Okay. And so that's what's sort of driving this in part. I I thought for me that was an important part of the important part of the conversation. And with that, uh, I think I'm done. Thank you, >> Miss Cullin. >> Oh, okay. And, um, so Mr. Eki, I'm not sure if this comes under you. Um, and I know I know the, um, budget issues and everything and we're talking about loading deck and the maintenance garage, but what about HVAC? Is that anywhere in the planning? I mean, I was at Dad's school today. >> Tonight, it it was incredibly uncomfortable. And I'm thinking of um 12, 13, and 14 year olds and that heat trying to learn algebra. And I know I know the money thing, and I know maybe there's some other monies coming, blah, blah, blah. But I mean, where is that in our planning?
That's >> that's freaking 250 cubic yards that have to be moved and hauled off site and disposed of. And I have to bring in at least 150 yards to replace it. >> Oh my god. >> So the labor machinery. Yeah. $100,000 is just removing mulch. >> Yeah. It's it's an expensive endeavor. I guess when a kid falls off the playground equipment, they have to have a cushion to land on. >> Yeah. No, >> of all of that in order to certify the playground. That's part of the certification is re refurbishing all of that. >> Wow. >> Um, so right now you're looking at 500. How much are you thinking in your mind? What's the dittle part and the Highland part? >> Because I'm just wondering if it would make more sense to just do Highland. That's not enough for Highland. >> What? 500 is not enough for >> Oh, 500 total.
um that's one of our primary activities that we have that we're really proud of and that's not going to go anywhere. But we we understand how how much anxiety certainly just going through this process has caused not only parents hopefully we've kept it from students. I have not heard complaints in that regard that our kids are anxious about the decision but certainly our staff members [clears throat] are and especially staff members who work for the co-op. They're kind of anxious as well just like what's going to happen to our what's going to happen to our jobs. [snorts and clears throat] Um next uh slide Andrew. If we stay in the co-op, we have we have the shared services that I' as I've referenced a couple different examples of how that benefits us. There's a lower operational responsibility. Our administrative cost with the co-op is significant, but it's the same as Hamilton.
She has been faking high, going low, and it's been working for her. So hopefully Alana catches on, but she has made a bunch of stops on that, but >> [screaming] >> should be a good fourth quarter. It's going to be down to the wire for sure. So we've got uh Ashley back on the on the draw, Lily on the circle. She has a I'm not surprised that's a a little bit of a change. It hadn't been working out particularly well. Now uh this one is to to Dedham as well, but sometimes just a little bit of a change might end up working. You know what I've been shocked about today, Kevin, is seeing the behind the the the the the stick check from behind, which usually isn't allowed very often by the referees, but today we've seen a bunch of them. So maybe they're doing them correctly this year where you're you're checking down and away from behind is legal versus just tomahawking from behind trying to get that stick, but it's been successful a couple times.
Because I think I heard someone say like we just get kicking it down, kicking it down, kicking it down the road. We have a problem with that at the high school right at DOT. I know we have two new schools coming on. Some of our schools have some air conditioning, but I don't think it's a luxury anymore. It's a necessity. It's a safety issue, you know. I mean, there's so many other pieces of it. M >> Taylor, this the school building committee initially designed a plan uh a successive plan for addressing facilities and um given the enrollment growth we had and the uh additions at Highland and things that's why the they prioritized the two new elementary schools the energy performance contract that we were discussing earlier includes air conditioning at Dittle that would mean all four elementary schools have air conditioning then um is part of the school construction uh planning uh the school you know remodeling planning the next school to be addressed the next phase would be the middle school even if we started that tomorrow that's multiple years out it's not starting tomorrow obviously but >> um there is there is part of a plan I I don't know that it would make sense to try and retrofit Dodd per se um but you know that's kind of the next phase in the process I think once we get through this year and start to we open these buildings and then we can start to look forward get the AC at Dittle obviously.
>> I'm just wondering if we did Highland and it doesn't need to go out to referendum because this is how it goes through my mind. And then Dittle, if we have to do the lower D is and then the whole number over 500 goes out to referendum. >> I understand where where you're coming from. Dittle, unfortunately, is in worse condition. So, Highland just got renovated. We had at least a section >> re renovated a year ago. So, at least that'll hold them over for a little while. But that the on the south end playground that large piece of equipment that assembly >> there's a huge assembly with cross >> runs a big line right along the school. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. >> That may be like an 85 $95,000 piece of equipment just purchase price >> and then there's a bunch of other stuff >> and then you got to install.
It's the same as Fremont. Everyone in the co-op, all 12 districts pay the same administrative fee. Where our bill tends to get high is the fact that we're the largest district. Therefore, we have the most kids involved in programming. So, whatever the cost is for that program, name the program as a co-op program, multiply that times the number of students that you send to that program, that becomes your bill. But the administrative cost, it's equal across the entire to-. >> Now, if if if a number of districts leave and you go from 12 to 8, then those that share expense goes up >> potentially. Yes. Unless we're making cuts in the co-op on because we we don't need this program here because we lost four districts and we lost, you know, we may not need this many staff members. So, you would like who knows how it all plays out, but you'd like to think there will be a >> a balance to that.
The aggressiveness of that check is what happens. That was Avery Landry again circling around the net getting the shot off. I don't know if it reached Alana. But Kendall Westerlund >> Aaron's got to go here. Aaron's got to go. On the way, Westerlund. Let's go, Kendall. Take it to, kid. She just drew her defender and it looked like Aaron might have been able to streak in, but takes it behind the net. Uh with a three-goal lead Not not forcing it isn't the the worst decision in the world, but >> it's it's just in that in that situation a great instinct would be to go to the other side of the field allowing the other attacker to cut across and be open. And I don't know if that's not part of the game plan with with coach or not, but that's something that's uh pretty obvious, so Allie Marseglia for the shot and the goal!
>> And how much AC is there at the high school? >> Limited classrooms. Um usually because a student uh who has identified health issues, we might put a mini split in a room or something like that. Uh beyond that there's air conditioning in the nurse's office, the guidance office and the uh administrative offices where we have 12 month employees. >> So not much >> not limited. >> And just the the capital plan, all of the EPC potential projects were removed for the from consideration for the capital plan. They may need to be added back at some point. Um, if you look at Dodd, like the overall value of everything, including the removed items for the EPC in the 5-year outlay is in excess of $20 million. And so, I think there is a consideration point of like that's a lot of money to invest in a building, even with the window replacement.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. >> So does does the upper and lower playgrounds or do little exceed 500,000? >> Oh. Oh yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. But at least we're starting somewhere. >> Yeah. So the the potential here could be to separate the two because that's where we'd probably >> from a funding perspective. >> Yes. Saying and and one might hit referendum at some point. But if we separate them, then we could put a one-year project in for do little to at least try to accomplish that upper playground without hitting the referendum value in year one. Right. If we put like 400,000 >> and make it little playground. Yes. >> Yeah. So year one would be yeah you know 150,000 >> I would say I would say the numbers >> potentially 400,000 if you're going to do the dittle playground right >> plus the rear you mean in its entirety >> no I don't think we're going to but >> we have a hard we have a hard number for the upper playground so it's about 300,000 >> and do we want to prioritize considering Highland just got some playground do we want to prioritize that do a little project for just the upper Doodles in worse shape.
Um, I think it's a risk. That's Yep. Um, if we say of course less control over programming, I think I've referenced that. Um, and if we stay, it's an opportunity to improve upon what we've discovered through this process. So, the deep dive we've done has been extremely beneficial for us to understand our special education programming, both what we offer here at the Cal Central that we take care of and what we partner with the co-op with. So, that's been extremely helpful because I think what we've been able to do is uncover a lot. Well, we the the way we've progressed through this, you know, we become very intentional when we're handling things now to realize, okay, if we were doing this on our own, this is what it would look like. This would be what we would take on. It also has provide us with a new appreciation of what the people that that you know was their responsibility or is still their responsibility as you move through things.
Assist from Ashley Forrester. We're going to give that one Kendra Wessel a pat on the back to get it there, too. It was and that was another situation where with a high-pressure defense Dedham went for the turnover, couldn't quite get it, and that opened things up, so Nice nice job by Forrester to collect the ball after the defender went by and then to hit the streaking Marseglia for a 9-5 lead where just a few minutes ago we're saying it hadn't ever been more than a one-goal lead. Ashlyn has scored the last four, I believe. Ashley again on the draw to Lily. Nice direct draw right to Lily Vitti. Lily's probably going to bring it to X here. Oops, she's puts a brakes on. See if we can get something going on the offense again. Love to see some pick and rolls and broad and dumps.
The way that DOD is built is the structure of the windows is tied to the aluminum frame, you know, like the red panels at DOD. And so, that becomes very, very costly to replace. the capital plan currently, the window replacement is budgeted at $3.8 million. Um, so there's just a lot of items at DOD and it's it's growing uh year by year. >> Okay. Does that conclude your report? >> Yeah, I'm good. >> Yeah, I'm a little depressed now, but let's move on. Um, Mr. Can you report on the policy committee meeting held uh Monday? >> We had a very uh quick meeting to discuss the uh proposed policy on undocumented students. This is something that we've been talking about. You know, obviously it's very timely right now, but uh we're we're pushing about a year. We've been going back and forth with this policy.
>> Yeah. Doodles. Yeah. >> Makes sense to me. >> Yeah. >> And then that dollar value, you want to put >> three >> for the rest of the playground. >> No, for do do a little upper. >> Boy, you're I'm getting confused here. >> Do a little upper. What What's the value you put in for the one year if you were to just do the do a little the quote we got from? >> Yeah, like 310 I would put. So that'll give us a little bit of >> Okay. >> a little bit of uh >> contingency fun >> cushion contingency. Um and then potentially separating Highland and putting that in a subsequent year. >> Yeah. Uh my only I think my confusion is we already have 250,000 allocated. >> Yeah. So do we need to put 310? >> But if we go to three and we have it already allocated, we're going to have to go to referendum, right?
So, it's definitely been a great learning exercise [laughter] for us. >> Next slide, Angie. Of course, if we leave, we have greater local trade-off. We have more control. Um, we we can create opportunities where we serve more of our students and not necessarily students who are identified with an IEP, but students that may benefit from certain resources that we have because we have more special education opportunities here. Increased risk, responsibility, and risk. Um, we share the full burden of all of that if we're on our own. But again, tradeoffs. Um, next slide, Angie. What we feel good about is the ability to that we we've been able to build a strong structure of what it will look like if we're on our own. Um, and we feel like we know our students best so we can build the best structure and alignment for our kids.
Some ISO. Love to see Aaron just take it to the hole, too. Yeah, some some good Take a page out of uh the the Dedham playbook and just crease roll, see what you get. >> Mhm. Doesn't work, pull it back, or maybe have a a cutter coming through even if you get Hold on. Be good for uh you know, these younger players they just I don't think they know yet, but you know, when you when you drive to the net and you draw the defender, you back off just a little bit and that opens up the space behind that defender for someone to cut through, so it's going to come in time. Some of the young players. There's Aaron Hickey for the goal. Come on, Aaron. Good cut. Tough pass. Yeah, so that was a Good check by Maggie McGinness. Maggie McGinness again. It's going to be a white ball.
We've made some uh adjustments to it and we are bringing this policy for a third and final reading uh to the board tonight. >> So, would you like to make a motion? I will make a motion moved that the Chester Board of Education give a third and final reading to policy number 5111.3 undocumented students and direct the superintendent to put said policies into immediate effect. >> Do I have a second to this motion? >> Second, >> Miss Cullinin. Thank you.
>> No, you have 250 already allocated in the pot. So in order to do do a little upper playground, you really need only like another 50 60,000. >> So that's why I'm confused. >> Oh, I understand what you're saying. to keep it in the district >> to keep it well to keep it in this at this cost allocation. >> You need 310,000 to do the upper playground at Dittle. You already have two 250 that is authorized or whatever the word is. Correct. So, you just need an incremental 60. >> So, we need to put >> in order to Yeah. In order >> to get the upper playground at Dittle in year one, we need to put 240 to keep it under referendum. >> That'll bring it to $490,000 if we do district. >> That's what I'm saying. I I hear what you're saying. >> That would give you money to play with somewhere else.
So, we feel really, really good about that. And we feel like because of that we have an opportunity to improve outcomes for our students. Um our student our special education population typically has been a a a small group a subgroup in a lot of our tested areas that perform poorly and even poorly when compared to other like students. So it is an opportunity to have better outcomes for those students um by serving them ourselves. Um next slide, Angie. These are the four big ones. I think these are the risks, right? Staffing availability, program capacity or creation of programs, the financial variability of doing it ourselves, and the compliance, the legal aspect of it. Those are the four four things that we've got to make sure the recommendation that we bring to the board in May. We've got to make sure that we can check mark all of those and our recommendation corresponds to those risks.
>> [cheering] >> Tenacious defense. Not even across the face, right right down on the stick. >> I know she'll remember to step in. Some somebody yells from the sidelines every time, "Step in, Bones." I noticed that Dedham had a tough time with the lines at the beginning of the game. Everyone does, it's not easy. Julia Freese some wheels on her. Just a freshman, looking good, poised, got good hands. Yeah, uh She makes good decisions, you know. Yeah, it was a good play by her to keep possession and and just wait. Maggie knew to hold for her, and now Julia goes back to her position. She's She's been doing an excellent job. A lot of caused turnovers for Julia Freese so far this season. Oh, tough one. She got checked as she passed that one, but it's going to be a Dedham ball coming in back up.