001I'll ask you more after. >> I call this committee of the whole meeting to order on Monday, August 11, 2025 at 6 PM. If we could please take a roll call. >> Katherine Potter >> here. >> Mindy Hartman here. >> Darling, >> here. >> Stacy Salt >> Julie Jetty >> here. >> Bridges Stanland >> here. >> Okay, next up we have the acceptance of the agenda. Items for discussion may be added to the agenda at the start of the meeting at the request of the superintendent or any board member upon majority approval of those members present. Does any board member have an item to add tonight? Hearing none. Next up we have community input. Uh there was no one signed up tonight. So we have the approval of previous meeting minutes. Approval of the minutes
002from the July 21st, 2025 meeting. Everyone good with that? Going to consent. Yep. >> Uh, next up we have discussion topic. First up, were there any questions on the review of bills from Mr. Shepard? Hearing none. Next up, we have the solar energy presentation from Amoresco. Mr. Shepard and I don't see Mr. Murf. >> Mr. Martin had a pres-scheduled day off uh that he's had scheduled off uh for the past six months or so. Um, so I'm pleased to have Amaresco here tonight uh to continue on with our our solar energy discussion that we uh uh started uh last month uh and we're going to continue on this month. Uh the hope is is that they can provide some information about their company about what they could possibly provide for the district in terms of
003solar energy. Uh but also looking at the various uh models whether it's direct ownership or uh leasing of the the equipment. Uh and then from there, just looking a little bit forward, uh we would be uh bringing this back for a discussion item at the uh regular board meeting to actually have a conversation with the board uh about what your thoughts are. Uh Mr. Barton and I will of course put together uh some summary information to help uh guide that discussion. But uh I'm pleased to have with us Diana Vargas. Uh and uh Steve, you're gonna have to help me out because I can't read your last name on my screen. Steve Tagert here from Emoresco uh and uh the floor is yours. >> Thank you so much. Um good evening everyone and thank you
004for having us. My name is Diana Vargas. We do have an intro slide, David, if you want to go to it. I am a senior account executive with Amarasco. I've been with the company for um about six and a half years. And I'm here with my boss uh vice president Steve Tagert. He uh oversees the Midwest region for MRSCO and he's been with the company for I want to say 20 24 years. Not to age you or anything. Um but anyway, so um I don't really have an agenda, but what we put together a deck for tonight. And what we're going to be doing is we have a few slides on the company for any of you that may not be familiar with who MRSCO is and what we do. We also have a few
005slides to showcase some other projects that we have done. Um then I have some slides specific to the Kerry schools that are good candidates for solar and then we'll talk about the big beautiful bill and the dates that are very important coming out of that that would affect these projects. So um with that I'll have Steve take it away. >> All right. Thank you so much. Just great to be here to tonight and just take just want to take two minutes just to kind of give you an overview of Amoresco and who we are. Yeah, we are a major solar developer around the world but we also do a lot more and I just want to spend two or three minutes just sharing kind of some of our different capabilities. K12 has really been a
006huge market for us going back to the start of the company. U but we are also involved in a lot of different markets including the federal government. We're the largest energy infrastructure contractor for the federal government. do a lot with the DOE and DoD. Uh we do a lot with uh universities. Uh Northwestern universities, one example of a customer here locally in University of Illinois. Uh as well as industrial clients. We're doing a lot with data centers these days as you can imagine with everything going on with AI. Um so we're busy with resiliency with that with battery storage and solar. So, we're working with folks like Google and Microsoft and others um to uh really back up uh a lot of those facilities. Uh as well as we do a lot of municipal and
007city work. We just finished all the street lights for the city Chicago, 330,000 of them. Uh so we do a lot of energy infrastructure across the board. Uh these are just some of the recognitions that we've gotten over the last couple years. uh we are number one in the marketplace uh in the energy as a service uh market as well as the energy services company market. Um I think one of the reasons for that is because we're actually product agnostic. A lot of people that are in our space uh manufacture different uh whether it's specific solar panels or building controls or technologies. Um we truly are product agnostic. So, we're going to look at the best technologies and systems that make sense for you and your district and not what makes most sense for us
008in our bottom line. Um, the other thing that Yeah. Do we go to the next one, David? Thank you. Uh, we cover a lot of different components here as you can see. So, we do a lot on the demand side with energy efficiency, uh, LED lights, uh, all the MEP systems, uh, but we're also doing a lot in the energy infrastructure space. um whether it's utility power plants um just across the board um everything as it relates to energy and deferred maintenance uh we're involved with uh to to some level. Um next one please. Uh again full suite of uh of working with us. We've done over $16 billion worth of projects. I think we're on track to do about two billion this year in revenue. Um and again we're based uh all across North
009America as well as in Europe now. Um, we really focus on a lot of different contracting options. Uh, we do performance contracting, which a lot of school districts in Illinois have taken advantage of. Uh, we do purchase power agreements, design build, uh, agreements, on andm agreements. So, there's a lot of flexibility was as far as the contracting options. Uh, and just you can see some of the uh, the whole breadth of uh, what we bring to the table uh, as far as technical experts uh, and then best-in-class implementation as well. Uh, next one. Thank you. Uh, again, like I said, K12 is a huge market for us. Um, we've done uh well over 1.5 billion now in K12. Uh, you'll see here in a slide in just a second. Actually, you can go to the
010next one, David. Um, we've worked with the large school districts across the country. Uh, Chicago public schools is one of them. Um, we've worked with over a 100 school districts just here in Illinois. Um, a lot of them multiple phases. Uh there's a few districts downstate where we're actually on phase 15 um going back 15 to 20 years. Um so I think that just shows you the longevity of uh and the success that we've had working not only with school districts across the country but also with uh school districts right here in Illinois. Uh everyone from Chicago public schools all the way down to a single building school district with 20,000 square ft and everything in between. Uh a lot of the biggest school districts in the country we have worked with including Chicago uh
011St. Louis, Miami Dade, um and we just closed a major project with LA County schools out in California for a big solar and battery storage project uh for that district. Um so again have a lot of national and local breadth of experience as it relates to uh to solar as well as everything else. Here's just a list you can see of some of the districts that we've worked with all the way from down by St. Louis all the way up here to uh uh the uh the Wisconsin border as well. Uh and with that, I'm going to turn it over to Diana and she's going to talk specifically a little bit about some of the solar. >> I will. >> If you want um we can make this dynamic. If you guys have questions as
012we're talking, don't feel like you need to wait till the end. Please interrupt because there may be some slides that have a lot of information. Um so now we're going to talk mostly about uh PV solar PV. Um MRSCO develops, installs, owns, operates, and maintains um solar energy systems and we have done that throughout North America including Canada and Europe as well. Um right now we have 1,500 megawatts of solar under construction. So we have a lot of partners in the industry, suppliers, manufacturers. Um we know who can get us what the fastest. We actually have some inventory right now. Um, and as you know, the timing is of the essence. We have a lot of customers that now want to start their solar project with the when the ITC has an end to it.
013But we do have some inventory um that is available for first come first serve just because we do so much solar on a on a daily basis. Uh, so these are the project highlights that I'll be talking about. I'll talk about them for like 10 seconds each. So, if you have any more questions, just let us know. Uh, but this way we can get to your school buildings that um I'm sure will be more exciting to talk about. But, so this is the Troy Community School District down in the Planefield Shwood area. We did a um an installation of six solar arrays on top of six of their schools uh producing uh sorry, the system size was 2.2 megawws. Um, along with that, we did a lot of the energy savings measures that Steve was
014talking about that we also do with school districts. And so, we did some roof replacements in order to put those panels on there. We did um LED interior and exterior lighting projects, HVAC building automation systems. Um, you see the list right there. We'll go to the next one. This is a picture of the roof, one of them. Anyways, before and after we built it out. This is the Olympia school district down in Stanford, Illinois. Uh here we did four of their schools um with solar including one ground mount system. This the whole array was a little bit smaller about one and a half uh megawws and we also had to do some roof work before putting the panels on. This is a very exciting project with uh Cook County um at the Skoi Courthouse. Um,
015this project is currently under construction, so you won't see it advertised anywhere until it's done, which will be um sometime before the end of the year. This project is 1 and a half megawws, and it is half of the panels are going on top of the courthouse building itself. It's a rooftop system, and the other half is on top of the garage. They have a fivestory garage building uh that was highly unoccupied on the top two floors. So, they took advantage of the to the top fifth floor of the garage and put about 750 um kilowatts. Oh, yeah. And we just got some good news. Uh we got awarded with the county to do um 3 to five additional megawws of solar. So, um this is a project that just wrapped up uh just north
016of the border in Wisconsin with the Southwest Technical College uh 300 kilowatt system. They also did have a battery energy storage included with that. And yeah, we just wrapped this up um in July. You can see that ground mount picture right there. We'll go to the next. >> Yeah. So, I don't know if you can see clearly. Oh, but you do have the slides on your laptops. Uh yeah, they won a $500,000 from uh grant from the Department of Energy, which which really helped. Plus, they also are getting that 40% ITC. >> Oh, did we lose it? >> Yeah, we lost the connection. >> Okay, >> they they have it in front of us, so you can >> I just have to remember what's next. >> Oh, >> perfect. >> Well, Steve touched on that
017one. >> Thunder on that one. >> It's fine. >> You want to just turn it around? We don't like to print anymore. >> Clean energy company. >> How do I go? Oh, it's a PDF. Got it. >> Well, I'll get back on the microphone. I feel like you can hear me better. Yeah. Okay. Um, so then we have the solar benefits, which I I my understanding is that you've already been considering solar. It's not a new thing and so you probably already know all the reasons why you're considering solar at this time. But the obvious benefits are going to be if you have sustainability goals or renewable energy goals or if anybody in the community is asking for that. We know a lot of students um like in CPS they have a lot of students
018that are actually demanding that the district do something. Um it will help reduce the electricity price volatility for the next 30 years which is the expected life cycle of those panels. um you can use it on your as part of your academic curriculum. We have a lot of science teachers and clubs that want that production data. Um we also have down like a kiosk if you think of a dashboard or a monitor in the lobby of you know maybe the district office or one of your main schools where the kids can see the production data life and you can compare right a sunny day with a shady day and make it a lot of fun. >> We have a lot of national curriculum work that we put in. >> Oh yeah. uh that we bring
019to the table that others that are just much smaller and uh they just don't have that capability and just don't have the materials that we get over time just with all our work all big districts small districts. >> Yeah. So we do have some resources um on that end on the curriculum side. Um we're going to talk about the financial incentives that are currently available um as they pertain to the Kerry schools that are under consideration and then um we also have a variety of financing options if you were interested in that. Our understanding is that you're not going to be going out for bonds or anything like that, but we do have financial partners if that ever u became a need. Um so models and types of solar arrays. Um, primarily there's the two
020models, the ownership model and the power purchase agreement model. Um, I do I moved them out to the end, but we do have two slides that are very specific about the difference of the two models. But in short, ever since the inflation reduction act passed in 2022, the ownership model has made more sense. um just because if somebody like us if we own it we have to pay taxes on the materials whereas a school district does not and then um on the financial side there's interest rates that we need to pay from our financial lenders whereas um schools can borrow money for a lot cheaper than developers can. Um there's other reasons, but um it's just more financially um attractive for the schools to own it. And then I know the operations and maintenance is
021a concern that we get all the time, but you can outsource that. Um doesn't have to be with Amoresco even if we build the projects for you. Um you can hire somebody else for the O andM if you want. Um so today we'll be talking about the ownership model. Um, actually I should also say not only is it recommended to go with the ownership since the big beautiful bill passed last month, we are not able to offer PPAs at the moment. Um, and you can talk more about that, Steve, but our financial partners don't want to take on the risk of the ITC not getting paid by the Treasury. So just, >> you know, they have there's certain dates that Diana is going to talk about, but then um they're going to be tightening everything
022up even more with through exe through executive order. Um so that's why there's just still a lot of unknowns and it's only going to get more constricted. So where it is right now is probably as good as it's going to get and it's only going to get uh squeezed from a timeline standpoint. So any financial uh company that's worth their salt uh is not going to do it um anymore. They just aren't going to do it right now until all those all those rules are uh specifically laid out in full detail. >> Oh, so yeah. >> Perfect. >> Yeah. >> All right. So hopefully everyone's still following along and now we're at the Kerry schools. Um, so based on the roof, think based on the roof data that we received, uh, we determined there's three
023schools that would be good candidates for solar here at Kerry 26. Uh, Oaknull Early Childhood Center because that has a 2-year-old roof. We would not put panels on any roof that is older than 5 years. Uh, Brier Gate Elementary, uh, it's our understanding it has a brand new roof as of this summer. and the Kerry Junior High School will be getting a a new roof next summer. Um, are there any questions before I keep going or you guys are good? Okay. Yeah. So, you've talked about this being 30 years though, but these roofs aren't 30-year roofs, correct? >> The roofs that we're putting on, they should last 30 30 years. Yes. But if a roof needs repair or re redoing, um, how does that work with the panels sitting on top of them? >> Um,
024so the panels actually protect the roof from a lot of the elements. Um, so it's actually it provides a layer of protection. Um, we do build like walk paths around the panel so you can get to your HVAC equipment that is up there. Uh, but the areas that you will see, um, you can get up into those areas and if you need to do a repair, I mean, we leave walking space. Um, >> yes, you could move the panel, um, temporarily if you had a leak. Um, they're they're definitely movable. >> Okay. But if you had to replace the whole roof, you have >> And that's why we wouldn't want we wouldn't uh, we don't if it's not uh, younger than five years, we're not putting solar on there, >> okay? or we we will,
025but it'll be all it'll be a huge disclaimer that >> Yeah. Okay. >> It's all on you. We don't recommend it. >> Yeah. And that's one of the reasons why a couple weeks ago we had presented options for all of our buildings when we were doing a little more research. While the roofs at Deer Path and Three Oaks are new, they're newer, uh they would have fallen outside that uh that recommended time frame for the the solar energy at this. >> Yeah. Now, a lot of districts we actually do it in combination. So, we'll replace the roof and then put the solar right after it. That's we do that a lot. We're doing that out in LA uh for for for that district. So, but yeah, you definitely the roofs is that's the biggest deal
026is you just don't want to put it on an older roof. You just won't do it. Which is why I mean a lot of people at the end of the day also do ground mount. So, if you have space that you're actually not going to be using, uh we've done that with uh several districts um because then you don't have the roof situation to worry about. But then the downside there is you're taking up space that you might want to use at some point in the future for a field or and a building edition or so there's there's definitely pros and cons with all of it. Yeah. >> Okay. So let's look at the summary for Oaknull Early Childhood. Um this is an estimate. We started um looking at your buildings with the district just
027maybe not even two weeks ago. Uh but we did um we have some of the information the district sent us the utility bills and through Google Earth. Uh we could take some really nice pictures and do a preliminary heliocope layout which is what you're looking at here. Um so the system size estimated system size um at Oaknull is 177 kilowatts and you can see how the financials would shake out. So an initial investment of a million $36,000. Um then you have the utility rebate which is uh paid to you directly from KMED and that's depending on the system size. So at this system size that's estimated to be a $44,000 rebate direct to the district. Um then the plan would be to sell the renewable energy credits. The district would sell them. Um there's a
028program with Illinois called Illinois Shines. They will pay you for the green energy that you produce. Um it's a good portion of the project as you can see here. Um at this system capacity will be $38,000 and 157. Um and then if we can achieve the ITC and get in under those dates that is a 40% investment tax credit uh direct pay from the treasury to the district um 40% basically of the total project cost. So that is that $414,000 for a net system cost to the district for this building of $269 $263. Um and then in addition to that, you do have the annual energy savings that you will generate every year. >> And do those credits do they come back over a period of years or is it uh within the first year
029or two? What's the time frame? >> No. So they used to be paid um over a 5year period. uh like when Troy and Olympia got in. Um now it's a 20-year period. So you would get the 400 sorry the $38,000 divided by 20 years and you pretty much know what amount you'll get per year. >> Yeah. >> And the the 40% that you get that when the project is complete, right? >> Um yeah. So the following April after project completion, um you would apply kind of like when you file your taxes, your personal taxes, even though the school is not a taxable entity. the following April, you would apply >> that at that point in time, you get that entire total back. Correct. >> Yeah. You get the whole amount and we would help with
030all that. So, uh not only are we doing this all over the place, we also have folks in Washington. Uh we have a big internal government affairs team there as well as outside uh government affairs folks that are watching this stuff on a daily basis. So, we get the latest and greatest every day. So, we'll make sure all the paperwork's done properly and uh all that is uh uh done correctly. So, you make sure you get that. >> Yeah. And and really just keep you apprised. I mean, we might get an email in two days with uh Treasury decision regarding right the safe harbor is the thing that is has not been decided on, right? There's some decisions that were made with the dates. Uh but what does beginning construction mean? Uh we're still holding
031on to the old safe harbor rules and that's that could come out in two days, two weeks or two months. Um but we I mean obviously we will let you know. >> I've got a couple questions here. Um >> so this 177 kilowatt that that relates to the number of plates up on the roof. Okay. And you're pulling in energy from the sun and storing it in batteries on the roof. I mean how does the flow of energy go here? Yeah. No. Uh we are not including any batteries in these systems. >> So I guess you're taking energy from the sun. It's hitting those plates. >> It's instantaneous. Okay. The building will use the power instantaneously >> and the bu So the building then gets power from those plates. Yes. >> And the excess is
032what we sell off. >> You would do net metering in Illinois. Some states have different rules. In Illinois, any excess energy um goes to net metering. So, come will pay you, >> okay, >> for some of that. They'll give you actually they won't pay you, I should say, they will give you some credits towards your electric bills. >> Okay. So, the the 44,000 utility rebate from com Edison is okay. That is going to be instantaneous or is that over? >> Yeah, you get that all at once. Yeah, that's like a >> um REC, what does that stand for? the >> renewable renewable energy credit. >> Okay. And that's over the 20 years. >> Yeah. >> Okay. And then uh what is ITC Illinois? >> No, it's investment tax credit. >> Okay. Okay. >> So that's
033new the since 2022. The tax exempt entities like yourself didn't have that offered to them. >> Okay. >> And that was a part of the inflation reduction act that was passed back in 2022. >> Okay. So that allows someone like yourself, a taxexempt entity, to get a direct payment from the IRS. Um, which has been a complete game changer for making these projects work because as Diana said, for us as a taxable public company, we a we pay more for uh that when we borrow money, we pay more than you guys do. Uh we also have to pay sales tax on all the equipment. Um, so the rate that we would offer you through a power purchase agreement would be more than uh you doing it uh like we're showing now. >> So if we
034were to get all the money that's in red here, okay, >> it would cost the district $269,000 to put this equipment up on our roof. >> Right. Over the life cycle of >> over Well, okay. >> Yeah. Well, not really because there's maintenance every year and stuff which it's minimal minimal maintenance. >> And then in the first year that building is going to save $21,000. >> Yep. On the electric bill. >> So in 11 years, just on the roughly in 11 years, we've um paid off the investment of the hardware that's sitting up on the roof. >> Yeah. And I think uh industry knowledge just in general across the country is utility rates are going to continue to go up. >> Um so if you actually take escalation into that, it gets even better. Um
035and the nice thing is and and just want to go back a little bit, you always want to size to as close to your load, your electricity load as you can because what KMED does pay you for any excess generation is not a lot. So that's why you really want to rightsize the installation to what your load is for your building. >> Okay. >> Um so that really is a critical factor in making this all work. Um but the nice thing is for the next 20 to 30 years you're going to have certainty on at least that portion of the load of the buildings that you're looking at doing this at. >> I guess I just worry about um anything that may be coming out of Washington that that's going to be here tomorrow. >>
036Sure. No. And that's >> Yeah. And that's why I mean there's there's these dates that's that that we're all tracking and that's >> um believe me, we're it's like a mad rush right now. We're >> uh customers we've been talking to for years are now going, "Hey, let's look at this." We go, "We should have talked about this three years ago, but um better late than never." And I mean, the window is still there to do this. >> U but you just don't want to wait too long because um things could tighten up a little bit. But uh right now you guys are in a good position if you make a decision to move forward that we we're certain we can get this done for you and uh we're the right folks to do it.
037We feel just because of our breadth of experience and just the horsepower we have as a company uh versus others in the space. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um couple other notes that are not on the slide. Um so we did max out the size um at the school. So the 177 kW would provide 100% of the electricity at Oatnol. Um, and we don't normally do don't max it out that way because like Steve said, net metering will not pay you. It's not worth it to sell the power back to Comet. Um, but we wanted to show you what the maximum size was. And then depending on what energy efficiency projects you may be planning to do at Oakgall like um big stuff HVAC lighting anything that could have an impact on the
038energy usage um we may recommend that we size the system down a little bit to like a 90%. Um but anyways >> yeah and that's what we always try and do is look comprehensively at the facility. What do we what can we do just from a demand side? How can we just make your building more efficient? uh because that saves a money with the bu the building that way, but also it's a smaller investment for the solar. Um so a lot of times we really focus in even a lot of buildings we can reduce it 20 30%. So that's 20 to 30% less solar that you have to uh to worry about. >> Y and then the other thing is talking about your um like break even point. Um as you can see here you
039will be cash flow positive in year 15. So that's because of the energy savings that you'll be getting every year. You don't even have to wait till the 20-year mark. So in year 15, you will be cash flow positive and you'll still be getting the checks for the Rex. So that's where you'll be sort of making money, right? And then once your solar's paid for, um, your supply will be free. Right now, Steve and I are not the engineers at the company, just so you know. So, if you guys are interested in going to the next step and whatever that may look like, uh, we would probably bring our actual solar experts that do all the math. Um, and we have cash flow tables and we can show how we came up with all of
040these calculations. All right, you guys want to talk about Brier Gate? >> All right, same kind of thing here. a little bit of a bigger system with 205 kW. As you can see there, we do the layout around any HVAC equipment or exhaust fans that you may have up on the roof. You also do have to be so many feet away from the edges uh from safety a safety perspective. We take into account um shade into the model. You can see here that big tree does have a shade effect. We take all that into account with the position of the sun when we calculate how much we think the panels >> will produce. >> We also take into account like snow cover uh depending on the part of the country where we're doing it. We
041don't have to worry about that in Arizona but uh here and we've done a lot of up in the northeast from Minnesota um there. So you we all always take into account uh snow cover and even things like that. >> Yep. So that is all part of the model. So the numbers were showing you and we tend to be conservative because we would rather deliver higher savings and a better cash flow than the other way around. Um so yeah, so speaking of snow cover, will these be affected like say we have a really heavy snow and these like you know when you're gets on your satellite your satellite doesn't work anymore. Are these panels affected at all by snow cover? >> No, it'll melt. >> It'll melt. Okay. And because they're they're built they're put
042installed at an angle. >> Okay. >> So you you'll have snow slide. Yeah, >> thank you. >> Um, all right. So, same kind of table, right? With the same u percentages and calculations. This project would be at Briergate would be an initial investment of roughly 1.1 million. Then you have the comment rebate for 51,000 and some change. The renewable energy credits would yield 30 almost $61,000. that 40% ITC would be 468,800 for a net system cost of 290. And then the first year energy savings are a little bit bigger here at 25,380. Yep. All right. And same thing with Kerry Junior High. This is the bigger building. Um, so this one could yield um really the best financials on a dollar per watt just because the bigger the system, the better the financials are because
043the cost goes down. Um, but Carrie is is not going to have any roof right until next summer. And so this one we'll have to see if we can make it work with the deadlines. Uh, but uh, system size here will be 720 kilowatts, initial investment of 3.1 million. uh utility rebate of about 180. Sell the renewable energy credit which will yield almost a million dollars just based on that system size and how much more it can produce than the other systems. This one's a lot bigger. That 40% ITC or 1.2 million and the net cost ends up at 720 with energy savings of 88,000. And I know I don't have to read that to you because you're looking at it, but I figured I would give you time to process. Um, and in case
044you had any questions. >> Yeah. The other thing I want to make sure point out is we uh we don't self-perform when we're doing this. So, the nice thing about that and a lot of districts and I know around Illinois love it because we used to work with local partners from your community uh wherever possible to help with the the project. So whether it's a electrical contractor that has been supportive of the district um and if they aren't necessarily trained on doing it, we can work on that. Um so there's some different things from a um from a implementation standpoint that we really uh know are important to our district partners and that's trying to really engage the community um at least with the opportunity to potentially be a part of the project that uh
045we would if we were fortunate enough to work with you. um that we make sure we try and make that happen. >> All right. So, now for the fun date stuff with the big beautiful bill. Um there's a lot of information on this slide. Um we're just going to focus on two things. Um the first deadline coming up is on 1231 2025. Um if you start construction before the end of this year, we will not be held to the fiak requirements. that is the foreign entity of concern rules. What that really means is they don't want us using a lot of Chinese panels or inverters in the projects going forward. Um and so that kicks in on January 1, 2026. Any solar project that starts construction after January 1st will be held to this new
046fiat requirements. uh which really just makes it more difficult for the developers because we have to find suppliers and manufacturers that we can hit that domestic content with. We do have them so it is possible. Um but the benefit of trying to do a project by the end of starting construction by the end of 2025 would be um we already have some inventory that we could potentially use for one of your schools. We don't have enough for L3 and really we don't even have enough for Carrie, but Carrie doesn't even have a new roof, so that's fine. Um, Oaknull and Briergate, we we do have inventory. Um, it's just cutting it really close. Um, it takes one month to design and then it takes three months to hear back from KMED on the interconnection application
047where they tell you that yes, you're good to build. So that's four months. Safe harbor right now means um if you guys pay for 5% of the project by then and we ordered all the material which is safe enough to do but that's the one thing that could change in the next few weeks or months um is the guidance on what does starting construction mean. So um that is the first deadline. the more likely deadline that we can meet and not feel um like there's so much at risk with not getting the ITC is that July 4th, 2026 date. Um yes, there's some hoops for us to jump through as a developer, but we do have the manufacturing partnerships to achieve that. Um and we just have more time. So I do have another slide
048with a timeline we'll talk about. um that's more likely. I don't know if anybody else has any questions on that. Um the next slide is just a graphic of those same deadlines. Um so unless you have any questions about that, I will go to the >> I have a quick question because I'm looking at that slide. It says there's another energy credit for energy storage and we talked about the fact that battery storage was not in the project. Is there a reason battery storage is in the project or are the credits just not worth it? Can you just talk about that a little bit? >> Um, yes. I mean, not in a lot of detail, but I know that it didn't financially make a lot of sense. So, if it's going to add a lot
049of cost and you won't be able to get a lot of savings, uh, we tend not to put it in front of you just because it doesn't financially make sense. with battery. It's more just um helping store obviously any excess capacity or a lot of we're doing a lot of like micro grids for resiliency as backup for like key facilities. So we're doing a lot with military bases for example which and not even for the entire base but just for their critical loads. Um so it's more of a belt and suspenders the battery. Um we're doing it a lot these days where people have already done solar and now want to have some some capacity control. So um but yeah there's not really a lot of the payback's not great. People do battery more for
050other reasons >> like salency. >> Yeah. >> For people who actually don't go down all that often right we're doing a lot with health care right now. Um, some of the biggest health care systems in the country are our clients. Kaiser Permanente is one of them out in the west coast. Um, so we've been doing solar with them for 10 15 years and now we're going back and doing battery because they want resiliency for healthc care facilities obviously critical facilities. So that's the reason for them doing it. >> Um, also that 179D tax deduction did get repealed. So, if you guys did any energy efficiency projects this year, um, make sure to apply for that tax credit by June 30th next year. >> I do have a quick question. So, if the project started after
051December 31st of this year, you may be subject to the fiak. >> So, the sourcing of So, you can't use Chinese-based panels or any material. >> We can only use a certain percentage. >> Oh, a certain percentage >> of Chinese equipment. And so if you have to source it elsewhere, is the cost likely to go up or is inventory going to be scarce? >> Possibly. >> You know, there's always potential obviously because there's going to be more demand for domestic or non-Chinese content. >> Yeah. Um luckily going back seven years when there were there was an initial tariff stuff back in 2017 um there was a lot of domestic uh folks setting up for manufacturing in the United States with solar couple big plants. So at least now there's more capacity than there was five
0526 years ago. Uh but there's still going to be a a demand which might increase cost. Um but then then you might not have more people might not be doing projects. I mean so you just got to we got to see how the market how it abs and flows here. >> Are they comparable costs now? Are they compared to the Chinese >> domestic is a little bit more expensive. >> It's a little more expensive but we only use first tier solar suppliers. Um the challenge over the last 5 to 10 years, especially in Illinois when they when it became like a solar gold rush. Um you had a lot of small developers working out of their garage um who are overpromising and underdeling. Uh Huntley School District was one of them that we helped clean
053up. Uh and they also put in second third tier panels. We don't have the the same quality or length of of service. And just us as a top tier developer, we're not going to do that. So, um, whatever we would do for you, it would be just the top-of-the-line technology. We're not going to cut corners, >> right? And you will not be, um, drilling into the roof, right? >> It's ballasted. >> That's what I thought. Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um, and that way, going back to the maintenance question, so since they aren't drilled into the roof, you can move those. They're ballasted just because of wind shear. So, we want to make sure there's enough weight to that they don't blow off the roof. >> Is there reflection off these panels? And do
054we as a district defer changing the appearance of our building? Do we have to hold public um meetings? >> I I don't believe we would have to hold a public meeting uh in this instant. Um, if you think about some of the renovations we're currently doing or have done, it does >> issue. >> It's not a zoning issue. Um, I'm I'm thinking just in light of at Brigate, I believe we're doing some work on the the fascia with the the roof over there, which would alter the uh the appearance of the building ever so subtly. Um, I don't we would not be required to hold a a hearing for that. >> I was just kind of worried like if there's reflection and it's a very sunny day, >> no. people going to get this in
055their house? >> Yes. >> No, not not from this type of install where we have had where we we've done some big airport uh we're doing Phoenix airport 20 megawatts of solar on the terminals. We just did Minneapolis St. Paul airport. So all those uh that solar on those terminals um are ours and that uh when we do it at airports we go through a lot of hurdles with the FAA. So that is that's the one place where reflection is a big deal. And so there's a couple extra steps that we have to jump through at the airports. But >> I just didn't want our district to find ourselves like a uh crystal south issue that went on for a while. >> You know, the one issue where we've seen uh community push back is
056with ground mount away from the facilities near homes. Um, it's more of just aesthetics that some people have pushed back on, but if you're it's on your roof, they won't even see it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. Um, another risk, Bridget, the question that you had for next year are the tariffs. So, there's it's a little bit more risky going into 2026. Just a few notes. Yeah. Um, okay. So then this is an estimated project timeline for the Kerry schools that we looked at. Um, we're going for that July 4th, 2026 um, deadline. It just seems more doable, less risky for you guys to make sure that you can get that ITC and not miss it by a few days. So, um, we put an October 15th, um, possible date for a notice to
057proceed and then we could start design with that. Um, while a contract is signed, um, we could start doing some of those things. Um, after design is completed, we can do the interconnection application with KMED. That takes 3 months, like I said, to have that approved normally. Um but then we could start construction at Briergate and Oaknull um around May 30th of 2026. Energize those systems by September 30th. So I believe that is four months. June, July, August, September. Yep. And then Carrie um if the safe harbor rules change. Right now this is assuming that we could start carry August 1st um after the new roof is installed. But if the safe harbor changes and they want physical construction before July 4th, I don't think the roof will be done and so then Carrie may
058not qualify at that point. >> I mean that's really all we have. >> Yeah, the KMED thing is important. They're a key player in all this. Um luckily because we've done so much locally, not just with solar but with all kinds of different types of projects. So we have great relationships with KMED up to the senior leadership. So we can a lot of times exedite where others cannot. So um just another thing to that that we're always focused on. >> All right. So that's all we had. We like to open it up for any other questions. Thank you for asking questions as we were going. I just realized David that we did talk for 40 minutes which I didn't think we could. Um >> we didn't hear the gone. Yeah. >> Oh, thank you. Yeah.
059>> No, a lot of good questions and again they're important things to think about and just >> uh Yeah, >> I have one more thought for Julie. Um what we have seen other districts do is just reach out to the village. They do want to know even though they don't have jurisdiction, they like to know. Um >> it's just a funny thing. So, >> you know, I just >> you you get it. uh you know our we have neighborhood school these are all neighborhood schools and I guess um you know I can see somebody's always not going to like what you're doing >> and I guess I would like to head off you know angry neighbors or something you know we just try we've always tried to be good neighbors and um >> I don't
060know that's something we probably have to talk about you know but >> and we're happy to do community outreach events we've done that with all kinds of projects from the city of Chicago on down to small school districts. Uh just educating people on because oh there's just a lot of the unknowns that people maybe don't know about and so just kind of giving them the details of the project and how it's going to not really impact them and all the benefits. Uh just as a outside expert we're happy to be part of those discussions uh as needed. >> I appreciate the answering our questions. >> I have a few questions if I could. So what is um the warranty on your particular uh what you're proposing here today? >> Um so we have as MRSCO
061a one-year workmanship labor if there was something wrong with the installation or anything we did. Um beyond that there's a 10-year warranty on the inverters and then there's a 20-year warranty on the panels. Okay. >> So, even though the panels, like David said, will last most likely up to 30 years, um it does come with at least a 20-year warranty >> um on the panels. >> Okay. And the inverter usually is 10 to 15 years. So, it's going to go right as soon as that 10 years is over. >> Yes. >> Hopefully not, but you it's like your car, right? Just your the warranty goes on things break >> and then um disposal of those inverters, etc. How in the lifetime of the panels themselves, how are those disposed of? Whose responsibility is that? An
062estimated cost of disposal of those? >> Yeah. So, it depends on who owns it, right? So, when we own it and we're selling you the power through PPA, that's all on us. >> Um, that would if you guys own the system, that would be on that would be on you. >> Okay. So >> now what we you could or if you didn't if you didn't want to have that risk, you could set it up as part of our agreement to where we would have that at some point in the future to do that. Um but we don't we don't push it. We don't require it just like we don't require to do the on andm um you guys can we can do it for you. Um and that's a yearly service fee. >> Um or
063we don't have to. We could find someone to do a third party that's not us. Um >> so just set it up a couple of different ways. So, like just I'm not going to hold you to anything because the cost of everything changes year-over-year and we're talking 30 years down the road, >> but just off the top of your head, what is the normal cost? Like if you were the one doing it, what would be the normal cost to dispose of those? And just how are they disposed of? Like I'm just curious like >> yeah, >> how they definitely have to be environmentally uh there's disposed of. So, we do we deal with that a lot with street lights as well. Um, where that technology has to be recycled properly. Um, so there's companies out
064there that do that because they want the they want the materials whether it's the copper or whatever. So, um, it's not as much as you would think just given >> don't answer to that. So, I will find out >> but let's find out for sure because I don't that's a good question, >> right? Back to >> Yeah, our team will know. I Diane and I do not just because >> Okay. >> Thank you tonight. So, >> okay. I appreciate it. So, just by running the numbers uh here on paper, it looks like 55,370,000 would be the district's upfront cost for these three buildings, of which $275,387 would be an automatic utility rebate. And after the April after it's finished, we could file with the IRS and get a treasurer treasury refund of $2,148,000. So that
065will leave a balance of $2,946,613. That would be spread out over 20 years, correct? Because that would be the sunshine, the Illinois >> directs. Yeah. Okay. >> And that's a state of Illinois program. So that's safer. In fact, they're saying Pritskar might increase the price of the Rex because of the ITC going away. So Illinois is sort of like a state haven, but Illinois is for renewable energy >> in the best financial. >> Yeah. >> No, that's so I mean >> I live in Chicago. So you I have a double whammy. So um but yeah, no, it's I mean that's always risk, right? That the state um but it is it is what it is, right? You guys are you live here so you know. So, I'm just trying to wrap my head around what
066really our upfront cost is because that's almost $3 million um that we wouldn't really see a return on for. >> So, the only thing missing would be the um the energy savings, right? I only provided the year one energy savings. We have a whole cash flow spreadsheet that even if you just do the 21,000 that you have at Oaknull in energy savings, right, times 20 years. So, >> and typically typically and people think it's going to be much higher um than that, but typically we use a 3% escalator. >> Okay. um just to over time. Um but they're saying, you know, depending on the part of the country you live, it could be 10 12% a year just as a lot of these mature assets like our nuclear plants here in Illinois kind of get
067moth balled or um if if that continues to to have stress on it. So >> Okay. And all these estimations were based on 100% usage on our end. is correct. >> For the two for Oaknol and Brier Gates. >> Okay. >> I don't think I told you guys that for um Carrie, we could only fit 63% Okay. Um of the electricity being used. >> Okay. So, that's the offset. Thank you. Um, how do you put cameras up there to monitor these um you know or do we have to once a month once a month take a drone to see how they're going or something because >> uh we're we're using drones a lot uh for that as well as many other things. No, what we do is we actually have a dashboard system to track
068the performance. >> Okay. Okay. And that's something you guys can get um and just so that you can see real time. So that's how we determine if there's issues because we're watching that and then if we see a dip in uh production, we know there's an issue and then we can go out and find the specific issue. >> Okay. Okay. I >> So there's technologies used not necessarily cameras. Now, we have put in cameras and we've done some solar in some pretty rough neighborhoods uh across the fruited plane. And so, we have some solar more from a security standpoint, but not for production. >> Okay. >> You might get some some hoodlams throwing rocks once in a while at a panel. Um so, we've dealt with some of that, but not up in this beautiful
069part of the world. >> We have our share. >> No, they're really um low maintenance though. Okay. >> Your question, how do you know they're doing okay? you know, whereas we've done >> whereas we've done wind turbine projects which um including with a few school districts and those are a maintenance nightmare >> just because it's like a very complex machine. It's like a complex, you know, your car things are always going wrong. Um and it's just those are very expensive to maintain. And so that's why we really don't do many wind turbines anymore just because um a they're a big eyesore for a lot of folks in communities. don't like them. Um, and just solar is just you install them and they just do their thing. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. Anything else? Great
070questions. >> You guys brought your game tonight. >> Thank you very much. >> Yeah. Well, we appreciate the opportunity and again, we'll get back to you on that one specific question. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> And then if there's anything else, David, uh let us know what uh what you need and appreciate the opportunity to be considered. >> Absolutely. And thank you for coming out tonight and providing us with this information. It was very helpful. >> Absolutely. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Okay. Next up, we have the electric bikes and electric scooters. Mrs. Jetty. >> Yes. I asked um Mrs. Darling to put this on uh the agenda. I I guess I am kind of concerned about the um prolific use of mostly the scooters, the motorized scooters by seems like
071the starting with like the junior high age around town. Um there's been many letters to the editor in the local paper on Facebook about you know um people being bothered by you don't hear them coming up by you and you're walking and um I see every morning at and when it was nice weather at the end of school I was looking out my front window and three young boys came right down my street middle of the street never paying attention to cars or anything on scooters. And I think it's just a matter of time before there's um you know some issue because also when they're on the pass they never stop at the stop signs and I just want to protect ourselves um from students getting hurt with them. Um and so I talked with
072with Mrs. darling and she had already noticed that um district 54 has a policy on it and um and I just wanted to know what my fellow board members think. I agree, Julie. I mean I I feel like um especially on school grounds um it looks like for most of this and I I believe Chief Finland provided this information correct >> from the Kerry Police Department. Um, if you look at all of these, the bikes, you must be 16 years or older, which none of our students are. >> Um, even the scooters, uh, must be 18 years or older. >> Uh, Shamberg doesn't per se have a policy. Theirs is just on their website and just kind of letting people know that, you know, due to safety concerns, they're not allowed on school grounds. Um,
073I've just seen too many it things lately with very fatal fight for life being called because nobody's riding these with helmets. Even adults are being killed on these. Um, so I can understand your concern. Yeah, I think the scooter is probably the most um thing that we will probably brought to schools, but um you know um I I don't mean to seem like the uh get off my lawn type of person, but I just I just think that some of these there could be some accidents happening on our property. >> And honestly, I'm happy to be the the get off my lawn voice from the younger generation. I hate them. I will not let my kids on them. I am very vocal about them. I think they're dangerous. I think that no one is wearing
074the proper safety equipment and that they are really dangerous between the walking paths and the cars. No one's looking. >> Oh, yeah. >> I So, I'm happy to take the get off my lawn position. I think they're very scary. I think they create a lot of liability for the school and they also create this problem for parents like me who are the I hate the scooters and then kids at school with the scooter. My kids getting on one because I'm not there to stop them. >> Yeah. Yeah. Uh because someone else wrote it and I get I I'm happy to sound even angrier than you are about them because I really have strong feelings about them. So I uh was happy to see it on the agenda and I would also be in consideration of
075a policy that says we don't allow them on school grounds. I think they are dangerous. >> And do we ha I mean there is nothing in press at this point. I don't know if Dr. Thomas if we is this a press issue that they should have something or >> it it isn't at this point. Um we didn't reach out to press specifically but of course we also looked at press to see if there was anything there wasn't. We did reach out to the Mckenry County districts. Nobody in the county has any kind of policy or procedure really around those uh from the districts we heard from which was most of them. Um I did talk to uh the administration at the junior high and at Deer Path. They do have students really more using the
076bikes rather than the scooters. Oh. >> Um and they have quite a few um they said they've had zero issues in terms of discipline, students using them incorrectly or dangerously or things like that. Protective equipment aside, they didn't talk about that. They did, given the lack of issues they're having with them at this point, they did talk about how would we police this? how would we um you know you'd literally have to have somebody out there watching the paths every single day to say you can't come on the property which they thought would be extremely difficult and we also did talk to Chief Finland about okay if we put something in place that says you can't have them what happens and is there any um support or enforcement or things like that and they said
077that's all in the school district that the police will not if we put a rule about that they do not do any um intervention or any interference or uh any of that the only thing that they do is if somebody is trespassing and we have it marked that they can't trespass, they can certainly address that issue, which they have. Um, but they're really there would be um no support from the police because this is out of their jurisdiction. >> I I kind of thought that um and I don't want to make this harder on our principles. I don't mean that they should be out there, you know, being a stop watchdog or anything, but I I think that if we had, you know, a policy on it that people would just get used to it
078and walk to school or ride their non-motorized, you know, >> I think the concern that the junior high raised is they have so many students using them without issue that to tell them now, oh, they can't use it, they think there'd be a lot more um uh angry upset parents about that because so many of the students who come to this particular campus and deer path are walkers. So they don't have a bus option or anything like that. And if parents don't drive them and they live in the neighborhood back there, it's a little bit of a hike. It's, you know, certainly within the boundaries to be a walker, but that was just a an expedient way for the kids to get here. Um, so I, you know, I understand the safety issues, too. I
079do think from the perspective of being able to, um, manage it, it will be difficult. Um, and I've only talked I only talked to the two uh administrations up here. I didn't I haven't talked to the other schools. I doubt that we have anybody at Oaknull using them, but um we certainly could check with Briergate and three Oaks 2 and see what their usage seems to be and if there have been any issues. I haven't I didn't check that out yet. >> Okay. >> Well, I I for one have no feelings um either way about this. Um, however, I guess I would like to see that the district somehow not be liable for I don't know van, um, any kind of stolen property, batteries, um, in the lithium or whatever. I don't know how they're
080run. I think they're unrechargeable batteries. Um, any of those of those things. And actually I looked into this and I think it was Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Harvard they don't ban them at their and we're talking universities so everyone would be old enough they don't ban them um but they have a lot of rules around um storing them and such because of that issue with the batteries. Um, I don't know. You're not old enough to I mean the kid if the kid is going to what is going to come up in in a convertible next? I don't know. Because you're just not old enough to drive some of some of these. >> Why wouldn't the police be willing to
081issue tickets? Because everyone at our school would be underage for all of these. >> Isn't the It depends on the type of bike. So it's only the like level three the class three of the bikes that is uh for ages I think 16 and above. So and I think that's what we see most of uh are the bikes and so you can be younger if you're in a class one or class two. They don't have those same age limits on the bikes. >> Are you talking about the electric bikes? There's class one and >> right in the um information right in the information in the packet it talks about the different classes of the types of bicycles. It does say on the scooters, which I did not know, that the uh there is an age
082restriction of 18. Um so I and again I don't know what the actual usage is, how many scooters are coming on our property or if they're motorized or not on our property that I'm not sure of. >> Are they're still able to drive manual bikes and manual school deers, too? Ones that don't have mother. Correct. Okay. Sorry. >> And we have lots of bikes at least. We have lots of those too. Um, >> Dr. Thomas, I have a question. Would it be like um something I don't know, maybe to put in like I I guess like a code of conduct or something like if you are causing problems on your scooter cuz like I could see kids at here at the junior high riding their bikes, I don't think we can take that away from
083them. Um, but if like a kid like is there a way to put like if a kid is causing a problem with a scooter then this is the what you do? Um, cuz I don't I don't even see kids going to our school on a scooter cuz how many scooters got stolen from the pool over the summer cuz you just slip those bike locks off. Um, and I I get it. Kids are dangerous on scooters, but mine ride an electric scooter with all the right equipment and they're not allowed to take them in public just cuz they'll get stolen. So, I I don't know. I feel like we should protect the bikes, but I don't see scooters as being a bigger problem if that makes sense. Because they just get stolen everywhere all over town.
084>> Yeah. I mean it there could be disciplinary action for for anything that students do that is uh not in alignment with the the discipline code that code that we have. There could certainly be something directly about the bikes or scooters if they're used inappropriately. But we do have just kind of catch all things that if somebody is doing something inappropriate that that would be covered. Um but also another avenue we could look at if the board was um interested in that. But again, I feel like we definitely would want to get some more input and information um from all of the buildings to find out what the usage is and issues are and things like that. >> Okay. Yeah. there. I do have concern about the safety of when when they will be used
085and that will be before and after school, when people are getting picked up, when there's buses, when there's many kids on the sidewalks, um, and they're to be used on the sidewalks. That's my understanding. So, um I don't know what we can do as far as parenting because that's really not up to us. But, um certainly there would be an increase in accidents or something that kind of thing when you have a lot of people around, school buses around, parking lots are full, people are I don't know. We we don't I don't think we have any kind of specific policy on where bikes need to be stationed e either, but we would if if it were to be allowed, we'd have to consider um having somewhere designated to have these. Of course, not having anybody
086patrolling them and having that be known as well because our district is not going to police the um protect everybody's electric scooters. >> I mean, for me, I think the bare minimum the district could do is at least at, you know, when you're coming back to junior high or you're doing an assembly, we could have some sort of safety like reminder. Could you at least, you know, wear your helmet, look, look and listen. All the things we do for motorcycles and other educational things we do. It would be really nice at least to, I don't know, address it before we're doing it in response to someone having been seriously injured. Like, at least to, and I know everyone's talking about it, but I also know we live in this community and we see kids not
087doing what we're talking about all the time when it pertains to these scooters. You know, you can pop on Facebook on any half day and you will see a hundred angry parents about what's going on in the Jewel parking lot or over at Starbucks with the kids on their scooters. They are scary. I'm I'm obviously happy to take the voice of they're terrifying and I hate them. Um, but policy-wise, what can we do? I'm not I agree with you. I don't know that we can police everything, but we can discourage if that is the will of the board or we can educate on safety. I think those are our two choices. >> I agree. Like my concern isn't with kids riding the scooters and the bikes. Like however they need to get to school, they're
088coming to school every day. Um whatever works for their family works. Mine is the fact of helmets. It's a big difference. Crashing your bike, going 5 miles an hour pedaling a bike and going 20 to 28 m an hour riding an electric bike and hitting a car on your way. Um so for me it's the it's the helmet um aspect of it. And um I don't know, do we have anything in place for students when they ride their normal bikes like to wear a helmet? There's nothing in place. Um so what would be the liability of the district if somebody was coming out of the parking lot on their electric bike and somebody didn't see them and made a right on Three Oaks right in front of a kid and they smashed into it on
089our property? I'm going to have to give you the um attorney response of it depends on what the the situation is. I can I can tell you that we've had stuff occur after hours uh with motorized bikes uh where people have been injured on our property. Um and we have not been liable because clearly we're not supposed to have people on our property after hours. Um, we have not had any issues, knock on wood, with uh um these type of devices during the the school day. Um, I I think it it just speaks to the the need for education. Um, I have seen and I know this to be true because I ran this course in my previous district where we had a bike safety course for your junior high uh students before they could
090even ride uh their bike to school um regular bike even. you had to go through this course where we talked about proper helmets uh proper rules of how to ride um knowing that there's other things around you. Uh so there I look at this as an educational issue uh knowing that uh we don't have many problems but that there's nothing wrong with really promoting the safety aspect of it. >> Yeah. And I I would like us to be uh proactive versus reactive when something happens, you know. Um, I just know in my day it was skateboards and I was a menace. So, I know how I know how it is now with these. If I had something that could go 25 miles an hour, I'd be all over it. Um, I just want I just
091want everybody to be safe. That's it. that's, you know, if they're being safe, that's fine, but I think having those having those safety tips for them and kind of stressing the importance of wearing a helmet on something that travels that fast with such an impact is important. >> And and it can be something as simple too to reach the whole district where we have our communications specialist uh create some sort of safety video to to blast out on our social media pages. Okay, Julie, you can reenact the ones. >> I'm not gonna be the person backing out of my driveway that >> But D, I'm glad you brought up skateboards because we do specifically not allow skateboarding. We don't allow roller skating and rollerblading. And those are far, in my opinion, far less dangerous than
092these electronic scooters. and and we're specifically a district PE preK through 8th. Um I I think at that point we kind of if we say well we're going to we're we're going to allow electron electric scooters, but we're still not going to allow skateboarding. That's a way that kids are getting to and from school. Um roller skating, rollerblading, I don't know. It's It's kind of like a can of worms thing. >> Well, I assume skateboard I'm kind of hearing what Miss Rivera is whispering, but I'm assuming the skateboard and the roller skating band would have come from like we don't want people grinding on the benches out there and destroying the property. And >> I live through the '9s, too. I remember those. I couldn't do them, but I remember it. Um >> my legs.
093>> And I don't know that you do those things with the electric bikes and scooters cuz they're heavy. And so I'm assuming nobody is grinding a rail on on one of those. >> I would I I like what Dr. Thomas had to say. I kind of looked at the policies too and like where they would something like this would go maybe. But I do like um the idea of hearing from the different buildings. Um also where these would go, how that that would be handled if there were how many there are. Um even from the different PTO's or anything like that. and any kind of community input would be good as well on what people are thinking, but definitely from the building leadership. Do you think it's a good question for the attorney though based
094on what Miss Salt's saying of do we need a post out there that says we don't monitor the bike rack. So if you're locking your electronic your e scooter out there, your ebike out there, that is at your own risk. That is clearly more expensive than locking a regular bike out there. But it's just a question. So, that is something that we have considered increasing signage uh throughout our district property. Um, as of as of now, we we we've made clear with other items that we're not responsible for any lost or damaged personal items, but uh with the advent of the motorized bikes, um we have been uh um thinking that we're going to increase the signage that you'll see throughout the district. >> Signs say we're not responsible. NPS, wear your helmet because that
095I would not be opposed. We can definitely bring that to the admin to the administrative team, gather some more information and then talk about do we put in place a safety course, a curriculum of some sort uh that could be done at the schools and whether that's done at the schools or through social media. We'd be happy to look at all of that. >> Okay, I'm that sounds like a good plan. >> All right. Um, next item we have is the review of the HYA letter of agreement to conduct the new superintendent search. This is just the formal um, the board agreed that HYA would be the firm that we would be going with. This is just the letter of agreement. Uh, had them put everything into writing here for us. Um, and I hope
096everyone had a chance to look it over. It's literally everything that was in the attachment last week. Um, but I'd like to bring this to the next board meeting for approval. And they are going to actually start the process next at the next meeting at the regular board meeting. So everything look good to everybody? >> D would that be in section 8? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. And were there any questions for that other than that? Okay. Hearing none. Uh, may I have a motion to adjurnn the meeting? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Yes. >> Meeting adjourns at 7:15 p.m. Have a good night, everyone. >> Thank you.