001Hi, welcome. Good evening. I'd like to call to order the Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 board of education regular meeting. And I will lead us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. >> All right. Uh, item 1.3 on our agenda is our superintendent update. So, at this time, I'm going to turn things over to Mary Fox. Great. First of all, I want to thank our hardworking board of education for another meeting. I know we have one next week, too. Um, a lot of times the end of the summer board meetings are so important so we can hire staff and get things in place for the opening of
002schools. So, I just want to thank the board for that. Today, we had our opening all staff assembly and convocation. Um, it was great. There was a lot of positive energy in the room. Um um Christine and I did not share any notes, but we gave the same theme of a message. There are challenging times, but we've got it here in OSN. Um we're prepared. We are uh we understand the calling of our four pillars. We understand how people can be scared and frightened about some of the things that are taking place. But we have a framework here and we are prepared. And then I mentioned to everybody, as did Christine, that um it there might be financial things that we'll run up against. It's going to be a tight year with the state, but
003um the board of education had a great discussion in public uh about how we can help prepare ourselves and um for a year ahead um just to create a cushion to protect the programs that we are so valuable to us. So it was an excellent there were great meetings afterwards. So, I want to It's a packed house, over a thousand people there. And I I want to thank um again Christine for your great opening remarks and Annie and um everybody else for um sending great wishes for a great kickoff. Um for those of you who have been around the campus, you'll see that our student athletes are absolutely back on the fields. They were there before 7:30 this morning. Kids are excited to be back in school. um every inch of our outside facilities today
004were we're were filled with kids happy to be engaged and being back in school. I want to give a huge shout out to our MBK and our PLP leaders who presented our district at who represented our sorry our district at the Austining back to school festival which was just wonderful. Um u this right after school today from 4:00 to 5:00 we had a back to school event. Um I want to thank Megan O Prime. It was very very well attended. We have lots of community partners um attending as well with great information, giveaways from family for families and lots of important um uh help and suggestions everywhere from Open Door to um um um Northern Westchester. Um not Northern Wes, sorry. Um Phelps Memorial, the hospital program, Northwell programs. Um we had people from um
005awesomeing matters there. We had our PE our SEPTA group happened to be there. Lots of people were there presenting for everyone. Uh we had our new educator academy held last week at AMD. So I want to thank Maria for uh leading that. We were here for five days. We have approximately 60 new educators here in Austin and they were in attendance that that day. Um, we had our park bus um, orientation for our newest riders, including our four-year-olds. If you wanted to find something that will warm and melt your heart is just watching four-year-olds getting their first orientation in riding the little yellow school bus. It was absolutely precious. Um, our talented sixth graders, rising sixth graders, took the stage at Ithaca College and performed at the New York State Band Directors Association in the
006Elementary Allstate Band. That is absolutely fantastic. Right. Registration is open for the Austining Matters 21st annual uh runwalk for education. It will take place on September 6th and I look forward to seeing everybody there. So that's my update for tonight. Sorry. Sorry Christine. I was like okay. >> Thank you so much. Um, at this time I'd like to take a motion to move up item 4.1. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Um, all in favor? >> I opposed abstensions. 4.1 resolution regarding the Hilda uh Bonav distinguished service award. Again, we'll be back here. Um, any any uh Sorry, I'm a little flustered because I ran over here to sit. Um, can I get a motion for that? >> So, second. >> Uh, any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Absent. Great. So, that
007passes. Um, would anybody like to say a few words? >> I would. I'll do it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Um, sorry I'm late, Michelle. uh and to the board. Um I spoke with Miss Langley at length after uh today and she mentioned to me that at the end of her summer like most many principles do, myself included, we break bread with our um summer staff, whether it's our clerical or custodians. The summer is an interesting time because you're in a large building as a building level leader. you're in a large building oftent times with just a few people. It seems a little strange, but over the summer days um you really build a strong bond with the people who are getting school ready um every year. So um I know Michelle and Miss Langley
008have worked closely together, not just um as uh Miss Langley's principal ship, but also as an assistant principal. So, Miss Langley read this uh to Michelle Morona um who um it is a very very integral part of OS. And if you don't mind, I'm going to read it um for the board and for the community. It is with great excitement and pride that I recommend Michelle Morona for the distinguished Hilda Bonavista Award in recognition of her 30 years of dedicated service to Austinine High School. A proud graduate of Austinine High School herself, Michelle has devoted three decades to supporting our students, families, and educators. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with every department, including attendance, counseling, the assistant principal's offices, and the main office, bringing a wealth of knowledge, and a spirit of collaboration.
009Truly a jack of all trades, Michelle quickly became the go-to person for our clerical staff, not only because of her expertise, but also because of her remarkable historical knowledge of our school community. Michelle's impact has been felt far beyond daily operations. She has been instrumental in organizing our junior book awards and senior awards night, ensuring these celebrations of student achievement were meaningful and memorable. She worked tirelessly to connect students with scholarships that align with their academic goals and dreams. Her attention to detail and genuine care extending to cultivating strong relationships with sponsors, encouraging them to support our students year after year. Thanks to Michelle's efforts, countless students have been able to pursue higher education with additional financial support. In addition, Michelle has played an important role in in preserving the memory of her classmate Craig.
010I want to pronounce this right. Wish uh Asen High School class of 1982, a US Marine who tragically lost his life in the Beirut terrorist attack on the Marine Peacekeeping Force. Through her stewardship of this memorial, Michelle has modeled the importance of remembrance, gratitude, and honoring one's service to our country. What truly sets Michelle apart, however, is her heart. She she has always approached her work with compassion, warmth, and a passion for service. Her presence has touched every corner of our school and her legacy will continue to inspire us long after her retirement. Michelle Morona embodies the very spirit of the Hilda Bonavist award and is with the utmost enthusiasm that I recommend her for this honor. So congratulations Michelle. [Applause] >> I have a certificate. I'm going to come hand it to you. >>
011You can come up to the microphone, Michelle, please. >> Congratulations. >> Can we take a quick picture, maybe? >> Yeah. We want to take a quick picture, Michelle. And I for those of you who may or may not, Michelle, I know we did this in my office and it's you're going to make me cry now, too, but Michelle is eligible for retirement, but um we I thought Miss Langley was going to be like, "Oh, please, please, please." Like um um you you have agreed generously to stay with us um for a couple of months more, and it is greatly appreciated very much so. Uh before I even knew you, I knew who you were. Your reputation preceded you. Thank you for touching the lives of so many individuals. Thank you for being that person, that
012go-to person. Thank you for being that smile every time you walk into that office. It matters when they say it's the difference of one. You are the difference of one person. >> So, thank you so much, Michelle. Thank you. All right. the board over here maybe. >> Yeah. >> Should we take it over by the Austin Pride Pride? Congratulations. >> Thanks. Thank you. Oh, all right. And as we say, you are welcome to stay, but you are free to go. >> Or maybe we recommend you go to celebrate. >> Yeah. Well, go out and enjoy and Yes. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> All right. Um, so that moves us into our work session. Uh, our equity item is our a discussion of our district goals. So, uh, we're working with basically a framework from Mary,
013um, which we've received in advance and had time to review. I was wondering if anybody wanted to, um, start the conversation. I'll give us a minute to read and review. We need it, right? And again, like last year, the um the board took multiple uh meetings to go through it. And I'm here to help if you need more information data or if you want me to help edit or tweak some concepts or ideas you want in there so the board can have what they need um for the next meeting. >> Um >> so this is just a question. So >> yeah, >> so preparation, we're kind of doing a first pass again, which we've seen before, but we're seeing, you know, the the iteration of and then the next meeting there'd be a presentation to
014the public with the goals or at least a slide deck that would give that >> it's up to you. Whatever you want to do, part of what we need to discuss. >> Um, >> you know, Rob knew he wasn't attending this meeting. He kind of asked like, "So what's going to happen with this?" and I said we that's kind of part of what we need to discuss >> is what this is going to look like what we want this process to look like over the next I assume couple meetings. >> Okay. >> Um >> yeah I mean historically we've put the district goals up so the community is aware and transparency and done so I would be in favor of >> continuing that but um outside of that I think my if you're asking for
015feedback I think it's a robust set of goals. There's a lot of work to do and uh that's been done and continues to be. So, I think I was happy with the goals as they were. >> Okay. Um, I'll I'll add the same kind of sentiment. We I think we need to kind of present these in a really formal way before we actually vote on them. Um, but I like the I'm I'm open to more ideas or or edits. I'm not um signal deliberate on this, but I like this as a starting point and I don't have any particular suggestions. So, Candidly, I actually find these to be pretty pretty clear. Um I I don't have any issues on on anything that's in this and I I think um I'm ready to move forward to
016have that posted for for the public to see feedback from the rest of the table. Um I feel the same way. I'm I think they're great. I'm agree that we should present them publicly to the community and sort of explain the why behind it um when we're formally asked to adopt it. >> Okay. Um, and I just want to say I think um, my compliments to Mary who outlined kind of like a starting point for us uh, as a place to begin discussions and I think Mary has been so keyed in to our priorities as a board that she pretty much to me like nailed it on the first first round. Al, um, I think this is a good interpretation of where we are already. she that you that you have a good sense of
017what we would have wanted and are already one step ahead of us >> and um there NISBA has been a great resource. Westchester Putnham school boards other school boards um you know the goals we worked on I've worked on in a previous district for many years um so the culmination of that but um trying to tweak it with what I've heard from the board in terms of priorities for the board. So again, if there are any of these that conceptually you want me to tweak a little bit to provide or add more information to of particular interest, um I will do my homework so you can have a robust discussion when we do a presentation next board meeting. >> Melissa or Annie, I know you haven't had a chance to chime in. >> No, I
018think it looks good. I appreciate the intentionality behind um capturing just the essence and the I guess perspective um that we wanted to move forward with. So I do agree as well. >> Um I agree as well. I do have one question with student equity goal. Um, it talks about students, but then it also talks about a culturally competent, inclusive workforce. So, is this meant to be for students as well as anyone employed by the district? >> Yes, because we're all focused on students, the center of our work, right? >> Yeah. I'm just curious because I I liked seeing it in there. We've talked before about staff satisfaction, >> right? I think the board did pre-made a fantastic job on your equity policy. So that's where so um hearing that the consensus right now is
019that we're quite satisfied with this. Um I think we're talking about kind of having a little maybe presentation where this is >> I was >> um presented to the public um and we can continue to discuss it. that that will give um I know Rob the opportunity to also uh provide input and we can further discuss it at that time and then maybe we'll adopt it or maybe we'll >> give it one more meeting to simmer based on how that discussion plays out. Does that >> that's fine. My concern is the school year is starting and right the longer we keep trying to push things down like you know just typically we would get this done before you know right around this time and >> yeah I >> I would be in favor of moving
020forward. >> Agreed. I I am as well. So I'm I'm in fully supportive of that because I think you know doing this after the school year starts I think I feel we miss >> it's a miss on our part. >> I'm open to adopting it next time. We can put it on the agenda and then decide if we want to. Um, I think we should put it on the agenda. If somebody wants to table it and they have a really good reason that's compelling, I'll listen to it, but I I'm prepared to vote on it at the next meeting. >> Okay, that sounds good. Moving along. Um, we have our first public comment period. Hold on a little bit. My papers are a skew here. Got too many papers to sign. hear they happening. Thank
021you. Um our first audience recognition uh right now is not to exceed 10 minutes and agenda items only. That's uh how things stand right now. Uh do we have anybody in the audience who wishes to speak? You don't have to if you don't want to. I just see that there are people here. Uh you have an agenda. Um it's related to our agenda only right now. Oh, it's >> Yep. Yep. >> There's a second audience recognition in the agenda. >> Yes. So, um maybe we can move forward and catch you next audience recognition if you'd like to speak. Um, let me just check online and see if there's anybody who wants wishes to speak in person or online rather. Okay. All right. Moving ahead for now. Uh, our consent agenda, business of the board. Uh,
022we've already adopted 4.1, so I'll take a motion on 4.2. So, >> move. >> Second. >> Uh, 4.2 to resolution to appoint consultants for the 2025 2026 school year. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed. Abstensions. >> Does anybody have anything they wish to break out between 5.1 and 5.2? All right. I'll take a motion for 5.1 and 5.2. >> So moved. >> Second. >> 5.1 Resolution to accept funds collected for replacement of school property. 5.2 resolution to transfer funds from the student council club to the strength and training club. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> opposed abstensions. Does anything does anybody have anything they wish to break out between 6.1 and that's it, right? 6.4. All right. I'll take a motion for 6.1 through 6.4. 4. >> So moved. >> Second.
023>> 6.1 Resolution to approve recommended placements. 6.2 Resolution to appoint members of the Committee on Special Education and Subcommittee Chairs for Committee on Special Education. 6.3 Resolution to appoint members of the Committee on Preschool Special Education uh CPSC. 6.4 Four, resolution to appoint alternate members of the committee on special education, committee on preschool special education, and subcommittee on special education. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> opposed abstensions. Does anybody have anything from uh 7.1 through 7.19 that they wish to break out? All right. Seeing none, I'll take a motion for 7.1 through 7.19. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Excuse me. 7.1 Resolution regarding professional staff appointments. 7.2 Resolution regarding professional staff tenure appointments. 7.3 Resolution regarding rescending professional staff appointments. 7.4 Resolution regarding rescending support staff appointments. 7.5 Resolution regarding rescending support
024staff appointments. 7.6 6 Resolution regarding professional staff resignations. 7.7 Resolution regarding civil service staff resignations. 7.8 Resolution regarding professional staff appointments. 7.9 Resolution regarding civil service staff appointments. 7.10 Resolution regarding support staff appointments. 7.11 Resolution regarding bus attendant appointments. 7.12 Resolution regarding professional staff appointments summer programs. 7.13 Resolution regarding civil service staff appointments summer school programs. 7.14 Resolution regarding support staff appointments before after school programs. 7.15 Resolution regarding PDM substitute appointments. 7.16 Resolution regarding support staff reappointments. 7.17 Resolution regarding PDM substitute reappointments. 7.18 Resolution regarding support staff requests for a leave of absence. 7.19 resolution regarding approval of volunteers. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> opposed abstensions. All right. Here we are at our next public comment period. Um I don't know if we're wishing to speak. >> Just ask. >> What's that?
025>> Ask if there's anyone here. >> Is there anyone here who wishes to speak? Okay. Is there anybody online who wishes to speak? Okay. And here we are in record time at board reports and dialogue. Um, have any committees met? Can we get committee updates if they've met so far? >> Not yet. >> Okay. And then any other updates from the board? >> I just forward in an email from Phelps to community partnerships. Just making sure that I think it's September 29th. I don't know if there's an interest in attending. I'm just making sure that it was seen. >> Um I saw that. Is that the same event we went to last time? >> Yes. I mean, it's a different subject matter, but it's it's the same program. >> Same program. >> Mhm. >> They're
026and that's the one they were inviting all of the various community leaders from different organizations to come attend. >> Yeah. If you look at the I saw in the email there's Brier Cliff, there's there's Terry Town, there's Austining, there's there's police departments, there's schools, there's town village governments. >> Y >> um did they have presences there? Like could you who who I've never been >> was it you did two years ago. >> Did we go last year? >> Mary, I think you did you go to that last year? >> I did. I ended up not going because something else happened and I can't remember. But yes, I was scheduled. Yeah, I think last year we thought that we we just have just the super go. I don't think any board member actually attended last year,
027but if anybody would want to attend obviously. >> Okay. So, I guess >> this might fall under our conversation points we've talked a little bit about with this. If we want to have a formal sort of relationship, we should probably make a liaison, you know, or you know, an committee. And I think if I recall last year, Mary was going to gauge what the, you know, I mean, there's a lot of people that want to partner with the district, right? But, but, you know, what's this relationship like? It's a private entity essentially at the end of the day. And so, >> you know, I I still don't know that I have a clear picture on >> how we work together or what the, you know, cost benefit of it is really at the end of
028the day. So I would just say like this would be something where I would think it'd be good to get a rundown of that and then make a decision about whether we decide the board should have representation or if people want to go individually and not represent the board that can be fine too. >> I'd be happy to go except this date is the fall summit of the Niscus conference. >> so I I guarantee you won't have any superintendent at because of that. >> That's not for superintendents. That's a for date. Yeah. I think there are also subject matter that is more gerine to schools. Um, you know, I like if I think initially there was some like community mental health resources, some things like that. Um, this one's a little more tailored maybe not
029to the schools. So maybe we can wait and see what the next month brings. >> Great. >> It's a great idea. >> That sounds good for now. May maybe we could even just reach out to them and ask them just to send us a just a summary of what what was discussed at that meeting just so that we can have it. So for >> well I'm more interested in what they're planning on >> discussing in the future how if it's relevant to what degree it's relevant to us. any community organization that wants to partner with us, I think we should have a process to discuss it as a board decide whether we want to have a liaison ship or not before we ask anybody for agendas because I'm sure there's a lot of groups that
030would just send us agendas of things, you know, at the end of the day. I just I think it would be good for us to formalize that process. >> I think the agenda is actually kind of help us just to understand what what the nature of that is. Would you agree? It can be, but I think before we even get there, like an a summary from the executive that's in or whoever is running the program, what their goal is, what they're trying to accomplish, why they want to partner with districts >> at the end of the day and what they need from us, right? >> I can I can certainly reach out and make that inquiry. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Put in an update for the board. >> That would be great. >> Yeah,
031that'd be good. >> Um, all right. I wanted I need I need >> just remind everybody the the the the follow board retreat >> about the our followup board. >> Yes, that's what I want to discuss. But before I do, I wanted we had discussed um as far as board norms go limiting ourselves and I need some clarity from the rest of the board because I'm not remembering where we landed. um we had agreed to kind of um limit ourselves and our comments during presentations and I can't recall if we agreed on two minutes or two questions. I think it would be kind of hard to limit oursel minute-wise when we're not sure necessarily what the response would be to our question and how lengthy that might be. Does that make sense? >> I remember
032hearing both, but I think we ended on two questions. >> That's what I remember as well. I remember it being on two questions. the balance we would actually send back but I think certainly open for discussion on that one. >> I guess if our our aim is to reduce meeting times which is what I think the consent some the consensus of the board might be at where that might be. I think we really got to be cognizant of our time. Two questions can take 20 minutes, they can take 30 minutes. They have at the at the table, right? So from my perspective, right, if we're trying to, you know, if we're, you know, presentations, we're trying to target a certain amount of time, you know, if we don't put a limit around the board around
033this, then basically they're going to likely exceed the presentation of self. So from my perspective on this, I would pre prefer an approach if that's really what our goal is is to basically kind of self police ourselves with the time. And if the response is going to take more than a couple minutes, then it's something we could get in writing the same way we could submit our questions in writing, you know, at the end of the day. Otherwise, my concern is what are, you know, we're we're likely to exceed the, you know, the presentation length, which not uncommon. And and I think that Mary the data showed that you know like our the Q&A the a part the Q part of the of it which is our questions exceeded a lot more of the presentation
034time for a few that I monitored it and looked at you know it became organic in many ways but um but it's up to the board if they feel it's too long then it's too long right >> I guess my takeaway from the retreat discuss questions on this were ideally we would want it to be a 15minute question answer question Q&A following the presentation with the understanding that that adds up to approximately 2 minutes per board member and if we had a question that was going to go beyond the 2 minutes it's okay to say I have this question your answer will be go beyond two or three minutes so I'd like it in an email for everyone or you can give me like a sentence just now but we would sort of self-pol it
035in the sense that You know, ideally we ask a question, we get an answer that takes a minute. We ask another question, we get an answer that takes another minute. And then we move along with the understanding that that's not always going to work. We can't >> necessarily put these very strict this has to be organic. So you can't say like only two questions or only two minutes, right? Or you know, but if we have a general understanding, all right, 15 minutes, everyone has to share in that. Don't take more than your allotted section of time. Don't ask a question with the understanding that it would make you go over your time. then we can I think adjust >> right >> and I I I think there you know on the flip side of what
036what we were talking about the two questions two minutes I think it's you know the meeting times are yeah I get it in terms of that but there's also that aspect of you know how much rigor are we putting into what's being asked particularly in a meeting that the community participates with us right in this but this is our board meeting for the community So, I think the flip side for me is like the two questions, two minutes. I'm not completely like sold on that yet, but you know, I'm happy to to move direction. >> We'll have a midyear retreat if it's not working. We can discuss it then um if we feel like too constrained. Um I'm just asking for clarity because I'm expecting myself to be the person to say, "Okay, you know
037what? It's you've taken your time. time we need to leave time for everybody else. So that's why I was asking for clarity on that. And I'm hearing that we're going to try to self police around 2 minutes um with the understanding that if you ask a complicated question, you're going to get a complicated answer that might take up that whole time or if it takes up more a follow-up may be necessary. >> You know, I think also like just like we said, look, if we want a presentation that takes 15 20 minutes, right? And then we want our Q&A to take 15ish minutes, but there is a subject matter that requires a deeper dive. our understanding of that and I think as long as you're taking the temperature of everyone at the table like guys
038we're coming up to our 15 minutes where do we want to go with this and then we reach a consensus in real time I think that's how it's how it's done right >> I sure would imagine too one of the biggest reports two big ones in the fall will be the long range plans and you'll have four elementary principles here we're going to keep it to 10 15 minutes each but that could generate a robust and excellent conversation. So, uh we won't schedule more than one presentation at a board meeting. That's my takeaway. Um talk to the staff about just making sure it's tight. We're using the framework that we we met about that today actually and making sure that you'll get a lot of other data but not mo might not be highlighted during
039the report itself. And of course the New York State testing report will have a lot of information on so I firmly expect lots of questions because I'm sure the community would have those questions too. So again just trying to keep an eye on the time and keep an eye on the questions and we'll um I'll work with the team who's presenting as well so that we try to make sure we do this so we're not here at 10:30 or quarter to 11 at night. >> Um clarity clarifying question. I'm not sure where we landed on. Originally, we want like Mary suggested like a conversational type of presentation with questions asked interspersed, but then we had different definitions of what a clarifying question is within a presentation. So, where did we land on that? Is it
040like a clarifying question? Is it very quick yes or no kind of thing? >> Right. I think a clarifying question is one that you need answered in order to understand the presentation going forward. >> Okay. So, for example, if we see a chart and there's no x-axis and so we're looking at data and we don't understand like what we're looking at, that's something that we've run into before. Like that would be a quick clarifying question or an acronym, right? Like something that would prevent you from continuing the conversation. >> Um, >> and then the rest of our questions will come kind of at the at the end so we don't throw everybody off track. >> Okay. That's I was wondering where we had landed on that. So, that was it. >> Yeah. and and we're
041authorizing our board president if somebody kind of to basically have a gut of like when we've gone a >> far from that and we are authorizing her to say hey I think this is probably an end of the presentation question can you hold it to the end >> um >> and and for that matter then if somebody's overusing their time or t taking up more than their fair share of time that would probably be a good good avenue for the board president to to kind of say let's >> why don't we put that into write writing and submit and send it all. >> Yeah. >> Um I will send out I had handwritten our board goals that we had come up with in retreat and I will send that out um ahead of yeah as
042soon as possible. I should have time before the end of the week but it's been a busy week so far. Um, I will send that out. But we do want to discuss in our last retreat, we didn't finish everything we needed to finish and so we discussed having another retreat to follow up. >> So, um, I just want to review. I think we were thinking like just an evening and I'll have to follow up and see if it's possible to do it virtually. I have I didn't email Stephanie, so I'll put on my to-do list to email Stephanie. I'm also open to doing that in person, too. So, I can do either. That's just my just representing myself. >> We'll have good food. >> Yeah. Know, I mean, that's what I said at the meeting.
043Like, my preference would be is you give the option. Those who can be there can be there. Those who have to be virtual be virtual. >> I just have to see if we need a quorum to be present in person. >> Yeah, you can talk. >> So, I'll email you after. Um, as far as generally when we would like to see this, um, what are we thinking? >> I I I think the sooner the better. Honestly, I'm thinking like my my recommendation if it's not No one has any objections to it. We try to look at the first opening week of school. >> Oh, I just >> We have a board meeting. >> No. >> Yeah, we have a board meeting. >> Target September. Yeah, I was going to say calendars that might even get
044a little bit challenging, but I think if we circulate it with the board and try to talk to the attorneys, see what you can get. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> It's a lot of back to school nights. >> There's a lot of back to school nights. Um I'm I'm assuming >> Well, jeez, I'm just already looking at the calendar. I'm assuming that generally Wednesday nights work best because we're all here now and so frequently on Wednesdays. Um, but in September, we do have Rasha Shauna on a Wednesday. Um, and two board meetings already. So, uh, we'll see. I can send out a I'll task Illy with sending out something for us. We could do October 1st. We'll email I'm going to ask you to email something out, Ellie, so that we can all have a chance
045to look at our calendars and respond. >> I would strongly urge we're trying to get this done in September versus October >> if we can. Um the Wednesdays are booking up fast and everybody's >> make your best attempt. You make your best attempt. The reality is we got to get everybody's calendars, you know. >> Okay. >> Is there anything else for board dialogue? >> Okay. We don't even have an executive session. So, >> good job holding to the 15 minutes. >> I know. All we need is no pres and somehow we get there >> a 45minute meeting coming up. >> Okay. Um so I'll take a motion to adjourn the regular meeting of August 27th, 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I >> opposed. Extensions.