001Good evening and welcome to our March 24th uh school committee meeting at the Clinton High School. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. 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, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I'll call the meeting to order. Uh, first on the agenda is the approval of bills. So moved. Second. Motion's been made and seconded. Can I Can I have the call roll call? Next, we have the minutes from our March 10th meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor? Okay. Next to our favorite part of the meeting, our celebrations. All right. So, since he was here early and volunteered, we'll start with the high school and principal Serbac. Thank you, Dr. Good
002evening everyone. Um, I'd first like to introduce our March staff member of the month, nominated by a student, uh, Mr. Craig Martin. [Applause] Craig. So, I'm proud to recognize Mr. Craig Martin for his outstanding contributions to our students here at CHS. He brings enthusiasm and creativity to the classroom, making learning both enjoyable and meaningful for his students. Beyond teaching, he dedicates his time as a mentor of First Robotics, guiding the team while keeping them focused and engaged. His ability to balance fun productivity along with his commitment to student success makes him a valuable asset to our school community and a deserving recipient of this honor. Congratulations [Applause] camera. Maybe she's I'd now like to introduce our March student of the month who's nominated by a staff member, Luca. [Applause] So, I'm pleased to recognize Luca
003Mocker as our student of the month. He's shown commendable dedication to his academics this year through consistent effort and a positive mindset that's resulted in in improved grades. His teachers have noticed his focus and motivation when facing challenges. While his positive presence, I'm sorry, while his positive presence contributes to our school community at CHS. Congratulations to Luca on this welldeserved. [Applause] I knew that. Thank you. Congratulations. And now for our middle school recipients. Principal Steph. Good evening everybody. I love this part. Um, our fifth grade teachers Jess White and Nicole Como were nominated by their colleagues. And rather than telling you how wonderful I think they are, I'm going to quote some of their colleagues when I ask them for what they loved so much about. You guys should probably come up, [Applause] right? Rather
004than tell you what I love about how hard work and independent these two amazing fifth grade teachers are, I'm going to read what their colleagues said. Jess and Nicole work so hard to make every student feel welcome and make sure every student who walks through their door of their classroom has what they need academically, physically, and emotionally. They don't simply teach. They go the extra mile to make learning fun and engaging. CMS students are so lucky to have Nicole and Jess's as teachers, and I am so fortunate to have them as colleagues. Quote, "Their ability to scaffold learning." This is a different colleague, by the way, seven. I had to Their ability to scaffold learning, break down complex concepts into manageable steps has allowed students to grow with confidence and autonomy. They skillfully designed curricula
005that are accessible to all, ensuring every student feels included and supported. Their engaging and motivating classroom management strategies create a fun learning environment that fosters enthusiasm and participation. As collaborative partners, they are always easy to work with. They offer clear and effective communication. Most importantly, Nicole and Jess show genuine love and care for each student and adult around them. Beyond the classroom, this teacher goes on, "Their dedication is honorable. Whether it's leading the garden club, spreading positivity through the sunshine committee, or simply being a source of support for everyone around them, their passion and kindness make such a difference, and I feel so lucky to work alongside them. They both are a testament to their field and asset to our school, especially how they show care, commitment, and tenacity to help each and every student.
006[Applause] Congratulations. Shall we open it up? AJ, come on up. All right. I love this first line. AJ is a friend to all students. AJ is a friend to all students. He handles all interpersonal situations in class with grace and a high level of maturity, which is a huge compliment in middle school. He is an excellent student who cares about his success in class. He always works his best and puts in a maximum effort. His attitude and work ethic are second to none in the seventh grade. AJ is polite and respectful to all and he is a grade seven role model. Congratulations, AJ. You got this. Thank you. Save the best for last. This evening, our staff of the month is Mr. B. [Applause] NBC. This is Adam Wrestler and we are recognized him. He
007is our BCBA at the Clinton Elementary School. As a board certified behavior analyst, Adam or Mr. B as we call him responds to many situations that are often disregulated or when students are in crisis. He was nominated several times by his colleagues And here are some of the things that his colleagues want you to be recognized for. Adam is an imperative member of our school community. He advocates for both student and staff needs. He remains calm and supportive even in the most challenging times. Adam is a great support of all our programs. He works collaboratively with administration to proactively plan meaningful professional development for staff and adjust plans for students. He has a sense of humor that helps keep everyone at ease even if there is a student in crisis. He is always willing to
008do what it takes to make sure the student gets what they need. Mr. was was referred to in a few other nominations as the unsung hero, the calm of the storm, the answer to all problems, the CES MVP. He loves attention. Adam arrives to school each day. He puts on his walkies and goes on to solve all the problems at CES. Adam has many superpowers and as soon as he enters the room during a crisis the energy immediately calms like the minute he walks in it's just this right Adam comes to meetings solution focused rather than focusing on the problem and he aims to find a solution with all parties collaboratively. Many student success stories have Adam as a crucial team member at the center. Adam keeps the challenges light with a witty comment here
009and there every day to bring everyone down when things are high. I couldn't agree more with these nominations and I'm so proud to recognize a team member that so [Applause] value after that I have the my office. Great job. All right. And also tonight we will recognize two students who exemplify the values of our school community. Danica Brand and Addison Ruard. [Applause] These two young leaders are the epitome of what CES strives for in its students. They always make the right choices and their actions reflect the qualities of safe, respectful, and responsible behavior. It's no surprise that when their family received a call from the principal, they were initially concerned. We pranked them real good, didn't we? These students are known consistently for upholding the highest standards. When you walk into their third grade classrooms,
010you will always find them doing what is asked of them, but also going above and beyond through their own curiosity. They extend their learning not because they have to, but because they are internally motivated to grow and help others do the same. At CES, we talk about leadership beyond just a title. And both Danica and Addison truly embody that philosophy. They lead by example every day. They mentor our kindergarten students, demonstrating patience, flexibility, and responsibility. In order to support these younger students, they know they must fulfill their own responsibilities and complete their work. When they enter Mrs. Zincis's classroom, their positive influence is clear. They set a timer and immediately get to work with their students, encouraging their young mentees who look up to them and strive to impress their older mentors. CES is incredibly
011proud to honor both of these remarkable students. We know the qualities they demonstrate today will serve them well throughout their educational journey and beyond. Congratulations Perfect. Congratulations. [Applause] Get that from you. I should get that from you. Grammy teach you all that, huh? All right. So, typically, yeah, I don't know if you So, that concludes the celebration portion of the agenda. For those of you that weren't planning on staying for the rest of the meeting, um you can um if you want to go take pictures in the hallway or something, we will not be offended. So, sure. You got room in your car for one more. Good job, girlfriend. Take them all with you. Don't leave any kids behind. I was going to have to bring Steve, but he would he was too busy. I
012know. I just think like I'm looking down here. I don't see That was like my I know. I was looking. Oh, it's Is it Do you need Are we okay now? Okay. Did we get it recorded? We're recording. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We're just not able to live stream. It's We're not getting internet connection. Okay. So, the live stream's just not working, but we will have the recording that we'll post. Okay. All right. All right. Do we have any public comment tonight? Do we have a student rep? How about the CTA? Good evening. I just wanted to let you know that um Brett Megcoin reached out to CTA and is asking for a meeting to talk about budgets. We're trying to work out a date and I'll keep you posted. So, just want to let you
013know. Thank you. And the PTA Hello everybody. Hello. We know why Mr. Veracus isn't here. Anyway, um so our latest update um we are still at 147 members for the PTA. Our family bingo took place um on Friday, March 14th. Um it was very successful, a little less crowded than we had expected um but logistically ran as smooth as we could have asked. So, that was quite impressive to us. Um, we raised nearly $3,000 and anything left over in terms of prizes and concessions will be used for future events. Um, at our March meeting, we approved the following fund requests. Uh, first grade received $940 for field trip busing. Fourth grade received $1,876 for field trip busing and $990 towards their end ofear t-shirts. CHS seniors received $950 for their afterprom activities and we gave
014$104 to Elpac for their multicultural night supplies. So, it was an exciting meeting to give away money, which is always a good time. Um, the PTA scholarship application is open with the deadline coming up April 30th, um, which will be here before you know it. It's already the end of March. Um, there will be a minimum of one and maximum of four scholarships awarded that range from $500 to $2,000 each. Uh, fund requests for teachers are still open. They must be made in person at the next meeting, which is April 3rd. We have our CMS spring book fair coming up April 14th through 18th. Um, we want to make a strong plea for volunteers for this book fair. Um, and any other additional events we have coming up. Um, due to schedule changes with the
015board, a lot of us have got some daytime commitments or jobs that, you know, pay money. And so, we are definitely going to be in need of some volunteers to make all of those things run smoothly now. Um, we're going to be pushing for that. Um, our plans for teacher appreciation are in the works and we'll be holding a raffle that will be at each school for any PTA teacher members um that will be eligible to win. and they will include not only limited to a mobile cart, tote and supplies and passes to the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill. Um they were a little late getting back to us about bingo, but wanted to do something so they donated six passes so we can give away two to the teacher that wins that
016raffle. Um tomorrow all of us are attending the PTO today expo in Malber where we will collect more ideas, enter to cool win cool swag and learn about more activities that we can say no to. hopefully. Um Becky said she promised to say no. Um it's a great opportunity for learning and making some contacts. Um our Bitly website is still up at Clinton PTA website and our next meeting is on April 3rd. We're not slowing down. Wonderful. So if you have any questions, just let us know. Thank you so much for all you do. Uh, anything from CPAC or ELPAC tonight? There being none, I will turn it over to you. All right. Thank you, Dr. May. Um, so the first thing we have is a staffing update. We do have two retirement letters that
017came in. Um, one was Susan Landis Town, uh, CES speech language pathologist. So, uh, she'll be retiring at the end of the year. We wish her well. and Marilyn Tyranny uh put in her uh letter and she will be retiring uh at the end of June. Um however, we are probably going to have her stay on in sort of a part-time role to kind of transition the um the payroll and particularly a lot of the stuff she does with the MTRS retirement system. So, that's reflected in the in the budget at this point. Um, and actually while she stays in the part-time role, we're not going to fill the position. We're going to kind of pick it up in our in our office. Um, the next one we had was a first robotics update, I
018believe. So, quick update. Um, we just finished wrapping up this past weekend our WPI competition. Um, in three weeks from now, we have the Springfield competition. And right now, we are ranked uh 87. And in order to make uh Springfield, it's the top 96 teams. So, there is a competition this upcoming weekend that we are not participating in, we have to wait for the results in that because our rank could change um depending on the results. So after next weekend, we should get um an idea if we're invited to the competition or not. We have all the uh travel details uh permission slips um and budgeting for the trip. So we will be ready if we are invited. Um so yeah, and one of the reasons why we wanted to just update you on that
019because that is one of the uh that would be an overnight trip at least for some. Yeah. Yep. Okay. Great. I hope your ranking stays up there. Hope so. Thank you. All right, we have a uh facilities update. I think uh facilities director Farraer is going to talk about his update. Hi there. How you doing? How are you? Um everyone has the report. Okay, so I'll just hit some of the highlights. If there's any questions, feel free. Um first, our staffing level. We're we're down one custodian, but we did just recently hire um second shift custodian, which means all buildings have are fully staffed. Um they're on their onboarding pre-employment phase right now, so they haven't started yet, but we're hoping like the second week of April. Um and then all three schools will be
020um fully staffed. So, uh that we've been working on that for a while, but we're in a good spot now. Um couple updates on some of the larger ticket items. The elementary school chiller went out to bid in December. Um we awarded a contract to Bernard HVAC um for the amount of $434,000. Um right now the the piece of equipment has been ordered. Um, so we're trying to figure out schedule-wise and we'll have to talk to the school administration and not sure if it's better when the kids are out of school most likely, but we're still working out those details. Um, same with the I'm sorry, the high school that went out to bid in December. Um, and it's Carrier Corporation who won that bid and the contract for $386,000. Um these projects are going
021to be funded through grant money in ARPA. Um the high school project we received the air quality grant for the amount I think there's 357,000 and some change. So 100% of that grant is going to be used to fund the Chilla project at the high school with the remaining funds coming from ARPA. So it's nothing that's in the budget. It's all grant and ARPA money. Um the elementary school is a good portion is ARPA funds that will that is going to pay that project. Um and the remaining is a I want to say a 2022 warrant article town warrant article. Um that was specifically for the replacement chiller at the elementary school. Um so we did those are both fully funded. Um some other items. So, we have the two chiller projects, ARPA and grant
022money, and we also have the resurfacing of the tennis courts that um we just need to kind of coordinate around the spring season. Um but that went out to bid in December as well, and this is going to be funded through ARPA. Um we awarded the contract to East Coast Seal Coding for the amount of $59,400. Um and again, that's something that we're hoping to get done after the season, early summer, depending on the weather. Um, and that should um really increase the the usage of the tennis court and and kind of share those cracks up and buy another 8 to 10 years of of a nice clean surface. So, we're looking forward to getting those projects done. Um, and then a lot of it spring field prep work for the for the spring season.
023We're getting all the baseball fields ready. Um, the grounds team's doing a great job um making sure they can get out onto the fields. Uh we're we're going to be maintaining the middle school fields for one more spring. Um and I know Steve, I don't know if you tal spoke about the new fields that we're looking to put in or Yeah. So right now it's still kind of in a very preliminary stage, but we're trying to get some quotes. We got a quote on what it would cost to um put in sort of like an infield across the street uh kind of between the soccer field at the end and the field hockey field. And we're working on getting quotes to look at what it might be to put a uh back stop and some
024fencing in there so that we could make a baseball basically cut a baseball field in across the street uh since we'll be losing the baseball field um up behind the middle school and um we already have we kind of already restored the Yeah, we had a contractor come in for the softball field at the practice side of the at this side of the high school. Um, so that is just to make sure the bases are and mounds are regulation and um they've been measured and kind of resurfaced. So that's ready to go now. We did that in the fall right before the winter. And one of the things we're looking at though is to try to see if it might be feasible to do that project out of the rental facilities account, the baseball field
025project. So it's it's it's probably something that we could connect to the building project itself. But if it were to be part of that project, it's something that wouldn't happen till the very end of the project, which would mean it would occur, you know, you'd be talking about 2028 or something like that, which means we would be down to one baseball field for, you know, three years or something like that. So, um, which is fine if that's ends up being, but we're looking to see what the rent the, uh, total cost is to see if it's possible with our rental facilities account if we could maybe do that now. uh that way we don't have any uh we don't go down to one field and then it's not something that gets kind of like tacked
026on to that project. We do have a initial price from one contractor to install the infield and then I have three different meetings the end of this month with fence companies to try and get three different proposals to see what it would take to make the dugouts and the pack stops and things like that. So, I'll have more information in the next couple weeks as far as like total pricing for that. And once we kind of have a set on the total pricing, then we'll kind of figure out if it's something feasible or not based on the balance in that account. And um and then if it is, we'll have to start navigating what channels we might need to do with, you know, formal school committee approval of a design and planning board and whatever
027else we might need to go to. And other than that, uh I just kind of broke wanted to break down just so you have it. Um just again the ARPA funds that were allocated to the schools. Um and then the grants the kind of the totals just to see that there are kind of big big chunks of of funding that are going to assist with some of these projects that we might not have been able to do all at once um with just the town town budget or town warrant articles. So, um, we're spending the money, you know, putting it to good use and getting some stuff done, you know, in a in a quicker fashion than we typically probably would have. So, does anyone have any questions on anything in the report? Appreciate. Thanks.
028Thank you very All right. Thank you, Brian. Um under academic achievement we have a few proposed curriculum changes. So the curriculum uh committee has met and talked about some of these things. So these are some things that are kind of in progress that you probably can see you know expect to see next year. Uh first one for grades three through eight we are part of the advanced learning pilot program. uh we do have a team that is uh working on that and um the this year it's really focusing more on tier one and I think one of the key aspects of the advanced learning pilot that that is important is that um one of the real one of the main things that they're really trying to look at is advanced learning through an equity lens.
029um traditionally advanced learning. A lot of times when people hear that they think of just a traditional like sort of gifted and talented type program or maybe there's a standardized test score or something like that that was required. Um they're very much looking at um part of the reason why it's a pilot is because it's very much looking at how can we um try to engage all learners into sort of this advanced learning concept um when they're ready. um even if it's just you know certain topics or certain subject areas or certain things like that. So uh so it really is um a pilot from the state that that really is part of uh I think it fits into what we want to do with our multi-tered system of support and um really providing that
030um equitable access to that learning. Uh grades K to 8 uh we should see a new health and PE curriculum uh going for next year. It's through catch.org. I think we talked about it before briefly, but it is a uh it's online curriculum that is tied to the Massachusetts uh health and wellness standards. Um it's not I'd say it's not uh it doesn't necessarily address every single one, but but it aligns um pretty closely. It's something that's kind of uh being sort of endorsed. I don't know if it's a formal endorsement, but kind of endorsed by the state through their training. uh as far as one that gives you sort of a core back backbone for the the aligning to those standards. Uh grades five and six and really only starting with sixth grade next
031year. Looking at just restructuring our time on learning a little more um to try to get uh some more focus on science and history. Um just sort of just kind of the evolution of the schedule. it's become pretty uh unbalanced in terms of the amount of minutes that are kind of allocated to math and ELA versus history and science. So, we're just trying to to make some tweaks. Uh it's one of the things that Principal Stephy's working on with his uh team is to see how they can maybe tweak that schedule to make it a little more uh equitable. We'll still keep probably a heavier uh focus on the math and the ELA, but but making sure that we're still paying um you know, respect to the standards and and the than the learning in
032science and history. Uh in grades seven and eight next year, we're looking to um have introductory Spanish uh replace executive functioning as one of the um specials that they have. Uh if you remember this year, the executive functioning teacher left earlier in the year. uh we were sort of anticipating this as a change. Uh so when we did replace that, we actually have a long-term sum right now who's sort of running a uh Latin American cultures course. Um and it's uh going going well. Um and next year our goal is to make that a little more into an introductory Spanish. Uh grade 8 history. Um we received a grant uh for training and implementation to support the democratic knowledge project in grade 8 history. Uh this will help better align our eighth grade history to
033the civics uh curriculum and the civics standards and the civics test that we have now. Um, and uh, it's a really it's really considered a much more um, project-based type curriculum for history that's not um, trying to get away from just sort of rope memorization, but really looking at, you know, uh, primary sources and pictures and those types of things and kind of um, making those connections uh, to history. Uh and and it was uh something that when we started this process before um uh our middle school history department chair went and did some research, I got to uh exposed to it at the um the 18 uh leadership summit over the summer um because it is like a a really a project-based curriculum that they're trying to focus on for to promote deeper learning.
034And uh it was uh the unit the kind of the sample lesson we did was was really engaging and I thought it was uh very thoughtful. So um we kind of ran with that through the curriculum committee uh in grades 9 through 11 and beginning in with grade nine only next year. Uh, one of the other changes that we're making to our history curriculum is previously we had taught sort of it it was like a three-year sequence of of uh like world history, US1, US2 and what we're kind of shifting toward what we're shifting towards and sort of what I think the general consensus um sort of the education is shifting towards is really kind of integrating all those. So instead of really teaching sort of the the United States as just a uh standalone
035and kind of going through like one period of time from the United States perspective and then kind of repeating the same period of time through sort of like a world perspective is trying to make sure that we're sort of weaving both all the topics of of how um how all those events really interact with each other. Uh, grade nine, uh, we're going to be going back to having biology as the freshman science course. For the past few years, it's been intro to physics. Um, you know, there were a few different reasons why that uh, switch may have occurred back when it occurred. Uh, at least one of them was I think that the you had the graduation requirement of taking the MCCAST. Uh, and the test that the the school was really focusing on was
036intro to physics. uh we don't have that uh requirement anymore. Um so we're going to move back to having biology as the freshman course. And biology was always an option that you could take to fulfill your science requirement. So that's not really the only reason. Um but I also think that the uh physics, you know, one of the things we talked about is how uh it can be challenging sometimes to do like an intro to physics with freshmen because it's kind of being concurrently with algebra. Uh so shifting that a little bit. Uh it's a more traditional sequence. Um we by the nature of our the makeup of our science department right now uh we have uh ample uh teachers who hold a biology certification to allow us to make the switch because we'll have
037freshman and kind of sophomores concurrently taking biology. uh grades 10 through 12 is starting as elective but we will be uh we currently we offer civil engineering and architecture as a class now um but we will be adopting the project lead the way curriculum uh project lead the way is also it's a nationally recognized projectbased curriculum uh we received a grant uh to support that and one of the big advantages I think to kind of shifting to some of these curriculum uh like a project lead the way type program is uh they are constantly revising that curriculum, right? And sometimes with these particular technology or even computer science, which is the other one that we use Project Lead the Way for in the high school, um things are constantly changing, right? And Project Lead the
038Way at the middle school, and they'll continue to kind of revise and update their curriculum to help make sure that we're we're staying fresh and teaching the most current technology. And they have uh training that goes with that. We were awarded a grant uh to support that. and uh grade 10 um I put grade 10 if I should say grade nine and 10 but there will be some changes to the freshman and sophomore experience courses that we've been running uh particularly freshman experience are going to add a component of that course uh if you remember the freshman sophomore experience it was kind of short days that they kind of cycled throughout the year about 30 days each and they went through kind of six different modules um one of the things we'll be adding in
039nth grade is computer skills um including things like um trying to teach you a little about um artificial intelligence and and and even some other things that are more basic like spreadsheets and word processing and that kind of stuff. But the idea is to get more sort of uh that computer um uh concrete kind of careerbased uh computer skills as well. And for sophomore experience uh adding a financial literacy component. Um so that's something that we're all we're supposed to be adding in schools. And uh I'm going to start by adding it there. So all students will get at least a financial literacy unit in grade 10. Uh the page immediately following that has recent grants. Um I kind of put these back toback on purpose because you can see a lot of these sort
040of support the same thing. Uh the advanced learning pilot, we received a $10,000 grant to support our work there. Uh project lead the way, we got a $40,000 grant to support uh the implementation of engineering pathway. That is for over three years. The goal is to expand that to three courses over three years. Democratic knowled knowledge project launch. Um $12,580 for the training and implementation support. And uh the last one we had was $3,700 for the financial education innovation fund. That one actually be used this year for the credit for life fair, but it kind of tied into that financial uh literacy piece. So uh so there's a lot of those changes. as well as change are also supported by um funding that we're getting on other uh fronts. Uh the page immediately after that
041is just sort of a recap. This is our FY24 and FY25 federal entitlement grants. Uh the only reason that I'm including this in here right now since we were doing grant updates is just as a uh a note I I was at a um on Friday I attended a meeting um by hosted by uh Congresswoman Tran up in at Monty Tech and she met with superintendents on Friday and the main topic focus of that topic was the um essentially the closing or reduction of the United States Department of Education um and and kind of talking about what those impacts are at the local level. And one of the things we shared uh I shared specifically was that you know while if the you know US department of ed closes there's going to be a lot
042of um you know different changes that we're not we're not sure you know some might not some might just live in a different department and be the same. Uh some things might might change. Um but the the most direct one is if you're thinking about sort of federal funding to the school level are these entitlement grants. Um so just to quantify some of that um you know this year we received 1.1 or 1,149,445 in in entitlement grants. Uh those are supporting so title one is basically um supplemental educational services. It's basically based off of your low your uh economically disadvantaged numbers. Title 2A is a teacher quality improvement grant. Uh, title three is to support English language learners. Um, title 4A is more um, uh, kind of more like a well-rounded education grant. U,240 is
043special education uh, supplemental support and IDA262 is prek. U, so basically of that $1.149 million, just over a million of it goes directly to salaries. So about 91% of that entitlement those entitlement grants fund salaries including under the IDEIDA uh which is the federal special education law. Um the funding that went with that was uh we have $629,000 uh that we use and that funds 21.6 of our um IAS in the district. So it's about it works out to about maybe 40% or so of our IAS. So the um so anyway that's there's a uh that would be sort of the direct kind of impact possibly. Um there has been indications you know I know some of it has said that they're not necessarily looking to eliminate all this funding. Uh right now part of
044what they're trying to do is just sort of have it uh administered by different departments. Um but that is just one thing that we need to to to watch out for because this funding is um sort of separate from our it's always been handled sort of separate as an entitlement grant that has been kind of separate from the the general fund budget. So, if these grants were to be dramatically reduced, uh some services that um would either have to be some, you know, some services might have to either be eliminated or if they're ones that we can't eliminate because it's like if it's an IIA that's funded that's providing a service that's legally in a student's IEP, we're going to have to fund that another way and it's going to have to replace something else
045in the budget. So, so it's just something to to keep an eye on as we go through the budget season. um which is a transition into budget version B. So I don't know Annette wanted to come on up. Um so we'll talk quickly about budget version B and share a few things with you. Uh March 24th, obviously that's today. We're going to just share with you the budget version B that we've come up with right now. Uh March 25th, tomorrow is a town of Clinton insurance meeting with our consultant. Um I was involved in a meeting kind of like a premeating for that last week and I'd say that the the news does not seem to be significantly better than it was. Um so we'll see where they are uh tomorrow. Um but there, you
046know, some of the options that they're still kind of looking at are are there any maybe plan adjustments we could make to uh reduce the premiums, uh which kind of would shift some of it more towards co-pays and deductibles. And uh the other would be maybe offering um like a high deductible plan that would have a lower premium that people could opt into if they wanted to try to save some money. But there's a little bit of that education that goes with that understanding that you're signing up for a high deductible plan. So if you use it until you pay that deductible, you'll have a lot uh more more immediate uh out-of- pocket expenses. Um April 10th is what we are scheduled uh we're scheduled to present the uh our budget to the finance committee.
047Um and that's at 5:30 in a town chamber. So once we review budget version B with you today, unless there's any major feedback from the school committee, uh it's probably the same budget we would share with with the finance committee. And then April 14th is our budget public hearing. That's an opportunity then for anyone who now that we've kind of shared budget version B, if they have any comments on it, we can share those at that meeting on April 14th. And hopefully shortly after that or around then we'd be getting some more information from either the the finance committee or the uh state as far as where we are in the budget process. Um some of the unknowns that we have I kind of highlighted them there. I know federal funding I just kind of
048talked about entitlement grants. Um there's also the other implication for other state funding basically like our our indirect funding is sort of the way I'd say it. So it might not be entitlement grants come directly to the school district, but money that goes kind of gets filtered through the state. Even if it's not necessarily for education, could have an impact on what the state can fund in education. Um, which is why the next one I have is state funding. Uh, chapter 70. There haven't been any updates since the governor's budget. The governor's budget was about what we expected. It showed about a $ 1.4 million increase to chapter 70 as part of the student opportunity act. Um we're hoping that that stays fairly consistent and that they continue to focus on funding that act as
049it is written. Uh local funding, um that's an unknown with the insurance costs and how that's going to um impact anything. And the final one is just the collective bargain agreements. We have three collective bargain agreements and currently all of them are in negotiations. Um and we are hoping that we'll continue to make progress in those negotiations. Uh so kind of a summary for budget version B. Um the next one has some proposed staffing cuts. So basically, if you remember, our preliminary budget had an increase of about $3 million, I think it was. And we knew that that was, you know, not what we were going to ask for, but uh we but that was sort of with our preliminary budget. We always tried to start with, you know, what what things would look like.
050Um kind of if we if we thought we were going to, you know, had everything we needed to operate. Um, we went through for budget version A, we cut uh I think it was almost $600,000 out in and that was mostly in non-personnel items. Um, and then our goal was to try to get it down so that our increase matched our chapter 70 increase. So tried to get basically the net the bottom line was we were trying to get that $3 million increase to down to about a $1.4 million increase. Um so these were the positions that we came up with. Um so the first uh change would be to eliminate the assistant superintendent position. Um that would require um uh some school committee input because technically you hire the assistant superintendent. So we can
051talk about that in a minute. Uh replace that with the for this year we would want to replace that uh with a for next year I guess replace that with a special education director. uh we still need to have someone in charge of the special education. Um and then what we would do is we would review the special education structure once we filled that vacancy. So there are some uh internal staff that hold the appropriate lensure. So we don't know who would fill that and then obviously once that title is uh once that position is filled um then we would see what other um changes might need to be made. uh retirement I already sorry payroll eliminating uh a payroll position uh full-time payroll position reducing that to part-time I mentioned that earlier that was
052due to a retirement uh family outreach currently have three family liaison um what we're trying to do is we were going originally we were talking about eliminating one of the family out liaison positions after meeting with the family liaison and looking at sort of how it's funded with title three um it essentially about the same amount to look at reducing two of the positions to school year only. Currently, all three of them were full year. Um, and that was kind of a suggestion that the family liaison uh were proposed. Uh, so that's what we're carrying right now. Um, and part of that has to do with in title three, although it says 1.0 Oft um I can only fund a portion of each salary through title 3 because I can only do it based on
053the percentage of their case load that would qualify for title three services which was the English learner one. So I can't put an entire salary in there unless it's exclusively unless that person is exclusively working with English families who are English learners. Um so because it has to sort of be uh distributed kind of based on a percentage of our enrollment um you don't eliminating a position doesn't necessarily save a full amount from the budget because I I can't recoup that from the the grant portion. Um the uh the high school are looking at a reduction in force for the Dina students position. Uh this was originally funded with ESSER. Um we we first added these positions um we did you know this is we did try to make them we kept them in the
054teachers union. We didn't add them as um uh standalone like administrative positions because we did anticipate there might be a day when it was not sustainable and that we would want to uh if appropriate um leave those people the opportunity to kind of uh bounce back in their union. Um, so the dean of students at the high school, uh, we're going to eliminate one special education teacher at the high school. This is currently vacant. Uh, this position actually, I think, was vacant in the beginning of the year. Do it maternity leave and then there was a resignation uh, once a person returned uh, from maternity. Uh, so it's currently not filled right now. We'd be eliminating that. And with the elimination of some of the MCCAST retake preparation classes next year, we should be able
055to absorb it in the um schedule um and foreign language. Um you know, a few years ago we did add French as another foreign language and we kept our uh three Spanish teachers. Um so for next year we'd be going down to two uh Spanish teachers and one French teacher. Um although that would be sort of a a riff at the high school. Uh we do believe that that position will be able to move over to do the introductory Spanish position at the middle school. Um at the middle school similarly Dina students would be a reduction in force that was originally funded with ESSER. Uh there's a math interventionist position that we added with some ESSER funds originally following the um uh coming back from COVID. Um there's an anticipated resignation uh there. So we're
056planning on eliminating that position. And for the music teacher, we're planning on reducing that uh by 0.5. Uh so that'll leave us 1.5 uh music teachers at the um uh middle school. And it should be it shouldn't impact um you know, we should still be able to teach the same amount of music classes. We should still be able to have ensembles. what it will impact probably is some of the lessons that they've been able to do uh with some of those students because they'll have some some less time with that. Um but we will we'll work that out. And then ultimately that'll be one of the things that we'll try to figure out. I mean while this is something that's necessary next year, uh I believe next year we're really going to have to start
057mapping out what's going to what's the staffing, you know, really start mapping out the staffing pattern for when the new school opens two years down the road and fourth grade goes there. And I don't know if it's something at that time might we might need to restore to a a full two positions or not. Currently our music teacher. So anyone that's kind of anyone that we anticipated would be impacted on this list preliminary discussions with. We didn't want anyone finding out about this at a school committee meeting. Um so we tried to do our best to have those conversations. And um currently the music teacher who was would be reduced indicated that she'd be willing to um at least her preliminary indication she'd be willing to stay on in that reduced role. And then we'd
058see how that goes moving forward. Um the at the elementary school uh we did add an eighth section of kindergarten this year um based on the high enrollment numbers. So we are budgeting that back down to um seven. And so that's sort of uh showing a kindergarten section um with a teacher and an IIA. We also have a fourth grade teacher who will be on maternity leave. Um we're going to plan on not filling that position. She that we approved that leave last last night or last meeting, excuse me. And there's a school year administrative assistant um at that building too that we're looking to do a reduction in force there. Um there's a note on there that some of the staff holding those positions impacted by RIFF may have bumping rights. So, it's one
059of those things to realize that um you know, just because someone holds one of these positions doesn't necessarily mean that person um wouldn't have a job uh because there's sort of seniority and other lensure and things like that that play into that. So, that's what we're we're looking at uh right now. Um and I guess the one thing I would say with this is it's fluid, right? like anything um you know we don't know what can change between now and you know budget se the final budget we don't know what could change between now and the beginning of the school year. So, we're constantly looking to try to um you know, uh support our existing employees as best we can and handle those types of things so that uh you know if other openings pop
060up because of anything that comes up, we might look to see how could we sort of maybe move things around. Um and then obviously we got to see what what final budget numbers look like and and those types of things. There's a lot of unknowns. There's some placeholders in the in in our budget right now because of those unknowns. And as we kind of every time we can we can finalize one of those, then that means we can go back and and make the whatever those changes are, whether they're positive changes or or tightening the belt type changes. So, uh it is still a moving target. Um, but this is kind of the plan that we came up with right now based on the assumptions that we're operating under for budget version B. So then
061there's a line item uh of budget version B in here. Basically summarizes those those were the primary changes. Um, one of the um uh most of those are what you see here. Um in their reductions in that last column it says like A to B difference. Uh so you can see kind of where those changes were. There is one of the ones that I just wanted to highlight. There are two increases. One was under athletics under athletic transportation. Uh that's one we'll probably have to go back and revisit. I'm sure athletics is one we'll have to revisit in general. Um but uh we were the athletic director brought it to our attention um sort of that our uh our uh transportation uh bill was um significantly higher than uh it had been budgeted originally. Uh
062so we are trying to um to to adjust that. I like to blame it on the fact that so many of our programs are winning and we have to take them to all these playoff games, but we'll see. No, I think that is it. No, but at what point because unless you get to like the finals, the MIA doesn't refund reimburse you. Is that correct? So, you know, all these rounds, it's great that we're making it, but all these rounds we're playing, it is. Yeah. I mean, you get a little bit of a of, you know, a cut of the MIA stuff, but yeah, a lot of and a lot of times if it's a home game and you're getting the gate, you're, you know, it's offsetting a lot of the cost with it, too.
063So, um, and there was a little bit increase there in electricity. That was one of the things covered in, um, uh, Director Farrager's report about the finishing of our light upgrades. So, it is something that has a um it's an energy efficiency type uh upgrade that does have a uh return on investment that should pay for itself. Um but the uh initial cost we need to um finish that project before that funding period ends up. So all in all, we we eliminated uh this version eliminated 677,000 and got us to exactly an increase of 1,434,947 over last year's budget. Uh which is um basically breaks down to a 4.71 increase if you're looking at the general fund. Um but that basically comes down to a 7% increase in state aid and 0% um from local
064uh contributions. So that's how it's set up right now. And I think this is the budget that I would recommend that we present to the finance committee. We get their once we get their impact on it or their um feedback on it, then we can figure out if there's anything else. Any questions on that? So, I do think that um only thing I would probably need is technically the position of assistant superintendent is hired by the school committee and technically the position of director of special education is hired by the school committee. Um they're usually both considered sort of uh uh not necessarily the same like direct hire as like a superintendent, but they have to u approve the candidate uh that we put forth. um part of the checks and balances uh in the
065way the system is is worded. So um if you're comfortable with that um I guess I would look for a motion to move forward with eliminating the assistant superintendent position and replacing it with the director of special education. So move second. All those in favor? Thank you. Steve, do we have to endorse the this budget presenter? I don't know. I don't think you need to take a formal um vote on it yet unless you feel like you need to. Um you know, I feel like that with the amount of unknowns right now, it's still very much a draft. I think it's what we present to the school to the finance committee. Um and then like I said, we will have the budget public hearing as well on April 14th. There'll be time for public comment
066there. And then right around then, that's probably going to be, you know, probably the meeting after April 14th, which I actually think with the break in there like early in May. Um, at that point after we've gotten finance committee feedback, we've gotten a public public feedback from the public hearing, uh, we'd probably have to put together one that that we would need a formal vote to say, "Yes, this is the one we try want to move forward with." Thanks. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry, Annette. I didn't uh I tell you, the other thing I should show uh point out here is that Annette did include some reports in here. Sorry. Okay. Um, I want to give you some credit. You did a lot of good work here. And these are things that we'll
067include in our presentation to the finance committee. But there's like a circuit breaker sheet here. Uh, one thing that you can see is um our the way circuit breaker works. Circuit breaker can be a little bit confusing. It's kind of like the way I think about it, circuit breaker is kind of like a three-year process. So the way we've been doing it, we spend the money, we we spend money on special education services in the first year. The second year we receive a reimbursement for those and then typically the way we handle it is we don't spend those that year as we receive them. We spend them the year after because you're allowed to defer it one one year. Um so it's sort of like a three-year process. So, right now in FY25, we are
068going to receive uh $1.68 million in in CH in um circuit breaker. So, we're receiving those payments like quarterly from the state and that number was based on our claim from our expenditures in FY24. And we're not spending that money right now. We're spending the money we got from the year before. So that's the money that we budget for next year, that 1.68 million. Um, so that's what we have that is that is reflected in that in that sheet. We subtracted that out to get to that bottom bottom line. Um, I will make you aware one of we are in a good position the way this is done and this was this was the practice that was being used before I got here and it's a great practice is spending that the year after which
069you're allowed to do because what it means is that if you run into a year where you have a spike in like an out of district placement that wasn't budgeted or something like that where you go over in tuition, you could use that money that we're planning on spending next year, but we could use it this year if we needed to. So, it keeps you from having to have any type of like um it almost serves as sort of like a uh circuit breaker. Yeah, I guess that's why it's called that, right? So, it's the circuit breaker. Um so that it doesn't uh you're quick. No. Yeah. But the uh Yeah. So, that so that's there. So, um, and then all that would mean for us, like if we had to tap into that at
070any point, um, which I am informing you that because it's possible we might need to do that a little bit at the end of this year. U, it would impact it could impact what you want to budget the following year depending on how much it is. I mean it wouldn't have to impact the next year but then you're just kind of you're just chasing it now and now you're instead of being a full year behind you become you know uh eight or a year ahead where you want to look at it you become like you know 80% of a year ahead. Um and but it is something that you could also we could also correct for in the future and then try to adjust in in a budget year where it might be more palatable.
071So um that's circuit breaker and the next one is school choice. Um you can see our school choice in has been going down. Um most of that is because we have have we're not accepting school choice right now due to our enrollment um below grade seven. Um so we do have you know fairly routinely in our office we have students who um you know in the elementary school who might move and we have to inform them that they have to enroll in their in their district of residence. Um, you know, that might be something once we, you know, if we the new building opens and we get the fourth grade up there, it might be something we can revisit because we might have more capacity at that point to kind of reopen uh the school
072choice. But right now, I'd say with the uh with the enrollment at the elementary school, it is uh it's pretty full. Um the uh so what you can see is that um you know we had been carrying quite a bit in salaries in school choice. We had essentially been for a few years there um over like sort of overspending um our school choice on we knew it. I mean it's not wasn't like an accident it was planning for the budget but it was essentially spending a little bit more than we were receiving because there was a balance in there. um that balance is starting to dwindle a little bit. What we are trying to do is um make keep our school choice spending for next year below our anticipated revenue. Um because I anticipate that
073not in FY26, not in FY27, but in FY28 when Student Opportunity Act is done, we are going to probably be in a situation where we're going to rely a little more on school choice to um to uh work with the budget that year. Um so those are our estimates at this point. Um those do kind of change uh each quarter and we'll get sort of a final update at the end of the year based on special education um adjustments that they and the page after that just shows a summary of um sending and receiving districts because it's normally the next question people have is where are these kids going or where are they coming from? Um and that's there. So you can see that uh as far as um students going um our biggest change
074was uh to Nishoba uh and that I think similarly Nishoba had just recently opened limited school choice slots back up. They had theirs closed for quite a while. So um so that is that I think now I give Annette credit for her reports. I think that is our budget. Thank you. Um the next thing in here is this is a copy of the student opportunity act plan that we had to submit. Uh this was submitted last year. Um it highlights sort of the the key strategies that we wanted to try to fund. Um the only reason I'm putting it in here is one of the things we have to do is we have to provide an update uh to the state every year. Um, every three days you have to submit a plan, which we
075did last year. You guys voted to approve this plan and it wasn't in this form. This is kind of the state's generic form that they posted in. Um, but the you voted to approve this plan and we have to do is we have to provide an update every year. So, we've been working on that update. Um and really what you look at is uh you know there are certain strategies in here um around you know trying to uh you know increase prek access to prek uh high quality curriculum uh social emotional learning needs. Um those are kind of the some of the key ones. Um and so what we've been doing is we've been working on this update. uh to try to um uh submit that. This is due on by April 1st. So, we
076will submit that update and we'll get you a copy of the the final update um that we submit and but I just wanted to to keep you informed of it. Uh it is this is one of the things that I did uh share with our legislators uh that when they did the student opportunity act they they put into this play that they they put added in the law that every three years districts had to submit a student opportunity act plan and then every year between those three years they had to do an update and it seemed like a good idea like at the beginning you're like okay that makes sense I guess and then you read the law and you realize that even though the student opportunity act phases in over six years the the
077way the law is written, you're going to have to do these plans forever. Uh, so that was one of the things we did to let the legislators know is maybe you can take that forever clause out of there. Like I understand when you were infusing districts with money, you wanted to kind of have people a little bit accountable on like how is it being spent? Um, or at least have to have, you know, get stakeholder input and and and share that. Um, but once it's in place, I mean, there's a lot of districts, I mean, every district has to do this. even if they were a beneficiary if they weren't really a beneficiary student opportunity act. So there are, you know, I guess sort of like us this year, right? You know, part of what
078you're saying is, you know, there's there's positions we're eliminating because of the budget, you know, and um but you try to just say what we what progress we made and we share the student data. So we'll get you a copy of that. Just wanted to kind of let you know that that is a requirement and we are working on it. Uh building project update after the student opportunity acts plan. There's a few slides I put in here from one of the last meetings. Um, one of them uh on the 28th of February, we got the approval from the conservation commission uh basically saying that there is not a wetland uh there are no wetlands over there that are be distur disturbed. Um we have received bids for geothermal package number one which is for the
079geothermal wells. Uh the planning board approved the site plan review on March 4th. Uh those were kind of big hurdles and that had to go out the site the planning board sends it out to an independent reviewer and and had to work through that. Um and early site bid package was put out to bid. Those are due on uh Wednesday, which is the next meeting. We have a meeting Wednesday to do the 60% package uh meeting. So what does that mean? So the next one um you know the next major milestone with this is the 60% construction drawing. So at each kind of step along the way uh they kind of refine things. The 60% is a big one. That's kind of one that a lot of your final sort of estimates are going to
080be based off of. Um there'll still be some changes as we go through, but this one is is supposed to be a pretty pretty good uh uh estimate. So, they're working on having their estimators, the the project manager and the uh construction uh manager are having their estimators look at it. They'll reconcile those and we'll have the school uh the building committee meeting on the 26th and then we have to submit that to the MSBA so that they can start looking at it as far as making sure it aligns with their grant funding uh stuff. Uh there's just a couple other things I left on here. Uh I mean it's from the slide, but just some things uh furniture samples. So May 9th is a professional development day, a half day professional development day. Uh
081we're looking to get furniture samples at the elementary at the middle school so that the teachers can kind of actually look at some of the things they've seen so we can kind of see um uh what we think of them in person. Uh the early structural bid package, so basically steel and concrete that'll go out on the 21st. There was a big conversation around the structural bidding. Uh, one of the things that they're looking at is um trying to almost look at how you can word the bids so that the impact of tariffs can be sort of like a separate almost like a separately handled line. Uh, one of the concerns is that um, if you don't break it out like that, what you could run into is getting sort of artificially large bids because
082people are just assuming the worst uh, tariff if they have to bring, you know, steal in from Canada and and then if that tariff were to be reduced or go away or something like that in the future, you could then sort of be bound kind of to this bid that you accepted. So they're trying to look at and it's across, you know, not just us, it's sort of that the construction industry is sort of dealing with right now with some of that is is kind of making sure that that tariff portion is sort of uh delineated in there so that if it's not something that that is paid, then it's not something that's passed on to us sort of preemptively. I guess the risk you run with that is if they went up higher than
083you would have committed to, then you're probably going to be on the hook for that higher one. But at least it's more accurate. Um, and then in June the 90% construction document package will be submitted and then they'll start going out for the trades like plumbing and all that kind of stuff. Um, and then we just kind of skip to the May of 2027 and say substantial completion. Uh, the last thing in there was just a geothermal procurement update. So, we just wanted to give you an example. Um you can see in that drawing that that all those little blue circles are the geothermal wells. Uh that's kind of where the middle school the back end of the middle school fields kind of like the the baseball field. Um those would all be drilled there.
084And the uh it was a good good bid package. Um it came in at 1 uh6 million. The estimate that was carried was 2.2 2 million. So, it came in under uh we're still basically carrying the same amount right now with some of the holds and allowances that were we're leaving because um it's based on their recommendations for um different things that you might you know they've done testing, we've done test test pits and that kind of stuff, but if for some reason they get out there and there was excessive groundwater or something that caused an issue that was kind of unforeseen, that could that could impact the cost. So, um that is there, but that's also those are kind of like a uh contingency so that if once the geothermal is done, we'll know
085what the final price was and that money would then sort of be kind of freed up again to either be used as another contingency or whatever. So, so overall it was uh it was a promising bid. And I think the last comment I had on that was that the we had some questions about like a ceremonial groundbreaking. Um what they recommended, they said traditionally what'll probably work would be to do something um in September basically kind of right back right when we get back from get back to school. Um they'll be doing work over the summer, but a lot of that work is going to be essentially making the construction site and drilling wells. Um and then by September is really when they'll probably be kind of shifting to starting like the building. Um and
086at that time we'll once we have the kids back uh we'll probably do uh some sort of uh ceremony with probably get some you know have some students come out and wherever they can see something from and and um politicians and all that kind of stuff to you know have our little shovels and do all that kind of stuff. So that the the kind of that formal kickoff will be probably in September. Okay. They said we could do it if we wanted in June, but it would really it would literally be us just standing in a field. So u it'll be more more exciting in September. Um all right. I think that's all I have for that report. All right. Great. Do we have any advisory committee updates? I don't think we do since last
087meeting. Uh anything on negotiations? We're just continuing. We're hoping that we can get the more clarity we can get. Uh hopefully maybe we'll get something with the insurance meeting so we can kind of keep moving forward. I think so far our negotiations with the teachers have been a going well um as far as you know so hopefully we'll keep working together and and come up with something that everyone's happy with. What's our next one, Steve? April 1. And we promise not to make any do do a bunch of joke packages to each other. So, under old business, we had the discussion about the June 16th meeting. That was the um night of the eighth grade recognition. Yeah. So, did we decide what we I don't I haven't heard from anybody preference or Yeah, we don't
088need to. And we still have time. I just want to get it on the radar that you know you like I like the idea of meeting a little bit earlier and then just going just having I mean we can wait till we get a little bit closer if we want to and we can see um if we anticip like typically that typically that meeting is going to be the meeting that's basically we just had town meeting we just had the election. It's usually at that point going to be a reorganization and like here's our summer schedule and it's going to be probably a pretty light agenda. Um the uh so if that's the case then I think meeting before should be fine. If for some reason there's uh something that needs greater attention we could
089always look to either say move it to another night or do it afterwards. Yeah. It's only meeting a year. I wear a tie. So if that's what you want to go because I'm saving it. I got a sport coat so we ought to see it. Oh. So more to come on that one then. Yeah. Anything under new business? I just got something and I should have said this the last meeting and I totally forgot. So, it's probably been three weeks ago they did that community readers down at the elementary school and uh that's quite a thing. This the second year you've let me to come down there and uh I have a blast. It's I hope the kids have as much fun as I do because it's it's uh I don't know how many people
090you had. They had look like about 40 people down there but it's uh just the kids are quite they're entertaining at the best and and they read along with you. I have a good time with it. So, I just keep it up. I would, you know, I'll see you next year. Once once a year, that's it. Promise. You want to wear a tie? No. No. I They let me go on a hoodie. I wore Gail's hoodie this year. Last year I wore a Wister one by mistake. I'm learning. I'm picking up. Help them out. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They do the reading. They correct me when I'm wrong. Yeah. We had ice cream. We had a good time. Um I have a couple things if it's okay. Uh first one I kind of mentioned already. I
091just did want to mention that uh I did attend that meeting with Congresswoman Trhan at the uh in Montech. It was there was an article about it in the um uh is it up there? The Sentinel Sentinel I think. Um I just know because my my mother-in-law was texting me the article, but uh so we'll so that was in there. Um the uh you guys did receive uh a packet of communication uh today in your packets uh or not in your packets but kind of handed out with them. Um so I'd invite you to kind of take a look at that. Let me know if you have uh any questions on that and then we can kind of talk about that later. Um, and then the um the last one I want to share is
092it's um kind of sad news, but the I know that uh she doesn't know I'm going to say this either, but the um uh our uh therapy dog Maggie um is not doing well and um I believe she'll be uh she's going to uh retire. on Friday. Um and so she'll be uh they were going to do some stuff at the elementary school um um for Maggie. So just wanted to kind of share that with you so you knew and and sort of share that a little bit because uh there might be a difficult day for people but uh it's something that we have to do. So send her off well. All right, that's all I had. All right, so that's the end of our agenda for I'll make that motion. Okay, second. All those
093in favor? Thank you. Thanks, Scott.