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YouTube / Adlai E. Stevenson High School
Date
2022-06-22
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Lake County, IL
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5,148 words · about 29 min
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2026-06-04

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001the pledge i pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you please take the attendance oh certainly across here no here morrison here oh here we switch here i can't take dress until this morning right now well that'll come later oh okay okay okay do we have any correspondence [Music] no correspondence um we come to the section of the meeting where we listen to visitor statements are there any visitor statements this evening okay seeing none we're going to move to the student activities report and the first thing on the agenda i have some really good news we are going to swear in two new board members this evening and we're very excited to do so um and so before we

002do that i need a motion for the board of education to appoint grace tsao and ronnie van yosef to fill the vacancies of the board of education created by the resignations of feishang and hina agua expiring april 2023 get the motion please second thank you uh would you please pull the board no aye where's the moon's eye why is frog [Music] i gladly vote hi and he'll turn it over to dr twaddle all right well um just to echo mr frost's excitement uh we're looking forward to swearing you in so uh ronnie and grace if you guys please stand raise your right or left hand whichever you prefer and uh the illinois school code um has an oath of office for board members um that i will read and then there's two places where you

003recite your willingness to discharge your duties so um ronnie and grace do you solemnly swear that you will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of member of the board of education of adelaide stephenson high school district 125 in accordance with the constitution of the united states the constitution of the state of illinois and the laws of the state of illinois to the best of your ability i do thank you do you further swear that you shall respect taxpayer interest by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets that you shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by your fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees that you recognize that a board member has no legal authority as

004an individual and that all decisions can be made by a majority vote at a public board meeting and you will abide by a majority decisions of the board while retaining the right to see changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels okay can you recite the whole thing back to me all right so congratulations welcome to the [Applause] and we don't have like super super welcome you know uh but this is a nice little gift of welcome it's a stevenson water bottle so we don't allow any soda in the building over here so you can get the water in that thing so thank you all right thank you so much yeah okay so the next item on the agenda we are so excited which is why we think most people are here so thank

005you for um being patient as we did a little housekeeping and administrative duties we're excited for our ambassador awards this evening we've got a number of groups that were um really pleased to be able to recognize and just for the folks who are here with us tonight the board of education as a group only gives out um really a couple of awards um the most prestigious of course being the ambassador award it goes to students who have either achieved at the highest levels co-curricularly or academically and actually tonight we have students representing both our curricular and co-curricular side of school so we're excited to be able to recognize uh everybody this evening and the way this is going to work is mr anjeck our director of curriculum instruction assessment is going to read the names

006of our students i believe we're going to start with our badminton team is that right and after each student comes up mr frost will give out the award and if parents are in the audience and they want to take a picture that's great um but students when you come up if you can stay and then we'll also get a group shot as well yeah it's all it's summer time so a lot of students are on vacation so we're just going to call the names of the students that showed up okay um so representing our ihsa badminton state champions are catherine lee at the brother brandon and also our coaches [Applause] is the double state champion along with emma [Applause] is [Laughter] so can you tell us where what are your plans for next year win

007it again there you go uh catherine will be back next year okay and pretty well yeah yeah two of you and you i'll be hanging out college okay tell us where is this secret oh i'm going to courthouse wonderful are you going to play back i didn't hear now i'm sorry go ahead oh my daughter went there which dorm you going to be in actually comes out right now right now i sent a number of checks here congratulations [Applause] and our mathematics state champions begin with benjamin chen jaden chen no okay congratulations thank you congratulations [Applause] expanding goals [Applause] angela [Applause] audrey hong [Applause] and once again catherine lee [Applause] fiona liu [Applause] thank you thank you [Applause] joy cue [Applause] congratulations okay [Applause] kevin chen [Applause] move this way and their coach eric anderson

008[Applause] are one two three so how many of you are seniors don't worry three seniors wow where where are you guys going to school i'm going to mitch my team i'll be going to yale yeah wow where's the very impressive this this is the second year in a row that you guys have won and we've got 2 4 6 8 10 12 i think i'm getting close on the counting um my math isn't quite as good but that means we'll expect to see you in year three seriously congratulations [Applause] congratulations i would like to announce the science olympiad state champions making another appearance this evening angela [Applause] thank you [Applause] jeffrey liu [Applause] kevin [Applause] [Music] making another appearance grayson wren [Applause] joshua [Applause] is and their coaches coachella [Applause] thank you [Music] dr wood's

009getting a good one too there you go one of those that work okay thank you thank you wait wait before graduating seniors a couple here and and what are your plans next year where are you going mit mit where u.s okay how about that one um [Applause] and this would be awards for our science reach club state champions making her third appearance tonight [Applause] to lola [Applause] and bathroom [Applause] again with the tag i love it [Music] christina [Music] um actually i'm not familiar with the sony's reach club can you explain what you do and what the competition was like yeah um basically we work on science research projects together and then like we kind of help each other review our projects and then we submit our projects to like a regional affair and then

010eventually that might go to the state fair and then that's what we all did we went to the state yeah then we won golden state wow that's fantastic what kind what projects did you do i'm just curious what kind of research projects did you each do i played tetris a lot no i'm serious i'm serious that's it um we created an algorithm to detect fingers i'm sorry too we detected that fake news using machine learning so i tried to synthesize luminescent nano ceramics not even sure what questions you have so what did you do with tetris oh i just made an ai that's it you just made ai okay well congratulations it's fantastic congratulations [Applause] and we have seven more perfect act scores um tonight i'd like to share an award for evan lynn [Applause]

011thank you all right one two three i'm not sure yet not sure um well congrat that's quite an accomplishment so congratulations [Applause] mark how many this had for the year um this past year i think this makes 24. like some people 17. i think we're a friend probably ever the party's just started we have one more young man yeah yep one last one a perfect sat score [Applause] are you a graduating senior no i'm a junior oh my gosh one more year yep congratulations congratulations [Applause] well um good mark all right thank you mark for your help and uh congratulations to all of our students um and unless you'd like to stay for the rest of the meeting um this would be a good time to find your way out oh wait wait wait uh

012one last one um the student was unable to make it uh but our ihs a girls shot foot track field state champion yes um [Applause] thank you for coming thank you all right thank you everybody have a really great night we appreciate you being out here [Music] the next generation just come to an ambassador awards presentation because that was i just want to tell you one of the many reasons why i was on probation at college [Laughter] was that when i took a math test and they asked what's one plus one i said they couldn't be it's got to be a trick the answer was these kids are unbelievable all right very impressive well moving right along uh the next item on the agenda is our uh approval of an intergovernmental agreement for the sharing

013of student data for educational study so as you know uh right before covid um hit literally the month before we were in the process of developing some intergovernmental agreements with our feeder districts not being a k-12 district we are precluded from sharing data between the districts unless we have an inter-governmental agreement so we want to be able to share data back and forth around student achievement map data other kinds of academic data and we need to have these agreements in place with all of our districts so carol tonight we are bringing forward uh district 73 and 76. um we and the districts we currently have are i don't know this is the last this should be the last pieces of the puzzle great so tonight we're bringing forward the intergovernmental agreement for district 73 and

01476 for your approval can i have a motion to approve the intergovernmental agreement second any questions or discussion for errors do it would you call the board please certainly so hi garson hi moons i weisberg all right ben joseph hi frost hi no hi carrie seven to nothing okay and the next item is the approval of our 2022-2023 student guide book um you may recall we had shared um earlier address with you in may and um just for ronnie and grace's sake um this is a one of our board items that's cyclical it comes up each year and um you may recall when your student gets the guidebook that has a calendar on the back side but all the rules in the front side and all of those rules that students are required to follow

015throughout the day are um in the guidebook that the board of education formally adopts and we have a group of faculty and our deans our administrative team members and also a small parent group that takes a look at it as well and the fact that the board approves the student guidebook each year allows then there to be some consequences given to kids when they break those it's unfortunate it doesn't happen a lot but sometimes it happens and we need to have those in place so tonight we're bringing forward the final draft of the 2022-2023 student guidebook for your approval you have a motion to approve a student guidebook so moved sorry any other questions after the explanation for eric the board page isn't yes today okay they're aware so subject to subject to those changes

016okay um so this is a voice vote all in favor of the resolution say opposed it passes unanimously okay the next item is the approve the approval of the final 2021-2022 school calendar remember this is again an annual item this is not looking forward this is actually looking backwards this is the calendar that we send to um isbee just identifying exactly what the days were that we were in school that we weren't in school and it's kind of like the year in review but it has to go before the board before we send it to isbe okay can i have a motion to approve the 2021-2022 school second any further questions yes yes thank you okay would you pull the board please certainly moon's eye why is this all right joseph joseph hi frost hi

017no no hi so hi courson hi carrie seven to nothing okay and the next item is a first reading of um board policy updates uh issue 108. um there are a couple of policies in here that are more than just wordsmithing so we're not ready tonight to bring it for a final approval um so we want to just present this as a first reading and then bring it back to you in our next board meeting um and we'll share with you in the meantime um you know kind of where we're at with the policy for colon one six five five two five zero um we just want our attorneys to review those um before we bring them to you for a final review and so for ronnie and grace we actually have ford policy which

018we'll show you next month when we meet um but one of the because the laws in illinois change so frequently they're in the the illinois association of school boards actually has a service where they um publish updates um quarterly it depends how how often the laws change it could be twice a year it could be four times a year so then what they do is they send recommended policies to school districts based on those changes to law and more often than not there's a lot of word smithing and minor changes but every once in a while there's some substantive changes that we have to decide do we want are we required to adopt them do we want to adopt them do we not want to adopt them so that's kind of where we're at right

019now with this series of updates we're still needing to work through that with our attorneys and then we'll bring back to you their recommendations so it's the first reading for tonight no action needs to be taken okay um you'll see the items there for personnel that will be included in the human resources report and the consent agenda and that takes us to uh and we will not need an executive session following the meeting and that takes us to the business section shawn and approval of your contract uh it's part of consent it's not got a little it doesn't have an asterisk it's under the hr the whole thing is underneath everything yeah okay so sean that takes us to the adoption of the 2022-2020 budget and public hearing correct so in may we brought to

020the board not only do we have our finance committee meeting but we brought to the board the changes of recommended changes for our fiscal 23 budget which covers um which basically starts on to july 1st and runs through june 30th our revenues are expected to decrease however we did sell bonds this year so when we take out those bond proceeds our revenues are expected to increase by about 5.5 percent largely because of if you recall the um taxes will be capped um but what we're really looking at is an increase in food service sales um our food sales services our food sales might actually cross four million dollars um this year which is incredible when you consider back in 2015 we were at 1.8 million dollars um so the changes that we've made to a

021healthy lifestyle of the eating has paid off because over that same time frame the um price of a meal has gone up only 19 cents um so it's it's pretty remarkable um our expenditures are also budgeted to decrease because of construction however if we exclude construction our expenditures are budgeted to increase by less than inflation at five percent over the previous year um and so again these are things that we've talked about previously tonight we'll have to open up a public hearing uh hear any public comment close the hearing and then of course we'll ask the board to approve the fiscal year 23 budget okay can i have a motion to open for a public hearing on the proposed budget so moved second third so we have a first and second uh this is a

022voice vote all in favor of opening for the public hearing please say hi hi opposed okay we are open for public hearing uh are there uh comments or no comments from the public so can i have a motion to close a public hearing on the proposed budget don't move second no public um okay this is also a voice vote all in favor of closing the public hearing please say aye aye opposed that passes and now i'll entertain a motion to adopt the 2022-2023 is proposed second first and second any questions for sean before we vote on the budget okay would you please pull the board frost hi no hi so hi gorson hi moons i weisberg all right ben joseph hi carrie's seven to nothing and i just like to add that grayson and ronnie

023we'll we'll go over the budget in more detail with you guys as you go through your board training so we'll you know we'll have plenty of time to answer all your questions so um thank you very much all right on to the halsey detention center um this is the detention center located up on milwaukee uh avenue that falls into um our um our boundaries and as such we have the ability to work with the regional office of education for lake county as well as the detention center um to secure funds from the illinois state government to help educate the children that are at the detention center both there's both those that are there temporarily and they're those that are there on a much longer term basis um this is not none of the all of

024the money that comes from the state government flows through us and goes directly to them so whatever we receive we pass on to them and it's all based on grants it has nothing to do with any of our property tax dollars i will say that we work with the detention center often though to help them with any kind of equipment that they might need if we have an extra desk or this that or the other thing um we do try to um sell it to them at a much cheaper cost if not um just donate to them depending on what's being donated in the place but tonight we do have to recommend a renewal of that agreement so we are asking the board of education to approve an agreement with the halsey detention center for

025educational services as presented can i have a motion to approve um yeah so in second second we have a first and second uh any questions for sean i don't think they changed the name of that place yeah it used to be the depthkey center and now it's the halsey center as well um they actually refer to it both when talking to different people so it's a little confusing not exactly sure why in the halls actually i think there's different sections one is where the actual detention center is and i think the other is where they house students that are like almost in a halfway house if you just wonder what happened to mr deputy [Laughter] i just think it's sad that 20 years ago that used to be a drunken alcohol abuse treatment center correct

026when i was a jail correct and yeah okay any questions uh any other questions i should say uh would you pull the board please certainly no hi so hi grayson hi this is i weisberg all right ben joseph i'm frost honey well carries sound enough okay um as you know every two years the board must appoint a treasurer of the district and since july 1st of 2016 sean has been serving as our treasurer and it's time to um re-identify and appoint sean as the treasurer and isbe identified chief school business officer for eli stevenson high school for a two-year term beginning uh july 1st of this year 2022. can i give a motion second okay um any serious questions for sean uh would you please pull the board so i did i said gorson all

027right moonzy weisberg ben joseph hi frost no hi sean you're at seven to nothing all right all right and then um the next item is uh the treasurer's bond um this is always a house favorite right this is um the amount that's determined um uh by sean it's ultimately based on the afr and audited financial reports right and this year it's 31 million six hundred hundred thousand dollars um and as we always say that uh although we're recommending this tonight for um board's approval sean we also know where you live so we will get it one way or another can you have a motion please [Laughter] so i do have a question for you sure um what is the 31 million based on it's usually based on fund balance a percentage of your fund balance

028so the reason i'm asking is now that we've done a change in accounting method is it's going to drop in the cost drought correct so it could drop it was a question that i had asked for our insurer moving forward but because we don't have audited financial statements that show the um the change in the accounting program they haven't done it but my my assumption is that it might not change too much because at the end of the day and all based on even though we're on a modified accrual basis this is actually based on a june 30 cash balance and it says not to exceed the correct gotcha so that's really the maximum that they've calculated yeah okay thank you um any other questions would you pull the board please oh sure courson hi

029bonsai weisberg ben yosef hi frost hi no hi so hi that's seven to nothing okay in the next slide for two years the next item is approval of the 2022 2023 administrative and non-union salary pools um so tonight we are recommending uh that the board approved the 2023 administrative salaries and salary pool at six million eight hundred forty thousand six hundred forty one dollars and the end staff sellers and seller pool at three million six thirty six four forty seven okay i have a motion uh any questions for showing on the salary pools do we have a moment to question the uh consent on the uh director's contracts or is that already done we didn't have a vote on it yet no yeah okay it's that's right now right no no no it's two oh

030this is five minutes from now okay this is just a pull of money david oh i know but we passed up on that one it's higher on the uh yeah it was part of consent yeah i know we haven't voted on consent yet no right i have a question thank you yeah okay um noted for later um hearing no other questions would you pull the board please sure moon's eye weissworth hi ben joseph hi frost no hi so hi corson oh so into nothing you want a surprise okay and the next item is the approval of our um uh agreement with our support staff for the 2022 to 2027 school year uh and we had a really wonderful um spring working with uh matt and his team of the executive board of support staff and

031um although there were plenty of opportunities for um some disagreement and kind of moving back and forth um at the end it was a very collaborative process and i think that truly um the the end result is a win-win agreement for both the support staff for the board in the district um but then at the end of the day most importantly for our kids so matt thank you for all of your leadership in that regard and so tonight we are recommending to the board that you approve the board and support staff agreement as presented for the 2022-2027 school years you have a motion second we have a first and second any questions for sean or eric it must have been a good contract because he's sitting there without socks [Music] actually amy and i were

032at uh um one of the last meetings and i just want to echo eric's comments because i thought it went really well and the dialogue was there in open communication and it was a good process i do want to thank the support staff and man um any if there's no other questions uh would you please pull the board certainly weisberg all right ben joseph mike frost hi no hi so i of course i did nothing all right moving on uh we do have a couple last minute things um the every year um we take a look at our music instrument inventory um see what's at our end of useful life um what needs to be replenished um so we uh you know did that again this year at the end of the day um there

033was not a single bidder for all of the equipment um that we were looking or seeking to go uh to buy um so we are awarding um the music instrument bids to grand rapids violins music and arts and washington music centers at a cost not to exceed 36 000 in total for all of the instruments can i have a motion so second and sean just to be clear this is right in line with kind of where we're at each summer actually actually this is last little bit less yeah this is less we've been um right around fifty thousand dollars yeah john and his team have been doing a good job of maintaining the equipment as it goes to extend the useful life and if you keep in mind that we have you know well over

034300 400 500 kids in our programs the fact that we're spending this much amount of money every year is actually pretty good that just shows you how well we're keeping care care of the equipment well 400 in the marching band alone right correct right we're not buying our uniforms any other any other questions oh would you pull the board no oh sure ben joseph frost hi no hi so hi courson moons i weisberg all right so nothing ronnie and grace i normally don't have this many items i promise you but july arjuna happens to be one because there's a lot of annual things uh the next one is one of those it's the county indemnification agreement um so in rare instances the county does in fact issue a occupancy permit and this agreement indemnifies the

035county firm any errors or emissions that might have occurred with them issuing a permit prior to collection of any impact fees there are very few residents in the in our boundaries that are not governed by a town where we where new homes are being built and we wouldn't receive those impact fees anyway um so tonight we are recommending that the board of education approve the indemnification agreement with lake county as presented you have a motion so moved second um have have we ever paid under any of them no we've never we've never had a situation where um we've actually had to collect the impact fees from the county we've always been the builder always comes to us and we've never had any kind of errors or omissions and then all of the villages around us

036um they either collect it from up for us and we receive it from them or they come directly to us we issue a receipt and then the village will issue the permit okay any other questions would you pull the board please press hi no hi hi corson moon's another good practice is to um take a look at the institutions that we do our banking with um and uh typically we um uh look at those those banks and and remove them and we actually have um two that we no longer deal with a bank financial linkage has dropped our relationship um and then um uh first midwest uh bank um is actually now going to be old national bank um they there's a merger between first midwest no national so old national will now be one

037of our banks moving forward so tonight we are recommending that the board of education approve the designation of depositories resolution as presented can you hear the motion a second um so it's in regular version two all right go ahead uh go go ahead why are we moving banks and what and what who is uh bank financial so bank financial is an old bank that we had um some business with it was very small was actually a cd that was the remaining part we had moved our checking accounts from them many many years ago but we're still all the same they used to be right next to marriott lincolnshire oh a little building and so we had a uh we had a remaining cd with um expired and we just changed it to another bank so

038what did you change you changed the uh the uh who's holding the cd yeah we were yeah we actually cashed the cd into okay what about deposits so deposits are um with mostly with and now old national which used to be um in television yeah different from evansville and then of course um pma which i'm asking is for safety yeah how much do we have everything is collateralized so that we all of our dollars are protected um we don't have to observe the limit that is fdic insured because we have collateralization from pma that helps protect our money and we have sweep accounts collateral means we actually have an insure we have an insurance basically we buy our oh um we buy our own insurance with um pma that allows us to so you've got

039an insurance company insuring your deposit instead of the government correct never heard of that so and we have sweet because when you say collateralize are they actually posting collat are there team bills that are posted as collateral or is it just an insurance policy it's just insurance policy well you don't need insurance on a t-bill no no no not on a t-bill but a lot of people collateralize by posting t-bills yeah it's like on repos and stuff like that yeah i'm just curious are we covered yes okay and by who uh pma and there they actually have several all right yeah how much money do you keep there at pma pick a bank um it really depends it really depends on um it depends on the month obviously because as we receive deposits but you

040know we're we don't keep too much in any in the bank itself because we sweep in and out but probably i don't know two million dollars i think is one of them so you do need insurance yeah it's more than correct and what does first midwest have to do um they handle all of our general checking and payroll and they are now old national so we just have to update to recognize the change in the version um we still have a local branch so if you recall we used to work with um mark peterson you know who was at bridgeview right and then first midwest bought out bridgeview and now old national has put out first midwest or merged with our first midwest so in keeping lines with all of it it's well i hope

041they come to our golf outing they will that's very spark they actually did most recently so i know all those years and we still have the same um you know our concern is always to make sure that we are still getting the same customer service and not paying any of the fees associated with you know having as large of an account as we have with an institution how is concerned about the bank going from yeah they got on i was part of that game yeah i know you were okay okay would you pull the board certainly no hi hi carson moon weisberg uh hi ben yosef hi frost trust so part of a change in um the procedures to apply for state and federal grants is to have the board approve our consolidated district plan

042and the consolidated district plan basically is a series of questions that talks about all the requirements necessary to have a federal grant we do in fact apply for title one and title two title three actually apply for all these excuse me um and these are all federal revenues that come to the district um so tonight we are asking the board of education to again prove the district applying for these grants and submitting the district's consolidated plan as well so it's noted as being in the consent agenda but do we have to approve it separately no no yep and then lastly um the as we do typically when we don't have a july board meeting we just put out there uh a authorization to spend money for july expenditures as we would normally do in the

043course of july that we will be bring back to the board for official approval in august so we'll be asking the board to provide authorization um to the assistant superintendent for business to pay monthly operationally related um paid payments in july of 2022. that's a consent agenda as well and the final two item final two items for the consent are um the uh recommendation for um keeping confidentiality for executive session minutes and executive session audio recordings so that's all part of the consent as well and that takes us dave to the consent agenda if you have any questions um before you yes oh yeah um these are all they're all completed they're all they're all done they're all done okay there's a little flurry for the month of may okay um so can i have

044a motion to approve the consent agenda excuse me can i have a motion yeah a motion to approve the consent agenda and after which david you can answer your question once we have a motion second okay uh any questions on the consent agenda yeah on this approval of administrative contracts up there and then consent what about the skyallis truck well that's up to you can we give him that thought that's up to you oh okay let's take him it just got hot in here huh i have to tell you if you turn like 20 shades he was shopping on amazon for the last 20 minutes yeah maybe we should move this part along okay no further questions on the consent would you please pull the board aye grayson hi moonsail weisberg ben yosef hi frost

045no hi we're approved okay and that brings us to um superintendent's information report um just want to um remind everybody of the dates of our um retreat since we will not be seeing you in july for the board meeting we will be having our board retreat on the 29th and 30th so more information to come on that um july of july july 29th and 30th um so we're looking forward to that again more information to come um and uh other than that uh and we know where yet you can check them out the barrier yeah and other than that we just want to reiterate how excited we are for grace and ronnie and uh we will be setting up um a series of meetings over the course of the next couple months at your convenience

046to kind of go through different you know onboarding and training opportunities um they'll have a chance to meet with myself and sean um and brittany maybe kim mark troy and i um and we'll try to give you a crash course and everything board of education and stevenson high school a lot of fun so yeah we're really excited to have you thank you very much congratulations and that is all i have for this summer can i have a moment unless there's anybody else who has items or just my spot this is your spot yes this is if you have something to say yep my turn yeah uh i want to i don't know how to say it but this is time for me to retire from the board as well and i would like to just

047make a couple of comments if i can number one to the new board i would like you to know that i've had i've been fortunate enough to have a lot of plenty of board experience this is the sharpest group of people i've ever worked with and they are really really good and you're doing something that you're gonna get direct feedback in terms of doing good stuff for kids it's such a wonderful place and it's all really positive stuff and i want to wish you well i i i know uh i know you'll do good and i want to thank the edmonton even you mark uh i want to thank you for taking such great care of our children this is really a big deal and i personally want to say thank you and uh that's

048it thanks for allowing me to serve on this board well i'll thank the public but uh that's all i got thank you very much if if i can say on behalf of the board how much we have enjoyed having you on the board how much you've added to the board we are going to miss you immensely you've brought um i will i will always remember uh and i'll share this with the new board members so they hear it whenever there's been a tough issue or a question about how to address something dave would always say the same thing he would say let's decide what's right for the kids and that's going to drive our decision and he that was his mantra and you brought a way of a perspective of looking at things a professionalism

049of practicality and empathy uh i've been on the board for 22 years uh it's without equal and um it will be sorely missed we really appreciate everything thanks a lot and i love you all thank you except you mark well let me just say before we let you go sorry one more comment that um i think mark would agree with this um that on behalf of the administrative team and the faculty and the support staff and i think certainly the kids you know your your impact will be you know felt long beyond you know i would like to say one more thing though yeah uh just just for the new guys here i love couching stuff and humor it really doesn't diminish the weight of the message but having a laugh during the day makes

050me feel good so i didn't want you to think that all this stuff i don't take seriously i really do but i like to laugh and i think it's a good part of life to laugh a little bit except mark thank you david we love you thank you so on that note i will entertain a motion to adjourn sure dave

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