6 11 2026 Board Meeting

001All right, welcome everybody. Uh, this is a regular scheduled meeting of the Garden School District Board of Directors. We'll now call the meeting to order. Madam Secretary, can you establish we have a quorum present? >> Okay. With a quorum present, we'll be able to conduct our business today. Robbie, could you lead us in a word of prayer? >> Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this day. Lord, we thank you for this district. We ask you to help us to make decisions with wisdom for all these things I ask in Jesus name. >> Amen. >> We'll stand and recite the pledge. I pledge this flag of pray to the republic which stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. special. We don't have any special recognitions or public comments. Uh for extensive is

002our agenda. We're going to move our executive session to the end so we can go ahead and get through and let y'all go where you need to. So >> depending on those minutes. >> Yeah. That brings us to the approval of minutes of the last meeting. >> Okay, we got a motion and a second. All in favor of that motion say I. All descent, same sign. That motion passed. Next item is our financial report. Rhonda can there anything special in it that you >> anything we are getting really close to you really watching see how that kind of right now payments we're in good shape you will notice that salary expense was more than what it normally would be the call we we have to end our year in June we're not paying our employees

003in July, they end up getting two checks in May or the majority of them do. There are some the 12 month 11 and 12 month people, they get paid July through June, but um as far as our 10 and nine month people, they get paid 12 checks, but they get two of those checks in May. So that's why you're going to see that your salary expenses and your benefits are probably normal. So, did we have any issues with these teachers that like left for like retirement and they were kind of in that PTO pulled out? Like we changed some of our PTO payout thing some of those in that where there was like a significant money piece that went out with them. >> We still have we have they had to be here 20 years.

004They had to be grandfathered here prior to and I always have to go back and look what I think about 2007 that they had to be hired prior to. So there's not just a lot of those that are still here. Um and those will get paid out um at the end of before we finish up the August. I mean June paid out June that piece of it. >> I got one question that got asked to today. >> Brother Jackson, I don't know if you can help me out with this any at all. You may, you may not. I don't know. The question got brought up to me of of why our our cheerleaders pay for their uniform versus the other football teams don't. And I got to looking back at our budgets. This the fear

005cheerleaders have a substantial amount of money in there. And I was wondering like is there room for help in there anywhere? Well, we've attempted to cross that bridge probably five different times in the last 12 years. And I don't want to say this wrong about how it all plays out. It's hard to catch up so to when the school does buy them. All right. So that's it. It's really no different than any other sport. What you run into is about I'm just saying some threequarters want to keep their uniform. So they turn right back around and buy them. The parents buy them is where that big chunk of money comes on the parents side. >> Okay. Then that's where >> we tried to catch up wherever and saying, "Okay, let's buy this. We'll buy 20

006junior high uniform." Well, you got to get a wide variety of sizes. You know, if you're going to keep them for every other sport runs on a fouryear uniform rotation, you know, girls sizes obviously going to come and go like everything else. And they take them in and let them out. I mean, I don't understand all the tailoring options that they do with them, but it just runs into that the majority of them want to buy their own to keep them instead of turning them back in. >> I don't know if that >> but I guess the option is there for a kid that doesn't want to keep it, but the school or they're out. >> It is. It's there. It's just you and >> I I agree with you. My daughters always kept her.

007I just The question got asked and I didn't know how to answer. You know, >> I looked in the money aspect. That makes sense why there's such a big amount. >> And we've tried to two different times, I know, get it where it all goes to the pool, but it's one of those deals to get the inventory right that first year is going to be a big chunk of change, you know, to buy that bulk this many uniforms to keep them rolling in and out. I don't know. It's It can be done. A lot of money to do it. And you still run right back into the majority of them want to keep them, take them with them. They're going to buy anyway. >> That answers my question good enough to give it back to

008where it come from. Thanks. >> Motion that we approve the financial report for May 26. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor of that motion say I. All the descent the same sign that motion passed. All right. The next items are going to be under the business legal financial sit agenda and we got several. >> Uh do y'all want to consider putting that together or >> Well, the first one is a real simple one. That's the one that you know you have to your superintendent acts as your co-op rep. So, that's just extending my representation on the co-op board. That's right. Another year, >> though, that one's a little bit different than the rest of them. >> That's right. You want vote on that and then vote on the rest

009of them collectively or >> are you saying like the Dawson and the Dawson? >> Yeah. Vote on the DOS one and then go put the other ones together. >> And really, this Dawson one is just about special. >> Yes. Okay. Yeah. It doesn't have anything to do with any of >> No. No. I make a motion that we approve Dawson fell off shelters understand and then the kids in the mutual agreement between Dawson and >> okay the memorandum of understanding. >> Yes. >> Okay. So A and C and >> Okay. All right. We got a motion. >> All right. Have a motion and a second. All in favor of that motion say I. All descent. Same sign. That motion passed. All right. We'll back up and go to the bids for the sped services. >>

010That's Miss McDonald. She can explain those to you. >> Um I volunteer that athletic yearly bids for the related services which put OT in your speech and the examinations that the kids receive. Um we did we I work really hard trying to get people to submit bids and it's it's just we've got who we've got. I did have one bid that came in late for more for more a higher cost. So I I recommend that we stay here. I do like to keep two examiners because especially with the new third grade retention laws. They run behind and it keeps me in time lines. What why why do you think it's harder to get harder and harder to get the bids and what is it just the process or >> I think it is and I

011think that more and more um therapists are working for for companies now that are groups and they want to serve they want to serve schools that are closer to where they live. They want to um our examiners now come from Benton and Hot Springs and I'm lucky to have them that close. There are several stipulations in these cont some of these contracts like a no show fee >> like if a student's not present the day that they're >> I've never been charged a no show fees >> that's going to ask >> yeah I'm trying to group where you're not here for just one kid so that so that we don't I've never been charged a no show fee but it it could possibly happen to keep you from happening it's like $50 I think. Maybe

012not. >> Yeah, which I can understand that driving all the way from Hot Springs. I can see >> more questions on that. >> Make a motion we approve the related to special education services. >> Second. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor of that motion say I. All All descent the same sign. That motion passed. >> All right, >> that's some good stuff. >> Yeah, now we're going to the Nav Hulks construction bid information. >> You all have the >> that sheet. Yes, they got that >> in your packet. Um okay. So this is a a tweak. This is what we very similar to what was presented during the our interview. Um but just updated for for start date. um and looking at where our end date will end

013up being based off of the size of project um based off the bids that we took. Um it it's looking like end of January is is reasonable and as I told Mr. Wolf, we're going to do everything we can to increase that meeting because I know it would be best if we could get it done and I I'd love to be able to say and we knock it out to where you can move move stuff into that building over Christmas break. I I can't guarantee that. >> Who who knows what weather is going to do between now and and uh October. We may have a wet July and August or it may be it may be dry and we can go. Mhm. >> So, um, and with everything going on, you know, materials may become

014harder to get, you know, that's that's the thing. I always say if we had a crystal ball, none of us would be working um because we don't know what the lottery numbers were. >> But, but this is based off of of of what we feel very comfortable and and we can achieve um with the with the biders that we'll be that we'll be using. And we had I mean we had really good participation like we talked about uh last month after the bids. Um the numbers that are that are shown on that sheet are based off of the responsible biders that you know after I got through scoping out and talking to some of them and the you know word I want to use is not going to come out of my mouth. So how

015comfortable we were with with the numbers that we had. Did any of the bids surprise you >> as far as >> like just what the bid was, high, low? >> Um, there was a couple that were that were low that >> we did not use for that reason. It's one of those >> low bids not best. >> No. Sure. >> Um, and we have concern about that. Not saying that we can't come to terms with a with that company, >> but I can't go into I can't go into the job with that low of a number and and say I've got us covered. >> I'm protecting project. I'm protecting the schools. Yeah. >> You know, so >> we had a couple that was high that that sometimes I think it's a courtesy bid. >> You

016know, it's like, hey, Nav Holtz is asking us to bid. We're going to throw a bid to this >> Just to see what happens. Yeah. And so >> the question is how much of or I guess how much of E6 could end up with any of it as far as y'all personal. >> So um I think we've got the uh metal panels items number seven metal wall and roof panels. Um that was that was one that we were low biders on. Uh when we open the bids, and we do this with every job, just um one, I sent the bids to to Barry and David, the David floor. Um I ask our guys, hey, anything we're bidding, get it to me Monday. That way I can send it, you know, and then we open those

017first. That way if another bidder says, well, of course Napole's got the job. Y'all y'all had the numbers and you saw our numbers. We don't do that. I mean, they don't have to believe us, but that's just the way we operate. But so, metal wall panels and the the the roof panels we got, we will do um we'll self self-perform installing the doors and hardware, the miscellaneous specialties, any type of of uh wood blocking that go the rough carpentry, that line item number 13. Uh we'll get that material. We'll install, you know, around the windows. We'll put some wood around that so the windows can attach to it. Um wood blocking behind where the toilet paper dispensers will go. That that kind of stuff. We'll we'll do that ourselves. Yeah. We we don't generally generally

018we do not bid that that process out. >> So is pling an HVAC usually like 18% most 20% of the project. Is it just because we're doing like we have to be in the storm shelter situation? Is it? >> So from from that um that's not out of line. Um >> the storm shelter doesn't play a part >> change careers. >> Yeah. Um plumbing and HVAC that that doesn't play a big part in the in the storm shelter part of the the masonry, some concrete. Um that plays a big part in in that number. >> So just for that size of building Yes. you're you're at >> Yeah. Almost a million dollars. >> Yeah. Yeah. And um that was I mean that that's what the market told us with our bids. I mean we looked

019at that um that was one of the trades that we had some lower numbers but they were extremely low and again cannot say that we're that I'm protecting the school by going with such low numbers on that. >> How many units is that on Hback? >> Do you remember? Was it eight? >> I think so. >> Believe it was believe it was eight. Was the the brand the of the equipment was it up to par? It wasn't no cheap stuff you know. Okay. >> Now that's what was that question? >> Uh the brand of the equipment like a carrier air conditioner >> match our other buildings >> know that >> I now I don't know what you got on the other building. Do y'all >> know that? >> Well, I was going to say that's

020about to change because we're having to replace a lot from the ice and snow damage. That would be something to consider is trying to get similar similar unit. >> Are we too far gone? >> No. No. I mean, so here here's the thing. What what was called out on the drawings? I mean, there's always um the opportunity for a unit that maybe they can get more readily available. What what I have to do and what the sub has to do, they have to send me a request say, "Hey, here's what I want to use." And I'll send it to Barry and David. They'll forward it on to the design team. And as long as it meets all the criteria and the school is okay with it because I know there's some schools that it's like

021I do not want X brand. We've had trouble with them can't get parts. I've got one district that there's one that they they want no part of because to get parts they have to use a special person which costs them more money. They can't get the parts to do it themselves. So it's not one of those where we just say, "Hey, it meets all the things. We're going to go with it." We would still want to make sure that the district is >> I don't know where we're at on the insurance as you to me if you common sense but >> we're closer than we were already for the rest of the building just to make sure I'm on the same handle in the rest of >> Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. That's something that we can

022look at. We can look at the uh what was called for. I don't I don't remember what it was, but we can look at that and see if whatever is going to be used to replace, we can see if that's a and it may be one of those as long as it meets the requirements of this project. I mean, if there's if there's some savings on that, I mean, that will go back in. We can roll that into to a contingency number that that number and have it available if need be. And then at the end of the job, if it's not used, it comes back to the district. Would you remind me on the windows did they're going to be the storm window. So we're going to have to come down >> back to

023the who makes that determination how many units there are >> the mechanical engineer. I mean there's also there's other requirements. State have requirements of you've got to have so much air flow and but but the mechanical engineer is the one that >> based on some of your other projects that you either have going or had going with us already being over budget points. Do any of these numbers concern you with another 10% onto this our budget now >> of getting something added on to it? >> Yes. But out of these bid numbers, are you concerned with anything going above what the actual bid number is? >> No. Because if if if this is approved and I write contracts, that's what they get. >> Okay. That there's no there there's no come back to me later.

024the only the only way they can come back to me later and say I need more money because if they change if the scope of work is changed at that point then we look it's like okay is it justified this scope changed to add more money to the project but no once once our contracts are wrote with them they don't I can't I can't come back and say hey they want $20 more,000 because one I'm not going to come back to you I'm going to tell them no like I But if they change if they change the design of the of the room or add more cabinet space or do something like that, that's justified for a costing, you know, increase. But other than that, no, there there won't be. That's good to hear. >>

025Yeah. Yeah. No, they all all of our and some of these I have not personally dealt with. Napolts as a company has. Um but they all know once once they go to contract with us we're they're locked in. So >> the second highest category here is line general conditions. What does that entail? >> So general conditions is our is like any labor that I'll that I'll charge the job um for supervision basically. We have a general superintendent that they're not here all the time, but I do have to allow for them to come down and get with our superintendent, which is here full-time. Um, he'll be here every day throughout the duration of the job. Um, job site, trailer, um, cell phones, some some items like that that that uh are just it's a part

026of the project. Uh, every project has has those items. I'm going to ask you the same question Barry did but from a different angle. Have y'all had much trouble out of the contractors you chose of let's say to satisfy a um where they see maybe they under bid something that they start skimping on material or things. Can y'all keep a good handle on that? >> Yes. Yeah. that that'll be one of the things that that they have to supply some metals of here's here's what we're going to supply >> again say PVC pipe it doesn't have to be this certain brand no >> but if it meets all the checks of it's schedule 40 it's 2 in whatever >> then if as long as they approve it >> then when we when it comes in

027we check that and so we make sure that it's the the correct item it's insulation whatever ever it is. We make it called for R44 in the ceiling. You climb up there and it's R24. >> Yes. Yeah. If if we find I mean if that if that happened and I'm not going to say because I mean we we don't catch every everything but when we get to that then yes the first thing that would happen our superintendent he'd probably call me and tell me what happened. We would call whatever sub it was and say hey this ain't right >> and you got to fix it. That's right. >> Yeah. Yeah. We we don't I'm not going to say that's that that happens, but that's not going to happen very often on our jobs or they'll

028they'll become, you know, on that no-fly list, so to speak, of we don't want you on our job because you're not giving us quality work. >> Sure. >> You know, those you got this from me from the beginning. I'm going to one more time. First off, the time frame is impressive. I I'll say that. Is there any concern with any of this the equipment coming in? material coming in. >> So the the air unit, the air handler units, that is always a concern. Um nobody a lot of times during the bid process, I will have biders say, "Hey, you know, these units or this material, you know, we're struggling to get now. I did not hear that on any of this." Um that would that and the steel going over the in the safe room

029area. That's probably my two. And when I say biggest concerns, um there's sometimes some lead time issues with the steel getting it. It shouldn't be on this, but um it I always have concerns with that cuz that's some of the that's some of the horror stories we hear. Most of the time it's on a bigger, you know, like a 30 $40 million job because there's so much of it. Sure. >> Um but always have that concern. And the and the air units, those sometimes those can be longer late time item. >> Appreciate it. >> What about your metal? Do do y'all break and bend all your own metal? Does that pay off? Y'all buy your coal, steel, and y'all buy it wholesale? Buy it. Yeah. That's right. I mean, we can break some. We have

030we have a break uh they're they're at our office. If we, you know, we order and they short us and we just can't we don't have time to wait for them. >> Can make >> we we can make some but not not of any amount. >> Gotcha. That that's one of the good things. We are able to supplement with that. If we're if we're short a couple of pieces, there are certain things that we can break and and get Any more questions? >> Make a motion we approve the bid for the trade packages. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor of that motion say I. All descent the same sign. That motion pass. >> Thank you all very much. >> Thank you. the the engineer pack the engineer change on the

031pricing on the engineer change. >> Oh, I just wonder I didn't want to leave a question. Well, >> they're not really >> Barry might be able to answer, but it depending on what the question is as far as like the price change on it. They had to do additional testing. The health they got a letter from the health department that required some additional testing. They had to come down and get the plans for the building, go out and make sure that the proximity of the water was where it needed to be. So, that's what caused some addition that was already in there. >> You had two ads. It was the one for the lift station that we added which is >> not a gravity sewer. It's li lifting it up and pushing it to the

032manhole. We had that and then what you would call health department. >> Do we say foresee any other issues? have a little bit more. >> I think there's still a little more that they'll have to do with >> you still in there. >> Um, >> I'm not certain about and I'm not certain either, but I think there's still a little more that they'll they'll do finishing up. Should we be expecting another invoice? >> I'm sorry. I'm not familiar with much. >> Oh, you were next. I was like, I'm speaking. I didn't want him to leave. >> No, that's fine. >> So, are you future president going to >> Oh, yeah. Yeah, sure. No, that's fine. Sure. I guess we we asked this question about like the I'm kind of nervous with Barry that are we

033going to come back with another bid and I know you guys don't work for them. Um but I guess back in the springtime too we had this issue with like water coming off of the football field and like is there some underwater spring system like messed up underneath like our whole is is do we have some big issue that that our civil engineers are worried about? >> No. >> Okay. I think that is an isolated issue to that side of the parking lot that now that athletics is done for a bit that's on Kendall and Scott's list for this next week to get on top of. Yeah, >> we are we are undercutting this building anyway. So maybe what you're referring to is what something that happened over on the other side, but we're already

034taking it down and establishing a subgrade and then we build it back up again. >> So we're all ready. >> Yeah. I'm just saying like if they think that there's some kind of underwater like underwater system like a natural spring somewhere like on our campus that is remotely close to this, is that going to affect us? Like I get undercutting and building it back up, but But also we've replaced a parking lot. We've replaced numerous things already in this parking lot >> small amount of land. >> That's exactly what they done to the parking lot under built it back up, built the concrete. Now we have water coming up over it. >> And we're not sure why yet. Yeah, >> if there is something there, we'll find it when we're when we're >> that >>

035I'm just scared we're gonna get another like $50,000 bill from an into the civil engineer saying we found your massive water leak and we're also charging $50,000 to figure out where it came from. So, >> should we be pretty quick? >> I I hadn't heard anything about that. Okay. >> You know, so but and I in the borings that they did my review which >> I have some of reading through it. I didn't see anything where where they ran into any water when they did. I think they went down 20 foot and there was no indication of water in those samples that they pulled out. Okay. >> Um we'll be right now they're recommending going down 5 foot and coming back up. Um so if it's there and within that five foot, we should be

036able we should be able to see something. No guarantees by any mean. Um especially if it's dry. We want the dry weather because it will help. But uh if it's something that's active and it's within that, we should notice some type of moisture in there. Again, there's there is no there's never a guarantee, you know. >> Well, some of what we know about this track, this was an old Timberland track and they left a lot of stumps. instead of removing them, they just cover them up and you know over the years they rotted out and so we've got some void you know >> that's there you know and that and that may be a problem >> and that's one of those I mean we joke about being on school properties you're going if there's a

037line out there that nobody knows where it's at. You'll find it when you put a bucket in the ground stumps or old concrete that somebody you know when you were building something else >> 40 years ago they just dumped it out and then just covered it up. You'll find that kind of stuff too. That's right. Is that right? >> I was just gonna say if we've run into something like that, I mean, we'll work with the civil engineer and the test and the soils testing company to minimize whatever, you know, additional cost would have to be would be needed um to stabilize the building and and give you all an answer of where it's coming from and what to do there. And Jody, is that something that could come from contingency? >> Okay. >> Those

038processes are already established how they'll work. >> Sure. >> If we hit something like that that we feel that I mean again I'll get a hold of civil engineer out there soil testing people to that that they do this for a living. All we do is we we expose hey we've got an issue we need to fix but um we We'll we'll work with them to make sure that we feel like we're getting the best solution to the the issue of >> And again, that's that $100,000 contingency that's already in there. That could be something that would be used for that. >> In there, I think it's got unsuitable souls line item. >> Yeah, we have one line item for 58,000 for unsuitable and then a contingency for 100,000. >> Correct. So the unsuitable soil

039that's based off of if we have to go full 5 foot that if we get to where we get something that's suitable and we don't have to go down so far if there's something left there that can be used towards something else that ground something that I'll talk to M before we just armaturely you there's those funds there that >> okay I just don't want us to get into a building project and we're turning They're trying to trying to fix it. Thank you, >> Miss Rhonda. Do we know what the civil engineers are still doing? They're expecting a new >> invoice for there's still just a little bit maybe on the finishing test that still in the updated that was at about 49,000 and I think we about this when we do this it's going

040to be at 44. So, they got just a little bit left. So, >> I mean with these Is there a cap anywhere? They just keep coming back with new stuff and we're paying it. >> Part of the reason the the one that you're going to have to do tonight is because that we did change some plans and they had to go in and re when we changed like sewer plans and some site locations and stuff. They had to go into additional stuff, but we still had some stuff in the original bid for the very for my understanding and I know very limited about this stuff about maybe some very little bit at the very >> right. That was what I was looking for. I read that somewhere. I I don't ever remember us approving a

041a build site. So, how are we having additional stuff added to a new build site that we never approved an original build site? I guess they're not here to answer that question, though. >> No, >> that's we just keep adding money for something that >> Well, the build site was these are your two options and the civil engineers came in to tell you which the best option was. So, those were the options that are already there. >> Change. >> We No, there was never an actual we never said this is where it's going to be. That's what I thought. >> No, we never said this is where it's going to be. We said this is option one and option two. It's going to be one of these. And when they did their testing, they determined

042that was the one. >> I guess I guess part of the confusion is like I think I thought that the the original bit that they gave us was to do like we know that there's two potential sites and not that is what I like that there was two sites that we should be testing to see if the soil samples are right and that is right. And >> well the one site wasn't going to work because of its proximity to the lines that were going to have to be moved. That's why that site was scrapped from the beginning because that was automatically going to be more cost because the site the lines that were going to have to be moved if that was the site that was chosen and it was really more of not really

043I mean it's all right there in that area but we knew that that one site once the civil engineers came down there were way too many lines that were going to have to be moved that was going to drive the cost up. So >> more cut and field down there than >> Yes. >> That's I guess that's where my understanding coming from. Where did the original bid come from? Where did the $31,000 come from if they'd ever >> Because that was what they were going to charge to come down here to see which site was the better option. That was their coming in to look at all of the area over there to see where we were going to be best off. >> Is correct. They basically have a a blank check at the moment

044where every time they come and something else needs done, they add money on. >> It's not really a blank check. It's a this is where we start from. This is what it's going to cost to do this. But as things come up like with the water, those types of things, they're still providing that service that we still have to pay them for because we have contracted with them to be our civil engineers. >> What you're saying is >> every time they come, we get more we get more money out of the pocket. >> You're saying that in the original bid, there should have been a price for them to determine which site it should have been, >> right? >> Because they knew that that was what was presented to us. sticking to the top could

045be that >> but that's not in the original bid. There's just the bid >> and we just keep adding more. >> Now there's more when it changes >> be the same thing and say we're going to do this now. We're going to do and they just keep getting higher and higher where like you said >> this is the bid this is what you're sticking to but our civil engineers coming in and just keep tagging on money but at the end of the day no end as long as they find something new to add on we're paying for it. I don't I don't understand that. >> I see why you're feeling that way. I do see that. So really it was their original contract and then the amendment to the contract that took care of the

046lift station and the other one was a requirement a clarification requirement from the health department that was the water and that was the reason why there was add that it came from direction from the health. All right I I guess the my question is where's the end point? Where's the where's the we're done adding money to this? >> We're through with the approval process. that >> so once once dirt work starts civil engineer money's that's the end process I guess >> I mean >> water I mean that's what I'm trying to get at where's the end process for these guys right I mean we're obligated to just keep paying them if they keep finding things they want money for >> I understand why you're feeling that way I do so that that contract works with

047them and obviously they're you know here so >> we just don't pay the next one until they come and that we don't like them next month. >> Yeah. >> If there's another bill, absolutely we can. >> But we already got another Miss Ron says coming or it's already here. It's going to have to be approved. >> No, >> it's still some of my understanding and it's very limited. There is still a little bit that they do at the very and looking at their stuff. It said and again with the lift station, we didn't have an option there because we were out of the range for the septic because we had talked about that. We couldn't do septic because of where the proximity was. And then with the health department, we don't have an option for

048that either because the health department would say you can't do this until you check for this. So these are things that we have to do to be in state compliance and civil engineers are the people who do that. So >> I understand that. I just I like the end point because at the end of the day we have a budget and we just keep our budget keep getting higher and higher and higher every time the civil engineers say something's got to get added. At what point does dirty school district should run out of money? I would like I'd like to invite them to the next meeting if possible. >> I can do my best. >> Thank you. >> That'll be I mean I I'm sorry. I'm sorry you haven't answer tonight. It's just No, it's

049okay. Okay. >> I I would I would like to encourage you though, but there's none better. There's a There's none better than this. >> Okay. That's great. I I mean I I feel the same way with y'all, but I know I know >> personally I need a I need a I need an answer. We're like there's a budget here for a reason. And that's kind of where we're at. Our job to make sure that budget stays there and we just there no insight with this with this in my opinion. I need answer. I don't I don't have it at moment. >> But thank y'all again for stepping in for him. We we need them. >> Well, we don't pay this. >> You do? >> Yeah, we need approve this additional payment of 34,000. >> No,

050they you've already approved the bids. >> We didn't have D, but we have C. >> Sorry. >> Well, you haven't done I, which you jumped to. So make a motion by total of $34,66.73. >> Second motion. >> Okay. We have a motion in second. All in favor of that motion say I. I. All descent same sign. That motion passed. Jason. >> All right, Jason. >> It's good to be back with you. Last time we were together back in February, you know, we talked about borrowing $2.3 million. You set us forward with that. We went to the department. We got approvals to move forward with that financing. And so on Tuesday, we actually did a competitive bidding process. >> Thank you. where we bid out your bonds or the uh the loan. When I say bid

051it out, what does that mean? It means the lowest interest rate bidder is the one that we would encourage you to accept if you want to move forward with this financing. Before you is a blue folder. In there are two items that I'm going to go over this evening. The first one I'm going to go over the bond sale, kind of what the results of that sale is, what your payment's going to look like, um, all the different components associated with that, and then I believe you received a resolution in your board packet that had some blanks in it. Now that we know the results of the sale, we've included that information in there. So, you have a completed resolution in your packet, and I'm going to walk you through that, answer any questions you

052might have about that. But to start, what I'd like to do is to begin, again, on Tuesday of this week, we had a bond sale. At 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning, we received bids from five investment banks from across the country. Uh you can see listed on or on page two the five firms that actually bid on these uh bonds. You'll see the lowest bidder coming from FHN. Uh that is a a firm out of Memphis, Tennessee. And you'll see the rate that they is a tax exempt rate of a 4.09%. To put that in perspective, when we were together last, you were looking at payments based on a 4.75% estimated rate. This is very attractive. What's also nice about the competitive bid process is I'm not a bank that's coming to you and say,

053"Hey, this is what we'll give you." You're seeing all these different banks compete for this loan. So, this is a good indication of where market rates are. So, you see the lowest rate is at a 4.09 and the high highest being from Robert Bear, which is a Milwaukee based firm at a 4.45. 45%. So even if you got the highest bid, still really attractive attractive compared to what we talked about last time. All in all though, what does that mean? You look on the next page. This is a proceed sheet. Because that rate was as low as it is. And talking to your administration, what we decided to do is keep the loan amount that we got approved for at $2.33 million the same. And we were able to pick up an additional $30,000 in

054terms of construction monies. So when you look down there at distribution of funds, you'll see net remaining after cost of issuance of 2,265. That is how much money when we close on July 16th will be wired to the district and be available for the projects. That money is your money just like a home loan. You get that money, you have the right to spend it on the on everything associated with the projects. You do need to spend that money within a three-year period though because this is taxexempt money. the investors do not have to pay taxes on this. The federal government isn't getting any tax revenue on it. So, it comes with a lot of rules. One of those is you need to spend the money within a three-year period. The other great thing about

055this, I know it's really small print on page four, but if you go to page five, the based on a 4.75% interest rate, we were estimating your payment to be approximately $143,000 a year. You can see now it's about $10,000 less per year. So, you're going to pick up more in construction dollars at a better interest rate, which is going to result in a lower uh annual payment. The other thing when I was with you last time is that we didn't know exactly what your assessed value was going to be. That assessed value was at $81 million is what we were estimating. Uh for those that may remember, that's about $81,000 per mill. Now, once it was finalized, it's actually at $90 million. So, it's going to go up. So that's a little bit more

056money that's coming back to you. All in all, from a budget standpoint, this loan will be budget neutral when compared to last year's assessed value. So you're picking up the new money, lower rate, a little more construction dollars, pretty much at a budget neutral stance. Uh so it's a really attractive uh situation in our opinion. So let me stop there before we move to the resolution though and see if you have any questions about the numbers or any of the the proceeds or anything else associated with that. gonna say was okay. So 80 So we were at 81,000 per meal >> was what we is what we thought we were going to come in at came in at 90. >> That's correct because we had preliminary numbers back in February passes up total picture. This

057is similar to what you guys saw in February, but it has the final numbers associated with this. So what this shows you is you can see what you the total PNI on the previous issued bonds is about 500,000. This is what your new payment is going to be. What you just saw. So total payment all your debt together is about 630,000 a year. And you'll see the total revenues now based on your current millage rate debt service millage rate and the tax assessment for 2025. You have almost two and a half times the amount of revenue than you have in terms of the payment. That surplus or that extra revenue is what you're running the school on. like we talked about. So, it's about $900,000 that you have in a cushion. >> What did you

058say you're always comfortable with with coverage? >> Yeah. We never want to see that dib below 1.2 times. So, you you have a lot of cushion of it. Now, I say surplus because that's legally what that is. I recognize all the other dynamics that are taking place with the school choice and everything else and funding formulas and all of that. So, hear me safe when I talk about this being surplus revenue. It is it is surplus revenue off your debt service millage rate or recognizing that it's being used to run your school on. It's not just money sitting in a pot over here that's not being used. >> So you feel like we will be completely neutral on our budget based on what this bond will be plus our mills from the state and our

05995% collection rate. >> That's correct. I wouldn't say completely, but right at >> basically the same as what it was before. And that's just a result of the assessed value growing um compared to what it was this past year. Because what I had shown you guys back in uh February, we were looking at revenues of about $1.39 million and now we're at $ 1.55 million. So that that difference is where that that's kicking up there. So, you were going to have you were at a surplus of about $900,000 or we were assuming about $900,000 based on an $81 million assessed value. And that was going to take your surplus down with the new debt the amount of about at that time we were estimating $145,000. It's going to take it down that, but because of

060the growth and because of the fact that we got the attractive interest rate, it's basically going to be right at $900,000 still even though you're picking up the new paint. smooth. >> Is it typical on uh interest rate bids to see that uh span 4.09 to 4.45 typically with that number of >> Yeah, I mean we see it all over the place. Sometimes it just kind of depends like Bear always bids pretty high and the chance that they'll cash the deal and they could pick up some additional interest rate on that or they may want to participate just be seen because they want to say, "Hey, we bid on Arkansas bonds." There's a lot of different reasons to go into that. What's interesting though, like they they really probably didn't want to catch it, if

061you will. They just wanted to bid on it and that's why it's as high as it is relative to the other bids. And then sometimes, you know, their banks, FHM, we don't really see them that often. And so they obviously had a buyer that wanted these bonds that they're working for on behalf of and they said, "Well, we'll take it at that amount." So, you know, this cardi hardy and her cardian company at a 410 right underneath that. So that kind of tells you market rates probably around 410ish. Um and then you see the next one jumps up to a four four and a quarter 424. So um so yeah, we see them all over the place but it's kind of coupled in that same area. >> So you say you don't see FHN but

062you feel those look like stability. >> No, for sure. >> Yeah. I mean they're just think of it like a pass through. They're buying those bonds and then they're selling them to their investors. Um and that's how they're making their money. They're they're picking these bonds up at this interest rate to you. You don't have to worry about that side of it. This is just this part of it. So, so that's the numbers and that's the bond sale. I know you got a very lengthy resolution in front of you. That's why I wanted to make sure you had it ahead of time. if you had any questions about it. I'm not going to go page by page, but I do want to highlight the part that's been high or that we filled in and then

063I want to kind of just touch on a few things that uh you may remember and may not remember. Um we have filled in on the first page just what you just saw the information related to the bids uh from FHN down to Robert Baird and then the rates associated with that. Again, these are tax exempt rates. Um, if you go to page three, the way FHN had done this, um, they are going to get 10 bonds. So, think of these as each of the maturity. The investor in 2028 wanted $40,000 in that maturity. You'll see in 2036. Why does it go from 31 to 36? Well, it's because somebody wanted a bigger block of bonds. They wanted to invest more money in you guys, and so they wanted it to be a bigger block.

064When you saw the repayment schedule though, you'll see you're making principal payments though throughout. That doesn't really have anything to do with this. This is just the way it was structured by that investment bank. So, they'd have more bonds to give to a particular investor. So, that's why there's 10 bonds associated with that. We have filled in that information. You can also see even though what I showed you is the interest rate, that's kind of a blended rate of all of the different coupon rates. So, if you were an investor and you bought that 2028 maturity, you'll see that you would actually get 5% coupon or 5% interest rate return on your investment. Uh, but you can see down here in the middle in 2036, that block, they're actually getting a 3.25%. It really just

065depends on what investors need and what their clients wanted and that's why it's been structured that way. But when you do that blended rate, that's how we get to that that true interest cost of a 4.09%. The next part of this is definitions. And then in the section section between five to page five to page 12 that is an example of a bond itself. I have 10 copies of this for signature tonight, but it has the terms of the financing in this. Um what I'll point out to you as you'll see the first paragraph there, the payments began April 1 of 27 as you saw on the repayment schedule. Um and then you can see the other terms of the financing. what we just talked about here on page seven in terms of how the

066bonds are maturing for those terms. On the number two optional redemption date, if you remember, we tell investors we'll pay them principal and interest for a period of time. Typically, it's a 5-year period. Think of it like a blackout period. That date will uh mature or that date will come where you will be able to redeem bonds on October 1 of 2031. So, at that time, if rates were lower and you could refinance the debt, that's when you would be able to do it. Or anytime after that, you're now back in the driver's seat. So, you have a copy of the bond that goes through there. And then if you jump over, I'm going to skip ahead a little bit. Let's go to page uh 14, section 8, withdrawal from bond fund. So, this bond

067issue was actually has a credit rating of a double A2. We went to Moody's Investor Services. We're able to attain a credit rating. It's pretty high credit rating. it. The reason it gets a high credit rating is because what we call the Arkansas Intercept program where the state, if you guys got in fiscal distress, the state would actually step in, intercept funds away from you and pay the investors on these bonds. Investors love it. That's in part why you get such an attractive interest rate. Part of that though is you have to make your bond payment 15 days prior to when it's due. And just want you to be aware by adopting this resolution, you're agreeing to continue to do that. you already do that on your existing bond issues, but I just want you

068to know that you're adopting this. You're continuing to do that and make that payment. I'm going to again skip over a little bit here. Let's go to page. I'm going to go on over to page 20 and talk about private business use. Private business use because these are tax exempt bonds. The federal government doesn't want a private business to be able to take advantage of any types of your facilities. You may ask yourself, when would that ever happen? Um Ron and I were talking earlier. We have an office in Dallas and we're now seeing high schools that have food courts. You see this a lot at higher ed, right? If you go down to Henderson, right? They got the Starbucks at Garrison, you got a Chick-fil-A or whatever that might be. If you were to

069do that in your school, the government wouldn't like that. They would want you to do your bonds as a taxable bond issue. Why does that matter? It's because taxable rates are 2 to 3% higher than what a tax exempt rate would be. You guys don't have any plans to do that. So we can comfortably say, hey, let's do this as a tax exempt issue, but we're talking about 30 plus years. So if ever in the future you decide, hey, we do want a food court at Girdai or whatever, you have to kind of unwind those tax exempt bonds. And so you can see here, this is the terms associated with that. You can have some private business use within your facility. Let's say Joe wants to set up a little or so whoever wants to

070set up a little like cantina type deal where they sell some drinks and you give them 247 legal entitlement to that. As long as it's less than 10% of the par amount or the project amount, uh you can allow that to happen. What we're really talking about would be taking over a full facility or a section of facility and that private entity having full access to it. So again, just wanted to point that out to you because you are adopting that resolution if you choose to do so tonight. And then section 22, lastly, continuing disclosure. As long as these bonds stay outstanding, you're agreeing to continually disclose certain financial information to investors each year as part of our services at Stevens, uh, free of charge to the district. We put together a continuing disclosure report

071that we actually will upload to a federal depository. Um, and we work with your district to prepare that. But again, if we were to go away, you guys are still on the hook for making sure that information gets uploaded to this website. Right. And so I just wanted to make sure you knew that that was in the resolution that you're agreeing to do that. Um, and that's required on under the SEC for all municipal bond issues. So let me stop there. I know that's a a quick recap, but see if you have any questions about any of the information for you. >> We take care of that within the district. >> Continuing disclosing. >> Yeah, Ron and I and Mr. signs off on it too, but we worked on it together. thinking of uh you

072were saying within five years you could possibly refinance potential pressure lower. Is that a service that Stevens provides as well? >> Yeah, that's actually what we we part of our job is to monitor that on all your debt and so we're we continuously I mean you these guys all y'all wouldn't know it necessarily but like we're always monitoring to see if there's any opportunities for that to happen. really we haven't seen any refinancing just because as everybody knows rates went so low back in 2020 2021 when the markets and during co and all that happened we refinanced everything that we could at that time but as we go forward on this at four at 4% there may be an opportunity in the future to do so we would let you know about that and you

073guys as a board would make a decision to do that. What's nice about a refinancing though is it doesn't require uh state board approval. just requires local board approval. If you said, "Hey, well, let me let me back up." You still have to run it through the Department of Bonds and Loans, like an application process, but you don't have to get formal approval from the state board. So, all you're doing on that case is just saving the interest cost, just like refinancing your house, but yeah, we'd help you with that. >> Is there a is there certain amount below the current interest rate that wags it for you or that you recommend? I mean obviously did it drop just a fraction might not be a big deal but what what you >> Great question. So

074we want to see you save at least 3 to 5% after cost of issuance. So factoring in all fees we look at that. So typically in this particular case you'd probably be looking you know south of 3% somewhere in that range but we're we continuously monitor that as it kind of pays down over time. State of Arkansas it's kind of unique to this to Arkansas. They actually set it up to where you have to save at least $100,000 or 5% whichever is lesser to move forward with the refinancing. So >> That's a requirement. So if you don't meet that requirement, you're dead in the water. But for us, that's a good opportunity for us to say, "Okay, you're you're at $75,000 or you're at 3%. We're going to continue to monitor this and make sure

075you guys are in a good position to move forward." And as a board, if you got really closer, you could go ahead and make a decision, say, "Okay, we want to move forward with this contingent." As long as we meet these particular requirements, whatever you guys set up, is if we can say 6% or whatever you guys feel comfortable with, then we'd be able to pull the trigger on that and go ahead and get all the approvals in place. But that's obviously a few years away. >> There no questions. That's fine. >> Perfect. So yeah, if if there's no questions, it's basically um ask for recommendation to move forward with adopting the the resolution. Um and then we'll want to move on this resolution. >> I move we approve the resolution as provided by Stevens.

076>> Second. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor of that motion say I. >> All consent at the same time. That motion passed. >> Thank you. And on behalf of Stephen, thanks for allowing us to continue to represent you. I've got about 15 to 20 minutes worth of paperwork to sign. Maybe we could do that between or before your executive session start. Perfect. Thank you. >> Okay. Our next item is our from book lease agreement >> and this is Victor's place that he's not here. So you know a few years ago we had our technology plan put in place and we said we were going to roll out new Chromebooks for first grade third fifth and ninth grade. And this is in that cycle of doing the new Chromebooks

077for those groups. And because like everything else, cost is going up on all of the things, trying to get the lease in early so that we can lock in the price that is available now because if we wait until July to go through with the lease, it's going to be another $150, $200 a Chromebook. So, we're just trying to get the lease in place now. The payment still will not happen until after July 1, but we will have the Yes, we'll have the agreements lost in. >> Are we looking at two different um folks here or is this just one? There's two different numbers. It's inside CDWG >> just the amount that's on. >> Yeah, it's the CDWG quote that that we use >> 6580. owned. >> Yes, we always we have the two quotes,

078but yes, we we generally use the CDWG because they are the ones who give us the best deal. >> We'll move on this item here. >> Interesting question. How many did we we bought last year? It says 180. Is that about what we did last year as well? 180. >> Probably pretty close. Our numbers have been staying pretty steady. >> I don't know how much it's gone up this year, but again, after July one, they're looking at $150 a Chromebook for it to go up. So, >> Chromebook >> and well, you know, they've got a lock on it now because all the testing is done on the computer. So, schools have to have Chromebooks and they have to have Chromebooks that are compatible with the software. So, we're kind of in a >> kind of

079forced ending. >> Yeah, we're kind of in a no- win situation there >> till next year. >> Probably we're getting out of >> three years. Three or five. >> It didn't be for something like four year rotation. >> Yes. >> Yeah. I think you'll probably notice on that disposal list that that tells you kind of where our our lifespan on the Chromebooks are. >> Sure. >> And again, it goes back to use and care and all of those things and they're kids. So, >> consider this one that we approve police. >> All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor of that motion say I. On descent, same sign. That motion passes. >> Next is the disposal. >> Okay. Yeah. Next item is disposal of our current computer system. >> And that's

080what the list is that you had when you when you got here because Victor got a list yesterday. These are all of the technology within the district that are obsolete that are broken. They can't be used anymore. And it doesn't cost us anything to have these recycled. We just have to roll them off of inventory. So that's why it has to be approved. >> Is there any any uh organization that actually pays as opposed to public? >> Not one that we have used. I know there are some out there, but they really want to they don't want the whole thing. They want parts of the things which is going to require us to do a lot of, you know, deconstructing of things. And a lot of these like the smartboards, they are so old that

081they just don't work anymore. And the projectors, it costs more to get a bulb for a projector now than the projectors actually worth. And we've upgraded to the smart panels everywhere throughout the district. So there's really no place for us to than this. But this is a lot of this is trying to get those rooms at the primary school cleaned out and Victor has gone through to see what was there that we could still use that possibly if we have a computer go out, there's a CPU somewhere that we can use. But again, technology >> going obsolete as quick as it does, it's hard to keep those things. But he does keep those in stock. Anything that can still be used, he holds on to it. Make a motion we approve the disposal of inspired

082electronics list. We have a motion. >> Oh, hey man. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor of that motion say I. All in descent, same sign. That motion passed. >> Next item is our summer meal salary. >> Yes. Dr. Jones, you want to talk about this one or you want me to talk about it? >> You can. Okay. So, we had an idea that we wanted to be able to feed our kids um during the summer and so Wendy Schaefer applied for this grant um this Genu summer nutrition grant that is allowing us to once a week take meals into the community. Um and she's going to tell you later how many we have done. And we're feeding kids after speed camp. When they're leaving speed camp, they go

083through and they can pick up a sack lunch. So, we've distributed a lot of food. In order to do that, that requires us to have some of our cafeteria workers here who are off contract this summer. And part of this grant is there to pay them to come in and work those hours. So, this is basically approving that pay for them that's coming out of that grant. It's not costing the district anything for us to do this, but it's good gesture for us to pay our people to come in and work that extra time. >> So, that's what we're looking at here. So, we just need a motion to approve the grant >> to approve the the pay the per the $20 per hour pay for our cafeteria workers to come in and do that.

084>> Does that cover the bus drivers and >> um >> Dr. Jones is the bus driver. We're taking the little the little bus so we don't have to have a bus driver and we've been using Mount Kane and their drive-thru. We've been setting up over there and having the people drive through and pick up lunches over there >> as like I guess you said I mean how a percentage wise you know what are you taking versus what are you bringing back? >> We're not bringing anything back. >> Yeah, we're not bringing anything back. >> Yeah, we'll move on that. >> Make a motion we approve the summer milk Saturday for the work. Got a motion and a second. All in favor that motion say I. All the descent same time that motion passes. >> So

085they know the data. >> Okay. >> Director's report and all that. >> Okay. Uh >> hold on director's report, >> the district data update. We are holding off on data because we're still working on our atlas scores. So, we will have that in July to present to the board with our final numbers for for what our atlas looks like this year. >> When does >> July 21st and I've already emailed Daniel, Greg or George with Craft and Told to see if he can be here for the athletic year review. >> That would be Coach Jackson. All right. Um, appreciate y'all letting me come. I try to do this every year. I think it's actually been two years. And I know you all have had a jam-packed evening and still more to go. So, I'll try

086to keep it as brief as I can, but try to hit kind of the high points. I just like every year just doing an athletic year-end review. I know some years we've knocked it out in July and August and that's just kind of weird because we're already looking forward to next year. Uh but obviously the thing that drives everything with athletics be participation. So I like looking at that every single year. You know, this is just a snapshot of this past year. The 12th graders are obviously gone. Um but you know, over 50% of our school population participate in one or more sport. you know, it's what we want. Obviously, you know, in my mind that needs to be kind of well, in everybody's mind when we're thinking about policy and doing different things that

087it is a school a lot like others in this part of the world that you know, put a value uh on athletics. Boys right at 65%, girls 47 somewhere in there. Um, you know, just taking that in consideration based on years past, boys maybe down just a smidge and girls have drastically gone up. You know, in my mind, I think a great goal would be boys 75, girls 50. I mean, just traditionally, you're going to get more boys in sports than girls. It just it is what it is. Uh and then about half of those two figures are what we absolutely want and what we try to uh instill in them from the time they come into seventh grade as far as being multiport athletes. So they're playing more than one, two, three, some of

088them upwards of four. So, you know, just overall we're we're close to where we want to be, not exactly there. you know, just looking at different kind of snapshots of this past year, kind of moving through throughout the school year. Obviously, football-wise, uh, junior high district champions, you know, and that's first time in, uh, since 2011. Now, that's skewed somewhat. We had two or three really, really, really good teams that that just happened to line up when we were in in 3A with them. If they would have been in 2A, where we honestly probably should have been every single year, may could have had a couple more. Senior high district runner-ups, cross country. Coach Kate always does a great job with that cheer. You know, we're used to being right there in the top the

089finals or runner up once for sure. I know top five. We finished six this year. Um but still great great job for from them. U and coach Warlick continues to do that. Um softball, baseball, you know, softball right there one win away from the regional tournament. baseball, young, young, young young. And there's two things or both of those sports. One thing I kind of want to talk about later on down the line, maybe different things to look at in the future to improve that. And then, you know, we've been really really fortunate here lately on both the boys and the girls side to have a pretty pretty good run in in track. You know, great job with those athletes and then the coaches. Um, but junior boys district champion, senior boys runner up, and then

090the girls just continue to kind of turn them out. uh the junior girls six in a row there as district champions and then senior girls five and then our senior senior girls finishing fourth in the state and then you know having two college signes one in track and one in softball certainly uh proud of them and looking to see what they can do in the future. never really done this slide, but you know, this is wrapping up that would be 15 years since I've been here. So, I just kind of wanted to look at a snapshot of basically the last 15 years, kind of where we stand in the history of Garden Athletics, you know, and some of it you can make data look however you want to and it's skewed. Obviously, we hadn't played

091soccer that long. So yes, the 2019 conference championship title would be 100% of the school's titles because we haven't played that long. But you know, our first year competing in anything would have been 1915 starting with football like every other school in this part of the world. Uh so you know you're looking at 111 112 years of competition. So, you know, the 13% of that is knocking out, you know, 33% of the state championships, which we're trying, you know, every day we get up to get that number higher. Uh 62% of the runnerups, 33% of the football district titles, and then, you know, down there at the bottom, probably the thing that's the most proud, and I don't know, you know, my memory is getting bad. I I tried to go back year by year

092and I'm sure I missed somebody but close to 20 uh college well athletes that earned the right to a college athletic scholarship snee. So you know like I said just not going to put that slide up there every year but just the fact that it was happened to be 15 years nice little chunk as it relates to everything else just kind of curious to go back and look at it. Um just different things odds and ends that we've tried to do. Some of this is new, some of it's a continuation, but you know, I know we've talked before, the last time was here, as far as the athletic booster club and what it does as far as it is not for one sport, it's for all sports that goes towards jackets, blankets, awards, and it

093is um really, really good for our coaches. Meaning, you know, a while back, and I don't know how long this was. Because I know it was like this when I came here. Uh just using football for instance, if we had a huge sophomore class like we do this coming year, their letterman jackets came directly out of the football budget. So that was a huge huge chunk this trying to think the year that we're finishing up now. Small small small sophomore class. So it's not taking much out. just as a coach, you kind of had to plan your budget around you were at the mercy of how many sophomores you had, basically what it was, you know, now we've taken all that and the booster club has taken that expense and it just taken it off

094the coaches and they're they're providing all that. So, you know, different fundraising efforts that that they've done, raised over 13,000 and the biggest one's the golf tournament. There's really not much. I mean, there's some little odds and ends things, but the golf tournament, uh, even through all the the rain and the thunderstorms that we've had the last couple years is still bringing in a lot. Uh, Miss Wolf just touched on it as far as kind of the upgrade to speed camp and our kids love it, you know, and I can't remember. We started doing a version of Speed Camp probably 2017, 18 and there obviously COVID wrecked it in 2020. I think we were probably back to doing it in 21. It may have even been the next year, but you know, now it's kind

095of turnurning along and we're knocking out two days a week. Uh we just finished yesterday, the last one before we take our dead week break. Uh and it's, you know, there's on average of 90 kids, I think. I know we've been over hundred once or twice and that's anywhere from five years old to uh honestly well the other day we had Jamaiah Garland who you know she's a college athlete now but she's coming back to do that with us once or twice whenever she can. So, you know, it just gets it is great for athletic development, but it's more great because we've got somebody like her that's been through here and she's a college athlete and she's right in a group with a six-year-old girl that hopefully wants to be like her one day. And

096and we roll it from, you know, 9 to 10. And like I said, now thanks to the admin and you and you know, Wendy, who whoever, they roll right into the cafeteria. Cafeteria ladies have made it a easy easy process. I mean, they don't even check up. up a kid walks through, they circle or write their name down, they get their bag, and they're gone. And like I said, they're eating it up and loving it because I mean, you guys know, I mean, we try to do as much as we can supplementing them with nutrition, but overall, our kids don't eat enough. I mean, they just they don't. And more we can give them the the better it is. And then just different youth camps, which that's something we've been doing. Athletic skills camp, you

097know, once again, memories leaving me. I can't remember exactly when we started that, but that's right there towards the end of the spring semester. It used to be first grade through 4th. This year we brought kindergarten through six over and just put them into different groups and they go around to every coach. I mean, so a third grade boy is going to do a 20-minute period with me. He's going to do a 20-minute period in the gym working basketball, 20-minute period baseball, uh, it's track. We just rotate them around, get them around all of our coaches and hopefully get them exposed to all the different sports and give them give them a a free t-shirt. And like I said, we try to do it right there towards the end of the semester. So, you know,

098I think I don't know this, I think our elementary teachers really like it because we take every kid, they get to clean up their room and get ready to go to the summer. we take them for for an afternoon and then you know we always encourage uh every sport to do at least one fundraiser and you know once again our coaches are doing a great job um bringing in extra money to kind of supplement it. One thing I wanted to put on here, don't talk about this a lot and I never post it or publicize it just kind of out of I guess respect for the kid or the family and you know I don't know what reason but you know our football team every Christmas our elementary um principal counselor they kind of nominate

099a third fourth fifth somewhere in there uh boy and actually started a girl now maybe doesn't have a whole lot of money but we can see them trending towards the athletic route. And you know, we all kind of all the coaches, the different the players chip in $5, $10, whatever. Get them um you know, a pretty good honestly, they come out pretty good on it as far as pretty good amount of Christmas presents. We'll bring them over, have a little party with them, get them some donuts, and let them play with our older older players. So, you know, once again, I don't I'm not ever going to post that when it happens, but I do think it's something good. Um, and I, you know, I wrote this down at some point a year or two

100ago. I can't really remember, but I went back and looked from 2014. I guess we try to do it with every with fourth grade. Sometimes that gets a little skewed, but it's mainly fourth graders. How many of those boys, like I said, we just started girls here lately, ended up being in our athletic program. And it was, you know, well over 75%. One or two of them turned into really darn good multiport athletes. Now, is that because we gave them Christmas presents in fourth grade? I don't know, but I don't think it really hurt. And then, you know, this just this past summer started a service day where all of our student athletes um go out and just really do anything and everything. I mean, we send groups around. We put out a link and

101I put it out one or two times. Obviously, I'll start doing a lot more now that it's getting close. I think July 20th maybe is the date this year, but you know, anybody can go on there and sign up and we'll come do as much as we can. There was one or two projects that we didn't get to last summer, you know, during that day, but we sent them all out. Like I said, when we take every boy and girl athlete 7 through 12, I mean, you know, we're sending out 150 workers so we can get get some stuff done around town. Uh Cave Classic, another one that we just started this past summer. We just had it this past uh Tuesday, two days ago. 77 tournament and you know those happen everywhere. The lineman

102challenge couple places but what we tried to do was partner partner Cape Foundation took it over obviously in it. I mean, it is funded through them where each school, we'll never have more than a 12 team, but each school's MVP gets a $500 scholarship. Uh, like I said, I know Brother Andrew wasn't going to be here tonight, but he helped us out cooking some uh smoking some pork for the hospitality room. But anyway, that's, you know, just kind of another another event that we started two years ago. Everybody seems to love it. Obviously, you know, the MVP comes out pretty good on it as far as a scholarship. But, you know, if nothing else, and I know some of you have different student athletes, so you're at different events. You know, one thing I will

103brag on our coaches and our kids, cuz our kids, you know, they compete it, but they work a lot of this stuff. We can put on an event, whether it's a track meet that gets done before the lights come on or this or anything, you know, anything. And that's all because of, like I said, our the hard work of our coaches, kids jumping in, booster club, just everybody, a lot of you doing different things. And then Meet the Devils, you know, we've done that forever. Um, two to three years ago, kind of tried to spice it up a little bit as far as making it maybe a little bit more family oriented, but bringing in a free bounce house, uh, free hot dogs, just different things to try to get different people up here, more

104people up here. Um, okay. Haven't done this one really ever, but just thought you'd want a little snapshot of where we stand on it. So, and I put 8 to 10 in because, you know, we put installed the turf in the summer of 2019. Can't really remember. I know we got the paperwork on it somewhere as far as what the warranty is. And before I go into this, the turf is great. So, don't don't look at the slide and think, "Hey, something's wrong with it." It's not. I just want to give you an update of where we stand on it. Uh so obviously going into the eighth year playing on it, the sideline sponsors, just so you know, and I know once again, I can't remember if any some of you may have been on

105the board when we did this. Maybe none of you were. I really can't remember, but sideline sponsors, those are $25,000 blocks and they're contracted for 10 years. So obviously we're getting towards the end of that lifespan. And some of them, you know, like I said, some of them pay once a year for 10 years. Some just paid once flat flat sum. But just for your information, those blocks, those sponsorships on the side are for 10 years. All right. So th this is what matters, so to speak, as far as how long we can play on that comfortably. Gmax testing, and we test ours twice a year. So, the company that installed it, Gio, comes every year. Honestly, they came today. Just got done. And I mean, he just emailed me the testing just a second

106ago. We also have a company that comes in annually. And we try to do this right before football practice or football season starts and just kind of deep cleans and grooms and fluffs and and we have a groomer that we try to run over heavy traffic times of the year, once a week. off season maybe once every three or four weeks, but this is I guess maybe flossing compared to brushing your teeth. So that deep groom comes in and when they and they sanitize it because I mean from track meets to football games, I mean I don't honestly really want to know some of the stuff that maybe is on that turf. But when they come through and do that, they test it as well. the the deep cleaning company, their magic number, and I

107think the real magic number is 200. The report from the turf company says 165. Well, they're trying to sell more turf. So, I'm sure their number is probably a little lower. I think probably the the absolute one's 200. So, if you ever get an average over 200, your turf is shut down, you know. And you can see, like I said, 2021, we're sitting at 83. last year's 101. You know, based on the data that I just got, it looks like it's probably averaging 107 somewhere in there. So, you know, I don't think we're we're not anywhere close to it. Just wanted to let you in on how long it lasts or what can potentially shut it down, you know. And when we put it in, they said average lifespan, you know, they're warrantying it for

108that. Average lifespan 10 to 12. Now that's a high in my mind that's a hightraic 5A 6A 7A school. We don't put near the foot traffic on it. Now you will see our numbers go up a little bit more each year now simply because when we brought the elementary over and now we're bringing some more over. That's just more foot traffic. Now they do a great job. They're not out there all the time but it is more feet on it. Um, so it is maybe going up a little bit more than normal, but you can see we're still a long long long way from it ever getting shut down. Just kind of wanted to keep youall up to date on that. Um, facilities wise, really the only thing other than one or two slides down

109the road that and I sitting back there, if I'd had my zip drive, I thought about taking some of these slides out with all the money talk we've been doing here lately. And once again, I'm just presenting the information. Everybody smarter than me kind of does what they want to with it and writes the checks, but the track markings very soon will have to be repainted. Just the actual, you know, the exchange zones. This is where the herd goes. Um, that was part of the original project when they put it in. So, I have no clue exactly what that number is. Um, I do know this probably a little bit of what a little bit maybe a lot of what you're paying from it is who does it. Meaning when it was done the first

110time and I'm talking to the guy that's out there doing it. They're a company out of South Carolina. So, not like there's one around every corner that can do it, you know, and I don't want to and I don't think anybody really wants, you know, we don't want to go out there with spray paint and try to do it oursself. Maybe we need to need to try to do it right. I think we can definitely get through this next spring of 27. Don't know that we can get another one just because our hurdle markings, they're so little anyway. They're kind of fading away in a hurry. Okay, so here's once again probably one of the ones that I would have totally deleted just with all the money talk here lately, but here's the information. two

111and a half what I would consider things that need to be looked at to improve what we have now or different other sports all the sports okay and when it looks when we're talking about different conference schools here that's the new conference that we're going in the new basketball spring sport conference that we'll be cranking up in when basketball season starts all right which everybody understand I think everybody understand it one of the very very few that have a second gym for basketball practice purpose No, I do not. You know, I'm not sitting coach is not sitting here saying we need to build a new gym. Not saying that whatsoever. There are things that we can look at somewhere down the line or this line. Once again, I'm just presenting information to help modify the

112little gym where it is practiceable. That needed to happen at any point in time. I mean, it's great to have two that you can practice in at any point in time. Where we're headed with the athletic periods, you know, as far as saving class time, kids out of class towards the end of the day type deal when we maybe have two basketball teams practicing at the same time. It's getting more important to have two. Will we make it work? Absolutely, we'll make it work. We'll find a way to make it work. But it is something, like I said, we're not not talking about building a new gym, but you can flip and modify and refinish the floor in there to make it practiceable. Covered batting cages, another one that's just, you know, and I'm not

113going to say we're behind on it, but it it is what it is when you compare us to other schools. Now, we put a cage in the little gym, and you say, "Well, that's a cover batting cage." You're absolutely right. It is, but but if we ever look at doing this and making this functionable, it kind of takes out where the wires are in there. It would cause a problem. So, it's kind of a two-part deal here. Um, before January of this year, we had a baseball bat and cage not covered. Softball bat and cage not covered. After January 25th, softball batting cage was no longer because the ice demolished it. Okay. Well, we got the cage in. Obviously insurance is paying for that. Uh we've talked about it. Who knows? I have no clue.

114We may not run into that in 50 years again. I don't really want to put a high dollar cage right there and then next January the same exact same thing happens, you know. So, we looked at kind of different options. The people that were just here gave us three different options. I'll be honest with you, one of them when I looked at the amount closed the folder right up because it's a whole lot more than I would, you know, one option obviously we put the cage right back where it was. Like we already have the parts. It's, you know, and that was another thing we were running into. I we got the cage pretty quick. All right. But could not find anybody that could put it in or was willing to put it in cuz

115they would have to I don't remember all their fancy words. bore down in the concrete drilling, you know, do all this and that. So, I just asked Miss Wolf, well, you know, we have people here that are about to be building something. Surely to goodness, they can put together and install a batting cage. So, you know, one option, put it there. One option would be to kind of extend the slab where the baseball one is, right behind the fieldhouse. Put it right beside it. So, you got two with a little bit of extension, maybe to do some infield drills. And then the third option would be do that and a cover over the top which I once again I don't remember that number and I really don't want to look at it again because it

116was I know nothing about building materials and this and that but it was way I thought way too high but that's just me. And then you know here this is once again not talking about building a new weight room not talking about it's just what we're going to run into at some point in time. We're going to need maybe to send a junior high boys basketball team to get a 20-minute lift somewhere because, you know, in our weight room, you're holding 40 max is I mean, that's elbow to elbow. That that's that's pretty tight. And now you're talking in the athletic period. Not that everybody is lifting weights at the same time, but well, I mean, 125, 150 kids, some somewhere close to that. So, you know, just different different options as far as that

117goes. All right, that is what I was talking about earlier. You know, in my mind, just the something that we've got to, and this is my job, I'm nobody else's job, but mine, try to figure out how to remedy in our spring sports. I would venture to say no. I didn't do a survey on this like I did the others, but about everybody else plays junior high baseball softball and we're behind in it. Like it it is what it is. We're behind in it. You say, "Coach, why don't you start it?" That's not coming from the coaches in the school system. That's parentled. That's where we run into the disconnect. You know that that's straight from Sally and Suz's daddies at Hampton are coaching junior high softball and they're getting 10 to 15 games a

118spring during the spring season and they're practicing right along uh with the senior high team which that's not a problem that can be handled. But you know they're doing the transportation, they're doing the driving, they're doing they're driving the buses. It's just not a whole lot different than summer wreck ball league ball type stuff. But it is better competition and it's the competition that they're going to see when they get to high school, you know. So that in my mind once again, you know, you said, "Coach, how you fix it?" Well, I can't answer that for you today, but I know it needs to be fixed or looked at because we are losing a lot of repetitions to people that we have to play in high school and we've swung the bat 100 times, they've

119done it a thousand times. It's different. So, like I said, I skipped some things, breeze through some things, but if y'all have any questions or >> anything I can maybe answer. >> I was just in my mind thinking about the batting cage. Is there any way to incorporate the softball and the baseball one batting cage under like open air awning or something to protect it? >> Can you I mean, can those cages be the same? >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. And that's what I'm talking about. Like our our baseball one, it has zero reason to move. >> It's just >> Mary and the softball went up with it >> cuz you got to add the slab. And I didn't study those specs, but I'm assuming that that >> the money was concrete money. I mean,

120I don't know what else would have made it go up like that. >> Sure. >> I mean, because we weren't we're not talking about a sided. >> I mean, even when we get into the covering, we're not talking about sided roof. Yeah. I have another question on the on back to the turf. Do do you have a today's money? Let's say some we had to replace it today. What would it cost to replace that turf? Do you know? >> Well, a whole lot less than the first time. >> No, but that whole thing's on concrete. >> We're getting back to what we would do is maybe start >> I mean at some point in time that will have to be done. >> It's going to it's going to happen. It's not going like it is

121what it is. I mean, if I'm like I said, they will tell you 10 to 13 years. I'm absolutely confident with 15 years. >> So, that's another what I say we're about to play the eighth year on it. Another seven years. >> 15 years. Made another million dollars. We got We got to start. >> Oh, well now, you know, I'm just pulling off of the figures they told us in 2019. And obviously all that's gone up, >> but it's not that high. >> Yeah, I know. I'm just >> But it, you know, not cheap. >> For sure. But >> and you know, we do what I would consider a really good job grooming it, which keeps that number up. The more you fluff it, the softer it makes that come in because that's what they're

122testing. >> They're just dropping >> the softness of >> Yeah. Um, but good job grooming it and a good job limiting foot traffic, >> you know. Any idea what they cost for the guess you say the the difficulty of replacing those sideline sponsors in what two years or >> I can tell you what each one costs 12,000. >> Is that what we what we pay to have them put on there? >> Like if I Yeah. So they you're paying 25,000 we're paying 12,000. So we're making whatever 13 >> that initial cost or could you replace them? >> Oh yeah, we can. Well, I mean, you want to get right down to it, there there's one out there that we could have thought about it replacing four or five years ago because we never got a

123dime from it. >> Um, but >> yeah, we could have, but it's going to cost us 12,000. So, >> is that an agreement or was it a a permanent ad space or was it a 10 year ad space? >> It was 10. I mean, every Yeah, everything it was contracted 10. Um, you know, I box it well well before her and I wasn't a signature man. But you I mean you can like honestly I don't know that you well I don't know. I can't say I'd say that because you could make some money off of it. You know about say well yeah you can go in after year 10 and say hey we we're getting new ones or y'all going to have to reup or you just wait until you really replace the turf. So

124depend on know what you know and some of them one for sure is not even in business anymore. So you know but there's stuff out there that probably wasn't around in 2019. you know, that was, you know, we had to go beg a little bit, but that part of it, but I do know then it was to just make that patch. It's $12,000. >> So, what are your thoughts on this Pee-Wee football? Football is at this point, we have had it in our contract to pay someone to do PE football. Obviously, that person is not here, so no one has that position. We found out last board meeting that kids that are playing that are not in our district or even maybe homeschooled, they're not covered. So, if you had a take on >> Well,

125the homeschool part of it, not really. I mean, I wish they were covered. My takes maybe a little bit skewed on people that don't live in our district. They're great to have when they're here and we've had some really good ones that don't live here that play peeweee football, but they're taking reps away from people that are going to play garden football in five or six years. Honestly, I would like to Well, you go to school here or you don't play here. I mean, that's kind of everything. >> That's kind of where we're going to have to go. >> Kind of everything else we do. I mean, once again, it's hard. You got we're talking about peewe football. We've had some really good ones that come, you know, because for a while Archadadelphia didn't tackle.

126It was all flag. So, they were coming down here a lot to get in tackle football. Um, I mean, just overall, my answer would be, you know, no. I wish there that we didn't have to so-called be over it and I wish we could still have a good agreement with somebody that was running it like a Quincy, but it kind of goes back to this. Will we get somebody to do it? You know, we sometimes struggle to find the little league coaches and the pee-wee coaches and the It's just I mean, it's it is what it I don't know the correct answer to make people want to volunteer and do more. I think that's just kind of I don't know about society now. I don't know. I don't know the answer. Um but if there

127was, you know, a good willing and it's also and some of you may answer this. I don't know. Y'all guess maybe everybody grew up here. I did not. It was really unique to me that I when I came here that we don't have a parks and wreck department, but when I see like the city council minutes, there's a like ours, there's a parks and wreck segment, but there's not anybody over little league baseball, little league, you know, it just kind of from my understanding throughout the years goes to this daddy or this, you know, family and then they graduate their kids out and somebody else does it. And it's just I I've never been around a town that didn't have a like a parks and wreck that a director which that would be more tax

128money. I'm assuming maybe that's why we don't have it. I don't know. >> That just seemed like it probably used to be a lot more volunteerism here than there is now. >> Well, that's probably the case anywhere. I I don't know. Then when we do get coaches, it's hard with Britney trying to get them tracked down to get the child maltreatment and the background check and all the stuff that we need to have for them to coach our kids, too. >> Yeah. I mean just overall I guess the answer would be would love if it was able to be be separate but I wouldn't want to do that as a sacrifice of not playing pee-wee football you know and just oh we couldn't find the coaches so we can't play this year or this group

129can't play I wouldn't want to ever just let it go like that will it ever get to that I don't know you know Quincy did a heck of a job forever ever. How long? But long, long time. >> It was a while. >> They've done a good job. >> Is there anything we could do with the little gym that's at the um primary school now? Could it be moved out? And >> yeah, we talked about repurposing. >> Yeah, we've talked about that, but we have to take a real hard look at it to see what it's going to take to do that. So, that's that's a little further down the line here. Okay. Just so y'all understand what I was talking about with the little gym here, you know, and I'm most of you have

130probably been in there. It's obviously lined like a full length basketball court, but it's, you know, not shorter, narrower. You can flip it widthwise, put new markings down, and have a full half court practiceable gym, you know, and I I I looked into it really really heavy two years ago. It's not I mean all money's money, but I I really think that's something that we could accomplish on a fundraising campaign and not really have to come to the school at all. Don't quote me on that and write it down, but you know, we're not talking $50,000. I I can't We looked at two different options. I want to say one was 10ish, something like that. And that's a lot of money. I understand that. But we can >> sometimes do a lot more doable. >>

131Yeah. And not have to like I said come to you. I mean that all all sports fundraiser we did three or four years ago brought in 17. >> So you mentioned this like schedule. So is that thing like we we moved athletics to the last period which is part of a conflict is like boys and girls trying to share one gym. So was that have we changed the master schedule? Are we doing things differently or we back it up like the last two periods for all athletics or >> I mean >> are we changing what we've been previously doing the past three years is >> yes >> what is that >> we've changed a little bit about every year for the last three years just but when we went to the four day week there

132was a lot of tweaking >> and you know we had to kind of tri by fire it and fix some different things but yes it's last two two periods of the day >> or who like >> everybody >> so who's everybody >> 7 through 12 boys and girls are going to be last period if you sign up for athletics you were headed that direction and you were going to be in that area. >> So but I mean are we back into like the absolute same conflict of like how do boys and girls practice basketball if we're sharing a gym? >> It's double blocked. You couldn't do it in one period. >> Okay, >> two periods a lot more manageable. One group's here for an hour, one group's there for an hour. Obviously, a big part

133of that manageable is if I can find out a way to to have a second practiceable gym. So now there's a team practicing there while this one's in this weight room while this one's in the auxiliary weight room that's at the end of the bleachers or on the outskirts of the cheer room. Like there's it's going to require a lot of organization, a lot of moving pieces, but our coaches and our kids can handle it cuz honestly now there's a lot more to it in the year, but it's what we're doing right now in the summer. They're all here. 7 through 12, boys and girls, different places, but still kind of block of time the same. And what it should do, you know, we're going to a playoff game, Northeast Arkansas. No, but 90% of

134our regular season games, we should never miss a minute of class. >> That'll definitely be helpful. Well, and the big thing is going to be like your ninth graders moving up. If they move up and start playing senior high fall that June that freshman year, they're missing a ton of class and is getting pulled for a class that they were should be blocked out to be back into a regular classroom. Correct. Previously, >> correct? >> Okay. >> Yeah. I mean, like I said, I mean, I'm sure there's one on the schedule. I don't know the furthest. I mean, we got Taylor's in the conference now. I really don't know that I've ever been to Taylor. I don't know how far that is, but I don't see any really game that Yeah, we're going to miss

135class. Now, it may be we get out of class at 2:00 and we're leaving at 2:10, but there it's going to I mean, I I mean, I had one my kid missed >> 40 classes in the earlier part of the day. As many as we can have in the earlier part of the day. So, our math classes, our English classes, our upper level science and AP courses are at the earlier part of the day. >> So, if a student chose to do athletics plus they want to do band or they wanted to be in an Agra class or they need one of these uh core completer classes, can is that functionable? Like I can do core completion stuff like I can >> Oh, it is. Yeah. >> With the with the with the athletics being

136double blocked for the last two class periods, all those completer courses. And now if we have like a a student who wants to do band cheer um they may and and something else they you know we may have to juggle their schedule a little bit but it's do it can be doable. Um and with the completer courses they've got three courses that they have to take to complete an H2 pathway. So that means if they don't get it this year, they may be able to get it next year. So we'll be able to fit those completer courses in. >> Okay. >> That and they're able to do those introductory classes in the eighth grade now. So that gives them another year to pick it up. >> I know we looked at athletics and band and

137that was no problem. Totally different period like they could which you know we have a ton that do that. So we kind of glaze over like basketball like basketball didn't win a game this year or maybe the last few years and senior high basketball. So how do we like encourage these people to be multi-level or multisport athletes like how do we focus on basketball softball those kind of things especially like when they're becoming competitive with their foot all the time in football. I the last part of this especially when what >> especially when we have like we are competing with other sports like if I want to play one sport that starts like you know in the fall but then I'm going to play other sports like we're talking about how do we grow these

138programs and how we make these programs better how do we put money into these programs like how do we encourage these students to be multilevel or multisport students like what is our >> I do think I mean I mean it is a of them. >> It is an attack in seventh grade. I mean, they have a champions talk section that is that that they go through as seventh graders. Now, we've also went back to what I would consider pee-wee athletics, fifth and sixth grade athletics to introduce them to it. But, I mean, we preach multisport since the time they come in with, like I said, it's over 50% of the people that do it are multiport athletes. I I hear what you're saying, but I also see what what happens during some of this when

139students are picking multiple sports. It becomes like a conflict I feel like a lot of times on how much time like coaches have with these students or what their time ratio is of I need to be lifting but I'm also playing basketball. Is do you feel like there's a conflict in that? >> I don't. No, I feel like we should maybe there's been some disconnect on practice time in other sports. I do feel like that. I do feel like there's some disconnect on um I don't want to miss out on strength training to play other sports. I want So, yeah, I do think there's some disconnect on that. I think that's being solved or attempted to be solved as we speak. I do see that. I don't see no I think our coaches and our

140kids and everything else and when you compare how we do to any other school our size I I don't think there's I think it's I think we're doing we're attempting to preach and passionately get them but we have to play all sports like it's not we are less kids >> and part of it you know there's a ceiling to it I mean you know you there the ability factor is coming in too. But then that's also, you know, when you're talking about the spring sports, there's a big part of it right there. I mean, that is reps. And when you're going against somebody that's taking 10 times more reps than you, then there there's a difference. There's >> that's what we run into in softball. There's some girls that soon as the season ended, I

141mean, they won't pick up a ball or a bat until we start back up again next year. And that's it hurts us a lot. We're playing against girls that playing year round. >> Do do you see the young kids tend to be multi-port and then they gradually find their own focus and head to whatever sport. >> Well, I mean, you're that's really anywhere. We don't want them to do it, >> but I mean I >> but I mean that's just I mean the >> the athletic skills camp, the camps that we do that's built for that. I mean, I don't know. I once again, I'll get up tomorrow and try to find another way, but we're try trying to push and promote it as much as we can, but we can't force them to do

142it. >> Well, no. And going back to this like PB football thing, do we like we we're not we don't do any other implementation with any other sport. So, is that something that we need to work together as a district with like the city? Like we're looking at a new mayor's race. We're potentially going to get a new mayor. Is that like a a mutual agreement that we do of like, hey, let's go back to parks and wreck and let's do a mutual grant situation where just like we redid the tennis courts, that was a mutual grant. That's half city, half half half us that got that grant. So, is that something that we can go in as you as the AD and whoever's going to be the new mayor potentially November. um that could

143completely change this and restructure where we're not just pee-wee football, we are pee-wee, you know, >> pee-wee basketball, >> but like softball and baseball, like you know, that was one of your things of building up these teams. Do we bring all of those things back underneath that umbrella to to help encourage that team? Um >> be willing to do whatever. And we had to do it. Myself and my wife had to run little league for a year because nobody else would do it. and I didn't want it to go away because my kids were not going to play even though they go travel balling everywhere else. That's not the kids that they're going to play with in high school. So, we did it for a year. I'll be willing to do anything to make it

144go. But, you know, I guess it's just I I've never maybe it's like this other way. I've just never seen anybody that didn't have a parks and wreck department as a I'm sure they're out there. I don't know. It's just I think we will confidently say that we and our coaches are attempting to do more sixth grade and down than a lot of places you're going to find. >> Yeah, absolutely. I love that the skills camp that they've been able to come in and do those things and then these summer practice at piece and then obviously we're thinking about food sacks as well too. So the more that we can get these kids involved and connected to that piece of it is just what I'm saying. Like it maybe there are some mutual funding opportunities

145where there's probably if you probably look at the budget line item. Yeah, there's a line item that talk about parks and rugg, but it's probably got a zero budget attached to it. So >> So maybe that's something that we can implement together to to make something happen. I just don't know if we're fixing to go to an executive session and talking about hiring a pee-wee coach for football is or a coordinator is I don't know if that is even where we need to have a discussion yet until we know what we need to do. Anything else? Anything anything y'all got any more questions >> or statements or >> Thank you. >> is going to talk about the summer meals and then we'll get with Jason before we go in. >> I'll just be real quick.

146Um, we got together as an advent team and and our district leadership team and wanted to be our kids this summer. Coach Jackson talked to us about it a little bit about it. So, we wrote a grant and received $9,368 to go towards that grant and that pays for enrichment supports which are drawstring bag that we um just received this past week with summer activities in it like bubbles. um sidewalk chalk, water bottles, and then summer activities that we copied and put in there for kids to have when they come and pick up their meal. We do that randomly. It also pays for equipment for preparing the meals, which would be some rolling carts, some ice chest, some cutting boards that our cafeteria will be able to hang on to and have um from here

147on out and some packaging things. And then we've got two really nice ba banners that are going to help, you know, show that we're summer feeding when we're out there um in town along with our staffing salaries. And then it does pay for the gas that we're using in our on the buses when we deliver those meals. So total at this point, as of yesterday, we serve 694 meals. So, um, I thought that was really great. Over half of those were meals that we went and set up at Mount Kanan Church and gave out and Miss Wolf and I have done many of them and then Mr. Marorrow and Miss Hart helped us out this week and Miss I'm sorry, Miss Brady is we were sweating it up in the rain, weren't we? >> Um,

148we we did that and we really have enjoyed that. It's our families have truly appreciated the meals. Um and they're so thankful every time they pick up. Um so we've got eight more times that we're going to be serving. Total four of those will be back into the community again and that will all start back up in July. So we're really really pleased with the turnout of that. Hope that we can do this every summer for our family. That's what I This is a one-year grant we'll reapply for next year. >> Well, um the wonderful thing about this is all of these things that we have ordered, we'll be able to reuse next year. So, um whether there's a grant out there or not, we still would >> very much so be able to still

149um do something like this. But they do put out some some neat little grants here and there. So, hopefully we can do that again. But everything we purch things that they'll be able to reuse from year to year. Those banners, they're not specific to dates or anything. They're very generic banners. Um the only thing would be is just staffing and um they were very willing, the two individuals, Miss Becky and Miss Brandy were very willing to help out when we went to them about doing this. And Miss Millie has also helped when she was on contract. So hopefully we can. That's I mean My goal is to continue to try to do this every summer for our kids. >> That's a good foundation to start out with a full belly. Absolutely. Do anything. >> Absolutely.

150>> And it's it's any student or any kids. They don't have to be specifically in school. >> It's just any youth under the age of >> I think we've had a couple of our younger speed camp kids that have made their way back through after they're back at speed camp. They've come back through. Now you want to give Jason his time everything real quick. There's going to be two copies of this. This is the actual zone from the company. So by signing, you're accepting it. >> Oh yeah. First things like good This is our early bond. Is it on a threeyear time scale also? >> So we're at the end of it. >> Oh, you're talking about >> Yeah. >> And we were talking about most techn I see three years. It's easy to remember.

151Technically the rule is 85% of the bond proceedings have to be spent within a three-year period. So you guys are in that window. But I know with all the other projects. >> Oh, sure. Sure. You can't read it. >> Oh, lefty. >> Thank y'all. >> Yes, sir. Appreciate it. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. We now have some personnel items. So, we'll now enter into executive session. >> We've concluded our executive session. We'll call the meeting back into order. >> Move we approve the personnel package as presented. >> Second. >> All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor of that motion say I. >> On descent same sign. That motion passed. >> Motion to have our next board meeting on July 3rd 2026 and we journ. >> All right. We have a

152motion second. >> You got a motion in a second. All in favor of that motion say I. >> All desent same sign. >> No. or dark. >> I was trying to think the language.