001I 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. Okay. Um, before we get started, I just like to say something. Um, our campus was badly damaged on March 14th by the tornado. A lot of work has been done, but we have a lot more to do. Things are not perfect. Things are not pretty, but we can teach and students can learn. And I think that's has remained our focus through this whole entire time and I'm very proud of that has been our focus. Um we are going to have our students back on campus uh for instruction. Uh we'll have that done by next week on Wednesday. Our high schoolers will be coming back on
002Wednesday. Um, I just want to say great work and thanks to our administrative team, technology, maintenance, first response, first sight responders, um, CJ Huff, our resource officers, and anyone that has helped us in any way to get to this point. It's taken a lot of work and a lot of hours to get to this point, and I want to thank everybody for helping us get to that point. I also want to thank our community for their support. Um, we are pirate strong and we will get there. It's still going to take us a lot of time, but we're going to get there. And, uh, we're going to need a lot more community support, a lot more parent support um because we've lost some instructional time and we've got to get back in classes and we've
003got to buckle down and um, our students have got to get back to learning. So, thank you all for coming and be a part of this. And I just want to I just want to thank everybody that's helped us uh get to this point and we'll continue to help us along the way. All right. Um I need approval of the agenda, please. Move. Second. All those in favor say I. I oppose. Our agenda has been approved. Um Dr. Jones is going to give us a update um of what's kind of been happening since we met last week and kind of where we are. It has been a great week for us. We've accomplished a lot. We are tired. We worked hard. We're very proud of what we've what we've been able to plan. We brought
004the primary and the career center students back to campus on Monday. And the elementary students were so excited to be here today. our middle school students will be back on Friday. And then our big news today is that um our high school students will be coming back on campus to be with us on Wednesday. Um so that that brings everyone back to campus, but it doesn't necessarily bring them back to exactly where they were before. We have found learning spaces all over campus for our high school students and staff. Um it has taken a lot of planning, a lot of effort, a lot of moving and everyone has just been wonderful and so willing um to to give up space for kids and for teachers that that would be that would give them at least
005the end of this school year. This is temporary. This is temporary to get us through the next seven six seven weeks of school to get us to the end of the school year. As um board president said, we still have a lot of work to do. We um had some very significant damage to the high school. We still are not able to access that area just yet. But we're not going to sit and wait for that. We're moving on. Got a plan. Got to get our kids back. We're going to have a really great end of the school year. Um a lot of people um are wondering what are we going to do? We're wondering the same thing. We have a lot of questions that have not been answered and we're going to need a
006lot of engagement from our parents and our community members so that we have input and feedback from you all on what you all think is best as well. So we are going to establish plans to engage our community to get feedback to take surveys um to go through that whole process so that everyone is involved in in that plan moving forward long range. We haven't been focused on that just yet. So we've been focused on our kids and getting them back. once they're here, we'll we'll be ready to start that work moving forward. So, um, all of the areas that's going to be used by students and staff, those have been tested and they are all negative for asbestous. Some areas in our high school are still being tested. We are still waiting on some
007results from some of those areas. This testing will determine um when and if we can get materials and supplies out of those spaces and move those over into the new learning spaces. But our high school um is we're prepared to to go to get our kids get started and do what we can for our kids. Um, we are also just incredibly proud of everyone and and reality set in for us today when we really started looking at what we've accomplished in this amount of time. Um, we were hit with a tornado. Our campus was hit hard 16 days ago. Our primary students only missed four days of school. Our career center kids only miss four days of school. Our elementary miss six. Our middle schoolers are going to only miss eight. And our high school
008students are going to miss 11. And their building has significant damage to it. So we are very proud of that. But our recovery from this tornado really has just begun. We have a lot of work to do and that work will take time and it will take a lot of input, a lot of people leaning in to help everyone make the right decisions for what our students need. We've accomplished a lot. We have more to do. We still don't know anything about FEMA. Um it's our understanding that through our emergency management um person that we did meet the thresholds for that. It's went to the governor. The governor signed off on it and now it has to go to the president. So we still do not know anything at all about that um possibility. We
009may find something out by the end of the week, but we do not know anything as of yet about that. Um, we've had our insurance adjusters here on campus looking over things. Um, I think that's gone very well. Um, and we're waiting on windows to come um to get windows back in. Um we've looked at every area where kids are going to be um to make sure there's proper egresses so that if we need to get the kids out, we have a safe way to get them out. Now um there are going to be windows boarded up in classrooms, but um I don't think that's going to keep kids from learning. Um, so it it's not going to look pretty for a while, but it's going to be the best that we can make it
010right now. And, um, I'm really I'm really proud of where we are right now. Dr. Jones, I know there's a lot of details to come out, but uh big picture, will school times change anything next week with the high school students? Um there'll be class change times in their schedule, but the start and the end won't change, but the time to allow them to travel in between these spaces will be a larger time sl and all that will come within this from the high school principal. He'll be communicating all that out. Gotcha. So, so what kind of chaos will there be on Wednesday when these high schoolers are now coming back to multiple buildings and classrooms they've never been to trying to figure out their schedule and where they're headed? You know, I think um
011if if we we've erased the board, we had parking lots drawn up here. We've even got um a plan for where they park their cars. Um there will be a lot of hands on deck. um a lot of gathering the kids and the staff together and having those pre pre-planning meetings to try to um have that message going out ahead of time. There's there's going to be um there's going to be confusion. Kids are going to be anxious and um it is spaces that they haven't been in before. So, we're going to have to give them a lot of grace, a lot of patience, and time to just kind of get resettled into new spaces. Now, our students years ago were used to traveling all over campus for th to those buildings and spaces. So,
012a lot of our parents, that's the same path they had going from class to class. That'll be new for these students. They've pretty well been centrally in one place. And so, travel time will be something different, something they'll have to get used to. We do have two action items on our agenda tonight. Um, one of those is for a construction project management leader. Um, we've got a lot of construction that needs to be done as far as putting back in windows and things like that. um our first site people will they leave us when we get all the kids back on campus? So right now though that that company is operating under emergency response. Um so they are helping us with all the most the most immediate things that we have on need. Um but
013there will be a point where we move over into the um where we start fixing things but for the long range. So uh that will need to be put out so that it is there are other companies that also have an opportunity to do that work with us moving forward. Um first on site falls under just that emergency and we have done work with them in the past but we'll get to the point where we need to u switch over and give other companies the opportunity to do work for us. And so if we um could entertain a motion to procure those types of services, then we could switch over to more permanent long range fixing what's really damaged. So when the students come back to school, does that take it away from emergency allowing
014first on site to be here? We kind of we still have um the authority to say to to pull that trigger and say, "Okay, now at this point we're done." Um, even when the kids are coming back on campus, we are still doing some work that would be short-term clean up emergency is going to help you classify through the ent. Correct. Yes. Cuz we really don't know when the windows are coming yet. Correct. Uh, some of them for some of the buildings have been ordered. Um, and then some of them it would probably be in our best interest to get a professional and opinion about how um to best replace those. I said, as you had said, you know, we we've boarded up things. It's safe. It's not pretty. Um we we would appreciate some
015professional opinions so that it so that it is pretty for the long term. That's important too. Dr. Jones, I'm looking at this and I'm seeing in my mind two separate things. Am I looking at that right? Kind of like a project manager and then the other maybe more longterm. So how you look at that? Now, I'm looking at as a project manager and then more of a construction manager, architectural team. You know, you're going to want professional engineers to look at the damage that we have and make assessments on that. Um, a project manager manages um that that coordination between the insurance and the adjusters and the contractors and all that. still have a construction manager and a project manager. Go through that again. So, you would have a construction manager that would most likely
016be um an employee of the construction company that you would decide to go with, but then we would still have like a project manager that's going to oversee the insurance process, possibly some of the FEMA work that we may get into. So, this is not just building a build, a brand new building. We are doing repairs. We're coordinating with insurance companies and of a lot of lot of different entities for funding sources to get these repairs done. So, you'd have someone that would be oversight for that in the district and then you'd have a construction manager that would work with what whatever company that the the board would decide to go with individually. So, we can't we can't at this time hire a construction architectural engineer because we have to wait till we hear what
017the insurance and everything comes back. Correct. No, we we could go ahead and start the process because when you do uh when you enter into the process of choosing someone, it's an RFQ. So, it's based on qualifications. So, you're going, we have the ability to go ahead and move forward and start interviewing companies who submit bids um and kind of start that process so we aren't wasting time when we find out what the money flow is going to be. We wouldn't know what the scope of the the project's going to be and that that would also we need to engage our community to find out what what we want to do at the same time the the insurance is happening where we find out how much money we get to do it. So there's going
018to be a lot of moving parts that's very different than just a typical construction project. We it would be in our best interest to have someone coordinating and and working through all of that that isn't just an employee of of the architectural company or the construction company. It would be in our best interest to also have someone working for us that project your position. You don't have a crystal ball, but is um do you envision less than a year a person would be in place? Any feedback from the consultant that you have from job? I don't I don't wouldn't have a time frame, but we do have some draft RFQS if you all want to take a look at those moment for that. And how uh what's the how many days do you have to
019post these to? I think we've got some we've checked that with our legal uh MSBA with our legal adisement and that's in this language here. [Music] So the RFQS would be for construction management services and architect and engineering services. So that's the two terms, the two positions. Again, that's construction management services and architect and engineering services. You would anticipate this being two separate entities, not one company that provides both. And then on the last page, you can see there's a tenative timeline. This at this timeline absolutely could be adjusted. We just kind of wanted to start laying it out to see what that timeline could be for those two. Do you see how they're like separate and side by side? So even though they're two different bid processes that are coming in, we could do
020them simultaneously. And we do we do not have to strictly adhere to this. This would be based on uh board members availability if there's dates that we would need to stay away from for for any of you. Um but this is just kind of to lay it out so you can see the time frame that would be be tentative. these RFQS. Uh if if we decide to procure these services, we would advertise these in our local paper. Well, I am not in favor of the hiring an architect engineering service to tell us what we need before we decide what so I think that's also why we are interested in the construction management as well. Yeah, I have no problem with the construction management. I think we definitely have to have somebody here to take the
021load off of um Dan and take the load off of everybody else that's kind of been trying to make sure we get that done. And to me, that person would be the one that's making sure the windows are in, making sure the construction that we need done is is done. And, you know, Dan can do his maintenance then and he doesn't have to be a part of that. You don't have to be worried about what's not getting done. Craig doesn't have to worry. I mean, it's just we need we definitely need a construction project manager here and based based on the amount of damage that we have to the building because it it could have some structural hurdles for us in repairing it. We do I I would be I think it's very important that
022we seek an engineer and an architect uh for their their professional opinions. They aren't going to be able to do anything that we do not approve for them to do or guide them to do. But we need their professional opinion so that so that the community can make educated decisions about how to move forward. We can't look at the damage on that building and know how it can be fixed, but an engineer can. So, if we issue these RFQS and we're following the timeline here and come April 24th, we're going to interview them in a board meeting. And after the interviews and after the updates, because this is another month away, we deem that we don't need one or we're not ready for one or we have what are we obligated to hire one at
023that point or to continue on or can we just say no, we're on pause right now, but we'll keep this in mind. So if I can hand this to you, this also kind of has tentative dates on the community engagement. So this is also running simultaneously because we do not have time to waste. So um if you see this first uh community engagement, uh we're looking at the time frame of sometime between March 31st and April 7th that we would start engaging internal and external audiences. Those audiences would include students, faculty and staff, administrators, board members, parents, and community members. We could send out brief surveys with some certain u points to get quick feedback. Um so that's March 31st through April 7th. And then if you see um the submit of putting this in
024the paper is March 28th. So we would submit the RFQS in the newspaper. we would have those first community engagements uh completed before the RFQ deadline. So these dates are running if you set those two documents side by side. The next time frame would be April 10th through the 30th. Um and then um May 14th we would have a community engagement report that we could share at a regular board of education meeting that May 14th meeting to share with the public what we've gained from all these engagement activities with the public. So that all just kind of runs in with the same time frame as this. I think some people have a fear if we hire an architect that means we're building a brand new from the ground up and and that is not the
025intent. We want to get educated opinions. We want to have professionals come in and look at the damage, give us advisement and then we want to engage the community, the board and our staff on what our options are and what we are going to do moving forward. My concern about this timeline is you're talking about Monday starting to engage students, faculty, administrators, board, parents, community members. But we don't have any opinions from anybody. I mean, we don't have an insurance company saying this building can be repaired or can't be repaired. So what? How can I form an opinion? I have no data. I mean, we need we got to have some sort of information as to this building can be repaired or can't be repaired. Here's what here's the areas that are still usable. We
026could I it's hard for me to form an opinion and do anything without having some background. I'm just very reluctant to put too much pause on any of this because I really I'm I'm hoping to get things repaired and as soon as possible so that we do not have high school students spread out all over campus. So, um I appreciate, you know, the the reserve and the concern and I understand it and agree with a lot of it, but I as I said in the very beginning to um our staff, if we do not set a goal, you won't you won't achieve that goal. You may not get there and you may have to make changes, but if you don't shoot to get kids here on a Monday, you will not get kids here on
027a Monday. So, what would this survey ask for? I don't know. I haven't we haven't got the chance for that yet in the details. I just wanted to get this in front of you as far as a timeline. Um that we and and wanted to make sure that everyone knew that we this is our intent for there to be engagement and opinions and for people to share their thoughts with us so that everyone has input on it. So, a decision is not made uh in an office somewhere and it rolls on out without someone having the opportunity to voice um their opinions. And I understand it's hard to know exactly what you would want until we know a little more. And and it's going to be a it's going to be a lot like what
028the last two weeks have been. We have a lot of unknowns. We have a lot of questions. And you get gradually every day you get little pieces and we just keep putting one more foot in front of the other. And I really want to to be able to have these two RFQS go out um at the same time that we're trying to collect that information. So, if we do these RFQS and then we hear these um different companies um and interview them, are we obligated to pick one or can we just decide, you know what, maybe we don't need that and we just don't hire any of them. I guess the board would could always do that. Yes, you could interview and decide that um that is not what you want. those aren't the companies
029that you want to do the work with or we find out something from insurance or somebody else that changes whether we need them or not. I just do not want to waste time because once we have that information from the insurance, you still have to go through the RFQ process. You still have to have architects interviewed and and that if if we start that ball already rolling, we could change dates. So we can do these RFQS but still decide that that's not saying that we're going to end up hiring people but just ask them for bids. We're asking for bids and those bids would then give you the opportunity to bring those companies in and interview them and talk to them and meet them and understand their qualifications. That doesn't mean we're going to end
030up needing those types of services. We're just asking. I like to segment this out of my mind. So, tell me if I'm thinking about this correctly. Um, the board will vote for an RFQ request for qualifications. Um, we'll probably have another opportunity to vote and choose that person. So, that's two. and then we probably have another opportunity to set the scope and kind of see if that matches with our community and vote again. So, it's uh it's very successive, but you got to get the ball rolling now to be able to get to that scope of work that we'll eventually need. I'm thinking about that correctly. The way that rolls down. Okay. because eventually we should have more information back that we'll be able to share with them too. Um, have the adjusters given you
031any kind of guess when they will put together? Here's what we're saying. Here's what my engineer says. Here's what we're here's what the scope of your claim is starting to look like. Are they giving you any kind of information when that will come to you? The structural engineer from the insurance company called me today and is coming tomorrow. So that person is just now going to be feet on the ground tomorrow. I'm not a structural engineer, but do you feel like he will do the one that we personally hired? I mean, can they walk through the building and make that? I mean, they give you their opinion basically in a day. I don't know about that. [Music] Okay. Um, so we have ours and then they will get together and and come to an agreement.
032Um, I don't I don't know what that time frame is. Is ours already done the their assessment? They've done some assessments. They've done the walkthroughs. I haven't received anything in writing from them yet. And I guess there isn't a oneperson fits all situation for this. We need somebody to look at what we got, tell us what's safe and how to fix what isn't. Is that person going to take care of probably wouldn't take care of seeing two of the windows got? Uh that that actually is some of the work that our adjusters doing for us. So, they are walking through, they are looking at everything. They're working with estimators and they will be um going back and forth with the insurance adjuster on this needs to be replaced, this needs to be fixed, all of
033those individual pieces that that work will go through them. So, the insurance adjuster is deciding what Wow. How many pay, for example, a building structure? The insurance adjuster is going to be working with um for example, if there is a doorway that's that's that's broken out glass and it potentially was blown open during the storm. So, the insurance adjuster is going to go back and forth with our adjuster on which is the better. Is it going to cost more money to fix this or could it be a savings to just replace it? And so, they're into those more fine back and forths of of that work. Okay. and and they decide which way, but they don't actually oversee the replacement or the repair. I think we have to decide what we're going to do with
034everything. And I think you need a you need a professional engineer architect to say here's what can be done. Here are some options. Then on the other side of that, you have insurance saying this is what's damaged and this is what you're covered for. Then also potentially you have FEMA coming in. And I couldn't begin to tell you what that process is going to look like. I don't know if there's anybody in Well, there's one person in here. So, um, this is just much more complicated than us deciding to remodel the elementary [Music] school. I'm just asking the board to approve for us to begin this process. I'm not asking the board to commit to anything or spend any money. I'm asking the board to allow us to procure professional advisement to get that process
035started while the district can also simultaneously be reaching out and engaging with our community to see what the community wants to do. Some of that will be difficult if we still have unanswered questions. But those question those answers are going to start coming in. I just don't want to waste any time. Well, I wouldn't want to over survey people in terms of the Yeah, I I want negative results. I'd rather delay survey until we have more answers. But I agree with surveys. That way you don't that way you don't over I'm sure that you all have a lot of people with different ideas of what we should do because Lord knows I there's people from way over on this side to way over on that side and those all all those people deserve to have
036a voice and to be considered in our decisions. I agree. But any voice needs to have some some of the background until decision building. I think some of those voices are coming from a picture on Facebook of a building that looks destroyed with no professional saying this building can easily be repaired and put back on the surface, right? We need to know that what's the professional opinion of Yes, they're going to total out and that's a different story. And that would be the the RFQ for engineer. And so if I understand right, that window's broken. You've got the two insurance gestures going back and forth on how to fix it. And then we would have an engineer adding a third one into the discussion. The engineer would be more about the overall project once we
037decide how we're going to fix things, what we're going to do. The engineer would be more about that higher level. Your adjusters are going back and forth during this um claim process. What can be done? the So is it safe to say the architecture engineer firm we focus more on the high school senior high maintenance area and less on the middle school primary elementary that are repairable? Yes, that is very accurate. [Music] I'd like to split these out. So I'll make a motion. I'm going to do them separately if you don't mind. Uh, I'd like to make a motion to send an a request for qualifications for construction management service. And I'm okay with the draft that I see in front of me. Okay, there's been a motion. Do I have a second? Second. All
038those in favor say I. I oppose. So, our motion passes for our construction management RFQ. So, is there more discussion on about the architect and engineering services? Will they be able there's of course they're the engineers but will they be able to actually tell us about their qualifications if they don't know the scope of the project? Most of those interviews you'll have like a list of interview questions that we'll go down through and ask them during that process. Um, and we can we can draft those questions ourselves specifically to what you know their qualifications, what projects have they done? Have they done commercial work with other school districts or have they just built uh banks and a grocery store or so? It's more about um finding that architect and engineering that that is a good
039fit for schools. Well, not just schools, but I mean they need to know whether they can figure out what can be repaired or replaced and what the need that. You know, they're they're it will probably have you need to find out if they have they're a large enough company to handle the the workforce that would be involved. And so there's a lot of questions that would be in that interview process for you to decide if they are the right fit for the district. Um, you know, you could even choose an architect that you felt was the most qualified out of that interview. And then that next process then after you choose that person would be to go back and forth to determine and negotiate the fees. If you do not come to an agreement on
040those on the fees, you could go back then to the interview process and interview someone else. Will any of this type of service be under the scope of the insurance? Will any of it be like if we hire an architect and engineering firm, will that be covered by the insurance claim? Most likely. Most likely. Yeah. There's there's going to be there's the insurance claim and then there is the potential for for the FEMA assistance. um you know, insurance. I I've not ever dealt with a school being hit by a tornado, but we all have dealt with it individually. And a lot of times we think we're more well covered than what we end up being. That could be our reality. I don't know that yet. Been told it looks like on paper our policy looks
041like we have good coverage. I've been told that before, you know, so I I've I've never been through this process. I'm definitely going to be uh learning a lot of a lot of new things through this and I just want to make sure if I have not learned anything else in the ne in these last 16 days is that you cannot sit and wait for answers. They will come. The answers are going to come. Not not necessarily in the order that you want them. You'll get answers. But we all we have to have already plans in place or we're going to waste time for our kids. I'm going to have a building with a gaping hole in it for way longer than I should if I do not get the ball rolling. And I'm just
042asking you all to allow us to start this process. And at any point if you all feel uncomfortable with anything that we are doing, we can slow roll, we can stop, we can pull the board in for a work session. We can ask professionals to give us guidance. I am not I'm I said in the last board meeting, I'm an educator, but I'm smart enough of an educator to know to surround myself with people who are smarter than me in areas that I'm not trained in. I want to do what's best for this district. I don't want to create a problem that's that's going to hurt people 20 years from now. As far as being said, uneasy with it or unsure. I guess that's that's where I am now because I I don't want to
043drag our feet and and obviously lose out on time. And so I I think I can get behind the request for qualifications because we're not obligated to anything. We're not committing to anything other than to listen to what you can offer to help us rebuild. Um, but I think we have to have some information from an insurance company or engineer giving us some advice, giving us their plan or what they believe about our buildings before we can start going to the community and saying, "What do you believe about them?" Because I I mean, they'd be guessing. I mean, we we need to know what, hey, this building can be repaired. We can put this wall back up. We can break this thing. You can clean it up. We can fix [Music] it. I had understood
044that's what the adjusters were doing [Music] already. And maybe I'm not using the right word, the right person here, but inspecting the building to see what was structurally safe and what wasn't. Mr. Kevin, can I add some input on it? I can only speak for residential, but if an insurance claims representative comes in and assesses the damage. Um, and then they write you a check. And sometimes the homeowner just feels like, I got a check, now what? They're like, I got a check. Now, what? But it truly is the the customer or the insurance responsibility or their choice on who they get to choose to build back. Um, sometimes in residential, you can find more damage and go back and do a supplemental on that. And I I can only assume that a construction manager
045might help us with the process if that's the same way with music. But I don't I don't know, at least on a residential side, never going to tell a person they have to rebuild or how they should rebuild. Assess the damage. Everything that you see, write a check and then if you need to get supplemental things, supplemental. Um, does that process seem to work the same way with the music process? So by doing this RFQ, we would be getting someone in place that money forward. We're kind of interviewing roofers and replacement roof except on a lot bigger scale. Okay, that's how I see it. But so so have the buildings already been checked for in structural integrity? There's been people looking at them. I have nothing in writing. And the insurance guy hasn't been here.
046instructional engineer. No, he's coming tomorrow. I appreciate the analogy. That also helps me. I'm struggling to explain it as well. Well, I would make a motion that we uh submit a request for qualifications for architect engineering services as presented. Second. All those in favor say I. I oppose. Motion passes. [Music] We do anything with the timeline with this this timeline or the timeline here. I do have another question on the back. Yes. Uh Dr. Jones, in my mind, the construction manager should come before the architect. Is there what's your thought process on I know it's only two days, but that one seems more urgent to me. Can you tell me your thought process on that? Um, just I just this is simultaneous and not wasting time. I am just I've got my foot on the
047pedal right now. You can just re label the two columns and that. Yeah. Yeah. But and like I said, this is just tentative. Like I know that there are a lot of dates here. Uh we even um if if the board would would be willing to entertain creating some subcommittees amongst the board so that the board doesn't have all of this time commitment. Um I think that that would not have to be decided tonight. That is something that could be just, you know, we could have a work session to work out this timeline and who's going to do what on this this timeline. We've already met the top one. The second one, it goes to the newspaper. I don't see money obligations for me on this timeline. So, I don't feel like that is a
048a negative thing. I didn't get a couple there's only a couple of dates on there that really affects us cuz getting in the newspaper giving them time to submit their stuff and and then we you know then we then we start but that's only two dates correct you could be there for the public opening of the biz um but that wouldn't be a board meeting I mean that's that's open to the public so I think that's a good I it's obviously time, but I don't see any extravagant amount of time here. No, if we have to change some of those dates, we can change some. I mean, if if my my press right now is if I don't set goals and put a date on it, I mean, that's that's what I have to work
049towards. And so, but that can change and that's what I keep telling the admin team. If there's something that if if there's a hurdle that changes that it does, but we still we still work toward it. I'd like to give a message to any parent or community member Luke uh listening just because I have this in front of me and you don't. But this process, kids are going to be in school for 3 weeks before we even interview anyone. So my my when I first seen this on here, I was thinking to myself, um, we don't even have the kids in the building. We're talking about an architect. But when you slow down and look at it, we're not even interviewing anyone till the end of April. So, just wanted to say that to anyone
050who's wondering one more question just for my own curiosity when we're we're we're not using any rooms in the high school next week. We're going to put kids in the old senior high, my understanding, middle school and elementary. Is is there going to be need for mobile classrooms that we talked about a little bit last week? We think in the short term we should be able to get by. Um it's 6 weeks, but we have um we have staff that are sharing spaces, so we haven't um there's a lot of options for us to look at uh to consider that maybe for the long term for the next school year. we can do it um for the next six weeks with what we have. Um our office is an example of that. We moved out
051of the old senior high into a very nice uh space, but it may not be available for long term for us. So there's nowhere for us to move back here, but we maybe could move into temporary. We are adults in office. it would probably be okay for us to be in a temporary facility compared to a a classroom. But some, from what I understand, there are some temporary spaces that are very nice and conducive to classrooms. We just haven't had the full chance to explore all those opportunities because we have enough right now. We can do it. We've got space. Let's roll. Let's do it. But for the long term, that might be something we need to consider. Um, we might need to consider it for what um for the staff that was in the
052old senior high. If we have to stay there with students when school starts, I would rather them have the building than us. We can go somewhere else. Dr. Jones, um, I'll just make a comment. you don't necessarily have to answer, but last board meeting we talked about um I believe we call it pirate pride for teachers opportunities. Do you foresee for a parent or a student that felt like they did get behind? Do you see an opportunity? You don't have to answer this, but could you look into offering more tutoring opportunities? Um, are you already thinking about that? Is there is that something we can consider? And I can leave as a comment if you don't. I can respond that we do already offer that. Um, so I think that increasing that definitely could be
053a possibility. Okay. [Music] Uh, thank you for the every update, every little idea what's going on. I should be able to um my my hope is that things slow down a little bit and my updates will be like it was last night. Maybe not every night, but definitely more often and in an email that that allows you to have specifics. So, um I'm hoping to get a little more time once we get the kids all in and settled and staff in and everybody's good uh to be able to communicate you all with you all in that format. I would figure that would be much easier for you to be able to um read that on your own time. And the reason I was doing it, I was trying to take some of the weight off
054the fair. That's why I would call her in the evening and get the update and send it out to you. I not that I felt I was special and I was the only one that could do that. It's just I was trying I know her stress level was very high and in the evening sometimes it was 7 8:00 before she was getting home. So I was trying to take some of that off of her and in no way did I ever want you all to feel that I had left you out or anything. I was just trying to to make that world the world easy for her. But I do think that now that she's able to do that I I think that will be a good thing. It helps me if if you all
055are okay with that format of just bullets and points that helped me kind of wrap up also. It was it was good for me as [Music] well. Okay. Make a motion to adjourn session adjourn. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. We are now ajourned. Thank you all for coming.