001all right welcome to the Raa Board of Education meeting it's March 20th and tonight um we didn't have any resignations did we we didn't and no retirement nope we didn't so we do have a special guest this [Music] evening recognition right here I am We Have Tonight with us we have our House of Representative Tara Peters is here to present the board oh it's okay hey we're glad you're here yes it's it was a good week for you to be here week you you want talk in the microphone Tera sorry yeah it's it's actually a really good week for you be here so a good week I know it's your spring break but like I said I feel a little bad I know that you guys have been really busy just wanted to say really
002proud of you guys for um all that you're doing for our school so I know it was school board week last week um so I just had certificates for everybody just wanted to say um thank you for all you do appreciate everybody and um appreciate all the hard work so and then um I know Carla well let's get a picture get a picture thank you I see you today [Laughter] thank you Jim's not here just not here yes thank you dear jump out there for picture guys and then uh Jordan also like while you're up there she'd like to get one with just the board for one with and one you get it's all fine know totally it's about right it's there LS of UPS I feel like that was just to fit in do
003you want me to you want me to put Jim over there in a picture on the compter all right one of you one of you seriously for one picture should hold Jim up yes you can bring I'm bringing Jim in you guys got a whole Jim right in [Laughter] front thank you very much Tera we appreciate you Tera Tara thank you for all the work you've been doing on our behalf too everybody question while here she she'd already told us about the days uh yeah so yep very good we're thank you Tera you too all right let me think next we have Dr blue and Saran Li Dr Lamb Dr Dr Dr do Dr and we all got ours together and their sister doctor there's sister doctor doct sister doctor of funny I'm a do
004uh I am Karen lambath and I am currently the president of ret Community Teachers Association and because this is uh School Board appreciation month um we wanted to let let you know what how much we appreciate what you do I have been blessed to hold many roles in R public schools first as a student then as a parent and currently as an educator I will see all of what I see what all of what you do for our district and the community it does not go unnoticed ra is an amazing place to grow up raise your children and work closer okay uh in the past 5 days I have seen Raa what it truly is an amazing community and you play a vital role in it thank you for everything you do and continue to
005do to support our district and the community as a whole as a small token of our appreciation we have a gift certificate to South Central creary for each of you thank you thank you guys very much and so I also want to say thank you um I could not have moved from Wyman to wman West without your support um the very first volunteer that I had show up in my classroom was a board member and Su was there from start she was the first one and she was the last one to leave um I cannot tell you how much I appreciate what the board does for us there is no way we could have been through this whole process this week without your trust in our Administration without your trust in the staff and I
006want to share with you you a quick story about the students that we in Raa have raised there were 200 plus high school students who said I want to come make sure school will be back in session they want to be here they are prepared to help us and standing in Wyman when the teams of of students walked through was just you just stopped and watched that's who we're raising that's what we're doing and we couldn't do that without your help as I was leaving watching the lines of trucks and trailers lined up to make sure that we can do what we do they did it our community did it our students did it and that's because we have the support and we're allowed to do what we do because you believe in us and
007you are not demanding little bitty nitpicking us you're letting us do our job and we we appreciate you we appreciate you guys much we're incredibly proud of all the work that's gone on this week this week just I mean I already loved Raa but this was like this this is us this is our school this is what we do so thank you thank you thank you very much okay I did those in wrong order okay okay I would say we have questions from the floor but we don't have anybody else here so I have your msda you have our msba certificates wonderful so I I let me let me read this part oh so on behalf of msba and our our district missourians benefit every day from dedicated energies and countless hours you can hand
008those out devoted by a group of more than 3600 men and women from communities across the state these public servants are elected by local cons ents and do not receive compensation for their tireless efforts they are the local school board members of Missouri during the month of March communities across the State honor dedicated service of their Boards of Education during school board recognition month this gooal is to build awareness and understanding important function of elected board M an elected Board of Education plays in communities and schools so we are very proud and honored to U recognize all of you and and uh be a part of that and uh to Echo what the lady said we we appreciate you more than you will ever know and um respect all of you highly so thank you
009for your service to our community and our school and um for all that you do thank you thank you Jordan wants another picture with these certificates because she has a list from Gina and we're gonna follow do what Gina says G says because Gina said that's what we're doing well we're not going to risk it we not chaning said to go on the trip and that if she didn't get on the plane he might divorce that is Absol if you do not go on this trip and relax I'll help them file the paper that's exactly right do you want Jim on the side again we'll do one and then we'll do Jim again are we CED okay Jim pH Up Get Ready that's right and the cups that you have are from all of us
010so thank you YY that good stuff wait what's in there thank you all some Bulldog swag anyway we love our Bulldog swag all right next we have the consent agenda a consent agenda is utilized by the ra Board of Education as the means of dealing with routine matters which must be considered by the board of education but require a minimum of discussion all Board of Education members receive and review written information supporting the items listed on the consent agenda well in advance of the meeting while any Board of Education member is welcome to remove any item from the consent agenda for separate consideration or discussion for any reason normally all items on the consent agenda are approved in one motion with a minimum of discussion so tonight we have items a through e me throw
011out just a couple of quick comments uh under contracts item seven so this is a locker system to be utilized at the high school as part of our one:1 program what this does is it allows a student if they're having an issue with their Chromebook they go to the locker system put in their identification information they load their their broken Chromebook into a locker it secures it and then checks them out a loner oh nice so we don't have a we don't have to have a tech sitting there to do that part and then Tech can go through on their schedule and pick up those are in um uh need repair once they repair that um the student gets a notification that they can come back and turn in the laner and pick back up
012their Chromebook so we think this will help us manage the Manpower um and not have our text locked in to U those student interaction pieces uh they can deal with the tech issues so that's the goal there and then um the PT contracts those are our contracted folks so the um between our our teaching staff you approved earlier that have that are functioning in those roles uh some of our other uh employees are direct employees they do not get contracts per se they get work agreements but these are the folks that we're truly Contracting as outside vendors with so that's the difference in those so um that's I think all there unless you all have any questions I'll make the motion to um approve items a through e on the consent agenda I'll y thank
013you Charlotte all in favor I Jim your turn we need an okay those opposed motion passes all right now we're on to Old business our long range facilities update there's not a lot going on I mean well there's a lot going on but as far as old business goes let's talk about the auditorium right now the frl panels are in and are being installed as we speak oh my goodness so the are they have them in at the bottom of the stage right now that is what I saw yesterday believe it or not I was able to stop by there and they're looking really good so very excited should be up there hopefully by the next board meeting I will have finished pictures of of the stage area and the frl panels for you so
014Dr Dar you wanted to say something else there do I I don't know do I okay great all right now new business policy updates Dr dare so no presentation on this we sent those policies to you um I think I shared with you before we have um somewhere along the way we've we've we've had some skewed things with msba where we have older versions of policies that are now showing up and newer ones and I I don't think that's I'm not blaming msba for that I don't really know what happened but we're trying to clean that up a little bit so I would tell you that we're not finished with this batch of policies but this policy set represents um I'm going to say the lwh hanging fruit so a lot of these were editorial
015so for instance there were a few of these policies that had some language still about the reorganization that happened a few years ago there were a few that had some um mileage rates that hadn't been updated and some things like that so editorial things that the board has already approved in the past that we just didn't get updated in policy for some reason the second set that you have tonight are the ones that are uh uh not the second set but the probably the second part of that that are probably the bigger set are things that are required by law things that we have zero choice in they are the law they go into our policies um as as part of that so I I am bypassing the committee on a few of those just
016to clean them up and get them off the plate we have several that still still need to go through committee and be discussed but we're we're just trying to get a good base line to start from with getting some of these off the plate so most of those policies for legal stuff have to do with um House Bill 681 from last year with the uh reading and literacy initiatives and then Senate Bill 727 from this past year uh which was that huge Omnibus Bill but there were just several little pieces of that that impacted policies and so in that regard uh what we'd ask you uh for tonight there are um uh several to approve and then a a small group to resend um the recensions are all policies that msba has Rewritten and included
017into other policies so the information is still in our policies it's just presented in a different way um but happy to answer any questions or or look at any of those that you have questions about um so just a couple questions on the um AI uh MH piece it talked about an AI coordinator so we have Dr wel as our AI coordinator for now um and we we think probably going forward that will look differently but in the initial steps here as we get kind of started and start flushing out bigger policies around that we uh Dr wel is taking the lead on that for now okay good deal and then um on the memorials of um facilities and grounds um I noticed that it uh removed the word donation and replaced it with the
018word gift is there there anything we need to do with our sponsorship documents or anything out there that needs to have any verbiage changed so we do not have official board approved forms um but the processes and things that we use for the district side uh we typically just issue um um thank you letters and those kind of things most of the um true donation type things run through core okay and they have their own kind of system so I'll double check that Carla but I think we're okay okay sounds good thank you that's a great question though we will double check that so there's actually you can do it in one motion or two motions it's up to you but we have policies to approve and policies to resend um however you want to
019do that I think we can do it all you can yeah absolutely make a motion to approve the policy updates as presented in our packet I'll second that all those in favor I I those opposed you ready to vote Jim yes okay those opposed motion passes all right next we have the state of the district I got you I got okay um so originally this was in the board agenda as the state of the district because we were going to present to the Chamber of Commerce on uh yesterday the state of the district uh we do an annual uh presentation there and just talk about um our district as a whole projects we're working on and things of that nature um obviously some things have happened since we put the out Friday um but uh
020so we're not going to do that presentation we're going to talk about the state of the district quite literally um so there's not a presentation for this however uh we have received some preliminary reports from some of our initial inspections uh This Is A draft copy so I have not shared this with the board we just got this from our Architects um so Amy's going to help uh show those here in a little bit as we kind of walk through that but um want to kind of fill you in on where we are and talk big picture and next steps um let me start out by saying once again thank you to our Board of Education thank you to our community I I can't say that enough and I don't know that I will ever
021have the right words for what we've seen over these past few days uh it is truly um amazing inspiring uh uh it's hard to believe I don't even know how else to say it um I'm I'm a little tired so I don't have all the right words but um uh it's just there's never been a no it's always what do you need and what else do you need and and it's been incredible we had an amazing group I'm not even going to begin to try to thank people and list people off but we had an amazing group of vendors and and businesses that have donated food for our staff over these last couple days as they worked uh we have water and and drinks and and all the things we had people um uh bringing
022stuff for students who may have lost things in this storm that we can help share out with our community uh we've been very blessed to have our students out in the community as was mentioned earlier helping not only in our buildings and in our school campus but just out in the community in general that's our athletic teams that's just kids that wanted to show up and do something they wanted to help um and what a great opportunity for them to learn and and see a community come together and overcome um this catastrophe so um very grateful those are the positive things that we've seen and and um it's unreal to know um um how much happened in such a short time but that was due to everybody's involvement so um we'll talk through a little
023bit about where we are with the district and we'll probably do that building by building so Amy do you mind to pull up that uh document uh I'm not going to go through this piece by piece but this has some great pictures in it so um and I can't control it from here so Amy's going to have to scroll I think right I can't turn pages from here can I oh I can never mind I got it all right awesome so we're not going to get into the weeds on this a little bit and I and and the pictures are a little uh smaller maybe but I just want to kind of give you a picture so this is Middle School um we were in the middle school when they when they the storm came
024through with the drama production they had the first three numbers were fantastic um then we didn't get to hear anymore um but uh we had obviously some major roof damage there um primary impacts to education were the the class rooms under those uh under that Roofing uh flooded and and um significantly flooded in in some places so lots of broken ceiling tiles lots of things damaged desks all kinds of things with the water that came through uh some of the units that we just put on in our 2023 Bond um were lost I think we're still at 17 but I want to be clear with that those are the ones that we can physically see have been moved by the stor and are obviously and and grotesquely damaged what we don't know yet uh we
025still do not have power at the middle school so there will be things that we don't know that we can't figure out until the power comes back on so um still lots of things to chase there some some other damage on the roof the roof itself uh being the biggest part of that primarily if you're looking at the front of the middle school it's isolated to the right side of the auditorium and then to the far left of the building so closest to the softball field and then farthest away from the softball field if you can picture it that way um the gym and some other areas kind of shielded some of the other units and things on the roof is what we what we believe at this point at least so lots of things
026to do there um we have uh relocated uh the classrooms that were most most affected by that uh either within the building or over here to RTC so there are all of our fifth grade classes will be holding class here at RTC for the remainder of the school year um and uh they uh are set up and ready to go we'll talk about those moves here in just a minute but um that's all happening and ready to go the gas lines are obviously a question on that building obviously the gas is shut off so they're not in a danger but um we we're hoping we don't necessarily need heat for the rest of the school year but we will definitely need gas for the kitchen so we also have uh temporary repairs uh taking place
027to get uh gas service back to the kitchen uh basically we will bypass everything on the roof and just go directly um into the food service area just some more pictures more things damaged kind of things there indicated anything about when the power will be coming back on so uh we have been in communication with rmu quite a bit um the issue with the middle school is part of the damage to the middle school power is at theid middle school so with the hundreds and thousands that were without power that one building was is not and we understand not necessarily priority sure but they also have to get in and do some other things kind of leading up to that point so um we were told probably another three or four days that still be
028a little bit of time okay just a few other pictures I do want to talk about this one um just I shared this with the staff just some of the the strange things that we saw from this and and I think these stories come out of every um uh storm type of thing like this but that's a that's an emergency light so uh but it's a battery powered power pack uh the ones in this building are within the ceiling but so these are on the wall they kick on when the power goes out just provides some emergency uh evacuation lighting and those kind of things uh this one was laying out in front of the middle school when we left the building Friday night and was still on it was glowing very brightly shining on
029the ground shining straight up um what we learned after the fact uh on Saturday afternoon is this is actually that that unit is actually from The Mark Twain cafeteria so it traveled from The Mark Twain cafeteria made it all the way down to the front door of the middle school and was still still putting out the light so uh the power pack itself was was really good uh this there some of the again these are kind of small and I apologize but um give you an idea of some of the damage in the classroom so lots of ceiling tiles that were soaked and wet um those falling in combination with the amount of water in the rooms is what really caused the damage inside everywhere one of those units was sitting we have 17 units
030that are displaced on the roof so everywhere one of those was sitting there's now basically what equates to about a 3ftx 3ot hole and so obviously um you can see daylight through most of those holes it it's quite literally open to the sky um and so that's obvious that that's where the water and all those things came from but uh large area impacted by that lots of water so um just to kind of address a few things we'll we'll just go building by building so Middle School we have the fifth grade moved uh fourth and sixth are still in the building uh along with Support Services we will we will actually be feeding all of the middle school at the middle school so fifth grade students will report everybody will report to the Middle School
031itself we will feed breakfast there they will do their specials there we'll transport them over here for class they'll transport back and forth for lunch and then they'll go back before the buses and parents pick up at the end of the day so everything will still happen parent drop off pickup and food service and everything for the middle school will still occur at the middle school now before I go further let me back up and say with a caveat subject to change if something happens so it's still a fluid situation still fluid we're still still adapting still changing some things but that is the plan at this point we think we're going to be able to make that work and we think that'll be the simplest for parents and everybody and traffic and all the
032things so um that's the plan at this point um the other pieces with Middle School are are um just kind of helping with those special education pieces title pieces those things we think in those transports of students back and forth we can accommodate those pieces as well otherwise there are some staff that shifted over with fifth grade to do some of the other things here so so in combination we think we can serve every kid and take care of everyone's individual needs as well as the groups um um so that's all um seemingly working fine so as far as the damage and those things Dr fton has worked uh a lot over these past couple days with our insurance company and uh mitigation companies so mitigation the middle school they will be trying to do
033some temporary patching on the roof uh before this weekend or at least by this weekend uh it will not be perfect but it will be better than it is now at least to stop the main water from coming in but they will also be going into the building and doing some mitigation for mold and milw and moisture uh pulling out the rest of the ceiling tiles pulling out some of the things that are um U able to soak up water and that so that if there is any more water that gets into those areas it can be cleaned up easily uh they'll put um um a desin heater thank you Des can heaters in which will which also just dry the air to so there's no mold or mildew that will grow past that point
034so we we we do not want to put any kid in a building that we don't feel as safe so we will mitigate those completely and uh make sure we'll do air quality tests before uh we resume classes all those things so um again once power comes back on we know we'll have some other things to chase but right now we are confident that we will have the building safe and ready for kids so that's our goal there so all 12 classrooms from fifth grade are already here all 12 fifth grade classrooms are here at RTC and in their rooms and rttc did some shuffling East Central College did some shuffling for us so I do want to thank them they combined some classrooms and shifted some schedules and move some people around to help
035accommodate us in that regard and and we're very grateful for that so so with the transporting of um the kiddos to go over and eat lunch how does that work with the time will that do they already have so they're going to they're going to they're going to have to shift their schedules just a little bit but we we think we'll probably uh to dip into that Pride time um that they kind of use and so there's there's time there it may it will just look different got but but we think we can maintain the the educational envir uh environment and the time that they need with with just a little flexibility okay okay all right so that's Middle School uh let's see what is this oh this is obviously Mark Twain um so I
036think everyone's aware probably but our major damage Mark TW was to the cafeteria area um dive into that here in a second but I should mention there is damage to the roof uh in other places there are some other things that have to be repaired but they are they are minor and not open to weather so there's places where the membrane Has Lifted there's places where we've lost some guttering there's some things like that but there's there's to from what we can tell at this point at least uh all the things have either been temporarily patched or not uh open to weather so we don't have water getting in the building it's just something we have to address um so for the longevity of the roof we had lots of Windows broken on that Salem
037Avenue side um so a couple of those classrooms do have well two of the classrooms have all of their Windows boarded up while we understand that that's not ideal we also know that we have classrooms throughout the district that don't have windows so it it's functional and it and it works um most of those classrooms along that Salem Avenue side have at least one window pane that is now boarded up there was lots of damage throughout those areas okay so I'll call your attention to this middle picture um this is the issue that we were uh trying to figure out over these the first couple days so the entire roof structure was removed from the building other than or or dropped down into the the building other than this segment of the roof which was
038still somewhat attached but also very much hanging and uh very much of a a safety concern so before we allowed anyone back into that building we had our structural engineers in on Sunday uh we had a team of nine people structural mechanical architectural um uh from uh multiple agencies four different uh companies and at the same time so they were all reviewing the same information seeing the same things having the same conversations uh to make sure that we were safe to be in this building and the others as well they they reviewed the the the one with damage so uh obviously it's not safe to be in this area right so uh we had to mitigate this fairly quickly so we did bring a company in to address this um and so as you as
039you know if you've driven by lately you know that they have pretty much already taken out most of the exterior walls there at Mark Twain we had to remove the exterior wall the short wall what I call the short wall on the Salem Avenue side for the excavator to get access into that area to address that okay so that was that piece um as they have worked through that uh that pressure and the and the fall of that roof also damaged the stage wall so if you think about the front wall of the stage there at Mark Twain that wall was damaged we used the stage for classrooms so title services and other things we were hopeful that we could stabilize that wall and allow us time to vacate that room with with all the
040stuff um that didn't happen when they got to that point and started to get to the to get some things down that were not safe um the whole wall went so we did lose that full classroom of stuff not on Friday night but just actually yesterday but it was as a result of the storm um we have one additional wall at this point that is not stable so we have the engineers coming back in the morning yeah is that great is correct so Archer Elgen will join us honer is not there Melissa will join us and the um structural engineer company that our insurance is sending us as well will be here tomorrow morning around night so we we reevaluate that wall and see what if it's stable enough for us to empty that classroom
041or if we need to vacate that we do not think we'll be able to use that classroom and we've already planned for that but we just need to know if we need to get the stuff out of there or what that looks like they'll we we think that's the extent of it but we will have them evaluate to make sure we don't need to go further but that's the that's the piece the big question there is um can we I think at this point we think we have that remediated enough at least from the initial assessment that would allow us to continue using that hallway and those restrooms again we will not do that until we know that it's safe to do so we will have the engineers back in as many times as we
042need to to evaluate that and make sure that we are safe for occupancy um before we would put anybody in there in those areas so the staff uh have a backup plan if we're not able to use that hallway um we will still be in the building we can go around that area we can coordin that off we'll petition it off blockade it off we can have the third grade uh the biggest impact of that would be the third grade classrooms that would probably have to go outside and back in the other side door to get to the gym and those areas uh our biggest uh barrier hurdle um problem I guess uh if you could say we have one problem there is uh obviously food service so in losing the cafeteria we've also lost
043the kitchen um and so our plans there we will prep food at one of the other buildings most likely Junior High being being right there close so we will prep food at the junior high transport in and serve the kids will eat in their classrooms um and uh we will accommodate them that way we've done that in other buildings we did that some during covid times that that it will work uh I do want to make sure everybody understands this we will we will be serving hot food this will be the regular lunch menu uh we will have that at temp they will get everything served it will probably be on paper products uh for easy clean up and we don't have a a way to clean that stuff in the building so we'll serve
044on paper but it'll be hot regular food with milk and the whole the the full regular meal so want to make sure everybody understands that we're not going to try to Short change that and do lunch boxes or anything like that it'll be a full full service deal uh a couple other questions or a couple other pictures here you can just kind of see some of the areas where the the roof line that's is still at the cafeteria where it it literally just the lift of that was incredible uh and I can tell you that roof was built at a time uh think late early 50s I believe if I'm remembering correctly from my brain here uh things were built a little differently then so the wood was wood and it was larger and the
045beams in there were massive so the the uh the lift on that to get that off of there was pretty incredible U these are again some just some of the pictures of the area under that um cafeteria side the classroom there on the stage uh I don't know what those are that's the room oh that's the roof yeah sorry that's so those are pictures sorry the detail those are pictures there's some little they call it kind of bubbling it it kind of pulls the Fasteners up it doesn't pull them out so they just have to be they'll have to go back and repair those and Patch but but the membrane itself isn't isn't busted so okay kind of picture some of those window areas this is one that the maintenance team had already boarded up
046this one is boarded up now uh but we did have those areas checked as well there was no structural damage uh what actually happened to those two particular classrooms is debris hit those um and and just push the frame completely out of the building uh but the steel supports and the and everything around those were were true and Plum so there was no damage there I have a question yeah breakfast uhhuh is that going to be Serv same y same thing M yep and they may pivot from that you know depending on how many kids are eating or something that we could always use the gym to do a little quick service or something but um the plan right now will be all the meals in the classrooms um I am sad to say our
047new Chiller that we just got was also damaged in and is is uh unusable so uh we are looking at some Alternatives because that means Mark Twain the the great majority of Mark Twain would have no air conditioning to finish the year so we are chasing some Alternatives there I don't have that answer for you at this time but we are looking at some options um to to address that it took almost a year to get that Chiller so that's not something that gets replaced very quickly um they will assess that again but at this point we've been told that it's probably unusable so that's most likely won't change okay um this is Wyman Wyman I would I would tell you in my opinion took the hardest actual hit um so if you kind of
048Orient yourself to the oops if you Orient yourself to this picture uh you see the water tower there at the top but this is the office area on the on kind of the top of the picture the gem would be down here toward the bottom of the picture and in the bottom picture office over here gemm over here um so it kind of grabbed that roof there at the at the office area and and rolled it um essentially almost like a burrito just kind of rolled it back and doing so it pushed the gas line off the roof we had a gas leak there on Friday night that was taken care of immediately when we when we discovered that um couple Windows broken but but uh the damage at Wyman is is really confined to
049the roof area uh and then all the classrooms underneath of course flooded once again so um the the the repairs here will be a little more extensive this is a little bit of a different style of roof so there's a different insulating factor and some things on this roof it will it will be taken down um to basically again Open Sky um and then and re- roofed so the repairs at Wyman would uh once the materials are all in hand and they would start they need about 3 weeks of good weather so probably four to 5 weeks realistically here in the spring which puts us really close to the end of school the entire building is affected other than the quote unquote new Wing which isn't very new anymore but newer Wing where the gym
050is but that would have dropped us down to about six or seven classrooms and that's not enough to function there and make that work so we are very blessed to have been part of this early childhood project out at the um Blues Parkway facility and so we have split Wyman into two pieces so the Early Childhood special education programs at Wyman are now being housed at Green Tree church and we are very grateful for that partnership and that extension of U of space for them um and then our K3 programs are now housed at our new facility out on Blues Lake Parkway we will be communicating um things to parents as far as drop off pickup times maps to make that work uh we will get everybody um all the details about food and things
051uh Wyman will have food in the same way we will transport food to the building uh most likely High School will prepare that but we'll talk through that make sure but we'll prepare that food transport it out there it will still be served hot we took the cafeteria tables from Mark Twain they were still in the cafeteria I think we had one that was damaged the others were fine they didn't move um so we took those out to Wyman so the kids will actually have a cafeteria space to eat at and so they'll go to lunch like normal they won't know any different uh their food service is actually their food service equipment is actually their food service equipment from Wyman it's exactly the setup they will see every day that they go in to
052eat so um other than the tables and the location it will be the same for that part transportation is our biggest impact there obviously Wyman serves our south side of our district so those bus routes that go out South 63 are now a long way from this facility yeah and so that is the biggest piece um uh Hank and Leo are working on some options we may add a bus route for the remainder of this year to help with that timing a little bit but realistically those bus routes will probably have 20 to 25 minutes added to them if we can't figure that out and it's just it's just getting through town that's the piece that we can't accommodate but we're working on details again we will share all that information as we have those
053things finalized I would anticipate that information coming out mid next week and uh we will we will follow through with those things we have combined a few classrooms so there are a few classrooms here at RTC with the middle school and a few classrooms out at Wyman where we have two teachers in a room but their rooms are large uh the here in the boardroom is one example we have two teachers who will be here in the boardroom great this the teachers love the team teaching thought they will they it will be great um they're they're actually kind of excited about it I think so uh we will make sure that that works out and everybody gets what they need there um talking through the rest of Wyman here and then we'll Circle back to
054a couple things so again most of the damage was was due to the water issues that incurred from the roof being being peeled backs but uh the the the interior damage at Wyman was significantly more extensive uh over a greater part of the building and and there's just no other way to say that so um lots and lots of water and and U things that were destroyed teachers lost personal items uh rugs Tech items computers phones those kind of things were destroyed um doesn't take a lot of water to cause a lot of problems and we had a lot of water so um so in terms of those teacher personal items does that go into so our insurance will cover some of those things as well there are some caps up to $1,000 do but
055we think that'll cover most of those things uh as at the damaged items have been accounted for and we'll work with our insurance company to work through those things as well um this is an aerial shot of the of the uh uh playground area the The Sheds back there were impacted so there was a PTO shed that was filled with Year all kinds of things I can't even I don't even know how to start say that there a lot of stuff and then uh there was just a a shed the building was using for stores so extra custodial supplies and um Christmas decorations and some things like that and so all of that debris was scattered over the the playground and that area in the back along with some Roofing and debris from some of
056the neighboring facilities um so uh the debris has been cleaned up thanks to some of our wonderful volunteers student organizations and faculty uh for the most part we'll still have some additional cleanup to do the the wind these last few days has been a little problematic you pick something up you walk Three Steps you turn it around there's stuff back there again so there will have to be some continued cleanup efforts for some of that smaller stuff but uh we will also um uh uh have uh we've done a a quick visual inspection but we will have uh the the engineers and stuff do inspections on all that playground equipment we just want to make sure nothing was hit by uh debris or something that that we can't see with our eyes so we'll we'll
057have all that checked out thoroughly uh but um that building will will not be occupied for the rest of this school year Dr D I haven't had a chance to tell you the mitigation company is also coming into Wyman we are working to mitigate that as well to block off the areas that were unaffected to make sure we don't have any further damage so they're going to put sandbags down and because we are due for rain this weekend and all of those things so they are going to help us mitigate that building as long as we need them and same thing we we're pulling out anything that's water soluble um as we made these moves I think it's important for people to understand we had a lot of people wanting to volunteer and I actually
058very nice couple that had kind of quite had checked in with some people and kind of came into the building we helping a teacher pack before the teacher got there and that's a that's a very traumatic thing for a teacher um but uh we we asked them to do some very purposeful things so what they they packed first to take things to their new location that they needed for the rest of this school year so if they've already completed units or things that happened earlier they they didn't take those things to the new location so we tried to minimize that move but also in these damaged areas where the roof Replacements are going to happen and they're going to have to remove the full thing we we had to get everything out of those rooms
059so the second phase was packing all of that and moving it to areas of the buildings that were not impacted so we could store those things so um it was a it was a very coordinated and Monumental um effort and took a lot of moving pieces and and we had people folding boxes we had people delivering food we had people moving boxes we had people communicating and pointing uh it was it was truly amazing one of the teachers made the comment that they wish we had been able to just post the drone over Wyman especially uh over the last couple days uh I think I think it would have been uh probably more flurry than an antill um just the number of people the number of vehicles the number of things that happened in a
060very short time uh there and at Middle School were uh quite impressive um few other damage things then we'll talk about some next steps this is transportation kind of hard to see but they had some debris come through the roof um the power poles on the North side uh were were I don't know if they were broken off or pushed so I'm I'm I don't know how to describe that but they were not where they were supposed to be so I'm going to say that and doing so it pulled the power line that feeds the building and and caused quite a bit of damage to the electrical box there so that facility is still without power um hence as you noted earlier when we were in the The Boardroom upstairs we've moved the transportation offices
061over here temporarily so they have power and their software to work on routing and to answer those questions that we need for parents with all the building moves so they're working on that we were um uh we just got actual uh Power here um within the last couple days too so getting our Network back up and getting back to the point where we can operate on a fulls scale basis um has has been um a barrier for us as well and and I do appreciate rmu in in helping us and prioritizing some things for us to to keep us moving um some other metal damage there was a bay door over there that was damaged um but uh through all of this with the line of that storm if anybody has seen that we had
062two bus Windows broken and I don't know how we had any bus Windows left uh it's pretty amazing so U if you look at where all the trees were laid down and everything it it doesn't make sense but that's that's what it was uh this is this building so we had some damage to the uh awnings uh some some trim along the roof gutter type things um this gets into some more mechanical drawings and stuff I'm not going to spend time on those we've already talked through some of that so okay I think that's good on that um RTI does have some roof damage and some things some skylights and things that are cracked um uh I will tell you uh I'm going to tell this funny story just because it's still funny but they
063were concerned uh the power came back on at RTI this morning we ask all the teachers to go check their rooms look for things um there was very foul odor uh they were convinced that maybe a sewer pipe had broken or something um but it turns out if you leave crab legs in a freezer for more than a few days without power um they have a very um not nice smell so uh thankfully that's all it was but we will have those build we will have that building evaluated by the engineers fully uh as well they've they've looked at it and we don't know of anything majorly structural but we will have all that fully evaluated too so um what am I not thinking of uh Comm parents obviously we know have questions about all
064these things and and we are working on those details as quickly as we can we will push all that information out within the next week um uh long before we get back in session we we know parents are going to need to adjust and shift um trying to work out even um uh our staff and their children's shuttles and and things to make all the pieces work uh Hank and Leo are working on diligently uh we will host some openhouse events we we know that as a parent you know I would want to see where my kids going to be so those will not likely happen before we come back but within that first week or so that we're back in we will host some Open House events where everyone can come in um especially
065uh Middle School Wyman and Mark Twain we want we want parents to know we want to be transparent with that we want them to see what we're doing and so we will arrange that we will communicate those times once we have those set and figured out um so know that we will do that we want we want you to know how we're how we're managing this um obviously then and and Dr Fon has started that next step with the insurance company their Consultants are coming in the roofing consultant was here today we have adjusters and stuff back on site next week yeah uh lots of layers to that do you want to talk about that a little bit Yeah so um I've been in contact with our adjuster a lot um he's great um he
066is putting all of these resources in our hands so in every step of our process we'll have a consultant so um we are going to have JB held which works with us as far as reinsurance goes I believe is that right okay make sure I get that right and then we have a roofing consultant we're going to have a structural consultant and lots of people in our way um not in our way but in our way to help us to guide us in this process so they're not they're not against us they're here for us and it's been it's been really refreshing to see so Patrick and I spent the day with the riffing consultant this morning and and early afternoon and the minute I made a phone call to the restoration people I finally
067got their name and number they were here within two hours I don't know how they got to here that fast from St Louis but they are they have people on site here ready to go the way back at 8:00 in the morning to start this process they'll be here all weekend helping us they are here to work for us and it's like okay now what do I tell them to do so we're learning that process they have been great um can't speak enough even um Ron or from music came down and met with Dr D Ron Ron is the director of Music he's the CFO so he came down we took him around did a little tour um we were not the only School District impacted by the storm uh they actually have 16 districts
068with damage three significant so we are not the only uh uh three there are three of us that are displacing students uh as a result of this one storm so they obviously have their hands full a little bit but they're they're working through it and working with us um I I would tell you that being a part of that Consortium that that music Consortium that we are th those are our funds and and they are School District driven so they understand our needs a little differently and they understand what we need so in talking about teachers personal items and talking about the contents of rooms uh talking about temporary fixes uh the the word was don't call me just do it take care of what you need to do get your kids back in school
069so uh buying remediation things we we're going to need some things to help with these Food Service shifts um uh those we're covered on all that stuff so we're not spending our taxpayers money to accommodate the storm that's what our insurance is for so uh they are truly amazing to work with and have been uh truly supportive through all of this I would also like to say that we we have had uh our elected officials reach out uh the Department of Education has reached out in multiple ways commissioner elinger um uh our Desy supervisor Mike Whitaker have have reached out almost daily um just checking in seeing what they can do to help we have asked for some things and uh they have responded quickly so they're they're responding to our needs and we appreciate
070those pieces as well uh it would also be remiss of me not to mention that we have had uh multiple school districts throughout the state pitching in um I want to mention one in particular and and I mean no disrespect we will thank everyone when we can sit down and kind of think through this but I do want to mention Jinger King uh Jinger was our former Tech director relocated uh to NEOS show a few years ago uh Ginger drove 30 access points to us for the new building um from her District to loan us to get that going um drove them up here herself and dropped them off um we've had District's Union uh loaned us switches to put in that building uh we've had districts dropping off uh supplies they're reaching out and
071asking questions but uh I want to kind of wrap that part up with another thank you to our to our community we not having a lot of ability to manage stuff and things right now we've asked our community to think about donating through core so that we can utilize those funds and and provide what the teachers need because this teacher needs an office desk or office chair this teacher needs packs of paper for their students this teacher needs a rug so so trying to manage that so we get what the teachers need we've asked for those donations and Jordan I'm looking at you we are I forgot the number so we have not checked back on the core side because Gina manages that and she's out of pocket right now but we had over $4,000
072donated as of this morning morning we've received another 2,000 in the office today so we are well over $6,000 of just local dollars people wanting to just help uh get our teachers back get our kids back in school and that speaks volumes too um just the trust that they have in us to know that we have needs and and they know that we'll take care of our people so we appreciate that sincerely as well uh we will continue question online about Amazon wish list so and uh we went to a class on that last fall and that is a little bit of a challenge for inventory purposes and a time like this when we're replacing things if people are buying directly it's not part of our inventory right so yeah so um thank you for
073bringing that up yeah we've asked our staff not to use the Amazon wish list process those those Cloud sourcing type of things just exactly to your point it creates some issues with us as far as inventory and Replacements uh and we also don't want to double dip so if the insurance is going to replace something there's no reason to replace it on Amazon wish list right so we want to use our resources wisely and be respectful of what we're receiving uh and so trying to manage that outside of that and there's also some some legality things that creep in on that Amazon wish list side because um some of the sources of some of those things and and some of that causes some issues with us as far as bidding and and um Contracting and
074those things so we've asked people not to do those we know people want to help and that's a great way to help but um we we would appreciate just either and if if a monetary donation isn't possible we would ask to just give us a little time because we're still working through what we actually do need our teachers have moved they're trying to sort through everything and and go back through their damage list and so you know if we do have some some specific needs uh people can always fill out the volunteer form so that form is available on our Facebook page and our website and and say I would like to donate items these are the type of items I have and if we have needs for those we can certainly reach out and
075and get those so um we appreciate all of those things I would tell you at this point point and I I can't believe I'm saying this we we do not have organized work efforts for tomorrow we still have teachers selling in the classrooms we have work to do we have a lot going on I don't want to pretend for a second there's not work going on but we have dismissed our staff uh as a whole um we're on an as-needed basis and people are in uh that have things to do that need to settle in class rooms and get ready um but uh it's incredible to be at this spot in this moment because uh as I told the staff this morning uh the reality is 6 hours we held our staff out of those
076buildings uh till we could get damage assessments till we could get structural assessments and all those things we brought them in at 11:00 a.m. I think Tuesday that's right on Tuesday had a staff meeting talked about through I know it's so the days are years the days are running together a little bit uh we brought him in at 11:00 a.m. had us had a full staff meeting talk to him about the damage and what was going on where we were what our next steps what the process was we asked them to get some lunch and get to their buildings get to work um we asked them to basically put in a normal day we didn't we don't want to um overextend and we don't want to um cause issues and and with the damage in
077the roads damage in power a lot of our staff still didn't have power myself included uh we were trying to be mindful of people needing to get out before it got dark get generator fuel get home get whatever so we we tried to limit that day so between Tuesday morning and then I think it was around 10:30 uh that Dr Welch called me from Wyman the the Wyman e Wyman West uh the Early Childhood building and said we're done and I said you're done with what and she said we're done moving I said you're done moving what and she said no we're done moving and I said that that can't be so if you do the math uh what I told the staff this morning is six hours we moved the equivalent of a thousand
078kids and 30 some classrooms in six hours and that's pretty incredible um but it was with a lot of help from our community volunteers and our staff just jumped in every building that wasn't impacted High School Truman uh everybody was at every building and just found some way to be helpful uh we were doing laundry we were doing uh all kinds of things that people I guarantee had no idea we watched toys we watched kids we watched staff kids um we had things going all over the place and I want to Echo what Dr blue said to you as a board I I am so grateful that you empowered us and trusted us I told the admin staff this afternoon we had a wrap-up meeting at 3 that I am grateful that in all this
079uh Dr Wells Dr fton put together a lot of those uh protocols for moving the classrooms we were dealing with the facilities and the safety pieces uh we pulled it all together and handed it off to the administrative team and they did it yeah and and so having good people and having the staff that we have from from our custodians our food service people all the way up through they've just taken their pieces and ran with it and it's so great for my position and I can tell you I I I'm still just dumbfounded that it happened so quickly and and but I'm so grateful that we we have the people and the staff that we have to be able to empower them to just do what needs to be done and it was done
080it was just done that quick and U it's pretty incredible so lots of stuff and things lots of things to still um sort out some details um transportation is a big one we know people need that information and and we need that information we we kind of have to have some things we need to get there so I know they're going to work on that diligently tomorrow we had some conversations this afternoon they've already put some things together we just have to fine tune uh but we will communicate uh out um I guess the last thing and I'll I'll see if there's any other questions uh we will continue uh our goal is to communicate daily um please know that we're not just going to tell you stuff we'll wait till we have factual things
081to tell you but I think for these next few days the some of the communication may be we're still working on it please be patient um but we we don't want people to think we've forgotten or missed something so we'll continue communicating we'll communicate about the mitigation efforts to help answer those mold and milde questions air quality questions um those safety pieces we we want everyone to know that we're not bringing our kids back into a place that's not safe for them to be we have eight weeks of school left and we want it to be the best it can be so other questions other thoughts it's just really impressive honor ly not only that you guys have led the effort but you were able to trust the rest of the administration I've not heard
082the words that's not my job no um everybody is willing to do everything it's pretty amazing it it just shows the true um strength and resilience and the dedication that the passion that all of our everyone has I'd made a comment on Facebook and talked about the leadership and leaders and I know a lot of people thought I just meant you Dr Darr and I do mean you as well but I'm me everybody our students were leaders our every single person that was doing I mean they were working very hard kids are you know cleaning up debris and carrying stuff and there was not anybody complaining and everybody was just very very proud of what they were doing I felt and I think that it does nothing but make us even stronger so being that
083resilience in everyone and and I don't want to single her out because of of of trying to take away from any anybody but but and that's not the point but I I do want to say so um Jen Hein is our our principal for Wyman for next year uh and again I want to thank Union Schools they they looked at this as a professional development opportunity for her and allowed her to come down and be a part of this process without having to take leave they took care of that and and and provided that coverage for her to be a part of this U but two things one I think it was great for her to be there and be a part of it but but setting that aside and setting her willingness to do
084that aside what a better view OFA could an incoming person have to our family um she got to see the very best of what we have yes and absolutely that's that's the positive stuff that will come out of this so definitely okay okay thank you thank you thank you thank you one of those thank you is a biger word I know yeah all right thank you written reports superintendent report I guess that was kind of the superintendent report that was most of it um you had something left no well I I I do want to just say uh uh we know that there are a lot of activities a lot of things still happening we we have resumed track practice we have field trips coming we have kids that have gone out and competed during
085this time we are doing our best to maintain normal C to the greatest extent possible um again I would just ask the the the community continue with the support that we've seen and the flexibility and patience um as we continue through these next few weeks um yeah that's it that's it just just continue being continue continue yes okay all right written reports we do not need to return didn't have any we didn't have any no that was great we had no reports and we do not need to return to close we do not need to return to close so Mark our move we adjourn I'll second all in favor I all right he got it me