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Innovation and Community Engagement
The District held an informational session on the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program (MYP) to
our feeder schools to promote the MYP pipeline. An informational session was also held with our staff during a
Late Start Wednesday to communicate where the District is in the authorization process and to recruit teachers
for the sophomore year (Middle Years Program Level 5).

Business Office

Buildings and Grounds

Construction Update
Pepper Construction along with Ujamma hosted a virtual contractor outreached session on Wednesday,
December 9, 2020 (the flyer was included in your packet). Prior to the session, the invitations were sent to a list
of known minority contractors. This session was conducted to introduce and increase minority participation to
the stadium construction project. These sessions are advantageous to the district and the minority contractors.
For example, if a contractor is interested in bidding on the project, but cannot afford the bid bond (deposit), they
may be able to become a subcontractor to a larger contractor. In addition, the session can be used for contractors
to network with other contractors and the become known to our construction partners. The session was also
timed ahead of the next bid cycle that will occur in December. Additional outreach sessions are planned before
the next bid in early 2021. There were 18 people that attended the session, some of those people were FAC
committee members.
Stadium Bid

The summer projects will be bid separately. This is done for many reasons such as, longer lead times may be
needed to procure materials or projects that take a longer time to build should be out to bid sooner. Also, the
sooner projects reach bid, the better the bids, in some instances. Moreover, an earlier bid will ensure that the
district in on the contractors’ calendar before other non-district projects are scheduled. The stadium project will
bid in December (the flyer was included in your packet). The successful bidders will be presented at the
January Board meeting for approval. The bid documents will be available on December 11, 2020 until January
7, 2021, when the bids will be publicly opened read at 10:30 am at the district office.