001Yeah. Yeah. I guess I don't. Yeah. We never played that much. I wish we would have. Don't recognize her. We did. I mean, we lost. We lost. Who beat us in the tournament? Oh, they're like a softball dynasty. South. Not a champion or something. Yeah. It wasn't Champion. No, they'd be up Champion beat us. Last year they had that girl that they're crazy. Well, they always have a picture. They used to have a good There's a lot of [Music] Sorry. Uh bring the meeting to order. Uh if you stand for the pledge. 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. [Music] Beth, roll call, please. Mr. Burman, here. Mr. Many here. Mrs.
002Miller, here. Mrs. Stone here. Mr. Wler here. Okay. I need a first and a second for approval of the agenda. So moved. Brian. I'll second Jody. Any discussion? Beth roll call, please. Mr. Burman, yes. Mr. Manfried, yes. Mrs. Miller, yes. Mrs. Stone, yes. Mr. Worth, yes. Okay. Um, I need a first and a second for approval of the minutes. I'll make the motion. I'll second it, Linda. Any discussion? Beth roll call, please. Mr. Manfred, yes. Mrs. Miller, yes. Mrs. Stone, yes. Mr. Wisworth, yes. Mr. Burman, yes. Okay. At this point of the meeting, we have public participation. Um, we ask you to please come up here and use the microphone. So, because we are on uh tape, um, and please be respectful. Hello, my name is Jessica Corner. Um, I live at 14745 Aspen Hills
003Lane, Burton residents and Bergkshire parent. I'm here to tell you of a complaint I filed against Berkshire school board member Brian Wodsworth regarding his alarming and inappropriate behavior towards my husband Ronald Gordona III on school property during the Berkshire High School graduation on May 18th, 2025. At approximately 3:38 p.m., Mr. Watssworth followed my husband into the parking lot where he confronted him in a manner that was not only unprofessional but also threatening. This is incident occurred in the presence of our 15-year-old daughter who is a Bergkshire High School student after the ceremony of our son which further exacerbates the inappropriateness of his actions. During Mr. Wadsation. On May 18th, I witnessed Mr. Wodsworth forcefully push his shoulder into Ron Gordon's shoulder and said, "So, I'm not riding in hell yet. We need to talk before
004he walked away. This behavior acceptable for a school board member and does raise serious concerns about his judgment and professionalism." Mr. Mr. Wodssworth has previously sent messages to Ron Corner expressing his displeasure with with Mr. Gordonara's social media posts. On May 1st, 2025, he ominously remarked in a private message to Mr. Gordona. That's two, leaving us to question what further he might consider at three. This incident overshadowed what should have been a joyful celebration of our son and our family. This was a huge accomplishment for our son as he has battled depression his entire high school career and is a sa a survivor of a suicide attempt that occurred in his ninth grade year. He worked hard and took summer classes three years in a row. And we invested in a private tutor so would
005be able to graduate on time as his depression had a lasting effect on his grades until he could be stabilized. Mr. Wsworth's actions minimize the hard work my son has done as well as the energy, time, and money his dad and I put towardsation to ensure he graduated on time. I to take this matter seriously and address Mr. Wodssworth's conduct as it not only affect reflects poorly on him but also the entire Bergkshire school district. Such such actions cannot be tolerated especially from someone in a position of fluence with our in our community. Thank you for your attention to this serious matter. Thank you. Uh is there anyone else uh for public participation? Can I respond? Is that part? Don't do it. Oh. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So, just for clarity, um I I didn't throw
006my shoulder into Ron and um Ron had said some things online and freedom of speech is what we all have and it's treasured in this country. Um, however, if you tell a person to do a couple things that he said and you said, "You can't wait to see you in public." Um, I thought that was an invitation for me to see him in public. So, I went over to Ron. I shook his hand and said, "When are we going to get together?" Um, so I I I apologize if it was in front of your daughter. I didn't see either one of you there. Um, and I had reached out to Ron privately to see if we could talk and he uh he was he did say he wanted to. So, I uh I saw him
007leaving. I went and said hello to him. Do you want to respond? Is that what you said? Uh if this would have happened in the Walmart parking lot, I could care less. He probably could care less, but it was at a graduation ceremony for our son. Okay, that's why mom is here. And in front of my daughter if Thank you. Is there anybody else for public participation? Um, can we should I do that under due business or do you want to We'll do it under new business. Roger. Okay. Uh, public participations closed treasures report. Let the record reflect the treasurer submitted a statement to the board and to the superintendent showing the revenues and receipts from the sources derived, the various appropriations made by the board, the expenditures and dispersements, the purposes and balances remaining
008in each fund, the financial statements for the period ending May 2025 has been submitted subject to audit and includes the financial summary, appropriation and revenue summary, check register recap, and bank reconciliation. Have a motion to approve the following donations as listed. So moved. A second. Ryan and Dan. Any discussion? Beth will call please. Mrs. Miller. Abstain. Mrs. Stone. Yes. Mr. Wattsworth. Yes. Mr. Burman. Yes. And Mr. Manfred. Yes. Oh, thank you. Can I have a motion to approve the following financial statements as listed? So move and I'll second Brian. Any discussion? Beth will call please. Mrs. Stone, yes. Mr. Wsworth, yes. Mr. Burman, yes. Mr. Manfred, yes. And Mrs. Miller, yes. Thank you. You can have a motion to approve um the following insurance companies for the 2526 insurance policy. We have Ohio schools plan
009is going to cover our property and liability and then travelers will cover cyber and crime. So moved. I'll second. Any discussion? A Beth roll call, please. Mr. Wadsworth. Yes, Mr. Burman. Yes, Mr. May. Yes, Mrs. Miller. Yes, Mrs. Stone. Yes, thank you. Okay. Uh, treasury report is complete. Superintendent report. I'd like to request a motion to approve the following supplemental positions as listed. So moved, I'll second. Dan, any discussion? Beth will roll call, please. Mr. Burman, yes. Mr. Manfred, yes. Mrs. Miller, yes. Mrs. Stone, yes. And Mr. Wsworth, yes. I would like to request a motion to approve the following uh personnel items, administrative, certified, and classified as listed. So moved. A second. Ryan. Any discussion? Beth roll call, please. Mr. May, yes. Mrs. Miller, yes. Mrs. Stone, yes. Mr. Worth, just want to make
010sure you're not on here. You should be good on this one. Am I good on this one? All right. Yes. And Mr. Burma? Yes. I would like to request a motion to approve the following volunteers as listed. So move. Linda second. Dan. Any discussion? A be call please. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mrs. Stone. Yes. Mr. Wsworth. Stain. Mr. Burman. Yes. Mr. Manfred. Yes. I would like to request a motion to approve the attached graduating class list for the 202425 school year as attached. So move I'll second. Is it me Jodie? Okay, we need to sit on opposite end opposite sides. Sorry. Um any discussion? I just was as I looked through there there's so many that had so many extra added um titles or recognition on there um by their names. That was pretty impressive. [Music]
011111 and I think 75% of them had a state approved pre-apprenticeship. It's pretty impressive. Any further discussion? Beth roll call, please. Mrs. Stone, yes. Mr. Wsworth, yes. Mr. Berman, yes. Mr. Manfred, yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. I would like to request a motion to approve the resolution um for the state of Ohio's model policy and procedures for special education as attached. So move. Brian. I'll second. Any discussion? Beth roll call, please. Mr. Wise. Yes. Mr. Mr. Burman. Yes. Mr. May, yes. Mrs. Miller, yes. Mrs. Stone, yes. And I would like to request a motion to approve the following contracts as listed. The first three are for uh specific special education services. Bloom board is for our grow your own teacher program. Um the ETLA membership is for Senate Bill 29 compliance. That's the uh the technology
012agreement to make sure that there's no third party tracking of our data. We have gardener for our um our mechanical operations of the building. Um our tech internship um that's going to allow us in the future to award apprenticeships for our tech internships. And then the uh the rest of the contracts are for the workforce development campus that's coming out of the grant that um Senator O'Brien helped us procure. So moved. Jody second. Brian. Any discussion? Beth roll call please. Mr. Burman. Yes. Mr. Manfred. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mrs. Stone. Yes. And Mr. Worth. Yes. Uh, old business. I can address. Um, no, I'm not going to skip him. He's new business. Oh, is he? All right. I'd skip him. No, he's new business. Old business. I will address um a comment made during public
013participation. when when something is brought to my attention, I I will uh and it has to do with our board members, I will talk to as a group or individually depending upon what the circumstance was. That did happen. As I said to you, I would and I did. So, I want you to know that was addressed. Okay. Uh, any other old business? Um, new business. Before we get to the new uh the Burton Library, why don't I let Roger go ahead? Do I need Yes. You need to speak into it, Roger, so that people who watch online can hear you. Okay, on behalf of Auburn, I'd like to say uh a couple things to announce here. As you guys are probably aware, we've hired a new superintendent. Very excited about our Peter here. He's got
014a bunch of great ideas, a bunch of good stuff going on. And u we have a garden that's blossoming really, really fast. And we're just adding fertilizer to the some of the things going uh the reaching down into the grade uh you know middle schools and stuff that those programs are just we have 70ome programs. Roger. Could you talk closer into the mic? Thanks. Because I'm having a hard time. Yeah, it is. If you hold the bottom of it, it doesn't work. So hold it towards the top. Got to get on top of it. Okay. Yeah. Um so we have you know uh 75 programs now uh through the different uh Drake, hold it closer to the top. The bottom is the receiver. There you go. Blocking my signal. There you go. Much better. Anyhow,
015we're very excited about our new leader. Um, and Joe comes to us from uh the menor district as their um work development leader up there. And he was veryworked into uh all the different categories. John knows him well and he's worked with you guys, you know, and he's uh he's taken off. He's hit the ground running on doing some really cool stuff and we're going to see some really exciting stuff over the course of the next year with a strategic plan we're planning to put together. So, we'll be anxious to share that with you. And um also appreciate having Dan serve with us up there. He's been a very good voice for the board and for Bergkshire and I am extremely proud to be representing Bergkshire because on that board there's not another school up
016there that can say some of the things that are happening at Bergkshire. We are definitely a leader and you know carry on. That's all good stuff. So, just saying that. Appreciate it. Thanks. And Roger, you know that we um every year we expand just a little bit more and a little bit more and we, you know, want to, you know, work with Auburn in order for them to, you know, work with us on that expansion, too, because they're full and we have to have our kids be able to take the programs. And you're well aware of all that. Yeah. Yeah. What we're finding though is what's really cool is Joe's getting the all of the area uh career centers together. They will all be meeting at Auburn and he will be leading this thing where
017they're going to pull together their, you know, their thinking and stuff. And they really don't want to, you know, we don't want to overlap yet. We want to cover all the holes and, you know, put our money in because those are expensive seats we've got. Those are 20ome,000 seats we got. You want to put the right kid in the right seat so when they come out they're doing what they need to be. That's good stuff. And uh Joe's the guy to do that. you will network us into what the next the next generation of what's going to happen here because it's really going to expand and go all kinds of different directions and uh look to have a lot of resources right now. You know, career tech's pretty hot. Uh by the way, we're also
018recruiting a new treasure. Our treasure has resigned and we can't have Beth. I didn't figure that. that I figured she already knew. But um yeah uh so you know taking some new steps going new directions but uh it's all exciting stuff and uh Mike Ro will probably be visiting our campus before the year's out. That's what I told the new super bragging always. Thanks for all your help because I know all that you do for Bergkshire and how long you've you've been on that board on our behalf. So thank you Roger. Uh under new business, Burton Library tax budget. Uh motion to approve the 2026 tax budget. So move. I'll second. Jody, any discussion? Beth, roll call, please. Mr. Manfred, yes. Mrs. Miller, yes. Mrs. Stone, yes. Mr. Wsworth, yes. Mr. Bur, yes. Um I
019I do Yeah, I do have one one um quick presentation under new business. Just want realizing that we don't know the extent of this yet because the final state budget bill won't be passed until June 30th, but I do want to take a few minutes to walk through the um the future of public education funding in Ohio. Um, right now our public educ education system is at a breaking point, especially for small rural districts like ours. When the Ohio Supreme Court ruled the system unconstitutional over 25 years ago, and we still lack adequate and equitable funding. So this presentation is going to highlight how the June state budget deepens that crisis and further threatens the sustainability of of all public schools and and particularly um smaller rural schools. So first there are some new state
020proposals that restrict key local uh funding tools that that schools can use. to the elimination of replacement levies, which which will stop districts. We don't have one of these, but it would stop districts from modernizing old levies um to reflect rising property values. It effectively freezes local revenues. Also, requiring a uh twothirds vote um to put levies on the ballot would further restrict um and potentially cause infighting on boards. and eliminating inside millillage would uh remove a stable base of funding and force more districts to rely on going to the ballot more often. Um those are things that are currently in the Senate's version of the budget that could be detrimental. some state policy changes. Moving to a flat income tax that would reduce overall state revenues and uh education funding often is one of
021the first things that get cut or frozen um in that type of environment. Some of the property tax reform proposals that would uh cap growth limiting how much schools can benefit even when our costs rise. and in eliminating the 20 mil floor, meaning that you know districts are going to collect less and less revenue over time. Um, one of the key things that happens though is uh phantom revenue is not addressed. And if you haven't heard of phantom revenue or you don't know what phantom revenue is, phantom revenue is money that the state assumes we have even though they know we really don't have it. Uh the state does what they call a 23 mil charge off to all school districts. They basically assume you're collecting 23 mills no matter how much you're collecting. And
022so they take 23 mills and subtract it from the amount that they send you in your state share. Knowing full well we're at the 20 mil floor. That's three mills that the state assumes we have that we really don't. If you know us, that's close to a million and a half dollars a year that the state's going to short change us because of the phantom revenue. That phantom revenue happens due to the House Bill 920 roll backs. We don't see a benefit from inflation related to property value growth, but the state reduces fundings as we as if we did. That creates a hidden shortfall. Initially back in the 70s, that's why the 20 mil floor was put into place to protect districts from falling too far below that because from 23 to 20 there's you
023you really just have to live lean. When you get to the 20 mil floor, the state always brings you back up to 20 mills and that kind of helps to grow with inflation. Part of the reason, part of the issue with with with uh where we are and this this creates some distrust locally is people look at their local property taxes. They see their local property taxes continue to increase. They know that schools get 70 to 75% of the local property taxes depending on where you are. So they assume the schools are getting more money because we are getting more of their money. But the reason that's happening is because the state is sending a smaller and smaller percentage. Ideally, the state is supposed to share the burden of public education. It's a 50/50 um
024it's a 50/50 partnership. But the most the state has ever funded has been 41% and that was back in the 90s when the funding system was declared unconstitutional because it relied too heavily on residential property taxes. Fast forward to now and the state's funding us at about 38%. So, um, it's this burden shift to local taxpayers. And I completely understand why local taxpayers are upset. They look at their tax bill, they see that their taxes are increasing. They assume it's us. I think legislators understand that and they just they I mean, we're we're an easy target. But the but the issue is people assume we're getting more money and thus mismanaging that money when schools are getting either the same or less. It's just coming from local more than it is from state. And that's
025the issue. U and that's why funding starts to erode over time. a funding state average. Like if you looked at all districts across the state, locals are about 50%, states about 38, and federal is uh about 12%. That's that's current. That's this year. By fiscal year 2027, the state share is going to fall to 32%. Meaning local taxpayers are going to be forced to contribute more and more. Um it's a clear shift in responsibility. the state is just shifting that down. And then I'm sure everyone's heard that the federal department of education is kind of being phased out. That currently picks up 12% statewide. I'm And take one guess where that's going to come from when it's phased out. Now, that's the picture for a state average. Our picture is a little bit different than
026that because locally at Berkshire because we're so far below the floor, the state's only funding 24%. Federal government's only funding us 4% because we're not considered a a poverty county. We're making up 6% in other and that other is smart investments that our treasurer is making that that bring us a return. Also, um grants that we're writing and successful in procuring and and donations from from very generous places like Great Lakes Cheese and and Preston. So, that's where we're making up that other 6% but 66% of our funding comes locally. Um and so that that becomes a real issue for us. Uh rural schools like ours are typically hit the hardest when the budget, you know, issues like this happen. Um so declining state share, fewer tools to raise local funds, smaller tax bases to
027draw from the these proposed policy changes are kind of stripping us of some of the flexibility to respond and it's making it really unsustainable. Um, in the long run, if if the current trends continue, um, we we risk hollowing out the public education system. Schools are going to become more and more reliant on private funding or corporate partnerships. Public education could shrink to serving only the most vulnerable populations. You know, academic opportunities are going to be outsourced or privatized. This is a future that the only way we can prevent this is by demanding fair, stable, and adequate funding from the state. Otherwise, you know, we're going to be looking at we're going to have to essentially become workforce partners. I'm sure some of you have heard there are some districts in southeast Ohio that have
028decided they're just not going to have high school anymore. They're going to be K to8 districts because they can't afford it. and those high school kids have to go somewhere else or to a private school. I don't want us to be in that situation. Again, at the last board meeting, we talked about some things we can do, some different revenue streams we can develop, but even some of those revenue streams are going to be dependent on other districts that require those services that are also having their funding reduced. On top of that, the budget bill is also looking to add more requirements in terms of like we just went through all these science of reading requirements, curricular requirements, additional training, additional uh uh purchase of equip of of uh curricular materials. They're looking to do
029the same thing with math and then they're going to follow that up with science and then they're going to follow that up. So more funding demands that they're not funding with less state um share to support the funding. And it all adds up to, you know, not fun times for us trying to find ways to to support our programs. And I know you've heard me say this before and I'll say it again. We have a little bit of a non-traditional model with the way we serve kids here. We we we serve special education differently. We do more hands-on learning and we have a lot of workforce development pathways. And that model has shown success in terms of test scores are increasing. State report card rating has has been increasing and lots of different opportunities and
030and more things for kids to do when they leave here. Um, so it's promising, but it's going to I mean, the more that funding gets restricted, the more it's going to be hard to be innovative, to compete, and we we want to compete. I if the state would go back to funding open enrollment in terms of, hey, if a if if a kid chooses to leave us and go to a private school because they think the private school's better, that's fine. The problem is those who are leaving other schools and coming to us, we no longer get that benefit. So it's it's not really a parent choice if public isn't one of the choices. If the state would just go back to funding open enrollment, we would not have funding issues because we are a
031pretty popular destination right now. I'm looking at a 100 plus on a waiting list for open enrollment that I have to make decisions about later this month. Um, so if if it were a true competition, I think that would be fine. I'm all for competition. I think we could compete with anyone. Um the problem is when over a billion dollars are pumped into vouchers and and and and they can take those vouchers and go to private schools where there are zero restrictions, no financial restrictions, no curricular restrictions, none of the and we're strangled and suffocated by restrictions. It it no longer becomes a competition. it becomes the rec sport where if your dad's the coach, you get to play quarterback. Well, right now, these rich private school donors are dad and the state's letting them
032their kid play quarterback. I mean, that that's where we are here. Um, and like I said, I'm all for competition, would love competition. So, we continue to ask for open enroll to to be funded the way it used to be or apply the voucher to to to children families that are open enrolling to our district or either remove restrictions and let us play by the same rules or add the restrictions we have to the other schools because I'm sure they would jump out of the competition as soon as that happened. If we can do those things, we'll be fine. We'll continue to fight for that. But I did want you to have a clear picture that you know th this budget um in June at the end of June does not look promising for us.
033Um but as always we'll keep plugging away. We'll keep looking for additional revenue streams. We've been pretty innovative. We've had the entrepreneurial mindset. I think I think that puts us maybe a step or a half step ahead of some other uh districts that are going to really struggle. But it won't be long before it catches up to us if if it continues this direction. That was my great new business. Um to add to what John said, um I want to make clear on a few things. We live in the third richest county in the state there. There's two that are above us. But the benefit of having that is we have a great safety plan for the whole county. When you talk about sheriff's office and um the people that have the local departments in
034each township. So when you look at the safety of the county, that's why people want to move here and live here. When you look at um our 118 square miles of school district and if you go to zillow.com, you will find there's very few homes for sale. That's because people want to live here and move here. That's not just us. You could take the other four school districts in this county and the same holds true for them. People want to live here and move here. They may not work here, but they want to live here because of the safety aspect and because of the educational aspect. Um, you could take St. Helen, St. Ansom, St. Mary's, and Notre Dame Elementary plus NDCL High School. Even though we're we're talking about things where they get money
035from the state, those are good places that provide a good education as well. So again, that's why people want to live in this county. What I can tell you is what your auditor gave you two years ago, about July two years ago, a letter went out to all of you telling you that the your properties are going to be reappraised and they're going to go up. I can tell you in four more years that's going to happen again because this is a desirable place to live. And it's because of the school districts and I'm counting all of them including Agape and the Monasuri schools. All of them are doing a wonderful job of educating these kids. And it's a desirable place to live. I'm not in favor of our taxpayers picking up 66% no more
036than they are. I'm 67 years old and I would love my taxes to go down as I go into retirement. But that's what the state has dealt us. That's the cards that were dealt and we have to maneuver through that. None of it's easy. Um, and I I just want to ask Beth a question. Orwell gas taxes that we were due, where do those stand right now? So, I just looked at the docket. Our um prosecutor did file an appeal and um it's going to be heard. It we don't know if it's going to be heard, but it would go to the ninth district and it's going to be held in Ka County. Yes. Okay. Now, for you folks out there, this is a million dollar over a million that was owed to our district
037from Orwell Gas who went bankrupt. and somebody didn't make sure that we should have been given those funds before they just said, "Well, we'll file we're going to file um we're going to file against them and say that they still owe us money." Even though the new owners took over that same business, that money was still owed to us. We still show that we're going to get that money. We have been told once if you raid uh the last appeal that was filed that we're not getting the money, but another appeal was filed to say they they didn't do it correctly in the first place. We are held to higher standards in the district. Beth is held to higher standards. Our county people should be held to and our state people should be held to.
038But locally, this is what we are faced with. We can't fight that battle to get our Orwell taxes over a million dollars. That was due to us that I I mean, if we get it, if we even get a portion of it, I'd be thrilled. But I just don't think that it's possible. And I think it was because it wasn't handled properly in the first place. and people believed that they were going to be forgiven once they went bankrupt. We didn't forgive anybody. We expected that money and so did the other four school districts in this county which uh Shardan, Kenston, and Westa all are would be receiving more. It's just not schools. I mean, in total, it's $12 million to the county. So, you know, that's the townships are missing money, the school is
039missing money, the the county is missing money. Yeah. So that I mean we're not trying to cry poor here, but we are trying to give you facts of the things that happened to us that we don't control. The five of us do not control. Um, okay. That's all I have to say about that. The last thing I wanted to ask John and Beth, uh, the new building, uh, is it has it been approved and is it complete so we can move in? Yeah. Uh, punch list is complete. The interiors are finished. Uh exterior paving around the building will happen tomorrow and then striping on Wednesday. Once the paving and striping's finished, we can have the state come in and do the final occupancy permit. When we get the final occupancy permit, then we're allowed to
040move our things in. Once our things are moved in, we can the then the state will come in and do the preschool permit and then we'll be ready to go. Uh if it's ready by July 14th, which is our next meeting, I'd like to have a field trip out there. Yeah, I should. It should be ready by then. Okay. And everybody that would be in our um our fans that are here, do you want to have the board meeting there? You're welcome to come through as well. Do you want to have the board meeting in that building? Um we could as long as you can, you know. Can you? Yeah. As soon as we get occupancy, we can do anything. Well, as long we want in there. Well, I'm just saying as long as you
041have the ability with I don't know that our maintenance staff would appreciate that when they're so busy this summer. We can just have a field trip amongst yourselves. I just want to field trip out there and allow the people that come to the meeting to go out there as well. Certainly. Okay. And what amount on the workforce? Where are stuff going on that? Because I know things are out. We have contracts signed and yeah, we just awarded four or five contracts. Um the the uh building that the Preston's are building for us, they're starting on the foundations. I went over today Monday. Well, we drove by today because it was raining and they have the uh outline and they have the, you know, the the uh excavators over there, but they'll start working on the
042foundations either end of this week or next week. Um, and then it's however long that takes to go up. But, uh, the contracts that we approved are for the B building, which will serve as the diesel building until the classroom building's ready. Early indications um are that the building should be ready for in September when we start, but if it's not, we have be building to run the um the diesel classes out of until it's ready. So, um, but yeah, that that's just clean up. And I know that Burton Flooring is making some donations of flooring and things like that to us over there. And, uh, so again, a lot of different community partners making some donations. Um, some donations of labor, some donations of product. Um, uh, so it'll come together nice and and
043the Preston have been great. um any part that we're kind of even close to sharing, they're just kind of doing on their own and saying, you know, we'll take care of it. So, it's nice to have a a good partner like that. Um they don't have some of the same type of restrictions um that we have. So, they can move a lot faster and being in the private sector, they're not used to having to move this slow. So sometimes they get a little frustrated, but I think they understand. And I think we'll be ready to go and we'll we'll kick off there. Our our transportation department has already started moving their stuff into the offices. And then um probably toward the end of June, beginning of July, we'll move all the buses over there. And
044then we'll move all the stuff from the from the fairgrounds building over and we'll be completely out of that that old board office. by the end of July. Right. Correct. Thank you. Uh any other board discussion? Okay. Um is there any need for executive session? If there is no need, I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Brian will second. Any discussion? Uh, Beth, roll call, please. Mrs. Miller, yes. Mrs. Stone, yes. Mr. Wisworth, yes. Mr. Burman, yes. Mr. Man Freeden, yes. Thank you all for coming. [Music]