Good. As you see, I use some AI to update our uh beautiful slide deck here. Um just mission and vision, mission statement, vision. Um meeting agenda go. It's all yours. >> Right. Welcome to our Friday, March 13th operations committee meeting. Call that to order now. You in attendance real quick. Tony Saddowski. >> Oh yeah, mic. >> See, Mr. Martin makes it, but if not, two of us are here. Approval of the agenda. You have resolved the Centennial School District operations committee 3.1 approves the March 13, 2026 operations committee agenda as per the attached. Are there any corrections that need to be made that are allowed by Pennsylvania law? Second. Discussion on that. We were both here. All in favor? >> I. Approval of minutes approves the minutes from the operations committee meeting held February 13, 2026. Discussion. All in favor? I. And on to presentations. >> All right. So since last meeting we uh had had went live with bus patrol. What happens with bus patrol the first week of the fall the month we get a report. So February's report came out the first week of March and we were only live for four of those four days I believe during that time frame. And uh as you can see we got a fair number of uh tickets. >> I believe it. It's $300 and that's split differently through PA, US, bus patrol, and the police station, the municipality in different ways. So, so I also applied for Clinger's uh grant for that roof. I applied last Friday and I went to back I went back to look at it again on Monday and it already went into review. So, I don't obviously they're uh it wasn't supposed to end till this Friday, but today the inputs, but they automatically pulled them into review. So, it's under review. So, uh keep fingers crossed that we uh receive that large amount of money to fix that roof. Uh updates on FCS room. We were talking about it a little bit. I'm hoping Barry is supposed to have final drawings, final uh documentation, everything back to me today so I can review it so we can go out for I can say yes, let's go out for RFP so we can get that bid process in the in the works so we can have it back before May for discussion and or approval from the board so we're ready to go in when June comes and we can start on that. So >> is there a forecast in terms of how expected to take for the >> it's probably about a six week there's a there's a couple things that have to go on there. So removal of uh any tile flooring that may may or may not be as bestus in those rooms will happen. We're going to do that. I'm not going to have that done through RFP with uh Barryette because it just why add 20% to what something we can manage. So once we get we know this approval happens the first thing that I will make happen is the removal of any tile or you know remediation of any of that goes on and that should take about a week or less and then their portion of it should probably be about a six week portion from start to finish and out the door we go. So we should be done if we can get started mid June we should be done done by the end of July with a week or so buffer even and to go into school. So that that's the time frame that I'm looking to have that done >> in terms of stoves. So, they're all going to be electric. And then the difference in what we can do is here I'm gonna when we put the final bid together and I show you numbers. We're going to buy the appliances in-house. We're not having again we're not having them Lowe's or Home Depot deliver them. Um, we install them. I'll put a couple proposals together for straight electric or induction and we'll look at the difference in that price. The advantage of induction is it's safe. a student can't put their hand on a hot area. If it's double the cost, do we want to spend that? We'll look at that when it comes, but I'll have all those numbers for you so we can say yes, let's go with induction or let's go with just straight electric because we're already here, you know, with with our budgeting. So, more to come on that, but the next phase is to go out for bid hopefully in the next week. Either way, don't touch the stove is a very valuable life lesson that I want students to >> hopefully you only learn >> internalize. It's a >> one in a lifetime, right? >> Hopefully, you only learn that one. Don't ask yourself if it's an induction of it. Just don't touch it. >> Yeah. Right. So, >> don't do it. >> Right. One time lesson right there. So, that's it with that. Um, no capital updates at the moment. Um, the only thing we would uh like to take forward for presentation for approval from the board is from the IT department. And we've discussed this before, but Kristen's here to discuss it. >> Sure. So, it's our I think our third month in a row with you, which is the such a such a treat for us. Thank you. Um, so this is if you're going back to your um January meeting, we had brought this forward. We were using an oldr FRLP number from the beginning of the year when we were still at 52% free and reduced lunch population. Our community is currently at 48% free and reduced lunch which affects our ability which affects our bracketing in the -ate system. So if you're above 50, you're in 80% return bracket. If you're below 50 where we are, you're now we're now in the 60% return bracket. Um, so we're bringing you back this approval for this project with the switches to help us with our internet. Um, you can see what the overall cost would have been was over a million. Because we do use -ate, we do get over $600,000 back of that. The cost of the district is $447,000. Um, but again, some of the confusion here was based on that rate bracket and now we are ready to move forward at the right price. CNI is the company that will be providing the switches. So they they're provide they're a technology company. They have a lot of different equipment where we're where um when we go out to bid several companies can put in with a certain type of switch equipment. CNI is the one that had best pricing for us. >> They do anything for us? >> Um we we've used them as a vendor in the past for other things. Are we currently using them? Give me just a minute. >> Is there anything in terms of >> Oh, in terms of a bundle >> spend to be able to >> Unfortunately, these aren't the type of companies I can usually do a bundle with. So, when we're looking at like software packages, then I have the opportunity to say, "Hey, if we add in your AI solution as opposed to adopting Gemini's AI solution, for example, then I can sometimes get that down." Um, with hardware, we don't we we can't quite bundle like that. One item that we can bundle on that we're talking about right now is when we think about um like a device refresh. And so we may purchase computers outright for a lab at William Tennant, but we lease the laptops that we give the Chromebooks that we give to students and staff. We can bundle all of that together, even though some of it is capital that we're purchasing outright, and laptops that we're leasing for four years, five years, however long the lease goes for, and get one quote on the bid. That often does that's a place where we can drive things down. >> To do that, no, not the rest of the bundle. >> Is there something like there terminus or is the timing of each of these things different? >> So, with a project like that, we obviously we have a five-year projection of projects that we're trying to do. And so, for something like that, when we can say, oh, we need to do a lab and we need to do laptops at the same time. That's something we can bundle. We're actually working with Tom with Dr. Zach and right now on let's lay out the next five years and kind of see is there a way that we could get things better aligned so that we could say all right it's not it's really not best practice to push our technology past four years. I know that some of other folks on on the board or from the community have kind of shared, well, the shelf life says it's this. I want to remember, you know, we have students using these robustly day after day. >> Absolutely constantly. >> They're not just paying bills once a week or doing, you know, email check once a day. So, they're really using these devices. Um, but if we can kind of lay out of a, okay, in four years, let's do this as well for this lab. In another four years when we're doing this, let's do that. We are looking at that projection and trying to line up those columns so that we can buy in bulk. I know the price tag looks scary when you buy in bulk, but it ends up being better for us over time. Have there been any any um overtures or whispers from Apple at all based on their to school districts? I'm very curious. >> I think Leon's sitting in the back booth there. You're speaking his language. Apple pushes us hard. Um they've been pushing us hard, especially now with the Nanos out. >> Um we're looking at that. I mean, it is it it it's going to be almost a cultural mindset shift. I think, you know, a community hears Apple. I know our our district hears Apple and they're like, "That's so expensive." It's actually cheaper >> because of the the lifetime warrant sorry because of the warranty that Apple's willing to give with their products and Apple is if you're doing a four-year warranty guaranteeing a $100 buyback price for each of their laptops. By comparison, I think we got $4 per Chromebook. Um so they guarantee that upfront. We we just refreshed student devices, so we wouldn't be looking at that for another 3 to four years at a minimum, but it's something we're watching very closely. >> Yeah. >> When that was announced, I thought that's that's coming for us. I mean, they're coming for Chromebooks. They really are. >> Absolutely. And well, they should. >> America. >> Thank you. >> Right. Right. >> That's some good perspective. >> Appreciate that. We and we have kids who have been on Chromebooks for what six, eight sometimes years just the way that our cycle's gone here. So it's correct. >> It's good for us to be a little a lot more proactive than we were. >> We haven't had Chromebooks going eight years. >> No, not we've never had we've never had Chromebooks going eight years with refresh. I think the long the longest since I've been here has been five. >> Five is the only >> That feels better. >> Instead of renewing it five years a year ago, right? Correct. There's a group that went five. There was a large group that we bought this year. >> We don't have chrome. >> Yeah, I think I know my my son had his from sixth and it >> he just it was fine. It was working, but it's one of those things that at some point >> and I apologize if I if I misspoke. My my comment of the eight years. I think sometimes people have heard that we could go eight years and they bring that to us as a suggestion. >> No, that's good. >> We would not recommend that. >> I've heard from students like we have the same laptop all the time. >> We're working on it. I can't imag I can't imagine your son had the same laptop for more than four years. >> Well, they would keep them for the summer, right? So, if it would it was one of he would do summer courses or something like that. Kids would just have it. He wouldn't use it often during the summer unless he was doing >> some school, you know, something for AP or whatever it might have been. But he had he would keep the same machine usually. It would just come with it home and be, you know, unless there was a problem with it, we would just hold on to it. >> Correct. We yeah we do send them home for the summer. It is an equity issue in our minds. It provides opportunities for academic extension remediation through the summer. Students can still access the public library to get to Libby to get to Epic. We do have optional summer work. We do have required summer work once you get to AP. Um so we do try to provide all students a point of access for for that each year and each summer. >> That's that's a good thing. as an adult machine for 30 odd years and you're a heavy Microsoft Office user. Apple has done a very poor job in terms of functionality cheat sheet to sit there and figure out >> command what >> in order to figure out to do the things that I do. >> So I think I brought up my first point about this idea of a cultural shift and that to me is really the second part of the cultural shift, not just what is the price point of an Apple, but the the iOS operating system is so different, right? >> And so to get all of our teachers switched over to there so that they can then help all of their stu like there is not zero cost associated with that training and with that shift. And so we do factor that in. You know, it may look like, wow, sticker price of Chromebook versus sticker price of Nano is starting to get very comparable. We have to factor in all those other elements from buyback to training, etc. >> I failed. >> You didn't fail. You did not fail. >> Time I've used PC since the late 90s was when I had to. Otherwise, we've been >> But but I can see there is a difference when when you jump >> I do my best not to. >> Try very hard. >> Those with artistic talents tend like yourself tend to like the apple. Right. >> Great. >> That's all I have for you today. Any questions? Further questions? So, >> all right. >> Thank you all. Appreciate it. Uh, next agenda, next operation committee meeting will be held April 19th, 2026 at 11 a.m., right? Oh, sorry, 17. Thank you. At 11:00 a.m. right here in this room. Uh, motion to adjurnn. >> Second. You have a second. All right. Thanks all. just environment.