have you uh considered at all any of the NBIT students who might help in this project? Um because you know there are plumbing and electrical in there and I said something to Mark about it and I said what a great opportunity to give some of these kids a real life experience.

I believe at this point with them being basically done to set up that process for this year would be too late. But I think it's something we can look at to look at and I can reach out to MBIT next year as we develop projects and if we can make that happen, I believe we're on board. Uh we believe our insurance covers it because it'd be just like an internship.

At least 10 years that the equipment to to redo that that that is a multi-million dollar fix um to do, right? It it it took it it when we when we when I came to Centennial, we were we were had on our schedule to spend um $670,000 to crush the pools, right, to to fill them in. We wouldn't be able to use the space because you'd have to then sprinkler it, but we were going to just demolish the pools. I I said, 'Let's put a hold on that.' And we used that money to refurbish uh the auditoriums at both of those schools which were in significantly they were the original, right? They were wooden chairs.

Is there any other way to ultimately use those facilities for something else? It would be, in my opinion, it would be cheaper instead of retrofitting that whole section with rooms and HVAC and plumbing and sprinkler systems. You're adding all new systems to that. It would be cheaper with the structure the way it is to knock it down and build what we need, not to try and make that work for what we need.

One of the issues is MBIT has no space and one of the discussions in the MBIT executive council meeting was the potential of leveraging the feeding schools with the ability to take some of those programs because otherwise their issue is going to have to raise a bond in order to start accepting more students.

And these are things that range from we have something called multifactor authentication to make sure that we are securely signing on to our websites. It's for our Adobe so that we have PDF and can do signatures. Um, it's for things like Skyward, our student information and business software. So, it's just it's it's the regular maintenance things technology needs to keep running.

We looked into talking to Breitbill and all them about trading any of them in and none of them are even tradable. They're like, 'No, we won't do anything with them but scrap them just like you are.' So they would just take them off our hands for free and take the scrap value themselves. So we might as well get something out of them.

Is there a value to have, I guess, what you could call a a school district engineering firm as opposed to if it's over a certain dollar limit, put out a request and see who responds to that particular uh project.

I think it is valuable to have a [clears throat] uh an engineer of record uh that we can call and we can go over things, right? I mean there there's always you know particularly in in in our middle schools right those are very old buildings... I think it it's to our advantage uh to have them because they have knowledge of the inside and outside of those buildings and what has been done over the course of time.

my uh my month two, I think it was week six, maybe week five, uh me joining Centennial School District, I got the phone call that our high school was structurally unstable, right? It was very helpful uh in that experience to be able to call Isa Barry Isette uh and and who could then help facilitate uh that evaluation and that fix uh that was you know moved at it it it record pace to ensure that it was went from being uninhabitable to uh to there.

Competition is good. I I agree with that. And some of the engineering things such as parking lots and they're pretty standard. Any good engineering company can do those things.