School Board Construction Committee Meeting

001let just have sit right just tell them all about this crit system we are ready to get started my name's Rose pear I think everybody knows me I'm the proud superintendent of spring C this is our construction a committee meeting for our board members and we have our uh experts here our architect our construction manager and our project managers and so we are going to our civil engineer we're going to get started with our construction committee I'm going turn it over to Mr Nick Maus who is our project manager all right hello everyone good evening I guess I got to hold this mic uh there you have it on that side good evening uh board president uh Miss Franco mras Mr Ortiz thank you uh for having us this evening um our goal tonight is

002to provide an an open forum for questions and answers regarding the site um we're going to kind of do a history lesson in where we've been where we are and where we're going over the next six months so please uh let us know if you have any questions throughout this uh uh session we do have an anonymous box over there if you would like to write a question down and and put it in the Box that'd be great but overall we want this an open forum and we're here to uh as uh subject matter experts in the field of construction uh to try to answer as many questions as we can as possible um to my right I'd like to introduce the bond team uh we have Mr Raymond uh Darin here from MTR Miss

003Abby from Butler Cohen those are our Builders uh Mr Caleb and Mr octav are from uh ER Architects they're our lead designers on this piece Chris back here is also from MTR James is our geotechnical uh engineer on the site and we also have Miss Carolina uh ortado over there she's our senior project manager for uh these two new campuses okay it's not letting me they want to call it up here Mr Villa it says your desktop is currently shared No it should should still take we got it thank you so much so our overview today we're going to talk about some projects that's been completed uh introduction to the bond team to which I just did what is in the bond a road map a review where we've been where we are where we're

004going um some updates from our sinville engineer Architects and project managers and then an introduction to some new projects and then questions from anyone in the in the audience I think we're also streaming on live also and then we're going to close out the meeting so going to run through these slides uh and then uh hopefully right after open it up for questions answers we can uh y'all can come up here our team is going to go actually out there and if you want to come up and ask some questions uh you can Mr Caleb's actually going to bring the site up and you can roll around on the design and ask question also uh right after the session um and we'll go we'll go ahead and start so congratulations to cizo Springs you passed

005the uh I mean you knocked out the track surface uh the new track which looks really great and we also have new Surface over at the softball fields and the baseball fields so introduction to project manager busy side but what is is PM so I want to start from the bottom up uh PMS were never utilized in the last previous bonds um and that's very important to understand on why we were hired as your project managers and owners representations um we are the staff augmentation of your design and construction team so right now you do have a director of operations and he's putting out she's putting out fires right now all over the place and oh by the way we're going to throw a $91 million B million dollar Bond on y'all's lab we're there

006to help you uh uh go through project controls which is your finance and your business office and make sure that every invoice is accounted for and every taxpayer penny is is actually spent in accordance to the vision and the mission of ciso Springs we are your program Auditors we come in at 4 in the morning when they do pour the concrete we're going to be there we'll be there with the goo testing the concrete making sure that there's a differential between the concrete of some of your bus lanes in the sidewalk because there is a differential there uh we work directly for the superintendent schools and the board of trustees and we're hired to oversee the bond program so underneath there you can also see that other districts utilizing this Bond program uh program management

007system uh there's been $14 billion doll of Texas isds uh pass in the last three years for to upgrade schools and to renovate schools so you see a lot of the alyses and Austin and then you'll see some of the smaller ones like Duncanville and doto and Judson on this list also so DWS stemmed from an architecture firm ala Architects and we understand that none of your board members get paid and your teachers are in those classrooms serving this this um the students so therefore we want to attach our arms and lock arms with you guys and because and that's how the twws Mantra came about with those willing to serve and our motto is send us uh because we'll go in and make sure uh we do all I can to give peace of

008mind and do what's right uh for the bond program we've also have uh Crawley all these items on the left here San Antonio Crawley Judson United zabata twws has been a part of and that's part of our uh our our portfolio right there so if we go through the or chart we sit right in the middle as your bond AUD Auditors twws so our Architects our Engineers uh Tara Butler cohens you can see they all report to us we filter every invoice we make sure all the dots are dotted and all the te's are crossed on your invoices we make sure the design with our Architects and with our Engineers are uh up to speed with the current codes um so as as it states right there in black and white we are the Auditors

009and we report that information over to the board and Miss Pearson and uh ensure that everything is where it needs to be as far as the timeline as far as the budget as far as the mission and vision for Coro Springs so what's in the bond uh well we passed a 91 million Bond congratulations it's not an easy feat uh to do for two campuses Elementary and intermediate we also passed it for security updates and some new fleet vehicles and you can see that on the right we do have some of our renderings there of the new facilities uh provided by ER so people say uh I always like to reference my mom my mom says we are going to go cut the uh the ribbon at ciso Springs yet I'm like no Mom it

010takes 14 months to design one campus she's like whoa so it does take that long and we're trying to design two in this timeline this shorten timeline so does take 14 month to design and we had these flyers passed out at our truck Retreat we had these flyers passed out throughout the district and let you know where we are on the road map and it's safe to say that we are on schedule and on time and under budget as we proceeding right now in the uh road map there to your right where in April we will bring the design development uh uh plans a whole stack of plans to your Board of Trustees and say hey uh sir ma'am and Miss Pearson these uh plans are under budget and they are uh on on uh

011uh accordance to what your vision and Mission are and we're ready to proceed to construction documents so as you can see there's four phases in yellows SD DD CD and BP right now we're in design I'm sorry we're in schematic design and we're trying to move into design development uh here in the next few months each one of these phases we stop and we say hold on timeout team are we in accordance to the guideline and specifications for the district checklist yes are we in accordance to the budget checklist yes are we in accordance to the timeline checklist yes so every yellow phase we stop and we ensure every road marker there on the um on your uh designed road map we make sure that the checklists are provided by and then we move into

012the construction uh road map you're going to have phase one phase two phase three uh we mobilize and get ready for construction the duration up to 12 months maybe longer considering the size of the facilities and then what we do in phase three is we ensure we stay one year um after we ribbon cut and that's to ensure that your maintenance team understands what kind of chillers or air conditioner units they might get uh that means your it team understands the it structure we make sure that your security team understands the egress and all those all that information and we set this up into your system and make sure that it's monitored and ready to go throughout the next year uh of that facility it's almost like buying a house and you got that warranty

013we want to stay an extra year here to make sure you're set up for Success so how did we get here to this new fac these two new facilities um we had a lot of meetings in the last six months uh with a lot of key folks um we had four with the leadership team uh few with the administrative team we had every uh campus the CSC CSI we went to every campus to brief um I was correct we met with the Child Nutrition team uh we met with them six times to ensure that the flow is right no everybody's safe in the cafeteria because you know in the kitchen because you know there's a lot of hot things going on it could be slippery uh so our Architects called some extra meetings through Miss

014Pearson's guidance to ensure the safety of our of our cafeteria workers to serve two different capacities so you do have a kitchen and we'll go through it here in a second that serves two different areas that will never interact and keep pre- kindergarten all that Elementary team away from your uh uh students over at the intermediate some of the highlights that came out was that we wanted this design to be student Focus safety oriented and the latest Innovation because our students deserve it so uh that's where uh most of that information came from in our design we also had some community events and thank you for those individuals that came out and uh helped us out with those community events we had a tailgate event we were there handing out some uh uh some sausage

015dogs and uh got some feedback took a survey we there at the trunk Retreat I'd like to say that us at the maintenance team we took first place that was a good time uh CSE and CSI we did have community events to where we gathered and captured some data onto the design some of the uh surveys that went out on the baseball site is that we had a 70% uh positive response uh some of the comments Cam that uh that down at the bottom left I feel like we should have should have it right there it's a perfect spot uh over at the right we also had the uh survey of what type of design what was our focus on design Safety and Security was up at the very top so with that being said

016we took a lot of uh pros and cons of the baseball site had a lot of meetings with our teams as you can see in the last uh slide uh some of the pros that came out with the site at the baseball was there's a lot of concern about the safety of the of the community and students over there uh that facility and the facility next to we going to be torn down just imagine a lot of ASB bestus a lot of mold a lot of of uh lead just coming out there we were going to have to uh almost inform the community and say hey we're going to start construction and this might be a little hazardous area for a second so we took that into consideration we also took into consideration that all

017the students over here were going to be in a corridor so at one part of the city you're going to have all the students to where they can come uh and the police know where to where to react they're not all over the place in the city and then um no hindrance to learning environment I think this was one of the biggest pieces we get we gain from the staff we're looking at building this facility with no hindrance to learn environment that means that we don't have to build a kitchen and go serve of those kiddos over at Midtown or build a kitchen and serve these kiddos over here across the street uh that means that we don't have to buy Portables I don't know if you know but Portables cost a lot of money

018because then you got to connect pipes to them for pumbing you got to connect electrical to it that's also uh and and they're not cheap nowadays so the learning environment we would never have to put our children in and our students inside or our teachers in any Portables during the construction so that was a big deal because we didn't want to have to miss stpp in any of those uh Logistics pieces and putting this facility these two facilities together when you build one gym instead of two gyms you kind of save some space there and save some square footage so that came into play too same thing with the kitchens and then a queuing line off the main Highway uh if we our traffic study we're fixing to get into uh it's going to be

019due at the end of the month month but we have a lot of traffic out here in this m Highway here when your buses are parked out there and you got volunteers over there directing traffic it could be a little dangerous so the design right now calls for connection to the junior high and that queuing line is actually going to take some of that queuing off of that site right there and our buses are never going to be there in a sense of uh having a risk factor of being on that Highway until they're ready to depart the uh the other pieces is is that some of this queuing line on this side and some of this queuing line on this side is we've added almost seven football fields 700 yards of queuing space to

020ensure the safety of those uh students and staff coming out on to campus and off to go home there's a big push also from uh the administration to really try to be transparent and communicate to uh uh our community so thank you to all those who have attached themselves to our social media sites uh we have a very detailed in uh uh Bond website we do have a video series out there right now ask the experts uh it's a 21 minute video of what we plan to do underneath this building to prevent Any of of of the water getting into the foundation and we also have been Al uh pretty vocal on social media in a sense of what's coming out hence our newsletters and all all that information so please uh make your way

021to the website if you haven't has a lot of information there so I'd like to bring up Raymond uh with me right now our lead engineer um he's actually we pushed out a video maybe three days ago four days ago uh where he talks about the site uh the 21 minute video is him uh explaining uh some of their work and where they have worked and similar sites to this nature um but overall if you can see what start on the top left uh that's called the French drain system and we're going to utilize that aspect um in a sense of what's actually going to be underneath uh the uh the building if you could look down to your left the grid drain system uh that's a road and you can tell that there's a

022lot of things going on underneath the road our goal is to take our Geo test and see where the water's flowing and actually try to push it away uh through what type of minerals and the softness of that of the soils to where you can move it around and develop these French strains where you're moving water away from the facility that way the structure the foundation are there safe and sound now does that mean we put peers in the ground we don't know yet because we haven't got the Geo test back yet or does that mean that you know we're going to be able to have a slab on grade we don't know yet until that geotest comes and lets us know but we know for a fact there's going to be some type of

023drainage system underneath of of the uh the the facility uh to drain out that water to create a stable Foundation there you can see there in the middle that's where the baseball site with that big old red uh arrow pointing to the flood plane the FEMA map it flows into the flood plane uh down that's where we're going to push the water if you can see there's a 12T drop there so we're going to utilize gravity um in that area with our French drains and drain system all around through the roof the drain system of the roof uh to push that water all the way down there where we don't hopefully have to use a pump because some uh commercial buildings that you build on some have to use a pump because there's so much

024water underneath it and that might that causes a lot of Maintenance and you got to make sure that pump's always running we're going to try to do our best to ensure that we use that 12T drop its gravity uh to push that water where it needs to go and maybe re route it to where our foundation is drier than most as you can see on the announcement there our traffic study in Geotech uh results uh are due May 31st U but as I said you can see in the Middle where that big old arrow is you can see the design where there's a uh a connection to the high to the middle school right here and then these Que in lines right there as equal up to about 700 yards there and this area might

025be two lanes for a bus lane and for uh traffic lane so we're still at a design phase of those items right there so the traffic study that we do get back we're going to just they're going to give it to us in a Grade system ABCDE EF F you fail and this is how you can fix it so uh we're looking at gaining that thing at the end of the month and really bringing that those details to the board and to miss Pearson to dissect how we're going to get the traffic flow in that area where it needs to be to keep everybody safe last thing we need is buses running into students and and and and staff members Crossing the street we want to make sure everybody's safe on that area right there

026Mr T would you like to add anything there no I'll just say we have so we have already completed the flood study uh which is the what you see in that light green kind of uh red area where the air hose pointing um the water depth there in the 100-year storm is about 4 feet deep so we do have vertical clearance to be able to drain the site so from where the proposed building is going to be located we're about still 8 ft above the water surface elevation in the 100e storm that's good that amount of drop as uh Nick was stating does give us the ability to gravity drain uh the soils away from the site both the surface water meaning what falls on the surface gets into the storm drains the roof drains

027tie into that storm drain system that's going to drain into this flood plane also a subsurface or a uh in the ground system a fren strain system that's going to Wick the water away from the foundation of the building and then also be able to drain into this flood plane so it's nice that it's a gravity system because what happens over time with pump system is they just get old they fail and they uh then you start having the same problems you would have if those systems were not there right and so we're looking at all this up front the Geotech information will give us the water surface level so we knowwhere just design these French strains to and uh yeah it should be a good site for the for the building based on the

028drainage system that we see now the flood plane elevations um you're unflooded where the proposed building is today and we're going to take the measures to uh mitigate the groundwater issues thank you Raymond and just to add you know uh the Geotech in a sense of did we hit water and I was asked at the last board meeting where the baseball field is and how is it going to work so our goal is to move the water if there's in some in there move it off the campus and bring it down into this flood plane that's the goal that we put in place uh through the design of this type of system these two systems right here and like you said hopefully we don't have to use a pump that's our goal not to and

029allow gravity to go there if you can think of this in a sense of South Padre Island right it's an island it has water all over the place but they have all these big old structures over there Corpus chrisy is another uh uh site that comes to mind in a sense of uh building uh you could almost go all the way to New York City where if there's a lot of uh buildings around the bay all those soils have different Engineering Systems uh to allow the water to flow out of those those places keep those buildings stury so we do have have uh two campuses uh we have the intermediate and the Elementary School uh and you can see on the screen here is the elementary school it does have its separate administration building um

030it does have its separate Library um it does have its separate art room it has a stage by itself so from the top up on the left in that pink is your administrative suite and then it comes into classrooms all right here if you can see the little uh gray dots there um it was given to us by the board and Miss Pearson that uh prek through first grade have restrooms so every uh class has restrooms uh that is that is needed uh you roll down into the middle of the hallways a bunch of flex spaces a bunch of flex rooms we were told by the district that we want to be able to move our students around every 20 30 minutes to give them a new environment so there's going to be areas for

031maybe a uh culinary arts class uh maybe some science classes uh that can take place in the middle of the hallways there uh there's also a teacher flex room a teacher uh Lounge uh many restrooms throughout uh this is the library here in the pink in the middle and you scroll down here all the way down to the right is where your kitchen and your dining room is so you can see where the CH uh students come in this area to sit down and eat and they go back out that area right there so the question is C is can these students interact with these students ever the only way they can re interact as if they go across the courtyard with the teacher's permission uh we our guidance from Miss Pearson and her staff

032was that we did not want to disrupt the functionality of each campus so the only way in and out to each other campus is to go through the other side or through the library with teacher uh permission uh you can't go through the kitchen uh I'm sorry through the dining facility area uh to go to the other building um so uh it was very important to have two different campuses yes sir would there be any vacu that's a great question your Chief has been very adamant about safety and egress we've also called Texas uh State University who oversees all of the egress and safety ISS uh challenges that every school district uh faces and they're also looking at this design and making sure that that question is answered but yes uh we're going to the

033fullest extent possible to ensure uh the Peace of Mind of E Safety and Security so great question thank you for that if we needed to evacuate we had threats and like that before how are they going to evacuate this whole area at one time that's a great question thank you so much so in evacuation in egress uh there are uh certain uh there's a district egress and safety security plan that will now have to be remodified due to these two campuses and Miss Pearson will lead that charge with your chief of police and they'll probably call in maybe the city and the uh Fire Department EMS to ensure uh everybody's on the same page as far as the district uh uh plan of evacuation and safety so what I would like to say is that

034in this what you're looking at right now is in pencil we can move walls we can move doors we can move anything we want the next phase is we're in pen that means that we've gone through all the checklists and we've gone through Texas State uh coming and taking a look at our design ensuring that it's safe and secure then we really start getting into the details of where we're going to go and how we're going to go but my my main question is the number of kids you're talking about with these two campuses you've got the high school right there so if there's a major catastrophe you're going to have to evacuate this whole area maybe not the junior high because they're far enough away but you're talking I don't know what our attendance

035is right now over a thousand kids probably you're trying to evacuate if everybody's centrally located here yes we' that's a that's a great question y'all have a very experienced chief of police who has some depth in evacuation and Safety and Security so um those those points are going to be addressed when we go through the safety security plan for both of these campuses so you might have one week report to one area maybe the bus barn because this is where you have the bus barn parking over here you might have one area going to the football field on 20 yard line you might have another a third graders I need yall to go to the 50 yard line so we're going to go through all those those pieces as a team to ensure uh Texas

036State tea this is how we want to evacuate the go ahead and bless it for us so we're not there to say hey this is where everybody's going to go but we're going to do it diligently and delicately to ensure that everybody has peace of mind and they know where they need to go I have a question on your previous slide in regards to the flood the picture that you showed so that is a pain picture right oh I'm okay I can talk loud trying to get the we're doing a live stream oh I'm sorry we're live we're live streaming so if there's any questions if we'll use the mic please so the people who are watching on live can hear the question thank you thank you missp so that particular picture is for a

037um flood plane not groundwater so the drains are essentially it's like a septic system it's only going to work for a certain period of time you're talking about the flood plane or the drain system underne the building the FL well because that picture is a flood plane cuz y'all based it on a 100 Year correct right but what about the groundwater because y'all did boore samples correct and 16 out of those 19 boards have water is that correct um good number of them yes I don't know if it's quite 16 but I believe it was like nine or 10 yes 13 okay 13 out of yep for sure so so that's that's the French Trin system that we're talking about so um as we mentioned as you just brought up as well there's groundw water

038that's in the ground mov moving in the ground there's ground there's water that falls rain right it falls on the surface so we want to handle both and so we'll have two systems that handle uh the Water one that's going to capture the water that comes off of the roof system so they will have down spouts that come down they'll connect to the storm drains those those same kind of storm drains you have around the site today where you see the inlets on the surface they take water off the pavement off the parking areas into the storm drain systems and those bleed out into the into the flood plane we'll have the same kind of of surface systems with the new school the new intermediate and elementary school but in addition to that we're going

039to add a layer of French drain systems those are below ground drainage systems that are intended to allow the ground water to seep into the pipe the pipes are perforated so you have uh fabric wrapped pipes that keeps the dirt from getting into the pipes but allows the water to migrate into the pipes the pipes are perforated they have holes in them those pipes are then connected to the same storm drain system so as the groundwater uh draws to the um gravel areas around the pipes and into the pipes it'll Flow Away from the building into the storm drain system and out to the flood plane it works the same way like a water well if you have water wells where you've got the pipe in the ground it's a perforated pipe the water gets

040into the air the void space and then you can pump that water out we're doing the same thing around around the building you're going to have a grid system um and we were just talking about this before the meeting um and what that might look like so um we don't have all the geotechnical recommendations back yet on what that should exactly be but we're looking at at the very minimum a French strain system that wraps the building meaning that on the outside of the building you're going to have perforated pipes below ground 6 to 10 feet deep that are gravel filled meaning it's got all the voids with the gravel around it has a fabric that wraps the trench so that the soil the dirt can't get into the gravel can't get into the pipe

041allows the water to come out of the soil into that trench and then we carry it out and on here the other thing we're looking at there's an option I've done it before several times already where we've actually grided a fren strain system underneath the foundation meaning that if the building is put on the ground underneath that building is a series of fren strains like a Tic Tac Toe grided system underneath the building that will take the water as it comes up from out of the ground intercept it before it gets to the building foundation and then Wick it away from the building is there an estimated cost for all not as of yet so we do have numbers for what it cost to put in a fren strain system but we have not yet

042laid out what that grid looks like and um we do have a contractor that's already on board for the project that will help us with cost estimating they'll take into account local market availability of materials and they'll also be part of the decision on what the design looks like so let's say that I want to use concrete pipe and they say no in the area it's more available to get PVC pipe then we'll use what the cheaper options are so that's where the contractor comes in having them on board up front gives us the benefit in the design to be able to make those decisions about what the more costly uh cost-effective way of doing things is so I don't have the numbers yet um but we do know we're starting to develop a plan

043of what that looks like and um as the project develops we'll be able to put numbers to it for sure and I think when discuss those numbers there needs we want quality because currently we're having issues at two schools thank you um so I think we need to present those numbers to the board that way they can factor in and then when you're looking for those costs we're a small town try to support these small businesses around here but not like you said trying to go cheap is not always the best we want quality so there are decisions that you can make on a project where you change out one material for the other and you're still getting a like product it's just one may be less expensive but you still still get the same

044type of functionality out of it when it comes to the drainage systems it is what it is meaning it has to be what it has to be um so we'll design the system as what's needed for it we do not cut quarters with the drainage um because that is as you've seen and experienc in your other two buildings that's where a lot of the issues can come in with the entire project you know we build from the ground up right so if we don't get the ground um drainage system right then everything else is going to fail because of that so um we're not going to propose a system that not work for the site we will be uh money conscious with the materials that we use with the uh way that we develop the

045systems and that's not so much to say we've cut corners but just that we've optimized local materials um the impact of Labor in that cost and taking all that into consideration and deciding what type of system we want to use so to piggy back on that one real quick sir I'm Sorry Miss Pearson uh we did announce uh early in the bond that we will have uh some uh uh contractor fairs led by Butler Cohen and Miss Abby and her team so they're going to come in in probably about Midsummer and we'll have two fairs to where we bring all the contractors in from ciso Springs and say okay tell us what you're good at tell us your subject matter expertise and how we can use you on this Bond uh they go through a

046screening process with Butler Cohen to ensure that all the bonding and the insurance is there of course but we will have those fairs to utilize local contractors to be and put their fingerprints in their heart Spirit into these facilities so look for that announcement to come uh here probably in the next few months yes I think that I understand as far as what you're talking about as far as on the drainage and redirecting the the water the moisture in that direction but I'm wondering as far as what it looks like that you're looking at is this area that I'm pictur picturing right across from the junior high and you're uh potentially creating a flood problem say that do we do hit that 100-year uh flood and then because you're talking about redirecting traffic where it's

047going to be headed over there through junior high as far as is that going to be a problem that's a great question sir uh thank you for that and that acknowledgement in a sense that if you see the screen there is uh that connection road and it runs right in between that that area right so our goal is yes the baseball field we want as uh Mr Raymond described we're going to build a system around it to push the water away right that's that's one of our main goals and develop that grid system in the inside of that square to push the water out well what happens if it does rain well we do have to make sure that this area doesn't flood for the queuing so as we decipher the plan and moving forward

048that road right there is in how do we develop that road is it going to be a little higher is it going to be a bridge system are we going to put drains right here to flow it the down this direction so it doesn't impact that road so all of those uh items are being in uh taken in consideration and as I stated before this is the pencil phase right we can erase and move some things around um as we move forward we'll get more into the pin probably next month to say okay this is kind of where we want to go uh Miss Pearson and your team and the board is how much it's going to cost um every phase has a checklist of costs to ensure that we're under budget and on time

049so thank you for your question hello sir I got a question for you if we've done so many uh so many you know studies on the uh IR a and flood zone and so forth why not build somewhere else that's a great question thank you for that another another thing is was was there always a plan to build two different facilities at two different locations or has this always been the initial plan to build one you know whether it' be here Bus Barn wherever it might be cuz if there was two different locations what was the total amount of money allocated for that versus how much are we going to save now for one one one building basically yeah it's great great questions um when we started this uh Journey uh we brought up the

050different sites in where we can propose to build these two campuses then we went into a um a survey system that we did push out and as you can see in the few uh earlier slides 70% of the team of the community said he that's a good site um to come to that was a lot of pros and cons um as you as we stated you know one was the construction site alone being hazardous over in the central of the uh area where the elementary is now and notifying all those homes hey we're fixing to do construction right and it might be a hazard that in that area for a short time the second piece was you think that would be easier when dealing with the flood zone it seems and because this obviously is

051it's going to be a problem cuz you guys have spent time you know figuring this out right now when they asked you about the evacuation you were like well we can send some to the five 10 you don't have a plan in place for that but you do have a plan for this yes sir because so so obviously there we have a problem yeah so there's stages and we're we're solving that problem we can't get to the Safety and Security evacuation until we have everything inks we're in pencil phase right now when we have everything ink will submit it to Texas state and they'll tell us and Texas and uh uh the was submit it to Texas State and tea and they'll let us know whether our plan is is suffices for this area so

052in the pencil phase yes we're trying to solve problems and wrap our R brains around so many there is a problem and we're probably going to get into it here in a in a few minutes but uh over at the at the high school and at the junior high it's the same if you really think about it's the same land you know and this board has charged us to figure out that Miss Pearson has charged us to fix that not just you know let it let it continue to be a problem so we're trying to prevent that here and the way you can do that is through design through a grid system and pushing everything out now going back to the cost cost the cost analysis uh your board and Miss Pearson they brought a

053construction manager at risk right off the bat back in May so what does that mean that means if we're over budget that GC I'm sorry to put you on spot Abby but her team's going to pay for the rest of the bill if we don't come under that budget so your board went what was the number we we don't have the we're we're we don't have the actual budget number until we finished the design no but what was the number if you were to build two different facilities what was that number well first of first off was you can take and Abby correct me if I'm wrong here with the cost analysis that they ran for portables for site development for how you don't need Portables cuz they have an existing school there so like

054the tear down and and constru a new facility out there versus constructing here what was the total number cuz I'm sure you guys have it already yeah I think the Delta Allin was and I don't remember exactly but it was either 11 or 13 million and how much is it here well that was the the total Delta between doing either the two locations or one campus it was going to be 13 million more to do the two separate campuses and the Portables were priced because at some point we had to demo the existing school or part of the existing school and relocate those kids to a temporary camp but we couldn't we couldn't build next to the facility and then house the kids and then tear down that's more that's feasible I mean it doesn't

055make any sense to rent Portables when when they're they're being they're going to school right now the way the plan was logistically set up at one point during the construction the existing building would have to be demoed because you were going to still have parking and other um parts of the school like the final plan that were in that area so there was demo of the existing en campus involved and Portables needed okay so right now we're going to save $13 million by building here yes and what are we going to use those 13 million for I that's a part of uh the ongoing presentation there but that money goes back we did talk to your legal counsel uh as far as Bond counsil and it's uh in right now with Miss Pearson and the

056board uh to see what they want to do with that money and how they're going to apply it to CES of spring cic they loc when you look at a longterm maintenance and we start looking at pumps and we start looking at having it paint maybe paying the 13 million is not so bad because right now we're having to Fork out so much more money at the high school at the junior high level and I know a lot of us couldn't be here today but and I'm very involved in the community and I know everybody here but from everyone that I've spoken to they want two schools in two different locations and if we can present or propose those ideas with two different sets of cost hey spending the 13 million why not you know

057because we're going to be stuck with the long-term maintenance I mean I'm not sure what the guarantee is going to be for the district for any structure failures what's the guarantee cuz based on your presentation you said one year what happens in 10 years 20 years we're in a small town right now we have the oil and gas industry but they're not always going to be here and we can't keep increasing tax rates so that's why I think we're so vested in this because we want to ensure that we have a good sound school that we're not going to have all these hiccups and having to deal with all the issues that we're currently having to deal with yes ma'am um I think the board and this is kind of my my opinion in the

058sense of hiring us and hiring your architect and your semar right off the bat uh to have an auditor right next to them and keep them within a budget is smart considering that the last few bonds that didn't happen to where now we were able to do an analysis and actually talk through all the plans and say hey uh 10 to 11 to 12 13 million milon dollar is a good earmark of money that may be utilized in different uh uh uh items to fix maybe different things around the district uh so our job was to come in and provide those pros and cons talk to the community and gain their input gain their piece of mind send out surveys and this is where we landed in the sense of the best movement forward as

059far as cost savings not hindering the learning environment with Portables and keeping a safe area away of demolition uh from that uh area of where the elementary is nowbody people start asking questions and they realize there's a water issue that's where everybody's like wait a minute let's look at different Avenues you know yeah yeah and I'm glad you brought up the water issue we're going to talk about that here in about two minutes if I if I may proceed okay so uh we went through the elementary school now the other side is the Intermediate School up at the top is the pink area where where you have the admin area and then you start getting into the classrooms um and then you move down into the library uh in the pink right here and all

060these Flex spaces in the middle um then you move into their own separate dining facility that's connected to uh the kitchen there their own stage their own art room uh their own area for events uh Christmas events Easter events all the all that good stuff so people ask like well how how big is this area right here well this area in the middle is 93 uh yards long so almost a football field uh this area is covered so they're going to have a library that comes out into a covered area right there uh there is two gyms here and one major gym that can be used for U spec in case youall want to have another gym for a u tournament uh so and then the kitchen as I stated before has a a room

061for all the students coming in and out there during their lunch uh periods and the breakfast periods and this is on the website if you would uh like to go out and see some more specifics and some of the uh interior work that has been selected uh to mimic in this design uh highlighted by the teachers the staff and some of the students and some of the community during our surveys gotta so here uh we go ahead sir sir what's what's the uh what's the square footage of that building right there we're sitting at 135,000 FT right now maso menos he says 135 yes sir 10 and what about the the old plan that that never I never saw the old plan but if we were to make two different buildings what was going to

062be the square footage on this one and at the elementary uh Octavio it's probably about the same correct did we Octavio and er they did the bond planning for uh CS CD and so I'm sure you can speak on on that right if you were to take the 136 feet square fet and cut it in half that's approximately you know 7 70,000 each now in addition to that you'd have to add a separate gym and a separate kitchen right so those are the two spaces that both schools are able to utilize I thought it was a separate separate gym well go back to the other slide yeah he just said it was two gyms two different so what I'm saying is you just said we're were going to save $13 million if it's the same

063square of footage you're telling me that $13 million is what we're going to pay for forc conx buildings well this space right here would have to be replicated for both schools and then this gym right now is basically um a smaller Court what this allows you is the ability to open this up into one large facility that you can use as a bigger space yeah yes sir I understand all that but what I'm trying to get at is if we cut it in half and we move it somewhere else it's going to cost us $13 million is that what you're saying that was the uh the impact analysis I'll let you go and continue with that one the Third 13 million came from site alone sir we're not talking square footage right now uh but

064but I mean I'm just talking you knows your gym is about maybe what 4,000 square fet 4000 so you you now you have 4,000 sare feet and 4,000 square F feet right so we combined that here and built a gem and added a UIL gem in a sense of of engineering it and planning it together so 13 million up I didn't want to quote that but 13 million 10 11 12 is not guaranteed savings because we're still in the design phase but at that snapshot in that moment that was just the groundwork that was just the Portables connecting the Portables to the electrical connect but the groundwork stays the same cuz it's two different it's square footage whether you build here next door it's groundwork well it if we were to do it at that

065moment in time that was the cost dialysis now you're talking square footage and square footage savings so you would have to add another kitchen and another gym so therefore you're adding another 4,000 sare ft we we have a different kitchen apparently no you have a combined kitchen sir yeah you have two dining rooms there that don't interact with each other because so how much would that add to the cost it really Sav because now you're adding you're adding you're combining one space instead of having to build two at two different areas so your combined spaces are your gems uh your uh designing your kitchen your purple and your kitchen these two spaces down here and then your outdoor learning spaces this is a combined space 93 yards here we were trying to save more money

066and combined uh the um the administrative Suite but our principles and our administrators said no we need two separate identities two separate uh spaces so this is what came about that and that spine in the middle separates the ball the right there don't make any chance thank you so now we can talk about the new projects um right here in the middle you can see that the number one challenge right now is the Foundations at the high school and at the junior high uh Miss Pearson and uh the board has said hey we want to investigate and we want to evaluate those uh two foundations um I think the building was built in 2014 so it's been about 10 years now um and we need to go in there because apparently there's a lot of

067condensation a lot of uh uh challenges maybe in the foundation so our team is going to go in there um within the next uh two weeks and provide a proposal of what it will take to investigate and evaluate both of those items because um they've just been sitting there for about 10 years and the board is ready to uh and Miss Pearson's ready to do something and act on whatever the challenges might may be faced there um so we're going to do that within the next uh month in March and then in May we're going to have a collaboration time a discovery and a planning piece and then in July the team of eight the Board of Trustees are going to get together and we're going to priorize and communicate next steps uh internally and

068externally of where we want to go with these new projects one the foundation and two E3 projects now E3 projects is more of a a cost savings and to fix the roofs uh to upgrade your HVAC systems and your Lighting systems so here within the next six seven months uh we do have uh are going to break down the plan to try to fix what's going on at the junior high and fix what's going on at the high school and now we'll open up the floor to questions I would just like thank you I don't know if any of our board members want to share anything but I what I'd like to share is that a lot of the uh when we were looking at the different sites which is existing CSI existing csse um

069this was the third site really all of those were looked at by these people and their expertise feedback was presented to the board like I know this is our first meeting here but we've had numerous numerous meetings reviewing all of the pros cons of everything we've even had Bond meetings Miss means has been in in at least two of them that I can think of uh we've met with the teachers I see several teachers in here that we've met with several times on on the designs but I would like to share that this project this last one with E3 really looking at the current challenges for the junior high and high school they're not really possible if we don't have some savings and so really this is my opinion but I am going to State

070it and youall don't have to agree with me it is a little bit of a win-win because we have an issue that that has when I got here in May I had students talking to me about the issues at the high school I had community members talking to me it has been going on for years and if somebody wants to agree with me I see Miss Bullard shaking her head we are not going to turn a blind eye we are going to address it the board has tasked me as a superintendent of schools to investigate it we're not brushing it aside I think Miss Bullard can attest to my word because I think with Miss Bullard I I've proven to her and it was a great respect to prove it to her that I am

071one to follow through and the board has tasked me with that so we're going to do that we're going to look at the issues at the junior high we're going to is look at the issues at the high school we're going to evaluate investigate and we're going to come back to a plan ultimately the board has to decide how we're going to address that and this the um professionals are going to give us their expert opinion on what we can do and what the cost is going to be Mr gar because it's huge right what is it going to cost us to address those concerns you know I just had a a family member last night at our music event come to me and say Miss Pearson I had a I live here nearby I

072built something I didn't listen and build it to the way they wanted the stronger rear I'm going to say it wrong rebar and I regret it we're not going to ignore expert opinion here y'all we're not that's why the board was so smart to hire project managers who are we're we're not going to ignore that previously with the high school and the junior high unfortunately there was not the project managers there was not the oversight where we're making really smart decisions so that we are not having the issues we have at the junior high and high school I just felt compelled to share that I just I I needed to say that because we've had so many discussions on it um but I don't know if y'all want to share anything I just I just

073want to say that I know there's a lot of um a lot of um questions now like well are we are are are we building in the right spot because of the problems we have with Junior High high school so to me that's why I told Miss Pearson we need to have this meeting because I want the community to know what we know yes we have learned a lot from from our experts and for to feel that the school is safe to build here you know we've listened to all the studies and and we're going to get a lot more U results from those studies and I feel like well this school has been here a long time it's one of the oldest schools and it's still pretty good they don't have the same issues

074at all that Junior High and high school has so that kind of to me makes me feel okay they say we can do it here I'm okay with that if they were to say we're going to go build it near the junior H High School I would say no there's no way because I mean we all know those those how those schools are and that's another reason that's another thing that like she said we want to investigate those schools because again I want the community to know what we know and and those schools have problems and they have been continued and they're still continuing I mean at one point are we going to say okay um we need to do something with those schools and get them fixed correctly I feel we need to do

075that now because part of that Bond money was to do some renovation to those two schools so we need to investigate and find out what it's going to take what's the dollar amount it's going to take to fix it because we need to know what we can do it it we can't continue to keep sweeping it under the rug and continue the way it's going those AC's don't need to be running 24/7 to prevent that condensation that's not a fix that's a Band-Aid and put in a new AC to me that's just another a newer bandaid and and we need to do something and if if I mean that's my opinion that's how I feel on it and like I said this meeting was to get everybody to know what we know we just want

076y'all to hear from the experts ask them anything you want what we know is what y'all we want y'all to know that's what I'm trying to say I I second what Miss Franco just said because our old high school which is the new junior high was always nicknam the Titanic because apparently there's Natural Springs area in that in in this area so if our drain system or flood system is the going to be the main concern as far as the parking and the congestion of traffic uh to add with Miss Franco said those two schools should be our understudy to figure out what what type of ground we're dealing with before we even start whatever what whatever y guys start doing here because if it turns out to be a a major problem then maybe

077we're looking at something that hasn't been discovered yet so um there there are natural springs here I don't know there's actual water underneath there but apparently there's been a lot of um I don't know a lot of issues with the junior high a lot of water yeah thank you for that sir that's that's why uh I think Miss Pearson and Miss Franco and the rest of the board charged us to do the investigation and then the evaluation CU those are two different things there and you're right uh nelling it on the head in the sense that there's some underlying things that we can learn from that and uh within the next six to eight months we're going to have some uh type of plans some cost estimat and moving this forward like I think Miss

078Franco said uh we don't want to put a Band-Aid on it and we're here to help uh bring that alleviation that that fix if I could say that uh to those facilities got got another question I understand as far as all of this is a process it takes time and know starting with the bond itself as far as the time that it took to go ahead and pass it you know but um I guess at this point as far as a community member as far as our family members uh around me uh that have asked is it safe to say that it's still like 14 months away before we even had have a groundbreaking no sir uh our goal is to wrap up CDs uh construction documents uh here in uh I believe it's the

079end of November and once that happens we're looking at hopefully breaking ground in January so that's that's where we are on a timeline right now uh we have to go through that process and make sure we're under budget uh you know the new drainage system all those things are going to come into play um and so we're in the pencil phase we'll go to the pin phase with design development bring it to the board make sure tea signs off on it and then we move forward with construction documents another four months which lines us up right at the end of November December now what we are going to do is going to look at the design of the HVAC systems because right now a chiller or one of these units right here uh takes almost

080a year to get in so we're going to go ahead and try to get those designed and ready to go for these facilities and uh do a uh guaranteed maximum price uh exercise where we bring that to the board uh to try to get some of those equipment items in first um so that we don't pay in the long run uh uh the market price may increase we want to snapshot and grab that right now so you'll probably hear about an acronym gmp1 and gmp2 gmp1 will be the equipment for our uh uh any of our Transformers or any of our uh HVAC systems and then gmp2 will round up the rest of the uh the bond uh the project monies for both campuses and uh the second part of my question is I don't

081know if it's to directed to you or to the bond itself but originally the bond was passed for transportation to be included you know as far as it's it's needed uh and so I'm wondering as far as in this uh budget or whatever that we're looking at as far as that completely separate from what we're looking at here and as far as there's still money so we we did already order buses and they also take a year so the board approved that purchase um I believe it was in October maybe September October so the buses are ordered and we did use Bond money for those for those for the transportation yeah we needed new buses they we had a really good presentation I believe it was on October I'd have to go back and look

082uh we had our U director at that time Mr Ry Gonzalez and Dora G that come and did a full presentation to the board they uh created a a chart that had the age of all of our buses and and the buses that we need to retire and the board approved three three buses three new buses yep thank you great question and we're very proud of that thank you is that all you're going to order for the business for the maintenance department only three buses for the buses right now yes that that's what we ordered for right now based on the Matrix that they gave us and the ones that was the recommendation from the director uh Mr Gonzalez and Miss Garza that's what we ordered so so and I'm sorry I just got in

083late I'm sorry this question got answered before um as you know I was here last year and before I left I know that there was some money appropriated for the buildings I believe it was going to be like 35 and 40,000 for each building and then about six I mean 35 million 40 million and 6 million for for for other jobs that could be done is that still the case for are you talking uh for renovations of the campuses that exist right now correct okay um as far as the budget in a sense of Renovations for uh the facility right now we will utilize any bond uh Bond I shouldn't put you on a spot like that Miss Pearson but we will bring the cost savings that we do save to the district and they

084will utilize those funds appropriately according to the bond Council on where they can and cannot use them as far as Renovations uh because there is specific uh language on the bond uh ballot that was uh passed um but as far as operational uh buildings right now and Renovations uh I think they do have some money set aside for oper uh maintenance and and construction how much is that until we know that until we have all of the we don't have any down now you want I don't I don't have a mic I think I think he's talking about regular budget Miss Miss Pearson I don't think he's talking Bond money Bond money no I'm talking about B Bond money because when we left we left 40 uh 35 million and 40 million for the schools

085and they were going to be separate they were not going to be like they are right now um there was money for that so and that was a that was a purpose that we that we said that we're going to do the bond for that so that's not build two schools or schools in the same location share the building share the the cafeteria and share the the gym that's nonsense I'm sorry okay well you I think if you add up your funds I think it's equals 70 uh the bond was passed for 91 million so there is uh uh some uh money's there in our budget to where we need to keep our our uh budget at um as far as the cost analysis and all those items uh we did go through those in

086a sense of where we are with the two facilities and the fact that they have two identities and two campuses two libraries and they cannot interact with each other or disrupt functionality between the two um we went through that presentation before and afterwards you're welcome to come up and we can we can definitely fill you in sir okay that'll work have you done a study for the traffic that's going to be generated that's a great question we did put up on the announcements up here that the traffic study is due March 31st and we will T dot is going to do that uh text Dot is part of that study or he'll be involved yeah they'll be involved our civil engineer here you can come ask him specific questions if you'd like regarding the study

087but we did uh actually uh create about 700 yards of extra queuing space and that doesn't include the connection to the junior high that we will probably be using for queueing space thank you for those questions all right we're going to go ahead and close it up but before we leave just want to say thank you um you know I grew up in a small town about 5,000 people and my heart is here in corizo Spring CISD I can promise you our team is given all they got to have your taxpayer dollar spent appropriately and that we design it appropriately for 50 years and our fingerprints and our names are on it too and we want to make sure we do a good job for you and if you go check out the videos and

088you go check out our website you can see a spirit of that as we produce some of these things to let you know that we are locked in step with you guys every day every week week and moving this thing forward you have an amazing board you got an amazing team and we're excited to work with you and if you want to come up and ask questions to some of our teammates it's open and we'll go ahead and close out the meeting from there I have one more question oh I'm sorry who had a question sorry sir I just want I just want to say and I don't want to be rude or nothing but it it sounds like you guys decided where to build a school and and um sounds like you guys are

089going to profit more than than the city itself or our community cuz if you ask the Schoolboard members like I'm sure I'm sure they don't agree with it I mean just because you guys came in and you know sounds nasty but shoved it on their throats to build a combined facility versus two then that's why we're here cuz it doesn't make any sense at all it's like uh I I can't remember what that lady's name is but let's say we have an active shooter situation what are you going to do what are you going to do having you know prek uh kindergarten first graders running around do you think they're going to go to the five yard line or to the everybody's going to be running around you know that's that's one concern another concern

090is like I said you guys have spent obviously a lot of hours figuring out the the ground situation we have and and I I still can't believe that that building the elementary up there on top of the hill is is you know out of the question you know if we're talking about because we're going to house the kids on on you know uh Portables you know that's that's actually a stupid response I mean if we're going to if if we're not going to build because we got to house the kids on on Portables that's that's not a good answer if I don't I mean I'm I'm all for building yeah build two campuses we need them we do need them but building everything here it it doesn't make any sense and I wish the Schoolboard

091members would understand it I'm sure they do but you guys came and fed all this to them already and that's why everybody says that this makes sense and again thank thank you thank everyone that came tonight for your input and just to kind of speak to that anything that was shared with us by these ladies and gentlemen was not force fed to us it was we looked at various sites we they gave us the reasons why and we as a board decided we may have agreed to disagree on some things but a lot of this information was okay let's evaluate up on the hill let's evaluate across next to CSI you know that where the where that area is let's evaluate this area we we tossed three different sites around um we talked about safety

092we every area was discussed so what was your reason sir what was my reason what was your reason that to build two different I'm not going to get into that my reason why but I'm giving you we we had those discussions sir I'm not I'm GNA I'm not going to come back and rehash I'm just I'm I'm I'm just giving you that nothing shared with these guys from us was force fed it was all we're a team we we're now one team and what we shared with them was what we we had several discussions and I thought about I can speak for myself I thought as one board member I'm not going to answer that right now but I'm telling you I thought as one board member on every site this site across the street

093up on the hill and looked at all the different variables and we took their input what they shared with us not force fed what they shared with us and discussed it as members and there was nothing you know it yeah there was a lot of okay maybe not yes and Nos and maybe not but this is what we came to we took it to the public and this is where we are today is it is it going to be if if in if after you know they continue their studies here and they come back to us and they say Okay board members there's may be something else going on here we'll re-evaluate that as well we reeval reevaluate that as well and if it's not cost effective if it's not safe if it's you know

09410 years we're worried about what we're woring about at Junior and high school we will certainly say well okay we need to stop and talk about that but so far as a team I feel like we've got all the answers they've answered all our questions and they brought to us on each site what the pros and the cons are thank you yes thank you mrz and I want to share that we have gone out to the community we have gotten feedback I know we have maybe what 20 25 people 30 people in here we have gotten lots of feedback and overwhelmingly the feedback has been very very positive very positive I know that you all are hearing from your circle no no no but overwhelmingly hundreds into the hundreds 200s it has been positive I

095just want to share that because I think it's very important to share we have I have had teachers come and say we're very excited family members were very excited we did do the survey the survey results were there they those were not made up that was a survey that went out those are real numbers those are real numbers that 70% is a real number for the site so I just want to share that because I hear what you guys are saying but I think it's also important to know there are actually a lot of people that are very very excited there's lots of videos please go watch them because I know I've heard from different people like you know what's been shared with it's been on the website it's been there every month it's updated

096please go watch the videos it has children talking it has our students talking they've met with the student ambassadors which is about 45 kids they've met with them three times the students are very excited never once where they like oh this is stupid this is negative netive they were like this is awesome we can walk across for field day we can do we can use our beautiful stadium and track it opens up a world of possibilities those are just some comments that we've heard from students from teachers I from family members this helps us we're really stressed in the morning we've got to head out of town I get to drop off my kids you know in a loop so I just want to share some of those things because those are also some positive

097momentum comments that we have received as well I have one last question I know we entrust our board members to make the right decisions but at the end of the day we are a small community um the biggest take that we take away from the elementary are the daycares you know I work at the hospital so a lot of these children walk to the elementary there's apartments there they walk right and so that's a takeaway a con that's not going to be there you know so I think when we look at proposed cost I still think there's going to be a risk associated with these drains at any single point right so I think we need to evaluate if there is a second option to look and present that to the board if that's a

098$15 million difference I think investing those $15 million because that school is going to last us that much longer and I know you guys stand behind y'all's work but how long was going a contractor done when they're done they'll put their stamp on it it's a year or when they're done they're done right what if there's an issue 5 years 10 years or we going to have to go through a lawsuit and get a a settlement like we currently dealt with and so those those are some of the things that you know we think about thank you Mrs means I do want to comment uh for the daycares and the neighborhoods there we are committed as a school district as a board to uh transport those students so those families for years have been used

099to walking their students so they would still be available to walk their students to that site and we would have buses uh at that site for students to get on the bus and bring them here that actually is a win-win because it also helps with the congestion of cars right because then we're we're working with multiple 40 kids right now and I'm so sorry I don't have the numbers I had them on top of my head but I don't have them right now how many do you know Mr Reese how many kids the numbers is for the that we pick up in the in town is it like 60 students in that area right now we have how many buses that pick up in cadis in the city within the city limits is it is

100it two buses I had the numbers at one time and I don't have them right now but we we we're committed to putting a bus there getting uh students on the bus that walk and bringing them to the school year I have question GNA get her and then we'll get you I think what she was referring to with the daycare is right now kids after school are picked up by the daycare and they're walked across the street cuz not all parents um are able to leave like myself for example so what is your plan for that right now we right now we already currently bus one group of daycare students from the elementary and so if there is a need for us to create some type of routes for another daycare that's not going to

101be off the question because it's not out of the question right now we are currently doing that this year we Buzz students to a daycare Elementary just Elementary right now I'm sorry so I do have a comment um So currently I do know that we do have like Elementary has a local route CSI has a local route but and I know because my daughter writes that local route but it's packed so would your your buses that you ordered would those go into for that reason or would that go for would those buses be used elsewhere well potentially and when we get to that you know when we get to that place especially as we get closer we move forward with the building we will have to we will have to analyze our routes right and

102we'd have to determine do we need more bus drivers do we need more routes there is an option to stack stack routes we don't currently do that right now we only stack routes on emergency situations like if for some reason we had to send several buses out for uh sporting events and we have to pick up kids at CSE CSI and the junior high we'll we'll do what's called stacking which is we'll do one run and then we'll do another run we don't do that right now unless we have to an emergency and the reason I bring up that example is because currently we are also working through our calendar our instructional calendar and we are looking at having about a 25 minute between about 20 minutes between Elementary CSI and Junior High in high

103school so it would allow us to do some stacking if we needed to and less in congestion on the buses right so being that those daycare students would now be need to be transferred back over to that neighborhood um I guess also put into into your minds that those kids who live in the surrounding area right now at CC aren't getting transportation because they are close right yes correct but now now you're talking those students would need Transportation on top of now your daycare also needs Transportation so that's just yeah at the end of the day correct yeah hold on Mr Mendes we'll get you the mic in just a minute so back to that traffic study depending on how this traffic study works is is is it going to change the design based on

104maybe making more routes because just in our neighborhood District all the schools are in one probably within a thousand meters of of each other and it's I don't know what word to use but it's it's hell because you have the elementary and the I know preschool and then across the street you got the junior high and maybe not even two to 300 yards you got the newly Bill High School across the street is a junior high so this and again I'm I'm going back to the the mass body of kids slash parents slash everything going on all in one giant uh vicinity and we're right on the corner of us83 and US 277 right in the heart of the eagle for Shell so adding what we're and I understand this is the pencil phas and

105I I totally understand that but what is your contingency plan moving forward if again I mean I'm just assuming we're another West Texas we're not even nowhere near expiration yet so hypothetically what's the plan of action moving forward if we have you know sorry hell of traffic through here because you're going to have you know they're going to use this route per se to avoid town this road right here is is already the high school and then building two schools here you got the CSI here and then you got 85 going out towards um I35 so I mean we're we're right in the heart of traffic that's my main concern is um you know adding these schools here is going to create a cluster a major cluster no nobody's going to see it yet and

106I know you're going to go off the traffic survey or whatever but I mean this stuff is is is ongoing and we really don't know the outcome of traffic until it hits so that's just something to I think that's a great comment there where we don't know until it hits I know first day of schools it's pretty messy almost at every school district um especially if you're looking at a calendar review and you know Miss Pearson saying there might be a 20 minute Gap that's amazing music to the bit to the buses because then they can get kids where they need to go I think the biggest piece uh that was charged to us um in this design of traffic pertaining to traffic and the facility um as you saw on the survey especially from

107Miss Pearson and the board was that we need to keep our students safe so the bottom line is whatever route we decide to do we'll get brushed with a traffic study and they will give us a grade ABCD all the way to F and we'll evaluate keep evaluating until everyone's safe um but until it hits like the first day of school whatever start times and and depart times uh we're going to do a delicate dance and ensure that the flow is there we'll probably be pushing out some maps and ways of flows for the intermediate the ways of flows for the uh for the elementary right ways that flows Junior High and um you know so we're going to have to put flyers out there we're going to probably have to put some stuff in

108the mail so some folks uh you know need need that paper to map there with them so uh we're going to do everything we can and I think just to keep kids safe and keep parents safe and this whole region safe um I just want to make sure that um everyone knows my stance on this I completely agree with putting the schools in the same area first of all I just want to make sure that everyone understands that that's where I stand uh I have been blessed to be on the bond committee since the beginning when we were proposing the bond up to this phase so I've been on every Bond committee from the beginning to now and one of the things that I do want to make very very very clear is that I

109am very very very confident in our board I'm very confident in our team that's leading this Bond when we've proposed and passed Bonds in the past they have never come through with what the promises were so I'm grateful that we are so transparent and the way that this is being um situated the way that it's being uh proposed to the public U making sure that the surveys are be going out because we are getting response from the surveys it's not we're not you know they're not pushing anything down our throats these were surveys this is what the public wants you're always going to have people that not are not in agreement always but the majority 70% is a big big big percentage of agreement so having the students all in one area and we've talked

110to the the people from the safety centers they're telling us that this is a good idea they're telling us that it's going to be easier to Bus kids out we've been doing walkthroughs at the arena for our um reunifications for things if in case things do happen it's going to be easier to BU kids out of here in case there are situations that's just the way it's going to be and also I do believe that we will get those roads built that is it is going to alleviate a lot of the congestion and the traffic but I like I said I do want to make sure that everyone understands that this wasn't something that's being pushed or that's being forced that it's being a very clearcut and open Agenda we've been on these Bond committing

111from the beginning and this is as transparent as I've ever seen a bond being situated and proposed really thank you thank you for that and I agree it's been extremely transparent the the feedback we've gotten has been very positive and in fact every step of the way they've talked about the transparency even even this meeting itself make sure EV gets a raise I think I think just the major part is um as a community member of myself um that there's always push back from the community you know because like anybody else has said oh it's going to be good for the betterment of the community right so they've said that in the last previous bonds and the previous month so I think the push back is not that everything anybody feels forced but it's just

112more like we we do you know they're the experts obviously right we're just here as you know members of the community that are you know we want to know because our children come here my children come here and we want to make sure that you know yes it flows you know does this work we know things sometimes don't work we know the problems we have right now at Junior High or the high school so we just want to make sure that you know are we doing the best thing right now is it in the best interest of the students not just the community but you know cost effect and all that you know but is it good for us you know it's just you know I know people say you know a bond the people

113wanted the bond because we need schools I mean obviously we know we need the schools the thing is just you know I understand the push back from people because in the past we've been burned you know you know that's just you know the fact you know so I think that's what it is the push back and the wanting to know the questions all of that I mean we're just here as concerned citizens ourselves absolutely and we appreciate that so much and I agree with you and that's be beautifully said and these schools are for the community I said that in the first video I put out these are for our students and it's for the communities you everybody uses our schools everybody we have uh little league basketball in the junior NFL on we do

114not charge a dime as a district that is our board that is our board because our board believes so much in community that they allow every organization within godo Springs to use our facilities for free and y'all that is budget money that the board is willing to honor and accept because they believe so strongly that these schools are for our community and so we have a we have an incredible board we have an incredible Community we have amazing students and families and I just want to thank you all for coming we are going to end to respect time because it is now 7:23 but they will be here if anybody uh wants to come up and ask questions one last comment Miss fanco and then we're gonna we're going to end so we can cut

115the live stream I just want to say that um again that the reason for this was to hear the community to hear what everybody was saying and there's nothing set in stone we're listening and we're going to look at the testing that that that still needs to be completed we're going to look at at everything before if if we have to make a school over there two separate schools you know and in where csse is and where CSI is then we're going to look at all that because we're not going to just um decide um you know everything still has to be taken into consideration because we want to like I said be transparent we want to hear everything and we want y'all to know what we know and that was the point of this

116meeting whether it's like I said it's going to be two separate schools uh I know that our experts here they're going to give us the best schools wherever they are whether it's here or over there and that is what we're going to hold them to of course number one and and again is to fix the problems that we have with our with our Junior High and high school that's also a big priority that that we want to to accomplish because that is something that's been ongoing and we can't let it go continue to go further so all those things we have to look at what the big dollar sign is going to be at the end of all those projects which you know we're going to do because we want to do what's going to

117be the best for all our students that are in each in every one of those schools that's appreci thank you thank you thank you and good evening we're going to go ahead and at the live stream and end our meeting but of course if anybody has an individual question thank you