When discussing um with the students back in September, much of their feedback surrounded improvements they would like to see to their building. While they didn't use these exact terms, their main request involved modernizing the space. Using my notes from the Glenidge meeting, as well as notes from the Glenidge community night, here is how these improvements will most benefit Glenidge students. First, right now, students often have to leave classes like art and gym 5 to 10 minutes early just so they can get to their next class on time. A rearrangement and modernization of learning spaces will significantly shorten transition time from classes to specials, allowing students more time to be creative and to get their wiggles out. Right now, Glenrich classrooms are structured in a very closed off manner. If you are at the class, if you're in a class at the end of your grade section, you have almost no interaction with other classes, let alone any other grade levels. Many students told me that they wish they had more chances to work collectively with students from other classes. An upgrade to these spaces would would allow for more collaboration and time for connection across grade levels. This not only benefits students by building group work and leadership skills, but also prepares them for wideon middle school where they will be in classes with and working with many different students throughout the day. So that's an important part of the transition too.

This not only benefits students by building group work and leadership skills, but also prepares them for wideon middle school where they will be in classes with and working with many different students throughout the day. So that's an important part of the transition too. And then also students at Glenidge made it very clear to me that they while they would greatly benefit from renovations and updates, they love the exterior of their school, which is why it's so important that we keep Glengid's shell as a representation of the history and community of the school. These were just a few of the ways that these additions and improvements made to CTE, Gayfield, and Glenidge would better the learning experience of Clayton students. Clayton students absolutely adore their community and schools, which is why we are so grateful that the school board is considering these improvements. Again, um now just looking ahead to our 2026 semester. I am very excited to continue my work as student rep. I currently have meetings with Glenidge, Marramac, and Captain Setup, and I'm in the process of coordinating with Wound. I am really looking forward to meeting with these focus groups again as last semester they provided me with lots of insight and laughs. So, I'm very excited to continue my work. Thank you. >> Thank you so much, Nina. I think um as always, the student perspective is so valuable and um helpful.

Thank you. >> Thank you so much, Nina. I think um as always, the student perspective is so valuable and um helpful. And I especially liked how you talked about the um registration and enrollment increasing for CTE classes at the high school. Not something I've thought about, but knowing right there what you said that not only are on average I guess every kid signing up for at least one but more that means more than one CT class tells me this reaffirms our decision that to add more dedicated CT space at the high school. So thanks for pointing that out. >> It's like by far the most popular like section. >> Yeah. So that makes me feel good about our decisions about what projects we identified as priorities. So thank you. Um, next on the agenda is our presentation um, from our architects, design teams, and construction managers. And as they're coming up, um, I just wanted to speak on behalf of the board, and I apologize. I'm kind of repeating a little what Dr. Patel said, but I just also wanted to remind the community where we've come in this process. And like she said, about two years ago, we started this study of our facilities. It had been about 15 years since we had done a facility study prior to this which was definitely overdue. Um through the study we realized most of our facilities are not meeting the current and future needs of our students.

It had been about 15 years since we had done a facility study prior to this which was definitely overdue. Um through the study we realized most of our facilities are not meeting the current and future needs of our students. So we took action um which was going to the community to get feedback. We engaged all stakeholders, community members, students, parents, teachers, administrators, support staff, coaches, uh former schoolboard members, city council members, the mayor, the city manager just to gather feedback to help guide our decisions. We wanted to know what are the community's priorities in relation to our facilities. So, we've worked with these architects, design teams, construction managers, and other experts that helped us guide the study and assess the actual current state of our of our facilities. So, and as Dr. Patel said in addition to all the public meetings that you've seen us discuss this at um we've also had workshops, forums, surveys, offered tours, and the board has met in closed session and in retreats many times to discuss all of this um behind closed doors to review the design plans, cost estimates. We've analyzed the finances, asked very tough questions, and made very critical decisions that led us to where we are tonight. Um, we hope these decisions will impact um and shape the future of our district for generations to come.

We've analyzed the finances, asked very tough questions, and made very critical decisions that led us to where we are tonight. Um, we hope these decisions will impact um and shape the future of our district for generations to come. Through the process, we've eventually identified priorities and we developed an actionable plan to address the facility challenges which led us to consider what we're going to vote on tonight which is placing a ballot issue referendum on the ballot in April that we will be voting on later which will address just the first phase of facility renovations and upgrades in the district. So, I invite the design teams to come up and make their presentation, but just a brief reminder of where we've come and how we got to this point. So, thank you all for your involvement along the way the last couple years. All right, good evening. Um, I'm going to run through some of the intro slides. We've covered a lot of it, but um, tonight we're going to give an update on the facilities master plan, where we've come from, and where we're headed next. Um, following tonight's presentation, all the materials that we discuss will be available on the website for the community at home. So, that's a key detail. Um, but here we go. Let's jump in. So, as it was said, uh, we've been planning this for nearly two years. It's been a combination of input sessions and working with experts to shape a vision that reflects our community's priorities.