001e e e all right we can go ahead and call the meeting to order and the first item on our agenda is reports from board advisory committees so I will start us off with the diversity equity and inclusion advisory committee that met last Thursday on October 10th um Scott Roberts welcomed the committee members and introduced several guest representing our Special Education team uh Dr Schmidt and his team U along with some teachers and a former alumni or an alumni uh shared on a variety of topics about the Blue Valley School District and how we include students with disabilities in the school Community those topics included the legal responsibilities for educating students with disabilities the number of students with IEPs the district philosophy around inclusion transition from school to the community employment opportunities and schools including
002the 18 to 21 year old program The Blue Valley food pantry uh gear involvement in clubs and activities peer mentoring um along with Special Olympics and Unified sports so it was a um well done presentation and the committee had lots of questions uh next up is Katie CER with the health and wellbeing I'm presenting this evening for Dr Schmidt the health and well-being board advisory committee met on September 11th in the Board of Education room after introductions Dr Schmidt noted that many new members uh were present and they reviewed the scope and purpose of the committee members were reminded that the board is interested in hearing their thoughts on topics brought to the committee and so he was looking forward to active participation strategic plan christe mcnarland the chief communication officer reviewed the 25 um
00330 strategic plan process members were guided through the process and get had the opportunity to partake in the Strategic plan survey Courtney Carlson and Susan tan from Blue Valley Ed Foundation presented on the recent and planned programming for parents in cooperation with bvw which is an arm of the Blue Valley Ed Foundation the programs offer resources to support and educate parents as they navigate mental health and wellness with their families and their growing and developing children the meeting in concluded at 6 p.m the next meeting is to take place November 13th in the high plains conference room I'm I'm going to shift gears and provide you a board advisory update from curriculum and instruction the director of career ready programming Adam wessell provided an overview of proposed changes to high school programming these proposals were
004minimal in nature and they'll come before the board um later this semester for your review and approval Casey Krauss and Lauren Slade of our Blended learning team provided an overview of curriculum resources and practices associated with teaching digital citizens ship to our students across all School levels finally Dr Scott Roberts executive director of school administration presented an overview of the recent board policy regarding cell phone use in our schools he was able to provide an update on the status of that implementation committee members were able to ask questions and students present on the committee were able to voice their observations regarding the positive experiences since the implementation of the new policy this policy was intended to limit use of personal electronic devices during instructional periods and the students had many positive remarks that evening the
005next meeting of the committee is scheduled for November 6th uh Kyle Hayden with the finance and operations do you also have uh Student Activities okay the finance and operations board advisory committee met at 7:30 a.m. on October 10th in the Board of Education room I welcome the committee members and reviewed the meeting agenda christe mcnarland presented information about the work being done on the 25 to 30 strategic plan she shared some background about the current strategic plan set to expire at the end of this school year she also provided information about the committee who is currently working on the plan and uh provided an opportunity for their feedback via thought exchange Jake sodnik and Jason Gillum presented the bids and contracts those items are on the agenda for the board approval this evening and the
006next committee meeting is scheduled for November 5th the Student Activities board advisory committee met on September 19th the first meeting for the school year began with introductions with a brief history of the Student Activities Committee Matt Ortman gave a brief review of the achievements due to the work of the Student Activities Committee athletic and activity updates related to the bond 20123 projects were provided Dr meran and christe mcnarland discussed the efforts and motion to update the Blue Valley School strategic plan the meeting concluded with highlights for the start of the school year from high school middle school and the bvrc staff the next meeting is scheduled for October 17th and then finally I'm going to give um updates on the strategic planning committee so you've heard reference to that in several of uh the other
007committees because chrisy and or I um shout out to Christie because she's done most of them have been to these uh board committees to get input and so we have a strategic planning committee uh the first it's met twice since our last meeting the first meeting was on September 10th uh we started with uh welcoming and introductions on this committee are patrons that have been appointed by the board um students staff members and a few administrators um once we welcomed everyone and did introductions we reviewed the planning process we spent some time on our current plan did a SWAT analysis of our district the committee uh looked at data and asked the committee what kind of data and input they wanted to see and shared with them where we were at at that point at
008that point we had had more than 4,100 participants um compared to 450 early in the last process so we were very excited with that on October 1st we also met again in this room and we started um with a recap of our first meeting in the SWAT analysis um we gave uh feedback on Mission state and each of U we had small groups that identified some key things they wanted to see in a mission statement with the goal of us bringing back a a draft next time for them to give us some feedback on uh we also started talking about our priorities based on the data that we had um again and that survey remains open so anybody who wanted to continue to give feedback there is still time through the end of October um
009we also spent some time talking about the priorities and identified that our next steps were to really look at the mission statement and to continue and ID and refine the core values based on the feedback and the meeting adjourned uh that morning and we will meet again um the day after our next board meeting so we are well in the planning stages of the Strategic plan that concludes our committee reports thank you Dr Baran move on to reports from board members and the superintendent on items not included on the agenda we will start with jod Deets I love being first this is great um let's see a review of some uh tours have been able to go on um it's really a a joy to be able to uh follow Dr margan around when she
010um uh tours our schools and so clay Nori and I were able to join her um for at least the Blue Valley High and wolf Springs tour um I can tell you things are rocking at Wolf Springs um there it was a crazy awesome week um and the kids were so excited so um it's always a lot of fun um went to uh oh and I also Clay later that day uh maybe shamed him into coming to the band Festival maybe not shame but I reminded him um to The District Band Festival um which is absolutely amazing um if you have not uh gone to that in the past please put it on your calendar for next year um our bands um uh put so much work into these programs and the shows are absolutely
011fantastic um our students uh musicianship um is topnotch so that's a lot of fun uh went to good morning op and I know a number of us did because I sat with many of you um the Dei committee and I would like to just uh Dr mirgan had mentioned um a few things um there was a presentation um from um regarding students with disabilities and and the one um Alum that we had um Katie um who uh participated in the program and um it was wonderful to really hear her perspective um coming from you know a student who went through their program so that was great um let's see our special ed population has grown over 16% in the last three years um and uh I think that's a you know phenomenal number um a
012lot of different factors May contribute to that but that still is is a is a is a pretty darn big Rise um really fascinating um presentation on Unified sports um and how important it is to expand the support for those programs so um uh really looking forward to seeing what we can do in the district um for the future uh finally rounded out with Community connections last week um which is always a I really enjoy just sitting back and and chatting with our community so that's all I got thanks Jody Jim um just a couple notes we have a another committee I guess it's not an official board committee special education advisory Council which is parent created and led but Mark uh Schmidt facilitates it does a great job and that uh committee is a
013representative a parent representative from each school all all 40 or so schools in the district and it's a it's a third year that I've been on it and um I've learned a ton and it you know it's a passionate group of parents and Advocates um and it's one of the more um you know positive it sometimes gets you know pretty emotional because people are usually that are those advocates for for their children are um you know there for a reason so but I think it uh reflects well on Blue Valley um because uh the special ed Community is a little bit different than the rest of our um entire community it really is a a Ser um our special ed services are are ones that serve the entire Community with not much other options for
014most families um whereas what's called general education um there are you know private schools and and and home school options that people have a little bit more ability to take advantage of if they feel like they they have that need but special ad really has to it's like our fire department has to serve everybody and I think we we continually you know sharpening the saw to improve it and I think that Council I just like to call it out because I um I'm I'm glad to be be part of it so that's it that's my only thoughts Mr pessenger thank you Mrs naap um I attended the strategic planning meeting uh which we've covered and also the health and well-being uh committee uh that we heard about Blue Valley Ed Foundation board uh looking ahead
015to uh what we call the price giveaway anyway where we go out and giveway checks price Patrol price Patrol I thought I saw that on TV um then Blue Valley wreck talked about the budget and finance which we touched upon in this morning's Workshop a PTO president's meeting uh where we saw the Strategic plan also visited a little bit about cell phones generally very supportive of the efforts that we put forth on uh controlling that um Community connections which U almost all of us were there uh again great to be able to to hear the many concerns varied concerns from uh the community and then on good morning op um christe and I were together we visited with uh there were some representatives from a company that has a tinting and Graphics uh that's their
016business and they were quite excited to know that we might be able to uh uh put some students in that direction uh and they were very excited about you know the opportunities of being able to connect with Blue Valley schools and uh that was a great takeaway and that's what I have thank you Jan Sonia I also attended the strategic planning committee as a board member with Jan and I am so impressed of the the variety and the the vast experience of the patrons that we have on that committee and it's very impressive and they have very good ideas and they're really uh wonderful as far as sharing them those ideas to give us a different perspective or a different way of looking at things I also attended with a few board members uh the
017ovland park chamber of commer annual breakfast good morning op which is always a hoot it's fun and uh the community connections I think that that whoever thought of that that was a wonderful um program to implement because uh by meeting with the um the uh the patrons and just sitting in front of them at sometimes people just want to be heard they they want they they want to be able to have someone that they can sometimes they don't even expect any type of outcome but they just want to be heard that someone's listening and I think that that was a great opportunity to hear exactly from them face to face and and at that time if we didn't have the answers we can get back to them on that and it really let them know
018that we are concerned we're concerned about what's going on in the district and we want to have our fingers on the pulse ourselves versus hearing it through the Great Vine we're actually there and they can come in front of us and talk to us so I Whoever thought about that that was outstanding and um I was also impressed too as well as Jodie uh at the Dei committee with Katie Katie was a product of the special education and she's in college now she's out of the program for about two years and I was so impressed with her advocacy for the program she was very articulate she was passionate and she talked about the Special Olympics and she talked about how that really helped her as far as her self-esteem was concerned and how the parents
019and the people that were in the program how they cared about her she talked about her work experience and she Advocate she was a great advocate for special education for the Blue Valley School District so I was very very impressed with uh Katie and that's all I have thank you Patrick I don't have anything to add thank you thank you clay sure well um the school tours continued I got to visit one High School Blue Valley High and five elementary schools um this past month Morse Liberty View Stillwell wolf Springs and Timber Creek um always love going into the schools and everybody should start their day with kindergarteners oh my gosh um everyone we walk into if we're with a principal Dr marrian there are hugs being given just they just come up it's just
020awesome um so love those tours attended uh committee meetings curriculum and instruction I think we met twice since the last meeting if I'm not mistaken um we had a number of students on that in that um committee we talked about the cell phone policy as was talked about earlier and I was thoroughly impressed by the students who talked about the cell phones and the way and the new policy and they praised it they thought they were getting more stuff done during the class time they felt like they had more class time um of instruction more instruction going on um and actually they felt that there was more conversations going on in throughout the entire School in the hallways and in the lunchroom even though kids could have their cell phones during those times at the
021high school level so that was very encouraging I love to hear that um also attended finance and Student Activities Committee attended the County Suicide Prevention Coalition leadership and uh public meeting uh went with uh Jody District Band District marching band exhibition no shaming was needed I've been to that many many times and it's always good um couple football games as well uh Community connections that was um lot of good a lot of productive conversations and um apologies that we didn't get to everyone to have everyone to get to share what their concerns were there we um a lot of conversations going on um I also got to do jury duty those last month so that was fun good morning op that was fantastic um Dr Aman's counterpart over in Shaunie Mission got to address the
022Overland Park chamber and the folks that were there talk about what's going on in the schools that was good um and it is election time we've got an election that's going to occur before our next meeting here so I've been out there attending forums of legislative candidates lots of information available for the community to go look up who will be in our legislature next session every single seat is up and those folks are very important to us because they control our funding and other things that are going on in our schools so I would encourage all of our community to become informed especially our new voters and our schools um they've got until tomorrow to register to vote if they will turn 18 before November 5th so I encourage them all to go out there
023get registered and vote on November 5th thank you clay Dr Maran pull up uh some great things that have been happening in the district uh first of all the niche ratings have come out the 2025 rankings uh were released and Blue Valley was once again ranked within the top one% of school distri school districts in the nation we were the number one school district in Kansas and also the number one district with the best teachers in Kansas so shout out to our teachers uh we had 43 Blue Valley seniors who have been named National Merit semifinalists so we want to congratulate those 43 um semi-finalists as well as their families and every teacher they've had from Early Childhood all the way through um that's that's quite an uh an accomplishment um District marching band Festival
024I too attended that and is one of my favorite nights of the whole year because it's not a competition there's not winners or losers they're all winners it's just really highlighting the amazing band programs that we have in our district and all five of them then did phenomenally um all five Blue Valley High Schools earned advanced placement um honor Ro distinction this recognizes schools whose AP programs are delivering results for students while broadening access to students so not only are we successful but we also need to be increasing the number of students who are taking it and so last month we shared some specific um results about AP Scholars this is just something for the school so um congratulations to our five high schools also 10 Blue Valley uh students were awarded advanced placement National
025recognition programs uh two of them were African-American black students um first generation five students students Hispanic Latino two students and a Native American one student U the district uh podcast which is BV unmuted um Dr CER um narrated this one and She interviewed Dan Carney who's our director of Safety and Security along with our interim Chief uh from the Overland Park Police Department uh Chief Simon uh haer and we talked about threats um what Blue Valley does to make sure that we have a safe and secure environment I strongly encourage anybody who has not listened to this to go and listen to this because it is a multifaceted approach that we use in our district we take every single um thing that comes through the district seriously and what we are really pushing is to
026report don't repost something on social media don't um continue with something that might not be true report it report it report it so that we can um act on it uh the Blue Valley today fall addition should be in your mailboxes and there's some things that that are happening on that some October recognition dates and holidays so this is National bullying prevention month so our schools are doing things around that National High School Activities month is so important that our students are involved in activities and Athletics and so we are um definitely appreciative of of all of our coaches and sponsors and and the importance they play um National School principles month we couldn't run our buildings without our principls uh custodian appreciation day that was on October 2nd National coaches day on October 6th
027national school lunch week I think that's right now so shout out to our school lunch workers America's safe schools week is next week and then Red Ribbon Week and Red Ribbon Week is um a symbol to drug drug and alcohol prevention so you will see some things in our schools then you know for Staff last week was a fun week we got to recognize several staff members our Kansas teacher of the year candidates for the district are Alex muninger uh who is a fourth grade teacher at Cottonwood point and Kim Vale who is a sixth grade teacher at Aubrey Ben U Middle School so we got to surprise them last Thursday um Kim's family was able to show up um so it was a great morning um also Kansas Master teacher this is something out
028of Emporia uh state that they do every year and so we were able to recognize last week another two other staff members Jill Bergie who is the instructional design coach at Valley Park Elementary and Casey Engel who is an English teacher at Blue Valley high school and so they are the elementary and secondary nominees and they will now compete in the master teacher uh competition with imp por EST State and then finally um about two weeks ago we were able to honor our two Horizon Award winners and these um individuals are in their second year of teaching so these are for for new teachers so after their first year each district gets to nominate one Elementary so that was Mission Trails brevan Armstrong and one middle school and that would be prair star middle um
029Audrey buron and um Audrey is the theater teacher and brevan is second grade maybe I don't her kids were adorable we went to we tried to explain to him what we were doing there and they said one little boy came called me over and he said I didn't really understand what you just said but I think it means it's something really good said it was it was really good they were very excited for their teacher and then we recognized our very own christe mcnarland and she was selected as a finalist for the 2024 School CEO excellence and school marketing award and then we have a couple of students uh blue valley Northwest uh chish and penth um co-authored two children's books about autoimmune diseases drawing from their own experiences so congratulations to both of them
030and then Blue Valley High and Blue Valley West were both named as a commended School of the 2024 Kansas State High School Activities Association Performing Art School of Excellence so congratulations to Blue Valley High and Blue Valley West and then U Blue Valley West Josh Coram was named the high school coach of the week for week two of the 2024 football season by the Kansas City Chiefs so congratulations to coach Corker and I believe that's it so lots of exciting things happening in the district we are already starting postseason with our fall activities um Regional golf was today State tennis is this weekend and then it'll just keep continuing from there thank you Dr Maran all right we'll go ahead and get started with approval of the Gina would you mind if I forgot uh
031to mention since we're talking about the Arts um Theater events are going on like this week they're starting and so if you want a great night out really inexpensive check your local high school uh theater um and uh go because it is amazing I have never been disappointed so sorry absolutely absolutely thank you Jody yes definitely try to see one of our Theater events right I am looking for a motion to approve the regular board meeting agenda for tonight I'll make a motion to uh I move that the Board of Education approve the October 14 2024 regular Board of Education meeting agenda as published second motion by Jody second by Clay all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 moving on to the consent agenda do we have a motion
032I move that the Board of Education approve the October 14 2024 consent agenda as published motion by jod second by Jan any discussion if not all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes all right we're just going to fly through tonight we have new business so the first item of new business is the musco sports lighting agreement so Jake is going to come up and give just a brief overview and um go from there good evening this is a contract with musco sports lighting LLC this is for lighting at our baseball and softball fields at Blue Valley North and Blue Valley High these are the only fields in the district that currently do not have lights this is an equity um project as well as an opportunity to make sure that
033we keep our students in school longer during the day being able to start our game slightly later and have lighting to do that so this is a great project and recommend approval for this and Jake just to be clear the city of Overland Park has approved both of these projects they have yes right do we have a motion for approval I move that the Board of Education approve the M musco Sports lighting LLC agreement motion by jod second by Jan any discussion seeing none all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 moving on to the D Tronics agreement and Kyle Hayden is going to come up and give a brief overview as well and answer any questions that you may have okay um I want to provide just a little
034bit of background I know you guys have received some information both in writing and then there was some conversation this morning also but um uh just to kind of review and then provide uh anybody who's observing this uh some opportunity to hear some of the the information around it so uh this project is actually been in the works for over five years um uh and some of that was just uh from what we were seeing from peer schools in the area uh with the inclusion of video boards both in gymnasiums and in um at District stadiums along with just what we were seeing Across the Nation um so we started uh two years ago with board approval of video boards in our in our gymnasiums and uh that has been a overwhelming success uh a
035lot of growing interest from uh from both our students and and from our fans um really improves the uh just the game day experience quite honestly there's also educational opportunities there too uh through our PE classes um and then also just through assemblies and things of that nature so there's a lot of different things that come into play with uh the use of the boards uh so with the growing interest um um we began to look forward to okay so what is expansion of this look like and um so we started talking more about you know what would this look like at our district stadiums and what opportunities would be uh available there um obviously at our district stadiums there's a number of different things that are happening uh Beyond just Athletics so obviously the
036you know football track uh we just had the marching band Festival which would be another great opportunity we have graduations uh that occur our our stadiums which video boards would be um a nice addition for for people to watch and experience that um and then you know another uh rationale behind it that um I think is really important is just the financial component um and there's a lot of layers to this but um first first of all just to cover the purchase of this um we'd be using unallocated uh bond funds and so uh uh through our bond sales we invest those funds and they've earned um quite a bit of Interest over the course of time um and so uh that interest helps us with covering additional projects that um we had um maybe
037as a priority or things that have appeared uh emerged as a as a priority and this is one of those things um the other piece of that Financial component is while we're using bond funds uh to pay for the boards we have an opportunity to bring in Revenue uh through our new all nbv sponsorship program um we've had sponsors in the past sponsorships are not a new thing uh in most cases um uh sponsors were gained uh or generated through our booster clubs that uh could be by a school or by an individual sport uh what we try to do is is consolidate that effort and more centralized approach um and so we put together uh a program with different levels of sponsors um we based that off of some examples we did uh looked
038at from Across the Nation um and um that Revenue can then offset operating costs uh that we have um and that offset of operating costs can then help us with uh funding priorities that we may have um that within our board goals and so uh primarily one that I think of right off the top is the Recruitment and Retention of Staff um so I think that's a a big a big component of this um and then right now uh we are able to have the value of an 8% rebate on the purchase which uh is equivalent to around $175,000 that we can put towards the purchase of other equipment um through de Tronics or the curriculum components that go with it that uh they can be used within our classrooms so some um some nice
039benefits there um just a little bit on the return on investment on this piece so I I just spoke to it a little bit but uh to kind of give you a perspective of that um uh in July we had three sponsorship agreements at that time totaling 75 ,000 uh a year in annual revenue uh since July so just in three months we've grown that uh to 14 sponsorships and uh close to $200,000 that will be coming in an annual revenue we believe that that just based off of a market study we've done we consulted we had a consultant that we worked with uh we believe that that could grow substantially and cover the cost of the boards uh within a six-year time frame so you know that remains to be seen um there's a
040lot of opportunity there we think U for that to to generate more resources and um the big thing about that is is it goes right back to students it goes right back to student programs um and it just helps us offset costs that we currently have so um and then the last piece of this really is the academic opportunities so U there's a a number of CTE courses in marketing um and broadcasting and uh promotion and advertising classes that is a nice tie to this uh we anticipate uh it depends on the building right the amount of interest you may have um but we believe that uh with just a little bit more uh uh concentrated effort on our part academic Services team is tackling this as we speak and working with our building principles
041at the high schools uh who will then connect with those teachers and then connect with those students and um so we only see that uh opportunity also growing and then with that growth we know that students make things happen right so um they'll generate some cool content they already are uh through hype videos and other things and I think that that um could only get bigger and bigger so that's just a little bit of the background a little bit of the key points to it and I'll pause for questions Kyle what's the life expectancy of the boards uh minimum 10 years um when anticipate up to 15 uh I think that's um um it's still kind of a newish product right it's a little bit like Turf U but so you look at that and
042you and you uh but all the research that's out there says that at least 10 years and and potentially up to 15 Kyle um I want to thank you for right up front for I had a lot of questions about this project um and you and your team have done a great job of answering them so I'm just going to ask some clarifying questions though um what exactly is included in this package we've got three video boards that we're talking about and maybe some scoreboards at some of our other fields so the three for football fields and other for soccer fields the regular scoreboards for some soccer fields is that correct that's correct so yeah these would go into our three um District activity complexes um one we have is at blue valley Northwest we
043have one at Blue Valley West we have one at Blue Valley High um we would take the rebate the funds used from the rebate and we would put that back into uh soccer scoreboards that need replaced um at all the high schools um and then there's some other curriculum components uh that uh allow for some software content creation that the students can use uh to help with uh with making the experience I think that people see on the video boards pretty cool um and if you had any feedback from teachers or buildings or staff regarding this the educational components and the curriculum o opportunities yeah I think there's a lot of excitement around that um there's you know like I mentioned before there's some people who are are Front Runners on this and who are
044uh really out there doing some really nice things and interacting with the boards on a pretty high level um and then we have others that are just learning and um but there's really an opportunity I think uh as a um teach the teacher kind of model where you know the people who are doing it really well can teach those other teachers uh to also uh grow their programs and grow their interest with their students so okay and then I had a question about um you said they unallocated bond funds so interest earned on these bond funds um and you talked about the ability to use them for this project and then the revenue that's going to be created could be used poured back into our general funds which can be used for teacher pay teacher
045recruitment is that correct that's correct and we there are some restrictions on that money we can't just take that money and use it directly for teachers or put it in the class room is that right that's correct yeah um State statutes uh prohibits school districts from using funds to pay salaries you can pay a portion a small portion of wages for people who work directly with Bond projects only which is only a handful of people in Jake's uh department and then also a handful of people in the IT department but that's only a portion of their salary uh so by and large of the $251 million dollars we have available that all goes to capital projects So Physical buildings um um physical equipment uh that uh that's what that would go to all right thank
046you have a few questions um are there any annual support payments under this these contracts like uh software or ongoing or is it onetime purchase it's a one-time purchase yeah and it's TurnKey install and software is included yes okay is there support associated with it that they have um they do um yeah they they'll come out on site uh and help us uh they help with uh training staff training students um um and if there are any type of technical repairs or anything like that they will come out and also support with that too uh over the course of time ideally we would have once just like everything if we can do things in house um then that would obviously save us cost over the course of time so yes if I staff becomes more
047and more familiar with it than I think that that would would benefit us too okay um so we talk about these Revenue opportunity um and that's tied to so a couple years ago we purchased like video boards for the gymnasiums so that $75,000 a year that you mentioned is revenue generated in connection with like media and marketing marketing advertising for those boards yeah so we uh um with those boards we started with three sponsorships um uh one with Price Chopper one with shields and then one with with uh KU medical and um um those were each $25,000 a piece per year uh those contracts so brings in 75,000 uh annually so that's kind of was the first stab at kind of our in-house um Media company right yeah so that you know when we first
048established those um it was really just uh Matt Ortman uh our director of administration over school activities and Athletics that um was making some of that happen and some of it was just like they were natural Partnerships that we really kind of already had especially with KU um Medical but um KU is the sports the sports med yeah the sports medicine piece of it so um so yes you know so the sports medicine piece of it you know those are our sideline trainers that are providing support for our students and you know even during the school day so um but we got more organized really over the course of the last year really beginning of last January we started to uh put some time into researching what else we could do um we had some
049models out there there aren't very many uh on the high school level quite honestly or on the a school district uh level uh but uh we were able to find a few and then kind of take our own twist on that and um put together a program with different levels of sponsorships um um going from Platinum down to bronze with different uh money associated with it and then different different benefits that they can get based off of that so so so this increase from three to 14 sponsors is really still just tied to those existing assets meaning the the video board in the gy exactly and what's the revenue jump from 200 or 75 grand a year to what it's a right now it's 193,000 that could change tomorrow because it changes weekly and are
050those um contracts of duration just the annual deal or so they're different um some are annual most are um multi-year um generally three years the large majority and so that original investment in those video boards was like I'm I'm just thinking it was 800,000 but I'm not I'm didn't go back and look I just was going from memory I think you're in the ballpark okay all right thanks yep so actually one final question so do your projection was six years uh payback which would be like if you were going in front of investors you might be more aggressive than that um so that would be 375,000 bucks a year of kind of projected incremental revenue from these boards yeah on average um yeah we anticipated getting to 275,000 um by the end of this year
051or early next year uh quite honestly um we believe that this purchase in particular will will really draw the attention of of more sponsors and um it may take us getting them rolled out there and going through a season where a lot of people get see it see what can be done with it and the exposure of it to really get it going but I think once that happens then um that average will jump pretty quickly okay thanks any other questions for Kyle do I have a motion well can I just say I'm I'm not a big fan of um spending money on things like this but um I was skeptical a couple years ago when we um did these video boards and I do think there's um Merit to uh having in-house generation of
052of Revenue that I don't think every school district in state of Kansas could could do it but we're in a place where people pay for this kind of stuff so um so I think it's uh I think the you know if I were if I were investing I probably would ask for a more aggressive payback than six years but I think it's worth the risk so we could always raise rates yeah well maybe but but it does seem like there's a lot of uh demand from the the advertisers for this kind of product so to me the community benefit is huge in this one I mean the stadiums on Thursday and Friday Friday nights are packed with community members um you can do alumni recognitions you can you know be zoomed in on those homecoming
053king and queen courts and it just benefits it's benefits the whole Community not just the sports team it'll really transform track meets middle school teams play there we do Feer yeah so there's so much there's so many benefits and we truly are one of the last school districts around to and put one of these in and I asked some of the coaches what they thought about getting the video boards and you know the answers you guys are laughing but they said you know we kind of tend to lag on our uh support of athletic um these types of athletic Endeavors the weight room we're doing now and other things we're doing now the lights at the baseball fields the turf um but our facilities are always just a little bit behind on the improvements and
054so starting to do more of those is huge because our whole Community benefits from them not just our students but all of us there on Friday nights um or Thursday nights or Saturday mornings or whatever so I'm a big fan of this does anybody have anything else all right I'll look for a motion then I'll move it I I move that the Board of Education approve the doctronics Inc agreement second motion by Jim second by Clay any discussion see none I will raise your hand or say I in approval all right motion passes 70 I also want to thank Kyle Jake Matt Ortman the entire team who worked on that um because it they've they've done a very nice job of christe and her team have have worked with the communications part too so thank
055you thank you Tanya moving on to approval of the maau gor Construction LLC agreement first one so Jake has two in a row here maybe three in a row um um all Bond project so I'll let him go yeah the first one is a a contract with Macau Gordon construction uh you previously approved them for our delivery of some of our bond projects this is a good one for lewood elementary school eliminates the mobile at that building adds significant parking to that facility which is greatly needed uh we had good good bids here and we're excited to bring this one forward for recommendation answer happy to answer any questions so is this adding another classroom or one classroom or two classrooms so it actually reduces one adds five so there's a net of and the
056Mobile's to so there's a net of two more than what they have today part of that is to get a classroom out of the basement and to give them some flexibility it's not about adding students to the building but to give them space to do what what they need thank you yeah I I assume by mobile classroom de demolition is this mobile goes offsite it's no longer there absolutely okay it'll stay there just to is is and I'm assuming that's a spacing but is that also we appointing like growth to not have to bring it back in a few years we don't want to bring this one in particular back it's reached the end of its life so it's time to retire God but yes the answer is ideally we don't have mobils anywhere in
057the district after this bond issue I was going to say I think this bond issue kind of set that stage that we you know our our goal is that we um for safety reasons I'm looking at Dan I think uh he is always a fan of getting rid of mobiles because we want kids in a phys physical building how many how many's left after these two these are the only two that'll require building additions I think we have a handful of other sites that have mobiles but aren't using them every day or we can find Space within the building to accommodate programs so I don't know the exact number Patrick that's left but I want to say maybe three or four but they'll be gone by summer of 26 it's my understanding that the folks
058over at lewood elementary are are going to be extremely thrilled with the changes and the structure and the infrastructure there on campus so yes sir correct me if I'm wrong but I think that they're going to be pretty excited absolutely they're the school's excited the students are looking forward to it and I know our neighbors are looking forward to it as well do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education approv the maau and Gordon Construction LLC agreement lewood Elementary School second motion by Jody second by Jan any discussion see none all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 we have the second maau and Gordon construction yeah same type of project this time at Cedar Hills Elementary this time elimination of two mobiles so we'll remove
059four classrooms in mobiles we'll do two building additions on two separate Wings each of those has three classrooms so a net of two but again really just accommodating space within the building not looking to um Advance or grow enrollment at that building um another exciting project and and recommend this one for approval happy to answer any questions if there's no questions I'll take a motion Jody Jim's got it I moved that the Board of Education approve the Mac Gordon Construction LLC the second maau Gordon Construction LLC agreement second the theater Hills one yeah motion by Jim second by Clay any discussion see none all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 on to Advanced exercise equipment yeah this is agreement with Advanced exercise equipment to support another 2023 Bond project
060um this is for the weight rooms at Blue Valley North and blue valley Northwest this is all the equipment that goes inside that space so at some of our facilities we have older equipment at Blue Valley High for instance we have some newer equipment this is to create Equity at all of our high schools um to create um safe environments at these two schools um this is a something we have to have we can't build a weight room and not put the equipment in there so um recommend this for approval any discussion do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education approve the Advanced Equipment sorry Advanced exercise equipment Inc agreement second motion by Jim second by Jan any other discussion see none raise your right hand or say I motion passes
06170 is there any further business of the board tonight no we are adjourned for