But yes, I would like that data for this budget. >> Okay. So I mean I would say for both I Ready and the busing then if it sounds like it's going to impact people's ability to vote on this budget it would be really good to understand both the financial implications of changes to those and also the sort of programmatic implications of making those changes cuz like for the buses understanding how many families are we talking about and what is the time and like that context matters. And similarly with the curriculum, I would want to understand what are the programmatic implications of making a change to the curriculum in the you know in the short term versus looking at that as something for next year's budget. >> William. >> Yeah. And I guess a question I would have on the busing, I don't understand how it works.
>> Yes. >> Yeah. If you give us possible dates, we can all say these are the ones that work for us. These ones that don't. >> Thank you. And certainly, Yep. I think we we've got to move that direction. >> So, [snorts] you do see the information on a budget breakdown. >> And so, that public content in the in the in the in the board agenda >> and we will start setting up to set up possible dates for you guys to consider. >> Yeah, I would like for us to meet and then figure out a way to release >> correct >> formally in addition to what it's >> a lot more question is working on a one pager as well with this information we can put out and you know public information >> I think just if this was a starting point if they if they were contin to work on my look at is we had a bunch of discussion on the fire protection that's not called out on which line item check.
If for some reason we the project does didn't go through, it doesn't mean the $15 million is there as play money. It's just not going to be utilized. >> Gotcha. Uh, another quick question. the ADA compliance. Would that be needed under a renovation or new or just in the new situation? >> It's needed now regardless. >> But I want I guess set another way. Does it change? >> No. No. But your answer's a little different, right? If you're you're addressing an existing configuration, the solution's maybe less efficient. >> How do you connect an elevator to that building? How do you get to both floors, you know, and still have a public entrance, right? Somebody would have to enter a new lobby to get into the new elevator to get both levels at a secure point levels. You're reconfiguring a lot of both floors in order to make that happen.
The next one are recently awarded and there's [clears throat] 9.3 million there. You know, the well, you might not notice the south end of Del Rio wasn't finished when they pulled in there two and a half years ago. They just left the south end because there were old HVAC units. Well, they weren't HVAC. They were just evap coolers on the roof. Is that correct? They've never used them. You got this. >> Well, we had there were some evaporative coolers up there, but we had a chiller system that was from like 1980 something >> at the time was still working. They had some AC that was questionable a bit and that the CO2 levels got higher and so they left that completely. Now they're doing it and that's a brand new project there [clears throat] in section two 4.1 million and contractors and architects have showed up and the facilities there for the temporary classrooms.
So, the program guides have always said students and families are required to pro provide transportation. This change would just get us in line with what has uh been in place. And we've asked the counselors to be sure to emphasize that to students as they're signing up for classes for next year so that they know going in uh that that's one of the expectations and that's a change. >> Yeah, thank you for that clarification and thank you Dr. Finley for really um trying to creatively solve some of the bus issues that we have. I truly appreciate that. As we talked about at our um our full day workshop earlier in the year, um our bus service is something that is always tentative. um because it does seem that um uh every day that as I've said that I'm in Avon High School, there are multiple routes that are being delayed and so I appreciate any opportunity that we have to correct that.
So, as the community members come by, you know, they're able to kind of see a very welcoming uh a very nice updated central office. All right, last slide then we'll take any questions you may have for us today. So, kind of those next steps, it's really validating the 2026 projects which we just walked through. So, we are out for competitive bid right now. Okay, so that's that's the process we're in. We get bids later in March. We bring all that back to your administration, review all the contractors, review all the suppliers, and then we prepare a report that comes to to the board, and then we'll come back in April to kind of get your uh you'll be able to review all this, but then to kind of get your approval on which items to move forward with. Uh item two on there is just really just starting to think through and consider those future projects.
I know what comes with that. If you do it at a high enough level, your perceived uh your kids are successful. The kids self-esteem builds. kids self-worth builds, your collectivism as a district, as a building grows to the point where kids see themselves highly successful. And that's what all of us want. And so I don't care what the assessment is that the state gives us, you are 100%. If it starts with an I, it's important. We want to be able to say you can learn and you can achieve. And if you didn't hit the achievement part, you're learning at a a rate that is significant enough. Remember Mr. Peters brought you a piece of data. Almost 90ish% of kids hit the I read after last summer. That's unbelievable. And I and Deb commented on it. Russ Digett said at one of our last meetings, we hit almost 94% on graduation rate.
um that didn't work out and we were like we just went to the staff and we were like if you're be able to meet we just would like to pick your brain and this was Friday a Friday night and they came every one of them came after school to the library and we were there till 4:30 just brainstorming how we could help this classroom and who was going to step in and who was going to do what and what's the best way to help this um situation and so to me like that one I was like tearing up because I walked in and I like, "Oh my god, they're all here on Friday night." Like, and they were all participating and all like giving ideas and talking with each other. And I don't think that without kind of this mind shift set of like, "How can I be helpful?" And you hear that a lot around our building now as coming up and being like, "What can I do to help?" You know, or if you do that, hey, that was really helpful.
And >> funny. Oh, not funny at all. >> Not funny. 77 is like the most serious number in the world >> for real. >> Oh, just barely dodging. Just barely dodging the uh Ganondorf up smash. Goes for the side B as a ledge [ __ ] again. All right, using a neutral special, a down air, and another down air, and an up special. Ganondorf did a solid job getting back into advantage, but that neutral B is going to connect. Get him back in disadvantage. Back in neutral again. >> Ganondorf. Pretty solid at getting out of that ledge. >> That's good. Oh, and read the roll right there. Oh. Oh, he's back. >> Ganondor and a teabag. >> And a teabag. He's proud of himself for that one. Oh, and >> gets caught immediately taught to get bodied. >> Oh my gosh. Well, let's make sure Izzy doesn't make the same mistake by also teaagging.
I I my lens is how it worked in New York and not here, but I know that I can walk to the elementary school and it's a pretty short walk from my house. I know we don't have sidewalks, so that probably impacts uh the need for busing, but it like a bus would come to it comes past my house every day and no one ever really gets on it around my house. But I I like as a community, if it was save our school or not combine classrooms, but you had to take your kid to school versus having a bus, that might be something the community might be interested in. So I I think I would like to know like legally what is required that we actually provide and what the cost of that is and then what are we providing that we don't have to actually legally provide because I feel that the bus routes are pretty similar for the middle school pickups as they are to take kids to the Pelum Elementary and I I I don't know what we have to do and what we don't have to do.
>> Um and then interior remodel improvements. I mean that's the big ticket item 16 million. Um is that could maybe a way to look at that is per square foot if there was a ballpark. You know how many square foot are we actually touching? How much does that do? Is that all the the orange or whatever that color the classrooms was. I assume that's what that line item is talking about. >> Quite honestly, that's everything in the interior rem all the interior remodel improvements that will be done in the building to make it look like a first grade wing with a new library. >> I see the the 16 million versus the rest. Now, that caught everybody's interest and now they really want to know what that means. >> And and that does that line item does come across as the item where there's the most wiggle room.
So, it just snowballs. Got it. >> And just two more quick questions. What What about the barrier between the school and the police station? I because I noticed there's at least by the the the picture it it seems as if all the police cars have been aligned and the school's right there. What what's the plan for that? >> So, you know, on on my picture, you know, it's an artist rendition from that vantage point. I put up all the evergreens that Gary was planning. So, I'm not showing the landscaping so you can see the building rendering. >> But the idea and and to the chief's comments, the issue the state has is that prisoner comes out of the car right now and walking sightines of the school which is why this department no longer has the exemption garage. The other departments that still are living on the exemption is because they don't have proximity to the school in the current in the proposed configuration.
We plan on being done that I think by the end of June. That's what I'm hearing. That's the plan. That other four million. So it's a kind of we call it 2.0 HVAC PBLO 2.0 South and then we go to the weatherization of Delg Rio. That's the only one. >> Tell me that's the painting. >> No. >> Well, we're getting to the painting. >> Oh, yeah. >> We're getting to the painting. That's another one. >> Good news. >> Yeah. This is just Hback on the roof to put a bunch of three ton and five ton and six and two ton chillers up there and then duct it and then reinforce the roof structure to hold the weight. So, that's the first one there and recently awarded. The second one is weatherization. Very good. [clears throat] and that's had some cost increases. That's at 1.1 million that's been awarded and we've got our contractor and we've got our construction architect there for that 1.1 million.
So my question really is about the satellite drop off sites. >> So um you're you think that Avon Middle School North will be the place for that. How will that actually work? because um I would imagine that the drop off and then the pickup of the B that the bus makes will not exactly correlate or shouldn't exactly correlate with school start and stop times at Avon North. So what will will these students be allowed to wait somewhere that's inside and warm? How will that work? >> There's a custodian there that early in the morning. It'll be about 6:40. One of the challenges with Area 31 is they start earlier. So they have a 7 o'clock start time. So we'll have a custodian who can open up the vestibule and students can wait in there until the bus arrives. But hopefully that will all I don't think there'll be too many high school students getting up too early.
That's going to be part of the strategic plan. I'm I'm assuming we'll help with some work sessions and kind of, you know, vision and planning and some of those things, but start thinking through what that looks like and then just continuing to manage the strategic plan. So, this is not something it may go on the shelf right now, but it's going to come back off the shelf a couple times a year and we will check in with you and we will update what that 10-year plan looks like and it'll kind of be rolling. Um, so expect to hear from us on that. All right, that wraps up our formal presentation. I really appreciate the time. That's more lengthy than we normally do, but I think this is important enough. There's a lot of information. We want to make sure you knew that we did spend the time on this and that you all and your community had this information.
The start of their career with our prek three. The end of their career are both extraordinary numbers in this district. the process of these assessments along the way. And I I'm gonna say this, depending on the level, there might be at uh middle school at Riverview 170 kids in a cohort. Maybe at Jay's Flint Springs there's a smaller or maybe that Andrews. The percentage you can't get hung up on. And I say that because it might be seven kids between below state mean average and three to five percent above in one cohort. At Jay's one of his elementaryaries, it might be three to four children. What I want the district to see is the beginning is right, the end is right, and we're working really hard on everything in between because of the value of the child along the way. And I say that because an anomaly can happen and seven kids pass that they were approaching and you got them there and that's a huge celebration because we're 5 to 7 8% above average that can easily go one point below another way.
Thank you. Acknowledging and noticing. Um, and that didn't necessarily happen before. We've always had a really tight family at CES, but like this year um has really like taken the cake on stepping in and and helping out and um picking up the pieces when we couldn't do all of it. So, um very grateful for it. So, our next steps, we would like to do um the handling the upset adult first ecourse um with our C dot team. Um, so that's kind of um on our radar for next year. We've got some licenses I think available for us to be able to do that. Um, and it's so it's the online um course. We also um conscious discipline has these mini PD pops that just are like you can get on for free. And so we're going to make sure that our staff is aware of those.
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So just some clarity over that I think would be helpful to understand the impact that it might have or might not have. >> Okay. I I I would just like to say regarding the busing, you know, we we don't have a great track record of communicating with people about changes and, you know, changing the busing schedule for fall without communicating with the families. I would be a little bit concerned about that, you know, because for some people that's going to be a a big deal. you know, kids if if kids are going to now, especially young kids, are going to have to ride the bus for potentially an hour, I could see that that might be a real concern for some parents. So, personally, I would think that it would be good to have the information, but I would be concerned about voting the budget to make that change for the fall.
what it means. >> So [snorts] it would be very easily for somebody to grab that string and start pulling it. >> So we should be prepared to answer those questions. >> Okay. >> So you suggesting that they need to say what is included in those improvements. >> I think we could have some questions for them to to clarify versus having them trying to guess would be beneficial. >> That's always good to have. >> Yeah. And I don't want 49 items. thinking that's going to be value added either. >> I think that's what they want. >> Pre-answering some questions might >> we could ask for them if they could give us a list, a general list like interior remodel improvements include cabinetry and carpeting and epoxy flooring and just a general list. So, I I'll ask. >> Thank you. Okay. >> Um, on the the cheerleading issue, I just wanted to be sure like every all the other board members were understanding that what could like concern that I had brought up was just I just want both that sport to be treated the same as like other sports as far as what the school provides.