001Start with the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I am not going to use the gavl because I'm not the judge. So, you can disregard that. But, all right. Well, let's start off. Uh, welcome everybody to our February 17th, 2026 meeting. We'll start with um opening comments from Dr. Henshaw. Any questions, comments on the memo? >> No. >> All right, let's move on to public comments. Anybody that wants to speak and set their name and address and keep your comments two minutes or less, would anybody like to speak? All right, we will close public comments hearing none and move on to the consent agenda. I don't think there's
002anything on there out of the ordinary. several summer camps and summer programs. Uh the list of inter fund transfers that were made and some other things that I think are pretty standard fair. >> Is there a motion to approve agenda? >> Second. >> First from Mr. Brooks and second from Mrs. Gillespie. Any comments? All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Same sign. Hearing none. That motion carries 50. >> We'll move on to reports for a Dr. Henshaw financial report for 2025. >> Okay. So, >> thank you. >> This this is a practice that I started long ago in a different district and I've tried to stay with it. I think we've done it every year that I've been here and uh gives me an opportunity to see how well I can remember
003to use how well I use Excel and put the graphs and it's updated. It's easier than it used to be to make the graphs. But you've got the the table in there. And by the way, if you looked at this before this afternoon, you had an older version of the table. It didn't have all the current numbers. So you've got the current numbers in there that you can use to look at the table. And then I think sometimes it's better, easier just to see the the graph itself because it shows you trends. And so what I would say is we continue to spend down our education fund cash and we're We're at about a 13-year low in the education fund, but that's been by design for the most part um because our education fund cash
004balance was so large and we've tried to uh get employee compensation specifically uh for teachers, very competitive. We've also through the transfer process repurposed some of that for capital improvements. And what I would say is I think we're we're basically at the point where we're at a prudent cash balance. And so our goal has been to try to maintain a relatively flat cash balance in the education fund. One of the things that I would say that we do is that we we as Cara and me, Cara and I um when we are bargaining, we typically look at all the added staff positions and added expenses in education fund and then we generally try to give the remainder of new money to teachers through the collective bargaining process. That's been sort of a a general philosophy
005that we've used for a long time. So you say, well, how did our cash decline by roughly $300,000 in 2025? This is not the whole answer, but a big explanation is because our enrollment was down by 50 in the fall. And if you multiply that 50 by our per pupil funding amount, it's roughly equal to the amount that our cash balance declined by. So, we'll evaluate where we think we're going to be on enrollment next year. There's supposed to be a 2% base increase to the tuition support formula and we'll look at that. But that's the philosophy. The next couple of graphs, you can just see that expenditures continue to go up and so does revenue. And so, those are tracking right along with each other. And the GF is general fund. EF is education
006fund. Of course, the the name and the fund itself were changed slightly in 2019. State tuition support, which is the largest portion of funding in the education fund, also continues to increase. And of course, those are in nominal dollars uh adjusted for inflation, but we have had funding increases from the state pretty consistently. And we've also been the beneficiary of growing enrollment. So you see that our tuition support continues to increase year-over-year. Um tax fund expenditures. So that is all funds basically it'd be education operations and debt service. And again trending upward the vast majority of the total is in the general fund or the education fund. And then the school tax rate, if you're interested in that, is again, we work very hard to try to have a responsible tax rate. And so that
007you can see over time, even with all the construction that we've done, all the improvements in compensation and so forth, the tax rate over time has been relatively flat. And I was just at the chamber meeting this morning. And of course, we had large growth in our assessed valuation for 2026, which helps us to keep what's going to be a lower tax rate. The town also anticipates that their tax rate is going to decline even by a larger percentage than ours. Um, going on then, so there's enrollment and you can see that again our trend is generally upward. We've got that small decline that we had right here at the 2025 mark. There's one year I think it was 2021 in the midst of COVID that we were down slightly also but otherwise it's been
008pretty much a continuous upward trend here since about 2010. And then when we look at total revenue from property tax, so this is funding the operations fund and the debt service fund. It is also trending upward and that's both because of the AV growth factor that allows us to have some growth in the operations fund as well as increasing debt payments over time because of new construction. So then that's uh total cash on hand in all funds and uh that would include not only what I would call the tax funds but some of our clearing accounts, school lunch, uh grants, things like that that we've got parked in cash somewhere here in the district. And again, the bulk of that has been in the education fund. So, as the education fund has been spent down,
009we're also spending down our total cash. And then the rainy day fund, I don't know, we could name that shape if we wanted to. Why does it look like that? Because we're using our rainy day fund in order to transfer money where transfers are permissible into the rainy day day fund and then expend from that fund. So, you can see the peak there. I can't. It's right about the time that we're preparing to pay the money that we paid in cash for the middle school project. So, you see where we've spent that down. A lot of it was education fund cash that got transferred into the rainy day fund. Some of it was operations and then expended. Um, and then operations fund. If we want to go down one more scriptur and uh you can
010see it's it's a little different trend line and that's because it does have a maximum levy that is set and we we are allowed to make transfers into the operations fund from the education fund and again we're we're trying to to keep that as stable as possible and trend line overall I would say we've we've managed to do that for the most part. And then this other factor that I think everybody needs to be aware of is just the impact of the circuit breaker. And we probably talked about this more than you want to hear about, but over time our circuit breaker loss has increased. And uh I think it's fair to say it's more than doubled in the time since I've been here. So basically a 100% of that acrru to the operations fund
011because the debt service fund which contributes to the circuit breaker causes the circuit breaker. Um but you cannot pay your circuit breaker losses from the debt service fund. So that's sort of an off-the-top cut every year to the operations fund. And we talked about this before. It's easy sometimes. One of the first things I do, Cara is my witness. If I'm in another district and I say, "Man, they have really nice facilities here and this this is a smaller district than we are. How how are they doing this?" I've been known to text her and say, "Get online and look on the DLGF website and tell me what the circuit breaker loss is in this district." And nine times out of 10, they have very low circuit breaker losses. So it simply gives them more
012money in their operations fund to have nice things, make things look nice, etc. So that's just a continual factor. Again, the the AV growth, the falling tax rates, I wouldn't be surprised if we would see our service breaker come down a little bit in 2026. We generally don't get that number until May. >> Is that right? So you you sort of operate blind with some good guesses on the circuit breaker. >> Is that page four total property tax revenue net of circuit breaker or is that gross? >> It's net. >> Okay. Yeah. So we're still getting growth even though the circuit breaker's increasing. Yeah. >> So that same time period, for example, we went from 4 million to a little over six between 13 and 25. I think we still have a positive impact even
013though that circuit breakers grow >> and okay >> related to that our our policy analytics study says that we're going to continue to have growth even in the face of SEA1 until 2028. So you know what I would say is in the in the long view having uh been a superintendent for 18 years now I've seen way worse than this. So >> yeah, I look at that as super positive. I think those are all good understandings of the circuit breaker, but in reality it's like what did we really collect? That's number I think we should really >> and that's why you that's why I do that. >> Yeah, that's good. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Any questions board comments? All right. Hearing none, we will move to approve. I'm sorry, strategic plan update. >> I
014I just thought I would give you questions. >> Can we look at that other Was that your source? Did you already pull that one? This first data. I was just curious on the like latch key and food services at the bottom of that you had like a comment, but they're completely separate, right? Like >> they are separate funds, but they would be part of our total cash. >> So, >> but we don't use any necessar like we're not paying their wages as well as >> correct. Okay. >> Right. >> Yeah. But in terms of let's just say if you're looking at your fund report and you're looking at the bottom line that would include that. >> Okay. >> And I'm trying to remember. Yeah. So that's a comment from 2020 that I've kept in here
015>> and it was because we didn't have the opportunity to have revenue >> in those funds during COVID when we were closed, but we still have the expense of the personnel that we paid. That's what I was curious if we continue to pay personnel during >> both of those are cash positive >> almost always except because of co >> thank you >> y >> all right strategic point update a couple things before you start is I think I heard feedback from the board of maybe doing a retreat to talk through more and I think your report is good like here's some steps we've kind of taken I don't know how you guys feel my thought was at some point we got to try to finalize this thing so I speak now or forever forever hold
016your piece on trying to get this to an executive committee or work session to finalize. Um I think at this point we've had time to kind of poke holes get requests in. I think the key is that Google doc really needs to be completed by the board in the next week or so in order to prep for that. I think you asked for that. I think that's a fair request. So if you guys wouldn't mind getting in that Google doc I can recirculate it. I think we need to get our comments in there. Um, is everybody okay with that approach or do you want to take a longer process? I just I think I've heard from most of you that we want to get something finalized. Obviously, we want to be right, but >> Yeah,
017that's fine. >> Well, my I prefer to to final I I we could still use a Google doc. I prefer to finalize it mainly in a retreat fashion because I think it gives us an opportunity not that they I guess we can't through the Google doc but gives us an opportunity to collaborate with the administrative staff and all get all of our folks uh in a room together hopefully for I I think it's in past experience I think it's tough to do it in an hour or a couple of hours. It doesn't have to be a long weekend, but but you know, I think if you can dedicate a half day um and really grind for that period of time, I think you can get a lot done. So, that would be my preference, but
018that's just my opinion. >> I don't disagree. My thought was like we were trying to get this thing done by December, like we just keep beating a dead horse and like it might get marginally better. Like we've kind of spoken our piece, but um if you guys all feel like that is a right approach, we can pivot. I just like what I've heard from people is >> Yeah. And I'm not looking really to change anything in particular. I just think when we went through it last time, Ryan, we saw some things that were highlighted by the the folks that put our plan together that were a little odd. You know, some, you know, staff position that was going to be some >> hybrid of of a of a an assistant or an athletic director at
019the middle school that was also going to be wearing some sort of a Vince Courtney. >> Yeah. Kind of a hat. And I mean I think the most of the plan has got a lot of really good elements. I think there's some chaff that we need to say that's really not we don't consider that to be a priority. And then I think coming out of that along with our administrative staff saying okay this year year two year three what are the things that are going to be our main priorities? Because obviously that's going to be something that we're going to track. I agree. We don't want it to sit on a shelf. So, I I don't know that I want to fundamentally change the plan. I guess I'm more interested in sitting down and getting
020with our our leaders and deciding what do we think is the biggest priority for 26, 27, and 28? >> Would would it be helpful maybe if I sent out uh a calendar invite or something to try to schedule a work session to work on it? And then in the meantime, you can continue to put your comments on so we know that when we meet what things we want to have deeper discussion about. >> Yeah, let's do that and then Sorry, go ahead. >> Oh, no. Are we are we legally allowed to be making I was confused. I I stopped because I thought that the there was a follow-up email that said that this was maybe a >> an area of contention with ISBA and >> I know that was separate. I don't think you can
021I don't think you can take final action in Google doc. I think you probably can put your comments in >> so long as you're >> gonna finalize it. >> That was some feedback. You didn't want everybody in the same document corresponding like an active chat session. >> And so if it's a doc that you're just putting comments, you're using that as a tool for a work session. That's okay. >> Okay. So, >> and it and if you would prefer, I mean, I don't I think a different way to do it could be you have your own version of it and you put your own comments in it and bring it with you. >> I didn't know if that I'm sorry. So, I had stopped because I was like, oh, that was >> So, let's plan
022on the work session. Then from there, we can decide like do we want it are we getting it far enough or do we need to have a, you know, more dialogue? Does that work for everybody? Okay. >> Anyway, Vegas lots of options. >> Florida. >> Any comments on your >> Yeah. I I just wanted to what I have done and I'll try to just do this on a regular basis is shared with you some things that I think it was apparent to me that these were priorities that were going to survive any scrutiny that you were going to give to it and some things that might maybe be timely. And so I mentioned here that I shared a Google doc to allow you to put comments in. And then also I did get a hold
023of Jerry McKibben who did our first demographic study in 2017. Got a price from him for an updated demographic study. He doesn't have to do it. There are other people who can do it. Um so for your consideration one way or another. Had a conversation already with Joe Cox who's our communication specialist. We pay her a stipen to do that and ask her to do some work to begin to construct a communications audit of our staff, our administrators and our teaching staff so we can maybe determine what um communication methods, platforms are people currently using and then evaluating whether or not there's something that we can use to streamline that or consolidate some of that. And then also I shared with you a proposed job description for this proposed assistant superintendent position as well. So
024>> okay. All right. Next item 4C operations fund management discussion. So, one thing I just I want to get out here um to the board and public is we did have a study by policy analytics and I think for the most part it was more hopeful news than what we expected or what maybe the the chatter has been around the state in relating to SEA1 property tax reform. And if you'll remember the the uh projection is that we'll continue to have growth in our operations revenue in 26 and in 27 and then about a quarter of a million dollar reduction in 2028 as all the business personal property tax assessment changes and then their projection is that in 29 and 30 it goes back to a growth pattern and we recover. So, to me, that's
025better news than um we've got to cut. Well, our original circuit breaker projection was that our circuit breaker was going to go up by a million in 2026. So, I think we feel like we're in the clear on that from DLGF. But, it gives us time to evaluate how are we going to plan for that quarter of a million dollar reduction in operations revenue in 28? Are there things that we need to be doing? And so in consultation with the principles at the administrative level and also with Jeff Whitel and some other people, the short version is so where are we spending our operations dollars? You're spending it central office operation, capital projects, custodial utilities and transportation operating and bus purchases. And so a very um easy solution to building in some savings is to
026evaluate how we use transportation, how intensively we use our driver time etc. And currently I think we have with two exceptions all of our bus drivers and therefore all of our buses drive one route in the morning, one route in the afternoon. They're either driving elementary or secondary. So we believed that by staggering our elementary and secondary days even further, we would have an opportunity to not really consolidate routes, but to build in the opportunity to use a single bus to cover two routes in the morning, two routes in the afternoon. And as the opportunity comes to also have drivers drive two routes in the morning, two routes in the afternoon. If we had a million dollar shortfall in our operations fund, we would be going full boore on this and we would be making
027changes as soon as we possibly could make them. Our drivers, our bus drivers currently signed a contract to drive five hours a day. Virtually none, if any of our drivers are driving five hours a day. So, one of the things that this would prepare us to be able to do is to simply say we've got the space in our schedule to allow the consolidation of some routes. And because we feel like the shortfall is a couple years away, we have the opportunity to plan for that and do that through planned attrition, whatever, rather than by by forcing it in the short term. So, that's the direction that I'm headed right now. One of the things I will probably do is go over before the end of this school year and meet with our bus drivers
028and just talk about what this might look like, how this might roll in over the course of a couple years as we head into 2028. >> So, >> what do you think those staggered uh times would look like? They're on they're in your they're in your executive content. >> I saw I didn't know what that represented. >> And the principles I'm sorry to say I wish I had everybody's schedule memorized but I do not. But I it's not they're not significantly different from what they are now. >> Just adjust 20 minutes. And again, by the way, philosophically, if you pay attention to where this happens, >> once you hit adolescence, the idea is your day should start a little later. We're already doing that to a degree anyway. So, we're kind of doubling down on
029that model. Everybody's still out by 3:15. >> It gets all the minutes in we need. Anything else anybody wants to say on that? >> So, YMS and YHS essentially move back 20 minutes. >> Ours is 30. I don't think our kids probably a couple of buses. >> So that's the other big factor out there that again some of this is going to be a little bit of experimentation. But it's not out of the realm of possibility to say that if this worked well, you could eliminate 20, 30 plus% of your buses and therefore consolidate driver positions as well. And we're typically buying two or three buses a year, right? >> To the tune of I forget 120,000 was it? How was it? >> No, I mean individual buses. Yeah, >> they were I thought it
030was close to like half a million or something. >> So, it's it's several hundred,000 >> and we could be in a position where we we simply won't buy new buses for a couple years and we'll live with the fleet that we have, >> but you'll you'll churn churn a little bit more because >> Right. Yeah. They'll be driving more miles. >> That's what I was going to say. Like, are we attributing like more miles on the buses? Um, I know that we do it by years with inspection dates, but with the wear and tear, >> you would have more miles, but again, I think our current fleet is 38 buses and so you we would definitely have some flexibility to forego even if you were only buying one and you're saving I guess I'm taking
031you at your word 180,000 you know that's a significant chunk of our shortfall for that year. So, >> so the routes that aren't already a combined route, we'd be looking at putting those back into divided routes or >> No, I think I think the plan would be we would have the opportunity to look at everything on a case-byase basis. So, historically, because of the way it's been operated, when you have a driver position open, you have to go find another driver. we we would have the flexibility of saying we're not going to do that and we may we may want to go in and adjust pay and say if we assign you to two in the morning and two in the afternoon you're going to you're going to be at a different pay rate. We've
032got the opportunity to do that but the first step is to make sure the schedules will allow us to do it. >> Will the building still open? I mean maybe this is a principal admin question. I'm just I'm thinking about a parent that's trying to drop off kids. I'm not that that's who we're necessarily catering to, but that's a a third of our school population. Technically, if we've got a kid at, let's say, PBE and their other ones at the middle school, >> are they sitting and waiting for a building to open or is there still going to be continuous flow of traffic? We already >> I'm just curious how that works. Um, well, one thing I do think is that we've learned that having a little bit of stagger and then adjusting when we
033open the doors can take some of the pressure off of the streets with cars. I think this will actually improve that because you're going to separate uh groups of traffic. As far as I think you're basically asking, are we going to allow students in with supervision in middle school and high school? I think that's something that we can discuss. It's high school probably not a huge lets just gonna be sitting out there in the car waiting an additional half an hour before the doors open >> and and it might be an opportunity for us to say that we we'll open the doors at time x and you know have have some opportunity there. >> You feel really good about that, don't you, Mr. >> You love that idea. I can I can read your face.
034Yeah, >> Michael will be passing up biscuits at seven. >> That's right. And of course, >> I guess I'm looking at like both sides. Like we've been talking about doing another traffic study and we've heard chatter maybe from the town of putting in a roundabout. Those are not cheap um endeavors to to put in and some of the other side is saying, "Well, that's not going to help us if we still just have traffic sitting." Yeah. So, we might be saving some dollars over here on the schoolboard side, but then the town's going to be spending x amount of dollars on putting in a roundabout that's not necessarily going to help traffic flowing. I I guess I'm >> I think stepping over >> on the traffic flow. I I think this would only help it,
035right? And I've always said the only two ways I think you can solve it is either if you have some kind of offsite pickup where you got to stagger the times. I don't know how you change it otherwise. >> So, I think this would go a long way. Just looking at that schedule, helping them. >> I guess I'm just thinking of like a parent that's possibly trying to get to work and they still have to drop off multiple children at multiple buildings. How do we where we where do we put those cars, I guess? >> Or the kids. >> Yeah. >> Well, I think if you're solving that problem and everybody starts at the same time, now you got the traffic problem. >> Yeah. I I kind of have that problem now because it's like
036well you got >> especially if you got at some point I had three kids at three different schools I couldn't make it based upon the >> time. Yes. >> And now it's like you got to leave and get the first door at the opening time to be able to make it to the second door by closing. So I think we already have the reverse issue now >> or you can put them on the bus. It's a beautiful thing. Big yellow trucks. >> I do that most days. Well, these are all things that we will continue to try to work through, but the the main thing I want us to do here is is to be able to decide this, announce it, plan for it, communicate it to employees and parents, kids. >> On paper, it
037makes the most sense. The challenge is you're you're making a change to where even if on paper in contract they got paid for X, it's a shock. Correct. Right. And that's >> we're in a better position to do it this way and not not absolutely have to do it for a couple years than to have to go in and say, "Oh, by the way, >> yeah, >> next year only only 60% of you are coming back." >> Yes. >> So, I know it's a small percentage of our kids, but does this interfere with like our career center kids that are going or possibly in the future an a academy? maybe some kids jumping over to another school. Are we >> It It'll all work out. Right now there there's a window where kids have as
038far as um to get from point A to point B. It's they have a good chunk of time. >> Okay. >> A lot of them go enjoy lunch and do a couple other things before they get there. So, >> Gotcha. Okay. >> Yeah. >> And I think that issue for at least in terms of the career center has been made better by the relocation of the career center. >> Yeah. And I mean if they have to report for morning session they will be reporting at that same time which I don't think that their start time is the same as ours. >> Okay. >> So just just a report so that you know that we are thinking about this. >> Okay. Um here no more comments. Let's move to 4D which is board docs proposal. I
039kind of went between memo and agenda for this, but Tom, I think you got some of this data in it. It really started with dashboard. What bells and whistles does board docs have that we're not using? So, I don't know if you want to maybe go through this, but uh obviously we're using it to a small level of what's available, but I didn't know the board's opinion of do we want to invest time in this or not. >> Yeah. So, just a little history on this. So, when Brian when Ryan brought up the the concept of, you know, creating a dashboard to kind of get us maybe a little more organized on the same page with regards to agenda items and things like that. You know, my my first reaction was if we can come
040up with a I think it's a good idea if we can come up with a tool that could live in board docs versus having a separate Google doc out there and you know now we're trying to manage a couple of different uh things especially if we're going to have another Google doc that's related to uh the strategic plan. uh could it be contain potentially contained self-contained in in board docs? So board docs is really the it's it's the the original platform and you know historically before we had board docs I mean literally we started off and we had literally paper board documents all the attachments everything was printed then we eventually moved to a scenario where you know the the board agenda was distributed via PDF to everybody but still a a single PDF very
041clunky so we got more docs it was like a godsend right now we repository. We put our policies on there. Um, documents, document library, everything else. But it's about, how long have we been on it? A decade. >> No, it was after IB. >> I was going to say seven years maybe. >> And and it and it's purchased through a cooperative through ISBA, so we got a discounted price on it. But even looking at it now, if you've got if you've got I mean, it's pretty 1.0 look to it. It's got good functionality to it, but not a lot of bells and whistles. So, they have stopped development for Board Docs. Diligent, the the parent company, and Community is the new platform. So, it's got all the bells and whistles. It'll get all the upgrades,
042everything else. And I think costwise, it's going to be pretty comparable to what we have now. So, I thought, well, will it have the capability to house some of the things that Ryan has been talking about? So, I sat through a demo of it um last Thursday or Friday, asked them to send us a proposal, which is in your your board packet, and I suggested as a potential next step to have uh Dr. Henshaw and I talked about it today about maybe having Dr. Henshaw and Angela and the staff sit through a demo and take a look at it. It's got a lot of really neat features to it. And the cost, I think, to upgrade even if we don't do the in the proposal, there's two options. There's the the basic platform itself and
043then there's a like a streaming uh essentials that's an additional add-on if we wanted to add that the live stream manager pro. I don't know that we need that. I think you know Greg has has got us in a pretty good spot now with uh I think it's pretty easy to access our meetings online either archally or live. So I don't know that we need that. But the basic uh the basic portal is head and shoulders above what we're what we're using right now. Um the implementation schedule if we decided to go through with it is the next implementation wave is end of April. April 30th is when it starts. So we could be in that and we could potentially be at the front of the line. I think we could kind of shove our
044way up there if we wanted to if we make a decision in the next, you know, couple weeks or so. And it's a 90-day implementation. So in essence, we'd be on the new platform. we'd stay on board docs until it's done and we'd be on the new platform somewhere around August. So anyway, I I think it would be a good move for us. Uh again, it's very very nominal in terms of the cost and it has way more functionality. The other thing I like about it is from a transparency standpoint. Um that's one of our strategic goals is to try to be more accessible to the general public with our meetings. uh beyond just the live stream, folks being able to look at attachments, still having board only executive content um and uh more transparency
045on the website for folks to be able to go and look at things. It's got much better navigation. So, I think it also serves that goal for us. So, anyway, >> um what does it pay now and what is it proposed to go to? >> I So, the proposal would be 5,400 would be as the annual fee. Um and I asked um the gal to send us a cost on did you you or car care car do you know what we're spending annually on board docs now >> um >> well you don't need to look I think we'll probably table this anyways for next month I'm going to say we're probably paying somewhere between 2500 let's say >> so yeah >> do you know like what the I know and I know it says mobile
046or mobility on here. That's probably, I guess, my biggest complaint with board docs is, you know, as a parent, I'm expecting the school to have every document, everything available >> for my phone. And so, have you seen what this >> looks like through the phone? Because that's the like if you try to access board docs on your phone, it's nearly impossible to navigate. Yeah, >> I did not, Vicki. So, maybe that's something that if if Dr. on the staff do a demo. Maybe you guys can see what what does a mobile app look like. >> She's already reached out to me since we talked this afternoon. >> Good. >> So I I can answer her and we can set up I'm guessing it'll be a virtual meeting and go through the product and talk a
047little bit about the options and I can bring >> Yeah. And and if the board wanted to see a demo of it as well too, we could even schedule a a work session maybe before the next board meeting for 30 minutes and have them run it through if you if you guys want to. Anyway, I I think it'd be a a a big leap forward for the board communication wise and for the general public as well. >> Yeah, my look at that was is twofold. Obviously, technology side, I think that's been improved. Obviously, I like I I would like to see these TVs working, making sure that people see what we're seeing. I think if we can capture that, you can look at this list. I I think we're capable of doing that internally myself,
048but if maybe by next board meeting, you can look at that and say, is this a big upgrade? Does it make my life easier? all those things would be helpful because I think eventually we'll just rely on your advice. And I think on the flip side, my experience with these technology items, it's like you kind of get what you put into it. I agree with you. It's like if the mobile piece can get improved, to me, it might be worth it, but if we're not actually going to use these tools, it's like we're going to pay and not be so you're going to be the one I'm going to look on my screen most of the time. I'm not going to be working. So, I think I'm gonna rely on your guys's opinion of that
049of like is this worth $50400 to get that improvement, but I'm not going to have much opinion on some of in the dashboard thing. It's like really easy. I don't we could always upload that to you know, so I think there's other ways to go about achieving those. So, >> and it'll give us an opportunity to ask because I don't I don't know where they are just in terms of maintenance of word docs 1.0 know or whatever and we can see what we're paying. And >> yeah, the platforms they they've been touting it for about two years now, both at NSBA and ISBA, which tells me that they're probably nearing the point. I don't know that they're going to kick anybody off of it. But again, it's going to get to the point where, like
050all software, they're just going to say what you have is what you're going to have, and if you want any of the the upgrades and the other features either for the general public or for your forward, then you got to move to community. Do you know if the new version works with dialup? >> I heard some strange noises going on when she first opened it up. So that might have been she might have been going through her dialup. So >> here I think >> we'll put this one as research with a recommendation expected for that. >> Can the public see attachments? Now >> it depends on Yeah, you can you can set them that way if you choose to do that. Do do we >> uh some but generally not? I mean it and that
051that was kind of a philosophy from when board docs was adopted because that was the first time the agendas were made available in that way as Tom described and you know you've got student specific things sometimes you've got employee specific things you've got HIPPA things and so I think the default was that it was going to be executive content it's not all but much of it is disclosable if somebody asked for it so it's You know, it's one of those things if it's a public record, somebody could request it, but we generally have just not automatically made it available just so you don't inadvertently put something on your website that shouldn't have gone there. >> Yeah, I think the answer is you can you can categorize something as public >> um administrator >> or administrator
052or executive. the executive would be if you had something that's confidential that the gentleman looking at it was teacher or student. >> You guys that would be a I mean each attachment you'd have to think through that then >> and it's actually you can't see the screen behind you Mr. But on there you can see the three choices public, administrative and executive. You can set it when you set it up. >> But I think from transparency standpoint we should probably look at that as part of that package is should we just start putting some of that in classifying as such going forward. So okay. All right. Let's move on to business 5A facilities use agreement. We talked about this um last month and I I think maybe it's been refined somewhat since you saw it
053and if I were going to synthesize the feedback that I heard, I think for the most part you were fine with the concepts, I think there were some questions about how it might be applied. And we have the author of this document in the room with us. And uh I >> responded. >> Yeah, I Yeah, I saw that. So, it's really up to you. I think I think the precipitating factors here are people wanting use or in some cases going ahead and using some of these spaces. And we don't have a lot of clarity uh around what the board's expectation is, what we're supposed to communicate, how we're supposed to go through that process. And so I I think what we're trying to do here is provide clarity. One of the things and I shared
054this with maybe Mr. Simpson. I think Stacy and I have been under the impression and feel free to disagree if you do that the board's default has been more access rather than less. I sort of the feedback that I've gotten from some of you since you've seen this is maybe there are places where you want less access rather than more. Um, and to just launch right into this, I think there's general agreement that the complexity and the expense of the equipment in the weight room necessitates high level supervision, high level of control. Um, some of that maybe applies to the turf just because of wanting to be sure that it it isn't damaged. People have on the right footwear. the gym floors maybe were somewhere in the middle, but I've gotten some feedback here lately
055that maybe your priority would be we want people to use it, but depending on what what they're using it for, it might be better for them to go to Pleasant View and use the gym there or go use the auxiliary gym at the high school before going into and some of that is just going to be administrative decisions as requests come in. So, feedback. >> I thought it was really good. I mean, I sent a couple comments because I knew you guys will >> She's already answered your question >> for feedback, but I thought it was really good. I think it's a good start. And, you know, maybe my ask is as issues come up with particularly athletes and teams wanting access, we just try to figure out a way to do it versus just
056no, this is the, you know, this doesn't comply, you can't do it. But I thought it was a really good start. >> And this is not board policy per se. This is a use agreement. So if you see something that needs to be adjusted, it can be adjusted in a single meeting in the future. You don't have to have multiple readings and so forth. >> I think we tried to build in some language as well to provide us with an out as needed or to have some ambiguity so that we could be more flexible as needed as well. Yeah. >> Yeah. You did a really good job. >> I mean, I think you have it's like you got this new facility, you got to start somewhere. I mean, I thought it was really good just
057kind of be open-minded to to see how it goes. And my thing was just, you know, I predict there will be athletes wanting offseason access to that and how do we and and maybe not maybe that is a concern that isn't valid, but as you get students who are offseason and that want access to really any of those facilities, how can we get creative to provide that? And if the only solution is, well, your coach has to schedule it, it's like, well, that's pretty restrictive. So, as long as we're open-minded to working through that, I'm I'm really good with it. >> Yeah. I think we went from having nothing to this, I think we can just adapt through that and, you know, start with like, yes, let's figure out how to use it, be safe,
058people don't take care of things. So, like, what is a policy to make sure they do that? Yeah, the the waiver room obviously has more risk, but you know, I don't think we want, you know, I would say the gym, I don't know, that's the way it's worded now. Like, if there's any staff member that's present, can they just use that gym now or is this does this have to schedule that and have a coach present? Let's say there's the gym's empty and 10 kids want to use it and a random teacher is there to supervise. Is that okay or not? >> Um, if there is an adult supervising, >> if that's the question, Yeah. >> Like if >> does it have to be a school employee, >> a group of kids in the gym
059and one adult, right? Yeah. No, but right now um that really hasn't presented itself. >> Okay. >> Because there's times where it's just empty and it's like, hey, I want to bring 10 kids down to play. Is that okay? Does that have to be a school employee that's supervising or just any adult? >> Oh, it would have to be a school. >> Any school employee can use it if it's open. Is that >> Yeah, that really doesn't happen. >> Um like even when we've had our facilities as they are as far as just somebody rocking up and want to >> Yeah. >> access but I don't >> or a kid wants to come shoot 10 free throws. If there's an adult there is that those are the type of things like to me that seems
060risk-f free. >> Yeah. As long as there's >> or they just want to come without an adult and shoot free throws. Is that okay? >> I don't know. You keep saying adult, but I think that still needs to be clarified as school employee. >> Yeah. >> And I think the other thing I would say is we're scheduling all these kinds of spaces through Event Link. >> And I think that's worked out very well in the big scheme of things. And so there might be times that it's not scheduled, but I'd say there's also a high likelihood you might be in there for 30 minutes and then all of a sudden the scheduled event comes in. >> So >> I've never had a a kid say that they were wanting to do something and didn't have
061the opportunity to do it, I guess, would be maybe my best response right now, just because those situations haven't really presented themselves. I think our coaches do a really good job of making themselves available. >> Yeah. Um, and so I mean I don't I was the kid trying to find the unlocked door to get to Highland High School to get shots up. So >> I think that's what I want to encourage to make friends with the janitors and that works out well for me. So >> you know if I don't know about that and there is an adult around who is employed by the high school, then I'm not going to throw them away. And I I think the main thing that I like about this is it's given us an opportunity to think about
062what is reasonable. And you know, we have these discussions like, well, we're talking about who's using outside facilities. And I had a conversation with somebody and I'm driving home that day and I see a bunch of our track runners because it was a warm day a few weeks ago before the snow and they're running up the hill in front of YS. Okay. Well, you know, who's who's responsible for them? Do we have any liability assumption of risk? They're old enough they probably do. But it's just given us an opportunity to reflect on what our practice is so that we've got some safeguards in place. So, >> so it it feels like, if I can just interject, but I think what you want is to get the porridge just right. You don't want the policy to
063be so restrictive that you've got to have, you know, something that makes it really difficult to use it, but I don't think you want it to be so loose in an open policy that because all that's going to happen is that somebody else is going to have scheduled time or something and you're going to get conflict if somebody just pops in and hey, I'm in here with my my six second graders from Yorktown. We decided to come in here and shoot around and I'm the coach and the custodian or whatever and in scheduled time. So, trying to find what that sweet spot looks like, I think, is is is I I don't want to be restrictive, but I'd like it to be I personally like to see it be more structured than not. Um, the
064only I think the policy looks great. The only thing I mentioned to Dr. Kenshaw. I like the fact that the turf field, like all of our facilities, is for school authorized use, students, coaches, teams, uh, Yorktown affiliated, uh, club teams. Maybe I do think maybe defining what that really means is kind of important. I think the policy does say um, affiliated youth programs, youth leagues in which YCS students participate. Again, this is not a hill that I want to die on, but what does that mean? Does that mean if I've got two Yorktown kids on a interal team that's got 15 other kids on it that are not from Yorktown, does that authorize them to use the facility? So, I think maybe using the word majority of >> Yorktown students. I don't know. Um, but
065I like the fact that the Turfield and weight room are basically like that's not for community outside groups. Um but we are saying for the gym that >> non YHS YCS sponsored groups may request use and are subject and again I know we can approve or disapprove them but >> um when you guys think about that >> because Dr. Henchaw and I were talking about it and I was like, it kind of feels like if you want to use the shiny new car, I'd rather have you use, you know, one of the other two cars in the driveway, which we've got other gym space that people can request for a birthday party or I don't know what people requested, a church group or whatever versus using a brand new shiny $15 million facility over there.
066So, >> we do not approve. >> So, something but I don't know what that means in terms of >> um primarily like Montiana. So, a group that is outside of our purview. It's not sponsored by us, but our a lot of our kids are a part of that. Um, >> but to me, that's a YCS affiliated youth program. >> YFL, the football. >> Absolutely. >> And I would say though, is there are a lot of kids from a lot of other places. We would have a couple of our kids on a team, but we do have an agreement where they use our facility now >> um and and have a tournament in our facility that we would continue. >> Okay. >> Um I think another example might be so there's a a group Autism Rocks
067that's I'm going to meet with them and that that is an outreach for children with autism that it would impact kids in Delaware County but also service a lot of our students. I don't know where we would have that exactly. um I have to get a lot more information, but if it did make the most sense to have the most opportunity for our kids to be in that space, I would definitely want to be able to seek approval for that, but that wouldn't be my first. That would not be my go-to. >> Sure. And another example is I think you know Paul wants to try to use this as a money maker, which is true, but like at some point our youth basketball programs are traveling around for a fee essentially. We have a very
068small portion of that if that's the case. So I know that's the at some point as we're hosting those events every other week. >> And so that would be non-majority Yorktown kids. >> Yorktown just part of that program if that makes sense. >> The league >> of the league. Yeah. >> But is that I didn't think that that league the team like the Yorktown team was actually a school sponsored. I don't just a few years ago when my son was playing in it like York even though it was called like the Yorktown ECI whatever Yorktown community schools was not saying like this is a school sponsored team. >> I think that's changed for the most part running the program. >> Okay. >> It's a feeder program. >> Yeah. >> I mean that's what we we
069kind of we're like well it says it's the Yorktown ECI team but we're not part of the Yorktown community school team which >> right? So it wouldn't be an official school team, but it's part of the feeder program. Okay. So >> to me, then you're just renting it, right? Correct. Somebody wants to use it. If they're not affiliate, they're just going to pay for it. Right. It's otherwise where you're getting entry fees and our kids are participating. >> So to look at the fee schedule as well. >> That was my question. >> Ultimately, I trust your schedule. That's that's not the question. I just if we're going to default, >> people want to use facilities. I'd rather default to one of our other existing facilities first. And if it makes total sense that that facility
070is the one to use because everybody's gonna want to use that and no one's going to want to use any other gym space anymore. And I just, you know, hopefully it's got enough demand from our our inschool programs and extracurriculars and everything else that it won't matter. There's there's been somebody in there every every single time I've gone over there at night, there's been at least one court and usually both courts and you. So, I don't know if that's been your experience, but >> good good. >> Yeah, we we would like to keep it as nice and shiny and but used as well. So, hearing you say that actually lets me breathe a little bit better. >> Awesome. Thank you, Stacy. All right. Item 5 C or sorry, 5B, approval of food juice. Do you
071want to approve? >> Can we I had a question. Who's I don't hate to use the word like policing but like who's I guess over that like if you have people that are using spaces that is that you is that Paul? There's a facilities use um process that they have to fill out paperwork that goes through the different departments, maintenance, Paul, um myself to agree. It just depends on what it is, if I have to sign off on it or not. Um but yeah, all that is screened >> and event link is managed through the high school athletic department, but individual principles in other buildings have access to it. And I think we've reached a happy place. What was the analogy? Porridge is just right where principles have a high level of autonomy over their
072buildings, but we also can see that from the high school athletic department. So, we I won't name any names, but we we've known at places where somebody says, "Oh, I know this person, so I'm going to get my club is going to be here in this gym and get all these prime hours." And so we can see that and manage that a little bit and say well in terms of how we prioritize the use there's a corporate level ability to second guessess that >> and any outside groups have to be approved by building principal. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> So you want to approve this? I'd make a motion to approve the facilities use agreement. >> Second. >> Uh we've got a first and a second. Any comments by the board hearing? None. All
073in favor say I. >> I. >> All post same sign. Motion carries. 50. >> All right. Now we'll move to 5B. Approval of food to scorpant. >> This is an annual agreement renewal for commodities that are used to prepare meals in our cafeterias. And I would recommend approval. >> So moved. >> Second. >> First and second. Any comments board? I um I I do want to make a real quick comment just from working in this area a couple of years ago. Um we are we're really lucky right now to still continually to have a food service director that is I I know it that would be a unpleasant job in my personal opinion. I can hardly make three people happy in my family trying to choose what meals we're going to be having for breakfast,
074lunch, and dinner. Um, but working with some other school districts that have went away from having their own food service director and going into a contract system is not the direction that we would want to go. So, I would try to keep this going as long as we possibly can >> there. That's my discussion. >> Oh, great. No problem. Thank you. Um, we have first and second. Any com any more comments? All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries 50. Item 5C, Yorktown Public Library Board appointments. >> Just a standard process here. The school has the responsibility of making some of these appointments. And Mrs. Roselle has recommended that you reappoint Linda Smith, Dr. Linda Smith, who's one of our teachers for the district who served on the board for
075several years at the library. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion second. Any comments? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. 50. Item 5D. So, I've got a recommendation here to approve the lowest complete quote from Richard Win fencing. I think it's actually called Circle W fencing for new fencing and chain link dugouts at the middle school fields for the cost $11,100. We did solicit three quotes and this is the lowest complete quote that includes everything that was asked for >> um just total fencing around both fields and chain link dugouts. Any other specifics? >> Yeah, so uh the softball field um I believe was going to be new dugouts uh new chain link fence. Uh the baseball diamond we moved uh the soccer field.
076See my to the east a little bit. >> So that expanded right field out, I think we could get it up to 290 >> in right field, which right now it's probably about 200. Yeah. >> So, not really a great usable space for a game. >> Um, but we tore out the existing dugouts. Those are already gone. So, this would replace all of that with brand new chain link. And I think he he's planning on doing a >> green monster uh in right field to kind of potentially get it a little bit bigger >> on baseball. and on left field on softball. >> Yes. >> So, still primarily for practice, but if you know scheduling conflicts and things, we could use it for uh games as the long term. >> This will not include shade
077covers on the chain link. We'll have to arrange for those separately, which we'll get some pricing from a couple different construction companies to do that once the dugouts are up. This is like the black chain link fencing. >> This is galvanized. >> So, and we had we had some discussion on that, but because of where it is and the tendency to flood, we felt like this is probably a better choice >> about the demo of existing. >> Um, it's pretty much already demoed. >> All of it is >> I think so. There actually, you know what? There there are some six foot >> there are some six foot fence and uh part of that Ryan is planning to take down and have for a different project that he's got in mind somewhere else. So anyway,
078and they would start on this within a couple weeks as I understand it if you approve it. So >> how long to complete? >> I don't know that I heard I don't think I asked that question but I would guess it would be a couple weeks. This is the same company that redid the fencing at the west end of the football field. So >> I know that this has been, you know, discussed for the past couple of years, but going back towards like a strategic plan and a priority list, how do other let's just use like sports teams then how do they get on the list for if there's an item or a material that is needed for them to have practice meets? I mean, are are we doing this because this is a facilities
079improvement or because at one point we said, well, this was going to go towards like the middle school athletic director underneath their perview of their budget or their money spent. So, I'm giving an example. Let's just use wrestling mats. If we had wrestling coaches from both high school and middle school that were asking for new mats, how how did those get purchased or is that like for us to decide or would that now then go underneath the athletic directors? >> I'll try I'll try to do a succinct answer. >> Sorry. I think >> I would put mats even as expensive as they are are typically would be considered an athletic department expense, building level expense. >> Yeah. >> And so your athletic director, your building principal, they're going to coordinate on that maybe with boosters.
080>> Um I think in the case of this field, it's more of a major capital investment. And how did it get to this level? This is where I'm going to be I'm gonna tend to get long- winded, but I mean that that facility has been there with a big question mark around it for as long as I've been here, which is now nine years. And we've we've peered over the precipice several times and never decided to jump or not jump. And we finally just did. And so along the way, and some of these people are not here to defend themselves anymore, but it was initiated by the middle school to add middle school baseball and softball programs. And part of that agreement when they made the request was we'll practice on these fields. Um, and
081everybody agreed to that, but it didn't take very long for him to say, uh, these aren't really the greatest fields, which we all agree. And so it's been an incremental process. And I think if it's softball is maybe another example. >> I was say I mean that's $100,000 that could go I mean I get it's low hanging fruit. It's an eyes sore. Nobody wants to see that when they're driving by, but that's $100,000 that could be going towards maybe something that was higher on the priority list. >> Yeah. And I I think what we have discovered is that because we don't have our own softball field, we have one baseball field that's at the high school that it it really was in terms of the schedule even for practice super tight, super inconvenient. And so
082we made the decision to say let's just go ahead and do it so that it provides the practice space and it's relatively in the big scheme of things inexpensive. >> Well, you bring up a good point. I actually was against middle school baseball and softball for a variety of reasons, but now that we have it, do you have any I mean you have a sense this is going to continue um like baseball and softball both at the middle school level like you're not getting any feedback that this is going to go away. So I think at the point you have it, you have a responsibility to fund it. >> And we were the only HHC school that did not have middle school baseball and softball programming when we added it. >> So my one reservation
083is just the the visual. How much more is the black because you got the pickle ball the black fence? How much if it's $5,000 more? I would say that that's worth it from that standpoint. But they agree with you 100%. like in the past it really has to rise and level this board to get attention which is sad to say in some cases wrestling mats uh the heater on the swimming pool the starting blocks like I think we've done a lot better job those things just now resolve themselves which I think is positive like how do they get attention because wrestling mats is ones on the list I don't know how old they are but like at some point they've I mean I've heard complaints there's cracks and there's diseases you can get those things
084always been there with wrestling in general, but like >> those are not gonna be >> Sorry, I wasn't trying to like CURVE THE CONVERSATION. I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND like how we get to this point of like is there a threshold where we're like, well, it's over 100,000, so now it's a schoolboard issue or it's like over >> Well, if it were not a board issue, it would not happen. >> Okay? >> Because there's no budget at the middle school to repair those things. And what's more, even at the high school there there is a budget for some of those things because you do have some profitable programs, some profitable athletic programs, but um even there major capital work has to be done with corporation dollars. You mean you're you're really talking about when are
085you going to spend the taxpayers money to do it? >> Is there a presentation that can happen? Because it's it is really hard for me to answer. I don't know why it's not on the list, but to say, "Hey, everybody collectively got together, went through the list of complaints, needs, and here's our collective. We need to spend 100 grand this year on these 20 items." Because this way it comes to you. It's like, "Hey, there was a process. Everybody had their chance to voice that we had we want an improvement here." The middle school team, the high school team all collectively said, "This is what we want within that dollar." Maybe that happens. And and I guess I would say the things on the so in your memo you saw an extended list of some
086things largely those are things that I've identified as the superintendent that I see are needs. Some of them are aesthetic some of them are safety issues and I mean we can have a committee to make those decisions but I don't think we need a committee to say if you've been to a football game that the ramp that goes up to the home bleachers is not wide enough. We just we need to fix it and we need to have we gota have pricing to fix it. So and and I will tell you what I would say is at Yorktown Cara is my witness. Uh, this is a process that we've used for nine years and I could go back through and take you through a whole list of things where Rusty every spring at this time
087of the year was getting three quotes on multiple different things where I would say we need to work on this, we need to work on this. And some of it, a lot of it on that list is um football, track related. And it's things that ideally we probably should have done before we went in and did the project that we did in the summer 25, but they were things that didn't rise to the level. And then when you're done, you think that that it's a safety factor, it's a cosmetic factor. So, you know, we just um put in spent I don't think it was $50,000 on doors at Pleasant View to secure spaces that should have been secured before, but the equipment was out of date. And those are just things that organically come up.
088So, >> well, thank you for that maintenance list, too. I think that helps the board as people ask about things, complain about ceiling tiles. Hey, that's on the list. It's already on our radar. I think that's helpful. We can all kind of tow a story. >> And the other thing is if you're starting to spend over certain thresholds, then you have to bid those things. Um or you're looking at you this money is either going to come from rainy day or operations. And as we just talked about, those are not always consistent streams of money to expend. When I was first here, carpeting was being replaced on a regular basis. Doors were being replaced on a regular basis. And so they're just constantly things that we look for to say, okay, is this a if
089this is a $50,000 expense or $100,000 expense, we're going to have the board approve it, but it's probably not something that we're going to do a large study to determine whether we need to do it or not. >> Uh, do I have a motion? >> I'd make a motion to approve um Dr. Henshaw's recommendation on fencing quotes with a comment of um requesting that that's done by the end of spring break. I mean, if they say they can start it in two weeks and it takes two weeks to get done, >> but but that's um you know, I mean, we're dealing with a very short window of a season for middle school baseball and softball. >> So, having that done by then makes a big difference when you get it done in the middle of
090April and >> that's half their season. >> And that's why you're getting this quote tonight, by the way, because I had that same conversation with Brian. >> I'll second it. >> All right. I have a amended motion, I guess, to uh approve the fencing with completion as an additive by spring break. Um, all in favor? >> I. >> All oppose, same sign. Hearing none, motion carries. 5-0. Closing comments from the superintendent. Uh, I just want to report first we have our February count and our enrollment was down by six, which is a pretty modest decline considering we had nine early graduates in our senior class. So, actually our K1 enrollment was up. Be fun to see what that looks like when we get closer to fall for next school year. As we talked about earlier,
091u our weight rooms in full and regular use. Our sports performance center is as well. It's a lot of fun. drive by there sometime at night and see who's in there and the activity. It's fun to see that in use. That is exactly why it was constructed. Roof replacement at the high school. I'm calling this the capstone project. You know, put putting a cap on it. Is supposed to start, I believe the date is March the 2nd, but we're going to just say early March. And the anticipated completion is 70 days. So Stacy is not bothered by construction. She's looking forward to it, right? Should be pretty minor. Um, I'm excited about getting this middle school field thing fixed. And I can just tell you again, I'm guilty of this. Sorry. I'm going back to
092the summer of 17. You remember what the middle school looked like? If you remember the old tennis courts, if you remember the buses parked in the high school lot, if you remember the old bridge over White River on Tiger Drive, and one by one, those things have been addressed, improved, and we always had these four fields out there that we just didn't know what to do with them. And so, if we've got a workable solution for the long term and it's not super high dollar, I think that's a win. Um, I know this is old news by now, but the expansion back to eight schools of the Who's Your Heritage Conference for 2027, I think that is a win. And uh one of the things I said to the board was I feel like we're
093trying to protect um the feel the culture of the Hooser Heritage Conference so that it is a conference that Yorktown belongs in and at the same time also having an opportunity to stretch ourselves uh to play at a different level of competition for lots of reasons. And I feel like the additions that we're getting do that from what I know and I hope it's a long-term solution. And I said this to the board in my memo, but saying it in front of Stacy. She took sort of the proverbial bull by the horns and, you know, kind of went through the first round and it wasn't going the way we thought it was should go or was going to go and she took some initiative to try to work with some of her colleagues and get
094an outcome that was positive. So I commend her and Paul for getting that. >> Did that involve a headlock of any kind? >> No. >> Theoretically some very thoughtful conversation >> and strategery. >> There you go. >> Yeah. And uh again, we're at the point where we're basically past I learn checkpoint number two and headed into when once we get into spring, we assess and we assess and we assess some more. And so I appreciate the work of our teachers and our students and all the focus that goes into that. And it's hard to believe that some of our winter sports seasons are already over and we're gearing up for spring. So just keep plowing forward. That's all I have. >> Thank you. Closing comments from board members Jason. We'll start now with you. >>
095Yeah, I really didn't have anything additional, but I thought of the HHC and I thought you I thought that ended up being a really good outcome for Yorktown and I think along the way I I have I had some doubts. You know, you didn't know how it was going to end up, but I think of the available solutions. That was a really good thing. So, thank you >> for that, >> Mr. Simpson. >> Okay. Um, couple things um maybe to take with us on the to-do list um is we had talked about doing some sort of an official ribbon cutting ceremony maybe in the month of February and February is waiting. So, I don't know, maybe that sometime before spring break. So, >> it's February 29th. >> Thank you. >> Schedule. >> Thank you. >>
096The 30th was on the dashboard. Tomstarch. >> Yeah. Uh, so Mr. Kelly and I talked about this and our folks at Yorktown High School would really like to have the state champion trophies in that display case out by the front door. >> I can carry him down to help. >> We have the schematic. We have it right now. There are a couple things that we're waiting on tweaked. There's a one of the doors is rubbing wrong and so it's supposed to get adjusted so that we can then get in there and start hanging. Otherwise, it's going to chip away at the drywall. >> And we're going to put our our new our new transition strips down too, hopefully between now and then, maybe. >> Yes. So, okay. Anyway, just keep keep us posted. >> I
097I will not forget it. >> And and At the end of last year, we we were having some issues. Somebody bent the fence up at the pickle ball courts and then were we having some cracking issues on the on the on the on the pavement there? So, has that been addressed by the installers at all or do we have a plan for that? Ryan, >> that was in my court actually I talked to. So, the cracks because we didn't replace the asphalt underneath, we were kind of at risk for that. So, they kind of warned us like you can either rip it out for another 100 grand or you can essentially put acrylic over top. So, they're going to opt with that. >> Their opinion on the fence is it's not made for people to
098sit on. And so, that's their argument. It's like people sat on it, they broke it. We're not at risk. It's not a quality issue. So, >> yeah, >> I don't know what our alternatives are. I know there's higher level. >> My what I was planning to do on that was to have Mr. W look at that when he was there addressing the middle school fencing. And that was when I drilled as back. But that's kind of where things stand. >> So that's Well, I'll I'll see what he's a fencing guy and we'll see what he says about it and whether could we put a heavier gauge top rail on there and would the supports hold that heavier gauge. But yeah, I think it's probably kids from either Daleville or Westell sitting on our beds. So
099>> some benches help down there. >> Help them climb up the have some place to sit where they would be sitting on that. >> I went skateboarders right away. It's maybe it's not skateboarders, but >> I was going to say or even ask um >> we have Yeah. Well, or >> Epsi and Becca, all the different student organizations that were doing community service projects. Weren't they looking for something recently? >> Yeah. Eagle Scouts. Yeah, something like that. >> Yeah. Build a couple benches, >> maybe. All right. Is that your closing comment? >> No, I was gonna say I did go to the >> I'm not I'm not >> sorry. Thank you. The the only other thing I wanted to mention was in the consent agenda was a listing of all of our um teacher sponsored
100summer camps that are coming up in 26 which there's a bunch and I'm pretty stoked because I got first grade granddaughter. So >> they do an awesome job. >> Oh my gosh. I mean, so there is an art and bloom camp, there's an art camp, there's a cardboard engineering camp, a Disney adventure camp, a kids summer camp, a Lego. Anyway, there's a bunch. And so I'm gonna get my checkbook out and see how many my granddaughter wants to go to. But kudos to our staff uh and everybody as part of that. And then also there was a uh there was an announcement about our I read summer school proposal. So our I read summer school looks like it's going to take place for about a week, week and a half, something like that. Um yeah,
101May 26th through June 5th. So I read remediation uh while the little brains still have uh have some some knowledge in them. So anyway, kudos to our our staff at PBE forum for jumping on that. So I'm done. >> Are you sure? >> I think so. >> Okay. Um no, I went to um our Yorktown Elementary STEAM and family literacy night last week. Wowzers. Great job. Um, I've been to a STEM night before and I've been to literacy night before and but not to the combined event. Was not expecting the crowd that showed up. Every room had a different activity ongoing in it. Lots of parents there. So, great job teachers, admin that put all of that on. So, I was blown away. It's just another great program for our community. So, great job. >>
102Thank you. Thank you to our staff and teachers and admin for everything that you do. Thank you for always coming to me crowd. >> A couple things for me. I think at the end of the day, results matter and so we can disagree. I I would have done the HSC process differently. The reality is I think I think we got it right in the end. And so that's what matters at the end of the day. I feel like you look at the gymnasium where there's a lot of tough discussions through that. where does the fieldhouse go versus the weight room. And I think it's it's a safe place when you can have open discussions. The results then are impactful. I walk through that facility, it's like I don't know that we got much wrong when
103the worst of our issues is the transition. I feel like that's a big win. There's a buzz when you go in there. The kids are excited. And so I think we've gotten some real results through sometimes difficult discussions. People may get annoyed with me over time, but I think the results are there. People feel open to have a real discussion. I think I think that's impactful. On the arts side of thing, I think Clarinet's done a great job, you know, adding the band and some of the choir to national anthems. I have no, you know, seeing capabilities, but I can tell you when something sounds good or bad, it sounds amazing. So, appreciate him coming out and doing that. I think it just makes a real difference uh for the community. So, thank you guys
104all for being here. >> We are journ at 7 >> 7:21. Yeah.