001All right, it is six o'clock, so I'm going to go ahead and call to order our special board meeting. If everybody would please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible. 34. >> Uh there is an open meeting statement on the south wall of boardroom. All board members are in attendance. Um I have not received any color sheets. So we'll move on to item four on the agenda. The reason for our special board meeting and that will be our facilities presentation. >> They care and give us some opportunity. Maybe the board members. >> Yeah. may want to put your seats to their side. Might be a little easier. Tight. Sit on
002the front row. Otherwise, whatever is easier. >> While they're fighting a seat, first of all, I just want to thank everybody who did come to our community engagement meeting um tonight. I'm going to start out a little bit by backing up just a little bit so you understand how we got to this point tonight. And then I'll uh go over the PowerPoint presentation. If you got here late, uh we do have a few copies of the PowerPoint presentation. You're welcome to pick one up or take one with you when you leave. Either way, you need Kathy. There you go. Who are you talking about? And so um sorry just thing by snap on please. >> A year ago January we embarked on a new strategic plan and when the results of that came out in
003rough draft form in March there was kind of three areas that the community and our stakeholders identified as facility needs in the district. One was parking. And if you've been here to any big event you understand that parking is a premium. um a bigger family consumer science room and we needed more gym space. Those were kind of the three areas identified. And then internally we had also talked about potentially moving the preschool uh closer to the elementary school. And so those were kind of the areas that we kind of identified as needs clear back in March of 25 already. Um we then had conversations as a board throughout the summer and then in August and September we shared the results of that strategic plan uh both at a board meeting in which it was formally
004approved by the by the school board and then also on social media and then we also put it in the banner press. And so hopefully you saw back in August and September uh the results of that strategic plan. So this wasn't something that just kind of came about the last couple months. the process actually started uh over a year ago. Um at the same time then we talked about uh the HVAC needs uh that we have in all of our buildings. We've got a lot of outdated equipment. So we had a company come in and do an energy audit in terms of our HVAC system and our lighting. And so as a result of that uh we decided in December um to replace our HVAC equipment at Bellwood Elementary. And so to this point, the
005only project that's been approved by the school board is updating the HVAC and the lighting at Belwood Elementary. Everything else at this point is up for conversation. So, no decisions have been made other than that. And and that one is is well in the works. In January, we had our annual um board admin retreat in the long range facility plan. Obviously came up as a topic of conversation. And it was at that time we decided that we needed to have some more conversations and when the time was right have a community engagement meeting. And so if you were here at our February board meeting, we talked about kind of the history of facility projects since we built uh the 1916 high school and how we've had 12 uh building projects including that one. Uh two
006of them have went to a vote of the people. The other 10 we've done through uh financial planning through the building fund and went through all of that information in in quite detail. And then at our March board meeting uh Mr. Homobra and the building administrators put a nice presentation together about some of our facility needs in in terms of competition space and family consumer science and those types of things. And if you didn't have a chance to be at either the uh February or March board meeting, you can get on that YouTube channel uh search David City uh school board and you can actually watch uh those two uh meetings in detail. Uh if you also get on our online uh e-meating system, there's a PDF of information including some frequently asked questions um
007and timelines so on and so forth. um that are PDFs on our website and if you need help accessing that I can help you with that as well. And so I just want to give you a very quick brief overview of of where we got to tonight. And so uh we do appreciate you being here. I'm going to go into the slides. Uh I promise there'll be plenty of time for question and answer. Um but the first thing is our HVAC and lighting. We have facility advocates come in and uh review all of our equipment. We have a lot of equipment that is uh outdated uh that's passed its life expectancy. Most stuff has a 20-year life expectancy. We do have some exhaust fans and some of that that's actually as old as 43 years.
008And so we we've more than got our money's worth out of it. Uh we have some u legitimate numbers or estimates on those projects. And like I told you, we did approve the Bellwood HVAC project and lighting project for this summer. It's well underway. We've uh probably paid for almost half of it. So, the equipment's coming in so that as soon as we get out of school in May, we can start that and be up and running in August when school starts. But I also wanted to include in there at David City Elementary, we're estimating that we have about 1.75 million of HVAC and LED lighting needs. and at the high school. And it doesn't include this part. We this part's only five, six years old. So, it's included to the building. Uh we're at
009about 2.2 million and then another couple hundred thousand in LED lighting needs. So, that was almost 4.9 million in HVAC and lighting needs that we identified with the help of facility advocates. And so, that just gives you an idea. Um those are contractors that come out and take a look and walk through our facilities for several hours. So those numbers we feel really confident about. Now moving forward, we just wanted to talk a little bit about some of the uh current situations and what we're hoping to achieve. And I'll start with the family consumer science room. Right now, if you had a chance to walk through uh the 1916 building, we have a family consumer science kitchen, which is separate from the classroom, which is separate from the story or the uh sewing area, which
010is separate from where the washer and dryer is. So, you have one teacher, and you've got four areas to supervise. And so, it's just not very conducive for learning. It's about a thousand square feet. In our mind, it has roughly a 12 student capacity and it only has one kitchen in it. And so when you've got a dozen kids in there trying to learn whether it's culinary arts or just some basic life skills, it makes it difficult with with one main commercial uh stove and oven. I already mentioned the supervision issues. Uh there's basically no storage down there. It's very limited with just a couple of cupboards and some shelving in the in the back room. We do have some ADA compliance issues. You cannot fit a wheelchair, for example, through some of those areas.
011It's literally impossible. The doorways are not wide enough. Uh luckily to this point, uh we haven't had any formal complaints against us, but that could happen as soon as tomorrow. Uh you might ask, what would we do um if we built a new family consumer science room? The plan would be to repurpose that family consumer science room. Two of the things we've talked about is turning it into an alternative education program, a classroom for our kids that don't just quite fit in an all day program. And so we would house them down there. And we've also talked about using the kitchen area for some special ed life skills opportunities for kids. And so it the room wouldn't sit empty. It would simply get repurposed. Now in terms of the new addition, um you can see
012and these are estimates at this point. We I want you to understand we haven't talked to the architects and engineers and talked to them in great length in terms of the space we need. So, some of these estimates are estimates that I've provided, but as you can see, we want a significantly a larger space at 2400 square ft. We'd like a capacity of at least 18 kids in those classes. Uh would we potentially push that to 20 if we could? Sure. Uh but it still does come down to um a supervision issue. We would put multiple stoves and ovens in there in my mind. Uh we have some kids who are interested in culinary arts, but we have others that are just interested in more life skills. And so in my mind, it makes sense
013that we maybe even have both gas and electric ovens because those of you that do cooking know that they do work differently. Okay? And so we would want to use the space uh making it as versatile as we could. It would be one big classroom. In terms of giving you an idea of space, it would be about I'm going to say maybe 40% bigger than this boardroom. just to give you an idea on on square footage, right? Uh part of the reason for that is we want it to be uh open so that we can also use it for a hospitality room when we host big events, whether it's our 2018 speech meet, our holiday basketball tournament, our 14 team wrestling invite. If we were able to host some district events like we have district
014speech or district 1x, uh we could not only use it for an SCS classroom, but then that would also be our hospitality room. So we'd want space in there so that we could actually seat 50 or 60 uh community members. So that way all the bus drivers, coaches, judges, officials were to eat in there during break time. And then obviously we would be able to eliminate some of the accessibility issues. And so, so that's the SCS room and some of the needs and restraints we have there. I'm going to break the competition gym into uh several areas starting with the officials facilities. Right now, if you're a basketball official, we put you in the boys locker room in the coach's office. And so, uh that means they're sharing that space with our coaches. There's only
015one shower head in there. Uh so, it's not very conducive. uh at any given time we could have six officials in there uh the three working the games here and then the three working the games across the street or the three that are in there that just got done working a game and then the three there getting ready to work the next game. So it's pretty tight quarters when we try to fit six people in there. Um I can tell you the coaches don't like it because they're trying to give their team instructions in there and you've got the uh officials in the locker room overhearing the things they're saying. You can imagine at times the coaches are not very happy with the officials at halftime and so they want to be able to talk
016about that at halftime. This is how the officials are calling it. They're calling it tight so you need to keep your hands up or they're letting us play aggressive tonight and so we need to be aggressive. We need to adapt to the way they're calling it. Well, obviously as a coach you don't want the officials overhearing that because it may then adjust the way they call the game. And so it does limit a little bit of the conversation that our coaches want to have when they're giving team instruction. And then it's another group of adults who we really don't know that well that are in that same locker room space as our kids. And it does make it uncomfortable for both the officials and our student athletes. And so what we would propose as part
017of our new competition gym and locker room space, we would have an entirely separate space um for our coach or excuse me, our officials to change in. And if you have noticed in recent years, we are starting to get some more female officials coming to officiate basketball as well or wrestling for that matter. And so it would give them if they're in their own space, they actually could at least get together at halftime or before a game and have a conference as an officiating crew because a lot of times you might have two guys and one gal. Well, again, that girl, she's part of that threeman crew or threeperson crew officiating basketball. She can't obviously go in the boys locker room. So then we got to figure out where do we send them before the
018game um so that they can have their meeting ahead of time because they do like to have a conversation and about how how they're going to work the game. One of the biggest areas that we probably have an issue with is that in recent years we've added girls wrestling but also junior high girls wrestling. So it's really like adding two additional sports. Right now Mr. Hermal Brock was kind enough to go down and measure and we roughly our boys practice in the basement and that's roughly a 70x 45 space and the middle school uh boys they practice in there basically from October to December. So they share that space with the high school team and we're able to make it work. U it's not quite two full wrestling mats but we we can at least
019make it work with the numbers we have. It's the girls in my mind that we struggle finding the right space for them right now. high school girls are up above on the stage in what was the cheer dance room and then our middle school girls because they are practicing in January and February um there's not room to put them up above the stage with the girls and they're not going to practice down the basement with the boys and so we've actually had to come up with another mat and we roll that mat out every day in the cafeteria over at elementary. The problem is we have brick walls and windows that aren't padded. And so it's not the safest or the most convenient because that means we scramble getting that cafeteria cleaned um after lunch,
020which is at 1:30, hurry up and get it mopped and auto scrub and then get the mats rolled out. And then we have to hurry up and get them rolled back up uh because we've got breakfast the next morning in that space. And so, uh, they just don't have a great space, uh, that's adequate in terms of numbers. We actually now have similar numbers in our girls programs as we do the boys. And so, um, asking them to be in a in half the space I I don't think is fair or realistic. And so what we're asking is we wouldn't make a change for the boys necessarily, but in a new competition gym, I'm up on a mezzanine up above um on one of the ends. Uh we would put an approximate 42 by 75
021space for the girls to practice in. So it'd be real similar in size to what the boys currently have. And so uh not only then do we feel like the high school and junior high girls would have adequate space comparable to the boys, we could give the cheer dance team their room back. um until we had a girls wrestling that the cheer dance team practiced up above the stage in that room and they've got a set of mirrors that they use when they're uh practicing and now we have to cover all those up with thick mats and padding and so they lose that space during wrestling season and they end up practicing at 600 6:30 in the morning in the gym but they just don't have a space to call their own. With this new
022wrestling space, uh we could go back to giving cheer dance uh their own space. It would also still give us the ability to practice during home events because, you know, right now we end up stealing some of the mats from the basement to bring up for a home wrestling meet. Uh but then nobody can really practice anywhere. And so the additional space would allow you the boys or girls to still have a wrestling uh space if the other one was was having a home event. Um, and maybe the biggest thing for the community is uh we could get our uh kids practicing uh at 6 at night or 6:15 at night instead of 7:15. And probably the biggest argument I've heard since I've been here is having little kids practice till 8:30 or 9:00 in
023the evening. And so it would eliminate the team the need for that as as well. Um, so that's kind of the wrestling need. Apologize. Let me move this down. locker rooms. I don't know how many of you have had a chance to be in our locker rooms. Um, but you know, right now we've got two high school locker rooms, two middle school locker rooms. Uh, those middle school locker rooms are meant for about six or eight people in all honesty if they're big high school kids. And instead, when a visiting basketball team comes, we try to wedge 20 kids into those middle school locker rooms when their team shows. And so what happens uh a lot of days is that they need or want more space than that. So not only do they tie up
024one of our middle school locker rooms, we give them one of our classrooms as well so that the coaches have a dry erase board and a place to talk to their teams in, but then that means those teams and those coaches now have access to everything that's in that teacher's classroom unsupervised. And so it's just not real conducive. I can tell you teachers don't like it when their uh classrooms at night the the space gets uh invaded. They've got, you know, papers sitting on their desk that they need to grade. There's just a lot of confidential stuff in those rooms that uh could get lost or stolen or misplaced. And so it's just not real convenient. Uh we end up making a lot of times our visiting boys and girls teams share a locker room
025space. And uh we get more and more requests now of teams that don't want to do that. um you know our middle school teams that you know they lose access then um so if we have a home basketball game and after practice they can't come and get their stuff out of there. You know once those teams enter those locker rooms everybody's forbidden to be in there until the end of the night and so uh we do lose space. Um one of the things that's happened to us probably the most this year is coaches can't um always access or kids can't access the locker room. The example I'll give you is Sam Sch Slapman, our head girls basketball coach. Okay? If it's a game night and he wants to go in the locker room to meet
026with his team, whether it be at halftime or before the game to talk strategy, the issue we run into is the girls wrestlers are just getting done with practice. So, if they're in there changing and showering, he can't go in there with his team. So then they have to find another place or we make the uh high school girls cut their practice short, the wrestlers cut practice short so they can get in there and get out before basketball game later that evening. And so one of those teams gets inconvenienced and short changed on the nights when we're trying to host uh home events. And so what we'd like to do as part of this new competition J uh gym and space is add two more high school locker rooms. But we'd like to design them
027in such a way that there would be a dividing door so that we could actually turn one locker room into two smaller ones if we needed. And so we would just lock the door between them. So for example, if we bring Tri County boys and girls up here, we could put their girls on one side, boys on the other with a divider down the middle. Uh but if it was a larger team, then obviously we give them both sides. So, we get creative on how we design those locker rooms or if we end up having um multiple teams here like for our holiday basketball tournament or our wrestling, we could put one or two teams in each of those locker rooms instead of four and five. And so, it just makes it easier from a
028supervision standpoint. And then also if something does come up missing, it's a little bit hard when you've got four uh wrestling teams in one locker room and now you got to visit with four uh uh coaches and four groups of kids trying to figure out where their misplaced watch is or whatever. It's a little easier if it's only one or two teams in there. It makes it a little easier for us to narrow it down and uh help in those situations. And so like I said, we get creative with the design of those locker rooms in in terms of gyms. Uh Mr. Herman Brock has a presentation of probably 50 60 schools maybe um and how many gyms they have versus practice gyms versus competition gyms. Right now we have our high school gym, our
029elementary gym, and then we use the auditorium uh mostly in the wintertime during basketball season. So our junior high uh boys or girls head down to the auditorium for practice because our high school teams are using the elementary and the high school gym. Um, this would give us the ability to almost eliminate the need for the auditorium. Not quite completely. We would still need it for our home football games, but we wouldn't need it for practice on a daily basis. It's difficult because we we have to, you know, twist the arm of our coaches of the middle school kids to get a bus license because we have to bust the kids down to the auditorium. it is not safe to walk down there in the dead of winter and and uh so that it's just
030an additional challenge that uh would be eliminated. And even though we reserve the auditorium because we don't own it, we don't always get access to it. The prime example is when there's a a funeral in town and somebody wants to rent the basement for a lunchon in the afternoon after that 2:00 funeral, we get kicked out of the auditorium. And so then our kids don't even get to practice at all on those days or any other time that the city chooses to rent out that facility uh to other groups and and so we we're kind of lowest man on the totem pole. So we get kicked out of there um anytime there's another potential conflict in the auditorium. So with an additional gym that would eliminate that happening to us. Some of the other things,
031if you've been in our gym, uh there's just limited clearance on both the sidelines and baselines. When you add in cheerleaders, um and spectators, uh if you're in a wheelchair, you really struggle with finding a seat. If you uh have been to any of the new gyms in the state, there are cutouts in the bleachers uh for for uh usually one per section. And so if we do have some people in wheelchairs, uh they have a little bit more access to a good spot to watch the game. Um right now we also share it with one acts and so um Jared Oakander and the one act kid do a great job and there's a lot of days they practice from 7 to 9 at night because that's the first time they can get in there.
032Um it is after supper and so the other issue is our gym is the only way to get to the new commons. And so, uh, for example, if our high school kids are going to lunch, they cut through our current gym to get over to the cafeteria every day. And so, it disrupts our PE class because that's the only way uh to get to the new commons is by cutting through the gym. And so, with a new competition gym, we feel like we'd have space. And we could also host some big events uh like district wrestling. Wrestling kind of a big thing here in town. We can't do that now because we don't have room uh for three uh for three or four mats and walking space between them. Um and so it just makes
033it difficult when we host things like the blood drive or music concerts. We end up giving up our gyms for at least a day or two because typically the elementary practices either the day of or the day before, which means we put carts down on the gym floors. And so then we just we lose practice time at practice space. By having a second gym, um it would eliminate uh some of those conflicts. Uh we could also then host our JV and varsity basketball games in the same facility, which would reduce the number of ticket takers we needed. We wouldn't need to be cleaning. Uh two sets of bathrooms and two gyms. We could uh have everything here um in the high school in one place. It would also give us just some other opportunities like
034having junior high and high school PE classes at the same time. We can't do that right now. Um we've also talked about things like on and we didn't have any this year, but on those cold snowy days uh where we don't let the elementary kids go outside for recess, this would give us the ability to let those kids come over and use one of our gyms and have a recess. If you've ever been an elementary teacher, um, in January or February when it's cold and the kids don't get an opportunity to burn off some fuel, um, by noon, 1:00, you're you're going crazy. And so just having the ability for those kids to come over for 15 minutes and burn some fuel. Um, we can do things like that um, if we have the additional
035space. I think we could even do things like uh, some bigger career events or or college nights. right now. We just don't have the adequate space uh to hold those things. Last couple slides here. How do you pay for it? Um I've given the board uh back in January when we were first starting to talk HVAC projects a couple different um options. This is another option. And so when I share this with you tonight, I don't want you to leave here saying this is exactly uh how we would finance it, how much it would cost. Uh the board has u a lot of decisions to make, but this is just another alternative um that I came up with in terms of a timeline and how we could finance it. uh the the elementary HVAC project
036which I on a previous slide showed you was about 1.75 million. We could pay for that out out of our depreciation fund. The depreciation fund um is kind of like a savings account, but it can only be used for replacement. You can buy replacement vehicles, replacement computers, replacement textbooks, you could replace HVAC. And so one of the options would be we transfer money from the general fund to the depreciation fund during this fiscal year so that we'd have the money sitting aside in our savings account so that next spring and summer we could do the elementary HVAC project. We wouldn't have to take out a loan. We would pay cash for that. Uh we've knock on wood had a very good fiscal year up to this point. Hopefully I don't jinx it now by saying
037that out loud. So, I think we'd have the funds in the general fund to do that. Now, in terms of the high school, I really think um it would be about a $16 million project. Uh we know we're pretty um confident in the 2.4 million for the HVAC. Um, I haven't talked to the architects in probably a year in terms of an SCS room, but the, you know, the last time we talked, we estimated 1.2. Could that be 1.3 million now? It very easily could be. You know, this the tariffs and the war, you just don't know. Things fluctuate from day to day. And then the competition, Jim, is the biggest one. I've I've estimated at 12.6, but some of that's going to would depend upon the size, the overall square footage. Okay. Uh, but
038I'm estimating that that would be about a $16 million uh lease purchase through the special building fund. Just to give you an idea, uh, this new addition that you're sitting in um was a uh uh $8 million uh 7-year lease purchase project, and we just paid it off. We were supposed to make the last payment in June, uh, but we actually uh made the last payment last month. So we actually paid it off three four months up early and so uh we are debtree in the building fund at this point and again these are my rough estimates in terms of paying for it. Um I think we can do this project without any type of tax increase in the building fund. Uh right now you can see that's a legitimate number. We levy just over
0391.4 4 million um into the building fund every year. It's about uh maybe 9 cents on the levy. Okay, that's before the county takes their 1%. Okay, so that's our tax request. We don't actually get that much uh because the county for collecting the funds and distributing gets their 1% off the top. So, we actually get a little bit less than that. Again, I think it's a $16 million project. Again, it's a rough estimate. One option would be a 20-year lease purchase. And again, I'm going to guess that that interest rate's at about 5 a.5%. Again, that fluctuates just like mortgages do from day to day. The markets dictate that. Um it could be um roughly a $1.3 million annual payment. Uh that's the same type of payment we were making on this current edition,
040right? Um, now obviously if it ends up being a $14 million project or we get an interest rate under 5% um that would change uh with the new uh rules for lack of a better term in place. You can actually go up to a 25-y year lease purchase. So if the board said you know what that makes it awfully lean in the building fund. doesn't give us a lot of wiggle room in case there's another unanticipated project that comes up or maybe we need to replace a roof sooner than we think. You know, maybe the board if they decide to go forward the project does a 25-y year lease purchase, okay, and extend the life of that that loan or lease purchase a little longer, but it gives us a little bit uh room. The
041reason they may want to do that is that there are a couple other things uh that have kind of come to light as we've been having these conversations. One of them I mentioned earlier was moving the preschool building over behind the elementary. We've had some preliminary talks about, you know, do we move that one or I can tell you in my mind maybe we leave the preschool where it is and rent that out as a daycare. You know, can we find a daycare provider? would love to rent and we build a new one behind the new the excuse me the elementary gym um at the elementary and so that we can get the preschool um moved over there. One of the other things that's come to light we have more and more uh specialed behavioral
042needs at the elementary. Do we need a sensory room over there? Do we need another conference room for meetings? Do we need a couple timeout rooms for kids that just need some time to cool down? And so, you know, maybe we lengthen that to a 25-year lease purchase so that it gives us the opportunity to do a couple of those other things in the next three to five years. You can see the board has a lot to weigh and the board has a difficult decision. Do we do all of it? Do we do none of it? Do we some do some of it? You know, uh, speaking personally and professionally, do I think we definitely need to do the HVAC? Yes, because I'd prefer to work in a building that's heating and cooled, and I
043think most of our staff and students and community members would want that for their kids, too. After that, the board has to decide what are the long-term goals of the district, what are the needs of the district, what financially makes sense when it comes to a family consumer science room, a new competition gym. They may decide to kick some of it down the road. They might say, "You know what? We're going to do the HVAC now and we're going to push the the uh SCS room down a year or two and we're going to move the gym down three or four years. They might decide to do it all at one one time. Those are the difficult decisions and conversations they're going to have to have. The last thing I would say is that um
044I did visit with Clark Anderson um who is our architect and engineering firm that we've used for all the projects um over the years. And the board is probably going to need need to make a decision somewhere in that June time frame if the goal is to to approve a project in November, December and break ground in March. If that's the timeline that the district and the school board is shooting for, that's about what we would need to do. The board would need to say, "Superintendent Danker, we want to do this. visit with the architects because they're going to have to come up with some designs and blueprints and then give contractors an opportunity to review it and then maybe we approve it in November or December with the hope of breaking ground in December.
045Um there's just a lot of things to talk about because I can tell you from an ADA standpoint, I don't see how we'd be able to do the family consumer science room and the new gym at the same time uh because of accessibility issues in our current gym. Uh just to give you uh an idea, the the thought is the family consumer science room would go on the west side of the school on the northwest corner just west of the weight room just north of the shops. There's that grassy area. That's where the family consumer science room would go. The new competition gym would go directly east of the current competition gym. So they'd be side by side separated by a north south hallway. Well, we can't be building that competition gym and the SCS
046room at the same time because the fire marshall is not going to allow that because you got to have accessibility. If there's a fire in your school and in your main competition gym, people have to have multiple ways to get out. So, my guess is he he would request or require us to alternate. we do one of the projects and then the following year or as soon as that one's done then you can start the other. You know, my guess is he's not going to let us start on both at the same time. I just don't see that happening. And so again, that has to be part of the conversation with the architects and engineers and the fire marshall, but we haven't done that yet because we felt like that would be a little bit
047premature. We felt like we needed to take these last three months of February, March, and April and let you guys see what we're proposing, what we're considering, and then give you guys as a community an opportunity to ask questions, make comments, uh because if we, like I said, if we are going to move forward with a project in the near future, uh we're going to have to start moving uh rather quickly. And so, uh with that, I think my presentation is over. And uh I think if the board maybe wants to return to their seats and we do truly want to give uh community members an opportunity to ask questions or provide some comments. Uh we may or may not have the answer to your question depending upon how difficult it is. We may have
048to do some homework or some research u may get back to you. Uh we would just ask that the conversation uh remain collegial and and professional and courteous and respectful to one another. Um and with that uh or president, do you have anything else you want to to add to that? Um, I think that the way we'll do this like um if you have something that a question or something you'd like to say um you know raise your hand and then I'll try to make sure that everybody wants to speak has an opportunity to speak before we allow other you know to double up like maybe a question comes to you after you've already asked a question. I just want to make sure that everybody is allowed an opportunity before I start recalling on people.
049But you know if you if you have multiple questions that's okay. I just want to make sure everybody um gets a fair shake at getting their questions answered. So with that, is there anybody who has something that Yes. >> Where would the middle school girls wrestling practice? Are they going to be with the high school girls or they >> That would be the intention. Yes. when you're talking about the seating, they're not it's too close to where the playing area is. So, would you take away some of that seating? Is that what you're thinking about, Julie? Are you springing that up? >> That's an issue. Um, we have talked a little bit about it. One of the things we could do in our current, like if we built a new competition, Jim, that wouldn't be
050an issue. We would make sure that that court was wide enough that there'd be plenty of walk space. But one of the things we could do uh depending upon how we decide to continue using our current gym is we could potentially take out a row of seating so that those on each side and then so the bleachers would be another couple feet away. But we can't do that in our main competition gym because we would be short on seating. But if we were going to use our current gym for more chips, JAB, that would be potentially an option that we would consider um in our current gym. >> Are we looking at a new high school down the road? >> Nice. >> Depends. Uh you know, we have a 1916 building. We do put a
051fair amount of money into it. Uh we continue to tuck point it and update things as we can, but it is a 1916 build. Um one of the things I shared with the board the last couple months is if you do like a 20-year lease purchase, you're committing to the community um to that 1916 building for another 20 years. That's the basic life expectancy of an HVAC project. And so if they're going to replace the HVAC in the 1916 building, then I think whether you're doing it intentionally or unintentionally, you're committing to this community in this district, another 20 years in that 1916 building. Um, at that point I think you have to decide, you know, how many millions do you want to put into uh the current building before it's throwing good money after
052that? And uh that'll be a decision that I don't think will have to be made if we do go this route for 20 years. That'll be another board and another superintendent's decision to make. But it is definitely something that's been on our radar and definitely keeping it in mind. But I I guess one other thing is I would say that what we've done over the last 10 years and the facilities that we put in that we've built were designed to be able to allow a future forward either keep the 1916 and renovate it or if they chose to build that they could. So, we've tried to position things to where we're not locking in anybody into a specific decision in the future. >> So, yes. Would any changes need to be made to the area
053east of the present gym when you add on the new gym with that gonage that's out there? But we we think that four stall garage, if we would build a gym the size we would like, is going to be in the way by about 15 ft. And so we would have the conversation about do we just add to the current foundation and just slide it over 15 feet or do we decide to move it completely somewhere else? And so but part of that will be deciding on the design and the overall dimensions of that new competition. And would there be space between that new addition hallway and the gym? You're looking out those windows. you're seeing brick wall or outside kind of you see what I mean? Yeah, I was going to say I think
054that we have not been into the design stage yet. But the one thing I did tell the architects a year ago is that if we do decide to build either whether it's a new practice gym or competition gym, we need to put it and design it in such a way that we still have room so that a future board could decide to build 20 new classrooms to the east or continue upgrading the 20 classrooms in the 1960 building. So we don't want to tie the hand of the future board with whatever design we come up with. Uh I'm just coming at different perspectives and for from a youth coach perspective that I didn't forget my mom time I would reiterate always saying to that those kids get here 8:15 8:30 9:00 at night and as
055not only a parent coach um having kids in that situation shouldn't not being able to practice pulled out late. It gets a little bit try cuz when they get home and they're not shower, they got one to do. I'll sneak on to half of the off team because I um have coach stuff and they're coming 30 minutes out of the way. So they still have to travel about 30 minutes after being practic. So that's difficult. Also with our numbers you have often had to run two sessions and so um they that family again has multiple um kids at different levels. So then those kids are saying not both I run the early cactus all the way parade cactus. So I feel like that um having more space that's definitely been a challenge but um I
056felt we could uh fruit center and look at um I've also been when I talk to families uh tough to make those choices whether you're after or whether students tend to participate because it's too late. Um, let's see. >> Coming from a middle school and high school volleyball coached, I think what's awesome is our programs continue to grow and we have a lot of students in that. So, I coached middle school um a couple years ago and then high school we had at one point of 40 participants. So, like you can imagine 40 other gym across the street at the elementary. Um it was very trying to try to keep everybody engaged and keep everybody safe because you only got so many people in courts and trying to revive on drones. So whether we were
057practicing in elementary room or the high school being we participally struggled with having enough room and with numbers that high it becomes difficult um because it becomes overcrowded and at times are an extremely tight vehicle and I have to you know try to look at many drills to try to make them affected because he doesn't need people moving at the same um and then also they're not getting as many repetitions because there is just not enough room It's subtle considering that um bikes the developer the safety and the overall experience for ad briefing when affecting standing and waiting for transending valuable practice time. Um an additional st would help us more efficient practices breaking larger groups increase our dishes. We truly meet the needs of our athletes and continue to grow our program and the
058qual we maintain the quality of our program on the dance mom side of it. um speaking for my daughter who involved in a lot of activities coming at 6:15 to be ready for practice at 6:30 and practicing up in the wrestling room there. The dancer are practicing on wrestling hats, so they have to take their shoes off, so they're not really in the gear that's actually performed in. Um, I've been up there because she likes to do extra practice and taping and removing those hard where the mats are embedded on the hard boards. It takes like two or three people, especially short people like us or people to try to get them off and it takes a lot of time to get them all into so that they can see what they're doing and then
059you're putting the ring back on the wall. So I can't imagine the time that either come in even earlier or it's weeks um of their actual practice time to have to move those on and off. Um so that's a little tricky. Uh another thing is I also have a wrestler is that when they are practicing the wrestling singers the max of the next day to access and then the dancers are coming into the morning at 6:30. So, at one point I thought my theater had free one and so Sherry Mat um roads in coffee and it's not anybody's problem. It's just like that's how it works out because we're all trying to share the same space at the same time. Um, so considering that finding a safe, clean and appropriate space for both the wrestlers
060and the um, and then being a wrestling mom and wife for my middle school wrestler, um, having to go to practice every single day and all the maps out, you come out, you go all the things ready for the lunch or breakfast and lunch on the boarding. Um, that's actually like uh, Dr. Baker said there's nothing on the walls, nothing on the windows and we greatly have a lot of kind of vers which is awesome but also the people in there practice a little tearing. We have that many people and it's not really a safe environment. The other thing um we have probably need me and a teacher and a coach here and us and not really having um to be in that building but um situation is like our waffer room for the middle
061school wrestling is over here. So be supposed to be over here to let them in up through also supposed to be over there. So you got kids that are all over the place and you're trying to monitor these faces. Uh that seems like a safety issue and one situation. Um like in Knox Peak, that's another thing. and you got pictures, you got people in the are changing and then you got people that are walking over the cracks and need a community volunteer who's not always able to be and that's you know on time and then you have to coach somebody from sometimes you're the only person but you're supposed to be in that place and so having everything kind of in a central location just to help that cause um because I know if he
062got home that night it was like kissy would have happened to you know he like the nervous stuff of whole situation without having everything in one place and I suggested moving them to the high school locker room to change so that the leaf they were closer to where they were having their pictures done but then at the same time down to the game that night a bashful so then they got kicked out of and then they had no where to be so then they were in a new coma had those backgrounds and then he got stuck here and so it was a hot mess it's a desk etc. ing that ten of stress sole concerning and something that need your stretch thin and irresponsible for lord chamber our chry um that would be another reason
063why um I feel like gym or actress six would be valuable and then the last thing we recently had our national honor society induction and with that our parents and our students come together at the end of the night and make sure that the students is stuck and all back in flakes and everything's washed. But if you ask these two, we could only put so many people in the kitchen to wash dishes and to puts away and it was like half nuts and I just had to send it home. So they were really in the house but there were no longer goods nowhere to put the suck and so I definitely so coming from a different a lot of different perspective. I just felt that we can set all of those kinds of things. And
064then the last thing with a walk foring, you know, I have two um daughters of two different sizes in body issue and self-esteem and for real heal. And if you go in there and you have to shower, you're showering in front of everyone. And so that's difficult. So I hope that if we do decide to build on and we could have a bathroom that would absolute viders or some way to absolute privacy, not everybody is confident enough to walk around. And so sometimes you have best you have basketball players, you have volleyball players. Did you ever start showering because they're surrounding one of those too? I also >> he uh so I just want to speak on like a special education the junior high coach for special education. We a lot of times get questions
065from parents like we have to do what's called transition just making sure students are ready for life after high school like we are required by law to do that type of stuff and one of the major things that parents come towards us with is well Donnie and Sue they don't really know how to cook so we always are trying to push this into like Mr. market is and flashing. But when we have that cap on how many can be in there, it's always kind of difficult to get them into those. And a lot of times these students like they really need that extra time just in the kitchen, maybe a little bit more hands-on even. But even if we put like a para in there to help, it's not going to work that well when
066they have one stove or their stations are extremely small. So the SDS room, I think that 100% needed just so we can expand that program. And I'm not talking about life skill special education student either. I'm talking about just students in general that maybe take a little bit more to process things. They have a little bit slower time and they just need a little bit more practice, a little bit more hands-on and they usually excel in these hands-on type classes. So the SCS classroom would make I think a lot of our parents happy like when they see it but to use it with their soup when they're able to come home and they're able to cook the meal. I mean it gives the parents kind of ease of mind just knowing like hey my child
067could be able to cook now thanks to being in the DS class thanks to Mr. Martina. So I think expanding that is absolutely a need. I also think a gym is a need. I mean, all the thing you see on social media is, oh, it's a want. Like, we don't need this. But if you look at other high schools, like I grew up in Styler, right? I know completely different school size, everything. But when you look at it, they have an elementary, they have a middle school, and then they have a high school. Here, our middle school, high school is combined, and we have one gym for that. So it's hard to have uh general PE for high school students and then also your general PE for the junior high which are all required like
068based on curriculum and everything like that. So once again, like my special education students, when we sit down and do scheduling with them, they're usually like I don't I don't want to do strength and conditioning. Like they they get anxiety over strength and conditioning. And for high school, that's like the only like PE credits you can earn, but it's just one class period where they offer general PE or lifetime fitness. The problem with that is like I said, it's just one class period and our students have like a study hall or something like that that so that doesn't usually fit into their schedule. But if we were able to offer a general PE class to a high school student, I think that would reduce a lot of anxiety, not just for special education students, but
069for students in general, because you have been a PE class from kindergarten all the way up until 8th grade. And then in high school, you're going to make them do strength and conditioning. I mean, be honest, some kids are intimidated when it comes to lifting weight or embarrassed because I can only do a broomstick or bench because they don't know the technique. So, I really think just from a special education standpoint, but also saving face for other students, having general PE classes would make a huge different for uh just junior high. So, I'm the junior night track coach and then I help with uh junior high football. We recently switched our practice to the high school football field, which has been amazing just because that field a little bit better maintained. But that means that
070we had 25 or 27 kids at one point trying to change into football gear in that small locker room over there. If you guys went on the tour today and you saw that, you could see how big of a disaster that would be. Then you have kids since they're practically on top of each other taking other people's gear. So then we're losing year. And then as when it comes the second time, they catch back in one pair of pants even though they probably have three more at home because they accidentally picked up that. So then that's an extra burden on parents because guess what? They're responsible for replacing those because they were checked out or like other kids are missing that stuff. And it's just even for a junior high track, like we're not putting
071on a bunch of gear or anything like that, but there's so many kids in there at one point in time that they have to leave their stuff out in the hallway otherwise they have to run to their locker, put it away, go change, and then at the end of practice, they have to change again, go back to their locker. Like, it's a lot of wasted times. And I think I think M over here said the same thing. just pretty much they're wasting so much time they're not getting those reps in or it's taking forever for them to actually deal over and I think that was like one of the biggest things that I noticed moving practice over to here at the high school field for football was getting out there sooner getting those extra reps
072made a world of different so being able to just move quicker or have a better space to chain it's going to add so many like benefit if we decide to do Uh, I know I got a bunch of stuff. I'll raise my hand again if I have more, but >> sorry. >> I think I saw a hand up over here. Go ahead. >> Yeah. Um, I just want to thank you guys for putting on this forum and putting together this presentation. I'm just wondering if the interest on the loan, you know, costs have been considered. I mean, we're talking about a $16 million project over 25 years at 5.5% interest. So for the total life of that loan, that's going to be $10.58 million worth of interest. So the project isn't just merely going to
073be 16 million. It's going to end up being $26.58 million. So I'm not, you know, trying to say one way or the other, but I am putting out there for your consideration that there is more of a cost than just, you know, the $60 million cost. There's going to be an additional $10.5 billion in entrance should you decide to undertake this any community project that you utilize is is significant going to have significant costs. Uh Dr. Der talked about 25 year commitment because of the age back your commitment much longer than that. your commitment to the structure of this school. I mean, we're talking about a building that we've occupied and used for over 100 years. And one of the things that I appreciate the ward of David City long ago and up until now
074have done is provided future board to build. So when that high school was created, there was opportunities to to grow and add on to what we need at the president's high. If you look at education 25 years ago as close to that, that looks totally different than it is then. Looking at just the technology and the infrastructure that's taking place within buildings, the class that students are being taught and our CTE programs, um it's totally different. And I think one of the most important things is to continue to give flex to are we going to have a new school? Well, we could all love to say that yes, we will, but in today's dollars, we're looking at something probably along the neighborhood of 40 to $60 million to build a new school that would have
075the equivalent space that we currently have now. And that probably doesn't include land. And I don't know where you would find a chunk of land uh within the community that's large enough to put the building on. So the you know the in my opinion I think that looking at these things how you have in chunks on pieces that we can add to meet the needs that we currently have and move forward and at some point in time we're probably going to disappoint some people but that building may have to come down like I don't know how long a building can stand uh even with adequate upkeep and things like that there's going to come a point time that it's probably not going to reach a 200 year old building for still in use. Maybe it
076will u but that's a long way down the road and we need to be able to keep the the opportunity for this school to serve the needs of this community adding on what we need to updating pieces that we that we need to along the way and I think this board and future boards deserve that options to make the decisions that best fit at that time. um time here on the grow resting side of things. Um our program is growing a lot um from 15 packet brief uh 2025 to next year we could have as many as 35 to 40. um this uh powers the restroom um and it's not keeping up with our growth and that's uh we're trying to fit a large and expanding team into a space that we've never designed to
077fit that many for um during crowded making practice safely and effectively constant bump into each other and dances walls um landing on top of each other constantly when they shut up within space of inner res of endure and development check legislation don't be a correct decision they need as development of net uh it's also shared with chair Dina she said um constantly scooping up litter moving mirrors the gor hits his body um when we have nights like Dr. said our girls have to cut their practices short by, you know, half an hour because they have to get in on the locker room. Um so their coach need to get down and talk to um the basketball girls and get out half the time and shower issues. They don't need to shower usually have to get
078out of there so fast. It's something um school and middle school wrestler. Um she says symphony washer rings are um basic overcrowded. They don't like to shower in them either. Um so again your maximum of hygiene and um things to privacy and and just a fine >> like I just have some questions. Um, when it comes to like the competition, Jim, you said that it would make it easier on earlier practice time for community dance groups to practice and stuff. How does that change when the high schools done and where there's doubles? I didn't quite understand where the extra time came in that they would be able to start. >> Well, like for example, during play production, I'll just give you one demo. During play production, they go after basketball practice and so or excuse
079me, after volleyball practice. So if they're done at six, then one axe goes till 8 then you know elementary practice can practice after that. >> Well, I know high school one act they have athletes that are in they do double and that's the reason one academic score and so they I'm talking about more like uh their youth groups that meet and and go. You said that they'd be able to practice it. >> Some of it is like six or >> seventh like youth rest for example. >> Okay. >> You know, if we had two wrestling facilities, our wrestlers can both be done at 6:15. Right now, we have so many youth wrestlers. They actually have an early session and a late session. If we have a competition gym that has two wrestling spaces, that would
080be an example of time where we could Yeah. We could have both groups practicing at the same time to get >> Okay. And I would say tune for would same situation for volleyball where we would have two gyms so that our middle school or high school would be able to practice over at the high school and then the elementary gym would be open up because the practices so that and that's same with >> basketball youth could almost feel right after school. >> So they could be actually using that versus the high school. Yeah, >> it's just a whole another space or >> like going they're related to the gym stuff. Are the plans for wrestling, girls wrestling, are they planning to stay co-oping since the numbers are getting so big or what do the numbers
081actually look like in comparison? >> Too early to make that the city, >> you know, because we want to make sure that if we decide to end the co-op that it's sustainable long term. We don't want to say, well, we don't need it because we have a large number and then a year later it goes back and because we're not we don't want to oscillate back and forth. Do I think the goal eventually is to have our own wrestling team? I think that's every school's hope and dream is to have their own wrestling team. But I think it's too early to tell. But if it continues the way it's going, I think that will be a consideration now. >> Why aren't they cleaning the mats after they're grown back? >> They do after the boys.
082>> Tip they're clean the next day. >> They're clean. They normally clean the next day. go a lot of a lot of times the mats get cleaned during access before wrestling practice and so up on that cheer dance room you know they'll they'll practice after school and then they don't come and clean those masks a lot of times still access the next day but if cheer dance has a six o'clock practice >> that >> I just wondered why they didn't dance clean them right after No I know that but I'm saying right after practice the stuff doing it then versus the other since they how it's used. >> Sometimes it's a staffing issue like at night we have one custodian here in the entire district >> because they used to have to wrestler >> wrestler
083age differ. >> Yeah. Yeah. Typically the age typically the aid would do it the next the next day during their planning period or during their stand but a lot of times they get done before a couple of companies one of them is um in the last five years construction sit so deciding to y now see sticking with his or whatever. That would be something from your work kind of evaluation, right? Which which from your genesis has continued to which is the best best decision. The second decision, second column I'll make is um when I was at high school the standard was we use young for that dressing was up on the stage and so it actually you know and at that time that was considered society you And so I would if if you're going
084to feel the EGM I would urge you guys to consider don't cut more in size like to facilities such as a neat that they're and they're able to host a very large AS they still gyms the centennial hair have and you talk it's St. Paul and you talk the military affecting schools and if you ask them what is your insurance >> because people think they're out you've got moves with fans some technique goes up so don't don't cut doors blank blank blank there one comment I would make on the rising construction cost just to give people an idea this new addition was 7.5 million What six and a half years ago I had the architects and engineers come through and they said to build the same project now would be 12.5 million. I mean just
085to give you an idea on what construction costs have done in the last six or seven years. So what was 7 and a half is now been 12 project. So we were very lucky at the timing of our last project. >> Yeah. Um, I'm Cole Martinez, the family teacher at the high school right now, middle and high school. And just some things that I wanted to add. Um, I'm really grateful that the board is even considering this project. It was part of the five-year strategic plan that as we were going through that meeting recognizing some of the facility needs of updating some of the technical education department facilities just because not only has FCS but a and SCS have been exploding in the past few years in student numbers. Um, to kind of give you
086an example, before I got here, we had culinary arts classes that weren't even making to happen. And then in the past few years, for example, 2627 school year, we got halfway through the senior class and culinary arts was full. And we added another section of culinary arts for the fall that filled immediately after that. Foods and nutrition has also been blowing up. um every single period of that class last semester and this semester were completely built and there's also new sections being added on for that course as well. So really the issue is we're running into we're trying to provide these classes and these opportunities for students and we're just running out of space especially in FCS. Uh I can hold so many kids in the classroom and especially in the kitchen it becomes a
087safety issue. culinary arts, we cap it out at 12 students and having 12 kids in there all trying to cook at the same time and be safe about it. It's usually not a very, you know, it's it's really hard. Um, and with foods and nutrition, we cap that class out at about 16. And with those 16 kids, that's taking one lab and splitting it into two days. So, a lab that in a larger kitchen could take us one day is a Monday Tuesday lab. And if you've been in the FCS room, you know that it's one classroom in one kitchen split in the middle by a tall and I am one guy. So, um those days I have kids that are working on alternative assignments in the classroom and kids in the kitchen and I
088try my best to watch both places, but I can't be two places at once. So, that is kind of the the issue that we're running into there as well is supervision and making sure that everyone is staying safe while those split labs are happening. Um, and with a larger SCS facility that's all one room, it gives me the chance to watch both places at one. Um, we also are hoping that as we continue to develop the culinary arts program that we can expand student opportunities. For example, in the past year, we've added on a schoolbased enterprise and the culinary arts program runs a coffee shop on Fridays uh offered to teachers. Um and that is great. The students love it. It draws a lot of kids into the culinary program, but even with that, we're
089running out of space for them to work. Um, last year I was able to secure a Perkins grant for a piece of equipment that was almost $7,000 that we didn't have to pay for, but I can't fit it in my room because it won't go through the door. So, it right now is housed in a hallway because there's just nowhere else for it to go. Um, so really, just like every teacher in this district, I do what I do because we want to provide as many opportunities as we possibly can to students. And right now with the current SCS facilities, we are limiting student opportunities um and the number of kids that can partake in those opportunities. Um we kind of ran the numbers as we've been going through and we are expecting that in
090the next I think three to four years that almost every single student in the school would have taken food and nutrition which is crazy for an elective and I'm glad they do. So that way when they are out of your house they can feed themselves. But we don't want to see kids that are getting turned away from those courses because they're up space. Uh currently kind of the last thing I'll say to here is I have a lot of kids that come to me and say, "Mr. Martinez, I really want to take culinary arts. Can I get in?" And I I have to tell them like no. I if I I would love to have you in culinary arts. You're a great kid in food and nutrition. You do really well. I think you do
091really well in that class. but it's already valid because the priority goes to the juniors and seniors just out of scheduling necessity with the class sizes we have. So, um that is kind of the main reason the whole FCS decision or FCS conversation, excuse me, even came to light was because we are just constricted in space. I know there was a conversation with the board and with Dr. Danker about possibly renovating the facility we have now. But again, if you walk through that space, there's just nowhere to go. It's a completely locked classroom in the area it's in. There's nowhere to expand. There's not really any way to knock down that wall without the school coming down with it. So, um, that is kind of how we have come to and how Dr. Dinker has
092came to the conclusion and and the option that is on the table now. I think it's a a real important thing to consider during the FCS room. I think it's needed. I hope it's defined project as well as the Hback. I think they both very high on the facility itself. >> What would you say our current rate of growth is enrollment wise? >> How many more kids do we keep adding every year? Not not not a lot at all. No, I would say one to two% throughout the year is not significant. It's just the the needs of the kids are different anymore. Uh it's not just the numbers, it's the needs and our programs really strong. I mean, like I said, adding wrestling and EI wrestling, you know, that's potentially 60 more athletes that you're
093tracking to accommodate. We built a new addition. Uh we have over 160 sp kittens which is mindbog I think for people. So uh so it's not just a matter of the enrollment it's it's also just a matter of the needs and kids >> and and I would say you know we we do see it is a nominal increase but still one to 2% you're looking at you know however that is spread out in the district but my I also think about just how our community has been growing over the last couple years and the things that have been coming up on the highway or acres I either side of the of town and what does that in the future of the of our community. So it's not just about where what are we seeing in
094growth in the past. It's also what's going on right now that's going to potentially bring and grow later too. So you just weighing all of that in line to answer that. >> When I attended the city and county meetings two years ago and AGP was get ready to start building year. They instructed us to get ready for 150 new people into the county each of the next year. And so they told us that we needed to start preparing for a growth of 1500 people in town. And so uh when we did the new addition, we made sure the classrooms can have 30 kids in them, not 24. We were we rented we took half a million dollars and renovated the 1916 building and put teachers a uh CLA classrooms like for example social studies is
095requires they're in the biggest classrooms and so for the first time um and that was one of the things that was a misperception we built this addition. This addition gave us the first time where every teacher now has their own classroom. Up until that point, people were shared. And so, in fact, last week, I had to put out the river that well, you don't even use third floor, the 1960 building. It sits completely empty now that you built eight new classrooms over here. So, I actually gave the community member a tour and said, "As you can see, we literally use every classroom, every space in this in this building." And uh the other thing we've done is over in the elementary uh we've knocked down all the half walls in the backs of those classrooms
096that used to have coat loss on them because that gives us the ability to put another row of desks and kids in those classrooms again anticipating the growth that may be coming. So, um, you know, being part of those meetings, anticipating we're trying to stay ahead of the curve and I think we've done that and this just gives us the ability to continue. >> Um, I like the idea, you know, preschoolers. They like that it's easier without lunch. But when we sit at break, we'd be surprised how many people don't stop at the stop sign and conspic. You have been around that. So I think that would be good because then they would be riding in the building with it. They don't have to walk in cold and rain wherever that is, how far down
097the road. But I think that's a good idea. move back to the culture gym everything and we end off. >> I think one thing that's also being kind of overlooked fairly I haven't heard before me that do it. Uh showing that you're willing to invest in the school. I think that's an excellent teacher recruit by fool. I think when I first started here, I started as a student teacher and none of the building project at that time. Then we added in like the weight room and all that stuff and seeing that has made me want to stay around here and keep part of this community because I've seen the investment that we're wanting to be better. We we're wanting to make sure our kids have what they need to have. So, I think that's like
098something I've always asked at school board election, right, is how are we going to recruit teachers to be here? How are we going to keep teachers here? I think just by showing that we're willing to invest in what's right for our students is going to help bring teachers in flow. >> Awesome. First, thank you for presentation and thank you board members for all your work. kind of responded to me to jail. Uh I graduated this school back in the 1900s and like my parents at grand nerf toured me I now try to provide education for people. Yeah. I just hope that you keep in mind that because of the way that we're structured tax- wise in grounds of your support for the upon property owners and my own farm, we're paying about 8 and a
099half% of our income to support this school. We'll keep doing that because we depend on you to be just thank you for your work. >> Yes. I'm here and I didn't at church and accents every day and I ste and like care and just out in m and then it gets stuck on us like it get denies there's just all over us and really that's how uh they ruin especially with like the word that will be coming with and so we're at all kinds of on top of each other and so we had ste I I think that would then shen need so that we can start at 7:20 and so we had starting our other board meeting. >> So 7:30. >> Oh 7:30. So if there isn't anything else I want everybody to have
100a chance to say what they came here can say or anything else that anybody that came to anybody's mind then we're going to go ahead and I'm going to entertain a motion to adjurnn the special meeting. >> So moved by Marcus seconded by >> I don't play. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Can't see anybody now. >> Marcus, >> Yes. Fasten. >> Yes. >> Casey, >> yes. >> I vote. Yes. >> 7:21. >> Yes. We fight.