Thank you.
DTSD Webinars: Should I start all that over, I should start off? No, no, that's okay. Alright. I would like to call to order the october tenth, athletics and Activities meeting. We will start with a roll call Lindsay Kuck.
DTSD Webinars: I'm Carrie Singer, a school board member.
DTSD Webinars: Stacey Winslow, Superintendent
DTSD Webinars: Mike Montador, athletic Director Michelle Legi Board secretary.
DTSD Webinars: Erica Schmidt School Board.
DTSD Webinars: Do we have anyone joining us online? I haven't pulled up Zoom yet?
Jennifer Wallace: Hello! Yes, this is Jennifer Wallace. I'm one of the citizen advisors.
DTSD Webinars: Wonderful. Thank you.
DTSD Webinars: Alright. So
DTSD Webinars: We'll start with the approval of our summary minutes back from the April eleventh, 20, third meeting, so can I have a motion to approve those minutes. So moved, Erica Schmidt
DTSD Webinars: seconded Terry Singer. Okay, great approved. And then old business, which is the surveys that we discussed last fall and spring, I believe. Yep, surveys have been cleaned up ready to go as soon as we conclude the season.
DTSD Webinars: We'll send those out to parents and and get the data back from those are they separate? but and
DTSD Webinars: there's separate. Yeah, okay, that makes sense. And then are there student surveys and parent surveys. We did not do a student survey at this time. We have parent surveys. Okay?
DTSD Webinars: And so they'll go out to all the fall sports when fall sports conclude. Correct. Okay.
DTSD Webinars: Any discussion on the surveys?
DTSD Webinars: How long do you think? It would take to get all those answers kind of back. And
DTSD Webinars: you know, yeah, we usually wanna say, usually, but
DTSD Webinars: usually leave that window open for about 14 days. and then at the end of 14 days, we close it.
DTSD Webinars: Do you have like, is it? It's a Google way, it's a Google, Doc. Okay? So it'll it tabulates as soon as it's soon as it's done. It's tabulated. Okay? And then I think we talked about the goal being for you to go back to the coaches and
DTSD Webinars: discuss whatever it says and move forward from there. Kind of make them aware of
DTSD Webinars: the perceptions. Yeah, pros cons whatever. Yes, okay, alright
DTSD Webinars: there anonymous surveys. Is that correct? Yeah, okay.
DTSD Webinars: this is Terry Singer.
DTSD Webinars: I just can't remember back to April thirteenth, and I know not the minutes in front of me. Did we talk about doing a student survey at some point? I just we did talk about it at some point, but we wanted to start here and see what our feedback was, and then and then going in that direction. Okay, thank you.
DTSD Webinars: Okay.
DTSD Webinars: Moving on to the Varsity jacket advertisement. Same thing. As soon as we get closer to the end of the fall season we will set a date up, send out and a mass. Email. Once kids get their varsity letters for fall sports.
DTSD Webinars: We will have h and L team sales come in and measure kids and get the Varsity jackets back up and running.
DTSD Webinars: And this is new this year. When is that correct?
DTSD Webinars: Many come and ask about them. So we thought we would put it out there for anyone you want. and so that we we found the easiest way to do it makes parents
DTSD Webinars: feel better about it, as if we have a night where the kids can come in and get measured and get the right size, and they're not as apprehensive to spend that kind of money and hope that it fits.
DTSD Webinars: II forget, like are these. Look, do these look like the you know, old
DTSD Webinars: fashion football retro?
DTSD Webinars: I don't remember. I mean, none of my kids had them. I don't remember. Yeah.
DTSD Webinars: no, it's it's not a as as long as I've been here. It's not been a big push
DTSD Webinars: but the the over. The last year I've had several kids and parents call and say, Hey. you know, can we do a varsity jacket and what we like to do with the Varsity jacket, I think what we want to do is we want it to be uniform
DTSD Webinars: that when they get them they're all the same style. Same, you know, the same color, same look. And that's why we're like, okay, we'll bring someone in and have the parents order through this so that we approve it right? Because we don't want to just have kids come in with anything they want.
DTSD Webinars: so that's the that's the direction we'll go. And and kids have asked, and we'll see what the turnout is. It'll just be one evening for all sports. Okay.
DTSD Webinars: okay? And you said that would be after false yes, soon as we get to the conclusion of fall sports, we'll bring it in that way. Hopefully, we can make that the deadline for Santa Claus.
DTSD Webinars: Oh.
DTSD Webinars: and good point, yeah. Yeah. And is the idea of it to put all of their Varsity letters on it over time, or is that not? Yes. Okay, yes. So so typically what we do in in the athlete offices. You want a Varsity letter
the second time you win a varsity letter. You get a pen.
DTSD Webinars: and so they can put all their pins on their letters. They get their stuff embroidered on the sleeve. Wrestlers like to put their weight on there. You know, there's there's a lot of different things that happen to the jacket, but we wanna kinda get right right
DTSD Webinars: 110. So we we want to. You know, we just want to make sure that all takes place. And then we want to also have
DTSD Webinars: you know. We're working on a we're working on a specific patch for the Cocoa bean.
DTSD Webinars: So you know, when the when the Cocoa bean that we can get that patch on the jacket. So we're we're trying to dress it up a little bit, but that's a little different for everybody, whatever, like like a state champion or something. Yeah, you have all that. We'll put
DTSD Webinars: right right for state champions. We'll put all that. We'll put all that in there.
DTSD Webinars: That's neat. Okay.
DTSD Webinars: yeah, it does. Yeah, that'd be great.
DTSD Webinars: Okay, so we will help people to keep an eye on that. Yes, ma'am.
DTSD Webinars: the last time I remember my 2,000 son graduate had. He's got a jacket.
DTSD Webinars: so they must have had them
DTSD Webinars: then. Yeah, yeah, unless the individual sports had them. No, I do think that in the past they've had them, and they just kind of disappeared.
DTSD Webinars: And we don't. You know, we don't see anybody with them anymore. And my favorite is when they order them in the spring. And it's, you know, 75 degrees out. And they're wearing them.
DTSD Webinars: Yeah.
DTSD Webinars: that'd be good. Great. Well, do we do anything for any sports
DTSD Webinars: as in? Do we have esports.
DTSD Webinars: esports? Oh, no! At this point we do not.
DTSD Webinars: There's a club right here. We have a club. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So they do whatever they do, they do. Correct. Okay.
DTSD Webinars: are we moving to new business? Yes, I think so. Fall sports recap. Okay, let's just talk a little bit about fall sports is kind of exciting this week.
DTSD Webinars: You may have seen that the golf team as a team won the district. 3 title we believe that's the first golf boys golf district title since 1966. So it was. It's a pretty incredible feat. We have 2 young men who are gonna play next week in the PI. Individual tournament.
DTSD Webinars: and then the team will represent District 3 in the team. PI. Double a tournament, and that's on Wednesday next week. So all those will be at State College, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
DTSD Webinars: We had mid pen tennis championships finished this week.
DTSD Webinars: We have one singles player moving on to the district, 3 tournament, and we have one doubles team moving on to the district 3 tournament. But our team
DTSD Webinars: is going to play into District 3 as a team. They play tomorrow night at Mannheim Township, so that starts for tennis tomorrow night. and then if we just kinda go back down through the list across country, both boys and girls won their division.
And I want to say, the boys and girls have won in a division since
DTSD Webinars: 2,01415, and it's it's on a pretty good streak right now, so they'll have their midpank championships coming up this weekend.
DTSD Webinars: and then districts and states. Last year we had both our boys and girls teams qualify for states
DTSD Webinars: hopefully that we can get in that range again this year. But but certainly that was a great feat last year, and they're gonna try to repeat that as of right now. Soccer still undefeated on the season.
DTSD Webinars: Boys and girls soccer will both at this time currently fingers crossed. They'll make district playoffs, and
DTSD Webinars: possibly boys, for sure. But girls will are in in the seed right now to host the playoff game.
DTSD Webinars: So that's exciting. Football right now is in a district seated spot that would host a playoff game as well.
DTSD Webinars: So as far as fall sports are going. Football, field, hockey.
DTSD Webinars: boy, soccer girl soccer will all looks like host a first round playoff game.
DTSD Webinars: We have a few games left to play but it but but those things are trying that direction. So we've had an incredibly successful fall and continue in that way. So we're we're looking forward to. It's a crazy, busy time right now, because we're, you know.
DTSD Webinars: games are happening. As you know, games are happening on Tuesday, and we don't know what we're doing on Thursday. But we find out Tuesday at 8 that we gotta be somewhere on Thursday. So we're we we like the craziness of that, and that that's coming up. So that that's the full sports. Recap
DTSD Webinars: and I'll flip, if you don't mind, I'll Flip B. And C.
DTSD Webinars: Hall of Fame was this last weekend was Friday, and
DTSD Webinars: it was an incredible ceremony at the Country Club.
DTSD Webinars: It was. It was a great day.
DTSD Webinars: The Country Club did an awesome job. The the Hall of Fame Committee did a great job, and and the Hall of Fame inductees were genuinely
DTSD Webinars: thrilled to be there.
DTSD Webinars: They were awesome, and they were thrilled to be there, and Friday and Friday night at the game. They were still thrilled to be there. So they they'd had a special day with their families and everyone. So it was. It really turned out to be a a great day for that.
DTSD Webinars: so we are excited to be part of it. Unfortunately it had to be.
DTSD Webinars: I shouldn't say it like that. Thank you to Milton Hershey, for hosting us.
DTSD Webinars: but unfortunately it was not essentially a score. A home game. 42, 7.
DTSD Webinars: It's better than last year. Correct? Correct? Yeah. Why? Why do we? Why aren't we playing them
DTSD Webinars: alright? So that's a we asked that same question every year. Bishop Mcdavid is a a for a school
DTSD Webinars: that plays in the
DTSD Webinars: they play in the Keystone Division, which is a division we're in. They're part of the Midpen Conference. So they play in the Keystone division
DTSD Webinars: and they are
DTSD Webinars: They're they're just part of our schedule because they're a conference school. The the other options they would have would be to play in the Commonwealth Division, which is full of 6 a schools they choose not to, not to play there and then the the next division down would be
DTSD Webinars: the Colonial, or the keys, or Colonial, or the capital, and those are much smaller schools. It's it in the grand scheme of things. It would. It makes sense for them to be in the keystone.
DTSD Webinars: But it doesn't.
DTSD Webinars: So you know, when when you're looking at Big Picture as a conference, that's where they belong. Well.
DTSD Webinars: where where they belong, in the big picture, but they don't. It's it's tough. It's just a tough game for for everyone. I don't know that they've
DTSD Webinars: I think over the last. Probably 8 years. They may have lost 2 games in the division. and most of the games are mercy rolled. So it's
DTSD Webinars: there are some things the pia for them. It's a good spot to be in, because they get they get a good power rating out of it, and it helps them for their district runs.
DTSD Webinars: There is a pi double a competition
DTSD Webinars: formula that if they, if they would go to the finals next year or this year, if they go to the State finals this year they would bump up to 5 a. And then, if they bumped to 5 a. I think the conference would look at moving them to the Commonwealth Division.
DTSD Webinars: And
DTSD Webinars: if that, if that happens that you know, I think that helps. The problem is, if they don't make it to the finals. Then the competition formula starts over next year at 0.
DTSD Webinars: How could they not make it to the finals? If they've only lost 2 games? Well, the state finals. It could be. They're gonna play. They're gonna play tougher teams. Then. Yeah, yeah, they're gonna play other teams that
DTSD Webinars: don't have boundaries. Yeah, sorry. I wasn't thinking state. But you're right. Yeah. So I mean, there's
DTSD Webinars: there's hope.
DTSD Webinars: you know, we we we certainly do that. But yeah, it was. It was a I thought the kids played well, I thought the kids really represented themselves well, and I thought the kids had a great attitude going into it, you know. That's a tough game to prepare for
DTSD Webinars: but but every kid I spoke to during the course of the week, said
DTSD Webinars: as long as we leave Friday night, and we got better. We were better at something that we did, and and I thought they had the right approach and the right attitude. And I, you know, at times they did some things that were really well, just. It's a tough.
DTSD Webinars: you know, playing a Juggernaut like that. It it was a tough night for, but overall homecoming was great.
DTSD Webinars: Hall of Fame was great, and it was great ceremony. Homecoming is coming up on the twentieth that is going to be a senior night and homecoming all at the same time.
DTSD Webinars: And
DTSD Webinars: The
DTSD Webinars: it throws, you know. When you have that home game on car show weekend. It really messes up the schedule which created a homecoming senior night thing, because
DTSD Webinars: nobody wants to do homecoming at Milton Hershey. And you know. See your nice typically, save for your last home game. So we would have we could do hall of fame and homecoming in the same night. We would do. Hall of fame, pre-game, and homecoming at Halftime. We've done that before.
DTSD Webinars: but when you don't have that game at home, nobody wants to do homecoming somewhere else, so that kind of pushed it to the twentieth. So that was a thought process on that. But that is coming up September or October twentieth.
DTSD Webinars: and we look for should be a great night. Hopefully the weather holds out that late in October, but it should be an outstanding night for that.
DTSD Webinars: I did you mentioning Mike, the Hall of Fame? Sorry this is Stacey Winslow, the Hall of Fame and and Homecoming. II just wanted to give a shout out to the Hall of Fame Committee for being willing to move Hall of Fame off of homecoming.
DTSD Webinars: It was so nice
DTSD Webinars: the kids could just be at the luncheon and enjoy it. Not have to worry about getting back and getting changed and ready for Pep. Rally, not missing anything that was happening, and in the building, I think it allowed them to really appreciate
DTSD Webinars: the full
DTSD Webinars: luncheon and and all the Hall of Fame
DTSD Webinars: that ceremony has to offer
DTSD Webinars: where in the past, when it's been on the same date, they're they're a little stressed and and worried about it. So I just, I'm so appreciative, and it was such a nice event. If you ever have the chance to go, I highly recommend it. It's just really, really nice.
DTSD Webinars: Yeah. And and and Dr. Wizo is right. The the committee, the Hall of Fame Committee, since since I've been here, done a really nice job of
DTSD Webinars: working together and working with me to to make. You know, changes as we go that that we see fit for that. So they've been super. And and
DTSD Webinars: it is. It really is a really great event. A lot of people appreciate it. So coaching, coaching, search challenges and and just wanted to just kind of touch base on this real quick to give you a little bit insight.
DTSD Webinars: This is not a Hershey dairy township problem. This is a statewide problem. National problem.
DTSD Webinars: When we have coaching openings and other schools around us, have them
DTSD Webinars: many times. We're lucky to get one candidate to apply.
DTSD Webinars: and there are a lot of variables. With that, you know we could. We could all argue. It's you know, they don't want to. Coaches don't want to deal with the parents, or they don't want to do this, and a lot of it is that
DTSD Webinars: the the amount of teachers that coach
DTSD Webinars: has gone down over the years, and not everybody can get out of work
DTSD Webinars: at 1 30 to be ready for practice at 2, 30, or to get on a bus to go to a game right after school. So
DTSD Webinars: you know, typically, you have a little easier time when it's basketball that plays later in the evening, or you can adjust the practice schedules and things like that. So it has been tough.
DTSD Webinars: It's it's going to continue to be tough.
DTSD Webinars: But I just want to put that out there because a lot of times you know, we hear from parents and and other people that
DTSD Webinars: sometimes assume that when we advertise for a position that there's 20 and 30 people stand in line and we get our. We get the pick of them.
DTSD Webinars: And sometimes we don't. You know, we're begging people to kinda to come on board and help out. So
DTSD Webinars: just want to put that out there. It's not. It's not a Hershey dairy township problem. It's a. It's a statewide problem right now that
everyone's struggling to find coaches.
DTSD Webinars: Are there any
DTSD Webinars: sports that we have coming up in the winter or spring that we don't have a coach for yet. We are interviewing this week for baseball, and as of right now, that's the only
DTSD Webinars: head coach opening.
DTSD Webinars: if I if I remember correctly. But yeah, we we have some assistant positions that we have to fill in those, and those are tough, and and especially the tough ones, are middle school.
DTSD Webinars: The turnover at middle school typically is, you know, it happens very quickly, and they're in and out kind of thing. And and so those are. Those are tough ones to fill, but we we keep working on them. And
DTSD Webinars: we keep. We keep hounding teachers to to take on positions and and help us out. So
DTSD Webinars: this is Erica Schmidt. So you know. Often we hear from.
DTSD Webinars: you know, parents or
DTSD Webinars: community members, and they say, you know, I know 4 people that would like that position. Is that something we ever look into?
DTSD Webinars: have you had success? Not had success or just tentative to do that. Yeah.
DTSD Webinars: I hear those same things from the parents. You know. I know 4 people, or you know, my my kids club coach would like to do that. And and what we found when we when we contact club coaches is they have a great situation where they are.
DTSD Webinars: Their kids. Parents pay for those kids to be on those teams. They have a relationship with those families, and they do their thing. and it doesn't matter if they lose a game on a Saturday or Sunday, because they're going to come back next Saturday and Sunday and play somewhere else.
DTSD Webinars: What what happens in school sports are you have to take what comes in the door. You have to coach those kids the best of your ability. and you can't lose the Palmyra 3 times in a row.
DTSD Webinars: and that becomes the you know. There, there's there's accountability at the school level that there isn't in the club level.
DTSD Webinars: And so when club coaches
DTSD Webinars: and also club coaches don't practice until 5 or 6.
DTSD Webinars: So again, their jobs don't allow them to do that. They're in a good situation at the club level. They don't get a lot of pushback usually. So take to get away from that to come and coach at at the High School sport.
DTSD Webinars: It's a lot more challenging. And and some people to say, you know. it's a lot easier to sit in the stands and and just be critical.
DTSD Webinars: Then then go out and do it, and that you know, that ends up being the case most of the time.
DTSD Webinars: The last thing on my list is winter sports family Id opened today
DTSD Webinars: amazingly enough. So we will start registering kids for the the winter sports season families. We've been doing this now for 3, 4 years with family Id. Families are aware of it since middle school.
DTSD Webinars: It's open. We we advertise it
DTSD Webinars: so everyone can get on there and start filling out their paperwork, get their physicals done and and get started, and we will start practice. Oh, my God, I wanna say, it's the first second week of
DTSD Webinars: it's right before Thanksgiving.
DTSD Webinars: I do know that it's like second week of November. We start winter sports. So
DTSD Webinars: so we're as we're winding excited about the playoff season. We're also trying to gear up to get ready for the winter season to start. So family id what I don't understand. We thought it was something that like we talked in agenda playing that something that gets kids into different. We've talked about that we have, we have discussed that. But we sports family id family Id basically is a
DTSD Webinars: as a Internet-based program where families will go in. And and when when you used to have to do all the paperwork by hand, you'd send it home, and you filled everything.
DTSD Webinars: Well, that's that's what it sounded like. Yeah, I thought, that's what it was until you explained it. Now you just go
DTSD Webinars: one yeah, one time. Now you go in and fill it out, and it's good. Unless your address changes, it's good forever, and then you just go in and put your physical and everything uploaded there. So this is to get so that's out. Now for parents to do. Sports has been. Openersport has been opened up for everyone if they're interested. But we have talked about the student id
DTSD Webinars: as far as
DTSD Webinars: for entrance into to games and those kinds of things we've we've talked about it.
DTSD Webinars: Brian, I'm losing off the top. My head don't remember the name of the company's the local photographer. Does all our sports pictures, do you know? No, it's Brian pictures.
DTSD Webinars: Oh, he's gonna be mad at me.
DTSD Webinars: But anyway, Brian has a Wanted to do a pilot program with us that we're considering doing where.
DTSD Webinars: when he takes the the photos of the athletes, takes the head shots.
DTSD Webinars: they would download an app on their phone.
DTSD Webinars: they would put their information in the app. Then it would come to the athletic office. We would approve it, and they can just flash their phone with their picture and information to games.
DTSD Webinars: because we let we let like in the winter sports. We'll let all winter sport athletes in for free. So that was a way for us to
DTSD Webinars: instead of trying to. You know, kids come in and say, I'm gonna winners for? And we're looking at rosters. Yeah, yeah, they give us their name. And we look at the roster and say, Okay, yeah, you're in. So it's something that we we talked about piloting.
DTSD Webinars: They would have the app. And the nice thing about that is that you know, we have to approve their app. They can't use it until it gets approved in the athletic office, and then it would be their picture and their information, and they would just like an like an id, except it'd be on their ph10, cool they use. We used to do it a couple of years back before Covid. The athletes had a card.
DTSD Webinars: and I think it was. I can't remember if it was
DTSD Webinars: just for fall, if all athletes and if it was the whole year yeah, the the problem with the cards. There's there's 2 problems I've found. Problem number one is they don't have them when they come in the game. I forgot my card, and then number 2 is
DTSD Webinars: depending on what? What day we do. Team photos on. It takes 2 to 3 weeks to get those cards back.
DTSD Webinars: And so we go through 3, 4 weeks of games before they ever have their cards. So we're still using the paper right? So that's kinda it's something that Brian and I've talked about, and and something that we wouldn't consider a pilot program through athletics. And then maybe we talked well.
DTSD Webinars: I didn't talk about it, but he brought up about there are some other things we could do school wide with it with all the kids. So
DTSD Webinars: there's there's some avenues with it, but we'll check into it. See if there's
DTSD Webinars: any kind of do you know, if, like.
DTSD Webinars: we could kind of do the same thing with.
DTSD Webinars: like the Drama Club. And this is not athletics, but you know, and the, you know, music, so they can kind of go whether it's to different schools, or I don't know
DTSD Webinars: people just to kind of include them in something like that. I don't know.
DTSD Webinars: Yeah, I think Brian takes pictures of almost all of our activities. Yeah. so it's it's some, you know, again, something worth discussing
DTSD Webinars: or talking to. Yeah, I mean, it's obviously
DTSD Webinars: yeah. The music, you know the plays and the music.
DTSD Webinars: you know. It's one here at school, but maybe the other schools.
DTSD Webinars: you know. I don't know if it's something that they could
DTSD Webinars: appreciate, too. And it's something to think about. Maybe
DTSD Webinars: who's gonna do that? I don't know.
DTSD Webinars: That's all I have on my my docket. If anybody it's got something for me.
DTSD Webinars: I do. This is Erica Schmidt.
DTSD Webinars: Let's we talk about the concession stand. We got that all changed again. Right? Yes, Cheryl.
DTSD Webinars: she's like,
and then.
DTSD Webinars: yeah, okay, well, we just you know, we talked about it happening this week. And now it's changed. So if you could. Well, so when we talked about it last week, thinking, Okay, it did make sense just to bump it back beyond parents night to, you know, one night, but then, when I talked to Scott this morning, Scott Kennedy, who is the project manager with Laura construction? Who's the contractor? He said. Even though
DTSD Webinars: we could that
DTSD Webinars: trying to get the stand moved this week, because in best case we were to have permits from the
DTSD Webinars: township back by Friday to get the stand moved. He already had contractors lined up. This has already been bumped back so far
DTSD Webinars: with having contractors lined up for Monday. That was a big part. Then he says we really
DTSD Webinars: can't change that schedule. Let's see what I can do. So he and I were going back and forth quite a bit today till he came back and said he finally just heard from the county. The county has an interesting or not the county rather dairy township the permitting process.
DTSD Webinars: Decker.
DTSD Webinars: II would have thought, maybe as a contractor in this area they would have known that the township permitting process a little better. Again. Remember, this is low bid. So this is what we're dealing with. The permitting process is so when they apply back at the end of August. Or yeah, I guess. At the end of August.
DTSD Webinars: It was a 30 day
DTSD Webinars: turnaround. Well, when he called a check on it sometime in September, when he thought the 30 days was about up. It was, no, it's not 30
DTSD Webinars: calendar days. It's 30 business days which bumps us back to 1012. So this thing has just been already moving back and back. If you remember, we we board approved this project in June, till all the notice to proceed was issued, and the permits were sent to the township. We're already 2 months behind. So that was some of the the push to keep this thing moving. He's got contractors lined up. Part of the problem is, too, if we create delays on their end, and it cost them money
DTSD Webinars: will get billed. You know there's going to. There's going to be bills that we have to incur. So it that was part of the push to keep it moving.
DTSD Webinars: Anyway, the county came back. Hi keeps the county. I apologize, the township told him. Today they actually they're still waiting for the third party. So when the township and the permits are submitted to the township. They're outsourced to a third port party for
DTSD Webinars: the first review. They come back in 30 days. Then, when they come back, or within the 30 days when they come back, then the county I'm done. We know what to be. It's okay. The township will do their part and actually do the review of the review.
DTSD Webinars: So, but we don't even get any kind of a here. And I'm talking about it today. We don't get any feedback during this 30 days, so we really don't know they could come back and say, now, it's a small project. We don't expect that. But they could come back at the end of 30 days and say, who knows what? That something's not kosher, and we have to do something else to be in compliance with
DTSD Webinars: township code. Don't expect that, but that's what we're waiting for. So until they come back. And the township does their piece
DTSD Webinars: that buys us time. So you know, basically, I said to him, I said, well, that kind of solves our problem, doesn't it? I don't have to worry. We automatically. He's not going to be able to start Demo on Monday, so he already has an issue with his contractors, which means there's no additional cost to us if his contractors get bumped back.
DTSD Webinars: So that's kind of how that's so. I apologize for all that back and forth.
DTSD Webinars: because we really thought it would be as simple as okay. Let's just bump back one night, not thinking about. And and I was out Thursday and Friday. So he did try to contact me, but did not get a hold of me, and did not leave a message, so I did not hear from him until yesterday. So that's when all of this started with
DTSD Webinars: th the schedule, and I appreciate the schedule. And I, you know he and I just really hadn't talked about it contract. So now that all said, We can get through Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. That should get through through all of our parent nights.
DTSD Webinars: He's going to bump his electrician and the shed mover back to next Friday, so that we're we can at least have the the stand set for playoffs.
DTSD Webinars: But it'll get us through parent so hopefully that helps keep. I mean, that's yeah. That's keep everybody. I'm happier with that plan kind of worked out to our benefit. That the township
DTSD Webinars: it's a little delayed on these permits.
DTSD Webinars: so yeah, that's that's where it stands. But then but really this, everything does have to be out. He is. We were in there this morning. There is some concern with the weight of the shed, because of all the the liquids that are everywhere and the stuff that is stacked. So what we are asking is that at the end of whatever sport team has their event. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, at the end of their event, trying to get things out of there, we'll have some play on sometime, you know, if you still need in there Thursday. But then, as of Friday morning, it's getting moved
DTSD Webinars: right. So next Friday is that next twentieth the twentieth? Okay, so
DTSD Webinars: that part's great.
DTSD Webinars: and very helpful.
DTSD Webinars: when and I know you said we're going to have electricity
DTSD Webinars: to it.
DTSD Webinars: But you, said the refrigerator, and the cooler.
DTSD Webinars: Is that all that it can?
DTSD Webinars: Is that the capacity of it? Because there's also like? No, they they did. He, the electrician, was there today with with Scott Kennedy, and actually met with a couple of our maintenance guys. And I know Phil had been out there, too, to look at technology. I think you're working with your coaches and and some mics looked at it. So we've tried to get everybody in that that get eyes on this. As to what we need. No, there they recognize that there are more circuit breakers and things in there, and things that they plugged in. So they're going to make sure
DTSD Webinars: from their survey of the the area the electrician is going to make sure there's enough power cords or power setup to the stand once it's flipped for everything in there. Yes, okay, so they did. They did recognize that there's a lot more. It's not just the 2 plugins. So okay, and I never understood. Why do we have to close the restrooms? Because the roofs coming off the roof is coming off, and that's coming up right away. That's the first piece of the demo. I'm sorry you did say that before.
DTSD Webinars: How many Portopotties will we have.
DTSD Webinars: Yeah, II planned for 4. Okay.
okay.
DTSD Webinars: so to wait in line.
DTSD Webinars: And then are they going to?
DTSD Webinars: And I'm just getting a lot of questions from people. No, no, I have questions, and I apologize. I know that this is kind of moving, and this has not been
DTSD Webinars: I think, with with not having a director of buildings and grounds. I wasn't asking all the questions I needed to probably ask to keep this project moving as far as the the very specifics of it. So, yeah, I get that now that it's kind of rolling.
DTSD Webinars: rolling with it. So are they going to like fence off the whole area like, what is it gonna look like
DTSD Webinars: when people are coming in like, how
DTSD Webinars: well they will have a staging area so that the the first. I believe they said, the first 8 parking spots there, and that area on this side of the fence, and the parking spots will be
DTSD Webinars: their their their staging area. I mean, they need from a safety standpoint they will have. I don't know what it will look like, but I know they it'll be cleaned up at the end of every day and and set aside so that it's not
DTSD Webinars: it's not a hazard part of the requirements of the yeah job site.
DTSD Webinars: But I don't. As to what they'll do specifically, I don't know. I can find out
DTSD Webinars: trying to think if there's any other questions.
DTSD Webinars: I mean, if for some reason, too, that you're we're seeing. If I'm not out like that, that you do notice it's not. I mean, we'll all be kind of driving around and looking at it. If it doesn't look like it should look. We can always have that conversation with them. But they did say it would be staged and cleaned up at the end of every day and ready for events that evening. Okay.
DTSD Webinars: alright, that should be good. I have a question just now to recap, to see if I understand. So it's accurate to say it's delayed, and that demolition is starting next Friday, the twentieth
DTSD Webinars: the shed with the shed will be this the stand. The demo will not start until we actually have permits in hand, so we'll not start until at least Monday, the twenty-threerd. But they're not even going to schedule it at this point until permits are in hand. Approved. So is the end. The finish date been delayed, it ultimately would, I mean at at this point, right now, I think we've agreed to an end date of January 20 sixth. But this will, I'm sure this will come back with another 2 weeks added to it.
DTSD Webinars: I mean realistically, at the end of the day. We want this needs to be open for the start of the spring season, and prior to. So people get set up, or whatever. And that's so. We know we have a little bit of. We will room in there just trying to keep
DTSD Webinars: keep it moving, though, so that in case we do have some weather delays at this point, it's not a big thing, and and he knows it too. Once they can actually get started and keep moving. This thing can move pretty quickly. It's just the getting started. Part. So yes, so the move. This the stand will be the concession stand. Existing stand will be moved next Friday.
DTSD Webinars: with the electrician running, the power handling the power piece of it. Demo, to start. Note. Well.
DTSD Webinars: at the earliest. The 20 third
DTSD Webinars: permits pending.
DTSD Webinars: and then we don't know
DTSD Webinars: any district playoff. Yeah. is there?
DTSD Webinars: We were just talking about, you know, Case, for now the we
DTSD Webinars: talked about putting the concession stand against the fence.
DTSD Webinars: Is there a chance to put it.
DTSD Webinars: kind of perpendicular. Next to the restrooms is that, or is that gonna be in the way that'll be in there? They won't be able to get their equipment in. So that's the
DTSD Webinars: that the space they can get it up against that fence that still gives them enough room to get all their their equipment around. Okay, and that's why it, too, as soon as playoffs are done, and we've got the confirmation we're done. We'll make sure everything's out. But then they're going to get rid of that as soon as possible. So that gives them
DTSD Webinars: free workspace in that area. Okay? And is the roof coming off of the
DTSD Webinars: the
DTSD Webinars: storage area. Also. Yeah. So everything in that storage area has to come out. Yes. And who's gonna do that?
DTSD Webinars: That's our plan.
DTSD Webinars: Okay? So this was a question for that
DTSD Webinars: Thursday night. Then
DTSD Webinars: can we
DTSD Webinars: put the stuff from the concession stand in that storage shed until they move the concession stand. We can get it back in there
DTSD Webinars: like where do we do with all that? I guess we have a few cages in the basement that we're gonna move some stuff to. So we can do that. We can just load it in the back of a Gator and take it down to the cage
DTSD Webinars: like the hot dog roller and all that. Yeah, we should be able to move that stuff in there. Okay.
DTSD Webinars: do you think we can put some stuff in the storage
DTSD Webinars: area just for like that weekend in between the 2 doors. Yes, or in yeah. The one that's in. Yeah. As long as it's what you're talking about on the 20, on the twentieth, on the twentieth to put it in there. And yeah, like all those gatory, you know all that stuff if we could slide it in there on the shelves, and then.
DTSD Webinars: once the concession stand is moved, we can move back in there probably Monday, the twenty-third right.
DTSD Webinars: can confirm they're doing it Friday morning. So I think once everything's set and powers to it, you can try and you can get back in. I just well, what do you?
DTSD Webinars: I can confirm what their time schedule is for that Friday. So yeah, once they're done, they're not demo. They're not doing any more work on site. That's the only extent of the work that day. So, once that's done, II would say the concession stands all yours again, too.
DTSD Webinars: So we just need an interim. Yeah, so that we should be able to do that Friday. Yeah, that'd be easier than taking all of it.
DTSD Webinars: I mean, sometimes some keep. Some booster parents can take some stuff home, but some stuff is.
DTSD Webinars: It would just be really easy to just kind of slide it in that storage area. I guess.
DTSD Webinars: Yeah, we can make that work. Okay.
DTSD Webinars: I did clean that out at least the one side earlier. We'll just keep it a secret. Well, I think once it's touched. If it's not going anywhere, throw it away, or yeah, store it, or take it home, or I don't know. So no, I mean we've got. We've got some room, but again I think the more we clean out and are ready for that
DTSD Webinars: the roof to come off and the stand to go away, then the better will be yeah. But they're not going to be pulling the roof off like on the twenty-threerd. Necessarily, we don't know that until I we know about. So as soon as I have a date. So I mean, he's gonna keep me, you know, keep us posted so as long once he hears from the township. As to the turnaround on the that permitting process, then then he'll know cause. Then he can schedule his guys, and then we'll have a confirmed start date, and that's when they can start the demo, the roof and whatever else goes next.
DTSD Webinars: And when it's all, when playoffs and everything is all over, then it like the cooler and all that stuff can go down to the basement.
Okay.
DTSD Webinars: alright.
DTSD Webinars: That was a lot of questions. Thank you. No, that's no. That's okay. A lot happened today. So thank you for your patience. You know, I just want to have answers when they ask me.
DTSD Webinars: Yeah, if anything comes up that we haven't answered here, just just let me know, and I can. If I don't have the answers. I can get the answers, so as long as I keep hearing more information I'll I'll share it with everybody as well.
DTSD Webinars: So on
DTSD Webinars: the nineteenth next Thursday night. We will just plan on putting as much as we can into that
DTSD Webinars: shed or into the storage closet right next to the bathrooms. Right
DTSD Webinars: perfect. Alright.
DTSD Webinars: thank you. Thank you.
DTSD Webinars: Anything else.
DTSD Webinars: Okay? Public comment. I don't believe there is. I lost my zoom. Okay. I don't believe there's anybody on for public comment.
DTSD Webinars: So we don't have another athletics meeting scheduled in the 2324 school year. I believe I just double checked. I think we're only having one this year. Correct? Yes. Okay. So.
DTSD Webinars: wow, be quite a while. Keep forgetting. December is when we
DTSD Webinars: yes, oh, okay. So if anything comes up, we'll just email perfect. Okay, alright. Can I have a motion to adjourn the meeting?
DTSD Webinars: So moved Erica Schmidt, second Terry Singer. Alright meeting adjourn. Thank you.
DTSD Webinars: Thanks. Everybody.