001qualify for the college and what that means is that Kristen meets with them in seventh grade you have to look at your the family's income status qualifi and then if you meet that income status and you you graduate from high school with a a 25 it's like lower a 2.0 you don't have a felony then you have access your after you graduate your senior year and it's basically full tuition uh to technical schools fouryear universities and uh so we have these 40 kids that are sitting there okay and you have to meet with them individually so with slingshot with Lisa white and slingshot she's coming every Tuesday to Riverside High School meeting with those one-onone it does and it's in addition to our counsel doing that work as well and and we're bringing parents navigating
002the system some of them go oh what what we're like what how do you not know this and so we definitely have to keep educating but we're just checking off one kid at a time and our goal is every kid that we can because really if you think about it it's going to trans for some of these kids it will break them out of problem it will be the first in their family to ever go to anything that's pretty transformation so it needs to be a we don't do anything we don't make it a h priority it's that mindset that you're doesn't matter if you live in the country doesn't matter if you're small you believe can achieve great that find that's a a good support you so I think just having and actually I
003was Washington I think FAA is there's a lot of Education that we need to Contin to provide so for example can go to tr there a lot of kids who sign up for trade school they think they think for some reason for like a so that's one big training and especially because our community value careers and Vocational programs you need to really that the other thing is everybody thinks you have to be super low income qualified F that's not true I think it's 130,000 up to $130,000 for like a you can still get access to so that's a lot of middle classes have access to addition that's the M Reon keep people going jobs are going to require some kind of post High School credential don't we want our kids to do one My worry
004is if we going do it now they won't do it I know sorry Bob I just I just have a question more than this guy this guy no way I'm I'm talking about who's not work of education but what was it that that motivated you to do what you did because the the whole medical field that's takes a long time to get to where you got what was it that kept you in terms of motivation the uh what initiated is is looking at friends that uh were successful somewhat older than I was going this is my personal if they can do it I can do it they're at all te not all got excited about you know this my getting to know people that were successful and kind of wear it a little bit you
005know can I do this a coule along the way because it doesn't take just a few years a long time were there Temptations to get off of the road and do something else well I did that's exactly what happened it a couple years I was not in medical SCH but I was in college and decided I have to have a break I want I just want to travel my dad money and have to some train to go school that will allow you to do that scho for a couple years actually four years full time got my batteries rechar you always had yeah I can do see Li a lot I did but I just felt that U something inside me just plugging one all you have to do is just this course and get it
006done and then there's another set of courses and I interested okay moving along is that so moving along we're going to go into our business section now istion move that is our annual grant that coud completes with Lisa and before that that helps fun the C questions about that all in favor say i i c thought exchange renewal 20 25 2026 motion move we' purchased thought exchange as a community engagement tool for a couple years in a row the good news is the cost was gone down significantly and mainly you know kind of interesting because of artificial and so the fear of you know replacing jobs in this case thought exchange that is that is what happens because for people to manage the data that you get from your surveys and your thought exchanges but
007so the good news is the price went down I the reason we're recommending it is that at the time where we're at in our journey we need to really talk with our community need do a face to face all groups but we also need to use technology in this 21st century World we're in to engage you know thousand because you know even though we invite and people come there are people who don't show up and they for whatever reason they'll engage technology but they may not engage person and so we need to utilize that technology you can do it unlimited exchanges you can do strategic planning you can do Bond Lev in whether we should run or not run it or not you can do anything you want say I you didn't come out final
008reading 6801 capes oh I'm yeah second final reading 50 and we had a first reading last meeting question fav1 second say I move um one of the things that I'm running into I got 15 grand and I have a grandson so I don't think he ever get graduated from wh great a really really a bright guy that's what not I've got another uh granddaughter who has been going out with her dad her dad is u a delivery guard for p and what's happened is that his um requirements in terms of weightlifting of packages was kind of his age is really beginning to to show up in terms ofil that stuff so what FedEx did was allow his daughter to to go with him and they hired her at a a very low level salary and
009um in the last 6 months he's had three significant raises and those have come from the testimony of clients who have been so impressed with the way that she's helped to for his deliv and it just occurs to me that that that element of work really something that I've seen a lot of stupid guys hired who worked hard and did really well I think that that's something that that we really have to think about in terms of our education is that willingness to work and find out the benefits of that because there there are benefits we feel really Gooding hard work I just want to share that with you about my granddaughter she's 19 but she's really she's really having a great experience and U in an area that she never thought that she be
010working in kind of cool I asked I asked a guy worked with for Mar Lynch I asked him how do you how do you decide who to hire he said well I've hired a lot of smart guys and a lot of stupid he said some of the guys who least intelligent ended up being the best because they were able to work hard and people knew they were looking out for com I read there was a study done that who made some of the best employees the ones uh the young kids that had a job early in their life that made a big difference good time to start what were you doing great okay we are going to go into our executive session and I have something else thank you all