001Everyone, we have a quorum. I'd like to call the meeting to order. The June 26, regular meeting of the Franklin City School Board. Do we have a motion to go into close session? In accordance in accordance with 2.2-3711 2-3711 of the code of Virginia. I move that this Franklin City School Board enter into close session to discuss and evaluate matters related to supplemental employment, new hires, promotions, early graduations, graduation updates, reassignments, a press release, division of cash flow, staff updates, budgetary needs, salary adjustments, and information concerning new teachers and administrators for the board pursuant to BA code section 2.2 to 37118 1 and 2. We have a second. A second. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Oppos? No. Motion carries. We'll be in close session. Welcome back everyone. I'd like
002to call our second open session to order. Do we have a motion to come out of close session? I move that the school board having been in close session for the motion to come out of close session. Do we have a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor of the motion to come out of close session signify by saying I. I oppos. No. Motion carries. Do we have a motion of certification of the board? I whereas the Franklin City School Board has convened a closed meeting on this date pursuant in to an affirmative recorded vote and in accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. And whereas section 2.2-7 2-7 uh 3712D of the code of Virginia requires a certification by the school board
003that such closed meeting was conducted in conformity with Virginia law. And now, therefore, be it resolved that the Franklin City School Board hereby certifies that to the best of each member's knowledge, one, only public business matters lawfully exempted by Virginia Law Map were discussed in the closed meeting to which this certification applies, and two, only such public business matters as were identified in the motion convening the closed meeting were heard, discussed, or considered. Thank you, Danielle. Do we have a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor of the motion for certification signify by saying I. I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. Would you join me in the pledge of allegiance, please? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible,
004with liberty and justice for all. Our school board is delighted to welcome two new members effective July 1st. And I saw Mr. Kent Grant here. Would you stand, please, sir? And there's Wadia here. [Applause] Wadia Bailey. We have three motions from our close session. The first is to approve the early graduation policy. Do we have a motion to do that? I move. Do we have a second? I second that. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. No. Motion carries. Do we have a motion to approve the title 1 through five grants for this coming year? Do we have a second? A second. Any discussion? [Music] All in favor of the motion to approve those grants signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Do we have a motion to approve our personnel
005agenda as presented? I so move. Do we have a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppos. No. That motion carries. Do we have a motion to approve our agenda? I move. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor of that motion signify by saying I. I. Oppos? No. Motion carries. Roll call. Miss Davis, please. Dr. Harrison, here. Miss Parker, here. Dr. Scott. Miss Boon? Here. Mr. Holt here. Miss Councel, Miss Hunt here, Dr. Carr here. Thank you. Moving to our consent agenda. We have the first reading for our minutes for our June 5th meeting. We will address those at our next meeting. We do need to approve the minutes for our May 22nd meeting. Are there any additions or corrections to those minutes? [Music] Hearing none, they approved as written.
006Superintendants report. Dr. Carter. Dr. Walters. What? Just a second. So, okay. Good evening, Mr. Holt. Members of the board, Dr. Carter, um I'm excited to be able to share with you uh kind of a progress report on where we are with some of the capital improvements uh that we've needed across the division. Um first, I'll start with the septic line replacement at JP King. Uh this is replacement of the sanitary line down the 100 hall. Uh so what you see here are the uh spray painted markings uh where we identified uh both the sanitary line uh and the electrical lines. Next slide. Um and then you'll see um the machinery in the middle uh was a saw that allowed contractors to cut through the concrete. Um following that up with busting the concrete. Next slide.
007Um, and then the excavation of the concrete, the dirt, stone, uh, and you see the pipe, uh, in that picture on the right. Uh, I'm pleased. Next slide, Mr. D. Thank you. Uh, pleased to report that significant progress has been made uh, in the replacement of that line. U, we're still uh, needing to finish up a few pieces, but the uh, the heavy lift is completed at this point. So, um, this is going to allow us to, uh, restore the restrooms that are in each of the classrooms along the 100 hall. Um, so we're in great shape, um, to have those reopened as students rejoin us in August. Excuse me. Did that also lead to the gym um, where they have the games and everything at? No, the gym's on a separate line. So, that's
008still not um, fixed yet. Uh, I'll follow back up with the maintenance supervisor um on the the progress of that work order. Okay. We do have uh several other projects uh that are ongoing and upcoming. Um the playground installation uh here at SP Morton. Um the demo of the existing playground actually started today. Um, and so we're excited to have that work underway, uh, to have the playground completed, uh, again before students return to us in August. We're in the process of getting estimates to apply the new logos to the gyms at Franklin High School and JP King. Uh and I'm also pleased to announce that we have 12 of our student workers uh who have been onboarded and they are assisting with some of the custodial and maintenance tasks um as we're preparing to
009uh open up uh for the upcoming school year. Uh the playground, how far is it going from the current playground now? How many feet? And is it going past that fence or is it going to be before the fence? It should be ending right before the fence. Uh so we are going to be uh installing this over the current footprint. Um in fact we may be bringing that just a little bit closer to the school. Okay. So it's not going to hit the sticky brow field. No ma'am. Okay. Um and then I did just want to follow up with the board from a previous request. We had discussed the surplus of materials. U Mr. Spa did reach out to our e recycling partner. uh they will be here mid July to pick up the TVs
010and overhead projectors from our off-site storage facility. The wooden doors um that are salvageable are going to be donated to building trades to be used as future prog uh project materials uh and the metal doors u will be scrapped with Franklin Recycling. I'd be happy to answer any other questions that you might have. On two slides back, please. All right. So, what is the what are we doing with this summer deep cleaning and room movements? Like where are we with the cleaning and the the contractors? So, two different things. Um we are um employing our own custodians. Uh so we have separated from our contract with the uh custodial group. Um we were not at all pleased with their progress. Um and in subsequent interviews uh from some of the employees who had interest in
011joining the FCPS team. Uh there was information that we received that uh they had not been adequately prepared uh with materials um organization training. Um so um we we know that we are heading back in the right direction. Uh we have interviewed several uh individuals. Uh I believe a few were on the personnel agenda for this evening. Um so based on their experience um I I am confident that we're we're going to be in a much much better place than we have found ourselves recently. Now, in terms of the summer cleaning, this is where we're moving uh everything out of the classrooms, um stripping floors, rewaxing floors, um really a top down cleaning, um blinds, everything. Um there are some moves where u we're relocating uh teacher classrooms uh just to meet the needs of
012the division. Um, and our student workers have really been instrumental even to this point um, in helping get those materials from uh, the old classroom to the new teachers location. And so come September, we're not going to have any empty classrooms. Everything's going to get ready to go. Well, sorry, August. August. Yes, August. We're going to have everything where no one's outside the classroom that they need to be in and we're not going to have anything moved around or anything. That is the plan. We have no third party custodian in here now. We do not. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. M. Morrison. [Laughter] Dr. Carter, school board, and those assembled. Good evening. Good evening. Uh, our first order of business is going to be to give a quick update on our annual audit and
013then I will present the May financials and vendor payments in a similar fashion to the way I present them every month. And then we're going to get into our June 2025 projections and what assumptions underly those. Uh the school financials you'll see are directly from our accounting system and the numbers I'll be presenting are our projections based on assumptions. Um so our numbers probably will differ from the city's records at this point. Next slide please. Audit update. Uh our fiscal year 25 audit has begun and all schools have independent audits separate from the locality audit. So, our audit then goes into the city's financials as a component unit. They are our auditors were here on May 1st to request some initial documentation and they will be back July 23rd to review the school activity funds
014and they'll return September 9th to do the central office division level work. and we uh hope that we will be able to get them everything that they require in a timely manner. Next slide. Okay. Um so this is the May financials. Um our general fund 92% of the year has gone by and 87% of our expenditures have been expended. Um the reason that our our incoming funds have lagged a bit is because the VOE, state and local funds mainly come in in June to catch up for when they were reflecting us at a lower average daily membership. The textbook and the cafeteria are actually standalone bank accounts and any remaining funds after the year end are typically rolled into the new year. When we look at our textbook fund, we've spent $51,79 on textbooks so
015far in fiscal year 25. And the revenues will be there in June once we do our annual transfer of the cafeteria revenues from our general fund into the cafeteria fund. Our nutrition fund uh is operating at a surplus. We collected 98% of the projected revenues and spent 85% of the projected expenditures. When we look at our federal grants, and this does include um the roof expenditures, um we have then um spent $7 million and that's 85% of our budget. That brings us to overall totals of 22 million incoming and 24 million outgoing. Um that does show a deficit and um the next slide please. U at May 31st our division's expenses did exceed our revenues and this is not something that we take lightly. We respect that there are concerns about the school spending and
016we appreciate the opportunity to clarify some of the school's position. There's never been an intent to overspend. Uh we based our spending on the budget that as we knew it based on previous commitments and our increase in average daily membership meant that we had to incur expenditures in order to take care of the increase in the number of kids. But yet we didn't receive our um final monies from Virginia Department of Education until June. So we had to incur the expenditures before we got the resulting revenue. Um we did have 1.5 million and what I consider timing differences and outliers. um 712,000 in roof overages and 874,000 in capital expenditures that have not been um allocated to fiscal year 25 as of yet. And once those are reflected in the school financials, I'm confident that
017we will no longer be in a deficit. We have made short-term corrections uh by leaving our expenditures at a minimum. In fact, we didn't do any expenditures in June for vendor payments, only for payroll. We have deferred our capital expenditure plans into next year and you'll see that variance when I get into the um projection. Um our plan is to work collaborative collaboratively with the city and the treasur's office to reconcile our books and identify any discrepancies that that there may be. Um and we're um we also want to establish protocols for how we move forward in fiscal year 26 as in how we want to present budget amendments, when we present budget amendments, um what is my finance contact after June 30th, um etc. And so we're working to ensure that our shared goal
018of student learning is not impacted by this. Next slide. So this is the restated uh May and the June projection. This excludes cafeteria and textbooks because they are in separate funds. So this is our general fund and our grant funds which equal what is in our operating bank account. We the budget as we know it is 26,480,610 and so far as of the end of May we have brought in 21.9 million and expended 23.6 million which is a deficit of 1.699 million and actually the bank balances reflect an even larger deficit. Next slide. Um the good news is we have a projected budget increase coming because we have 820,000 in um additional funding coming from state and local sources in June and this is all due to our increase in enrollment. Um we will spend
019the local portion on instruction and we'll use the state funds for offsetting some of our operational costs. Next slide. In addition, we're going to be in a surplus in the month of June due to the the um catch up in payments that I mentioned. Next slide. Okay. When you put it all together before the audit adjustments, the general fund and grant funds, um we have um budgeted revenue of 27,31,000 and the state and local funding come directly from Virginia Department of Education's calculator and um we anticipate all of that coming in in June. Um, if you look at our expenditures under operations and maintenance and facilities, that shows a favorable budget variance of over a million dollars that show that we have postponed our capital expenditure plans until fiscal year 26. Um, we did receive
020funding for up for uh staff bonuses up to $1,000 per SOQ funded position. So that means all not all employees will qualify and it may be less than $1,000 per person depending on how many people we have because we do have more teachers than the SOQ funds. Um those bonuses are separate from any other incentive programs that we may have out there. Um and so the other incentive programs is what we would propose to um decline uh as a mitigating factor. [Music] Are there any questions so far? Could you go back to that previous slide? Yes. So, right now we're saying our deficit is 301,000. If all that projected money that should be coming in that we should be getting paid by the end of June, which is next week, our final deficit is 300,000.
021I believe that it'll be minimal deficit. Yes. This doesn't include the 1.5 capital adjustments from previous budget. How does that come into play with all this that you're showing in the previous slide? 1.5 million that the city had not paid us. Yes. Once that gets recorded, then we should not have a deficit other than um there's a a big difference between what banking records look like and what our financial records look like. The bank records just show cash coming in and cash going out on those particular dates. Our financial records that we present show expenditures at the time that they are incurred, encumbered, or paid, not necessarily when it hit the bank. So there would be a timing difference there for for example our 10-month employees get their paid per rated over 12 months so
022that they get paid in the summer and so those expenditures hit the bank in July and August. However, they're reflected in our financials in June because our auditors acrew those back to June being that they relate to year fiscal year 25. So that's an example of a kind of difference that could be different between the bank records and the financials that we present. Did that answer? [Music] Let's go next to the um May vouchers. These are the vouchers that we paid in May. And in this month, I broke them out into general fund and grant funds. The first few pages, you flip through those are directly from our general fund. And on page 18, you can see that those general fund expenditures total 209,000 for the month. And then the final slide is 74,000 in
023grant expenditures. And those are expenditures that we must make ahead of time and then get reimbursed from the grant. So um those are expenditures that we will expect to get back for a total of 284,000 in the month of May. And out of abundance of caution, we have not sent these payments to these vendors yet. What's your average delay of payments on those grants? The 30 days after we Yes, sir. We once we make the expenditure, we immediately turn around and submit a grant reimbursement and then it takes about 3 to four weeks to get the actual payment. And how do we get those grants? Does that go through the city first and then we have to receive it or does it come directly from the grants themselves? It comes from the grantors through EDI
024and it goes into the shared bank account and then it's um coded to hit here on our financials. Who controls that? Is that just us? I mean it comes directly from the bank to us as a school. Correct. Yes. So is it going to hinder us for any summer programs or anything? Uh we have done everything we can do to ensure that the summer school goes as planned. Okay. Um so at this point I don't think so. How could we have made that different so that we would not be negative? What what what what things could we care? Yeah. Treasurer but we don't have one. So getting the money out of the city would have been the first thing. Is that what you would say? One of the issues that we're struggling with. Yes. We
025would have um when I sent the budget amendments over to the city, we would have to ensure that they're processed prior to entering into any obligations. Okay. So, in the future, we have to make sure the money is there, that the city is appropriated in. Yes, sir. Okay. Before we do those expenditures. Yes, sir. But wouldn't that be hard if we're going to have jobs done and we don't know exact bottom line is going to be because we sent out the jobs to be done? where we have contractors come in and we may have three different price ranges. So, how can we do that in the future? How can we say this is what we need and then let's just say hypothetically speaking at the end of it we are now less than what it
026is we need or if we're over how can we do that? Because from my understandings what you're saying is we're spending money we don't even have technically that's what we're doing. So, by default, it went over. I'm going to I'm I'm just asking like how we can't budget what we don't know we're going to need, right? Well, most of the um variances stem from multi-year projects and um so it's even more important to go back to the city and request another budget amendment, which I've done this year. Okay. Um but we don't anticipate a whole lot of um multi-year projects coming up. So we should be able to predict what we're going to need cuz we know what the payroll is going to be and um we kind of know what our expenditure forecast should
027be based on history. But this year was a unique year. How many increased students did we have? AQI. Is that what it is? We went from 923 to 157. Okay. So 130 extra students. Yes, sir. So that was not budgeted because we didn't know for sure that we had that number. That's correct. So those were things we had to adjust as the year went on. Yes, sir. And then have to pay for some things that that required and then wait for as you said June for the state to basically reimburse us to catch that. Yes, sir. And that's where we're showing some of this discrepancy is because we're still waiting for those payments from the state to come in and say, "Okay, you have this under 30 students. Now you get reimburseed for that." Yes,
028sir. [Music] Last slide. Um, so in summary, there's no intentional um excess spending. It's merely timing and accounting issues, I believe. And I'm looking forward to partnering with the city finance team to close that gap and reconcile our books and also to establish good protocols for fiscal year 26 moving forward. Other questions? Thank you. [Music] That concludes our report. Thank you, Tracy. Our next item is citizens time and we have four people who have signed to participate in that and I will call the first one forward. Mr. Just give it a question first. who is and stand [Music] but was for this She wants to 2.5. Okay. Miss Pin needs to abstain. Okay. [Music] Citizens Mr. 2.3. Sorry. 2.3. Sorry. The graduation updates. Okay. The graduation updates. Miss Parker needs to abstain from because she
029was not in the meeting for it. And during the meeting I'm during the meeting she wasn't there and Mr. Holt did not ask for any abstensions. So I'm mentioning to Miss Davis that she needs to abstain because Miss Parker was not in the meeting. [Music] Mhm. Mr. Scales here. Mr. Don Benjamin. [Music] Can you hear me? Yes. Don Benjamin, 1208 Clay Street. After months of speaking at schoolboard meetings and city council meetings, I wrote a letter of concern to Franklin City Council, school board parents, and community members about the direction of Franklin City Public Schools and the leadership of the school division. This was emailed to you and city council on June 6th, and you have a copy. I encourage you to read it and reflect on the information in this letter. How did we
030get where we are today? This is no longer just a school problem. This is a serious community issue. Where is the trust level of parents and other community members? Time after time, misinformation has been shared by Franklin City Public Schools administration or no information has been shared when questions have been asked. At this point, trust is seriously damaged, if not totally destroyed. As elaborated in the letter, issues that have destroyed or eroded trust include renewal of the superintendent's contract without any apparent public awareness. Salary information obtained via FOYA and provided to you at a previous board meeting, principal, teacher turnover makes it difficult to build positive school climate and relationships. Particularly concerning is the continuously sharing data that is either inaccurate or incomplete and not acknowledging mistakes or errors. Just one specific example comes from
031Dr. Carter's statement at the June 5th schoolboard work session obtained by Foya where he stated, and I quote, "Frank Franklin High School lost its accreditation in June 2022 prior to my tenure as superintendent and before most of the current central office instructional staff and schoolboard members assumed their their roles. You received a copy of this document. It is a screenshot from VOE's website. Please note the highlighted year at the top of the document for 2223 accreditation. According to this VDO source, Franklin High School was rated accredited. King was accredited with three with the three-year waiver and Morton was accredited with conditions making FHS the only school that met the accreditation requirements for the 2223 school year. And Dr. Carter, you were interim superintendent from October 20, until you were formally appointed superintendent in March 30,
0322023. So number one, FHS did not lose its accreditation in June 2022. And number two, you were interim and or formal superintendent most of the 223 school year. Dr. Carter, did you share incorrect data to intentionally discredit FHS student, staff, and Mr. belts or are you just not capable of understanding the data. This is just one example of the data errors. Others are noted in the letter. Children are our most precious asset. There are two key leaders in any school division. The school board chair and the superintendent. It is time for these two leaders to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem. If they are not going to resign, they need to begin effective, transparent leadership immediately. Mr. Spenchman, your time is up. I waited over an hour for you all.
033Franklin City Public School is at is at a crisis point. The time for action is now. As a show of good faith, I implore you to respond to any of the questions posed over the months last months by citizens. [Music] Mr. Speman, would you arrange a meeting with Dr. Carter, please? Sure. Next speaker, Miss Lee. [Music] Thank you. [Music] Can you hear me? No. Can't hear me now. You have the whole families 1313 Street. Our community has lost all trust in Dr. Carter, Mr. Holt, and this school board. Why is this? The main reason is for the data misrepresentation. Let me give you just a few examples since my time is limited. JP King Middle had an accreditation rating of level three read in five out of the five categories for 2023 and 2024. Closing
034the middle school and turning it into a CTE Academy conveniently hid that data from the public and closing JPE kept the VDOE from possibly taking it over because of its poor academic performance. Last year, sixth and seventh graders who attended JP King are now seventh and eighth graders at FHS. Those students were not prepared for high school. Yet, Mr. Phelps was held responsible for their so scores. Who is responsible for last year's so scores for those students? I'm sure it's not Dr. Carter, Dr. Rick, Miss Tomkins, or the school board because you all don't take responsibility for anything. And how can Miss Tomkins even say that last year seventh and eighth grade students were fully prepared for high school when they left JP King when the school was zero for five for the accreditation benchmarks.
035When we asked about this at a prior meeting, she said, "I present what I am told to present." So, Dr. Carter, why did you have her present misleading data? I got the actual data straight from the BDOE website. Why do you and your team keep saying that Franklin High School was not accredited in the 2022 23 school year? He thinks that we are not smart enough to look up this information ourselves. FHS was fully accredited then. And since you were the superintendent, you should be proud that they were instead of lying about it to make Mr. Phelps, his FHS team, and the students look bad. This is deplorable. Not for only you, Dr. Carter, but for the entire school board because you all allowed this. Why was graduation data misrepresented by Dr. Crab Carter? He
036accused Mr. Phelps and his team of awarding applied study diplomas and certificates of attendance to students as a way to get them across the graduation stage. This is simply not true. The only student who applied for study diplomas are the students who self-contain special education classes and that are in the applied studies diploma track. I have time, please. [Music] 14. She's got more time. I'll give you 30 more seconds. 14. The pathway to graduate is decided in elementary school and have the part of the IEP and a child study process. By the time they get to the high school, those students are already in the program. That data, the data given to you shows that we only have one certificate of attendance that was awarded. And this is straight from the BDOE website. Back in
037March, Dr. Miner said that we had a 95% staff return expectancy. Dr. Carter said that's because of all the great things going on at Franklin City Public Schools. There's no way that you can look at us today in the face and say that 95% of the teachers are returning because they are trying to get out just as fast as they can. There I have more examples, but we don't have time since my time is up. And please all of you all just leave so that we can begin the healing process for our future of our children. Yes, [Applause] Mr. Brandon Lily. [Music] Can you hear me? Yes. Gotcha. Can you hear me now? Gotcha. Big voice. Brandon Willy, 105 Homestead Road. I'd like you to confirm for me that the staff of SCPS will give
038the 3% raise and the guaranteed $1,000 bonus for House Bill 1600 item 125 number 8H uh from Virginia. As that money was donated or given to the division, only a vote from the school board could re allocate those funds for any other purpose. Was that money spent for any other reason? If so, was it properly reallocated by the school board? If not, what accountability is in place for the improper reallocation of those funds that were intended for staff raises and bonuses? I saw the memo recently that teachers would get the bonus in August. Um, does that mean it's going to be put on next year's budget? And if so, how does that impact your fiscal year budget for next year? Merit pay was also snuck in this year despite not being mentioned in schoolboard meeting.
039It was based in part on teachers getting exemplary evaluations from their principles. was a part of the original 2024 2025 budget be the Was this in the original budget and implemented after the budget was passed? How much money did you put aside for this initiative? A $5,000 bonuses for teachers. Can you confirm how many staff actually get it? Cuz there's a lot of concern that very few, if any, actually did get exemplary evaluations. And since this was put in just after the removal of Mr. Phelps, can you tell us how many teachers scored exemplary last year at the high school versus this year at the high school? These questions have to be asked publicly because there's no transparency from the school board. Most of your decisions are made behind closed doors in closed session and
040the public has no idea what's going on, where your money is being spent or what initiatives you put in place. You can't do business behind closed doors um and putting the public in the dark and then ask them to believe it's just not your fault. What accountability is in place for central office going over budget? Cuz I've known people fired for mishandling $5. Y'all are over 300,000. It was not many years ago the entire school board was dismissed for financial malfeasants, including superintendent. We're back getting rid of established local educators and administrators with proven track rate records to bring in people from outside the area uh with doctorates that command higher salaries that don't live in Franklin and don't know anything about our kids or community isn't working. How can you blame city council but
041brag openly in meetings that you have more building level administrators than required and expanding central office and throwing stipens around the citizens of Franklin want more transparency from the board in central office particularly about finances and if you're not prepared to meet that goal please step aside let somebody else have a shot I urge the school board to think about the future of SCPS and act now this is your legacy your names are attached to decisions that are being made around you by this administration and nobody will ever let you off the hook later is the sole voice of reason in the group. When we come to these meetings and we see everybody sitting quietly, um you can't be the voice of reason if you have no voice. You hold the city of Franklin and
042their future in your hands. Please start acting like it. I'd like for the board to join me up front. And Danielle Steven Danielle Hunt was appointed a year ago to fill an unexpired term. Uh she hadn't been a Franklin resident very long. So she stepped in. She's been an excellent school board member. She's well prepared. She does her homework. She reads all of the documents and she's ready to go. So, we have the certificate of recognition for her. This is her last meeting. in recognition of your dedicated service and invaluable contributions as a member of the board of education of Franklin City Public Schools. Your willingness to step in and fulfill the unexpired term of another board member is a testament to your commitment to education and well-being of our students, teachers, and administrative staff.
043We sincerely thank you for all your efforts in bridging the gap during the critical time, ensuring continuity and stability in our school community. Your contributions have been made a meaningful impact on the success of our students and the advancement of our educational goals. This certificate is presented with gratitude and appreciation. Thank you, Mr. [Applause] We have some flowers. I saw my ass. [Music] These are very nice. I hope I don't Thank you very much. Board members, any comments before we adjourn? [Music] Do we have a motion to adjourn? We have a second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor of the motion to adjourn signify by saying I. I no motion carries and we are ajourned. Thank you all. [Music] And thank you. Thank you.