001[Music] i would like to call this meeting of the eastern township board of education to order pursuant to the open public meetings act adequate public notice has been given by the secretary of the evesham township board of education in the following manner posting written notice on the official bulletin board at the eve township board of education office emailing written notice to the burlington county times and the courier post and filing written notice with the municipal clerk of eastern township may i have a roll call please mrs cappello here mrs everhart here mr fizzicaro here mr catherine here ms snow mr lancelata here miss lee here mr megan here we have a quorum thank you at this time i'll ask for a motion to go into executive session and a motion to approve items 2.1 through
0022.4 whereas in njsa 104-12 allows for a public body to go into closed session during a public meeting and whereas the board of education of eve shame township has deemed it necessary to go into a closed session to discuss certain matters which are exempted from the public and whereas the regular meeting of the board of education will reconvene at the end of the following closed session at approximately 7 pm now therefore be it resolved that the board of education will go into closed session for the following reasons as outlined in njsa 104-12 do i have a motion motion by mrs capello do i have a second second by mr lancelata roll call please mrs capalo yes mrs everhart yes mr fizzy caro yes mr canton yes mr lanzalada yes miss lee yes mr meagan yes
003motion carries all right thank you we'll see you all at approximately 7 p.m [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] hmm do so [Music] so do [Music] foreign [Music] do [Music] foreign [Music] do [Music] foreign [Music] hmm [Music] foreign [Music] i would like to resume this meeting of the eevsham township board of education would everyone who is able please rise for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance thank you all right and now for miss lee to read the mission statement the mission of the eve sham township school district is to promote excellence in an environment that engages students in meaningful learning experiences in partnership with students dedicated staff families and community the district provides a strong educational foundation that will
004empower our students to achieve their unique potential embrace self-directed lifelong learning develop the skills necessary for appropriate risk taking and responsible decision making respect themselves and others problem solve individually and collaboratively and become contributing members of a diverse global society thank you miss lee at this point in time we're going to move into presentations so dr smith the floor is yours all right final budget presentation this is actually the third time we're showing the presentation we show a preliminary in february a tentative in march and then the final here in may so i'm going to go a little quick through these first slides because it's actually the third time we're going through this the earlier presentations are on our website under the budget tab this one will be as well so again just enrollment the
005way i would sum up these slides is at this point as we stand here our state funding has dropped 46 percent while our student enrollment has dropped 19 percent i don't want to get to uh there's some new info is what i'm what i'm working towards mr shinty if you want i don't know if you have any new on these slides here that you want to speak to yeah good evening this is a new slide from the previous presentation the adjustments we've made to the budget since the tentative budget presentation back in march a few minor adjustments we made we increased our miscellaneous revenue by 137 500 on the revenue side and then on the appropriations side we had an increase to staffing an increase to energy costs gasoline natural gas electric increase to employee
006benefits and a small increase of student activity account okay so on this slide again this is you know slide updated from the last presentation the numbers that change would be the row the staffing row the first row by the number on the previous side it went up the employee benefits went up by the amount on the previous slide the other district cost again went up by the amount on the previous slide and then two-thirds way down the clubs and activity row went up by the eight thousand dollars from the previous slide adjustments thank you mr shinty so this slide was from last two presentations as well let me move over these quick these are all carryovers from the last two presentations transportation changes and again these are all on our website third time through okay
007this slide so i wanted to speak a little bit more about this slide tonight just a little bit but the there's fewer positions we always do share a bit more about uh what those positions are fortunately we have um eight retirements and vacancies eight fewer positions which means that no one in those positions is losing a job six of those are elementary classroom teacher positions and those savings are through class size increases of one student in several different grades so if a grade was 24 it goes to 25 never more than that these increases keep us exactly on average when compared to surrounding districts so um you know whereas in the past our district was able to have lower than average class sizes last year we raised class size again just a bit this year
008again just a bit so now we're on par with surrounding districts and that's how again we get to balance our budget the other two positions one is a related services position and the other is a the intervention specialist position currently at mms which is vacant due to dr morris becoming the special services supervisor we did not fill that position that she formerly occupied we do not intend to and what will happen is the remaining intervention specialist position will become a shared position between demacy and martin middle school the services provided continue so you know with those with a a reduction like that um even that person is split we still are able to continue to help students uh this slide only new pieces i just added the testimony in there link below to um we
009had board president lee orion board vice president anish kanthan and myself and a parent kelly wilke the four of us testified at new jersey budget committee hearings and i've shared those testimonies with the community in our updates but they give a nice little sort of one-page story of where we're at and and the challenges we face okay this one so we talked about full-day kindergarten being a district goal at our last regular meeting and i did say i would share the how and the when we're going to achieve that so that the answer to that question is it's going to be a ballot question in november 2023 for implementation starting in september and i'll speak to the whys behind that but on this slide i just want to point out what that looks like in
010terms of numbers so the question will be based on the annual recurring costs not on one-time costs we will find ways to um cover the one-time costs for bathrooms furniture and materials but the annual recurring costs um the two main components of that is the lost full-day kindergarten tuition revenue which we have as a cost neutral it's set at cost neutral to our district and then the additional 685 000 is for the additional uh teachers and paraprofessionals we would need to provide fully kindergarten for all without tuition so the whys um so we'll go through these it's bearish programs and additional cuts so if we were to try to go back if i go back to this slide if we were to try to find 1 million 720 29 essentially thousand dollars in recurring annual
011costs we were to try to find that in our budget currently a teacher with benefits step one roughly 75 000 so 10 teachers 750 000 20 teachers would be a million and a half so we're talking more than 20 teachers more than 20 additional teaching positions would have to be cut to to make the savings for full day kindergarten that would mean programs that would mean additional supports for kids and it would put us in a position where we would be choosing we would be making choices to benefit some at the expense of others and that is a very tough place to be which so far we have avoided and we've gotten all the way to year five of the seven year s2 sequence of state funding reduction that we've been going through the budget
012we're looking at tonight is for year five next year's year five of that seven year reduction sequence so we know we have more cuts next year we're losing another million in state aid plus there are positions which we are currently paying for via ester money and we have the property sale roughly 600 000 from the sale of the property in this year's budget which together are about another million so the million in state aid loss plus another million in costs that we are currently covering through sur plus uh property would mean um i mean we're looking at roughly another two million in cuts next year um and to throw on top of that 1.7 million to pay for full decay out of our general budget would be catastrophic so it does spare programming additional cuts
013second it enables community participation so you know part of why we're here talking about this great topic is because um of the community participation we've seen so far so there were there have been parents who got a facebook full ak group started who reached out to us as a district and we've met and talked with them and they've come to board meetings and it's a really positive topic we thank the advocacy that they've shown and continue to show in terms of even getting the conversation going at higher levels beyond our district and it bodes well i think for the kind of community conversations we can have as we work towards passing a ballot question thirdly having the balance so and we talked a lot as a board in the finance committee and the district administration
014about uh this and having the ballot question in november 2023 versus earlier has the additional benefit of knowing that we have another million in state of reduction next year on top of the end of the ester money and the 600 000 in this year's budget that's covered by the sale of the property means that we do have regardless a full day kindergarten we have tough a tough road ahead with many tough choices and one thing we've also seen on the road we've traveled so far is that that road changes so these are projections you know so an additional cost can can um come about either through this the state changing the amount of aid that they've projected to give us is one one thing we've seen change another thing we saw change was health insurance
015costs another thing we saw change is inflation and energy costs and all those things combined to note for us to know that we may have tough choices ahead so tough in fact that there could be items that we would that would be very worthy to include in a ballot question with full day kindergarten okay and to leave that possibility open and available for us if it comes to that is only possible by using november 2023 we feel confident that by that point although that will still be in year six of the seven year s2 tunnel that seventh year is projected to only be roughly a three hundred thousand dollar reduction in state aid which is a lot less than if that is actually the the least amount of state of reduction of all seven years
016of course it comes in the seventh year so by that point the cupboard is is a lot more bare but we do project that um by that point we'll have um we'll be seeing you know we'll be almost out of the tunnel and if we can safely do the ballot question knowing that we wouldn't be leaving anything out at that point but were we to do it this coming november there are definitely a lot of question marks beyond that date as far as our budget is concerned so be much more prudent to use the november 2023 date this slide new also so and just this is a little look back at history and i think this slide tells a really powerful story about the um the prudence and the stewardship of taxpayer dollars in our
017district since 2011 right so if you look at this basically um what it shows is the amount of available bank cap that was generated each year and then how much was used and you can see that there were amounts that expired so basically cap that could have been used but wasn't why wasn't it because it wasn't deemed to be needed at the time okay so that was in other words keeping taxes at where they were felt to be needed to to run an effective school district right and we and we have been so at this point though what that means is that there was essentially money left on the table again being prudent with taxpayer dollars because it wasn't needed at the time but now essentially it is needed it is needed for full decay
018so the quote unquote loss tax levy revenue over that time span was almost 3 million dollars which is far greater than what we anticipate our ballot question to be so had our district on because the district can go to a two percent cap each time had our district gone to that two percent cap in each of those years we would have we would already have a budget that could afford full-day kindergarten okay so in other words the fact that we're needing it now and we didn't look for it then shows that when it's purposeful when it's important when it benefits kids in a way that needs to happen that we ask and that's that's that i think that's a really powerful um kind of concept for us to think about as we think about this
019ballot question what's next so may 26th regular meeting the district goals there are three number one most important full-day kindergarten for all will be on the agenda for approval after that and that that goal will show the steps um between now and uh november 2023 and beyond but one of those steps will be that we will form a full-day kindergarten ballot question committee which will have various stakeholders i know there are people interested in this topic and to help with the communication about it the needs the cost the benefits across our town and district community and as i read it i think in my mind we know we've heard from people who have said that when they were looking to move and they were considering moving to eve shame to marlton one of the considerations
020in their mind was fully kindergarten you know they were looking they were saying i could go to medford i could go to mount laurel i could go to some surrounding towns that don't have tuition based k and it was a factor somewhere in that decision right so on that basis again it's qualitative data because it's it's statements from from folks who live here but there's a real real statements based on that it can be considered that free fold ak would be a factor that would impact home values in our town and resale values you know as people are looking to move and so for a cost we project the cost to the average home in our town for this ballot question would be 45 to 50 a year just to just to put that out
021there 45 to 50 a year for the average home how much more back in terms of additional home value would residents of eastern have for their properties that's one of the benefits that would be included in the communication and so it's very very exciting and my kids came through the district they're ones in college and almost about to be in college now so it's not like uh you know i'm i'm so excited for all of the the families in our town that are here now and that will be here in years to come that we're all talking about this um it's been a great effort so far from our board our district staff from our community members who've contributed to the conversation and i think it bodes really well and increases the excitement of those
022conversations yet to come as we walk together as a community towards this brighter future for all of our kindergarten kids and beyond since we know this will benefit them every year of their educational journey into adulthood there we go whoops a little delay on that okay um on this slide this is the revenue side of our budget and um since the ten of the budget the only number that changed would be in the third row the other local sources um the the amount on that number went up by 137 so that the tax levy so for the 2223 budget the we're allowed to raise our budget by the two percent of the tax levy um also for any enrollment adjustments health health care cost adjustments and bank cap those three items we had we had
023nothing it was they were all zero so our budget went up that the tax levy went up by the two percent that we were allowed to raise it there was no other adjustments so when calculating the tax rate it since we're on a split year and the taxes are on the calendar year the first half of the calendar year is uh the tax rate is based on the budget we're working on now and then the second half of the calendar year is the the proposed budget for next year for the 22-23 year so with the the average uh rate of the average home excuse me the average home assessed value i'll get it out for 22 is going up a little bit it's up to 272 266 dollars so the um average homeowner who has
024a house that's valued at that their tax increase uh will be 29 and 18 cents so this is actually the calculation how it's calculated the first column is is um is the current budget we're working in so it's half of that tax levy the second column is the proposed budget and it's the tax levy is half of that for for the 22 uh calendar year you add those two numbers up then you have the ratables they went up a little bit this year which is always a good thing so that that helps control the uh the tax levy increase and then you take uh the new uh tax levy rate minus the uh tax level rate for calendar year 21. the difference is uh 0.0107 um so the so that gives you the average home
025the average home assessed value of 272 266 would have an increase of 29.18 so not everybody's house is on the average so we put together this slide that shows you houses that are assessed above that number and houses that are assessed below it so if wherever your house is assessed if you go across you can see what your actual increase would be so if your home was assessed at 200 000 your increase would be 21.43 cents for the year if your house was assessed at 360 000 your increase would be 38.58 thank you mr ashinti so any questions from the board mr lanzada here thank you very much uh dr smith i appreciate it i have a few questions for you several questions um you said that there is going to be eight teachers that
026are going to be losing their jobs this year six i believe you said there were classroom teachers one related art and then one intervention specialist uh i i would i appreciate um you bringing that up thank you uh eight positions being eliminated no no one losing their job from president i apologize um so you then said that losing these teachers are going to put us on par with class sizes in neighboring districts if you're a student in this school district or if you're a teacher in the school district what does that look like what change is that going to make yeah so i'm walking over here too all right give you the numbers so what that looks like specifically is first grade increasing from 22 to 23 students third grade increasing from 24 to 25
027students and fifth grade increasing from 25 to 26 students so three grades going up by one student each kindergarten grade two and grade four staying the same my next question the intervention specialist he said that there that that intervention specialist would be going to different schools basically splitting their job uh will there be any uh will there be any lack in teaching or is it will it be any um i'm trying to figure the way i say will students lose any curriculum due to this cut so i appreciate you uh with that question because it is it's one of those situations where so if we have two people doing fulfilling a role and we go down to one person fulfilling that role it means we're continuing to provide the services those intervention services and these
028are kids who are struggling academically but we can't we won't be able to reach the same number of kids if that makes sense because we only have one pair of hands one heart one one mind and one pair of hands working on that than we did the year prior right right you know before dr morris was a supervisor she was a intervention specialist mms dms is an intervention specialist next year we'll only have one so and that's that's a position that should opportunity present we will again we look at all these positions as can we add it back and we have done that so you know like i think of the guidance counselor position here at the macy right during covid we had a retirement and we were we've been trying to eliminate positions through
029retirements along the way so we we eliminated that through retirement then we added it back to the macy to bring them back to their their their normal counselor staffing but we did it through esther money if that makes sense so eventually we'll have to add that position that's one of those positions that eventually will have to get built back into the budget um the challenges as we move along making so many cuts there's going to be moments where you know we learn what we truly need sometimes when we live without it you know and sometimes we have to be without it for a little bit maybe maybe for longer but to truly know we project we talk we think but then but then you know out of the 40 positions we cut last year if
030you came back you know and this might be one that comes back we would love to see it back we don't want to have to do any of these steps you know um but somehow we have to balance the budget and that's i i i completely understand about the the budget my my question though is you said that these structures these are struggling students that need this intervention and then unfortunately not not all of them are going to be able to get that intervention how many kids are we talking about so well one thing i will say is a lot of times too when we shift something around so like we have other roles like teaching assistants that will um be able to supplement that that absence so it's hard to say right now how
031many fewer students because we're looking at ways of kind of adapting supports um that are more economical for our district in terms of like like a teaching assistant position is more economical than an intervention specialist if that makes sense um and uh just knowing that behind those wheels we're always look we want to maximize the mileage of what we can do for kids all the time so thank you very much dr smith appreciate i do have one other question and this might be looking very far in the future but what happens in 2023 if the budget question does not pass for full day kindergarten so you get the prize for asking that question first um so of course we we go we want to go from an operational mindset of it's going to pass you
032know it's going to pass because and and i just i mentioned one of the sort of values of it right so we know and and actually i would say that the community members who've shared information about the value of full-day kindergarten i probably put the best voice to um the benefits to students of this so a lot of things are going to um be in the way in the four column you know but if it came down to it right if it came down to um at this point we would need to look at alternatives of how to how to make it happen because we know it's very important right it that the timeline of of how it would come about would get longer because it wouldn't happen through the to the ballot question november
0332023 which gives additional motivation to uh to getting behind that ballot question so we would have to look at all the most i could say right now is we'd have to look at alternatives it's almost it's almost too hard to project exactly what it would look like like the reason we're taking this route is because it's currently the only route possible to make it happen um like the intervention specialist position we were just talking about imagine if we were talking about 23 or 24 other positions that we're getting cut to make full day kindergarten happen out of our regular budget and how difficult that that conversation would be that's a that's a reality that would happen if we did it now what the reality will look like once we get through the s2 sequence so
034the last year of the s2 sequence is 20 24 25. once we're through that tunnel then we'll kind of need to see basically like what's the state's plan moving forward you know [Music] s2 definitely was the product of one political party let's just say right so so there are lots of factors that can happen within that you know different different circumstances different people in charge different landscape within our state could lead to chips and funding there have been districts that were underfunded before s2 that have seen their funding go up during s2 you know so so like could that could the pendulum swing back our way and our funding goes up after s2 that would make it a lot easier to uh afford to make full decay happen out of our regular budget so it's
035kind of like i can't it's almost like to i wish i could say more about what it would look like but there's too many different possibilities really the one thing i do know is that the one the one way that's entirely under our control in a sense is what we as a community want to do with the ballot question thank you very much dr smith hypership a quick question about the about the referendum the 1.7 million i don't know this answer and you might not know this answer but in terms of like the 1.7 million dollars recent school votes in terms of votes and referendum where would that be considerably to other to like other school districts i feel like this is lighter but i i can't remember yeah it is lighter it is lighter
036man it's not and and there are people can um ballot questions statewide are available publicly so a person could go and look and compare um sometimes about like in this case um like there's a neighboring district that used a ballot question for their full-day kindergarten it was part of a much larger ballot question that had um infrastructure improvements hvac and other factors that made the price tag go up a lot more um with that i don't want to that name and uh look you know no i deserve that yeah there's another local district that passed one last year that was um about 25 million that's okay yeah so that's what i was trying to because when i keep seeing this this number 1.7 million for a ballot question to me that feels generally pretty small
037uh i do remember i i know the one obviously another one last year but i could not remember the price tag i knew it was in the tens so 20 22 you said i think i would 25 25 okay and then typically a lot of the other school districts they like to they like to rump a lot of these things together so i just wanted to kind of bring out there that scope that in terms of a ballot question this is a rather rather small number in terms of what we're asking for here um and honestly like you're talking about the average average homeowner you're talking roughly 375 you know 3.75 cents a month in regards to the total where the numbers played out but i i totally agree with your assessment in terms of
038people are looking for full day kindergarten and the attractiveness of that i think is really important and i think and i do believe that that will increase increase home values and i think that will make eve shame an even more attractive place to live and i think that's a there's a higher price tag on that than i think is on that that lower that lower number that we would get through that ballot question so i i was just wanted to kind of get that comparison scope in terms of that versus what 25 million was somewhere else again just you know non-quoted quote but um in terms of the size and scope of what this was thank you hey joe one comment on that just some ballot questions are a one-time hit this would be 1.7
039million plus more every year so if you took it over a 10-year period it really does have that kind of an impact so you know 25 million dollar fixed asset referendum ballot question saying for improvements it's just one time and then they pay the debt out over time but that's what also could make the dollar amount a little bit different when you saw that 25 million dollar ballot question that wasn't 25 million dollars every year in depth oh no i understand i understand no i do understand that i i i'm not uh i'm i i understand the continual cost no i agree i'm speaking i do appreciate the clarity there and i didn't i that was not my intention to confuse anybody who's watching this i was just talking about the size and scope of
040it but i do appreciate the clarity thank you for that all right thanks everybody any other questions from the board comments okay um so now we're going to go into public comment just in case anyone isn't aware we have two public comment sections during our meetings the first public comment portion is for what is on the agenda tonight we only have the budget on the agenda so if your public comments aren't about the budget vote then we ask that you make your comments during the second public comment portion so now this meeting will be open to the public referencing agenda items only however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or personnel items or negotiations we would ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters
041in public please limit your comments to three minutes per person it's also crucial please for you to give us your name and address before you speak up and to limit your comments to one time per public comment period mr donio will be in charge of the clock tonight is there anyone who wishes to speak on agenda items only all right seeing none moving to item six which is adoption of the 2022 2023 school budget i now need a motion to approve item 6.1 motion by mr fizzicaro do i have a second second by mr lanzilato any questions or comments mr fizzy cara just just one comment i i you know i know we generally do this but i in terms of what we've been going through the last several years i do want to thank
042the administration for how we've been handling this uh and and actually the entire district for hour we've been handling this i remember when this first started and then we're in year five correct out of seven i remember when this first started and the the shock of the sticker shock value of what was about to happen here and now we're almost through the tsunami part of this we're just about through that i just i want to commend for where we are right now what this district has done in terms of of staying with its high level and making all the adjustments it has to do it's a testament to everybody and not just from the highest all the way down for everyone what they had to do to make this happen so i'm extraordinarily as a
043board member and as a as a citizen of this community i'm extraordinarily grateful um that the impact as we do feel the impact my nightmares that i had five years ago were just not being realized and i'm very appreciative of all the work that's been done uh to protect everyone in this town particularly the children and and the staff members and and everything's happened so i do appreciate that any other questions or comments all right so i'll say a couple things um first of all i wanted to congratulate and thank the finance committee for their work it is not easy putting together a budget it takes time it takes hours every single week so to the finance committee and the board as well as a as a whole i wanted to say thank you for
044that um i also wanted to talk a bit about advocacy because advocacy is one of the the main topics when we talk about this budget presentation right so first and foremost i know dr smith already mentioned i wanted to thank chairman sarlo and a ranking member of scanlan from the new jersey senate budget and appropriations committee for hearing our testimony last month both sides of the aisle were very receptive to what we were saying so i think that's a good sign as far as as far as advocacy goes so another note as far as advocacy there when you guys are making public comments we see you guys with papers i say this every once in a while but if you guys are typing up public comments for us please email them to us as well
045when we talk to elected leaders we like to print them all out and just give them to them because we're supposed to complain about the budget right it's our job to be mad that we're not getting enough money but when the public really gets involved in a way that they haven't before we can see the type of change that we get um so if you guys have statements prepared please also email them to us in addition to speaking [Music] lastly i wanted to read a letter from our president mrs ryan who i'm sure we're all missing tonight because i gotta run this so for mrs ryan dear etsd community i'm writing to let everyone know that i am beyond proud of our finance committee and administrative team with the work they have all done on
046the upcoming budget this year it was not easy especially with the state funding cuts once again it took a lot of time effort and creative outside of the box thinking i would also like to thank the etea negotiations team and our own boe negotiations team for working diligently and more importantly swiftly to reach a collective bargaining agreement at an earlier than normal pace if i were president at tonight's meeting i would 100 be voting yes to approve the 2022 2023 budget proposal i just wanted to let the community know that i support all the work that was done in the preparation for tonight and for the children of yves shin township thank you leah ryan all right uh if there's no other questions or comments we can go to a roll call please mrs capalo
047yes mrs everhart yes mr frozocaro yes mr catherine yes mrs noel yes mr lancelata yes miss lee yes mr megan yes motion carries thank you mr shinty now we will head into open public comment this meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of interest however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or personnel items or negotiations we ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these uh these matters in public please limit your comments to three minutes per person again it is crucial for you to give us your name and address before you speak up and also to limit your comments to one per person mr donia will again be in charge of the clock is there anyone who wishes to speak on
048any items of interest hello i'm danielle remus at 39 old republic lane and i'm here with kristin ross i'm going to be speaking on behalf of her she is a single mom with a disability she's unable to speak but would like the board to hear her perspective and we know she isn't the only one in her situation kristin lost her well-paying job during covid and is now earning minimum wage at a daycare center she is left with no extra money after paying her necessary bills she paid a 500 registration deposit to sign her daughter up for full day kindergarten this fall but she has no idea how she will pay the remaining tuition her daughter also has a disability half day kindergarten wasn't a choice for her because she has to work these are the
049options of half day kindergarten or full day kindergarten that our district presents to our parents unlike the only other comparable district in the county that charges her full day kindergarten eve sham does not have a reduced tuition program for qualifying families instead we charge 5500 across the board kristin does not receive child support and must work to provide for her family she can't rely on extended family her own parents are aging and ailing in kristin's words she she beats herself up because she can't afford the education for her daughter that other children are getting she is afraid she will need to remove her daughter from a school that will provide her with the education and services she needs and deserves and keep her in a lesser more affordable daycare setting we know it's the board
050of ed's job to evaluate statistics facts and finances but personal stories like these are important because they represent families that make up our district and we need to work harder for each and every family as the board works to implement equal access to full-day kindergarten for all we have to immediately address the inequalities that we've identified we requested tui transition for this upcoming year to allow for tuition relief for qualifying families thank you thank you is there anyone else who wishes to speak all right so at this point i will ask for a motion to adjourn the meeting do i have a motion motion by mr fizzagaro seconded by mrs noel all in favor aye meeting adjourned you