001Pledge 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. Roll call. Mr. Here. Mr. Yudsy here. Dr. Fake here. Mr. Friend here. Mrs. Guyer here. Mr. Graia here. Mrs. Orier here. Mr. Olsen is absent. Mr. Shipley present. Not really. Um, I just want to make the public aware we entered into executive session March 18th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m., April 15th um 2025 at 5:30 p.m. and today at about uh quarter till 7. We had an executive session prior to this meeting for personnel. Uh, citizens comments, agenda items only. Um, I have one Melissa Moore. Hello, Melissa Moore 147. Speak up. We can't hear you. Please, can you hear me now? Oh, really? Sounds like a
002commercial. Can you hear me now? Better. Yes. Okay. Um Melissa Moore, 147 Bradic Road Avenue, Mount Pleasant, um East Huntington Township. So I'm coming up here again to talk about the stadium rock wall. Um I see that you do have new proposals for it. Um estimated cost with the amount of work already performed is now going to be 161. Um, I do want to point out that up to the 400 square ft that was proposed to be fixed, that's really only 20% of the wall. And again, I want to reiterate that it's an old wall. So, by fixing the questionable stone at 20%, you still have 80% of the wall that could essentially go bad. Even if you like you're repointing the whole thing, but what about that 80%. At what time is that going
003to go bad? So, we're spending 160,000 to do 20% of the wall. Um, is there something that you can go back on the um engineers? I mean, you said you had them come out three times and they failed to do there has to be some kind of liability. Like I just don't want you to vote on this without having all the information because in seven years if the integrity of that other 80% goes south, are you going to spend another60 to fix that or potentially even more? I mean, you're going to have a half million in a rock wall. What's the cost of a new wall? Like when this was bid, you you had specifics instead of asking contractors to come in and recommend what they thought was in your best interest or even acknowledge,
004hey, this is what you want, but this is what you should do. Um, I just don't I just don't think it's being looked at. I don't like the time crunch on it. Um, it just seems like your hand is always forced because this needs done by June 15th. Um, we, my husband is in the masonary business. We looked at the job, but because of the specs and the fact that something else could go wrong with another part of the wall, I we don't want our name attached to that in seven years because we fixed this, but this went wrong, but you're going to Well, they fixed it last. I I just don't think I I think it needs looked at and assessed more and I don't think it's fair to vote on it tonight the
005way that you have it set up because fixing 20% of the wall at this price I just don't think it's going to be beneficial to anybody. And also I asked last time where is all this extra money coming from because this wasn't budgeted originally and no one has said it's coming from this account we have it because I don't think we do. Thank you. Our next section is personnel. Uh we have a resignation request. The board has asked to approve the resignation request of employee 1771 effective May 15, 2025 per the attached agreement. So do second discussion. Whenever anybody resigns, do they get this the same document? We have lots of resignations. Does everybody who resign get this same six-page document? Typically, they're on the um on the personnel log. Now, please answer my question.
006Do they get this document, Jason? I just did. Yes. Typically, they're on the personnel log and that's it. So, they don't get this? Yeah. Why? Why are we giving this particular one a six-page resignation document? I can't. It's personnel. I can't talk about it. That's an executive session question. Why didn't you ask that in executive? Too busy nitpicking. So, nobody else gets this when they resign. Gotcha. Okay. Um to the vote. All those in favor? I I'd like a roll call vote on that, please. Roll call vote. Mr. Reciptor, no. Mr. Yudsy? Yes. Dr. Flake? No. Mr. Friend? Yes. Mrs. Guyire? Yes. Mr. Graiac? Yes. Mrs. Oier? Yes. Mr. Shipley? Yes. How do you not vote? Next section is building grounds and security. Stadium Rock Wall. The board has asked to accept and approve the
007bid from Alagany Restoration to make necessary repairs to the stadium rock wall at a cost not to exceed $129,200 per the quote as attached. Second. Any discussion? Yeah, I think this should have been looked at and should have replaced the whole wall and all. That way it's addressed. Yep. We just keep sticking money in it. Um, Mr. Trader, if you could, could you come up to the microphone and explain to us um the 20% of the wall that needs replaced and why it needs replaced. So, as last month we discussed, when the engineers come out, they found some shell that was bad. It was uncovered when the mortar was being taken off. They ascertained it was approximately 400 square foot of the wall. They marked it in blue. They didn't Can I interrupt you? They
008didn't just like guess at that amount. They actually did some kind of testing. They actually sounded it, tapped it, and marked it in blue and identified what was right. Right. So, it's not it's not the fact that the stone is deteriorating. It's just a weaker stone that needs replaced with better stone. Exactly. So, they'll take the old stone out and either cut some of the bigger stone and put in or put in different stone or if it's small enough, just mortar it. Okay. So, we are getting more than 20% of the wall done. Yes. How much exactly? Pardon me. How much exactly? The whole wall is being repointed. Correct. The whole wall will be repointed. The whole wall will be capped and pinned and the drains cleaned out. Okay. So, just so that it's clear
009for everybody, if we would have approved the change order in April, our cost would have been $121,814. Now that we delayed this and now had to get new bids that a different company has bid, our total cost is going to be $161,765. And I don't think that that includes the cost of having to have this special meeting if I'm correct. Correct. Paying the solicitor for an extra meeting, advertising an extra meeting and all of that. So that is correct. We are $40,000 now beyond what we could have paid had we approved this last month. That would almost buy us another teacher, right? 100 iPads, right? That's what happens when you have board members that want to run a school district and not listen to what you paying your people to do. Last month, you guys
010approved science curriculum for six years. There was a majority of board members that were against that. What? It was what? It was a majority of the board again. Wasn't the majority of the board. The majority of the board needs to recognize that we just spent $40,000 that we didn't need to spend. Calvin tried to explain what was going on and all that ended up was a confrontation between Mrs. Fe and Calvin. And then no one knew what was going on. And I've talked to all the board members and had they known what was going on it would have passed. So let's just get this over with and go. We're going to pay $130, $129,800. Right. We're not going through this again. Let's Can we vote on it? Are we going to pay this $130,000? Why
011are you asking me as if I pay the bills? How much have we paid? How much have we paid the existing company, Pam? 44,000. No. 32,56523 since you asked. How much, Stephanie? 32,56523. Okay. So, um, it will cost us 167,0001 161765. Okay. But that does that include legal fees? No, the engineers. Did it include the engineers? No. The engineers have already been paid. Okay. They've already been paid, but that's still what we we spent. So, that's another $10,000 or so easily. So, it's going to cost us 180,000. 130. It could have cost us 121. 172. is going to cost 172,000. How many mills is that that we just spent? I can't get the number for a mill, Stephanie. Thank I think you got it earlier in the final, right? 123,000. Mhm. The mill is 123.
012Yes. For the So, this is one and a half mills. Well, we Well, we just wasted by not approving this last time. What? A half a mill. Okay. But the first bid we got was for 77,000. Okay. So, if we're going to spend 129, why are we going with the cheapest bid? Again, I see a cheat sheet. We have to take the lowest bid. Correct. Correct. No, you take the lowest, most responsible bid. You don't just take the lowest. We have had Alageney Restoration work on our buildings in the past, Dr. Fe. And they've done a very, very fine job for us. What happened, Pam? when they worked on our building. What happened on this? They weren't the on They weren't the ones doing the work originally. No, originally it was Ser Brothers, I believe,
013is the full name. Okay. Out of whose new bid was $167,000 to stay with the same contractor. But granted, if they would have wrote all this up the way is written up now, I would have voted yes last time. So, you're saying that the the the specs that were prepared were not correct? Nobody's. No one's saying that. Twist it again. Here we go. Twist it for the newspaper. What did you say, uh, Nicole? I said if they would have wrote up their proposal the last time like they did this time, I would have voted yes. That's why I saying that that proposal was not correct the first time. It's not that it wasn't correct. They just needed to detail it more. Well, it turned out for me personally it turned out not to be correct
014though, right? No, it turned out to it. My understanding it was correct. I have no idea, but there was nothing written on there for me to decide whether it was right or not. Was the original bid that was put out for $77,000, was it correct? I have no idea. I don't know what you're what you're getting at. I think that what you're asking is I think when you're renovating your house and you start to tear an old house apart and you find things behind the walls that you weren't expecting in your budget and then you incur more of an expense to repair those things is what happened here. They weren't able to see the issue until they started to repair it and we're taking it apart and then they discovered the additional issue which resulted
015in the change order. I don't think that they gave us an incorrect initial bid. They just were not aware of the secondary problem that they discovered. I I got one question, Dwayne. Good explanation. If they start doing this wall and they do find more stones that are because it says replace cracked and deteriorated stones, if they start to replace a lot more than they anticipate, is this bid going up or are they held to this? Calvin, you said they tested the majority of the stone, right? The majority. I don't know. They tested everything. All the stone. This says not to exceed. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So they're they have to put more stone and anticipate. So not to exceed would mean not to exceed Mr. Yes. Alagenia Restoration said they would complete the job
016for that price by June the 15th. Okay. At a cost not to exceed $129,200 per onto the vote. Let's do a roll call. Mr. Yudsy, yes. Dr. Fle, no. Mr. Friend, yes. Mrs. Guyer, yes. Mr. Graia, yes. Mrs. Aer, yes. Mr. Shipley, yes. Mr. No. 62. Our next section is closing exercises. Citizens comments. I see none. I need a motion to adjurnn. Make a motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor? I I opposed. Thank you. Job well done, superintendent and business manager.