I'm just um >> flagging or like raising verbalizing the um deeply increased costs in the outplace tuition. um just you know that we're so in the hole a bit there and it's just another plea to like the state to be funding what it is they should be funding. So I just want to raise that again. Um this is you know obviously it's unsustainable. Um I just wanted to call that out. >> Thank you. Does that wrap up the financial report? >> That's it. >> Thank you very much. Um, next committee report is planning committee and I will call on Mr. Ekki to report on the meeting held earlier this evening. >> So, we started our night with a uh field trip down to the high school to look at some of the uh capital budget uh items that we're considering uh bringing forward to the board.
Yeah. >> That's the towns. That's not ours. >> That's not ours. I actually don't know if that's the town's either or that's part of the >> But it is the town. >> It's not a hoa. >> It's not a Okay. >> No, the town owns it. >> Yeah, >> the top surprised they let it go. >> Nobody. >> It's a terrible place. It's a terrible location. Number one, there's no parking. >> There's a parking lot. >> There is parking. >> Where's their parking lot for two cars? >> No, >> there's only two courts there. There's enough parking cars. >> Two cars. >> Or did Dodd play tennis? I don't remember. Did they have a tennis team? >> I don't remember. I don't know. I don't >> a very long time ago I can recall that they were actually using it but that was >> well we certainly were using it and it was upkept but um >> I mean that's back in the days of >> I mean you know they were probably using that but that's fell to disrepair and it should be that whole area should be scrubbed.
Um it is it was basically originally formed to help share services and expenses and especially in situations where you may not have a large number of students or be more than one student that has has a specific need that if you're standing on your own as a district and we're one of the larger districts in the co-op. Actually we are the largest district in the co-op right now with East Noble no longer part of it. [clears throat] um it just became more feasible to be able to find the resources available for those uh very low incident situations pooling our resources and that's what the co-op has done and really has done ever since 1970 when it was formed. Um I've been here a long time. Um, I've had a lot of interaction with the co-op over my years both both as a classroom teacher, as an administrator, as a case conference coordinator, overseeing uh students with special needs, as a building principal, and and then here of course as central office administrator.
So, I'm I'm surprised that she hasn't been calling more. Maybe she's just kind of I don't know. knows knows they're in for a bruiser game and letting them play. So, if you're going to If they're going to allow it, then do it. That's what I would say. And uh does does pretty good job of uh pressuring, trying to get up the field. That was a nice spin by Julia. >> by Julia. Upside-down stick. Very good. Passes it off to Ava Ally My Segley. Now, because of their high pressure, they were Wide open. behind the play and as I was going to say, there there's an opportunity there. Oh, Maggie. You know, once you got past them, they didn't have many defenders back and and it could have been a jailbreak. Unfortunately, that's uh See too many opportunities for fast breaks and they slow it down, which is is crazy to me when you have numbers to to not want to take advantage of that mismatch, but um you know, you got to let those middies get back, take a breather before they get completely exhausted.
Um, we started with the loading dock uh that went through referendum last year and I think there was some confusion on the uh nature of the project and people read it as we're replacing the south parking lot and that's and the loading dock was secondary to that that this the loading dock is priority. It's uh it was kind of eye opening to to get and see underneath the uh the loading dock to see that there's scaffolding holding the loading dock up. Um there is uh exposed rebar that is rusting out. It's it's something that that needs to be a priority. We we're going to talk more about that. There's there's other items along with that whether we're going to try to divide that into two projects or or encompass the the parking lot with that. Um we also looked at at windows um some some work that needs to be done in the maintenance garage.
>> Okay. So but you haven't heard any any update from parks and wreck about that. Okay. >> It's abandoned. I guess the thing that goes through my mind is if it is effectively abandoned, they're not going to turn into pickle ball courts because that's what people >> I think there was I think there that discussion did happen, but I think because parking is a problem, they elected not to do that. >> Yeah. I'm just wondering if there's anything that the schools would benefit from there. I mean, it's I think it's two two fullsize tennis courts anyway. >> It is. It is. >> Uh all right, on to Cheshure High School. So, we saw a bunch of these today. So, I'll I'll kind of go through them and we can ask additional questions. But the the first is the minor kitchen renovation. Uh that is a one-year one and done project or actually two.
Lori and her role as assistant superintendent is really uh someone that is um intimately involved with the day-to-day operations that happen within the buildings because she's going to be that first call that from a building level principal or staff member um to talk about a student [clears throat] uh a special ed situation regarding a student. So, um, through those conversations then, um, just over time, I'm not going to tell you it's a newly developed thought like, gee, I wonder if we were to be on our own, could we provide services for our students? Could we provide them better? Could we do it at the same cost? Could we do it for would it take more funding to do? Would it take less? So that's when it all came to be um to to have that question or to look into it a little bit deeper.
I would think coach would want to put a put a mismatch there on uh on number six and start to put more of a season defender on her to kind of I don't know if they don't really have too many right now besides Kendall. >> honestly they they really don't. Uh the whole starting defensive crew is a little bit different than than what normally would be in a game at this point. Yeah, Sammy Tsai has been a pleasant surprise today. She's been playing pretty good, so she's Yeah, they they've been playing well. It's it's more of the experience than the uh ability or or what they've shown. >> Mhm. Kendall in the corner, she get the call? Yep, she did. Good job, Kendall. Kendall Westling solid defender She's come a long way in a year, that's for sure. Yeah, she's continuing to improve. That just as we said it.
Um and obviously the uh the the turf field. Um, but overall we're we're trying to figure out which which things we want to bring back to the board to uh to talk about moving forward to the town council for for our capital budget. Um, right now, you know, we're it's kind of hurry up and wait. We we wanted to get this thing done, but we're waiting for more guidance from the town council. Do you want to add something to that, Miss Taylor, or are we good? No, I just I want to thank uh Tim and Mark for, you know, on this lovely 85 degree day, you know, indulging, you know, me and walking around and actually walking the whole the whole high school. So, we did it. Yep. For the walking challenge, which is part of our medical, you know, preventative day. So, >> um Mr.
We split it 250 250. Talked about the hood system um needing to be replaced. Um so, we have that one. We have the facilities garage which would be the $50,000 is for design work with an overall value of $400,000 for the five-year project. We have the loading dock, the turf, the greenhouse demolition, and the windows replacement. And then at the bottom of the page, you'll see some snow removal equipment and grounds maintenance and repairs equipment. Um, some the next page is facility services garage, some code compliance. And so I know I went through those quickly just because we were on tour. So I'll open it up for other questions that people have about those projects at the high school. The 35,000 for code compliance is to install a fire alarm system, which currently doesn't exist in that maintenance garage. >> So >> we don't have a >> No, sir, we do not.
Um other shifts within other neighboring districts also really I think moved this decision to take a close look at it, a deep dive into programming and the finances of it because other school districts were submitting their letters or had submitted their letters in the past. East Noble being the one um that's as close, you know, our twin district in many ways uh both submitting their letter and ultimately leaving the district. So that's very intriguing for a decal to think, okay, East Noble, if you're doing it, how are you doing it? Let's talk. And we've had a lot of conversations and they've shared a lot of their information with us and so we've been appreciative of that. >> Sorry to interrupt. When did East Noble do that? >> They've been fully out for over a year now. They went through a couple iterations from what I understand [clears throat] when they originally left.
Oh, Jesus. Who was that? Sammy. Sam Tsai it. Going through like a wrecking ball there. It's 50/50 ball, I guess. You got to go for it, right? Oh, they gave a penalty. Yeah. Yep, that's uh going to be Ashton Ball. Oh, nope. She's staying on the field. Okay. Back to goalie, Sam. There you go, Sam. Smart play. I like the look from the top of the booth here. It's a lot better than sitting in the bleachers. Get to see the game a little bit better. Oh, Julia tried to switch to her left hand. Unfortunately, dropped it. She's out of bounds. Good job, Julia. Way to stick with it. Once again, those dead-on attackers are all over the Ashland defenders trying to get up the field. Um They're uh they are riding hard, man. That is a >> they sure are. Far side. So, up the middle.
White, you have a question? >> Just going to comment. Um, yeah, I uh with regard to the projects, I appreciate everything that I appreciate everything that you did, Emily, to pull this together. Um, I'm still I still am a believer that the turf is really a maintenance project. And although it went out to referendum last year without the direction of the board of ed, um it did go to referendum last year and it failed, but I do believe that it uh it is something that should happen. Um I feel similarly about the loading dock uh at the in the front part of the high school off the cafeteria. Um I did I am asking questions about the sort of directly related aspects of flooding and parking that are really uh not particularly easy to to detach from the loading dock. But I do see them slightly differently than the loading dock itself.
So there's a fire would require a fire alarm system and then a uh CO2 evacuation system. So that would include >> How have we not had to do that before? >> Was built in 1980 and >> Oh my god. >> It wasn't required and it was built and we inherited it. >> Wow. Well, didn't we have no fire alarm in Norton school for the last 20 or 30 years? >> Well, we had one. >> We had one. It didn't work. Sprinklers sprinklers. >> The sprinklers. >> And Darcy fail. >> Darcy Darcy has no sprinklers. >> No, their grandfather did, >> which blows my mind. >> Yes. >> You have a school with no sprinklers. >> Um, let me see. So, the So, I'm looking at uh the facilities facility services garage 400,000. So, includes things like >> this is what we were talking about which is a a roof over >> metal.
It's been several years ago, but then they came back in just for for the administrative side of it so that they could take advantage of um resources for those one or two students that you might have to find accommodations for or resources for. Um but then over a year ago they they've completely left. [clears throat] Since that time uh other districts then have been exploring it. So we saw West Noble submit their letter. We saw Smith Green submit their letter and we saw Central Mobile submit their letter. Um so all of those districts submitted their letter the same time we did. So they're all on that same timeline. So it's an 18-month timeline. The first six months are basically your time that you're going to evaluate, explore, and then by the end of June of this year, each of those districts, including Decal, need to submit their recommendation or are you going to resend your letter and stay in the co-op or are you [clears throat] going to go on your own?
Someone's got to move here. There we go. Peyton coming back over to the restraining line trying to get some attention of her. Ashley going to go with the long ball. Nice Magner Guiness with it. It's all foot race now. Come on, Maggie. They got back on defense. They are not on a fast break situation. Peyton come through the middle. Even with that the injury, she might have been able to separate a little bit more, but >> Yeah. not not with the knee brace, but just just getting clear at that point was Yeah. You know, I love to see a couple of these goals today have been on that second cutter we always talk about. The first cutter is great, but when you fill that void as a second cutter, you're always going to be open. And I think I saw two two goals today from that situation, so good for them for recognizing that second cutter and waiting and pulling that ball.
And I say that specifically because that was sent to referendum last year and it failed too. Uh beyond that, the one thing that um yeah, there's a number of projects that are below the referendum threshold that I I do think are important to move forward. Uh one that comes to mind for me is the Dodd stage. Emily, you were talking about literally the stage has large splinters coming up. Um, and the way it was described to us by the facilities director, I'm not sure what his title is, Rich Clev. Um, is the Dodd stage is so old it's just been uh refurbished year after year after year and it's just getting so thin it doesn't hold up anymore. So, I do feel like something like that uh is probably urgent. At the same time, there might be other aspects that it would make sense to do in conjunction with it.
Yeah. >> Over some of the >> like a carport >> raw materials you have to use. So for like plowing and winter storage >> what you have now is it's open >> so it gets covered in 2 ft of snow and then you can't do anything with the next storm. Dig it out. We dig it out and pull the tarp back. >> If you get a cover it's going to be a lot easier. >> It's very tough. It's very tough on staff especially this past winter. Um, and it's been on our radar for a while. >> Oh, we got I mean, we got lucky for three or four years with almost nothing >> or we had some ice storms. We didn't have any foot plus storms. >> Well, yeah, but we had we've had a half a foot storms and things of that nature. So, yeah, it it uh >> it makes it does make a difference regardless of the amount of snow you get.
So, regardless of the decision, next year we're in the co-op whether we decide to stay or go. So next year if we stay, we we look to make our situation as as good as it can be for our students and address things that maybe we've uncovered that we want to address with the co-op to find a resolution for or we're on our own in next year's a transition year and we're making sure that we've got all of our eyes dotted, our tees crossed, and we have the structure and the staff and everything that we know are going to be in place for that following year. Do you [cough and clears throat] see them, since the Nobles County schools are in this process, do you foresee them creating their own co-op? That's a great question, Tony, because if you're if there and I don't want to speak for the co-op, >> but I can only imagine with four districts submitting their letters, the remaining members obviously are thinking about what if all four go, what if three go?
Yeah, it's a good feed by Peyton Trip. And a goal, but That's one of my least favorite rules. Who was who was shooting space in that situation though? I see. She had beat her player. She only had the goalie. There was nobody there to beat in the shooting space. Anyways, love lacrosse. Why that the the offending team gets a reprieve when the goal went in is beyond me. And there there you have it. So, Unbelievable. Well, at least they got a Caroline picked up that last shot. Maggie cutting through wide open down the middle. Nice goal by Maggie McGuinness. How many has Maggie got today? Four? Five? No, that's her second today. Lilly had the first four. >> Oh, okay. Uh I believe that pass came from Celia Callahan, if I'm not mistaken. Uh was Celia Callahan out of bounds to somebody else to Maggie.