001It's 6 o'clock. We're going to go ahead and get started. Uh establish we have a quorum present. So, we'll go ahead and call to order the meeting starting with the pledge of allegiance and the pledge of the Texas flag led by Mr. Chapa. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Texas flagg to the one state under God, one and indivisible. All right, Leo with a mission statement. Through high expectation and equitable opportunity, TMISD will focus on the whole child by providing a safe environment and high quality curriculum with diverse and enriching experiences. All right. Do we have any public comment? No, sir. All right. So, next, correct me if I'm wrong.
002I think we're going to convene in close session is our next step. Um, I don't have the words I'm supposed to read. Don't have to read a big paragraph about No, you just read the closed. Where's that? Oh, okay. I don't have Okay. All right. The board right there. Just right there. Okay. The board will convene in closed meeting as authorized by the Open Meetings Act to discuss items allowed by the Texas Government Code Chapter 551 uh.071. Close session 551.071 Texas Government Code consultation with legal counsel regarding potential school boundary changes, imminent domain and negotiations regarding easement. All right, it's 601. It's 658. We are reconvening from close session. Uh we move on to the action items, discussion items have we have here. The first one is discuss and consider approval of Tulsa Midway High
003School HVAC replacements and upgrades. Mr. President, members of the board, we're ready to move forward with another bond project at the high school. Mr. Hernandez, Mr. President, members of the board, good evening. Uh, the last time we did any significant work on the uh HVAC at the high school was back in 2008, 2009 when we added the science wing. We added a chiller at that time. Uh we upsized the piping to get over to the new science wing and we replaced all the air handlers with dyken units. So it's been a while. It's time for repair. Uh we've started to see some uh major failures uh where shafts and stuff are starting to break. So it's time it d we're due for this replacement. Of course we're also bringing in the CTE building which is
004another 56,000 square ft that's going to require some more air conditioning. We had to upsize the chiller. You already approved the purchase of the chiller and I've got good news that it'll probably be here. We're hoping it'll be here towards the end of July instead of October. It's coming in a little bit earlier. Um so with all that being said, time to replace all the air handlers. We uh Mr. Bill Wilson's here to to help us. He's the architect for this project. I also have uh I had to write these down. I've got also [Music] alsating Systems uh which are the uh the uh we hopefully will be receiving the bid for this packet. All right. Uh so back on February the 17th, Mr. Wilson issued a bid package out to uh for the high
005school HVAC project. Um on February the 25th, we did a pre-proposal meeting and then on March 20th uh we received bids uh from three uh companies on on that day. The three companies have submitted uh the qualifying bids was Protek Mechanical, Central Air and Heating Services, and then Texas Chiller Systems. Uh we've only done work with one of the three. If you recall, Protek Mechanical is doing the current primary project. Um so if when you look at the qualifications uh on on the uh the things there so Protek mechanical got the highest on that uh and it's just slightly above the other ones because we have a little bit of experience with them. And then when you go to the second component the the cost proposal u that's where you see a little bit of
006a difference with central air coming in at about 7.5 million. Uh and then with some uh alternates, we're bringing it down to 6.9 million. Uh they were significantly lower than uh Protek and uh Texas Chillers coming in quite a bit higher. Texas Chillers coming in at 10.4 million and Protek Mechanical coming in at 9.1 million. They're uh Central Air and I'll let them talk about it here in a second, but I want to talk about the research that we've done and and Bill's done with Central Air and Heating. They're a company out of the valley. We've had good success with companies out of the valley there. You know, Corpus is a little bit stale. We don't get good competition. Uh and we've had good success. Uh the emergency roofing project was a company out of
007the valley, Rio Roofing. They did a great job. Sent a large crew and got all the work done for us. So, we've had success. We've looked at their resume. Uh got a resume booklet that we can share. I think Philip has it right there. uh they've done substantial K through uh 12 work here in the region. They've done work with Bishop ISD uh about 8.3 million I believe. Uh they've done work with Banky um Dulce and what was the other schools? Uh Delmar College. They've done substantial work with Delmare College here in the area down in the valley. uh large projects with the Mission ISD, Macallen, uh a lot of K through 12 work. Uh I'll let them talk about their company. They're expanding from the valley. I believe they're about to open up a
008uh side another shop in the Bernie area. They're in the process of doing that. So, they're expanding. Their their background history shows that they're well capable of handling a project this size and multiple jobs. Um at this time, I'll turn it over to them in case I missed anything. if you want to talk about your company or if you guys have any questions for them. Yeah, good evening everyone. Um, I'm Chad Ufflin. I'm the VP of operations for our facility down there. I've been with the company almost 8 years now. Um, we started back in 1972, familyowned, uh, out of the back of a garage and now we're 125 employees strong. Um, as he stated, we did open up our location in San Antonio. We have an off office up there. So now we're able
009to cover from San Antonio all the way down to the valley in the RGB. Uh we do do a lot of K through 12 work. Some of the bigger ones as you mentioned, Macallen, Brownsville. Um we've just noticed a lot of their equipment's been changed out, especially with a lot of the funding that came out through COVID and whatnot. Uh so we're branching up towards this area, but we've got a couple other large projects in this area. The American Bank Center, we have POCCA. We're working over at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. So, we're taking our philosophies and everything we've been doing in the valley and stretching up as far north as San Antonio. Uh we were actually acquired by a larger company out of Phoenix, Arizona, uh 3 years ago, Motogen. So, now we also
010have sister companies here in Texas as well. We have one in Austin, one in Fort Worth, one in Dallas, and I can say now cuz it's being press released on Friday, but we picked up one in Houston. So, our abilities to reach out to our partners if things were to go arai, if we need some help or do some cross things, we're able to bring them in as well. But if you guys have any questions, so don't I have and maybe I'm reading this wrong, but when you look at bid alternate number six, provide additional that that line there, y'all add $90,000. The other group was I mean, one of them was in the millions. How did How does that We didn't exercise that option. We didn't pick it up. So, what we were talking
011about in that option over at the high school in the existing vocational building and the walkway of the breezeway, there's a number of small transformers and disconnects um that are in pretty bad shape. They're rusty and they need to be replaced. Because of the project was going to be dealing in that area, we added as an alternate. The engineer mechanical engineers estimated the project to be somewhere between 50 and $90,000. Right. So, I I get that part. How do we get to to add it for them was 90,000. To add it for somebody else is 1.3 million. Like, what secret sauce do these guys have? So, it's not secret sauce. It's the other companies sending us a clear message that they're not interested in doing. Is that typical? Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, we because I
012don't I don't want to be Can I interrupt you? I apologize for interrupting, but we did get a phone call from Texas Chillers after the fact. They they made a math error. Okay. On that particular bid. So, you know, so the 90,000 is in the range. And what we've done on the con on the draft contract is we've we've for both for bid alternates four, five, and six, we've given the district the option to exercise those within 120 days of the contract. So, if you if you chose, you know, if you came if you decided you needed to do it through this contract, uh, for instance, the fire alarm work, you know, you're going to have to do it. The question is whether you're whether you want to do it with your existing service contractor
013or whether you want to do it through this contract. It might be more beneficial with this price. So you could still exercise it if your contractor for your fire alarms comes in higher than that. if not. So, we've got those kind of options and that and and by the way on the electrical work that we've designed, we've got the design now so that even if you don't exercise this, you can do it at a later time when there might be cost more be more cost beneficial to the district. But there's a bunch of old equipment up above that that walkway as as Patrick me mentioned that is rusting out and and it's going to need to be replaced in the next few years one way or the other. Now, now at least you have the
014the design drawings that you could go Patrick could go out and p get an electrical local electrical contractor to get pricing on that at any time in the future. And not to short change bill. He we've done an extensive amount of work his company along with the mechanical engineers. Uh it involved opening up the uh the uh shutting down the chiller uh sending cameras through the pipes and determining the condition of the pipe. Uh those pipes were installed around 97 98. We thought they were going to be in poor condition. Uh we do do a water treatment. We pay a company to do that and the condition of the pipes turned out to be really good. So we're not having to spend that much on the piping. We will have to upsize to get them
015a volume of water needed to the new CTE building uh and changing out the chiller and stuff, but uh it was it was a lot of extensive work in going through that. Yeah, about half of the piping on that roof is going to have to be replaced simply because of the hydronulics. You know, because we're adding 55,000 square feet, we've got to pump more water through. We're increasing your chill one. You know, the chiller that we're replacing is going from a 350 ton unit to a 750 ton unit for the added capacity that you need on the school. So it's it technically it's a it was it's a challenging project from a technical point of view both in execution because we've got to keep we got to keep the school air condition while all this
016is taking place and and plus we've got to coordinate with the expansion of the building with the other contractor and how that all takes place and and of course you know we we anticip you know we're going to be removing your air cooled chiller and your other so part of this also includes the fact that they're going to have to bring in temporary chillers. when to to to maintain the capacity during construction while they remove that those existing chillers that existing chiller that's running as well as the new cooling tower. So uh it's a it's a significant and challenging project but uh so we're we're com we're comfortable that we've confirmed with the contractor that they're good with their bid. They've gone back and checked things and and these bids are these bids are what
017type of bids are these again? These are, you know, they they bid 7.7. It can go up from there if they find discovery work or what what kind of bid? We included we included u two bid al two two allowances uh I think about $150,000 in allowances inside the contract uh for what we call an owner's contingency allowance if in case we discover some existing conditions that we we you know are unaware of that that might come to light that cause some some additional work. And then we've got, I think, $85,000 in for testing and balancing uh work that needs to be done as those units are brought online. You gave them the rundown on the We don't want to have the issue. I know I say it all the time. That That's exactly why
018we're This is why I always try and beat these up or think about it because one time before we did this and we didn't do it right. So, I mean, lessons learned. We're in charge of the testing and balancing, not the company that's installing the units. Okay. Well, the the district will contract with the company to to do the uh the testing. It's nice to know that the maintenance was taken care of on the pipes. So, we've got some pipes that are in good condition. So, water treatment is always plus water treatment is always worth the price. It is. We're replacing miles of pipes. You don't get any really return on investment, but till you need it. And we will have kids in the school that entire time because we're on a year- round school
019calendar. So, that's going to be real important that we make sure our kids have air up there. It makes it a lot more challenging to do renovations and repair work. Yeah, we love our schedule though. How long is it going to take for it to be complete from start to finish? Uh, we're probably looking at uh what, February, April. Yeah, we've got a we've got a deadline in the bid documents, I believe, of February or March for substantial completion, Jim. Um but uh part of that's the issue of you know we've got to have chill water over to the CTE the new I mean your new expansion well in advance of that being operational I think October November time frame so that they can get you know so that they can get the air conditioners
020operating in your building even while it's under construction because they can't do interior work until they can get air conditioner units to dry out the interior. you know, you got to you got to dehumidify that through running your your system. So, that's another one of the nuances of of the project. Cool. Anybody else got any comments? All right, Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the Talos Midway Independent School District authorize a contract for the Tosa Midway ISD High School HVAC replacement and upgrade project with Central Air and Heating Service LLC of Harllingen, Texas for the base bid and bid alternate number two in the amount of 6,939,000. $834. Do we have a motion? I'll make that motion. Kim, I would read it, but I don't have it. Second, Mr.
021Chakra. All right. All those in favor? Motion carries. 6. Thank you. And congratulations. Thank you. We will get to work. Thank you very much. Progress. All right. Next item on the presentation, the bond 2023 update. Thank you, Mr. President. Members of the board, since I had you here on a bond related, I've uh we've put together a slide deck presentation to give you an update on where we're at. Mr. is going to do that. All right. Good evening. Um, we're giving a bond overview tonight, but this is a slide deck that we're uh it's also going to go on the website once you guys take a look at and we show share all the information. It should go live on the website sometime next week right after Easter. We should get it up. Uh, this
022will be the the it has a front page and then second page. Of course, it proposition A. It covers the uh the the parts of the bond, the junior high, the CT, building safety and security, uh vehicles, band instruments, HVAC, uh roofing replacement, and then you'll be able to click uh on the link below it. It'll give you a little bit more information about all them. Proposition B, the natiator renovations, and of course, Prop C, the baseball, softball, and uh tennis court renovations there. Uh we'll start going through the projects. Uh this is for the new junior high. Uh, of course we we're currently working to get the the land so we can build the facility. Uh, the design plans are approximately right now they're probably a little bit higher than that. They're probably about
02375% complete. Um, the general the next major milestone or project that we're going to be going, we'll be getting the general contractor selected for this project. Last April, almost a year ago, uh I think it was April the 8th in the board meeting, uh y'all uh approved the process. It's going to be a CM contract manager at risk. Uh same thing that we're doing for the CTE building and the mandatory renovations. So, we'll be bringing a guaranteed maximum price to you uh once we get the contractor selected. Uh project milestones progress. We had numerous meetings with the campus staff and the administrators and we took their wish list and uh Lenz architects designed a building uh what they exactly what they wanted all the bells and whistles that they wanted and of course that uh
024the build the cost for that building was well over our budget. So we started working with the teachers. We've had multiple meetings with the teachers and the architects and we're scaling it down to size. Uh we're, you know, we're still getting all everything we wanted. It's just, you know, we may not have four or five conference rooms. Uh we've got three conference rooms. We've got what we need. Uh the cafeteria, we we uh we've been uh blessed with a small very small tight cafeteria over here. So, everybody wanted a a cafeteria that would accommodate everybody. Uh and so we we made a a a mon monstrosity for a cafeteria. So, we're bringing it down to size to feed 350 kids what's appropriate. So, that's where we've been working with that. We've we've got it down
025to within our budget now. The drawings, we also have the junior architects that are working on this as well. And their voice is important. Absolutely. One of the things that um I'm hoping we can take uh on the market is um something that um when I first tell you this, you're going to think, "Oh my god, that's so excessive." But it's it's really not. And it's it's a um two threelane bowling alley for for our special needs kids. Our special needs kids. Uh we spend a lot of money um taking them to practice bowling and bowling. And um we're going to try our best to, you know, it all depends on how much money you have. But when you see that, I don't want you to think, oh my gosh. I mean, what's Fam Matri
026doing? Huge. That's awesome. That sounds like anything for my our kids. I say my kids, but our kids. I'm Yeah. So, that's that's something that I'm excited about. That's awesome. I'm going put it in there. Make sure it's in there. Put it in there somewhere. I'm trying my best. When I first mentioned to him, he walked away like I was crazy. I thought, what do you mean a bowling alley? I know. You know what? Scale down something and put that in for our kids. I'm just saying. Scale it down. So, and he told me, you know, I'm It's now my favorite part of the building. So it it will go in as an alternate bid. So hopefully fingers crossed that we can get it done. Make sure it's in there. Make sure it's in there.
027Patrick, scale something down to put it in there. Uh so the next and then finally just the action items. Uh once we get the final drawings, uh we'll meet with the community. We'll meet with our teachers and finalize all that. Uh the the good thing is the design that Sergio is working on, it can be oriented for any of the three land options that we're looking at right now. Uh it will be adjusted for the prevailing winds, the parking lots, and all that. So depending on the location, he can just tweak the orientation of it. And then once we get the final one, then we'll we'll look at all the factors and make sure we're getting the optimal design for it. So if we build it next to the a barn, it'll face the right
028way. Yes. We don't want the the air intake. We definitely want uh out of that that path of the egg barn. Oh, I just thought about that. Um the the the biggest thing on that one is just getting the land that you guys are aware of that. All right, so moving on to the the CTE building. Uh the groundbreaking ceremony we had on March of 26, uh Fton Construction. If you've been by the high school, we're already digging out there. Uh last week, they tore out the parking lot. uh today, yesterday, today they started uh moving or yes, today they started moving the uh the dirt up front. They'll actually be adding the dirt that they scraped up today to our pile by the a barn because they're going to need it when they finish
029the building. They'll have to bring that dirt back for finishing around the area and they may borrow some of the extra dirt that we have out there. The starting next week, you'll see them start excavating down because this building's going to be on on pier and beans. there's going to be a crawl space underneath and that dirt that it's in their contract to dispose of it. So, you'll see 18 wheelers hauling the dirt away for that. Um the and still the anticipated construction completion date is we're still looking at October uh 2026, but again, we're only about two weeks into this. Uh and then of course you guys approved the GMP back in March 17th. So, this one's moving along with steam. Uh we have our first serious construction meeting tomorrow morning at 10:00 for
030both these projects. Uh and we have pre-construction meetings for the concrete work and everything like that. So this one's finally moving. You know, I don't have that on my calendar. The meeting tomorrow 10. It's the general consu uh contractor's meetings. I I'll make sure that you're adding to them. I know there's one word on my calendar tomorrow. Star. Right. Uh we'll move on to the uh safety and security upgrades. Uh the we've replaced and upgraded all the security cameras in the district. There's a little bit of work, camera work that is still being done. And that's where we completed the vestibs like the exterior, the primary and stuff like that. And those cameras are being installed uh actually this week. Uh and then we'll be done with our hopefully done with our camera upgrades. Uh
031we've replaced 150 exterior doors districtwide. Uh we're almost done with the exterior door projects. We we've punched that list. We're near substantial completion on that. The one that it's a little bit delayed is the doors for the the vestibules because they're very specialized doors. They're bullet resistant doors. They're expensive. The uh hardware for them is in very limited quality quantities. So that's been the delay. Um unfortunately, they ship the wrong hardware with them. So getting the uh the correct hardware has been a serious delay and once you cut those doors uh they're not usable. So they had to resend replacement doors for that. So that's been the delay. Anticipated completion on that. Uh they started working the primary primary this weekend. I'm hoping we're in April. I'm hoping by about miday we should be complete
032with all the vegetables. Awesome. Um the uh classrooms, we had classrooms at pretty much all the campuses that had those curtain walls. Uh when the buildings were designed, it was to to do open teach open space teaching. Uh and it was a kind of a security issue. If you got into one room, you really had access to two classrooms, so more students. So with your approval, we went in, we replaced those with solid uh solid walls. Uh and we completed all the work at at all the campuses. Primary had the most classrooms with that. Intermediate had a few, middle school had a few, and high school had a few, and all those have been completed. Uh we had done fencing prior to the bond. Uh but however, we weren't compliant with the safety egress. The
033fire marshall because if you were vacuum, we had pedlocks on some of those gates and the fire marshall recommended that we do the the panic bars and you'll see those in front of the niatorum, behind the vocational building, out by the fieldhouse. So now if there's a fire and somebody needs to get out of it, they just push the bar and they can get out. But they can't get in. They they need a key. Can you reach around the fence and push the bar from there? You have to have a really long arm. Okay. Uh because that was and I pointed that out because over at the Jim Cooper auditorium that that one has one like that and I don't have a key to that. I just simply do exactly like you said, reach around
034and push the bar in. But it doesn't get you anywhere just into that little fenced in area. But, uh, no, it's it's got large metal panels to where you can't reach around. Um, milestones, of course, we had our T our big TA audit back in, uh, September, October of the school year. Uh, we passed our audit. Uh, they had a couple of minor recommendations and all those were completed by uh, February the 15th, 14th. Valentine's Day was our deadline. We're compliant with all that. Um, action items. We're just continuing to work on the security festivals, the card access. I I forgot to mention that they're also installing the card access. So, uh once it gets installed, the people will be able will have a badge ID and they'll be able to press it in and
035walk into the building. We'll be able to control the times uh you know, time of the day they can go and what days they can go in, holidays, and access for all that. Uh the biggest advantage is that we'll be able to put these in the Nox boxes and for the police department and if there's an event and we hit the panic button and it locks everything down, the police will still have access to the building. They won't have to waste time on uh ramming a door down or or prying a door open. They're going to have card access to immediately get into the building. All right. Uh buses and vehicles. Uh we've purchased four large buses. Uh the uh first were three bluebirds that we p purchased last year and then the uh we
036purchased another bus uh about a month ago and it actually arrived last Thursday. Oh wow. So we already have that in all four of the large buses are here. We purchased those two activity buses that don't require a CDL. Uh those are a hit. Uh we are running those constantly. Uh all you have to do is attend a uh a tw 20our certification course through uh the service center and then you're eligible to drive those little buses. But those can't run the routes, right? They can. So I specific. So the ones that we bought are little mini buses. They're black and yellow and they have loading lights. I specifically purchased them like that. So if they're not black and yellow, no light, you cannot use those for routes. Okay. The ones we purchase, we want
037to maximize it. So if something goes down, anyone can hop on that has the training can go pick up a kid and help us out. Cool. So yes, we were smart on that one. Uh and then of course the the three SUVs also know that TM I've been here 17 years. We never had a white fleet. This is our first white fleet and it's a hit. They're they're constantly running and being used for events. It's much more convenient for our staff. They're not having to go to Enterprise to the airport or Cal pick up a vehicle and return it. So, a really good thing. Um, in addition to the new buses, uh, one of the big things that we we've spent $60,000 to date on, uh, existing buses and repairing the AC's. Uh, it it's
038quite a bit to maintain them and stuff like that. We've got some new policies in place. We with Mr. Van Matri's help, we we've talked to the coaches. What we were doing is we were traveling to events and we were using the air condition. the bus was just sitting there idling with the air condition for the kids to to hold the kids and that kills the system because there's not enough air flowing through the system. It creates higher pressures on the compressors. We lose compressors. We blow lines. So now we've told that when we go to an event, uh we need to shut the bus down and we need to go inside the building or somewhere else. We're not using it as as a uh student storage area to to help save the ACs. Uh
039most of that work is already completed on that. Uh, a lot of the buses required uh Andy's Air is uh was the best uh source that we could get. They're out of Laredo. Uh, and they've worked with us uh in getting the contract. They've actually been taking buses to Laredo and bringing them back because they've got a large outfit out there and they get the work done quicker. So, we secure bids for those, Patrick. Sir, do we secure bids for those jobs? Uh, I I got I looked on this just in general. They're also on the purchasing co-op. They're on the goodbye board. Okay. So to make sure we're getting a good deal, I got a crazy question is that they honor their warranty work. Sorry. Go ahead. Finish. Go ahead. Are you done? Sorry.
040Do any of these buses have seat belts? Uh, yes. So everything from 2018 on has seat belts. So how many of our buses that are we're about half don't have to. And eventually what we're trying to do is get to where all our buses have as we replace them there. I believe there's I I had heard through transportation that there's legislation that somebody was trying to push for all the seat belts again. Yes. Um and I understand that, but it's difficult to find anyone that's going to take an older bus, a 20-year-old bus, and put seat belts on it and assume the liability. Um so I don't think it'll pass. But here at TM, we're as as we phase out the buses, uh all the newer ones, I I would have to go get board
041approval from you to purchase a bus without seat belts. And I I don't I'm not even gonna ask you guys. How big is our fleet? Uh we're at right now a little over. I need to do an auction to get rid of them. Right now we're sitting at 38 buses. 38 buses and half of them have se Yes. Four of them aren't really running. Um so really ideally we're sitting at uh 32 to 33 buses to cover all our needs. So you have 19 routes. From those 19 routes, how many of those routes are without seat belts? Typically about four a day depending on what what's down or out for service about four or five buses don't have seat belts. And how do you know which we don't we which ones like a router or
042like the older kids or younger kids like which ones? So I I really don't look at the seat belts on how I assign that. The main thing I look for is especially in the summertime in the heat is the air condition. Our priority is the primary. The little ones are going to get the AC buses for sure first and then we work our way up from there. Uh just because their little bodies can't adjust to the heat as much as you know a high school student or ideally we want air conditioned for everybody and that's our goal. And how many uh how many of our buses do have AC as of right now? The actually running that are running now? About 80% of them. Uh I like I said I still got a few more
043that repair and then we've got the older buses I need to auction don't even have AC on them. So, but once you get through with this $60,000, all of the ones that are in service will be AC. Correct. Okay. Yeah. We want all our kids with AC. It's too hot. How much longer are we going to run bus 25 till it dies? It's a $100,000 bus to It's 100,000 to replace it. So, um, we Wait, what's bus 25? I don't know. Bus. It's the country bus. Yes. that breaks down. So, it's a little it's it's a little activity, but that's why we got the two newer ones. And right now, we're using the newer ones to go out and field trips. So, 25 is 16 17 years old. So, I don't it doesn't leave the
044district. You know, I get coaches all the time before we had the little activity buses. They're like, "Let me take it to Beville." I was like, "No, because I have to send a record behind it." So, they 25. It's an older bus, but it's it serves us well here in the district. If it breaks down, I can get somebody to to cover them fairly quickly. We're in much better shape with our Absolutely. compared to 3 or four years ago. Yes, we're we're going the right direction. Good. All right. Um and then the only other thing that I'm still working on and we're just kind of on pause until we we figure out everything with the junior high. Of course, we want to make sure the junior high happened. But Bology is a company that does
045an app on your phone and it tracks the buses. So you as a parent uh you will be able to on your phone you'll get you can set it to give you an alert 5 minutes before the bus arrives in the morning. Uh that way you'll you'll know if there's a bus breakdown. It lets you know you need to look for this bus. Uh at your option and we'll discuss this. I'll I'll bring it to your approval. with parent consent, uh they can put an a tag on their child and then you can see that your child got on the bus, got off at school, got on at school and got off. So you'll know what time they got home at and you'll be able to kind of track them. Uh technologies finally when this
046first came out, there were some school districts like sent and stuff and the technology it's great idea, but it was the technology infrastructure wasn't there for it to do it right. And now now we can do it right and actually have good information to the parents all I like that very much. Yeah. Once we we get the uh we're all ready to go. Uh we're just got to build a junior high first. All right. Uh fine arts. Uh so in band we had 750,000 allocated for the band. Uh they also had the option of purchasing the trailer with that money. they opted to uh invest it all in instruments. Uh over half the instruments are already in place here at the district. There's a couple of uh expensive instruments that are made once you make
047purchase them. So that's what we're still waiting on is those band instruments. U we've also had 350,000 allocated for the pack uh repairs, renovations. Uh it's hard to believe that the packs, you know, that old already 10 years. Wow. Um what we're looking for uh there's newer technology for the sound system. They made serious advances on that. So the major things that we're looking at at upgrading is the sound system and then some of the the lighting. Uh and of course everything in that is very expensive. So 350,000 doesn't go a long way but mainly sound and lighting is what it'll be going through. um instruments have arrived and then we're just waiting on items that will require procurement to move forward with the pack. We're in the busy time of the year right now.
048Once hopefully we go all the way to state and win with the one act play, but once we're done with that, then we can get consultants in and take a look and see what upgrades need to get done. Uh natatorium upgrades. Uh again, the construction began in mid-March. Uh they're currently working on a demolition. Uh last week before last we actually drained the pool. Um they've started work in there. Uh I'll need I'll get some photographs so we can share in the board connection. I think you've shared some already. But like the uh the louvers have been removed. They've cut into the uh door. Um a lot of demo work has been done. They're starting to remove the equipment and everything. So it's starting to make some some progress. If you look from the backside
049from a horseshoe, you can see that that flat area. That's where the mechanical room for the air handler for the uh the chiller system will go in there. Uh but they're also using as an entry point to get underneath the building uh and do the repairs that they need to do underneath there. Um they've made friends with the foxes. I was going to say they're under there, too. They thought I was joking. I said just because the the foxes are there. They're friendly. Uh and they they thought I was joking, but they they've met the family down there. They're friendly, but stay away. um athletic upgrades to baseball and softball from Proposition C. Uh that is completed. Helis did the turf and we upgraded the scoreboards at both baseball and softball. Uh it's a project
050milestone. It was work that was completed in 77 days. It was awesome and uh we've spent all the money in that project. So we are done with that. Awesome. Uh the tennis courts uh again completed. We did the uh the tennis courts. We resurfaced at the high school. We didn't do anything to the middle school. The middle school stayed the same. Uh high school has a little more use, so it was time to get the resurfaced. Uh the coach really really wanted the TM colors on there. I think he had seen the courts at Southwest Texas or Texas State. Uh were similar to our colors and that's what he wanted that resurfaced and everything. That's cool. They're real pretty. I got very into that. All right. And then this will be the information that's on
051the website for you to contact. Congratulations to you all. You're up to date. Great job. That's all we have. All right. Thank you, Patrick. Thank you. All right. So, future meetings, we have April 21st. And now we do have a motion to adjourn the meeting. I'll make that motion. Yeah. Second, Mr. Chapa. All those in favor? Okay. Motion carries. Six. All right. Great job everyone. Thank you. Thank you.