Hopefully we can get some coaches to step up. I know there's some staff that you know, might be interested. So, we'll see how that goes. First, I think it's seventh and eighth grade. It's a seven-game schedule. Uh we're going to try to battle that out. So, a special thank you to Mark Molitor for keeping his thumb on administration and to get it pushed through. So, I'm excited to see that grow. Is will that be um two teams or is it a coed team? Uh both boys and girls uh soccer. Yeah. And it's seventh and eighth. And so, it's a good start and the other two districts, which I won't go into that part right now, but they're still working out some logistics there, but I think we're just super pumped for our first What what season would the season be? Uh it's different. It's split apart in the spring.
And if I saw the payment schedule correctly, over 20 years, yeah, the the out of the operating budget, it's like maybe five and a half million dollars. So, on on average 270k a year, right? Over 20 years, right? So So again, yeah, I appreciate your efforts. This the the self-funding of it, I think it's been very creative uh and very beneficial to the district and it's uh so appreciated. Thanks. And I think it also >> [clears throat] >> deserves noting once again that there's no impact to the taxpayers. >> Mhm. Right. And I think that's critical. Fantastic job. There's a lot of great capital projects that are going to be completed. >> Mhm. Yeah. And many of them much needed. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. So, uh later in the board meeting, going to ask the board to consider um approving the ESPC [clears throat] with um Honeywell.
So please keep your eyes peeled and uh and celebrate those students out in the out out of doors this summer, but keep your eye on them as well. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Phillips. Upcoming, the next regular school board meeting is set for the evening of June 15th. That'll be a Monday. We'll be meeting at 6:30 p.m. back in the administration building. Uh there is no further business to come before the board this evening. So, I will declare the meeting adjourned. It's all over, guys. Silence in the chamber. Now that we're in silence, it sounds quieter out here.
It's not sound business. Um So that said, since I have the microphone, I'll also say that this edifice has all the elegance of a Soviet apartment block from 1950. So shame on you. Thank you. Next. Jolene Friday, One Shaw Road. I believe um I'm >> Speak up little bit. I'm sorry. Um I believe we have to go back probably and listen, but I believe when Mr. Angler agreed to some of the tacit um issues that he also um tacitly agreed to do in full testing. Um and if you're not going to do additional testing, um you said it's on you, not the town, Mr. Angler. But my understanding is the plume with TCE is going to continue to flow into the site. What happens if you tear down the buildings and find too much contamination and the DEP denies the change to residential? We will now have lost historical granite buildings, 100,000 square feet of commercial, and have a huge hole in the middle of downtown.
Isn't it spring boys, fall? Um it's Fall boys, fall? Fall boys and spring girls. >> Okay. I think. I mean, I'll get all that up. >> [laughter] >> We'll give you more details, but there's Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, we can hear you. Okay, so the during girls basketball, boys soccer will be running in the fall. And then during boys volleyball in the spring, girls soccer will be running. So, thank you. We try not to conflict with any of our local partners, but also with other sports. So. Awesome. Exciting. Uh eighth grade promotion coming right up. AMS, we've got uh President Maness speaking at theirs. Uh Mr. Herring, me, Mr. Bertozzi, and Kathleen are all going to AMS. CMS just I'm just saying this for the benefit of those who crap. CMS Delgado speaking. Congratulations. Um Ms. Carey, Ms. Bova, Dr. Christopher will be at CMS.
Um and then if the board does approve that, we have one more step that we need to take and that is filing that um with the administrator of the Capital Development Board. So, that's just part of the process. Um we'll get that uh taken care of and then get to work right away on um scheduling everything. As you know, we have health life safety work going on. We have the the flooring uh field house flooring being uh replaced. We've got a lot of moving pieces this summer. Um and uh we need to make sure that it's all getting coordinated uh with the the least disruption to the buildings, but there's going to be a lot lot going on. So, we're we're excited uh because this will have uh a large impact on a lot of different areas that are that are of need. So, thank you for your consideration of that.
I would never allow my children to live in the site and I am guessing you would not either. Um if you're going to mitigate air contaminants, that's one comment. Um my question is, how are you going to mitigate air contamination if you're not sure where it is coming from, which is what I heard at the beginning of the meeting? And what is dewatering? Is that groundwater removal? Someone want to speak to that? The indoor air is a little bit off topic for the Conservation Commission, but but um only a little bit. Sorry. All right. Yes, de- dewatering is um basically if if we encounter groundwater while we're excavating, which we fully anticipate and Ms. Solomon has confirmed based on other sites she fully anticipates as well, uh we have a plan in place to address how we're going to handle that water when we intercept it.
And then for ICS, Mr. Burton speaking. Uh Ms. Maness will attend. I'll be at that. And um Ms. Singal and Mr. Dennenberg will be attending as well. So, we're looking forward to seeing our eighth graders off. Is that at the main what? Is it at main what? So, the AMS and CMS are at Main South, and ICS is always home. Triple I conference is coming right up. And so, for that, uh we will work with board members, but if you know you cannot go, please let me and Ms. Porter know so that we don't register you. We can talk more about it, but opening is on June 1st, and we like to be right out of the gate. So, we can get uh accommodations met for your one professional development event. Um I'm going to throw this to Mr. Bertozzi. But before I go, I want to thank you, Mark, for your presentation you put together for the meeting leadership on district finances.
Any last questions for Travis or Jerry on this or adult certificates? We got two got a two for this. I do want to connect a couple of dots. So, last board meeting we talked about professional development, professional learning. This whole plan when Travis arrived in in district 3 years ago, uh Travis and I went to a session that was about just creative [clears throat] things you can do with buildings and projects and financing. And we saw a presentation on this exact model. And at that time, energy rates and delivery fees were much different. There was subsidies from the state of Illinois. There was different things that were rate controlled. And over the last 3 years that and things like data centers showing up and all of those things have drastically changed the energy market, which you've heard a lot of as a board over the last couple of years.
And that part of that goes back to the de- dewatering tank and the part of the soil management plan how that water is going to be handled and treated and discharged. Thank you. It dewatering could also require uh or be um trench dewatering during construction. If they dig a trench and it gets filled with rainwater, they have to get rid of that water. That's also dewatering. Um, I I do wonder why um, what what I heard through the meeting was this this group demands testing ahead before they'll take the soil. This group demands testing ahead before they'll take the soil. So, I'm wondering why it is not acceptable for the Conservation Commission to demand testing before they give their before they give their answer. Well, I think I can speak for the commission and suggesting that we think it is uh, that should be required.
I uh encouraged that that's tomorrow Wednesday night, right? Thank you for doing that. And Mark's got some updates for the board. This one. You want to mention that? He's got Yeah. Yeah. No comment. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Robert, I appreciate that. So. Uh so, uh a bit of sort of good news is uh the county looks like they've given us just about what they owe us for the spring. We've got a lot of money coming in, which is good. The bad news is it's probably not complete, and I can't tell you by how how it's short because the computer still isn't fixed. So, yeah, their computer, not ours. Their computer. >> [laughter] >> So, uh good news is we can keep rolling along and keep operating. I I hope this gets fixed over the summer. I I don't know what our accounts are going to do, but at this point it's we're going to leave it up to our accounts to determine what's owed and when.
Travis and Dree over the last couple of years have been monitoring this, looking at this as a potential model, have done all of like you've heard about this a lot as a board over the course of the year. Just imagine how much time Travis and Dree have spent on this project behind the scenes, right? So, I just want to acknowledge that like the board investing in professional learning in the district is what leads to us learning about opportunities like this that then pay off in $14.5 million of real work that needs to be done in the district and a commitment to energy conservation, right? With no impact on taxpayer funding, right? So, just to draw a through line between those those things. So, thank you Travis and Dree for all your work on this. All right. Inside of this is some remediation and abatements. And this is an action item also this evening, surprise.
That's that was the gist of the there are certain issues uh, during this deliberation uh, that we have to work uh, through. Uh, you heard one at the beginning of the meeting. Uh, you'll hear probably uh, many more as this goes forward. Um, that that's our position is that we would like to see uh, the the full characterization. Um, we're not deciding that this evening, although the applicant has suggested that he's not in favor of that. Mr. Chairman, we've had McPhail and Joe indicate that these plants will not take information that's more than 12 months old. We're not going to do we have to do it somewhat in efficiently. So, we we we just can't do it. It's going to be stale data and then we have to do that the whole testing again. It makes no logical sense. Whether we do it now or then, you're going to have we're going to be going through the same process.
Um so, uh that is a bit of [clears throat] an update on that. The other thing is I wanted to mention I almost kind of blurted it out when I did the developmental budget. Uh one of the things that we're watching, you know, as a cabinet team is our free reduced uh lunch numbers are are lower. Um there've been a lot of changes for direct certification through Medicaid. Um which is something that's happening not just in our school district, it's happening district-wide, probably statewide, probably nationally. So, uh in theory that would mean we'd probably have less title funding next year. If your numbers go down, you always lose funding, uh but if everyone's numbers are going down and if the money's held constant, in theory you'd get about the same amount of money. Uh but we don't really know how that's going to play out.
So, this is a this is a twofold thing that we had in in one bid. So, as a reminder, we've been talking about the auditorium at North needs some focus and and attention. We've addressed the mechanical issue that was causing the mold on the ceiling. So, we need to have that remediated. Um While after that, then we need to paint, right? So, we're going to have the scaffolding set up so that the auditorium can be painted. We have a separate bid for that that came in well under the bid threshold. So, the auditorium will be painted this summer as well. As well as we have some need for some asbestos abatement [clears throat] related to health life safety. When you have buildings that are this age, there's going to be asbestos in different things. So, part of it we had to have just different areas tested.
Might we do some additional limited testing as a show of good faith? Yes, but we're going to take the full pre-characterization of the site off the table. We're just not going to do it. You've heard from McPhail why. I don't know how much clearer we can make it. So, Well, I didn't ask the question, Mr. Angler. Um we're just trying to get answers to the public's questions. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Next. Good evening. Catherine Rooney, 136 Foundry Street. I have a bunch of questions. I think some of them are more germane to stormwater. Well, we're going to have more stormwater hearings, so save those. I will. Yeah, we're doing contamination tonight. Thank you. >> Yes. I have a couple Well, I have a lot of contamination questions, but I think the one that sort of most struck me as I listened to the developer was that I think the building, Cliff, you could probably tell us, was built in the 1700s, 1800s, so industry's been happening there it's since 1860, and then the Mayans have dusted up when we first discovered it happened sometime in the '70s.
So, that is something that we are we are watching and we will continue to provide updates and as we know more, we will we will um share that. Um the other thing related to that is we have three CEP schools, um community eligibility program, uh North, uh Orchard Place, and Plainfield. Uh those numbers are declining as well. Um so, we aren't really going to make it where they are now. Um probably going to make threshold. Uh when you apply, you apply for several years at a time. So, we are covered this school year and next school year. But we will probably come to the board unless things were to change maybe about 9 months from now and probably have a decision to make. Either we stay with the CEP program, which we'd like to do, um but we'd lose money on it, um or we could revert back to the National School Lunch Program as we do with the other schools.
But then there is some abatement that needs to be needs to be done. So, we had a on May 12th, the day after the English novel bid opening, we had another bid opening. We received five competitive bids for that. We worked with TEM Environmental to develop the bid specs to they they then reached out to partners to gather bids. I encouraged them to do that. They have TEM has vetted the the low bidder, made sure that they understand the scope of work, done reference checks. And so, if you can go to the next slide, please. They have recommended that we go with Kinsale Contracting Group out of Westmont. So, you can see the the two different amounts there. It totals $312,700 for that work. So, again, this would be into that that debt certificate. When you think about the things that we are responsible for in health life safety that we know we have to do that can't be included in the health life safety work, right?
So, let's say it's been being polluted before then. We just didn't know it. So, the way I look at this site is we're going to go into settled ground and unsettle it. So, what happens when the ground gets unsettled and all kinds of contaminants come up where the groundwater plume surfaces? So, that's the first part of the question because I heard the developer characterize that his investors don't want to spend $50,000 to pre-characterize the soil, and I'm like, that's cheap money for a project that's eventually going to be making him 7 to 8 million dollars in annuity each year. And more, perhaps. I'm I'm stunned that they wouldn't invest that for their investors. So, then I'm wondering when they decide it's too much money to fix all the contaminated soils that suddenly surface, we're going to be left with a big contaminated hole in the ground.
Can I ask Dr. Lupacchino something very quickly what that means? Yeah. The program. I'm sorry. Can you just explain what the program means? You explained it to us in board prep, but the rest of the board may not be familiar with what that program is. Okay, fair enough. Thank you. So, at North Central and Orchard Place, it's the community eligibility, meaning if you're above a certain level, your your your students are all free. Uh you don't need to worry about collecting free reduced lunch applications. Uh it's a way to really expedite the program. It's a way to make sure everybody gets the meals they should get, uh and it makes life a whole lot easier, but there are certain thresholds. Um and if we don't make those thresholds, we could in fact lose the eligibility. Um and if we want to be on the program and not making those thresholds, you will lose out money as opposed to being on the traditional national school lunch program, which we're on at the other schools.