001box down there in the corner. >> All righty. Good luck. >> Yeah, >> I'll be thinking about you liar. >> So was I. All right, it's 6:30. We're going to get started. Uh, if everybody's ready, I would uh like to call to order uh the um public hearing and uh special school board meeting for the Atlantic Community School District Board uh on August 27th, 2025. So, uh the way this is going to work, we're going to have a public hearing um on the high school roof replacement. Is that right? That's part of public hearing. Um, and then the uh the issuance of approximately $18.5 million in school infrastructure sales services and use tax revenue funds. So, we're going to do that. Then that hearing closes and then we're going to move into a school board
002special meeting where we'll have some discussion of those items as well and then um action items on the table for that. So, can we have our call to order please? Roll call. >> Chach. Yes. >> Jenny Jordan. >> Yes. >> Josh McLaren. >> Yes. >> Lauren Mlan. >> Yes. >> Christie. Yes. >> Okay. Uh, I'll need someone to make a motion to open the public hearing. >> I move we open the public hearing. >> Second. >> Jenny? >> Yes. >> Josh? >> Yes. >> Laura? >> Yes. >> Christie? >> Yes. Jody? Yes. >> Okay. Uh at this time, uh we can have public comment. Uh Lisa, is there anyone who uh signed up to speak? >> I have no one signed up to speak for the high school roof replacement. >> Okay. Um so do
003we need to close that or do we just >> move to the next public? >> Okay. So then the the second item that's on that is the um the hearing on the use tax revenue bond sales tax. >> We have one person that has signed up and then we also received an email from another person that I presented to the board. So >> great. I'll give Bill go to start my time until I get up here. I got a lot to say. First off, I want to introduce myself is Justin Williams. um former educator in the district. I've lived here most of my life. Okay. Um going through some of this. I've been walking around town and I I want to say that I am not some keyboard cowboy who's getting up on the internet
004talking trash and not willing to come out here and talk to you face to face. I actually have sent emails. I've tried to engage um I've had one more board member engage me. I I appreciate that. But I just want to start this out by saying, know, I'm not here tonight to to oppose the progress, but I'm here to advocate for financial responsibility. $18.5 million in bonds is going to cost our district in interest. A conservative estimate is six or $16.2 million. So for every $1 we spend, we are getting charged interest of $1. That's a conservative estimate. That's if we get 3.5% interest. Okay? You know, the other thing I want to say with that is we don't know all of our costs for this building. Okay? We're proposing putting a a 50 60
00570,000 foot I don't know. I've asked for the renderings. I haven't got them. Fieldhouse. We talk about that. What are your costs behind this fieldhouse after you get your building built? What's your cost of maintenance? What's your cost of cleaning? What's your cost of increased utility? What's your cost of insurance? Okay, we know I just told you what your interest is going to be. That's a ton of money that some of those things are going to make dramatic impacts on your general fund. Okay? And we don't have a ton of room for that in our general fund, but they will. Just the cleaning over the 25 year alone is going to cost you $2.5 million. That's simple math. Okay, that's simple math because you got to add employees if you're going to put $60,000 square
006feet on a building. Okay, I don't know of any other district that has an $18.5 million fieldhouse. Do you? There's none. The ones around here that have field houses, the district that I know of, that fieldhouse cost them $1.5 million in today's dollars. Emperor Catholic is the other one and that definitely didn't cost $18.5 million. Okay, we've got a problem with other buildings. We need to take care of those problems first. The way that this bond is set up from a public perception and it's their perception is their reality is that we prioritized an athletic facility over that of an educational facility. Now, I don't know if that's what you mean to do or not, but what I do know is that's what the public perception is, and their perception is their reality. And the
007other thing is there's not a lot of information out there about this, folks. You look at your save dollars. Save dollars are going down. Why are save dollars going down? Save dollars are going down because of tuition vouchers for private schools. You lost $200,000 this year. Guess where those tuition vouchers are going? They're going up. They're going up, folks. It's not going to go down. It's in. Well, those private school tuition vouchers are coming out of your save dollars. You've never bought in 2 million, which has been a statement that's been put out there that I know of, and I've asked for the numbers. Okay, you're going to bring in 1.6. You can't estimate 2 million. You have to estimate 1.6. I think the biggest thing that the public wants to see out of this
008is for you guys to prioritize the school that needs it the most. If we're going to bond against save dollars and we're going to charge that credit card limit up, we need to make sure that we're taking care of the school that needs it. That shouldn't have to be a vote. And if we are going to spend $18.5 million, we should have a chance to vote on it >> as a public, not just the stroke of a pin by the school board or five votes. You will be tying that. You'll be tying dollars up for 25 years. Look at your bus fleet right now. I drive just by your bus fleet right now. Every one of your activity buses has a big black dot in the middle of the hood. Are we maintaining things the
009way we should? You can drive out by the bus garage right now, folks, and you can drive by your buses and you have chipping paint. When I drive into town every day and I pass those buses, I can't believe that. Why? It's because we're not maintaining things. And as a board years ago, you voted to reduce maintenance on buildings as cost-saving measures, which has and cleaning on costsaving measure. You can go back and look at the board. I know some of you guys just looked up like you know what he's talking about. I was at the board meeting when you reduced those things. Okay? You reduced cleaning rooms and maintenance on buildings to save cost. What happens if we get in that crunch again? We've got a 60,000 foot building. We're just not going to
010maintain that and then we're going to come back to the public and ask for more money. Okay, I don't want to oppose it. I actually think you have needs that you don't you need to put on, but I think you got to really really step back on those needs and really step back and listen to what your public's saying. I've been out there walking around and I purposely did not go to the teachers because I did not want a bunch of teachers signing my petition for school board. I wanted to go out and talk to the public. I walked around the public and I talked to people on all sides of the tracks and I didn't run into one person who was for this. Not one folks. And in leadership roles, we got to step
011back when we have those situations. We got to step back and we got to say this isn't working. We can't do this. I go back to this. I don't think we know numbers. Is that my timer? >> It has been five minutes. >> Okay. So, I'm just going to say this in closing. I hope you and I urge you to vote no on those action items coming up. I urge you to reset. I urge you to get a committee that is representative of the public. And I urge you to make sure you move forward in the interest of the public because this is not in the interest of the public. It's in the interest of a few, not many. Thank you. So, we had also received um a public comment from Tammy Gorg who sent
012an email um and it's a bit lengthy. I'll just say that uh I I'll say that the concerns that she's voicing are similar to other emails that the board has been receiving this this week, I would say. Um which is that if anybody else had a chance, we got it kind of late, but um and as far as there's a a lack of there's a sense that there's a lack of communication and there is similar to what Mr. Williams had said um of feeling that by doing the fieldhouse through our save money that that is prioritizing it over uh over the other all of the other projects which you know Washington is the largest but there's many many other projects encapsulated of that and those that was basically what was the content of her um
013of her comment which the whole board has received copies of all that so if that's okay that I'm I'm summarizing that there. So, um I will take a motion to close the hearing at this point to close. >> Second. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Laura, >> yes. >> Christie, >> yes. Jody, >> yes. Jake, >> yes. >> Okay. Uh and at this point, I'm going to 6:41. I will call to order the school board special meeting and we will begin with roll call again. >> Lauren Mlean, >> yes. >> Christy Bell, >> yes. >> Jody Goodridge, >> yes. >> Jenny Jordan, >> yes. >> Josh Mlan, >> yes. >> Um, so close followers of our board know that usually the second meeting of each month um is a um it's a board work session is
014what we call it. And usually that means there's no action items on it. The board is taking the opportunity to talk about some long range planning um issues that are coming up, things like that. It's a sort of more of a deep dive kind of a meeting. Um but because it's the beginning of the school year and we have a whole bunch of stuff going on, um instead of doing that work session, we're just having this is another meeting that has action items on it. So uh and so I will take at this point a motion to approve the agenda. second. >> Christie, >> yes. >> Joby, >> yes. >> Jenny, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Laura, >> yes. >> Okay, so we have three discussion items tonight. Um the first one is
015to talk about um bids that we have received for the high school roof replacement phase one. Uh the second item is to discuss the bond referendum and master plan review and then the third item is the Bull Creek uh possible project and after that we'll have action items. So we're going to start with the high school roof replacement. Is Austin are you going to speak to us? >> Okay. Hi everyone, I'm Austin with Snyder and Associates. I believe that you had received a memorandum that I'd sent out this afternoon. Um it's kind of just a summary of bid results. Uh you'd also received last week the full bid results. So I think I'll run down through that and then if anyone has any questions thereafter we can address those that okay >> are you talking
016about the tabulation of bids document >> correct >> um so I also sent out this memorandum that >> should be on your desk >> oh cool on paper thank you >> that was just kind of a summary that I put together because that bid tabulation gets kind of complicated So, um, in working with Russell Pek through, uh, this roof replacement project, this is phase one of the high school here. And, uh, we put together a package that we saw was fitting um, for the replacement of that road. So, on August 12th, we held a bid. Uh, we received 13 bids. Those bids ranged from 104,000 to 188,250. Uh basically we had a base bid amount that covered replacement of the roof. So that's giving you a new roof membrane, new sheet metal, everything as if
017it were new. Um then we did an alternate A which was for a protective batting. So on this summary of low bids that breaks down those numbers of of u between the top two biders. So with that alternate a amount you can see that it changed the low bidder um between bidder one and bidder 1 a. Um, so I can explain that further. Uh, but I think, you know, basically we're we're down to two biders and the gist of it is do we want to have that alternate A included in the contract or not? So, um, what that alternate A is is a protective mat. That mat is a protective layer that goes underneath of the rock. So, the roof up there now is a rubber membrane. It's a river rock ballast that holds that
018rubber down. Um, this protective mat would just be an added layer of protection there. >> Where would it go? >> It would go directly on top of that rubber membrane below the rock. benefits of that um are puncture resistance basically um UV protection and um which you know can extend the life of your roof. So it was just a thing that I felt was hey let's just see what the cost of it is and we don't have to sign up for it but at least we'll know what the cost of it is. So >> the problems we have with the roof now is that did we have some of those punctures happening? >> There aren't. So what you're encountering now is basically perimeter problems and that's uh due to just the age of it >>
019gotten just short of 30 years out of the roof. So which is phenomenal. So what we see a little bit in that puncture side of things is that rock that's up there starts to shale over time and you know will create a puncture possibly. You know it all has to do with how much traffic is on the roof. Probably not much. But you know as time goes on that rock does shale kind of breaks into pieces and becomes sharper. So >> it says with the possibility of extended roof life, does that give us like an extended warranty on the >> No. So with this um package, and this is very standard in the this type of roof, it is a 20-year manufacturer warranty and a 2-year workmanship warranty. So, it's not necessarily going to extend
020that warranty at all, but hopefully just extend your life of it or, you know, maybe create less issues along the way. >> Were there specifications for that mat or so they're >> similar products that they're applying? >> Correct. So that was, you know, one big goal in the whole project was everyone bidding apples to apples. And so they're following the same thicknesses, the same methods, the same insulation and the same ASM standards. So >> So Austin, can you explain why there's such a big difference between the two companies? >> I knew you'd ask that. So um I can't honestly. It's just be, you know, it's kind of that biders maybe they um see that it's more effort than um than what the other guy thinks it is. I think that it it probably is a
021lot more um work for them that you know when they're replacing this roof, they're kind of replacing it in sections. And so I would look at White Castle probably values that delay and putting that ballast brought back on at a lot more time than what um what your second member would. >> What What is this for a phase project? How how many did we >> So we we determined four phases. Um and uh this phase pretty much covers the auditorium, the comments, the stage, and the entryway. We try to split the phases to be fairly equal, but this particular roof is very large and it's probably the largest phase. is White Castle a company that you've worked with. >> I haven't directly worked with them, but I did um research both of these companies on
022this particular product. Um White Castle seems to be a very renowned company. They're um based out of Omaha, but they have several uh remote offices to my knowledge. Um and they I think they've been in business for about 40 years. they were able to provide me um several references that I did reach out to. So, I would consider them certainly a responsible bidder contractor. Rigid Edge Exteriors, they I've also worked with them in the past. Uh sorry, I hadn't worked with White Castle. I have worked with Rigid Edge. Um they're a more local company um doing multiple roof types. they have done this type of roof before. Um, so I think that they are also a responsible bidder in my eyes. Um, so >> so if we're if we're doing separate bids for every phase,
023so does that mean we could end up with four different contractors like working on the same roof? >> It is possible. So in this specification booklet, it's very important that as time goes forward that you hopefully put out the same type of product and specify those further phases similar to to what we did on phase one. And you know that you want to keep the consistency with um you know one thing that you'll be able to see from the ground is the edge metal. So that's something that you know needs to be held consistent from time to time. As far as a membrane factor, I don't picture a lot of differences there. uh you may be carrying multiple warranties, you know, with different companies, but as far as quality, they're going to be all pretty
024similar. So, >> and when is the plan to have everything done? >> So, in this specification booklet, we had December 31st of 2025. Um, in speaking to the these two contractors this week, they didn't give me any reason that they wouldn't be able to um accomplish it by then, but our window of good weather obviously is closed also. So, I just know that there are some issues up there that I know Russell had stated to me that he was ready to get them taken care of. Fast track this as quickly as possible. Um, >> the board have any further questions? >> I will mention just one last thing. We did receive 13 bids, which is really great. Uh that's pretty uncommon. So I think uh people want to work here. So that's great. So the
025numbers the numbers show it though. It's it was a very very good pricing. So I think when we originally put this cost estimate together we were in the like mid50s range. So >> I want to go back to the that extra protective bat or membrane. I mean, obviously you put that on as an alternate, seeing value in it. >> I I did. I I think it's it's something that uh is a little bit new to me, but from a construction standpoint, it sure makes a lot of sense. Um >> doing it while you're up there and just Yeah. >> Good. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Does the board want to have any further discussion or was full right? >> Okay. Okay. Um our next discussion item is to talk about the bond referendum
026and the master plan reveal. Um so we have been uh hearing from some people uh who have opinions about this um similar to the things that uh that Mr. William said and that uh that Tammy Debor wrote in um some other emails and stuff we've gotten a lot of what I'm seeing I don't know about the rest of the board because obviously there's a lot of people who communicate with us will communicate with all of us sending emails other people obviously each of us have our own conversations that that happen from time to time and I actually did just want to say um if you guys would just have patience with us if you write to us like the day of the meeting it is a little hard um a lot of us work and
027it is a little hard um for us to to get to all of that communication and so um you know public forum is always a good opportunity to come and talk to the board um if you're writing to us I think all of us read our email like so we do like read it but as far as like reading it before the meeting it it's a little tough when we get it um late so um but you know we do appreciate it if we read it um I'm hearing a theme and I kind of you know wondering if the rest of the board. Um, what I'm hearing is for one thing that people are feeling frustrated that they feel like they haven't had enough communication or enough understanding about different elements of what we're talking
028about. Um, that seems legitimate to me. I I don't think we've been doing a great job of our communication to this point. And I think we've identified that as a need and we've been saying that for a while. Um, the other thing that I'm hearing is that people think that by using the save money for the fieldhouse but putting all the rest of the projects out for um out for a vote for a geo bond in November that that shows that we're prioritizing the fieldhouse. But you is that fair that that's one of the things that we're hearing from people? And I I'm kind of like I I've I don't I don't often do this, but I've been really sort of wrestling with how the the communication problem is very frustrating to me, too, because
029I really pride myself on having good communication and thinking it's really important. And I, you know, I can sit here and say we're not we're not trying to be non-transparent. we're just not doing a great job of letting every single person know everything they want to know when they want to know it. And then in the age that we live in, then social media takes over and people just start saying things um which may or may not be factual. Um I I think what we're trying to do is that we're trying to solve multiple problems that this board sees. like this is this has been part of a master plan process that we've been engaged in for months and months. And so we're not just it's not sort of coming out of the blue like
030oh we're going to build a fieldhouse. Um this is like we're being responsive to things that we've been hearing from the community. So right now we're hearing a lot from the community um from people who are saying no fieldhouse, you know, we want academics, not athletics. Um uh we want to fix our buildings and you know not prioritize sports. But we've been hearing for like 10 years from people who are saying this community, not even just our students, but the community needs more gym space. And our students, our student athletes who we do absolutely value, um we have like a majority of our students participate in athletics. Um they need to have up-to-date places to practice and to um like wait room and locker room and all that kind of stuff. So we actually the
031reason we were talking about that is because we're being responsive to what we've been hearing from people. Along with that, we know we have this problem at Washington. And so we really we really pushed when we started our master plan to say that we really we really want to do stuff at Washington. Um we we really we all know that that's a problem. Even though I will say the Washington staff has been amazing. I really like I've been on the board for six years and I have not heard Washington staff coming here being like, "Oh, it's so hard to work there." And you know, I really have not heard that. I mean, the the problems in Washington have been more like what we see with our own eyes. Um, and then, you know, when you
032start to ask, people do say, "Yeah, it' be great if we did this or had this." So, we're trying to address that. We're trying to address security with what happened in Minneapolis. We want our buildings to be as secure as we possibly can. It is something we talk about. It has been a priority for several years for us and this the the bond project we're talking about the security upgrades will be to every single building and it's a focus on the entrances and um making those up to the best possible standard that we can. >> Can I interrupt you? Can you expand on that a little bit because there's a lot of comments I don't understand what >> what explain that because >> Yeah. Do you do you have a better Would you be able
033to say like how we >> Well, I guess it's just going to be mult I don't know what you would call it like two-tiered or something like >> Yeah. I think the whole thing is not being able to like walk right into the building and walk right to a classroom or walk directly to the wherever the principal or whatever. I mean, obviously I think a lot of it has to do I mean I would say there's probably I don't know maybe a law enforcement idea to it but it's obviously going to be like an architect thing like every building's going to be different how they can this I don't know if it's double it might be double pane gas some places it might be two steel door I don't you know that's why I don't
034I don't know that we can say this is what it's going to look like at every building but obviously I think the I mean it's the you know the whatever that is to I reinforce. I don't know if that's the right word that those to make those entrances more safe. >> Some of it has to do with like line of sight even. >> Yeah, there's Well, I mean, look right here. >> Yeah, you come in the front door. You come right down into the >> only go through one way >> and they have to be allowed entrance in and having that office. The office is right there. And then there's also another layer to it of the architectural elements outside for protection against >> outside elements coming. That's right. Yeah. So, at the high school,
035for instance, we've got this big wide all this glass that's right there and that probably is not You want to kind of narrow that entrance. Um, you want to make it so that you know if someone's a >> To be clear, none of that has been drawn up. That's just been provided to us through um the research that's been done on the master plan to say these are the deficiencies in your building. So, that's fair. So when people are looking for where are the schematics on what >> security entrance looks like it that's not money has not been spent on that. Yeah, it's conceptual at this stage yet, >> right? We haven't engaged architects. Um, you know, a lot of that is um, you know, the kind of estimates that we have are based on
036sort of our master plan group, the experience they have with many, many school buildings and sort of, okay, secure entrances, you know, and they're looking at our specific buildings and saying this is what we would think maybe they would need and then they put an estimate on it. But a lot of that stuff can fluctuate as we would go through the remainder of the process with the with the building renovations and changes. Um we're also and and sort of so there's the security and then there's the the the walkway which um going between the middle school and Schuler was also trying to address more than one concern and need that we have. Um, we're also very aware that we only do bonds like every decade or so. Is that about you know like the general
037obligation bond? So we're we're not it's not like we're saying oh we want to have a field post next year like let's build it. We're the master plan is meant to like carry us through like we're looking at you know kids who are not even in our district yet. Like what are their needs going to be? And so we're trying to plan going forward. So even if for a lot of people they might feel like, oh, you know, I don't feel like I need a field pass right now or like that's something that we could wait on. We certainly could, but we don't want to go through the whole master plan process in a year or even in two years. Like, you know, we really kind of we want to be able to say this
038these are the needs. We're trying to address as many of them as we possibly can while being fiscally responsible, which I'll get to that in a second. And so we want to um we want to really like try to pair down what are the projects that most need doing. And I'm not even talking about some of the like smaller project that are in the midst of of all of this. You know, the Schuler bathrooms, which I didn't know were terrible, but apparently everyone who uses them knows they are. um you know, so so fixing that kind of stuff and saying we're just gonna we're going to borrow some money and make fixes to all of these things that need fixing and we're trying to prepare the district for, you know, needs that we anticipate for
039keeping up to speed with other districts. Um Mr. Williams talked about us having this sort of pressure from competition. Yeah, like we're totally aware of that. like students get to open enroll guys and whether it's to an online school or whether it's coming from somewhere else, they get to pick. And so if we let our stuff deteriorate so that um it does look like we're not kind of taking care of our of our district buildings, then you know that's a problem. So, we're thinking about that, but we're also aware that we want to be um fiscally responsible about the tax burden of the people who are here now and the people who are going to be here in the future. So, we really did sort of like look very carefully at the um at at
040the whole project and we kept on saying, well, you know, what is this going to what effect is this the geo bond I'm talking about now? Um what effect would that have? And so the number got out into the community that it was a $40 million we were going to do property taxes for, which we weren't because we were always planning to finance a big chunk of that with money that we were able to get in district and money that is designated for it, which is partly what SAP is for. Um, and that so we wanted to figure out that property tax geo bond, how can we make it so that it's not going to have a very significant impact on property taxes? And I'll say that that's part of the reason that Travis is
041here, who's one of our our our bond advisors, and to kind of talk about what that property tax impact is likely to be for people. So, the reason for shifting the projects wasn't because we were trying to communicate that we were prioritizing one or the other. We really were trying to make it so that that that geo bond in November would have less property tax impact on people. that's why we did it. Um, and so then we were able to say, well, you know what? We because this district has been so fiscally responsible, we have this save money available, we can borrow against it against the anticipated. That's sales tax money. That's not it's sales tax money that's coming from the whole state. Right, Lisa? I'm right. That's how that works. So that's not that
042has nothing to do with I mean if we're concerned that we're not going to have as much save revenue, it's because people won't be buying as much in the Atlantic and in the rest of the state of Iowa. Um that's why there's an anticipation of that money increasing because as prices increase that save money revenue increases um because it's a percentage tax on the things that people buy. So that's that money is able to be designated and that's what that we're here for tonight is to be able to say we're going to choose to take a a loan against that future income that we'll be getting. Um, and again, Travis, I hope you're taking notes because I want you to be able to say correctly the amount that we'll be getting in that we anticipate
043getting in from the save and the amount of that each year that goes toward repaying this loan because that's essentially what we're going to be doing. Um, and the other thing I'll say is that there the other constraint that we're working with is that there's there's um from the state level in Iowa, there's a lot of uh pressure on school districts in terms of there's more control being exerted from De Moine, I'll say over the way that the money gets spent at the local level. Anyone who's a fan of local control over schools and cities and stuff like that should not especially appreciate that trend. But part of that means that we do have to sort of anticipate well what's it going to look like in the future for us. Um if we start doing
044this building now, it's going to be more more opportune to be able to do this project this year. And that's part of the reason that we push it even though we knew we were on a tight timeline. And so our communication has not been as good. And I I I actually just I want to apologize for that. I mean I it's you know it's a risk we took on and maybe it's me because as board president I've not managed our our time as well and managed our agenda as well. But um you know we're I think the amount of time we've spent like looking at this looking at alternatives I think it's really good for Atlantic. It's it's good for our kids. It's like, you know, I just um I just I you know, I
045would hate to see it go down because of our poor communication, but maybe that's where we're at. So, that that's really just been on my mind to kind of say to all these people who are like writing to us and the kind of questions that we're getting. Like I just kind of want to like try to try to clear things up. And my fellow board members, you know, keep me honest. If there's any part of that that I said that you guys don't think is true or you disagree with or you want to add to it, I I welcome that. I, you know, I'm sorry for giving a speech because I usually do that, but >> Well, I'm thankful for your speech. I thought for exactly what we've been doing for the last >> Yeah.
046>> 10 months or year. >> Yeah. >> So, >> I I was hearing I was hearing that from you like a lot of those same. And you know the questions that I'm getting I every these people who email to me and they're like I just don't understand. I want to write them back and I'm like I know. I'm sorry. That's really fair that that you don't understand. And I appreciate people writing to us, you know, and coming and speaking and you guys coming here and watching because you want to learn about it instead of just making a bunch of assumptions and throwing it out there on social media. >> I think I thought you summarized that very well. Um I I would if I could just add a couple things. One thing I would say
047if there feels like there's a sense of urgency to this um there is partly because of the needs that we have but also just because changes and I'm not sure that and if the general public knows this fine but we used to be able to have these types of elections several times a year. um we no longer have the opportunity to have a general obligation bond election several times throughout the year. It's only in November. So if we're going to make something happen, it's sort of like it we do it now or we wait another year. And that was a discussion that this board had. So I just want to put that out there that we knew going into this we were going to have to be really good at communication and getting a message
048out in a tight time frame and things happen and it it didn't work that way. Um, in terms of general obligation bonds and I think many people probably know this um to my knowledge and can't go back farther than this but we've had two in the last 30ome years. One was for this building that was built in 1995 and the last one was in that 2019 time frame that did the outdoor the outdoor facilities needs. So there's only been two general obligation bought. So we've been very very careful and I think it's in my opinion it's a point of pride with this board to not continually go to the public for that and when we do to do it because it it's of the utmost importance. Um all of the work that was done to
049um Washington Scheler the Lincoln building and the middle school was done with capital project funds as this board had either ple or we now it's called save it used to be silo it used to be local penny so that was sales tax money um when I first came on the board in 2007 we had um about 78 million saved up for that and that is what funded the projects that were done at Washington and Schuler, all the new windows, the elevators, um, all the HBAC. So, I feel like the board was pretty responsible in saving that money. We bonded against sales tax revenue to do the middle school because that was such a huge project. So, that was not a general obligation. that was not property tax that was used to do that renovation of
050the old high school or the middle school. So, I just would say that in that um that is a viable stream to do a project. Um we only committed about half of ours and Travis can keep me honest, but I think that's off in two years here, right? But we'll have that >> 29th. >> Yes. >> I'm already jumping ahead to 27. Sorry. So, we'll we'll have that completely paid off. Um, if we had to do that building today, I can't imagine Well, I can imagine because we did do it again because of the fire. Um, so there is a sense with this board that we understand that costs are going up, that we have an obligation to serve the kids that we have in the district now. Um, and if we have the opportunity
051to do that and to have these kids have a better experience through all those needs that we've identified, I think I can only speak for myself, but that was my goal. Um, it was really hard. Washington was the priority. Safe entrances were the priority. Um, but there's also this huge need that we just have been pushing back that we need indoor space um for this community. So that's what I would add. Thank you. >> Appreciate your historical perspective always. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Um I would just like to add um and people talking about transparency. Um when I got on the board there was um a massive amount of potential projects that needed to be done and in know of we wanted to be fiscally responsible. How do we choose which projects are most
052important? How do we even look? That's why we hired the team to come up with that 10-year master plan for us to really determine what the district's needs were so we could, you know, set out in real time what was needed and how we need to go about these projects. um you know if if people wanted to go back and look at our meetings over the last year they they could see that we had been working on that but until you know things come to uh more you know distinct plans and whatnot people aren't necessarily going to be aware of them and think they just came recently but this is something we have been working on for the greater part of the Thank you. >> I think the it's always the wants and the needs
053and I can tell you on my time on the board and Dr. Amstein is here we talk about needs and wants. Um an extra facility was a want at the time. Here we are 10 years later. Um I I I think we're past the in my opinion I think we're past the wants and needs. I think now we're maybe in a position where we need to prioritize our needs. I think all of these are needs. Um and and I the I think the big question out there is what is why the board is deciding to take the other projects to a bond and use to save money potentially for the fieldhouse. I think that's the issue is it I mean that's the way that's what the people and and I look we have the estimates
054from the construction company and really we we can't do it we we can't do those projects with the save dollars >> u you know we can't can't do Washington and the secure entrance I mean then we how I don't know how we decide which one's more important a safe entrance or a Washington I mean I think this is you know the the the best uh way to to meet all those needs, you know, and and I don't know, two weeks ago when we had our meeting, you know, Travis was the one taking the I don't mean to throw it on you, but talking about scenarios and situations with the dollars, you know, the board I don't even maybe other people had. I hadn't even thought about using save dollars to pay for a fieldhouse facility
055until Travis came up with these options. He's like, "Well, hey, what about uh what about this?" Um, you know, so I think that's how we got to where we're at in such a a small uh window of time, I guess, if that's um you know, but I you know, the there's just not enough save dollars to do those. I mean, if if if we just say hypothetically that we don't want the fieldhouse, we don't need the fieldhouse, let's use the save dollars to do that. I I don't think we can do that, right? We can't do the Washington project, the safe the uh secure entrances, the uh skywalk for the lunchroom, you know, in between the schools. Um there's something else, >> those kind of bathrooms at at Schuler. So I I don't I just
056don't think we can do that. I mean, I >> So I think that's why the board chose to keep that as a bond issue or as a geo bond and and then, you know, I think that's why we've looked at that tax dollar or or what that would be in that. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. Thanks everybody. Okay. Travis, can you just clarify for us a couple of those things about the specifics about the money? >> Sure. >> There's a lot out there. Um and so maybe just to talk a little bit about process and procedure. Um you know, this November election cycle makes things a lot more difficult because all of the final decisions are getting made over the summer, right? So, a lot of it's happening with special meetings. And to kind of
057back up a little bit, um, you know, in early June, the the board kind of arrived at, you know, this is what our facility plan looks like. Um, you know, and it was in that 40 million of total project cost and, you know, then wanted to take some time to make sure, you know, they understood the public. Um, there was a survey that went out. Um and then you know based on those results um you know we started just looking at what are all the financing options. Um the district has a finite amount of sales tax resources available. Um and you know for this current year and you know just kind of hammer on something that that's been thrown out there. Well there's no way you're going to have $2 million of revenue. The statewide
058revenue estimates for FY25, the year we just finished up, uh were 1,933,855. So, yes, uh a little bit short of 2 million. Um but the district did add uh certified enrollment last fall for this fall. Um, so taking all that together, the numbers, um, as we get to when the first year he would be borrowing it are right around two million, you know, and that's a that's a number we're using that same revenue per student number across the state. Um, they have not yet released their FY26 estimates. So when those come out, you know, we'll maybe have an adjustment. Now, it's not illogical to come up with a lower number because the state has recently changed the way that they're paying out the sales tax revenues. So if you go back and look at audited
059financials, it's going to show a little bit of a lumpy uh schedule. So um so just to clarify there, I don't think anybody's necessarily trying to to give false information, but just want to clarify what what the accurate information is there on the sales tax revenue estimates. So early on, um we looked at a plan that would have been using about half of the sales tax revenues, so about a million. Um, and that was going to push uh the bond vote up to a to a higher number in the $33 million range. And so then the challenge was to look back, okay, can can we look at doing something a little bit different? And in which case we looked at a scenario with about 70% of the available revenues or about a $1.4 million debt
060payment um o over time. And so that's where kind of what I'll call this maximum, you know, 17 to 18 million dollars of projects could be funded out of the sales tax. So we started there looking at, you know, what's the amount that the district could come forward with and then we came up with the uh the bond referendum amount um you know being where it's at. It's 22 and a half. Am I remembering that correctly? >> 22 and a half million. So it was a you know dropping that number down significantly um from from what we were originally looking at as options. Um so that's how the the financing plan you came together in terms of looking at at amounts. Um, in terms of timing, uh, there's a there's a reason why not all
061of the communication is out there yet because as we sit right now, there is a bond petition, um, that's that's available for signature that would put the geo bond on the ballot in November. Um, so the district isn't even sure that there's going to be a bond vote in November. um they have to get the signatures back in order to put that on the election at which point more formal communication will go out. Now with that there's been some talking points available. Here's the estimated tax impact etc for the folks that are going around trying to seek signatures. But in terms of like the the immediate public communication and the formal newsletters and you know why isn't this out? Yeah, it may feel late. It it might be a little late, but of the 43
062districts that are going to referendum this fall, most have not yet adopted the resolution calling the election. Uh that's not due till September 19th. Um I wouldn't say that you guys are on the early side of that, but you're not the last ones either. Um so this is a little bit different from, you know, September elections. These would have been decided by June and you would have had, you know, all summer to start communicating. So a lot of the information as you know your board president you know kind of I say kind of pleaded like we're working to get it out. It will get out. Um there's bond communication committee uh or a company that's working on getting uh formal communication out. There are things about this that are fairly complicated. So the last thing
063anybody wants to do is miscommunicate or get partial communication out and not have the full story. Um, so if we can, you know, the district, you know, just plead for a little bit more patience as they kind of get all their ducks in a row, there's there's no question that is trying to be avoided at all here. Um, especially from a financial standpoint. I have that easy. You can ask me anything financially. I'm an open book. I don't live here. I don't vote on your project. Um, but I can't really go on the spiel of like, well, why did you decide on XYZ project? Right? that's that's not coming from me. Uh but on the financial front, happy to be an open book um on on any of that information. We don't want anything confusing,
064nor does the board. Now, in terms of going back to this whole what's on the ballot, what's not on the ballot, uh, one of the things that was talked about in that August 11th work session was trying to be clear that the two projects aren't necessarily tied to each other. U, so we talked about a couple different options. Um, you know, the the first option was everything's meshed together, tied together. And so therefore, if somebody liked the improvements at Washington and the security improvements, but didn't like the fieldhouse component, they either they had to make a well, we like it or we don't like it, thumbs up, thumbs down on the whole package. So part of the goal was that was to separate. Um, so the initial goal was well, could we separate all the
065things? Washington Security, etc. put it all on the sales tax. And and the answer is no. Uh there there wasn't the right amount there. Um so the decision then was made, well, let's put that on the ballot, we'll put the fieldhouse separate. Um and and knowing that there's actually a little bit of nuance on what's required. So, if they do, if what's on the ballot passes, the district has to go forward and do those projects with tonight's action on the sales tax, the district has the option to do what's on the ballot. And that sounds like a nuance and but it is. You know, there's one that's, you know, directed by the taxpayers and one that's directed by the board. So the board during the meeting um while not making a formal motion of this
066gave indication that well if if we go through the bond process and you know we're not successful in the election well we're not just going to speed forward and do a fieldhouse and you know thumb our nose at the public. That's that's not the intention of this. Um, but it was to try to simplify the two projects and allow for an instance where, you know, there's a lot of negative feedback and, you know, they're not tied to each other because this fieldhouse is going to have to take time, iterations. Hopefully, you know, at the board level, as was discussed on August 11th, they want to bring the budget down, look at things that could cut, but the only thing they can deal with at this early time is like, well, we've got drawings and fear
067footage, so alls we can go on and being responsible as board members is information we have. It wouldn't be responsible for the board to say, "Well, we've been given an estimate of 16 million, but we're just going to throw 12 on the ballot and hope for the best." Um, because at that point, then you could actually be in a situation where you put something on the ballot you can't complete and that is a violation of the taxpayer rights to vote on something that has a real number. So, >> so Travis, if we pass the resolution for the 18.5 for save, we do not have to spend all of that. That's more like that's like a ceiling. >> It's a ceiling and you're not actually required to go borrow the money. You know, >> we don't
068even have to go borrow the money. It's just an authorization. >> All this is is an authorization is a hearing. This never used to be a process until 2019. So, if you're thinking about, well, we never had to deal with sales tax. Well, that's true. That's true of everybody in the state. U when the state legislature extended the tax from 2030 out to 201, they wanted to put in place a public input process and that's what is in place tonight. You guys can continue to take feedback under advisement and still decide we don't want to do the fieldhouse at that scale. All this is doing is giving you the option to do it. And every board member at that meeting really gave indication like well that would be dumb if the other project doesn't pass.
069Obviously our priorities are the whole project but we know the academic stuff um is very important. So the option would exist then at that point that you could they could change their mind. They could repurpose. They could use different amounts, borrow less. Nothing locks this in. And on some of the conversation with the board that night and was simply, well, you know, we're going to need to study this more to make sure we have the right amount. What I told them was, well, that's great news. Um, but you have to make a decision to hold a public hearing by September 2nd or you do not have the option to do the fieldhouse this year. So it would automatically be delayed to even get authority for another year. So if it feels rushed, it was because
070well it it is there's hard deadlines that had to be met in order to make this public hearing process. If there's, you know, any criticism, it's like, well, why didn't the the board cancel all their vacations and activities all summer and spend every night figuring this out in a month, right? The the reality is that Ford took a long time appropriately to vet through the plan. Got to the plan in June, decided we want some more input, put out a survey, took the survey input in, and then tried to make a decision as quickly as possible in the month of August. Um, you know, most people are not calling special meetings to try to get that done. I give kudos to the board for being flexible and trying to prioritize this project because otherwise everything's
071delayed. Um, so to kind of step back um and just kind of talk through the the plan with the GEO bond, the 22.5 million would be a $2.50 debt service levy um of which this year the district is paying off the debt with a $1.40. That would be a$110 more this year on the levy rate than it was prior year for debt. That being said, over the last seven years, the district's debt levy has averaged uh over $2.86, I think is the number. So, this will be actually lower on average than the district has paid for debt on a debt service levy rate than they have the past seven years. So even after if we do the geo bond as we've planned to in November, the amount that that will increase people's property taxes will
072still be less than the average has been over the last seven years. >> That's correct. Correct. Yep. Yeah. Lower than the average over the last seven years. And you know, not to go just like into a ton of detail on overall levy rates, but even with a a$110 increase, um that would mark the fifth lowest tax rate in the last 24 years for the school district. Uh the only years lower than that have been the last uh four >> rapidly when you've been rapidly paying off the debt. Now, some of that's to be expected, right? valuations have gone up, you've got less students overall, your budgets do go down. So, I'm not trying to say like your tax rate should have remained in that $15 per thousand range, whereas right now it's in that 1252
073range. Um, but being in that $13 range is is very competitive with where you've been historically. Um, a $2.50 debt service levy rate um is pretty good. I mean, and if we look at your overall voter pebble levy at 85 cents, um, that's lower than the average across the state as well. Um, so those are some of the other resources. Um, I'll probably address maybe just one more item and that would be um the ability to maintain facilities. Um, you know, there I I'm not aware of, you know, the statements that were made about reducing operating costs. I can only assume that those those are accurate. They were part of some of the the budget reductions that the district had to do is reducing those costs out of the general fund. Um but what the
074district has been doing is using ple and your surplus sales tax to continue some of those maintenance items. Um the district right now between their voter your voter approved PPE uh the 33 cent regular ple um does receive approximately $2.6 million annually out of there. So that $1.4 million debt payment and again forecasted to be closer to 2.8 that debt payment will be about one half of your overall capital project funds as we would project five years out. Um, so out of the the 2.8 million that you're estimated to receive in 2829, it would be about 1.4 million of that. Um, of which then the district is using resources annually to pay for buses. Uh, and there's an allocation for how much that will be annually. Uh you have technology initiatives, your onetoone laptops, um
075uh you have instructional software, things that the district has been very prudent of moving to sales tax and Pebble in order to protect the general fund to pay for operations and teachers. Um even though it feels like, yeah, every year you're talking about budget restrictions. Well, we can talk to this the state about that because you get to grow your budget 2% per year and we know what's happened with costs. But there's been a a very prudent approach in allocating on a go forward basis uh approximately $700,000 to keep maintaining facilities. Um and the roof project right now that's out of resources on hand, you know, not borrowing money for those. So there's a whole list of projects that we'll be able to kind of go through and you know dissolve you know I guess
076I would say kind of disclose here are the things we've spent money on over the last 10 years. It's going to be very helpful and I mean the district hopes to get all that communication out to the public >> because part of the master planning I mean we did have a whole bunch of you know smaller projects in the tens of thousands that were on that list and a lot of them we ended up saying well we're not going to go to the voters for this instead we're going to figure out a way to pay for it out of the funds that we have on hand. So that's already happening. That's been all part of the the process we've done of trying to balance that stuff out. Um Christy, I think did you have a
077question for some? >> Well, I I was going to ask you to talk about what the overall uh debt levy maximum is because 250 is a portion of that. But I but I want to thank you first off though um for mentioning that maintenance and the way that we pay for the maintenance of our buildings is different than the way we pay for hours to clean and to mow. Because when decisions were made to cut hours, clean and mow, that was to keep teachers in the classroom and that's out of the general fund. >> Well, I already went over my time. Nobody gave me a time, but it's self-imposed. I talk longer than I meant. So, um, certainly we're willing to be an open book resource, provide answers to questions. I wouldn't also ask for
078the same that you're asking from patients. We I think we have 41 referendums that we're working on in this fall um as a team. So um certainly want to be as responsive as possible. Um the reality is there's a lot of districts who find themselves with facility needs. And you know what used to be a cheap HVAC project, you know, no longer can just be done, you know, patchwork. Seen a lot of HVAC projects that that became expensive. And um you know certainly districts are trying to you know be as responsible as possible with the resources which is why you know I challenge the the district also to say well can you guys come up with more so that there can be less tax impact and had to talk le okay I can get comfortable
079with this amount you know and and so it's a good back and forth right we we challenge each other to come up with the best financing plan you come up with and you know I think the district put forth a good one But I can't I can't say that, you know, I know everything about the projects and everything you're doing. That would be outside of my scope of scope of work. But from a a financing standpoint, you know, we feel like we've pushed enough to not be conservative, but still put in enough resources that you can continue to maintain your facilities at the level that you've heard from in your master plan. So I do think you you've been very responsive that and again resulted in a tax impact that was about 60 cents lower
080than kind of was originally talked about. There was some talk about closer to $310 and so the movement to get it down to 250 um was certainly something the board was was seeking to do. >> Thank you. >> So could you um and I'm just throwing out another situation to ask for clarification. So, uh, could you, uh, if you put this sales tax for the fieldhouse, for lack of better word, on hold, could you have that hearing again, I don't know, say January, February, and maybe in the meantime, I don't want to say come up with a more detailed fieldhouse if that's how we choose to do that with better numbers than just throwing Does that um does that what I'm trying to say does do those does the save part follow the calendar also
081or is that different it my understanding from this is you would just have to have a hearing with a different >> verbiage in that if we would as as an option just say okay we're going to go ahead with the geo bond we're going to wait on the save for the fieldhouse and talk about it in whatever January or March or whatever. >> Yeah. I mean the the reality is is no no options have been you know ruled off the table in terms of waiting. There's nothing that says you have to start the fieldhouse project next year and I think the discussion around the board level is you all felt that there was more research that needed to be done. Um putting them together you know puts it on the the same timeline of getting
082approval and following your master plan. so to say like, well, we're just gonna carve out half of our master plan and and do that later. It's a possibility. Yeah, you can certainly do it. Um, does it stop you from doing that though by approving what you do tonight? No. I mean, you could still do that as a board. You could say, we're going to keep looking looking at it and keep approving it. We're going to, >> you know, we we we heard the objections. We take those under advisement. Um, we're still going to approve our approximate not to exceed amount, but you know, we're going to continue to look for ways to make that cheaper. Um, you're not on the hook to spend, you know, $16 million on a on a a fieldhouse. Um, but
083if you design it and the options that the board wants is after you get through design get you to that point, you know, you can you can form committees to spend more time researching. That doesn't mean that you have to stop that process, which is some of the different part between the geo authority and the sales tax authority. Sales tax gives you the option. GEO gives you the obligation to move forward. >> I guess I and I maybe I wasn't I wasn't meaning to throw it away for a few months. I guess where I was at is is it seems like that's the focus. Um and I think we need to focus on the other stuff. I mean, you know, it's all a need in my opinion, but I'm only one person had. >> Yeah.
084>> Um, you know, and so that I was just if that was >> No, I've I I've got a district who um had an athletic complex improvement that they they approved last June, so June of 2024 that they were looking at um and they got through it and, you know, they started to hear like, hey, let's let's really think about how we want this to work. I have a call this Friday with them for the first time that they're now starting to get into the design and thinking about funding that project. They've had authority for that for 15 months. Um so they they again started the process to get the authority again because there there's timelines that you need to be conscious of and and and you're you're up against one now. Delaying then you
085know just pushes it off if you don't don't approve this. you start over um with with the hearing process, but there's nothing to say you can't take the same route that that district is. Like, okay, we heard the advisement. We hear that people want to see more details on this. We're not going to borrow money until we do it. We're going to we're going to keep this process going because it's started, but we're not going to move forward with it until we get plans and specs. You still have to hold hearings on plans and specs for the project before it goes out to bid. So this is not a done deal rubber stamp. You have to move forward. It just gives you the authority and this process is new since 2019. Would any of the
086board members have any further comments or questions for each other or else in that case we'll move on to the next discussion item which is the Bull Creek project. Um Dr. Johnson, do you feel like we could sure a little bit about it? I'm gonna start off by saying about a year and a half ago, Iowa State University had proposed to um city of Atlantic, the mayor here, Tracy, you mind help me out here? um to do a project um with with our W Creek Waterway, you know, and um the city tried to get going last year on this this grant um and they just ran out we just ran out of time because it presented a little um too late for us to kind of react to it. So, um, with the Bull Creek
087project and, uh, the Iowa State students came in, evaluated the whole bull creek and the drainage of the creek, especially when it starts to, um, we had a heavy rain and it starts to flood. We've seen that happen before, even last year. And so, they came through with this proposal um, for a retention pond, >> detention, detent, >> which is generate >> retention. I've been studying >> in front of the middle school shooth and that grassy area where we know you know the bold creek runs through it if you and and uh >> well I'll just I'll just jump in because you know I have heard a little bit more about it and um it's the they they studied all of B Creek and its impact throughout Atlantic and so there's like actually several phases
088to the remediation basically to prevent any sort of like massive amounts of flooding right Grace that's the idea And so we already do have the Bull Creek front runs in front of in front of the middle school and there's already sort of like this this dip where water could collect. But based on the surveying that they did, they think potentially that area could be deepened so that it was able to if there were a flooding event, it would capture a whole bunch of water rather than letting it go and flood. Would it flood houses or would it go downtown? Like where does it go? Oh, okay. Okay. So, yeah, between middle school and downtown, everybody who the the water runs through could be getting flooded. And by the water being captured in front of the
089middle school in such a situation, that would help to prevent that. That's my understanding how the detention basin works. There isn't supposed to be standing water there. It's just a a big like place to catch the water if needed. I don't understand how there's not like a big pit in the ground. That's the part I'm a little bit confused about. But um so they kind of need they want to start applying for grant money and to do that they need to have some surveying done so that they actually know what it would be like, how much water it could hold, you know, what would be the impact, all that kind of stuff. And I think really that's kind of all that this this group there's a bullet develop committee um which is kind of working
090on this basically trying to find funding for the city to do this and they want to know if and I just said I kind of wanted the board to know about it. I didn't want them to start surveying the land and, you know, talking about, you know, having this big potential pond in front of the in front of our buildings um without the board kind of looking at it, thinking about the impact and stuff, but I think we can't really know until that initial surveying work gets done. >> What happens if it becomes a big pond or a big mud hole? And I know that's not the intention, but >> Yeah, I know. then we got to deal with it if it is. >> I know that's some of the stuff that I'm trying to
091talk about. >> I think with the proper design, you know, that's what they really focus to and you know, it's really clean water and stabilizing downream banks to my understanding, but I guess it's a concept. But I think as far as um something that will be over necessarily a concern, but as design would continue or it didn't move forward, it would certainly be something that >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Yeah. So, you know, I don't even think we necessarily need to take action, but I I did want the board to sort of be aware of this and that that sort of is the the plan going forward is and I as I understand it, the the the part that involves district land is kind of like the the phase one like if if they they
092are going to try to strengthen >> what you say strengthen what the channels or the >> most you know water detection and water retention based Um, they gladly certain channels >> stabilize the channels. Yeah. So, they'll want to stabilize the channels, but that comes later. Um, so after they correct. So, does the board have any questions at this point or does it sound okay to us, you know, for them to move forward considering it? >> Um, the clean water of Iowa came last week and we did another survey. Then it's question. They they definitely have a plan. they wanted to be a um a classroom, an outdoor classroom. They would put in a water well. They would clean up what's there um because they walked the path there and looked at all that. And so
093they would plan to make it so [Music] >> Okay. This is an organization. This is the Urban Conservation, Clean Water Iowa, >> okay, >> organization. So, that's who we got in the last week because they do have they do have funding um and they came and gave us an assessment and um said that they would work alongside us as well as other organizations in Iowa State as well. So, um it isn't anything that we're going into likely by any stretch of these. And again, Snyder is involved in that. Basically the first step is the location that basically is step house and where would be first. So that's why we're coming to you for your >> Thank you. So Clean Water Iowa would actually be part of their design to um add an educational component to
094it. And so we would have right outside our building. We'd be able to to take students out there and learn stuff about water flow that I guess. So, okay. So, um if people have any questions, it sounds like um Emily Kennedy, who's on the council and the mayor, you know, would have more information we could check with, but I just wanted the board to know who's point. Okay. Does anyone have any questions on that right here? All right. In that case, we're going to move on to the action portion of our agenda. Um action item A is to um approve a high school roof replacement bids. Um, and pretty much we, you know, we have these two bids that sort of in a way both of them are the cheapest depending on what option we
095choose. So, your motion is going to need to reflect um which of those were we're move we approve uh the rope replacement phase one bid to rigid edge exterior. Uh, and I also uh believe that we should add the protective matting. I think 117,550 and 57. >> Items seven. >> Jenny, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Laura, yes. >> Christy, >> yes. Jice, >> all right. Action item B, resolution approving revenue purpose statement ordering an election on a revenue purpose statement to authorize expenditures from revenue received from the state. Secure an advanced vision for education fund save and ordering the publication of a notice of election. Okay, >> these two Yeah. next go together. Is that >> Yeah. What's the difference on these, Lisa? Well, we need a revenue purpose statement first because the
096second resolution requires it. >> Okay. And there but they're two separate resolutions. Okay. >> Yeah. You you did a re a revenue purpose statement u previously back in 2000 I think it was 2008. Um and when the legislature extended the 2019 law they made all of those revenue purpose statements expire in 2031. So despite the fact you didn't put an expiration date in it, the legislature decided their infinite wisdom not to allow you to continue it forever, but they want an expiration u to cover then the new tax as they view it from 2031 to 201. They want the local patriots to uh vote on continuation. >> So is that what this one would do? It would go from 2031 to >> well, you wouldn't have an expiration date again, but if the legislature follows
097suit, they will expire it if they ever do an extension. >> So, I think we're up to like 250 districts or so either have it on the ballot or have already voted it since 2019. >> So, okay. So, almost everybody, every district in the state is having to do this, correct? At some point. Yep. Prior to 2031, >> but if it if we put it on, I mean, right now we're good till 2031. >> Yep. Yeah. You're still good to 20. >> So, if we put it on and it doesn't pass, we're still good to 2031. >> Yep. Correct. >> Before I started hearing, I think it was April or May, when I looked back at your board minutes, you had discussed having the revenue purpose statement put on in November 2023's election. Um, so
098you had already been discussing you had been looking at it and then you had new people that came didn't know that. So you've talked about it today for discussion or somebody understand what we're approving. I would move to approve the resolution um approving the revenue purpose statement ordering an election month revenue purpose statement to authorize expenditures for the revenue received from the state secured advanced vision for education. >> Second. >> Okay. Josh, >> yes. >> Laura, >> yes. >> Christy, yes. Jody, yes. Jenny, >> yes. Okay. Action item C, resolution supporting the proposed issuance of approximately 18,000 18,500,000 in school infrastructure sales services and use tax revenue bonds. Uh the board may have some discussion uh if you'd like to or someone could make a motion. >> I mean I think it I I don't
099know. I guess I my question was is whether we were I guess bound by this if we do pass this resolution or if we can uh you know we nothing means we have to spend this money without going back to the uh the drawing board and those type things. I guess that's just what I want. >> Those were the questions that I wanted answered. So really, I mean, >> I maybe people won't believe us, but I guess that doesn't mean necessarily that we're going to build the fieldhouse or save money. I mean, just by passing this resolution, this this board members have been >> it's giving I think I like the way Travis has said it. It gives us an op option >> and it gives us the authority to exercise that >> I move
100to approve resolution supporting the proposed issuance of approximately 18.5 million school infrastructure sales services and use tax revenue. I'll second. >> Lauren, >> yes. >> Christie, >> yes. >> Jody, >> yes. >> Jenny, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Action item D is to approve recommendations to hire. We have Tampa. Did we lose that many special eds that were hiring that many special eds >> or is it >> We really did. Yeah. >> Okay. So, it's not an increase. It's just >> replacement. >> Okay. Okay. I move we approve of the recommendations prior. >> Christy, >> yes. Jody, >> yes. >> Jenny, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Laura, >> yes. And welcome to the district. Uh, action item E is to approve resignations. is three people, four positions. >> That could just
101be one motion. >> I move resignations as presented. >> I'll second. >> Jody, >> yes. Jenny, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Laura, >> yes. >> Christie, yes. >> Action item F is to approve open enrollments. as of Monday. >> Move for the open second. >> Okay. Yes, >> Josh. >> Yes, >> Laura. >> Yes, Christie. >> Yes, Jody. >> Yes. >> Action item G is to approve vendor contracts. Uh there are four of them. And do we vote on all those together, Lisa, or they should be separate, shouldn't they? They're kind of different. >> They are different. You can choose to do if you want to approve all vendor contracts or if you want to do them individually as however the board prefers. >> Okay, let's um let's take them separately because they're
102different. The first one is uh an athletic training contract um with e performance and it looks like we have two different proposals. So you'll need to specify which one. I think one of those just for an increased coverage and we had a recommendation from uh Mr. Mitchell, who's the baby? You prepared to answer questions? >> Andy, do you want to like briefly? >> Uh, we I think there's peak performance is good. They used to do ours a long time ago. Obviously the cost of doing business with the medical personnel has went up significantly except after talking to several groups and we're you know our yearly meeting last week were highly in favor of doing the increased coverage and and I agree with to get that familiarity with with the trainer with our students. Otherwise, we
103wouldn't have >> and the funds are coming out through all the sport accounts. No, just partially the initial then lower bid would be from the district and that was the caveat I offered to use some of the activities to do very good standings for this year to get us through that Question, >> questions. >> I to approve proposal number one for athletic training contract. Laura, >> yes. >> Christie, >> yes. >> Jody, >> yes. >> Jenny, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Okay. Uh, member contract number two is a consortium agreement uh for Children's Square and for H Heartland Family Service. Uh, Children's Square for learning services. says Heartland Family Search for the Therapeutic and this is we've done these kind of contracts pretty much every year. It doesn't obligate us to use those
104services, but it does give us the option. >> We approve the agreement with the council consortium. >> Second. >> Christy, >> yes. Jody, >> yes. >> Jenny, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. law. >> Yes. >> Uh, vendor contract three is an athletic sharing contract for swimming with the Griswell School District. >> Do you It's a two-year agreement with Griswell. So, the students of Griswell, boys and girls, if they want to join our swim team, their board has already approved it. So, our board could tonight approve that contract also. And we had one student from Griswell swimming with us before. Or are there more than that that are interested? >> I think there's more than >> Do you know Andy? >> Andy, what's how many Grisville kids want to swim? >> Uh, girls, one boys,
105one or two. >> Okay. >> We won't know the boys. >> Yeah, I I think a two-year contract seems like a good idea. This gives a little bit of time to build some momentum. That's be my question is why two years that we've been like >> well I think it's nice kids can have that stability. >> I'll move that we approve the athletic sharing contract pursuming with Crystal V school. >> Second. >> Jenny. >> Yes. >> Josh. >> Yes. >> Laura. >> Yes. >> Christie. Yes. Jody. >> Yes. Okay. Uh the fourth vendor contract is uh with early childhood consultation. So which is this just another one? >> Well, I think this I mean I'm kind of new ideas. Is this a um something that we use our discretionary AEA funds towards? in in the
106past that was part of that uh support that AA would provide people and it's a paid service. >> She's no longer with staff likes her. They want to use her for different types of feeding and advisement to see how that breaks out. >> So that's where our funding source for coming from. So instead of putting all our we we were able to hold back 10% >> okay >> of our special ed bonds that normally go to green hills 88 which I would move to approve the contract with collab second. >> Laura, yes. >> Christie, >> yes. Jody, >> yes. >> Jenny, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. uh upcoming dates. Our regular board meeting will be held on September 10th at 6:30 p.m. right here. And I will take a motion to journ. >> Okay.
107All in all in favor. >> Thank you. We are adjourned. I just wanted to state this information. Love.