001Everybody, it's 5 o'clock. We're going to call our meeting to order. If you can stand, please have a moment of silence. Thank you. I understand we have some students here that might be willing to lead us in the pledge. Come on up if you will. >> All right. >> You guys can come over, too. I >> was going to say the volleyball team. >> The volleyball team. >> Ready? >> They're all like, "No." >> Right. You're coming all the way up. >> I love it. >> Hello. >> It's in your >> juris. >> You want to lead us out? >> Go for it. >> I aliance to 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. >>
002Perfect. >> All right. >> I like it. >> That was one of our better pledges. >> That was very good. >> Okay. >> I believe in the United States now. >> Top that. Top that. >> That's right. >> That is going downhill from there. >> Yes. >> Very good. >> Now they're going All right, we'll call the roll. Mr. Williams is not here tonight. Uh, I am present. Mr. Heater, >> present. >> Mrs. Barnes Griffin, >> present. >> Mr. Irvin, >> present. >> Mr. Low, >> present. >> And Mrs. Washburn, >> present. >> All right. Wonderful. >> Dr. Reynolds. >> Yes. Yay. Thank you. I have a few things to share tonight. Um maybe housekeeping just a reminder that we have um early release next Tuesday for professional development for our teachers. I know we
003had a couple of days last month for parent teacher conferences which were ve very well attended in person at our elementary schools and um just excited about those opportunities that we still provide for our parents. um have our my uh CEO parent advisory committee. We'll kick off next week uh for with the representative from each building um going to sit down have some conversations about what's going on in the district, what's what's um coming and uh just gather information from them, what what they would like to see and hear and know about and um how they can help be ambassadors for um for the district. I'd like to recognize Dr. K. Dr. K was uh recognized today by the Indiana Business Journal as a top 25 influential uh uh women, one of the top 25
004influential women in central Indiana. Um you know, still still working with us and for us and her capacity at Marian, but just uh really excited for for Leanne and that honor. Um she's not great with honors. She she likes working behind the scenes, but certainly is um certainly working for us and and and always an advocate for the Muny Community Schools. Um we had our George and France George and Francis Fall Foundation had their launch of the opportunity blueprint 2030 um recently and showcased a lot of the work going on within the Muny community schools and of course across our community partnerships. uh just a tremendous uh celebration and roll out of the new opportunity blueprint for the George and Francis Ball Foundation in collaboration with the Muny Community Schools. Uh wanted to share that.
005And then also we'll wrap up with athletics. We have lots of lots to celebrate with our athletics at the high school over the last few weeks and in the coming weeks. The uh football team is having a tremendous a tremendous season. They went in um went in last Friday for the playing for the conference championship against Lafayette. Jeff, unfortunately come up a bit short. Um the game was pretty close, maybe not as close as the final score, but it was it was a tremendous game. So they they ended conference play at 4- one and regular season at a five-4 overall record and we'll have sectionals uh this weekend at Marian um who we beat once this year. So they're looking forward to that game. Um, and then we would, if we would happen to win
006that game, um, likely that the next game would be at home. If the if the bracket goes as it should or as it's seated, um, that next game would be at home on Halloween. Um, cross country teams, they had a they had a good showing at their sectionals um, last weekend at Marian at Indiana Wesleyan University. sending four of our girl runners will be heading on to regionals to compete and then the entire boys team will be heading on to regionals. They were fourth overall will be heading on to regionals. Um and that will be at Huntington University. That is a tough course. Um starting to feel a little like fall, so it'll be it'll be a good good chance for our our teams to teams and kiddos to compete. And then finally, we have
007a lovely group of students that have joined us today that I really wanted to showcase. These folks are your conference champions in volleyball. Would the volleyball team, will you guys please come on in? All right. They all have about a threeminut speech prepared. Miss Huge said that they're all ready to speak and to share about their uh their experiences today. Uh but they are the North Central Conference champions. That is awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Uh just so proud of these students. Um goes to show you uh what some tremendous coaching and some great parents and great students can do. So thankful for Miss Hughes and and her team that I'll let her introduce. Um but so appreciative of these kids sticking it out. It's it's easy to um not stick with it when there's turnover. We
008we've seen that happen time and time again with athletic teams and music programs. So, these kiddos stuck it out um and uh worked together and had a tremendous season. Just a I would call it a turnaround season. Just so so proud um of these kiddos and the coaches. Um could would you mind just introducing yourself and your year and then we'll end with Miss Hughes if you would wrap up just say a few words about the team and your co and introduce your coaches. >> Okay. >> Um I'm Kale and I'm a junior. >> I'm Miller. I'm a senior. Kayie Rollins. I'm a senior. >> I'm Grace Walker. I'm a senior. >> I'm Elana Davis. I'm a junior. >> I'm Kenley May and I'm a senior. >> I'm Lacy Johnson. I'm a sophomore. >> I'm
009Eliasman. I'm a junior. I'm Emma Jennings. I'm a junior. MS. I'm a junior. >> I'm Joselyn Sutton and I'm a senior. >> I'm Brett Alexander and I'm a junior. I'm a freshman. >> I'm Nave Clark. I'm a freshman. I'mma Patterson. I'm a junior. >> Oh. Oh. Hello. >> She wasn't ready. She wasn't. You stepped She stepped out of her way and she wasn't quite ready. >> Okay. So, uh, my name is Kate Hughes and I'm the head coach. This is Joson Robersonson, um, assistant coach with the varsity team, also a MC Central alumni, um, and currently a Ball State student. This is Marty or Martin Cannavan. Um, and he is also a Ball State student as well, was a JB head coach and a varsity assistant with our team. So, we really honestly had a
010wonderful season. uh finished the year 19 and 12 um which is excellent. It's the first winning record the program's had in quite some years. So um that was really really nice. Um I knew we had a very special group um when we w worked in the summer and they were just really focused in every single day about getting better. Um I talk to them it's always about just becoming the best that you can possibly be. not always comparing yourself to the person next to you, just becoming the best version of yourself. We talked about that pretty regularly and they really bought into that motto. Um, and you know, it actually went on to be the the motto that we or that you can see on the back of their shirt that kind of modeled our
011whole season. Um, and what it was and then our very first game I knew uh we were in for a fun season when we had a reverse sweep of the first team that we played. If you don't know what that is, it means we were down 02 and won the next three matches for the three sets to win the match and a really hard fought game. And so that was a lot of fun. Um, in fact, actually most of the five set games we played, we only dropped one all year long. Um, including three set matches that were best two of three. We won most of those. And that's really hard to do um, just because you get tired. And so it's a big mental part of the game to be able to win a
012best of three or a best of five match in three or five matches and we won the vast majority of the ones that we played. So um that's definitely a huge huge accomplishment. Um including one of those three set matches was against Richmond which we played in the regular season. Um and then we so that was our first North Central Conference win. And then we went to Locket Jeff two Saturdays ago and we swept every team that we played. We didn't drop a set. Um, so that was really exciting. Um, and you know, other teams, I always think other teams have some really good players and we just looked incredible. We took the, you know, their best players out of the game. Um, and had a plan of what to do and they were able
013to handle that. um this past weekend in conference or in sectionals. We played incredibly well on Thursday, won on Thursday, played an incredibly hard-fought match on Saturday morning, came up just a little bit short on Saturday morning, but um we when I always talked about growth of a team, majority of a team, we were able to flip our defense and play with less than 12 hours notice our defense what the other team was doing um to make us more successful. is one of the reasons that we were able to go and and be very successful on Saturday morning. And so that's a huge testament to them and they played really well. They worked hard. Um and I'll leave you with this final note and these students don't know this. It was just announced today that
014um four of our seniors were named academic all state. And not only that, we're named the gold medal academic all state team. So [Applause] And that is Coley Miller, Haley Rowan, Grace Walker, and Kinley. >> Awesome guys. Thank you so much. Anything anybody wants to share? >> Mr. President Williams is not here and I know that he would ask that. So, in honor of of him, anything you'd like to share? You know what's incredible about their season is I don't see a lot of height which means you played hard >> other than the end nor when we get into the North Central Conference they got what 6'2 63 I don't see 62 63 so >> awesome what you guys achieved with your height anyway >> Kinley you started walking towards the mic >> well Kate
015did a lot of bragging on us but I think as a whole we were very appreciative of her >> and um just her >> her drive to make us not only better players but better people. So I should just thank her for that. >> Awesome. >> Anything else guys? >> Great job. >> Awesome. >> So where's Mr. Walker? He's going to say go Beer. >> Mr. Walker, you want to send us out? >> Go Bearcat. Thank you. >> Bye, guys. Thank you. >> Awesome. >> So, there's no height there. >> Just fantastic. >> Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm playful. >> Are you done? >> Yeah. >> I'm sorry. That is it. >> Okay, Mr. H. >> Yeah, good luck, Eric. >> Westview. >> Good evening. I feel like feel like I need to posture down
016here. Good evening, U Bishop O'Neal, Dr. O'Neal, Dr. Reynolds, uh board member, central office staff, uh parents, thank you again for bringing your kiddos if you're still here. Um, we have the pleasure this evening of going over a lot of our school goals. So, the the the four big pillars of what we're really having more of a laser sharp focus on this year. And I'd like to introduce uh Mrs. Agnu, Miss Davis. Mrs. Agnu is our um she's our master coach for our school. Miss Davis is our assistant principal. And then Mrs. Shin is our uh PTO president. So, she'll be sharing uh towards the the tail end of our presentation. So, uh we're going to be talking about our reading goals, our math goals, our behavior goals, and our attendance goals, which is something
017that we've really been echoing uh at a lot of our meetings, our professional development. Uh being very purposeful in the the learnings from our summit. And you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on and off with my glasses. I'm in that season of life. I need to read it here and I need to see you there. So, uh, but without further ado, I'm going to turn it over to, uh, Mrs. Agnu to discuss and share our reading goals and strategies for this year. >> So, we were told to kind of keep it simple and sweet, so that's what we're going to try to do. >> We want you to keep it complicated. >> No, there's enough of that. No. Um, so our I um I read scores were not what we wanted them to be
018last year to be quite honest. And so we've made a lot of pivots and changes this year, including staffing, um getting extra volunteers into our school. We have almost 30 volunteers from Ball State that are LED 100 students or um some of the athletic teams that are coming in and working with our students, whether that's volunteers in the classroom or reading buddies. And we're just kind of getting excited about having those opportunities. We also have Kate Elliot who's working and getting some volunteers from the writing department at Ball State into our school and just kind of meeting some of those needs that we just need more hands. So, we'll get to that in a minute, but that is part of our goals, too, is to get those helps that we need. Um, so our our
019goal is to increase that I read. That's number one. Um, also for iLearn, we're wanting to increase the summitive score by 10% as well as the checkpoints along the way. Last year we were piloting the checkpoint and this year we kind of we know a little bit more about it and so we're still trying to figure out how to mesh that with our CKLA curriculum. Um we were just given access to that platform this year. So teachers, staff, admin, we're all still learning the platform but it has a lot of correlation with our iLearn checkpoints. So, we're hoping that those two will really increase the capacity to practice those skills and spiral those skills. Um, some of the other things that we're doing, we're our teachers are using the EXL platform to weekly um be
020able to get a diagnostic read on our students and it finds the trouble spots a lot more quickly than sometimes we can individually with paper pencil. You know, it shows us those graphs very quickly. um our partnership with Marian University um the cadre we every two weeks I do a two-hour zoom and I learn something that I can pass on to our teachers and that's been very helpful even over fall break we had an asynchronous one that I think is actually one of my most favorite ones that I'm really excited to talk to the teachers about next week um Mr. Mr. Amler's big on anchor charts and so we've really pushed the anchor charts this year and using those and um we're even like letting some of the kids take those home and they kind
021of go home and teach their siblings kind of a fun way to let them teach outside of the classroom what they're learning as well. Um we're like I said our our curriculum with I Ready and CLA doesn't have a lot of spiral opportunities and so um we kind of we've moved into some flexibility within our reading block and math block to get more practice. We feel like that was one of the things that we were lacking last year and kind of showed up in our scores. So teachers are using that transition time on the way to specials or on the way to the cafeteria. Um, we're even kind of coming up some with some challenges during library time for, you know, different capacities of them using those skills and not just a at their desk,
022but real life challenges, competitions where they can, you know, earn some rewards. So, we're excited about those things. Um, our MTSS focus has changed a little bit this year. We've we're getting some different ways of communicating with teachers and parents and those students that we're kind of the most concerned about. So, that's been exciting to see that process really bloom this year. Um, another thing that I'm most excited about is our teachers are all ability grouping during our reading lab and math lab times. And so, instead of trying to differentiate between each classroom, um, they're doing, you know, like our high, medium, and lows, you know, as far as abilities, and they're really able to pinpoint even within like those groups, they can differentiate and hit the needs of those students. And we're seeing a
023lot of improvement already. and we're still in October, but I'm I'm very very excited about the the potential that we are seeing in that. And then um you know, I go back to all those hands-on deck. We have 81 ELEL students at our school this year. And so we need those extra hands to help because teachers, as as hard as they are working, it's hard to meet the needs of of students who are coming in with no English language knowledge. And so it's been it's been endearing for me to see the teachers really want to come together and figure out how to help those students. Um and it's also been been fun to watch our students in the classrooms having empathy for those students who are new and trying to help them along. So you
024know as hard as those moments can be, it's also it's also endearing and you know just to see that they're building the capacity to be a good citizen of the classroom. So, those are some of the things that we're kind of doing to help with our our English language arts. Um, and so, >> so Kelly had mentioned a couple math things that that have carryover as far as some of the strategies that we're using, uh, especially. So, she stole a little bit of my thunder. I'm going to steal some thunder from her little or send some thunder her way. But one of the things uh with regards to those EL students that uh that we've also um you know had that challenge with is to really get our ESL teacher Sadiq, get him embedded with
025those ESL kiddos from an approach more so of uh intervention to give them really what they need. So that's something that is was a big change that was an apparent apparent need and a critical need while also being able to service our our other students in intervention. So as far as our math goals, um I was never a math kid when I was coming up because I didn't have very effective teachers. And so when I came in uh when I came into the role of a teacher some years ago, I really gravitated towards a lot of aha moments and uh and a lot of those in the practices that I had in my own classroom that our teachers are doing uh are a lot of the strategies that you uh that you'll see here in
026just a moment. But as far as our uh uh increasing our iLearn math scores, we want to we want to increase that uh about 10% or more. the or more is the is what we're really u stressing. Last year overall for third through fifth grade I learn we were sitting at 30 33.7% uh but we want to raise that to 43.7 and beyond. Our first benchmark we have already uh we've already passed that that was a couple weeks back for math. Our goal uh for that first benchmark from the the piloted year which was last year was um what we had actually gotten was a 30.3 in 2024. Uh we aspired to increase that 10% to 40.3. We actually fell about 4% short of that goal, but we still had growth nonetheless uh at proficiency
027or exceeding proficiency. Uh one of the things that uh I take a lot of um a lot of solace in though is that 14% of our students were approaching. So if we can get those kids over that hump, over that bubble, we're looking at 50%. Which would be um that exceeding is what we want. We always want to exceed. Uh nonetheless, we're still moving kids forward. We just need to get get them going. And to get there, the math strategies that we are implementing, this is across the board with ELA, reading, and math are anchor charts, implementing and creating those during lessons for student references, teaching references. >> Describe what an anchor chart is. >> That was great. >> Anchor charts. So, there's some examples up there. So, for example, uh please excuse my dear
028aunt Sally as the as the one here, PMD dos, but that's that's a a very quick and easy reference to use for students. And those a lot of those are created in real time while they're being taught. Uh that's one of those things where teachers can refer students back to that if they're working in small groups. Uh they can actually take those anchor charts down. One of the things that uh Kelly had talked about was we can actually send some of those home with students. But basically when a new concept or something along those lines is introduced in the classroom, that's that's we're anchoring our attention there. We're anchoring uh there's vocabulary that's in there. There are uh conceptual understanding. There's rope memorization. There's definitions. >> It's foundational. >> It is. It's very foundational. Correct.
029And in some of the some of the modeling that I've done in a couple classrooms with anchor charts because it's very near and dear to my heart. That's why I want to see it all over the building. Um is that uh if there's a student that is forming a conjecture or they have a connection, they have prior knowledge. If you put ownership, you put that child's name on that anchor chart, um that that uh really breeds a lot of attention. It it it gives like I said ownership to that and it could become um Mr. heater rule for rounding. So it it it's it's it's a great tool. >> Always round up. >> You know what? I would love to. That would be awesome. Yeah. Right. So, did I answer your question? >> Yeah. >>
030Gotcha. I couldn't see your hand raised cuz my glasses were on. >> So, uh in addition to that, spiraled review for previous checkpoints, student justifications, which is a non-negotiable, particularly with math. So, they're showing their work. Um, I had the, and I say this, it sounds sounds a bit backwards, but I had the pleasure of, uh, of taking all of our students justification papers and all of their student work for the first checkpoint. We have to collect all of those. They're secure, so I could take them to the shredder. It was a mountain of work. It was It was awesome. It had It had uh um, you know, it had strategies on them. I can't tell you exactly what it was because of testing integrity. Uh, but I was I was very very pleased to
031see the volume of work that our students produced with that checkpoint. Um, continuing on essential vocabulary, we're uh leveraging some uh applications where we can actually build our own quizzes and make sure that we have that content specific vocabulary for not only ELA and reading but also for math so that we can get our kids well verssed in that. Uh, we also have title one family nights. We have an MTSS focus that uh Mrs. Agnu also talked about as it relates to um ELA and reading ability grouping there again. Uh and then also uh as much time on task as possible so our students uh can get a leg up and take advantage of every every minute of our school day. So um other than that I'd like to welcome Miss Davis up to talk
032about our school goals for behavior. >> Eric, before you pass along, how many students do you have at Westview? So, we have right around 538ish or so. We've got some more enrolling and so um we're we're right around the the 500 550 mark. We're getting closer. >> You said you had 81 students that are learning English. >> How did they how successful have they been with >> achieving the math? And >> so, I would have to disagregate that data and I can get that answer for you. Kind of curious. >> Sure. And so with the with the language barriers that they have um you know they do have accommodations for testing. They're in small groups. And so um you know they're it's >> for our our students who are u native Spanish speakers uh they
033do have an opportunity to have what's called stacked Spanish on those assessments so that they can they can toggle back and forth between Spanish and English. And so that's an advantage that those kiddos have if they if they have um you know a lot of our students who are um native Spanish speakers are in our dual language program. But that's something that's that's um an embedded accommodation that we can give them through those uh individualized learning plans for the the eels. >> Thank you. So, but as far as the the the other balance, the other majority or the other um large uh population of our students speak Dari, Poshtu, um and Arabic. And so, Sadi, he actually he speaks those languages and more. So, he's he's u he's able to help them as much as
034he can within the the confines of uh of testing. >> I have two questions. Can you can you speak a little bit more to like the October checkpoint for reading? So, checkpoint number one, it says increase 21.1%. >> Mhm. >> Um, up to 31. >> I didn't hear you say kind of where did where was the checkpoint for? >> We we take that next week. Next week. >> That's coming up next week. The 27th is when that window opens and it runs through the first part of November. >> Okay. >> So, those checkpoints are staggered for math and and and reading. And then under math the 14% that were approaching proficiency like >> what gives you the approaching like what were you what are you look what were you looking at what showed approach what
035does approaching >> it's part of their scale score so they were close close to the cut the cut score for for proficiency >> okay >> so they're they're approaching proficiency so it's it's it's one of those cortiles >> okay so like >> so >> I mean I know they're almost there But like >> Sure. >> Is that a Yeah. Curious what looked like. >> Sure. So we could designate some of those kiddos approaching. They could be one point away. They could be, you know, several points away. >> Yeah. So it's a range of of of of their score. >> Thank you so much. >> Any other questions? >> All right. I'll turn over to Miss Davis. >> Thank you. Um at Westview we also have a strong behavior goal. Our goal is to decrease the
036number of out of school suspensions by 50%. So last year we hadund I'm going have to do what Eric does up close 192. Um this year our goal is 96. It is also to decrease the number of special ed out of school suspension by 20%. um from 55 to about 44. Um our goal in October was less than 25 and right now when we hit October we had 12. So we are doing some really great things with behavior ensuring that students are aware of what the expectation is and where to go from there. Our upcoming goal for January is 33. Um, I'm hopeful because, you know, those winter months get get a little bit busy for kids when they can't get outside, run around, and do what they like to do. But I feel like
037in March and May, I'll be able well, in January and March, I may be able to bank a couple to take me through May. So, I feel like it'll be good. Um, our strategies that we'll that we're using right now is monthly positive behavior convocations for students who have no referrals. So for um if you look at the pictures where we have Mudy Central, their football team came out. We had a convocation with the football team and if you had no referrals, your name was possibly pulled from a group of students who had no referrals to participate with the football team and there's our great new coach. Really enjoy him. Um but uh with that being said, this month we will meet with the soccer team and do some great things with the soccer team.
038So every month we are incorporating the high school with us um not every month but as much as we possibly can and then we also have some other great things in line for the other months where we don't have a sport going on at that time. Another one of our uh strategies is for students with three or more incidents of out of school suspension, they are flagged by the behavior coach. And with that being said, the behavior coach will pull those students, talk to them about strategies, talk to them about ways to work through self-regulation. And today I feel this, but I don't have to do that. I can be better. I can be a different person, you know, even though I'm feeling those things. Another thing is that we are working with teachers. So,
039we are looking at how many referrals teachers are sending in. So, if Mr. Grim is sending in an enormous amount of referrals on a regular basis, then he too will meet with the behavior coach and discuss strategies, discipline strategies, um, and also given resources on how to work with those students and how to set up guidelines that will help them be successful. Um, another thing we are doing is our school site has created behavior groups. One thing we're doing is friendship groups. A lot of times you have bullying because kids don't have friends. And so when we are able to identify those students who don't have friends, we put a group together to have them kind of work together. We're also doing social emotional groups um to talk about their feelings, talk about what are
040we doing with those feelings, how do we work through those, how do we self-regulate. And the last thing we are working on right now is grief groups. Um, a lot of our kids, believe it or not, are going through some very strong grief in this season. I don't know particularly what's going on, but a lot of our students have lost parents. They've lost grandparents who are great influence in their lives. And, you know, they're just trying to pack all those emotions in those little bodies. They're trying to figure out what do I do with this? how do I move forward? Where do I go from here? And so because of that, we give them an outlet. They meet with our school, one of our school psychologists to be able to talk through those things that
041they themselves are feeling on a regular basis. Um as far as um our our referrals go, the numbers are down. Um, and also we are really working to be sure that kids understand what creates a referral, what mandates that you go to the office, what happens when you do this, then your teacher has to do that. Why is that? And then making better choices. So those are the things that we're doing. Do we have any questions, comments, or concerns? You you shared a couple, but I was going to ask like what were the prec precipitating like outside factors that were causing students to have to be suspended, but I heard you say bullying and then there are some um grief groups. Are there other things? >> We don't have a great number of students bullying
042at our school. That's that's not something that's big, but it is something that happens if students don't have friends. They don't have >> if I don't have friends, it is something that will >> cause me to choose to I'm going to get your attention whether it's good or bad. >> And so if I can get your attention by annoying you, poking you, nagging you, that's what I'll do. So, um, working on positive ways. We're doing a lot of positive reinforcers with our students. Uh, Mr. Mr. Amble has a a ticket box outside of his door that he pulls names on a regular basis for students to either come down for prizes or come down and help with the pledge or just to be recognized. In a school of 540 kids, it's always nice to be
043recognized because it's very easy to feel unseen. And so if I do bad things like I saw this one do, then that might make me be seen. But if I know what the good choices are and what I should be doing to be seen, that would be helpful for me as a student. >> And then you you you came from South View Elementary, now you're at West View. Is that to >> really to help with the strategies around behavior or what? >> Well, I think it's just a little bit of everything. I don't think the move from South View to West View was um good, bad, or indifferent. I think I made a lateral move. I think um I'm able to bring a lot to the table, but they already have a lot on the
044table. They're doing amazing things at Westview. And so um I'm just the cherry on top. I'm just >> We'll take that. >> Thank you guys. >> Cheers. >> Gotcha. All right. So, continuing on uh with our goals, our attendance goals. It's it's it's pretty straightforward. If you're at school, you're there. If you're not at school, we want you to be there. And so, uh increasing our daily attendance. Last year we were at uh 93.1%. Our goal for for Westview and across the district is 94%. uh our benchmark excited uh that we have already surpassed that uh for October. Uh so we actually were at 95.5%. Uh I checked it again today and um if uh Tony Perkins, our student assistant uh coordinator is watching this, she's probably at the edge of her seat and knows
045the data probably far better than I probably down to the thousandth place. Uh but we were at uh 95.94 through September and then uh when I when I got this prepared we're at 95.5. So 95 we'll round it up right. Uh 96 we're going to try and get there. Uh so our benchmark we've already surpassed that but I think that's a that's a testament to a lot of the strategies that we're using. Uh monthly attendance initiatives our WVCA which Mrs. Shen will uh talk more about here in just a moment. um uh they've really been uh helpful in supporting our initiatives, supporting our strategies. They always have and and will continue to do so. uh family communications with information on our uh compulsory attendance laws and things of that nature, the changes at the state.
046Uh some of some of which are um are chron chronicled in um the little packet that I prepared for you with our newsletters. But those are all things that we want to make sure are are are versed and uh are shared and are on on our breath when we're talking about those things. uh instituting new clubs to increase engagement, student engagement particularly to uh Miss Davis's point. And we have uh almost 550 students. And if you have an opportunity to be seen or to do something, uh we're looking to uh extend that. Um we've got art, math, bull, and cheer. We'd like to and we also have a literacy club. U field trips. Uh we've tried to push a lot of field trips with culminating activities. Kids love to go on field trips. There's one
047coming up uh this week. another one uh next week. >> We got one >> camp camp adventure. >> So, all of our dual language students are going to go out to Camp Adventure for culminating activities. Uh you're welcome. It's going to be um they're going to be talking about the Renaissance, Medieval Times. There's going to be Mr. Mike, our counselor, is a he's a a falconer. So, he's going to have that demonstration. Um I if I can make it out there tonight some people, we'll see see what I can do. So, it's it's going to be a fun time, but it all it all goes back to wanting to be at Westview, wanting to be at school, uh being engaged in curricular types of things, uh that we're expanding upon and that we're really really
048making kids uh helping kids make memories that are going to last them a lifetime and really build their capacity uh as being learners and facilitators of each other's learning, their own learning, uh and really really taking it further. that's that's really what we want to see and instill in our students. Uh we also have attendance challenges from time to time and then uh project attend refer referrals and home visits. Those have been helpful for those kiddos and those families who have been um who have been chronically absent years past. So uh any questions about that goal? Okay. Well, I'd like to turn it over to Mrs. Shin. She wanted to share some things. We appreciate her time. >> Thank you. Hi. >> Hello. >> I'm Adriana Shen. It's nice to meet you all. Uh, so
049I'm the president of the West View Community Association, which we refer to as the WBCA, which is a mouthful. Um, my husband and I have three children currently enrolled in Muny Community Schools, all of whom have gone through the dual language program, two of whom are at West View and then one in honors and the dual language program at North Side. Um, as I mentioned, my work is with the WVCA. We are a nonprofit parent teacher organization that has a history almost as old as the school itself, which is pretty incredible. Um, we are a small but mighty board made up of the people who truly deserve the spotlight. So, I would just like to mention them. Amy Cornet, Anna McGllinchi, Julie Nichols, Jesse Shin, and Gail Warner. and also the many board members and
050selfless volunteers that came before us, including Katie. Um, in my time with the WBCA, I am incredibly proud of the work that we've done over the years. We have worked tirelessly to meet the needs of teachers, staff, and our families. Whether this has been through purchasing curriculum, paying for furniture, rugs, school supplies for teachers, um purchasing a classroom set of coding robots for our PLTW class, and funding numerous school events throughout the year, and truly so much more. The work I'm most proud of are the ways that we lift financial burdens from our families. Um, for example, we host two Scholastic book fairs every year. Uh when I first started, I made it my mission to provide each of our almost 550 students with a free book. Um this means instead of taking any profits,
051we funnel all potential revenue from the fairs into purchasing a book for every student, ensuring everyone is included. Um which has been tremendously impactful for our kids. Uh, we've also been honored to help with more intimate and personal needs such as helping to provide clothes or sanitary needs for students. Donating to a family who lost their home in a fire or helping to cover the burial cost of a student we lost last year, something that no family should have to navigate. So, um, I like to say we don't just believe that we are to be good and faithful stewards of our money. we truly act upon it and our mission is to ensure the entirety of our school feels supported including our families. Um, briefly I'll mention one of our current projects. Um, in September
052through um, oh, you know what, I don't have that picture, but this the picture that you see on the left is one of our scholastic book fairs. And then the one on the right is of a volunteer night that we hosted in which the students made flower. They made paper flowers and and Valentine's Day cards that we then delivered to a nursing home. Um, but this September, um, through the efforts of our fundraising, we were able to purchase new furniture for our library. Um, as many of you probably know, our library had been closed for several years. Um, in part due to the pandemic and then also the construction at Westview. Um, so last year, for the first time in several years, students were able to walk the aisles of our library. Um, so being
053able to continue breathing life into the library by providing new furniture to create a truly appealing and engaging space for students has been a joy for us. Um, so as I reflect, I can just say that I'm utterly humbled and grateful. I've been inspired by the many people who support our work and care so deeply not just about West View, but the children who are our community, our future generations, our future community leaders, parents, and educators. So, thank you to Eric and Shawn for graciously supporting us and always letting me hang out with you guys at the school and being a champion of the students. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Oh, that's yours. All right. Well, hopefully I I did uh did a lot of IW we did uh justice with time and
054whatnot. Um if not, I apologize. I'll do better next year. I we but I would be uh remiss if I did not uh make mention of, you know, just of u the things that that we individually shared with this presentation. uh each and every one of us up here as well as many of our teachers and staff. Our hands are in absolutely everything. I'm not just married to math. I'm just highly interested in it. But um Sean has been an amazing thought partner. Um Kelly has been an amazing thought partner as well. What we're all in this together. It's not my school. It's not her school. There's a cherry on top now. No. >> Uh it's not it's not uh Mrs. Shin's school. This is our school. And that's something that I've said for years.
055It's something I I believe in. Um I believe in our our students. I believe in our parents, our teachers and staff. And uh it's it's it's a pleasure to work there and it's a even if even on the most challenging of days, but um that's that's just what we do. It's it's it's our school and we love it. So >> can I ask you how the facilities? How are things holding up with the new the new renovations? >> Awesome. We are to the gills. We are filled up. In fact, um as soon as we opened the doors last year, uh we were right back at capacity. Uh we've got just uh third grade and second grade alone, we've got a hundred students uh per the per each of those grades. Um we are still fortunate
056that we that we do not have class sizes that are unmanageable and unreasonable uh particularly uh to support our students. They're they're growing, don't get me wrong. They are growing. Uh and we've made some we've made some shifts as far as uh as classes and teachers and things of that nature. Space has always been um at a at quite uh a commodity and so uh we're lucky to have those challenges. Uh I think that the the the population growth that we've had in the the this is my ninth year at Westview has been not exponential mathematically speaking, but it's been a couple hundred students since I started there. we are a different school than what we were those nine years ago. Uh which is a good thing. We we shouldn't be the same school and
057that hopefully that's evident in the strategies we're using, the goals that we have. But I think that our increased growth is a testament to uh our school, our our uh our our collectiveness and uh and what we want to achieve for our students. >> Great. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> So did you say 200? So growth >> just about very close to >> Wow. Where are they coming from? Because you you've got a defined region, right? >> We do. Um the only exception to that would be dual language. And so as we've grown that from each year that we've uh that we've uh had that our first cohort are not eighth graders. Uh and so that's that's something that's very exciting to be able to say. Um and so as as we continued that program
058through the years, Dr. could could tell better than I because this this was a lot uh by and large the development of this program laying the groundwork. Each year that we've had that program in existence, we've added a classroom. So, that's contributed. Uh it's also uh we had space to fill. We had some spare rooms when I first started there, but those obviously have uh I want to say overrun. That's kind of a a big term, but um we've continued to grow. We've added uh sections of grade levels. We have three across the board. We've got four grade levels of or four classes of each grade level with the exception of first grade where we have three. One of which for each of those levels is a dual language classroom. And so, um give us
059give us the space is is kind of a field of dream situation. >> Thank you. >> So, And then Adriana, are you is it Adriana? >> Adriana, sorry. Um how are um parents and folks engaging? Are they engaging with PTO? >> I mean, so when I first started um I kind of it was a kind of a call to action. Um and so I was like, well, I guess I'll do it. And then I really, you know, quickly fell in love with it. I fell in love with Katie. No, I think Katie know, you know, I mean, you do. And then you I am fortunate that I have the capacity to to be at the school and really do the work because it is an incredible amount of work. Um but we've tried to make
060sure that we can reach families. So, we've recently made sure that all of our meetings are on video calls and that um we are working on getting a translator um for our families who need um Spanish speaking translation, which is huge because we really truly want every single parent there. We don't want there to be any barriers. Um >> so that's been a really big goal for us just to make sure that you know you're always welcome in person, but you're always welcome to email us, you're always welcome in our video calls. and we've had a a lot of support from our teachers and getting the word out, too. So, it's been great. >> Thank you. So, so I'm not going to take over. Maybe I will. Um, sorry, just a sec. But I at
061the nail shop, like I'm everywhere, but I had a wonderful conversation last week and it was probably the whole time that I was getting my nails done, but it was really about West View Elementary. It was um a mom who has a child who is special needs and just talking about the care, >> right? um in in and concern that you all show cuz their daughter is new >> at the school this year. Um and then also talked about the connection and feeling connected because of PTO. So it was just really really really good stuff to hear. >> I thank you for sharing that. >> And I don't tell them I'm on the school board till after they say all the things. >> Yeah. No, that that's the way to do it. >> No, that's
062great. I love to hear that. That's really sweet. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Your kids were fantastic. Thank you. >> You know what? They don't have much to work with. I think a couple lip glosses and she's trying to get into my phone. >> You know, they we you know, they knew what they were in for, so they did great. Thank you. >> Thank you guys. >> Excellent. >> Okay. do my answer. >> Do we have any Mr. Clots? We have anybody Andy? All right, let's go on to our consent agenda. There any items on here that we want to highlight or discuss? I do want to thank um McGuff >> Yeah. >> for that generous donation. That's pretty >> pretty significant. You need a motion >> and nothing else. We need a motion.
063>> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Move and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos. Same sign. >> All right. Motion carries. Mr. Don, you're up. >> Thank you. Included in your board packet is the financial information for the month of September. Uh we're just cruising toward the end of the year. September is nine months obviously in our 12-month calendar year. Um so almost through October here as we sit here now. So um just trying to end the year um within our appropriations. Uh the the first thing I want to report on is our uh ADM count, the enrollment count. Um uh we came in officially at 4,893. 4893. That's up 21 versus the February count. So, we were up 21 versus February at 4,893 and versus October a year ago, we
064were down 15. A year ago, we were 4,908. Um, so happy to report we're up versus February, down versus uh a year ago. When we prepared our budget uh this summer, uh we prepared it based on 4,865. So we were actually up 28 versus when we did our financial information for the board and for our budget process. So basically we were trying to budget and forecast a a pretty flat enrollment uh not a big increase or not a big decrease and it really came into that. So what we'll see what you see here when I report the next item there in my dashboard of the projected revenue for the state basic grant at 47.6 6 million. We'll see probably a change at our November um board meeting because then the state will then start revising
065the estimated revenue for us on the state basic grant based on our actual enrollment that we turned in in October. So we'll it'll probably go up. It's going to go up a little bit to reflect that change uh change u going higher. So that's a positive thing to report. >> So round up. >> I know. Round up. There we go. So, I thought that was that was a positive thing to share with the school board. Uh school board tonight. Uh basically, uh we're within our appropriation levels. Uh still projected um you know, a little over 32 a little over $30 million at the end of the end of the month of September. Uh our state uh state loan is down to 6.2 million. We've paid $5.7 million over the over the period since uh 2020
066and that's still an outstanding loan through two uh June of 2028. So we're we're sticking with the original plan on that. Uh the the next couple slides are just I always like to show our cash balances on the uh the big charts graph uh where it just shows where we've been. Even if you can't read it, you can see the trend. The trend clear on the far left was in December of 2018. That was a little over 10 million in the bank and we're now up over right at 30 million on the far right. What you see there in red, that just reflects the state loan that we have continued to pay down after it reached the high of the 12 million that we were we were given. Uh the next graph just shows what
067that is if you subtract out the uh the state loan. Um so very very you know positive items to report. The next one was the appropriation level and that basically just says we're still within our expected appropriations. Uh about a year ago at this time I think I came to the school board and asked for additional appropriations. Um we did not have to do that for this fourth quarter. Uh we we feel like we will fall within the original budget appropriate appropriation amount. So, I did not have to come to the board and ask for anything more. And that really pretty much wraps it up for the financial report. It's uh uh in December. We did close on the uh need to report that on the bonds. Uh we did sell bonds uh last week
068uh 9.9 million with our current uh construction project and uh sold those at 3.11% um which was very good per our Baker Tilly consultants what they had told us and uh we'll close on that and receive those proceeds uh by the end of November. So that's that's where we're at on that. And of course, those particular bond proceeds will help us uh fund the project uh the first wave of our 2025 project, which those are a multitude of things uh on roofing projects, door projects at Muny Central. The biggest piece of that project is the boiler chiller at the Muny Fieldhouse. So, we believe it or not, we receive bids, we will receive bids on that particular first part of the project for the um the chiller and the boiler at the fieldhouse uh next
069week. So, as long as we stay within the overall project 19 uh 198 million, we're going to be real happy. So, anyway, that's our report. >> Thank you. >> All right, we've heard a report. I think we it's an action item. We need a >> move approval. >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. Any questions? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> Okay. Motion carries. Social media resolution. >> Yes. So, if you recall um a few years ago, we we approved a resolution um in conjunction with um our attorneys at Church Hill and Antrum. um to uh get into uh to join a litigation for vaping. What you have in front of you today is a resolution authorizing litigation against social media companies. This is a statewide, nationalwide um litigation campaign
070against social media companies and the impact that that's had on school districts um particularly ours, but uh those across the state, across the country. Um this this resolution has been vetted by um by our attorneys and is ready for approval. >> Anybody got any questions? By >> joining this litigation there there is no cost to us to do that. >> That is correct. >> If we if there is a a settlement of any kind, any fee would be paid out of that. >> Yes. >> Similar to the the smoke or the vaping >> y >> litigation that we joined >> um in the past, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. We we received um settlements to I think two um proceeds out of that. Um and we we've brought those in and used those towards revamping of
071our um handbook and partnering with um community groups to um have alternatives to suspension for vaping. Um we would we would uh these proceeds we would have the same flexibility. I would I would guess um just the conversations we had with with our attorneys that this would this would be a drawn out a little longer than the vaping >> um litigation. Move approval of the resolution. >> Second move and second it. All in favor say I. >> I oppose. Same sign. >> Okay. Motion carries. Uh health insurance. >> Thank you. Also presented in your board packet tonight is the item we bring to you once a year is our um to discuss the health insurance premiums, medical, dental, and vision uh for the next calendar year. Uh very happy to report to you um for
072this particular process. Uh we're requesting permission to approve our medical insurance quotes for medical, dental, and vision for the 26th plan year uh at no increase. Uh once again, I think this is the third year in a row for no increase. Uh you can't believe how incredibly difficult this could be um to have no increase. Uh a couple things have gone our way. Um we have continued to have uh lower claims versus expected and that's a big key right there. Um so we're generating um funds that go into our self- insurance balance and uh I mentioned that in there. It's about 2.7 million. So that's increased from a year ago. Um it's increased since the start of the year. Uh we do have a self-funded plan. Um um so we are we're riding that wave
073of good of good claims and on their recommendation we're taking no increase and that's a very positive thing for our employees and as well as us my schools for medical dental and vision. Uh the company is still Anthem. Um a couple highlights with that. Um, we will still provide, as we have the last three years, $1,000 for single plan, uh, for contribution to their HRA as well as their HSA. You have to sign up for one or the other if you so choose. Uh, 2,000 for single plus one or 2,000 for family for the HA or HSA. As mentioned, no changes for the dental vision premiums for employees, that will be the same. The only change listed there is we had to do it per the IRS uh for our medical plan B. That's the
074one considered the highdeductible health care plan that's um tethered with a health savings account. We have to follow the IRS regs. Those that single deductible has to go from 3,300 to 3,400. And um we would plan for an open enrollment for all our employees the middle of November to the middle of December like we about a 30-day window that we like to do that gives everybody a chance to get signed up if they so need to make that change. So very happy to report that in your packet or included as attachments to your packet. um we just printed out the um expected premiums uh for what the employees pay and once again it did not change. So that is our recommendation to the board tonight. >> Thank you question. Do our retirees get to continue
075to No, they have to go out on their own plan now. >> Okay. Correct. But they did at one point. What? Didn't they used to do that? Something like that. And that's okay. >> Yeah, they did. >> You are right. >> Somebody made a motion. >> I think I heard a motion. >> Mr. Low second. >> Oh, second. >> No, you got a second. >> We got a second here. >> You said low second. I thought you said no second. >> I just said low second. Low. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> All right. Motion carries. >> All right. Compensation. That that that'd be me. Um uh thank you uh pastor. Um is my pleasure to represent the compensation committee which included Dr. Washburn and Jim Lowe. Uh and
076we were joined by Dr. Reynolds and by Brad Jerome in our conversations. Um compensation this year, this is the third of other groups. I think from a process standpoint, we start with our teachers. Um then we we uh evaluate support staff and then ultimately we evaluate uh administration. um much of which is based upon uh where we stand uh with our ADM and where we expect uh our budget to be going. Um so uh performance evaluations were were held with uh our uh our um um administrative staff um and uh compensation and performance rubric with our uh folks who are in the school buildings. Um uh in addition to that we evaluated then and what Brad brought to us was some evaluation of the market. Uh obviously that's important to us as we look at
077people who are in buildings uh leading those those buildings as well as the um um uh uh district. Uh we also evaluated resource availability which you know is is something that is a little bit out there today of question with some of the legislation impact of legislation. Um however the recommendation that that we have come to uh is an overall increase uh to the administrative staff or um uh of $105,000 which is a 2.7% increase. Uh that number uh is relative to uh our teachers uh increase of of 2.5 and then support staff was a little less than that a 1.2 too, but they also qualify for a stipen which can uh put their increase in their compensation at a level well above 2 and a.5% if they stay and are in good standing with
078us throughout the year. So overall uh this recommendation of $105,000 or 2.7% uh would would uh create a total compensation increase for the year uh of all employees of my community schools of 2.2%. 2% um which we think is is uh uh what is appropriate for us today. Um so Dr. Washburn or Jim, do you have anything to add to that conversation? >> Probably can't explain it as well as Chuck can, but all the administrative staff have a rubric >> or a KPIs that they are uh evaluated on. Yeah, correct. Maybe you can explain that. Yeah. So the the um just as a quick review, the building administrators all work through the national um institute for uh NIET, the National Institute for Excellence and Teaching um rubric that we used for the evaluation. Um and
079then our district administrators, they have smart goals that they that they're evaluated on. So in addition to those pieces, we also looked at um looked at school data and and evaluated that as a as an additional factor um when it when it came to their evaluations. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> On behalf of the comp committee, I make a recommendation for approval administrative salaries as presented. I >> have a motion. Second. >> Any other questions, comments? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Post same. >> All right. Great. Policy review. All right. Um I uh in your board packet, you you found all the policies and then the the highlighted red line versions of what we've added. I guess just u to summarize most of those changes in there were
080due to updated um legislative requirements. Um aside from the addition the new policies that we've added um that would replace just our practice that we had in the district office through the last couple of bond rating uh meetings that we've had. Uh they have asked for um our D our debt management plan our p our cash balance and liquidity plan. um they've asked for those and those have just been practices instead of policies and we worked with Church Church Hill and Antrum to to adopt two policies that reflected our practices. So those last two pieces were were new and that was kind of the impetus of of adopting those so we can approve all of this at once. Is that right? >> All right. Do we have a motion? >> Quick question. I should have
081asked you earlier, Brad. >> I was looking at the uh cash balance liquidity policy. >> Yep. >> I see the section talks about fund balance, educational funds. >> Sure. >> Minimum two months, recommended four months. >> What do we have for operation funds? Any data? >> Uh we don't. >> We don't. The pol the policy that that we wanted to to do for this one is to to focus on the educational funduc >> because this had come up with the standard pores with the bond rating. They're always so curious as to what is our policy. And I would tell them, well, uh, when we were sitting there with a really the last three or four years in a row at a little over $15 million in our education fund, I said a general rule of
082thumb is always about three payrolls. So that's about four and a half million, which as I said, we're way over that amount. So that's how uh that rule of thumb kind of came through our IASBO business manager process over the last 25 years of me doing this job. Uh just knowing that was always a good cushion to have. If you could maintain three or four payrolls in your reserve, that's a good balance to start out. So when we would explain that to the the star and poorest people for the last three years, it seemed like it was a good time to formalize that a little bit better. and we just focused on education fund. If we would tie our hands to the rainy day or operation, I just I just didn't want to do it
083yet for flexibility wise and felt like at least we let's start out with let's just address liquidity and balance for the education. >> So the second part of that where I was going to go is with the state. We've I can't think of a time we've had problems with our draws or whatever you want to call them funding. Right. >> Right. We have not. >> Okay. >> But funny that you mentioned that. You know, clear back in about 22 23 years ago when they were playing games with us, they sent us five state basic grants between January 1 and June 30th to try to make the state balance look better for July 1st. and then they'd send us seven payments in the last half. That messed up school district's money because then everybody had to
084go out and borrow with cash flow loans. That's what you had to do. And uh so that really wrecks your reserve balances and makes schools have to go out and borrow money. So they eventually realize that's probably not good math. That made the state look better, but it did not make the schools. We have not had to do that uh since the state did that. And obviously for us at Muny, we've definitely not had to do that on our cash balance since, you know, December of 2018. Basically, that's the last time we had cash flow loans at uh Muny Schools was in 2018. And those were when I say a cash flow loan, that's when you borrow money within 12 months. So you borrow it January, you pay it back in December, it's paid off
085by the end of the year. us to give you cash to operate during the year. We have not had to do that since we paid off those last loans in December of 2018. So, so far so good with the way we've been handling things, but this at least gives us something where we had nothing before and it I think it just helps the rating agency where they can say, "Hey, at least we have a policy. We're looking at it." >> So, >> thank you. I have one other question we could and it deals with the purchasing procedures and capital assets. Okay. If I may. >> Yeah. stricken throughout here is the four state funded purchases and $250,000 for federal purchases. What changed? >> Yeah, I really they they were going to allow us to go
086up to 250 and uh right now I'm I'm given the authority to make purchases up to 150 >> and it seems like let's just keep it at that. >> That's okay. In other words, if I have to do something over 150, I would come to you, the school board, and say, "We're doing something, you know, bigger than 150,000." And um so that's >> it was internally true, >> not right. >> And it's not like we have a lot of things that come up that we would have to do >> um over 150 anyway. I mean, obviously like our big bond project or when we've done renovations uh with our food service kitchens, those are all things that have been brought to the school board. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Anything else with that? >> I
087entertain a motion. >> We move to approve. >> Second. >> It's moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. I. post. Same sign. All right. Motion carries. I've got a note here about a motion to wave the second reading. Is that is that relevant? >> That was what we >> All right. So, it's adopted. >> Okay. All right. We have any comments from the board at all dialogue? I do I just have I think it was mentioned earlier about our bond rating as we sold bonds but we also have received our bond rating and I think it's important particularly for those um um constituents out there to note a couple of things about that bond rating first of all um the strength of our financial staff Brad and his staff uh are noted
088but those ratings of u stable underlying rating of tripleB plus is very good uh with a long-term rating of double A+ which is really really good and I think that's because of a lot of reasons um uh but part of that rating and when Brad talks about dealing with with rating services you know they look under the hood pretty hard and what they're looking at is they're looking at the success that Eric and and Sean and and Kelly are are are having in the classroom. They're looking at our enrollment. They're looking at our cash reserves and they're looking at the leadership of the district. And that's a big deal. And and and what those ratings, the story the ratings tell is that we're a district who is solid. Uh it's a district who um uh
089is delivering what we're supposed to um not only to the bond holders uh but to our our constituents or our our taxpayers. Um our our long-term debt. We mentioned this the this the state loan. Um you know that was a $12 million loan seven years ago and and in two years it's going to be zero. Um and that's a big deal. Um you know uh the bonding capacity that we have is more than twice well more than twice what our bond bonds are out there borrowing capacity is. And our intent is not to borrow more money unless we have to. And and I think that's really an important thing. And uh so hidden hidden in some of the things that have happened over the last month or two is is I think some some really
090underlying um uh issues that uh we owe a a big debt of gratitude, you know, to the to the teachers who were in the classrooms teaching and then the ability that we've had to manage the resources that we've had. So I just want to make sure that we recognize those. >> Chuck, you and your team for that. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Those bond ratings calls are like taking a final exam and it's not like an open book test, but you got to know the answers. And uh several people at this table have sat there for those bond rating calls and uh they they do look when you say look under the hood, they are really smart people and because they have to be because they have to protect those bond holders. So,
091it's something you expect that they're going to ask you the tough questions and uh we were prepared very well for it, but it's been a very good process to go through. >> Yeah. >> Well, at 3.11% for the recent bond issue is indicative of the fact that our ratings are really good, which costs us less money to borrow money or I mean it's just a cyclical thing. You talk about your, you know, your spiral evaluation. I mean that it's one of those same exact same um issue only applied to us as a district. So So great job. >> Great. >> Anything else from the board have any media? Okay, no media. Do we have a motion to journal? >> Moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. >> We are
092ajourned. >> You want to leave? >> Well done. >> See you guys. >> Thank >> y >> Oh, that's right. and one meeting that's meeting next month. >> It's on the 11th. Yeah.