001like call to order the board of education meeting for Monday, April 28th at 7 p.m. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance and moment of silence. Pledge algiance 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. Roll please. William Brady here. John Street here. Nicole Emry here. Jennifer Baker here. Heather Ernel Roberts here. Nicole Emry I'm sorry here. And Amber Becket, Mr. President, we have a Okay. Um, so first we're going to start with our recognitions and presentations. So we're here today with our wrestling team. So, Coach Ranger, did you or Yeah, you're um Al asked me to to introduce Coach Ranger. Um it seems like on a regular basis that we're recognizing uh the wrestling
002program and and all the great things they do. Uh every every year it's excellence and it doesn't happen by accident. Uh Coach Ranger spends numerous hours uh above and beyond uh developing this program um like a like a big tree. He's he's really built those roots right into the ground. And so this tree this tree continually every year gives us all this fruit that we uh we get to enjoy because these these guys are all excellent. These ladies are all excellent. Um and again beyond just the mats, but even like I said throughout the school, in the classroom, uh in our leadership programs, throughout the building, uh they're just a a model uh of a program. And just uh again, kudos to Coach Ranger. And I'll let him continue from there. Thank you. Um, man,
003that was really good. I got pretty good stuff, too. Uh, so yeah, like uh like Mr. Rona said, this is uh became sort of an annual tradition, a chance to kind of uh more or less kind of brag about student athletes we have coming through our uh our hallways and on our wrestling mats. Um, and for those that are kind of new to the community or maybe watching for the first time because maybe other things are going on, the way this works is we have we have 120, this is not the whole team. Uh there's a lot of uh kids playing baseball tonight, soccer, dance, you know, you name it, they got something going on. So, this is only a fraction of the uh uh the amount of kids are actually wrestling in our community.
004Uh we have 120 kids in our youth program. We actually have to cap it and usually end up sneaking more than 120 in cuz I can't say no. Um we have about 20 to 25 middle schoolers on a regular basis and this year we had 35 plus in the high school. So, uh almost 200 kids touch the mat on a yearly basis here in I think that's uh impressive for the size of our community. Um quite a few of them are Elegant Act born and bred. Uh but there's also quite a few of them that actually come here um from other school districts. Uh obviously wrestling's a portion of that choice for them to make that school of choice thing. Um but they also believe in this place to be a great uh place to
005raise their kids uh get a good education. Um so I know when we have that uh the stuff coming up next month with the the renewing millillage and all that kind of stuff. That's important. Um, if you get a chance, go tour the facilities. Go check out the new uh press box, the bleachers, the baseball stuff. Go check out our wrestling room. It's a top-notch place. Um, so we believe a lot in this uh this community uh wrestling program just part of it. Um, so wrestling wise, uh we had a really uh successful season uh youthwise um and all the way to the high school team. So I'm going to kind of rate rattle off quite a few names. Um of our 120 kids that do youth wrestling, we actually have now had to create
006three levels. So we have we call it uh blue, great, gold, but really it's like beginners, kindergarten, first graders. Then we have our novice and the middle kids. And then we have our advanced. Um so they have to qualify for the state tournament just like the high schoolers do. It's now gotten so competitive that uh I mean it it's it's really difficult to even just qualify for the state tournament. So this year for the first time ever, we invited a few just state qualifiers, too. Normally we only recognize our placers but um for I mean we had 34 kids uh make it to the state tournament at the end of the tournament uh out of the 314 clubs uh we took 14th and some of those clubs are uh pay to participate like uh all-star
007clubs have no affiliation with schools or whatnot. Um so of all the school-based clubs we're actually in the top 10 uh actually closer to top five I think about six or seven. So that's really impressive. Uh kids uh youth wrestlers I'm going to read your name. you get a certificate. Um, Coach Joe is going to give you the certificate over on the other side of Doc Brady. So, after I read your name, you're going to go shake all our schoolboard members hands. And then, uh, Coach Joe, keep him over there somewhere and, uh, we're going to get a picture when we're done. Okay. So, here we go. First one is Harper Clark, who actually was a girl state champion this year. Harper Clark, uh, playing baseball tonight. He's the catcher on his team. Cole Re
008was also a state champion. Congratulations. Um we have our third state champion here tonight. Uh Roco Weissop. He's actually a backto-back state champion. [Applause] Stac took second in the My Way event. I think he's here tonight. Come on, Vince. Come on [Applause] down. Blake Williams was a eighth grade state runner up. Uh I think he's probably playing baseball tonight. Um but Blake Williams state runner up. We have Baron Finn here tonight. She was third in the state for girls. Darren Finn. Uh my nephew Hunter Perry took third of the state. He's playing baseball tonight. But my daughter's here on the Rangers. He took third in the state for girls as well. Uh couple more thirds are out there on the ball field. Jackson Wley and Knox Whit. But we do have the sisters. Uh Harper
009already came by, but now we have Grace. race took fourth in the state. Um, another couple guys that live in another district, so they're not here tonight, but Isaiah Ali went seventh. Max Fox is a now kid, he's playing baseball right now, and he took seventh. Colton Perry's not here. He took seventh. Uh, we have the Macau brothers both here. They took eighth in the state. Come on, call [Applause] us. Brady is here. He took eighth from the state. He's got some sweet shades on. [Applause] And then again, uh just a bunch of state qualifiers, but very hard. Again, you have to take top four in your region. There's like 30 plus clubs in the region. Um and a lot of these guys and girls got their first taste of the state tournament and I
010know they're back for next year. So, I'm just going to read a whole bunch of them off. Eli Alishali, Gabe Alishali, Carter Feltter, if I say your name to start walking, Vance Finn, Tyler Flor, Matt McGregor, Marcus Morning Star, Lincoln Ranger, William Rose, Skyler Small, Marley Solgot, Philip Stumpfig, Everett Tucker, Elliot Young. And I think that's it. But, uh, you guys and gals, don't don't sit down. Stay over there. Um, so now I wanted to kind of talk a little bit about the high school team. Uh, Coach Jake, would you mind taking those trophies kind of out there by that uh, microphone? So, we brought a little show and tell tonight. Um, people I know are our uh, visual. Yeah. All the way out there. Get that big moment on here. Yeah. This one is
011uh, my favorite. We haven't had this one ever before. These other ones kind of been there, done that, but I'll still like to talk about them. So, uh, the the big one that's about as tall as I am. Um, that's the uh the Mcome County Trophy. Um, so probably since the 1970s, uh, they've had the Mcome County Invitational, two-day tournament. There's like 40 teams in it. Biggest schools in the state type of, you know, Dakotas, Romeo's, all that kind of stuff. Um, no school our size had ever won it. So, we won it this year. You only get to keep it for the year, then you got to return it. Uh, but they're going to probably have to pry it out of our hands next year because we got a pretty good squad coming back
012next year. Uh, so we won that about Christmas time. Uh we also, you know, like beat Dakota in a dual meet. So we we like to think we are the team to beat Mcome County and we obviously have the trophy to back that up. Uh also up there BWAC champions um third year in a row uh this year was outright. Didn't have to share it. So that was a good one. And then district champions um and then we've wrestled at the team regional level for almost uh I think 10 out of the last 12 years. So ranked second or third all year as a team. Had a very successful season. you know, always pushing the uh uh the envelope, raising the bar on that end. Um, but we also had uh 12 individuals, more than
01312 did well this year. 12 made it to Ford Field, which tied a school record. Uh, so I'm going to read their names off. You guys got to take the lap, too. Um, I think they're in this order. I could be wrong. Coach Chen, shuffle the not. Um, but we're going to start at the top. Uh, we had a boy state champion for only I think like the fourth or fifth time in school history. Um, he was he was undefeated this year. Uh the most dominant season in school history, state champion, uh committed to Appalachian State, division one scholarship, Reed [Applause] Hilton. Uh next, man, tough. He's tough to follow. Uh but Sky Langitz is a four-time all, state champ, state champ, third in the state, second in the state this year. Uh just an
014incredible career. Uh I'm going to talk about their grades eventually, too. Um, but Sky Language state runner up this year. Uh, I don't think Julian's here. Uh, we had another state runner up, Julian Walker. He's probably out there running on the track. Um, so, uh, but again, great season for him. I know we have our other state runner up in the house, Lucky Garden. Go ahead. Lucky start walking. Lucky is the, uh, alltime leader in wins in Apac history. And it's a it's a who's who on the list. the ranks, the Vins, 204 crew wins, 138 pins. Uh tomorrow he's signing to take his talents to the uh University of Alabama University. Um and we had more on the podium. Uh Chris Campbell is the first four-time allstator coach Chris Campbell. 193 career wins. Uh
015again, I said four time all state. Incredibly hard to do. uh because you have to place in the state as a freshman to be a four-time all state. Speaking of freshman, TJ Landram, six in the state. Um so, Chris, champion, BWA champion, six in the state, freshman TJ Landro. Uh we have Jack Ray here tonight, Jack in the [Applause] State. And then we also have our state qualifiers um that all of them uh won matches uh or did very well. Um just making it to Ford Field is a huge accomplishment. So when I say your name, just start walking. Chase Goldbler, Alex Bright, Vance Tilly, Connor Haden, and Trevor Jarby. Also, [Applause] um since I got here and a lot of us are still standing, uh congratulations. All my seniors that are here, uh can
016the seniors come out for a second? Sorry, going to make you go through this a little bit longer. No, in the middle. In the middle, like stand friendly seats are here so everyone can see it. So, um this isn't all the seniors. We had eight seniors on the team this year. Uh but six of them um made it to the state tournament. Uh six of them aren't all here tonight, but pretty darn close. Um you know, the eight seniors actually uh had over a,000 wins in an alak muskrat singlet combined. uh 135 and 12 over the last four years and um actually did not lose a match in the BWAC over their four years. 26 and 0. So round of applause just for the seniors and uh Julian Jack Reyes come on out here too
017cuz you're academic all state. Um these four seniors not just tearing it up on the mat. Jack Reyes junior tearing it up on the mat. They're actually academic all state and uh even a whole bunch of the other ones over there have really good GPA. you just can't get to academic all state until you're a 10th grader is a team. We had a 3.84 GPA uh which is the third highest in the state in division three. Um and again just having the youth here and then having our seniors the seniors and uh Jack have been in the program the longest you know I is a community if you invest in your youth and those that stay I mean look what happens. So uh thanks for having us out tonight. Um you know another great season
018alan wrestling. Um but again it's more than just the wrestling. It's a great community. Thank you guys. Uh Mrs. Paris wants pictures over there. [Applause] Yeah, no worries. I'll let everyone know that. This is a disclaimer. [Music] Um, so we'll move on to our consent agenda items. Would anyone like to make a motion? I'll make a motion the board of education approve all consent agenda items including agenda personnel treasuries reported items A through support tomorrow Um so the information items there's our recent project I think there was the recent budget memo and then there's also the check program minute it Um, it was also emailed to you and I attached it to my email last week. They went out to the board. So, take a look at it. Um, they got the delivery program. She's
019the superintendent of pre. She'll be out next month to kind of go over it. But if you can take a minute to look it over and then I believe we'll it'll be an action item next month to um pass the budget. And one thing about that is Brenda does it the way um what is his name the couple previous recess superintendent it has come out explained well enough in the materials that uh their actual talking about it doesn't really take very long but it's it's good that they come down to see us and you know acknowledge our existence because there were superintendents at Teresa or the ISD that at times did not really take very much uh care of the down river folks. It was, you know, all up there. So, it's it's been really
020good. Yeah, it has been really great. All right, moving on to our administrative reports. Mr. Bros. Yep. Speaking of tech, uh we had a couple of students who participated in the Skills USA and we had a couple of medalists. Both fell in the cosmetology portion. Uh we had Ellie Brooks who got a silver for the aesthetics u competition. And then we had Adriana Gable who got a bronze for nail care. So congratulations to them. And then also a couple weeks ago we had our BWAC lunchon. Uh we have that every year where we recognize uh five of our top academic students here based on a straight four-point scale on their core classes as well as their SAT scores. And so our representatives were Jenna Dooenberry, Caroline Roland, Trevor Young, Sky Langitz, and Avery Baker. And
021then we also recognize our two outstanding uh athletes, one female, one male, and they were Reed Hilman and JC Ram. So, congratulations to them. Um we also had a couple weeks ago for our third quarter our Muskrat label our level trip went to David Busters. That went well. Uh we just last Friday completed our PSAT and SAT and work keys testing and we just uh starting today went into the MSTEP testing uh for the school. Uh this Friday for our seniors, we have decision day which is going to be six uh sixth hour in the main gym. Uh again uh the Mrs. Orlando is taking over that and and we'll be leading that. Again, that'll be sixth hour this week. Uh coming up uh May 14th u u we're going to have the art auction
022which will actually be here in the library. It'll be that week uh where people can bid on a piece of work from our school here. On May 16th, the Friday uh we'll have the performance of Matilda. There'll be 7 pm. that'll be at the Alangquin Auditorium and that'll be a performing arts 7 through 12. And then May 21st, we have a band concert that'll be in the main gym. And uh this part, this one is not a uh a great thing to have to report to the board. We found out yesterday through email that that uh uh we will no longer have uh college advisors here at the school. Uh we were informed that due to federal cuts in funding, the debt has been eliminated. So the MSU people that to sponsor this. Let us
023know that uh uh yesterday. Uh very heartbreaking because I said it's been integral for since I've been here. Uh they've done an outstanding job of getting our kids doing their FAFSA, helping direct them when it comes to college and career and and just kind of it's been a really good area for the the kids to work on those things. So that's a big loss and and again we just found out so we're going to be scrambling to see how we can kind of fill that void. But again, big loss to the to the school and other surv surrounding districts as well. That's been an outstanding program and I've seen it since it started and we and we the people that have been sent to us to do that for two years at a time have
024been nothing short of outstanding people. I mean they really it's it is that is is a huge loss. Y my daughter's you know journey so that's sorely be missed stage. Um, so since we were here last time, we've started MSTEP testing. The kids are doing a fantastic job as always. It's a long test, especially for elementary age students, but they're powering through and doing their best. So, we're pretty proud of them. Um, we've also started a formal peer-to-peer program at Algangquin. We've kind of informally done something called links throughout the years. Um but Alexis Brenner, our speech pathologist and um Elena Gatler really want to do it formally the right way. We have weekly trainings with the um students, the GED students that will be helping, not really helping. We want them to be their
025friend, not their caregiver. So we've been spending a lot of time doing that. It's been pretty successful and um the students have been able to get together at least once a week for a fun activity also. So, I'm looking forward to seeing that program grow. Our fifth graders just did an Earth Earth Day art show. So, they cleaned up a bunch of garbage around their houses that made it into some beautiful artwork and that was on display for Earth Day. Um and our third graders went to Girls Park for the Earth Fair. They go there every year. That was a really fun day last week. Currently, we are doing vision and hearing testing at Quinn and Millside. Just a screener. If the students don't pass, their parents get a formal letter in the mail saying
026we need to go look into this more and see where we're at. So, we're halfway through that. Also this year our run club has turned into a very robust program and we have tons of kids doing it. So Mr. Nutter, Mrs. Pazora, and Mrs. Shot are out there wrangling about like 50 plus elementary kids, but they're doing great and they're running around everywhere and they're keeping up. So that's been fun. Next week is staff appreciation. Our PTO has a lot of fun things in store for the staff. Um, also Mrs. Dowski will be doing her annual bio blitz on May 9th. That's Friday. Starts at 9:30. Everybody is welcome to attend. We also, Gosh, I didn't realize we had so much going on. We also have Mr. Lair is doing ACES. It's where um the
027whole school will be doing a a synchronized workout together being active outdoors. So we are next Tuesday, I think that's the 6th, uh milside and along students are going to go out in the field in between and Mr. Liceri is going to lead them in some physical activity. And lastly, we also are doing Matilda. My sixth graders are performing it on the Thursday night and then the high school will perform it on Friday night at gap. Thank you. All right. So, since we last met, Mrs. Grove and Mr. Thaylor were able to team up to organize a reading visit from the varsity baseball team. So, the players were able to visit our classrooms and read aloud and engage in conversations with our students, which is always wellreceived. I'm not sure who gets a bigger kick
028out of it. The little see the bigs or the bigs fielding their interesting questions. Um, upon returning from spring break, both Milside and Elvac were able to enjoy our rescheduled visit with the Ann Arbor hands-on museum. So, we had staff and students and volunteers engaged in again great conversations and learning as they rotated through a variety of science-based stations. This past Friday was actually pretty packed. After recognizing our most positive leaders, our students were able to visit the Lions Club along with students at Algangu all throughout the day. They were able to see the care movement underway. Um the high school students did a wonderful job teaching about the movement and illustrating the importance of helping others and working together as a community. Also, Mrs. Humes had organized a resource day for families in her
029classroom to come in and collaborate and learn more about the various resources that are available beyond the classroom. Um, and also thanks to the PTO and generous contributions from our families, the community, and the junior senior high honor society members, we were able to enjoy another successful spring carnival for all of our elementary families. Um, for the past couple weeks, our physical education teacher, Mr. Leri, has been taking our kindergarten and TK students over to Algangquin for his annual bike unit. The last couple weeks, they've been working on balance and steering, but today was very exciting to see them get to use pedals for the first time. So, they're really enjoying that as well. Looking ahead, we have staff appreciation next week as well as well as kindergarten roundup. Um, and we'll be hosting a
030book fair as well and then starting our NWBA testing. Thank you, Miss. We have been very busy with the end of the year approaching. Um, preschool teachers have been preparing for conferences, end of the year party, and graduation. We also have been preparing for a busy summer. Uh, so far we have schedule Bugs on Wheels, Little Bubble Man, Science Alive, and the ice cream truck. Um I know there's a couple teachers that also volunteer their time to come over. The art teacher um to do a little craft with them. And then I forget who the other one was, but there's another one coming over. And then the football team is coming over too to do like a little football camp for the week. Um so that will be fun and new. Um, some summer registration
031is open for our preschool grades, but all the other classrooms are full and all staff and kids have been really enjoying spending more time outside during these warmer days for sure. Thank you, M. Tanners. Yeah, it's been busy everywhere, I think. Um, today I was fortunate to be able to work with the elementary staff in their professional development meeting. We worked on the assessments for market period 3 for their reading curriculum looking at what that might look like. A report card committee has also been formed. We have representatives from all K5. They'll start that work on June 16th. So, they're going to do that in the summer. Um, we spent a lot of time talking about the progression and things we were worried about and how that looks now. And, um, lots of positives coming
032out of BLA, hearing it from the teachers. So, it was nice to hear those indepth engaged conversations today about how it's going. So, that was good. Um, we'll be closing the profile of the graduate survey at the end of this week and looking at the results in common themes and tenants and what the community and the staff and the students said. So, we've had a decent amount of people respond to it. So, we'll do one more push this week and see if we can get a few more answers to those survey questions. The sixth through 8th grade ELA teachers have been meeting and we'll meet again in May. We're hoping to finalize some curriculums to pilot for next year. So, we're looking for some piloting of resources next year for sixth through 8th grade ELA.
033So, they've been working on that. This year, the district my kit team met at um the RISA and worked as county to finalize our goals in our district my kit plan and some strategies. We'll bring that for a district improvement plan inviting in stakeholders from all levels um coming up here on May 13th in the evening. So, we'll get those invites coming out. The secondary science staff met after school recently and we began discussions on the science curriculum, what's working currently, some areas that still need to be addressed. Conversations were productive and they'll continue. So, some good conversations between that 7th through 12th grade science staff. Really great. and the leadership team um met today to start discussions on with the possibility of the profile of the graduate coming down um what does that look
034like to build positive culture and leadership throughout K12 by sharing common language as well as lesson scopes and sequences that would meet that profile of a graduate need. So those discussions are happening too. So more on that to come. Great. Thank you. um for reports. I'd just like to just like to say how uh Friday when I stopped by the Lions Club, how nice the care bag movement was this year. Again, it keeps growing and growing every year. And I thought it was pretty neat that you guys brought all the kids over from over over from Mills and Alangquin over there. So, it was really happening. So if you never if you ever get a chance when they have one, walk through there because it was it was really cool. It was nice. It's such
035a great program, too. And to tag on what Bill has to say is um the uh the program is was a great idea. It serves a very excellent purpose. And uh I don't know who enjoys having the milside students come over more um the seers, the high school kids or the or the students themselves because it's a ride. It It is a highlight of the whole thing when all those kids come cruising through there. It's pretty awesome. It was funny. They were able to hit out one more Andes. It was funny because all the high school kids I walked when I walked in, they were in the president's room in the back and they're all sitting around the couches saying, "So, what are you guys all doing here?" And they said, "We're waiting for the
036next group of kids to come over." They were just They were sewing through. They really enjoyed it. They really enjoyed it. That was really good. That's great. Uh, anyone else? Um, I just wanted to say that I did send out my April email. Um, and a lot of the stuff that um some of the principles were talking about, a lot of those dates are listed. So, if you're looking at some end of the year events um kind of uh I summarized them all if you didn't write it down or forgot. Um, there's a lot of information on there. Um, so Jennifer and I attended that SECASB uh meeting on Tuesday, last Tuesday. So it was really great. They had um what's her name? From Jennifer Smith. Jennifer Smith did a legislative update that was uh
037really interesting. There's a lot going on right now. Um funding and all that kind of stuff. So that was very informative. Um, one of the guys did uh a presentation on the open meeting act update uh specifically on public comments. So, that was really great information. Um, and then the update from the race to superintendents and directors. Um, if you're interested in any of that, if you weren't able to attend, I can see if I can get the uh the slideshows or something and maybe we can share it. [Music] Uh, yeah. Yes, that's about it. Again, look at the dates, especially like graduation and end of the year stuff so that you guys can be available. All right. So, no other board reports. Um, obviously Al's not here. He is um Washington DC. So, uh,
038unless he didn't give me any updates, so we'll move on. Do we have any visitors? No. Okay. I don't see any. Okay. So, we'll move on to action items. So, our first action item is the athletic storage building. Would you like to make a motion? I'll make a motion that the board of education approves and awards the athletics storage building project to the lowest bidder star modernization in the amount of $72,654.36 support. Sure. All right. Now be supportive. Um discussion. I don't know. Did you want to I just have a couple questions for Evan. Okay. um that came through just I um one because the biz bidding was so close so you know in the last two in the last few biders. So I just wanted to ask a couple questions by looking at it.
039Is that price that we're going to approve today is that going to include the drain field. Everything is going to be drained and everything's going to be done. It does not include any drain fields, any drain tile or anything like that? That was not included on the bid. Okay. Was that included on the other doesn't matter. It wasn't included in the bid that we requested. Biders bid the project that we put out. They don't bid what they want to bid. Okay? Because there's no way for us then to do an apples to apples comparison of the bids that they bring in. Okay? And so other people could say, "We're going to build it out of a different type of lumber. We're going to build it out of a different type of steel." It doesn't matter.
040If you upgrade the building, you need to eat the cost. The school is looking for the least expensive bid to build what we've asked the builders to build for us. So, so then that's going to cost an extra expense. There's a cold water. There's no drainage needed for a full bar. We can later down the road put gutters on the building and then it would be up to the district to then route that runoff water. Okay. And the land and all the sand and everything that's all included in the leveling up on the bid. So, we require a 4 in of crushed concrete face and then a 4 inch sand leveling sand on top of that. It will take more than that, but that's on the district because of where we chose to put this
041building, which was chosen after I already put the bid out. So, because it's going now instead of replacing the garage that's back by the uh football stadium, it's going near the practice field. That grade is steep. So that will be a change order to the project because we have to bring that building up to level with the practice space. Okay. And those and the trusses and everything are going to be on a 24 on a 24 in center. Those trustes too. Yes. And and the building is being permitted by Clay Township. They are ones that dictate how the building is built, not the district. We didn't include that in our specs, right? Because everything has to be permitted through the township. they will be the ones that tell the builder how they have to build
042it. Okay. So, when we looked at those bids and we looked at that and we compared and I'm not we compared everything as far as we compared what the bid was. We can't we can't go outside of the bid because then it's not again fair to the all the biders. But how about structure as far as structure? All right. Well, again, that'll be up to Clay Township to permit the building. They're not going to permit a building if it doesn't meet construction standards for the township. Um, the location you say it's not going to be where the garage was. It's being moved. That is not what I've been told. No, I've had Mr. Landram stake out where they want the building and it is directly behind the new uh stadium bleachers just on the other
043side of that little road. Is that I don't dictate those things. I'm told I'm told what to build and where to build it. And that's So just when we do a bid, we're just saying we need because this is how big is this building going to be? Yeah. So we bid a 30 by 70 by 12t tall building. So you just say this is what we need. They look at different bids, but we don't look at, okay, this one says, okay, we're going to do better on the trusses or we're going to use instead of two 4x6, we'll do uh 4x4s, which it could be passed by the, you know, yeah, four if we have 4x4s are fine, but if the bid was somebody said, we're going to put 4x sixes, which is better. Well,
044the buildings could be built on the 6x sixes, but regardless, that doesn't matter to the bid unless we specify We can't all of a sudden start taking somebody's bid because I mean I had bids all the way up to 170 $160,000. You can bid me the Taj Mahal, but when I ask for a camper, I'm not going to now take the Taj Mahal. It's not fair to the biders. They're supposed to bid the project that we put in front of them and there is a time frame for them to contact me and ask questions. All questions are then taken and put out as an addendum on the same website. There was three addendums to this project. So every question that was asked of me on the project was answered and shared with the other biders.
045Yes, we I and any biders that contacted me, we push it back out letting them know, hey, there's another addendum out there so that everybody can go out and get the new information. So they're all bidding on the same information. So, we're all getting Nobody's getting like this information, basket of apples, not someone trying to sell me a basket of fairness. Do we have any more questions? Um, so there has been a motion and support. So, um, all the all in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Okay, motion passes. probably won't think so. Well, he's got another one just in case that worried me the most was the one that's uh Okay, so uh next we're moving on to the Algangquin and Millside parking lot crack fill and seal coating bid. Anybody like to make
046a motion? No. All right. I'll make a motion that the board of education approves and awards the Elgangquin Elementary and Millside Elementary parking lot crack fill and seal coat projects to the lowest bidder prime results in the amount of $23,227. Is this the same one that did the question over the summer? What's that? This is the same company that did the job over the summer. No, this is a completely different company. I'm just wondering because I this parking lot is I tried to push a popcorn cart just out to the concession stand the other day. I've had other people say that about we got to remember we took something which was absolutely horrible and I don't want to get on this but the cost to replace this was $4 million. Yeah, we put lipstick on
047a pig to try and save this parking lot because we don't have $4 million. So, and this is something that we should have been doing for years and the district hasn't. So, this is the exact same project that I did at Mil or Elangquin in Millside two years ago. Okay. We're going to do it again. We're going to do it again here. Not to the extent we just did because we added here, but this seal coating is something and crack sealing is something that we should be doing as general maintenance on our parking lots to keep them in good shape. So, I'm probably going to do every other year one of these lots until we've got three layers of the stuff built up. Does it get better as you put more on it? Not really.
048I I don't want to say it's going to get better. I mean, you've seen the parking lot. You've seen how alligatored it was. You've seen how many cracks are in it. We're going to make it a little nicer and try and save it. So, we'll hopefully it'll keep it from getting worse. Hopefully. Along with Millside, I think I can save that lot. Yeah, that one. That's that one's in bad shape. This one is still in bad shape, but we're making it a little better every time we do this. Maybe the district will be able to get another 8 10 years out of it. I don't know. But the cost to replace this campus is a substantial amount of money. So even though we're taking again, there was a big difference in between the bids. Yes.
049So my question is this. If we're going with the lowest bidder, like even on this one, and and this is for feature information, we're getting the same quality from this lower. I tried as much as we're going to get it from the guy who's Yes. up here. I tried to ship these. I called this company multiple times. They're coming from Alpena. They are under by 20,000. They're telling me they're still going to be able to make money off of this, which makes me worried because is everybody else just making a lot of money off of us? But I've called their references. I've called them to make sure they understood the square footage of the job. And they assured me they do. So I I couldn't come here and tell you why I would go with
050the higher. I mean, when there's a discrepancy like that, that's a big difference. You know what I mean? With the pole billing where we had a different discrepancy, you know, 90 to $70,000. All right, that's kind of doable, but I I can't think of any reason why I wouldn't tell you to take the lowest bidder on this one. I will be watching. Do Do they have like a date when they're coming or We We have to work that out once if this happens tonight, then we will contact them. Of course, it's after school. We've got um a carnival that likes to park in that parking lot. I just know it's used kind of a lot. What's that? I just know it's used a little bit. So, yeah. So, there's a lot of things that we
051have to juggle on. I've let the bidder know that and they said they're fine with that. They'll work section by section just like the last time we did this. So, I I hope by the end of the summer I'm coming back going, "Look, I saved you $20,000." Right on. And then you can only go with what you information you have, I guess. So, what's that? You can only go with the information you have. So, right. Yeah. I mean, if there was something else, you did your due diligence following up with them. So, even with the poor, I contacted that building. We I we walked the site with them. We, you know, we we tried to vet this stuff out because I don't want problems as we get down the road on this. Just a question
052that I need is with the pole barn or with putting the ash vault down. What What is it? Okay, let's say this ashalt company comes in and all they have is a black spray paint just okay, we're done. There's there's standards that they all have to meet. I'm not going to try and remember, okay, but I mean if they don't meet the standards is what I'm saying. So we hired them, we pay them, and if they come in, they don't meet the standards, then we'll end up in court. Okay. because that's if we have to hire. Yeah, we kind of did it that way. The whole pole barn part falls down, right? Then we're in court. Okay. And you know, Clay Township won't permit it and those type of things. You know, I don't think
053I don't think Clay Township is going to permit a building that they have, especially at a school. And I called Klay Township before we took on that project to make sure you guys are are good with this because, you know, anything that I build out there, I want it permitted. I can't say that's Yeah. So, that's one thing that we are insisting on. And if it comes back and it doesn't get permitted, then I'll be back here in another month saying we're doing it again. Okay. But I don't I don't think that's going to happen. All right. Uh move to discuss. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? All right. That motion carries. Second. Thank you. Thanks, Evan. Um, motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. Everybody says it. The most popular motion. All right.
054Um, moved and supported. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Thank you all. I think your book. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.