I don't recall having seen that but I would like to see that. So if there's a way to >> yeah I think >> email that to us or >> I trying to remember when we did it >> that was probably also about two years ago. So, >> cuz I was trying to remember if it was Gretchen that did that or somebody else. >> No, it was somebody else. It was not Gretchen. >> Yeah, it was a third party that they brought up. >> Okay. That's where I was like, if I can't remember or we can't remember, then I want us to be able to remember is my thing. >> Yeah. I mean, I I remember us doing it. I just don't remember exact date that. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, but I I would say it was a can't have quite been two years ago because I initiated it when I started and so it happened sometime during my time as superintendent.
So that signage is going to stay the same. So it's either you know um straight actually it's only going to be straight actually or right now you can go right because that'll be different because um so yeah there will be updates on signage as well. Um but that one not yet >> questions. Okay. Hearing no other questions. Anything you want to talk about the bids themselves or are you good? >> Yeah, actually I will. Uh the bids uh much better than I thought as far as I mean the the price was what we thought the price was going to be. So it wasn't any really dramatic increases but uh the amount of bids were very encouraging. Um so we did have a lot of different bids. um which you know you kind of I mean it is site work so this is a little bit late but um really there's a lot of you know a lot of site type utility and concrete and asphalt that are still hungry and want jobs so that that's a good thing.
>> Sorry, my phone or my watch answered a telemarketer. >> All right. Um, our last item on the agenda is item H12. This is Cameron Health prescription drug partnership. >> U, we do have Pete Kemp here who will be presenting, but I just want to say a few things really quickly before he does. I won't hopefully take any of your any of your thunder, >> but I would want to point out that this is not a replacement to our healthcare at all. This is a supplement. This is an add-on. Um, I would also point out that Cameron and Pete and his team have been again very willing to work with me when it comes to money and costs. I am always very leerary of signing [laughter] long-term agreements on things and contracts. Um, we are looking at a three-year agreement. Cameron has offered to wave fees in the first year.
Uh, any discussion? Can you also delete out what the what this tourism leazison person will be doing at this point until we can hear from the governor's office >> and also deleting out what the tourism position will be doing until we hear back from the governor's office >> that hear back could be in the committee report but just blanking out >> yeah what she said >> so blanking out oh you know tourist shall do all of this stuff we're going to blank that out we're just going to create the tourism from leazison for now and >> and then adding in the committee report until we hear back from the governor's office.
Okay. Currently at two and a half years. So, Gotcha. >> probably a year year and a half ago somewhere in that range. >> Yeah. And we'll double check on that um on those as well. Any other questions or comments on that one? Perfect. Our next one. The board will not conduct its duties without including students, families, teachers, staff, and community members, inclusive of those that speak languages other than English in a manner that inspires broad community ownership of board policy. Um, I think we do a fantastic job at this one. I am so happy that this board takes huge pride on listening to their community and the values of the community. So, I don't have much more to say than this other than let's keep what we're doing in this area. >> I missed this in my superintendence update, but as an evidence item for that, the board will be receiving an award tomorrow for their two-way communication with the community around policy and SOFG and all of those other things.
All right, hearing no other questions. I will entertain a motion to award the bids for the HC storm site improvement projects as presented. >> So moved by Raquel. >> Second. >> Ty. >> Give it to Danielle. >> Yes. >> Second by Danielle. Cindy, please lead us in a roll call vote. >> Gonzalez Thomas. >> Yes. >> Sliger. >> Yes. >> Arlu, >> yes. Carol, >> yes. >> Bilberg, >> yes. >> Meadows, >> yes. >> Motion passes. All right. Item 7.2, playground purchase and install at HC Storm. Okay. This is all part of the exact same project, but we're doing this in cooperative purchasing through Sourcewell. So, that's why it has to be separate. Um, this is just your general layout of what the playground is going to look like. There will only be one playground now instead of two. This is the only actually only elementary school in the district that has two playgrounds.
My concern is going to be in getting us to utilize this as a staff. Uh, we really have an education piece to get out to our employees to take advantage of this fantastic system that will Are you going to go into savings in that? So, I'm not going to say that. >> I'll be high level, but okay. If you want to go a little more granular, >> nope, you're good. Um, so this is a fantastic opportunity. I would be remiss if not mentioning that Tony Baker is the one that brought this to my attention through Cameron. Um, I have given Pete a little flack for like why do I need to have a board member come and talk to me about a sales pitch and not you. So it's clear he's not high pressure sales. No, which is nice. >> But um, I do want to point out Tony was the one that brought this to my attention.
>> Okay, >> members, any discussion? Seeing none, um, vice chair Kai for the vote. Chair goes I. >> I vote yes. Senator Fukunaga, excuse. Senator Kim, >> I. >> Senator Favlla, >> I. Chair, your recommendation is adopted. >> Thank you. Next up, Senate Bill 2353. Um we are going to pass this with an SD1 by making necessary technical and non-substantive amendments and defecting the effective date to July 1st 20150.
>> Yay. That's exciting. Um, and the last one is the board will not perform or appear to perform in any of the responsibilities delegated to the superintendent. This one can can kind of get wishy-washy. Um, it goes back to our conversation of customer versus owner. Sometimes we do have direct board me um community members, teachers, students even that we have a personal close relationship to them. However, we do have more than 650 staff. We do have over 4,000 students. So when we start advocating on behalf of those individuals without you know going through the proper channels of the teacher first and if the teacher there's nothing there and redirecting them to talk to the teacher or whoever where the situation is or the principal and we start taking responsibility on herself because you know I may know the superintendent or I may know the principal at Mackin you know um we have to understand on our position and we can't take ownership when there's other individuals that need to be reached out first.
I don't know honestly I don't know the history of it. I don't know why but it is. But with the changes we're making in the front of the school, there's nowhere to put it. Um so we are inreasing it a little bit in the back. Not a little bit, quite a bit. Um so that is the layout. So the main structures kind of in your lower lefthand corner. You'll see more pictures of this later, but I wanted to show you the layout. On the right, there will be swings at HC Storm. And then in between or above the swings and the main playground, those are four [cough] other pieces of equipment. [laughter] And you'll [clears throat] see the like little squiggly lines around all that. That's for fall zones. That's just how you know playground equipment manufacturers have to do it. Um, and this is really the best picture to show you um kind of the the layout.
We got him in and that's why we're here now bringing this recommendation after his presentation. We were actually the first company to sign up for their program >> and and and so really the background I can give a brief background about this. We work directly with the PBM that Tony's company works with. So in the in the in the landscape of self insurance. So the the county central United school is selfinsured much like Tony's company. So when you build your benefits package it's all cart. So you design it based on your company's needs. Um, and Tony's company partnered with a PBM partner of of ours. So what his model looks like is kind of similar but very different all at the same time. What we're enrolling at the Cal Central is slightly different. So we'll kind of break that down. We'll talk a little about what it is, how it works, and how we can achieve success.
Members, any discussion? Seeing none, vice chair wokai for the vote. Chair goes eye. >> I vote yes. Senator Fukunag excuse. Senator Kim. >> Senator Fabella. >> Hi. >> Chair, your recommendations adopted. >> Thank you members and thank you for joining us. With that we are ajourned.
So, that's just one of the ones that we really I myself um need to make sure that we're following thoroughly and we're not bleeding into that. And if we ever have questions, it's okay to ask. Hey, sometimes I do that myself. I'll ask um our other board president, Miss Hilda Huades or Mr. man, you know, um, am I overstepping my boundaries if I'm doing XYZ? And it's okay to ask. I don't have all the answers. I don't believe we all do. We just want to make sure that we're not sending the wrong message. Yes, we are elected officials and we advocate our for our communities, but it's also our job to educate our families and our parents and our students on the proper channels and how to advocate for themselves. We can't save everybody and we can't keep everybody happy. and we don't know the story of everything that goes around because we uh here at the board I personally believe that we're furthest away from what's going on inside the classrooms.
If you go to the next one, that's the main playground structure. That's that's actually what's going to look like. Same colors, same everything. Um spent a lot of time. It seems like it's been it's been probably a year ago at this point when we first started doing this with students. Um it was I've done this a couple times and it is really fun to you know with the kids and what they want and their creativity and they had some interesting color schemes and I'm like give you some selection here. So, um, this is what the vote was right here. This is what they came with. Um, and the other piece of this, it's going to be turf. Okay, the the surface is going to be turf. That is really the new um thing coming now. Um, most playgrounds are really it's three choices. It's the trai traditional wood chips, turf, and what's called pour and play.
So overall what this is called is script well. And this itself as a consumable retail entity in the health care space meaning that companies can actually work with us directly to do it um is new in the last six months. However, we've been doing this exact program for well over close to three years. So this isn't something that's new. This isn't something that is not proven. It is something that we are just now rolling out to local entities to be implemented in their in this case district. U we already work with two local area districts already um with this program. So it's again you're not the pioneers. Uh other districts did it for you guys and now we get to bring it here and really capture an opportunity to work locally. Um it's called scriptwell and this is the partnership we're going to kind of outline.
So, um I just wanted to bring that up and if we have any questions or comments, we can go ahead and discuss that here as well. Any wonderings? Yeah. >> Oh, myself because I know like reading that I was like, "Oh, I totally fall in that category because it's easy for me, especially I think last week working on the on the musical and there were some issues with sound. I was like, "Let me just email these people real quick for the teacher." And then and so I recognize how it's easy like especially as an involved parent to be like, "Let me just take it to the the fastest route." Um, so and for anyone I may have sent an email to, I know you're sitting out here. Um, you know, apologies if I did overstep. Um, but, you know, I I know at least from everyone that I've met here, we're all in it for the right reasons.
Um, the rubberized material. Um, so this is really, in my opinion, kind of best of both worlds. Um, it's not as expensive as porn and play. Porn play is great, but porn play is very expensive. Um, but then if you want to go to the next one, this is when we're getting into the playground selections. So these this is what will be there. Um, this is the names of them, the whole bit. Um and then if you go to the last two, so those will be the four kind of additional ones. So we originally were going to have [cough] three um pieces of equipment >> and god, it's been six years ago now. Six years ago when we did Hooverwood and Grace McUade, we did the exact same process. Um and that's when the PTO's for both schools kind of jumped in and said, "Hey, you know, can can we help with this?" And I said, "Well, sure.
So what is it? Well, it is essentially a specialty pharmacy carveout. So, how many here have heard of the term specialty drugs, right? Like when I mean we have we know what it is, but we really don't have any clue. By definition, a specialty drug is anything that costs more than $1,000. So, what we have done in working with other local entities is we've come together, identify these highcost drugs, and we create what's a specialty pharmacy carveout. which is we identify from the help of the broker. So we talked a lot with Nick um and their TPA or third party uh administrator. We looked at the entirety of the drug spend and with that we were able to identify essentially 10 drugs 10 prescription that drive about 65% of your cost as a district which you get comfortable saying what it was in 24 >> which was a little bit north of a million dollars.
We're supporting our kids, our schools, our community, and, you know, I I also want, you know, folks to feel that, you know, if they can come to me and ask questions, but also, you know, I'm learning I'm learning the ropes here, and I'm hopefully not stepping on toes or hurting feelings or anything. um you know just trying to get it done but obviously working within the system um you know just need to set the example and uh go about doing things the right way. >> Yeah. And I don't think it's a wrong way and it's or it's a right way, right? I think it's just um some procedural stuff that we all have to follow and it's hard because I want to the moment I hear something from somebody I want to go up there and be like I'mma change it for you. I am your Wonder Woman.
What do you want to help with?" And so this is kind of how the process came up with and just that kind of extra piece of equipment. Um and this year um really I don't ever ask but VTO's kind of came the same thing again and um they were very generous and that you saw that in the donation um when we did approve the donations. So they didn't pick which one it's going to be. So I didn't have them do that. We just kind of the fourth one was kind of in fourth place as far as what the kids voted on what they wanted. They were shown I think it was eight different type pieces of equipment. I believe the last time because I kind of remember this. I believe the PTO helped with the the playground that's in front. Um and actually they helped put it up too at the time.