001Middle school. >> Hi, Kelly. Um, I wanted to talk about the donuts with Santa auction raffle that the RSPO did on the 6th. It went really well. Um, thank you again for showing up and announcing. We would love you to do that every year. It was great. Um, we didn't have as many members as we had in the past. And I think it's because there was a lot going on in the community, not just Riverside, but Deer Park as well. Uh, one of the things that the PTO and I have kind of talked about along with a few others is that is there a way that the district could have like a events calendar because I know that the senior all nighter group had a silent option as well. And I don't know if that
002kind of played a role in our numbers because you know some people had to maybe pick and choose where they wanted to go and maybe spend some of their money. Not that it's all about that. Um, but that's just something that would be great for sure. Donuts with Santa is something that the elementary school has done for I'm trying to figure out how many years. I don't know. It's well over 10 years. >> So, but that went really good. We have a pretty welloiled machine, I think, on how things are ran at that event. So, that was really good. The PTO is also doing candygrams at the school. It's their second year of doing it. The kids during lunch bring 50 cents and they get to write a little message and then a candy or
003candy cans. The kids get pumped about it. Um, today we didn't get to do it with the two-hour late start. I don't know what the schedule's like at lunch and it's already crazy. Regular lunch day. So, but we we're doing that and that's been a lot of fun. The kids get excited about it. I know it's stressful for them. Um, but that's that at the elementary school um level. I also want to um congratulate the Riverside Middle School wrestling team. Um they did really well and they had their district tournament uh last Thursday and they took first out of nine which included Mountainside um Northwood Highland Cher Park which is you know right above but I just proud of the team also we have choir school. Um I am so upset but so and then
004tomorrow at the middle school we have a band concert as well. I know that we share calendars with all of you. So you should be able to see all I just wanted to quickly highlight first of all Kelly and your team that's how you done show up at school staff work together as a team it's just about effort daily commitment and you're kind of the amount of time put effort that's how that's how you do it and so thank you and definitely if we've got some events that we need to you kind of own that thing that's the hard that's donuts with Santa that might be a small adjustment >> that we could make but anyway thank you all really I mean so many things going on at RS I'm assuming keep middle school when
005you >> get I have one up there sixth grade but we're kind of partial to our PTO they also bring in once a month every single student in the building started as you were just buying the parents could buy for their child they had information every child was And then the other the other thing I wanted to say is that I think you mentioned in our last meeting where Matt and I were here uh something about the calendar and making sure that we I think Gary mentioned you know making sure we have that available. Uh, one good news folks is that these four new board members, they all uh are super skilled at getting on Google calendar and so they they will be able to put like we already set out the invites from each
006because that's one of the best ways to make sure the board knows what's going on is they uh they get on they they can look immediately on their on their phone and see where all that it's colored you know every building a little difficult Well, I'm just telling you to manage because you got a lot of stuff happen. But appreciate that because uh the days of like providing a list is not necessarily as efficient or effective. So I think that's going to be a small thing. Thank you. Hopefully that helps you. Kaylin, I know work with you on signing you up every school. >> It is every color. I just want to say a great job with the district today in weather. That is a feat. Trust me, I know to pull everything together early
007in the morning through the night. I mean, I I don't think folks quite realize what goes on. Um, you know, you have superintendent. So, you have people around the district roads at 3:00 a.m. making sure there's trees out the way the buses can get through. And, you know, they don't go home early. They're here all day long. Powers out of Chattery for a couple hours and they power. So, you know, might have to >> Yeah. A couple interesting lessons just people like to learn that stuff is no power to chat with it. But the your response is a lot of times when it happens. So you kind of have to figure out like we were talking, okay, if we lose power like after the two-hour late start, it's like, okay, if we lose power before
0088:05, we might have to call the school and because that's when the bus drivers head out to go through their routes. Okay. So then after you beat that first part, yes, okay, we have power. Then it's like, okay, what if it's between 9 and 10? But that impacts the food because then you've got to plan sandwiches. If it's 10 to 11, you're good with food because they cook it and it stays and then you can serve that food. And then if you get past lunch, we did a chaboy. How went out after lunch? We said we're still going to school because you had the weather was cold. So the heat in the building was that was fine. And then the light was okay because of the natural light. And if there was like a really
009dark area, you'd have to move them into the hallway or move them into another area. And then the issue is the bathroom. So I told you, you got to tell the kids not to go to number two in the same bathroom. You got to spread them out. I mean, I'm sorry to share so many details. I think it's fascinating. Try to figure it out. You can't, you know. So because you only have so much water, you don't get your power back. So, I I just wanted to fill you in on some of the fun figuring it out that we did, but we made it through the day and uh kids learn if you guys didn't make the concert a whole lot other Yeah. The agenda favor. All in favor say motion for approval of favor.
010vice chair reporting. So what do you mean for me? I want to start reminding us why we're here. Our vision for the school district is to be the best school district and our mission to educate our students better. Our number one priority it's always for the students very close setting. Over the last five or six months this board has done a lot of change. We've had precedes turnover which represents about 40 years of history. Want to thank board members that have served for us and help bring the district where it is now work and this change that we have comes possibility. This board is focused on improving how we do our job that how we make our decisions, how we work with the superintendent and how we support students, staff and families are doing better
011learned conference is organization that trains supports schoolboard members. While we were there, I attended the number and other sessions of practical tools that help us next week. The purpose of retreat is simple and important, help us become stronger, more effective. At the retreat, we'll have training from the law the training director and focused conversations about student learning come from the superintendent of organization that assists all the school districts within northeast Washington. We also spend time as a board and how to work. We built time at this retreat that strengthened our connection community and show man how we chose our locations. This retreat includes better ways to engage with you educate our students and support our set the stage for the hard work we have ahead. It's an example of how we're including to explore options
012with our civil rights review as presented to us by the office of superintendent public instruction and also the Washington state legislator. As for our facilities, I can speak more to that about the capital levy and our needs industry report and also what I really want to emphasize is the positivity and how we know there's a lot of work to do and have challenges ahead. We have great schools. They have a strong school. They're committed to communication. High expectations. We've all seen negative examples in the national media. What happened? We all know that's not what's happening. Your involvement matters. Your input matters. Thank you. I sincerely say thank you. and marvelous and bless. Good evening. I'm the business manager here at Riverside. I've been here about two and a half years and I give the board
013and Dr. Russell a lot of information every month and I thought it would be helpful actually Dr. Russell suggested that if we get that information in the forum as well. Uh so I'm going to give a short presentation based on several things that we do together and the work that we've done over the past several years um to make it as transparent as possible so that everyone understands um what we're trying to do with this district. So there are several things. The first thing we always think about is think about enrollment and in your packet you can see the enrollment numbers. They are higher than I budgeted for than we decided to budget for and that is good news. In 2324 we saw higher enrollment as well and then we dipped down in 2425 and
014that was kind of shocking. um we still did positively in 2425 even with a declining enrollment and that was wonderful because we made um appropriate cuts and measures to make sure that we had adequate funding for to keep a positive. So now in 2526 we have the same enrollment or similar enrollment to 2324 which is also very positive news. We always think our students first. I want to go ind the doors and get educated the best way that we can. Then we think of how to increase revenue in times when we don't have um the capital levy that we had when I started. And so that we've been going after grants. Last year we went after I want to say was about six $700,000 in grants and I had a win board that I remembered
015at one point in time but I think we got close to 500,000 um in grants and this year I raised it and started over again. So far to date, we have gone after $890,000 worth of grants. That's amazing. I'm really proud of us for that. And we're not done. We're going to hit a million. Um I'm hoping we get them all. I think we will. But some of those grants include um the chili replacement at the high school. We're trying to spread it all around the school district. We're trying to give everyone um some love. Chady is a dishwasher for much needed. It's on its last to last to last leg. I'm not sure how many legs it had originally, but it's not it's not doing well. So, we did receive that grant. We got
016$30,000 to that grant, which I'm really happy about. It'll cost about 86,000, but we have saved money over the last couple of years to appropriately put to some maintenance projects, which I'll discuss later, and Dr. Ro will probably go into more of that in the capital discussion. We've also um applied for a grant for the breezeway outside of our high school because it is the safety of the students. It's in between believe like where the welding is and the main building and we need to have an adequate secure breezeway there. So that was about $84,000. Um and we have applied for some new tables at res uh and pad because the tables just are on their last leg too. So those are kind of the grants we've done so far. We have a healthy kids
017healthy schools grant coming up and probably they will allow us to apply for 200,000. So all we're asking for the most. So we're probably going to apply for roughly around there. Um and that will be another grant from the or from the state we're applying for still looking at department of commerce grant. So that's how I try to get more we try to get more revenue in this work. Then um we have the fund balance kind of maintenance planning. So we have um like I said last year we made some appropriate cuts for do several positions um for within the district and that helped us reduce expenditures while increasing revenues from our grant. Um, and we were able to over the last two years save about $500,000 of our fund balance for a maintenance project.
018That project um is still in discussions and so there's been no decisions but we do anticipate that project beginning at the end of this year beginning of 26.7 like four pillars of my life there like save money make sure the kids get to school get more money in the door and plan for the building. Okay, thank you Matt. Good evening everyone. First of all, on behalf of my awesome wife, Shannon married, five kids, four of them in Spokane, once home from college, two grandsons, one grandbaby girl on the way in the spring. just want to wish all of you a merry Christmas and happy holidays and I'm excited uh you know been I was a little down in the dumps for a while there you know with capital lending uh extreme loss and uh and
019then also just some of the things going on but I also you know really feel great right now I feel uh revitalized and I think a lot of the discussions we've had really hopeful thing that keeps me going at Riverside are just the people love the kids love our staff our community, even when we disagree, we generally get along. And so that part's really good. Um, so looking forward to a great 20 26 calendar year. Looking forward, um, kind of to reiterate what Matt's saying, I'm really excited about the board retreat. Uh, and I'm not just saying this because you're, you know, my bosses. I I really feel like there's new energy. We I absolutely love working with Gary and Bob and they bring such wisdom, experience and they built a great foundation and it's
020also good to get some new energy in here, some some people with some different perspectives. I think the skill set is really strong. I've noticed that, you know, just the amount of time that you put into studying the issues and Sarah's kind of the data person. She loves breaking things down into data displays and data information. which I think is a great nice you know talent to have. Wes is an excellent researcher and really studies the law and policies. I think you have to have a board that almost has an expert in each of the categories because in my experience it's hard to know every single detail about being a board member. So but the most the thing that stands out to most of me most to me is your just love of kids, your
021focus on students and their learning and their experiences. really excited about it next Monday when Rob comes in from ESD and we focus in on goal one of our strategic plan which is whole child because I think you're going to do we're going to take it enough to another level of being honest about where are we around our academics arts the athletic programs and activities all of the experiences kids have within their day their weeks their years and how can we get better how can we work with our community our families even getting more student voice and staff voice. Uh, so I'm super excited about that. I do want to talk tonight about money because money is kind of the real probably the number one challenge that that that we're facing that school districts are
022facing. And so I just want to highlight a few things. One is that u and this is kind of in response to what I heard from the last board meeting. I'm sorry I wasn't there. Matt wasn't there. That's when we were at the WASDA conference. But definitely valid valid concerns and valid perspectives on the money challenges. But I think one thing as we go forward is we've talked about is doing a full comprehensive analysis of the capital. So uh doing all kinds of different ways to listen and learn from not only the the people who voted. That's a key market is to find out people who actually voted in the election. Why did they feel that way? what can we learn from that? How do we honor their perspectives? And then also just get feedback
023from our entire stakeholder, students, staff, families, greater community. Um, so I think it's I think it's too early at this point to automatically know the answer without doing a great job of going out and listening and trying to get that that information. Um, I do think that we have theories about what happened because of the feedback that we've gotten from individuals who've come to the board meetings or whether it's anecdotal conversations out the community or whether it's responses during the campaign itself. So, I think we have some theories. Uh, it might be a little too early to like jump on those right away but kind of throw them throughout. So, one definitely that we really need to think about and listen to and honor is just the sheer increase of assessed property tax. If you
024if you look at and I know I'm preaching the choir and some of the people out here in the in the in the um in the audience, I just want you to know I'm listening and the board is listening, okay? Trying to trying to figure out what's best. Um but certainly when you've got a 30 you know 20 depending upon the property you've got anywhere from a 15 to 40% increase over the last five years just in assessed property value that's a real challenge. So a lot of people have told us it's not that we don't like you it's just that it is expensive and it has become more expensive because of the assessed property values that normally you see kind of just gradually increase over time. But when you're talking about that much of
025an increase, you know, over a short period of time, that reflects in the tax bill. Okay. So, in my experience before running, you know, elections uh many years ago, both, you know, in the years I've been in education, you know, the the term your your property values will increase because of the the the quality of the education, that's not a great narrative at all. It doesn't it doesn't work because they're just looking at sheer tax statements and tax bills and going, "Wow, sounds good that my house was 300,000 five years ago and that it's 800,000 now, but it's not good when you're looking at the taxes that come with it. So, we're going to have to really, you know, sit down and and listen and talk even as we approach our educational programs and operations
026level, which is the regular levy that we run every three years. Um, we have to have honest conversations with with stakeholders around that because the the feedback is even if you even if you say you're going to replace it, you have to look at the the levy amount that you ask for, you also have to get a sense of where where are property died to be, where are the tax bills going to be, and how is that impacting different pockets of our of our district. So you're because you're such you know you've already already shown that you're critical thinkers, you don't mind, you know, looking at things from a variety of different perspectives. So as an example, u met with a lot of superintendents and and uh other people around the recent elections in the
027state talked about this very thing. Uh we have another meeting coming up on uh this Friday with Visa, myself, dear park members, Corey Plagger from DA Davidson just to talk more about assessed property value, the tax bill, the you know everything from the state tax, the state two tax, the educational programs and operations levy, the fire district levy, the ambulance levy, the you know just just try to better understand and empathize with what's happening and make informed decisions. So I invite anybody in the audience to be part of that because it could be something as simple as hey with our educational programs and operations le what's fair what's reasonable what because many of you know that you got to kind of balance paying for programs and you do have to tighten the belt like everybody
028else is. You also don't want to be in a spiral where you you cut so deeply that you could lose teachers, you could lose staff, you could lose administrators. You know enrollment goes down. You're in a vicious cycle. It's not an easy easy discussion, but I invite anybody who wants to be part of that um to to participate and u but my my theory, you know, at this point is is is just trying to we've been so heavy on the kid part, which we should be. We're trying to do what's best for kids and their learning, but we really have to be, you know, be on the side of the taxpayer and the community member and trying to understand what those issues are. So, that's just something to think about. The other thing I wanted
029to let you know is we're going to have to we're going to have to use your help on the legislative process because um for example we had a uh we have I'm part of the rural ed center and the rural ed center is really mostly really small districts under a thousand kids but I've joined that group and been listening to like Senator Braun who's the the majority leader or minority leader had a great a Zoom meeting recently or just last week with him and he has a really good grasp of how school funding works and some of the challenges when you go into the legislative session and how difficult it is for smaller school districts. So, one of the things that we could use help with on talking to our legislators is that we are
030in what I call kind of nom. We are a thousand and less uh districts. It's very difficult a lot of times to pass levies and bonds. Uh and then also they get but they do get access to the small modernization grants. We have 1,500 students. So we are in a similar boat in that we don't have as robust of a a tax base. It's really heavy on the residents and yet we're not small enough to qualify for small modernization grants. So my wondering is why can't we just be in that just bump it up you know to 1500 and you wouldn't it wouldn't be that many districts you know and I I told the small school superintendents we don't want to negatively impact you in what you're doing u but when Freeman you know gets
031passes a a you know capital levy and they build buildings and then they get a $3 million grant from the small modernization. That's not you should spread the wealth out a little bit more. And that's from school construction assistance program SCAP funds that are usually the state matching PE districts that pass bonds. Well, because less districts are passing bonds, that money is available for the smaller schools to access through the small modernization grant. Um, you know, a Sultan two backto-back $6 million grants. Totally great. Not trying to root against them. It would be nice to like not have backto back wins. Maybe one win and then get another district to win and then maybe come back, you know, down the road. So anyways, I think we need uh somebody who is fired up about legislative
032work and who is willing to do the grind uh with me on uh for example, Matt and I are going to the legislative uh conference in January. And one of the things that we we can improve in in my opinion is to be more actively involved in the legislative process. So part of the reason we have it is we've wanted to hunker down in our community and just be with our community, but we know that we got to be out there uh talking to those legislators and and trying to get them to understand situation. Um so I invite maybe, you know, right now Alicia, you're the legislative rep. You're on a two-year term. You can certainly stick with it. You also have to look at your schedule and figure out, okay, is this something I
033can even manage having kids in every school and working on my master's degree right now. Uh, and so if there's someone else, I know Wes, you're really passionate about legislative work and and studying the bills and studying the budget. I just I'll throw it out there. I think we could talk about it from board. So, um, and then just lastly on budget, I I assure you folks, I assure you that we've talked a lot about time and I think we've done a good job. I just don't think we've advertised. I don't think we've done a good enough job of communicating, you know, what happened last year when we were down a little bit. We did we did have to, and I applaud our staff because, you know, we didn't replace the pareducator job at the
034middle school, you know, in the library. We we didn't replace Bryce's job, which you know is really hard because he was amazing. And so that's the maintenance team has to pick up those responsibilities. And you know, we didn't pick up the account or we didn't hire the accounts payable in the district office. And so Lisa has picked up that responsibility in addition to Tracy picking up some parts of the and and Caitlyn as well. But we just haven't done a a great job of communicating how we've tried to get those reductions through attrition so that we don't have to do a big riff because a riff is you've ever been through them, they're not fun and it it hurts the culture of the school district and it has long-term impact. So, no doubt the feedback
035we've got about tightening the belt, doing it at the time, not waiting, you know, saving money, not bargaining it all the way, um, using it for facilities. Even though that that's a lot with the needs we have, we can still chip away and try to get one done at a time and keep getting creative with grant funding. keep working with the legislature on, hey, you got to get a little love to the the the one to 2,000 student districts. That is a tough position and u and and then if there is funding then are there guard rails that they can dedicate that facilities that it can't be used for anything else other than facilities. That might be another way to do it. So just want to make sure that you know we celebrate that we're
036we're ready to do work you know we're ready to try to figure out. So sorry so long but I I was gone so it built up. So anyways but are there any questions or comments or any clarifying questions? Yes sir. Um couple conversations here. I've missed the last couple schoolboard meetings, but um have we researched why we saw that dip in 2425 as far as enrollment? Um I assume that the uptick 23 and 24 COVID related people moving into the district or you know what was was that a substantial down? Was that kind of the start of this leading conversation? No, I think we've seen some really interesting trends that are not really trends since co because all the business managers in 101 are talking about it and it's down. People have become more migratory.
037Um people go to different districts and they come back because it's their home. And so really since about the 2021 school year, we're seeing an increase and a decrease and an increase and it's just much harder to predict. So last year it was a lot of nine mile was down, Riverside was down in the bigger districts me city were up. Um this year it's kind of blocked. People are going back to more their home districts or their more rural districts. We haven't identified exactly what it is for us, but because we're seeing some of those trends now that it's been four or five years since co um that's one of the things people have just found different ways. there's more online schools, so a lot more districts have options. Um, so >> yeah, that that
038other that previous year as well was the kindergarten numbers. >> So we usually you want more kindergarteners than graduating seniors. >> Yes. because your overall enrollment. And so that year we had we had one section last of I and in looking at that like everything you read about declining enrollment throughout the country and throughout the state, one of the main reasons they site is is birth rate and you know kids people having less kids. So we did we we do run a chart on birth rates and that did dip down in that year but then it bounced back this year. So we did get that additional section added back up. So we don't know if it's an anomaly of just that one previous the year before this of the kindergarten numbers. One thing we worry
039about is the cost of housing. And so what we're noticing in Deer Park and in Riverside and even in some of the other areas in the county is that the housing is not as appetizing or available to young families. Uh they may not be making enough money to qualify for the the $500 plus,000 property or home. So uh we are seeing more older people moving in uh because most people obviously make more money as they you know get older and elevated their careers and u like as an example in Deer Park I know it's not your question I was just using it because they're right next to us is in all those new homes that you see only about 20% of those have kids in you look at the shadow uh development that came in
040about four or five years ago. It was a 40 house development. When they first advertised that it was $300,000 and we were like, "Oh, we might get some kids in that neighborhood. I might help with the enrollment." And they ended up going to 600,000 within like a year and a year and a half. Called the developer, asked them, "How many kids are in that community?" two two kids in that 40 home development. So, I think that's part of the challenge is is just who's moving in, who's and how does that work with with kids in schools. That's not the only thing, but uh that's part of it. And then we bounced back up 47 this year. And that was partly because our u kindergarten numbers bounced up a whole another 2025. And then our junior
041senior numbers went up. And uh one thing that happens that a lot of times in school districts is the junior senior year, a lot of kids are looking at options. uh the cost of college, the just the sheer dollar bill that it takes to go to school after high school, whether it be a a four traditional four-year university. Obviously, a two-year program is less expensive. Uh but we, you know, a lot of lot of Running Start is an option that that sometimes families choose because they don't pay tuition for that. the state picks up that bill for the tuition. So, I think one way we've tried to counter that is still honor Running Start because it is a good fit for some kids and then also offer more dual credit options in our schools that
042get college credit for trades programs, career technical ed programs as well as your traditional academic programs. And that's helped kids keep on on campus because they're like, "Wait, I can be around my friends. I can still be involved in extracurricular activities and I can get college credit." The families like that because it's a it's a free credit that they get. So, I don't know if that answers all the questions, but yeah, definitely looking at the the trends in enrollment because that's your number one revenue is enrollment as you know. So, Thank you for the question. >> Anybody, you know, I heard you speak a bit about what a Silk is doing, what Raymond is doing, spent quite a bit of time down at Royal. >> Yeah. Very similar footprints, districts, enrollment numbers. Who are we
043reaching out to as a new board to uh find out where their successes are coming from, how they're winning these grants? Are are we have we reached out that Olive branch to start that level of communication to see where we can tap into some resources to try to figure out what they're doing that helps make them get to the top of the line or what they're doing as far as a community? What is that um demographic of community? I know when you talk about a cotton um you know that's kind of the Liberty Lake of the Clarkston area um it's very uh can be very affluent um you know so just trying to understand okay here's where we're at here similar districts throughout the state what are we doing as a board as a superintendent
044to reach out to those districts are we to you know just kind of spend some time there walk the campus is um you know I went down and watched the girls play um an elimination game in soccer uh just looked at their facilities things like that and you're talking south of Moses Lake in literally a very rural very rural environment and they're flourishing you know so just a thought I have got something that >> that's a great That's part of why we went that network conference have those that happen. So that's a great question. It's also with that part of our court. So that way they are involved with the state. And maybe would you be open to the idea of uh picking some school districts that are similar in size? I've had success in
045and either traveling or visiting with them or connecting with them, you know, over the phone or via Zoom or or work sessions, stuff like that. business. >> Okay. Ready? Sarah, >> you want a copy to look at as you go or do you want to just rely on the auditory? >> Okay. >> So, if you could repeat after me, please. I, Sarah Ramston, >> I, Sarah Ramston, >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support >> the Constitutions of >> the United States >> and the state of Washington >> and the laws of the state of Washington >> and the laws of Washington >> and will faithfully discharge >> the duties of the office >> of Riverside School District >> number 416 >> for director Dctor District >> director district >> position one >> according
046to the best of my ability. Congratulations. the third daughter. my daughter-in-law. >> Okay. My friend, >> would you like a copy to follow? >> Okay. Okay. I, Alicia or Das. I Alicia or Das. I >> do solemnly swear >> solemnly swear >> that I will support >> the Constitutions of >> the United States >> and the state of Washington >> state of Washington >> and the laws of the state of Washington >> and will faithfully discharge >> the duties of the office >> of the office >> of Riverside School District >> number 416 >> Director District Position five. >> According to the best of my ability. >> Congratulations. Move on to the board leadership roles. Typically a nomination for discussion and then if if it's approved as we do support a motion. >> Okay. I
047get a motion for myself. >> We have a a nomination for vice president. I don't think you look for just Correct. >> Okay. and you >> okay for the legislative That's nominate a motion to nominate. >> All right. Thanks. How do you vote for I see school? I have a motion to accept the uh second. executive discussion just one one quick thing is it's just the dates that we typically do in December uh the special sessions the study sessions and then the regular board meetings it's pretty much the same while we don't finalize the locations of the study sessions until we talk about it at the board retreat on the board calendar what topics are called on the dates. The dates are good. It's just the dates and times are good, but the locations are
048that's what you're voting on. You talk about that as boards. Try to get more closely connected to school time to get more parents, more students, more staff to have those study set, not regular board, but study sessions around kind of that point of are we studying? Are we trying to get better? Are we getting voices? Are we learning? Are we setting direction? And then just to explain because the members who were on the board before saw that before. So what happened was it was low estimate of the cost. So it didn't include the bus that was on there and it had written ban originally. So we're add the coaches added kids to go a trip which resulted in a bus which is more expensive than the van. That's why resolutions. that is the form that
049we typically use to allow the superintendent to sign documents on the board because you can imagine hard to track down all the time as a secretary of the board and then also Lisa as the business manager. back up. 45 minutes. 45 minutes. Okay. So, they got a five minute recess and then our