001and get the bed early and plan for her next day so we need to call the order of September 204th 2024 the regular Board of Education meeting to order secretary call the rooll here here Oliva here here Johnson here here here okay please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Al flaged States so on to the community relations report okay we're going to begin with our fall festival overview just to share with the board and the community um what a great time we had and want to First say uh thank you so much I think Marissa Martinez is here are you here somewhere Marissa no okay well please let her know that we gave public Kudos she arranged this um and did an excellent job um and thank you so much to Lisa Morales and Marissa
002yanowski for also supporting in that endeavor and Lily Bueno so thank you so much this was a great event and without any further Ado I I'll turn it over to our PR officer yes thank you it really was an incredible event event I had never been and it was my first family fall festival and it was truly an amazing event for everybody a great way to celebrate the beginning of the school year and Hispanic heritage and culture families got to enjoy live music from aiai from a salsa band performances by a Ballet Folklorico we had a special visit from the inside out two characters that was a lot of fun there was face painting tractor rides train rides players free food and ice cream and so much more to do and like Dr Nell said
003thank you to everyone who made this possible I mean so many families were talking about it and they were just like so impressed they loved being there that day and um right now here's a short clip with some special moments from that day [Music] inside out the character [Music] w [Music] to [Music] so there you have it I know everybody felt like dancing it was [Applause] fun okay now to some more great news I don't know if you wanted to yeah I yeah I just want to say I believe we're moving next to our dual language students recognition and um I just want to say um this was a an exceptional job they represented us very well we had an opportunity to um present um and to share the things we're doing and our district
004at the state of the city um we were invited by the mayor's office as well um the other school districts across the city and I just want to say um Kudos and thank you so much for um pulling this group together so Dr Rita gozman I know you're here I just don't know where you are so wave your hand Kudos and um also Tina Clement was there and an assisting principal of Bardwell did an exceptional job Katherine cahun in the back and our BSA principal I did not see her tonight Mrs Patricia Rangel she is not here right okay and she also um was assisting in this and so Kudos because we are so proud so you w to share and introduce sure so what we're gonna do first is um one of the other
005things that happened that night um well everybody was totally impressed they when they saw our students up there speaking in Spanish their English dominant and it was just incredible the impression they left and um the our educator of the year was also recognized that evening Cynthia Martinez and there were just so many things they recognized at that meeting about us having the only district-wide dual language kindergarten to fourth grade program in Illinois uh we were recognized for having the most seal of biliteracy and Commendation earnings in Illinois our Sate of the art resilience education center was featured I mean it was just a really really amazing special night so here's a little short clip from that day where you get to see the our dual language students and Cynthia Martinez [Music] [Applause] [Music] your dedication
006to Youth and families in our commun and for being named the 2024 K County educ of the Year [Applause] [Music] let's all right so now it's time to call up Dr Rita man benav steam Academy second graders Celia anetta and cleen Banks and bardell Elementary School fourth graders Haden wood Nori Rubio Williams mckenley donation and Jared urum so they can do a special presentation for us [Applause] hold the mic [Music] yes in our school we learn how to speak read and write in English and Spanish said when we grow up being help us get better jobs travel the world po whether we speak English or both in we all feel [Music] welcome oh my goodness wonderful amazing wonderful is beautiful Dr Guzman can you help me pass these out we have some special certificates oh
007they're right here and I'll give so you have Celia andeta Right congratulations cashlyn Banks pen wood Nori Rubio Williams mckenley Donan Jared urm again congratulations you guys made us really proud and congratulations to our Board of Education superintendent and our dedicated leaders like Dr Reen Guzman and her team for helping our students reach their full potential thanks oh get a picture you guys let's do it with the board too we're gonna put them over there yeah yeah [Applause] good [Applause] job right I'll go over here okay okay so I'm moving over here because Andy's gonna move the podium because we have now a really amazing group that's going to be honored um more than 60 about 67 right students um they're they're incredible and then to get this kind of achievement isn't easy um so
008we're going to present our 2024 advanced placement Scholars and the AP scholar Awards recognize high school students who have demonstrated exemplary college level achievement on AP exams this serves as an academic distinction for students to site among their credentials on applications resumés and he's going to put up a slide that's going to talk of um that has a little bit of the history behind this see if they let's see if he gets it but um there you go so it shows you know since 2018 the Easter high school has doubled the number of AP courses as well as the number of students this has been accomplished without impacting the percentages of students earning really good scores of three four five this year EAS aora high school has the largest number of Scholars 103 the year
009before the number of students was 65 so congratulations yeah we're truly proud of your achievements and now Jennifer Mitchell the principal of East High School is going to come and she's GNA join me and help pass out all these certificates if you want here whatever is EAS yes okay okay so just so you know there are students that receiv received multiple achievements so we'll we'll acknowledge a student for both Awards during their highest honor but the first recognition is for students who earn scores of three or higher in AP seminar and AP research so these are the students that we'd like to recognize if um and if you're just come on up okay and then you'll stay here because we'll do a group picture um Brenda AKA Quil and I'll just keep calling the names
010uh Samuel Bale [Applause] Stewart danela ciano Gregory Carver Cesar [Applause] Flores Mariela [Applause] Flores Guadalupe Garcia Mariana wera got it Jasmine Marquez Alexa [Applause] Martinez Trayvon Nelson Erica Vasquez Gutierrez [Applause] Adela Williams Sinclair Zachary congratulations there's another category um that where students who are in scores of three or higher in AP seminar and AP research and additional AP exams of their choosing receive the AP capsum diploma we have five students that received this award um the five students that have earned this award will be recognized with their other distinctions which are coming up and we'll make sure to let you know um now we have the category of AP scholar you have that one that's a big folder okay and this is granted to students who receive scores of three or higher on three or
011more AP exams these are the AP scholar recipients Leslie [Applause] agila MAA aljo [Applause] Darien [Applause] adoni Kevin badio jeline Calderon Alexa kamacho Alani Campos [Applause] Eric gona who also received AP seminar and research certificate as well Oscar kasas he also received the AP seminar and research certificate with the AP scholar congratulations Rochelle de alwi [Applause] Marina elisar she also received the AP seminar and research certificate along with the AP scholar Jesus Enriquez he also received the AP seminar and research certificate along with this AP scholar Josie Frank Josie also received the ap7 research certificate with the AP scholar Joshua Gomez [Applause] Diego Gonzalez [Applause] Trejo Jesus [Applause] Gonzalez Michael wado also received the AP seminar and research certificate viani [Applause] gutieres Jarel Gusman T Hernandez Perla Hernandez [Applause] Isaac [Applause] Maas Ashley Martinez who
012also received the AP seminar and research certificate Kevin [Applause] Martinez Rael Martinez [Applause] Hector monteano M Moshe ly Munos Audrey [Applause] nter Cesar Reyes via [Applause] jarelis [Applause] Riva Eric Rodriguez who also received AP seminar and research [Applause] certificate Raphael Rodriguez who received also the AP Capstone diploma nor Ruiz who also received the AP seminar and research certificate and Joanna via [Applause] Gomez love it and now we go on to the next category this is uh this is the persons people who got the AP scholar with honor award which is awarded to students who receive an average score of at least 3.25 on all all AP exams taken and scores of three or higher on four or more of these exams impressive all right so now I'll be calling you up yid [Applause] Alanis Jose
013[Applause] Arondo Daisy Avalos [Applause] Elizabeth Coral Moreno Wonder congrats Valerie figeroa who also got the ap7 on Research certificate in addition to this one Giovani Gonzalez [Applause] Rebecca Hillard she also got the AP Capstone diploma along with her AP scholar With Honor urm [Applause] horta Zan [Applause] Lala and I Le moika in this [Applause] category and our last award is the AP scholar with distinction it is given to students who receive an average score of at least 3.5 in all AP exams taken and scores of three or five or three or higher on five or more of these exams okay so here we go wait Miss yanowski I just like to stress five or more is basically the equivalent of a semester of college incredible congratulations so we'd like to bring up Michael alcalde Ruby
014visera Luis Ortiz who also got the AP Capstone diploma Karina per Perez AP St she also got the AP Capstone diploma Paul Perez AP Capstone diploma also along with the AP scholar with distinction and dianara [Applause] unua again we're super proud of all of you you know you guys are reaching your full potential and of course without your families and the support from the leadership um it it everybody coming together makes all this happen right now what we'd like to do is take a group picture Carlos up think our Web Master and graphic designer will help position you guys okay so yes yeah we got to figure this out but we definitely need to get yes two lines would be good yeah [Music] yes right find the window right exactly need it that have right
015this the seniors that graduated AR here they already got their letters but we have 4 more kids really yeah we had 103 this wow that's a lot seminar research right we're gonna try this okay smile ready thank thank you congratulations [Applause] parents get their picture [Applause] [Music] that's awesome I'll give him a chance to clear the boardroom now okay tell yeah at this time we will allow all of our students and families to leave if you wish so I know that you have school tomorrow morning and we don't want you to be T too tired for school so okay okay poor Carlos he'll have a line wrapped around the building wow and then we can go back to our meeting yeah we well we're GNA go back to the public hearing next yeah now yeah
016we'll do public at very no no no you gotta vote that's right we'll do public hearing now we'll just work our way through the no that's fine who's Stephanie Campbell oh okay oh maybe Chang your name okay oh yes back up some of them Bernie when Dave Ballard was still there now they're all growing up [Music] Elizabeth she was she just wasn't on the list oh yeah no that's okay well we're so proud of you okay and we'll get a picture the photographers out [Applause] there okay yeah oh there he is thank you [Music] feel [Music] good how are you yeah you came back lot of Finance majors in that group we miss an opportunity there we go the public see I don't fool myself the counting is very boring so I'm sure we would
017have bored the audience oh okay well almost a lot of people out there we let this last few leave and then we can restart the meeting [Music] okay almost done all righty okay so we will go back to our public hearing so uh we're going to have a public hearing first so that is the public public hearing of September 2 uh 3rd 2024 secretary call the rooll here here here Johnson yes here yes here okay we do not have any public comments on the public hearing so on to discussion of the budget all right all right everybody will thank you budget um next slide please so here's the budget timeline as you can see we started this back on uh June the 3 and for tonight um we're going through the public uh hearing for
018the budget and later this evening the uh approval of the budget for fy2 next slide so these are the budget assumptions that we've gone over a couple times I'm just going to kind of highlight the main ones here for tonight um we're going to be remaining the remaining Esser funds will be sent spent down accordingly cppt will be decreasing approximately 40% uh State categorical payments will increase by three um State categoricals we're assuming all four payments for this upcoming year um and evidence uh based funding has been released and we are actually receiving about 5.5 million additional dollars this year as well salaries on average have increased by 3.75% benefits on that um are approximately up by 12 purchase services to increase by 3% and transportation costs are up at 7.3% uh supplies and materials
019are going to remain flat for this upcoming year and utility costs for natural gas and electric are up for FY 25 so here is a revenue summary by fund um you can see these are all funds there on the left and these are the revenues uh budgeted and the breakdown of percentages there on the right for a total of 277,000 per followed by operations and maintenance fund there in that reddish color and then Debt Service Transportation irf capital projects and working cash next slide so this breaks down the revenue by Source it's broken down by three different sources local state and federal uh local resources make up about 19.9% State at 64.2 and federal at 15.9% next slide so here's the FY 25 expenses summary by fund as you can see again here's all of
020our funds there on the left expenses in that middle column the percentage breakdown so all expenses across the board were 276 m780 435 this is a graphical representation of expenditures you can see the biggest expenses coming out of the Ed fund there at 74% followed by operations and maintenance at 7% at just shy of $20 million death service at 12.8 at 5% Transportation at about 6% and Social Security Medicare imrf at 2% next slide here it is broken down by objects as you can see our number one expense across all funds is salaries at 131 million in change benefits at 29.7 purchase services at 46 million supplies and materials at 20 million Capital outlay at 20 million other objects at 25 and non- Capal outlay at 3.6 million which equates to our expenditures there at
021276,000 and $435 so here it is broken down by object again half the pie chart there is your salary uh and next part biggest part is the benefits there followed by purchase Services uh supplies materials in that yellow color and capital outlay there in that kind of lightish blue color other objects they're in green and a non- capital outlay there in that kind of Darker royal purple color and summary you can see the revenues there are 277 mil5 41,382 76 m780 435 which leaves us in the Black by $76,900 okay okay uh at this time I'm GNA have to read the fund balances allowed so the beginning balance as of this is July 1st in the educational fund were 86 m74 $68 operations and maintenance $25,988 335 Debt Service $552,000 Transportation 36 m178 957 Social
022Security and Medicare 1, 89194 municipality retirement IR AMF at 10,146 598 capital projects negative 2,978 54630 working cash at 23 m941 152 the tort fund at $4,240 fire prevention and life safety at $149,100 42 thank you all right any questions okay so that will close off the public hearing portion so motion to adjourn second secretary coloy yes yes Johnson yes yes yes yes yes okay all righty so now we are GNA uh come to our regular Board of Education meeting since we've already done the Pledge of Allegiance we will move on to our public comments so you would have had to have signed up before 7 o'clock to speak we ask that you respect the three minute time limit and we ask that you respect the confidentiality of our students and staff Melinda Thomas need
023to get some set up homecoming week I forgot to bring extra clothes today's pajama day don't me just showing a little school spirit here cool pajamas well thank you I I do enjoy this bathroom all right Melinda Thomas 256 cins Drive Sugar Grove I'd first like to update Dr nurel and the board on some positive things the new windows and blinds are wonderful and the new flooring and pipes are great the third floor finally has drinking fountains after like four years which is super exciting the cell phone lockers are also working well students have been mostly receptive to them they seem to understand the need for them and based on my own observations and anecdotal evidence from other teachers eliminating them is already having a positive effect on the classroom so I'd like to thank
024you all support for supporting staff with these measures now for some concerns nearly two years ago we had major safety breaches at the high school that led to the creation of a safety task force we met for the rest of the school year developing ideas to help ensure that our building is safe for all I year and a half later the results are disheartening important concerns that are relatively easy to address such as the need for a communication system that allows staff outside the building to know about emergencies inside the building whether PE teachers out on the field or itinerant staff heading back to East High still has not been put in place a district level Safety Committee was established to help address concerns at both the high school and elsewhere however for the last
025two years it has only met once a year last year that single meeting occurred on the last day of school we were very happy when after numerous requests to reinstate the camera room a version of that has been created however instead of support staff Manning it as in the past we now have uh an administrator monitoring cameras and although that could simply be perceived as an administrator taking on that role the union has already heard from multiple members who have been explicitly told by various administrators that they are being watched on the cameras so rather than ensuring safety this is now being used as a tool to Monitor and even threaten staff that brings me to the final proposal from that safety task force one that came not from the staff but from a District
026administration that is the facial recognition software despite lots of talk and extensive time and money being poured into implementing a facial recognition program Union leadership has still never been allowed to see how it works despite repeated requests to discuss contract language for whether it will be used with staff and if so how they have been repeatedly brushed off I do not understand this as the program cannot be implemented until that occurs doing so without Union input and agreed upon language would result in an immediate grievance by the union and even potential lawsuits by individuals who feel that this would will become a tool to keep staff in line rather than to protect staff and students I do not know why District administration has refused to negotiate in good faith on this issue but I do
027ask that the board look into what may be causing it I also ask that you look into some of these other concerns I believe that our building is safer than it was two years ago but we need to do more and as the recent events in Georgia showed us we all need to be on the same page thank you thank you Al righty Stephanie Campbell okay is Stephanie Paul good evening Stephanie cimel 18 South Street Geneva um I'm sharing the stories of a parent in our district not at my school gave you permission to share this with you this evening she didn't agree with her kindergarten daughter's L1 placement so she went to the building principal originally she she was told that her daughter would be moved but the next day she was informed that
028her daughter that she did not have a say in her child's placement the mom couldn't understand that as a mother why she did not have any say in her daughter's placement why she as a mom didn't have a role in her child's education this is not acceptable it's not okay we need to have our parents be respected and they deserve a voice in their child's education we need to do better thank you okay Becky our Union president yes oh you're wearing a bwell thing there you go yeah bwell hi Becky ryro Union president 312 South Avenue St Charles Illinois I'm here to highlight Bardwell Elementary School um and it's and it's hardworking staff and dedicated staff Bardwell or bwell as we affectionately refer to it has has 71 superhero staff members who are Fierce advocates
029for their students families and each other barbell has a combined total of 1,37 years of service that's an average of 15 years of experience per person 99% of the staff at barwell are proud union members Bardwell is home to three of our building reps Beth Carter Jeff Hans Hansford as well as Christy Harding who serves the admin Center uh there's a quote we I read today if you have to put someone on a pedestal put School staff and to this I add it should always include office support and teachers because they are our real heroes and as we all know not one of these individual Parts could do their job without the others so thank you Bardwell and I'm done thank you okay all righty okay so let's see on the communications from the superintendent
030Dr Nell good evening Board of Education and our community members um couple of uh brief items tonight um just to update you on and I'm going to call on the associate soup to help me because I cannot find I actually re jotted them down so I would not lose them but I have too many pieces of paper so I'm going to make it through the ones that I remember and then I'll rely on you for my memory for the others um so first thing I would like to say though under my report is a big thank you to the AP teachers I want to go on record by saying that we are so very proud of those 103 students but that would not at all have been possible without the fabulous AP teachers and I
031just want to um give you a a brief example um you know this is a group uh like all teachers that um Works diligently um in planning and being willing to try new things but um I will really highlight uh the the latest group to add in terms of AP seminar which you heard a lot of the certificates that were earned because under the uh College board's umbrella if a student is successful in AP seminar as well as AP research two AP classes um and they take uh an additional three uh AP classes they can earn an AP um diploma a Capstone what's called a Capstone diploma and it is um the equivalent to in a lot of places an IB diploma and so we um as soon as the state of Illinois a couple
032years ago agreed to make English 10 um AP seminar was eligible to serve as an English 10 we had uh we spoke to our um sophomore English teachers at the high school during their plc's and talked to them about the idea of expanding equity and access to just regular English 10 students in an AP course which a lot of places that would be unheard of and so we talked about it we met they continued to meet with building Administration and at the end of the day they were supportive in launching that and doing that and that took tremendous courage and tremendous effort on their on their behalf so as we recognize the success of AP students from last year particularly highlighting AP seminar which AP seminar for in place of English 10 which is a
033graduation requirement was um Really Brave and so I want to go on record by saying um just thank you to them and they were actually honored this summer um for the work that they had done this past year their first year in launching AP seminar to 500 roughly 525 I try to keep these numbers in my head 525 southmor just regular Southmore students in AP seminar so they were invited to Las Vegas to present on a panel for all of the college board's National AP teachers uh from the nation and so just kudos to them because we often recognize our young people but I really want to make a point at effort by saying the only way they got here tonight and we got those numbers up was the work of the AP teachers so
034Kudos um I want to go on record and say that the other thing yeah um the other piece that I um want to share tonight are a couple of announcements so we have homecoming as you heard this is homecoming week and so this week Friday night is the game 700 p.m at East High in the stadium and Saturday is the dance so so all of you are invited to come out and support for homecoming and I know Mr Ro Royo always ask who we're playing we are playing Elgen so we got to beat them you know that right long-standing rivalry there um and then um I want to announce in plenty of advanced notice so that everyone has it on their calendars to come in cheer for East the East West football game this year
035they are back they are back in the conference what was originally the upstate 8 conference they left for a little while and I think they missed us so they are back in our conference and our first East West football game since 2018 will be on October 18th which is a Friday night Friday Night Lights at East High in the stadium so of course everyone here will be there at 7 pm game time it will be a huge Citywide event the city is already asked if they can come and recorded so of course if they want to record East dominating and and winning that game we were in inviting them to come and do so so please come out and support put it on your calendar now um then we also have thank you we want
036to talk about something else publicly so we're going to be sending a letter to parents but Synergy as you all know is our new platform and so when I did my opening remarks and sent them out and by video to our staff on our first day back one of the things I promised them and and Becky won't let me forget this is that um all if you can just get through taking attendance we want to just stay legal this year that would be a win and so really it's a big lift to put in a new system and so I want to say this we're going to launch letters to families and let them know it's quarter one um progress report time and so the Board of Education and Community knows I've told the staff
037if you can figure it out and get in there and do your quarter one progress reports if not I know you're consistently updating your grade book and adding grades but if there's a glitch in The Matrix as we figure out energy as we work through this year one that's okay and we'll tell parents that we'll get it together hopefully by the F end of the first nine weeks so I did say that to staff and I just want to publicly say that again because I did say to them we've got to legally take attendance but if we can just do that that's a win for us this year so of course we are still grading we are still assessing students we are still doing all of those things according to standards but we definitely may
038not have all of the timely bells and whistles that we had when we were with our other system so I publicly um the team asked me to share that publicly tonight and we're going to follow up with a letter and I think are those all of my announcements oh tomorrow reminder to the Board of Education our second strategic plan meeting that's just for uh the board members and anyone who is um placed on the strategic planning that's tomorrow night in this room 5: pm and that um concludes my report there is an action very important action item next for the board Madame President I will let you do that one motion to approve the fy2 budget second any questions secretary call the rooll mo yes yes Olivas yes alpi yes Johnson yes centes yes ayal
039yes okay and the paper will be coming around for all of us to sign that oh there we go we have already got the paper so all right motion to approve the following consent agenda is listed so move second any questions secretary call rollas yes SCH yes Johnson yeses yes AR Royo yesi yes Oliva [Music] yes okay on the finance and Personnel so we met on September 9th here at the service center and our next meeting is going to be on October 7th so most of these we already took care of at the last meeting there are just a couple others that we'll be um voting on tonight so basically let me get to the bottom here our policies are all boilerplate and they will be on the next agenda but um as far as
040action items um we are are are um looking to move forward a an agreement with Gan so Gan is a app that the you know when somebody comes to a game they can they can pay through this app automatically um the finance committee decided that because there is a fee associated with that we would still continue to to take cash payments but for those who wanted to go through the sap they are certainly more than welcomed um the next one is a three-year agreement with Arbiter and arbiter is a company that will pay our um pay all of our referees and it'll keep track of them online all of the other school districts are using this so basically we're kind of the one one of the last to join but it will definitely help expedite
041payments to our referees so those are our two action items so motion to approve the F1 y 25 Bank signature cards so move second secretary call the rooll Schubert yes gaspi yes Johnson yes Olivas yes aroo yes centes yes Loi yes motion to approve the agreement with Gan as presented so move second any questions secretary call the rooll gaspi yes yes centes yes Johnson yes Schubert yes lovi yes aroyo Olivas yes motion to approve a three-year agreement with Arbiter in the amount of $1,325 so second any questions secretary Colo centes yes aroyo yes Olivas yes gaspi yes l yes Johnson yes Schubert yes okay that concludes the finance report so on to curriculum and programs with Mr suanes good evening everyone the curriculum and programs committee met this evening here at 6 PM um I
042will give a summary at the next board meeting on October 7th we do have one action item that has to do with the Satchel post um let me see if I can find that uh so satel pulse is a universal screener for social emot emotional learning um and it's a valuable tool for students um the total amount of the screener is 13,360 and that'll come out of title funds um we did just cover that at the uh curriculum uh meeting this evening but if anybody has any questions I know that Miss Engle is here if not I will we'll move on with the motion motion to approve the purchase of materials from Satchel pulse in the amount of 13,360 some move second any questions secretary Colo gaspi yes Schubert yes Johnson yes centes yes aroyo
043yes lovi yes Olivas yes and that concludes my report okay on to building grounds Mr Schubert okay uh the committee met back on the 9th of September I will give a brief summary of that meeting it it did start out with an executive session for the purpose of discussing Safety and Security uh at the district um the minutes of that session are in the board packet for the board's review um but then we went on uh to look back at our summer projects um we're concluding them and got an update on the uh poor and place surface at the various schools including Oak Park and Rollins uh the Allen window project the Waldo uh multi-purpose room coward mechanical and the detri batement uh project um special note of achievement was made at that meeting um
044really impressive statistic over the past five years um 19 district schools have had upgraded HVAC systems installed so that's quite an accomplishment um when you think of the vast footprint we have have and the resources that have to go into making that happen so um a lot of people deserve Kudos on that one uh the Career Technical Center uh we did discuss that um work continues with the Architects and the engineering and design um is coming together on that uh we're working with the city of Aurora on a traffic study to determine traffic flow and patterns and so forth um the HVAC of that was brought to the board at our last meeting so I won't go over that again uh but that project is anticipated to really get some steam uh in summer of
04525 uh the cell phone lockers was discussed but we discussed that at the last meeting and voted um on that to approve additional purchase of those items uh and then also the grounds keeper floater and memorandum of understanding with the SEIU uh was approved um there were two incidents that were discussed and reported in um by the district to the committee uh the first was some water damage that happened out at coward Middle School um there was some concern with property damage and possibly some environmental um issues um were raised um and so the contractors Architects and District environmental firm work together to mitigate and remedy those concerns um by taking all the necessary corrective action steps to address the issues at hand uh the environmental company did retest out at that location and what
046the district was given the all clear um as was reported to the committee um the second um we heard a little earlier um we had a bat sighting at Bardwell um the company was hired inspected um and remediated the uh the situation there was no infestation found which was a positive and they put some uh proactive measures in place out there uh to prevent any uh type of future incident there um and so that was able to be returned and um uh school went back into session as I think normal so um doc or yeah Dr Nal you did uh give a shout out to the operations team and the B&G uh group for their Fearless handling of that situation yeah um so