001Join me of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. comments. We need approval of the consent agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> In favor, >> I opposed. Consent agenda is passed. the two recognitions. >> It's always a great way to start the meeting here. We're going to recognize some of our student athletes student student athletes and of course our parents. Thank you for making this possible and grandparents, aunts and uncles. But Mr. Dryer, athletic director, is going to help out this evening. We're going to be recognizing folks from our cross country and also from our soccer team. So, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Dryer and Mr. is going
002to help out here in some recognition. Thank you. Awesome. >> All right. So, first off, we're going to recognize our cross country runner. Uh to to qualify to be recognized at a board meeting, he must meet the criteria making an all state uh nomination all state. Okay. So, first we're going to do state qualifier Clayton Balance. A little bit about Clayton here. Um, Clayton Bounds had a remarkable career. Like I said, he's a senior as a PHS member or as a member of the PHS cross country team, earning nearly two dozen medals over the last four years. He currently holds a Pville High School record for fastest sophomore 5K time of 17 minutes flat. A time that is also ranked sixth fastest of any PHS cross country runner. This year, his senior year, Clayton finished
003in the top 16 of every single regular season race, including three top five finishes and a first place finish at the PHS Cutless Invitational. Additionally, he earned JCAA allconerence honors, class 4 all district honors with a time of 1726, which earned him the title of state qualifier in one of the most competitive districts in the state of Missouri. At the state championship in Columbia, Clayton ran a 17 minute 27 second mile or race with a blistering final thousand meter uphill finish during which he passed seven other runners in a thrilling finish and to an inspiring cross country career at Pville High School. At the state meet, Clayton finished 65th out of 158 runners in class 4. Clayton has a lot to be proud of during his career and we want to know want him to
004know that he has made the district proud as well. Let's hear it for Clayton BS. I'm going to ask one of his coaches is here in attendance, Mr. Shattered Schaffer and his other coach, Tyson Brown. Couldn't make it tonight, but uh he's going to come up here for the picture. I'm standing here now because I was just told I was in front of the camera. So, >> uh, next we would like to recognize our 2025 boys soccer team who finished third place in the state of Missouri. They had an unbelievable season that was capped off with a trip to the final four. >> Okay, so first we'll have them line up and we'll just call them by name since they're they are eager to go. Uh first we have Drayton Barnett, followed by Kate Boundisl,
005Noah Blight, >> Brian Bonard. >> We have several We have a couple student athletes that aren't here. They're in the uh they either have a basketball game and or a band concert. Kai Delan Tristan DoubleR Jaden Gillesi Dez Hansen sorry Anthony Hernandez Whan Hoover Dolton Cannonberg Trey Lucifer Andreas Mattingley, Jace Oster, Ethan Pullman, Vincent Shaw, Carsten Shelly, Dexter Strapman, Oliver Tucker, Mason Wade, Aiden Wendell, Lucas Wright, and Lane Lane Yams. Um, our coaches are head coach Jerry Fulton, assistant coaches Dwayne Hadler, Michael Valanski, and Stanley Valansky. So, if we can give them a big big round of applause. These guys finished this year with a 16-5 record. Uh, they won the Southern Boone Shootout. They were JCAA conference champions for a remarkable seventh straight year they won the conference. So, uh they were class 2
006district 1 champions, final four qualifiers with a 2 to1 win over Bis in the quarterfinal game and then ended up in third place with a third place finish in the state tournament with a five to one win over Harrisonville. So, we want to say thank you to these players and coaches for all their hard work this season. uh you gave this community and our school district a lot to be proud of. So, let's give them a round of applause. Then we also have some individual recognitions while we have everybody up here that we would we would like again to be recognized for an individual honor. Um these student athletes must earn an all-state recognition. So, uh, the following students, you'll have to come up here and get another certificate. Um, all state first team all
007state was Kade Bound and Distl. Kate also was all team, first conference, first team, all district, and all region. Good job, Kate. Next up, All State first team, Triton Barnett. On top of being first team all state, he was also first team all conference, first team all district, and all region. And coach Fton shared with me out there a while ago that in the third place game that we won five to one, he tied a state record for most points in a game. So, so good job. Second team, uh, all state Whan Hoover, goalkeeper. Okay. Again, like the others, on top of being all state, Wayan also earned first team all conference honors, first team all district, and all region. Uh, next up, we have honorable mention all state Carson Shilling. On top of being
008honorable mention all state, Carson was all conference, uh, first team, all district, and all region as well. Good job, Carson. Uh next up we have two members of the academic allstate team from the soccer team. So we always talk about our athletes being student athletes. Um student with the student being first. So the Missouri academic all-state boys soccer team recognizes senior players excelling in both academics and soccer performance selected by the Missouri coaches association. These students athletically must have played successfully and contributed significantly significantly to the team. Academically, they must have a 4.0 uh a strong ACT/SAT score and a high class rank. And what's really neat about these two guys is that currently right now they are tied at number one in the class rank of the class of 2026. And that is Mr.
009Dexter Strapman and Vincent Shaw. So, they are they are a lot of our student athletes are excelling, but I thought when we were looking into this, I thought it was pretty neat that currently they're tied out of the entire senior class at number one. So, so good job. Let's give Dexter and Vinnie another round of applause. Okay, last but not least, we would like to recognize our head coach, Jerry Fulton. Okay, so uh we are recognizing Coach Fton today because he earned several different awards this fall. Uh Jerry earned the JCAA Conference Coach of the Year, uh which is actually I think the 10th one that that you that you've earned. Um he was the all region coach of the year for public schools and he was the all state coach of the year in
010Missouri for public schools. So So thank you. Thank you parents. Thank you soccer team for coming in tonight. And that's all we have for recognition. Moving on to new business uh action items, the John T. Belgian scholarship. >> Okay. >> Kevin and I um last Friday morning I believe it was uh came for interviews um with Mr. Shad and Miss Gillespie and um we met in Miss Martin's she was very confident let us do the interviews in her office. So thank you very much for doing that. Um it's my understanding last year we had three students that participated. This year we had 10. Um we um they looked at everybody's resume and kind of cut it down and we interviewed five. um very if you look at the um requirements for the scholarship um that
011really kind of set things apart and and kind of helped uh us guide us through um and also listening to the interview. We had some very very very positive interviews. um a lot of energy, a lot of good plans once they graduate from Perryville and a lot of um good stories of things that they've done while they've been here at school. So, it was um it was very good. Kevin, you got any comments? >> Um so, after we had the interviews, um we decided on Lydia Shrimper for the um recipient and to represent us um with the scholarship. >> I'll make a motion to approve Lydia Schva John Belure scholarship nominee. All those in favor. >> All those opposed. Congratulations, ladies. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> All right. Moving on to the district audit.
012>> I can use your table. >> Yeah. >> Good evening. My name is Tomman. Thank you for having me up tonight. my associate uh Jack Blake. Um first of all, I just want to take an opportunity to thank the board for uh keeping us employed and coming up and working for you for a number of years. Um we'll quickly go through the results tonight. But uh before I start that, I do want to brag on one of your staff people here. I always ask my staff when they come out of the field how they do and how things are going. And uh it makes a difference when you the board have employees that care about doing a good job and they kind of are very responsive and uh what I'm told from my staff is
013when they ask for help or they have questions and your staff here is very responsible, very organized, very professional and uh makes our job easier and also you're going to see in the performance of your numbers makes you a better district. So, I wanted to point that out. I think you need to hear that from an outsider. Sometimes you take that for granted and tell people we go places sometimes where I can't make those comments and u so I just wanted to take a minute to point that out. Don't take that for granted. So, um opening reminder, I'm going to go through uh the audit report. Luckily for you, I don't read much of this report. I'm just going to take off my lights for you. kind of give you the 30,000 foot view. I
014kind of look at things for u presentation purposes. If I was sitting in your chair, what do I want to hear? What do I need to know? So, I'm not going to read all this to you. Certainly after the fact, if you happen to read the report or you have questions, you can reach out to us. We're happy to address any kind of issues or questions that you would have. U my reminder, when you look at an audited statement, that's your found big book here. Uh the first thing that you would want to think as a board member is where do these numbers come from and kind of how do they get here? You know, and the the key thing to know is what's your basis of accounting is. So we run a modified cash
015basis. That's very common in Missouri school districts. It's the most common uh reporting type. Um your home checkbook is true cash basis. This has some basically takes that cash basis and modifies it for a few things. What you want to know as a school board is, well, what does that mean when I look at something? Well, revenues are revenues basically when they're deposited. Expenses when we write the checks, kind of like your home uh checking account, that does mean obviously we could manipulate the statement to a certain extent. you know, you're kind of limited on that, but you know, depending on when deposits are made or when checks are written, it'll affect our bottom line versus, you know, gap accounting where you've got um revenues and expenditures trying to be matched in the period they're
016earned and expended versus when the actual money goes out the door. It's very common. This is the most common uh type of reporting for a school district. I just like to point it out because I think that's important when you review a financial statement that you kind of know, well, where do these numbers come from and how are they prepared? Now, the first thing you'll see when you open that up, page one, you'll start with our audit opinion. And I'm pleased to report that you have a um unqualified opinion. That's the best opinion. That's the highest opinion. So, you got the top score. There are three other ratings below that. So you can pat yourself on the back and kind of cut to the chase and say how do we do? We did as best
017as we can. That that top uh category of unqualified. We didn't have any kind of qualifications or any kind of findings uh to report. Now behind that opinion letter uh there's going to be a few exhibits. These are the only exhibits out of this uh lengthy uh book that I'm going to cover. The rest of it, I think, is pretty self-explanatory. So, you're going to see exhibit A, B, C, and D. So, A and C are mated. B and D are mated. A and B are governmentwide uh financial statements. Then C and D get in to taking that governmentwide and breaking it out into the funds. So if you look at A, you look at C, you're going to see the same numbers. It's simply breaking the governmentwide back into the funds. When we look
018at your position at the end of the year, uh we increased our governmental fund balance by $2,84,000, about a 21% increase from last year. Our general fund increased about 11.8% up about 968,000. and our larger increase went to our capital projects fund. Uh we didn't have any major expenditures there. So it went up 70%. Um the unassigned balance that we have here in our net position is well above our district minimum policy threshold. Uh the capital projects fund had an increase. Uh you know we didn't have any big expenditures for the year that could gives us additional resources for facility needs in a future period. So you can kind of see in A and C the 11,869452 of our total net position and our fund balance. So B and D are going to show the
019receipts and expenditures. So kind of the way that works is if you look at the top of exhibit B in the middle you'll see charge for services and operating grants. Those are program receipts. And then on the bottom third, you'll see general receipts. And you have to add those three together to get our total receipts, which shows up in a little easier to read format out on exhibit uh D. We ended up with 30,629,951 of total uh receipts. That is a slight decrease from last year when we looked at the overall revenue positions. Our dispersements decreased about 8.3% and our revenues were strong stable just a slight decrease in it less than a percentage. So when we look at that overall uh net position or we see we added $2,84,000 to our net position, it
020has to do with basically stable revenues and the management uh of of our expenditures dispersements uh in in particular in our capital outlay and our capital projects fund reduced significantly. Uh we continue like many districts to rely on local and state funding. Uh we had a little bit of a decline in federal funds for the year. Our federal funds were down about 19%. Our state revenue and local revenue was up 1 and 2% respectively. Essentially that gave us about a wash in general receipts. But when we looked at the dispersements, they were down about a little over 8.3%. So that uh decrease of about 2.5 million gave us our overall uh net income for the year. Um, basically that was the most significant thing that drove our bottom line was our reduction in expenses. Uh,
021federal revenues as I mentioned increased. That's not unusual. We've come out of CO and we've kind of seen some of the federal revenues decline not just here but at other school districts as well. As we come out of CO, our local and state revenues increase modestly to help offset some of that loss in federal funds. I would basically say that uh we had stable revenues, a little lower over spending that increased our overall debt position. Back uh later in the report, you'll see state section and a federal section. The state section essentially again an unqualified unmodified clean opinion. All funds were operated within budget amounts. We didn't have any negative variances. We had no material weaknesses, no federal findings. Um the only thing that we report which is very common for a district of this
022size is that there is a deficiency in the lack of segregation of duties. That's simply due to the number of personnel that we're able to employ and again that's very very common and I think there are things done here kind of give additional oversight on that. Um so at the end of the year we ended up increasing our total fund balance and our fund position. Um we remain pretty strong are certainly uh you know desi when they kind of look at you we're going to be one of the more uh well-run stronger districts. We're certainly not financially distressed which we have seen with some of our southeast Missouri districts. Um, our unrestricted fund balance is about 29.6% of annual expenditures. That's well above a Missouri benchmark of about 17 to 20. So that indicates a
023strong, healthy position. That's going to put us uh in the top of uh Missouri school districts in the top uh group. Uh certainly u you know getting back to your staff, you can pat to the board, I guess. pat yourself on the back as well because our results show strong, stable, and good fiscal management. Um, I'm going to turn over the review of the graphs. That's all I have in the audit reports review. I you can go back and read through it, but I kind of gave you the highlights, and that's pretty much what the highlights are. Um, I'm going to turn it over to Jack and let him kind of review these graphs, which we put together a few years ago. Really, again, thinking of in terms of I was setting on the board,
024what do I want to see? Well, only accountants get excited about a page full of numbers. So, we're trying to give you something that is really kind of giving you more of a trend. Where have we been and where are we going? So, I got a couple graphs here to go over. Um, first one, net position by year. Scott kind of talked about this, but uh 2 million fund balance increase um in the fiscal year 2425 uh 21% increase like he said and then the total revenues overall really consistent with prior year and years before. The only decrease really was the federal revenue which was because the last of the uh ESO money came through last year related to So that was the main difference. Um dispersions again pretty much consistent with uh prior year.
025The main difference was capital outlay and I think um and 24 the last phase of the new middle school building came through and that's why 23 was higher as well. Um salaries and employee benefits consistent with prior years steady increase um year to year which is good. Food service revenues and dispersements uh dispersements consistent with prior year there's a little decrease in revenue um served about 15,000 less meals than in prior year um which is about a 7% decrease. And then The same thing in with transportation 7% uh decrease in revenue also reduced fuel expenditures and expenditures also went down because uh one bus lease purchase agreement was paid off in the fiscal year 2024. We got ADA by year average daily attendance. We've seen a slight decrease in ADA over the last three years,
026probably only about 1%. And then uh on the plus side, the elementary and middle school ADA has been increasing by about 2% per year over that same time, but overall steady. Then uh last slide, federal award expenditures kind of talked about this with the overall revenue. um little bit of a decrease due to the last of that money coming in 2024 and you can see it kind of coming back down after the all the co money in the 21 to 23. All right, so that's kind of it in summary. We'll entertain any questions anybody has. And again, I want to thank you all for inviting us to come up and uh visit with you for a few minutes. We're certainly available year round if you have questions or you want input on something. Um, you
027know, we act as your auditor, but we also want to see you succeed. I think your district is doing very well. It seems to be very well managed. It's very strong. You're in a very fiscally sound position. So, uh, >> if you were grading it by a student, what grade would you give? Well, this kind of performance, you'd have to be in the AA range. This is going to put you up in the top uh percentage of school districts. And I guarantee you, if you look south, you're going to see a lot of financially distressed districts. We're sitting out here where uh we're on the opposite end of that spectrum now. You know, you've had some storms and things come through and um you know, obviously we're meeting over here. Um, so it's certainly manageable
028that you've got some building projects that you're going to continue to work on. So, um, but I I think you guys are doing a fantastic job. And again, you know, I I think your staff, it shows to us when we ask for things and we're looking for things, they can immediately locate documentation we ask for. uh they're very very responsive and quick and that's usually a sign that people are on top of their game. They're kind of paying attention to what's going on. So that's well well managed. >> Anything else? >> Thank you very much. Make a motion to approve the district audit as pres. >> Thank you guys. >> Next is the CT enhancement grant proposal in copy. Everybody has copies. >> Do you want me to open remotes or do you want to
029>> completely completely up to you guys? Uh what I'm seeking tonight is your permission to apply for the grant. U it's December right now. The grant will open in January. So with your consent, I will apply in January. And that's where the last two years when I've talked to you, the timetable is worth reviewing because it is strange. Uh Mr. Hayden told me almost two and a half years ago, it would take about three years before I truly understood the the timing of CTE funding. He was wrong. I'm still not there. For example, last year, last December, you approved uh us to purchase a forklift. Okay. No problem. We applied. We got approved in July. We ordered uh took forever to obtain a lot of shipping delays, manufacturing, you know, the works. Uh we finally
030obtained the forklift this fall. We got the teacher, we sent the teacher to St. Louis to get certified. Uh I submitted uh just last month for reimbursement for that forklift. It's still not over. Next spring I'll have to uh fill out a final expenditure report and then uh submit a project summary to the state just to complete last year's proposal to you. So, we're coming to you tonight to give permission to start that process all over again. Uh, bottom line, I'm proud that we don't really purchase any equipment in this building with exclusively local funds. Um, as you can see there, we're asking permission to pursue about $115,000 worth of items for approximately $33,000. But a little wiggle room in there for the fluctuating prices that's likely to occur between now and next July. >>
031And these numbers are already in your budget for next year, correct? >> Well, we haven't submitted that yet. That will be in the early spring is when Dr. Jones will ask. >> Okay. >> So, the district match into the budget. Yeah. Questions, concerns. >> Make a motion to approve the CTA enhancement grant proposal as presented. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Opposed? Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Cross your fingers. The state's been good to CTE for the last couple years. Appreciate it. >> Next up is the temporary central office bid. >> Hello everyone. Thank you for having me. I have several handouts for you all. First one is a bid tabulation from our temporary admin bid which we did last week. Very happy with the results. Second handout that has to
032do with that is the bid summary sheet. Take one, pass it down. So, if you'll remember uh our original budget when we were first talking about this uh temporary admin slashfinal uh ECC classrooms, we floated you guys a number that was just under $700,000. We put pencil to paper and stripped it down with staff and associates and came up with a a VE budget of 428,000. When we bid this last week uh with the alternates, we were at $48,2148. So that's 4.7% below our revised budget with everything that you guys wanted and that's 41.5% below the original number that we were discussing with the more or less full configuration of the classroom. So this space uh will basically consist of a boardroom, a work room, six workstations and six offices, reception area, vestibule. Um some
033additional fencing outside in the playground area. Uh we got uh we received 26 bids on nine bid packages from um reputable contractors. We did post bid interviews with all of them. Uh the low contractors checked out. Uh very happy with the results. Uh the summary sheet that we have in front of you is a slight modification from the low. It includes using u brard flooring. Uh that you guys know is local and has been a big uh support of a school district. Uh depending on which scenario you go to, it's a matter of a few hundred dollars to to utilize them. Um, but with that being said, if the district were to award u these bids tonight, we would uh be looking at getting started right away and trying to finish this by the end
034of February so that you all could move in and get out of your current situation. The the permit as of today is ready to uh be paid for and picked up with the city of Pville. So, we've already gone through the permitting process with them. And um the alternates that are included in that bid are a majority of the flooring that you'll need. There's carpet tile in there. Uh there's case work that again you can utilize for the final classroom configuration and there is a bathroom finished out in this area. So there's four bathrooms originally designed for the ECC. We have in the base bed rough in included for all four of those and trimming out uh the bathroom that you will need for the admin as the alternate. So in the future when you
035do decide to convert this to early childhood classrooms, everything will be there and ready. You'll just have to trim it out with the fixtures and a little bit of inall plumbing. as I look through these bids, the uh HBAC bid. >> Yes, >> that one is half of the rest of them. >> It is. Uh matter of fact, I'm glad that you uh bring that up. So, Associate Sheet Metal, uh feel extremely comfortable with them. They um they do a majority of our HBAC work. Um the not nothing against the other HBAC contractors that submitted bids. Um and that's a very good observation that those numbers are very close together and this one is below. Um however, the number that was submitted uh by associated was more in line with our budget. And just to
036give you a little bit of background on the HVAC system in here, the number that was submitted by associated sheet metal, they've actually offered us an additional close to $20,000 reduction to even tighten up the design on it. So, if you'll remember, you have parts and pieces of a working HVAC system down there that was designed for uh future classrooms. Right now, our current design documents have modifying some of the piping and replacing some of the controls to make that operational in addition to adding duct work. What associated has said is we can make the existing system work with the existing piping and the existing controls and just doing the duct work. So, they've offered us a significant reduction. We've got the uh mechanical engineer of record is actually reviewing it um currently uh to
037to give us a second opinion on it, but I feel very confident that that will be an additional savings that we'll be able to take off of this. The other part of it too is that uh if you do convert these to uh classrooms at a later date, there may be some additional HBAC work that you're going to have to do anyway. So, we're trying not to spend any more than we have to on this segment of it because there's probably going to be some fresh air requirements for the final design anyway. So, we really don't want to we're trying to minimize how much we spend in that regard. >> Were there any other local bids on electrical? We were actually really hoping Dryer was going to bid and they were kind of teetering at
038the last minute because they picked up another job uh the day before that they had bid a while back and had somewhat forgotten about and they found out the day before this bid that they got awarded on it and and um I know they were really conflicted about it but u to their benefit they didn't want to do a disservice to the school district and did a job and then get it and not be able to man it properly. >> I talked to Garrett about that. He said to apologize for everybody. He don't don't not quote him again. He knows it just the timing was just bad. He said he'd love to quote >> and he is he's also on board doing some of the demobilization work for us right now with some of the
039temporary buildings and I know that's kind of a constraint for him too. So, >> um, >> that's the only one >> that's, uh, >> yeah, >> no Hback local. >> No, we sent this out to over, uh, 40 contractors and we, uh, we advertise for it locally. >> So, they had an opportunity. >> They did. And this, you have to remember, too, this was an extremely tight turnaround on midday because we had Thanksgiving that fell in the middle of this. We actually had contemplated um issuing an addendum to postpone the bid. Uh but we were trying to originally meet this date so we could come before you board. And we we were making calls and we thought we were going to have big good bid coverage and we did. till the last day in >>
040February, hopefully sooner. >> Most of the work's inside, so weather should be a big factor, right? >> That is correct. There are some long lay times on doors and uh casework and possibly some of the electrical equipment, but nothing that wouldn't keep us uh from getting started. I really want to make a motion, but I don't know exactly how >> Well, you can make a motion. >> I'm looking at like um you could make a motion to accept the bids with all alternates in the amount of $48,21428. That's what he said >> as presented by Colin. >> And then if we get approval from the engineer on the value of the mechanical system will deduct that as a change is 20,000. >> Uh yes, $20,000. >> Did you repeat that? $48,000 >> $2148. Oh, does
041that include the few hundred more choosing or sharing? >> It does. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> You're still up now. >> Okay. Tech services. Can I do that one first? >> Sure. >> Yeah. I as you remember from last time we spoke uh you guys gave me permission to engage a uh geotechnical engineer. I think the amount was not to exceed $5,500. I went back and got three proposals. One from Pulam Engineering in the amount of $3,958. I got one from SCI for $10,250 and one from PSI for $13,500. So, um my recommendation would be to um engage Hulk Engineering. Hulum has uh also done all the previous work that we have done here on campus. So they're very familiar with um your canvas which as far
042as geotechnical goes that is um very convenient to engage them since they're familiar. Um what I sent them was if you'll remember last time we talked about locations and that has somewhat changed since last time we met. So, I gave you just a real quick recap of where all the places that we looked. So, the first one was uh down below the middle school on the third what I call the third practice field. That's on the first page. Second one was the you'll remember I told you we kind of looked at that the front entrance of the elementary. Third one is the parking lot just outside here. And the fourth one has three different configurations. Uh one each on the football field and then one being in the parking lot area. All all of these
043shapes that you see here are roughly 32 33,000 ft which roughly is same footprint. Uh but we were giving you ballpark numbers on cost per square foot which is also the same square footage of the learning expo which is 32 to 33,000 square ft. Uh since then we've we went back and realized that a lot of these locations uh you couldn't do 32 33,000 ft but also at the same time the learning expo if you look at just the classroom space you may not need the 32 33,000 square ft. So with with looking at all of these spots, the last two that we talked about in particular was uh last three was the parking lot between the two football fields. This parking lot just outside and the third maintenance uh building the or the third
044football field. The third football field, this parking lot out here are really uh refreshing in size and shape that you can u obtain. They're probably going to be no wider than 100 ft. And uh this particular site out here has utilities running across it after we looked into it. Primary electric that's not going to be uh cost beneficial from a cost standpoint to relocate and from a timing standpoint is not going to be good to work around. And uh we think that this may be uh undocumented field. So it's not the best building site. It would require a lot of soil remediation. Again, that is something that would be verified if we did a geotech in that location. Um but the the sign I think that we would probably best recommend for a building like
045this is probably going to be the parking lot between the two football fields. It's flat. Um, it could work nicely with your long range planning on what you do with the high school. And while we haven't been able to determine it yet because we haven't really started design, we do have a new electric service over there that is feeding the band acquire fitness. So assuming all that would check out and we would get uh the blessing from citizens, we could utilize that. And so that that site from a cost standpoint and from an accessibility standpoint is probably the site that we would recommend. However, if you choose to do uh a different site, that's fine, too. The proposal is for any one of these sites for for geotech. >> So, do you guesstimate that this
046parking lot space may be a cost savings because of all the things you mentioned? >> It is. uh without knowing what the geotech says, this appears to be the cheapest site because it's going to require the least amount of site work and uh it also gives you the most flexibility with size of your building. The other the other sites were really going to restrict the overall width of it u which may not be a bad thing, but this gives you a little bit more options as far as overall shape. Well, and you've got utilities there, too. >> You do have you do have some utilities there. And as far as location, this location was was nice and convenient. The third football field location was kind of off the beat path. Um, this one is centrally
047located and could fit in nicely with long range planning on your additional buildings or changes of the high school. And in addition to football, your football field and athletics, too. My first impression is buses and parking for sporting events, but this area was kind of corridored off during this season of football. Any thoughts on that? Was it cumbersome? Was it? So we had a lot and and those who worked the bus the football parking lots disapping that there was a lot of carryover a lot of parking people chose to park in the middle school parking lot this past year we hadn't in the past um and then we had the upper new gravel lay down lot as well so I don't think we I think we're able to handle that would you agree the carryover
048into those other two spaces >> from a long ring extent we should get that asphalt parking lot where the expo is now back. >> Yeah. >> You will also >> for all on campus parking >> you will also have that rock that is on top of that asphalt parking >> and director of transportation. Did you visit with her on this? I have not visited with her yet, but our admin team, including the high school admin, um have some really very exciting ideas about bus loading and unloading and traffic flow, which we think will also result in some very positive changes with supervision. So, we're very excited about that and anxious to share that with Sarah at some point if if this is the chosen place. But, uh, that that conversation just led to a lot
049of really good ideas that we think will be good for kids, easier and better supervision, and less children out and staffing in the weather and the elements. >> As a parent for the football games, I I think it was fine. >> It wasn't too cumbersome. We were speaking of end use the positive it's closer relatively but if we had locker rooms I don't know if later on shifted it to that >> regardless you could have a cost savings of not having to have a place for concessions public restrooms locker rooms and all of that if that could end up in this building that's Are you there? >> Colin, it looks like it, but that maintains the correct width for traffic. >> Yes. I so that's a rough shape of uh 32,000 which is what I
050was what I was showing you was what originally we were had footprinted as Fesus is indoor and it was the full width of a football field which is 60 yards. So we don't know that you're going to need or want that width necessarily but we are going to have to make it to where you do keep that full drive which is probably 25 to 30 feet wide. We want to we want to keep that open. And so maybe that building gets a little bit narrower and a little bit longer. Or again, maybe when we get into this, maybe you don't need 32,000. Maybe you only need 20,000. >> And you can alter the shape of that edge against the Y. The final shape is something that we give to S. we need to dismount your
051classrooms and here's where we're going to let you put it. They kind of lay that out. >> Yes. The intent is that we would start fasttracking this design. We do the geotech, start doing surveys, get the civil going, um order a metal building based on a size and then even if even if we had a lot of time to plan this project, which you don't, on these particular metal buildings, you kind of have to get the cart in front of the horse. And so we're ordering a building, we're designing the contents inside of it to work with whatever shape that you guys decide to go with. Uh but yes, the architect would then help us with life safety and egress and occupancy numbers and bathrooms and exits and how many classrooms that you can have
052um and those sorts in addition to the mechanical, the plumbing and structural. Are there some standards on size though >> for classrooms? >> No. With the building? >> No. And just as general rule of thumb, a building like this, the bigger you get, the cheaper it gets. So there there's a lot of economy scale, but these buildings can have interior columns. They can be clear span. Um, they're very versatile. I mean, you don't you want to keep them symmetrical. I'll say that. But outside of that shapes >> width isn't an issue then >> not not unless you get really wide and you tell them you want it to be clear span with no interior columns. Uh outside of that width is not insistentially wider than this. >> Well I said I mean we did a
053We've done an entire football field width without columns and it worked fine. It did not they paid a little bit of a premium for it, but all things considered that's pretty wide without having any columns in there. So there there would be potential savings if you said you did want interior columns, but that would also maybe limit your >> end use or adaptability to change it in the future. But with that being said, everything that we put in here, this is what I like about these types of buildings. We started doing this a lot with K through 12 and higher ed, especially higher ed because things change in higher ed mineral area college and Jeff uh Jefferson Community College. There's trends with that and they change and so we're constantly going into brick and mortar
054buildings and renovating them for uh the next thing and it's really costly. So, a building like this would be pretty cheap for you guys in the future because it would be metal studs and drywall. It's a metal building. It would be really uh costefficient to go in and remodel it if you choose 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now and renovate it. It would be much cheaper to do it on building like this than block of brick. I think that's the best location to me looking at. >> Well, like I said, it fits into the long term. I mean, some of the stuff they presented for the final layout of stuff. >> Is that what you need for that? I need Yes. I need approval to engage Hul Engineering at this location in the amount
055of $3,958. >> Motion to approve geotech services as presented by Colin. >> All those in favor? I >> All those opposed. All right. location. Yeah, >> Colin, you might want to hold up just a second. Talk to you a little bit about the the contract. >> The next piece number seven is the contract, I'm sorry, construction manager contract discussion. >> So, we had um inquired about potentially making an amendment to the current construction management advisor contract. Um and our advisement is that we can continue to operate and do the work that you are doing for the other emergency services under that contract. But it would be advised that we create a new contract for a construction manager at risk for this building project so that Brock Miller could participate in that. >> You're good with
056that? >> I I am good with that. be honest with you, I would prefer it. I think it would be better for the the district. It's we do a lot of construction management risk and not much CM agency. I think CMC has worked well so far. Uh but seeing them at risk gives us the ability to u perform some of the work equally with other people which helps you guys helps us helps you guys control cost and schedule and also too from a admin standpoint right now we we don't pay the bills. So we review the bills and we send them to you guys and you guys have to pay the bills and there's a lot and with this we do all that for you. So, I'm sure that would probably be much more convenient
057>> because I really I mean it I I know you guys are limited and it is a lot for your staff to undertake what they're undertaking right now. >> Dr. Jones, is does hiring an at risk require an RFQ? >> not not for this specific project. Okay. >> According to what I was told, they would need an RFP, just a proposal. It would just be bidding a project >> just from him because well, we'd have to open it to everybody. >> Okay. So to to enter into a change in his contract that we could just do that, but he will still have to bid the the building and the project like all the other people, >> which is sort of why I asked him if he was okay with it because that puts you back
058in the competition market, but you're used to it. >> Yeah. >> So we need a motion to about that. >> Didn't you do that for us on the primary? >> Uh, that was not us. No, but you did. >> No, you're right. >> Sorry. Middle school. >> That was hard bid, >> was it? Okay. >> Okay. >> So, what is Sorry, what is the difference between hard bid and construction management risk? >> Uh, construction management risk, there's several differences. Uh, the main one would be construction management risk. You're working with someone kind of like you are with us now. before design, during design, after construction. Um the similarities with a hard design bid build, which is hard bids. Um we still have risk. That's why they call it at risk. We carry all the insurance.
059We have liquidated damages. Um we carry the um bonds. So right now, everything that we're bidding out, those contractors are having to pay the bonds themselves. and a lot of them aren't used to doing that. So, it's construction management risk. We carry the performance and payment problem. And we have the that's a savings to the district, too, because we have the lowest rates the state will allow as far as bonding go. So, we pick up the bond for everyone. >> I would need a motion for the board to engage having a lawyer draw out that contract. Will you also review >> that contract? Wouldn't we would that contract come before the RFP? >> That contract would come before we would put out the proposals for the bid on this building. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Make
060a motion to have Construction manager at risk contract. Got it. All those in favor. Opposed. >> All right. I think we're done with you now. >> Thanks. >> Um, any otherformational items on storm recovery? Superintendent report employment opportunities, but we didn't include this in the board packet that was sent out on Friday. We're excited to say, and I've got some administrators in here, they'll be excited after this evening's close session. Uh, conducted interviews the last couple weeks. We're going to be making some uh recommendations coming up in close session for some teachers. Um we will be filling a few of those spots that are listed there on the uh 26 27 school year and uh also some bus driver and among others. So we're real excited about that. Any questions on the employment? >> Thank
061you. >> Attendance report. got an awesome group of people that's gonna take my spot this month and talk about attendance and got some We always have >> we understand the back row and try to get much interactive. It's Mr. Hayden had kind of just came to us and asked us if we wouldn't mind just to present to you guys kind of attendance. So kind of you can go to the next slide. So kind of overall what we're going to kind of cover today for you guys is kind of what we did last year that worked, why we did it again this year. We're going to talk to you a little bit about some of the things. So, in the packet that I just gave you is any kind of communication that we sent out to
062parents or the community um to try to get them involved in getting their kids to school every day. And then just kind of some checklist, different things that we have going on. And at the very end, our last slide, each building will kind of give you a little heads up on how it's going in their building this year. >> Sorry. Hi. I'm fine. So, last year we started with some building incentives. They vary a little bit across um the primary, elementary, middle school, and high school. And then we enacted on student and parent conferences. Some were on the phone, some were in person. They look different based off the needs we had. We started monthly attendance letter that is automated once a month. And we also were doing some daily text reminders. Uh and we
063made sure our consistency, our communication was in line. And so that was last year. And then roll into this year, we have some slides of our current um progress. So, we started kind of I feel like attendance kind of makes all of our eyes twitch at this point. We started back in probably January looking at what we did last year, what worked, didn't work, trying to make sure that we had consistency with our parents that they knew what our expectations were. Um, and so this is the exact document that went home with every parent at open house. If they weren't at open house, then it got sent to them letting them know kind of how we updated it stepwise. Um, some of the things that we tweaked on it was we kind of took out
064specific days. Um, our previous procedures was very day specific. So, it was like on day three you're going to do this on day five. Well, what happens if it's the second week of school and you break your arm and you're out for a week? Well, then all of a sudden now you're on day seven. Well, am I supposed to be doing a a DFS referral because you miss seven days? No. And so this allowed us to kind of make that subjective piece, give parents the benefit of the doubt, those kind of things. And this is also the first time that I guess that you mentioned the great reduction was the big thing for this year. So we also worked on putting out some graphics that have been shared um on our platforms with Facebook um
065and then also with our parents. And one of them is we just recommended possible days to try to hit those doctor appointments or family trips just to make it easier for parents at a glance to see there are pockets that we can try to hit some of these appointments that are pulling them out of school and that instructional time. So that's what this one was covering >> every um so this one's covering about how every day counts. Um, a lot of parents get very confused on the fact that we're a minutes based calendar. So, if they pull them out consistently for doctor's appointments or consistently for one reason or another, check them out early or they're running 10 minutes 15 minutes behind in the morning times, um, they're not realizing that every minute adds up.
066So, this kind of helps with that. Um, and it also helps give them a better depiction of how many days they can miss in order to reach that 90%. um because it's really hard for parents in the community to be like, "Okay, what does 90% mean? I don't how do I know if my kid is at 90%." So, a lot of our communication buildingwide and then districtwide has been trying to help parents understand what that 90% means um and how many days they can miss per month and still get to that 90% attendance, how many days they can miss throughout the year and still receive that 90% attendance. So, this graphic really helps showcase that. It's really comical. The parents that call us the most that are most concerned about how we are meeting attendance
067are not even on our radar. So I had a parent call me last week that was all frantic that it was red and it says unexcused. It was her child's first absence since kindergarten and I was like it's okay. Like so we just we really want them to know that it's important but we do understand that that was in the 90% 16 days for the whole school year. So that gives lots of opportunities for appointments and you know different illnesses and that kind of stuff. >> Interrupt is is infinite campus forcing you to call that unexcused? >> Yes. >> Is there a way to just call it absence of you? >> We um that was probably the topic of discussion at every assistant principal meeting last year was why did it not just say absent?
068So then our option was we could either do abs we could do unexcused or excused. Well, the problem that we ran into prior to this big initiative was parents found like unexcused day was no big deal. Like it was unexcused. It was green. It was fine. You can miss as many unexcused sorry excused days. You can miss as many excused days as possible because it's excused. I feel better about excuse. And so that's why we decided we needed to go with the unexcused. But we always just pay attention to the notes. And a lot of the parents that I've been in communication with, whenever it was that excused absence, they thought that the excuse meant that it didn't count towards their attendance and it didn't count towards their total absences. So, it led to a
069lot of confusion. Um, and it led to a lot of parent contention where it really didn't need to be of like, hey, this is what happened. This needs to be excused. And just that kind of back and forth that was really unnecessary. Um, parents see that red and initially they're like, oh my gosh, it's an excuse. What can I do? And then they call and I can simply explain to them everything's that color. I don't pay attention to the unexcused. I just pay attention to the note section. Um, and I walk them through how to hover over the note section in their infinite campus so they can read exactly what's in their note for their student. Um, and I say as long as it says mom call, dad call, there's a doctor's note, all of
070those things, that's what I'm looking for. And I like the seven of these. >> We said campus don't customize. No, we and John Tucker and Dan um query when they were they tried multiple times to say like what if we you tried this or what if you tried that and the camp's like we can't >> they basically said that there's only a certain amount of buttons and they won't not add a special button for us. >> Mr. Satler to answer your question be real easy. Let me just put an A. They heard me say this for the last three years and Mr. Tucker's back there. >> Mr. query before that. >> Y >> we tried to get special and we said no other districts and I said no this is the way >> it says
071unexcused they get it gets their attention too. >> Yeah. >> And really if any parents ever call you just really tell them to focus on the note section. We actually talked in our meeting this week that we we really want to promote a better job of communicating with parents for how to them to check that. So that's something that we will be doing definitely at the beginning of next year and at the beginning of second semester like really educating our parents on how they can check the attendance and make sure that the note is there because what I tell the parents what what does the note say? >> Does it matter what the color says? What does what does the note say? So, one thing that Miss Aarine created for us this year was an
072attendance checklist. And it was more for the organization piece on our part to know what steps we've already followed and what we have done because occasionally a kid can slip through the cracks if they've been gone for 4 days and maybe had a day prior. So, this allows us to just keep track. Hey, I've emailed I've already made a phone call, but I haven't met the student yet. So, we're able to track that. And then if we needed to get to the juvenile officer piece, like if we had to get to that moment, we'd have all our documentation on one piece of paper what we've done. Um it's more for us than it is for anybody else, but it's been very helpful in making sure we're meeting more of our students. So this slide, oh
073nope, it did not get update updated according to Mr. Hayden. I tried to send it at the end of the day today and that is okay. So the high school's part is going to be a little bit off and then middle school is also a hair off. Um not a big deal. So that's correct. That's correct. >> Sorry. Yep. That was updated. We are good. So you can notice uh per primary they have a 91.5 currently and this is our calculation of the 90 for 90. We take our total number of students and we tell you how many are below 90 and how many are above. I know for middle school I can have 44 um below 90% to still hit the the goal. Um however, what you need to understand right now we have
074till the end of the year. So some of our kids may have missed eight days as of today but every day that they're here they start gaining that back. So as of tomorrow I am hoping I'm going to be closer to 89 just because I have about 12 kids right on the cusp. The rule of thumb is about two days per month. That keeps you about 90. So at this point um at this time of year like you can you can be at like almost eight days, seven eight days is where you could be and still be at 90%. So that's kind of what in theory for the whole school year you can miss about two days a month. Um and that allows you to still stay with that 90%. So if you did have
075the flu and you're over the eight days um you could come back from that. And that's where those student conferences um come up a lot where we meet with those kiddos to decide how we can help them second semester. And one of the other things is to take into consideration like when you look at these numbers, my elementary says that I have 452 kids. I have 437 students. But what one of the things to take into consideration is that any student that was enrolled at Pville Elementary as of August 20 20th and they were under 90 when they left, I take a hit on their attendance. like I hold on to under 90. So that's why so I'm getting credit for 452 kids where I only have 437 that are currently in my building. And
076so that's something to take consideration because that's a huge thing. If we could storm the doors of Desi, we would definitely be like, "What are you doing to us?" Because a lot of our transient students that move miss about a week of school and then the second move. And so >> and when we calculate this um like Dr. person was saying we calculate the total number of students versus the total number of students that are below 90% to give us our 9090 data. When Desi does it, they have a very long formula and they take those things into consideration and they're we have different percentages for those kids. We have different percentages for kids that only come to school part-time for their IEP, all of those things. So, those are also not calculated in here.
077So, our percentages might be a little higher than what Desi gives us at the end. Our our percentages right here will be a little lower than what Desi might give us at the end because they'll give us some credit for those students being only here partial time of the year and then partial time of the school year or school day. So suppose you have a a parent that's logged out of Infinite Campus or not watching that. Um is that grade reduction going to be a surprise or is there always a touch before it >> and when does that begin? >> Yep. So, at the middle school, since it was new this year, we made sure this went home very beginning. And then, um, I am making contact with most students or parents by day three,
078and I'm already having the conversation with them about the new procedure. I don't want them to be caught off guard. So, they've already heard it from me verbally on the phone. We also have a letter that goes home that says they've now meet that that nine days. So, here's where they would technically fall, but they do have to appeal process because there are circumstances where kids miss more than nine days, but they they shouldn't be receiving a grade reduction because it's medically based or something along those lines. But I can speak on the middle school side, all parents have heard from me at least twice. High school, same thing. They get email, they get the phone call. Um, Mr. Brooks contacts the student. So, the student actually is the first contact. And a lot of
079this has been education for the students as well is to because it's noon um this semester we also offer supports so that students can um gain back some time. Um we have after school academic lab that they can gain like it's an hour hour and 15 minutes and they go to that they can earn an hour of time back. Um on certain days it's English or it's math or it's science. So if there's a particular class that they're not doing well in, maybe it's the one that they're always missing, maybe they're coming to late first hour. Um so we can kind of guide them to the right teacher. Um so we're trying >> that would offset that particular class. >> Yes. Yes. Um so we're offering supports for students because this is new to them.
080It's new to the families. Um so we didn't want to just um not have that safety net to help out. Um and many of them are taking advantage of that. One of the things we're going to be doing at the elementary to make sure that this is starts to be a conversation. We don't do grade reduction. However, I will be sending out communication to my parents from now to the end of the year letting them know about grade reduction especially some of my chronic um uh truent students letting them know that this is something that's coming their way next year. like cuz I said I I currently right now I pulled mine I think I was I have 26 kids in my building that would be eligible for grade reduction and like four of them
081are at 50% grade you know and so I want that letter to go home to those parents for them to have that wow I would lose 50% um grade reduction in each class and so we're going to try to make sure that communication starts even in third grade that this is something that we do that we need the parents to start becoming more active and getting their kids here So overall guys, just kind of attendance-wise, it's been going really well this year for the most part. I feel like elementary, we dialed back a little bit on our incentives this year because we didn't really see the bang for our buck to miss out on the instructional um like core content time last year. And so this year we're doing more incentives in during special area,
082recess, and lunch. And so we're not going quite as um hog wild or a little bit um excessive amount of time out of the classroom. We want to get that uh core content. We want to get that academic time in. And so we're doing a little bit less. We'll see if it affects my score this year. I said I didn't see the bang for the buck last year. So I thought I need to try something different. I'm doing a lot more kind of following Dr. Burman's um lead on more student conferences, meeting with the students, meeting with the parents. Um our SRO's are super helpful being involved in going to the houses of of students. They're also meeting with students with us. And so, um, we're holding above 90 barely, but, um, we're holding. >>
083Um, primary kind of same touch on the same. Um, elementary and primary both do a couple of the same incentives and things like that. Um, primary is above 90% on our 9990 data for the first time in at least three years, if not longer. Um, and we've held above 90% on our 9090 data for the last month and a half to two months. So, it's been a very consistent thing this school year. um which we're very very excited about. We focus this year on celebrating students who are in attendance and making it a like celebration and making it a positive thing. Um so we do attendance assemblies every single month and we celebrate kids who that previous month had over 90% or 100% attendance. So every single month these students have a new opportunity to
084get those attendance scores and it starts over each month so we can celebrate more kids. Um, and that way if they did have the flu in October, November, December comes around, they can have opportunity to still have 100% attendance for November month. Um, and still receive those awards. So, we do that during special area to decrease instructional missing minutes. Um, we also do surprise attendance days and on our surprise attendance days, every single student that's in attendance in the building gets to participate. And so, again, that celebration of you're here, we're excited you're here, thank you for coming to school. Um, and on both of those days we have that attendance conversation. Um, we talk to them about 9090. We talk to them about to keep 90%. We only can do this one or two
085days a month. Um, and just have those conversations. One of the big changes we made this year was our um, conferences that we do with parents for our attendance meetings. Um, I brought in this actual classroom teacher and they can kind of touch on how their attendance has affected their classroom performance. Um, at primary level, we do a lot of things in the classroom that are not worksheets. they can't just be taken home or be completed at home. It's a lot of in-class hands-on learning um they have to be present for in order to gain that academic growth. And so, um the teacher can kind of touch on that and then I can make it more applicable to them and that child, how it's actually affecting them, why we really need them to be at
086school so we can see those academic gains. >> Is the overall trend going on leaders? >> Um it has been pretty consistent. We've always stayed around 88 to 89%. Um, this is the highest it's been. >> So, in any of the buildings at the end of the year, how many do you have with perfect attendance for the year? >> Cuz I just remember growing up, perfect attendance was kind of a big deal. >> Less than 10 in middle school by the end of the year. I want to say maybe six last year. I think I had like 12 perfect attendants last year and then I think I had like 40 I called it nearly perfect which means they didn't even miss 1%. And I had like 40 to 45 kids that were like nearly perfect
087because they were signed out one time for like 30 minutes but I came late one time but it was probably close to like maybe just about 15 the perfect >> So are they recognized? Yeah. Yeah. At the end of your assembly, I think >> I graduated with a girl who never >> ever I had a guy in my class, his entire family of four kids. >> Yeah. >> Didn't miss a day from kindergarten through high school. >> I don't know what the mom was feeding him. >> All four kids. She wanted all four out of the house. >> Vacations are definitely becoming more prevalent. We're definitely seeing I've seen that just over my um seven years of administration. Um vacations are are becoming quite the big deal. And they're not even like two-day vacations, they're
088like week and a half day vacations. And so they mean eight days at school and then they want to get mad at us when we mark one of their absences as unexcused when they're sick. So, so like I said, the vacations are definitely upticking, but they take them to Florida, Disney World, and I think I have one girl go to Hawaii. So, >> offse even tells me it's cheaper if I go now. Yeah, but I need >> send them to summer school now. >> I'd like to thank this group here, Mr. Mr. Martin terrace a I can't leave out Mr. Dryer back here in the back. They have the I have the luxury of getting seeing at least once a month every other Tuesday or something like that. And I forgot to mention yesterday class
089time is >> miss instruction time. >> So we will emphasize that it's it's one thing to do a worksheet. It's another thing to be in the classroom here getting instruction from the teachers. But thank them and also our building administrators that are here and the importance of kids being being here and the positives. Thank you. >> Good job. >> Thank you. the financial report. >> I don't know that I needed to do that after the audit report, did I? The financial report is attached for you all to take a glimpse at if you haven't already. um same format as before and in the past, but I do really appreciate uh the difference in information that was presented this time during the audit, that overarching um um opinion as well as the extra piece that they
090do. I don't think that's anything that's required, but they choose to do that for us. That's very valuable. Uh and the team and I use that several times throughout the year for other things. And then I also want to recognize our team Lacy and Julie um because they are running the ship and keeping it a tight ship and um are extremely efficient, extremely organized. The audit was different this year and so I don't think they knew what to expect. So the accolades and um the positive comments that they made, I am certain very much it is because of the efforts of both of you and and then others in the district. Um those secretaries and and other individuals that play a important piece in getting you all what you need. Um so a lot goes
091into that. So I appreciate everyone very much and very grateful. >> Is this dated to the end of November? You know, >> the only reason I'm saying that is there's not a lot of local revenue. You start getting a lot of tax money in December, don't you? >> December. So, we got to check today. >> Check today. So, it's not posted, but it will be. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> I was just curious what it was. >> Yeah. So, it's it's kind of interesting to statistically study when people go pay their taxes and make that >> December 31st. This year, this year is a little better. We had a very nice check came in today. So, this year is is different to one last question. I think that's interesting. >> Questions about the financial tornado
092revenue and expense report that questions or comments? newsletter. Mr. Ford has put together a newsletter for us this month. The list of the upcoming events is so appreciated. >> Oh yeah. >> Once you get into basketball, >> it's very much appreciated to have this all in one place. >> You ever want to stop by? Um and we can give you a printed out one to stick on your fridge. do that for you. I've got some weird background, but I do appreciate this. >> All those in favor? I oppose. Open sessions adjourned.