001Dear Lord, thank you so much for the day, Lord, that you bring us here together. Lord, we just uh thank you for everybody here, the time that they put in for our community, for our school district, for the the parents of these kids that genuinely care about our kids. Lord, we just thank you for all of them. Lord, that thank you for this family, Lord, that you sent to us. Lord, I just pray, Lord, that that you'll be in everything that they do. And just let us as parents and faculty members and everything that's involved just make their job easy, Lord. And let's make this thing work. Let's roll and let's let's be good, Lord. We just love you and praise you. Thank you so much for all you do. Christ's name we pray. Thank
002you so much. Um I'll officially call this meeting to order. Uh 6 p.m. and we have our forum established. Derrick will join us here um in about 15 minutes. Let's go ahead and do our pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you all so much. We do not have citizens certification tonight, but I've signed everybody in so you can all speak when we get to that uh part on your agenda. We have the consent agenda is number four. That's the next item. But we're gonna we're gonna move on Clemson's behalf. We're going to move Coach Whitaker up to the four item. And so we have Coach Whitaker here tonight. He
003is the one finalist for our boys um head baseball coach and I mean uh our head football coach and athletic director, excuse me. Um we have baseball overall. Um and we have our hiring committee here as well. We have several individuals that took a lot of time um out of their busy schedules to to get together, form a hiring committee and do the interviewing process and they are here to present um coach Whitaker as their candidate. So, gentlemen, I'll give you the floor. She's going to talk. me and some of these guys, we just I think we did a good pro process and and interviewed I think more guys we planned on, but we wanted to make sure we tried to get this thing right and uh been praying about it and I think we
004got some good family and we just present them to y'all and and let y'all make the decision and hope that we can uh that'll all be affirmed and and we'll we'll go from there. Thank you all for for letting us come tonight. Wonderful. Does anybody else on the comm want to say anything? We appreciate all the time that you guys have. We know it's a really serious um role. So, Coach Whitaker has brought his wife Megan and his daughter Clemson here tonight. And so, if we are ready to move forward with that, I am looking for a motion for approval. I'll make a motion. Thank you. Looking for a second. I'll second. Thank you, Rachel. All those in favor. Okay, that is everyone. Congratulations. We're very excited for you. Would you like to say something?
005Yes, absolutely. And uh I just want to say first of all thank you to my wife Megan because uh um it wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her. Um you know it's one of those deals that you know over this process of my coaching journey of we've truly been you know waiting for the right time. Where's the right place to you know settle our roots and this was the first time over the last four years of going through this process that um she truly felt that God spoke to her and said let's do it. and she came home one day and said, "You know, I'm ready to do this and I want you to apply to Dillion." And um you know, so I was fired up and within about 3 minutes I had my
006laptop out and was was firing away and ready to go and um super blessed and excited to be here and uh you know somewhere that we can as a young family that's from small towns um that grew up in a community similar to Dillion between Glenrose and Iowa Park for myself. Um that's our ultimate goal has always been to get get our little our family um our daughter Clemson and you know whatever's next for us, you know, somewhere where we can grow our roots and plant our roots and and let them grow around great people that are um at the end of the day they're they're centered um through Christ and and that's what we wanted to get to and we were so excited to get here and um at the end of the day
007I just want to build a all the values and morals that y'all already teach your kids. Um I want to continue to to push that harder in the athletic building um through their school work on and off the field and make sure that not only are we trying to win games on on the court, on the field, and uh on the track, but we're also trying to make great young men and women and and that's the ultimate goal. And in the process of doing that, I think it'll it'll help us win a lot of games in the process. And so that's what I'm super fired up about. And can't thank you'all enough and Dr. Marble and the hiring committee, all the time y'all took and for giving me this opportunity. And like I told you
008at the end of the interview, I promise you, you won't be let down. Um, we're going to we're going to put a lot of time and effort into this, uh, not only just me, but my family and us as a whole community. Um, from the ground up, like I said, from preK babies all the way through, you know, 12th grade alumni, uh, everyone in this community. It don't matter if you're the starting quarterback right now or you're, you know, a little cubcat or you're just being born or you're someone that was a part of the 1975 state championship team. We're all in this together and I want to make sure that it it gets to that way and that we're all one working unit to make this come, you know, one of the most successful
009small towns in the area athletically, academically, and as human beings and the ultimate goal of winning the Lone Star Cup one day. So, I just thank you all for everything you've done for me and for my family and for blessing us with this opportunity. We're so excited to be here. I'm super fired up to get this thing rolling. So, I really appreciate it. You're here. We're glad you're here. Excited. Your resume was fantastic, but his was extremely impressive. It was I sat there and read the whole thing. Yeah, me too. It was very impressive. So, good luck. Wonderful. All right. Well, I will dismiss y'all and all the hiring committee as well. I'm sure you have other things that you wanted to do, but thank you'all so much for coming tonight. Thank you'all so much.
010Thank you. Thank you committee. Thank you again. Y'all did a great job. Thank y'all. Coach Whitaker. All right. The rest I'll leave the rest of the items that are up forel. I can spread out a little bit now. All right, let's move to the consent agenda. The um approval of minutes of the previous meeting. I dug through those minutes and I decided that um that y'all were wrong on the amount of tax that we had collected on the previous meeting and I had to go back and look at it and it was correct. I was not expecting it to be that large that late, you know, in March. I expected it for January and February, but not March. Yeah. Yeah. Um, does anybody have any um changes or anything you notice that was not correct
011on this? If not, we'll move to the comparison of our revenue to budget. Right on track, staying within our timeline where we plan to be. So, we're good. And our tax collection report is a little smaller this time at 74,44923. It will get smaller and smaller. Y there looks like um Okay. So, um if there are no questions or changes for consent agenda items, we're looking for a motion to approve. motion to approve. Thank you. All those in favor? What's going on out there? Okay. So, let's move our discussion items. 5.1 reports. Do we have principles that have reports or are saving it up for um I sent out the email the other day um with the save the dates and then as you know the beginning changes dates whatever we'll let you know. Um
012the band um performance um happened the other night on it. That was I can't remember. It was wonderful. It was great. I saw several board members there. It was a very enjoyable night. Um all three bands did a wonderful job. Of course, we enjoyed sixth grade. First chair. [Music] I just I just think it's so remarkable when you listen to the sixth grade and and And then you then by the time you get to the high school band I got there early enough was playing his he was working on his opera. It was the Italian opera song. He was doing the keyboard. It was it was just him sitting up there by himself. I thought that was pretty neat. That's wonderful. Um and then I also sent out the one I play. So if y'all
013can check that out. I've heard that it's an incredible performance. 59. I was like, "Oh, 28." They got, you know, they got big middle school out now. That's right. They had one that was pretty good. They did. It was very nice. And and you know that is um the same person doing all that work and she just does such an incredible job as wine guard. And so if you see her, please let her know that she's doing such a great job. Um Okay. So, if we're not doing those um reports, then let's move on to 5.2 for the um the st the discussion on staff siphons for the new school year, the school year coming up. Um Dr. Ramble, will you remind me what was the amount that we did? 750 per person paid in
014November so that you receive it right before Christmas and it is for returners. And so, I just wanted to have this on here so that we could discuss it. We have a couple of items that are up in the air and that's fine. It's not an action item as of yet. May will talk about that a little bit. Well, I I I just think until the legislature finishes with with us, we we really don't know what the salaries are going to look like for next year. I I I'm hopeful that there will be a significant raise for our teachers. I I truly do. The way it's looking now, it will be for more seasoned teachers. Uh, but where's that number start for like seasoned teachers? What is that? Well, they're talking about like $10,000. No,
015I'm saying like five years, 10 years. 10 years. They're talking 10. Okay. Um, but you don't ever know June 3 because the second they'll maybe not call the special session after that. But anyway, it's looking good for that. Um we did get notice I think on Thursday it was that that they have posted our ratings for 2023. Uh and we are all all three of our campuses were days a campus. So we'll wait to see what they say about we're campuses for 242. But but they just slow getting them out. But it's good. Everything's running well. I think that that it the stopping was very very appreciated by everyone. Uh and I would like to see us continue in some form of fashion stop that comes out in November for assistance for people returning. Um
016how many how many staff are we looking at? We have we haveund I've heard this number before but about 160 but all of them have been return correct that's we're right at60. So, it's it's a it's a nice thing. Of course, I like it being on the salary schedule, too, because when people are looking to to look at us, they see our salary schedule online and they don't see that that stop and they don't see that that but right now we're still paying a little above what everyone else is paying and I would like very much to keep it that way. And I think that all of us agree that we have a product and need to pay as much, right? And as teachers are deciding in May, you know, if they're if they're coming
017or going or or what what have you, that's why I wanted to go ahead and have that discussion even though we're not approving anything official, but we're saying that is our intention. Once everything kind of falls, we'll know exactly when and what we want to do. One of the things that that we have historically done is that when when we increased the salary schedule, we did it all the way up all the way across the board. That is not the case in like metrop schools uh they start really really high but the but the raises are not u they don't they they're not coming through with what what they're paying at this first in fact one of the teachers we hired from Fort Worth last year I think her and she had six or seven
018years six or seven she didn't take much cut and tight hardly at all because while she had started with a lot more by the time she was where she was she was more like us. I think we we need to be very proud of that and whatever the state does how we look at our beginning salaries because 44 but it's better than other schools and it's better than state minimum a lot better just keep it in mind we'll come back to you as soon as we know something okay anyone have any other questions or comments on the staff happens. Let's move to the um ISD board of trustes continuing education credits and I was the winner. So bring I'm not actually sure why you supposed to read it. I'm not exactly sure why that one
019is hiring mind research it but um okay so Dana Marble has nine hours Norris has 12. Rachel Walker has nine. Cecil has nine. Keith Madison has has nine, has nine, and Cody has six. Get to work. To increase those hours coming up very quickly on May 8th, so we will all we'll all be in attendance, I'm sure, on that evening in Eene. We have registered eight people for May. Wonderful. I'm not sure. Soon as I get here. As soon as you get here. Do you have something else? No, just Are you saying you don't want to ride the group? Well, I'm just saying I hope I get here in time to not have to drive myself. Okay. So, that kind of wrapped up 5.4 as well. So, let's move on to our action items. Um,
020consideration approval of our donations and gifts to the district. We have two. Yes. The Mighty Maroon Man boosters donated $6,514.65 65 for new band equipment that's when we go to the concession stands and and buy cakes and whatever. Um that goes into a fund and then it comes back to us. So we're very blessed to have that and Nancy Brown and Patrice Morgan uh donated $100 that they earned for judging at 18 play and they donated it back to the 18 play fund. Cool. to accept those motion to accept the donations. Thank you. All those in favor. Um the consideration um and approval of the certification of provisions of instrumental instructional excuse me material survey 2526. That's what's in front of you here with the tea and the blue lettering. Nothing changed from last year
021other than u for next year we're going to use the blue bonnet learning for math this other than that nothing has changed that is the uh high school and middle school is Carnegie. Basically, Carnegie is the blue bonnet learning and we've used high school uh Carnegie now for several years since it was adopted. Very successful with it. Uh the elementary, what did they say that was kind of what the name? I can't think of it. the blue learning. But who actually was it? Eureka. Eureka. There are no questions. Looking for a motion on the approval of that. Motion to approve. It's your turn. I didn't know we got around. Did you like all those in favor? All [Music] right. Um 6.3 is a consideration and approval of our audit engagement letter. This is just approving
022that we tell Bailey to start auditing auditing us for next year. They start right away. It's not just that one week. Yeah. And they they do a great job. Um I'm always really happy with Kevin and the group that in and the way that they um do their job and the way that they explain everything. I I feel like it it always goes really well. I end up getting phone calls from I don't know if it's Kevin that I talk to directly, but I have to do a phone call with them at some point in time and they're always really professional. I think it's really good. Um so if there is no discussion on that, looking for a motion for approval, I'll make a motion to approve the engagement letter. Rachel, thank you for all
023those in favor. Okay, we have five and 10. Okay. Um, okay. Let's go to here's your moment. 6.4 consideration and approval of our summer projects list which has drum roll chance to dig through I believe. I actually I printed out some know there's a lot of them. One of my proposal prices came in late this afternoon. Thank you. Mr. Miller was very quick on that. She prayed. He was he was praying for what he started. Okay. The first thing that's up is the elementary gym bathrooms. We're just bringing that back up because y'all did last time when we uh talked about stuff like that. Um, I think that it would be beneficial for them to do that. I have two proposals. I had them go out and update them again. They both came in pretty
024close to what they originally proposed. Okay, remind me again. So, uh, this is going to be accessed from inside the gym, inside the gym, men and women's. We'll have a drink here. This is everything. It says less fixtures. Fixtures would be toilets, sinks, water, all the lighting, all that stuff. But you got you got a little proposal that shows exactly what it's going to be, the scope. Yes. Yes. I still have all that. Now David, this is concrete sewer plumbing. Yes, tanky. I think the sewer had to go out to the concrete. Conr. It took We found it whenever we were doing some work on the back of the baby room, daycare room. Yeah. Where is the tap that was there, the clean out was broken. And so I had a company come in and
025said, "Hey, by the way, let me know where this line goes." Everybody It went straight across the boulevard. Now it turns and goes underneath the gym. Goes all the way up street. So it goes underneath the building too. So it's going to line up just perfect. So we have a mark still building. Um Southern Contracting they're quite a bit higher. Their proposal was more, but Morton Medals has done work for me in the past. I don't have any problems with what he's done in the past for us. Um, he knows what he's got to do. Um, the gym is going to wind up being open a little bit of time while they're doing what they've got to on the outside because they have to tear off part of it to get access to the inside
026of it. And that gym's been spray foam. So, taking those sheets the spray foam on it's not going to be real fun. But once you get all that done structure and then going up with it and got quotes in there for spray and all that. So it'll be weathered tight. It's not going to have AC and heat, but it should get that off of itself. So I feel real good about that price. I know it it's way off from the other one and we asked last time for him to put in there. He's not a man of very many words, so he didn't put any more words in there, but we verbally know exactly what we're asking for. Well, I think a whole lot last time was I can't remember where the bids came in.
027They were way far apart. 35 and 70. Just nothing to nothing to say, hey, I'm doing this. Whereas the other one was had a four page list of Yeah. Like I said, his is that guy is in the construction business. He does those proposals for a living. So probably he has something where he pushes a button and feeds it in. Um I don't know for sure, but um I feel comfortable with both of them, but us being good stewards of their money, I'd rather go with a cheaper proposal on that one. Um, we got several that we got to go through here. Um, I don't know if y'all been the PB game here lately, the late at the end of the basketball season, but the bathrooms were shut down in the old gym. We found
028out the sewer line has started collapsing. So, this is not a need. This is this is not a wall. It's a need. Um, I've got three proposals. The ones that I've got highlighted on here are the ones that I would like to to go with. Um, the one in the middle there just seemed more knowledgeable and their price included the concrete work. So all we would have to do is come in and paint the floor. So the way that they planned on all three companies was when you go into the bathrooms, you've got the stall doors. They would come from the toilet out the stall door and they go straight out the building. So it would be one wide all the way back through. And we're going to do a new sewer. So we're not
029tying into any of that other old existing stuff. It's going to rush right out to the road. It'll all be self sustainable by itself. The stuff there is that build building was built. It's cast iron. It's flanking. We did a video camera down through it. You can see lines and cracks, sand and rocks in the bottom of it. That's why it's not flushing very well because it will work during the period when the kids are in there or two or three points and they go to the bathroom, it'll flush. It has time to recover and work down. But when you get a mass of people in there, it can't handle that. And I know it's been a problem every time the league has tried to use it. Last year we had trouble. This year we
030had trouble again. We found the gravel and rocks in it this time. So, it's one of those that we're just going to have to go and do. Um, this one that says elementary parking lot on the Con Street, that's been a need for a long time. I don't know if y'all been over there where the teachers have to park and the old entrance area and the drive and all that. Um, I talked to a guy today. I got one proposal, so I just wanted to throw that number out there to y'all. It's $46,000 and it's from the alleyway to the street corner. There'll be some grass that's still contained, but the whole drive lane where the fire plug and all that is, it would all be asphalt through there. So, it's a need. We keep
031having to go over there and drag that driveway because it gets potholes in it from people driving through it and it knocks it out. Um, the teachers were having issues with somebody stealing somebody's parking spots and so Lori asked us to come put stripes on them. Well, after we got it all cleaned up, we were striping dirt. So, it's neat. Um, it looks real bad over there and we talked today and I had Mickey on with me. Um, down there towards that early head start in prek wing that the ground kind of goes up and then down to the sidewalk and that apron And we talked about shaving that down so that we don't have a bump in there. He wants to try to maintain the water flow away from the building. You can drag
032your eyes on the plate off if you park too close. I I know that. So that's that's something that needs to be done, but we'll discuss that a little bit. Um district HVAC Wi-Fi thermostats. Y'all probably hadn't heard a whole lot about this, but in the back end I've been getting my from because our gas bills are high and it comes out that thermostats are not being turned off, heaters are running, nobody's in the building. So, I went on a search to try to find a solution and I found a company called Network or Network Thermostat. They're on by board. They're with the buy board that Texas has for all education stuff. I visited with him about doing the district and that was a really giant number. So I backed up and I said, "Well,
033let's just practice and let's try to do the gym and then the freezers and refrigerators of both campuses. This will allow us to control those through a web browser. We will still give the teachers flexibility to run their thermostat two degrees up or down. Okay. Now, if there's some major issue, we can go in there on the screen and lower the temperature, raise the temperature immedi work in her classroom or if yall are familiar with some of the technology that was in the old or the new high school that's still kind of taking out. They can hit an override button and it we can program what how long that override is 30 minutes, 2 hours, however long that unit will run for that time period. When that time period runs out, it reverts back. Nobody
034has to remember to turn the thermostat up. It's in the long term, I think it will save us money. It's not going to pay for itself starting out, but managing the electricity bill will be a lot easier on the HVAC and the heat because we will have control of when those units come on. So, I first was looking at it as the gymnasium, the freezers, and refrigerators at the cafeteria. That little project was going to cost $9,400. Okay. The reason I picked those, the gymnasium was the one that had the $7,000 gas bill at Christmas time. We were on break, two weeks of that, and it was the highest user in the district. Lucas time off. Not going to point fingers or anything like that cuz a lot of people go in and out of
035there. This would kind of fix that problem in a roundabout way. Once I started looking at my budget and saw how much was in the building construction fund and that special fund, I wanted to throw in a number of just doing the whole district. We'll get a discount if we do the whole district. We'll get a better break on all this equipment by doing it that way. The freezers and the refrigerators have been an issue at both campuses. When that unit breaks, it doesn't tell anybody it's broken until somebody comes in, looks at the thermostat, and says, "Oh, it's 25° in the freezer. We better call somebody." Well, then we're stranded at the last minute. The way this system is set up, this would not run freezer or anything like that, it's just going to
036send an alert an alarm and it'll send it out SMS and it also seen an email. We can program it to let us know if it gets 5° higher than what it should be. When they're loading stock and stuff, that may not be a good variable, but we can adjust those limits to where it sends us out an alert. I can catch it a lot faster. We spent I don't remember how much we spent this last time. We had a leak at the one at the high school. It got up to like 28 or 29 degrees. I don't remember. It was just in the last couple weeks. And the guys came and charged up the system because they didn't have time to check the leak. So, they charged it up. They left. They came back
037the next day. We're going to check for leaks. Couldn't find a leak. The next day it was a little free again. So finally they were like, "Okay, we have to do this." So they took time out of their day, scheduled it in. It's kind of hard to get those guys in and out of here, especially the ones that work on the freezers. HVAC doesn't seem to be as big an issue as the people that work on the freezer side of it. I guess it's a different technology. So this would allow us to have that capability of alerting us. Me and Samantha have been talking about this for several years because that we walk in and we lose food. I mean, it it could cost the district a lot of money if somebody is not. And
038this would also give us some reporting on it, too. We can see on a graph, hey, this thing is trending warmer. Now, we better call a technician and have them look at it. So, that's a good idea for that part of it, too. Um, moving on. This one's not really. I just wanted y'all to know what I was wanting to do. Uh the stadium scoreboard started its life as maroon. Now it's pink. So talking to several vendors, I was like, "Oh, we'll just have it wrapped. That'd be the easy solution. I'll just have something come out. We'll put a wrap on it. Be done with it." The wrap won't stick because it's pink. Because it's oxidized. So, I've done some painting here in the district here lately. So, I talked to Dr. Merble and I
039said, "If we can get it down and get it in the shop down there, I can paint it and then we can order the sticker kit. It's right around $900. Put the stickers back on it and put it back up. I don't want to paint with just any type of paint. I want the paint with car paint, which is base coat, clear coat. The other problem to that is nobody knows what maroon is. So, I'm going to have to take a helmet or something that we decide maroon is to the paint store and say, "Okay, I want it this color." And then they can take a picture of it. Then they mix up. I've been around Williams, all of them. They don't know what 209 C is. And that's what the sign company told me
040the paint code was. Cars and sign companies I guess don't jaw together. I did paint it with acrylic paint from Sherwin Williams. They said it wouldn't fade for a year. So, I'm thinking that's going to be one of my guys projects this summer. We're just going to do it kind of in house. We have some funds for that on our side for the um if I can't get it down. Oh, we get it down. I already found out it only weighs 800 lb. piece of cake. It's only 20 foot long, 15t tall. It's bolted down. It's got like eight bolts on it already. Look. Um the next thing we mentioned this at the beginning of the year. We we kind of tabled it. Um y'all took no action on it. Um sprinkler system at the
041elementary playground and the band practice slash middle middle school field. I was calling it just the band practice field because the band was really the only ones using it. Well, here lately middle school's using it more than the band. And so it's hard to water it during the day when it's being used all the time. So these are prices that I got from those people the beginning of the year. Okay. Prices are probably going to change a little bit. We're just looking at roundabout numbers right now. If I did everything that was highlighted on that, but the highlighted total would be 257,000 and $86. Okay. In the split some of this stuff, but between the two accounts, we've got about 440,000 in there. Okay. She said some of this stuff we would have to pull
042out of the 81 budget which is the capital assets. Um you know the bathrooms, the sewer, the scoreboard that can come out of the regular fund. The sprinkler system probably can come out of the reg. But I think the scoreboard you don't even need it. No, I was just trying to give you information on what we're doing. you want to do with that. And you might you might even ask the district club to pay your $900 for your stickers. That would be a good a good use of their fundraising. But I don't even think you need us on that part. Um like I said, there's more than enough money left in there and that leaves extra money in there. If something else holds, you know, has a problem. Mr. Thompson's supposed to be coming at
043the end of the week. Is that right? So 250,000 is the money that was earmarked in a to try to hold on to it years ago. Gosh, at this point. Did you say it was there when you got here? That's not it. This This is budgeted this year. The 250,000 or the This is in this year's budget. So, did we spend our 250,000 that we earmarked or No, it's still in fun. So, it's still there. It just got put back over. It's still in fund balance. We We just It's It's there for capital, but it's there. We have not used it. Okay. This is this year. This was an approved budget that y'all did. Yeah. Last year. So, not done any big project. We've been just holding their money and trying to make sure everything
044where where's the 194 coming out of what's the 194 is the capital. It's the capital. We've already built a few things to that. It was 200,000. Okay. So, we build a couple of things together. my guy's responsibility if we did the whole job. Of course, we'd have to oversee all these projects that are being contracted out, but the thermostats would be put in via our guys. The company told me that they would program them all. They would assign a classroom number to them and we would basically they would have the Wi-Fi password and everything put in. We would just go in there and bolt them in and then they would join the web browser. Let me ask about these steps. Okay. If I'm a teacher, that was the one thing that freaked me out when
045you said, "Okay, so if I'm a teacher and they're like I'm freezing to death." You're like, "Oh no, only two two clicks up or two clicks down." They still have the option of heat cool. You see what I'm saying? But that's the range is they can go maybe two or three up. They can, but how long do you want to let them have that? You want to let them have it for six hours? Would you want to let them have it for two hours at a time or three hours at a time? Most of them are going to come. Most of them don't complain. We've got love our locations and it's a major difference in their electricity bill compared to ones that have their own control. The two to three degrees is pretty sufficient. It's
046still stuffy or if it's too hot, but you I know from my personal preference, right? Feels like it's comfortable, but what car is comfortable because women have two different body 71. My big guys are hot. Okay. They just left. No. Well, yes. during during the interviews I had blanket I just felt blanket like I said there's all kinds of ways that we can do that you know we have to come to an agreement that you know whether 72 73 74 is going to be our baseline and then you would go up from there um I do know from I paid attention to it in my wife's car the other day when we were going down the road and I was cold and so I turned the thermostat to 7 Well, it felt hot again. You
047know what I'm saying? But it was summer time. In the winter time, 72 feels pretty warm in a classroom. 72 may not feel cool enough in the summertime. So, this is all in just trying to make everything run a little bit more efficient, too. And part of it is where you're sitting in that classroom. If you're next to the window with the sunshine, it's going to be a warmer or the bins pointed on you, you're going to be colder. I mean, right. What were you going to say, Lorie? Um, I was going to ask about the fan. So, would teachers be able to turn the fan on? So, for example, generally, let's say we're testing because just white noise. Yes. Yes. We can we can turn any of that stuff on. There's all kinds of
048settings on and I'm hitting the base base package here. We can put sensors on the incoming ducting duct to monitor, you know, whether it's cooling and heating. I wasn't going for that right now. Let's just try to get it installed. But there's all kinds of stuff that they can do to it. And I I say before we started, so he said he talked about those 17 units. If it was just the gym, uh the freezers and the refrigerators would be that 9,350. Um but if you do all of these, 166 of them all at the same time, then you get some sort of a discounted scenario. This is actually a little bit higher than what the Bible price is because this is not a discount price. I'm not getting the discount because we're not buying
049a volume of that sense. So I did reach out to several other Me and Nikki have talked to several of them. There was one company that we talked to that wanted to come in our electric bill and all this other stuff and try to save us some money and we're contract so we can't change any of that stuff. But they wanted to fund it up front and then they wanted to recoup their money off the savings. So I think that was a great idea. And then there was another that came in. They were out of the Plano area and their system was more expensive because they were going to have to come in and it was like $1500, which is a lot. So, our guys are, y'all know, my department is pretty handy. They pretty
050much do whatever we need to. So when I had Nikki sit down with me and we did the webinar with this guy just basically wiring up the thermostat. That's all we have to do. And they pretty much already done set up the computer back end on it. And then we'll just go in there and make our adjustments on whatever we decide. And we may have to p the teachers and say, "Hey, what's a comfortable temperature reason that we could set these at?" They just have to watch it for a month. If it's out of control, we're going to have to revert back to something else. All right, let's dig through these. Do you all want to So, here's your options. You can break them apart and vote on them individually as projects. You can you
051can vote on them all together. The 257,000 quoted, all items that are highlighted, how do you want to proceed? Did you were you able to get a couple other? Not yet. I've only gotten one. He's actually out of He's the one that did the seal job for us. Maintenance maintenance deal high school parking lot that got turned black and then restried. He did that one. And you're satisfied with that? Yes, he does. The hard part is getting him over here to look at it. That's why it happened this morning. I called him like four weeks ago and I just got him this morning. He's doing a big job in Hamilton right now. What's your timeline on making that happen if you were to do it? Does it have to be, you know, start the second
052the class lets out for summer or can it be done a little later? It kind of depends on his schedule. Are you seeking other quotes? In other words, I can if I need to. Uh it's they're going to be higher. I can almost bet you they're going to be a lot higher than that. Um just because this guy local and he's done a lot of stuff for schools around here. Um he's a good guy. Um, you know, you all just have to and this is this is the alleyway. So, the teachers park in the alleyway. So, so on the actual street there's already street. It is the street. Okay. It is the street [Music] the old entrance, you know, where we had the big awning over and all the kids were going in and out
053of there. There's a sidewalk that runs from the awning almost to the corner. Not quite. Um, that seems to be the worst area, but if we're going to do it, we might as well do the whole van. And then I told Lori maybe next year we put in a budget to do her front drive and do the front part of her school and then it would all be as concentrate on the one that's the worst right now. The front of the school's not bad, but that's they did a really good job. The side part is really really starting to age and wash it out. That's right above my ankle. And there's a speed bump. There's a speed bump or something right there on the side of the road. Get up. Oh, yay. That's where that's
054where I drag. But I was just trying to find stuff that the district really needed. Um, you know, there's always painting and stuff like that goes on. That's in our just normal general stuff. We're going to try to concentrate a lot on air conditioning this summer. Technical part, cleaning them on the inside, that kind of stuff. I bought a machine that will clean that stuff. We had a stinky classroom at the middle school. Um, I can't smell it, but other people smelt it. Miss Ed smelt it. So, we deep cleaned that air conditioning unit this morning to see if maybe the smell. We feel like the students probably I don't know, but we did buy a machine called out of our supplies and it will clean up to 16,000 square feet. We run it here
055in the office, which can't be in the building when it's on or inside that room, but it basically generates ozone and it cleans the air and stuff in there. So, we put that in there, too. We'll talk about cleaning the air conditioner. So, we'll see tomorrow. We'll see. Okay. Smell lavender. [Music] We didn't kill the fish, did we? Okay. How do you want to proceed? You want to break them apart? You want to vote on them in a group? You like some, not the others? What are you thinking? Well, if we're not sure about the paving, we ought to break it apart or could we vote on it just with the intent to get two more quotes? Next month, not to exceed this. And then if I did more and they're um be aware also
056that sprinkler systems process may be a little bit different from last year. Well, there's the well yeah it was last year. I keep thinking it's a school year. It was September, I think, when we were talking about it last year. But if we do that, that needs to kind of go in conjunction with the bathroom project, too, because they're going to be coming and going and going across there. So, I'll need to get most of that stuff kind of tidied up before they do the sprinkler because I got to have time for the grass recover, too. That was another reason why we decided not to do it right in the fall was because we didn't want the grass cover fast enough. It was nice as my dad to drag those water hoses. Have y'all seen
057those hoses? I know we're tough guys, but they're that big and 300t long and has to move them. I start I have to start at the beginning where it's connected and hold it up and dra try drain all the water out of it and it still has worked for me. It worked for what we were trying to do to start with to establish all that and I had had in mind all the way around that we would eventually do the sprinkler system over there. Um it would help even pump run time because right now if it's not raining which Thank goodness it's been rain here lately. We have to go over there and turn it on, put the schools out, move the teachers cars and all that so we don't blow well water all over
058them. And then somebody has to remember to come back up there and turn it off. I forgot a couple times and the playground. So we could water those in zones at night and it wouldn't really mess up anything. The deficiencies of that and the thermostats, they're expensive up front, but in time if they're managed correctly Well, the band practice field is getting so much action right now to be able to water it at night would be awesome. I offered if you would come and get all those stickers out of that backpack that we would but he said there's no water back there and I'd have to be dragging water. It would be a city we can't afford the water out of the city. It's a little expensive. So, we just fall down in the stickers.
059We did spray last. Thank you. Okay, so the elementary projects, if you couple those together, you have um the gym bathroom, you have the uh painting, and then you also have the 30,000 sprinkler system. So that puts you at 110K for elementary projects if you want to break it out like that. The middle school gym sewer, y'all don't really have to approve that unless you just want to because it's going to have to be done. Can't use that. So I kind I put it on there as a heads up. Hey, this is what we're thinking. But to make that gym functional, we have to have that line replaced. It's disgusting. It's a major functioning building. Okay. So, that's your primary. Does anybody want to make a motion on the middle school old gym sewer system?
060Okay. Rachel make that motion. We're looking for a second. Cecilia is our second. All those in favor. Okay, that's everyone. Okay. Um, now do you want to do the 110k package for the elementary for a restroom sprinkler system and uh paving with the caveat that the paving um potentially could have another quot. All those in favor? Okay, that's all. Now, we are looking at um let's come back to the thermostat. At the end, we're looking at a sprinkler system for the band practice and middle school field area for somewhere around $11,000. I'll make a motion and all those in favor of that. Okay, that's all. Let's ignore the stadium scoreboard. I think that there's money in the budget for that. You can do what you need to do with it. Okay. The last thing left
061then is going to be the HVAC thermostats. I make a motion to do that. Which one are you going to do? Are you going to do the full package? Yeah. Okay. So, full package. Cecilia has made the motion. Looking for a second. I'll second. Is the second. All those in favor? That's everyone. Thank you so much. Thank you, David. Thank you. Okay, let's move to um personnel. Um we have 7.1 is the consideration and approval of professional contracts. Um and we have already taken care of on 7.2 we've already taken care of coach um Whitaker. Uh so uh the individuals left on here for approval are our Spanish teacher um Velasquez as well as Monica Lingal as the AA for the co-op and and all the teachers. Let's let's do this one if you guys
062don't mind. Those two individuals looking for a motion on that. I'll make a I have a question. Tell me about the Spanish teacher. I have not met her. She was interviewed Friday morning by coach Milach. Coach do everything uh Miss Langert and Miss Campbell. Yes. And they loved her and are recommending. She's a 16 year veteran. She's from Dublin. She immigrated to America as a freshman. Her parents brought her over and she's loved by the Dublin principal and the assistant principal when I checked references for her just absolutely loved her that she actually did the teaching as a principal who got her there she's want to come to Dion because they built the house over here and she doesn't want to commute and we pay better than what she said but uh when she was
063walking the hallway our janitor ran up gave her a big hug knew her just couldn't stop talking great we're replaced. She was a fabulous person. [Music] Our second all those in favor. Okay. Now that's all. Um now for um the lists of teachers. I was just going to just quickly tell you a couple of changes that have happened which I think that Dr. Um, we have an opening in special education because um, Miss Griffin has moved out of it into kindergarten. Is that correct? Is that the way that worked? Miss Griffin get moved from So she was always in kindergarten. She's already prek. Okay. So she's So she was in prek and now she's in kindergarten. So she's taking Baylor's place. Am I wrong in reading that? Which one? It's got Yes. Yeah. So, she
064moved into Baylor's position. Okay. And so, I think everyone else is the same for elementary and that leaves a special education opening. Um, then the changes for um junior high, it's going to be a little bit different now. So, we have Miss Stokes is going to teach sixth and seventh science and then Missson is going to teach sixth and eighth social study. So, that's little bit of a there. And then I think for high school, um, one of the things on your list, you've got noted here that there's one individual that has been removed from this list and you've got the resation letter that we'll acknowledge here in just a little while. And I think that's everything. I think everything was pretty similar to before. Does anybody have any questions on any of those? Any
065discussion that needs to happen? I'm looking for a motion on all contracts presented by the principal as is all those in favor and we have 641 abaining is he Okay. And 7.3 is that acknowledge resignations of Taylor, Jacob Maritz, Jody Cohen, and Harris. They each provided a nice letter um in the packet for you to read. We appreciate their service. I think that we have um quickly a call for close session for personnel matters. Somebody will make that motion. Make that motion. Okay. So, we will move into close session for just a moment. First, here we