a look at the grades eight. They're high numbers there.
Yeah. for from a safety perspective because you're going to have locked doors still. But let me ask him specifically options for that breezeway to try to do a little more enclosure on it and see what he says. Um, okay. So, daycare, we're still looking for uh daycare workers, employees at Wilson and at Hollywood. Um, at this time, we're just wanting running the one room this summer at Hollywood. our hopes that we can find somebody else to shift things over to have our one worker to be allowed to help with some of the executive director work on that side of it. Um, at this time we're likely going to have to shut down the Wilson daycare over the summer. Uh, during this time we're going to continue to try to advertise the radio information was a good thought um to try to push some things out radio wise um for those job opportunities as well.
um grade nine, we're we're looking at some data in there and we're concerned um with the work and support that we need to be able to give grade nine. So Lisa and I and Rich Rene were very thoughtful on these openings and making sure um that we can support the not only our own students that are in here and the needs of them, but also if there is room in uh available for those students as well too. again the number of kids exiting and the number of kids coming in um and and just be mindful of that. The other part is we don't know if kids going to be moving in so we're always careful about that. So I respectfully present to school committee um after much consideration conversations with advocations for school choice for next year. Questions? I would have a real problem with not adding anyone to grade nine.
Do they still have like an area in the newspaper that has like job openings? Yep. Well, we could run an ad in the newspaper, right? We could put one in nails for the independent reporter and um that would probably be the closest to that location. Um I was thinking I I would listen to the news station now 1079 which covers us and the Russell area and they always have Russell school district information on there. They have Silven Grove information on there. So, we could I I was going to call that station particularly and find out because that covers that area, right? And I was going to find out the cost. Um, and then piggybacking off that, did get the Patterson grant finished this past week due to where we're at with the daycarees at this point. I'm just really unsure if we're going to be fortunate enough to receive that grant.
I like watching the trends of the kids dropping off. And I understand you've said you don't like adding students at the 11 12 grade. If that class continues to get smaller next year and then all of a sudden it's an 11 and they're getting smaller and smaller, you're graduating like a class of 50 kids. How fun is that? That's not a high school experience. Like I would like to see spots out of there. What's the reason for you said you're looking at some data? So what um when I looked at the MCCAST data um so those are students who are currently in n um eighth grade. So, I was able to share MCCAST data, their seventh grade MCCAST data from last year of those students. And that is a particularly um there's a lot of gaps in that in in that grade level. And so with smaller um class sizes, we're able to target instruction more effectively.
I still have hopes that we might, but um, just where we're at right now, we'll have to see how that kind of plays out. Um, we do have a property insurance renewal meeting on Wednesday, May 21st. And I did want to give you guys some updates about where we're at with the library in Wilson. So, um, still dealing with the leaks from the roof. Roofing company's been out like six times since I've been here trying to fix those leaks. I feel like, um, and gentleman that was there today, the front of that building that sticks out of the library is sagging, causing some water to come up underneath the windows on one side. Um, we've had the library cordoned off and locked up locked up for the past week. We had the mold inspector come out today. Um, he did find some mold along the walls.
I I appreciate what you're saying, Beth. I really do. We just we're we're concerned about that grade level and making sure that we're going to give those students everything they can. How does that translate across other districts? Is that a problem across the state with that one grade? Is that MCAT scores? Are they particular? Is that is it postcoid that they're all that grade is particular? I I I respect I haven't looked at others. I've been sort of focused on ours. I mean, so we were looking at this eighth grade group that's coming in here. Um and again, is there room? Absolutely. We we we know that it's what what what do we want for our students that are in here and focusing on those kids. This is the class that two years ago we were here talking about their fifth grade schools like 80% of them were not at the minimum literacy.
The bookshelves are going to have to go out. They're going to have to shut down part of that library. They're going to have to go through the books, see if it's in the walls on three of the walls. Um, I did want to read, um, the guy's name's Lance. His email said uh the remediation will include removal of affected uh materials that could include drywall, glue down carpet, ceiling tile, shelves that are affected. Um there would be a separate charge for detaching the remaining shelf, which we um would anticipate there could be molding on the back of those shelves um whenever they took them off. They're not sure. They said there could be. Um they did give us an estimate to include having dumpsters rented, the books gone through, everything removed, sheetrock removed if it has to be. Um they'll haul all the debris away.
There was literacy I think 11 like 80% of the class there was there's what four was not meeting partially meeting meeting and exceeding right 80% were either partially or not meeting right is that I think that's the class that's that is concern and then you're adding just through elementary to adding 30 to the building you're graduating 60 something and you're adding 94 additional 30 people running around building I with sorry fewer staff fewer teachers we cut positions here let's be clear we cut a science teacher here we cut a special ed coordinator position here right so you just got to be mindful and I I I just want to focus again we have 94 students coming into grade six here our focus is to make sure that those students all of those students and they they travel throughout this entire building. Our focus is making sure that they're going to have the highest quality education as well too.
Um again, estimate, not a final bill. Um we do we are putting an air sanitizing machine in there just to have it in no time. When we visited with this gentleman today, he said there's no emergency for anybody in the building. As long as it's locked off and there's no air flow in there and nobody's in there, we're good. He did recommend putting an air purifier in there just to do it. So, we are going to do that tomorrow. Their bid they gave us for all the stuff that needs to happen is $48,12. That does not count anything going back in there. That discounts them getting down to where they need to get down to to get things out of there. Is that no matter what kind of like I'm sorry this may sound really bad but my basic knowledge is that any kind of mold or only if it's black mold or I know there's different Yeah.
And that this way we're making sure that they don't leave us, right? And most superintendents when we get our students coming to preschool and kindergarten, we want to make sure we're working with those families because they're the ones that are going to travel up. We want to make sure these students 94 probably our largest class, largest class in a long time coming into grade six of Tanto. We want to make sure we're going to make sure they're successful. Is it 94 or is it Yes, it is 94 31 students coming from Burlin and 63 coming from Boilston. What's the current so the class after that? You don't add in the you don't add in the current school choice because like all the other columns do that already. Um so I I don't I have Yeah, I just have that information. So when I I just go into power school and identify um two from Berlin, one from both.
Their worry is so they they're testing the mold now cuz they're and we should have that back and they're also doing an air quality test in there as well just so we have the documentation in the library for the air quality test. Uh they're just worried about what could be on the back of those bookshelves because we don't know how long it's been doing that. I mean You know, I know it's been doing that ever since I've been here and we've been trying to get the at least the roof side of it fixed. Um, we did ask the companies, too. I did uh talk to Caleb Good. That's our Kicks insurance adjuster. Our deductible for something like this is $25,000 through the kicks program, which he said this would fall under that. Um, he does have me the claim form. I did ask him, you know, is there a situation where we would be better off paying for this ourselves?
Yeah, there is two for right that will be in grade six next year. Yeah. So that's actually 97. No, she's saying that there out of the 31, two of those students from Berlin are school choice students. That's correct. Right. It's because I don't I don't have my access my access is 6 through 12. So I you know so I just that data is regardless 94 97 it's 94 quite a bit and then is is ninth grade correct because it's like 70 + 12 so there are um so we are losing quite a few students um at this point we have 14 students going to Aset and um St. John's seven to as five to St. Johnson two private. Correct. And we we played with how many different versions, Nicole, Lisa and I, to try to get the best way to present this data to you.
So, our property insurance didn't skyrocket. And he said in this, it would probably be a low ticket claim if it didn't get over a certain amount. So, it really wouldn't affect that very much. But I mean, we're going to have to get some more quotes on this as well from the insurance adjuster side to make sure that we're not being, you know, that that we're maintaining um compatibility between, you know, at least three different um inspectors. So, um if we needed to move the library, they're going to have to go through all the books on those and make sure any books that have water damage or could have mold, they don't weigh. um it's just going to be quite intrusive. So, I just wanted to give you guys a head heads up on that and what um you know, we're seeing. I'm going to have this gentleman, you know, just go around once he's done with the air quality test and stuff and just look at things and just make sure that he don't see anything else that could be, you know, a problem that that I don't expect or we don't expect being there, you know.
So, we we we have a lot in there. We're not sure what you're looking for. This is my first time presenting school choice numbers to you. I didn't know how clean or how clear you wanted them. I'm sorry. Can you say that the 14 makes up? How many to as many? Seven confirmed to Asibet, five confirmed to St. not to confirm their private boarding boarding. And I want to be careful not to go. Um what's that? You just said boarding. Boarding. It doesn't necessarily they're going to boarding school. It's just private institutions. Oh, private, right? Private institution. But well, like there's I I I put board because oftentimes the question is why would they go there? Well, it's like a because there are certain situations like um boarding schools offer a different type of education and it that's very different and unique. So that's something that makes it a unique experience, something that we could never replicate.