001It's 4:30. So, I'll call the meeting to order. Can all rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the standy and justice for all. Next up on the agenda, we'll do roll call. Stephanie here. John here. Nikki here. Kelly here. Jason here. Myself and Melinda here. All right. We'll start off and go through time commitments. I'll pick the house. Um, with course two, participate with humility over pride and forgiveness. We are all here to make decisions that are best for all of our students. No enemies at the table, just differences. Prioritize productive discussion. Adhere to Robert's rules of order. Start on time. Respect others time. Stay in our lane. Board responsibility should not over workflow to administration. dedication to researching
002issues and agenda items, educating ourselves on topics, and being prepared for meetings. Recognize and celebrate successes. Be complimentary and show appreciation. Follow policies and procedures. Uphold policies and procedure procedures. Don't take offense to questions. Don't assume or be judgmental. Seek clarification and common understanding of policies. Commit to being our best working together. Growth mindset. Refrain from interruptions and gotcha moments. Very well. Commit to our community. All right. Next on the agenda is um student spotlight for May. So we're going to do the state of the music department. Good afternoon everyone. My name is Zach Baker. I teach middle and high school band. I'm Rachel McCully. I teach middle and high school choir. Starting off middle school general music. Uh starting off tonight, just wanted to share some of the highlights that we have had this
003year. Uh starting off the year, we had a great marching band season and of course got to to play at Camp Randall, which not many band games in the state get to do. Of course, the game didn't end how we wanted, but we enjoyed playing uh from the band's perspective. Uh this year we also had a couple of different honors bands and choir events that we had our students participate in. A total of 27 of our band and choir students were involved in that. this year. We also had our musical that was moved through the fall to January with the transition of teachers. Um we had a year with Robin Hood and we had 21 students involved in that. Um we also got to take our students in high school and fifth grade band students
004that were interested to a field trip to Madison to see the W varsity um band concert which is a total hoop. Uh we also had our solo ensemble events this year. Our district solar ensemble for our high school was hosted at Clintonville High School. Uh as well as our middle school hosted our own local events. Out of all of our students that participated, we had four events received bronze, 39 events received silver, 35 events received gold. Three events featuring two of our high school band students received the top rating of a starred first in order to qualify onto the state event which is held at UN University of Wisconsin Green Bay. Um and at that state event in our three events we had one silver and two gold ratings. We also for the first time
005in many years took the band and acquired to um band festival and choir festival through WSMA where the students got to perform for adjudicators and work with a clinician on the spot to improve their skills. The high school choir went to Ronali High School in Manitwalk and received a silver rating of a two and high school band went to Kakana High School and earned a gold rating of one. One of the other special events we've had this year, we had one of our students audition. There's a state WSMA uh honors band essentially like an allstate band. We have one of one of our students audition. Out of almost 1500 auditions that were registered, there's 430 students that uh that uh qualify in five ensembles for the 2025 high school state honors music project. We had
006our one student uh audition and she was selected which identifies her as one of the top flute players in one of the top high school flute players in the state. Um, now looking kind of to the future along those lines of the state honors uh group, we have Sarah Pishi had auditioned and qualified. That performance is actually in October. She'll attend a camp in the summer to kind of prepare for that. And that is right alongside there's a state honors project along with the the music uh WMEA music teachers convention in Madison in October. Typically the recording of that performance is uh televised on PBS. Um, also we are already planning for our far fall marching band show. We're we're trying to put the pieces together and start looking at what does our homecoming show
007look like and so something we're already our students are already getting excited for. We're also looking forward to the fall. We're moving the musical back to fall and we're going to be doing Ann of Green Gables. So auditions for that are next week. Um next year as well we're going to have um another conference honors band and choir event in our conference. that'll be held at Xavier and um solo ensemble will be at Little Shoot. We are also planning a music a high school music department trip uh this next spring um which both the band and choir where our goal is to perform and even compete along with some of the other fun activities as well. Uh that trip it looks like it'll be on a a near future agenda item for for your approval.
008Um, one of the other things we just want to want to mention is is some of our goals since both of us are new to the district. Some of our goals for our department for the future. Um, we our our students have had many many compliments this year and we look forward to growing our department more in numbers and in quality events. Um, right now we saw some projected numbers for our high school band next year and it looks like things are are increasing and so that that always feels feels nice to have some numbers growing. And as part of growing our department, we would love to begin more discussions to offer a bigger variety of music department courses at the high school because at this point there is only two course offerings which is
009band and choir. So we would like to be able to offer more such as music theory or music history, music technology, things of that nature. To wrap up our time this afternoon, we would love to share a little bit of our department with you all. Uh the duet you are about to hear received the the rating of a starred first at the district solar ensemble at Clintonville and went on to perform at the state solar ensemble events at WGB. Uh here are Sarah Pishi and Tiffany Girtz. They are going to be performing their flute and baritone saxophone duet called Tarantella. [Music] Hello. dance. [Music] One more. [Music] [Applause] All right. Well, entertainment for tonight's meeting. Nice job. Thank you guys. That was great. All right. At this time, we will be going into um open
010forum. So, this is public's opportunity to bring concerns to the board. Board discussion and action on public forum items is prohibited per the open meeting law agenda posting requirements. Items may be taken under advisement, referred to proper channels, or basic general information may be provided. hearsay, personal tax and anonymous concerns will not be considered. These wishing those wishing uh to speak will be given five minutes to speak. Board minutes will reflect only open forum general comments. So at this time we have Jennifer Boland. Picture this. It's the first day of school. We have three kids crying. Two kids have had accidents. This may be just my house in the morning. I don't know. But it's the first day of 4K. And that is what it looks like for a lot of our kids on their
011first day of school. So, good evening members of the board. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Jenny Boland and I am a parent of a future 4K student as well as an educator with 12 years of experience in 4K classrooms. I want to share my concerns about the potential decision to open up 4K for open enrollment. While I understand the intent to welcome more families into our district and the benefits that can come from increased enrollment, I ask that we carefully consider the day-to-day realities inside our 4K classrooms, especially as we prepare for a significant shift next year. As you're aware, beginning next school year, our 4K program will be moving from two full days to four full days per week. This is a major change both for students and
012staff. So, while it offers more instructional time and continuity for our youngest learners, it also increases the intensity and demands of the school day. Particularly for children who are just four years old. These are students who are still learning to separate from caregivers, follow routines, self-regulate, and function in a group setting. The transition to just coming to school will be a big adjustment for many of them. Add to that the reality of class sizes that are already nearing or exceeding 20 students and the challenges multiply. Managing 24 year olds, especially at the beginning of the year, is incredibly demanding. These early months are foundational and require close attention, individualized support, and significant emotional regulation coaching. Without appropriate class sizes and support, we risk losing the personal connection and calm environment that helps four kids thrive.
013Welcoming additional students through open enrollment without also increasing staffing, classroom space, and support resources risks overwhelming both our teachers and our youngest learners. Our goal should always be to provide high quality and developmentally appropriate experiences and that becomes increasingly difficult when difficult when class sizes grow beyond what is manageable and there is no proactive plan in place to ensure class sizes remain developmentally appropriate. We need clear thresholds for when additional staffing is required. And there should be a set student cap based on what is best for early childhood education that triggers the hiring of another teacher or support staff. And importantly, hiring decisions should be driven by the needs of our current district families, not by open enrollment numbers. Staffing should reflect the organic growth and needs of our community and we should not find
014ourselves in the position of having to create new positions or reconfigure programs primarily because we've opened the door to more students from outside the district. We're not just filling seats. We're shaping early learning experiences and with the transition to four full days, we need to be even more intentional about how we support both students and staff through that shift. I urge you to pause before opening 4K to open enrollment beyond the siblings of students already in the district. Let's ensure that we have the staffing, resources, and structures in place to support the children that we already serve and set our program up for long-term success. Thank you for your time and your continued commitment to do what's best for kids. Next is Lindsay One. Hi everybody. Um, so as a proud mom to a high
015school band student, I'm so happy that you had Mr. Baker here tonight to start the meeting. Um, like other parts of our community, the high school and the middle school music departments have been through a lot of changes in the last 5 years. And to speak of growth that has happened, especially in this last year, it's a huge kudos to all those involved. Um, this band is something to be proud of and I'm thankful my son is part of it. Uh, so to say that a lot has changed into this room in the last month would be an understatement. Um, so I want to welcome in the new board members. Thank you for stepping up and helping navigate through these challenging times. I'm hopeful that you will provide a fresh perspective and opportunity to reset
016and focus on the future and the kids a focus on the kids of the Writestown Community School District. I also want to thank the new board leadership. For the last couple of months, community members, including myself, have questioned why the open forum was moved to the end of the meeting. Thank you for moving this back to the beginning. It demonstrates you are listening to our and taking our opinions, whether popular or unpopular, into consideration. I do think the board should still consider maybe moving this location to the meeting in the future, but for right now it looks to be okay. Um, I also ask that the board please continue to listen to the community members, parents, staff, and taxpayers, and that we are a community that needs to prioritize our students in a fiscally responsible
017way. These students are our tomorrow, and I trust that this board will take the best decisions for our community. Thank you. Next on the agenda is um discussion and possible approval of the April 16th uh meeting minutes. Um anyone get a chance to review any questions with them? All right, I'll be looking for a Motion to approve the April 16th board meeting minutes. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I. Anyone opposed? All right. Any minutes are approved for April 16th. Um April 30th uh meeting minutes. Any questions or concerns with those? Right. I'll be looking for a motion to approve. I'll make a motion. Second. All those in favor? I. Anyone opposed? All right. Approved for April 30th. Uh May 7th, uh workshop meeting minutes. Uh any questions with those? You're looking for
018a motion to approve. So, I second. Second. All those in favor? I. Anyone opposed? All right. Uh May 14th meeting minutes? Um any questions with those? No. All right. I'll be looking for a motion to approve. Motion to approve the May 14th meeting minutes. I'll second. All those in favor? Anyone opposed? All right. Motion approved. Next on the agenda is information items and we are going to be looking at the preliminary budget update and revenue generating idea. All right. So this presentation is going to kind of start talking about you know how schools are funded. Um and then we'll kind of morph into we'll talk a little bit about revenue and our expenditures kind of state of the budget. not going to get too detailed. We've got some new folks on the on the board.
019Um, and we'll we'll talk about more detail over the next uh few months. Um, and then and we'll kind of talk about, you know, some ideas and we'll kind of morph into, you know, the open enrollment disc discussion. So, I'll introduce my special guests in in a little little while, but um, so ultimately, how are schools funded? we're we are limited by a state imposed revenue limit that's controlled by um the state budget. So since 199 in 1993 the state imposed revenue limits on school districts to districts were capped at that point. So if you were a more frugal district like Ritstown, you were capped at a much lower level than maybe a district that maybe was more um more apt to spend and and and get the things that they wanted. At that point
020um the school board had the power to set a tax levy that was adequate for the things that they needed. So if the school board said, "Hey, we need three more teachers. We'll levy for three more teachers." Sounds great. Um but in 1993 um this the state imposed revenue limits because tax levies got too high. Um and so now since then we've been in imposed revenue limits which are controlled by the state budget. So 90% of our revenue is controlled here. Um like I said allocations are are and increases are determined by the bianium budget which we are in a bianium year. So we are moving towards an approved state budget. Um we don't have much news out of Madison yet. So we are operating on a lot of assumptions in this at this point.
021Um but the budget is lar revenue is largely is based on student enrollment and um so um we'll move forward and talk a little bit about enrollment. So we count our students on the third Friday in September and funding is based on the number of students but it's based on a three-year rolling average. So um in 2425 we were able to count 1,290 students. So uh there is a formula. So it's not always butts and seats. You know you might say we have you know over 1300 students you know that includes kids that are are open enrolled or on a tuition waiver or some other type of agreement. They might be in an alternate placement setting. So 2425 we were able to count students at just over $11,000 per student. coming in at just over
022$14 million. So, we are anticipating a $325 per student. Um, I should present this for you so you can can see. Thank you. Sorry. Um, uh, we are anticipating a $325 per pupil increase. So, that was um um approved at the last state budget. Governor Ivers um vetoed um that into existence and so we we anticipate that amount going forward. There could be slightly more than that and there might be other pieces of revenue that would come in in the state budget but it's all um rumors at this point. Um, so if I like to be conservative, so if we if we assume flat enrollment at,290 students at with a $325 increase, we'd be around $14.8 million. So increase it to over $400,000. Um, that's largely going to be um spent on salaries and benefits.
023over 70% of our budget is it goes to our wonderful staff, you know, and and that's not a not a dig at our staff, but we we love our staff and and we want to attempt to attract and retain staff. Uh the board did approve a 2.95% CPI increase um in April. Um but looking at the budget, there's a few other things that um um are impacting our bottom line. you know, one has been a hot topic in our district. Our legal costs over the last year were were extremely high. Uh so we're hoping for a reduction on that moving forward. Um and as you probably see in your in your daily life, the cost of services and supplies are increasing. It seems like uh every day they they uh continue to increase. So our
024our bottom line is extremely tight at this point. We I I do anticipate a little bit more revenue coming in once the state budget is approved, but I'm not able to quantify that at this point. Um so looking way for ways to reduce costs or without affecting our programs and services. We want to try to avoid um deferred maintenance. Uh we are working on a 10-year uh capital improvement plan. I've worked with um Chris Nap, our buildings and grounds director. Um Corey Jeffers, our technology director as well. Have a meeting set up uh I think tomorrow or Friday with Craig Hayes, activities director, kind of bringing in those pieces. We'll we'll talk with Katie Huey, who's our food service director, and then bring that to the admin team. Um so we can prioritize some of
025those things and then we'll bring that to the board level as well to you kind of map out a plan for expenditures. But you know, so there there's a lot there's a lot of need uh on on those um on that plan already. Um and then it's it's really prioritizing everything and trying to fit everything. Um along with trying to find ways to reduce costs, we also look for ways to increase revenue. That would be the the opposite end of the spectrum. So when we look at revenue, as I said, our our our budget is largely increased or um affected by in enrollment. So if we were to get more students, that equals more money. But as I said, um re our enrollment is based on a three-year average. So if we get one new
026kid, um that $11,000 per student, we get onethird of that in the first year. So you get two/irds in the second year. and and um be at the full amount after after 3 years. So um one of the ways outside of natural enrollment gain is to increase open enrollment. So you'll see many districts will will have open seats and um and allow students or students that don't live in our community to come in here. So, we we have applications on both ends that um students that don't live in our district that want to come here and we also have less we have less students that live here that want to go elsewhere. We we think that's a a great tribute to our our staff and the things that we have to offer here. Um but
027currently we're looking at we would have 39 applications of people that don't live in our district that want to come here. Um and 11 applications for students that live here and would like to attend somewhere else. So if if we were to accept all of those, it would be a net gain of 28 students and if we look at our open enrollment amount that equates to about $260,000. So um that avenue that added revenue would be used to address staffing needs um you know especially in you know the the early elementary um levels that that would be most affected. Um but we would anticipate a net gain if we were to accept everyone. Um dollars then would be used to address other district needs. So, for example, you know, I think Sarah would say it
028would be it'd be awesome if we could have another reading interventionist or another special ed teacher or another XYZ teacher. With the limited funds that we have, it remain it it it's increasingly difficult to to add staff. So, looking for ways to increase revenue to to do that. And I understand that you would be, you know, raising money to spend money, but in this case, uh, we would anticipate a gain for for the district. So, with approval, we would the admin team would prioritize needs, you know, staffing needs and things like that. We'll bring that to the board for approval. Um, at at this point I'm going to introduce my tag team partner, Mrs. Nelson, um, to kind of talk about open enrollment and kind of what options we have and because we are looking
029for some direction tonight. Yeah. So, I just to be clear like I don't know if you need what is part of the agenda like to rest because we're going on to another agenda if you need to bring that forward. So this would be all about the open moment which is the next agenda. So you're speaking around 6A correct? Yeah, we kind of rolled it together because they are they are related. Okay. So then um we need a motion to move on to agenda item 68. We want to have discussion on five. Sure. Do you have any questions on anything that I that I presented? I suppose the so we talked about needs or what the additional things what are those needs and I guess is that what Sarah's going to be discussing? Yeah a little
030bit. Okay. I feel like all of our questions might be addressed in the next part. So that's good. Yeah. I mean I think I think for the most part I mean you know there is there is some um question about whether or not if we if we increase enrollment will we need to add a teacher and then at what point do we do that and little jump in the gun a little bit on what Sarah's going to talk about but we're trying to develop a plan so that we can strategically do this without um hopefully without you know overt taxing our our current staff um you know because We we certainly appreciate them and and want them to remain engaged in our district and help our kids. So I'll turn it over to Sarah. What
031do you want to any other questions on what I've presented? I guess I do have a question. So basically you don't get the full amount for three years. So what happens if like a student leaves the district? You still don't retain any of that. You only get that lower amount. Yep. Okay. And then so say some of the open enrollment I know some of them have um other potential like special ed special ed would this would not include any special ed students. We would be closed for special ed. So these are all be regular ed students. Um and open the open enrollment amount for funding. We would get the full amount in year one. So you actually get more money for open enroll kids in year one and you end up getting more money for
032for natural you know resident kids but um so it is a districts do use it as a as a revenue generating idea. Can you clarify that statement to I I I thought and I wrote down maybe I misrote it right. I thought that there was a three-year rolling average. So, we get one third in year one, twothirds in year two, and then and so how do we get more money in year one? If if we were to accept the open enrolled kid that kids, that amount is different and not included in that three-year rolling average. So, these are separate. They're the traditional student is the three-year rolling average. Traditional resident students are counted on a three-year rolling average. Okay. And outside of that is open enrollment. Say they want to come in and you have
033some that go out and that transfer amount is realized in year one. So that full amount. One additional question just on the budget situation. You said that the anticipation is a net gain and the anticipation then is that it would create revenue. Um and we believe that the revenue would would outweigh the benefits, but we don't know that to be certain. Well, so so for example, if we go back to uh this slide here, so if if we were to accept all student all all the applications, we would see a net gain of $260,000. Now, let's say we had to add a 4K teacher and we would have to add maybe we have to add a uh kindergarten teacher, let's say. So, we add two teachers. Um the amount for that those two teachers would
034be less than the $260,000. That would create a gap. So, you know, there would be some potential room in with flexibility without adding staff, but if we hit these hit these amounts, then we would look at adding staff. Kind of kind of stepping on Sarah Sunder a little bit, but yeah, but um you know, if if we if we would end up doing that, you know, we would create we anticipate that we would would have a gap there. Well, the the the effect on the cost to the district wouldn't necessarily just be in teacher salary. It's other things too, right? Sure. So, has that all been weighed in? And have we figured all of that out or we don't Yeah. I mean, you know, we might have to add, you know, supplies for a classroom,
035let's say. Uh we just did that for 4K classroom. You know, those are one-time expenses. So, you know, we could handle that within the budget, you know, versus ongoing costs of having a teacher. Um, so the open enrollment is at 9 9262. I I anticipate that that's what it, you know, when I looked at it, the amount has gone up around that amount each each year. So I just kind of calculated in, you know, basic average of it. So um, it probably not going to be exactly that amount, but and current resident because we still get a percentage, right? So what's currently? So it's it was just over 11,000 11,145. Yep. Any other questions on what what I talked about? not really what you talk about, but I'm wondering so if we do have an
036open enrollment student and um like their attendance isn't great that kind of negatively affects our scores like how then if you'd get to a point could they like what does the district do? Do you stop open enrolling that student because of the negative impact and then you could potentially have siblings involved? Like how do other disc like how do we see or see handling that could create? So I think we need to go on to agenda item 68. Yeah. So, um, considerations are approved or deny open enrollment applications for 2025 to 2026 school year. Have a motion and vote to close out the previous. Oh, there was no action. There was no that was justformational. Motion. Yeah. Oh, I we'll make a motion to bring 68 to the table. I'll second. All right. So, now
037we'll all discuss. So, you're asking really good questions and then I I can either answer some of them right now or you can go through it and I'm answering kind of all the candidate. It doesn't really matter. Um, but just that we're all looking like talking about the same thing. So, I know there's new people on the board. So, I don't want to assume that you know anything really. So, if you need more clarification, just let me know. So again, open enrollment in is all students who live in surrounding school districts that want to come here. And that number is 39 students all the way from 4K to uh 12th grade. So within those grade levels, we have 39 students who are like, "Yes, I want to come to Rice Mountain School District." We use
038open enrollment out of those students who 11 who are like, "Hey, no, do you know what? It's easier for me to drop off my child at DePier, so I'm going to open to Depier." And that's where we want to send our children. So that's where we like just that we're using the same terminology as we're going through this. This isn't a new conversation. This is a conversation that we had um we have to have in January. So in January um administratively we came to the board um and set the seat limits for what the open enrollment was going to be that we would accept for the 2526 school year. Administratively at that time we had all said zero for 4K to 8th grade. And the reason for setting it at zero um specifically in 4K
039was that going to the new format of 4K, we really don't know what that projected um student enrollment will be. We are assuming that it's going to be a higher number just based on the way that the program's going to run. Most parents are going to love the 4 day a week option versus the two-day Monday Wednesday or two day Thursday. So those that was some of the reasoning why we were like no let's just see what our own community generates as enrollment. Historically we have accepted 10 in 4K um and that we've had some that mean at 13 but we've always accepted somewhere between 8 and 10 students in 4K. But again not knowing where our program was going to draw our own community students we said no to any of them. And that
040was for 4K to eighth grade because all of our class sizes are really hovering at or above what we have set for our max capacity. And so that was some of the reasoning and the rationale between like why the board approved zero open enrollment seats for K4K 8 back in January. So with that um high school always will accept um because they can just do their schedule significantly different. So they always will be accepting open enrollment students um which is different than what we do at the 14 to 8 level. Um knowing that our budget is tight as Dan has referenced um hard conversations about how do we strategically open up and gain more revenue by doing open enrollment. So when we look at what are some of those things that we can do to
041increase yes open enrollment is one of them but there is a policy that we have to follow for open enrollment. Our policy states that if they are siblings they automatically get in. If they are um a current student that moves out of the district during the school year and they open enroll back because they want to stay here, they too get automatically in. So those are the two situations where the students just automatically get enrolled. And so that's um if you go to the next slide, we're going to kind of talk about two different options when it comes to open enrollment. Option one, we have to take like it's it's it's per policy that we have to do it. So there are nine current students that are enrolled this school year that want to come
042back next year. So those are nine of the 39 that we automatically have to take. So there's now we're down to 30. Then there are eight who are siblings that already attend Wrighttown Community School District. Six of them are in 4K. Two of them are in kindergarten and one of them is like I think eighth grade. So those are also eight students who automatically come in per policy. Then we have four students who have open enroll for the high school. That is open seats that we already have. So those would be for students that we do our research that they have no expulsions um or any special ed needs. Those students would also be um accepted in per per policy because of se that we that we set. So we are right now already at
04321 of the 39 students that we will accept for open enrollment. We have 11 students who have opted out of Wrighttown Community School District. So we have to look at that as like a net gain or a net loss. We're still at the end of the day gaining 10 10 students and part of the open enrollment out if you look there was a difference between what we get for the open enroll students in the home district gets to keep a portion of that $11,000. So we do get funding for those 11 students. It's small but it's still funding for those 11 students that are open enrolling. So the 39 that are open enroll their home districts do collect a little bit of funding for those students. So that's where we talk about like kind of
044that net gain is that we still we're still would be gaining 10 students for Ricetown Community School District. So that's option one. You you will have to approve that tonight. Like we don't for which is good. They're wonderful students. Will love to have them in that. And then I don't know about the eight yet because those are six to um option two where this is going to get to be where I think we should probably have some conversation and discussion. So there is an aster right there because when we say accept all applications we have to remember that there's 39 people who are saying yes I want to come to Ritstown but they could also have applied to three other school districts. They might say oh hey yeah I want you I'm going to gamble
045I'm going to try writes town. I'm gonna try for Conor. I'm gonna try little shoes. See which one's going to accept this. And then they ultimately get to make that decision. So you could say, "Yeah, we're gonna approve them all and out of those, you know, 19 that are left, we might not get or 18 that are we might not not all of them get them coming." So there's that as well. Just to put that out there. Um, so there are 18 students left out of the 39 because 21 of them are going to take. So out of those 18, um, what we could choose to do is we could choose just to accept them all. That that's the reality of it. It would end up being 16 open enrolled students for 4K and it
046would be five open enrolled students for kindergarten. That is a that's a large number when we go and keep our class sizes to 18 to 20 and 4K that is almost already a class set of students. So be mindful of what that number actually means when it comes to the practicality of the school. So we could do that or you could within option two is set a different limit. You could say all right um we're the three kindergarteners. Yep. that are addictable to the two. So, two of them we have to take for policy. There's three left that we don't necessarily have to take for policy. So, you could say like, well, you know what? We'll take the three, see if they want to come. That will be five total for kindergarten. We could say
047in 4K, which historically we've said at 10, that we would only really accept four additional students because the six that are siblings count in that 10 open enrollment number. So we could say we're going to accept four more so we get to that 10 which we've have historically done. You can you can decide that you can change your number to or you can say nope we're going to do all 16. If you decide to change the set limit it goes into a lottery event. And so the lottery event would be where I didn't know what decision you were going to make. So in my coffee cup are all the students names. You literally would just pick them out all the 10 students and we write down this is student 1 2 3 4 5 6
0487 8 9 10. And then the four students would get their their opportunity first to get open enrollment and then the others would go on a wait list. If two of those students are like nope we're decided to go somewhere else then we would just pull the next two up off the weight list. That's if you decide to set a new limit. The other part of option two that goes right along with it, if you're thinking about opening up open enrollment, which was currently closed for 4K or kindergarten, we're asking that you set that threshold for student teacher ratio so that we don't get so um lopsided in our students because we have to remember that when we look at 4K, we want that class size to be no more than 18 to We currently
049have 66 students enrolled in our 4K program. I will say that's higher than normal. Like for this time of year, we're like, "Holy moly, that's awesome." Because we normally get anywhere between 10 to 15 students that open throughout the summer. And those are just our our students. It's the mom who's like, "I can't believe my baby's going to 4K, right?" Um, which I did. So, we that's what we kind of base that on. But we already have 68 students enrolled. The six that we have to take per policy already jumps up us up to 74 students. If you accept the other 10, we're already at 84 students. I am asking I'm gonna strongly ask that if you accept all open enrollments that you also give me a threshold is if we get to 88 students
050at any point during this the summer we have the okay to go and add a 4K teacher what are we what are we currently at for teachers in 4K four teachers four teachers and so um right now at that I mean they're going to be you know just shy of the 18. Like, so do we want that? I was over 18 at that point. Like, do we like do we want that? I don't know. So, again, like kind of going off of that, like, do we want a moment to initiate adding a teacher? And at what time in this summer will we be happy to add that teacher? That's a crystal ball question, right? So looking at that, that would be kind of where we're at is that that threshold of 88 that I wouldn't
051necessarily have to say, "Oh, hey board, I'm looking to hire a 4K teacher because we're already um on July 3rd at 88 students." So that's that's what we would be asking is that if you do open up open enrollment for 4K that you also open up the opportunity to higher if we get to the threshold of 88 which is 22 4Kers in a class which is a lot. So that's why and then you'll bring it back down to 18 per classroom. So then the other place that we're incredibly high is our kindergarten numbers. our kindergarten numbers um we would ask to set the threshold of 92 which um would give us about 21 students per classroom. So, um, what we're looking at right now is there's five applications. Um, for kindergarten three, we have to
052add or policy. Um, so I got back, sorry. So, right now, we're at 84 students. Um, with those two, we would be up at 86 students. So, we're also close to that. And throughout the summer, we do average about 10 to 15 kindergarten enrollments of just our old current students. I have a tour on Friday. um next Friday of one a kindergarten student who's going to come. So we always do gain um kindergarten students who are coming from a daycare setting or they've gone to somewhere else because they want the they don't want the two board things like that. So we would ask that if we get to the threshold of 90 kindergarten that we would also be able to um open up a hiring process. The problem with hiring um in the summer is
053always a risky game. not gonna it's it's risky but if we get to the thresholds we have to do some major shifting within I will I was here when we were um developing the the new elementary school edition um I didn't plan for five sections of 4K so we currently have four 4K classrooms um that we'll be using no matter what so if we have to go to a fifth section I need to take the classroom of the fifth kindergarten classroom because it's bigger and it has bathrooms and things like that. And I don't know which threshold we would hit first to be honest with you. It would be 4K or kindergarten. If we were to hit both thresholds of 4K would have to go into a kindergarten classroom. They're all right here. Not a
054major that's not really a big deal. If we reach the threshold of kindergarten, we then need to take one of the first grade classrooms and make it a kindergarten classroom, which does not have a bathroom and does not um is then outside of kind of like where the kindergarten classrooms are. Those are manageable, but it's another per se. Um, so that's kind of where we're at with open enrollment numbers and some of the logistics behind that. I just gave you a ton of information. I tried to go slow. What questions do you have regarding that? So, I questions. Uh, so we're at 66 already. We're at 68 for case units. Okay. And we have to take six and we have to take six for policy. Okay. Um, so we're at that number and you said
055that number is exceedingly or higher than last year. You're like, wow. Okay. Then we will typically add and you said the average is 10 in the summer. Could be more. We don't know. Right. Um historically um as we've seen this where does that number compare to where we've been the last two years say that that 60 the number right now for right now? Yeah. I would say we're probably at 15 over. Okay. So and Rightstown is growing right. We're we're adding residents all around. So, let's extrapolate this out a few years. If we're adding now and we're allowing these kids and we're growing these classrooms, which is great, and I'd love to expose as many kids to write songs as possible, right? But do it smart. Um, what happens when those kids are in second
056grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, and then we're adding sections and we're not getting smaller? How quickly does the school run into logistical issues with classrooms? Great question. So, if we ended up with five sections of 4K and five sections of kindergarten, I would have to get creative in five sections of first grade because I would have taken the fifth section of first grade and used it for kindergarten. Now, there is room for growth. Like, that was intentional and we built it. Um, we could easily, it wasn't easy, we could we could problem solve a way to get a fifth first grade classroom. Is it going to be where we want it to be? No. Is it going to be in a collaborative area with the rest of the first grade? No. Is it
057going to be completely out of where I think I'm probably maybe a little inconvenient? Yes. Um, we do have room for five second grade classrooms. We do have room for five third grade classrooms and five fourth grade classrooms. intentional to build. Um, we were hoping that we would do it more organically with our own students because again, an open enrolled student can say, which I'm gonna be super transparent with it. I know I don't even say that word, but I am concerned that some of our 4K students are open enrolling strictly because of the program. And then in kindergarten, they're not going to open enroll here. They're going to say like, "Oh, hey, do you know what? I really appreciated your 4 day a week program because this school only offered half day mornings and
058that was really a nightmare." But I want to go back to that home school because their kindergarten program is just fine. So the school there is a reality that that could happen. So I don't I don't but again this is where we we don't know. Um 4K is always a hard one to actually be able to navigate and for our policy if we take them in at Forte we're now saying every sibling that follows absolutely has to come to. Yeah. So we could end up I would say six is probably one of the largest numbers of siblings that we have. six seems like a little bit higher on that end of it. Um, but that's just because we've accepted 10 every year for the last how many years. So now their little brother or sister
059is school age and so you just kind of continue that pattern of it. But again, like I don't think we've ever truly had 16 open road though either. Like that's that's higher for us. We've been usually somewhere between 11 and 13. So that makes me question, do they truly want to be a Red Stones tiger or is it like man I just really love your 40 program which is gonna be amazing but is it are they here for the longevity of it and the 4K number isn't necessarily going to be $9,000 because they're probably students. So, like also being super honest about that, like it's going to show it's $9,200 for a kindergarten through 12th grade student. We don't get full funding for 4K students. So, that number will not be $9,200. And my dad
060said he's like not sure what that number is. I don't want to misguide you either. I'd be like, we'll get full open enrollment to four students. We will. Is that dependent upon the district they're coming from and their duration that they have for 4K or is it dependent upon all 60%. So that and that's true of the the resident students as well. So that you know the the 1290 whatever the 4K number is we get 6. So did your 20 or 29,000 include the reduction on the 4K or No. Um it did not. No. So it' be really slightly less than that. Yeah. Yeah. My concern too is with the not just the elementary school but once we get into the middle school we are really tight there. And so the in that numbers of
061um 18 students that we like so three of them are kindergartens, 10 of them are 4K. Um there's a third grader, a fifth grader, a sixth grader, a seventh grader, an eighth grader, and then the ones two nth gra those students are important, but they're not going to actually matter in right now where we're saying more types, but I would say that one more third grader. I can make room for one more third grader, right? I I guess I don't know if Bob can make room for one more fifth grader, sixth grader, seventh grader, eighth grader. Um, but you'll also see that some of these are siblings, but the policy doesn't hold true right now because students so that sibling doesn't really necessarily have to get in. So when we look at like even accepting
0624K, we have two sets of twins. We could accept one twin out of lottery and then the other twin. Well, my guess is that they don't come back. So there's those as well. There's two sets of twins in the 4K. How many elementary sections is it all four or is there any groups of five currently? So there is a fifth section right now in first grade but they will be moving on to second grade only four sections because I took that additional teacher waited for reading interventions that have been needed for years. Um but I was I couldn't do the whole. So I had to ultimately make a choice between reading interventionist for the entire school or keeping second grade at about 20 per class. So there our second graders running about 25 students per
063class. Okay. Well, these are the types of decisions that you know with limited resources that we have to with had to have some tough conversations like I want this and I want this but you got to you got to pick one, right? So I guess my brain is also go we also want academic success for all of our kids and we want to retain teachers. So I feel like we need to create an environment that allows that to happen. So I know we're talking a lot of dollars and cents right now, but I can't help but wonder as these class sizes continue to grow what impact that has on the academic success of our kids. Yeah, absolutely. If we go by success for every student or quality education for every student, just vision and mission
064and right feel free administrators to chime in. But I we know the research shows that lower class sizes are better for our students. Um so I think as we reach I'm looking at these middle school and high school as you start reaching these mid20s at capacities and these are averages. I think reality we have classrooms that are higher than those averages in outside. We're outside of our classroom and every grade is a first grade right now because they have five sections and then potentially it's going to go to the fifth grade and at the middle school we're already tight and then they're probably the ones that are the most over their class sizes the eighth grade if we look at their numbers they're they haven't exceeded those already. Yeah. So a solution now could create
065problems later. Have we seen um I think I know the answer to this, but has there been an impact with transfer of our own kids from prochios into our public school system? Yeah. And I I know that's the case in the middle school for sure, but I and that's something that's a little unpredictable too. Correct. It is very unpredictable. Well, at the we're tight at the when you say tight at the middle school, we're tight based upon what numbers the board has set for class sizes in the past where we've set it at a range of 20 to 24 um with ideal class size being at 22. We have we have exceeded that for quite a few years now in virtually every grade. Um, one of the challenges that I would see and and the
066board has to make a decision based upon, you know, all kinds of that, but one of the challenges I see that when we have, um, a run out on grade, especially, uh, moveins, seventh grade was a big one this past year. Um, we start to push that to 26, 27. Uh I think currently we're at about 25 to 26. Now those numbers are dynamic. We see a bunch of moveins in the summer and then sometimes during a school year we'll lose a few kids. You know these numbers are not concrete. Um but the challenges are there because we're already exceeding what the board has felt comfortable with in the past. Can we take in more kids? Absolutely. We have to start to consider though what those thresholds are for us to begin thinking about that
067fifth section in order to you alluded to academic success, student outcomes, uh social emotional um and culture in the uh in the classrooms. Those are factors that are definitely they need to be considered by the board as well. If you have, can you put 35 kids in a classroom? We'll find we'll find seats for them. You know, I mean, but what else then comes from that situation? What type of um you know, student interactions are going to have um increase in behavior management challenges? all things to consider, but I ultimately will also agree that um revenue was a challenge as well. So, I mean there's there's a lot for you to think about. Yeah. So, Sarah, when you talk about adding a teacher, is it fulltime? Because I mean, it's four day a week. So
068either in either first grade or 4K or kindergarten they would be a full-time teacher. So we would have to bring on um and then we also need to be mindful that that also comes with our 4K. We all have a classroom pair. Um kindergarten shares pairs right now but we'd be strapping with five. So there there comes with those additional things. Um and I think someone even said like what about all the supplies that you would need? right now I have everything I need for five sections of kindergarten because we had five sections at one point in time. So that wouldn't be necessarily something that we'd have to consider. But I don't have everything for a fifth section of 4K. Um and the things that would require that um if we do fifth section of
0694K but not a fifth section of kindergarten, some of those things can be used um but not exactly. So there would be a cost that we would have to do and I think that Dan has kind of bumpered that in there um for what we would need if we did have to go to the additional 4K. Like to Bob's point, I do believe that those thresholds are going to be incredibly important if you were to accept the older moments. And again, I understand we need to generate revenue and and wanting to be able to do some things like that, but it will come with a cost if we reach that threshold. Um, and if we reach that threshold and we don't have the okay to get new teachers on board, then I do think that
070academic success and will. Okay. on the kindergarten numbers. Do those typically increase over the course of the summer as well with we normally get somewhere between like 10 to 15 and again it's so hard to predict because you don't know right and we we don't we don't know I mean but we could also like just we could lose a couple of 4K students that were here 4K and now want to go somewhere else for kindergarten. Maybe some of the open enroll students now want to go back to school. So there could be some flexibility of in and out like that that does happen once we start hitting kindergarten and up but our in always outweighs our out when we look at historical data of that like we've never lost north. So with that current number,
071that's the 86, right? Is what we have expected. Yeah. So if we're expecting that to grow another 10 or 15 over the summer, we're pretty much planning that there be a fifth section for Ker. If we accept all of these, I would I like to bet sometimes I would say 4K will absolutely reach their thresholds if we accept all six. Yeah, 4K for sure. But just focus on the 5K kindergarten. That's a we're thinking I couldn't say couldn't say we've already um I mean correct me I think we've also already had seven new kindergarten enrollments from what we were at in 4K to now I think we've had seven students already enrolling for next year and then uh we don't have like the names ever seeded out um I'm just thinking if we have students
072that we would accept those those one-offs in third grade fifth or whatever. Are they siblings with those that would be in the 4K or something like that that would get added in in the future? Okay. There are two siblings that would have a 4K. There's two that would have a 4K sibling. However, our policy doesn't say if we accept them open enrollment now that we have to accept them all. So that actually wouldn't be or they accepted them this year and they did go next year. We would have to take their sibling. Next year we have to take that child to be a kindergarten. Kindergartener. Okay. And we've done that in the past. Yeah. So, I just want to be mindful of time because I know we have a hard stop limit as far as
073decision on when I mean it's kind of like a tonight or not um open enrollment. You have to you have to accept those per policy tonight. Okay. You don't necessarily have to set if you're going to accept the ones that are outside of our clothes that we did. The only thing about not doing that is that you are pushing families decisions down the road because the next time you get an opportunity to see this will be a 30 page. So you you as a board you can make whatever decision you want. I think if you go to the next slide, it's kind of like here's what here's what the board kind of has to decide. Okay. Which option are you gonna move forward with? Are you just gonna option one? We're just gonna accept who
074we need to and we're going to move on. Um if you're accepting all then then actually the process is done as well. We'll just okay we're we're changing the seat limits and we're going to move on. If we're going to set a different limit, we don't want all 16 but we want 10 and 4K. You can make that decision right now or that is a decision that you have a one last opportunity in June to change your mind. It's kind of like the last ditch effort for a family dealer placement. Um that would be your latest opportunity. So yes, being conscious of the time those are kind of where where you are at. All right. Putting my thoughts out there, I would say like financials I don't think makes sense to add additional 4K. You're
075going to get a limited amount. We're even getting less of what we originally showing. Uh you're going to push that over the the number. We're going to have to get a fifth teacher higher and it's just going to it's not I agree and it's just going to push it's going to push it into the future and into the future and out the future. We're still growing. So I I completely agree. My thought is too. We're going through a major transition to a 4day. Let them transition. let them figure out the the bumps in the road and what's gonna happen before you nail them with, hey, here's even more bodies to try to transition. So, and if I saw correctly, this was a conversation that started in January. So, is it safe next January? We can
076have the same conversation again after we have more information and we know the state of the and I think our we could go with option one and still discuss in June meeting for we could, right? So you could you could accept all by policy tonight and then table that discussion to not all. Well, we could accept all but we could also just accept option one just the ones that we have to do. Correct. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I would just motion to accept option one if that was wanted and go through that route. I guess that would be we can put the motion out there and vote on it. And um my other my other question just real quick. I mean hearing everything that I've heard tonight, I don't know that my decision would change
077in three weeks, right? So I I mean and then you're just pushing stuff down the line for for parents and stuff like that, too. And I I guess so. That's just my opinion. My opinion is not to table anything. Just let us make the decision. Of the 18 that are how many of those? So yeah, the 21 we have to accept to policy and 18 remain. 16 and five were 16 were 4K. Yep. Okay. So there's really not that many extra that would be left out. Do we accept do we look to accept the ones not in 4K? So have a little bit of added revenue in just like Sarah had mentioned there was a third grader and third grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade. And there's a couple at the
078high school and three kindergarters. Yeah. And there was looks like kindergarten is going to go to five sections no matter what. I think we were expect you said typically we see 10 to 15 growth over something. We accepted all four kids. I would expect to go to the fifth section. If we accept the three kindergarters I I can't say whether or not we would reach that threshold. Okay. Yeah. When I asked before I was asking for the 5K. Does 5K see growth over summer? Y because we're at that bubble right now. 86. All grades could see growth over summer. Correct. And that is that typical? Yes. It's so it's typical. Yeah. Okay. I'll just put it out there. I'll make a motion to accept option one. Um, as per our policy. I'll second your motion.
079All those in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Okay. Motion carries. All right. Are you sure are you asking us to bring anything back or you know for future consideration or are we closed at this point? I would like us to consider the potential of adding the non4k in the future. Okay. I would at least like to have a review of it in June. Okay. Because for what we might know maybe we have a different number that's coming in for enrollment as well. Right. Sure. June though is really only a month. Yeah, that's we're not going to know that much. In a month, I think you'll probably see more of your numbers in August is when people are going to be like, "Oh, hey, I got to enroll my kids. I moved here." And then that's when
080you're going to notice the drop in. So, I don't know that pushing it back just a little bit is going to help us. I agree. So, just putting that out there. Okay. Um, all right. So then next on the agenda, you have to have a vote on whether or not we bring it back or I don't know how that works. We can put it on the future agenda items. Okay. Okay. All right. Consideration to approve monthly bills listing. So, I mean a motion make a motion to bring the monthly bills, listings, and receipts to the floor. All right. Discussion on uh bills. Oh, all those in favor? I Anyone oppose? All right. discussion on monthly bills. So, [Music] um I only have one concern if anyone else has. So, my suggestion would be per legal
081that we extract the 14,53 FEMA approval for the legal fees and approve the balance of bills. That is from from non brief. Correct. So I would make a motion to approve the bills with the von bison extraction of the bills totaling $14,53 for approval. I'll second. All those in favor. Anyone opposed? All right. Next on the agenda is um consideration to approve the staffing update for May 21st. Um we all had a chance to review that. We'll be looking for a motion to approve the staffing um update as presented. I'll make a motion. All those in favor? Anyone opposed? All right. Next on the agenda is consideration to approve the teacher contracts for 2025 to 2026. Uh you should have all been able to have a chance now to kind of review some of that
082information. So are there questions on it? So really just provided the list of teachers, right? So yeah, so the board did approve a 2.95% CPI increase. Uh language on the teacher contracts did not change. Uh so this is a list of the teachers. I do have the printed copies. They are all anxiously waiting them for so once uh approved then we would have um president and clerk sign them uh this evening and then distribute them to staff um as soon as possible. So I know there was some question on what had changed from previous to current year. Yep. Um so Dan had sent us over some examples. So it's the verbiage around vacation and payout and that's actually not in the teacher contract. Yeah. So that that's going to be handbook language that we have
083to address. We did address that language that we do not pay out uh for vacation or unused sick time um in administrator contracts and then any other any other contracts. Right. So we be looking for a motion to approve the teacher contracts. Motion to approve the teacher contracts are 2526. I'll second. All those in favor? I abain. Good idea. I forgot. I completely forgot what that nice touch. Um anyone opposed? All right. Next on the agenda [Music] is consideration to approve um the administrative contracts for 2025 to 2027. Make a motion to bring these to the floor for discussion. Second. All those in favor? Anyone opposed? All right. Conversations. All right. So, um, yeah, we had issues early in the week because our four docs accounts weren't configured to allow us to see them, but
084was able to review them today. Noticed typos because it was copy paste job. Yep. Um, we fixed that for the copies that are the copies that are Okay. Don't say teachers. Yep. We'll fix that. Um, yeah, I guess I just I guess have some questions about our role in this process. We're being asked to approve them, but again, I wasn't given access and then I didn't have access to review the documents until a few hours ago. And then I I just I'm a little hesitant after hearing concerns from the administrator point of view that changes were made. So, I want to make sure my action as a board member um I have all the information I need. So, I don't necessarily feel comfortable taking action on this. I'm not saying that because I don't feel
085like our administrators deserve a contract. I just want to make sure they're getting what was agreed upon or and I had no way of knowing that prior to sitting here. Um, so I don't know how we move forward with that or what we're expected. Um, I don't know. I don't administrative team here. So um I would love to hear it from the team just again I I respect your work. I want to make sure the returning Yeah. Um so that's a lot. um I guess if you're looking for the administrative contract, what I have always been comfortable with and what I have been given for the last six years is really what you see in addendum A. What you see in addendum A is what we have always been given. And I have always felt
086like that has been a good contract. Um, it would eliminate what is up above that I think is where the typos are where it says administrator employee agreement. If you take away that part of it and just say like I'm going to just give you the addendum A and have the board sign that and then the administrator sign that would be what we're used to receiving. And then I I agree if the board wants to go and make it a longer um contract for the following year like then that can start being some work that can start happening in in November so that we can get back to getting the contracts in January. So this is incredibly far behind for us. Um and I appreciate maybe not doing it right now, but one of the
087the problems of not agreeing to our contracts right now is that um we are trying to onboard through a building principal. they they needed contract in order to say like yes, I'm going to break my contract with my my current district. Um, we could just roll the contracts over, but then I I remain elementary principal because my contract actually does change. So, there's some like they are a little time sensitive and I guess I can leave it up to Corey and Craig if you're good with just like the addendum a part of the contract. Um, Corey, I know your contract is a little bit different. can't do that. So, so that's where I don't have one. Um, so that's where it gets tricky is like because Craig and I are are old. Um, we've been
088here six years, but Corey comes on with a different contract already because he came on in December. So, you're you're I guess you're up to the decision that you need to make. I guess at the end of the conversation, the contracts that have been presented as to current Are we okay with them with the intention that we would go to amend them in November for a January time frame or maybe amend I just have more discussion about it too. I think that so Corey does have an amendment. He does have he does not he did it previously. He does not see where there's some. Um, so so would would the board be comfortable with approving um administrative contracts addendum A as presented. I can redo those and then have Rain and Tiffany come in and
089sign them and then distribute them to the administrators following that. Then it would then we would not have to bring it back for further action. Then we would have our marching orders to to redo that. So that would remove the language prior to addendum A. I'll work with Corey to make sure everything that um is make sure everything is addressed in addendum A um and that everyone is is whole. Is that a reflection of past contracts that you've signed here in Brightstone? Yes. Yes. Okay. Then yes, that's what I needed to know. I would be Yeah. Addendum. Addendum is what we like that one page is always what we only have. But I don't know if it's an option to say like, "All right, well Sarah and Craig, you get what yours looks like it
090did in the past with the updated information on it and Corey gets a mirror image of what he signed in December when he came on." Like I don't know if there's a way to vote on contracts. Can we I don't know what that looks like. Can we for board policies separate the contracts to to to revert language for current staff? And then if the new contracts are were already agreed upon, then just leave those. Just leave those. So, so you're saying that you would approve addendum A for Craig, Sarah, and I approved Cory's as a mirror image of his previous contract. And then that I think that's fine. Um, and then I guess the what language would we use for the three new principles? Would we mirror that towards the language that Corey has or
091the language that the three others have? Do you leave those sign? This contract. No, that's I I do not know what Mr. Sar shared. I'm sorry. I thought that's that was the impression that they had already that's what I thought. I thought the new principal had signed already agreed to it then assume that they're in agreement with it. Correct. Correct. I think everything is substances included in it. Correct. Yes. And for for mine I can't speak I had never had an addendum a before. So this is literally the first moment I've had to look at it. So generally with a contract I like to spend a bit more time. Um, so you dig into it because this is the first time I've seen that part. So realistically could that approve everybody with a dend as
092their contract with the exception of Cory having a contract that once the new principles I don't think would object to having a dend as their contract because as you know most of the discussion about language came from everything that preceded it. If that's not there, I don't think anybody has a problem with that being gone. But then I would also recommend that at a future date, as Sarah mentioned, next November, sitting down having that discussion on everybody's contract in order to standardize them so we don't have two or three different contracts we're working on. For the record, I don't need to be special here. I know what the other contracts were like when I signed one in December. So, I didn't realize I was so different than the rest of the administration. No, there's no
093way for me to ever know that. That's been a bit of a point of a while. And so, there are some good example contracts out there when you sit down to determine what you want to do forward. Okay. I think that's a good I do think it's important that these three new principles know that they're valued and welcomed and that they're not bored because I know they they don't want to be in limbo that they don't have a job or whatnot. And I believe being around here 20 years, all right, it's the tighter way. We get them in here, we surround them, we collaborate them, we mentor them, we build them up, so we keep them. And I think that's a way to to go in step with that. Okay. I I did speak with
094one of them today. Um and I intend to call both of them tomorrow after after board action. So can we move to approve all the contracts with just that would be my recommendation is somebody to make a motion to approve the contracts with addendum A. I will make the motion to approve all administrative contracts before us to include addendum A. as the language only only as the language. I will second that. All those in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. All right, we are past time. We are going to um table the rest until the next meeting so that we can get folks out that need to be out. Um I think you need a motion to table the rest. We'll make a motion to table the rest of the agenda until their time. Second.
095All those in favor? Anyone oppose? All right. Looking for a motion to adjourn the meeting. Motion to the meeting. I'll motion. All those in favor? Anyone opposed? You turn it up.