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CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY BUFORT COUNTY TO ORDER, UH, FIRST ORDER OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE.
LIBERTY, JUSTICE FOR ALL, EVERY, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA? I MAKE A MOTION IF THE AGENDA IS APPROVED.
ALL, UH, MRS. BERRY, ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? UH, SURE.
UH, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE COMMITTEE MEETING? MEAN MEETING MINUTES FROM JUNE 5TH? MAKE MOTION THAT MEETINGS IS APPROVED BY FROM JUNE 5TH.
AND FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS, SIR.
OH, HE GOT HIS CAR RUNNING? YES, WE DO.
AMBROSE RUN EASEMENT, SO, YES.
UH, AND THIS HAS ALSO BEEN CALLED THE, UH, CALL DEPUTY K.
IT'S CALLED WK AUSTIN, THE NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT.
SO MR. STEVE ANDERSON, AND HE WILL BE PRESENTING.
UM, SO IF YOU CAN PULL THAT UP, FEEL FREE TO WALK HERE ON SPEAKER RIGHT HERE.
AND YOU, I, YOU CONFIRM YOU'RE WITNESS NOW.
WELL, I JUST SAY IF WE GET THE DRAWING UP, THEN IT, IT'LL MAYBE MAKE FOR A EASIER CONVERSATION.
I WILL, JUST REAL QUICK, IF YOU REMEMBER THE LAST TIME YOU WERE HERE, WHEN MARCH OF THIS YEAR.
AND AT THAT TIME, A REQUEST WAS MADE FOR TRAFFIC STUDY TO BE DONE TO SEE IF THE, UH, IF IT WAS REQUIRED TO PUT A LEFT AND RIGHT TURN INTO THE WATERCRESS DEPARTMENT, SAW ACCOUNTS.
NOW, NOW YOU HAVE W WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE TO COMPLETED THE TRAFFIC STUDY AND THE WARRANTS.
THE JUSTIFICATION IS FOR THE RIGHT TURN LANE OFF OF DEBBIE K NORTHBOUND INTO THE APARTMENT AND A RIGHT TURN LANE, SOUTHBOUND WK AUSTIN INTO THE SCHOOL DRIVEWAY.
THE STUDY ALSO LOOKED AT THE LEFT TURN LANE AND THEN IN BOTH DIRECTIONS, NORTHBOUND TO SOUTHBOUND, THEY ARE NOT WARRANTED.
SO THE, THE DRAWING THAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS YOU'RE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT WK AUSTIN, UM, TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN IS THE WATERCRESS PROPERTY.
TO THE TOP OF THE SCREEN IS THE SCHOOL PROPERTY AND DRIVEWAY.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE RIGHT TURN LANE SOUTHBOUND ON WK AUSTIN.
IT WOULD HELP TRAFFIC FUNNEL INTO THE SCHOOL DRIVEWAY AND THEN NORTHBOUND ON WK AUSTIN, THE RIGHT TURN LANE, FEEDING TRAFFIC INTO THE APARTMENTS, CLEARING UP THREE LANES FOR THE TRUTH, THE THREE TRAFFIC.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE PROGRESSED IN, IN THIS DIALOGUE WITH FISCAL SEVERAL YEARS AND MAYBE AS MANY AS A HALF A DOZEN TRIPS BEFORE.
YOU ALSO APPRECIATE YOUR CONTINUED PATIENCE.
BUT IT, I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE REACHED THE AGREEMENT.
WE DISCUSSED OUR ASK IS THAT THE SCHOOL WOULD GRANT THE EASEMENT WK AUSTIN IS STATE ROAD, BUT IT'S SANDWICHED BETWEEN SCHOOL PROPERTY.
SO THERE'S A STRIP OF SCHOOL PROPERTY THAT THE AMBUSH RUN THE, UM, EAST WEST ROAD WOULD'VE TO CROSS TO ACCESS WK OFFICER.
SO THE ASK WOULD BE THAT THE SCHOOL GRANT, THAT EASEMENT, WE HAVEN'T PREPARED ANY DOCUMENTS, NOR HAVE WE COMPLETED THE DESIGN OF THE TURN LANES.
WE WANTED TO GET YOUR PERMISSION AND APPROVAL.
IF YOU SAY YES, THEN YOU WOULD GRANT THE EASEMENT, THEN WE WOULD PREPARE THE EASEMENT DOCUMENTS, COME BACK AND SUBMIT THOSE EITHER AT STAFF LEVEL OR BEFORE THE WHOLE COMMITTEE AND OR BOARD, WHATEVER YOUR PREFERENCE.
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TO TAKE THIS WHOLE BOARD FOR A VOTE, RIGHT? YES.SO, I MEAN, I, I DON'T HAVE, I, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM GOING TO, UH, MAKING A OR ENTERTAINING A MOTION TO HAVE IT MOVED TO THE FULL BOARD.
UM, BUT, UH, WE CAN PROBABLY GET ON THE AGENDA FOR NEXT, UH, FOR NEXT WEEK OR WOULD HAVE TO BE THE WEEKLY, WELL, IT WOULD COME OUT IF YOU VOTE ON AN OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, YOU WOULD BE UNDER THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MOVE FORWARD.
ARE YOU VOTING? HOWEVER YOU DECIDE? YEAH, THAT WOULD BE IN SEPTEMBER.
UM, ANDROSE WILL RUN THAT WOULD BE RUN THROUGH THE APARTMENT CALLED CORRECT.
IT, IT WOULD CONNECT, START AT THE EASTERN END WOULD BE US 21 PARA ISLAND GATEWAY, AND THEN IT WOULD THEN WEST TO W KOFF.
SO IT'S PARALLEL AND BROAD RIVER ROAD.
IT'S, UH, SO THAT'S PARIS ISLAND COME THIS WAY.
THAT'S, THAT'S THE INTERSECTION THAT TALKED ABOUT.
SO THIS IS, THIS IS, UH, WALMART.
SO, AND WHEN YOU GET TO WK AUSTIN, THAT'S WHERE YOU WANT INTERSECTION.
WE HAD INTEREST OF THE SCHOOL, WELL, WELL WOULD WIND UP WITH, UH, YOUR MOST NORTHERLY DRIVEWAY.
THE BUS, THE BUS DRIVE DRIVE BUS DRIVEWAY.
SO THEY'RE PUTTING IN THIS TURN LANE HERE INTO THE SCHOOL PROPERTY AND THEN THAT TURN LANE INTO AMBROSE.
I I THINK THAT'S THE OLD BUS DRIVEWAY.
I THINK RECOGNIZE, LIKE THIS PICTURE HERE IS THE OLD SCHOOL WITH THE NEW SCHOOL.
THIS IS JUST THE WRONG, THE OLDER.
BUT IT WOULD LINE UP STRAIGHT ACROSS FROM THE STRAIGHT ACROSS FROM THE DRIVE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BASEBALL SOFTBALL FIELDS ARE HERE AND, AND AGAIN, WHERE WOULD THE PARENT PICK UP AND DROP OFF OR DO IT.
DIDN'T WE TALK ABOUT, ABOUT WHAT WE WERE GETTING OUT OF THIS? FIRSTLY JUST DOING THIS BECAUSE HOW MUCH OF SENSITIVE I SAID BEFORE, I THINK WE WERE WAITING ON THEM TO BRING US SOMETHING BACK.
IT'S THE TRAFFIC STUDY AND THAT'S WHAT HE SAID.
AND, AND, AND THE TRAFFIC STUDY SHOWS THE, WE, SO WE'VE LOOKED AT THIS INTERSECTION WITH WK AUSTIN, THE SCHOOL DRIVEWAY AND AROSE RUN EXTENSION AND THE RIGHT TURN LANES, BUS, THE NORTHBOUND AND SOUTHBOUND WHAT WK ARE WARRANTED.
SO THE PROPOSAL WOULD BE TO BUILD THE RIGHT TURN LANE INTO THE SCHOOL DRIVEWAY, AND THEN WE WOULD ASK FOR A
AND I ALSO KNOW THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, WE, WE TALKED ABOUT GETTING, UM, THE, WE, WE, WE TALKED ABOUT GETTING, UH, APARTMENTS FOR TEACHERS AND DIFFERENT THINGS.
AND FOR US TO SAY THAT WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU THIS, I MEAN, WE'RE NOT GETTING ANYTHING OUT OF IT.
WE JUST CAN'T CONTINUE TO GIVE PEOPLE OUR RIGHT OF WAYS.
AND, UM, UM, UH, WHAT WAS THE, WHAT IS THE, WHAT'S THE MOTION THEY JUST PASSED YOU? UH, MR. UH, WHAT'S THE MOTION? THEY JUST PASSED YOU JUST NOW, IT'S IN YOUR COVER.
THAT'S HOW I'M LOOKING FOR, I, I, WE JUST CAN'T CONTINUE TO GIVE OUR EASEMENTS.
I THINK IT'S PREPOSTEROUSLY LUDICROUS FOR US TO CONTINUE TO GIVE OUR EASEMENTS AND WE HAVE TO GO PAY TACTILES WHO, WHO, WHO JUST CAN'T GET EASEMENTS AND HECK ON THE ISLAND, THERE'S A GRAVEYARD.
WE CAN'T, THEY COMMUNICATE AND GET AN EASEMENT TOO TO GO TO THEIR OWN FAMILY, LOVED ONES.
AND FOR US TO TAKE TACTILES, TAKE PAY PEOPLE'S TAX CARDS AND GIVE OUR EASEMENTS AND, AND WE NOT EVEN GETTING A, UH, APARTMENT.
WE TALKED ABOUT, WE TALKING ABOUT MAKING A DEAL AND GIVING, GETTING SOME APARTMENTS FOR TEACHERS.
I, I JUST DON'T SEE, THERE'S NO WAY I CAN SUPPORT.
SO I'M OPENING UP MY COLLEAGUES NOT SUPPORT THIS EITHER, BECAUSE THAT WAS WHAT WE WERE WAITING TO HEAR ABOUT.
NOT JUST ABOUT THE, UH, THE, THE, THE TRAFFIC STUDY.
WE, WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT, I REMEMBER MISS BOATRIGHT US TALKING ABOUT THIS, UH, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS VERY, UH, AT LENGTH ABOUT WHAT, WHAT WE WERE GETTING OUT OF IT BECAUSE JUST GIVING UP EASEMENTS AND TO, TO, UH, UH, TAXPAYER DOLLARS, THIS HAS GOTTA STOP.
I MEAN, BECAUSE I JUST CAN'T GO TO SCHOOL AND GO, SOMEONE SAY, HEY, CAN I GET AN EASEMENT? AND, AND, AND, AND NOT CHARGE OR, OR NOT, NOT NOT MAKE SOMETHING OUT IT OUT OF IT.
PEOPLE ARE CHARGING PEOPLE FOR EASEMENTS.
SO, SO, SO TO THAT END, I WOULD LEAVE IT THERE.
I, IT, IT WOULD BE A NO FOR ME.
AND, AND AND A HECK NO BECAUSE IT'S TAXPAYERS MONEY THAT WE, WE JUST DON'T HAVE TO, I, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THAT.
SO I, NO, I'M NOT GONNA SUPPORT THIS.
AND JUST MAYBE I, I SAY THIS CLEARLY, THE EFFORTS HAVE BEEN DONE TO DO THE TRAFFIC STUDY.
W AND WE, WE AGREED THAT WHATEVER WE WOULD WANT
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THE COLLECT LEAVE OF APARTMENTS IN SCHOOL CAN'T HAPPEN UNLESS THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, BECAUSE IT'S THEIR ROAD APPROVES IT.SO WE DID THE STUDY, WE LOOKED AT BOTH THE RIGHT TURN AND LEFT TURN ONLY THE RIGHT TURN LANES ARE WARRANTED.
AND THERE THE COST ASSOCIATED WITH ENGINEERING AND PERMITTING AND BUILDING THOSE, AND THE APARTMENTS ARE GONNA CARRY THAT BURDEN.
SO THE SCHOOL WILL GET, UH, RIGHT TO BURN LANE INTO THEIR, UH, DRIVEWAY TO, TO HELP PULL TRAFFIC SAFELY OFF WK AUSTIN TO GET OFF THAT ROAD AND TO LET TRAFFIC THROUGH.
SO, SO THERE IS, UH, AN EFFORT BEING MADE TO RECOGNIZE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, THAT THIS COMES WITH A PRICE AS TO APARTMENTS.
UNFORTUNATELY, WHAT'S HAPPENED OVER TIME IS THERE'S NO IMMEDIATE DEVELOPER FOR THIS TO SIT DOWN AND TALK TO AND HAVE THAT CONVERSATION.
WE, WE STILL WOULD LIKE TO GO ON WITH, WITH THIS EFFORT.
Y'ALL CAN SEE HOW LONG IT'S TAKEN TO GET TO HEARSAY, JUST IN THE DEVELOPMENT WORLD OF TODAY.
IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME AND, AND CONTINUE TO GET THIS DESIGN PERMIT AND, AND READY FOR TRUCTURE.
I MEAN, I WOULD RESPOND TO THAT.
IT TAKES A LOT FOR US TO GET TEACHERS AT 6,000 A YEAR.
IT TAKES A LOT BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW TAKING MONEY AND PUTTING MONEY IN, IN DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT AREAS WHERE YOU CAN'T UTILIZE MONEY FOR, FOR, FOR THE, FOR DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT THINGS.
SO I, I UNDERSTAND THAT IT TAKES THIS, YOU, YOU GUYS WOULD HAVE TO DO THIS REGARDLESS OF THAT.
IF YOU WANTED TO DO SOMETHING, DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
I MEAN, I KNOW A GUY, WHOEVER WHO HAD A TRAILER PARK, HE SAID, HAD A STUDY, DONE A STUDY DONE FOR TRADE TRAILER PARK TO FIGURE SOME THINGS OUT.
SO I MEAN, THAT THIS IS WHEN YOU OWN SOMETHING OF THIS CALIBER, UNFORTUNATELY, THESE ARE THINGS THAT, THAT YOU, THAT YOU, THAT YOU HAVE TO DO THIS AS A, A BUSINESS DECISION.
BUT FOR US IT'S A, IT IS A BUSINESS DECISION TOO BECAUSE WE, WE HAD A, A MEETING AT LENGTH, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS AND THIS WAS JUST NOT A ONE PRO APPROACH.
AND ONCE WE DO IT FOR YOU, THEN WE DON'T PREPARE DOORS BOX AND WE HAVE TO DO EVERYONE ELSE.
AND EVERYONE ELSE EXPECTS, EXPECTS THAT.
AND I JUST DON'T THINK OUT RIGHTFULLY THAT IT'S CONTINUOUSLY RIGHT FOR US TO SAY, OH, WELL THEY'RE OPENING A DRIVEWAY.
YOU CAN HAVE TO OPEN THAT DRIVEWAY IF YOU WANT TO OPEN, IF YOU WANTED TO CHANGE THE DRIVEWAY, UH, TO, TO GET TICKET, GET TO THE SCHOOL, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WHEREVER WE, UH, ALLOWED TO OR NOT.
IT DEPENDS ON, ON, ON WHERE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING, UH, THE NEW DRIVEWAY AT.
SO THAT'S PROBABLY WHY YOU WOULD, YOU WOULD GIVE US AN EASEMENT.
I MEAN, YOU WOULD MAKE IT SO THAT WE COULD GET, HAVE ACCESS TO IT TO SOME, TO SOME DEGREE.
BUT AT, AT THIS, AT THIS JUNCTURE, BECAUSE WE, WE, WE, THE BOARD STUCK ON SOLID GROUND AND WE SAID THAT WE WANTED TO BE SOME NEGOTIATING, SOME NEGOTIATING THERE.
AND YOU CAME BACK WITH HALF OF IT.
I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA STAY FIRM AND I'M GONNA SAVE HIM.
I MEAN, THAT'S JUST, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST, THAT'S HIS BUSINESS.
IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT, AND IT IS JUST, IT, IT, IT, IT HAS TO HAPPEN.
WE HAVE TO START HAVING A REAL SERIOUS CONVERSATION AND HAVE THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT WE WE'RE LOOKING TO HELP OUT OUR ENTITY AND, AND, AND, AND, AND MOVE IN GOOD FAITH AT THE END OF THE DAY.
AND WE'RE GONNA MOVE, WE'RE GONNA STAND FOREVER.
MS. GORDON, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? YEAH, I WOULD, I MEAN, I, I REMEMBER THE MEETING WHEN YOU CAME BEFORE, UM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID ASK YOU TO DO WHAT TO DO WAS STUDY THIS IS DO TRAFFIC STUDY TO SEE HOW WE KNEW HOW TO TRAFFIC GONNA BE ON THAT ROAD OR I, I, I WAS A BUS DRIVER THAT USED TO DRIVE THAT ROAD AND PICK UP KIDS.
SO WE DID ASK YOU TO DO A STUDY AND YOU DID A STUDY.
SO WHAT ARE WE SAYING NOW? WE, WE DON'T AGREE WHAT THE STUDY IS SAYING OR NO, IT IS NOT, IT'S NOT ABOUT AGREEING WITH THE, WHAT THE STUDY IS SAYING, THE TRAFFIC.
IT WAS MORE THAN THE STUDY THAT WAS ASKED.
YOU ALSO ASKED THEM ABOUT WHEN YOU JUST, WHEN YOU GIVE SOMEONE AN EASEMENT MAY GO AHEAD.
UH, SO THE OTHER THING THAT WAS ASKED IS CAN WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE APARTMENT COMPLEX TO MAYBE GIVE A TEACHER'S LIKE FIVE, 10% OFF? UM, BUT YOU'RE SAYING THAT THERE IS NO DEVELOPERS FOR THE APARTMENT COMPLEX YET? IS THAT WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING? SO WE DON'T HAVE DEVELOPERS TO TALK TO YET.
SO IS THERE ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ONLINE? YEAH, MR. CHAIR? I HAVE ONE ONE.
I, I'D LIKE TO KNOW, UM, WHEN IS THE APARTMENT DEVELOPER GOING TO BE SELECTED AND IS THE, UM, THE EASEMENT DISCUSSION, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT COULD BE INCLUDED IN, UM, THE EASEMENT'S, UH, CONVERSATION SO THAT THEY KNOW THAT, UM, THERE, THERE MAY BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO, TO, TO WEIGH IN WITH ON THAT AS WELL? SO, I, I CAN'T SPEAK TO WHEN A, A DEVELOPER'S TO SHOW UP ON THE SCENE THAT THE MARKET'S DRIVING MAP IN FACTORS THAT ARE BEYOND ENGINEERING.
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I'M SORRY, SIR, GO AHEAD.WHAT THE, THE APPS WOULD DO THE STUDY, THE, THE, THE, THE THINGS THAT ENGINEERS CAN DISCUSS, AND WE DID THE STUDY WE LOOKED AT RIGHT AND LEFT TURN LANES ONLY THE RIGHT TURN LANES ARE WARRANTED.
THAT'S WHAT WE'VE COME BACK FOR.
BUT THE DEVELOPER WILL PUT IN ALL, ALL OF THE DOT AGREE WAS BOTH TURN LANES AND WHATEVER ASSOCIATED RANGE IN RETURN FOR THE EASEMENT TO GET TO IT.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT FROM THE DEVELOPER SIDE RIGHT NOW.
IF, IF THERE'S MORE TO BE ASKED, THEN I'LL HAVE TO GO BACK IF WE, I CAN'T.
BUT BUT YOU'RE SAYING THERE'S NOT A DEVELOPER YET, IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? YES.
SO, UM, I DON'T MIND BRINGING IT TO THE FULL BOARD AND LIKE TAKING THAT OUTTA COMMUNITY TO THE FULL BOARD.
BUT IF WE TAKE IT TO THE FULL BOARD AND THERE'S NOT A DEVELOPER YET AND WE CAN'T MAKE A DEAL WITH A DEVELOPER, THEN I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S GOING TO PASS AT THE BOARD LEVEL.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IT DOES.
UH, SO I MEAN, I I, I DON'T MIND MOVING IT FORWARD TO THE FULL BOARD, BUT I MEAN, WE'RE JUST, THE PROBABILITY OF IT NOT PASSING, IT'S PROBABLY HIGHER, UH, THAN, THAN IT MAKING IT THROUGH.
UM, SO ARE ANYBODY HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS AT THIS POINT? DO WE JUST KILL IT HERE AND WAIT FOR YOU TO COME BACK WITH A DEVELOPER? OR DO YOU WANT TO TRY TO FIND THE DEVELOPER SOONER RATHER THAN LATER? CAN WE JUST TAKE IT TO THE BOARD? WE CAN TAKE IT TO THE BOARD.
I MEAN, I HAVE, MY QUESTION IS, WHY, WHY WOULD WE TAKE TO THE BOARD? BECAUSE I WANNA BE CLEAR BECAUSE THE NEXT PERSON COMES AND THEY, AND THEY LOOK AT, AND THEY LOOK AT THIS AND THEY BRING THIS UP.
THEN, THEN, THEN WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU OPEN PAIR DOORS BOX.
SO WHEN, WHEN YOU GIVE WHAT'S MY MOM SAID, WHAT'S GOOD FOR, IT'S GOOD FOR THE GANDER.
I, I UNDERSTAND YOUR POSITION, MR. SMITH.
YOU DIDN'T ASK TO BE REP RECOGNIZED AND NOW YOU'RE ASKING ME TO WAIT FOR YOU TO FINISH.
WELL, AND AND ALONG WITH THAT, HE SAID, HE STATED THE, NOW HE SAID THAT WE ASKED HIM TO DO THE STUDY.
WE ALSO ASKED HIM TO DO THE STUDY PLUS THE DEVELOPMENT SIDE.
HE HE DID, WHEN HE, WE HAVE A CHECKOFF LIST.
HE DIDN'T WANT THING ON THE LIST.
HE DIDN'T PUT EVERYTHING ON THE LIST.
AND YOU CAN, YOU CAN VOTE IT DOWN IF YOU DON'T WANT.
AND YOU, YOU, I MEAN, THAT'S TOTALLY WITHIN YOU.
BUT I JUST WANNA RE READ MR. MR. IAN, WHAT WAS YOUR RECOMMENDATION? WELL, I JUST HEARING THE CONVERSATION HERE, I WAS SUGGESTION FOR A MOTION, YOU KNOW, JUST PUT IT OUT THERE IF IT WAS THE, BUT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION SUPPORT A FUTURE EASEMENT, ALLOWING THE CONNECTION OF ABRO RUN'S DE K AUSTIN WITH CONCESSIONS FOR
BUT YOU'RE SAYING IS YOU AGREE WITH, UH, WHAT THEY'RE BRINGING FORWARD SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE ON WITH THEIR DESIGN, BUT UNDERSTANDING IF SOMEONE COMES ON BOARD THAT, UH, BOARD OF EDUCATION IS REQUESTING CONCESSION FOR TEACHERS AS PART OF THE EASEMENT.
THAT'S WHAT I SEEMED LIKE I HEARD.
UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE LOOKED AT SOME TYPE OF RENTAL AGREEMENT VIA, WITH THE SCHOOL, WITH THE CITY, WITH THE COUNTY FIRST RESPONDERS.
UM, THEN, THEN YOU, YOU HAVE TO QUANTIFY THAT, SEND IT YOUR NUMBER OF UNITS.
YOU, YOU SET A TIME LIMIT ON WHEN YOU'RE GONNA RENT THEM.
IF YOU DON'T RENT THEM, THEY GO TO THE MARKET.
THEY CAN'T JUST SIT AT VACANT.
SO, SO THERE, THERE IS SOME CHALLENGES THAT KEEP GOING WITH THAT.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S NOT WHY IS BLACK OR WHITE IS WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT THE, AS WE'VE LOOKED AT THIS AND TALKED TO THE SCHOOL, THERE'S, THERE'S SOME CHALLENGES RIGHT NOW WITH WK AUSTIN IN THAT ENTRANCE.
SO THIS WOULD BE A, AN IMMEDIATE SOLUTION OR IMPROVEMENT TO THAT SITUATION.
UM, WE, WE CAN, THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO, JUST TO GET PAST BLACK, WHITE, AND LET'S MAKE A NOT SO GOOD SITUATION, BUT A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
AND THAT'S WHAT THIS WOULD ACHIEVE, MAKING THAT CONNECTIVITY.
UH, BUT, UH, THE MOTION THAT, UH, MR. IAN PROPOSED, UM, MAKES SOME CONCESSIONS FOR YOU AND IT MAKES SOME CONCESSIONS FOR US, UH, IN THE FUTURE.
AND THAT, THAT SHOWS GOOD FAITH FOR US AND GOOD FAITH FOR YOU.
UM, I MEAN, SO I, I, I, I THINK THAT ALLOWS SOME FLEXIBILITY AND IT'S, UH, WITH FUTURE CONCESSIONS, I THINK IS FLEXIBLE ENOUGH THAT WE CAN CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS IF WE MOVE BEYOND THIS POINT.
UM, LET'S GO INTO THE FULL BOARD AND HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH THEM.
I I LIKE WHAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE SUGGESTING AND WHAT, UH, MR. OTTING HAS RECOMMENDED.
I WOULD, UH, PUT ON THE TABLE FOR CONSIDERATION INSTEAD OF, UH, THE, THE MOTION AS PROFFERED BY MR. OTTING SAYS REQUEST, UH, CONCESSIONS.
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TO STRENGTHEN THAT A LITTLE BIT AND SAY REQUIRE, UH, SO WOULD THAT, WOULD THAT BE AMENABLE? UM, YES, I AGREE.REQUIRING SESSIONS FOR LEA TO TEACHERS, ANYBODY ELSE ONLINE? ALL ANY OTHER COMMENTS ABOUT ANY OF THIS? YEAH, MR. WELL, JUST, JUST HEARING HIS LAST COMMENT, IT SOUNDED LIKE THEY, THEY'D HAVE SOME, UH, UH, HE, HE IS, THEY'RE HEARING HIS LAST COMMENT.
THEY THEY HAVE HAD CONVERSATION ABOUT IT AND THEY WEREN'T TOO KEEN ABOUT IT.
SO BECAUSE OF THAT, I'M DEFINITELY GONNA VOTE DOWN.
I'M, I'M DEFINITELY GONNA VOTE ON, ON THIS.
I MEAN, WHAT WE CAN TAKE FOR MORE, BUT HEARING WHAT HE JUST SAID, IT SEEMS LIKE THERE, OBVIOUSLY THERE IS SOMEBODY AND THEY, AND THERE HAS BEEN SOME CONVERSATIONS AROUND IT, AND THEY'RE NOT, THAT THEY'RE NOT TOO KEYING ON GIVING TEACHERS SOME, SOME ATTITUDE, REALLY.
THE, THE, THE, THE, UH, THE, UH, THE EASEMENT IS REALLY FOR THEM AND NOT REALLY US, AND SO GIVE FOR US OF US TO GIVE.
AND THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT KIND OF REALLY SHOWING, THEY'RE NOT REALLY KIND OF KEEN OR, OR, OR, OR WANTING TO GIVE BRINGS BRINGS ME SOME TYPE OF HEADACHE TO, TO, TO, TO, UH, IT BRINGS ME SOME CONCERN.
SO, SO I GOOD FAITH, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA HOLD CARLOS.
SO THIS, THERE, THERE IS NO ONE TODAY WE, THIS HAS BEEN FOR A FIVE YEAR JOURNEY TO GET TO HERE.
AND THIS HAS BEEN LOOKED AT WITH THE CITY, WITH THE COUNTY, MAYBE NOT EXPLICITLY THE SCHOOL.
LIKE THE, THE ASK IS GONNA BE WHAT, WHAT HE WANTS.
AND THEN THE CHALLENGES BECOME, IS IT CONTROL GRID IS THE NUMBER OF UNITS, HOW LONG DO THEY HAVE TO BE STAYED OPEN THAT THERE'S A, THERE'S A WHOLE MECHANICS OF, OF QUESTIONS THAT HAVE TO BE ANSWERED.
SO IT'S JUST, IT'S NOT BLACK, WHITE BUILT RIGHT TURN LANE AND BUILD A OR NO LEFT TURN LANE BECAUSE WE DID A STUDY, RIGHT.
AND WHEN, WHEN WE MOVE BEYOND THIS POINT, THE NEXT MOTION IS GOING TO BE WE AUTHORIZE THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ENTER NEGOTIATIONS TO, TO, TO FINALIZE EASEMENT IF THE FULL BOARD APPROVES IT.
UM, SO I MEAN THAT'S WHERE THE, THAT NEXT STEP OF, UH, DEFINING THE BLACK AND WHITE COMES FROM IS THE NEGOTIATION PART AFTER WE, UH, THE BOARD APPROVES IT.
AND, AND SO THEN, JUST SO I HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING WHERE TO GO WITH A LITTLE BIT OF DEFINITION, LIKE WHAT, WHAT DOES THE COMMITTEE HAVE IN MIND? LIKE WHAT IS THE, THE ULTIMATE GOAL? WE'RE LOOKING FOR PREFERENTIAL TEACHER TREATMENT FOR TEACHERS, UH, IN, IN SOME FORM OR FASHION.
EITHER BE GUARANTEED, UM, NUMBER OF UNITS IN THE, IN THE APARTMENT COMPLEX SET ASIDE FOR TEACHERS, MAYBE, UH, REDUCED, UH, RATE FOR SO MANY YEARS, UH, 10, 15 YEARS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
UH, BUT IT, IT IS GONNA BE SOME TYPE OF PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TOWARDS TEACHERS.
IF YOU'RE ASKING SOMETHING FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD QUESTION, UH, I'LL, I THINK WE CAN TALK TO ROBERT.
IT'S GETTING, IT'S MOVING IN THE, THE, THE THEORETICAL NOW IT'S QUANTIFY RECORDING IN PROGRESS, DEVELOP THE OFFER.
BUT I'LL TAKE THAT GREAT STUFF.
AND, AND, AND ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, THE BOARD WILL AUTHORIZE THE SUPERINTENDENT TO MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE THAT'S ACTUALLY AFTER HE BRINGS BACK WHAT HE WOULD, AFTER HE BRINGS BACK WHAT THE BOARD IS REQUIRED, THEN BOARD WILL GIVE THE SUPERINTENDENT THE AUTHORITY TO, TO GO AHEAD AND PRETTY MUCH AUTHORIZE AND SIGN THE CONTRACT THAT THAT'S WHAT WE AGREE.
THAT'S WHERE, THAT'S WHERE IT, YES.
NO, IT SOUNDED LIKE YOU SAID THAT.
IT SOUNDED LIKE YOU SAID THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT AUTHORIZED MR. UH, MR. UH, OT TO GO AHEAD AND KIND OF FINISH, FINISH IT OFF.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, MAKE SURE I'M CLEAR THAT PROCEDURE.
SO, UM, UH, MR. ALI, UH, WOULD YOU MIND HEARING READ MY SO
ACQUIRING SESSIONS FOR RELEASE TO TEACHERS.
YOU KNOW THAT, I APOLOGIZE FOR MY HANDWRITING.
I'M AN ENGINEER, NOT A PARDON.
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A SCHOOL DISTRICT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS BOARD OF EDUCATION SUPPORT A FUTURE EASEMENT, ALLOWING THE CONNECTION OF AMBROSIA RUN TO WK AUSTIN REQUIRING CONCESS CONCESSIONS FOR LEASING TO TEACHERS.MOTION PASSES TO GO TO THE FULL BOARDS.
ALRIGHT, THANKS YOUR FOR YOUR TIME.
AND THEN JUST FOR CLARITY, THE SEPTEMBER WOULD BE THE YES.
THAT WOULD GO TO THE BOARD, WHICH MEANS YES.
UPTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARY DEDICATION.
THIS IS, UH, SOMETHING FUN IF YOU LADIES WOULD LIKE TO COME FORWARD.
Y'ALL, YOU'LL, I'LL LET YOU TAKE IT FROM HERE.
MY NAME IS AMY MIDDLETON AND I'M ONE OF THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AT BLUFFTON ELEMENTARY.
IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU ALL TONIGHT.
HE IS ALSO, UM, THE LEAD OF OUR MEDIA SPECIALIST FOR THE DISTRICT.
AND THIS IS ASHLEY MOODY, UM, WHO WAS ACTUALLY A STUDENT, UM, AT BL THROUGH SECOND GRADE AND NOW SHE'S A TEACHER THERE AND ACTUALLY MARRIED MS. MOODY'S SON.
UM, SO SHE'S NOT BIASED AT ALL WITH DAUGHTER AT ALL.
UM, SO OUR, UM, WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING IS THAT OUR, OUR, UM, LIBRARY AT OUR SCHOOL IS NAMED AFTER VICTORIA MOODY.
SHE WAS THE FIRST LIBRARIAN AT BLUFF AND L.
SHE STARTED IN 1999 WHEN WE OPENED THE DOORS.
AND THEN IN THE SPRING OF LAST YEAR, SHE RETIRED AFTER 26 YEARS.
UM, SO YOU CAN SEE ON THE DEDICATION PROPOSAL, I JUST KIND OF SUMMED UP JUST SOME HIGHLIGHTS, UM, FROM HER.
BUT JUST SAY, MS. MOODY INSPIRE COUNTLESS STUDENTS TO DISCOVER THE JOYS OF READING, FOSTERED A WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL, AND EMBRACE NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE OUR STUDENTS' EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES.
HER INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS AND UNWAVERING SUPPORT FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND STAFF HAVE LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK ON BLUFFTON ELEMENTARY.
NAMING THE LIBRARY IN OUR HONOR WOULD BE A FITTING TRIBUTE TO OUR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS AND WOULD SERVE AS A LASTING REMINDER OF THE POSITIVE IMPACT ONE INDIVIDUAL CAN HAVE ON THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY.
AND I ENCLOSED, UM, THE MINUTES FROM OUR SIC MEETING, THAT WAS IN MAY.
AND ALSO, UM, THE LETTERS OF THE MATTER IC CHAIR IS ALSO IN YOUR FOLDER ALONG WITH OUR PROPOSAL.
AND THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF LIKE A PLAQUE THAT WOULD BE OUTSIDE, BUT OBVIOUSLY YOU GUYS DESIGNED THAT TOO.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM BOARD MEMBERS THAT'S IMPORTANT THAT NAMED THAT TURNER? WE THE ENERGY? YES.
ALRIGHT, THAT, THAT, ANYBODY ONLINE HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? SOUNDS GOOD TO ME.
IS THERE A MOTION I MOVE THAT THE OPERATION COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED TO THE BOARD THAT THE COLLECTIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MEDIA CENTER BE NAMED AFTER MS. VICTORIA MOODY IN ORDER FOR SERVICE PEOPLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS THE BUILDING'S FIRST MEDIA SPECIALIST AND FOR YEARS OF SERVICE FOR 26 YEARS.
I'LL MOTION TO PASS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
SO YEAH, UH, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE QUARTER OR TWO REPORT AND I JUST WANNA TAKE A MOMENT, WENDY AND I WANTED TO TAKE IT HOME AND THANK MR. GODLY.
SHE LAIA IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME.
ESSENTIALLY YOU, HE'S VERY THOROUGH AND DILIGENT AND ALWAYS.
UM, OUR REQUEST FOR THE SECOND QUARTER HAS ALMOST DOUBLED COMPARED TO LAST YEAR.
WE HAVE 30 REQUESTS FROM APRIL TO DO THIS YEAR.
UH, LAST YEAR, THE SAME TIMEFRAME.
UM, WE DID SEE AN UPTICK IN REQUEST DURING JUNE LAST YEAR.
WE HAD ZERO REQUESTS IN JUNE AND THIS YEAR WE GOT 12.
THE TYPE OF REQUEST FOR SEEING INITIAL EMAIL TOOLS TO REQUESTING RFP SCORES.
AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, THIS BEFORE, I THINK IN THE LAST OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, UM, WITH COMPANIES JUST WANTED TO SEE HOW THEY, UM, SCORED COMPARED TO THEIR COMPETITORS.
UM, AND ONCE AGAIN, WE WANTED TO THANK IT AND PROCUREMENT, UM, FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE WHEN WE GET THESE SQUARE REQUESTS, UM, IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME OUT OF STAFF FOR STAFF MEMBERS TO PULL THIS INFORMATION TOGETHER.
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AND WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE THAT WE COLLEAGUES THAT BOTH WITH US ON, BECAUSE THEY CAN BE QUITE LITTLEAND WE ALSO WANTED THE BOARD TO KNOW THAT WE TRY TO BE VERY CAREFUL THAT WE CLIENT AND
UH, MR. SWING, UM, I KNOW SHE SAID THAT, UH, THAT THAT THEY WERE, THAT THEY WERE OTHER COMP THEY WERE COMPANIES WITH QUESTION COMPLETION IN TERMS OF COULD, COULD YOU, COULD YOU ELABORATE ON THAT? YEAH.
A LOT OF TIMES THE A COMPANY WAY MORE COMFORT THEY CAN HEAR OH, SURE, SURE.
LIKE WHEN WE PUT OUT AN RFP IN DIFFERENT COMPANIES, YOU KNOW, APPLY FOR THAT IF YOU WILL.
UM, AND THE ONES THAT TYPICALLY DO NOT WIN, LIKE LET'S JUST SAY WE HAVE FOUR COMPANIES AND WE HAVE ONE THAT WINS THE BID.
THE OTHER THREE WILL A LOT OF TIMES PUT IN INQUIRY REQUEST SO THEY CAN SEE HOW THEY SCORED AND THAT KIND OF THING HAS TO IMPROVE THEIR OWN PROCESS.
AND, AND HOW, HOW, HOW, HOW, HOW REGULAR HAPPEN VERY FREQUENTLY.
AND, AND, AND THE REASON WHY I ASKED IS BECAUSE LIKE, UH, I THINK I TALKED, THE GUY TOLD THE OPERATIONS, UH, COMMITTEE WHEN I WENT TO, UH, CONFERENCE, SO THE ACTUAL SCHOOL WOULD ACTUALLY ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
I NOTICED THAT, UM, THAT A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS WERE NOT TO, WELL THEY, SO YOU PEOPLE KIND OF, YEAH, Y Y'ALL NOT GONNA DEAL WITH THIS.
SO THEY, IT WAS NOT OUT, NOT OUT THERE ABOUT US THAT WE ONLY HAVE CERTAIN COMPANIES THAT WE CAN DEAL WITH.
AND SO THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING 'CAUSE IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN ON MY RADAR STATE THAT'S CONCERN WITH ME KNOWING WHEN YOU SAID THAT, THAT THE COMPANIES ARE ORIENTING TO SEE WHAT, UH, WHAT WE ACCEPT AND WHAT WE DON'T.
BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, UM, AT THE SCHOOL BOARD CONFERENCES, THEY, THEY HAVE BEEN OTHER COMPANIES THAT'S IN IT.
YOU HAVE CERTAIN, CERTAIN THEY FELT THAT THEY FELT THAT HE DEALT WITH.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHY I JUST WANTED KNOW HOW REGULAR THOSE COMPANIES DOING THAT WORK, HOW SERIOUSLY THEY ACTUALLY, UH, ENGAGED IN JUST MONITORING THE ACTIVITY OF WHAT'S GOING ON.
I THINK IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF TIMES TOO, IT'S LIKE NATION.
SO LIKE WHEN WE DID SOMETHING FOR A COMMUNITY NEW COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM, UM, THESE ARE LIKE NATIONAL COMPANIES.
UM, YOU KNOW, THEY ASK FOR THAT.
ANYBODY ELSE HAVE QUESTIONS? ANYBODY ONLINE? ANY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? NONE HERE SIR.
UH, UH, SO OF THE, UH, I WENT TO YOUR AUNTIE HOUSE, BUT THEY GOT, I TELL YOU THEY GOT A JOB LIST FOR GREG.
DADDY GOT DADDY SAID, WHEN GREG COMING BY TO DO THESE, DO THESE THINGS TO ME, I SAID, WELL, DAN, I REALLY DID
DID WE EVER, LIKE, AS SOON AS WE SENT BACK THE QUOTE, DID THEY EVER ACTUALLY GO THROUGH WITH THEM? OH YEAH.
THE DEBT PAY 25% UPFRONT, THEN THE REST WERE OKAY.
OF THE ONES THAT WERE ON THIS REPORT, WERE THOSE COMPLETED ALSO? DO YOU KNOW? UM, I MEAN, I THINK SOME OF THEM, SOME OF THEM WERE AND SOME OF THEM WERE NOT.
SOMETIMES YEAH, THERE'S ONE THAT WAS ALMOST A THOUSAND DOLLARS.
I WAS JUST WONDERING IF SOMEBODY PAID THAT THAT WAS THAT.
BUT WE TYPICALLY WILL TELL PEOPLE, IF YOU'D LIKE TO REFINE YOUR QUEST REQUEST, LET US KNOW.
AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE WILL THEN MAKE IT MORE SPECIFIC AND THEN THE CALL.
THE ASK OF MS. GORDON, THERE'S THE OTHER PERSON ON THE IPHONE, THERE'S SOMEONE ON THE IPHONE AND I CAN'T HEAR WHO IT IS WHEN THEY SAY NO QUESTIONS.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S MS. GORDON OR WHO THAT IS ON THAT.
CAN YOU, UH, IDENTIFY YOURSELF PLEASE? YOU CAN TELL IT.
YOU CAN TELL MY IPHONE, RIGHT? YES.
UM, ALSO WITH THE, UH, ALSO WITH THE, UH, FOIA, ONCE THE, ONCE THE EU FOIA HAS BEEN COMPLETED, IT GOES TO THE WEBSITE.
AM I RIGHT? SO THAT'S, THAT'S ANOTHER WAY, THAT'S ANOTHER WAY.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH THESE, UH, FORS ARE COMPLETED, YOU CAN ALSO GO TO THE WEBSITE AND LOOK AND EVERYONE WHO ACTUALLY PAID FOR IT, THEY, THEY FOIA, UH, WEBSITE.
ANYONE WHO LISTENING MAY WANNA KNOW THAT THAT, THAT THE FOS ARE ON BOARD WEBSITE WANTS THEY, ONCE THEY'VE BEEN PAID FOR.
THAT'S ALSO JUST SOMETHING EASY ON THE FO LOG.
IT WON'T BE GRAYED OUT ALL THE WAY THROUGH WHEN IT HAS BEEN COMPLETED.
SO THE FOUR BLOCKS THAT ARE GRAYED OUT, ONCE SOMEONE ACTUALLY PAYS ALL THAT BE FILLED IN THE DATES IT WAS PAID AND THAT OH, PERFECT.
NOT IN THIS ONE, NO, BUT, AND PROBABLY THE FOURTH QUARTER ONE I WOULD SOMEONE PAY FOR.
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ACTUALLY, THAT THAT PROBABLY BEEN GREAT THING TO HAVE ON IT.UH, WHENEVER YOU BRING TO SO THAT WE CAN YEAH.
MAYBE IF YOU COULD ADD THAT, ADD THAT TO IT.
SO I THINK THAT, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD JUST THIS ONE, NO ONE DID PAY FOR IT.
SO YOU DON'T, IT'S NOT, WE INDICATE WHEN THEY PAID USED TO BE FILLED OUT, THEY'RE OUT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE NO ONE PAID.
BUT ON THE FOURTH QUARTER, BOY A LAW, SOMEONE WILL HAVE PAID SOMETHING.
RIGHT? SO, SO WHAT, SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT COULD WE CREATE MAYBE AKA SQUARE THAT SAYS, UM, NOT PAID OR JUST, JUST, JUST ANOTHER BLOCK.
SO IF YOU LOOK ON THE FIRST, YOU MAY NOT HAVE GOT BETTER, BETTER, BETTER.
SO SEE THE ACTUAL DATE, DEPOSIT RECEIPT, YEAH, JUST RIGHT HERE IS JUST LOCKED OUT.
ALL THIS TO BE MOVED TO CONSENT AGENDA.
MAKE A MOTION TO THIS MOVE TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.
IS THERE A SECOND? I SECOND THAT.
THIS I, THAT'S FINE, I CAN GO.
I WILL PRESENT THE CONSTRUCTION UPDATES THROUGH THE END OF JULY ON THE 2019 BOND REFERENDUM PROJECT.
WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE CLOSEOUTS.
UH, UH, AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE'RE SITTING AT 13 PROJECT CLOSEOUTS.
I DID CONFIRM WITH MY CMS, WE ARE WITHIN TARGET OF THREE OTHER CLOSEOUTS COMING WITHIN THE NEXT, I'M, I'M ASSUMING THIS MONTH IS WHAT THEY'RE AIMING FOR.
IT COULD BE POTENTIALLY SEPTEMBER.
BUT NOW WE'RE REALLY MAKING PROGRESS TO STARTING FEEDBACK CLOSEOUT.
UH, UH, GET CLOSER TO THE ONE FIGURE NUMBER ON THE FINANCIAL UPDATES FOR THE REFERENDUM.
AT THE END OF JULY, WE HAVE PAYMENT COMMITTED FUNDS OF $374.9 MILLION.
THE REMAINING AVAILABLE FUNDS, INCLUDING THE CONTINGENCY AT THIS MOMENT, ARE, UH, 808,000, GIVE OR TAKE.
THE CONTINGENCY ACTIVITY IN JULY WAS A SAVINGS OF 32,000.
AND THEN WE HAD A USE OF 349,000 UH, DOLLARS.
THE CONTINGENCY REMAINING AT THE END OF THE MONTH WAS 106, CLOSE TO $107,000.
SO WE ARE VERY, GETTING VERY CLOSE TO THE 2019 REFERENDUM, UH, ON THE REMAINING PROGRAM CONTINGENCY COMMITMENTS.
WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK THAT WENT OUT.
UH, IT WAS WORK DONE DURING THE SUMMER.
WE ARE ANTICIPATING THAT A LOT OF THAT WORK IS GONNA BE COMPLETED IN AUGUST.
WE HAVE A COUPLE OUR SLIP, UH, SEPTEMBER, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THAT LIST UP IN THE BACK OF, UH, YOU'LL REALIZE THE PROJECT'S ALL FALLING ALONG.
SO WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS IN SPENDING THAT WE'RE PAYING DOLLARS FOR
ANY QUESTIONS ON 2019 FOR THE OPERATIONS? WE'RE NON HEARD.
I'LL MOVE ALONG TO THE 2023 BOND REFERENDUM AT MAY RIVER ELEMENT POOL.
WE HAVE ALL THE GRUBBING AND PRE, UM, REMOVAL THAT'S ABOUT TO CONCLUDE.
SO ANY OF YOU THAT HAVE BEEN ON THAT SIDE, AND IF, IF, JUST WANNA BRING IT UP TO YOUR ATTENTION AS WELL.
TOMORROW THERE WILL BE A CLOCK MEETING AND THEY WILL BE HELD AT MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL.
SO WE WILL HAVE A WALKTHROUGH.
YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SEE SOME OF THAT WORK THAT'S PROGRESSED AT THAT SITE.
NOW THE NEW, NO, 'CAUSE WE HAVEN'T, WE STILL HAVEN'T YET.
BESIDE IT'S STILL NOT PREPARED.
SO YES, WE DON'T WANNA GO OVER THERE,
AND ONCE WE GET TO COMMUNITY OUTREACH, WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT IT.
BUT THE MOBILIZATION OF THE EXCAVATION CREW AND GRADING CREW IS HAPPENING.
UH, I'M ASSUMING THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO WE'LL SEE THOSE FOLKS MOBILIZE SO THEY CAN START DOING THE RETENTION PONDS AND ALL THE WORK THAT GOES, UH, AS PART OF ROADS AND THE ACTUAL, UH, SITE FOR THE BUILDING AT MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, CTE AND J-R-O-T-C ADDITIONS, WE HAVE A LOT OF ACTIVITY GOING ON THERE.
THE, UH, ROUGH ENDS FOR BOTH THE CTE AND THE JOTC ARE PROGRESSING.
WE HAVE BRICK MASONRY THAT HAS COMPLETED THE J-R-O-T-C.
THE CTE BUILDING IS NOW DRIED IN.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF WORK ON THE INSIDE GOING ON FOR
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HVAC ELECTRICAL, YOU'LL SEE TRADES OUT THERE.UM, ON THE NEW EARLY LEARNING CENTER FOR, UH, IN, IN BLUFFTON, WE HAVE THE SCHEMATIC DESIGNS THAT ARE SCHEDULED TO BE RECEIVED THIS MONTH.
THERE ARE SOME COMMENTS FROM THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON DOLLAR BEING WORKED OUT WITH THE TOWN AND THE ENGINEERS, BUT WE ARE HOPING THAT SOON WE CAN HAVE SOME CONCLUSION OF THAT SO THAT WE CAN FINALIZE THE CIVIL PLANS.
UM, YOU SAID THIS IS BEING WORKED OUT BETWEEN THIS, I'M SORRY, YOU SAID THIS.
WHAT BEING WORKED OUT BETWEEN THE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT, UH, SOME OF THE STRUCTURAL NARRATIVES AND STORMWATER IMPACTS ON THE SITE.
SO BETWEEN THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND THE TOWN OF
AND THEN WE'LL, THE BIGGEST ISSUE IS WETLAND IMPACTS.
WE'RE TRYING TO LIMIT THE WETLAND IMPACT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
OVER AT HILTON HAD HIGH SCHOOL, THE FACEBOOK CONSTRUCTION IS PROGRESSING AS YOU GUYS, UH, SAW DURING THE BOARD MEETING.
UM, THERE, THE CONSTRUCTION OF WILBURN ROAD, THE TRAFFIC CIRCLE IS COMPLETE.
I KNOW THAT THAT WAS KIND OF THE PINCH POINT DURING THE SUMMER.
AND WE HAD A VERY AGGRESSIVE SCHEDULE THAT WAS ACTUALLY MET BY MB CON CONSTRUCTION.
SO THEY DID A GREAT JOB OUT THERE.
AND RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A LOT OF TRADES WORKING ON THE INSIDE ON FINISHES.
I MEAN, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT SIDE, IT IS MOVING QUICKLY, UH, FACES THE, THE REMAINING PHASES.
WE ARE EXPECTING THAT THE PRICING WILL ARRIVE AT THE END OF THE MONTH SO THAT WE CAN START REVIEWING AND ENTER THE GMP NEGOTIATIONS, UH, SHORTLY IN THE COMING MONTHS AT BEAUFORT HIGH SCHOOL, CTE, UH, RIGHT NOW WE ARE LOOKING OUT FOR THE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PLANS.
AND THOSE ARE SCHEDULED TO BE RECEIVED AT THE END OF THE MONTH.
UM, THE LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, UH, REPLACEMENT SITE OR BUILDING, THERE'S A STAFF PRESENTATION FOR THE CURRENT PROGRESS RIGHT NOW THAT IS SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 25TH AT 4:15 PM AND THEN THERE'S AN SIC MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 9TH AT 6:00 PM UH, WE ARE GOING TO PRESENT THE CURRENT PROGRESS OF THE WORK.
RIGHT NOW WE ARE AT DDS AND THE CDS ARE ACTUALLY PROGRESSING AT THE TIME.
SO THERE'LL BE A CHANCE FOR US TO BRING THAT FORWARD TO THE, UM, STAFF AND THE PUBLIC.
MR. SMITH, I KNOW THAT LAST MEETING YOU HAD A QUESTION ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND I WANTED TO BRING IT UP TO YOU IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING WITH THE COMMUNITY, WOULD BE GLAD TO PRESENT THE SAME MATERIALS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE STAFF AND THE SIC UH, WITH THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT HAD SOME QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS REGARDING THE FACILITY QUESTION.
AND WHAT, WHAT WAS THOSE THINGS AGAIN? YOU GAVE TWO DATES.
WHAT WAS THOSE, THOSE ONE, THOSE MEETINGS.
SO THE STAFF MEETING IS ON AUGUST 25TH.
IT'S A 4:15 PM AND THEN THE SIC IS ON SEPTEMBER 9TH AT 6:00 PM AND THAT WILL BE A TUESDAY, WHICH ACTUALLY IS GONNA CONFLICT PROBABLY WITH THE OPERATIONS.
SO JUST BRINGING THAT, UH, TO YOUR ATTENTION.
I YOU SAID ON, ON, ON, ON THE NINTH OF WINTER, SEPTEMBER 9TH, WHICH IS BASICALLY THE NEXT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING.
AND IT'LL BE, I'M SURE WE, WE CAN, UH, CAN MOVE OUT OPERATIONS NOW.
EVERYONE, YEAH, I GUESS OPERATION WE CAN HAVE, I TALK ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? UH, MOVING ALONG WITH THE TECHNOLOGY WAREHOUSE BEFORE YOU, I MEAN, DON'T INVITE THE COMMUNITY TO THE, UH, STAFF MEETING.
'CAUSE THAT'D BE STAFF FOLLOWING.
THEY CAN COME TO SIC MEETING OR WE CAN DO A PRIVATE MEETING IN THEIR COMMUNITY IF YOU, IF THERE WHAT YOU WANT.
BUT ACTUALLY THE, HE SAID THAT THE SIC MEETING RIGHT, RIGHT.
I WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T FATHOM TO INVITE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, STAFF MEETING STAFF, STAFF MEETINGS, MEETING STAFF PEOPLE WHO ARE A PART OF THE BUILDING AND SO ON.
SO I MEAN, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, BUT, AND THAT'S WHY I SAID THE COMMENT I MADE WAS, IT WAS IN REFERENCE TO THE, UH, YES, IC MEETING, WHICH IS THE COMMUNITY MEETING.
AND THAT IS, UH, THE ACTUAL, UM, THAT, THAT, THAT IS THE, PROBABLY THE, THE BEST, UH, ONE OF THE BEST MEETINGS THAT WILL, UH, WILL HELP WITH THAT, WITH PARISH AND THAT AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
I THINK THEY, YOU KNOW, UM, SURE THE PRINCIPAL AND THEN THE SIC SCHOLARSHIPS, THEY'RE VERY MORE COMMUNITY ORIENTED GRANDMAS AND EVERYONE ELSE COMING TO THAT.
THE, UH, THE, UH, SEPTEMBER 9TH SOUNDS GOOD.
UM, OVER ON THIS SIDE, THE TECH WAREHOUSE AND IMAGING CENTER, AS YOU'VE SEEN, THE SITE IS BEING PREPPED SO THAT WE CAN POUR A CONCRETE PAD THAT WILL OCCUR THIS MONTH.
AND THE ACTUAL PREFAB STRUCTURE IS GOING TO BE ARRIVING
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THIS MONTH AS WELL.SO WE ARE LOOKING OUT FOR THAT.
AND THEN AS SOON AS WE SEE THE ELECTION OF THAT BUILDING, SHORTLY AFTER, ON THE RE ON THE FINANCIAL UPDATE AT THE END OF THE MONTH, WE ARE CURRENTLY STANDING AT A PAID AND COMMITTED FUNDS TOTAL OF 184.68 MILLION, A REMAINING AVAILABLE FUND, WHICH INCLUDES THE CONTINGENCY OF 254 POINT 35 MILLION.
THERE WAS NO PER CONTINGENCY ACTIVITY TO REPORT.
UH, THE CONTINGENCY CURRENTLY REMAINS FOR, AT THE PROGRAM LEVEL AT $11.74 MILLION.
THE PROJECT LEVEL CONTINGENCIES STAND AT $13.65 MILLION.
SO ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE 2023 REFERENDUM UPDATES? UH, YES, SIR.
UM, I WAS OUT SHOPPING AND, UM, UH, UH, WHO IS THE, UH, BLUFFTON, UH, I MEAN THE MAY RIVER, UH, UH, THE MAY, THE, THE MAY RIVER, UM, THE, THE NEW, THE NEW ADDITION TO MAY RIVER.
UH, WHO, WHO, WHO'S DOING THAT? BY THAT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? THE CONTRACTOR OR MAY, MAY RIVER THE ADDITION OR THE ELEMENTARY, THEIR CT.
D-D-D-I-D-I, THE J-R-O-T-C AND THE CTE.
THAT IS THOMPSON TURNER CONSTRUCTION.
UM, I, I, I MENTIONED THAT BECAUSE, UM, UH, HOLD ON.
THAT, UM, A PARENT, OUR PARENT BOUGHT, BOUGHT TO MY ATTENTION.
UH, SHE SAID, UH, SHE SAID, WELL, WHAT, BASICALLY, KENNEDY SAID, WELL, WHY WOULD Y'ALL BE THE SAME PERSON WHO BUILT MAY RIVER TO, UH, DO, TO DO, TO DO, DO ADD ON MAY RIVER WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT MAY RIVER IS HAVING? IT WAS HAD.
AND I, I DIDN'T, UH, I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT.
I GUESS, SO I GUESS MAY RIVER THOMPSON TURNER IS THE PERSON THEY, THE OTHER PERSON WHO BUILT MAY RIVER, RIGHT? CORRECT.
THEY BUILT THE ORIGINAL MAY RIVER, RIGHT.
MP CONN BUILT THE ADDITION THAT WAS ADDED, THE CLASSROOM WING ADDITION.
THAT WAS THE MOST RECENT THING.
AND THEN THE, UH, CTE BUILDING IS THOMPSON TURNER.
SO WHAT, WHAT PROBLEMS ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THE ISSUES OUT THERE? I MEAN, THERE, I MEAN, EVEN WHEN WE HAD THE, THE, THE FLOOR COMING UP, THE, THE FLOOR WAS COMING UP AND, AND THEN, AND, AND THEN THE NORTH, AND THEN THAT'S FROM THE ORIGINAL BILL.
AND, AND, AND, BUT, BUT THE PARENT THING WAS, I GUESS SHE PAID ATTENTION MORE THAN THAT.
SHE RECOGNIZ BECAUSE I, I, I THINK ABOUT THE SECOND ONE THAT YOU, THAT YOU MENTIONED, I THOUGHT, THOUGHT THEY WERE THE ONE, BUT I GUESS SHE WAS, UH, SHE WAS RIGHT.
I DON'T THINK THAT THEY, THEY WERE THE ONE, BUT THE, WHAT YOU JUST SAID, SHE WAS CORRECT.
BUT THE POINT, THE POINT OF IT IS THAT WE DO HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE PAYING ATTENTION IN HER.
HER CONVERS WAS WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY DID Y'ALL GO WITH THE SAME COMPANY THAT BUILT BAY RIVER THAT HAD BAY RIVERS HAVING ALL THIS PROPERTY ISSUE WITH, WITH THE SAME COMPANY? AND SO, BUT THAT'S JUST KIND OF, YOU KNOW, KIND OF, KIND OF JUST, IT WASN'T, IT JUST, UH, ON, ON, ON THE FIRST END IS KIND OF CONCERN.
BUT I GUESS I REALLY DON'T REMEMBER WHO, WHO, I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHO SHE WAS.
BUT ANYWAYS, BUT SHE KNEW I WAS, BUT SHE MENTIONED THAT, THAT I GUESS I, I WAS NOT, NOT CORRECT ON ME.
AND THAT INTERESTED AS FAR AS WHAT PROBLEMS CAME FROM THE ORIGINAL STRUGGLE, RECOGNIZE THE ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION NOW IS NINE YEARS OLD.
SO THAT FLOORING IS NINE YEARS OLD.
AND YES, THERE HAVE BEEN FLOORING PROBLEMS, BUT THERE ARE NOT CONSTRUCTION ISSUES.
I, I MEAN, I'M NOT GONNA, I'M NOT GONNA GO, I'M NOT, I'M NOT GONNA GO BACK AND FORTH WITH YOU.
BUT SINCE, SINCE WE HAD NEW RIVER, THEY HAVE BEEN, THEY HAVE BEEN SEVERAL DIFFERENT ISSUES WITH THAT.
WHAT THAT WHAT THAT SCHOOL IN TERMS OF WHAT THAT SCHOOL, WHAT, WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE.
AND NOW, I MEAN, I'M, I'M JUST, I'M STATING WHAT WAS STATED WAS STATE TO ME.
AND SO THAT, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S PEOPLE, THEY HAVE THAT RIGHT TO SAY THAT TO ME.
AND I'M JUST, I'M JUST BRINGING IT, BRINGING IT UP.
UH, BECAUSE WE JUST, IT'S JUST FUNNY THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT AND, AND BEING THAT LADY, THAT LADY THAT JUST CAME TO ME, KIND OF THROWING POINT, GOING THAT DOOR TO THAT PUBLICLY, WE KNOW, WELL, YOU KNOW, UH, SHE CAME TO ME WITH THAT.
AND SO I'M JUST PUTTING THAT, PUTTING IT OUT THERE, NOT JUST SO I'M HEARING IT, BUT ALSO AT THE COMMITTEE COMMUNITY.
I MEAN, I SAID THE COMMITTEE AND EVERYONE ELSE CAN, CAN CAN HEAR IT, BECAUSE THAT IS, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WAS TOLD TO ME.
SO WITH REGARDS TO RIVER IS NINE YEARS OLD, 10 YEARS OLD, WE, WE, WE HAVE OTHER BUILDINGS LIKE, UH, WE HAVE OTHER BUILDINGS THAT, THAT WAS BUILT THAT STILL DON'T HAVE THOSE ISSUES AND STILL DON'T HAVE SOME, SOME PROBLEM THAT THE NEW SCHOOLS THAT WE'RE BUILDING ARE HAVING, WE HAVE OLDER SCHOOLS THAT STILL DON'T HAVE SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
SO AS, AS A CONSTITUENT, SHE HAS A, A, A, RIGHT, PROBABLY MORE THAN SOMEONE ELSE, BUT SHE HAS A RIGHT TO COME AND TERMS OF HOW, HOW SHE FEEL, AND I'M, I'M, I'M JUST RELAYING MESSAGE.
SO I MEAN, THAT'S JUST, I, I, THERE'S, THERE'S FOR US, WELL, THE ONLY THING I WOULD JUST ASK IS IF YOU HEAR THAT, PLEASE ASK WHAT THEY'RE REFERRING.
THAT WAY WE CAN KNOW HOW TO ADDRESS IT IN THE FUTURE.
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WHAT, WHAT STATEMENT? I DON'T KNOW WHAT OUTSIDE OF THE BOARD PROBLEMS. I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY MAJOR CONSTRUCTION ISSUES AT MARY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL.SO THAT STATEMENT KEEPS COMING UP.
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE WE WE'RE NOT AWARE LAST TIME, YOU AND I, WE, WE, WE, WE DISCUSSED IT AT LENGTH.
THERE WAS SEVERAL ISSUES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AT BAY RIVER, UH, UH, THAT, THAT, THAT WAS ONE THAT, THAT, THAT WE SAW AT BAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, TO BE QUITE HONEST WITH YOU.
SO I'M NOT GONNA SIT HERE AND ALLOW YOU TO SAY THAT BECAUSE YOU ARE, AND I DID THINK YOU'RE AWARE OF SEVERAL THINGS THAT WERE, THAT WERE AN ISSUE AT.
AND ALSO, ONE TIME WE HAD ONE OF THE LARGER MEETINGS THERE, WE TALKED, TALKED ABOUT, ABOUT SOME OF THOSE, SOME, SOME OF THOSE THINGS.
SO THAT, THAT'S JUST, THAT'S JUST THE BEYOND, THAT'S THE HONEST TRUTH.
I MEAN, SO I, I LEAVE IT THERE.
THAT'S WHY I SAID I DIDN'T WANNA GO BACK AND FORTH WITH YOU.
SO, BECAUSE I, I REMEMBER TELLING YOU THAT WE'RE GETTING OFF TOPIC, UH, MR. DALLAS.
SO, UM, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE HAVE BEEN COMMENTS ABOUT MAY RIVER, UH, MR. OTTING.
I SEEM TO REMEMBER, UH, WHEN I FIRST CAME ON THE BOARD, ONE OF THE, UH, ROOT CAUSES OF THE, UH, PROBLEMS WAS THAT THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT WAS SEVERELY UNDERFUNDED.
UH, I THINK IT CAME FROM 8% MONEY IF I, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY.
AND SO, A LOT OF THE QUALITATIVE THINGS THAT OUR OPERATIONS GROUP DOES NOW, WERE NOT DONE THEN.
AND I THINK WE WE'RE JUST REAPING THE BENEFIT OF TRYING TO ROB PAUL TO PAY PETER, UH, BACK IN, YOU KNOW, NINE, 10 YEARS AGO.
SO, UM, THAT, THAT, THAT MAY BE, IF THAT'S TRUE, THAT MAY BE A GOOD RESPONSE TO GIVE TO BOARD MEMBERS, SUCH AS MR. SMITH AND MYSELF AND OTHERS.
SO WE CAN, WE CAN LET THEM KNOW THAT WE'VE SIGNIFICANTLY UPPED OUR QUALITATIVE STANDARDS AND JUST LOOK AT WHAT'S BEEN BUILT RECENTLY.
UM, JUST GIVING SOME QUICK HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 8% THAT WE HAD THIS SUMMER THAT MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA EXPANSION, THAT PROJECT IS NOW COMPLETE.
UM, YOU CAN SEE FROM THE REPORT SOME OF THE PHOTOS OF HOW THAT CAME.
LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING IT TOMORROW.
THE PROGRESS FOR THIS FACILITY, AS YOU COULD HAVE SEEN THE FRONT OF THE FACILITY, NOW WE HAVE GLAZING STEEL AND THEY'RE GETTING READY TO START, UH, DOING SOME OF THE FINISHES AND EXTERIOR AS WELL.
UH, THE INTERIOR, THEY HAVE A LOT OF ROUGH IN THAT'S ONGOING, BUT WE HAVE PLENTY GOING ON IN THE FRONT REGARDING THE REST OF THE BUILDING.
THEY'VE STARTED WORK IN THE FINANCE SUITE, UH,
UM, THE WORK THAT OCCURRED AT JO JOSEPH SHANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THE INTERIOR RENOVATION WORK THAT IS ALL COMPLETE, THE ONLY THING THAT REMAINS, AND THAT WILL BE, UH, CONTINUED UPON THIS FALL SEMESTER IS JUST THE WINDOW SEALS THAT THE CONTRACTOR HAS TO DO AFTER HOURS.
SO ALL THOSE METAL WALLS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT.
AND YOU CAN SEE THE PHOTOS IF YOU'VE WALKED AROUND THE FACILITY.
THEY DID METAL WALLS, THEY DID CASE WORK, THEY DID PAINTING.
I MEAN, THEY'VE REALLY SPRUCED UP THE INTERIOR.
THE SAME UPDATE, UH, CORRESPONDS TO ST.
I RUN INTO MR. SMITH A COUPLE TIMES.
I FIRST WORKED, WAS WORRIED THAT THE FACILITY WAS NOT GONNA BE READY.
UNFORTUNATELY, EVERYTHING CAME TO PLACE AND THE FACILITIES WERE ABLE TO OPEN.
THE ONLY THING I WAS SAYING, HELENA, IS JUST THE HVAC EQUIPMENT THAT IS SCHEDULED TO SHIP AT THE END OF THE MONTH.
UM, THAT HVAC EQUIPMENT SERVICES, THE P WING, WHICH IS ON THE, UM, NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE BUILDING.
BUT AS OF NOW, THAT ACTUAL UNIT THAT IS IN PLACE, IT'S SERVICING THOSE AREAS.
SO IT'S NOT LIKE THEY'RE OUT OF AC OR ANYTHING, IT'S JUST WE'RE WAITING ON THE NEW FAC, UH, UNIT SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A, A BETTER, UH, PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT SERVES, SERVES THAT AREA.
UM, MOVING ALONG ON THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH, THE ONLY ITEM THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IS THE COORDINATION OF THE MAY RIVER ELEMENTARY GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY.
RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A TENTATIVELY SET TO OCCUR SEPTEMBER 25TH.
ACTUALLY, WE, I THINK WE'RE GONNA MOVE IT MORE TO OCTOBER.
I WAS GONNA SAY, YOU AND I NEED TO GET TOGETHER AND FIND A DATE FOR THAT.
SO ONCE THAT'S FINALIZED, OBVIOUSLY EVERYBODY WILL GET THE DETAILS ON THAT.
UH, ACTIVITIES ON THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AND REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS, THE RFQ 26 0 0 5 FOR PROFESSIONAL DESIGN SERVICES, AS WELL AS THE RFP 26 0 0 6 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND RISK SERVICES.
THAT IS CURRENTLY OUT ON THE STREET.
AND THE, UM, RESPONSES ARE DUE BY 4:00 PM ON SEPTEMBER 10TH.
SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO PARTICIPATION FROM MULTIPLE FIRMS. THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION BOARD MEMBER.
ANY QUESTIONS? MR. I, I'D FIRST LIKE TO SAY, I, I THANK YOU TO UNION STAFF FOR GETTING THE SCHOOLS READY ALL SUMMER AND PUSHING.
I KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF, OF, UH, NICKS AND BUMPS AND THINGS THAT YOU, THAT YOU GUYS ARE INTO.
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YOU TO BE ABLE TO PUT OUR STUDENTS FIRST AND, UH, PUT PUT EVERY, EVERYTHING, UH, THAT TOP WALL.AND TRUST ME, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS SOME CHALLENGES AND THAT, THAT THERE WAS SOME DIFFERENT THINGS BECAUSE, UM, I THINK THAT, I WILL SAY THAT THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE SUMS WHERE THEY UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, UNLIKE SOME KIND, SOME OF THE DIFFERENT KIND WHERE YOU COULD PULL SOME OF THE CUSTODIAL STAFF FROM ONE PLACE OR, OR, AND USING DISTRICT Y, THIS WAS A LITTLE, A LITTLE DIFFERENT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU HAD, WE HAVE, WE HAVE ABOUT THREE DIFFERENT COMPANIES, YOU KNOW, TO, UH, TO, TO KEEP EVERY, EVERYONE FAIR AND KEEP EVERYONE, UM, ACCURATE WITH, WITH DOING, WE'RE DOING THE, THE, UH, WORK THAT THEY HIRED FOR.
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, SO I, SO I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THAT THERE, THAT THERE WAS A, A LOT THAT, THAT WENT INTO THAT.
SO I DO APPLAUD, APPLAUD Y FOR YOUR EFFORTS TO SUFFERING.
UH, AND THEN ON THE OTHER HAND, I, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE, MAKE MORE AWARE THAT I KNEW THERE WAS SOME DOORS THAT WERE, THAT SHE MAY WANNA GO CHECK OUT DOORS BECAUSE OF THE WAX ON THE FLOOR.
BUT THERE WAS SOME DOORS AND SOME OF THE SCHOOLS THAT WERE, WERE CATCHING A HARD TIME, UH, CLOSING.
AND WE BELIEVE IS BECAUSE POSSIBLY BECAUSE ACTUALLY I AND, UH, AND, AND, AND, AND CHECK AND CHECK THOSE, BUT THERE ARE SOME DOORS THAT THAT COULD NOT, THAT WAS CLOSE TO FIND BEFORE THE SCHOOL, BUT, UH, THEY'RE NOT BEFORE SCHOOL ENDED.
BUT NOW THEY, THEY KIND OF HAVEN'T HAD, HAD SOME PROBLEMS. I KNOW, I KNOW SOME, SOME, UH, PRINCIPAL, THE TEACHERS WERE TALKING ABOUT POSSIBLY PUTTING IN, UH, CERTAIN WORKFORCE.
I'M NOT SURE WHERE THOSE AT, BUT GOD JUST MADE 1, 1 1 CHECK AND THAT, THAT IS SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO AND TOWARDS NEXT SUMMER.
TWO, TO JUST CHECK AND MAKE SURE THAT ALL THOSE DOORS, BECAUSE THAT IS THE SAFETY, UH, SAFETY AND OUR, UH, SAFETY AND SECURITY CONCERNS.
SO I JUST WANTED THAT OUT TO YOU.
BUT ALL, ALL IN ALL, I APPRECIATE THE HARD WORK THAT EVERYONE PUT INTO THIS PROJECT ISSUE IS I WANNA THANK YOU.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ANYBODY ONLINE DO HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? NONE.
UM, I WAS GONNA SAY, JUST A REMINDER AGAIN, CLOCK MEETING TOMORROW.
MEET AT 5:30 PM IN THE FRONT OF YOU.
WANNA TOUR THE CTE EDITION JRTC EDITION, OTHERWISE 6:00 PM AT THE LONG DISTANCE LEARNING LAB AT MAY RIVER HIGH, FIVE 30 AT THE FRONT DOOR.
SO THE REPORT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU IS THE MAINTENANCE AND CUSTODIAL UPDATE FOR THE PERIOD OF JUNE AND JULY.
UH, WE'LL START WITH CUSTODIAL.
I'LL TAKE A BRIEF PAUSE AT THE END OF CUSTODIAL AND THEN MOVE TO MAINTENANCE.
UM, THIS REPORT'S GONNA BE LARGER BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'VE INCLUDED, UM, END OF THE YEAR, FISCAL YEAR, UH, WORK ORDER DATA.
WE TYPICALLY LIKE TO PROVIDE A COMPARISON FROM OUR PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR TO OUR, UH, UH, TO THE ONE THAT WE JUST ENDED IN ON JUNE 30.
SO WE HAVE THAT DATA IN HERE AS WELL.
SO OUR FIRST PAGE, WE WANTED TO GIVE YOU A SUMMARY OF OUR CUSTODIAL SPOT INSPECTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED TO THE STATE FROM JANUARY THROUGH JUNE.
I WANTED TO MAKE NOTE THAT WE DID NOT COMPLETE FROM A DISTRICT OR SCHOOL LEVEL.
WE DID NOT COMPLETE SPOT INSPECTIONS DURING, UM, THE MONTH OF JUNE AND JULY.
UM, AND THAT OBVIOUSLY WAS SPECIFIC TO OUR WHOLE MINDSET.
AND WHAT WE GEARED TOWARDS IN JUNE AND JULY IS ALL ABOUT GETTING IN SCHOOLS, GETTING OUR CUSTODIAL SERVICE WORK, UM, CLEANING DONE, AS WELL AS, UM, EXTENSIVE ANY PROJECT WORK AND OUR CONSTRUCTION WORK.
SO THERE'S A TOTAL SHIFT IN WHAT WE'RE DOING, AND AS AN INSPECTION, WE TRY TO STAY OUT OF THE SCHOOLS AS MUCH AS WE CAN SO WE CAN ALLOW ALL OF OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS TO GET THE WORK DONE.
SO YOU'LL SEE HERE ON PAGE ONE, THESE ARE TOTALS ARE WE COMPLETED OUR, UM, FISCAL YEAR WITH 554 INSPECTIONS AT THE, UH, DISTRICT LEVEL WITH 2,641 AT THE VENDOR LEVEL.
AND THEN WE'VE INCLUDED, AGAIN, THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST AVERAGES FOR EACH VENDOR.
SO WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO THE SECOND PAGE.
YOU'LL SEE HERE WE'VE GOT OUR, OUR QUARTERLY, UM, STAFFING TOTALS.
YOU SEE A LOT MORE RED AND YELLOW DURING, UH, JUNE AND JULY.
AND SO WHEN WE ARE STAFFING FOR CUSTODIAL OVER THE SUMMER, WE HAVE OUR HIGHEST FLUCTUATION OF STAFFING PERCENTAGES.
AND THAT IS PRETTY TYPICAL OF SUMMER BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF CUSTODIANS THAT ARE DAY PORTERS AT OUR SCHOOLS THAT ONLY WORK DURING, UM, THE SUMMER PERIOD.
WE HAVE CUSTODIAL STAFF THAT THEY DON'T WANNA DO THE DEEP CLEANING WORK, THEY DON'T WANNA REFINISH FLOORS.
AGAIN, IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SERVICE MODEL.
UM, SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE IN JUNE AND JULY THAT YOU'RE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF FLUCTUATION IN STAFFING.
THE INTENT WHEN WE BRING OUR STAFFING TOTALS TO Y'ALL FOR AUGUST IS THAT WE'RE GONNA SEE OUR PERCENTAGES
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GET CLOSER BACK TO A HUNDRED PERCENT IN PREPARATION FOR THE START OF SCHOOL.UH, MOVING DOWN THE PAGE, OUR DEFICIENCIES, YOU, WE PROVIDED A TOTAL OF JANUARY THROUGH JUNE DEFICIENCIES.
WE DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE ANY, UH, DEFICIENCIES IN JUNE AND JULY.
AGAIN, WE WEREN'T DURING DOING INSPECTIONS IN THAT MONTH.
WE ARE PICKING UP WITH OUR INSPECTIONS AGAIN IN THIS MONTH, THE MONTH OF AUGUST.
AND SO WE'LL BE REPORTING THOSE IN NEXT MONTH'S REPORT.
UM, AGAIN, EVEN THOUGH WE'VE GOT A LOT OF, UH, RED AND YELLOW, WE STILL MANAGED OVERALL TO GET OUR STAFFING MAINTAINED ABOVE A 90% FOR ALL THREE VENDORS.
UM, AS MR. SMITH ALLUDED TO EARLIER, I MEAN, OUR CUSTODIAL WAS STRETCHED, SO WE HAD TWO DIFFERENT MODELS.
WE HAD STAFFING THAT WAS SUPPORTING OUR SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND OUR CAMPS IN SCHOOLS THAT WENT THROUGH JUNE AND ALL THE WAY INTO JULY.
AND THEN WE HAD OUR OTHER STAFFING MODEL WHERE WE HAD GROUPS OF TEAMS GOING INTO SCHOOLS AND DOING REFINISHING WORK AND DOING DEEP PLANNING.
UM, SO I WANNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR CUSTODIAL TEAMS. THERE WERE A LOT OF CHALLENGES THIS SUMMER.
WE HAD, I MEAN, WE WERE RIGHT UP UNTIL, YOU KNOW, THE MIDNIGHT BEFORE OPEN HOUSES AND STARTING STILL IN SCHOOL IS TRYING TO GET THINGS FINISHED.
SO THE CUSTODIAL TEAM DID A GREAT JOB.
WE STILL HAVE MORE WORK TO DO.
WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE THE MOMENTUM, UM, AS WE GO INTO THE SCHOOL YEAR.
UH, BUT, BUT I, I WOULD APPLAUD OUR VENDORS WE'RE, THEY DID A GREAT JOB THIS SUMMER.
SO, BEFORE I MOVE ON TO, OR ACTUALLY WE'VE GOT THE NEXT PAGE, GOT PICTURES OF SUPPORTING WORK THAT WAS DONE.
THAT KIND OF GIVES YOU AN IDEA WITH ALL THREE VENDORS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BEAUTIFUL BEFORES AND AFTERS, UM, WITH EACH VENDOR, UM, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE BEFORE AT THE END OF SCHOOL AND, UH, WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE ONCE ALL THE REFINISHING WORK WAS DONE.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT CUSTODIAL BEFORE I MOVE TO MAINTENANCE? ANY QUESTIONS ONLINE? NO QUESTIONS ON CUSTODIAL.
OKAY, SO MAINTENANCE IS A LITTLE MORE EXTENSIVE AS I STATED.
WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU SOME, UM, DATA AS IT RELATES TO HOW WE ENDED, UM, OUR FISCAL YEAR.
THE FIRST PAGE YOU'RE GONNA SEE AS FAR AS MAINTENANCE IS OUR FISCAL YEAR AND TO DATE.
SO JUNE 30, THIS DATE IS THROUGH JUNE 30.
UH, TOTAL WORK ORDER IS 28,000 4 21.
UM, YOU SEE OUR COMPLETION TOTALS, UM, FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE.
WE'RE THE HIGHEST THAT IT'S BEEN IN THE LAST THREE YEARS AT 2,254.
I WILL MAKE NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ONE OF THE THINGS I LOOK FOR IS HOW PROACTIVE WE'RE BEING WITH OUR MAINTENANCE INITIATED WORK ORDERS.
AND YOU SEE IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, WE TRULY DID FALL OFF.
I LIKE TO SEE IT ABOVE 45%, CLOSER TO 50.
SO WE'RE GONNA MOVE TO OUR COMPARISON PAGE.
AND THIS IS COMPARING FISCAL YEAR 24 TO 25.
EACH SECTION WE FOCUSED ON, UM, WE'VE GOT REQUESTED OUR WORK IN PROGRESS, OUR COMPLETED, OUR PERCENT COMPLETED, OUR MAINTENANCE INITIATED, AND THEN OUR PERCENT OF MA MAINTENANCE INITIATED.
UM, YOU KNOW, TRACKING THIS YEAR, I REALLY THOUGHT THAT THE WAY THAT WE WERE PROGRESSING, THAT WE WOULD ACTUALLY BE CLOSER TO THE 29,000 MARK AND WE WOULD BLOW LAST YEAR'S TOTAL REQUESTED OUT OF THE WATER.
AND SURPRISINGLY, WE'RE ACTUALLY 1.3% LOWER THAN WE WERE LAST YEAR.
UM, THIS, THE, THE CHART THAT I DON'T NECESSARILY LIKE TO SEE IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO THAT, AND THAT'S THE WORK IN PROGRESS, UM, IS 43.7% HIGHER THAN WHAT IT WAS LAST YEAR.
UM, OUR COMPLETION TOTALS AS WE MOVED DOWN THIS DOCUMENT ARE ALSO LOWER THAN THEY WERE LAST YEAR, UM, TO THE TUNE OF 89.5% IN 24 COMPARED TO 82 POINT 82% IN 25.
UM, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THOUGH, OUR MAINTENANCE INITIATED DID INCREASE FOR COMPARISON WITH THE TWO YEARS.
UM, TO SPEAK TO THAT, I WILL SAY THERE IS A PRETTY CONSISTENT THING GOING ON WITH OUR MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT AND NOT A STAFFING.
WE HAVE BEEN UNDER 90% STAFFED FOR OVER SIX MONTHS.
AND SO OUR CURRENT PROVIDER, UNFORTUNATELY, HAS BEEN UNABLE TO GET THE MOMENTUM TO MAINTAIN STAFFING LEVELS.
EVEN AT THE TIME OF THIS REPORT.
I JUST FOUND OUT THAT WE LOST ANOTHER, UM, TECHNICIAN THAT RESIGNED LAST FRIDAY.
SO NOW WE'RE RIGHT BACK TO UNDER 90% AGAIN.
UM, SO WE'VE HAD THESE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CURRENT PROVIDER.
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WE EXPECT TO, TO END THIS CONTRACT ON A HIGH NOTE, UM, JUST TO BE GOOD PARTNERS, UH, WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.THEY ARE STILL REPRESENTATIVES IN OUR DISTRICT AND ARE STILL WORKING ON OUR CUSTODIAL SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
SO IT IS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST TO MAINTAIN GOOD RELATIONS WITH US.
UM, SO I JUST WANNA TALK TO THE FACT THAT KNOW THAT WE RECOGNIZE THE STAFFING'S AN ISSUE IN THE NEW CONTRACT.
WE HAVE BUILT IN VERY SPECIFIC PENALTIES ABOUT STAFFING.
SO OUR STAFFING MODEL IN THE NEW MAINTENANCE CONTRACT IS A HUNDRED PERCENT STAFFING.
SO IF IT'S A MANAGEMENT POSITION, THEY HAVE 45 DAYS TO FILL THAT POSITION.
UPON DAY 46, IT'S A $500 PENALTY FOR EVERY WEEK THAT WE, THEY ARE NOT STAFFED WITH THEIR MAN MANAGEMENT POSITIONS.
WITH FIELD EMPLOYEES, IT'S $10 PER DAY.
THERE'S NO GRACE PERIOD, YOU'RE A HUNDRED PERCENT STAFFED AND IT'S $10 PER, UM, OR IT'S, UM, THE NUMBER OF HOURS TIME, THEIR EMPLOYEE RATE FOR EVERY HOUR THAT THEY ARE SHORT PAYROLL.
SO I JUST WANNA KIND OF TALK THROUGH THAT TO LET Y'ALL KNOW THAT WE RECOGNIZED THIS.
WHEN I PULLED THIS UP, I KIND OF SHOOK MY HEAD BECAUSE I KNEW THINGS HAVE BEEN A STRUGGLE FOR THEM STAFFING WISE, BUT I DID NOT, UM, UNTIL I SAW THESE PERCENTAGES, I, IT DIDN'T REALLY EQUATE TO ME THAT WE WERE IN, IN THAT, THAT DEEP OF A, OF A PIT RIGHT NOW WITH, WITH OUR, WITH OUR DATA.
SO, UH, MOVING ON, THE NEXT PAGE YOU'RE GONNA SEE IS JUST OUR FIRST MONTH OF JULY.
I WANNA FOCUS ON THE FACT THAT WE'RE ALREADY HAVE 2,544 WORK QUARTERS IN JULY TO START THE YEAR.
UM, SO SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN REARING UP AND PUTTING THOSE WORK ORDERS IN OUR MAINTENANCE INITIATED STILL CONTINUE TO FALL.
UM, LAST MONTH WE WERE AT 39, NOW WE'RE AT 37.
SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THIS, UH, WITH THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT.
UM, MOVING ON TO OUR CRAFT SECTION, WE HAD TWO CATEGORIES.
WE HAD OUR HVAC AND OUR GENERAL MAINTENANCE THAT WERE OUR HIGHEST CATEGORIES FOR THIS, UM, MONTH FOR JULY.
OSA ELEMENTARY HAD THE HIGHEST HVAC WORK ORDER TOTALS.
UM, AND THAT WAS PRIMARILY DUE TO SYSTEM RESETS.
UH, WE HAD FAULT CODES ON SYSTEMS. UM, THERE WERE MULTIPLE, UM, CONDENSER PUMPS, CONDENSATE PUMPS THAT WERE REPLACED.
I WILL TELL YOU, HVAC AS OF LATE AND THE STORMS THAT HAVE HIT BUFORD COUNTY, UM, HAVE CAUSED US TO DO A LOT OF RESET ON SYSTEMS. I MEAN, IT HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
UM, SO THAT HAS NOT DONE US ANY FAVORS WHEN IT COMES TO HVAC.
UH, GENERAL MAINTENANCE WAS LEFT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
THE REQUESTS THAT THEY HAD WERE PRETTY TYPICAL OF WHAT WE SEE THIS TIME OF YEAR WITH FURNITURE MOVES, UH, REPAIRS OF FURNITURE, UH, YOU KNOW, HANGING, BA HANGING, UM, AND MOUNTING FIXTURES FOR THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.
WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH.
OUR NEXT TWO PAGES ARE HOW WE TRACK OUR AVERAGE DAYS TO COMPLETE WORK ORDERS.
OUR AVERAGE DAYS FOR BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH ARE STILL UNDER FOUR DAYS, BUT I WILL TELL YOU, AND THIS KIND OF COINCIDES WITH WHAT WE SEE WITH THE REST OF THE DATA PRESENTING, UM, IN, IN NOT A GREAT STATE.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS I ALWAYS LOOK FOR IN THESE REPORTS IS HOW ARE WE DOING WITH REQUESTED AND COMPLETED WITHIN THE SAME MONTH? I'D LOVE TO SEE OVER A 50% SUPPORT ORDERS COMING IN.
CAN WE GET OVER A 50% WHERE WE'RE REQUESTING AND COMPLETING THOSE WORK ORDERS WITHIN THE SAME MONTH? AND YOU'LL SEE WITH BOTH OF THESE NORTH AND SOUTH, NORTH COMES IN OUT A 46% SOUTH COMES IN AT A 34%.
THOSE ARE THE LOWEST THAT WE HAVE SEEN WITHIN THE LAST SIX MONTHS OF REPORTING THIS DATA.
UM, SO AGAIN, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO KEEP OUR FOOT ON THE PEDAL, UM, AND REMIND OUR MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT AND THE MANAGEMENT TEAM WHAT OUR EXPECTATIONS ARE GETTING TO OUR NEXT PAGE.
WE TYPICALLY DO FOCUS, UM, AND DO PROVIDE A BLITZ FOR Y'ALL EVERY MONTH.
BUT JUST KNOW JUNE AND JULY ARE NOT IT MONTHS BECAUSE OF OUR MAKEUP IN OUR SCHOOLS DURING THE SUMMER AUGUST, WE SPEND ON JUST HAVING A SUCCESSFUL START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.
SO WE DO NOT TAX OUR MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT WITH DOING A BLITZ, BUT WE WILL HAVE A BLITZ FOR YOU, UM, TO FEATURE IN SEPTEMBER'S REPORT AND IT WILL BE A SOUTH OF THE BROAD SCHOOL.
I WANTED TO PROVIDE Y'ALL JUST A LITTLE SNIPPET AS FAR AS HOW WE'RE TRANSITIONING RIGHT NOW WITH SODEXO.
UM, ON JUNE 24TH, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION IMPROVED THE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE FACILITIES MAINTENANCE CONTRACT TO BE AWARDED TO SODEXO.
UM, ON JUNE 25TH, THAT AWARD DUE INTENT WAS, UH, WAS PUBLISHED AND THE CURRENT CONTRACT AT THAT POINT WAS
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EXTENDED WITH A VM THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH TO ALLOW FOR US TO HAVE TIME TO TRANSITION FOR SODEXO TO START OCTOBER 1ST.SO I'M HAPPY TO REPORT AS SOON AS, UM, THAT HAPPENED.
WE'VE ALREADY STARTED MEETING, THEY'VE STARTED MEETING WITH DISTRICT LEVEL STAFF.
THEY'VE HAD TWO MEETINGS WITH THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT, THE DISTRICT OFFICE.
WE'VE HAD THREE MEETINGS WITH THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT, UM, BECAUSE IT COMES DOWN TO COMMUNICATION AND IT'S ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATION AND SETTING US UP TO BE VERY SUCCESSFUL WITH THIS NEW CONTRACT.
SO THINGS ARE GOING VERY WELL.
UH, SODEXO WAS ACTUALLY JUST BACK IN TOWN THIS WEEK.
APPLICATIONS ARE BEING RELEASED TO OUR CURRENT IN-HOUSE MAINTENANCE STAFF FIRST, AND THAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK.
WE'VE PROVIDED SODEXO WITH THE EMPLOYEE'S PERSONAL INFORMATION SO THEY CAN GET IN CONTACT WITH THEM DIRECTLY.
SO THEY HAVE FIRST RIGHTS TO THOSE APPLICATIONS.
THEY ARE GONNA HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE APPLICATION PROCESS, BUT THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT PRIOR TO THOSE APPLICATIONS HITTING THE STREET AND BECOMING PUBLIC.
UM, THEY WILL BE IN FOR THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, MONTH AND A HALF UNTIL CONTRACT STARTS.
STATES THEY'RE GONNA BE IN PRETTY MUCH EVERY WEEK, IF NOT EVERY OTHER WEEK.
BUT THEY'RE GONNA BE HERE REALLY ACTIVELY.
THEY'RE GONNA COME IN AND DO IN-PERSON INTERVIEWS, UM, AS WELL AS COME IN AND SUPPORT AND PROVIDE ALL THE RESOURCES TO THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT, UM, STAFF TO GET THEM PREPARED FOR THIS TRANSITION.
UM, AGAIN, WE TALKED ABOUT STAFFING THIS 90, I I WAS GONNA SAY WE CELEBRATE MAINTENANCE FOR A 90.6, BUT WE JUST LOST ANOTHER ONE.
UM, SO WE'RE BACK DOWN TO SEVEN OPENINGS FOR OUR MAINTENANCE STAFFING.
UM, I DO WANNA RECOGNIZE MAINTENANCE.
UM, THEY REALLY DO A LOT AS WE TRANSITION FROM THE END OF OUR SUMMER SCHOOL AND GO INTO THE START OF OUR SCHOOL YEAR, WE HAVE A LOT OF EVENTS, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THAT WE POUR OUR MAINTENANCE STAFF OUT TO SUPPORT.
UM, THE TWO BIGGEST THINGS THAT THEY SUPPORT FOR US EVERY YEAR IS THE BACK TO SCHOOL EXPO AT BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH WAS ALL HANDS ON DECK AS WELL AS OUR DISTRICT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY, WHICH WE HAD AT THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.
UM, AND WE TYPICALLY HAVE THAT MODEL, OR WE'VE HAD IT FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS, WHICH THEY PROVIDE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SUPPORT FOR, FOR THOSE EVENTS AS WELL.
AND GRADUATION AND GRADUATIONS TOO.
SO, UM, THAT CONCLUDES THE MAINTENANCE AND CUSTODIAL REPORT.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT MAINTENANCE OR ANY, ANYTHING OTHER? OKAY.
WHERE SET A REPORT ON GROUNDS MAINTENANCE.
DO WE HAVE A REPORT ON GROUNDS MAINTENANCE? WOULD YOU LIKE A REPORT ON GROUNDS MAINTENANCE?
HE SAID THAT THE FENCE LINE UP WIL BRANCH HIGH SCHOOL, AS ALWAYS, IT NEEDS TO BE CUT.
ALL THE WEEDS CUT DOWN AND, UH, WE WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA, I THINK, TO ADD SITUATION REPORT ON GROUNDS MAINTENANCE.
SO, BECAUSE WE GOT A LOT OF QUESTIONS, ESPECIALLY FOOTBALL SEASON KICKING OFF ALL THE OTHER SPORTS ACTIVITIES TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON THERE.
UH, WELL BRANCH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
OKAY, WE CAN DEFINITELY CHECK THAT OUT WHEN THE CUSTODIAL, UM, CONTRACT, HOW DO, HOW DO WE, UM, WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY LOSE AN EMPLOYEE, HOW JUST MAKE A, DO THEY JUST GIVE US A REPORT SAYING, HEY, WE LOST TWO PEOPLE, WE LOST THREE, THREE EMPLOYEES.
HOW DOES THAT WORK? SO I MEET WITH, SO I MEET WITH CUSTODIAL WEEKLY.
AND SO WE, WE GO THROUGH AND WE TALK ABOUT STAFFING.
WE TALK ABOUT WHERE WE'RE AT AT THE, EACH SCHOOL.
SO WE CREATED, WHEN WE STARTED THE CUSTODIAL CONTRACT, HAVING, UM, INFORMATION FOR EACH SCHOOL WE KEEP, WE CREATED A CUSTODIAL GOOGLE DRIVE.
SO EVERY SCHOOL HAS THEIR OWN GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER, AND WITHIN THAT FOLDER ARE SUB FOLDERS.
AND WITHIN THOSE SUB FOLDERS ARE THEIR STAFFING PLANS, THEIR SDS SHEETS FOR ALL THEIR CHEMICALS FOR THEIR BUILDING.
UM, INFORMATION ON THE CONTRACT AND WHAT THE GUIDELINES AS FAR AS, UM, WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO FOR THEIR SCOPE OF WORK.
SO PRETTY MUCH ANY PERTINENT DOCUMENT THAT THAT SCHOOL WOULD NEED TO REFERENCE FOR THEIR CONTRACT IS WITHIN THEIR GOOGLE FOLDER.
UM, STAFFING INFORMATION TO DO CHECKLIST, I MEAN IT, THE INFORMATION GOES ON AND ON AND ON.
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SO OUR VENDORS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE ACCESS TO UPLOAD ALL THE DOCUMENTS INTO EACH SCHOOL'S FOLDER.AND THEN EACH SCHOOL HAS VIEWING RIGHTS TO VIEW THOSE DOCUMENTS WITHIN THAT FOLDER.
UM, SO STAFFING PLANS ARE, ARE IN THERE AND WE DISCUSS THOSE WEEKLY.
SO WE'RE, I'M ENGAGING THEM PRETTY REGULARLY TO FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT, AND WE DO OUR CUSTODIAL INSPECTIONS, OUR CUSTODIAL INSPECTION FORM IS IN THAT GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER, AS WELL AS OUR DEFICIENCY FORMS ARE IN THAT GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER.
PRINCIPALS HAVE, UM, ACCESS TO THE DEFICIENCY AND THE INSPECTION FORM AS WELL AS ONE DESIGNEE AT EVERY SCHOOL THAT THE PRINCIPAL HAS ELECTED.
AND THEN WE HAVE DISTRICT OFFICE STAFF IN THE OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT THAT HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE TWO FORMS THAT CAN COMPLETE INSPECTIONS AND COMPLETE DIVISIONS.
UM, ACTUALLY, UM, SOMETHING, ACTUALLY, I HAVE NO QUESTIONS.
I, I HAVE NO QUESTIONS BECAUSE EVERY, ANY QUESTION THAT HAD THAT YOU PRETTY MUCH, UH, YOU, YOU ANSWERED THAT.
UM, HONESTLY, UH, AND, AND LEMME START BY SAYING, DON'T BEAT YOURSELF UP ABOUT THIS REPORT BECAUSE THERE, THERE ARE SOME VARIABLES THAT GOES ALONG, GO ALONG WITH THIS REPORT THAT IN TERMS OF, UH, IN TERMS OF US CHANGING, AS IN IS THE DISTRICT SCHEDULE, UH, IN TERMS OF, WE, I THINK WE WENT TO SCHOOL EARLIER THIS YEAR THAN WHAT, WHAT WE'VE DONE TO AND IN THE PAST.
SO THAT KIND OF CHANGES THINGS AS WELL AS, AS WELL.
IT MADE ME THINK, UH, SITTING HOME PROFESS SUMMER ABOUT US IN THE, IN THE FUTURE WHEN WE DO APPROVED SCHEDULES AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, MADE ME THINK OF, GAVE ME A LITTLE TO THINK ABOUT AS WELL.
AND THE, AND, AND, AND, AND ANOTHER THING IS THAT ONE THING I'VE HEARD, AND I'VE HAD NOT HEARD IT FROM JUST FROM ONE PRINCIPAL, I'VE HEARD FROM A COUPLE, A COUPLE PRINCIPLES, UM, UH, UH, ABOUT HOW FREQUENTLY THAT, I GUESS HOW YOU ARE TALKING TO THE ADMINISTRATOR, THE MINISTER PRINCIPALS, AND YOU ARE REACHING OUT TO THEM AND YOU'RE ASKING THEM THAT, HEY, HEY, THEY'VE BEEN CALLING.
AND YOU GET, YOU GET RIGHT BACK TO THEM AND HOW, UH, YOU, YOU'VE BEEN ON IT AND THEY CAN SEE SOME OF THE BUILDINGS ARE, ARE ACTUALLY TR ACTUALLY TURNING.
I SAID, TRUST ME WHEN IT COMES TO THAT MRS. UH, MRS. MRS. MAL MAJOR.
I SAID, YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME ABOUT THAT.
I SAID, I SEE IT, I GET SEE YOU FIRSTHAND.
WE SITTING DOWN TO THE TABLE, TABLE AND, UH, EXPRESS HOW EXPRESS THAT WHAT THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY'VE EXPRESSED THAT TOO MORE.
UM, AND, AND, AND, AND ANOTHER THING IS TO THAT I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING US THE RAW UNCUT GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY, THE DISCRETE TRUTH.
THIS, THIS IS WHAT I, I APPRECIATE THAT.
BECAUSE SOMETIMES BRINGING THAT INFORMATION IS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE SOMETIMES EVEN A WOMAN MEMBER HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE IT'S UNCOMFORTABLE BECAUSE PEOPLE, SOMETIMES PEOPLE TAKE IT PERSONAL, BUT IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, IT, IT, IT IS THE TRUTH AND THAT, AND WE, WE ALL WANNA GET IT BETTER, EVEN I TO GET BETTER BOARD.
SO I, I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THAT TO US AND SAY, HEY, THIS, THIS IS WHERE WE'RE AT.
I, I I I, I REALLY DO THE SAME THING I I TOLD YOU ABOUT IN TERMS OF, UH, THE, THE MAINTENANCE.
I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU, UH, PLEASE DON'T BEAT YOURSELF UP BECAUSE WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS SOME DIFFERENT VARIABLES AND YOU STATED SOME OF THEM, UH, THIS YEAR IN TERMS OF COMING INTO SCHOOL AT A DIFFERENT TIMING.
AND AS COLONEL GUY SAID TOO, UH, AS IN, IN TERMS OF THE CONTRACT MM-HMM
AND SO WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE FEEL STOP WAITING WHEN, BUT THEY WON'T GET THE CONTRACT.
SO, YOU KNOW, JUST OUTTA OUT RESPECT YOU ALREADY, YOU ALREADY UP TO AGGRESSIVE STEPS TOWARDS LEADING TO MAKE SURE THAT, BUT WE FALL FORESAW THAT, THAT, THAT WE, WE GONNA, GONNA MAKE UP FOR OUR PROPERTY.
THANKS FOR BEING TRUTHFUL WITH EVERYTHING.
ANY, UH, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, ONLINE? I'M GOOD.
THANKS FOR ALL OF THE INFORMATION.
ANYBODY HAVE ANY FUTURE TOPICS? AIR CONDITIONING, AIR AIR CONDITIONING UNITS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT AND AND MORE SPECIFIC, UH, WE'VE BEEN IN THE PA WELL, WELL, UH, JUST ABOUT WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE AND, AND WHAT THAT PROCESS IS.
'CAUSE WE'VE BEEN THE, WE, WE, WE'VE DEALT WITH, SO WITH AIR CONDITIONING UNITS FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS THAT WE, WE'VE, WE, WE'VE BEEN, BEEN TO SCHOOL.
I MEAN, THAT'S ANOTHER, I MEAN, JUST I, PEOPLE WHY, WHY YOU HAVE THE PAPER EVERY ABOUT AIR CONDITIONING.
SO WE, WE HAVE, WE HAVE, WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO CONTINUE TO DO THE SAME THING.
I THINK IS IT, IT, IT, IT IT'LL BE IS IT'LL BE NOT WITHIN
I MEAN, THE PROCESS, WHAT PROCESS? THE BUYING AIR CONDITIONERS OF PREPARING THEM, OF WHAT THE UP GOING INTO WINTER TIME.
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THE PROCESS FIRST I THINK WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW DO I KNOW AT CERTAIN PARTS OF THE DAY WE CUT THEIR CONDITIONS OFF.SO LET'S UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, AND THEN THAT, AND THEN WE'LL COME UP WITH, WITH MORE QUESTIONS FROM THERE.
I THINK UNDERSTANDING THIS, I, I, I SEE CURRENT GUY GUYS HANDS HAND UP AS WELL, BUT UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE PROCESS IS, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? I KNOW WE CUT AT CERTAIN TIMES THAT DAY.
WE CUT THE, WE CUT THEIR CONDITIONS OFF.
I KNOW ST G SAYS SOMETIMES EVEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, YOU SHOULD RUN YOUR, YOU SHOULD RUN YOUR AIR CONDITIONER AND NOT EVEN, EVEN IN THE WINTERTIME OR SOMETHING.
I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WITH SOME S WHATEVER.
SO IT'S JUST THE, THE, THE, THE PROCESS, UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING.
AND MAYBE WE, WE MAY WANNA, AS WE SPOKE YESTERDAY IN THE MEETING ABOUT BRINGING A, UM, A, UM, A PROFESSION, A A, UH, WHAT CONSULTANT, A CONSULTANT MAY, MAYBE WE, AT THIS POINT, WE MAY EVEN NEED TO BRING A CONSULTANT, UH, UH, UH, TO HELP US OUT SO THAT NEXT YEAR COME HELL A HIGH WATER, WE WON'T BE, WE, WE WON'T SEE, OR WE WON'T MAKE THE PAPER ABOUT AIR CONDITIONING UNITS.
SO THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THAT, THAT, THAT'S WHAT WE, WHAT WE NEED TO HAVE A, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT AIR CONDITIONING, BUT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO ADD TO THAT.
CAN I FOLLOW TO THAT? PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE.
UH, YOU KNOW, OFTENTIMES WE REACT AND WHEN IT GOES DOWN, BUT A PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE CAN IDENTIFY THINGS BEFORE THEY GO DOWN.
AND, UH, THAT THAT'S WHAT WE DO IN OUR OWN HOMES.
WE HAVE, UH, CONTRACTORS COME IN THE SPRING AND THE FALL AND THEY LOOK AT CLEANING OUT THE, UH, THE COMPRESSORS AND, AND THE FILTERS AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE GOOD TIME TO DO THAT ON A PROCESS IS DURING THE SUMMER.
THE OTHER THING ABOUT PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE IS PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE DOESN'T TAKE AS MUCH, TECHNICIANS DON'T HAVE TO BE AS HIGHLY TRAINED BECAUSE IT'S MOSTLY HOUSEKEEPING AND CLEANING AND, AND LUBRICATING AND OPENING UP THE DRAINS AND THAT TYPE OF STUFF.
BUT THAT SEEMS TO BE THE PROCESS THAT COULD BE, BE EMPHASIZED SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE STARTUP SEEM EVERYTHING'S WORKING IN THE SPRING, THEN WE SHUT DOWN AND THEN WE FIRE BACK UP AND, AND WE FIND PROBLEMS. AND SOMETIMES, UH, PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE DURING THAT TIME, RUN 'EM EVERY NOW AND THEN CHECK 'EM OUT.
MIGHT BE A, A WORTHWHILE ENTERPRISE.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? SO THERE'S NOBODY THAT WANTS TO IMPROVE ON AIR CONDITIONING.
AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD ON IT, AND WE HAVE SOME THINGS IN PLACE, AND WE WEREN'T PERFECT THIS YEAR, BUT I THINK WE DEFINITELY SAW IMPROVEMENTS FROM LAST YEAR AND WE'RE HOPING TO SEE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FUTURE.
SO I HAVE NO PROBLEMS TALKING TO YOU ABOUT WHAT ARE SOME OF THE DIFFERENT THINGS WE'RE DOING.
AND WITH A FOCUS ON PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I'VE PREACHED THAT IN THE LAST WEEK.
AND THEN I SAY, I THINK THAT ALSO GOES BACK TO WE ALSO INTO WHAT I SAID TOO.
BE BECAUSE TALKING ABOUT IT, UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF IT, BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
UH, AND, AND IN TERMS OF
AND, AND IN TERMS, IN TERMS OF AS, AS WE DID ESTERDAY.
AND THEN, I MEAN, NOT TOO LONG AGO YOU GAVE LIKE AN ENERGY CONSERVATION AS THE FIVE HVAC YEAH, I MEAN WE, WE'VE ALREADY HAD A COUPLE BRIEF ON SOME OF THE PROCESSES.
UH, BUT YEAH, I MEAN, AS FAR AS THE PROCESS FOR PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE, YEAH, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF CHANGES.
WE'LL, WE'LL PRESENT KIND OF SOME THINGS WE'RE HAVE IN THE WORKS AND WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO GET OUT OF THAT.
SO, UH, ANY FUTURE TOPICS FROM, UH, PEOPLE ONLINE AND AWESOME.
HONOR, CAROL, YOU HAVE SAY HI.
UM, I HAD A CONVERSATION TODAY WITH, UH, SOMEONE FROM THE COUNTY GREEN SPACE COMMITTEE, BUT THE LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL ADJACENT PROPERTIES.
SO THEY WOULD LIKE TO COME TALK TO OPERATIONS COMMITTEE TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT THE PROCESS THAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH IN ORDER TO PURCHASE THAT PROPERTY.
AND IT'S JUST SOME SPECIFICS ABOUT THAT.
SO I SUGGESTED NEXT IT WILL LINE UP WITH, UH, I THINK IT GOES NATURAL RESOURCES AND THEN IF WE TALK ABOUT IT HERE, AND IT'LL JUST LINE UP VERY NICELY WITH WHAT THEY HAVE GOING.
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IF WE NEED TO TAKE IT TO THE FULL BOARD, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DO THAT AS WELL.AS I UNDERSTAND IT, UH, THEY'RE GOING TO, UH, SELL IT TO THE COUNTY.
THERE'S FUNDS BEING TRANSFERRED.
I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW, BUT THE COUNTY'S GONNA GET OWNERSHIP AND THEN THE COUNTY'S GOING TO TRANSFER OWNERSHIP, UH, TO THE DISTRICT.
THAT'S, THAT'S ONE WAY THAT CAN, IT CAN HAPPEN.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'VE HEARD FROM THE COUNTY IS WHAT THEY'RE THINKING.
YES, YOU CAN GO ON AND SAY MS. HAY, MR. MS. HAYS, BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T SAY SHE HAD A QUESTION.
SO ANY OTHER, UH, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS? MR. SMITH? ALSO, UH, WITH, WITH THAT REPORT, I ALSO DO UNDERSTAND, AS WE TALKED ABOUT YESTERDAY IN THE, UM, IN THE TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE AND, AND IN TERMS OF BRINGING TECHNOLOGY UP, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT IN THE CONDITIONERS NOW THERE'S A TECHNOLOGY COMPONENT AND SO WE COULD ALSO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE TOO.
UH, IN, IN TERMS OF, UH, THESE, WE HAVE THE UNITS THAT SOMETIMES THEY MAY HAVE TO COME OUT AND DO RESETTER OR WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE.
SO WE COULD ALSO UNDERSTAND WHAT, WHAT THAT PROCESS IS LIKE AS WELL.
UH, WHEN, WHEN THAT REPORT IS, IS BROUGHT TO US BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME TECH, THERE ARE SOME TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT IN THESE NEW UNITS TO COME OUT, FROM WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING.
ANY OTHER SAFE GROUNDS ON ONE AND TWICE? NEXT MEETING? NEXT MEETING.
THIS MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 9TH.
MR. SMITH HAS CONCERNS WITH THAT.
I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SIC FOR LATE ZONE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
DR. BROWN ACTUALLY CONFIRMED THAT THE SIC MEETING IS ON OCTOBER 14TH.
SO THERE'S NO CONFLICT WITH ANY OPERATIONS.
THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT A BOARD MEETING.
OCTOBER 14TH, THAT'S NOT A BOARD MEETING.
THE DATE IS IT? I'M SORRY, THAT'S NOT A BOARD MEETING DATE, IS IT? UM, OCTOBER 14TH.
THE NEXT OPERATION MEETING? IT'S THE NEXT OPERATION MEETING IN OCTOBER.
IS IT? YES, IT'S THE SECOND TUESDAY IN OCTOBER.
OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS, THAT'S THEIR PROBLEMS MEETING FROM THE SECOND TUESDAY
I GUESS WE CROSS THAT BRIDGE WHEN WE GET THERE, SO.