Now again, I'm I'm not an expert in that, Mr. Brown. I could have I could have told you, you know, I I didn't know this was going on, but yeah, that's okay. I I just received the report, so that that's why But there are some there are some errors in here, but yeah, that's a m point, but they didn't give us a a figure of putting these air conditions in, piping everything in that that I haven't got that far yet because that that's going to have to be done. If you want to go that route, I can do that. I I think that would have been great for the board to see just the price a cost, you know, because they're saying, "Okay, each room takes five tons, right?" But because of the electrical nature of all of that, five, first of all, you I don't think you could get a window bill.
You could attest to this. You cannot get a window unit five tons. Usually two, you know, two t uh probably 24,000 BTUs or two ton two tons usually. Then after that, you get into some central units. So five tons. So they talking about splitting these up, right, to get the five tons, a two-tonon, another two ton, two window units in a room, and maybe a little another little small unit, right? No, exactly. So all of that's going to be have to be piped in electrical own circuit, add another electrical box. So we're talking about a lot of money. Well, and that's the thing. Now, again, I can get it priced out. I I not but I again, I just I just wanted to share this with you and I and I can start, you know, accumulating all that data and getting that data so the board sees that data.
That that isn't a problem. I just wanted to kind of get an idea of what is going to be needed. Yeah. And and and again, you're like again, our teachers is here. They're talking and and sharing their their heart with us about, you know, moving forward. So, if that price and cost was was there for us and the public can see it and say, you know what, yeah, we all agree we need air condition, but this temporary solution, you call it temporary permanent. There's no temporary solution when it comes to school codes here. So, and then at some point we move these window units out or start and get a central unit. You know, we're talking about $8 million a school and this project doing it this way might be $4 million. I don't know. But I think we need to know that. Sure. Can can when you talk about the utility transformers, this is the transformer on the pole outside the building some pole.
They talking about you have hours here to feed this building. But I guess you got a vault. My question this is comed equipment not our equipment. Well well I saw one and one here that excuse me was a something is missing here. So we do have we got to have a transform that's in the school that belongs to us. That's at at CSK on page 203. It says the existing electrical service phase. Okay. right there just with that transformer right there. That's a comed transformer. That's not going to be able to supply you any type of air condition. Okay. Now 480. So that means there's another transformer in the building. Okay. That belongs to us. Gotcha. That gives us from 480 to 220 for air conditions. So they missed that. So I was just looking at that. I browsed over that. Sure. So yeah. So we have we may have some transformers that belong to us in our facilities.
Yeah. And so I saw something like that and then they talked about they have to change over vault a transformer from a vault to a pad mounted. That's a whole another thing the the pad mounted right in the front of the sixth grade center old high school. That's a pad mounted. That green cabinet there. So that has nothing to do with it size. It just has something to do with how the transformer itself is fed. So vault doesn't make it necessarily a bigger transformer could get in there. I don't want to get into all the details but but I'm just saying so I I can definitely support this and you know if need be if need be. Just just reel me in. I do want to ask you one question. How much did it cost to do this to do this analysis? It was part of our we have it under professional services.
Um so I I don't think I've gotten the invoice yet to be honest with you. So estimate through our architect, you know. So, we budget a certain amount in professional service estimate 10 grand, 8 grand. It's probably about five grand. Okay? You know, probably. So, all right. But this is good information. Thanks, Bill. If you was involved with this, I appreciate it. That's that's, you know, we have to move keep moving on this. So, great for bringing this to the board. I really appreciate it. And Bill, if you had anything to do with a great uh great job. I appreciate that. I guess the only confusing part that I'm seeing here is I guess so everybody understands I had talked to Ken about a temporary solution which is kind of in the same light but not this. Mhm. So this is totally way more advanced than I was thinking because let's let's be honest with ourselves.
If you go back to the other page it's approximately $64.4 $4 million. Mhm. Which we agreed I think when we talked about before we talked about a referendum. I think Mr. Rup and yourself, Mr. Brown, we figured 2024 was way too far out. So, we wanted to try to move it along. I was just trying to come up with an idea that if we put basic window units in theory, Mhm. they're only 120 volts. How many amps do they draw? I was trying, you know, to have our engineering firm figure out what is the capacity in each room. Mhm. And honestly, what can we forego or the teachers to put these in? And if it's bridges a three-year gap to come up with a with a plan, but if we're going to come up with a plan and spend this money in this, then you wouldn't need to do that.
I mean, think about it. You have to start with the life safety first as we discussed to take out all the water pipes. Mhm. Because once we do that then the air conditioning becomes feasible because in a school it's much different than five ton units. I mean seriously I was bringing ideas that were 120 volts. These are all two. It's different but yeah again with the 120 volts and I was over Tala again. I just happened to be stumbling in the room. I think it was Dr. Elliot her she had her window unit going. It was nice and cool in there. But we're talking about classrooms and you have to take into consideration body heat and I believe they did a calculation adding body or students or whatever. So many students you got to ramp up the BTUs and all of that stuff. But I'm not sure if that was a 120 actually with 120 you draw more current.
Correct. And I guess the idea was it wasn't a solution. Okay. it was temporary that if we decided that we had to come up with a plan and it was going to be three years, why would we make the the staff and the students or the students and the staff as Mr. uh Dr. Hall said, um why would you make them wait another three years that if there is a number in there, could we put that in there? But, you know, Ken's done a a good job at putting this plan together that if we can go through that, but we have to secure the funding for it. No, I agree. And I I just and again if we don't secure it now it's delayed another year. So that that was the only reason why I brought it up with Ken is to see what we can do so that the students and staff don't have to wait three years just because it's going to take time.
Yeah. I what what I want to get from the board is does this does this shortterm at least now I know there are probably some quirks with it you know right now but does it make sense? So then I'll start doing some of the leg work. I'm not saying I'm going to start moving forward on it, but I can start doing some of the finance. I can talk to PMA and see about bonds. I can start looking at some uh bid documents and all of that stuff because if you remember the 64.4 part of that money we already secured. We do because we have all the life safety money already. So, that's going to come down. Yes, I have some of that. We started off with $17.5 million, right? That's right. And we had roughly about $10 million life safety issues. They're about Yeah. we had to repair ourselves another million dollars for the for the building that we obtained for maintenance, right?
We paid that we already paid that back. So, and again, my concern, and we're going to get into this, I'm sure more down the road, but my concern was that our existing life safety issues, if we stay as we are, that they get carried over to 20 past 2023, which is the next life safety cycle, and we get hit with that or be seen. I I want that off my plate. I think this board want if we go that route. I agree. We don't want to carry over these existing life safety issues to the next cycle. Mhm. Correct. Because the existing ones are eight years old. Yeah. And so, unfortunately, honestly, the can's been coming down the road and we just got to figure out to crush it, right? And we got to be done with it. Ken's got the right idea of doing a 10-year plan.
But here's the reality is if we're going to spend and I'm going to use essentially 64.4 four million that's in here. We're not We're gonna continue moving forward with the buildings. I don't think we're going to build new buildings. Maybe restructure a little bit to lessen uh a program here and something there. But I mean, I wouldn't think that we're going to dump all, you know, spend all this money and then figure out where we're going to put. I think this board is committed to just keep working, keep working, keep working. We can't be stagnant. You got to keep addressing these issues because this has been going on a long time and and again I'm not pointing the fingers at previous board. I've been on this board for 10 plus years. We have to figure at some point to move forward. But it's you know we I have seen life safety issues that have came from 1993 the 2003 the 2013 when I saw my first life safety issues I said the buck's got to stop some.
Well well right and when I mentioned the eight years it was basically because you had mentioned 2013 was the last assessment. Exactly. We're a year and a half away from the next one. Exactly. Right. So, we want to make sure this is finished and then we'll reassess the next one. Yeah. So, and and again, uh you know, kudos to uh Mrs. Galbert about, you know, addressing the life safety issues. I I I'm glad we're doing it. I'm glad we're getting these big guns off our plate. What did I do? No, that was a that was a compliment. But what did I do? No, just pray. He said, "Hey, cuz I thought, you know, you was your your first desire was to tackle the life safety issues as opposed to my mom. It's the biggest." Yeah. So, so I get it. Well, you're welcome, but I don't remember being the I remember.
Okay. So, there any other questions for I have a couple. Yes. Because, you know, I always have a couple. Sure. Um, looking at your plans 21 2021 to 2024, I just want to make sure I got this. So Talawala and ELC have had the prep work done. Yes. Correct. So they would get air conditioning for sure next year according to this. According to if we went with this and the other four schools would get the prep work done. Yes. Correct. And then the summer of 2023 those four would get air conditioning. Yes. So in two years, the schools that do not have air conditioning would have valid air conditioning, not window units, HVA, brand new AV HBAC system. Yes. Okay. So that's okay. I just want to make sure that that time frame was what I was understanding. What do you mean by cosmetic improvements?
Are those Sure. Those are things like, you know, you walk and again, I'll just take EC because I'm in this building a lot and I walk around this building. It's like painting the walls. You know, we have lockers out here now. You know, you walk the halls and the lockers just don't look good. So, and they're not really utilized. So, my goal would be take them out, put cubicles in for our little ones, you know, and do that, you know, that those type of thing. Maybe take some carpeting out because carpeting is horrible in classrooms, right? Uh, you know, from a maintenance standpoint, those type of things. Okay. And I have one other question. It's the big one of the day for me. Mhm. Is this confidential or when a village trustee is asking me questions like crazy about air conditioning and numbers and all this, may I share this information?
It's a public document. It's on our it's on board book. So I can just hand this off to them and say here here are the numbers. Correct. Okay. I just want to make sure and you know again please understand they're estimates right and explain this is a beginning of a process. But I I just want to be able to hand them something and tell them to read it and leave me alone. Right. As long as you This is the beginning of a process. This is not going to happen in six months. Right. This is not a six-month thing. This is right. That's why two for next year and four for the rest. But in the meantime, would we be stuck with what we're doing now? Yeah. At this point, yes. Yeah. I mean, we just don't have we couldn't get the temporary solution in there now because we still have we would have to go to bid.
We'd have to do this. We have to do all that. We just don't have enough time to do that. But I I do challenge you again, Ken, if we go that route, the board, you know, go that route that we do not pick one elementary school and say we're going to put the air condition in this year and then the next year. We have to do some parallel path here. We have to do things together here. We cannot I'm with you. If we're doing it, it's going to be it's got to be sealed. Yes. So that this stays. Yes. It shows them two that are already prepped and then the other four. Listen and yeah, this has Yes. And we heard our teacher talking about equity. You know, some schools have it. We can't now that we we the old saying when you know better, you do better.
Right. I I agree 100%, Mr. Yes. Well, Ken, thank you for the presentation. It was very great great discussion. Can you repeat what you said? Okay. Next up is the consent agenda approval. Uh, does any board member have an item on the consent agenda they'd like to take a separate vote on? Okay.
Hearing none. Can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Moved. Second. Any questions or comments on the consent agenda? Okay. Hearing none. Roll call, please. Brown is an I. Mrs. Galbbert, I. Dr. Hall, I. Mr. Sales, I. Mrs. Walters, I. Vice President RP, I. President Albert, I. Motion carries. Okay. First up on action reports is under business. Can I get a motion to approve a certificate of payment in the amount of $1,327? Let me start that again. Can I get a motion to approve a certificate of payment in the amount of 1,327,511 to RL Soho General Contractor, Inc. for the 2021 renovation work at Talal Elementary School in the early learning center. So moved. Second.
Any questions for Ken or discussion? Ken again. So I think you said August. So they're ready. It's ready. The kids ready to move in. We just had in today and they gave us our certificate of occupancy. So we are good to go. Uh there are some small items that we're finishing up. Keith is uh working with them. Um so they are probably about I would say 98 to 99% done. Is this their last payment? Uh, no. There'll be one more because we held back 10%. Got it. So, the the final payment will come in September. Okay. Thank you. All righty. Okay. Okay. Roll call, please. Mrs. Galbert, I. Okay. Dr. Hall. I Brown is an I. Mrs. Walters. I. Mr. Swallish. I vice president RP I President Albert I motion carries. Um next up is uh personnel and culture approved. Can I get a motion to approve the personnel report including certified staff employment leave of absence reassignment and resignation and educational support staff employment leave of absence reassignment resignation and dismissal.