001Uh it's 6 o' I would like to call to the call to order the regular board meeting of the daily board of trustees. Uh I know Carrie is absent [Music] and Cody's absent. So we still got a I guess you mind giving an invocation. Sure. Lord, thank you for this day, your blessings. God, thank you for this opportunity to be here tonight. Our school district, our families, our community. We're so blessed. Thank you for those blessings. We ask for your guidance throughout the evening. Pray for wisdom, direction, and all the decisions that we face. Blessing on all the all the staff, teachers, parents, kids, everyone in the community. Lord, that you would bless them throughout this summer and all their endeavors, uh, work, play, workouts, everything that they're up against. Lord, I pray that you
002be with them throughout. May you be the source of strength and God we ask these things in your name. Amen. Amen. I guess will rise force 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. [Music] I'm assuming there's no citizen participation. Uh, has everybody had a chance to review the previous minutes? any changes, additions, or deletions? Okay. Uh Dr. Marble, you want to go over? I'll be glad to uh the district received local payments of $48,9453 since our last board meeting, which seems like didn't happen very long ago. I think it's the way the month fell. But um those are coming in nicely. Um the um Yes, ma'am. Okay. And and our revenue the comparison of
003our re revenue to our budget. Uh we're in really really good shape understanding that that um we pay teachers and staff for 12 month on a 12 month basis, but we acrew that money allong. So that money has acrewed throughout the year. So that's in the bank to pay them for the rest of the year. So So we look, we're in good shape across the board. Um later on I'll draw your attention to how much is left in in our facilities and in maintenance and operation and in our construction budget. Okay. out of order, didn't I? It's okay. Not a problem. It's all going to get done. Uh, can I have a motion to approve? I'll make a motion to approve. All four. I guess we'll go to discussion items. Uh budget workshop. It's really
004kind of a mini workshop. I gave you a marine folder. I just I've done this in years past for those of you who are trained. Uh and this is just a a compilation of things that have happened in the past to help you get your mindset of of what to do in the future. Inside you'll find um information on the salary schedule for the past three years. Uh we thank goodness we have um maintained a higher salary schedule than other districts around us and we always want to continue to do that. Uh last year we gave a $750 stop in in November and in May or April one, this board voted to give at least that again. So we will that's voted on to get at least the $750 uh shopping. I would say that
005after the smoke clears and we've really deciphered what house bill two has done for us or to us either one uh that you can look at that again to see if there is some some money in salaries that we can add to it but um you have voted to do the 750 again this year. Um the budget sheets that that were approved of for the last three years are in there. uh uh the the tax rate that was approved for the last three years. If you notice during that last three years, our overall tax rate that MNS has gone from $1.775 uh down to 80 cents and 73. So it's um going in the right direction. And I will remind you again that next March we're going to have I don't know mortgage burning or
006whatever they do to celebrate next March we will be totally debtree so our ins will be zero after March we'll be we'll have it paid off which will be something for us to really really be proud of all to celebrate our in all that time our enrollment has decreased Um I think it's um Josh probably on the board when I said long several years ago we're growing every year. I don't know why and when it starts going down I'm going to tell you the same thing. I don't not really know why but ever since co we just had a gradual decrease in the moment kind of held our own this year. Um it's really kind of looking good this summer. I had I guess we'll wait to see him show up. But um all in
007all, other schools around us tell me the same thing. Um there's a lot more homeschooling, a lot more shopping for online schools and things like that. They come back to us sometimes and they don't come back to us sometimes, but we will keep offering a quality program. Um yeah, I think you preliminary scores of just the passing. Uh I just today just a few minutes ago got the the list of um comparison of how we look for meats and masters and we looked really really good on meets and masters on our test scores. Um we blow the state in the on the region out of the water. So we have really excellent teachers meeting the needs of our children and challenging challenging them to do better and better and better. So, um we're very pleased
008with that. Down that much, is it? Pardon? It's not. No, it's just it's just barely down this year. We're down a hundred about 100 kids over especially our high school. Remember, uh our alignment a year, three years ago, you know, we thought we might go to three. We were we were then about five kids of going to 3A and that would have been 247 kids I think in high school and we were 60 90 92 92 something like that we're way down at the high school. So uh we had some big classes that went through and but but we cut our second grade last year to two sections because we didn't have enough for three sections and our first grade this year is close to being two sections but we have gone ahead and made
009it through. What about the third grade? Third grade is going to be okay. They kind of some of them came back. Okay. So I think it's just barely but we're going to have three teachers. But still, one of the reasons we knew that is because we knew that that first grade coming up was going to be small again and we felt comfortable in cutting that teacher second grade. So, um I feel like overall this when I was in school, we had there's about 50 kids per class. 30. It seems to stay right I'm just going to keep it right around the 200 mark or take. Well, um I like it when it was going a little bit, but I didn't want to go to 3A either. So, but anyway, I think we're doing very very
010well there. If you look at our student teacher ratio, really really good. Very low student teacher ratio and and student staff ratio. The student staff ratio is everybody, but the teacher ratio is is a little different. Our fund balance history, that's one that I think that y'all are always interested in. They use about the next to the last page. So, our fund balance history went we it topped in 2023. We took a little bit out this last year. If you remember, we had a kind of we had a real fiasco. I should be I almost said kind of fiasco. We had a real fiasco with insurance and we had to take money out. But as Mr. Thompson reminded me the other day, the reason we save money is so we'll have it when we need
011it. When we need things, we'll have it. And and he said, this board has grown the fund balance and it's much higher than it's expected. around. So what they recommend is a three month operating expenses and we have about a year or so or two. So we're we're in really really good fun. I think we're going to be okay nearly this year. I don't think we're going to have a lot of surplus to put back into fun balance, but I think we'll have enough to get us out of here pretty clean. And the good news is the last time I checked with the insurance company with region 14, which was the carrier of our insurance, we don't owe anything on the other insurance anymore. So, and all of our all of our staff had to
012I had one come in the other day and She had gotten a bill that first time she'd ever got it and they were saying they turn it over to collection. She said we never got a bill for it and we settled that one. It was it was relatively small and so we we reached the point where we could tell whether it was ours or the groups and so we paid just our insurance. So I think we're in good shape on that. Um and I put the Mr. Thompson and I worked off the summary of finances for the year in there. Um, so we had that last year. Later on, we're going to be talking about um I mean I'm going to ask you to approve a salary schedule. Of course, when we approve the salary
013schedule, we approve about 80% of the budget. You're pretty much done when you approve the salary schedule. He and I have looked at it. Um he has um revised it and looked at it again. He asked me to tell you that um he didn't have a have a lot to tell tell you tonight or he would be here but but we'll do one when he has better figures that where he can talk more. But he said this salary schedule is to his best estimate what what we'll have. It may vary a little bit depending on if the legislature interprets it differently from us. So, but we we feel pretty confident that it is the the salary schedule is really wonderful for our teachers. And I'm hoping that I'm hoping that that we're right because if
014it is our if a teacher teaches has taught three years, they'll get an automatic $4,000 raise. I think we do. And if they've taught five years, they'll get an automatic $8,000 raise above what they would pay for. So, it's a really nice thing for teachers um along with our teacher incentive that many many of our teachers have worked very hard to apply for. And I'm going to birdwalk just a little bit and tell you one of the people that we hired just today um came in and one of the reasons he was interested in our job is we we do teacher incentive development. The school has not been doing teacher incentive development. his wife teaches at another school that does do it and she got it and he knows how wonderful it is. And he
015he came in and he applied to coach, but he said, "But I want to be assigned to teach so that I can earn it." So, um, sometimes it gets you a good coach and sometimes it gets you a good teacher and sometimes it gets you both. And so, um, I think that's a real plus for us to to be paying to do it. It was a lot of hard work. Three years ago, Lisa. Yes. Three years ago. This will be the second year that we have a payout. Yeah. And and our our teachers will get a payout in August. And if you if you kept up with the news, the legislature changed that. And I guess that won't be in effect till the next payout probably. I don't know this one. But they raised the
016top one to $36,000. So there's four levels now. There's four levels and if you get if you get on it at any level, it's guaranteed for five years. For five years, you'll get that kind. It's a really wonderful wonderful thing for our teaching staff. So, questions, comments, need more information, and please if you if there's something you need between board meetings, call me and tell me. I'll look it up. I just these are just the things I thought would help you understand when the things that we consider when we're budgeting. I don't foresee um any big items construction wise, our facilities are in good shape. We're going to ask you for a couple of things tonight, but um they're not monumental. Like I say, we have money in those budgets for good. We're blessed campus
017reports. Ask Chuck, do you have anything for campus report? No. Okay. Uh, I knew all the others had got taken off, so I was going to give you the opportunity to have the have the whole floor without competition. You can tell them what we got offered today. What we have? Oh, yes. We have a Yamaha baby grand piano donated to us and it is in pristine edition. It is gorgeous. We'll have to make opportunities to go get it. Restore demand hall. It is beautiful. [Music] I'll put it on the donation list for next. Cage around it. It is gorgeous. I'll just tell you. It's just so pretty. uh replace the one that was in the band hall. We we've never had anything but actual like a keyboard like a cas keyboard and so I thought
018there was a maybe a regular stand up kind of always had just the plugins and they last about 3 to 5 years they go to the dumpster we get down awesome facilities project okay um the restrooms at the elementary school promised are starting next week. Um, I talked to him just this morning about it. The plumbing upgrade in the old gym, the outside work is all finished and they're putting things back together. They're putting toilets back in and everything. And that's going to be wonderful. We'll be able to flush toilets over there. They're putting irrigation in at the elementary today. They've dug the ditches and got it all laid out. Um, middle school child care room is underway. Um, we were able to go over to Head Start and um, we got some furniture that
019they had in their garage over there and some books and um, I'm not sure how happy their teacher is going to be with me, but I got a box of musical instruments, tambourines and things put in there for the babies. Uh but we got um some tables and chairs and bookcases and things that will furnish it. And um then uh the parking area on street I I would encourage you to drive looks wonderful. It just looks so good. Nobody's going to get their license plate torn off again. Um and then we're just cleaning and scrubbing floors and rewaxing floors. [Music] Of course, we'll get our gym floors redone July weekends, but lots of lots of cleaning oil, lot of general maintenance. Found some old paint that was discarded. So, we painted the walls in the
020new day with that. they were able to find paint for the scoreboard on the field. Um, you know, I don't have that on there, but I think he was trying to find a color patch or something. Yeah, last time. I know they took it down. Yeah, they got it down. They will find they'll figure something out before before they put it back. So, it won't be pink, right? Our colors are not pink. Yes, I I will I'll add that to our list. But everything is going really really well. Uh safety audit. There is I'm actually headed to the school safety center summit convention next week down in San Antonio. It'll be a fiveday convention down there to learn everything I ever wanted to know at this next round. And then in July, we'll actually have
021a safety and security meeting. I'll send that out [Music] purchase property or do you want to later? I think we need that uh going to action items consideration donations to the district and gifts to the district. Let me get to that. link to the list. Yes. No, it's not too bad. It's not too bad. Our two Well, they're never bad to get donations. No. Okay. First National Bank donated $500. All of these are for academic awards. His war memorial was 2400. Perkins scholarship was 1250. Evan Bank 1250. Prime Smith scholarship was 500. press on 300 and the deal on man boosters 1950 and I would tell that came from is that when they collect money that that comes from so and the concert chest yeah they they when they raise money all through the year
022that's where they raise that money and our goal is always to make sure our band kids that do want to go into college have that little I would ask you to approve those I'll make a motion approve the guest. I'll second uh any more discussion. Uh all four zero again. uh consideration of salary schedules because of HB2 we're required to have a new salary schedule. I think that's the very first line of of it that so all school districts will have to have a new salary schedule. Um because we're a rural school um we ours is more than like the metrop school but it is wonderful and as I said before it's it increases our salary schedule tremendously and it did nothing though for the low What Mr. Thompson and I did, we graduated it
023down so that it raised the bottom up a little bit so that they the starting pay for a teacher right out of college if a little bit more. Remembering that a teacher right out of college can go to Fort Worth and make $59,000 a year. That was that last year. So sustaining with that we're starting at at 44 is still not the cost of I know the cost but they still have but still yes they still have to eat. So anyway we we did that. I also have included in here the co-op salary schedule for because We're the federal agent for the co you all appro and so I have that in there for you. Um and it's what he did was take our salary schedule and apply it to his people. It's a lot.
024He what he did, he went in and um he put the House Bill 2 adjustment. If you look 1 2 3 the fourth column over, he just went 22400 28 32 24 and then it just starts going up from there. because they got their step rate also because it's it says you have to pay them what they would have made plus this. What did you say change from last year to this year? Well, House. The House Bill two, the fourth column over House Bill here. Yeah, it's on there. Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. Y'all didn't get a hard copy, did you? No, of course. This will be 256. That's 24. That's the previous two. We try to make as plain as he could. I've told y'all before, my dream is that we have teachers that make
025more than I know. And guess what? On a day you're right, it'll be good. And they deserve it. And I think the results they get when you look at it, they work really really hard and it's big responsibility. Did you make a motion? I will. I was just my opinion. I I'll make a motion to approve the 2526 salary schedule. I'll second it. Eric, you got any more questions? I'm good. I had this to you. I'll make you a hard now. I know there's I just have to do that's all I have. Anybody else have any more discussion on it? I guess all four school calendar switching 19th through the 26. This is this is really something I will credit for the purpose of noticing this. me. Okay, Miss Fos, we came from the high
026school direction. When we did the calendar, of course, we didn't have a football schedule and so homecoming was scheduled and it was scheduled for the 19th and also we had a staff development day that day. So that and it so the kids would not be in attendance. And Next week we have a way for our monster monster football game. Kids would be in attendance, but our band and football players and children they don't have to leave right after lunch. So they'll miss a half a day of instruction. So we flip it. This solves the problem and u really helps high school scheduling and let people out. So it's a really good thing. academically and athletically. So, I think everybody's a winner. And I did visit with with elementary. I'll make a motion that we approve
027the amended school calendar. I'll second. Uh, any other discussion? Okay. All four zero again. uh consideration and approval of UIL options concerning homeschool students participation in league activities. Some of you may remember that a few years ago we vote the board voted on this and they voted to not allow this and that may really still be valid. I don't know, but UIL got a ruling that said this must be voted on by the board. And so I thought you won't need to vote on it again just for safety sake and for future reference. Um I talked to coach Whitaker and what are the pros and cons? I think the biggest thing as far as cons for us is you just show up and start losing kids. Basically gives them the option now. Hey, I don't
028have to go to school. We're not going to get to school playing for them. They're not going to be involved. They're just going to show up and go football only. That's it. So, I don't want kids to be around, be in our school, be in our halls. Don't give that opportunity. Um, to be honest, I don't know who really does it or why they would do it and basically promotes their kids not coming to school in our school district. So, I think the pros is definitely keeps them in our hallways and keeps them around us and around each other and we would just be giving up just open up camps. I think anything you like. Anything you like. Whatever they choose. Whatever they choose. They can come and just be in cross debate. I see.
029Maybe some of those big schools I think may do it just because you get some people's maybe some you know pro aletes kids stuff like that. And you know those bigger towns that might try to just to get kid that doesn't want to go to school. I got right before I got older O'Neal. his kids he they pull out homes school that would example but it opens up I just no well we not but that's that's where I could see it is maybe schools but just trying to get a kid eligible but once you do one now everyone's just going to say I'm go home school and just show up and play football and now you really don't I don't know how you hold them accountable as far as far as academic standards either. I
030don't know like do they have what's their rules on no pass and play like the accountability part is a big one for me and your your discipline areas% you can discipline them in athletics or the event but you're not they're not respect and how does it work you know you're athletic period like athletic period that school like so easy enough. I would still be in support of opting out. So if I'm do we have to make a motion and vote to decline or is it just I think we make a motion. I think this is serious enough that we need a make a motion to all four Coach time. It is your time. Um, so I'm co tonight. Um, it's got kind of three phases. Um, three phases as far as one being air conditioning,
031two being weight room equipment and and flooring. Obviously, the flooring would come a little bit before the weight room equipment. Um, but it's kind of a three-phase project um that I've kind of put together and created. picked up quotes on it all, researched it. Um, the biggest purpose for this project was, you know, start I'll start with the air conditioning. The biggest thing is, so our equipment room and our weight room do not have air conditioning down at the fieldhouse right now. Um, with that being said, as I got here the last two months, I've inventoried about every single piece of equipment we had in that equipment room that we've had for I don't know how many years, much of it, but we've had a ton of equipment. I went through every single thing we
032had. And I how many things that were completely ruined because our big equipment room in the stores uniform, every football uniform, track uniform, all of our helmets, shoulder pads, has no air conditioning. So the basically all the stuff like having gurgles, I'm pulling them up and I just kind of pull on the waistbands and they were just completely cracking and we're destroyed. Um, so a bunch of our equipment. Um, as far as equipment room goes. And then as far as the weight room goes, all of our bars are basically solid rust. The dumbbells are solid rust. Um, and then we have all metal iron plates that are pretty much all rusted as well because there's no sort of um anything keeping the moisture out of the air in there. And it's not, you know, it's
033not an AC I'm looking to try and hey, we need an AC so it can be 65 degrees in here. It's just that keeps our equipment where if we're going to have this, you know, get nice equipment and keep things going, then making sure that we're preserving it, making sure the longevity of it, we're not buying expensive equipment just to go bad in a few years. And you know, that's the biggest thing I've talked about with our kids is you know, putting them in good equipment as far as um you know, from all of our sports that store stuff in that equipment room, but then also getting their kids good equipment, you know, to improve their athletic performance um in the weight room. This for boys and girls. And so the AC in both those
034rooms is kind of the biggest thing is getting that added as kind of the first part of the project. Um because that's my second phase of the project stuff I'm talking about is now new flooring for the weight room as well as new weight room equipment. Um the reason these kind of all go together is because obviously it starts with AC because the AC is what's going to keep we get new weight room equipment keep it from ruining as well as any new equipment for football any sports to store in the equipment room. Um, next part, the big reason for the flooring is because once again to maintain longevity and warranties for all the weight room equipment I'm going to propose, you have to have a certain type of flooring. Um, there's certain floorings that
035do not they're not thick enough. It does not So now the warranties for those weights are basically completely thrown out the door once you use those weights on that flooring because they're they're not thick enough to absorb the shock and from the dropping of the weights when you're doing Olympic lifting. Um, basically all of your once you get this new equipment you would none of it would be under warranty or would it be preserved um biggest thing with the flooring um the new way flooring is it's going to help with um so basically be about a three can't remember if the guy quoted me a 3/4 inch or 1 in rubber flooring um tiles of impact resistant slip protection so basically it's one of um the last two schools I've been at we had just
036got it put in um and it has a basically what they do is they platform area around the platform where it has a shock absorbent layer. So now as you're doing all your Olympic lifting there as the weight lands, there's an extra thick padding underneath that little platform area that one is shock absorbent to reduce noise but also to reduce the balancing of the weights um and just absorb the shock. The biggest thing is it doesn't ruin the weights. Um and same thing with all dumbbells, stuff like that. And then it's also going to be, you know, huge on the as far as, you know, as we're doing jumping stuff in there, it's going to be huge on the kids joints, knees, um, and their body just because the type of flooring is made to
037absorb the shock. Um, so that's the biggest thing with the flooring. Um, and then now third biggest the biggest part of the whole thing is the new weight equipment. Um, but obviously it starts with AC and flooring because those are the two things that are going to help preserve the longevity of the weight room equipment. with the weight room equipment. Um, like I said, due to the equipment down there is getting to the point it's pretty old. Um, obviously weights. We still have old metal iron plates which are very, very dangerous. Uh, I think we had a kid the very first week of workout camp actually get his finger smashed and completely bloody just from hitting on, you know, they were doing something and clanked it on a finger. Uh, multiple kids have had feet
038hurt from over the years. talking to people in there, um, dropping the weights on them just cuz the old metal iron weights, they're hard to hold, especially when get they get hot and sweaty. Um, it's hard to hold them and, you know, move them around. Um, and then our bumper plates are pretty much are non-existent. They're, uh, once again, the middle of them have been completely destroyed out or they've cracked and broken from the dropping of not having the proper flooring for them. It's completely destroyed. Um, and so what I'm proposing is basically new weight from equipment that would would include double-sided half racks. Um, so what that means is basically have 10 double-sided half racks that would basically be able to put say you put three kids at a platform. We're going to be
039able to fit 60 kids in there and every kid's going to be doing the exact same type of lift at the exact same time. Whereas right now with our equipment, we have these kids doing this. these kids doing this, these kids doing this, and these kids doing this because we don't have enough equipment for basically all of them to be doing the same thing, which one is kind of an injury concern just because when you have them all doing the same thing as a coaching point, you're able to coach them all on the same exact coaching points at the same time. The kids are allowed to coach each other on the same coaching points at the same time. Whereas when you have multiple kids doing lots of different lifts at once, which we're having to
040do just to maintain due space and equipment and the numbers we have in the weight room right now, it makes it a little bit tougher because they all have different coaching points and different techniques and, you know, form things that we're looking for within those lifts. Um, it would require, you know, adjustable benches for each of the racks. Um, we have multiple benches right now that the actual wood piece of the bench is actually cracked. um and now is cracked and wobbly on the benches that we have now. And then dumbbells, dumbbell racks. Like I said, the dumbbells are all old metal iron dumbbells that have all rusted. Many of them are cracked and bent and the rubber on them is pretty much non-existent. That was supposed to be on the outside covering them now.
041Um and then the bumper plates, what we would move to would be an all bumper plate system. We would get rid of all metal iron plates. Everything we would have would be a bumper plate. When I say bumper plate, it's more of a it's like a has a steel insert with more of a rubber out outer coating. So, it's not that heavy met metal iron steel. They're still the same weight, but they're much easier to handle. Um, and you can use them for all Olympic lifts or regular lifts. Um, whereas the metal iron steel, any sort of Olympic lifts you can't use because you can't be dropping the metal iron. Um, some medicine balls, resistance bands, and another big thing is lock collars. We have no collars right now. So weights are constantly kids that
042are, you know, starting out very start and they're very uneven with their lifts. We have weights sliding off of bars right now. Um, which is just in itself a huge huge danger in the weight room. Um, so that's kind of the weight room part. And then the flooring will include all new flooring platforms and the underlay materials and installation. And then obviously the um air conditioning cost. Um, so the biggest thing with the proposal, like I said, is not only for, you know, the athletic performance part. It's going to be it'll be a great finished product. It's going to one make kids want to get in there, make kids want to stay in there and make kids, you know, anywhere, everywhere, you know, be around it. But the biggest thing is the health concern of
043it. Um it's going to be, you know, one for injury prevention ahead of getting injured, but then also just preventing it from the standpoint of the dangers of some of our stuff that we have in our weight room right now. And just the and I think just the the lack of the equipment that's been upkept. Um and then you know something that we preserve and keep the longevity of it with the AC and stuff like that that's going to keep it lasting for a long long time that'll you know forever last. The thing is it's going to benefit everyone from, you know, we're going to use that for sixth grade pre-athletics. We're going to bust the kids down there, teach them to lift down there. Um, you know, the girls that are going to start
044lifting now two to three times a week. They're going to use that weight room as well. And then the goal with some of the old equipment would be to transfer weight now to the auxiliary weight room. Um, as far as just like that double-sided rack where we still have the auxiliary weight room, but pretty much everyone's going to transition and begin to begin using the fieldhouse weight room as the main weight room. And then uh also had multiple schools reach out already about some of our old equipment. Um like some of the old metal iron, steel plates, stuff like that about purchasing uh the athletic director at Freeway has already reached out. And then they said the athletic director at Cisco was also possibly interested in looking into some of our old equipment um and
045purchasing that from us. Anything that we possibly be getting rid of um if this was all able to go through. But like I said, it's it's going to benefit every kid. 6 through 12. Um it's going to give them something excited to get in there, get to work on, and it's going to benefit us as a whole. Um definitely from an injury prevention standpoint, but also just from an athletic standpoint of it's going to put us, you know, where we need to be with where we're at in, you know, 2025. And it's only going to it's it's stuff that's going to continue to be in right now. Whereas, you know, right now we're down there. It's something that, you know, it got built and then um over the years they which haven't done a great
046job as of now just kind of you know every year you know kind of keeping it up just a little bit at a time taking care of it. Um you know with the scoring it simple you can just run you can even run on a floor machine that you run on the halls in the school. You can take one of those and you go water only and you run it right over it and it and it cleans the whole thing. The exact same thing. Use use has no cracks or crevices in it. It's just a full layout and it's very tight and knit together with the little inserted platforms. Um, like I said, doesn't absorb the shock and the cut down on sound. But I think it's something that is is definitely needed and I
047think would be a would be a huge upgrade for our facilities because at the end of the day, you know, that's where it all starts for, you know, 6th through 12th grade. No matter what, girls. Yes. Boys and girls, you that that's where it starts at. So, I've already talked to the girl coaches, you know, about we're going to start transition to use that weight room just because it it's tough to, you know, we would need all the same type stuff in that weight room up there as well. You know, the collars, the different type of plates and um you know, most of the time they're going to lift their lifting is going to be more done after practice anyway. So, it would be an easy transition right down there. You lift down there and
048then now you go home from there. Um because you know we'll use boys will be able to get most of our lifting done in the mornings before school and then we'll use the after school time and after the eighth period and practice for the girls. So now we will be out of there and that will totally be there for work together with scheduling to make sure that you know we're always available and that way it creates the because it was tough if they're trying to go during school trying to go down there and get back up. It's just not time efficient. But, you know, the way our schedule now worked out, follow us same period. We'll have our lifting done in the mornings ahead of time and basically, you know, they can start practicing their
049period and they can go down and get their lifts done afterwards or vice versa. Um, and so that way now as soon as they get down there, they're not worried about showing back up, they're done and you know, we can head home for the day. So, we've already communicated with all that. I've got that worked out of probably do that no matter what because that that weight room spacing is going to fit every the best. But go take that old doublesided half rack and move it up to the auxiliary weight room to create more racks up there. Great thing about that weight area doesn't it doesn't have spray foam or anything on the wall. Just straight sheet. Uh it has spray foam up top. Yes, it has. I'm not positive. I'm not positive. Is that
050part of the Spray foam as part of the bid. No, no, it it has spray foam. Yes, I know for only foam. I couldn't tell you that part cuz we have overhead doors. We have overhead doors. I think where there's no overhead door there spray that and I don't know the answer. When we had our barn done that way, we put it everywhere except on the rollup doors. Well, that's what I was thinking this would need because we just who wore the air conditioning. Yeah. He said it it's not going to cool it like in here. It's going to cool it to like 75 or something like that. Just so it's not just so it's not dehumid not rusty. Takes the humidity out. Yeah, that's the main thing is to get the humidity up. So
051then huge insulation. Um when was the last time we put in these things just make us money into when we built it. I was going to say when we built it I I will tell you when when we built it when we got to the floors we just couldn't afford it and uh we put the horse horse mats in there. That's what's in there. And they're worn out. Even if they were new, they weren't good. They weren't what we needed. How old is not anything was 2016ish? So, and as as Mr. Thompson said, that's why we put money in the balance is so we have it if we had to use it. We do have money in our budget to to do some things and um I think I just didn't have to hire a
052teacher to replace a teacher because of the way our coaching fell out today. I I think we're really in good shape financially budget wise and I don't have an issue with it. I just my concern was more maybe we need to add to it if it doesn't have money. Sure. Well, if we don't have if we don't I will I will get back to you on it. It'd be worth every penny. Yeah. Even even a spray for barn doesn't it's not AC is if you if you did make a motion if you made it for this and if needed spray foam then we could just go ahead I think it'd be foolish to do it without I think you get rollups with the inserts insert you can they're very heavy we had it put in
053a in a barn one time and I couldn't lift And so if it was insulated, I promise you I think you can get by maybe without that. Yeah. The other storage it's internal, right? So yeah, one door roll up big storage. That one might need to be replaced. the big the in the storage frame that door. So the equipment room is in the same building. It's side by side. So basically it's all locked rooms in the front half. The whole back half is weight room and this back corner is equipment room. It's a big equipment room. I mean it's a great equipment room. It's just that's really the only thing. That's what you know right now we're stoing the gator in the wait room. It's like I love building. We've got it all cleaned up
054and got tubs and everything up now to where I want to be able to get it to where we can store that gator in there as well where it's actually an equipment room. We're not push it in and out of our weight room. So, one to get it off our morning but two. So, it just be one AC basically. Yes. Press the equipment and what you're getting that's deal it's a yeah it is very good it's all PX is the branding and that's also through our it's also through our rep so we give it all obviously whatever retail price is we get a big discount that sell some of ours to go back I was surprised that that we didn't have it when we moved back here. We just we were trying to do it
055out of out of pocket. Yes. And our fund wasn't nearly this much when we built that fun that it was just one of those dreams that coach had. Thank goodness he had it. And I still have the pencil drawing that he he threw out. I told him I just want to keep it Friday. You sold me on the girls to use it, too. The girls are working out down there this summer. Yes. I think when I called one of the girls coaches this morning, that's where she was. And we're having good trans every day. So, not single digits. So, we stay 20 to 30 boys dropped off a little bit this week, but I think they got lots of sicknesses and got some on their vacation. Today most your message of encouragement supports you. Yeah,
056that was good. If there's need any more information or anything like to know more about the happy to answer more questions time frame if we green light it. So the equipment I know for sure we can get it going. Um and that's why I need a call on to see for sure on where we're at in the morning. But As far as weight equipment, quotes are ready to go. It's already done. All it would be is literally PO green line ready to go. Um, so and then the flooring would just be I'll need to call the guy and just make sure and see where we're at time frame wise to be able to get in for the flooring. We probably would have to shut down for a week. Not shut down. We have to move
057up to the wait room, you know, go there for a week just to let them get in there and get that thing rolling. But I know equipment wise pretty much that's all even quot wise as well with recording is all ready to go. It's just getting it going and I've already told him I've already been in communication with the rep. We're both basically I go through the game one rep who's our rep, but then he goes to team Max guy who came and met with us and so I both know they're both ready to go and I told him as soon as I got an answer I get them get the ball rolling on so they both know it's a possibility coming out and they're ready to roll. So, you're thinking they can do it
058before school starts? I think possibly. Yes. For sure. The equipment stuff, the biggest thing would be the the flooring of when they could get in. Um, depending on this probably the busy time of the year with, you know, being summer of doing floorings and stuff. So, that's one I have to know for sure. I know for sure before then, but obviously probably do the flooring first. So, don't bring it in. Pull it back out. Everything else is within the next few weeks I believe you can do it next month. I think we're still there's there's well if you if you look back on the first Is it sideways? Okay. And under Phil facilities and maintenance and operation at this point there's $538,000 in there. And then under facilities u uh acquisitions and construction there's $108,473
059in there. So, and everything that y'all approved already has been elementary school all that. Yeah, they're working on that. I think it's I think it's very needed, very necessary. I I mean, critical to any athletic program, not just physically, but mentally. A lot of benefits of weight training. We need to I mean, it's not like we're trying to go, you know, cutting edge. We're just trying to get good, really good quality piece. So, I think it does work on the money side of it. So, I'm good with it. I like that motion. I'll make a motion. I would I would added Yeah. with insulation. get back to the safe way. Okay. To move forward with the weights for air conditioner and add the uh insulation piece. I'll second. Okay. Any other discussion? I guess all
060four. Thank you so much. Awesome. Reason I came to that's awesome. So, but what's the old equipment? To be honest, I don't know. I know South Bay selling a bunch of theirs right now. So completely redone their weight from their high school and senior high. So I'm going to kind of look on that strength conditioning guy and kind of see what iron plates and stuff like that goes for it. I don't know if it's a ton but something rather than just throw in the dumpster. Can we take it to the recycling that I don't know how that works? Yeah, takes it. I don't know how Dave takes things heavy. I don't know how it works with that. He takes a load every once in a while things that you know a little bit comes in.
061That would probably another like a secondary retailer next scrap. I wanted to say something. What a gift this young man. He was a he is just just like thinking of the part of the homecoming. He and Chuck work together and um he is officing I don't know if you know that but coach Whitaker now has an office where Mr. Miller's old office was Mr. Miller has moved into the other office and so uh he will be part of the time at the front of the building which will be wonderful. I keep hearing good Well, I was at over over at Red Bes today and he said, "You know, I haven't heard anything but positive about this from coach." And I said, "I don't think you will. I don't think you will." And he was very
062complimentary of your boys that went around on fundraising last week. He said, he said, "Well, why should I donate to you?" He said, "Man, they right on me." Told him. Okay. So, I just think a breath of fresh air and and good good things are going to happen for our for our students and our community. So I like the shirt on because I watched the guys that said that coach you probably need to go home. You've been at it a long time today, haven't you? Another day. Thank you all. Appreciate it. It's going to be huge for our student athletes and I think it'll be really exciting to see the looks on their faces when they walk through those doors for the first time. They see it redone what should look like. They be excited,
063the new equipment, stuff like that. It'll be awesome for all session to discuss property.