001Dr Godfrey but then when I got back from my CH trip one little boy had a couple days to watch a bunch of superhero movies and he was an actual superhero yeah but in not the good way not the good way so like the boys in like the hey Susan's back this is how it's going to go away have you ever seen that show the boys no Amazon Prime yeah it's good oh it's rough how are you well better today than I was last week my house is a lot quieter oh yeah why that oh my sense the poster child for bad decisions oh he's very comical to I was talking to on my way out of school the other day I remember the day he the what was it drone the Drone in school
002you better think of some maybe start writing poetry right now because it wasn't a big deal I'm like seriously think up some poetry because your mom is coming down you took a drone to school oh that's not all that that was even last week no she doesn't even know about last week obviously Tuesday comes home and notices there's a hole in our wall downstairs I'll have to look at you well I didn't punch my sister take that as a win Wednesday we noticed um in oursa was $240 short he went to school showing a water of cast rolled up and and then rub right call this me order call here J here Susan here Mar here and Brian I'm here andand is pledge algi to the flag of the United States of America and to
003the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right old business there is none today we have new business 3.1 presentation from opened all right so opened is the I'm going to stop sharing here uh opened is the company we have been in discussions with to create a online platform um just to kind of give you a broader idea of what this is and they'll explain it better than I can we def we have a rider Academy now which we Ed to capture those students that we've been losing to online schools open Ed would be a bit different than that um openet first will start to capture the homeschool students in our district we've had a discussion they're they're not to get they're not going to
004enroll kids that we currently have in our school district they're going to look for students that are homeschooled and then students outside of our district to open enroll again um then we have a split of our ADM uh 75 open ad 25 uh Lake Park Aon the uh really only I I would think the only Manpower we provide if we need to provide special ed services that are in person um and then with our student information system or Synergy we'll probably have grade input or some information input other than that they provide the teachers and they provide all of the resources on that part with that being said um I'd like to introduce shaie and Grant from opened they'll take over for a bit they have a presentation for you and then you by all
005means write down questions you may want to ask throughout this and they'll do their best to answer them for you go ahead sh and Grant great thanks um my name is Grant Hugh I'm the vice president of opened for Partnerships I'm responsible for our partnership relations with our district Partners so I'm gonna share my screen uh hopefully we'll see if technology defeats me uh today but we're gonna we're gonna try to do this so give me just two seconds there we go it work hey there we go so this is just going to be a really high level uh understanding of how opened operates and uh kind of what we are as a program as as Tim mentioned we are uh not your traditional virtual platform we are a virtual slist education platform that really
006targets homeschool families um we are an asynchronous program um this is a a program that's not your standard uh online program where you set it and forget it put a kid in front of a zoom class and let them sit there for eight hours that's that's not what we're trying to do so um why do we think now is the time to to come to Minnesota and to start talking to homeschool families well it's pretty simple there's been a a large increase in the number of homeschool families since covid um you had your traditional homeschool families that existed prior to co these are people who maybe were home for religious reasons or um maybe more curricular reasons but in 2020 we just saw a skyrocketing jump in the number of homeschoolers and I like to
007refer to these these homeschoolers as what I call Refugee homeschoolers they're not necessarily the hard and fast um homeschoolers that we saw prior to the pandemic but these are folks that just it wasn't feeling right the education system wasn't working for their kids they wanted to try to do something different um but maybe they want a little bit more guidance they don't want to be totally out on their own but they actually want to to have some sort of kind of guard rails and that's where opened really thrives is um we provide them with a safe environment to have a level of freedom but also ensuring that their kids are meeting state standards and moving in the direction that they uh want want their children to go went the wrong way so this is uh
008just meeting the moment meeting the outcome that they want for fitting their lives so as I started to mention our what we are is a personalized and flexible education plan so um we provide a uh access to curricular options that meet uh Minnesota state standards that uh enable families to be able to choose uh which curricular options work best for them we are redefining for families the kind of where they learn how they learn and maybe when they learn um while while still having them tied to those State Standards so we support today uh over 13,000 students Nationwide um we are operational in Oregon and Utah expanding into Kansas next year Indiana next year and hopefully Minnesota next year we do all of this through Public Partnerships with either Charter Schools or districts like yourself
009so why why would you want to do this one you're taking an Innovative and uh Advanced approach to to how to reach families where they are you're kind of bucking the trend of a one-size fits-all education model and saying look the system is just evolving the world is evolving and we're evolving with it and so it's a reputational boost for a district to want to try to reach those families in a way that makes sense to them and in a way that is flexible um but also meeting the state standards it increases enrollment for you this just becomes a financial uh decision where it's an easy way to get some new dollars in the door when dollars are tight and uh be able to spend them on some kind of one-time projects that you may
010have uh that you're just looking for a little bit more money to operate by uh our course delivery this there's a number of our actual library of courses is over uh 75 plus uh curricular options for families these are just a few that maybe you're familiar with everything from a grill to ad mum to Edgenuity um to Rosetta Stone these are all opportunities that every family in our program gets the opportunity to interact with this is how it would kind this is a sample schedule for a child so no one of the things that makes opened so uh so great is that there's not any one siiz fits-all approach you end up with uh three kids in a household and they may have three different types of schedules but this is an example of maybe
011a fourth grader who's nine years old um they may be taking uh Elk's math doing imagine language and literacy Rock by Rock and Great Hearts online uh they may participate in a number of our clubs that we offer maybe they're doing some events that we offer through our virtual um synchronous opportunities they have access to one-on-one tutoring access to group tutoring uh all week Monday through Friday with licensed Educators and they can also receive Mentor support from a licensed teacher as well so in addition to our asynchronous kind of curricular option as I was mentioning our families get access to 20 plus Live Events a week these are anything from clubs to um Deep dive learning sessions as well as one-on-one tutoring and group tutoring opportunities the tutoring opportunities are probably not going to be
012with their assigned licensed educator because what we try to do is we have a number of teachers on our staff if they're looking for help in algebra we're going to get them tagged up with an Al with somebody with a math certification or math credential to be able to educate them better and help them on that process so they get access to our entire wealth of teachers even though they're assigned to licensed Minnesota educator been around for 15 years 97% of our families would recommend it to a friend uh We've served over 25,000 students uh and families over that time period uh as I mentioned we have over 75 courses available in our uh Library uh why do some Partners choose us uh you know some of some of them have have worked to provide
013raises for teachers they've used it for new textbooks they've remodeled uh portions of their schools they fund uh maybe uh par par professionals with some of the dollars um there's any number of ways that a school district can use dollars uh for kind of onetime expenses to help uh their students that are already enrolled in their brick-and mortar districts are many of our partner uh superintendents would say an opened partnership isn't just for the kids that they serve it's also for the kids who sit in those classrooms every day because they're getting access to new things um and new resources through the dollars that are provided through the opened partnership um here are just some quotes uh from our some some of our superintendant who have uh decided or been nice enough to offer them
014their names to talk about opened I'm happy to share this uh deck as well what it would look like from a timeline we would sign uh hopefully a partnership agree ment here in March we would start our compliance mapping process uh immediately but wrap it up in the month of April and start enrolling families into the program uh in quarter two of this year so this compliance mapping piece is really important it's as we come into a new market which Minnesota would be to us we front all of the cost uh to ensure that our program matches to All State Standards and All State uh applicable laws we hire a local Minnesota attorney to map our program uh to to the letter of the law in Minnesota and we provide a compliance manual back to
015our partner District so that you understand exactly how our program fits within the confines of Minnesota educ education law we've not had a problem in any state we've had to make tweaks here or there on the margin but we are able to keep the core um core pieces of our program to make it attractive to families intact uh but that happens immediately after we sign a new partner so that we make make sure that we're all on this journey together doing it the right way uh this is our team uh we're fairly qualified Bunch uh that have been doing this for a long time I'm probably the newest member of the team uh to be honest but uh I'm excited to be here and have been working to transform K12 education for the last 10
016years so that's just a little bit about us I would love to answer any questions that you might have and let me stop sharing the screen and just to let you know both gr and I have been in contact with the Department of Ed about the uh viability of using open Ed and according to um the information we've both got that uh the options feasible um the district makes the decision um again those students will be open rolled into the district so they'll be our students but they won't be our students currently in the district and rolling into the program um and again the the audience is homeschool students um which we do we find out how many 30 so we currently have 30 hes school students in our district um so recapturing those students
017enter our platform looking elsewhere in the state to recruit more students and then other students looking for online learning and I showed uh Brian today the number of online learning entities there are right now in the state and there's there's a lot um I'll let there there are there are a ton of opportunities for families in Minnesota today what I what I find is they're they're not the kind of niche market that opened is in attracting families with an asynchronous solution with synchronous kind of uh opportunities so I like to call our program a a guide on the side versus a sage on the stage type program all of our kids are going to interact with a licensed educator build their education plans select the curricular options that they want and then they're going to
018drive themselves across the Finish Line with that uh licensed educator right running alongside them not necessarily lecturing them from a from a screen and so um it's a unique platform it's a unique opportunity uh that that is available uh to to families that maybe just aren't looking for that same virtual option so just just to clarify do does everybody know the difference or know what synchronous and asynchronous means no sure okay asynchronous means they can enter the classroom online anytime they want um they do their work watch you know their videos do their reading do the work online um the teacher not necessarily engaging with them right then and there but then we'll go in and look at the word correct the word give feedback synchronous synchronous is what they're talking about with like the
019groups where it's live right also want to say I got a call today from superintendent managa Jason there Jason is the other District in Minnesota that is working with opened now too and we discussed um any concerns we had and we discussed um the pros to it um they used a program last year called Elevate um the issue with Elevate is and a lot of these other companies they take such a high portion of your ADM so basically we're paying open ed through splitting that ADM you we get a percentage they get a percentage the percentage that elevate was taking was so much that it was a wash from the district so it made no sense to continue with that so now they discussions with open end Mr chair uh so managa is using this
020program right now they're not using it right now they're looking at they're the other District right now partner District in the state that is considering it so my sister's in managa and she actually has a kid doing homeschooling right now okay may I ask a question what are you what are your or what is your approach or techniques to getting homeschooled kids back yeah great question may I missed that maybe I missed that no you didn't I I was trying to keep the slide that short so I I cut a couple of the marketing slides so um how we uh reach these these families are are kind of twofold this is gonna sound maybe maybe weird but but it works so we currently uh have over 13,000 uh kids uh which represent probably seven to
0218,000 families in our program currently the first thing that we do is notify homeschoolers in Oregon and Utah that we are coming to Minnesota and uh we just did this in Kansas from that small interaction alone we were able to enroll 70 uh kids in the Kansas program overnight because these um homeschool families talk across stes so first we start building up excitement in our current markets then we come into Minnesota we attend homeschool fairs We join homeschool Facebook groups we find parent ambassadors who are very vocal in The Homeschool Community uh take them on kind of a a a a journey to educate them on what open Ed is how are we different than everybody else who's tried to get their business over the last 10 years um and we build relationships rooted in
022dignity and respect and trust and uh we have found that to be a very uh powerful way to do it our goal is to get core group of first year families that's anywhere between uh 50 and 100 uh in that first year and from there it just snowballs we started uh in Oregon four years ago with 13 families when we uh end this year we will have 1,200 kids in the program um after four years so as the program just starts getting its own Word of Mouth it it traction grows uh but in the first year we will do uh iners of events virtual events telet Town Halls uh info sessions uh we'll go to libraries we'll put our team on the ground in the State uh to meet uh those families and build those
023relationships but from that initial cohort it kind of snowballs from there okay thank you excl there's there's no one these families trust more than themselves hey Grant Jade Carlson um as you grow this exclusivity I mean we're talking about within our district but then we have districts outside of saga not that far away so already I mean i' would have been more excited if it would been Rochester or something but I mean is there how have you dealt with that over time because you know we're kind of going to put our if we go this direction how do we know that is it the boundaries created or or is the curriculum vary from Lake Park Obin to what managa potentially yeah great question so um we we have Partnerships uh I'm going to use Utah
024as an example we we have Partnerships where we have two districts that border each other who are partners and then one that's in the northern prot of the states so we have three uh Partners in in Utah right now um one we find the safe number to open in a state in a new market is one to two districts um we will put an emphasis in recruiting kids uh so that both District get a good uh base of kids into the program and then from there um your program will be a n a K12 program while their program is a K8 program so we work to just enroll families into kind of a split between the two and everybody wins type type environment we do not require exclusiv exclusivity um in any way shape or
025form with you and other virtual providers because we are really confident that we're going for a unique Market set and so if you have an uity or you already have your Online Academy that's totally fine with us we're not going for the same kids we're going for a totally different batch so that's not really an issue um we work with our partners after those first two or three years to say what's your comfort level because some districts candidly um we have one in in in Oregon who's like I just want 1100 kids I think get like 1300 kids my department of education is going to come like knocking at my door and while that's great and we can pass everything I really just don't want the headache so as we reached 1100 students this last
026year at one of our partners in Oregon we went to find another partner in the state and so we found another partner and we're now moving uh we're now enrolling kids there so our current District maintains their like 1100 to 1300 number and we start adding kids over on the other side so we think that's just the right split as we if we all get to 2,000 kids and everybody's super comfortable we can just keep growing or we can go look for a third partner so um to be the first in and the first to Market puts these two districts kind of in the driving seat what we create is a working group in the market because we are all kind of one opened family um and we meet with our working groups once a
027quarter so those superintendents are talking to each other they're talking with opened we understand what everybody's doing and what the market looks like and we want to be fair to all to all Partners so adding more than just two schools right now when you flood the market you get that sense of equilibrium so districts don't come out ahead anymore so this is our initial discussion that's what I was worried about so how many districts well relying on two or three districts in the state you keep enrollment high for those two three districts if they spread it out our enrollment goes down because there's other options to do it so keeping it small in each state makes it more marketable for the school district well that'd be my concern is all of a sudden you we
028get an influx of a 100 and all of a sudden we open another one up 100 miles away and all of a sudden we go from having A1 don't 20 right I mean that's a if we if we open a new one we wouldn't steal we wouldn't take your kids and move them we would work to find new families for that one but you know it just depends on how um how the partnership how we how we work we we consider ourselves a um a a long-term partner so we've been with some of our our partners for 15 years um and we just kind of work with them on a day-to-day basis year-by-year basis to understand what the market is and where things are going we have a partner in Utah with 8,000 kids uh
029in our program and they're super excited to have 8,000 kids but then the district just down the road only wants 2,000 kids and so we work to meet those families and those kids were they are those locations that you have nice participation what kind of competition are you dealing with because uh so in yeah so in Utah there's a ton of virtual options and Utah is just this very homeschool friendly State we also dealing in Utah with a um competing private school choice program called the Utah fits-all scholarship that lets families uh get $8,000 to just Evacuate the school system completely uh and we're able to maintain our our students uh because we provide them with something that's just different than even a pure private school choice program or our competitors and that's that tieback
030of curricular library and freedom to select curricular options and a licensed educator and that relationship that they form to kind of create a journey together seems to be a real value ad for our families that they they like that confidence but they also like the freedom that they have I'm G to explain a little bit of the the psychology of homeschool um when I was in Alaska principal in Alaska Alaska is the same thing they give each student who wants to homeschool $10,000 so that $10,000 goes towards curriculum um purchasing a program or a Longline platform materials things like that so there's a lot of homeschooling um the majority of the time when they homeschool they homeschool take that $10,000 and they pay into a program to to be that educational um instructor what you
031will a lot of our homeschoolers here because they have to they in their home school applications they let us know what their plans are most of them go into an online platform um some of them are free a lot of them they have to pay for um the difference is this will be we're talking about for homeschoolers but it's public education so it's no cost to them to actually be homeschooling staying home homeschooling not being in the you know the classroom or the school building for whatever reason they choose but still having contact with a teacher um still having the groups and that's another big thing about homeschool communities is um you know we talk about homeschoolers don't they don't get the opportunity for social time but that's why they have their networks so they
032have clubs and they get together all the time um sometimes they even start their own sports teams in some states um in this case they'll be open enrolled or enrolled into our district they're going to receive this free um so it's a public education but the same maintain that homeschool mentality or homeschool psychology hey Grant yeah do you have any idea of costs that districts that you have as partners May incur like indirect or direct costs I know that we don't have to pay and that there's a split but what costs as you grow your your enrollment will we face as a district yeah and I think this is a this is a great question and I want to be fully transparent about it the uh one a lot of districts assume it's going to
033be a special end cost and and really the reality is um of our of our enrollment about five% are special ed and of that the vast majority are speech only which is a a fairly Light Lift and able to be done virtually um with a lot of success so that's really not where we see the cost where we see the cost is um let's assume we have a great we have a great first year we enroll like 75 kids those 75 kids go out in year two and get us 600 kids then depending upon the integration capabilities with Synergy there may be some uh manual work to take our enrollment packets and get them into your student information system so where we have seen districts incur cost is part-time enrollment staff like a part-time registar
034or maybe even a new registar to um to deal with that influx and just the maintain maintenance of having another thousand kids in the district um that's that's where we see the cost in in all of our partners is there's just a threshold eventually where like our current register can't do that and we need a part-timer or we need to bring on somebody else is there a threshold for you on that have you seen what that ends up being that is unable I I haven't so we so to give you an example uh our newest partner in Oregon had 70 kids at the midy year um right now they're slighted to get 600 kids next uh in the fall and they are they're on Synergy and we're working on an integration right now to make
035that uh less of a manual process uh but we haven't finished that integration they have not talked about adding a adding a body yet they're a small District as well uh we try to produce a uh and we we go through this in our onboarding but a very concise enrollment packet that is super easy to be digested by anybody and to be able to be inputed into the system so we try to make it as easy as possible but I know at a thousand kids our new our our first partner in Oregon just added a new register which wouldn't be cost wise wouldn't be wouldn't be counterproductive put that way no I mean which would probably alleviate some office stress um but we are we are trying we have a with our new we are
036launching a new platform in fall uh that platform will have a lot better integration with uh known um SI student Information Systems so we're working with Infinite Campus Power School uh and Synergy uh right now and we're working to we're putting our first kind of pilot programs of that integration to take away the as much manual process as possible and student information system Synergy is where when somebody registers all their demographic information goes in there all their um academic records everything's housed there but we maintain that always in the school and we work with region one for that but we maintain it locally yes of a district or size you had mentioned I'm I'm assuming that's kind of the best case scenario what are you seeing for like an average scenario you bring first you
037know first six months do you see you know we bring on 10 what do you what's a realistic goal or what have you seen that more on the smaller scale District or size yeah I mean I I firmly believe that if we open a partnership even if I open two districts uh because we're having a a meeting board meeting on Monday with the other District if we bring on two districts I I firmly believe we're going to bring you at least 50 kids in the first year for the fall uh we may bring you 75 to 100 which is a good number we're going to we're going to bring in our first year in Kansas we're going to bring 200 kids uh to Augusta uh the Augusta School District um and when I met with
038their school board I was GNA be really excited at 75 um and it looks like we're on a pathway to about 200 250 so is you so is is the structure of this program to try to get these families that are kind of not real sure about the public school system to try to get them maybe to transfer back into the brick and mortar is that the full intent of the program or not necessarily from what I our intent of the program is to provide a quality education that's flexible and individualized for kids that meet State Standards so that's our that's our number one goal who we find that our program attracts is over 15 years it it attracts a large portion of people who you never never been in the system and postco people
039who left and are are just you know biting their nails a little bit going do I really know what I'm doing and we we provide that kind of safe return what people don't like is the experience they had during Co they don't like the idea of you know either having zero contact with an educator and getting a bunch of worksheets or being sat in front of a screen for 15 hours a day um that's just not what they're looking for and so we work to F we we find that middle we started long before Co we're going to be here long after covid it just that's we provide a real individualized personalized approach for education and that just happens to attract uh those more freedom loving families who are in The Homeschool Community interesting thing
040my years of experience deal I deal a lot with home schools like again going back to Alaska we had homeschool charter schools so charter schools are just so up strictly for homeschoolers um they are a community you'll have parents that homeschool their kids here and there that will say you know I don't want my kid going to the school for my son's mom tried it for middle school was a disaster and he went back to the school but we have parents that will do that well I don't think that Middle School's right I'm going to pull them you know for that couple years but then we have people that are lifelong homeschoolers and have homeschooled all over their children and that's the only way they're going to do it just a really and when you
041get those kind of homeschoolers it it's a community it's interesting it's like in and of itself it's like its own School Grant can you like shed a little light on the the testing side so with with the requirements the state requires how does that testing and what is your historical data telling you from your students because I'm guessing there's a screening process for students to be right or how do you screen students and then how do you how do you guys rate with your testing score yeah we're we're a public school we can't turn turn down kids uh but we're really good about how we talk about it with families um because uh you know full transparency our program requires a little bit more parent involvement than if you're just setting your kid in front
042of a a screen so you know we we are communicating during that entire enrollment and application flow with our families what can you expect connecting with families who are already in the program uh parent ambassadors so that they can understand what they're getting into too and you know so far we do a pretty good job uh of of narrowing the type of of family that that comes into the program that being said the first quarter of the year of a school year you're going to get a couple families a handful they're like whoa that's not what I really wanted to do and they're going to withdraw and that's just going to happen um so we operate in in states that have some uh flexibility around testing but we also operate in States uh we will
043be operating states that require State Testing what I can tell you is uh we will will follow uh state laws and requirements around testing if opting if family opt out is allowed uh and depending upon how we uh agree in our kind of onboarding process you know do we have to do you have to be forward about the opt out rights of parents some states say yes other states say no just depends on what it is we're happy to to meet that requirement and let them know um just let you know in Minnesota we do have to be forward with it we have to post on our website saying that you have option so everybody will get their their knowledge of their rights um of the families who take our tests in Utah um over
04468% of them are above grade level we only have 2% that are below grade level and those students are on our watch list and we're constantly working to make sure that they are progressing and then we have a batch that are just sitting right at grade level so a lot of these families uh are doing this because they want to move at a rapid pce uh we have a ninth grader in Utah right now who just finished his associates degree um and he is driving towards his bachelor's by the time he graduates high school so it just depends on uh the family but the freedom they get in the program allows them to move at the speed they want to move at and we don't hold them back um so you know families I would
045I would say that you're going to have a number of families who opt to take their rights to not do the testing um and that's obviously their right but then there will be a group of families who want to do the testing and because they like to see it as a a metric or a grow growth model uh to follow and so um we have not had a problem uh in the testing Department um it's also like not a this just sound bad but it's not a number that we like look at we are we are focused at 97% of our families want to come back but when we pull the data and choose to look at it we're pleasantly pleased with how our kids are doing enrollment is it quarterly I mean how quickly
046I mean if they go and they got a quarter worth of class and they finish early can it get back in or so enrollment wise how you mentioned the Freshman that's doing really well I mean are we quarterly enrollment and then you got to wait till the next quarter or semester or if you're done go ahead and enroll in the next course and move forward if you're done move on keep going we're not going to hit the pause button now some states require us to do advancements we work with our districts to have advancement policies and how we do grade advancements some parents also want to talk about grade retention we uh we work that out within uh each district partnership on how how we do that but normally we screen for that um we
047require them to to do some uh portfolio or some testing to say look I'm ready to to be Advanced and it's not just a moms like they should be an 11th grader uh there's a there's a process with our learning team and our assessment team and then with our with our district partner to make sure that those kids are ready to be Advanced and our moving and meeting the standards of our program and to at least since I've been here we have had students that have Advance um and we don't we don't look negatively at that I mean if they have the ability to move faster I mean that's what original Raider Academy was for was for those students that had the ability to move faster and because of that we did have some that
048went really fast through the system I just feel at that time we do a great job for students that struggle in need support we do a really great job for kids that are right in the middle we don't do a very good job for those that are up here and that was a big part of that so would this be our another option for that situation or are we feeling we're going to be able to using the Y with the exception we don't want to pull our kids into that just because we lose ATM Revenue but with our Raider Academy they have the option to do that we we do have students in that are excelling to Grant that's a question that I have for you if the district would want to use you is
049there a way to put that into an agreement that our in-person students and our people who attend the brick and mortar could use your platform at a very reduced or almost no cost in exchange for you know either less percentages and this could be negotiated on the other end but I'm just wondering do you guys do both where it can be this and versus this or so what we what we do or what we find um is again who we attract and the family who likes to be in our program we find that with local families so the the local homeschool population in your district there may be an opportunity that some of them want to do a a dual enrollment or concurrent enrollment or they want to take one or two classes in person
050we PR rate those students so we don't take the full um 75 25 split we we work to to PR rate that so that you're getting the money that in your in your building um we do some partnership opportunities we working on a a language immersion program uh right now between a A Partners a school that likes us in Guatemala and one of our partner schools in um in Oregon as a pilot program um there's there are ways to have those conversations they're probably not the conversation I want to have in year one but it's probably one of those conversations that maybe as we work out the Kingson year one with our traditional program we discuss how to add it in the future years it's definitely everything's on the table want to meet the kids
051where they are and the needs that they are but how we price it would be an interesting conversation Dr God but not when we're Clos it's not a closed door in one of the first slides it had the list of all the different programs do you have those that um can you go back to the it's one of the first slides and had Rosetta Stone and I just want to write down each of the programs I have a ton of people and know a lot about homeschooling and a ton of people so my sister-in-law is very high up in the homes community and Park rid so would want to tell her right away if we did this before they jumped to an I have the slide deck so I just want to know that I'll
052share the slide deck when we're done because then I can get St it and I know they mainly do pay for their program so it's very common most time you don't get a free cost right so it make somebody very interested that's the difference this would be a public school option whereas that is I super get it enrolling into an online program and she even they even do do they they call it Co-op so if any class is hard they all get together and somebody will teach it my sister-in-law teach a class and stuff they do a lot of stuff together they do that in sou Carolina my sister's home school for years and managa has a very huge hom school well I'm guessing they incur all those costs of all those different softwares that
053they're using if this is included it's my sister-in-law doesn't in Park Rapids and I don't it's a very reduced cost and um but no it's very interesting there's a very large amount of homeschoolers not even far from here there there we go and and this this is really a a small sample of we have over 75 different curricular options for families to choose from but you're hitting on you're hitting on in your conversation and that is that families uh who are paying for it now could get it for free but oftentimes we're going to have the same thing that they were looking for at at a m at one at free for them and so um sometimes this is just a no-brainer from an economic stando Point not only for the district but for the
054family um that it just makes sense and it is 100% right because if what you tell one they go in there and they're like we just tried this program but if they're happy with it it just you can have 20 in the night 97% of our families will recommend it to another family it's our it's our it's my best talking point they love it they want to come back and that's what we that's what we're most proud of test scores are great our kids are graduating with Associates degrees all that's wonderful but the customer and education is the kid and the family and our kids want to come back to our PR um we did meet Grant and shaie and I met with um Scott Maston our special ed director and Justin Hoskins our special
055ed coordinator um because they had concerns we needed to know basically how Service delivery works for students that have special support um after that conversation they feel comfortable with us moving forward and the ability of support we're able to get and like they said this is the direction education is going um it'll be new for us there'll be a learning curve for specializ supports initially but you know Scott did agree this is seems to be the way everything's going now um and they didn't feel any apprehension about it so right now as we sit we're looking at no cost to the district we're not talking about adding heads even if tomorrow we start this up and we got 200 we're going to suck this up and figure out how to deal with it we'll suck
056it up I I can see us probably getting some clerical support for registration that would be and that's like registration actually is not it's data input um it's one time and done deal uh well it depends because I'm sure there's rolling enrollment so we have students that probably roll throughout the year but I mean if we get a group of 200 the beginning of the year and 200 mid year well then we'd have to do that if we get 200 the beginning of the year we hire to put and then a couple here a couple there that's it's all temporary that we can take care of Yeah we actually have clerical now that works in the business office um inputting uh inputting different things of filing and that' be a great segue for that person
057too we uh to answer the enrollment question we uh we enroll twice a year so um and some some Partnerships will into it once but we feel really comfortable doing a mid year and a beginning of the year so we don't we don't have an rolling quarterly enrollment it doesn't seem to work as well that's a that's a good re insurance is there a percentage of kids that do not keep up so uh our our intervention process um if we if we find so intervention's a great great talking point great place to talk um so if we find a student that's struggling uh we uh approach it in a 360 degree approach one we have a parent Support Division who's entirely devoted to liaisoning with parents and making parents feel comfortable and understanding where their
058children are and how they're functioning and answering their help Des questions we also have a student Support Division and so our student support division is going to be watching that child as they're learning going to be fagging hey they're they're slipping they're not their attendance is slipping or any number of metrics by which we would look at to to challenge whether or not a kid is progressing in the right Right Way Forward our parent support division is going to be talking with their parents ongoing regardless of how uh the student is performing so if we sense that we have a problem within the home on the parent front we're g to start watching that student a little bit tighter on the student front because what we find is when either side is unbalanced we find
059out we have a problem in the learning and so we are always working with our families 360 degrees and then they kids who get on that kind of watch list are getting one-on-one tutoring they're getting Mentor support we are proactively reaching out we're calling we're texting we're uh Skyping we're doing all sorts of interventions to make sure that those kids get back on track uh most the time what we find is uh if we find a kid on on that watch list it's because we didn't know something was happening that was already planned that they knew about but didn't tell us and so maybe they left the country and then they were going to give us all their learning when they got back you know it just something weird happened and we we were able
060to sort it out on either side of the of the problem there is is the kid who slips behind on the day-to-day but they are quickly uh surrounded with wraparound services to bring them back and to discuss options if this isn't the right program for them and we're always looking to make sure that they get in the right educational uh Avenue and we know and we're honest with ourselves even though it hurts our bottom line not every kid is made for our program anything else does the district have any respon responsibility if the students testing isn't there with the state I mean what responsibility does the district then and I mean they would do State Testing so it would fall under our okay so our it would fall under our numbers yes so how often
061is the communication between our district and openet then is that a weekly is that a monthly conversation is it daily if necessary or what what are you seeing there do we have a go-to point person y okay so you'll be you'll be assigned a member of our partner success team ongoing so you're going to be you're going to be surrounded with people uh for the first 30 to 60 to 90 days because we're going to on board the district and talk to everybody and their grandmother about how you do business what you do what your policies are uh that's a fairly intensive program uh that we that we go through to bring on a new District then yeah you're assigned a registar and a a partner success uh lead and that person is is at
062your disposal uh essentially 247 if you got an issue uh they are your dedicated line to reaching opened even though everybody in your team will have know who their one-on-one person is within open Ed so your assessment person will know who our assessment principal is your sped folks will know who our sped folks are and and they can go directly to each other but if you're looking for like a comprehensive like buck stops here one you're GNA know how to get me uh and my cell phone and two you're going to have a dedicated member of my team uh working with you day-to- day so that's that's our goal um is to provide you with great service we do not I I mean I've heard the question a couple different ways tonight we don't want
063this to be a burden for your District we want to provide a long-term partnership that you all see the benefits from and not a dragon whether that's testing scores Staffing um we are investing a lot of resources into making our platform more parent friendly and partner friendly uh we want as much self-service ability as possible if you have a question about the data you should be able to get a partner dashboard and find out that those attendance um logs at any time you want them and uh people's schedule at any time you want them what curriculum is being used those types of things should be at your back in uh at your fingertips and uh ultimately if you need to talk to our team we're going to be there to to get that information for
064you within 24 hours we from an ongoing uh man we meet with our partner kind of our superintendent we meet with them uh once a month just to make sure we're we're driving in the right direction but we're talking to assessments registrars every week I think it's important as a district is knowing I mean this is an opportunity it's a good way for us to put our hand out and let them know that you know we're still here for support absolutely and this is a very nice potential tool so we we've had that discussion before too there may be students hes School students and we do that now we'll occasionally have homeschool students that want to take a class school and we also do offer there a lot of participating Athletics or activities so we
065do have homeschool students here and there that they'll come in the schools for a variety of things so yep absolutely let them know that option is there Grant is there any upside other than the 25% up you know 25 is really where we where we kind of draw uh draw that partnership because we're we're in it beginning starting out we're doing all the compliance work we're doing we're Hiring Our Own teachers we're ensuring they're all licensed appropriately um so we really feel that 25 is is where we need to be but is there is there any other upside to the district is there anything else provide for Value to the district besides the 25% yeah well so we're only taking 25 of the State uh Aid portion so other funding streams that come for kids
066we're not touching uh and in some states that's actually categorical funding becomes more interesting than the state aid portion um so there could be upside that I don't know about in terms of dollars that you may get uh that are not tied to that state aid uh portion um outside of the money I mean you you get I think the community out Outreach piece is actually really important um you're just at a district that's on the front edge of reaching families where they are um and that that's just an important piece of the puzzle is today the customer in education continues to shift it's a different customer than it was 20 years ago and those families are looking for something different um you will be one of the few districts in Minnesota that actually gets
067it and can reach them with a with with a a product that they want but I would also just highlight we've heard about the community that H schoolers create they are loud um they will be your greatest Advocates uh because we will deliver a quality program to them and they will know they're a part of your District so right now looking at possibly Foundation Aid per student about 7,300 that's the the foundation Aid per student then we get what's called weighted factors on top of that so there's other situations a weighted factor is are they are they kindergarten are they Elementary are they middle school or the high school there's weighted factors there so we get another you know percentage on top of that then are they elll there's another percentage on top of that
068so there's some many weighted factors in there that what it amounts to is a total of about $10,000 per student so we get from the state 7,300 flat out per student and then you have all these weighted factors so we average about $10,000 per student from the state and they take how much of that 25% of that base 25 of the seven yes so there's even more potential Revenue there I guess You' say I have one more question the Doomsday question if the state shuts the door on online schools and letting the third party companies come in providing service what would happen then for the students first and then the district second so our students will be mortified like families will Revolt they will be very mad but the likelihood is they'll go back to
069homeschool uh that they were before um they in terms of the district we have a a clause on on how we would dissolve the contract um that I think it's important to understand how we build the contract too we do not Bill upfront we Bill uh nine monthly installments throughout the year um so we would uh enact the the clause in the contract to to to terminate the contract and essentially it's a semester that we make sure we're were good for the semester so you've already received funding for a kid if this happened in the middle of the year most the time when a legislature does this they do it at the beginning of a new school year we would just uh end the program and we wouldn't have any kids enrolled in the next
070year so it wouldn't there wouldn't be a cost it it all the the the cancellation fees and things only come into play if we're talking about uh the middle of a school year uh because we will have out we will have fronted dollars and bought licenses and those types of things that we just can't can't recoup but at the beginning of a school year it's a it's a mute point we won't have kids I also do want to say that um Grant and Sh shared the contract with me and it's been Ved through our um our Legal Services who's redlined the contract sent the contract back to them they agreed to the changes and then I'll share that once we clean up the red lines I'll share that with the board too is this a
071how long of contract three years right uh yes it's a I think the first I think the first contract is a threee and then uh we have renewals after that the point is takes that third year to build up to that amount of enrollment that they're projecting and I mean we're just gon to be honest the first year we're going to learn together so there'll be some bumps that first year and then the second year and third year will be great do we have projections or not yet we did we had projections 100 first year up to 100 the first year projection and then by third year or fourth year 600 then we can cap and are we talking our district or both districts combined ours ours be yours so what we pulling in homeschoolers
072from places other than just our area they seem they seem aggressive we uh no the projection I mean that seems quite aggressive are you guys a for-profit or nonprofit we're a for-profit we're we're aggressive uh but our numbers match what our growth rates look like in other states we went from 12 families in year one to uh 1,200 families or 1,200 kids in year year four in uh Oregon and we're gonna add another um at least 600 kids next year yeah that's the aggressive let the let the Wildfire spread uh if we get that Core group of first families it'll spread without us doing much and I have to agree with that again my experience is working with homeschoolers and homeschool communities it's just they're they want something to last down to and a lot
073of times in the state of Minnesota they're looking at Connections Academy while that's open enrollment they don't realize that initially or they're looking at a celis which it's a pay for company and they don't have the backend teacher support that's to me the biggest thing is they have that teacher support is it when you you try to enroll families is it very transparent that this is part of the public school system and that our district would benefit because of that there's nothing okay okay I I don't hide that football for a couple of reasons uh number one uh I know we've used the word homeschool a lot here these are public school kids they need to know their public school kids they are not uh homeschool kids under Minnesota law the home school laws do
074not apply to them anymore they are public open enroll old kids and it's it's tough like I I can say it 900 times they they are homeschoolers and they will be homeschoolers but in all of our Communications we are very clear that they are home educated public school kids great last question for me at least um I thought you said that last time I know I do that a is fine guys this is great is there a way that the school district can use the success stories from your students our students and can they be obviously branded as success stories of Lake Park otan online school like is there is there certain things we can say or can't say or how could we best you know fold them into the the community of Lake Park
075otan and being a Raider so that they feel that they're part of that that you know greater family that we have here we have to go through the Privacy releases with the families to make sure that they're comfortable with their quotes or Stories being told but uh we are all about uh the ability to co-brand do uh anything that you're looking for a lot of Partners like to keep it real separate that there's these opened kids and then there's these other kids but uh we want you to to talk about the successes hear the successes um I actually just sent around we just ended spirit week and uh we had a number of families uh on some online platform which I don't I've never used before like share pictures and stories of how why opened
076has changed their educational Outlook and we shared that with our partners uh who who then shared with their school boards to understand that what's the impact we're actually having every semester you'll get a partner report from us uh that tallies information from the previous semester which will come with quotes from kids understanding what our teacher footprint is what our growth rate looks like um you know some stories about how our our program is impacting the the families so we want you to always be a part of this and so our marketing team would love to work with you to make sure that you know if there are stories you want to highlight that we highlighting them in the right way uh and through the right brand standards so um the first thing we'll do is
077stand up a partnership page with your logo and our logo on it that that says hey opened is in Minnesota check it out let's do this and we'll we'll probably have that up uh if you were to support this tonight we would probably have that up by the end of the week last question somebody else has to ask the last question since we've now had two last questions well I could ask you though okay what there's a difference between homeschool and online correct well not necessarily that's right okay so a lot of our homeschoolers use online platforms for learning um some of them their parents work with them we have a lot of homeschool students whose parents work so they're on aelis a genuity they're on all these other different platforms and there's a cost
078to it for them um our online learning with uity that that we have for Raider Academy right now we pay for that for them we pay a slot it so it's based on how many students are online at one time and we cap how many can be on one time so it's actually a very manageable cost so homeschooling is basically homebound education right basically but you said that was 30 right 30 does that include the kids that are doing no so how many do we have for online now right now for online I'm going to give you just an estimate because with the new semester start we enrolled more so I'm thinking we're at 26 26 but we'll get I'll I'll have our op that speci that's what I wanted maybe I didn't clarify that
079but so home school 30 yes but the rest of the kids some of are on online not home school cons okay anything else if there's any more questions that come down the line as you're thinking of it while I'm in Nashville I probably won't reply to you but just email them to me or text to me and I'll pass them on to Grant thank you for your time sir no thank you we hope uh we hope you guys support this and we uh have a fruitful partnership going forward okay thanks guys thanks sh thank you thank you bye bye back to our agenda I thought sh was the next person she's more she's more the ready for his questions like we're making that lady wait she's more the logistics person I got so you were
080saving some of your questions weren't yet for her well I knew we had something else on the agenda so I thought that was a very so all right uh well it's a work session so I think discussion about what you saw now that he's not here is you know overall I didn't understand until probably about an hour ago before the differences between what we were already doing and what this is is I'm with you on that one I didn't either and now I do right because it's like they're pulling from any kid in the state and saying oh we got a school we got a brick mortar we got something here for you right but we don't have to do the actual teaching or right anything so they get to use us as much as
081we get to use them well and the other thing is yeah I know managa is not that far away but he was just saying that he's only going to partner with two districts two or three total right so like you could be down in Rochester anywhere and you want to be part of it say they're like I don't really like Vaga so I'll just pick like par there you go then the goal is 600 in a couple years four years and I will tell you that my sister has been she's started homeschooling her kids and she's on her third one he graduates this year and she's done that program that Community is ginormous cuz she was first in Indiana went to California then now in new now in South Carolina I'm here to tell you
082she like the the things that they've done I stayed with them for a month and watched the kids and we had to go to a museum we had to go on this field trip they had Sports it was it like their schedule was czy everything together yeah and it was like a huge like oh don't worries you know you'll see so and so this is what she looks like blah blah blah you'll meet her you know X Y and Z and I was literally 18 years old going uh you know but that's I couldn't I was amazed I I couldn't believe that there was that many people I didn't realize like I thought home school was one of those things where okay my sister just wants to do that because she do like her kids
083going to public school until I actually saw it then I was like whoa this is a thing the the thing that concerns me the most is how we would deal with the revenue and forecasting it and then counting on it and including it in the budget when we don't have any real controls over it well well I think it's going to take us probably two to three years to be able to start forecasting it um we'll get I mean we don't know what the revenue is going to be year one right you know but I think by year three we'll have a pretty good idea are we are we actually seeing that increase in enrollment in this program or not and if we are seeing it the way they're talking then I think we look
084at capping too like we I don't want to hire three or four more people to provide specializ services that are by front office work we don't have the capacity for that we don't have the space for it or any of that unless we they work remotely if they have an integration system with Synergy that's a no-brainer right there because that means everybody they enroll in their system goes right to Synergy as our student we don't have to deal with that we may we'll do clean up right always um we do that any every year anyway um but I don't think we can I don't think we can project at least for a couple years until we see what every El is looking like but even from a budgetary standpoint I would really be hesitant to
085tie critical things to it we tie anything only to it is our Reserve funds that just goes into Reserve funds and then I think we built that up and then we look at okay we' built up however much in our reserves and in Minnesota as opposed to North Dakota there's no limit on how much you can put in your reserves your unrestricted reserves so then we get to point when there's a project we want to do or we want to add more FTE or something like that I think that just goes into general fund reserves so did I hear him right though so it's really 30% or 25 I keep saying 30 25 % of seven but then you say we have the other we get to up to 10 with all the other things
086that are allocated we're actually talking around six probably about six lot that I'm going to let you know just the way I look at this to me it's a no-brainer because there's no overhead cost for us right at least initially like and I even talked with with Scott and Justin I said you know if we get to the point and we're at 600 to a thousand students in this I think thousand to me would be too much for us but we get to 600 we could hire a special ed teacher to to case manager basically case manager provide some supports but case manage that that load um and still would not be a whole lot for that person but yeah it's it to me it's an no- Briner it's Revenue I don't want to say
087Revenue neutral because there's not really a lot of expense for us um there was talk about the special ed what what's our concern there just that they don't provide special ed services so a lot of times when they get um a student in that has special ed services a lot of times it's speech services so speech services many school districts do it virtually so virtual speech speech services maybe 15 minutes a week so you're saying if they try to enroll there they would not be able to we'd have to no they can they have to public so he said he doesn't they don't exate any kids because they're Public Schools they have so I'm guessing they're very specific though when they're marketing to make sure that they're not hitting an area that they can't provide
088service and then putting it on the stress of the the district they're partnering with right that could be because then in return the the parents coming back to the district and saying okay now my kid wants to you know you're going to have to figure it out my oldest child's here but my youngest child needs this what what what can you provide for me to help so the only service that we would be able to provide unless their kids are in our boundaries because we have we have a boundary of Transportation right so we set a boundary we don't go further than 59 when we pick up so that means for especially kids that are open and roll into our district if they want support we'll pick them up at 59 highway 59 but we're
089not going any further east sure so if they want to come to our district and they're in Mano and they have specializ Services they want inperson Services they're going to have to transport to our district nobody's going to be able to do that right um and I talked with uh talk with Scott Scott also mentioned that you know as we get enrollments like that we can have that discussion with them hey come into our district you're basically virtual and you need this we can provide it sparingly but this might not be the right fit for you as far as those Services being provided now is that and so but the virtual part of it we would be able to do we would be able to do the virtual part yeah and like I said it's
090going to take a couple years to we start building up that or and see what the specific needs are right I think if we get 50 students in there the first year I think that's good I think that's good progress because I think that them Word of Mouth kind of takes over is there no advantage of using the actual platform that they're doing and say for Raider Academy so that we wouldn't have to do it if they already have edity as a platform inside of their own cost cost would be the problem I mean if we could negotiate a lower cost that's using a genuity right now is very very expensive for us but I'm just thinking the robustness of that company versus a genuity which is a lot of algorithm based and that you
091have kids that are just I would here's my biggest fear with doing that it would offset the revenue we get so if we say we turn around we did a 75 District 25 them we're losing 25% of our ADM so we're losing that 25% chunk that we wouldn't lose at all genuity now if we get this Revenue over here because we have their 7525 split we're collecting that extra Revenue I'm afraid that's going to just balance out using them for our Raider Academy platform I would wonder if there's just a negotiation on that that we could find out if there is something that if we have 30 kids or 40 kids you'll educate those on your platform at a 40 60 because we're already here we got them in the building they're doing the thing
092so you're not doing the 100% or the 70% I just think if you if you have a really good platform having two different platforms gets really murky because then people are like what what is it that why do we have two always look at the Devil's Advocate to that so here's here's my concern I'm not saying we don't have that discussion I don't think they've done that with another this is what it would be fresh for them but here's a couple things I will worry about I just thr this up to think about if we do that we're going to have more kids in person are going to want to go online I think we'll have that because the the students that we have that are going online we were losing them to online regardless
093they were leaving the district to go online some of them can do that maintain it some of them can't when they find that they're well we've got teachers supporting us now we've got um you know we've got all these resources I think we're going to have more kids that are going to go online that's going to decrease what we collect from our normal Foundation aid but your concern I don't think that changes any I mean that concern you have I think that's a legitimate concern as soon as the kids as soon as they find out that I can speed a pawn right oh yeah the the jumping the not having to to follow that curriculum line so kind of going back to the Middle School theory of you know sixth through eth and then nth
094they start to really Branch off into the worlds they want to be in I think all this together and having that in place can be a big cuz your working with these now you just aren't looking at the screen and doing the remote stuff you're working with your hands and you're understanding so if we can be in place quickly on that handson because I look at this tool also I feel like it could be a stepping stone in our concern of losing it could be a stepping someone has like Park this program's been really nice do you want to go to school this year it it could work in Reverse but we kind of got to get her you know that nth 10th 11th grade where they can actually start going I want to be
095electrician okay you got the program to go in that direction yeah having that 75 different programs that's where may maybe I'm not you know I've been known to the rail but I never heard that so yeah you're looking at 600 now those are coming from like let's say Holly pelic further up all over all over and all over what if those schools catch on to that they can't are they that's what he was just saying that he he's only going to they only negotiate with two of the three schools in the state as of right now as of right now like our district four profits are going to make well yeah but what if those a two or three of those schools say no CU we're going to do it they won't they're not negotiating
096that's what that question I think maybe what Mark is saying well here's legitimate if they're going to take the first three districts and say we're going to do contract and then that's it if you if they say we're going to do 75 districts in the state the more districts the less kids each district gets so the less attractive it is for a district to do that so they keep it small then like if it's us managa and someone else and we each get a th000 kids you know that that's a huge Revenue stream for us that that's huge that's probably $2 million extra a year um right now but then if they keep expanding it that's less and less and less so it's not but wasn't that one of the questions he said that he
097he answered and said that he would they don't negotiate for more than two or three the legislation changes you never know if we had cap these are all the online providers in the state of Minnesota so they're they're going to war with each other and basically partnering with their school districts so these guys might only have three but they have and they're more niched than the others ones but they may have five or six or 10 competitors in the state doing the same thing that's why they can take three and say Here's the beauty of the difference too so I'm going to take Fergus FS instance because I talk what they're superent about they Fergus Falls provides their own teachers so they have to provide the teachers they get a bigger cut of the ADM
098but they have the majority of the workload um and what those teachers do basically kids learn um asynchronous and then the teachers have to go in and check the work teachers have to meet with them I think 15 minutes a day per class they have to do a lot of that we're taking a a smaller cut but we don't do any of it right and I I love that fact because it it's no more stress on our system teachers don't say my gosh you're going to me more work to do we don't have to worry about expanding our Workforce yep but then let's move to the online that we're proposing too you get that's kids in the school and we just built a brand new school in the elementary and I don't want to see
099that mean I don't want to see less kids in school that's why I think the niche market as it calls it targeting homeschool families it's probably the most important component I don't know and I'm Minnesota what if they decide what if what if these kids catch on to that and they said oh I want to go well it'll take them seconds I mean the key is that we have our kid should be coming here because of the sense of family they don't want to not be here can they we have to create that that's right Ames the district they call don't want to go to they could they could essentially but they're going to do the the way they're going to Target they're going to specifically Target home I get that home school they're always
100going to St but I I I feel like and I family that works for with she's been with us for years and they started it they didn't but they tried different it didn't work so they homeschool but I feel like if we can have that direction once they get to that age that we have this program that can they can start to really gather momentum and get off into the field they want to be this whole thing could just capture no different than our what do we call it our our uh what an and um Teresa do the pre same same the ECF is we do it because we get that momentum and we get the kids this is just an extension of ECFE because now we're getting the kids but we just have to
101have those programs to where they can continue to strive in the direction they want they want to be a doctor we had a network to the next level that's our Academy model exactly we talked about absolutely but we need to make sure we have we can only take it so far we got to make sure we're in position that that next step is it the tech and school what what programs do they have that we can tie that so they don't stop here and they have nowhere to go now they can go finish because we can only do so much of that there was a boy graduated last year that was homeschool and that he came back what the last two years and the sister's probably still there yeah and I I think this could
102be an extension so your concern of us and my concern be the same thing but it could go in reverse too if done and done well and that's my that's that's my real fear is that we're taking money from other districts of students that might be going to their districts you know what I mean and following it to us well but here's the thing they don't care if they do it to us I know that's what I'm saying it's like a circular firing squad at this point because we have we have a lot of kids that open Ru and deal Holly we have kid those districts don't care and and the reality of it is they're kind of they kind of got a niche right so they say that doesn't last long in today's environment
103you can have an odd product today and then six months from now someone's got the same thing and and it's going to happen so if we do this we have to do it and do it well and I will Al that we had to do it I hate to say this because I don't like Russia but we had to do it quickly because they will find another District to take our place but doing well their part but also here in the bricks build our program here for what we're talking about absolutely so this Academy has been a vision of mine for decades okay why are we teaching kids to go to college solely go to college which is what public education does it teaches kids to go to college and we have those students that
104need that we also have students that want to go into plugging electrician that want to go into be become an RN well if they want to become an RN why aren't we preparing them for that ahead of time they want to go to college why aren't we preparing so if you look at my Academy model I showed you guys one of them's career I mean college track it's all PSO all dual credit but then we have kids that want to go in the workforce and like I showed you one of the top top training Industries is hospitality we have plenty of opportunities for kids to have those experiences and learn and learn the math that's involved learn the reading that's involved technical manuals learn how to how HR works we have the ability to do
105that we just have to build it professional skiers and the more experience they get trying out this stuff ahead of time because we have a kid that just graduated last year and just did one semester in college and said not BR and that happens quite a bit so then at the more they say hey what about one of these other avenues of what else could I but that can happen in the trades too oh absolutely absolutely but they might find one like my uh my nephew right now he's trying to figure out which trade he wants to do but he has no idea we have that figured out maybe by time he's a junior because you know you freshman he starts taking some of those questions of freshman sophomore maybe a little summer inter and
106all yeah it's not by the time you're a senior yeah I think I F it maybe given the experience of work based learning what do you want to do I want to be electrician will connect you with Ace electric and you're going to be with them a couple hours a day you know at the end of the semester not doing this although I don't know why um or Plumbing or you know we have great Speedy Plumbing I mean we partner with them out of dgf or Dorth I mean they great partners that would do anything for us we have Partnerships it's just building that system this is just for kicks and Giggles do you happen to know uh with the latest census that we have how many kids do we have in our school district
107from birth to whatever how many from birth [Laughter] to I I don't know if we can I don't know if we can find the demographics first I know we're still losing some to surrounding schools but I know used to do that well I mean I think you mean right here we have to look at but we're still taking from from other we'd have to look at a demogra I think you mean just what is that number I think we'd have to look it I can look I wonder if the state department has anything on it I can look if we if we do this the grass will look a lot greener on that other side the shiny object will get the that would have tension it will have a tension but then that forces us
108as a district to make sure we're just as shiny right yeah you know what I mean that pressure is be on big time because if somebody goes look at all the cool things you're doing online you said you can take that Revenue you can put it back into your school system so these kids that are in person are still benefiting if we're going to do something that's what I think we' have to do is look at ways to take that Andel it back into student outcomes that aren't to like I'll find things that are critical the intimate clomar you know how they said they they're not going to put the wall up for him like they let him just keep going now I obviously this is the boy I'm talking about but I do have
109another one who's very very bored and she's extremely smart and she's like Mom why can't I go farther why can't I do this and let me tell you her teacher has been phenomenal to try to like give her in couple of her other people's other peers like something to do because they literally will get their homework done and like boom and then they're bored they don't have anything to do she can only do so much and that's where the academy is supposed to be coming in right so we need to really take that approach and polish it up and shine it up and make it fresh I'm just telling you what I told you earlier is that when Mara started Raider Academy it was with Ingenuity and she did not have a good outcome because
110it was all algorithm based you do this we take it out of this test we add this test it's all mechanical when we went to North Dakota long distance learning through radar Academy she thrived because she had a person she had a thing to ask questions get feedback that's what she needed she needed context of why I'm learning this okay no problem that's right so that's the only thing I say is that radar Academy as it sits now is going to have to have probably some resources and some like rework to to really make this as good as open Ed the beauty of that was you get done you keep on going no stop cuz I remember Jada did that course during Co couple college courses and it was supposed to be a semester and
111she finished in a week and a half or two weeks and she was done with it and had she been able to take more she would have but it was that was it couldn't enroll again until now uity does have a platform they do have a component where you can have an educator involved in it too yeah which is a lot more money but that's why you would get a lot more of home school kids wanting to come because they they just like a Salis is just sitting there online so Isabelle th Don a Salis and Kate just like get me back in the school as fast as possible and Juliet when she decided she wanted to come back she did any class she would have to take in person so she didn't have to
112do a class with Kate because they required different graduation requirements so when she walked back into school she only had one class maybe needed her senior year so she just did tons to benefit her what she was do going to do in her education I think it'd be really smart for us to if we do this to take a lot of the revenue and put it right into Raider Academy those kids decide to go online are still in school they're doing the thing but it's robust because it's those High kids that are like bored I want to go faster I want to go faster and they're just being you know it's all asynchronous or synchronous and if they're synchronous they're just rocking it they're done I don't want to sit and wait are there many
113people in it now many kids Raider Academy yes as far as um what Brian's talking about those that are excelling I think we have one now so we had we started off I think we only had three or four students in there one of those students actually went PSO full-time senior year um at NDSU even lived on campus had another girl that aced through it like she got done with two grade level some one year then she went to go back she went into it because of anxiety and then went back in the classroom after that actually overcame the anxiety issues and then Mar's still in it we have one that went into it and is graduating that way this year right uh um not graduating early this year graduated last year okay there's another
114I don't know what she's doing right now I've had a lot of my um previous Child Care kids in it yeah I would like to put this on the agenda for action for March I'm hoping that Paul doesn't know anything about it again I'll when I I get back I'll I'll sit down and talk with him and you can probably talk with him too and Jade you have some good points you could talk to him I mean all of you could talk to him I would not do it all together but um I think I you mean all also not at the same time maybe conference call I don't know no don't do that just kidding but I think that I was shocked when like I'm good friends with the Baga superintendent I was shocked
115when he email me he said I wanted hey when you get a call me I called him he said you ready for your board meeting time I'm like yeah what about that open Ed I'm like okay and we start talking he said yep we're doing the same thing and so they weren't kiding I mean they're going to move in so if the board feels comfortable with doing this I think it's something we need to do sooner rather than later before they find a different District to take monak has got a lot of really large families they're Finnish so I'm I'm 100% finnished so my I'm I'm from a Naga area and um there's a lot of homeschooling in that area and I know two kids that did graduate one either senior and into go four
116both with Bachelors they're very tied back this way because it goes into frzy and it meanes but managa is like 100% finish there's a couple churches and they it's 136 136 the P0 through five so they aren't in kindergarten yet really 1363 she's smart I know she is that's why she's my go I wonder why they Pi did they call us yep we called them yep so we just we just get vendor emails all the time when I was scrolling through my email and saw it open it up and I usually just delete them I open it up and saw it and what they started describing is what we were trying to achieve with radar Academy so I just started a conversation with them I met with them this probably my fifth or sixth time
117meeting with them I met with them met with them another time um then I had to meet with our Administration um then had a meet with our special ed department and then you guys so so the curriculum that they were provide be the same curriculum they provide for all the districts so it's just up to the student know what they want to select at that time Y which is also a little more unique too so we're just slightly behind the eight ball then I don't know that we're slightly behind it if we're just standing on top of it right now but we're not in front of it sounds like that might happen over there already it's going to be a already having a conversation yes they are they moving forward so they're board meetings on
118Monday night I think they're going to move forward because they're already doing it they're just basically they're switching companies right now oh yeah so I'm pretty sure they're going to sign a contract their board's going to approve their contract that board's going to take action on their contract I don't know if they're going to approve it or not but they're taking action Monday night yeah back to you Brian on the curriculum it'd be nice at least explore that I mean the less you have to manage and if they have a robust I mean You' negotiated contract you know I mean they want really there's got to be an upside I know that the money part is but I'm like if there is a way that we can do it and use the platform to robustly
119because it's like I do want to say hey look at all this great things that are happening on our online school it's great but if I'm going to do that as a district and then people are like oh I guess I want to go there and then suddenly we get we lose 70% of that money or 75% of that money I'm not going to do that right because there's no there there no incentive for us to be like hey yeah open it is awesome and then suddenly parents are you know doing that so that's why I'm like we should have that option to do the Raider Academy in person and use them you got you got to have a good balance yeah I think you'd have to talk to him more because he said well
120we could talk about it but I don't know how interested he was that I know one thing about a Raider why we shift to not make them require him to be in school to do it that's why they were going to other platforms right A lot of them are at the point and I think Co had well okay Co had a lot to do with it but also Minnesota state law had a lot to do with it because they kids can do that in the state now they can go online and do everything online um has to be paid for by the school district so they were leaving and going elsewhere um and most of it is they don't feel like they fit in the building as much like they used to there's a lot
121of bullying or whatever they want to call it you know for well for some kids like Isabelle was just she just she needed harder class and so she just went and she focused on all math and now she's doing that math degree but it was she was just the kid that walked in and she had she straight A she still straight A but she was like okay well as well you're done could you go help this kid and she always made it she was every kid in school liked me because she goes I helped all them do my homework well no she didn't did she she wouldn't do their homework that's not my she teach them how to do their homework but it it's just she was looking for you know how hard can it
122be if this goes forward we really need to hone in on how in my mind the goal of bringing this on is the possibility of bringing that student in because what we're missing is everyone sits behind this thing the goal would be to try to get them back in to interact and use their hands yep and help communication and socialization CU socialization within the human race now is is less than Stellar man is that's next year we're doing a book study and it's slacking every day it is we're going to do a book study for the the anxious generation and I'll get a book for usually when we do a book study I get a book for all the Schoolboard members too very interesting read talking about exactly what you just said and taking that
123um uninhibited play away where it's risk-taking at play when we were kids I was a lashy kid you know I was outside all the time even my parents w you taking those things away and then putting them in front of the screen should next there's a lot of parents these days that are looking for very very limited screen time though well if you have any other questions for open ad send them to Dr Godfrey answer all right um what I have here is a proposal from freshwater District this is not we're not taking action on this um I just wanted to share this with the board these are the services they would provide U the business management service the district would be responsible for honestly what we're responsible for now this is kind of how
124we're it's the same basic setup we have with BR marks um it's set up on a one year for now the cost of this is 7,000 Brady March it's 78,000 but I also want to say I got a call from another company today that's our RFP um and they're out of they're in the cities they do business management service for Minnesota schools and Nationwide they're Minnesota company um he's going to give me a proposal he said by the end of this week the deadline for RFP is the of March anyways I just want to keep you informed that this is what we have so this is an option where's this this is out of I believe this is out of Wen um yeah w yeah does it say how many days would they be here
125um he said that's negotiable but I will tell you this because we have sherry um really there's the systems we have set up now Lisa Lisa yeah but sher's not always in no but Lisa doesn't even need to be here the one day a week she coms they are available if they're not in house they set up meetings phone meetings um Zoom or Google meets sessions so they meet virtually with everybody Lisa and I are we communicate daily through email or phone as needed her role when when Lisa's here is she just does book work um right now if teachers want to know what the budget is for for student council they want to know what the budget is for that they're supposed to go to the principles principles could pull up that information if
126they don't understand it they'll go to the business manager to get that information so we just kind of we want to narrow that traffic down going the business manager um so far it's worked we had to kind of pull back sometimes because I might have five or six people going in there and the business manager can't get done with the job she's got to do um so we've kind of redirected everything through principles um I prefer to have a certified licensed School business manager on site five days a week we've I don't want to say it's not possible but it's pretty much not possible the doctor got pretty I here you said this is exactly the same of what we have right now yep it's the same Services we're receiving through Brady Mars now and
127I can let you know Brady Mars the services we received have been outstanding yeah we're not advertising for a business manager right now did we ask anybody else for any open bids I have one more open bid we don't ask there aren't you just put it out there yeah there aren't so what happens when you post it you have these um are you have these posting services that we'll put it on their job boards and things like that so that so we get uh data requests for the bid documents so I just send them in the bid documents and then we have this company to contact us okay are all these companies School based that's what they focus on that's what their background yes so this freshwater educational uh District they're like an Rea original
128Education Agency like we have Lakes Country service Co-op this is basically what they function as so they provide these Services only they started only providing them to their Co-op groups and then they found out that there's a huge need for school business manager Services because there's just there aren't any I shouldn't say aren't any but there aren't very many licensed School business managers out there if you look online now you can go to msba and look at their Employment Services section and there so many advertisements out there for school business managers um so they expanded beyond their Co-op because they knew there was a huge um need for it well that help them expand their Department too to provide those Services outside of their their own Co-op the other company that's all they do is
129School District services so the person I talked today he said I'm I'm a former 15-year School business manager said the majority they have people that help with Transportation they help building grounds they do all of that and the person that is responsible for that we being Transportation support director and they provided that the person providing that would be a uh Transportation director so they're specifically qualified in those areas but again I don't he's going to give me the bid I have no clue what dollars look like on that I mean as a business manager is it even a full-time job with our bu with our district oh absolutely so we have three people in the office which is not a business manager no but they support the business manager so if you look what a
130business manager would do and say a district say my last District or School business manager did payroll accounts payable and receivable budgeting um audit work that was 300 kids in our district our school business manager does accounts payable and receivable journal entries um jeez eight hours a day of that work without the and we've always had a payroll specialist now we call her HR specialist that position's always been there too um at least at least years before I got here we had those two components too and now we have a person that helps with filing she works a couple hours a day we've kind of divied up a true business manager position to other people so that we don't have this flexibil or this fluidity of inconsistency I like it better my question would be
131is I mean is this contract here I mean that role of what they're doing is that in my mind are we paying for 52 weeks a year five days a week is that what that is or is that more realistically they're putting in two to three days of we have a dedicated person five days a week 52 weeks out of the year so we have all the clerical side going on then we're I guess what is that role doing and then my next question would be is is our system up to speed to where all this manual stuff that's going on is there potential changes there to systemate you know create efficient there's not a lot of manual things well no I'm just saying the reason I want someone at least once a week is
132because they're are things in the winter time spring like getting the money ready for the U ticket box you know that's what T does right but she she's the third person yes but she they actually that both both so you know both our HR specialist and business manager requested her help because there's I mean the journal entries every day a journal entry to set up for least to set up I don't know how long it takes her that's she goes in the system she has to move money around and we have to create a journal entry that I approve for that for the audit saying Money's been moved around there's a specific reason for it I have to approve it saying it had that authority of approval and today I approved a couple that were
133uh 50 60 $70,000 so it's and then then they have to do transfers Bank transfers so we don't keep all of our Revenue in One bank because because of FDIC rules they can't cover that amount so if we have $500,000 in a bank our auditor says you're keeping too much money in an institution because they don't have the insurance to cover that so we split it up so she'll have to do transfers in and out there's just a lot a lot that goes into that component you're dealing with the numbers in the books HR constantly working on payroll monitoring sick leave she also does accounts not all of them but most of the accounts payable and receivable or billing so our system is a teacher puts in a requisition to purchase something then it goes
134to the principal the principal puts in the account code or principal's designate puts in the account code then approves it then it goes to me then I approve then it goes to Sher and she approves it when she approves it then she comes to check for it once she approves it she has to verify the account code make sure there's um it's the right account code it's coming out light right line item to make sure there's money in that line item to cover it and then we've been really good about that this year um and then it gets approved then she sends off the check for it or the purchase order for it so and that's so what role is that that Sherry is our HR special she does that as well yeah Brady Mars
135they never come in person do they one day a week day every Wednesday okay and I did talk with this guy um Jordan and he said that he will be on site um he can't guarantee what day of the week it is right now he said he will be on site because he wants to get to know the people when he wants to be part of the you know oh so he there's fresh water yes they will be here they will come on site yes he will be on site I don't know what that looks like yet is that part of the agreement or this proposal is that they would I would assume they saying we'll be there on day a week and they give us that day so we can always be prepared for
136that yes so just like we do now when I talk to this new uh company I I I'm going to be honest with me I don't have a problem with them not being on site virtually is work just fun for us the days that Lisa is not here is not much different than the days she is here as far as the amount of work and the interaction we have um counting money boxes T does that now which is a great relief because then before took away from a lot of the business management business during the day to count on a money box and to write the receipts for that and they kind of it takes a while especially when we have two or three things going on we have ticket boxes we have concession boxes
137maybe we have two games you know one in each building that's a lot that goes on so we have yeah she's just parttime a couple hours a day and then she also does noon Duty for us in the lunchroom um and then she does the filing so it's a big help for those guys but again this is just for review for you guys um as I get the next one I I don't think we make we have Brady Mars until June 30th we don't need to rush this we have plenty of time the good thing is the bad thing is they're not going to Ser school districts like this anymore they've pulled back quite a bit um from doing that but they gave us enough time well we have plenty of time to find them
138do we know how many other schools were using Brady Mars in our area I do not I know East Grant Forks was using Brady Marts a lot of schools use them for auditing Services right um they don't use them for business management services so that's a lot of their focus school focus is going to be on auditing I'm just thinking that if there's not that many providers I don't think we should wait too long no I want to see this other um proposal see if it matches up it's going to match up with the service I I almost guarantee you that it's going to match up but whoever would do it would work on our business side of it every single day right every single day okay because that was not done once before do
139we get to find out the background as individual I mean you got the company but of course you got the individual you're working with I mean I got to believe that there's you know working with the right personality is very important right I'm sure sounds like Lisa was that person that was a good bit needing to find that again yeah we'll have a person designated just for us so we'll know that person and even the other company I said well what are your thoughts about being in the building he said we will even though they're located in the cities he said we will have a person coming to your building it may not be every week um but we will meet them and we'll we'll get to know them I mean Lisa became I think
140she tested she became part of our school district to us she living for work already tried that and there's clause and I already got told Tim please don't ask that question if you were to find a business manager with that license I mean what would I got to believe it'd be more than 70 if you want to hire somebody that's got a certification you want to pay them for what they're worth so business manager and a company is going to make 100 something about you from the this 70 a year 70 a month right no this is 70,000 a year oh ath no I I'm not oh my God voice I will be our business manager that's why I was like holy crap I will learn no I'll take 70 was just say which is
141what we do know oh annual I missed the oh jeez sorry that's a one perer right there that was go9 three expensive I guess my mind on budgetary is I think it's very important as a district that we always sit and fine tune and try to squeeze squeeze where you know let's efficiency efficiency efficiency very important very important but you got to take this into consideration Jade we can efficiency ourselves out of providing a good education at the same time yeah it can happen but I'd be cutting programs is the biggest scare of all and no that's not what I'm talking not talking cut programs but as a business manager it's important for them to look outside the box and that that's my only concern is they get stuck in the same hole this is
142what they do Time After Time After Time After Time After Time because that's what we do we're seeing it at a very high level right now that's not what we do I mean it's important as a business manager that they take and and look peripheral make sure that we're looking at all sides because again for a taxpayer and anybody that wants to want if we're going to be looking for Levy what have we done to maximize what we're getting and if we're talking about bringing this program on and all of a sudden you got this influx of cash monies how do we manage it and how do we show the community how we are spending this wisely like you said Brian the Academy I mean we got to polish that thing and make that thing
143look nice and bright well is a business manager versus an account or an accountant you know what I mean like to me it feels like Brady Mars was an accountant they're accountant but our Lisa erman's a business manager she's a school business manager by trade okay um and I will tell you what you're saying in the efficiency part that's all she was all about it she found money everywhere hey I want to let you know this is she went back in the books years like well this is from three or four years ago I'm going to move it forward and then we have this you know she was amazing at that kind of stuff but yeah she was a school business manager probably that makes a difference I think think too you're just an accounting
144firm that's just looking at dollars and you don't you understand Finance but School Finance is a little different School Finance is especially Minnesota yeah yeah she found the money from the bricks from years ago and then uh she's the one that helped you slash to get our budget in rain yes she's done an amazing job like if we could keep her we would but it's not possible I already saved a $620,000 just by not reading the right seeing me a trip to the hospital we vo I thought I was missing something like I so monthly like must be a really high amount of money for servic I bug I didn't see them bug no they don't bug because I know that companies are in to make money so I was like I don't know what
145they're going for I don't pay for that type of service I will have the other um I will have the other quote by the board meetings so I'll have them both on there we'll just put them in an old business so we have comparable Bo doesn't need to take action at that time if you don't feel comfortable youp will you send RFP I already did you already did that yeah and that's the only two that have those are the only two I don't think there are a lot of services in the state to do this like this Coop freshwater covers their Co-op now some of the co-ops do it so Lake Agy or not Lake well lake a is a co-op but Lakes Country service Co-op is our bigger Co-op um they don't provide these
146services I think they may have at one time somebody mentioned that but they don't do it now so some of the co-ops provide these services to their Co-op freshwater happens to kind of expand outside their boundaries on that there's no District sharing are they not that I know of I I don't know and I don't we couldn't get bio sharing I just our our needs are just too high at our level I mean you're talking you know we deal about $13 million a year in a revenue and the expenses it just there's a lot a lot going on at one time day to day and we would want somebody to miss something basically there will be one person working on our business yep just a 31 you have to let me know how you want
147to do this Mr shair um just to let you know I did talk with um Dr shot he like to work with the board it's our work sessions I told him about an hour each time so I haven't looked at the the self- evaluation results at all I don't know if you have yet or not I did but I mean I'll be honest the way it was worded I didn't love it because I was like I will do this and it was like I don't know it just felt weird maybe it was motivational like what are you going to say I will not do these things I who do that AI you think I mean being for two months was from I don't think it was very well put put together well I got to
148be honest it was really being in for 2 months is hard for you to do it in the first place but even if I had been here for 3 years I mean it's still that's the that's the that's the msba boil fight and you're right as so all I did was cut and paste it into the Google form and as I'm doing I'm like yeah it's going to be confusing well and that be my question to Dr Shotz is that if there's a way that we can even engage his services so that we've got you know this half the year to reflect on and then go forward then at least we can self-evaluate with him through that process of okay how are you doing here you know what I mean he can do assessment with
149us I think that'd be beneficial and that's what he does right he works for Boards of nonprofits so maybe maybe we do this maybe I share this self- evaluation with him let him look and if he can make sense out of it and then maybe he can come up with something better I told him we'll look at these two board me or these two work sessions and spend about an hour each time one of them he wants to reflect on what what the evaluation says or what he can glean from that bring that back to the board saying according to what you entered this is the trend so these are the themes I see in there and then use the next meeting to develop kind of a a way forward and board goals out of
150that I mean I try to think shady and I couldn't give myself to do middle I mean I'm serious I just like if I was then I shouldn't be on here right I mean that was my struggle it was like and I would encourage them to look back back at the meetings streams and stuff and look at that look at how we're holding ourselves how we're asking questions how we're you know voting on things those types of thing is a better way to to kind of grade US versus saying you've been on for two months yeah you know but I think they said something on their so I didn't actually struggle with that test I didn't struggle I just just like because when it says I will it's just like I don't know I was
151thinking of it maybe as like somewhat motiv motivational like this is my best intention this is what I plan on doing so cre it one through four na a for five hopefully as I'm really screwing up five was like no right yeah or whatever you're not recording but I just looked at it as like best practice right like I'm going to attend the board meetings and if you don't attend them a lot you would do a one and yeah what's your intentions my intentions two I'm here like I mean yes I will that is confusing because I was like I read it completely different like I didn't do it twice did so maybe I yours one had I would have done it because I think one of the that's what happens that's what happens superation
152super [Music] valuation oh we forgot you don't have it where is it I my but I mean like those are what you're going to get I mean that's what you're going to get from school boards Association no matter what because it's one size fits all yeah that's like when we did our strategic plan that's why we chose to go with Dr shot and not the Schoolboard Association because it's a boiler plate strategic plan we didn't want that we wanted something that was unique to us y but I don't think it's necessarily bad to take the msba stuff and individualize it you could but gosh look how long it took you to do that with no I I think I want to say that was just a whole hicup I don't think that I don't think
153that would happen again but I think with Dr Shotz I think he can come up with something and talk to you like that's what we did or maybe just explain the test cuz I didn't actually find it that hard no it wasn't I was like tired I'm going through so you design with it no I just I read the questions but I do a lot of Assessments so I read the questions I'm like yes I go to the school board meetings yes I do this no it was yes I would talk to Dr Godfrey yes I would do this so I mean if it was worded as in it was just like no brainer stuff yes like do you have do you up do you breathe but maybe it's like you know just like the
154core values you know you know like I know in like early childhood education we go through like core values and ethics and all this stuff so I was just thinking about more as core values and just maybe sometimes they call every two every year I get to do CPR but it's hey remember this is what we do and this is what we're in it for and this is what we should be projecting and you know what I mean that's really what kind looks if you look in there you see and look at our it up school board roles and responsibilities school board's relationship with the superintendent really everything that's in policy it's just communicate there vales missing something I know but what did they ask Omar I have to go and delete one of your
155entries anyway good it'll be great when the seven person gets on here he started on one morning and I couldn't finish it so I thought I'd come back and jump into it and it L I couldn't I just went back to the top and had to start over so I wasn't even sure if it even took so I figured one of these days I call for one of you guys done that would be that guy not me get it done I know I'll talk I'll talk said something anything else next meeting is is March 24th at the high school will all the regular meetings be at the high school the board regular meetings session here same time same so Mr chair do you want to adjourn us adjourn so said my B that's all right