001Oh, he's I don't know if you're all on. [Music] Okay, Casey, we adopted the agenda. Yes. Okay, that takes us to item 3A, celebration of capturing kids hearts national showcase district award. Would you like me to read it or do you want them to come? I Yeah, I was having I think yes. Yes. The board will celebrate the district being selected as a capturing kids hearts CKH national showcase district. The district has shown exemplary implementation of CKH practices, reflecting a strong commitment to creating a safe, welcoming environment dedicated to student success. To be recognized as a national showcase district, the majority of the schools in the district need to be awarded national showcase schools. The following schools have achieved this level of distinction. Emporia Middle School, Jones Early Childhood Development Center, Logan Avenue Elementary School,
002Riverside Elementary School, Village Elementary School for their eighth consecutive year, Walnut Elementary School, Timberman Elementary School. Congratulations everyone. Can we have everyone come forward, please? [Applause] Yeah. Right. Okay. Yeah. Hey. Um, congratulations again. It is on. Mic check. Mic check. Hello. The light is on. Testing. Test. What? No, I can use Jamie's. Okay. Um, okay. So, sorry. Okay. That brings us to item 3B, public comment. Casey, are there any public comments this evening? We do not have any. Okay. As a reminder, anyone wishing to provide public comment should complete the online request to submit comments form. That will need to be completed by 100 pm on Wednesday, the day of the board meeting. Okay, that brings us to the consent agenda. The items listed on the consent agenda are considered by the board of education
003to be routine business items. Approval of the items may be made by a single motion, second, and majority vote with no separate discussion of any item listed. Should a member of the board desire to discuss any item at his or her request, it will be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately. What are the wishes of the board? I move to adopt the consent agenda as presented. Second. Okay. Motion passes 70. Okay. And again, thank you for all of the very generous donations that we have on our consent agenda this week. Item 6A is the district family advisory council. Okay. We have Mrs. Taran Glaes, director of student services and Dr. Brian Carula, director of assessment and accountability to talk about this um these meetings they've had all year long. We're we're if we
004can grab a couple handfuls, maybe we'll throw it up when we're done. So, actually, I think this is I think this is working. Yeah, I think this is working. Thank you, Casey. So, I am excited to be here with Dr. Cargula to talk about the district family advisory council. So, the district family advisory council, we call it DEFAC for short because it is a mouthful of words to say. So, it began in 2023 as kind of a rebranding of the district site council. So, we're here to talk about it tonight. Casey, you can go on to the next one. There are four areas that we're going to talk about related to DEFAC. So, we'll talk a little bit about our council membership, um, what that's made up of, our purpose and role. Um, we'll talk
005a little bit about the topics that we've discussed at our meetings, what those look like, and then the results or the outcomes that we're hoping to achieve through that DEFAC. Next one. All right. So, just a few details about DEFAC or district family advisory council. So, we did establish oursel or rebrand that uh district site council in 2023 kind of late in 2023. We actually had our first meeting in December of 2023. So, we meet quarterly. So, we did have four this school year. So, that's good. We had 37 members for district family advisory council. Um we actually met in this room um during those meetings. So, our members were representing multiple community groups. So we had some 253 employees. Uh we also had some parents. We had representatives from some post-secondary institutions like from
006uh the Flint Hills learning center. We had um Emporia State University or excuse me Flint Hills Technical College. Sorry I got my little acronym messed up there. So um we had those that representation which was great and then we had some community members and I really appreciated our meeting because uh I don't get a chance we don't get a chance to meet a lot personally I don't with community members or um representatives of our university. So that was really exciting for us. Um some of the members were also members of their site councils within the buildings that their children might attend or the neighborhood that they live in. And then we tried super hard to establish that balance between elementary and secondary representation. We didn't want to have too much of either one of those.
007We wanted to keep it balanced. So, next slide, Casey. Um, we use the national standards for family school partnerships or those PTA national standards to kind of guide our work. So, you can see them up here. It's welcoming all families in the school community, communicating effectively, supporting student success, speaking up for every child, sharing power, and collaborating with the community. And one of our tasks that we did do was create a family engagement policy, a title family engagement policy. And this was uh this was really that what guided that work. So I think uh Ryan will talk a little bit more about that. I think he might be next, right Brian? Okay. Thank you. Okay. So I'm going to continue a little bit in this and talk about our purpose and our rules. So our
008purpose um through KISSA we're expected to have a district site council. So one of the roles is to fulfill that. Another one of our purposes is we this is a federal requirement for our title requirements particularly at our K5 buildings because they're title schoolwide buildings. So this this committee serves as our district family advisory council. Um so we also want to work to build trust and collaboration with our community. So that's another purpose of this community of this of this group. So as far as our roles, some of the things we did besides serving as a side council and everything is we worked to provide feedback on district improvement efforts. We shared the school improvement plans with them, talked to them about some feedback. Um we collaborated on the district parent and family engagement plan
009policy which is still in the works. We're working on that. Um we did a lot of things in that first meeting needs assessment wise. Talked about what people what they what they thought what they need think we needed things like that. We we did a lot of needs assessment and then we also reviewed data. Part of our meeting is always a piece of data like some graduation rates, postsecary success rates, kindergarten readiness, things like that. And we ask questions. We always have always have an essential question about what can we do to improve things like what can we do to improve kindergarten readiness in our district or what can we do to improve graduation rate and get some feedback from another type of group. We always talk to our schools about that, but we've rarely
010talked to the community about that. So, next slide. So, um we've like Mrs. As Glade said, we've had seven meetings over two years. We like so we meet quarterly. So we haven't had a lot of meetings yet. We'll do four more next year, but we talked about artificial intelligence. You know, we're going to see that policy eventually. We got this group gave some feedback on that from a community perspective. We talked about how we can better support families. Um, one of the big things we did this year with the group is we introduced them to Caption Kids Hearts and we use the same presentations you all got on Caption Kids Heart with the group which really went good. And then we also introduced them to the Excel model for our agenda. So we wrote everything
011off the Excel model just like we do all of our meetings. So there's some continuity there. Um we talked about with we did some parent square work with them. Got some feedback on that. Um Lindell it came in and talked about parent square which is good. And there's that data review piece. Every one of our meetings has a little bit of data in there which is some fun stuff to look at. So I really enjoy that. So it's it's always there. And then we always worked with that connection about helping families be feel welcoming in our districts in our buildings. So some of the things that they told us to um to improve family engagement would be to make sure our schools are create a welcoming c school culture. So there's CKH stuff going on
012there. Um communication can see them clearly. There's your parent square pieces. Um flexible family events. Make sure we do them differently. Um two-way communication. Have that door always open. Connect with family. Connect family to resources. That's something I think we need we're going to do more of next year is figure out what resources we have and try to figure out ways of connecting the family to those. We didn't do a lot of that this last year, but that's something I think we're going to work on for next year. Um, we work on sharing student success and that's the data pieces. We're talking about our overall data and then make our school spaces more familyfriendly. That's something they asked for. So, some of the things we did is we worked collaboratively on that plan. Um, that
013plan is still working. It's a it's a draft right now. It's it's always progressing. So um some other things that we did is like I said we we we see um family and stakeholder input on parent square artificial intelligence and ways to increase graduation rates and postsecary readiness. So then our results what what have we done as as a result of this meeting? Well we get we developed and updated the plan. We developed it the first year. We worked on it last year. This year we updated a little bit more. We implemented captioning kids hearts in Excel model which is big. We'll continue to do that. The problem with that is every year we have to reintroduce that because for two years we've had some some of the same people. We're going to need to
014get um some different people on there because two years people want off. So we're going to have to relook at that. Some people are going to stay on for third year but I think we're have to find some additional people some because some want or to work themsel off. We provided feedback on parent square. um we view reviewed and provided feedback on some data and we worked um on the AI policy with the group. So that's essentially what we did with this group. It's a really exciting Mrs. Glades and I think we've had a really good time with this group. Um it's been a fun group to work with. You have any questions for us? Thanks Ryan. I I have a couple questions. Um when you talk about connecting families to resources like can you
015be a little bit more specific about what those resources are? Yeah. So some ideas there that we're thinking about is like p school for example we really are working on getting everybody into power school and everybody needs to have an email address to enroll. So making sure that they know how to access power school particularly at the secondary level where they so they can check grades and stuff like that. So that's one idea. Also some of our like resource likel for example something kids can do at home. So, it's things like that that I think we need to connect our families to a little bit more. Do you have any do you have any you want? No, I don't think so. I think it Thanks. And there's be other examples, but um those are some
016ideas. And is the hope also to then have the families who serve in this um in this role sort of be our ambassadors in the community as well? Um you know, that's a good question. Uh I think one one thing we really want a community presence here with this group. Um, and we want them to be able to talk about what we do here, take it back to their buildings. So that's why some of them are site council members, but also people are just community members, too. So they can take what they they can take their stuff we got we get from this meeting and take it back to their groups. Like we have Tyler Curtis is on there, for example. He could take stuff from our group back to his group and share what
017we what we're doing in the district. So So yes, I think we need to work on that a little bit more. You have anything about that? No, the only thing I was going to say is that the community members that are part Well, when we had that meeting um shortly after Tyson announced that it was it was closing, um that group really needed time to process that. And so that really did take up that a portion of that meeting time where we collaborated as a defect to talk about, you know, how can we support how is the district planning to support, how can we support our community members. So that was a very um I felt like we grew closer as a defac at after that because it people came in from from you know
018from community from buildings all wanting to know how can we support our community. So that was a really important meeting. It it just made us feel much closer. Thank you. I forgot. Yeah, sure. No problem. that that night was a big night because we used our message and we shared with the group and it went really well. On the um the AI policy, is that uh are is it parents more concerned about how their students are using AI or is it what what direction is that policy or is it all kinds of areas in the district? You want to talk about that a little bit? Luckily, we have someone who's an expert. I'm on the committee also. Okay. I was going to say art art's also on the committee, but that is actually going to
019be coming to you on June 11th. We've really as we have an AI policy committee that that formed and we have created a draft and it's it's actually in draft form. It's been approved by KSB. And so this group, the DEFAC, was a great parent and community group that could really have a kind of first eyes on it to give us that feedback. And they gave us good insight into some of the questions they had. So then we were able to kind of morph it a little bit and edit and change some things and update some things and then uh we are able to have some things in mind for training purposes. Uh so it is it is for students how teachers and staff can use it with the students but it's also for our
020staff as well. So if you think about secretaries and administrative assistants how they can use some things um AI related generative AI related to support their everyday work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Item 6B is academic calendars. Dr. Erikica Mickelson, director of teaching and learning, is here to talk about academic calendars. Yes, I'm back. So we have we found as we were looking at the 2526 calendar that we had some things that we needed to update and make changes on uh with our calendar next year moving to uh early release dates. We found that especially for Jones Early Childhood Development Center. So if you'll go to the next slide, those that site we have an AM and a PM session. And so when you look at that first
021date, especially uh for what we typically have as jump start, we didn't want our youngest learners coming to school one day and then having a full day off the next day. And so we are are requesting that actually we kind of switch that around and have that jump start day for Jones be a PLT, a full PLT day for that staff and then that next day be that first day for both the AM and PM sessions. uh coming half day just didn't make sense to have one session come on one day and the next come on another. Um and so that's one change that we are um asking to make on this. Um we created a separate Jones Early Childhood Development Center calendar because also of the early release. We had to make sure that
022we were balancing that instructional time with the AM and PM sessions and making sure that our families know ahead of time when their session will be um coming to school on those days. So you'll see on the calendar there we have uh the AM session will be August 29th, October 29th, December 19th, March 11th, and May 20th. And then the PM sessions will be September 12th, January 16th, February 13th, April 17th, and May 1st. And there we worked very closely with the uh Jones administration to really work on what days make sense in your calendar for those uh sessions to come. So they're not every other one. It's there there is a rhyme or reason for that. Uh just working with the staff on would the AM session be best to come or PM. The
023other piece we looked at is count week. So, we were taking into consideration as a schedule and calendar committee uh about for early release, as long as they're there in attendance, we get to count that as an attendance day. But for things like CTE and ELLL for our minutes and those types of things, we have to make sure that we keep that week a normal school week. So, we had initially scheduled an early release day on Friday, September 26th, and we are going to request that we make a change for that to be Friday, September 12th. So, it's still an early release day. The calendar would just the date would change on that calendar piece. Then as we move into um the pieces for next year, we for for the 2627 school year, knowing that
024next year's calendar is the first year that we will be doing an early release calendar. We really want to be able to make the best decision for us as a district, the entire district. And so we were leerary about putting forward an early release only calendar for the 2627 school year because if it if it goes well, great. We will be excited about that and and but if it doesn't, we didn't want to be locked into that or have to come back and make an additional change that maybe the community would be expecting to have an early release and then we wouldn't be. So the schedule and calendar committee worked very hard on the days that we met and they actually created four different uh examples for calendars. They created two calendars that were traditional
025and they were very similar but just a little bit different with some dates and things like that. They also uh created two early release calendars. So with those four calendars, we then sent those out for feedback for district staff. So, they had uh a couple weeks, two weeks to to do feedback and bring us that. And what we are bringing you tonight is uh the voted on calendars for a traditional and then the voted on calendar for um early release. And Casey, you can go to that is just the makeup of what the feedback looked like. So, you can see most of the feedback came from certified staff. We also had classified staff and administration as well. And then you can see where which building the the feedback came from. And then here are the
026samples and and the it was in PDF form so you could see that much better than what's on the screen here. But we had uh and you can see that it wasn't an overwhelming one or the other. I mean it was it was pretty close. I was sweating a tiny bit um because we were pretty close to 50/50 on both calendars. Um, but then more people put in feedback and so it was a little bit I we could delineate a little bit more uh when it got closer to the end of time. But you can see the most of the people were wanting um calendar A and on the next option you can see that uh we had more people wanting calendar C. So in the PDF documents you can see the differences on those.
027Again, not much difference, just enough to give teachers and staff um that that option of okay, which calendar would I prefer? Um and and just with different variations of dates. So, what we are going to ask is that we have these two sets of calendars and then when we get into December at the December board meeting, that's when we would make our recommendation. We will the teaching and learning team um next year will send out feedback again in the fall um after we've had a little bit of time to have this early release calendar. We will send that feedback out, get gain feedback, and then bring that back to you um in December of 2025 of of next school year. And then I I can't be done with this without saying thank you so much
028to the schedule and counter committee. It is hard to teach all day for them and then come and and dig into schedule. I love schedule and calendar committee, but there's not a lot of people that love digging into dates and looking at calendars and all those nuances. So, uh, they come and sometimes they're glassed over by the end of our time together, but they really work hard and we appreciate all the time and energy they they spend. We appreciate it because it gives, like I said, staff that input and that communication. Um, so questions. I do have one question. Yeah. Um, so I think if I'm reading this correctly, calendar has three fewer student contact days than calendar A. Correct. Could you elaborate a little bit more on that and maybe explain like how many
029student contact days or hours that we need and and how there is that difference in the two? So mainly in the the two we have days built in that uh we can use for professional development and things like that. So as long as we hit our expected days and right now it totally went out of my head how many days we need total. Ryan, you're good with days total. Sorry. See I He had to phone a friend. Now I'm phoning a friend. He's so He is He's so good with this. That's one thing about this is we work really collaborative on these calendars. So we all have good things and we all can do things. So we don't we aren't on days per se. We're more on hours. So the state requires ours to have
030116 hours by statute. So we just take the number of days that we schedule and then that's why sometimes the starting times have to change so we can hit that time. Now with our master with our sorry negotiated agreement um we actually are 11:25. So we're nine above the state statute. So we need to be at 1125 is what we need to be and our seniors need to be at 1086. that help. He's the numbers guy. He's so good at that. Rattles it off. Thank you. I really like your thoughtful approach. So, I I think it makes a lot of sense. The only thing that gives me just a little bit of pause is that there is a week difference in terms of start date between the two calendars. And I know that sometimes even
031like I've had people reach out to me like in the fall for like for the next year. I'm like, "Okay, when's the first day of school?" You know, even though it's published, you know. So I I guess that's my only that's a big difference for families who might be planning their summer travel. I mean they some families do it super early. So that's that's my only has it's the right plan. I just had to like make note of that. So I understand that. Was there any particular days items anything that was kind of a a major bone of contention or talked about that as you worked through here? No, when some wanted for the one of the things for the different calendars for the traditional one group did the earlier start date, one group did
032the later start date. And so it's it's the way that the the numbers fell. Um and and each group did that for the traditional uh the earlier start, the later start, and the same for the early release. So not nothing really major came out from the data. was just um what the the end vote ended up being. If there aren't any other questions, this is an action item. I move to approve the 2025 2026 calendar suggestions as submitted and review the recommendations for the 202627 academic calendar in December 25 when there is more information to determine the decision. Second motion passes [Music] 70. Thank you to everyone who's on the calendar committee for bringing those options to us. The next item is 7A, our final construction update from Macau and Gordon. This is it. Oh,
033confetti. So, appreciating Eric putting everything together and just a look back over all the different construction projects. Yes, it's hard it's hard to believe. Um, before I get started, I just want to say on behalf of our entire team, thank you for allowing us to collaborate on the Emporia Public Schools bond projects. It's it's been an honor. um your staff, administration, you all have been a pleasure to work with. Um you know, there's always challenges with construction, especially in older buildings. You don't know what you're going to find, but it was always easy to talk to everybody and work through the challenges. So, um again, we're just honored to support your vision for enhancing education. Uh these projects, these new facilities are going to just impact staff, students, and the community for many years to
034come. So, thank you again for that opportunity. With that being said, um, put together. So, I think there's, uh, there's maybe 11, yeah, 11 sheets in here. So, I'm not going to go through and read every bullet point. This is this is out there so the public has this as well, but I'm going to hit some of the highlights that I went through that I wanted to to really touch on. And these projects are in chronological order from when we started them. So, very first project was was Walnut Elementary, and that was back in October of 2020. So everybody remembers 2020. Unfortunately, we try to try to forget that as much as we can. But um really main features for Walnut, new high wind shelter, multi-purpose room, uh new music edition, and then new secure
035entry. Uh that budget was just a little bit over $6.5 million. So, the theme that you'll hear through the night is that safety, security, um HVAC upgrades for temperature and and new controls to try to um minimize that temperature fluctuations that we heard throughout um the process leading up to the bond. And then again, electrical upgrades throughout. So, um the next project was Jones Early Childhood Development Center. So, this one uh for for me and for the team that got to work on it was a little bittersweet because it's not every day you get to do a brand new facility out in the middle of a field. So, it's it's kind of nice. Um but new groundup 43,000 foot early childhood facility, 15 classrooms, again, that safety and security with the high winch shelter that
036also doubled as a multi-purpose room. Um secure entry and then the budget was just a little bit over 10.8 million. Um the nice thing about this too was the accessible playground, right? It was meant for all. So next project was Emporia High School. Um this is where a lot of work went in and a lot of the bond budget went in. So the budget for the high school was just over $18.5 million. Um some of the big key things here was a new science wing addition that was 30,000 square feet. a portion of that doubled as a storm shelter, high wind shelter. Um, a lot of upgrades to the arts, jewelry, glass blowing wing, and then the photo up there is is an auditorium. Um, was really a big facelift, fixed, some leaks uh with
037the gutter system. And then new music, band, orchestra, and vocal renovations and the life skills and intensive skills w renovation. So, The next project was Logan Avenue Elementary. Um big highlights there was a new six classroom wing edition. Three on the main level and three um below to tie into the get my directions mixed around. I think the southwest portion of of the building there. Again, new high wind shelter uh multi multi-purpose room and then uh some additional music room renovations. And then the other thing that I forgot to me mention is too in the majority of the elementary schools was the expansion of the front office administration space because those were rather rather tight and cramped. So um typically what we did um what HDK came up with was if we were adding a
038cl adding more than one classroom we were able to take a classroom that buted up right to that office to expand that space. So budget for Logan was just under $5.5 million. Emporia Middle School. Um, this was [Music] another project that had a large portion of the bond. Um, just over $15.7 million. Um, if you think back to the safety and security aspect that really the bond was talked about upfront as Emporia Middle School was needed that, right? because you would get buzzed in and then you could if you got in you could kind of wander wherever you wanted to. Well, what the project did in Poria Middle School did the photo up there is actually it brought all that administration and office space out to the front of the building so that when you
039wanted to enter the school you have to be buzzed in and you are in the office. Um, so the new secure entry, new front office, an admin edition, uh, a new gymnasium, which also doubles as a high wind shelter, and then parking was also a big deal at the middle school. So, there's a new front parking lot, some added faculty staff parking lot, and then life skills, intensive skills renovation. Um, another big portion for the middle school was the new science wing addition there on the west side. and then village elementary. So budget for village was just under $6 million. Um again new front office expansion addition uh with secure entry and then a new multi-purpose edition that doubled as a high wind shelter and then um some miscellaneous renovations throughout. One of the the
040big ones that I think turned out really well was in the old multi-purpose room that turned into the new media center. So, it was a great use of that that existing space there. Riverside Elementary School. Um, so these were river between Riverside and Timberman. They were two of the newer schools um within the district. So, a little bit of work done, not as much compared to the older buildings, but uh Riverside was $1.9 million or just over. Um, biggest updates there were some HVAC upgrades. Visitor parking stall uh additions were added to Riverside because there were not any up front. So, if you were a visitor coming to whether it was pick up a kid or see a teacher, you had to park um in the main parking lot and then walk all the way
041around. And then two new classroom additions. And then Timberman is very, very similar minus the parking upgrades, but two new classroom additions. The budget, sorry, the budget was just under $1.9 million. um but two new classroom addition and then intensive skills wing renovation and some miscellaneous HVAC uh upgrades and control upgrades. And then the last project that we just finished up last month in April was William Allen White. So William Allen White, the budget there was just over $6.6 million um again at newfront office expansion and renovation. um new multi-purpose space that doubles as a high wind shelter, media center relocation and renovation. Um miscellaneous classroom renovations with the kindergarten. Um and then HAC upgrades. We added uh many new rooftop units for that HAV sort of the cooling and heating throughout. So the old
042boiler system can be essentially, you know, it was outdated. Issues were being had with it. So that can be taken offline now. Um, and then yeah, that's I mean that's the bulk of it. I know that was a that was a lot of information over a five-year period of when these projects took place, but questions, comments, you know, I just want to say this is so amazing. I feel so nostalgic like thinking about like what the gym at Village used to look like and wow that was a cave you know and just yesterday I mean our our district continues to be really um proud of what you've done um just yesterday I had a conversation with a parent who's at a basketball tournament at the middle school and she said like we were all just
043like standing a little bit taller our our shoulders were out a little bit more because all of these other people were walking into our gym and our concession area and they were jealous of us and we usually are jealous of other districts, but not anymore. So, thank you. Yeah, that's awesome. It's just been a great journey. Yeah, I'm sure we've been the best district you've ever worked with. Um, so yes. Yes, it is. It has been great. It's been amazing. The whole every every bit of it and you've done a great job keeping us informed and updated and we just appreciate all your hard work. Thank you. Yeah, we appreciate you coming down uh to these meetings and being in person. Um, I think at one point we tried to offer, you know, hey, do
044you want to just like Zoom in or you were like, nah, not really. I'd rather be here. And so, you know, we recognize your dedication and your team's dedication and the the final product has been worth the wait. Yeah, it's phenomenal. Yeah, I feel like all of this is very bittersweet. Um, but we of course appreciate all the work you guys have done. Thank you. Nice. Thank you all. Okay, item 7B is the offer for Kansas Avenue. We are very excited about that. We have Mr. Tyler Hollowman, president of the Frontier Development Group. So, he's going to share his offer. And then we also have Matt Johnson, realtor for the Kansas Avenue property to answer any questions. Thank you. Um, and thank you board members. appreciate your time today. Uh my name is Tyler Hollowman.
045I am the president of uh Frontier Development Group. We are based out of Manhattan, Kansas, but I actually I tell people I live in Alma, so I'm not that far um away from you guys here. It's a it's a nice easy drive. We actually just completed a project um in Cottonwood Falls, so uh pretty familiar. That was kind of the first time that um I really got familiar with the Emporia uh market. We were able to to utilize some subcontractors from Emporia. We actually had uh some tenants in Cottonwood Falls that were were you know living in Emporia that wanted to relocate to Cottonwood Falls. Uh but in some of those conversations we heard there's a need for housing, there's a need for affordable housing uh you know the rental market in Emporia uh is
046uh is tight. And so that's what we got to to looking at, you know, what what's available, what could we do um here in the Emporia market um and came across this listing. So um I've got an LOI for you. us a letter of intent. It's nothing super formal. I wanted to come uh talk to you tonight just to to kind of share with you the uh terms that we're proposing, talk to you a little bit about our company, and then if it's something that you'd like to move forward with, of course, we would um you know, work with with legal, work with Matt on on getting something more formal um in front of you. But uh so the offer or the letter that we've uh put together after reviewing the property, uh we are
047proposing a purchase price of 80,000. I know that's quite a bit under what it is currently listed for. Um, but again, as as a group, u we have to make sure that we're uh setting ourselves up to success to be able to successfully redevelop something. Um, we've oftent times acquired buildings for a dollar. Um, and I didn't want to come in here with an offer for a dollar. So, we really tried to to go to our proforma and say, you know, what is the maximum price that we could afford to to offer the school district recognizing that you have put money and and and put upkeep into this property and that it's not, you know, in disrepair. Um, it just would would need quite a bit of work to to repurpose it for what we
048would intend to do. Um, so the offer price was 80,000. The earnest money that we're proposing is $10,000. I tell people that again that could be flexible. I like to come with a a fairly strong earnest money just to show that, you know, we are diligent. We're we're not just throwing offers around. We're we're a local firm and we're, you know, if we go under contract with you, we're going to we're willing to tie up money because we're going to work on that project. We're going to work diligently to advance that project. Uh but the the contingencies so so the big points um you know that that you'll probably want to review with us, but that are important to us. Uh it's kind of hard to read up there, but the uh one of them
049was the success successful reasonzoning. I don't Thank you. Um I don't believe that that would be a problem. Uh but again, I wanted to come talk to you guys first. I felt like it was most appropriate to come talk to you before we started having any conversations with the city uh or the neighborhood. So we would be looking to reszone the property um to where it would be allowable for multifamily and for residential use. Um, we would be looking to establish a reinvestment housing incentive district, an RHID. That's something that our group has used across the state. I know just from, you know, news articles that Emporia uh has there's been several developers that have successfully used RHIDs here. So, I don't anticipate that being uh a problem locally, but that would be something that
050we would need to help uh advance this project. Um, and then the third thing, and this is the one that maybe has the the most ambiguity towards it, but we would need a Kansas Housing Investor Tax Credit award. So, a KHITC award. Those are those are funds that are administered by Kansas Housing Resources Corporation. We have also been very successful at obtaining and receiving those awards. Um, but I I do want to be very upfront with you that um, you know, that is a competitive process that is outside of our control. And so if we were to go under contract with you, we would work very hard to put together a very good competitive application for those funds. But before we close another building, we would need to know that we had received an award
051um for those funds. So those are the those are kind of the three contingencies, the three things that we would need to line up uh before we could successfully, you know, sign the dotted line and and and close on the building. Um, and I tell people that, you know, I know contingencies are never good if you're if you're the seller, like you want somebody to come in and and close, you know, tomorrow or as quickly as possible. Uh, but what we like to do is say, you know, one, we're not going anywhere. We're a local developer. And two, it's a little bit it's a good thing that you have a buyer, at least from what I tell people is it's a good thing that you have a buyer that is putting in this due diligence
052and really trying to line up a capital stack because what that means is if all of those things are satisfied, we're confident that we're going to be able to deliver a really good product that everybody can be proud of and that's really important um for our group. So happy to answer questions about that. I'll quickly go through um just some of our our past projects and a little bit about us. As I mentioned, um we're Frontier Development Group based out of Manhattan, Kansas. Something that does uh differentiate us a little bit is we are a fully vertically integrated firm. And what that means is is we do our own construction, we do our own development, and we also do our own property management. And what that means is is we we are incentivized to make
053sure we're not cutting corners. We're not trying to just flip this a year later. you know, we're going to be sticking around. So, if we cut corners on the development or if we cut corners on the construction side, we're we're dealing with that headache on the property management side. And so, we're aligned to really make sure that we're putting in a good quality product that's going to serve uh tenants for years to come. Couple of our past projects just again to kind of highlight some of the work. Um this one, some of you may have seen this is the Cottonwood Lofts. This is the project I mentioned um in Cottonwood Falls. It it went over really well. Um, it was a a slow process. It was owned by a nonprofit, but it was a a
054former uh school building that we turned into 10 workforce housing units. Um, I would be happy to put you in touch with uh the nonprofit group that we worked with. I think that that we acquired the building from. I think they've been happy. I think city of Cottonwood Falls has been happy. It's been a a really wellreceived project. That project is a historic tax credit project. It received a moderate income housing grant as well as the um RHID and the KHITC component that I just talked about uh with your project. Um also be happy to tour you guys through some of the um some of the units that they turned on. I mean they're they're really really incredible um units. Next project, another similar project. This was actually a former hospital in Wamigo. Um, so
055if you're noticing a theme here, we we specialize in taking historic buildings and repurposing them into workforce housing. Um, so again, this was another project that had KHRC funding. Um, we hosted the um, Department of Commerce and several officials from KHRC at this ribbon cutting. Again, another well-received project. Uh, 10 units inside the hospital and an adjacent um, duplex that was built. And then I think I had I have a third one listed. Yes. So third project was the uh the Limmerch building in Alma, Kansas. Again, another historic building. We worked closely with um the city actually on this one. So city owns a portion of this building. We acquired the rest of it. Um we actually hosted the governor uh at this building. She used this to showcase the moderate income housing program when
056they did a big expansion there. Um I think we've got nine units in that building. Um, again, funding with uh MIH, KHITC historic tax credits. So, that's a little bit about us. I know I've been um blabbing at you all. I'd be happy to answer any specific questions you have about the offer or any questions um that you have about our uh organization. you've answered some of this because um but on the the RHID and those how long does that process take to know if you get awarding that type of thing the that's a great question. So the RHID process that kind of depends on um locally how how quickly um the taxing jurisdictions can approve that. Uh again Emporia has done this before. So if there's a process uh or I would assume that
057there is an internal process that can uh that that they've laid out. We we typically see that can be a 90 to 120day process from the start of an RHID process because it's got to go through uh Department of Commerce review. There's some statutory hearings. There's like a 30-day wait period. There's a small veto period. So there's just it's a it can be kind of a lengthy process. The benefit to having to working in a community that has used RHIDs is there's not an education factor. So, we're working on an RHID in Manhattan right now and it's been a I mean, it's been a six-month process and we still don't have approval. So, I would not anticipate that being um a hold up here. I think the the bigger question mark is definitely the KHITC
058component. Um Kansas Housing Resources Corporation is the one that allocates those awards. They typically do application rounds two to three times a year, but they have not announced when their their next application round is. I would anticipate that being sometime maybe late summer with awards in the fall, but I that's something that's again outside of our control. But the I will say the legislature has allocated uh there was some concern that that program might not be funded and it has been fully funded for next year. So, there's still money for this year and it's received a $13 million allocation for next year. So, there will be application rounds. They just haven't announced when yet. Another question I have, um, with those contingencies in there, the way the contract might be written, um, is it is
059it exclusive to other offers during that time period or, and I I'm not expecting this, but if somebody came in with some other offer that might be higher, uh, how would that be? Matt Matt is prepared to answer that. I can Yep. I'll step aside for Matt. I I would say our our preference just speaking from um from the buyer side would be that it would be an exclusive offer. Again, I'll have to defer to Matt on how that would work. Um but the reason that we would ask that is once we go under contract with you, we will start working with local architects. We'll work um with our historic uh consultant to actually qualify this building for tax credits. So, we'll start incurring quite a bit of cost, which is why we would ask
060that that you give us the right to close as long as we can satisfy those contingencies. So, that typically would either be spelled out in the the listing agreement that was signed earlier um or part of the contract that would be drawn up. Um, a lot of that is going to be determined based off of the listing agreement. um uh not to get too far in into that. Um we do have the ability if it goes under contract to continue to market for backup offers uh but not necessarily accept a backup offer without the board's approval or the buyer want contract with uh making them aware of that offer. Okay. Then one more question for me. Um, so your potential clients are they is there a certain incomebased type clientele? You're you would be Okay,
061great. That's a great question. I I completely skipped over that. So, uh, our firm is not a lowinccome housing tax credit firm. So, we don't do any lowinccome work. Um, all of our stuff is either market rate or workforce. Uh, the our intention for this project would be that it would be a workforce. And so, what that means is 60 to 150% AMI. Um, and so a lot of our projects that have that, it's I tell people they come out with new scales every year, but the numbers that are in my head is like 36,000 for for a single person. You can make 36,000 to like 94,000 roughly. So, it serves a pretty broad range. Um, we I know I'm at a schoolboard meeting, but we do have teachers and we have principles in some
062of our our moderate income housing projects. Uh, we found that it really fits Kansas housing needs pretty well. Um and so that would be that would be what we'd be looking for here. Thank you. On that subject, um since seems like your business plan is we renovate these historic buildings and basically flip them, um what do you intend the interior of that building to be? Are you looking at single um like studio apartments uh uh one two-bedroom apartments? Um can you give us an idea of what that would look like? Yep. Also, also a great question. So, uh, all of our projects are have some component of a historic, uh, tax credit element to it. Um, so what that means is we are listing the building on the state and and likely the national u
063registry. Um, and so that comes with a set of stipulations, design standards that we have to adhere to. Uh, for for this particular building, the hallway like the corridors would all be maintained. So those those kind of wide open originals very similar to this building. um you know those hallways and stairways would be maintained. Um most of the times in a school redevelopment we are taking one classroom and turning that into one apartment. And so it kind of depends on where the windows are at whether that can be a one or two bedroom. I would not anticipate there being any studios unless we have a really difficult space to work with. Uh but typically it's a one or two bedroom. Sometimes there's some threebedrooms. U but we can't actually cut new windows into the building.
064We can't modify the exterior of the building. It needs to look like it did when it was built. Um, and so we have a team of architects and our team that would work on that to make sure that it we're respecting the historic fabric that's that's intact. And um, with respect to the actual um, the rent, um, you look through some of your listings on your management website um, and seems pretty affordable, but do you have kind of a ballpark of what you uh would expect the actual rent for these apartments to be? Great question. And I realize you may not be able to define that exactly. So, yep. I I would think it would be similar to the the Cottonwood Falls project um that we did, maybe slightly higher. Um I think we were
065at 700 for one bedrooms and 800 for two bedrooms. So, we're probably looking at, you know, 750 for onebedroom to 900 to,000 for a two-bedroom here. Yeah. Thank you um very much. I'll yield to whoever else has a question. I just really love the design, the idea that the things that you've done in the in in Cottonwood Falls and in Elma, and I really like that you um really want to stay true to the building. I I'm excited to see what that could look like in our community. Thank you. And I just want to add that I personally um since we were so willing to wait for Little Lions to all work out, I I personally don't have a big problem waiting. Um, just putting that out there for the rest of the board. You
066know, I've said before that, you know, I if we're going to sell this property, I want to do some public good. And, you know, Jeremy and Bobby, I don't need a house that Jeremy and Bobby can own. I need a house that the people who work at the factories here are able to afford. And that I think this kind of fits the bill um and would help alleviate some of our housing issues. No problem with the contingent contingencies. And I have no problem with um holding that as exclusive and only, you know, taking backup offers in the event they came through. I'd be okay with passing this tonight. Another consideration is that if the board is interested, we um after Matt would drop the paperwork, we'd want our attorney to look at that too, bringing
067it to the board. Um if it's okay, I'd like to go ahead and make a motion. I move to accept the offer of $80,000 from the Frontier Development Group with $10,000 earns money after the contingencies outlined in the offer are met. I second. Motion passes. 70. I appreciate it. I look forward to working in uh with you guys. Looking forward to working in Emporia. And like I said, I'm I'm a very short drive away. Uh you know, we view each one of these deals very seriously. Um and so we're going to work very diligently to make sure we deliver an excellent product that we can all be proud of. So appreciate your your support and trust. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I feel like that should have been a Y a Y instead of
068a YA, right? Yay. Not yay. Yeah. Oh, yeah. more confetti. Okay, that brings us to item 7 C 2025 2026 student handbooks. This is the second reading. That's right. Um we have Mr. Jared Gifin here. We also have principles to answer answer any questions. Yes. So since last meeting, we haven't had any changes to this. Um I don't think there were a lot of questions at the last meeting about the uh handbooks at each level. Uh again, the changes were primarily due to board policies that were changed throughout this year. We just wanted to reflect those in the appropriate handbooks and then there were a couple of other minor minor little things at each level. So if you have any questions, I would be glad to entertain those. Um if not, then I'll stay out
069of your way. Thoughts on handbooks? Okay. If there's nothing, I will entertain a motion. I move to approve the 2025 2026 student handbooks as submitted. Second motion passes 70. Great. Thank you. Item 7D, EMS trackfield throwing area. This is also the second reading. Mrs. Pam Stranathan, assistant superintendent of business operations, also brought some additional information requested from the previous board meeting. Yep. Yep, I did. And I also have um Dayan here tonight who would like to speak under the slide for principles and also John. And then I have Joe here to answer questions. And I have uh where did Corey go? He just bail on me. No, he did dart out. He said he was leaving. So, but I just want to really quick on the slides. It's pretty much the same slideshow. Um what
070I did add in here, which we'll talk about after the principles speak, is in reference to the capital outlay. And that's the folders that you have in front of you where the dire and sorry, let me say this. Paul's back in the closet there, too, if um you have questions on in reference to the capital outlay projects that we have um in front of you. So, I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to the principles. So, I want to be courteous of their time and I will leave my stuff up here, so don't take anything. Did you? Okay, that's um we talked about um one of the things that we were really looking for is how's this impacts our students as we look at our every season we look at the participants of
071our students the fall um we have three sports that would utilize this facility. We have our soccer team, we have our football team and we also have our cross country kids and they come out and they don't always run in the woods. They come out and they run on the track. Um so we have a lot of kids who participate just with school. Um but we also have our StuCo kids who come out and try to sell concessions. We have our our fans that come out there. Um also in the spring we have about between 125 and 170 kids who come out for track. So right now for us to ha have it meet and import on our campus we have to go to the high school and use their facility. If we were to
072have our own facility, we could host two or three events because we could have triangulars, we invite two other schools or quadrangulars where we invite four other or three other schools and we could have our kids participate here. And that's one of the things that I really like about our gym and we talked about this is the economic impact it has because when you bring other schools from other places here, it does make a huge difference. Um, one of the things that that we really thought about is we also have our um walk-athon. Uh, our walk-athon would be on our campus and we would utilize it for student activities, our PE department would use it on a daily basis. Um, our um our activities, our team activities, we would have a place for them to
073go other than just having to go to the high school. The the bigger thing that and it was mentioned earlier by Jamie, I'm going to use you. Uh, we have a lot of this is a facility that is not just an Emporia facility. This is also a facility that other schools come to. And one of the things about our facility is um there's not an easy access to that. And so as you look at it, when we play say a Shauny Heights for football, um Shauny Heights families come to this event and if you're in a wheelchair, you're not going to get there. And so we have been out of compliance with ADA for quite a while. And so it does impact not only us in Emporia, it impacts the other families who come visit
074us because you're not going to watch your kid play or be there because we just can't. It's tough enough to get a a wagon out there with some snacks that the StuCo sells. To keep in mind, we have three students at Emporia Middle School that are in wheelchairs right now. So, those kids would never be able to go out there. If we do exactly what we're doing now, it's we're in the same boat we were 5 years ago, 10 years ago when I was here. And it wasn't a great experience for our kids out there. It wasn't a great experience for our parents out there. And that's what we had. So, I would rather not move laterally on this. I would like to move forward. Um, that's a that's a great venue if if we
075want to make it into that, but I my bigger thing is I'd like it to be accessible to all. Any questions about our our student numbers? No, I appreciate those numbers and and I think we mentioned it briefly last time too that this would also give an opportunity for like if they wanted to dip their toes into um marching band in middle school, like that's not been an option prior to this. Um there's so many other things you can do outside if you have an accessible space um beyond just you know you listed so many things but the the possibilities are really endless and we have the staff that wants to do those types of things. Marky Scott is our uh band director for our middle school right now and he wanted to start having
076our band played at our basketball games because now we have space and so if you've ever been to a pep rally at the middle school kid those kids get really loud and it'd be nice to be able to have them kind of directed with the band kids and the band kids really like to participate in those types of things. So I mean we could have a pep band there at the football game just as easily as we could the basketball game. So it's it's opportunities that I'm look I've always looked for when I was in Emporia. So any other questions? Um, I should just mention that you have some great students who have written some very compelling emails to me and probably a few other board members. So, they've been great advocates for their building.
077They they are good kids. And I get I've this the last couple weeks we've really celebrated our teachers and our administrators and our pair of professionals and um I've and I keep a drawer in my in my office and I'll put those notes in my drawer because everybody has those down days and I had more notes in the last two weeks than I probably had in the last couple years because I think we've got some really good kids who really want to be involved and really are excited about education and um some really clever notes. a lot of questions about my head. Um, but that's just what kids do, you know, they ask you questions. So, um, I've really enjoyed my time with them and I truly will miss our kids most of all. John,
078you mentioned the wheelchair accessessibility and I know we looked at some preliminary plans earlier, but so I assume if we went the the total route that those kind of things would all be covered in accessibility matters and so forth. The big thing is making sure kids have concrete and the type of um level that they can go in their wheelchairs. Right now there is not accessibility out there for I mean if we were to put a parking lot we would have um some sidewalks around the facilities. We we could get kids out there pretty easy but right now there's just no way out there. It's just it's an open two open fields to get to the football and even if you come in through the parking lots gravel and it's just tough to to wheel
079somebody out in gravel. Okay, I'll let Dan go. All right, good evening. John had a lot of great points for the middle school and I think it's probably, you know, when you look at the high school side of things, the track and field area for us would be one part where we would be excited to have all of that on site. Um, instead of having it across the road over by the tech college for, you know, a handful of our students that travel over there. Um, I also think that, you know, John and I have to arm wrestle or next year it might be Brent and I that have to arm wrestle over who gets to use the turf field at the high school. And, you know, as much as we love to share, we
080also like to try and make sure our high school students are getting the experiences they need on on the football turf um and soccer turf. You know, when you look at our turf field, it gets used um from June. Well, actually, I guess you could say if you start at the beginning of February all the way through about November. I mean, December and January, you know, there's some idle time, but track starts in February. Um, of course that goes all spring and then we get into all of our summer camps. Um the band uses it quite a bit um in the fall along with of course soccer um football and um you know then we have the youth leagues on the on the weekends and the field gets used quite a bit. As great of
081a job as they did here a couple years ago for us. Um I think with the amount of use that it does receive, I do get concerned about if we continue that amount of use just on one turf field here in town. um we're going to be turning right back around and doing something in replacement with our with our high school turf pretty quickly. And so just the idea that we could potentially have two turf fields um in close proximity and for everybody to use here um in Emporia would be a great asset I think for for the community. I do believe also that um I we have a campus feel, but we almost don't have a campus feel sometimes with the way that um we're set up um with football and and track specifically
082the turf field and soccer. Um when when you look at that plan with bringing in the you know the javelin, the discus, the discus, the the shot puts, you know, putting it all up there in one place also helps with supervision for our coaches so that we don't have coaches going um in both places. And it also helps us to we're not having to have kids. Um there's no crosswalk necessarily to get across the the busy road right in front of the high school. And so that's also another concern that I have is there is a crosswalk, you know, down the way a little ways, but if we're going to continue to go back and forth, I think we need to consider some other things with the city as well potentially with how are we
083actually getting students across this road safely. There's a lot of maintenance that occurs across the road as well. Um Corey is still here, but he is um you know the mowing um the killing the weeds and and everything that they have to do year round just so that it doesn't become an isore um is also something that I think um you know a project like this could help out with. So for me it's about getting everything on our campus instead of us having things across the road over by the tech college. but also, you know, when you look at the big picture for the middle school, um, you know, they're they're in need of of this type of update as well, in my opinion. And so, um, that's I'm open for questions on the high
084school side if you have them. I I do appreciate that you brought up the that isn't something I had thought about, but you're right, the accelerated extreme use of our facility, which is what you want. you want your facilities to be used. Not saying they're idle, but that intense repetitive use um is going to lead to wear and tear way faster. So, it'd be nice to be able to split that up. I didn't know I didn't know if Adrian, did you have anything else you wanted to add? Okay, perfect. That's a way to pass it off. So I just I just want to share a little bit too just as um we've continued to look at this and continue to have multiple conversations about it and stuff. I think you know one of my experience
085in my career of when you add new facilities and you add things like this and you make it a complex feeling the pride I just can't even tell you the the pride that comes into the space of being it's just like you we see with the band uniforms for our kids it it's just that it's I call it that new shoes you got new shoes you perform differently you act differently um you take pride in all the facilities not just the ones that are new. And you know, that's the feeling, you know, we all talked about in that area is trying to get that like a complex to really, you know, something that the community is proud of, the kids are proud of that can be used by everybody, not just, you know, just one
086field or one space and time. So, um I just, you know, that was really heartwarming to hear the kids that had sent because I didn't know that, um that they're listening. Um so, that's exciting to hear because it it will be special for them. Um and it will, you know, it'll be here a long time. So, that's the exciting part of it. When you do turf, turf stays a long time and it's used for a long time. I think the other thing too to cap on too that we talked about before was, you know, I've had kids in sports and I think it's important for kids to be in sports and band and to have all those exposures, but I think the one thing in middle school, um, having my kids go through sports in
087middle school is when you have a field that you can't get all the teams to be able to have an opportunity on, and I've seen that, and I've had a kid experience that, it it lose an they lose an interest because they're wanting to be out there on that team and and you know they all think they're all at the same level, which they should because they're learning that sport and they're experiencing it. But because we don't even have the capability of having lights to allow our B teams or even a C team to play, they just get whatever's left of daylight is very disheartening, I think, for me alone. Also being that parent that had a kid that was on that team at one time that didn't ever get that chance until he got
088older to do it and persevered through it. There's part of persevering, but I just think I want kids, all our kids have great opportunities to be able to participate. So that's my soap box on it. Do you have any questions before I go into the um the kind of the financials more to share some stuff with you so that you feel comfortable that we're not just draining it all out of there and not going to have anything to move forward? So I know that's the feeling I and you know it is scary. It's a lot of money. So okay, I'm going to move on to the finance part. Um, if you have questions about what's in the folders, um, let me know and I'll grab Corey or I'll grab We've tried really hard. Um, you're
089what you're seeing in here is um, all the departments where they're doing the three the five um, plan on how we're budgeting out our money, which the first year I came in, we did a year and of course Corey's blew up, right? Because everything else was blowing up at the time. So his ch his has changed pretty, but now it's it's consistent and I think Corey has a great feeling about his now and where he's headed with that. And you know, there was a lot of stuff that was not able to be covered by the bond that I think at the time the bond was discussed. There were things like HVAC and stuff that was going to be okay and then now we're at that three to five year where it's not okay and it
090did blow up on us. And so we've improved those and looked at those and continue to I think our deferred maintenance is so important. Um I think that's going to help us to sustain this budget and keep it moving forward. And Corey and I talk all the time about how can we make that deferred maintenance more efficient. You know, just basic things like we've we found a company that's coming in and changing a lot of our filters that they're charging us pennies for the filter. We can't even buy the filters. But just that simple thing of deferred maintenance. Think of what that does to the HVAC system. It's going to just have a sustainability longer than what any of us, you know, would hope for. So there's a lot of things like that in Corey's
091that we're still looking at and we're still p pulling through there. So when we go to the um next slide, I've talked about this. I want to make this, you know, very straightforward and I know we've talked Adrienne and I talked a little bit about this was that there's been a couple of teachers, you know, that had approached this has nothing to do with our raises. This is capital and this I cannot use this money for anything to do with the raises. even offsetting the um mills. It does not I cannot transfer those mills over to gain any more mills to get any more money out of that. That's the same with the wreck mills. Those are flow through. They go through. I cannot change that. If they decide they only want half of theirs,
092it doesn't come back into ours and it doesn't impact us. So, I want teachers to, you know, to hear out of this. This is separate from the raises. And when we talked in IBB, I did move over 30% of those salaries, which I can out of the maintenance over into it. But I don't want to try to cram in a ton of salaries out of there because remember if I if we we're limiting the capital then I'm taking away from the capital that I can't gain back. To gain it back, I've got to throw it back over into um our general and dip into there again. And that's a disaster to to try to, you know, just move the shell. So, the best thing to do is keep it where we are at a minimal
093so it's not taking a huge chunk out of our out of our um capital. Um going to the next slide. Oops. Question quickly. Um so like I I think we all get that you know once it's capital outlay money is capital outlay money but could you help me understand the calculation that brings us to 5.5 million? Yes. So when you look at that and when we calculate that with the valuation so the valuation comes in and we can take the amount of eight. So about 2 and I did the rough calculations on that. So a mill is about 280,000 is what that comes out. So, a little over two 280,000. And then you take that times um you know our calculation where we end up with just a a little under three mil. And then
094the rest of that if you go into let me see where I wrote this down. Sorry. You can go into the statute if you want to dissect through that 7253126. And what that statute does is it talks to you about how uh the state then calculates the mills. It's not based off federal money. It's state money and their calculation across to even that out. So what it does is that balances. So, let's say we're out in western Kansas and the, you know, the valuation is so low and their mills are only worth, you know, a h 100,000, then the state comes back in to help balance that out to get that eight 8 mil to the balance if that's what people want to do with that and move forward. very few and we saw that
095with the city. The city was kind enough in that one meeting to pull all the districts around uh very comparative and there's very few that don't have I mean they're like 7.9 mills in eight because you know eight mills does not calculate to 8 million so if you go less then you're just taking that mill down. One of the questions um you had Jamie too was in reference to in the past. So I did a lot of searching on the past on the mills. So what was happening was um prior decisions um prior administration was pulling they were still pulling the eight. They were pulling the eight down but they were only using about 2 mil 2.5 to three and then they were just keep they would keep rolling the other. Well the problem was
096you neglect you have to neglect something. I told Corey, I said, "Hey, can you hang with two mill? Is that okay?" And he goes, "What?" And so you, it's very rare a school district this size could just live off of 2 million and be able to run a district and keep it sustained. So, it's important to kind of think and balance between three and four. You know, two's too low. threes between three and four is about right to keep maintaining and still have also projects that you can roll over and do. What I would like to keep, which I'll talk about on the next slide, is to try to keep that what's called carry forward funds and keep those funds so that you know when we know we're coming up on some years that we're
097going to have Paul's going to have some things that are going to hit big that we have that carry forward fund and we have about you know 2.5 to three mil that stays in that carry forward. And so on that page, if you go, I think it's the next slide, you can kind of see how I've shown how that carry forward happens. So if you look at 2425 and you look at the income that we have right now and then what we're going to get still um from the state, we're ending at 4.1. Then if you take the maintenance and operations which um you can see in the handout along with the technology needs and transportation you can see then that's going to cost us about 1.1 if um we ended up doing this project
098and splitting this between two years. We'd take 1.8 out of that which when you look at the remaining funds. So, let's say we had no other money in there, just this, and we were going to spend it out. It would leave us 1.13 for the end of of this year, so July. Then we bump into the 2526, and you can follow that column down again, and we're splitting the other half of this project, which is nice because our remaining funds, if we just did that, didn't count any of our rollover, then you would see that we would have 1 point 1.8. But because we've got carry forward funds is what they're called, we will have 3 million. And then the same thing keeps rolling. And you can see 26 27 27 28. You can look
099up there and you can see where Corey's bumps back up again because we've got some big items coming through. And technology does the same thing. They've got some things that are moving through. One of the things too that has not been done in the past that we're trying to do is that, and Ryan can laugh at me on this, is we're trying to get all of the technology because we can put a lot of our technology into the capital outlay and even the programs and stuff we're using. So, what I'm trying to do is get those out of the building funds because they're in supply lines and things like that. So Kate and I have been digging and trying and we've got those almost lined up. So some of that you're seeing where 26, 27,
10027, 28 will pop because the five-year contracts are up or you know the agreements on some of those. So those will hit and we'll get those back into a five-year plan so that it'll sustain and be stable through that. So I know that's a lot. Sorry that too much. No, that was I do have another question because I thought this was really helpful like really I really appreciated it. So, one thing that we have talked about is this building and we know that's we're going to have to do something with this building whatever it might be and that you're sort of it's on hold for a million dollars but I don't actually see that reflected in the budget. So when I see these numbers, I also keep thinking of that million dollars that we may
101have to spend down the road. And so that million dollars potentially would be coming on board at the end of 2526 if we were going to start hitting this building heavy, which is nice because we peel off of this big project coming on. And then if we're trying to keep that around 3 mil, you know, the 2.5 to the three, it'll it'll knock that 3.4 4 and the 3.5 down. So it still keeps our budget within. So we do have that in the um the document under Corey's we just didn't give an amount to it. So it's you know it's it's that for thinking and then the other thing too is the playgrounds. The playgrounds are going to be multiple years. They're going to have to be multiple years because when when we start on
102those playgrounds we're tearing those up. So, and the other thing I think was a good question that was asked was about going out for grants and stuff. I would really like to hit some of the the the big grants on those playgrounds because when you apply for those grants, we're looking at multiple sites and not just one. And so, um, Patterson and things like that, they like to see that. They like to see those more global projects in in a district. And so I I believe writing those grants we can grab on to that and really make those playgrounds robust. So and also when we start peeling into those we can start you know we still have if we're trying to keep that at 2.5 that still gives us about 500,000 you know to hit
103a couple of playgrounds and just to go in and just do the bare minimums on those playgrounds it's about 150 to 200,000. So we but we want to do them nice. We want them to be nice. They need to be done nice so they'll last another 10 or 15 years. So And are those playgrounds on the these documents? No, we did not add those. Did you put You didn't put those in. We kept those off for right now because we haven't got feedback. the the person that Corey has looking at him is he had had a heart attack and now he's come back to help us um continue to look at those so we can evaluate. The other thing once we do those those need to we need to have a committee put together. I
104think those need to have teacher input. They need to have principal input and I would like some community input for because they're community sites. I mean people use those all the time. So, but if we, like I said, we're calculating those at 150 to two and then if we wanted to, you know, and we're looking at five sites, so that'd be about a million. And then if um we got extra funding, we could even do some more robust things to those. So, I feel pretty confident on the on the grants with those. There's a lot of grants out. They grants like to do not like to do playgrounds. So on on on this particular sheet on the 24 25 that that first part it says income 3.2 and then 850,000. So we have a total
105of 4.1 and then the next year we shoot up is that because of carryover that we can get to 5.5. So that's what we pull in with our capital outlay. So we'll pull in about 5.5 projected. So our capital outlay is going to go up that much in one year. No, it's it's what we have is we have 3 um2 that was kind of rolled over from the prior year and then we have 850 still coming in from the state. That's what makes that 4.1. The 5.5 we got this year but we've used it on those. That's what we did a lot of the big projects with Corey and stuff with that when we did the 5.6. So our capital outlay is about 5.5 every year is what it comes in to be from this
106from our fund or the state and our mil or our levy. Sorry. That makes sense. Art not really. I mean to me it it it seems like the numbers are there but they're I don't know. Um, like again when we start with 5.5 and that next year that's a there's nothing above it to compute to the 5.5. I see what you're saying. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, so what I did on that so the income we have right now that's what I put on there because that was on that other slide that we're we're finishing the year with 3.2 and with still a payment from the from the state of 850. So we started that 8 that 850 because we don't get our payment all in one that's the other that's the final
107remaining of the 5.5. So I was just showing that is that's still income to right now that we still have coming through that we have and coming through then where the total is from there on will the state payments will equal 5.5. So and then I did hear something about possible changes to -ate and schools being able to access that money for technology. And so I feel like we're spending close to 750,000 million a year with -ate that we might not have. Well, and that's where we've put in some protectants over there. 26 27 27 28 that to help with that because that's when we'll hit that. That's why we went ahead did our rate and got everything put through. now. Oh. Uh, so another thing that I think about too is being in these
108schools, you know, my kids are going through the high school and the middle school and so I'm familiar with those buildings. And what I don't see in here in other projects too is I would like to see like a new wrestling room. That space that we have in the upper gym at the high school to me isn't adequate. So, thinking long term, how do we build in a renovation to that space? Um, and you know, there's other pieces to that. You know, we've we've added girls wrestling. Probably same issue at the middle school. You have girls wrestling, you have boys wrestling, and it's great to have that, and we got some traction, but we don't I don't feel like we have the adequate space for those programs. So, those are some of the projects that
109I'd like to see here, too. not just the maintenance we have to do, but the vision of what we want our district to look like. So, we do have that pride and and and so just being able to kind of look at those and say which one's a priority right now. Not that they're not all great projects, but being able to see what we need to plan for in the future so that we can assign these dollars that way as well. And maybe that's just a larger discussion. I'm sure Nathan can say, "Oh, we need this too and we need this too." I mean, going into our our niatorum, we have a beautiful swimming pool area now, but it's still not big enough to support the when we have a meet there, you know, so
110or the JV gym at the high school, there's inadequate seating there. So, how do we look for ways that we can, you know, make these facilities, you know, fit our student body and and kind of enhance them a little bit? Yeah, I think that I agree with you, Art. I think that's such a good point. And just sort of like you talked about um maybe developing a committee to look at playgrounds. I think especially with a new superintendent coming in, like it could be really great to like now that we're sort of out of a defensive posture when it comes to our buildings, like maybe to like take our building needs assessments, think about our hopes and dreams, and really think about like a new wrestling area for the for especially for the girls. Um
111I I think there's so many great things that we could also be doing. And so I hope maybe we could have some sort of like three-year building plan or something um for some of those bigger things too so we can all plan for them. Do you have any questions for Joe We here? I know he's I had one quick question. So um we're we're going to tear down that area by the technical college. Is that correct? Is that tearing that down? Is that part of the bed also? Well, this there's two options there that I've seen. We can um we can leave that and Corey would just have to mow and stuff. We wouldn't do a lot of maintenance to it, anything. The only problem is is it becomes an eyesore if we're not using
112it. Um but that was something that Corey we talked about that we wouldn't have to put that in Joe's bid because it's not the property he's talking about. And that was something that Cory and them could do if we wanted to. Or we could leave it, you know, and maintain it until it gets to that point, you know, because it's it's an option if somebody wanted to just go over there and throw or do, you know, with a cage, which these will have cages also. So, it's kind of up to the district on what we want to do with that because it's our property. Um, you know, I I think it's a little bit of an eyesore because it's just and it's just bad. I mean, I don't mean that rude or just I was
113hoping that the bid included because it is a bit of an isolated. If you're all comfortable with that, then Corey once it's done, then Corey can have permission to tear it down. I'm sure demo they like. So I I did have So we're projecting that this project will be complete. So the football team could use it in the fall of this year. That's correct. Yes. Um, so as of now, um, you know, assuming things go the way we want tonight, looking at starting in three weeks, maybe four weeks. Um, football field being complete for, uh, mid August, so it can be used all fall. And then the track more than likely, uh, being incomplete late September, early October with all the things that come with it. The only other thing I would say is that
114I feel like I I'm not super knowledgeable about bids, but I feel like this is a good bid that we we're getting a lot for the money and that the longer we wait, the more expensive stuff's going to get. So, I'm going to share something. Corey, you want to share what you said to me the other day? He came he came into my office and asked me a question. What about bids? So, one thing I found is this is a really good price. Um, especially for everything we're looking at. The track alone to resurface it a year ago was going to be almost 300,000. So, this is more than resurface. Um, you know, that would probably be more than 300,000 now to just resurface it. So, the bang for buck on this is really big.
115Um, when we're looking at the total cost, I I asked her if you know, is this half? Is that what are we looking at exactly for the, you know, is this the total cost of everything? Because it is a really good deal, and I don't think we're going to get the bang for buck in future years. Um, I mean, I'm sure he'd still do give us a good deal next year, but, um, everything I'm seeing, the prices are very volatile. I don't foresee that changing in the time we're looking at to plan this again for next summer. Um, as far as our budgets and stuff, we're running out of the really big things to fall apart. Um, we've either got it planned or it's already been addressed. Yeah. Why did you speak that out loud?
116I said it out loud and everything. But, um, but that's the truth of it is we between the bond and the stuff we did last year and the stuff we're planning this year and that's already been accounted for in the budget, the big things are at least earmarked at this point. So, we do have time to start looking at what we want to expand into and start making plans for those as long as we kind of follow the plan we've got for replacing the maintenance stuff. Um, like I said, I don't think the track at this point is a resurface. So, I don't think we're a $300,000 track anymore. I think we're probably looking at at least twice that just to get the track back. And our football field still probably doesn't meet code. So,
117we're I think really far behind if we don't take this on this opportunity. Um, that's just when I look at the numbers, this seems like it fits in a lot of ways. Um, Joe, I have a question for you. Um, you said that the football field would be ready, but the track wouldn't be, but I think the football field's in the middle of the track. So, can you can I just confirm that like our football field won't be like we need our kids to be able to access it and we really don't want a lot of construction in their way while they're or having games or practices. Sure. So, um with a job like this ultimately we when we're rebuilding and building up, we'll work inside out. Um, what I anticipate being done at a
118minibum by the time the kids access it would be a flat surface on the track with the asphalt. Uh, there's a 21-day cure period. So, depending on how much moisture we get at that time of year, that can shorten that period down a week or two. Uh, but 21-day cure and then now we're scheduling the track surfacing crew uh that will it's really about a 10day project for them to come in and do what they do. So, um, no, they they won't be, you know, stepping over big humps and and, uh, it will be mostly complete with those final those final items for the track. question. Oh, no. But I'll just add, you know, over the years, um, I know Art and Jamie and Jen probably you two can relate that from all the years
119we went out of town for for different activities and, um, just like having our our nice new gym at the middle school. Um, we'd always come back and their parents were always commiserating, oh, it'd be so Emporia needs a facility like this. Why don't we have facilities like this in Emporia? And I think everyone just thinks they just magically appear like that funding just happens. Um, which just isn't the truth because this is a lot of money. Uh, but I do think about the the value that it brings to the community on so many levels. Um, and it opens the door to make improvements like Art said for so many other activities. Um, if we can knock this project out. Um, and I do think, you know, especially with the work that our facilities, uh,
120usage committee has been doing. Um, I think we're setting some really good standards for community usage for this facility as well in the future. And, um, it doesn't just benefit, you know, Emporia Middle School. I do think it benefits everybody and the whole community of Emporia. Yeah, I would agree, Leslie. I I know that there are I've heard from a lot of community members they really value um athletics and activities and being able to provide those opportunities and high quality facilities here at home. I feel like I hear that on a weekly basis from our community. Um and I I just want to be cautiously optimistic about doing doing our best due diligence with the the limited funds that we have for this project. Yeah, I can't disagree with anything that was said, but I'm
121rather uh convinced that this is something that has been put off for a very long time and it will most certainly cost more if we continue to put it off. Um so I feel like it's it's if we're being smart, it's all in. Um and that's what I'm comfortable with. But in terms of our two options, that's our choice tonight. Option one, 1.4 to 1.5 with uh less frills. And then option two, 3.6 six million if um well everything I will add um as you all know I'm on the imported recreation center steering committee and we had a meeting yesterday and and that project is no closer to to moving forward and I think for me after being there yesterday and seeing that you know we're going to be a long ways away um from
122building new facilities for the recreation center. Um, we do need to do something for for the kids in our community. So, oh, Art, I was going to make a motion. Please do. A motion to approve contracting with ATG Sports for the renovation of the EMS track project, including throwing area relocation as submitted. So, obviously the higher dollar option. Second. Motion passes 70. I want to say thank you. I'm I'm really excited. I especially for our kids. This is going to be when it's all done and especially in the fall when they're going to have that opportunity to play on that field. I think that's it's going to just show with their faces and everything when we watch them. They'll start having just completely winning seasons, right? Undefeated and everything. That's what Joe's guaranteeing. They'll be
123undefeated. He did that with a prior district I was in. Money back guarantee. Is that right? He did. He did it. So, thank you all again. Greatly appreciate. Thanks to the principles and everybody for all their input and being patient because Oh, thank you. Yep. Okay. Thank you, Pam. Thank you, Joe, for coming out to visit with us. Okay. Item 8A, board reports. Leslie, did I we get it right? Yes, we did have a meeting on Monday. Uh we barely had a quorum. uh we only had four board members present so we had to make sure everybody we had one online. It was a little tricky making sure we got all of our our votes recorded properly. Uh but uh Rachel, our board clerk, did a great job. Um we had a nice presentation on
124the general education program at the tech college and how that helps our students um both here at Emporia High School as well as our uh kids who move on to the university. Um it was a real basic meeting. Uh we did get a presentation on um updating or upgrading board docs to I can't remember what it's called. What? Yeah. Community something. Yeah. Anyway, it sounds like whatever we upgrade to here will also be really amazing. Um and just better a better experience for everyone. So looking forward to that. You know, approved a whole bunch of policies. Uh, you know the drill. What did you say, Alison? We'll find out. Yeah. So, it was it was just a a regular old meeting. So, um gosh, it's been a long uh slog at the rec commission a
125little bit recently because we finally did hire a new executive director. It was a process that had been going on for a very long time. Uh so after that and um the second time I've had to do a superintendent hire and search on the school board, you know, I told Amanda she's not allowed to quit. Um I don't want to do that again. U but I think we have a really good um rec director now and I'm really looking forward to having that stability now and not that kind of constant, you know, what's going on. We're actually just taking the boat one direction. Um some other news, there was business. Um I think we're going to apply or we had already for the um transient guest tax application to support the quesa tournaments because you
126know that is kind of a competitive process. There are other people that want to host quacia tournaments. Just because we've had them a lot doesn't mean we always will and so Amanda is trying to be very executive director is trying to be very int um intentional about um setting us up for success with respect to that. Um probably um another thing to mention was that there has been discussions um with the city and the county. I um Dr. Harter and Mrs. Stranathan were invited along with the executive director of the rec commission uh rec center, excuse me, Mrs. Gutierrez to a joint meeting about um basically the the the property tax in the mills between the county, the city, and the school district kind of with the goal of finding ways to potentially lower the
127property tax rate and the mills down. Um and you know, behind the scenes before that meeting, our staff have done some really good work educating us about, you know, what we use those mills for and what we don't use them for. And um that's something the city seems to be really pushing. Um, and I think there's some discussion on their end about some sort of um, resolution the city may pass or vote on to establish a joint committee with the school district, the county, and the city. Um, I mean, I had made requests that that also um, there be at least be an invitation extended to the other school districts in the county because we're not the only one in the county that taxes. And if um, we're going to be part of that discussion
128and have the county commission there, then we should actually have the whole county represented. we should actually have everyone at the table. So, not quite certain where that's going to go and what's ultimately going to end up there, but y'all should be aware that's down the line. Um, other thing to um update on is that we did a bylaw change for the rec commission. Um, as you all know, um, it's always been a tradition that the school board appoints two people, the city appoints two people. Traditionally, one of them has always been an elected of each of those bodies and then the rec commission votes for an atlarge person that they select to fill that fifth slot. Um there was no attendance requirement in the bylaws that said, "Hey, you know, if you're missing this
129amount of amount of meetings, maybe you know, something happens." Because of the way our members are appointed, our bylaw change that we adopted doesn't actually remove a city or schoolboard appointee if they miss um a certain threshold of meetings. But we will send you a naughty letter uh that says, "Hey, your appointed member is not showing up." But for the W Commission's appointed member um that person would be essentially they would be removed from their spot just by virtue of of meeting meetings that were not excused. Probably the longest report I've ever given, so I'll stop talking. Uh they met on um the committee met on April 23rd right before our board meeting. Unfortunately, that was um when I could not be there, but did get the minutes and I had to laugh because they
130all the committee members shared good things to start off the meeting and Heather's was getting ready for baby to arrive in one month and a week later she arrived. So I was like surprise. Um but uh no, it looks like they had a a good meeting. Very very typical of what we normally do, but going over all of the incentives and how many employees that participate in uh the wellness activities um qualified for each of the incentive levels and those numbers were really good. Same thing with participation in the biometric screenings. The consensus of the committee was keep offering that. We ordered 100 tests, 88 were used. So um that's pretty good. And then they do have some extras left over. Um so yeah, and just um getting input from the committee on the point
131levels, whether they're too difficult. Um again, it was the consensus that you want it to be challenging. You don't want it to be too easy. Um and and they feel like we're in a good place with those and and did some brainstorming on on what to offer. But uh again, pretty typical meeting. So um thank you. I wanted just to um let everyone know that a few of us attended a breakfast this morning with the American Heart Association and it was really about a celebration of what we have done here with Project Adam at the school district. So there was just a lot of kind words, a lot of um elected officials and people from different organizations like praising all that we have done um to make our our school a heart healthy school district.
132So we should be really proud that we continue to get recognition for that. It was I I was there with Jamie. It was really moving um to hear from the Herman family again and just how grateful they are and um we had some strong um school nurse showing there as well and it was it was just a I was a joy to be a part of even though I cried most of the time. Yes, it was just a very moving morning. Okay, any other board reports? Okay, I know I was sad I missed the breakfast this morning. Okay. Um, item 8B, amendment to resolution 2025-1, establishing regular board of education meeting time and place for 2025. Do you want me to read the supporting part? Okay. The board is asked to approve a resolution establishing
133regular meeting dates for 2025. KSA72-1138 requires boards of education at the first meeting on or after the second Monday in January or at a later date during that calendar year if so determined by the board at the first meeting to adopt a resolution to establish its regular board meeting dates, times, and location as well as the alternative date and time of any meeting if the regular meeting date falls on a Sunday or holiday. We would like to consider amending the resolution to remove the June 23rd meeting. Uh I move to approve the amended resolution 2025-1 establishing regular board of education meeting time in place for 2025 to remove the second June meeting as submitted. I'll second it unless somebody already has motion passes 70. Okay. Item 9A, district highlights. Right. I do want to reiterate
134on the AED that um Mark Shriber um had contacted me over the legislative session to make sure that we were in good shape and we are so far ahead of other school districts. So I was at um Evelyn Cunningham's retirement party this morning. So I wasn't able to be there, but I'm glad that you were you were there. So yes, should be very proud of that. Um since the last board meeting, uh Hopkins awards were presented to 16 of our classified staff members on Friday, April 25th. I'm sure you saw a lot of pictures. It was a great day. Um, our classified staff were every single one of them very moved. Just almost every one of them to tears. Not only did they were they presented, women were presented with necklaces and the men received
135person personalized um insulated cups, but then also they had a portion of the nominations read. So, it was just very um Michelle Molinro was calling it our unsung heroes. So, it was very very nice. So, we had 16 of those that we were able to go through and present. And we had a number of them at the track because that was our um special athlete event for field and track. So, we were able to pull some of them up to the top. And then one of them um we needed to go right into the middle of the crowd because she really wasn't ready to leave the student that she was with and she didn't know why she we were trying to call her up. So, we went right to her. It was it was really
136nice. Uh last week was national teacher appreciation week and we really appreciate every building taking opportunity to show gratitude to our dedicated educators. Uh last Friday our transitions program which is our 18 to 21 program had their annual picnic with family and friends and then each of the students lined up and they presented Mrs. Huber the teacher with a a flower and then also a note that either they read or they handed to her. So depending on what they wanted to do. So, she was very appreciative of that and said that even the short amount of time that she's been there this semester, she will miss the students who will be will be back next next year. Um, on Monday this week, this is the first year that they've done this, the high school healthcare
137pathway held the first annual wide coat pinning ceremony and which is a partnership with the Philills Technical College. 55 students were honored through the event. So whether they were and I put a lot of information in foot notes so you can see all of that. But if they were um certified um nurse aids and others health care um home health care they were able to have their white coat and then be pinned. So that was a really really nice um ceremony and then after that we have the CTE program that was in the auditorium. We had 122 students that completed one pathway. 42 students completed two pathways. nine students completed three pathways and two students completed four pathways. So, it's a lot of work and it's um very impressive to see what our students and
138our CTE teachers are accomplishing. That's right. Thanks. Thank you for sharing all of that. I think the end of the year is always so exciting to get to celebrate everyone's accomplishments. Okay. Item 10A, executive session. I move we enter an executive session for 20 minutes to discuss negotiation information pursuant to the exception for employer employee negotiations under the Kansas open meetings act and that we return to open session in this room at 8 oh my gosh my brain's not working 12 yep or 8:13 8 or 10 long day superintendent Dr. Allison Harter, Assistant Superintendent of Business Operations Pam Stanathan, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning Judy Stanley, and Director of Human Services or Human Resources Jared Gifin are invited to join the board for this session. No action is anticipated. Second. Could Could I offer
139an amendment? Um, Judy, Mrs. Stanley's not here, so Oh, second. Motion passes 7 0 Motion to return to regular session. I move to enter into regular session. Second. Motion passes. 6. Yes. Okay. Item 10 C, executive session, consult with an attorney. I move to enter into executive session for 20 minutes for the ex exception for matters which would be deemed privileged and the attorney client relationship under the Kansas Open Meeting Act and that return to open session in this room at 8:35 p.m. Attorney Tammy Samoji is invited to join the board for this session. Sorry. Second. Motion passes. to return to regular session. So second I am so jinx. Okay. Motion passes 70. I move to enter into executive session for 15 minutes for the exception for matters which would be deemed privilege and the
140attorney client relationship under the Kansas Open Meeting Act and that we return to open session in this room at 8:52 p.m. Attorney Tammy Samoji is invited to join the board for this session. No action is anticipated. Second hand vote, please. All in or uh sorry motion passes Then zero. return to regular session. So move second Motion passes 70. Okay. Item 11A is future board calendar dates. This coming Sunday, May 18th at 3 p.m. is Emporia High School graduation at White Auditorium. Wednesday, June 11th at 6 p.m. is our what? Okay. Wednesday, June 11th at 6 PM is our only regular board meeting for the month of June and it will be here at Mary Herbert Education Center. And then Wednesday, July 9th at 6 p.m. will be um our regular board meeting here at Mary
141Herbert Education Center. I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. I move for adjournment. Second.