001It is one o'clock and we will call the meeting to order stuff in front of me. Um I don't believe we have any changes to the agenda today. No. Okay. All right. So I would accept a motion to approve the agenda. Second. All those in favor? 70 consent agenda. Most of those things that are on your in your drive. There's some stuff in your folder. If anybody has any questions or anything you want to pull out of there. Yes. Yeah. I had one on the waxy check register and I made just I'm sure it's just like it was a I reading correctly a $15,000 mop handle read I just like maybe didn't get all the description sometimes it doesn't $15,000 that was uh our annual order for toilet paper um all the toilet paper towels
002napkins uh floor stuff all the cleaning supplies for the year. So So the mop handles actually they there are two companies now. They're Brady Plus and Waxy. For the last 18 months they have not combined. And so sometimes we get things from one company and not the other. Vice versa. One time they got my purchase order and we got mop handles from Waxi and we got mop handles from Brady Plus and we used them because the girls just knew they got their mop handles. So that's what we're paying for the extra mop handles plus all the other stuff. We'll need that help. Sorry. Uh okay. But it's it's our whole typically it's typically more than that. But we didn't buy our paper from them this year because Eekes gave us a better deal on copy
003paper. So typically it's about 20 grand and that buys all of the custodial janitor supplies for the whole next year. I see two 15,000 transactions. Oh, that's because one of them had to be voided because the check went was made to Waxi and I had to pay $60 to Brady Plus and 15,000 to Waxi. So, it must not have noted that it was a voided check. So, the fir the first check was voided because then I had to do separate checks, one to Wacky and one to Brady. Is our program not able to do more detail. It's possible. Well, yeah, if it's only got so much of a space and that's all it puts in there. Now, online, I can pull it up and tell you all the detail report, but on a report, it
004only gives you the amount of space that's available. What is and I must have printed the report. I must have printed the report in between times before I posted the journal to void it because if I had avoided it, it would if I had already posted the void journal, that other one would have been on there. I've looked at other schoolboard ones and you can see a lot more detail. That's why I like I'll go to ours. I can I can see about making our that is a report that we created and I can I can see if there's any way I can make that one lengthier and maybe print it on a landscape print instead of a portrait print if you want me to try that. I just I'll check and see. These are
005things that you know you ask me to approve. So I'm going to ask questions. Absolutely. That's fine. What's the storm dam? Storm damage. We're still fixing stuff from the storm damage um from back and again we had a special in our uh capital outlay. The storm damage funds that came in so we could kind of keep track of it. They went in a special account number with we added three digits to the end and we did the same thing with all of the repair for that storm damage so we had a way to tie them together. I just didn't know dam was dam short for dam at this point. That's what it is. Build a dam in front of the egg shop or if we'd ever get that kind of rain. Any other questions? If
006not, all those in favor? 70. We are ready for recognition of guests and we do have one from the superintendent student advisory council. I don't know if you want to make introductions or well yeah let her knowing that we our our next two meetings were in the middle of the day. Um at our last meeting I kind of reached out and asked who might have the most flexibility to um come talk to us and so um Faith volunteered. I I will preface this by saying if you need any help or direction on you know topics anything else please let me know and she said nope I got it. So this is news to me as well but I just asked her to kind of summarize um you know this first year of the the the
007council just kind of the summary of it and then kind of what maybe she would like to see and it transform into a little bit more next year. So, the council is uh one elementary school representative and then two representatives from each class. And I'm but I'm an extra as a senior. I'm the only senior in it. Um our first meeting we covered like basically what we want to happen throughout the year. We set some norms for each meeting. So like um keep some conversations like controversial, be on time, focus, attend meetings, um be student in good standing, come prepared, and then like at the at the end of each meeting, we like set a goal for the next one. Um so we like we discuss things in the district that are good currently, things
008we think should improve. Um I think it's really important for our students to have that point of view on those things. And so, you know, we represent the student population as a whole, but you can and uh it's good to to get our opinions out there to to to know what we want to see for the students and have have the best education we can. Um, we had uh Joe Kohl's come and talk to us. uh he's like an expert on leadership and all things working together, team teamwork and stuff. We had a really nice day in here working together and like you know we we make some points for what we want to see with it. Um yeah and then we talked to him again with a followup at the meeting after that. Um
009we discussed some like personal things how you can be the best leader and then how it ties into being a team. Um there's some we we make goals for ourselves that we can connect to the other students in the school. Um working together, relationships, building relationships, making making good impressions. Um and we talked to like we've we've been talking constantly about things we want to see improve. Um and at each meeting we have an agenda. We go through it and everybody gets to speak on something in the meeting. Um, and we discussed, we've been discussing the last couple of meetings, screen time in particular, um, with phones and iPads and whatnot. And I think that the opinions we had generally they reflect the things you guys decide on. Um, as a whole, we seem to
010agree that screen time has gotten out of hand. And, um, you guys see that, too. And I I think that with the council being mostly responsible students that like to have a good education and see the their futures be successful, um we all agreed that in order for to have the best education, the screen time needs to be limited. And we discussed the possible effects of too much screen time on students and all that kind of stuff. Um yeah, having each age group, each class helps us determine, you know, what areas of that year need to be improved on and how they can be fixed for their next years to come. And I I I would really like to see this council keep going so that you can improve all the other years to come
011because I I mean, I won't be here, but I really want to see the school success and um the council have their opinions heard or the student the students best interest. Did you guys discuss the yonder or wonder bags or whatever you call? Um yeah, we well we have talked about um how you guys are thinking about doing that and we generally decided that it would be for the best interest um that students are on their phones too much. they have too much free time and then that's what just what they use with that free time. They just get on the phones and that doesn't help them get their stuff done to have less screens and stuff. We agreed that y topics were the best. Yeah. The conversation started when we had Mr. Kohl's here
012and he kind of asked the kids what they felt like were our social um our social norms right now. Well, no was the word I'm looking for now. basically what's our social challenges or the biggest challenges that we see in in um in the school and they basically came up with drama and bullying um were the the two topics that they talked about and so they kind of talked about what are some ways that we can um address that and and through those conversations we found out that it's almost all social media based and so that's what kind of led us down that conversation of one one student said well we can just have hall monitors and said, "Well, how often do you hear kids being, you know, being mean face to face?" And then
013it kind of turn started to realize it's mostly that social media and that kind of stuff. So, that's what really kind of led us down that that path. Um, explain what dashes are. Everybody's been challenged with dashes, right? Dashes. So, we made dashes. They're like a a personal goal for you to do like consistently each day or each week or something. It's like personal connections with other people, making relationships. It's like a um I'm going to say hi to somebody new every day or I'm going to smile when I walk past somebody. Um like every day I'm going to go start a conversation. I'm going to say, "Hey, how are you today? I'm I'm Faith. I like to do blah blah blah blah blah. Someone tell me something about yourself." And basically that just helps
014that was helping us a lot to um become more connected with students in the school because of that opinion that we're trying to spread into the group and share with you guys. We want to know how the other students feel and so connecting with them really helped. That was a challenge that you got from Joe Kohl's one night. Yeah, Joe Kohl's. He he helped us create those dashes for ourselves and we got a little notebook from him and we wrote down our dashes and all the things we were going to do. Um mine was I'm going to say hi to somebody new. Um and I don't always meet somebody new every day, but when I do, I like to say hi or smile or something. I'm curious about um this is our first year, right?
015and and the you the superintendent selected this year. Correct. I'm curious about where you're at and what your thoughts are faith on how kids become a part of the council because what you want is you want to as a board we want input from all kids and in ensuring that we get representatives from all different demographics of students um that their their voice is heard too. So that's what I'm curious your thoughts on. How how should kids be able to be a part of this? Well, there's lots of circumstances that could go into picking the best person because you know this the validatoran of the class isn't always going to be the one that talks to everybody, but maybe the class president is, but you also want somebody that's involved in everything, but they have
016to be a student good standing also. So there's lots of things that go into it, but I think what we do for lots of other like activities is have a review board, a certain number of teachers or or something. And you maybe go from a list of, you know, the valadictorian, the class president, the vice, the vice president, somebody that the their class, each class finds to be the most influential in their class, but we can also trust to show up and, you know, be in good standing, all that. But I like to I think basing it maybe off the each class's opinion also for who they think should be. What about the kids that don't show up for things? The ones we need the input of how do we get them engaged? That's that's
017that's my concern that just parents how we plug those kids in and those kids still feel heard. Well, don't think that we can get them those kids to be at the meetings and because like we said our we set our goals for each meeting, you know, be there, be prepared, show up on time, all that. Um, I think maybe people that are close to those kids and understand why they don't show up, why they're not as, you know, influenced to be there would be good so that they know how they're feeling. But I don't think since we're still working on getting those kids to show up, I don't think that quite yet we can get them to be there. They can get their ideas from people they're close to. Thank you. And I like your
018idea of like a review board type of thing. And I don't know who would be that board, but instead, you know, rather than just one person just selecting from each class. It would be nice if like a nominating process or something, right? Some teachers would say out of I would nominate because I, you know, I don't know. I think it's I think what you're doing is very valuable and can be very powerful, too. I mean that's this this is you know one of the be honest and it's I hate saying this one of the few ways that we as a board get to hear from the kids in the school and what they their thoughts are and what they need and what they want and what they don't like and and you know the the
019I'm I'm glad that you've started looking at the screen time and phone thing. I'd love to hear your opinions on about 20 other things right now. And I know that's what comes next year and the year after. And so I' I'd love to see this continue and I I think you guys have done a great job getting it started. Um you've set some great groundwork on it and I' you know I I would encourage you and you and the rest of you on that group to figure out how you want that to look for next year and keep it going and make it I'd like to hear from from them more. I don't I once a year is great. um a lot of other groups we hear from once a year because they kind of
020give us a yearly report. But this is something that I think as as you guys go through your year and you talk about different topics, I don't I'd hate to see it all wait till one meeting at the end of the year or something like that because these are things you guys are will be talk are talking about and will be talking about same topics that we're talking about in this room and and to have that kind of input from kids. I wonder if like, you know, we have board reports from each administrator and like could that committee could give a report. Yeah, that's a good idea. Here's what the I'm just an idea. I like that. That way you don't have to send a representative every month and it all takes time and effort,
021but I like that idea. So anyway, I just I appreciate your time. I encourage you to keep it going and keep, you know, making plans for what next year looks like. Even though you might not, you won't be there to be part of it, but you'll be, you know, what got it started. So, help set it up. Appreciate it. I do too. Being in it, like so I can help represent the school, the students. It's a good way to help with that. Yeah. Does anybody else have any other thoughts or questions? Thanks for getting up your time. Okay. Yeah, I appreciate you being here. Hey, Faith, on the way out, would you make did you sign in? You look at you. You're awesome. Thank you. Without a coffee for possibilities. Yeah. Okay. Board member reports.
022Anybody have any reports for today? Uh a report from a visit with one of our commissioners from last meeting, Miss Irvin. He really felt like our meeting invaluable and thought that, you know, it's something we sure get on the calendar no less than once a year. Um but nothing good to say. Good. He he thought we should do this three times a year. Oh yeah. We like the next day I had to go out and visit with Kristen, but he felt that we would go good like things went well and he actually brought up the thought of it wouldn't be a bad idea to do the group health insurance like he said he'd be open to discussions about discussions. We can't do that right Jeff. We've looked into that. We can we can explore but
023the state insurance commissioner has to approve of any joint thing but it anything's worth asking for so okay um we'll keep that in mind going forward we may want to try and do something quarterly or okay um move on to discussion items then uh A is access controls. Yeah, I brought you guys the different quotes. We reached out to three different companies. Access controls is a lot of just, for lack of better words, it's not just badges at the doors. It's it's the monitoring of those doors, just kind of help with the security of the building. And as if, you know, as we're looking at um replacing all of our exterior doors and just trying to do a better job of securing our our buildings, um I think this is valuable as well. Um, I
024would I would just go out on a limb and say that there's probably a lot of school keys that are that are floating out and about around the community, too. This kind of allows if if I want Mark to have access from from 1:30 to 4 on Sunday as the badges only access only get you in the door during those times. Um, so anyway, I I I bring those those um different quotes to you. two of them were pretty close together. Um, one one one of the companies in particular is also part of the phone ones. There's a lot of cabling that's involved in this um that if we're putting indoors, it's a good time to run the cabling down the mullion bars in the middle of the doors. But, um, we could save money
025in the cabling by running it both services at the same time. Um, I know that when we look at the community input from from years ago about the facilities that was part of that was, you know, school safety and just securing the buildings and stuff, too. So, um, it's a it's a it's a hefty investment. Is it something that, you know, we want to pursue now? Is it something that, you know, I I something we wait and look at to put in towards our bigger project? The problem is it's doing it done after the fact. The doors are getting put in the summer. I think it's a good time to do it during the summer, but I kind of opened up for discussion at that point. Besides the cabling and things like that that's integrated,
026like how much of this could be re not say reused, but just modified to fit something two years down the road. If we end up revamping everything, probably might get 30% of it to move over or all of it could be used. And again, a little bit kind of depends on which direction we go, but most of those doors that we have them on are still going to be needed to have the access. you know, at the high school, it's the northeast door that goes out towards the shop. It's that makes sense. The elementary wouldn't necessarily be places we would we wouldn't be renovating all that space. Correct. Theoretically, but most all the doors that are part of these quotes are ones that are still going to be necessary doors moving forward. That makes me
027feel quite a bit better, you know? I mean, I want the security. I want everything about this that it gives us, but spending 100 grand to rip it out in two years gives me a little pause. But but it looks to me like we'd get more value for our dollar with this than like a the $600,000 safe and secure entrance at the elementary because if you break that down, that's we could literally pay somebody $25,000 a year to sit at the door. That'll be money ahead. Yeah. $100,000 cost and that brings a good point as far as the elementary. The other part of the safe and secure entrance concept is you kind of walk through two sets of doors. You walk through one and then at that point you're funneled through the office to the
028general public where currently both buildings don't have that. Um, you know, part of, you know, the junior senior high was looking at repurposing a different classroom. So, there's another layer to that, but but this is um we can see who's coming up. Yeah, it keeps record. Yes. If you're going card or bad, it's going to keep record exact time. Probably was more of a problem um at the elementary than well, I guess even both of them. the current system we have a lot of times it doesn't work or I know Miss Sarah at the elementary she carries a phone receiver to let people in half the time she can't get it to open have to walk somebody down so but it would be re we would be replacing all of that with up toate um
029cameras and system with it so yeah yeah what does all this include I'm going through the bids but essentially is key cards for both high school, elementary. Um, access it at all exterior doors or just select ones. One of them had the maps on it. Let me go. It's not every single exterior door, but the ones that utilized, you identify primary. So like the elementary, it would be the west, excuse me, the east doors, the old high school and the north single door that kids go back and forth on. It would be the one elementary school that that connects to the recess door. Well, I guess for lack of better words, then the fifth grade hall to go out to recess, the north one by the kitchen because a lot of staff park on that
030side and for deliveries and obviously the front door, the high school, east side of the gym, both main entrances and then we had it on both of the um lower level. Yeah. On this side, two little theater doors. Yeah. Yeah. The ones we don't have are like the kitchen and boiler. Okay. Do does it include cameras? So like is it like a ring doorbell scan or you can access that? The front and back doors have cameras and the one down by the a shop coming in by the wait room. The other ones have a key card and a system where say somebody lets somebody out. It alarms me that somebody has opened that door and um was that a Yeah. And I could see with my regular cameras if somebody's letting somebody in, propping the
031door open, those type of things. Okay. Yeah, you get you'll get notification. You can set a timer on how long a door has been left open. Then you get notification that doors been left open. How does it work during class per moving class periods? It depends. You can set it so that between 11:41 and 11:44 it automatically becomes unlocked or they push the button and move out of there's groups of students. I didn't know how that worked. you know, and there there's even ways that that again to use the elementary school, leaving the old high school that when they push the button to leave, it's going to for the next two minutes unlock that other one as they go across or you can have them buzz in. It's it's whatever you want to do. It
032gives you the capabilities to structure however you want. Those quotes pretty much apples. I didn't look them over. Yeah. Um, some of it's just the different hardware in the doors because the the new doors that we're getting, our current doors, it's all has the magnetic lock at the top. There's no mullion bar in the middle. So, most of our doors have about half to 3/4 of an inch gap in them. This will have a mullion bar in the middle and so the doors will latch into that. So, the doors are going to be more secure, but then the panic bar, for lack of better words, is what gets squeezed in to to unlatch it. Um, it's depending on what hardware they use in that. Um, but would it save some labor to do this while
033we were putting in the new doors then? Well, that's kind of the purpose of it is when the doors are taken apart, getting the lines run down into that mullion bar at the time so that it's all ready to go or into the the jams for those. So, you're you're trying to get both of these things done at the same time. Correct. If we if we approve one of these, it would all be done this summer. Yes. Our current system we basically service and work on, right? Our current system doesn't work. I mean, we we called M we called Daniel Pierce to come out, but it's more or less in in house. As you've seen the button down by the egg shop, Michael, what about the service component of this? Yeah. What's the availab like
034is anytime it malfunctions do we've got to call somebody in or is it something our our maintenance staff has ability to work on some layers but not all? all of if it's something that requires them to come in both um will come up the the home link is out of Witchaw and there' be a service fee the INA alert and the next tech ones from what I've gathered is depending on what the the work is as part of the service agreement some I mean if if if one's someone takes a hammer to it. Obviously, it's going to be expensive to come get it fixed, but um if there's a glitch in it, some of they can remote in and and provide some support that way, too. Well, as you look at the summary, I mean,
035if you're going with the cheapest biders, com link or whatever, plus I don't know what this annual software cost, but I'm I'm in I'm making the wondering is next because it's based in our area has more service capability that's is that a factor in that would be my choice. I consider and that the verata you pay every year you pay it's an annual software component that is just that the verata software that's they do cameras and stuff too but you don't fully outright own them you there's always going to be that annual cost come with it so you see those next step trucks come through town about every day that service would be I would with the annual cost of the ricotta I think it makes up the difference that the Next Tech would be
036the cheapest one, but but knowing that NextTech also is um just geographically going to be more accessible, I think is is valuable. The service I've had from them, I've had no complaints. If anything, they went beyond they needed to. And again, they're they're one of them that has the the phone um service as well that for that cabling. Um we could reduce the cost of that a little bit too if they're doing Well, that's I was going to badges. No. And technically they they have it to where you can choose I like the idea of a photo ID badge but you can also give certain people access on a phone. Maybe we have someone that's coming to work up on our our boilers at the high school and we give them we put their phone
037number in and it's got accessibility for the next two days from this time to this time. We don't actually have to give them a badge. And that's $3 a year. Yeah. For you get the first year free. We can try it out. But otherwise, yeah, you can do a the little key fob. You can do a badge or you can do the the name badge. I was just curious. I was just curious if there was a limit to badges. I mean, I know this year our kids got ID cards. Hard ID cards. I'm sorry, but most your jobs, that's what they're going to. That's how you get in and out of buildings, you know. It's hospital. And we I know everywhere they go, they have to have we provided the whole staff with lanyards this
038year, too. Kind of hoping just kind of get some of them a little bit more comfortable with that moving forward. That, you know, that that could be the case. That and that's what I've had at both of the other two districts I've been in was the badge access to get in. Are you wanting to answer now or Well, that's since you're looking this summer to Well, yeah. We're going to have to make a decision pretty soon, but I'm wondering if if we don't also want to while we're having the conversation, talk about item B on there, which is the phone service, because they may they may be tied together somewhat. Um because that right now what we're talking about is access. What's that? phone service currently have phone service through um Cunningham which but NextTech
039as well is involved because they own some of the equipment that is on our Cunningham next. I guess what I'm saying is this may be kind of a two two-part conversation here to make a decision on rather than let's decide access controls and then have the conversation. Yeah, that's right. That's fair. And the nice thing having the same is like right now sometimes we call in Cunningham we'll say well that got to be next tech's problem. So I call next tech. Well that's got to be Cunningham's problem. I'm like, "Okay, guys, with with the phone, come up here." With the phone, the the comic didn't give a price. They just said that the killing would be extra. We had that number with Next Tech. Both of these are um voice over um phones to where
040it's going to be um internet phones on a separate internet than our current Wi-Fi. So it wouldn't affect any any broadband issues with the with the classrooms and stuff, but um it would be every classroom would have a phone in the room that would have an extension that they could also dial out on, which we currently don't have. Um it allows us to transfer from building to building or That's what I was going to say. If if a teacher or if a parent wants to talk to the teacher, they can transfer the teacher's voicemail. the teachers can then get a text email of what the voicemail is, all that kind of stuff. Um, it would it would it would allow us to have voicemail here at the district office that we don't currently have either.
041Um, but all buildings would have that. Any staff member have access to voicemail? Yes, all of them would. And every every classroom would have its own extension. Um, doesn't have to be to where you can buzz into a classroom and it rings. We can set that to work shut off during school hours. But at least you can, you know, hey, I'd like need to talk to so and so when we transfer the voicemail. Be really nice to send all the five million calls that Billy Cox gets that are sales calls instead of saying, well, you can email or just send them straight to her voicemail. Then she can see the emails of pick and choose. What do we have currently? What what what does this replace anything or is this something? We have we have
042three lines here, three at each building, but in the classroom there aren't any in the classroom. Nothing. Okay. And this would put an actual Would these phones replace that speaker system then too? Is that right? Possibly that a full intercom system would be something separate. Keep the teachers from having to have their cell phones out while the students aren't allowed either. Be able to page in. If you're putting a phone in every classroom, here's why I say this. I know I use the hospital a lot, but that's the what I have for reference. Um, we switched from the paging system. You can still page. You still have the opportunity to page with now I'm going with Nexic also or Cunningham because that's who we went with out there and they switched us. So it was
043voice over IP, but you had the ability to direct send to, but you also had the ability to call in or page in to that class if need be on the speaker phone. And they can set it or you can set it however loud you want that to come in and across. And you can set your overhead pages. What's considered overhead pages would be just wherever your phones are at that point. I mean, you can still set up speakers or hook them into your speaker systems where they could run a speaker and set it, but they're I mean, we're not talking huge speakers. We're talking your regular most most classrooms that would be enough to communicate. Obviously, the gym and some of those other ones are going to need extra speakers added to it if
044we wanted to go that route. But, um, and that was my understanding because I have two buildings and the old high school does not have an intercom system. at all right now and that that's a safety thing for running a a drill really something really happening and when I was talking to the web that's what he said it can be well I just think I mean these things go when you're talking about safe and secure schools these things go hand in hand you've got the entrances but you've also got the communication piece and we're real weak in probably both of those areas but the communication for sure if you can't you can't access a phone in a classroom or even or even a separate building. I mean that that's a concern and it's one we're
045aware of and it's fact that we're aware of it means we really need to be addressed. the bid I see in the phone service from next 25,000 that's for the cabling just they run the cabling and they'll put the port and every every classroom um the Ethernet cable in for all those and then both of them the monthly fee we currently pay I believe about 350 to 375 a month for our phone service so it would be more but we're also going to get it in 65 more locations Every classroom's going to have a phone. So it's not apples to apples we're talking about. Well, our bill is dependent upon long distance calls too. It's a little more and where that will go away. So the,40 a month is we're already paying 300 something for
046just three. Yeah. For just the free lines here at $700 a month. But with that, we also get how many more? How many phones? Phones and lines. Do we know that number? It was a total classroom. It's 70 phones is what they like 70 phones whether that's and they've got and and the the office phones are going to have a lot more capabilities to it. Does my math say that's 10 bucks a phone a month I would say. Yeah. It's not seem unreasonable. I just I'm like that seems like a bargain. The voicemail the voicemail aspect alone is is very worthy. I think so too. But the fact that it's I mean yeah you see more we see more issues with security. I get a lot of phone calls. People are looking up for the
047high school or the elementary. I get a lot of phone calls. Hey my kid so and so is sick not coming in. And I could transfer as it is now. Rather than make people call I take a message but because otherwise I have to say oh nope you're gonna have to call this number. So that would be great. It be my recommendation to to go with the same company just continuity wise. Um, can't we approve this and you go renegotiate the whole thing because we'll do both? Yeah, I already went out at that. Okay. They if we So, if you look at the quote, there's an outright on the for the phones. He said that he would be willing to give us two months free. Um, but if we go the outright purchase price, then
048there's not a lot of leeway. They could give us more on the the payment plans, but at the same time, you're paying interest and this 120 month term, 70 handsets, metals, this fiveyear upgrade don't cost anything. Correct. If there's a if there's an update or a new model of phones, they would just do that after five years as part of the service plan. So the full next tech for phone and access control, what's that number one? Well, well that I know that We know it's a $9,000 a year every year bill. 910 roughly just for the phone service and that's the that's the that's a yearly commitment, but the installation is all one time stuff, right? The access control, does it have a monthly? Is it a subscription based? No, one is, but the next
049tech one isn't. Correct. Correct. Yeah, we're paying for all of the infrastructure and hardware. Well, it's two mills and they know and I can justify, you know, the demands of the community. I Wayne's asking a question about this. this this is a piece of secure entrances if but after going into buildings that have a secure entrance and you see how that works. There's still value in having those other physical barrier safeguards in place entrances reviewing people before they can get full access. It's the visitor component or the vendor component that disagree. No, but that's it doesn't fix everything. It doesn't. But it also the flip side of that is if if we're if we are talking about trying to do some upgrading of our entrances through a bond project, how does this affect that convers
050conversation with community? Say, okay, we're we're prioritizing safety, security, entrances, but we're going to spend $200,000 on it now and then spend some more money on I mean, you just see what I'm saying. Does it hurt your case for safety and security as part of a building project later to take this step now? I'm just throwing that out there. I'm not saying it does or doesn't. But I think because the physical nature I mean I think we all agree it needs to be done. The question is when is the right time to do it to make best use of time and money right? I want to say as a patron I and I know you're spending my tax dollars. I that is favorable to me to think you guys are taking steps to save us
051money on the bond down the road. Well, but what I'm saying is it may it may not is the question if if depending on how much of this get can get reused later on if what what I'm concerned about is saying we spend this money on on this now and then tear it all out in two years not able to use it and not be able to reuse it and have to have another cost associated with it. I I'm just it just be that front door. Yeah. How many doors would we be affecting with the bond? And then the what what we do with the bond what the design is. I know. I'm just I'm just throwing I'm thinking the worst case be two doors. I'm just all I'm trying all I'm trying to put
052out there is that is the perception of you're already paying for if a main if a main part of our of our reasoning reasoning thank you for sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sharing with the community of why we need to do this project is to improve the safety and security of our entrances. We would also need to be able to justify why we already spent $100,000 or $150,000 or whatever it is by the time you you figured our new doors and and and this. You know, it's kind of asking for the same thing twice is what I'm concerned about. Um I was I see but but I also see your argument of is
053knowing that we have a problem that has a solution that we can do today. Does it make sense to kick that down the road two years and hope nothing in the meantime happens? If we do the bond next year, what's the soonest we could even expect two two years, three years? That might be hopeful. Yeah. And I look at I look at our camera investment. I I don't think we look back and regret that investment. We could have waited on that and integrated the same thing. I'm not arguing against it. I'm just trying to throw all the different sides of it out. I would still want to make the case that there's still room for us, even if we do this, for safe and secure entrances even in there's room for improvement. uh not disagreeing
054with that and I would also say that I have I'd ra I'd rather support I also like no nothing against this especially in the context of I'd rather get it in place now and then take that $250,000 and put it in a savings account. this is where it needs to be spent and and that's and we're as we approach the end of June and make the decisions on what transfers look like and as we sit on reserve and capital outlay this is what the dollars are to be for much as I'd like him to I'd like I'd love to have the timing perfect where it's all bundled but I it doesn't making four and a quarter% interest is not how it's intended to be spent but it wouldn't be the full 150,000 that we'd be
055losing hopefully not the phone system would still be the cabling is already would be ramped grand all the other doors that are not would never be affected. All those doors are now there probably be a few doors that yeah, we might have some lost money there with looking at it. I'm thinking maybe one door high school, maybe one door at the elementary. So, I mean, we're not looking like a huge amount, but we're still looking at possibility. I just be prepared for that conversation when you when you go out and have a meeting with the community and say, "We're asking for x amount of dollars to improve safety and security of our entrances." And to have somebody say, "I thought you just spent $200,000 on that. Why are you asking for it again?" And I'
056just be ready for that conversation. I I can easily defend the ele in my mind, the elementary needs redesigned of how you approach that physical secure entrance system. Same with the high school. We still have multiple access points. This doesn't change that when we need to be written narrowing down to one access point. That's the that's the actual infrastructure building investment I see. This is just an upgrade. So I I am I personally happy to defend why those building properties are still just as important. This is just a piece of that. And there be a lot of doors that wouldn't even be touched with the bond issue and and then anything that like an addition I'd have to double check. But the hardware that's on that's put on the wall could just be moved to
057the new location. You have to have extra cabling, you know, if there's extra classrooms or whatever else. That's just dropping another line adding to the system that's put in place with this. So yeah, I I'd love to combine it all in one piece. I just It would be nice, but it's not the way. This is the key. I don't know how long we continue to kick down the rail. I'm not arguing with you. Did you get me a number? Is that because then the service is just You did two separate bids. You probably better make two separate motions, Bobby. One for access controls service. That's what I'm saying. But that doesn't give me well the the that's just a service though. I know you just be moving on the access controls and then the phone
058system, right? Two different Yes. two phone system. I would keep the two motions separate since you kind of put a bid out there for two separate things. Okay. So the phone system or access control with Yes. No. I want to go back then before you do that. Was there any since there are two separate bids is the cabling investment I think is there no way for those to be combined with the doors and the phones like is that did you were you did you have that discussion with metech of what this is a whole system looks like? Yes. And they said that whether you're taking two lines or four lines it's the same amount of work. It's really not going to change the kaling a whole lot. Uh, no because I I said what what
059kind of package deal that V's cheap that's it is but when you're running it under ceilings or over labor intensive you mean you labor intensive we already sele what was that wasn't that much sorry I can't Mhm. for the cameras because then we had our own guys run it. So that kind of kept us even lower on money. They say this is more labor. And and and they told us you might be able to try to find a local guy that might be able to do it a little bit cheaper. How much cheaper? I'm not sure, especially with the crevices of the junior senior high of getting through the ceilings. Um, but the other thing that I like is it's going to be the wires going to be dropped exactly how they're supposed to know.
060What about the same existing wiring? He's not. Will they just abandon it and leave it or remove it? Some of those pictures I've seen above the ceiling, it looked like a rat's nest up there. Pretty close. I I I don't know to be honest with you. I know that they talked a lot about trying to put cat six in a lot of this stuff instead of cat five. So if that's the case then then the old would just be taken out or left to have it pulled one year wasn't there's no reason why they couldn't hook the new one to the end of the old one. A lot easier wavering a lot of electrical sitting here. But I I mean I guess too if if you wanted to try to explore other um things for
061the cabling service, we can we can do that as well. But I don't think I don't see any of this seems out of hand either from my perspective. I'm sure he nobody now because the one that we used for the last one is unemployed and can't it's a conflict of interest to have him work. So because he works for Next Tech and the other guy the other guy that did it him to go up. Hey, Steuart needs Daniel to go up. So, am I doing phones today as well? Is there Is there any reason not to approve this today? No, that's I think it's best to get them on the books. Make sure you send the summer. I make a motion to have Next Tech doc access control for the district. Second. Is that what
062you need? Yeah, we don't need to worry about dollar amounts. is just for whatever was bid. Yeah, it should be on there. You say a motion to approve approve the bid from Next Tech for the access control would be that get that in there. Okay. And we had a second. So, it's a it's just a Okay. All those in favor 70. want to move down. I move to approve next bid for cabling for access controls for the access control. It's for phones. Oh, that's for phone, not the access control. The cabling is for phones. It's for both. I thought so. Cabling for access control and phones. Second. All those in favor? 70. I move to approve. Sorry. Oh, we're doing Okay, hold on. I think you probably I think you probably good with just what
063you had there. I think you're good. I think you got to say fit for cabling and phone service. And phone service. I think if you did it that way, I think you're okay. I think you got it all. Yep. And seinal. Yes. Perfect. Okay. Appreciate the discussion on that. I think it's a good thing we're doing had a conversation with Brendan this morning and the end of the conversation was Brendan saying are we going to do good things today and I think I think tomorrow I I think I think you can say that's a good thing we just didn't that's very exciting I will tell you I think everybody's going to be excited about that okay um facilities update yeah I just wanted to make get you guys up to far. We've got a with
064the custodial and maintenance group. We're trying to get everything planned for the summer. We've got our carpet rotation like we've continued to do with some of the classes, especially at the the junior senior high. Just want you guys to be aware of that. We know that the current carpet is glued down to tile that was tested positive for its last year. So, we're already putting that in place to work with the same company for that remediation of that uh remediation of that before the new carpet gets installed. So, I just wanted you guys to be aware of that. We are stripping down all of the tile in the elementary school on the main floor and rewaxing it, but we're stripping it down. I did not feel that that was right to ask our custodial staff
065to do that. So, we we've hired that out as well. um we're going to the the trip walk area is going to be preserved and taken care of, but otherwise all of the everything tile-wise in the main floor of the elementary school will be stripped down and waxed. So again, I just wanted to give you guys kind of an update and make sure you're aware that we know that we're going to run into the best asbestous stuff again at the high junior senior high school. We're trying to work around the black across Kansas and everything else and make sure that we don't have stuff opened up on our every other floor. And I just wanted you to know that that we will be dealing with that again this year. It is what it is. So,
066how many how many rotation cycles are we going to have asbestous in the carpet? We'll have this one and two more. Does that sound right? we did. I mean, it's just something to think about for, you know, because that's it's an additional cost that wasn't nobody really thought about until it happened. And I have put some of the LVP options that people have been wanting on hold because that's a bigger investment knowing that we can just wax it for another year and determine our future beyond that. I think we got two more because I think we're doing three to five. All right, we'll move on then. Um Keith update. Yeah. So, we had our, you know, is this first year has been the the the first year of Visa 2.0 as the state calls it
067and um we had our school improvement day meeting in Salena yesterday or on last Tuesday. Um and I just kind of wanted to give you guys this is the whole accreditation model. it's in the it's in the um the drive, but we have to choose a fundamental and then we have to identify the structures that we're going to use um and then set goals based on that. And so a lot of what we've kind of had in place with our our professional development um kind of already falls in line with that and we knew that going into last year. But I I put two of these in the drive. I I taped mine together just because it's easier for me, but this is a five-year trend of our state assessment data for both math and
068ELA. And you know, so we were asked to kind of look at this and try to set goals. Um, and what I truly like about this new KISSA model is we're not just, for lack of better words, jumping through hoops to to get accredited. We're doing things that we as an individual district feel is best for us. And so when we looked at this data, it's got the state below us and us above. You can see obviously 2019 was pre uh instruction interruption COVID and then everything beyond that. Um but what we what really stood out to us when we were sitting through there is from 22 to 24 we're starting to trend where our our level one students that number is diminishing which is good that's showing and especially the ELA we've had our
069curriculum in place for a couple years and the 95% everything else they're doing there it's being very successful. Now the flip side of that is our level two has gotten bigger but the level two we feel that says we need our core instruction to get better like that's that is the area that we wanted to focus on as our as our goal for accreditation. So, how do you improve core instruction? Well, you improve that with improving your instruction, your classroom management, and all that kind of stuff. So, we chose quality instruction as the fundamental, the structured literacy, standards alignment, balanced assessment, and quality instruction. And the structure for that we chose was um professional learning. Our goal, we have a six-month goal, which our six-month goal is going to be that everybody gets through our
070HIPS training one through three. Our yearly goal, which will be for next year, we'll get all of our staff through hips level or level five. And then the other part of that is we're going to get a a walkthrough tool that administratively and our DT will work on together to make sure that we're gathering data on are we seeing those high impact instructional strategies being used in the classroom. So, um that's where we got or how we got to where we did with our our accreditation goal. Um, but I wanted you guys to kind of see that state assessment data to see that for us, level two is is your core one or your your general education classroom. We've got to do a better job of our instruction there to hopefully squeeze that number down
071and have more move further on. So, um I just wanted to present all that so you guys could see it and kind of explain the process we went through during that um that school improvement day to kind of set our goals and stuff. So, I open up you guys have questions on that or like I said with with us having a new math corre curriculum that'll be adopted. There'll be um some I guess I would say growing pains anytime you make some new changes, but the district prior to to me getting here made a good investment with the ELA curriculum and 2024, last year's data shows a vast improvement in our level one state assessment scores. And so in a year or two once we get math involved, we're hopefully see the same thing in
072math. And then through our PD of improving and strengthening our instruction, we'll see level two also um that number shrink and hopefully we see those into three and fours is what we want to see overall. So questions. So when you're going through here checking like choosing your fundamentals and structures like who is that decided by? Is that like the DT? Is that like a few teacher? Like how is the key? Is it you guys administration? Like how is that like oh we want to use the quality instruction and then we're going to use the professional learning. When we ran our school improvement day it was Mr. Myers um is Sarah Warren and myself went as representatives for the DT. Okay. They they schedule these visa days the middle of the week and they're like we'd
073love for you to bring your whole DT. Well, we can't afford to send 10 people to Salina for um you know all the administrators and your your district leadership team out of the district. So, we chose representatives. Um, Miss Keller thought that especially this year that it would be good to have it uh, Miss Warren go. She's been in the system longer, kind of understands and with her position understands the needs of the building and and then Mr. Myers from the the high school side. I know that then um Sarah presented this to the elementary during the um, faculty meeting last Wednesday and I guess you you have anything to add as far as feedback from the staff? I'll actually go back a little bit because at um our training when Sam and I presented,
074we actually had our entire staff, so both campuses, we had the conversations of what does high quality instruction look like? What does compliance look like versus engagement look like? And then we both took those back to our VLTS and we are formulating a definition of what does high quality instruction look like. So really we're getting input from everybody in our buildings, all the teachers. Um so then these guys did go to um Salina last week. Then Sarah came back and she reported and my staff looked at this and they were like well this is something that we are already doing and there was no fear. It was just like, yeah, we can do this. Absolutely. And I think it's very, it's something to understand also that while we've selected quality instruction and professional development, we
075are kicking standards alignment and assessment real hard with our curriculum alignment and the structured literacy with the letters training at the elementary and the six uh traits of structured literacy at the junior high. So, we're addressing all of these things. We're just tracking them all. Sure. So, and and the lady that that evaluates our system when she looked at all the things she that we were doing, she's like, "You guys are light years ahead of the other districts." I I agree. [Music] No, it's a good question and I know from my understanding it'll be discussed at your staff meeting this Wednesday as well. So, like I said, and part of the the the PD that we had with the hips training this year was knowing that it was necessary and it falls in line with.
076So, yeah, it's we're not recreating the wheel to jump through the hoops for accreditation. It's we're doing what we're already doing. So, it's a good question. Other questions? That's me. Appreciate that. I do too. Like that's Well, and we felt like, you know, you could use one year, but it allows you on that to to pull up that five-year trend. Looking at one year could be an only. It could be a lot less students. It could be a high group, low group, whatever the case may be. that that trend actually helps you identify some areas. So, okay, continuing to focus on that kind of data and legal process in terms of what we're trying to do to make actual effects. That's the goal. Like that's that's the bar to move down the line. Well, and
077it's it's what legislators look at right, wrong, or indifferent. It's state assessment. You can also see the damage that we're trying to undo from the co years. There you go. That's exactly what and something that's something that's new in that data that was really nice and helpful is you know you got your level one two three four they have now broken it down into a level what is it you know low ones they broke each level into two high level one a low level one and so on. So you can see are you know we may be a lot in twos but are they all right on the verge of going to threes or are they all on the verge of going and we can see that movement. We can see that now just starting
078this year and so we can see movement within those numbers now. And so we can see okay we still have the same number of twos. That's not good. Well we have way more two pluses now than we had before. So we are moving in that way but we couldn't see that before. You don't see that on that chart. That's good to know that this is even further to break down. And remind me what state assessment years are like at my building it's six seven eight. It's three through eight. Yeah. And then math is sophomore year. Science is junior year. Junior year. But elementary it's three through three. Linear growth when you don't take it your ninth or 11th year. Makes a world of sense, doesn't it? And they've done that for so many years. Yeah.
079Okay. All right. Um, the Guaranty State Bank CD renewal, I guess it's that time again. We have We have one that's every three months, one that's every six months. And the current rate that they're giving us is 4.25%. the current uh threemonth rate on the interest letter and I don't have the new interest letter hasn't come out yet but but as of last weeks is 4.23% so they're slightly above that so they're in line with we would get if we went with the state rule still where will the money come from for the access controls we need to take that good question we need to save some of that and not renew the full amount. No, we're okay. It's a good question. Question, but we're we're okay. Okay. So, we What is the amount on
080this one? Um I don't remember. I don't know if this is one for both. No, I think one's 500 and one's a million. Yeah. Like I just didn't know which one. I believe this is the $500,000 one. Not 100%, but I believe the $500,000 we have at three months and the other one we have at six months. Okay. So motion. Yes. Yes. I move accept the bid from guarantee 4.25% for 3 months. Second. All those in favor? 70. Okay. Needs assessment. Yeah, it's that time of year again. We had um on this there's a there's a form that we fill out and we get input from the buildings. I put it in there and then it kind of puts it makes it all pretty for us and then I change the colors to match ours.
081But um the uh both buildings went through um and had their BLTs um kind of go through this and assess. There's different things you can select under each one of these. Um, and so you can read through that. It starts with well the first one's A, B, and C is from the board's perspective. And so I put stuff in there. I wanted you guys to kind of look at that, see if you agree with it, if there's things that we need to change, take out or or change based on that. Um, but then you can look at the elementary one and the junior senior high one following that. It just that's the way it prints out. It's a district one first. Um if we need to go through it um step by step, we we
082can um but I try to do some of the dirty work. It's similar we had last year on some of the information from the board. But I ask you look through A, B, and C of the first two pages from the board's perspective. I didn't see it. And this is the one they expect them to look at and keep in mind. Yeah, this will be the one that we have to reference um when approving the budget later. Went to KPI meeting one time where this is all they talked about. The difficult part of this is translating this into the budget. Mhm. This is all we all recognize those going to that I like is what I saw in terms of how you like yeah we recognize these yes we want to improve our SC competitive
083yes we want to spread it out to performance and you know but translating that's a lot harder but I believe we continue to try to that's always our always our goal. those good to keep in mind though not easy. So what do you need an approval of this at this moment? Yeah. Yeah. There's there's an actual motion on your agenda too. Um, yeah, successful. Before I say that, what I always find interesting about this though is this is a needs assessment, but it doesn't necessarily always translate into our set goals, which we haven't reviewed for quite some time under the special. But I believe in this is the action items in our goals. Um, so ensuring that they have the same that this needs assessment is being reflected on our action items related to our
084district-wide goals. I don't know how that fits to as of this moment, but I hope it does. Some are directly tied, some of them are indirectly. Yeah, I'll move to motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? 70. Real quick, I'll interject. uh after this year's carpet installation and uh asbestous removal, the only classroom that is carpeted that would not have had the asbestous asbestous removal then would be Sheila Tucker's room at the end of the hallway. So all the others had carpet pulled up and as removed after this rotation. So we're almost there. Can I make a correction on your attendant page two? I just found I did this very quickly. What you see is item seven B should actually be 6H. 7 A is six. Yep. Bless is right. Yeah. Or no, no,
085no. I'm I'm wrong. Sorry, I'm reading this wrong. The special motion is on 7B is the special motion we need. So, yeah, that's some reason I got in my head it was the assessment, but we just have to have a motion. Okay. So, we're we're good. We're rolling here. Um, the board of education selfassessment. Well, I sent all that to you guys, I think, last month and then we kind of glossed over it and then I picked up my negotiations folder, not my evaluations when I went to. So, I don't have my hard copy here pass out, but I think we all we all have had it. We've all had it or not, but should had a copy of it on her email. Yeah. And then uh you know it was just that we graded
086importance and we graded how we're doing in relative to that importance and then those totals and averages and not comparison last year to this year. So I don't know if you guys have any questions on that if we just need to acknowledge it and put and file it away or whatever. But um uh yes to that part. Um, I would also I would like to see us at some point kind of dive into that a little bit and and and pick out a few things where we'd like see as a board either this should be a priority or this is a concern or this is something we could work at because I've seen some I've seen some comments um from from board members that hey, I'd like maybe maybe a little more training in this
087or maybe a little more collaboration time or maybe you maybe working with the administration to develop some goals. I mean, I've seen those kind of comments. I don't know when those are supposed to happen in a in in the span of a regular board meeting. So, I'd like to see us sometime figure out how we could address some of those things as a board, maybe in a separate meeting, maybe some kind of a retreat or what whatever you want to call it, a collaborative session. Um, I think the evaluation would be a good tool for us to just hone in on some of these areas. narrow it down to a few things. Set some goals, tie those goals to the what we were just talking about with the needs assessment, all of that. There's there's
088a lot of pieces here that that are kind of scattered and it'd be nice to tie those pieces together somehow, do a better job of that if we could. And so I that's the only thing I would say is I I would like to see us and may maybe that's my responsibility to set aside some time to do do that. Um but as far as just the uh moving on from the um self assessment piece, I think yeah, as long as everybody's had a chance to see it and and read through it and we will take anything shattered or new, but they are just numbers and we'll show trends that you know I don't know that any trend presented itself um you know outside of what we looked at last year but we just need
089to sit down and study it but then do something with it. Do something. Agreed. I I look like what you're working on with our board book. What I've seen, I I like that. There's a few additional modifications that I think come out of the evaluation that would then allow us to kind of adopt that there. There again, a board handbook should probably involve the board. Yeah. Developing, not just the superintendent developing it for us. So there's another piece of that that the training especially if we have new board members come on I think is something conversation I don't know about you but it's a conversation yeah we had it took me a while to figure out what the hell's going on it's a conversation topics should be approached and when they shouldn't be approached that
090Wayne and I had not too long ago um and and it's something that I'm not sure sure what our process is for that um for when we have new board members come in and I I know that it's in our board policy that we do new board member training when we have a new board member come in. I know it was at least my second if not third year on the board before I got new board member training and I think I I think I did it with Brandon and I I don't remember. Didn't Gary come in? Yes. Yes. Because typically that is who comes in. Um and so we did that together. Say I went and did mine when Wayne and Justin came on. Gary came. So you were part of that too. It
091was a different time. It was a second time. Okay. I think we missed Wayne at some point because he doesn't remember having that. It's been better when Harry does come. It is. So, what my point my point I'm trying to make is no, we need to make sure as a board when we have new people come in, we offer them that training. Um, but I would also suggest as a whole board, um, it would not be a bad thing for us to bring in something where maybe not new board member training, but just general boardsmanship training. And I know they have that Janet shared those links with us any we can get it anytime we want it. Again, it's another piece of we need to take time as a board to bring somebody in, help
092us be a better board and be better at what we do. Maybe we need to have Gary come before he retires because the people that are coming in don't have the experience and they're they don't have I don't agree with that statement at all. Oh, I don't I think I think they all had different experiences. True. I mean just 30 years of it. Exactly. Gary Gary can give the presentation without any notes. I'm just I'm just saying that that all this all ties all this conversation ties together. The the self assessment, the training for board members, the board improvement. That's those are all things and it's just they're just little steps that we we kind of just let them slide because we don't really seem to have it have a plan in place to get
093to them. But well are that it's something we need to make sure we're addressing new members and also members that have been on it for a few years doesn't ever hurt to get a little new information once in a while. So refresher. Exactly. I I would say though that that KSB's training is valuable for neighborboard members, but this I I believe the handbook that we're working on for our district still there's so many things that are specific to each individual district that I think that's still a valuable tool for a superintendent to sit down with a new member talking about how we as a district operate because even Gary doesn't know all of our intricacies, the norms of Yeah. and how we, you know, handle issues at our level and how we divide out supplements
094and hire teachers and that's not the same for every district. And so having our own in-house I I see that board as that tool of for new board members or prospective board members that want to understand what we should do. I I'll be the first to admit until we went through the policy review process, that that whole section on board member responsibilities and our policy system. I there twothirds of that I never really realized what we needed and I never had that sit down with the superintendent and talk to how we manage these pieces. So all that's exactly right. Um I I think the board I think this is the exact kind of thing that that board handbook should be cons like this so we don't just come up with this plan but it consistently
095gets carried out from this board to the next year to the next year to the next year as we bring new board members on. That's why I think we should put that focus and I think that's in the evaluation too. Yeah. in a lot of ways is pulling those our goals, our trainings, our policies. 100% agree. Okay. Give you some thoughts there. Yep. Okay. All right. Um, so I don't think we need to do anything more with the self assessment piece of it. Um, we don't need an actual motion to approve that or anything. It's just that we've all seen it. File it. Okay. All right. um enrollment pro projections. Yeah. Well, um this also kind of will help us with when we get to to 7B as well. But on on that spreadsheet, this
096is something that I I started putting together of first day of school, then kind of September 20 numbers because that's the one that's audited that we get our funding based on. And then the bottom of it is kind of April, Mayish, kind of know where we're at and projections for for um the following year. So I I have our projections for next year. I'll tell you looking at where we were at this year um compared to last year is our prek numbers are a lot larger. Um which is a good thing for the future of our district. Um, we started the year at 8 and 14. A total of 22 prekers and now we're looking at 35. So, that's good. You can that's a trend that might I know you can't predict form, but the
097ones and two year olds out there, we're better than you think actually. Yeah. as a stalker. But but that but that's a good question without writing down is is uh Mrs. Schul is the best um person to have because most districts have a local hospital that you can look for a birth rate. Nobody from Jewel County gets delivered here. It's either Superior, Belina. So, so yeah, Mr. Schula is very in tune to to who was then in contact with the daycarees who were getting the first call of, "Hey, I'm pregnant and I have to have a baby." Yeah. So, no, it's it I I hope that we see that trend because, you know, we're we're graduating a large class this year. It is a big boy. Um 27 and so and we're we're picking up
09814 kindergarteners then. So we're big jump right there. The drop right there. But seeing this well this it's it's a good it's a good question to ask because if we're going to start again tying this back to a potential bond project for the future, that's one of the first questions that people are asking me. Well, what's your enrollment look like? What's your enrollment look like? And I'm just shocked that it's it is shocking. I don't know where the kids keep coming from, but they they do. And that's a good thing. But um it it's a it's something we'd also need to keep an eye on because that is going to be a question that we need to be able to answer. Well, what does our enrollment look like? Is it going to be steady? Is
099it going to go up or is it going to go down? Those will be questions that people will want answers to in order to make a decision on. And and just so you guys make sure you understand, if you look at the prek numbers from the number to the total columns from the eyes of the state, prek is 0.5. they're not a full FTE student. So that's why that's why that that's why that number looks different. So if you're looking at bodies the the left column is it but from the state's eyes um once they get into kindergarten they count for a full FTE but but just to make sure that my numbers remain the same. So anyway um I'm sorry but even in the preK3 though we're only getting paid for the ones that
100are at risk risk. That's right. Correct. Even though that's our number, we are still funding. If they're not at risk, we pay for them outright. We're not getting reimbured for that. That's something that the board has always decided was worth investing in. What any of the at risk or primary, right? That's who first majority at risk. That's primary what we have come in. But we don't require it. We don't require it. We um have the ASQs that they fill out, the parents fill out and that's where we gather the information to show us their average and gosh I don't remember the percentage off the top of my head but 90 to 90% right. So is it like I see that are we losing roughly 25 to 30 kids to the superior school district? We're not
101losing. Those are the ones that are part of that grandfathered in. They go up there. We get the FTP for them and then we reimburse superior that actually came from White Rock. They were White Rock students, not ours. And so we actually have a state statute where Juul Rock Hills is the only person in that statute. We're the only one in the state uh that we get funding for those students and then we negotiate with Superior and we pay them um each semester for the number of kids that are there. But that came from from the White Rock district. We inherited that when we consolidated. So every new auditor that we get doesn't understand it and I have to pull the state statute to show them that there's a state statute and we're the only
102ones in it. Tell me can happen. It's Juel County. Yeah. And we have a new auditor again this year. So we're just And so one one thing to keep in mind, the funding formula is going to change in two years, but as it currently sits, we use or we will use for the budget year next year 2520 current year or preceding year. And so based on our trends from September 20, we had 348 kids if you look at that and we're projecting 339 and a half. So, our funding will be based off that 348 student number. The Superior Kids funding, we get the full funding for them without any any weightings. Uh, and then we pay $1,000 a student per semester. So, $2,000 of the 5,500, whatever we get goes directly to Superior. The rest
103stays in our district. We don't get any weightings on them. The only waitings we ever got were for free and reduced lunches. Uh, Superior gives free lunches to all of their students. And so, uh, the only waitings we get, we got two students for the free lunch waitings because they were on the direct cert list. And, uh, so we were able to get those those waitings, but you know, in the past where they would also do the form for free and reduced lunch, the same same one we did, uh, we would get more waitings, but we have lost those because they just give free to everybody. So they have no need for anybody to fill out an income based form. So I didn't know any of the waitings. Then we only get the free and
104reduced if it's there. That's still a significant but it and by them giving all free meals. We've lost we've lost significant amount in that. So still I don't know. We probably could ask them to fill out the form and we could we could send them the form and ask them to fill it out. It would be up to them if they would do it or not. Yes. So based on so and I guess one other thing to look at in this too if you go down the second row of those the September 20 numbers this past this current budget year we were able to use this current year or the average of the two preceding years they that got back in legislation last year. So we were going off of of a 368 I believe
105was the number that we were used but that second proceding year went away and moving forward. So our funding is going to be based unless something drastically happens between now and um enrollment the 348 that we had September 20 our funding is going to be based on that number not the 339 and a half. That makes sense. So they're training new auditors. We actually our audit date was the seventh of the month and they're significantly behind. They're not coming out to do the audits which is actually not in our favor when we get to to uh encourage them a little bit. Everything is being done. One person's training like four new auditors. So I have not heard anything back where we're sitting and if we need to argue any of those waitings that they're going
106to try to take away from us yet. What's the September to April loss? Is it all just natural attrition or is it homeschooling? That's still on my radar. In my my building, it's a blend. This kid moved away. This kid went home school. Looks like they're all crazy. You know, Ethan's college class was 40 at one at one time and now they're almost been cut in half eighth graders. But I do think we see a lot of co after effects of home. I don't know how long that trend will be in place. One of them got held back after homeing. One of them [Music] stayed home. What's not here's the issue with that. It's not being tracked at all by the department. Yeah. Like that that's probably my greater concern is there is no like
107we used to I don't we used to have truency hearings and about with our attorney about kids not showing up but like are we going to press charges and we don't ever have we still do that and then right before court they go on enroll in K12 online show us the screenshot that they're enrolled we withdraw them and they unenroll their kid and it's never checked and no track and there nothing you can do about it kids as friends at that education. We there's there's things that that I'm looking into that we can possibly reach some of them, but with no oversight, we can only control we can control. Yeah. And and not Yeah. That goes back to the parents. I mean, I I I am Do we know the number of out of district
108requests we get them? Does that still happen? people out of our district wanted to come here. No, with the change in open enrollment, you we used to approve layers of uh out of district request. They wanted to leave our district and go to another district. I'm assuming given open enrollment changed last year, they no longer have to make that request, right? But do we have any idea? I don't see those numbers. If it wasn't for the superior numbers, we would have no idea how many numbers kids were leaving our district that live in our district but then grow superior, right? Okay. But we know there are kids that live in our district that go to boy or lakeside or pipe valley. But we don't really know those numbers at all. Am I correct? Well, because
109there's no form they fill out to go there now because there used to be. Yeah. That's just disappear. There's several other districts that would be on here in terms of who would actually live in our district. I've got some things in place that that I'm planning on doing this summer to reach out to those families and just have a conversation, see how things are going, you know, let them know that they're always welcome back and see if there's things that that Yeah. is something that is in our control that maybe we could put in place to help them out. If not, by all means, you know, let them be. Okay. Um there's a lot of school boards that are having these discussions around homeschool kids can now participate in our activities and that we like
110they we have to allow it. Now to what degree becomes really is it the you know we know they can go sports and go in FFA but can they is it also the awards banquet like there there's some real the legislature had a bill this year that really would go out in that scope. I don't think they passed it, but it I'm kind of surprised we don't have that conversation if you want to know the truth. And and I and some districts are really held off by the fact that they're not in our system, but we're allowing them to come do these things. I've always looked at it from the approach that I would hope that we could get some kids at least back into it be it'd be a tool to maybe hopefully get
111them back into our system versus Well, but they're used to taking advantage of us. Why why would I'm a devil's advocate, but why would you why would you want to come back to a as a kid as a to a structured settlement say like ah this is instruction and whatnot when you can go home get your instructor and you can go play sports like oh I wanted to play football sure I don't have to I know I couldn't get good grades I can get good grades at home so I can go play for some or the FBLA interactions and then we then we can still require that they participate in like one class in order to particip to be in the organization that's been available to those kids for two years now we've had haven't
112had a single request those kids that are out homeschooling they weren't participating that's not normal like many other districts are facing that regularly and I think the more talk about it nobody's the more conversations the more the word gets out the more people will concern I You're not wrong, Brian. I get that context, but you also hope that while they're here, you can there's that so that the social piece of it. You're trying to pull them back into the social network of of their friends and you know that that's what you hope you gain out of Sure. They were still in good standing. That might do it. They're on track to graduation. They still automatically for all your events. They might not, you know, they might bring they're not happy here. Okay. Well, these trends
113are great. I think this is this is very helpful data. That was brought up, Wayne, because they said, "Okay, Monday we do eligibility. Starting quarterback's ineligible. he can homeschool, apply to uh um come back to school as a homeschooled kid playing football and he's granted immediate eligibility and that happened that's happening regularly in other districts. Yeah, we have been immune from it but we're not immune from it. Elections have consequences. Be careful what you wish for. So I I've got some other things I'm looking into them. I I don't have enough information out some other ways we might be able to reach some of those people. I like that idea. Okay. All right. Um, facilities. Um, well, I guess before we get into just our our big projects, we I had a and I just
114want to get some input from from the board on this. I had a requisition that came to me and it's just sat on my desk. Um, for updated volleyball nets. Um, the quote was for the swing down ones. Um, but the company the company gave a quote for $42,000, but they don't even know if it will work with the current basketball goals. They'll have to come out if you want to move forward. But my philosophy was it's probably not the right time to do it, but I wanted to bring it to you before I signed off that said no one. No. No. Well, I I I approached this with I was at a couple other gyms where I'd seen this and I sent and I I don't know if I sent to you Sam or
115to J to J and was like how you know what's this take you know what is what do we do this or was this an option and some and uh so what's it cost and so I guess she I I was the one that approached her and said what does this opportunity look like My understanding is the way our gym's set up now is you have to fit you have to go manually put out all the volleyball nets and uh and when you're doing the main tournaments, you know, it's still still manually done, but it's for the practices. So, it' be more accessible. I thought it'd be about twice the amount that they honestly bid, but I won't. So I was the one that brought this to John. I don't know. Okay, that's just everything
116that you look at any modern gym, this is pretty common. Well, like John is trying to do summerly or just summer practices and stuff, but yeah, we still got stuff going on in there. So I know they're every time they every weekend they're having their open gyms they're probably tearing down setting up tearing down setting up and then so that split the basketball court and half courts when you have well that's what we have now if we can set up two courts with the net down or the main court but this is I don't know what exactly I don't know the exact layout that the quotes for either I I just know it's it's not you don't have to manually it all retracts down to basically how the basketball goes raising lower. There would be
117a simple opposite direction come down from the ceiling. You have a volleyball net on this side and the basketball was the bid for two nets. It was just the main two motorized swing line ceiling suspended volleyball systems complete with 7 can't do one in the middle because of the curtain because of the curtain. But wiring would be separate. And then in the email they said that um based on the photos that were sent it's hard to tell without visiting if they would have to make any alterations to the basketball goals and to allow for the swing lines to even fit. So until that they want to move forward they don't want to they were going to come out. So I thought it was worth something at least worth pursuing. That's what I mentioned to her
118and maybe we'll see what it costs then we can I don't know more details than what you sounds like they need to come out say it sounds like we need to table it anyway before we'd even bring it up for consideration. Yeah. Well, sounds like it's going to minimum or two. Yeah, plus wiring. Plus, if there's any alterations, if you have three basketball ones, then you're Is there something to have them come out and just see? That's what I was going to say. I can reach out to them and we need a more detailed quote for one and that that's something at that cost. Is does that need to be bid out to more than one person? Yeah, that price. I mean, you got you've got a quote there from one company, but a $40,000
119project is probably supposed to be bid. Anything over 20 has to be bid. So, we really couldn't even approve that if we wanted to without without opening it up. So, yeah, we can reach out. I guess look into it a little bit more, see if they're interested in coming out and telling us whether it's even possible in our GM. And and then if it's something and then we can revisit and if it's something we want to put out to a bid to other companies, then the board can decide to do that. Go from there. Till then, I guess we'll just kind of leave it on your desk. I was trying to clean it off. I like to I like to keep things on there. Okay. Well, and then I guess um you know, getting into
120the the bigger project that we've been looking into. Um I had a patron that reached out to me about the the advertisement in the newspaper. So I'm meeting um with them Wednesday just to explain the process that we haven't committed to any company that the whole purpose of that was just to get our um I wondered when I seen that ad in the back how many people were going to be like when did we approve this? That was and that was I think kind of the initial reaction especially when there's a dollar figure on there. People just assumed oh well they've already approved this and it's all planned and they never bothered to ask any of us and that's the unfortunate part of having to do that process of bidding out for a CM because
121you have to have a a scope a dollar amount. Um even though we really haven't determined that yet. Um, so you can't even guarantee. I've had a couple conversations too where people come out, what's with this $11 million bond you guys are gonna pass? It's like, well, can I give you a little more background on that first? So, 80 steps. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and like Yeah, the the 11 allows us to go either way without having to resubmit it. But anyway, so that deadline for those to to submit their qualifications to myself or to um Greg at SPT is tomorrow. Um, and so last I heard there was six companies um that were going to send their qualifications or at least interested in in the in that project. So I kind of made me feel
122good that there was multiple options out there. So better than so we'll see what they where they're at. Um then once we get those I think that from my understanding and I'll clear up with Greg too is um then they'll he'll gather all that information at some point then we'll have to do interviews. Now that we have more than that we only have to interview three. If you have if you have four, you have to interview all four. If there's more than four, you have to interview three. So um we've done this. Yeah, we did. I guess. Yeah, you I didn't remember it being this long of a process when we did it before, but um so anyway, um I it's promising at least here that we have that many people interested in coming up
123to North Central um potential of helping us with that. So, um I'll get that information to you guys once we get all those and and I'll keep you informed on that. I was able to get a quote back and I put it in the thing from the for the VRF or mini split um just those are synonymous from the willow springs um their cost was in there was 4.5 but could be more depending on what the removal of the ceiling and stuff was based on that so I was a little disappointed in that I just be bit more detailed seems like a little bit of a guess doesn't it and and to be honest with you even when I was talking with um the per from the company in Omaha um well last winter that
124refrigerant change was really anybody that's looking at these projects is kind of concerning because and I'm far and I I'm probably going to say this wrong but the new refrigerant that they're requiring supposedly is more flammable and so then fire Fire marshals aren't too keen about putting those. Is that Is he right? It It is not really, but So they're trying to scare everybody is what they're doing. I mean, it is more flammable. It But the the propagation is is minimal. Like you can walk away from a fire spread and just you can It's not You're trying to scare, right? trying to do. But but I I just I just say that in the eyes of the fire marshals aren't real happy with with this either. But yeah, but they're going to have to get
125used to it because it's it's coming. Yeah. Like there's no choice. Well, that's what I don't like because there's no way we'll be able to buy the equipment this summer to avoid a price increase. And then that like I said that not enough information here, but if you remember too that that whole system you kind of need to build an insulated building so that the exterior the units remain in that efficient temperature zone. I don't know if that's included in this. That's separate and doesn't doesn't sound like um does this refrigerant thing does this figure in the same way with the rooftop units? Is that is that under the same other words? Is is that going to make the cost of that go up because it's going to be new equipment versus what I mean
126it could be but like most of those the your 454 which you wrote it wrong but your 454 is going to end up being in like your bigger units. you're gonna see, hey, what's going into the 454 in small, it's already in small air conditioners anyway, like windows. It's already there, but the 454 will probably be in the newer rooftop units, especially when we get ready if they haven't sold all of their old supplies. Is it different? Is it different equipment or is it just a different refrigerate refrigerant in the same equipment? It it depends because the compressors in there, they they build them to run efficiently for a certain refrigerant, right? So, it's probably a little bit different equipment inside the big 12. That 1234 YF, it's in a lot of cars now. Yeah,
127it's it's in the 454 like it's part of it with 32. So it it's meant as a uh we are in his wheelhouse right now. Right over here. But he's learning this year. We got an expert on this for Thank you for that. That's Oh, I just the reason the reason I'm asking because it's you know the fact that this quote this quote came back more than what I thought it was going to be. I'm wondering if you know we're looking at the other is is Greg figuring in with that the rooftop unit is that current day prices or is that figure in where there might be a price increase with this new equip I don't know when I have my wires crossed because when I talked to the guy from Will Springs the price
128he gave me was equipment only two million okay he didn't about the other two million labor yeah that make a little difference It's it was it was worth the walk down that road though, Wayne, to get to take a look at that and see if it was a viable option. And it it looks like to to me, and correct me if I'm wrong, that it's probably the same, if not more, of what we're looking at with rooftop units as far as price. And so that I mean, it gives me some reassur assurance that probably the rooftop units is our best option. I mean, it's probably cheaper than this or at least comparable. It's certainly cheaper than the two pipe system we were looking at originally. So, I mean, I I feel like we've exhausted our
129options on I don't I don't think there's some magic bullet that we're going to find to solve this problem that's half as much money. It's so I thought it would be too I I had hoped it would. But but but I would agree with Mark because so many of our communities that's their first thought is and I've been to other school districts that you walk around their building and that's what they've got on I think um Stockton's got them sitting around their building down there when we're down there for that basketball tournament. So I know McDonald say we that's so I say it was worth doing it worth checking into. I like you was hoping for a lot better result than that, but it it is what it is, I guess. So, okay. Um, more
130on facilities. Anything that you've got? I I guess I'd like to clear up a little bit on our last meeting. I thought we were the discussion was taking out the auditorium, redoing that and do the addition and trying to figure out a way to squeeze that number where it fits without changing it. But then somewhere in the conversation we started about separate building and I just I needed to make sure I know where I'm at with Craig moving forward. So yeah, that's really kind of go that is what the discussion did. Um and and I second that we I think in order to really proceed we we have to at some point come to a conclusion of what what is the what is the project look like and and and I don't know exactly how
131we got on the tangent last time of either add on to the building or build a separate building. I'm sure it probably had to do with cost and bang for the buck and and all of that. Um but what nonshells I guess we we need to and you included um Sam that since it's your building over there of what what the scope of this thing needs to be so we can tell Greg and then when we get our CM we can give them we we're not going to get specific costs on something until we decide what it is that we want to do and if it's if you if you need more information you got to tell me what information you need and I think that's what Jeff is asking at this We we've got
132a pretty good idea of the of the project of adding on to the current building. We got a pretty close estimate of probably what that's going to cost and what it's going to look like and what you're going to get. If you if you wanted us to pursue building a separate building and not adding on because that gives you different options on what that space is, we can do that. In fact, we kind of already have been down that road. It's just a matter of, you know, we we we had them make it a separate building. That was the original idea to begin with. And then we said, well, that's too much money. And we make it smaller, smaller, smaller. And then finally, it's like add-on instead of small building. And we kind of keep
133chasing our tail on this. But at some point, we need to we need to decide what, you know, what cost we're willing to support. And I feel like we've kind of narrowed that down and and what we want that space to look like if that's if that's the project we choose to to do. And so I know there was some some pros and cons to adding on. Um obviously the the pros being new CTE space and the potentially new classroom space. Um, I know there was some concern over tying it getting into the theater piece of that if that I feel like that was where the questions came in. Integrated edition, can we still stage it over time on certain things? Yes. Um, obviously if you tie into the theater when when you're that's that
134stage, I mean you you could do that, but um I think the classroom classrooms added on to the side of that building would could be could be a separate stage. I think the idea was what we went to Greg with is is it would all be building that shell of all that would be one stage. You do all of that space. Yeah. At once. you're only going to be able to split it up and and then the the staging comes with the the finishing out that space as you go rather than I think because before we were looking at well if you build this building and then add on to that building and add on to that building and that's an option too but I don't I think what we were trying to accomplish was
135let's let's build the greatest amount of square footage with a roof over it and a concrete floor and then from then on that that leaves us and future boards time and option to fill that in as they go. Um, but what what I guess I need to know, Jeff needs to know, is are we still interested in pursuing that addition? Is that where you where you want the addition to be? Do you want it to be a separate building? Um, thoughts on that? I can't help to think separate building end up being cheaper. a small option. I just foresee problems trying to click on the Starship Enterprise with an addition. I'm not a contractor. I You're talking going north? Yeah. There there would be advantages to going north rather than west. Designed for I do
136too. Looks great. And as I'm sure as an architect, he probably likes that better too than just slapping another building next to the one we got. But um a a separate building gives you more flexibility with the space. Um probably I would guess would I I'm like like you I got to assume it's cheaper to build a standalone building than it is to tie into an existing building. I think I can I can tell you based on the numbers that he has given us for finished space and I shared this with you and Mr. elves a 120x 140 building with a 5,600 uh um square foot a shop, a 4,000 ft um wood shop, uh two 800 square footage um a and class classrooms, four um 10 uh 1,50 square foot classrooms, restrooms, and a
137work room. um at that 120 um by 140 equals uh let me drop down here 16,800 square foot at 300 square foot is what he was bidding he bid us between 300 and 350 would be 540,000 to build everything we wanted finished in separ structure but that would still we'd still have to think about the 4 million it does it yeah it doesn't replace that. And you also as as part of all of this, we're talking about improving our security and our entrances. Building a separate building creates its own problems of how did that change? You're still going to have to figure out a way to connect them even if they're not 140 by 120 or whatever it was include its own HVAC system. Well, if he's if he if he's bidding us at 300
138foot finished, I assume that means finished with Yeah. Did that include auditorium and lunchroom? No. No. No. Okay. And that's that's where that's the difference in the it is. And the and the reason that he brought that drawing back that tied into the little theater was because of part of partly the guidance that we gave him was if our current building has that big of a space in it that we're not really using for anything would tying into that and kind of repurposing that space. I mean, you basically you're you're gaining that much more square footage that we've already got and we just aren't using. And so if that theater space could be improved and turned into something else that was used on a daily basis, whether that be an all-purpose room, whether it be
139your new band room, whether it be a whatever, um, another CTE classrooms, you know, then you're in a way you're kind of getting back some space that you already own but aren't using. That was that was what we were trying to do with that piece of made a lot of um because if you building the separate building that stands alone, you're leaving what we have the way we have it, you've got a theater that's really outdated and is not used a whole lot and is probably not big enough for some of the things we're using it for. And all you still have all of those problems with it. You haven't fixed any of that. And so and no HVAC in the old Yeah. So, and roughly we would be putting for me was with going
140west and I just love that concept, but I I would I was envisioning just its own standalone building that then transition, but we literally having to go and get the theater to do the multi-purpose room and we never really could put our finger on exactly what we were going to what the end result was and that that cost component to do that. I I still think I I'm back to standalone building still going to be our best option. It allows us to move forward to get a shell in place and at least start filling in a necessary. Well, we're gonna we would definitely have to add Oh, no. Because you're still Yeah, the old auditorium was stepping down into it, staying like it is with stadium seats and stuff, but behind it there will be
141um bleacher seats. the tennis court. Yeah. And there's where your multi-purpose is. You still have the stadium down below with your stable seats in your what would be the old auditorium and then what would be the multi-purpose, you know, there's your walkway in between your stable seats and stuff and then your bleachers come back. We the auditorium if if you do, you have options to remodel that. We just have never chosen to there. I mean, you could just like change seating, we could upgrade lighting, we could there are lots of things we've not even attempted. We just it's not been a priority for us. And those are all things you can do that dollar sensitive. True, but not for about the next 15 or 20 years if we if we do the other. You see,
142it's it's a it's a way to get some of that done now. uh versus if you if you leave that space untouched and put the money somewhere else, that's fine, but you're committed to this other this new space for years down the road and it ensures that that auditorium doesn't get anything done to it for quite some time. If it's go going to the west, does it get did did we shrink it so much that it takes away the square footages you talked about? Does that is that still does that still give us the square footages we want? I don't know because it has changed periodically based off what's finished and what's unfinished beneath. So I can't tell you that. They're showing a 9,000 square foot woods and open flexible CT shell but the classroom
143edition 10,000 square foot. But exactly that the classroom edition would be 4,000 4,200 square foot. I can't make his numbers make sense to me. That's why I can't answer that question. the but when we left going with the addition it was just going to be shelled to some degree and finish later. It wasn't and when you're talking the 350 that's completely finished. That's how we were getting it under to try to get something up and done. But you could essentially do the same thing to the north. Get your shell up and finish as much of it as you can within that lawn. I've always been a fan of going north. I've loved that concept. Well, we just always felt was too popular. So, a separate steel building. I think that gets us back to where
144somebody local like Singer, Wise, Trip could put up the shell steel building and that not have to go through CNN. I I agree that part we can save because the V the cost variables there are not going to be near like they would be with expansion. in my mind. But you're wrong, too. I don't I don't think you're wrong, but I don't know. Yeah. No, but I I agree in that concept, too. I think the design did build that piece and and I guess we can't find anybody to finish it on the inside. Then maybe that's recess back. I think how you integrate it is where you're going to see C. How you put the two together and merge them. I do not agree completely separate. I I don't know how all that works. I
145I I I also know probably if you if you you're going to have a lot less interest from a CM if the project is the only part of the project they're going to handle is down to like finishing out a building or something. They're they're the reason you got how how many companies you said are interested because it's 11. They're looking at the big that's an attention getter. They're looking at the whole thing saying we got some margins in here. We can make some money. And if suddenly you've cut it down, you say, "Well, we're going to have this guy do this and we're going to do design bill bid with this and we're gonna" and so really all your piece of it is only going to be about two two million or four million
146or whatever it is. You're you're going to have a lot of them go, "Yeah, we're not interested anymore." So just be aware of that. And and my understanding with how the statute reads with our advertisement is if you go more than 20% off of that then you have to readvertise. So if we're looking at you're saying if we get below 9 million we'll have to do it. Totally do it different. Yep. the building you were talking about. What how tall? Well, it would be two levels. It would be the hall park for the uh egg shop just like in in the drawing that you have the tall part for the egg shop and then it comes down for the I didn't know that. I didn't I didn't know. That's why we were kind of between
14710 and 12. I went with 11. That was a total of thing. Tell me where I need to go. We haven't signed any contracts with anybody. We can still do whatever we want to with it. But you're asking the question 10 to 12 and we went with 11. That way we can go either way. That's all right. doesn't mean the whole hire singer to come build the building and if you totally change the scope of the project then it's very possible we might not need the CM anymore I guess is what I mean it's what you're asking like the addition and going west I think was where we were kind of headed it was and I wouldn't probably trust that to just a a company that puts up if they're going to tear into bricks
148and and plumbing electricity. I mean, you want somebody that knows what they're doing with that. And but if we're building a standalone separate building and the only thing we really need some expertise on other than what our local people would have is connecting it to our current building in some fashion, entrance fees, something um then I don't I don't Did we ever have we still need somebody for the H? I mean, rooftops or Yeah, but then that's that instead of an 11 million project, that's a $4 million project. But you're right. We'd still need somebody for that. But I don't you might not have near as many people interested in it anymore. Did we ever get Did SPT ever do a building to the north that was the layout of the building to the west?
149All I've seen is just like it's a whole it's rebuilding the whole junior senior high in classrooms. Is that the How many classrooms did you say? Just Yeah. So that's what that's what I think they're going west instead of like taking it and rotating it more. I think they went west so they could tear out the auditorium and then make that the multi-purpose space so that you could then transition into classrooms. If you went north with those classrooms, like you're just you're and you tear out the little theater, you're just gonna have a big old jut out over there. I mean, four classrooms might go north. I think I think the answer to your question, uh, Brandon, is I I don't think so. I don't think they've if I don't think what we've asked him
150to what's on your drawing of the attachment to the west, the addition to the west. I don't think we've had him draw a separate building that does the exact same thing to the north. I I don't think so. We've had we've thrown a various other scenarios at him for standalone buildings, but they all I think included more pieces than that because we were thinking about trying to replace some other spaces. Um, we could certainly ask him to figure they added what that would be like. Is it just a separate building that doesn't touch the auditorium? All they did was at one in one they added a just a shop in a voag, a wood shop in a voag. That was one of the first ones they did in the north. Yes. But we never did
151one that was like CTE building plus like four classrooms separately. That's kind of where we're at though making decision on whether they're going north. Well, that's that's kind of what I'm asking for. We just need to raise hands. We I just we can't keep going back and forth. We got to figure out a direction. We got to start different renderings and the plans. The whole problem is is there isn't a perfect answer. There is not. We would have decided two years ago what that is. And and I think I I think we've pursued enough avenues that we've got a pretty clear idea of of what it's going to cost to fix our problem and pretty close to what it's going to cost to add some of the spaces that I think we're prioritizing based on
152our the input that we've got. Now, might it be might we be able to save some more money or get more square footage for our dollar by building a separate building instead of an addition? Possibly. That's the question we'd have to put back to our architect. Um, but I mean, even even working under the assumption the same the assumption that it's the same cost either way. Addition hooked on, addition separate, assuming it's the same money. I think what we need is some guidance from everybody of what what's your what's your preference? And when I say everybody, I'm including our administrators, too. Um, you know, does does it make more sense to try to tie into our current building? Does it make more sense to try to utilize the space in the auditorium better than we're
153utilizing it now? Or does it make more sense to have a separate building that gets us these same spaces that not touching the auditorium just leaving that all like it is and what and I tell me then No, go ahead. Well, I just the the one thing that that I'm struggling with about and I really don't you guys tell me where to go. I'm going to drive and I'll fire get whatever information we need. But we know that if we speak from the elementary school's perspective, what's the one of the biggest concerns we have with that? Separate building. Kids are walking from building to building. And we have the door on the east side of the the junior senior high constantly getting, for lack of better words, vandalized because kids can't get in and out
154classrooms because it's separate buildings. And then we want to do that again. Unless there's a way to truly tie that in, we're just creating a I mean I there there is but that but it comes at a cost. It comes at the same the same cost of tearing into the auditorium because you're connecting them this you're still connecting to the old building that the building and then you have a breezeway that's connected to one building to the next. So the one the the separate building can be added or can be put up with your extra classrooms on the side and then a breezeway can be put up that can be added that attaches to the building that has to be demolished where you're adding on you know and I I expressed that I I don't
155know how I would maximize you know I know I understand completely that that's that little theater area that square footage is not being used to its fullest potential if we were to make it into a multi-purpose area I said this at the last I mean I don't know what I would do with it different you know and I've been there for a long I don't know what how I would utilize that. I I again I I made this drawings based on a big box with that meets the square footage needs that we want for the shops and the classrooms and things like that. It could be put right on the north edge of the building so that the hallway lines up directly five feet from the doorway that comes out of the north side of
156the building by the little theater and you could have a small breezeway there. And that again would be all finished, not unfinished space. 5,400 5,40,000 plus 4 million for the HVAC for the whole thing. You're talking about 9 million for the entire four classrooms, two shops, two classrooms, and for those two shops and the HVAC. So 9 million for all of it. It's not as pretty. It's not and and we would still have the little theater as is. I thought we had Well, we talked about it, but then what's the cost of renovating the band room into a locker room? How much is how do you get dirt down there? How what's the plumbing going to cost? Is that 500,000? Is that worth it? The re It seems like the remodeling is so much more
157expensive. Bottom level makes one set of stairs down into it. Do you want to connect the door? I would I would have it setting right on the north side of the building where the hallway entrance that goes into the new building is right by the little theater door, the the walk-in door. Walk. Yeah. And so you'd walk right out there through breezeway, whatever, and into the new building and it would be quasi connected. Not not back to the east where the entrance is closer to your office. No. And the biggest re biggest reason for that is um because of the disruption to parking and access to the football and track. If you built to the northwest, you you you'd have to change your access road, but you could still have your parking around Yes. where
158it basically is. I don't what cost to move all that electrical stuff on the north side of the building. Don't know that go somewhere else. Well, I thought all that that had the fence built around it was like transformers and stuff. Yeah, I I don't know that. Yeah, the transformer stuff obviously you'd have to do something with. But but the other fenced in area with the chillers or whatever those are that would all be gone if you I mean if you fixed your HVAC problem. So, I don't know. Those are those are details that somebody smarter than me need to figure out. I'm looking at from the dollar perspective. I I feel like if if they're telling us the shelves $125 a square foot and the finished product against having Sam sit down with them
159and design that concept, we know what the dollars are going to be. Let's make Mr. Cells and and Mark already have it. Yeah, we got that one. Well, what he's talking about. Okay. And I'm sorry. One thing to keep in mind too time of dollar amounts. Part of this project is new entrance to middle school. That's about 5 to 600K. We there's professional fees and all that kind of stuff. I think on one of them that's around 3 to 500,000. So we can't just look at the cost of the building and know that that's the the complete cost. I guess what I'm saying. No, I but I'm telling you building that $350 a square foot is us trying to piece that back out and go, okay, what are we willing to what do we need
160to do up front and what are we willing to do long term and fill in complete on a different budget timeline. I think that's the number what we need to figure out how a budget works. But at the same time, I think it'd still be done. If you're if you're talking shells, let's do a shell and let's start incrementally that plan out. I don't. But you're right. 9 million becomes 11. It does. And it it will in this case, too. I I appreciate what Sam is saying, and I I I still in my heart I think he's right. But I know we can take this to him and it's going to be an 11 million, $1,200 project. It's just the way this has been throughout the whole thing. It's what we all sit here and
161think and we go to an architect. It always seems to be $2 million more than here's what you get for the 11 million, right? What finished space do we get? And if and if we and I'm totally in agreement with you. If if if it's 11 million, if it's 9 million, regardless what the amount is, if we can get what we want to get is the maximum amount of space for the dollar, biggest bang for the buck, and if that's a separate building, and it logic would tell you that it is, then that's the way we should be going. And I I think he's I think our architect would be more than willing to draw that out for us. I think it's just we've been trying to give him the guidance that we've we've been
162giving him guidance as we go and each time we give it it's a little that changes and it changes and it changes and it changes and at some point I think we've seen most of the options. We kind of got to commit to something and say please draw us to your best guess of what this will look like and what it will cost and that's what we give to the CM whenever we hire one and go from there. I'm the same on the numbers. I'm looking at the the Shell at $125 a square foot and 9,000 square foot and 4,000 to 5,000 foot shops is 1.1 million. The four classrooms are roughly with the hallways around 3,000 square feet. That should be around a million at $350 a square foot finished. I but then they
163show a 10,000 square foot building here for three million. That's why I said I can't I can't that doesn't make I don't understand that either like that that classroom edition finished should be a million $1.1 million finished in total the shells a million 1.2 and I don't know Mr. in that in those in those remodel. Does that still include the windows and stuff or is that windows, flooring, lighting? See, that's the are all variables that are they are again it's it we and we can we can make all those variables and we can put them all on a checklist, but we can't really make that checklist until we know what the project is going to be. And so, you know, we obviously we talked about with the remodel that includes trying to put windows in
164the old building. That's a half million dollar project, isn't it? 15,000 per window. Okay. It's not as much as I thought, but it's it's a few hundred,000 project. Like 90. Is something that we need to decide? Is that a priority? Is that something we still want to do and spend that money on? And if it if it is, great. If it's not, great. But, you know, these are all things that we we can put on a checklist of yes, no, yes, no. But we we we need to we got to give him a final scope of what it is we're trying to do so he can make that list for us to pick and choose from. And and it's and every time we change what we tell him we want that everything else along with
165it changes. Asking or telling that you know the sizes of the building he mentioned and say this is what we want for classrooms. try and get it as close as you can to what you think it will cost and then we can start picking and choosing the finishes and the little details I can see as an architect, you know, after you went through four different options and two different times after a while like yeah Sam's comments about I'm not sure what I would do with that space really gives me pause. Agreed. That's why I'm That's why I'm asking you. My vision of what to use it for. I just I don't But but the truth is I like the concept of the design to the west in terms of what that square footage and the
166addition of the classrooms. I just envision as a whole separate structure that we connect it with a breezeway or some as secure as we can make it to go. Okay, let's just take that to the north. Then I and then we start to plan out then that I I see the auditorium as I don't know I don't know we could totally tie it forever. I mean some some of that auditorium just needs some paint would be a good start in some capacity for it if we're not going to totally get it take out a couple rows of seats row wheelchairs. Yeah. There just need to make room for a wheelchair anyway. So there's like that that well we could make it a little more it. Yeah. If we're going to take out some seats for
167handicap where our capacity is what 300 right now the little theater. Yeah. I think it's 325 but minimal difference. I'd love to I'd love to expand it. I but I don't knowing that some of our lights can't we can't even find Yeah, we're going to do something. Let me get notes to know where I'm going with Craig at this point because every time I go back to him, it's something different. And so I just we need to commit to something so that I can get on I don't have I don't have the drawing in front of me. The one that attaches to the little theater. I don't have one that attaches to the little theater. So I separate building. I think what we're what we're asking for is this. But but instead of being here,
168it's basically sitting right here. Now, when he does that, does he factor in the dirt work that would go to the west then in his square footage? Uh I I have no idea. Okay. There'd be a lot less dirt work to the north. There'd be a lot less dirt work to the north. I know. I just want to make sure I got consensus. Everybody's on a different I'm gonna give this to you. With yours because I'm hearing several different things here, too. I would hit it up. Make sure who's our artist. Well, here I just put put my on the on the screen. M you turn on that TV. This one. You have to plug into it. Basically the same thing here instead. I just need a clear message to Greg. That's what I need.
169Can you hook up wirelessly to it? Different. Do you need a jump? Can you hook up? Do you need to be plugged in or can you hook to it wirelessly? It needs to be plugged in. But I don't It'd be just easier for him to hook up his That's a good idea though. this board here. There's one on the back side. Mr. You want me to reshare these with you? So there. Yeah, I've got probably 25 30 different drawings. So I'll just share with you right now. There you go. I'll just move over there. Let's just change the number about there. We're gonna have to turn the fan on. It is good. I'm gonna start really bad. I'm still here. I'm gonna feel like my face feels like it's on fire. This side of the
170face is like literally on fire. So, dang. I'd love my glad was cold earlier and I knew I'd get warm. Not. No, because it's like a helicopter in here. So like a Nobody listens at home. Nobody. What's the matter? It's making me feel at home. So that off the northwest corner of there's another picture that shows where it's located on the campus. This is and I can give you the comparison of the size of the egg. This is basically twice the wood shop that we have now. Three times the egg shop. Each of these um classrooms the 30 by 35 is 1,50 square ft. Our science rooms are just about that size. So it would be okay. So my question is here's my question. If said this is me and I'm looking at it and
171this is north of our building right now. We pull up the next one that'll answer her question. Where am I attached? Which way are you talking? Right there. So it connects to that hallway that comes back that right there. This connects into a classroom. Well, we you might have to make a hallway or if you change the orient but if you change the orientation from that way to this way, then it would go right into the hallway. Yeah. But then you'd have your egg in and your shop close to the building and I that was maybe with you guys. Well, you know, don't worry about it. I'm just those are those logistics. And then Mr. Cells, if you want to pull up the other one, you can see why because Mark's question was, why not
172build it over uh pull up the one with the parking lot? I asked that question anyway earlier because if you move it over, it's going to put it right in the middle of the parking lot. Also like it there because then you can build like if you need parking for projects and things, you can go to drive traffic flow. That's exactly what you're coming in right off the street over here by Beckers. Coming right by this. You can see where the staff parking is. Um handicap parking slow. You you could also I mean depending on what you want to do, you could still use this and come around. You could, you know, if you would if you didn't want to totally cut that off from that direction and make it only a oneway. That's what
173I'm saying. I still think there needs to be an in and an out rather than an inn out on the same road. One way you're in and out. You could still have an inn out coming in from the west, but I I note for just the reason that I didn't want to do that is because the thought process is putting your main entry right here in that science room and the science rooms would be moved out to the new facility so we could update the science rooms. That way you enter the building right here. That's what I was wondering. Where are we entering then? Right there. Okay. There's here then is not going to take to see where we and we know that number. I'm sorry. But I I think 350 for the classroom finished
174and 125 for a shell is probably about where we're going to be at. But what's your square footage on that? Uh what I say 48. All finished. It was 5,40,000. All finished. All finished. shops, shop classrooms, bathrooms, hallways, classrooms. Now, you if you needed to save a million dollars, you could leave two classrooms unfinished or a shop unfinished or that would be your main entrance on the front. Mhm. You'd move your main entrance. Our main entrance is now further west. Adequate parking up there. Well, this is still parking. Yeah. Everybody the the everybody else would still park back here. This would just be visible parking. I don't know again. Okay. Maybe I see things too narrowly. So you're at 99. What's your thoughts here with Honor down because she couldn't see She missed a step.
175Oh, broke her arm. Two levels out north. So, what what happened? We got one set of stairs or two sets of stairs toward the handrail. Is there a light yet? No. Still no light. So, can you see them? No. Oh, no. I'm walking out. My mom and dad park out front. I pick mom out by the hand with her phone. Still think that needs to be part of the project. redo redo redoing that front end of that like redoing that whole front parking lot that that ledge that's been there that that Oh, it's falling in there. Okay. It's it's an eyesore and it's not. So, help me out here. That's a different discussion. I'm going to go back to Greg with separate building that includes go back to find it now. One more time. Now,
176while you have that up there, if we're needing to squeeze money, you can see the square footage of those shops. Right now, our current a shop is 2,35 square ft and our current wood shop is 1,824 square ft. So, you can see how much larger we're looking. So, if we needed to squeeze some money, those shops could be a little smaller. They don't need to be doubled or tripled. That's just Yeah, but you got to figure in with your woods a place that that you've got a finished room. You've got you can add that in which is perfect. So that size would be good. Egg shop meanings and car. I was thinking machines. I I don't I'd rather build the shell and finish it and have the square footage to then fill it as we
177need it. Yeah. And I would like to see buildings like this that can be added on to of course is easy enough. you know, does let's plan for a new auditorium, whatever space that is, that could be an expansion at some point. That's the ultimate reason to is that six. Uh, actually, that's kind of the thought and the reason I I have and those are huge restrooms. wouldn't be that big. But a lot of the places you go to anymore, it is a a a restroom just like this with a a a toilet and single. That way you don't have to worry about where where's most my problems in the boys's bathroom where there's 15 kids in there. You have one person goes in there. I got a camera on the whole place. So if
178somebody writes the f- word on the wall, I know who's in there. Um the other thing that that we haven't had to deal with is unisex. You know, I got somebody that's a boy thinks they're a girl or vice versa. Doesn't matter. It's a bathroom. So, and they're going alone. Bobby, to answer your question, the building would rotate like this. That's what I Yeah, I agree. And that would put the egg shop and wood shop towards the west. Correct. So, you know, you could still have your drives there for going out in the field or whatever you wanted to because then I was say because if you put in but you can put in exterior you got to be thinking about your your a shop. You know, are you have a big overhead door? You
179want you want a big overhead door and how tall are your sidewalls? So, if you rotate that counterclockwise, you know, then you can add on an auditorium space because it'll like it'll just come over to the east a little bit. I do those restrooms have access from both sides from the hallway and the classroom that I'm saying is this is what those pieces. Yeah. Sorry. Maybe higher. Not want more of an angle. Okay. See what I'm saying? There's a roof line. Look, this this is your classrooms. It's a shorter roof because this is your the program over. Every time we have a meeting, I have something another month. We move down the road. And I'm sorry about your Well, how many stalls do we have in the boys the boys and girls bathroom? Five in
180each bathroom? Four or five? The boys has vote that way. How's that sound? The four stalls both together. They only use two of them. There's one stand shouldertoshoulder. 107. The rest is your deal. What's that you're talking about? So that we wouldn't need that many people in the urinal in the boys' bathroom at the high school. Yeah. No, because they're so close together. I've tried to stay in there. Guys won't do that. They'll go use the stalls or we'll space out. That's all you like. Hey bro, you're a little closer and I want you to be here inviting over. We got a conversation. Hey, how you doing? Well, those were bathrooms that were designed 60 years ago. Okay, so 70 years ago, freshman. So, yeah, [Music] to make sure that I where I need to
181be when I talk to Greg tomorrow. Separate building west northwest of the current building that's going to have the CTE space and the four classrooms. Knowing that we also have the HVAC which is roughly an estimate of four. We've got about 5 to 600K for the elementary. You figure a breezeway connected or two. I just want to make sure that got everything I need. So, what else am I missing here? If you if you set up a time between the two of us, we can truly remember everything. I don't want to start over again next week. I'm not sure. I'm not sure it needs to. I don't think we wait till a month from now to talk about it again. We're gonna run out of time. I'm pretty sure we're going to anyway, but it's
182funny. We got a long ways to go before November election. Okay, just to get back on track and because it's already 3:30 and we still got a ways to go yet. Um hey we will we will talk to the architect tomorrow. We will give him these guidelines. say this is what the board and administration decided that they want to try to do. Make it happen for the price that we want or less that we've already talked to him about because that's where he he's been working from that you know we gave him those guidelines you know that 10 to 12 million several months ago. I mean, he's been working from that perspective, but we'll say this, we want to do this. We want it to be less than this and make it work. And we'll
183try to get back to you all with that. Um, I think the context of that though has to be there are parts of this that are willing to not finish in order to get the cost. I I'm a little anxious to shrink the square footage. I'd rather shrink the finishing. And there's not a lot there's not a lot of finishing to do in the shops. Yeah. to an extent, but you know, we don't have to move into those right away either. So, you know, there should be some wiggle room on that end, too. And as soon as he can get that back to us, then I would suggest we get back together and talk about it again. Okay. I I don't know if I don't know how long it'll take him to do that. It
184usually doesn't take him very long. I'm not sure I would suggest waiting till May to talk about this again. We're just going to run out of time if we don't get moving a little quicker on some of this stuff. And and the other the other piece of that is we are overdue with trying to get in touch with our comm community committee and start getting word out on some of this. And I I've been I've been holding the reigns back on that because I I wasn't willing to get in front of a group of community members and say we don't really know what we're doing yet. Um, and so if we can get to that, we're pretty sure we know what we're doing and and and have the support of of the board to do
185it and believe it's the right thing, then I feel a lot better getting in front of that group. But but but the fact that it's out there, the fact that, you know, the the bid is in the paper, we've got people that are asking and people are that are and and rightly so, why aren't you giving us more information about this? I'm I'm ready to start giving them that information, but I'm not going to set us up to look like we're not Morren not sure what we're doing until we are. So, um if if we can get to that point, then the sooner the sooner the better in my mind, we can keep it moving. And and one thing too, just keep in mind for the end, new legislation passed to where it minimizes the
186times you can have special elections. You can have it during November and the general election and then the dates are there's only four months of the year you can have it. You can't have it whenever you want. It's I want to say it's November, March, and then June or July. I I'll have to get I'll get I'll get back and I can let you guys. But they've narrowed the time frames of when you can't have special elections if you don't do November. I sure hope we get to November, but we're going to be pushing it pretty close now. So, one thing you might want to check with Mullen is the dimensions whether we should go longer versus narrow and narrower or because some of them steel buildings their prices are going to be dictated. You
187know, the wider you go, the more expensive your cost per square foot's going to be. You can go longer don't have that much. Yeah, you just add the width starts getting expensive. So, explore that drawing, but maybe the classroom on the front edge versus the side. whatever it takes to telling we're not whatever that size isn't necessarily set right whatever is the most cost effective efficient size or efficient shape building yeah because it could be where those four classrooms are in in square a box and then there's a small hallway in between that's your access point to the well the cost like you said the cost the longer those rafters get in the ceiling the more that cost goes up ways to do it. Okay. Okay. Got it. All right. Um let's move on to
188the action items. Uh the elementary math curriculum. Yeah. I'll let Lacy take this, but we they've did a good job of vetting all this and and they're ready to make a move forward with this. It's it's a big commitment, but it's I'll let you speak more. It's going to challenge kids a lot more for sure, too. So um we formed a an adoption team in TSS and a bag of representatives. Um we filled out rub rubrics on I think six or seven different that were out there. Um it's really decided that I fit our needs at our school best. Um it's actually got four components to it. Uh the first one is the core which is going to be taught in the class. Um the second one is the assessment piece which um is the
189benchmark testing beginning, middle and the end of the year to see where our kids fall. The third piece is the individualized learning where our students can pace themselves with those assessments. Um the program can tell us what standards, what skills these students are missing. So they can go back in and uh we teach skills either onetoone small group or um the individualized learning has a web-based application to it as well. And then the fourth piece is um the professional development. I will not sell us a product without giving us some professional development. That looks like four times during this first year they're going to come out to us. Two of them will be um where they're giving us direct instructions and then two of those times are going to be coaching our teachers to show
190us what their expectations how they're looking at the data to best inform their instruction. Um the second year there's going to be three opportunities for them to come down here. Um, so the the one thing that set I Ready apart from the rest um was that professional development piece, but also they have local um representatives here in Kansas. I've been speaking with Belinda is her name. She lives by Witchah. She's like, "Lacy, I go up to uh central Kansas all the time. If you need an extra textbook, just let me know. I'll drive it to you." which is pretty cool. So, um we thought that this was the best for our district. If you look at the quote um for six years, it's 48,689.36 and that includes all of those and that includes teacher workbooks,
191student workbooks, the online component. So, if you're a first grade teacher, you can access kindergarten curriculum, you can access second, third, all the way up to Now, is this a textbook curriculum or is an iPad with It is our core curriculum. So, it's going to be um teachers are going to get their manuals, students are going to get their workbooks, but it also has an online component for the teachers. So, if they want to pull maybe they have a student who's advanced, they can pull lessons off of an advanced uh grade level and they can also go down. Um but that individualized learning is that computer uh based program and it's similar to the dream box that we are using right now but it is built with the curriculum in mind. So they're going to
192be able to pull standards that um based off those assessments if our kids are lacking in an area they will show them problems to help them build those skills. So will it increase or decrease screen time? Well, good question because through all of this, we've been having really good conversations. I've had them with my BLT. I've had them with the behavior cadre and I've had them with this adoption. And um we have set um a some guidelines for us. Um, and at the elementary level, we know that screen time for us doesn't look like what it looks like at the junior high level. For our students, it looks like the level. And our our suggestion is to have no more than three 15 minute increments throughout the day. So if I have 15 minutes at
193the beginning of the day, I have to give myself a healthy break. can't get on my iPad for an extended amount of time. Um, and that can happen three times. So, our kids are not going to get any more than 45 minutes per day for instructional day. And that is meant to enhance the learning. That's a that's a great question, Wayne, and it's something that we got to consider going forward with with all the different curricular areas. And it if we're going to as a district say, "Hey, screen time is not great. It's we got too much of it. We need to cut back on it." We'd be hypocritical to not be implement a bunch of curriculum that's all it's all on the iPad. I mean it's yeah it we need to be cognizant of
194that closely and when you look at the price it's roughly about $10 per kid per year in that program and um I have reached out to both Stockton and Washington schools who use these this I Ready program and they have both said if you're going to have the assessment piece you need that uh individ individualized form and it just goes hand in hand. Well I just know on math especially personal somebody actually teaching you personally is a lot easier to learn from than that. And that hip stuff that we train our teachers on, that's what they continue to say too is it needs to be teacher le. Yes. And we feel that it's also going to increase academic learning time on task because too often a student gets done. I'm done. I'm done. I got
19510 minutes to play my event. I'm going to fill your time because there's nothing to do with. So, what's an enrichment activity for you that you can do to get you're done early for the kid that I'm going to finish real quick so I can get to my and assignment. So, take that off your Yeah, there'll be some learning curve. We also um would like to put in the um statement too that iPad usage uh will not be used for rewards. So, If we get done early, that's not a reward. If um we have behaved for um three days in a row, we are not going to get that as a reward. We also put in there that it will not be used for recess at all because it it has been used. All right.
196Questions, comments, concerns? How about I make a motion to approve the 2526 elementary math curriculum? Does anybody got any more question? you guys going though thoroughly through this. Obviously, you put a lot of time and energy and that's that a lot of weight. I did too. That's what I appreciated that also. Yeah. And same thing with reading a we are also sending um four teachers to both in Washington here coming up this week to um see how their grade level that I'll get from that one when I'm training and get teachers who are using this. So, I think that's beneficial. Well, I'll give it a second. I don't know if we let her finish or first, but it'll work. Okay. All right. It was moved and seconded. All those in favor? 70. No, thank you.
197I enjoyed the actually the documentation stuff that you gave us. Yes. Look over very helpful as far as I was concerned. So, okay. Um non-resident student enrollment capacity. This is um part of legislation last year on all the open enrollment stuff that we have to the board shall um look at our enrollment numbers. Um I would tell you that in our projections and I tell you that the available seats that we have is unlimited just like we did last year. Um and so if someone from another district that meets our in good standing policy wants to attend us here, we will gladly accept them. So, um, this is just part of that statute that the board has to move on those, um, before May 1st. So, you guys have questions on that. Like I said,
198we went through a lot of that last year. This is just an annual thing that has to be done by May 1st. Um, and then the the activator's open enrollment if people want to apply is that month of of June. Um, I'm not anticipating my inbox getting flooded with applicants, but if we do, that would be fantastic. And this is that specific motion that Yeah, that covers 6H also. Yeah, 6H. Is there any questions on any of that? I move to approve the USD 107 student enrollment projections and the non-resident enrollment capacity as presented. Second. All those in favor? 70. Okay. Uh we are ready for executive sessions. I'm going to suggest a 5m minute break for everyone before we get started with that if that's all right. So we will let's just say three
199uh let's say 350 we'll reconvene. Okay. So we will get going again. We are ready for executive session A. I think five minutes. Mr. President, movement go into executive session of Mr. Charles and Mr. Myers. President discuss student confidential student information pursuant to the exception relating to actions adversely or favorably affecting the student under the boardroom 356. Second. All those in favor 70. Okay, we are back in regular session. Uh, no action from that. [Music] Don't get used to it. That's okay. have a heater on in my office and I'm enjoying it up there. So, take your time. You want 40 minutes for the next one. Okay, we are I assume that's all on A. Yes. Okay. So, we are ready for B and how long would you like? We'll start with 30. 30 minutes.
200So, for both Yeah, probably. Yeah. Wait. Yeah. Okay. Mr. President, move to go into executive session with Mr. Sells and Mr. Myers to discuss employee contracts present the non-elected personnel exception under the open meeting will resume the boardroom at 4:30. Second. All those in favor 70. Okay, we are back in open session. We do have some action from that executive session. Wait till you get set here. Okay. Make a motion to accept resignation of Wyatt Flynn for high school football coach. Second. All those in favor? 70. Make a motion to accept the resation of Zack Duffy for assistant high school basketball. Second. All those in favor? It's boys basketball. 70 boys in there for me. I'm watching over there. Okay. I make a motion to accept the resignation for Megan Desky, second grade teacher. All
201those in favor? 70. We're ready for another executive session. This is elementary teacher, right? Second grade or elementary teacher. That works either way. Are we same one? Same same one. 20 minutes. Um except we don't uh we just need Mr. Cells. [Music] Oh, sorry. Yes, Sam too. Yep. 55 or you want to go to five. Yeah. Five. Mr. President, I move we go into executive session with Mr. Salesman present to discuss employee contracts pursuant to the non-elected personnel exception. The open meeting will resume at the boardroom at 5:00. Second. All those in favor 70. I just want you guys to know I love it. I just got all my I got him. If I let it go out my husband. Okay, we're back in into regular session. I think we're ready for no action. I
202think we're ready for unless anybody has anything else before we're ready for an 8C and I don't know how long you guys want. You tell me long enough to get through the rest of my emails. Uh let's go 15 minutes. Thank you all very much. Appreciate 15. Kenny. Okay. Mr. President, I move we go into executive session with Mr. President to discuss employer employee negotiations present to the exception for employer employee negotiations under Comox. Does that qualify? You're talking to the wrong guy. All those in favor 70. Okay. Bobby sent you all a summary in your email. Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on. Sorry. Thank you. We are back in regular session. There's no action from that. Share this for me, please. All right, it's Wayne's turn. Stay if you want. Um, all those
203in favor 70. You want your negotiation summary back?