001To 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. Next we have the superintendence report. Good evening everyone and thank you for coming out this evening. If we have students who are here for the purpose of a class and need us to sign your agendas at the end, any one of us can do that for you. Okay. This evening I will be brief. I want to start by um you know thanking um and acknowledging a couple of programs that happened over the last couple weeks. And there are many thank yous and programs that should be acknowledged and we'll try to get to them as we go. But I do want to thank Dr. Draper for her efforts
002with the girls on the run. Um, and all of our volunteers and students and families that participate on the girls on the run. I had the opportunity to go out and watch that race over the weekend. And if I had to guess, there's probably close to 2,000 people there or more. It was a really a beautiful day and a great day for the girls and um, and their families to be out running. And so, um, certainly want to acknowledge all of those who were involved with that. And then I do want to thank the board and the public who were out for the state of the district. Again, I think, um, we had a nice turnout and hopefully some folks gained a little bit of insight or information into our district. Um, and I really
003want to thank our community partners, staff, and students who came out and had little tables and booths there. Um, it certainly was well done and people were interested in what you had to say. So, thank you for that. The only other thing I have today is probably most important part of today and it's our acknowledgements for our profile of the graduate for our staff and alumni acknowledgements for the month. And so today we have three acknowledgements. Two staff members who are both in the audience today and our alumni who could not make it. But I am going to as always read a little bit about each of our recipients and our two individuals who are here. If you wouldn't mind coming forward then to be acknowledged. I also have a certificate here for you on
004behalf of the district. So, I'm going to start with Miss Brenda Stewart. Um, Brenda is one of our counselors at the middle school and has been um certainly an asset to our district and to our students for many, many years. But the person who wrote in or people who wrote in, I'm going to share some of their thoughts and why you made um a nice applicant or um candidate for our profile of the graduate. Uh Brenda exemplifies a prof profile of a graduate competencies we aim to instill in every student. She is a tireless worker, skilled communicator, and thought from thoughtful problem solver and her and a collaborative leader, a proud alumni of East Area School District. Brenda has dedicated the past 26 years to serving our students and families as a school counselor. Her
005deep rooted commitment to our community is ev evident in everything she does. Whether it's keeping the counseling team informed, making herself available at a moment's notice, or stepping in to navigate complex situ situations with empathy and professionalism, Brenda consistently models the qualities we hope to see in every graduate. She is truly the face of the EMS counseling department, and our school would not be uh excuse me, would not be what it is today without her unwavering leadership, compassion, and service. So, congratulations to Miss Stewart. [Applause] Thank you for all you do. Okay, congratulations and thank you. Second, we have Mr. Jason Hinkle. Mr. Hinkle has moved around our district in terms of his teaching assignments. Some of you may know him from March School, and I'm not going to try to remember them all because
006I won't get them all, but um he is currently at our middle school as well. Mr. Hankle exemplifies the profile of a graduate competencies through his unwavering commitment to supporting every learner. He demonstrates empathy, cultural awareness, and a and strong communication skills by recognizing and addressing unique needs in of his students, especially his English language learners. During multiple walkthroughs, um he uh he has been seen using translation apps to bridge language barriers, ensuring his ESL students or ELLL language learners uh students feel heard, understood, and included. In a particular moving example, he delivered an entire speech in Spanish during an assembly to honor students receiving an award. This act not only showcased his respect for students cultural identifi identity but also mo modeled excuse me global citizenship inclusive leadership for the entire school community and
007I think what I heard about that Mr. Dr. Hinkle is that you are not a native speaker nor do you uh a proficient speaker necessarily as classified by yourself but certainly went out of your way to be inclusive in those moments where you can and so for that somebody here on our staff recognized you as a leader among our profile of a graduate recipients. Thank you. So thank you for all of your efforts. Congratulations. You're very welcome. Thank you for all you do. Our alumni recipient is unable to join us, but I am going to still recognize her with a few words. Miss uh Dr. Kelsey Mloud also was our keynote speaker for our Little Rock nine presentation this year, but she is being recognized by some of our um uh individuals who go uh
008to lengths to make sure that they are recognizing our staff and alumni per the grow profile of a graduate. So, Dr. Dr. Kelsey Mloud was a proud East High School alumni. She lived she's a living example of a profile of graduate competencies and action. Now an ambulatoratory pediatrician at St. Luke's Anderson Pediatrics, Dr. Mloud brings empathy, cultural awareness, and a deep sense of purpose to her work with passion and advocacy for in uh for injury prevention and nutrition. Uh she attended our school district. They moved here to Easton and attended our school district elementary through high school where she graduated as a validictorian of her class of 2010. As a first generation college student, Dr. Mloud demonstrated a remarkable resilience and critical thinking throughout her academic journey. She earned her under she earned her undergraduate
009degree with honors from from Columbia University followed by her medical degree from Donald and Barbara Zuk School of Medicine at Hostra Northwell. Um Dr. Mloud completed completed her pediatric residency at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New York where she received multiple accolades for research, clinical excellence, and humanism. Today, Dr. Mloud continues to inspire the future's medical professionals uh through mentoring um pediatric residents and four-year gradu four-year medical students. A strong communicator, a compa compassionate leader, she has returned to serve the Eastern community that helped shape her pathway modeling what is meant to be a lifelong learner and a servant leader. So, we congratulate Dr. Kelsey Mloud as well. And with that um that ends my report other than Mr. Guyger and I will speak later. I had a very important question asked of me in
010executive session and what is the rain plan for graduation. So you and I will talk offline and I will make sure we inform the community. Um the plan is that it will be sunny and there will not need to be a plan but we'll talk offline and come up with a plan need be. So thank you for that. Okay. Thank you. All right. Next, we move on to reports. Colonial Intermediate Unit 20. Mr. Snider. Yes. Thank you. Uh, no official report because our meeting is next week, but there is a um agenda item 12B, which will be to elect a representative uh to serve on the IU board. And uh so you have your ballots, you can turn those into the board secretary before you uh leave the meeting tonight. Other than that, there's no
011report. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have Eastston Area Public Library? Mr. Riley, Mr. President or Miss Mr. President, Timothy Riley, Eastn Area Public Library School Board or board. Uh I've out of the many fine things that we've done over the last month, I've uh identified six to tell you about. First is the development of our of our strategic plan. it continues and it's in its final uh stages of completion. For those who may not be uh familiar with with a strategic plan, a strategic plan is to nonprofit organizations as a business plan is to for-profit organizations. We develop a mission statement, vision statement. uh we develop goals and and objectives to support that mission and then we come up with plans to achieve the the goals we we've developed. We pull in the best
012practices not of just other libraries or other nonprofits, but also uh businesses that can help us be as efficient as possible. Number two, this year's library summer reading program is entitled Color Our World. It begins June 16th. It's not just for young adults or young young people, but it's for adults also. Last month, the library youth services department hosted 57 programs, reaching 1,127 participants at the main library. The Palmer branch hosted 17 programs and reached 447 participants. Number four, East Area Public Library for discounted internet services was approved, saving the taxpayers over $40,000. Fourth grade students from March Palmer and Tracy elementary schools were welcomed to their annual tour of the main library. And lastly, our friends of the library conducted their spring uh book sale last month, donating the proceeds to the library. We
013thank them for all they have done over the many years of service. And we would especially like to recognize Eastn Area High School Key Club for their great help in setting up and taking down of all those things that go into creating successful uh sale area and thank them for their muchneeded assistance. Any questions, concerns, comments? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Riley. Good to see you at a board meeting again. All right. Next, we have Career Institute of Technology. Um, I guess I'll take this. Uh, not too much to report. We will be having the senior awards ceremony tomorrow evening. Um, and of course, because of the lovely weather, it will be inside. Um, the other thing I think is on June 19th, I believe, is the date. It will be for um public meeting
014for the expansion at CIT and for the school districts to have conversation and that should be it for the CIT. Next, Northampton Community College. Mr. Fenel, thank you. Um, what I just handed to be passed around are some key facts and everything and there's only like four sheets there, but since I know everybody likes everything electronic, I did send it to Ally so everybody can have it on their computers and review it whenever they want to. But if you need more hard copies, I can get more hard copies as well. Uh, other than that, just again want to say thank you for the approval of the bud of our budget for the college. And with that being done, all eight districts had approved it and at this past meeting uh therefore we now have a
015budget again just like you waiting on the state to see what happens. So no surprises there. And uh last but not least, you know how exciting it is for graduation and uh we've been having our awards ceremonies. One graduation in Pocono last night and tomorrow night we have the one on the Bethleam campus. Other than that completes my report. Thank you. Okay, next we have the Foundation for Eastern Schools, Miss Seago. Uh, no formal report either tonight, just to say that we are the search is still ongoing for a new executive director of the foundation as well as um any members of the community who might be interested in joining the foundation board. That's all. Thank you. Thank you. and uh Charles Shrin, Science and Technology Initiative. No current report. Okay. And I don't know
016if we have anybody here from the student council. Nope. Okay. Any other association reports? Nope. Seeing none. Okay. Next, we have public to be heard on agenda items. If there's anyone in the public who would like to be heard, please come to the podium, sign in, state which municipality you're from, and you'll have your five minutes. Palmer Township. Part of my concern that I have is um some of the issues on the budget and the report that was issued uh that shows what the bond issue will be and the payments out over that. Um the debt millage for this year is supposed to be a 1 and a.5% interest or uh increase and that's going to take it up to 3 and a.5% on the budget. Um the problem I have is on the Raymond
017James 300 million capital program spreadsheet. The increase is actually 10.87% 87% over the next eight years and it raises a millage by 7.96 mills over the next eight years and then it maintains that millage at 18.4% um for the debt service through 2046. The current capital millage is 1046. Um this indicates there'll be a significant multi-year increase force coming. I don't think the public's really aware of that. Um, and the real estate analysis that's in the package shows that the 25 to 26 rate of 2.4% not the what the plan rate will be and that actually changes the uh average value on what each um residents will uh be paying in each municipality. As example, Palmer goes from $230 additional on an annual basis to $335 an annual basis. You know, it's it's not a
018lot of money unless you're a widowed uh senior. Then it makes a big difference. Um, I've traveled through the township quite a bit and a lot of people do have some real concerns. It's always about taxes. You have to explain it's not Palmer taxes, it's the school district taxes. Uh, I realize there's issues replacing the school, but I think that this has to be disclosed a little bit better because I'm sure there's going to be more comments and there's also going to be more suggestions. Now, you know, that might not play into what you want to hear. Uh, the other concern I have is um I'm assuming that that $19 million, it's shown as a capital increase. Does that all go that all goes into debt services? I'm assuming I think that's how you show
019it on your books. Uh, and that's more just a question. But at the the cost of the high school and the 19% or the 19 uh million, it's going to be 15.7 just to accumulate enough money to pay for the proposed school. The other question I have on the budget and the project uh savings, uh it's nice that you did have some savings in there, but uh one of the news newspaper articles recently had some things in there about how there's a savings on salaries and that also compounds because you have a savings on benefits. The concern I have is when you look at the budgets for the uh benefits, that's actually a 41% number. I don't know whether there's something in there other than health care and stuff for the current employees, but that
020number is high because typically the a newspaper and from my private personal experience, that number usually runs between 25 and 35%. So, and the same in the project savings, they both reflect over 40% number. Uh, one of the suggestions I have is one of the employers I work for had a thing that if you have a spouse that also has benefits from a company outside of the school, they have to go with that company's benefits for health care, unless they pay an additional $100 fee. That kind of mitigates the impact on the school district for all the family people that have other benefits available and that could add up to a significant savings. Um, and I was wondering the the 298 million for the 457 foot building, that's probably not way out of whack, but
021I'm assuming that that number is an all-incclusive for everything that's going to happen on that property. Um, and the other concern I have is if the school's going to be built in phases, if the first phase gets out of whack budget-wise, the important part of the the building is actually the building. Is there going to be a provision in there to make up the um increases before it gets to the building or is the architect and the others involved going to have some numbers in there that are nice to have but can be cut because they're not core values of what has to be in that school? Um, and the only other question I have is I think there's a homestead part that goes on to the real estate taxes. I couldn't tell from reading
022through there whether that's all uh whether that's going to really have any impact at all or whether that basically flows through about the same rate that what it is now. So they're my concerns. I think other people will have these concerns, but they'll have them when the tax bills come out. And I think that people really need to know what the long-term impact of this is. Thank you. I run out. Thank you. Is there anyone else in the public for agenda items? Okay, seeing none, uh we held executive session on April 29th regarding confidential student negotiations and May 15th regarding personnelformational and contract. Okay, moving on. I need um motion to approve the minutes for the following meetings. The special meeting on April 8th, academic standing committee meeting, April 8th, athletic standing committee meeting, the
023budget and finance standing committee meeting, buildings and ground standing committee meeting, the educational technology and student supports, all held April 8th, and the regular board meeting April 29th. Motion Second. Any questions or discussion? All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Okay. Next, we have uh a I'll take a alone. Motion to approve the attached collective bargaining agreement between the East Area School District and Eastern Area Education Association effective July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. Motion. Any questions or discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? I will abstain. Okay. We will take uh B, C, D, and E. B. Motion to approve the following resignation as presented. C. Motion to approve the following leave of absences as presented. D. Motion to elect the following administrative staff as presented pending receipt of all forms and documents
024required by the district. And E, motion to elect the following coach as presented, pending receipt of all forms and documents. And we might as well take F also. Motion to the elect to elect the following employee as presented. Pending receipt of all forms and documents required by the district. Second. Any questions or discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? If I may take a pause to congratulate Mr. Kenir, who's here in the audience with us. Mr. Kener will be our new varsity head wrestling coach. [Applause] Congratulations. Okay. Next, we have academics. Um, take A through E. A. Motion to approve professional development contracts with CIU16 and Robert L. Williams, PhD, Education, Leadership, and Classroom Consultants as presented. B. Motion to approve the attached calendar for the 202526 school year as presented. C. Motion to approve
025the following conferences as requested. And D, motion to approve the following field trips as presented. An E motion to approve the PCCD grant awarded funds as presented. Motion second. Any questions or discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Next we have athletics. We take A and B. A. Motion to approve the letter of intent to purchase helmets shoulder pads as per attached. and B motion to approve the scoreboard media digital scoreboards agreement as per attached. So move second. Any questions or discussion? Just uh say I don't like the idea of having advertisements in schools whether it's in sports or classrooms or product placements or any anything like that. Okay. All right. Okay. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Okay. Next, we will move on to budget and finance. And I will take a
026we will start with the presentation of the 2526 proposed final budget. All right. Good evening. So, today will serve as the presentation for the final for the proposed final budget. Um, we'll start with the PD budget deadlines. So, May 31st is the last day that a school district can adopt a proposed version of the final budget, which is what we will be voting on today. June 30th is the deadline to adopt the final budget. This is the reason that the meeting was moved from next week to today so that we had the 30 days required as you can see at the bottom to uh have the budget have the budget be presented to the public. Um next slide please. So again, our deadlines, um, we talked about the budget on May 13th. 21 is the
027vote on the proposed final budget and June 24th will be the vote to approve the final general fund budget. Next slide, please. So here's how the budget is broken down in a very basic manner. You can see on the left we have the revenues. Our revenues come from local revenues, state revenues, federal revenues. Um, we're looking at about 150 million in local, about 60 million in state, and about four million in federal. The bottom line number is $214,15,899. That's the budget we're looking at for this year. And when you look on the right side, the salaries make up about 81 million, benefits about 56 million, purchase services 44, and supplies and property about 32. And you can see at the bottom again, a proposed budget of 214,15,899. Next slide, please. So the value of one
028mil so the proposed millage rate for this budget is 72.17 that represents a 3 and a.5% raise as you can see in the right hand column. Um the homestead exclusion that we that was mentioned the 5,755,000 um reduces our tax it has a tax reduction on the property tax. Sorry. So if we look at our number of 127 with an anticipated 94% collection rate, uh the budgeted number for this budget is $120 million for the tax revenue. Next slide please. If we are looking at a tax analysis for Eastn Forks, Lower Mount Bethl, and Palmer, uh you can see with a 72.17 millage rate what the annual increase is and what the monthly increase is for each of those areas. Next slide. So, one of the main things we've been talking about is the Raymond
029James public finance presentation, the $300 million for the capital programs, what we are using to build the new high school. If you could go to the next slide, please. So, it's blown up. And so, the second line down is the current is the budget year we're looking at. Um, you can see the millage increase required to fund this is one and a half%. has to create a $3.3 million budget surplus. Uh the reason we're doing that, as you can see in the right hand column all the way to the right, we have three shaded yellow boxes. That's raising the funds that'll be used in column seven to offset as we start to move into um bonding the project in 2026, 27, 28, and 29. Next slide. So in March, our presentation started out um we
030had a 7.44 million uh deficit and since March, we've made a lot of effort and progress to make sure that we can bring that money that amount down to zero. So if you go to the next slide, please. These were the changes we saw in the general fund budget. So the tax levy increased um for the capital projects as we just saw with the Raymond James presentation. And then just other local, state, and federal revenues are analyzed. Could increase it, could decrease it. But the overall increase was $1,560,770. Uh we Oh, I'm still on that side. 10. Sorry. We removed $2,498,640 from the salary lines, mainly through um a successful retirement incentive. There are other salaries in there as well, but the main bulk of that was the retirement incentive. Uh next line is the
031benefits. We removed $1,969,000. Obviously, when you lose salary, you lose benefits, but we've also made a lot of progress in other areas. Um, some of them, for example, we shifted to weekly billing rather than monthly billing. That saved us $200,000 for the year. We had negotiations with the teachers and there's changes to the plan, which helped save us money. And through open enrollment, we're also making changes right now. Um, one of the things that isn't in there that we've talked about, but is the healthcare buyout that's currently being accomplished through open enrollment. We don't have a true number for that yet, so that's not included in this year's budget, but we anticipate savings for that as well. Um $640,000 removed in district contracts. The executive team sat down, um analyzed all the contracts we had
032in the district, what we absolutely needed, whatever, you know, items in Esser that we we couldn't fund this year. The amount came out to $640,000. Um, as external budgets were presented, uh, CIT, Northampton, um, and we could zero in those numbers more and more, we were able to reduce by $385,000 from the March amount from what the estimates that we had in there. The $150,000 reduction in the technology line. That was the board voting on the new contract for the iPads that lowered the original amount that we thought we were going to have. And then at the bottom, just analyzing usage on each line, working with the principles, working with the directors, just zeroing in where everything needed to be for this budget, and it was about another $250,000. So if we go to the
033next slide, you can see the changes in the budget. So the 32525 presentation, we were showing $212 million in revenues, $220 million in expenditures. By increasing our revenues, but then also vastly discreet uh decreasing our expenditures, we were able to even out the budget at the $214 million. Um next steps, there's going to be a vote today and then we will advertise the intent to adopt the final budget on June 24th. Are there any questions? I have a question. Could you go to slide seven value of one mil? Yes. No. One more up, I think. Yes. Thank you. Okay. So, that line, Mr. Trent, can you remind us what that means? Um the line that says less the property tax reduction. Sure. So that's um the homestead exclusion really is kind of just a pass
034through that we get to offer um residents of our of our school district a lowered amount for certain exclusions. It's passed to us through the state and we pass it on to the uh the residents. So that's money that theoretically we could be collecting based on the millage rate but we are that's correct. So, I just I want to point that out because I don't I don't think it's necessarily spelled out for people to see that that is a hefty number, almost $6 million that, you know, in theory really would be available to the district, but we are doing what we can to try to get that back to, you know, homeowners for whom, you know, this this is more of a burden than others. Um, so I just want to remind everyone about, you
035know, about that particular line. So, not really a question, I guess. Thank you. other questions. All right. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Trent. Okay. We will be moving on then for the action items. Uh we'll take B C D E F and G up to H and then we will vote on the budget by itself. Okay. Uh I need a motion to approve financial matters as presented for the treasures report, the monthly student activity statements for the East Middle School and high school, the bill register for the regular and a AC, the general funds, the special activities, capital projects, and the food service. Motion second. Any questions or discussion? All in favor? I I Any opposed? Oh, sorry. We were going through all of them. I apologize. Um C. Motion to approve the resolutions
036designating depositories for the East School District as presented. D. Motion to approve the transfer of funds received under the St. Luke's sponsorship agreement from general fund to the capital reserve and athletic accounts at 75,000 each as presented. Um E. Motion to approve the renewal of Witson's Nutrition Group as the district's food service management company for the 202526 school year as presented. F. Motion to accept a donation of $7,19110 from the Giant Corporation to be used toward food assistance initiatives and service equipment upgrades in the student cafeterias. G. Motion to approve the attached 202526 Homestead Farmstead exclusion exclusion resolution for a real estate tax reduction of $412.66 as presented. H. Motion to accept the East Area Public Library 202526 budget in the total amount of 2,722,119 and resolve to establish the tax levy necessary as presented.
037Motion. Sorry. Thank you. Okay. Any questions or discussion on any of those? No questions. I just want to um thank Giant for their generous donation as they do every year. Um they really are a great um community partner. So yeah, really appreciate them. Thank you. Okay. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Next, we will have a motion to approve the EASD 202526 proposed final budget as presented. Motion. Second. Okay. Okay. Any questions or discussion? Okay. I just want to thank you, Mr. Trent, for doing what you did with the budget. Um, for the first time in a while, I feel very confident with the numbers that we have. Um, I would be remiss if I did say that it's um, one of those things where we constantly get asked of why do we have
038to do this? Why do we have to do the high school? We don't want to raise taxes. None of us do. We realize the strain it takes on our our constituents. Um, however, if anybody knows me, most of the time I vote no on the budget and um, somebody said I got to save all my votes for this one because if you go through the high school, and I went through it the other day, I think the furniture that's in there is from when I was in school, which I hate to say is already a long time ago. Um, but I do think there are certain areas that we still need to look at as far as what we pay for our charter schools, what we pay for um, different things as far as our
039special education. And I know all those things are very important to cover. However, from the time I've been on the board till now, I think we went from charter school cost from approximately $2 million and I think we're at close to $14 million now, which is a pretty big jump. So, uh, I'd like to also say that I think we as school districts and, um, public officials need to start looking to the state at how they fund and, uh, different mandates they put on us and the constraints that that takes. So, with that being said, um, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Nay. Okay, that was five. Okay, next we have educational technology students technology and student supports. Um, a motion to approve St. Luke's social worker agreement as per attached. Motion second. Uh, any
040questions or discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay, we have other business. Uh, a motion to appoint Mr. Jack Trent as district treasurer for a one-year term effective July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 in accordance with section 404 of the Pennsylvania Public School Code. and B, motion to cast ballots for the annual election of colonial intermediate unit 20 board members as established by the PA school code of 1949 section 910- A 24pa 9-960B. Ballots will be distributed, completed, and returned at this time to Mrs. Ramirez. Motion second. Any questions or discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Next, we have public to be heard on non-aggenda items. Is there anyone in the public who would like to be heard on non-aggenda items? Okay. Seeing none, any other business from board members? Mrs. H,
041I have one item for um potential board discussion. Um as we move forward with the process of building the new high school, this is certainly the biggest project that perhaps our school district has ever undertaken. And I feel strongly that we need to figure out effective ways to communicate with the community about um how the project is going, how they can get more information. And I think I know we're in the process of transitioning to a new website, but I feel like we need a p a section of our own current website um where all of the information that has been put out there can be collected into one place. So, all the presentations that we've had, all the packets that we've gotten from the architects, the information about the public meetings that are upcoming,
042uh maybe even a form for people to fill out if they want to get notifications about when it's going to be discussed so that, you know, the public can be as informed as possible that we as board members have an easy place to direct people to go with a nice banner on the homepage that says, "Click here for information about our new high school." So, I don't know how other people feel about that if we can kind of move in that direction. Yeah. So, thank you for the suggestion. I think that's a great suggestion. We will also be holding a couple public forums or town halls, whatever you want to call it,formational sessions about our um building project as it moves forward, but in additionally, and we will make sure these dates are released. I
043don't know if it'll be the first time or or again, but uh regardless, we are going to move forward with public meetings regarding our high school for the summer months. So June, July and August there will be one public meeting that is open obviously to our full board but also anyone in the public that wants to come and be part of the discussion decision making around that project that will be run um not only through our uh Dr. um oh my gosh Dr. Zatics's office along with uh Ken and many others who are part of that team, but also our two um outfits that we work with, Aloe 5 and CHA. Those work sessions um kind of bring the nitty-gritty down to conversation and talk about, you know, what should we be thinking about for
044square footage? What should we be thinking about in terms of the design of the building and the mechanics of the building? So, those dates will be publicized. They will be um 5 to 7 each of those summer nights that we um mentioned and all will be welcome to attend. They will happen here. If we see after the first meeting that this space is not large enough then we'll make that call and move elsewhere and then they'll continue as public forums into the school year but those dates have not yet been selected. So through that process, through the process of some focus groups andor town hall type announcements and and conversations, we'll try to keep everything as transparent and out there in the public as possible. But I do love your idea about the website and
045certainly as necessary, we'll send out school messenger calls and information as well. And I think the website will be really important because obviously the school messenger is primarily going to current correct families. So we, you know, we want to be able to make sure that gets to the broader community as well. Yeah. Yep. Thank you. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Um then we will call for adjournment at 7:44. Motion to adjurnn. Any. All in favor? I. Thank you. Thank you and everyone. And as a reminder, this meeting took the place of next what was on the agenda for next week. So there is no meeting next week. students, if you need signatures, come on up. We're happy to do that. Otherwise, thank you and be safe tonight.