001is September 25. Welcome to our um school board meeting. Can I have a motion to return to public session? Motion by Marjorie, second by Bill. All those in favor? Six. Six. Nothing. Um we ask that you join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. We turn to 6.01 board announcements. I have a couple of fun ones to start the evening off with. Um really exciting news. Our validictorian um has been named. It's Helen Dollar and our salutatoran has been named and it is Casey L. So congratulations to them and their families. Um really really exciting and uh two great girls and we
002wish them best. Um, also we had a a really remarkable Alex Bond is a violinist and he has been selected for the All State Symphony Orchestra. We have not had a John J student in that orchestra for 18 years. >> So huge accomplishment to Alex and his family. So we wish him the best. I think that's in January or in the winter time that he'll go up for that. So that was um just some really good things. And then we also had Juliana Field who's a senior, she's a semi- finalist in the um 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program. So just some really fantastic things going along in our district. Um we also had uh board orientation leadership um last Monday. >> Two Mondays. Yeah. Two last Monday the 8th. >> Yes. I attended that with
003Barbara and Marjorie. Um, great gracefully great came and spoke and shared all of her wisdom that we get every day and uh her messages along with some of her colleagues was very well received. So, thank you for that training. Um, and then we had the regionalization meetings last Wednesday. Ray will talk some some more about that. And that's the requirement that we discuss a regionalization plan. I think it's due in 10 years something like >> the final one. Yeah, >> final one is due in 10 years. So we've been working with our Boseies program on that. So some exciting things are coming out of that. And then um we had the roundts discussions with Hudson. I've attended um along with Arwin Marjgerie Ray and myself and you know we just had some really great conversations
004there. there were 12 different topics or so that you could go to and I was um fortunate I attended the social emotional learning and one really good thing that I learned at that is that belonging and mattering if you don't have those two elements the kids can't get to the education part and that's really become clear in everything that I've been learning about social emotional learning and we're fortunate that pillars pillar two is belonging and pillar five is well-being and I shamelessly plugged our 2030 plan at the meeting and um people were so impressed and I just want to thank our community for all the work that they put into along with Ray and his team of bringing that together. It was just really I was very proud to um highlight that to our other
005board members and and to see their reaction was really fun. So sorry I know I've talked a lot but there was a lot going on the last two weeks. Does anyone else have board announcements? >> I you know just to double up on the the roundt discussion. I was fortunate enough to actually sit with Ry at the first table and I I will tell you a text message I sent to somebody who's in our district and I said you know we are very lucky to have him. He is on the very forefront of what is going on in the education world and he explained some things that I had no concept of before I entered into there because we were in the civics and education table >> and I think I wanted the social emotional
006learning table and I was like I don't want to sit at the civics table but that's what I got. So, but the my point is it was it was very educational for me. Like that's what I wanted to talk about, but this was actually probably something I needed to learn about. And Rey was very informative and we talked all about um you know the what a graduate looks like and that what's happening in New York State and how he's already started to move our schools along to some of those things and I was like wow I never really thought about that. So I want to thank you for that evening and just say again how lucky we are to have him. I wanted to thank Dr. Siciliano and Mr. Gizo and the high school PTO
007for the first principal's coffee of the year which was here in the library. It was set up kind of like this actually where we all got to sit around in a you know rectangular manner and introduce ourselves and it was really well attended. I want to say there were about 25 people in attendance, including about half a dozen new teachers, several of whom are John J graduates, which we had heard from Julia Drake when she did the new teacher training. But it was so nice to put faces with names, and it was just really heartening to hear how grateful people were for the start of the school year. Um we had opportunity to check in about how the common lunch was working for everybody and how the space was being experienced and to hear a
008little bit about um some programs happening out of the college counseling office, the guidance office um from our new director. And it was just a really great energy. So thank you for that meeting and then thank you to the administration and um all of our teachers at the high school for opening up their classrooms for back to school night. I know that we're getting to that point where all of the buildings are going to soon have their back to school nights, but we had it at the high school earlier this week and again really well attended. So nice to see parents in the hallway and our teachers were amazing and it it just seems to be a really positive start to the year. So felt really proud and happy about all that. Thank you. >>
009I'll piggy back on that because this was my first uh campus night at the high school and I just have to say I was really impressed. It was in the evening after a full day of work and just the level of energy and enthusiasm and just love for the job that every teacher had was just really inspiring and I I really felt like you know our kids are in really great hands. >> It was lovely and I you probably heard this too but just because it is such a different year I think our faculty really feel good about block scheduling. I I heard so many spontaneous >> positives about block scheduling. It was just great and I have to think that energy spills over for the kids too who I think are >> well as
010we know from Hudson who are enjoying it I think. >> Um but it it was just really validating. So >> that and distraction free distractionfree uh learning environment. They were really excited about that. >> Awesome. >> And this is an opportunity for you to say something too if you want. Oh. Um, you don't have to, but yeah. >> Um, yeah. So, jumping off those two things again, um, now that we're like further in school, um, we've had like about, I think, 2 or 3 weeks so far. Uh, this box scheduling system at the high school, it's really is working great. Um, lots of teachers have been really enthusiastic about it. Um, they're very good at giving breaks in between, making sure like you could just leave whenever you need. Um, cuz people do need breaks.
011Uh, so the teachers been really like accommodating about that aspect. Um, and it's also really working great for classes. Um, I just feel like you're you can learn so much more in that 80minute block without having to transition nine times a day. Um, and also the workload at night, it's been really like much uh easier. So you still have like work for each class, but it's just not having having like twice as less work or at least classes you have to focus on. it really makes the whole process a lot easier. Um and then for the distraction-free phones uh again um like I was saying uh at the previous meeting uh like students were not really excited about it going into the year but I I really think our just our student body has really
012like adopted it and been so positive about it. Uh and something that I've noticed is the lunchroom. It's just everyone's like talking to each other. And like in comparison to last year when people are on their phones during lunch and like playing games and um Instagram, Snapchat, it's just it's really a different lunchroom as a whole and everyone's just talking. It's loud. It's fun. Um and I really think that that could that's all attributed to losing the phones. >> Did you find that different kids have like gravitated to different areas of the school for lunches? >> Uh yeah. >> Are they mixing it up? Um I like making use of the other spaces. So there's space in the main hallway to sit. Um right outside the libraries, there's space there's space in the glass hallway.
013Um and I do really think that's going to be expanded when the B-wing opens up. So I think that that's make a big difference cuz it is crowded in the lunchroom right now, but I really imagine that it's going to settle down um a lot when the B-wing opens. Oh, >> that's great. >> Makes sense. >> Okay. Anyone else with board dialogue? >> I went to increase Miller's back to school night and just wanted to um give kudos to all the teachers there talking about the science of reading, introducing the decodable text to the parents, how they're tied to the phonics skills. I thought they did a great job >> of presenting that u those positive changes. So very exciting and it was a great night. >> Lot of talk about the new new wing,
014>> huh? >> A lot of talk about the new wing over there. >> Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. Uh so next we will have our capital project update please for joining us. >> All right Mike and you guys good Frank >> Mike >> thanks Sydney Lisa go ahead and just kind of introduce this as we hand this out to the team. So thank you Lisa. >> Yeah. So, um, so thank you and first of all, I'd like to thank, um, our director of Phil facilities, Mike Lavoy, for being here this evening. Um, from KG&D, Richard Marro, principal architect on on the projects, Frank Arturi, who's our on-site project manager, as well as Sydney Belli, who's also one of our on-site project managers from Triton. And just um, so here tonight, we want to talk about the progress
015report of the district-wide additions and alterations since we were here last time in May. summer and in school districts, a lot of work gets done and I can tell you this team did an amazing amazing job. I mean, there's so much that was accomplished this summer and it's really exciting. Um, our the projects encompass significant improvements in all of our buildings. Um, you'll hear about uh work that we've done this summer and everywhere. And we'll start and we'll begin with the addition an increase Miller. Um, and that you know the school has seen substantial new additions and alterations. We're excited to report that that H- wing did open in time for school with three full large kindergarten classrooms. They look beautiful. >> Can you go to the next slide? This is a picture of um
016the interior of some of those classrooms. So, it's just an amazing job. The light in the classrooms as well as a grand total of uh seven small group instruction rooms will be incorporated in that H- wing of increase Miller. And just to confirm, I was with uh Miss Burroughs today and Miss Julie, kindergarten teachers in that wing, and they had said that the parents last night were just raving about this space. >> It looks beautiful. >> My son commented that he wouldn't mind going back to school now. >> He's 23. >> This is actually Yeah. And there's the hallway also an H- wing and as well as the courtyard outside. There's new seating. You can see some corner seating, bench seating as well. So, just amazing um new space. So, and um next slide. Um
017and this is just the SGI rooms. Uh there's a couple more SGI rooms that need to be completed and then once that is done, that building that project is technically substantially completed right now. Um but then we will be closing down projects and starting to report final cost reports to state education department. So, that's very exciting. >> I'm sorry, Lisa. What SGI means? >> Small group instruction. >> Thank you. >> Thank Yeah. Sorry >> that my brain wasn't quite working on the acronym. Just Thank you. >> And while all of this um work was going on um that you know the the bond work as well as some of the additional work that we already had added to the scope of the bond, Mike's team was um going all around the district and doing an
018amazing job as well. For example, um my this was um they painted the uh cafeteria or the cafeterium in increase miller which it just really just looks beautiful and nice and bright and everything like that uh with new graphics and um this is um one of our custodians is installing one of the new um AC units. Um so we had to retrofit all of the buildings. Um how many did you do this summer? uh 100 roughly >> hundred of 150 ultimately be done. Um Mike worked with each principal to focus on the hottest areas of the buildings. Um they had to put in wall boards um in order to fit these window units into the um into the windows existing windows. And this is all to comply with the heat index law even though we
019didn't have too many hot days but we're ready for them. Although I did ask a teacher about that and they said just having they have used the units a lot because taking the humidity >> out has been a gamecher for them in the ability to provide instruction to kids who are not you know concerned about the humidity and them affected. So even though it wasn't the hot that could have been like just having them and being able to use them is was the so thank you and thank you to your team. Yeah, we were happy to get that many done in the summer and really grateful to my staff to uh put in the effort. >> Yeah, job. >> Moving on to John J. Middle School. We're also seeing exciting progress there. A key safety
020enhancement is a new vestibule out front uh which will be opening after um Rashana when we come back to school. Uh there's just a couple of things that need to be completed in uh within the vestibule itself and they did an amazing job. Um right now they're also staining the existing block to u match. So it will all match the um brick outside uh the pin letters on the you know visitor sign. I mean, just wonderful details that were added, but just I, you know, it just it really blends in so nicely the design that it looks like it's always been there, but at the same time to have that now where um where you know, any visitor is vetted before they enter into our buildings is just so important. So, that is uh for
021security purposes. That's exciting. and the family consumer science classrooms much was modeled after the British cooking show and um and um and I know the students we've seen some pictures already of some of the treats and that the students have already made in these in these rooms with um the convection um stove tops and it's just you know beautiful space again bright spaces um and in the next slide you'll also see the greenhouse um which they'll be be able to, you know, uh, grow some of their own food as well as, you know, environmental science and other programs can also utilize the greenhouse space there. Anything to add about middle school? There's also these are um renovations to the um bathrooms in the middle school. I think that's it for the middle school. And again
022um and then we're also working on soon we'll be completing the technology rooms and again um hopefully that will be something that we will be um able to again report to the state to final close out those reports and punch lists at the end of this calendar year. Moving on to the high school, um there's a wide range of enhancements that have gone on designed to modernize the facilities and improve the student staff experience beginning with the auditorium seating project project which is progressing well with the installation of new carpeting, new um chairs, new seating, new ceiling, and once the fall productions are completed and have taken place, um we will go back in for sound as well as lighting improvements and upgrades to that space there. Um, >> will it be ready for spring
023spring musical? >> Yes, it'll be ready for spring. >> It will be great. Beautiful. Yeah, I had a couple questions. >> And you don't get from the picture though, that grid on top is purple. >> Yes, >> the grid work is is painted purple. It's really impressive when you go in. It's neat. There's lots of great purple accents that have been incorporated in to the design work. It's been it's great. >> Yeah, there's a little purple, a little bit of purple in the carpeting as well, like but just subtle. Just subtle. No, but you know as I wear purple here and there. Yes, it looks No, they it looks beautiful. Um in this next slide as well renovated the step lab uh stepped labs lab um providing advanced and specialized learning um for the students
024and really again great job if before they still had the um builtin um windows or not windows but uh you know into the tabletops for the old days where the computers were built into the tabletop. Um, so it's modern space now with the popups for them in order to plug in their devices right on each of the um, seating there. So, looks great. Um, our front entrance, as people may have noticed, has been undergoing um, additions and alterations for a little while. During evacuation or uh excavation, we discovered underground piping in a location for a new footing which required a revised plan resulting in a new start date of in September. So, we're hopeful that this uh work will be completed around December time and then we'll move to the second phase of the front
025entrance um renovations of the high school. This is just an example of unforeseen conditions. If anyone's ever done any household renovations, you know, once you open up a wall, it's like what's behind the wall. So, kind of open up the sidewalk and what's underneath the sidewalk type of thing. So, um, but yeah, but the till uh the team's been diligent in and addressing it and try, you know, pivoting and trying to get, uh, everything back on course. So, thank you for that. >> If I could just add, we did start that work today. >> Okay, great. >> We will be pouring concrete tomorrow. So, we're we're full steam ahead on the front entrance. Great. >> That's great. And next slide, you'll see the beautiful skylights in the B-wing. So, Hudson Zoom, you'll see the B-wing
026in person, but a little premiere of these are the um skylights and just as beautiful um you know, the lighting and just looking up and being able like in this you can see the clouds and everything. It just really is a beautiful space. And in the next um slide you can also see um we're still there's there is a delay with the furniture but um but there is furniture in there so we can open up we're hoping to open up the wing possibly next week. >> Next week. >> Yes. But that's exciting. >> So it was just a little delay in some glass which we had couldn't open it up because it would um void you know as far as fire safety rules. But >> but you can see it's completely a new everything is
027new. the the restrooms and um classroom spaces, open classroom spaces, new learning commons, collaborative workspaces as well as an outdoor classroom and again some more small group instruction rooms that just foster like collaboration and learning and providing flexible study areas. You know, again during common lunch there there is large spaces where the students can then you know um get together and um have another space to u have lunch and collaborate. So, and here you'll see work from again our operations and maintenance team in order to accommodate for common lunch. We had to um Mike's team as well as KG&D and Triton all come together look at that space. How can we now get close to 900 people potentially? Like if you know if there's ever snow or something um you have to always uh plan
028for the you know the extreme situation. So, how can we possibly get all these students through the um cafeteria as efficiently as possible? Mike's team um as well with you know KG&D design uh actually um if you see look on the yes this slide you can see and uh created a new entrance to the um cafeteria and therefore like um creating two lines for hot and cold stations and hot and cold lunches and um to increase efficiency through the cafeteria as well as on the next oh it's not on that next slide it's later but um but there's also the old SRO office space. Um there is now a remote area where students can pick up pre-prepared meals as well. So you know that way you know u decreasing traffic to the other side of
029the building. And once B-wing opens up, it's a close vicinity to the B-wing as well. So that will be um so that is a great spot there. And don't worry, Brett will have a space. He has >> he has a good space. So our SRO >> and um Mike's team as well uh renovated the teachers workspace with new AC ceiling cassettes as well as um HBAC, new flooring, new ceiling. So really uh revitalizing that space and just making fresh, clean um area for our our um teachers to um you know to break in and everything else. Um and you can see this is the interior of that workspace there. New flooring looks beautiful. >> Wow. Tom Rosati's floor layout for furniture too. >> Yeah, >> got everything. >> And this slide you can see that
030the um operations maintenance team also performed renovations of lower Q to create updated bright and cheery spaces for our TSP program. Um a little purple again, little splash of purple. um a line of purple, but it it is um you know when we did our tour of that area, it just really is just so much brighter and light and um and you can see in the next slide there's you know some again some spaces for um for the related services and everyone to meet as well as you see a couple pictures of our new special education offices which is on in lower K below the district office allowing the entire district office um to be in one of wing of the high school. So, and Mike's team did an again uh a great job just
031um creating it's just amazing how different it looks from when it like three months ago, two months ago, I one month ago, but just >> our team was surprised too. >> Yeah. You know, putting up walls and everything to to create individualized offices, individual offices and everything. So they did a great job >> and all of that was in addition to all the usual summer work that needs to be done. So I mean that was a tremendous to get all of that done. >> Yeah, it was a big undertaking, but we have the right staff with the right attitude >> and I think everybody walked away with a smile. We have little odds and ends to do. Um but we're getting to them, working our way back around trying to pick out little details that
032we may have missed. But I think like this next slide, these things are folks in maintenance. We're behind the scenes setting all that up and doing the plumbing, the HVAC for that hopefully grab and go lunch and learn type of feel for everybody. Yeah, >> it's amazing. It's very much appreciated. >> Yeah, it was fun. >> There is so much work to get accomplished in the summer. So to also have accomplished all of these renovations of you know cafeteria tsp space as well as special education department space is really kudos and thank you and and air conditioners and stuff on top of that and >> and uh moving the print >> and the buildings looking revitalized and beautiful when everyone came back at the beginning of the year. So, a great team, excellent team. And
033this is Katona Elementaryar's new um renovated library space. Once again, just a bright, cheery space. If you know that um that was, you know, not not bright and cheery last year. Now, it's um just a beautiful space. On the next slide also, you can see the stream lab that's connected to that. So just you know just to have this central hub of just learning and literacy as we talk about literacy and a space that inviting space for our students to want to enter into and um and you know it's just that beautiful and this is the above the ceiling work for our HVAC system at um Katona Elementary School. So it's you know there's always work going on even um that we don't see. So it was just kind of you know we talk about
034you know you see the flashy things but it's you know but there's so much work that goes on above the ceiling behind the walls that it's just amazing amount of work has been accomplished this summer and um also again more SG another SGI space in Kona as well as a new faculty restroom. is another exam. And the next slide, there's another example of what the window units, the retrofitting at Ktona's um the window units there. And last spring, our AP environmental science classes visited the geothermal wells fields and um by I think pro probably by the beginning of June, they had completed 80 wells that were drilled >> in those fields. >> Only got two phone calls about noise. >> Yes, >> that's it. That was it. >> Wow. >> Yeah. >> Congratulations. >> I
035thought I changed my phone numbers. >> It was great. >> Well, and also thanks to the community for allowing us to disrupt >> with all of this, but this is um tremendous undertaking. >> Yeah. >> And um also here you can see the upgrade and replacement of the old boiler to the state-of-the-art Fulton natural gas condensing boilers. And besides the name, you'd have to talk to Mike today. anymore. >> The the geothermal plant. >> Yeah. So, you're looking at two FTON boilers, the expansion tanks, and a bunch of miscellaneous piping and pumps on the floor. All that stuff will be packaged up, and the next photo of that room is going to look like something out of NASA, but we're not there yet. We're we're we're getting there. So, it's all getting put together, and
036it it will be an impressive photo when it's done. So, I'll be the first one to want to show everybody. >> It is. And that reminds me, actually, Lenor um is working on some before and after shots on our website because, you know, when you just see the changes um side by side, it's just it's amazing how much they've done. I'm very grateful. So, Frank, maybe you can um at the slide before. Yes, thank you. Um, do you want to speak to where we are with the projects and everything? >> Sure. Uh, just starting at increase Miller. Uh, we do plan on uh turning over the rear connecting carter. Um, I believe that's October 24th. So, we're making very good progress on the back connecting Carter. So, once it's completed, uh, students and staff will
037be able to go uh in in the H- wing around into the school. Um, and you notice the first slide, the back uh was pretty much there was just dirt. That will all be graded out. There'll be grass. There'll be nice fields there for the uh students to uh enjoy recess out there. Um, and um we are uh completing the uh actually next week we will be installing the transaction windows which are basically um similar to like I compare it to like a bank window. where it gives the uh security person more uh more uh a secure uh atmosphere with with who comes in >> and um >> yeah that reminds me so the those vestibules as well after Rashashana will be opening up as well. So the grease miller and meopon vestibules as well
038>> so you'll be able to move your security staff into those new spaces right after the holidays. Um, Kona Elementary, uh, we made very good progress as Lisa, uh, showed that there was quite a bit of work above the ceilings that that went on. Um, when you go in and you you look at a ceiling, you don't realize the duck work and the steam pipes and the electrical beers. Um, so that's why that slide we felt is important to show that. Um, and just looking John J. High School. Happy to report that we will be uh substantially completed in the B-wing next week. Uh there was special fire glass that had to be ordered. And uh the good news is it it is coming in tomorrow and we have our uh carpenters jumping right on
039it to get it installed. So, we will be able to turn the B-wing over and we will immediately start on a C-wing, which is which is good news to keep keep working um going at the high school. And uh the middle school, uh we are pretty much uh completed with all the work. The tech lab, we're happy to report we will be turning over two months sooner than originally thought. So we're looking to turn the tech labs over uh in October, third week in October. So progress is going very very well there. >> Thank you. And so in the same metal pond really the um once the vestibule is completed, right, >> then that project will be closing we'll be closing that project down, >> right? We just had some miscellaneous uh punchless items during
040the summer and some heating and air conditioning uh uh issues that we had to resolve. So, we're happy to report that we feel like we're we're pretty much there now. >> Thank you. So, do you have any questions for the team here? >> With gratitude. >> Yes. Yes. >> Awesome. >> Um, this is not an important question at all, but I I've done some searching. I'm just curious. It seems to me that Katona could be the first public elementary in Westchester County to have geothermal systems. I don't know if that's a fact. I think Pleasantville High School might have it, but I think it would be really neat if we could sort of know if that's a fact that we're first. I think it would be pretty cool. Um, >> yeah, we can take a
041look at that. It's an interesting study too because uh KS as you may be aware is a works public administration building under FDR's term. So a building that was built at that time being retrofitted with geothermal seeing a second life so to speak taking the new technology from just brick and mortar is an amazing accomplishment. Certainly if it's the first elementary school in Westchester that's an even higher accolade. I'd love to know that if we can. >> We will take a look. >> Thanks everybody. >> Thank I'm sorry. I just want to also thank just the public and the board for the support and the financial support for these projects and um everything because it's just a great So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks very much for coming tonight. >> Exciting to see
042Okay. So, how did that come to be that we chose KES for that? Being that it is our oldest elementary school, >> it's because of the nature of the site and I'm sure we could hear more about it from the folks who just got up, but it's really I think the site that's most conducive to the drilling and the thought it might be that >> to the energy. I think it also need >> pardon me. It also has to do with the water because our other neighboring elementaryaries are on well water but KES I believe is municipal water and so with respect to like um disruptiveness potentially to community wells and whatnot KES was really the the only candidate right now there was an answer. >> Uh we now welcome Terrence and Justin to our
043board table. We appreciate you being here tonight to talk to us about the um EPC. >> Thank you for having us. >> I think as we go from one to the other, I I'm anticipating some pretty good news there to bring forth some good news this evening and stuff. So again, back to Lisa's point before where just in May, we got the kind of go-ahhead from the community once again to support us to uh follow up on this project to see if we can actually pull this together and make it happen. And so who we see tonight, but again, thanks to the community giving us a chance to be here tonight. So, thank you. >> Just want to welcome Terry Gur from um from Honeywell as well as Justin Benet from Energy as well as
044Mike again. Um and they're going to >> he tried. Did you see? >> Sorry. >> Yeah. So, they're going to walk us through um we do have some exciting um uh proposal from Honeywell. We've um so I will let I'll turn it over to Terry to tell us about it. >> Sure. I don't know if you want to I can jump right into it. Um and you can fill in and you can put up the slides. >> Yes. >> Um >> or you do. Would you like >> Sure, that works. Not too many slides, but um yeah, thank you for the opportunity to come back. We've got um what we believe is very good news to share. You know, we were selected back in uh January. You know, we went out the district went out
045with an RFP. Uh I think it was last October, November. We had responded. We were um selected by uh by yourself in January. And then we began a lot of detailed engineering work to to get to this point. And it was um not an easy process to to design um a self-funded solar system. And that was that was the criteria. You know, could we with all that's available in terms of um the federal monies through the investment tax credit uh through some nice certa monies that come direct to us to buy the cost down through obviously just pure energy savings by installing solar systems. Can all of that um and the cost, you know, work under a self-unding format? And um yes, we've got a proposal that is self-funding. Um we believe interest rates are
046coming down because financing is part of it. So, we're self-unding at what we believe is a very conservative rate. We were just talking about it. We've got other projects that were just funded recently that are well under the rate that we're showing. So, I think that's all good news. is kind of the perfect storm of where rates are going. The feds are lowering the rates. So, with that, I will just by way of introduction, because I think there's um maybe a few board members that were not uh here when I presented in in January, um I head up Honeywell's energy team in New York. Been doing that for for 20 20 years, 20 plus years. And um we did a job with the district uh 10 years ago with Mike, a successful energy performance contract
047included a lot of the behindthe-scenes stuff that Lisa was showing. The stuff you don't see, boilers and stuff above the ceiling and all that. Um >> good stuff. >> But yeah, the good stuff. Good stuff for us engineers. The nerdy stuff that we like. But um great results, exceeded the guarantee. So we were excited to get another opportunity. uh solar didn't work back then because it didn't have a lot of the stuff that's available now to make it work. And just real brief on Honeywell. So we're very mature in this marketplace. Um so we've been doing it for about 40 plus years. Um and we like to just leverage that strength and expertise across all of our projects to, you know, to bring us to where we're at today. Now, I'll get into the the
048meat and potatoes of of our proposal. And and these are finalized numbers. Uh so, we've got a current sale price of 7.15 million. That's a little bit less than where our RFP response was at last November. That was um and that was before all the detail engineering, and I'll get into the actual solar layouts and the engineering involved. So some systems came down in size uh because of equipment on roofs, structural analysis that was done. So you can't put panels in certain areas, things like that. But very close to the number that we had proposed before from a grant perspective, you know, we're over $2.2 million in I'll call it free money. Uh $1.95 of that is the federal ITC. There's a 300K piece that Honeywell is contributing to the deal and that would be
049at the very end of the installation and it really helped to close the gap in the first year of the financing and the reason being is um uh in New York, you know, when you finance these projects, you've got to begin making payments within 12 months. Our construction schedule here is an 18-month schedule. So, you're not going to see the full energy savings uh while you're starting to make payments. You're going to have some energy savings. Some of the systems will be done, but not all of them. Um, and that federal ITC money doesn't come in, as you're well aware, under the geothermal piece, until the work is complete. So, that's going to show up in year two. So, you have that kind of gap in year one where you've got to make a certain
050level of payments. Our savings are here. Honeywell closed the gap. So, it's a truly self-funding scenario um across every year of the term and like I said, hopefully the interest rates come in even better and it um it only gets further posited. So, we're showing uh through the solar systems we're proposing annual savings of a little over 318,000 a year. You also get building aid. So, EPCs are aidable like capital projects. um wish your aid ratio was a little bit higher but it's not both >> and I know even when we started it >> they were higher correct um so that was also part of the struggle of making it work the rate ratio came down but that is an accurate number and it's it's nothing to sneeze at it's over you know over a
05115-year period it contributes to the positive cash flow as you can see there Um I'm showing currently with the 4.5% interest rate a positive cash flow of I'll call it you know over a half a million dollars over the term. So not only selfunding but actually generating uh positive cash flow for the district. And I don't like to use too many acronyms. ECM stands for energy conservation measures. This is just most EPCs are a variety. This is one. It's a solar only project but at every location. So, I'm going to show you briefly um what those layouts look like. Those are the KW sizes of each of the systems. And these are um these are finished designs. And that's where certainly uh Justin and his team comes in. When I show you the timeline, all
052of the engineering um behind this is being complete. So, all the structural analysis on the roof that SED requires. So, we're not putting panels in areas that are going to, you know, cave in the roof or um all the electrical drawings have been completed behind that that we have to submit to to SED. Um that was all completed by by Justin's team. So, we're in a position uh not this evening, but asking for your support at the next board meeting with your approval to get the contract signed and submit to SED the following day. And I'll show the timeline of why that's important. Because we're trying to get we need to get the material um ordered and and and uh and in house before the end of the calendar year because under the one big
053beautiful bill, there's a a whole slew of other criteria that kicks in. If you don't do that and you start with your material um in January under a foreign entity of concern requirements, not that those aren't achievable, but they come with extra costs. costs that we can't uh incur and keep this self-funding program working. So, here's the uh high school. And again, if you see areas where why there's no panels there, again, it's either there's equipment on the roof and there's too much shading, so there's just inefficiency. It doesn't make sense or structurally it wasn't sound or in the case of the high school, there's some roof areas that um >> need some roof. >> Need some work. Yeah. I'm not looking to give Mike some more work >> next summer. >> Yeah, >> but
054there's a little bit at the high school. >> Yeah, I think we were careful, but we still at the same time >> we picked out the appropriate places not to put >> no doubt >> while trying to still maximize it within code requirements because that certainly helps again achieve the self-funding scenario. You can see a similar layout. Um very large systems obviously at the high school and the middle school. So I wanted to point out here this is you may see um what appears to be some floating panels there in the kind of lower left hand corner. That is the >> addition >> the addition. That's Hwing. >> Yeah. This is an older uh Google Earth shot that um wasn't up to date. So I wanted to show you there. We didn't uh because I
055know with the capital work that that was a consideration and maybe a a change order and and >> yeah, >> I had reviewed those drawings and said it really would make sense to to pull it into this job even the way we're um connecting it to the grid. We're maximizing the return to the district. So yeah, I'm glad that we were able to make it work because it'd be a shame not to to say no to that and have us fail as well. So that's what those floating panels are. Um, >> color that in. >> We'll color it purple. How about that? Well, some will look at it and say, "Is that a ground mount system?" No, that's >> No, >> that's the new addition. Smaller system here. And a lot of this is just
056the size of the roof at Uton Elementary. There's a lot of equipment up there. There's a lot of shading. Um, but we didn't want to leave any building out. We thought that was a there's an opportunity here. it still has good payback. I think it it's a good message to the public that um every available viable space was used to to maximize um the measure. >> And the center section of roof is slate, which I plan on replacing. >> Yeah. >> And you can't replace a slate roof easily already, let alone put panels on it. >> Very expensive. >> Yeah, that would have crushed that. >> Good point. And here this is a ground mount system. So this I believe was an older soccer field. Um really good location. Justin's team did all the required
057geotechnical work. So we know um the soil type, what's what's subsurface, all that goes into designing the the racking support for those panels because they got to meet certain wind requirements and all that. Um, but a really good spot that uh I obviously not currently used today that we wanted to take advantage of. >> And those green blobs is screening. >> Those those blobs there, for lack of a better techical word, it's it's just part of the software we use. It's um it's to define uh like heights of trees to calculate our shading. It's nothing more than that. That's not >> I didn't know if we were required to put in um plant some screening. I know no where I grew up there's a lot of solar farms and they're required um to put different
058screening around. >> Well, there is some fencing there that is required. We do have that. Correct. Um that's not what those >> those are just um indicating trees are there and then there's some numbers behind that to indicate heights of trees to determine the shading and the effect. Um there's some light >> trimming in this area that we had talked about. Um, but yeah, fencing will be part of it. It definitely needs to be a secure area with proper signage and all of that. >> Thank you. >> And last but not least is um, Metal Pond. Also a very goodiz system. In total, it equates to about 2.1 megawws. It probably um I meant to have the exact number. It probably addresses 55% of your electrical load. Um so in the future if you buy
059some property and you want to come back to Honeyal, we want to put another ground mount. >> I know there was a question back in January like we can we wipe out our entire electrical spend and um no, but it's significant. it it might be an area of 55 to 60% of your current electrical spend with a significant environmental impact in terms of greenhouse gas reduction which I can show you that and um we can make that part of our our M&V on the back end of the install you know every year then we're responsible that's the the key here of a of an energy performance contract is it's a real guarantee so we're physically measuring the production of each system which leads directly to the the monetary credit and reduction in your bills and
060if that production is not what we are contractually showing then Honeywell will cut a check for the difference. So you're absolutely protected under that self-funding. Um, ideally and consistently we probably average 95% of exceeding those numbers because as much as I would like to push the envelope on that, I've got big bad Honeywell saying you could only guarantee X of if I'm calculating 100 bucks, they we want you to guarantee $90. Keep a little safety. But we don't share in that overage. So the reality is we we we usually exceed the guaranteed numbers and that all goes to to the district. So um again so the cash flow that I've presented truly represents the worst case. The savings should be greater because I'm not guaranteeing 100% I want to calculate it. The interest rate should
061be better. Um and the annual service where we measure the production and do that guarantee. Um we're showing that there's an annual cost for that. call it. It's in the cash flow, so it's not a hidden fee. Um maybe it's eight or $9,000 a year. Uh like phase one where we showed a consistent uh exceeding of the results about four or five years in a row, you can cancel that service then, which I would say that's probably a good move that this is an engineered solution. If there's a mistake, it's going to rear itself early and then we've got the ability to fix it on our dime. Um but if not, if you have consistent results, especially with a single measure like solar and the production is there. Um so you could opt to just
062cancel that annual service of us measuring all that and that's additional upside to the district. Those costs then go away. >> But that's already measured in though, right? Even if we kept that cost, that's still measured in >> 100% measured in for the full 18-year term. You got it. >> 18 years is how long you expect the panels to last? >> No. So 18 years by energy law in New York is the um simple payback that the state department requires. So they want to see a guarantee for the full 18 years. District's choice then to keep that guarantee in place which which comes with an annual cost just to monitor all of the utility spend or not. But the starting point needs to be for a full 18 years so you're protected. thought process, I'm
063sure, being that again, if there's a shortfall in year one, keep keep that service because you're protected. I would have to cut a check every year for the full 18 years to make sure that you're made whole in in the cash flow that you're looking at. So, you've got enough savings in your utility spend to make that debt payment to the bank because you're going out and borrowing money. And those monies like like a capital project, like a bond. Those monies get put into an escrow. And then we pull from that like every ordinary construction project. And then when the construction is done, you begin making those payments back. And that's where you got to see the reduction in your utility spend to offset the debt spend and the other monies coming in from the
064federal government and all that. So, >> and I don't know, maybe it's um already calculated in here, but does the geothermal plant have any in like will that help us at all with having that in or those numbers already? >> We can't really say that they tie together. They're kind of stove piped. >> Okay. >> Um what we would want to do is we want to let that project finish out, close out, all the engineering data about that building and structure we will share with Honeywell. Mhm. >> Um but the >> solar project in and it of itself is kind of independent of the geo thermal system. And I think in the end that's where the district and Honeywell need to partner and talk about on the tail end of the project what we do
065with the green energy credits that we purchase, how many we should should still be purchasing, >> and the overall GHG impact and how it relates to that building. I think that's going to take some time to go from stove pipe to combined but I think that's in the future. >> Okay. Thanks. I didn't understand how they you know if they were completely separate if there was some interplay. So thank you. >> Yeah. Y >> but as we you know move towards increased electrification of our bus fleet and some of the other items we're doing that increases our demand on electricity and then but now we're using green electricity increasing that. So that's you know for me too. So there is you know bottom line there is you know at the end um some money profit
066if you will or revenue that's being generated but to me like the environmental savings is also really impactful. >> Yeah. >> No doubt. And we can help with that. Like I said part of that annual service to monitor the system and and to protect the guarantee is to produce an annual report. Um and part of that report can be specifics on the environmental impact which um a lot of our clients we work with uh energy and whether it's in addition to your website to get it out to the public whether it's um a public meeting like this you know to present the results like we did under phase one so um all things that we'd love to do and expect to do. So, you know, take advantage of that. And >> I think we're doing
067dashboard data, too. So, like students can see productivity. >> Correct. I mean, I like the uh the slide where you had students out with the geothermal. Um >> we can do that, you know, um get them involved as >> construction with safety in mind is going on, but also to your point on the back end. on the back end. Yeah, >> we've got access now remotely um to show the production via dashboard. So that can be >> pulled in um anywhere, work in a STEM classroom, can pull it up on a screen, Smartboard, and um field questions. I we had that conversation with one of the students. It was pretty um >> I forget her name. Pretty impactful. >> Yeah. Right. >> Yeah. You did a great job. We did a a meeting. >> Huh?
068>> Does it know me that she spoke with or No. >> No. No. Uh, >> there's a student who wrote us, I think last year. >> Yes. She wrote, >> she's great. >> She did a project on it. >> Handed uh myself and Justin about 30 questions. So, really really appreciated that extra homework. >> You did. I was like, dude, you better do your homework. Hey, could be a future >> back to my college days. I'm like, wow, I thought I knew this stuff. I got to go study. >> She may hit you up for an internship soon. You know, she's a senior this year. Yeah, >> very impressive. >> And we do some of that, too. I like that. If you have like um I'm sure you have college days here in high school
069and sometimes you uh maybe invite STEM companies in. We've done a lot of that, you know, just talking about, hey, what does an engineering job look like? I'm thinking about going to an engineering school. So, um if you have something like that, >> I live close by. I'd love to, you know, be part of that because that's uh definitely >> those are good discussions to have. um my kids included thinking about you know years back going to an engineering school they they have a lot of good questions around I want to do what does a job look like you know so take advantage of that you know certainly we've we've done that together >> I just wanted to say a huge thanks to Lisa for getting us to to yes and working with our partners
070to get this done it was unclear whether we were going to be able to do it and I think that this is a really important project for us. You know, I follow energy news pretty closely and there's just a lot of uh coverage around the rising electricity demand with data centers and AI and how that's expected to, you know, drive up the price of electricity. And so from a the perspective of you know the fiscals fiscal um responsibility that we have having this in place and being able to generate you know 50 to 60% of our electricity needs on site uh I think is a huge uh advantage to us. So I think that this is this is a really important uh project and thank you Lisa for for getting us here. >> Agreed. Yeah,
071it's um it's going to look a lot different in the future. So, you having it on site, um even the numbers we're showing, you know, if the if we're showing what a 2% escalation year-over-year, um I anticipated those costs to go up a lot higher than that. So, again, getting back to that cash flow is conservative because think of it if you didn't do it where the cost would be. That's, you know, I concur with you 100%. So, one of the reasons to pursue this idea is it in it allows you empowers you to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuels through electric energy because you have a way to back it up. It's much harder before when you didn't. Even buying the green energy credits, >> the electric bill was still going up. So,
072this is a really good offset. >> Yeah. and the and um the buckets we're pulling from are going away. >> So like there's an IERTA piece that we get 25 cents a watt that comes to us the contractor. So that helps to buy down the cost. Um that's a bucket of money that you can go online and you can see it's dwindling real time. Um we're protect well there's enough room that I think we're fine given the timeline that I'll show but the federal monies are going away. Um, you know, the new administration put in some accelerated closeouts of that inflation reduction act. Like I said, there's there's uh criteria kicking in next year that makes it a little more expensive and more prohibitive. So, less will be done. So, um that may change if
073the administration changes the next but plan on it not changing. So I mean again your your perfect storm of having like free money is um there's small windows. So this was the environmental impact you can see significant you know over 2200 tons of CO2 reduction and this is based on our guaranteed numbers. We would again do an actual uh calculation here when the results are in at the end of the year. >> So if you don't mind if you can go back to that slide for a second. >> Um that's like 5 million pounds. The first number >> that's a metric ton. So US it's like pounds per ton. 5 million pounds of less CO2 that this community is putting >> into the environment. So >> that's sustainability piece and where we're at. I think
074you know yes absolutely we want to save our community money and we're we're holding tight there and the worst it's a wash and we're always seeing some better but >> on an annual basis >> unbelievable. So I again thanks Lisa and the team and everybody in the district and the community allow ways to make this happen because you know it's a it is truly a win-win from a financial standpoint as well as from an impact on our local community and stuff. So just wanted to highlight the not the other ones the you know aren't aren't important as well too but you know the 40,000 pounds of >> you know sulfur oxides and stuff like that. It just those are unbelievable numbers in my opinion. So thank you. >> No thank you for the polls. I
075see these numbers a lot in our job. So I just I just like it's 2200. I'm like you're right 2200. That's when you >> Yeah. When you convert it into pounds it's a Yeah. >> significant. >> Yes. >> No doubt. >> Thank you. >> And then just uh from a timeline perspective. So this is um this is really our ask from the district side of what we need in the way of support. It is uh looking at the next board meeting. We will have um I have a current contract in place with uh with Lisa and outside counsel. We talked about I'm going to um redo that quickly with some recent terms and conditions that I just finished on another project with um uh Ingramman Smith. Um so I think uh I can quickly do
076that and that process should be very fast and that should be an approved contract from them in time for that meeting. That's what we need to have done >> to approve >> for the board to approve. >> Yep. Um and then we will work we're working now with Eneria on finalizing all of the state of department drawings. We'll begin to put forms in place that requires um Dr. Blanch's signature, board president's signature um so that we can submit to the state department the next day. So we're looking to submit October 10th. Good news is the backlog up there is very small right now. This is a single only measure. So they should pick it up in about two weeks. They should review it very quickly. Um we anticipate getting approval by mid November. We would
077work with district's fiscal advisor who's been involved. Capital markets already. Um they would have an RFP prepared so they could release it once we get SD approval, get the rates in be better than than what we're forecasting now. um select a bank and then come back to the board at your December meeting because that would be enough time to have the bank selected, have the bank lease documents in place and vetted out by your outside council for the board then to pass a resolution saying yes, authorizing the district to execute that lease with the selected bank. Then we're off to the races. Um, we'll probably order materials sooner with your support of a signed contract. Um, that's our risk. If we never get it, if we never get SCD approval, I'm stuck with a whole
078lot of material, whatever. Um, that will never happen and I'm confident the rates will be better. But that's um you know with a signed contract on October 9th, we may elect to do that to safe harbor the material um and get it in house before the end of the calendar year which is what I mentioned before very important. But that's that's our choice not a concern on the district side. >> I did think we did see finally an acceleration of the nice approval timelines from where we were at the worst of it. Right. >> Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Oh, did they present something in the way of um >> No. Well, when we started our capital projects, we were racing to get approval because that back then they were like six months projects. Yes. >> So,
079two years ago or a year and a half ago. >> Yeah. >> Big change there. >> Um pretty bad. >> Unheard of. I mean, I I'm sure we all know the years when it would been a year, year and a half. So, this is uh >> this is a good thing. >> Yes. >> Yeah. And then from a construction standpoint, um we've got an 18month schedule. So we will be complete by June of 2027 and then um support the district through the filing of the ITC. I mean there's some technical information you'll need from us to fill out forms. Um but then the guarantee would start in your 2728 fiscal year >> and and the installation is um because you're on the roofs, it's not dependent on students being out of school. This can go
080on >> during the school year. So we're not waiting for breaks or >> there's strategic things about getting and and Mike and I have talked about it getting material on roofs certainly super early in the morning. >> Not tiptoeing through the tulips. >> Not tiptoeing. >> Correct. No doubt. No doubt. >> No doubt. Um but not summer dependent. >> Um you never meet this schedule. Um >> yeah. >> Certainly tightly coordinated and that and that's you know the exciting part for us when we finalize numbers. We talked about it having worked with Mike and the team before um gave us a confidence level to really just tighten up our numbers and and slim down margins to make it work because um we've worked with the team before and uh we're not going to have efficiency
081losses because of poor communication and um things like that which happens quite a bit. You know, there's good teams, there's there's bad teams, but yeah. Yeah. >> And then there's our team. >> Great point. >> Our staff is >> the custodians and maintenance team have learned a lot through this. How to support >> these types of uh services, especially heavy lifts and loads >> uh quietly so we don't disrupt school. >> Yeah. having separate entrance ways and exit ways so we're not um yeah coming into the building at all whatsoever and loading stuff on the roof at early hours or even um after school hours so any of that lift work or um >> having a crane I don't think we'll need that but yeah >> that would not be during occupied hours whatsoever but
082um the systems are ballasted systems which you're not you know drilling into the roof so it's a it's a quiet install. Um, it's not you're not going to get the calls or the two calls you got on on the geothermal system. You're not going to you shouldn't get that >> actually. Yeah, it's good point. >> Yeah, it's a quiet install. Um, you'd be amazed at um a lot of districts say can't do any work when the kids are here and then they speak to some of their >> peers that that we've done work and like yeah, it's it's you don't you don't know they're up there for that type of work. For other type of work, it's a lot more intrusive. but not this type of work. So, so we're excited. That is that's everything
083in its entirety. Um, if you have any more questions, fire away. Otherwise, we will be prepared um with an approved contract for the next meeting. Um, so we got to work that through Ingramman Smith. >> We'll have that ready to go. >> Thank you. >> Thanks for your perseverance. Appreciate it. >> Appreciate it. >> Good to see you, Justin. >> Thank you, my guest. You can leave this time. >> Thank you. >> I do like all the purple, too. Would love. >> Thank you. >> Great. So, I'm really happy that Lisa that they were able to persevere and come back with a great great presentation. So, it's exciting. >> Absolutely. >> Uh, next we turn to 7.04, our board of education goals. Um, everybody has had an opportunity to review them. Is there any discussion
084um about our three goals? So, we have a goal on leadership, a goal on supporting the 2030 plan, and a goal for fiscal stewardship. Um, I don't know if it needs me to read them or if anybody's comments or if we're ready to um have a motion on the goals. >> I'm happy to move 7.04. >> Thank you. Second, second, Caroline. All those in favor? 6. Thank you, Marjorie. Uh, next is our finance committee charge. I don't think we had any changes from that um from the last meeting. Is there any discussion on the finance committee charge? >> I'd like to make a motion to approve 7.06 adoption of finance. >> second by I'm sorry. I should have let you make the motion. Um, all those in favor zero. >> Uh, okay. So, next we
085have a resolution regarding transportation appeal. Um, so I'll just read this. Where is the board of education received an appeal from certain res residents detailed in a confidential sheet concerning transportation for the children? Whereas the board of education has thoroughly reviewed and considered appeal. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education hereby denies the appeal in its entirety. Um I think we need a motion to accept that language. Motion by Bill. Second. Second by Barbara. All those in favor? 6. >> I'm going to abstain. >> You're going to abain. I'm sorry. It's okay. >> 51 abstension. Um that brings us to public comment. There is no one here for public comment um this evening. And you know once again we we do love hearing from our community. Um you can reach out to
086us in a variety of ways and one good opportunity is to come join us at our meetings. But our email addresses are on the district website. So, we we do encourage we like to hear the good and um anything that we can help improve on. So, we do encourage you to show up and let us know how you're feeling. Um with that, I will close public comment. Um that brings us to the consent agenda. Is there anything that we need to pull out from the consent agenda? No. Can I make a motion um to approve the consent agenda? Second by Arwin. Um all those is there any discussion on the consent agenda items? All those in favor? 6. That brings us to board dialogue and discussion. Does anybody have anything discussion Hudson. >> Um I
087actually do. Uh I I just want to like to add on about the presentation that was just given to us. Uh I really think that that's going to be wellreceived by students. Uh there's a large focus on sustainability in the high school. Uh and I know when I was at the middle school there was also um so I do think it's going to be very well received by them and it's really exciting. Uh I do wonder how we can push this out um and make this more um known uh that this project known if it gets approved. Um and I am hoping that there's a way that we could um uh um for the word uh make this like just known to um students in the high school and also in the younger grades that
08855 to 60% I mean that those are very like very impressive numbers and I do hope that students will know that the district is focused on sustainability and that they'll know um these aspects. So I just want to add thank you Hudson for saying that. We did actually write into the RFP that we are requesting that um Honeywell as well as Energia incorporate some data for curricular purposes um a dashboard on the website um you know and we've done some work with start and pulling down data into that um into um the start um um platform and looking at our energy use so we can also incorporate it there. But we did write that into the RFP because it is important for for any of this type of work to incorporate our students. So, thank
089you. >> That's great. >> Um, thank you. And maybe even potentially that display can be put up in the high school on a monitor um permanently so it could just be displayed to everyone always. Uh, and I don't know, maybe that could be a potential down the line. >> Yeah, that's great. We got a lot of TVs we can put it on. No, I think it's exciting that our students I mean this is what's going to be coming at you as you guys are going into college and graduating. So it there's some real opportunity for some handon hands on work in the field for the students that are interested in this and the fact that they're willing to come to a career day. We do have the career days and that's um it's a great
090partnership that they're offering to us and I guess they and they've always been a very good partnership. Right? >> Nice to have them back. >> Anything else for public comment? I do um a wise colleague reminded me recently and I just want to say a thank you to all the boards and administrators that came before us. um we wouldn't be here in the position that we are today with being able to have the EPC's and able to have the um the projects that are going on in our schools without the boards that came before us. So the literacy review, the security um vestibules um and all all that goes along with that. So just a thank you to everybody who sat at this table before us. Then if there's no more board dialogue, um it
091will turn to future meetings, uh on October 9th, we will be here in the library at 7 p.m. And on October 23rd, we have our next meeting in the high school library at 7 p.m. >> And Ray, >> yeah, I'll just pick up from the regionalization conversation that happened. So again, you may recall last year that was a conversation across the state in a lot of ways the I would say that our our Boseies affiliation and PNW Boseis is a exemplar across the state and so really for us there were a few buckets that were identified that yes we'll be looking at that continued partnership and those so one of those is the idea about safety and security in schools to see if there's a way to have those expenditures e be funded um perhaps
092either outside the cap or some ability from state aid to support that. So certainly want to be a part of that. Uh continue to look at our mental wellness kind of partnerships as the board knows we've started dabbling into that a little bit with Northwell Health this year just as the presentation last time. And then thinking uh other things like an operational part for transportation uh as we think about transportation our area and then other districts we try to help from district to district directors to directors to say hey if I happen to be going through your district with a child maybe we can help each other and things so is looking to see if there's um kind of a more centralized space just within Boseies and so they're doing some exploration to see if
093that's something that can help all these component districts and perhaps broader but it's not just 18 we'll down county all the way and things like that. So yes, we would like to kind of be a part of that work as well. So um the regionalization conversation as much of that as just what are some of these focus areas you want to work on. I think it will give some direction to our legislators and saying here's a kind of an agreed upon focus within this area and so what things might the legislation be able to support and putting some of these things kind of into practice in those areas. So, um, those are the ones. And the last one I would say is just the idea about a I think they call it a staffing hub
094for substitutes. And so, um, you know, if we're able to do the same thing in access and say, oh, another district right next door may have a teacher or person that's just retired available and they don't need them, but we could. And so, this idea about just generating that staffing hub that we could be able to share supports across the way. So, once again, a nice regionalization support. So, >> and being able to get aid >> on that through try to get aid through those pieces because any services kind of work through both provides us, you know, those shared services with a little bit aid back on those funds we'd expend in that regard. So, yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, with that, somebody want to make a motion to adjourn? Sure. Barber second.
095I'll second Bill. All those in favor? 6. Thank you. >> Nobody won the second.