I just want to make sure that we're since we have access to it that we don't like make copies and continue to use it. >> Yep. Absolutely. Can I get a motion? I move that we accept the quote for the Amplify curriculum up to $87,052.74 with the understanding it may be less. Second. Moved by Bryce, seconded by Katie, to accept the Amplify quote. Any other discussion? I just have a question. So, the licenses will we have to purchase every year? So, on the teacher licenses, no. It's a six-year. So, like for example, go back to kindergarten again. So, that universal teacher license, President's Seasons, that's the six-year license in this quote. The next item, the student licenses, that would be for the digital curriculum piece, that would be an annual thing if we need if we wanted to use that. The next >> And if we got into trouble, that's something that we might have to charge for.
And but the reality is is you can't just assume every parent is going to engage on a particular day for whatever reason. >> Yeah. Um I think what's important to note with that um data point is that staff self-reported, and it was around engaging in discussions about students' progress with parents. So, however they viewed that, um what we're going to try to do or continue to do and get better at is provide the tools to staff and show them how they could work so that we can take away that language barrier. So, regardless of what whatever the native language is of the family and the kiddo, there's tools and ways that we can >> [cough and snorts] >> provide the information to parents and that it's a two-way communication street. Um so, we're looking deeper into that because we we don't want any staff member feeling uncomfortable uh working and collaborating with our ML families.
We've got the athletic bands. We've got marching band and pep band to support the football and basketball team. We have three different jazz bands and a number of small ensembles that students can get like instrument specific instruction and instrument specific ensemble experience in. >> Also, that's you said who just got the >> Oh yeah, there she is. >> Yeah, that's just a coincidence, but that is her. forgiveness. >> All right. Um, so in all of our teaming that we do together in our Yes. Anding, um, we really spend a lot of time in the tension between the way that band or large ensemble music is traditionally taught and what we see our kids need. Um, so typically a large ensemble music experience, so band choir, orchestra, would look a lot like what you see here. Uh, the director is the keeper of the knowledge. the students job is to just receive that knowledge and apply that knowledge.
Um, we r we read Frankenstein. I'm not going to lie, I was really afraid when we read it um over winter break. I was texting Shanahan like, "What are we about to do?" Um, and I think partnering inside the instructional classroom, I wasn't entirely sure what was about to happen, but I was able to see firsthand um, how much the students loved the story and how they got into it. And the idea that um, we were able to give them grade level content was just amazing. It was rewarding to see students engaging in lively discussions. They really got into it like is he a human, is he not? Um and then the anticipation of what was about to come. >> Thank you. >> I really want to thank our teachers who it is not easy. It is a heavy lift to be a pilot teacher and learn two new resources in the middle of the year and I I am just blown away by the enthusiasm, the dedication of this group and you know Dr.
And yes, it's to the right of the five. So, it is there is a decimal there, but that is just they're they're huge units. Um while, you know, we see $6,700 in annual savings, um it's about a million dollars. Uh and so part of that is the devices themselves, but also the other part is the location. So, we're working through different things either if we have a bigger units that replace like uh for what we have. We have to either go through the roof or go through a wall. If we were to go with smaller units uh which we most certainly can do uh that fit within existing frames and different things, there's a lot more uh connections, a lot more piping, a lot more electrical work that needs to be done uh associated with those things. Um, so that is is looking at uh both ways uh what that would uh look like.
Um and the board has been instrumental in keeping us um you know, apprised of those things, communicating with various schools. Um right now we're just all trying to figure out how to make that work, but um it's going to be a big paradigm shift for us. Um and um so I'd like for you everyone to be aware of what that looks like so that you can see what graduating is going to look like moving forward. So, that will ask the other next board of directors. >> That will also be fun to work ourselves through. Uh next next Friday night is the relays. >> Yes. We had an invite for new program for genetics that went out. >> Okay, first. >> For our athletes and and Mrs. Herman. >> It's not this Friday, it's a week and Friday night. Yeah, okay. Thanks. Thanks. Uh transportation, is Lee here?
Yes, 100% yes. I mean, there is no doubt we will have to start charging, you know. So, um this the third line again, that's a six-year piece. And then the fourth line again is a student simple set. And it's that way for each grade level. So, there's there's two teacher things that are six-years, there are two student things that are just one year. So, I assume in like second grade only two of the teachers teach reading, that's why when we get to like sixth grade, there's only one teacher's license. There's only one of them teaching. Is that right? In sixth grade, there's one there's one teacher, but in second grade, there should be more than two. I misread that. Well, there's two free and two charged. Are they the same thing? Yeah, I'll look at that. I don't understand the discount but Yeah. 40 free Yes, that does No, there's two categories.
It's a really good point. >> think to Tim's point, just one step further, I mean, right at the beginning when new families come into the district there should be, and you probably do it already, some kind of family communication that explains to the family, "It's okay if you speak another language. Still come to the building. We'll figure it out. You know, we'll be able to help you." So, there isn't that feeling of being uncomfortable or embarrassed in the main office. I know it's very hard to have someone in the main office that is multilingual to be able to you know, talk to someone, but I think how many languages? 50? 55? 55 different languages, so And we went back and forth around this idea of having one point person because it's a shared responsibility model, right? So, we have to dig deeper into that because it does The responsibility doesn't live with just Ryan, just Kristen.
Performances are considered a measurement of the director's musicianship and not necessarily the ensemble members. And there's just not a lot of space for student agency or creativity. Uh but we really find that we want to teach differently than we were taught. And we often are guided by questions like this one. um am I preparing kids for my past or for their future as interdependent musicians and people? Um so for all those reasons, these are the principles and pillars that we've connected with the most as a team. The mindset pillar, the wellness pillar of mindset, uh the learning principle that learning is a cycle of um reflection and trying something new based on what you've already experienced. Then the portrait of a graduate commitment to learning. Um so starting with the wellness pillar. Um so as we mentioned previously we noticed that students were making a lot of negative assumptions about themselves as musicians or learners if they weren't able to play new content the first time or they weren't able to get something challenging uh quickly.
Fogerty and I brought forth resources that we felt really comfortable either one of them and and we said we're not teaching this and and we're you know we're not in the classroom and so their voice was absolutely critical in this process and um I think there's a lot of enthusiasm. So you'll be seeing on the the agenda tonight that uh we're asking you to approve the the contracts for both of these new resources and uh we're excited for our next steps.
So you can see total annual savings is just under $400,000. And then we have onetime grants and rebates of uh just over $1.7 million. >> Travis, how old are those boilers? >> Oh gosh. Um >> yeah, about 50 years old. >> Yeah. >> So we're end of life on those boilers. >> Yes. >> Where did those boilers live? Are they in the basement? No, >> no, they're on the second floor at North. >> Okay. Wow. >> So, we have we have more than one boiler right in in in our buildings. That that's the second set of of big boilers that are in that that are in that building. So, if you go to the next slide, please. So, you can see this is just visual um keeping the two things separate. Again, that'll help with uh transparency as well, help us with our accounting and financing to have those things separate.
>> No. >> Uh I just want to bring you up to speed. We're working to make sure the buses are safe, make make sure all the cameras are working. We're We have a couple of plans. So, we'll be going over that. Uh business, can you get anything else added? >> Um yep, just wanted to talk about uh couple more things. Um I wanted to start kind of speaking to you all about track repaving. It's on our capital project plan. This would not be something coming from our operations education, any of those buckets. Um this would be something coming from some old bond funds that we still have. The money needs to get used up or we start having penalties on that money. Um I'm working with Baker Tilly Ice Miller to make sure that this project would fall within the scope of those things cuz we probably will have to combine a couple, but um I would like to get an RFP out um, in our newspapers and things so that we can start getting some proposals, quotes, just seeing how much this would even cost us to do.
That's what you're looking at. Mhm. Two free >> That way for every grade. I see the same teacher. Well, it looks like they're just giving us the the teacher's licenses for free. What we're paying for is a classroom kit that once we buy it, it's ours, it looks like. It doesn't have a It's more in the first year cuz you get the teacher kit in the first year, but then in subsequent years you should That teacher kit's good for 6 years. That one might be That's That one might be for then. Yeah. That >> What I'd like to do then is get four in each grade level. For example, this coming year we might only have three sections of kindergarten cuz our numbers are a little lower, but the following year we might be back to four and I don't want to have to go back and ask to just buy one kit.
It is a shared responsibility around every staff member that interacts with any one of our families, right? So, we want to make sure that everybody has the tools and resources needed in order to be able to communicate. And even a process for our staff, too. Absolutely. Absolutely. >> Yeah, so they don't feel uncomfortable, either, and make a family feel uncomfortable. So, maybe we should touch base with our ML families a couple of times a year. And just, you know, "How are you doing? Do you need anything? Are you know, are you aware Are there any issues that are going on?" At one point in time, we had a >> [clears throat] >> point person who was dedicated as part of some other things. Ryan Murphy. He He He >> [snorts] >> He liaison between multilingual learners and families and the school, and we no longer have that position, but that that was really nice.
So in addition to deleveling a course, we also wanted to address this problem holistically through the whole band program. Um so we started making with making a shift of the way the whole um ensembles are structured all throughout the different levels. Um so rather than being achievement focused which would be like the first chair flutist is the best one and the last chair flutist is the worst one. Uh we now don't have chair placements. we just rotate parts and student leadership roles are based um around helping other students and modeling for other students and supporting other students rather than being better than other students. So that was a change we made in every band. Um and we also regularly try to use language that's meant to build resilience. So a common thing that our kids will hear in our classroom is that there's no easy or hard only familiar or unfamiliar which comes up quite a bit.
With that any questions? I value add before we get the questions. We I would ask the board members who sat with you and I uh over 18 months. It's been a minute >> and we really had to spend some time talking about the transition from balance literacy, which wasn't a bad thing to structure literacy, but more importantly about providing our teachers best resource we can put out there. um to see the literacy committee uh we we we thought it would take two or more years and then I'm proud of the team because it was their decision and their guidance that said hey you know this is too important to waste another year and I thank the teachers that that pushed that agenda whether it was for middle school or elementary because I did not believe uh we have a lot to do next year and the strategic plan has put a lot of stress on our system but the right thing for these children is to give them the best possible curriculum and also the right resources for you to teach.
um to be in compliance with section 19B2 of the of the school code um we need to go through as we talked about in a previous meeting and having a third party review the savings and verify what those those look like either yes they're good or no they're they're not good. So, we're in the process of of doing that right now with uh Bombman uh consulting. Um again, they're a third-party independent uh entity that is going through all of the figures. Um and so remember, if the independent evaluation does not confirm the savings, we have uh no obligation to proceed. Uh if savings are confirmed, while we still don't have an obligation to like finalize, remember there is a a dollar figure that's associated with that. and it was uh just north of $160,000 for all of the work. And I can verify there's been a lot of work that's been done to get to this uh to get to this point.
Um, we're kind of at the level where our track is truly getting unsafe um, to have athletes out there, PE classes out there. If someone would get hurt, I don't even want to think about it. Um, but just so you know, if you if you see information like that to to go out, I wanted to give you all a heads up about it. Also wanted to acknowledge the receipt of our IDOE food service annual review, basically an audit. Um, we are working through some things, but we will be able to share results soon with you all and it will be posted on our website um, shortly. >> Great, Genie, anything? >> Nope, nothing new at this time.
Does that make sense? >> checking the grades two. Yeah, we'll look at second grade. Thank you. Grade six Grade six is that way we Sixth grade's that way on purpose. My question is this 87,000. >> Yep. How much of that I mean how much of that is for this year and how much is it for So, we'll have a bill for this every year, but it won't be 87,000 every year? Correct. So, the teacher's license was 18,791 dollars for the first the student licenses. So, if we just do the same thing next year first year price and then it should be significant. Yeah, because again, go back to kindergarten. So, that first line $4200, that's a that's a one-time price only. The kid that is just teacher packs. And then the third line, the universal kits, the 11,200, that's a one one-time only. The only pieces that are reoccurring are the consumables, whether it's the digital or the print.
I know Kevin in in his role um had had frequent opportunities for parents to come. We are required to have at least one meeting. I know that Ryan has done some of that work. I know Kristen is doing some of that work. It's been um I think the model that Kristen was using with the uh about getting families in for coffees has been the way to go um in recent times, especially with that age population, because invariably the question that's on their mind, whatever you're whatever we're talking about, is not what comes up. It's a thing that's on their mind that they don't know how to do. And invariably that comes up, and we're right there to help support support them in that moment, and that's that as we have done those types of things, that has been the most helpful. Lowers the stress. Actually helps families get the thing that they need to get to.