001Call this meeting to order. >> Dr. Daniels, come take your seat, please. >> Wow. Okay, let's call roll. Miss Schulz, >> Dr. Kirk >> here, >> Dr. Daniels >> here, >> Miss Grant here, and the chair's here. >> Let's have a moment of silence. >> Okay. Alison, you want to come up and do the flag salute for us? She's 12 years old from Townson and she's going to tell us a little bit about herself. So, first of all, um I'm just winging it. So, if I make any mistakes, I'm sorry. >> Okay. >> I have been in the town leadership team for the past two years and has I have been involved in honor choir, wiz kids and speech and my subject is English and reading. I have grown a lot. I in a reader
002way. I I actually repeated a grade. I repeated second. Um but this isn't on here, but I'm sorry. >> That's okay. That's okay. >> Okay. Tell us about being an artist. >> I am very gifted. Um I love drawing. It has been my favorite hobby. >> Did you win an award? >> Yes, I have been in a competition. Sadly, I did not win. And then also reading. I love the Warrior Cat series. >> So good. >> Me too. >> Good for you. >> I love it so much. >> Now tell us about coming from a family of educators. My mom is a math teacher and she works at the tech center. Um, she she's very good at math. Little too good if you ask me. I have Yeah, she does help me way too much.
003Little too much. And I have two sisters. I have one step. I have two younger brothers. school. >> Um, >> look right here. >> D C >> El City High School. >> Oh, oops. Teacher is She's not here. sadly. Um, her name is Coach Meth. She is the one leading leadership and I want to say it, but I love her so much. She's really nice. My other favorite teacher would be Miss Allan. Uh, she was my math teacher last year. Oh, I love her so much. >> Okay, who's here with you tonight? >> Um, my mom and Miss is the principal. >> Oh my god, you scared me. >> Who's that? >> Miss McMillia. >> Okay. >> Excellent. Excellent. >> Speak well, please. >> Okay. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
004of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Everybody likes >> you. Okay. Item two. I need a motion to approve items A through the consent agenda. Unless someone would like to pull an item off. >> I would like to pull item C number C and then I'm sorry E six. >> Number six, right? >> Yeah. >> 2 E6. Thank you, Dr. So, I make a motion to approve everything but 286 on the consent agenda. >> Second. Let's vote. Okay. Item three, recognition. We need to get back to >> I'm ready. >> Go ahead. You have the floor. Okay, support. Okay, so Miss Bryant, um I just have some questions about um the travel. >> No, you don't have to. >> Sorry, I
005just didn't know if we need to check you in on the roll call of being present. >> Oh, I'm here. >> I'm late. >> It's recorded. It'll be recorded. I apologize. >> Okay, >> thank you. >> Okay, >> so um can you help us understand a little bit more about what this is and why it's needed. >> Yeah, for sure. Um, you know, our mental health specialists are need a little bit different training than a typical educator, um, just because they are licensed professionals, whether that's licensed professional counselor, licensed marriage and family therapist, or a licensed social worker. And so versus just sending them to yearly conferences where they learn a little bit um we want to make sure that they have true training in the craft that they're bringing to their um therapeutic techniques.
006And so you know over time we have done TBRRI trustbased relational intervention and we did a week where they learned those tools and they brought those back to use um within sessions within educational things. EMD, EMDR is just another technique as well that um the therapists can use when they're doing one-on-one counseling sessions. A lot of what EMDR is focused on is uh focused on kiddos with high need trauma. And so it really helps kind of retract the brain a little bit and give them some tools to where they're not focusing on their trauma. Um and so it's just techniques that they can use. Uh there's a lot of school-based therapists that have gone to EMDR training. Um and my mental health specialists have talked to a lot of other therapists in other districts as
007well. Um and just to see the the benefits of how it's been used in just even a school setting and also some of the information that um they're kind of tasked when they go is to bring back to add in the educational piece for our family nights as well. >> Okay. Do you feel like this is something that um Medel needs to be doing or is this something you mentioned the word high need trauma >> and I have some concerns about our school district providing services for high need trauma. I feel like that is something that needs to be dealt with outside of the school. Um there are lots of therapists out there that are available to do EMDR and so I'm I'm just does this stretch our counselors thin? Um, I'd like to hear
008a little bit more about one on like one-on-one counseling sessions during the school like >> like what the process is and things like that. >> Um, so with our uh mental health specialist, one of the things that they do is um sometimes therapy. And so with that, they go through a referral process where either the school counselor has identified, the principal has identified a kiddo that might benefit from, um, one of our mental health specialists. A lot of times it's because they can get in sooner. And so, um, we try to keep those sessions between six to eight weeks. If it's going to be something longer than that, um we do then transition them out to more of a long-term care, whether that's mental youth and family, something like that, so that they can see
009more students. Um but that is one of their roles is to do um counseling. Uh they do intake with the family. Um they get parental consent before they even start seeing the students. Um and then um see the students. Like I said, the goal is six to eight weeks. Sometimes they'll do group counseling sessions. Again, they get, you know, permission for that assigned consent as well. Um, and so it's just techniques that they use within the role of a school-based mental health specialist. And so I mean, and a lot of the trauma really comes from, I mean, I would say percentage-wise majority of the kiddos in our district have um, a high need trauma. If we look at their A scores and things like that. Um, and so if it is something that is outside
010of their scope of what they can do as a school-based therapist, then we do transition those out to um, FDIS to Middle Youth and Family, a lot of our other community partners. If it's going to be long-term so that they can again serve more students so they're not just serving a handful of students all year long, we try and make sure that their their breadth of of who they service is um, very farreaching. >> So, does Midell Youth and Family do they do MPDR as well or >> um some of their therapists have training in it. A lot of a lot of therapists it's just a it's again it's a tool in their toolbox. Um when I went through my um LPC coursework, we had a whole class on EMDR. So we learned the basic
011techniques and so there are some things I can use. Um but to actually be comfortable and doing it in the right way, it's just good to go get that more intensive training on how to do it appropriately. And again, um, this training that they're going to specifically is a lot of school-based therapists and so they can kind of benefit off of each other. And the lady actually presenting this one, this is why one of the reasons we looked at the Dallas one is because it is someone who's been a school-based therapist as well. >> Anybody else? >> Sorry, I'm kind of monopolizing this over here. Um, do you really feel like this is something we should be providing? >> I do. I mean, I think if we are going to have mental health specialists within
012our schools, I think equipping them with the tools that they need to be as successful as possible. Um, and and benefiting our kids the most. Um, the more knowledge that they can have on what our kids are going through, I think makes them a better mental health specialist, which then makes them serve our kids in the best way that they can. >> And they will be available in the Thai district, will they not? >> Huh? >> Yeah, they available in all our sites. >> Yeah, for sure. >> That was going to hire a new is so that we can service more and give our academic counselors >> 100%. >> So they're focused on that >> and this would not be an appropriate training for any school counselor. Um this is something that to go to
013EMDR, TBRI, things like that, you have to be licensed through the state through one of those credentials so that you know you you practice as that clinician in that setting. >> So they would not come under the special ed umbrella. come under the counsel. >> Yeah, is that true? >> Just counseling. >> Yeah, >> I'm struggling with the cost. >> Um, this seemed like a pretty significant cost just for the registration. >> And so, as I as I went through it and um what little bit I know about EMDR, I know there is an end time to um you do this for a certain number of weeks. Um, and so I just trying to reconcile the cost >> and the benefit. Um, and then also reconciling is this a service that we should be providing
014because sometimes I think our schools step out into providing services that we shouldn't uh because we see a need there. And so that's um trying to reconcile all of that and here and do what's best not only for our kiddos, our district, but also our parents. Um so I'm I'm still just really struggling with that, but I do appreciate the extra information you provided. Thank you. No problem. >> Parents have the right to deny this. They don't have to sign the paper. >> I was going to say I appreciate the fact that we offer something like this because we do have a lot of students in our district that are traumatized. sometimes they can't get that that extra help or the parent can't get them to a location to get this training. So having that
015offered at the school, I just say they can afford a even doing that and preparing them to be able to handle that type of situation because we don't want the same type of situation we had >> a month ago or whatever to where >> our people aren't properly prepared to handle different situations. So >> Right. Thank you. >> Yeah. And I just I I'll just add that I think it's important that when we see an opportunity to give our um mental health professionals more tools to working with students then we then we should take advantage of those opportunities. And you know it's it's um we do a lot of things that we didn't do for kids 101 15 years ago but they're coming to us with more acute needs than they did 10 or 15
016years ago. And if we don't go above and beyond for them then they're just not going to be successful. And I wouldn't feel comfortable them using techniques like that if they hadn't gotten the training that they need. >> And you know, so again, versus sending them to a conference that would sometimes take that much, you know, registration cost for a conference where they're just going to get the knowledge versus this, they actually get that one-on-one training. And so makes me feel a little bit more comfortable when they get that. And again, just focusing on one of those a year. Financially, it's not smart to send them to trainings once a month, but they do go to a lot of free trainings as well. worth it because you can't put a cost on properly in training
017people and preparing for students >> 100%. And that's same with academic professional development anything like that. >> Yeah. I was going to say how, you know, to piggy back, how prevalent is this uh that they will encounter that need versus referrals? Like is there a high volume of of kiddos that has trauma? And then, you know, is the referral list, you know, a backlog list that they can't get on. So, >> yeah, I mean, right now, um, Midell Family, for example, is a six-month wait list. Um, and they are and I mean, and we're they're servicing our kids more now than they ever have. You, thankful to you guys, we upped that contract a couple of years ago. And, um, but still we're at a six-month weight list. my mental health specialists are going to
018go meet with them after Christmas just to see is there some strategies that like okay if we have 10 kids that are sitting on this referral that they could pull off and do a small group with would that be beneficial? Um and so we're trying to kind of work alongside that to get our kiddos serviced as fast as possible. Um and then some of those we can't it needs to be long-term care. So then again looking at some of our partners that are willing to help support our kids, you know, they outsource to another agency. >> They don't as much outsource. They just keep trying to hire as many as they can to eat. Okay. >> Have we reached out to Calm Waters? >> They do. They come in our schools a lot. Um we
019partner with them a lot. Um they uh I know just actually just a month ago they finished a small group that they did at one of our elementary schools. Um so we we especially small groups more so. And then we do have some of our families that go to Calm Waters. um as part of their free program that they do. >> So, how does the uh attendees feel about going to this training? They feel like, oh, it's another thing that I have to learn. >> So, I want to do this so that I can be adequately prepared. >> Yeah. No, this is something that um they have actually since even we first started talking about having mental health specialists, this is something that's come up multiple times. um just saying, "Hey, if this is ever
020anything we could do, this would be a gamecher to make sure that we're prepared when we are meeting with kiddos um that have struggled with trauma and traumatic and anxiety and all kinds of categories of things. Um they are so excited because this is one of the leading research-based techniques out there. >> Is everybody ready? >> Any questions? I'm I'm still I'm still wrestling with the idea of our school system providing that. I really just from where I stand I really just feel like it we need to let that go outside the school. Um because it is provided calm waters provides free counseling. I just sometimes I feel like we step in instead of having that be a parental thing that they decide to go and do and we're stepping in and at some point
021in time I feel like we got to draw the line and say this is what we're going to provide. I know in some instances it'll probably be really beneficial. Um, but I really look at our resources and how far we're stretching these counselors and um what we want them to learn. And I'm sorry, not counselors, mental health professionals, specialists. I apologize. Um, >> how far are we stretching them? And if we're tying up doing TBRI and EMDR and all of these things, >> what are we missing too? So, um I Yeah, and I think to clarify, this is just a technique that they would use within what they're already doing. So, it's not they're going to add another session in. This is just a tool as they're meeting with a kid, they realize, oh, this
022would be a really good technique I'll use today at this session. Um and so, it's more of a technique um to add. They're already seeing these kiddos. >> That helps evaluate it for me. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I'm in a motion to vote on item 26E. >> A second. Well, or >> is it a motion to approve? >> Yes, >> I'll second. Oh, she has it on. Oh, I didn't think Okay. Item three, we have no recognitions. We'll move on to four. We have no public participation. Item 4B, Dr. C. >> All right. All right. So, um, superintendent report for today, in case you missed it, uh, Carl Albert won the state championship in football on Saturday. We'll >> have recognitions for that. We just already had the agenda posted by then, so we didn't
023want to put it on there presumptively. And they broke the record. >> There's still >> They did break the record. They're They're the first school with 20 state championships in football. >> Beat ADA. >> ADA had 19 >> for a long time. >> A long time. I heard Dun's comments. I didn't quite put it together, but >> Yeah, that's huge. >> That is >> Cleveland Bailey Elementary um was named Brain Bold Champions. I don't know if they're up to 20 of those yet, but uh >> they're working towards it. >> Working on it. >> You got to start somewhere. >> Mov City High School had their hanging of the green ceremony last >> Monday. That is always >> fantastic. >> Congratulations to the Carl Albert Middle School palm team for receiving first in jazz, hiphop,
024and team performance at DT Regionals in Broken Arrow. And they were also named grand champions. We'll have to bring them in for recognition as well. Congratulations to Valentina Jimenez, a student at Soldier Creek Elementary who was selected as an elementary allstator for choir. And it's the first time, at least in recent memory, that we've had a student who who um earned that honor. So, that's really impressive. >> Like on a cereal box or something. National Signing Day um was held last week and we had several students who signed scholarship offers um around the district. Couple of weeks ago, my student advisory board rolled up their sleeves and put together meals in a bag as part of their service project. Megan, do you remember how many we did? >> 80 something. >> All right. Really impressive.
025That's all. And those are all donated items. We found out that um turkey in a jar, pretty expensive. Turkey to can is a thing. And it's a pretty expensive thing. >> Turkey in a can. >> Yep. >> The little Walmart on Reno is about the only one place we could find it. I even tried Aldi and I hate going through there. I know you I know you hate going through there. >> They are not the sponsor of this program. Midell Technology Center had the privilege of hosting the Oklahoma State Board of Career and Technology Education uh board meeting in November. And I know that Becky and her team got to take them out to tinker and show them around our facilities. And it was also nice to have the opportunity to visit with the new
026state superintendent, Lindel Fields. Um trying to get him back here for our legislative breakfast in January. Um, we were texting back and forth over the weekend, which is I'll just say it's a nice change. >> Schwarz Elementary, same uh the week before that had um a state board member Becky Carlson uh come out and visit and read with students, teachers classroom that she was reading in. um they taught together in Edmund a while back and then uh we got to give her a tour of the school and let her come go around and visit with some other teachers and that was really really fun to just visit with her and then talk about what being on the state school board what that experience has been like for her. For over 30 years the men and
027women of the commercial derivative aircraft division at Tinker have been providing clothing to Midell students through the clothe the children program. They provided a shopping trip at the Moore JC Penney for 30 Middell students last Friday. 29th annual Midwest City Police Department Shop with a cop benefited 48 Middell students this weekend. Del City High School leadership and the NJOTC volunteered at the Oklahoma Children's Cancer Association Christmas Party, which has become a yearly tradition for both groups. We have quite a few students group student groups performing in the community for the holidays. Um so if you see some kids singing, there's a really good chance that they're ours. Heartfelt. Thank you to all of our student group staff and volunteers and military families who represented Middell in the Midwest City Veterans Day parade. This was still
028during the shutdown, so it was really nice. there were a lot of people who could not participate that normally do and so it was really good that we had so many of our groups and individuals fill in the gap there. Um I got to do a couple of media appearances recently. One on Channel 5 um on their Oklahoma Chronicle panel. That's their Sunday morning show. They taped a couple of segments that were not aired that ended up on their YouTube channel as well. And then I also recorded a podcast um with a couple of friends of mine who are former superintendents out on the east coast um on the podcast uh K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K2 Ed Confidential.
029>> Dr. You were saying residuals for all of this. >> No, no, but you know, it's all going on my on my reel for some point post retirement some way down the road. Congratulations to coaches Mike Dunn and Cameron Couch from Carl Albert High School. Both were honored by the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association as part of an elite group of 26 coaches across the state, recognized for excellence in their sport during the 2024 25 school year. And congratulations to Midwest City High School head baseball coach Landon Vodka on being named the OBCA West Rookie Coach of the Year for 2025. >> Vodka. >> Yeah. Dale and I were Dell and I were talking about that during run through. >> We are still safe, challenged, and holiday ready. >> I know you and I know
030come up later, but when Schwarz was not named enough school, >> Schwarz was named by US News and World Report the number one elementary school in the state. I will turn this over >> to our bond friends. >> You can have the clicker if you want. >> Well, right advances and left goes back. >> I'm sure that makes sense. But well, good evening members of the board. Dr. Cob, we are so happy to be here with you again to share kind of where we are on Country Estates Ridgerest and Cleveland Bailey Elementary. We've got some good things cooking. My name is Angie Clarkson. I'm with Larsson Design Group. Been here to see you guys before. Got a couple of really important people here with me. Brian Farley and Brandon Davis is on the third row
031back. They've been heading the architectural and engineering effort on our end. So, I want to be cognizant and respectful of your time. What I'm going to do is run through the really high level priorities, big aspects of these pro of these projects that apply to all three schools and kind of what the the thinking and rational was for how those things have kind of been put in order of priority. And then I'm going to pass it to Brian and let him show you how those aspects of the projects look on each of these sites because I think you've probably been in these buildings. You know that as much as we're trying to approach this from a sense of increasing par and equity across them, these buildings don't all have the same needs. So there is
032some variation. Uh when we first got started, I'm realizing that we had a set budget, but we know there's all kinds of things that, you know, these buildings need. They've been around a while. They've been serving your kids for a long time. Um we sat down with your leadership team with Dr. Cobb, Dr. Broyals, Leslie Pope, Ian Wolf, and Jeff Horn was involved in those early conversations to kind of figure out what are those big five, what are those five things that absolutely have to happen at all three schools to make these safe and workable for your kids and your teachers for the coming decade or decades. Uh first and foremost, you know, there are storm shelter additions going into each of them. I'll break that down in a little more detail in a second,
033but it became pretty apparent uh this was not something we knew before the bond election, but all of these roofs need some major work. So, uh Ridgerest and Cleveland Bailey are being replaced entirely. Uh Country Estates, portions of the roof had been replaced, so we're not going to break things that are working, but about 60 65% of that roof is going to be replaced. So, that's being covered. Uh the shelters are attached. Uh so as part of that all three schools are getting new fire alarm and are being sprinklered. Um we are taking out any window units that are in classrooms or the cafeteria are coming out. Those are being replaced with split systems with with uh regular air conditioning more on par with your newer schools. And while we're ripping up the ceiling we're
034going to go ahead and replace all of the ceilings and lights through the through all all three of these facilities. So those are some pretty major upgrades right off the top. Uh when it comes to the shelter, excuse me, we sat down really early with your educational leadership team and kind of talked through what spaces in these buildings really needed to be included in the classroom additions. And looking at what was already in place at all three schools, it became pretty apparent the music rooms needed to be replaced. Um one of the schools has got the music room in a double portable building. Every kids's got to go outside and up a switchback ramp in in order to get to music. Uh one of them is uh two really long skinny rooms together. So, it's
035really not an appropriate shape. And then the third one is actually an L-shaped music room. So, we have an opportunity to fix that. We're moving the music room into the new shelter. And then, uh, evaluating what kind of special services needs there are at each of these schools. Tresa Wilson got involved in that conversation and we broke down what the um, specialized special ed programs were at each school. So, they're going to vary a little bit, but generally these uh shelters have got one music room, two special services or specialed classrooms with their own handicap accessible toilets, laundry facilities, things like that. Uh a new staff toilet, and then also an IT closet that is up to Midell's current standards in terms of size. Uh really just to kind of plug a little bit of
036a functional hole in those buildings. So once we had gotten enough drawings put together that Willoughbrook could get a good cost estimate and we felt comfortable moving forward past those non-negotiables, we started putting things kind of in order of priority. Um so generally we're going to freshen and brighten up corridors, uh provide consistent wayinding, bring school mascots and colors into these spaces. You can see things are things are just a little dark and dingy. These buildings have done a lot of great things for your kids for a long time, but they're up they're really ready for a refresh. uh and also to provide consistent opportunities in the corridors for displaying student work across all of your grades and all of your corridors. Toilet renovations are being kept kind of to a minimum. Some of these
037restrooms have already had some substantial work done to them. Uh we're replacing a lot of flooring, some vanities and handwashing, replacing some partitions and things like that. You can see like we've got the worst case right there. I think several schools have got maybe one bathroom that is getting a whole lot of work. But if if money's been invested in the bathrooms, we want to spend our money this time in the teaching spaces and not, you know, rip things up that have been improved already. Each school is going to get all new room identification signage. That's a pretty small ticket item as far as dollars, but this is an opportunity to get consistent room numbering throughout the buildings. That's going to be a lot easier certainly for your kids and your teachers, but also your
038district operations and maintenance staff just for servicing and managing these buildings. That's something that I think is a good target. And then once we move into classrooms, uh we're getting new new floors, new uh paint, ceilings and lights. I mentioned window shades, and again, this the ceilings are going to come down. Um markerboards and tack boards, if they're in good shape, we're going to leave them. But you can see like this example right here, those are coming down and will be replaced. And then all new cabinetry for student and teacher storage in the classrooms. The cafeterias were mainly kind of just freshening up the floor wall and and ceilings. Uh just brightening it up. got some opportunities for some graphics and school colors in the cafeterias and then uh renovating the stage and performance area
039for handicap accessibility. So, right now, I don't think a single one of your stairs is accessible to field traffic. So, we're working on that. We're building steps up the front that can also be used as risers and then adding a small elevator lift behind a door so that it doesn't have to be monitored at every single lunch. Um, but to kind of address that, uh, lastly, once we get to the front office and staff support, we've we've put all of the dollars first to student spaces, but there are some targeted improvements in the front office that are really going to make things a lot easier on your staff. So, uh, streamlining and kind of cleaning up the nurses office areas in all three of these front spaces and also getting a better staff toilet. Uh,
040so minor renovation, but with a pretty high payoff. But to be clear, this uh restroom is one that's gonna get >> That guy's getting fixed. >> Okay, good. I know. >> So, we put the Brandon helped me pull the worst pictures. We want to show you. >> I knew I knew you was going to go to staff spaces, but I was like, wait, >> the principal was like, >> "Let me show you this." >> Okay. >> Right. No, we picked these. >> Yes. We picked these pictures for great fun. Uh and then once we get into the PE spaces, um we are kind of building an alternate. So, we want to make sure that we we had a really big to-do list. Once we got through those big five, we had a great meeting in
041one of the conference rooms upstairs where we had a post-it with 25 different things that really needed to happen in all those buildings, but we put them in order of priority. We've worked that list and when we got lower down the list, we loaded those up as ad alternates mainly to give, you know, your executive leadership team more flexibility. Uh, so far so good. We're feeling really good about what we're able to we're going to be able to get you for your money on these jobs. And I think as we start to look at these sites specifically, you'll see that. >> So if redoing the ceiling and the lighting, is that gonna open it up more? >> We can't raise it because the way that the roof works, if you were to slice the building
042this way, it's lowest in the hallway. >> So there's >> that's apparently the way they used to do stuff. So um that's unfortunate. It's not going to get higher, but um the grid will be white, the tile will be smoother, so it will be much more light reflective, and all of the lighting will be LED. Um we've got a couple of pictures we'll show you of some renderings of these corridors when we get to the end. Just a little bit of eye candy, just a kind of a teaser. Um but really just trying to lighten and brighten things up. That was the point. >> The two schools at Country Estates and Cleveland Bailey have got Turzo floors. And while they might not be the colors that we would choose now, you can't buy a better
043floor. Um, and so what we're going to do is get all of the yellow and the beige and the brown cleaned up. We're going to brighten that up. And then we've kind of got some very targeted locations for big kind of super graphics and getting school colors on the walls and things like that. We're just trying to kind of increase the light reflectivity. New flooring will have to go into Richest. That floor is not terazzo. It's not in great shape. So that's definitely going to have to go. >> So you answered my questions. I was wondering about paint brightening. I was wonder how much space you had. Right. >> Oh, yeah. It looks like it's going to brighten up a lot just >> and I think a lot of what we got from talking with
044all three of your principles and we talked to them separately. It's not like we ganged up with them on a, you know, in a separate in one room together. Um, all three of them what they really wanted to see was treating the school a little bit more like a lighter, brighter kind of gallery to display student activities. So when you get to corridor intersections, that's where we're putting big logos, big school color. It kind of gives you a waypoint. I'm turning right when I get to the road runner. Um to kind of give these, especially the little bitty ones, kind of a sense of where in the heck they are. >> Yeah. Hotel the other day and it was not up and I had no idea where the elevator was every time. >> No, for
045sure. >> My wife is interior designer so she teaches me those tricks. >> Yeah. So you break it up so that you kind of know where you are. So >> Yeah. But I think especially with these littles, I think your teachers and your principles want to really show off for the kids what they're doing, their progress. And so having consistent opportunities for showcasing student work through the building and just lightening and brightening it and almost treating it a little bit like a gallery for these kids. And it'll age it'll age well. >> Exactly. So yeah, they're excited, >> but just not yellow and not brown and not Yeah. So we're gonna we're gonna jack up the light reflectance for sure. All right. So, just kind of moving to country estates. I'm gonna pass this to
046>> Brian. So, the first site that we're going to talk about is Country States Elementary. Uh, this is the one that has we have bid and I believe GMP is being presented to you later tonight. Uh, you the major component of all of these, like I said, is the storm shelter. And so, in this one, because the floor plan of this one was arranged a little ly than the other two schools. There wasn't an opportunity really to uh put this at the end of an existing hall and extend that hall out. Uh so what we did is replace some exterior doors that went out to the playground. We added another hallway that's not part of the shelter that leads to the shelter itself. Uh it is dis displacing just some paved uh playground areas that
047we are going to replace and kind after construction is done and provide some new basketball goals and things out there. Uh there's a pretty nice on the left hand side uh there's a pretty nice existing playground and we're doing everything we can to keep that in place. Uh this site does have several portable buildings that uh can remain during construction and I don't think it's been determined 100% if they're going to go away or not. Uh they do house a lot of Boys and Girls Club activities. Uh part of the renovation we're doing is turning some old locker rooms kind of more into more uh multi-purpose spaces that they will have a better dedicated space inside the building. So maybe over time we may find that we don't necessarily need all those, but right now
048it provides a good opportunity for flexibility during construction. We'd love to do all of this during the summer break uh and not have to get in anybody's way, but that is not going to be possible. So having a place to just to move a grade level out uh gives us the opportunity to be able to do some of that work during the school year and make a long time. You mentioned a playground equipment be reduced. So in kind, does that mean at your expense? >> Oh, no. >> No. In kind being we're we're replacing the basketball court with another basketball. >> You would say at your expense. >> Well, I was hoping >> it's not that kind. It's a Christmas miracle. >> Dr. D said not that kind. So, I'm looking at the um I'm
049looking at the thought >> the um the the addition the classroom edition there going over the walking track as well because that's um >> Oh, no. That No, the red line. That's just a leader line. >> Oh, okay. Then even better. >> Just the the white portion there. So, yeah, we're just building on like to the west that existing. >> Is there a red dot? >> There's a pointer. >> Yeah. No, >> Angie. I was expecting you to do that. >> Our screens went off, too. Our screen. >> I was reading it wrong. That's my bad. >> Walking. >> That's okay. >> Okay. >> We figured it out. >> All right. Um, >> my bad. But yeah, like I said, the we had originally intended to put it at the end of the corridor just
050to extend the corridor out, but with the the proximity, the lower grades are on the other end of the school. We tried to move it more centrally and again preserve that nice playground that we have there. >> Yeah. >> I I don't know. >> It's always one of the two. So, is the entry way of the school getting up? >> Um, right now the plans we have for the entryway, there's an existing canopy, a metal canopy. We are uh replacing some of the metal on it and reconditioning it and providing some new uh signage, but other than that, um there's not a tremendous amount of exterior work that'll be a significant change. I mean, there's some repairs and improvements and you like Angie pointed out, we're getting rid of all the window units. So, you'll
051have a a condensing unit that's sitting outside of each classroom and we're building masonry screen walls for those kind of like an Eperly and some of your other sites to screen a lot of that stuff. >> Okay. So that that didn't make So that make it was low on the list >> that low on the list >> because that was one of our priorities when we first enter our buildings. >> Yeah. We wanted to have curb appeal. So you walk in, >> you know, >> was that just not Was it on the list, but it just didn't make it to >> that was lower on the listing. Um but again, it's like any other project. We're going to get to the end and we're going to get a little further along and as we're able
052to reuse contingency, depending on how things are going, we can certainly look at that. I think that um Ridgerest in particular has a slightly different situation where the way that that building is sighted, kids can get on the roof. And so we were looking for some ways to it's not the name of it on here, but something that was happens to be more decorative, but it was really to solve a functional problem which was general on the roof. Um I that when it came to one of our page turns, everybody in the room was kind of going, "Whoa, why can't we do that everywhere?" Maybe we can. We just can't pull the trigger on that yet. So, we've got to make sure that we've hit all these other targets first. >> But, uh, I am
053feeling like a little bit of a did say that. >> No, we really just there are so many things these buildings need and I know that you know that you've been you've been in these buildings. >> Yeah. So, we we had our original just to give you background. You have to follow the needs and wants of the staff. You have to prioritize. But our original when we looked at this, we said our schools need a a makeover. Some of them look really old and we want it to be inviting for the public when they come into the school. And I understand you just said the roofs were having to be replaced. Those are real time. But just keep in mind if we do get a chance to, you know, have some contingencies, you know, curb
054appeal means a lot and we really foramilies when they come to the building to have a nice place. >> Is the insurance going to cover any of the room? >> So if there's any ideas of like, oh, if we added a fresh co, hey, like you said, had the one functional piece that actually made >> made a big difference. Any of those type of things. >> I agree. So, moving along, next in the schedule is Ridgerest Elementary. Uh, this is one where we were able to just extend uh add the shelter to the end of an existing corridor. And it just so happened that that was the location where more of the younger kids were and some of the existing sped programs were. So, that worked out really well for us planning wise. Uh, we
055are going to have to uh get rid of one portable building uh prior to construction. Uh and we have been told in discussion with the principal and with Ian that uh eventually the all the portable buildings at this site will be able to be removed uh once we have the shelter built and the music program can relocate uh they won't really have a need for that anymore. and the other uh one that's for the ISR and it's only being half used as a double portable, it's going to remain again to give the flexibility to move some kids around if we need to to accommodate a construction schedule. Um this one has in instead of two special ed rooms, it has like a flex classroom that can be utilized for, you know, a lot of like
056breakout services or tutoring. Uh it's going to be outfitted just like a standard class. There's just really 100% identified what the program is going to be in there yet. So, um yeah, this is one we are completing the drawings right now and it will be advertising to bid uh early in January. So, like Angie said, this is the one um if you're familiar, you know, there's a you know, kind of where the star the front entry is there. This one has a lot of uh changes in elevation inside the school where, you know, we've had to, you know, add the lifts to try to tackle that problem. There's a a hill that kind of runs up to the front of the building. And I've been told that they found a lot of things that one
057of our engineers went up to the site and they found a can of gas in a box full of magazines that people were up burning stuff on the roof. They said they found mattresses, shopping cart. So we have >> shopping cart up on the roof. >> I You got me. Yeah, that was what the principal was saying. And so we've uh at this school we have in there and again it is uh as uh uh it's >> it's being bid as an alternate but there is a uh perforated metal screen wall that will it will cut off access from that from that high spot on the ground where they're able to jump on top of the canton and get up there. That's something that uh you know we can look to incorporate perhaps at all
058three of the schools. Cleveland Bailey being the next one. We can we can certainly try to to use that as kind of a unifying uh design element to help clean these things up. >> Can you explain that again? There's a hill that allows people to jump onto the >> It's almost like a ramp going up. >> Yeah. >> Oh, >> it's right on the front. >> Right in the front like >> on the right side of the front entry. >> Yeah. on the right side of where that star is. If you get like up close to the building, it's it's only about like four feet up, you can pull yourself up there. And then apparently you can pull up a shopping cart, too, if you'd like. >> That's where they store their stuff. >> Yeah.
059>> Where they sleep. >> Okay. I feel like I would be not comfortable sleep in the middle of summer. >> I mean, >> they've got mattresses. >> And I think this one's only one special ed dedicated special ed in the shelter. And that's mainly because the other kind of specialized program in the school is the cathedral program. They're already located right across from the front office. They like where they are working. That space is going to get the same refresh that any other class would get. But moving them out and away from the front office and resized. >> So square footage wise from this site to Cleveland Bailey is the square footage the same >> for the shelters they're within just a couple feet and again they're all three classrooms plus two more plus a
060staff toilet closet and that space there's a little bit of variation but the capacity for all of them is ranging between 480 and 54 So it's real close >> and based on what was given to us as far as enrollment and all in staff including janitorial and kitchen and incidental visitors were targeting 325 and 350 per shelter. So we definitely exceeding that without jumping to a level over 500 where you start having to have a whole bathroom for example. Um that wouldn't really help the teachers functionally where the grade levels are. So this worked out just perfect right there. uh are you talking about currently >> yes currently it is covered but yeah all but everybody does have to go outside >> it's detached >> correct >> is this one is ridest set up the
061same way the school was that you showed us would be small white boxes >> yes >> are there is there what about the like across from the media center. Is that on the same uh air conditioning unit as >> No, no. Each classroom will have its own individual system. And so each one will have a condensing unit that sits outside. Um at Ridgerest and more so at Cleveland Bailey, there's already a lot of classrooms that have been uh retrofit in that fashion. So we have >> Where's the air? >> Yeah. So in all the classrooms where we have the window units in the base bid we are replacing that and so there'll be individual control of each of those classrooms and then there is an alternate provided to replace the new split systems that sometimes
062are 20 years old already. Uh so it's a it's a great opportunity to kind of bring all the classroom HBAC up to a current standard. And you know, as far as country states goes, we were able to take that alternate. So each classroom will have a new a new heater and a new condensing unit. The third and final is Cleveland Bailey. Uh this one is planned to bid quite a bit later, but due to the uh working with the construction manager and trying to figure out their schedule, uh we are bidding an early sight and structural package that will bid at the same time as Ridgerest. And so that will provide them the opportunity to get a jump on the shelter. Uh the idea being once the shelter is done then they will be able
063to relocate some of the programs into the shelter because this site has no portables and thus really no flex space. They're already pretty full. Um so that's just one thing that we've done to try to make sure that we are hitting the same end date on all these projects is getting a little early package for this. Um this is also one uh Ridgerest is the same way. There is um there's been some considerable issues with existing sewer and I know nobody likes to spend dollars on a sewer but uh we have provided alternates to replace a significant amount of the existing it's the old clay pipe sewer in some cases it's been in the ground for 70 years perhaps we don't know uh >> but this is this is definitely one this was the fun
064where the that that worst case bathroom that you saw is at this facility and they've had a lot of problems. They have replaced some of that over time that's helped the issue, but we're hoping to really solve it uh by being able to replace those lines. >> Well, >> no, it's too late. >> Yeah, the Yeah, the principal, she'll tell you some horror stories. You know, we've heard those. So, so now I think there's some more fun slides. say just to kind of wrap up a little bit, I've got one slide for each school just to kind of show you. I know we talked about kind of lighting and brightening these things up. >> A comet. >> Yes. So, we've got Comets, we've got road runners, and I think we've got Bulldogs. Um, so again,
065generally classrooms bringing in a new ceiling, LED lighting in all those spaces, getting those awful window units out. That I think is something that was a really high wish list item for a lot of the teachers just because of the noise and and there's a lot of things about that that are really compromise the learning environment. Uh, cafeterias. Um, I think a couple of them are getting new, you know, getting new floors. If they've got Turzo, we're keeping the Trazzo. We're just lightening and brightening everything else up. And then looking for opportunities to incorporate school colors. You can see a little further down there, it says Golden Galaxy. That's at a major corridor intersection. And that's just again kind of a waypoint. That's where you send your class down the hall and tell them to
066turn turn left at the Galaxy. Um, and again, just this general um, fix up and clean up of classrooms, getting the teacher and student storage more on par with what Townson's getting, more on par with what Soldier Creek and Midwest City have. We can't make the classrooms larger. We can't make the corridors wider or higher, but we can do an awful lot to make it feel a lot better. Um, kind of similar situation here. Looking at our road runners are a lot of lot of bright red. Um, we're replacing a good number of interior doors. We're just we're looking for ways um any place that we can find um a particular operations and maintenance issue that we can tackle as part of this. We're certainly doing that and again loading this up with alternates to
067give you guys as many choices as possible. And then there's Cleveland Bailey which again is is following a little bit behind but a lot of the similar similar features. Um that was something that I think was a high value for both Ian Wolf for Dr. Cobb Dr. Royals and certainly Leslie Pope was looking for ways that we can address certainly some of these parody issues. But as we have these old, you know, aging buildings, let's give it a refresh and keep it from we want things that aren't going to ugly out. We want to we want to, you know, really get the best use out of out of your dollar and your time. That's it. Any other questions? >> We're really excited to see this keep moving. >> This is exciting. Thank you. >> Uh,
068President Standridge, members of the board, Dr. Want to give you an update here on projects underway and kind of let you know what's going on here. This is Barnes Elementary. You can see now we're just almost through with brick there. They've been running the electrical uh power for permanent power to the building. They're going to try to tie that in on on Saturday. Uh the roofing is just right at complete. She rocking on the inside and and moving on very well here on this project. Eperly Heights uh is the one that's running the farthest back, but we have a lot more uh to do there. But they are working on getting the uh the decking picture there. there in the center. You can see that they're getting that set up and ready to pour concrete
069for the roof deck uh toward the end of this week. They're framing walls on the interior and doing a little bit of uh mechanical electrical rough in there. They've already poured the driveway out. There's there's quite a bit there that's that's been done on site. Tinker, they've got all the sheetrock and everything done. They got the roof they've been working on. They're just about finished complete with the roof. It's it's moving on. They're fixing to start brick there. Believe it is the end of this week. They'll be starting brick. Soon as they finish brick at barns, they move directly to Tinker on Townsen. All the dirt work is basically complete as far as the building pads are concerned. And there the picture on the right is the aggregate pier where they've been drilling peers in
070the ground with aggregate that they pound into the ground that go underneath the footings. And we are trying to get rebar on the job so we can start footings next Monday. So that is is moving along very well. Also, Carl Albert Middle, this is the uh new classroom addition there. The block work is complete on the first floor and the the tall walls on the outside. Of course, uh they're getting ready to uh put the decking down and pour the second floor there. I think the next slide is yeah the sky bridge they've got the roof on that they are doing some uh wall board on the the outside the slab running down the interior of it and uh moving on on that. This is Dell City Middle School the kitchen cafeteria edition. We finally
071gotten to a point to where we should be pouring a slab there toward the end of this week. So, we had a run into quite a bit of issues with dirt and just foundations were just like crazy trying to get with not not to mention the rain, but then we ran into unsuitable soils here and have finally gotten up to a point and get a slab for it. I think you're going to see a major difference there. just very shortly. Next picture here is all the media center. They're in there. They've got all the structural steel erected and inspected and they're doing all the framing and fixing to start putting the uh panels on the out exterior, the sheathing on the exterior, getting it dried in exterior. This is Midwest City Middle School. There is
072just so much going on here. It has just boomed. Uh there's brick work is about 90% complete. They're just fixing to get started on on roofing on this one. They're doing a a lot of interior metal studs and everything. The kitchen the kitchen area has all the block work has been laid and uh there's there's just a whole lot of stuff going on here on this on this site. Carl Albert High School. This is another one that is just moving very well. The exterior of the building is just just almost complete as far as the the brick work and the windows and the panels there around the windows that you see. The roofing is just uh they're doing some touchup work there on the roofing. They're sheetrocking on the interior. They've started drywall finish on
073the second floor and we'll be starting painting up there, moving down to the first floor with their drywall finish. This that's both in the storm shelter and in the area uh that is the regular construction. Midwest City High School Fine Arts. The uh concrete part of it there you see on the right uh frame is the storm shelter. That roof has been completed on top of that. We've completed the structural steel around the exterior of that. I call it the surrounding area because the structural steel kind of wraps around the uh storm shelter. They're fixing to start metal deck on top of that. They're uh starting they've started sheetrock on the interior of the storm shelter. And that project also is moving very well. This is just a list of some of the projects that
074have completed and the dates there and also these projects that I just went through and their uh their completion uh projections and some of the projects that we've got upcoming there. Do you have any questions? >> Seems very exciting. >> It is. It is. There there's a lot going on and it's it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun. >> It keeps you busy. You gotta walk. >> It does. >> Okay. >> Appreciate the work. >> May 2025, >> but that's not this space. You just share with us. >> Everything that's shown in the green um has been completed. So, the action items are done and the delivery dates, those were the PAC's and the video boards. They're done. >> Everything in white is is still to
075be ongoing. >> She said yes. >> Thank you. Item five, discussion and possible action regarding the visionary pathway schools charter school application. Dr. F. >> Yeah, I said to all my um evaluation of their application over the weekend for this charter school proposal and just I'll I'll give you the summary of it. I feel like it's a concept of a plan. I don't feel like they've really figured out where all the they they they know what grants they're going to apply for, but they don't have their funding and and there are some other significant issues I have with with their plan. But the biggest thing is is that we we have to ask ourselves, do we want to take on responsibility of sponsoring a charter school when um we don't have any role in governance
076of them? And so I have no problem evaluating whether it's a good plan or not. Um but my recommendation to you is going to be that um you vote to not approve authorization of missionary pathway schools. That would be my recommendation. >> You made a recommendation to us. >> Yeah. There's no there's not a motion. Don't say approve. >> Yeah, you would. Yeah, >> you can't say approve. >> Yeah, I guess what I'm asking for is a motion >> to deny the um the visionary pathway schools application. >> Right. Now we can say move to approve. Right. >> Yeah. Move to approve a motion to deny second visionary pathway schools charter application. >> Second. So question um so they submitted a plan but they want our approval to actually sponsor >> right and so in
077the state of Oklahoma um a the charter school applicant has to apply with a local school district first and if that is denied they can resubmit their application to that local school district or they can apply uh for sponsorship to the statewide charter school board and so um I don't know what they will do if we we don't approve them. But honestly, that's not I don't think that needs to be our concern either. >> Do we give them feedback on we didn't approve? >> Yes. >> And if they came back and say, "Hey, we took by your your recommendation and we've done this, this, and that, can they reapply?" >> They can reapply. And again, I I still even if it was a great application, um this one in particular, they want to do uh
078a lot of things that really sound like what our career tech already does. Um and I and they kind of have um space identified where they want to do that. They want to partner with OSU OKC, which then makes me and and you saw in my comments to them. um and I'll send this certified mail um after the board meeting. If if they're going to be working alongside OSU OKC anyway, why didn't they ask OSU OKC to be the sponsoring organization as opposed to us? That would have made more sense. But again, that's neither here nor there. Um they can submit as many times even if they have a great application. Um we're we don't have to accept it if we decide that we don't want to be in the business of sponsoring a charter
079school. Good sponsor school. >> No, you sponsor them. They're yours. >> I'm just wondering if we've ever done it. >> Yeah. I mean, eventually >> State College >> Rose State College has sponsored several, but they've also ended some of the sponsorships because of shenanigans. >> Yeah, that's right. >> Holes in that application. >> I agree. >> Lot of holes. We're on YouTube. It's my public facing word. >> We have not. >> Oh, >> did you bring it up? >> We're voting to not approve it. >> Correct. You're in agreement with that. >> Okay. Item six, vote to approve or not approve revision of policy B17. Dr. Cobb. >> Yes. So, this item, and again, you can see from uh the board letter that is attached to it, the district health coordinator position has evolved quite
080a bit over the years. um during COVID um during the beginning of that 2020 2021 especially um that basically was a a cabinet position that was not a cabinet position because um Aaron Harry who was here at that time was at nearly every cabinet meeting that we had because there were just so many updates to give. the state has given us so many new requirements regarding CPR training, AED maintenance and training and and um we had a whole list this morning at cabinet that we brainstormed as well. But um it's basically this is somebody who's responsible for training and keeping records of training for every employee in the district when it comes to quite a few requirements from the legislature. Um, not to mention the fact that um, when it was a coordinator position, we
081didn't even have nurses in every school. So, there's direct supervision of more employees than ever before. The position is open at this time. So, normally I would bring a change like this to you during the summertime, but when the position came open, uh, my team and I evaluated the job duties and how they had changed over time. We always look to when a cabinet level or any kind of leadership position comes open, we always look at the job description before we post it to see if it needs to be edited. And as we were editing, we just realized this is not a coordinator level position anymore. So that's why I'm asking for this change >> to approve. Second discussion. >> Does other districts have a similar position? >> They do. >> Yes. I don't I
082I can I couldn't give you a list of which ones would have it as a director or a coordinator. They're probably there are some of both. >> And this individual will be evaluating this position as a be responsible evaluating. >> Yes. >> And there's other schools are our our size. Okay. Item seven, vote to approve or not approve the 2026 commitment uh commencement exercises. Dr. President Sanders, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb, um you approved our commencement date to be held on May um 21st, 2026 back on June 9th at the June 9th, 2025 board meeting. Since then, um the Bennett Center has reached out and they have offered us a date that is that works better for us and so we are asking for your approval for May 22nd. This way we would
083not have to rush our end of the year program. We could do our end of the year program. Our teachers could check out and we would have graduation the next day. >> Move to approve. >> Second discussion. >> That's on Friday. >> The new dates on Friday. >> Yes. Let's hope it >> vote to approve or not approve it. >> Embedded coaching and principal coaching at Soldier Creek Elementary. Miss Brown. >> Yes, President Sandridge, members of the board, Dr. Cobb, I'm requesting your appro approval for embedded PLC coaching and principal coaching at Soldier Creek Elementary for the rest of the year. They're using their site title one to do that. >> Motion vote. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Item nine, vote to approve or not approve school specialty LLC for furniture at
084Barnes Elementary. Mr. Wolf, >> President Standage, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb. Uh, this is so part of the bond updates that we got earlier, they were talking about Barnes Elementary's safe room. This is to purchase the furniture for that room. It's completed. That completion date to be looking at the end of January 1st February second passes. Okay. Item 10, vote to approve or not approve GMP amendment number 23 to the Willowbrook construction contract architecture engineer fees on country estates. So, uh, we looked at the pictures and the renderings for Country Estates renovation, and this is the I'm asking your approval to funding to go ahead and make that really happen. This is for country states renovations, upgrades to the roof, all the interior. >> Move to approve. >> Second discussion. >> Are we
085Where are we at on the budget with this? Are we within budget or >> we are in this presentation? >> I know I know just to say present whenever you do a change order you look at the scope of the and modification things that might come up. I also noticed that you look at country of states going through that or there's some they still have alters the ones in the first paragraph all these are all just connect with us later to pro that would be another change order. No. So, the alternates uh that were presented there when we put the project up for bid, we had a number of alternates in there. And that's to give us some some ability that once we get the bids in and actually get a a good idea of
086what the pricing is really going to be to be able to adapt, add additional features to that build to that project based on the funding that's actually available. And so, we were actually able to get most of the alternates. the couple that we decided not to do, some of those alternates were actually one or the other. So, if we took one, we wouldn't take that's where those came from. >> And those funds are locked in at that point. >> Uh, yes. At this point, unless we would approve it, >> we locked in. >> There would be no need to take those other. >> Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. >> Anybody else? passes. Item 11, vote to approve or not approve change order number one to the Willoughber construction contract for Midwest City High School classroom storm shelter
087edition. Okay. >> So, um this is so there was a GMP that was done for the city high school classroom edition and all that pricing was locked in. Once we got into the project, it was discovered that there are sanitary sewer lines that run underneath our current buildings. We actually need to actually service that neighborhood to the east of the school. Um we can't the city won't allow us to maintain those lines under the existing building certainly under the new building. So, that that sanitary line has to be Uh so it's going to be shifted south of the building. It also involves a change in elevation which means that a lift station has to be put in place. We've looked at several different iterations of that design. We lo decide to locate it away from
088our building. So if there's ever a problem that doesn't go in our building. We don't want that in there. Um and we also don't want to locate it to where it would overflow into our neighbor's backyard. So it's it's actually going to be as far from any structure we get it. Um, but that lift station, this is all required by the code. This is requiring us to do this. So, this is something that kind of make this lift station so it's not underneath our structure. >> So, approve. >> Second. >> So, the lift station, everything rolls downhill. Um and so we have to bring it up so it will run downhill is essentially what we're doing. It's just a big pump. That's all it does. >> Oh, okay. So >> is the city going to
089share in this cost or >> So the city will pay for the operation station. They'll pay for the there has to be a backup generator that runs that just in case, but they'll pay for the electricity. They'll pay for fuel for the generator >> to rerun the line. built on top >> because we made the decision to do this construction. So, we're responsible for moving the line. >> We really don't want that under our building anyway. >> Agot passes. You touched it. >> I'm telling you, I'm not. >> I'm gonna watch it. >> What's going on? >> Okay. Item 12, vote to approve or not approve to declare property as surplus. Mr. Wolf, continue. >> So, I'm just going to step here a while. Um, over at Del City High School, there are a couple
090of old cooling towers. We no longer use them. They're not connected to anything. Um, they're just they're not doing us any We just want to circle those, surplus those, get them off the property and it'll just open up some make a little easier to move around and make it look a lot better. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> So these are cooling towers. Yes, sir. >> They were originally used as part of a HVAC system. Um, but we no longer use that system. These are just kind of leftover. >> Are they like cylinders that >> they're big? They're big. Um, they're actually they're squares. like metal box. >> They're giant giant cubes. Yep. >> And so there's one out here at Midwest City High School by the fieldhouse and one adult city high school
091by the fieldhouse kind of on this football stadium. >> A big radiator. >> It's huge. They're huge. >> Okay. >> That will actually open up a corridor city high school. It'll be >> Yeah. >> Make things move around a bit easier and it will look a lot better because they're not particularly attractive. No. So if this is auctioned off, does it go back to the fund for a lot of this >> goes into when we if we au when we auction off the cooling towers or in the next item any of the portable buildings, those just go into the general fund or they go into the building fund? Did you see? No, you do. I knew she'd be in her right. >> You didn't see me. >> I just knew Jackie was going to take
092care of the money. >> All right. On the next one, I'm going to watch. >> She's just >> It might be. It's the mouse. >> It could be. I'm telling you. >> Okay. Item 13. Vote to approve or not approve surplus property to be sold by auction or demolition. So, what we have here are a number of portable buildings or barracks uh located at various sites around the district. Um when we were doing the the bond update earlier, they talked about some portables at Ridgerest that are going to one of them is going to have to go away for the construction and then we've got a couple more that will go away after the construction. That's some of these uh we just want if they're cleared surplus now, then we've got the ability that when
093they need to go away, we can make them go away. Just auction them right then. These won't necessarily be auctioned immediately, but we've just got the ability, you've given us the ability to get rid of them as needed. >> Uh we have a number of portable buildings out behind Country Estates. They're actually kind of off the property over there behind the water treatment facility. >> Um those are mostly empty at this point. There's a few things in there that we're relocating to other facilities. Uh those buildings are it's just not a good area. Um as a matter of fact, just recently we had the power cut off to them because somebody was trying to steal a copper out of it. So, they broke as a serious security problem. We want to make those go away.
094So, we're just trying to clean up some barracks that really aren't being used and get them off our property. I don't think anybody likes these things. >> Yeah. And barracks don't really help or hurt curb appeal because they're mostly behind the buildings, but they certainly um getting rid of them will help with the backyard appeal because they're just I mean they are >> Yeah, >> I think everybody call Middle School to approve. I'm sorry. >> Call Middle School. >> Yes. >> City has city has a lot too. I say >> we've gotten rid of a couple at city. We got rid of a bunch at Carl Albert Middle School. >> Yeah. Yeah. We have tons. >> The ones at Eperly aren't being used now as we're finishing up that safe room project. Now is the
095time to get rid of those while we've still got the construction going on. >> That's great. >> And they move them at the I bid on one. I have to move it myself. >> So in the past the district would relocate them and auction them from like the maintenance facility. It costs >> 12,000 >> about $12,000 to move one. We've discovered it's a whole lot more cost effective for us to auction them at the site because we usually only get a few hundred dollar for these. So, we auction them at the site and the person who buys gets to they get to pay that. >> You guys, you guys want the connectivity disconnect. >> Disconnect everything. >> Hey, let's vote. I voted. I did that. >> Oh, I am so glad. >> I did. I
096did. >> She's been doing it all. >> There's magic in here, guys. I'm just telling you. Motion passes. >> You're the magic. >> Okay. Item 14. Vote to approve or not approve our group to provide an install synthetic stir turf valve. >> What did you say? >> Item 14. >> So this is uh to install synthetic turf at our softball fields. Uh United Turf has done our baseball fields. Uh they maintain all of our turf fields up to this point. Uh this is actually a sourceful contract. If we have them do this, then all of our turf will be done by the same company. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Okay, let's vote. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Item 15, vote to approve or not approve the purchase of campus CE education management suite
097from SHI International. Miss Foster. >> Yes, President Standidge. Board members, Dr. Cobb, we're asking your approval to purchase campus CE management system. This is for our adult career development evening in our workforce and economic development campuses. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Any questions? Let's vote. >> Vote to approve or not approve all actions recommended in the human resources report. Miss Houston, >> President Standage, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb. I think this is historically my shortest presentation in four and a half years. So, let's keep it that way. I have our normal recommendations to hire accepting resignations and all of the above. >> Move to approve. >> Second discussion. >> Okay, let's vote. >> Motion passes. >> See you see what happened. >> Okay. No new business. Second.