okay great then uh you have any comments you'd like to share I have just uh some very exciting news about one of our employees uh I am pleased to announce that Lisa Martins she is our administrative assistant in our athletics department has been recognized
as the 2025 North 2 Administrative Assistant of the Year by The District athletic administrators of New Jersey she'll be honored in March at the annual da NJ convention in Atlantic City uh and I think just about everyone here probably knows Lisa um and she is
extremely extremely well-deserving of this recognition so we're excited for her um and uh we'll look to probably recognize her at a board meeting after she gets recognized in Atlantic City so more to come on that but if you see her you can congratulate her so we're really proud of her and we're very appreciative
that she's ours so thank you okay uh I have nothing uh Mr St would you yeah just a brief update to the board we did receive a memorandum today from the Department of Ed about state aid uh it was an interesting um
comment from them that just said no district will lose any more than 3% of their state aid um was very vague purposely vague but at the end of the day if if that's all we would lose I I don't and I don't
think we will but um you're talking about $85 to $90,000 okay thank you uh next we have our student representative comments uh Gana is here she will take on the full brunt for Sophie who we wish a speedy
recovery from her uh cons sectomy thank you um our student announcements are as followed so starting with our student achievements congratulations to Kenneth Hester Megan Lee and Selena Zan who have been named as candidates in the 2025 United States
presidential Scholars Program this program was established to recognize and honor some of our nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors we are proud to announce that five whrhs students have advanced to finalists in The 2025 National Merit
Scholarship competition they are Colin bfield Ria Patel Melody Chen Selena Zan and Ley sophomore Jenna Ibrahim made the long list for entering the pter center's 2024 local letters for Global change
contest there were nearly 12200 entries from around the world and Jenna's letter made the long list meaning it was part of the top 4% that advaned to the final round of judging on Sunday January 12th Leo Chen and Emily Wang performed at the concert for peace with violins of Hope
at the end e e e the folio art and literary magazine won the National Council of teachers of English Award of Superior in their recognizing excellence in art and literary magazine
contest um last year NCT Rec recognized folio with an Award of Excellence fulio's Award of superior is a notch above excellence and it is the second highest distinction in the contest with first class at the very top congratulations to the folio staff and
to their adviser Miss Maggie Violet Burber and now moving on to our school events um Miss lot Jones hosted Professor Samuel Wang of Princeton University and the Jerry mandering project to talk to students in AP Human Geography in AP Government and politics
on Jan January 23rd and finally for our Athletics on February 22nd watchong Hills will again host a district 15 wrestling tournament and just a reminder that tickets are sold online or at the door and that is all thank you thank
you okay next uh we have one of my favorite uh presentations All Year the long range facility plans presentation people are chuckling but the reason why I enjoy it and why I feel it's really important because we constantly when we talk about the budget we certainly emphasize you know the students the
teachers and the academics but the board is very committed to making sure our infrastructure and the facilities keep up with the academics as well and we certainly don't want to ignore that and we dedicate a significant amount of funds to that we keep highlighting that
and I think was the last meeting of the meeting before we talked about all the various improvements that we made and were completed certainly most of them over the summer and tonight's long range facility addresses some of the other areas that we will plan to address and
just think the public is a to be aware of our commitment to that and obviously some of the tax dollars go to that as well so would you like who's going to introduce them okay Tim great thanks so we have with us tonight um Steve seagull
and Justin Kik from spel Architects um they came to us I think it's was over five years ago and we had a 5-year plan in fact that was one thing that we tested them right off the bat is we need an updated Five-Year Plan facilities plan which they did and they came to the
board um and they're going to talk about things that we did in that plan um you know I look back at it was it was a successful five years the room we're sitting in right here um is there you go um the room we're sitting in here is
is uh a testimony to what part of that plan was um but they'll go through some of that and now uh understanding that we have that service coming off the books and about three years um we're this is kind of a critical plan to do at this
particular time because you you want to have your ducks in a row so then when you're ready for a project if you choose to do so then um you'll have it already so with that I will introduce uh Steve and Justin to go over our new our newest
edition of the long range facility plan thank you Mr sty so um let see if I can get this sucker working here there we go um so I'm Justin kak I'm a senior project manager with spe architecture group we also have Steve seagull here he's one of
the principls um in our office focusing on K12 uh side of our business um and I've had the pleasure of uh working with the district now for a little over six years and uh being part of that initial um facility assessment that uh Mr sty
mentioned earlier um so here's the agenda for tonight and way I wanted to start off was talking a little bit about what has been accomplished over that fiveyear period um from the initial assessment so um we've completed $21 million uh worth of projects in the last
five years and these have ranged from interior alterations projects um like the locker room rooms um obviously the learning Commons where we now are um and then the last bunch of alteration projects which included The Design Lab um but we've done plenty of other
projects as well including a track replacement tennis court replacement um and um a multitude of HVAC and electrical upgrades um you know throughout the district over these last five years so um it's been a great five years a lot of that's been accomplished
and a lot of this was set out um you know from that initial facility assessment targeting priorities and um trying to take as many bites at the Apple that we could to get as much work as we could done um so what is our facility
assessment our strategy for it um so we do a full walkth through of all of the facilities um in the school district that includes the grounds athletic fields uh the roof exterior of the building and we walk through every
single room in the school which I can tell you there's a lot of them um and uh through that we um kind of develop a um list of um needs and potential work that should be um looked to address within the next year or to as
far as 10 years out so uh we've broken that out into five different categories uh program needs which are kind of those interior alteration projects um where we are really trying to take underutilized spaces and see how they can be better utilized for 21st century curriculum um
site features and amenities that includes um athletic fields as well as parking lots Paving and um anything with the kind of the exterior um outside of the building uh building envelope being um any of the you know Windows um roof
exterior walls and then of course uh building interior and uh Building Systems and that's your HVAC um electrical and plumbing systems that are that are here in the district so um once we've kind of established what those needs are we do break them
out into a number of different priorities with the highest priority level one um usually concerning you know health safety security potential code issues um priority two being you know um maybe items that uh don't necessarily
need to be addressed immediately but really should be addressed in that initial five years and then other items which we want to bring to the district's attention to plan for a little bit later down the road um and some of the it that we looked at um in in that initial assessment now have bumped up from a
priority 3 to a priority 2 and we'll you know get to that in a minute um and of course maintenance items these are items that um are typically repairs um that can be done without public bidding and public permitting and there is some of that as well U that we identified so um
as far as program needs go um so a number of these are actually um carryovers um from the initial assessment and things that um still need to be addressed that were priority two and priority three items back then including a big one which is you know
Finding space for students to eat it's been a consistent um you know item um that's been on the list from the initial assessment um and that Still Remains there so that's something that uh is still on the list um as well as a number of other projects that you can see here
um a big one of which the uh classroom Furniture this is an ongoing project which we do want yearly basis um to adapt the existing classrooms and get 21st Century Furniture um to update these existing spaces and uh just just a couple images
here to kind of show you know kind of what the um some of the existing spaces that we're dealing with um and then what the um proposed results are so um on the left that's uh one of the existing locker rooms in uh gym 34 and then the proposed side on the right this was
actually a renovation one of the first projects did which was a locker room renovation to gym 78 so you can kind of see the difference and uh you know obviously the uh the character of the space uh science labs this is a big one
um so we have done um one science lab um kind of a science classroom uh back in 2022 um but there are a number of science labs in the uh in the building that are in dire need of Renovations uh most of them date back to the 1960s or
1970s s um and are uh definitely in need of um a uh a refresh um both programmatically um as you can see on the right here is the one that we uh did back in in 2022 um but as well as just aesthetic character um and you know
quality of space so that brings us to site features and amenities as I mentioned before this includes the athletic facilities um looking at all of the parking lots and uh pathway ways throughout the campus as well as you know any site fencing site walls
Landscaping um and kind of just an overall District map of um you know all of the the building and grounds that we're dealing with and um we have tackled a number of these um kind of projects over the last five years including the tennis courts and the track um but the uh the fields are
something that we really have weren't particularly addressed over the last five years so um the existing turf field uh toer field is over 10 years old now um and is uh likely going to be um you
know kind of coming due for replacement in the next 5 years um and one of the items that we identified uh way back was um converting some of these other SPI uh Fields fields to turf fields as well including the baseball fields uh lacrosse Fields soccer fields um other
thing we looked at here were the um concession stand and the Fieldhouse and doing some upgrades there as well um so there's kind of a list of you know the items that we're looking at for the athletic field like I mentioned addition to the concession stand renovations to
the Fieldhouse um Synthetic Turf Fields um the uh field lighting was addressed um in the last five years but there's plenty of sight lighting that still needs to be addressed you know creating better light Pathways from the different fields around the campus um you know still something that we're looking at
and then um the bleacher replacement at toer field as well the bleacher are um you know getting near due for replacement uh non ADA compliance so there's some upgrades that need to occur there as well um a little too far
ahead okay one more time there we go um so for the most part most of the uh parking lots are in a pretty fair shape and have been replaced over the last uh 10 years but there are some um existing Pathways
and drive ways um that are coming due for at the very least a Mill and overlay potentially a full depth reconstruction of those areas and they kind of vary around the building um one of the areas that is in um you know need of um upgrades are the two breezeways um there
are existing ramps and stairs uh that are original to the construction um which you know these get used every day by the students and they are heavily trafficked I mean I've walked there while students are changing classes and it gets a lot of use um and neither one
of these really are up to um speed with modern Ada compliancy standards so definitely something that needs to be addressed there okay all right so building Envelope as I mentioned earlier um these are any items
related to the exterior building skin the building so that could include Roofing Windows um there are a number of areas of glass block especially near gym 34 um that are original to the construction uh and the basry construction as well as some of the
other exterior building facade materials um which are showing their age and are due for replacement um one of which is the uh ephus which I'll talk a little bit about um in a later slide um so first off we'll talk a little bit about the roofing um so the
vast majority of the roof is under warranty um the green area was completed um shortly before we arrived in District want to say in 2015 and then the uh south building was completed back in 2012 um both of those still have more than 10 years left on their warranty um
and um are being maintained by trco on a regular basis as warranty items come up uh however the 200 um 67 Edition um referendum project that entire roof is now out of warranty so if any repairs are needed on that roof uh that will be
on the district's dime to uh replace that so um the good thing about that um the roof itself is is uh relatively well insulated as it was installed in the mid 2000s and uh we feel it probably is a good candidate for restoration rather than a full depth replacement um HVAC
and Roofing are probably the two things that have jumped the most in cost over the last five years unfortunately um we used to be able to do a full tear off roof replacement maybe six seven years ago for $25 a square foot it's now $50 a square foot for full tear off so it's more than doubled in uh you know cost in
that time um but luckily uh with these modern restoration methods uh that have been employed by a few manufacturers we can get a 25-year warranty U just for restoring the existing roof so um there are some good options and those are more in the 20 to $25 a square foot range so
um and this one we do believe is a good candidate for um for that work um the next slide you can see um kind of the existing roof and um the image on the right is actually a roof at another school district where we did just do one of these restoration Coatings it's very
clean um product and like I said 25-year warranty which is very similar warranty that you'd get if you did a full tear off of the roof anyway so um obviously this is um you know the direction we've been trying to go as long as the the roof is a candidate for uh for this installation uh masonry restoration uh
you know in general the uh the building brick building facade is in very good condition but there are some spots um around especially near grade level where the use of salt as corroded some of the uh the mortar joints so there is uh some
work that needs to be done uh done there and this was mentioning earlier with the glass blocks so um the vast majority of all of the windows uh and curtain walls um in the building are original to their construction so we're you know in some cases 60 to 70 years
old um single pain um you know it's one of the probably the biggest energy project if you were to look at it that way that still needs to be accomplished in the uh in the district so um one of the options for the glass block replacement U we're showing on the right is a product called uh cow wall which is an insulated translucent panel which
kind of gives you additional r value and then of course with the windows and curtain walls kind of throughout the rest of the part of the building um much higher u values double pane or triple plane glazing um low E Coatings which uh should help thermal comfort in those spaces quite a
bit and then the last one on the building envelope this is this is a product called ephis which essentially is you know stucco on insulation um it is a material that you know um we do not particularly like in school environments
um just due to the fact that it was intended really to be used as a uh a product for Light commercial projects not for um buildings that are going to last 100 years um now the other issue with it is it's not particularly impact
resistance so if you go to the side uh you know the baseball field you'll find plenty of uh baseball marks in the Eis um in addition you know over time it does really show its age I mean this wall is you know only about 20 years old
and um you know it's really starting to show its age uh the entire pack um portion that comes out of the building is constructed of the same material um and there are a number of different um options you know what to replace this with uh the one we're sh here on the right is an insulated metal panel um
that is certainly an option but there are other options available as well and we have a couple different options listed in our uh the budget that we provideed the district all right so building Interiors um you know Believe It or Not we've been doing a good job of trying to remove as
much of it as we can but there's still asbestos in certain portions of the building U mostly um with some vat um so as we've been doing renovation projects um you know we've been removing as we go along but there is some work still to go on that um one of the big projects that
um you know on the interior side that uh really has not been addressed at to this point um other than some of the Interior alteration projects is interior door replacement um the vast majority of the doors especially in the south building some of them are 70 years old um and are
in very poor condition have wire glass which is um you know a no no in schools these days um and they are um you know definitely um in need of some some upgrades um the good thing is the school district has taken security precautions
and um replaced the hardware throughout the building so the hardware is modern and accessible um but the uh the doors themselves are in uh you know some they're in need of uh some TLC um additionally uh one of the big items
here is elevators for the south building uh there are two portions of the south building that are two-story and neither one of them has has an elevator they're not connected to each other so this would require the installation of two uh new elevators um you know in the
building so here's an example of one of the existing doors in the south building on the left and kind of the more modern doors that we've been putting in when we doing our alteration projects you can see um you know much less glazing and that's from for security reasons um and
uh you know just obviously the doors do give the corridors a dated look so there's an aesthetic uh you know proposition to this as well and a big one I actually forgot to mention toilet rooms um so um you know the toilet rooms uh many of them were
renovated over 20 years ago and are very much starting to show their age um we have created a pretty good standard throughout the district in some of the spaces that we've already renovated um and we'd be looking to kind of bring up the uh rest of the toilet rooms in the building to that to that same standard
so uh the image on the right is actually the toilet rooms that we did in in um locker room 78 all right so Building Systems um one of the big focuses when we got in the district um the vast majority of the
HVAC systems um were over 20 years old when we got here um since that time uh pretty much the the vast majority of the north building has had its entire HVAC system uh replaced uh really the the big last
thing left there is the boiler um the there have been other rooftop units that we've replaced as well in particular um the units uh that serve the uh The West Wing addition um but the south building um a little bit different in the way it's um heated and cooled um with a
boiler Chiller Loop and um you know single terminal units uh really Remains the Same from um one we got here so uh that's the big part the unit ventilators and air handling units in the south building uh still need to be updated um they were installed once again over 20
years ago the vast majority of HVAC equipment that you see these days if you can get 20 to 25 years of uh out of it you're doing well so we're kind of coming up on the end of useful life for um kind of the rest of that equipment um and um like I said we've done plenty of HVAC work over the past five years but
there is there is more to go so this is an example um when I mentioned unit ventilator so they men on the on the left is um what is installed throughout most of the classrooms in the south building now um a horizontal unit kind of low on the wall um and what
we've been doing uh recently is going um with a what's called a vertical unit ventilator which is the image on the right um the big advantage to these units is they do a much better job with uh dehumidification um which I know has been a consistent issue um in the uh
south building over the years so um we have options for direct replacement as well as uh replacement for this newer technology um electrical um so we did do a um a big electrical project as part of the first referendum that we did here in
the district um but the uh that was all in the south building so the north building electrical panels similar to the South are mostly original to the building and are at this point um you know coming due for replacement um and the fire alarm um actually uh is for the
most part the existing panel and system is relatively tapped out and is due for an upgrade um the generator similar you know over 20 years old um and does actually not currently meet the uh codes um in the NEC um for how the loads are
um distributed so uh another electrical piece that does need still be addressed and uh finally Plumbing uh for the most part uh most of the Plumbing Systems in the district are in you know much better condition um there are some domestic water heaters that need to be
replaced um but the big one here is uh the south building most of the sanitary piping is actually in the crawl space under the building and um once again original to the building it's been there for over 70 years and it's it's time um there I know there are consistent issues
with um backups and um it's uh time that those lines are probably uh replaced all right so I did a lot of talking about all the projects and here are the uh the results um so um as you can see
um we've done a lot of work uh there's still a lot of work to be done um $180 Million worth of uh total project costs um 45 million in uh Priority One Al loone which a lot of that is the HVAC equipment I was just mentioning um
coming near the end of its useful life uh the issue is because all that equipment was really installed at the same time you might start seeing failures around the same time as well so uh definitely something we want to get ahead of um so here comes the fun part how do you how do you fund this how do
we do this work so there are a number of ways that um these projects can be financed and um you know for the most part uh the way we've been doing it so far is through uh the annual budget and and uh through capital reserve um so whatever the most
Priority One most pressing items our recommendation is always to plan for them in the annual budget and if there's something comes up as a surprise or a larger project uh to pull from capital reserve to do those to do those uh projects uh fiveyear leases um you know are an option um you know by bundling a
couple Priority One items together and paying them off over a five-year term um we did do an EIP um in the district starting in about 2020 um so I left that on here as an option but um for the most part I think we tapped out most of the
um Energy savings items um you know in the building and I don't think at this point a uh an EIP uh really um would be a beneficial process to go through the district um which really does leave a uh referendum as the uh kind of the last
option here um obviously with $180 million uh of work um bundling those projects together uh as part of larger bid packages gives you economy scale um and also allows you to capitalize on the debt uh Debt Service Aid available
through the state um almost everything other than the site projects that we talked about here would be um eligible for that 40% funding so um that is a big uh a big piece to this and it's one of the you know reasons that um you know we've had a couple successful
referendums over the past five years uh because of that that service Aid and having the state cover that um 40% um obviously is a great uh a great benefit all right and with that does anybody have any questions I have I have one uh you spoke
about replacing the turf as I understand it the turf fields are kind of um not as unfavorable as grass going back to Grass why would we go the opposite direction so it does depend on the um
the sport so uh the one sport that uh we've heard probably the most um push back from from a Turf perspective is football because of you know cutting on the field um but obviously the big benefit to a turf field is the
maintenance side of it um so if there are multiple sports that are being played on that field on a regular basis um you know football um lacrosse soccer and those um events kind of um are fairly consistent in line with each other over a season the fields can get
relatively um beat up um and become a maintenance issue so um we see that the vast majority of school districts really are still trending to go the turf route rather than going back to uh grass as I understand it's soccer field
hockey football are all have higher rates of injury on Turf so I'm not sure and Lacrosse yeah so I'm not sure I agree with your statement I not that part of it I would question a little bit okay and you know it's one of those things where if the decision would be to
go back to Grass you know that is certainly an option just to add that the the um so what Justin was saying is is the um if you have all those Sports on a grass
field you can't actually have them all playing on that they'll they'll beat up the grass so bad that you won't be able to play and you know yeah so so that's one piece but the the second piece is when it rains on a grass field most
times when if it's rained bad you can't use it whereas the turfield drains so you're you're on there an hour so that that's the other Advantage Dan just as an FYI where on our list of priorities are elevators and what do we have now for
elevators and how do we manage needs Tim can speak to this I the it's well I Justin do you have an estimate of what it would cost to put an ele elevator in I mean it's obscenely expensive yeah I would say at least a quarter of a
million dollars I have budget numbers in there I don't recall the number off mon but you're probably talking at least a half a million to a million dollars to do both of them so we have an elevator in the um North building but in the south building we do not so if a student ends up being on crutches generally what we've done is we move their classroom
you know to a a classroom on the first floor temporarily um you know I know we still still continue to do that because that's the they you know rather than making them go up the stairs if it's if it's a temporary thing where it's a day or two but if it's something where we know a student is longterm um you know
they use the scooters now a lot of the time um we'll make sure that they're on the first floor however we also do have areas of Refuge for evacuations um for any of our second floor areas as well but it for those two and it's also weird in that building because as those of you who have been in the building know that
the second floors over there don't connect um and they're you know just a single hallway so that's something we haven't done yet but we end up moving classrooms if we need to I don't care no that that's exactly right there there two sections of the building in the
south building that don't connect so you'd have to have two elevators and you heard the cost but I'm sure it's higher than that it's it's it's just it's a lot of work and it's it's and the even the maintenance to it is an awful lot too so
yeah and the big cost um big cost you know variable here is whether we can find a spot inside the building to create a shaft and do it or we'd have to do it as an addition if it has to be an addition based on the existing configuration that's where it'll get substantially more expensive new
footings U potentially underpinning the existing Foundation it does get very complicated very quickly my understanding is um you ALS if you have students on the second floor who need the elevator to get down you have to provide a way if the power goes
out for the them to get downstairs that's why yeah we have that that's where we have the areas of Refuge if there's an emergency yeah for the most part um and the the reason you know the areas of ref yes so the in the areas of Refuge I'm sorry Carl thank you for
asking that so at each area of refuge on the second floor we actually have a wheelchair sled um for students to get down the stairs because if there's a evacuation you're not supposed to use the elevators um so we have that now what we do the reason we also addition to those we have an area of Refuge
because if it's merely a fire drill and you know we know it's a a pre-planned drill and we've talked to the fire department about this and this this is I actually got this from talking to other districts about what they do if a students's you know on crutches and they're on the second floor we we'd
rather we don't want to risk them getting more injured to go outside for a drill so that's why we have the areas of refuge and call boxes at each of those and we have a security um a security Aid assigned to those areas of Refuge so that for a drill it's just like if something were to happen um or if in an
emergency we we really were worried about injuring that student further by you know having to get them down the stairs they have a call box and would be in communication with the police saying you know area of Refuge D um we have a student you know that needs to be evacuated so we have that's all in our
evacuation plan um but it's really just to make sure we're not unnecessarily trying to whisk a student out of the building during a fire drill um and you know risk them tripping or falling down the stairs if they already have some kind of injury so we have those on each of the stairwells um for the second
floor uh because we shouldn't be using an elevator you know if we're having even if it's just a drill you're not supposed to use the elevators so thank you actually for asking that we put those in a number of years ago and one of the other um you know measures that go along with an area
of Refuge um all stair towers are kind of both structurally isolated and fire separated from the rest of the construction so the idea is in the case of a fire the stair Tower should be able to withstand at least an hour of you know fire before there's a you know a structural issue with it so you know com
that in conjunction with the area of Refuge allows those um people who you know might not be ambulatory to be able to be um ex escorted from the building I have a question yes on the doors are are they new safety doors and the fact that can a bullet get through
those doors is there a way to lock it so there's a bolt that goes through I guess the frame and the door that the teachers or whoever's on the inside can stop it from anyone coming in you know forcing their way in J so Katherine that's a great question
um I don't know that we want to speak about security questions publicly so perhaps that's something we and I'm just thinking of that as you're saying that's so that's a really good question so for those types of questions maybe we'll reach out um you can give us an answer on that valid question just something we
may not want speak about publicly so I don't have a question just have a comment U certainly um observe the development of the the plans over the past six years uh when you guys first made came in and did
the proposal to us you know as we were looking to change um our Architects at the time uh and I just want to say that you have under promised and over delivered uh at at every step of the way
I think the uh the professionalism the approach uh the just the detailing out the all of the work that needs to be done helping us establish priorities have have I mean the building is a
different building than it was six years ago um the things that have been that we've been able to accomplish with your support um have really provided some new unique in ative learning opportunities for students so um my only comment is
thank you and I look forward to seeing you know whatever all the new things that you guys uh come up with for the way that we can serve our students better thank you very much Mr Morrison we appreciate it and looking forward to the next five years for sure thank you thank you very much
presentation so I guess it's my job to help find $180 million exactly oh okay do gofundme's work can we do that yeah all right we oh we finally arrived at the first opportunity for public comment note the first public
comment period will be limited to agenda items for this meeting only the second public comment period will be open to any topic all comments are limited to five minutes do we have any public comments this evening for the first round seeing none oh you guys can
leave sorry you're more than welcome to stay our student board rep they stay for the whole meeting I don't want to put any pressure on you but you're more than welcome to it looks that way we still got good of the order you never know we're starting board discussion could be a
heated uh evening you just don't know okay do we have any items does anyone want to speak about anything this evening with regard to board discussion items then anybody I'm not gonna bring up traffic tonight say that oh that's
nice okay uh there's no addendum items well the one walking agenda but that was discussed in the uh all right Mr President I'd like to move items A1 through A4 any
discussion roll call please M dagio scall yes Lee marich Yes Morrison yes sober I abstain on A1 and A2 and yes on A3 and A4 Miss Potter yes rasa yes John
po Iain on A1 A2 and yes on A3 A4 okay Mr bber yes carry Mr President I'd like to move item A5 back any discussion roll
call M nagio scall yes Lee mer yes Morrison yes Dober yes CA yes Mr chour yes and Mr bber yes
carries uh Mr President I would like to move items C1 through C9 any discussion I'm really not happy about cat I thought that you might carve that
one out yeah why don't we carve that one out why don't we move items uh C1 through C7 and c19 it's going to change the minutes anyway second as amended okay then roll call on C1 through 17 and c19
I feel captive you are Mrs dagio Mr Gall yes Miss Lee marich Yes Morrison yes sober yes Potter yes rasa yes trur yes and Mr Burber yes would you
like to move D items oh D items sure I'd like to move right on to D I would like to move items D1 through D9 yeah pretty much that was a long time ago okay is there a second on that one
there's a second uh any discussion on D1 through D9 okay roll call on those Mr maio Mr Galler yes Miss Lee manek Yes Morrison yes oer yes Potter yes Pro yes now
before we go back to hold on Oh I thought he called everybody no yes and Mr burmer yes oh we're done we're good now I got a just a question we're paying for these uniforms for the football yes something
occurred to me as I was watching the uh different sporting events it might be I'm Throne it might be beneficial for the gold be like a foil gold as opposed to a mustard gold on the uniforms a comment yes our colors are
brown and gold not brown and yellow like the Notre Dame gold because it you know the yellow is yellow and it's not really goldish do you know why it's yellow it's not yellow it's gold you know why it's gold the
autum thank youil but wait yes this might this could be the headline in the paper of the board meeting I will say I was sitting next to Carol at the game and we both kind of
looked at it what was the gold that was decided on the yellowish gold or no originally it was the gold gold it was much more than yellow metallic would that be 14 karat gold 24 carat gold hey if we have $180 million for the build we got 30 million
for 24 car gold get skirts for the yeah and we just got these skirts I'm throwing that there because if we're going to order new uniforms and it really I think is a huge Improvement in the visual as opposed to the what we
would describe as the gold yellow so I'm throwing out there can we can we ask the question here so here's the only thing I'll say about that um school colors and car is is a very very big topic here so I don't know I don't even know where to
begin with that one because when I came to the board meeting to get approved a superintendent the whole I I just saw that the colors were brown and gold the yellow was gold so I wore a brown suit with a gold scarf the whole article about me getting approved was that I was bringing back to school colors because that was when there was this big Scandal
over the black and white wow and I had no I'm like oh my God that's what they wrote about that I wore a school colors to the board meeting and and so that was a very big deal yes right I remember that I had a lum email me to say thank you I'm like I wasn't trying to make a
political statement I just thought it would' be nice to wear the school of colors um you know email me thanking me for like where so all I'm just putting that out there is I I don't I don't particularly have like a an opinion on it I just know that people are very um
passionate about it so I don't know is our color scheme a more expensive color scheme yes typically yes yeah that's why because they're they're not Norm they're different colors they're not
yeah that's I think if we make a change like like there's many different I've seen many different school um spirit wear and I don't really see it being so consistent but if we go from yellowish
gold to metallic gold that's a big change I remember that I don't want part of a board that makes that a schoolish you know engage the students in that whatever yellow gold a discuss I don't mind having this as a discussion item I'm just bringing it up but we're
discussing it no I I mean in terms of a larger one and we asked the students for input or whatever but I'm looking at with Carol I think we both agreed like the metallic would be pretty special and I think the school is special and that's where we want to go
sales anyway yeah we're buying new uniforms that's why anyway I'm trying in all seriousness though we'll go back to the athletic direct director about that um and ask him to you know
because we'll start with the sports teams I just don't know it because last time like when this gets talked about it it seems to um draw Fe back from and strong feeling yeah okay Juliana tell us right now I'm just kidding what you we'll get
from her no I think it needs to [Music] stay but there's there is history and Heritage that goes along with it so I I'm just saying what I've heard don't have a that's just what I've heard the btim
cols Chang their they did not their City teams have changed their colors yeah not in the last 50 years say I'm trying to no I'm going back 60 or 70 yes you are yes well I'm an old man just
like the doors now Juliana is really glad she you are really glad you stayed till the end of the meeting aren't you you didn't know what was coming up do it AR all right uh we have any all right I will uh I will
reluctantly move item C8 and for the benefit of the public I'd like to read it so that they c18 uh resolve the Board of Education accepts the res resignation of Tim s sty School business administrator for reasons of retirement effective
September 1st 2025 a second second anyone have any comments I'll have a comment I'll make a quick comment uh although Tim you'll be with us for several more months and there'll be plenty of opportunities for us to uh
give our fond farewell uh what I really want to thank you is that you could have retired today for giving your notice which would be effective I guess in a few weeks which other people have done he certainly could have done an effective June 30th which would have been a logical date to retire you know
end of the school year but you're giving us an extra couple months which we certainly appreciate and uh I know that you're doing that to help us with a transition to a new ba so I really want to thank you for that besides thanking you for all the work you've done for us but and special thank you for giving us
those couple months for the transition because you know it's it's a big job it's a Herculean effort to do all the ba and all the stuff that goes with it you know you're really uh again I was involved in another District where the ba is involved but
with us you know the three of you including Nicole you guys work as a team and Tim you're in on all these discussions where in other districts the ba sometimes are not part of what's going on you may hear about it and your input's there but you're really you're right in there so I want to thank you
and certainly thank you for the transition that's really important to us so thank you anyone else okay uh let's vote on that a very very very reluctant yes on bordering on
no thank you Tim thank you Miss Lee Mr May yeah I'll give it to you Mr Morrison yeah the no vote Yes over that yes yes C
surea yes with regret M chour yes and Miss bber well you don't need my vote but I'll give it to you anyway thank you motion carries congratulations Tim and we'll certainly look forward to the next four five months whatever we have with
you again thank you okay it's now the second opportunity for public comment again this period is for any topic uh anyone have any comments see we'll
come we're not let me close that public so see no public comment we'll close the second opportunity for public comment now other business Katherine um I just want to congratulate The Varsity chair team I think they came in fifth place and the JV chair team came in third
place down in uh Florida I I think it was against the whole us I'm not 100% sure but they did a great job the girls there thank you Katherine I'm sure that'll be in our next athletic update so thank you for sharing that but thank you that's
great anything else see nothing else I