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003started. Muting in three, two, one. How are you? Congratulations. Thank you. I can see that you know what you'll need. I had a bathroom. There's a detector in there. Oh, wow. [Music] I don't want to [Music] Once I get more [Music] Very good. Thank you. Very good. We don't have [Music] Okay, we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order at 7:34. You can stand for the pledge of allegiance. [Music] I aliance 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. Just a few quick housekeeping items. If you can silence your cell phones and in the case of an emergency, we do have an emergency exit directly behind me and the door you walked through. So,
004welcome. Roll call. We have Ashley Dreer, trustee. Little different sto uh we have Beth Prelin, trustee. Uh June, district clerk. Uh Dr. Graham, superintendent of schools. Myself Marston, Jake Grover, trustee. Joy Lamar, trustee. Danielle Bman, trustee. Uh John Fitzpatrick, assistant superintendent of curriculum, staff development, and human resource. Cheryl Cardone, assistant superintendent of people personnel services and Dr. Merkel back there in the corner of assistant superintendent for school business and finance and our two um board of education student representatives and Charlotte Tower and uh Roger Broker is excused this evening. So sorry about that. All right. If we can start with an approval for the agenda tonight. Motion and a second. I'll second. All in favor? I. Motion carried 6. If we can get approvals for the minutes for tonight. And a second. Second. All in
005favor? Opposed? Motion carry 6. And we sign for the public comment section. So we'll go on to curriculum and instruction. Thank you and good evening. Um we first of all need action uh for a cheerleading camp overnight trip field trip. Quick question. There's no cost to the district on that. No, it's all fundraised. All right. If I can get ahead and a second. Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. 6. And secondly, for your review in uh curriculum and instruction is the the I Ready spring report uh for reading and math. And I'm happy to report that we are still uh performing in standards that are above the national norm. And if you can take a look at please the the uh the I Ready report for reading. Uh you can see in the all
006of our schools are really projected in the upper right quadrant. That's high performance, high growth. The middle school is almost there. Um and I do credit our principles uh and the teachers who have uh both used the my path instruction as well as um to help uh continue that growth. Great. He was just getting ready for the Oh, okay. Okay. Um and I I just want to make sure everybody knows what we're doing for uh um for reading instruction this year because we are transitioning to make sure that we are implementing phonics at uh grades 2 through 5. Um Kate uh Augustine, who is a wellrespected Boseis trainer, is uh coming in. She's already uh she's met with our entire uh K5 staff last year. Uh she's also um she trained our principles uh further
007this summer um and will be meeting um with the uh the staff five uh throughout this coming school year. We actually have 17 days planned uh with uh Kate Odyssey. Okay. Great. And for math, uh, we're doing the same. Um, we have been, uh, for the last couple years with our Ira scores in math. We're still high performing, high growth, um, for all schools in the district and we're again utilizing Boseis Bosey's trainer, Maria La Rotunda, um, to come in and help us uh, continue that that effort. I do want to say I am um commending our principles who are participating in a new initiative um that is uh quite a bit of time this this school year. It's uh the modern learners initiative um and forgive me I have to read read some things
008so that you completely understand what they're doing. Uh, modern learners is a researchbased framework with 10 principles that transform schools from efficiency focused to effectiveness focused learning environments and it's going to build their leadership capacity as we transition to the New York State portrait of a graduate um, which will be mandatory uh, for all school districts in 2029. Um, our building principles have been attending summer sessions twice a week for one hour, partnering with 11 other school districts across Western New York. Uh, there'll be 12 sessions this summer. They've already begun. I think we completed half of those sessions already. Um, I am included in all that. Um and then as the school year begins um our middle school principal and our high school principal will attend 20 1-hour sessions uh to develop their leadership
009capacity as it relates to the portrait of a graduate and I myself will also attend 20 sessions uh individually too um so that I can support our principles in this effort. Okay, that's great. Any questions on to personnel instructional before we go to a motion? Does anybody have questions? Okay. Can I get a motion for PI1 through PI7, please? Motion and a second. Second. All in favor? I oppose. Motion carried 6. Any introductions? I do. Good evening, Board of Education members, Dr. Graham, and district administrators. Megan, if you could please stand so I can introduce you. Tonight, I would like to introduce you to Miss Megan McKe. She will be joining our high school team in September as our alternative to suspension and suspension program teacher. Miss McKe has a bachelor's degree in health and
010physical education from Katrus College, and she is currently working on her master's degree in exceptional education at Buffalo State. She had taught in the alternative education high school program and the suspension program in North Tonawan High School for the past three years. So she comes to us with a very strong background and experience in restorative practices as well as a passion for working with students who are at risk. We are very excited to welcome Megan to GHS and we're looking forward to having her join our team with us in September. Welcome. [Applause] Thank you. Did you bring anybody with you today? for my mom. She's here for her mom, too. I just want to commend Hillary and her team for this vision uh and helping kids who might make a mistake or uh demonstrate a
011poor choice to have this restorative intervention prior to perhaps more significant um consequences. So, I think this is a really smart thing that Hillary and her team are developing and we're really excited to bring Megan on board. So, congratulations. Thank you. On to personal non-instructional. Any questions before we ask for a motion? All right. Can I get a motion for PNI 1 through PNI 3, please? And a second. I'll second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion. Motion carries. 6. I just want to say to the board and our community, we're really going to miss a lot of the people that are uh resigning for retirement. Uh we wish them all the best. Uh and it's always a difficult decision, but Sonia and Bonnie particularly, you know, we're really uh sad to see them go, but
012we know that they loved working for us and may come back to some every now and then. So, we thank the board for your uh support to finance. All right. Thank you very much. So I am going to start with item G if I may. Uh item G is an update on the uh capital project that we are working on. I'm going to invite my friends Rashan, Libby, and Matt from Young and Wright as well as Von from Campus Construction and we have uh Jessica Boni is joining us online from RG Tims's office. Hi Jess. I'm going to um Jess will be available if we have any finance questions. Uh but I am going to have the presentation up in front of us here. Uh I did put a copy of the presentation at your
013seats. So take it away. Everyone hear me? Okay. Perfect. Uh thank you again for having us tonight. Um Dr. Merkel asked us to keep this presentation under two hours. Hope everyone's in for it. Does that include Bon speaking for we'll do we'll do our best. Um so just a quick introduction uh to new faces. Uh my name is Matthew Cummings with Young and Right Architectural. With me tonight is uh Libby Paus. She's also with me from Young and Right. Sean Seni is the partner in charge from uh Young and Right. And then Bob Miracle is with Campus Construction. is the district's kind of representative for construction management itself. And then I believe we also mentioned Jess is here as well and she is from RG Tim's office. Okay. Uh agenda. So we met with the
014board uh back in May uh reviewed some of the scope and schedules and we revisited some of those items and we're here to present that tonight. We also have some updated schedule uh information and uh project financial scope. So I'll start with uh some of the project scope. The district's focus has been really focused around warm, cool, safe and dry. Um so those elements are going to be re uh occurring throughout the scope items tonight. They also asked us to kind of figure out how we would like to see things phased uh in construction and design. So these are highle kind of milestones uh ideas uh and we're here for feedback as well. So if you have questions at any time feel free to let us know. Okay. So phase one is primarily focused on
015the you'll need to unlock your iPhone first. Sorry. No problem. Oh my goodness. little AI. Well, we can tell this story at Niscus when we talk about artificial intelligence. Now you can now you have to say sorry about that. Uh all right. So scope uh for phase one uh district is looking to replace the middle school roof. Uh look at replacing the football field turf carpet itself is at the end of its useful life. GMAX ratings are technically seemingly uh what they should be. So that would be up for replacement. And then over at the the eco uh Stanley Eco building um roof replacement over at that building right now. Okay. And then Libby is going to share with you phase two scope for that. So phase two is really focused on the elementary schools.
016So Kegabine, Sidway, and Hugh. And you'll notice that these are all project scope items that we've covered at previous board meetings for all of these buildings as well. So, Kegabine focusing on the HVAC replacement and upgrades. So, adding air conditioning, replacing boilers, things like that. And then some structural floor remediations. So, we have three three classrooms that we walked with the board around the building and those were really in the worst condition. Um, and we've identified two additional classrooms to do if budget allows us at this building as well. Sidway, same thing. Classroom HVAC replacements and upgrades. So, new boilers, air conditioning, things like that. Replacing the exterior doors and steps. And that includes a sidewalk out to the playground as well. And then over at Huth, HVAC replacements and upgrades as well. So boilers,
017air conditioning controls, things like that. And then replacing the stage curtains over there as well because they're towards the end of their useful life. Can I ask a quick question about this probably for you? Did we consider air conditioning for the cafeterias or we did for both? for the elementary buildings. Yes, for Houston. I think we're classroom focused. I believe that at Sidway it already has air conditioning for that building. Um, and I get mixed up with Hugh. Is it the auditorium that you might have? Right. So, right now it's it's go ahead. Each school has a large gathering space that is currently air conditioned. We did look at doing it. you have to do a different type of a system in one of those rooms and just where the budget came in. It doesn't
018necessarily allow that. It's something that we can look at for the long-term plan. Yeah, know that makes sense. Sorry to say as the So, um if you take a look at these, the the areas that are in purple here are uh currently already have AC and then the yellow areas are the the areas that we're targeting for this project. So, um you can see at the various schools there are there are several spaces that have including large spaces that have AC currently. Yeah, that makes sense. And then for phase three, I'm going to turn it back over to Matt. Okay. So, phase three is revolving scope at the middle school and high school complex. Uh we toured uh the middle school locker rooms. uh they look like they're from the early 60s. This has definitely
019got their uh useful life out of them. So, we're looking to do a full rehab uh on the the locker rooms themselves. So, flooring, wall tile, ceiling, lighting, lockers, it won't look like the same space that you currently walk in. um the classroom uh flooring in the middle school. The district is currently bidding out three um uh classrooms for a capital outlay with the hopes of being able to afford a fourth one. The remaining classrooms that are um still left over will be uh on the list for the capital improvement project. Bob, it looks like you have a Yeah, I just wanted to touch base on the locker room. So, at your spots there, I did kind of give you a supplement to this. Um, so, uh, the locker rooms were kind of something we
020added after our initial conversations and, uh, felt that that it was important to include them in these projects. So, I just wanted to give you, uh, as the board a little bit more information on that. So, there's some pictures u from each locker room. It looks like there was already a little bit of room done in previous projects. Um, so you know, you see some new lockers here, uh, and obviously very old lockers here. You know, these are probably the existing ones that some people used when they were going to school here. Um, here's the the boys again. You know, there's some newer lockers here. They had taken out some in the middle and and put some seating in there. So, uh, when you look at at the price, um, on the scope here, sorry,
021uh, you'll be able to flip your sheet so you can see this, but you'll see that, um, there's kind of a delineation. Some of the the areas that have already previously been worked on, the scope of work is not quite as great as the other areas that have had no work, and there's going to be a lot more uh, work in those areas uh, as far as gutting and and redoing stuff. So, just wanted to uh, point that out. And then just that quick question. I'm I'm gonna assume like that open area in the boys main locker room in the high school. I'm gonna assume that was probably a coach want, right? Like I'm going to assume that so they can go in and talk in the locker room after games and stuff. So I'm
022hoping like when we go into the scope we don't change that or we at least speak with them to make sure they don't lose their functionality during the design phase. I figure great question. I think we had altered that in a previous project to to open it up. Yeah, it's nice. I know the girls side in high school doesn't have that, but that's I'm assuming that's Jude was just worried about some of the wooden benches and splinters. Is that something that we're We're going to make sure that it's adequate seating. Excellent. All right. So, some other scope uh items at the middle school, uh replacing corridor lockers, adding air conditioning to the cafeteria. Uh over at the ramp area, uh there's some wall tile damage, so looking to replace that. Um and then looking to
023upgrade the building wide alert, like one button push down lock systems. That's something previously discussed already. And then also, uh wireless uh Wi-Fi upgrades throughout that building as well. I mean, what you repair in the hallway? I'm going to assume we're going to find out what's causing it, right? I'm going to guess it's just could just be crumbling. It's old, right? It could just be like the concrete's done, correct? Or the adhesive is done. Yeah, we we've included a loaded cost to to take down the tile, take down the backer board, perhaps even moisture mitigation, and then build it back up. And then moving to the high school. Uh so renovate the pool uh locker rooms uh gym locker rooms again similar fashion at the middle school. Uh again similar vintage definitely needs some help.
024Uh so they won't look at the same space. The um the high school cafeteria uh and library window replacement. Uh so those are at the end of their useful life and those were identified as a part of ECS. So district's looking to replace those. again uh corridor replacement for the lockers, Wi-Fi upgrades. Um enhancing uh some of the features in the auditorium like a projector screen and camera equipment is also in touch. Um upgrades to the buildingwide alert system and then also the infamous smells something. Okay, so we've done some uh investigations already. The district has already uh enh uh enabled some work to be done. I believe Phil was looking at replacing the existing sump pump to try and mitigate some of the smells there. They've scoped the lines to try and understand if
025there's any cause uh from outside of the building. From our understanding, there's some minor backup, but that doesn't seem to be the root of the problem. Um, we've worked with Ron and his team to put in about a $150,000 allowance to try and uh resolve some of the other mitigation uh or start some of the other solutions that we could do, but it's it's a multi-step approach. I can't just fix it and say that this is going to be the end all be all. It's similar to like lead mitigation with water systems. Um, we could certainly repipe the entire building and that solves the problem, but that really is wasteful use of expenses. So, we have a couple ideas that we'd like to be working through. Uh it is just one of those things where
026we're hoping that some pump replacement works and some of the work that the district has already done over the summer solves the problem, but we still have some money set aside to go get some additional. Quick question on his cafeteria windows. I know there was a concern that it's like wide open. It's like fish bowl. Are we doing something to I think one one of the suggestions was some type of film that would go over those windows. I'm not sure if it's included in this or something. It is Matt. Okay. Was a concern from our principal. Great question. Okay, that really wraps up the scope aspect for the project. Any questions related to scope? Yes. Just so I understand, in phase two where we're talking about the HVAC, these classrooms that or areas that are
027in yellow, they will have air conditioning. Just making sure. Yep. No problem. Any other questions? Okay, I'm going to turn over to Von. He's going to chat with you guys about the schedule uh for pre-re stuff and then also post uh voting information. Okay. Okay. So, the first slide is going to talk a little bit about where we've been to date and um and where we head for the rest of this year. Um this of course this process started in 2024 with a much earlier than that of course too. But um 2024 we Young and Wright did a building condition survey. Um it opened up a lot of spaces. Um understood your your current status across the board across the district. When we moved into 2025, we began to prioritize the ECS work uh with
028the district. Bob and Phil took a big role in that. Um we reviewed the potential scope um back in February, March um and then held several project workshops some of course even with the facilities committee for the board. Um after that we we've of course been compiling the scope of work alongside estimates all year long and then we really started to work with with RG Tims uh throughout the past several months. So we'll get a good update here tonight from Jessica on that. Um where we head next is we are looking to finalize the scope of work by September 8th. Um that's really important that allows us to go into October and I'll talk about that more on the next slide but in October November um get into the SRA and also uh the vote
029preparation public meetings in November early early December and then a vote a proposed vote um in December. So the next slide will hone in a little bit further on our path forward right now. Um again selecting final scope by by early September. um the CCRO which is the state environmental quality review act anytime you do a public project you have to make sure that there's not a negative impact on the environment so that is what that process is and also um preparation the seeker in call for vote were targeting for the October board of education meeting on October 6 then we would go into our process of public meetings project advertising we have to do legal notices in the newspaper. Um those happen 10:24, 117, 11:14, 11:28. Um that whole process is is the team.
030So that's that's the district campus young and right and our Tims alongside Hutch and Ross the district's attorney. Uh public info meetings to be determined, but those we typically like to hold um sometime in November uh leading up to uh vote and we may hold one or two depending on the um what the flavor is here in the in the community for the project. Uh proposed public vote on on December 10th and then post vote um you adopt the bond resolution early January and that is of course post vote and the project is you know heading into uh the pre-construction design. So um Somebody have a question. I It's not really a question. I You've gone over the schedule and so we get a lot or I have heard um not necessarily just with this
031project, but that December vote from our community is very confusing. I don't understand why it doesn't happen during our election process and our normal budget vote. Can you just again reiterate? I know you've done it in past meetings. if you could just do it real quick just so we can hear it one more time because we will we will hear questions. it's it's already flared from our last meeting, you know, um just another so we can maybe understand again so we can you know answer questions and from a from a timing standpoint December votes are favorable and that's because post vote your design team starts up the design and then we also have to plan for a period of time where the project sits in all of you. So we hope the intent is to
032do that have the vote in December, get into design, get into SUV and get out in time for a favorable bid. We tend to prefer December votes over May votes. It really works out contractor bidding and being able to capitalize on that a little bit better than I understand that. I just just so we get to hear it again. You know, if you hear, oh, they do in December, so it's a little turning, right? like, you know, we hear that and and I'm going to assume that bidding process and everything really sets us up for a better timing for summer construction. Absolutely. If if you have time, it's better to plan for the December in our experience. And uh so I I had some conversation around this earlier too. the the ideal time to be
033bidding this work is like in the fall or the following summer. If you're if you're bidding that work in the spring, right before the summer, a lot of the prime contractors are are already obligated and uh there's not as much competition in there. So, you don't typically get as favorable of a bid in in the spring as you do in the fall. So, that that plays a big part of it as well. No, I appreciate you doing that. Again, it's just you do get a lot of questions. It's an on time forward and it will just help us be able to manage that question because we will a great question. It's a great clarification. I would also add with the stadium being done at that point that there will be more contractors hungry for work.
034Uh but I think that will also inspire competitive bids for this project. They hope absolutely time as well. Um I have a question. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. I'm sorry if you if I missed this, but what's the requirements for the public vote to pass? Like, is there a minimum threshold of number of voters? No, I believe it's just simpleity. Okay. Yeah, simple majority. All right. Um, I did uh put another copy of this timeline that uh Tims Rick Tims's office provided to us um just to to kind of go back over the timeline again uh with everybody. I've had a lot of conversations with our attorneys on on the SRA and things like that. So, um you know, this original timeline that he provided us is is is actually almost right on the money. So, um
035if you look at number 15, that's the vote voter referendum. So December 10th is the date that we're looking for. Okay. Uh the one critical timeline for uh before that is the public uh putting out public notice. The first public notice has to go out 45 to 49 days before the vote. So that's the first of the four has to go out 45 and 49 days before and then the rest will uh succeed after that. So that's the the first um important date is that 45 to 49 days which brings us back to October 24th. Um the second big date for us is uh the SRA adoption and um adopting the wording of the proposition. So that is scheduled for our October 6th meeting. So before that can happen um the information for the seeker
036the environmental impact needs to go out for what they call a joint review. So it goes out to several uh parties with with interests in the project and um that review they have to have 30 days but talking to the attorney he likes to get it out between 30 and 40 days prior to this vote. So, uh, we'll be working with the attorneys to get that out, uh, in the next couple of weeks here, uh, that information for the joint review, um, once the the scope is finalized. Um, so those are are really the major dates that we're working on right now. The end of August, the the information will go out for the SRA joint review. At the October 6 meeting, we'll have the vote on the SRA and the proposition. And then um
037if all goes to plan then on December 10th uh we will be doing the book. So just a little bit more information on that timeline and and what the requirements are there any questions on the timeline. Does anybody have any questions or concerns with the scope of work? funny. I'm asking you a question, right? But any because I appreciate everything you did to answer my questions and that that walk through really helped me understand um what we're continuing to deal with at Kine. So I really appreciate that. Um so actually just a real quick question. Yep. Did we um because our last meeting when I think we're at the right we didn't talk about lockers as being included but now they're being added. What did we remove or did we remove anything to add in
038the lockers? I'm trying to because I'm I'm trying to remember that meeting and everything that we were going through. I don't believe that we have. So, we had some additional funds that we were able to use and we're going to use them to lock offers. Is that what we're doing? Yeah, I believe that that was until one of the last two weeks. Yeah. So, what is next? So, we discussed it here. Well, you know, carry on and a couple more couple more slides and then Jessica's component tonight is all right. So, the next um really quickly our our proposed uh phased schedule moving post vote. I did want to touch on this quickly because we we talked about the scopes in the phase but we didn't talk about why it's phased. So, why is this
039phase? It's a very large project. Uh so we we want to chop it up to show you projects soon is really the the biggest reason. Um the items that we put into phase one um we put them in there strategically one is safety. So the the turf carpet replacement is a safety item. Um two we want to be able to get the aid flowing. So we put big scopes of work like the middle school crew uh eco and the turf in this phase those three scopes of work are relatively they're faster to design so we can get them designed get them into get it approved get bid out and show you projects sooner um or show you results sooner project uh phase two we just assume that the AC is a big component of this
040project so we wanted to get that design kicked off immediately. Um so that's why those scopes of work fall into phase two and then once we get done done designing phases one and two we design the rest of the work back. So that's why we took that approach. Yeah. So just to elaborate on that a little bit. So in in phase one uh the roof and the turf is really just architectural stuff. So at state ed for the reviews when they're doing the reviews there's really architectural review and engineering review and depending on where things are at determines the timeline. One can be longer than the other but to keep things simpler and to get the project moving. Uh we chose things for uh phase one that that we feel would hopefully have a faster
041design process as Juan said and a faster review process so we can get things moving and get the aid flowing etc. In phase two we the scope of what we have of what they have to design. Uh there's architectural components, there's engineering components, there's a lot more to it. So they're going to you know shell the vote passed in December. They're going to get to work right away on that design, but that design is going to take a lot longer and we anticipate that the review will also take longer because they're going to be reviewing architecture and engineering. So, um, you know, that kind of played in into why phase one, why phase two? Um, just to elaborate on that a little bit. Any questions on any of that? Thank you. And Bob, I think
042there was a financial savings by doing the phases. Is that correct? Correct. and and we'll talk about that right now. Um but yes, so um typically when you're doing a project, you borrow the lump sum at the end of the project and pay off your your um other loans. So you'll take smaller loans during the project so that you're not paying interest on that huge sum. So you take a smaller loan, they call that capitalized interest. So, we had about $3 million and a little bit over three and a half of capitalized interest built in in a in a prior financial model that we had for the project. Um, working with Tim's office and Jessica, uh, who we'll talk to in a second here, um, we were able to use our existing reserve for debt
043and plan that out to pay off some of our existing debt, which will make room, uh, using those other dollars to pay for uh, those phases of the project as we go. So, we won't have as much interest that we have to pay while we before we get to the big borrowing at the end of the project. So that that was uh that saved us quite a bit of money in this project. Um so uh Jess, do you want to talk about these slides? Let me see if I can get your real quick just before we move on to the finances. Do you guys have anything to say on the capital project? Any thoughts, input? Ladies, Charlotte, sit in quiet. I don't know. Sit quiet. You can interject at any time. But I think it's
044a really good idea, especially the locker rooms really outdated and it's hard to We only have a couple minutes before and after gym class have to open the lockers. Especially, we have to bring our own locks. And I had a couple issues with mine this year that it um it was stuck and I couldn't open it. So, she actually had to cut it off. Whereas the newer lockers had to build box, which is nice. Um, but yeah, I think it's going to be really Yeah, I agree. I think it'll be really great and especially the air conditioning, the elementary classrooms. I think that's really great. Thank you. You guys can speak up anytime. You don't have to wait or share thoughts or whatever. If you lean towards the microphone, we know you got something to
045say. Just stare. All right, Jess. Uh, let me get back to the presentation here. Thanks. So, I'm not sure if we're going to play over the top, so let me figure out where my speakers are on this thing. I'm trying to get the microphone close there. Okay. So basically for every dollar spent on needable work, the district has a building aid ratio of 71.5%. So basically that means 71.5% will come back in state aid and then the district would be responsible for the other 28.5%. Um when we look at the next slide, this is really talking about the tax impact of the project. So the project size is 69 million and that's going to equate to a.3 35 cent basically increase per thousand. So if this is uh the estimated tax impact on um that
046that this project would cost would be about an estimated 35 cents per $1,000 of assessed value. So for a house that's that's assessed at $200,000, that would mean about an additional $70 per year. Per year. Yep. And so that's an additional tax increase. Um, so what Bob was talking about earlier, the district does have some money in a debt service reserve and we're using that debt service reserve money to pay down existing debt. And basically there's a level right now of local share that the district pays for all of your projects and we're driving that local share down to bring in the new project to allow us to only have that 35 cent increase per thousand. Then we look at the next slide. This talks about so along with the debt service reserve the district
047also has a capital reserve the capital reserve penny can only be used for capital projects and basically what we're doing is we're using 1,955329 from the capital reserve and we're using that to pay for capital project expenses. So 69 million you won't need me to borrow that 1,955 because that money will be coming from the capital reserve. So it reduces the amount the district has to borrow and reduces the interest risk you have to pay long term in the borrowing. And then this next slide talks about the maximum loan. So at each of your school buildings, the state assigns a certain number of what they call building aid units. Those building aid units are then used to calculate an aid ceiling. So basically a maximum amount of work that they will aid at each of
048your buildings. So if we look at the middle high school um it's talks about a maximum cost all loans of 87.5 million 70.2 million is available to be used towards construction and then 17.3 million is available for incidentals. I should also just mention that included in the incidentals would also be any site work. So any work that you do on parking lot fields sidewalks anything more than 5 ft from the building also has to be included within that incidental aid ceiling. So you can see there it goes through the aid ceilings for all of the buildings. So obviously the aid ceiling available for the high school is larger than the elementary schools. And we look at all of that too when we're uh talking about phasing and because basically you have that maximum cost allowance
049for 5 years and every 5 years your project will roll off. So that aid ceiling refreshes after 5 years. And then the last slide just but it summarizes everything we just talked about the maximum cost allowance the building aid ratio the capital reserves and then the 35cent tax increase. Any questions on the financial portion of the project? Any questions on anything else for the project feedback? Just Matt or Von. Uh just a reminder to the board uh the timeline again in the next couple board meetings when the board can expect. Yeah. So I know we did it once before, but if we can just pull that back up. Uh the timeline or this one. next. So really uh just finalizing the scope so that see can start uh the terms need their time. Yeah. And
050that means that the board can still have an impact on the scope up until 98 and then after that they would actually vote on 106. Does that make sense? Yes. Okay. Just sure. So go ahead. I I would probably say that we want the scope to be done by our next meeting, August 25th. Okay. We won't necessarily vote on that scope. Um because we don't we shouldn't vote until October 6. So the board can correct take now until the next August meeting to bring any additional scope or subtract scope. Correct. Okay. Because then we will be uh after that meeting at the end of August there, we'll be starting our secret joint review getting that information out. So we won't want to make any changes once that is out for joint review. So, it's a
051select final scope by 98. Just want to make sure that everybody's clear. Really, it's August that we're hoping for. August 25th. Our next meeting, is it August 24? Um, so August 25th. So, I I I guess if you guys have questions, concerns, thoughts, um, we really should talk about them today. um because we don't meet again until they're going to really want our final stroke. I will say for myself I'm done. Um so I mean I can say that I will be making or having no more questions or thoughts. So I'm I'm very happy with the scope. Um everything looks looks great. Um so I will be fine at the next meeting to to actually vote if it's needed. Right. Um I don't know how everybody else feels, if anybody's got questions, concerns. Um, I
052think, you know, we touched on a lot of what we're supposed to do, you know, the air conditioning, the maintaining our facilities, which is one of our main jobs as a board. Um, so, um, yeah, I mean, I don't know if anybody else has any add. Thank you, Sue. Thank you. That's so important. So for the board because it would be me one last one last conversation at the next meeting might be like we're still good right there's really no action it's just a thumbs up let's keep moving forward and then that will outline how we communicate for the seeker right and that would that timeline change based on what you heard today or are we still looking for the timeline to stay the same except for 98 we're still looking at 10 six and
053so forth Do we need to do an official vote then? Is that on the 6th? Yeah, it's important. Um, so it has to be done on the sixth this morning. Okay. And I I'll double check with Paul Mowski, our our attorney for Rush um before the next meeting and make sure there's nothing else that we need to do before October 6th. And I'll make sure communicate that to you guys. It sounds like everybody's kind of in agreement with the scope. very very good. So I I would ask you to go to the slide that shows how phase three starts to ramp up. So this is really important for our board of education. You heard from Jessica and our team that the um the maximum cost allowance reset at a certain time. Would that time be
054after 2030? It would like 2032 or something along those lines. It's every five years. So every god, sorry, it's every five years from each SED approval date. So let's just pretend phase one gets approval in December of 26. That will reset in December of 31. Then the same thing for phase 2. If that gets approval in December of 27, that will reset in December of 32. So it's every five years from every five years from the SED approval date. Jessica, that's excellent. So for our board, it's very likely that I may not be here after 2030, right? Uh and some of you may still be on the board. I just think it's super important for this board to understand that somewhere in the 2031 32 year, we should be as a board, as a governing
055body, looking at the next capital project. And I know that may seem like it's coming up fast, but if we really want to continue these improvements that we're doing at the elementary schools here at the middle and high school, uh it's just really important for the board to set that as a goal. The other thing this board has done extremely well uh has been the governance of our budget and maintaining a budget that meets the needs of our district and the community. To that end, I want to thank the board for your consistent uh approach to budgeting. And I also want to thank Bob and Rick Tims for working together to better understand the capital reserve to have 1,900,000 in there, right? Based on the hard work of this governing team so that we can
056apply that to this, you know, if this project's approved, apply it here. And that same hard work will continue for the next six, seven years to build up that capital reserve again for the next budget. So Bob, am I saying that all correctly? All right, I got to look make sure. But it's super important for this board and to document that that uh we should feel comfortable in about seven years or so coming back and developing another project and we might get that started earlier, right? 2030 maybe or Matt's saying earlier than that but to begin the conversations right because there will be other scope there will be other work building condition work that we need to address and for the community listening or paying attention this is how good school districts operate that we
057don't wait 10 12 15 years to do a project that it's on a cycle of six or seven years based on the maximum cost allowance those are all the factors that go into uh the hard work putting a project together. So, I just wanted to make sure this work hears that. Um, anything else to add to that? The only thing I would add is, you know, we work with young and right on kind of long range plans, right? So, some of the stuff from the building condition survey that might not have gotten addressed in this project is still on our radar for for a future project. So, we're kind of really always planning capital projects. It's just a matter of when we do the deep dive like this, but we're always thinking about, okay, we're
058going to have to do this on the next project or do that. You know, if we start having room problems somewhere, we have to address them. So, we have those smaller capital outlay projects. We get 100 grand a year. Um, you know, we try to get at some of the smaller things with that and and some of the more urgent things because those typically happen faster. But uh but yeah, so we're we're always monitoring and and you know trying to keep our facilities the best that they can be. Have one more question, Bob. Um this 1,900,000 that's currently in the reserve, right? If there were after we do our close out of last year, if there were some money, could that also go in the capital? Absolutely. And that could also help spend down. Correct.
059All right. That's good to know. Okay. And and I should have a good idea of that by the October 6th uh meeting and vote. We should we should have those numbers for sure. Anything else? All right. Thank you very much, Jessica, Von, Rashan, Matt, Libby, take care, Jessica. Thank you. and for Megan McKe and her mom. If you guys want to go get ice cream or something or you can stay for the most exciting part of the court. Awesome. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. Now we're going back to the finance agenda. All right. So, back to the finance agenda. We have items A through um F that will be up for action tonight. Item A is uh just the approval of the high school science bids. Item B is some obsolete materials at Kegabine. Item
060C is a donation from the Lesley Morris fund. Uh item D is to accept the auction results uh of some items we had on auctions international. And then item E is the certification of the school tax budget and the tax rate which I did uh want to discuss that last item real quick before I ask for action on these. And I I have a question for D too before we take a vote. Uh do you want to ask that first? I I just can everybody look at that really quick on the board. Can you open the attachment and see the bids that I mean we got $500 bucks for a bus? No, it wasn't for a bus. That was for the bus. No, it was a break. No. No. $500 was the bid for a
061bus by that 2009 international bus. And $560 just seems very low for a bus that is hundreds of thousands of dollars to accept that bid. I mean, one bus we're getting $13,200 for. And obviously that bus was a newer bus. It was a 2015, so it was only 10 years old. But the 2009 international bus, um, $560. I just am super uncomfortable with accepting a bid that low. And I don't know if we can put it back out to bid to try to get a little more, but these buses are just so ex I mean, they're hundreds of thousands of dollars and then to get 500 bucks for it just doesn't seem like it seems like we could do better is is all I'm I'm thinking. I completely understand. Um it that that is a
062very old bus by any kind of standard. So typically we we have a 10-year life cycle on buses. That one's been along around a lot longer. The fulls size buses just don't get much at auction. 1,200 bucks, 1,500 bucks is is usually about all they go for. Um there's not really much that they can do with them. And for us as a district to try to to keep those buses around and to keep them passing the safety inspections, our costs are are very significant. I'm not suggesting we keep it around, though. I'm suggesting can we put it back out to try to get more money from it at auction because it's it's just such a low bid. Yeah. Never sell on that one before. Does that run Teresa? It does not run specific about that
063bus. Maybe that it's been our it's been our bus that we've had the sign on there for bus drivers needed for 10 years. So it's it's we saved it as a 2009. We really have kind of saved it in the timeline because of the opportunity when the electric bus came in. You needed 2,000 to do this federal kind of grant that came in when consideration and it wasn't in consideration. So it stayed in our lot. Now it's strictly only meant for scrap. Okay. So it doesn't run. It does not. Yeah. So, we've we've kept that around the last couple years um because when when the incentives were coming out for the electric buses, there was a a certain incentive for scrapage like Teresa referred to. So, if you had a B bus that was I
064think it was pre203 um then you could get an extra like4 or $50,000 if you put a a hole in the engine block. uh that wouldn't have met the criteria for us because they had additional criteria that the bus had to be uh it had to do x amount of miles or x amount of runs during the school year for the last couple years and we haven't used that because it it hasn't been able to do that. So so we lost you know we were hanging on to it for the scrappage and we there is no opportunity there so now we're going to get rid of it. So we can most certainly put it back up but I I don't think we're going to get much more we're going to get anymore. Yeah. But it
065is it's a hard pill to swallow when you're spending 185,000 and then you get 1,200 bucks on the flip side. Yeah. Well, we're getting 560. Wow. That's the smaller buses typically do go for a lot more on the auction. You know, that one's 10 10,000 something. Uh we had success with a couple last year. The small ones, the small ones typically do a lot better. Um, I think it's just the bus companies like, uh, you look at Western New York bus and some of those companies, they buy them and and they can get more use out of them because they're doing a lot of smaller runs and things like that. So, thank you. You're welcome, Bob. We try asking the Partridge family. Thank you. [Music] Yeah. I actually just kind of Googled it like what's
066the current appreciated value of like a working 2009 school bus. And it does say it potentially loses more than 90% of its original value. So, you can see why they're just buying it for the scraps. There's nothing. Yeah. And they're going to have to come pick it up, too. So, okay. Um, so, uh, on to item E. Any questions on any of the other items? All right. Um, so for item E, I just wanted to provide some information. There's been a lot of questions on that on this this year. So I I just put together a little memo um to try to help people kind of understand what happened with with the school taxes this year. So there was two big changes that happened um in the reassessment this year. So, um, part of school
067taxes involves an equalization rate. So, the equalization rate takes all of the districts in the county and then makes it a level playing field. So, last year, our equalization rate compared to the rest of the towns and villages in the county was 73%. So if you take our total Grand Island taxable assessed value for last year with an equalization rate of 73%. And adjusted that for a 100% equalization rate then we our 100% rate would be 3 bill136,000 for all of the properties on the island. So going from 2425 to 2526 our equalization rate changed. We went from a 73% equalization rate to a 100% equalization rate. So in 2425 we did had 73% 25 26 we're at 100%. So I kind of modified these so that you could make a better comparison. So, not
068only did the equalization rate change, but the total assessed taxable value of the island went from 3.136 billion to 3504 billion. So, there was two big changes that happened from last year to this year. um which caused the tax rate for the school tax rate to go from $17.72 per thousand down to $11.93 per thousand. So, it looks like it's a significant decrease in the tax rate, but it's a result of the equalization rate going from 73 to 100% and the total taxable assessed value going from 3.136 billion to 3504 billion. The important numbers are really here, the school tax levy. So the school tax levy last year was 40,573,000. When you figure out the tax rate, you take uh the total tax levy and divide it by the assessed value, which gives you and
069then divide by a,000, which gives you your tax rate per thousand. This year, our tax rate uh went up by 3.14%. This was what was voted on uh I believe it was May 20th this year when we had the school budget vote. So the the public approved this increase of 1.272 million almost 1.273. So they approved that. So now this increased total tax levy for the school district is spread out over a much bigger base or a much bigger taxable assessed valuation which decreases the tax rate significantly. So, I I just um wanted to provide some information. So, if you look at a $200,000 home, the school tax uh last year for a $200,000 home would have been $3,544. this year. If you uh adjust that same $200,000 for the equalization and then multiply it
070by the new tax rate, then your tax bill went up by about $111. Your tax bill went up by 3.14%. So, uh your taxes were would be $111 higher, which is your portion of this $1.272 million increase. So, I'm just trying to break it down, show some of the math behind what happened. Um, put a little narrative down there as well. I'll I'll put this up on uh the district website um just so people can access it. But, and then there's some some calculations here that just uh show you like last year if you want to calculate your own um the different values from last year and this year. So, if you want to compare last year to this year and see how that might have changed. Um, just some useful information. Any questions on
071that? No. Thank you. That's makes sense. Absolutely. Just real quick, Bob, before the motion that this IPA program, is that a program we're continuing or is that something new? So, the the IPA is a initial uh it's a purchase arrangement arrangement. I can't remember what the I stands for all the time. That's okay. So, basically, we're purchasing computers, laptops. It's to replace that's how we usually acquire most of our electronics and stuff. That's and and that's how we are continuing our 111. Correct. Correct. So, we'll be replacing some of that. We replace our servers. We do most of that through Boseies. They give us a fiveyear uh a fiveyear purchasing option for that. So, um that's just that's a normal thing that we are normally doing. So typically the way we do it is every
072year one falls off and one goes on and we try to keep that as well as we can. That's what I was. Yes ma'am. And then I saw the Chromebooks at the bottom. So absolutely great. Anybody else have any questions for A through E? A through F is the motions IPA. Oh, sorry. Yes. A through F. Thank you. Can I do a motion um for finance A through F, please? And a second. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried 6. I just really want to quick um just make mention to the donation from uh the Leslie R. Morris Memorial Fund. Um that's been I think we're in our 11th year, right? Um it's a rotating $500 donation to our libraries. Um and every year it goes to a different uh different school. I believe
073it's Skyabine this year. And it's just a great donation. and and and and and his wife is just fantastic. She attends our um joint PTA meeting. She's just very excited and it's just it's just a great gift, you know, in the relation to our um school district. So, I just wanted to just take a moment and recognize that and um say thank you for her continued support to our district. On to two quick items. Um, we do still run CSE and CPSC meetings in the summer. So, I can have action on those two, please. Motion and a second. I'll second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion 6. Thank you very much. Dr. Thank you very much. So, uh, you know, I know I've mentioned this several times, but, uh, many of us don't take off in
074the summer. It's a very busy place and we're really appreciative of the board supporting our summer school programs, our academic intervention programs, our new Viking voyage program, our program to support children who have English as a second language, our special education summer school program. So, there's a lot happening and today you'll see some photographs of some of the work and good work that's happening. Starting off just with a reminder to our board and the community that uh Brett Banker a year ago uh brought to our district uh the Grand Island High School Athletic Hall of Fame and this is going into year two. These are the wonderful athletes and coaches that are being honored this year. And to support their work, he has a neat raffle uh that's going to be at the EFW Post
075this Saturday. So I definitely will be attending. It was a great event last year. And if anybody in the community or here uh would like to participate, you just have to reach out to Brett or Tony uh Meyers to uh offer that support. I know we pushed out something to the community today. So I think it may have generated some interest from the community. So, and I uh just for the board to understand uh some of the money that they're trying to raise is for a kiosk that would live in the Viking mall where people can go up to the kiosk and uh look at the biography, maybe look at some photographs of some of the uh previous uh people that were honored and we think we'll be able to put our distinguished alumni into
076that same kiosk. So it'll be a kind of a living breathing uh place where people can appreciate the good work of uh you know our students from the past and all the good things that are happening. So we really support that. I think uh Bob I don't know if if Brett has asked you or told you but they're they're looking you know this kiosk is going to be above $20,000 somewhere around that range. So they're ambitious. They did raise a good significant amount of funds uh last year. this is their second attempt to get closer to their goal. So, we we appreciate everybody's support for that. Uh you know, uh I I know all of you, the board here really appreciates the work of our school related uh professionals. I took a few pictures of
077our team and also students who work in the summer to support uh our schools uh just moving equipment in and out of classrooms. The floors look amazing. Uh, you know, I know we'll get a little glimpse as we exit today and look at the wonderful work that this team is doing for our students and our community uh throughout the summer. And as we all know, this summer's been pretty hot. So, they've been really working hard. And uh these are uh some more pictures and uh the work that goes on in the in the gymnasiums to make everything sparkle and look great is really appreciated by all of us. and our uh our transportation uh department super busy as the board knows. We have 91 children attending special education summer school, 24 in our Viking voyage,
07815 15 in our English as a second language program and every Friday the buses are here. The kids go on field trips. They go to the zoo be I think during Jay during our golf outing they were there at the beach that day enjoying uh you know that they went to the Lions uh special needs picnic and so many more great experiences beyond uh the wonderful instruction. Uh and a lot of that's supported of course by transportation. We thank transportation for all of their support. And remember, it's not just bus drivers, it's attendants, it's nurses that travel with our students. And these pictures really show you how busy and active uh these programs are. So again, we can only say thank you so much for the board support uh for all that we offer our
079students in this community. And you know, look, look, some of the students really uh gave me some great smiles, but there's one kid that gave me stuck out of his tongue and he was making fun of me. Uh, let's see where he is. Uh, I'm sure it's coming up. So, um, so again, big thank you to everybody. Mechanics working hard to make sure our buses are moving in the best possible direction to support our kids. and uh and and you're starting to see ath athletes coming to camps uh working out, getting ready for tryyous. Uh so we really appreciate our coaches for all that extra support and our community education program. So many kids came to that sports camp. Uh and it's really they love it, you know. So we have great people there. 211
080students participate in community ed uh through those those uh those experiences. The pool is in operation over the summer. A lot of community swimming going on. And there it is. Right. So, we thank everybody again. Uh Sue, we just had a great outing. Uh Jude did such a fantastic job putting this together. Uh Jay, thank you for your support. And uh this just is emblematic of the community support. Pinnacle again stood stepped up to be uh a title presenter. Bali is a new title presenter for us. Oddsman and Russ has always been there. And then of course campus and the Grand Island Chamber and Toshiba. This year we had Volkswagen North Volkswagen out there with That's interesting because the hole in one right back in the day could win the car. Yeah, I didn't notice
081that for sure. Uh I didn't come close power equipment was a presenter. Malwitz is veranda. Is that how you say? Yeah. And some of these prizes were truly truly remarkable. So we thank everybody for their support and our students come out uh to volunteer and to help us uh put our best foot forward. Uh Jude again and Jude who's your friend there in that picture? Jill Crocker. Jill Proctor. Yeah, she came out, helped out. It was great. And then uh it was just John, your dad came to golf. That was pretty special. My father, some of our SRP uh golf together, which was great. Um John came out and there was a special tea sign celebrating John's 50 years, which I thought was really special. That's right. And here is Jay. And then here's my
08286year-old father. move golf 18 holes right straight and true. Uh it was really great. This is my brother John, my son Sean. So we had a really great outing just ourselves uh participating in that. So uh you heard uh John talk about the important work of our administrative team over the next three years totally diving in and investing in this new concept of a portraiture graduate that we support. We like uh the direction of the state and the way it's moving forward. The pro the portrait provides a unifying vision of what it means to be a graduate state and describes the essential skills, dispositions, and so forth. There are six interconnected attributes uh culturally responsive, sustaining education. And this uh this emblem you'll be get to see a lot. It'll show up in a lot
083of our board presentations as we get ready for the timeline. Uh the board is or the board of regents is really focused on making sure as they always have that kids are academic academically prepared. As a result they've been they've for many many many many years tied that notion to uh passing those regions exams and so forth. But now you see other words here being creative and being innovative. I love that. I love that that's going to be a focus of the state. uh diving into what it means to be a critical thinker, an effective communicator, uh thinking globally as a citizen, and reflecting on uh the future, which is so important when we look at our world. Um and this will give a timeline. In the future, we'll have Hillary and John do a
084more thorough presentation, but this just kind of outlines just generally speaking the timeline. You'll see that uh the New York State Education Department will be releasing rubrics and guidance to help educators begin to think about how things are going to shift from just a regent exam to maybe you'll see capstone projects, authentic performances, more project-based learning and growing uh to measure learning throughout the state. And of course, we'll be there uh you know doing our best to lead the way in our region uh based on this work. You'll see that in the fall of 2027 throughout the summer of 2029, this phase two will be students entering ninth grade in 2027. Are that first quarter not required to pass the region? So, I'm just going to look at Hillary, make sure I wrote that correctly,
085Hillary, that's correct to best of your understanding. Potentially, they don't finalize that guidance. Okay. But but it kind of gives you an idea. I mean, it could be tweaked and changed, but that's sort of the outline as it exists now. And we're going to be responsible again for those multiple pathways to graduation, internships, capstone projects, and community service. And quite honestly, we're set up very nicely. Uh Hillary's done an amazing job in making sure that we havemies. And a lot of that work which some of the board members saw near the end of the school year were projectbased capstone projects uh uh that are really emblematic of students being able to get up and speak and show their understanding in a deeper way than a multiple choice test. So it's very exciting work and it's
086going to take uh good leaders in our district and our awesome teachers working together to be thinking just a little bit differently in the years to come about what some capstone projects might look like. when you look at our algebra course and how they can maybe partner with some other departments to build out a deeper level of understanding and integrated level of understanding across domains. So that's exciting work that's going to be happening in and around that timeline and then beyond uh 2029 and this phase 3 full adoption begins. students entering grade nine in 2029 and 2030 will probably be deeply embedded in this and we might see a little bit work uh a little precursor to this in the middle school giving eighth graders a chance to uh engage in some of these capstone
087projects. Very exciting work. We're we have an amazing team that's going to be able to lead this. We're getting some guidance through modern learners, but quite honestly I I have a lot of faith in just our team in and of itself being able to come up with some great ideas. So just for the board and the community hear how things are going to change in in the years to come uh will be exciting for our students. And then as the community knows and our board knows, we always have that Viking tip line available on our uh website. Any person in the entire community uh can click that Viking tip line and give us a tip of something uh regarding safety of our students. So we encourage everybody to use that if needed. And of course,
088if you want to email the board, it's bleg gi.org. Any questions about any of those slides? Thank you. Kindly didn't have anybody sign up for the public comment session for general items not on the agenda. So, we'll go right into the committee of poll items and information roundt. We'll start with you, Ashley. I'm all set. Thank you. Okay, Jude. I just want to thank everybody that came to the golf party and all the sponsors. I'm sorry. Oh my gosh, Jay. No, thank you D for dragging me out. It was super fun. I may or may not have had Danielle. Thank you. Uh just two quick things. Um, number one on that table back behind Dr. Graham there, uh, is we, uh, the cell phone cases that we were able to get. So, the original one,
089uh, did not have availability, but, uh, thanks to Phil, uh, and his crew, we were able to get 160 of these cabinets, which we will be working to install. Um, we were happy with these. They they seem to be a bit sturdier than the other ones and stuff. So, um, those are here, 160 of them, and we will be working with, uh, Miss Cretz Harvey and Dr. Palace on, um, where the teachers want them mounted, etc. And then just to to reiterate what Dr. Graham said about transportation, uh, the district office staff, John's team, Cheryl's team, my team, it's it's been busy this summer to say the least. Uh, you know, for my staff, we we've done over 700 purchase orders already, and Cheryl's staff's been uh doing summer school, getting ready for next year.
090John's staff has been doing new teacher orientation, etc., etc. Transportation's been buzzing over there. Phil's crew has been doing a phenomenal job getting the schools ready for us. So, just a shout out to all those people uh for all their hard work over the summer. A lot of people think that the summer shuts or schools shuts down in the summer, but there's still a lot of important work. So, thank you to all those folks that are are still working hard through the summer and getting us ready for another successful school year. Charlotte, just one thing for the board. Uh, every summer, uh, our team here has to post our district safety plan. That's currently on our website. It's uh anybody who visits our website, there's a link, a Google form. If they have comments about
091our district safety plan, they can uh share their comments. Uh additionally, I'll be staying here late next Tuesday in case anybody want from the community wants to come and talk to me personally about our district safety plan. So, that's an open invitation. Uh after that, I'll be bringing that plan uh for final approval by the board. just just um and just um as a matter of dates, our next board of education meeting is August 25th. So with that, I will um take a motion the meeting at 8:53. Motion and a second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried 6. Thank you. Have a great night. [Applause]