001foral any public [Music] comments okay uh first what we have for our summer updates all the uh 2024 summer projects are moving along nicely uh there are a couple things we just wanted to update you guys about um first we have our high school Roofing roofing project which is moving along nicely they are on schedule as of right now um there should be a yep there we go uh so in that you can see some of the roofing right there um but actually this one is more focusing on the window for the building envelope project that we have over there um they are just about done with installing on those and that goes for Allen Elementary as well I know before it kind of looked like a abandoned building but now it's looking a little
002bit more up to par uh so both of those projects are underway and they have been turning over Aries areas to us um that next picture is just a picture from the inside of what the windows look like uh next we have Fred Rogers uh project that we had going on they did some um uh tuck pointing and facade roof repairs there on the exterior as well as they framed and put up a new wall on the inside of the lrc over there um and on the pictures you can see that wall completed as well as some of the stone caps on the roof that they had replaced or sealed up uh so that project has actually been turned back over to us and that is good to go they're just working on a couple
003punch list items yes that is the third floor yep um that one is a picture of the high school Roofing that is coming along nicely um I apologize that picture should have been first um but those are just some updated pictures of them moving along with that project as well um we have all the playgrounds uh the remainder of the playgrounds that we had slated to replace uh for this summer that's a picture of gates and Krug right there uh we only have a couple more I believe they're working on Oak Park and Rollins as we speak and then um we have a minor small playground at odonnell that will be completed but all those are all on schedule and will be completed before the first day of school so that'll be nice to have
004that uh rubber pour in play at all of our playgrounds throughout the district uh update on Waldo's project there's a picture of the multi-purpose room over there uh the envelope project for Waldo was we were painting refreshing we replac the lights in there as well as resealing the MPR floor um as of today that floor has been re it does look uh completely different in there um and as well as we have the gymnasium projects underway where they replaced um the support on the upper track uh which has been completed we do have pending uh the painting and lighting is also done for the gym uh we do have the uh bleachers and floor that we have scheduled to go in starting over winter break and being completed along that timeline but outside of that
005Waldo is on project and it looks amazing in there um a couple other updates for projects we have Simmons and Fred Rogers the fire alarm replacement is just about done they're doing punch list items over there uh those were long overdue so we are getting both of those back um to the district for us to clean areas and do what we need to do over there um cow herd HVAC was probably our biggest monster of a project um I compare it to that of Waldo with just how intense it was and mechanically inclined and all the parts that we needed to do um they are on schedule and they've actually turned over areas to us where our staff has actually gone in and been able to start uh cleaning and making it ready for uh
006staff and students uh so it's going to be down to the wire but um we do have Roe scheduled for the end of next week uh to come out and give us the green light on occupancy but at this time we don't foresee um any issues pertaining to cow herd um lastly we wanted to update you guys on for the summer projects was we ran into a unexpected issue for the Brady parking lot over the weekend um essentially we found some concrete walls and footings in the parking lot underneath as well as we had some areas in the soil where it was not packing properly which could lead to potential quality uh issues and integrity of the parking lot um we do have money left in our allowance for contingency and I'm actually going to
007lean on um Rich Blair from cigan and Clark to give you guys a little bit more information as it pertains to the Brady parking lot Brady yep so before we started the project we did go out and do some soil borings to understand what the soil conditions were and we're only able to do that in a couple Point places and and knew that the asphalt and the subbase needed to be replaced so we did take that into the original bid as as part of it as they pulled it away they have found some foundations of some old buildings that were on site whether it was the old homes that were there before the whole block was taken over or some garages or whatever those were unknown so we found those as we were pulling it
008up and during the process of tearing out the asphalt uh there was additional rains and stuff that wet in the soil so that top piece is is wet so what we've done is we've looked at our a couple options as to how we can handle that one was to kind of um open up the dirt and try and let it dry out but the problem is is we have a lot of rains coming in even today we're seeing some rain coming in and there's some fears that it wouldn't dry out in time to be able to get closed up and move on so the second option was to remove some of the top soil go in and do some additional engineered soils in place and then be able to get that uh asphalt put in
009so that we can have it done and completed before the teachers and staff come back so that's what we recommended it does fall under the contingency allowance we are going to hit maybe close to halfway of our contingency allowance so there's still plenty there if we need it and but we don't see any additional Services coming for this project okay so it seems like it's really a bit tight so how did this all get missed now because now we're very close to school start in two weeks and it seems like we're getting pressured into paying for this plus that parking lot has been pull pulled up before so how would we not know that that this parking lot had a problem with it this is not the first time we have done this parking lot
010so I I'm unaware of the foundations before and usually if we were doing it we would have taken out those before so I I'm not sure exactly where where those were before um the other pieces there was the playgrounds being replaced there so there was some timing and scheduling that had to occur to get the playground in place before they could come in and do the site improvements so um you know unfortunately it was that coordination piece that played a little bit of a factor otherwise I think the parking lot would have been done a little sooner um but again it it is a little down to the wire unfortunately and and that's why we're proposing these options uh but I think even if we were able to get in sooner we would have still
011had a similar condition we just wouldn't be rushing the decision so who is this company that's doing the work um do you remember Advanced I believe it is Advanced Advantage payment Advantage payment they doing multiple parking lots this yes and they've done projects in the past and we've worked with them and not had any issues uh they did Bo pre and they got that done a little while ago so that has been done um and then they were doing seal coding as well okay Advan Advanced believe it's Advanced advant Advantage advant advant Advantage okay okay well the next time that a bid comes through for them you can tell them we're going to take that into consideration because because I just think that this is really poor planning I I'm sorry this is poor planning
012to come up with a $75,000 bill you know a lot of people think that the district has money well the district had money because we have saved our money through the years and it just seems like we've been a little Loosey Goose lately so we can go for it but I will tell you the next time the company comes up yep gonna watch it that is ridiculous this is this is just way too close and we're under the gun or we can or we got to do it obviously our staff needs a place to park they can't go park in the parking lot because they have to park in the neighborhood those streets that's a very crowded neighborhood over there you know because it's like $10,000 if we do it the way one and then
013it's 75,000 if we have to do it the rushway right it's 69,000 kind of the the quicker way the the I think it was like 12,000 the first option and that's if it works and there is potential that it may not work so it was a solution trying to be able to keep the cost down obviously if we had more time that might be the route to go but it is still questionable as to whether it would be the proper solution sounds like they took too much work on and they didn't I guess when was the last worked on or repaired or I would have to go back and files so obviously it is an older parking lot I'm sure it's been repaired over the past 25 years but I don't know how long ago
014it was um and we did move the playground to a different location so it's a little closer to the building so that the students don't have to walk across the parking lots go to playground and the foundations that were found were underneath the playground area the the old playground area [Music] so sure the foundation piece that was found is just in a portion of the parking lot and then the soil uh piece where we're having compaction issu issues is a a portion it's not the entire PL uh entire parking lot but it's it's like a third or twoth thirds of the parking area out the sampling plan when you evaluate the so for you know that how do they make that determination because it seems like this was maybe missed or miscalculated in some way
015like well I think there the the so the the park the foundation issue it's really hit or miss so it's all about where you do the boring to actually run into that so you could be one foot off of it and you wouldn't actually find that that Foundation was there so it's all about location as for the compaction issue um we we kind of spread it out typically we'll give a recommendation to do you know three or four besid depending on the size of the parking lot we kind of spread them out along the parking lot to see if we can kind of get a range of the compaction I think part of the issue is they pulled off the parking lot it rained a lot and because it was open for a period of
016time the soils got wet and that's where the compaction issue is more so than the the when you when they did the borings they didn't find the compaction issue because the soils weren't wet because the pavement was over top of it so when you say Foundation Foundation of what of an old building okay I think it could have been like a garage or an old house or something that there being Aurora you find a lot that's got a house that was torn on 80 years ago but the the basement's still there right well for the rec for instance when they knocked that down if you remember they found there's foundation work there as well so we had some ideas that they might be some we had some contingency allowance to try and take care of
017that and we made sure that we had it covered so um that was the plan for that now for this one we didn't know but that's why we have the contingency allowance so we had 150,000 set of Cipher contingency because knowing what's under the payments very difficult we try and make our best assumptions by doing some borings and finding that stuff out but sometimes there's just things you don't know and that's why we had that there I think the bigger issue here is that we're talking about the last minute and it would have been a lot easier if we were talking about this a month ago I had asked uh AJ earlier to pull the Gant chart which we asked for and did this have we had it down when when we approved their um
018timeline did we have this ending like about now anyway uh it was August 14th I believe so there was tight it was planned to be tight so we would have gotten that as a district as an end date anyway yeah so we knew it was going to be tight they were they were within the they're still within schedule right again it's the fact that they opened it up left it open the rains came it created some issues some of it's not their fault some of it maybe could have been scheduled well next time just note and this is for you AJ and Steve is we won't approve you know this kind of a project with that tight of a timeline because we'll know now there if there's a problem we'll be our backs against the
019wall but we didn't know we didn't catch that either this time so we need to just make a note for future parking lot projects or anything we need to not approve something if they can't get it done earlier then we have to push it off to the next summer that's all yeah we'll work with your team on that yeah we can get that in a minutes okay did they acknowledge any you know I mean you I've just heard you say perhaps that could have been scheduled better contractor acknowledge that hey you know maybe we should have button this up or secured it better kept you know you they have not acknowledged that um I mean they've part of it was the playground was was some scheduling conflicts with that I think maybe complicated a little
020bit as for the time frame in their opinion as long as they're able to meet the schedule and and that's kind of what we have to hold them to as the schedule I think we all know that waiting till last minute kind of creates the problem when you have a big change order like this and the playgrounds were done by game time right so they were waiting on Game Time completely separate contracts so sometimes that coordination can be a little difficult since they're not working together yeah we we we'll watch for that next time we will not let it back up to the 14th when we open schools on the 19th that that was our fault too that's Fay window that's not enough time yeah northwest corner North yes yeah I'm in historical areals right
021now as as early as 1946 or something on that lot there was something there historical Aerials okay the website yes so some of it comes back to timing you know today when we knock down a building we take out the foundation with it in the past that didn't always happen so yeah well know I know we have redone the work on these buildings a lot so I'm just amazed that that we're having this problem but again I do chalk it up to poor planning so yeah and you know like I said your next bids I I really feel they probably took too much work on and everything got backed up you know but we need to watch the schedule better because there is no way you know if you had something go wrong obviously the
022week before school that is too close not even a full week five days yeah okay thanks it's not happy that concludes the 2024 summer projects are there any other questions on that one to the next okay the next one is the Career and Technical Center um which um is going to be Richard uh Blair sharing all the cool updates with the board I believe you're also going to do this for full board so um uh chair um Schubert did you want because this is going to go to full board to table this to full board for your time sake or you want to do it now it's up to you are we is there any action on it at the board um no action well you are doing the bonds tonight but other than that
023no so but you may have questions that they don't have so want to go through it's pretty short yeah it's a sync version here and then you can present full thing to the board okay yeah just give us a kind of just a high level review okay yeah we'll go through a few things I think the big pieces your pictures are great the pictures that we shared with you and then if you want we can pull up the model as well yeah that's fine but the pictures kind of do a nice job what you sent over is great pictures kind of capture everything we've talked about for the last what six weeks yeah so we've been working just so you guys are aware we've been working on the exterior of the building what the appearance
024is going to be and then we're also starting to work on the classroom so we've had a few meetings with a couple of your teachers to start talking through um the requirements of their spaces and uh what they've been doing if you PDF Shar so um we've been kind of working with two pieces so we're starting on the outside focused on the appearance of that at the ex exterior and we've kind of shown a you ideas to the group and kind of work through what we feel as a group is best and right now we're kind of talking about two two different schemes [Music] it's not it's the schu model where's the PDF I don't think so well all right so we're going to show you the model here real quick we'll we'll figure out
025the uh sorry about that we don't have the PDFs at the moment um I have them in my email I can work on pulling them up all right yeah sorry while you're talking okay so um but we'll we'll kind of show you the exterior view I know you guys got a a quick view last last board meeting or last vng meeting um showing the exterior of this and we've kind of got a rendered version of it um so one of them we're kind of looking at the the front is along Indian Trail is what we're looking at first focusing on that and then kind of the front entrances we have two schemes one is kind of focused on doing more of a signage View and showing what the building might look like and then the
026other is is um kind of more of a patio [Music] area Andy if I send this to you via email can you project it it's a PDF all right I'll work on that sorry about that that's okay [Music] you going talk about the site and then he's got the PDFs story yeah it's a twostory building two story okay it is a twostory in certain areas and a single story in others so to the as we're looking at this right now if you want to hold for a second to the right you'll see kind of the single story side and to the left you'll see a two-story side the two-story side is going to be your classroom areas and as we zoom in on the classroom area you'll start to see that one of the uh
027design layouts that we're showing here we're providing a lot of Windows we're looking at a pre-cast wall system and then we're looking to kind of add some texture and some 3D piece to it adding some screening and um some canop p over the windows so this is going to help um with with uh your Energy Efficiency so we're looking at shading uh provid providing a light shelf as well so the shading could allow the light to bounce in at the top it would reflect off the ceiling and provide lighting whereas down below we'll start to block that direct sunlight from coming in which will also help in the summer keep the heat loow down as well so it's kind of a double action in the winter when the sun's lower it allows some of that
028more natural light to come more direct in as we're looking at it so um this is one of the views that we're kind of looking at uh working through it and again you can start to see some texture there [Music] so any [Music] questions and then the kind of the red box there um there'll be texture added to that as well as we move along but that would be more where your lecture hall is um it'll be a twostory space uh will have tiered seating in there so you can do lectures um you can bring in your staff in there as well if you need to to do other events and then we're kind of looking at a front entrance here uh Lobby which would be mostly glass from the exterior allow a lot of
029light in and from there you'd be able to go up or down to the different levels and from the backside it would allow the bus students that are being dropped off to be able to enter into that same kind of space so it'll be um parent drop off from one side Bus drop off from the other and then kind of a shared volume volume area to allow students to kind of mix as they come in and then go out to the different spaces that they have okay you want to show the other got them are you ready to show it don't don't you Hold sure go go to the other one if you can take over we'll jump back to the model okay so here here's the site plan this is just kind of to
030be able to show you the flow of the site so we are looking still at the buses along the back parent drop off on the kind of the east side of the building and then allowing traffic to carry through and be able to be stopped as well between the ECC and the high school so we're going to be able to direct that and control it as well the next one this is the general layout of the building uh the green boxes down to the bottom or the South page South are your G classrooms those are a two-story space they're stacked with the lecture hall adjacent to that and the two-story space there along the north side of the building are going to be a lot of your technical spaces so your welding manufacturing um Aviation
031Automotive back there and then to the far west side or the page left you'll see we're reutilizing a portion of the existing building to go in there with your nursing spaces and you know automation technology spaces as well and we'll make that Building look like a new space go so this is the lecture hall to just kind of give you an idea of how the space will lay out again it's a two-story space we're looking at a a table up front with chairs movable chairs in front of that so it can be used for learning purposes um and then having stairs up the middle down the sides and then the ability to connect to that level we'll have a stage up front and then we'll also have some balconies up above to look down into
032that space one piece we wanted to kind of bring to you guys uh to kind of get some feedback from you is on the bathrooms so there's multiple ways in which we can do bathrooms and some of the new ways of looking at it are keeping them transparent um allowing uh staff to be able to monitor those spaces a little better uh so part of the way of doing that is by providing private toilet stalls um that would allow um the doors to be closed they'd be full height so you wouldn't be able to see under or above them and then the you would be able to see from the corridor down those hallways so teachers could supervise and then you bring the sinks out front uh which would allow the students to wash their
033hands and all that um in public so you're not kind of hiding around the corner um the idea could be that it's it's boys on one side girls on the other but it does give the flexibility if we need to let other people in there to feel safe that when you're in your toilet stall you have your own privacy yeah very European yeah it is and the state is in ually coming to that model so this is a secure way for us to do it and monitor children [Music] still just something we wanted to show to you guys as an option so this was the first uh version of the model that we were showing you just kind of a direct on uh rendering of that so as you can see here how the screening
034Works um kind of helping the windows and shading the windows as well just another view kind of give you kind of a concept of what that looks like and then this was the second option which we can kind of show you the model a little bit as well if you would like uh this is kind of creating more of a plaza area so we're kind of pulling off uh the building kind of creating some separation and some uh Dimension to the building uh and allowing for a plaza to be there outside the classrooms with potential doors that open out into that space the teachers could actually go out into that teaching uh and create a teaching space outside there's kind of a view of what that area might look like so those two options we
035wanted to bring to the board as kind of the best the best two from the options that we looked at in our Tuesday meeting to kind of get your feedback so what would we really be using the lecture space for that just seems like a lot of room so we a lot of times in keeping with our kind of like we do with our kind of career Wednesday we have larger groups of kids that come in and they hear from keynote speakers and um they're able to hear more about career options if one of our partner um um I don't want to say organizations but one of our um companies that we partner with wants to do like the assessment portion and they want to do a larger group for some kind of testing we
036have the capacity to put more than just one classroom in that space we have the capacity to put larger numbers to do things of that nature so if there was something like that so we didn't want to have anywhere nowhere in that building that we could bring large groups of kids together because we'd have about 600 600 kids in there a day sorry what was the question capacity of this Auditorium it's just over a 100 oh okay yeah yeah so it looks a little bigger than it is yeah but that would let you bring in potentially four classes yeah little like the Little Theater size a little bigger what's the capacity of this yeah this is 300 about this room is bigger yeah so okay that gives perspective you know or like think of it
037as three classes could go into the one space and be able to so about a 100 yeah kids yeah so we can group them together with the two options you have here um does the first option um I guess let me ask does the second option take away square footage from facilities by the addition of this outside area it doesn't what we were doing is this one has more green space in front of the building the other one Tak so reduction of Green Space not square footage of the actual facility itself right and those windows look looks like a lot of blue on there don't worry I did check out that's just because that's how glass looks so it will not be a red and blue building it's just going to be red that's just
038reflecting off the sky and the software that they have that was really important so obviously there is this one might be a little more costly with the with the outside area so there's a little bit more outside work that has to happen with grading cutting some plazas in there and uh you know pulling some stuff off the building but it's you know there's options here so that's what we want to talk about is what's important is an outside learning space important here or is it not you know and that's that's the question that has to be asked so we want to propose those options and let you guys is going to make those decisions your inclusion Dr nural on that I mean I would think that's where the board would defer to you right well
039I I like them both they're both very different I don't necessarily know that I mean if we wanted an outside portion the back of the building is really nice because we did ask them to outfit that with green space and it's not the traffic Highway there's like an inner Road plus there's a whole grassy kind of nll part that'll be on a hill quiet area yes so we don't need to spend the money on the outside I think the EA stem on that pre-cast on the front looks very cool looks very futuristic um on that rendition and it's good science it's good like um signage or marketing so I think that'll look great on Indian Trail yeah make the backside like a park or something or rest area for kid is a cost difference yeah
040it's more expensive to have the doors on the classroom and the outdoor part that's this so number two is more expensive looks like number one F okay Choice we'll go with number one so obviously we want number one does look cool it looks cool yeah yeah the signage helps out a lot to answer your question Bruce this is a site plan so as you is there any way to zoom Andy a little I don't I know I'm just threw this at you like right now there thank you so as you can see on the the north side of the building the top side of the building we have a paved area so your technology spaces are going to be there your your wood shop and all that so we want to be able to have
041overhead doors so they can outflow into that space if needed have take deliveries or like for your trades program they can actually build something inside and take it out and then take transfer it where they need to so the paving area would work well for there and then we do have some green space out there um part of what we have to work through and we're still working with is uh some of your site detention so a lot of it we're looking at putting kind of in the South uh West Corner kind of out in front of the ECC we probably are going to need a little bit more we just found out the other day or two so we are looking at other options and we'll work through that but the intent is to
042give as much green space as [Music] possible okay so how close are we to finalizing our plans and going out the bid so this schedule we're looking at the 2026 opening date so we're looking at kind of a 16mon bid process um so we're looking at going out in early 25 is where we're looking at right now so we're in the process of doing all these pieces and keeping on schedule will allow us to do that so like I said we're in the process of Designing each space right now which does take time um we're in the process of working with train as well so as you remember we have Ester funds that we want to spend on this and we're focused on getting that in place so the goal is to have that ready
043by the end of this month to be able to bring it to the board for approval next month so that we can spend those user funds is necessary to get that first phase of money spent and then we'll continue to work on this and progress it and bring back you know we can do it every month or however often you want us to bring this back to talk about so we won't get kind of hurt with in the with financials if the dance cards are full I know you guys talk for years and kind of trained us like by the winter their dance cards are full for that summer so they tend to charge us they bid cost the bid cost more but if we could go out in November October they may be more
044apt to to bid on this for a more reasonable price it won't work like this it's a little little different for this project because usually we're talking about summer projects and we got to hit the certain window this is a very large project and it's going to be a 16-month construction process somewhere in that range so it is it's a long-term project and contractors are going to look at it that way they prefer to be on a big long-term project and a bunch of small ones so got it um and then they'll have some indoor time on this too correct once they get it up okay corre got it but we are on schedule and focused on that 202 six fall opening is what we're looking at so we we'll keep moving along and if
045we can get it out a bit earlier and we might even break it out into phases so we could bid you know grading and uh foundations earlier and get that process rolling and then we can bid the rest of the building and keep that going so we can hit that make sure we stay on schedule yeah because this will have to be open well in advance to for we're going to go live for school not kind of like the wreck the wreck took about as long as this right about two years it the wreck took a lot longer than it was supposed to that was some interior change work that happened we had some other little hiccups along the way um so with this having a longer process to begin with we should be in
046better shape okay um and I I agree with you we need to make sure that we're turning the building over to you guys earlier so that you have some time to get set up as as you guys are moving in for that school year yeah like okay June of 26 yeah all right great thank you next all right we um so I'm gonna take this for Steve yes since he is um out of town um so what was included in you um in your uh packet was the 10e update on the 10 year and I just want to say that um there was really good news uh the 10-year um Health Life Safety report came back better than we thought better than the Architects thought um particularly for the age of our buildings and so
047it has been it's um approved it's it's on its way in for to the Roe um basically all of the items that came back as a priority or mandatory priority which would have been labeled a um were very very U minimal and really what we have done is include some of those I think the total of all the pressing priority items was somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 to 150,000 for all 21 schools and our uh facilities in the district so we were able to go into and start looking by school um at the items that were labeled B which were considered things that we could do and many of those items are really along the lines of wish list items the items that we felt like from items B um were really more of
048the district's Focus some of those things were with the doors and the um safety things we built them into the next part of the agenda which is going to be the fiveyear um plan capital projects plan so what you received was just a sample of the 10year life safety we gave you an elementary school to look at a middle school and I believe he put the high school in there and again it lines up perfectly with what we had intentionally planned in our Five-Year Plan um but the good news is that there are no pressing Emer see immediate things um on our 10-year review which is huge again pretty um good feedback for again the age of our building so we have been definitely moving in the right direction and there's nothing that will set
049us off budget any questions about the 10e oh it's great it was great news um moving into the next item which is the fiveyear capital projects plan review um what we did was to take a look at the existing plan that we've continually brought back and forth to the board for at least the last four years and we made again this summer has a column and then we started summer of 2025 would be year one over the next five years we like we roll it every year this year we um continued our kind of our prioritization that we do with the Architects and labeling items that need to be done as a one two or three so that the board could see um how they are um what kind of priority is placed upon them
050based on our architect's assessment of their um the need or the immediacy that's needed um and then we took for your handout and took all of the priority One items and we labeled them so that you could see those items um on another sheet so the first sheet is basically our rank order of the existing fiveyear plan and then down below the second sheet the second sheet is only the items that have a prioritization code of one so if you go back to the first sheet which has summer of 2024 not only does it list from um all of our things like Roofing Windows tuck pointing side improvements flooring all of those items were listed um but we also left summer of 2024 on so you could see that the board has actually done 11.2
051Million worth of work and you could see that that is all done with our Esser funds so we certainly used our Esser funds as responsibly um as possible and you could see a lot of those things are being allocated for for Esser funding um if you take a look down below at those items that were Priority One um we have sketched those out over the next five years starting with Summer of 20125 and you could see what those estimated costs are I want to draw your attention because Windows is an on ongoing kind of an upgrade for our buildings um for a multitude of reasons obviously there are some doors that need replacement because that's safety so that's always going to be a priority One um fire panel goes without saying a priority one and
052we're going to continue to replace those that are aging um but in terms of looking at the 10year work that's where all of those a items are found so next summer we're proposing to finish all of the highest Priority 10year Health Life Safety projects in that $150,000 we would finish all the level A's so you can see that we went ahead and Incorporated that into our plans for next summer some of the other projects that are there include the Career and Technical Center um and what that cost might be as well as the um High School Mechanicals which The Architects have shared with the board is a three kind of a three-year phase project if we we're anticipating about $6 Million worth of work for phase one next summer and we and then we're going
053to get an update this Committee in the September b& meeting for safety as a districtwide but one of the things that we are committed to because it came about when we hired the external evaluator to do those safety studies is that we really need to look at starting to secure the entrances at our especially at our elementary schools that NE don't necessarily have um as secured of an entrance as we could possibly provide so that is a cost that is built into that to begin that work next summer as well so that brings us to about 10.8 million I do want to point something out though to Rich and AJ the Career Technical Center that 4 million I believe because it's not shown above that we are going to take that cost out of this
054summer as well and and and allocate it toward the eser dollars I think that's our um Mechanicals cost so that may come off so we might be down to 6.8 million Mike um because I don't see the any cost allocated for fy2 when an act or summer of 24 but in actuality because we're going to do it before September 30th that cost will be summer of 25 but it won't happen next summer it'll actually happen this summer and it'll go toward Esser so that would leave any additional expenses next summer for the Career Technical Center to be on there and able to be um allocated so we still should have no problem fitting under the 10.8 any questions okay what I guess this the second no outdoor wellness centers what those are the playgrounds but
055in the grant we wrote them as social because remember sther is all about social Wellness just like the resilient Center so Elementary social Wellness is found on the newly renovated playgrounds yeah and I just W to commend the district I mean this is for the secured entrances that's something we've talked about um not just recently and not postevent right the country this is something that we've continually worked on yes it's coming to fruition now that we're actually you know we've been plotting along and not being driven by what's happening world around I Catalyst for it was initially but we've kept true to our original discussion in that we are going to address that and it's it's great to see that now on the plan budgeted and ready we discussed and executed so absolutely that coupled
056with something that's not on here but we recently are trying to allocate and find Grand dollars for is the cameras inside the main thoroughfares inside the elementary because we don't have any but in our main hallways we would be looking to do that it would be about 20 to 25,000 per building for equipment and install but it's time so that would be coupled with that too yeah so we're coming back more to come on that in September for the safety report out I'd still like to see us work a little more on the windows for next year more aggressively yeah because that that saves us a lot of heating cost yes I think we need to be more aggressive on that so we could if if the contractors could could facilitate it we could move
057those bids up then to include the summer of 2026 Windows as well you're saying we could look at collap combining the summer 2026 with the summer 2025 projects escalated escalate yeah so if you could move that up that'd be great okay um any other questions about that if not we are moving on to transportation we have um and glattus is sitting here with us for questions what we have done historically in this District even before busing was we had busing we were providing Transportation um for our mckin vento students and so we were doing that by using different cab services and cab companies um throughout the years and just trying to get the best solution um one of our bus providers now offers that level of service and so we have that quoted out that's
058what was shared with you and we definitely it is our recommendation as a district to move forward with that because for multitude of reasons one because the cost are more succinct and we can control the cost because we can book them like we do services for our bus stops now the other thing is just the Safety and Security factor that we're not dealing with a multi ude of random and different cab companies and providers but that we are dealing with the same individuals that provide bus service for our other 35 routes to our mckin vento population and so there's just something to be said about that consistency and their Staffing and their oversight and so we are looking to enter into almost an addendum of a proposal but because of the amount of money for
059that we wanted to bring it before this committee and then therefore in front of in front of full board so we're looking to um be able to again add a component to the First Student Bus Services contract that would in include its its first student called first alt um that's their their new segment and so safety enhancement I covered financial implications um and we would be saving 45,000 and having a more um a company that I think we could say that we trust more that's more consistent for our our most needy children any questions on that no okay all right and Doc that would be going for motion tonight yes that's going for Action because obviously we're going to need to do those contracts and execute that because school is starting but again we wanted
060to bring that to you because um of the cost we just didn't want to we wanted to share that yeah um District Lawn Care um Services is our next item and um with that is just a verbal update just so you know we did reject the bids for that for both times we are in the process and have had some great conversations with SEIU we are um moved through working with them on job description to be able to do a a groundskeeper slash a permanent um substitute and I know I'm getting the name that we agreed upon groundskeeper floater groundskeeper floater we've met with our stewards two of our Stuart as well as their uniserve from the um SEIU and so they are going to be taking this all to their greater membership but they
061were definitely in agreement on the cost to be able to build in almost another division uh slightly higher than a custodian to expand upon our current grounds so that we could handle that all internally because we are not getting uh the financial benefits that we would of using a vendor outside the district and so I think it is going to work quite well to utilize and expand upon our own Talent requiring additional credentials and certification to make sure that we're not sacrificing quality um and that our internal staff have something to grow into and move into and so we are looking to do that and we are moving a lock step with them on that so we look to be bringing an m to take us through negotiations this year on this item so that
062we can have an agreement with their Union and our board so that's the next step is we be coming back with anou for you to be able to um create this mini division we're looking for three individuals to add to the two that we have which would round us off at five and we would be allocating them for the different gr levels of elementary middle and high school to assist and get that all done in a timely fashion our our grounds upkept in a timely fashion maybe I didn't hear something is this permanent positions yes permanent positions insurance and yes that's why we can't fill the floater positions now because they're not there's we're asking people to take a job but it's only guaranteed for a portion of the year and it doesn't have benefits
063the competition's too steep these days so this would help it be separate from I don't want to get ahead of ourselves if negotiating with the Union if if I'm getting ahead if I'm saying too much stop me but um we bid positions based on seniority or based on qualifications or how how we fill those positions they would be qualifications based on promotions interview process but they be Union positions full-time Union positions yes and if someone doesn't get the job they'll be a grievance I'm sure and then we'll deal with that when the time comes or potentially yeah no we we have we have a strict process that we follow now that's set forth in the contract we would continue to follow the process and they are aware that the job descriptions will say that you
064have to be credential just similarly to how our fire persons and our maintenance mechanics have to have certain credentials this position you would have to have certain credentials which is also why we were going to pay them slightly more in terms of the custodian the other thing that we shared with them and I want to say this out loud because I think this is important in any employee group is that we would support them if they want to go back and get the credentials we would support them and send them to those entities so that we could continue to build our own pipeline internally uh particularly in this climate of you know looking for good people to hire so if there are people who are coming through as utility custodians or custodians and they want
065to go back to school and learn and get these credentials we would fully support that as a district even financially okay and then we have our next item is technology it is our K5 student device replacement um these cost are to take K2 and to replace their iPads if you would re uh if you recall in 2019 we were able to purchase iPads to take our district to one: one finally um I'm sorry 2020 was around the time of the pandemic so now we are replacing iPads but this time instead of giving all elementary iPads we proposing to do iPads for K through first grade Kinder and first grade and then two through fifth graders would get their Chromebooks and um so we are looking to do the device refresh but really to really upgrade
066and Advance our second um our second graders um this time too so we would be looking to do Chromebooks for them which will be the first time for those those guys um and the good news about this proposal is that we are able to this year's entire Proposal with our Sr dollars so it will not come out of local funds so any questions about that item so it's something you're working on right now yeah this would come down for Action tonight because we want to again use the Esra dollars before the 30th Andy's ready to order as soon as we get board approval we send them back to Apple the old ones um do you send the old iPads back to Apple they Sally destroyed then or refurbished and sold okay they refurbished them for
067Pires and they pay us for that yes okay great excellent and then our last is just the resolution but we are asking that we um bring this back we need to table this item because it does say resolution for sale and I looked at that this morning and what we are proposing to do is is to do some other things like some donations and so we can't ask the board to move forward on a resolution for sale when we are not proposing to sell that so we will be back that will be more like a resolution for um the um destruction or disposal thank you I had to go to the curriculum folks who do disposals all the time um so yeah we'll be coming back to you so we will not ask you to
068comment or move forward on number 10 I like it for the notes to say number 10 is being tabled and that concludes um the report Mr Schubert yep anything else that no okay work I can't see and the air is rolling again thank you AJ on thank oh gosh yeah no you can't do that yes so here