 and we have local, professional, commercial that even have kids that go to our district that would probably have walked along with them. I think that that's my thought too. When I hear that, that's my thought, somebody that, yes, because then we can go back and say, look, we know him, he's not. I mean, and it may even be a contractor that, they can't do the scope of the project, but they understand what's going on. But it's somebody that- You might send two or three. If there's options that the board has that you're thinking of, this person, this person, this person, I don't see why we couldn't send two or three different contractors that are local here to us that give us a local opinion and a local spin on what they're trying to tell us would probably not hurt, but. Right. And I think that's the key there, because. So, yes, I think it sounds like unless Don has anything online there that he has provided otherwise, okay. A local contractor too can also put in a little bit more layman's terms for an engineer to kind of get over our head pretty quickly. Yes, yes, I mean, we can ask, and I can. So, I don't know. So we'll hire, I believe that the consensus of the board then is to hire a independent structural engineer. Thank you. To look at the facilities, all facilities, facilities in Alma, the junior high, the high school here, our oldest facilities, the high school here and the junior high building. What's that? What would we want to ask them to do? I think those are the probably the structures that I think we're most concerned about. I guess if we were people planning to keep them. I'm hoping that we don't need the stuff we built 20 years ago, looked into by a structural engineer yet. We do. You need to need that. Yeah. The high school. Oh, you're settling over there? Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, that's part of the quote, high school, so. Yeah. And I'm sorry to put you on. So, I know there's VHS, local partnership. And there are specific ones that Paul Schutter. Well, VHS would be called his brother problem. Okay. That's his brother. All right. So, that would be to the universal builders that was here that came to a lot of board meetings. But did they have a local die? That's what. And I think. It's not as though we're making a decision to hire them, right? We're asking for them to be involved because they are local patrons to help us disseminate the information that we're getting provided in the layman's terms that our patrons can allow a little bit more trust and a good feel for. So, and if there's a question on the edge, we can ask them and they can, you know, if they're walking through their weapon, they can explain it a little. Do you have a different idea? No, but I'm just asking for clarity. Yeah. Because, you know, who was a local, because the local contractor, I just, you know, VHS, yeah, the shutters involved it. But I know universal builders was here, a person named Zach, and then there was, and I didn't know Zach, contact with how he's associated with the district. Then there is another group, a town board that was at all the town halls and been actively looking at things. So, but I don't think they have any local contact. And so I just asked them if there's somebody else that you know of, because that's the only guy I could think of. I mean, right off the top, I always used to think of VHS and the shatter. So we were gonna do that next time I was there. Yeah. I'm trying to get it for you. I mean, there's a lot of local private construction companies, but whether they have commercial experience, I guess, with being that question, so. Commercial scope, yes. And those two do, they've done commercial. Okay. So that's who I would reach out to, just to give us some insight. Okay. Is that okay? Yes, sir. Thank you. So then, as far as next steps go, that's part of it, right? We hire a structural engineer. Okay. So then we need to discuss next steps as in possible bond dates and then communication process with the public, correct? And so I guess, while I'm talking about it, I'll just show my two cents in. We can go off for discussion after that. But if we're gonna spend $3,000 or $4,000 or $5,000 on a structural engineer, I guess I do not necessarily believe that I wanna spend 10 more thousand to have a special election in June, because we can have it during the regular election in November. Also provides some of these other things to happen, allows us to keep our feet underneath us and better maintain the information flow to the general public if we have to. The information flow to the general public if we have a November election, if that is where we go from here. So that's all for discussion as well. Yeah, I think we take it one step at a time. I think we have to, like we're gonna have to get information back from the engineer to see if some of the potential ideas we've thrown around are even possible. If we find out one of the buildings is not suitable or safe for kids or something or a section of the building needs to be repaired that we didn't know about previously. You can't make decisions and then go back and try to change them. So in the process. Kelly? No, I would agree. I would wanna gather the information from building assessments and then I'm having it in November is fine. I don't think there's a, I mean, yes, we want to get something passed so we can start moving forward and making some changes, but I don't think whether we have it in June or November is a big difference. You talked about communication just a bit and I would, once we could kind of maybe come up with the option, if we do go with another bond or what we want to move forward, I would propose that we potentially hire someone or hire some type of communication firm, someone to assist us that will actually do some of that work for us because I think we understand how difficult it was in getting information out there, knowing what needs to be done, I guess throughout the process. It's not any of our specialties. We don't have a communications director for our district. So I think that that would be helpful. I think one thing related to that, sorry, I'm gonna come in on the floor. One thing that to that point, I think that was difficult or that was kind of hard for us. This last go-around was with COVID being such an issue, we found out town halls virtually, we didn't get any attendance or hardly any at all. We had plans to do other things in terms of community meetings, like after-trip services and things like that that we weren't able to necessarily do really well because churches weren't having masses or they were having the streaming only and I don't know what attendance was like on that, but we didn't take advantage of that either way. So I think hopefully, if we look at a June election, hopefully COVID through the first half of this year with the vaccines being available, we can more readily present that information too and actually get some attendance and involvement from the community. When I was talking and going around talking to people, one thing that was just reiterated was, well, with COVID, I don't know how it's possible. There wasn't really any additional discussion about it, but a lot of people just feel like that's a hurdle just in the air and we need to pass. I'm sorry to interrupt too, but the communication firm piece, there's an individual that we've talked to before and asked again and there's an expense involved, but he can do a lot of the things with surveys and different things and we've already had the survey information or just as you said, specific questions to ask. If there are things, he can address those and that's like you said, that's our specialty, that's what they do. And they have a high rate of passing bonds and they've done well and they're from the state and all that kind of stuff too. The only thing that just to begin, not in disarrayment, but just to November 2021, those bills would come off and just FYI survey those and then they would come back on, obviously it's based upon the law. That's a great point and it's important that we do hire a communications company. You would think that we would be able to make sure they understood that and it has already been discussed with me that groundwork has been laid for quite a while, but there would be a swing in some taxes for sure. My goal in that way is definitely a downfall to doing a November election, but. I just, I don't want to, we're not on the decision yet and we're in January. Right. We don't know what we're doing. True. Probably well, we do know what we're doing, you know what I mean? We don't know what direction we are, we don't know what the end result is where we're trying what our poll is at the end so it is January. So I think to have a June. And we literally just hired a structural engineer or gave the approval to, and that takes a little time to get done and that's gonna take time for them to come in. I mean, we still don't have our energy on it, completed, that we asked, I mean, we asked that group to come in last fall. So I mean, nothing against that group but just those types of things tend to take longer than what I would assume that they would. So it's. Right. I'm assuming that, well, I don't know, maybe the bond we propose is going to be the exact same bond we proposed in November. I don't think that it probably will be. And so we need to have time to make sure that the public is fully aware of what we're proposing and why and what we might. One, eight, one, Brad Fox, a structural engineer, there may be multiple questions there, please, that have to be decided to as far as scope of what they're, I have a feeling that's what's next come. I just do, I have a feeling that you're gonna, that's a question that's gonna come up as what exactly are you wanting us to do? And we have time to make that decision. We don't need to make that decision tonight as to whether we're having a June or a November, September, or whatever. But that is something that is gonna be coming down to the type of space, I know that happens. Are there anything else that we need to cover around the facilities at this point? I was just gonna say, I think once we do get a few options, I think it would be good to have town halls that people can come and ask questions. I mean, we're just gonna have to have them. I think even with COVID, I don't think that it's just not possible for us. Yeah, right. We're just gonna have to have them. I may have to gem in a 360, and there's ways to do it. Especially depending on the turnouts, because the turnouts weren't real great either, but it's something we've heard that they should have been more before or not after. Right, so we have a few options for people to give input on, I think at that point. Or ask questions, clarifying questions. I'm gonna put the registry too much to the back burner, but I think that, at least at this point in time, without having the engineer come in and tell us the structure and capabilities of those buildings, and I don't think we can make it pretty well. The registry, before we have some information about the buildings themselves. I don't think, yeah, it shouldn't stop us from receiving what they can do for us and what we're not allowed to do with them and what grants are available. It shouldn't stop us from receiving that information, so we may not go with that. Anything else around that? Dawn, good online? Yeah, okay. All right, then, if there's no further discussion around that, then we'll move on to the next item on the agenda, and that is Proving KASB, Board of Education Policy Updates. But there were high policy revisions and one existing form revised per the state law and deletion of a form and one new one. They're all necessary and they follow state law and they're not controversial that I saw. So, you were good with them right behind approval? Yeah. Any further discussion around that? Okay. I move to approve. Jerome, move to approve. Kelly seconds. And Kelly seconds. It's been moved and seconded to approve the KASB policy updates. All those opposed, please say aye. Motion carried. All right, moving on then to personnel. Any discussion around personnel or need for executive session around personnel? Okay. So, I move to approve the personnel as submitted. Second, Tony. So, Justin moved and Tony seconded. All those opposed, please say aye. Okay, motion carried. Great. Moving, you're welcome. Thank you. Then moving on to superintendent discussion. Just FYI, the county health department has asked about numbers of our staff too. And you guys should have got an email about that too, about vaccines and numbers. He just wanted to, it's not an ironclad contract, but he wants to know how many people so they can see about ordering those. And also, initially it would be the teachers and those that work directly with students, but then he wanted to know the classified staff and their role. And so, right now to date, as far as the vaccines, we've got 9% that are made. We have 13% that say no and 78% yes to take it. It is not a requirement, just like the flu vaccine is not a requirement. And so, just want to make sure it's a two shot and there's issues too that could come about if there's not enough vaccines within that 28 day period as well afterwards up to getting the first shot. So, that's just FYI, so I'm gonna give you that information. The other thing that I had is that CARES S or two money that the federal grant money is based on Title I and we're gonna receive $197,308. We've spent about 41 of our 25, we have I think 3,000, a little over 3,000 left in this year's CARES money, which is different than the SPARX money. The SPARX money was the first federal, we got $209,000 up that included the thermal imaging cameras, included buying the units that are handlers from our units in each of the classrooms, they sell us online curriculum, center, center, center, rose tattered things and they reimburses for that, the county did. This is just federal money that's coming in to our general fund and we have the CARES, the SPARX money also was spent by December. So that was a big deal. So personnel, you can release it for personnel. The CARES money, we've included the new things based upon the list that they gave us of needed personnel, subs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And so with that, then I can say we got 3,000 and some districts haven't spent any of that to this point. So there's concern from the state level that when the legislative group comes back together that there'll be a question of, well, can we cope back, Bill? Not give you as much state aid because you're eating all this money. And so it's important that we have the ability to spend it as it isn't supposed to be, but at the same time to spend it because that's why they gave it to you, to use it to ensure that you're taking care of everything that needs to be taken care of. So long story short, we will get this first portion taken care of. We also received $8,000 of CARES money round one for spend. And so we're waiting to have them, three 20 contact us as a part of the cooperative how they're running that spent. We have no control over that piece of it other than the person who works in our district or if they're buying something for that person in the district. So it sounds like a lot of money, which it is, but at the same time, if you take that for students it's $420 per student. And if you break it down by 33 months in which we have to spend it, it's $12.70 cents per student. So if we use it for, let's say students that are behind and at some point with testing and stuff administratively, not to pull anything on you guys, but we'll be wanting to report to you all that this is where our students are at because there's always concerned that what happened in the spring and then what's happened to date with some things with remote or whatever else is happening, are we behind? And we've been looking at it. We're gonna continue to look at it with MTSS, the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support through the state free training that we are taking advantage of and looking at that data. And I think from this point, some senses of being pleasantly surprised that we're doing very well. And that's a tribute to everybody to the district. And so, but we wanna give you some hard fast numbers to say, here's the comparison and do we need to extend the school year? Or do we need to do this? Or do we need to do that? And then that money could be used over a three year period. And every year then we're gonna do this with these students. Those that are behind or below grade level or whatever it may be, we're gonna ask them to have an opportunity for them to extend to school year or whatever it is. So that's kind of the thing. So that includes then obviously then it'd be transportation and would be teachers and it would be food and it would be lots of different things. So, but we'll have that information to y'all as far as in the future here as we go through assessments and updates. Yep, that's all that I have. Great, thank you. Yvette, thank you. Tony, do you have anything? No. Kelly? No. Jerome? Jim? Just don't have anything. Can you hear me? We can hear you now. You can hear me now. Yes, sir. I'd just like to take time to say thank you to not only our administrative, but to our secretaries and to all the teaching staff for what they've had to go through this first semester and the good job that they've done and just know that it is, doesn't go unnoticed and was very much appreciated. I know a lot of people may not know what goes on but we've got to have the inside track on that and I just wanted to know that they are appreciated and thank you for what you do. Thanks, Tony. It's been a very, it's been a very proud semester for me to say that I'm involved with USD 329 because we've stayed open. Our kids have been in school and that is a very good thing. So it hasn't, it is an amazing time to be a part of a district like this and so we do appreciate that. Thank you. Question I had on the YouTube channel in the old gym versus the NFHS program inside the new gym. As we get deeper and deeper in the basketball season, the phone calls I'm getting are rising drastically based on why can't we have YouTube in the new gym. There is a lot of feedback around the NFHS program that people are not liking. And some of that could be their programs crashing at home but I don't know that to be a fact because the YouTube channel works seamlessly, provides them what they're asking for and so I guess I'm starting to ask questions as to what can we do to improve upon the video quality in the new gym? From what I've heard some feedback from, nobody has really specifically reached out to me and I think they've reached out to Jared and he's talked to some. I don't have any experience using it so I can't say one way or the other but it seems like if you have a device with the dedicated app that you can stick on it, you know like a Fire TV stick or a Roku or whatever, that seems to be the most reliable. Some people are having mixed results in their browsers like one browser will carry, study and buffering and but as soon as they switch to another one like between the Chrome or Firefox, then it's just seamless. So that's all programming on their end that we can't really on NFHS and you mean the individual at home? No, there's a lot of feedback that the TV is there like the video is there but there's no audio or there's audio there and no video or constant. Or there's nothing. Or there's nothing as like Friday night, there was nothing. Now Friday night we did have an ongoing internet issue from earlier in the day that turned out to not be resolved in the afternoon when I thought it was. So why does that only cause it in the new gym then? I mean I think that's the confusion is, is I mean I watched both, I watched the JV games on YouTube and they worked seamlessly. It was perfect and then the other programs came on for the varsity games and there was nothing and so does our YouTube channel not go through our internet or? We watched it in the old gym also. Okay. We lost internet access. I'm not gonna be able to tell you which game it was but there was no YouTube for us. So not the whole night, we started out fine but then we lost it. Well, I know you guys are on top of it. I guess I am expressing to our administration and stuff that since we don't have the ability to allow people in our gyms, it is so, so very important that our kids have the opportunity to be seen on a wider spectrum and if there is something that you need from the board, as far as a financial investment for people to see this, I think that needs to be brought to the board and we can discuss it because the current system, whatever that may be and everybody's hearing that Wabunsi just got fiber internet. So why is our internet down? We had a sizable investment in WTC internet within our district. We shouldn't have internet problems. I'm just gonna state that. So if that's an issue with WTC then we need to hold them accountable because our patrons deserve better and our kids deserve better and that's an area that needs improvement. But I'm just asking whatever we need to do to help do that, I think we will be wide open to figure that out. So I don't know if it's anything that anyone would be wanting to do or would have interest in but I know other school districts have kind of a student led Facebook live where the students actually do like an announcement of the games and they did during cross country season. I've seen some of them start to do at the beginning of basketball season where literally they're Facebook live in the game. They're kind of doing the announcements themselves. I imagine there's an administrator close by or as I hope. But just an idea. YouTube's the same way there's other schools using it. I mean they're just switching my life. You have a YouTube channel, correct? Yes. Yes, a dedicated. Because Friday, I was told the girls game worked. It was the boys game that did. It was, I didn't get a call until after about a couple hours. There's maybe half an hour left of the night or so. Well, it's not just that one specific and it's not by no means am I frustrated with how we are handling it. I just want to make sure that we are putting all of our heads together to find out the best solution for whatever we can do to make it more seamless for our viewers because our kids work. Our coaches are amazing coaches. Our schools are made as an amazing school. Our kids are great kids and they worked hard to show the patrons who they are and what they have accomplished in that front and we should be able to provide whoever wants to watch it at home the ability to watch it at home. So. One clarification. We have no localized control over adjusting. Is that correct of NFHS? If NFHS goes offline. So we, if Jared and I are both there, we're streaming the game on NFHS to kind of trouble you and see what other people are seeing. On your phone. Yeah, I see that. We do have people that complain about it and it is impossible to ascertain whether or not that is a home issue or I know at my home I've had trouble never streaming our games at home but streaming NFHS away. So whether that's a calibration issue that they have not addressed or I had better luck with ours. But on Friday night, that's the first time that's the first time since I've worked here. Definitely since we've had internet issues. Like I don't, I was just saying about someone on Friday how it's unheard of. We don't lose internet here. And that's very unusual for any school that's much less one of our size. So it was just one of those things. As far as we can't stream our YouTube channel and allow people to get it free when we are using an NFHS and I think for obvious reasons. If people have paid subscriptions, that's not fair to stream it on YouTube. If NFHS is not functioning, we could stream it on YouTube. But NFHS has also given us permission to do voiceover audio announcing with their footage. But we don't have all the equipment we need yet to do that. We're looking at getting that. So the other thing that YouTube channel doesn't, which it sounds like you're willing to back it financially, but we literally just got a check from our portion of the subscriptions, the yearly subscriptions. And that helps to offset the loss in revenue from gate sales. And so that's a nice feature. I'm not saying that's the only one. It's more important that they're seen, I agree. But we can't do them side by side, I think for obvious reasons. Because one's free and one costs. And so no one's ever, no one's gonna use an FHS. All right. So we got a kickback from anything in that. Okay. For yearly subscriptions. Yeah. Which is good, but if we're gonna put our eggs in their basket, their program needs to be pretty legit. Right. And it is legit and everything takes a little bit. Sure. Yeah. I watch them all because I have no kids in sports. So I have to watch them all. And I've witnessed issues from home games at football to away games at football. And now away games at basketball and away games with football. So it's like something's gotta give. If I had any calls over the last 30 days, I'm sorry, but it wasn't about our bond. It was about that. So I want to think about it. And I want to know what the answer is to figure out because I almost bet that a number of those are not anything that we are doing. Like I said, we stream it so that we know what it should be looking like to anyone else who's watching it. But Friday night's issue is because of the internet. Yes, Friday night. Yep. And like I said, that has muck on wood. I don't remember a time that's ever happened. So hopefully that never happens again. But at times, can we just maybe put something on our website to say, hey, we're having internet issues because I was contacted several times. Well, why is it working? I paid for this and it doesn't work. Yeah. I mean, this is how many people know. Hey, we're having a problem. Great. And thank you to you guys for getting this opportunity for us so at least we could get close. A little refinement probably wouldn't hurt. Thank you very much. Is there anything else that anyone has? If not, then I just need a motion to adjourn. I saw my vote. Give me a second. Tony Nude and Jim Seconded to adjourn the meeting. All those opposed, say aye. Motion carried. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you all. See you.