FEAS Regular Board Meeting - April 14, 2025

001here. Uh, call the meeting to order and start with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. We have all board members here tonight except I believe Scott is out of town. Um let's see any change in the agenda. I do have one change. Um add 2425 8.4. It's at your table. Um goes along with our uh summer work that work and Frank and I have done some work to get everybody kind of lined up. So we want to try to take care of that. We want to try to take care of that tonight. Sorry. Thank you. Okay, great. Um any special guests? We do have guests. We

002have two. Mrs. Harvey and our student and Tara Miller is here. Not necessarily guests, but they're here. Great. All right. Uh consent agenda items. The minutes from the last regular meeting, financial report and approval of the agenda. Any changes, comments? Hearing none, I'd entertain a motion to approve consent agenda. So move Megan and a second. Second West. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Great. Um, now we have the opportunity for public participation. Should anyone? And I think if you just announce Well, you got a mic or how does that work for I'm gonna over by Brian there or take Scott's spot. I'm a little boy. Okay. Okay. All right. Um, my name is Christine Harvey. I don't know all of you. I haven't been formally introduced to all of you. And I am the

003art teacher. Um, and I've been here for 20 plus years now at the high school and had a 9, 10, 11 year run um, as elementary and high school. And now I'm fully at the high school again. And I brought um I invited students um who have experienced both the old ceramics room and the new ceramics room um to come. And I realized that is a a limited there are only a few of those students left yet. So I needed to hop on that. And um I'd also like to say now the the end is in sight. There are still a few things that need to be done in the ceramics room. I talked to Frank today. there's some shelving things we can improve on, but um I think I think we're gonna make it.

004So, it's time for me to say thank you. And um but before I do that and before I int uh invite you all to come anytime to visit our second, third, fourth, or fifth hour ceramics classes, please do stop by anytime. Um I want to give you a little bit of a history of ceramics at Frankfurt. Um when I came here uh with little baby on my hip um and another one in tow um I had a lot of ceramics under my belt from my alma mater at Valparezo. I spent many summers taking more ceramics. I couldn't get enough of it at Notre Dame. And um I had wonderful teachers, Michelle Carzo, Bill Kramer. I found out that Bill Kramer has left a wake of ceramics teachers all over the Midwest and um grad students

005um that I've run into up at NM uh NMC. Um and I feel very grateful for the education I've had. When I came here and was hired, I realized that there was no ceramics in the art room over there. And as the other teacher left, she said very dramatically, I think it is in my head now. She made eye contact and she said, "There will never be ceramics here." And that was because it was a small room. There was a little room that was like 12 by 12 with very poor ventilation, not great electrical, and it just wouldn't work. It maybe worked for one. Anyway, anyway, um I knew though the benefits of working with clay, sitting at that wheel, going back, failing, doing it again, and um so I still had it in my

006mind. Well, two things happened shortly after that that kind of change your trajectory. One, there was a big building project, added on a new kitchen, the gym, blah blah blah. And um this guy here um retired from his ceramics teaching job at a big high school in Columbus, Ohio. And um he had set up, unbeknownst to me, a ceramic studio at the Crystal Lake Art Center, now known as Oliver Art Center, which was at that point had just moved to the Napa Auto Part Store, which is now the chiropractic office. And there was a little garage there that is no longer there, but he had turned it into a ceramic studio. there's a raccoon kill there and he wandered in and said, "Hey, would you like to come down for a couple of weeks with

007your students and do a project and I was like, I don't know if I trust this guy." No. Um, but we did it. And we had four four Tuesdays in a row where we uh built teapotss and it's legendary and still talked about today. I believe that was in 2005. Um, I will not be this detailed for the rest of this. Um we uh so shortly after that we realized that the old kitchen was getting filled up with broken desks and chairs and um I asked if I could put a kilt there and two wheels and with the help of Panther parents we made that purchase and we did that. And then Wes was kind of like uh that Grim's fairy tale where the shoe maker is having a hard time making the shoes, but

008the elves come at night and make the shoes. Wes would kind of go into that kitchen and rearrange the furniture. We were supposed to be sharing it with the custodians, but he kept rearranging it so the custodians had a smaller and smaller footprint. and eventually they gave up, cleaned out the other closet, moved in there, and we had um claimed our um real estate. Um this endeavor was fully supported by Frank Iikens. Frank quickly learned what it took to support a ceramic studio, different kinds of machinery. He handled all the electrical. We kept switching from 210 to the other thing and blah blah blah. And I'm like, Frank, I don't know. The prongs go this way. And he called in the electricians and made it work. It was very, very um responsive and supportive all

009along the way. Um um let's see. The studio has allowed us to have a proper lab class. It um has allowed us to um spend the first semester learning the basics, building a team, community atmosphere, and then by the second semester, we dive into contemporary artists, artists of the past, and the students start to find their own voice and their strengths, figure out what things they want to practice on more. We have the chance to plan, experiment, fail, revise, and practice again. Um I love teaching this class. I am aware that an online class could probably fulfill the fine arts requirements needed to graduate Frankfurt or the state of Michigan or whatever. Um, and I realize that it would be a lot less costly and a lot less messy. Um, so I want to say

010thank you Mr. Tsley, thank you Mr. Stapleton. Uh, the original uh, counselor scheduling classes at that time was Miss Waltney and Miss Roth. Um, I thank Mr. Iikens. I thank M um Mr. Blizzard. Um, Mr. Dave Baker, the custodian who mops and and helps me out in many ways. Um, the school board and the voters who have said it was important not only to stand next to your classmates and reflect and build pots, but also to do that to make community. Um, we miss our cozy old little messy ceramics room in the kitchen and we miss um the students who were once in there with us. And yet we are very glad to have the very big windows. It makes a difference even on a gray day. It feels like the sun is shining in

011comparison to what it was before. Um, I'm thankful for the ventilation system. I think I've added back maybe a year and a half onto my life by having that ventilation system. I'm happy to have the washer and dryer right there. I'm happy to have the new table surfaces with hardy backer board on it. Um and um the sturdy bases and I know Frank is very very happy to have uh overall fewer cinder blocks in that room than we once had. Um I'm grateful to have been involved very much with the design of the room. Um, and I'm glad to have had Wes um because this rookie program had the wisdom of like a seasoned um large school uh program with a lot of institutional wisdom and um I'm grateful for that. Um so uh but

012you don't just have to take my word for it. I think that's what uh reading rainbow said. Okay, go ahead. Oh, so I've invited EMTT Blau. Emmett Blau is a senior. This is his third year of ceramics. He's taking an additional uh art uh advanced class. And um he said, I would like to come and talk. Um, and one of the things I've asked about asked my students a lot is what else do you learn besides learning how to build tall pots, learning how to apply glaze? If if possible, make them even beautiful. What else has it taught you? And EMTT said he'd love to say something. Yeah. So, um, I feel like ceramics has taught me a lot, especially as a person. Um, I guess I'll just list a couple things. Um, teamwork. Uh,

013for me it's it's taught me a lot of teamwork and like working together as a team to clean up things. And I feel like for me that's something I can take out into the real world and I can use it, which is great. I love it. Um, communication skills. learn a lot of communication whether it's talking back and forth between Miss Harvey or um you know between your peers at school. Um, what else? For me, it's definitely um me, at least me personally and people, I'm sure there's a lot of kids like me, but ceramics is something that I can like go do and I can just like escape from the reality of world, the world around me, and I just kind of like kind of almost tune in on what I'm doing. And it

014it really helps especially mentally for me, you know. I kind of just clear out. My brain just just goes and I just kind of just get in the zone almost, you know, and I love that feeling. Um, and there's not many things for me that like do that, but like when I can, but something about ceramics is just like I don't know if it's a feel of clay or like what it is, but I just I love it. And I I know there's plenty of other kids out there that have that same feeling. And so um yeah. Uh what else? Oh yeah. Yep. Failure. Another one. Another big one. Um yeah, that is especially this year. Um you know, I would get pretty down on myself as a person. like I'll be like, "Oh, that

015sucks." Or like, "Oh, this this is horrible. It's not very good. I don't like the way it turned out." But then, you know, this year I've learned that things aren't always going to be perfect and everything is unique in its own way. And um yeah, you got to um really know. It's hard to explain, but um yeah, I just kind of like I've failed so many times this year and it's like I get so down that I'm like, "Oh, you know what? Maybe not. Maybe I can revise and like shape it this way." And then like, oh, look at that. It turned out really great. Like, you know, cuz you have glazes and you have other things that once you apply to the piece, it like yeah, I guess everything doesn't always have to be

016so uniform, you know, and I've that's something I've kind of picked up as I've went along is like nothing has to be perfect and Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, that's wonderful. Um, and and now you can see why I like teaching ceramics and the lessons that are there for people to learn are um wide and and u limitless, but don't let them fool you. Uh, EMTT is one of our prize winners at the Oliver Art Center currently on display right now. So, um, please go check that out before the end of April. And um and that was so that was actually I'll say something um with about the failure part um that those pieces that I have there that won the prize um were actually a fail. I was, you know, I was making

017trying to put two two thrown pieces together on the wheel and it collapsed on me and I like and so but then I kind of like I sat there for a second. I like it's another this is another thing thinking you really sit there and you overthink you they think things and so I was sitting there and like huh what if I so it's like kind of collapsed but it's still closed. It's not like broken or anything and so I'm like hm let me see. So, I just took my two fingers and I just started like plucking the top. I kind of just made it almost like abstract and like very um I guess you'll see when you if you do find your way up to the Olive Art Center, but um it's almost very

018unique in its own way. And then like I that's kind of that was kind of like the flipping moment for me. It's like nothing is a nothing is really a failure, you know? You just got to work your way around it and almost revise. And so, um, yeah. Yeah, that's all I have to say. So, thank you. Thank you. Thanks, EMTT, for coming and sharing. and great. And Christine, thanks for all you do with teaching ceramics and and life lessons and mentoring kids. It's much appreciated. Oh, no. I think Wes wanted to say something. Did you want to say something, Wes? Thank you. I'd like to say um just a little bit about EMTT. Um I've kind of gotten to know him a little bit better, but he's one of the several people who have

019applied for the scholarship, the art scholarships that all of you have a chance to uh donate to. Uh I'm more willing to take the money and then they are more than willing to take the money to college. So congratulations uh on your hard work this year. Great. Okay. And then one other um any are you good? [Laughter] Nice. That's awesome. Uh we did receive a um letter to the board um and they requested that we read this at the board meeting um dated March 28th. Dear Frankfurt, Alberta Area School Board, I am writing to express my heartfelt gratitude to Frankfurt, Alberta Area School Board for its outstanding support of the robotics program. The opportunities provided by the school have not only enhanced my child's educational experience, but also fostered his passion for science, technology, engineering,

020and mathematics. The school's commitment to robotics has given many children the chance to develop valuable skills in programming, design, and problem solving. The program has also encouraged teamwork, critical thinking, and innovation, which are essential skills for success in today's technologydriven world. I appreciate the school's investment in state-of-the-art equipment and software which has enabled us to design, build, and test our robots. The support of our teachers and mentors has been invaluable, providing guidance and encouragement throughout the program. Thank you for recognizing the importance of robotics and STEM education in preparing students for future careers. Your support has made a significant impact on my child's educational journey. I'm fairly confident all of the other students who participated. Oh, as well as the other students who participated. I am grateful to be part of a school community that

021values innovation and excellence. My child is truly looking forward to next year's FPRO. Sincerely thankful. Cheryl McKeen, guardian of a student from Bula. So well done, Coach Norton. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And so I think that ends our public participation for now. You guys are obviously welcome to stay and you will not hurt our feelings if you decide not to. Uh and we will move on to our superintendent report. All right. Good evening. Uh superintendent report is on page 21. There's a number of bulleted items I won't go through. um with the exception of one I did meet with the train represent train uh representatives today that's the HVAC group and had nice conversation and they'll be visiting us uh next uh Monday at our long range planning committee meeting and that's on Monday the

02221st uh just uh informational our that ESS Midwest agreement that is simply takes care of our uh it's a third party with our substitute teachers and off staff coaches to went ahead and sign that agreement. Uh schoolboard workshop, we're going to talk about briefly here in a little bit. And then the early childhood committee, we're still moving forward and working with that with Amber and some others as well. Um I'll be reaching out to our policy committee. Uh we have one more update for this school year, volume 39, number two. And before I go to the True Law Notes, just um many thanks to our Panther parent group. Uh it was a wonderful evening and they raised a whole lot of money and it's greatly appreciated. Um Mike, is there a chance to put that

023video somewhere where other people can see that the website? It is on the website. Okay. All right. And thank you by the way, Mike. That was outstanding. Yeah, it was great. Okay. Moving to True Law Notes. Um the first item uh we don't that's not to us. We don't have any leasing. Um, but I guess before I go through here, does anybody have any specific questions? I don't need to go through all of this unless you have a question, I guess. No, it's pretty straightforward. Okay, straightforward. We like that. Um, good. We will be working uh the only other item is uh working with making sure any extended summer summer programming for some of our kids with an IEP. I'll be working with Ann and Matt about that. I don't believe so, but we'll see.

024And that's it really. I was wondering on that, is that different than summer school? It's somewhat because it's it's in that students education plan if it's determined through a committee that the student could uh benefit from some more summer time, then that would be a requirement on us. Yes. Okay. There aren't any other questions. That made it easy and quick. All right. And any other questions for Jeff? Nope. Okay, great. Uh, moving on to finance committee report. Great. So um finance committee met uh as it always does and um so uh the first point to make just coming out of the meeting we're just continue continue to observe sort of a lot of overlap between what finance committee is talking about and what the long range planning committee is talking about is as we come

025towards the end of the year in our project to evaluate infrastructure needs uh for the next 10year span um in that spirit. We spent a lot of time at the finance committee meeting uh this this past week um meeting with uh a person who's works for an advising business that we work with to issue bonds. It's the company that kind of handles our bot to pay for things like the ceramics room. When we raise bonds and we raise a bunch of money, this company does that for us, does all the financial work. And uh the purpose of the meeting was to determine as we start to think about projects over the next 10 years that are infrastructury and kind of expensive um what is what are the funds that might be available to the school

026in different scenarios depending on what we want to accomplish. So if we wanted to make a big change to you know the front of the elementary school that's a couple million bucks where do we come up with a couple million bucks when do we have access to that money and what are like our choices there. So, it's a preliminary conversation, but super interesting and starting to understand the ramp and the path that we might have to access um project money. As you know, bond money is like for building stuff and the and general fund is for paying for the ongoing operations of the school in general. Um, so that was useful. no definite decisions, but a nice picture as we start to get close to the point when long range planning will come up with

027that list of here are the things we'd like to try to do over that next 10-year period and match the projects to the money basically or try to. Um we talked a lot about the parking lot which we're going to discuss a little bit later today. Uh the main point for us from a finance committee standpoint was first of all the bids that have come back for the the basic parking lot build were less than our we sort of thought it would be in kind of a worst case scenario. So that's good. Um and as I'm sure Jeff will discuss the bids that we're going to review today for the park this is the parking lot sorry new parking lot at the high school. expansion of the parking lot at the high school, replacing um

028that sort of waste area now uh with a nice parking lot that will have spots for everybody almost all the time um on a nice paved thing with walkways and trees and like a nice clean looking thing instead of parking on the gravel basically. Um, but important note, the the bids are uh great we think and there are a number of uh things that need to be included there that are not in sort of the headline bid. I know Jeff has covered some of those in a handout and there are a few other things. We're trying to uh encourage the administration to take care of all of this kind of like stuff all at once. So, um the parking lot is great. We want to make sure we have a nice entrance to the track

029area. We want to um arrange it so that the buses park behind the school instead of on that gravel area. You want to turn take get rid of the gravel area and turn it back to grass. So sort of a park land thing again, which would be really nice. And then plant a bunch of trees all in the effort that we started with the track of making when you approach the high school everything looks like really nice and like organized and tidy and and cheerful. Um which is exciting to think about. So, there's a little bit more stuff on top of this bid that I'm sure Jeff will cover a little bit later that still has to be fit in. Um, the negotiations with uh teachers are are underway now. We're just about to begin.

030So, we discussed that a little bit. This is a three-year cycle thing or has historically been a three-year cycle thing. And so, that's that's we talked about that a little bit. Um, some um not terribly interesting but important things. Uh, our contract with Northwest Ed, is it a contract? be we'll talk about that is up for renewal. We'll talk about that. Uh similarly um the group that helps us organize our substitute teachers up for renewal. We agreed that we should go ahead with those things. Um and we discussed uh the potential addition of a a trainer position uh which I guess some things have changed in the contract the nature of the contract there and so we have to take a look at that and figure out how we're going to approach it. Um, and

031that was about it. Unless you guys can think of anything I'm missing there. No, just um, not missing. The Northwest Ed Services, they'll be they'll in May we'll need to have a conversation about their operating budget. Uh, they're going to meet with a couple of us this Wednesday. And we'll talk about the Northwest agreement technology services in a little bit. And that's about it. Thank you. Great. Thanks. Any questions, Brian? All right, moving on. Technology report. My role is starting to evolve or I can anticipate how it's going to get laid out in a way that make more efficient creativity. I said this last month, I appreciate it. So Jeff will talk I think more on the time table for this gentleman from Northwest. Um, and then I also just wanted to say I get

032to talk and amazing job presentation and I told Christine that's the epitome of what I see you know beneficial aspect of being a student here being able to fail everything here with some emotional stability you know fighting against social media the Great. That's all right. Any questions for Mike? Okay. Great. Thank you, Mike. All right. Um, next topic is the our workshop date and topic discussion. So our workshop date is what? In two weeks. The last Monday of the month. Believe. So a minute. 28. 28. Okay. Um, and I guess and we have a very large list of potential topics, but I wanted to see if there was a topic that was popping up in anybody's mind that they really wanted for the month of April. We have superintendent's evaluation that we have to do

033your evaluation before June 30th, right? If you want. Yes. By law. Yes. So that will probably be May's workshop. I I I found I know we've spent uh at least one workshop maybe the middle school curriculum review or the middle school college prep review which straight into curriculum I found very engaging and useful. Um and I don't know if that's if curriculum remains on the list. I know we've talked about it a little bit here and there throughout the year, but there was an opportunity to explore um uh uh high school curriculum um both in terms of like I know we made a lot of changes this year with the uh addition of classes and um uh electives and trying to get fewer people in Ferris and more people in the building. Matt, correct me

034if I'm saying this wrong. Um would love to hear how that has gone and take a look at that. That's just as an idea and what more could be done perhaps? Any thoughts? Aubrey, what were you hoping to talk about, Amy? Oh, no. I I mean, I shot Jeff a very long list of potential topics, but um that was one of them. Um and the other one was co-curricular participation rates. Um, let's see. Student demographic update. You know, what are all of our numbers and the trends and, you know, have we looked at that in a while? Yeah. Um, we had our communications uh committee meeting on Friday, which went really well. And one of the things that we brought up was um now that we have these great strategic plan goals and we've got

035a great document from Mike um the next stage is we want to package that up into something that's um you know really kind of shiny and beautiful and shows the pride that we have in the process and also the school district itself. So it would be you know like a brochure maybe an eight pager type thing um and we would mail it out. So, we'd like everybody in the community, whether they're, you know, seasonal or full-time, anybody in the district to get that at some point. Um, and we might outsource it. We're not going to throw the whole thing on Mike. But before we get to that point, we have to finalize um our values, mission, and value statement. And there was one more part, but I really think we could do it in 15

036minutes at the workshop. Okay. And then once we get that, we can get some, you know, we could maybe do a smaller group, but I'd really like to get something off to the printer. And this is not like a quarterly thing. This is like a once every other year thing just to, you know, we want to make sure that we're communicating outwards and there's a lot of people that pay taxes in the district and would probably like to see where that money is going and we should be very proud of what we're doing with that money. And we also thought that it would be good for new students to like coming to the district. It's It's a nice way to like give them a brochure and be like, "This is what you're getting in. This

037is what you're in for if you go here in a good way." Yeah. Great. So, it sounds like communications and then maybe it I don't know if it's too tough to pull together something on might be a little but I can we can maybe give some basic stuff. Okay. I can get back to you. Okay. But I think the communications was I think the communications piece is really important to the district right now. Wrapping up the strategic plan, how we want to package it to roll it out was a big one. Um and I can meet with Matt Nan and see if we want to put the little closure. Okay. Might be I'll do a little bit Brian as far as you know high school changes and so forth. Yeah. I'm curious to know how

038how everything how everything went and then as it's you know it's the time we're trying to fill some new position some positions that have opened up with new teachers. How's that going to impact curriculum next year? What are our big plans? Again, the discussions around the middle school and this I thought were were really interesting and um I think it'd be useful. I think we we can probably come up with a agenda easily. Okay. Is it possible to discuss the middle school again uh with their testing program with math and the need of someone to help with math? Okay. Yeah, if that's a problem with the based on the math scores from NWA. Yeah. And we were going to look at we were going to revisit that right in June when we get the spring.

039Okay. We had some followup questions about some subsets and just how the enrichment was going, you know, what the what the story was there. There were some things that we kind of didn't specifically put a marker in, but hanging questions that would be nice to readress. Yeah. On the academics specifically, right? As far as data, we should have a bet our full data set we think um probably mid June somewhere in there because May is a well, we've already done quite a bit of testing now. Uh I have been in contact with Ryan Moss at Northwest Ed. He's the data king, so to speak. He's really really good at it and he's offered to come back once we get all of our data for the year to come back and kind of do a presentation

040at one of our workshops. Um that might kind of help answer some more questions and see how we use the data and so forth. I thought the data was the coolest thing was like was the discussion about, you know, these are the kids we really focused on and here's how it made a difference or didn't and here's what we're going to try next year and what how we can change things like that. It was the data's great, but to have the educators there speaking about their tactics and their plans was I thought was I thought was really cool. We have an admin meeting tomorrow with Matt Ann and Mike and uh we can talk about that too. We might be able together. Great. All right, that sounds like a plan. Thank you. Uh if anybody

041thinks of anything else, just shoot me and Jeff an email and we'll figure it out. All right. My only suggestion because I've done this two times now. Try not to put too many topics on. No, I've done that. It's like, okay, learned my lesson. So, so we'll narrow it down a little bit. Yep. Yeah. Great. Okay. Uh Ann, elementary school report. It's a busy place right now because it is a busy busy time because we just have so much going on right now. Uh wanted to give a big shout out to our Battlebots competition that we had. It was a lot of fun. Um, and just a huge thanks to Sue Hammond for all of the work that she did and and really I asked her to go out on a limb and she really

042had to to go out on the limb because this was something that was completely unfamiliar to her and it has been a pleasure to work with Corkmine. Uh, watching them here working with our kids on um, Tuesday last week was really pretty amazing. They were teaching the kids. They were emphasizing all of the skills that go in, the trouble solving, the the critical thinking, the excitement. Um, all of that was done in a very teachable way. So, it was a lot of fun. And, um, EMTT mentioned his work at the um, art show. At the same time she was doing all of this related to uh the battlebots and the uh battery powered vehicles, she was also getting ready to put entries into the art show over at the uh Elizabeth uh or the Oliver

043Art Center. So there's just a lot going on and I really want to say thanks to Sue for all she's done there. Um I provided all of the other information about things that are going on. We've got an elementary musical that's being written by fourth and fifth graders as well as uh performed some of the same um students are also in the high school musical in a variety of rule uh roles there. So uh very busy. We had our kindergarten roundup at this point. We have 34 students we expect to have in kindergarten. That always changes. It usually goes up from this point. Um, and thanks to the Panther parents for an amazing spring fling. It was a lot of fun the other night. Um, and then your our testing schedule because that's what we'll

044do. And are all of those 34 kids who went through our prek program too? No. Okay. We have a few coming in new. The m the majority of them were um I think 26 of them Okay. are from preschool. Okay. Thanks. Great. Any other questions for Ann? Well, thanks to you and thanks to Sue. That sounds like it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of loud fun. Um, but it was pretty amazing the learning and the pictures that I shared, the kids are jumping up and down. Um, and when the Battlebots would hit each other in the arena, they would hit and you'd see the parts just flying off of them. And the battlebots arena is this uh big square that's got a super thick plexiglass

045so that a stuff is flying around nothing gets out and hurts anybody. Um it's it's really it's very impressive. That is pretty cool. And they designed it they designed them. Yes. So every team had a theme and a name and um some of the the kids showed up with matching t-shirts. Uh in our fourth grade, we had uh one student who had designed 3D printed hats for the teams to wear and um they had I mean it was just it was a it was a big deal. It was a lot of fun. And there just because I I I stayed in touch with Philip on this. The students the fifth grade students are using a software to make models in the software that can then be printed. So, they're making robots, but also silly things

046like hats, but they're designing. They're actually drawing the circles and the lines and and then hitting the print button and watching the thing that they designed be actually come out on the printer. It's really cool. And and what's really fun is the hats that were designed, a student did those at home. Yeah. So, he's taking what he's doing here, and then he went home and designed these uh 3D hats with a banana on top. And it's really cool. the some of the kids had designed little um like characters and mascots to put on their robots. And one of the cool things was they had developed this pug with a crown on. And when the battlebots hit the the pug went flying, the top the head top of the head came off of the pug and

047then there was just all this white fiber that flipped out and you know that was as much fun as as any of the rest of it. So, um, I stood on a step stool so I could see over and into it for the better part of two hours just so I could see the battles. So, it was very fun. Cool. Great. Any other questions? Thank you. Um, Matt, middle and senior high. You bet. Um, you had a chance probably to look at the report for the Milan High School. The big thing u since the last time we met was our testing day last week. Our big schoolwide as far as our high school is concerned. Um our nth and tth graders took part in the PSAT and then our 11th graders uh took part in

048the SAT last Wednesday and then Thursday and Friday they finished up with the work keys and the MSTEP. So wanted to give a shout out to Mrs. Roth uh and our staff for you know our organization and their proctoring uh and then all of our kids to make you know it's a cooperative effort throughout the day uh to make that work and then uh they did a great job. So our seniors that day typically they job shadow so they're not in the building and we kind of uh get all that rolling on the same day. our middle school kids, the eighth grade, they have their PSAT on uh April 22nd and then we we'll do our MS stepping in May and those dates were included in the uh report. Um you guys have talked a

049lot about robotics um and they wrapped up their season just after the last meeting and then also our senior trip uh happened after the last meeting and we haven't been back to talk about it. So that was a unbelievable experience for those kids. Uh they did an amazing job. um just was super proud of them and I wanted to give a thanks to Mr. Be and Mr. Rei who do a great job planning that trip. A lot goes into it. They start planning in the fall and we're able to keep the cost down because we do everything ourselves with regards to the organizing and we don't pay for closeup or we don't pay a third party to organize all that and so it makes it a little more affordable and we can get more kids

050there. So want to give a shout out to those guys and then Mrs. Evans helped chaperone this year as well. Um so that was fun. But the kids were great and uh was just a really cool experience. Um you'll see a number of other things on there. Um I added an additional piece of paper and that was um because you saw on the sheet there it said solo ensemble and then it said art show currently at the Oliver Art Center and the Crooked Tree Art Show. And we have some updates that just came in. So the art updates you can see congratulations to Ty Beaman. Um he's accepted in the NMC jury show which is pretty exciting. That's tonight the opening is. And then also you can see a number of other students uh Ada

051and Grace and EMTT and own Kylie Kylie and and Lauren for having special honors and uh and for their work at the Oliver Art Center. And then you see the middle school solo ensemble from this weekend. We had a number of students and it was first time we participated since co and uh I mean almost all of our kids um you know they were right in the mix either ones or twos and uh really proud of their effort and they did a great job. So that was fun. A couple things I wanted to call your attention to or one thing, um, straight talk presentation. We're working collaboratively with Benzy Central and also the Bay Initiative. They're using the opioid funds, uh, from the county. Uh, so the county commissioners have agreed to help support um,

052having a speaker come into both Benzy and Frankfurt High School, talk to all of our kids, middle school and high school, um, about drugs and alcohol and the choices we make. and it's like a concert and a and a um message all at the same time and they're based out of Lancing and we're really looking forward to having them here at the end of April. So that'll be that'll be a pretty cool thing coming. So looking forward to it. This is the one that we were going to have and got we had a snow day instead or there was bad weather. Well, yeah, this this one was um this has been kind of year in the making, but it's it was just a matter of securing the funding for because it's pricey. But um uh

053we were able to work with Bay Initiative who's done a great job to try to get this up and rolling. So um but just yeah, they pushed the date out. It was going to be a fall and so they pushed it all the way to the winter or to the spring here. And then the musical will take place uh the weekend of April 24th through the 26th. So and then you see some other information on there. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Awesome. Any questions on that report? Nope. Okay. Thanks, Matt. Um, our high school reporters, you want to go first? Uh, sure. Uh, we had spring fl or yeah, spring fling. That was awesome. Everything that Panther Parents does for us. And then spring break. Hope everybody was able to

054rest over that week. And then spring sports are in full swing now. I think golf has their first match coming up this week and track and baseball and softball. So, a lot of fun. Drama production is coming up. They're working really hard on that right now. It's exciting. Uh before spring break, um that week we had like a panther egg hunt and so student council like got prizes every day and we would hide eggs. So, just a little fun thing to do. And like Mr. Stapleton mentioned, the SATs and all that junior testing and then the junior trip is coming up April 27th, I think. Great. All right. Um, we have the NHS induction and induction on May 1st. Um, and then prom is right after that on May 3rd. Um, the seniors just did

055some job shadowing and that was pretty cool. I feel like everybody got like a first world experience. Um, we had some new applicants for the 25 26 school year for NHS and that hopefully everybody submitted theirs by Friday. So, that's exciting. Um, we've got a blood drive tomorrow. That'll be the last one of the year. Um, Oliver Art Center student show all the way until April, so check it out if you can. Um, Interact Club did a women's history month interactive board and you kind of had to you had to guess their eyes, I think. And if you guessed right, you got a prize. Um, and then the senior trip was a blast. I would go again. It was so fun. and we got to see so much in the short span of time that

056we were there. There was a lot of class bonding. Um it was great. I had a blast. Um and I know we're going to talk about this later, the parking situation. Um it was like last week I think I was talking to somebody during one of my online um about the parking lot. Um, and um, throughout the year, sophomores typically are getting their licenses and then juniors and seniors that have their licenses, it just gets really crowded. So, I'm excited that there's going to be parking available to everybody next year hopefully. We'll see. Um, but also like sporting events that'll open up more. Um, and also when we have building visitors. Um, so there's that. Um, and then I've got another thing. Um, as a senior, I really think that I've learned a lot. Um,

057and there's stuff that I would change. I think everybody's got something that they would go back and do differently. Um, and I think that if I had learned more at the end of eighth grade going into ninth grade, how important GPA was, then I would have done things differently freshman year rather than just not really caring, you know, going with the flow. I would have done a lot more. Um, and how it's like it's weighted. It's a quarter of your final grade for high school. And people look at that. Um, and dual enrollment is a big part of that, too, just because I mean, I'm working really hard in those classes, and I love that I get high school and college credit, but my GPA isn't weighted based off my dual enrollment classes. Um, and

058so I was kind of coming up with a couple ideas whether like maybe doing a mentorship program or something for upper classmen with incoming freshmen. Um, and kind of just saying like, "Hey, this is really important. You should pay attention to this. Your teachers aren't sitting here trying to bore you. Like there's useful information." Um, or doing senior speakers for the eighth graders, kind of like how the the seniors get adult speakers. I think that could be helpful for that too. So that was what I had to say. Great. Yeah. Back off for Carly on that. Like boys that I would have never thought like cared about anything like that. It was funny. We were talking about the same thing the other day and they were like I wish I actually tried my freshman year.

059But like I guess I just didn't realize that. And if we had something like that maybe that could open their eyes a little bit. So yeah. I think you think you have four years and you really have three years because you're applying at the end of your junior year. It's like yeah, [Music] once it goes down too that's real. That's good feedback. Thank you for sharing that. Any questions? Uh yeah, Mer wanted to mention too they did a great job. Nice job, guys. while she's still here. Miss Harvey too, um you had in already in the report about our um Chicago trip. Uh um I can say it because she's here. She's done a great job also of helping organize that again for the 20 plus year 20 years or somewhere in there. And Miss

060Quney of course, you know, original. So, and that one that one's been in intact for you know 20 almost 24 25 years somewhere in there probably. I mean, give or take a year because co Yeah. So, so thanks for all the work because it's a ton of work to do to get set up. So, thank you. And thanks. Um, girls, I just had a quick question. I know that in the winter there was a focus that you guys had for like student section and I know that spring sports are a little more difficult, but I just didn't know if there was like an effort for that as well or um just was wondering about it. Um, we I feel like we don't put as much emphasis on spring sports honestly, but um I mean we

061do have like social media postings of like here's the home game tonight, like come out and support the other kids. But yeah, that is we actually have a meeting this week, so maybe we can talk about that. But that's a good idea. I know a lot with the like track and stuff um if they have a meet like they had a meet Friday and so this morning um on the announcements we were told how everybody did and I feel like that's really unique for like track and cross country but it's not like you don't hear oh so and so dumped this many points in basketball last night. So maybe consistency with that would like maybe help. It's like oh yeah I was there I got to see that. That was pretty cool and now we're

062talking about it. But it's you're going and you're hearing about it and you're like, "Oh, whatever." You know? Any other comments, questions? Awesome. Thank you guys. All right. Moving on to business. Item 8.1, approval of resolution to consider designation of electoral body. Well, that's a lot to read. of electoral body representative for the June 2nd, 2025 bienial election. What does that mean? What is that? This is probably one of the more unique uh processes for the Northwest Ed Board and they will tell us that, but they're mandated by law on how to do it. So, this is really a two-step process. What you're doing tonight is through that ele there will be a board election. Northwest ed has a board just like local education agencies do and know and if you go back to page

063I put that all in your packet on page 37 explains it how how they're elected and so forth through 39. So the step first step it's a two-step process is to work through this resolution that we are designating a candidate a board member from this group and it has typically been Wes uh that's one of his board roles in one of the committees. So the first step is to designate Wes. The next step at our May 12th board meeting will approve Wes to do this. And the other piece of that is select the candidate. We would select the candidate as a board. Then Wes would go to Northwest Ed for a long five minute meeting to cast his vote and come home. But that's the Northwest Ed process. That's how that works. So what we're

064doing tonight if board approves is to it's the recommendation to consider consider West Blaz Blizzard as the FAS district representative for the Northwest Ed education services by annual election. What that means is it's done every two years. Is that the only meeting that Wes has to attend? Is that how that works? Um are there other meetings? No, that's that's his role to go up and cast the vote. Yeah, it used to be more. There were more meetings, but yeah, I'm wondering. I don't have an answer for that, Wes. No, that's okay. I didn't think I thought that'd be okay. But that's the that's the process for tonight. Okay. So, we're just voting to send West. We are designating Wes. I'll make that motion. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I Any opposed? Great. And

065then it looks like Jeff that two of the board members will not be running again. Correct. We're in the process of I've been working with Nick Sigler the ISD superintendent to look for a candidate. Uh typically it's a keep in mind it's a Benzy County candidate and we try to share that role. One one term it may be a Benzy Central parent the next term it may be a Frankfurt Alberta parent. So, right now we're trying to find a candidate and I think we're getting closer and I'll follow up with that with uh Dr. Sigler this week. Okay. So, if you can let us know because it looks like the paperwork has to be picked up and returned by May 5th if if we need to help try to find somebody. I will. I'm hopeful

066this week goes well and then we'll go from there. Okay, sounds good. Yes. Um, you know, thank you, Barb. We typically don't, but I did miss that part. So, thank you. Um, we do need to go back. So, Wes is selected. Um, but we do have to choose an alternate at this point and then we'll go from there part of the resolution. So, would anyone like to be in an alternate? I don't think we've ever used the alternate, have we, Wes? No. I've made but to complete the resolution. Thank you, Barb. So, it's on June 2nd, right? Don't all jump at once. Oh, Megan. Okay. I I move that we that Megan Carella be our alternate to Wes for the June 2nd ISD. All right. All those in favor before she changes her mind. I

067I I added that to the motion and I the recommendation and I know Barb will do the same. Thank you. And then there's a document we need to sign in. Good catch, Barb. Thank you. All right. It's very exciting. Um, thank you, Wes, for your willingness to go up to the big city. Um, next item 8.2, approval of the middle and high school parking lot renovations bid. Okay. Um, we've been through, we've talked a lot about this at our long range planning committee. We went through the bid process and I'll go through that conversation with you in just a second. Uh, one of the pieces that follows this on page 41. I I don't want to confuse the issue here, so I'm going to keep him separate. U, the thing we're going to work on

068tonight would be approving the recommendation of the bid to complete the parking lot work. And I'll go through this step by step here so there's no confusion. So the summary and one of the conversations we've had at the long range planning committee and Brian mentioned this earlier is try to get as much of this in a package as we can. It's not under the same uh contractor. So there's a couple other steps we need to go as we work through the process. So what we what we're working on is to expand and renovate the parking lot with the end project would include added parking spaces AC couple crosswalks, excuse me, sidewalk lighting, drainage, striping of the entire parking lot and seal coating the existing areas. And that's the ultimate goal tonight. what we would look

069at. Um, and we also have been working with a lighting design person. But tonight, we're looking to award the bid to the person who's doing the renovation of the parking lot, um, putting in the drainage and, uh, putting on the new top and so forth, making sure we have sleeves for the right uh, uh, lighting to go across and all that's been determined in the bid process. So tonight, what we would look at is approving uh the paving contractor basically and all of the underllayment, the drainage and so forth. So we did have five bids which we were really pleased with that we had five. Uh you can see the bids there uh from Elmer's, AJ's, Kirby, uh Molan, and POP. Uh looking and going through the bid list, it's the recommendation of the superintendent

070and Frank Iikens to approve the bid from AJ's at a cost of $245,167.50. That's our action item we we're working on. And if this is approved, then I can give you a couple of the next steps. I just I have a few comments. So So um as I mentioned earlier, uh but I want to reiterate here. Um, so we have worked closely with Jeff. Uh, I'm I'm very much in support of this. We've worked closely with Jeff to put this together. Um, and there are two points I'd like to make. The first is that as I mentioned earlier, there are a number of other pieces that are not included in this bid. I'll be real clear so we don't feel surprised later. There are pieces that are not in this bid. They're going to come

071later as Jeff mentioned. Um, and we're working on getting those together ASAP so that this stuff can all be done at once. Um, this is the major piece. This is the putting in the parking lot piece, which is the the key thing. Um, and we're working on trying to get other things that can be done at the same time with the same equipment so the equipment doesn't have to come back and you pay for the transport and all that kind of stuff. Save us some money on some extra pieces that go around the edges. Um, and I hope that's clear and let me know if you have any questions. Like the trees and things like that. No, it doesn't. Okay. Yes. Go ahead. So, so that was my question. So, these $40,000 things are not

072included in this bill or the 40,000. Okay, that's why they're not. And there are things that aren't on this list. Yes, there's things that also have not been have not been given a price like the planting trees and the storage building, right? And there are things that aren't on this list like I mentioned, unless I'm missing something, but we we plan to move the bus parking around to the back and there'll be some paving for that. Yeah. Um there's uh some such sidewalk into the track area that is like right there next to the new parking lot, but it's not in the bid. And you know when it's not in the bid, we talked about that at the post bid. We have that covered. Yeah. There'll be little things. Okay. And you know when we

073did the track, there was like oh this and that. There was I'm just we just wanted to be real clear. There are going to be some extra things that we're going to try to get done when the guys are out here with the Earth movers. And so will we have to have a special meeting and we will have to approve those bids unless some of them are little teeny tiny things like I don't think we can vote on it's under 20 or something and we'll get yeah and Brian thank you that's very clear and that's what I want to work on in the next conversation but the the piece that we tonight is I guess the easiest way to answer that question Aubrey is that we're working on a lighting contractor so that's a big

074piece um in a little bit. The added piece to the agenda tonight was the parking lot seal coating and lining. Uh so that should be taken care of. The only other piece and there is in the original bid there is some dirt moving and um putting it back together grass and then determining and I have that after we do this piece. I can go to more detail. 11th Street. Okay. Pardon Is that for the what's currently the bus area fronting 11? No, not the the the piece of 11th Street where you see the bus where they're parked back to James Street. None of that is in this cont. That's not in the bid yet. That's what Brian said. Nor is the move a place to move the buses. Nor is like a pad for the

075pole barn storage thing we've talked about next. So, there are other things we're going to try to fit in here. Um, okay. Because it would be the same group that would be doing that work, right? Possibly. could make an addendum to do that. I I'm not trying to be argu I just want to make real clear that if we come back in a month and we're like right now we have to bid on the thing to move the bus parking thing. I don't want anyone to say like oh I thought we already paid for that. And so the reason that we're voting on it tonight is because we're worried that they will get other jobs. If you don't put the contractors in their queue, yeah, we may lose the window. And I can say that

076some of the other projects and maybe this is a good workshop topic honestly. some of the other projects we've talked about at long range planning there. There many projects that we're going to try to put as many people in front of those as we can. Um, but if we don't move forward with this, we'll pro we could very well lose that window and so forth. The schedule to get this done is like midsummer, right? Correct. The plan. So, we want to get it basically get them on the books and then if we say, "Oh, there's this extra thing and they'll oh, you know, you can like add some stuff to it potentially here and there." But the big this is the biggest by far the most expensive part of it. We want to get this

077locked in and committed so we can get them get on the schedule and then make sure by the time it starts we have everything fit in that we want to have in there and so that we know it's this plus the 40 plus unknown costs we don't know about yet. Well, I have one one that is not an unknown cost. That's the addition to the agenda tonight. So, we're starting to narrow it down. Okay. Okay. And I have I had one other point. So, I the reason I'm I'm I'm prop just to be clear, Aubrey, uh if you're wondering why I'm so supportive of a new parking lot, um it's for exactly the reasons that Carly said, our current parking situation stinks. We're going to add something like 70 spots. Yes. Not only are we

078adding 70 spots, it's going to be nice looking. I don't know if you've looked at the you know, my near and dear to my heart is this beautifification campaign for the school. I'm not I'm not against I I' I've been in all the long-term planning committees meetings. I'm not against the parking lot. I just like you said like I I just want to make sure that I'm understanding the financial part of it. And yeah, that's the only that's just what I'm trying to figure out. And there there are a couple of things to mention because we've tried hard to sort of think ahead with this one. So we have we won't have the trees are the trees aren't in here, but we've made spots thoughtfully made spots for the trees so it'll be a pretty

079area. We are including sleeves under the pavement which now are empty but one day can pull the cable for electric vehicle charging stations if we want to put that in in the future. The literally the groundwork will have been laid literally. Um we are arranging things so that if we do decide to add a storage building by the track, the parking lot will be organized the right way. So that won't be a big we won't be tearing stuff out and putting stuff in. It'll be like ready to go. Um and uh I think the beautifification thing is important. I think this is an important step to having making it easy for everybody to be proud of the school before they even walk into the school. This is going to make sort of go a long

080way in completing the facelift for the front door of the high school which I'm really excited about. Jeeoff, have you talked to Rez? We've got all those trees in the in the school nursery and he last fall when I visited they were looking for places to put them permanently and they were asking. I would say the piece that I'm the least concerned about are trees. Yeah, the Frankfurt Tree Board. I have a pretty good idea. Would love to help and there's some other It's just where to put them. Yeah. Um and I just mean it'd be great if we could get our students involved and they plant them like because that was the whole thing was they were trying to figure out where to put them and where to move them and what the kids

081could do. And if our kids could do that. Yeah. As Brian said, this is step one knowing there's there's a few more steps to make it right. Well, I will make the motion to uh approve the bid from AJ's at the cost of $245,167.50. Second by Liz. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Should we do a roll? Oh, yeah. Roll the cost. Wes, yes. Megan, yes. Liz I Brian yes yes yes great so before I go to the next agenda item um I just wanted to briefly on page at your table and we'll talk about this when we get to the well let me do this I'll talk about this when we go to the next the last item it'll make more sense so moving on okay moving on so the next item item

082on the business is the approval of technology support service agreement between us and Northwest Ed. All right. Um, thank you. It's a pretty long com u narrative on page 45, but I wanted to make sure we were really clear that this is what we're approve hopefully approving is the agreement between Frankfurt, Alberta Area Schools and Northwest Education Services. This is very similar agreement to how we do our business services um with Heather who is here. So the first paragraph basically states on in the action sheet that Brandy Reynolds is the Northwest Ed technology director. She and I have been in conversation for probably over a year uh back and forth and I did some more investigation and this sim this is a pretty similar arrangement at schools our size with Northwest Ed. So, and the

083other piece that's important to understand that even though that they're the Northwest Ed employee, this person would be an an employee. I'm excuse me, the person would be working in our district full-time. It would be our technology support person. So, then moving on, uh, Mike Tyworth and I spent quite a bit of time, uh, discussing this. We had conversations with Brandy. We served, we helped with the eval, I'm sorry, the interview of our of the candidate and we talked about the change in duty, so to speak. But I think the other piece that's really important is the collaboration that's going to unfold between Mike and hopefully this candidate. And the other good piece with this is we have a lot of contact with Northwest Edwood Technology Services, whether it be the new technologies, the servers,

084cyber security is huge. Uh being able to make sure we can keep up with everything. So that's probably the thing I I really need to be most clear with that it's an agreement between Northwest Ed Services and Frankfurt area schools and we were involved with the selection process. So, it's the recommendation of the superintendent and district finance committee to approve the technology support agreement between Frankfurt Albert area schools and Northwest Ed services. This position is a 12 monthday position with a yearly cost to the district and it this is important that you let me finish this sentence is $97,455. This is what is important to understand. This cost is the full package of the hourly wage, the retirement, the FICA, MCARE, and the health insurance. So, it's a package deal, and that number looks big,

085but that's the full package, not just this salary. So, so that's my our recommendation is that um we enter in uh to the agreement. Um, if so, um, the following piece, and I don't want to muddle this, but Britain Shins is the selected candidate from Northwest Dad that Mike and I, uh, are very comfortable with, but the first step is to, um, approve the agreement between FAS and Northwest Dad. So moved. Second. I have discussion. I have some questions. Yeah. Mhm. Um, number one, how many people applied for this position? One. He's the only one. Mhm. Okay. And we we we were Yes. It's a tough position to fill. I don't love that. Um, but I'm going to I get it. I just I that happens a lot in this area in general, and I

086know that that's part of it. I get it. But I I am going to say I don't love it. Um, but just keep in mind right now the motion is just that we have the agreement, not who? Yep. Got it. Number two is um what other schools h So you you talked with Brandy Reynolds and she says that some other schools do this. What other schools are doing this? Just Ben Central. Ben's doing this. So Benzy has someone uh Buckley was until they hired the person. Um they hired their own person. Yeah, I believe uh Leland does. And they hired their person from the ISD. They poached them. Is that what you're saying? No. Oh, no. They just They just hired someone. Okay. Sorry. I don't have the list in front of me, Aubrey. I'm

087just saying. But Benzy Central is is one and I I reached out to um Amy Air Force said it works well. Said it's a good collaboration between the support services at Northwest and the tech people they have. Um ours is a little unique because we oper have the opportunity of already having a tech person here. Yeah. So that helps us immensely. I talked with um uh Jessica at Buckley who has also been involved with this program and it works very well for them. Yeah. Um I'm glad to hear Buckley and Leland because they're more our size. Benzy is like double or triple our size. Um so I just that's good to know. And then um I had a third question but I can't think of it right now. Go ahead. Okay. Any other questions? Did

088we have a second? Uh yeah, Wes. Okay. Oh, is this a one-year contract? It can be. It's a re It's renewable. So, we can change the language to have it be It's a recommendation to approve the technology support for a one-year agreement. I'm Yes, I'm pretty sure we could do that. That's how it is set up as a one-year agreement. In fact, it's right now it's set up for the remainder of this year and then moving forward. So, we would be approving this again in the fall if it was a one-year agreement or we would be approving it again next spring. Next spring. Probably next spring. Give it a chance to run. It's a nice time frame, too, because then they have the summer if if it's a new person would have the summer to

089work with Mike before drinking water from a fire hydrant when school starts. Well, and the other piece with that, Aubrey, it's a good question. We also um reup I don't know if it's every three years Barb with Northwest Dad for Business Services. Yeah. And I I can ask Brandy. I'm sure that would be fine. When something is a 12 when something is a 12-month 260day position, does that mean are some of those days are those lighter in the summer? No, I think they're still here, but and that's that's going to be up to once again how we collaborate that there there's going to be some server work. There's lots of things that they recognize because their team came through the the building as well and said it would be great to have some of these

090things in place that one Mike doesn't hasn't had time to do and that and Mike is already thin. Um, so there's some things that that summertime when there's no kids around and he's not servicing kids and helping teachers and fixing things on the fly, that's the time you kind of dive into those areas. But it's b it's basically this is a full-time salary. It's a full-time hourly position year round because that's just weekend hourly. Yeah. Because that difference is just weekends, right? 260 out of 365 days is getting rid of the weekend. Yeah, correct. And vacation days. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, it's full-time all the time year round in Frankfurt Alberta schools unless they're collaboratively working within the ISD and that's those are what we're going to have to work through. Okay. So we have

091a motion and a second. Any other discussion? All right. All those in favor? I I Any opposed? Okay. Great. All right. Good. Thank you. Just checking. Do we have to roll call that one because it's so much or no? I don't know if we have Barb. Um, we Isn't it anything over 60 or something? Isn't there a threshold? I thought I could be wrong. I just didn't I want to make sure we're good. We can We can I I just want to make sure we're good. I'll put it right next to it. Barb, why don't you do a roll call? That's fine. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm not really sure what the dollar amount is. So, thank you. At least we're safe one way or the other. Best to be safe. Okay. Um, and

092then you have an 8.4. I mean, at what point, so I guess to Aubrey's question, we had one application. Is this person now that we've approved the position, is that person now the hired person? The person is the person went through all the background checks, the same things we have to do. Went through the interview process, did all of the backgrounds, and Northwest Ed did approve the hire of this person to work in our district, I guess, is the best way to put it. Okay. And you said you and Mike were involved in the interview process. Yep. And you feel feel good about this? came for a tour. And and the other piece of that that's also very helpful is the the person and Mike and the district always has the back support of Northwest

093Ed Tech Services, which is very important in this day and age, especially with cyber security and servers and updates and so forth. Yep. Okay. The added one kind of continues our parking lot discussion. And Brian, I really appreciate you being very clear that there's a few other things that will come with this. And if you look at the page at your table, it says parking lot project and site planning. As I said, we have a lighting contractor, a designer in place did a we think believe did a wonderful job. The next step would be to putting out those specs to bid to see where that comes in. We have our parking lot approved. Um, and the other pieces to this would be existing trees we talked about and I want to talk on the next

094piece about the striping and a seal coating bid that makes really good sense to Frank and I and I'll I'll explain that. So if you look at page um I'll do the motion first and then we if there's any discussion following this page is a is a idea a plan to take care of not only the elementary park our high school middle school renovation all of that and take care of this if you've looked at the elementary parking lot that could use a little bit of um faceelift as well but that's pretty easy so I'm going to give you the recommendation and I'll explain it and then answer any questions if that works for everybody. So, one of the things that we need to do at the present high school site is you're going to

095have a a very new site on most of it. We're not ripping out the entire parking lot. We're ripping out we're basically blending the old with the new. So, the way I I believe and Frank and I both believe to do this correctly is you blend the old and the new by something we haven't done at the high school present parking lot in a while. It needs to be seal coated and it needs to be re relined, restriped. When we put that when we set this aside, the information is from flipping pages here. The contractor, the bidding person that that we're looking for is to approve that information with Brian Superior Seal Coding at a cost of $20,000. So, what that $20,000 gives us is it take it it will take the the new part

096of the parking lot, seal coat the the existing part of the parking lot at the high school, and restripe all of it at the same time, whether we move spots and so forth. It'll look like a brand new parking lot with seal coating, all new striping, and new lighting. The other piece we get with this if we move forward is we would seal coat this parking lot and also stripe it. So the cost to do make the high school parking lot renovate the existing with seal coating new lines which would blend with the new parking lot. Seal coat this which would turn it back into jet black and new lines. You haven't seen those lately. Um would be at a cost of $20,000. If we do this all at once, we get a savings of

097$650. So to do the recommendation is the bid from Brian Superior Seal Coding at a cost of $20,000 to revamp refurbish all of our parking lots in the district with the exception of the back parking lot. We would not touch that. And that's not something AJ's would do when they're doing all the other stuff. No, that's not in that bid because because we that keep in mind one of the pieces that we did not put in the AJ bid was the striping. So in order to do the striping we can throw in the seal coating at a really reduced rate and a good cost. That would take care of our parking lot, how it appears, how it functions, everything. I just didn't know if while AJ's was doing everything else he wasn't interested in that

098part of the bid. That wasn't part of the bid package and it wasn't part of the bid package from the beginning. Jeff, well then go back to Brian's point where it's why we're trying to put all this together, right? But they don't do that in the parking lot also here. Not at this time. That one's not anything like this one. All right. Okay. I think it makes sense that we would want to look at doing the existing middle school and high school parking lot at the same time. I mean, we want that to all look uniform. That was part of the whole beautifification and then aesthetic thing. Um the elementary parking lot, I'd be very interested in seeing a schematic if we're doing any changes there. Obviously, there's a big wide sidewalk that goes through

099there. There's a brand new sign. Is this going to improve? We we would not we would not be doing any changing to the existing parking lot. What you would be doing is cleaning it up, seal coating it of all the cracks that cause water damage and so forth. We haven't done that in years. And then seal coating it with a new black surface, just ma basically a skim coat surface. And then it would be relined similarly what we have now. The lines have faded and it needs to be resealed and it needs to be coated. So that's we thought we by doing it all at the same time, we get a little bit of a discount and we clean up all of our parking lots and back to just beautifification at both buildings, not just

100one. Didn't we just put new black top in last year at that elementary school? No. The only place we put in new black top probably two years ago now and maybe three. Okay, is the M DOT. They gave us permission to pave that. It was a grally mess. But as far as our existing parking lot that surrounds out here and the pullth through and so forth, we would not change the sidewalks. We would just clean up the parking lot, make it look new, seal the cracks for water damage, uh recoat the yellow curbs. So, it's basically a a faceless face lift of this parking lot. We relined about three years ago, but Yeah. And it it was we relined it, but we didn't seal coat it. Totally different process. I Yeah. I mean, for $650,

101I don't know if that's impactful enough to make me want to spend the additional money to do the elementary school. And it's only because we haven't talked about it previously. That doesn't mean it doesn't need to be done, but it's not that he's in the exact same place already doing the work like he would be at the middle school. Well, it's the same company that would have not and it's kind of what Brian and I have talked about. Say once they're here, they're here. They would do it all at the same time. If you bring them back again, I do not believe you're going to get the cost of $8,400 to do out here what we're going to do. The other piece to this, just to keep in mind, this this area here wouldn't be

102bondable because this is maintenance. This would come out of our general fund maintenance with the exception of the little teeny caveat up at the top of the parking of the new area of $2,650. So, this is general fund maintenance money that we have in our capital improvement projects. Frank and our my our point is if we're going if we're here and we're going to fix the ele the high school middle school parking lot, they're here. it makes sense for us to do $8,400 to clean up all of our lots. Um Jeeoff, just a question. So, at the high school, we're wanting to increase our parking volume, right? And that's why we're making those changes there. I know we don't have a ton of parking here. I also know that we don't really have ways to

103expand it, but are there ways that if we drew it differently, we could get more spots here? Have we looked at that at all? We've looked at it a number of times. is we don't have the physical space here. Okay. So, once again, you're this took this parking lot took a pretty good beating with all of the construction things on it and so forth. We're only trying to clean it up and save it. I just wanted to make sure I just was was wondering if we if we had ever had that conversation and if you guys have had that conversation. Well, it goes back to Brian's conversation and the long range planning committee. If we look down on top of this building, are there other things we could do? Maybe. But that's not going to

104happen in the near future. Right now, we're just trying to clean up and maintain what we have for $8,400. Did we get any additional bids? We haven't only because we don't really need to. It's a $20,000 which falls under the bid window and we don't need to. And Frank has worked with this company before and they've done a really good job. Okay. So, we didn't see any reason to keep searching and they're ready to go. And you know, it's the same thing. people are going to get really busy and if we want to do some things at the same time to try to it's not a lot of money but it's a savings and from a district point of view we can say we're taking trying to take care of the elementary school just as

105way we trying to take care of the high school. So it's not a ton of money. Um, but are we we're sure that the uh black top and striping is not for the middle school high school area is not able to be taken out of bond. I would have to check. Typically, it's not only you can usually only use bond money for new projects, not for maintenance. I might be able to wrap that in, but I would want to check first. Yeah. I mean, if we could, I think it'd be great. And my rationale would be that it is to make that whole new I probably I probably can, but I I would make one phone call before I determine that. Um that would be the goal, but I don't want to sit here and

106say I maybe but typ this would not be for sure, right? We might be able to f we might be able to the $9,600. Um well, actually it's a little more than that. It's about uh $2,100. I'm sorry. $1,200 12,000 to do $12,000 to do the middle school high school. I can ask that question. Yeah, I think if we can take it out of bond, we I I will try to do that. But it's the same thing. This puts everything in the queue and we're ready to go. So that's why we wanted to go through with it. All right. So I make the motion to do we have a sheet? Yeah, it's at your table. It's the recommendation of the superintendent and Frank Iikens to approve the bid for Brian Superior Seal quoting at a

107cost of $20,000 to do what's on that attached page at your table. So moved. This is $20,000 No, I can go back to that, Brian. No, it's it's it has nothing to do with the lighting. And Okay. All right. So, I just want to be really clear. It's It's striping and black topping. Yes. Of both. Your project. Yeah. All right. So, motion by me, second by Brian. Any other questions? We should do a roll call. Okay. Barb, we should do a roll call. Wes? Yes. Megan? Yes. Yes. Brian? Yes. Aubrey? Yes. Yes. Thank you. Um, that will just get us lined up. Now, one other piece before we Oh my gosh, I just said that, didn't I? I'm gonna take this off. I've had enough for one day. Uh, the other piece I just want

108to be clear what we're also working on in conjunction what Brian and Aubrey and we've been working on with long range planning. At the bottom of page of the page is the storage building. And just so you know what we've been working on, I met with last week I met with um AJ's and his crew and Jeff Cockfield who designed it. We went all through the post bid meeting. We also involved um a person from a storage company. Not to say that's who we're going to use, but the conversation was per Brian, if we're going to do this and we have the dirt movers here, let's at least get the site ready while they're here. And that'll be another conversation. But I just wanted you to know as a board we're trying to look forward

109to having people lined up and the ultimate goal is to go ahead and do this. But that storage building would have to be rebid as well. So, I'm just want to make sure everybody's clear and it might make sense um at some point for long I know we talked about long range planning doing a workshop but so that other people have an a sense of what is this vision of like why a storage barn, why that location? What about all the other storage facilities around the campus? I'm hoping we will have a better understanding after Monday's meeting because part of it is we were waiting for train for that company to do the audit and the what we have and what we need and I'm hoping after that we'll have a better idea but we

110haven't had a good idea before this. Okay, getting closer. Good. Sounds good. But yes, that is the plan to give you a debrief. Perfect. All right. Anything else? No. Good. Nope. Okay. Uh, second call for public participation. Yeah. I just want a couple. So, I just kind of want to talk about um what kind of Carly and Isabella was just saying like not too long ago about um the importance of like our middle schoolers and younger kids like really taking their freshman especially their freshman sophomore years um very serious and kind of like getting their GPA as high as they can, you know, because like for me I was I was a slacker. Like I slacked a lot. my freshman and sophomore year and it now it's coming back to bite me, you know, and

111so um really emphasizing and pushing those younger, you know, kids to um do good their at least for the freshman, sophomore year. Like, yeah, you can. I mean, junior year is hard, but you know, don't slack till senior year. Don't slack until senior year. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Um, I'm just kidding. Don't slack at all. I regret it. Um, and then what they were saying about getting kids to like the basketball games and stuff. Um, like I really especially for like my little sister, you know, I really want I would like to see in the future, you know, more um like us as like student council and everything. We did a lot to try and push kids to get to the games, but they were just like sluggish. They're like, "No, I don't want

112to do it." Like, you know, and just I don't know, maybe whether it's you guys or like reaching out to parents, you know, and being like, "Hey, you know, did your kid maybe want to go to the game?" like, you know, just kind of motivating kids to like hyping up the games more. Like, you know, I like something I remember um when I first came here in sixth grade, you know, like the culture was insane. Like it was like I've just never seen it really in the school. Um at least in the school I was at before. Um like I I remember one time sixth grade, you know, they called us down and the cheerleaders came over from the from the um high school and they were all in their uniforms. This is during homecoming.

113They're all in their uniforms and I remember them like painting on our faces like you know like just building the culture and like bringing the kids together more I feel like would be great for the future. Like I want to be able to come back in two years when I come to watch my sister at basketball games. I want to see that whole student section just packed with just a bunch of rowdy kids like and it I don't like I would like to see you know it's not just it doesn't have to just be the high schoolers you know like the freshman sophomore senior you know like I feel like that's what a lot of it is like like all the like oh you have to wait till you're you're freshman or you're you know

114to sit in the student section no like I love I love seeing those middle schoolers this year especially there's a there's a little group of them I love seeing them get all rowdy like they were louder on us sometimes I was like, "Holy crap, guys." Like, "Come on." Like, and so um like even if it's working like getting elementary kids over there, you know, to the games and like just kind of building this culture back up, I feel like it's been kind of like a special like since my freshman year, like I remember I think it was freshman and sophomore year were like the two last years where it was really rowdy and like crazy and it kind of just like almost like died down these last two years. And that's so I like I

115would love to see that culture being being brought back up and like you know rowdy again you know I mean it's fun and I also feel like especially me as an athlete and played sports you know like I love when you got people that are like behind your back like lifting you up you know like like it gets me going you know I feel like we would win a lot more games um and like it just I don't know I feel like it I feel like though like at least for me those games and like those big games like really like brought us together as a community almost, you know? And so I would love to see maybe in the future a little more like I don't know investment in like bringing that, you know,

116Panther pride back, you know, and like bringing it getting, you know, the culture back to where it was before, you know, and so um yeah, that's all I have to say. Thank you guys. Thank you so much. And Emma, if you have ideas, like I know that Carly gave a couple, but like if you have ideas of for instance, especially the the freshman year, sophomore year slump, we'll call it, like of ideas of like what would have worked for you, like would it would it have worked for you as an eighth grader to have some seniors talk to you or like or whatever, you know? Yeah, I can say a couple things actually. Um, so for me at least, you know, I have a hard time focusing in class and, you know, so I think

117maybe bringing more um almost more discipline, I guess you could say, like more like being more, you know, laying down the line on kids, you know, and being like, hey, like be quiet, like, you know, like cuz like I learn so good in a quiet classroom, you know, like that's that's just how I operate. And so like when like when that happens I get so much done, you know, and it's it's I mean like I feel like part of it is kids just want to have fun all the time, you know, and so like especially me like I was like I'd sit in the back of class and I'd be like messing around with my buddy, you know, like just and it's like I just want to have fun all the time. But I feel

118like almost if we make start making maybe like rewards for kids, you know, like like say um like hey, you know, and I my philosophy on things is balance, you know, like have B like balance it, you know, like all right, work hard for a little bit, then maybe we'll go to the gym and like do something, you know, like run around or like, you know, like just I don't know, maybe trying to balance things out a little more. Um, I guess I it's really hard to explain, but um I guess that's just my kind of point of view on it. And like kind of like having having that fun time, but like also having that serious time where you can get work done and get stuff done, learn, you know, engage. And I think

119that's how a lot of kids operate, you I think it's like like you know like it's just kind of like you just have to balance I guess and you got to just kind of figure it out you know and that's I mean it's just something I've kind of noticed as I've went along. Um I think there's anything else. Um focus. Yep. Um I want to peg you back on. Uh go for it. Like I have my English teacher and like he's noticed the same thing of like but it's like just recently happened like the past few years that like there's been like this slump I guess you could say and like he tried making like donut Tuesday after like we have our testing on our books and it's just like one of the classes just

120didn't even try and I don't know I don't know how like it's kind of just like hopeless sort of thing but what are you talking about like we had class testing of we read a book every 3 weeks and we take a test on it and like their average of the class is not so hot and like he tried bringing like okay like if you get an average of I don't remember what the number was like 70 or something like that or everybody gets above 70 like we get donuts and like they didn't care at all it was like the same average so I don't know how you like bring back that is this motivational thing. Yes. Yeah. I feel like it is or like I don't know if it's like accountability or if it

121just leads back to like home life, but Yeah. Now they know that they should have cared and that's Yeah. How do you how do you impress upon the younger kids that will care about this, trust us, just care before it's too late? Just care before it's too late. Yeah. Um, I think something I just thought about was like maybe starting that motivation when they're young like here, you know, at the elementary like like really like like engage the kids in like really I mean it's so hard because there's so many, you know, kids of different home lives, you know, and this and that. And so it's it's hard. It is it's hard to try to come to school some days for kids, you know, and like even for me like I have a struggle with

122that sometimes, you know. It's like, "Oh, I don't want to go today." You know, it's like I have this going on at home. It's like, h, you know. So, um, I think trying your best to, you know, push some of these younger kids, you know, to really like get stuff done, but then like, yeah, have like your little fun things. But I also feel like some of the fun things, this is not to be mean at all, some of the fun things that like some of the teachers think are fun aren't really fun for us kids. And so it's like maybe like reaching out like the teachers say reach out like, "Hey, what do you guys think is fun?" Like what do you what would you what would be a good incentive for you to

123do like in order for you to do this work or to do this thing? And like I don't know. Yeah. It's just kind of something I've All right. Thank you. Yeah, of course. Great great feedback. Yeah. Um I think that a lot of the um projecting like the motivation and stuff onto the younger kids starts with us. Yep. And the high schoolers and even some of the middle schoolers because they're looking up to us. Like you're in sixth grade and you're like, "Man, I can't wait to be a seventh grader. You're in seventh grade. I can't wait to be an eighth grader." It's you want to be them. You want to be cooler like them. And like in reality, you're not very cool at all. But um it's like I remember being in elementary school

124and I was in cheerleading and we got to one of the Friday night football games. We had the high schooler girls were like throwing us up in the air and that was so fun. And then I got to high school and it was like, "Nope, we're not doing that anymore." And I was like, "Oh, that stinks." because I wish that we could have incorporated that and been like, "Oh, I got to do this and now I get to help the younger generation do this." And so I think it's it starts with us and we have to pass it down. Definitely emphasizing us to be more mentors as older kids, you know? You know what I I think would be really cool is that maybe and we can work with Matt. I mean either we could

125do a workshop where we invite seniors. I had the same thought to come and we do you know and we want your feedback or if it would fit into something that's already in a senior activity plan where we could as a board just hear ideas that the seniors upon reflecting and their time here. Senior exit. Yeah. the senior exit but more like a focus like I don't know if that I I know it's kind of last minute at this point but yeah that yeah kind of talking life skills and I mean we just had Scott last week he came in and told us his life story and stuff but um Brooke came in the other day and we were talking a lot about that how things that we wish we could have done differently and

126that's where I was like maybe I should say something about that. Yeah. Um, but I think there's a lot of really good ideas bounced around. That was just in first hour. I don't know what they talked about in second hour, but I think that if all of us were to make a list of like, okay, these are things that we should bring up. These are things we all agree on and then we presented it to you guys and maybe things could be better for next year, you know? Yeah. Yeah. How about we do that if that's something we can work with you on, Matt, and see a best way to do it. I love that. Thank you guys. Keep your ideas coming. I will. Thank you so much. I just want to say I'm having

127Yeah, that's awesome. Great. Yeah. Great. Thank you. All right. Anything else with that? We will You have to make a motion. I I'll entertain a motion to close this meeting. Adjourn. You can't adjourn at that. What? No. Right. But we're Oh, we don't close this. Oh, okay. So, we need a motion to go into closed session for the purpose of a brief update on uh the negotiation of the collective bargaining agreement. All right, Brian. Brief close. Thank you, EMTT. Second, Liz second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay, great. Sorry, you're right because then we