001let's get started hereby call us meeting to order roll call please Brown is here Mrs Galbraith here Dr Hall here Mr sawales here Mrs Walters vice president Rue here president Albert here please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all in this room could you please recite our mission statement is to empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new future thank you Cheryl do we have any public comment tonight okay next up is board updates any board members have any updates I have two that's all right okay so I just want to let everybody know that on February 24th
002Mr hollifield put together the Crete money uh present High School presents the African-American experience through song and dance and I will tell you it was pretty the kids were awesome so they invited he invited uh the concert choir show choir um and then the show choir Tempo they had the broadcasting class uh the Warrior dance team they had so apparently there we have roughly over 1400 students Plus in the high school and every one of them had the right I Have a Dream speech they took the top three and they came that night and periodically they read their speeches so it was really good but I will tell you the highlight if there was one was at the end the warrior jazz band if you haven't seen them Blown Away they did four songs and
003the students were phenomenal so I didn't really catch it until the end you know knowing that this was you know that we had the opportunity to see it and my daughter was fortunately you know she's in show choir so I was able to go I'm telling you right now if he does this next year you guys should go it was the kids were awesome that's great so it was really good um the only last thing I have because I know uh you know I'm my daughter's in show choir but our show choir team is going down and doing their last competition Saturday but up until this point we have a couple seniors and I don't know if anybody knows it but so we competed this last Saturday and we have a senior named Chris Smith
004that literally has won the solo competition in all four of the competitions he was the best solo soloist throughout the entire competition of all the teams so he's four for four and the crazy thing is in this uh last weekend he changed the song normally you do it the entire year to get better he changed the song and then we had out of the top four that were picked Creek money had three so Chris Smith is a senior and he is moving on and doing uh theater and Elena Houston is uh a senior in her and winter Brooks took second place it was amazing that's great again another facet of our district that is just the kids are so amazing I don't think I'd also like to add that we had the privilege and honor
005it was Dr Hall Mrs rupe and Dr Cara and myself on Janine this is Galbraith is it right next to me here um of attending the military ball and it was very very well done wonderful evening very impressive um kudos to a petty officer Reed to our kids it was definitely proud of them proud of the the whole Junior ROTC program would love to just see it grow you know because it's great to see the discipline in the kids and it was a really wonderful wonderful evening so so glad I got to got to go that was awesome and then I heard it was great also Miss Ruth and I got to participate in real women read at CSK on Thursday was it that was a phenomenal experience also that when I was done the
006kids wanted to know what book we were reading tomorrow and could they pick up books for the next week I had a first grade class I don't know what Cheryl had a garden kindergarten but it was just so well planned so the kids were just overly excited it was great and we just really had a nice time and even for first grade during reading of the book they would ask questions or they'd say can I see that picture and stuff so it was very interactive in my class I heard mayetta Ali told me that everyone gave her nothing but positive so they're going to try to do it once a month or once every six weeks if they can and then try to spread it through schools I guess they're all talking together about how
007they this real women read and Real Men read can make it through all of our elementaries at least as a start so that was a great experience also we've had some really good stuff going on cool military yeah but I just want to say my kindergartners it's not my favorite age and I was they were wonderful they were very bright they paid attention and one little student noticed something in the book that I didn't even notice in the story it was it was really insightful so um it was fun and every time I go to the schools I'm just so impressed with the control the teachers have in their classrooms just I know it's it's always like that it's not just because we're there you know they're just we have some awesome teachers and I
008just noticed it again yeah going to CSK when we go visit Monee Elementary which would go quite a bit because Miss Innis invites us um it's just it's just always an awesome experience to see what what these teachers do that's great and the kids are so excited when you come too they don't want you to leave so yeah I wanted since I was told I can talk this meeting no the military ball was a good time I was really happy to see everybody that's there United I was really happy to see what the kids were how they performed how they set in a professional setting and um Aid and enjoyed each other and it wasn't there weren't any issues I didn't expect any issues but I was really impressed with with everything I really was
009even how long you all could stay at Hills okay you got one you know so I have something to say on every topic I just want to say that I have been engaging myself on a a community form Zoom call with University Park and and we have been talking about just some gaps there were learning from our Pre-K students you know being three years old even younger than that but younger than five and we just thought of our ways which I have kind of someone shared with the board already we talked about ways that we could help our kids get ready that much more prior to prior to entering the kindergarten so they're looking to do whatever they could they are excited about being more of a supplement to the district as opposed to being
010in opposition with sharing some things with our kids that's three years old or five years old and younger what they can do over the summer anything they can do any engagement we can have with the parents what the parents could do so I'll be reaching out with Dr care and her team can tell and our ELC director and I understand our ELC director had a conversation with Governor State that's good I'd like to hear more about that so I'll be reaching out to Dr Hall and looking to try some type of pilot program over the summer just more not driven by the district but again as a supplement so I'll be working on a strategic plan went University Park on how we can engage again the community with the parents and see how far they
011go and we maybe you know share the plan if it's pretty successful over the summer with the other communities too because we know all of us know that there's a gap in learning with minority students specifically so we want to definitely increase the learnings of our kids and I'm going to be reaching out and then we can bring it to the board you know but I'd like to have a meeting sometime soon because I want to kick this program off in the summertime okay you know bring it back to the board Dr Hall you willing to help me out in University Park you know again that's where the biggest gaps we have is in the university park with our kids and again I want to be inclusive with all the kids at some point that
012are you know having some gaps in learning or people want to take advantage I like to keep this keep this rolling keep this rolling what the community can do again not in opposition with the district but as a supplement okay okay Mr Brown I would be interested in helping if you'd like I have a small part of university park myself that leads into Park Forest and I think Mr sawalich has a small piece of University Park so really there are four of us so if yeah if we can help in any way or whatever yeah if we can do it in unisex without being able to get involved with getting your kids some help absolutely and if we can do it in unisex without any type of open media's act violation similar to the mentoring
013program where it can have three of us in any given time so I chose Dr Paul just because of the majority of his constituents are there in University Park so I'm not looking at to do any type of respective person here no no I'm just saying that you know I'd be more than thrilled to help out in any way yeah so again we have a initial kickoff conversation and we can bring it back to the board the sooner than later you know maybe after our next board meeting or before you know next so we don't have much time next week so maybe after our next board meeting we can set up on a meeting and if I have to take a half vacation day off or something during the day so don't look to just
014meet with me after hours or something like that so I'm really I'm really excited about it and they were excited too they were excited to say hey again what tools do parents need what can we help with parents let's knock on every door and I'll be looking whatever you can share there's public information out there already with how many kids we have this Pre-K how many parents are out there so I'm looking for a whole totality of Engagement out there okay I don't have much time I don't have much time on this Earth okay I'm just being real and I'm just ready to put all the energy I have and make a difference and I think all of us so to that point here majority all these some of these people's like bills younger than
01550 years old I've been starting on my Social Security 20 years all right okay thank you Mr Brown thank you sir by the others it is a lot of good stuff okay uh administrative updates and I'll turn it over to Dr Carol yeah I just wanted to make sure that we had this on the radar um here we are in March end of March and we're thinking about next year and uh planning and so forth and as you know our original uh idea was to go ahead and start closing MEC and anticipation of our the wing at the high school um that would be opening this fall Mr cerma can kind of share some updates or will at we do expect a delay in supply chain so that most likely it's not going to open
016in the fall we've already shared that with building principle so we're kind of intending to use that facility a little bit longer in the fall to make it a smooth transition probably after the first quarter per semester and then bring them over to the high school you know at the second semester I don't think we've got a rush on this we want to make sure that it's done you want to make sure we come back to the board to figure out the process the timing the attorney can jump in on any of this the process that needs to be done for closing of a building there is a new law out there that says when you have three hearings so we will have to go back and do three hearings for this we've done them
017before but the new law says we need to do the three so there's a new law from different from no no I believe okay so we'll do those again and then we'll have is that because of the time that's passed or what's why do we have to do it again it's a different it's a different scenario I think we did the Dome I thought didn't we no we we did let me see is it because of the timing or okay yeah because we closed it then we open it I did not have to do it again that that would be doing okay yeah yeah so just give you an intent the process that we need to do putting that up for auction so anyway just bringing that up again as a point of discussion have
018you um have you put together since we're already in March is there a transition plan already ready for to moving forward staff how the program is going to transition from one building to the next yes we're meeting as of right after break in April to do that we've needed to get through the Staffing for this this March board meeting after that takes place we'll start working on the transition of setting up that program just speaking of that program that was part of the dialogue I had when University Park and there's people out there that's in a mental health profession and they want to support the kids in that capacity as well and I would like best you could Dr Kara to better Define I guess the program I think there's still some uncertainty and unclearness
019on what exactly that program is going to do for us right underneath the high school right right so it's not going to be its own price I know that was part kind of part of how I conveyed it but I think you just articulated a little bit better than I could just the intent of what their program is that's all that's good so we will will kind of give some more updates I think as we finish having conversations with our staff we will be coming back to you to share with you any staffing changes that we recommend we have an idea of students that will be participating in the program and then we want to make sure that we're opening it up we can hold as many as 70 in that Wing so we want
020to make sure that we're flexing students now shame on me I'm getting ready to expose myself in a way that I have lack of knowledge and that is have we broke ground on that yes yeah yes do we at least get a breakup or what yeah yeah okay yeah I drove over there right before this meeting and all the steel superstructures up and they're starting to put up the brick the concrete block I don't not yet I think one of the most important one of the most important steps is they got the floor poured yeah in January and all that so so you definitely you definitely can is going to let us know the supply chain issues here right yeah I'm sorry I don't know uh Dr how are you finished giving Ken to Florida
021well sure because you're sure you can jump in on this because I think it does kind of uh relate to this yeah just real quick on the addition there is going to be a delay because the liftoff units have been delayed delay writing every facility those have been pushed out to about the end of September right now at least that's what they're telling us so uh you know it is not hurting any other things that are going on with with the masonry work and that we've had a percher so that has really helped us so that's going to be the delay when they're going to come in I really don't know they're here they can call me but Ken that's pretty much a kind of towards the end of the process it is it really
022is it can do a lot of the piping and all that that's what we did like in these structures when the Archie used it to show up we were able to do all the piping and everything and then they come in and just kind of set them in and connect them so so that does not have anything to do with the heating right okay so that's what we're using for both yeah okay so they will delay because I was looking that should not be a show stopper if we're not looking to get our kids in in hot weather well it's a life safety issue that you have to have heating you don't have to have air conditioning that's that's what I'm saying that's why I asked the question I didn't know what type of heating
023so we use them both for heating and cooling I believe that we are using some Chiller cooling off of The Chiller at the high school but like the bigger areas like the gymnasium will have a rooftop unit there'll be some other areas we may even do the manufacturing rooms I don't know specifics I'd have to look at the Docks and all that stuff but uh I know there are probably about three or four rooftop units on that facility so going again what component is used for heating and we're not using electric heat or uh it will be part of the boiler system off the high school so part of it will be part of the boiler system part of it will be rooftop units the same thing we have okay okay you know some some
024areas we have some we have off the boiler system get it okay so we need that for hot water and things like that yep got it Ken what's the to keep the building running for another three to six months what's the budget impact um I I think it'll be minimal I don't know that I don't have the hard numbers on that I can run those numbers and get that to you okay but normal the reason I say that is because even if we were not to occupy that building we'd still have to have heating going on and lighting going on and all of those things so okay you know not to the extent of having it fully occupied and again it's not a facility where all the areas are being used at the same time
025either I mean are a limited amount of students there so you know you know some areas can kind of be shut down okay it's not that big of an impact for us okay being that and being an issue with the units at what point did we notice I would think we knew it out last week last week so but the contract there won this bed months and months ago and they ordered them they ordered them right so with the expectations that they were going to receive them in time to finish the project tentative tentative dates bill can address this is the same thing issue we have here with the chillers when I think the one for here was delayed they'll give you a tentative date and you just hope that it happens on that in
026that in that realm because they're getting it from someone else so my assumption is when we even the this Summer's project as soon as those contracts are awarded they were supposed to order the chillers for this summer CSK Balmoral and Crete so same thing with that Edition when they did it they probably ordered everything but it just depends on when they come in and again when we are looking at a finite time frame for our projects to come to conclusion we go in this things could happen that's why we have contingencies and all of that we don't go into this project with tentative dates for equipment receiving receivables for those we are but when they tell us and they commit to us what ramifications do we have to provide us some relief when there is
027you know things happen but when your contractors fall I know that I do one and understand this so are we just going by a telephone call to the manufacturer to say hey we should have that because on my side of the fence the profession that I'm in we're holding vendors accountable when they commit to a time frame so if they just have hazards just saying oh you know what we can get it to you on January 5th 2024 and we go with that with the intentions and we're going to have project in at a certain date that the contractors report to you you reporting to a board here and we expect what we hear given that there are contingencies things happen but not so systemic that you know we just expect this and whatever parts
028and supply chains and next week we expect we got a date we got a date now in the fall I'm not getting on you can but I'm just like stand there but I know that's Global but it's how it's I guess it's how it's communicated well it's how it's communities say you know what this project here so they have we contractor meetings something comes up they notify us right away this came up right away so we as a board say you know what you give us a blanket statement to say you know what here's a project however supply chain issue expect that expect of supply chain issues in these days these days are no critical they're not critical there's no critical path here that these dates that you are giving us could change in any
029moment should we should we expect that and I'm okay with that but that's what I think because I'm communicating I'm communicating here that this building the board has expectations clear expectations that this project is going to be completed and ready to start our new school year off with that now I'm hearing this wait pre-covered totally there should be no issue today you can't you don't you can't have that expectation as an owner as a contractor I will tell someone that the day they sign a contract will order the equipment and I will tell them they're tentatively telling me September or August I have no control of that it's being manufactured and built from somewhere else and when I'm buying a different brand that's not even manufactured in the United States it's even worse so there's
030there's nothing we can do Post covid because everybody in the world is still trying to figure out how to get parts because everything's built by so many different pieces in the world and they're doing their best I'm not defending CC Holdings or RL Soul I'm just telling you from a realistic standpoint that it's really complicated when you're coming to this particular like a rooftop or a chiller because even me if I call tomorrow I can't get a definite answer at all depending on what it is and I I guess Bill and I'm I'm right on with you right on with you I guess again it's how it's communicating it's like the weather man of lately well we expect one inch of snow or nine inches of snow during the snow storm well okay that's like
031it can go either way so if you communicate hey we are looking to bring our kids in the fall of 2023 or the early winter of 2024. and I'm good with that that's how the project could be because of the supply change issues but can I do things but I've been hearing finite numbers finite time frames it is like when I heard this today I just kind of got me it kind of turned me but in all seriousness I remember Ken saying when we asked him are you sure we're going to meet that deadline he said as long as they can provide the product we will make the deadline and and he kept saying to us you know we have no control they've ordered them already that's why we did the bid early etc etc
032well now they're probably being notified by the manufacturer that they're not going to get it they weren't they were probably thinking we were up to date so I remember these conversations because we kept saying are we going to make the deadline are we going to make the deadline and Ken kept saying it all depends on if we can get the the mostly I think you did talk about the rooftop units at one point because we had waited so long in my mind I'm upset that but there's nothing we can do about it so I'll feel comfortable Ken and from Doctor care that you know what this project was looking to come in on in in the fall of this year but it looks like it's going to be delayed until January or whatever the second
033semester I'll be comfortable if you say you know what if we get it in this year at all this next school year at all it could happen it could happen we will I I think we will get it in it's just that we have to make decisions okay okay let's let's move on um so next up business you're just yeah uh thank you Mr Aubry uh just just want to give the update to the board uh the purchase of the property at 690 US exchange we're still in the process of working tracked that I've talked to Bill Gleason about our attorney that's handling this just to kind of make sure that things are set so he is working out just some of the details on there to make sure we're okay with everything and he's
034okay with it before we present it to the board we may have something next week I don't know or it may come in April so it just depends on if Bill can get a couple things work out they're not major things they're just some minor things but we just want to make sure everything is is set before we do anything is everything functioning over there were you anticipated yeah it's functioning well I was you better again I don't know what's our goal I think on page 15 of that contract or page six step 15 on that cut of that contract it gives us that opportunity to do our due diligence I think that's how it's phrased where we have an inspection period and if we don't perform that inspection I Believe by April 30th of
0352023 we lose out so what we looking to do an inspection or pay someone or we just doing a visual on it ourselves we'll probably be talking about three quarters of a million dollars yeah we wanted something like that okay not rely on our own yeah or anything like that so I'm going to talk to Bill about that and see you know Direction you want to go I mean I wouldn't expect we're talking about what 2007-2008 building something about Half-Life with the roof and things like that but nonetheless it does behooves us to sure I'm not sure if we're going back to the Belleville property that we do an inspection I don't believe so I don't believe we did an inspection there so but that was about but I'll talk to Bill about it yeah
036I would think so because it is in a contract so I would yeah I would think at least on mechanical systems roof Etc but right the good news is we're already occupying the building so we've already kicked the tires and you know right so yeah but it does give us a step in there and allow us to do that so and I don't know if Crete demands it on commercial but on residential when you buy or sell the village does an inspection so I don't know if they do that on commercial or not but on residential they do okay yeah I know we backed out again getting our own appraisal right we just said hey we did that so but right I wouldn't want to pay fifteen thousand dollars for an inspection no I'll find
037out again I'll drop the bill and see he probably has something he can recommend to you know or or does Dave in the process like this use Dave he's more of an architect we probably need a mechanical maybe I can use Millie's actually yeah just a just a reasonable reasonable quote okay and we were looking to approve this in April okay so there is an item that's sort of linked to this I shared it with you I sent an email to you just the other day regarding you know the preschool program absolutely I do not want this to be a showstopper for the preschool I I want to move this and curse it up well we're trying so that's why we moved over we wanted to get that set up to go we are still
038waiting for that Grant to open that makes us nervous about moving forward with Staffing and planning for it um we're still waiting for it so being good stewards we don't want to put a lot of money in putting in together uh programming if we think we're not going to be reimbursed for it right now so is that the August of 2022 pritzster Grant um no this is this is part of so there is a preschool for all grant that we receive now now and then there's this preschool expansion Grant a separate Grant Grant state has funded certain years they have not received or they have not released the funding like Dr Kara said or the application for the grant so that we could get it for next year it's actually a two-year Grant they haven't
039released that yet um we've had a conversation on that and if if you go ahead and expand the program without the grant you can't go back and get the grant because it's already expanded for those pieces for those things so you know now we have talked about maybe some transition kindergarten or or something like that starting small very small small you know maybe an additional classroom that we could put in there for tradition kindergarten that would not be reimbursed by the grant so we're just waiting you know we were told it was supposed to be released but it still has not been really tal has contacted a lot of Chantel go ahead yeah I've been making phone calls to isby and we're it's just on hold um we we don't know when it's going to
040be released once they release the application we then have 45 days to submit our application and Mr Brown in terms of what you were talking about with Governor pritzker he did just do I think it was about a 300 million dollar uh promise to Early Childhood yeah and that has not rolled out from conversations that um Kelly has been in conversations that I've had I think they're looking to see how they're going to build that and distribute it and so that may be one of the factors did we apply did we at least apply for it they have not opened up the application yet oh I thought available I thought it the end day was in August August of last year October something like that so they closed the doors before they open it they
041they doors for what we can expand to it so that so the date was by the end of May of February right it was yeah yes so what's our what's our timetable if our timetable is for to do in August late August early September start what's our timetable May I mean what look what's our timetable for us to make that decision to move forward with a transitional but I mean if it's supposed to be released by the end of February the reality is I mean if they're committing to that I would say no later than the end of April would you you would at least know I mean I would say 60 days at the latest the state's you know gonna say something right I I would agree with you I think by the end
042of April we would have to know in order to you know start moving forward on some of this stuff just because you know you need to go through a hot out and that's going to take some time you know we'd have to fish some classrooms you know so getting those things in you know all of all of that so so that means that within six weeks you should have an answer you would think on whether they're funding every other yeah I mean I wouldn't say that we should be rushing to a judgment yet but I mean I wouldn't say we were rushed to a judgment but I would like a parallel path because I would not like the the whole year to go by and we did not increase our ELC program it's about even
043a little bit well as we were legit to see what we could afford and we're looking at probably one so this one classroom it's a start yeah at least you're on that path and you can reapply or whatever it is for the rest of the expansions I'm in agreeance with that is that if worst case scenario in six weeks they say no then we start moving to one transitional and then we keep keep the door open and keep applying for the grants and figuring that out because we've gotta we gotta create sustainability yeah I I think yeah as I mentioned the transitional classroom is not Grant fundable so we would have to do that anyway so my recommendation from a financial standpoint would be would you do that let's get that up and running until
044we hear about the Grant and if the grant comes through then we'll go ahead and apply for it that's not a problem we'll do that but if it doesn't at least we have this transitional classroom can you explain traditionally I'm not I'm sorry can you explain that one yes so don't look at me a transitional kindergarten program is set up to give our students who need extra support in developing for kindergarten Readiness so it cannot be funded by the grant because those students will already be five years old so it is to have a smaller class size and give those students who are not academically or developmentally ready to enter into a kindergarten program it's like giving them extra time and smaller class to develop it would be a full day program yes okay and
045so they they would start at five with that particular program yes and so we would put together the criteria of entering that program and then the exit criteria for that program and so when you feel those kids those five-year-olds they come into the program that you see there's some learning gaps or whatever there do you monitor them and they can potentially go from being having some inadequacies to ready kindergarten ready or they could throughout the school year they could come they can go from a a k class here to a k-class in a regular setting in the same school year so with that being said the transitional is not included in the grant anyways it is not okay if we add that can we sustain that in the future I think it'll be okay and
046that's why I think you need to limit it to one and we're talking about 20 kids roughly um what works for that that classroom size and it seems to be around 15 to 20. we have the capacity right now to do that financially yes or financially or just facility wise facility wise yes okay for one class yes so we just wanted to make you aware we're surprised but the question isn't whether or not to continue to purchase the building that's I was kind of reading between the lights there is a link there I wanted to make sure that you knew that because originally we were to go is it really start working on now I want to buy that building and have the room and the ex if we get the grant or whatever I
047want to have that capacity the facility capacity agree because if we don't buy it and they move back in here then it the theory is the ELC expansion goes away and we don't want that to go away the idea is is right is to make the purchase so that even if we do one now or we can grow but the idea is to grow it correct I just wanted you to know that coming into this that we may be buying the building and then waiting a little bit that's all yeah okay so you think can you do that again with the wine building that one room that we have is ready to house our kids now or do we need some maintenance done and I'll ask you what we would do Mr Brown is where
048there have their own office right now uh is actually used to be a classroom okay that is getting remodeled anywhere it's getting new flooring in the carpeting is coming out as part of our summer project and Tyler's going in there so the cost would be really a teacher and a TA I think we need to put in the classroom and then probably some furniture we can because I think realistically we talked other than Staffing the building's ready the building's ready the building's ready except for some very minor Cosmetics Solutions saying that you can pull a trigger not only on one classroom possibly three or four well I don't know about I don't know about it the staff well again Mr Brown here's the here's a you can't start those classrooms now for Pre-K because once
049you start it you can't get the grant so that that's now is that Grant repetitive so meaning it's a two-year Grant so after that can you reapply for it or is that pretty much at that point we got to start thinking about sustainability I I'm not I'm not sure it is reply we um we re-establish it every two years just like we do our preschool for all grants okay okay good okay audit Services yes so I I informed the board of this uh I received a call in February a surprising call actually where I got surprised where Miller Cooper said to me they weren't able to do our audit for this year said that they have some staffing issues and for me they weren't able to do it oh okay thanks already on the contract
050perfect were they under contract uh actually the contract I looked at the contract the contract expired uh with the last fiscal year uh so we would have to renew the contract which isn't really a big thing it could have just rolled over I was just concerned that they didn't let me know until February yeah on this thing I was just so anyway uh I quickly put together an RFP uh requester proposal I've sent that out that has been out we actually have a bid opening tomorrow in fact I have one already that's been turned in already for uh uh Auditors so uh that'll be coming to the board probably Auditors um I'm uh I will tell you I'm not too worried about this I think confident that our financials are in good shape our systems
051are in good shape so it's just going to be I think a little bit more work for the Auditors coming in just to gather some things but we're in good shape shouldn't be a problem at all from my perspective it's not bad to have a new set of eyes anyway the last one I have on there is a contract for lawn care and landscaping services again we did an RFP because our contract was up we did send that out oh we actually only had one response to it um how could that happen well I you know where are you broadcasting is that well this is a this is a big contract 100 54 000 a year 308 for two years right that's a big contract but that's nothing compared to what these guys can do
052just to have one I just find that very unusual I think I think people are short staffed I think you know you have to you have to figure we got nine buildings going that they've got to cut the grass at field over around the Dome sixth grade yeah I'm not going to court to challenge you on the specs and all that but I would like the specs can you send me the specs sure prior to the next meeting Staffing is the issue you can't you can't commit to a big contract if you can't staff it yeah so it's a three-man crew here they can do this I can guarantee you this is a three-man crew they can do this in a week and you do this weekly right 36 you're talking about 32 Cuts 38
05328 Cuts but they don't I know they're not our only customer what do you mean I said three-man Crew That's a three-man crew for cut for for a company I gotta we got a three-man crew for for Creek right if you have that's what I'm saying I'm not saying I'm just saying that's what I would be doing right but the question is can they can they afford to do that so so are you trying to say it's better for us to try to hire from within just hire our own people to do this no no okay no no I'm just saying how to just one company bid on this that's all it's very unusual that's all but so it is what it is well it looked like the same company same company what they didn't
054have the same they have had had this bed for the last five years and it looked like we look like somehow the bid expired and then we extended the bed is that we extended it with you can do according to go into the care of an act with you which we know why the procurement that's 25 000. yeah did you come to the board no I do for that but I I didn't I'm just trying I'm trying to just understand what the question is though Mr Brown because no question I have no question advertised it no I just I just I that was my it's just unusual that's all just happened why that's all in this day and age yeah trust me it is it's just very unusual I think and I'm not and that's
055that's okay and I saw you had that they did exceptional exceptional service which I agree I look go past the schools we've we've been there and saw past contractors have not done half of a good job as this contractor here so we added in a scope of work because we was doing double we was doing uh Keith we was having our guys do work in-house plus a contractor did we relinquish everything to the contractor got it okay and putting four applications of fertilizer weed control and all that is a foreign okay yeah send me the specs I would have to look at it sure okay and one question I have on that this last question I have we're talking about giving MEC up for auction or whatever selling that but now we're looking to keep
056it for another six months was that was that part of the bid has NBC part of the bed ah got it good catch okay okay so we don't absorb that cost they bid it under this gun and they just still getting the money without doing work okay good catch okay that's all I have thank you okay uh any old business thing Mr serma don't turn your mic off please Jade on the laundry for the High School athletic department um I have not I had I I talked to Mr kaneki about that I can I can follow up with him on could you please because I know that the teams are wondering if it's going to happen or it's not because right now the secretary's excuse me secretary's coaches whoever are taking a lot of that
057laundry home and doing it at their own houses so I would really like to see if we could work that out for them please okay I'm just thinking I thought I had a conversation without I'll follow up with them I thought I had a conversation with him or give me some specs on what was needed and all that yeah I I spoke with him and then I brought this up I think last month and you told me you were going to follow up with him um I believe that he has all that because I think he told me that he also needed to tell you where it would be placed and and how to figure out you know who was going to be able to use the machines and how it was all going to
058work my understanding from him was that he had all that um but maybe it's not everything you need you were looking for more but if maybe we could be ready for I'll talk to the next season's at least you know next school year or something if we could get that going it would be great thank you sir sure the only one I have is is there a way by next Tuesday we could get do you know if all the punch lists for the summer 2022 projects where we stand on that because we're about two and a half months away from the next set of projects it would be nice to have that wrapped up before we I think I can I think I'm looking at Keith right now I think uh yeah I think we
059can have something yes just so we know we're at in the each of the five buildings not the addition here but or the high school Yeah we actually have um we've actually put the punchless items into our work order system so we have that separate in there so let me run that and then Keith and I can get together and we'll look through that and everything and just make sure and then are we are we down to the retention left on those five contracts or are we yeah for the most part there's still some retention there's still some a couple uh testing things on for substantial completion like the chiller here and those type of things some testing and balancing that won't happen until we're we are able to turn that thing on you know
060and all that stuff too yeah let me know if you can if you can let send it to us at least somewhere around on each contract sure I can do that so can we I'll try to yes I'll try like I said if even if it's a last minute on on Monday or Tuesday at least we can see it then we can look at it okay yep I can do that any other old business any new business okay we do have a need for closed session tonight can I get a motion to go into closed session for the appointment employment compensation disciplinary performance or dismissal of specific employees second roll call Brown is an i Mrs Galbraith aye Mr sawales aye Mrs Walters aye Dr Hall aye thank you vice president aye president Albrecht aye
061okay we're in close at 7 22. the only agenda item after closed session will be adjournment so we can cut off the video feed thank you for joining us