001okay then ready okay call this meeting to order roll call please brown is here mrs galbraith here dr hall here mr solanos here mrs walters vice president roop here president albert here please rise and join me for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all and ms rook would you please read the mission statement our mission is to empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new future okay we have a number of public comments tonight the first is on mask safety from ron siegert if you could stand at the podium over there thank you for the opportunity to speak to this board the reason
002i'm here is several parents in your school district have invited me to come and comment about mass safety issues that might be present before this board i am retired health and safety professional i spent 25 years in the function of osha epa compliance with toxic hazardous waste hazardous materials protecting worker safety in the workplace the materials that i was dealing with were deadly and had to be handled with diligence and equipment designed for the purpose this particular health crisis that we're in with regard to kovid the cdc has recommended and required masking and what i'm here for tonight is to demonstrate so that you can see the potential effect of masking and its effectiveness in any environment school work or anyplace else what i have here are two examples of the approved n95 mask both
003of these masks are approved it's the only mask approved this mask is not in many of your designer masks or not i don't see any n95 masks they'll be labeled and printed with a niosh approval number and 95 and i'd like to show you very quickly the effectiveness of these masks is it okay the micron size of the coved virus or any virus for that matter is 0.1 microns the effective opening size that this mass protects is 0.3 this mask is three times larger opening than the size of a virus and let me demonstrate as you can see this approved mask has an exhale valve that allows transmission of particulate matter this is a better version of the same fabric material maybe it'll perform better if you are wearing this mask you're not protected now
004those are the official masks that are used commonly and this mask excuse me oh thank you there we go this is a standard hospital mask let's see how it performs notice that i'm correctly pitching the nose to provide maximum design seal no protection and finally we have the single layer fabric mask that most of you are wearing right now as you can see all these alternatives are ineffective at preventing the spread of disease well what could work what can work the one thing that does kill the virus and pathogens all pathogen is sunshine you do know that that's been provided and researched very well so how do how do we create sunshine inside an enclosed environment like a building the technology is very available and very simple you put ultraviolet light structures inside your heating
005ventilating and air conditioning ductwork and that will sanitize and prevent transmission of disease in the ambient era so the necessity of mass is vastly reduced this technology is commonly used in hospital operating rooms or clean rooms this is part of the standard technology for preventing transmission of disease or particles in the environment i suggest that as you look at your policies and procedures that masking has many delatorious effects students reduced oxygen content which reduces brain function emotional consequences and many other facial infections respiratory infections and reduced oxygen content that reduces cognition which is delatorious to the learning environment i ask that you would consider other alternatives than just masking i also understand the cares act has given you a box load of money to mask and i would suggest that that's blood money don't take
006the money if you take the money you lose the control for your students and your families if you have any questions i'd be glad to answer them no thank you very much thank you our format is usually q a so thank you for your presentation and we have questions i think we can contact you should i stay for questions not necessary i don't think we'll have any we'll email them right yeah if you could what'd i do do you have an email or phone number where you could be contacted or if you want to just add it to the bottom and phone number that'd be fine you could leave it on the table over there we'll get it okay next up uh is a public comment on dress code by is it daniel perez danielle
007perez thank you hello some of you know me i've been involved in the 201u district for a while since my kids were in talala and recently i have some female students that have been making comments to me about how they've been harassed for their dress code [Music] it should be that our male teachers are male security guards even some females in the building should be able to control themselves to let a girl show her shoulders or even to wear a cap sleeve like these are adults in this building and i understand there's also adolescent boys i i understand that and i'm i'm basing this off the high school okay i'm not going lower than the high school but by the age of ninth grade men little men should know how to act around a female
008no matter what she is dressed like this is the culture we need to provide and making our girls cover up lowering the air conditioner in the high school and i got confirmation on that so that the girls put more clothes on this is this is just ridiculous i have raised two boys and they would never ever look at a girl like that my husband would never look at a girl like that he was raised by a a brilliant woman and her husband obviously so they put on a petition they sat outside some of the students my son was involved and they were trying to protest dress code and my son came home and he was upset because some of the girls that were protesting were harassed by some of the security guards at the high
009school and i i will be going to the high school about this too but i thought here was a good place to start for their participation in it one of the security guards actually told one of the girls if they put clothes on they wouldn't look so sexual this is not how we need to be raising girls it's unfair now the other student that's with me who wants to talk on his own he was walking around school today in a wife beater we all know what those are did he get in trouble for it no did he get a comment for it no but yet another friend of my sons who happens to live close to me was wearing cap sleeves and did get in trouble for it it's we cannot have it sexist it
010has to be straight across the board if it's going to be a dress code it needs to be straight across the board it needs to be in males need to stand up to the same standard as females i just think that you you guys needed to know and that me coming here maybe bringing it to you guys would make you think about it and maybe look into what is going on in the high school and i don't know maybe give some help to our girls to know that them being women doesn't automatically mean that they're going to be sexualized thank you and next up for public comment the topic is also dress code with daniel shafrath i say that right good afternoon so my intentions here is to is to say and express my experience
011as a student part of cmhs i along with my friend we attended the protest and we'd say that it went fairly decent for the first protest against the dress code but it's what happened afterwards that really showed me how much of a problem that this actually is for example that exact period that we finished the protest and we decided to go back to our classes um i had to get a tardy pass along with my other friend that attended the protest and i could hear staff trying to tell kids why not to do the protest and why the protest is a bad thing and you know it's i feel like that's one unfair and also that's just not right i don't feel like that's appropriate that is an adult a staff member speaking business that
012they have no intention on you know you know working with or they don't have a real good understanding of and you know i'm just hearing it overhearing and all that and it's it's quite frustrating because you know i just want what's fair and along with that um topic of you know staff telling kids you know what to do what not to do why they shouldn't agree with the protest um i was walking back from using the restroom from in my third period and as i was walking back um one of my friends that was part of the protest she's one of the directors one of the heads of the protest she called me over and she was talking to a security guard i wasn't aware of the situation at first and the security guard told
013me in a very rude manner by the way to just to go it's none of my business she he wasn't talking to me right and you know i don't want no problems i want to go to my class so i go back to my class she texts me and she tells me what really happened the security guard came over to her and started like just judging her and asking her questions like exactly quote unquote why are you in this protest why are you doing this and has the in it went to the point where it even went to fat shaming she was getting all these comments such as you know fat women shouldn't wear skinny girl clothes now that is not appropriate that is not right that is not appropriate whatsoever by any means and
014you know it offended me you know as a man you know i don't have much you know relation to that whole department as a woman would have right but i still know what's right and wrong and trying to make us freeze with this ac going so high that we have to wear more clothes with all this chit chat chit chat to other kids trying to promote being against the protest you know it's just it's just not right and i don't see why that can't be everyone else's mindset i live in a house with pride and a family with primarily females i have i'm like the only male in my generation in my family i have a lot of female cousins and all that they wear what they wear along with their friends and i'm not
015gonna go out of my way and sexually harass them i'm not going to have my day be all about what they are wearing right so not only am i you know knowledgeable enough not to be like that but i i can see where they're coming from right and you know when on social media this is you know not really in the school but it's more of how the students are behaving and they are calling these women very mean names like you know excuse my language like and children just trying to wear what they want to wear what they feel confident in what they want to express themselves in right and it all correlates with each other and i wanted it to bring it to this attempt to you guys attention as a student because you
016know like i said it's not right it's not fair and it's not appropriate i hope i made myself very clear and thank you guys for listening thank you and our final comment this evening came in via email topic is shield testing updates and this is from rebecca herdlika i hope i pronounced that correctly i thought shield testing was going to be available at the high school are there any updates as to when this will begin students are missing too much school already with quarantine due to proximity exposure or while waiting for test results if they have any kind of generic symptoms like a sore throat or runny nose that could just be allergies my child has been absent 12 out of 22 school days so far due to covered restrictions and he will be absent
017tomorrow too as we are waiting for test results it would be great if it would be available to the community too as it is difficult to get pcr testing done in our area in many places schools included will only accept the pcr test results thank you for your time rebecca okay that's it for public comment next up is consent agenda approval do any board members have an item on the consent agenda they'd like to have taken off for a separate vote okay can i get a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved second any questions or comments on the consent agenda okay roll call please brown isn't i this is galbraith hi dr hall aye mr salonish aye vice president rube aye president albert aye motion carries uh oh yeah we decided yes after
018the fact would you please read them awesome okay i'm sorry apologies for the consent agenda we had several items uh under superintendent we had item number one approved regular meeting minutes of august 17 2021 number two approved closed session meeting minutes of august 17 2021 number three approved committee of the whole meeting minutes of september 14 2021. number four approved committee of the whole closed session minutes of september 14 2021 for business approved board of education financial report okay i think that's it yeah that's it okay thank you if i forget to do that next month somebody step up and remind me um action reports first up business can i get a motion to approve the fiscal year 22 tentative budget moved second any questions or comments so it's marked tentative budget here but once
019it's approved it'll be the approved budget exactly yes okay so roll call please dr ho i brown is an eye mrs galbert aye mr sowalis aye vice president hello hi president albert aye motion carries next up in action reports can i get a motion to approve a certificate of payment in the amount of five hundred twelve thousand two hundred ninety eight dollars and seventy cents to rl sohold general contractor inc for the 2021 renovation work at talala elementary school in the early educate early learning center so second any questions or comments roll call please mr wallace hi dr hall aye mrs galbraith hi brownies and i vice president roop aye president albert aye motion carries next business item can i get a motion to approve or let me start over can i get a motion
020for approval to submit an application to the isbe school maintenance project grant so any questions or comments roll call please brown is an eye dr hall aye mr salonish hi this is galbraith aye vice president rupert aye president albrecht aye motion carries next up under action reports is personnel and culture can i get a motion to approve the personnel report including approved the certified staff employment employment leave of absence return from leave of absence reassignment and resignation and educational support staff employment leave of absence reassignment resignation and retirement moved second route any questions or comments okay roll call please mr swanette aye dr hall aye brown is an eye mrs galbraith hi vice president roof aye president albert aye okay do we have any old business i have one item can we just go back
021for a second under the consent agenda dr kagonist you read off your superintendent four items did anybody read off the business item she did yeah she did she didn't i'm sorry i didn't hear it yes yeah any old business or do you want me to go go okay but i'd like to get the board's consent to ask mr cirma when he comes back at the october committee the whole meeting to present one alternative to the short-term facilities plan that he presented at last week's meeting one of the things i've been thinking about is mec we currently have 16 students in that building the short-term facility plan is presented would put in hvac into that building would be approximately 6 million dollars i think an alternative to that would be to not put in the hpac
022in that building but build out what we had talked about in a previous plan that the high school put in the addition for the pathways program there which at that time the approximate cost of that was 11 million dollars so instead of investing the six million dollars in mec as it currently stands move that program over the high school and then we could decommission the nbc building so anyway i'd like him to think about kind of as he talks with pma about the financing alternatives et cetera um you know what that would take the only question i have is if dr cara if you can can you at least just get with it's a great idea because the money is important to put into that building we would never get it out so it would
023make sense to put it over there but have a conversation with miss trish and mr wartell to make sure that whatever plan we make to make sure that we're all on the same page so that they're the two that are would be directly affected by this to make sure that you know whether it be it how it would work just so that if mr cerma is going to get numbers and stuff that at least we have an idea that you know what's realistic what our options are you bring up a very good point and we are actually having some conversations uh already about our career tech how we would grow it and also looking at the impact of mec as we're seeing uh diminishing enrollment there and so forth so yes we are going to
024have that conversation because we know that the kids you know we just want to make sure that mr wartell is on the uh retirement plan okay miss trish she may be as well but at some point the person of the high school will be ultimately in charge of that so we want to make sure that at least everybody's on the same page of why this is coming here is it everything's gonna be safe everything will be designed right just because i want to make sure that they're at least have a you know a say-so in what we do i agree and our priority is programming and and i have to agree with mr swalish i was just over at mec a couple weeks ago for a visit and there are concerns about how that would
025work out at the high school even if they had their own separate entrance i mean there are a lot of concerns they voiced to me that they are of course going to bring to you but i mean maybe if this i think we don't we need more than one plan we always go with a plan a and we don't have a b and c so i would like to see if we're going to do plan a it was the original thing at the high school what could we do if we figured out that didn't work for logistics or certain reasons what would another plan be so that nelson's asking for this alternative and thank you very much i totally get where you're going with that money spent so good catch on that but let's make
026sure that what we're asking mr cerma to do has a backup because bill's right put and nelson putting six million dollars in we wouldn't get it back but if we couldn't move it into the high school or in a in a capacity where it's going to fit in that time frame what is our alternative because can we not if we can't get it in the high school in that two-year frame of everybody else what are we doing because we have to make a decision on that air conditioning and if we realize it's not going to work what what are our other options so that's what i'm asking i like the idea of looking at an alternative but i think we need more than one because i'm not sure that what the one would work if
027if we came to it and we found it didn't work now we have to go back to the drawing board so i'm asking go to the drawing board for at least one alternative if we're going to do this so that we do have a backup plan if we find out down the road talking to people and trying to work logistics that it's not going to work what could we do without putting the air conditioning in okay any other yeah i would just like to comment on it as well and i got a very good catch on that uh nelson as far as the expenditures we're looking to do with that school and only having 15 students but all students are valuable all students deserve a good education best week best as best as we can
028give them and being said i know money the village omoni was seeking to obtain mec in some capacity and i know we had asked for it was uh i believe it was an appraisal on that so i'm not sure if it was disseminated or has it been really completed so we need to see that as a board see what where they came up to be price wise and this one i don't want to call it a concern i just want to see again a plan a plan b plan c that we have 14 15 kids in this alternative program and the program is more in my opinion of in reactionatory or react if i'm saying a word if if there is such word reacting we are reacting to there you go we are reacting to
029the kids behavior so for whatever reason they're not participating as we want them to in a regular school setting so here's your alternative let's see if we can get your needed the things you need to have to be educated over here so i just want to know how proactive we could be to keep kids from attending some type of alternative program i don't know if that's realistic i don't know i just don't know you know at one point we didn't have it and i'm not sure if all school districts have it you know high school so on and so forth but it sounds like we have made up our mind that we are going to have alternative program and we're willing to expand money on a structure to house them in or to that's a
030bad phrase to conduct an education and perform an educational environment for these kids so i'm just i'm just kind of vacillating on this and wavering definitely from a financial point of view it makes sense it makes sense not to invest six seven eight million dollars to put air conditioning in a facility that's only going to house 15 students and maybe probably that many staff members as well but if they are in there they need to be in a environment that's conducive conducive for learning so i guess what i'm asking our superintendent to bring back is okay this is how we got here this is how we get here with the with the alternative program and if there is a way to eliminate the program in its entirety how can we do it if if there
031is a way and still provide our students with some type of you know a good well-rounded education because i knew a couple of students that went to school my son that was over there because of currency like that constituted a kid yeah he was he was going to get dropped uh kicked out of school for tournancy and as a result he ended up being over and going to the alternative program and graduating from there yeah that is an alternative i see that but couldn't we have caught the issues with that kid for currency up front that's all i'm asking i don't know what kids you know what what's the behavior issues with these kids so i'm just saying what drives these kids to do the things that they're doing that constitute them being over here
032in the alternative program i i just don't know so we're saying that we are you're not saying it per se but or directly but indirectly we are saying as a board we are okay with having an alternative programs and we're looking to build a brand new structure to teach these kids or to house these kids in this program so again i'm vacillating i'm wavering a little bit you know i don't want to go off on a tangent and against the board pleasure or consensus on this matter but yet i'm just struggling with it i'm struggling with it as far as again promoting our kids and to build a structure for 11 million dollars for 20 kids i'm just struggling with that mr brown we can work on that we'll go back with our staff and
033work on that we do have an estimate we put in the fyi i can get that number to you again if you'd like to take a look at that but we are we will go back and work with um our administration and our programming to take a look at our services that we do offer you know the mec program has changed quite a bit over time it is not a program for students that have necessarily behavioral issues we are really working on creating pathway programs such as the arrowhead studios they are doing wonderful things over there and some of those things you know we just you know we were looking to see could we just lift those things up and put them in a different area where they could still have access so we are
034looking into some of that right now well i have a question what is the plan for the building if we move those students well because maybe i missed that the plan for nbc if we move the students well at one time we said you know we're going to basically condemn the building and put it up for auction i know money the village omoni was interested in any in into obtaining the building and that's why we as a board we reached out to the superintendent and the business manager to go out and get an appraisal and see what the building is worth and you know whatever next steps was required i'm not sure but i know i'm not sure if bill can answer the to his knowledge is the village of money still interested in the
035building well i i mean i think kind of this melds a little bit of the short-term plan with kind of a longer-term view of you know as ken stated i mean we we just from an operational standpoint from an operational budget standpoint we operate too many buildings so this would kind of eliminate one in the short term while you kind of think about you know much longer term plan it would be part of the long-term plan but yes essentially eliminating just because i think ultimately if you think about it you're right the idea is to get them an education in a good environment without a doubt but ultimately if you have a ratio it's kind of like overhead right so if you have 15 students in a building that you have to staff and pay
036for that the costs are much higher and and as mr sermon has said multiple times that this district can only go so long with the amount of buildings we have at some point because over time they're just going to cost us more and more money coming out of our pockets just to maintain and uphold them so the thought process of roundabout numbers the building appraised it say nine hundred thousand right whatever it was i think we ate fifty nine or that was somewhere in there but if we had six million to it if we go to sell it we're not gonna get 6.9 million so unfortunately if we went to sell it it would be how much of that value would we get back the idea at one point we talked about previously when mr
037surma put something together and dr kagunese is that we would put an addition on height that was attached to the high school the only reason i brought up tonight is not to bring up old things but at the junior high we need to listen to uh to uh miss creso's of what she needed and we shorted her eight classrooms is what it is okay so now we have to figure out how to move forward in this instance we just that's why i asked mr wartell and and miss trish are two people that would be if they were here not on retirement they will be here for the long term they'd be ultimately responsible let's just get their input see we're at this is an early stage it's a great financial this was a great catch
038to understand that the value of the money value the taxpayers but at the same time we cannot discount the learning environment at all so at the end of the day if it feels that we need to spend the six million and put it in there that's what we do but at the same time if we have an opportunity to do something to move it over you know again less you're gonna have staff from the high school it's just gonna be part of the building it's not where building a brand new individual structure would be attached so i guess that's the idea right i mean that's what we talked about in the in the plan that i have where when we looked at the the different referendum amounts and stuff that was just one of the
039ideas but it's early going but at least talk about it now before we want to spend that kind of money yeah and i i think you know being sad and again i don't want to open up bad wounds it's not my intent with my comment that i'm getting ready to make yeah i mean all of our schools that we're putting ac in we're not going to get a return on our investment other than the students learning but that's that's that's worth worth it to me okay the learning for the students i mean we have crete there's some parts of crete is 40 probably 40 years old or 30 to 40 years older than money elementary or mec mec and same with talala same with csk you know so putting eight seven eight million dollars in
040those schools and you said nbc was appraised eight nine hundred thousand somewhere yeah so i would take it those schools would be equally appraised for those values so to put eight million dollars we knew we knew as a board we're putting a lot of money in into structures we knew that in structures this you know for our practical purpose is not worth putting it in but we looked at that one component that hey we have to keep our kids in an environment of learning that's conducive for learning so that's an investment so we will get a return on investment from that point of view so again i a good catch that when it's when the when the smoke clear and we can thanks you know for bringing all of that informative information or informative data
041to us and said this is the path i'm recommending that you go and say okay it was a consensus the board said let's move forward and good catch by again by nelson say hey let's not stop looking at opportunities where we can be more efficient financially and he spotted that and again and i think we can continue to do that so i'm just again struggling with taking the kids out of here find another five million dollars you make a good point too with the middle school and we still have that issue over there correct you know we pretty much gave up at this present time seeking to get new buildings again i don't want to go down that path and have conversations on that now you know nelson again last the last meeting we had
042he said how does this affect future boards these decisions that we're making financially how does it affect you know right now we got a snapshot in time we have to do what we feel best right now i don't want to say don't worry about the future boards but we still have to look long range but i don't i can't say it enough that was a very good catch that he didn't put the brakes on and say that's it we moved forward he still looked at an idea or a situation where we can save money so as ken prepares for the committee of the whole meeting in october where he's going to have pma come with different financing scenarios et cetera and i think he'll have healy vendor here too you could talk about so i
043think you know kind of the alternatives that we're thinking about sure and prepared yeah we can have a couple scenarios the board with that so we expect an october healey bender but it's supposed to provide the board with a final facility assessment is that correct uh i believe so i have not i actually have a meeting with them thursday afternoon so i'll find out where we're at with that we should have that the facilities i mean the hundred thousand dollars that we paid them for yes and you know that's completely separate from the short-term pursuit right right so it's good to know still you know we still have to look at the big picture right you know and i agree with that i want to i also want to address dr hall your comment about
044this building you know with with mec in that there are multiple options there one is selling it one is demolishing it one is doing whatever you know because it's our property so that decision would have to be made by the board of what they would like to do with it even and i there is some on my school code i won't go into that right now but there is some school called selling the building and all that stuff so we'd go through that process with you and let the board make the decision on what they want to do with that building make sure you bring us a pair of those socks too oh okay [Laughter] i haven't oh i just don't have it up high enough i just told him to make sure he brings
045us a pair of socks he has on thanks okay and then he'll trade you for turf size nine no we're talking about it yeah is there any other old business uh president albrecht just one thing i do want to mention i did update the fyi but i know it was the type of conversation and that is the temporary cooling rooms i did get a firmer estimate on that so originally as you know i had put in 980 000 for those we all knew that was high i knew it was high but it came back at 427 000 actually uh the actual construction cost is about 300 and so there's some contingencies and all that in there so i just want to make the board and the public aware of that okay uh that would be
046the cost of impact okay that's great did we get we had a we had a report we had we had an assessment performed by our consultant engineering consultant electrical assessment right so you obviously that estimate yes is based on certain things right yes how many circuits they're going to put in and what they're looking to do right they can answer that for you i didn't get that detail mr brown i just got and i'm looking at the what was sent to me on this uh and he's got it broken down by the window modifications and also electrical work there's some general touch up all that type of stuff is all in there so i have all of that and we're talking about five five cooling rooms per building right per building yeah and we're talking
047about a couple ac units i believe they are yeah again we'll have to ask dave on that because based on the tonnage we'll just have today the rooms we looked at that the principal showed us that i think that required usually two yeah in those rooms that they could bring a classroom in so so that would be 10 per building okay yeah right 10 for building 500 per unit that's just the material so five thousand dollars per and i think we talked about it i think mr brought it up last week you know that that you know the point was the money okay right but what is the usage afterwards and i think uh it was good that she brought up to bring it to light so we all understand it together the seven of
048us but after we're done with them you know the units relatively are the cheapest part of the probably the project all right but it's the electrical portion and i think if we listen to the principle of balmoral she said that a lot of times when they turn these on they're gonna turn something off or you know somebody else will say that at least they'll have the electric capacity in those rooms you know to do whatever they want because remember taking bigger rooms and turning them into temporary for one year after that whatever they want to turn it into they'll have the capacity to do that i would say within reason because you're removing the air conditioning temporary you're fishing out of there i'm i'm just again i'm just concerned i mean before i jumped the
049gun and said this even that is too high to me i need to look at it because you're adding if you add one circuit one 120 circuit you're talking about five ac units right per no five rounds so 10 10 units so 10 circuits 10 circuits 10 120 circuits well we'll get that presentation yeah let's get into the october committee of the home in the last faction of that i think mr sermon i talked right before the meeting the other thing we got to think about too is to have it done by the spring so that it for this school year that they're handled by it's going to be have to be done at nights and weekends which again we all know is time and a half at least so the cost of that is
050more expensive if the board would wait until summer it might be reduced if if we wait till summer i don't know i'm just saying but we did talk about to get it in there to be fair to the other four schools that it would be done uh at night so that they could have it by the spring i think that's what we were talking about i can't just on the surface the same even then i didn't want to comment because i want you to come back we were talking about a million dollars per building last week you know cheryl was like whoa that was a million dollars total million total with a million so this is 425 this is 427. for all for all buildings for all four both four or five is it five
051four we're not talking about mec right yes is that msc yeah okay so so 100 grand roughly yes okay still high buddy okay any any i'm closing this off any other old business i have uh one new business item has anybody uh terry has anybody signed up for the and with lori here i'm going to plug this for the um uh three rivers division dinner on that okay well count me in so so one also when you're done i have one thing okay go ahead um dr carrie i was just wondering i had talked to you about asking for the sros to come to a meeting and introduce themselves and tell a little bit about what they do and what they hope to achieve et cetera et cetera and you had said something about the
052october committee the whole it sounds to me like we're putting a lot on october committee of the whole so um i still would like that to happen i think everybody would enjoy that plus i think they need to meet the board members they've never met so i was wondering what we would do here now yeah it was actually i always look at my agendas and not to pack them too heavy uh and there's a lot going on the community the whole so what i might do is move that presentation i was going to have the high school along with ms riley give a presentation on uh our behavior behavioral discipline rss sro program and have them there at that so i may do that at the regular board so i haven't forgotten and i try
053to balance them out so maybe that's a better spot for them okay i have some questions first when is the uh the dinner the three representative what day is that again thursday october 28th october 20th and then i don't know if this is we'll go with new business but i know that i was talking to the previous superintendent and he said there was a plan for the athletics facilities that he left that um maybe somebody in the that one of you all might still know about that i mean i'd be interested in seeing that because i remember seeing it before and it was pretty uh the same doable and i just wanted to sit with somebody and look at it if you have it do you have a copy of it still i have yeah
054i i do have one that i remember presenting a while ago that included not only the football field but also a baseball and softball field right he that's what he said was yes and i and i do have that i'd be happy i can i can share with you doctor just uh just you just get as a powerpoint presentation right yeah yeah yeah yes i have it yes i want to i would like to sure well i can i can send it to you and then if you want to talk about it i'll be happy to go over with you and all that stuff too that that works okay okay yeah i have one thing too speaking of athletics it was brought to my attention we have to cancel a lot of um athletic games
055and things because of transportation i'm sure that's because there's no employees but i'm wondering i didn't have a chance to look at policies but um some of the coaches have mentioned if i don't know if there's parents could drive or if there's any rules against thinking outside the box so that we don't have to cancel games yeah i know that we have and i've talked to mr tobias about this too we have tried all avenues uh i think the only thing we really haven't tried are coach buses but those are really expensive you know everybody's running into the same situation there are the drivers are just not there and um all the companies are not only first student but all the other ones that are out there so uh i know mr dubais is thinking
056outside the box i don't know what other options there are to be honest with you i think you know parents could drive but there's a whole liability issue when it comes to that too and i and sometimes i just get real leery with that dr hall i don't know if you've got any thoughts on that i know you're involved in athletics uh i know my understanding with having parents involved is it's a liability for us and too much of one years ago when i was a student at 205 it was they were going to a summer league game and somebody died in a car accident and the school was liable for that because they were going to an event we at our district use coach buses i know last year we did i'm not sure
057about this year but i know last year we definitely used coach buses i'm not sure the cost of them or what company but um we could have used it because it saved us money from regular buses but it seemed to be pretty effective and i wonder how they're doing about drivers also oh that's a struggle yeah it's a struggle with drivers but with the coach buses that helped out i mean so so you think the coaching businesses are getting drivers because i'm wondering if they're getting drivers too because now they're getting a backup if i saw on tv today school had to cancel their junior high in high school because 33 bus drivers and whatever didn't show up so i mean i know it's across the board that's why i was wondering about coach buses
058if they're actually it could be i don't know that i don't know right now yes you haven't heard anything about that fast enough okay thanks regular school bus yeah that's a mess that's an issue yeah i can i can check out those type of transportation you know uh the the issue that happens with extracurricular activities is that is not reimbursable through the state so it's a straight cost that we pay so if there is additional cost of that we're out there now again i'm not opposed to that i you know within reason i think right you know and that so uh but i'll be happy to investigate that and look into it and see what we can do i appreciate i just was asked so i just brought it up but everybody everybody's the same
059way the transportation it's just it's terrible maybe you could look at it and put it in the next fyi sure sure kind of give the board kind of an idea of the cost disparity of you know but it's either maybe doing that or nothing so okay any other new business okay what's that next up is closed session and we do have closed session tonight and let me find the thank you laurie can i get a motion to go into closed session for the purpose of self-evaluation practices and procedures or professional ethics when meeting with a representative of a statewide association of which the public body is a member second roll call please brown is an eye mrs walters aye mr swanless aye dr hall aye mrs galbraith aye vice president rupert aye president albert hi
060okay we're in close session at 7 30. um for the viewing public uh this will probably last at least an hour maybe an hour and a half and then we'll come back we'll have no other action items and just adjourn so thank you very much can i get a motion to adjourn all in favor say aye aye all opposed okay we are adjourned