001stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all good evening everyone and welcome Ona any addition agenda so we have Ron's online and then we have two MERS addition to the agenda none motion a motion to approve motion to approve consent agenda as presented motion second discussion none submit your vote Ron you can submit you [Music] okay cares 5 Z okay concerns concerns of burington USD 244 papers anybody have any comments you probably get TI me eating this drum but I went to the holiday concert the other night and our band and choir the little choirs are small but Mr Bost does a great job of making music with those kids F graders but he does a great job when get to high school it's real music and it's worth to listen
002to be good to look around and see all the schoolers very good I told you for a reason I get tired of me because I tell you every time that all the extracurricular activities music is the only one that trains the brain to learn new Concepts and new languages and so I've always you continue to your app thank you okay tonight we have uh Otter Creek solar presentation we like to just present a brief overview of the solar project that they're proposing so I don't have your name so um so I'm Harrison this is Jack Kelly we're with P energy which is the developer for Creek solar project we're going to get our information hooked up real quick um but in the metime like to say I'm a bigan of music as well and I
003two of us being okay as an introduction to who we are hey energy is one of the largest power plant producers uh solar power plant producers and renewable producers in the United States we develop solar Farms we develop other forms of energy where our focus is on solar Farms um we are one of the largest we have about 40 gaw of power plants under development meaning before construction uh for for what that means a gwatt is a th000 megaw so that's 40,000 megaw uh and our way of going about development is Community First we understand we do large projects these make an impact on the communities that we work with lots of positive impacts um and they're going to be soon so we like to respect the communities that we get involved with we know
004that that's the only way these projects work uh so that being said we go on to the next the overview of this project um we can just look first at the map where you see the star that's about four miles west Northwest of where we lie right now and that's about the nearest extent of where the project lies it keeps going for a roughly square area that's about 8,500 Acres large that's very very large at the end of the day the project will not be that large that's just what we do is we go and get as much land as we can to support a project that can fit on these large large power lines that run from Wolf Creek for example uh and these lines can carry huge amounts of power on them safely
005cleanly without any massive upgrades to the infrastructure system in this country uh this one is uniquely large that's why 8,500 Acres makes sense here at the end of the day the size acreage size under panels and even behind the fence will shrink pretty significantly from that but that's the land that we have to work with and what we do is we go study that land some of it will have some reason not to use it maybe it's hilly maybe it's got a rocky on so that you know if you're just pounding these calls you don't want to go through that rock be more difficult for it to take anyways other reasons for avoiding some sub areas might come up so we oversight wats this is enough power to supply about over half a million Kansas
006homes with power um and that power this is a question I get all the time is where does that power go it will go from the point on that line to its nearest use okay at that point in time power is used instantaneously with its being generated at any point in time when the sun's hitting that panel it's being used at the nearest place around the grid that will accept it again hundreds of thousand of homes so that area is going to be wide very wide area that's being used it's bigger than Burlington it's probably bigger than the county it's definitely bigger than the county some of the power will probably make its way up to KC or witch um but generally speaking you're talking about power that's going to be consumed in Kansas uh
007with a project of that size you get significant revenues to the tax and jurisdictions around here first thing I want to say about that and we'll cover this in a little bit more detail uh further on is each of the tax taxing jurisdictions will receive increased taxes related to the billion plus dollars of improvements that we seek to make on that land um so this is a boost to local taxing jurisdictions but also a boost to the local economy through construction jobs through a small number of jobs that last the entire duration of the Project's life these projects are relatively easy to operate compared to Wolf Greek you have lots of employees of pre call the time solar projects once you build them they kind of operate on their own for the most part you
008have security you have maybe some uh technicians to go uh do checks on the equipment repairs if needed that kind of thing but generally they're run on we can move on here technology itself is what we call um photo voltaic panels which is different from some other types of solar generation and is uh on single AIS tracking trackers what that means is they will follow the sun in the morning from the east east facing in the morning across the sun's path to the West in the evening and then they'll Stow overnight when the sun's down we're not generating power meaning we're not moving um during the day we're fing that sun that photo vake panel is uh distinct from other types of solar you have concentrating mirror technology not used pretty much anywhere from the
009deserts out west going east to the Atlantic coast and it's sort of an outdated technology in any case but that's you'll sometimes see these projects solar Burns animals in the air that's when you have these mirrors pointing at one focal point creating high heat to melt a a material up in a chamber to make that heat into energy okay solar doesn't do that uh it's also not what's called a cadmium toride panel those panels were around in the '90s ands and they did contain which is a toxic chemical there's no toxic chemicals in these that can leech out in any human or animal or environmental environmentally sensitive way whatsoever these are incredibly safe Technologies um same kind of thing you'd have on your rooftop actually exactly the same technology you'd have on your rooftop if
010you had panels on your uh height 10 feet at its very highest and that's when it's fully tilted towards the east or towards the West at the highest ede it's a relatively low profile um some of this stuff is going to make a lot of sense you develop solar in America for environmental reasons it has no fuel so it has no waste associated with burning fuel which means it's not damaging whatsoever to the air doesn't have any runoff on the soil and it conserves water you don't use hard water but the water that does fall in panels simply kind of washes onto the ground and flows like it would over a mow um why is solar so popular right now and it is very popular um generally two reasons for the past 15 years the
011trend has been governments and really businesses are asking for their energy to be green energy to meet corporate goals to meet environmental reasons or for just a you know Looking Good Feeling warm and fuzzy so lot of power demand is coming in Wind solar these clean Technologies as we say um another reason that's happening right now this one's in the news a lot more recently there's become there's been a huge growth in demand for power all across the United States having to do with mainly data centers data centers being introduced as fast as people as they can mainly having to do with AI uh these artificial intelligence dat centers use a ton of power and there's not enough projects to keep up with these data centers being built so that's where we like to help
012um solar is one of many Technologies and all of them fit into how we solve these energy problems that are coming um but it's part of the solution it's part of the solution all across the permits so this one's interesting in Coffee County right now Coffee County has a atorium on solar so they can't Grant a permit to a solar project a large scale solar project under their current framework they've been investigating and putting together an ordinance for a number of years um from the statements of the commission it is the intent to have an ordinance that allows for solar and gives rules to how solar brought into the county the state of play right now there is not an active useful ordinance in place once there's an active and useful ordinance we are ready
013to within one maybe two months put a permit application into the county and seek our major permit for the project that's not the only permit there's storm water permits there's engineering reviews state level uh threaten dangered species reviews archaeological reviews these kinds of things those all uh are what we call non- discretionary permits so long as you comply with and Do no harm you know to water pollution prevention to uh erosion control to environmentally sensitive things like well cultural sensitive Indian burial grounds things like this then you receive those permits the permit in Otter Creek is what we call a discretionary permit meaning you apply a board in this case the Planning Commission and the County Commission review your application and decide do we want this project or not so once an ordinance is in
014we would apply to be considered for a permit by the Cy that's um go ahead since it's up here once we have our permit in place that's pretty much all we would need there's a couple little things that we would you know maybe take a month or two to get but that's pretty much the last thing we would need in order to start construction so at the current schedule we're hoping to get to apply for a permit in 2025 at some point receive a permit 2026 begin construction take about 36 months of construction all in for the two phases of the project and be complete somewhere in okay um 36 months could push into 2029 we at later in 2026 that we got permit 2025 that we got permit sorry um not sure I pointed
015this out when we were on that slide can we go back to the slide of the map so again this project 8,500 Acres at some point in time we will draw a line between one portion of this project and the other portion because constructing it all in one would be sort of the man ofth task and also we have two different filings with the Midwest in independent system operator for interconnection for the project so we want one permit per interconnect filing so there's two phases roughly 500 megawatts each Maybe 100 megaw and up to 620 in megaw yet to be determined based on what we see you know in the permit efficients basically okay okay fun especially relevant to this group uh what does the project do for the community well it has large en
016uh impacts economic impacts especially related to those entities that are on M Levy at the county level uh school districts for example City of Burlington County Coffee County anybody's on the M Levy would receive benefits the way that breaks down is call this a 30-year Project Life it's extremely likely it will be longer than that but just to be conservative let's call a 30-year life the first 10 years of that time the state of Kansas requires a tax abatement on personal property associated with the project not not real property but personal property so the land is still taxed regularly the land is not quite as valuable as the billion plus dollars of investment that we would make that's all personal property so it makes that first 10 years payment quite low and then at the
017end of that 10 years starting in year 11 going add infinitum uh it jumps back up to regular taxation what that means for the school district is those first 10 years it's not a massive amount money it's helpful um it's about $55,000 a year based on 1,000 megaw based on $1.5 million in voluntary host Community contribution in those first in each of those first 10 years that's just how the mill breaks out if you were to assume every entity on the mill Levy gets their split of our voluntary contribution exactly as it's already on um after that point in time based on regular taxation based on current taxation rates the benefit jumps up for USD 244 to 1.7 is it 1.7 1.7 million a year that's that's where the benefit gets real that's about uh
018based on the 2022 2023 budget for usd244 it's about 7% of the total budget um so that's the direct benefit to this body and um yeah that's as it relates to just this body what's going on the total is a lot higher it goes to the county it goes to the city it goes to other happy to go into that if we want but the figure we tailor is just for all um okay one of the things that's definitely going to be required and we are more than happy to do uh in a permit is we'll need to when the Project's done decommission the project and how does somebody know that there'll be money available to decommission the project when we're done let's say something terrible happens project goes bankrupt for example well what we
019would do is before we ever start construction we would post a bond for a conservative amount that's going to be more than what's required to take all of the stuff that we putting in out and restore it back to formable condition rable condition the condition it's in construction so that will be a requirement of a permit we're more than happy to do it and it'll be sitting there the entire time um as far as maintenance goes I mentioned earlier relatively low maintenance we're for example going out periodically and washing the panels we're mowing the grass especially as it relates to fire brakes around the perimeter because there's there's an area where you do have fires that can move pretty quick we want to careful about that that's the main kinds of main that's periodic technical
020reviews of the equipment itself electricians coming out but it's not it's you know maybe a dozen jobs it's not hundreds of jobs um another common question this is an area where there's not a ton of residents around especially for an area this large but still for anybody traversing the area often we do and are required to and are happy to plant landscaping around the perimeter of the area this won't be invisible from the inside to the outside free wall but it would be as you're driving down the road every once every so often trees shrubs breaking up that view of just panels as you when you do have a house nearby then it gets denser where if the person who lives there once we can totally wall it off our preferred way is to talk
021to somebody who lives right by and have them tell exactly what they want some people want to be wed off some people want to see more of it but our preferred way is make sure whoever's our neighbor gets exactly what they want if they're living within um there we go I think that's about it um so at this point want to see if anybody has any questions and specifically what we're here to do today is seek the support of the school board in our attempt to bring this this project to the community and I don't know what form that might take maybe it's a letter saying you know we as a school board do support this project that we can show people or show the county something like this that's just an idea happy to
022talk about what might happen with respect to that but we're not even there yet uh reactions thoughts questions concerns that kind of thing is what I'd like to get to now anybody have any questions for Harrison yeah I so who do you sell your power to we have not signed to sell with any particular entity so you're just like you're an independent Energy company coming in because we already have I mean there's too much power on the grid already right so Wolf Creek is already had to go into Flex hops so this is going to dump the same amount of power that WF produces it'll be less power total than what 1100 so actually or 1265 so equal basically let me briefly so there's a difference between power and energy the Wolf Creek prod Wolf
023Creek produces about 1,200 is that right 1265 1265 and that's almost 100% of the time solar's producing that capacity but it's only when the Sun's shining you know and if you're direct spot on hitting it'll generate that it I'll talk about what's called a capacity Factor right and that's how many hours of the year at What proportion of that total capacity are you generating solar typically is in the 20s nuclear is typically in the '90s so it'd be about what's that a third to a fourth but then you're you're dumping more power into the grid then we fre going to have to flex more no they won't in order for us to be allowed to interconnect we have to assume that they're online doing what they are allowed to do which means actually generating at
024100% all the time or we're not allowed to plug in and I'll put that I'll put that a little bit more specifically in order for us to plug in were they generating at 100% all the time the question is what would you have you what would you have to do to the electric infrastructure in the area in order to accommodate that new power coming in and that if you were in a place where the grid was con say it's a small line and you want to put a lot of power on it you might have to make the line a lot bigger or you might have to build new lines to other places in order for that power to have some flow across the network to get somewhere where it could be used right Y
025in this case there's already a massive power line being built called The Wolf Creek Blackberry line Y and that relieves a lot of the what we call congestion that would be coming from or to Wolf Creek Depending on time of day time of year so that line that we're looking at we've already got preliminary studies back that say not only can we hook up without disturbing Wolf Creek operations whatsoever It's relatively cheap to do so and meaning we don't have to build a bunch of lines and stuff your first statement un most of the P all the power is going to go in Kansas right in here there's no technical way to know but it goes from like Wolf Creek it goes from where it's generated in any direction to its nearest use So currently
026there's three lines hooked up at Wolf Creek and if one of them goes down for some reason the plant has to down power because they can barely put all the power out through two lines so if a second L happened to be lost like in a storm the plant would actually trip offline I'm not asking I'm telling you I used to be your actor operator there yeah so if the blueberry or sorry the Blackberry line isn't built and during the day you guys are putting all of your power down the Benton line I believe it was y that would leave Wolf Creek with two lines left and if for some reason we aren't able to pull all that power down those two lines then the plant would have to down power if we're not curtailed
027if we're curtailed then they would be on so they would have to let's say they weren't able to put all the power down those two lines they would have to down power and then at night when you guys weren't producing power then they would have to up power again so to be to be fair I'm not in engineer so I I'll need to get back with a detailed response on this but I I know for a fact nuke goes by different rules I've heard from County Commission meetings where the evergy delivering its update to County Commission they said this doesn't affect us you know what I mean I I can't explain the technical reasons why but I I if I had to guess and I hate to guess like we're we're later in there interconnect
028they are and they're a nuke so if anybody's curtailed it's not them as a result of us but if your power is cheaper your power is cheaper so they want to buy your power then they don't want to buy Wolf Creek's power well your company has what would you say 12 jobs Wolf Creek residents there's about 500 employees that live in the county MH so are we going to put something out a business that employ 500 people in the county because that brings in more tax dollars than your what was that 1.7 everybody that is saying Wolf Creek is perfectly safe I don't see any reason that Wolf Creek wouldn't be perfectly safe every understanding that I have from every expert that I've ever talked to and then jacks just my experience is we don't
029affect Wolf Creek we came later we act differently they're base load we're not Basel load power it's just two different animals the same thing wind turb said that did wi turb cause I've stood in the control room and watched the gauges swing back and forth as when turbin were coming on and offline so I appreciate everybody's comments this is a school board meeting and we appreciate your comments and if anybody wants comments get back to them you got your contact information all yeah that would sure thank you are there any other questions I appreciate you guys coming and talking absolutely um everybody get a chance to see those got [Music] some book bags are awesome thank you so much build thank you thank you Stacy M thank you I thank you know received from the
030chairperson memorial committee on beh of Carol okay uh we are moving Elementary School one thing that was really cool fifth grade came down and then K4 had the body Venture in November um want to shout out to the coach Carlson the football team came and basically did all the work setting up so that was great to have those young kids and it was kind of fun they said that the the exhibits changed a little bit but like hearing those boys like rist like when they had body pure when they were inary school um so that was kind of fun they ran through it a couple [Music] times we definitely appreciated their help and then we had volunteers all day to present to the kids and um just as they were leaving the exhibit you I
031was like did you get smar today or did you learn something that's a big hit for those kids can get to participate in that so we appreciate the opportunity post them and try to get we try to get it to our school like so everybody gets it once and did you go see that I did not next time next time okay anybody have any more question no Middle School um I you know this we had talked about when we added the reading position of some data and things like that so I thought it was important to put in some of the progress monitoring data and some of the results that were seeing early on um is pretty remarkable and and bat is doing a great job there and so are the kids and understand this
032is they're they're receiving this intervention every day for about 10 to 15 minutes and then she progress monitors them once a week so we have kids that are already exceeding Benchmark um and you can see the average number of words per minute each group is so I just that's just one thing that I wanted to point out what are all the different blue and orange lines like each set okay so the the blue line is the Bas line the red line is the current level right but of what uh their reading fluency reading fluency are those individuals are those yes those are individuals I did take their their initials because that's fine there just was a label on that axis so I wasn't sure and then the green line is Benchmark at that point in
033time okay yeah so that's the number of students that are using the reading um interventionist then correct okay yep more sense and we're adding more uh specifically with sixth grade we wanted to get started um to see if we had that capacity to be able to do that so great results so far and hopefully uh we will be doing the fast Bridge testing with aath and things like that uh coming up next week so hopefully we'll be able to see some of that contrib into comprehension as well cool thank you man it's nice to see those like specific results of individual kids matter about it Jody High School you guys look at my chart I don't know that I copy and pasted but we do have 248 if you see the chart it say 2
034and uh I didn't that day so um so we're sitting at 248 um I just wanted to put in this month is like showing you that our teachers go out and do professional um development get them out of the building amongst their peers um in their field and so we've had some people get to go do some awesome items I think with DAR for us it's when after the school room meeting everything kind of just stopped in the games for a little bit it was kind of a um uh we do have new signage I don't know if you put in the comments U the picture there um in the middle and then the items on this side got painted and so once you go in there there's no more shaded where the trophies were
035or anything and all the trophies are down by the are off of the wall by the bandroom so we're cleaning up a few things there and um get a little new look um I did get a chance to go to our competition at toeka and um coach Hazen has done an amazing job and the girls did a great did amazing so if you've ever watched the ESPN it's the Kansas version of that and it's really exciting and this year they flipped it side the opposite direction and um our fans got to go down and against the gate and so we got to film right there we got to cheer them on the parents had signs it just really neat um uh experience and and they their scores were almost doubled kind of almost doubled they
036impr significantly from last year which last year was the first year they had on anytime recently so they improved a lot so it's always exciting it's that one everybody else gets the opportunity to work towards a state competition and so this is theirs and so it's very exciting and I think um Mr Wilson how many cheerleaders do we have 24 talked about changing stuff in the gym there so come to a basketball game and just look at the look at the Baseline and they are almost shoulder toosh shoulder out there it's uh it's pretty awesome it has improved or not improved but increased in participation significantly more than any other program in the school and so and they do a great job they do an awesome job they're all there at Holton on uh for
037our first game against Holton the other night and why do you think that participation is increased I think coach Hazen is a huge piece of it she goes out and she recruits and the things that they're doing because they've added things like the competitions they do uh dances multiple times during football season multiple times during basketball season and she just goes out and is in the hallways and is trying to get girls to do it and then the girls that did it last year had a really positive experience so then they recruited girls to come out this year and it's just they we have a couple guys out I think we have five boys that are out um this year and so that's an increase as well we had two boys last year and I
038think two the year before that and so I think it it started with her getting out in recruiting and then the kidss have kind of done the same and when your peers are recruiting you sometimes that works even better than when the adult is and so it's just kind of naturally grown and we're lucky that we're able to do it there's no regulations on how many kids can be on the Baseline during a basketball game during the regular season when it comes to substate we will have to it goes down to 10 and so only only 10 of them will get to be there during the playoffs but until then they'll all get to be on the Baseline for for home games and we're not robbing from other sports these are a lot of students
039that were not active yes so you know we always say there's three things to do at Burlington High School is to be active and be on the court in the field and in the clubs the person on out is not funing me on the court if no one's watching you so that person in the fan and those that person who wonders three lers oh gosh I wish I would have and so we're get the wish I would have out to do find something that they they want to do that they're good at and enjoy doing so nice to see um our welding one thing that's on do we have welding on there they just won that they won their competition last week so that they went to so um and Logan Turner finished second I
040believe at that competition out of50 when finishes and then we are looking at we met with FL Hills Tech we do have kids going over full welding um Julie Carden is highly qualified to be able to do that and so we're looking at if not second semester of the kids um that's in welding is next year being able to offer ring on campus which will help our kids not have to travel if that's what the field they are and then we have them I mean we love it and it's awesome that they get to go do that but if we can offer and keep them part of our community along with getting college credit um and then we did get approval for I think I talked um SI Harrison's getting ready going back to her
041Masters and bringing back College C and aler and all that stuff for on for on campus so that's pretty exciting for our kids to be taught by a teacher and not just online that's I appreciate you guys looking for to get those back so that our kids can do that from a person they know and do it on our travel or do it all like you said virtually the regulations for is different than it is for the core class and the when the board of regions Chang it years ago you have to have 18 hours of your Masters the de Masters but 18 hours at least of those credits have to be in your content area so um she is actually going back in and it's os2 I believe and it's um Este steem Masters
042which actually sounds really cool she's really excited about it but of course it's going to have at least 18 hours of math and um so we're we're excited for that the kids are excited um and we're also bringing back Pro statistics and probability and our kids scored really high on the manyi assessments um that we gave and that surprised us some areas to work in algebra geometry but our probability and statistics um scores are are pretty D good so um and then I just want to point out course I think every building is doing something fun in December but um Deborah Parker our instructional coach put together for all of our buildings and bingo um so every um every building is participating in Bingo and then um we I mean I have like 50 PR
043I don't know 40 some prizes in my office but our first Ving goes today um she went out got donations from around town um I don't know so we're having a good time she really is helping boost them around we as things are tring down the next 10 days so we we do appreciate her good anything else thank you J and Lindsay is not here tonight she may join us later but if you have any questions just you can email her or let me know and I will have her address those CRA uh just kind of to mention kind of what's in the in my uh report we are uh excuse me uh busily starting to work on uh clean up of data to get ready for our conversions um we had our initial meeting
044now um for the business side uh since since our last board meeting and so now the business has been scheduled it'll it'll convert next November a year from now um so a student this summer um and business next fall and we've got 30 years of day in student that had built up and they say uh U what was the phrase Christie and I heard um uh bad data stays around for a long time so you have you have one little piece of data that's wrong and it's hard to find them all so Nicole J and chrisy and I and Courtney have all been working on different pieces of our data and verifying things and and uh just getting ready for do you have to archive all that old data so um the the biggest thing
045from the student side is you have to have grades and transcripts available for over a hundred years with the state and so um and and and literally in the in the uh High School safe there are grade cards from the early 1900s so but uh so we will all of our transcripts will be uh PDF uh for all the students they'll keep 10 years of data uh within our system so we'll you know the the individual assignments and things would go away and students who graduated and 1998 you know their emergency contacts and things will go away their addresses will go away but um we'll have their their grades and and transcripts uh saved in multiple locations digitally and and paper based and and uh yeah PR time do all that it it's uh it's
046it has been a little timeing but it's been interesting too some of the things we've learned well we've been using skyboard since 95 yes yeah yeah so at the end of this year we'll have 30 30 years get out of thank you thank you Craig Craig Marshall State Board of Education they are meeting this week and one of the things if you've seen some articles that either online or wherever get your news about cell phones and usage uh in in in districts um they um are going to vote on some recommendations at this month's meeting again recommendations for us to consider they will not tell you how to what to how much time do you ban them completely do you allow them whenever they they're not going to tell you what to do but they
047are going to get some recommendations based on the committee that they put together they had students they had Parents they had staff administrators all sorts of different people uh State Board of Education member if I'm not mistaken or members on that committee but anyway they uh they'll give some recommendations um in the next couple of days we'll see uh we'll see what what transpires there um we did our administrative director meeting here in December uh just last Wednesday I talked to our people how do you feel like we are where we need to be are we okay with what we're doing um everybody feels like uh that we are in in a real good place with what we're doing in regards to cell phones um and they may give some recommendations that we may consider
048and R for you R to you guys to at least uh consider you know possibilities in the future so uh anyway um strategic plan information again kind of some information regarding facilities there's a whole lot of information over the past nine years things that we've done and uh down below I might want to go over those things that we've done in the past but just some current projects again we're working on as this BHS boak welding shop Edition renovation we had tremendous very productive meeting on Friday um the people that were with you guys for the interview process from BHS construction that we chose they were the same people that were there with Clark Simpson myself Julie Cen margarito Solano and having those discussions and we've come up with some really some some good collaborative
049ideas uh matter in fact one um one idea was completely uh just like a wow I didn't we even think of that before well you got good enough people together put your heads together and you gotr people um yeah they come up with really good ideas at times so um anyway so we're in the process of kind of sorting through those suggestions and comments and ideas and Clark and the VHS construction people are coming up with the plan um and then we're hoping to again get the ball moving you know forward here um to actually have a a firm plan so they can go out and start Gooding parts of the project um so again we also have the elementary school of the elementary school facilities that we're considering and thinking about and doing uh
050some different things with as well as uh you know potential new Press Box for baseball and softball fields do some leaking walls that we have in those old um building office modules that were donated way back in the early 2000s when the baseball and softball fields were there they're just uh they they they we kind of got our time out of them it's they're getting a little tired out there but we're going to work on getting something hopefully going there soon with that and then just the general things just the improvements in the facilities like uh you know install insulation of LED lights we're doing more LED lighting you know throughout the district and just some other of the just general improvements that we're making I mentioned to you about some things that we're doing
051with our HVB controllers there's some things that uh need to be replaced that we don't necessarily see they're above ceiling tile grids uh they uh modul modulators actuators variable air volume boxes so on and so forth those types of things you don't really know they need to be you know replaced until the temperature change is either too hot or too cold in your room so we're working on those things with facilities and um yeah that's just a lot of a lot of information in regards to facilities facilities are so important again we're trying to recruit staff members here and we want them to be you know top of the top best of the bests uh facility wise so that we get top of the top best of the best people to apply for our our
052our openings and the last one um just a reminder in regards to the Walter and Evan Jones testim uh mobilizing literacy Grant uh one of the first things I think just the first few days on the job I remember Darla coming to me about this Grant and we got going on it quick because it was one I mean I was barely on the job and she said we need to be doing this and I said okay let's do it and we got this grant lined out for the past nine years we have uh been really we've been a I mean a beneficiary of the Jones trust in so many different ways but you can see some information there in regards Amanda Briggs and the work that she's doing as our prea on working with our
053programs as well as students and then uh just making it making impact uh we're starting to see now kids that are going through the beginning towards sort of some assessment information some data information and so uh third grade state reading assessments for the kids that were involved in this program again we have some positive results there we have 7% fewer kids in level one in the state average on state assessments there with reading and remember level one you know is that that basic level that it's it's you know just that it's we want have fewer kids in level one because if we can get to two three and four two is basic three is obviously you know you know even I can't remember the exact term I just had my picture up here for that
054lost my picture but you I'm going to grab this for classifications I lost that here but anyway we were wanting to get obviously more kids out of level one and we have 70% fewer kids in level one than on the state average on their state reading assessments there um questions on anything okay and we'll continue ons haven't really heard much on the the elementary just kind of little is there anything you guys want me to do anything thought I don't know if we all had even had a chance to sit down and really talk about what I thought is going forward yet no I think that in January we probably need to Rel to the holiday I I don't want to speak out of term here with several people I mean a couple aren't here
055and Ronnie is limited in his Communications so I'd rather just sit down but kind of hash out what we're thinking before we yeah well I think we need to get through the holidays and then everybody down we just try to do that in January yeah to have a work session in January then okay um I did attach CU I did get some information from the county um a direct mail all male in election would be would cost us as a district $6,717 12 cents to do and that's just in attach there if it's an inperson election it's less money and if you'll notice there that cost is uh $765 eight so it's a little bit less than what we had thought initially I was thinking it's going to push up to $20,000 but say less
056just depends on which type of election she would like to do if we are looking at doing an election there's some I will to an email in regards to possible January dates uh we'll U maybe look to do a work session and from there yeah okay good all right and I apologize with the the U Otter Creek so came to uh so they just wanted to present and that's okay they can present but I don't know the board's going to take a position on what you know we I think they wanted us to do that at least I don't feel I know how the rest of the board feels at the end that that was their intent was in a letter saying I don't know that we'll take a position on that I mean they
057can do it that's fine but anyway so I didn't want to cut him short but and I apologize for talking I was just if we're going to have to make a decision I have some questions to ask yeah that's there was a lot that I had I don't know about it that's why I was like how is this going to work and they they still got some homework to do sound Ronnie do you have anything on the election thing just a note last time we left it I believe we talked about doing some sort of survey can January just talking about surve yeah we I mentioned that I could do a survey if we so choose to do because again I think one thing we saw in our survey results is everybody understands that we
058need to be doing something again what's the something what is it and how is the key even the people that said essentially nothing they didn't really mean nothing what they meant is they didn't want a bond issue they don't want their taxes to increase in the bond issue way she some way shape reform so again improvements everybody knows and understands you got you have to continue to improve your facilities if not if they continue to follow you know fall down and drop sub become substandard then you're you know you're going to have more catchup to do we don't we don't do that around here we don't have deferred maintenance we take care of things when we're supposed to so well there was a there was a number of the there was a number of the
059don't do anything except for these things that I think we need to do answers to so okay and then we'll we'll take all that that we've collected and everything in January and have that work session okay I'll send an in Friday notes sometime a couple of different possible dates so thank you and then back I I did think it was important that the the administrator would be able to hear that solar thing because how you know so so um driver education fees we do not believe we need to make any changes we did increase driver ed fees a year or two ago I think it was last year um so having said that no need for us to increase um our fees again we'll leave them as is um our drivers account um is uh
060is very good right now in good situation so um are we still taking people from else we do the question I had Craig was there's a pretty decent amount of money in that uh fund right now what will that be used for part of it will be we can look to um potentially buy a a district a car for the district to now we would we we would split the cost based on the usage so let's just say if we put 10,000 Mi on a car 5,000 of its drivers at 5,000 is just driving for different things we would be able to pay 50% of the cost from a driver's education fund okay so good good question very good question okay so I need motion approv driver's education fees for the summer 2025 at $120
061per resident student at 320 for nonresident students admitted second motion second discussion hearing none submit your vote motion cares and glad to see Kimberly's here questions any questions after we beat her up last month so we've met with Kimberly some more and so you um I don't know if anybody has any other questions U Craig you have anything to add to that right I would say the one thing I think that was a little and correct me if I'm wrong one thing was a little confusing on the renewal from 2324 to 2425 I think the the discrepancy was the 101,000 versus 106,000 but it's really 101 million versus 106 million with our entire with our property value I think that was the one that was kind of squared away when Kimberly came to meet with
062chrisy myself and James because of your question on that I think we got that square that's the 5% increase approximately 5% increase that we're talking about there so that's and and I will tell you that as far as as far as Coffee County um the usd244 has the highest value of property concentrated than than any public entity in Coffee County if you think about it um you're looking at I mean your blanket is over almost well it's a little over 106 million the counties for instance they just had you know reviewed their renewal they're at like 27 in total so I mean when you think of total value property you are very heavy in property there are a number of school dist we got right there are number of school districts for example that may
063may not own their own baseball field softball field they may have through the city and therefore that's not yeah this is ours I mean um some other districts may not necessarily have a bus form like we do I mean they may have just a like a little office and their buses are sitting outside so I mean there there's a lot you know I Kimberly mention we're heavy in the property um Kimberly provided some information just got some information today and this is document um if you'll see that's the one that's label I got to look here and see uh revised 244 comparison with deductible options buy down options so having said that if you'll scroll down a little bit it's the items in the green there and Kimberly I'm going to let you kind of
064help me there were three areas where we met that we talked about if you guys may wanted us to at least consider was the property wind hail deductible we looked at Commercial Auto deductible and we looked at work comp and um maybe we'll start from the bottom work our way at the work comp um when we met and talked actually with Angela like a week before Christie when Christy James and I wasn't Kimberly it was Angela we met with her because Kimberly was gone at the time we felt like we could adjust our work comp deductible to go to 2,000 that would be a savings of $4,085 not a huge savings but in talking through the particulars and just running through some of our scenarios that we've been involved with we believe we can do
065we can drop that or I guess increase the the deductible for claim it to $2,000 that'll save us $4,085 not again not a huge savings um the commercial working upwards am I am I correct on that yes uh increasing if I may I'm sorry please um by increasing your per climate d deductible from what is now 500 to 2,000 you're actually you're actually self-insuring um those claims up to that amount and then that also keeps it off your claims history so that way anything low 2,000 and lower it actually um it it's self-insuring and it's actually keeping it off your claims history and bringing that mod lower and helping you uh not have so much of a debit on your premium makes question qu I'm sorry go ahead so in the workers compo if we
066change the deductible from 1,000 to 200,000 that saves us $4,000 how many workers comp claims do we have each year well we we we do have our fair share if we had more than four wouldn't it I me am I doing the math wrong in my head said it and that's why it jumped up so much time right your took a dive or an increase however you want to look at that yes and that stays on for three years it's a it yeah your mod um your mod modification Factor through ncci which is National Council on compensation um it it takes the threeyear average to provide you a modification factor that either gives you credits or debits depending on your risk factors and claims history so currently your mod is higher because you've had several
067shock losses in 2022 and then you had a relative I mean not huge shock losses but you had high claims history over the last year and so you've got one good year compared to two really bad years so that shot your mod up and so that means that that anything over a one is a debit or a charge of risk risk premium so it's not a simple as $4,000 savings corre corre right correct good question though but it will help in the long term to keep those smaller claims your self-insuring those smaller claims so they don't appear on your claims history yeah and we come up with an idea or two that I may present to you guys a later date to make help with the encouraging of safety you got an idea or two
068we'll talk about that later but uh anyway um we yeah you you guys understand that better than we do at the pl so the $3,000 deductible on comprehensive Collision we just don't believe that makes sense to go to 3,000 on our Collision um if we end up it's only going to save us $1,900 but if we have an accident that's one of the examples of we do have an accident we could end up uh you know eating into that real quick heaven forbid that could be an accident simple as a deer runs out and hits a vehicle we don't hit deer but deer hit us as we know in Kansas so uh anyway we don't believe that one makes sense in talking and discussing we shouldn't go you know to that uh that extreme on
069our deductor so this is the one the property one this is one I'm going to kind of have Kimberly kind of help out with and and and see if we can I say at least sort through this one so this is the wind hail property deductible um I I do want uh if you go back to the property section on the first page um I I do want to um correct something from last month um when I was putting in I noticed a typo on my page that the rate increase was actually 20% that Dy took not 6% I think when I was doing my five on the values I really don't know how that typo was in there but I did correct it on this one that the rate that EMC took property wide
070on the property policy was actually 20% um but the values increase is still 5% so not only are you not only is that increase involving your increase in values but mc2 that makes the numbers make a lot more sense yes yes and and I apologize for that I it happens I just I back and started looking at or actually revising it for these uh quote updates I was like oh my God so forgive me on that so as I mentioned last month um all your buildings except for the school buildings themselves are at a 25 on this renewal is at 25,000 wind per occurrence the school buildings the five school buildings so there's three buildings that make up the high school and then you have the middle school and the and the elementary school those
071are wind hail deductible of 75,000 per location per building so like the high school for instance would be 150,000 225 22 sorry I doubled it deure for you forgive me and I did graduate Burlington so I'm glad I can make you all laugh um so that would be 225,000 uh just for the high school in an event um so that that ISO change or uh form change alone also impacts the premium so under the additional coverage option options um we from from last month you asked me to see if we could increase all the other school building all the other buildings non schools is what I refer to them because the schools we didn't change we have changed that in this proposal um so all other buildings so this would be the bus barn this
072would be the stadium um your track football storage this building the Early Learning Center all your other property buildings um from 25,000 per occurrence to increase it to 50,000 per occurrence would save you approximately $6,000 but but in order to have that buy down policy for that 25 to to to save your budget at the event of a claim you would have another buy down policy to bring that back down to 25,000 that would cut into that Savings of $2,000 so it'd be about a half so think about you lose you're going to save $ 5933 but you're going to lose out on that $ 5933 $1,962 31 so your savings is really only $4,000 exactly to go from 25,000 to 50,000 and the same for increasing everything else up to where the schools are
073at 75,000 that would save you almost $88,500 but the buy down to bring that back down to 25,000 per occurrence for the budget is again half so 4,800 bucks 44800 you guys have got it perfect good job gold star for you Kimberly great yeah you don't even need to keep my transfers for 100 years so so there there in lies where we are with with the choice the choices that that we have um if we want to we can save anywhere from $4,000 to $4,600 I think it is somewhere in that neighborhood approximately um questions comments thoughts well and I also just to point out the the third option was if we took that the next step of a flat 100,000 for all buildings EMC wasn't I I did go ahead and ask the question
074because I didn't see the savings you know the credible amount of savings on the other two um they would prefer the s