001All right, please rise. We'll do the pledge of allegiance real quick. >> I aliance 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. Good evening everyone. I'd like to call the regular board meeting for October 8th, 2025 to order. Like to make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Parsons. >> I heel. Hi >> Carson. >> Hi >> Ty. >> Hi >> Fagen. >> Hi >> Linton. >> Hi >> Lamar. >> Hi. >> Uh is there any delegation? >> No. >> Okay. >> Any correspondence? >> No. >> Anyone have question on the treasures report? Goodness. I can't I'm sorry guys. I can't see you. >> Any questions on the
002treasures report bills? >> On the bills. There was the flag football uniforms. When we talked about flag football originally, did we talk about funding? I thought it was just going to be covered under the school. We weren't paying anything. >> Well, if it's flowing through the school, that's how it's going to work. >> So, is it getting reimbursed then? >> So, we we have to talk to Cory about that. But, yeah, we'll get taken care of squared away. >> Okay. >> But yeah, we had one uniform that I had to order supplementally. >> Okay. >> Um because the ones that I had were not large enough. >> Okay. So, and that one that that was one that was or uh which will I mean I told them either way, but the they wouldn't take the
003order unless it was placed by the school. Like I couldn't place it individually >> and that makes sense. I just thought and it didn't seem like it was enough for a whole team of uniforms, but it >> Oh, that one. Yeah. >> It was like random. So, >> a jersey and shorts. >> Okay. But >> yeah, >> those are expensive, but not like I said, not enough for a whole >> They're also Nike. Gotcha. Okay. >> Thanks. They look nice though. >> That investment interest. >> We have that every month. >> Yeah. Mhm. >> Oh, and the cap and gown. There was a capping like that seemed like one cap and gown. >> So that' be for a homeless student that we have. And so in part of that with our homeless money, we can
004use that to help pay for expenses like that for them for them being identified as homeless. >> Perfect. Thanks. >> Yep. Good questions. >> Anything else? Sorry, guys. All right. If there's no other questions, I like to make a motion to adopt the minutes of the revenue neutral hearing meeting of September 10th, 2025. Adopt the minutes of the budget hearing meeting of September 10th, 2025. Adopt the meeting minutes of the regular board meeting of September 10th, 2025. and to adopt the continuation of the regular board meeting uh minutes of September 10, 2025. Uh also like to reimburse the pettic for the high school in the amount of $22.95. uh approved the treasures report of September 30th of 2025 and approved the payment of the bills uh and the bills to be allowed in the amount
005of $177,167.75 for October 8th, 2025 and the September 2025 payroll in the amount of $557,372.88. >> Second Ty. >> Hi Blow Meer. >> Hi >> Parsons. >> Hi >> Mitten. >> Hi >> Ken. Stone. >> Hi. >> Parson. >> Hi >> Fagen. >> Hi. >> All right. There's no old business. So we'll jump down to new business for the Greece and Italy student trip. >> So Miss Piper's here. Mr. Carter here today to kind of give you an update of what's going on with that. So I'll just turn it over to the >> All right. So um this summer, this past summer, I took kids to Spain and Portugal. Um, we were supposed to have gone to Peru, but due to having a small number of the group and not being able to coordinate with
006other schools dates, um, we ended up having to change our trip, which took us to Portugal and Spain. If you've never been to Portugal, you need to go. It is beautiful. And while we were in Spain, um, we went like the whole coast. We got to go to Jialar, which is like a British territory in Spain. You could look across the ocean and see Africa. It was just absolutely amazing. So, well worth it for that trip. Um I most of you probably know, but not everyone may know that I don't live here in Kansas. I live in Oklahoma and so I don't know like moving forward, you know, how much longer I'll be here. Um hopefully it's a bit longer, but um I don't know how many more times I'll be able to travel with
007students like this. I'm hoping to at least do one more. And so I thought if I'm going to do one more, maybe I could hand it over to someone else and go with them and just kind of teach them the ropes on how you handle student travel abroad and what that's involved. So um this Piper is going to be the group leader on this trip. I'm just going to go along as a like chaffron, but just kind of help her get through the kinks of taking students out of the country. >> All right, Mrs. You want to hand this up? So, yes, this will be my first trip taking students on any form of travel, much less international. But I am extraordinarily excited >> um to announce that we will be going uh to Italy
008and Greece in the summer of 2027. Um so, our trip has a very kind of action-packed um and amazing itinerary. So some of those things include um going to Athens, Greece and Delelfi. Um Italy, we are going to go and spend some time in Rome um as well as Florence, a few other places kind of around um in the Greece and Italy kind of area of the world. And so um I feel like this is an extraordinary opportunity for students. I myself took my first um international travel opportunity over the summer um and had an amazing time and honestly taught me so much about um myself, the world through that experience and I honestly can't wait to share it with students and that way hopefully open their eyes to what the world and international travel
009opportunities can open up for them. So, we just kind of wanted to give you guys some information about our upcoming tour in the summer of 2027. >> How many students did you take last time? >> I took a million last time. >> Nine. >> Yep. >> Are you thinking the same amount or >> So, as of right now, we have 10 people signed up. Um, that is including two adult chaperones as well that are going to be paying participants on this trip. Um, I'm hoping to grow the number at least by a few more. Um, ideally I'd like to see a group of about maybe 15 or 16. [Music] >> You had mentioned partnering up with other schools in the area or abroad or whatnot. Um, would we be doing the same thing with this
010one, trying to find others? >> Yeah, more than likely if you don't have 30 paying participants in your group, you get um paired up. In 2023, I took a group to um Europe and we had there were 28 paying participants. So, we only had to group up by two people. We only had to group up with one school and there were just 10 of them. This time, um since I only had the nine, we were grouped up with four other schools, which wasn't really the most ideal of situations. Um I'm hoping this one grows so that we're not with so many. And honestly, I had more. It wasn't the kids that were the problems. It was the other adults on the trip that were kind of an issue. So, yeah, it's best to not be
011paired with all those people, but I mean, you got to do what you got to do. I guess it it was worth it to go. >> I appreciate you making it work. >> Is this trip limited to just a Spanish class or all students or >> It's all um We talked to Mr. Kimell about it and anybody like we districtwide. Yeah. and he even like recommended maybe co-oping with like area schools. We just haven't um take we wanted to see how many how much interest we had from our school before we >> the summer of 2025. You said >> 2027. >> Oh, 2027. Okay. I was thinking, man, you're under the gun. >> Are you doing the 10day or the 14-day? >> 10 days. What's the What's the student cost on this? >> So, student
012cost is right at about $5,000. Um, adult chaperrons going on the trip, that's looking closer to about 5,800. And we do have some fundraising opportunities that we are looking into. Um, we're already actually have some donations coming in um from area businesses um and businesses um and activities around the state of Kansas um that we are looking to potentially be looking at raffling off um in the near future potentially like basketball games and things like that to kind of help with the cost of the trip as well. So basically all we cover is like transportation then. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. >> Get used to the airport and kick us out. >> You can come back and pick us up and pick us up. >> Jim's been on one of those. Yeah. >> Pick you up
013and drop you up early early morning or late late. The middle of the morning. middle of the night, 1:30, and then I can't remember when we got back on that one. It >> was like 4 in the morning. >> Was it? Yeah. >> And it was icing on the way home. It was nasty. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. And the last one we got back into Witchah at 10:30 at night, so we didn't get back here till after midnight. And >> they don't pick the best hours to leave and get back. >> So, you said this is summer 27. Is this open to the eighth graders then, too? >> Yes. Yep. Sign them up. >> Yep. Districtwide, elementary, middle, and high school. >> Wow. You might be asking for it. >> Yeah. [Music] >> Looks
014like a fun trip. >> It does look like a fun trip. >> Well, we appreciate you guys taking the lead on this and giving this opportunity to our kids and others. So, um, it' be a great experience for them, but appreciate you doing that being here tonight. share with the board. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Um Pearson Architecture. >> All right. Bobb's here tonight. Um she's here um going to kind of give you an update where we're at um things that we've done and I'll just turn it over to her so I don't get in the way of anything. >> No, thanks for the opportunity. Pat Jolan is here tonight with us, too. Um Pat and I have worked together on some uh projects in the past. Um he's with a construction
015company and um there's a lot of great construction companies out there. Pat has uh helped us with the ECC just recently um helping develop some cost and some um just some scope uh another eyes on it just some thoughts. The more input we can get um tonight we're just going to talk about some of the different paths. Um, I know that, uh, Ted talked about some of those at the last meeting, so we'll touch on those. He talked about a broader range. We're going to narrow it down a little bit. Um, what our goal is, we've had a couple meetings. We've had a few meetings. We had a work session uh, last Wednesday that was fabulous. In the afternoon, we met with a middle school group, with the CT educators. Um before that we met
016with the uh maintenance groups uh just to gather some information. Let's get this going. Let's figure out what our needs are, what our goals are. Think, you know, what do you want it to become? What can we serve um better in our school as well as the maintenance issues and the things that we know are in our existing school, but how do we think beyond that? And part of that also is um you know the cost associated with it. You know, let's look deep into some of those things. Think about the details. the only we want to do the best job so we have the right information at hand when we get to this point of um if we want to put this to a bond election. So hit the right targets, do our our
017work, roll our sleeves up, dig into what's existing here as well as um where we want to envision and make happen with the new bond election. So in that this is what we believe we're here for to talk a little bit about the CM at risk and I welcome any questions we'll tell you some of our experiences. >> Pat and I um when we first uh met each other >> yeah long time ago >> a long time ago a really long time ago. And the state had not done any alternate delivery um before any kind of alternate delivery is design build at risk any of those type of anything besides a traditional uh design bid build. And so uh we were tasked you served in leadership on the AGC the association of general contractors and
018I was on the board for the American Institute of Architects. So we met um KU was kind of getting it going. they were going to be one of the first ones out of the gate to do it. It ended up that ESU was the very first um CM at risk project for the state of Kansas. So, it was all a matter of like what are the statutes? How do you follow how do you make this fair? You know, how do you get competitive bids? How do you what is the process for the state of Kansas? So, that was really kind of like scary and fun >> pioneering a little bit trying the rules. Now there's pretty good statutes in place. Back then the statutes were just being written. So >> they were all so gray.
019Yeah. How do you do it fairly and how do you um you know there's a lot of people and how do you approach it where everyone has the same standards that you go by and yeah and through the years we've been involved. He has been and I have been and I the reason I think it's a great balance here that we're both here and please feel free to give us any um thoughts on or questions. He's from the construction side of it and I've uh been from the private firm and owner side of it. So, we've seen different sides of it and the benefits and the drawbacks and the different things to different scenarios of alternate delivery. um different every project is completely different too. You know, if it's a brand new project versus, you
020know, um something really messy and the and it's it's phased. That's another thing, you know, like schools, you have delicate phasing you have to think about because you have winter break, then you have spring break, you have fall break, you have summer break. And there some of these are little things that you can get in and do. Or you could think if we started spring break then that gives us a leg up through the summer you know but every project is completely different and you guys have seen that in your experience but we have a number of projects in this feasibility study that we want to think about those layers because some of those layers develop into different cost scenarios and you know how can you build it and make it more doable for the
021construction and for the life of it. So that's where we are going to kind of lead into. Um part of it is is a good uh jumping around and part of it is a little bit more um just technical but right now we're at the design approach and the bud budget magnitude just the feasibility study which we already jumped into. Um, when we have all that developed and we have a program like we did on the ECC, we, you know, start off with the what are the what are the ideas and I'll keep typing meeting notes and keep rewriting the program. It's, you know, this living thing through the process of input and and adjustments and and different things and try to think of all the components that are going to cost different things. playground
022equipment, furniture, all the things that we need to keep layering into it and um assessing as we go. That program will reach its um completion and we'll go for the vote yes campaign ideally. That's where we want to take it to the next step. And then there's this kind of a line drawn when it passes then you initiate a project. And so after the project's initiated, um, we have the potential where I think this is a project, multiple projects, but overall project that's well suited for the construction manager at risk. So we're going to talk a little bit about that part of it today and then um jump into construction administration and then you get to move in into everything. this you saw um these parts of it when in Ted's presentation that was part
023of it but I think this is some key things here um I can't see from that angle I don't remember going like this a while ago in the sun but um those key points I think were really good because this you might jump in Pat a little bit on this blue square the um pre-construction services holds trade contracts and often provides a GMP so From the owner's perspective in a CM at risk, that was a wonderful thing. I think serves the owner well because you know where you're headed in this from the very beginning. You they uh the construction manager jumps on the team early. You kind of you give everything a gauge. You establish a a GMP and then from then on through the rest of the process uh you're able to track all
024the cost. you're able to know re really what is uh what you're spending your money on very detailed wise if you want to which we did every month all the receipts were attached to it >> right it's a very very open book process versus the traditional design bid build where the architect gets the drawings done put it out to contractors the bids come in and you're on bins and needles cuz you don't know if you're over budget or not because there's not been any I'm saying architects can't budget >> it will be Great contractors are better at budgeting. Um that's the design bid build method. And then there was going around the state for a while was um CM agency which I think in everybody's opinion including all the school force is not the best
025idea because the construction manager would not hold any of the subcontracts the school district would. So if a subcontract defaulted, went down, it was up to the school district to to deal with that. Then the construction manager, a risk was born um to put the the risk back on the contractor basically pulled all the subcontracts, manage the project, but also go with an open more of an open book approach than the traditional design bid building. That makes makes sense. I on that part of it, the thing that I think is a huge um importance is jumping in early, hearing the conversations, understanding the needs of the district or whoever the owner is, which is a district here, but hearing the needs so the design intent is understood. So you're you're knowing where everybody wants to
026be as an end result from the a really initial language that they hear. So all of those cost are it's a it's a team it's a partnership from the beginning and so um that is huge benefit and what I like this from the um from the owner side is every single Tuesday we would meet we would look at okay we are running high on this we ran into something we didn't anticipate on a messy project and so okay here's what we had as our wish list how do we kind of keep that on the wish list how do we balance that somewhere where else and get the end results of where we want to be. So, we're always staying on task to like back and forth the construction, the design from a really early onset,
027which I think is incredibly helpful. And we do have um to the point of where we'll we'll run through some of just brief overview of our projects. You know, you know, there's some messy things here and you know, we're going to um dig into some things that we try to find as much information as we can. We know there's going to be some things that come up along the way that we it's concealed spaces or you name it. We can't name it right now because we don't know. But yeah, >> Bobby started off. So like when these weekly meetings happen, it's like like somebody from the school there with the CD with this at risk or is >> it's not necessarily a written rule, but I think it's so helpful. And back in the day,
028it was like in person, which I think is great when it's under construction. you can put your hands on it and touch it, you know, you know what the real your eyes are on it. And maybe it happens once a month with everybody there. But I think having and we just do that on a very big um messy messy project where at the beginning it was like, oh, we don't need to meet once a week. We're like, let's have a touch base for 20 minutes. Well, those touch bases were never 20 minutes long. They were like sometimes an hour and a half. It was just like, okay, we saw this. What do we do? How do we and everybody just kind of the owner was there, the uh engineer was online, the architect was um
029the contractor some sometimes the subcontractors but not always but some of the major ones >> depended what we were into really site worker you name it the right person was there >> well and on the we just finished a ford 437 new middle school in on that project um just as an example we we and the architect met every single week and we were talking about all the behind scene and then every other week uh school district representatives were on to kind of we don't want to waste you guys are all busy don't want to waste your time so we'd have you know a good list of we need to talk about these things and get these items answered then the next week it'd be more of looking at details what kind of material works
030and things like that that worked really well too >> yeah I think through the course of the project it will vary it'll vary by the by the phase that you're in And also, you know, you just hit it when you need to type of thing. And always, um, I think the good thing is everybody's in a partnership. So, we're we all know that we can feed off each other and learn from each other because we're communicating from the beginning. So, that's the the good thing and that's why the early constructibility input. Um, you know, let's go in and think about there's so many different ways you can draw something and do something, but to have those opinions and think about the cost impact is so wonderful. and I do a pretty darn good budget, but
031it is great to feed off of each other and know where you are and you know different ways to do things and uh so that's always helpful. You know, wood versus steel or different things like that even you know on some of those >> those different types of construction where you may look at structural construction, wood construction, masonry and steel. you know, a construction manager to get in there and give you all four options, figure out what's your best best bang for your buck basically. And you want to part of it's a tornado shelter, so you want to be blocker. Those kind of discussions have code and compliance, fire safety, all those things like that. There's a lot of bouncing those ideas off each other. Um the other thing is, you know, the schedule overlap.
032You know, what helps with doing certain things at the same time in different places because we're all over the place on the map. Um so then here, you know, we do have some uh complexity, some phasing, some heavy renovation on our projects that we're looking at. Here's where we're at. We're in different spots on the map here. So just to think about how you free up some space and I know you guys have given that some thought already but just to think about um the layers of how do you where you move students during those pieces of the puzzle. So um playing all that together, we have the major highlights in red of the the u the major focused areas and then we have the other things that are just our maintenance um capital projects
033considerations which have a life of their own really in the budget and trying to figure those things out which will be um incredibly helpful. So Pat, you want to talk about um some of the main features that just stand out? >> Sure. I'll try and be I'm here to talk about the process, not how we do it. I'm not I'm used to getting up front school boards and trying to tell you why I'm the best contractor for the job, but I'm not going to do that tonight. I'm going tell you why this process works. I'm going to try. So forgive me if I go into that much. Um but no, u I'll hit each of these real quickly. I mean, CM allows a contractor to be engaged during design, um, which is what what Bobby
034was talking about in those in those weekly meetings looking at constructibility reviews, cost input, and talking about schedule. A lot of times on the constructibility reviews, you know, the architect may draw detail of a parapit wall that's very complicated and may leak from our past experience or something like that and we can suggest, well, what if we did it like this? And there's that collaborative approach where after the drawings are done and the job's bid, then you're stopping progress to fix that detail instead of fixing that new project service. Um, budgeting, early budgeting, again, the last thing anybody wants is a big surprise when the numbers come in. Um CMS will usually provide you know two to three to four different budget updates starting with more of a conceptual almost an akin sketch. It'll be
035high level. There'll be a pretty big contingency number in there. As the drawings become more complete, the budgets gets updated. You know, every usually a um conceptual phase, then there's a design development phase, and then maybe a 50% construction drawing phase. Step back, take a look at the budget again. If it's if we got budget problems, you can stop then and say, "Okay, what can we do to get this back on track?" and also during that process provide a list of almost a grocery list of wish you know wish list items. Um some of them are ads some of them are deduct um so you have some some flexibility there as you move along with the budget. So the budgeting is is a huge um benefit of the CM approach. Um, and then fast track
036kind of hit on this. You can, and we've done this many times, is start a project before the drawings are 100% complete. Um, due to a condensed schedule, and maybe it's things like you're going to get in over spring break in your instance and do a bunch of selective demolition um, but you can still operate school when spring break's over. That gives you a head start on summer work. The other thing, especially this day and age, your lead times on equipment, uh, mechanical equipment a lot of times is 25 to 35 weeks out on, you know, rooftop units right now. Um, also electrical switch gear, electrical panels, those types of things are so far out, you know, in the old, I guess, method of design bid build, the contractor could not get that stuff until
037they had a contract. In this method, um, it allows basically an early early, uh, procurement of those items, those long time items. You would know the cost. They would still be bid out to the subcontractors, but if approved, you could get your rooftop units ordered while the architects may be halfway through design, >> and that happens pretty often. >> It's really, really tough right now with these lead time items. Um and then the CM shifts the risk of the cost and schedule to the construction manager. Guaranteed maximum price set um don't exceed that guaranteed max. Now if you decide to build another addition halfway through the project, you know, that's that's another deal. But, you know, having CM on board through the design process, if a detail's missed or, you know, something's not designed quite
038correctly, it's it's our responsibility, not yours. And it really reduces the ugly work change orders. So, >> and we might have thought we had it right and then we dig into it and we have to re-evaluate it. But I think that the more eyes you have on it, the more thinking. >> Absolutely. And you have the you or any contractor has the manpower to bring in and investigate more than we would be otherwise. >> That's another good point. Getting in getting above the ceilings, maybe tearing into a wall or two and seeing what's behind the wall. You know, we think we know what's back there. We think it was a wood frame wall stud wall and that affects fire ratings and everything else. So, yeah, doing some of that stuff early. Um I think the
039biggest one of the biggest um things that folks are kind of afraid of of in the CMI AR approach is that it's not um a competitive approach, but it really is. When you're selecting the CM, it is a feebased proposal. It's qualifications based. You don't have to go with the low fee, but there is a fee. A lot of times the general conditions, overhead items are set, the bonds, the insurance, all that's, you know, competitively submitted on by different CMS. Um, and then once the CM's on board, typically what happens is bid packages are put together for subcontractors and those go out and those are competitively bid on a bid day. Um, so you're really still getting that competitive approach that you did in the old design bid build method. And we actually was 2012,
040the last the last round there, >> the last uh project you guys did, you actually we did it. You you did use this method. I don't know if anybody was on the school board then or not, but and I think I think it was pretty successful >> a lot. >> That's the question I was going to ask. How much I mean I don't know if we've looked into it from our last bond issue, but how many things did not happen during our last bond that we passed? You know, like I've heard rumor like there was supposed to be a locker room at the football field, but it was the budget came in way over. They had to cut it back. Um, what is what is the percentage doing it this way like on completion? Like
041for for like do you get 90% of it done on a on an average and if you went the old design build process, are they only getting 89 88% of it done or do you guys usually get 100% of what's what's bid done in the process? Typically, we get everything done, but there I'm not going to lie, there's typically some concessions made to get everything done. Um, maybe you want brick out on the outside of your building, but you have to go to Stuckco. >> Yeah. >> To get uh, you know, a program of, I don't know, another classroom or whatever. So, that's the kind of back and forth that goes on during that whole pre-construction process and that grocery list of items. But and then the other thing, you know, I think it's on
042here being an open book accounting process throughout the project. Um, you'll see the savings and you get the savings back. The old way of doing it, the bid job, if I get done early and I save $10, I get to keep $10. in this process you get them back and you get there's really no need for an audit at the end because when every pay application comes through every month that what Bobby would approve whoever the district would approve it really is a monthly audit of the costs that went into that project. So, but yeah, through that usually honestly usually we get 100% of it unless it's just something, you know, completely completely off the wall. >> But usually the district knows going into it that they can't afford that element. I'll say my thought
043on that is that in a sim at risk you have a little bit more flexibility to navigate when you run into complex things and you kind of keep rebalancing but you don't want to take something completely off the list but that did come up on Wednesday when we were sitting around there like we didn't get the waiver and yeah okay those things need to stay on the list and that's why it's so important for the bond issue that we do everything possible to try to think about what the budget is, evaluate, take it, you know, take it off the list and make it a wish list thing. Then we can balance it in, try to do it. But, you know, you're really trying to hit the market of what do you think you can get
044to pass and what's responsible for the community. And so, um, I think, you know, I have the ones that I've personally worked on, we have hit our mark and we had a contingency built in that helped us address some of the things that we ran into. And then we were able to actually pay for some of the maintenance and some other things that we didn't even think we were going to be able to do. But that doesn't happen on everything. Um, you run into things. There's the middle school is probably going to be a little bit messy. I'm just going to guess because that's that's an older school. We're going to run into some things. We're going to try I mean, you have the buried locker room down below that I have not went down
045into yet, but I'm planning to, but I'm not trying to do it any too soon before I have to. But there's going to be some messy stuff and we're going to have to dig into it. But as far you you just got to stay the early communication and the trying to stay on top of it and communication is everything and that helps people know why you went to the places you went to. And that's why I think that that open book on accounting is helpful too. You're figuring out how far your money is getting you and you're staying on top of it from the beginning instead of waiting till the end and know we we over spent on this. I mean that happens on every little project, every big project. if you don't say, "Hey,
046we can't we can't do that cuz then this comes off the list, you know, think about the priorities you brought in the beginning before you get too deep in." >> The other interesting thing real quick just popped in my brain that Auburn Washurn did, you know, they had a fairly large, it was 90 something million dollar bond issue for a bunch of different they touched every school in the district and build a new middle school. They wanted to build a new gym for girls wrestling because the programs just exploded there. um they already had a wrestling room dedicated to wrestling and that thing was kind of just black ballalled throughout. So they ended up splitting. They had a bond issue or a vote, I'm sorry, for the this new wrestling facility and then there was
047everything else. That guy voted down, everything else passed, which I thought was an interesting concept. I don't know. I purely believe that it it may still have passed, but it would have been a lot closer if that part of the project would have been in. So, I thought that was an interesting way to skim that. >> Yeah. And I had never heard about anything like that with that project. So, that was >> there's no reason. >> They didn't want everything to fail. Then they knew it was a hard thing to pass. So, >> and at the end of the day, they've actually saved enough off of the other projects that they're going to they're going to construct that. >> I think Tyler, to your point, I think that was what happened with the previous bond
048is that they underestimated how the how how receptive the public would be for that vote. And so, they cut a few things exf. and then ended up passing, you know, three to one. You know, I think if they would have kept everything in, it it would have passed maybe not three to one, but it would have passed. >> There was a lot of conversation of we've got to get this to pass at this time because we didn't want to lose the funds that were available for free if we got it within that time frame basically, right? That's what I remember. >> I I remember you talking about the locker room. I remember all that discussion. I remember about the turf football field discussion. I mean, there were some other discussions too that they opted to
049take off the table because they were ultimately afraid that it wouldn't pass and then they wouldn't get, you know, everything that they wanted to. So, >> I kind of feel like if that would not have, you know, if you were a traditional bid on that, you might have been like way over the top or, you know, where would what would you do when the bids came in? You know, I feel like, yeah, it's the early beginning. We just need to be on task as much as possible and also to think about what is responsible to get it to put out there for a a positive uh vote. Yes. You know, but >> think we could do a $90 million bond issue. >> I mean, we just don't want to be in like our neighboring district
050that they passed a bond issue and now they're not getting what they what they passed the issue on. So that's one thing that I hope that we don't run into. So, >> but it sounds like that part of the previous bond, what it actually wasn't included in what passed for the bond is what I'm hearing. So, it wasn't that we ran into an issue of not getting it. Yeah, they I think they took those things off the table because they want they wanted to make sure that they got certain things in and the you know the fluff and all the extras. They were afraid that those would kind of >> be viewed you know down. So >> So not an issue of money running over budget or anything like that. >> Good. >> So that's
051a good question though. But I mean that did come up last Wednesday and I want to make sure that everything all I like at the meetings it was like put your put your voice out there. Let's hear it now. Don't wait till later cuz then we will have you know budget or other things that we need to talk about. So let's just keep keep documenting it. Keep assessing it. Make it a a living process where we can make it right or try to make it as get as much information and as right as we can with what we know. >> Yep. I think I kind of hit on these other two, but I think this this kind of sums it up. CMR CN brings contractor on board early running cost and constructibility input during design.
052Offers greater budget and schedule certainty through guaranteed max price reducing change or fosters more collaborative transparent process. Delivers better value to the owner. So kind of sums it up. schedule certainties. We really didn't hit on that, but that is a huge a huge thing that you need to start very very early on, especially if you have some summer work that's going to be involved. Um, we've done projects split over two summers, not ideal for anybody, but that's the only way they could get it done. But if if your CM's on board early and getting that schedule and figuring out what the logistics and understanding the uses and what you have to keep going, you know, um that logistics plan of that schedule can be worked out very very early and everybody can be aware of
053it rather than okay here's the job and I'll go build it and figure out the schedule and you have to coordinate it with anybody in the district, any of the teachers, any of the principles. So that's another >> that's huge. And unless you I mean and you guys have lived it in the occupancy side of it and then maybe in some of the trades different trades, but you think about what works for the school schedule and then also the fire marshall and thinking about, okay, where are your mechanical systems serving? Where are your zones here? Where's the uh fire safety zones? You know, you got to think about all those layering on top of each other. And then the submitt process, getting approval, getting people on board at the right time, getting contractors scheduled where
054they're not, you know, there's been projects with back in the bid days, you know, it's like, I'm going to hold this bid cuz I'm not going to put it out cuz I know that other project is bidding in that same month. I'm either going to go ahead of them or I'm going to wait till it bids and then I'm going to get all the other folks in cuz I want a lot of bids on this project. You know, you want competitive bids. So, you kind of have to know where the market is, too, when you're working with that. Um, this is the boring part, so I saved it for last, but it is the state statute part of it, but it really um I there's a lot of language here. This is one state statute
055that just talks about um that it that the alternate delivery process cuz that's design bill. That's risk. It's any different form than a traditional design bid uh build. And so it is strictly per statute. It is qualifications and best value approach. So there's procedures you follow to make sure it stays in that and there's scoring um worksheets. There's all these things that manage that. You advertise it. Here's some of the benefits of it that we just went over for it is by statute required to have all those um pieces to the puzzle. This is the other statute that basically what it says is there is you advertise you have a three-stage approach um the school district request qualifications submitt that's a standard SOQ form that they're very familiar with you get all their information it's
056documented and then what you do is you shortlist it you shortlist it down to three to five qualified firms qualified construction management firms and so So, it's a very um fair then you score them and you pre-qualify them for um submitting proposals and then the proposals are um uh jump in if you you've been on the other side of submitting it. >> So, um the proposal but I've interviewed for it. I've been on the owner side and the architect side of it different every project you you might have the same scoring worksheet but you assess it differently because things are important different things are important on different projects right so you're looking at different criteria that mean different things so they submit the proposals and then also with that proposal is the company's overview resume
057if they're appropriate for the project if they worked on a similar type of work before and then also They submit which is the really interesting component. They submit a fee proposal but then the department administration scores. So you have an outside component that is also coming in to score to be a fair process. It's someone else coming in. So it's not just a district solely making a judgment and then you interview them. There's three to five firms that you interview and that holds a 50% um weight on the scoring of it. So really it's meant to be a fair process. You base them on qualifications to begin with. Are they appropriated for you? And then the fee proposal is another component of it. So um it's not a a publicly bid from the construction management
058side of it, but it is a qualifications and the money is a major factor in it too. So the the cost and the qualifications are the important part of this. But >> no, I'll jump back. So those fees, I mean, those are all the GC fees and that's competitive. Besides those fees, it's really subcontractor prices, which are all, like I said, bid out. We try to get three to five sub bids on every scope and those can be shared. If you want to see every bid, you should ask your construction manager. That's your right to see every bid submitted. But sometimes the GC will self-perform concrete, steel or action, carpentry, those type of things. If the GC if the CM is going to self-perform, they need to submit that seal bid to you or to
059Bobby or a day ahead of when the subcontractor bids are due. So there can be no no games played with, you know, that CM getting all the sub bids and then they're lowering their number to get that self-perform. So >> that's by statute. The uh the subcontractors if if they're outside subcontractors, they submit them to the CM. If the CM decides to self-perform, they submit them to the board. So different people open different sealed bids, but you're all um aware when you're and I've been there before. You're standing there and you're opening it and you know, you know, the subs are bidding it and you win and you lose some. I mean, but that's the whole part of it. You want to get good competitive >> uh bids. It's not about winning or losing. It's
060about how do you get the project to come under budget. >> Yeah. At the end of the day, we're not all about we we can self-perform a lot, but at the end of the day, we just want the project to happen. We want, you know, if we can selfperform some stuff and help the budget, great. If we get beat times, my experience, I see them when they selfperformed, it's because they wanted to, or sometimes they did it cuz they were afraid they weren't going to get any other bids and they just wanted to. They're like, "Okay, we'll we'll do it if we, you know, if we need to." Nobody wants to install toilet partitions and toilet accessories. So a lot of that's what we do. >> Yeah. So it's it is really an open book
061and I think for this project um it it's going to be a little bit complex with the different phasing as well as just digging into the middle school. So, I know I've taken more time than I really intended to, but I feel like um if there's any questions, that's um a recommendation I think you should maybe consider. And that's how we're going to keep digging in and rolling up our sleeves and having this work sessions at least to get the feasibility uh going. And right now, um we're getting some great input. We did on the early childhood center. We're building the budget as we're thinking about how many spaces are in here, what's the right size of them and then also walking down the hall and looking at the cafeteria floor or the high school
062sub, you know, things like that, too. So, >> always feel free to give me a yell if there's something you can think of. >> I appreciate appreciate the opportunity. It's been fun so far. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. Yes, sir. >> Anyone have any questions before they took off? >> All right. Vand trailer. So, this summer, uh, Brody came to me and said he would like to look into getting a new trailer. Um, the one we have is pretty old and it's just not really functioning for him properly. Um, so I think he was at a a conference or something and and uh talked to some providers and got some quotes. Um, so I got those today. Um, he sent him this summer, but I asked him to send him an update cuz
063sometimes they change after a couple months. So, um, I said once the budget was in place, then we can look at doing that. So, um, what you have there is some is some quotes that he received from two different companies. He tried a third, but wasn't able to receive anything. Um, talking to Allen and and transporting, they think 24 foot and Brody thinks 24 foot is is sufficient enough um that we can manage and take care of to do that. Um, so you see some sample pictures there of what they look like and the inside. They're specifically related, you know, for band hauling, uh, percussion lifts and things of that nature that are included in there. Um, we would utilize the old trailer for football and different things, you know, hauling and we've used it
064for different things. So, we plan to keep that and just have it as we do that. But, um, so, um, I know you guys haven't seen this stuff before. Um, so I'm kind of opening up. Uh but it's time I think that we need to consider u getting him a new trailer for transporting equipment and things to different functions. So >> how how that was my question. Yeah. >> How many times do we transport? >> I mean how many different events do we go to? >> Um >> I don't know. I can find that out. But I think there's four at least that I can think of of parades and you know the f like we went to ESU last week and did well and um >> well do they do they transport instruments from
065the high school to the football field? >> Yeah. >> That's what I'm asking. I mean >> they do that a couple times during I mean they went out the other day. Allan took them out there and do that. Um >> there's when they do go perform at the state or or the league tournament, they're going to need to you know have have use the trailer for that. So it's probably more than that. >> Yeah, New Orleans. >> They use it quite a bit though. >> Yeah, it seems I mean it's where he's getting concerned with the one we have just to haul in his equipment. >> So, but I mean that those are these are vendors that he is aware of. Um that's where they came from the quotes. And I can't imagine that there's
066a bunch of places that offer all this extra stuff specific bandwise to to attach to the trailers. So probably not a whole lot of people out there that >> I I don't retrofit these trailers. Yeah. To have some of these exact certain entrance in instruments so they don't fly around. And >> I hate to Yeah. you you see a $10,000 $11,000 trailer and then it ends up being $40,000 or something. >> Yeah. I mean, there's the the vinyl wrappings on there. That's, you know, a significant cost, but, you know, we I think it looks sharp. Obviously, we want our our things to look sharp. We did that with the with the bus. Um, >> there's not a lot of places that do this, so it's it's kind of a niche. >> Yeah. And like I
067said, he tried to get three quotes, and this is >> probably hard to find a >> Yeah. >> bunch of different quotes. >> Yeah. I don't know if there's like you guys kind of mentioned local people that could make something happen like that would be specific to band. I don't know that those costs add up. But >> when when we talked about I was just thinking a trailer. >> Yeah. Yeah. No, it was specific to to hauling equipment, band equipment and things. >> Pickup trucks. >> Yep. >> They do trips. >> Yeah, that's what >> that is question. Um I know they use a school truck to pull it. Yeah, >> if you go a bigger trailer, is our trucks going to be able to handle? >> Yeah, that's what I talked to Allan. We
068think we could that's why that's why he's recommending the 24 ft. That would be fine. I We're also going to look at maybe with, you know, putting a hitch to the vans, one of the vans. I think it might have be able to do that, too. So, um, we can put a trailer hitch on it so they can use it instead of the truck being gone. So, we're going to look at that option or to all that other trailer, too, for like football game things. We don't have any hitches on those red vans. So, uh, we'll look to put one on there for like football games and stuff cuz Andrew would like to use that trailer for away games. >> Our old trailer has several businesses on it that obviously >> Yeah. >> game money,
069which most of them are out of business now. They're on there, but >> Yeah. >> And that's a Brody said he could look into those things. And that's why, you know, not to exceed this, you know, and that if they could counter some of that with some donations that he could look to go out and do that we could help with the overall cost on that. He's willing to do that. He did >> mention fundraising at all. >> Yeah. I mean, they've been doing it for their big trips and not necessarily this van trailer. This has kind of just jumped on this summer. Like, you know, it's time to think about doing that based on the trailer that we have. So, I'm sure you'd be willing to help to look at some of that, see
070about donations to help cut the cost of this overall. So, but I'd recommend the 24 ft trailer um from Stadium Creations based on the quote that's provided. >> It might be on there, but how long would it take to get it? Yeah, that's what I was >> It said um >> to be determined >> the other one >> at time of PO. >> Uh hold on just a second. >> Yeah, it does. >> That's the one in Texas, right? The stadium. >> Yeah. >> I go pick it up for 2500 bucks. >> Said roughly 8 to 8 to 10 weeks. Lead time of 8 to 10 weeks. >> And did that one include the vinyl wrapping? >> Yes. quicker than school bus. >> Yeah, that's for sure. >> That is for sure. >> Was 8,400
071on its own. >> Yeah, that's a significant cost on there, too. So, >> and this would be a Cadillac compared to what we have. >> Yeah. [Music] As far as the raft, would they go with our artwork or? >> Yeah. Yeah, we we'll provide all that artwork and mascots and things and so they could the graphic design team will do it just like the bus did. So, but he will work with them on that. I mean, I'm assuming you'll have trailer brakes or but I don't see anything in here. >> I'm assuming that too, Tyler. >> Yeah, I mean getting that much weight in there being 24T. I'm I'm assuming. >> Yeah, it will. comes with a sevenway plug. So, >> it ought to have ought to have brakes. [Music] Any other questions? And what
072would that be paid out of? >> We can I mean we can do it out of capital outlay. We have plenty to do it in that. That's one of the things we could do it but typically we try to use like uh sub lob money and then but if we have to >> transfer >> yeah to get to capital use capital outlay but we have plenty to do a purchase like this out of capital outlay. So be one of the projects that we'd have that for this year. So >> how many do we have any more projects we're looking at this year? I mean that depends on how some of these things play out with this maintenance building and you know the parking lot and different things. So um they're they're not adding up quick
073you know large but they're adding but there's some of those things but it really is going to depend on this these conversations and time schedules and things of that nature of of focusing on that what those costs are going to be. So, >> like we don't have any other air conditioners that we >> Oh, yeah. I'm sure that we're going to have to pay for >> I hope hopefully not. Hopefully, we're done for the year with these few issues we've had, but not going to say there's not. But there's room to deal with that within the capital outlay budget for sure. Okay. >> Cuz I it's about 425,000 we have to play a year within that capital outlay to to take care of projects and things is what I is what I've done since I've
074been here. So, so there's some room in there, but not saying that we're not going to have it. >> Yeah. >> Back do its thing. So, >> yeah, I'm okay with the trailer. Um, but I would like to see maybe some sponsors. >> Yeah. Brody mentioned that he'd be willing to help offset some cost with that. So, >> mean maybe the community foundation or he's willing to do that out there. >> Yeah. Maybe the city would like to go in with us. Go ahead. >> Went in with some lights and stuff. >> Balance it out there. >> Yeah. >> Do we Is this something you guys want to vote on tonight or you want to table it for sponsors or what do you guys want to do? I'd say we go ahead make a motion
075to vote on it on the condition that he goes and looks for sponsors. That's a serious attempt at some sponsor. >> Are they are they in for any uh band fundraisers for this year? I know we were trying to limit the fundraising, but I didn't know. I think they did that big trip one. So, he's hasn't done much since that trip. >> Well, they got chilly this this weekend, but I think that's where their trip is. >> Which trip they're going on next? >> New Orleans, I believe. >> Back to New Orleans. >> I believe that's what it said. >> I don't know. All right. I'd like to make a motion to approve the Stadium Creations uh band trailer bid in the amount of not to exceed $42,754 um with the premise that we will
076Brody and his team will attempt to get sponsors to help offset the cost a little Second >> Ler. >> Hi >> Clinton. >> Hi >> Ty. >> Hi >> Parsons. >> Hi >> Fagen. >> Hi >> Keep. >> Hi >> Carson. >> Hi. >> All right. Uh Ka update. >> All right. So Friday um some members of the district leadership team will go to Lawrence Greenbush and Lawrence uh for our annual school improvement day. Um this is part of the KISSA process and every district is required to go. There will be three other districts with with us there that day. Um for this second one um the first one we basically started on our action plan and they kind of helped us work. They have some um consultants there that we work with um approved
077by KSD. Um so that's what we did last year. So, we will be reviewing our action plan in front of the other uh districts, providing a 10 to 15 minute update on that. What we've done so far, if you remember, our two items on our action plan is structured literacy and quality instruction. Structured literacy was picked mainly because of letters training that we have going on. And then quality instruction was feedback that we'd received from the staff u for more collaboration time, which will lead to quality instruction conversations. We do that. So, so we'll be giving an update on that um on Friday. Um then we'll hear what the other districts are doing and then we'll have some time to work with the consultants to update our current action plan uh for 2526. We have
078to update it every year. Talk about if we hit our six-month target, our one-year targets that we have built in there. Um so we'll be doing that. Um after that time, we'll have 60 days to put in to to update our new uh action plan for 2526. um which is around um December or right after Christmas break maybe. I can't remember when we did it last time but um so that's what our main focus is right now working on um as it relates to Kissa. Um, just as a reminder for accreditation for the 25 26 as well as what it was for 2425, we're only accredited in two areas and that's having an approved action plan in place and that we are in compliance with I think there's 14 compliance items that we are in
079compliance with and uh to my knowledge we are in compliance um because I've not been notified of anything. We will be notified if we're not in compliance. So, so those will be the two areas that we'll be accredited on based on those two things for this current school year. Next school year they'll add some quality qualitative measures, assessment data, different things, graduation rates, things of that nature will be part of our accreditation. I don't know if it'll be baseline or what that's going to look like or how it's going to be established, but for 2627 those will start playing into our accreditation um moving forward. So, but just for this year, it would be based on an approved action plan and no compliance issues. anything to add? Then's ready to give the presentation on Friday.
080>> Be sure. >> So, next year's process might look completely different, right? So, we have completely different. >> I don't that's what I we're not sure what that component again, you know, like is our baseline based on a three-year average of state assessments, graduation rates, postsecary, what are all those chronic absenteeism? you know, what are those factors that we'll have to address and keep an eye on and go through that. So, uh, but we'll bring that information to you once we find out. >> Any questions? >> All right. Building reports. >> Oh, you have mine, so you can go through and read it. But um really just academically moving ahead. Last week we looked at our data, our cap data and stuff and really just started having conversations um about the data. Nothing really specific
081or or really geared towards anything because just learning how to have those conversations with with each other and building that relationships when we get down into individual conversations about your specific kids and stuff. uh become very personable and just getting getting those teams up and running. On the 13th, Monday, we'll be we'll start really looking at our essential standards and begin that work on identifying those and what's essential and how do we go about a process to identify those essentials. There's a lot of great things academic and athletically going on. Our students are performing well. Volleyball, varsity volleyball won both matches last night. I'm very close the first two second or the second match I kind of pulled away from a little bit in those games but the first one's the last one the first
082set it was or the second one was 2026 or whatever it was close but the girls are doing a great job obviously football's um they're still undefeated you know big win last week they were pretty fired up with all the awards that council girl was this year out to our kids kind of got them fired up so they were definitely ready to You know, this week's another big challenge. Cross country is doing great. Golf is, you know, last week they had their set their best score um team score. So, you know, everybody's really doing having an outstanding season. Um our staff staff's doing, you know, an outstanding job. We have a lot of new students and the staff's been doing a great job and welcome welcoming them and being very supportive of those. Um the
083kids that have come in have done a great job and we really haven't had any issues with them. So really I think overall everything's going pretty well. >> Just questioning uh any new issues with the new rules that we put in >> policies >> policy policies that we put in. >> Uh I think if you read through there I think our with the eligibility and some of those things. I think we're seeing fewer kids on there just because they u you know fewer kids fell in. We have some our D list may be a little bigger than what it has in the past. um I don't have that data so I really can't say but just listening to Shannon and Darcy and having conversations with them the number of kids we have fell in classes
084is a lot less so um that just that incentive that you know these are privileges and they want to go do those things um I think has helped our phone policy I think in the classroom is is going well u you know I'm starting to get a few more cuz you know that grace period you know we're getting close to 9 weeks so they're starting to figure out just like kids do you know how far that rope's going to go I think we have three right now. They have to check them in every day. Um I haven't had any push back from any parents on any of the whether it's closed lounge, closed seminar or you know having to check their cell phones in and stuff and they've all been very supportive and um those
085things. So I think I think we're seeing impact of the nine weeks we're going to release our chronic absentee rate, see where we are and kind of set that number for semester and then close it for the semester those kids that are over that 10%. So good. I think overall it's been good. That'll be interesting just to see. It's like we tell parents that you can excuse your kids for anything. I don't you can call in, excuse them all the time, but not being here does have quite an impact in their education and there are are consequences once you go past that 10%. >> Just uh real quick and then I'll let you go. Um for kids that are going part-time or getting signed off, I I saw a letter personally myself. Do we have
086a lot that take that option of going out and getting work study or I mean >> a lot of them do second semester the seniors I've got a few today or last few weeks that they want to do that second semester but most of them have pretty full all the ones I know have pretty full schedules. I'm not quite sure how many they had set up coming into this year but I've only signed I think two or three going into next year. Those are things that really, you know, as we move forward with IPS and those things that really should drive what those work experiences are instead of them, you know, I mean, I know kids have to go to work and some kids need that money to, you know, support themselves and stuff, but
087really make it to where it's geared towards what they want to do future for their career outside of high school and beyond. >> I was just going to mention, I appreciate you putting in here about the Indian head. That looks really great coming in. >> They're they're working on a hole from where the pop machines all the way down the wall. They're working on some right now. So, they're pretty excited about about doing that. >> The detail and how deep the u where the um um the tile tile was called block or the grout. >> Grow those grout lines how deep it is. It was very hard to paint in there. So what they wanted to do originally on out there, they've kind of changed the design after painting that. So yes, but definitely and
088our students have done a great job. >> Nice. >> So that was like a learning project there. >> It was. It wasn't quite as easy as they didn't imagine, >> was it? They did a good job. >> It's amazing how many pictures you're taking out there like homecoming. Trust that big kids are out there taking pictures in front of and stuff. So >> I see you've got a thank you to Mr. Stoie for his tech help. How how's the tech program going? >> I think overall it's done great. I think Alli's doing a great job, but uh he's just stepped up and helped us, you know. I mean, it's somebody I can call right away cuz she's busy doing other things and you know, computers, kids computers going down or I couldn't get my laptop
089to plug into the TV in there wirelessly. So, he came in and helped me and um it's just that having somebody, you know, during his plan that she's available probably. Yeah, I was I was going to ask how's the other >> take us a couple hours, but my gosh, we get to that. >> He's He's done a great job. He's helping us. >> Did I take time out of his classroom? >> No, it was I was tired as >> elementary junior high doing our tech and seeing or you seeing any issues or anywhere that >> there's there's always something, but we work through it. So, >> yeah, I would say so too. I thought it was going to be a big deficit honestly, but I think the support works out pretty good. At least pretty
090reliable. >> Good. >> It's good to hear. >> You guys have anything jump in now? Almost through the first quarter next Tuesday, so it's going quick. That's true. All right. Any other questions? No. Any highlights, admin, that you want to highlight? Anything else? >> Pizza party was awesome. Dina, >> thank you. >> Thanks to Mr. Jeff Lmire and Mr. Sam. >> All right. superintendent report. >> All right. Uh I shared some enrollment information with you. We're finalizing that this week. Uh we have to have our our principal building report and SO66, which is my report, uh to KST by uh Friday, I think. So, we're finalizing those. In my numbers, um I think we're up like six FTE, so compared to last year's budget. So, we'll have a few more kids as it relates to
091full-time equivalency. So, um, that's just based off my looking at what's been submitted and things of that nature. Um, working on CTE minutes. Um, we're going to be doing evaluating those things. Natasha did a lot of work with that last year, so we still have some things to work out. Mr. Kimble is going to kind of take the ball and the baton and roll with that as we move into next year's schedule. Um, so we got a lot of that lined out um, just to help with that. Um, but overall looking good. um we have several kids come after the count day. So, we're like, can we fudge our numbers to, you know, get those to that 922 day, but um that's not how that works. So, um but it looks like we're going to
092be up a few kids compared to last year for FT for budget. So, um any questions about enrollment? >> How many out of district do we have? >> Uh >> approximately >> I want to say it's around 13 15%. Okay. But I can get that number to you for sure. >> And we took a few. >> We were up around 80 in August. So >> Wow. Okay. >> So I think that's just been about the average of what it is, but I can I'll get that to you. >> We're not bigger. >> Do we do we know of any coming in the near future? I mean, do we right away have any >> out of district or >> no kids just coming? >> We had six enrolls a day. One at the high school, one
093at the middle school, and four at elementary. >> We know we got two coming I think sometime in before Thanksgiving break. >> Two more. >> Where did the six come from? >> City are >> people are moving. >> They bought the house. They bought that house over on Ninth Street over there where Shana and Darcy live across the desk. Oh, >> six kids. That's a lot. >> So, that's good. But yeah, >> they moved in yet. >> Yeah. >> Living at the lake till they closed up on the house. >> It needs a lot of update. >> Oh, yeah. >> There's a lot of kids. They were in the high school office today. >> I had all these little kids. >> Um, I know Scott's mentioned about our October 13th PD day schedule. Um Dena's
094got a lot planned as well and Tim um Dena's that most of the majority of the teachers will be in letters training. So she's has got some tech things for the other um staff that's not doing that. Um Tabitha will be meeting with some teachers as well um about the dyslexia modules. So she has a quite a lot of things on there, but majority of staff will be in letters uh with the middle school. um they'll do a part of that collaboration working with the 612 and and kind of they're at a different place at the high school because of of what we did for the collaboration this past week. Um all theu the high school staff or excuse me middle school staff was involved in the focus conversation so they couldn't have time to
095really to collaborate um because of that. So um they'll be getting caught up on that and then they're going to go tour the the middle Washurn Middle School that they mentioned today. So Tim's going to take his staff up there. We're going to take him up there and take him on a tour just kind of look around um and do that. So that'll be part of that's in the afternoon for them and then as Scott mentioned he has a lot of collaboration followup with uh defining essential and essential standards based on data and um information that they have. So we have a full day planned for 13th. This was supposed to be a three lakes day but uh with the transition everything it just professional development day went back to the district and so those
096are the things we have planned for the day. So, a lot going on, but it'll be a good day overall. So, three legs update. Their meetings next Wednesday, so or next Monday. So, not a lot of update. They have gone to the negotiation table. They do have a um a counter offer from um the association there. So, they'll be bringing that to to the board there. Um we're not going to go into those details. We'll let them talk about that. But, um they're trying to get negotiations finalized um to do that. So, um, Three Lakes has been accessible to us with Kathy, you know, being the interim and and helping us and things that we have. So, um, we're still working through those things and and staffing and budget. Um, cash balances are going up.
097Um, Kathy told me that when I visited with her yesterday, so that's a good thing. Um, so, uh, but we don't have an overall update because they don't meet till next week. So, October is a busy month for recognition. Um staff um this is Prince October is National Principal Month. Those thanks thanks to our principles um for all they do and the commitment to our kids and our students and our community. Um National Custodian Appreciation Day was October 2nd. Um anti-bullying is um this week as well. Um and then we'll have National School Bus Safety Week October 20th through the 24th. We got some goodies for the kids on the bus and then we're going to give them a booklet to do some things in the classroom to recognize them as well. So, they like
098getting little posters put up on their bus. So, we're going to get that for them. So, have the kids do that. So, um a lot of things good positive things going on. Um it's been a whirlwind to get to October. Um we're really with our focusing on collaboration. It's been a good start. Um and uh just looking forward to presenting where we're at on Friday with our KISA stuff. So, a lot going on, but it's been a good start and things are going well. So, any questions for me? >> Thank you, principles. We appreciate you. Anything else? All right. I'd like to make a motion to go into executive session to discuss confidential personnel matters pursuant to the non-elected personnel exemption or exception under coma and the open meeting will resume here in the library
099at we'll say 7:30. Uh the board invites Mr. Oong and the building principles to attend. >> Second Kevin. >> Hi >> Linton. Hi >> Carson. >> Hi >> Ler. >> Hi >> Ty. >> Hi >> Parsons. All right. [Music] are back in open session. Um, no actions. I'd like to make a motion that we go into executive session to discuss student requests for early graduation pursuant to the exception relating to actions adversely or favorably affecting student matters in our coma. And the open meeting will resume here in the library at 8:05. And the board invites Mr. Song and Mr. Kimble to attend. >> Second. [Music] >> Hi. >> Ty. >> Hi. >> Carson. >> Hi. >> Epinto. Hi. >> Linton. Hi Bler. Hi Carson. Hi. Okay, we are back in open session. I'd like to
100make a recommendation to approve the early graduation requests of the three students as presented. >> Second. >> Who is that? >> Cory for it. >> Linton. >> I >> Carson. >> Immire.