3:00 so we'll get the special school board meeting started here uh so call call the meeting to order uh with Corey absent so for school board members uh we have everybody but Corey
here and um we have not received any public comments for this meeting and so we'll go to 4.0 for a motion to uh if there's any question or motion to approve the agenda that we have in front of us make a motion approve the agenda
presented Scot second all those in favor sign by saying I I opposed all right 5.0 the resolution for the purchase of a lawn M all right we uh we had some information on this in the
last um board meeting agenda but um we didn't discuss that we have Adam here today just to kind of provide some um maybe some background on the need and and what you saw when you went and visited yep yeah so I
guess the need is for we'd like to have more employees but we've had um an ad out for over four weeks now and haven't had one phone call on it so we are definitely short-handed and this is the the next best option and I think it's
probably even a more efficient option than uh hiring of another person for that part of it anyway um and that'll give time for the the guy we do have outside now he will be able to weed eat around the edges a lot more instead of
like this year it's just been non-stop mowing we and even on regular years we irrigate everything so it's still pretty much the same thing but this year's really been an exception where a lot of the areas are wet and you can't get to them and then when they do dry out you
really got to get after it so um I feel when we went over to Milbank uh and watched the demo of this machine it's exactly what we really kind of were looking for uh you you map out an area say the whole football field and you
push go and it just takes off and does its thing so takes you know an hour to mow that versus having a guy out there with the mower um where a guy with the mower can be mowing around the school where this thing probably won't be able
to do some of these you know tighter areas have a lot of instructions and stuff because it does stay if it's going and it comes up to a tree it stays six feet away from the tree just makes a circle around it and then keeps going on
its path uh so and then it sends you back a report after it's done mowing say hey I didn't mow this area because of a a tree or a a kid or a piece of garbage
was laying there so um I feel like it would be a great thing to have out here we have a lot of open area and takes a long time to mow it off so any uh questions on it I kind of tried to explain the best I could in some of this
so uh if there's any other questions i' be happy to answer so is it 72 in or 60 in 72 okay because this other one though it says 23 1/2 horse versus a 40 horse yeah I couldn't find another 72 in I could only
find a comparable 60 in and there's a lot more of these down south they really haven't gotten into this area just because it's the growing season shorter than Florida Georgia places
so any other questions for so is the connection fee like internet then yeah so well it's just like uh an internet fee and an rtk or GPS service okay pretty much the same exact thing as what the the robot that
paints the field so it's $199 a month first year waved first three years waved oh this one's his first year includ with on which one that might be the compar that's the
comparable one oh this one you get three years worth of a service plan y yep yeah I think it says wrote it in this part right here in the first paragraph there and you can't you can't buy it monthly you got to buy a year mean you
can't just do three months with the service they don't let you do that so it's it is 20 $2,400 a year Adam one of the things we talked about a little bit earlier before you got here was the you know um maybe you can talk about a little bit about how
close in proximity do you have to be to it you know can you can you walk away from it if so how far that kind of stuff yeah so there's a controller that you have with it uh I think that's got to be within I think it was 400 ft of it so
you could kind of set it on the bleachers there and then someone could be weed eating kind of watching it or mowing around the bleachers or um yeah so you don't have to be too close to it I mean you can run it through your app you can start it I could start it from
my phone and if I had a camera I could see where I was going I could drive it right to the football field and start it didn't have it have it Go by itself or to the baseball field or to the practice football field but is that a concern at all that that we that somebody would have to most of
the I mean I'm assuming somebody go to the bathroom or something they could leave it yeah for a short period of time but is that a concern about efficiency or would we typically have somebody out there doing that trimming anyway yeah we'd always have somebody out there trimming or you still got to we got to
mow around all the trees so we'd have someone either on the other mower mowing the trees just kind of every once in a while same thing we do with the the painter um just kind of keep an eye on it every once in a while and I mean if anything happens if it stops it
instantly sends a sign a thing to my phone a text message or whoever's phone we have it on and it also sends it one to my email too so I mean so it it lets you know right now hey I stopped for such and such a reason pretty much if it's going and the
tires start slipping like if it's going say on the the Steep side Hill of the ditch and the tires start to slip it just shuts itself off and just says hey something's not right here don't take a look and see what's wrong vol
but they said they've never really had any problem with the slipage it's a pretty pretty heavy duty machine so what's the other more that we use besides the great big one it's a 72 in Bas so it's somewhat to we replacing the more yeah well we have the bagger on
that one cuz once football starts then we always bag it you know so we bag the the competition F so but we're not out to more if anything nope would ever go wrong with the rtk GPS no and you can drive this one manually too
it's a stand on machine just you can hop on and mow just like a regular machine so just makes that even worse I'm sitting here trying to justify it and if we're begging it come football season even the last month of the
growing season is going to be bagged and it's going to have to have a person on the bagger yep but that's just just the football field they also have the baseball field both softball fields and other base ball field practice field the big area out front you know the big area out back it would back going to get
bigger too once we set the track in place or not the track tennis cour cuz we'll be mo a wider spot around that along with once this gets yeah I'm hoping to put Prairie Grass there so it just matches the rest
yep what does money come out so Brenda and I talked about that Brenda was pretty comfortable with it uh because she has we have some what I would call onetime monies they're not dollars that we're going to get annually
based on enrollment or anything but they're um I can't remember if it was some roll over Co dollars or what it was but it was money that we have it and it's not you know we don't want to spend it on a person because that's we might not be able to pay for it the next year
that kind of thing but um but she wasn't very much comfortable with the idea of doing this we we do have the money set aside if we wanted do that was kind of the discussion from the building to GRS
committee two months ago when we first started looking at it we met we met Scott was there Rick was still here that was kind of fild and ground's recommendation just the simple fact is that we're short a guy
outside not fa in the position and it's just going to cut down on time and getting things other things done as well y any other questions I think part of the idea would be that this would be you know this this m can't say I'm not coming to work today or you know
whatever um or I'm sick or you know that unless it's broken um but the maintenance of it even you know it is it is just a regular lawnmower so a lot of that stuff just like we do with the others we would be able to maintain it ourselves oil changes filters that
kind of stuff all right so we need a motion to approve that a motion I'll make that motion Scott all those in favor sign by saying I opposed
pass um 6.0 we have a resolution to set the substitute teacher daily rate I can speak to that that's right the uh um every year we have to set our substitute daily rate of pay and we'd like to get that out here now in August where we can advertise that out to
people um this is one of those areas where my recommendation would be that we be competitive just because you know people people figure out where they can get the most money and and tend to to go there the most um we put um a few of the
nearby prices that we were able to get um Sue reached out to a couple of our colleagues and was able to figure out what some of the other districts are are planning to pay um and so the recommended amount that I put in there um for the board to consider is my recommendation would be that we do 160
per day and something that we would want to add to that too is we used to have a kind of a gradiated pay where you kind of got this much for so long then this much if you worked so many days um when I was coming in that was something that Rick and Su had
said people didn't really pay attention to and that if we you could just set one competitive rate that that would be the recommendation because if you on that one you got up to I think it was 175 or something if you've got enough days
in um and and quite honestly now with the new ESS language it's come from the the legislature there is kind of a pay bump built in there because if you hit so many hours you're going to get your ESS time off which is going to be for a
sub is going to be in the form of pay so so um so that's that's the explanation if anybody has any questions I'm happy to speak to it so our current rate is what right now I think it's 140 155 155
and then 175 so yeah part of that's got to be a little bit of I mean when we said it the idea Wasing we'd have have trouble with Subs but I suppose some of that's got to be a little bit of a nightmare for Su you know she didn't really complain about it I think she just felt like it
wasn't any effect that we wanted they never looked far maybe enough ahead to see that I can get to 175 it was just kind of this is where I start socks an hour do an 8 hour day yeah then does a teacher have prep time
too high schools if you get a sub so you got to get there's going to be prep time at home I'm assuming before you walk through the door I don't know half the time until I go into the classroom but if I'm a long-term sub my pay is different for long-term subbing oh it is yeah if they
go over I think it's 30 days um there we then I I Believe by law we have to put the person on contract and then it's called a long-term sub so then it's contract pay rate at that point but then up until that it would just be this as
the the daily rate I don't think $20 an is bad at all I mean honestly you are going to go anywhere I'll make a motion to I'm gain second second other
discussion all those in favor s by saying I I opposed and just note that sh all right 7.0 anything else for the board meeting here today
all right do we need to discuss Su [Laughter] drop well the teachers are here there one of the teachers that takes care of it for you [Music] so to keep my com so I'll take a motion to Jour all
right I'll second motion I'll make a motion second same mat all those in favor s my iose