001We are on. We're ready. All right. We'll go ahead and call our regular meeting of the Wayne County Board of Education to order. It's 6:01. You'll stand. Say the pledge. Johnny, do you care to lead us? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let the record all board members are present in person this evening. and we'll begin with recognitions if we have any. No recognitions and no presentations. Moving on to our good news section. Yeah, there's a couple of items. Um, Lavallet Beta Club uh they had uh they competed in the nationals and uh were able to win a couple of championships. Wow. And Justin has shared with us this evening there's
002going to be an article in the paper about it tomorrow and then of course we'll we'll certainly get the uh information out on our uh social media channels. But uh they had a good trip and and won some awards down there. So we're proud of those students. And then in your folder that I provided you tonight, um, Liz Ryder was contacted by the West Virginia Higher Education uh, Policy Commission and notified that Buffalo Middle School has received the West Virginia Higher Education Action and Impact Award for Exemplary Middle School. And uh what the letter states is that there were both robot robust efforts from career exploration day and financial literacy simulations to academic enrichment workshops and meaningful partnerships through the heart of Appalachia talent search program exemplify best practices in early college and career awareness.
003Um it mentions that there's an enhanced academic achievement through differentiated instruction and building strong relationships between students and sta staff reflects an inspiring model for middle school education across the state. Notably the increase in student participation in program like hats middle school camp and the overwhelming feedback from students how who now see higher education as a viable and exciting path speaks volumes about the culture of aspiration you've cultivated. So congratulations to Buffalo Middle School. They've been invited on Wednesday, July 23rd to the Higher Ed Policy Commission's Student Success Summit where where well they'll be recognized and of course we'll be covering that. So that's fantastic. Great. Great. Yes. And we had talked uh a few weeks ago about the county's uh college going rate and how we were in the uh top tier of the
004state for college going rate and its activities uh like Buffalo Middle School was completing that that uh helps raise that college rate. So we're certainly proud of their efforts. Yes. That's all I have for good news unless anybody else has anything. Anyone else? That's good. Good way to start. Informational items. Uh, regular board meeting on Tuesday, July 22nd at 6 PM here in the conference room. Regular board meeting again Tuesday, August 12th, 6 PM here in the conference room. And a regular meeting on Tuesday, August 26th, also at 6 o'clock here in the board conference room. All righty. All everyone good with those? Yeah. Great. Moving on to our construction project updates. So, the Wayne Elementary School MIP continues. Um, the sidewalks have been poured. Um, I visited the site yesterday. The windows have been
005installed. They still need to be trimmed out, but they they've been installed. This week, the ceilings are scheduled to start going in. Uh, they're also pulling data wire um at the uh they're pulling data wire in into the various rooms to to hook up the technology. And uh the HVAC lines have been ran as well. And I think the plan is the units have already been set. I think the plan is is to start hooking up the HVAC this week as well. So it's moving along. Um are we close to are we going to be in there this fall or they're still project? Yeah, knock on wood. They're projecting the substantial completion date for the end of the month. Okay, great. So, um, the Vincent MIP project, and forgive me if I repeat something from
006the previous meeting, but, uh, uh, the board has to sign the acceptance letter, and Missy was taking care of that, um, for the school building authority. That'll be our next project that we kind of get going. And our first step in that process is we have to officially go through architect selection process. So, I'll be bringing that to you on a future agenda. um the uh Buffalo Needs project. Uh we're still working through the design phase there. I have some images I'm going to share with you in just a little bit. But before I do that, let me mention a few other things. The Lavallet roof replacement is underway. If you've been up and down 152, you you've seen them at work. So, that's underway and should be completed here in a week or two.
007And then at uh Wayne High School, uh we had had uh we had did the bid for the uh athletic buildings there on the visiting side of the football field and uh we weren't uh happy with the uh bid prices that came in. So we have uh revertised that uh that project and are uh soliciting further bids. Our pre-bid meeting is uh the 15th of July and the bid opening will be July 22nd. So after that bid opening, hopefully I'll be able to bring a recommendation to you shortly after that. Um the first thing that's listed on superintendent director's reports is Buffalo needs project design and it kind of crosses over with the construction project. But I just wanted to share a couple images with you. I play my computer. So, I feel like it
008last week and this week kind I put a little honey in your bag. So, Oh, I I I drink the kiss every day. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. I love it. So, thank you. I thought about her birthday went well, too. We had a good time. Good. So, 14. It's crazy. I know it is. I love it. I know she does. Yes. Yeah, she looks like I know. Oh, and we we gave her gifts at the dinner and they got her some bathing suit she wanted. The girls were talking to There's a rendering of the project. Okay, we're paying attention. That's a rendering of the project. Okay, now those color, you know, this is a a rendering. So those colors are not set and set. We know that those might that be more like a
009dark gray and white, wouldn't they? Yeah, it'll be more more in line with the school colors. Yeah. But this gives you an idea of what we're what we're looking at with the project. Where's the safe school entrance? Here underneath the canopy. So, the remodeled cafeteria is back here. This is the existing sixth grade building. Um, and I Dennis, when you said safe school entrance, I pointed here. That's the main entrance. The safe school entrance will be here. Okay. That'll be for pickups for Yes. That'll be for traffic once the students have arrived in the building. Okay. And then the new wing is here. Yeah. And this is going out towards Buffalo Creek Road. This is the current entrance of the school. That'll be closed off. And again, that that entrance, the main entrance will be
010here. This is currently where the uh it's open. It goes back to the canopy that cuts between the two buildings. That's it's kind of in between, isn't it? Yeah. And there'll be a canopy. And we're actually going to take this canopy both ways because in that traffic design, there's going to be students being dropped off uh from both loops. Uh so we'll have a canopy both ways uh so that they uh will be covered on the sidewalks there and that's where the the buses will go to pick up and yeah the buses will be here on this side. Okay. And then the the parents will come here and then loop out on this side. What's a big wide structure on this and you're talking about this multi-purpose room? That's a multi-purpose room. Okay. So basically
011it's the kindergarten gym. Now I lost one image so give me just a second here. Okay box. It looks nice though. Yeah. I like the red. The red's just nice. I have one more image I want to share with you. Are we getting closer to the body? Are we getting closer? I think so. I think so. I had an old friend of mine used to say, "My password's always dot dot dot dot dot." Hey, that's a good idea. Good question. Trying to look at my Who would ever think I have so many different passwords? Oh, then I have to change cuz I can't remember them all. I don't have them all in my phone, but Well, I think she has a app, but she has It keeps track of everyone. But which one do you
012have? Is it app manager? What is it? I write the notes. I don't do that. That's my problem. See? That's where That's why I keep my Oh, yeah. That's it. But she says she has hers. Look at me like putting it out there for everybody. Okay. All right. Okay. I apologize. I had this one open, too. But it had an ad pop up and when I closed out the ad, closed out the picture, too. But this will give you more of a view of the middle school side as well. Yeah, that's what I No, the offices all going to be together. Yes. Elementary and middle. offices will be here in this building where the entrance is. Yes, there'll be uh this will be the uh central office area. That's a new structure that's going in
013and fill in the empty space. That's the current sixth grade building that'll be converted to to the offices. And then this whole new wing will be all elementary with the multi-purpose building at the end. Um here for the middle school, there's one addition here. This is the uh gym and and currently there's nothing in this space. Uh that addition will be a u u band room and that's going to allow us to use the existing space. U that extra space will allow us to turn this sixth grade wing and make it main office. Will the library stay in the same place? Yes. Will they be in a library for elementary or will they all share? they will share. Okay, that that will be one thing that's shared. And then of course the cafeteria will be
014renovated as well. Looks nice. Now again, we're we're in the conceptual stage here, so we still got a long ways to go. We have to take it out to bid, you know, adjust to the prices. How many students are we thinking about? Um, it's going to be it's going to be the second largest school in the district. Okay. I I was just wondering because what behind CK Elementary? Behind Spring Valley. Spring Valley. Okay. Be a little bit bigger than CK Elementary. So, I think at the last meeting I had shared the four drawings with you. Yeah. But I like it. It probably end up like when they open up elementary. a new one. It seems like a bunch of people moved from those little satellite schools and it hurt the smaller schools. You think that'll
015happen here? Yeah, I'm sure it's going to attract and I think that there's I think that there's been quite a few people that had headed over CK's way. So, it'll be good to get get them back to get some of that traffic back. Yeah. Uh Twin Valleys and all that. Yeah. Yeah. Because we're busting at the seams there. Okay. I just wanted to share that with you. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah. Y um moving on down on the reports and we skipped delegates. We skipped over delegations. We'll go back if we need I don't think we need unless she's going to come up. The next thing on the list is fiscal year 2026 uh budget approval. And there's a letter. It's got the state seal at the top in your packet. I think it's about
016the fourth or fifth thing back. Yeah. And it's just a letter from the state superintendent in the schools, Michelle Blatt, uh, announcing the counties whose budgets have been approved. And you'll see that Wayne is on that list. So, I just wanted to bring that to your attention that the version of the budget that we submitted was approved. You might want to change that. Yeah. Then the u other item I'm going to mention that I don't have too much information about other than the email that's in your packet. There's an email here from the federal programs um assistant superintendent in charge of federal programs for the state. And right near the end of June, there started to be being some communications that the US Department of Educations was not releasing cert certain title funds. And so
017um this email kind of explains the current status and it says the following funding services are impacted. Title 1 C which is the education of migrant children. Title 2A is supporting effective instruction. Title two money we use to do a lot of PD and and pays for training. So that type of thing. Yeah. Title 3A, language instruction for English learners, and we do have the the English language program here. Title 4 A, student support and academic enrichment. And title 4B, 21st century community learning centers. were part of that program as well. Um, so those funding expenditures, there's usually a budget that is sent out and the funds are released uh by July 1st. Uh, but at this point, the US Department of Education is holding that money. And you can see here that the state
018is recommending a review of the budget to determine if there's any immediate planned expenditures such as salaries that are going to need to be covered by other funding sources. Wow. And then they recommend a review of the budget to determine priorities and look at the possibility of drawing other federal funds such as other title one funds or local funds to pay for services deemed essential. So here over the next week or two, we're going to be reviewing uh the items that are contained within these budgets to u see what adjustments need to be made in our planning. So considering that Linda McMahon is a secretary of education now we got this to deal with to wrestle with the uh the uh yeah I mean the word that we had had earlier and I had shared
019with you earlier is they didn't think that the title programs were going to be impacted. I mean, I guess the good news is that I haven't seen anything about any special ed funding being held up or any food service funding being held up, but these are things that will definitely impact us. And u we'll be looking over the next few weeks at um how we're going to plan if those monies are not released. And so I will give you an update at the next meeting. And that's all I had for updates. All right. Okay. So, just for the record, we had no delegations this evening. Yep. And that concludes our superintendent reports. So, we had no board directives. Um board reports are self our board self evaluation for 2425 school year. All five of you
020have completed it and it is in your packet. Yes. And so we will submit the evaluation to the state and that will satisfy the requirements for the board for the year as far as the self-evaluation process goes. The self I thought that automatically went in because we did it online. It might um it might I'm going to check Dennis and see if we have to do something separate, but I'm not sure if they have access directly to it or not, but we'll make sure that they do. I think the only thing that was anything of a concern in there is about um regularly scheduled policy review. We do do policy review during different times of the year. It's not regularly scheduled and I think that that was the reason that concern came up. All right.
021So, that's complet no unfinished business. So, we can move on to our new business. Consent action items. Superintendent recommends approval of the following action items. Additional items received prior to the time of meeting may be added. Discussion and or separate action of items may be requested by members of the board andor the superintendent. Number one is considered for approval of the recommended personnel matters on page one and I think we have a revised version of that. Yes. I'll make a motion to approve the revised version. Motion by Johnita for the revised and the only the revisions are there's a date correction uh for a leave of absence for Tammy Tammy Williamson uh that's listed from July 23rd to November 1st. And then for employment, uh, Elizabeth Calbertt is being recommended for the assistant principal position
022at Kellogg Elementary. That was blank when we posted the agenda, but Elizabeth Calbertt is the recommendation there. And then the uh trans under transfers, there's blanks there. That was in case the selected applicant uh in case that would result in a transfer. It did not. So that's simply being removed from the personnel. You need a second. Second. Yes. Any other questions, concerns, comments? All right. So for personnel matters. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Five to zero. two and uh three are minutes. One from June 3rd and one from June 10th, pages 2 through 15. If we could consider those collectively. Two and three. I'll make a motion. Motion by Dennis. I'll second. But there's a couple of revisions need to be made. One set of amendments. Second by Randy. What are the changes?
023What are they? Okay. They both relate to our meeting on June 3, 2025. Uh, page number two is where the first one is. Okay. In the first paragraph, it states that the meeting was held in the board conference room in Wayne. No, it was held at Wayne High School in the cafeteria. I remember that meeting. That's a June 3rd meeting. June 3rd meeting. So that needs to be changed. The other correction is on page number six. If you get to page number six, you'll see paragraph number 12 as written. The paragraph says motion by Randy Troutwine, seconded by Randy Troutwine. And while I I have an ego, I don't think I could get away with doing that. That's a pretty good trick. Okay. I don't know who seconded it, but I think the same is
024that the same set of minutes. Yeah, it's still on June three, I believe. Okay. So, let's do this. Let me just pull the June 3rd minutes and because we'll need to see who made the motion or who made the second, whichever it might be. So, we'll put we'll pull the June 3rd and bring it back to you. Now, if you'll let me do all that all the time, I can be very efficient. Move things right along with it. We will just pull item number two. Okay. Okay. Pulling. We're pulling item number two. We're considering the minutes uh under item number three. Correct. No, it was a different one. Different one. Okay. So, this is just for the June 10th minutes. Dennis made the motion. Randy, we'll keep that as a second. Any other questions or
025concerns on that set of minutes? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. Number four, consider for approval purchase requisition order and quotes in excess of $5,000 on page 16. Motion. Motiony. Second. Any questions, concerns? No one. All right. All in favor then? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Five to zero. New business. Separate action item. Number one, consider for approval the bid for contractor services for the Crito Canova Elementary major improvement project. Yeah. So, at the last meeting and in your folder, there's a letter from Neighbor Gall Construction. At the last meeting, I shared a similar letter with you and uh we pulled the item from the agenda because I wanted to get um school building authority uh feedback and feedback from some other experts about some of the uh revisions that
026have been proposed in the project. And so um this is a revised letter of revised proposal and um what this proposal does is it keeps item number two in the proposal and you remember that was where they would um hook up to the fire water line up to five feet outside the building. that's been extended to 20 ft, which we believe will take care take care of the issue. The other two items that uh we looked at was the copper wiring instead of the aluminum wiring. So, we kept the copper wiring and then the schedule 40 pipe. Um I think it was schedule 40 and they had proposed about knocking that down to schedule 10 to help reduce the price. schedule 40 pipe stays within the plans. So those were the u those were the
027three significant things. So with the changes listed on this letter that reduces the bid price by $115,000 and it would bring a new contract amount for the project at $1,ion35,000. And uh this 1,ion35,000 is is the maximum that we can go on a renegotiation uh because of the 10% limit. So uh the SBA had informed me even if we could reduce it further, we can't go below this dollar amount. Okay. And um you remember for this particular project, we have a $900,000 grant for this. Uh, so that will pay off the majority. Our side of it will be about $135,000. Okay. And this is going to sprinkle the uh basement of the CK alumni gym and it's going to uh put in exit doors into it and uh uh it's going to put HVAC into
028that for we were talking about CK Elementary is busting at the seams. They need some additional space. It will also when we do this work allow the locker rooms in the facility to be used for the first time and I don't know how long because right now they're currently off limits because of fire safety regulations. Um so that's that's the amount that we have in in front of you. So I think at this point in time that that's the that isn't that is a amount we can go with. Now, certainly if we didn't have a $900,000 grant to go along with this, I wouldn't recommend it. But with the $900,000 grant, I would recommend that we go ahead and go ahead and approve. This has to be approved by the state school board or the
029school building authority. No. No. The school building authority is good. They address what their concerns were with me. They just got to the state has to approve the changes. Yes. Yeah. So, I we're we're good. Um, if you if you all are given final approval, if you approve, we'll be able to move forward with the project. So, I would recommend to you that we uh uh I would recommend the bid from neighbor at1,35,000 for the CK elementary major improvement project. I would approve second by second by Dennis. Any other questions as well? No. So that's just straight up the price. That's it. Okay. All right. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Five to zero. When will they get started on that? Do you know? We've got to talk to them. Um they're going
030to have to order the HVAC equipment. So I don't think we'll get this done. Probably till spring. Okay. Um but I'll I'll let you know when they give me an idea what the scheduling's going to be. Gota. All right. Number two, consider for approval the following curriculum purchase for 2526 school year social studies K12 for the recommendation of stakeholder adoption committees. We have an elementary teacher created materials exploring social studies. Middle school sixth and seventh. Hm education for social studies. 8th grade galloped West Virginia history high school has several there. US history, world history, contemporary civics, personal finance, US history, and geography. A total cost of 572,712. And there's also a Carnegie learning math um at $142,611.20, Carnegie Math additional text $7,183.50, 50 cents and renaissance learning at 17291663. Yeah. So um the math you
031remember we did the math adoption last year but if you'll remember at the time the state had came out and the finance office had said that counties were not allowed to pay upfront for the textbooks. And so, um, Carnegie had agreed at the time to to stagger the price out over a five-year period. So, we had to pay less upfront, but we'll pay some out each each year, uh, to satisfy that contract. And so, um, Tanya, when we had the board meeting at Wayne High School, so Randy, it must have been June 3rd, she gave a presentation on all these materials and about the committee that was there. And uh so this is a followup. This is to approve those amounts so that uh uh we can go ahead and get the books in for
032the upcoming year. Motion. I'll make a motion. Second. Any other questions or concerns on our textbooks? Yeah, just one thing joged my memory. I think this maybe came up with that J. How often do we uh get new history books and how often do we do that? It used to be on a five-year rotation. I think they're looking at a four-year rotation now. I'll get to specifics on that. Yeah. I tell I'm just curious because there's some subject I know, man, science can change all the time. History if you didn't cover that last five years. Well, how much you going to do in the five years in a school? the la last two weeks of school that that's the only thing I wonder about is how often we do need to change. So they don't
033revise the history from years ago. Yeah. It's it's currently required that there's an adoption every four to five years and as we discussed before for some subjects I just you know I question that um especially with the amount of money that's being spent for it but but we are following requirements right now. Okay. News follows. But it just kind of do I mean I go back many decades. I can remember hit when I had history. I was always frustrated. They cover American history and it always end around the Spanishame war and it's like geez I want. Let's get right. We want a little World War II. Yeah. That's just calm. All right. Any other questions, concerns? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. Consider for approval theou between Wayne County Board
034and Mountain State for visual impairment services by hiring one at will itinerate classroom associate for the 2526 school year at a cost of $26,160 plus brand and a 7% administrative fee for a total of $55,63 for the 2526 school year. Motion. Motion. Second. Anyone second? You can have it. Questions or concerns on that position? And this position provides aid to an employee that we have that's visually impaired. All right. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to zero. Center for approval of the pest control contract with standard exterminating at an annual cost of $8,983.80 July 1st through June 30th. That should be 2026, right? Yes. Motion. I'll make it. Dennis second. Second. Questions or concerns on that contract? No one. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5 Z. Number five, consider for
035approval out of state travel request employee to travel to Naples, Florida to attend Carnegie learning TNI leadership conference July 20th through 24th. And that's funded by title one. Motion. Randy. Second. Second. Shita, questions or concerns? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Five to zero. Six is consider for approval the lease renewal between Wayne County Board and Philadelphia United Baptist Church for the Lavallet Elementary School's use of the church parking lot from July 1st, 25 through June 30th, 26 at an annual cost of $8,340. Motion. I'll make a motion. Second. Randy. Is this the same amount every year, Todd? Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought. Any other questions? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. Seven, consider for approval the lease renewal between Wayne County Board and PDMP developers for a
036parcel of land used for purpose of parking for the central office employees at a cost of $5,580 for July 1st through June 30th, 2026. This is the same price as last year as well. Okay. This is the parking area immediately behind the building. Motion Randy second. Oh yeah, he stole first. Yeah. Any questions or concerns? All in favor? I motion carries 5 to zero. Number eight, consider for approval the preschool calendar for 25 26 school year on page 26. 21 or 21. Yeah. Did you look at 26? I guess we get our calendar approved first for grades K through 12 and then prek adjust from theirs and their calendars a little bit shorter than ours. We need a motion. Motion by Mark second. Second. Any questions or concerns on that calendar? Nope. All right. All
037in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 5 Z. Potential items for a future agenda. Yeah, there were a couple things I wanted to to mention. Um the uh 2026 district goals. We'll be setting goals for the year for the district and and for myself. So, we'll start having that conversation at your next board meeting. So if anything's pressing on you that you want to consider, just be prepared to uh discuss it that evening and then um we'll bring in we'll have the same set of goals that we had last year to start the discussion and then we'll go from there. Okay. And then the second item is with this being the month of July all the finances reset. So any anticipated expenditures such as you know food for the upcoming year etc. we have to start
038encumbering that money. So, I know we've been used to here the last few months very few um purchase orders on the agenda. You you'll see a lot more on the next agenda because we there's z there's nothing encumbered right now other than what you've already approved or amounts under $5,000. So, we'll have to bring quite a few incumbrances to you at the next meeting. So, be prepared to see more purchase orders. And I think that's all I have. I got a couple things I'd like to question ask ask a question about. U I've asked before about the snow removal contract. When are we going to bid that because far I'd like to do it when the sunshine and not wait till December. Okay. I'll um we'll shoot to get it out here by the end
039of the month. Get it in the paper. And the second thing is the uh when do you project the uh property at uh West Morland to be out of our hands and the utility switch from those two properties actually the port guy want and the West Morland properties to be out of our names. We I'm hoping to get the U and I'm going to follow up tomorrow with our attorney on the status of the paperwork. Um she had sent me a message last week when I was on vacation that they were nearing completion. So, as soon as I get that paperwork, I'll give it to the historical society and it'll kind of be dictated by how quickly they turn it around. I think that that'll be fairly quick. Um, so once that occurs, we'll need
040time to move uh the teen center out of the out of the property. So, I would say within the next 60 days, we should be able to get it switched over. What's the plans on that? Is the Fort Gay property the same or is those utilities already been transferred out of our names? No, I'm still waiting for the deed transfer and um so our attorney is working on that deed transfer now. I've already got the signed agreement. I've sent the agreement that we approved has been signed off on. I've sent the agreement to Fort Gay for their signature and our attorney is working on the dansfer now. So that should happen by the end of the month. So, I guess just a straight up question, has access already been granted or the utilities that are
041being used, the air conditioning and stuff, we're still paying for that? No. Well, I haven't granted any access to the facility, to the town, because the deed hasn't transferred. J. And what about the West Morland? I mean, are we still going to have some of that or are we still dealing with that? We're still dealing with that. Yeah. Okay. The only thing that we taken care of is the the gym and the two classrooms. Yeah. Okay. So, when are we gonna get this when are we gonna do something about the rest of it? We can uh we can place that on your agenda for the uh for the next meeting. Yeah. Seems like it's dragging on it. And when will we be making a decision on moving a prek to catalog elementary? We had the
042uh we had a discussion today with Playmates about uh the board's uh wishes about the program being at Kellogg. And I know that you know we've talked about that before and it's been communicated before. Yes. But the fact that, you know, there's uh that there's no uh wish on the board's part to move away from that property uh or I'm sorry to to transfer that property over and to keep a prek program operating there when we've got space down the street. So, um I'm planning on going down this week and doing a full evaluation on what it would take uh for the prek programs to be relocated there and then um we'll bring that cost to you and then you can decide what we're going to do with the building. Okay. We can do that
043at the next meeting. I was going to say you think that will be something that we'll be able to get accomplished before school starts because you know we're in middle of July almost. Yeah. Yeah. Um opening up a prek program down there. No. um if we if we get an agreement to move it down there, what I would recommend is that, of course, that'll be up to you, but I would recommend that there'll be some lead time um before because there'll have to be work done uh down at the site. Uh not, you know, there'll have to be a playground put in and that that's going to take some time. Second semester or what? Yeah. Or or the beginning of next year. Okay. Yeah. at least get started on it. What about that student center
044where they all go after school? Where you plan on moving it? The uh the offer is going to be to move it to Benson Middle School in the in that commons area. No, they have they have uh you know where that was Vincent High School, they have uh empty rooms that are available and Mrs. The principal has u indicated to me that she has two rooms that she can dedicate to the program. That's good. That's great. So, and then we will be rid of that building, right? I mean, that property is is it going to be gone then? Will we not have anything? It could sit there empty if we wanted it to. Huh? It could sit there empty if we wanted, but I mean, we're not paying anything on it, right? the utilities would
045be shut off, right? We would still have to keep it insured, but we would have those six classrooms there. So, that's going to be trickier on, you know, a plan for that portion of the building, right? Exactly. I see that. Until after they're moved, still have negotiations going on. Yeah, I understand that. Yeah. Do you know what those utilities are just for those six classrooms of I've asked that before. I don't know. I know what the facilities are for the entire building, but for the six classrooms alone, I don't know. The entire complex. I don't know off the top of my head, but I can I can I'll have it for you at the next meeting. Actually, I'll share it with you before the next meeting. Just curious. I'm just thinking every diamond that we
046can put get out of that we can put. Right. Yeah. Well, and sooner the better, I think, too. Instead of just keep dragging on, dragging on, dragging on. I think we've tried to be fair. Exactly. Yeah, we have been very I mean that's what I'm saying to be working. So I think there's been enough time, right? Yeah, you're right. Yeah, those utilities have been paid for a long time, too. Yeah. So, okay. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. I'll mention one other thing just well just in case anyone's interested. Uh I'm sure you saw in the news recently how state of West Virginia they've been grant and I as a lawyer I still can't pronounce saturary but they've been granted a writ that will be heard in the United States Supreme Court the issue about
047whether or not Title N prevents a state from consistently designating girls boys sports teams based on biological sex. And anyway that was in the news. I went ahead and made a copy of the actual petition that was filed if anybody's interested in reading that. I know I know last year to meet the candidates event one guy was wanting to I think refight the battle of Gettysburg which I thought was well out there but this is yeah this is a proper way uh if you want to contest that and US Supreme Court is going to hear it. So that's good. We won't know how that'll turn out from number of months,