“we asked the board to pass resolution similar to this because we don't know what the legislature is going to do all right so um um we have to be able to prepare ourselves as a school district for potential options”

“I appreciate this process it's not a form that we have filled out in the past but I have appreciated the budget priority conversations that we have we all know that we're Below on our fund balance and so when we allocate a budget it is the board is um trusting in the delegation of authority to the superintendent to manage to that budget because there's not a lot of room in one 1.1% to go down”

“in a normal bids if we just take the the bidder um our construction manager will have a conversation with each of the um low biders to talk about here's the the specs that are Bid out to make sure from a material standpoint from a Time standpoint that they have everything covered within the bids when we look at Best Value we take those conversations deeper”

“at the end end of the day we get a much better product out of it by following this process rather than just okay we're going to take the low bid”

“This is a long-term facility maintenance project with the high school um with pony stadium with the track resurfacing so it's replacing the track surface as well as the binus or the concrete underneath there's cracking um and just wear and tear from 20 years old of the track so this is just a full replacement of our track surface at the high school”

“I guess I just want to again thank tax cares because ultimately the long-term facility maintenance is something that the board um decides to go to taxpayers for we are grandfathered in in this program and I would argue that our buildings are as pristine as they are not only due to the hard work of our staff um but also to the generosity of our taxpayers who really I mean our buildings it's there's a reason why we have a couple hundred year old buildings and we take good care of them so it's money well spent”

“our Press Box um is over 20 years old and just needs to be replaced um where it is so the foundation sits on top of the bleachers so the foundation will stay the same it's literally just taking the current Press Box off and replacing it almost literally like for like because it has to fit the same dimensions that the current Press Box is on because of the foundation that it sits at”

“I've asked Mark to do a sound study so the miles away are not contacting the district about hearing it in their front porch uh when we can't hear it on this side of the stadium so um so I think as part of the upgrade there will be a sound study and we will figure it out”

“on the Kil one of the things that when I initially came I had a tour of the high school Mark took me around and we our Kil has been shut down our main big Kil that we fire since I've been here um due to some cod issues and so we are um on track to get that replaced this summer which I think um pay huge dividends for our kids who do the the pottery and the art the artwork so the clay work so that's a it's a real positive for us”

“the portion of this Bond project approved by taxpayers so thank you again taxpayers um was to really enhance the safety at a really tricky spot in the high school it's a lot of kids in a small space with a tiny office and um I it's nice to be able to share those upgrades with our students I think they appreciate that as well too”

“overall I think parents were balancing that idea of safety versus the distraction the consistent enforcement we talked about um some of these same things you were concerned about mental health that social skill interaction um they want something that's really clear uh as far as a policy so that it makes sense and people understand it”

“they are designed to be addictive and to hijack your thinking like that is a feature not a bug so to have an opportunity to allow students to put it away allow and expect students to put it away and take a break so that they can fully engage in their educational environment I feel like that is the value of that cannot be understated because it is not something our students have had the opportunity to experience up to this point”

“at the end of day at the end of the day I do think that they're going to struggle with it I mean it's it's really hard when your cell phone's just right there it's right there for you to grab and use it and scroll on Tik Tok and social media and all of that things um so I mean a and I's personal opinion is that yes we need a policy and we need it to be gone but a lot of push back from students and they would like it to just be class to class”

“I appreciate kind of the the new formatting like the the introduction with the thank you and the for the significant investment I feel like that's a really good opener um to kind of level set of we appreciate and recognize how much the legislature has moved the needle in funding but also not quite far enough”

“I think that the most important thing is from just a mission for for our board as we're talking to legislators is really to fully fund or repeal and it has to be a strong message because we you know we're not the only district with a low and depleting fund balance and if they don't start repealing or fully funing we could be in a really tricky position here so I think our message has to be one that is very serious and very direct”