And then >> your opinion is more than likely that if you would want to take action, you wouldn't be taking any until your May meeting. >> Correct. Yeah. Okay. And since Tim is here with us this evening, right? And I emailed Tim this afternoon to set up dates to actually negotiate with him on the current contract so that we would have that ready to go simultaneously. So we are setting up dates to begin those negotiations. I think that's kind of >> Mr. Yes. >> Uh Steven of Somerville, Indiana. I did have an order. It wasn't just this topic that I wanted to bring up. Of course, sure. We're here to ask you to please our brothers and sisters, but one of the things I wanted to bring up been a member of the union over 50 years involved in politics and we have always supported public education.
And because of events like this, especially events like this, we can accept people into the program and not even ask can you afford to pay for it. So, as much as you all want to win today, know that being here makes the most tremendous difference you can make to so many families. So, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Everybody, play hard, have so much fun, and thank you. Thank you for participating. Now I Wendy Susa who has been with us for not been with us we've been a team for 28 years and without Wendy this tournament would not be coming on on today um she has done so much but here she is just few words from Wendy thanks >> hey everybody thank you so much for coming out um I know especially our fire and police team speaking um from the life of the police officer.
You know, you guys are the double standard. you take everybody. You're you're our community. And so we've done a lot. I know I wrote email letters over the years public education and I'm sorry to see sometimes what happens to you. So that that's part of my message. And then the other part is I don't know how many times I've been to rallies for the teachers because their way and so I just want to say I've been to a lot of those and and I'll continue because I've been around long enough to know when teachers took money out of their own pockets so the kids could have and it was sad. So that's more of my message. Thank you for >> anyone else. >> Is this about the Is this about the uh maintenance custodial contract at all? >> No, I just clarification on the time.
You guys have very little personal time. So, the fact that you guys were able to spend some of that personal time here with us is huge. It means so much. So, thank you. Thank you for putting up with me with all of my nagging emails, some of you with any of my nagging phone calls. I truly appreciate it. Um this really was a an act of love putting this together. We started in November. We had Danny Hartwell from Nated Fire. We have Chara Rossi from Ashlin PD. We've got Connor Sales and Johnny Krauss both from Hawkington Fire. We've got Connor O'Brien from the Respit Center. My husband Mario Souza from Ashlin Peavey. Um we've got Allison Mandela um who's an athletic director coming to help us out with the brackets. So this definitely was a labor of love for all of us meeting once a month to put this together to plan on how we can really get you guys out here.
You said next Monday they're going to open. What time is that? >> 2:00 p.m. in here. In here in this room. >> Anyone else? >> Is it about the custodial contract? >> Is this about the custodial contract? >> Uh, yeah. Well, I'm sure it is. >> Well, we're we're not going to take comment on that tonight other than those >> under my name is Dennis Wolf. I live in Somerville. Anyway, I just want to know the current contract in now, will that be up in June? >> That's correct. Yes. >> Okay. That's under the contract. And uh under the contract you guys negotiate, do you put out a list of both sides on the coming in to get the bid. >> Well, yeah. Not the ones that are going to put in under current contract in June. You say the current contract now is up in here.
Um, and so I really want you guys to play hard for the audience. I want you to make a lot of noise. Native PD says that they're going to win again. I don't know if that's the case. What do you guys think? Um, I do want to in I want to call up all of our first responders that have run for us in the past. We've had quite a few people that have run for the marathon for us. So, any first responders that have run the marathon for us, can you please come up here? So, I know, let's see, Steve Sinco, uh, Mario Souza, come on up. We've got Johnny. I don't know, but so these guys have all donated their fundraised for us throughout the years and still donate their time with us because once you meet us, you fall in love with us.
Correct. So, negotiate that ahead of time. >> We just we just announced that we're going to be negotiating that. dates to negotiate a lot of underriv. >> We haven't either. You know, that's what you guys get paid in big bucks for the pay. We like >> that's why we got to look out for you guys paying the big bucks. >> You hear I'm coming from >> Y. Anyone else? >> Agenda item. >> All right, we will. We're going to transition to the board business at this time. So, public comment opportunity has passed. Please hold comments for talking with these board members outside of the meeting. Let us conduct the business to the agenda from here. >> All right. You've all had a chance to look over the minutes for last meeting.
And that's um I do want to introduce who this event is going for this year for his marathon. Lieutenant Johnny Krauss, who is amazing. Um he's been a friend of mine since the moment I met him. We just that was it. We were friends and I was not letting him go. And sorry Johnny, you're with me forever. Um, but Johnny has done an amazing job heading up uh this tournament and also getting on the phone with all of you guys putting in so much work. And so I know Johnny wanted to say a little something to you guys. >> I didn't want to say anything, but I gave Conor a lot of crap last year speech. So I figured I'd come out. Uh, so you said we've known each other for a few years now. It started actually April 13th, 2019 when I worked a detail at the restit uh restit barbecue for all the runners.
Any questions or comments? If not, I need a motion to approve. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> All those in favor say I. You also had a chance to look over the treasury report and claims for the February meeting.
For those that have been there, you know what I'm talking about. For those that haven't, you smile and cry at the same time. So Connor, thank you for helping me set up. Wendy, thank you for helping me set up. And to all you the teams, the spectators, thank you. This goes a long way for me. Um I guess to do the national anthem. But I just want to say ducks fly together and if you don't win me, you don't win at all. >> So now I will introduce Shannon Jack. She is a former Hington dispatcher as well as a Nashville recording artist. Oh, say can you see what we at The twilight lasting stripes and bright stars through the fight. We watch me. And the rock is bursting in through the night. Oh, sing does that star spangle for the land of the free and hope.
Any questions or comments? If not, I need a motion to approve. >> Motion motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I turn the meeting over to Dr. >> Thank you, Mr. President. underneath the O business. Um last month we brought forward consideration um of the quotes uh received the replacement of the lower bleachers in the Wood Memorial High School gymnasium. As I shared at that time during our summer inspection this past summer, um those bleachers did not pass inspection due to the rollers. And to replace those rollers was going to be the cost of $81,000 and we would still have 60 year old bleachers. And so Mr. Uh Marshall and I discussed um the replacement of those bleachers. Um I believe Mr. Sevilla as well as Mrs. Row accompanied me over to North Posey to take a look at the BSN bleachers which is the lowest bid.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce our referees for today, Connor, Noah, and Trevor. Before we start, Connor is going to go over the rules, the official rules. I bet you didn't know Dodge well had official rules, but it does. Here we go. All right, everybody. Just want to thank you all for being here again. Uh, real quick, some of the rules are pretty standard dodgeball rules. As you remember from PE class, uh, objective is to eliminate all opposing players by hitting them with a live ball or catching them. Each team is going to start with six players. Um, if there is a team, both teams has seven and you want to field seven, that's fine. One team has six and the other has five. It's up for you guys to decide whether you want to play six on five or one of the teams with six will have to take one off and then play five on five.
Um and so this evening I want to give quick really quickly a a rundown of those bids that we received. And these are pretty well the leading companies in the area. Uh Mr. Marshall contacted the schools to find out what bleacher companies we have. BSN for a bid for replacement of just the bleachers. The cost of the bleachers 172,000 for demo and installation of the old bleachers 60,150 for a total cost of 232,150. Lead company the cost for the replacement of the bid of the bleachers was 279,42353 divleers is 33,97749 for a total cost of 313. 4102 tobine Enterprises did not break down their bid. They gave us just a total cost of 210,86 for that. Um on the demo of the old bleachers, the reason why I broke that out for you is in talking to Steve Rooden. Um we feel like that our custodians may be able to u demo those bleachers um and get us some additional cost savings.
>> Um, additional players will start on the sidelines court and equipment. Uh, game will be played on this Friday court as we have here. Going to be eight dodge balls for the game. have volunteers on each side trying to keep those balls in play. All players will start on their respective end lines. When the whistle blows to start the game, come retrieve the ball in the middle. You have to go tag up on your end line. From where you can throw a ball, a live ball is any ball that you throw and has not yet hit the floor, wall, or ceiling or any other ball. If you get hit by a live ball, you are out. elbow and below. No head shot. Catching. A player catches a live ball thrown by an opponent. The thrower is out and a player from the sidelines comes and joins the play.
The other thing is that would give us the opportunity to just uh scrap out the metal, possibly even sell some of the wood to bring money back into the operations fund and then also allow us to paint that wall behind the bleachers, do some cleaning before we have the installation of the new um I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Marshall now um to kind of share a little bit more, but Jeremy, can you also tell me on that 6150? I know the BSN that included both demo and installation. Did we get those broke out of what the installation cost was just going to be? from oil from Texas. He's giving me that price. >> Okay. >> I didn't ask for that because of that portion of it to break it to demolition. So, he's giving me that. >> Okay. Great. >> I'll go ahead and let you turn it over to you and give you any information additional.
Blocking. Players can use a ball to block another throw. In the instance where a ball is either deflected or blocked or caught by another teammate saying, "I get hit, but my teammate catches the ball before it hits the floor. I am not out." The person who the ball is out. You can in theory save one of your teammates. >> To win the game when all players on one side are eliminated. >> In order to win, a player has to beat the cake. You cannot win with a catch. >> Going to have a 5minut time limit on the game. Last year they went up a lot quicker than that. Additional rules. Players must stay within the boundaries of the court. You might get one warning if you step out. It's going to happen. We may see it. We may not. We're going to do our best.
>> So, the retractable system again, I brought Drew Neil with me. He is our current BSN rep. These are your typical standard 10in seats, 24 in spacing, row spacing, which is going to be 828 seats per side on the lower section. >> What do we have now? >> I don't know exactly what we have now. I know we will not be losing any space on the bottoms. We have the color seats, the swatches, those things are coming into us now. We just reached out to them. They are in the mail, the color samples. So, color that we're looking at is our school color to replace those. So that's the plastic color that we're looking at for those. The brand is called RSL Kodak seating system which is in line with the other brands like Hussy which is another top brand that you see a lot of schools using.
I said to Mario, kind of like when you're driving your car, you stay between your lines on your side. If you go over to the other side, you're going to get a shot. >> Penalties. Players are out. They step out of bounds. kick a ball or stall. We're holding the ball longer than 10 seconds. Again, that's something there's going to be eight balls going back and forth. Get the ball, pick it up, throw it. Uh we'll have pool play. So, we have four pools, A, B, C, and D. Little bit of round robin play. Top two seeds from each pool will get entered into the bracket. Bracket closes. It'll be single elimination from there until we get to the championship game, which will be the to right.
Um there are other schools in the area that do have or the RSL product. Um so being one of them and we have toured it. We've looked at it. We've gotten their opinions on how they feel that it functions and they are very happy with the product. Um it is electric so it's going to save a lot of work on our staff members who are pulling those out and pushing those back in. Um the start date on those they have about a 10 to 12 week start period. So once we tell them we approve it and it's good, they can in 10 12 weeks they'll start putting that into manufacturing and getting them ready and to get them shipped and get them here on site to be installed. So um the warranty is as we talked and you know the 5year warranty that goes along with it and another school is another local system for their high school as well.
If you have any questions, concerns, you come and ask me. I'm probably going to tell you that. >> Let's play some dodgeball. >> All right. Now that we've got the official rules out of the way, up first we're going to have the Planeville Baller Club versus Milford Fire. Come on down. All right, there are the rules. Great explanation of the rules and we are ready to get started. And the first team's up. It's going to be Planeville Fire against uh my hometown Milford Fire. So, uh this should be a a great match here today. And I believe uh the the Milford Fire team, they went pretty far last year. I want to say they got to the semifinals if I recall correctly. And uh I believe it was NIC who ended up uh winning the first uh ever uh Battle of the Badges dodgeball tournament.