Um, and Miss Curran who is meeting with my daughter twice a week to teach her um all the different types of words, Greek, Spanish, what all the other types I don't even know. It's so many words. Um, and they're practicing it twice a week during Miss Curran's lunch. So, huge shout out to her. Uh, because she's taught my daughter a lot. Um, and yeah, so if you're free, go to the spelling be. It'll be exciting. I think someone from the junior high I heard is coming. So, congratulations to them, too. I trying to figure that out, but I heard someone might be coming, too. So, whoever they are, congratulations to them, too. >> Thank you. Um, I'd also like to send a shout out to our staff. Um, you know, we get we see these awards every year that you could tell how much time our staff is putting into their time here with our students and um it's nice to see this and really acknowledge how much we appreciate the work that's getting done in in these classrooms.
Are there any questions? >> I do have some for the new iPads. Are are you purchasing those? Not because the other ones are you're talking about a lease program, >> right? So, every year we have um a new um new class of kindergarteners come in that we issue iPads to and we replace the um the iPads that the kindergarteners have been you that the fourth graders have been using since kindergarten uh to get them through the rest of their time before they go to district 155. Those are the that would be the new lease for this year that we add on top of the two previous leases. >> Oh, okay. So, they're not per the 300 and some is not a purchase price. It is >> I'm sorry. Let me go back. Um, so we're still leasing them, >> correct? >> Okay. and the the subtotal that came in just under 166,000 is the three leases and the additional cases we need for kindergarten.
And so there are big parking areas in the middle here, but they're kind of hidden behind the buildings. And then this is really what we're kind of calling the town center. This is where it's walkable. There's parking along the streets here where you can kind of see these vehicles parking. There's parking along these streets as well. But again, the goal is for people to park, get out of their cars, and walk around. Not there not going to be drive-throughs. There's not going to be other stuff like that. The town's not doing the development side. That's being developed by the developer of the actual site is building all of that stuff. And for our purposes, the there on on when you had that side shot of the school part of the building, there is a separate entrance on the the the western part of the building where right there.
I actually mentioned to Todd on a separate conversation that this calendar here in 27 to go to those three days and that that leading up to Christmas 2021 you can almost argue that helps the push of not having to waste it one day because now you're going to go three days to the set that that last session in June there but you know 567 or 678. um everything I'm saying I have complete trust that as you said there was a lot of time spent on this. So I'm just I'm just throwing my thoughts out there so that I I uh um think that we all have that opportunity to hear the why. And uh um I I think I don't think it's a secret that the last two days before Christmas, the last two days before you get out of school, they're they're not productive and they're never going to be whether they're coming back for one day or if it ends on a Thursday, Friday or if it ends on a Monday, Tuesday, and you can almost argue part of the the the Christmas one.
I don't know that you can put numbers and qualify the relationships that you that you build with kids. So, uh it's there's not a perfect science on it, but I think that it's particularly the soft side of school safety. Can I interject something there real quick because it was a question I had and this is what it's about. Some districts I think use tip lines in regards to see see something say something kind of a situation. Have you seen those to be effective? >> They can be an extra tool and we certainly support it. The key is if you integrate it into your school's culture and regularly promote it. If you have it and it's a one one and done or maybe a poster that's put up somewhere, it may help. There's nothing I I we certainly support it. The key is to give multiple ways for people to report.
And any questions in regards to the January month end statements? >> So specifically in the operations budget, we we have one line item, the 400 series that's almost 50% of it's like I'm assuming that's an oddity there and the 400 series almost 46% expenditure on that line item. Is it just bad timing or bad time of the year when that comes out? because if we have a couple more pay periods, couple more months like this, we're going to be negative in that fund until June. Um, is that is that just bad timing on some of those purchases or or >> a lot of them is? Yes. Um, and it may be a matter of instead of transferring from the ED to the OP on a once a year, um, we could do it more often, more frequently to help relieve some of that cash flow.
All right, we will move to vote. All in favor of the approval of the board minutes, say, "I." >> I. Any opposed? All right. The board minutes for January 30th and February 9th have been approved. >> Madam President, I move that 4.2. >> All right. Do we have a second? Second >> properly moved Miss Pucket and seconded Dr. Mahaland um to treat action items 4.2 to 4.8 as consent agenda. All in favor? >> I.
We have an employee only, employee plus spouse, employee plus children, and an employee plus family plan. Um due to the PO plan usually generating the majority of the cost of the claims, you do see that the it has a related higher premium on that plan. Um and those monthly premiums, they are covered through a combination of both employee contributions, district contributions, as well as the trust fund does contribute a portion of those amounts to help subsidize um the premium amounts, which we'll go into here in a in a little bit. An additional thing that the district's committed to doing is um continue to absorb that increase. And so we are going to contribute $720 per month per eligible employee which is $8,640 per year that the district will contribute to employees as benefits compensation. Um overall what does that mean on the bottom line? The districts does have planned expenses then for benefits of about $15.1 million for the coming year.
Uh but when we look at the staff overview, we had 109 respondents and really supportive of the change. Most of the concerns that are in there are operational like how are we going to do this or what time will this happen or will where will that happen? Uh, and a lot of these things, as I mentioned to the board before, are things that the committee that's working on this have already talked through, but we haven't spent a lot of time like formalizing those operational things because I'm not going to take people's time to work on it if this is a no-go to move forward, right? So, we have a whole list of questions. Uh, we have a bunch of questions that came out of this that we've already isolated and are prepared to work on responding to. Um but this was just the the litmus test to see is there major opposition to this concept.
So, it was off your books and on someone else's books. The district in in 2018 did a lot of studies with regard to what could be done with the building and what had to be done to the building prior to having students come back in and it was just cost prohibitive to do it at that time. Uh and in addition to that, you really don't need the space for students at this point in time. Um so we engaged in a number of uh uh efforts to sell it between uh two from 2019 to date. Um, >> which you were involved in directly, Steu. >> What's that? >> You were involved in those efforts throughout. >> I was involved in all those. >> Okay. Just to be clear, >> I mean, I think it's important to name. >> I was driving down here tonight thinking about, okay, it was this one, this one, it was that, um, we worked very, very hard at doing that.
Thank you. Uh next up we have the superintendent update. Dr. Thomas, >> thank you. So, we have a lot of exciting news tonight. In addition to our amazing staff um being recognized by ISBY, we are going to be in just a little bit introducing two new staff members that are coming on board. Dr. Sarah Catchuri, who is being recommended as the superintendent, as well as Dr. Kristen, uh Bordonero, who is being recommended for the assistant superintendent for special services. So, um many thanks to them. I've gotten to talk to them and know them a little bit and we've done a lot of transition planning and we're really looking forward to getting started. Um, also we have at Kerry Junior High our logo contest. It is not too late if you want to submit your original artwork. Um, the deadline is this week on the 27th of February.
>> Okay. And the um so the devices that we might possibly uh sell, how are you wiping them? Is this company are you getting rid of the hard are you managing them? Yes, they they're all wiped uh and released from our for lack of better word domain uh so that other people can make use of them. So there's no information left on them, no licenses or anything are tied back to the district. >> You'll get like certification of that like they they'll give you a certificate of of whatever not destruction because you're not wiping you're not getting rid of the hard drives. No. Okay. Um the the wiping procedure is done by us. They won't take them. >> They won't take them until we've completed that. >> Okay. Um Okay. I feel like I have another one. I'll come back. >> Okay. >> I have a question.
Yep. So there that will be a parking lot and that will be an entrance that will go into the the main corridor and then um that's where we would expect most of our staff, most of the visitors that are coming for a meeting or to register their kids over the summer, those kinds of things would park on the west, come in there and then they would get buzzed just like uh our receptionist right now buzzes from the exterior inside. Our receptionist would then buzz people from the the public corridor into the the office part of the building. So that way we we wanted it to be convenient for people that needed to come to do business at the school district. They can park along the main front road if they want to or they can park down Main Street and hopefully they go have lunch and go shopping and do all those things.
If you go to if you come back in on the 20th, 21st, 22nd, well, those days would be wasted on 16th 17 also. You know, it depends on the level of education we're talking about. kindergarten, first grade, they're doing their class parties and things like that. In other words, your your uh high school students are getting their things wrapped up and, you know, help help to do it. So, um I guess with everything I just said, thank you for giving us the opportunity to talk about it and uh I guess kind of agreed what Daniel had to say. >> The only place I would say that possibly it really means a lot is at high school where they're doing finals on those days. That's a big one for them. So, elementary school understand where you're coming from. >> So, some of them tried to pick a little bit earlier, but >> No, but your >> So, your your argument there would be that you're going to have a a greater focus on a full week finishing week with a Thursday, Friday, than a high school kid who's coming in to take a final and focus.
If the kids have a relationship, they'll come forward and tell you the things that people are usually surprised about. Very surprised. I mean, back in my early early days, including the schools, I created and supervised a youth gang unit. There were five of us for 127 schools, 73,000 kids within the school district safety division. And when I was at uh at the my alma mater working there, kids got we had the tough about six of the roughest gangs in the city of Cleveland on one school and we've had the leaders would get off and walk past me and go Trump so and so's got a gun and it was based on the connectedness with the kid. Some kids may not feel comfortable. So I have a tip line. Some of it's a little more there's text to tip. Now, one of the things that we saw in another school district that it was at a middle school last year was the administrators put up a uh something within the students um uh uh I start say information management, their educational uh management system within their Chromebooks and they put a a a tab in there where they could just message the principal with the tip.
And I know we need to be positive in that at the end of the year, but is there anything if we run a month or two in the negative until we get to our draw, is that going to be an issue? I'm assuming we have the funds available to be able to cover and letting that go into a negative. I know some of that some of that negative is just because we have incumbrances that we haven't just have bills haven't come in. Is that is that going to be all right >> to run in the red? >> Yeah. >> Um I personally do not like to run in the red. >> I don't either, but I was just trying to figure out how we're going to take care of that. Um it I prefer not to go in the red and in fact I would um try to and I will look at this to see if there's a way for us to transfer some of that a little earlier just so we do not do that because I would prefer not to go in the red.
>> Any opposed? All right. The eyes have it to treat 4.2 to 4.8 as consent agenda. >> I move approval of consent agenda. >> So moved. >> All right. >> Second. That's fine. No, that's fine. Um, properly moved, Miss Pucket, and seconded, Miss Dunn, for the approval of the consent agenda. All in favor? >> I.
Um additionally we are committed to continue to provide annual matching contributions to employees um who are in those health uh high deductible health care plans into the HSA or their health savings accounts. So, we do match dollar fordoll to employees um health savings account up to 500 or 750 depending on which plan they are in. Um and we also provide a $250 contribution into their health savings account if they go in and they get a routine physical. We also continue to offer the $150 um contribution into their health savings accounts if they participate in our Well Styles programs where they reach a 60,000 point activity and then we do generate that amount into their accounts. And so really, we're trying to just incentivize employees to continue to find those wellness activities, um, go see their doctors, get the physicals, etc. And so if they do that, they can have the potential to receive up to $900 or $1,150 depending on plan as an additional district contribution to their accounts.
And in this was a qualitative feedback. It was not quantitative. But in going through all of those responses, there's not a lot of opposition to the the structure here. Inside of there, I have here for you some of the key things of strength that came through that qualitative analysis and then the considerations that we have on the other side. These are all things that we would work to address in the next step uh should the board find this proposal uh to be suitable to move forward. Um many of these we already have solutions for. Uh we just didn't spell out those details in that overarching proposal. >> Is there anything in there that any board members would like to pull out at this point? So, the one thing that was pulled out in the more detailed notes, right, was some conflict with a 58. >> I'll get to that one with the later.
So, um, ultimately at the end of the day, the administration thought that it might be best to work with the village of Auggo in an effort to get [clears throat] this property and put it to a good use. um you able because of your both governmental agencies, you're able to make a transfer between a property between you upon such terms as you deem appropriate, both the village and and and the school district. Um, and so, uh, over the past several, last July, you all entered in indicated your you didn't enter into an agreement. You indicated your interest in engaging the village to try and make this property more productive for both you and for the village and the community. uh and the village engaged in a in its village concept review process uh with a developer uh where they enter into an initial discussion about what the village had in mind for this property.