001in the middle of all the Stop. Well, in I did the Love I want to do this. Thank you. We'll go ahead and start our meeting. Um, first is broken here. here. Jones. Neil here. >> Snider >> here. >> Windsor. >> All right. Next, we'll we will stand for the invocation and pledge of allegiance. Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this day. Lord, we thank you um that we got snow. Lord, we're thankful that it's gone. Lord, I thank you for keeping us all safe, Lord, during all that time and keeping us warm and fed. Lord, I pray that you be with us as we go through this meeting tonight, Lord, that we do and and say things that will be pleasing to you, but in the best interest of our students. For it's
002in your name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. I aliance 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. >> Next is to approve February 9th, 2026 agenda. All right. Motion made by Diane. >> Second made by Jody. All in favor say I. >> Any oppose say no. All right. Motion approved. Motion carried to approve the February 9th, 2026 agenda. And next is to welcome all of our visitors here this evening. Welcome. Uh, next is to approve the minutes of the previous meeting, January 12th, 2026. >> I make a motion. >> Motion made by Diane. Second. >> Second made by Jody. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed say no. Motion approved. Motion carry to approve
003the minutes of the previous meeting January 12th, 2026. And next is public comment. Nobody has signed up to make a public comment, so we'll just proceed. And next is the student representative report. >> Unfortunately, board Mariah's a basketball pract. >> And the boys, too. >> She thought she might be able to make it. It must have. >> So she's got her notes there, so she wants to. So she might be able. >> Maybe we should. That's right. >> Yeah. All right. And next is the Mck Mckinstry investment grade audit. Margaret Newton Elementary School bathroom project approval. >> So board, if you recall, Mckin Street Dylan was here talking to us about the bathroom situation at Margaret Newton. the 1950s bathroom on the outside of the cafeteria. For those of either you saw it firsthand by
004the visiting of the school or you saw the pictures, the the uh the plumbing between the girls and the boys bathroom, the pipes are corroding. There's I use the term it's a ticking time. At some point, it's going to come apart. So the feeling was is you are we are now adding another 50 or so students to that building. The the fixtures in there are designed for other grade levels that have since gone because they had some older kids there. So there's multiple issues within that bathroom that at some point need to be addressed. So we had asked Dylan to come back and in the meantime to provide you the IG which Sam has gone through and has approved. He approved the first one. Then he approved the second one which has the appendix in
005the back outlining the scope of work and money. But Dylan is here to take you through that IG and answer any questions that you might have about that, what that might look like. So come on up. I don't want to give you my full monologue. Um, >> but you might. >> So, the investment grade audit, we talked about this last time. There's really two phases the way that this project works, right? We kind of have done a preliminary assessment, which is myself and my team coming out and saying, "Hey, what do we expect this project to just rough order magnitude look like?" Right? And that's kind of what we presented. If you remember that that work the workshop place map that's where we started getting into the nuance of hey what is the impact of
006this project right we're understanding we're adding more capacity to mark newton like Dr. Burton said a lot of those fixtures are set up for smaller children. So when we go through this project, we're going to do a lot of or have a lot of conversations of okay, what we need to do one from a kind of forward facing aesthetic principle to say these bathrooms are fit for these children. And then the second part of that is understanding what is all of the underlying infrastructure within the restroom. So, it's not just the fixtures behind the wall, but we're looking at all of the waste water that's going to run out to the street as well. A lot of that is old ferris cast iron. We could get into this, which is what we're asking you to
007approve tonight, which is a contract for the design phase. During that design phase, and that's where we're setting it up in three stages. And so, let me run this track line for a second. During the design phase, that's where we're really going to hone in on what does that cost range look like, the three to 600,000, but it's not going to be a single point of Mckin Street's coming to Lake County and say, "Hey, this is the project that you're leaving." This is a continuous reiterative process where we're meeting the board, we're meeting with district leadership, we're understanding what is the purpose of these restrooms, what's the long-term purpose of the underlying infrastructure, and how do we do things that sets you up for the future? Because we may get in there and say, "Hey,
008a lot of the really big challenges that we understood may have simple fixes. We may also get in there and learn that there are things that have not been accounted for in the past in previous projects that we need to resolve. Right? So this is the second step of getting into allowing us to go do some discovery and putting together a comprehensive solution for that. Now, the way that we're structuring this agreement is a little bit different than how I usually would because of the complexity of the contract. Usually, there's one singular face. But if you go to the back, let me find the exact page. So, it'll be exhibit A and then exhibit C. Let's go to exhibit C because it's really straightforward. So it'll be page n. So we've broken like I said
009this design up into phases. So within this investment grade audit agreement all of these phases are included but what we've done is we've broken into conceptual midterm and final design. So at each phase we're doing another layer of work. So the first phase you can think of as like a preliminary. We're running running we're continuing to run scope. We're doing some initial architecture studies. We're meeting with the fire marshall. It's critical that we want to do that as early as possible. So that way the authority having jurisdiction understands what is required for code and what is not. That way we can get ahead of it before it ever comes to the end. And we're being held up at the 11th hour saying well hey you missed excellent. So, we're going to do a lot of
010that conceptual midterms where we're going to start actually putting some engineered plans together. And then final design, if we want to get all the way to final design, that's where we're actually having stamps placed on drawings and then we're issuing them to to the county. The reason we provide these offramps is because we know how financially sensitive this project could be. knowing that we're using rollover money to pay for it. So what we want to avoid is we want to avoid a ballooned cost project, meaning we get into pro into the project and then the scope of work tends or turns out to be $2 million. I'm just throwing ridiculous, right? So if it turns out to be $2 million, what I don't want is I don't want the county to be beholden to Mckin
011Street to say we're on the hook for the entire, you know, design phase cost, right? We want to be able to provide offs. You know, the offs are not given. So that way it makes it easy for the agreement to be broken. But we want to be very responsible with how we're structuring this so that it's beneficial for both groups. Because at the end of the day, if we get in and we do all of the design work or we start getting some in to do some of the design work, we find that the project is less complex than we think it to be. Right? We want to give you the ability to be able to go and run your own traffic. Right? So to me, this is a very friendly agreement, but I'm happy
012to answer any questions that you have. >> I want to reiterate something. You're triggering some memory. So these bathrooms are 70 years old. Corrosive materials have been put down the drains, cleaning materials over the years. That's what deteriorated the inside of that drain. That's why there's the metal that is corroding. And so as waste goes down, it's clogging and grabbing. That's what they discovered when they did the scope. It's not to ADA compliance. Um the fixtures themselves, as we said, was not for this grade level. And you're also dealing with if anything happens in there. If you don't take this on and we move it down the road five years, somebody has to get in there and do the work. You're also going to have to deal with an abatement. So, of course, that's not
013going to get cheaper over time. It's going to get more expensive. And I know that's a tough decision for the board, but this is it's kind of like the wall that was falling down at Lair Kendall. The can kept getting kicked down the road. That wall was coming down. So, y'all took a proactive approach and taking that wall and that that room down. It's going to be the same situation with this bathroom. At some point, somebody's going to have to fix it. Somebody's going to have to address those issues. Just a question. Are you going to do it now or you want to do it later? The offramps that is very unique. I've had more time to think about that. So, in the past when you did a deal like we did with Schneider, they
014quoted you and said 1.7 start and end whatever they found except we got into the roofing project and then it was it was more money on top of that. So, this gives you abilities to pause per se as you're starting to go down that pathway again responsibly. So, he's giving you that first block in three phases. That's not I heard someone talking about before the board meeting. You're right. That's not even the construction part. You need to know what you're getting into so you can make a responsible decision. But their time, their expertise, it's going to take money to do it. This is going to be a project. It's going to be over $50,000, which is going to require those professional services either an architect or of an engineer. It's not a general contractor. That
01525 to $50,000 range. >> I can add one more thing. The intent the intent of all this is to do it right the first time, right? Understanding actually what are the critical problems that we're dealing with in this project and either understanding what they are so we can plan for them in the future or addressing them within this this project. Um so as for the the phased design cost, there's no upfront cost to the district. So there's not a purchase order that's going to need to be issued. If we end up moving forward into the final construction project, these design costs get rolled into the the total project cost. If you decide to offramp and then we separate, say after final, we give you all the scope of work and all the final drawings, then
016that's when we'll issue a separate purchase order from what we laid out in this agreement. So, >> any questions? So, I can help help answer it. >> How long does the design phase um like what are we looking at like if we make the agreement like what is >> usually 3 to four months? So, so we're tracking towards August right now. >> August just for the design or just what y'all discover? >> Well, yes. So we can probably get through preliminary in month and a half, two months and another month really. That's where a lot of the discoveries done. You try to frontload discovery and then you game plan. That's when we're going to have more workshops continue working through what this actually looks like. Our timeline, if you remember, we're driving to August because
017we want as many rest or we want the restroom to be as operational as possible for the new students. And if we have to phase it in a way where we're doing like partial weekend work to try to do make up some time, we'll definely do that as well. That's why it's critical that we start as soon as possible. >> Were you thinking the abatement was this summer or is it going to have to be a different break? Um, I'm not sure. I mean, we would want to try to get it done as soon as possible. So, if there is a break, so if we vote to approve tonight and there's a break where we can bring the abatement forward or at least the discovery of it forward, we'd want to do that as quick
018as possible. And again, that's part of the conversation we'll have with the fire marshal as well to understand what their process and what he would want or they would want. That way we're kind of marching to be syndrome that you would want best case scenario in a summertime break as you can imagine just to keep everybody safe as you but so it's not a clock that has to be but that's the best case scenario because you can do it fall break but you're pushing things down the road. >> Yeah. Yeah. We once we get into preliminary like we'll set up a full project schedule and we'll share with this group but we do work with schools all the time. So phasing out this type of work is not anything new to us. about how long
019will the entire project take? >> Um, like I said, it'll take about four months to design. Let me reference our implementation. It's a pretty straightforward implementation at least on the construction site. So, if you see so three months projected that was approved back in February or January. Here we are in February. I would say implementation's probably about two months. Probably about two months. But again, once we can actually understand what it is that we're working with, that's when we'll be able to sol. So you said the the the cost for the design phase. >> Yes. >> Will kind of go into if architecture. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So part of this too is like there is a there is like a water savings component to it because there's a number of pipes pipes
020that are behind the wall that are leaking. Then there's also some pretty big leaks going out to the street. So it's considered under professional services but we're using it's code 12-4-110 which is the energy related services uh enablement code. >> Okay. >> So you will just send the school an invoice that will >> well so what'll happen is like I said we'll enter into this design phase. So if you approve the contract tonight, there's nothing that comes back to the district until we get to the construction contract. So call it July, August when we bring back a full project, construction project, that will have the design phase cost in that project, >> right? And so it'll all just be one. Okay. >> Just think of I would think of this more so as like an
021exit fee. So if we get through this design and you guys say, "Hey, Dylan, love you, but not in love with the project, >> like want you to go home." That'll that'll essentially cover part of the cost that we spent on the project. And if you got all the way to the end, as you said, has the stamps on it, everything >> and you have the the scope of work. So that, as you said, not in love with the McKin Street, the way they're doing it, then you have the scope of work that because it's gone all the way through the fire marshall. If you as a board want to subcontract that work out or get a different firm, you now own that scope. We want to be a part of the project, but understand
022if this project turns into something that we don't understand it to be, >> we want we want you to be able to actually go the best route for the district. >> That's why we're saying this is a very unique contract. We typically do not do it this way. We've got a good relationship with the district. So, we want structure and a way. >> Thank you. I'm sorry. I know I know you said this but um just just so um just clear for this project for this project what are you you're estimating like 3 to 600,000 >> I would expect that >> okay >> when everything is done and >> yeah so it's full full engineering full architecture um we're going and running all the procurement for materials construction managing I mean we're single contact. >>
023Okay. >> Yes, you feel good. >> I think I understood most of >> and I did hear no cost with this. >> You're right. >> That's what I heard. >> I got that clear. >> Yes. 1950. Yeah. That's part is old. The infrastructure is old. Yeah, not agree. But the aesthetic of it is still original, too, right? So, part of this is looking at like actually updating the aesthetic >> to the restroom to make it more modern. >> Some people like the old aesthetic >> and also bringing it up to AEA. >> Yes, code compliance is is a big deal. That's why we have to do it like this way is because let me give you an alternative. If we were to go and do a non-engineered solution, what could happen is you can go
024then mess with different parts of the space that would trigger ADA compliance requirements. And if you're not pumping out for those sooner rather than later, you get something that we want to avoid as much as possible, right? So hope no other questions. Thank you. I'll be right back. >> If anybody questions You're asking for a motion, too. sure how to word it, but I so move that we proceed. >> Yeah. Um, okay. So, a motion made by Diane to approve the Min Street IGA bathroom project contract. So was saying is that they would put together a scope of work >> and we have offgrounds at that point. And there's no cost to us today. That's right. >> But if we decide to take that off ramp, how much is the cost >> if we decide
025we can't go with the scope of work? >> 70 72,000. >> That right? >> 72,000. >> Yeah. There's there's a there's a couple different phases, right? So three offs each. I thought you like that. >> Okay. Yeah. So, page nine. I usually don't hate to get out of the house. >> No, is she? So, yeah. Page nine. So, we've broken this design phase up into three different stages. Each one has an interval of about $20,000. So there's three offs. So if we get all the way to the end, this full stamp draw scope of work. Again, the the intent of this is for us to jointly collaborate and develop this project. But if we decide that it's mutually beneficial to part ways, we give that liberty. You know, I'm sitting here thinking, here's $600, Max.
026$600,000. I'm sorry. How much does it cost to build? >> I mean, seriously, that's on for a little bit. >> Several million dollar. >> I was going to say, we just sc out for 52 million. >> How's our egg department coming along? But we can get off the off ramp at conceptual design if we decide it's just not second by Vivian Kane Cook. Yes. Holman. Now you get a commote. >> Yes. Jones. Neil, >> yes. >> Snider, >> yes. >> Windsor, >> yes. >> All right. Motion approved um for the history investment grade audit for the Margaret bathroom project contract. Thank you, Dylan. All right, then. Um, let's go back for student report. We understand you had some basketball practice. >> Yeah, sorry. >> Was it a good practice? >> Yes, it was very long
027practice. >> Y'all could do it pretty good. >> Okay. >> It's okay. police. >> But um good evening members of the school board. I'd like to share a few updates from our school. As of February 9th, our basketball teams are on a roll. The boys team is currently 12 and 11 and girls team is 9 and 14. 9 and 14 with the upcoming away game at least tomorrow evening. Our softball and baseball teams are also working hard as they prepare for the upcoming season. Uh, this new semester is off to a great start. Dual enrollment classes have begun for the second semester, giving students valuable college experience. Many clubs at LCHS are hosting Valentine parties for Margaret Newton students this coming week, helping build connections and school spirit. Students are also preparing for important academic
028milestones. ELC testing is coming up and our juniors are getting ready to take the ACT. Prom is scheduled for April 11th and students are already looking forward to it. Finally, team Invisible Struggle, our studentled mental health support group, continues to spread awareness and support students with help from HOSA. This group plays an important role in promoting mental health and reminding stu students they are not alone. So, thank you for your time and continued support of our school. But if you will please excuse me. I have very good I hope you all have a very good evening. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next is superintendence report. >> Dr. Ellie, you want to go first? >> Yes. >> Thank you, Madam President. Doing my report makes it so much easier. I do have one report. I
029would like to announce that Miss Carrie Regalado, our CTE director, as well as our assistant principal, was named West Tennessee Regional CT Pioneer. She received the West Tennessee uh regional CT pioneer award. Uh it is the state and she also received the state of Tennessee Pioneer Award that goes out to CTP directors less than five years of service. I'm very proud of Miss Gary, very proud of what she's accomplished as a CT director and the assistant principal. And on behalf of Lake County High School, I must certainly say that I believe that she's not here, but I believe that looking online, she deserves a hand clap of praise for being about a month ago. It was announced for the entire state of Tennessee. Yes, >> that was very huge. So, and it's amazing to us.
030I'm just ecstatic of our CTE program. RCT program are moving beyond going into different kinds of competitions moving forward in the next spring months. We're looking forward to seeing more victories. I'm extremely proud of the welding program all the way to the act and host all those programs are really progressed and it's because the student work as well as the teachers working with our students. So I'm extremely proud of what we've accomplished at Lake County High School. Thank you. So when we got back from snowing, we did an extensive review of our falcon behavior falcon w behavior majors because anytime we're out of school for a little while get a little crazy. Um, and when we came back to school, they were a little crazy, but uh, they were really good to be honest with
031you. And, and we did that just to make sure that they, you know, we reiterate our expectations and it really helps with our, I mean, just in general how the school works and how the kids feel about coming to school. Um, we're excited about the early release date this week. Uh, we did some really good work in January. We're going to build off that with our teachers and our EAS working directly with our classroom teachers. So, the planning is really good and it's helping our students to succeed in the classroom, which is ultimately what we're looking for. Uh, we had a very successful code blue AED drill last week. Um, what we did was there was a mannequin in the hall and code blue and the emergency team came within 36 seconds. Our entire emergency
032team response team was there. That's pretty good, I think. Um, we've got some things to work out, but other than that, it was a really good drill. Uh, and students had no idea what that was, so now they know. Um, and then we talked about in January we had a special ticket system we're doing where we have teachers have five tickets every week to give out to kids. Um, you wouldn't believe their faces when they walk in the office. We have these two jars with lids and holes cut into them and they walk in with these it's just a little ticket. I mean, you think it's gold. I mean, they're smiling. They tell you what they did. They drop it in the bucket. Then on Friday, we reach in there and we draw out a
033name and the teacher and the student get a prize. We've had candy bars. We've had hats. We have all kinds of things. Uh we've had three sets of winners. So every week like God, please draw mine. Like I don't draw. I just stand there and watch. Um but it has really been a positive thing for our students. Like I said, those little tickets really go farther than I thought they would. So at the end of the school year, we're keeping every ticket and we're going to try to get Sonic or somebody to give us a pretty good size gift card and we're going to draw a middle school and elementary student and they're gonna be like a $40 gift card to Sonic or something like that. So they're pretty excited about those things. And then
034we did prior reports are going to go on Thursday and we did change our parent teacher conferences because we didn't have a lot to talk about because remember we're out of school for seven days. So we're still sending the prior reports on but we're going to set those parent conferences a little later. The dates have been set. It's been sent out on Facebook um just to make sure that we have more data and have more grades to talk about when we bring those parents into our school. So thank you for that. >> All right. So, we have just finished our winter benchmark testing. Um, student data, we're not seeing as much growth as we thought we would, but we're actively responding to them. We'll be looking at more data during those early release days. Second
035grade is beginning to incorporate some TECAT style review questions into their number talks and we really been having a great time learning with Miss Amanda Kids first. With those we um celebrated our 100 days of learning and then we recognized um our crew to DC fame with an awards program. So I appreciate the board's continued support. >> I want to add something to the superintendent report. There's a a map sitting there. Want to explain that? Mr. John Lynamood called me Saturday and he had told me in the past that um since his mother passed it's only him and his wife are the last members of Presbyterian church. So the the church the the overseen body owns the property and they're using John to help do something with it. So he reached out to me and
036he said, "There's two tracks of land and you'll see in red the larger plot of land contains the church and the parsonage." He said, "So not that one, but the other track land that was between Mr. Levelvels and I believe Mr. Roberts's property. You see a rectangular shape." He said,"I was wondering if the school board would like to have that piece of land because it's adjacent to the school property." And I said, "So, what are we talking about?" He said, "Well, the the clock is ticking. We really got to move forward." And I said, "Well, we're having board me Monday night." I could tell them that, "Hey, there's a piece of property that's wanting to be gifted to the school board. If you're interested in moving towards a formal vote on it in your March
037meeting, you can add it to the agenda, the deeds, the everything that would go with it, all the details of how that would go. You would have between now and March and in the March board meeting, you would choose to whether or not you want to accept the gift to pass on it. So, you can see the dimensions. I believe it's 50 feet wide, 1677 feet. Jackson is where I got this map from. And I did ask, is it residential? He says it is. He said there may be some more restrictions, but the school has exemptions. So, it's pretty broad in nature. It's just a question of do you want to at least move forward getting more information and putting it on uh the board meeting in March. I'm >> trying to figure out where
038this is. >> So, I know where the house is because I lived in the parsonage for a while. >> Okay. It's behind, right? >> Is it that >> Tommy Lovel and Billy Roberts? >> That's right. So, it goes right between those two where Billy and Sheila Roberts once lived. That's what that looks like. Am I right about that? Correct me. >> That's right. >> Over the local home. >> So, 50 feet wide, 167 feet deep, backs up to the church. It's between those two pieces of property. So, I guess the question is if you don't take it, what could be done with the property? Then whatever we get done to the property, that's what we would have to live with with whatever's put there. >> Would we have course to It's being gifted, you say?
039>> Would we have use for that? >> No, it's pretty short notice. I don't know what we could. Could you put storage buildings on it? Sure. But there's other places to do that as well. I I don't know. We'll pretend to know that all the rules that go with residential, could you pave it, make it a parking lot? I don't know. >> But Jackson said it was possibility we could get exemption. >> He said that >> even though it is considered residential, >> right now it's residential, but the school board owns it. There could be some exemptions. >> Okay. Because there next to that Millie Robertson is a home. I feel like the board would need more information. >> Yeah, >> sure. >> For the orange meeting. >> And as you get that information, then
040you can make an I mean between two >> two houses there. >> Say no to a gift. >> I do too. But we don't even know if we can use it or have some idea. >> I do know this if you you don't put it on that agenda for March, it's I don't know what's >> because there was a timeline for him. >> So there's just some interest. >> Yeah, let's put that on the >> Put it on the March agenda. I'll do that and I'll put it on there for a vote in between now and then I'll ask John. >> All right. Um, other business. >> Can I quickly go back to that? Did y'all have an idea of how it could be used? Yeah, it probably wouldn't work. It's probably not legal, >>
041but I guess we couldn't do that. >> I'm because it's so small, you couldn't use it for egg or anything. I'm just trying to figure out what would you do with >> the problem is you could make a garden. Oh, >> another garden, >> but you between two >> Well, yeah, you got the >> Yeah. >> I don't think Mr. Thomas signs here a whole lot. I think she's in the house. >> Comes here and that's about it. >> He stops by for a visit. >> All right. Other business. Do we need to schedule? >> We put this on the agenda. Y'all need more information about what it can and can't be. It might give you a chance to drive by there for yourself to see a workshop. >> Yes. Would you like to schedule
042a workshop for to discuss applicants? >> That was a financial obviously after the 15th. That's the close of the day perhaps. Right. Mhm. >> So, we can do whatever. Whatever y'all want to do. the 19th the I feel like we need to >> to that week after right after the 15th is that your bill >> we can do the 16th >> 19th 19th is a Thursday right >> yeah 16th is on President's Day >> Monday I mean >> what's your name like >> it's I think you the 16th or the 19th. >> The 16th. Yeah. >> Next Monday. >> So, Monday the 16th. >> 4:30. Wait a minute. I'll just Yeah, we just need to make sure I've got I got to take it out of my work schedule. So, as late as possible, five,
043>> five on Monday. >> All right. All right. Any other business? Have we hired a board yet? >> No other business meeting.