001Okay, at this time I'd like to call the meeting to order. It's 7:09 a.m. If we could please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Okay, just a little modification here on the agenda. At this point, I would like to do the administration of oath to the two um board members that um were approved at the meeting. This is they are um carried over from last year. So, it'll be Tom Miller if you can stand and Janine G. And I will do the oath of faithful office. Okay. Um, if you just want to raise your right hand and just do the Oh, please. And I'm
002going to get my camera. Oh, to do the um picture. Okay. Repeat after me or do you want to just go ahead? Yep. Okay. Just raise your right hand. Go ahead. Yeah. State your name. I promise I know to solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and I will faithfully discharge the duties of my position as board member for the Highland Central School District Board of Education according to the best of my abilities. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Okay. Thank you, Janine G. I'm just going to have you raise your right hand and please I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I faithfully discharge
003the duties of my position as board member for the Highland Central School District Board of Education according to the best of my ability. Thank you. Okay. Is this something that's a little bit new that um we have to do for Joel? Okay. Just going to have you raise your right hand, Joel, and I will get a photo of you as acting as the superintendent. All right. Hopefully, I'm not just acting. I do solemnly swear that I support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and I will faithfully discharge the duties of my position as superintendent for the Highland Central School District according to the best of my abilities. Thank you. [Applause] Okay, at this point I would like to call for nominations for the board president. Nominations,
004please. I nominate second nomination. Any other nominations? All those approved for Alan Grone as board president say I I abstain. Okay. Thank you. I at this point would like to call for nominations for the vice president for the Highland Central School District. I would like to nominate Jine GMO. Any other nominations? Like to nominate Tom Miller. Any other nominations? Second. Okay. Um, second Janine Gaml. I'll second Janine GL. Second for Tom Miller. I'll second. That' be Ed Meiselle. I'd like to call for voting for Janine GML. All those in favor of Janine GML, please. I Those in favor of Tom Miller or board president or vice president? I'm sorry. That's three. Janine GML is nominated as the board vice president. [Applause] Okay. So at this point I'm just going to ask ask Alan Baron to
005do the oath please for board president and then Janine GL as board vice president. I'll have you just raise your right hand and then just just where that is. Just got to get my camera. Thank you. Go ahead. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of State of New York and I will faithfully discharge the duties of my position as president for the Highland Central School District according to the best of my abilities. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. Thank you, Ellen. And Janine GL. You're going to face the camera. Okay. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will discharge duties of my position as vice president for
006the Highland Central School District Board of Education according to the best of my abilities. Thank you. At this point, I am going to turn this meeting over to board president Alan Bur. Thank you, Alicia. And again, I want to thank the entire board for the support you've given me over the past year. And hopefully we can continue what we've been doing uh for many years to strive to give the Central School District students best education possible. So I appreciate your support. Thank you. All right. Um we're into our rework meeting and we have a consent from five which is the appointment of district officers to 10 point R. moves us all the way to the end of the agenda which is reporting of standard work days. Like we normally do with our consent agenda, if
007anyone has any item that they want to pull out, any further discussion on any particular item, we can do that. Hope you had an opportunity to uh review it. Where are um meeting dates? Again, the summer meeting dates are at 5:30. Just keep that in mind. And then everything after that is at 6:00 p.m. Subcommittees. Does anyone have any issues with uh remaining? Most of the subcommittees were status quo from from last year. So if anybody needs to move, just let us know and we can, you know, move committee members around. So if nobody has any questions, I'll entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda for reorg. Motion by Tom, second by Jen. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. So carried. Okay. That was a quick reorder. We'll move into our
008um regular meeting. We have a public hearing for the code of conduct policy. The public hearing is to provide the board and the public with updates and answers to any questions the community or board may have regarding the code of conduct policy for the 2025 2026 school year. This policy is attached within this agenda and minutes for the public to review. So we have the meeting now open for public hearing for our code of conduct policy. Anyone has any questions you can shout them out. I usually just ask a general one. any major updates that the community should be informed about or No, but we'd like to get it done. We'd like to get this approved so that we can get it in that mailer that goes home in the summer and get our new
009update onto the website. So, this opens up the hearing, right? Yep. Yes. And then at the next meeting, we'll approve the code of conduct or you're approving it now to move forward. Lee, I don't know. Do you have it on here? It's you can approve it the night of the hearing or the day of the hearing. Um there are no major changes because we made those updates last year. Sure. Um everything's been run by legal. It's not on the agenda. We can approve it at the next meeting, too. It's not That's it. As long as that meets your time. Well, we'll approve it at the next meeting. That's fine. I put it on for the next meeting. Yeah, we'll just approve it at the next one. Okay. All right. So, the safety plan, that's that's
010the different one. That safety plan goes up in draft form on the website for a 30-day review. that goes up after you approve the SRO this evening or this morning. Okay. And then that's part of that um policy and then that one gets approved at the next one as well. Okay. I I just have a concern if you need to get this done sooner than later. It's fine. Okay. This this will for the next meeting as long as it's done in July. Okay. You'll be all set in August. Well, we might not have it July. The August meeting will still be fine. It's like the first day or two. Yeah. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Everybody is good with the uh code of conduct. So, we'll close the public hearing and we'll move into public comment. Again,
011public comment for agenda items only. The back end of public comment is for general items. So, anybody uh has any comments regarding the agenda, you can shout them out. Just put your name and listen to you. All right, no public comment. We'll go on to our consent items from DA1 to C10. We have quite a few new hires in this agenda. We have the agreement for our school resource officer and a couple of settlements, budget transfers, and contracts for educational services and service agreements. Can I entertain a motion to move consent items forward? Motion by Heather, second by Janine. Like normal, you want to pull something out. Have any need any clarification? We have a motion on the floor by Heather and Janine. No one has I just had a question um regarding the school
012resource officer. Is this in addition to the one that we had or this is a replacement of the existing? This is the annual contract. Okay. It's for the one that we currently contract with the town on. Okay. Any changes in that? None. Not even salary. Is that required to be done annually or can we do a multi-year? Uh we do it annually because if salary does change and we also do it annually because if the person changes we want to get it in so that it's part of our safety plan when we I mean we could do some we could do it multiply. I don't think it prohibits us from doing that but um that's the agreement that we've had with the town for the last number of years. I think when we also set
013out to do that at one point we were thinking that maybe we would add days to that. So that would change each year possibly but we've been status quo on that. Yep. Okay. Anyone else have any comments? Okay. We have a motion by Heather, second by Janine. All those in favor. Opposed. Any abstensions? still carries. Congratulations to our new hires. All right, [Music] end of year, your report from our athletic team totals report on that. All right, we'll move along to our superintendent comments. We have nothing uh other than to say that we had some uh pretty incredible uh moving up and uh and graduation ceremonies. The two moving up ceremonies that were held at the middle school were held under extremely hot conditions and everyone came through. Uh I I thank Pete Miller and
014his staff for just making sure that those spaces were cooled as best as we could. The ceremonies were nice and short so we didn't have people in there for too too long. Thankfully, high school graduation was not on one of those heatwave days, but it did give us a little bit of a scare with the rain that was right up until 45 minutes beforehand, but it turned out to be a beautiful evening and uh just really nice to have it on that field. We've been really looking forward to that and it turned out to be a great evening. So, um that's really all that I have as an Any questions for the superintendent? Again, just to piggyback, um, thank you to our to our director of facilities, Pete Miller, and his staff for a nice
015presentation for high school graduation. First time on our new turf field. So, that was a good showing and very much appreciated. I think I also would be remiss if I didn't mention Rich Fischer and all of his crew. spent most of the day out there working in in uh conjunction with uh the sound folks to make sure that we had really good sound that night. So, uh I know we've had issues with sound in in many years past, but these last couple of years have been great and that's really a testament to the work that they do in conjunction with the company that we bring in. So, absolutely beautiful. Anybody else? I did get a lot of compliments not only on the facilities itself but also on the the live stream that they said it
016was crystal clear. It was great picture. Um so I think kudos to everybody for making that happen because there's a lot of people that can't travel, right? And so it's good for our students to still be able to and for those that aren't aware, we also live streamed the middle school and the elementary school and uh so that was nice especially on those heat days that some of the elderly grandparents that could not make it out which They were able to watch from home. Okay. Anything else for superintendent? The board of education new business. We got two first readings of policies. I don't know if you want to uh move those policies forward this morning or you want to wait until our next meeting. Uh the first policy is first reading for uh student use
017of personal technology policy number 7316 and the second one is for maximum temp temperature for school buildings and indoor facilities policy 5685685. Anyone have any questions regarding those policies? And that second policy with the temperature that's 85 degrees is it 88 88 82 you have to do something 88 you should look to move them from a location to another location and hopefully by what was the temperature of that event with all those people in there? Do we know hotter than that? I don't know off the top of my head, but the nice thing the nice thing about next year is those spaces will be aironditioned because our gyms are are work are being done this. They're part of this phase of work. Y that's good because people start buying uh infrared temperature sensors and taking
018pictures of it. The only school that won't have air conditioning according to Mr. Miller would be the middle school gymnasium. Okay. Thank you. But we have other common areas in in both elementary and high school to to move students, you know, to graduation if we had to. Just brings up the topic of climate control again in in public spaces. Temperatures 2 feet from the floor in the shade. So this reading for the policy is read two feet from the floor in the shade. Is that what you're saying? I whatever. It's not spelled out that specifically because the when you when you write policy, you have to make sure that it's hitting mandate, but mandate could change at any point as to where they're measuring it. So, we follow the state mandate on that. Mr. Would
019it pay at some point for the school to invest in spot coolers that might be able to move be moved? You know, I know they're available rentally, but uh can would it be something we should invest in to put in a an area that we could pull out and put in area should we need them? We have to buy a lot of well I'm saying for you know ones that would say cover gymnasium. So in cases like this if we hit a maximum temperature we could cool a specific area in Kentucky. Well I don't know if you have to look at uh cubic foot and see what you need to even touch that. So that's usually a rental type situation anyway. We would move the event or those rental fees add up really quickly. I
020mean, a month of five spot pools for a month are about $4,000. What's our history of hitting those temperatures? Have we hit them? Do we hit them regularly? I'm sure we've hit them. I don't know that we've been monitoring them that closely. I mean, just being a former teacher myself, I was on the second floor of a building where I know that it was over 90 degrees many days in June and sometimes early September. And you know all those things that you have to do at 82 everybody's doing. Some people do it when it's at 75. They lights are off, shades are drawn, fans are on. That's all common place. It's now codified. So um if you're not doing those things, you are encouraged to do those things. Um yeah. All right. Uh what's your
021I just have a feelings moving forward with these two readings. Go ahead. I just have a quick question about or comment about the first reading for the use of uh personal technology. So the changes that were put in place were due to the mandates that came down from state governor. Now, I know at the end of that I mentioned that the school suspension would not be an issue uh directly tied to to technology use, but can we put in uh the issue of can we put in a reiteration of insubordination being impossible in the policy or just in the code of conduct? I mean, I don't know that I think what we've have in place right now seems to be working. This is going to make it tighter because now it's not being able to
022be used from beginning to end. Insubordination is always an option. Administratively, if you feel communicates the message, I just when I read through it, it just seemed like finally there's no consequence. This was our well consequences aren't necessarily outlined in your policy. That's in your code of conduct. So policy uh they took legal had had helped us craft our first policy when we were allowing um some usage at the high school and between classes and things that they took that and shrunk that down to meet the state guidance. So they took our policy. They didn't they didn't just give us a boilerplate model. They took ours and I mean everybody knows this is coming. So yeah. Yeah. I just, you know, policy helps to communicate, you know, message. I think getting this policy updated early
023in the summer is going to give all three schools the opportunity to get that information out to parents, get our website up to date, and get the when those presentations are done for orientation. All that information can be clean and upfront right from the beginning. I guess what I'm saying is that the the tail end of that policy actually seems to communicate something that I I don't even wonder if that should be in there because we specifically go out of our way to say uh violation of the use of technology will never result in in in suspension. So by going out of our way to say that it's almost like we're we're communicating that's inconsequential which I I don't think is the case like saying in subordination failure to follow you know future directives is
024I'm going to suggest that we move to a second reading and I'll you know let's let's read up on what ending and see if there's a need for any on both policies. Yeah. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I just wonder what we're communicating that last time because I I read through it everything was great and I get to Ben. So why are we going out of our way to say that that was based on some of the state guidance that was Yeah. I mean that would be policy that you know we would never suspend someone simply for using technology but there would be you know if they were instructed to put it away they refused to or if they're repeatedly doing that then we're looking at issues of misoordination and then of course which is
025interesting that that would be in response to that because they're taking a hard stance on it right but then at the same time New York State does not want us suspending students so be very clear that that is not the intent like you I'm going to give you a strong message that you cannot be on it, but I'm also going to tell you that I'm not going to spend you a few cannot speed this up. We're not going to give you There's other discipline measures other than suspension. Absolutely. That the state wants to see undertaken. I know in our policy it does um talk to the use of watches, but we have kind of been a little bit more relaxed on that this year, this past year. What is our intent for going forward? full
026policy in terms of I mean I if people are using the watches inappropriately they're going to be treated like cell phones I think our policy says that they should not be on your person I personally feel they should really be in the book bags right like I have I will I will make sure that that is clearly communicated in each of the presentations yeah I think if we I know parents have spent a lot of money on these watches for their kids and if they you know and there are other uses of the watches, right? Keeping track of your keeping track of your steps, making sure you're staying healthy, you're you know, you're sitting too long, getting up, doing it. I mean, so we're these are the the like it's the minutia of all this
027stuff that I think we get like Yeah. bogged down on and then we we're acting very militant on what we can and we can't allow our students to do. Well, then it shouldn't be in the policy, I guess, is what I'm saying. If it's in the policy, then it shouldn't be on their person because that's what the policy says. The the problem is these we call them watches, but they're devices. They're they're computers. And if it's not a watch today, it's going to be something else tomorrow. I've seen things that say these are the items. Uh but uh it's not an exclusive list. So, it leaves it open to the next technology that comes out. But I think we're going to be revising this policy every year until forever. policy, current policy does say I
028mean even the the new policy says devices. So what's what's the definition of a device, right? But it specifically says watches and it says not on your person. I I just think that we need to be given one message. Whatever that message is and what we agree on, it needs to be a consistent message both with what we're writing and what we're saying. I know our students. I passed some recent testing rooms last week. you know the regents and they collect there was phones and watches on that table is all I know they were collecting all devices from students prior to testing commencement um sets set a an even ground level and not allowed it because that's fine we can we can make it not allowed at all you know wait as much as I
029appreciate board comments I'd love to hear what the principal expects of his building. But what I'm saying is but we've gone down many like this is what led to a year conversation and I agree it's a good conversation but we agreed on a policy last year. That policy specifically said that and if we're not following it what I'm saying is we need to change the policy. The these watches are how much how much how much are the phones? They're expensive. They're all expensive. And you know what it is? Three kids. You might have 20 kids in the classroom. Maybe five kids get to have these watches and do the halves and they have not 15 other kids are sitting there like well I think when we figure out a way to when we crafted the
030policy we came to the understanding we have a professional staff ed of educators so and and they they're they're intent they're there to teach and to guide. We have professional I mean to Janine's point I which I think is excellent that they they're health monitors they're There are many they're incredibly useful tools, but we also have physical education teachers. We have a nursing staff. We have all this in place. We have an entire cadre of professionals to assist these students through their their careers here at T. So, I think we should rely on those professionals and and uh exactly what they're intended to do here. Without a doubt, well, the state guidance says no smart watches. So then that's done. We include that and we enforce it as we have to follow the law. We'll
031test it. You know, the kids will test it via their parents and um the handle. I've had plenty of conversations and I'm sure we all have in terms of like what the requirements are and there's reasons for it, right? I understand. Trust me, I had a situation a few months ago. I was trying to get a hold of my daughter and she was in class and it was, you know, was it inconvenient? Because if she had her phone, I know she wouldn't have answered right away. It's not the right thing. I know it's easy. It's it's convenient, but Okay, we're going to move uh both policies to second reading. Um review the policies again. If you have any questions or comments, uh on to to Joel. Yeah, get them to me sooner than later so
032that if we need legal to look at them, I can have that done before that first meeting because the um maximum temperature needs to be part of the safety plan. I'm putting it in as written for the 30-day review. Um but that's part of the safety plan. Okay. All right. Moving on to old business. Uh probably a topic that we've been waiting to start a discussion on. Facilities use the insurance requirement. um discussion. I know community members are here this morning. Uh everyone uh reviewed your emails. You got some letters from some community members, some of our local youth organizations that sent out letters. Um and I know board members have had discussions in the past on how we're going to move forward. Uh we've already established the uh requirement for use of the turf
033field concession stand but now it's discussion on uh the insurance is probably a big piece of when and how our youth organizations can utilize the facilities. So, uh, currently, and Desmond, you could tell me if I'm, uh, misststepping here, the NICER's current requirement for athletic organizations within the community is a $3 million liability policy. Let's go ahead. A lot of the organizations currently cannot meet that requirement unless they go out and spend more money to raise the limits of the liability. And in turn, that puts a burden on the families that are sending their child to any of the youth activities and the registration fee will be increasing. Uh I know a while back I had said that you know I'd like to see the organizations come forward kind of give us a little snapshot
034of what the additional cost would be and I know uh some of the youth programs have come forward and gave you a quick snapshot of what the additional cost would be for meeting the nicer requirement of $3 million in liability. So I'll open it up to discussion. I'll allow our community members that are here to chime in if they have any ballot points they want to let us know about and then we can move it forward. What's the cost driver of that $3 million policy? Is it the number of participants in the activity? Is it a flat fee? How does Good question, Kevin. So, it's based on the sport, the amount of kids, the amount of sessions that you're going to have. So, for example, football, lacrosse being contact sports are going to be slightly
035higher than potentially baseball and softball. The number of events that you're going to have um and the the the concept of the event, whether it's a um a camp style event, like a an instructional style event, or if it's going to be a regulated game. So, you're not just talking about your capstone one game at the end of the season like a championship. You want to use the field for your regular program. If you wanted to use your the field for your regular program, for your home games, for example, that would be a significant driver as opposed to if you were using it for a oneame event because then you'd take out a policy for that window of hours that you're having that oneame event, right? Yeah. Oh, sorry. No, no, no. I think though
036the thing that's interesting to me and this is the the point that I've been trying to like get some some clarity on is is that many of these organizations are take out the insurance through a national organization that tells them this is the amount of insurance you need to take. And so, and this isn't these are nationwide youth programs whether it's football, lacrosse, what have you, soccer, what have you. And then the thing that I struggle with is then how the the school's insurance, which I understand is through the state, is telling you something different. When we locally, I'm going to say we locally because there was a time where I was a parent who was participating in in these youth programs would go to other school districts where they have the same national program
037as our national as our local um youth programs. they have that same insurance and they're at other school districts doing the same thing. So that's where I want clarity on why is it happening locally at other school districts but we can't or where you know based on our current insurance situation that's where the the the line is kind of drawn so um Ericson Ever Ericson um so the conversation that we had with our insurance carrier is that it's not uncommon that they see school districts um request test this insurance limits. Mostly it's for commercial programs, not your local youth programs. Um, from our understanding and again through our insurance carrier, um, I keep on hearing the word uh requirement and it's what the board decides to adopt as the AHA as it's already having jurisdiction.
038Um they had told us that the that the programs work with the boards and based off of what they carry um like um the vice president was saying is that um we go to all these different school districts and they take our insurance. We provide all our insurance to the league. The league um certifies everyone that everyone has insurance. We currently carry a 1 million two million and we go play at six school districts right now with with no with no with no issues. Um so really it comes down to accepting that this is a youth program. It's students within your community. It's not a commercial program such as like Rain Lacrosse or these bigger commercial um um organizations that are charging $1,500 an athlete and are are running these um competitions where they're where
039you're paying $2,000 $3,000 to enter this competition and they're making money. This is a nonfor-profit organization. We're small. We service um you know a hundred plus students which is a fifth of the the the elementary school right now between football and cheer. Um and these are your everyday students. You know these are the taxpayers that obviously you know funded you know funded the field that are funding your current insurance funding funding the budget. Um it was 10 to12,000 for the $3 million uh policy. it was uh 13 to $15,000 for that $5 million policy to run, you know, a camp over the summer. That would increase our um that would increase our registration fee from $300, which is all inclusive for everything pretty much um to, you know, $400 to $450, which would really hurt
040our our families in in in this district tremendously, you know. Um, so really it comes down to I mean and I online last night I went through the school districts. The one just south of here is a 1 million 2 million policy and we go play on their field every single year. You know um I guess for me it's a broader picture. Uh and I think I brought it up several meetings ago. Uh I look at you take section 9 sanctions the officials know your umpires for baseball, softball, your referees for lacrosse. Do they issue us a policy that meets those requirements? That's a big question. I mean they're out there the same liability as as a student athlete is the officials. So you know this broader picture we have graduation. Do all our vendors
041meet our requirements? And again, that's a good word, requirement. It's not a mandate. It's a requirement, right? Do we have to meet the requirement? I guess that's the question to to the board. Can we wave the requirement to benefit our youth sports? And so that was the that's the other point that I want to make, right? The word requirement, right? Like in years past, there have been opportunities where these organizations have used our facilities. And so that's where I keep asking is has there been a change and you know we heard there has been no change in in policy based on what the insurance is has asked. So then it has been a change in either philosophy or interpretation by the board and and school district collectively that has maybe adjusted the mindset of this
042going forward or or a change in what our our insurance policy may not have changed but our insurance company may require differently now. So I don't want to put it out there that it's all administration making a change. Like there is certainly a lot going on in the insurance world. I'm immersed in it now and work and trust me it's and I understand that but that's all I'm asking for. I think having that clarity puts our community, puts our students, put our local organizations at ease if we have an understanding of truly what what is happening, right? Because then we're able to adjust and move forward and see what are our opportunities to be able to potentially have these youth organizations be able to use our field. Look, I mean, everybody knows our field to
043the south, right? Malboro allows for this. And how do they do that? because the costs are the same, right? Um there's a you've probably looked at their facilities use policy. There is a ranking of applicants when you want to use the field. There is a tiered system. There's four tiers moving from nonforprofit local all the way to commercial. the first two. But that policy also requires the school to have more oversight and control of their facility, which and this is what I was trying to say before our field was completed. We may not have evolved there. You're looking at systems that have had fields for years and they've learned to control them and maintain them and staff them. It's great that you want to have all your kids there and have your football bazaar and
044all that, but when all those kids and families leave, we've got to make sure that's prepared for the school, clean, picked up, all these types of things, there's staffing involved. Use of the field means there's more raking involved that that that has to be maintained. Yeah. No, I I hear you and I agree with you, right? I think the problem is what Janine talked about earlier is there there's just a lack of exactly what's needed, right? Because if you say, "Hey, great. You guys can use a field because you have the right insurance requirements and you have to pay X amount of dollars, right?" That's not even an option right now. The problem is we may submit like this is last year, right? Last year, I think middle of July, we went back and forth
045forth Desmond was back and forth on an email where it said, "Hey, no problem. You guys need to add these riders to your insurance." Great. We did. It cost us extra 600 bucks. We made it happen. Great. Then they said, "Oh, nope. Now you guys need to make sure your coaches have that you have workers comp to cover your coaches." What? That doesn't make sense because we're a program that's covered by USA football. So, our coaches insurance is covered by USA football. Our cheerleaders coaches insurance is covered by uh WADA uh the cheerleading organization. I think the big problem is just having exactly what is needed because at the end of the day for us as organization the people that come together for you football we don't mind that piece of it and I'm sure
046the other organizations don't mind it as well. The problem is when you have three different answers and you get three different things because if you tell me hey Elliot no problem you guys can use the field but you know what consensus state is ours you have to pay for the cleanup crew. If that cost us $185 a game I'm pretty sure the people in this community people part of the organization will divvy up $10. That's why we had fundraisers for to help that out. I think right now there's no clear path of what needs to get done or what you need to say yes, we can move forward as organization going and doing this on the field versus like oh no we can't. It's too much for us. I didn't realize that that for the
047lack of better terms goalpost was being moved on you guys. Thank you. And that's just the frustrating part in general, right? Not just for us. I think I think right now us being here makes it seem like it's just about football. I think it's just about community in general, right? We have it here, right? $65 an hour, $45 an hour for a classroom. I would just love the opportunity to say, you know what? Hey, you can go in here, you can book it. Here goes your insurance for the year. No problem. You guys are good to go. We get insurance. We pay $2,600 now for a year where most towns are paying $8, $900 for facilities they can use. A perfect example happened this year with Lacrosse. I mean, we're supposed to have a big
048jamboree at Socrates for, you know, the girls and boys lacrosse. SRE got flooded out because of all this great rain that we had this year. Walkill picked it up the day after and had the whole jamboree moved over to Walkill within 24 hours. You know why? Because they have the set of expectations that they know they need to follow to get it done and they did it. We don't we lack that right now. If we have that, that helps us out. Yes. For years to come, there's no problem. Whatever we have to up, we up. Whatever we have to lower, we lower. So, let's finish that thought with the Malboro policy. those first two tiers, the nonforprofits, there's a qualification method where the school verifies the roster of the participants and if 51% or greater
049are of the community, there's no charge because they moved that to 8020 last year. We we established several months ago our field uh field youth I'm going to say rules and regulations that's out there. I don't know if it's been disseminated to all the youth programs yet, but maybe once they apply and the insurance is we'll we'll have to forward that information because remember what we did with the concession stand. We allow the youth comm community groups to use the concession stand with no charge if they go and get the Olter County Board of Health permit. Then if they don't want the board of health permit, then they're going to pay the district for our personnel to manage the concession stand. So we've got those pieces in place right now. Right now the discussion is
050for all facilities and all youth groups, even we're looking at, you know, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, the YMCA, I don't know if the YMCA fits into this C, but anyone that uses our facilities for their programs is what the discussion is all about. It's not strictly youth sports, it's everybody. So I think that's what our discussion and following Mike what Marbo does and use that that tier uh policy maybe that's something we have to look at. Yes. I have two observations but we don't have a lot of time because football's right around the corner. First observation is like you said we did approve that I don't want I don't know if it's policy or procedure whatever it is for use of the facilities rules and breaks I guess does that need has that been disseminated
051and if it has and it's not meeting that need and there still does seem to be changes along the way everything's not in there maybe we need to revise that would be my first suggestion if they haven't gotten it if it hasn't been disseminated then obvious Obviously we know that first step. Second thing is just along Everett's um comment in terms of like a local group versus commercial is you know I would like to hear from Desmond is that something that um there has been any information that has come from the insurance company in terms of different requirements for those two different types. I'm not necessarily looking for an answer right now if you don't have one, but if not, I would like to hear more on that kind of next meeting when we can
052get more information. Sure. Just a quick couple of points. Excuse me. So, the first one being on the website, our rules and regulation and our policy and procedures are listed out there. It lists everything that is required. I will agree that as we as individuals or entities try and rent this space, they give us the very basic items and then our insurance company comes back and says, "No, you're missing workers comp. No, you forgot to add this." So, all the requirements are there. It's just that when the insurance comes through, sometimes entities forget to give something and that's when we get a little bit of back and forth and it becomes an issue. For example, in the chair competition, it was approved, everything looked good and then suddenly they said, "Well, you don't have workers
053comp." and they were talking about the DJ and that was not needed. So, we go through that back and forth with Nicer because that's something that they want and we're saying no, it's not necessarily needed in terms of um your point um Heather. Yes, I think Nicer is keeping everything and somebody made it point earlier. They're making it one big policy. They're not deciding if it's local level. They're not deciding on the commercial level. It is one big lot. So, they haven't sliced it up yet saying, "Well, you know what? if it's a local guy, a local team, maybe we can make some concession. They're not doing that. So, we can ask nicer, can they do that? Um, the board actually has to make that decision. We've got the policy or the rules that are
054out on the website. We've got nicer's guidelines which we meet. How do we want to change that? We have the opportunity to change that, but it's up to the board. uh with all due respect to Marro and what they have they yes they have this tiered approach but they're taking a certain risk as you go from one tier to the another. The top tier is well local and it may not meet all the requirements but they're willing to take that risk and as they get to the next level there's less risk and by the time they get to that bottom level which is the commercial their risk level is not as high by their insurance opinion not necessarily the board. So once again, it's the board to make the decision of how we want to
055structure some of these requirements. If you don't want to accept 3 million and you want to accept 2 million, it's up to us. But then we as the Highland Central School District, if something should go arai, are taking that risk and that's kind of the things that we just need to think about. Once again, the communities come in, they use the space, they want to use that. That's fine. But we have the ability to say we want to change that down from 2 million to 3 million. and that's what we will accept. But I will look further into the um nicer kind of looking at that grid of do they make it local and commercial and you know I've had a I've spoken to a lot of parents from v of these various organizations that
056I was once upon a time very intimately involved with. Um, you know, my understanding when people said, "Hey, we came out and we supported for the capital project." That's true. That's true. But your program at the time did not include every single practice and game on our school field either. And that's not what was in my mind. You know, if all these local clubs and I I I'd love to want to be on the field, but if they think that every one of their contests and every one of their um events is going to be on that field, I I think that's an unrealistic expectation. I mean, just scheduling and all that. That that's not one of our expectations either. Just want to make sure for the I just speaking for the youth pro football
057program, the conversation that we're having is is games. You know, we're not looking to take over the field for practices or that kind of stuff. Um, you know, we work with the town for that. But it also wasn't it's not even just the new field. Correct. The middle school field wasn't we weren't able to use last year. We wanted to run a camp one week um on the middle school field and it and it was denied. Well, what when and if the board decides on that that level of limits for liability, it's for all our facilities. So, at that point in time, if the building use if the building use form is put in, it's approved and everything you use. I think the point you're trying to make is it's it's been in the past,
058not even with the new field, it's been the past for old fields. like we had the playoff game we wanted to to hold here um two years ago and we couldn't do that, you know, on on the older field. And that so-called rules and regs also identifies, you know, the priority to school events versus youth events that's all listed in that and and we have the practice field, we have that new turf field, and we have several other fields. I mean, we upgraded the girls softball field at the elementary school. We have the middle school football lacrosse soccer field. So, we have the facilities and in my opinion and you know I've been involved in youth sports for 50 years now. Um why can't we use them? That's that's my my I just want to
059make something that Kevin had said. Um the type of sports that's we're using, you know, the type of activity plays a part in that. You know, uh I like lacrosse. I think it's a great sport, but I would never play. It's a little rough for me. So, I like track and field. It's a big jump. So, you know, not that big. So, once again, the type of sport that you're dealing with has an impact on the level of insurance that Nicer would require. I say require, it's recommending and that's about to be the better word I should use. I don't want to use the word requirement. It's what they're recommending and that's what they're putting out there. But once again, if we say no to that, we're taking on a little bit more risk if
060something should happen. And if that lacrosse player should get up on the runner like me, that's where we have to so as stewards of the fiscal responsibility of the district, we have to look at what what is what is our vulnerability, right? The and that's going to fall to a latigious area. That's basically what's all about is whether we're going to be sued for negligence. And I think that's the big key we have to look at. If in order for us to uh be vulnerable financially, there has to be some negligence on our part. We either have to have an improperly maintained facility. We have to have improper supervision. We have to have something that in some way make it makes us latigiously vulnerable. And that's where the big money payouts come. So if we
061can find a way of analyzing, you know, if there's a program that is properly supervised, I think our facilities are being very well maintained. I think we've reduced any vulnerability there. I think those are issues that we can say yeah we can assume some risk and responsibility because if it were to go to a latigious aspect we're going to have quite a good you know play good stance we're going to be able to defend ourselves well and and the fiscal nature of the school however uh if it's you know and I'd say like a weekl long camp where supervision may not may be questionable or may be out of the purview you know or we can't exactly say uh we have good eyes on and that something isn't going to occur that might you know
062cause a student harm at which we would be uh liable from a a student then that would be something I'd say we'd have to say is very questionable or whether or not we could but I think we do have to take a closer uh look at these things and if we have to tear something like that but a regular game uh held on the field or a competition held on the field where it's properly staffed and and the field is properly maintained So somebody can't say, you know, look, the the reason this person was injured or this child uh was injured was because you didn't take care of things. Well, that's a very different thing. And I think we should be able to take pride in how we take care of our facilities. And we
063should know that our staffing is usually typically very well done. So I guess I'm I'm rambling at this point, but I I do think where our responsibility lies for the protection of the fiscal responsibility of the school, we can the things we know that we're taking care of, we can rely on that. And I think that's where we as a district can assume responsibility on the insurance aspect. Things that are out of our control uh meets that we don't have professional supervision, meets where we don't have uh then I think those are things we have to make sure we we're insured properly. Hey Pete. Um, as it stands now, you're building the buildings and grounds department. U, you have an idea what it takes to maintain the new facility and the upgrades on all the
064other facilities. Uh, this increased usage. How much additional usage could we incur without having to start thinking about more bodies within the buildings and grounds department to maintain? based on the policy. Now, if the if you had teams playing on the main field on a weekend, we have to staff the facility based on the policy. That's an additional rate. Okay. Um increase usage. So, is what I'm saying and increase maintenance. There'll probably be some I mean if it comes to you know using the middle school field as we have in the past where you know having to line it continually or whatever it's you know to me it's a do business that's that's issue. Um the biggest impediment that we have is trying to figure out who's got insurance and who doesn't have insurance based
065on federal policy. Um you know and we's talking about liability and things. You know we've had we've had kids running on a track that ran into a bench and next thing you know they're suing the school. Okay. But that comes down to who had insurance, who didn't have insurance, where that's what's the deep pockets on that and all that kind of stuff. Cuz I think we, you know, that's a decision that I I understand that, but I'm just saying work that needs to be done to maintain the level that we want these fields to be at. Will we seems like we're going to eventually need additional people in your department? I think Tom's big bulk of his question is the wear and tear on the facilities. I mean at that point and the policy that
066we wrote up was basically that if we're going to if we're going to allow town organizations to use it for competition, not for regular practice like the main field. Um that was designed to minimize or maintain or have a level of use so that we don't wear the field out prematurely. Um, yes, you're going to have to groom the field. You have, you know, especially with lacrosse, you got to groom the field more often than you do with anything else, right? I mean, as far as the turf fields and and the longevity of turf fields now are around 15 years. I mean, if if it comes back to to the district in 14 years from now and says because we had a lot of activity on the field, it wore out. Now, we got to
067replace it in 14 years. As far as I'm concerned, that that's not a big deal. I mean, 14, 15 years, 13 years, we're maintaining it. It's the wear and tear and that's what it's there for. So, I don't I don't see that being an issue as far as Yeah, the wear and tear, but I I believe our policy or I say rules and rigs um allow for additional manpower to oversee the use of the facility. So when football lacrosse comes in to use it for games on a Sunday, we have manpower here to make sure the end it's cleaned up, everything's in proper order and everybody goes home. And I think that's the key to that, you know, that that rules and regs policy well to make sure that it's but we also don't want
068that 14year 15year uh usage u dropped down to like eight. Then we have it's bigger issue. Yeah. But let's we got to be realistic. You got to be on top of it. Our turf field with school sports is used four or five games for football because we don't have JV for home games and maybe 10 each for lacrosse and soccer. So I'm going to say our youth programs are probably going to use it as much as our school programs. So that's why we built the field for the community. That's how I look at it. built the field for the community. We put the capital project up saying it would be a community. Our youth programs might use it more than our own school programs because we're limited to school program. Football's got a four game
069home stand. That's it. Maybe five. This year we're six. All right. Thanks, Kevin. Thanks for shouting out to the camera. Six games. That's 50% more. the youth programs are using it probably every Sunday, every other Sunday, whatever it may be. We have four four home events. So, there's not a lot of use on the fields and I don't think it's going to tear up those fields dramatically every part of the benefit of going to turf, right, was that it was not a grass field, so we could get more use out of it. Agreed. You can still wear it out, but I trust our facilities department to take care of that and to assess it as we go. If there's stuff that they're seeing that is causing issue, then that needs to be raised and we
070need to adjust from there. I don't think we want to start out by saying no, no, no, no, no. We want to start out by allowing the usage and as we go, we may need to make modifications, but we want it to be used. I think we're in a little different perspective right now than we were coming into this meeting. I think the conversation and and and some little dialogue from Desmond, we have an understanding that we can make some simple adjustments to those policies to allow all our organizations. So, with that being said, uh hopefully I don't know if we're going to have that July meeting, but if we do, we can make our decision at that point in time how we're going to move forward with our youth programs. I think everybody should
071think about, you know, how you want to approach that and let's make a decision soon, sooner than later so the youth programs can move forward. Uh I have a question because Desmond used a good word here. We changed it from requirement to recommended or even guideline. Is it within our purview to have something drafted that if you're not willing, willing is not the right word, that if you don't meet the recommendations that there is some sort of waiver so that we don't have to assume any additional liabilities to what Ed was saying. So if you don't meet the recommended, you know, you have the bare minimum through whatever unit you have that you're signing off USA football, USA lacrosse, whatever, understands that the differential didn't meet our recommendation. You can use it, but we are
072now exonerating ourselves from assuming additional liabilities or something like that. Is that within That's a good point with a waiver. Would would a waiver be something that the youth programs would shy away from if you had that I was going to. So that might be something that legal can because you'd still be insured through your national insurance any of the local but your waiver now is currently it it it uh protects your organization, right? Not not at this point in time. We just have an additional waiver that covers the school district at signup. Then all that information then can be sent to the school district that every kid that is on that waiver. But that's not going to protect you from a game against Walkill where their kids show are showing up might not have
073a but it's going to protect you at least from the Highland Youth Organization. Moreover, it's going to protect you if they're having a practice or a camp here because those kids are are from the community. Um just I I just want to say you I feel really terrible for your decision that you have to make because the decision that you make is not wrong either way you make the decision. Um that was in reflection on this over the past few weeks. You you on one hand you want to follow the insurance's recommendations and you're not wrong for doing that but we're also community and we built this school as a community. Um, and we're not wrong if we decide that we're going to invest in our community as well. Um, so you you have a
074terrible decision on grants and either way you're right and I support you either way that you make this decision. Um, but I'm kindly asking that we look at our community and we we we invest in our community. However you choose to do it, I will support you guys. So Jennifer, if I may jump respond to your question, um there are two criterias that we mandate that whoever is given this insurance we have to have. It's primary and non-contributo and additionally insured. We will not go forward unless we have those that criteria. So that's basically setting the tone of we are highland needs to be the primary non-contributo saying well we didn't do anything wrong and you need to have that on there. And additionally, insured simply put they put the burden on the organizations first
075and they're saying yes we agree that Highland is kind of second but once you've gone through those pockets now you can come over to our pockets and nicer is saying well let's kind of make our pockets a little bit bigger a little bigger make their pockets a little bit deeper so they can have that so by the time they get to us it's not so rich. So we're really once again I'm coming back to that point. If we ask for 5 million and it was in the past it was 3 million or 2 million we're saying could you go up to five and they're saying no and I understand that but because we want them the organizations to brunt that burden as compared to if we change our policy or modify it we then take
076some of that risk back to us when something should occur. I also want to go back to um Ed's point of supervision. That is one of the key points. Maybe we should look into when we ask these entities to come in. You know, what's their track record? Has they have they had any major accidents? And then we could have confidence that, you know, well, in the last 5 years, nothing major has happened. It's still a, you know, crapshoot because you'd never know. But at least you've got confidence that if something should happen, we're covered. And we look at their insurance. If they've come back every year, somebody's getting hurt. Maybe a little bit of a risky organization to take on. Once again, these are just some of the ideas, but I wanted to make sure
077that those are the two major issues. Um, primary and non-contributo and additionally insured. And some entities did not give us that and we said immediately no regardless if it's workers comp or insure auto insurance or like that's the primary thing we need. And if we don't get that, we're not entertaining having it here. What keeps what keeps an organization from not giving full disclosure? It cost you. Well, but I'm saying is there a clearing house for these type of suits or settlements somewhere is where you can check and verify what an organization is. You got to take them for the word and doesn't always cut it. Their insurance loss runs would show you that. Yeah. So, we we have the ability you could ask for that, but that once again you're diving into a deeper
078pool to say I want the organizations to show me this. It's you know, you go back to the community. Does the community really need to do that for these, you know, athletic events? If they're a well-run organization, they should have the ability to refine it for that. I just want to say I just want to say one more quick thing and this is goes off of um Ed and Desmond's point and this is this is my play like I know we have still discussion that has to take place but if and when the time comes and I'm going to go on my soap box, right? It's not just staffing, it's what happens after the game, the cleanup and stuff like that. I can't tell you again been part of this community my entire life had
079children go through many youth programs I see it after a high school game on that fe on the fields we have to make sure that we are taking care of our facilities right so the Gatorade bottles the water cups you know a a tissue a napkin extra tape whatever's left lying around if the other team isn't picking that up as the home team that is our responsibility because that is what a maintains the field, keeps them in good quality, and B allows you guys to come back and do that. And again, I unfortunately football's here right now, so you guys are going you guys are getting to talk. I'm not worried about we take care of But I see it all the time. I can't tell you, and this I'm not saying this because I
080want, you know, a pat on the back, but I can't tell you after how many high school lacrosse games or soccer games that I'm walking across the field and I see stuff on the field and I'm picking it up again because I have pride in this place because I bleed, blue and gold, as I've often said. But we need to make sure that we're making sure that our our teams, coaches, and and players are doing those things, too, because that's what allows us to make these, you know, decision. That's what allows us to see that you have as much pride in what you want to happen and you guys getting, you know, access to the fields too. No, I I agree 100%. I think that also is also the bridge between, you know, the school,
081right, district and the community, right? Because this part this one piece of the insurance is really the vetting process for an organization to use the facilities. The other piece is when things actually take place on the field. What does it look like during the game? What does it look like after the game? So then, hey, if we don't deserve the right to come forth and say, "Hey, next season we can use the field." That's 100% this board's right to say, you know what, based upon how you feed the you treated the facilities during this last game or last season, we deny that access. I think that's 100% across the board for anybody. And I think that's part of the process because we can't sit here ourselves and say, "Hey, you know, this is for the
082community and then treat our fields and facilities like crap." 100% agree. But I think that's also part of the process that every year we submit insurance and whatever else is needed to say, "Hey, listen. This is what we have going on. This is what we're going to do." And here you go. And you say, "Yay." And a 100%. We had we had a high school graduation at the end of the ceremony when everybody came on the fields. Um, some very uh excited parent, grandparent, whatever. And we're all milling around. People, you know, had their backs to this person, that person. All of a sudden, pow pow pow. Things started going off. Somebody just had these containers that were somehow um able to pull a tab on it and blow confetti all over. I mean, right?
083Sound sounds humorous, you know. No, I get it. Uh but that's a situation where your people had to then find a way and clean that up without disturbing the turf and the rubber pallets. And I mean, this is crazy stuff. People think they can do anything. You don't think of you don't think of that because the other thing is and of course not only documentation is like you know we never told anybody no sparklers no droppers like that but but the thing is common sense doesn't apply in this day and age events that are you know events that are a lot of people and nobody is all facing the same direction you all get your backs and what's going on in society all of a sudden hear pow pow pow people are like have their
084head on a 360 school like Janine said it's like you We have the Gatorade. No, I understand that. Dump it on the field. You understand, right? Carry it off someplace and dump it. We also have our responsibility each before each and every home game, right? As town president, vice president, we contact the other town and they vice versa. We let them know the rules and regulations for our field, right? Currently at Tony Williams, this is what we need to get done. This is how you need to park. We've been through all that last year, seasons past. And even when we go to Walkill, right? There's no Gatorade, right? Only water allowed on the field, right? Clean up after yourself. And same thing for us. If a town isn't doing their part at our facility, then
085we go to our league meeting and we go ahead and we go ahead and we bring that up against that town and have that conversation. If there's something some type of ramification to that, then that's part of it as well. 100% agree. And that's all in our that whole thing about being that's all in our but who would expect that situation? No. We see we're not all we're not perfect, right? So I mean there there's situations happen and we need to work through them and you know um h saying across the board this is how it is and you know straightforward that becomes hard right you know um discretion is key you know um and and that's really what you know we're looking for especially for the the youth programs that are part of the
086Highland community. It's the students that you all serve and you know we're trying to help out. we're, you know, providing a program outside of the school district because school district just can't provide that, right? So, um, it's really us coming together collaboratively working together. And I I appreciate the conversation. Again, we're just asking that the board exercise the discretion it has to amend this policy to work with the youth programs in in the community. That's that's what we're looking for. But all the youth programs, correct? Yeah. The youth programs. Yeah. Okay. I you know all the conversation is good that this this was focused on the insurance piece of it because we already we already established our rules and regs for the use of the fields and that's out there and that that's been discussed
087a couple months ago and I think we you know and again real real quick um not every you're never going to cover every situation in any list of rules and regulations because there's always that one thing that oh gez I forgot about that the kid you know shut off for you know firecrackers or something that you know you can't cover every little avenue, but when it does happen, you address it, you treat it, and you move on. Simple as that. Okay. Uh let's dwell on on the insurance requirements. I think we got pretty good direction right now and we'll come back and make a decision at our next meeting as quickly as possible and then our youth programs can can move forward. And we have the imperative that we have that meeting in July because
088if we're expressing this desire that we need to take care of this and make it Yeah. Our meeting in July would be one one probably one week before our meeting in August. So I don't know if that week would make you know a big difference. It's two two weeks. Okay. Everything's two weeks. So July 22nd 5:30. We'll we'll look at that. Right now the primary stressor is is the the level of insurance requirements right that's yeah the only for for I can't speak for every organization I can speak to highland youth football and chair our our insurance is 1 million 2 million and that's where we're at for us to raise that is just it's prohibitive I think that's where we have to look as so if we're able to to cap that or you
089know say we're not going to we're going to take the risk of not going to requiring the five million we have to come up with the parameters that we're going to demand in terms of supervision in terms things that'll armor us against tor law things that'll say uh for instance you know you guys using locker rooms and there's not a coach in the locker rooms now we're extremely vulnerable because anything that happens we have a minor who can bring litigation against the district up after they turn 18 and any physical injuries can that are going to permeate their own that that's where the $5 million comes into place. So if we though again that kind of litigation only comes down if there's negligence you know you can't say sometimes things happen and but a court
090especially when in tort law they're going to look and say who was negligent was the school significantly negligent yes and for that reason we're going to penalize them. So if we can set up scenarios where we're not negligent or make ourselves protect ourselves as often as much then we can reduce our requirements but we have to come up with what those what those parameters would be and how would we try and enforce that is it still open for public. Um we already have a lot of those things in place actually when we fill out our school dude to utilize the facility it's going to ask which which rooms you need. It's pretty specific what supervision is going to be there, the number of adults that are going to be there, and all these leagues, which
091this has changed over the past probably 15 years. The coaches have to go through a certification process. Um, and that certification process pretty rigorous from background check to to actual taking courses to to coach. And I find it funny, you have to pay to be a volunteer coach essentially. Um, so each one of the coaches that is there, and I've watched the directors to the leagues go and remove a coach that was missing part of their requirement because the league is that strenuous on what it needs and it it meets to its requirements. Um, so the coaches that you're getting, they're they're theoretically they're certified coaches acting responsibles for the for the students of that or the athletes of that league. Um it's it's come a long way and I think again if every time
092I take out a field to use it asks specific questions. We're just going to have to review that list and see what they need and make sure that they're not going to be unsupervised in those particular areas. And I think that's I understand the training is there and and the the knowledge is there but again when we get to dayto days it becomes very easy to say you know I'm going to take this call and I'm not going to be watching them or I'm going to be and we just have to be incredibly hyper aware that if the school assumes a risk that's going to be multi-million dollar risk that it it's going to affect all the sports program if if we end up in a in a situation. So with that knowledge, I think
093it really falls on the sports programs to be always aware and always aware that any moment of negligence creates a huge vulnerability. And I think that's, you know, it's a it's a two-way street, right? We I think that's what we I think that's across the board with the other youth programs as far as training, background checks. I think I think they all have that. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That way for soccer, so I can speak we'll move this to our next meeting hopefully be July 22nd. Um, under miscellaneous. Anybody have anything else for old business? Well, it's probably old business. Uh, we had that issue that not issue, but still the discussion with the pet crematorium. Uh myself, Mike Picatius and Jen were at the uh July tw uh June 12th meeting and Mike and
094I spoke on behalf of the district and how we felt uh since then I believe now it's going back to the zoning board on July 10th at 7 p.m. which is a Thursday evening. And then on Wednesday, July 16th, it's going to a public hearing in front of the town board, changing that um service use to now fall into the light industrial zoning in the in the community. So, I think it they're taking it off or hopefully taking off the shoulders of the zoning board and moving it to another area. So, it could become a dead issue. I don't know. But just to let you know those dates and what's the date of that we'll move from there. July 16th. I heard um I heard we were well represented by people who were concerned including
095yourselves but this is what I heard you know. Yeah it it was well represented. I think a lot of uh concerned parents spoke well on behalf of uh I had done my own feelings and feelings of the whole community that um that service industry qualification which I noticed where they were calculating the zoning. I did a little research and it was interesting to know that um gun ranges are also considered a service industry. So don't give anybody any idea. No, no, I'm just saying so I think you know that was just heard on the camera and now it's going to be the rumor about Highland to encourage the zoning re I think they need to really look at that zoning issue because that's uh I mean the idea there and you know things that are
096service industries aren't only service industries next to okay and then just a quick update for the board regarding um our final home stretch of our building project. Uh it started I believe yesterday, June 30th. Uh each one of our the school uh campuses are being overwhelmed with activity regarding, you know, the upgrades in the uh more of the mechanical end of each building, the HVAC systems, both high school, middle school, and elementary school. So hopefully that all goes well and seven short weeks from now it's 61 days. 61 days. who's counting. And hopefully that all goes well and we're we're good. We're still working on our our our track and our our uh turf field. Okay. Does anybody have anything as far as correspondence miscellaneous? I don't know if I got to open up to
097public comment again. Probably not. We're good. All right. Thank you all for coming out. Um, I'll ask for a motion to adjurnn. Motion by Tom, second by Jen. All those in favor? Both. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Thank you.