001day Lord we know you you are always the light Lord help us guide us and lead us Lord to make decisions that's that honor you Lord just we had some tough expulsions today and Lord just be with all those children today Lord help them find you lean lean on you Lord and just let us have a good meeting and just bless us in all we do in Jesus name we pray amen amen dress the FL to the flag of the United States of America and to the which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all I'll now entertain a motion to adopt our agenda so mve second have a motion in a second are there any questions on the agenda if none all those in favor please say I I
002any opposed motion carries welcome everybody let's get started uh we'll begin here with the with Dr hanlin Who's always bringing good news big information today a smile on her face always happy good morning good morning all right um today I'm bring to you the list of the final recommendations for the ELA um K12 uh textbook adoption and the 912 personal finance I want you to note that um in previous times we've talked about the intervention materials um have been in constant contact with NE and they came back from their Fatima conference and finally got an answer in writing from doe and um although the statute alluded to the fact that it would go through the inst um the adoption process for instructional materials it is not so we went through all the processes and then
003found out that we do not have to do a formal adoption so they will have a state adopted list that's where we can um per uh purchase intervention materials fund from from the funding that they um will be sending they say they're going to be sending so we'll be waiting for that and then um and then move on from there so there is that's why it is no longer on the list okay so this is our final recommendation um for K5 Ela McGraw Hill won with 77 votes which was 71% of the population that voted um 6 through 12 was Sabbath which is um 24 votes at 80% and that's what they currently use um in 6 through 12 and then personal finance is a 9th through 12th class which are graduating seniors not next
004year the year after um so it's our sophomores that need it to graduate um they will need to take that course and we're working on that um and that Rams the education was um was chosen for that so what we're going to do is uh this meeting here opens our 30-day window for any parental um objections and then I'll come before the board on um April 8th for a final approval one thing I'd like you to note is on the top three selections for ELA and um for K5 and 612 there's a one two and three the reason we rank those is in case for some reason McGraw Hill does not make it onto the final state adopted list we have a backup right okay that happened to us in math and we learned that
005um so from then on we decided to rank them so that we could fall back on our our second and third choices of need now do do you know if they'll have intervention materials through McGraw Hill but we won't know until that they usually do um yes they do have a tier 2 tier three level of support for you to use in your um small groups things like that um but not nothing specifically identified like the state is doing um when the state put together their intervention list it was broken down especially in reading for under like pheic awareness phonics fluency so it broke it down specifically and so that's where it drills down a little bit more in depth compared to um the core programs having um materials for intervention do you have any
006more information about the plan for purchasing when we do um not yet we have um timeline involved with that we have a lead team meeting this uh this week and um hopefully we'll have some clarity on that by the um after that meeting um if not it'll be Pro most most definitely by the end of by that we come to you on April 8th we'll definitely have a plan because we definitely need to work that out um with all parties and my other question is about teacher support with each of these programs so are we getting going in the purchase does that of the professional development yes okay and the ones that we are choosing are going to give us the support that we need yes ma'am questions all right thank you thank you all
007right Mr lot morning morning come for you again with uh board policy 7.3 that was proposed has advertised for the required length of time there has been no public comments uh in regard to this policy uh so then unless you have some questions or things that you're concerned about that we need to change at this time we would ask for you guys to adopt this policy again it's in relation to some new requirements for federal uh grants and the auditing process that goes along with that does anyone have any questions from Mr lot I'll entertain a motion to adopt I'll make a motion to adopt second we have a motion and a second all those in favor please say I any opposed cares thank you Mr lot Mr Wayne and Mr Eastman Eastman where's your
008C just check just check we're asking permission to um purchase a mini bus Min school bus and I believe you may have some pictures po up too yeah we have um we're asking permission because it's a soul sour Matthew buses but a school district had purchas or I guess asked to purchase it and then they backed out on it so this one's going to become available really soon whereas they have to be made so they 12 month process out of ordering it or possibly getting on a state contract so as a soulle source we're asking because it's not on the contract to um to purchase this for $97,400 split with K paying the majority of it they would have first come to be able to use it over anybody else but we wanted to split
009it so it wouldn't just be Cape activities getting to use this bus you might a so the big plus to this bus with new legislation is it does not require a CDL license so a coach or a teacher can drive this 14 passenger bus um it is a true school bus and uh that where the students sit is a steel cage just like the school bus it has all LED lighting the seating has uh three point seat belts has a backup camera uh it runs on unlet and gets about 15 miles to the gallon and how many students will it it can hold 14 this bus the shell capacity is 18 but to meet the legislation it has seting for 14 but that gives us a little room for uh coach equipment so where do
010you foresee the uses I mean like across the county like small groups C use it quite a bit and um it's safer than the Vans and um instead of taking two Vans you've got right so everyone on one vehicle and we're working on a little training program to go with it okay and uh a lot of the districts are wanting these so this one's being built now which is is great where you'll wait 10 to 12 months for this is going to be high because we have a bus driver shortage well that's I wonder just this is going to be ass signed to Bronson right yeah this one already says activity bus on it but in the future they could even be ordered in yellow with stop signs where you can stop traffic this is
011a pretty good deal on this too I believe so all right I'll entertain a motion to purchase this bad boy a move second any further discussion say none all those in favor please say I I any oppos motion carries thank sir thank you there Mr Eastman thank you Mr Wayne I also wanted to talk about a product we bought called an extended stop arm and uh our buses are being passed as they're making bus stops quite often I covered a bus route this morning it happened to me two bus stops uh luckily there were no students walking to the door as this happened this morning and we have a particular bus in Williston she has passed three to four times a day czy and our drivers call in when they're passed it's typically about three
012times a day it's been as many as 16 and uh about a year 16 on one route uh throughout the county okay got so uh about a year ago they changed the legislation to have stop arm camera systems that uh it's an automatic system that'll ride a ticket and uh what we have found as I'm watching the other districts the law was written to make money it's not changing behavior and some of the districts are struggling because the way the contracts are set up is every time someone passes the bus it's you know hooked to to uh like a cell phone and sends a signal and you pay a $40 evidence packet immediately and uh I actually heard Broward county is a large District they're averaging 10,000 illegal passes a day good so they're putting
013out $400,000 a day in these evidence packets the law says that an officer must review the video so Brower county has two officers watching 40 videos an hour that can't catch up some people are beating their ticket so it's kind of a gamble I spoke with our Sheriff's Department they're not really interested they they see the challenges with that but I showed them this product called an extended stop arm and uh it is 6 and 1/2 ft long and it's covered with LED lights and it doesn't completely block the other lane but it should keep people from passing the bus and we're g to advertise a little bit here's how it works here this is the bus that gets past the most in our [Music] Fleet puts a stop sign just about across the street
014yeah how high is that Jo that's at about [Music] 5T and how many of these are you inlo we purchas one and it's it's probably going to go back in service maybe next week we were holding off to uh how expensive get something on social media so people know how expensive are yes it was $3,700 that could save a life you said back in service so it was it was we we have the bus out of service now we want to get something on social media so people are aware that if they pass this they could actually collide with the Stop Bar and it is designed to break off a has nylon uh bols and the sheriff's office tells me uh those people will be charged with an accident and illegally passing the school bus
015before to day oh yes I thought passing a school bus was a felony that was always such a big I mean it's a big deal I don't know classified okay the Sheriff's Office had some social media a couple weeks ago from some of our video ticket is and uh we're getting a lot of phone calls of people saying hey I pass the bus I know it was wrong please don't put my car on social media yeah so that actually made a huge change and we went an entire week without being passed on this route wow it's back to being passed about three times a day so I don't know the process we need to go by doing this but I I like the idea of getting more of those and I'm you know you would
016know where the the need is we may not need one on every bus right I I think there's at least one route in each area that could use one I I would like to see us look into more yeah we're going to go slowly and it could actually be knocked off the bus the very first day it's hard to say hopefully not but Mr Gore would any of the purchasing of these stop arms be considered safety and grant money anywhere what do you think about that or Miss Kim okay it's not hard School hardening just a question so we keep data and we'll we'll let you know how it goes good yeah I'd like I'd like for us to figure out how to get some more me too kids yes thank you Mr Wayne thank
017you Mr Wayne all right Mr mlen I know are you nervous othertimes I've seen um good morning so I wanted to share with you and I know you've got them there in your package um two calendars that were presented um to our faculty and staff they had um a um and there's they have multiple days to vote on these um this is also so by looking there at the calendars they're very similar pardon me hi hi yes it was yes yes so as you can see there calendar a one with 220 votes and calendar B had 191 votes so there was a total of 411 responses um a calendar a basically had 53.2% of the vote um when you're looking at the two calendars there are some differences there and I just kind of Mark
018some of the main differences uh that you see um if you'll look in December the Christmas holidays is a little different um calendar a has um basically teachers are turning January 2nd and then calendar B has teachers returning January the 5th um so there is a few differences there um and then also when you get into March um calendar a has Swan River fair in there and then calendar B has the Spring Break um basically the same dates as the Swan River fair then caliber a has break in April and the last day of school for calendar a is the 29th of May and then calendar B last day of school would be June 2nd and then um post planning is June 3rd on calendar B and post planning for calendar a would be June
0191st so there's there are some differences there but they very are very similar in a lot of ways wanted to show what the fa voted and their results on that those weather makeup days those were just in there just put those in as needed right so like if we have a hurricane we use it then those go away correct yes those would be student attendance days I love having them though yeah so calendar B did have some specific days that they worked in there and then calendar a u basically looked at um possible 20 River Fair days to make that the weather make up days it's never that close I mean it's it's always really lock so I think um you know both groups came up with some really great calendars as you can tell
020with everybody um it was a tight tight uh race there so I think it was um you know a great job on both parties coming up with with calendars that everyone seemed to like we need to vote oh I'm sorry no go ahead I was just going to say we need to vote at approval on one of the two I I don't know if anybody else got a lot of calls on this but I got a lot lot of it surprises me that a won because there was a lot of um push back on having spring break in April later but it's earlier at least it's earlier in April I'm going to vote the majority I mean if the teachers vote for it then I'll vote majority rules but I think a lot of people
021S Fair though they prefer not to have the spring break by for two years I think we did that yeah pretty much over um I have two questions um one of them is um how did we did they how does the county arrive at these two that the teachers vote on you know what's the process that BR we had a calendar committee meeting right you still have the calendar committe still have the calender committee meeting there's representation um with the union and then also teachers and staff as well and they create and actually B was the calendar they created um and then the district created two calendars so there was three Calenders total so what we did we got together and said you know I think these two work better than having all three um
022so we went with one of each and then put it out there and with the faculty and staff okay and my other question is about pre-planning days how are they uh designed I know that there's used to be that at least two of them could not have any professional development but how how are those CU it's six days right now it's six plan yes yes so how's that designed the calendar a has an extra day of pre-planning and there and then you've got some of course no touch days where um you can't pull teachers for meetings and things like that how many days do you have for that um I think there with calendar a I think there was three no touch days I think where uh teachers two okay okay two no touch days
023and so the four other days will be meetings at school and professional development countywide yes ma'am one uh District profession one school Improvement day two and the other will right okay I just want to be able to explain it to teachers because I know they're going to ask so anything else we'll entertain a motion on which one you want I moved which one second oh a sorry we have a motion to approve calendar a and a second any further questions or discussions which one do you like best Mr mlo you know I've never voted on a calendar in my 18 years being here whe the people right oh that's man that's man ride Defence brother ride the fence all right any further discussion all those in favor please say I any oppose like sign motion
024carries thank you thank you calendar committee for excellent job and now we will move on now it's opportunity for public comments we have some folks out here today if you would like to share comments with us you are more than welcome not today all right do we have any emails or anything that we need to address no Mr chairman all right we'll move right on to our uh minutes from the February 11th meeting has everyone had a chance to read over those minutes yes if so I'll entertain a motion to approve those minutes make a motion to approve second we have a motion in a second all those in favor please say I I any oppos motion carries we'll now move to our consent agenda and I'll start with me I had no questions so
025and then I'll move to miss clemenzi um all my questions were answered I do want to say I'll leave one in particular for Devon but um the other one is Miss Gail Korn the a social worker my mom did Christmas for the children for years at the Methodist Church and Miss corn was such an invaluable person I mean she was just amazing as far as being an advocate for the kids and getting the right kids involved in that program and was very Hands-On and really went an extra mile so we'll miss her in our school district and that's all I have thank you man' Mr White her yeah um I said we have a couple real long term U one Mr Schultz started in 1999 and then also Pam Morrison 1990 I mean 35 years
026of service for this District um and uh she certainly kind of been around chiefin Bronson district office Willison so she's kind of she's kind of hit most of the schools around here and took a little bit from all of them and you know and really enjoyed it all so she's looking forward to retirement she's turned 65 you last week so but yeah she's looking forward to it and uh so I appreciate her service and I know she's touched a lot of people watching in here you know where she got the basis for being she graduate course that's right that's all M bter I know that uh Miss Pam will certainly be missed and and um her retirement is well deserved it really is and I I have all my questions were answered M cim yeah
027all my questions were answered but I do want to mention that I saw where uh Dr Ashley Hart is resigning and uh I was very sorry to see that because she has been such an asset to our uh County I worked with her um as Reading Coach and I know at her school she's done a wonderful job and I wish her well I hear that she's moving to St Augustine so she's picking a nice place to go but we'll get a miss her my kids teachers all right if there are no other comments on the consent agenda I'll entertain a motion so moveed second we have a motion and a second to to approve the consent agenda all those in favor please say I any opposed like sign motion carries we now move into Finance
028uh does anyone have any questions concerning the finance consent agenda seeing none I'll entertain a motion to approve a motion to approve we have a motion in a second second all those in favor please say I any opposed like sign motion carries madam superintendent thank you Mr chairman um I made a list so I'd stay on task thank you for your patience and getting started a little bit later this morning I appreciate that a big shout out to events that have been happening since our last board meeting but the Beast Feast was quite fun we missed some but it was still fun um the email that Mrs wherst sent for what they earned was $229,500 and of course the cake auctions the FFA cake auctions that we've all attended they were very very successful and
029I'll let others say more about that but if you look over to that table I will mention those are all the goodies they're still good some have been frozen and taken back out so they're fresh for everyone but please take some to go containers and I will work with Miss Angela on all the finances and give the board a copy of everything so that you can keep that in your records and we can keep account for for um all the funds I want to thank the District staff uh for pushing out and going into the schools lately I know and have heard from admin that they are very grateful um so and I know probably board members have heard about Mr mclen and Mrs Lawrence going to each school and individually meeting with admin and
030listening to their concerns finding out where we can push in and help and raising student achievement in certain areas um that we're looking at and I think it's been a great success and I appreciate the effort by everyone very much the next thing is our days in Tallahassee if you all know it was the ladies the levy ladies that went to Tallahassee last week and we had a wonderful tour guide basically it was Dr mcdal from Gray Robinson spent the day all day Tuesday I believe we had 10 appointments that day um I had to leave to go to Orlando but Miss Linda Miss Lisa and Miss Ashley stayed overnight went back to the capitl and did another round the next day until 4:00 I believe leave right until 4:00 um the one pagers that
031you all did were spectacular I think everybody appreciate appreciated those one pagers very much so so we'll we'll move forward and and be present with our legislation and just stay up there as much as we can and build great relationships and I I think we can see that already because we were we were very welcomed extremely welcomed um so there's that and also tomorrow the admin lunch Dr McDougall is I want to give her another shout out um her company gray Robinson is sponsoring the lunch for all admin meeting tomorrow and that's an all day meeting and one little comment some will understand some won't but on some days we're going to have a new saying just go to Japan [Laughter] thank you Mr chair okay you missed it gu the job has gotten to
032him okay Mrs Campbell do you have any comments this I don't want to go to Japan uh the trip to Tallahassee was was really uh it was great it was uh I learned a lot I was very pleasantly uh surprised by the uh welcoming reception that we received by by each of the AIDS or senators or representatives and we did meet with a lot of them and what I was most impressed with were the people there were so many of them who had because I always worry about we have these lawmakers making decisions about education and they have no idea what they're you know voting on or talking about but I was pleasantly surprised that a a lot of these people either were in education at one time or a family member was and they
033over and over would mention my father-in-law's a superintendent or my mother's been a teacher so I hear this from them so some of the things we were saying were I think better received because of that and that was a very pleasant surprise and I was happy about that as far as the uh the platform that we presented we still have some more work to do on the instructional requirements um that we presented we got some suggestions on how to make that U more effective and so Jamie is not in the room right now but she is going to be asked to help me do that so we will work on that um things are going well at Cedar Key School we had a great talent show there's a lot of talent in Cedar Key let
034me tell you and it uh it was just amazing um baseball softball and weightlifting are underway boys weightlifting and there's a fundraiser coming up a cornhole and barbecue uh Deca hospitality is sponsoring and it's a fundraiser for a scholarship that's it understanding Mrs backer well Tallahasse was great I I was concerned that we may go up there and and not be heard but I I felt like we were heard and I think it was really appreciated that we had had um prepared for it and had the one pagers to give them and we were so glad to see um Senator Stan mlan and Chad Johnson our representative and they they acted like they had all day to meet with us when we knew they had other meetings so uh Dr McDougall was great um so
035I think it was a good trip I think we accomplished something um as far as things going on in the schools people in FFA had their cake auction that Timmy mentioned and I'm worried that Mr Stockman is gonna open up a bakery because his cake I I just he I think he needs to bake one for the board next month because um what was the price on it 650 I think $650 for okay more discount but that was great fun that was my first one and then at chapeland Middle High School um their Student Government um they had a project this year where they helped with the cross country team uh passing out Waters and and coold towels and things of that nature um and they're trying to get the gold medallion uh council certification
036I guess or award and um it's a huge huge um record book of everything they do from convention to Convention so um they receive that and they're thrilled so and we'll be visiting chiefin Elementary today so that's all I have Mr wer I said had a good time at the Beast Feast me and Miss Lisa serving up some venison and some wild turkey y yeah had other family members helping us cook so it was good I it's always good to see everybody come out and all the you know different constitutional officers and different people just throughout the county you know kind to see how much support you know people within the county have so and from the people serve cooking and the people attendance so that was a good time think we said raised what
03729,500 so amazing yeah ra a lot of money to help help with these schools um had opportunity to attend theor valorian at Wilson that was that was very nice um unfortunately as far as Sports um the basketball team lost a heartbreaker so they're not be going for a three Peak state championship um soccer they didn't make it the girls sof B basketball didn't either but anyway we on the baseball and the baseball team's doing real good so you know fenzi has vested interest in that but uh that I said look forward to going the cheap one after this and see what the minion going on over there thank you Mr R M clemenzi um I'm gonna Echo what everyone said about Tallahassee I think our timing was perfect this year for for everyone not to
038be in session I feel that we were heard absolutely Listen to I loved having a visual to pass out to everyone also so um hopefully I have a good feeling about the results we we'll gain from that hated missing the beast beast my daughter was hit with the flu so I missed all the fun the ri cook everything this this weekend um and thank you to the district for I know we're going to make this an exception not a rule but I know we have a bus driver shortage Mr Wayne that's affecting several of our sporting um organizations this week so we're we're doing what we can and kind of putting a bandaid on it so thank everyone that was involved in that getting creative and making adjustments to the situation now my big issue
039today is ticket prices at our gate for sporting events and we all have the luxury of having a pass but $10 I and what I'm asking for first and foremost is to have a uniform price for all of our district schools I think chiefin and Bronson are cheaper than Williston I don't I don't know what the solution is but to have a $10 price tag on a ticket for regardless if you're a student or age so we have one one example on a sports team is a a a kid can only have one parent come because they can't afford to have the mom and dad there so or you have a family of five that's paying $50 to get into one baseball game there're three games a week that's $150 for a family of five
040so all we have are the people that can afford to be a sponsor and get the free pass or Schoolboard employees that can get the free pass so I would love for un I look Union Count's cheaper than Us Dixie County's cheaper than Us Dixie I think or Union I think was $5 at the gate um I would I want this to be I would love to see this change today because we're in the midst of three games a week for softball for baseball maybe do something and then we'll for spring events um but we are a school we are schools that provide free breakfast and free lunch but we're asking $10 at the gate for a 2-year-old a three-year-old a four-year-old so I don't know if the solution is to do an adult $7
041price and then give a $2 student discount I I don't know what you guys want to do but I would love for this to be effective today because I it's just I I'm seeing it every day Annabelle was little even for the students if you got AV on rooll then you got a pass to get into a sport EV I mean that's kind of was incentive I like that and like I say at a different pric and I mean some counties I've gone to for basketball baseball whatever and it's like I said it's a some under six is not charged at all right but paying for yeah and then like I said then a child is like from 7 to 12 and then adults after that why was it raised to $10 is it because
042of the cost of referees and umpires and is that what went up is that has something to do with it and also um and just so you know Mrs clemenzi and I discussed this and of course you can't have the conversation among the board members so we did want to bring it up today and we you know as I said we've talked about it to see how we can move forward immediately and then maybe kind of go from there to the following year we are going to ask Council how that works but back to you Mrs Campell um you know the booster clubs can collect money also in sell season passes and the money that's collected at the gate goes to the athletic fund it goes into the school fund and what happens is the
043school is then correct me if I'm wrong Mr mclen the school has to purchase the safety gear of that team correct typically that's how that works refs and the uniforms and helmets and such I'm sorry right so how it was based is each Club can't can't fund any kind of safety equipment is that what you they can they can but finally oh okay and then each administrator at their own School basically set the price right of what their tickets so that's how we got where we are today and some of that fund correct me if I'm wrong Miss Lake but some of that is also goes to like non-revenue like a general fund that is give like non-revenue generating sports like weightlifting does some of that money go to those are School internal accounts so
044the school the money can go to other athletic but it all depends on how it was was raised right it depend on how that school has set that up right and I know I mean after becoming getting on the board it's easy to say oh this should be what and then realize there's also the business aspect of it and having to pay but this price is not sustainable it's just too much it's in my opinion I just attended a basketball game to watch my nephew play in Dixie and I think it was $5 across the board I don't think if they were school age they paid below below you know they hadn't started kindergarten I I think it's way I know we try to push this goof fan we go back to that I know
045like in willon is um gofans $8 but then you pay another $190 or whatever fees that they get or you pay $10 so it's like you know it's the same price but then Chief you know you get a cash discount you're just paying when I have been before Chie it's $8 is $8 you know you they're not charging you more to discourage you from using and Wilson's trying to encourage you to use go fan more so the schools can change the fee where the fee is is assessed byol CH to do that only strain that it puts on our bookkeepers to be responsible for that amount of cash so any platform we can come up with to reduce cash is always a better thing um but there are options to how those fees are assessed
046but again schools deter make these decisions Wilson least has made adjustment because at one point about two years ago I first joined it was basically Gan only I you couldn't even you could up cash and then there was people that didn't have any smartphones and elderly people or whatever I mean and you're still remember my dad I was having to help him sitting there figure out how to even get to a game to see you know that's ridiculous I fixed that part I I agree $10 for a baseball game that's crazy for anyone that's some prices are crazy I don't know how we as a board can set a price across the board for the county because I do not know what what the budget for Chie will C I don't know those things I
047think we might could say hey our schools are not going to charge over X doll and y'all figure out how to make it fit in there I uh I think we need to keep the some cash available but the preferred thing is this electronic tickets that's the way everything's going in this world um but avoid those fees as much as you can because we're slowly pricing ourself out of the gain you know like you said a family of five which is a fairly common number oh yeah goes to a game take football for example football I would say hey yeah that's worth eight nine bucks go to a football game sure but then you take the family of five then they're going to eat they're going to buy coke they're going to do this um
048and if you're like people in Bronson somebody's going to hit you up to buy a t-shirt or a cap or something pretty soon Friday night out at a football game for a family has turned into 130 bucks and it ain't long for people are saying you know I can sit home um we have a little bit of that in Bronson and I I say that um we do not have the greatest of football programs there's no no shame in that you have to really be committed to your team to come to a Bronson game and now it's gotten to where it's like I don't know I need to spend $50 to come see that honey Beaton and that crowd is dissipating and uh you know it may be a case of shoot it'd be a
049whole lot better to charge $7 instead of $10 because 7 time 500 is a whole lot more than $10 times 200 Mr Delaney that's my thought I I was just going to say if there are proposals being brought back to the board I don't know if any um sports teams are looking at season passes just to reduce the amount ofes it's reduces the transactional cost to the third party and also reduces the amount of cash that gets handled at the game issue and yeah I I understand go find I for the audit all a million reasons but I mean when kids are being have to choose between $5 dinner at McDonald's or a $10 baseball ticket and baseball's different than football because baseball's three time and softball three times a week and basketball three times
050a week versus football that how many home games Mr Gore four or five like for football football five yeah so we're talking three games a week in other sports it's they all have to be charged the sex same do they baseball basketball stagger I mean you think I mean professionals College I mean you play more for a football game I mean because there's less games so there me I think some maybe some staggered priceing would even like I say you football be higher and then basketball then baseball is this Miss lake is this too complicated like per School in your opinion to figure out today to change like even if we did a break to go back there's manys fin that decision but we can make a recommendation can't we for for it to be
051looked at again and offer some suggestions and I have put it on the agenda for the next okay good meeting okay the next district meeting I mean I wish do a student break we've referenced the uh the trainers multiple times the kids no longer pay for the trainers they do they pay for well each school has on how they do that that was the one thing the board said we don't we don't care how it's paid so the schools each do a little bit different formula for how I think we might ought to look back at having the kids pay for the trainers kids do pay an athletic fee the district still Bears the weight of that contract is pretty big so schools have discretion on how they pass along that cost to the kids
052whether it's every Club whether it's every event again I would proba some else know about what that reality the way the trainer out ticket so an8 ticket schools actually gets seven for athletics and then a dollar goes to the trainer um as princi I didn't want to put that on my kids because I knew a lot of them couldn't afford it and then it's going to fall back to a booster club or something like that in the end so let's just let community and then the visitors also help that so it's worked out well where I was at we' always had enough money to make a lot of the problems that these prices have to go up is because the officiating cost is going the roof and the problem is is they're the only game
053in town so you can't really do anything about it so they just keep jacking the prices up and travel prices and all this so in order to actually you know have enough money in your account to buy uniforms and those type of things you have to raise it now um I don't know what that looks like for one that I was at but we had our tickets at $8 and took doll off train tou on a little bit of official thing just refer to a couple years ago we actually looked schools we let the schools decide what Association they choose but we looked and see what if there was a competitive Association out there and basically what we were told is because there was such a shortage officials is yes we'll take you no you
054think we don't have room for you in our association meaning we don't have enough officials to cover your games so basically we were told if you come you might end up having to cancel games because we won't have officials to cover for you so they kind of got us between a rock and a hard place there and with those increased prices yeah that was that was something I noticed this past year with with the officials they' gone Sky High and it this may sound silly um but they they went sky high on that you had to have travel costs and all that but the one where it was really like really guys the officials that would come to the football games they would be fed didn't matter what was being served they wanted multiples of
055the most expensive items wasn't nobody eating a hot dog and a coke they want oh y'all got this tonight that's what I won't at a cost to the athletic department and it was disregard I mean I've seen them grab the one one time we had these Taco things that were very expensive and they eat a couple bikes throw it away and then go get something else and it's like really use some use some sense I mean it was abuse it's to the point of abuse answer questions we went games iage IAL about you know 12400 a season for all these games um so what we did is we did a baseball softball pass for a family up to six people and it was like $200 or something like that so a family could purchase that
056and then go to all those games we would do that for basketball season because um you know we have to raise prices or keep our prices at a certain level but you know these are still our community so we want to make it as affordable as possible to get people to come watch your children your nie nephews um so the passes really seemed to $250 for my whole family of and then I got every G That season that's a lot that's a good idea we did that not everybody can do that to pay that right at one time you know at one time but and we made little passes for you know we did it at but it seemed real Community like that yeah and we would probably make more money if we had a
057student price because the students AR coming so we would make money if we dro the student price whatever everyone decides students by coca-colas really at one point with academics I mean reward some of these kids doing good academics at least this were talking about student what we did at my school um is if you are participating in a fall sport whether it was cross country or whatever it is you got into every fall sport for free so if you participate in Winter sport you and so for the spring so that way I wanted my athletes to be able to go to any sporting event they wanted to during that season um and also a way of getting kids that maybe couldn't afford to get into a sport let's try and draw them into playing something
058and then they can go and that really worked out for USL that's what we do in Bronson if you're an athlete you get into an anklage a cheerleader you know you get into the other things for free and it works very well yeah there's that but I still don't think a four four-year-old should be paying $10 now I I believe it's kindergarten in it scho school children and the only ones that all right so it sounds like we're going to have this on a future meeting we're also getting input all over the place and it's I don't see how the district can make this decision I mean it's a Schoolhouse decision but maybe we can look into some way to some ideas is from us going hey we got to do something about this and
059I appreciate you bringing this up so we can talk about it together like this I appreciate that very much that's fantastic do you have anything El no I'm don't now it's my turn I'm gonna hold you here till 11: [Laughter] just first of all I want to thank everybody that was able to yes noou on we'll get the ad together and we'll meet and Mr M would be glad to come back and Report did so good today right yeah we just we want you to know that we're going TOS ASAP they're GNA have an ad Cadre ASAP all right so I want to thank everybody who came out to the uh annual Food Fest uh this year it was the most successful one we have ever had and it was an off year so that
060means everybody participa everybody had a good time uh that lemon cake came from up there and it's supposed to be fantastic and I will definitely take a slice that before I go because I've always wanted to try that cake uh but I couldn't AFF folded anyway still can't afford it took took 10 of us to buy that cake i' also like to say say on that particular night I appreciate my friend Mr White Hurst letting me remind him how great Bronson is on that night he he was fully accepting of that he was good even his old daddy said you know man I may have to move to Bronson let's tell a lie right here okay uh want to congratulate Bronson's middle middle school softball team they won the Sam co uh tournament this past
061weekend in uh Trenton also the Bronson FS fa chapter finished second in the state in poultry judging and then they finished sixth in the state in the milk quality contest which is a new thing and I don't personally know but I have been told that that may be the grossest contest ever because you have to be able to taste the milk to tell what's wrong with it and that's tricky um I'm not I don't really like milk that much anyway except milk chocolate so I don't know that I would jump in on that uh uh other than that we we've made it through National FFA week and it was fantastic wasn't it we appreciate everything uh everything seems to be going good that's a great idea on that uniform pricing I like that anyway uh
062if there's nothing else we will adjourn to chiefin elementary school