001Thank you all very much. >> And any further discussion? >> There being none, all those in favor by saying >> I do have an approved agenda. Our first agenda item is a presentation on school construction projects. Mr. Weedo and Mr. I think y'all wore a different color shirt. >> Yes. >> All right. Excited to uh show you guys the progress on the middle school edition. Um so just a view just kind of show you what this going to look like for the stadium. looking in. So, this is looking into the um alt ed office area. So, again, they'll have a conference room and some offices. This is looking down the hallway. So, you'll notice just a kind of a progress update. So, the second floor is pretty well completed at this point. You'll see you'll
002see pictures of the flooring down, wall paint, the ceiling fell in gas. Um the first floor is about two and a half weeks behind on the of that right so they're catching up with the top floor. Uh the stairs I did want to point out the staircases looking down there's glass enclosure. So when we think about safety concerns places where uh incidents happen in school buildings stair cases is one of them. Uh so beautiful um glass area there to be able to see that. And you can see here, this is on the second floor. The DCT tile is down. As you're looking into the classrooms, you can kind of see the design. Uh in the front where you see the solid tile, that is the teaching area. That's where the projector and the whiteboard will
003be. I'm just kind of showing so you can see we're actually getting some of the whiteboards and boards up. Uh this is looking into the cafeteria space back towards um the middle school. Uh this one I was excited to show you. Uh this is the auxiliary gym. Uh so you can see the expansion in this space. Uh I mean it's it's beautiful in there right now. Uh there's six a total of six basketball goals in there. Um, and it'll be marked for basketball, volleyball, and um, pickle ball. So, this is kind of the design that we have. So, there's your basketball court, your volleyball court, and your pickle ball. But here's the thing. You're not getting one, you're not getting two, you're getting three pickle ball courts marked out here. I put them in different
004colors so you can see the red is is the these aren't the colors that'll be on the floor. here so you can see them. The red is going to be the pickle ball, the blue is the volleyball, and the black is the basketball. So, beautiful space. It's going to be awesome uh for the for the students to be able to use that space. And that concludes the middle school edition. Everyone, uh we have one change order this evening for the middle school. It is a balance adjustment on our custom logos. Uh $154 credited back to our account. Um in purchase orders, you'll have a change order for your approval for a fire additional fire hydrant and middle school edition. Um which will total 21,800 um and we'll bring upon your approval, we'll bring our contingency
005balance down to $12,000 edition. um covering the costs of the middle school edition. Uh we have currently spent 20,265,735.30. This represents 77.9% of our budget and we have completed 91.96% of the project. We are on time and under budget. That's budget. CT building. Uh we have currently spent there are no change orders for the CT building at this time. Uh we have currently spent 3,227,464.78. This represents 8.2% of our budget and we are 10.54% complete with CO subject to your questions. Well, I just want you to bring up the fact that initial firearm was mandated by the state fire. >> Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So, the fire marshals a courtesy visit of the facility which they do uh they do quite regularly. Um he not he noted that there should be a fire hydrant within
006100 ft of the FC fire department connection. Um we we our plans were approved for a fire hydrant that was further further away an existing fire hydrant. Um the fire marshall asked us to make sure that we put one in 100 ft away. >> Yes sir. Nice. >> Yeah. I appreciate you anticipating my questions on time and under thumbs up on both of those. Thank you very much. Good work. >> All right. Um, moving on. So, the CTE project wanted to show you something. So, here is the parking lot that was just put in over summer. So, you can see it being fully utilized there. So obviously the darker asphalt is the new parking lot and that's being utilized I think for part of the teacher part of the parking lot at this time. This
007just kind of give you another snapshot to show you um that through the loop area that really won't be utilized until we get the CTE building in operation and that's just basically a service road to get back from the front of the CTE office back so you don't have to go out onto the main road. I didn't tell anybody else to be okay. And this I put this picture back in here. This kind of shows you what the site looked like a few weeks ago as they just really began to do some of the civil some of the grading. Um this is what we look like um today. So you can see all the the footings that have been put into the ground. We are about uh 70% done uh with the floaties at this
008point. Um and I hesitate to say this out loud. Uh but we have not had uh any issues, soil issues. We haven't found anything. Uh you know, we were very afraid of that because this was the the site of the old high school building. So we would determine what may be there up until this point. Nothing. And as you can see in the bottom left of the picture, there's a huge pit down there. Uh so even going that deep, we haven't found anything uh to be concerned about. Uh that pit is going to be part of the water uh system, the runoff water for the site. Um, one thing I want to show you. So, this is an image from uh, they have a drone uh, that comes out and takes an aerial view of
009the site and then it actually takes the the drawings of the building of the of the the footings and lays over top of what they've already done. And so, you can kind of see those lines there on the computer. You can zoom in a little bit. So, I did that on this next picture so you can kind of see it a little bit better those lines. And so it shows you you where the footings are supposed to be and where the footings are going to be and you know as they're continuing to do this and um they've been very accurate uh with the footings and it's it's neat to see this process uh play out as as they kind of do the drone shots and then match it up to to their real dig. It's
010really hard to I said we're about 70 some% done with the footings and then we have two more. So this one that you see for the water retention over there and then there's another one that gets put in. So we've still had some significant digging but up to this point I mean we were expecting to find some and to be this far along in the project and see really nothing to speak of. We very excited about that. Hope I don't jinx this. >> Not um I guess just another shot to show you in the upper right hand corner. Um the um corner that retention. >> So we refer to that as >> it's not a water groundwater retention. water tank. >> It's not really a tank. If you see the yellow um >> on the
011on the side. Um so those are actually open on the bottom. And so what that does, it allows the water captured inside of of that um yellow um pipe if you want to call it that. And it allows it to to soak into the soil at this time. land. >> And there'll be another one sort of opposite of that. >> Uh there'll be another one up here. You see the uh the gravel pile up in that direction up here. >> But both of them are located within the um the yard area of the the CP. And so it'll be a total of three. So you have these two and if you remember while I was showing you the images of the front parking lot there's one other parking lot as well and I think he's
012already >> so yes exciting and tomorrow um I believe tomorrow correct me if I'm wrong there we'll be laying the first block at the CTE center so we are well on our way to moving forward we're excited about that and so Mr. comparison question. >> Yeah. [Music] Whe it's excess water storage or it get to get it out there. >> Yeah. So I I say storage because like if you have a a rain event, >> it goes and it collects in air and and it slowly dissipates it out. So it doesn't store it long term. It allows it to slowly leech out into the soil. And we also have so some of it goes into the soil and we also have piping that it can run out to as well. So it'll go under the
013highway. >> Okay. >> So it doesn't feed the soil under under the >> Well, thank you guys and again thank you for the great work you're doing. We really appreciate your stay on top of all these projects. Middle school project is well on its way on time. Uh we're going to be opening it up. We're putting in the ceiling, the tile, all the things to make it look like school. And so we're excited about that. And then CTU with the first block tomorrow. So thank you for the great work you're doing to keep it moving forward. >> Yes, sir. I will get excited about getting here on the book. >> All right, that's everything under presentation. So on to our consent agenda. I heard a second. >> Any discussion? I have my question for finances.
014Um, all Amazon purchases and payments have been approved by being no further questions. Um, I guess all those in favor signify by saying I motion car. So on to action items for the media. Honorable media. >> Yes. We want we want to ask that you approve these tonight. We'd like to recognize uh three individuals from this. One from the central Virginia, one from um 29 UBC 29 and one from uh Pam Garrison from 99.7 for their work in the media just to promote our events and the things we're doing. Uh last year um you all approved this and we have some folks we're going to be recognizing soon as well um from those but these would be three additional um folks as well. We just ask for your support and recognize them for getting the
015word out and for our events and the things happening within our school community. >> Second further discussion We have the name. >> Yes. So we have Johnny Haidu um who is also LCHS graduate um who will be recognized from the central Virginia. Kate Neutraline from NBC 29. She covers a lot of our events and Pam Garrison from 99.7. >> Thank you. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. So we're on to informationational items update. >> I know moving it so quickly. See how much time we got. I appreciate everyone hearing our hearing a few items from our greatness this month. We'll start with instruction. The instructional team recently assisted and supporting schools with their open house programs. This is very exciting. We welcome back
016our families of our school to kick off the new school year. The instructional team also finalize a team LCPS professional development plan. And this plan opens teachers a menu of optional PD opportunities to enhance instructional crafts. We're very excited to have her release that recently. Miss Spade assisted prek classes during the first week of school and so the principal is very excited. So come see her uh in action meeting to our students and we'll go to workforce development. Mr. B participated in construction and equipment meetings on the new CT center and Mr. We recently released the first AI newsletter of the school year which is very well received. They also hosted the lines welcome back event and over 90 people in attendance. a great job that moving on to maint and they replace a compressor
017or an HVAC unit and the technology team are getting it done recently marquee they distribute their laptops to high school students and Mr. the truth may have a second call at the convocation festivities. So >> I was thankful he made me reappear. >> I was thankful. >> Last but certainly not least, Mr. uh Wolf gets a dent. He planned the first day school soft contest. He helped coordinate the signs for his senior sav and he created the future music video for converation. I'm sure was very Oh, you guys. We try to forget about that, don't we? >> Any questions at all? >> I just want to say, as you can see, we feel really uh positive about how the year started out. Our staff's working hard, our families are working hard, our students are working
018hard. Um, as we head into now week four of the school year, it's hard to believe we're in going into week four. It's going fast, but really proud. Many of the people sitting out here in the audience tonight are uh part of our school division as well and just want to thank them for the great work they're doing to continue us to move forward. And um just this past week we we were some things started coming out about our our um our test scores and some of the other things we have and we're very pleased with how we're falling within the within things. We'll have more information on that to come as the state continues to release information. But just really proud of of the team and all the folks out there working hard to
019make great things happen for our kids and at the end of the day uh we want to make sure they can get out there and lead the way and I'm really proud of everyone. So just wanted to bring that up as we talk about the journey to greatness. So thank you Dr. Great. Thank you very much. So our next item is school safety task force update. Good evening sir. >> Good evening everyone. It's pleasure to be here. Uh well, we had our last first state school task force meeting of the year just uh last week and it was quite the meeting. 45 plus members. We had a few visitors from county public school superintendent, the assistant superintendent and a representative sheriff's office and the purpose of their visit was to observe the safe school task
020force in action because they like to adopt a similar model for their own school. We had a lot of great things going on. Mr. Surely lay down your guidance for the year and I want to emphasize a couple things that you mentioned. Focus on the basics. Nothing is more important than focusing on the basics that is relationships and connection forms the basis of everything we do in safety. And right along with that which we do in stage here kind of school things like kindness and those sorts of things uh keep our students compassionate and hopefully good citizens when they finally graduate. also to focus on the many layers of safety we have fine-tuning the great things that we already have in fire which is always room for improvement uh and then leveraging uh technology where
021it's appropriate in the future one thing I wanted to talk briefly about today with the state school task force audits that was one of the main events where we formed our our team we'll be looking at the similar emphas emphasis area that we have in the past you can see the major ones there uh we have up to 45 people into six different teams. We'll show you the the leaders here in just a second. Here's the basic timeline for us. So, the visits are going to start not too far off in the future, but they'll be wrapped up here by the 24th of September and by the 2nd of October, they'll be briefing Mr. Austral findings and all our folks maintenance will have a chance to start looking at those and making those improvements. Even
022though improvements, we're always looking to the future. Probably expecting many small things, but you know, in today's world, really didn't have here's the uh the team members probably some of you recognize leaders from in the past but I want to highlight one in particular Mr. Donald Stafford. He's a brand new parent member of the safe school task force and you noticed that he's one of the team leaders. He contacted me directly and wanted to jump in with both feet and start running and what a great way to start your your career in state school. So we expect a lot of great things. You can see the different dates the administrators are all aware and we'll move on from there whatever action items necessary. So any comments that we make? >> I I would just like
023to say as a reminder on our task force and Miss Profett and Mr. run and serve on that task force. But so do our state police and our our local sheriff's office as well as department of emergency management, teachers, counselors, parents, um region 10 uh administration. It just across the board the the wealth of knowledge on that task force and just grateful to those 45 members uh for giving up their time to make sure that we're continuously doing the things we need to do to have a safe environment for our students and staff every day. You know, it's hard to learn if you're in an environment that's not safe and secure. And really grateful to the staff and all of those individuals who are a part of that committee and the great work they're doing
024since 2018 when we formed this group of this task force. They've done a lot of great things across the board. So, want to thank them and thank the gentleman at the podium, Sergeant Sarnoski, for heading that group up. Uh his his certainly his leadership is is tremendous uh for the things that have been accomplished. So, I want to thank you for that and thank you to our two board members for serving on that committee. >> All right. So, we are on for public comment. Um, and we have one person who signs up. But if you want to come forward if you don't mind your name what district I have question My question is for all kind homosexuality. Do y'all have the same heterosexuality? >> So from a school perspective, we're glad to have that conversation
025with you um individually myself or Mr. as far as this evening these are comments that we receive from the public. We appreciate your input. We typically don't respond back. >> I appreciate anyone else like no one else. We will move on to reports. So, Mr. Harris, any questions you had on reports this evening? >> You know, all >> and um I just wanted to call out that um that I always you look at reports and it's the little things that make a difference and um I do look at facilities report and saw that um all those done and completed that makes a difference and um I joke about the full and the sinks but nobody thinks about those till they're not where So we thank you for all the efforts on that and everybody else
026um with those reports as well and there's a couple field trips in there. So like you said the year's off >> rocking and roll. >> So um our next breaker board meetings October the 7th at 7 p.m. and be back here. And just as a reminder the SBA has a conference September 19th. Um so if you're interested in that and the SBA annual convention September 19th and there's no other items before the board. >> So we have a second think and so any further discussion all those in favor say. >> Those opposed. Thank you all very much. Like give up to