001uh good evening everyone welcome to our 2020 organizational meeting i request a uh i'm gonna call the meeting the boardroom request a roll call here mr kawaski here mr bush here vice president here please stand 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 our first order of business this evening is to swear in our newly elected board members um and so this will be a lot of questions if you could please step to the front and miss jenkins will administer your vote of the box center so you're sent your quick picture All right. Do you, Mr. Darrow and Mr. Hamlock, solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution
002of the state of Ohio, and that you will faithfully and impartially discharge your duties as a member of the Board of Education, then and for the said Waube-Clan Local School District, Franklin County, Ohio, to the best of your ability and in accordance with the laws now in effect, and hereafter to be enacted during the continuous inset office until your successor is chosen and qualified? Yes. Okay, so for the new board for this year we are now up to the election of officers and the first office is the office of board president so we will now open the floor for nominations for that office. I would like to nominate John McClellan for board president. I believe that John continues to serve the district very well as President of the board. He collaborates really well with all
003of us sitting up here. I think he's done a really nice job of partnering with Superintendent Sawyers, the administration, and Plea. And he also works very well with the broader New Albany community and the city leaders. Under our current board structure, the district continues to improve and achieve very challenging goals. And in my opinion, based on the overall success that we're experiencing as a district, continuity is very important and the correct and prudent approach. So I think having John continue to serve as board president is in the best interest of the community and our students. sorry for the long nomination thank you no seconds just any other names that would like to be nominated if there are none then i'd ask for a motion to close them so close mr darrow roll call please and
004i believe in this case it is a voice vote you have to say the name of the person correct mr bush john mcfarlane mr darrow john mcfarland ms kalinowski john mcfarland Mr. McClellan. John McClellan. Mr. McClellan. John McClellan. Mr. McClellan, I solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Ohio, and that you will faithfully and impartially discharge your duties as President of the Board of Education and for the said New Albany Plain Local School District of Franklin County. to the best of your ability and in accordance with the laws now in effect and hereafter to be enacted during your continuance in set office and until your successor is chosen and qualified. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you again for those
005kind words. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. I agree completely. Thanks. We are now open for the election of the Office of Board Vice President. So, the board will have a nomination. I'd like to nominate Phil Darrell. I believe that the combination of you and Phil in leadership positions has been very successful for this board. And Phil... being elected for his second term with no students in the district shows his selfless passion for improving our schools and contributing to our community and I personally have really appreciated his vision and strategic leadership and I think he's an integral part of this board and I'd like to see him continue in his role. Any other nominations? with none uh requests uh motion to close nominations mr bush call the vote please mr bush bill darrow mr
006darrow bill darrow miss kalinowski phil darrow president of cleveland phil darrow mr neal phil darrow congratulations Mr. Garrow, solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Ohio, and that you will faithfully and impartially discharge your duties as Vice President of the Board of Education in and for the said Moffett-Plinglover School District, Franklin County, Ohio, to the best of your ability and in accordance with the laws now in effect and are after to be enacted during your continuous and set-off until your successor is chosen and qualified. Well I'd like to thank each of you for your support. I really appreciate it. I've said it before, as much as I love my job at work and have for decades now, this is the best job I've
007ever had and continue to love it and grateful for the support of the voters in this last election. Recognizing I ran unopposed, I still appreciate every one of the votes. 127 people pushed the button so I am grateful for the support and we'll continue to work hard to continue to make DuAlbany schools the best in the state of Ohio. Thank you. So now to business. We have our several things on the organizational agenda here. The first is our 2020 Board of Education meeting schedules. And so there is Section 4A through C, which includes the regular meetings for 2020, the work sessions for 2020, and then special meetings for the financial review and reporting committee for 2020. These have all been, I believe, sent around previously to request input, and these are the final dates that
008are on the agenda. So if I could, please have a motion to accept 4A through C. So moved. Ms. Kalinowski, is there a second? Second. mr bush roll call please yes mr bush yes mr newmont yes vice president yes president mcfadden yes we have an opportunity for public participation and with that we'll move on then to um board authorizations i have a motion on board authorizations 6a through also 6a through oh we can talk about those and then we'll do the motion to a point Mr. Schwartz or Ms. Jenkins? I'm going to do the first few because they're more treasurer related. So A, B, C, E, E, and F. are all just the annual authorizations um the authorized a to authorize tax advancements is just for us to ask the auditor to send them out
009before the normal settlement date that they establish each year that way we have those monies in our deposit and can earn interest instead of leaving them with the county auditor's office then just authorizing us to invest money pay bills do payroll and then establish the board member service fund. Normally that's about $2,000. This board has really never done it, but we're supposed to establish a fund. We've never really used that much of it. None of these board members really travel that much. Any time that we would use it is maybe for OSBA capital conference, those kinds of things. And then advertisement of bids if we ever are required to bid. That way we don't have to wait for a regular board meeting to get those put up. President McClellan, Board of Education members, letter G
010is the authorization as well as H for personnel purposes to hire and or to accept the resignation of personnel from our school district in between your Board of Education meetings for the ability to conduct business within the school district. Letter I is for authorization pursuant to a higher advice code that I authorize professional development opportunities for teachers. that can be approved and works with the local professional development committee for licensure removal dominantly. Letter J is to authorize us to participate and comply with all annual requirements associated to federal compliance regulations in order to qualify for federal state or local funds. Letter K is to authorize me and or my designee to serve as the hearing officer for student disciplinary matters that may require pre-expulsion or expulsion or other discipline-related matters within our school district. Letter
011L is compliance with federal statute to set the mileage reimbursement rate at the federal level on an annual basis once it's published. Letter M provides the opportunity to dispose of or discard or sell textbooks, library books, films, or film strips or equipment, which is the statutory language. We could, in my estimation, eliminate film strips, but it's still part of the ORC requirement, so it is actually the language that we actually publish. Letter N is to provide authorization to engage with a dozen different legal firms should it ever be necessary. We approve a laundry list of different types of legal entities to provide services to our school district. And again, we're not under any obligation to use their services. It just authorizes us for the ability to be able to use them in the event or
012circumstances that warrant their expertise. Letter O is to approve membership for OSBA as well as participation in the legal fund that's provided by OSBA as part of your authorization to serve as Board of Education members and join their association. Any questions on A through O? If none, could I have a roll call, please? Mr. Bush? Yes. Ms. Kalinowski? Yes. Mr. Neuhoff? Yes. Vice President Darrow? Yes. President McClellan? Yes. And now to 6P and Q. These are the motions to appoint members to different liaison positions and also as delegate alternate to the OSBA annual business meeting, which happens in November. In discussions with at least a text conversation with everyone, we thought it was with the idea here of maintaining consistency would be to kind of keep the status quo on those as well. And so...
013Just before we accept the motion, the individuals who would be appointed to the different boards or liaisons for board policy would be Ms. Kalinowski. For the city government, Mr. Numoff. Township, Mr. Numoff. For the Joint Parks District, Mr. Bush. For finance, it should be myself and Mr. Bush. For the community business organizations, Mr. Numoff and Mr. Darrell. For our parent liaison, Ms. Kalinowski. And then for our legislative liaison, would be Mr. Darrow. And then to appoint the delegates and alternates to the OSBA business meeting, the delegate would be Mr. Imhoff, and the alternate, Mr. Bush. So with those names, I would like to have a motion to accept. Thank you. Mr. Darrow, Mr. Bush. Any questions? roll call please vice president yes mr bush yes mr yes yes yes and that brings us to the
014adjournment of our organizational meeting so i would request a motion second mr darrow second second by miss kalinowski roll call please vice president darrow yes yes yes yes yes so we are adjourned And now I will immediately call to order our January 6th, 2020 work session. Here. Here. Mr. Bush. Here. Vice President Darrow. Here. Second. Here. We have already said the pledge, so we will dispense with that and move on to our meeting agenda. Any additions or corrections? No. Thank you. With no additions or corrections, I have a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Summer. Skolanski. Second. Second by Mr. Bush. yes yes that brings us to discussion items and our one discussion item tonight Thank you President McClellan and members of the Board of Education. Tonight I'm going to provide an update of the work
015that Ms. Jenkins and I have been doing in cooperation with Mr. Emery, Director of Elementary Education, and our three principals dominantly from primary, intermediate, and middle schools. So Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Nowak, and Mrs. LeBeau. As well as conversations that we've had with the City of New Albany and conversations specifically with the PTO organizations that represent these three respective schools. in relationship to the playground update and renovation that we're actually going to bring forth at the end of this month. So I'm going to give you background information and then lead you through the work that's been done over the course of the last really three months in the school district prepared to get to where we are as our next opportunity. So let's start historical. So this is an overview map from an aerial shot of
016a drone image from actually Google Earth of the elementary, middle school, in this case primary, intermediate, and middle school playgrounds, which is the three and a half acres that is in between the main section of our school campus that connects the elementary section of our district for students in grades one through six to the middle school for grades seven and eight. So this three and a half acres of play space is used on a daily basis and to offer all students in grades one through eight somehow some way. The 1.4 acres in addition as part of that are green space specifically that's identified so you can actually see where the current grass is including the mud that actually shows up in the satellite image for what's currently out there. And it's basically localized within the
017blue outline that's on your piece of paper. The installation dates I've tried to put on as an overlay so the equipment ranges from 1999 to 2018. for the most recent addition that we actually did last year as part of an attempt to increase inclusive play opportunities for students on our school campus. So again, I said 3,000 students approximately grades 1 through 8 access this daily before during or after school. Our families and children do access a lot on the evenings and weekends. The playground is used really as a community resource and asset beyond just the school district. The play equipment again was installed from 1999 to 2018 has a life expectancy of 15 to 17 years based upon industry standards with routine regular maintenance. We do have annual safety inspections that are required to actually
018look at the playground equipment to ensure it's safe for play within our current school district for our students. Based upon the work that we've been doing with different vendors, we currently estimate there's approximately $117,213 of estimated repairs that are necessary on two specific sections dominantly of the play equipment that are over 20 years old that we're actually recommending refurbishment for. And we'll hear that in just a couple minutes. And we've met with vendors to verify. This all goes through the competitive state term pricing process. So the only thing that's really negotiable in a conversation is the installation costs. The price of the equipment is already purchased at state term pricing because of the competitive bid process within the state of Ohio that we benefit from as a school district already. So I'm just going to
019take you through a couple sections to understand the specific areas we're talking about on your maps and what we're actually proposing for refurbishment. This is playground section, we're just labeling number five. It's not my numerical ratings. This is how it came back on the reports from the vendor that actually did the assessment specifically. So I'm just using their enumeration just for consistency. This was the center section that we actually installed last year for approximately $140,000 to increase the inclusive play equipment and important place rubber tile to give greater accessibility for students that have mobility challenges within our school district. So it's the newest section on the playground itself. The southwest corner on your map was installed in 2014 when we actually built the new intermediate school. At the time it was the K-12 Learning Center,
020but it has since become the intermediate school. That section is closest to be adjacent to the middle school, but it was the fourth quadrant of the playground that was actually completely asphalt. So there was a new section of play space added because of the number of students that were being added for grade levels for use on our school campus. So that's the 2014 section that's now five years old. old, excuse me, ironically even though it's only five years old there's two specific pieces of play equipment that we've already removed from this section because of change in code requirements and the distance for students to have mobility. There was a spinning apparatus that sat in the center of the playground that did not have six feet of distance for the diameter of the spin to let
021a student be released. The code requirements have changed and that piece of equipment has now been removed. So now it just looks like a freestanding frame. There is no piece of equipment that's in the center of it because the code changed and said we were no longer allowed to use it because the industry standards had changed within the last five years. That was actually taken out just before school started this year. The northeast corner in 2008, this actually was removed and reinstalled from a different section of the playground based upon the age bracket of the play equipment specifically within the industry. So play equipment on the playground gets rated for a specific range of age that's appropriate for student play. So this is most appropriate for students that are at the primary going through really
022third grade. So it's rated for preschool through grade three. which fits the dominant range of students that are on that portion of the playground having space in the northeast corner specifically for play. The southeast corner, this is the corner section closest to the McCoy Drive at the corner of the primary school to help you with proximity. So think about coming through the McCoy Loop, the first section of playground you see next to the primary school. That's what this is, it's the southeast corner. It was installed in 1999. It's original play equipment that actually came to the school campus during the construction process. Then what we're proposing, I'm just going to do these in specific sections. So this is the first section because it's now over 20 years old. It has significant disrepair necessary to meet
023all the code requirements. We actually recommend this section be replaced this summer during capital work for 2020. This is an aerial view of the work with Mid-State Recreation, formerly Playworld. This is an entire section, one whole section. that one quadrant that was labeled in the southeast corner. So this is an entire section we're actually recommending for replacement. So that entire play set that was 1999 will disappear. We're actually recommending the whole section do replace. For your information, and I know some of the wording is small, but we really did this to also post on our website to let families be able to have some understanding of what's being recommended to come to that section. But again, we have to think of the age of the students that are primarily in grade three or lower that
024have most access to this. So Play World, now Mid-States Recreation based upon industry standards is actually recommending the installation of a quadrifoil. That's the large piece of equipment there and it's a result of conversation when we talk to kids either through Mr. Emery or through the classroom building principals with classroom teachers. When we talk to the kids, and really I'm going to tell you this also applies to kids at the intermediate school and the middle school, the number one thing that the kids ask for on a playground is to climb. The second thing kids ask for is to swing. And the third most popular thing is to move. Now when you ask them what move means, some of them will tell you to spin, some of them will tell you to go up and down,
025some of them will tell you that they want the ability to jump around on different types of equipment. So we used that information that we actually received from the kids and had conversations with PlayWorld and went through three different iterations of PlayGround that ended up getting value engineered. So I'm going to tell you the end result here is not where we started. Ms. Jenkins and I had several conversations with the industry partners to try to find the most cost effective yet. Great playground space to make it available for kids. So the first piece that's coming in for recommendation of the primary school section on the southeast corner is a quadrifoil. It has a twist unit that comes with it that allows for rope climbing that you can actually see in some of the pictures. And
026there's an otanabon in the bottom corner. It looks like a tee top so that top that actually spins. is actually ADA accessible so a student in a wheelchair can actually transfer to a seat on that device and still have the ability to spin just like a normal student would. So we looked at the equipment to try to discover ways to make sure that it could be inclusive in nature to meet all the learning needs on our school campus for our kids. The next slide just shows you some other pictures of other pieces of equipment. Again, back to the movement piece. There's a butterfly seesaw. In my day, it was called a seesaw. Now it's called a butterfly seesaw because it has giant legs that look like a butterfly. There's an abacus that looks like the
027teeter-totter, just a modern design for ultimately what it represents specifically. And then, again, another angle view of what it looks like. I would tell you the one caution I would have We have not confirmed color choices, so that's something we're waiting for the color palettes to come back from Merliner, that's the manufacturer of the play equipment. So these are renderings from the catalog that Patty Hobson and Blake Hobson selected, specifically based upon aesthetics across the school campus or cool colors that ultimately will hold over time. We're not married to the color. We're going to look at the color palette, but I had to have something for artistic illustration. The one thing that these playgrounds do include actually incorporates additional swing space. So when you actually look at the distance, one of our complaints we right
028now have at the primary school, and it's really the same at the intermediate school and middle school, is there's a line for the swings. We're actually adding in totality across the entire play sets that are being replaced 24 additional swings for student access. The swing bays now have 10 bays and one will be ADA compliant to have accessibility for students with special needs for mobility purposes, specifically in sections that have cordon placed tile. For cost efficiency, we only put in rubber tile for accessibility under the main play spaces. The swing sets, much like we had done at the Early Learning Center, we maintain mulch. and have incorporated sidewalks to encase the mulch to try to keep it into place, really to try to protect it. But for code requirements, the mulch, because of the swing
029pads that are used for students to mount or dismount the swing specifically once it's in motion, we put a rubber mat down for that to happen on top of the mulch, so it's still cost effective to do mulch in those specific areas. But in the main play spaces with the large pieces of new equipment, we are recommending, much like we did at the Early Learning Center, the rubber tile to be put in place as a 20-year life expectancy, which is basically the same life expectancy for the equipment with proper maintenance. And again, provides greater accessibility. The other section that we're recommending be replaced is in the northwest quadrant. It's the section that's closest to the intermediate school gym and the intermediate school wing that takes you to the gym. It's on the corner over by
030the middle school cafeteria. So you can see the intermediate school gym, the white building in the background of the picture. Again, this was installed in 1999. It's original equipment to this playground area. I will tell you one of the major headaches on a daily basis of this piece of equipment is actually the enclosed slide. Our students, and I will be honest and tell you it's dominantly sixth through eighth graders, think that it is absolutely fun to try to put 50 kids into the tube of that slide and jam them in there and not let people slide down the slide. So one of the gains of the daily safety issue that requires direct adult supervision. so kids don't get hurt is to try not to jam kids into the enclosed space. So in the renderings that
031you're seeing for recommendations, there are no enclosed spaces in the proposed equipment that's actually being looked at for installation. This is an aerial view. Again, the change is based upon age, specifically for students that have dominant access to it and the number of students that are playing on it. So again, we highlight the ability to climb. There's a DNA tower. It's approximately 18 feet high. It is enclosed at the top. It has all types of ropes that you actually can climb within, but there is a rope enclosure at the top that you cannot go through the top to climb over the side. So if you go up, you have to come back down. based upon the design from Berliner for recommendation purposes. In addition to that, there's micropods for climbing purposes, again age appropriate to
032meet their needs based upon our conversations with the playground experts and what they're recommending specifically for us to consider. Lastly, in this section there's what looks to be like a climbing apparatus that actually moves. So it's the stair step mobility, but they're not stairs. They look like rubber mats because that's what they are. And there's caterpillar looking different types of dial things to actually step for utility stoppers or stoppers with the cosmic wrap. Again, all climbing stuff. When we look at what happens on a daily basis on the playground with our students that are older, Again, dominantly in this case, six through eight, but I will tell you there's fourth and fifth graders that do the same thing every single day. They go out and they climb on top of our current equipment to see
033who can get up the highest, including on top of our swing sets. It's just a game that the kids play every single day. They like to climb. We are recommending the addition of additional swings in this section because our older students still do like to swing. They do enjoy it. There's always lines specific before the swings and you can see the port of place illustration in this case. The red matting that's under that one section where the two swings are mobility for students with mobility challenges for inclusive play on that section of the playground. Also on the middle school side and the intermediate side, we have basketball courts. They're currently asphalt. We are recommending resurfacing the asphalt. We're working on securing the competitive bids for that. That will be done external from this process just
034because we can get better pricing than what's currently available to have the playground company do it themselves from asphalt work because we'll join the work with other asphalt replacement work that will happen across the school campus this summer. We are recommending all the basketball courts get resurfaced. We are recommending that the equipment be changed. One of the things that kids talk about is the backboard from the 1950s needs to go away. We need a real backboard, not one that's round because backboards are not round. It's very interesting. But we're actually recommending replacing the backboards and actually just using paint and that's something our staff will do once the asphalt is replaced and actually just paint the basketball court so that on an annual basis we could actually refurbish them ourselves with fresh paint prior to
035the start of the school year. because we can paint the basketball court. We're not recommending the installation of rubber basketball courts. That's not what I'm standing here doing. We will paint the basketball court. We will put the keys on and paint and we'll do it on a basis for cost efficiency for our community. Again, in this area we're talking about adding the rubber tile. Again, we've had great success with this at the Early Learning Center. It's actually increased the amount of inclusive play for students with mobility challenges. It lasts 15 to 20 years based upon the age of life expectancy of the play equipment. And we will do that as well there. So the magic thing called money. So here's some numbers. We're just going to start walking through sections of this. And again, this
036is through the state term competitive bid process. to actually purchase the new equipment. I know people would be shocked by the cost of equipment, but this is not a wooden playset you're putting in your backyard. This is a commercial grade play equipment that 3,000 kids have access to on a daily basis for 20 years. 178 school days times 20 years. Lots and lots of play every single day. So the playground equipment right now in state term is just under a million dollars. We've added the contingency. We have some asphalt work that we're projecting specifically that we'll get a third-party company to come in and do. But again, we still have to approve it. And then some group game stuff that we're still working out with different vendors to talk about right now how Forest Garrett
037Square gets reimagined into a new group play activity because there's other sections of asphalt that have group games that kids play. The most popular right now is the Gaga Fit. So we have approximately 1.1 million dollars estimated cost just in the equipment and the installation and everything that comes with that. To date for funding purposes over the course of the last two years Ms. Jenkins and I have known that this is a reality that's eventually going to happen. So we've been trying to figure out where this money is going to come from and the good news is we have money that will come through permanent improvement. We have approximately $96,000 still available in bond residual from the building of the K-12 Learning Center, which is today an intermediate school. The $96,000 is dominantly interest income
038that has not been spent from that project. But this project for playground meets the scope of what was advertised for bond purposes and can be spent specifically to offset this cost. The Eagle's Nest program we talked about when we originally brought it to the school district for before and after school care as well as our summer camp. We charge Eagle's Nest rent for physical use of district space because not all of our students benefit from the tuition-based program for before and after school or summer care. So we've actually charged them rent to use our facilities. Over the course of the last three years, we have $250,000 that we specifically set aside to go back into things that would benefit kids because the money was generated by taking care of kids before school, after school, or
039during summer camp. So we intend to use it for permanent improvement purposes, in this case playground. We've also identified $39,000 that we received permission for from IDEAB federal grant because it actually increases inclusive play opportunities for students. So we're trying to get more from the feds because we were extremely successful for that at the Early Learning Center. You recall we had over $100,000 that we got approved, but this is not a preschool playground that's specifically built for students with disabilities. So although there are students with mobility challenges that will benefit, right now we're limited to a $39,000 threshold. So we have $385,000 that we had previously identified, which will leave a balance due of $716,000 from the permanent improvement fund, specifically for the two quadrants of the four main quadrants on the playground. The other
040space that we've tried to look at is to how to expand outdoor learning opportunities in a community space to benefit our community as a whole. I've had three conversations, actually there's been more than that, but three very strategic focused conversations with members of the city of UAlbany. I'm trying to solicit their participation in helping us build a community space that would benefit our community as a whole because there is no central community playground per se in New Albany. Although Rose Run Park is coming, it will be an incredible asset resource to our community. It does not have large pieces of play equipment in it. There will be some play features that are built in the natural landscape that they've actually put into the park, but it's not filled with play equipment. Our playground will be
041the closest place for people to come and physically have play space. Based upon my conversations with the city, I've learned that there's about $30 million of other priorities that the city of New Albany has identified. So it's not that they don't believe that there's a benefit of this playground to our community. It's just that they have other priorities that city council, the mayor, and the city manager have had to prioritize. So I don't believe there's a city partner that's possible based upon my current conversations. So when we looked at the outdoor learning space, we came back to it as a school district and talked about, well, there's a significant benefit to this outdoor learning space that also, beyond just benefiting our community, that also benefits our kids every single day. Provides expanded opportunities for outdoor
042learning, specifically for classrooms. It has increased accessibility because of the concrete surfaces. It does provide shaded areas and outdoor shelters for students because students do take breaks or need access to something for sun exposure to give them a break because some kids do ask for that. And there's a benefit in the end to our community at large during non-school hours and non-school days. So we went forth and tried to design what's the most cost-efficient solution that we potentially could put in place in this specific area. So this is an aerial view. of what we're proposing in the green space closest to the intermediate school, middle school side of the playground. We'll still maintain two quadrants of green space, but we're actually recommending that the center portion actually becomes an outdoor learning space with two shelters
043that are approximately 43 feet wide each. They'll be equipped with fan and electricity. specifically and concrete underneath to make them completely accessible regardless of climate. So they're actually concrete underneath both. Gives you an aerial shot of what it would look like next to the main sidewalk that already exists and you can see its proximity to the playgrounds in the back opposite the green space. And then additionally, some up close looking at the picnic tables, the park benches, and the different types of shading areas that are there that we experimented with at the Early Learning Center that are actually benefiting students and parents every day. When you look at this number, right now the outdoor learning space is approximately $400,000, the recommended amount based upon our conversations with the vendor. We've added a line item, and
044I don't believe this will be done by the current vendor through Mid-State Recreation, but I'm putting it in here to show total budget. We have an egress issue every single day for students that are walking back and forth from the primary school to the bus loop, and it's the bus depot. The sidewalk that's adjacent to the school building is only four feet wide. So we're actually proposing taking that four foot sidewalk and expanding it to be 12 feet wide to allow the thousand kids that go back and forth from the primary school every single day to the buses, two way traffic, because right now they don't have that. So we walk in the mud, we walk anywhere we can walk because there's no sidewalk for all of them to fit on. So when they all
045move at the same time, it becomes quite a challenge to put that many kids coming out the exits onto a four foot wide sidewalk. We're actually recommending a span between 12 feet. The playground company gave us a quote of $60,000 and our conversations with Mr. Strigley, our coordinator of maintenance and operations, we believe because there's other concrete work that will happen this summer, we can add that to a package to bid on our own and get a more cost-effective solution for the school district. I'm putting it in as a worst case just because that's currently the number that I have from Playworld for Mid-State's recreation to do it. We added a contingency light item just because we have this thing called a wetland adjacent to our school property and when they start doing excavation sometimes
046we find this thing called water. That's happened to us twice on projects so we're just building in something in case something does happen because there's not a significant amount of drainage that's imagined in this project because we don't think it should be necessary. but to be safe we're adding it so we're approximately a half a million dollars for the community section that we're proposing that would also benefit our kids So outside the scope of the permanent improvement fund, we've been trying to find other people to participate in potential funding that could benefit the community at large as well as our kids. So the city of New Albany did offer us the opportunity. There's an AEP grant that they're actively participating to try to solicit. It's worth $40,000 and it's at 300 families within New Albany
047that currently have AEP as their provider. will change their thermostat in their house to become a smart device that they actually could control to decrease energy efficiency. If 300 families would do that in New Albany, AEP will give the city a $40,000 grant. When we checked just before Christmas, there were still over 100 people short in doing that. So although they've secured participation, they haven't met the required threshold. We did get information related to a potential grant source from American Dermatology. It was $8,000, but after we investigated the grant, there's a one-year sun-shaped program that's required, so you have to prove you have something in place that serves as a sun-shaped for students. And after one year, you're eligible for a grant up to $8,000 because you're decreasing sun exposure during peak times of the
048day. The last one is I've had many, many conversations with PTO leadership from the primary school, the intermediate school, and the middle school. We've asked them to do targeted fundraising. So they do fundraising on an annual basis, dominantly during spring semester, so the second half of our school year. And we've actually asked them, rather than taking the money that they would fundraise and use it externally, could they potentially help support this project within our school campus? and help us raise $100,000 from the different types of events they do within their three buildings. They were very receptive. They can't guarantee me that amount, but they're willing to actively participate and direct their fundraising efforts to be targeted to help offset costs potentially for the playground refurbishment because clearly they see the benefit to our kids. So
049the last thing we looked at just because someone had asked us the question and I didn't know the answer so we said well let's find out what it is in case someone would ask us. Are the green spaces, so we're actually proposing because of the amount of construction that will happen the green spaces are going to be messed up. So the arrows illustrate sections that will have sod actually replaced so there's a square footage tie that's proportional to the turf example at the bottom. So it will cost us approximately $9,000 to install sod at the end of the project into the green spaces that will actually help us with drainage and mud issues versus turf. Because someone once upon a time said, we often get calls, kids get their shoes very muddy, depending on the
050time of the year, because our kids still play in the green space. They'll play soccer on a daily basis, even if it's wet and muddy. So their shoes go home wet and muddy. um turf is not cost effective so we did get a cost just so you can understand proportionally what it would be it's 130 000 to do one entire section of green space and it's 228 000 to do all the green space into an artificial turf mr newmont just a question about the widening of the walkway is that taking away from the green space no it's actually adjacent to the building so it's not on the main playground space it's actually up next to the school building Where the bushes and the trees were that we just took out that were dead. It's right
051here in this section. So it's actually between these two arrows. That's why there's green here, green here. The proposed outdoor learning section is here where the number two is. What type of activity takes place today in that green space? Well, when it's not a mud pit, kids try to play soccer, but they'll play soccer here as well. We actually, last summer, replaced half of this section here with sod. So even though you see this aerial mud shot, this actually is the section that we actually put sod in. This was grass seed, this was sod. The sod actually has held much better for the students, but we still give them access. They'll play catch football in that other section. The dominant soccer field is this one just because it has, there's a drain that sits where
052the number three is. We actually installed new drainage to help release the water when we put the sod in specifically. So over here, there's some catch football, same thing up here. We do have a soccer net that sits on this side. So we did install that at the beginning of the school year for the kids. We've tried to direct soccer to this section because it's the section that actually has the best drainage. But again, we did the analysis just so we would understand how much would it take to actually install turf. Turf is not cheap. Turf is very expensive. It's not cost effective for the school district to do that. We can buy the same amount of square footage for Saad for $9,000 in comparison to what actually would cost to install turf. So overall
053for the grand summary purposes right now for next steps we're working with the vendor for final logistics to basically get through the final product and all the color choices and everything else that would have to happen. Our current track is that at the board meeting on January 27th we would bring forth a recommendation for the total package of $1.621319. So $1,621,309 is the current total. We are trying to value engineer a couple items where our staff might be able to assist with the demolition that could actually reduce the scope of the budget minimally. So we are tinkering with specific line items to get to a final number, but I'm going to tell you it's approximately $1.6 million. We've identified $385,000 in existing funding that we've been saving from Eagle's Nest, the bond residual. and the
054IDAB to use towards this so it would still end up being approximately 1.2 from the permanent improvement fund. The one thing I would tell you, and Becky and I, when we first saw this number, it's a shock value because it's a big number. And it's two sections, two main sections of the playground, including the rubber tile and everything else that happens with it. You have to put it in the context of, although there's capital outlay up front because we have to pay for it all up front, in the context of 20 years, it's plus or minus $81,000 per year that we're spending. for 3,000 kids to play every single day on playground space that basically makes up three and a half acres of that center section. So you have to put in the context of
055an annual expense of $80,000 to give that amount of play to all the kids. It's a 20 year investment, but yes, we have to pay for it upfront. But it is commercial grade play equipment. It is not what's in your backyard. We did look at other parks throughout central Ohio. We've gone to several. The one in Gahanna is probably the one that we spent the most time at looking at the equipment. And again, from a price tag standpoint, when we talk to them, it's the same amount of money that they've spent because you're putting in commercial grade equipment to last approximately 20 years. And again, this is two of the four main quadrants. The other two quadrants are 2008 and 2014. We are not recommending replacing them. There's some maintenance that needs to occur on
056them to bring them back up to code for things that have broken, which we maintain throughout the school year. But there's a couple things happening in the 2008 section for some rocks on specific stairs that we need to specifically address before the next inspection because it was labeled. Are there any questions or comments that Ms. Jenkins did not specifically answer? I know it's a lot of information. Just to note that with the Outward Learning Area, we currently don't have any shaded area in that entire playground. So that's why we kind of thought that the shaded area was important. And then just to let you know that right now we have just about $6 million in the Permanent Improvement Fund. South. West. Quadrant that's 2015 right so is there anything from that quadrant that would stay
057None of that's going away all that's staying We're replacing the two sections that are 1999. Oh, so the southeast and northwest are the two sections being replaced. Okay, so where where were the I guess maybe I'm just confused by the the picture where will you also mention on this side over here where the next to where the basketball courts are going to be there's going to be more swings yes would that be down in the 2015 area or is it no it's actually on the other side on the other side okay so it's flipped we're actually replacing the ones in that existing space but we're adding new ones on the other side We're actually increasing the number of swings accessible to kids. Right now the number is 24. We had to get through final code
058approval to do that based upon square footage. And I don't speak all the code related to playground. That's why you highly doubt it's liable to do that. They have to affirm that it meets all the code requirements necessary for kids to have enough space from a sidewalk to have a mulch bed to actually leave the swing. So if you would fall off the swing, you would fall off horizontal. And there's a specific code requirement for the amount of space that's required for you to fall. So can you back up a few? Or is that, that's the first one? That's the original. So we're replacing these two sections that are 1999, this one and this one. And we're recommending a community section comes in to where number two is, still maintaining green space on both sides,
059but a community center section and the two 1999 sections are what's actually being recommended for replacement. Okay the last slide you have before you get to the accessibility section where you show the basketball courts. That's over here by the middle school. Yes. And we're talking about redoing this as well. I'm not touching 2015. I'm not touching 2008 except maintenance. So there's some maintenance activities that need to happen here and there's some maintenance activities that need to happen here and we are trying to ask PlayWorld because the code changed. That one piece of equipment that sits in the center is now just a giant red arch. There's no play on it whatsoever other than sliding up and down the pole. The pieces of equipment have been removed from that for play purposes because of changes in
060code. So we're recommending 1999, 1999, refurbishment of all the basketball sections, installation of the new section for number two for community space, and then I will add, because I left it out, we're adding a swing set here at the primary school section, and the two basketball hoops that you might be familiar with next to the McCoy loop. we're actually relocating over here to this section to be in the center so that when the kids miss the backboard the ball goes into the grass for the courtyard between the building and does not go over the fence into the parking lot because they're not allowed to go get the ball that happens every day so we're relocating these two basketball courts to the center do we have any expansion options for play space or new center. My
061personal observations being that playground is it's just so tight already in soccer games and flag is like a death knell when they take the balls away and they get muddy and it's just I don't want to fix it there's like six million was 1.6 million so we really fix it. The only other place to go Paul is in between the courtyard at the primary school. Courtyard that exists is the u-shape of the top of the primary school. There is green space in there. We have not put play equipment in there because it's adjacent to learning places for classrooms. So classrooms sit all the way around because this is the opening of the elementary school building. So there's a green courtyard that sits in here that's 3,818 square feet approximately. But we have not put any
062play equipment in there. There are picnic tables. We let kids go in there. They eat lunch. They'll come out. They'll do science activities. They'll do experiments with their teachers. The outdoor learning gardens for the science classes are around here. But this green space, because it's surrounded by first and second floor classrooms, we have not put anything in there called a playroom. How about to the south? When we have the amphitheater in there, will they have existing space that we can fence off and utilize for our school district? No, because the parking lot is adjacent to the amphitheater. There is no additional green space left. And they're going to be using that for a theater and that's our parking lot? Yes. And I need that parking during the student day. Right now we park approximately 300
063people in that lot every single day. Is that part of our lease right now? Is that covered? The parking lot? They have access to parking. I don't know what proportion it says on the amount of parking, but it's to access parking on the school campus. But we park staff there. There is no additional green space in this section. We could go to the other side of the intermediate school and there's other green spaces that we could look at. The issue becomes the geographical distance for ease of leaving the four, approximately three and a half to four acres of green space. We have maximum on a typical day when two sets of grade levels are out. There's about 700 kids that come out proportionally to the playground. Dominantly, this side is primary. So if a primary
064classroom is out for a specific grade level, so if all of second grade's at recess, the same time all of sixth grade's at recess, second grade is limited to this side, sixth grade is limited to this side. So they're split by building based upon grade level. So the sixth graders do not come over to the primary side when a primary grade level is outside. They're localized because the amount of square footage is about two acres plus or minus. when you add the green space for each group that takes approximately 400 350 to 400 kids in a grade level Is the covered learning space intended to be utilized while the recess is going on? Not for classroom purposes. During recess, I mean, it could be because it's just like using the solar house. Kids do travel
065back and forth from there. I don't imagine the teacher is going to come out during prime recess time, but there's two and a half hours minimum in the morning and probably two hours in the afternoon that it could be used as outdoor learning space. I'm not saying it couldn't be, but I don't think if there's 350 kids at recess, you're going to bring your classroom out. One free won't have access to that. I imagine we probably will have to come up with a way to identify if it's going to be used for learning purposes. It would be accessible to everybody on campus, including the high school technically if they wanted to come over. It's no different than the Flex Labs. So when the Flex Labs were built at the intermediate school, Specifically that was meant
066to be through K through 12 opportunity these two community spaces we could put into FMX and check them out It's just like we check out the Flax Labs now with the exception of one, Mr. Cullinan's tech lab is used as a classroom But the other five that are not are actually in FMX and teachers check them out You actually go in the system and reserve it. We can make them reservable. You said there was research done on climbing, moving, and The two things the kids talk about the most are climbing and swinging. Swings are a daily frustration because there's not enough of them. But the square footage required is a challenge because we've maximized the space that we have available with as many swings as we possibly can hold on the current space. And we've
067asked them to do that. We actually kept adding swings to the point where they said you can't put any more in because you're not allowed. They won't meet the code requirements. But our kids get very frustrated that you stand in line to swing. But we are adding at least 24 more, which is a significant improvement. The other piece that strikes me is that, again, I'm not there every day like our team is. But there is not as much team sport activity going on with soccer and football. And there's this flag game that seems like it's just... It's not structured play from the standpoint that we're paying competitive soccer to a game. No, that's not it. It's just it's a pickup game same thing with flag football or something where everybody went. It's just a pickup
068game that kids are participating in because they get distracted and then they go to the Gaga pit. Or they go to the swing set because one opened up. They'll jump out of the Gaga pit and they'll run to the swing. Happens every day. So they run around. I mean, that's the other thing. They're not really all using the equipment the entire time that they're out there. There's a lot of kids that just run around. As you said, this is likely to be the community playground now that the amphitheater is adjacent to Rosewood Park. Will we be blocking it and badging it for our students? During the student day it would not be accessible to the community. It's no different than our current use from my vantage point. After school, in the evenings and on the
069weekends, I think it's accessible just like it is today. But during the student day we close the gates. We do not let people in. We have adult supervision in all the playgrounds and we do not let them, they're not open to the community for community play. The city hasn't offered me any support in the building? No. Are we responsible for making this the parking lot? Yes. So I did attempt to the point where you're going to have very structured deliberate conversation with the city. I see that there's an inherent benefit because there is no community playground. But again, I got the list back of all the other things the city is doing to try to help the school district from an economic standpoint, the priorities that they have. So I mean, we had very constructive,
070productive conversation. and they don't disagree that there's a huge benefit it's just right now not at the top of their priority list the other question i had was i was not on the board when there was a understand a large donation to donate stone work to really make that that intermediate building very aesthetically pleasing yes and it just strikes me as this this is something that really ought to be part of a community plan that's now tying the business district part to the school district and that is effectively the oval at Ohio State or the quad at Miami University or the architecture of Virginia where you were three years ago. Where's the rest of the plant? That would be my question. Because I, aesthetically, having a bunch of, I know you mentioned just for demonstration
071purposes, but to have the opportunity to have this beautiful campus, stonework on three sides, and then to really have to jam ourself in there. Arguably restricted, I believe, because of the amphitheater coming in. Yeah, it just feels like it's one of these where, trust me, I know you've made significant efforts and have not had the best feedback relative to their participation or involvement. But it just feels like before I would go ahead with a million six. Aesthetically, from a functionality perspective, from not having, we talked about inclusive play, to be that's team sports. This shrinks it because we gotta put those learning centers in there. it just feels like there's got to be some more collaboration but i know we can only take the horse to water we can't make them drink and you're welcome
072as the city liaison to attempt to have additional conversations beyond my success understand uh just to follow up on the whole time the you know paul makes the point about the outdoor guarding space and whether or not it's needed um so that there's extra use for sports activities whatever What was some of the thinking behind deciding that you wanted to add that versus keeping a green space? Shaded opportunities for kids that right now, because we've taken out the trees that were, that they were, kids will look for areas to go to for shade. They'll sit in the bushes for kids that don't want to be in the sun for the 20 minutes that they're outside. So it sounds like it's not a long time, but for some kids, they don't want that. from some of
073our special needs students within our school district that we look for those opportunities to give them limited sun exposure to meet their needs based upon what we're trying to do to make sure that they have inclusive play opportunities with their like counterparts on our playground so when we looked at it it was an extension of outdoor learning space that could actually be used beyond just the playground so it is an extension i mean from a standpoint that with the benches and the picnic tables and such the steel equipment that we've actually forecasted to be within those areas as an opportunity that would also benefit our kids but also at the same time benefit families on the weekend because it does give back to the community because families come and play on the playground the moms
074the dads that come and watch their kids play on the place that's what have a place to go and yes it would give them some shade area that would also benefit our kids during the week but also could benefit them on the weekend So we've tried to look at it in a multifaceted, multi-use approach. And in conversations with Playroll and really visiting the other parks that we went to, it was a dominant feature that actually was very well used in all the times that we went to the park and actually saw people at the park. The adults and kids, and it wasn't just adults, but kids were also in those spaces. So we tried to look at it holistically, is this an opportunity to make a greater improvement, which was my angle of initially going
075after the city, and Paul's aware of that because of our conversations on other areas of stuff that we've talked about throughout the campus. When I first approached the city to say, I really think this is a unique opportunity to partner with the school district. And again, they don't disagree that there is a benefit, but there are some that would argue that this is our fiduciary responsibility because it is our player. I was told that. And then there's others that will say, again, we see the inherent benefit, not only to the school district, but also to our community. But again, there's other priorities that we're responsible for at the same time for other things that the city council, the mayor, and the city manager are currently dealing with on a daily basis. So two things. How
076much of that square footage is lost by the addition of the... you know generally that in this section number two yeah probably fifty percent of that space that's ten thousand square feet plus or minus and then this is probably more than we would want to do All of the asphalt spaces, I'm guessing they're heavily used. There's no asphalt space that could be converted into green space. We've talked about taking some of the sections up here at the primary school and adding additional swing space for kids. But again, that gets into code issues because you're expanding because we'd have to do it on the side that we're actually replacing. And we can go back and revisit it. But we had talked about adding additional swings. Play World or Mid States Recreation came back and they actually
077added them here. We were taking the basketball nets out and relocating them because of the proximity of what's happening with the other construction. It was more cost effective to put swings here than it was to put swings in the basketball area. So unlike people waiting in line for the swing sets. You don't have a bunch of kids that are... I don't have kids waiting in line to play soccer. I don't have kids waiting in line to play football. I don't. I understand it, but I don't. I'm just curious. The kids are waiting in line to climb this way. Too many things. You can play soccer. You may not get to play immediately, but you can still play. And it goes back to, we talked to Mid-States Recreation and looked at the types of equipment that
078are being recommended. It's a well-rounded approach to try to meet the needs of all students and give them access to different types of things that they're asking for. There are other places we technically could go for green space access. I mean, we have fields on 605. It becomes a supervision issue for time of travel to and from. and an adult issue that we're then spending personnel because i have to hire more lunch aids to be visible with those kids right now they're all within the four acre space i'm not taking them to a separate field Then I would have to work out and we could talk about that There's a personnel cost that would come with it because I've increased personnel to do it But then I have to look at an academic side What's
079the instructional impact for the well-being classes because those teachers use those is not every kids at lunch at the same time So while those classes are outside at specific times of the year they use those green spaces It's a giant jigsaw puzzle and we've looked at it from a lot of angles To try to come up with what we believe to be the best solution for kids I certainly share Paul's obvious frustration with the city's reluctance to get involved in something that will be a community asset. So I'm not sure what else we can do. The folks who said it's the school's responsibility, I suspected if we were to say that it'll be locked during non-school hour, it might have a different opinion. It is a taxpayer asset, so it belongs to all taxpayers. But
080it is pretty frustrating because it's on the agenda. Also, just from a design point of view, in terms of aesthetics, how long are those green spaces? What's the length, roughly? Don't give me an exact number. Just a estimate. I don't know. Would it make sense from a symmetry point of view, I hate to get into design elements here, to have an enclosed space at the end of each one of them instead of just being on one side? We did have that conversation and part of it went back to the economics of the cost of doing the concrete in one area versus two separate. For the excavation, there was a difference in cost. So we can go back and have that conversation from an aesthetic perspective. We did discuss it. I mean, it could be a
081deal, but just looking at the drawing was a... Because one of the other options was instead of doing two shelters, we're going to do one shelter to reduce the budget. But we currently left two in because we think that once they exist, they will be readily used. I think you made a very good argument for why they'll be used. And I also like the idea of having them on each side because then it's close to the play areas on each side. I can't imagine the cost to split them into two pieces. The only other thing I would see that's problematic with that, and I think it's part of our conversation, when you look at number three, which is dominantly the soccer field, if you put that in the center, so there's one in number two
082and one in number three, you cut the soccer field down. I wouldn't put it in the center. Does an issue result with the learning centers, or do we use the amphitheater space for learning? The covered portion is in there, so an element that could be incorporated. I haven't seen the final design that's been value engineered. I don't know what still exists in the amphitheater. Or even using the amphitheater itself, I suppose. And then secondly, is there any space for the learning centers, or if it's not a supervision issue, it might be next to the environmental center in the north? The green space directly next to the solar house is our district property. It's currently the football practice field for the middle school. the space behind it is not ours that belongs to the city that
083we lease it was proportionally the same lease agreement that we just did with the amphitheater was how we get access to that green space off of hergulis field because that's not our property it belongs to the city access could be you're you wouldn't be able to put a playground up there it was your time we have to hire more people It's a supervision issue as well. And then really there's time lost in proximity for the kids going to lunch because they flip. Half the grade level goes to recess, half the grade level goes to lunch. 450 kids don't go to lunch at the same time. They're at lunch at the same time, but it's lunch slash recess. You flip halfway through. It has to be close. I mean, it has to be one minute, two
084minute long. I mean it is three and a half acres of play space. People are actually surprised by that too. Like when we do tours of other schools coming to see the building, that still happens on a routine basis, they're surprised at the size of the playground. They think it's very large compared to theirs. Just wondering, has this specific equipment been installed in other schools and we've gotten feedback on it? Yes. I can't tell you the names of the schools off the top of my head, but yes. No, there's really nothing glaringly negative. Our biggest concern is actually the height of the tower and making sure that it was enclosed at the top because the first version we saw actually was not enclosed. You were able to go up and come over and it still
085met the code requirements and that didn't sit with any of us. We're like, we don't think so. So that's something we have looked at. The tower has been the main topic of conversation. How high is it? 18 feet. Wow. But if you go to the park in Kahana, you see one that looks very similar to it that has kids all over it. And you are getting different color palette options. Yeah, I don't know what they are. I just wanted to say. It's for rendering purposes. We have not seen the color palettes. I don't know what they look like. It could end up being fluorescent green and orange. I don't know. If you go look at the ELC, it has all kinds of color. Just then from a budgetary standpoint, it's likely then 20 years from
086now It's going to be a pretty hefty chunk of money to replace all of this. I'm guessing. But it's really not 20 years from now. This is really two sections. 2008 is going to hit and 2028, that's eight years away. These two sections. But for this entire playground in the next 15 years, we need to be, the replacement set is going to start. Yeah, what it goes back to, it's the maintenance of our school campus, cuz the school campus is aging. There's gonna be an annual investment required to maintain the capital assets across the school campus, including the play spaces. That's the reality. So are we thinking about doing what we've done with the football field and start taking $100,000 a year and putting it into- It's been a conversation. So Ms. Jenkins and I
087are in the process of updating the capital improvement plan to give you a new version that would show you a forecast of the next five to 10 years. Now that we've done some roof replacements, some boiler replacements, some lighting retrofitting, to actually update those plans to try to look out to the future and come up with what is that number. that we would be recommending that you start building because we shouldn't wait until 2028 and say we didn't know that section of the playground was going to have to be replaced. It's going to have to be replaced in 2028. Have we thought about naming rights? We have. That's been a topic of conversation, but given our current success so far on the stadium that we've tried to go to market on, we haven't offered the
088playground. So we're still actively seeking expansion of advertisement rights specifically for the stadium. How much success? Limited. However, for public purposes, if there's someone that would like to advertise on our playground, I would be interested in speaking with you. What's the feedback been that do people want something permanent? The perpetuity conversation has been there and then there's also a shock value associated to the dollar amount that we're requesting. So they think it's expensive. We have one that has made a counter proposal that we're trying to get additional information for. But it is significantly less than what the request was for. Maybe a third of the asking price. Education is expensive. Ignorance is more so. Other questions or comments? Again, if you have questions or comments in the course of the next two weeks, I would
089strongly recommend you reach out to me or Ms. Jason. We're currently on schedule to bring this forth at the end of the month. If we do not order equipment in early February, it will not be here for summer installation. We've been told that flat out. It's physically not possible. Our installation window is the last day of school, as soon as students leave, to the day before school starts in August. That's the installation window, and there is a significant amount of work that's in this scope. It's going to be tight no matter what we do. We cannot have a delay that the equipment does not arrive. So one thing that I can see over the next couple weeks if possible is whatever the proposed maintenance would be to really spit shine the existing facilities, repair, get
090the sod replaced. Maybe there's an annual cost to that, but to understand what our... Alternative is if we don't go forward with the large spend right now, and I'm not saying that I wouldn't get behind it I just feel like there's to do it within two weeks given where we are and some of the questions that are out there and Like to see if there's an alternative and I know that we've got a summer schedule to think about but Like I said, I want to solve the problem. So, Mr. Yimop, I'll just tell you. Minimally, it's $117,000 to bring up repair code requirements that have currently been identified and $9,000 per side. So, if we leave all the existing equipment and try to bring it back up to code for August inspection, and again, we
091invest it, and then it's got to go through the inspection process. If it fails, it will be closed. because it has to pass inspection to be open for students for the first day of school. So right now I would tell you it's approximately $127,000 a minute. And at what point does the $19.99 sections? They're telling us right now they both need to be replaced. We have an opportunity for public participation and no one has submitted so we will move along. Our next item is superintendent's items. So if I have a motion on superintendent's items 5A and B. there scott husky board of education members five days for personnel action items for resignations and or hiring based upon actions that have occurred since your last board of education meeting letter b this evening is to approve
092field trips for science olympiad as well as the purchase of buses that have been planned for within the permanent improvement funds from the school district that are currently available on the lot and we try to negotiate the best price possible based upon the existing fleet and replacement schedule. Any questions? What do we do with the buses that are traded in or they go to salvage? Depends on the amount of mileage and the actual condition of the bus. We tend to drive these things until... We have several buses well in line. 50,000 miles. It's really not the engine so much as the body that is rusting out. So we're welding and that's the part that doesn't pass it. We will offer them for public sale before they go to salvage because most of the junkyards will
093just give us $500. We'll see if somebody wants to do more than that. But if you take it to the junkyard, you're getting $500. might want to turn it into an RV or something. Actually, nurseries have purchased them in the past. You actually cut the frame of the bus seats off and you just have the bed for the actual frame and use it to drive nursery stock around. We do not. But if you would like one, contact us and we'll talk about it. Any other questions? Roll call, please. Vice President Darrow? Yes. Mr. Kalinowski? Yes. Mr. Bush? Yes. Yes. Yes. That brings us to adjournment. So I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Second. Mr. Darrow, Mr. Bush, roll call please. Vice President Darrow, Mr. Bush, Ms. Kalinowski, Mr. Numeroff, President McClellan. Yes. We are adjourned.
094Thank you.