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see you it is Thursday July 18th 2024 at 6 PM we are at the district service center in Cottage Grove Minnesota we would like to acknowledge that the land on which We Gather is the land of the midw Dakota
people midow wakan means dwellers of the Spirit Lake our first item on the agenda is roll call Dana Ryan Clark here Sharon vaner here Eric tesner here Pat Driscoll here Melinda do is absent simy petak here Katie Schwarz
here uh 2.0 Pledge of Allegiance please stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for
all okay 3.0 is approval of the agenda can I get a motion to approve so moved second motion by Sharon second by Pat Pat any comments all those in favor I
any opposed motion passes uh 4.0 is comments to the board at this time individuals may e e e e e
e e items 5.0 all consent items are considered routine and non-controversial by the school board and will be approved by a single motion there will be no separate discussion of these items prior to the meeting board members did have the opportunity to review each of these
items and may have requested that an item be moved to an action item for individual consideration that did not happen this evening so may I get a motion to approve the consent items so moved second moved by simy seconded by
Sharon all those in favor I any opposed motion passes okay 6.0 information items we have two this evening 6.1 is a construction update that will be presented by Dan Pine Executive Director
of Finance and operations uh good evening chair Schwarz members of the school board superintendent nilson uh tonight I'll will be giving you a construction update I um you know I do this for Sharon um but
so I apologize to Julie and Kyle they've heard this before but I was trying to think of a construction story and um there was this guy that started working for the county and his job was to paint lines on the highway so the first day he
did about five six miles and second day he did about three miles and third day he only did like one and this boss came up to him and said you know what you started out so well I really disappointed why can't you work any harder he goes why can't you get more
miles in he said well boss every day the pink can got farther and farther away that's why you shouldn't [Laughter] leave uh tonight we'll give you an update on construction it'll be exciting
um the you recall that the Southwest count schools held a board a bond election November 7th of last year last year uh we asked voters for authorization to construct $200 million in school expansions and Renovations Bond question one is worth
$160 million the bond question two is worth $40 million they both passed so work has commenced on and uh the first of many many projects over the next five years uh the first step in these projects design of the buildings and
that process is led by the AR by the designers The Architects so tonight architects from wal and Architects from coma will update the board on the progress of some of the school designs uh just before we start I just
want to give you a reminder of the um the construction schedule that we're still holding to nothing has changed much on this um I like to look at you know when they're finally done the blue and you can see that um by the fall of 2026 we should be done with casual
Middle lake Middle old middle school and then by the fall of 2027 the high schools um should be well actually East bridge should be done in 2026 and then the other two high schools to be done in the fall 2027 as I said we're still in the green
stage now the design and planning and um have lots of input from lots of user groups then we'll turn it over to um s s Bagley gonna present from W from wal thanks Dan good evening members of the board and the public thanks for being
here to talk about this exciting project so I'm sbag with W Architects and engineers and I'm Paul lowski with wman and we're here to talk to you on behalf of our entire design team today about the progress of the design at Woodbury High School we've got a couple key members here in the audience we've got our job captain or design lead Dylan
Sullivan here with us um certainly your facilities Department Dan Hines and KY uker have been in many meetings with us and they've got a few more left um and then we've got Sarah senson Wagner the principal who's been um critical as a part of the process too so might call on somebody if there's a question that we can't
answer uh we'll just give a quick outline of the project scope as um as promised in the referendum includes site improvements and including trying to fix um or improve some of the traffic flow issues at the school um replacing the kitchen and cafeteria uh the main office
uh getting a a much needed secure vestibule um which really involves redoing the whole office building new office um significant science Renovations um a redo of the media center um which is going to be much the same place but totally redone um and then Career Technical education
improvements to um bring it into parody with the other projects that you'll see tonight at the high schools and then a significant amount of long-term facilities maintenance across the building in in various spots um we did want to highlight the process that we've been going through a little bit um we follow a process um
where we bring stakeholders in and really um do a generative design of the project with stakeholders um so of of course there was promises made um and things that needed to be accomplished from the referendum but how we go about doing that we really involve a lot of people in the discussion so there are
some changes from the preliminary diagrams to what we came up with and that is largely due to that group's input um once they help us settle the plan down and figure out um where and how things are going to be done in the building we then break into what we call User Group to um get a greater level of
detail and by doing that we're able to involve a lot of people in the project so um we really are probably including just about everybody that the actual spaces are going to touch in the process of design in various ways and one of the outputs of that that
um is uh things that we call designing criteria and guiding principles so those become kind of written statements um that help guide the design of the project so we won't go through those in detail but some of the really important ones were uh um the guidance that the main office should be near the center of
Student Activity um and that has profoundly affected the plan and how we implemented it um the idea of reorganizing the building um where possible to be more departmental um so that colleagues can have some collaboration uh and then um a better relationships for the kitchen and
cafeteria and then um making sure that the media center is as multi-use as possible so you can see we're talking about large group Gatherings um conference rooms and and of course accommodating the needs of storage for the media center um I probably should have reviewed it earlier but um all design
projects go through a few kind of phases and so we talked about this at our Middle School update so schematic design is really when The Advisory Group does their work the user group and detailed engineering is design development we've really just crossed over to the threshold into design development with this project so recently did a schematic design estimate with CR Anderson the
construction manager um and we've been doing those user group meetings you probably saw on the side we actually had um all day meetings on Monday and Tuesday of this week um with staff again and of course with Sarah and some others so here is our working floor plan we call it a draft because of course it I sometimes joke it changes every day
right when we learn something from someone or we um try to try to meet a new goal um but I'll explain the floor plan so this is the lower level uh just to orient everyone North is up on this so the main entry would be at the top you can see that uh main entry with an
arrow is called out the intent is to build an addition can do some renovation to relocate the main office or you could think of it as the administration directly next to that to have the appropriate security relationships as many of the projects are doing um so the main office would have uh things like
the principal the assistant principals um we would have the nursing or health office there we're intending to have a break slork room for staff there some storage conference rooms uh things of that nature and then um I'm actually going to toggle and then I'll come back the intent is actually to have a
staircase inside that space so that's what those little lines are and then have student support actually directly above that and so things like counselor um school psychologist um mental and chemical health um spaces uh and Associate reception their own conference room and so those colleagues can both
work near each other by being stacked and having a staircase we can have families come in be greeted be sent directly up to counseling but then it also has the benefit of being able to have administrators closer to students on both levels of the building um it also made it a little bit more manageable space instead of onear large volume on a single floor plate so as
Paul indicated that ended up being a big driver of how the floor PL landed with wanting to have that uh Golden Rod color Block in that part of the building um another couple points I'll make um so you can see there's the whole building is shown in this plan um and rooms that have gray in them um are not
getting major Renovations that doesn't mean they won't Me Maybe necessarily have lighting replaced in them or some painting but we've been using this as a as a tool to help communicate to users and and certainly you and the public um where they can expect maj improvements to be happening Paul mentioned that one of the goals of the advisory committee
was to get a a more departmental organization and so as we seek to improve the science labs that you have and get the right quantity uh there was actually a Rel proposed relocation of the fax Department uh so just below the purple block that says sped uh is
actually where your fact spaces are today we're going to relocate them I'll show you on the next level um so that science can be all together so we've got our 12 science labs in that prep space uh is for them in the green then if we go continue to on the North side uh you can see there's a Lobby right when you
enter and if you were to come in the building go through appropriate security processes pop out into that Lobby and then turn to the right that's where you would go down the hallway to connect to the new cafeteria and kitchen Edition uh that is um that hallway um just uh to
the north of the locker room so that ex that's the existing part of the hallway you can see some little dots or up and down so that's kind of where the the wall is and and then we're building from there on um part of that area does have the existing pool in its space right now so just to help Orient you on site that's the place we're talking about
although this addition will be quite a bit larger than that volume is um in the cafeteria it's a double height volume space so that'll show up on both floor plans and the kitchen and servery or the place where students actually get their food is just to the west of that we've
also got um thinking about the food that needs to come in and the trash that needs to go out whenever we're talking about eating we've got a loading back and receiving area Associated there as well um and then a couple of fun features so we've got um many of you may be familiar with the concept of a learning stair kind of a tiered
environment for students to sit and dine and uh socially gather has been planned as a part of that um as well as a space you can called the den and that's really a it's a part of the cafeteria that's um enclosable um still supervis um to really create a different environment for some students and also double as
like a nice meeting space for large groups uh it's a good example of a feature um it's just taking some of the square footage of the cafeteria and giving it more than one job and something we saw in tours actually at um Hudson High School was kind of the inspiration so um that's an example of the kind of influence the advisory
committee has uh then I don't want to miss anyone on this level we do have quite a bit of renovation in the high needs special education program area so that's really all the square footage that's called out in that uh burgundy color or purple color um so that's U realignment of sizes of rooms and features of rooms to better meet their
needs as well as replace some demountable partitions redo lighting kind of a hybrid of um programmatic and maintenance work and then last but not least on this level um we've got some Renovations proposed in both the boys and girls athletic locker
rooms then if I go upst stairs I'll start at the top again just to orient people so if you imagine we came in and went directly up the stairs that's where you'd see that student support area again directly to the left or to the west of that you can see a space called Upper Deck um one of the goals of the
advisory committee was to make sure that this building has really good I'm just going to call it circulation or flow in function and with having people having to go back and forth to the cafeteria from the academic area uh they really wanted to have a connection on the upper level to that space and not only on the
lower level and so you can see the cafeteria volume will actually kind of stretch and touch the upper level of the academic part of the building and you can get into the cafeteria that way as well so there will be a small amount of dining space in that Upper Deck as well as a staircase um and then you certainly could go downstairs um and into the
hallway as well uh you can see the media center kind of in the heart of the academic part of the building as Paul indicated that's where the media center is today in large part part we're probably we're reshaping the edges of it is maybe how I'd call it and then uh certainly doing a big reorganization to meet these new
goals uh we've got a few spaces called out in that green color that says CL so those are classrooms uh that are getting maybe right size a couple there's each one kind of Has Its Own Story one of them is in the current principal's office for example one's in the current athletic director's office uh there's
two over by the auditorium um uh to try to help serve for some lost space from the addition so we've been working care carefully with Sarah to make sure that um nobody gets lost in the shuffle as we are moving people around quite a bit and then as while we're staying over there you can see um in that it's a little
hard to see on the screen it's an orange color right next to the word Lobby by the auditorium there's three spaces that say cook lab Design Lab and prep classroom so that would be the relocated fa Department um and so that's uh where the kitchen is today so for those who are familiar with the layout at Woodbury
High School the intent is to take them again as a department and reconstruct their spaces um over there there's some nice ancillary impacts they'll benefit from like being able to bring things directly into their space from the existing loading dock right now they have to cart things
around uh there are two small but very important additions on either side of the auditorium they're a little hard to see um they're in Gray but it kind of fills in the corner on either side of the auditorium uh to house both music and theater storage and so kind of associated for both of those departments
and then last but not least on this level um at least for major program areas that are getting touched would be the CTE and artwing so you can see um there's major Renovations proposed for for both departments uh the northern two most art rooms are getting um the the
walls of the rooms are staying the same um but we're improving the Cabinetry and the storage and certainly the quality of the materials whereas the third or southern most space is getting right sized to be an equitable sized third art room so it's um it requires the relocation of somebody who's down there
and then across the hall is our CTE spaces so you can see we've got our wood shop our trades and Industry multi-purpose and Robotics lab a computer lab a flexible classroom and then an auto shop so just had a meeting for example earlier this week talking to them about all of that and um trying to
nail down equipment and things like that so there's lots of details with a space like that I'm trying to think if there's any other critical things on the floor I just offer that I think with the opportunity to do all these things in the building we're we're really able to I think it's going to change the way the building
feels on the inside um between the media center the new cafeteria which I think you can think of as a Commons it sort of links the main entry with the athletic area it's going to give it a very different feel and um get it away from some of the uh cells and bells sort of way that schools had been designed in
the past and hopefully um really improve the experience for everybody in the building so can I ask a couple questions so this um where the wood shop and the art spaces that's um that's an addition off of where the current like I know now
when you go and there's that door that comes in right across from the media center that's a new is that a new space that's being built or is that thank you for pointing that I probably can't use a clicker on a monitor um so if you see where the green art wall ends the wall so if you were to draw a line straight
across that's where the building ends today so there is an addition there kind of where it where it um juts out there so there's an expansion to right size all of those spaces um but I would say in in large part that part of the project is renovation based okay yeah and then on the first slide you had
mentioned the cafeteria and the so how many kids can now sit in the ca because I know now the cafeteria is not big enough for all the kids like if you're at aun or whatever so how many more kids can sit in the new cafeteria versus the current cafeteria so we we' been talking about making sure that um into the
future even thinking about uh future growth for the building even though that's not our prime directive right now that you could operate three lunches if you so chose so we've really been thinking about Dylan and Dan and K and Sarah I think it's planning for a 2500 students across three lunch periods okay that's not what enrollment looks like
today and we're not increasing the classroom count to meet that 2500 but that's been kind of a core tenant of the cafeteria space okay and then and this is maybe a dum like but the main entrance will look like an obvious main entrance correct yes I mean and I don't
say that just because we hope so I mean my child was a junior at Woodbury High School before I figured out where the main entrance was so I really would that's a personal preference um actually I'm glad you said that so right now um as you walk up to the building there's two two I would say architecturally very equal sets of doors and it's not quite
obvious which one you go to you'll actually notice in this plan um The Proposal is to actually you know have the same number of doors but we've put them all together so the main office is actually kind of covering up one of those sets of doors and then we're making the other set much more Grand
with more doors okay and so the main office will kind of touch what you think of as one of those rounded stair Towers today so then when you come into the main entrance like you'll it'll be it'll be very apparent okay yeah yep between the addition and what we will do with the canopy um the fact that it will have
some Grandeur and presence yes and so signage would go a long way yep and so will the activities entrance because I that's like because I know that there's a South entrance the activities entrance yes and the so they'll they'll all still be part of this system as well yeah and I didn't talk about the activities
entrance and thank you for saying that so um if you can see it says activities entrance on here so we are um going to I'm going to call it reconstruct and reorient the activities entrance because right now it's quite far back in the building so it will come out closer to the um where cars drive okay to give it
more prominence so that's getting reconstructed and then you'll see kind of the the loading receiving cafeteria large volume and that will flow seamlessly into the new main entry and so you can think of it as that nearly the whole front or face of the building is kind of getting to totally refaced
right with new square footage so lots of opportunity to improve that that immediate where is the front door did I did I miss it or did it not show where is the theater and the band rooms where is that at oh so those are actually upstairs it's a funny building
to like imagine but so those are upstairs on the south side the bottom of the slide um they the gray volume that's got so there's a big box with things on either side of it so that's the auditorium with the music rooms on either side of it okay um we don't have much scope inside those rooms because
they've been recently renovated with your ltfm project but those departments are benefiting from the storage additions that we're doing all good questions and then oh okay I I'll wait for you to keep
going sorry oh we just had a few example um User Group drawings just to help people understand the kind of the phase of the project in and the level of conversations we're having so um I I sometimes joke that these are wrong the day we publish them right because we met with Sarah's team a couple days ago but
um here is a Flur plan and an Exxon view of the first floor so that would this would be the main officer of the administration just starting to show the important space relationships we've learned about so uh we've been talking about you know door swings where's glass where are marker boards where's
Cabinetry where are Outlets who should be next to who who has to see what um and so we use both 2D and 3D Graphics to try to convey what that might look like and feel like um so I'm going to walk you through it on the in in big big picture form on the right hand side on
the floor plan so if you came in the main entry you would come into what's called a weather vestibule kind of get out of the cold and then you would get um buzzed into a secure vestibule if you were standing in that space and you look to your right that's where you would see the security window and so you could um
check in there and your business would be sorted out maybe your business is to go into the main office in which case you would be buzzed into the main office or that space that says recept so that'd be reception um for attendants and things like that uh then along the north side you can see a series of offices um
the labels um certainly could move around but we've been talking about the athletic department or athletic director and their support being there the SRO and then all of the other offices um are designed really to be the but we've been talking about the um assistant principles and the sped coordinator and
things like that then on the core we've got our large conference room the TLT would be two staff toilets so both visitors and staff could use those you know things like the safe and storage and then the other element in the center there is the staircase I mentioned that goes up then on the South Side we've got
the principal's office and their administrative support and um few other things and then last but not least we've got that um Health office so space for CS a bathroom an office office um things like that uh and then so then you can see kind of the phase we're at as we're starting to move into the 3D and
understanding you know where do we want transparency in glass and sight lines where is privacy a higher value what do we need on the walls to support that space and so that's kind of the level of detail we're just starting to get into um few other example spaces I won't
go through all of them in quite as much detail but um since we talked about it so here is the C floor plan and axon um so on the right hand side I'll talk through the floor plan um a huge driver in spaces like this is the equipment and then moreover Beyond just the equipment
it's like it's safety clearances needs and access needs so we start understanding you know what model of that are you going to have and how much safety clearance does it need and that's a big active conversation today the computer lab uh you can see on there we've got that multi-purpose room
flexible classroom that can um expand out into that Flex space so that they can you know break out do some activities and then on the south side again you can see that Transportation auto shop conversations we have there is around you know Part Storage um where's the air compressor how many bays do we
need where are the garage doors so the cars can go out in and out easily so those types of conversations here is a little bit more zoomed in plan of the kitchen and cafeteria uh so you can see here we've got I'll start on the left so in the
kitchen you know we have the office uh storage for food in the form of both dry or I should say dry cooler and freezer storage um we've got the servery so that's where students would actually go through the lines to get their food lots of conversation about what that experience wants to look like and feel
like for students um with your nutrition services department and building Administration and then uh the dish return then if we move into the cafeteria Furniture uh will be a future process but we certainly like to show furniture for scale so we've been planning around that capacity that we've
been talking about um lots of openings to that hallway on that South Side so you can see those little Dash lines represent um shutters or openings in that wall I don't think we've mentioned it yet um but the cafeteria itself will be designed uh as one of those storm shelters we talked about when we talked
about the um ult middle school so the cafeteria proper um will be that hardened construction and so while we're um working to have as much transparency and openness into it we do have to have a plan for how to those walls Harden themselves in the event of this storm
that we're designing around uh then I already mentioned the den lots of transparency into that and then we've got some bathrooms that um not joking have been a really hot topic over the past week of exactly where they should be and all of that kind of stuff so uh this is a space that's in flux has
changed a couple times this week I just wanted to clarify um we mentioned that the furniture is a future process it is part of the referendum it's just not part of the construction package so there will be furniture for it when it when it opens up yep just showing it for scale good point
um and then I think this is my last little exam so we have a drawing like this for every single impacted space but we thought we'd just show you kind of some examples um here's the last Department thought would be a good example so here's the um fax floor plan uh so I already labeled the classrooms when I went over the overall um I think
the interesting part that's developing here um is the interconnectedness that this Department's really looking to seek so that their spaces are multi-use so um at the second meeting we actually spent a lot of time reconfiguring um to get this Central Flex space where they can get to their Department office and
storage that can be shared so that things don't have to be duplicated and then we've talked about having this cooking lab um as well as this prep classroom where maybe some light cooking activities can happen and then last but not least would be the design classroom where things like the fashion and the sewing things happen so spent a lot of
time with that department making sure that the inner workings of them allow for some free flowing uh last but not least before we get into schedule would be um draft site plan for this project um this is a it's a tough project to graphically display so we thought the best thing to do would
be to kind of draw new intended parking lot layout on top of existing to help you get get some context um the biggest thing I'm going to call your attention to is um we're really seeking to improve uh I always try not to say parent uh just student pickup and drop off um flow
and function and one of the major challenges that's been identified is um once people get off Wood Lane Drive they get through the light then they have to stop stop at the stop sign kind of right away and then similarly when they're trying to leave the site that stop sign really becomes a bottleneck um so through a lot of traffic observation um
and discussion The Proposal at this time is to really reorient that road once you get on site you'll see it no longer comes to that T intersection and actually if you get on to the site and you were going to to go to the South to do um student pickup and drop off you don't have to stop anymore would be the
proposal you can free flow um and so you would take a you know you'd go straight and then you'd Veer to the right and then those red arrows are kind of intended to show um uh car traffic it would function once you get to that South Side actually very similar to ultman right where there allows for two
lines of queuing space moving in One Direction and then going down to one line and then allowing people to leave again um with limited access in and out of that parking lot so that um we can try to reduce the number of people that seek to cheat the line and go park in the parking lot um it caused a lot of
traffic challenges right because it's there's really not a lot of traffic control measures to force people to behave that way today and so this is what that's seeking to do uh then um we are proposing uh flipping staff uh parking in the bus lot I should say the the bus lot right now is where staff
parking is labeled on this so buses will still come and go from Windham way but they would come in and go immediately to the West um and then staff parking would be on that very eastern most side of the building and that would actually be accessed from the north right um You can see the it's maybe a comically large
stop sign on the site plan just to make it really obvious so to prioritize traffic um going to and from the um student pickup and drop off we would have a traffic control measure there um and again a lot of that is to try to inconvenience people trying to do pickup and drop off at the front door right now
you kind of have an official pickup and drop off going on on the south side and then people don't who see that line and don't feel like going into it go to the front door and so we actually are trying to discourage that by making it less convenient so um I'm sure there's other things I should
point out on here the the way before I got into all that the additions are in blue I should have said that um so you can see here the how I mentioned the whole north side of the building of the face is going to have a significant amount of improvement and then we've got those um more surgical additions on the southide for those storage rooms in the
CTE so so staff coming in they have to come in from the ojibway side uh they would come in Wood Lane Drive and then they would go to that intersection where there's a stop and there will be a left turn then they'll turn left yep then they'll turn left yep
um it is uh we've been working closely with the city um there is a uh as a part of the district's last conditional use permit really only allowed um bus traffic to come and go from windway it's it's a it's one of the conditions is that's the only type of vehicular traffic that's permitted to go
come and go from that southern portion of the site so and then what does this do to the amount of parking available at the school uh we've been working very hard to to try to hold it uh hold it harmless so to not to not lose spots it's kind of reconfigured and you'll you'll gain some here and you'll maybe
lose some here like for example the south parking lot you'll probably notice it will have less than it has today some of it gets made up with striping the bus lot for staff so we have been tracking that so how does that work for and maybe Sarah you have an answer for this how does that work for stuff like you're
coming to um like the fall academic award night where you have to already Park like eight miles away to to be there like how does that how will that work in terms of the number of people and the number
of cars all converging at 7 p.m on the school sure yeah absolutely we need a microphone yes um well you know because you've attended many events right that the parking is just what it is and we have a
limited amount of land that we have so so um we will be striping the new bus lot so that's where a lot of people the new bus lot will still be striped so and probably a lot more accessible to parents but they still will have to park
down that way and walk to the South entrance or they'll have to go up in that student parking lot and walk down the sidewalk okay so but all student parking will now be on that um I mean because I remember when student parking used to be on both sides of the building
but now it's all going to be on that side they will all be up in the Big Lot we call it the general parking lot that will all be students and so then they can only come in through the main entrance correct okay yep and we made that switch a couple of years ago we only do parent drop off and we don't
allow student parking at the South entrance for security and it drives them always to the front but it just kind of then changes our security issue because now they all want to go to the activities entrance which is locked and they have to walk to the main entrance so I've been fortunate I also worked at
Park like I know the students from Park also have to walk from the parking lot all the way to the main entrance and we've all been to Eastridge and it's quite the trk also to the main entrance so we all can handle a couple extra steps thank um I should mention that this this
is a draft site plan so um this is uh subject to City Review so they've seen this many times have been having positive conversations um have no reason to believe um we're going to run into any hiccups but it's not for approved yet so that won't be submitted to them until later in the
process uh I think the last thing we'll end on is schedule so I already reference schedule a little bit so we've finished schematic design we're in design development so we're kind of Midstream is a good way to think about it uh design goes through December of 20124 and then the project will be going out to bid early next year and the
construction will be in phases from Summer of 2025 um as Dan Pan's uh schedule review said through um we call it through summer of 2027 AKA done for fall of 27 and the final phasing um is something that cross Anderson will continue to work
on cool any other questions can go back to anything Sarah Kelly anyone said thinks we missed anything I mean as someone who won't have a child in this school when this is done I'm very excited about it like I wish I'm not excited enough to have
another baby but I am excited like this is Maybe to an event that might scratch that itch yeah but this is this looks really great thank you no great thank much than for having us thank you s and Paul and now we'll
have uh mark from coma come up and talk about um East Ridge and park and I do want to mention that you'll see a little more you feel like you're seeing a little more detail on on the next two schools and that's and it's solely because they started their design um
earlier than we started the Woodberry design so they're just a little different phases in the design thank you good evening everybody in the board and public um again Mark de boy uh lead architect with
coma we will start with Park High School and then move into Easter idge but have a time for questions and comments um and I guess I'll say just by way of introduction that um our team and S
Paul's team have tried to and I think successfully worked in tandem to try to be as consistent as possible so I won't go bother going through a lot of the details of the process um our process has been very similar with the same uh
leadership team group meetings Advisory Group meetings user group meetings meetings with the city um on all of these projects together and we've tried to help develop uh District standards along the way so I think that's been
beneficial Park High School we'll start there um um again the just to highlight the goals of the referendum um and we Tred to stick with that um but I will say that there have been other ancillary pieces that have
been able to been folded into the project scope as we've gone um to try to resolve some other um deficiencies or weaknesses of the building or the site but again the primary goals were to uh
expand the CTE program um to modernize it both with the facility and equipment and infrastructure um we also adding the new kitchen and cafeteria Edition to serve the current population as well as a
future of perhaps up to 2500 students on this site um and then uh we also wanted to try to consolidate the uh Administration the student services into a more coherent and easily
accessible uh portion of the building for both visitors but also the students and the staff again as I mentioned we had uh leadership teams which were um primarily
uh principal Todd um Christine schaer Dan and Kyle from the facilities department and myself and they we kind of guided the overall process in a monthly manner we also had these Advisory Group meetings which included
all Department leads um that could act as ambassadors to the other staff and then we had the user group meetings based uh on specific areas of the building whether it was kitchen cafeteria Administration CTE and the
like so we've been continuing the that process and uh as Sal and Paul mentioned we are at Park High School we are in that design development stage so schematic design has passed we're in design development working our way
towards another estimate that's another component of all of these projects is at the end of each design phase Krauss Anderson the construction manager is taking our documents and reviewing them against the budgets so that we're sure that along the way we're staying on
track for the funding that's available some of the key points that we have been aiming at uh from a design standpoint for Park obviously this building was built in 1965 and it's had
many re revisions Renovations throughout the years um but one of the things that we talked about early on was trying to the best we could U modernize and sort of take some of that 1965 institutional
feel away and replace it with a more modern um aesthetic that can uh serve the current and the future population obviously as we mentioned the cafeteria and the kitchen needed to be right siiz to be able to serve up to
2500 again they currently have about 2,000 in the in the um student population but with the infrastructure uh and the kind of core spaces now is the time to size them for the
future and also uh the career in technical educ ation space as I mentioned the expansion of it and reconfiguration to try and modernize and bring that program into modern day and into the future and we also were trying
to improve the uh secure entry along with the administration from what it is today I'll start with the site um because as you may be aware this project the scope uh
has I would say always but has expanded to try to uh Rectify some issues at Crestview Elementary as well so obviously it's sort of treated as one campus and what we've been trying to do
to alleviate some of the obvious traffic issues along 8th is to separate um pickup and drop off from buses and visitors currently everybody
flows through that South um parking area and drive area just south of um Park High School also there is uh considerable backups on 80th uh for the
pickup and drop off at Crestview so we're trying to uh in essence uh take care of two sites At Once by creating a new road through both sites with the
main entry for both now being at an expanded Crest at the existing Crest View entrance but an expanded uh entry point there so because the two schools are staggered in their times there won't be
cross traffic there but both um will be using that entry and for park that traffic will flow towards the North and then across the site to to a final drop
off or pickup location in front of the new Plaza cafeteria and kitchen addition on the North that we'll get into in a moment um the buses will remain pulling in and through on the South Side visitors will remain where they are
those parking lots will be renovated but not modified in their Axis or size there will be some additional parking on the North Road that shows up um that will alleviate some congestion that occurs
during events also can be used for students and staff the fields based on some of our additions and and working of the roads um will be reconfigured such that uh two
soccer fields will be developed uh over one north of the Ice Arena and one in the crest viw site it will be able to be used by Crestview VI for um recess and as a shared space the football practice
fields will be moved and reconfigured a bit on the north side of the road uh just west of the stadium and there will be some additional storm water retention on the site as well to accommodate the additional impervious area that is being
put together on the additions is there any I'll stop there because the site is perhaps of some interest is there any questions or about the traffic flow that's being proposed through the
site so students would come in from Crest View and then drive all the way around the building and then they also exit out back through Crest View or is there an alternate okay no they would uh if if there oh there's the one way exit it's like a one-way Street okay out onto
IDE deal student parking would remain on the east side for the most part um and so that uh traffic light there would remain as as an entry point off 80th as well but students would not be able to other than
that thing down the entry off by Crestview there's no entry there's no new entry on 80th for correct correct we have been uh in communication with the city and there is a plan that the city has for re re working I don't reworking
but repaving and uh 80th itself and so we've gone through many iterations of options of how to enter off 8th and um because of the cross streets that run from the south and up into 8th and the
lights and such the city didn't really want to create any offsets from that or any new pieces that way so um we've been working with them over the past several months to try to come up with a solution that works for their traffic patterns as
well okay we can move this is a uh draft of a plan of the plaza uh and it will make more sense when we look at the overall building but up on the North side that road that's coming in at a diagonal that is the portion of the drop
off and pick up a new road and then people would be dropped off in that darker gray Lane um and then enter to the cafeteria uh entry through a landscaped Plaza that will have site
features such as planters and rais Planters and benches and seating areas for uh outside eating bike racks and and general Landscaping this is an overall diagram and I apologize if it's a little hard to read
the building is large uh but we again similarly most of the the gray areas are areas that will not be touched as part of the referendum work and again at uh Park High School we do have a
combination of referend referendum Bond funded work I.E most of the additions and kind of major reconfigurations but also longterm facilities maintenance funded projects such as some of the more minor uh Renovations within the
building uh again trying to create a a little bit of a different pattern of traffic and organization of the building as a whole the South entry will remain as the main entry um but we in that kind of lighter
green area we are um looking to consolidate the administration and create uh a a more effective uh secure entry through the commons area um the health office will also be moved up
to the front in that light blue and there will be some special education services in that kind of mint color to the right from that point um of that sort of main East West hallway on the South Side
uh because we are building the new cafeteria and kitchen that whole Center area which is the C cafeteria and kitchen is going to be repurposed and running north south through the middle of it will be what we've affectionately
called The Main Street and along that street will be some of the student services you see in purple um counseling mental health um Family Services and then it's as it moves
towards the North and towards that yellow rectal linear shape which is the cafeteria we end up with another Commons area that we'll look at a little more closely with a student store that's part of the the business
program the the western side of the building is the uh academic side so purple is the science rooms Lavender is the facts blue being the art and then the orange being the
industrial Arts we'll go into more detail of those as we go but this gives you sort of an orientation of the entire building and the scope thereof as I mentioned the additions on the North side the primary addition being the cafeteria in yellow
which is in this site as well is the storm shelter and the new kitchen and loading dock area which serves that move into just some enlarged areas and we don't need to spend a ton of time with them but we'll walk through again
this is the South entry the main entry which would remain the main entry um coming through a secure vestule into an area where there would be a greeter who would then direct traffic either into the secure office area so we're
consolidating everything from attendance to um the princip principal assistant principal special ed director uh activities director office manager um SRO and work rooms conference
rooms and um and the like are all within a secure perimeter within that kind of light green once into that once you've done you've met with who you needed to as a visitor you could access back through
the building or if your uh student coming in between hours um you can access back through this door back into the main lobby which then gets you to the rest of the building as I mentioned we're moving the the health office and
the nurse space um closer to the front um for a little bit easier access and more um connection to the excuse me to the front of the building and the ad Administration so is this the Le sorry is this the
lecture hall it is that's a good point um for orientation for those of you that are familiar with the building that sort of uh angled portion on the south is the current lecture hall so the risers that are in that lecture hall will be removed
and that space will become the front office so there'll be new windows on the front for those offices and that will start to um modify the front of the building that front face of the building aesthetically too so will that space be then put
somewhere else in the building or is that yes okay yep we'll get there so oops I'm sorry so moving North from there um along the bottom of this image is that main East West hallway and
that that Main Street is the one that that hallway that you see running north south um that that is in essence running right through the existing cafeteria if you're familiar with that space so to the left of that uh to the
west of that in the purple is again the counselors psychologists student services all sort of combined around one of the courtyards in the in the building to the north of that is in essence the
replacement of the uh lecture hall but it's a more multi-purpose space now the lecture hall with the fixed risers is limited in what you can do in that space what we're doing uh north of the student services here is creating a space that
can be used uh at any time of the day primarily we're viewing this as the online learning space so it's going to be flexible seating it's going to have um obviously computer data power and everything for students but we're
viewing this as kind of the location where a lot of the online students will be whenever they're in the building um you'll you might notice some double doors um on the north side of
that so the multi-purpose multi-use portion of that space is that by moving furniture and closing those doors that can become a large group perhaps for all staff meetings or along those
lines to the West uh sorry I'm sorry to the east of that Main Street we have the new inclusion Center are relocated um with the Liaisons student Liaisons and then we are reconfiguring and relocating the
business uh classes uh and and Department into those kind of slate blue areas which are connected to a school store which will be on on this kind of Main Street and Commons um we've heard a lot about the business department um
developing products and selling them and so this seemed to be a natural spot and it's in a much more publicly um visible area these images again are a bit disjointed uh to fit onto the page but
these would be the uh remodeled or completely new science rooms um um at the end of this process and project there will be 11 science rooms throughout the building so several of them will be untouched as part of this
some of the newer ones but um in order to create larger and more flexible uh science spaces we are renovating all the rooms in purple um just as a highlight in this we
have through many user group meetings have had discussions about the the use and the flexibility of the space the lab spaces versus the lecture spaces and so some of that is going to be achieved by flexible Furniture some of it of course
is fixed furniture and fixed casework um for primarily for the labs and that will vary excuse me that will vary based on the subject matter whether it's Earth in Earth in space versus chemistry or biology
one of the other uh major reconfigurations and expansions is in the industrial Arts Wing which is these orange spaces you're seeing here um perhaps one of the significant moves is if you're familiar with the
existing building this uh room or lab on the southern end of this diagram is currently the woods um but we have understood that the woods program the desire is to expand
that into more construction to make the pro the CTE program in general um more effective in training future workers for the in in the trades so in
order to do that uh to provide a space where larger Construction can happen we're flip-flopping the woods and the small engines so Woods will now be on the north east corner of this diagram
with the addition on the north of that which will be a high Bay space used for large construction we're also having a major overhaul of the metals and the welding uh and manufacturing area which is just
to the west of the new wood slabs this will include all new welding stations equipment Furniture um a larger space with which to work and it's really going to modernize the the metals and welding area we also have tried to
accommodate robotics as a club in here um and so to the west of the welding area will be kind of a flexible space that can be used by robotics or just Engineering in general as a final piece of the CTE
expansion we're looking at reconfiguring and outfitting the maker space and the engineering spaces um which is here on the left another piece that is kind of a shared space that has developed that
will be shared by both CTE uh industrial Arts as well as Arts is this design collaboration space in Blue on the corner so it's sort of in the intersection C of the industrial arts and the art rooms and the intention is
for that space to be shared and used um by anyone needing to do presentations can invite in outside um uh industry Partners to have meetings or presentations there it's kind of a
shared space on the corner and intersection of the hallway that we think will be well used mentioned the fax uh lab will be completely renovated and expanded and
and upsized uh again using the flexible Furniture in the center that can then be moved out to create kitchen islands or kitchen stations along the perimeter um with a with a full teaching station at
the front with the um camera that can be projected out to the rest of the students the major addition of course is the kitchen and the cafeteria here I won't go through it in great detail but this in Orange is the kitchen um and the cury
and the back of house with the loading dock and the receiving um and we have uh worked with our kitchen consultant to design sort of two separate serveries and then also a separate alart room
which you'll see in the next diagram as we've been saying the the idea is that we would be able to serve somewhere between 800 to 850 students per lunch in a three lunch scenario in the future and so
queuing lines progressing through the servery is important so we're actually separating out those three uh what's called servery one here has kind of the two main lines servery 2 is a whole different traffic flow that's for like
prepackaged meals that will separate out people and then alart is a in a whole different location but it's important to try and separate to um get the students to be spread out and not
congestion so on any given day there will be three different three different ways for students to access food yeah so um in this diagram in the lower left are the southwest corner is the main entry into the
cafeteria and from there students would move to the north to either the the main cvery or they could go further north to the second servery the alicart is viewed as not a
full meal shall I say but students can go from one of the two serveries down to the alart this uh as I mentioned was part is part of the storm shelter so again we're we're designing these to to serve and
house 2900 people roughly um with the intent again if the population of students gets about 2500 staff accordingly is around 400 so we've sized it um to meet the code requirements for square footage um
within it again we have a set of uh bathrooms that are new in the Southeast corner and those are of the Universal Design um which has been the the direction given so they're all
individual toilet stalls and a common sink hand washing area outside that for privacy uh a few kind of very con Cal uh 3D interior images of that cafeteria this being and I maybe I should
highlight the two areas are of varying Heights so the the southern the southern area of the cafeteria is sort of a story plus height so it's a little bit lower and we there's all kinds of structural
ramifications or reasons why and then the larger twostory space is the one to the north and so there there will there be a variation in the field going from one to another um and that's intentional so from this
is sort of a area inside the lower portion looking out to the north where the windows will be this is being uh inside the twostory and looking toward the East this is looking back towards the
cvery we've also started to develop some of the exterior um and this being a kind of a bird's eyee view looking at the new North entry which will be a secure entry um and looking and walking through
the plaza so that drop off lane and pickup Lane is what you're seeing where the cars are on the right hand side is the cafeteria the two-story space with the larger windows and on the left for reference is the activity center and the
gymnastics again just a design concept uh of that new main entry on the North side that will be connected to both the cafeteria and the Activities center so there'll be a way for people to flow back and forth
during the school day but also at events during the evenings or the weekends and this is a little bit more of a ground view um if you've been dropped off and you're on your way into that main entry
any other questions or comments before I move into the schedule I have a question as somebody who will actually have a well he'll be a senior so hopefully he'll be driving and I won't have to deal with par drop off because I've dealt with it for three kids already
um when you're dropping off a student say they're coming in late because you're not dropping off at this main secure door correct because you're dropping off behind you'd be on the North side so when you're dropping off late
though how do you get your kid to yeah all right I have a child who doesn't like to get up so I need to so operationally what this will really help us with is in the morning drop off and the afternoon pickup uh during normal school hours
we'll say that um pretty much 830 9:00 time everyone's going to come in through the main entrance uh the front entrance right into the office they'll be able to check in and move forward this will really help us alleviate all the congestion on 80th Street uh the current looping around
when you can't get in line and have to go back in 8th back in the parking lot that this line this road is long enough to cue everyone in a single line and then as they're queued and their kid comes out they're way back in the line they'll be able to pull out into the
and drive on so all the 80th Street is not blocked only into the student lot so students will continue to access the South lot as they currently do oh so they do still go in through 80th and then there's still the bus so if you're
dropping off late you would go in like where the buses yeah y do now yep yep after school starts you droing off after doctor's appointment yep droing right off at the uh the main entrance okay I like this and I will actually have a student that will be there for the it it
looks really nice I like the I agree the the new nice the exterior is what's really kind of drawing me that Plaza looks really right I'm very nice it looks very warm and welcoming for students I think this looks really nice and
families because I think it again this will also serve the activity center as well um and that it's going to be an outdoor Gathering area when the weather is nice um football games and the like right across the
way schedule wise um as we have been saying phasing is under review and this building of course um it's it's going to be a hopscotch throughout the building um in order to keep the educational
services continuing as they need to um but as you can see from that colored diagram there's a lot of disruption that is planned so that's why the overall schedule is starting in the summer of 25 but not finishing until the summer of
27 it's our understanding that portions of the building will be turned over as they're finished so there'll be uh it's not that everything will be under construction for two years straight um the first sort of major move onto the
site will be that North Edition um where the current loading dock is now so there'll have to be a temporary loading dock will that that addition is put on but that's going to be the first major addition and then uh in the summer of 26
will be a lot of the Interior sorry summer of 25 and 26 and 27 there'll be interior Renovations throughout I'm looking at Shane to just verify with that and again we we it's the same kind of
design schedule as um Woodburry in that by the winter of 2025 these bid bids will be taken okay can move on to Eastridge
um again similar uh in process um similar in Timeline we've had a leadership team team we've had a Advisory Group we've had user group meetings that have been continuous since um December and
January again uh somewhat similar but a little bit different in the in the uh scope of work again trying to expand that cafeteria and try to alleviate some of the current congestion and which will be even more on the existing kitchen um
also in this building we are expanding the student population so that's kind of the main difference I would say with Eastridge uh the building is currently was designed for somewhere around 1,700 students today there's about 2100 so
obviously it's crowded the new edition classroom Edition it'll be a two-story Edition is intended to serve about 600 additional students so that would get the capacity of the building up to about 2,300
and we'll see where it goes from there um again uh also trying to expand and uh improve the CTE offerings and facilities and um there's some other minor Renovations that happened
throughout don't want to inter what were the capacities of the other two after I might have missed there won't be correct me if I'm wrong but there won't be any additional classroom space in either Woodburry or Woodbury or
park so their capacities aren't going up East Ridge is the only one that correct okay it's just the cafeteria capacity okay we're building the kitchen yeah the kitchen and the cafeteria to serve larger at all Sites but it's only eidge that's getting additional classroom
space that's a good clarification I'll start with the site again here with um Eastridge in the areas in Gold are the two major additions so the cafeteria kitchen expansion is tied to the
classroom expansion all coming off the uh existing cafeteria Auditorium blackbox Theater that's that kind of addition at a 45 degree angle a new Plaza in front of a new activities entrance and then the CTE expansion off
the back where the ex in CTE space is located from a site standpoint again we're also trying to alleviate some of the current um challenges with traffic flow and so at Easter idge what we are
aiming to do is to stretch out I would say uh the again the drop off pickup pathway which is shown in this kind of gold arrow and pathway so we're reconfiguring the staff parking
and expanding the loop before you get to the main entrance to drop off so coming off haras and the round about you would take an immediate right hand turn and then loop back around so in essence what we're doing is creating more stacking
space so that people can get off Hargus more quickly also um we are disconnecting that Loop so that you can't cross or change or connect um so
as you see that those arrows and Pathways do not connect so you when you come in off harus you must take a right you can't go left there would be a physical barrier between the two um with that addition coming to the
south and east um we will be taking over excuse me some of the parking that's currently there so we need to re uh replace that by adding some parking on the south side side of the Eastern lot what's currently there now is it
just grass it's just grass sorry again uh similar concept from a a plaza standpoint same same um components raised Plaza raised Plaza in this case because of the grade um coming up either
stairs or a ramp that would run along the building addition on the south side there of the plaza raised Planters benches for seating um the lower area would also
have some seating areas um that's adjacent to the drive lane that runs that's basically the the existing drive lane we're also in this case adding uh what we call a speed table so it's not a speed bump but it's a speed
table um there's many reasons for why that uh is a table instead of a bump but what it does is try to slow down the traffic because this of course is a main thoroughfare from the student parking lot into this entryway again overall plans first floor
second floor the gray is primarily areas that are not being modified as part of this project um the the additions classroom on the south and the southeast the storm
shelter in this case is part of the classroom addition so a two-story hardened structure um which again will will accommodate 2900 people the uh I'll get into to that as
well another component in the blue in the center is similar to park is this creation of a space that uh for online learning this is the second floor and if you're familiar with the building it's kind of a two two classrooms conjoined
right now so those walls will be opened up and that will become the online learning area with the idea that again flexible seating and passive supervision within the hallways um again similar to park in the sense
that we are creating new science rooms here this is part of the new edition kind of sandwich between the cafeteria expansion and the general education classroom expansion storm shelter um
there will be six new science rooms and that will add to the 10 existing that are already in the building there won't be any renovations to the existing science rooms but these science rooms will all be with modern furniture
fixtures flexible seating um uh to provide different configurations based on the education that's being delivered at the moment in between those rooms on both levels is a collaborative area where
students can come out um to kind of break out or they can be studying between classes there's also a a enclosed collaborative space where a teacher might bring a small group of students out to or they might just be
out there um in a uh kind of a group dynamic with technology to to support that again this was this is the second floor stacked on top of the first again three science rooms and that
collaborative area in the middle the classroom Edition um again we've we've talked a lot through the user groups and advisory groups and leadership team about trying to consolidate departments into more of a
cluster the uh the original building was designed with sort of a a scattered approach with the three Wings the blue and the green and the gold um but over time there's been a
desire to move towards more clustering together of departments so in in this addition we're envisioning there are 12 General Ed classrooms and then some special ed rooms to um to assist with that but that will
likely be one Department that's housed in this and we we have not yet determined what color this will be that's for tomorrow's meeting there are some suggestions but we're working through
that again this on first and second floor will also have a collaborative um learning area in the center of all of the classroom spaces cafeteria addition um again I
apologize that it's a bit choppy because of the gray but this does flow and we we'll look at some interior renderings that will show it a little more clearly but this being uh what I'll say is sort of the Eastern the new Eastern side of the cafeteria where we can increase the
seating capacity we're also similar to park spreading out the cafeteria or sorry the the Ser serving lines so the existing serving lines will be uh modified to reduce the flow and number
of students that go through that existing and then what we're calling this remote kitchen is very similar to the par High School servery 2 where it's more prepackaged and so there's a whole different flow of of students and
queuing through this area as part of this redesign we're also moving the concession stand that's currently to the west side of the cafeteria up right next to the entry doors into the activity center so it's much
more usable and effective in that location so this just um so the other two have new other two high schools have like new purpose built kitchens and cafeterias this is an expansion of what is already correct correct we will we
are remodeling a little bit of the existing kitchen to make the flow and function better than it is currently but that that isn't going to solve everything for 25 2700 students so we've created this other remote kitchen area
to help serve that again we have the universal uh bathrooms grouping on the Southeast corner of that cafeteria Edition this is a little more detail of that online learning upstairs um which
if you kind of follow the the white uh pathway this is the existing second level mezzanine area and we're expanding that and that will be a connection back into the new classroom Edition on the second floor we're also again we'll
we'll look at at some renderings that might make it a little more clear to to view it but we're we're viewing that bridge or that connection also as a place where students can sit or study or or hang out
there this view gives you a picture of the new CTE Edition to the left uh on the west of this um we've gone through a lot of iterations both of the addition and the
existing space and part of the budget reconciliation process was to hold off on renovating the existing CTE uh industrial Arts areas um it certainly could use some reconfiguration but we're going to hold
off for Budget purposes and think about that in a future perhaps ltfm or or other other funding mechanism but the the new space on the left again is a very very high Bay
building uh centered addition for construction uh large construction again it also can be used off hours um and is sized for robotics um but they will have their own storage area within this um to
kind of keep their stuff away from the majority of the school um daily activities these spaces will be connected through a new storage room as well to both uh the welding manufacturing on the south and the existing
woodworking we're also doing some minor renovations to some of the special ed spaces particularly the DCd program um this is in the on the first floor in the gold pod um and we're actually removing
some of the lockers that are in there that's another thing that we've gone through in this process is investigating and and um actually um surveying students and principls at the high school level how
many people use lockers it's changed obviously from when this building was built or Beyond and so we've kind of come up with a formula of how many is sort of the minimum number of lockers within a high school um and so that by
doing that that's allowed us to capture some interior space for conference room and staff this is uh three-dimensional axonometric view of the additions primarily so um on the North side you
see the second level is that open online learning space where the existing Avid classrooms are moving into the new addition you see the um bridge that connects back into the science Edition
and the general classroom Edition and you start to see some of the collaborative spaces as they interact with the the rest a few interior design uh drafts this would be a view standing just
inside the new activities entrance looking back towards the existing cafeteria and you can see that bridge across the top um some of the architecture trying to tie in of course with the existing um
and and then on the right hand side you see the uh new remote kitchen and concession stand this is a view from the remote kitchen looking back again showing the the entry up into the second
level and this is a little broader View this is from the second level looking back at the entry in the the kitchen concession area one of the things of course um that the city is interested we're interested in the district is interested in is um
the exterior architecture materials blending in with that existing building so um it may be hard to tell what's existing and what's new in this and that's probably a good thing but uh the center area is
the new activities entrance the plaza in front of it the uh classroom editions moving towards the left side and again just some preliminary um renderings of the exterior as you're
coming up from the student parking up onto this raised Plaza with some of the same um design elements that park has outdoor seating rais planters places for waiting and
congregating this kind of gives the overall view Bird's eyee view of that new entry with some new signage any other comments or thoughts about Easter wheelchair uh it's maybe a little
hard to see but on the back here I don't know if my cursor is visible but there's a ramp that comes up the side of the building okay to get up to the to that Plaza level are there currently
steps I don't think so no the there's it's just sort of a sloped grade it's just okay but based on the fact that we're pulling the front entry out towards this the parking lot it changes this it becomes more steep if you can
Envision that and so it's too steep for a accessible route so we had to put stairs in there and I do like that you're looking at lockers I mean now that you don't carry six textbooks and I don't think kids were Colts
um I I I like the idea of you know kind of doing it making the school more what kids now do rather than what we did what we did when we actually wore coats and before the turn of and walked uphill
both ways isn't that what they used to say in the snow 5T of snow um but yeah I like that you're looking to make it look more modern I mean Park I'm my fourth generation or third generation at Park and most of it
looks the same as it did when my mom went there so I and and you're right I failed to mention but we are eliminating many of the lockers at Park as well to widen hallways and to allow actually putting Windows into some of the classrooms or the industrial Arts areas
so that as students are or staff are walking by there's that visual interest of what's going on in that space so it kind of creates more curiosity and uh visual interest too y schedule wise um we have Easter idge
being a little bit further along in the design and this this uh project will be going out to bid this fall in the middle of October and the construction start will actually begin at spring break of 2025 so this will be the first one where
cross Anderson and their team will start to be visible um and so we've developed the phasing plan a little more in a little more detail for this project and I think I'll ask Shane Butler from KRA Anderson to come up and just kind of
walk through the diagrams that his team's put together thanks Mark superintendent neelson chairperson sortz uh members of the board and the public I'm Shane Butler with kuss Anderson Construction and I promise there's only three more slides so we're
almost um after collaborating with uh Kyle and Dan in facilities um assistant superintendent Schaefer uh Mark with coma and then Jim and his team at easd we've come up with these draft phasing plans for Easter idge High School um what what you're looking at here is our
draft site phasing plan um so like Mark mentioned we are going to plan to come in during Spring Break um the first thing we would do is build a temporary wall um past where that activi entrance is and then we'd actually demo that activi entrance we'd set our site
fencing which is the dashed red line set our construction job trailer and kind of get the job set up um once that happens that activities entrance is going to be no longer accessible but from the public from the outside um we will need to
leave uh emergency egest through the construction zone for the duration of construction which we are working on with the City of Woodbury and their code officials um the light blue is where we'll have construction parking and material lay down um for materials like
steel concrete um masonry blocks stuff like that so those spaces will be lost for the duration of the building addition um the building itself will start in April and will be be complete in August of
2026 uh then you can see the CTE Edition we plan to start that in June after school's out and that will be ready to turn over around winter break of 2025 and then uh you can also see the proposed construction traffic and how they would access the
site uh here we have a first floora phasing plan um with the Flora plans uh the green area is obviously the big building addition that's the science s science classrooms um holoc cart area and that'll be our our the first phase we
start um obviously the demo will happen of the activities entrance and spring break and that will go from April until August of 2026 uh CT Edition that's June to December of 2025 and then the couple uh sped remodel
areas um also highlighted in light blue we plan to get those done that first summer and then the um interior remodel um highlighted and orange there that would be completed in the second summer so then everything would be ready to turn over um for fall of
2026 and then here this is just showing the second level phasing um we talked about the green and the orange uh there's the other uh small sped remodel space uh kind of towards the bottom there that'll be done in the first summer and then that blue um highlighted
area kind of in the middle that's actually a structural infill we have to do in the existing building so right now that's a a high space and we're actually going to infill to make it two levels uh to add some classrooms and we're planed to do that that first summer obviously when school is
out um so that's kind of a general overview this is just our initial draft there's um some more tinkering we'll have to do with it before we actually go into bid but this is the general plan currently so how does this work then if
you're if you're closing the activities entrance you said spring break of this coming school year correct so how does that work for like the plays or concerts or senior award night or any of the other things that people enter through the activities entrance
for and Jim do you want to answer that um so we good great question we do not have a exact answer yet if I'm but we are looking at um flowing traffic down to Doors 15 and 16 to enter the
gymnasium oh okay um which is just a little bit to the right of the activities entrance and then uh for theater and stuff we would be going through the Black Box area Okay so those are the two alternate the other option is back behind the building by the
baseball field there is an entry where ticket ticking could happen there and we wouldn't be entering right into the wood floors but that space is a little small possibly for um fire oh okay uh exit so
okay that's our last slide uh are there any qu other questions on the phasing plan and uh we will be coming up with similar plans for both woodbear high school and park here coming up once uh we get closer to the end of design development now all three of these look
really great I I mean I'm I'm just really excited to have more modern schools for have schools in the from the 21st century for our students thank you well thanks again thank you thank you uh do we have Todd
Jim Sarah s Paul Mark and Shane thank you all okay on to 6. to and that is the yearly review of our mission statement presented by Julie neelson superintendent thank you um let's get back to why we exist right um and I know
the construction is great and that is all part of the culture and climate and our environments um if the board recalls about a year and a half ago we actually adopted a new mission statement and in policy we have that we will just review it with the board and so while it was just newly adapted um just to remind the
board that the mission of South Washington County's schools is to educate students for Success um what we determined and why it has come up even within the two years is we'd like to keep the mission statement um for the most part on the even years so that when new board members are onboarded uh they
are typically elected in odd number years and so we will continue that review in even number years um in having conversations with each of you today I didn't hear any discussions I wouldn't expect any um but for the board to know related to our mission statement that in
August we will coming be coming back and talking about what we're considering our District's big work and then how we're going to be measuring that and so the board can expect a report in August related to our mission statement and the work that we're doing with students any
questions thank you seeing none we will move on to 7.0 action items we do have three of those this evening and the first one is 7.1 proposed policy changes presented by uh superintendent Julie nson thank you and wonder where all the people went it's policy time did you
notice that um this evening I am bringing forth 24 policies and board members you are right it does seem like a large amount a large number of policies um what I can share with you is the Minnesota School Board Association msba um went through and provided school
districts with information based from legislation so the updates quote directly from new Minnesota laws and legal sources or are clerical updates that do not affect the substance of the policy and so some of these policies um
need to be in handbooks and so they're coming forward this evening for um approval and as you can see um You probably recall and have heard the terms world best Workforce once we get into a term it changes so wherever world's be best Workforce showed up in policy it
needs to be changed or just eliminated um the new wording we'll be using will be comprehensive achievement and Civic Readiness and so between um just overall language changes and again this was provided by the Minnesota Schoolboard Association as a way um to take a look
at our policies and make those revisions quickly um because again they were um directly part of Minnesota law and only changed legal sources or provided clerical updates so with that I am asking for approval of the slight changes we will continue to keep these
policies um on our cycle and review them regularly as we do all other policies can I get a motion to approve move second motion by Pat seconded by simy any comments okay hearing none all those in
favor I hi any opposed motion passes okay we will move on to 7.2 and that is our district office support specialist contract and that will be presented by Abby Baker executive director of human resource and
operations good evening chair Schwarz members of the school board and superintendent neelson tonight I will present item 7.2 the tentative agreement with district office support specialist also known as dos um negotiations toward a new collective bargaining agreement
between South Washington County schools and Doss have resulted in an intentive agreement effective July 1 2024 to June 30th 2026 members of the association approved the tenative agreement on July 8th 2024 the economic costing of the
tenative agreement includes the following year 1 is a 4% increase year 2 is a 4 and a half% increase for health insurance the single coverage is an increase of District contributions to the high deductible plan from $650 to
$800 in year 1 and $880 in year two for family coverage it's an increase of District contributions to the high deductible plan from $1,700 to $2,127 in year one and H $2,339 70 in year 2 um other contract
items were the addition of juneth to the holiday schedule so Administration recommends the approval of this contract can I get a motion to approve so moved second motion by simy seconded by Eric any
comments I don't go ahead they're 12month employees correct are they they are they are 12 month they include employees and our Tech um team and also our finance team yeah okay I thought so was that the same great minds okay uh any other
questions or comments okay seeing none all those in favor I any opposed motion passes thank you thank you okay last action item 7.3 city of Woodburry property purchase presented by Dan Pine Executive Director of Finance and
operations uh good evening again chair Schwarz uh members of the school board superintendent neelsen uh this item 7.3 has to do with some easements that the uh city of Woodberry is is uh requesting of us um the city of
Woodberry to meet their current impending drinking water regulations that they will be constructing a new water treatment plant south of harus Parkway in east of Radio Drive um in handful of the areas the city needs to request East ments from the properties
for the installation of the water main line water main pipelines and um they have come to the district they need easements um at 4125 Wood Lane Drive two on two Parcels um that is Bailey
Elementary School and then they need an easement at 4200 Pioneer Drive um that's at East Ridge High School and those permanent easements means that they're going to pay us for them a temporary easement generally
you just um let them use it for the construction then you take the the um you take the land back as you can see they have um I didn't include the appraisals but I reviewed the appraisals of the property and you can see that they've um are offering these prices
based on the appraisals uh using current market values and the amount of land they're buying and they're offering 125,00 for uh one parcel at Bailey and $ 48,800 for another parcel at Bailey and
$114,400 for the parcel at um easement on the parcel at East rid we have the district council has reviewed the um easement agree agreements we did make one change to the one they presented to us and we put the new one in the packet so Administration
recommends approval of the permanent and temporary ement agreements can I get a motion to approve so moved second motion by simy seconded by Sharon any comments hearing none all those in favor
I any opposed motion passes thank you Dan to 8.0 and that will be the superintendent report thank you um just to share with the the board and the community our new director of Community Education Jake Winchell has started and
has been out in the district he's taken time uh with me to go take a look at our extended school year kids club programming targeted services along with the many camps and clinics that are going on um at our next board meeting I believe it's our next Workshop meeting uh we will be introducing Jake to all of
you as well as to the community um and then finally summer is going quickly you could tell we're very busy with construction but a lot of other things happening um and importantly in two weeks from today we will be inviting our system leaders back uh to work in terms
of just having some flexibility over the summer so in two weeks our leaders will come back we're hitting August and and we're off for a new school year um to close out the meeting uh Dan I we could have had you stay up here but I thought you know this is a guy who likes to exercise so why don't you come back up
to the podium and if if anybody in the community or any other board member saw me I did take a picture of Dan on my camera I typically don't ever use my camera but I thought you know we needed to make sure we marked his last board presentation so Dan I'll share that picture with you later and as as he
comes as he saunters up here um I do want you to know that at 6:58 this morning I called Dan um Dan always arrives by 7 and I wanted to make sure that he was still on time I mean because it was his last day and you would be
happy to note that at 658 as I called him he was pulling into the district Service Center parking lot so considering that it's uh 7:45 7:46 you started at 700 thank you for a full day's work today Dan um but in serus to
close out tonight's meeting we wanted to say a special thank you and goodbye to Dan pen who will be spending his last day with us before he goes off into retirement it's been Bittersweet celebrating this incredible leader and human being and we've had a lot of parties already to date Dan is probably
thinking can we be done but we can't let you go quite yet as has been shared one of Dan's greatest contribut tions is the spirit of kindness and gratitude that has shaped his leadership and his work if it's good for kids Dan will find a way during
Dan's time as our Executive Director of Finance and operations he has LED and been part of the 2015 2017 2021 2022 and 2023 operating levies Andor Bond elections in that area alone he has done well over 400 presentations about our
district in addition we know that he is a friendly face at board meetings each month as he has given Financial updates monthly along with the joke sorry Sharon we we have the jokes Dan was recognized as the masbo the masbo business official
of the year in 2023 and just this past May was named as a district Allstar he has been active with our community organizations and working with our cities and communities Dan will close out his career tonight after spending time in the private sector in Stewartville new pra and Winona public
schools he chose South Washington County School back in 2014 and we have never been so honored and privileged to have this knowledge expertise wisdom and don't make me cry kindhearted us on our team danis shared that the easiest part
of our job of his job is to be nice to people he lived by that and will retire with that Dan you are a legacy you'll be missed we'll keep talking about you maybe making a little fun of you but you will not be forgotten thank you
congratulations and we wish you the very best in retirement speech speech thank you speech Dan maybe before you talk I think there maybe just a couple of board members that want to say some things um and I do I should warn you Simi practice today she didn't tell me what she was
saying but she was crying as she were talking okay so first of all I'm going to tell you what Melinda said because um I shouldn't cry Melinda obviously for anyone in the audience who happens to be watching is not here and so um she just
um wanted to tell you that she's sorry she can't be here for your last board meeting um she wants to say thank you for all your hard work and dedication to the district for all these years um she also appreciates how you've made Financial reports comprehensible and
entertaining um which is I mean obvious ly they're always going to be entertaining um she will think of you with fondness every time she sees a dollar bill directed as a school budget graph or hears a good dad Joe um congrats on your retirement and good luck in your future endeavors she will
miss you and you should know for me the very first thing I wrote when I wrote my notes was do not cry so you can see this is going to be super successful you guys um but like Dan I love you this is really hard for me and this is not about me this is
about you but you're my favorite District employee and it's because of how much you care about the students and you care about our staff and you do everything with such oh my good Lord um I'm really sorry you guys I normally only cry while watching TV shows but
apparently um this makes it worse um yes um and I didn't even wear eye makeup tonight because I was prepared um but you know we wouldn't be in the same shape fiscally or educationally without you and the the foundational building
blocks you've put in place for us um you lead with such integrity and honor and goodness and kindness and I'm just so grateful for everything you've done thank you for making CAC the best Committee in South Washington County the best District committee I don't care
what all you other people say um thank you for the jokes and also um my joke for you is um why did the dinosaur cross the road because chickens had evolved yet okay that my little drum roll um thank
you thank whoever did this God bless you um thank you for teaching me everything about school finance and why it's so amazing and you guys like I am a mess um and being student centered in everything you
do I mean I still remember how you presented our budget adjustment process in January of 20 21 and numbers people are often very black and white and I think one of your great things is you've never forgotten the human element in
everything you do as a finance director and everything we do as a board um and also your pride when you got to present that scholarship to that student who um because you you earned the masbo honor and you got to present a scholarship to a student um I thank you for mentoring
Chris who's going to be amazing I'm really excited that we have someone so wonderful who's coming in to fill your shoes um like literally and metaphorically um I thank you for teaching me only to shop in 833 um and screw that Target on Commerce
Drive it's no good when there's a perfectly good co Target in Cottage Grove and on FY Creek Road and I hope you understand what an asset you are to our district and to me and to all of us as aard um and how well you have laid a
foundation and so you call yourself a bean counter and so I had to go to two different targets because the one on Commerce Drive had everything but screw them that's in Still Water I don't believe in shopping there uh and you also get a leftover bag
from my son's e8th birthday party because a good CAC member would never spend money on a gift bag when there is one that has been sitting in her closet for eight and a half years but um in case you are ever lonely and are looking for more beans to
count I give you 10 lbs of beans and only dried beans because everybody knows canned beans are a scam you're paying for water don't do it but thank you you have been such an honor to work with and I um I really appreciate everything
you've done and I can't believe you're ditching us but whatever it's fine go retire have a good life enjoy yourself oh I'm very sorry you're right right anyone else want to say a few words yeah
I might say a couple words don't do it Dan don't do it don't go don't do it Abby I mean Abby yes baby girl I can't even remember my grandkid name so hey but anyway Chris you got to step
up on the joke thing Dan I'll be sitting out in front of your house waiting for you to come out so if I'm there that means you're coming back to 8:33 I'm going to miss you but I'm not going to cry anyone
else best of luck in retirement sir thank you congratulations on a stellar career yeah don't do it do it retire that's why we work oh so we can
retire oh oh and Dan thank you um Finance has always been extremely boring to me and you you um you make it fun you make it able to sit through the many many
Finance presentations um you will definitely be missed um we'll miss the jokes and just seeing you um it was very weird last night that you wore jeans I don't know that I've ever seen you in jeans you're usually you know the suit
and thae guy but um thank you thank you for everything and um you will definitely be missed wow thank you for the kind words I really don't have much to say I just we just try hard and try to be the
best District in the state and we're certainly there I was I was talking to Abby earlier and telling her about a book I try to read every day or read a chapter and it's it's pretty simple book but it's um don't sweat the small stuff it's all small stuff and there was a
there's a chapter of compassion and he points out that Mother Teresa said we don't we can't do great things on this Earth we can only do little things with great love and keep doing
that the district will be okay thank you Dan [Applause] okay now as I'm losing it and I don't
usually lose it um 9.0 future meeting dat it's August 8th 2024 Schoolboard Workshop meeting here at the district service center at 6 PM August 22nd 2024 our Schoolboard business meeting also here at the district service center at 6
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