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AVUSD Regular Board Meeting August 04, 2022

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YouTube / AVUSD Official Channel
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2022-08-05
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San Bernardino County, CA
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5,957 words · about 34 min
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2026-06-05

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001uh okay one more time one more time yeah okay good evening i will call this regular uh board of trustees meeting for alpha valley unified school district to order on august 4th 2022 at 5 p.m uh with that um we'll do a roll call vote i mean uh roll call uh dennis bender attendance here yeah we'll get to the votes later chris nunez here maria uh wilson would you lead us in the pledge to the please of the united states of america and to the republic which stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you all right moving right along kylie do we have any uh public comments um we do have one okay karen you're up karen is from a buddha we're good i don't want it up my

002nose thank you um i want to start out with good evening superintendent nelson assistant superintendents board members and audience what a great start to the beginning of the school year thus far i've heard from teachers that have said in all their career yesterday was the best first day yet i know that enrollment has been very busy which only means one thing the students and family are excited to get back to school with a sense of normalcy if you will i would like to give a shout out to the ladies working in the enrollment center and also to mr davis at phoenix i was helping a family enroll a student that had just can't come from thailand and the student mother spoke limited english the student also has many medical disabilities after getting the student enrolled

003mr davis customized a schedule so that the student remained in one building the entire time and doesn't have to walk from class to class across campus so he went beyond what is asked of him and made the family feel really welcomed and we really appreciated that as you know avuda participated in the new teacher orientation last friday it was a huge success we were not only able to feed the teachers a nice lunch we were also able to raffle off over 20 baskets thanks to a cta grant an organizing cart bluetooth speakers donated by the standard and gift cards donated by cta and schools first avodah would like to thank the board members who stopped by to say a few encouraging words to the new teachers and we would also like to thank dustin for

004his kind words between that he spoke between avuda and the district also theta jessica and justin for their help in having the food tables and other things set up and readily available i also want to thank theeda for helping me get a class set of white boards to a math teacher at granite the smile on his face and the picture that he sent afterwards of them on his shelf in the class made my day we truly appreciated everything and hope the new teachers enjoyed themselves avuda was excited to see the new teachers and welcome them to av usd we all agree that apple valley is a great school district and that our students deserve the very best we also know that the students learning environment is the teacher's work environment the teachers in av usd

005give a hundred and fifty percent every day we participate in the community not just in our classrooms the students come into our rooms every day and are not just our students they are our kids teachers are a generous bunch we donate our time and our dimes to encourage the success of the next generation we are altruistic with the desire to make the world a better place to be however teachers also have to live in the same world many teachers are going to come out of college with loan loans needing repayment our veteran teachers we have given so much live in a world where just a few miles down the road in either direction veteran teacher salaries are considerably higher we have teachers that go to the food bank on fridays for food are receiving assistance

006for utilities and other things and can't make ends meet at the end of the month one of our buddha exec board stepped up at the end of last month and paid 75 dollars for teachers groceries at winco when she fell short we as an av usd family must realize we can't ignore these facts we lost teachers to neighboring distance this summer and many are making 30 000 more a year those that did not leave are av usd teachers at heart regardless i stand before you tonight and ask that you recognize the value of our educators and what an important resource they are i know that we submitted our sunshine back in february however a lot has changed since then the governor has since just in july added a 6.26 extension to the already high 6.56

007cola this is not a one-time money being given but ongoing school districts across california including abusd are seeing more money given to them than they've ever seen in a lifetime so far i'm asking that you consider in good faith giving the teachers beyond what we have asked for lucerne just recognized their teachers hard work and gave them out of good faith an extra one percent that the after they had already given them the settlement hisperia is going back into negotiations because of a clause on their statement which states that they will receive a raise if the cola is increased avusd needs to be able to retain and recruit the best teachers possible for our students because our students do deserve the best in order to do this we have to have a competitive salary schedule

008i know we will never reach the amount that victor high district receives because of the differences in funding however we can still make it desirable for new and veteran teachers to come and teach and stay in apple valley as i'd stated in my first speech to the school board in teamwork coming together as the beginning keeping together is progress and working together is success evuda looks forward to working together with the district in order to make this a great school year thank you for all that you do and have a good evening thank you karen okay before we move on to closed session kylie did we have any public comments pertaining to closed session um that would have been the only thing okay all right all right so before we move on to closed session

009i'll or into closed session i'm going to read out this here so item one conference litigation government code section 54956.9 subsection 8. current litigation seven cases 1907-172-2011-183-2022-956-202-3366-211-303-2208 two zero zero one nine two two zero seven three zero zero government code section five four nine five four point five subsection c sub section d and e1 anticipated litigation 11 cases 2018 1907 2020 2105 2020 2107 2021 2206. 2021 2208 2021 2209 2021-22 slash 10 22 11 20 21 20 22 12 20 21 20 22 13 20 21 2203 public employee discipline item number two public employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leaves title certificate and classified employees item three public employees appointment resignation retirement reduction title certificate the classified employees item four conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad b employee organization apple valley unified teachers

010association five conference labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization california schools employee association six conference real property negotiator government code 549 56.8 negotiation parties matthew schulenburg alpha valley unified school district uh with that do we have a motion to go into closed session okay motion uh dennis second maria all in favor aye that'll be the order so we'll be back [Music] seven o'clock they're mics too so when it's showing green it's on [Music] okay good i think they're all on kylie okay we'll call this meeting back to order at uh 7 p.m and we're gonna before we move any further we'd like to do a moment of silence to remember uh retired apple valley unified school district family member gerald weislick so we just have a mold and assignment i'd like to say that

011i taught with him when he first came here we talked together he was polish he was really an oxymoron because he was a police genius he taught physics chemistry and he's one of the smartest men i ever knew thank you okay moving right along reports uh do we have anybody here from california school employees csca that would like to speak tonight no okay how about a buddha anybody like to speak again all right item three closed session the clerk of the board will report any take action taken in closed session dennis in a closed session the board of trustees took action in support of the following recommendations from the superintendent on a motion by maria and seconded by wilson so they approved the following to prove the memorandum of agreement with the california school employees

012association csca number 828 july 14 2022 regarding article 15 transfer requirements contingent upon the pending ratification by the california school employees association number 828 and it was a vote of 5-0 in closed session board of trustees took action on the following in the support of the superintendent on a motion by maria seconded by wilson so approved the memorandum of understanding with the california school employees association csea number 828 dated may 17 2022 regarding increase in hours the vote was 5-0 and finally in closed session the board of trustees took action supported the following conference with labor negotiation on a motion by maria seconded by chris the board of trustees approved the following approved the memorandum of understanding with the california school employees association number 828 dated may 3rd regarding classification study transportation family job descriptions

013the boat was 5-0 in favor okay okay okay thanks dennis okay uh item four adoption of the agenda the board may approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from the consent agenda for discussion or action uh do we have a motion to approve so moved second maria all in favor all right any opposed hearing then that'll be the order uh discussion items apple valley unified school district budget adjustments uh matt thank you mr raleigh uh the board uh would look at the you have the copy of the presentation in front of you it will also be up on the screen for those in the audience um education code requires that not later than 45 days after the governor signs the state budget act that we make public the proposed adjustments to our

014budget that deadline this year is august 11th so of course we are meeting that deadline by having this presentation the these proposed adjustments are not part of our budget as of yet because our budget has not been approved by the county superintendent of schools office so we cannot make any of these adjustments at this time but that approval will is anticipated to occur sometime next week so the board will see these adjustments in our first interim financial reporting so the first proposed adjustment has strictly to do with the local control funding formula and the difference between the may revision and the adopted budget if you recall in may the cola was proposed at 6.56 percent with a 3.29 augmentation to the lcff base grants the adopted budget came in at a 6.56 cola and a

0156.28 augmentation to the base grants the ada that we used previously was about 12 096 and that was based on the prior three-year average two of those years being 1920 and 2021 which were the same and then of course our p2 ada from last year part of the budget act um there is a lca lcff ada relief for last year now it's a it has to do with our percentage attendance yield in 1920 and the cde is going to calculate that for us and apply that to our enrollment last year so if that's higher than our actual ada last year that number can be used in the three year average so we'll recalculate that three year average and then we'll compare that recalculated three year average to our actual p2 ada for this year and

016we'll use the highest so at this time i can't tell you what that's going to be i have no idea but we will continue to monitor that and update that as we have a better idea of what our ada is going to look like and we'll utilize the lcff calculator that will be released by ficmat soon they have not released the update uh for the state adopted budget as as of yet special education they increased the ada allocation from 810 to 820 that of course goes to our local plan area or selpa and then is distributed out to member districts the e-lop you've heard governor newsom talk about the expanded learning opportunity program this is one of his major initiatives last year and this year ongoing to support the grades tk through 6 and expanded

017learning time the initial estimated funding for next year in this program was 3.4 million dollars and that was very similar to the funding we received in the previous year the budget act revised that funding to approximately 8.8 million and this is an ongoing program now you will see this requires a minimum of 175 days of this program to occur during our regular school year of which we run at least a nine hour school day so that is school plus some time to total nine hours it also requires 30 days of intercession over school breaks that could all happen during the summer or i believe it can happen during fall break spring break to add up to 30. so there's a lot of requirements that go along with this program but there is a lot of

018funding ongoing funding supporting this particular program back in may the governor proposed a one-time discretionary block grant to the tune of about 1500 per ada and for apple valley unified that met just short of 17 million dollars in the budget act that one-time funding was restructured into two separate grants one being the one being the learning recovery block grant in the to the tune of just over 20 million for apple valley unified with a deadline to spend of june of 28 and the other the arts music and instructional materials block grant to the tune of 7.6 million to be spent by june 30th of 2026 there's a universal transitional kinder add-on that was not part of the original budget proposal either in january or may that it currently is estimated that we will receive about

0192 800 per transitional kindergarten ada to support that program and the staffing and the increased staffing requirements for that program [Music] and then there's transportation you may have heard that there's talk about fully funding transportation in the state of california reducing the walk distances for our students it didn't quite get to that level but it got a lot better than it has been for the last 40 years [Music] we've received about a 1.4 million add-on to our lcff and that was based on our transportation costs from sometime in the 80s what the budget act settled on was a reimbursement of 60 of our reported costs and establishing that baseline in 2122 well we spent 5.7 million in 2122 to run that program so our estimated allocation here is about three and a half million and

020that is ongoing and will also receive the cola in future years so that 3.5 million will increase somewhat over over time as the cola increases that now that is not in addition to the 1.4 it's in lieu of the 1.4 but it's better than 1.4 those are the major material adjustments again that we are proposing to make to our budget again you will see all of those enacted as we get to first interim and our financials um any questions i can answer questions for matt chris just to clarify what are some things that we would see some of the um the extra elo dollars going to [Music] pat you want to jump in i'm happy to do that the expanded learning opportunity program is targeted at k-6 students so for our 10 schools where k-6

021students attend um their principals are working on things bringing in activities after school activities that remember we went to our public in the lcap season and asked them what kinds of things would you like to see and they were clear they wanted enrichment and sports music arts and of course you know opportunities for to do homework and to get help with that kind of thing and so those were acknowledging the fact that this may start small and so the programs will probably get started next week to make that 175 day mark but they'll be doing a variety of different kinds of activities both before and after school depending on the school times so some of our late start schools want to start it an hour in the morning and two hours in the afternoons so

022so you'll see things like after school intramural sports we have a whole suite of esports equipment and activities that kids will be able to participate in right away of course all matter of tutoring music programs art so it's all getting kind of they're going through the process of getting staffing and we will also be engaging with our high schools to recruit train and uh deploy high school students as workers in these programs to kind of follow in the footsteps of one of our newly acquired assistant principles you know that student worker relationship is a special one we grow them well here anything else thank you matt thank you kylie do we have any public comments we do not okay thank you all right we're going to move on to discussion session um i want to

023move on to approve this certificated classified personal actions as listed we're going to put a little bit out of it okay all right we're going to come back to it so uh basically we have mrs zachary is in the audience with her family she is a new assistant principal at sitting bull academy if you want to stand we met her in the back already [Applause] want to introduce any family members go ahead okay what's the doll's name what's your doll's name brooklyn katie all right all right so brooklyn and katie thank you welcome aboard again so and appreciate you coming back and for the introduction so so we need to um have a motion for approval um so we have a motion by was it maria yes and the second was from dennis yes all

024right all in favor aye aye any opposed hearing none that'll be the order thank you all right let's see here we'll go back now to superintendent uh comments i'm sorry put you on the spot i was thinking that brooklyn stall might be named trenay but it's not it's okay brooklyn it's okay although staff around the district has been hard at work all summer um preparing our schools for the opening of the 22-23 school year monday was the official first day for our teachers and yesterday for many of our classified staff or the first day of school along with students i was on campuses yesterday parking lots were filled to the brim as so many of our parents celebrated the first day of school by delivering their children to school over the next few days there

025definitely will be an increase of ridership on our buses and congestion at the school will you know decline as it typically does and we'll um get practices and procedures in place so we look forward to more kids riding the bus and left less traffic out in front um i also was able to as i said visit every school site in the district yesterday kind of a feat had to start on one end of the district at startup at the high school and i plan to end at the other high school on the other end of the district and realize that i might catch them right at exit so i changed my order and went out and visited mariana academy prior to apple valley high school got to the transportation department maintenance operations department and nutrition

026services and then walked through the district offices here just checking in with people and thanking them for all the work that they were doing because of all the behind the scenes things that go on that nobody realizes um i just have to say that there was excitement nervousness there were tears those were mostly the parents having to leave their kindergarteners or preschoolers um but i did see our values being played out over and over again throughout the district dignity service authenticity and community were everywhere i went enrollment is up we'll provide specific data in the coming days we were able to pass out 545 backpacks through our family center here on this property and last week it was a fun event all went to apple valley unified school district enrolled students on tuesday chief molina

027colette rosen and i the risk manager went down to mount sac to attend a joint regional intelligence center presentation um it was provided to us through the sheriff's department as a go-to having to do a threat assessment on campuses and we will be working with the sheriff's department to find out what resources we have in san bernardino county and working towards a post-certification training for all of our officers in the future el cap will most likely be back on the agenda on september 1st um for the revisions that are suggested by the county um they did provide us some feedback um late tuesday afternoon and asked that we have some revisions done by this coming monday which is a very short timeline so we've talked to them to see if we can get those done

028and so next tuesday i believe the ed services department will be working with the county to try to get those revisions updated get them um okay and bring back that to the september first board meeting and other than that um i think we're moving forward with our active shooter trainings beginning next wednesday um having all of our kids back on campus we want to be sure we we continue all of those procedural things and make sure everybody's ready for any situation whether it's evacuation earthquake fire drill they're uncomfortable to talk about but um not doing something isn't responsible or reasonable either so thank you thank you good good presentation thank you uh wilson we'll move on to uh four times for the board yeah yeah i just have come up with uh i uh of

029course always watched one celebration about the terrible drug called fentanyl being shipped from by communist china to through texas and to spread out to other states it's a very toxic uh drug and i just want our parents to pay attention or what i i know we're pretty safe you know because but my concern is that sometimes these drugs can be mixed with pre-subscription materials so watch out for it and the other thing is is that i haven't received a picture nice picture of a special olympics of a young lady i'm sure many of you received that just post on my refrigerator and i and what concerns me is i want to make sure that the people commun people in our community have suspicion food you know if we know of anybody they need food you

030know we have a food pantry right on this campus to make sure that they that they can't take the school district getting their support that's important that's all i have thank you wilson uh maria well i'm going to take this time to to thank the general staff and our parents and of course our children for making our first few days of school a delightful time i had the distinct honor of going to some of the schools for the openings and like mrs nelson stated there were lots of happy faces and there were also parents who weren't sure of what to expect but my experience was that the principles were very very focused they were active the parents knew who the principals were and they could go to them and ask questions on short order they

031had a list i went on that campus and sometimes people ask me where these classrooms were and i felt like a dna headlight now because i had no idea where the classrooms were but i was just there to to be be on the amen corner and wave at parents and wish them well and to reassure them that they're giving us the best that they have and we're going to give them the best that we have [Music] i also had the pleasure of seeing district police active um during the yesterday's event and they were not pushy they were just present to give the students a reassurance that they were going to be safe in our care watched the teachers the teachers took it like champs and i really was very i really appreciate that and i'm

032hoping for a really great school year um this school year i intend to go to as many schools as possible to visit the classrooms put me to work let me know what i can do and and let's just see how this year goes but um for the parents who are watching i think you have made the great choice of sending your children to us and we will definitely do our best to give them the best that we have thank you so much thank you maria christopher all right first just let me say welcome back hope you all had a fantastic uh summer some time off some time with friends and family rejuvenating and refilling your own cup um i just want to remind everybody that this is the fresh start this is the one you've

033been waiting for the one you've been looking for over the last couple of years so please please please bring your excitement bring your enthusiasm with you in your backpack in your pockets and in your shoes because it's going to be a really great year in avusd thank you in advance for all of the hard work that i know everybody's going to put in from our staff to our students thank you and let's get ready for a good one thank you chris dennis well the first week is always the most exciting week except the last day of school that's more exciting but it was really special this year because our kids aren't wearing masks thank you yes you know maria had mentioned how important the principles and assistance principles are i've had a couple parents actually

034call me and ask and knew the names of some of the new principals and assistant principals and say asking me well how are these principals and these new teachers and stuff so parents know who the staff is these schools and everybody's doing a great job i in the enthusiasm i drove by rio vista's school the other day about eight o'clock and it was already kids lining up to go in and it was it started until like nine and it was like wow there's a lot of enthusiasm for the schools i don't remember going to school an hour earlier it was good to see and uh appreciate it thanks for all the comments thanks for the staff that's here for the hard work thanks all right no public hearings today we can move back on to

035discussion items uh ratify and adopt declaration in need of fully qualified educators form to be effective july from now it says form i think it's from to be effective from july 1st 2022 through june 30th 2023 as required by the california commission of teachers accreditation rick before well go ahead and make a mission but i would like to comment on that um no go ahead go ahead do we have it yeah i i move that we ratify and adopt okay chris a second we have a second second second by dennis and trenay would you like to uh just uh um for transparency this was on the june board meeting and um through an upload process page three of four did not four of five no three or four of four okay i had it backward

036um did not load and so when we sent it up to um ctc they said well you're missing a page and so sure enough we went back and it wasn't there so um we felt that even though it was a clerical error it needed to be brought back to the board posted and have the public see no changes but we wanted to explain why it's there okay so we have a motion and a second on the table is uh all of uh all in favor any opposed hearing then that will be the order item three approve the recommendations for requested requested leaves as noted so move dennis second wilson all in favor aye aye any opposed during them that will be the order okay so now we're going to move on to four so prior

037to the hearing the item we're going to have a it's what it is it's improvement design financing and construction so it's going to be reference design financing construction of facility improvements including athletic stadium at granite hills and transitional kindergarten classrooms at our 10 elementary schools so we'll have a presentation by matt schulenberg on this topic yes thank you mr raleigh uh as we've discussed at a few previous board meetings specifically about granite hills and our transitional kindergarten we have some we have some needs at our transitional kindergarten at our elementary campuses to absorb the incoming enrollment and the board has expressed a desire now that we own 40 acres adjacent to granite hills to explore the design and construction of an athletic stadium for that facility you'll see a couple of these slides were out

038of some of my previous presentations this one in particular talks about granite hills again we do own the 40 acres adjacent to the school and as we move through this process these are some things to consider and i've gone through that list before so i will not read that again as we look at transitional kindergarten if the board recalls i talked about looking at our current transitional kindergarten enrollment versus um you you project that out versus what our kindergarten enrollment was and we kind of used our typical kindergarten enrollment that 1 000 students as a target so we looked at last year and we had 164 transitional kindergarteners last year in 2122 that's lower than what we normally experience but i think that was kind of typical across the state because of the pandemic situation

039in the current year using that thousand as a target and expanding the three-month enrollment period to the five-month enrollment period uh just a simple projection we said okay we're going to get about 415 or we have the possibility of getting about 415 tk students well i talked with our enrollment department yesterday and i was provided as of 11 a.m yesterday morning we had 227 transitional kinders enrolled in the system and you'll see well that's not 415. um but the state released some information a few months ago in their projections of what they expected the transitional kindergarten enrollment to be and we're pretty much right on target with what the state projected at 227 now that i'm sure has increased since 11 a.m yesterday probably by a few but i'm sure as we look at the

040year we'll we'll probably continue to increase slightly and possibly lose some as we move through which is very typical if the board recalls i just projected it out to the 25 26 school year at full implementation and projected we will possibly need about 45 classrooms if we got all 1 000. you see we're probably not going to get all 1000 so we probably won't need 45 classrooms but those are the two facilities issues or facilities needs that the board has identified and prioritized so as we look at moving forward in this process i just want to remind the board about who's involved number one an architect an architect is the overarching design they coordinate the design and engineering they coordinate division of state architect approval they manage the project and respond to contractor requests for

041information and they work with us to close out the project through the division of state architect a very important piece in order for us to occupy and utilize our facilities after they're constructed a construction management firm we currently utilize california professional management we've used them on past projects and we are currently contracted with them on our hvac replacement project which is undergoing on which is ongoing at five sites we bid phase two for additional five sites we have contractors selected and we're preparing to embark on that and we are getting ready to bid phase three for the remaining three school sites for our like to like replacement on the hvac other potential team members in any facilities project of course we have rdi our our inspector of record our ior for our dsa inspections making

042sure everything is being built to dsa approved plans and meeting those standards we typically will have a lab of record if we have any soils bolts need to be tested welds need to be tested and of course we have our category contractors and our bid process so getting on to the next steps the item tonight is asking the board to take some action and specifically we're recommending to the board that they approve the superintendent and the assistant superintendent of administrative services currently me that we undertake the steps necessary to procure the services of the appropriate consultants to initiate the design financing and construction of facility improvements including an athletic stadium at granite hills high school and transitional kindergarten classrooms that are 10 elementary schools so if the board chooses to take that action this evening

043i'm going to have some things to do first i'm going to work on engaging an architect specific to these two projects i'm going to work on engaging a cm and i'm also going to engage some financing consultants specifically when we talk about the architect for the design we have engaged our local architect frick frickin jate to do a transitional kindergarten analysis and analysis and planning for us that's currently undergoing and i would recommend that we stick with frick frickin gta for any design related to our transitional kindergarten of course that would be under an additional contract and that contract would be brought to the board before we engage them for actual design i would recommend to the board that we go out and submit or go out and distribute a request for proposal for design

044services specific to any athletic stadium at granite hills high school that will give us a pool of architects hoping to garner some that are very experienced in designing athletic facilities but that will take some time to procure that architect to prepare that rfp and and get that process growing i would recommend that we engage with cpm our current construction manager through these design processes one great thing that a cm will do for us and cpm has done for us on past projects is they do what's called a constructability review architects design wonderful facilities cms determine if they can actually be built that way or not so that's part of that constructability review make sure the plans have all the details they need to be built properly and then of course we look at the financing

045part of this if the board recalls a couple years ago in preparation for a cop we issued back in 2020 we engaged with a company called public economics they did an analysis of our redevelopment revenue that currently flows from the tax increment in the rd in the redevelopment area that we're a part of i would recommend that we re-engage public economics to take a look at that because the rda revenue that has been coming in has been exceeding those previous projections and that's been very typical across the state but that would give us an updated analysis as to the funding stream that we have available for any financing option particularly a cop i would recommend we use piper sandler for that cop that's mr tim carty we've used him and his team for many years

046in these cops and go bonds that the district has used in the past and that last legal firm stradling newca carlson and ralph um dave mr david kaznoka has been our council on our past financing working with mr carty very closely now specific to that cop we do not need to go out and borrow any money right now we will have design costs that we could either absorb through our current cop proceeds or our fund 40 where our rda revenue is deposited that is not being spent on our current cop debt service um we could possibly meet the needs with a tk through some of those cop proceeds and through that rda initially but i would recommend we look at financing the construction of these stadium and any additional tk needs when we have about

047a 75 percent plan set for our athletic facility that gives us time to design or actually start with concepts take those concepts to stakeholder groups determine a final design start to design that and determine an actual budget based on that design that gives us a target as to how much money we actually may need to borrow to facilitate the construction of this particular athletic stadium now that's not going to be in a couple months it's probably going to take some time i don't i would not be able to estimate that timeline at this point but when we get an architect on board that architect would better be able to estimate through the process they're going to use to develop concepts to develop plans they would better be able to estimate a timeline as to when

048they will have a 75 percent set and when we can seek financing and then go out to bid and construct this now i would like to remind the board that this particular financing tool the cop is a long-term debt service tool our current cop that we issued in 2020 has a 30-year debt service not knowing the dollar amount of the cop but understanding that we will probably be entering into a debt service instrument that will last 25 to 30 years to pay off this facility utilizing our rda revenue stream and any overage will directly impact the unrestricted general fund to support that debt service so at this point again just to remind the board this is the action that we're requesting you take tonight any questions i can address at this time before okay before

049we move forward to any questions before we uh any questions on that um well matt um you said that um if we approve it you're going to keep busy i like to keep you busy well i understand not that you're not busy but yeah we're we're all busy on our own way mr raleigh i appreciate that this is a this is a wonderful thing for the district and so uh i think dennis uh whispered in my ear he wanted to uh make a motion so i've been waiting a long time for this i'm gonna assistant superintendent of administrative services to get this baby on the way all right we have a motion in a second so you know um both of these are good uh are good programs here the the stadium itself and the

050transitional uh with classrooms and um as the district grows they're important so with that we have a motion and a second on the table it's all in favor aye aye aye any uh position to the motion hearing then that'll be the order so thank you get to work and matt yes sir did you catch that kylie who made the first and the second okay thanks okay easily repeated so okay item number j consent uh as recommended the board of trustees consider approving a number of agenda items and consent calendar so we have um 1 through 37 does anybody have any any of those they want to pull for discussion if not i'll entertain a motion to approve i move to approve the consent agenda okay we have a motion chris and i'll second it yeah

051all in favor uh any opposition hearing them that'll be the order all right we don't have a mo any uh go back into closed session so i think that's uh oh wait a minute um is there anything for future agenda items or anything else anybody want to put on yes i do you uh maria you have something yes i do okay i would like to have an agenda item um from the superintendent um because i think um as a district we keep seeing um other members of other districts getting awards um and it's county-wide statewide and we don't participate but i am aware that we are doing excellent job here um except that we don't participate so when i read it and i'm i'm saying why is this person you know school as administrator of

052the year and i'm going by i know who's who could have gotten it so i want us to be more active we want to see the agenda item of how to make sure that our schools are participating in these things the other thing i would like to see in the next agenda is what kinds of trainings police will be offering to our community so that they are aware of what we are offering for clarification a presentation not an agenda item for an information item having to do with the different types of awards um such as the one sycamore rocks in the district received just recently right need to participate well we did we participated that's how we got the award but you're you're asking about accept some of those axo awards those are timeline and

053i will get you that information so because we had the discussion last year that we were going to participate this year and get some of those going um so i'll bring those in and what what things are available for us to apply for and then trainings from our police department for our community members i need to understand that yeah and i think we always hear about what the police is doing we we hear mostly the bad things they're doing but people don't understand the big things that they're doing to help to be part of this community and it will be great to schedule probably you know the weekends um so that members of the community will come and hear what kinds of things our police are doing the kinds of things they're doing because we

054we're missing it we're missing something there i i may need some further clarification on that because of the job duties and timelines of our police officers because they aren't typically weekend workers and um i want to make sure budget impacts and things like that but we certainly could put together a presentation about what things they offer currently that could hit the board meeting and then potentially through our pio get out to the community through social media and um youtube if that would be appropriate i would like that oh we want to do a presentation to the board got it i just wanted to clarify because it i i wasn't sure if we were training the community or what the the service was i want to make sure we're clear okay maybe just a presentation from

055uh the police i believe what maria's getting at is a presentation to the board on what uh they're doing uh at the schools um no problem we don't really need a count on you know how much is going on but just here's overall what we do and love it and here's what the kind of training we put on and this is the interaction with the kids and things like that you got it yeah if i made something i tried to wait in the hallway if i'm returning i think over the years the i served almost 25 to 30 years on this enemy school board association and on csv board of directors but it says in the recent this past two years i have not attended any meeting we got to cover it okay i think

056if we if we want also participate with the county i i i'm no longer interested in serving on the association but if any board members want to i can go down and talk to them and make sure that we normally want a board members to participate on the association that's how we get involved with recognitions by the county okay does anybody else have any comments any other board member comments trading you have any other comments just i know kylie had sent something out regarding um the state of the town and if you are planning to attend with the school district make sure she has that so she can get everybody registered okay do we have to win our badges because i can't find one you have to sit together no i'm kidding we'll get you

057a new badge mr para if you need it all right i guess with that at um 42. i second that okay you

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