001Okay, school board, we are live. We are recording. Phone lines are open. Go for it. >> Thank you very much. Good evening. Welcome to the school board meeting. Can I have a motion to open? >> I make a motion. Second. All >> in favor? I hope not. [Music] United States of America to the stands nation indivisible with liberty andice for all. >> Thank you very much. Good evening. I'd like to welcome everyone to our first of four Bond community forums. As the famous and legendary USA hockey coach Herb Brook stated, "Great moments are born from great opportunity." Tonight and right now, East Hampton finds itself with a great opportunity, a chance to chart the future of our district through extensive capital improvements with a bond that does not increase taxes. The presentation you're about to
002see will provide detailed information and about our capital projects and debt service. In addition, we will discuss needed improvements and other projects that could enhance the educational, athletic, and infrastructure of the East Hampton Union Free School District. These items are all these items are all for discussion at these forums. It is well within the possibility that this will be our last major construction project for the district for the next 20 years. So with that in mind, we are looking at each project with the question, what we will what will we need for our students to ensure that they are able to graduate college and be career ready students between now and 2045. I will not be here then. Um, I don't know if I'll be on this planet or not, but uh, the board of
003education has not made any decisions on the items that could be included in this bond. Your input is desired and imperative to the creation of a bond that will meet our 21st century learners. There will be plenty of time for questions, input, and discussion. If you do not feel like your questions were answered or your input was heard, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. It now gives me great pleasure to introduce our assistant superintendent for uh business, Mr. Sam Schneider, who will take you through uh our debt service and capital improvement uh plan. >> Thank you very much. Good evening everybody. Before I start, I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention our director of facilities, Greg Coell is here as well. So he and I can help out if there are
004any questions. So we have a presentation to kind of explain what a bond is, what capital construction is, and then talk about where we go from there. So we're going to define what capital construction is. We're going to talk about what the issuance of debt is. And I'll know that I'm doing this right when all of your eyes glaze over when we talk about issuance of debt. And then we're going to talk about some potential projects at a timeline. So capital construction in the school setting is where we are undertaking a project to create new space, renovate existing facilities and engage in largecale projects. So we talk spend a lot of time at board meetings talking about repair. That's when something is worn torn, broken or inoperable. That's and we're doing a fix to that
005so it becomes operable. This is not that. This is much larger scale plus the creation of new space if that's what's desired. There's three ways really that capital construction can happen and they all require voter approval. So that could be from a budgetary appropriation. You will recall in this year's budget when we were talking about this year's budget before the vote last in May that we included appropriation for the boilers at John Marshall. So the voters approved that by virtue of approving our general operating budget which had an appropriation for the boiler. That's how they approved that project. As Karen will tell us, the project is going along swimmingly. The building will be nice and toasty this winter. Uh the second is with specific use of reserves. So several times in the last year, last
006few years here, the voters have approved the use of the capital reserve for capital projects. I just threw a couple of examples out there. 2023, they approved amongst other things to redo the parking lot here at the high school or two 2025 to redo the playground at John Marshall. same 2023. So Charles and Phil left out. That's when we got new lockers through voter approval at the middle school. And then there's the issuance of debt. The debt is the district's unconditional guarantee to pay money back in exchange for borrowing money at and with an interest rate. And that's the example of that is in 2021 when the voters approved the construction of our new transportation center. So, we're able to issue bonds, which is our unconditional uh guarantee to pay with repayment that takes place
007over a long period of time. These notes are sold to the general public uh sorry, sold through investors on Wall Street. These are not something that an individual investor would buy. They're sold to banks and investment houses that repackage them in terms of large-scale debt from other public uh entities. And they're sold at public auction advertised in a in a publication called Bon Buyer. I'm sure you all subscribe. Um the interest rates are set at the time of the borrowing and they're determined as we say through public bidding. We have an excellent bond rating. We have the highest possible bond rating that we can that can be received at AAA bond rating and that is a testament to the support that the district has received from the taxpayers and the excellent direction the board has
008over time provided to us. just >> we can't move that. >> Okay. While Luke handles this, I'll say that the interest rates are we use in order to figure out exactly Great. In order to figure out exactly where we think interest rates are going, we use a professional municipal advisory service called Munistat. that they this is all they do is advise municipalities all across New York state to determine where we think interest rates are going to go is you have to look at the markets you have to look at trends and you also have to be able to look into the future because as we're going to see in a few minutes what we are going to talk about now what the voters are going to be asked to consider in May is not going
009to be actually borrowed the money is not going to be borrowed for several years into the future now this device does not work at Glad this went well in rehearsal. >> Turn this one around. We'll work on that one. >> I don't think so. >> Okay. Nothing like live TV. Okay. So, uh here's some history so we understand how we got to this point. And by the way, this entire presentation is going to be on our website, so it'll post there tomorrow morning, so you can see it. You don't have to take any notes if you don't want to. In 2017, the district consolidated several older bonds and began a rebatement process. Now, those older bonds did a number of things, including build the extension to the high school where our science wing is, build
010the district office, build the fabulous cafeteria that we have, and those uh those repayment bonds are going to begin to wind up in 2029. If the voters were to approve the issuance of new bonds this coming May in May of 26, we have a timeline here that kind of lays out how things are going to go. And you're going to see from our timeline, it's going to be a slow process. So, in the summer of 26, the district administration will work with our architect to do the project schedule and the optimal order that we want to do these projects in. One of the things that's important as we space these projects is first of all, we have to be able to manage these projects ourselves. So we can't do everything at once. Greg is only
011one person and as much as I tell him to be in two places at once, it doesn't work. So we have to make sure that we're only doing one major thing at a time so that he can be there to make sure that projects going along properly. The second thing we have to do is we have to be sure to space these projects out appropriately. So we are borrowing portions portions of the money that we are looking to borrow in such a way that they're essentially being borrowed onethird of the total each year in three successive years. Now why are we doing that? Because this 2017 consolidation bond is going to fall away from taxes over a three-year period. So we want whatever comes next to come onto taxes over a three-year period. So the
012net total cost to the taxpayers is as close to zero dollars change in what you're paying as possible. So as it falls away over three years, we're ramping up over three years. In January 27, project manuals are going to be submitted to SED for the first stage of the project. What's a project manual? When you go to, let's say, renovate your kitchen in your house, you probably meet with a builder. You'd say, "All right, I you I want some cabinets over here. I want to move the sink over here. I want to put the refrigerator over here." and the builder would say, "Okay, here's an estimate." And I'll kind of proceed and maybe along the way I'll say, "Hey, what do you think of this? What do you think of that?" That's not how this
013works in in public construction. The architect has to develop a manual which is can be this thick that lists every screw, every cut, every electrical box, every piece of wire. It's all in there so that anybody independently could pick it up and be able to look at the project manual and say, "Where's the screw that belongs here?" That's part of what Greg's responsibilities are. So it takes time to develop these project manuals. Then the pro then everything is going to be sent to is it'll be sent to the state education department in several portions for approval. We are not subject to local zoning and local building codes in almost every instance. We are instead governed by state education department. They issue the building permits. The way they do that is they take the project that
014came in and they they take the project as it comes in and they give it a number goes to the end of the line and there are architects and engineers there who analyze the the proposals only in the order they came in in. So if we submit a project proposal that and there's 500 projects ahead of us, we are going to be waiting for them to process those 500 projects first. I have experienced in the course of my career times where we could get a building permit in three months and I have had projects that have sat at SED for 14 months waiting for a building permit where nothing happens because we just have to wait in a very long line. Once they pick it up, it's usually a six to eight week approval process,
015but depending on how many people are ahead of us is how long we wait. Hopefully by March 28 they'll uh we'll be ready to uh sorry hopefully by January 28 we'll be able to begin bidding. You cannot bid a project until you have a building permit in hand from the state and hopefully by March of 28 we'll be able to begin to talk about begin to issue bonds to cover the expenses the first components of the project. We're looking at construction to begin in July of 28 and hopefully in September of 29, that's when we will begin our first repayments for that first stage of the project. Again, timed so that between 2029 2031 as the existing debt is falling away, the new debt comes on in the same pace. So the net change to
016the taxpayers is zero. So question you might be saying is why do we have to replace this debt? Well, the bottom line is that the public school buildings represent the single largest investment of local taxpayer funds in this community. There's no two ways about it. The amount of money that the taxpayers have put into these buildings is the largest public investment in this in this area. Any of you who own your own house or maintain houses for a living will know that periodic maintenance and renovation is absolutely is absolutely required for your building to maintain its structural integrity. And the same thing exists for our school buildings. We cannot have students come here if we have a hole in the roof or the window leaks or the the boiler doesn't uh provide heat. It is
017essential for us to operate the school buildings that these things work correctly. And so we're dividing the project into basically as we look at the project, we're looking at needs and wants. Needs are things like roofs, boilers, windows. We have to have those things in order to be able to run a school. wants are other things such as athletic department facilities. Sorry, Kathy. Where there are things that we want that we want them because we want to be able to provide a vibrant and secure vibrant, secure and appropriate education environment for students, but they are not essential as our life safety issues like spenders. So that's what we're trying to divide every component of this project into needs and wants. If we allow the debt to go unreplaced, what's going to happen is there will
018be a temporary small reduction, modest reduction in a individual homeowner's taxes. It's probably for the average assessed value is average assessed home in this community probably in the range of about $200 a year. Now, I want to be clear, I am not minimizing the value of $200. For some folks, that is a very large figure and a very important figure. But the bottom line is is that the windows at the middle school, for example, are never going to get better. They do not heal themselves. They're only going to continue to deteriorate. And so if the decision were take be taken that we're not going to do any work. We're going to allow this debt to expire and we're not going to undertake new work, all that's going to happen is there will be a temporary
019modest reduction in the homeowner's taxes because this debt will fall away. But there is inevitably going to be an increase right down the road because the windows aren't going to get better. The boiler is never going to get more efficient or more operable. And the roof is never going to stop leaking. And at that point, time will have gone by. The expense to construct things will have increased. Every year, these costs go up and the amount of work that has to be done is going to increase. If you think about a roof at a certain percentage, it's failed that has to be replaced, that only goes up over time. So, the project that was going to replace 30% of the roof, and I'm making that up as an example, is now going to have to
020be 40% of the roof. So the temporary reduction in taxes is going to have to go up and up in spades in order to cover the same h same amount of work that could have been done for less money with less of a scope if it had been done at this time. We're trying here to propose a bond that offers stable tax impact for voters. I think any homeowner would want to have as stable a taxes as possible. People realize that taxes go up a little bit each year, but they avoid peaks and valleys, right? Peaks and valleys are very unpredictable way to manage your own finances as a homeowner, and they're a very unpredictable way for us to manage our finances as a public entity. So, what have we done? So, we have identified
021potential projects in the area of need. We've done that by Adam, Greg, myself, working with the principles say what are must mustd dos in your buildings. We've worked with the district architect members of the public have sent in ideas for consideration. And again, as Adam said in his introduction, we're looking to we're looking at every question with what our needs, what our wants, and what do we need for our students to ensure that we're able to graduate college and career ready students between now and 2045. because we're not going to have this opportunity again. As Adam said, this debt is falling away. There isn't going to be another drop off of existing debt until the transportation center is repaid about 20 years from now. This is an ideal ideal time and a once in a
022generation time to be able to undertake a significant amount of work at keep taxes net zero for the impact for the voters. So we have identified what we're calling the needs and at this point I Adam if you want >> I think you know these are just things we talked about in passing as things that have to get done. I mean the high school auditorium uh is from 1970 and um you know obviously I would think the board that would be something that is a priority community uses it. Um I mean it's its electrical system is dangerous you know. So again, I I want to stress that even though we came up with this this preliminary list over the last year, year and a half, um it's still all up for discussion. I mean, none
023of this is set. The board doesn't even isn't aware. It's the first time the board has seen this list. I think we we might have informally talked about a lot of it or at times during uh facilities, but the these are just things that we think need to be done. The other piece is and Sam and I have talked and I think you should know as Sam went over capital use of capital funds and repair reserve. There are things that ultimately as we go through this process with the community that we might be able to call out of this and do with a repair reserve that's under that definition or uh ask for a you know to go to our capital fund which is a savings account that we could prime example for you know
024the science of the high school the playground. So, uh, but those also require improvement. But these are just some of the the items we came up with. Um, you know, obviously I give a great example, the gym floor. I mean, Kathy came running to me today. Uh, what was that over the summer? One of the mids just popped up. >> Yeah. So, from 1970 to Florida. So, I mean, it's a no-brainer um to put on the list and board's aware that that's something that needs to get done. And again, it's it's extensive uh extensive work of things that need to be done. You know, Charlie and I talked about the windows. You know, it's it's something that's improved. It's building from what 1923. I think you know that those are old it's old building, old
025windows, a lot of things that need to be done, >> right? So, the items on this list, as Adam said, I think that, you know, it's important to say that some of these things are are on this list where you'd say, well, really, you know, is the gym floor really a need? Well, yes, we are required to offer physical education. We have a floor that is popping up. It is not functioning as a floor. It will at some point in the near future become dangerous to be used. And so it is a need. We have to have it. You know, the auditorium is another great example. The electrical system is reached the point of Greg's crew are fashioning parts themselves because we simply cannot obtain the equipment that we need. It's not made anymore. It's
026not sold anymore. So our our own mechanics are fashioning these things by hand in order to sort of stitch together. This is no way to run a safe auditorium, you know, and there are other things that are more obvious. Brick repry pointing, uh, sophet painting, right? It's if you don't do these things, the building rots away around you. And that is certainly not a smart use of taxpayer asset, the largest taxpayer asset in the community. So we can come back and focus on this a little bit, but >> we'll put it on the other it'll stay up. We can Yeah. So just again just sort of wrapping this up. So as Adam said, there have been no decisions made about what's included in the bond. That's why the public is invited. Uh that's why the
027board wants to to to listen to feedback from the community. Uh and then so we have a couple other workshops. Obviously that's the September 25th. That's now. Uh we have October 15th, November 12th again here at six o'clock and then December 17th at 10 o'clock uh in the morning for folks who prefer to come to a daytime function. Um, after that, here's how the rest of the development schedule is going to work. Uh, final presentation will be on the January 20th board meeting and by February 2nd, that's really the absolute end of what the board can adjust in what it's going to present to the public. Why is that? Because on March 3rd, the board has to develop a secret, which is an environmental impact statement. Uh, has to adopt a secret statement and the
028ballot proposition language. Secret statement doesn't necessarily happen overnight. Sometimes with the architect needs to work with environmental engineers and consultants to correctly draft it in compliance with state law. So what I'm going to stress to the board members is pretty much by January 20th, we need to know where you're going because if there's going to be any major change to that point, we simply will not have time to produce these documents in order to meet the deadline of March 3rd. and then the voters will be able to have their say on whatever you choose to put before them on uh May 19th. I think that's it. >> Any questions? People can email me whatever you want to do. It's fine. Um >> we also have one email address the entire board for input all of
029us. Thank you. >> Does anybody here want to raise your hand? >> Matt, do you have any callers on the line? >> Please stand by. And this is Matt Chapman calling from LTV. Making sure that all lines are clear, which they are. And you have zero additional callers. Thank you. >> Thank you, Matt. At least we got one from you. Thank you. >> Hey everybody. I'm Jen Folks. I'm a resident of East Hampton. My three kids went through East Hampton School District. Um the question I have is about all of these projects. So, I don't see any wants on the list. Um, that we're just Okay, >> we're going to leave all you guys. >> Okay. So, have there have there been any proposals? I mean, >> this is the first meeting that we've had
030and we want to get the public input and see where we go. >> Okay. Um, I vote for a new track and field facility. Indoor track and field facility. >> Yes. Thank you very >> comments. I didn't even meet her. >> Hi, I'm Gail Pellet. Um, I've lived uh part-time for a long, long time and now full-time for a long time, over 35 years here in the East Hampton uh town, um, Sammy's Beach Road, uh, Three-Mile Harbor. And I have no children. My husband is here to Stefan Vanam. We have no children that have ever gone through this school district, but we are committed to the importance of public education. So, we pay our taxes happily here and are always eager to learn more about what's going on in the schools, etc. But um we
031are also founders of an organization called Change Hampton and we were a group of neighbors that came together about four years ago. um actually pretty disgusted and distressed by leaf blowers and we started out with that uh whining and complaining and uh caveting and stuff and then decided we couldn't build a movement uh just based on uh banning leaf blowers. So we began to educate ourselves about what was going on with the environment and in our local community. And we decided to found Change Hampton to really educate and promote around the values of native the restoring of native habitat and plants, trees, grasses, etc. We um we uh created a big model garden right in front of the entrance to East Hampton Town Hall called the community uh pollinator garden. Uh it's 4,000 square ft
032and it's a place gets a lot of traffic and it's been incredibly successful. There's been a lot of response to it. We also this year created 14,000 square feet of native grassland pollinator meadows also on the town campus and they are just starting to come up and flourish and that will be a two or threeear project of them coming to full fruition. These are meant as ecological models to educate our community. We've had kids and students from East Hampton High from the middle school involved in this these projects from the very beginning. They came and helped us prepare the beds for the first uh efforts to to prepare for the community pollinator garden in 2022. They uh I could tell you all the details, but I don't want to bore you. Um >> I wish
033we could show what she's talking about, >> but they can't. So, but Matt who's listening from Mel TV knows and you know it would be wonderful if Matt had a bunch of photographs of the gardens and meadows, but he probably doesn't. Um, but we also created a website, an educational website at the same time to uh provide web tools and information, newsletters, we do events, we do a podcast, we do all of that stuff to educate. We are looking we've also have a campaign called a thousand healthy yards campaign which is about uh residents private properties people beginning to change their their yards to be healthy yards away from the ecologically dead lawn. um which also usually for its maintenance requires a lot of poisonous uh chemicals and practices that aren't healthy for the environment
034that we need for a sustainable environment and we are doing all this to confront the climate crisis. Now I understand that's a controversial issue in this uh political environment but um at least 89% now of people in the US and much of the rest of the world believe in fact that we are in a climate crisis condition and we are also looking at the sixth extinction at the biodiversity collapse. So, this is all meant to address those issues and and as I I got I sort of uh stopped at the thing then we've had lots of students involved at the beginning with the community pollinator garden and then in the last year through and the year before through an a program that Rewald runs of a summer student intern uh program which Stella Breer has
035been part of and there have been other we just had a celebration this weekend because we had two students from East Hampton High on our most recent podcast. Uh it was Griffin uh Beckman and Shirley Jang who were also with the Rewild program and Shirley was there at the very beginning when we put in our community pollinator garden and helped us with that. So we have felt a connection with the school. But we now look at the message that this school is broadcasting as we drive by or or go by Long Lane and we think, "Oh my god, you know, what kind of message are we sending to students and the community about our landscape and our landscape practices and what we could be doing to nurture native habitat and educating not only the students
036but the community at the same time and whether there can be student involvement in such a program. I know there's a pollinator garden at the school. Our our friends, you know, we've had I have to say Aubrey Peterson has been just a wonderful connection for us. We talk to Aubrey regularly, put brings kids into his office. We have Zoom meetings with them and stuff. Um, so I know that Karen Def Fronzo also has uh been involved with us from the beginning, organized the middle school, but she was at the middle school, I think, at that time. I can't remember. >> Yeah. And um I know they've done a pollinator garden here at the school, but we don't see it as community people. Maybe there's some way that students get to see it somewhere in the
037back. We need to see that message out front. It should be a big educational message of the school system, we think. Um and we would love to see um some resources and some way to involve the community along with students and faculty to create this. And the big issue that of course always comes up is maintenance. who's going to take care of it after it goes in and that that class of kids has graduated and what goes on and that's the that's the tackling that we do as an organization. We have the same issues at the town hall. We at town hall and our organization we don't have overhead. We don't pay salaries. We created those gardens and the meadows with all pro bono local professional help with donations from businesses like Whitmore Conserv Irrigation
038from landscapers, master gardeners who come and volunteer time, parents and kids from this school who came and helped us plant 1300 plants in the pollinator garden and then came and helped us plant 5,000 plugs in the meadows. this uh spring. So, it can be done. It's an organizational uh challenge and scheme. We don't believe that local professionals and landscapers and nurseries should have to do everything for free. Um, we think we'd like to actually offer a model to students that they could actually live in their community they've grown up in, gone through school in, and have great jobs here and running businesses, doing either the science or design or the installation or whatever is involved because we now get this is a movement that has left the gate. We get so many >> I want
039I don't want to cut you off. I just I'm not I'm going to invite you to our facilities meeting. >> That's where something like this probably should start. This is probably a little bit outside of what we're talking of the bond issue. >> Well, this is what we wanted to test. >> Yeah, let's talk about it. >> We want to test and just one more comment is that um >> the parking lot could be conceived in a wholly different sustainable and environmental way. It too is sending a message that is very antiquated. I know. I realize you just spent money, you know. >> What we would like to do with all respect, my name is >> You can't. You do. You have to come up here. >> No. I What we would like to do
040is articulate the vision >> so that people can actually see what this will look like, what it will feel like. >> That's great. That's not what today's meeting is. Just give you guys a little we'll invite you to facilities. That's where our ideas begin. So um if you could leave some sort of a path that we have you guys are known everyone knows you are so >> we have gifts to actually we got gifts you just [Music] propagandist we'll direct this to facilities and I'm on facilities myself so I'll be there uh Mr. SP will be there. This most of us pop in and out anyway. So let's start it there. Okay. And you know this can maybe be part of the a bigger picture but let's go from there. But thank you for speaking
041because no one comes to speak. The only discussion points in the front of the building too is obviously our sign that's up there is we're in the process of proposing to the board at facilities some upgraded changes to the frontal lane with a new traditional sign. Traditional not digital. >> Yeah. >> No digital. Uh traditional. So I think this would be appropriate before we do that it invest in something to have this type of discussion. So >> that sounds good. Thank you. >> Thank you for uh listening. >> Absolutely. >> We didn't want we purposely today really didn't do a time limit because we want to hear from everyone right >> so we did go on you know for for quite a while but just so you know we want people to speak. We want
042to encourage people to be here and be heard and thank you for coming. Thank you for listening and giving us a platform. >> Definitely. We'll put you the right We'll give you the right to write. >> Any anybody else? I knew I knew you were going to give up. Come on. Thank you, Steve. I've seen Steve Long. I'm two kids at one at middle school, one at John Marshall. Um parents have said to me it would be great to have a even better science lab at the middle school was one suggestion. uh our son just started there so we're not very familiar with the facilities but um the one thing that I'd love to see part of the conversation is asking teachers um what it is that they would love to see you know the
043facilities that um that that that really could help them you know teach our kids even better. So, um I don't know if they've already been part of the conversation, but if if they could be really, you know, we as parents could say, "Oh, I've heard this or I've heard that." But, you know, the the parent the teachers are in it sort of dayto-day >> just informally. We definitely didn't formally hold the teachers and the staff yet. We're not there, but in for over the last year, we've had >> comments you should do this, you should do that. Great. I mean I think >> generally not >> some of them more I mean I guess it's like do they have tenure or not and that sort of thing like but no I'm I'm grateful for this
044and uh you know thank you for involving them and and listening to the community. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Just to make you know I just want to make sense. So I I stated prior like a few not a few meetings ago but when Jeff ra from from various people who have talked to me about it and stuff we you know in the board I didn't feel appropriate. I didn't want to throw it out like this is this is definitive list. We will populate you know future meetings with that list. I don't want to make anybody think they their suggestions over the last year and a half were just going on with de years. We haven't. We just wanted to leave it blank today. Um then start populating at this and let people start
045commenting and talking the board can have discussions about it. Uh you know it's pretty extensive. 30 something items hold some of them on to this after we've assessed what we >> I think some board members will have ideas too but we want to hear yours first let you know maybe maybe we're all on the same page maybe we're not but let's kind of get everything together and then go from there that way everybody gets why we're doing the four public meetings but we do facilities every pretty much every month during the school year anyway the summer sometimes not so much but we meet once a month with facilities the public is welcome to come I That's a great forum for anything, especially what you guys brought forward tonight. That can be done anytime. You know,
046bring it there. Let's talk about it. We've had this conversation from the board for my 13th year, the garden. I think I've discussed a garden probably every year. Yours is different because you're you've done this. And I think that's kind of what you need is you need a model that you've proven somewhere else and you've done that. So, that's a feather in your cap and it gives you a little more uh weight than sometimes. We've had gardens before and then you drive by like what happened to the garden? The gardens, you know, we got trees in it now. So, I know yours are wellmaintained and you guys have a plan. So, let's talk about that. Let's talk about that. I think that's separate from what we're here tonight. >> When's when's the next facilities meeting?
047>> Sam, when is it? I know Sam's going to send me an email. He hasn't sent it to me yet. So, I don't know. >> They're listed on the website. >> Why don't you go to the next point? I'll look. We'll get we'll get let you know next. >> Does anybody else have a comment? I see other people here. >> Don't you see? >> How about on the phone? Any >> There's nobody on the phone. >> still on the phone. Matt, we still clear. >> Zero callers. Thank you. >> Thank you. October 16th. >> October 16th. And what time? >> 12:45 in the boardroom where you vote on the annual budget. That's where it's going. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Coming in through the district office. >> Yes. If you want to put that on
048the agenda, we can have Sam put that on the agenda for the for that meeting. >> Correct. >> Thank you. >> Comment, you showed a list. I'm looking at that list there. But that's only the >> That's the needs list. >> That's the whole list. not the list that he's been collecting for people comments from people heard from community members for that science. >> Yeah. Well, I see the high school auditorium there. I don't see the middle school window. >> It was on the other scroll. They're they're on >> and the um concession stand and bathrooms. That's a need because they're out of compliance with the ADA. >> Yeah. I mean, you can see we have the water potties out there. We have to if we're going to spend money, it's one of the things
049I recommen >> to get the move the concession piece away because we do have some other ideas that the board to consider in that area, but for a bathroom, you need bathrooms. I mean somebody who's you know a wheelchair I mean people are in a wheelchair >> you see and you've seen it on other facilities that our school plays we see [Music] >> did I notice at the end of this said wants >> that's what we're talking about right that's what you guys are here for >> needs and then wants correct I thought I saw the start talk about wants saying we're sitting here requests we had tonight, >> right? >> Do you have any? >> You know why? >> I I know. I know. I knew it. I knew it. >> I'm just listening.
050>> I'm glad you came. Thank you. Well, does anybody else want to speak? >> I don't know that the board's I'm not going to comment tonight. I think we'll we'll wait to hear more and then, you know, we'll have our opportunity as well. I'll never stop anybody, but you know, I think that >> I have one quick question. Are you going to put together a committee of some sort to kind of push this forward or is it just going to be >> Yes, that's that's us and this is the form. Yeah, that's this is the form we want to be as open with it >> as >> and I think that if we do it we're doing it separate from our board meetings so it adds a little more but I think it's important that
051it's a televised >> so people can you know >> replay it watch it I think Sam's presentation is really critical because I think people need to understand the tax ramifications of doing versus not doing this and there's things that need to be done I mean I think I've read about pointing for 13 years and you know and it's we're going to be around probably forever because our buildings are you know, and we need to do these things and every year something else needs to be done. >> You know, we don't have to do so in the middle school anymore, though. I think I'll never hear about their fiber. That'll be good. Um, which is which is the hope of the lab for my lifetime, but >> like the auditorium here is the original auditorium and
052it's dangerous at this point. Yeah, it's like it's and we've been talking about that since I got on the board. >> Anybody? >> We're good. Motion to adjurnn. >> I make the motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> thank you all for