>> Um I was wondering if you could talk to us more about is it the SDF fund? SF SFD. >> Absolutely. Do you mind stating your name and >> Yeah, I'm Elaine Smithson. >> Hi. Um I'm curious to know how many of these projects could could go on that list. are we expected to have them um addressed soon or not? And um how that fund works, can it do things like the HVAC system, the bathrooms, the AD updating things to the ADA um standards? Um or is that something that we shouldn't depend on at all? I'm just curious. >> So that's that's a great question and I think Mr. Bosley has done a great job this year. he took over the SFD um liaison position uh midy year and he's made some great headway in working with our school facilities department. Unfortunately with the state budget uh the with the state budget as it is um there's a lot of other things that are um priorities in the state budget right now that are are big ticket items that are pulling money from public schools.
Any discussion? All those in favor? 7-0. Um looks like we're down to other So, um we will once again remind everybody who's in the room and who's streaming, um Cinderella, May the 7th at Sand Creek Elementary. Start time is 6:30. Um so, if you want to see a great performance, we got a uh a little bit of taste of that this evening. If you want to see that great performance, um make sure you um mark your calendar for that coming up. Um hearing nothing else to come before the board, we'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Motion by Pat. Do I have a second? Second by Chelsea. All those in favor? 7-0. Meeting adjourned.
So, she will have a free shot here from the 8 meter. She tries to hit a cutter coming through there, but Shrewsbury saw that coming and was able to jump into the passing lane, but there's Julia Frias doing the exact same thing. Takes a good shove. That's going to be a card on Shrewsbury. They're going to go down a player again. 7:36 mark of the fourth quarter, so 2 minutes non-releasable until the 5:36 mark. That was a great caused turnover by Julia Frias jumping into the passing lane. She's been excellent at that all season, just a freshman. Ref's getting everyone situated on the field. Once the whistle blows, Julia will have the ball. And she's going to take a look, get it to >> [crying] >> Early and Early quickly to Maggie McGinness. She gets banged in the head. They're going to call a Okay, I wasn't sure if the ref was going into his pocket to call that.
Like, Peace already does so much. Like, I love that. Like, if we could work in more um even more just like town-centered events, I think that would be amazing. Okay. Awesome. All right. Are you aware of the time, training commitments, and ethics law disclosures required for school board membership? Um I am. I was reading up um a little bit on just, you know, kind of basics, requirements. Um so, I think that I am. I, you know, my schedule's pretty flexible. Um you know, as moms, I feel like we make it all work somehow between driving kids to sports and who's picking up, who's dropping off, you know. We make it work. I don't know how we make it work, but we do. Um so, so think, you know, I think it would be totally feasible to just add one more thing into my already overflowing plate because You know, the kids need something.
And so SFD hasn't been funded for a lot of projects and we have a lot of our projects that have been pushed to elevated status for a few years. And so one of the commitments I think I need to make as the superintendent is that we're going to continue to fund as many projects through school facilities division as possible. And that's what the plan is to do. And if they are, we don't necessarily need to um sell all the bonds if we get a good windfall. And Mike's been doing a good job. If we get a windfall of money from the school facilities division um or from the the lawsuit, the Roosevelt versus lawsuit where the state is being found liable and they owe money to public schools, but they continue to wrap it up in appeals court. So, we haven't gotten that money. And I think Mr.
Maggie McGinness is going to get a free shot. She's going to Looks like she's going to set up and wind up from there. Whips it. Goalie makes a save. Ashland comes up with the ball. Marceglia to Early. To McGinness. That time she's able to get it into the back of the net. So, man-up goal. Fourth of the day for Maggie McGinness. That one coming from Lainey Early. Back to an eight-goal deficit. 6:47 left. They're still in the man-up situation. There is an opportunity to get another goal, maybe two if they can get the ball here. But it all starts on the draw control. It's collected by Lauren Albertson. Shrewsbury and quickly into their offense. Ashland going to try to double. Also got close to the 30-yard restraining line where Ashland could have reached over and tried to bat that ball. Didn't quite get there. Marceglia doing good job harassing the Colonial player.
I I was talking to my mom earlier and she's like, "Oh, what are you doing?" I'm like, "Oh, well, you know, there's a board opening." She's like, "Oh, you're doing it, aren't you?" I was like, "Well, I don't know. I'm going to go and see." And she's like, "Oh, that's just like you." You know, we needed a head cheer mom. I Do I know anything about cheer? No. Was I the team mom? Absolutely. Now I know. So, we make it work. Yeah. That's That's all our questions.
Georgia office said some of the litigation has been at the state level since the 80s and 90s about appropriate funding. So, as we're talking about waiting for that to happen, that's a great question and I think we are going to try to be as efficient as possible and if we get that money, we will use it and we don't have to um go to the public for that. But when you're looking at those cooling towers and they're they're providing the cooling for multiple buildings. If we're waiting on the school's facilities division, one thing that has been made clear to me over and over again, it's way more expensive to fix things in an emergency than it is to fix them the right way ahead of time. They're past the usable life. If we can get that money from school facilities division, we're doing everything we can.
I think these Shrewsbury players are are very comfortable with the ball in their stick even in double-team situations. Ashland trying to get the double team going, but the quicker Shrewsbury passes out of it, the harder it is to to get there. This time she got close to the restraining line and again Ashland was able to come up with the ball because she sort of blocked herself out. Pass quickly over to Maggie McGinness to to Hickey. So, that was a situation where the double team plus the restraining line really made it so that the Shrewsbury player had no place to go, so Nice pass, but again a good job by Erin Hickey to come up with the ball behind the net. However, they're going to say out of bounds off of Ashland. Shrewsbury ball. Good ride by Callahan getting her to the out of bounds and and she did step out of bounds, so the ball will come over to Ashland.
Do you have any questions for us? Yeah, you have questions for us? Um, the only question I had is um, I wasn't sure how long the term was. Um, this one will just go through December 31st, but then it's going to go out for an unexpired um, 2-year term. Okay. So, we just have to fulfill this year for this year. So, in July, you would have to get the required signatures to be able to get onto the ballot for that unexpired term. So, yes. Yes, so that was really my only question. I just wasn't sure how long. >> on definitely till December 31st and then just have to Are there any ones expiring like at that time or just >> but we'll have that So, we'll have other We'll have a couple 3-year terms expiring, but they'll also be the 2-year This is going to be a 2-year unexpired term that we'll have to fill as well.
But in the meantime, if that goes down, we're just trying to be responsible stewards of the communities, the school district funds by trying to get those replaced ahead of time instead of waiting for those emergencies to happen. And like Mike Mike Bosley talked about, you know, at this point in time with our budget, we're we're trying to allocate as much money as we can to to stop the bleeding in the in the highest priority areas. But when we're looking at millions and millions of dollars, we can't plug all the holes in the dam. The dam's eventually going to break. And if we have to look at building another school um in a few years down the road, that's going to be it costs about $90 million to build a new school. So, um, I think there's a lot of lot of history here and it would be sad to me if this building went into a state of higher disrepair.
Early quickly into Trip with the ball. Maggie McGinness is going to try to cut there. Couldn't get it, but still going to be able to collect the ball over on the left side of the goal. Shrewsbury is back at full strength, so no longer a man-up situation. Forster over to McGinness. Again, ball on the ground. Hopefully she's going to be able to get it and she does. Back over to Forster. Early behind the net to Hickey in the X position. Now she comes out. Passes over to McGinness to Forster. >> [crying] >> Ashland waiting for someone to come open on a cut. So far it hasn't happened. Callahan tries to drive towards the net, is warded off. So, gives it off to McGinness behind the net. Down to 3 minutes 30 seconds left here in quarter number four. Here's a cutter into the middle. Erin Hickey burst open on a pass from Lainey Early.
Okay. Yeah, that was really my only question. All right. One more? Thank you so much. Thanks for taking the time. No problem. Okay, well, now do I go? Yes, you can go and sign your form here in a few days. I would say you started the other time. You want to add Uh, more question to the left. All right, well y'all know I don't I don't have a job. I don't want to talk about That was like an old I think I know all the superintendents and they were like, Yeah. I think the other like young guy in the front was the guy that was sitting in the interview for this. I was like, "He's way too young to be Oh, yeah. I thought No, that's uh, the auto guy. I thought that at first as well. >> guy looked like 20. I'm like, "No way." Nothing would surprise me.
So, we're doing everything we can on all options, but we're asking the community to help us out with the bond, but we're still going to be doing our work on the backside of working with school facilities division and doing everything that we can to to fund that. So, I hope that was a good answer and that answered that question. But trust me, we we got the wheels spinning behind the scenes. We're not just waiting for someone to come save us. We're doing everything we can, but there's only so much we can do as a district. >> Yeah. >> And Mr. Mr. Bosley, you can um correct me if I'm wrong, but as we were looking through, in total, we've requested around 10 point 10 about 10.5 million from SFD and and in total we've been awarded about 4 million I think 4.3 4.5 million. >> But the bottom line is we can't we we can't rely we don't know.
Erin Hickey on the scoreboard with her first of the year. Nice cut. Good patience by the Ashland offense. They waited until someone finally came open. Erin Hickey did just that buried it into the corner, so seven-goal lead as talked about a little bit earlier. That's an important number for Shrewsbury to get as many goal differential points as they can. For Ashland to try to get underneath that would be beneficial for their power ranking, so Although the game is no longer in doubt, there are still some important matters to address here in the last 3 minutes. Maggie McGinness fighting for the draw control, can't come up with it. Annika Welsh came in behind her and grabbed it. She quickly gets in there. Kendall Wessling came over, did a really good job. That was a charged called. Don't see that all that frequently, but just like in basketball, Kendall got in there, got position, and the Shrewsbury player ran into her.
No, I know. Not at all. I was just like, "He's going to be my boss now." That's what I thought at first. Hello. Hi, everybody. How are you? Good, and how are you? You can sit down if you want, man. You don't You want to sit down? Yeah, be comfortable. Sounds good. Looks like you're interviewing us. So, I'm Brian, president and we're going to ask a couple questions for Sure. being a board member. So, my first question is, why do you want to become a board member? Uh, I want to be a board member, honestly, because uh, I view education as honestly, my highest priority. Um, I'm a school counselor. That is my day job. I work in a middle school. So, seeing the physical numbers and seeing how low they were is amazing. Um, but I I view education as as my priority. I think that every child, no matter where they live, whether that's Cherry Hill, Haddonfield, Princeton, or here in West Berlin, I think they all deserve a valuable education.
>> That's the ultimately the thing is we don't we don't know as is usually the case with government and schools. that uh 4 million what what was the time period? >> I don't it didn't give me a time frame before 20 before 2022 I'm not sure I'm not sure how far back goes so I can look into that >> because my understanding with SFB is that uh it's on a rotation and if you're after 12 months it hasn't been funded then you have to put it back in the rotation again. Is that right? So you have to keep on top of it to make sure and it rises to the top and if it doesn't get funded and it goes to the bottom again unless you unless you're the squeaky wheel, right, Mike? >> Yes. Yes, sir. That is exactly correct. >> And that's happened to us in the past.
Peyton Trip loses it momentarily, but then quickly gets it up to Celia Callahan who is going to get there. Lainey Early sets a pick for her and now they're inside the restraining line. Inside the 30. Hickey with the ball. Over to Early again. Lainey Early's had a couple of assists today hitting cutters. Nice job. Maggie McGinness has the ball. She's going to try to make a move, lost it, but Ashland Forster is able to get it. She gets it into Peyton Trip. Who gets it over to Maggie McGinness who can't quite get it, but then she does, tries to sweep it in, but again, Ashland doing a good job on the ground balls now. They're going to have another chance. >> [screaming] >> Marceglia to Hickey into the middle to Ashland Forster. She got hit in the middle. Looks like she's going to have a free shot here.
Um, I also understand the barriers that come along with that. Um, and I think, you know, the job of being on the school board is to help overcome some of those barriers and the financial trouble that comes along with that, especially right now, um, with 2026, you know, the government budget and everything, um, and the challenges that we have to overcome with that, um, it's something that I am welcome to take on and I love taking on challenges head on. Try and do best for the students. All right, good. Thank you. Yeah. Um, what specific skills would you bring to the board? Um my specific skills um so specifically my knowledge within my day job, like I said I am a school counselor. So I do understand the barriers that uh you know come for our students. You know I understand that the major goal was chronic student absenteeism.
>> If the stars don't align with some grants, then yes, sir. Things can push past that initial one-year mark. And then pushing that project several more months creates more wheels to be pushed. And uh yes sir, it is a system. >> I'm the one that has to go sign those papers and every week they have me go in and sign those papers for SFB. So uh I know they're working hard at trying to get that done >> and I know there's not enough money. I think that I heard one time there were like nearly a billion dollars worth of repairs to schools in the state and they only funded 9 million or something like that through this legislature. So it's way upside down. Is any of this stuff on the HVAC side in SFD right now that we've applied for or not >> at the current moment?