Board Meeting of October 2, 2025

001We'll call the meeting to order. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Fry, >> here. >> Mrs. Fendish >> here. >> Mr. Campbell, >> here. >> Mr. Kry, >> Mrs. Longwell, >> here. >> Mr. Lynch, >> here. >> Mr. Reed, >> here. >> Mr. Shaw >> here. And Miss Sha Walter >> here. >> Eight present. >> Constitute a quorum. Please stand for the pledge. >> I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Good evening everyone. We're going to go right into executive session recap. >> Thank Mr. President. Uh we just had some personnel items and a fewformational items keep the board updated on happenings in the district. >> Okay. Um,

002we are going to motion to amend the agenda to add agenda item L under section 12, business affairs to include a vote on the 2025 2026 musical contract due to the information becoming available after the agenda was published. Motion, please. >> Second, >> Mr. Campbell and Mr. Lynch. Questions, comments? >> All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Motion carries. All right. and that's added under business affairs letter L and right into the superintendent report with the middle school students. >> Thank you, Mr. President, and to our board. We'll have our middle school students here this evening. Um, Mrs. Dubich or Dr. Welk, come on down. I just want to say also the superintendence report from across the district. It was available outside here. It's also to the board in the packet, available on the agenda

003for the district's website. And then tomorrow morning, I'll be sending this out to our Trojan Spear network where we have over 12,000 email addresses that we'll keep in touch with regard to the happenings across our school district and then also our Dair area school district foundation. So, we made a nice little addition there at the very end of the superintendent report with regard to what our foundation's about and how to get involved. So, Mrs. Dubic, Dr. Welk, we'll focus on the middle school here this evening. Go right ahead. >> All right. Usually um our students will come down here so I don't think they really need me to introduce them. Um Miss Bonar is here as our student leadership representative and she has been practicing with the students and so they um will introduce theirelves.

004They got their um clicker and we're ready to go. Dr. Wel, you good? That all right. Hi, my name is Lake Keith and I am the president of the middle school student leadership. Hello, my name is Mal McMahon and I'm the vice president. Hi, I'm Claire Zerinsky and I'm the secretary treasure. So, starting off for the homecoming parade, our eighth grade students showed off posters resembling each of their four houses. A select group of students got to attend this parade. Community members helped out and gave their hay wagons so that we could decorate them with our house colors. All in all, it was a blast. Middle school students are starting off the year by decorating the halls with all of their artwork. Mrs. Perry's classes have been very busy creating flowers to show off their

005inspirational posters in the sea hallway. Seventh and eighth grade houses celebrated the seventh grade sorting ceremony this September. The seventh graders pop balloons above their heads to reveal what house they were sorted into. There were some speeches from each house leader from each of the houses and they shared information about the different houses. Then there was a celebration from last year's house winner, House Altruismo. The day ended with a game of tugof-war competition with our new house members. Sixth grade science with Mrs. Griffith has been looking at different cells underneath a microscope. Sixth grade ELA with Miss Galamonga has been learning about the plot diagram with by by watching their favorite Pixar movies. Middle school students and teachers enjoy participating in Friday blue and gold days. Middle school teachers and all staff are having a

006blast surprising all of the students with their thrilling themes that only the teachers know of. It makes every Monday an exciting experience for students to guess what each theme is. The middle school celebrated a spirit week to cheer on the students in the homecoming parade. Monday was Crown the Champs Day. Wear your favorite hat. Tuesday was step up your spirit. Wear crazy socks. Wednesday was glow big or glow home. Wear neon. Thursday was blend in or stand out. wear camo. And Friday was Friday night lights, wear blue and gold. Teachers are continuing the tradition of t-shirt Tuesdays that happen once a month. We enjoy seeing more of their interest through the designs and colors of their shirts. Thank you for having us. >> Thank you very much. [Applause] Thank you ladies. I'm sure you're busy

007and uh just appreciate you making the time in parents and guardians. I know we have a a long agenda. You're welcome to stay but you're also free to leave if you have homework etc. So we realize that youngsters and we thank you very much. You did a great job here in an uncomfortable setting with a a lot of people staring at you. So very nice job. Okay. >> Thank you. Okay, >> Mr. President, as they're leaving, I just would like to thank Miss uh Kaitlin Whiteitman, um our PR coordinator, also secretary here, and then has been filling in and has done just a wonderful job uh from our building offices and putting together our report. And again, we'll be sure to get this out tomorrow via email >> for tonight's presentation is in the electronic

008version that was going to send out to the alumni. >> Okay. >> And so, um >> we'll send that out tomorrow, that presentation. Yep, we'll do it in the morning. I didn't want to send it out beforehand and then no one tunes in or comes to the meeting. So, >> they have to wait, right, if they don't come to the meeting. So, okay, good, Mr. President. >> All right, moving along to presentations. Elementary positive behavioral intervention and supports. Dr. Long. >> All right, I'm actually not presenting, but uh thank you to Dr. Perry, Mrs. Dubich, and Mr. Boring. I know that they previously completed a presentation during executive session for our board and we thought it would be a wonderful idea for our public, our stakeholders to understand how Dair operates our PBIS program which

009stands for positive behavior in positive behavioral interventions and support. So, Dr. Perry, >> thank you Dr. Long. Um actually this is a perfect segue um right after the middle school did their presentation because um they really celebrated their houses and you might think I wonder exactly what that is. So it's perfect that we're following them in a presentation about how we celebrate positive behaviors within the school and that's K to2. So, um, today we just want to make sure that you are well informed that when we use words like PBIS or we use words like house and we might give it other nicknames that what we're doing is we're just really really trying to en encourage positive behaviors. So, not only do we have to as a school look at curriculum and curricula, the types

010um of curricula that we're working on with our students, but we also have to look at the behaviors. And so um what our presentation about is about today is we want to develop programs and we have developed programs that would encourage positive behaviors and decrease negative behaviors. So you're going to hear programs and things that we've done within the building um the training the necessary trainings um for the teachers but we are super excited that we can come here today and share that behaviors have decreased because of these kinds of programs. So just real quickly, we want to make sure that you understand the word PBIS. Dr. Long has um it he shared that with you. Um positive behavioral supports and interventions. That's how you want to think about it. Um like I said, it's

011nationally known. It's known within the state, but more importantly within our school, we have a behavioral system that is supporting appropriate behaviors and it's actually increasing it. So we're excited about that. Um at the bottom, just to share, Cam, if you could slide up, please. at the bottom just to share a little bit about how it works. Um it's broken into tiers. So all students are a part of tier one and you want to think about that as um clear expectations. So for example, we have hallway rules, we have classroom rules, we have um bus rules. So we are very clear and we model the rules that we want um or we model those behaviors to the students and we expect them to give them back to us. And when when they do, we have

012a reward system for them. So then um if you look at tier 2 andor tier three, um some students or very few students are in those categories, but some of those students do require a more intensive behavioral plan. And if and if necessary, we put those in place as well. So I'm not going to take any more time, but again, it's important to make sure that you know that we do have a system here at Dair. Um, it focuses on positive behaviors and we model those behaviors as adults and we are reinforcing students that are giving us those behaviors we expect from them. Okay, Mr. Boring, go. >> I'm sorry, Dr. Perry's wearing denin heels and I'm short, so I'm going to turn this down a little bit. All right, so we're going to talk

013about what we do at Grand View for our PBIS program, how we support positive, you know, behaviors in the building. Um, wait for Okay, so I know Dr. went over this what PBIS stands for. So I'll move on to the next slide um that talks about what we do. So starting out the year we go over our building expectations with every student. That's by teachers teaching lessons. If you click that first link there it'll show you the lessons that we teach in the classrooms. And so teachers goals are to go over this the first week of school um over all of our areas, classrooms, hallways, cafeteria, bathrooms, buses, playgrounds, even assemblies. We have a lesson for all those. And it goes over our key expectations that we look for in each of those areas. Um,

014and you can see as you look through, very simple, but like in the hallway, lips closed, walking feet, arms down, eyes forward. Those are objectable things you can see the students do. And then when we see things like this, we give out um PBIS stars, our Grand View stars. So, we're looking for these expectations daily from all of the adults, faculty, staff in the building to give these stars out to students who are doing the right things. Um, we also teach lessons in our PBIS kickoff, which is in the superintendent report today. Um, all of my PBIS team breaks up in different areas. We talk to the students in a bigger group setting by grade level, a couple teachers at a time about each area and then I talk about, you know, the reward system

015that they look for when they're doing the right things. Um, so if you go back to the next the slides, Cam takes a minute, but a couple things that we do. I know I mentioned the stars. So with the gr stars, we look for the positive behaviors, expectations around the building. And every adult from the nursing staff to PCAs to office secretaries can give a star out to a student if they see them doing the right things. Um these stars then collected and students get to bring a nice sheet home to mom and dad that show um what they were given the star for. So if they did something great in the bathroom or in the hallway, parents can see that stuff. That's a good way to acknowledge, hey, their kids doing a great job

016here. And kids love that, right? Right. And they get to put a star on our wall outside of the office area. And then every quarter we do a reward. So like quarter one is a dance party. Quarter two is a winter movie and popcorn in the LGR. Uh reward three is a snowball fight. If there's no snow, we have the fake snowballs. We set up barriers in the gym and we play almost like almost like dodgeball with fake little snowballs. And we have hot chocolate in the uh cafeteria. And the final one is our uh extended recess. So kids just some love to go play. So it's the spring. It's almost the end of the year. If you earn the star in that quarter, we're going to go outside. We're going to have a little

017bit more recess time and play. Um, outside of our star program, we have the student of the month, um, which we just had our September ones, which in the report as well. And once a month, we pick a trait that we look for. So, in September, it was being respectful, right? And so, teachers then at the end of each month nominate a student who they thought was demonstrating that trait. Once I get the nominations, I send it out to the grade level specialist learning support and they vote on one student in that grade level who they think has really demonstrated that trait and then they are nominated for their or that for their grade level. They get a certificate, a medal and right now we have Mr. Dale Hines from Subway who has donated free

018cookie coupons. Um we have a hund of them right now in the building. So kudos to him for helping out with that. So they get that as well and then their picture taken um with me for the cafeteria wall and then you know the social media Facebook stuff. Uh, we do that once a month. Like this month is now trustworthiness. So looking for students who are trustworthy. Our final program that we have is the boring bucks program. I know I brought them to the one meeting we had and has my little bit emmoji character on it. You can see it up there. Um, but students can earn these for positive classroom expectations. So simple things like helping a peer during small group learning or raising their hands and being quiet, following the expectations in there.

019And then each quarter I have a student store where they can come down and spend their boring bucks on cool little items, even just pencils, you know, school supplies, some toys, trinkets, books, things of that nature. So that's what we have at Grand View in terms of PBIS. Uh it's a great program that really is doing a great job for, you know, our students. I think I've seen a difference in the majority of our building in doing these these things. >> Thank you, Mrs. Dubich. >> So um respecting others in a a community of kindness. It's rock. It's been around for about 13 years. It started off as an anti-bullying program through OAS and a state initiative. Um it morphed into what we have in sixth grade right now, but under Dr. Welk and Dr.

020Perry's guidance, we are changing that um in our upcoming school year. So, we're having some um changes coming and it'll be a PBIS and a house mixture. So, it's on its way. Uh but right now we have um rock in eighth grade or I'm sorry rock in sixth grade for PBIS for our busing um energy bus and then houses in seventh and eighth grade. So when we look at programs we always look at our school initiative and our school mission and vision statement. And so our program is now um focusing on having responsible citizens and also showing respect for all. So we make sure that we have activities that teach those um teach responsible citizenship and also to respect all all types of students um and so they show respect to all. Next is um

021what's by rock is program by grade level. So the rock program is promoting responsible citizenship for one's own own actions the empathy and kindness to others. So we make sure that that is promoted throughout the whole building in every grade level in every activity. Our expectations, we want our kids to be connected. If the kids are feel connected to school, to their community, to other kids, to the school, they then feel part of something and they're more likely to then have those positive behaviors, those good manners. They also will start to work on capable of achieving big goals. And so one of the big goals that our students work on is the Farcoleberry Fair. And so we always try to raise money for a children's hospital. And you'll see that in one. Um two years

022ago they raised $10,000 for a children's hospital. Um and then last year they also added action for animals. So they were looking at um I think they raised about $5,000 for action for animals. So those are expectations for this um program. in sixth grade. Um, being a positive citizen is what they're working on and some of the activities. Cam, there's another slide on the next page. There's a link and just to show you a couple of the um activities that they're working on. They do a thoughtful um activity. So, they look at kindness um gratitude. They also do um a back of a card for reasons you're grateful for that. So, they look at um different activities. And then there's one other one, Cam, if you could go to um this one. They like to

023talk to their teachers from a previous grade level, but there's one about a one more. There we go. Friendly letters to nursing homes. So, that they are writing um letters for nursing um residents so they have somebody to um connect with um on a different level. So, it's very nice that they do that during the holidays. All right, Cam, you can go back to the original one. Thank you. Um, our house program started about three years ago. So, we have freshmen that are in this building at the high school that did the house program and they focus on implementing activities that build character, relationships, and school spirit. Um, these students earn points. Um, and you'll see them in the hallway. There's a television that has the point system up and they demonstrate kindness, empathy, leadership,

024and being active in the school community. So, they get points and the pictures are live. So, they'll move around um through that television. And so, you can see the kids and they get really excited to see their h their um faces and their bodies up there. And then one more slide. Um Cam, if you can go to that uh back, if you can go to that year, there's a link on that one. Next one. Yeah. you saw the um houses and how they were part of the homecoming parade. So, the eighth grade got to decorate. Um and one of the boys families donated that truck for us to have. Um in review, there are four houses and you saw how that from the um the group that they can get sorted. You can go to

025the next one, Cam. Um there are four houses. Each represents a a particular characteristic. You don't have to go on to that. No, just go on to the um and then they do minute to win it challenges. So they do try to bond those students together and try to do activities throughout the year and that is coming up next week. Um we're doing minute to win activities. So just some other activities that they do um throughout the school year. I think we're good. And then my the other ones that we all have are questions. And then >> Mrs. Ditch with the rock program. Is that in during instruction time or when when do the kids meet? Just to be sure. >> Oh, sorry. >> That's okay. >> So during midday home room, it's one out

026of six day um rotation. So it could be day six in sixth grade, it could be day five in seventh and eighth grade. And it's 30 minutes. And um the teachers have time to plan what they're going to do in those lessons. And then um they either have house meetings or they have those activities that they do in sixth grade. >> Okay. So if a youngster was assigned a rock, that's their home room essentially. Not that they're not getting computer science or something else during a special time. That's a separate Okay. >> Correct. So this year, um middle school does not have an AM home room. So we based all of our kids on their rock home room this year. And so when they go to rock, that's the >> AM home room type of

027thing or where where we're going to call kids from. And so it is just based on their their rock home room how we divide them. >> I just want to be sure it wasn't during instruction time. It's separate during non-instructional in their home room once every other or once every other six days. >> That's right. >> Thank you. Okay. >> All right. >> Any other questions? Any other >> I just have one. So is it are they following like a set curriculum then? Because that's a question we've had come up. So for the AM home room slot, does the teacher, you said they're prepping for it, but is there >> so based on the students um wants and needs of that particular grade level, they would come up with what the students may need to

028work on. In sixth grade, they have a set curriculum that they've developed um with Mr. Kelly based on the energy bus and some of the activities that were in there and that's switching with Dr. Perry and Dr. Welk. In seventh and eighth grade, they're working on the house system. So they have house meetings, but then they work on those big activities such as Farallelberry. So they'll be working on Farleberry. Just recently they were making slides and making um posters to decorate the um wagon for homecoming. >> Um but then they're doing minute to win it activities. So they're doing those team building activities. That's coming up next week. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Any other questions? >> And that's just Yeah. All that that is is that there was an area that was set that

029was set as a way that you'll have to check. It's not a fire alarm. So you'll find you'll check that and disable it. Miss Dubage, please. Thank you. If I had to guess, it's probably in the egg court building. So >> that's what that's called. >> All right, they'll disable them. >> Let them disable. >> It's not the fire alarm. I think the McCorder was checking something. They're up in HBAC. So, >> yeah, >> there you go. >> Essentially, they got to walk. Don't worry about it. So, that's where they're going. >> Check the panel and then disable it. >> If you want to help with Mr. Maine, you're more than welcome to, but please a >> little tougher for me to jump off the stage and get around. >> Correct. Go under the table.

030And so that tone that you hear there is whenever our system is armed. It's a like a robbery type alarm whenever it's armed away. Um so when a building like a hort should be set that there's no one there and someone goes in then it pages you and we get alerted. That's what that what happens. So all right we'll disable it. Mccclure's welcome to come do some introductions, but if they want to talk over this tone, that's up to you, Eric. So, >> how about I do a little introduction while you guys are coming up, save you a little bit. So, just to we're mccor is going to come up and they're going to talk a little bit about proposed renovations and just to do a little bit of a recap of how we got

031to this point. I think we've been talking about this for what three years now uh with different areas, different projects potentially. Um but what the board authorized the administration to do is put out an RFP for ESCO Giza um uh RFP in January that was and so Esco Esco Giza those are energy savings contracts that are tied to a lot of projects around the district that can help us save on energy costs uh but also things that we need to do such as HBAC electrical and things like that. So put that out in January. We had submissions for that due on March 12th. Um the building and grounds committee uh interviewed two firms that had submitted for that. one was Mccor. Um, and then we had a recommendation uh for Mccor on April 20th of

0322025. So shortly after that, Mccor came in after we signed the contract with them and they started what was called an investment grade audit. A lot of behind the scenes work of looking at district invoices, basically an analyzing our energy consumption um in all kinds of different areas from natural gas to electricity, water, sewage, etc. Uh to come up with some proposed projects and needs for the district. And so over the last, you know, four, five, six months, I know Eric and Nick have spent a lot of time in our district in our buildings with Mr. Maine and some of our staff, uh, taking a look at all all of our systems. And here they are tonight, uh, coming forward with a presentation on some of the recommended projects, uh, that we should potentially be

033considering here as a board and a district moving forward. Uh just as a reminder, you know, we talked about this before and I do this with every year's budget presentation. The district is debt-free in the fall of 2027. So that's the 2728 school year. So now is the opportune time to be looking at some of these projects and potentially some borrowing. Um as we head into uh the end of this calendar year, next and next calendar year, even if we're not considering these projects for next summer, the summer after, uh we're still in a good position to begin uh begin looking at those borrowings. So, I'm going to turn it over to the guys from Aquar and let them do an introduction for themselves. >> That was in our wait room, by the way, just

034so that you know it was taken care of. Go ahead, gentlemen. >> Thank you. Um, I guess it's been five months since I was in front of you guys. Maybe four, four or five months. Um, I'm Eric Petrazio, County Executive Mccclure. To my left is Nick Manat. Nick is my right-hand guy essentially. He has been here with Mr. Maine as well as district admin for probably two, three times a week for the last four or five months. uh walking different subcontractors through, walking different um different engineers through, all types of different engineers. Um what you have in front of you tonight is really just a high level summary. I I could build you something, but it probably would take three hours to go through all the information. And not that we don't have that time

035for you, but I know you probably don't have that time for us here. So, we just kind of wanted to put together a high level overview of what we came up with and the direction that we have decided with admin to take this on, if you will. So you really just go to the first page. It's called the IGA matrix. You could essentially see all the different scopes of work that we investigated. And the way that we have determined to do this really would be in a two-phase plan. So the first phase would focus mainly on the middle school with some upgrades at Grand View Elementary. And then the second phase would focus mostly on the high school with some upgrades at the Vog building. So you can see how we broke that up into

036two separate phases. And then within those individual phases, you have a couple different decisions and a couple different choices that you can make on some things like where you see where it says 3A or 3B or 6A or 6B. You can pick either or on that. And then still there's a tremendous amount of work to do within each one of these. We ultimately decide what you'd like to implement as part of your project. So I would say we start with a very wide base and our goal is to window that down into a scope which the district can financially and technically accomplish. So, as we go through, um, we're going to kind of talk a little bit about some of the things that we saw and some of the upgrades that we're going to recommend

037making. Um, I have Nick here, and Nick, like I said, he done most of the the heavy lifting here, so he knows the scope in and out. So, I'm going to let him discuss through that, but why don't you start on mechanical if you would kind of show them where we're at. >> Just take that microphone if you would. Nick, you can you can take it off there, too, if you need to. Perfect. >> Uh, it it's okay. So, uh, the the project really covers HVAC throughout the entire facility, uh, at the middle school, high school. So, when when we say it's all-encompassing, it truly is all-encompassing down to miscellaneous heat, uh, all your controls, your exhaust fans. So, no piece of equipment will be left really behind. Control valves will be replaced. And again,

038you guys can pick the scope that fits for you, but we kind of high level outlined uh the main areas that we looked at. So, you have your classroom units. Those would be a self-contained tall vertical heat pump unit. So, what that is, what you have now is just a hot water unit vent. So, it brings in fresh air. It goes over a hot water coil to heat the room. And then you achieve some cooling in some of your classrooms with the typical through the window AC unit. So not ideal um but it gets you by. Um so this new unit would be self-contained. It do heating cooling. It would have energy recovery, have it own dedicated exhaust for you know exhausting air within that room. So each classroom is is going to be a

039standalone unit. Uh it'll improve indoor air quality. It'll be quieter than the units you have now. Um, and provide both temperature and, uh, we would monitor CO2. So, let's say you have a bunch of kids in a classroom, CO2 level goes up, it would bring in more fresh air to make sure that you're meeting the the outside air requirements for that classroom. So, um, moving on to large group spaces, uh, that's going to be served by what we call a rooftop unit. So all those roofs would be on the roof ducted and same thing hot water coil, DX coil for cooling. So essentially what we're moving to is your your building being fully heated and cooled. Uh so there's no classrooms that do have it with cooling and some that don't. It'll kind of level

040the playing field for all classrooms. It'll be equal throughout the building. It'll be comfortable. Uh humidity will be more uh readily controlled and it'll just be a nice clean environment. Um, and then we can talk about, I guess, automatic temperature controls. All of these units, as I mentioned, will have a new automatic temperature control system. So, we'll be able to set schedules, set setbacks. So, if it's an unoccupied hour, you're using less energy. Uh, I already mentioned demand control ventilation. So, we're going to be monitor actively monitoring CO2 and adjusting outside air based on that occupancy level. um you'll be able to set schedules um so if you have a holiday break, you know, you're not running things more than they need to. So ultimate goal is to provide you a great level of comfort,

041but then also drive energy savings. Uh I would note that in the middle school, uh the electric system that you currently have in place, it's in good shape essentially. Over at the high school, it's a little bit different. We're going to want to replace the main switch gear coming into that building. Uh it's not it can't uh it can't satisfy the new system that we put in. >> So, with the added cooling load at the high school, you currently have a a 208 service for both buildings. We'd be upgrading the high school to a 483phase uh 1200 amp service. So, that would include replacing all your main gear coming in, uh replacing a bunch of your outdated panel boards as well. So, your main gear and I think what is the number 23 if I

042recall correctly? Yeah. uh of your panel boards, electrical panel boards throughout, you know, the band area and some of the older parts of the high school are from a company called Federal Pacific who are no longer in business. So, we highly recommend that they get replaced because they're known to potentially be a fire hazard due to parts no longer being available. At the middle school, we would look to put in a new generator which would service the entire building, 200 KW. >> Um, we'd also replace a lot of the outdated panel boards there, but the main switch gear is still in good shape there. As we move forward to lighting, uh, fire protection, we would look to offer two different lighting options for you. One would be a a flat, uh, flat panel lighting. The

043other would be just a requisite of your current lighting. That's ultimately a decision that you can make. There's pros and cons to each. I think the flat panel has a a nice look to it. It's very clean. It's very low maintenance. The retrofit is essentially the current infrastructure you have. You're just changing out lights. Uh we would then look to do something similar with the fire alarms in the middle school high school where you can upgrade your main panel control. Uh replace all your initiators, all your smoke, heat detectors, pull stations, all your modules, and then connect any cabling. or we could just upgrade the main fire panel control which is a little less expensive than doing that. Um you can still get by with what you have but ultimately I would say that one

044is providing you far more benefit obviously with a higher cost cost tag and the second one is a little bit less benefit but obviously a little less cost. So we wanted to provide you some options within this uh and then uh we would be doing the the generator over at the agriculture building and then lighting at both Grand View and the in order to drive this. >> And just as a clarifier for the AP port, that's a generator that you guys currently already have. It's in storage. We just look to help you through the installation and making sure that all goes smoothly. >> We have after we look at all the mechanical and the electrical scope that we have in these first couple pages, there's quite a bit of GC work or general construction work

045that we have slated. So, as you go to the next page, you can start to see the secure entrance that we'll be building for the middle school. Uh, this would be a design that would incorporate what you currently have in the building and allow you to build around that to bring kids in and out. >> I was going to say, are you able to share that up on the screen? Anything that we have here? >> There it is. >> So, you can kind of see in the cyan color here, that's your current existing uh I'll call it entrance to the middle school. Um, so you have some existing doors, people, you know, get buzzed in and then they come through this second set of doors and then the issue becomes they kind of if they

046wanted to could walk wherever they want because your your main office is kind of disconnected from that main entrance. So moving over to the actual actual sketch, what we'd look to construct is kind of an office within that existing vestibule being that it is so large and you have the space to accommodate. The dashed rectangle within that office is just showing the trophy or display case that currently resides in that area. So it's just giving you a reference of we're using the existing space. you have about uh enough space for two people to work comfortably in there. And then what we'll do is force uh visitors into that center area that is a seated waiting space. They'll interact with whoever's working in that space through a secure teller window and then they'll either be held

047there or um you know they could drop off whatever they need to drop off and or wait for whoever is coming to escort them to wherever they need to go. And this way you don't have someone kind of meandering through the building on control. >> Any questions on that? >> So then your two outside doors that are there opening would essentially be open for staff um that would have access via fob or whatever so that they wouldn't have to pass through that vestibule type. >> Correct. Staff and students and that really is a timing >> on on the school side like all right from these hours of the day these doors are locked and now you only can come through the middle area. You know when the kids are getting in and out obviously they're

048open. behavior modification on how you use those doors, but really we're going to structure it so you have now a secure holding area in the middle in the middle of that area where people are buzzed in and out of. Um, next on the GC map, there are quite a few bathrooms that we went through as part of this process. You can see all the bathrooms highlighted in green. Um, and if you look on this document, you can start to see just the designs of the bathrooms that we pulled together with the architect that we're working with on the projects. >> So, how our plans break it down are your existing layouts, what gets demoed, and then the proposed new layout to meet any ADA requirements. Uh, so you could kind of see, I'll use this,

049I'll zoom into this plan for an example. So, because this wing wall exists, we look at turn radius for ADA compliance. So this wall physically has to be removed. So the new layout will now meet ADA requirements for turning radiuses. So it's little things like that that are a little bit nuanced, but we want to make sure we get right. And that was kind of one of the things that went into what we looked at as we designed the the restrooms that we were asked to look to redesign. For the middle school, I believe it's seven sets of girls and boys and then for the high school, it's four sets of girls and boys. Uh I think in the middle school and high school, there are some of these sets are public use sets as

050well, >> especially around the gymnasium areas, I believe. So, >> yeah, for you know the one near the auditorium and then that's the second floor of the middle school. Then you move over near high school. So, you've got two in the high school there and then you've got the near the gym and then one >> and they're actually named and numbered on the bottom of this slide here so you can see them where they correspond with >> and it also includes the agriculture horiculture restrooms that we've talked about in part of the plan. I mean what with that building um that those would also be something we would look at. We could definitely pull. Yeah. I like once again I said spoke again very long very quick here. >> What we looked at here was

051yeah what our kids use in the middle school high school during the day and then what's the main access points for evening events and activities that are that are hightraicked areas. >> Okay. >> Yes. Mr. Reed >> on these doors that you have in this secured area. >> Yes sir. >> What kind of doors you have there on the inside? So, these are going to be aluminum frame full glass doors, but they're going to come with an attack resistant film. I don't know if you're familiar with that or not. Um, and then the teller window will have a bullet, you know, ballistics level. >> Okay. The uh other thing I have is the large group space, heating, air conditioning. >> Yes, >> you have the the large group room or group spaces. I'll say I

052those are uh rooftop units that's like the gymnasium auditorium. >> So you get like two for the gym let's say for the auditorium then most other single >> Okay. Would you be able to show a picture of I'm sorry to go back to but of an HBAC unit of a classroom what that would look like uh potentially and we could do that after if you guys want to finish and go back after but just sort of a mockup of what that would look like compared to what you have right now with the unit ventilator system. Um >> we can definitely find one of those. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Um as I continue to turn through the next item that we have incorporated within this is the roofing. Um we're working with TMCO as well

053as TMR. They're some of the partners the district already is aware of. We work long-standing relationship with those guys at some other schools. Um we understand that that probably would be good to continue for the district that relationship. Um they've worked out very well for you guys and they've worked very well with us in the past. So the next section will be replacing some of the roofs as well as restoring it. Uh you can begin to see on page number one here. It's highlighted with the roofs. As you go through, you can just see the roof sections for replacement in green and then the roof sections for restoration in yellow. As we continue to go through on page number two, then you could start to see in the red circles where all of the rooftop

054units and curves will be for the new rooftop units. To your point, Mr. Reed, >> so those are just highlighted in the red circles because they're outside of an area that's getting restored andor replaced. So even though those are outside of the roofing scope, we still coordinated those roofs. We'll get new curves. will be cut in and flashed and all taken care of. >> You can also see where we're removing some of the skylights and replacing some of the fans in green on the the highlight here on page number two. Um, as you continue to go through, you'll see very similar plans for other areas of the building which indicate new curves, new rooftops, new exhaust fans. And then as we move into page number four, that's where we get into the replacement of the

055existing drains. Uh this is an actual picture of one of the drains that you currently have. So we would replace those drains. We would add new drains and then we would install scuppers uh in the building to help the flow of water to alleviate off of your higher roofs. >> And that's is just focused in section two. So because that's a restoration and they're not, you know, able to really modify the taper of that roof. Uh in the green here, they're going to add a side scupper. Um and TMR will handle that under their roofing scope. And then we're going to have plumbing contractor add an additional roof drain for the recommendation of trim code at that location. And that's just based on their scans and studies of the roof of where there's some excessive

056ponding that they want to have addressed during this work. >> So all areas in blue are roof drains being replaced. And then to the red green the scupper and the uh the additional. Um as we move to the next one, you can see five. That's just another example of what we showed in the last picture. And then the last one moves into the high school roofs that we would look to replace eventually in this project. And you can see those areas in green. We understand the district made an investment into the roofs uh you know in the past 20 years. We want to try to continue to keep that investment. So, as part of the project, we actually have a program from TMCO that they would pass on to you that would essentially warranty any

057of your roofs through the next 5 years. Any issues on any existing roofs that's not part of this project, they'll come in and take care of as well. So, we want to make sure we're we're replacing ceiling tiles and replacing finishes and fixtures. We want to make sure we're keeping a nice um the next page ultimately has that matrix once or that GC map. >> So, we could just run through what all these different colors represent on here. I could have put a key, but sometimes keys get small and they're hard to read. So, we'll start in the middle school gym. The scope there is to replace uh the bleachers in the divider curtain. And then you can see I have that hatch pattern going across the floor because we're asked to provide a price

058to resand and finish that floor. So that's all included in the line item that you'll see as we move down the hallway. Uh I just highlighted the the middle school mechanical and electrical room. So this is currently where your generator sits now down sunken in. It's kind of in its own little room down there. We're going to propose to move that to the outside. It's currently a natural gas generator. We're proposing to go to a diesel generator. The main reason for that is as you increase generator size, the cost for a natural gas generator tends to increase quite quickly. So going diesel is a little bit more cost effective. So that's going to come with a self-contained uh fuel tank. It'll call uh we included the first fill of that tank and uh it'll include

059a new concrete pad outside and then followers and events. Um as we go down to the science wing in the middle school, you guys might recall a sinking uh problem occurring in some of those classrooms where you can kind of see the floor starting to separate from some of the walls. So, we had a number of contractors come look at it and ultimately we We had a report done from the geotechnical engineer who said there's no real major concerns but it's just typical settling from over over years and that he recommends that the slabs in those two rooms highlighted in pink there get fully replaced and reformed. So in our cost proposal we have the cost of demoing all the existing flooring and concrete coming in reoring it and then doing all and that includes

060taking out any teacher stations that move temporarily demoing some of the underground utilities since they are science classrooms and then rehooking up all those things. >> We have a 15minute video if you'd like to watch what is underneath the building there. It's kind of hard to figure out, but once you watch it two, three times you get the hang of it. >> Uh again, yellow are just your major mechanical andor electrical rooms. So here I highlighted the filter and pump room. Another small electrical room uh before you get to the cafeteria. Green again are restroom renovations. You move to the second floor. Those are two restrooms middle school. As we get down to the high school, uh I highlight where the high school boiler room is. Again, scope of work there is replacing the two

061domestic water heaters and storage tank. So, that'll all be new. Two new condensing uh domestic water heaters will be installed. one new storage tank. Right now, you have a massive old I think it's concrete lined uh storage tank down there from years and years ago. So, whoever gets to remove that will have a fun day. And then the last one here, we looked at bleachers, a divider curtain in the main gym. We also looked at ceiling work in that gym. So, right now it's a hard deck ceiling. We have two options. You could either completely remove that ceiling. You could paint it and uh do white or black, whatever your preference is, redo the lights, or we could do a uh kind of like a tectum drop ceiling kind of gym rated, more impact rated

062for balls and things like that. So, it's really up to you guys what your what preference. They're around the same cost. Um and then we've got this ramp leading out from your teams down the back. of the building. Uh redoing all of the concrete, the retaining wall, handrails, making sure that all meets ADA. It's in pretty rough shape right now with cracking and failing. And then this is where your your current gear sits for your main high school. So that that's where that'll all get replaced and upgraded some of the surrounding towns. So within the HVAC scopes, there's a lot of different work. As we said earlier, you know, we have all the ceilings being replaced without the building. We're going to be ripping them down. We're not going to put the old ceilings back

063up. We're going to recommend putting up new ceilings. It's going to give it a clean, fresh look for the students. Obviously, with the new lighting going in there, it'll even look better. Um, one thing I do want to notice, you know, on the next page as you get to the project matrix of all the different costs that we've assigned to all these upgrades, we try to granularize these and make these as independent as possible. But there obviously is crossover in every one of these a little bit, whether it's engineering or design or labor. But really, the next step in this process is for the district to come to a conclusion ultimately on what it is you'd like us to build an investment grade audit contract around. provide all those writeups, provide all that scope, provide

064all the demo, all the install, and then all the details that go along with it to support the energy savings. So, as you go down through there, you can see the costs. And this is actually a working document, so we can put X's in or take X's out as you want to go down through. I know that was a lot of information for you guys to get here in very short time. We've obviously had four months to work through this. You guys are just see, but we want to make sure we're answering any questions you have about whatever it is on this that you have. >> I think the one common theme I heard as we did a lot of discussions is we have a lot of building, we have a very large building with

065a lot of needs and so what we had to focus on are the things that were truly necessary. I think is what we talked a lot about going through this process and HVAC obviously is a big component of that. And when you start to talk HBAC, then obviously electrical starts to come in. And that's where you're talking about how the things sort of intertwine and interconnect. So, um, you know, just kind of looking through this matrix a little bit. I think to Eric's point, you know, when you he was talking a little bit before about the A and B options, I think it's important when you look through this matrix, you know, if you look at 3A and 3B, there's a big cost differential between those. So, almost 1.1 million versus 200,000. So, that's obviously

066an area that we would need to look to um, sort of decide on what to do. and then the lighting components in the middle school. So, I'll just use that as another example. 6A, 6B, those are the two different lighting options. So, not only does that have a different upfront cost, but then that second column talks about the energy savings associated with that potential option. Correct. >> So, I think that's important to just to touch on that a little bit. Um, because you might invest a little bit more now, but what does that savings look like long term? Could you guys talk a little bit about those numbers and those columns? >> Correct. Yeah, for sure. So, the the savings in column number two are the 20-year energy and operational savings. We did not gather

067a tremendous amount of operational savings really. Um, that's we can ultimately figure out what that is for these things, but really we looked at just raw energy with the exception of some of the things in the pool like the chemicals because that will be a savings. But what that is is based over 20 years. So, when you look at those numbers, that is the number that you would achieve over the term of 20 years. And if you look all the way down, you can see this total project's 20 year 20-year energy and operational savings is $2.3 million. Um, while it being a very large building, um, energy costs are very inexpensive here in this area of the state. So, it is hard to generate a significant savings. Um, if this was California and it was

06828 cents a KW, I would predict this would be $10 million of savings. So, it's kind of a double-edged sword. you don't pay as much, so you can't save as much, but the needs that you have are still very real. Um, you know, unfortunately. Um, >> did you want more details on what the differences were between the two different lighting options? >> I mean, if you could touch on those a little bit, I think that would be helpful. And >> so, let's go with 6A. So, it's the middle school lighting option one. It's a an LED type B retrofit. So what that means is we come in if you have a ballast in your fluorescent light we cut the ballast out and then put in what they call an LED tube which retrofits your fluorescent

069tube and it gets direct wired. Uh so we spec 8 1/2 watt right now. Let's just say you have a 28 watt. So every single light bulb is going from 28 to 8 and a half. So that's where those savings are generated. And then our our lighting partner reaches out and looks at who your uh electrical and then applies for any rebates on behalf of the school. And so those are also included. And then because uh LED lighting has a 5year warranty on typically the fixtures, you can pay more if you want a 10-year um some of the operational savings related to the lighting is included in there. Basically, some end savings, some operational maintenance savings from having to replace those fixtures failing over time. having to get up and and replace the bulb. So,

070the difference between 6A and 6B. Now, in 6B, let's say all your classroom lights, all your hallway lights. Um, so like right here, right? You you see this like fish scale lens looking. Uh, instead of that, we've removed that lens completely. We've come in with what they call a flat panel. I'm sure you might have some throughout the school if you put in a brand new picture, but essentially it's just a flat like it makes the white the light look flat white. Uh so you get all new lenses throughout the building. So it kind of gives it a new modern aesthetic. Um so that's the main difference there. There's no extra energy savings. It's really just if you want an aesthetic improvement in those pictures. >> That's that 6B would give you. >> So when

071you look at the total project cost that we've developed here at $39.9 million, that essentially is the district's would be your all-in price. So if we came to you with a contract, there would be no change orders on top of it. No extra fees, no permits, no performance bond on top of that. Essentially is the firm fixed number that we would provide you. So, under the PA law, we don't do change orders. Uh, sometimes we recommend that our clients hold a contingency for things that aren't in the project. So, if you look below that, we include like $192,000 for things that you may want to get done outside of the contract that you can add in. It's not uncommon. A lot of schools do it. We're actually down at buffer, I guess, up over at

072Homer Center right now. We're just wrapping a project up with them and they're doing something very similar with, "Hey, we need a little bit of money here because we didn't know we were going to do this, but now that you're here doing this, can you do this as well?" So, when I say that's the all-in number, that is when you get a number from us, that is the final number. I'm not I can't come back and say, "Oh, by the way, we need this and this and this and this and here's these fees here." That includes all architectural engineering, design, labor, project management, construction management, energy engineering, structural steel, anything you can think of that includes all in there. So, we've gone to multiple subs, multiple trades, and gotten their pricing, gotten their numbers, and

073worked through those numbers to make sure we're getting the best project for the district possible. >> I think items 13 through 15, I just want to touch on really quickly because we didn't talk a lot about Bram View. Sure. >> And we did talk about that as we were going through this because obviously that building's been updated more recently than the middle school high school. But when you look at those three line items and you look at the cost, it's about 470,000, but then the savings over that 20-year period is 470,000. So that project essentially pays for itself. I think that's why we talked about that that portion kind of being booked in with the middle school because that's a scope of work that can be done relatively quickly and it can also pay for

074itself in the long run. Correct. I thought that was important. I agree and I think it's important to to get that building where it should be as far as the system you have. You made a huge investment into it. If we pull those controls in and we recommission some of that equipment that's kind of gotten out of commission a little bit, it'll really extend the life of that equipment as well. Um, by using doing the building envelope there, it generates a significant savings almost 2 to one. It'll actually decrease the amount of run time those systems have. So, help there by extending the life as well. And then obviously with the lighting, our goal would be to get the district on one standardized lamp instead of having that kind and that kind and you know

075all the different kinds. And that's natural though that happens when you have multiple iterations of projects throughout your buildings. Essentially what we try to do is standardize it as much as possible. Um, so going back to cost, when you say the price is the price, if you find like say you're in the middle of a project, you find something that you didn't realize that there's a problem and it's going to cost like a lot more money. You can't come back to us and say, >> "It's happened. >> It's happened." Yeah. If it's under our scope and we're we have it under contract, we have to take care of it. We're contractually obligated. And it does happen like you know, you can't really tell that that pipe behind that wall is rotten until you start ripping

076the wall out. And we account for that. You know, we do a very thorough investment grade audit. That's why it's taken four months to get through this. Uh we we want to know everything about the building before we say, "Hey, here's a number we're confident with to the district." So, we're at that point tonight. >> A lot of work with it, no doubt. So, thank you, Nick, and thank you, Eric. Any other questions? And I'm sure you'll still be available if there are other questions, etc. And then the next essentially next steps and and if you're any questions, please feel free to reach out and I'll be sure to share them. We'll be sure to we record. So this this meeting is available if there are any concerns or you want to go back and

077watch something else. You're welcome to do that, too. But uh I'm sure you'll be available should any other questions come about outside of today. >> Just two things very quickly. Would you be able to share the presentation with us so that we can make that available as well? Yeah. >> Um, and then also the HVAC, are you able to pull something up really quickly of what a classroom unit would look like? I think that's an important component of it because a classroom look would be much different now from in this project from what it is currently >> and the pros and cons as to the classroom look compared to a chiller in the whole building as to why that would be important. Uh, Eric or Nick just to explain as well. And >> that's my

078fault. I didn't give you guys that heads up that I was going to ask that question. put you on the spot with it. >> And while they're kind of going through that, too, you know, we've kind of been working in the background for the past how many years, too. I know Mike McKay's here from Raymond James. We've been working with him, uh, PFM, um, and some bond counsel about just talking about what the finances would look like. So, uh, whenever it is that we decide to move forward with a project, we've kind of already run through every number imaginable that we we we're looking at right now, um, municipal bond rates right now are very favorable. You're going to get very good rates right now if you start to look at borrowing. And I'm going

079to cover a little bit more of that when we go through the finance committee minutes later in the meeting. >> This is the type of unit that we've specified for this project. You can see here, it's called a tall vertical unit ventilator. Uh, this district here decided they wanted in that location. district. I think we're looking more over the corner. Correct on that. >> So, in the classrooms, these would purposely miss your windows that you just recently replaced. But it would have the exposed spiral because of the lack of ceiling that you have above your ceiling current. So, this is what we would recommend. Duct work can be painted whatever color you want. Um, teachers end up hanging things off of it down the road. We've got evaporated and stuff. So, people have fun with

080it. >> It's like the refrigerator at home kind of >> and the unit ventilators that currently sit down on the ground like underneath the windows, those would all be removed. That area would all be cleaned up. So, you would pick up that space. Correct. >> Refinish any flooring where they were at. Um, seal it up on the outside, seal it up on the inside, and then match it on the outside as best we can with whatever finish you ultimately decide. >> And then these units are self-contained. So, say one shuts down in a room, that room can be isolated, worked on, you can still operate the rest of the building. >> Correct. >> Yep. They have a heat pump in them that essentially doesn't use the boilers till about 39 degrees. Then the boilers start

081to fire it up. So, you can really take advantage of those shoulder months and really hedge that boiler running. You use huge boilers here. Um, we're we're obviously recommended to keep those boilers because you made a tremendous investment in them. They're only about 10 or 12 years old. So we want to try to extend the life of those and these units will definitely help do that by shouldering something like when it gets tonight when it gets about 40 your boiler still would technically need to come on to heat those classrooms to keep them up temperature. So it's definitely a nice benefit. These systems are top of the or state-of-the-art topofthe line systems. We put in Nick and I probably put in over 3,000 over the last eight years. Uh we've had a lot of success

082with them depending, you know, doesn't really matter if they go through the ceiling or like this one. This is an exposed one, but it really does spread the air throughout the classroom. Unlike the in ventilators now that just kick it out of that one central area, and then the kids on the other side are either hot or cold. With this, you're going to get constant air flow throughout the classroom. >> Well, it's just better distributed air. It's super quiet. I think they operate under 50 dB, so very, very quiet. No one really. It's not one of those things where when it kicks on you're like, "Oh, what is that?" >> Where you hear the rattling in the corner >> and you would eliminate the window EC units that currently exist. Correct. >> Any other questions?

083>> Yeah. Come on up. Mrs. Dubich, if you have a question because this is affecting my building, our building. Um, is that the same size that would be in every classroom? >> No. >> Okay. >> This is a library. It's a pretty big one. >> So, maybe the cafeteria or would have something like large group. No, >> those would be rooftop units. Yeah, because we have that ceiling up there we could put them on. Um, >> and how about the smaller rooms like our offices or conference room? >> Yeah, you would just have ceiling diffusers like you would see and all the other large group. >> And where would that particular one be located? in the back of a classroom by the windows where the windows are >> on the side where the windows are.

084>> Let's go in one of your classrooms. >> So your windows are staggered. >> Yes. >> We would look for the spot where there isn't a window. >> Okay. >> And the benefit of this system is the exhaust vent sits up high as opposed to the unit ventilators that are down low. So you suck in all that humidity and grass and ps. We're going to get rid of that so they're pulling from up higher so you don't have that humidity coming in the building all the time. >> Thank you very much. >> Yep. Here you go. >> So, for instance, in this classroom, we'll probably put it exactly where that Smartboard is. So, the Smartboard, and that's something that we've discussed with the district, the Smartboards on the exterior walls are going to have to

085be relocated. So, in this case, because you have windows on either side, it would be centered. Your duct work would go either way. and uh that existing unit vent that kind of sits, you know, right here. And then the adjacent case work would all be removed. The fin tube is no longer going to be needed. So all these pipe covers would be removed. Um essentially, you just have that unit in the middle. It' be trimmed all the way up to the ceiling. Everything would be self-contained within it. Um that whole wall would be painted from corner to corner. Patch painted stuff. Uh and then we'll work with your window provider on getting So when you say that that that section there will be a removal, we're keeping the boilers for, you know, colder temperatures. What's

086going to be remaining >> for the boiler to kick in? >> So it'll have it'll have a hot water coil of that new unit. >> Oh, okay. >> So how it will work is the heat pump will go down to how we program it is down to 35. If it's below 35 outside air temperature, it'll say, "Okay, we need to now flow hot water through this." So, the >> So, the boiler is going to be plumbed into the unit, right? >> Yep. And and they're currently plumbed into these units. So, we'll just take that same connection, just run it up to the new coil. >> I think what's important to realize is each unit has its own cooling in it. >> Okay? >> It doesn't have like a chiller that's running cooling to all these

087separate units, like a fourpipe system. I don't want too technical, but this has its own direct expansion inside of it. So, if that unit has an issue, it's not the whole building. It's just that unit. >> Any other questions? And we're available after the meeting obviously to answer questions you guys have. Want to make sure you're educated, informed. Um, our goal would be to have the district have some sort of of decision making process and then inform us of where you'd like to go, come back and potentially meet with you again and then develop a contract and present it to you. Um, you know, there's a lot of scope here. We recognize we're in a good position as far as the beginning of October right now, but the farther you get in the year, the

088more challenging is to get secure labor, secure equipment, secure materials. So, we are on that timeline. So, we do want to keep things moving forward, but we also understand that you have questions, we want you to have all the answers that you need to make educated decisions. >> And this is summer work, correct? >> Correct. Yes. >> I think that's an important component from educational planning. >> Yeah. >> So May 26, we're >> starting to do pre- project planning and then when the kids are out, we're full swing. >> And that's for the first phase. for the first phase and then the second phase would follow a very similar plan like our goal would be to sitting here next year in September or October, hey here's next year's project and have you make those decisions

089based on hey we really like this, you know, we we don't know if we like that as much. Let's go with this option. So we can always do that as well. >> So ton of flexibility within the escro legislation what we did. >> Anything else? Anybody else? Okay. Okay. Thank you guys. >> Thank you for your time. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Visitor comments. Agenda items only. >> Being none. >> Motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of September 4th, 2025. >> So move. >> Second. >> Shaler and Mr. Shaw. Questions, comments? >> All in favor? I opposed. >> Motion carries. Motion to approve the minutes of the special agenda prep meeting of September 18th, 2025. >> So move second. >> Mr. Lynch and was that Miss Longwell?

090Yes. >> Questions, comments? All in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> Motion carries. >> Approval of bills. Motion to approve the payment of the following bills as per enclosure. Regular bills any mod. >> So move. >> Second. >> Mr. Lynch. Was that Miss Fish? >> Questions, comments? >> All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. And now we have financial reports with Miss Smart. >> Great timing. >> The beginning balance as of July 31st, 2025 is 90,1859. Total receipts 3,634,146. Total investments returned zero. Total investments 1,32,394.19. Total dispersements 2,647,3268. And the ending balance balance as of August 31st, 2025 is $44,46628. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Motion to approve the treasur's report as presented by Miss Marvin. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Campbell, Mr. Reed. Questions, comments? All in favor? >> Opposed?

091Motion carries. Under personnel employment, employment A or B need pulled for comment or discussion by anyone. Okay. Motion to approve A and B as published on the agenda. >> Miss Fendish. >> Second. Miss Shaler. Questions, comments? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. Under personnel conferences A to L. Does any of those need pulled for comment or discussion? A to L. All right. Motion to approve A to L as published on the agenda. >> Second. >> Mr. Shaw, Miss Longwell. Questions, comments? >> All in favor? I >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. Under athletics A to C. Do any of those need pulled for comment or discussion by the board? >> I'd like to just comment on item C if you don't mind if nobody else has any other questions. So item C is an

092outdoor batting cage. This is something that we've been looking at uh under Mr. Raymond's direction um uh with Mr. Long and some of the the grants that we've done. We were able to secure a grant for $7,500 from the Pittsburgh Pirates towards this project. Uh we were then able to secure other funding in the form of booster and private donations of $3,000. Uh we have a discretionary fund from many years ago, the Norm Bassiano fund. Uh that $3,000 would be utilized towards this outdoor batting cage. And then we've been generating revenue with athletic advertising. Um so we have approximately almost $20,000 I believe in that that account right now. So, we'd be pulling about $3,841 from there to fund this project to put an outdoor batting cage between the baseball and softball fields. Uh, something

093that our teams have really been asking us for. Um, and so, uh, this is the same company that did the indoor batting cage. This is a KPN contract that this would be. So, that pro that project price would stand. Um, and that's something that we would get started as soon as possible if approved here tonight. >> Great. >> All right. Motion to approve A to C as published on the agenda. So >> two second. >> All right. Mr. Schlaw, Mr. Reed, questions, comments? >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. Under business affairs A to J. Does any of those need pull for comment or discussion? >> Letter G. I took some time to uh look at that survey. It's really long. Um, and and some of it I don't know. I just I don't

094know. I was as a parent I was uncomfortable. Um, I guess the kids are smarter than I am, but I had to look up some of that stuff to understand what it was. So, I'm I'm just I I don't know. I'm hesitant. And so that the the team and community know the PA youth survey um it is administered typically every two years. Um everything's completely anonymous from student perspective to just show what the students are experiencing or interacting or what they're telling in the survey that they're experiencing or interacting in the communities and the schools. And then there's some comparisons that are drawn to make some informed decisions whenever it comes to prevention, intervention, etc. And then from Mr. Maine's perspective as the school safety security coordinator, when we get into Act 44 from the

095Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, we're always looking and one of the questions that they ask are the needs that you have. Have you done these surveys? um if there were some uh publicly identifiable information in there and who's your parent and things along those lines. Um but but this is mainly for us to show where we're vulnerable and the risk of what our kids are experiencing not only in school but outside of school and how that compares across the county and the state. So um I could have a a presentation done on that and have someone come do a presentation if that may make you feel comfortable to do. Um, but that's where we utilize it from from a school district's perspective. >> I I guess my question cuz I I did review it

096too and like Miss Finish said, it is very lengthy and there's a lot of things on there. I think even sixth graders, >> yeah, sixth grade, even eighth graders, >> yes, >> they probably don't even know what it is to be able to even answer it. And then whenever I was reading on I've I've worked with PCCD with my employment, >> but then the survey gets sent out to Utah, I think is where it gets sent afterwards. So >> I can't >> I just don't know. I I was looking it up on it's on their website, but um I just don't >> I mean we know the issues of like vaping. We know vaping is an issue. It's an issue in every single school in this country. So um bullying occurs and we have to

097deal with it. We just did the PBIS thing tonight. >> Um, so I don't see any return on investment of exposing younger kids to some of that because now it's putting it into their head >> like, you know, LSD and crack and all the other stuff. So, >> is there a certain grade that you wouldn't want at all? I mean, you can do that, too. It's completely at the board's discretion or if you don't >> I'm not familiar with it. I haven't a chance chance to review it. >> You can table it. >> We have some concerns. I move to table it. So, we weren't good. >> Yeah. There's no like there's no inappropriateness to it like we've seen with other potential surveys that have come across you guys' desk. But >> um >> I

098read that it takes an entire class period. >> That's what it says. Yeah. >> So, I just question I don't know >> by grade levels how it's done. And so normally how it's administered is in a social studies classroom is is how that's administered because that or an ELA and it's in social studies because if you get into math or science it's not a grade level content. Algebra is not for nth grade or what eighth grade or whatever. >> But what I can do if you desire to table it perfectly fine. What I can do is try to get you information make you informed. I don't want anyone to never feel uncomfortable or not informed on any decision. Okay. I just like she said, I have it right here because I I know you had

099sent it to me, but I reached out to them today and they sent it and it's 10 pages, >> so it's pretty lengthy. Um, if anybody wants to see it, I can share it, but it's uh I don't know, too. >> Did you make a motion to table it, Mr. L? >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Got a motion to table G. >> Second. So we had uh G is Mr. Lynch and seconded by Mr. Indish. >> Questions or comments on that? Oh, so we're dealing with letter G. >> All right. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. >> And that was just a vote on tableling that, correct? Just making sure. Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. Any others? A to J need pulled for comment or discussion >> with H for the

100PSBA officer election. So there are several selections in there where it can be choose one or what have you. Um just for reference, last year we just simply abstained from vote on this. Um so if we were to move forward, we would need some selections um for president-elect, for example, either the individual listed or abstain. Um, and as you kind of go down through, you can see the one that really only has, I think it has a couple of options in it, um, is the section three advisor where you have two individuals and an abstain. Other than that, it's kind of, um, there's not much choice there. So, it's up to the board's discretion what they want to do. This does have to be voted on in October, so we would not be able to

101table this and do it at a future meeting. Um, so I just at least wanted to lay that those facts out there for everybody. with written we will be abstaining from the votes. >> You could just abstain from all >> we we abstained pretty much because we felt like we didn't have a choice. So >> without a choice we >> I just at least wanted to give you the options. That's why it's on the agenda here tonight. So if we want to abstain from it that's >> Does anybody have any issues with >> doing the same thing and abstaining from the PSBA? Right. >> Um my only thing is um we do have a choice for um the section >> W3 advisor. There's actually two choices and they did on they did send information on

102them and there was videos online for both of those individuals. >> Do you have a suggestion? Um, what I recommended for, we just did this at the IU and I recommend the person I liked out of the two of them was um, Antonio Paris. >> That was and that's who we voted on at the IU. >> I mean, only vote on that one >> that the rest if you'd like. I'm fine with abstaining for the rest of them because we don't have that's don't have a choice but for the one that >> right >> there was some information on them. >> Okay. >> And I cast the ballot so I can abstain on your behalf. >> And that that was the Antonio Paris. >> Yeah. I re I liked his video out of the two

103videos that and the information online. He was the one me Me personally, I like >> Okay. Um >> motion for that abstain from the others. >> Yeah. So, so we'll break out H. So, motion for section 3W3 advisor to be Antonio Paris and abstaining on all other positions. All right. >> I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> Mr. Shaw and Mr. Lynch. Questions, comments? All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. Any others? A to J. An pull for comment or discussion? We're tableabling G. We handled H. Any others? The only thing I'll just add in with motion J is that online testing is mandatory this year. So, we're providing professional development. Uh, and that's th that's the revision to that master services agreement with the IU. Okay. All right. So, motion to approve

104A, B, C, D, E, F. >> Bless you. >> H. All right. Yeah, we're down to H. >> We did H. So, G and H are done. And I >> and J. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is that Mr. Shaw Gro, Mr. Lynch, and Miss Shwater. >> Mhm. >> Questions, comments? All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Motion carries. Now going to K. Motion to approve the proposal from TMCO and Alageney Restoration to complete the stadium grandstand restoration and waterproofing project to be paid for by the capital project fund as presented at the se September 18th, 2025 meeting with a base bid of $619,450 which includes a 30-year warranty uh alternate bid if we should add aluminum handrails at 59,500. The proposal falls under the Keystone Purchasing Network Cooperative Purchasing Program contract AE contract

105021-d with a unique customer proposal number for this project of PA number 021D- 350761. >> So move second >> which >> is that have the alternate >> with the alternate >> I don't know that's what I'm asking. So we need to decide are we doing the base bed or the base bed with the alternate which is aluminum handrails. >> I think it should be with the alternate >> um the safety come first. So >> for I'm for >> Yeah. If not I think we open ourselves up to liability and >> correct >> potential stuff. um >> for the safety for the safety and uh security for everybody. >> Yeah. >> And what we need. >> Mhm. >> We've got along with it >> this long. Yeah. >> Do it. >> We're putting the money into

106it. Might as well do it right. >> Agree. >> So, all right. So, we're going to do the base and alternate bid combined. Um questions, comments? All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. All right. Now, we're going to add L that we added uh at the beginning of the meeting. Motion to approve the contract between the Dair Area School District and Musical Theater International for the 2025 2026 musical running from February 27th through March 1st, 2026. >> So, move >> second. >> Mr. Lynch, Miss Sher, questions, comments? questions, comments from the public since this was an addendum. >> Can I just say thank you for doing that? >> All in favor? >> Opposed? >> Motion carries. Moving along to committee reports. JC, Mr. Reed, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Lynch. Our last meeting was uh

107September 24th and we had all pres members were present. The minutes were approved, the general funds and the bills were approved. Uh the student of the month for September was Summer Pavik from Lrobe and she was in the culinary arts uh contest in the district. She had first place in the Skills USA in the state. She got third place. The car show was September 6th and they managed to have a have a 100 cars despite the weather and it still raised over $4,500. There's a blood drive October 24th from 8 to 2 at the Vogue Tech School and then everyone is invited to donate and you can call the school for more information. Uh we approved the first readings of following policies. O4 for membership, O6 for meetings, and 610 for purchases to bid quotes.

108And our next meeting is October 22nd at 7:00. >> Okay. >> What's Morland are you? Mr. Schaw, >> there was not much uh in the public meeting besides we're still dealing in the um executive session. We are still dealing with the parking issue which has been talked about for the last two months and some personnel issues. Other than that um the IU pretty much nothing. We've um added some new policies, approved some new policies, but there's not much going on at the IU at the moment. >> All right. to talk about yet. >> I'm sure you will. Next month you'll have something, right? >> Hopefully. >> Yeah. Uh Adams Memorial Library Board, Miss Sharewater. >> Okay. So, um we didn't meet, but um there on November 8th, that's a Saturday. The Adams Memorial Library is

109partnering with the greater LRO parks and wreck and also the uh LRO Art Center and they're combining for uh forces to kind of raise money. Um and it's called Pages Parks and Paint. It's a cash bash and it will be held at St. John's the Evangelist Church in the social hall. There's going to be food, beverages, raffles, and cash prize drawings. All this will help support the three local nonprofits. Um they're also looking for sponsors, um prize donors, um gift cards, raffle baskets, and other prizes. So if any businesses or anybody wants to donate, they can. Um you can go to info latroartcenter.org. The deadline is October 24th. And also um the friends of Caldwell Library had a meeting recently and um just some highlights from that. They discussed having a mail appeal for more

110donations this fall to pro um support their programming. They talked about how to be a little more visible in the community. There's a lot of people that are just unaware of this great resource in our in our um district. Uh there's a need for friends of the library to grow in number. So they would gladly accept anyone who wanted to participate. Um discussed next year's reading theme um of unearth your story. Uh looking to plan some ice cream socials, more movie nights at the amphitheater. And I have to say I went to the movies and it's wonderful. It's just a wonderful event. So in the summer um keep an eye out for that. I guess there's a pumpkin canvas painting um class for ages 16 plus that's actually full and um pumpkin craft for kids

111is October 15th and they're planning a genealogy workshop October 22nd at 5:00 p.m. >> All right. Thank you. Policy committee, Mrs. Fendish, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Shaw. Well, our last meeting was August 25th and we really don't have a ton to report finally. Um, there have been no new policy news network updates. I'm sure Dr. Forensic will keep us posted. Um, the only thing coming down the pike is uh we will have an update to the policy um due to uh a change in state statutes regarding the joint operating committees. So, uh I don't know if you >> I'll just add on that. Yeah, Mr. Reid touched base on that in the JOC report with some of their policies that they updated when you have a joint area board or a joint operating committee

112that's operating a school or a techno a uh tech center. So that would be inclusive of the WIU would be uh Eastern West Morland Career and Technology Center is that any uh representative appointed by the board president, they go on three-year terms. So at the Eastern West Morland Career and Tech Center, we currently have three people. So that would be up for debate uh from the the uh direction of the board president in December as to who's on year one of a three-year term, who's on year two of the three-year term, who's on year three of the three-year term. And then if someone's not to get elected or reelected or is to withdraw or resign from a certain position, it's based on how many years they have left on that term for who's appointed to

113fill out the remainder of the term. So, if I'm elected in year for uh in December in a three-year term, wonderful. If for whatever reason I'm done after two years and Mr. Chapel's the person, then he's appointed for one year to remain and then a new three-year term thereafter is appointed by the board president at the time. Um, so same with Mr. Shawl. Right now, we only have one representative at the uh WIU for that operating committee. uh those are now on three-year terms that we'll start and and make that appointment come December. And that was discovered from the policy committee from the uh joint area board that there was a state statute that changed I believe in 2019. So what we're doing is going to get that updated and taken care of for our

114December reorganization meeting. Okay. But there have not been no any policy news updates I should say. So yeah. >> Okay. When there is, we'll have a meeting. Okay. >> All right. School district foundation. Miss Michelle Aldo, Mr. Shaw. >> So, um, the next meeting will be October 15th, but, um, Mrs. Findish and I man a booth at railroad days on Saturday until the winds came and knocked it out. So, but it gave us a great opportunity to talk to people about the foundation and the Trojan sphere just to increase um increase awareness and it it was people people actually were interested and they spoke with us. So, that was that was a plus. >> That's good. Get some more involvement. >> So, okay. Building and grounds, Mr. Lynch, myself, Mr. Kronoff, Mr. Reid. Next meeting.

115We met on Wednesday, September 10th at 1:30 in the boardroom. Um, in attendance were Mr. Reed, Mr. Fry, Mr. Maine, Mr. Chapel, Dr. Long, Dr. Forensic, and myself. We had a presentation uh by the Mccclure Company, which everybody saw today. And the only other thing we discussed was the restoration of the grand stands, which was also voted on today with um TMCO and Alageney Restoration. Our next meeting is due to be >> tr um athletic committee myself, Mr. Kronock, Miss Longwell, we have a meeting coming up on Tuesday, >> right? >> Yes. >> Uh public relations, Mrs. finish this show order. >> Our next meeting is scheduled for November 7th, 2025 at 10 a.m. in our boardroom and we'll focus on some new goals objectives of that committee. >> Finance, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Finish, Mr.

116Campbell, Miss Schiller, and Mr. Chapel. >> I think it's my job to give this report. Uh, there was a lot at this meeting. I'll do my best not to be long-winded, but I think there's a lot of important components here that just need to be mentioned here tonight. Um, I'm going to skip the first one for now. I'll come back to it later. Uh, we talked about the 2526 state budget. Uh, those of you that know, uh, there is still is no state budget. So, what does that mean for our district? We have no state funds flowing our way right now by are we in any means, um, in in, you know, in jeopardy of not making payments? No, we're good probably until February at this point with our reserves and our excellent tax collection

117that we've had here over the past couple of months. Um, so while we have no state dollars flowing, we can't make interest investments because we have to keep our money very liquid right now. So, um, that's one of the main components I think where we're lacking without without having a state budget. So, that's not only just state funds, but that's federal funds that are passed through the state. So, none of your title programs from last school year are even paid out yet. So, title one, title two, title four, uh, we're still waiting on those funds to flow through the state. Um, so if we don't have a budget here in the next couple of weeks, uh, we'll be down about $8 million through the first four months of this fiscal year. Um, and that's for

118ready tolearn block grants, ready to learn adequacy dollars that may be coming our way, plan con reimbursements, basic ed subsidies, transportation, special education subsidies, vocational subsidies. So, uh, we're doing our best to weather the storm with that, but again, we're in a much better situation than some others are. you know, we can probably make it, like I said, probably till about February before we really have to start looking at things. But, um, in anticipation of that, we've already in contact with our treasurer, uh, Karen, and then also she kind of moved us up the chain in a mirror serve, so we have a line of credit already essentially established. Um, if we need to, that has not been voted on or approved yet, but we have the documentation to approve that. Um, if the budget

119is not approved here in the next several weeks, uh, what I would do is bring that to you for approval in November just as a contingency. Um, so we have all the terms and conditions of that. It's essentially a $5 million line of credit. Um, you only you only pay interest on it if you pull on it. There are no underwriting fees. There's literally no fee associated with it upfront. Um, if you do a revenue or a tax anticipation note like some other school districts have done, you do incur upfront costs with that because you have underwriting fees, you have legal fees associated with that. So, the line of credit option is something that's much better for us to go with because we have that great relationship with our treasurer. So, I at least wanted

120to give that update here today. Uh, we did a homestead farmstead recap uh just that all of our dollars that are coming in from the state were passed along essentially to our residents. I think we had four property changes from March to June. So, we have about $1,200 carrying over to next year that we'll allocate to our residents. Our audit schedule, we reviewed that. So, our auditors were on site um last week. They spent multiple days upstairs in the conference roomounding us for information, but they're now doing off-site work on our single audit and our uh financial audit for 2425. We did an investment recap at 2425 just because I thought it was important to look at what we're losing by not having a state budget right now. Uh so we generated almost $800,000 in

121general fund interest income revenue last year just from investments. And again, right now we're just relying on our money market accounts to generate our revenue because we have to keep it very liquid right now. So, uh, that is some potential money that we're missing out on that you don't recoup when the state does finally fund their budget. Um, capital project though, investment wise, we do have some money sitting there. I'm happy to report right before the feds dropped the rates a couple of weeks ago, we did invest some of that money long term. Uh, so we have rates there from anywhere from 4.2 to 4.4% on CDs uh that are staggered based on what our cash flow needs would be. We did a healthcare consortium recap. I actually just sat in on audit committee meeting

122about that at 8:30 this morning. Uh so we're starting the audit of that. We'll have more information on what those numbers for the fiscal year look like. Um and then probably the most um one of the biggest updates that we did was just on the bond issuance discussion um potentially of with the projects that you heard here tonight. So you know Mike's here from uh Raymond James. Uh we also had PFM1 Zach Willard and Garrett Moore um because we are talking about even if we don't decide to move forward next summer but the next the summer after that in 2027 well we could start that borrowing process now. And so what I what I wanted to do is have a third party come out and do a presentation for the finance committee. So what we

123talked about was looking at a $10 million borrowing by the end of this year and essentially taking out 10 million. Now you could wrap that around your existing debt structure. So even though your debt doesn't fall off until October of 2027, you wouldn't start paying the money back on those new bonds until 2027 2028. So right now our debt service structure is a net $2.1 million. So what that means is our debt service, the way we're structuring it, looking at it with PFM and Raymond James right now, unless we decide to do otherwise, we're focusing on maintaining that 2.1 net. If you look at our debt service right now transfer, it's actually 2.8. But just remind I just want to remind you that's because we have about $6 to $700,000 in Plancon dollars that are

124falling off. Plan Con is state money reimbured for projects that schools did many years ago and Plan Con is not in existence anymore. So essentially we as the taxpayers are funding building projects in our schools. The state's not providing us with any revenue towards that. So if there are increases in u millillage that have to happen to fund a project like we talked about here tonight that is the taxpayers that are essentially going to be footing that bill. Um so I think that's an important component of that. But again we talked about that bond issuance and we reviewed the timeline of what that would look like. Um because if we would borrow in $10 million increments that there's tax advantages to that. Um if we would borrow 10 million by the end of this calendar

125year and not have to you can you can use 85% of that in three years and not face any penalties. So we would have essentially until 2028 to utilize 85% of that. And I think based on the presentation you heard here tonight, you're going to spend at least $10 million on a project within the next several years. So, we're looking at potentially having a U motion authorization to proceed uh with $10 million potentially at your October 16th meeting um and then having another motion at your November meeting um to formally move forward with that bond because what we're trying to do is get that in before the end of this calendar year. um that timeline if it's pushed anymore, you're going to jeopardize the ability to get that borrowing in by the end of December

126and get that the bond proceeds. With where municipal bond rates are right now and where current interest rates are for investment purposes, you have a great opportunity to essentially even break break even and or make money on bonds if you were to take them out right now depending on what we want to look at for an investment strategy. So, um you know, we have that on the finance committee minutes. Those are all posted online. I have those linked to the agenda here tonight. Um, but fully anticipate, you know, hopefully on October 16th having something on there with an authorization to proceed. Mike, is there anything I missed you want to add? I know I didn't expect you to be here tonight. I appreciate you being here, but u you said kick it over to you

127if there's anything I missed. So, >> did a real good job. Thank you. Mike with Raymond James. Good to see you. There's been a lot of thought administration put a lot of effort, time, professionals into this plan. I think it's a good plan and there there are really good tax advantages to moving ahead with this borrowing in this calendar year. So that's that's the ultimately up to you guys, but uh that's our recommendation. And uh as Scott said, rates have have dropped nicely over the last month or so. So it's nice to Yeah, just this week, uh, PFM sent out the request for information, just preliminary borrowing information, uh, that was sent yesterday. We returned it to them yesterday. Uh, that just simply gives them the ability to start working some stuff on the back

128end. It doesn't obligate us to anything. Just like if you would take out $10 million right now for a project, it does not obligate you to any specific project. I think that's an important piece to note. You still have the decisions to make and the control to make on which projects you do. So I did forget that piece in my prior discussions. Um the last thing just with the finance committee and then I'll stop. Uh we discussed the preliminary base one act one base index for 2627. So that's how much you can raise your taxes. Um so that base index is at 3.5%. Um, the adjusted index has not yet been released, uh, to my knowledge, but I expect that to be around 4.7% for our district, which would be the equivalent of about 4.3

129mills or almost $600,000 in revenue if we were to raise to the index next year. Um, but we'll have more information on that in a formal resolution on um, the act one index at a future meeting. And that concludes my presentation. >> All right. Thank you. Four A's, Mr. Shaw. Um well, we had the um Hall of Fame um presentation a couple weeks ago and I think it went very well. That was a very nice presentation. And if Dr. Forensic wants to talk about the um golf outing. >> Yeah, sure. We had it was a great weekend. recognized our Hall of Fame inductees at the halftime of the football game and then moved into um that next morning a golf outing that we had the alumni and friends weekend golf outing up at Manito successful

130event. Also highlighted in the uh superintendent report here this evening. Um from there went into the um the alumni band concert which was nice that afternoon. then the alumni uh and friends um hall of fame ceremony here and then over to Rosemary's afterwards. It was a great weekend. Received a lot of positive remarks and regards um and was just really good to um get back together with uh some relationships with folks we haven't had for a while. So, and again, most importantly for our students to see that others that are successful have walked these halls whether they were air conditioned or not. um but uh that they can succeed if they put the hard work and perseverance in. So, okay. And we do not have a meeting scheduled at this time, but uh if there

131is one, we'll certainly announce it. Thank you. >> All right. At court committee, Mr. Lynch, Mrs. Finish, Mr. Shaw, Miss Shalwater. >> Our next meeting is December the 3rd at 3 p.m. >> All right. Visitor comments, non-aggenda items. Hello you all. My name is Bob Ranken. I'm a former teacher here at Dair Social Studies for 33 years. Um the school asked me in April to coordinate um upgrades to the one room schoolhouse with new siding with rotting replacing rotting siding and we painted it and got it ready for the remembrance day program down there in April and it was a successful um interaction with the school with Mr. Long here and super superintendent long and um to have that remembrance day. Everybody seen the schoolhouse good. Tonight I conducted a meeting down at the one

132room schoolhouse of retired teachers and the agenda had two items on the um um docket for the meeting. First one was to try to generate um uh consensus among the retired teachers about resurrecting the classes down at the one room schoolhouse for the Grand View students. And um it's I think from the inception back in 1994, it was the goal to try to introduce our students not just driving by the one room schoolhouse and seeing a cool building from 1909, but to go and visit it and have some interaction with some teachers with some background in the project and um have that excitement go back to Grand View. And I know because of COVID and because of, you know, things that have happened in the last couple years, we've drifted away from those um the

133practice of having those classes down there. And I think talking to Casey Long, um it it could be resurrected and and reinstated and try to get some of that excitement, not just with our students, but with their parents and the community for the one room schoolhouse. We have a list here that I'm going to turn to Casey of interested retired teachers and they're going to have to get involved with the procedure to get to all the clearances and things like that. But I hope the the group wanted to try to aim for March if we could get organized with the administration and with the principles down View and with the uh group at the high school um students who want to become educators, future educators. I think we can aim for March and maybe have

134two classes in March and two classes in April and just let that be the introduction of the uh e experiment of bringing the classes back. Tony Pearllo, retired teacher down at the meeting tonight, asked if there's any other schools in West Morland County that have a real one room schoolhouse on their grounds like we do. And I don't think there is. Greensburg has a replica of a one room schoolhouse that they utilize as classroom management. But it was a modern building put together and he has a historical society offampus that has one class a year. One class a year. Our facility is so unique. It's it's so beautiful and um it's right here on our campus. So for us to utilize it as an educational tool, I think is a very important thing. Um, there

135was a and Casey and I have been talking about this, Casey Long and I have been talking about there was a nice video that explains the whole one room schoolhouse project and down at the one room schoolhouse there is a book that explains the whole project, you know, in written form. It's beautiful and just eyeopening what what happened back in 1994. But this video is available here in our school district. If you haven't seen that, you should see it just to be informed about what a beautiful asset you have down there, you know, on the way to Grand View and stuff. The other topic we talked about tonight, and I'm going to turn share this all with Casey when I get organized. I have to get back to my farm right now. But the other

136topic is the schoolhouse is just a building, a historical building, and it was put together in 1994 with that rehabilitation project. And it is beautiful. It is a gem for our school district and community, but it's just a building and that building is going to fall into decay and disuse and unrepaired things. It's going to happen over time. That happens to older buildings. I live in a 230 year old house. I I know about those kinds of things that have to happen almost constantly. So the building is kind of sitting down there just looking nice right now and it's whispering to us and telling us that I need allies. I need people to be behind my mission statement. So the board and of course our administration and our teachers and our families and our kids

137and our retired teachers now I think can come together and form a failank of interested people. Not everybody likes history, but a failank of interested people who would like to generate continued use of the school, continued appreciation of the school. And that's what it's going to take to take a 1909 building to 1994 when it was rehabilitated and here today to 2025. We're going to have to have a strategy and work together as a team. and I retired in 2009 after 33 years of teaching and I still want to be a part of any effort to to help the schoolhouse, you know, be seen and to be a part of our mission statement here. I want to be a part of it as long as I can. And um I'll do anything to try to

138generate a list of allies who can come forward. So that meeting happened tonight and I'll share this with Casey. I just wanted to bring you guys a breast with this and um the schoolhouse need to be used. It needs to be used and all of us should have that as in the back of our mind what we want to accomplish together as a team. Thanks for your time. >> Maybe we could do a board meeting at the one room schoolhouse. >> Yeah, we had a few board meetings down there and we've had >> I don't know about technology though. We'll see. We'll have to make something work, but we'll figure it out. >> Well, Casey knows that I don't have a cell phone and I don't fax and I don't email and I don't do

139any of that stuff. Yeah. Uh >> oh. >> Your mic went off there, Cam. I know. >> Your microphone went off, Bob. That's all I have to >> We're not telling you you're done. That's not what I'm saying. The microphone just went off. >> We We will. Yeah. >> But um thanks for being interested in this. >> Bob always states that his construction management is free. So if Mccclure, you know, he might be interested in hopping on board. I know he states that to all of our teachers, but it's been a pleasure having you back in our buildings talking with our staff. I know that we've been utilizing that one room squash for lessons, but it hasn't been centralized, and we're hoping uh to move more in that direction and look at that supplemental position

140that we even spoke about with our board a few weeks ago, Paul. But thank you for your passion and for your involvement. >> For sure. Enjoy. >> Thanks, >> Any other visitor comments? for non-aggenda items. All right, being done. Any other concerns of the board? >> I just have um a couple quick things. So, the Derry Historical Society, we're having a kids Halloween party and it's October 17th. Um you do need to sign up because last year we were just overwhelmed with a thousand children. Um it's a free program. So, um take a look at that. Also, November 1st, the historical society is going to be placing the rest of the grave markers on our Revolutionary War heroes. There's 30 of them that are buried out there, and we want to preserve that piece of

141history. And so, it presents a great opportunity for any of our students um who need volunteer hours, they can come out and help us with that project. If you're interested, you can email the Dair Area Historical [email protected]. you can call the historical center and um leave a message and that goes to my cell phone. >> Any other concerns of the board? >> I just had two things I wanted to mention. First of all, I wanted to thank the school district for allowing Derry Railroad Days to have parking in the front of the school on Saturday for our event. >> Um it went well there. We had a number of people utilize that. So, thank you to the school district. Um and secondly, for Dairy Railroad Days, we're having our first ever basket raffle on Saturday,

142October 19th. So, um tickets are available online and they're $20 or that's $25 at the door and it should be a fun event. >> All right. >> Anyone else? Motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Second. Mr. Reed Michelle.