001testing one two testing. Testing. All right, everyone. Thank you for being here. I'll call the meeting to order. Um Jason Daniel, if you'll start us with our prayer and pledge, please. Y'all stand. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day and thank you for the opportunity to allow us to come together today. Father, I pray that you would guide us and that we would seek your wisdom in every decision that we make for our school system. Lord, be with each family represented here and online. Uh and we pray that you would uh go with us as we leave here tonight and be witnesses for you in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Do the pledge of attention salute pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
002republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right, Sandra, if you'll call the role, please. Kim Dezo, here. Sherry Tolbert. Kathy Brown here. Steve Ward here. Jason Daniel here. Thank you. Thank you all for being here tonight. Welcome. Um we are I wanted to uh express our condolences to Sher Tolbert. Her mom passed away this week, so she is at home with her family, but um just keep her in your prayers. Um thank y'all for being here. Um we got we've had a a long afternoon. We've been in a workshop all after all afternoon. Our by we do it twice a year. Twice a year. So we've been here since 11. So we're gonna we have extra reasons to to get out of here
003early tonight because we've been here all day. Um but we've had a good a good day. Um, so let's see with that. First thing up is um to adopt our agenda for the evening. Y'all have had an opportunity to review our agenda for tonight. I will entertain a motion to approve tonight's agenda. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor of adopting tonight's agenda, please say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carried. Um, let's see. So Lisa Bright is here. She's our city council liaison. So Lisa, I'll turn it over to you for your report. Great. Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to be here. Um just a few updates from the city side. So tomorrow night we have our workshop and council combination. So we'll start workshop at 5:00. Immediately following workshop city
004council will start. So if you're interested in coming to that meeting all are welcome. Uh a few things mainly on infrastructure that we have going on. In case you've noticed we have a lot of infrastructure uh improvements which is good going on. One thing Trustful Springs will be u on Wednesday we'll be closing their temporary entrance that they've had for 18 years which they're due the entrance um we closing the temporary entrance and opening the new entrance which you've seen I'm sure going on down Highway 11. So if you see some movement you know take it a little slower right through there. Going to be putting up some barricades. Um Northalk Southern will be digging up and putting a permanent crash barrier in front of the old entrance. So, if you live in Trustful Springs
005or know people that are there, please help us let them um get notification on that. On last week on Thursday, we had um um De Jarvis um Leonard come and speak to us from ALDOT at our chamber meeting and he gave us a lot of updates on all the infrastructure uh um additions and improvements that we have going on in Trustful. So, of course, I-59 is the biggest one, and we're going to have a lot of changes coming up in the next year. And there's a website if you want to stay informed on it. It's i59 trustful.com. We will have some times where they're going to close exit 141, which is the the YMCA exit. It will be closed two different times the way I understood it for like 40 days. So, that's going to
006be a little bit of a bear to deal with, but we're going to be working closely with our first responders to make sure we keep things as clear as we possibly can. If you can avoid that area, that would be great. When it is done, it's going to be fantastic. But if you want to follow the the updates that ALD do will be making, that's a great website to do that. And then lastly, we had um a great experience last Thursday where we opened our Miracle League field, which is going to to sponsor our I think we had 39 people already sign up to be on the Miracle League team. So, they will play every Tuesday night um on this field. It's spectacular. Um thank you to Amorex and McWain for sponsoring that. What great
007partners we have making a $500,000 donation for that field. the parents were thrilled for it to be open and the kiddos we stayed and watched the game after the ribbon cutting and that the kiddos just had a great time playing. So I encourage you to go and and support it if if you've got some volunteer some some I see students here opportunities to volunteer there. They they have to have a buddy with them while they're playing on Miracle League field. So that's a great opportunity to to have a service project and serve in that capacity. U that's all I have unless there's any questions. Thank you. All right, Dr. Martin, I'll turn it over to you for recognitions. All right. Good evening, everyone. Uh, Coach Bales, Coach Dorset, would you come join me up here,
008please? Um, I want to let our student athletes know that there are really only three ways that student athletes get to come before the board of education here at Trustful City Schools. That is if you are a high school state champion, a high school state runner up, or you win the metro. And our seventh and eighth grade girls here, our middle school team, were the Metro champs. If we could give them a round of applause, please. I was going to wait and save them until the end, but it's my understanding that you're all really wanting to get over to watch our varsity girls beat Curry. Is that correct? So, why don't you all come forward here and coach Bales, would you tell us a little bit about the team and a little bit about the
009season? Thank you. First of all, thank you guys for coming. Um, this team, we had 18 girls and it's probably one of the most talented teams I've had since 201 14. um the team that I had in 2014 and the team we had in 2019, one state. That little group I had in middle school, we went the season and lost one game. We lost two games this season, but it was also in tournaments. So, our regular season was 13-0, didn't lose a game from top to bottom. One of the most talented. This is the future for our new stadium. You will see these girls win multiple state champions. Um, I'm gonna have them introduce theirelves, their grade, because I'm not. And I've got a few that are missing today. So, uh, what? Aaliyah and Molly's
010here and, uh, Sophia Brisco. So, we have two girls that aren't here. And we have one of our girls got to get back to play in the varsity game here in a little bit. So, I'm going to have them introduce themselves. And also I want to recognize she's the only Dorset that does not have her name on a banner in our gym. And now she does. She will. She has st she was on our first state championship team too. So you guys just as you walk through just introduce yourselves, say your name, all that good stuff and then we'll get out of here. You can do it. Hi, my name is Sophia. I play center field and pitcher. Hi, my name is Kate and I play shorts stop. Okay. Um, hey, my name is Chase
011and I play catcher and third base. Hi, my name is Maggie and I am pitcher. Hi, my name is Ava and I play left field. Hi, my name is Molly and I play left field. Hi, my name is Francis and I'm a pitcher. Hi, my name is Olivia and I play first base. Hi, my name's Presley. I'm in seventh grade and I'm a pitcher. Hi, my name is Libby and I'm in seventh grade and I play second base. Hi, my name is Sophie. I play catcher in third. Hi, my name is Macy. I pitch and play outfield. Hi, my name is Gabby and I play right field. Hi, my name is Kinsley. I play catcher in first. Hi, my name's Collins. I'm in seventh grade and I play left field. Can we give them a
012hand right here so we can get a picture? All right, we're going to get a picture. So, what picture? All right. [Music] Wonderful. All [Music] right. Great job, girls. Okay. The room may tip sides. I know. I know. That's right. Miss Vernon brings up a very good point. If we could get some folks on this side of the room to move to that side so the building doesn't all fall this way, that'd be very helpful. Sorry, Sandra, I stole your joke. That finances. Yeah, that that's right. That's right. So, well, I'm I'm I'm excited about this next uh this this next celebration that we have coming up tomorrow. I've asked Mr. King if he would come and join me. Had the chance to go down to the state department of education for our state board
013meeting and Huitt Trustful High School received the purple star designation. I'm going to let Mr. King talk a little bit more bit more about what that designation implies. So, all right. So, Purple Star is was created and adopted here in the state of Alabama to uh be a a friendly face toward our military families across the state. Uh it's a recognition that, you know, military families give up a lot to serve our country and a big portion of that is uh they bring their families with them. uh and it's it's a lot to ask a family to move uh you know as a result of of kind of the the different movement through the country for the different posts they have. It's also a lot on families when people have to deploy. Um this is
014a means of taking us through a school system through a process or school through a process to learn how to be a friendly face toward our military families in the community. We have 40 uh military families at the high school alone. uh they're connected to the to the military in some way. And so part of that process is uh just having some resources available for those families uh when they transition to the school uh to help them with uh any academic needs, extracurricular needs uh to assist them in that transition. Uh we trained up our student leadership group uh to be liaons to assist our military families. Uh we helped uh add some things to our website so it's common language that they're used to seeing as they move from duty station to duty station
015across the country. Uh we provide training for some of our staff, our registar uh and our our school office personnel to ensure that that we're able to serve their needs. And I really do need to give credit to a couple of folks that helped make this possible. Uh Rebecca Strange is uh one of our office managers and uh Amy Kaine uh our our guid one of our guidance counselors. Uh they along with Lauren Kulie were really the team that helped uh put a lot of this together and were able to pull in the the resources necessary to to make sure that we earned the Purple Star designation. Thank you. Our next recognition here, um, do we have any members of our high school, uh, student body that were part of the 2025 visual arts achievement
016program? Any of our high school students here? I know we were not sure if they'd be able to make it this evening due to other engagements. I just want to read off, we had five students place in this year's 2025 visual arts achievement program. Uh, and I'm going to read off what their piece of art was and who that student was. But we had the piece Fragile by Lauren Donovan, who that was for digital photography. High school craft second place was Daisy Yellow by Corin Capraa, uh, who's a student there at the high school. We had a high school drawing first place, which was Burning Joust by Alex Spears, who's a student at the high school. High School Mixed Media second place, Peeling Back by Riley Mard. She was a also a student there at
017the high school. And then finally, high school printmaking first place, Unclear Tales by Sophia Grace Shipman. So, I know they're not here, but if we could please honor them by showing a round of applause. Similarly, we also had uh several of our middle school students also place. Do we have any of our middle school students here? Come on. Yeah. Yep. Oh, Miss Mayor, if you would come forward, please. Yes. Got two of the four students, please. Yes. And their art. All right, the podium's yours. Um, we had 10 students enter the visual arts achievement program at the district 4A level and we had um a second place winner, Abby Elliot, for inspired by art. And we had three first place winners. They all qualified for state. Disappointingly, nobody from Trussville High School or Middle School
018won state this year. Um, but all of those first place winners you mentioned qualify for state. Um, this is by a sixth grader, Kase Wood. First place middle school mixed media. And then two students are here this evening. Come on up. Dakota Gerick, first place middle school printmaking. and Jack Morris, first place. Um, new media. Yay. Your art. Did you ask them to tell us about their pieces? Want to say a little bit about your piece? You could be done. Uh, I made standing tulips. Uh, it was print making. I made it to symbolize my mom. It shows that she's standing so strong through hardships. for example, she has to deal with a toxic work environment yet still has one of my is big my biggest supporters through through everything. The rain symbolizes the hardships
019while my mom's favorite flower represents her strength and beauty. She's the most beautiful woman I know. [Applause] You don't have to you don't have to read your artist. You can just say what it is. It's digital art. Say something about your work. What program did you use to create? Um, I used a random art ad art app I found online. Um, just kind of put together a landscape. We did some in class, so I kind of got inspired by that. There was an artist who inspired you in particular. Yeah, that was Grant Wood. Um, Thank you. Could we do a picture too? Would you take the pieces of art there, Miss Mayor? Be in the picture as well. Okay. Can we turn off? Oh, yeah. Great job. [Applause] And then we also have our superintendence
020art show, our student awards from Kahaba Elementary School. And I've asked Miss Tiner if she'd come up and join me here at the podium. Yes, Jordan. Okay, Jordan. Yeah, please. I'm just super proud this year about our art program. This is Miss Barnett's first year at Kahaba. And um we are I'm gonna let her talk about the art. I can uh introduce Arthur, our kindergartenner, Navaro Cox, and then Abram Johnson, um who both had their art displayed. And Arthur won second place in the state in the K1 through two division. He did a great job. So, and this is Miss Barnett, Jordan Barnett. Hi. I just want to say it's such a p privilege to be here and more so than that, it's a privilege to be their art teacher. Uh this has been an
021incredible first year in Trustville and these students make every day brighter. Um so, yes, we had two students who represented Gab Elementary and more so than that represented Trustville in their very heart. So, we had Mr. Arthur, who came up with his own self-portrait. Arthur, can I hold up your artwork? Arthur is going to show the biggest smile because that's what he drew. Um, this is Arthur's self-portrait. So, they actually both this year submitted their own self-portraits, and these are definitely more expressive self-portraits. Uh, so Arthur actually titled his, in his own words, King Arthur. Uh, which is very fitting. And he did an incredible job. Arthur, do you remember the like types of materials that we used? Can you tell us about it? Oh, he's going to point to where it's on there. Oil
022pastels and watercolor on paper. You he did we we experimented with oil resist techniques and we had a great time making it. And more so than that, it's precious. And so um but yes out of the kindergarten first and second graders in the state Arthur beat out all of them except for one. So he got second place in the whole state and we're very very proud and also Abram as well also submitted his amazing self-portrait. We talked about Romero Berto and we talked about really cool expressive art and showing realistic versus expressive sides of ourselves and he titled his the bright side of me. And that truly is everything about his personality. Very bright and happy and uh just a very very amazing art student to have in the classroom. So yes, so that was
023our art and we're very very proud. Thank you. [Applause] Abram, will you turn yours around so the board can see? Yes. Can we give a round of applause to these two? Hey, Arthur. Arthur. Abram, I love your picture, Abram. I love the creativity. Arthur, I have no doubt in my mind that if the committee had seen how adorable and cute you are, you would have won first place. All right. You're maybe the most handsome guy standing up here right now. I promise you. Thank you everyone. And that's our reports for this evening. All right, Mr. Kirkland, I'm so sorry you have to follow that. I fell off the young fella earlier. How do you follow that? I know. I know. Um well, board members, Dr. Martin, uh we are pleased to present the monthly financial
024statement for the month of March. It is in your packet uh for your review. Um all bank accounts have been reconciled to the general ledger with the financial extract being uploaded to the state department. Um uh with any necessary edits corrected. Uh our expenditures and transfers out for the month uh for the month end were 46 uh% uh versus uh 50 47% of the budget this time last year. Uh, Avalorum revenues are at 86.8% of budget, which we're running about 2.87% higher on collections than we did this time last year. Um, and as always, upon board approval, the monthly financial report will be uploaded to our website for public review. Thank you, Mr. Kirkland. Um, let's see. Next is our consent agenda. Um, has everyone had an opportunity to review tonight's consent agenda? Um, I
025will entertain a motion to adopt tonight's consent agenda items. Motion. Second. Second. All right. Um, any discussion? Dr. Martin, anything you want to bring to our attention? Just a few things to mention here under consent agenda. The first of which, and I know that later in the board meeting, Mr. Kirkland is going to speak to our capital plan and he will discuss SeaWing um in more detail but before the board of education is the approval of the bid for Sewing which he will share. Uh we are pleased with the pricing that came in. Uh we had a chance to share that with the board earlier. Next item that I have under consent agenda for discussion uh is the recommendation for approval of two special needs buses and then 10 C-class buses which are the 72
026passenger. Uh this will help us with our fleet renewal going forward. There's also a recommendation for a new fee collection system referred to as my school fees. This is in the same family of a system we currently use, which is the my school bucks lunch program that we use to collect fees associated with school lunches. And then we have a few change orders, facility use agreements as well as field trip requests and that makes up the consent agenda for this evening. Okay. Any further discussion? All in favor of adopting tonight's consent agenda items, please say I. I. Any opposed? No. Okay. Uh, next is personnel. Dr. Martin. Yes. Recommendation before the board of education for personnel. Um, we have items ranging from recommendations for leave of absence to retirements. uh recommendations for resignation of supplement
027and resignation long-term substitutes recommendation for transfer andor reassignment recommendation from employment which I would like to circle back to if I could here in just a second. Uh there are two recommendations for a supplement and then recommendations associated with changes to employee schedules, employee extra services agreements and then recommendation for contracts. And in terms of the recommendation for contract, I would like to share that uh there's a recommendation for a renewal of contract with our middle school principal, Mr. Jared Me as well as recommendation for a principal contract at Payne Elementary School for Miss Jamie Gian Groso who is here with us this evening as well as a recommendation for a principal contract with Dr. Tiffany Hamilton from Magnolia Elementary School and she is with us here this evening as well. Okay. All right. Um
028any I'll take a motion to approve tonight's personnel items. Some move. A second. Second. Any discussion? All right. All in favor, please say I. Any oppos? All right, that's taken. Congratulations, ladies. Welcome. And then I I also wanted to mention that uh part of the uh the personnel report this evening is also recommendation for Aaron Piper to move into our exceptional education director position for next school year. So she will be taking the vacancy of Dr. Cheryl Gilbo who is sitting right next to her. So congratulations to all three of you. [Applause] All right, that brings us to new business. Um, Dr. Martin, I will leave that to you. Yes. Um, let's see here. The first item under new business, we have recommendation for three job descriptions. And this does come to us from our
029exceptional education department. Um, probably the best way that I can can share this is that we contract for services for several positions and as our exceptional education department has gone through and and reviewed this uh it is the thought that rather than contract for outside services uh we may be able to experience hiring personnel here in system um that uh cost would probably be very close uh and So for us being able to have employees that are invested here in the system, not that our contract services is not, but being able to have employees that are invested here in the service uh or I'm sorry in the system may provide us with a better service for our exceptional education department. And I I think holistically across the board that uh that is the recommendation uh
030from Dr. Gilbo as well as uh Aaron Piper. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to adopt um these three job descriptions. Make a motion. Second. Oh, this is just a table. This is to put just to put them on the table. Put on the first reading. Sorry. That's right. Yep. Just for the first Well, I guess we we don't have to put vote to put on Do we put a vote to put on the table? We do. Sorry. Okay. I will entertain a motion to put them on the table for the first reading. Make a motion. Okay. Second. Second. All right. Any discussion? All right. All in favor, please say I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carried. Next is the student handbook. Next item is the 2526 parent student handbook. And this is on the table
031for a first reading as well. And I just I want to mention that this is a committee that Dr. Puy and a team sits down looks at handbook recommendations from the staff uh and and minimal changes from this current handbook to next year's handbook. So yes, so we're talking very minimal changes from year from this year to the next year. And that is that available online for if any parents or anybody wants to look at it or what do we our current handbook is? Changes probably not. The biggest I can just mention the biggest change really the only change is in the area of harassment. We've really just consolidated several different areas of harassment into one um one component associated with harassment under our um within the handbook under our student code of conduct. Okay.
032And then I guess the water bottles. dress. That's right. That's right. There is um the recommendation on the table that we would move away from the current metal water bottles like the Yetis and different things and go with a clear plastic water bottle. Okay. All right. Um any uh I'll entertain a motion to place the 2526 student handbook on the table for the first reading. So moved. A second. Second. Any discussion? All right. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? All right, it's on the table. Next is the fee sheet. Yes. So, the recommendation before the board is the Huitt Trustful High School fee sheet, and this would be on the table for a first reading. Two biggest changes um you you'll see some very nominal changes um across the board for the
033high school fee sheet. The two big changes I want to remind the board, we will no longer be under the A+ College Ready Grant. So that means that advanced placement tests go back to those costs associated with schools not under the grant. I believe that's from $40 to $99. So that does change for our students taking AP advanced uh placement uh tests associated with those classes. The other change is a recommendation that a superintendent I am making associated with our athletic department and this is after a very thorough review of area schools. Currently, our high school charges $150 to participate in athletics. So, that is a onetime fee for that student for all associated athletics. Uh the recommendation that I'm making in looking what other schools in our area and our region charge is a
034$150 fee per student per sport. So, I say that to say uh when my oldest child played football, basketball, and baseball, that $150, each one of those athletic sports received $50. Um my youngest child, who is five and playing T-ball, we paid $150 for him to play T-ball uh here with our parks and reccks department. So, I say all that to say that uh given the budgets that our 7A high school athletics um need in order to be competitive, I I think that the $150 per athlete per sport is very much appropriate. Um All right. I will take entertain a motion to place the fee sheet on the table for the first reading. Some move. Second. Second. Any discussion? I'll just say I think we were all really surprised when we heard what other how
035how low our fees are compared to everyone really everyone else. I mean the information that we've been provided just I think it's a testament to to coach Walker um our coaches who have been able to find other sources of revenue and really just continue to be competitive uh given the uh the budgets that they've had versus their peers across our region. We say all the time that our region and our area for 7A is probably one of the, if not the best in the Southeast. I mean, we are the SEC West. Um, you know, I'm I'm I'm pretty impressed with the young ladies that were here this evening, uh, winning metros and, uh, you heard what Coach Bale said. This is the future and the expectation, whether it's good or bad, is for them to
036continue that success as they move into high school. That's just what Trustful has come to expect. We need to put our coaches into a position to be able to continue that success. All right. All in favor of placing the fee sheet on the table, please say I. Any opposed? Okay. Motion carried. Next item here. Uh recommendation for the board of education is uh resolution 04-21-25-01 associated with act 2024-360. And this is assistant principles, assistant superintendent, those in an assistant capacity moving from the student first act into the assistant accountability act which was recently passed by the state legislature. So this resolution would allow for us to move from student first act for those individuals in those capacities um uh to similar to what a contract principal has now. Okay. I will entertain a motion to
037approve um resol this resolution. So moved. Second. Second. Any discussion. All right. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose? All right. All right. The next item here under new business is the recommendation for the approval of a lease agreement with the city of Trustful. And this lease agreement would provide for a transportation building. This will be an agreement approved by the board of education this evening if approved by the board and then taken to the city for final approvement for this agreement. And I I just need to make sure that I mention um our appreciation uh to councelor Bright as well as the city leadership. Uh we if you will notice on the slide that Mr. Kirkland is going to share later, we were anticipating anywhere between a 1.5 and a $2.5 million
038expenditure for this. the city came in said, "We have the space. Let us help and support you." So, we're very appreciative of that and that's why I would make this recommendation at this time. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to approve the lease agreement with the city. So, move. Second. Second. Any discussion? Mr. Posey, is it better? Very nice. Good. Good. All right. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carried. Next item is recommendation for the approval of HTHS summer school proposal fees. Uh and that is a recommendation that fees for summer school classes. And we're not talking about a a lot of students that are taking these classes, but a recommendation to move those fees from $180 to $200 to keep up with costs associated with summer school. So, I
039would make that recommendation at this time. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to adopt the um summer school proposal and fees. Make a motion. Second. Second. Any discussion? All right. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carried. And the final item here under new business is just anformational item. And uh this would be the schedule for the 2526 meeting of the board and we would continue to meet on the third Monday 5:00 according to that schedule. So no action needed by the board. This is more anformational item than anything else. Okay. All right. I got a question on that. Uh we meet July 7th and the 21st in July. Yeah. Just just in the case we have personnel needs. That's why there's that initial meeting. Thank you. All right. Um I think that's
040all new business. Is that all the new business? Okay. Um next we have our administrative report. So um Mr. Kirkland and is is Brian here? you taking it on your own tonight, Mr. Perkins? I believe so. Okay, very good. Oh, that's that's a little Sorry. Sorry for the little print, but um like to kind of give an update on on our system capital plan, uh where we are and um potentially where we're going. This is our the capital plan for the current fiscal year. Uh it was approved by the board last summer. Um each year we are required to update a five-year capital plan and uh have the board recommend it to the board, have them approve it and submit it to the state department. So this was this is our current year. We will
041bring um an updated one to y'all this summer for you to uh review. Uh Dr. Martin has already mentioned a couple of things that are on here and I want to kind of uh spotlight those. The new transportation maintenance shop which goodness, we've had it on this list for probably 10 years uh at least. Um and so we're finally being able to do something with that. U it was on the budget for $1.5 million. And then the seawing uh which we were projecting at that time to be $20 million uh based off all the numbers that we were given going up to to bid. Um so uh these are the things that we will review, tweak numbers, talk with our architects, talk with our principles and and team to see what we need to move
042forward into the next fiscal year uh to bring toward the board as as our capital plan. This is the spot for the new bus shop that Dr. Martin mentioned. Uh if you're familiar with Trustful, it's behind the public library. you have the uh the to me it's a new park because my little kids played on it but now my little kids are 24 so that it's hard to believe that park's been there that long. Um so public works has vacated this facility and the city is graciously allowing us to well they're leasing it to us. Uh but like Dr. Martin mentioned I do want to express my gratitude to the city. Uh what a lot of people do not realize is that they have provided a space for us rent free utility free for 20
043years. Uh that our bus shop has been a good home for us. Um and the city gave up uh a very important part of their facility for us to to get started. Uh this is a little took a little longer than we thought. uh but that you know they they have just been with us the whole way and again appreciate you allowing us to use this. The guys are uh very excited. It it's a it's it's a very nice facility. Maybe we'll do a tour one day. Uh but uh the the good thing is is on the budget where we were budgeting $ 1.5 million. Now, that has freed up for a future project down the road that that we may able to do. Um, obviously, we're going to make some improvements, but nothing to
044to that uh level. Um, one things that was approved on the last board meeting was to returf our stadium football field. Uh, it is, where's Lance? 12 years old. Played 11 seasons. 11 seasons. Uh the last two seasons we had to do significant repairs to the field before we could even start the season, especially last year. So it's an eight-year warranty and we played 11 years on it. So we got our money's worth out of it. Um so this will be uh starting a as the kids the last kid walks off the field of graduation um the company's going to be right behind them to to start tearing the turf up. But this will be the new look um based off the branding uh contract that that we did. So this is will be how
045it looks. A future project down the road. Uh we don't know exactly when yet. Probably come back in the spring is to redo the track. Uh it's the same age. Uh so it has some wear and tear. So, uh, we've got to analyze the safety aspect of the track and probably, uh, have that as a project for next summer. And Dr. Mntion me, Dr. Martin mentioned Seawing. Um, it was approved tonight. We have put that out for bid. We had, uh, originally we were budgeting $20 million, um, for the whole project. We announced a budget at bid opening of 17 million and it came in at 13.9 million. Woohoo. So the uh the winning contractor was BLO Building Company. So uh shout out to them for coming in with a great price. We deeply appreciate
046that. So, you know, that's $3 million understated budget. Um almost $6 million under what we thought it was going to be. So, this is tremendous in that um this was one of our huge academic pieces that we were looking at providing classrooms to our kids at the high school where they were already over capacity. but it also frees up funds that we were holding for other projects. So, this this was a huge win for Trustful uh in being able to have a price of of of this nature. Uh what the C-wing will look like, four stories. Uh it'll be pretty much uh exactly like A-wing and B-wing is now. uh ground floor which is zero floor will be a storm shelter because that is required by the state. And um pretty much just like the
047other ones will have some of the classrooms are a little uh little different a little bit more storage based off some uh potential classes that Mr. Key may offer down the road. Um but then uh first floor I guess technically the second floor, third floor and fourth floor will be just like A-wing and B-wing. These are a little bit shorter than A-wing and B-wing just because of the the nature of the the river that runs past the the back of the creek. Um and the access road uh just is probably 10 to 15 feet shorter than the other two uh wings. The uh the last projects we're we're doing uh we've had a um significant desire and need to improve our safety in our schools. It's always an ongoing effort of of how we can
048secure our facilities, make them safe for our kids, for our staff, and our employees. So, these are some of the things that we have in process. Um, a new open gate metal detection system. If you have kids in the high school or middle school, you probably have heard about these. Um, this this is kind of a picture at a at an event, but this is what they look like. It is device that the kids walk through. Um, and it u be it detects their metal yeti cups, which is why we're going to the plastic ones. They're having to hold the yeti cups up as they go through. Um, so just a security feature that I think will just add one more layer of protection. Uh we have completed a ballistic and solar film installation on
049all of our facilities to um just tighten up the envelope of our building. Um, Centigg is a emergency response platform that if you haven't heard about is a uh card that the faculty and staff will wear around their necks and if something is happening they can alert the administration that they need help. It's mapped to the building so that if somebody hits it, it will notify the administrators exactly where they are in our building or or worst case scenario, if there is ever an intruder um they hit it a certain number more times, it will actually notify first responders as well as administrators and tell everybody where they're at. So, um, this was actually used in the Georgia, uh, where one students went in the building. That's how the first responders were able to get
050there so quickly. Um, so it's taken off across the the country. Uh, we're working on adding additional fencing and wind stream windscreens um, just to protect our the out when kids are outside of the buildings. um to to provide more protection for them. One of the things we're working on with the high school is um the trees. Uh if you look at a picture of a high school when we first built it versus now, the trees have grown up significantly and they have blocked many of the camera views that our SRO's um cannot see the parking lot, cannot see the walkways, cannot see around the buildings. So, we have partnered with the Trustful Tree Commission to come and and they walked our property to see what they, you know, would recommend us cutting down without
051causing a problem because, um, trees are very important and trustful. Uh, so, uh, we're doing, um, multiple different things. There are trees that we are taking out. Uh we're also going to limb up trees and we worked with our SRO's to uh get certain angles to know exactly how high to limb up the trees. And then we're going to bring in lowlying uh uh landscaping just to make the facilities look much prettier. So the trees will probably uh will u bring a recommendation probably next board meeting and that'll be a summer project so that it'll be ready to go uh in the fall. Uh last is uh well um the next one we've already begun is our circle reunification and visitor management system which uh replaced the raptor system that we had used for many
052many years. And then we also are exploring some of the other safety protocols um that have been recommended by DL. And that wraps up my report. Any questions? Thank you. All right. Um we did not have anyone sign up for public participation. So before we go into executive session, how about we have uh Miss Gian Grao and and Miss Piper and Miss Los and Dr. Laxbike and and Dr. Gilbo and Dr. Hamilton. And who else am I leaving out? And Dr. um FA to come up and let's take a picture with all of y'all. A a I don't think they want to get out of their chair. Congratulations. Yay. [Applause] I'm going down. All right. Thank you. Okay. So, we have been given permission by our board of attorney to go into executive session this
053evening. Um, we're going to go into executive session and then we will come back out here simply to adjourn. We won't there's nothing else that we will be doing. Um, no more business will be conducted. So, um, do I have a motion to go into executive session? Okay, I think that's a motion in a second. So, we'll do that. Thank y'all for coming. Y'all have a good night. vote and oh let's do and the reason for us going in is to um for good name and character.