001e e e good evening and welcome to the March 10th meeting of the board of education for the pan Lisa Community Schools open meetings Act is posted at the front of the room there are no changes to the agenda tonight so let's start with our call to order and Pledge of Allegiance please I pledge alance 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 bless you roll call please Miss what yes here Mr Lotus here miss wood here Mr Bailey here M Butler here Mr mler here all present thank you we have no excuse absences item two on the agenda communication reports beginning with the superintendent thank you very much misss whip members of the board
002and thank you for the members of the community that are here joining us live and in person thank you for engaging with your board of education and if you're watching online thank you for engaging with your board and your community it is spring break week which is always kind of uh fun and exciting uh no kids uh for all of this week and our buildings have closed down um boy we have the right weather for spring break today here ladies and gentlemen I don't know if it'll continue the rest of the week but hopefully it will and uh we'll be a great break for both our staff and our families just a few things happening around the district had the Good Fortune of recently attending Multicultural fair at pan L Vista High School approximately a
003week ago I think this is at least the second time that monari has done this event it's a student Le event uh consists of dance it consists of Music it consists of food uh cultural displays it's basically uh kids from our high schools that are basically showing a little bit of their ethnic Heritage and the things that they're most proud of we had a terrific display of uh staff showing up students it was just a really cool event uh was glad to participate uh speaking of really cool events we also held our latest unified event uh P Lista South played host to the unified basketball event and it was Monarch Titan and anytime the monarchs and Titans Clash we know it is a big deal um South won on a buzzer beater quite literally there
004was uh just a tenth of a second left on the clock when the bucket went in giving South the victory um but what a what a great outpouring of support again from our staff our parents a lot of Tears a lot of laughs a lot of smiles uh it really does showcase what makes this District such a special place and it was certainly uh a ring point for our students so uh congratulations for both teams for competing well uh speaking of basketball we do it is uh State basketball uh this week we will have our State basketball at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln and again monarchs and Titans are squaring off this Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Pinnacle Bank Arena monarchs and Titans will play uh should be an amazing matchup uh Titans are number
005one uh going into the field uh monarchs had a scored a big upset uh over an Ops team that was heavily favored uh it should be just an exciting game so again this Wednesday in Lincoln 1:30 hopefully we'll see lots of students lots of Staff lots of community members cheering on both the monarchs and the Titans uh also wanted to thank Communications Department for finishing up our pickme ups uh we do staff pickme UPS both first semester and second semester I think I mentioned before to the board that uh the pickme up item this year for our staff was a custom sweatshirt which you wouldn't think that that gets people really excited but um they were extremely well done they had sponsor names on them and on on the front not only did they have
006the district uh verbiage on it but it had the building name building logo and an icon that somehow signified the significance of that particular building for example at Golden Hills we had uh some fighter jets given the heavy influence of offet Air Force Base which is in proximity to Golden so uh really great opportunity for the central office team to get out there and be visible and uh you're going to see those sweatshirts out in our buildings and communities because the staff really loved them uh on related notes we've been out in the buildings doing a variety of uh student centered things it's uh we're right in the midst of Constitution Day Liberty day which is a celebration of the great country that we live in um I got to get back to my roots
007a little bit from my High School teaching days taught a couple of units on the Constitution US Constitution Revolution ution AR War Articles of Confederation all the events leading up to the Constitutional amendment process uh taught at both Liberty uh Lista West excuse me and Trumble uh and Then followed that up with read Across America week which is always a great opportunity for our administrators to get out and read to where students I made it out to Patriot and bell and finally again I know that since we had yet another snow day uh that staff parents and community members alike are wondering how we're going to make them up at at last count we are at six we build in three uh so as I mentioned I believe at the last Board of Education meeting
008we have not presented the board with a formal recommendation yet I think there's some other things that we want to explore including uh some conversations with the Department of Education to make sure that we're uh meeting their requirements in terms of the instructional hours it is based on hours not on days uh but in the very near future we will be bringing some recommendations to the board of education and the communicating that to our parents we know people have athletic camps and Sports Camps and activity camps and things planned immediately when school gets out we are very mindful of that and we certainly don't want to impede on your plans but we also want to make sure that we are meeting the rule of law so more on snow day makeups as information becomes available
009and with that Miss wit I would conclude my superintendent's report thank you and our next uh reports are from board members anybody have anything to report tonight yeah I can I can start um yeah yet another snow day I was scheduled to read that day um so that that didn't work um but uh yeah that would have been that would have been fun so I was definitely envious when you said you got to read but uh um then uh last Thursday uh night though I was really I was honored to be able to go out and help uh with Carriage Hill my wife teaches there so it's kind of why you always hear me and Carriage Hill but they had a uh Pizza Bingo night so it was a night where they I think couple
010of elementary schools have either tried or done this but this one is hugely popular at Carriage Hill where they pre-order Pizza um they have them delivered in from Hivey and then the parents they pay for them and then the parents come and get a ticket pick up pizza plates you know drinks and then they go Bingo cards and they play Bingo and when they win Bingo then the kids can go choose books and they and carage Hill had gone out and um used some funds and bought a bunch of books all these brand new books and so these kids it's so funny to watch them because I was passing out pizzas for most of it and you'd see these kids come running by with their tickets telling us they want a ticket and then about
011five minutes later they come running by with their book showing us they had a book and and and uh it was just it was phenomenal they uh it was I think they said they had around 300 families there or something I mean it was just packed but um really neat and uh I did see a few staff and sweatshirts um their Carriage show sweatshirts uh and I did get asked a couple of times about what our plan was for snow days so yes the interest is there so um and then of course like you said the basketball gods are not kind um so we'll have to really be nice if we could have seen Titans and monarchs in the championship game and not the first round but uh hope to be able to get down
012there and hope to hopefully we'll have one of those two teams playing on Saturday so that would be great but uh I think that'll be it thank you I had uh liais on lunch with Dr rickley and Dr settles um on Wednesday March 26th at Portal Elementary and uh very nice representation of staff that were present at the lunch um it included not only classroom teachers but an art specialist along with special education and a pair of professional and within that mix some parents were also included um as members of the staff they shared a lot of positive things with us they were very excited about the update to their new to their logo and shared that with us um they shared how they've done a great job with their fundraising this year and their
013Community has supported them as they work to try to make some Improv movements to their playground a couple clubs they highlighted were their foreign language Club they have high interest in their fourth fifth and sixth graders um and they they uh have are learning a variety of different languages that are chosen by the kids and their Battle of the books is a highly um High participation in that and I think most recently I read that their team did win the the district Battle of the books so their hard work paid off uh they shared some successes about their star Council which is their student council and the ways that they're supporting the community but overall it was a staff that was very um proud of their Community very appreciative of their community and very positive
014about what was going on in the building a couple things we talked about uh they asked about what was happening in the legislature right now um we had a nice discussion about technology and Dr rickley um asked them about uh you know their their thoughts on technology and and they their feedback indicated that they felt that the iPads were um appropriate for the primary grades and the Chromebooks for the Upper Elementary um and and they uh they shared that they could use more and more accessibility to technology not necessarily at a one toone level but just having more in the building so that they could supplement especially in the area of language arts um we talked about the new apartments and housing developments in the area and if that was going to have an impact
015on their growth down the road and Dr settles and Dr rickley were able to share some information from the new report that we've had indicating that their growth isn't probably going to change a lot and then we ended also with a question on snow days and uh uh said that we would have to get back to them on that but a very nice lunch with a very positive staff and then I did have the opportunity to go read to Tara's fourth fifth and sixth grade last week on March 6th um and read the first chapter of a book called The Lost library and I'm going to have to find that book so I can find out about Mortimer the cat and uh and and what happens in that story uh the kids were great I
016appreciate the staff taking out time Mrs Raymond for inviting me and the students for their respect and attention while I read to them so fun fun morning uh Miss what read to my two kids at Terah Heights I wasn't able to do it on Wednesday uh but they were in her fourth and fifth grade classes so thank you they say she was a good reader a lot better than I would have done yes they were happy she was there they did ask me not your children but I was asked if the Board of Education were my friends and if I had a best friend on the board yeah you know what I told them is you know these are people that I can go to if I need help so that would me to me
017be a definition of a friend nice oh great yeah uh I had a liaison lunch at Golden Hills on Friday Dr rickley uh Dr settles came with uh we talked through uh the the um topics that they wanted to highlight and show their appreciation for was the uh positive results and the engagement with the new CK CK curriculum we hear that every Elementary School I think we we go to we hear it continue to hear it which is great they continue to say the kids are just much more engaged with this curriculum and that's just you know great to see uh and especially as as we continue to uh develop it and the teachers get more used to it it will that will only continue they also want to highlight how uh good of a
018Paris staff they have this year uh they said that they don't remember it uh ever being better they appreciate their Paras we had a couple at the lunch um I think at least one was a current parent if not both of them were current parents of kids at Golden Hills uh which is great to see they wanted to say thanks for the full-time uh the teacher lead that they have this year for the first year they said that helps out um with just everything that is going on in the building uh and so it doesn't take teachers away from uh some of their roles dayto day and then they wanted to highlight the clubs they have a number of clubs going on and they said the response from the from the kids and the students
019is has been great and you can see them being much more engaged when they when they find one of these clubs that that interest them on the side where they just wanted to talk through uh you know the continued challenges in the schools you know behavior and mental health we talked through uh additional um School psychologists uh potentially more hours uh with the additional hires that we've talked through over the last couple meetings uh and then they wanted to highlight just the behavior coach impact uh and you know how uh spread out some of them are um but they appreciate the resources that that we continue to invest in those areas they they say they're helping we talk through uh you know how it's been trending uh over the last handful years um and and
020uh they appreciate the what the district has been doing and you know we talk through potential additional ideas as well um I'm always open to hearing them uh and then they had some playground questions with which uh Mr Richards I'm sure you'll be getting contacted from Dr rickley if not and and some Gra area that needs some some help but I appreciate the staff uh taking the time out of their day and having an open and honest conversation with me uh I also went to the unified basketball game the the Titan vers Monarch it great to see the community turnout the weather that night was rough it was the when we got the the storm uh and the rain coming down pretty hard but it was a great turnout uh it was a great event
021it's a very I know a couple of you talked about the elementary one it's just I felt a good good Soul cleanser just seeing the pure enjoyment from those students as they're out there on the court and their families uh just enjoying it and having a good time so I want to thank the community for coming out and supporting uh the event and the students uh and um yeah if you have not been to one when you have the the opportunity I would uh say it is well worth the time that's it for me thank you very much very good reports um next uh item on the agenda is committee reports building grounds and finance uh we have not met human resource and student services uh we have not met since the last meeting we
022have a me meeting scheduled for next Thursday at uh 4M here at the central office and curriculum in americanism uh we have not met since the last meeting we do have a meeting scheduled uh on the 25th at 4:30 thank you next item on the agenda action items action by consent do we have a motion yeah I'll make a motion to approve the action by consent items as presented second have a motion by Mr Bailey and a second by Mr madler any discussion roll call Mr Lotus yes Miss Wood yes Mr Bailey yes Miss Butler yes Mr mler yes Miss W yes motion carried next item on the agenda school resource officer is that your item uh thank you very much Ms whip members of the board so uh I just want to acknowledge uh
023Chief Whitted for uh attending the evening uh this evening's meeting uh Dr vial and uh Chief Whitted spoke to the board at our last meeting about a proposed partnership between the city of pilion specifically the police department and the school district to uh do a cost sharing agreement between a new SRO supervisor we articulated some of the uh benefits that this position will add we certainly appreciate the city we certainly appreciate Chief whited's support uh gladly answer any questions that have Arisen since the last board meeting uh otherwise our recommendation would be to adopt the proposal and enter into a memorandum of understanding with the police department I'll make the motion to approve the split school resource officer supervisor position with the city of pil as presented I'll second I have a motion by Mr
024Lotus and a second by Miss Wood any discussion roll call Miss Wood yes yes Mr Bailey yes Miss Butler yes Mr mler yes Miss Wet yes Mr Lotus yes motion carried thank you next on our agenda are discussion and information items starting with a legislative update by C calist public affairs Mr Gay welcome Tim halfway update today's day 40 out of a 90day session so uh almost halfway but uh big week ahead this week There's going to be all the priority bills are coming due on Friday so that will really uh help funnel things down to you know 100 and some bills 114 bills so that's very good good for us uh then we know kind of what to watch there's still two weeks of hearings left so you will see some hearings and read
025about things in the paper and that's great doesn't mean those bills can't be a priority but usually if you haven't had a hearing yet you probably don't want to make that bill your priority so uh each senator of course gets one the Committees each get two and then the Speaker gets 25 bills so um like I say that's 14% of the 715 bills uh going forward Kathy do I just click this is that on oh here we go already clicking it so um so anyway just uh been working closely on some of the bills that were heard earlier it'll be 303 is a Hugh Bill introduced by the governor it's a spending Bill and Tisa funding it creates all also a board um that would be uh School Finance the governor's talked about we got
026to do something about tiosa we've all heard that for you know last 20 years probably but he wants to create a board made up of superintendant uh people that really know the issues instead of just a public uh we don't like it kind of thing so that's a that's a good U opportunity I think uh we'd love to have somebody get on that board you know that understands larger schools there will be larger ones and smaller ones put on that board but anyway uh that bill I don't know with the financial situation where they're at now it's they were 432 million in the hole I told you earlier now it's 200 and some million they were looking good at $120 million loss and then they found $90 million oversight in Medicaid but that can happen
027there's a lot of money being spent so I don't know what he's going to do as far as putting all these things together trying to get a balanced budget and things like that I haven't heard the word property tax cut here the last couple weeks so I think the governor's probably given up on that but who knows so we shall see what happens um Senator Hughes introducing that bill I thought it was interesting that he got her to introduce it it was kind of her idea to she had the most uh valid way to look at spending during the special session I thought so and she's got quite a few years left uh up to six years left in the legislature so I assume that's what he's doing we follow this as a perennial lb300
028it's superintendent pay we don't like it usually um don't testify on it but when it tells the school boards what you can and can't do uh as far as pay and benefits and things like that it takes away local control so that's something we keep an eye on um this one too we're keeping an eye on lb 509 was pretty much the linan bill again that voters just rejected but it was put in again for tax credits by sorantino and he's the senator that took her place actually so I don't know if that was uh hey I'll continue to carry this torch or not it didn't get a very good hearing in the committee I don't think at all um people were saying hey we just did this didn't we so I don't think that's
029going to go plus they don't have $25 million right now um to to go forward so um right here we're looking at uh some of the different I put these on here they're these are each committee gets two priority bills these are these are in produced by the education committee members and they're usually cleanup bills a lot of times it's a word here a change a new code through the federal government whatever the case may be so these bills I put on here I think some of these will probably be their uh committee bills they could put all four together just by combining them together but they kind of got to stay within the the ESU or whatever it is but these are probably they decided early these are the Bills we're going to kind
030of look at um for clean up and and uh so I just wanted to put them on there because these can pop up and and they can become anything quite honestly they're very generous on on germanness so sometimes I mean they're bringing up things like how in the world did you get that onto this bill but this is how they do it uh so we watch these pretty closely um some of them just have their hearings coming up uh next week so um we'll keep an eye on them and then see what happens uh I put these on here these are the ones you're probably reading about a little bit in the paper uh Conrad's Bill and this is what we we actually worked on as well senat Conrad had a bill surveillance monitoring tracking
031makes sense you don't want kids uh big Tech tracking your kids selling their information whatever that was the theory behind this bill I don't know if that's happening I don't think it's happening I assume you all watch those kind of things I shouldn't make an assumption but it got a lot of push back there was no there were a few proponents for it I shouldn't say that but most the School Board Association nasb uh the council School everybody opposed this bill and it still came out of committee that set up some red flags uh people started looking at it I know a couple of superintendant made calls we sent information about the policies you have and some of the the issues that may happen um we need to dig deeper in this I mean there
032are some issues as far uh school security and things like that that you don't want to just tell everybody about either so it got filibustered I wouldn't even say it was a filibuster I'd say it was people started asking questions and the thing just fell apart um which is rare because Senator Conrad's a very articulate Senator and very you know she does a great job so uh right now it's on hold there's just paper in the newspaper today she might want to bring this back and say well you know if someone else did this maybe have something against me I just think this is bad Bob hollstrom uh an attorney down the southeast nebrask he's a new Senator but he put a couple amendments on here that pretty much would make it voluntary that you
033wouldn't have to do this so right now it's mandatory uh but that would make it voluntary she did not like that she didn't see a path forward at this point so she pulled that bill but that was one of the first times I saw where uh people started I got a call from so and so and I so when you do call it does make a difference I'm just telling you that if there's something we see going forward that you just hate or love uh you know let us know and we obviously go through Dr rickley on what we say so uh the second one lb 140 is the governor put this in and you have a policy already devices in the schools um so a lot of schools don't but how they can use
034their phones what what is or isn't uh I don't want to get too much into that because it's uh that may be tweaked a little bit but that's a that bill was going right through because no one wants the kids you know that just sold well a lot of students came actually and uh testified in favor of that so um oh and then going back speaking of that so we do comment on these so Dr rickley did testify in the Hughes Bill earlier did a very good job early that was a that was a nice one um to go through I don't think there was any opposition to that bill on the financing it's just the funding that we may not have money for So speaking of money lb 411 was just heard today this
035is one where we we say there's no money this is this this basically had a fiscal note of on the first on the 7th they gave it $137 million to pay for these teacher bonuses um he must have argued that because they had a new fisal note is still $95 million to pay the teachers and these these were retention grants went from $500 to $5,000 for pretty much all teachers um there's just not the funds for this kind of thing so you get a bill like that it's a great intention but it's pretty much Dead on Arrival when it comes with that kind of fiscal note um it'll be 428 got out it's on General file right now it's uh it's like uh when you're doing know when you're doing surveys and things like that
036you've got to let parents know you got to do a survey uh why what you're doing and they can take they can take a look at it it's 15 days prior now it's 30 days um we'll see it's on General file I don't know if that will end up passing or not because of the priority situation I just told you about if it doesn't get a priority there's a good chance this Bill W come up again this year um 429 pretty much is if you allow a the union to come to a teacher appreciation day or stay at school and uh you have to provide for someone else to come in the opposite view so I wouldn't call it an anti-union but it's kind of a professional employees organization they met the union but you
037had to let somebody else give a different point of view on that so I don't know where that's a big problem but uh when the chairman of the you know he put it in there uh must be important to him I guess uh so then the next one is we've got some Finance same thing it'll be 173 was in Appropriations bill on money this is a great cause uh it's basically to reappropriate $15 million to the option enrollment program to the community colleges so that was yanked a chunk of money s procop and new Senator put that in there they had a ton of superintendant coming to to be proactive and proponents of that bill or no opponents but fact is it's just a lot of money that I don't know what they're going to
038do but that would be in Appropriations Committee right now and you won't know that till probably towards the end of day 70 of when that happens um this huge one was uh if you had student teachers and you were paying them and it goes you you don't have to count that towards your budget pretty much um Tisa you're taxing lids and those things so um I asked Brent if that's a big deal to us you know what it be be favorable but it probably won't be Earth Earth changing for you on that one 692 was uh Brett came down and that one we met with several people on the revenue committee chairman of the committee and others and that pretty much would just put a limit on you on growth you couldn't take your growth
039from year to year which would just pretty much kill a growing District so that one we pretty much spelled that out why it's problem um I think that went very well it's not going to go any where it sounds like the chairman of the committee pretty much told us he doesn't like it it's not going to go anywhere so that was a good little uh investment of time to to come to that so finishing up I mean these are just a few of the 86 bills I know um you know board member madler may have some bills that we we aren't checking here there's a lot we kind of narrow them down to what could pass and give you a flavor of what's going on not everything going on so the the thing that we
040see going forward is money money money or lack of so any bill with the spending I mean they're getting to anything with spending is probably going to be not going anywhere but the the harder bills are going to come now with the priorities the gambling was just heard today I don't know if that would be Advanced or somebody prioritizes it but the the gaming to put that on the ballot you got the win or take all that could take because there still is a filibuster rule you know that could take days on these things um you got all the budget cuts that may get out taxes will still be talked about but like I say I don't know how they get to do anything on taxes the one thing going forward don't I don't want
041to look too far forward but they're a billion dollars in debt two years from now and I was surprised when the forecast came out positive quite honestly but hey but a billion dollars they made a lot of promises to schools from the general fund right um when those really start kicking in it's going to be interesting um what will happen because you're either going to have to cut Services a lot or there's a tax cut that's out there on an income tax cut and other things that they probably wouldn't keep I'm sure but that's going to be an interesting situation two years from now don't want to panic but that's uh there's been a lot of money moving to the general fund that used to be you used to be able to to tax good
042or bad that's probably what's going to be coming so those are the things like I say we've been going to ton of fundraisers still going on surprisingly I've already met with four legislative candidates that's like two years ahead but I guess it isn't but so there's candidates already coming for some of the term limited people one of those would be speaker Arch who's just been really good uh he's only got a year left you know so eight or nine of them it won't be a huge massive turn like we just saw but eight or nine of them have are their last two years so it would be this year and then that short session that probably sounds like a long time but it's not for what we're doing um and the ideas that they want
043to push forward so there's a lot of things still going on um like I say I'm sure you're going to things if there's questions I can ask or bills you want to follow you know let Dr rickley know because we're still we meet every we have calls every Wednesday you know kind of say what's happening this week the next week whatever um and then just different things to stay in touch of look out for landmines kind of thing but um with that I don't have a whole lot else any questions or anything I can try to answer I appreciate the overview and yeah as they come out with the priority bills this week and then the the committee priority bills as well just keep us posted then we do have a better sense of what
044uh what's kind of going to get pushed as these these final 50 days um and if we can uh contact you know any of the Senators on those property bills let us know and then the question they haven't come out with the budget yet to make up that 200 million yeah they they have a the preliminary budget comes out so the Governor throws something in they the Appropriations Committee mols it all over tries narrowing it down um so that came out oh it and they but it's still preliminary that's before all the bills even get asked so before the procop bill and there's ton of great causes going on you know that people want to spend money on but they're just not going to happen yeah like I say the cuts are going to happen
045his own departments are cutting big time so if you're under the governor's purview you're coming in with a lower budget so I think he's like 1% maybe rickets was at three three and a half somewhere in there so we'll see if that can hold up and the one thing I want to watch is with so many new people the legislature controls the budget right it's like anything but with so many new people how much are they going to when are they going to say wait that's just not right you know will they do something different than the governor and who knows it's going to be interesting because a lot of people were elected and they're friends with the governor or whatever so we'll see if the separation of powers kind of works uh going forward
046but that budget is going to be interesting yeah um there's a lot more people involved in it I think than usual because they're cutting when they're adding things people like uh looks good to me I got my whatever in there but this time when you didn't get your program in there there's G to be a lot of probably a lot more people watching it and and talking about it yeah instead of just glossing it over for a day and voting It Forward yeah and I think we'll just have to stay close with that I think I heard this morning on the the nasb call and the the at least proposed budget is it potentially that they stripped out the funding of the mandatory uh junior year act tests from districts uh you know so like
047some of those which would come if they keep in the law that they all have to take them but they stop paying for it then it's back on us um on the funding side so we'll just have to with with any of those just obviously stay on top of any of their their budget decisions yeah and and that's where it's good for those I'm I'm no expert in the school budget you know what I mean I kind of but the people that are are watching that thing very closely so pay attention when some when the school board's Association is talking or uh you know the school administrators uh NCSA they they follow that really closely there's going to be a lot of little things in there that add up I think but I just don't
048know what they are yet and part of that's just so hard because until it really comes out those last few days unless you're in that committee because what they do they go to exec session and they don't really you know they don't tell you what's going on so it'll be interesting to see appreciate it yep yep Tim as always thank you for the report um I mean he mentioned uh Mr Gay mentioned that he does the weekly phone call with Brett and I in addition to that in representing the district's interests on a regular basis we also receive daily updates from an associate in his office uh so communication has been fantastic it always has been just really grateful for the work that you do to support the district good to hear thank you okay
049it seems like baseball season not basketball season right yeah yeah see thank you thank you Mr Richard do you have anything to add to the conversation this was under your I don't at this time I know the ones that make me real nervous are always the any any sort of talk about caps on that 3% and uh he mentioned that bill up there tonight and um those are very concerning for the larger districts that are growing um it's just not feasible to do 3% caps on when you're opening a new school or have more Staffing you have to add and those types of things so um that continues to be our fight down there with a few of the bills but that that'd be the only thing extra I would add all right thank you
050our next agenda item is review policy 3000 Mr Richards yes we are starting to review policy 3000's business and non-instructional operations um if you have any um of those you'd like reviewed our buildings grounds finance committee is meeting a week from Friday and that'll be an agenda item uh that we take a look at and see if there's anything in there that we uh need to change or want to change um so you can let one of you can let myself or one of the committee members now thank you next item is summer facility projects I think that's again Mr Richards yes we'd like to bring um some of the major projects forward to the board that we're looking at trying to complete in the summer um these are usually outside of the bond uh
051projects that have already been approved by the voters and the board um and these four that we've identified this year uh are within our um special building fund budget and maybe some partial general fund involved uh we'll wait to see what comes out with the designs and the and the bids uh with each of these um but they are uh the turf replacement of foundation field uh Turf is built to last about 8 to 10 years we're in we just completed year 11 um and the turf handled it pretty well um I think the newer Turf can even maybe go past 10 uh that they're coming out with now engineering wise so we're hoping for the better uh to keep those things lasted but uh it's time to replace the foundation field Turf our our
052committee will uh meet on that next week too with some of the designs out there from field Turf and the bids uh they come in uh for that project um we've met with both athletic directors and principes on that projects and received some feedback as well on things that might be missing on the turf or if if if we want to see some different designs and things of that nature than just having the Green Turf so it'll be a good discussion uh at our subcommittee next week on those things um number two is the ADA wheelchair access to Foundation field um right now uh with students that are trying to get down to the field for band per se of those things they have to go clear around to the south side of the stadium
053and um you know we've had a few complaints on that uh so we want to try to make that a little more accessible for kids in wheelchairs on the north side of the stadium um to make it easier to get down to the field so we've discussed a variety of options on that um our Engineers have come up with a few plans to look at there for sidewalks Meandering down there um wheelchair lifts uh and those types of things so we're going to discuss that a little bit more in committee here uh next week and then bring the board a recommendation uh once we get that finalized um number three is Golden Hills playground resurfacing um most of our elementary schools now have been resurfaced or will be resurfaced within the bond projects uh so
054we wanted to bring this one forward to do this summer probably be a late summer deal this is if you remember right talking through these playground projects um there's not very many companies that do them and they get booked quick uh so we've we've uh kind of earmarked August uh for this to happen um our Engineers are working on that uh we're collecting bids uh for those projects right now as we speak um so hopefully we'll be able to bring a good plan back to the board here in uh next meeting or early April um with Golden Hills playground resurfacing as well um and then the last project we're looking at is um track replacement at uh Pilon Lista High School um so both tracks need to be replaced at our high school high schools
055uh Foundation Fields track as well we didn't want to take on both of those at the same time and in addition try to do the turf Allin one summer because we know how much that field is used and that if we were running a little late on that project we're into football season and we got a problem uh so we split those out at Foundation field but what we can do this summer is replaced the one at Pilan Lista high school so these tracks are kind of hard there's a asphalt uh infrastructure underneath these tracks okay and after about 20 well even before that sometimes if it's not done really well they start cracking underneath so you can resurface them up top as many times as you want within a couple years the cracks are
056coming back um I was over there last week at monarchs we got a crack probably two inches thick just on one side of the ones I looked at on the uh east side of the track or west side um you know it comes all the way across you just can't go in there and replace it I mean resurface it and fix it we just Band-Aid it every spring at this point to try to get it to stay um so we need to go in dig it all up uh pour a good foundation underneath and we'll have to do the foundation field the same way next year um and then put a nice track surface on top of it uh and then as you know with the bond we're doing the track surface redoing and all
057our uh tracks at Pilon middle and Lista middle as well this summer um well Liberty's not in that uh they just have a they have an asphalt track U that's there I think we're in year eight of that uh track and we can put a surface on top of that which is a lot cheaper than redoing the whole thing so we would just put a top surface on that one uh to match the other two middle schools uh so all three middle schools will have the same uh top surface on those for track so those are the four we're looking at right now wanted to get in front of the whole board as the committee uh kind of delves into each of these and starts looking at some bids and things of that nature to
058bring back uh for the whole board in the future I will add that the Golden Hills playground did come up with Mr madler and I at our Lea on lunch we were all over that uh yes and we told them that they were they were very concerned about the pea gravel and the wood chips and what an inappropriate surface and they're right and we said well help is coming probably later this summer so thank you for addressing that any discussion for Mr Richards it sounds like that subcommittee is going to be pretty busy for a while all right our last item under discussion information is the RFP for wireless network systems hardware and software and that is Mr Matt Moore and Miss Shireen Siri hello good evening uh so I wanted to talk real quick
059about uh the RFP that we put out for our wireless network um it's for the hardware and software component of our wireless network um the RFP is in conjunction with the e- rate program um so we'll utilize e- rate discounts um with this project uh the last purchase was in 2020 um obviously before we were one to one so we've added devices on on top of additions to buildings more buildings so we're trying to plan for that as well uh and future proof ourselves uh this is also in our technology cycle in our technology plan uh so it's cycled um for our fiveyear cycle uh the scope of the RFP is going to replace our wireless controller um the management software for the wireless controller the network access control uh the software for that as
060well as the physical access points the hardware U so it's going to replace all that and provide us some redundancy as well uh which we've been looking for I know um to get to so uh we're looking to we've got evaluations done um and now we're just trying to to nail down the uh the cost of it uh completely and hoping to have that done for approval on the 24th you guys have any questions thanks for the overview Matt so this uh moving forward with this you feel like you'd be able to handle better the one to one that we have right now it's secondary level yeah yeah y are we building in capacity to potentially expand one to one so we're not back here in a couple years y so we're we are currently
061in the middle of that Tech audit where that is all being decided I don't know if the number of obviously the number of devices are going to increase regardless of the one to one if I'm being honest uh Matt alluded to it but the last time we did this uh we since that time have added at least 8,000 add additional devices uh for our students we've added the cameras we've added the copers now run on wireless I think the coffee makers run on wirel I'm just kidding but um all of those devices have to access access this network and so it really is about expansion um we did try to build in um the capabilities obviously for the fiveyear cycle last time honestly I don't want to brag not this wood uh but we did
062pretty well when you consider how many additional devices we've put on since that time um the redundancy part I think is really important because if our Network goes down this would allow us to have internet um from a different direction so hopefully because we are just so Reliant upon it now for Access with student information um everything in between as well as the cameras and safety considerations so yeah so yes it does allow for more devices even Beyond student devices thank you Mr Moore yeah look forward to see one other thing I forgot to mention I think did you talk about youate I heard him say it yep okay perfect I just want to make sure we mentioned that we're using our eate funds for it what what's our discount percentage um I'm not exactly
063sure it was 50% last time so it probably is around that yeah that's still pretty good deal if you get 50% off thank you okay thank thank right we have no public comment and our next agenda item is future board March 16 through 19 is uh the nsab federal advocacy conference in Washington DC Mr madler Miss Wood myself and Dr rickley will be attending that on March 21st AA is on lunch at Patriot with Mr Bailey and on the 24th the next Board of Education meeting I would like to thank Kathy barano for being our recorder I told you I was goingon to say this I forgot last time and thank you Mr Moore for the tech technical support seeing no other business we will adjourn at 6:47