001Good morning, Beecher. Uh, it is the day after a board meeting, so I want to kind of give you guys a quick recap and also talk about the registration process. It's going to start on Monday. Um, so the big things that happened on the board meeting last night, they talked about board goals and uh the direction we want to continue to move in terms of a district. Um, and those board goals would be used to uh renew the strategic plan which um I will guide over the next year or so. And so, um, if you're curious about what those look like in terms of academic excellence, finance, facilities, and community engagement, um, you can actually see the strategic plan as it sits right now on the website. Um, or you can just watch the board
002meeting last night and catch up, uh, where we're going for those. Uh, those will be, uh, available probably within the next month to look at. Um, and then we accepted a resignation of our PE teacher, Miss Hawk, and our bus driver, Steve June. So, if you happen to know anybody who wants to be a PE teacher at the high school, uh please have them apply. Um I know it's kind of the middle of the summer, but and people aren't quite thinking about that that yet. Um but we're we're looking for a PE teacher at the high school. And then as always, we're always looking for bus drivers. Um it seems to be one of those um positions that all schools are always looking for, whether it's a full-time driver, even subdrivers. Uh we're always looking
003for those. So, if you know somebody who can drive a bus, give us a call. Um, so then the other big news, um, whether that's good or bad for our families who realize that we're talking about school starting already, um, still over a month away. So, please continue to enjoy this beautiful weather. Uh, Monday is our registration opening. So, you're one of three categories. Um, I believe uh, first you'll you'll get your snap code over the next couple days. If you don't get it today or tomorrow, please be patient. You'll probably get it on Monday. So, um, it comes from P school. If you don't get it by Monday, um, you're probably going to want to give P school a call. If you go to the registration, at the very bottom, there's a phone number,
004um, that that you can call. Also, if you have, if most importantly, check your spam on your email. A lot of times, um, even if you unmarked it last year, um, the system still sends it to your spam. We don't know why. Um, but make sure you check your spam. So, you should be getting those snap codes. Once you have that snap code, that is what allows you to register. So, if you're a cleared person, real simple, you actually go on the registration, um, put in your code and then you're just going to fill it out. There's nothing for you to upload. Um, at the very end, once you've done and you've hit, you know, you've selected, you've read all your your handbooks and your policies and things like that, you hit submit. Pops up
005a little button says, "Please go to e funds to make a payment." And then there, like always, we have options for pay it in full, make a payment plan, and please make your first payment. Um, or um that you're going to fill out a fee waiver. And if you're filling out that fee waiver, make sure you bring it into the you can bring it into the any one of the offices and they'll get it down to the district office. Um, once you hit that submit button, it says, uh, thank you. You've now submitted your registration. That will then go into what's called a hopper. And then over the probably over the next week, because it's going to be flooded with a lot of people, the ladies in the offices will go through and they'll verify
006all those things. Um, so you should be good to go. So that's if you're clear. If you clear and you happen to move, which is kind of the second category you're in, let's say you went from Hunter's Chase and now you you moved over to Nantucket Cove, so you took a, you know, a couple block walk. Um, at the very when it says, "Have you moved? Thank you for your honesty." Click yes. Um, at the very end when it'll say, you know, residency, if you're a cleared person and you don't haven't moved, it says, "Congratulations, nothing to do." If you've clicked that yes, I've moved, um, your honesty is very much appreciated. We're going to ask you to at the very end upload a utility bill from the last 30 days. I prefer to see
007the July one. So, if you if you haven't gotten the July one yet, just wait a week. Um, they should be coming out here pretty soon. Um, you can either scan it, upload it through your computer or you can take a picture on your phone and then upload it uh from your phone either to your email or even straight to the registration. So, uh that's that's the only difference you'll see if you happen to move and you're cleared. Um, if you're not cleared or if you happen to be a news new to the district, um, you can actually go online, you can fill all that stuff out, but it when you get to the registrate, I'm sorry, the residency portion of your registration, it's going to stop you. Um, you can try to hit submit,
008it's going to stop you. Nothing's going to happen. It's going to say that you need to report to district office. Um, and again, that means that you did not meet the threshold within the computer program of clear. And so, you'll need to come here um, like you did two, three years ago um, and and do redo residency. So, if you're a homeowner, you simply need to bring um your utility bill, your driver's license, or some kind of ID that tells us who you are. Um then two additional bills that link you to that that um um residence. Um we don't want cell phone bills. If you have a like a Comcast um that attaches you a Comcast bill that you have phone with, 100% that's fine. Um looking for water bills, uh insurance bills, um
009government um codes, things like that. Anything uh SNAP benefits, anything that links you to that house, bring those in. Those are all great. We'll make sure you get taken care of. If you're a renter, yes, you need to make sure you have an updated uh affidavit of residency that has to come, you have to come in with your landlord because your landlord has to prove that they actually do indeed live or own that resident. So, um, if you one of the affidavit does need to be notorized, both of the ladies here in the district office are notaries. So, don't worry too much about that. Don't go out and spend money on a notary if you bring your person uh your landlord in here and you just sign it in front of our ladies. It's no
010cost to you uh to get things notorized, residency things notorized here. Um, and then once that happens, just like the other systems, we'll we'll uh put you into the hopper once your reg registration's residency is taken care of. Um, and then you should be good to go. So again, patience is kind of the big thing. Um, whether that's waiting for that snap code, it should be coming out over the next couple days. If not, check your spam. If you still don't get it by like Monday midday, that's when you probably want to call P school, check that spam, and then once you've done you complete your registration, it it will put you into the hopper. And again, remember, we have over a thousand kids um who who are um capable of registering on Monday. So,
011but you know, it's a lot of people. So, just be patient with us. Once you get in, once it says um um your registration has been submitted, give it a couple days. U let it kind of filter through. Um, and if something you can always call at the end of the week or even the next the next Monday and say, "Hey, just checking on my registration." You should get an email that says that you've been registered. So, when it happens, um, you're good to go. And then lastly, um, the last portion that, um, a lot of times will hiccup or stop you, and this is what the ladies have to check on, is that payment. So, you can either pay in full through e funds, you can make a payment plan and then make your
012first payment or you need to bring in your um your u waiver form. And so, that's really what the ladies have to go through in each one of the offices. So, if you're wondering where your registration why it hasn't been approved yet, there's a good chance that they're they're looking at e funds or there's a hiccup somewhere that you um that they have to reach out to. Okay. Uh, so I apologize. I know kind of a lengthy video, but the registration process is very important because obviously we want kids at school. That's kind of what we do here. All right. Other than that, have yourselves a phenomenal rest of your week, weekend, and good luck next week with registration. Bye.