001lement the district on this and here are your historical tax rates over the last 10 years. So the green is your combined tax rate. Remember we have in the orange your primary tax rate which is your operating tax that the state requires the district to levy for their share of the operating budget. That one's a little steadier, isn't it? That one's u having trouble seeing this. I'm going to have to grab one of these. Thank you. Oh, thank you very much. Um, and so you know, the blue is your bond tax rate. So, look how far it's dropped. You've had some bonds come off the books, but the good news is if you look from left to right, you were at a high of about 620 back in 181 1819ish, and you're down to about
002$3.82. So, your district has done an outstanding job relative to your combined primary and secondary tax levy. Good job. Primarily as a result of the blue line where your your bonds from prior issues are coming off the books. And so, you've positioned yourself, I think, very well uh as you go out and communicate the potential need to have a bond to do major capital improvements in your district. So, I wanted to uh share that good news with you. Um, down below on page five, if everybody looks at that, that's your history of your bond and your M elections. The last time you passed a bond was about pushing 10 years ago for about $15 million. So, um, you don't have a lot of debt outstanding that I'll walk you through. So, I wanted to share
003the good news here and a reminder for the board of course and staff who's already aware of this. Okay, here's the uh the bonds that you have outstanding right now. So, if your district elects not to move forward with a bond election, then you can see here you've only got about 9.3 million. You got 1.2 coming off the books here in about four months. you'd be down to about eight I'm going to round numbers about $8.5 million in outstanding bonds. Okay. Okay. Good news here. The bonds that are currently outstanding on this page, the principle and interest on those bonds is here. So, you got about a million six for the next couple of years. Okay? you're going to have a prior bond issue uh come off the books, then your debt service is dropping
004down to about 750,000. So, we've modeled in some bond issues to minimize the tax rate because we know that's very important to your community, to all of us. As we decide what to do here, we have to be very careful what our additional new tax rate will be associated with a potential new bond. I'm going to walk you through that in a moment. Um, the Arizona Revised Statutes uh gives our K12 public school districts a formula, a debt limit for the issuance of bonds. You're 100 million under the statute. We know you wouldn't go anywhere near that. Generally speaking, when I see numbers like this, it tells me that districts may be behind on their capital improvement and their deferred maintenance. So, the good news here is you have plenty of what we call statutory
005bonding capacity. And I'm going to round numbers at about 100 million. Okay. Sorry about all the numbers here. Let me just spend a few minutes on this. I've got three scenarios for you. First one is 30 million. Um, these gentlemen to my right are going to present after me and they'll give you kind of a better idea of what they're seeing in terms of your capital improvement needs. I think it's pretty significant as I understand it. And so, let's start. I'll slow this one down, then we'll go through the next two pretty quickly. We spent a lot of time with staff on this over the last couple of weeks. Um, so this is a schedule that would be included if you call a bond election in your voter pamphlet. It's it's a little bit numberies,
006if you will, for our voters out there, but the state requires us to be very transparent with our voters as you all know. So, let me walk you through some of the math. So, column one is our fiscal year. We're in 2526. you're working on your 2627 budget relatively soon. If you have a November of 26 election, it will impact your 2728 fiscal year. Okay? So, just kind of for the board and and for the community. Um, your tax base, the assessed value in column two, that's what we just went over. You were up 6% this year at 350 million. That's what the county has to levy your taxes. Okay, your 2627 numbers. I think they're going to be out, aren't they, Courtney? Pretty quick. I think they're going to be out soon. We would
007expect probably four to 5% growth again. Good news. And you can see your growth percentages in column three. Column four and five is what I talked about earlier. That's that current bond where that that graph dropped down. So once again, we got a million6 for the next couple three years and then we dropped down to 750,000. Your current secondary tax rate as we speak is 47 cents for the bond. That was that blue line. Okay? So, if the district does not call a bond election and does not issue any more bonds in the future, your tax rate will will hover around that 45 cent number and then of course in 2930 down to 20 cents. Okay. Well, what happens if we call a bond election and we all hope that it passes? We then modeled
008in a couple bond sales. We broke it up into two sales. We would come out of the shoot pretty quick, probably sell bonds in the first quarter of 27. Bond elections November of 26. We come out and sell 15 million. So you could start awarding construction contracts. We could do it sooner than that. We can do it a little bit later with that. We just assume March of 27 out at 15. and we'd come out 18 months to 24 months later and we'd sell another 15 million for a total of 30. All good? Okay. So, we then uh layer in the debt service. We're assuming 5%. Now, remember, school districts issue tax exempt bonds, so the investors don't pay federal and state income tax. So, if you were in the market today, you'd probably be
009in the fours. Okay? Remember, we were in the threes for a while. Those days are kind of over right now. So, your cost of capital probably, don't hold me to this, uh, somewhere around four. We use five for purposes of being conservative. All good. So, then we get all the way over to column 10. Okay? And that is the estimated additional um, debt service on the 30 million. Okay? You see how we did that? and column 11 is the additional tax rate in connection with the 30 million that we show voters. Okay, so the additional tax rate in column 11 starts out at 26 cents trying to minimize it. Remember, uh we go to about 29. We got to kick we got to start kicking in some principal payments here. So we get in the
01050 cent range in column 11. Go on down just a little bit if you could. really appreciate his helping me out here. And if you average those tax rates all the way down at the bottom, the additional tax rate of the 30 million would be about 48 cents. Okay, not bad. Now, ironically, that's about where your tax rate is right now, isn't it? 47 cents right now. Okay. So, hang on to the 48 cents for a moment because voters are going to look at that and we're going to plug that into what it costs our taxpayers in a moment to keep it simple. But go on over. Go on uh go back up just a tad. And if you go over to column the second column from the right, column 13, this is your combined
011tax rate existing. And what I just shared with you to get to a combined tax rate. We're at 47 cents now. We're going to be working with you on your 2627 levy here soon. And with some growth, we think you could drop that a couple pennies if you want. So, we're thinking somewhere around 45 cents for budget year 2627. That's what voters are going to look at when they go into the voter booth because that'll be the fiscal year that we're in. Make sense? So, a lot of numbers here, but this is how we have to show it. We're going to show the additional 48 and then we're going to show in column 13 kind of what it ramps up. So we'll go 45 and then it looks like we're going to max out at
012somewhere around 69 cents. So call it roughly 20 cents higher than where you're at now. Not bad. Just kind of giving you my perspective working around the state. What else we see? So, I think this is a very reasonable financing plan at the moment on 30 million. Okay. >> Yes. Okay. Let me pause there for a moment and then I'm going to go pretty fast with a $40 million number and then a $50 million and shows you and show you how that how that works. Is all that any questions from the audience and all that? Okay. Arizona taxes aren't, as you all know, they're not the easiest. So, we do our best under the statute to explain it. Okay. So, let's take this 48 cents, and this will be in the voter pamphlet, too. What
013does that mean to a property owner? Okay, so we calculated the average kind of county valuation. This is not market valuation. This is where this gets a little tricky. Bear with me. We have a nice table. we're going to show you. So, the county has within the boundaries of the Blue Ridge Unified has a kind of a county called full cash value, not market value at $22,824. Okay? You have homes obviously in your district boundaries less, and you have multi-million dollar homes up here. So you take that number times 10 10% residential properties assessed at 10%. So people go home and get their tax bill and they go to the assessed value number on their tax bill. It's 10% of the full cash value. So that's 20,282 divided by 100. Tax rates are per $100
014of net assessed value. And the average annual tax rate to support a $30 million bond for Blue Ridge would be 9851 per year or $821 a month. Okay? And we put a 100,000 in there because that's helpful for people to do the simple math. Uh and then commercial, of course, is assessed at 16% in the middle. And those people who own agricultural vacant land, they're assessed at 15% of their full cash value. And you can see the averages that we have there. Okay. So, um, any questions so far? And I'll go on and and zip through the the next scenario. So, keep the 821 in the back of your mind for a moment. Okay, let's go to the next scenario. Now the next scenario is 30 million. It's 40 million. And uh there you go.
015Okay. So on this one it's 40 million. We've kind of broken up the sales. We can we can change the sales as you guys know depending upon what's going on with the construction side with these folks and and and it won't materially change the information. So without going through everything I just went through, let's go to go over to the right. Let's go down to the average. So remember that the other tax rate on the 30 million was 48 cents. Okay, on that average tax rate. Well, we're going to issue 10 million more. So the calculation goes to 60. Cost us 12 more cents for 10 million. Okay. So the last one I think was 8.21 21 a month on that average. So now let's keep going. Let's go to the average valuation of a
016residential property again. Next page. Thank you. Doing a good job by the way. Keep going. And we're at $10.16. Couple dollars more a month for 10 million. Okay. So bear with me. >> Uh no, the same period of time but a larger amount. Um, yeah, goes for a little bit longer because I think we assumed a third sale out a little bit longer, but good good point. A fair point. Okay, now we'll do the 50 million. Now, remember, we're going to also share some numbers in here in a moment on the override, right? So, bear with me. This is the bond. So, we want eight bucks. 10 bucks. I'm rounding now. Let's go to 50. We're going to make sure our contractors over here sharpen their pencil and make sure that those capital costs come
017down. Um, but uh let's see what that does. So, at 50, we're at 67. Okay. And then that applied to the average residential home is what? $1141. So 850, you know, 1050 1150ish range. So I guess $3 more a month if you go 50 million. Okay? And I'm not advocating any amount at this moment. Just trying to put into perspective this monthly cost which will be very important to your voters obviously. Okay. So all in all, all in all, not bad uh depending upon your perspective. So let me pause there and then we're going to kind of get into the override and some other factors. Was I able to walk you through that? Pretty good. Okay. >> Yeah, it's a full cache. It's a Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Assessed value. >> Market full cash
018value. Assessed value. >> Yeah. Because what we're finding, we're going to show you, it's pretty fascinating. Uh is the countyy's not picking up huge valuations. It has to do with this Proposition 117. So, our taxes are actually a little lower now since they passed this what they call Proposition 117 in 2016. >> That's a good thing. It just takes education. So, we got a great slide in here to show you that my colleague Randy did. That was amaz That's pretty pretty well done. Agree staff on that. Okay. Okay. So, moving on. Let's go through this. All right. Let's chat a little bit about the override. And uh let's go to the next page on the override. Let me go through this. As a reminder, state law allows school districts to increase their maintenance and operation
019budget by up to 15% of your revenue control limit. It's kind of a statutory formula. Again, local control. If you want to ask the voters for additional revenue for programs that are important to your community, local control, then your school board, this school board, and your voters can vote it in. So you can go up to 15%. We're going to show you the numbers in a moment. Authority for an M override requires voter approval like the bonds only at the November election each year, which is what we're working towards. Revenue to fund maintenance and oper operation override is levied annually as a secondary property tax similar to the bonds. Okay. M overrides may be authorized for up to seven years if approved with mandatory phasing in the final two years. So it fades a third
020if it a third and then a third I a third and two/3. So you got it for five years then you got to renew it. Okay? If you don't renew it, it drops by a third each year until it goes away. Okay? Nothing's easy. Um successful M override election in November begins in fiscal year we talked about that 2728 so 2627 no tax rate implication so we got a little bit of time on the county levy of taxes successful M override replaces any existing override in the fiscal year following the election okay so I'm trying to remember you you don't have an override now And did you have one at one point? >> Huh? >> And it phased out. That's right. Thank you. Okay. I would say most school districts have a maintenance and operation
021override generally speaking. So you've you've uh you've been, you know, fair to your taxpayers. It's a tax tax rate issue. It's a public policy issue. So you haven't had one in quite a while. So let's move on. And this is a nice grid that Randy did here. Um, and on the left hand side is the type of override and we broke it down for you as a percent of your revenue control limit. 15%. If you want to go to the max, you could generate 1,875,000 in additional revenue for your maintenance and operation budget. Okay. Randy has calculated that at $450 on a home of of $100,000. Okay. So, that $200,000 home we talked about, it would be $9 a month rounded numbers if you want to go the full 15%. And we can talk about
022that here in a moment. So, go back over to the left. If you did a 10% override, your tax rate will drop from 54 cents to 36 cents and you get a million250 for your budget. So that's about $600,000 difference. If you wanted a a skinnier 5% at 625, your tax rate drops all the way down to 18 cents. So, um, staff can share with you kind of what their thoughts are and then obviously what are you going to use the money for, um, as part of your proposal and voters have to obviously feel good about where the Money is going. And I think from what I understand, you probably have a pretty good idea where that money needs to go uh, to to continue the great things here at your at your district. Okay.
023So Mark, >> do you want me to jump in and just give a quick synopsis? >> So bond, we're talking about facilities and the big ticket items. Our override the few things just a quick synopsis on this as our M budget is going is is getting tight every year. And I I want to thank our administrators and teachers because they've done a really good job just rolling up their sleeves and being creative with funding this year and working hard. And Courtney even presented today, the state only funds half day kindergarten. So, we want to continue funding full day kindergarten. We feel like it's a good service for our community. We want to continue to offer um elective classes, a wide variety of elective classes both at the elementary and the high school. And um and
024then when we talk about this, we're talking salaries um teacher salaries as well as class sizes and class offerings. So that's the big thing we'll be looking at. And with that being phased out and our carryover is really diminishing that if we have to start at looking at cuts, half day kindergarten is obviously a big one that we'd have to look at. And we're hoping not to be in the situation where we have to decide between half day kindergarten, special areas, honors classes, um, and teacher raises that those are those are what we're looking at. That could be if we don't pass an override cuts we might have to make in the upcoming years. >> Okay. You have plenty of time obviously to be thinking about this. um wanted to share with the with the
025board and the community these numbers. Hope this is helpful for you as you continue to think about it. Okay, next page. Next page there. Okay. Um this is this is what we wanted to share with you as a way to uh remind the board and the community because of our you know fairly complicated tax structure in Arizona. So, we encourage people to pull their property tax bills out. We might end up having a calculator at the end of the day on the website and and really kind of go through this stuff. So, what Randy did here, she went on um the uh county website. You all familiar with Jagger Lane, Mule Deer Way, and Lower Ridge Drive. Anybody live on one of those streets? Okay. So, um, if you live on Jagger Lane, Randy said
026that the average limited value, remember that's that lower value that the countyy's picking up, okay, for what? Property tax purposes is 222,000. 222* 10%, okay, divided by 100 times our tax rates. Okay, the county is picking up that value at 384. This is back to what we were talking about where after Prop 117, the values the county's picking up is lower. So, we like that as uh we all pay property tax. We like that. And then Randy went on um the website, you know, estimate um and the home is worth a market value of somewhere around 416,000 on zel. So your house house could probably sell for 416. Countyy's only picking it up for 3 384 on the full cash. they limit the full cash because of Prop 117 and on the property tax bill
027it's 222. So that's why we need to educate people because when they look at that table they may think that their house is worth double that. Okay? And then they'll do the calculation in their head. So, this is what we're trying to share with people in a transparent way of how our county assessors are picking up property um propos 117 mu deer way similar lower ridge drive a little lower and the different numbers in there for you though. Okay. Any questions on that? All good. Okay. All right. Uh I think I've I've covered most of this. This is just kind of uh more property tax calculations and how it's done. We've I think we've talked about most of this, so we'll pass on this one. And then we wanted to remind the board and the
028community and staff um kind of what all of the property tax rates are if you live within the boundaries of Bleridge. So, I'll just give you a reminder. This is current year. This will change coming up obviously. So the county's at 81 cents, the public health district 22, the school district 334. It's what matches our prior slide. Good there. Uh our bonds 47 cents. Our college 175. Our fire district 385. There's a statewide what they call fire district assistance tax that we all pay that goes in the coffers. The Navajo library district 9 cents. the flood control district 24 cents. Pinetop lakeside I think that's the sewer improvement district um if you're within the boundaries of that district 18 cents and then the vocational district up here that was voted in by voters and nickel.
029So that adds up to 1112. Not bad. That's pretty low. 18 to 20 in the valley. Pretty pretty common. And then go up and then the state gives you a little haircut on this thing. and gives you a little credit of a buck 56. So you're paying about $9.56 per $100 of net limited assessed value to support all of those jurisdictions. Now on the bond election and the override, we'll foc we we'll isolate those variables and only focus on that. It's complicated enough, but we we wanted to share with you on that. So as far as moving forward, you're ahead of the game. Good job. We've have time. You're in the study phase getting good information and um long story short, if you want to proceed with a November of 26 election, the school board
030will probably need to formally call it probably in June. I think you may if you want to go earlier, you can. So, we're in what? February, almost February. We're in February, March, April, May, June. and you got another what a good four months plus if you need it. When you call that election, it'll have the final dollar amount. It'll have the amount in the overwrite as well. It'll have the ballot question and it'll have a list of all the projects and all the tax rate information that we shared with you. So, that pretty much concludes my u initial presentation. I'm glad to answer any questions that that anybody has. All good. >> Okay. >> Um, >> let me say it again. >> Is it common for bond and override elections to be in the same
031Yes. >> November ballot? >> Yeah, they Yeah, they have to be in November. Now, some districts may say, well, kind of complicates things, right? You could do them in in different years if you wanted to, but um >> cost us more money. >> It does. It does. And you lose a year, but it's pretty common for districts to do both. I mean, >> we've got to decide. >> That's right. >> Yeah. Or both. >> Okay. Yeah. >> They're not and they're not tied together. Like for for example, the bond could pass, but the override might fail. >> That's right. Okay. That's right. >> So, thanks for having me. Uh we're here to help and look forward to continued conversations and I'm sure we'll be back in front of the board relatively soon. Thank you very
032much. >> Okay. Thank you. stand up there with me. >> Next, we want to invite Bob and Russell so they can talk a little bit about Now, we asked them to come in and do a facilities assessment. They did it completely free to us so that they could take a look at our facilities and look at some of the needs and get a deeper deeper look at it. And so, we're about to hear it now. So, thank you, gentlemen. >> Good. Um, good afternoon, good evening, but thank you for uh allowing us to spend 10 minutes with you and go through some of the findings. And then Mike, um, thank you. Russell's been here four times. He's done drone footage. Uh, you're going to see some of the PowerPoint presentations, the status of your ceilings,
033the status of your mechanical units, the status of showers, and um, you are a great help. So, thank you. Uh, you've been here four times. I think I've been here two or three. Um we are with a company called Performance Services Inc. We've got a full service of architectural mechanical estimating engineering construction. Uh Russell on behalf of Russell and myself. Thank you again. We've worked together for 25 30 years and uh he's built projects all around uh Arizona. So maybe um and we don't want to be presumptuous. You may have seen the status of the schools or some but this just makes it a whole bunch easier. Do you want to walk through uh some of the drone footage and pictures? >> Yeah, sure. I don't know if this one's working. Yeah. So, if you
034go ahead and go on to the next slide. So, what I want to show you and I I will be brief because I do know you have transportation and technology that needs to come up and go through. So, what we did is we assembled just some of the pictures that we've gathered while we were here. This is your cooling towers on building 8. um that uh your fill and your media is beyond useful life. Um you're going to need to replace these towers. There are pictures up on the inside. I don't think I have those on this slide, but when we got here, even to take some of this off, and you can see in that center picture there in the center media, you can see the big hole in it. That's just because this
035has become old and brittle and just it's it's beyond useful life. We go ahead and go to the next one. >> Next slide. >> The next slide. Yeah. And this is another angle and view of those those towers to fully accentuate that as well. Um, and go on to the next one, please. And I'm trying to go relatively quick. These are cooling towers at building 13. You can see the rust that is gathered on these and that is just degradation and corrosion on it. And this is an old cooling tower. It's older technology. It's it's end of useful life and time for this to be replaced as well. >> So Russell, you want to just make a comment? >> How long mechanical equip usually last and how old these is. >> So, these are back
036in the 90s or older. Uh mechanical equipment, you want to have about 15 years of useful life. Around 15 years, you need to be planning replacement. Anything you get beyond that is just it's gravy and it's good. And I I got to give hats off to your your maintenance staff. They've done a great job of scabbing together and and extending the life as long as they possibly can on these units and on the equipment. So, what this shows here, and it's a little bit tough to see in the right hand uh picture, you can see that's one of the mechanical units that has the um sides taken off. Yeah, thank you very much. And then on the right hand side, you you can see Yeah, you're doing wonderful. Up in the top where you see
037those duct work sections, if you go down just a little bit right there, those round parts, those are not connected to units. you're you're actually missing uh components up in that ceiling there. And if you go on to the next one, I think I have one that's even clearer. So, here you can see it's even clearer. You have you see that duct work where it's supposed to connect. You have a full missing uh piece of equipment up there. Um you can see the controls that are laying there on the picture on the left. You can see those red wires that are are meant to to be connected and control the unit. Um, and what it is is, um, in in working with your staff, it's doing the best they can with the materials that they
038have. These units, like I said, are well beyond useful life. Uh, it's tough to get components to repair them. It's tough to find components to repair them. It's tough to get up there and make maintenance because once one thing goes bad, uh, more things go bad. If you go ahead and go to the next slide, please. So, this is an example and it leads into the picture after this unit was put together in the best case scenario. You can tell that there was some work that was done on it. You can kind of see if I can use your pointer real quick just to point this out. The top one. Thank you very much. Up here in the top, you have the the air filter system that's in here, but you have gaps and you
039have these gaps here. And they may not seem like a lot, but this allows uh air to come in through the system. And I'm going to show you the result of it in the next slide. Oh, thank you. So, this is your cafeteria. And the result of those that uh air intrusion and bypass what this is is this is dirt and sediment that's built up on the discharge of your your air system. So that means you have dirt, dust, debris, things up in your duct work. Um and it's it's getting past that. Also means it's clogging in the coils which leads to lower efficiency operations, more energy usage, less heat transfer, so on and so forth. Um, and these are pictures of your locker rooms. And you can kind of see these are original construction
040locker rooms. You can kind of tell by the color patterns here as well. Um, and we do know that I mean you guys are up here in the mountains and this is the perfect place for summer camps and summer programs and so on and so forth, but these are not uh shower and locker facilities that are conducive to to those sort of programs. And this is the showers on one of the other facilities. As you can see, you you need to address I mean, if nothing else, the the plumbing, the you can see the rust and >> and everything else. Yeah. So, and we didn't we didn't try operating any of them, but Yeah. >> Yeah. So, and they do. And so, one one of the things that that I'm really proud of is how
041much work we do in schools. And nowadays, you build individual stall units that students can go in, they can change, they can take showers, they're more comfortable in those those spaces. And actually, we have some examples here. These are some of the renderings that we have that can show what what can be. You know, this was what was on the left and what can be on the right. Those individual stall units. >> Yeah. And you may in the 28 years we've been around, 90% of everything we've done has been in K12. So yeah, kind of understand the schedule, the traditional schedules, the 12 month schedules. >> So the question is, do we do our own work? We are the designed build contractor. So we do our own engineering, architecture, we are general contractors, but we
042subcontract the work out and we like to subcontract the local communities and really the best the best deal and the best uh value for your your school. >> I don't know if you hit on open book prices. Yeah, I I mean we can go into that when when the time comes. We we do we operate uh with a no full transparency, open book pricing, no change order guarantees. >> Well, both. Yeah. Yeah. And we can fully expose all those costs with you. Um and I'm just looking at the clock. I know you guys want to stop in about seven minutes and I know you have more people to go through. So, I may I'm gonna just jump through here. Uh, one of the other things we looked at is your ADA compliance in some of
043your restrooms. It needs to be brought up to date um on these as well. Um, these are some examples of some of your when you're doing the maintenance in there back and forth just over the years ceiling tiles and grid get messed up. So, we're looking at redoing all of that as well. Um, this is another picture of just missing mechanical systems and uh some ceiling tile work. And I'm going to jump right to the end. So, this is your elementary school and as you guys all know, you guys have some sort of foundational issue that is going on. You can see this is a a camera angle on the floor. You can see this door. That's as far as it can open. And there's the other side of it here. Luckily, this is a
044mechanical space. This is not a or a storage space. This is not a classroom space. Um, but this needs to be addressed in some manner. And so, we do have money in there. And I'm gonna I'm gonna pause there and I'm going to jump, if you don't mind, to that spreadsheet, whoever's controlling. Oh, he's back there. And I just want to briefly go over what this is. This was in response to Mr. Rolloloff on what he wanted. We did an analysis on all the different uh buildings and really broke it down in a way that you guys can turn these things on and off. And again, be clear, these are very high level numbers, very high level estimates based on work being done a year or two in the future. So, and it allows you
045to make your decisions and your choices based on what's important to you and what's not important to you. You can also modify the level of priority here and and so on and so forth. Building two, three, four, five, they have a a restriction. You can only pick either the bottom or the top two. So, either you redo it or you tear them all out. So that's why you can't I see you trying to check those boxes. That's why you can't. You'd have to uncheck the bottom box. >> Jonathan, did you? >> Yeah. I was just gonna say, so if you click the bottom tab, the campus map, you know, so it'll explain the building numbers a little bit more. Chris, see at the bottom tab where it says campus map. So what they did is
046they did once again digitized the plans. And so building one is the building we're in. um that dotted area where it says one, those are our portables and those are buildings 2 through five. And so you can see all of that. What we started doing with our um superintendent advisory committee is going through building by building and finding out which buildings uh some of the necessary things that we feel are necessary to fix and some of the things that we feel like might not be necessary right away or that we can save our community money by, you know, continuing to um you know, uh duct tape and chicken wire those areas because our usable spaces and Well, and this is our our what we want to do is be more efficient. And so, what areas
047do we need the most? And so, we're looking at areas at pump house. And I don't know if you guys noticed or not, but one of those AC pictures. Yes, the one that was uh dirty was in the cafeteria. And so, obviously, those are some health issue type things that we want to get fixed because of those old units. But another one where it was the ceiling was opened. I saw the class pictures. So that's the main um hallway in the high school. And so these are areas we want to prioritize where the student students occupy where if you go down to like building 19 and 17 and 18, that's a lot of unused space next to the fab lab. So those are things that we would want to put on a hold. But if
048you go back to the other tab, the facility improvement plan, because when you go down to the bottom, just to fix the ACs, the bathrooms, the cooling towers, the things that we looked at, the hallway renovations and stuff like that. If we look all the way to the bottom and for the elementary school, we're just looking. That's the cost for doing core samples and testing to find out what exactly is wrong with the foundation. That's not even fixing it. That's just the testing. we're down to a total of $48 million to make those fixes. So, I feel like it's important to really go through and prioritize what we really need. Um whether it's safety and security, some fencing, the elementary school assessment. And I want to bring that recommendation after the advisory committee looks at
049it so I can bring that recommendation to the board on some things we might need to look at fixing. >> And we're well beyond our time. We're happy to come back and spend more time and go through more of this and more of the information we have as well. Yeah, >> We're happy to do it. Yeah, >> Mike. And we have I'm sorry. Go ahead, gentlemen. >> You guys got the numbers. Yes. Thank you, gentlemen. And and they've done a lot of work with us behind the scenes, too. And so hopefully we can fill in some of those gaps, too. Um, we had Justin and Nathan who are going to present quick. We're going to have to do it speed mode, gentlemen. They only have a few slides each. So like a five minute turnaround
050for the streaming for the board meeting. >> Okay, that works. Want to go to this next slide. >> So transportation's newest buses were purchased in 2018. We did get a new one in 21 via Volkswagen settlement that we got rid of in 1993 and they gave us that one for free. Most of our buses from 2018 are sitting right around 90,000 miles. They're they're getting to the end of their life. Usually school buses in the US get replaced at 9 and a half to 11 years. Before the previous bond, they were 25 years old. We're getting back up there again. Some of we are running four buses daily that are from 2005 2006 cuz not enough buses were purchased in 2018 to replace the whole fleet. Um usual lifespans about 130 to 140,000 miles. Um,
051like I said, safety changes, stuff like that, and we're already having to replace engines and stuff at tune of $70,000. Next slide. So, your 14 passenger micro buses, we've been using a lot of them for trips because we have been short on trips that require CDLs. I know Dustin and Colton have driven a bunch of them. They're about $125,000 a piece. uh your rear engine buses with air conditioning, which is our trip ones. They have full storage. They're about $275,000 a piece. We did upgrade those to have uh automatic chains on them as well, so snowy and icy conditions. Same with your rear engine buses. Without air conditioning, you're about $255,000 a piece. Um yeah, I don't think I have another slide, do I? Oh, I do have one more. So, what I would recommend
052is replace two buses a year. Don't buy them all at one time. Don't go and spend all of your money buying them all. Buy them over the length of the bond. Take a 2-year period and then start the process again buying one and a half buses every year. You will rotate your whole fleet every 20 years before they really start costing big money. You'll never have to bond again for school buses. >> That's all I got. >> That was quick. and to the point and I know Nathan has to >> I know we're four minutes away from the board meeting another study >> we're good >> yeah this will just take a moment here uh basically I'm we're in the same boat as everything else as far as the district goes our teacher laptops 10
053years old wireless displays projectors those are eight years old access point servers over 10 years old a piece um this year we also cut the tech department about a third as well so we have uh aging equipment that requires more manual labor but less people to uh actually um handle those hardware issues as well. So um I'm just going to move forward. Let's get right into it. Uh this is what it'll cost uh to replace everything across the district technology wise from the employee computers uh to projectors to the um to servers and the network switches that are needed and the battery backup as well. So um and the surveillance cameras that is an estimation from two different vendors that say that it's going to be in the 1.8 to uh 2.5 range for us.
054So about 4.3 for technology al together. So that's all I have tonight. Thank you. >> So thank you everybody for presenting. I know we have a lot of >> I just have one question we can probably get fit in real quick. Um override and bond. What can we spend in override monies and what can we spend in bond monies? >> So the three things we presented tonight are the three things that are beyond the age of failing for the bond. So all those three components, facilities, transportation, and technology infrastructure would all be bond issues. The override um going back would be to continue full day kindergarten, give our staff raises, keep the class sizes at a decent amount, continue to offer elective and honors classes. So those are all the salary components would be the
055override using bond monies. We don't have to use so much of our own personal money for maintenance and operations. So that money can go into the classroom into teachers into those programs into those classes and stuff like that if by passing the bond. >> Yes. So the bond money directly goes into the capital items. But if we're more efficient and have more efficient facilities, you're absolutely right. Our maintenance and operation money that we've been using to fix these things and keep them going. If we have newer, more efficient facilities, we don't have to spend as much maintenance and operations money to keep those working so we can yeah keep them in the M budget for all those other components. Thank everybody. >> Thank you everybody for being here. We're going to probably do this every
056three weeks or so so that we can get this out and there will be some meetings behind the scenes uh with key individuals so that we can get this all worked up. So, thank you for being here. We'll conclude this meeting. We'll uh start our next