001late and then we were having some technical difficulties with WebEx. So, we appreciate everybody's patience. Um, we will uh sort of get right into the agenda. Um, I'm actually going to just if that's if it's okay with um you Mr. Moralda and Dr. Layman um just because I wanted to get the um different legislative things up and I was busy fighting with WebEx to do that. Um so if we can start with the last agenda item which was um just the um communication sort of for like the start of the school year. Um what I really just thought might be helpful um is to just sort of share with um the community um in well there's two things on there. So the first is Monroe News. Um so I guess Mr. Moralda if you just
002want to give a quick update about that that would be great. >> Sure. Can you uh hear me? Okay. >> Yes. >> Great. Thank you. So, um excuse me. We uh were very thrilled with um with the the way things came out and the previous issue of Monterey News. Uh Miss Kennedy and the communications office have been a absolute pleasure to work with. So much so where they uh gave us the opportunity to submit uh some more content, which we did. Um and at the risk of of spoiling what the content is, I'll I'll dulge a little bit. uh one of the and and there were two items that had been requested specifically out of this committee. Uh the first is the uh winter con winter concert, excuse me, the winter concert series for the
003upcoming uh school year. So now everyone who will review them on renews will get to see our concert dates where they're at and the different ensembles across all g grade levels. And we remind that our public uh we remind our public, excuse me, that all of our concerts, our Scholastic concerts are open uh for free. and we encourage you to come see us. So now in the Monroe news, if you want to mark your calendars, I know it seems crazy to think about holiday concerts, but >> they'll be here before you know it. >> And then the other thing we really excited to put together uh and thank you to Mr. Snder obviously and his staff, Mr. Really specifically, who helped us get that together. The u we just got engaged by the way, Mr.
004The um uh the other item I uh we were able to get together and this one was really fun to work on uh was we uh designed this fall sports preview. And what was really cool about this is that as as as the committee may know, we have interns that work with us throughout the school year as part of our work-based learning program. And last year, right around this time, we introduced all new positions to our high school, the sports marketing interns. And when Miss Kennedy uh and the township uh let us know that the next edition of the Monroe News was going to come out shortly after Labor Day, we thought it was a really cool opportunity to see what these interns could do. and u uh young lady Julia Arts put together a
005incredible fall sports preview and she did it while she was on summer vacation. She's not even on the clock yet. Um at least I hope she knows that. Uh the um but the uh we're really excited to see what that that can do. and just another really uh simple and free way to connect with the community uh to let them know what's going on, but also as a way to share some of the some of the things that are happening sometimes right under our nose and just kind of bring us a little bit closer together. We did run a couple more journalistic pieces about some of the things that were happening in the school year and I'll let our community to read those. And we really try to be diverse in the content that we
006selected. It was a little challenging over the summer. Uh but throughout the year, we hope that the Monrene News will allow us to continue to work with them and then once school starts, we'll take some ideas obviously from the committee. If there's anything that your constituents in the community would like to hear more about through that type of publication, uh we have a lot of different things within the school district we can cover. So, um yeah, >> we're grateful for that opportunity. >> Um thank you and thank you for your work on getting that done. Um I would say for me one thing which is a little bit harder just because there's a lot more of them than there are necessary performances but also be athletic schedules. Um I don't know how we could share
007all of that for every team. Um obviously we can provide a link to the schedules as well. Um you know maybe then highlight certain teams throughout the year but um you know obviously like I want to have equity across like the different things that you know students are participating in. So that would just be something that I would think people might want to see. >> Yeah, we and that was something that we thought about and uh Mr. Barendika does have an official website where all of our calendars are, but you know, knowing that that kind of defeats the purpose of a printed news article. Uh so what uh Mr. Gquinto and his and his students did were they included key games. uh for each fall sports preview, we included a senior night and if there
008was like a key matchup that we thought would be of particular interest and she surveyed and our intern surveyed all this information directly from the staff. So we asked them if there's a game that you really want our public to come out and check out, what would it be? So I think you'll be happy with with what you see in there >> and uh we look to hopefully continue to build that build that out. But to that but to your point um one of the one of the things that we hope to accomplish this year through our workbased learning program specifically through our interns um is to increase our broadcast reach uh and increase our ability to to to bring people in and also push content out. >> Okay, that's wonderful. Um anybody else have
009anything they want to add? Any other ideas? Um okay, sounds good. Look forward to seeing that. Um it was very exciting when we saw it the first time. Um so the other part of the um just the community engagement component that I sort of wanted to just touch on um was the start of the school year parent and student communication. Um, so I mean as a parent I've been receiving things um, but I know like there's a lot of questions from parents um, about when to expect schedules or classroom teachers depending on, you know, the grade level um, where to look for supplies. Um, so I just thought it might be helpful to go into that like um, I don't know if Dr. Layman you want to sort of take that and share like the
010things that you feel would be relevant. um for people to know with the school year starting. >> Yeah, I would just say watch your watch your emails because the buildings are pushing information out. Middle school and high school schedules were shared uh starting at 6 PM tonight. >> Um so if you know middle school and high school parents want to log into their parent access. Um the towards the end of the week that's when the elementary schedules will be pushed out. Um but again communication has been occurring from you know individual buildings. Um and then once the teacher pieces are out there, that's you know the the next step is uh the supply lists and things like that which were all linked to from uh the buildings, you know, the individual buildings websites and things.
011Um we've been pushing out communications for summer reading, summer math packets, uh additional summer work. Um we've been pushing out information regarding athletics. So, you know, it's it's a pretty steady stream and it it certainly has picked up in the last few weeks. Um, so I think it's ongoing. It's a, like I said, a steady stream. There's been multiple uh, some things get multiple messages that go out. So if you you're on vacation, you miss the first one, you see the second one, that kind of stuff. But uh, you know, this is a this is the week where everything starts to get shared in terms of placement and uh, schedules and things. >> Okay. Do the elementary schools are they all released at the same time approximately through Genesis? Okay. The elementary coordinates their distribution
012just like uh the high school and middle school do uh theirs as well. >> Okay. And then um school supplies. I know that we've had this discussion before. From what I recall, please correct me if I'm wrong. Each grade level at the schools is creating a grade level list of school supplies, I believe. Um >> yeah, all the details are on the website. We we did uh encourage all the buildings to uh have common supply lists. Um I know at the middle school there's uh each team has you know common supply lists and things. So um yeah I mean all that information can be found online uh at the at the individual websites. >> All right. >> Yep. >> Gail Usha Amanda anything from you guys? >> No. School has been always good. When my
013kids were at school, never had any problem. Everything was handled very nicely. So, >> yeah, I think they're doing the same thing. Very good. And I'm even better now. So, it's good. I'm happy. >> Mhm. Yeah. I definitely um enjoy watching them all try to guess who their teachers are going to be and everything. Uh and my daughter just got her high school schedule, so Amanda, I know you're in the same boat as I am. Um so, that's exciting for us. >> I I definitely miss Genesis. It was so exciting in the evening. Come from work and watch what how what they did, what's next, and they would be so mad at me. Why do you want it first thing in the evening? You want to watch that? I like it. >> Awesome. All right.
014Um, wow, Miss Alvarez will be very impressed if we still finish by 7:45 even with starting late. So, we'll try. Um, so the the next thing was I'm just going kind of in backwards order. Um, the advocacy uh part portion of the district website. I just figured it's been a few months since we took a look at it and so I just thought it might be helpful just to, you know, review it, see if there's any changes we want to make. Um, you know, I know we have our like the the budget stuff is on there. Um, I'm looking as you know, there's been updates to it. Um, just in terms of our letter, you know, it's always a you know, we've worked for many months on that. We got it out, but like most
015things, there's always changes in terms of what our needs are. Um, so you know, I don't think we necessarily need a huge overhaul to it, but I just thought it might be a good discussion for us to have as a committee. Um, so, >> so, um, uh, Dr. Layman, if you, if you don't mind, I can I can share some of the thoughts we've had on. So, uh, when we, so when we, uh, create I'm just on the site now, so I'm going to flip over so I can't see any, uh, facial expressions or annoyed body language. So, let me know. the um so we uh we had originally designed this site as kind of to be like a an ongoing uh medium for us to stay keep stay fresh on the on the topic
016desour let's say right and when I was thinking about this because uh one of the things that we had talked about discussing later in the fall um would you know strategic planning update and that was one of the things we had discussed potentially discussing at citizens advisory committee and I in in our experience erience, it seems like a lot of times those advocacy topics tend to to come to a head pretty quickly in some instances. So, um maybe what we can do is look at uh kind of some of the calendars, maybe work backwards and and and prelim preliminarily identify what we think our our advocacy efforts are going to look like for the year. >> I can archive everything that's on here currently. um including you know we still have if you go if
017you scroll down we still have the testimony uh Miss Bora and Miss Ratner's testimony still up there um you know I don't think that I I don't think we need to purge that but it might be worth housing it in a in a cleaner maybe archival way and then clear it out saying even if we just have the site say uh advocacy topics 2526 coming soon >> click here to review previous year's discussions and and actions um we could do something like that temporarily until the committee has something that they want to add up there because my guess um just based on how things went last year. I felt like yeah, we were kind of kicking around all of a sudden we had hearings and we wanted to get content out there. So, anything we
018can do on the front end, even if we just kind of put us like a template up there where we where we know we would want to drop testimony or templates, um that might be helpful because as we saw last year, I think we found out like on a Thursday that one of you had to testif testify or like letters were due on like a Tuesday or something like that. >> Yeah. >> So, um but the good news is we have it wouldn't take very long to have ask Mr. uh Feldman to help us retcon that jot form or like just taking our old letters and revising them to talk about whatever we want to talk about. But inevitably uh we're going to have to update some information on here. We have elections coming up
019and stuff like that. So what I mean I think it would be easy to say that we should have at least a clean website by the next time we meet next uh month if that's okay with you. >> Okay. Um I like when I went to the um the menu I saw that there was you know the sub link I guess with the fight for fair funding which sort of has what you said that historical information. And so almost it looks like that the constant fight for fair funding that Monroe has had over the last 10 years, we'll say longer, but you know that's what you know we can sort of see um just to sort of see all the efforts from you know administrations and boards past and present um in terms of trying
020to you know advocate. Um, so I I definitely like that idea while keeping the current advocacy site um as you know current as possible um with things that we can do as opposed to things that we have done. Um >> well that and then and then that could almost become like a running record as as evidential support when we when we go back next time say as you can see this has been going on for for some time. Take a look at our website and you can see where our efforts have been and how far they've come. And I think that that not only um strengthens our argument, but it shows a community that that you know, even though we haven't had necessarily the outcomes that have have maybe satisfied everybody, we're still we still
021have a plan. Um we've made some efforts and uh that'll also give the community an opportunity to look back on things we've done and maybe even offer some some areas for improvement. >> Okay, sounds good. Go ahead, >> Miss Ratner. Yeah, I spoke to Senator Greenstein Sunday and um she was saying that she doesn't think to be honest with me with me that Monroe is not going to get much more money than we have gotten over the past few years because they still consider us to be a very wealthy town. >> And I said, "What about the senior community?" and she doesn't think that that new funding formula, she didn't say it right out. It might not include, you know, something to the effect that I think Kate, you and I discussed it before, too,
022and it was in the original uh funding formula, and I spoke in Trenton about it that I was a senior and I didn't think it was fair, >> but she said, "I I have to tell you the truth. I don't think you're going to get that much more than what you're getting now." So, we have to keep that in mind. >> Yeah. >> You know, coming down the pike, she tries I I thanked her for the money she gave us >> and she said, "I try hard for Monroe because I know what a good district it is, >> but because the state considers us a wealthy district. >> Um, we might not fall into any more of the money, right? >> I'm just keeping you a breast of it from her." >> I appreciate that.
023you know, obviously that like it it aggravates me. Um, as I'm sure you understand, especially with all the efforts that we've we've put in um you know, and this isn't just her, but you know, we need people that are going to advocate for this formula to be changed because it's very clear that we are getting penalized along with other districts in a similar boat that >> where our local fair share is not being calculated correctly because of the wealth. um because it looks like we have more wealth than we do because some of the wealth that is recorded as like what seniors have is being spent in other states or other things like that. Um which they don't take into account. And so even while yes, like I think we can all say we're grateful
024for all the things we do get a lot of times we're only getting these allocated to us because of all the things we haven't already gotten, right? So, right. >> Um, you know, it's like you punch someone in the face, but then you give them a band-aid to make them feel better kind of thing. Um, >> you know, I just >> I'm not really sure what else we can do. Um, I haven't actually even heard of the formula itself being what any of the modifications are yet. Um, other than, >> you know, certain changes to how like they look at the um like the year. So they're doing like the history of five years instead of three years, right? Small things like that, but something that >> is going to change the way they're funding
025education in New Jersey. And ultimately, >> I feel like there's two routes, right, that can really make that change. One would be the Department of Education and one would be the legislature. And I feel like we need to continue. I mean, that's our job, right? Even though sometimes it sort of feels like I'm banging my head against the wall, right, to explain like it's not like, yeah, we all love a hund00 million dollars, you know, in our pockets, but it's not because we just want it. It's because that we should be getting it and we're not. And this is why. Um, >> we can still go after Senator Gopal, too. He is a proponent. I think he's on that committee, isn't he, Kate? If I remember. >> Yeah, he was. So, I mean, I know
026they want to try to get him for Middle Sex County as one of the speakers at one uh one of the meetings >> again around the time when it should be announced about the uh funding formula. So, we're going to try to get him. There's nothing to say we can't contact the rest of our senators. I mean, we we rely on Senator Greenstein, right? >> But we have other senators and other people around and that we can go after, too, >> right? I mean so we have the two assembly people as well who you know >> also should be advocating for this change. They came it was just over a year ago the memory popped up. Um >> but you know I think you know and I had spoken with Senator Greenstein about this briefly.
027>> Um you know the the issue sometimes with legislation is you have to have support from other legislators. Right. Right. And so I can understand if Monroe is the only one being affected or one of five districts being affected by certain things, it's hard to enact like law that will change, but I feel like that's why right now the school funding formula overall is such a crucial element because there are all these other districts that are now having issues with the funding formula as well. And so they're aware that it's a the funding formula itself is not really working. I think right now we're in a weird place because of the upcoming election November new potentially new govern well definitely new governor you know we don't really know what the changes will be in terms
028of that and the legislature um because that itself could create a lot of change we don't really know um so they might be hesitant to make changes right now knowing that they're not really sure what's coming um but you know I it definitely is frustrating when you hear that after all the efforts that you know all of of us have put into advocating for this >> and even with I think with the president doing away didn't he do away is going to do away with the department of education and it's going to be on the backs of each state I'm not sure if that went through there's going to be some changes there too's going to have to change everything and you know really I guess I don't know start from the beginning but for
029us I'd like to see them start from the beginning and change their ways but Um >> I don't know where we can get in there. We've got to try to find where we can get in someplace. >> Right. Um when we met with, you know, the commissioner and all of that stuff, um I did I know we spoke mostly about kindergarten when we were on that call. Um but we also had spoken about the the formula. Um I mean the commissioner is the one who created the formula, which is I feel like also part of the issue, right? because it's his baby, right? Like it's the same thing where um I heard when we were discussing um was it NJSA? There was something that you know a lot of legislators wanted to get rid of
030that we were being told to the legislative committee, but the senator who had um proposed this initially was the one that you know is still sort of in charge of making some of these decisions. So it's like you're not really going to criticize your own idea. I mean people can do it but it's less likely. >> I just I don't you know I would love to hear from >> anyone whether it's community members, board members like what else can be done because this has been a fight 20 years in the you know almost at this point and you know it's changed a little here and there but it's definitely not changed where we need it to be. >> Can you propose it Dr. layman and um at at a CAC meeting >> to see if
031if the people there have any ideas or connections with any kind of government agency or something. I don't know. It might be a topic to have them maybe go out as an assignment and find somebody that they can bring back that we can write to. I don't know if that's good, you know, good advice or not. Dr. Layman, what do you think? Well, I think the, you know, the role we've taken with our CAC committee is, you know, using them to, uh, you know, meet with their constituents and or just, you know, share information with us. So, we can certainly have, you know, a conversation with them and, um, you know, it's a similar group than that. It's the same group that we've been working with. So, I think if there were some strong connections,
032we we'd probably already have them in our uh in a rolodex by now. But we continue to have the conversations. Um, I think the advocacy continues. Um, >> you know, I think we got somewhere in terms of, you know, incremental supplemental funds the past few years and that's been extremely helpful for us. Um, you know, the the big piece that we all look forward to is potentially a a different formula that better accounts to help us. Um but again what the reality of that looks like. We can continue to advocate for our needs and our unique relatively unique needs to be uh considered. Um but ultimately that is a much bigger hurdle than uh you know special allocations on a yearly basis right you know so I I think we continue to advocate I don't
033think I don't think we stopped you know but I think uh you know we also continue to move ahead like we have been with other ways to do things other ways to look at things um in our in our Monroe perspective is which we've really come you know the past decade or so making things happen with what we have Um, and that's benefited us in many ways where the other districts are ebbing and flowing differently than we do. Um, you know, getting squeezed the past few years. Um, because we weren't flooded with funding for 10 or 15 years prior to this, we didn't have to go through that piece, right? we've learned to do with what um doesn't make it right, but we've learned to do with uh what we've had instead of um you
034know having a surplus and and you know having to cut back uh to make those special you know >> S2 requirements. Mhm. >> So, but I moral story there is we continue to push forward, right? We continue to advocate for our needs. Um we continue to um you know speak to the uniqueness of our population in town and uh we just try and move forward with what we have. >> Yep. And I think it's actually sort of a good segue into like our final topic. um which is in addition to doing that I think it's also important for us to you know maybe advocate when there's legislation that can help us in other ways obviously funding formula change is you know important um and we like Dr. man, you know, just said like, well, we
035need to keep on that. Um, but there's also been bills where we can, you know, get funds for certain things that have been proposed at times. Um, I had shared a copy of the the capital watch that was sent out from school boards. Um, that, you know, it anybody can see it. It's on a public website. Um, but I think that, you know, there's a few on here that I felt it was important for us to sort of highlight. Um so the first one was that S3910 which is the um it to be known as the New Jersey Universal Preschool and Kindergarten Act. Um and then there were a few other bills that sort of go along with that. Um so essentially you know one of the things is it mentions the there we know
036that full day kindergarten will be mandated as of the 2029 2030 school year. Um, I know that we've discussed, you know, the hope of getting it started sooner, much, you know, than that. So, um, you know, I I I know we're getting close to time having started later. I don't want to go too much into that. Um but just the other components of that bill, one is a preschool expansion grant where it, you know, it's a grant that provides free access to uh high quality preschools for residents for three and four years in districts that don't at the time of application for the grant have state funded um free preschool programs. Um and then there's certain requirements for it obviously. Um, you know, I know one of the things that it mentioned also was the
037um there's a preschool cost sharing pilot program. Um, it's a three-year pilot program um which says preschool aid for participating districts would be calculated by multiplying the district's district aid percentage. Um and then um there's also the discussion um sort of what we heard at the Department of Education about partnering with you know local uh preschools um in the area because obviously one of our biggest issues has always been space um but sort of trying to find ways to work I don't want to say around that well I guess around that challenge um we still have the funding challenge um in general so it's hard to do that but Um, you know, I know we've sort of discussed this bill here and there, but now it's been signed and finalized. Um, and so I don't
038know if, you know, anybody has other things to say about it. Um, I know that, you know, we've been making progress in terms of full day kindergarten with, you know, demographers report. We've looking at next steps. Um, anybody have anything? I'll just keep going. But >> no, I I think I think we'll have an update on full day and where we stand and it's much much past where the demographer report was as that was, you know, winter last year. >> Um when we go through our uh strategic plan update, um to speak to the prek piece, um you know, we're we're the goal for us is to get full day and knowing space is an issue that will fill the buildings, right? that that will put us at a you know capacity it's this is
039an exaggeration but let's say capacity limits right that's going to fill the spaces in our building >> so our option when if we when we take the next step past full day AK would be I would see the primary piece would be a partnership with you know local providers for for prek >> right >> um you know they the state explicitly told us when we met with them to discuss uh full day that they don't support the construction construction of a building to to facilitate specific preK, right? The goal is not to spend millions and millions and millions of dollars for the prek program to then get funded. The the piece was bolster the pre-k program you have with the space you have and then reach out to your local businesses and local prek facilities
040and um work with them and they would support and pilot and and work because again we don't the goal is also not to put businesses out of business right it's to support and and uh grow those as well so >> my perspective is we get full AK in place we our only option is really to um because I don't see us having much if any free space to really take the step of partnering with private private uh entities around us. So, you know, in terms of what this bill looks like or what kind of opportunities are out there when we get full AK in place, that's to be determined. But the fact is we're not going to have 700 empty seats, 500 empty seats in the district to fill with preK students. Um it's going
041to be where where do we find those seats and who do we partner with? >> And I saw recently um Our Lady of Peace in Spotswood was closed, but the parents got together, raised the money to keep it open as an academy. So there was an out for us to try to get their place. Um but the parents rallied and now it's an academy. Was this um the Immaculate Conception building or is this >> is Immaculate Conception in Spain? >> I know they were supposed to clue. >> It is. I'm sorry. Our Leavia pieces in um Fords. Never mind. Okay. But it was I was wondering if there were two of them. >> And you're not even Catholic and I'm Catholic, but uh yeah, they were going to close it and I read an article
042where the parents rallied and and bringing the school back. So that was a chance for us to grab a school >> and, you know, put some kids over there, but they they have it back as an academy now. So we lost that. >> I don't know, Amanda, if you know of any open spaces in Jamesburg, any like churches or schools or anything like that. >> Um, there's a couple like daycare daycarees in Jamesburg. Uh we have our three and fouryear-old prek. So at our district, >> I believe we're pretty at capacity there, but >> um there I know early childhood is very intense. There's a lot of competition to get spots, >> right? And I think um >> when we're ready to cross that bridge, um there'll be people who have paved the road a
043little bit for us because they've already had full day in place and they've you know, have some models in developing these partnerships because it would be a a curricular alignment. It would be, you know, a financial alignment. Um, you know, especially with multiple businesses and different, >> you know, whether it's, you know, a certain amount of money that's, you know, a fee or whatever it is that's then, you know, grant funded by the the state or however that kind of flow works. But um you know we have we have we'll have some time to get to that point once we get to the full day gate piece >> right um yep and I think it was west was was it west he had said had um started to look into that so you know I
044think it'll be helpful to sort of network with other districts um you know to give us some ideas you know whether it's you know speaking to other board members or administrators to administrators um just you know whatever we can do to help But obviously we have to get that first step in process which would be the full day kindergarten component um before we you know really move on the rest. >> Is it West Windsor or West Winds or Plansboro? That's that's >> Well, it's West Windsor Plainsboro. I think the >> I know the superintendent there. >> Okay. >> I can give him a call if you want me to and give him your number or get you know >> probably not my number but um I said probably not my number. I don't know. Um
045I just be but um I feel that you know if there >> Dr. Layman whose number should I get for >> So when we met when we met with the state they shared some of the resources. So we have uh you know the district that because they they they said would we be interested in potentially considering using private kindergartens to help us build out a kindergarten piece. And um you know that would be offloading right or sharing that instructional piece and you know our goal is to not have to do that for for kindergarten right not have to have a lottery for who gets to come to Monroe who has to go to right so our goal is to have our kindergarten in our buildings with our teachers. Um yeah, >> again so crossing that
046kind of public private partnership piece is really when we dabble into the the prek piece and like I said it would primarily be um private I would think when we get down to that road um because the space piece and any of the pre-k students we have on board with us right now are uh you know prek handicap, prek disabled, prek uh integrated programs. So um and and those would remain with us um as opposed to you know universal prek is what they call it being you know some sort of pro uh partnership with us a curricular alignment with us staff training and things like that. But again those models will be uh kind of in front of us because other districts are already starting to do that. >> All right. Um let's move on
047just to other legislation. Um, one thing that was signed was the um, they just had it in front of me, the um, the publication for the legal notices that um, I believe it's effective 2026. Um, but it's it advocated for a change in the statute where um, we no longer will have to go necessarily to all of the same places where we have to post legal notices. Um, it was done as a a cost savings measure. Um so like um you know always have like all of the different like paper like news media and things of that nature. >> Um so it said from uh I had it open but as of 2026 I it's either March or January. We can obviously know for sure um it says that where we will be required to
048post um will be changed. Um so um let's see. Oh here it is. an an internet web page for purpose of publishing uh legal notices. Um and so yeah, I mean I think it's just, you know, helpful that we won't have to advertise in all those same places. It also might make it more uh it'll make it more simple for us to get those out as opposed to places where it only comes out on Sundays or things of that nature if needed. Um if we're no longer required to put those in those um pieces of media. Um, let's see. There's a lot of legislation that passed. So, like I don't want to go too deep into all of these things. Um, I know that there was a statutory pause on SGOs's um which as a
049board doesn't necessarily affect us, but um it's definitely something in terms of evaluation, you know, in the district that um has been that discussion um for teachers. uh something with water bottle filling um a grant program for public schools to purchase and install point of use filtered bottle filling stations and filtered faucets that was signed by the governor as well. Um he was sort of on like a signing frenzy on June 30th. So there was a lot that happened um all across the board. But you know obviously when there are things that are required for us you know to do we'll hear from them in other ways besides the legislation. I think what's really important for our committee and you know us as board members is to try and get to things that might be
050a concern before they become law. Um so that's where I'm always trying to look so that way if there's a concern um you know we can advocate for that before it's passed by the legislature. Uh yeah anything else anybody has? All right. So, we will head off. Um, I hope everyone has a good start to the school year and good end of the summer. Um, thank you all for your time and again, sorry to everyone about the tech issues we had at the beginning. >> It's okay. Not a problem. Thank you. Enjoy some. >> All right. Take care. Bye. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye.