001We good? >> Yes, we're good. Sorry. >> Okay. Call the meeting to order. Welcome to the December meeting of the Jasper School Board. Please join in with us a pledge of allegiance. Harl, if you could lead us. >> 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. >> Each of the board members received a copy of the consent agenda a few days ago. Does anyone have any questions about the consent agenda? If >> not, we'll have a motion. >> So moved. >> Motion by Steve. >> A second. >> Second by Sarah. All in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. No. >> Motion carries. Give us a minute while we sign the books. Monica, I
002did have One question. >> Sure. >> On the balance sheet, uh, the debt service went from 1.8 million to 4.6. Is that because of new bond? >> Yes. Every six months I make bond payments to Valley Bank. So like now money was put in from the taxes we got at the courthouse. Now in December when you get the end of December, balances are going to be weighed down because I would be making payments for the debt. >> Okay. And I put money in there this month and see it's December. So you're looking at November. >> November. November went from 1.8 to 4.6. >> Yeah. >> Because I have those um some of the money came in. That's it's called advanced draw. >> So it gets in there like in November and then we get the
003rest of the money in December. Now, when we get to the end of December, that's going to be super, you know, depleted >> because I'm making those bond payments. >> Got it. [snorts] Next up, Wildcat Spotlight. Sedexo, Mr. Stoner. >> Thank you. We good? Okay. Um, thank you all for your time today. I appreciate it. Um, I am a person who takes a lot of pictures. So, I'm going to share some pictures with you of our semester, kind of let you know what we've been doing and where we are with a few things. Um, so let's begin. Um, one of the first things I was charged with when I got here was making sure that we were staffed. Last year at Jasper Elementary, we had a lot of problems with staff. We were shorter number
004of days terms of having people to serve, things like that. So, this year, one of my primary focuses was making sure that we got staff and we have done that. Um, in the course of doing so, um, we have brought people in from Cuba, Venezuela, Costa Rica. We have at Jasper Elementary School one native English speaker. So for those of you who know Kim, who is our manager there, she's the only one that has English as her primary language. Everybody else we've brought in is from a foreign company, I'm sorry, foreign country, and we use a lot of Google Translate and things like that to get it done. But it's worked out very, very well. Um, you all know what an Alexa is. You've heard of that. We have an Alexa in the kitchen there.
005We had to rename it Ziggy because we have someone named Alexa and they would both answer. But if you go in our kitchen, you'll hear Ziggy playing a lot of um Hispanic music. The the people there are having a good time. They're dancing. They're singing along. It's been really, really good. One of the best days we've had, as you can see here, these folks hadn't seen snow before the day that we had had snow. So, that was a really good experience. It was like watching kids. So, a lot of fun. Pretty cool. Um it's worked out really well. We are fully staffed so that's going good for us. Um we continue to focus on education. So on this slide you've got um Becky who is running our salad bar at the middle school and you
006have Alexa who's at Jasper Elementary. We've gotten both of them through their surf safe. So they have a manager level surf safe certification and we're going to continue working with our staff on that training to make sure that that happens. Um, beyond our manager and supervisory staff, we're also doing other culinary training. So, one of the processes that we've started in food service is we're going to a lot more scratch cooking. So, as you look at school food service, maybe when you went to school, maybe somewhere in between, there was a lot of heat and eat. So, you'd open a box of patties, you heat it up, you put on a bun, you call it lunch. We're going to move away from that. We're going to be cooking a lot more food from scratch. gives
007us healthier options, allows us to season it, things like that. So, it's kind of fun. We're having some fun with that. Um, one of the things that we will be doing this summer, the state of Indiana DOE has some culinary training available. So, our staff can go for five full days to a location during the day. They learn vegetables one day, they learn protein one day, they learn how to cut, learn how to cook, learn how to make seasoning blends, things like that. So, it's really kind of cool. Um, one of the other things that we're doing this year that we're having a lot of fun with is sampling. So, this particular day we made guacamole and Kim sampled this out to two different classes so the kids could taste it and have something new
008to try. She's also done dragon fruit, starf fruit, blood oranges, all kinds of new things that these kids ordinarily wouldn't see or know what they are and we've had a lot of fun sampling them out. Um, we also use that as part of our nutrition education, which is something that's going to be growing as we go through. Within the next three years, we're going to have agriculture and nutrition education K to 12. So, from start to finish, we'll be able to expose our kids to that. That then allows us to go to the state and ask for a medallion for agriculture from them, which allows us to apply for more grants and things like that. You probably recognize these two that were there that day. I think they had fun with it, too. Um, salad
009bars. We've had a lot of fun with salad bars this year. So, I was fortunate enough to inherit some newly renovated space at the high school and with some of that space. We've been doing a salad bar every other week. Um, the kids and staff have really enjoyed having that. And then the other one that we've done has been over at the middle school. Um, we we opened up an alocart room which also has a salad bar in it and we're getting between 30 and 50 people every day taking advantage of that. Um, one of the next slides that I have shows you some of those salads they've been putting together. Um, uh, these two gals at the middle school have done a fantastic job. They're on it every day. As you walk through and
010look at that salad bar, it's constantly full, constantly wiped down. Um, and again, Analisa is one of the people that we've hired. She's from the Philippines and has just done a really good job for us. So, couple examples of what's being done in terms of the trays and stuff. Um, this is an adult who's making a salad on our line there at the middle school. This is one of the kids that I took a video of last week making a salad. And as you can see, they do a really good job. All of their components in terms of protein and vegetables, fruits, everything is there, everything they need for the day. Um, this one over here is another picture here from the guacamole that you can see. So just really cool kind of the fun
011that we've been having showing these kids new foods and things like that. Alakart. So one of the things that we've been working on as well is Alakart. Um if you've been watching the news, you know that there are some things coming with Alakart. So um Fredo, like our Doritos, all those kind of products. um any of the baked products or pre-made products we have, they're going to be pulling out anything that's not a natural color, natural flavor over the next few years. Colors are starting to hit pretty hard right now. So, we're working with different companies to see what products we can get that meet smart snack compliance that we can have available for the kids, but at the same time are more healthy options if we can make that possible. Um the photo you
012see to the the right over here this is that the middle school um the middle school our cart since we've moved it and open the line we've doubled what we're serving in terms of alle cart so what they used to do is the kids would go through the line they would have lunch and then they'd bring them back after that lunch period and let them go through the line in reverse and make sure they had money and then get all the cart with having the room separate it just cleansed up the line a lot it's gone a lot better it's been really smooth um this is at the high school. So for those who went to school in the high school and the salad bar was there, that's the salad bar room. We just move
013moved some things sideways for right now to make it easier to get kids in. Okay. We uh we did a survey. We've done a survey and we got a lot of feedback. We had just shy of a thousand people respond to the survey that we took. Uh, we had very good ratings and we got a lot of very um actionable comments. So, I've I've provided these to Megan and Dr. Laurai and I'm sure in some form you're going to see it at some point. um five is the best rating, one is the worst rating, and then we have I think there were 45 or so pages of comments. And these comments range from things telling us that they don't have time to eat, that they do or don't like something we serve, or that they
014they just think the food is fake. Okay. But along mixed with that, there are a lot of very, very good, thoughtful, and constructive comments that we're able then to go through and use to do better each day that we come in. So, please know that this has taken place. Um, our scores overall, so five is the best, one would be the worst. Four and fives was 51%. And then when you add the threes in there, we're over 80% in terms of satisfaction. So, that's really very good for for school food. But we want to be up above 90. So there's some things we're going to do to work on that. Um along with the survey, we had some fun. There's some things we learned in the process. So, we had a QR code that was
015available for the kids and the school corporation really did a great job of working to help the kids make that easy as part as part of their process, home rooms, things like that. Um, they also helped us and did the work to make a video. If you've not seen this yet, I encourage you to watch it. It's really kind of fun. Um, and this really got a lot of kids to make the comments and bring the information in that we needed. Again, there's a couple different ways we look to the survey. This is another way to kind of comments that are there. Oh, there we go. Okay. Um, we went on a field trip last week to Fiser Farms and this is part of a farm-to-school process that we've started. So, have all of you
016heard of Farm to School? You know what that is? >> Okay. So, farm to school is part of part of a process that we're working on. We're in the infasy stage and we're going to use that to bring local products into our school for for our children. We went to Fiser Farms. uh they're going to be our primary supplier for beef. So, we're going to start with protein. Going to start with hamburger. We use a lot of it. We go through a lot of hamburgers, a lot of ground beef. So, we start there. It's a local product and it's very clean. Over the next few months, we're hoping to put some narrative together with what we have done along with their story to help you better understand why we're going with Fisher Farms. you know,
017um, in the coming years, the USDA is changing what we're allowed to serve kids in our school lunches. They're taking away fat, they're taking away sugar, they're taking away salt, which means if we move more to a scratch cooking model, we can cook anything we want on the recipe. It's nutritionally correct, but I always then have the option to go back through and taste that food and make sure it's palatable. And there are times when you follow a recipe to make sllo that you sometimes have to add some salt in just to make it taste like it needs to taste. And that little bit of salt after we've made it, follow the recipe doesn't kill the nutrition, but makes it palatable for our kids. So that's again more of the scratch cooking war move that
018direction. Fisher Farms is going to be one of a number of partners that we're going to have as we move forward with farm to school. Um we are also in the process of having submitted a grant that we hope will help us with farm to school. We want to introduce new foods to our kids. Um there's some equipment that we would be looking at to make that happen. Um my goal for farm to school is in three years to be able to serve our children here at this school almost everything we serve being from local and from the state of Indiana. In order to make that happen, we need a lot of partners. There's a lot of work that has to happen to make that make that take place. If you think about it, in
019the state of Indiana, we have a lot of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, things like that that are ready, but not necessarily in season. So, if we can find a partner who's not only going to grow those locally for us, but process it, so when I'm in the middle of February in the snow, I can get California blend that was grown and packaged right here in Indiana. things like that. And we want to do that for a number of reasons. Local is better. Local is going to be more healthy for one thing. Again, scratch cooking local. And the bigger picture for all of us is is this helps our school financially and it helps the community financially. We're keeping those t tax dollars local versus sending them out of state, out of country, things like that. Um
020some of the partners we're looking at right now, Fisher Farms. So, for Fisher Farms, we're looking at beef and pork products primarily right now. Um, as they grow as a company, there's going to be more things we're going to be able to get from them. Rockstead Farm, uh, Rockville Farmstead dairy is going to be cheese. So, they have sliced cheese and shredded cheese that we're going to be looking at moving to for the from them. Familytime crearyy. This is going to be kind of a a big hurdle. You guys are going to be the first and you're going to have a name for yourselves. Um, we're looking at switching to A2 milk. Has anybody heard of A2 milk? Know about that? Okay. So, A2 is a protein and it's a type of milk protein that
021you can get. This particular Amish farm has cows that produce it. If a person is lactose intolerant, I can give them A2 milk all day long and they won't so much as get gas. It's amazing. Okay. Additionally to that, the nutrition on it is completely different. It's much different than what you would buy at a market anywhere. The profile is much better. So, we're we're trying to work towards a point where we can not only serve our kids here a better product, but do it like globally. So, that's in the process. Um, as you can imagine, there's a lot of steps that take to get it from cow's milk in a truck to a carton or a cup on on a tray here on our school. So, these things are taking place. Um, and again,
022Indiana grown. So you have Indiana grown for schools not only within the department of education, the Indiana Department of Health, but also Indiana Agriculture. And there are growing networks that are taking place and being developed right now that allow us to work with local farmers and be able to use local products with what we do here every day. Um, if you know an orchard or two that has apples and pears, we're starting right now to look at those people. We need to know where they are. We would love to get our apples from a local orchard next year, every one of them. And there's those partnerships, those connections that you and the public help us make through farm to school is how that all takes place. Okay. One of the things that um you don't
023see on here that we did do, uh we had an opportunity to go to the isna conference this year. We were able to meet with a lot of new vendors. We have some new products and new things that we're bringing in for our kids. One of them is called u Frazzle. Um so kids like juice, right? And this allows us to serve juice in something that looks like a margarita machine or frozen slushie machine. It's still juice. The only thing changed is it's a little frozen, you know, so the kids are more likely to take it. And this is a a machine that we can move in all cart. We can put it out on breakfast some days. We can do a lot of different things with it. So, there's a lot of things like
024that that we're looking at as well to bring new products and services to our kids to get them more likely to eat the foods that we would like them to serve. So, okay. Any questions? So, I know you did a survey, but what is your empty tray percentage? Because to me that seems like um you know the number of kids who complete who eat their trays completely because I >> as a percentage as a percentage I'm sorry I don't know what it would be. Um I can tell you that is something that we've been looking at. So my staff and I have been watching the trash as it comes in and then we have an exercise that we'll do in the spring. will actually take a breakfast trash can and a lunch trash can out
025and we will dump it out on tarp and figure the dollars that are in the trash. We have not done that yet, but that is one of our processes. Um, right now, if you were to come in and watch our lunch, it's going to depend on the menu day and that's part of what we're working on on on changing the menu around. We have some days when the trays are all clean and there's almost no trash and there's other days we're filling the trash. So, that's that's part of where we're going through and we're adjusting things. Um, when we start in January at both of our elementary schools, we have a new Bright Bites menu that we're starting for the younger grades, and they're going to have more um favorable options, I will say. So,
026there's going to be more of the cheeseburgers, more of the hot dogs, more of the things those younger kids are likely to take. And then mixed with that, we're doing LTO's. So this is the limited time offer. So this will be something that we can offer to kids that will get them to taste something or try something new. If you think about the kids that we serve right now, they've all grown up on Cutthroat Kitchen, Alton Brown, all these kind of people. They've seen food shows. They know what real food looks like and tastes like. That's what we're trying to bring to them on their trip. We don't when they talk to their friends from around the country about their school lunch, we want them to be able to say, "Oh, no, that's not what
027we get for school lunch." And have them talk and tell our story in terms of what we're making. Um, as an example, one of the biggest things we've changed at the elementary to get ready for January, every Friday night, we're making pizzas in like from scratch in the kitchen. So, we have kids that are eating pizza that we've actually made in house. Um, I know you all miss the old school pizza, but our kids really like the pizzas we're making in house and cutting. It's really, it's really gone really, really well. >> So, is that there at the middle school? I say I think I've heard a little bit about a bacon chicken ranch. >> The middle school isn't doing it every day. They're doing it, I think, twice a week now for the pizzas.
028But yes, that is exactly what you're hearing about. They're they're trying new ones. There's different flavors. Um, we have three new flavors that we're looking to introduce in January for pizza. Well, I do know that one has been a hit at the middle school. >> Okay. Yep. Um, and we think we we believe one of the biggest winners is going to be just your basic Italian pizza with the sauce, the soft mozzarella cheese, and basil. We're hearing really good things about that. So, we're we're looking forward to trying that. >> Is there a salad bar every day at the high school or did you say every other week? I thought you mentioned >> So, the the salad bar itself is there every other week. And then on that opposite week, there is still a salad
029pre-made that's available. It's just not the whole bar. We are looking at reworking the aloc cart room right now at the high school. Once that is reworked, the salad bar would be available every day. Um soup, we've had a lot of people ask for soup. We're getting ready to put soup in at the high school. We'll be running like a soup for two weeks at a time. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Tim. >> Next up, regional wellness center update from the city of Jasper. >> We are going to need the microphone. So, Did somebody vet this guy? [laughter] >> He's an aggro. >> Are you [laughter] real close? No, we're all really second. We're not Do I need to talk into this? >>
030Hello board. Uh Brad Eterly with Broman Land Survey Engineering. I do have Mayor Von Darhy and uh Renee Kbrick with City of Jasper. So ultimately uh today and actually not knowing what you have seen and not seen a quick summary on the the uh regional wellness center. If I start back uh February of this year uh basically we had a a regional wellness that was uh concentrating on the 10 acres of land that the city of Jasper had owned. And uh part of that specific to greater Jasper was a parking layout on the north side that allowed for a future uh parking lot east of our our softball. So the regional wellness in uh April, March kind of got a timeout uh basically to regroup on the unknowns of of uh the financing and so
031here in September October uh able to regroup. So at that time the budget did change with that and uh kind of the approach on the regional wellness certainly knowing that for greater Jasper uh looking at that parking as well was more of an open mind to look at what's more cost effective specific to the site with the new regional wellness building that we have and accounting for the parking lot. So, uh, what I'll show you, whether you saw this real quick, uh, these exhibits, the Jasper City Council, uh, saw these, um, last Wednesday at city council and it was kind of when I talked to the time frame allowed the design group for the regional wellness, uh, back for the, uh, schematic design phase to a point uh, to where the city council was presented
032a resolution specific to a land transfer. But these are the exhibits. So the 10 acres being on the west side. Let's do this. I don't know. Um so obviously we're on the west side. Here's an overview. So not to confuse you, but to the right is north. Uh so this would be 15th Street here and here we have Greater Jasper softball. So with this layout on regional wellness and and basically the 10 acres, this would be the line right in here as far as greater Jasper and then city Jasper. So uh with the regional wellness in the process of the budget and the funding previously and at the beginning of 2025 there was one building that was inclusive of an aquatics and the wellness uh and supplemental infrastructure within that building. Now it's looking at
033a regional wellness and then for future development uh would be inclusive of uh potential aquatics fieldhouse here as a secondary structure. So, that's the main change in regard to anything. I don't know if we were at school board before, but if you saw any exhibits back earlier this year, uh that's that's where we would be. So, there'd be two entrances on 15th Street, uh that then served the wellness and then back to the Greater Jasper, City of Jasper line. That's where then that incorporated this parking with the intent that these uses back here are able to uh share the parking. So, um, in regards to the improvements and part of land transfer, that's where you see the second drive here as presented to the city council. You see the Parkland pavilion located down here. So,
034this will still utilize the existing Parkland's entrance that's at the current location there. And the intent is this is the primary that serves to the wellness. This is the front door to the wellness center. Uh, and I'll show you the a quick building outline just for reference, but uh, basically we have 100 parking spaces in this vicinity and then we're at uh, uh, 20 I think up here specific to the wellness. And then with what you see here, uh, that's an 80 parking space layout. And then we have an ability ability for a future or accounting for a future uh, 40 additional up in this vicinity as well. And then part of this there's not detail on a future development but we have accounted for then uh some additional parking uh within these uh for
035that uh for that building as well. So just quick reference on the wellness center you see that would be north three gyms uh your wellness with your workout equipment uh those type things beyond mayor would have to fill me in on all the exact I paid attention to most meetings but uh that's your workout area. So, but yeah, locker rooms and then they have child watch and then you get to the second floor. Uh, and then you have studios part of the wellness programming uh that's tied to the Y. Um, and then you have a three track a three-lane track that's above the gymnasiums uh here on the second floor. So, just quick you came up in off 15th Street and we're headed that way. This is uh currently uh the exterior approach that we
036have. So schedule wise specific to wellness. Uh obviously with the city council in this portion um that was obviously big for us to advance in on the design, but basically the schedule set up to where be looking to start construction for the wellness uh with with site improvements starting May of 26 and then ultimately it'll be up to uh Creme Construction who was the uh b contractor but the completion on that would be subject to them. uh I don't want to speak on their behalf, but as presented to the city council, it's stated uh the end of 27 as far as completion. So that basically between January and uh here this spring, there'll be a lot of parts to finalize based on uh what we have in this design uh here. So real quick on
037the do we hit not now? I guess >> so with the site improvements specific to the parking lot and the wellness back to a transfer of of greater Jasper property, city of Jasper wellness property. Um we have as required on any project not specific to school city any project per the city of Jasper ordinance within here we have storm uh detention requirements that that we're to uh conform to. So when we look at try there we go. So this would be north this way. Now just a different angle here that the current boundary line uh for the west 10 acres city of Jasper would come through right here. And so you can see on the rendering that you saw before uh parking up in here with the wellness at this vicinity here. Here you see
038the JV baseball, you see the varsity uh softball field here. Uh so with the improvements then on um with our new impervious basically the parklands has a drainage area that comes this way and then back behind our JV field and then the entire parklands uh I shouldn't say entire a big portion of it drains through the lakes that we have comes down this way and then in the southeast of uh the greater Jasper property and And obviously you guys are aware along the south side of that. So with that being said, there's a detention basin uh that is proposed in this vicinity here. And then there's one proposed in this vicinity here. And with this shared use, going back to the exercise we had as far as uh looking for coste effective options, basically we
039have an open dry basin that allows us for our construction with sediment control. So it be a temporary basin for construction related to this as well as this here, but then a permanent basin that can be shared to meet the uh detention volume requirements associated with this new impervious and then whatever's left uh specific to the city of Jasper. And I say that this is located on city of Jasper property. So that'd be a >> I'm sorry Jasper property. >> Great too many Jaspers greater Jasper property. And basically the intent is ensure that we have the volume uh for these improvements here and then if we have auxiliary able to use it if not the wellness center will be doing underground uh detention within their parking lot. And if I go back to February on
040the plan the intent was this new parking orientation had underground detention and this had underground detention and meaning below the surface of the asphalt cost effectively. uh when we compare the pricing, we're able to get an open basin. Uh you know, certainly that that is more cost effective in that regard specific to the construction for land disturbance uh for sediment during construction as well as then uh the permit as well. So, >> so that won't be retention area. That'll just slow the water down and then take it away in the storm sewer. >> Is that correct? >> This here? >> Yes, >> that will that will be a permanent detention basin. >> But it won't hold water. It's just it's a means of holding it until it moves to >> we're Yes, we're required to
041we're required to detain the release rates on what rains today out there for a two-year rain event, 10 year rain event, and a 100red-year rain event. We have to ensure that release rate is maintained when we're done with our new improvements. >> You're considering a dry detention? >> Yes, we we currently have proposed a dry detention. So, um, the best reference similar to dam height currently would be the northeast side of the Jasper Middle School to where we're looking to mow that grass, but it performs. And during a rain event, if you've been on the northeast side of Jasper Middle School, you know that it's utilized as a basin, right? We modified that. I didn't do anything to build, but the that basin was modified uh when the uh elementary school drive connection, we made
042that bigger from the initial middle school install, increase that volume, but that's around uh four or five feet when you get to the drive to the elementary. When you leave the middle school parking lot and go north, it's like four to five feet in height. And that's what we're balancing right here for a dam uh that would be included in here. Basically trying to use the topography that's present to where you can nestle in look as natural, but basically we're looking to mow that. >> Yeah. I'm just saying from a liability standpoint, we don't want a body of water where kids can go back there, but it's it's going to hold it and take it away. >> Yes. Yeah. I mean like the elementary school we have dried detention at the northeast of that and
043so kids are playing soccer and I don't know the details on that but uh I know they are like there's soccer goals in the basin but you go out there during a rain event like the basin's utilized uh and then depending on that release rate it's a 24 no more typically than 48 or 72 hours were drained out so and specific to the I mean there are some parts so I had a um we held a TAC meeting uh last week with the utility departments. Basically met city council. Now it's like hey let's fine-tune some things on our utilities as far as services where we at kind of a check. There's an existing aerial electric line that historically has been moved. Uh I think when they did the the sports complex out here at the
044high school uh they redid this uh overhead electric. So the electric department is looking to bury that line and eliminate that aerial on greater Jasper property coming down through here. So part of that is in response to my meeting Friday need to coordinate saying okay well that's electric but now we've got to coordinate with greater Jasper and whatever other communication but it' be the elimination of that aerial line. And part of that was when I showed an exhibit with the parking lot uh you know coming through was kind of part of what that is. So specifically >> you say where the uh sorry the visiting team bus parking is on that drawing >> uh here. >> Yeah for the softball facility where would the bus is there ample bus parking? >> Yes. >> So at
045this point I do not have any marked bus parking with this. we have parking and so let's say next year construction ignore the orange okay that's just accounting gradewise and future planning but there would be the ability for buses uh specific for this use and this use over in this vicinity here specific to the full details of this I haven't had a chance to sit down with to make sure hey we're square and we're on it it's more hey we get past making sure we're in the right you We, you know, we were proposing lines on Greater Jasper without Greater Jasper, I mean, knowing that we were doing stuff, but it's like, hey, we need to do our homework before, you know, we're kind of there presenting and and ultimately with that would be a
046resolution on land transfer that would allow these improvements. And that would be uh really kind of summarized with this one to where and I'll quit throwing a bunch of stuff at you guys here soon, but basically like this arc with that in the in the shared kind of the the intent of this was okay, if we're constructing a drive for access coming through here, we'll set that up so Greater Jasper can utilize that drive to access a parking lot versus let's say constructing a drive to get back to you know apartment. I'm not saying that's real. I'm just saying that. So if we then the greenish area if that shows up green for you guys um that's proposed transfer to to the city of Jasper then those improvements are all on city of Jasper maintained
047by city of Jasper. Part of that come up here to track B shown. Well, if I go back to layout, that's where part of that parking lot comes onto the current city of Jasper. So, if that's a parking lot of Greater Jasper and allow them to own that land for the maintenance, that's what spurred the uh crescent arc shape here. And then this triangle here specific the other colors like the blue that would be uh part of the storm water management agreement. and then that shared use uh that encapsulates um the basin that we had discussed you know there as well. So let me start by asking questions. What are the questions? >> I have a question about the whole us maintaining the storm water basin. I mean it's on our property. We're going to
048be required to maintain it. We're I mean you're saying that it's going to be a dry basin. We don't even have the future development with the aquatic center. What if you end up having to do an underground basin? Are we going to have to pay for that? Because that's a big expense that I don't think the school should be required to. >> So, so let's go specific to the parking lot. Act like that's not there. So if you don't want a dry basin here, then we're going to install underground to conform to the requirements in order to install that and to be maintained on greater on greater Jasper. >> But that would be our that would be the school's cost, correct? Because it's on our property. Is that correct? >> Correct. Yeah. But the idea
049the idea is we would prefer that our storm water be managed in a dry basin because it improves the cost of the project. So it would reduce the cost. If we have to do underground water retention, then it's going to increase the cost of our parking lot in order to manage just our storm water. Correct. >> Correct. And we will have to address our storm water from our parking lot regardless. >> We do. But some of the runoff will be because of the buildings that are there, including the aquatic center, which is a future development. So, I guess my concern is >> I'm sorry. >> Go ahead. >> I'm the attorney. I'm not the engineer. I've just heard it so many times. >> Yeah. Um I mean, so, you know, with that, you see these,
050you know, blue lines. So part of that design process is the finalization like this is hey this is a working plan that can work but it's not the final hydraulic details to know exactly what is the required volume what are we doing if this is to where you know say the roof is at we may change the drainage area like today this line right here drains to greater Jasper like that's just the topography coming through there so it is we are driven not to change drainage areas that's part of what we're supposed to do and to improve, we're supposed to maintain. If it's found to where, hey, just take all this roof down here, that may be something that we're doing and accounting for, you know, within this basin. But as far as um I
051mean, as far as the grass, the the basin itself within, I mean, we have the truth is this land right here is really really flat currently. So to make this basin, we are actually filling the ground that's out there today. Um, and that's we're getting to where for the maintenance of the slopes getting above our 2%. I think currently we're like 3 or 4% on that bottom uh to get our volume. But but basically to ensure that we can get the grass to where it's a mowing basin. And yes, everything has maintenance. I mean, I don't care what measure it is required to do it. Everything has maintenance for it. And that's part of you look at a storm underground system versus um you know a dry detention. It's all part of that maintenance plan.
052>> So a couple things though. We did ask Brad to look at the um capacity of that basin and maximize the capacity. He said he's going it will be built to um accommodate 100% of the parking lot runoff. So that's a given. Then if there's any additional capacity that could come from our project, it could accommodate that as well. If it won't accommodate both, then we have to build additional capacity somewhere else under our parking area. So that's the one thing. And then with respect to the maintenance um it since it's on the city's or the school's property you would be maintaining but there will be have to be a storm water management agreement because every new development is required to have one or every certain size is it over an acre. Anyway, this would
053be required to have a storm water management agreement which requires annual inspections which the city would agree to do because we have that in-house capability. So, that's something. Um, >> but I guess why would you not just go ahead and handle the basin as well even though it's on our property since that is what you know you guys are capable of doing? >> That that doesn't happen. >> I mean, that's Yeah. and we already mow those areas anyway. So, >> I mean, I'm just concerned where there's going to end up we're going to get you don't know what you don't know. So, you know, you get this future development and oh, we do need an underground basin on our property and we're going to have to fund that. That is my concern. >> That would
054be on our property. >> Anything that we designed in phase two that any any additional um storm water capacity that would need to be designed in phase two would be on the city's property. Period. Unless the city and school came to some other agreement. But in at this point, it doesn't sound to me like the capacity in the existing basin would be sufficient to accommodate phase two. Is that fair? I don't think it you didn't think it could accommodate all of phase two, right? >> Correct. Yeah. >> And when you put the basin in closest to Fifth Street, it will not impact the b the little bike area that's back there. >> It will affect part of that. I believe >> it will impact some of it. Yes. >> But I don't >> You said
055closest to 15th Street. Are you talking about the one all the way down >> on the Yeah. Nothing in here. >> That's all on the city's property. But I think she's talking about that the small portion of the property that we wish to exchange where it arcs how what will that do to impede the biking >> like their cands right there. >> So I don't have their entire route mapped and but the moguls and the half the the trees or I don't know there's a stand there. I don't know what it's called or what it is, but uh something here that would be impacted uh for what they have up in here, but they could reuse it once the basin's in. >> As far as maintaining the school portion of the parking lot, I'm assume
056school will maintain that, but in the winter months when the regional wellness center is probably pretty busy, will the city be doing the snow removal on that? Because we really won't have any use for parking at the softball complex during the winter. I mean it's kind of minutia. >> I guess that would depend on if the wellness center actually needs that >> parking space. >> I guess I'm just raising >> if there's a tournament. >> I'm just throwing it out there that I don't know that the school if we get a a heavy snow winter, I don't know that we would want to be clearing the snow off that parking lot daily if we're not using it. Steve, I would kind of liken that to I mean, it probably is not going to be our
057top priority because our first priority is going to be our own lots and sidewalks to make sure that school operates. >> It could be like an ancillary property that once we get those things done, we could potentially have to deal with it. >> Um, or it may not be necessary depending upon the kind of events that would be going on at the wellness center. >> It's just something to think about. Yeah, I I would say that on a normal day, we are anticipating the parking that we are installing is going to be sufficient to accommodate all the users. But if there comes a a weekend when there's a tournament or a Sunday when there's some big event going on and it happened to snow, then we would have to figure that out. >> Yeah, >>
058I think it makes sense. it would be [clears throat] we're going to have to have a water runoff plan regardless. Um, so I think this helps us and it saves us the expense of trying to get a lane all the way back to our parking lot because we can't come from Country Club Estates. So, um, I think it's a win-win. >> Yeah, I think any idea? I'm not okay speaking here. >> Yeah, Brad, if you're finished with the microphone, did you want to pass that forward, please? >> Probably [clears throat] not done yet. >> Time's up. [laughter] I I just think that as we we looked into this and the opportunities to reduce costs on the storm water basins and and the excavation on the sites, it made sense to at least explore the opportunity
059to work together on an access road and then how how can we develop that further into the future. I think this gives us an opportunity. Um is it could we go back to the old way? Yeah, we could. that this is a better way to move forward collaboratively for the benefit of both the school and your investments in a new parking lot and maybe expansion in the future and with us with maybe a phase there will be a phase two you know eventually there'll be a phase two timing of that we'd like to launch it after we get complete with phase one but you know this is a this is significant step just getting that exchange and movement on the property so that we can do our final planning for this project. So, I appreciate
060your consideration on that. >> Unless anybody has any other questions. So, um the board was presented with a resolution that outlines just the exchange of property that has been defined by the exhibits that Brad had shared. Um and uh there are some additional details that will come. Um, some of the agreements that have been referred to will be drafted at a later date, but I would ask the board to consider approving this resolution at least on the property transfer for us to be able to continue to move forward. It would allow the city to be able to continue to define their final specifications and plan design as well as our specifications and plan design that we will have to move forward with our parking lot addition. So >> also move >> motion by our elect.
061>> I'll second >> second by Sarah. Any further questions or discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> Oppos? No. >> Motion carries. >> Just wanted to say from from my vantage point. It's I think it's an important piece to finally get this thing put to bed. And I think it's a nice link to the whole area with the school, the athletic facilities, the wellness center, the parklands. It's got a new swimming pool across the street. Brooks Brooks Field is another block or two away. I think it's just a great area as a drawing card for the city of Jasper. And I just want to commend everybody that's been part of this project and going through all the steps and I think we're at a good place now and look forward to moving even better
062in the future. >> It's a good deal for the city. >> Yeah. Great. >> Deaconist used to be attached to this name. What happened [clears throat] to that? But >> well, um I don't know. So when we started the project, which now seems like >> well it was years ago. [laughter] >> Um we were working together with Memorial and then they went through the big transition and um Deaconist may yet be a partner in some space, but um it [clears throat] just takes a little while for them to get all everything that's going on with them and then and then step into a role in this. So >> So they're still negotiating. >> Still I wouldn't say negotiating but still interested. >> Yeah, we still provide updates. They're still interested in the project. Maybe it's
063not phase one, maybe it's phase two. >> So they had originally committed funds. Am I right in saying that? No. Okay. >> Okay. >> Because they were going through that transition didn't commit. They do have some permitted funds. >> Yeah. >> But not like a >> enough for naming rights. >> Correct. >> Maybe a room or something >> down the road. >> I don't know if anybody [laughter] >> still working on that. >> Good luck. >> We do that. Really [laughter] appreciate it. >> We do have opportunities yet for contributions. We have it's part of the better together campaign. We we've raised 13.7 million. We had a goal of 15. We've actually extended that goal now to include some funds for an operating reserve for the Y as well as a maintenance reserve. >> Still
064moving forward close the gap. >> [laughter] >> as alumni of the salad bar money taker. [laughter] >> It used to cost 5 cents for an extra saltine cracker. [laughter] [cough] >> Thanks all for your time. We appreciate it. >> Merry Christmas. >> You're welcome to stay if you want to do some Christmas shopping yet. I we understand. >> So, thank you for your time. >> Not for that reason. >> Okay. Thank you for >> Thank you. >> Good project. >> Merry Christmas. >> Okay, Mr. Stanton. Okay, there you go. Turned it on. All right. Uh, good afternoon everyone. I have uh a few action items to ask for your consideration today. Uh, the first one is the Jasper Middle School interior finishes renovation project. We did receive bids on December 10th from four contractors. Uh,
065the low bid, the low base bid was submitted was from Ciphford Construction. Um and we conducted a pre-awward meeting with them last week. Um they are very well aware of the scope of the work. Um and I would recommend accepting the bid from Cipher Construction along with the alternate one to replace the uh existing T5 light fixtures with LED light fixtures. >> I'll make that motion. That makes sense to replace the lights as well. >> Second >> motion by Steve, second by Judy. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. >> And I would also like to note that that is being paid for out of our most recent bond issue. That's one of the projects that are part of the the scope of work that we have outlined. Um the
066second item is um as you know we do have aging HVAC equipment at both the Jasper High School and the Jasper Middle School project uh at the Jasper High School. The chillers uh are in need of replacement. Um, excuse me. The the uh the the roof mounted chilled water units are in re in need of replacement. There's six of the RTUs and the associated VAV boxes um are in need of replacement. The VAV boxes are original to the building, so they're close to uh 50 years old. Um the rooftop units, the six rooftop units are 22 years old. Uh there's an existing air makeup unit in the kitchen. Uh and the the chemical pool broom u needs to be replaced. Those are 22 years old. Um and at the middle school, we have the chillers.
067two chillers at the middle school with the cooling towers and the two hot water boilers at the middle school. Um those are all 22 years old and uh they need to be replaced here in the very near future. So, we have asked Hines Associates since they're intimate with the HVAC equipment throughout the school district to put together a proposal to perform design services, put together the plans and specifications so we can send out bid documents to local contractors to replace this equipment as mentioned. Um, and at this time I would suggest and recommend uh accepting the proposals from Hines Associates for performing the design services for the Jasper High School HVAC and the Jasper Middle School HVAC improvements. >> Are those amounts pretty consistent with what you see for other design services? I mean, we're
068not just replacing units. They're having to go through and design it and do the RFPs and everything at a what 114,000 total. I didn't know that. At first glance it seemed high, but I don't know what all they're doing. >> That's very fair. More than fair to be honest with you compared to other uh districts. >> I'm sure it's much more extensive than this feeble mind can understand. >> Yeah, it is. It's Yeah, it's quite a bit of design work. >> Okay, >> I'll make the motion. Motion by Judy. I'll >> Second by Steve. Any further discussion or questions? >> All in favor say I. >> I oppose. No. Motion carries. >> And with that, we would obviously uh with the accept accepting of their proposal make a consideration to approve moving forward with the
069development of the design uh bid documents so we can send out to the contractors. Okay, that's all I have. Anybody have any questions? >> Do you need approval for moving forward with the development of those bid? >> Yes, I Okay, >> please. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion Barlet. >> I'll second. >> Second by Sarah. Any further discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> I oppose. No. Motion carries. >> Thank you, Scott. >> Question projects. Okay. >> Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. >> Merry Christmas to everyone. Thank you. >> Take care. >> Dr. Lai. >> Yes. So, uh, Mrs. Fox was able unable to attend today. There was one item under our curriculum update. The board was provided, uh, copies of the 2026 2027 Jasper High School course description and program guides. You'll note
070that there are two different program guides and and descriptions for uh two different groups and that is a result of the fact that we are currently running two different types of uh diploma tracks for students and that's because of the transition into the new diploma system that is currently affecting our current freshman class. So um in both documents what you will note is that we have added music history and appreciation and AP European history which would count as a world perspectives course um as course options. We are also going to be offering business management capstone at Jasper High School. We were um sending our students to VUJC but we feel like we would be able to better manage that internally. A part of that capstone will include uh a classroom experience plus an internship component.
071Uh both of which would be extremely meaningful for our students but also would fulfill some of that work-based learning that is part of the new diploma requirements and tracking. Um there are three different business pathways that students can choose from. One is business administration, marketing, the other one is marketing and sales and then there's an accounting pathway that would be included in that. We are also going to be adding a culinary arts pathway. The three courses that are part of that pathway include principles of culinary arts, nutrition, and then culinary arts itself. And you'll notice that's a phase in um we currently offer principles of culinary arts. And then the next phase of that would not be added to the schedule until 2728 and moving forward then 2829 with that culinary arts piece. Um, unless
072there are any questions, I would ask the board to consider approval of those course description books and academic program guides. >> Just curious, Dr. Laray, what's the process when we add a new course? What kind of goes into that? So uh part of would be uh now is whether it really fits into a graduation pathway that we feel like provides students an opportunity. Um interest of the students would be a factor. Uh whether or not we have a staff member that's credentialed in order to teach the courses and has the credentiing to do that would be another. Um, we've spent a lot of time trying to create pathways that give students opportunities in uh careers that we feel like they may be interested in p pursuing postsecary options. And so those would be some of
073the factors >> any further idea >> for business >> and with what all the stuff that Sedexo is doing with >> the farm to school that I could see a lot of >> blending of that. >> We've had some conversation about how we might be able to use our own food service program as a workbased learning opportunity for students. And so that'd be a kind of a lowhanging fruit for just an internal opportunity for kids. >> I'll move to approve. >> Motion by Steve. >> I'll second. >> Second by Judy. Further discussion or questions. All in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. >> I just have a few announcements left. Um, our board reorganization meeting is going to be at 7:45 a.m. on Monday, January 5th, and that will be here in
074the community room. We had originally thought we would hold it in our large conference room, but because of our um our live streaming requirement, it's just more conducive to do that here. So, please make a note that that will be in this room at 7:45 a.m. on Monday, January 5th. I also wanted to let everyone know that it's the time of year when we're in mid year, but we are also starting to plan for the next school year. And so, uh, in the beginning of the next semester, you're going to find that we'll be kneedeep in kindergarten registration and preschool registration for the 2026 27 school year with online registration beginning January 12th for kindergarten and January 13th for our preschool kids. And then we will have our next regular meeting in January on Monday,
075January the 26th at 7 p.m. here in the community room. Um, that's all I have to bring before the board. I would just like to extend a thank you for a good semester and wish everybody a merry Christmas and happy new year. >> Do you I have a question. Do we have a financial institution resolution to do? >> We will do that at our um reorganization meeting. We're going to add that to that agenda. >> Okay. >> Any board member have any other business? If not, we'll have a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Judy, second by Sarah. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. No.