001Mr. Orsna, here. Mrs. DeMille. Present. Mr. Raymer, here. Mr. Epstein, here. Thank you for being here this evening. Presentation. Presentation at 8. Overplay. Good evening. I'm going to introduce, we've got a couple of science trips that we're going to have a presentation over. So I'm going to introduce first Mrs. Molly Mays. She's one of our science teachers who is responsible for one of the two trips. Mrs. Reagan Shaw, one of our soon-to-be graduates. That's 26. Mrs. Greta Miller could not make it today, so Molly's going to talk about both trips. So, I'm going to introduce. Hi, again, I'm Princess Neisha. I teach AP Environmental Science along with other science classes. And again, Mrs. Miller put my book to my ratings here. She went on both, but actually. So for junior year, she went to the
002upper place. And then physics and AP Environmental Science, too, which I went for after the Grand Canyon. And Death Valley, again, the church that you guys put for GFP here. And we'd like to come back and make sure we show you those, what we've done with that sign. give her a thanks. So we'll go to Greta's video first, who's on her page. Thank you, Greta. Thank you. Thank you, Greta. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank
003you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank there to have the AP bio. Ms. Shaw, you went on this one? Last year. How did, so you've been on several of them, how do these impact like what you're looking at in the future? What's the real impact on you going to these? I know it's fun, but like what else? You get like educationally. Yeah, you were talking about Cuban Margo. So our first year taking the 8th synthesis trip out west, we have a student who, a new
004to Dartmouth, and he started as a chemistry major and once he got here, I think I'm correct to make this more general, but he changed to Geological science major. That's not the exact word, but he's worked on either the physics and chemistry of the geophysics. And he, in Dartmouth, they have trimesters, and if you're a geology... and you have to be a teenager, you do this big fan tour. And so they went to a bunch of different national parks. And so he went back to the Grand Canyon and went back to the valley on this trip. And when he found out, when he was at the park, that that was an opportunity, he was like, I want to go see these places again. And he fell. We find students particularly, when you're graduating, it's just.
005stop doing it. But kids fall in love with Death Valley. It's just rather well made and beautiful. I was really fell in love with Death Valley and I can joke with them that they found out we're also actually pretty cool at the end of the trip and I think I at least persuaded Hayden about that. So he'll be a senior next year. I'm going to do the Bible reading, but I am going to school at the University of Miami, so I'll be in the upper grades area. No, I feared for you. Good work down there. Thank you. We have some pretty remarkable students. So again, we take taking environmental science and then physics. Mr. Chinworth teaches that. And we kind of wanted to revamp the thing after the Tentfire Cup class. And both Andrew and
006I went on the Effort Lakes trip. I wanted to, when I was getting on my first course and designing this, And I was given a budget to stay in. And I was like, I want to take places like this, places they may never get to go again. Right? A place that, you know, Grand Canyon family vacations used to happen a lot more often. And so we're like, well, we can do that. And then we found out that the first year we were out there, a geology professor that we knew talked to. So we kind of made that a staple. This year, we actually flip-flopped the locations. a week before. And I was like, we always book like backups because weather is a little unpredictable, especially on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. And so
007we had to flip-flop that. It only disrupted one thing, which I'll get to later, but it's still a great opportunity to do that. But we had the best weather. It was still a little cold, but not, there was no snow this year, but it was a really fun opportunity. So it's impressive that we're actually in the North Bay right at Sunset. So we land in Vegas and then have our roads have touched there. And so these are all photos, like actual photos that our speedies took. So that other one is not. I think that one's better though. No, this is just the beauty and grandeur that they get to see. So we take sunsets pretty seriously on our trips as well. I'm pausing and taking them on. And then the second day, we woke up
008and we went down South Kaibab Trail. And then we actually went through a point, which is when you look out your telescope and some people went farther. Yeah, and then the rest of us went back early to start chilling. researchers from last night at the Grand Canyon dinner, is chilly over the fire. And so just kind of taking that in, getting to do the switchbacks, seeing the layers, and how deep the canyon really is. She's getting to that. kind of the middle ground. We can't make it down and back, but none of us are in that shape in a day. But you can just see the impact of that as we're having commonwealth of herbaric tears. And there's our campfires. So it was one of the students' birthdays, so we stopped at the general store
009and got her some ice cream. So it was a treat. And then, right? Yeah, sort of the fire for the first time. It's flint and steel. So one of our chaperones, a friend of mine from college I used to lead backpacking and kayaking trips with, he came and was able to join us this year and so he's teaching math and flint and steel lessons. So, you can just take a look at the slide. Oh, yeah, okay, yeah. So, I have a picture of you and Aaron, and I have a picture of you and Aaron. And then we left the Green Canyon and headed to a place where we go, near the Cooper Dam, where we go kayaking every year. This year, we were able to do, we kind of separated into two groups. I took
010a group with four other students. And we did a 12-mile project, so you put in right at the Hoover Dam. So we were right there, right at the close of another extra security to bring us down. And then we explored a couple of the other thermal pools. There's like sauna caves. There's... these little alcoves that have like this green twinge that's the algae below. So really kind of understanding the general, the thermal activity that's going on and making those thermal pools, what's cool to see and going in and finding our spots. We also talked about along the, because you're in the Colorado at this point, and tracking it, you can see The infrastructure that was left over from surveying and deciding where they were going to put the food were being used. So you can
011see these catwalks and how they would go across the river as well as these little police systems. And then they want to keep the Colorado pretty clean. They're really struggling with some invasive species right now as well. And so those are the ones we need. They need not to stop that, so they prefer their... being kind of aware of what goes in and what doesn't go in. Oh, yeah. I went on a shorter time, and it was pretty fun. We stopped halfway doing the boat or halfway to go on a hike to create a point, I guess. And then we also went home. Is the only one invited? Kicked her kayak? No. No? And they do release the waters of the dam at given times. You kind of have to be aware of when you're
012on the water. But the guides, this is the one part that's guided, and they do a lot of natural history along the way. So then we headed out to Death Valley. We camped at a new location, which was further in, which was really great. Hayden had recommended it. We saw, like this is kind of views from the campsite. This is where the first four rooms began moving, and that's the gate to the... Yeah. That first, the feature in the background on our first slide, that was like on the other side of us. And they, and they caught fire. It was just before it came in and all of a sudden, those rocks just soared. Yeah. So we used to get these unusual, um, colors of ironization on the walls. And so that's the first deep
013breath we used. This year we went on a different hike than we had in the past. Again, we're coming in on occasion. And so we did Mosaic Canyon hike. Again, you're looking at, maybe your valley or on a fault, but you're seeing all this passageable, logical, kind of connected to the continent. So you can see the mountain. being different, like rungs. Well, they might look like partially different, but they're not when we go over. But then these other ones are just for the next activity, rungs, leftover. And then, like I said, we take our sunset gear sleep. So we did one sunset at the flat sand dunes. We kind of take a moment there. That's my favorite thing to say. Yeah, it's very peaceful. And then we went to Badwater Basin and to Lake Manly,
014which is supposed to be once every 100 years. But there again, this is the second time Andrew and I have seen that in four years. But it's an honor. It's interesting that it's not once in a while, but there's the lake again in this fall. The little park in Manly. And then we split ways this year, physics, with our additional height. Did you mention Gulf Canaan? Yes. Yes. Gulf Canaan, which is where we have gone in the past, if you have these volcanic funds again and see some of those eucalyptus. The environmental science task went to Arma Grosso, which is a location of these catfish, which are critically endangered. Actually, when they were there, right before they were there, they got 20, and it was the first time in this population of this particular one,
015the devil's foal, which is gated. It was only 20, and they released some that they had taken as eggs. raised and then they put them back in. And so there's a lot of questions of what that's going to look like. And then we did a gyro type around the Hanagosa area that actually was once cultivated cotton, which again, you can see the irrigation things. the guides tour of the bucking and showing pictures of what it looked like in the past and then restoring it. Again, this was the only day where, or it's been, then it got changed. The idea was we were going to do water quality testing at our recluster, which I think would have been really cool. So hopefully we get to do that next year and continue to make those contracts that
016increase water percentage. But it's really cool. They get to be one of the most endangered species in the world. That's what I'm talking about. This is the best part. It's not everybody's favorite item. It's mostly me, right? It's just something that's, yeah. So, on this night, there's like, it's like, we've been climbing and stuff, and I think it was everybody's favorite thing to do, just because it was kind of challenging, but we could obviously be successful at it. And we just had a lot of fun. It was pretty long, and we... We went to Farlands, but they had ever gone. We went to the river. And then we went together like, oh no, we have to climb back up the river. But it was worth it. We were like, hey, we can get a big
017boat to get back. It was definitely worth it. And we, a geology professor from Nevada State comes with us. And so Dr. L, this is the fourth year coming with us. goes through and states have questions about what they're seeing along the way. We do that. But yes, we made it done. It was made done. I saw. It was so fun. Yeah. And you were playing a virtual world. It was really, really cool. And yeah. And then you made a new book. It's been a new book. No. Oh, yeah. Oh, sorry. Oh, I was just hearing about the names. Okay. And then we did do a Lake Mead. And you got to see the rise there. You can see where the survey hour is. It's on low. Lake Mead is actually getting as we stayed
018two nights there, which was nice. In the past, it was just kind of been like a stopover. But actually, it gave time to see the lake. there and then we went to the dam and got to see the bridge, the Red House bridge. And then we just moved. We got to see the dam and then the workings and the spillways. And then our traditional feed-out visit, things will go well. And we got to meet Fannie this year. So they know us. It's another tradition for us as well. So it's beautiful. It's beautiful. current events, like water quality you bring up, you kind of know the hubbub on like carbon capture and stuff like that going on in the county. Do you guys coordinate with like, do the kids coordinate with like, do you do anything
019with like Isaac Walton League at all or any third party? I always wonder like, so if we talk about water assessment, how do we know what the water, like I always look, in business we make changes, right? And so you always want a baseline to know where you are. How do we know what the water quality is in this area? The county does that. We look at it. We went out two weeks ago, three weeks ago maybe. Yeah, we did river testing. So we go out and we look at macros to do a biological test and then we do a chemical test. at our family farm. I have been doing a lot of research. Yeah. I know again looking at the macros and indicating that. And there was interesting in Abraham now we talked about
020some impacts that have occurred lately. And there have been new sentiment flow that have come down. So we were kind of able to do that. But it's year by year. So if I can return to that same place so we can compare and see if it's different. And we're having multiple sites to see if there's a change a little bit further. And then in looking at local issues, they did some research into low-range carbon capture and looked at data centers. They did a lot. And then the water impact, they calculated how much water their daily searches do. So anytime they interacted with AI or, like, Google to track, they marked it down and calculated the growth of water impact and stuff. And then how much of this data is due. Awesome. I mean, honestly, the
021things we, you know, the things going on right now, you're our future leader, right? So the more you know about these things, you're going to be the one addressing them, and we're looking forward to that day, right? So, honestly, thank you guys for the presentation. It's pretty awesome. Well, thank you for the opportunity, first of all. I know it's a key thing for you. There's quite a few students on this trip. Is this your largest trip? No, last year was our largest. than you anticipated during both these trips? Yes. We'd like to see numbers grow in AP classes. There's a lot of information. We hope these opportunities encourage students to push for themselves to complete the content and then having those opportunities. Can you guys kind of act in the blades? Yes, they did. They
022used to fish like Turner River down there next to the Indian reservation and then people would, I'd see them coming through their kayaks through the channels. I mean, you got some pretty big gators, but I'm less scared of the gators than the, did you see any big snakes? out there and I understand the big snakes and the worm and the glades but... We like have three of our members last year and there was, I forget what, there's a name for this giant alligator that's just this better right there than what he has in his bones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we are waiting to name him James, not for sure. One of my thoughts, the game is just going to go back to the past. All right, as you guys can see, and I think we
023all know, We now have a school full here of adults. The law school's got the whole district. They're very generous in their time, their personal and professional time, and want to provide our students with quality experience. We had another group of teachers come to me at the start of the school year with another proposal. So that's what we're going to talk about here. With me is Ashley Radosevich. Ashley's one of our high school social studies teachers. And Brooke Bassett cannot make it today. She's our junior high social studies teacher. So Brooke and Ashley came to me. probably around fall break time maybe, and said, what do you think about a D.C. trip? And, you know, we talked about the pros and cons of it, but ultimately we're all like-minded, and if it's going to be
024a good experience for our kids, then game on. So we just got some slides here and want to show you kind of what we're thinking. Please ask questions at any time. Actually, as a generously volunteer community, most of the talking, we'll try to coerce her into saying a few things as well. So what we're looking at, we already have our dates selected. We're looking at March 14th to 17th of 27. Something just to understand with our itinerary, the company we're going to work with, we've broken actually and I've spent probably three semesters. We've talked to other schools. We've looked into companies. We've looked into charter buses. We feel like this is the best package for our kids as far as not only experience but financially as well. I can speak personally and professionally on the
025company that we've reached out to. When I was in Peru, we used the same company 12 years ago and they still use them today and there's a reason for that. I've loved it, they're very affordable and they do a great job. Their drivers know the city well. It was a safe trip to and back. And talking to people I keep in touch with in Peru, they are still extremely happy with the experience that they provide to those kids. Our trip also, we'll share with you the right now cost per student, but with the experience of my daughter going on her D.C. trip two years ago, this is probably close to $200 less than what my daughter paid. So we feel like, again, you know, some schools, they go to companies, some plan their own, some
026use charter buses, some schools use school buses. But we feel like just everyone we've talked to and what works best for us, that this company is going to give us the best experience. Now, they did tell us, though, that this itinerary needs to be very flexible because the places we want to go, some of them, they can't reach out until. two weeks prior, February or whatever. So the thing that she stressed with us when we met with her is that we need to be very flexible and it will have to be flexible. But the flexibility, anything we change will not change the dates, it will not change the cost per student. So these are just some samples of things we have talked about. These are in line with the, there should be someone in line
027with the itinerary that you guys were given for day one. You know, normally on these trips you're looking at going to World War II, World War II Memorial. The Tidal Basin has Jefferson, you know, has some of the other, the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, they're all pretty close together. Martin Luther King is one near the Tidal Basin. So these are some things we've talked about for day one. I believe at some point, too, there was a night tour. The company took us on a night tour where you see Iwo Jima. You see there's a 9-11 memorial near the Pentagon. It's really cool. I forget what night that was. It's got to be an itinerary, but I know that's where it did at some point. I know one thing they mention the Holocaust Museum is one where
028they don't accept tickets until a certain date. And so she said that's one we've got to be pretty flexible with. Day two, they work in possible trips to Forbes Theater, White House. We were able one year to go. I think we went into the State House one year, had a chance to see, I forget which site it was, but had a chance to go in and see some pretty neat things in there. They normally work the archives in. Smithsonian's, that's probably one of the few on the trip where they'll have a lot, they're not a whole lot of choice. We ask them, you know, they normally stick their itinerary. The Smithsonian's are one of the few where they say they'll drop you off and you can pick from whatever ones you want to go to.
029So that's kind of part of this as well. And then what we figured to maximize our time, the company, we will depart late at night. Day one, we'll drive all night. That will give us three full days. Because you can see in here there's quite a bit that we're trying to cram in during that time. Day three, we'll go, we'll spend some time at Site C doing our thing week dinner, and then we'll drive all night and get back early the following morning. So that's the nice thing, too, about this company. They'll drive through the night so you can maximize your time there. Mount Vernon is normally one we've started working in. Arlington normally gives you the two men and soldier during that time. And then again, we'll have some alternate locations, and this is
030where we just rely on the travel company. They'll reach out and whatever we want to do, they'll see if they can arrange it, and if so, great, and if not, then we'll talk with them about some other possibilities. So again, the dates are March 14th to 17th. Cost right now, and we intend to keep this, is $981 a kid. The reason we're wanting to bring this up for approval now is we figured if this board approved tonight, we're going to start meeting with current freshmen because this trip will be designed for sophomores. Not a typical class you'd take trips on. It's normally eighth graders or juniors and seniors, but you saw the presentations that we have there. We do not want to put kids in a position where they've got to choose between. the age
031of trip in DC or whatnot. We want to make this something to where those kids, anyone, and this trip will be for any kid who's interested. Yep, go ahead. So we don't have to worry about that. They don't have somebody stationed for that. Talk-a-tours also is a family-run business. So the law branch I think is really cool. As far as that scenario that you showed, that was like something we had put together, ideas that we had before we really talked to Talk-a-tours. But then she provided, basically took everything that Brooke and I had talked about and walked us through and tried to network into this project. This is a picture of the first time. First time, Carly watched me and she said, I'll be all over the place. I'm excited to see it. But we
032got that itinerary and she told us that if there was anything that we saw, if the time gets closer, we can change those things. But it was a moment. We tried to do it. And she said it gives them time to get things together. We have plenty of time to do that. We're going to do as many of them as possible. We've also talked with the company about the possibility that each kid will have an account about getting some kind of QR code or something where people want to make donations. It can go directly into that kid's account. If we receive any donations from anyone, they told us they just need a list of kids' names and how much to apply. And I would imagine the same will go well if we do any fundraising
033as well. I figured there was about 10 months between now and the trip. We figured, too, middle of March is the perfect time because winter sports are, for the most part, done, and spring sports haven't really begun yet. So, you know, we're not competing with the other two trips you saw because you guys saw two fabulous trips, but we feel like this is going to be a pretty good one as well. I'm really excited to say that that time is also probably less busy than other times. I mean, there's a lot of other people, so the chance of getting the Holocaust tickets would be a little bit better at that time for our kids. But yeah, just overall, it would be fine. I would remember our other time for the event. I think that would
034be great for our kids, too. Chair Lawson's maybe hit her nest, but we'll get it to you. Let me get a motion to go through. Mr. Esselstyn, second. Mr. Raymour, discussion. Sounds like an awesome group. Anything we can do in the civics arena, right? Forget, you know, like, one thing, like it is marked, like with the weather, you guys got insurance? No, we don't. Okay. Yeah, definitely. We don't have insurance. Yeah, all you need to do is travel kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, DC, that's a, yeah, that's a risky. So, do they have the White House to zip wide open again after? Because I took the kids, like, I knew something bad was going to happen, so we went out there right before, you know, the pick a fan, so, yeah. I know in the
035entire range, something about, like, teachers for teachers, did they at least claim that, too, to get teachers that we put our places? So I think that's probably what we're looking for. And that's nice of you to think about the flexibility of this company. If there's any questions or concerns we have, I think as long as we reach out proactively to them, they can work around some of those things. Very, very responsible. So I think being balanced is coming with everything. Lots of work is out there. And then do either one of you know Rudy Yakim, Jim Banks, Marlon Stuckman? Well, my brother teaches social studies. When they reach out, when they take their rep, he's in the building. We try to meet them, host you, right? That's what they do. He'll do it. They reach
036out and then somebody will be there. Yep. He reached out to Banks' office and he said they've always been pretty good about the other men showing them around. So we figured we'd do the same thing. Yeah. whichever one it is i think we're really behind on them forever so yeah yeah awesome i think there's an awesome event you guys have any other questions or i love that you're giving me the opportunity to do that for the street yeah i think it'll be a neat trip i think it's important for these things you know i know it's typically like an age-free trip from what i've heard but you know i feel like they're a little bit older and they're starting to understand more about their role in society and in our country and in our world.
037And I think this will be an opportunity for them, now that they're a little bit older, to really see the things that they've learned about and that they're going to learn about and to feel like a bigger impact. They're learning increasingly as they become out there in our world and are being leaders. I think we're going to look for it. Yeah, thanks for taking that on security, too, because that's all these are. And that's not great from what I remember. I remember 12 years ago we had to put the tape on their doors in our hotel rooms, and that tape, they were being tapped. But, yeah, that's not like that's been in that area since. You don't take it through. Yeah, you don't take it through. Don't let this go down. I'm not saying we
038won't use it. Or zero. Thank you. Thank you. We'll keep you guys posted this time next year. Awesome. I'm sorry about that. The one that has the right number is on it. That was $45.90. There you go. Oh, there it is. That's good. We're going to see another $2 million in a little preserve. I'm going to go wait. That's great. Just move on my left. Okay, so the... That's not what we want to do. Just stop. Again, going through the numbers as we've seen the path, I will tell you that we have upgraded our cash flow with the GEO bonds. The money should be here this week. That's from sale that we've approved and been working on for the last six months. We'll start applying those bonds in July. That's offset. We'll see that later
039on. So, again, for do that, we're still reporting monthly, and we've updated our numbers for them starting this month. So looking at this, total revenue coming in, we underestimated or we overestimated about $10,000 a score. Our expenses, we saved $19,000. We looked at that. So overall, our cash flow, we were positive $8,000 for the month. Coming down to salaries, and you can look and see if we need to add. Again, we overestimated our salary by $16,000, underestimated benefits. So we're in the good for 17, so we get all of a sudden done for the month. We're projecting $2,078,000 and we're sitting at $2,091,000 for a variance of $20,000 for the month. So again, a good month in the H1. Okay, operations. Same format. So again, we need to look at total revenue. Again, we had
040a rebate that came back in for, if you recall, we changed property tax insurance. So we had that paid for the year, so we got half of the year back. That's why the revenue side is so advanced compared to what we would normally see. Coming down, when we look at the month's salaries, We underestimate the power rate by 10, which again has the offset for benefits and claims. All that is offset because of the rebate we've got for insurance. So we finished the month to a positive 119. Now, I'll point out, we were anticipating a negative 164 because, again, we have a tax draw coming in in June. So last year we were short in May. In June, again, it will be the same thing. So by 10 weeks, our board may or may not
041have a tax draw. Again, that will show us a negative, but by the end of the month we will have it. So again, we were anticipating a negative 164. We actually ended up at negative 44. So the variance was $119,000 to the good. Okay. We'll preface the prize. So fuel, energy, how are we looking on what kind of surprises we need to worry about out here? Basically, it's fuel. Energy, we buy off the grid. We had a contract that expired in March, and we aren't using much natural gas at this point. And we're looking at doing an at least two-year buy off the grid for gas, but I'm going to hold off until we get it. the term resolution, you know, the market stabilizes, then we'll start looking at that. Right now, they're looking at
042about an 8% change in the terms from last year, which is not terrible, 80%. They're thinking, again, if you look at the long-term projections, we'll probably be up a couple cents over last year when we get all that done. Again, assuming everything in the straights gets resolved in the next four to six weeks. The diesel is a big thing right now. Again, we're coming into summer, which I hope tremendously, and hopefully we'll see some sterilization. But how many buses we run in the summer? Do we even know yet? We'll run two full-time routes. There's a little bit of a run in those two. We've got a lot of that for our dealer. Okay. Now, we were in a session last week with the IASBA, which is the National Business Special, and sat into a session
043with Bond Bank, which, again, is our friend, as you know. That's what we do. We do our loans through for tax and subspecialty loans. They have a program that is a diesel fuel hedge fund. that we're going to explore. There you go. Yeah. I'll say, what they do is they say, okay, and you don't have to report anything. They just look at how much fuel you use, and they say, okay, for 2027, you are participating using 30,000 gallons of diesel at this price point. And you can lock in that price point. And it costs like 5%. So maybe $4,000 or $5,000 to lock in this price point. If at any time during the 12 months your price exceeds that benchmark, then I should check for the difference. Now, so the downside. The downside is that
044you never get to that. You have $6,000. Well, I think the benchmark for this year is like $2.75. We are looking at that as a possibility for a 27 contract year. So I'll come back to you with more information on that. But I have not heard of that program before. It is – I've talked to a couple of guys who have used it. It's that we always get something back. You know, last year it was, you know, like one check for, you know, a couple hundred dollars. This year they're getting checks every month. So it makes a big difference. And I know it doesn't stabilize what your cost is going to be. So one of the things I wanted to look at state level, you know, I just can't understand. I know we want economy
045and run a school system, but some of these contracts like fuel in certain circumstances, I can't. That's one of the things I was going to do down there is like why aren't we looking at like buys, right, and doing some distribution with the schools to offset from like the state contract or something. It doesn't make any sense to me, but whatever. So you got to hear me. Anybody have any questions on financials? Thank you. Do you need an approval? Motion to approve or move? Mr. Bringer? Second. Second. Mr. Tobias? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? No. Okay, second issue. We have bid openings, well, court openings, if you will, for moving the office of MIS. We had about 287,000 budgeted for that project. Bits came in with substantially higher than that amount. We had two
046quotes, two bids. We would ask that you reject those bids, and what we're going to do is instead of moving the office, is we're going to put money into enhanced security and integrated security systems at that building. We're going to use that as kind of the benchmark. If this goes as well as I think it will, because I've used the system in other places, then we'll expand out into MES and high school or the facility next year, depending on what the funds. We are putting in for a grant. it's a federal grant which right now there's no federal money and it's going into that grant amount yet last year came in mid-June and I don't know what's going to happen if there'll be any funds available this year or not but we're looking at that
047as a possibility so separate from the SOR funds the billable funds yeah yeah somebody's been on me about that once so I do I do need a motion to reject the new bids that we received what was the bid We had 287, it was 157 above that for the low bid and another 20,000 above that for the second bid. We only had two. Second. Mr. Esteset, motion. Mr. Raymer, second. Any discussion? So, yeah, I guess this was just for remodeling. It was really just from the center of the building to the north or southwest side. Who attended from the board? I'm sorry. Who attended from the board? Rick and Fred. Rick and Fred. Okay. Or Adam. Adam. Okay. All in favor? I think we did that. All right. Now, I will, because of the safety
048and security, this will be the last time I'll come to you with. We will be discussing it next week at the exec session on Tuesday, just a blurb about what we're looking at and what the system does. So we just rejected the bids tonight, right? Right. Nothing's approved. All right. Cool. Thank you. Yep. Consent items, claims, minutes, resignations. Any questions on claimants' minutes? Other nations who have that one? I do. Mr. Breyer. Thank you. Gary Rincone is retiring. as the East Coast Cub baseball coach. Chloe Pike is resigning from the U.S. as a guidance counselor. Scott Blass is resigning from the Junior Senior High School as the mower. And Pat Lepper is resigning his head basketball position from the Junior Senior High School. Thank you for your service. Grant, are you ready to skip? which
049we are working on and moving to. Donation? I wish I would have looked at this list before I began doing this. Okay, we have $100 to NJHS for the FFA program by anonymous donor. $200 donation to NJHS from the FFA program from an anonymous donor. Another $200 donation. from MJHS, from the FFA program, from anonymous donors. Two more donations to the FFA program from an anonymous donor each. A $325 donation to the FFA program from an anonymous donor. A $400 donation to the FFA program by an anonymous donor. A $451 donation to the FFA program from an anonymous donor. A $500 donation to the FFA program from Business State Bank. A $500 donation to the FFA program by an anonymous donor. A $500 donation to the RISE program by Hanna Lodge, number 61. A $500
050donation to the FFA program by an anonymous donor. A $1,000 donation to the FFA program by an anonymous donor. A $1,000 donation to the FFA program from AG Plus. A $2,000 donation to the NJHS. Baseball program from NPS Eggs. Flower centerpieces to MIS for the Red. Carpet for prom from Rhinestones and Roses. $200 donation to the FFA program by an anonymous donor. A $200 donation to the boys basketball program by an anonymous donor. A $200 donation to the girls tennis program by an anonymous donor. A $200 donation to the track program by an anonymous donor. A $300 donation to the FFA program by an anonymous donor. A $305 donation to the Boys Basketball program from IPT Screens Printing. A $350 donation to the Afroprom by multiple donors. A $500 donation to MJSHS Teacher Appreciation Week
051by Boca State Bank. A $1,000 donation to MJSHS. Boys basketball program by an honest donor. $100 donation to the baseball program by an anonymous donor. $500 donation to the baseball program by Frank and Sharon Shoemaker. And $1,000 donation to the cross-country program for the cross-country course mile calendar markers by T-Rex. Thank you for all of your donations. It maxes out at $13,030. That's the way you skip, so that's an amazing contribution. by anonymous donors. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right
052here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a great community right here. We've got a together. Yep. Motion to approve. Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum?
053Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Mr. Bynum? Jasmine Jones at the Junior Senior High School Assistant High School Cheerleading Coach, Paul Linden. Rocky Adair, Junior Senior High School Assistant Baseball Coach. Mary Randall at the Intermediate School Fifth Grade Teacher. Laura Caranango, MES Technology Coach. Stephanie Martinez, MES Kindergarten DLI. You were going to be the fourth grade teacher. Haley Matthews, Junior Senior High School, June High Volleyball Coach. Michael Monroe, Junior Senior High School, Volunteer Wrestling Coach. Sean Renz, Junior Senior High School, Volunteer Wrestling Coach. Wade France, Junior Senior High School, Volunteer Wrestling Coach. Blake Hearn, Junior Senior High
054School, Volunteer Wrestling Coach. Trista Cable, MCS Summer School Para. Melissa Eddy MCS Summer School Teacher Brandi Carroll MCS Summer School Para Anita Henderson MCS Summer School Para Jane Ely MCS Summer School Teacher Emily House MCS Summer School Teacher Amy Johnson MCS Summer School Teacher Becky Nicodemus MCS Summer School Para Brittany Matthew, MCS Summer School Para. Casey Penrod, MCS Summer School Teacher. Carrie Souder, MCS Summer School Teacher. And Heather Turflinger, MCS Summer School Teacher. Welcome. Mr. Reckless, you did a great job. Thank you. I think you're going to be here. No, but let's see. motion to approve. second. Mr. Duff to stand in the discussion. Thank you for your service everyone. Marching band now let's see how many of these we've got marching band we've got and if I may we go through the Because all
055these are repeats from other years. Yeah. So I think all of these trips are in your file. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Otherwise, again, these are trips that have been approved in the past or just renewals for this coming school year. All right. So we've got marking van 26. Indiana Dunes, football camp, Boys and Girls Tennis Camp, Square Track and Field, Summer Soccer Camp, Cheerleading Camp. What's TMP? Varsity Master Camp, Summer Volleyball Camp. I can't remember. We can look that up later. We're here somewhere. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank
056you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you These are, I think it would just be easier to collect the information. What about if it's disemployment that you take away? So again, like I'm here, like I'm going to approve, but just looking
057at the cheerleading team, that's pretty easy. So that, you know, part of the discussion is we do have like the process for this, right? And there is a submission form, so I'm not too sure where we've lost. And it may be in the conversion over to Neola and I don't know. What we get is people send us stuff saying, can you get this canceled? Yeah. So we're going to reject it up and go. No more. So let's just draw a line here. Unless you go on forward in the board meetings, unless you submit the proper paperwork, we're going to deny it. We'll just say that. How about that? You too. No. You want to go there? That's the only one we're going on? You're a good person. So who do they turn these into? Usually
058they go to the office where the person's working, and then they get sent over here for approval. Yeah, they can catch up with you. If they just bring something to them, you can just be like, here, you need to fill this form out to get requests for approval. Well, I was just wondering kind of is it an access or is it a training issue, is it an accessibility issue or is it just I don't care, I don't think I have to do this issue. And then if you don't like, and then what that will bring up if there's something wrong with our, the way we're doing this, right, or if that form's too complicated, then we go back on the process and we fix the process. But we got, like if we're not saying we're
059going to do things, we have to do them. So. Can they find that form on the website? And again, it's kind of tied to our, the whole Neola thing and getting documentation on there and approving it. But the other thing on this was the handbooks. So I do have a question. Wait. We didn't approve. No. Okay. We did do the motion. All in favor? No. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No. I mean, I think we could ask for the approval and then ask for the current point. So then we can see that at our next board meeting. Or I would just ask that we just going forward, we get to talk to Phil Minner, which means, did you already approve that it was going to be kind of counterproductive to have him come back after the
060fact with another before the board? I don't know. Embrace his discipline in the organization. I mean, you can look at it either way. Yeah. Where do you want to go with this? Outside of COVID. And when the approval is passed or from the supervisor, they send them the form in the future if this needs to be fulfilled. We'll take care of it. Okay. Thank you. And just to stress that point, this is... Like this is our liability point with these things right we approve these things Asked in a waiver and these kids are doing waivers and stuff, but this is cool This is our liability point as far as I'm concerned we'll improve these versus some of those customs we've had on like get-togethers and stuff like that so I see it's an important deal.
061Think of it this way when they come here and you put your stamp on it then you're assigning our insurance liability to that event. when you have an event that is inviting somebody to my house that is outside of the scope of the board you can't you can't i mean i thought you said you don't really want to approve those because you know it wouldn't like to have the same source you would have been approving something every weekend because one of the correct places to go so i'm going to say that's kind of his work yes information so okay great going back then uh this is the second reading We're not in the middle? No. All in favor? I swear I preferred to go back on another one. I don't want to say yes. Okay.
062All right. Going back then, Brian, for your second reading for the Eastside, I'm sorry, Manchester Junior Senior High School Student Handbook Policy and Procedures, and also second reading for the Parent Handbook and Procedures. You saw these at your March meeting. We asked to be held off because of cell phone policy that is now included, which I think is different across the three handbooks. Is that correct? Can you come up here for a minute? Because I've got some questions on that. No, no. I just have to check now. The parent student isn't? That's probably what they're going for. Oh, no, so let's talk about this. So we implemented a policy currently on cell phones. For cell phones, yeah. Ours is students can have them during passing period, during lunch, but other than that, they should be
063in their lockers. So really the main change we made with our policy is that they need to be in their lockers 24-7. Either that or you don't bring it to school. When did we make that change? Now this is this one here this employer 26 27. Okay Is this change enacted now or is this in the future? This will be for next school year 26 27. Don't get any sense in like running for the kids all over. No we don't. We don't mess with this right now. The statute doesn't affect the library. that requires this to be in place. Right, so yeah, we can end the school year, right? Yeah. And then, so what type of, have you guys, you know, thinking through this, what's the kind of disciplinary, what's the hierarchy on disciplinary on
064the cell phone? I just see, like, where are we restricting kids' cell phone use? In schools, again, like masks. So I want to get ahead of this. What are we thinking about here? It'll be progressive. I mean, it'll start off with getting parents involved, warning the students. Handbook allows the cell phone to be confiscated until the end of the day and then returned to the student or the parent. It'll be very progressive. You know, it could lead to some detentions, but it's not going to start with anything heavy right away. Who's got access? If you possess a student's cell phone, who has access to that phone? Because that's damage right there. Normally what happens is the cell phone is confiscated. They bring it down to the office so the kid can get it right at
065the end of the day. Who transports it to the office? Normally the adult. It should be the adult. Okay. Yeah. So there might be occasionally a time where an administrator will come down and get the cell phone from the classroom, but it should be an adult. One of the things that there are exceptions because there's no health issues. So if I have, if I'm diabetic and my phone reads my monitor, then obviously that's an exception to this rule. And there's going to be some other ones. So it's going to be a case-by-case basis. So you're going to get some comments, I'm sure, that, well, why can't I have my cell phone because you have yours? And you can't disclose that he has a health issue. So, you're only going to get some of those issues
066coming forward. The exceptions are embedded in the income. Another one that I think is new is if a student is using it for translation. If English isn't their primary language, if they need it to translate. Yeah, there'll probably be some twists on this as we go along. And then going back to kind of where I was at, so the phone's confiscated from the student. It's transferred to the office. Is that what's our policy on who gets access? Is anyone going to access these phones? Although it's not in the student's possession, is everybody clear? Is that the violation, et cetera? Yes, so it's available for the student. Occasionally, you'll have the parent come in if that's a repeat offender. but it's available for the students as they get it and they take it home at the
067end of the day. Okay. And they're locked up or they store it in a drawer? Store it in a secure, I wouldn't say locked up, but store it in a secure place where no one's going to get to it. The adult is there, but we're getting those as they come and get it at the end of the day. Then the last little piece so we so we complicated this the phone it's in our possession that phone Stuffing happens right it gets damaged destroyed who's paying for that phone? Because phones are expensive 1500 bucks something like that. What are they now 1500? And that's why we get it down to the secure area in the main office, just so there's someone right there to make sure nothing, no one gets their hands on it, no one
068has access to it. I won't go so far as to say they're locked up. They're not locked up. But they're in a location where there's going to be someone there to make sure that it's there by the end of the day. I think one of the things that we'll need to do, again, for future work, is if I'm confiscating a phone, it needs to go into an envelope, field envelope, that gives me one. Otherwise, when you get to the office, you may have five phones in a box like this one. Well, now you have the evidence, right, that we have a trail of, you know, and so, yep, right on. Good. Okay. And one other question. Is there anything in the handbooks where if a coach talks to somebody, they can be fired? Yeah, there's
069something. I got kind of a request on this, but it was a, so I didn't really find anything in there, but, like, that's in there. We got, like, you know, there should be, there's a chain of command, right, but there, like, people should be fear of communication. Yeah. So I'm just bringing that up for my next turn around. If it's something, I mean, this is a great employee. I mean, if they're talking about something strictly confidential, absolutely, there would be an issue. But, I mean, for me, it would involve what they're talking about. But if it's just general conversation, there's nothing I'm aware of. Okay. That's kind of the board's job, right? Yeah. Is the interface with the community and the teachers and the coaches and everybody that works there is also a community member.
070Yep. All right. I'm done. Yep. What do you mean by if they talk to someone? Well, just a coach would say something or complain to a board member, they could be fired. I didn't see it in there. I'm just following up on stuff I get from the community, right? A lot of these questions, I'm just asking you questions that people have. I want to make sure we have coverage. There's nothing that I'm aware. And on Mr. Sobeys, as well as I do, I'd be shocked if he wanted to put something like that in there. And I agree, we want to encourage open communication, don't want to make it a door or anything. We eventually want it to get back to us if it's at the building level or whatever, but I would be shocked if
071it had been before that. You really want it the other way around. So if you do get a phone call or run into somebody and they say, gee, I have this issue, the first question is who are you talking to at the building? And if they haven't, then that needs to be redirected back to the athletic director or three or the building principal that's starting from now. Okay. Which one isn't attached? I already have that. I think I just put it on there. Because sometimes that stuff doesn't, how many of you are on there, it doesn't come up. I don't know. It's kind of weird. Is it the student year, though? 2022. So we need motions of seven to your handbook. The parent student handbook. Mr. Ramek second. Second. I think we already have a
072result in it. Other than that cell phone thing, is it for just most little other things? Yeah, nothing has changed in the first reading other than we put in the cell phone. Exactly the same. Do you expect that to evolve a little bit here before we jump into August and the cell phones? It's like Dr. Stevens said, it's the 2nd of July 1st. I don't foresee them changing anything with the statute. Not until the long session hits and they start getting feedback that just is not very well thought out. So we're working for a plan, all right? Yeah. All right. All in favor? All right. 1-4-0. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. The next one is the... corporations, students, technology, and the handbook, first read, that's in your packet. There's only changes are dates and the
073requirements changes, so there's really nothing there different from last year going forward for the 26-27 year. Now, from my standpoint, what's changed in technology? So there's nothing that changed that would have to change our policy? No, because we have, we have been submitting to the state a technology plan, which is every three years. And that basically, you know, what is your format and what you're going to be doing during the next three years to do that. We, two years ago, we bought new technology for all kids at that point. This was year two of that, and the goal was every year. Two, three, and four years we've replaced the technology. I will tell you we're not doing that. We're just trying to buy out these two-year-old machines because the prices for computers right now are
074a scissor's work. And my assumption was because of what's happening in the Middle East, it's because the data centers are being used to doze checks. So we're going back to good old textbooks. Maybe there will be a day, right? I don't know. I'm not convinced. We went digital. What's that really mean? I'm not convinced that that makes a difference. Now, security and keeping updates and stuff like that, better electronically. That's good. That's good as well. What? Technology. That's a little bit better. Yeah, it is. All right, going forward. Anything else on that one? So that's first reading, so we'll go on that next meeting. Is there a Heartland update? Mr. Work? Many updates, sir. Yeah, I hope he's okay, huh? I understand that legislative Adam's not here, so we'll kind of talk around that stuff.
075Superintended comments? I think our comments are in a better than a four comment. Yeah, I just have one follow-up on the camp power, or the B4 process. For me, it's as much to protect the employee who may be new at creating the camp and not knowing all the boxes to check. It's not to make it more difficult, it's to protect themselves. No, I agree. And it's just pretty much, quite frankly, reaching out to people who want to shoot a tree, you know, it's never enough. campus is difficult for it. And like you said, liability. That's a lot of liability that we're having on them. That's a major liability for us, right? I mean, we're living in a house with kids around and some of you are doing something stupid here. So yeah, no, Rick, that's
076excellent. And if we don't, at all levels, if you don't follow things, right, we don't do it here on the board. If you don't do it in admin, nobody follows anything, right? Then why do we expect the kids to? Do what we ask them to do so I mean you know that's just a good deal so any other comments I just appreciate your support. We go through some things right and people just keep rolling. I do believe tonight the presentations were a good point that our focus is students most of the time and that's our business here is to make them good citizens. I love seeing Ms. Shaw up here. Those are our future leaders. The more exposure they get and really I love that. i love them being related to current events than accident
077them so that's the questioning around the water quality you might as well know what's going on for real right because they're going to be dealing with it motion to adjourn