001Good evening, could someone make a motion for us to enter our executive session? Is there a second? All those in favor say aye. We will now move to executive session. Good evening and welcome to our March board meeting. There was no action taken in executive session. As we do in all of our board meetings I would like to ask Ms. Tracy Smith to praise. We thank you for bringing us all safely here tonight. We ask for you to guide our every thought, word, and deed as we make decisions that will impact our students, our parents, faculty, and our entire community. Remind us every day of the talents, but of also the challenges of each child in our school. Give us wisdom for this journey. In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you Tracy.
002The minutes for the January 12th, 2026 board meeting were sent to us electronically to review prior to this meeting. Are there any changes or corrections to the January board meeting minutes? Hearing no changes, the minutes are approved by acclamation. The January 2026 and February 2026 invoices were sent to us prior to tonight's board meeting. Are there any questions regarding the January 2026 invoices? Hearing no questions, do I have a motion to approve the January 2026 invoices? All approved say aye. Any objections? Hearing none, the January 2026 invoices stand approved. Are there any questions regarding the February 2026 invoices? Hearing no questions, do I have a motion to approve the February 2026 invoices? Do I have a second? All approved say aye. Any objections? Hearing none, the February 2026 invoices stand approved. At this time I'd
003like you to turn the meeting over to Dr. Ken Kaiser. Thank you Madam Chairman. At this time I would like to have Dr. Sean Wooten come to the podium. We have some very special recognitions. This is sincere. This is the best part of our board meetings when we get a chance to recognize staff, students, and parents that are committed to excellence. It's a great night for us and we're looking forward to this. Dr. Wooten, I'll turn it over to you for us. Thank you Dr. Kaiser. Board members, thank you this evening. You allow me to be up here and we know we were able to recognize you in January during our board appreciation month. We have some very special guests here that evening in January to help us do that. And then we move on
004to February and you didn't have to warn me because those same students brought themselves in some beautiful snow, but the shots have missed our January board meeting. Ms. Johnson, this is very special to you so we do have a very special student here this evening who would like to help recognize you and give the opportunity to show you how much our schools appreciate you. Would you come forward? Hi, I'm a student of Ms. Johnson. Ms. Johnson, on behalf of our new friends elementary, we would like to thank you for everything you do for our school class. Since you are a teacher yourself, we know that you understand that students can be teachers of learning. You always support us and show us what it really means to be a true teacher. Today, we want to present
005you with this book, Why We Need Teachers, by Gregory Maugham, to show you our appreciation. Thank you for caring about our education and helping to make it to your students' degrees. Thank you for representing Hollywood Springs and all the other schools. I just want to say this, I know it's a board appreciation month, but I want to thank Ms. Johnson for her leadership as chairwoman. I also want to thank this board. I want to tell the parents and students this. We have a District 6 board of trustees that is 100% committed to students, not just now but in the future. Every conversation we have is about what can we do for students, how can we keep them safe, how can we prepare for their future, what are their opportunities, how can we support staff, how
006can we support teachers. It is a blessing to be in a district that is genuine about their motives, that is genuine about their mission. This is an absolute student-centered board of trustees, and I just want to thank it. It's an incredible place to work and be a part of because students are first. I want to give all of our board members a big round of applause. This is Gideon Zapp. We have a school board association meeting we went to, and do you know that our board chairwoman recommended a place we go eat? They had a bacon trip. The bacon was that big. I had one happy superintendent. I'll take that just for Dr. Keiser. Good luck early, Joel. I've never said that before. Thank you, Dr. Keiser. We have some teachers with us this evening,
007so we do get to recognize teachers as well as students. Every year, the PSLA, that's the power of the St. Bruce Association, provides opportunities for each district in the state to participate in their local council's Distinguished Literacy Teacher of the Year award process. What are the qualifications for this? Well, teachers are selected because they strive to motivate students to read, to develop reading skills, and to inspire a love and appreciation of Rooney. The district application process includes a written questionnaire as well as a course-based form. We have four teachers in our district who are recognized as such. From Fairfax Elementary School, we have Sarah Growler. She's a fourth-grade teacher at Fairfax Elementary School. She's not here this evening, but let's give her a round of applause. We have Amy Bieler from Westview Elementary School, second
008grade. She is here with us this evening. We have Allison Redman from Roebuck Elementary School, third grade. We have Heather Donovan from Anderson Mills Elementary School. Heather is the librarian at Anderson Mills Elementary School, and Heather is also our district planner. So, if we can get her. Are you going to read your plan? Do you want to read for your witnesses? Does she want to read? Yeah, I want to read. Distinguished literacy teacher at the year of birth, in honor of outstanding academic literacy instruction, dedication, and its great practice. Ladies, what an honor it is to be recommended for this. We appreciate you and what you do. We talk about, just finished with the board, talking about literacy and literacy skills and what you do day in and day out to inspire our students. Not
009only to have a love for reading, which is really important, but to strive to be better at reading and that you employ some very specific strategies whenever it comes to that and you work on that skill set and you have a growth mindset and we appreciate you so much. Thank you. Now, I'll just say this. You know, students, you can't really prepare for your future if you don't have teachers and administrators that are dedicated to it. I would like to thank one of these ladies and also the teacher that they represent because they're committed to doing the right thing, to preparing, to going to school, to going to in-service training, and to find out what each student needs to be successful. That reflects leadership in our district, it reflects our administrators, and it reflects commitment
010to excellence. Thank you teachers and all the other teachers and educators in this room. Thank you for your commitment because of you, our kids are prepared, and again, it's a great place to be because of those who are in my place. Thank you people here. We'd like to have Coach John Staird come. A very special recognition of some outstanding accomplishments on the hardwood. ...ball team. Cavaliers entered the season, the 2025 season, as the back-to-back-to-back defending state champions. Once again, the Cavaliers dominated from start to finish. As a matter of fact, this team searched out the best competition in the country. They traveled to Virginia Beach to face some of the best teams that we could find. They also loaded their schedule with the best teams in South Carolina. And yet again, they still went undefeated
011and didn't lose a set for the entire season. It's the second year in a row that they've gone undefeated without losing a set. Now typically I'll try to make this a little dramatic as we go throughout the season and try to build it up from the state championship that we overcame some big obstacle, but since there was not a whole lot of dramas this season, I thought I would search the numbers, and some of these numbers stood out to me, and I thought it was, I thought it was pretty, oh look at my picture up here with these guys. So this group had four consecutive state championships. During those four years, they had a record of 104 wins and two losses. They have not lost a set since the 2023 state championship game. They finished
012the season having won 146 sets in a row, and they have won 73 games in a row. Let's give them a round of applause. So with all of that on the line, they took the court on November 1st at high school and faced a strong year long forest team. Our fantastic digital media coordinator Delshawn Brooks was there to capture the moment, and let's take a look back and relive that. How can he be the king of the jump if he's not the biggest? He can't be the fastest, he can't be the smartest. So he's not the biggest, the fastest or smartest. So how does the line become the king of the jump? That's the only difference of a lion and an elephant. When a lion walks up and sees an elephant, he thinks much. The
013most dominant runs in South Carolina high school sports coach Drew Coughlin, his staff, his senior class, did a remarkable job of building Norman Volleyball into a powerhouse. And their impact has not only been felt at Norman, but around the entire state of South Carolina. They have been instrumental in the growth of the sport, and this impact will be felt for many years to come. And just seeing these guys back up here and emotional energy that like Marcus brings out on the court and Lucas and all these guys. I mean, this was a special group, it was a real fun year. And the way that they represented our school and our district and our community was very special. So at this time, I'd like to introduce the players, managers, and coaches of your 2020-25 5A Division
014I State Champion, boys volleyball team. And we've got a, as a little gift for them. We've got these very nice, thick, warm sweatshirts for the hoody. Got your pocket shoes, you can zip them up, skittles that will fall out. I have a phone here for Mr. Marcus, an equally good guy. He's very nice, very thick, very durable. And on the front, it's got four state champs. Four times, 2,045 5A state champs. Michael Jordan was famous because he had a great feet. This is a four feet. Not many people do that, so proud of y'all. But I hope you take this, keep it, take care of it, because you earned this. And the four feet is very good. Start with Will Bush. Jason Cheshire. Grayson Gretting. Lucas Kelly. Toby Johansson. Robert Kitsch. Zach Kiel. Marcus McCullough
015Bryant. Ewan Mullins. Kacen Rector. Ethan Turley. Our managers, Simon Kandler. Levi Harrell. Errol Neal. Mark Mancino. And our coaching staff, assistant coach, Madeline Bowers. Tim Flexico. Look, y'all saw Coach Kozlun, but if everybody else is celebrating, he missed the 2023 brawl in the game, he's over. It's still stage. The only thing negative about this season was this. We get to the end, and I'm going to tell you what. This is the absolute best high school volleyball thing in the nation. I don't know what, max, current, whoever, some school in Wisconsin, I told Coach Cheshire, we'll meet him halfway. This group right here, remember what y'all did. Don't have to hold it back. Yeah, you got talent, but you got to work it. You got ability to work together as a team. Volleyball is not an
016individual sport. Y'all play fantastic. The future is bright when they coach it or you're committed to it and trying to keep them healthy. But this is an outstanding accomplishment. It was not an accident, and it's a four-time dominant dynasty. We're going to look at the new number five next year. The pressure's on, because I don't want the coaches to be upset when we drop the game. If they don't feel anything, we're better out, y'all. Get reflection, commitment, not just winning, but you're going to mix each other. And I think that's what being in the family is all about. Proud of y'all in Division Six, proud of y'all for going in. I want to thank y'all so much for your commitment and making us all champions, but we're associated with y'all. Y'all are our champions, and
017thank you so much. Give me a round of applause. I'm not saying y'all could have been me, but I think there's some moms and dads out there that still play in the mix. Maybe we just get in on a game, pick up that dad, or we can get you a team of adults out there. Thank you so much. Again, it's such an honor to be able to come and recognize students for their accomplishments. District Six is a great place to be. It's the cause of the commitment of students and the families, all the parents that are here. These kids didn't get to where they are without commitment to their homes, without commitment to their excellence, making sure that we're poured into these young people. To all the administrators that are here, the district office staff,
018thank y'all so much for your leadership and what y'all represent here as well. Madam Chair, that completes my award. And again, proud to be a District Six Cavalier. I just want to say thank you to my precious presenter. You did an awesome job. Thank you so much. I will use this book in my education classes at Walford this week. So thank you to the teachers who are recognized. Thank you so much for what you do every day. It's hard, but it's good work and it's important work. So we thank you. We're super proud of you. And to the boys volleyball team, every one of you that walked up, you looked me in the eye and shook my hand and said thank you. And that is a skill that is a testament to your character. Thank
019you for that. Coaches, parents, you have a part in that. I'm just going to say another round of applause for all of you here tonight. Your coach being a cheerleader certainly helps, right? At this time, we will have a transition. You are welcome to stay for instruction, policy, and finance if you would like, or you may scoot out and not see the rest of our meeting. Thank you so much. I just wanted to say a special welcome to our Spartan Road Community College students. Go raise your hands. Thank y'all for coming. We appreciate you giving questions for us after the meeting. The next item on our agenda is instruction with Dr. Shawn Wu. Chairman, board members, in the executive session, we discussed the school improvement turnaround plan for Jesse Bobo Elementary School. You have been
020provided with all the information with regards to the three goals, the funding, and the plans for the turnaround plan. While this plan has been approved by the State Department of Education already, funding has been provided to us. We also need approval from. So at this time, if there are no additional questions, Ms. Shawn, I'd like to ask for a vote for approval. Anyone have questions? The administration has presented the Jesse Bobo Elementary School Improvement Plan for approval. Do I have a motion to approve the Jesse Bobo Elementary School Improvement Plan? Do I have a second? All approved, say aye. Any objections? Hearing no objections, the Jesse Bobo Elementary School Improvement Plan stands approved as presented. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is policy with Dr. Hahn. Thank you, Madam Chairman and Board of
021Trustees. This evening, we have three policies that we need. There's no approval tonight. This is just first reading, so we have three policies I'd like to review. The first one is Board Policy GCB. This is the Certified Personnel Compensation Guides and Contracts. This policy will allow us to come into compliance with the Educator Assistance Act that asks us to notify certified staff members when we issue contracts, their salary for the coming school year. So if you'll notice the language over contracts, I'm not going to read the entire policy that I won't highlight. Upon recommendation of the superintendent, the board will notify teachers in writing of their employment status for the next term of each year. This includes both the issuance of employment contracts and the recommendation of the superintendent, not to renew employment contracts. The
022notice will include the projected salary schedule for the district or the school year. Upon completion of the state and local appropriations, teachers will be provided a final salary schedule. Teachers who are re-employed must return with an acceptance for their contracts to the superintendent before May 11th of each year and go there to provide such final written acceptance constitutes rejection of the contract. So the language there just basically says that we want the projected salary for the coming year or once the board approves the budget and we have our final salary schedule, we can give them that notice before or after if you guys have printed the budget. So that's the language there. Are there any questions about board policy GCB? Again, this is just first reading. Our next policy, it goes hand in hand with
023that policy GCB. It is GBCA and this is staff compensation. This policy we are recommending to consolidate the staff compensation schedules for professional staff, which would include our teaching staff as well as our administrative personnel and also our support staff. And it basically refers back that the compensation for certified staff would be handled under policy GCB that was just reading here. Any questions about GBCA? Our last policy is GCK. This policy is for professional staff assignments and transfers. This also is being brought up in response to the Educator Assistance Act, which asks us to give teachers notification of their school assignments for the school year. We specifically need to give them a working day's notice before students return of their assignments. So if you will read in the assignment, I know you guys all have
024the policy in front of you, but under the assignment, it says that the superintendent will assign staff first in accordance with the needs of the district and its students. Second, where the administration believes each staff member is most qualified to serve. And thirdly, as to the expressed preference of the staff members. It specifically states that we will annually determine the provincial staff to be assigned at each school. No later than 14 days before students are scheduled to return. The superintendent will notify each staff member of his or her tentative assignment for the following school year. It also designates if there is a last minute change that the superintendent or staff member we have to do, give them at least five days notice, five school days notice of any change of a school building should that
025become necessary. It also addresses the process for a request for transfer and also school assignments. Within the individual school, the principal or the director will have the authority to assign staff to classes in accordance with the needs of the school. Subject to the approval of the superintendent the principal or the director will make such assignments based on staff qualifications. And that's addressing these within the school, such that the teacher may be changed from one grade level to another to serve the needs of the students within that school. The first questions on policy, should you see better? Hey, if not, we'll bring these back next month for our second reading, if you want. Thank you. Would you like to go ahead with our staff? Yes. The administration is also coming tonight with our certified staff recommendations.
026You all have those in your packets, our certified staff recommendations for the middle schools, the high school, that includes Norman High School, Norman Freshman Campus, Marty Anderson and the Master's School Center and also our district administrative staff. We'll do these first and then we will do our elementary recommendations as we will ask Mr. Ross to produce themselves and see how the staffs will be. So we'll start. The administration seeks the approval for our middle and high school, which I will specify it takes Norman High School, Norman Freshman Campus, Marty and the Master's School Center and also our district administrative staff. The administration has recommended the certified staff for all middle schools, Norman High School, Norman Freshman Campus, Marty Anderson Applied Technology Center, Master's School Center and all school and district level administrative staff for the
0272026-2027 school year. Do we have a motion to approve these certified staff recommendations? Second. Any opposed? The recommendations stand approved. Thank you Madam Chairman. Mr. Ross, I'd like to ask you to produce yourself please. Madam Chairman, the administration would like to make recommendations for the approval of our certified staff of the elementary schools for the 2026-2027 school year. The administration has presented the certified staff recommendations for elementary schools for the 2026-2027 school year. Do we have a motion to approve these recommendations? Second. Any opposed? The recommendations stand approved. Thank you. The final item on our agenda is finance with Dr. Daniels. Madam Chair, Board of Trustees, good evening. I planned a longer presentation but I don't think my voice is on now this evening. So be a little bit shorter. It's okay. Bye. Again, good
028evening Board of Trustees. Since we've been dipped in this my January meeting, I did want to just recap a little bit about what happened with January to now. We'll also cover House Ways and Means but that's where our budget is now. When the Governor's budget came out early January, the numbers from the state's expected were positive. There was 2.7 billion in new revenue that the Governor could appropriate for use across the state. Of that 2.7 billion, 939 million was recurring, 1.7 billion was non-recurring. So it looked positive based upon the initial numbers that come from the state. Now the question is how will the money be appropriated? So part of that was as much as possible to the rainy day budget of the state. I would assume it was for the state. That was one
029of the Governor's initiatives when he actually went into office and increased the rainy day budget. This is something for the last three years. This is more of a history of pre-teaching. By reaching that, the bill will start to salary for a new teacher in the state of South Carolina will be $5,500. It'll be higher than North Carolina and Georgia. So that would be good for our state. So that was a big push to education. A couple of other things in education. Free breakfast for every public school student. We already did that. So I'm not sure how this is going to impact our budget, but that is something that the state is actually, it's in the house way to meet also. School safety. A school resource officer in every public school. We already have that also.
030We will not be needing this fund. School safety facility grants. We may get some of that $20 million for school safety facility grants. Those were the three priorities in the Governor's budget. Digital items for school choice. Who would they, who would they mortgage? That would not need to expand the scholarship program across the state with $61 million. Just a couple other items. Health care, $203 million. Behavioral health, $83 million. So again, the big thing for us was teacher salary that will impact our budget the most. So of course, our budget process every year. We started early January with capital projects. We started this a little bit earlier considering that the things we needed for the referendum. Needed with special education and instructional, our instructional team in digital technology from childhood and we have our student
031individual budget because our principal is also. So with this process, really to establish priorities for our government. So we go all the way from early until this week. The last week, the transportation will be at the end. Then of course, we start fine tuning our budget based upon the revenues that we expect to have. Right now, we don't know our revenues for our district. We're actually in the House Ways and Means. Once the budget, not the House Ways and Means, we'll have a pretty good idea of what the school district allocation will be. It used to be, once the budget went to the House Ways and Means, the Senate would actually, if there was additional dollars, allocate more dollars to the budget. That may still happen. But our total allocation will not change that much
032based upon the history of the general Senate in the last three years. So what do we get from the House Ways and Means? We need to be pretty close. So that's another one we can work with throughout our budget. So House Ways and Means, you can see the historical numbers of where we were each year since 2023. 2023, there was $1 billion in new revenue. This year, now there's 39 million. So you see the, really, still a positive number as far as new revenue. Total nonrecurrent revenue, $2.2 billion, and in 2023, $1.4 billion this year. With total appropriations expected, $2.1 billion for 26, 27. Just to give you a little bit of an idea of how that breaks down between all state agencies. Again, the most important piece for us as public education, $4.6 billion,
033$118 billion added, $106 million added, giving us a total of $4.8 billion. So it's not a lot. When you look at the comparative agencies and percentage increases, our numbers are not a lot compared to these other agencies. But I did want to show you exactly what our expected increase of the nonrecurrent and return of revenues is. This slide right here is a comparison to last year. You see, last year, we had $118 million. This year, we had $118 million, too. So not a lot more as far as what we received last year compared to this year. The big allocations in the state, general bond, of course, this is just our state revenues here. Health insurance increase, there's an additional $33 million. Base bank increase for state employees. This is not student district employees, this is
034just state employees here. $66.9 million. There is an allocation of the Calgary Reserve Fund, and that's used for state children. And public education, just a summary of some of the breakdowns here. To increase teacher salaries across the state, there's about $90 billion being added to the budget for next year. In this case, the scholarship fund, $23 million. We're on the charts through Calgary Fund in the 75th year. There was a huge discussion about the charts last year. Part of the traditional formula for charts included the same funding model and public education. They took part of it out. Now, they're actually getting on the line item or got the funding of $75 million. So that's why that's the school bus lease, $30 billion. This is education behind. Education is proof of that. That is the once
035it sells tax money. We still get some of that. They actually reduced that out of EIA, and they shifted it up to the state general fund. Start up expanding. They're moving it to private daycares. They have the amount of $9 million. Teachers repeat the compensation, $6.4 million. This, again, just highlights some of the areas. So you have an idea of where money was appropriated for public education out of the EIA money. The biggest one is career technology center, $81 million. I think this is just a correction to the problem. The new funding formula was adopted. It did not include enough money for career technology center. Okay. So they actually put money back for the career technology studies here in the EIA. Here's school, job, and church. This is my school breakfast program D. Lottery money.
036We don't really get any lottery money that was proposed when the lottery fund was adopted. This year, I think prices with excess points per million go towards two percent. That's the only lottery money that we actually receive. So our general fund, again, not have a lot of revenue information, but we do know. Starts out our budget. This was our budget that we adopted last year. One of the things that we communicated last year was that there was a one-time funding in our budget that we adopted. $1.7 million that was from federal dollars and is no longer here. It's an EIA carryover that we didn't spend and we're spending this year at 2.1. So we know we're starving in the hole with our general fund budget. So we keep that in mind as we're having our
037budget meetings that, okay, how do we start making this $3.8 million? So that's really the things we know right now. Also teacher salaries, the $2,000 increase. That cost us about $2.2 million and we're going to add current money. Okay, so we know that too. Actually, we just put this in your $3,000 to see what it would look like, $3.3 million. $2.2 million if the county actually decides to go with that, we're probably going to have to double check. We didn't want to show it. This is what we're looking at, $2.2 million for teacher salaries. This does not include other employees. In our budget, the only certified teachers will make up that $2.2 million. Some of the highlights, this does not include all the requests we have in front schools. The records here, I'm not going
038to list all of them. These are some of the items that were actually recommended as far as included in the 26-27 budget. We've got some staff administrators, staff classrooms, related to our teachers, business specialists, NTSS coordinators, who got it down, interventionists, staff administrators, high school staff administrators, district office leader specialists, kindergarten specialties, classrooms, music teachers, maintenance staff, polymer grounds, food service, dedicated maintenance, and transportation security cameras. Those are some of the items that we are looking at and moving forward. It all depends upon that revenue number that we get from the station. Once we get the revenue number, we'll start prioritizing these items here to see what can be included in our budget. Again, the biggest thing, biggest part of our budget, I think it's about 43% is state-aid classroom. That's the number we're waiting
039on to come out of the house, ways and means. Then, of course, there's senate finance. You know, it's a lot of changes once the state budget gets to senate finance. Teacher salaries used to be, would that number, $2,000 change between now and the same? Again, there's no discussion that that number will change. We are probably looking at $2,000 per certified teacher. What does that mean for other employees? About 34% equivalent for other employees who are not certified. Line items, we'll look at our line items for our time request. Then look at our local revenues and hopefully we got an appropriate assessment to cover some of this, some of the requests that are coming in. Any questions? Again, this is pretty early. I want to just give you an idea of what we're hearing from the
040state and just a bottom line of the foundation of our federal fund budget. Can I ask any questions? Capital budget plan. We're a little bit early with our capital budget plan because a lot of this would depend on what happens on March 31st. Okay, we still have vacancies we have to do regardless of what happens on March 31st. Top 100, we still have to look at. These are our highest quality maintenance projects or building improvement projects. We're looking at as far as it is. Now, what will change if the referendum passes? One of the things people will have to look at in the referendum passes is how much we can do in one year. Okay, referendum passes, there's $3 million every year that still will be spent on the top 100 technology and preventive acts.
041It's $3 million for the first three years, after that it's $500. Again, these are some of the things that, one of the substitutions of things that have been completed, some of the things that are still in progress. Jesse Moble flat roof is completed. There are some other roofing projects. Dawkins Flat Roof, Chalk City City Roof, Woodland Heights Roof. Some of these things, if the referendum is approved, can be actually included in the process. And so, that's one of the things that we'll wait until March 31st, depending on the project budget for each one of those items. Gabriel Roof, of course, gave his part of the whole referendum. Dawkins, Dudders were completed, DLC was completed. Woodland Heights and all of the Fairfax Elementary, Dudders and Downspouts, Downspouts were completed. Arcadia heat pumps still in progress, Roman
042water is in progress. These are just some of the items, from an HVAC standpoint, that are part of the top 100 that need to be addressed at some point in time. And I told you here, they do a great job of prioritizing these and determining, okay, what do we do next? Woodland Heights heat pumps completed. Again, this is just a list of some of the things that are in progress, that we have to address at some point in time with our budget. Pools and Freezers. This is a completed project here at Jesse Bubba. These are the schools that we need to look at as far as Pools and Freezers. Paving. Paving is, every year when we talk about this, because of the bigger GSP, asphalt erosion, the pot holes are becoming a concern. We're doing
043what we can to maintain it, but at some point we'll have to do some major expenditures for Paving project. Again, part of this, depending on the school that the referendum has, can be addressed in the referendum project itself. Particularly some of these new blocks. This is dormant drive here. This is city seat. See the pot hole here? So again, if these projects are approved, we might have to extend them. So that may become part of the dollar spent as far as the referendum project. We'll think about it. I want to show some before and afters here. This is long up here, that has been completed. Arcadia. This is what we presented last year. This is the finished project on the right. Rump up the ceiling progress. Gable. Those two locker rooms. Again, that's part of
044last year's referendum project. One of the highest bathrooms. This is what we presented last year. This is the finished project on the right. So again, great work. No professional labs. You see here, one of the things that hurt about the budget discussion is, okay, I got to get my life up and close. And so again, that's going to become priority as far as our top 100. Again, some of the other completed projects. This is Dawkins. This is the field, athletic fields at dormant. This is Tomlin-Lance-Green. These are finished projects. Stay in line and upgrade. Be happy with them, okay? Another reason to have the athletic fields at dormant. In 1981 was when that actual original installation happened. Outside of years of cause, it is time to actually get those actually replaced also. Gave the ceiling
045tiles. Gave the gyms. Again, some of this could be included in the project itself. Electrical panels. All schools. These are some of the requests that our students had in their budget discussions. I'm not going to go over each one of them. Carpet is a huge request every year, so I wanted to show you some of the requests, some of the things that have been completed. There's some big old F.R.C. elementary theater. Dormant, Franklin, Banner, Office of Records, and Office of Millicent and Front Office. Even though they've been completed, there's still a lot more every year that we have to work on. So here are some of the other requests for some of these students. Again, the list is in your packet. If you have any questions, please let me know. Busses. It's probably about Mr.
046Culk. He's not here, but the replacement cycle that we use for our buses has been very advantageous for the students, because we're able to put at least two new buses on the road every year. So you see some of the things that were actually completed and were last week, a drop of the transportation vehicle, a food service van, transportation priority van, last week we did by now many buses to transport students from Child Development Center home. So we still actually raise this number. It used to be $200,000 for replacement, we're up around $200,000 now. This is about the increase in the replacement of a bus. New activity bus now will actually cost around $250,000. And so that's why we started increasing the number. We used to buy a long bus and a mini bus every
047year. So playgrounds. The cost of playgrounds continued to increase, but they have to be replaced. Playgrounds ranking were $350,000. This is Jesse Bobo's room and playground. Great replacement for that school. Westview actually had a replacement playground, so just want to show you the tennis project, some of those playgrounds. School of Safety and Security, always been forefront. Campions was a big request, and this year's budget process, additional campus, not existing campus, additional campus too. Of course, the gate will fill with the blocks, will be part of the gate project. The airlocks, of course, were completed. And the spring sports building, just from a safety concern, still actually includes, not a priority yet, but at some point, two or maybe one that's ready to stay. Now, since we are, rather in the past, since we are capped
048with the amount of money we can spend for technology, capping and approve that, preventive maintenance, this is good enough. We know it's coming as far as technology replacement also. 26, 27, I think Mr. Collins and they told me they might have to fight this one out, because it won't be enough money for everything. But we're looking at 1.7 million student computers, 1.4 million teaching computers, that's good enough. We can plan for that. We can look at some things like leases to absorb all that, or of course, that is a 3.1 million thing, okay? We can look at some things like, again, student leases, those kind of things to be able to absorb all of that. 27, 28, another 3 million volumes, protect volumes. Again, just knowing that, that's a splinter. Let's just get ahead of
049it and actually figure out without budget, how can we make this work? Any question, again, normally we show you a breakdown of the expenditures and revenues. Again, there's no need to do that right now until March 31st. So we'll come back March 31st and tell you, can I ask any questions? Stop down to hear that. Thank you, Dr. Daniels. Any other questions or concerns? That concludes our meeting, and our meeting is adjourned. Thank you so much.