001April 24th and I call this meeting order. Um I'm going to start with just a a pretty basic land acknowledgement. Can I uh ask that the board before you uh adopt or approve the agenda? Um we do have a change to the consent agenda. Amy, what's that change? Can you remind me please? Uh we are withdrawing the resation for Sh. So, we're going to recommend that the board um approve the agenda as amended with the removal of Sharia Burns and his resignation from the consent agenda. Would anyone like to make that? Uh I I move that uh change the consent agenda and approve it um to remove uh Miss Burns from the resignation. All right. Can I get a second, please? I circle. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? Great. The consent agenda
002is amended as stated and the agenda the agenda is approved. All right. Uh carrying on. Uh we acknowledge that we are on the traditional homelands of the Puallup tribe. The Puallup tribe have lived on and stewarded these lands since the beginning of time and continue to do so today. We recognize that this land land acknowledgement is one small step toward true allyship and we commit to uplifting the voices, experiences and histories of the indigenous people of this land and beyond. Thank you. Uh this is an opportunity for public comment. Um right now I have two names on here. I do want to just um say quickly as I often think is important that um a board meeting is a meeting of the board in public. It is not a meeting with the public. Um, we
003are very interested in hearing what folks have to say. We will not, however, respond to you. That is not because we don't care or we're not listening. That's just part of the public meeting act. And, um, we do appreciate hearing from you. We have two um, public comment periods. Um, I'm going to assume that you both would like to speak at the beginning. Yes. Great. And, uh, if there are folks that want to speak uh, again or a new at the end, we will hear from you then. That all being said, uh, Miss He just reminded there's a three minute to the public comment and there's a time where you want us to stand. That's great. Please note that. Yep. Okay. I'm going to make this quick. I'm Newman. This is my wife, Teresa Hample.
004We're here to speak to the board and Bashan community about Sharia Burns, Captain Coleman, and the events that unfolded from November 8th, 2024 until now. Our son's triannual re-evaluation for his IEP was due November 16th, 2024. Never happened. Shria Burn, school psychologist, contacted my wife on November 8th, 2024 to schedule Jack's triannual re-evaluation. And Teresa had questions. Primarily, she was curious if we should consider doing his re-evaluation closer to the end of the 25 school year. As our son was becoming a Vashon High School student from Familyland, Sharia was asked to contact the sped teachers at Vashan High School to see what they thought and to get back to my wife. Shria noted something to the effect on the contact attempt report where she wrote requested advice from high school teachers on whether to evaluate
005prior to entering bash under high school. Close but not exactly what we asked. The next time we had communication of any time with Sharia was when my wife called her on February 28th, 2025. It was a happy surprise when Sharia answered the phone. She did seem confused and needed to be reminded of who our son was and why she was being called. It was strange because this re-evaluation was passed due. How could he not be on her radar? Her confusion was forgiven as she has many students under her care. Sharia is responsible for all 6th through 12th grade students. Sharia promised on February 28th. A phone call to send a reevaluation notification consent within 7 to 10 days. Crickets. A message was left on March 18th. Crickets. A tur message was left in the early
006morning of March 26, giving her 48 hours to respond or we would escalate. Crickets. An even turser message was left late on the afternoon of March 27, letting her know she had 24 hours. Crickets. Finally, after pre-spring break voicemail to Katherryn Coleman on March 26th, Katherine and my wife spoke on Katherine and my wife spoke on April 7th. The same night we received a voicemail from Sharia and emails in our inboxes the next day. 5 months since our first contact and nearly 5 months since my son's re-evaluation during a meeting with Katherine on Friday, April 11th, regarding Sharia's unreturned voicemails on professional email communications and concerns over some of the language on the new re-evaluation notification consent. We all checked our files to see if our dates matched up. It was then my wife noticed
007a file in Catherine's computer. Katherine had turned her laptop towards us to show us something or another. There was a file folder dated November 8, 2024. Next to it in bold black editors was a note saying we had declined services or something to that effect. Upon request, Katherine sent us a copy what we believe are all the documents from the folder. What my wife and I found inside was infuriating. Sharia Burns have blatantly falsified documents including but not limited to the contact attempt report via re-evaluation notification consent and prior written notice grading from 118 through 1127 on the same contact attemp report that sign my wife's request to have Sharia speak to high school teachers where she reported we declined current reevaluation cycle there was a lot of surprise surrounding the discovery of the documents
008our son's teacher of recordinda Hawkins was surprised to hear this she's never been contacted Katherryn Coleman seemed to be surprised there were many people who were surprised Do you know who was the most surprised? My wife and me. Good job. Hi, I'm Teresa. I'll try to talk fast here. Um, ready? Considering the school year was Sheria's first year ever as a school psychologist, and she had only been with the ISD for two months at the time of our incident, we held Katherine Coleman, director of student services lack of supervision to be as serious as Sharia's actions. Katherine, whose job it is to make sure the district's bed documentation and services are OSPI compliant, who allowed our child's documents to cross her desk unreed and is negligent. Every piece of paper Sharia has touched needs to
009be audited. Sharia's resignation, which is on tonight's agenda, could be couldn't be more timely, but she remains a liability to this district. An audit must be done immediately to protect the district and show OSPI who is investigating this matter that the district is proactive. We believe strongly that Katherine Coleman cannot have anything to do with the audit. She is untrustworthy source for accuracy and the errors found put her job in jeopardy. Since speaking to Katherine on Monday uh April 7th and the first seeing the falsified documents on Friday, April 11th, addressing this has been a full-time job. I spent hours meeting in meetings, composing emails, um reading documents, speaking on the phone, um and with Vash on CPAC special education advisory council, and speaking to other parents who have been similarly affected by staff and
010department run by Katherine Coleman. I know we are the not the only parents whose child has suffered because of Catherine's department, and we now know of at least one open lawsuit. This has led me to think about Spanish students whose parents work full-time and jobs that do not have time to dedicate to a fight. Of parents who do not speak English and would not have been able to read the note on Catherine's computer. The parents who are constitutionally incapablely as being as dogged and forward as I am and sadly the parents who just don't care enough. If Sharia had done this to our son, she would have done this to similar stu other students. Katherine Coleman was obviously not supervising Shria or checking her work product. I strongly encouraged fed parents to review their child's
0112425 documents. And lastly, and most importantly, I want to remind all of you on the board, told one thing crystal clear. It was our son's future, his life. And it wasn't for me and my tenacity and my vigilance. My son and my wife support, our son would have started his freshman year, his first year back in traditional schooling with absolutely no services. And this is because Sharia Burns falsified official documents and Katherine Coleman failed in her job to be a final safeguard for the district's most vulnerable students. Thank you. Thank you. Um, is there anyone else who would like to make public comments at this time? Um, at this time we're going to move on to the consent agenda. Uh, can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as amended? I move to
012approve agenda. A second, please. I second. All those in favor? Any opposed? Consent agenda passes as previously amended. Um, okay. Uh, moving on to Thank you everybody for being here tonight and thanks to our Mr. Folks who are here this evening as well. Um, I'm excited to hear uh from the students tonight. So really what I'm doing tonight is sharing some upcoming events. Um my transition uh is is kind of currently uh in transition. I'd share with you there's going to be three days where I will be in Breton. I'll share those dates with you tonight. May 12th, May 21st, and May 28th. I'll be in Breton and a possible day in June. Um we're thinking maybe the 9th or the 11th. Not quite sure yet if that will work out, but we're kind of
013placeholding that. Um, and I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but there's reciprocal agreements with other districts where um, they will reimburse the district for my time uh, that I spend there away from BISD. Um, also just want to let you know I'm going to be away from the district for the annual uh, Washington Association of School Administrators Superintendent Conference May 4th through the 6th. May 4th is a Sunday, just let you know. So, I'll be I'll be back on Tuesday. Um, where is it this year? It's at Lake Schlan. Um, and then May 8th is our next board meeting. Um, that will feel like it'll come pretty quick. And so, we will be May what? May 8th. Okay. May 8th uh is our next board meeting and then our next board meeting in
014May is the 22nd. Um, I know that um, okay. So, I I won't name that. Great. Um, and then I still don't quite know my last day in the district, but I can tell you that June 24th is the last day for students. Um, graduation is going to be June 14th. Uh we'll have senior breakfast on the 13th, senior sunrise and sunset and all those good things. Um we've been talking about kind of the last board meeting for our senior here uh as a student rep and that's going to probably be June 12th. Um I mean not June 12th of the uh probably the May 22nd meeting is usually because the uh the your June your June schedule gets busy pretty quick seniors. So we'll send we'll send 20 seconds. Yeah. I won't be there.
015Then we will we will put you then we will Yeah. We will let you and I talk. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So we should be able to make it work. We'll make we'll either This isn't your last one, right? That's all I want to know. It's not this, right? No, it's not this one. Okay. If anything, it'll be the eighth or it'll be that first meeting in June. Okay. All right. Then we always have to have special meeting for a special person. A Oh. So, uh, but I'm looking forward to celebrating your service here, um, as long as as well as your, uh, your competit. So, pretty pretty quick, uh, board report tonight. And let's, uh, hear from our students. So, what are you excited to hear? Because we feel like we Well, it's been two
016weeks since the last meeting. We can give you a little refresh of what we said last meeting. Um, no, but I we're starting uh AP tests next week. Um, or the following week after that. Um, and people are getting prepared. We're ending the school year. Ninth graders have their um student conferences tonight, which is new. We haven't done that before, so that's pretty cool. Um, wearing a tie today, hence why I knew something was going on. Um, and can you can you tell us about the um student reps here on the board of the succession plan for that? Oh, we are um that's what I'm excited. Oh, okay. You're a part of it. Um, we're making a survey and we're going to send it out to students and they're going to fill it out. We
017have a form that consists of like they're going to have to have a letter of wreck. They're going to have to write a few like a paragraph about why they should be here and then we're going to pick I think the top three kids something like that and we'll interview them and then from those we'll pick who and grades 9 through 11 are eligible primarily looking for underassmen. So like Oscar and Hazel and the third person is hopefully a um someone who's also leaving. So looking primarily for the under grads, but if they're not there yet, then that's okay. Um but yeah, we're super excited for it. Um we're hoping that we get a lot of um different people coming in so we can help diversify our group a little bit. Um, but yeah, I
018think that's all we got. You didn't know it was a lifetime contract? No, no, no, no, no. But and have you shared with the board your postsecary plans? Yeah. Well, I think I mentioned it, but I'm going to Washington State University and studying speech and hearing sciences to then go to my masters and get um yeah, my masters in speech and hearing sciences. Become speech pathologist and work with children here. Here, work with children here. We definitely need you here. There's plenty of people wrong. Guarantee you an interview. Oh, school. Do I get like you can't get scenery? No, you can't. Not there. Not there. In bre. Who's gonna be here so I can talk? Yeah. Okay, perfect. I'll see you in like six years. I'm sure I'll be keeping close track of your progress.
019Okay, great. Um, is that it? Yeah. Okay. I hope we get Oscar back on a more regular basis. I don't I'm sure he does. I knew that's why he's not here. He's in class. Oh yeah, he scissors. Um Cassie, we'd love to hear from you a board report. Yeah. Um hi everybody. Happy Thursday. So we are in our seventh operating month of 2425. Um we um have [Music] 54.85% of revenues in and our expenditures are at 59.52%. Um Peter, if you could just scroll down a little bit. Um our fund balance is a little bit higher in general fund compared to this time last year. Um slightly higher revenues, but again our expenditures are um up quite a bit, almost 5% actually. Um so we're keeping a close eye on that. Um the revenues in
020March include our basic aortionment. Um and one thing um to note there is that the inter fund transfer from capital projects posted in March. Um so the salaries that were from the captech levy um I moved between the funds um and we're going to start doing some more direct charging of capital um cap tech levy projects directly to capital projects so that we um kind of avoid the conversation with the seao um of reimbursement versus inter fund transfer. Um like I said, I guess expenditures are um higher than this time last year. Um I think there's a few reasons for that. Um one of them being that expenditures were cut off at this point last year. So I think as we move into um kind of our um ending months of school operating, we'll see
021them go down a little bit. Um in capital projects, the revenues are a little bit higher based on tax collection. Again, I did that transfer. Um so you'll see that posting when we um kind of get to the lower table. Um debt service is performing as expected. ASB, excuse me, ASB revenue is still a little bit lower than the same time last year. Um but we are still reconciling GoFan on a a monthly basis and um we're getting pretty close to being able to transfer the InTouch revenue that should go to ASB into the ASB account out of general fund. So um hopefully we'll have that done. I don't know if we'll make it for April, but hopefully for May. And um transportation vehicle fund is also performing as expected. Um and then Peter, if
022you scroll to um I don't know if you guys have questions on enrollment, we're holding study just right about where we budgeted. Um so not a lot of um changes happening from March to April. Um sorry, if you could go back to the other chart. Yeah, right there. Um, so one thing to note, it kind of looks like we're spending a little bit more in capital projects fund. Um, so you can see this the transfer process I believe happened at around the same time last year. It just looks like it's a higher percentage this year because our our budgeted amount was higher last year than this year. Um, and then if you want to go to the controller report, [Music] Peter Um there's one reconcil excuse me one reconciliation item in general fund and that
023is due to um an a return that the county put into the wrong account. So I'll have to do some accounting work to get that cleaned up. Um our warrants are matching up perfectly. Um capital fund projects is balanced, debt services is balanced, ASB is balanced and transportation vehicle fund is balanced. which is that one reconciliation item that will need to be cleaned up by the next time I present for April. Any questions? Yeah. Um I'm I'm just wondering I would not want to try and I would not want to be in the position of trying to predict what is going to happen fiscally over the next 12 months. Um, but with the tariffs, with the other pieces moving that are having a significant impact, one of my questions is in what ways is that
024being taken into consideration and is there are are we looking at projects for example that we might need to put on hold or projects that we might need to frontload um in terms of we're anticipating costs for those materials to spike over the next three months? Yeah. Um, I think the biggest part would be coming from facilities, which Stephanie um addressed when she was here last time. Um, I know I think the wood chips are I think they're here or coming. I think that's all scheduled. So, that was um I think a Canadian vendor. So, she really wanted to get that um done before there's a big increase on the cost. And actually, I think based on an email I saw it ended up being a little bit lower by a couple thousand dollars. So,
025um she did a really good job on that. Um, otherwise I think we're just going to have to I don't know that we're doing a lot of international business, but really paying attention to where things are coming from so that we're not running into that issue. And I I think just keeping track of what's happening because it seems to change somewhat frequently right now. Um, but just being really aware of it and I had a very different question. Oh, I was curious if um and I'm assuming it would have ended up on here if there was anything of note with the audit or if things are still coming along. I was saving that for the end. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Somebody I just if if there's other questions about this, I'll answer them and then I
026will give you the update. I was waiting for you to ask. Actually, I was looking at the other document on the agenda in terms of just enrollment data. Um and you had asked if there were questions there. Um where am I? I I think I'm just still curious and there may not be anything in terms of the high school. It just I know part of it is count day, but it it seems odd in March and April to to be seeing enrollment decline at this point in the year. I also am seeing it rise at family link or other place. So you I just am wondering if there's any thoughts on that in terms of like February, March, April I think to I mean if we want to what's nice is that um the numbers
027are so small that when we do see uh decreases in enrollment uh typically a building leader can say here's what happened with this student and here's what happened this is it is typical to see a slow trend kind of just a slow kind of a you know leak um per se with with students um I think if we you know were to talk to 10 different families or 10 different students. There might we might find 10 different, you know, kind of singular unique reasons why they, you know, may be uh leaving at this time. Um it's it's not out of the ordinary for me. Um and if you'd like to, I can have um you know, Mr. Ericson connect with you to share kind of here's here's some narrative behind some of that that loss.
028Anyone else questions for Cassie before the big finish? Okay. Audit update. Um had an audit status meeting on Tuesday. It sounds like um a lot of things have been moved to the next level of review. So um professional learning I think is finished. Nutrition services is finished. Um that one they noted there were no issues. So that's really good news. Um there were a couple things they were questioning us on and I think we provided enough documents to show that we were doing exactly what we were told to. So that was good. Um I'm working on getting some final dispersement documents um and they said there's still a little bit of um payroll. So I've asked them to send those to me right away so that we can start working on them. Um I gave
029our original dispersement documents to them a month ago and then they just came back yesterday with kind of wanting to see them again and that's a little bit frustrating. They've had them for a really long time. So, um, I just kind of made them a a document that said, I I gave this to you. Please look at it. Let me know if you need something else. Like, these are internal procedures. I think we've clearly shown you that, you know, we're doing what we said. So, we'll see what happens with that. And then there's just one final piece with um reconciling our financial statements that we're trying to get um to an agreement with on the SAO. Um, and it's the interfund transfer reimbursement conversation. Um, Justin had a good conversation with them via email where
030he basically said we get to decide how we want to do this. The SAO is not going to tell us how we're going to do it. So, um I think we just need to come to an agreement on what we're going to call it if they're going to find that acceptable and then make sure we understand what they want to see moving forward. So that way we can do that for the remainder of this year and also moving forward so we don't run into the same issue. But I have asked them to please follow up so that we can end on time by the end of April. You're welcome. Anything else on that part? Um and some budget planning update from the team. Great. So, um, today we're putting in front of the board a
031fee, uh, fees and fines adjustment, uh, to the board. And so the process for that is annually um the superintendent's office reaches out to and business office reaches out to the buildings uh who are responsible for collecting these fees and fines and shares with them the current schedule and ask if there's any adjustments that they feel are are necessary. Um it also there's some very specific um uh fees around CTE, career technical education courses. Um it's always our aspiration that we uh keep our fees as as low as possible. Just to remind the the board that any student who is on free and reduced lunch, uh that there are no fees and fines for that student. Everything from yearbook to CT classes. Um so just please be reminded of that. Um you can see where
032the the red is kind of the where you can see the history of adjustments or non-adjustments per se. Um this year we don't see uh any um we don't see a lot of of of a requests for adjustments being made. Um probably one of one of the things that we see is CESB. they would like to follow kind of the the McMurray model and the and the VHS model and kind of combined yearbook with ASB. Um but again kind of uh just we are reducing some of the fees uh for preschool tuition AM. Um the preschool tuition for the PM is is going up. Um, and this is kind of what we do also is kind of look at some of the the industry standard, you know, kind of what's happening around us and um,
033and make sure that we're in line with that. Um, sorry, is that per month, excuse me, or is it that the entirety of the year is Okay, that's Thanks, Cassie. So, um, and, uh, we have a new fee this year for theater arts and, um, you kind of some some smaller increases at CTE. Uh, but last year, uh, was the year where we instituted more fees for CTE classes and then this year they're mostly remaining stable. Next year what we'll do is um kind of bianually we will look at other school districts kind of same size and we'll take a look at their fee fee schedules and structures. Um and we also have to kind of look at how they're funded federally. So kind of similarly uh similar uh numbers of students who receive free
034and reduced lunch as well. Um we like will not for example probably compare ourselves to maybe Tuckila who has a lot of federal programs, a lot of federal money that subsidize student fees. And so you know they can they have kind of the capacity to adopt a no fees you know across the across the district similar to kind of how we you know are experiencing um free lunch and breakfast at Shiakea. So um and so the what happens is uh the board takes this is kind of considered a first read on fees and fines uh and then it'll be included in the final budget document that we'll present to the board at the end of May that May 22nd meeting which will anyone have any questions about this document or it's track districts to be
035fair um I'm curious about some of these is like do you expect any of these to make any any waves with you know like I guess the theater is the most sort of dramatic or is there anything here where you expecting any like will the enrollment on some of these things change? Do you think like robotics has really gone up any of these things? I think what's happening is that um what we're going to be doing is kind of really providing the the kind of experience that those students are would be expecting and so I think it's going to be an enhancement and um sometimes we don't know until it happens. um you we could try to focus group it out, but that hasn't been something that we typically do. And so, um we haven't
036seen when we go from a no fee to a fee. At least in my experience since I've been here, and we've seen that happen in here over the last seven years, I haven't had a an experience where a family has come to me um with a concern. So, doesn't say that that there aren't families out there that that it did impact. It's just that we're not aware of them. Is there some type of program for families that it does impact that we fund or foot some type of cost there? We do have some donation money that we scholarship. Um so when those kind of unique circumstances happen again kind of in a smaller community, we're able to, you know, whether through a counselor, through an instructor, they will know, you know, kind of secondhand. You're
037kind of a family that may, you know, that may that may be able to uh you know, would benefit from some extra support. And so then we have basically donation funds uh in the district that can that we use for that. I don't think that happens very often, but it is available on that front. No. Okay. The next thing is um we did do a essentially I just want to bring it back to the board just attended three of our listening sessions and thank you very much and Martha was there and and uh Jun you were able to be there. I know other schedules kind of prohibit, you know, folks in there, but we were able to have a listening session at at each building, time for Q&A, time for um your kind of just
038developing some fiscal literacy. Um and then we were at the library and we had CPAC well represented there. Uh two two two parents from CPAC came to that uh library listening session. Um but it's always helpful even when there's one person there. I just want to share with you, you know, you you learn things either from the questions that they ask uh or from their concerns. Um we did send out a a district-wide kind of a kind of a feedback form. I will say that some of the responses that we received, you can you can see when someone wasn't at the listening session, some of the response because they're they're they're putting things in that had they been at the session, they might that that some questions may have been answered. Uh but that's still
039helpful because you know that it's that it's still at the top of their mind. Um one of the questions that we asked was essentially what programs or services are having an impact? Um kind of put it frame it in a positive way. Um and then not surprisingly MLL services, special ed services, counseling services, um and tier 2 support services uh were you know sprinkled throughout. We had 26 responses. So, not a lot of responses, but sprinkle through there were consistently those four programs, counseling, tier 2, SPED, and MLL services. We also asked a question about um what do you think would would be an idea, something that we could do as a district to increase uh staff well-being and staff retention. So, those two things specifically and um again two kind of central two themes
040emerged in that data. uh professional development uh teacher le specifically teacher le professional development was mentioned I think three times and then lower class sizes was probably mentioned um well was one mentioned seven times in that data. So um we know that those two things uh you know are going to be you know kind of on the horizon for us in terms of what we're doing with PDD. We already um just to share with the board that I've invited all the PLC leads uh to a May 2nd meeting um where we are going to be looking ahead in this 2526 school year and those teachers are going to help uh develop um and plan out the PLC leads day. Um the staff the two days of staff develop well it's really a six hours of
041of professional development during our two days back with staff in August. They're going to help plan out the two teaching and learning days for next year as well as plan out the PDD Fridays. And so what we're doing is creating a well we're proposing it hasn't been agreed on yet, but we're proposing that we are creating kind of a um a PLC leads two or like a a lead learner uh for PLC leads. Uh probably between three and five of those PLC leads who will then partner with the building leaders uh Dr. Spencer and myself to really increase the collaboration and development of professional development. So, um hopefully that will um you know that that that feels like we're moving in the right direction in terms of increasing teacher voice or certificated voice in those
042decision- making uh opportunities and also um creating more opportunities for leadership. um you know that it's it's one of those things that has been on my mind in this district. You know, kind of we don't really see u certificated staff going into leadership programs. Um and so what can we what experiences can we provide where they're you kind of engaged in managing significant decisions for their colleagues uh that could give them some idea of what it would be like to to move into a a literature program. So um and then we had a question in terms of what what more would they like from the budget advisory board. Um, and this is where I kind of maybe I think when you see a disconnect then you think in I think instantly communication and so um
043when folks say we don't know who's on the board what the budget advisory board does and we do make some commitments when we come out of the budget advisory board on how we're going to communicate out um but uh you know there were two comments um that were like I think the budget advisory board should do a needs assessment and I was like okay we missed somewhere in here. Um, you know, communication wise, you kind of and and if it's you two people who said that, there's probably some more out there and so um that might be something that we can strengthen in in the future. So, um, and one of them said that the needs assessment comes too late. So, I was like, well, we did it in Dece, you know, in December. So
044again, kind of a a disconnect there uh in kind of what what we're actually doing and how we're doing it and why we're doing it. We can we can do a much better job communicating that out. Thank you for having those meetings. It was really good to hear from the community and the teachers what they value um which was my biggest takeaway from that other than the actual budget course which is great. Um, could we perhaps see a copy of the final results from that survey just at some point to help us dig in as well? Yeah. And also the PowerPoint. Did you send that? I know the ones might have asked for that to get sent out to all staff. Did it go out? I sent the link, but I'll I'll send the power
045as well. Power. Um, and also you want to looks like you have something. Um, this is this survey. Is this survey that went when was the survey that you're talking about the district-wide survey going out? When was that? So I I uh essentially everybody that participated in the listening session kind of had that as a as a bookend at the end. Uh and then even if you didn't attend the listening session, they sent it out uh essentially to all the staff with the four questions. They didn't they wouldn't have the advantage of having some of that information up front. Um that's fine. Um I'm curious. So it I I love this idea about the increased PLC lead teacher voice. Where does um classified staff where does that voice get folded in in terms of the
046PED and the teaching and learning days? Yeah. Um well that will be something that the that the team could be developing. Um we do have time during Fridays um and some of the teaching learning days um contractually they have different um hours that they you know that they're on campus uh in terms of number of days and so um that'll be something that will it like it it can be difficult to to pull people in because um you know on the PTB Fridays oftent times they might be involved in a in a training like if you're a parah their their roles are so different and diverse. Um, but it's definitely an opportunity that we should be taking advantage of. It may not be perfect for them and we shouldn't aim for perfect. We should probably
047aim for better. Yeah, I'm super excited to have some somewhere to see their their voice and their footprint on this. But this is very this is really exciting. Um, anything else on the budget front? No, just I think we're still on track to present the budget for a first read at the end of May and then in June on June 12th that'll be the the budget hearing. So Peter will be noticing that with our local uh press and I think with Tacoma as well as each other and yeah again it feels like we're right on track for that. of curiosity, I know that y'all have moved the schedule this year. So, we started you started working on it maybe a full month earlier. Did that bear fruit? Was that useful? Did it Um, yeah. I
048think it uh it it it feels like it's I'll I'll let Cassie speak to that. You're the one that's most impacted by that, right? But I also wasn't here last year, so I'll say it's wonderful. I think that it was a really uh good move and I think we should stick with planning earlier. Um, the only thing that I think and it's not even really a hold up, but one thing that's still a question mark is the the legislative session. So, um, I think the good thing about working in budget, um, this is my seventh full budget cycle for a school district. And so, I've kind of learned that you have to be prepared for the unexpected to happen. So, I think kind of going in with that mindset and knowing we plan early, but
049we adjust as we go is a really good way to approach it. Um, I do think that I'll probably have a lot of really long days trying to get everything done. Um, but we are really in a place where we should be. We're we're on schedule. Um, we're hoping that things will be much cleaner um, as we move into next year and we may have adjustments after we see what happens. But they should be um I would think hopefully few and not very large um depending on what happens and and we'll be able to make those revisions in our budget so that when we come in for the new fiscal year everything is set and ready to go. Anyone else have anything? All right. I think it's I think it's you Sarah. All right. May
050I say can we dismiss the folks that are commuters that don't need to be here? Absolutely. I think there isn't a vote at 85 8:15. So I will happily stay and listen to you guys. All right. Hello. Thank you everyone. Good to see you again. Uh just to where we're at in the food services program this year. A key focus of mine coming into managing this program was to increase revenue from outside uh sources. So I've been putting a lot of emphasis on grants. I've applied for five this year. Um I have received three of the three that have been notified. So we're three for three right now, which is great. I have another one that I'm coming up on here shortly and then a large one I'm eager to hear about in May. Uh
051first one that we got early in the beginning of the year was three plus King County and that was an opportunity where we were given um a colossal amount of compostable plates, utensils, reusable trays, these are big investments that we end up having to make over the course of several years. So now that we have about 10,000 in house, it's not it's not if it makes sense we're going to have to be assuming anytime soon. They are over in the F building. It was really fun getting them over there. Um, another part of this is just helping us emphasize reduction in waste. Uh, fewer single-use trays, fewer single-use utensils, fewer single-use plates. Um, I just feel better about that. I think it's a great goal to have and continue to have throughout the course of
052the year. The total grants uh funding or um amount that we received in products was $16,64053. Another grant that we received recently was the breakfast meals for kids grants. was a OSPI sponsored grant. So this is the type of grant where we make um we pitch them for supplies, materials, equipments that we would like to be able to have in for the purposes of increasing participation, being more responsive to student needs, helping our program for flow more smoothly. So what we had asked for because this was a breakfast emphasized grant was to have some kettle warmers. So these are the big 14 15 gallon warmers that we can offer oatmeal, grits, soups, things like that that some of the kids are a little more eager e eager to have in the winter months. We also
053through a number of surveys that we had done last year and earlier this fall knew that a lot of the students really were eager about smoothies and that's just a really good love that you guys love them. Um that was a idea that kind of came to us after a visit with Koopo. This is something that they were offering there. So we were able to get three commercial Vitamix blenders. We also were able to build into that request a subscription for a healthy pro menu planning nutritional calculator which is something that we're going to be implementing at the beginning of next year. I'll get into that a little bit later. Um and then some commercial refrigerators for storing said smoothies in. So again, helping us diversify our offerings, responding to student requests, needs, preferences, and
054the funding amount we received for that is $9,844 83. The most recent grant that we were awarded was a plantbased uh school meals grant again through OSPI. In this grant request, I really emphasize being able to purchase from local providers and growers and farms. So we got a large chunk of funing there. We continue purchasing from our local farmers. Uh we also were able to purchase lentils, meat alternatives that are often cost prohibitive just for the scale that we do. Um some tofu options. So here we have some psuda broccoli. We have a chickpea butter chicken which the kids love. And then a field roast meat alternative hot dog versus our normally inhouse made from scratch ones. Turns out they like the made from scratch in house ones better. So, I'm not complaining. This one
055had s or cream cheese with it and I thought that was an excellent touch. You like Seattle? I was really confused, but I tried it and I impressed. Have you ever had it before? No. It is a game changing experience. I was so good. It was It was good. And And I was talking to I was talking to someone and they were like, "Try it with the cream cheese." And I looked at them like they were crazy. And then I tried it with it. And then later on I was like that's part of a whole bowl is to expose you guys to things you haven't tried before and really you come out like so sometimes I get confused but then I tried. I had to for the first time the other I don't touch that.
056I can't please everyone but I try. No, you know, I appreciate I think it I think it is a lovely addition. I just personally am not going to eat it, but but Hazel did. Survived and it was good. I wouldn't maybe make it every day, but I like it. I feel so You're doing a great job. I'm quite impressed. Thanks to both of you. Thank you. Thank you. Um you can scroll down theater. Um I think that grant was n was 6,00 something. Anyways, um let's see. So, total where? Thank you. Um another emphasis, another area that I've really been wanting to place uh prior or prioritize is our farm to school program. Just increasing the percentage of our produce and our inputs that we're purchasing from local farms. I have just found that it
057is higher quality food. It has a longer shelf life. The kids get excited about it. They love knowing where it's from. it's encourages them to consider careers in agriculture and I just this island has a great history and I think it's really something that we can um embellish and and build upon here helps contribute to our community our community food program and the really large grant that I'm waiting that's an extra bullet point there that was my air um is the skills grant which is supporting community agriculture and local education systems grant that we will be hearing about on May 1st and I'll keep Is that the one that you went in on with correct? Yeah. And all the 500,000 is for the school. No, it will be there will be some funding set aside
058for helping with purchases of inputs for the school staffing um as well as really placing an emphasis on creating and establishing a community- based food hub. I don't have the time in the day to reach out to all of our farmers individually each week and see what they've got available to then build out for incorporate into a menu that I built out a month prior to. So what it would do is it allowed the centralized system where I could see what all the local farmers at that time had available and I would be able to order just quickly seamlessly would allow me to bring more food into the school. It would allow the farmers to also have a marketplace, if you will, that's centralized for not just the school, but local businesses, restaurants, um, individuals.
059It's a kind of a win-win for everyone involved. So, just a side note, the farming community, we've been trying to get something like this, this kind of aggregation and distribution and centralized kind of um, shopping from from local businesses and the school district for years. And so if this comes through, this is going to be a really exciting development for a lot of people and have a huge footprint. And I I can't take credit for this. It was a huge collective effort. There were numerous farms and other community members that were involved in a really wonderful human named Evan who helped us get the grant across the the application across the finish line. So um we'll see. Stay tuned. Total grant received this year just in terms of value of the items we've received or
060direct reimbursement is $85,590.99. So that feels pretty good. Um Shiakwa the good news there is that we have qualified for free lunch and breakfast for our students there for this year. Um I guess the through 2028 just saying um this is really exciting. We won't have to re-qualify for those next few years. So that's really exciting to it's still really important that we have families apply for their submit their free use applications just to help support other funding sources that utilize those metrics. But students won't be having to enter their PIN numbers. So that will just streamline the lunch process down there. give them a little more time to eat their food, hang out with their friends. Feels great all around. We've seen a really big jump in participation there. Last year on average, we
061were probably hitting around 250, 260 on the big day. We're pretty consistently hitting 320, 340. Now, it's been a big jump, right? Quick question. Y, if you don't know, we can bring it back. Uh, but maybe Cassie knows. Do we know um kind of the how it's washing out with the reimbursement? I have not crunched those numbers. They are the when I when I do the SWIN submissions every month, they are substantially larger than they were last year. Anywhere from 28 to 34,000. Can you say what that means? Uh what is the is the I actually don't know. Um it's who I submit our claims to every single month when we have um Washington integrated nutrition system. Thank you. Um who we submit our claims to every month. So when we have the students that
062come through and enter their pin numbers into Skyward, it collects that data, make sure that then we are re submitting for reimbursement correctly with the correct numbers per school per meal and then they send us a reimbursement check. We will just we will manually enter a total at the end of the month that we have kept but it won't be via Skyward. Last slide. So, the next thing that we have going on next year and as part of some of the grant requests that we were able to receive and be awarded is that we will be transitioning to Healthy Pro, which is a nutritional menu and calculator that was actually developed by a previous food services director. Um, there is so much that is involved with calculating the nutritional components of our meals, especially when
063you're a for scratch program. You don't have a label that's a pre-made thing that you can just immediately hand to families. So, what this application does is it will the software does is it will allow us to be able to manually enter all of our individual ingredients for all of our meals, spit out a nutritional summary. You'll be able to search by allergens, by grade. It will be able to allow parents and students to have more information about each meal that I think is just important for them to have in terms of making informed decisions about what they're consuming. Um, I think it'll be a lot more user friendly. it'll be a lot more react uh adaptable for me if I have to make last minute changes. Um and so I really look forward to
064having that available for the end of the school year. It also allows us to digitize all of our menus which come audit time will just streamline that process because immediately to our OSPI contact they can review and say we're good and we also know going in if our meals are in compliance ahead of time which is just a great piece of information to have. So, I'm here and excited to have that. So, this is available for families um September or It is my goal to have it up mid August. Okay. Mid to late August so that families are prepared coming into the school year knowing what that September menu is going to look like. Is this a or how? It's software and I'll have to work that out in terms of application probably with Peter.
065We'll talk. It's it is streamlined. Tons of districts use it. Um, so I'm I'm sure that I'm not a tech person, but I'm sure that they have a way of getting it onto our uh website pretty pretty efficiently. It will populate on our food services page. So where people go to look for the menu right now, it will be there. And last question, is this going to be Can we see it in Spanish or Yes, there are I can't remember. I think 27 28 different languages that it will translate to with just a click of a drop down option. So great friends as well. Thank you. I mean one I want to say this is fantastic and driving around carfuls of elementary school boys who were raving about the kale sat they had and things
066like that. That's I find remarkable. Um, I I'm just curious from a logistic standpoint because I didn't know this until recently because the lunches are free. Um, I didn't Well, the lunches are free, but some of the and these are older elementary school kids were talking about that that they're able to go back and get food, but they have friends who don't have the finances to be able to do that. Um, and I didn't know that since they were free, I didn't know that there was another layer to be able to go back if you're still hungry. And I and I guess one of my things is is there is there any mechanism for people to donate to those lunch funds or how it's a great question that you ask and it's actually a conversation
067that's been popping up a couple very recently, especially because we do have students who want to come and have seconds and I always want to encourage them to do so. Um, we do we don't get reimbursed from OS. We're only allowed to give one no cost meal from OSPI per student. So, but I do think there's an immense opportunity for something to be developed that allows for our students who qualify to be able to pull from a funding source to be able to purchase lunch. I don't to remove and eliminate the stigma associated with that. I don't know logistically what that looks like, but I'm in like the preliminary stages of kind of beginning to conceptualize, talking with the principles at each school to see what that could look like, how that might take shape,
068and I think that that's a really important thing to prioritize in the next year ahead. Yeah, thanks for asking that, River. That's such an important piece of that. That would be a very exciting development if the stigma attached to leading another another round. That's fantastic. Anybody else? Any questions for Sue? Yes. Well, I have a couple things to say. First of all, first of all, the high school lunch staff are the most amazing people ever. I always am greeted with a smile and it's not just me, it's everyone. Um, they're always willing to talk and chat for a tiny bit and I you just did a wonderful job, wonderful job of picking them. Um, but now that I got you here, can we bring back the queso? You brought it back for two days. You
069like the queso? Yes. I love that you guys love the queso. So good. I've been thinking about it ever since I ate it. And then also the potatoes this week. Chef's kiss. Chef's kiss. Um, so those are my two requests. Um, not saying you have to, but um, just an idea before she leaves. Before I leave, please anything anything you'd like to request or any feedback? I don't want to be needy with the chicken schwarma pita bread that we had last year in the beginning of the year. you haven't bring it back since and I dream about it each night. But I just want to say that our lunch services are amazing and just topnotch. I remember eating chicken burgers every single Friday and dying in middle school and this year being able to eat
070like sesame seed salad with tomatoes and grilled onions and pickled onions and like pickled onions. It's a pickled onion. We talk about pickled onions in my house. Apparently the pickled onions are like good. get a chance to eat before you come by and have food here and then you'll understand it. No, I eat it too. I love it. Yeah, it's exactly everyone should have experienced it. It's pretty great. It's just compliments. Thank you. I appreciate you all very much. River, do you want to talk about the onions? No, I just the last piece in terms of at the beginning of the year and looking at the way funding sources are being impacted etc. Um I walked away with a sense of not heavy procarity but a little bit of procarity for what could happen with
071a really amazing program and in terms of local foods all this and so I just really want to applaud you and express my incredible gratitude proactive. the grants, outreach, all of the different things to provide that um infrastructure to support that because I think it's an amazing program. So, thank you for doing what I can't take credit for establishing it. I I I I took it on. So, I appreciate everyone for being supportive here as a district and and just everyone the kids purchasing those every day helped make that possible. So, thank you. Okay. I don't think you have a vote to catch, but No, you you also are welcome to to take off if you want, but I think it's time for some national policy updates. Sure. So, I forwarded uh the latest um
072email from Chris Real if you didn't get a chance to look at it. I'll just show you some of the the kind of the top highlights. uh he shared with us that they received another communication from the department of education around essentially um furpa um and that's more about kind of parents rights and be able to receive information how you know districts share uh student information out particularly with parents and families. Uh he reminded us again that uh we're still um maintaining our position regarding the Department of Education's uh requirement for us to sign another compliance paper to make sure that we're following title uh six uh guidelines. Um and then there is a uh anyway with the do with the with the earlier one the purpose documents um he mentioned that OSPI will be
073responding to that and in terms of what documents are necessary but he assured us that we are in full compliance with with those uh proper laws. The last one there is a new executive order from um from nationally around student discipline. I haven't had a chance to dive into it yet. Um, I'm probably gonna let him dive into it, probably let OSPI dive into it and kind of understand the impacts on our state and on independent uh school districts. Um and then kind of on the side uh we did see some information recently uh through WIAA uh they reported out how all the amendments uh fared in this year's voting and the ones that we were concerned about amendment 78 those were turned into advisory votes and uh and then both of them did not
074uh get to the 32 vote requirement. However, amendment uh seven did get to 31. So that's you know kind of um kind of I think that kind of shows what's kind of happening in our state and if you're following anything that's happening with the L center school district um and uh a couple other school districts as well um you know there's they're they're really challenged with navigating um you know school boards are challenged with navigating both requirements for the state sentiments with the fed you know with the federal government um everything in between. So, but I personally was was happy to see that those amendments did not move forward even as an advisory vote. That's what I have. Anything that you No, that pretty much covers any questions on the national front. I just wanted
075to thank you for the updates. Um, all right. Crushing the time management of this meeting, y'all. Crushing it. Public comment number two. Does anybody here? Okay. Great. We uh still three minutes. Yep. It's much briefer than that. So, this is a Give us one second to go up the timer again. Okay. Well, this is 60% going to be really nice. 20% medium and 20% grumpy. So, we'll start with the grumpy stuff and go up. Um, so I had amazing mostly experiences with communicating with the school district. I've gone over this going on um with the exception Catherine. It's not surprising. Um, the last time we spoke was on 4:16. I asked her for in response to our conversation. She gave me one that was not actually the response I requested for. Um, and I sent
076her an email that was very detailed with quite a few questions and have not heard back from her six since the 16th. Um, as far as Slade, you could do better. He got a bunch of emails from me on Monday and I didn't hear back from him until Thursday. Too bad. Then Amy, you're here. Right here. Right here. Right. Thank you. I contacted Amy on Monday. I heard back from Amy on Monday and then I contacted her again when she contacted me again and she read my really verbally extensive emails. So, thank you for that. Um, Peter Woodbrook, awesome. Emiled him on Friday, called him and left him a message on Friday. He called me back on Friday. He emailed me back on Friday. Um, we spoke again on emailed him late on Friday. And
077so, I'm asking for some reports. By Wednesday, I had the first report. So, that was awesome. Um, let's see. Oh, and after my conversation with Katherine on the 16th on the phone, and she referred to the falsified documents in my son's IDP as mistakes, on the 17th, I called OSPI. That was the direct result of someone referring to falsified documents as mistakes. Um, and two other people who were awesome. Christina Miller, she was really important when I was dealing with my children here when they were younger. and I reached out to her and said, "I'm freaking out. This is what's going on with the kids." And as we all know, Christina is amazing. And she was very supportive. And you know, I think everyone should we should all be grateful that Christine works. Um because
078even though my kids aren't in grade school anymore, she was like, "I got you, you know, because she knew she was there with Jack's first competing my others since 504 and all of that." So she's awesome. And I think oh and Rinda Pawkins over at family life always awesome and very supportive going through this. So but most important as far as the upper level it was you know Amy and Peter like rock star. So thank you. Anyone else comment at this time Dr. Spencer. Hi Steph Spencer community member parent and staff member here. Uh I just want to say like I wanted to make some comments because of all of the comments that have been flying around the last many meetings and since early on in the um changeover of national leadership. So thank you
079for the opportunity to speak. I want to begin by expressing my sincere appreciation for the many passionate advocates in our community who work tirelessly to ensure that every student especially those from immigrant backgrounds feel safe, seen, and supported in our schools. Your commitment to justice and inclusion is a vital part of our shared mission. That said, I would like to gently offer some reassurance and context regarding recent concerns about school signage, drills, and safety protocols. While I understand how these measures might raise questions, especially those sensitive to immigration enforcement issues, it's important to know that our protocols are not designed to signal specific threats or target any group. Rather, they are part of a broader, wellestablished approach to keeping all students and staff safe from a wide range of emergencies. In our district, um we
080are committed to trauma-informed approach that emphasizes preparedness without alarm and community without division. In fact, we found that we can maintain a high level of preparedness without the need for additional signs or specialized trainings that might inadvertently increase anxiety. Our focus is on calm, age appropriate instruction and staff readiness, all while preserving a sense of normaly and emotional security for students. These practices are guided by safety experts and are regularly reviewed to ensure they remain both effective and inclusive. Advocacy is most powerful when it invites conversation, builds trust, and seeks shared understanding. While we respect the urgency that often drives advocacy work, I believe that a balanced, informed, and calm approach best serves our entire school community. And while I may not show urgency in my public speech and sometimes my public actions, um you
081can rest assured that under me there is a strong desire to make sure that our kids have a safe learning environment every day they come to school. So, um, I just wanted to say that and I wanted to say the extreme utmost, um, confidence that our staff would be able to handle anything that was thrown at them. Um, having worked decades in this field, um, and having to deal with, um, non-custodial parents, trespassors, um, officers who show up and want to interview students. We have protocols in place that keep our students safe and secure and we do it in a calm, respectful way that doesn't raise anxiety and try to be trauma informed. So, thank you. Anyone else? Um, this is an opportunity for the board uh directors to make remarks. Is there anyone that
082would like to share anything tonight? Great. just just briefly just briefly um just as we're entering well it's a process that's been ongoing for several months but what feels like to me the kind of the heart of the budget negotiations um I just I want to express gratitude for the budget advisory board for the unions for our leadership um having the listening sessions and um providing that opportunity for feedback. I've greatly appreciated and appreciated hearing concerns that have been forwarded or desires or hopes or dreams. Um and then just to express that there there's a care to make sure that we are listening um at this point in time, you know, even if it is not something that directly goes into the budget. Um even if it is something that helps inform our thinking for
083the coming year in terms of priorities going forward um and partnerships that might enhance um and support our needs and aspirations. just um reference for the food services. It seems like there are some deep partnerships that allow us to achieve some aspirational uh programming and services. Um so I just want to express the desire to continue to hear what is surfacing as priorities for individuals. Anyone else? Great. Okay. Um, so I want to acknowledge that it has been a busy few weeks for all of us and there is a lot changing. But I also want to comment on the fact that the community involvement that we try to foster as we move forward as a community is going to be vital. Um, so as a board we are going to have opportunities for the community
084to participate in the changes that are moving forward. and I want to highly encourage the community to get involved and make that happen. Um, without your involvement, this is a dictatorship and that is not what we want. Um, so just please continue to be part of the change and the move and the direction moving forward. Along those lines, great segue. Um on May 1st, we're going to have a special meeting where we are going to uh hear from three executive search firms who will partner with us on finding a new leader for our district. We had um we broke up a list of probably 12 maybeish search firms who are in this business. We called them. We had a list of questions. Um, we got some, uh, feedback from other districts. Sometimes we stumbled into
085it, sometimes we sought it out. Um, I think we we did not, um, necessarily speak to about each of the firms that we talked to simply because to keep things within a reasonable time frame, but it doesn't mean we didn't talk to some great folks. We just really wanted to find search firms that were going to be a good fit for the peculiarities and particularities of this community. We have full faith. I'm really excited that um that one of these firms is going to be a fantastic partner and robust engagement and listening partner to all constituent groups. We're really looking to identify who they are, whether it's commuter parents, administrators, teachers, paras, students, every every you know MLL families. We're going to really look to see um who we can engage and um so we're
086going to hear from them on May 1st. Um we are going to put out shortly a feedback survey but it's going to have to unfortunately happen in real time. So um there's going to be many opportunities for engagement. The search firm is kind of the first one but we're looking for feedback. Um they will be presenting to us um on Zoom or whatever video conferencing tool we want. We'll give them each about 20 minutes to present to us. Tell us why they're the right firm for us at this moment. We'll have about 10 minutes for Q&A from the board. We're not going to open it up to public Q&A at that time. channel though the public is certainly welcome to come and see the pitches while we're seeing them or they can watch them online.
087There'll be a link. It might be a Google form. It might be something else if you're like I absolutely love firm A and here's why. But we'll it'll be a a um fairly simple set of questions. Um that'll be one of the sort of first tiers of engagement. Um and then once we have selected a firm which we will do that night based on our experience in the interviews then we will um not entirely just hand it over to them but begin this really robust um kind of uh figuring out what what we all who we need to talk to and what we need to ask them in order to find um you know the right leader for this community for the next uh stretch of time. Ma'am, how are you for the people online
088watching the thing? How are you going to send it the live form? So, it'll be a in in addition to whatever link they used for like YouTube, it will also show like here's the Google form. Tell us what you think. And and folks will have about 15 minutes in real time. We're not looking for paragraphs. No, we're looking for what do you think? Because we're making that decision that night. the other decisions we'll make in terms of of finding a a permanent leader will be a much more protracted thoughtful uh but we we for a variety of reasons we are um as we've discussed we're going to need likely 99% likely need an interim superintendent. Some of these firms can do that for us, some of them can't. We need to weigh how important it
089is um the other choices effectively to see where else interim superintendent may be hiding want to either come off the bench from retirement or um so those are all that's all part of the um the process for finding Mr. Trim. Did I leave anything out? I I just want to mention one thing. Um we are updating a a blurb every time we meet on what we have decided in the search process and then what is going forward and uh it was originally under school board and people kept on the district website on the district website under school board and people kept asking me what's going on so I asked Peter who has done this to move it to the homepage of Bashon island under important links. So if you want to follow what's happening without
090going through the joy of watching every video of our meetings on this particular topic, all you have to do is click the link. I update it when I get home after a a decision or a a meeting has finished. So um what you just heard tonight was entered a couple of days ago. So, we're trying to keep as transparent and current as possible. Yeah. And if we've heard from um different individuals and groups of folks saying we, you know, we'd like a seat at the table or we'd like to I I hope you'll talk to us. Um so, we're kind of keeping a running list and if there's someone watching tonight or someone that's here and you want to make sure that that your voice is also heard, we're always happy to hear from you.
091We can't we can't guarantee everyone's going to get exactly what they want out of this process. What we can guarantee we really I want to make a commitment to this is at least people feel heard deeply heard. Um and I'm really I'm really um looking for the right I think we're looking for the right partner to to be um in that relationship with anything else. uh commitments that were made tonight uh that you're going to send the PowerPoint from the listening sessions and the answers to the survey from the case before I graduate. have a commitment that NP amazing. Uh I'll put my long list in next year. Don't worry. Um thank you everyone for being here. Really appreciate it. Thanks for your comments. Uh it is 7:18 and this meeting is adjourned. Oh, we
092have to