BRUSD - Regular Governing Board Meeting, Tuesday, March 17, 2026 @ 4:00 pm

001Sorry to be a little late. We were supposed to start at four o'clock. If you ever had an argument with an insurance company, I'm not going to say the name of the company, but it starts with an F. So, we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance, and I'll lead that. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Thank you for your patience. We'll begin now with um an excuse. I believe uh we'll have more showing up later. Yeah. Well, Sylviana will be here. I think Margaret has a issue still with her family. So, we'll continue. And um Mr. Roloff, we're going to turn some time over to you for

002these presentations of awards. >> All right. Thank you everybody for patiently waiting here. We're excited though. This is our favorite part. Uh we get to recognize our students of the month. So, we will start with Miss Butler and recognizing our elementary school student of the month. All right, Deritus, come on up here, buddy. You get to stand right here on that perfect X. Okay. Do you want to look at the audience or do you want to look at the board members? Okay, we're going to talk to the audience. Okay, so Jeras, I was his sub and I had the opportunity to just spend some time with this kid and he was every single question. He was ready to answer. He was engaged. He was helpful. everything that I needed to have happen in the classroom,

003he was there to help. He was so awesome. And his teacher wrote that Jeras is a hardworking student, which I saw when I was in your classroom. He's so eager to learn. He has many friends and treats everyone with kindness, and that's what we love to hear. He's always willing to help others. And he's also a good football player. I did not see that when I was your teacher. I'll have to come out to recess and see that with you. So, thank you for being such a great example and a good friend and being kind to everyone and for being our student student of the month this month. So, I have a high five. All right, we're gonna get a picture. Okay, come over here. All right. I'm Chris Johnson. I'm the principal at the

004junior high. Sam, come on up. You get to also stand on the X and we'll follow suit. Do you want to face them or them? What do you want to do? >> I'll give the board. >> Oh, there we go. Okay. Make sure you give those guys a smile, too. Turn on just show them. Good smile. There we go. Now, um Sam is uh a straight A student. He does a great job academically. He uh is a three sport athlete. Um part of two championship teams now with football and basketball and as a as a contributor there. He is more importantly a leader on campus. Um and and I I learned what a leader he is when um I coached him in football and whatever you needed Sam to do, he was going to do

005it. Um no complaints, no questions, just yes sir, what can I do to to help the team next? Um and it was just a pleasure to work with him in that way. Um and on that vein, I think it's important to note that Sam um does not draw any attention to himself. he goes and does these great things and participates on campus and is a great friend, a great student, does all these things. I really don't think he expects any one to notice or any accolades or anything. Um, and that's why I think it's super important that we recognize him as student of the month because he doesn't even care if he's student of the month. He just does all the right things. So, I'm super proud of you, Sam. >> Thank you. Good afternoon.

006Our high school student of the month is Adeline Cobb. Come on down, Adeline. You You choose. >> So, Adeline, I met Adeline last year. She was doing job shadow at the elementary school. Um, I didn't realize how much she was involved in at that point. Um, but her list of accolades is very long. She's currently likely in the running for validictorian for next year. She's a junior. She does NAVIT. She's the editor and chief of our yearbook. She's on the superintendent advisory council. Um, she's running for student body president right now and she's currently the junior class president. Um, she's keeps up with everything. She stays on task and she goes above and beyond every day. Um, so Miss Cherry had wrote this big long thing. Shocker from Miss Cherry. Um, pretty much to sum

007up and say that Adeline is exactly what we want at Blige. She is the kid that works hard every single day, that comes in and smiles and makes sure that it gets done even if stress is mounting and timelines are coming up and things like that. That's Adeline in a nutshell. She's awesome. And I I'd like to chip in that Adeline had some great stories for our superintendent advisory council last time about um some of our toilets turning into water features at the school. She had some really good discussion. So I might try to talk Adeline into coming with us. Uh we were invited to the town council meeting uh at the beginning of April. So I might try to recruit Adeline to come with me to that as one of our star students. So

008congratulations all of our students of the month. All right. Now, we're going to do our athlete of the month. Coach Kloff. Could I have Garrett Gestner come up here, please? And my my allergies are really bad. So, if it looks like I'm crying, that's that's just not the case. So, just so you're aware, uh, this month, um, our teachers and coaches selected Garrett Gestner as our athlete of the month. And one of the things I can say about Garrett is he's a kid that I just absolutely love as an administrator, a coach, also as a teacher. Um, kids like Garrett, um, you just wrap your heart right around them because they do everything you ask them to do. They do it the right way. They work hard and they don't complain. Um, here's his plaque.

009um his teachers, coaches. He is a three sport athlete. He um ran cross country, wrestled, and now he's running track. Um phenomenal kid. He actually likes to run. So, he's a little different. All right? But we love him anyway. Um one of the things that you need to understand about Garrett is he's one he's the kid that is going to outlast everybody else. He's going to be there in the end. and excuse me. He's going to be a kid that is going to prove us right all because he did it without complaining and he gave his best effort and he's something that makes Blur so special and we to to be able to coach kids like this and teach kids like this. This is one of the kids that I look forward to seeing every

010day and that's Gary Gestner. Love you buddy. Love you too. >> Congratulations Garrett. Uh, great work. Um, I believe we'll have Mr. Grace come up for the teacher of the month. All right, our teacher of the month is Miss Bridget Blake. Many of the people in the room know Miss Blake. Um, she is a legitimate backbone at the high school. She carries one of the largest student loads that we have. Um she finds time to run the concession stand and be there to make coffee in the morning and is always willing to jump in. Um she is a department chair of our largest department and probably our most efficient department likely because she's the department chair of them. Um Miss Blake has has been just wonderful to get to know this year with me being

011at the high school. She puts in 100% effort every day. She shows up at the same time I do. Um, and I can hear her when she gets there making coffee. Um, but the students love her. They love being around her. She brings positivity to the campus. She she brings so much that we need. Um, and she's just such a big asset for us. So, Miss Blake. So, I'll I'll just say something real quick about Bridget. Um, her job at the high school was a revolving door of teachers. Um, because it wasn't a very fun job and this the students just didn't like the class and Bridget has has solidified that and made it fun and and important and uh just a great job. So, great job, Bridget. She's alumni and uh that's a big

012that's a big deal in my book. >> All right, Mr. Grace again. >> All right, our employee of the month is one of the first people that I met when I got here. I shared an office suite with her when I first got here as well. So, Alexis Veto. So, Alexis is an irreplaceable person in our office. Um, she was at the elementary school when I was moving to the high school. The first thing that I went home and told my wife was, "I wonder if Alexis can go to the high school, too." um at the elementary school, she registered half the school district by herself and she did it all summer long and knocked it out of the park. And so when we came to the high school this year, I said, "Alexa, do

013you want to do attendance?" It's not in great shape at the moment. Um, and she has put in countless hours to make it work and to be able for us to to have a level of accountability with the students and just immediately be able to find those issues before they become major issues that cause credit uh problems for students. Um, she's there, she knows the kids' names, some of them more than others already. Um, but she shares an office wall with me now and she's just always there. She's working hard. She's she carries every core value that we want here at Blue Ridge. So, Alexis Vito. >> All right. Now, Miss Butler um is going to do our volunteer of the month. >> All right. So, at the beginning of the year, Miss Kim came

014to me. She said, "I just got back from a volleyball game, and our girls in the higher grades were struggling with some skills. Can I take some of your kids and just do a little skills clinic with volleyball?" And I said, "Absolutely. anything we can do to to help our sports teams as they get older. So she volunteers every Wednesday for so we we had signups and signups were like she had this many spots and they were gone within a day. They were super fast gone and people were asking afterwards. Can we sign up? Can we sign up? And we have a waiting list wanting to to be with this girl. So, um, she took the sixth grade and she's been working every Wednesday with the sixth grade and I got to play with them

015the other day. It was pretty fun. I might have to put my tennis shoes on and come more often and play with them. But, um, so every Wednesday she works with these kids and she started a fifth grade group on Tuesdays. So, she that was so successful with the sixth graders that she she took it upon herself to do a Tuesday group with with the fifth graders. So, we're grateful for her. Um, so we I asked around and these are some words that some some people had to say about this this fine community member. Um, she also helps out with track. So, she's a coach there. Um, she helps out with PTSO. Whenever there's anything that needs to be done with PTSO, she's there. She helps out. She is any This was This was one

016of your co-workers. One of my co-workers said, "Any function, she is there. Any field trip, she is there. She's reliable. She always has your back. Um, she's willing to take on more even though her load is already full. Um, she goes above and beyond and she makes the world's best cinnamon rolls. So, just a fun fact. So, Kim Surles Like Mr. Roloff said, this is the best part of the board meeting is when we get to recognize the students, the volunteers, and the teachers and the staff that u make what we are what we are. And totally and uh forever grateful for the people that dedicate their time and their talents to the Blige School District. Uh the next item on the agenda is um an overview and presentation of our CTE programs. And Matt

017Weber is here. He we'll turn time over to him for a presentation. >> Appreciate that. >> Well, good evening. It's so good to be here with you. Appreciate you fitting me in here. I know that uh you've got a full agenda here ahead of you and the bond and so appreciate you fitting me in. Um, I'm always excited to come to Blige. You have some amazing programs here. Exciting to see Bridget. Uh, one of our Navit students. Uh, we just are very blessed to work with you. Appreciate working with with Jonathan and and Mary. Uh Ryan is fantastic and he's been a part of our NAVA principles group because we've been we resurrected that this year and so we're doing it another one of those this next week and we just appreciate your involvement and

018your partnership and I appreciate Chris. She is the go-to gal for coordinating all of the paperwork that goes into this with registration, recruiting. There's just so much that that goes into this and we couldn't do it without the wonderful employees that that you have here. Um, so just real quick, I I did want to say thank you to Wade Stoddard. He represents Blueridge on our Navat board. He's been very faithful. He is our president and he's amazing. He is always there and uh he loves to come live. Even when he knows that we're only going to have a 45minute meeting, he still comes and I appreciate that. and our offices are in snowflakes. So, we appreciate what he what he does for us. Um, so just a quick review there on on uh let's see

019on this next slide here on the background info. Just remember that we are one of 14 CEDs throughout the state of Arizona. We were the second that was created in the state, but we were the first rural. A lot of people didn't think that a rural CATED would work and we we proved them wrong especially where we were able to partner with our the local community colleges and and we're proud of that and for what we've been able to put together. And just as a reminder, you are one of the original five. We just started out with five that first year uh in uh 999 and I came on board in 2000 when we started the central programs at the community college. And so just a reminder, we we really do exist for three major

020reasons. One is we want to make sure that all of our high school students are graduating with a certificate so they can get gainful employment whether that's through us at the community college and most importantly through Blige because that's where most of the career and tech is taking place. Not very many students can get a three-hour block and have the travel time to get down there to the college and come back and but it's a wonderful opportunity for those who can do it, but we salute all of your CTE teachers and programs here and we'll talk about them in just a minute. And then second is to provide that funding stream and we'll and we'll share those numbers with you shortly and then of course like I say our central program. So, let's let's jump

021into the numbers. Just as a reminder, when we started out, we were getting money for freshmen. And so, that was a major boon starting out. We were able to get a lot of things started. And then, once again, these numbers are all based on the the students that you have in your programs here at Blige. So, there were several years there whether you're in the three to $400,000 range depending upon the number of students you had in your programs. And then the legislature of 2011, that's the when they took away freshmen. And so you took a major hit there. But let's take a look at the the new slide here. And so what's exciting is you look at this slide and you're right back up to where you used to be because you've you've added

022programs, you've added teachers. And so those are some exciting numbers. And I'm I'm very very pleased to announce tonight that you're over 400,000 this year. And so you surpassed the 9 million mark. So that's how much money has come into Blueridge schools through Navat. And we're excited about sharing that money with you. So So where does that where does that money go? That that goes primarily into your programs right here at Blige. And I have all those listed there. Now for a 3A school, this is no easy task to have this many programs, but you guys do it extremely well. And I appreciate all that Chris does because there's tremendous amount of paperwork. And I want to salute the teachers, all of them, tonight because we have an annual monitoring. The hoops that your CTE

023teachers have to jump through for monitoring for the state department of education. Uh, and we're required as a CTE to monitor every year, they're every five years. And so right now, that's been our major focus is helping your teachers get ready for Ad is coming on site in September, this coming September. So once again, I just appreciate your teachers and their commitment and being willing to provide certifications in their classes because uh I always mention this every year because it's still very much an issue. The auditor general, they would just assume take away the satellite money, the money that comes in to you. They have it in their heads that the only way that students can get a quality education is that a CTE central program, but that's absolutely not the case. We your teachers

024prove it time and time again that they can certify students here even if they only have an hour a day for a couple of years. And like I say, we appreciate their commitment to that. Um, now for those that it works for, for students who who have the time to come to a three-hour block at the community college, those are the 11 programs that we have there. And I did want to just remind everyone, we appreciate Blue Ridg's participation, particularly with our newest program. It's industrial technology trades. It's the last one there in the first column. And it has HVAC, instrumentation, and alternative energy built in all into the same program. So, they have opportunities to get jobs in all three of those fields. And Blige has had the most student count in that program.

025And so, we appreciate appreciate your support that I know Chris has been very strategic in making sure that we've had students in that program and we're grateful for that. Um, once again, we're we're excited to have those 11 programs and nine of those are available in Xolo. There another few of them are over in Snowflake. But I wanted to finish up just by saying once again that we appreciate your teachers being willing to come to trainings. We've got uh coming a week from tonight, we're having an allNavit districtwide across all 11 districts. We are doing an advisory council meeting where we're inviting everyone in. and we're feeding everybody at Snowflake next to the auditorium there. Uh there is so much work that goes into that's just one indicator of 30 about having to have an

026advisory council meeting every year. And uh and so we're trying to change things up a little bit, provide more opportunities for people to come in and perhaps even represent more than one high school on an advisory council, which really helps because we have limited businesses in some of our areas, particularly those that have 1A and 2A high schools. And so we're we're excited about that. Um so above all, just know that we appreciate our partnership with you. It's exciting to see you go over the 9 million mark. And once again, 90% of the career and tech that's happening, it's here at Blige. And we appreciate the opportunity for those students who can come to our college campus with us. But once again, the the action is here at the high school. And we're we're excited

027to be a part of that. I'll entertain any questions because I want to be invited back next year. I don't want to take too much time. >> I don't Anybody on the board have questions or comments? >> I had a question. Are you guys looking at expanding to any other programs? I know that you work some with Northland Pioneer College. Is there any other skills that might be offered in the near future? >> You know, we've with the cyber security and the um computer computer information systems, we're still working on that. We don't have uh as much enrollment as we have there. Um I know that the college is looking at a few things uh but I'm not allowed to talk about those quite yet, but they're a couple years down the road. But I

028think the main thing is uh our core programs they have I mean we're turning students away and so we're trying to trying to look at how do we expand more in other areas so that it frees up more spots for your students here. That's kind of our main focus right now. But the college is absolutely looking at uh a couple of other allied healthbased programs. Um and I'll leave it at that because we there's a lot that goes into that. Um but but we stand ready to to help them out with the equipment to pull that off because if you if you were to go back to the list of programs just offering automotive, we just opened that up in at the Painted Desert campus in Hullbrook this past August and to outfit that with

029equipment that's $400,000. Um, so we have been expanding but not necessarily adding programs as much as creating more opportunities elsewhere so that it frees up more seats for you here. And welding is still a a real tight spot. I'm I'm confident that Chris likely doesn't even advertise that because just by word of mouth, everyone was in there and we only have so many slots when we've got seven feeder high schools coming in there. So, just know that we're very very focused on making sure that you have more seats to use. Um, but I will report hopefully by next year when I come I can talk about what's kind of on the horizon on the allied health side. But great question, Michael. Thank you. >> Any other questions, comments? I'd like to thank you. I >>

030mean, it's a great appreciate it. >> It's a great opportunity for our school district and what you do as a as a fills a slot that needs to be filled. appreciate it a great great deal. >> You're welcome. Thank you so very much. >> Thank you very much. Next item on the agenda is uh conversation, information, the discussion about a possible bond override coming up this uh November possibly. >> All right. I'm actually going to start by um bringing up Mr. Bosley, our facilities director. He um I know we presented about some of the things wrong with the facilities and the bond finding last month. And Mr. Mr. Bosley wanted to add, he had some thoughts on it, too, because he's working there every day and and get a little bit deeper into some of

031our needs with facilities. So, I'll start with Mr. Bosley, and we might ask Adeline Cobb to come up at the end of his presentation to so she can share some of her personal experiences from a student perspective, but we'll start with Mr. Bosley. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Superintendent. Hello, board. Um, and for everybody that was in the advisory council, yeah, you're going to get a repeat. Uh, apologies, but it's going to be fun. Anyways, um, we had a a company come in and give the district an evaluation and they took pictures and they presented a very scary story and I am not here to lessen that scary story. Um, but I am here to let you know that we have been working and I'm going to give you more of an inside look of

032how our facilities are. that company that came in and did that is phenomenal with being able to put numbers with what our needs are, which is way outside of my scope of of things I can do. So, very grateful for that company that came in. Um, HVAC systems, it's a pretty obvious topic. Uh, it's been kicked around many times over the last several years that I've been here. So just a quick overview, uh the Porter Mountain campus has 105 units. The main district has here about 255 units total. Um the life expectancy that is set by the state funding district as well as just the normal manufacturer is 15 years for a lifespan of an HVAC unit. The Porter Mountain campus was built in 2008, which puts that those units at about 18 years, just

033past their life. So, we're coming into having to think about redoing that whole thing. But before we get there, let's come back to the main campus, which 90% of our main campus units were installed in 1998, which means that these units are 28 years old, which means they have almost doubled their manufacturer life. Huge credit to the people and crews before me that helped keep these alive. Uh they did a lot more with a lot less. They salvaged parts. In fact, the pictures that we saw uh was from a unit that I was waiting on a control board and instead of taking it up and down and moving the ceiling 14 times, we just left it down. It did look bad. That being said, that has been fixed there in the main campus, but if

034you went to the multi-purpose, you would see the exact same thing because that's where we, for lack of a better term, rob Peter to pay Paul. And we've been doing that for a long time. Um, there is more to just HVAC than just the thingy that goes hum and makes the cold air or the hot air. There's boilers, there's cooling towers, there's large circulation pumps that keep thousands of gallons of glycol moving throughout all the campuses at any given moment. And these are all equally very aged. In fact, most of the iron pipes that we have are decaying from the inside out. So, we're spending a lot of our time just trying to keep the units and the lines clear. Once again, we're now becoming a reactive maintenance group instead of a proactive maintenance group.

035So, we have all of these systems and it's a commercial system. Anything that you add the word commercial to is going to add big big zeros to the end of it. Um, we have communication issues. I'm happy to say that for the first time in a few years, we have control of the junior high. Uh, but generally speaking, our control systems that I could sit at a desk and change a temperature in a teacher's room because she's hot or cold or something to that extent um, is not viable with the system that we're currently holding. All the parts are very outdated, very expensive. we have to get somebody from the valley to come up and work on it and it's really a big headache. Moving on are more facility issues, restrooms. Um there's 16 plus

036just on the main campus alone. Of course, you've got locker rooms. Uh we've been talking about football camps and sports camps. We need the proper facilities for them. Also, I'm pretty sure half of those bathrooms outdate the HVAC units that we were just saying are 28 years old. Uh there's some pretty 80s colors in there. Um a lot of the plumbing is very old. We are constantly replacing spud nuts, which are what causes uh beautiful fountains in the middle of the restrooms. Uh we are always doing plumbing. Our plumbing is so old, we just had a cracked clay pipe under the school that we were able to get repaired over spring break. So all of that and of course remodeling a restroom not cheap as well. It continues and it doesn't get better. Um all

037of our facilities equipment that we use our backhoe which is vital uh for large snows storms when we get them. Uh, also just when we have major plumbing repairs to do, our backhoe once again was made in the 90s and is on its last leg. We've done so much to keep this going, but at this point we have to be stewards with what we have and we've done what we can for as long as we can. Um, electrical panels are all outdated electrical. We have electrical problems here. We always have quote unquote dirty power and it does hurt our HVAC systems that are aged, but it starts with our aged breaker panels and our breakers that are failing inside of them. Uh, lighting upgrades. We did do a lighting remodel. I want to say it

038was in 2018 with the last bond and part of certain schools were done. There's still a lot of the schools that have not been transformed to LEDs. Uh not only is this costing a lot us money just in non-efficient appliances, but it's also costing us a lot of money replacing light bulbs. We had a whole pallet of light bulbs donated to us by the Humane Society last March. By the time school started, my guys had replaced and used that entire pallet of light bulbs. That's how much we're going through light bulbs. So, basically things are falling apart everywhere. Um, but the good news is we are actually doing great things with the state funding board. We have made massive movements in ways uh as in the core drilling that you heard about. We've already got

039that project started with the SFD. The SFD has given us some $86,000 for me to get a design of how to look and work on getting the elementary school floating. Um, we are doing other large projects such as the pump house which would repair lots of major water issues around here and we're even looking forward at other issues to continue to save this district money in the long run. The bond is very important just to keep our head above water. We're not looking, as Mr. Rollolof has said before, we're not looking for the Cadillac, but we do need that dependable Toyota Camry that's going to go and we're going to be able to take care of that Toyota Camry, and we're going to make it last for as long as we can. We're going to

040be better. Instead of just dumping and replacing, we can finally get ahead and stop being reactive. And for the first time in a very very long time, we can become a proactive maintenance group. And that's what I'm looking to turn and do. I'm open to any questions. >> I I have question in regard. You said clay pipe, >> clay sewer pipe. >> Yes, sir. >> What's the circa on that? >> Pardon me. >> The 60s. >> Uh most of that would actually be the 80s. Uh PVC really started becoming used in the mid90s. You had CP PVC in the late 80s. Uh for most of the old campus, yes, that is the ' 60s clay pipe that is under there. Um but that does run as well as it connects the junior high to the

041main campus, the auto shop, all of that is clay piping. Yes, sir. the and also the like the heating cooling towers. The company that came here indicated that they don't even make replacement parts for those anymore. So, they were impressed that basically it was a miracle that it was still working. >> And as I said, credit to the crews before me. Yes, sir. Uh Cal, Daniel, there was several HVAC people. Uh we've held it together and I give massive credit to what we have done with what we have had. Yes sir. >> So as far as your budget and I don't think you can be able to tell me all this is of your budget, how much is uh stamping out fires or is any of it doing anything to do anything proactively? Um, at

042one moment last year when I, well, yeah, last year when I took this position, I asked Kimberly, uh, what exactly is my maintenance budget? And Kimberly's comment to me was, "Mr. Bosley, you don't have a budget. You just need to keep the school running." >> Well, so >> that's kind of what I would thought. >> That's what I was asking. Has that changed? >> No. >> So, no, sir. I don't have a spreadsheet that says exactly what we are doing in this way or that and I would love to gather that data and work on having that kind of data but at this moment we are reactive and that means 90% of what we do is trying to put out the fires. We have started becoming more proactive. Uh I've looked into getting a plumber

043to come and inspect our pipes every 3 to four months. just give us run a snake down six drains every four months and there's enough drains around here that we can do that. But we've never done that at this point. We've always just waited until something broke. What if we got a little bit ahead of that? >> Yeah, that's good. >> SFB, the uh school facilities board, how many projects do we have? How many have we requested of them and how many have they fulfilled? if you can even answer that. >> Yes sir, I can. Um, currently there are the SFD Blue Ridge United uh Unified School District has a total of 41 projects in the SFD log. Currently, >> 26 of those are needing to be finished in one way or another before they

044move on to the other 18 of them. Uh these can range from a various sidewalk repair which maybe I may be removing out of the SFD just to kind of make things move faster and come back and address reprioritize what we have in the SFD. But as of this moment uh yes sir we have 41 total projects. Love to go over with any of them with you at any time. Yes sir. Uh, have they funded all 41? >> I do apologize. I really did mean to have that number for you. Um, to say what they have funded in the last three years and then five years. They have been funding majority of our requests. Um, that being said, of course, the funding takes several design phases, several this phase, and then there's a construction phase,

045and then there's the usual fun of trying to sort out the invoices and then getting the SFD to to actually award the money. Uh, so it is a longer drawn out process than I ever imagined when I started doing it. Um, but I am very excited for the way the SFD is now responding to us. Uh I actually have a very good relationship with Sean and uh we have been moving forward at a pace that we have not moved forward in quite a while. That's appreciated. Um I did have one more question about SFB and how like if you put a project in and it doesn't get funded within 12 months, does that stay in their uh their uh log or do you have to redo that every 12 months? >> No, sir. It stays

046in their log. In fact, that's mostly of what I'm cleaning up of the 24 project is I am cleaning up invoices for a water source heat pump from 2023 that this or that paperwork wasn't filed and then the money wasn't awarded to the district. And so, no sir, they stay in there until I cancel them or ask for them to be cancelled or whatnot or I >> fix them and close them. >> You've answered my questions. Does anybody else have questions? Michael Margaret, >> can you just name off a few of the major projects that they're involved in just so that we are so if we have some in mind that we know needed help? >> Yes, ma'am. And I will say that that list is far more extensive than my current members. >> I'm

047not going to hold you. >> Yeah, I'm not going to hold you to that. Just name off a few. So, some of the major ones are is yes, we are still at one of our board meetings, we talked about the SFD and the design for the elementary school roof was awarded. Um, it's still sitting there because we're waiting for the money. We're waiting to go into construction. The pump house we are redoing. Uh, we are we've been living on a 1990s system where we have two huge white pressure tanks and we fill them with air and water and pressurize them. We're looking at redoing that. We're even possibly looking at making the well potable to save money for the district. There is We are looking into Let's see what are some of the other ones.

048The bigger ones that we've had was a lot of the fire alarms and the uh announcements speakers. We're cleaning that up. Um I'm sorry to say that. Yes, ma'am. Some of them are really failing, but there's a lot. How many >> from bleachers to sidewalks to floating the elementary? They're all over the place. Yes, ma'am. >> Do you think some of these major ones are going to get finished this year? >> I am very confident. I I would like to say boldly that we will have a new pump house by the end of August is where I am working on that and having a brand new trustworthy system to supply drinking water to the district without worries. Uh that is one of my big ones right now. >> Yes. >> And that's >> uh we

049did just Thank you, sir. Thank you. Uh we just had the bleachers. The bleachers the football stadium bleachers. If you sat down on the wrong part of the bleachers, one of it might pop up a little bit or uh there was lots of safety issues. The handrails were a little shaky. Uh all of those have just been redone and re-safety been gone through. Uh so we now have that uh the bleachers inside the main gym on the visitors side. We want to take redo them and take down a couple rows so they don't encroach on the sports courts and the press tables without having a climbing apparatus at the top of the bleachers. So, yes, ma'am. >> And coming back to the pump house project, if we can make when we talk about making some

050of these capital improvements to help out with our M budget so we can put more money back into the classrooms, if we can get our well, we're drawing water out of the same place that Arizona Water is um getting our water and selling to us. So if we can make our well potable here since we have water rights and that saves us tens of thousands of dollars that we can >> roughly about $80,000 a year sir >> that's more accurate that can be used for >> M. So that would save an M because that would come back in our water bill and then we could use once again put that type of money back in the classroom. So we appreciate u Mr. Bosley and the work that they've been doing on this and some of

051these pictures up here are >> yeah where to cooling tower cooling towers schools facilities board stuff. >> So the cooling tower is slated. I have at least this particular one which is behind the high school cafeteria. I do have that as an open project. Uh I would like to say it's going to be about a year and a half. It does take about half a year to make and I'm still catching up on others. So, we're going to have to >> slated. >> Yeah, we're going to have to balance some of those things that we're putting through the the SFB with the stuff that we have on the bond situation. Um, >> yeah. So, and that's a great question because what I think we're doing is the facilities assessment came back at about 48 million,

052right? And that didn't take into account any of our buses or computers or any of that. So, what we're looking at is if we are able to get these projects through um school facilities division, SFD, SFB, the school facilities board, that will come off of the things that we need to put into the bond. So, then we can put that money into buses. And so, we were looking at um like the bus schedule, and we'll get to that in just a second for replacing our buses because our buses are in the same state where they're not 30 years old, but they're 10 years old. Um, is is there a way is there a way Mr. Bosley like you know you you mentioned a lot of this stuff kind of got neglected so to speak. Is

053there a way I mean maybe not for you but for somebody to put together a like you're doing with the plumbing how they're pl coming in every four to six months. Hey, in two or three years we need to be looking at this HVA system and in five years we need to come back and look at this one so that we're not having all of them down at the same time and we're replacing things in a in a rotating cycle again. That might be 101 15 years down the road, but is that something that you guys are looking at putting together? I am 100% looking at putting something like that together uh that rolls into a preventative maintenance plan, right? >> And we do we we change air filters every four months throughout the district

054and that's roughly about $12,000 for an air filter change on all the HVAC units throughout the district. And we do that about every four months. Will I tell you sir that honestly it might go a month or two behind because I'm putting out a fire elsewhere and so things slowly over time may but that is what I want to change. I want to become on a schedule where we are that preventative district and responsible for what we do have. >> Do you feel that the SFB board or the board is being as cooperative as they can be? >> Yes. >> Because we've had problems in the past standing in line in between uh some of the management of the SFD changing as well as our old liaison. Um the person that did the job before

055me, Roger, and several other changes throughout call it administration. Um there is new light and Blue Ridge is is not being looked down upon in any way. >> Do you Oh, sorry, one more question. Do you get any mandates from the state or the federal government that we can't possibly look at being able to implement because we're so far behind like changing filters often or just things that you look at and you say we don't even have up-to-date equipment that we can >> in in some regards. Yes, ma'am. I'm sure we could find examples as if we walked the district. Off the top of my head, nothing's ringing a bell, but yes, ma'am. I mean 100%. I know that I the joke down at the office is that I'm the OSHA violation. I'm the one

056that stands on top of the forklift trying to fix something. So, yes, ma'am, there's plenty of things that we could be better at. I 100% agree. >> Okay. I thought so. >> Yeah. And some of the mandates too um that we get, you know, there's certain unfunded mandates that we get from the state like all of the teachers needing uh elementary teachers needing the reading endorsement, stuff like that that pull out the general. And so sometimes facilities, but sometimes just other unfund funded mandates from the legislature that we just have to figure out that comes out of the general pool. And um I think from the facility standpoint once again um I want to give Mike a lot of credit because the wheels are starting to turn. Unfortunately, even though the wheels are starting to

057turn, those wheels take a long time to turn to get some of these. So whether our cooling tower can last another couple years or not, but those are things too. Um once again, if we um look at holistic funding or if we're able to get it funded from here and take the school facilities division money and put it in to where it can put some relief on those bond funds, too, so we don't have to go for quite as much. >> Question. So the presentation, >> go ahead and push your button. the presentation that um that company gave us and the numbers that were provided to us last month that includes everything that the school needs including the things that are currently on the list with this district >> from the facility standpoint. So, what

058I did actually right here is I broke it down into a spreadsheet um where the original spreadsheet on the presentation last month doesn't show necessarily how it is, but if you look at this, so building one is the building we're in. Um 2, three, four, and five are these portables. Uh six is the main gym. And so when you look at it, um and I'm sorry, I guess we didn't get this printed for you, so we'll print this out for you and email you guys a copy. But on some of them, so like you have a cooling tower and a boiler and that feeds a lot of the area. So it's associated with building one, but it it feeds um not just building one um the restrooms. And so when you look at like building

059six, getting the restrooms up, and once again, another concern about the restrooms being older is getting them into ADA compliance. Um, so that they were grandfathered in before, but if you touch them or if you do anything, everything has to be to ADA compliant, so it has to be a complete remodel. Um, so you'll see like for the building six alone, it's $5 million because that has the locker rooms are counted within the restrooms. And so this is the breakdown of what they are uh per building um on the different components. And so if you and then it also at the bottom it has a total per thing. So if we're talking about the AC units that's a you know 14 plus million thing for our um campuses and then the cooling towers. So those

060are shared. So that's close to $3 million and the boilers are over $3 million. And then the controls are um almost $3 million to get those all wired and because a lot of our software is obsolete. But Mike Mike's able to get a lot of stuff up and running temporarily with some things. >> And are these the numbers that they that they gave you? >> Yes. And so the other thing I want to say about these numbers is these numbers were quoted with the idea that a couple years down the road there might be a little bit of inflation. So there's a little bit of padding in there that we might not need all of it. But depending on but what they didn't want to do is go out for the bond and say, "Hey,

061here are the things we're going to do." and then if inflation spikes a little bit that we're not able to follow through and then the community saying hey we wanted to pay to get these things done and we weren't able to do them. So they are a little bit padded but then when you look at and this is just the facilities without looking at the other bond projects it was about 48 million and so 4748 million and so um so yeah hopefully we can get some funded through school facilities division hopefully they'll come through that the hard thing with that is it it does take a year or so on some of them to get funded so but we're hoping to do that and then if we do that then we can use the bond

062money for other things or we wouldn't have to sell all of those bonds if we get the projects completed and so saved the community some money. We don't have to sell all of the bonds that we get approval for. >> Yeah. >> Um, one other quick question. Uh, Mike, you said you have a local plumber >> coming in. Is he charging us for that? >> As in >> to to come in and snake the >> put a camera. >> Yes, sir. We did get a bill. Yes, sir. We did get a bill. >> Okay. >> Uh, we didn't get overtime hours or weekend hours. Yeah. We just got regular work hours. >> But I'm just wondering if I mean I was around in 1998 when the main gym was built and those locker rooms were,

063you know, so nice and everything and it just they just went downhill very quickly. Um, and I'm just wondering if we can't use some of our local trades professionals, HVAC guys, plumbers, electricians to come in and and hire them perhaps to to help make sure those things don't happen. When I heard the fact, which I was unaware of with the CTE presentation that we heard a little while ago, I did was unaware that uh Mrs. Solder was had an HVAC program at David, which is immediately something I would love to pop into. Uh me and Mr. Roloff were actually speaking this morning about trying to bring in some entry levels and instill the Blue Ridge pride and let them grow with the district. So yes sir, that was something that we had and um pardon

064me Mrs. Um, so I believe I want to say with the current projects that we have with the SFD at the moment, we have roughly about $835,000 waiting to be used. So, we have been given that money. We need to finish some paperwork. We have some invoices from CCS for the intercom system, but they are being very helpful. And so at this moment, we have just under a mill that they have given us that they're waiting to dot the eyes and cross the tees. So yes, ma'am, they are being very cooperative at this moment. >> And some of those things were just is quick enough that Mike cleaned up really quick about needing a signature page. So we we all signed off on it quick to get the paperwork in. And like I said, we

065go fast to wait. So we like get those done. And so now we wait for months. So it's approved but it hasn't been released that that dollar amount. >> Yes ma'am. So for instance we have a budget of um all I can think of is the CCS through my head. Um the for instance the elementary school we have been given $89,000 to go to a architect and say here's $89,000. Now build us a design of how you're going to fix the elementary school. So they've been given it to us. Now I just have to have a certain amount of meetings and this and yes. So yes ma'am it is there. It in essence is waiting to be given to us. >> Thank you. >> Yes ma'am. >> If you need a I know a school

066architect guy if you want that information later. I think I think your personality has probably helped SFSB, you know, for there there for a while we were treated like that red ahead stepchild when they saw when they heard Blueridge was on the docket. Yeah. They they would just kind of, you know, turn their backs and walk away. So, I think uh appreciate what you're doing with them. Uh you know, honey goes a lot farther than whatever else is out there. >> That's what I enjoyed my skill set. I thought it would be very valuable at that. And yes, thank you kindly, sir. Do you feel like there's been continuity on that board because one of the problems in the past was the committee changed the personnel changed all >> there is there is better communication

067through the SFD than there was prior years. Yes, ma'am. >> Good. >> And to answer your question real quick and I'd like to bring up Alyn so she can she can share and talk a little bit about her experiences as a student. Um, but I think as far as local contractors, we are very appreciative of performance services for getting us these bids. But when we go out, we definitely um do RFPs and put out for bids. And you know, a lot of times we hope local people can come in because, you know, when you spend a dollar in the community, it gets spent nine times like running around the community. So if we have local contractors, we know that money stays in the community and whether it's contractors or architects or um that Yeah. So

068it's a competitive bid process, but we definitely would love to see our local people be involved in that. >> Just for information, just one second. Just for information, the company, you don't have to leave, but the company that came and did this walk through and determined what needed to be fixed and how much it would cost, that didn't cost us anything, did it? They they didn't actually actually come in and charge money like the contractors in the past have done. >> Not a dime. We got them to come in and do the complete assessment for free. >> And did going to make it one way or the other. >> Well, and I think that's them coming in and assess it that they're hoping to put in for some of the bids so that they can

069they they already have a knowledge of exactly what's needed so their bids are accurate. So instead of coming back up 20 times when we go out for our request for proposal um but it is a open bid process that you know it's open to anyone but yeah we we appreciate that that they came in and did it for free and I have to thank Dr. right? Because he was the one who um who who put me in touch with them and so we were able to get that for free because money's tight and so I didn't want to spend a pretty chunk of money getting that done and it gives us a good barometer. So I want to introduce our student of the month who we met a little bit before Adeline. She's on our

070superintendent advisory committee. She had some uh interesting uh stories to share about her experience as a student. So yeah, bring her up and talk a little bit here. Okay. So, I guess like one story that we had is one of my friends um had gone to the bathroom like in the school and he went into the boy's bathroom and he went to flush the toilet and the water started spraying out of the toilet and like went all over the thing and he has like a video of it of it like flooding and stuff. He's currently in like Washington right now for like on like one of those like exchange trip things and I don't know if I still have his number but I was trying to get the video but I don't know if I

071still have his number to text him and be like, "Hey, can I get that video?" Um, but and then like another thing is like I know one of my teachers, like my history teachers, Mr. Vest, um, he always says that he's like, um, he's always complaining about the HVAC system. He's like, I've always put in requests. He's like, this is my third one this month. He's like, I need this fixed. And then like he also has this like hole in his roof. I don't know like exactly what the problem is, but he has a hole in his roof and if it like snows, he said he comes in the morning and he has snow sitting on his desk like when he comes in in the morning. So like those are just like some of the

072things that like I guess that we've just like seen like at school like that like every student like at school like has probably heard about or like if you have Mr. Vest class or like video went around. It was my freshman year or my sophomore year, one of the two of like when the video went around of like the toilets like flooding and stuff like that. So >> So we think it's only the elementary school kids who play in the bathrooms, but apparently it's the high school kids as well. And these are things that Mr. Bosley was made aware of it last time and so he uh he's he's jumping around to make sure these stories don't circulate but then also um you know while he's trying to change the AC filters and stuff like

073that. Those are um you know he's he's plugging holes in the damn quickly and it's it's nice to hear students experience and find out some of the true lore of Blige what's happening behind the scenes. Okay, with that being said, uh we will transition into the transportation piece of this. Now, when we're talking about transportation, one of the issues with transportation is all the buses were purchased together with the last bond except for um except for one bus that we got in the Volkswagen settlement. Um, so one of our our wheelchair bus was purchased uh as a result of that Volkswagen settlement. Some of the discussion that we had is there's a bus driver shortage as well. And so getting those 14 passenger those the smaller buses those are things that are allowed by law.

074And if we do that then different organizations that are transporting 14 14 students or less they don't need their CDL. So, um the process for getting that so teachers, club sponsors, coaches, administrators can get their um certification on that and it's a lot easier to do. So, if we have a bus rider shortage, board members can get their certification and anyways, um just joking aside, but what we were um talking about, Justin and I were talking about was instead of purchasing all the buses at once as we sell bonds and and this is once again Mike coming back to your question about, you know, if we're able to get the money or or maybe br that was Bridget's question, I apologize. Um, but if we get the money and we get things funded through SFD,

075then our our capital funds can be shifted and we can have a staggered plan for buying the buses. So, if we're not using all of our capital funds at once, we can stagger it. And Justin, a lot of districts do this where they're they'll purchase one or two buses a year so that they don't get to a point and all of them are dying at the same time. So, the idea behind this is we have some buses that are in pretty rough shape. Uh Justin's a really good mechanic and so he's talked about, okay, what happens if we start refreshing our oldest buses first and um start replacing them with new buses. Uh the one thing that was pointed out in superintendent advisory, these are all on today's prices. This is me doing it based

076on quotes. This is not um projection uh like performance service did. So these are today's prices. Obviously, there's probably going to be inflation. the price is going to go up. But the idea is that if we replace two buses in a year and then get a bus and two of the 14 passengers the following year and we start to get on a cycle with that, then we'll have a good um healthy bus fleet and a healthy uh 14 passenger fleet where uh um coaches, sponsors, teachers can drive the kids around to that. And that's the idea behind that. But our our bus our bus fleet is starting to age and thankfully for good mechanics we're keeping it going. Um so that's that's mainly it for transport. I believe we have one other side slide on

077transportation. Correct. >> Just that one. And then um Justin sent Todd here to um to speak more about did did we have anything else? Because Justin's actually um with the basketball basketball baseball team. Yeah, it's baseball season in Monument Valley. So, Justin couldn't be here today. So, come on down. All right. Um, sorry, I'm kind of new to this. Um, one of their biggest problems with these buses is right now we have some buses that if our instrument cluster goes off our international 7778, if they go, that instrument cluster is considered obsolete now and the factory doesn't make them anymore and there's no aftermarket options. So, if the gauges go out, that bus is done. Um, and one of the big things is that we have a with each new year with the buses, the

078safety um, sorry, I'm getting nervous. Uh, the safety uh, um, the Sorry, geez. All right. the they uh it they become safer and safer every year with the roll cages and that um like our some of our older buses you drivers like them because you can see the even the kindergarteners you can see over the top of the seats. The newer buses, they raised them up and they've moved them off center so they're a little more protected if something does happen to in the bus so that there don't fall out as easy or have any more issues like that. Um, like you said earlier, our newest bus is a 21 and that's a sped bus that we got through the Volkswagen thing that is um the mileage on that. I don't have that with me

079right now, but it's increased. It's near 100,000 miles already. Uh, so our sped buses were out pretty quickly. Um the the one the other newest one of those is a 18 which we bought with the last bond and that one's a little over 100,000 miles and they're starting to wear out. Uh and then our next one is a 13. So, our sped fleet is progressively getting older and that's one of our highest use and highest wear and tear on those. Uh then as with even our like our cars is the newer buses because we have some buses that are 2007s and they start up and make most environmentalists probably have a heart attack by the black smoke coming out of it. Uh so obviously the the newer we can get the better exhaust systems we

080have on there you know it'll be bit better for the community. Um and as we were he had already said about the uh wanting to spread them out. Um because a lot of the the problems that we have with the buses that we purchased recently in the eight in 18 is that they are all having the same problems and it's each bus is having the same problems and they're all having them at close to the same time. Uh, and in that time period, there were some quirks for those that body style. And if we would have purchased them one here or two here, you wouldn't have all those same quirks because they were being fixed as they found them. But because they were all at the beginning of that uh model, new model, that they

081all kind of have the same quirks. so that they have those problems. Um, and the white buses is those can't be used for school to school, but um, that seems to be a trend. Xolo has quite a few. U most of the other districts that I visited have a lot more than we have for the number of students that we have. they uh and like like he was saying the coaches and and anybody can pretty much go through the certification process for those and it just makes it a lot easier because we we've had trips unfortunately we haven't been able to do. Um and no one at the bus barn wants that. like you said, just Justin is out on a trip today and he was in here at 3:30 this morning so that trip

082could go. Uh, so we got good people down there that they are trying to do their part to try to get everything going and keep all these trips going, but sometimes we just don't have the people to do it. Is there any questions or >> Yeah. Do you think it's just this time that people we don't have bus drivers? Are people not interested in doing it or we just are too small anymore to get anybody? >> Um, I don't think I think it's it's across the board. Um, when you think about the added requirements that we have for maintaining a CDL, every year it becomes more and more. So, our drivers are having to jump through more and more hoops to be able to maintain that CDL. Um, and we are literally asking for someone

083to come come in at 5 in the morning. Most of them get to go home at 5 at night. They get that break in the middle, but they're getting six hours. So it that's a lot to ask, especially when you I mean I really appreciate our teachers being in a classroom with 30 kids and trying to keep them focused and that but then put 80 kids on a school bus, they're behind you as you're driving down the road. You know, that's a lot we're asking from the drivers. So, anything else? >> Well, we all know what the problem is with the buses because they were all bought at the same time. And before that, we used to buy buses two a year when we had enough money to do it. But when we bought those

084buses, we didn't have anything left. We couldn't even give them away. They were in such bad shape. >> Yeah, I was here for that. >> You were here for that. Okay. So, you know what those looked like? We were so happy to get those buses, but we knew this problem would come >> and probably all of them at the same time. They should really do a study on all these buses we bought at the same time from the same company. >> Yeah. >> See if they all had the same problems. >> So, do you like the idea of staggering? >> Oh, most definitely. >> Yeah. Um, I work in the shop with Justin and we, like I said, we see the same problems, which, you know, nice because we know what we're going at, but

085when they're expensive ones or like with our two internationals that we have, if the once those gauges go out in the dash, we don't have the ability to fix them. >> That's bad. We were at the point where we couldn't even send a team or anybody to the valley without having somebody ready to go get them because they never made it back home. They'd have to go >> actually go take another bus and pick them up. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Yep. We don't want that to happen. >> We've had other schools pick up our kids when they're >> Yes. >> when our buses broke down on the road. Embarrassing. >> Yeah. We >> the job you guys are doing is is uh >> amazing >> exceptional. It's amazing just keeping those buses on the road.

086We felt pretty good for a while when they were brand new, >> but you know this comes and and the cost to maintain an old bus compared to the cost to maintain a new bus is dramatic. So that's where some of our money is going is maintaining those older buses in maintenance costs. >> Yeah. someday can maybe you can break that down for us. >> Just the safety factor alone, I mean, I don't want ever want to be in the shape we were before that last bond because we didn't even want to send those buses anywhere. >> Yeah. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> And then next, what we'd like to do is invite up uh Mr. Neil um to talk about some of our computer uh technology infrastructure that's similar situation

087to our buses. >> Nobody has good news at this. >> There is no good news. >> That's why we recognize the kids first. >> Yeah, that's the happy part. >> Yeah. >> Good afternoon. Uh so just like we've heard pretty much all of the night here, uh the state of BR technology is really no different. Um, our teacher laptops, every teacher classroom, um, every classroom we have in the district has some basic, uh, technology items in that classroom. We have the teacher laptop, projector, a wireless display, uh, to talk to that projector, and a document camera. Um, all of those items in our district are at least nine years old um, at this point. And these numbers are from late last year. So, by the time the bond comes around, we'll be talking 11 year

088olds here. Um the first part of the bond project as far as technology is related to is the classroom. Uh we start with the teachers start in the classroom every time. Uh that's always our priority. Um right now uh Blige is uh leading the white mountains in digital equity thanks to our 1:1 program. We have K through 12. All of our students have laptops available to them. um half of the district six or uh 7 through 12 takes can take them home with them. Um it helps uh close that digital divide that we see throughout the mountain here. Um and when we were talking about uh teachers um and then the of course the students that they have in their classroom. Here's a breakdown of the cost for that with the classroom cost being on

089the top um and then the student cost being towards the bottom there. Um, and one thing to note is this top section with the teachers in the classrooms is that these items are over are over 10 years old. Um, they've got to be be replaced whether there's a bond or not. Um, and so that when you're looking at the $653,000 for teachers and classrooms, that's money that will be spent whether we have the bond money or not. Um, we have to do that for our classrooms. Um, next we move on to the technology uh infrastructure. Um, in 2013, uh, that's about the year that I first got here, we built our first master planned, uh, network. Um, it was the first master plan network that the district had ever had, and we spent about a

090million dollars to do it, and we're only able to get half the district done at that time. Um, in 2018 bond, we were able to do the other half of the district, and we currently have a 10 gigabyte backbone throughout the district. Um, so for those of you that don't know what that means, that means we're really fast and futurep proofed for a long time. Um, and that's why you don't see any of like the infrastructure, the cabling, those types of items um on the bond here is because we did that over the last 10 years um to future proof ourselves. Uh so what we need now is we need servers. Again, our servers are 10 years old. Uh we did our backup servers. Um switches at the junior high uh which were done off

091schedule because they were done with the last bond. um so they're not on schedule with the rest of the district. Um and then our battery backups uh throughout the district. And one thing to note too as we're talking about uh dollars and trying to get a hold of dollars, uh right now we're in the middle of -ate cycle. Um the bids just closed. We selected a vendor um on there in our uh firewall and our wireless access points uh throughout the district. We currently have 198 wireless access points throughout the district which allows our students and staff to wander um as they please throughout the district and still have internet access. Um that is being completed by -ate um right now should be done by the end of uh by the end of the summer

092and uh that's a savings of approximately $220,000 for the district there with funds. Um, and -ate, our -ate cycle runs uh 2026 through 2030 and just we talked about inflation a little bit earlier. Uh, -ate put inflation at 20.7% this year uh when they did the new 5year cycle. Um, so that's what the feds are looking at as far as rate goes uh for the next 5year cycle is 20.7%. Um, next up we have the campus safety and security. Uh, one of the the areas that we have really lacked um with the lack of funding is in uh being able to redo our paging intercom system, our uh security cameras, and address the issues that we have with our uh locks and keys throughout the district. Um, our paging system was obviously a huge safety

093issue for us. Um, and we pressed really hard. Uh, we worked with the facilities department here. Um, and we were able to get that paging system. We completed that complete district-wide upgrade um, at the end of last year, at the end of 2025. Um, and that saved the district approximately $1.3 million on that project that we got from the SFD. Um, and really, so just break down, um, I'm a computer guy, don't have a lot to say, so that's the end of my slides there. Uh, but here's a breakdown of everything that we have, and I'm open to any questions you may have for me. Before Before we get into questions too, I want I want to talk a little bit about the philosophies uh that Nathan and I have been talking about that somewhat

094represent our district with our computers. We want to make computers accessible because you know we can't do all much in life without technology anymore without our smartphones and without computers. Our state testing is on computers. Our curriculum's on computers. There's the way we take attendance, our grade books, all on computers and a lot of that is teacher computers, but we have to have good working student computers for testing and some different things. We do not want it where we feel like the computers are teaching the kids. >> The teachers teach the kids. And but also so how do we balance that in in a world where you know we all get on our phone to you know find out car values or gas prices or or to buy things that get shipped to our door

095or so how do we balance that where we have an appropriate amount of time of uh and and when we talk about the digital digital literacy standards so how do we integrate those appropriately without relying on the computers to be the teacher Well, we we still think the teachers are the teachers, but but we need um support whether it's, you know, the Wi-Fi touch points, uh computers that function um for teachers well and um servers, infrastructure, and based on some of the things that have been happen this year, the political climate, different things, we we want to make sure safety and security um of our students, of our computers is is number one. And so part of what he talked about was were the cameras and getting those updated. You can tell they're a human

096like going by our cameras in most circumstances. Sometimes it might be a Bigfoot. So if you hear about Bigfoot sighting, it might just be our cameras that we currently have, but a lot of that stuff is is pretty dated as well. And I know this sounds like doom and gloom, but these are just needs that we're looking to move forward on and and and hopefully get these uh get these things updated so the teachers can teach and the kids can learn and people can come to school. And like like Mike talked about, we're not looking for the Cadillac. We're just looking he said Toyota Corolla. I've never driven a Toyota Corolla. So I just I just say just a Chevy that goes down the road so the teachers and students can do the amazing things

097like the teachers and students we had here today um doing that. So, uh, but I wanted to make sure that that was well known from the digital component on moving forward with that. Any questions? >> Uh, I just I mean I have no problem with the with the teach I mean the teachers I know firsthand they need new technology. I know I've been doing a lot of research about student technology and it really seems that onetoone technology is not really necessary as necessary as maybe it was and obviously we got it because of co if it wasn't for co we wouldn't we wouldn't have had that um and so I would like to see us look at other options where we don't we're not buying technology for each student we don't test everybody at the

098same time because we don't have space necessarily for that um you know for our high school students at least. Um, and so I'm not sure we need as much individual student laptops and and as you said, if we're if we're trying to encourage our teachers to teach, I feel like some of our we have kind of moved towards the computer teaching again probably because of COVID um and and maybe that would help us to come back to getting back to those fundamentals a little bit that the research is all saying now is is much better than than students learning on a computer. >> Absolutely. And I know we've talked about there's some places in like Silicon Valley where you know it's the birth of technology where they don't even have their students and you know

099the research is starting to come out on the cell phone bands and some of that even is the further the cell phone is away from the student on your cell phone band like the less likely the students are to have cell phone anxiety and the more that they learn and the more engaged they are in the lesson. So if they leave their cell phone at home that they have a better learning experience than if they leave it in their backpack where it's right next to them because then they're thinking about it, you know. So um so some of the research is starting to come back on that too. So yeah, I think we we definitely as a administrative team and instructional team I think we'll continue to have those discussions about best practices for students.

100For sure. >> And if I may just speak to that as well real quick. Um before we went one to one, we did have carts in the classrooms and carts actually require more computers than a 1:1 does. So something to keep in mind um because you have to have a cart. We just had them in every core classroom. No electives and we had about 20% more computers than we have now. Um they also receive more damages because nobody's individually responsible for them. But so by the time we get a work order for a cart, we usually have anywhere between 15 and 25 computers that have problems in there that they've just been overlooked over time. So something to just consider. >> I was thinking more like labs, but I know there's problems with that as

101well, but >> I would just like to give you kudos for what has happened in the past. There was a period of time when the bandwidth here to school when kids were being tested. >> We couldn't test. We couldn't test the kids because they didn't have enough time to answer a question before it went to the next question. >> We were at so slow. >> 1.3 megabytes when I got here in 2013. 1.5 >> and it showed kids were unable to be tested. >> Yes, sir. >> That was crazy. So, thank you for what you've done with what you've had to do it with. >> It's my pleasure, sir. Thank you. >> And I I just want to add that every one of these groups have such a small staff. what you've been able to

102do with your staff is amazing through the years. You know, you just have not had a a large enough staff to handle everything and still things get done. So, I'm not sure the time you spend here or how late you get home. >> I mean, how many do you have your on your staff right now? >> They're here. >> Yes, ma'am. Yes, >> ma'am. So, everybody needs to know that that you guys handle the whole district and same way with the maintenance staff. That is a very small group of people that keep everything running. >> I I have a question about is there a priority on which computer issues be funded first? Is there a level of priority? The teachers first, the students first that >> we you're talking about like a work order. If

103we get a work order, who's prioritized on that? Is that >> prioritized? Am I understanding that correctly? Yeah. So, we always prioritize classroom teaching always over everybody. Ask the boss. Yeah, we we pass them over. We'll pass over anybody to make sure a classroom keeps going. >> Yeah, we we include Yeah. Whatever's the most highest priority item at the time and we we just like to keep that classroom flow going. So, those are the ones that we address uh first and as quickly as possible. So, we close well over 90% of our work order same day. >> Siana, your question was maybe the priority of purchase was for maybe teachers first. >> Yeah, teachers need new laptops. That's where we're at. Uh Mr. Roloff, uh before he even started, he received a quote from me

104and said, I need this much money to buy teachers laptops. That was before what two months before you even started, he was already we need to get teachers laptops. That's my number one priority. >> That's that's a true story. And I'm like, I don't know. Can you see Dr. Wright if there's a budget or Kimberly? And uh so we we don't have new teacher computers yet, but >> honestly, I didn't get them from Dr. Right, so I hit the new guy up. So >> I appreciate your dress code. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Roloff tried to make them wear jeans or something on a Friday, I heard, and was >> all the guys showed up in ties. So >> you guys always >> Yeah, you always look great, you know. And I uh I can

105hear grumblings every now and then, but still that's cool. >> They always look great. >> I know. I offered them to wear jeans and I don't think any of them had t-shirts or anything, so they just showed up in their ties. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate your information and uh ability to answer questions for us. >> So that's all from us. One the one thing I did want to mention um once again the override components. Go ahead Chris, you can go back to the slide on some of the things that you know when we look at our override our M budget here are things that we're all trying to balance. Um you know we're talking salaries of all employees, certified non-certified staff, we're talking class sizes. Just a reminder, we fund full day kindergarten. The

106state only funds half day kindergarten. So, we have to fund the other we're expected to fund the other half if we want it. Um, special area classes, um, whether we're talking about our NAV, our, um, technology, uh, our CTE classes or CTE classes or, um, our other special area classes, honors classes. And the reason I put honors classes because honors and AP classes usually have the smallest class sizes. So those are things you have to look at with an override where if an override doesn't pass and you have to do some consolidations. We want to keep our a we have we have the best AP program on the mountain and those aren't discussions we want to get to have like what are out of these things what do we need to cut we do want

107to talk about uh sports fees and I want to thank um coach Kloff Mr. Grace, um Mike Bosley, the team that has talked about putting together the camps because as part of the camps, they want to get some money to facilities, get some money to the other, and one of the things that uh coach Kloff talked about was um getting rid of paytoplay where we can earn enough money from our camps so we don't have so um paying to play is not an issue for our athletes and moving forward on things like that. The other thing we talked about, Coach Kloff, I'm going to give him a little um little preview, is that if we make enough money with our sports camps, I know MSGAB had asked about this before, that we could fund gold

108cards for our uh senior citizens in the community so they could attend our athletic events and theater events and come be part of our Blige comm community for for no cost. And so we're going to try to fund those off of our camps as well so it's not a detriment to our athletics or extracurricular programs to have that. So those are things we're looking at doing and we're trying to be as innovative and as efficient and community centric and friendly as we can be um and being wise. So if we're if we're going out and asking to fix the things that we feel like need to be fixed, we also want to make sure we're doing as much as we can and giving back with those things. So, and I also want to thank we

109have some members from the superintendent ad advisory council who showed up tonight. Do you mind standing up if you're part of our uh advisory committee? Go ahead. Don't be bashful. So, thank and Miss Butler's part of that committee, too, even though she's hiding in the back. And and so, they've given us some good food for thought and and we have a lot of work to do. and um and we'll we'll get to it. So, but any other questions before we move on from this agenda item? >> Do they have anything they wanted? >> Yeah. In regard to what we've discussed so far is anybody would like to add a comment to that. You know, it's a thankless job and if you get up here, you're going to be quoted forever. So, >> it looks good

110on a resume. >> Yeah. But she can't hear that. Anyway, thank you. I know that's a thankless job, but it's a very important job. We need input from everybody when we start to make decisions like that. So, thank you for your time. I know it's a sacrifice for for you to do that. So, appreciate that very much. I think I speak for the board >> in that regard. >> Okay. Next item on the agenda would be item u the consent agenda, which is our our items 2.1 through 2.3. Are there any items in the consent agenda that any member of the board would like to take out and vote on independently? If not, then can we have a motion to um >> I'll move to approve the consent agenda as is. >> As is a

111second from Margaret, a motion from Mike, a second from Margaret. All in favor say I. >> I. That looked to be unanimous. Next item on the agenda is Thank you, Dr. Wright. Let me never mind. That's all right. That was that was years of trained response. >> I've been called Mr. >> Um we I'm sorry not to butt in, but as part of our new hires, we have one of our new hires in the audience tonight. >> Um >> we we have new hires coming up in 3.1. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I'm I'm jumping ahead. >> That's all right. That's we would like the new hires to stand up. Go ahead now. Take over. >> Okay. Hey, we want to welcome Trudy Foen. She's our >> Hi, Trudy. >> You know what? She started up

112at our uh district office receptionist here. We absolutely love her. She's uh she's a sweetheart. She is a bright shining light and she's she's really good already. She She was a quick learn. So, we're happy to have Trudy join us up there. So, thanks Trudy for coming tonight, too. >> I want to know who's the hardest one to work with on that. Take that off the record. I'm just kidding. I don't think of her as being that. >> All right. Thank you. So, the next item on the agenda is a recommendation to approve the new hires as Trudy is one of those. So, we have a motion regarding 3.11 recommendation to approve the new hires as indicated. >> So, have a motion from Margaret. Have a second from Bridget. All in favor say I. >>

113I. Any opposed? That also appears to be unanimous. Item 3.2 two recommendation to approve teachers and counselors contracts for the school year. Jonathan, do you want to take over? >> Yeah. Can I make a an amendment on that because um the counselors are grant funded and um a lot of their funding is based on um the school safety grant. So, what we would like to do is put their approval with make sure we get that grant funding because that's quite a bit of chunk of money when we're talking about being efficient. So before we uh we want to make sure we get that grant. So if we could amend that motion and do teachers now and then um non-certified administrators and counselors at a later meeting, but what we would like to do is we

114would like to talk about getting all of our teachers a raise this year. Um is that appropriate to talk about at this time? >> That was attached. We had we were privy to that and and boy, anything positive is something to talk about. Yeah. >> Anything negative we'd want to talk about. Anything positive is >> Okay. Well, we've talked about enough negative tonight. So, we we excited to talk about the fact that we looked at the salaries. And I I really want to thank Miss Hoffmire. She worked hard and is ringing out the dish rag to find uh pennies in all of our funds. And so we're going to be able to provide all of our teachers with a uh $1,000 raise for this year, which comes out to between 2 and 3%. So we're

115excited um on average. And so we're excited to do that. And by doing a flat thousand, it also helps the starting um our beginning salary, which is pretty low. And so attracting teachers that want to come to our district, we thought that doing that raise for everybody was a good place to start. So, >> so in item 3.2, we need to remove counselors from those from this. Is that what you want to do? >> Amendment. >> Amended to just be teachers contracts only. And we'll vote on certified I mean class. Yes. Classified classified and uh non-class certified teachers at a later date. Okay. Everybody understand what we're doing? Any objection to that or any confusion with that? >> No. But I have a question. >> The funds for extracurricular band, teacher, coaches, u >> the

116stipens, >> the business, where does that come from? >> I mean, I know these are contracts. You have a different >> That's still all out of M. So that'll that's out of our that's out of our M budget. Okay. So even though they're extracurricular teachers, they're still out of that M budget. >> So will we be approving and voting later on? Okay. >> Well, certified, right? If it's certified, if you're talking stipens, is that what we're >> Okay. So stipens will be a later time. Yes. >> So it'll come >> that will come later. >> That comes in the fall. Yeah. We I think the September meeting is when we do stipens or is that >> Yeah. In the fall is when we approve the stipens. >> Yeah. >> For coaching. >> Morgan's gonna have

117a bake sale. >> Great. >> And we hope and hope there's enough money to give them stipens. >> Raise in probably 20 years. >> Our coaches will be working for 10 cents an hour instead of 50 cents an hour. >> All right. So, can we have a a motion to accept item 3.2? two as amended. >> So I'll move to approve item 3.2 as amended. >> All right, I have a motion. I have a second from Margaret. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Nay. >> All right. That appears to be uh unanimous also. All right. Next item on the agenda is just a superintendent's report. >> Yes. >> We're happy to hear from you again. And I'd like you to talk just a little bit about our junior high basketball team.

118>> Well, good news. Our junior high basketball team is the champion. They They went through the whole >> season undefeated. Correct. >> I think they've gone through two seasons undefeated. >> Football and B or just basketball. >> Seventh and eighth grade. >> Seventh grade and eighth grade undefeated. We have a proud mom back here. Maybe. Does she? Yes, she's saying yes. So, we're good to go. >> Sitting taller. >> Yeah, she sat up in her chair. No. Um Yeah. So, we uh so our eighth grade basketball thing. I know I've talked a lot tonight, so I'll keep this short. I'm really excited about a couple projects. We had a leader come in today and meet with our principles and our assistant principles. And when we talk about being resourceful, this is another program that's completely

119free. We have in Arizona here, we have two principles who are distinguished national principles of the year who were at our campuses today visiting and they're working with our principles about interrator reliability um and instructional leadership. So they're going to because right here we're in silos and so one thing I always appreciated as a principal was collaboration, collegiality with other principles and and just we can always get better at our practice. So, bring in two of the best people of nationwide and they're doing it completely free. They're even bringing us down to Tucson in the summer, Mike. Um, and they're they're well at the El Canistador, they're bring down they're paying for the hotel, they're paying for all of our food, and they're paying all the conference fees for us to come down for that.

120So, it's completely free. We feel very fortunate at NAU and Arizona uh a leader taking care of it, and I'm really excited. It's a solid program and if we can continue to get better at what we do and um be good leaders and be great teachers um we're all for that. So >> administration. >> Yep. So each school site gets to have an instructional team which can include the principal, assistant principal, a few teachers that get to participate on their instructional leadership team with the a leader program. We're just excited to bring that resource because sometimes it's hard to get people to come up to the mountain. What kind of speakers do they >> um >> Well, so the people who are leading it are professors at NAU um who happen to be um national

121like I said uh distinguished principles of the year and they're both here in Arizona. So we're very fortunate and so they will they're setting the whole thing up and they're amazing. They joined us at our instructional leadership thing today. So our eighth grade basketball team ran the courts. We have a leader coming in. Um, I got to attend a event in Snowflake. Um, it was a community partnership event with Allison Hefner about our um, housing projects. I was able with our district leadership team to go down and see the progress is coming along. It looks like by the end of May the the properties are going to be ready and there was a lot of excitement about that and it wasn't just a Pinetop Lakeside Blige community event. It was in Snowflake so it had

122a lot of different community people. So there's a lot of energy and good stuff behind that and I was excited. Allison's doing a really good job and we're excited to offer that. The one last thing I wanted to say another just more great things happening in Blige. So Sada Chudnoff who's one of our parents and took one of our students Ethan Leighton and presented to the chamber of commerce and to the town council about our water wise project where the uh junior high students are going down and helping out the fourth graders and learning about water cycle and and I I have to give a lot of credit to Ethan as one of our students. He did a great job talking to the chamber of commerce. Uh I know Mr. Go's wife was there at

123that one and and um you know and and they were all just very impressed with our Blueridge students and and how Ethan represented our our community. So um anyways that that's it for me tonight. Any questions for me? I know. Thank you. I don't have any questions. Nope. Next item on the agenda is a call to the public and we would uh invite anybody that would like to address the board at this time to come do so. We'd like to keep comments to about three minutes, not seed your time to anybody else and not be, you know, not be somebody that'd come up and point your finger at uh uh Bridget and say, "You're the worst person I've ever met." You know, that kind of stuff. That's that's not tolerable. That is not tolerable. So,

124we're welcome for anybody to come up and address the board at this time. Going once, twice. You're welcome to come on up. if we could get you to state your name and who and uh where you are and actually there's a piece of paper we would love to have that written down and given to Mary Ford. So, we'd love to hear what you had to say. Can't guarantee we can act on that tonight, but we also can direct staff to do something on it if if it's appropriate. >> Good evening. Thank you for a wonderful meeting. uh Claudia Ritzio teaching math at the high school and some of the junior high school uh students right now. I just want to say every single day being part of Bluridge makes me get on campus. I want

125to give out a big thank you to the entire Blueridge community for making every single day a special day to come in and do my job. >> That's it. >> Boy, that that made me want to come back. >> We'll sit through all the bad stuff. Yeah, thank you very much. Greatly appreciated and this community deserves that kind of praise. So, thank you. >> Dave, can I just I I just was, you know, after hearing all of our doom and gloom on our facilities, um I I'm worried um about our bond and our override because they haven't passed in the last few years. And so I just want to encourage parents and teachers um board members to get out and just make it known the needs um and with the with the understanding and maybe

126I don't want to say the promise but the but that we're going to try really hard to spend our communities money well. Um I think Courtney's done a great job of helping um rebuild some of that trust in that in that area. Um but I'm just worried that we're not going to >> that it's not going to happen. >> Yeah. And if it doesn't happen, we are in trouble of yeah trouble. >> Um so I I just >> I just want to press impress, you know, the the seriousness of it and and the importance of it. Um so yeah, >> come on up. >> Tell us who you are. >> Use a mic. These ears are big, but they don't hear very good anymore. >> I'm Britney Hamlin. Um, I've said this a few times,

127but I'm excited too as well as about just it was big changes. It could have been scary changes and instead it's been very positive and optimistic and encouraging. Um, as a coach, a mom, a community member with Mike and all of you guys. And I think what will go a long way with the community members and the bond and I've talked to Mr. Rolloff and Courtney a little bit about this is I think that we need to build some trust there. And I think the only way to do that is you've got to get into discussions with community members and actually make them feel like their voices are heard because for a long time it's kind of felt like give us your money and shut up. We know what's best. I don't want to be

128mean, but that's that's the feedback. And so I think if community members really feel like this has become a community of like a three-way, us, the administrators, and our kids, and we're all working toward a common goal, and we're able to find solutions we all feel great about, I think they'll give you your money, their money all day long. It's just feeling that they're in partnership with you other than kind of this outside outside source that we go and get money from. So just my two cents. >> Hey, can I ask you a question? >> Yes. Do you have a solution? I mean, can you because I listen to you speak and you're very eloquent as a community member. >> What could we do? I mean, I I'll wear a shirt. I'll carry a sign.

129I can stop people. I'm not shy. >> Okay. >> But what what would you really want to hear me say, >> you know, as a as somebody that's out there? Yeah. >> What would be something that would be impactful? Not just, yeah, here they go again. Flap your >> thumbs. So, I don't want to be redundant because I know I brought this up in our superintendent advisory committee and I'm grateful that you asked me to be on it, but so there's a lot of information out there and a lot of community members go out and do their own information and then I'm not great at then giving that information to my schoolboard members. So, I need to do a better job with that because I think that you can better represent not just community members,

130but me, I guess personally, but it seems to be kind of a general consensus. Uh, so we look at the auditor general's report. So I was so grateful that Mike brought up the computers because after we passed the last bond, we were actually told we would never have to pass another bond, that this would be it. And then once the bond was passed, we were told, "Oh, the bid we got for the elementary school was significantly less than the original bid, so we're going to save all of this money." and it was going to go into these facilities that were now saying, "Well, the 30-year-old HVAC system didn't get the bond dollars from 10 years ago." And I get that we've admitted some mistakes down the road of buying the buses all at the same

131time and different things like that. But in 2017, that auditor general's report came out from the 2016 bond and our cost per pupil went up $4,000. And at the time, we had over 2,000 kids enrolled at Blige. That was an eight half million dollar increase. Um, and where is that being applied to? Was it maintenance and operating costs? Because bond dollars are books, books, buses, and buildings. Um, I think it was in 2024 we because we had u I think it was Misha Misha Steinreer, but she talked about do we are we going to have any capital that we're going to put money away after this next bond so that when these things come up, we can cover them. And so I did a little bit of research. We had actually taken from our capital

132850 grand and put it over in our maintenance and operating costs. So, we're not allowing ourselves to get ahead to improve these buildings, to improve equipment because we're having to rob Peter to pay Paul because these huge M costs and a lot of it has got to be these onetoone computers, the extra bandwidth, the servers, and it's not working and it's not benefiting our kids education. So, I love that Mike did his research and kind of gave us that feedback. I do think our teachers need it. Obviously, we need the computers. We Mossboss is a wonderful class for my kids. I'm actually a dinosaur. I don't even give my kids cell phones till Christmas of their senior year. So, I'm very like trying to keep my kids growing up the way that I grew up.

133And I get that they need to understand the world they live in. They need to understand technology. It is the world we live in. But I do think putting that money back into our classrooms is the best thing that we can do for them. And in 2009, 64% of our budget was going to the classroom. Well, now 53% of our budget goes to the classroom. So, it's hard for community members to say, "Here, have more money, but you're not putting our money where we want it as parents, which is to our kids education." And so, I do think that there's solutions. Um, sorry, I have a really dry mouth right now, but I wasn't prepared to say this, but I do think that there's a lot of solutions. I just think it's getting in a

134room, and I loved your email today. Let's get in the weeds. let's talk about it and then let's come up with solutions because I think you have very intelligent community members that want to provide solutions not just complain. So thank you. >> Thank you Britney. I think as far as our direction is we can direct the staff here to do something more to get information out the community. Maybe some flyers or something like that with with uh with real information instead of hearsay information or false information. I think uh I think that's appropriate and I and I think we have committed to have open public meetings at least once a month until this decision is made and like we did at the beginning of this board meeting. We have that so there's that input from

135the community hopefully get more people to come to the board meetings. You know some nights it's like you can hear a pin drop in here because there's nobody here and we have to wake up a couple of people by the time it's over. So yeah that those are some great things. I think next week we are going to the uh city council with a presentation on the board. So encourage people to watch that on uh YouTube or attend that city council meeting because they'll get great information like that. I think uh I think the the last bond we had kind of bought out an override. Didn't we have an override then the bond or we had the bond then the override? >> Yeah. Yeah. And then so we were able to put money in right

136front and then that bond started uh sunsetting it. We lost a third of that for three years and so we didn't have that kind of money to after and that just sunseted what this year. This was the last year we were able to use some of that money or we don't have it anymore this year. So that that that has something to do with what we did. I think the last bond we had we did the junior high with pretty we bought buses and did the junior high and remodeled some of the the gymnasium. So we and just hope that we could kick the can down the road a little bit farther and get some more money in the future or hope the state would change so that we get some more money in the

137future. So yeah, I don't think I think bonding is the way the uh state legislature wants us to go approached to the community and say, "Hey community, if you want your schools to have more money, you're going to have to get it from them individually because we're not going to give it to you on a statewide basis." And that's pretty much what they've done to us. So, if there's nobody else that would like to address the board, call to the public right now, then we'll uh kind of instruct the staff to do more to get public information out maybe uh through PTO. You know, I don't Your ideas are good ideas. My ideas aren't any good. >> Yeah, I think the next thing we'd like to do is maybe do a town hall meeting. And

138just to remind you, um I'm at a training in April and Courtney's going to run the board meeting. So, we'd like to do is maybe a town hall meeting um the week following the board meeting and uh make it open to the community and lay all our cards out and in in an effort to be transparent and open up those communication streams and if we're not voting on anything, then we can um just have open dialogue with everybody. So, we'll work we'll work on a date and time that'll work best for everybody. We won't do four o'clock again. So, >> yeah, later in the day. Uh, and also I think if we had refreshments, if we knew, if everybody knew we were going to have refreshments where it'd be kind of laid-back and, you know,

139uh, white cookies and red punch, maybe everybody would come and more people would come. So, >> yeah. So, you know, I think that food always brings more people out. Wouldn't it have been nice if we'd have been had a little forthought and these fundraisers that we had for sports teams if we could have had some information out then you know because we had quite a few people come to those things you know that would work. So next time let's piggyback on that perhaps that might help. So if there's nothing further we just I need to announce that our next board meeting will be April 14th. Time hasn't been determined yet but it'll be April 14th. We might start it a little earlier so we can have longer discussion or we might start later and have

140more discussion at the end. So get ready for that. And we'll have a town hall too. And also um when is the city board meeting? When are we supposed to be at that? >> This next Thursday. >> Um second. >> Second Thursday. >> Well, yeah. There will be a representation from the board and the school. What date is it? >> The first week of April, I believe. Do we have anybody? >> Yeah, in in April, not this month. >> I think it was the second that >> I can't remember. I think it is the second at 7 o'clock. And we're on their agenda to pass on information about the board uh bond. You know, we might want to state a quorum. Post it >> just in case everybody shows up. All right. So, we've announced

141next item is a motion to adjurnn. >> A motion to adjurnn. >> We have a second to that motion. Have a second from Bridget. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? >> Nope. All right. This meeting.