Board of Education 4/8/25

001Good evening. I call this meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] Thank you for joining us this evening. Please be advised that in event of an fire emergency, an alarm will sound. Please note all emergency exits and evacuate well away from the building. At this time, we request everyone please turn your cell phones to silence. Thank you for your cooperation. Thank you all for joining us. We are going to start our meeting with additions, deletions, and changes to the agenda. Dr. Shadell, we do have additions this evening to the agenda. You're going to see there in your additions a budget

002transfer, the district treasures report, and an appropriations and revenue status report. Uh Mr. Nardone was in this past weekend to complete that for us. Um, so it's here for your approval. Thank you very much. Moving on to our first order of business, the consent agenda. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve the following consent agenda 1 through 7 as listed. May I have a motion, please? So moved. Can I have a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That is carried. We are going to move on to communications. We will start off tonight with correspondence and points of pride. Mrs. R, I believe you're the first on that list. I am. Um, the Cal Mom Elementary with the support of the PTO successfully concluded

003its annual parents as reading partners part program themed rock out with a good book. The program, which ran from March 17th to March 21st, aimed to encourage reading development and a love of books among students. The week-long initiative featured various events and activities during the school day, culminating in the highly anticipated ParkFest on Friday, March 21st. The Parkfest, a long-standing tradition at Calum Elementary, provided a fun and engaging environment for families to celebrate reading together. Our elementary school welcomed Kelly Deutrio, who is a number one New York Times best-selling author of over 40 stories for children. Her books have received numerous stars reviews and awards. She hosted four different presentations throughout the day covering the entire school. She shared her journey as an author, her process of writing and the fun ways she has come

004up with her book book ideas. Her inspiring message also inspired students to never give up on their dreams and how everyone can be a superhero to someone else. Special thanks to our librarian, Miss Wilson Monahan, for coordinating this special experience. And our middle and high school library hosted an author visit and workshop with author McKenzie Reid. She led our raiders through a presentation on Let's Write a Book and shared the creative writing process. As a culmination of the visit, students wrote a pitch for a book they hope to author. A huge congratulation goes out to the musical cast, Pit, and crew of the Drowsy Chaperoon. The show kept the audience laughing, and it was clear the cast enjoyed it, too. We were well represented at the Section 5 Athletics Middle School Leadership Conference at the

005Rotary Sunshine Camp in Rush. teacher Norah Anderson and students Wesley McNair, Blake Sickls, and Khloe Warner attended. Fantastic. Uh before moving on to uh board committee reports, I just want to put on the board's radar a few things that are upcoming. First being um our super uh superintendent evaluation process will start soon. So be on the lookout for that. Our board self evaluation process will also be starting soon. You're going to see those fairly close together. So, it's going to be a bit of a time commitment um to complete those. And just a reminder that May 13th is our annual um budget hearing and um meet the candidate night which we have historically for the past several years been doing um questions to the candidates from government class. Uh Dr. Chanel has reached out to

006government class and they are preparing those questions. So, we are on track to do the same thing we have been doing. Madam President, uh, may I throw a suggestion out there? Yes. Um, correct me if I'm wrong. I believe I read that on May 13th is going to take place in here. I I with the I don't want to word this with the uh should we consider moving into the office with the confusion I've seen people offering on social media I think we're sadly mistaken if we think we're going to maybe only seven people will come but I'd rather be prepared for the people that are here so we can consider moving that to the auditorium that would be no no problem. I'd be rather be prepared for that to make sure everyone has a

007seat. Very good. Thank you. And I appreciate you saying that. Absolutely. Um, next, moving on to board committee reports. We're going to not do uh compact committee though. We're going to do that in a second. So, are there other board committees that have met outside of compact? Anyone? Uh, you're doing both middle and high and elementary later. Okay. Okay. There are none of those. There are no or no there are guests of the board. Shannon Davis and Mike Ferrari. Am I saying it correct? Um they are here to present today the um updates for our capital project. So I will welcome you to the podium and you guys can update us on what is happening. We appreciate you coming out tonight. Sure. So I'll chime in for just a second while they get organized. The

008last time that the board saw the capital project, we were really talking about it in its inception as we were taking it out to the community for vote. Uh now you're going to see the capital project overview in terms of bids have come in and you're going to see exactly what is going to happen in this project uh as we know it to date. So it' be a nice update for you of the realness of this particular capsule project. Could somebody please lower the shades back there? I cannot see anything. I know that you guys can. Thank you very much. I was like, do they have faces? [Music] Okay, we got it working. So, thanks for having us. Um, go down a little bit more, but just want to give you guys a quick update.

009I know the last time we were here, I think, was um when we received bids and we were looking for approval on the contracts. So, we've been working fast and furious to get all the contractors started up and get things going. Uh, so what we want to do is kind of run through the way we've phased out the project so you know what's coming and when and where we're going to be. And then we'll touch on some um the design elements that um I don't think you guys have seen where some of the the design landed um at the end of the project. So, we got some renderings that Shannon talked to if I can get it to go. There we go. Okay. So, this is just a snapshot. This is our project budget summary.

010This is the all of the contracts we asked you to approve um at that previous meeting. I just have this slide to show you that this is how we communicate back and forth with the district on um the finances of the project as we go through. Um the top section lists all of our contracts. The bottom section uh is all of our contracts. And this is how we track change management through the project. So every month this sheet goes into a report that's delivered to uh the district and to the board as well. So getting right into uh what this project is going to look like. Uh this is our site logistics plan. Um, a lot of the what we're going to talk about here, I want to preface that the dates we're talking about

011are how campus phased out the project um, and then bid the project. So, at a minimum, the contractors are held to the dates we're going to talk about here. One of the requirements though, part of the startup with them is they owe us their construction schedules. We're in the process of collecting those right now. Um, it's our job then to take those, stitch them together into our our master schedule. uh then once everybody agrees upon that that becomes our construction schedule going forward but these dates we're talking about are the bare minimum what they're held to uh in their contract and there'll be some some fluctuation to them. So all the colors you see here on the screen uh this is our site work. I I'll start with the yellow areas. These are some areas

012that we've identified for staging. Um contractors to lay down materials, uh maybe put a trailer to store some things in. There's there's a couple I think there's four different areas. We've got one uh down in the south parking lot across uh next to the tennis court. Uh most likely where we're going to be starting out with the staging area. Um over jumping up to the other side of the uh elementary by the loop. Uh we will be using that spot to uh do some roof work uh to stage some roofing and lift materials up onto the roof. Uh we're potent we're we're looking at the front yard out there possibly for another staging area if we need it. And then once we get over to the high school, we've got that area back there um

013kind of identified for that. All those areas will be, you know, restored and the grass will be replanted after we're done with construction. Um the other colored areas are all pavement in that's in this project. So, how we originally phased this was the south parking lot next to the tennis courts uh and the um drop off loop well all of the payment really from district office through the loop at the elementary building that's going to happen first. Uh we're going to start at um the dropoff loop because that is a full depth replacement. So, that is getting completely dug out and fully replaced with some additional drainage going in there. Uh then we move across the parking lot. When we start paving, the rest of the site that you see is just going to be

014a mill and pave. So very little disruption to traffic on site. Again, this is all happening over the summer, too. So there is less traffic on site then, but um milling and paving, you could you can drive right over it as they're working. Um as long as we're out of the way, which we plan on being. Um so once we finish the blue areas, they'll move on to the the purpley area, do the middle school. uh loop that's also a mill and pave. And then the green area highlighted at the high school, we originally had planned to do next summer, not knowing the contractors will be able to fit everything in this summer, but they've come to us saying they feel confident they can get it all done this first summer, which is great. Uh

015so that's what we're going to try and do. Can I ask one question? Sure. This is just from remembering that staging area that's over by the street. Isn't that where they play little league or uh you know pee-wee ball or whatever? Oh, you mean next to the playground over there? Um that one. That one. Yeah. Yeah. The the yard is used. If we do use that area, we'll make sure that we're far enough away from there. Everything is fenced off and screened into locked up so it's it's safe and secure. It just struck me. I could see little kids. Yeah. Yeah. It's We've identified as many as we could. We may or may not use all of those. We don't need them. Okay. Um, moving on to the elementary school. So, the scope of work

016that's in the project is here. We've got the main office renovations and nurs's office. The entry vestibule renovations and sec security upgrades there. Uh, window replacements along the uh side of the building west side of the building. Thank you. uh a roof replacement, boiler replacements, the auditorium ceiling and lighting replacements, and the library work to convert that into a new library and steam classroom. So, this is how we've kind of phased out the job. The these are the areas of of the building we're going to be working in. And I apologize, the rest of this plan is a little bit light. It might be hard to see. Um, but for orientation purposes, it doesn't show up on the screen. Um, here's your main entrance. Here's your main office. Just so you're orientated on the plan.

017So, the railing out back that goes down to the basement and uh along a loading dock on the back that's going to be replaced. That's a small item. We're going to try and just pick that off here early in the project for summer. um the main office. Uh this was originally scheduled to start on May 1st. Uh the contractor approached us and actually a couple contractors approached us about starting early over spring recess. So we would like to take advantage of that. Uh, so we've actually been able to pull that work forward a little bit. And starting on the 14th of April, next Monday, the district will be moving out of the main office over to the temporary location, which you'll see on the the subsequent slide here. Um, and once they're out, then we're

018just going to start demolition. It'll be on second shift because it'll be noisy. Um, once we get into a little bit more quieter work, we might look at doing some work maybe during the day because we're kind of locked in that space, but we'll see how that goes. Did you say you were going to have roof work on the second shift? Did I uh Oh, yeah. I'll get to that slide. I'm I'm sorry. No problem. Um the auditorium ceiling and lights, we are starting April of next year and that goes through September next year. The window replacements are the blue lines you see. So, um, the windows in the stairwells at either end of the building are getting replaced all along the west end of the building there where the blue is or those windows

019first and second floor are getting replaced. And then the orange on the back, first and second floor, we've recently identified those. Uh, we're studying um what it would cost to bring those into the project and replace them as well. So, this is our second floor plan, but it kind of shows you the area of the roof we're going to be working over. Uh, this is scheduled to start on the 14th and go through the beginning of June. So, the the noisy tear off and demo um work will happen over the break and then um the rest of the roof system is a glued down system. There won't be any banging, drilling, anything into the roof. So, we've talked about uh starting that work and working through the day while school's in session. If there is

020any sort of disruption, any sort of smell, any sort of noise, we'll shut them down and figure something else out. They'll come back on the weekend or whatever we have to do to work around the school so we don't disrupt anybody. So, the main the the main office move, we're going to be taking the main office there in orange and moving it over to room 112 in this wing over here. Uh we will have signage at the current door to direct traffic over to this the other sidewalk. Um but the main vestibule there that we are going to be working on will remain intact. We're not going to take that down right away. That's going to happen over the summer. The existing main entrance is going to be our accessible entrance into the building because

021our new entrance, which is down here, has a set of stairs right at the door. So, if somebody's who can't use the stairs comes to that door, they would have to be directed back to the existing main entrance and they'll be escorted into the building from there. But the room 112 here in gray, you can see, is going to be our new main office. We're going to build a a wall across the hallway with a new set of temporary double doors. Um, this is going to create a secure vestibule and with the security controls that we're putting on that door, the existing controls at the outside door and at the main office existing classroom door, it will function exactly the same as your current main office and main entrance. the uh the person in the

022main office will be able to buzz somebody in the outside and then have uh control over the door in their office and that temporary door with remote releases. So once somebody's in this vestibule, they can't get into the building. Um this also means we have to keep the door at the second floor at the top of these stairs locked so nobody can get in. Um but always free to access to access the building or exit the building. Will there be line of sight from the secretary in the elementary office to that door or a camera or both? Good question. Yes, we are installing a doorbell camera over there. So, we have that be direct line of sight and yeah, there we have a combination of an existing security camera outside that can see the yard

023and who's approaching and then once they're at the door, then we can see their face at the doorbell. Thank you. Yep. And another camera going inside that the secure vestibule that's being built will also have a camera in that area right over the temporary door. that dark double door. We're going to put a camera that looks back the other way. So, the whole area will be covered. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a doorbell camera is basically I'm I'm I'm at a door right here. And the doorbell camera is just like looking at me like just like this. Why wouldn't we just have a nice big camera that has the the whole thing? When I think horsey think of a doorbell camera, I think of something that's just cheap, little once in a while you

024get lucky and the police get lucky and they they see something on someone's doorbell camera. Yeah. Is it It's going to be the same type of doorbell camera you have at the district office. I was going to say I can put Sue Loose on the spot for a second and just say like when you're answering that door, do you feel like you can see who's at it? Absolutely. And communicate with them well before you release the door. Okay, that that's all I need to hear. Thank you. That's a great question. And we're also trying to kind of reuse components that are already part of the project over here that we can use temporarily and then put in their um permanent location later on. Going up to the second floor, uh we'll be getting into the

025library at the end of this year and that'll be running through um through the beginning of school 2026. Um, we're going to be emptying out that entire uh red space there and converting the library and the room next to it into the library and steam room. Again, window replacements on the second floor shown with the blue and orange. So, getting into some of the design um elements, this is a mockup that we worked with Pella um to, you know, talk through all of our design options for the window replacement at this building. Um the top right corner is what you have existing. These windows were last replaced I want to say like late 80s. Um and so the larger picture is just a mockup of what our new design will be. Um the material is

026going to be a fiberglass. Um it's not going to be vinyl. It's definitely not going to be wood. You know, we heard loud and clear how problematic the wood, you know, frames are uh for all the staff in that building. Um, and so the design is a a narrow uh transom panel at top that uh is clear glass. Um, right now in your existing you have that solid um spandrel panel. We're returning that to be glass. Um, and then you've got four awning windows in each classroom. Um, those are meant to be used um when it gets really hot and the teachers need some air flow. Um, those will be your operable windows for that purpose. But then we're also required to have one rescue window per classroom. Um, unfortunately we can't get an awning

027window as a rescue window. So that one window will be a single hung. But you know, we worked as hard as we could within the limits of, you know, what we can do with fiberglass windows uh to make them all look consistent from the exterior. Shannon, when you talk about awning windows, are you referencing that top piece there? Does that like slide? No, the little bottom piece will tip out. And then the the double hung would be like this would be the rescue window here. Here. See how it looks slightly different? Yes. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Yep. So that'll be the same um material that we do on the stair towers. Um but we are going to be able to keep the existing um sort of like ornamental profile um that you have at the

028stair towers um as well. And those will also have an operable portion. We were we had to comply with state historic preservation society on these windows as well. So and SED and SEDD. So the the design was narrowed down to this is your option or this is your option almost. Did you have a question? Yeah, I do. Um will window shades be updated, replaced as window shades? Anywhere that we're like heavily renovating are getting all new window shades. Thank you. Uh so this are a couple of shots of what the new main office will be. Um you know we it was a big push for both of the buildings in this project to um have better secure vestibules. So a lot of what I'm going to talk about here has been duplicated over at the

029high school. Um Mike, are you going to point for me? Yes. Um, so the the floor plan image is cut off a little bit, but if you can point to the existing main entry doors right there. So that's all going to stay the same. We're going to replace those doors. Um, but uh we were tasked with creating like a bigger waiting area because a lot of times during pickup and whatever events um the size that you have now, it's just it's crowded with all the people in there. So, we did move the second set of interior vestibial doors up a little bit. So, um they fall just below, if you can picture that hallway, there's that first set of gym doors on the right. Um the new wall with the new doors is is just

030below there. Um so, uh the outer set of doors and the new inner set of doors will all be on access control. So, if somebody comes into the building, they get buzzed in at both locations. Um when you come in immediately to the left there is a waiting room. Uh you know enough for um a few chairs. Um the person at the admin desk inside the suite um has a window to interact with them. Um there's also a window from the admin suite to the vestibule. Windows there as well for any kind of uh interaction as well. The window from the admin to the vestibule is fixed. Um there's no moving components to that. It's going to be um a bullet resistant glass. The window from the admin to the waiting room. However, once you're

031buzzed in, you know, you're in a safe uh space, a safe area. So, that window does have a sliding component if somebody, you know, is coming to drop off a lunch, you know, change of clothes, whatever. Um and then immediately off the waiting room, we have a conference room. Um so that conference room is meant to be used for the whole suite, whether it's internal or um you know, there's visitors needing to meet with uh staff in there. The door into that room from the waiting room is also an access control. And then the door leaving the conference room to get out of the suite is also an access control. Um so once I mean if you're in these spaces you're buzzed in and you are not getting into the back of the suite um

032you know as a visitor without that permission. So in the admin area we've got you know a large open desk area uh set up for two um two people right now. We've got the uh principal and assistant principal top left and then um on the right uh we have the door from the corridor uh into the space. So that would be used by students and staff um coming into the main office. Staff uh would pick up their mail um at the mailbox right behind there. And then above there we have a storage room, uh a SRO office and um a restroom meant to be used for the suite. So um you can see that what the kitchenet area here. Yeah. And a kitchenet area. Um so the numbered pictures tie to you know the shots

033um you know on the floor plan. We have one shot looking uh at the admin desk and at the door where the students and staff are entering. Um, and then shot number two, uh, is from the other side of that admin area. Any questions on any of that? Nope, I'll go back. Okay, so the next uh slide is the nurse's office. This is just um just above the main office. So the door, single door on the bottom there, um is the connection door between the main office and the nurse's office. So if a student is in the nurse's office and um they ultimately need to be picked up and go home, they can, you know, they don't have to go back out in the hallway, they can just um you know, egress right through to

034the um main office. So in the nurse's office, they have their own single-user toilet room as well. Um we also have a room for uh nursing moms. Uh again we have an open a large open desk area for you know one to three people um working at the desk. There is a a small kitchenet area just above the nursing room. Um we only needed two beds. So those are in the top left corner um with the with the sliding privacy curtains um going around those. And then we have a private exam room in the bottom left corner. Um, and again, top top right corner, there's a door for students to enter right from the corridor. Uh, in terms of finishes, I'll just say sort of generally the way that we approached the finishes, um, we

035kept everything pretty neutral. You know, you'll notice that there's a lot of, um, you know, whites, light grays, and dark grays. Um, and that was very much, you know, there's pops of of maroon. Um but that was very much intentional uh because during the design phase um the district has a lot of you know potential future intent for some custom wall murals and graphics. So if we keep things neutral then you know your graphics will always go. So these are some shots of the second floor uh library space. Uh these are in the STEM classroom. Um we took two classrooms and took out the dividing wall to make this you know large STEM lab. Um so the door the picture in the bottom uh left corner the the maroon door that you see is the

036door to the corridor. So um immediately adjacent to that we have a really long sink area. I think there's three sinks. Um and then the whole backsplash is tiled. Um this was really designed um with kids being really messy uh in mind. I know they're using clay, they're using paint, sand, you know, whatever. Uh these surfaces are all very cleanable. The floor material in here is a rubber tile. And then all of the new case work there um has a solid surface top. So it's all, you know, very cleanable. So this is in the actual library. Um the footprint of the library is staying pretty much the same. We are adding some new case work along the exterior wall which in the bottom image is uh on the left. All that gray case work. Um

037we're keeping all of the built-in wood case work that's there. It's beautiful but we are refinishing it. So, we're going to sand it in place, restain it, reseal it, and then um we're adding uh a coffford ceiling. Uh you can see in in the bottom left picture, uh as well with some drop ceiling in between. Uh in the top right is an image of the library from the corridor. Uh so, the entry is going to be a single door with a couple of of side lights on either side. And then we've got some built-in um display cases. Um, it can be for books or projects or a combination of both. And then, um, Michelle, they're looking at me like it's still in there. Every time I'm like, it's still there. It's still there. Um, we're

038doing something sculptural sculptural to highlight this um as the entry and that it's a library. So, um, this is a a custom um book element that is going to be fabricated from some lightweight material and hung from the ceiling. Okay. So, that kind of takes us through high level of the elementary school. Um, now we get into the to this building, middle school, high school. Um, so over here we've got again main office renovations similar to the other building. It's a full renovation. Uh, the auditorium. We're going to be replacing the seating. We're doing some new finishes in there. um doing some work the sound booth and and some other sound uh replacements. Um the library similar to the the elementary building, converting that into innovation center, STEM space, um you name I think there's

039a few different areas in that room. Now, uh we're replacing a section of the roof that's over the fitness center. um replacing boilers. U public address system, this wasn't on the other slide, but in both buildings campuswide, the public address system is being replaced. Um food service elevator that is non-functional right now. You're getting a new one of those. They can move food into the basement. Uh some hallway finishes like you can see in this rendering. This is I think an older rendering outside of the library. and um some air conditioning in in our tea room. So, the main office scheduled to kick up beginning of 2026. This is going to overlap a little bit with finishing the main office in the elementary building. The the idea is we finish up over there. We go

040right over here and we start actually that is going to start finish a little bit sooner. This actually doesn't overlap. My apologies. Uh the the library renovations, those are going to be uh midsummer this year. Um so going back to main office really quickly, we phased them out this way so that we did not have both of your main offices down at the same time. That not would not have been good for you guys. You would have hated us. Uh yeah. So the so then we get into the library uh this summer and that's going to stretch through spring of next year, about this time next year. And then the auditorium uh renovations are going to happen this summer through the end of this year. This is the area of roof over the fitness center

041we are replacing. It's pretty small and actually we are now doing some additional work. There's a another section of roof that comes down here. Um we were able to add more of that roof in because of the way our bids came in favorably. So we're doing a little bit more than that red square shows right there. This is um ancillary work for the work in the main office over here down below. And over here in these classrooms, the library is below those. We have to get some uh new air conditioning and mechanicals down from the roof into that space. So, we'll be creating just there's some very small chases in some of these rooms to get the duct work up and down to the roof. And then that will be happening at the same time.

042both of these areas are being done. Okay. So, over here uh with the main office, um starting at the top at the floor plan, um your existing storefront, you've got the three sets of doors. We are going to put a new piece of uh storefront in that separates the door on the far right uh from the other two. And that's going to be the the main office entry um for company. Those doors are planned to be open um all the time. And then the inner set of of doors uh where that number two is uh is what is the set that's on access control. Um so again um once you are buzzed into uh through that doors you're in a waiting area. Um and we have uh you know a set of like drop off

043cubbies uh in this waiting room which you can see in the lower left image. Um and again we also have you know a large sort of transaction window for the admins to interact with a visitor. Um again still not um operable. It is fixed and it is the the bullet resistant uh glazing. Um and then the door from the waiting room actually into the suite that's also um on access control as well. Uh moving around the back of the admin area uh is where we have a little passageway to um a conference room here as well. Same sort of conventions for access control. Visitors buzzed into the conference room. Once they're in um they cannot leave out the door uh that goes into the rest of the suite. Um and then to the right of

044that we've got principal and vice principal's office. Um, and then it's a little bit cut off below there, but there's a restroom and SRO office and a vault. We're reusing um those desks that are modeled in that right picture, though. That's new furniture. So, we designed around reusing those. Do students have access without getting buzzed in if they need to go to the office for something or do they get buzzed in from the hall to go to the cubbies? No. to go say a student needs to go talk to somebody in the main office. They need to go see the principal. So there is a door off the corridor for that's just a that's open without having to get buzzed open. Y thank you. The other So can you just jump back? So the other

045two um outermost set of vestibial doors um are are going to be the ones that are on the access control if they're not already. Couple questions. Yeah. Sorry. No no no. Um, where so while this work's being done, where will you stage the the interim office? That is a great question. It'll come down here to the to the old middle school office. Okay. So, you're So, we will literally transition everything that's happening on that end of the building to this end of the building where our security is already in place, our access controls are already in place. Okay. It'll be an easy shift actually in this building. As we get closer to the date for this work, we'll coordinate this with the district. Secondly, like when we drop our kids off at that circle, would

046they go in that vestibule there? Like so it looks like you you're separating that huge vestibule to the left is like for like when the parents come for a meeting or to to what have you. But the right side is like a bigger area. Is that like where kids can go inside when they're waiting for the bell to those are going to be the drop off? Thank you. So, this is your secured entry into the building. And then this is free exit through here, holding area. Um, off hours, these doors might be unlocked. This would be public access to the building. Thank you. If you're bringing your child late to school, they've gone to a dentist appointment, you're bringing them back. They will come through the secure vestial. That'll be the only way in which

047they can get buzzed in. But yes, otherwise that main morning traffic and after school traffic is going to run through the vest. We've also I thought you were going to ask this question, so I had it. They've also talked about how when we are under construction, right now we have buses drop off on this end, parents drop off on that end. We can maintain that. We'll just move one of our access doors that kids can get to in terms of coming in. They won't be able to use the vest of fuel, but we can come down to the other side of that first set of stairwell doors. So, go down in between um where the bathroom is right now. Like there's a boy's bathroom there and a stairwell that leads upstairs. There's a set of

048doors there. We would just make that part of our morning traffic so that we don't clog traffic wise both sides of the building. And we'll do our best to keep as much of this side open while we're doing con under construction on this side. You know, this wall can go up and create a or we create a barrier somehow so that we're kind of inside there and you can still use that for the door. Um, so this is in the library. Um, so I mean this is a full renovation. Um, one of the big changes that you'll see in here is that uh existing ceiling hung unit that's in there right now that it's, you know, it's it's very very low. Um, that is moving to the roof. Uh, and that's how we're going to

049achieve as much height in this space as we can. Um, and that's why we've got to, you know, touch some classrooms on the second floor because the duct work is coming down from the roof through the second floor, um, above the ceiling into this space. So, um, on the floor plan here, um, the majority of the footprint of the existing library is remaining as is. The librarian in this space doesn't have a need or a want to display all her books, which is opposite than the elementary. She does want lots of display. So, um, the librarian would rather have more space in here for, um, large group instruction, small breakout areas. We've got about about six, um, breakout areas. Um, in the top right corner there, that rectangular space. Um, nope. Next to the, uh,

050Yep. So, in there, that is going to be the storagework room for the librarian. um she's got about 10 or excuse me 6,000 volumes that she's got to store. So um that's actually a highdensity storage unit. Um to the left of that is the entrepreneur studio. Um that is in image number two. So that is going to be a space where um refreshments can be served during any sort of athletic and or theater events. Um it was talked about maybe the business classes use it. They you know in their STEM program they concept and develop a product um you know they sell it um in you know out of that and then it's also if this library is being used for um something like this a community meeting the refreshments um would be handled out

051of uh the entre yes the entrepreneur studio. Um, so the bottom left picture that is if you're standing in the library looking back towards the other end. So that that box on the bottom on the floor plan um is what we're calling the innovation studio. Um it's essentially a digital media lab. So um on the on the very far wall down at the bottom um yep um that's planned to be a green screen wall. um you know any kind of student newscasts would be done from there. Any other kind of digital art um and media would be done out of that space. Um it's going to be set up like a small newsroom but it's going to have all flexible furniture. So it's I mean the whole uh intent of STEM is to make things

052as flexible as possible. So as your program evolves, you know, your space can evolve with it without having to go through another project. I have a kind of a devil's advocate question. If say the librarian, we we and we have a new librarian come on and she does want to she he wants to uh display all the catalog on the floor instead of in the storage room. How how can that switch be flipped to accommodate a different, you know, a different teacher's way of working? Um we haven't designed for that. You know, there's there's storage. We're doing all new case work along the exterior wall that goes to the um courtyard, but it's all enclosed shelving. Um and then the countertop is all at worktop height. Um if you did happen to come across that

053situation, um you'd probably have to buy some furniture pieces to display books. Thank you. Most of the furniture that's going to go in this space will be movable. Um in the future there are like smaller movable book bookshelves that can be added to the space as well to handle some of them those books. So how does it work when um kids want to get out particular books that there's not you're not available to browse through shelves of books. Correct. They um talk to the librarian about what they need and she will go into that back room and get it for them eventually. I also think she'll teach them how to do that. So, similar to a collegiate library where they might might refer to them as the stacks, right? You've got to learn how to

054navigate. Obviously, all of our books are cataloged in a database. It's all electronic. So, if the kids are looking for a particular title, that electronic database is going to tell them where the book is. So, in terms of in the stacks, which stack do I go to to get to it. So, Mrs. Barbara will spend some time teaching kids even how to how to navigate the stacks so that they're prepared when they leave um to go off to college. I do think you'll find some bookshelves across the library. So, even though we're planning for her to be able to store all of her titles that way, um Mrs. Barber is very artful about pulling things out that are new, things that the kids are interested in to get them into circulation. So, for her, she

055doesn't feel like you need to see the spine of the book. She feels like she needs to display books that she knows will catch attention and get kids taking books out. Um, but also this then gives the the concept of that open that open floor space where she's also teaching STEM classes in there where she's doing all of the STEM for grade six. She's got kids doing robotics in there. So, this gives her the flexibility to to do both the maker space concept inside the library, but also access to to books and lots of technology. Is there any space for a um, you know, reading room? come in and read the newspaper or something or definitely the space is going to have a lot of furniture in it uh where the kids will be able

056to sit very comfortably to to either be able to work in groups or to sit and read. If you were to go in the library right now, I think especially in a in a middle high school um how do I say this in public? Um there's a lot of bookshelves. Okay, so if the way kids are sitting, Mrs. Barber has to really work the library to make sure that she's doing adequate supervision. When you get rid of the bookshelves that are kind of taking up the space, like imagine, you know, kids sitting in chairs over here with bookshelves that are still this high, right? It's actually going to change her line of sight. So, she's looking forward to furniture that doesn't necessarily create that dead space for her in terms of line of sight. So,

057I think you'll see an increase in her ability to not just manage the library, but for the library to have more of a library feel to it. Okay. Do kids have free library time? They do. The library is open most periods of the of the school day and Mrs. Barber runs an online pass system. So, as you know, our blocks are 85 minutes long. So, the kids can actually sign out a pass for half of that time. So, they're able to go to the library out of the study hall if that's where they're coming from for 42 minutes and then they'll return back to the study hall. Um, so she does run a pass system every every day in every block. Okay. Sometimes the library is closed because she's teaching she's teaching. She's got a

058class in there. teachers will partner with her and bring their whole class to the library. Well, Shannon, I have a quick question. I'm not sure if you have the answer, but how much additional ceiling clearance are we getting? I think so. You can see the ceiling um in image one and three. I want to say we're at 9 or 96. What are we at now? Um where that big unit is, you're probably like 76. Okay. Um the rest of the ceiling might be around eight. That's going to make it look a lot bigger. Just lifting that ceiling up. Yeah. Just coming through the door and not having those cave. Right. Right. Okay. Thank you. Um and then lastly, I just wanted to touch on so Mike, can you point out where that mobile partition is

059going to be? So that line right there and in image number three, it's um that wall of glass right there. So that is a mobile partition. It's operated manually. It's not electric. Um, and there is it's all clear glass and there is a door in it so that when it's closed, you can, you know, move from one side of that wall to the other, but you can also fully open that wall and at that point the library would be fully open to the the innovation studio and you just you gain that much more square footage for whatever you might be working on um as part of your STEM library. Same thing with line of sight. The kids are in. They're building a video commercial for their health class. They've got the door shut because they

060need the soundproofing to create their video, but Mrs. Barber can still see them. [Music] Yeah. Uh, so this is a shot of the same space, but from the corridor side. Uh, so we've got doors obviously um at the library and then we've got the door further down uh to the right that's uh goes right into that innovation studio. Um we're doing some uh decorative triangular sophets over those entries to really highlight those as the entry piece. Um and then in the hallway um those gray rectangular boxes, those are more display cabinets. Again, book and project display. And then um there are going to be um video boards on either side of that um for any kind of you know messaging or events or you know whatever um might be happening. announcements, job postings, all of

061that. Uh the finish is in the corridor. We're going to continue with um that sort of that pink and mauve tile that you've already got established um on the wall there, but in the al cove, it's kind of tough to see, but in the door al cove, we're going to do um some large format white tile. And then the sophets will have that, you know, triangular um tile that is the same as what's in the library. um out in the corridor. Um so this is something uh that we fought really hard uh to get in the project. Um this is the corridor side of the auditorium. Uh we are always going to be replacing the doors. Um, but we spent a lot of time talking about um, a lot of the rest of our spaces

062are pretty modern looking, but um, this has, you know, definite historical um, character that we did not want to lose. So, we spent a lot of time talking about how do we um, treat the new doors and the new entries um, and make them refreshed but classic. So, um we are going to keep a a wood paneling uh design that's almost like a shaker profile around the the two um entry doors to the auditorium. We're going to continue that um uh convention that we did at the STEM library with the triangular sophets um just over the the two auditorium doors to really highlight those. But then the two single doors um on either side, they're getting replaced, of course, you know, so everything looks uh consistent. Um and then the the single door in the

063middle is the new door to the control booth that we're creating. So um you can see, yep, right there. So the only access into that control booth is going to be from um the corridor. However, the wall that we're showing in the floor plan is not a full height wall. It's only a partial height. Um, from an acoustics perspective, that's it's more preferable for whoever is running the soundboard to be able to hear the same thing that the audience is hearing. Auditorium seating. You guys, we can just breeze right through this right now. Take your time. Um, so again, this is another thing that we talked about a lot. Um the image on the left is uh the drawing from when these seats were last replaced in I think the late '9s. Um and then

064the images on the right are obviously what you have now. Um I'm including them because I want to point out I'm sure you're well aware, but if you sort of pay attention to where the seats um are creating the aisle, uh it's very inconsistent. You know, it moves in and out. um the carpet actually, you know, starts to step back and it's just it's an inconsistent unfinished look. The fact that there is a curve in the aisle um is also awkward. If somebody's coming down the aisle and they're, you know, need to go up on stage, they have to curve in to go back out um to get up on the stage. Um and I I know I have heard a lot how uncomfortable these seats are. um you have a mixture of 19-in and

06520-in and 22in seats and they're all sort of mixed around. And so we really wanted to get the mo maximize the quantity of seats, maximize the comfort, um but also try to, you know, maintain um an egress path that makes sense down that aisle uh as part of our refinishing work uh for this project. So if you go to the next slide. So we went through many many uh iterations um trying all of you know a bunch of different things. Well what happens if we do all 19 in or excuse me all 20in seats? What if we do a mixture of 20 and 22s? What if we change the aisle width? Um so we really had to find a balance between the quantity of seats that are needed for assemblies versus you know what you

066might need for um you know a theater event with the students. The assembly uh situation has a lot more uh has a higher need for seats than um like a play or a musical event. Um and we're you know we're already losing two rows of seats in the back because of our sound booth. So, I would bet there's probably seven or eight iterations of this that were done in total. Um, you know, we played with do we keep the the curve in the aisle? Do we straighten the aisle out? Um, you know, obviously also limited by, you know, certain code things for the layout. So, where we landed, uh, is the image on the right. Um, that is showing, uh, 21in seats with 36in aisles. And then all of those green squares in the front,

067those are all going to be um folding chairs that will be needed for any kind of overflow seating um you know for whatever. And I think that gives us a total of 478 seats including the folding chairs, but 415 without. And I think you've got something like 450 right now. Yeah. So something uh Dr. talked about when doing this was how important it is to get the middle school, high school into the auditorium for assemblies or gatherings. And so that was something they really fought for which the portable seating will assist with it. It has to. I mean there's no other way. Yeah, we should be good even with the design without the folding seats. We should be good when it's just the the um middle high school kids except teachers when it comes to

068sit. We need the folding seats because we need we need the teachers in the room as well. When when were these I've been being real good being quiet here. Um when were these seats replaced? Uh late late 90s I think. Late 90s. So I probably was here. Regardless, let's say you guys are in uh in Belmont doing a presentation. Are you just going to randomly put a 22 in chair and an 18inch chair? Nope. These are all No, no, I'm not saying you guys. Who? Who was the talking about? Who on earth? Oh, in 1990 would have just said, "I'm going to put 13 different size seats in here randomly and then it was okay." Yeah. I don't know. I That's very I'm not saying that it was It might have been your project. You

069could have been possibly. I don't think it was. I'm just saying why I I it was not only seating capacity. I mean it just in all the iterations that we've gone through to get seating capacity has to be you can't if you go in and look now that you know that now you won't be able to unsee that there are seats in there that are really small and some that are really large. So we've chuckled a little bit about people saying how comfortable the auditorium is. Well, you could be coming in as a family of five and the dad ends up in the 19 edge seat. Kindergarten your kids gets to 22. There's just It's that random. I'm temporarily good. Thanks. Okay. Uh the the folding chairs Shannon was talking about too aren't just your

070typical metal folding chairs. We're looking at something that's got that is a little bit more sturdy and substantial and fabric matches the rest of the seats in the room. Are they permanent? The folding chairs? No, they would be removed and put on a cart and stored somewhere when they're not needed. Oh, okay. Do you ever have plays or anything like that that have something that comes out where those seats would be? Do you know what I'm saying? I mean, I've I've been in places where they're, you know, they have they go off the stage and Yeah. They come off the stage and they're in front and they build a wooden something in front of it. So everybody, the green boxes are to get them where they need to be for assemblies. I don't think you

071would put them there for a play or or um okay, a coral thing or something. Okay. We were also thinking like fifth grade graduation. Like there are some things that we do that as long as we're buying chairs that are going to match that we should make sure that our auditorium always has that classic look, which this will allow us to have. Well, where well where is he or like if you have a plate? Is that down there? They would be down there, but we wouldn't use the folding seats. Yeah, I know. But is that where they would be? Yes, that's the P. That's That's a fit. Okay, that's that's why I'm trying to figure out. Okay. Uh and so this last slide here um just is a a rendering of approximately what the auditorium

072um will look like. The the backs of the chairs um are all going to be uh dark gray. Uh the fabric that we found uh has black and gray with touches of maroon in it. And then the chairs are going to look uh somewhat like that. We are going to have um that light fixture. I think we're doing every other row um you know for our new design. Um and then the rendering also shows those rectangular things on the walls are all um acoustic uh wall treatments. And then we're also replacing the ceiling in here um you know with a very specific um acoustic design that we worked with a theater consultant on. It's not just you know your basic um act. There's a deliberate pattern and and product um to make that ceiling more

073acoustic. So the lights on the chairs would be instead of like the LED strip lights that you see. Correct. Um we're also replacing the carpet in here. Um when we tear out the existing chairs, all of that concrete is going to need to get like um an overllayment to fill all of the holes and that's all going to be refinished. Um so this should be, you know, a nice refreshed new auditorium at the end. So this mockup shows that there's some sort of an angle to those aisles. So there's still going to be an angle at the end or is that just how this is? This is an old rendering. Um this was more for, you know, looking at how the seat and the wall finishes. Um the aisle will be if you go back

074showed it straight on this one and that was my confusion. Yep. So that's it. I have a bigger p a bigger bigger picture question about the auditorium and the middle school high school entrance. So when we are doing the uh middle school high school entrance, we're going to stage here and we also have auditorium work being done. Is the timelines of that being factored together so that there's not too much congestion up there? Does that question make sense? Yeah. Can I see the timeline again? Yeah. Can we go back? I don't know how to get there. Thank you. So can you repeat that again? Sorry, I was I'm curious if the auditorium work specifically the doors and all that is happening at the same time that we are going to be using this um for

075your temporary main office. Yes. Cuz they're right across from each other. Talk about the high school. Yeah. The the corridor outside the auditorium. Yep. Uh sorry, let me take the slides here. So, we're talking about the outside the auditorium here, right? Mhm. So that timeline that work will happen in conjunction with the um the auditorium work which is this summer through the end of this year. Y's the main office. The main office not until spring. Sorry. The main office is uh January 26th through um beginning of the school year. So right after we'll open the library. We'll open the auditorium. So they're shut down the middle. Not at the same They won't be at the same as well. We tried not to have we tried to phase the project out so we weren't taking over

076large areas of buildings and creating, you know, just kind of getting in your way. Perfect. Yeah, we sat there's definitely still things that we're not going to be able to do the way we've always done them. So, for example, the auditorium, we only have one of those. We usually do our winter concert at the beginning of December. That isn't going to happen. our our winter concerts are going to be moved into probably early February where we cut the ribbon on the auditorium and then host our first set of concerts both at the elementary level and middle and high school just by the nature of the renovation. So you will see some changes in next year's calendar the kinds of things we host and when we do it based on that. What other questions does the

077board have? I know we asked I've got a a student safety slash um faculty question. Um, I just bear please bear with me. There's going to be a clerk of the works in charge of first of all, how many contractors are are there approximately? So, so campus is in charge of managing all of the contractors, the contracts, the finances, all the entirety of the project along with the district. Um, there are that list that I had if I is it 15, 20? No, we have I think I believe seven prime contract Seven seven primes. All right. And and and it'll be say you two for example walked around with with a white hat telling uh for instance the the concrete in the in the auditorium wasn't shiny enough. Yeah. So that is um what the

078district has hired campus to to do as a construction manager myself and my team which includes my field manager Shawn and our admin Alicia. Um Shawn will be the one who is um for lack of a better term babysitting the contractors but he's the one watching them. That's fine. Um and then and then he reports back to me. I report into the district and to Dr. Chanel and and and team. Um that's kind of how it works. So our job on site is to make sure everybody's sticking to schedule, make sure that change management is being held properly and all the finances are being um handled. That that's all good. Thank you. Yeah. Um with with I'm getting to the safety part. Just just sir, it's 2025. Does the technology exist that we're spending all

079this money that let's say the kitchen door opened right now? Someone went out out the kitchen door that we we could have a board somewhere like perhaps our young lady in the police car where a light would light up. That door's open. That door just open. Does that technology exist? It does. We have it. We do. All of our exterior doors have those on them. So if some if we were in the middle of the school day when kids are in session, if someone is to use a door they're not supposed to use, actually every administrator in this room is going to get an email. An email or a How often do you check your emails? Well, here's here's all day. They come to our phones as if it was a text, but also our

080secretaries are then trained that the second one of those comes through, they pull cameras in that area. They tell us exactly who went out that door, who used it, why they used it. They'll radio us that that door, you know, a student went out the door or someone came through an external door. All right. Now, but now I'm going get to the seriousness of this thing. You got seven prime contractors. Let's say how many are any of them union. Oh, yes. Okay. Let's just say for this conversation, they all are, which is fine. You might wonder why I'm going down the level. safety. Let's say each contractor's got just for conversation sake 10 employees. When first of all, every employee that's walking around the school for the 29 months, are they going to have a

081badge on? Yes. So, our process for that is nobody's allowed in your buildings without running their license through the raptor system. Yeah. So, that that happens and we we have a a spreadsheet where we log every contractor who comes to the to this site. um when they get raptored and every 30 days it reminds us they need to come back and rescan. So every month we're rescanning everybody who's working on site because things can change. They're also going to be issued an ID badge. It looks similar to what the staff and what we have but they're bright yellow has a photo name and the name of their company on it. It says capital project down there. So we've we've met with the uh faculty at the elementary buildings. We'll be starting there soon. Gave them

082the download on what what to look for. Um but it is also our job to manage security um during the project. It's actually a contractual obligation. It's in our contracts that there is to be zero contact between any workers on site and any students or staff. None whatsoever. Um all communications go through us through the architect and the district. But that's it. That's that's that all no disrespect that that sounds nice. Mhm. But you're you're telling me that you're going to have 70 70 people and you're going to just take 70 driver's licenses and then you're going to determine if they're okay. Mhm. That's it. The RAP Yeah. The Raptor program is what we use to screen uh people. So that checks the I don't know where the database pulls from. Um but if they

083pass that then yes, they can they can be it's a background check. It's actually what database does it check? I think it checks the sex world. That is pretty much all of us. Yes. So, so they have to pass that. They have to also present us with their OSHA card. Nobody can be working on site that's not OSA certified. At least a 10-hour course. What happens when uh we just use the auditorium for example, the the guy isn't doing it right. And uh and and Joe lays him off and calls the hall and then uh John Johnny comes. Johnny comes the following Monday. But Johnny's uh brother Ricky just got parole from Anaka on Friday. He comes too. I'm I'm just So everybody everybody that the driver's license to me isn't I I did the

084two towns at the airport in 2005 and 2006 and and you'd have thought they they went back to see what what doctor delivered me in 1961. I just I just I just want to have a a good feeling about the the the Chevy the Chevy pickup pulling in with his brother in it. How are you going to know? So, up front where the process we're going through right now, we ask all the contractors to send us a list of all their employees that are going to be on this job and we're actually trying to get ahead of the game and create these badges for them. So, you're doing that as we speak? Yep. Okay. Yep. uh that way we kind of get ahead of the game and they can just get to work when they

085get here instead of waiting for that stuff to be created. Um if they're not on that list, we're going to we're going to ask questions. You know, we're going to vet people who are coming on site. Um in addition to uh the scan, I mean, there's really not a mechanism for us to dig much deeper than that. Say somebody that situation happened. Um, I mean, if they're legit coming to work that day, there's really nothing we can say. If something were to happen though under our supervision, they're immediately done. Uh, and we do know about it immediately. But if they bring a new guy in on Monday that wasn't there Friday, that's not on your list right now. They have to come to our office first. They cannot report to any any work any part

086of the site or in any building. Can you just say that as a board member or someone walking on campus, if I see someone doing work, they're going to have this badge? They will. And it should always be displayed. And I would we're urging staff, we told the elementary staff this, we'll say the same thing to the high school, junior high school. If we see somebody without a badge is working here, we could call Dr. Chanel. Absolutely. So if anybody add up to what we're being told, correct? They should always have it showing. It'll be clipped on or around a lanyard. If you don't see it, um I won't recommend approaching them to ask them, but always just let the build we we do say to let your building leaders know. will be notified immediately

087and we will come take care of the situation. And one last question and from past past projects, let's just say once again 70. Um would you say you come across three that that aren't going to make it 70 and you're does it is it kind of like that or is it very seldom that you come across someone? Personally, I've never come across a person that we had to turn away. I have however had people who were on site legit working who broke the rules and we had to kick them off. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Thank you very much. Any other questions from the board? We appreciate you guys coming out and giving us that review. We're very excited about this. Our pleasure. We're excited to get started. Um, you know, we're also uh depending on

088what you guys want to do, we can give tours sort of intermittently through the construction process. Very interested in that. So that's a fun thing to do. Yeah. Well, as we go through, as we'll set up some milestones, say, you know, when we have a space demoed, we can go in and look at it obviously when it's done and maybe some during construction. So, we'll just gauge that. We'll we'll talk to Dr. Chanel one when time is appropriate. I've also done it as well. Um, when you guys have to do your yearly um building inspections, you know, we'll incorporate the the project into that tour. Thank you very much. When the old boilers get that should be video taped. Everything is fully documented and photographed when they get taken out of the building. You'd be

089happy about that. Thank you. I do. I'm wondering. Sorry. Uh the gray water in the elementary building for the steam stem lab. Mhm. Are we updating any of the larger infrastructure in the basement with this project? Don't believe we are. Does that from the library? Mhm. Okay. I mean, we'll have a solids collector, um, you know, at each of the sinks. Um, but overall system upgrades, you know. Okay. What's your concern? Uh, we had a pipe. I think the stuff is ancient. You've probably seen it in the basement of that building that had Oh, the crawl space. Yes. I think that's already been Hasn't that already been replaced before Bob left? Yes, I think we did a section of it. Thank Yeah. in an emergency project if it was a mess. Yes. Um Okay, good.

090So, all the junk that gets washed down the sinks in the steam rooms won't clog stuff up. Correct. Yeah. So, there's a something you can take out, empty a basket. Can you imagine the stuff? No, thank you. I don't know. We told about that part. Good question. Thank you. Thank you. So when that front door opened that I held for back this evening. Did it Did someone get an email? Not in after hours. So like right now you could pretty much use any door that you want and we wouldn't get notified. But when kids are in this building and we're running our tight security, absolutely every door. You're welcome. Good night. Thanks you guys. Thank you. Next on our agenda is public forum. We do not have anyone signed up for public forum tonight. So

091we are going to move to superintendence report that is the elementary and middle school high middle high school compact committee updates. Uh Dr. Chanel. Yes. So Mrs. Meyer is going to go first. Um both principles are going to give updates on how compact committee is going from their perspective. Certainly the board has been reporting out which we appreciate. But I'd like you to hear from principles this evening. Sure. Okay. We just had our meeting so this worked out beautifully. All right. Um many of you already know that the compact committee meets and then we have what we call party time which is with our PTO. So it's kind of like a back of the house and a front of the house. So all the fun things that you listen to with the points of pride

092um definitely get spearheaded from our PTO. So they kind of just wait for me to get We work hard, don't we, Peggy? You and me. Um Peggy loves to come for the compact portion, so I appreciate her commitment to it because everybody just wants to move me along, but we stay the course. So, we have three goals this year. Uh the first one was to really explore and learn more about our volunteer opportunities. We had a lot of new parents um on our committee. So, it was really nice to go through and go and walk step by step between all the opportunities and our process of how to become a volunteer. Um the second one was considering hosting a curriculum night for parents uh focusing on EXL and other other areas and now that we

093have um Lindsay on board as director that is something that we're going to be exploring and I'll talk about that in just a moment with the survey that came back. Um but Lindsay did already come in to our compact and PTO meeting and did a full report on our benchmarking system and it was really wellreceived. So, they asked some really great questions and I think we talked about that too last time. So, moving on to the next one. My last goal was to provide uh families at least three opportunities to provide us feedback. Um so, we already did the beginning of year and we deployed the middle of year. So, between my last update now, we created the midyear, we sent it out, and we reviewed the results. So, I will go over those with

094you. Um and if you ever want to see it, Dr. Chanel does have a print out and so does um Peggy. You feel free to share it um as a committee. I got asked for that by somebody. So if we could get those as a board, I'd appreciate it. Sure. Yeah. Um Dr. Chanel has my exact print out. She will share it with you. Not a problem. Um the process with the committee, we went through each and every uh question and every single comment. So um it's out there for you to see for sure. And the committee already looked at it and we discussed some things. So we have three sections to this short survey. The first communication, second academics, and the third just school environment. Couple questions for each of two plus an opportunity

095for um families to comment. So comparative to our beginning of year where I had 47 responses, we had 39 this time. Okay. Um, and like we talked about before, I think the I think uh, Superintendent Mullisani said that we had more than with the superintendent surge that first beginning of year. Sometimes getting surveys if people are feeling like things are going well, they may not want to. Like I never hit the target survey after my online purchase. I got it. It's great. Moving on. So that's kind of how I'm taking this. Um however we did look at a lot of the comments and I will explain those in just a second. So for communication overall over 92% of those that completed the survey felt that we had effective or very effective communication as a school

096district. Um, I'll go to a couple of the the sub comments praising our teachers for their communication we had, but it became clear when we were talking that in some of the comments it was, I absolutely get um communication when I ask or these teachers are really good at it and I get it every single day or every week or every month. So for me it felt a little disjointed and one of the things we talked about as a compact and I think this might be one of our goals for next year building goals not I think I know is to create a common practice of what it is that we are sending out to families at minimum. So at the dis at the office level we send something out every week. I find it

097pretty reasonable but I'm going to work with the teachers Mr. Green and I and come up with a system that makes sense of when we report out on parents square whether that be a newsletter from your teacher as opposed to leaving it up to the educator to do that. So we heard that loud and clear from our families they loved that idea. So that more to come on that for next year. Um then we move down to academics. Over 80% feel that their student has adjusted well to the grade level expectations and that they had the necessary tools and resources to succeed in their year. So I was really pleased by that. Um some of the comments for academics were that our expectations may be too high for some of their from some of their

098kiddos. Um there was a couple comments about uh you know how there used to be nap time, how this is a really long school day. So very well can understand that. Um yeah, so again praising a lot of the teachers and then giving us a little couple pieces of feedback. And then the third which I was the most pleased overall, right? Because as a mom myself and as parents, we really want our kids to not only be scholars, but to be well taken care of emotionally, socially, learn all of those skills. And um the families that filled the survey out, 95% felt that their children are receiving the necessary support for social and emotional well-being. So I mean if we were rating a car that we were going to buy, we would be buying that

099car. So I felt really pleased um by that and the families really spoke to that. So um one of the then at the end we gave in the first survey we said would you even be interested in a paranite? This is where my other goal kind of crosses and some said it depended on the topic. So the question at this survey was what's the topic that you are hoping for? We did have a comment for math, which I'm not surprised about, like how do we teach it? What do I do with our homework? Um, then there was also another suggestion for a parent night that really stems about how to best support my child when they come home from school. And I think that that might be the angle because we could have many different

100pockets of um subject areas, content areas that we could speak to. So that is kind of my big umbrella when when talking with Lindsay next about how to plan something like this. Our committee felt like they may not come to a event, but that they may like a series of videos. So I thought that would be cool, too, like 101 of how to teach your your your student how to your child how to read or this is how we do math or here are the resources for you to go and find a YouTube video that you can help sit next to your child. I know once I got to a certain grade level and my son is in advanced math, he's not coming to me. So, um, where can I go for those resources to

101help? Okay. Uh, so that was something really nice. And then the other comment that, um, I really appreciated was somebody put that we should create a guide book similar to the middle high school course selection, but for elementary. Although we don't have courses you're choosing from, we do have um curricular snapshots at every grade level. Like ah why wouldn't I put that in a almost in a manual and then put that out there. So that doesn't seem like a big lift. I feel like that's something that can definitely happen and um I was pleased to see that come like yeah I can do that. That's something we can do um and have it on Google and every year we just go and revise with our team leaders our grade chairs. I think it's great work

102that can be done. So, um, overall the survey was great. Dr. Chanel will share it with you. Thank you. You're welcome. Peggy, anything else that I might be missing that we've accomplished there thus far though? Um, you've been at all the other Yeah. Um, yeah, there was a comment um about the buses. Mhm. And in terms of Yeah. Or this one. Yeah. on this last one about, you know, somebody's in, you know, you can't see what's going on with the the big seats and the little kids and all that sort of stuff, you know. So, I love that you bring that up because actually Dr. Chanel and I um met with our transportation director in the last couple weeks and we basically took our um and our parents in the building would know this, but

103the community wouldn't. So, um, we took our Raider 5 with the bracelets and students earning based on those qualities, uh, on the road. And so, the drivers really wanted to have this type of reward system, but also not rewarding the poor behavior that was occurring on the bus. So, one way that they kind of blended the school and the road was to start giving out these yellow bracelets uh that say the Raider 5 on it. It's amazing. Um, and then we're celebrating the bus and only the students that are earning those bracelets with a treat. So, our shout out to bus 97 that won this month. Um, and they'll be getting an ice cream treat on Thursday afternoon. So, and we invite the driver and things like that. But, it is a constant pulse of

104the bus and going on and Mr. Green is walking around while I'm on the walk. He on one side and he's on the other. and we're definitely going on the bus and checking to make sure students are being safe and ready for the road. The drivers have been really committed to it. Um they definitely want to reward behavior that they're excited about. So the first day that they were giving out awards, I jumped on buses to try to be on there to listen to the kids and get their rewards. And one little boy, I said, "Did you get one?" He go, he he holds up his hand. He said, "I did." He says, "What's going to happen if everybody on the bus gets it?" I said, "You are going to have the happiest bus driver

105in the world." That's the goal. That's the goal, right? That's the goal. That is the goal. So, I do think it's imperative that we, you know, call out and bring attention to the kind of behavior that we want and not maybe celebrate the whole bus if there are kids that aren't doing what we want as we're trying to create bus behavior that matches that. And the drivers were not only all about that, but it's the only way they were willing to work on solving the problem. So, they They wanted to do it on their own. They actually said for Pete and I, we got this. We will send you the list of kids to recognize on the morning announcements. We don't need you to do any of it. So, u Mrs. Orur in the in

106the transportation director department has been spearheading that list for us and giving it to Pete and I every week so that we can give shoutouts to those students that are earning their positive behavior. So, definitely addressing the ones that should be addressed, but celebrating switching our minds. Okay, good. Thank you. Of course. And she thinks the course guide that you could just whip out in a couple months seems like a small project. We're now going to talk to the third principal. This one thought it right. Welcome, Mr. B. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. Um, appreciate the opportunity to speak to you. We didn't have partying on our agenda, but we did have party planning. Um, we spent a lot of time talking about the uh the senior banquet and we uh did a

107thorough job thorough job of going through the uh the business in in the community who uh we received donations from. So, that was very impressive. And I was also very appreciative of impre and impressive of the number of people from the community that were at the compact meeting. There were a number of uh interested parents and that's great. Typically I'm sure there were more at the elementary which is typical but really um the attendance was uh was very heartening. So I I really appreciate that. We we made a lot of headway on the on the banquet list and uh those plans are are moving forward. Um, the next thing, uh, and you did the heavy lifting, the compact committee, uh, did before I got there, but we actually handed out physical copies of the, uh,

108middle school curriculum guide. So, everybody was pleased about that. Um, we spent the last part of the meeting, uh, going through the code of conduct. There weren't really many substantial uh, changes or suggestions. There were some some edits that were pointed out. Um, I had, you know, we kind of went through each section. um and emphasize that a lot of this is statutory uh the way that the whole thing is is established. The one thing that I did bring up to um the compact committee was uh if we wanted to do something about truency and that's something I'm going to be bringing to uh the board um not necessarily the expectation of being in school because that is clearly u enumerated in the code of conduct but whether or not willful truency should be something

109that we should add um as a uh as as a consequence um because it's not really listed. It's not very very clear. And um so I would just want to do a little bit more research uh before we get to the end of the year and I can bring that to to the board. Um the the last thing really um that was brought up as we were going through is is there any anticipated change um to the code of conduct, you know, relative to any mandates that we may get um from the federal government or any government level. And really we are, you know, dictated by the state with that. That's what I pointed out. And so, should there be any changes to that um the mandates of the code of conduct, we would certainly

110be hearing from the state before any any changes were made. Um, again, I really appreciated the dialogue and the opportunity to meet with the the the the parents and and kind of vet the code of conduct and also hear how much [Music] um how much uh support there is in this community, particularly for for our seniors and the all of our students, but in this particular case, the the seniors because I don't know if there was anything else that I uh left out and I think we covered it. Now we have to part we have to plan a party for the next one. Any questions? Anything that I can uh answer for you? Thank you very much. Thank you. Next we'll move on to new business presentation of a proposed 2025 2026 school budget. Dr.

111Chanel and Mr. Ting Dr. Tab. We will co-present this evening. All right, ladies and gentlemen, from the time from the time you saw us last, um we have made some changes to our appropriations to bring you this evening what we would refer to as a balanced budget proposal. Uh so we have closed that gap by making some changes which we'll share with you in just a moment. We are going to ask this evening for a resolution to adopt this budget. um both Dr. Capron and myself and I'm sure all of you uh now that you're back involved with NISBA and getting the kind of updates that we're seeing, it does not look like we're going to see uh many changes, if any, in our revenue. Um we are currently working on a budget that no

112one seems to at the state level to be in a very big hurry uh to finalize. The quote I read last night from the governor was the schools will have what they need in time to do what they need to do. And I thought to myself that was last week or maybe the week before and we don't have it. So definitely our advocacy groups NISPA included um Niscus, NIST, everyone is pushing at the state level uh for a budget to be adopted. Uh so this evening what we have done is made sure that with our forecasted revenue from the governor's original proposal uh anticipating that we will not see more revenue. We have taken our forecasted appropriations and brought them down to match what we know our revenue to be uh because that is the

113right thing to do for our school community. So what did we do to get you to a balanced budget? Uh refinements to appropriations. Since the last time we were together, we already talked about the fact that some of the requests that the principles made uh for growing program have already been removed out of this budget. So, you will not see a STEM teacher at the middle high school. We're not going to replace an academic intervention teacher at the elementary school through attrition. We are not going to fund our strength and conditioning coach. We're going to reduce some of our summer curriculum expenditure. We are going to maintain instead of growing that technology budget something that we do need to continue uh to talk about year after year as Dr. Capron said to me today we

114we are going to along in a maintenance technology bud budget and maintaining our facilities budget where they are. Uh so that continues to put us in that space where we may be talking about some emergencies that we might have um and making sure that we're bracing oursel for some of that. We're going to defer some parking lot ceiling. We've done a great job in the last couple of years at making sure that we're maintaining our parking lots because if you go back to the presentation we had this evening for the capital project and you were to revisit all the areas of the campus where we're we are going to have mill and and re um ashvault put down. There's no reason for us to seal this year because threequarters of it is going to be

115new. Um, we do believe that the little bit that will not be new that we will be able to possibly pull into this particular project. Otherwise, you're talking about one lot really that's not going to be touched. It's this middle school lot here outside of our of our um field. We're also going to maintain um our current number of lunch monitors. That was a request in the original budget proposal at the middle high school to try to run a a tighter academic intervention model at the at the middle and high school during that home base time uh to pull teachers out of lunch duty and and try to put some lunch monitors in there. That's now been pulled. Um and we also have a grant writer where we pay into a Bosey's grant writing coser

116and we are going to drop that coser. uh that particular one is one that we can pick up uh should we decide that we have the money to to invest in that or that it would be fruitful for us. The budget that you are going to adopt this evening I hope is a mission driven budget. Uh we care very deeply here about safety and security. Our facilities and our infrastructure have always been of top priority to us. We know that kids cannot learn if they are not in a learning environment that feels safe and that families will not send them if they do not feel like our infrastructure and facilities are safe. So, this budget does take care of protecting the investments to our campus. Uh we it does support security upgrades. We do have

117a a project a camera project where more security cameras will be added uh to our current system. This budget does provide a school resource officer in each of our buildings. This budget does contain purchases of a brand new school bus to make sure that our fleet is of high quality and safe every day when we're out there rolling. We are maintaining our transportation equipment replacement, which is fantastic. Uh, and in our project this year, we are going to be doing some upgrades to the heating system. So, we'll talk about the capital outlay project, but that is included in this budget. Also included in this budget is our commitment to offering a highquality instruction for our kids and their student life. It matters to us very deeply that our kids have uh experiences beyond the classroom.

118All of the experiences that our community has grown to love and appreciate about what it means to be a Raider are still in full effect in this particular budget. Also, we have added a focus on literacy for the upcoming school year. So, there is some staff development budget line there for us to really take literacy on. Uh the state of New York is asking us to really reexamine the science behind the teaching of reading. And in order for us to do that, we need to make sure that our teachers uh have proper staff development and proper resources. We are going to continue to grow our STEAM experiences at the elementary level and at the middle high school level. Even though we're not going to be able to put a full-time STEM teacher in at the

119middle level, we have been working with the University of Rochester to continue building some coursework for our eighth graders, that area of gap that we know we have in that course guide, uh to make sure that we're encouraging students to take four years of math and science. We want them to be fully engaged and again, we want every raider to find their voice. So those opportunities in extracurriculars, our musicals, all the opportunities that the elementary school offers uh after school, we want our kids to see themselves as a larger part of the student body. So those components are still in this missiondriven budget. That page that you just read, yes, I'm just just throwing it out there. I mean, you went through it quickly and you you know what you're talking about. We do. Something

120like that. If you had that available to you on is it May 13th? Is that the night? Yes, that would be good. If if for for the certain people that are just going to come just just negative as hell. I mean it I don't know if we can hand this out or if you can just start start the meeting with that. I mean before you even talk about any numbers any anything. I mean just just a suggestion. I mean if if I were sitting in the audience and uh hadn't been here for 100 years, I would have been impressed with what you just I think so how you just presented that not not knowing anything about numbers. Thank you. I will start with that. And and if I make one real quick comment, I was

121with um a young man, some people would know who's now a social worker in the city working things. And my husband was talking with him more, but he was saying like like only like 60% of the kids don't even come to school. this one particular kid that he he helps out with his his grandmother who's in charge of him doesn't want him going outside because it's dangerous and you know all this stuff and I like oh my goodness. So yeah, so to to emphasize what what it means to get a quality education and and good character development and and good social this and that and is really important because my goodness gracious listening to him it you know who I'm talking about and it was really something. Yeah, that's one thing I think we can

122be so super proud of that I think sometimes people lose sight of is that the the high quality instruction that happens here every day. The kind of opportunities the kids have. You know, we might be small in numbers, but we're large in opportunity. And it has been a commitment of this community. It is what the community continues to provide to its students regardless what's happening financially at the state level, regardless what's happening in districts around us. This district has always really held tight to being missiondriven. It's one of the things that makes me so proud to be here. Yeah. Money part. I could do this live. You would be proud how well I can now do this live. Really just wanted to highlight that you know the core part of our revenue is driven by

123state aid. That's the biggest single component of the revenue that we receive. And we really work to make sure not only do we get the foundation aid which you know is the core part of what the state provides for a sound basic education and we'll finalize when the budget comes through but we also really work to maximize all the expense driven aids. So whenever we possibly can, we drive um expenses through Boseies. We really work to maximize our transportation aid and all the other aids that we can to really support the taxpayers of the community through maximizing that state aid. We also are strategically using reserves. We're appropriating funds specifically from uh the savings to support the budget and using restricted reserves for their allowed um uses as part of the budget. Um and we

124do have some areas where it's a little bit interesting that you know some of the things are hard to forecast particularly in upcoming economics things but we do have forecasts in for the sales tax our share of the Monroe County sales tax in the budget. So basically with that we have an increase as you'll see a balanced budget with a 5.1% increase in our revenue. Okay. on your own. And just to balance that, we also have, of course, the core parts of our expenditure budget, you know, with the um considerable part of the biggest part of the budget, of course, going into to instruction. Um employee benefits um are part of that. We're a people business, so salaries, benefits, you know, what really go into driving the the culture and the education and the instruction

125in the district. Um we also, you'll see an increase in debt service. um in this budget that debt service is what's being used to pay um our capital costs. There's actually the increase in debt service is being offset with aid or anticipated aid and it's kind of shifting the budget based on the capital project but it's not really having an impact on the taxes that the local taxpayers are paying. So, in fact, with this budget, the actual tax levy is going up 2.3%. Which generates about $180,000 in new money. And so, the impact of someone with $150,000 house in the district with basic star exemption would be about $38.50. So, it's the impact of the local taxpayer for this budget a year. For the year, right? So it's like $4 a month that we have

126to try to remind them on May 13th that are these are the same saying that my school taxes went up $500 and No, thank you. No. So no, this is uh you know basically the school collects that levy amount and if it's going up 2.3% then people would assume their bills going up about 2.3%. Finally, one of the core parts of the finance requirement of reporting and a metric that people like to use is really thinking about how much of the budget is divided between program which is really our instruction, our capital which is maintaining facilities and includes all of our expenses for electricity and water and heat along with the capital projects and grounds maintenance and things like that. And then the administrative and leadership budget which really is of course you know the

127core part of um all the administration of the building as well as business finance superintendent's office and external costs that are shared across the entire district. So that's really broken up here and you can see we've got you know significant over 70% of the budget 72% of the budget is really for program and instruction and then we've got about 15% for capital and 13% in administrative costs. One of the documents that you have and a required document that we're asking the board to approve after the budget resolution is the property tax report card. This is a required filing that we want to provide not only the taxpayers in the district but also is a requirement to file in a couple of places with the state and would be part of a detailed budget package that'll

128be in the uh all the district offices the libraries as well as online and it basically will highlight last year's budget to this compare last year's budget to this year's budget the levy to this year's budget to next year's you know the coming year's budget to last year's budget and it listed a variety of information that you'll see, you know, in the handout. Are there any questions on that? Thank you. [Applause] In this budget, we do have a capital outlay project uh that we will approve this evening. When when and if you approve uh this particular budget proposal, we're going to invest that in the $100,000 capital project this year. Everything will happen in this building, the middle high school. And we're going to be converting from pneumatic um technologies which are very very old

129into technology that is very very new. So everything here will move into a more digital system. It's going to allow us to have better access control to our heating since everything will then be digital digital and manageable on a desktop or even on a cell phone for our facilities director uh should we need to make adjustments. So, this capital outlay project is buildable, which means that we're buying all of the equipment that that will be required from day automation off of a state contract list. So, we will not waste one single cent of the money that was set aside for this particular project. We'll buy as many units and install them as we can until we reach that threshold of the $100,000. What happens if we take this budget out to vote and it does

130not pass? So, if the budget does not pass, the board has a couple of decisions to make. You actually can take the exact same budget and you can put the same budget up for a second vote. If the second vote of the exact same budget is defeated, that would result in the adoption of a contingent budget. Under a contingent budget, we actually have very specific rules that we'd have to abide by around what we can spend. it would have to equal a 0% cap, no levy, which is a big deal to us being able to run this budget. So, it is imperative that all of us are feeling really good about this budget. Uh, to Mr. Bigford's point, when we get to that community presentation, we will be ready to answer any questions. In fact,

131uh, Dr. Capron and I are more than happy and we'll start reaching out in the next couple of days to some community partners to ask like, can we get out and meet with the fire department? who else would like to sit with us to talk about what our budget looks like. Uh we know that the reserves are a conversation for our community right now. We will not shy away from having conversations with folks about the reserves and what they mean, why the reserves make us healthy, how we can help folks understand that we have not overt taxed them, that in fact we are building the most judicious, financially imperative budget we can possibly build. I think I've always listened and I've shared this with the admin team for years. I've sat over here or in

132other chairs and listened to superintendent propose a budget to the board. And I've always thought, man, I'm tired of hearing about politics in the state of New York. Right now, I could stand up on on this podium with a bullhorn and yell about the politics in the state of New York. There are definitely things that we need to have happen in order for us to do a better job. If we want to be more transparent in a budget process, we have to know what our appropriations are going to be. We have to know what our revenues are going to be, we need more reserves than what we have right now. We need the state of New York to open a reserve for special education. If they did that alone, they would help districts be far

133more transparent with their communities. We have to prepare for the unknown. And so, the budget that we are presenting to you tonight does have the premise of carrying budget to budget. It also does have built into it the ability for us to take care of some of the unforeseen because as you know we can only spend what the community approves at the budget vote. If our appropriations go up more than what we have planned for and we don't build in some contingency into our budget, we will not be able to take care of the needs of kids. That is not who we are as a community. And Dr. Herbert and I are willing to sit in front of any group of folks and explain to them why we think the way we do as we

134are budget building and why the reserves are imperative to us. Maybe more so in times like these. Uh just talking today about the forecasting of what our economy might look like with tariffs. Uh the forecasting of what happens if now that the state of New York has told the federal government that they are not going to certify differently the way that we handle or or conduct ourselves around the teaching of DEI. What does that mean for federal funds? What does that mean for us now that we've planned a budget that we're going to adopt if we all of a sudden lose close to a million dollars? The reserves are imperative for us to maintain the level of education that we have committed to having here at Calonia Mumford. So, they certainly serve a purpose. Luckily

135for us, we have a very supportive community. So, over this is your 10-year average over the support of the community in terms of yes votes or no votes. um what our what our tax levy change has really been. So if you look at that consistently, the district has done a very good job of going out in a tax levy that's pretty low and also pretty consistent. So look how close we almost always are to 2%. I know for me in terms of budgeting at my home, I would not love it if the district all of a sudden increase the levy to 10%. Right? So, we've been able the way that we are planning, the way that we do use reserves in order to offset our budget when we're doing budget development, we've been very very

136consistent with the way in which we raise taxes here in our community. The budget difference um that we're used to seeing is 2.1. I am going to take you back to a slide. Let me see how quickly I can get there. I want to talk about this year's budget over budget where we talk about our budgetto budget increase. You see that percent change at the bottom there of 5.1%. That looks I said this to Dr. Capron this morning that looks like this is a pretty bloated budget. So I want to talk about what that number would actually be if we were not launching a capital project. So if we remove if we remove the debt service line and the increase that's shown there that again is offset by aid and not impacting our taxes. it

137would take it down to about a 3.9% incre, you know, 3.9% increase. So, from an operational point of view, it's a more conservative budget and more a little more in line with the history of what's there considering the other cost drivers that we're all seeing these days. So, in each of our budget presentations, we've talked about the fact that with the capital project coming on, you're seeing an increase in appropriations. We're going to see an increase in aid and how they offset one another. But definitely in the budget to budget that looks like we increased quite a bit. So I just wanted to draw your attention to the fact that that does have to do with that capital project propositions that our voters will vote on. There will be three. We are going to ask

138our voters to adopt the 21 million yes 21,660,678 as our annual budget for the school district for fiscal year 2526. We also have two members of the board of education up for election. We have um we have two vacant seats that we will have on the proposition. And also we are going to ask that they approve a resolution for us to purchase a bus for what? To purchase a new bus. Oh, I'm sorry. A diesel fuel bus. A diesel fuel bus. Yes, I saw that too today. Right now, in terms of us as a district, we are not looking at purchasing buses that are not diesel until we are told that we must. Our plan is to maintain our current fleet the way that we have been maintaining our fleet, which is to purchase a

139diesel bus every year. We have a a cycle for our buses that runs about 10 years, and we are going to maintain that cycle for as long as we're able to. Will it have the air conditioning? This new bus will have air conditioning. Yes, it will be the first bus in our fleet to have that and I'm sure the drivers will be fighting over it. Maybe it will be the bus of the month. We did tell them that the other day. So, save the dates. As of right now, I am going to ask that we continue to save the date for April the 21st. Um, I have done just a little bit of deep diving. I do believe that if we adopt a budget this evening that we should be good to move full speed

140ahead with that budget. Uh, however, I know that you're probably feeling the nerves I'm feeling. So, I just want you to know that if we do need to make changes to the budget, we do have some time to do that should we decide to come back on the 21st and adopt a different budget based on any changes. Although I'm not foreseeing them, please know that that date is still on the table for us should we feel we need it. We do need to give notice to the community should we decide to cancel that particular meeting. We need to give a 3-day notice. So, I would ask that the board just continue to save the date and we will make that decision as we get closer. May 13th is our public budget hearing. We do invite

141the community to come out and ask all of their questions. Um, can submit their questions in advance and I'm open to fielding those questions any day of the week. And then on May the 20th, we will hold our annual budget vote. That will happen over in our district office. And voting will begin at noon and close out at 9:00. for um in our budget newsletter, we will talk about how how to request ballots for those that cannot make it in to vote in person. Um the budget newsletter is under development right now and we'll be out on time. All of our legal notices have been hitting the paper and I think we are on track. What do you think, Dr. Capron? Are we good? What questions do you all have for us? Thank you very

142much. Thank you. Thank you very much. We're going to move into adoption of the proposed 2025 2026 annual school budget resolved to adopt the proposed budget of expedentials for the fiscal year 2025 2026 in the amount of 21,660,678 and for the purposes shown in the statement of estimated expense expenditures adopted by the board of education by one and the same is approved and the amount thereof shall be raised by a levy of a tax upon the taxable property of the school district. May I have a motion, please? So moved. A second. Second. Any discussion? I have a question. Um since I wasn't here last time, um has has the contract with the teachers been adopted? I mean, does is this is that going to cause any ripples in terms of money? What I will share

143with you is very similar to what I said last time. We have to balance our budget. We know what our revenue is going to be. We we predict what our appropriations are going to be, but we have to stay within what we know our revenue is. So, we're we're kind of capped there, right, at being able to spend no more than what we know our revenues will be. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Approval of property tax report card resolved at the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve the 2025 2026 property tax report card. Motion please. I'll make it. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Approval of Bosey's administrative budget for the 2025

1442026 school year. Resolved that the board of education of the Calon Mumford Central School District hereby hereby approves the proposed administrative budget for the Jese Livingston Duben Wyoming Board of Cooperative Educational Services for the 2025 2026 year in the amount of 3,368,982. May I have a motion, please? I'll make it. A second. Yep. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Election of Jennese Valley Bosey's board of education members. Resolve that the board of education of the California Munford Central School District cast its vote in the annual election of members to the board of cooperative educational services for the following. Norbert Fus Roger Costski Robert Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me. Roger Costeski, Robert Decker, ChristyRandle Bean. I apologize if I did not say those names correctly. May I have

145a motion, please? Yep. Second. Second. Any discussion? There's four people there running for three seats. Members, right? That's odd. Mrs. Boo is checking her notes. Give us one second here. Those are the names. Do we have to cast our vote tonight? We don't. That's a good catch. Mike, I don't Should we motion to table that? Yes, I think we need to table that. Thank you for noticing that until we can figure out what the discrepancy is. Moving on to six, appointment of the head election inspector and election officials. Resolve that the board of education appoint the head election inspector and election inspectors for the Livingston County Board of Elections list for the annual school budget vote and board election on May 20th, 2025. May I have a motion, please? Liz, can we back up quick

146to number five and we'll make an official motion to table that? Yeah, absolutely. I'll make a motion to table number five. A second. Can I have a second? Yep. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. I'll start over with six. Appointment of the head election inspector and election officials. Resolved that the board of education appoint the head election inspector and election inspectors from the Livingston County Board of Elections list for the annual school budget vote and board election on May 20th, 2025. I have a motion, please. I'll make it. A second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. The next resolution will make many people happy. Revision to the school calendar. Resolved that the board of education upon the

147recommendation of the superintendent approve the revision of the school calendar to include Friday, May 23rd, 2025, the Friday before Memorial Day as a day of recess for students and staff. Much deserved. May I have a motion, please? Yes. A second. Second. Any any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Officers and appointments resolve that the board of education appoint the following interimm officer is listed effective April 9th, 2025. Dignity for for all coordinator middle high school, Mr. Robert Banzer. Motion, please. Yep. Second. Second. Any discussion? This Do we have two of these? Is there one in the elementary and one in the high school? Okay. Thank you. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Number nine, approval of transportation requests to outofdist non-public schools

148for 2025 2026. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve the transportation request to outofdist non-public schools for the 2025 2026 school year. May I have a motion, please? I'll make it. A second. Second. Any discussion? Yes. One one question. So, is this another case where if if new students are coming into the district and all of a sudden we have to transport them, that money is available some someplace. So, if if families are wanting us to transport their student to a non-public school, so a private school, if they miss our submittal deadline to get permission for this, and we already have a run that's going anyways, we typically do approve those after. They don't because they don't have an added cost for us if we already have a bus

149going that direction. Good question. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Before moving to executive session, I believe Dr. Chanel would like to make an introduction. I would. So, this evening um in in our audience, I we do have um someone I would like you guys to meet. So, Bren and I'm going to put you on the spot for a second. I told you I wasn't going to, but now now I'm back after doing. So, yeah, we just did it. Um, so, uh, Brennan is is there is a resolution for the board when we come back out of executive session um that you guys will have an opportunity to act on, but Brennan is here this evening. It is typical in a lot of districts that folks that are being

150appointed on the night that they're being appointed that they like to come to the board meeting to to be introduced to the board of education. So, ladies and gentlemen, this is Brennan Cowwell. Brennan Cowwell, the board of education. Nice to meet you. Thank you for coming this evening. Thanks for having me. Thanks for staying the whole two hours. What would the start date be of that appointment? Um that depends on um so when we once we approve the the resolution then people have to give 30 days or 60 days notice for their contract. So I believe this one is possibly 30 days. Mine's 30. Okay. From May 9th. Thanks. We're going to move to executive session. Thank you for being with us. Thanks for having me. Resolved that the board of education adjourn to executive

151session at 7:58 to discuss the employment, employee history of particular persons and confidential student records protected by FURPA. May I please have a motion? Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Welcome back from executive session. resolved that the board of education return to regular session at 8:41 p.m. Can I have a motion, please? I'll make it. A second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? That's carried. First, we're going to go back to uh number nine on new business. We got that clarified. There are four uh appointments. Nope, not nine. Five. Five. Apologies. I took over the wrong one. Number five, election of Jesse Valley Bosey's board of education members. Resolve that the board of education of the Calony Munford Central School District

152cast its vote in the annual election of members to the board of education educational services for the following. Verbbert F, Roger Costeski, Robert Deurker, Christyrandle Bean. I apologize if I got those names wrong. Mike's making me do it twice. Can I have a motion, please? I'll make it. Second. Second. Any discussion? What changed since the first time we did it? There was a question about if there was three that we were electing or four. So, we confirmed there's four. Oh, four. Okay. Thank you. Yep. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. All right. Let me get back to where I was. Moving to personnel. Personnel one, approval of substitute. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve Shannon Fenderson as a substitute for food service

153helper effective April 9th, 2025. May I have a motion, please? I'll make it. A second. Second. Discussion. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Number two, appointment of business administrator. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve Brennan Cowwell to the 1.0 FT probationary appointment of business administrator 10ear position effective May 9th 2025 through June 30th 2029. The appointee holds school district business leader internship certificate. May I have a motion please? Yep. A second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Number three, appointment of baseball coach. Resolve that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent appoint Larry Harvey is a modified baseball coach for the 2025 spring season. May I have a motion, please? I'll make

154it. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Approval of unpaid coaches. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve the following unpaid coaches for the 2025 spring season. Desiree Linman for softball. Megan Mitigy for softball. Ronald Havacher for baseball. And I have a motion, please. I'll make it. A second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Moving to adjournment. Resolve that the board of education adjourn the meeting April 8th, 2025 at 8:44 p.m. Can I have a motion, please? I'll make it. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Have a good