the focus groups are a way for us to explore why people think the way they do.

The bond proposal would be for approximately $120 million or $20 million for each school. The field houses would be approximately $35,000 35,000 square ft, similar to those found in other districts along the Wasatch front. If this bond passes for the average household with a home valued at 615,000, it would result in a tax increase of approximately $98 per year or $8.16 a month paid over the course of 16 years.

overwhelmingly participants said that they need more information in order to make a decision about the bond. And furthermore, they said they expect full transparency from the district.

My my concern is is that we're we're solving a temporary problem for 120 million and ongoing 1.2 million or $2 million to to keep them maintained, but it's just a temporary problem. That's my concern is that we're we're jumping to that as a solution, but in 5 years we might not need that space. Maybe we'll have plenty of space for physical education needs.

To me, this is separate from that. It's a special purpose. And the farther we get away from any potential future enrollment bond or a bond to build buildings to accommodate students, the less chance there is that approving this bond impacts that. 's chances of being approved.

I think if their concern is transparency, we would take a lot of heat in putting it in a m municipality election. I don't think 27 is the time to do it. It's either 26 or 28 because if you put it in a non-presidential election or a non-midterm election, you're going to be accused of sliding it in when people weren't watching.

Uh, that price is 78,727,212 and that will not take into account some of the alternates that we've designed into the project.

in alternate number one, we're going to add 9,000 square feet to our most underused school and uh in a community that is declining in population. How do we justify that to the public?

So in that redesign and reconfiguration we we touched on it a little bit a couple of weeks ago. They currently have um 90 teaching spaces or instructional spaces and what they ended up doing is through that reconfiguration and redesign losing the equivalent of five classrooms. So this five classroom addition if chosen this bid alternate would take us back to the 90 classrooms.

if we do all of the bid alternates and all of a sudden in two years we had to build an elementary school, we would not be able to do that with our reserves. The likelihood of that happening is pretty minimal. So, I think since we have to dip into our reserve anyway to complete the project, we might as well complete it as it's been proposed with all of the alternates.

We kind of take a three-pronged approach to this. Facility services plays a part in water conservation. Custodial and energy services does as well. And then we rely on our schools and their custodial staff to uh do their part as well.

no daytime watering between uh 8 and or 10 and 8:00 p.m. optimal watering times limiting the frequency avoiding waste water. Um it gave some additional tips. We raised our mower heights uh to to 3 in to reduce the water needs there.

The cost to um do all of the remaining schools would be roughly $239,000. So at at this point we haven't done them all in one big um batch. We've just done a few at a time because of that that cost.

would you agree that building field houses would save water? Just wondering on that. That's kind of sarcastic, but I did I did find out that we save about a 100 million gallons of water per turf football field. The football sides filled is what they tell me. So, I think that's pretty awesome.

on the topic of the ongoing process of getting rid of stupid grass and zero escaping, um it's usually just based off observations. Can we make that more systematic or like do you think there might be a better system in I don't know custodians self-reporting or going out and visiting more just cuz I know there's a bunch of park strip grass at the school near my house and when I was at West Hills there's like that weird sloped area and it's mostly grass.

I would I would prefer to postpone the vote until after we were able to have the discussion in a study session.