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Lordsburg Regular Board Meeting 5-19-25

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YouTube / Lordsburg Municipal Schools YouTube
Date
2025-05-20
Location
Hidalgo County, NM
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Transcript
Extent
4,545 words · about 26 min
Collected
2026-07-02

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001Okay, late 6 p.m. So, we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order and do our pledges. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I salute the flag of the state of New Mexico and these perfect friendships. So for the agenda today, we're going to table the DTMS film showcase for June. Other than that, I don't think there are any other changes. I will entertain a motion. I'll make that motion to approve the agenda that's amended. I'll second. Motion by Mrs. Esville and seconded by Mr. Thman. All in favor? I move on to the approval of the minutes for the regular meeting for April 14th, 2025. Motion to approve minutes April 14th, 2025. I'll

002second that motion. Motion by Mr. Plowman, seconded by Mrs. Eson. All in favor? We will move on to item number four, reports. So, any questions for Ryan on operations report? And any questions for any of the principles on the building? You want to speak? That's good. You guys are more than welcome to speak for the fact questions. I just wanted to give a shout out to Miss Coerson for being nominated for national history uh teacher of the year for national history. So I'm going to give her a shout out and hope she wins. Yeah. I was trying to get her region. Yeah. So I hope she Yeah. gets selected. Yeah. That's a very He was just being nominated. I think there's only one or two in Mexico. Oh, really? That's good. Well, a few wins.

003Yeah. Are we on athletics? Yeah. Any questions on athletics? I did um I did want to speak to the principles because I've been getting a lot of complaints that there weren't end of year awards for all the grades. I'm sure you guys are aware. Um I know you had them for is it 57th? Yes, that scheduled for it's scheduled for Wednesday. Um, and right now we're in the process of calling all the parents of those students who are being awarded switch. Okay. Is that something you think we could bring back? Well, I think we do a lot during the school year to recognize the students and we do like water day where everybody's included. Yeah. And it's not coming from a place where we don't want to celebrate them. Yeah, it's coming from a place

004that we want every child to be celebrated and when you have awards like that, there's a lot of people that don't support the students and so that's where it's coming from. Okay. But parents are welcome to put these together and we be happy to support it. Okay. And then the fourth grade, they had one just because they were moving. So that's why we have decided that prek is staying there, Kendra staying there. So then if we're doing it for them, why aren't we doing it for first, second? Yeah. So that's why the decision is to Okay. Okay. Anything on a Okay. Yeah, that was all the report um relates people were out state events and stuff like that. So I had April, May and June. Yeah. Now their laptops, right? Okay. So, board of education

005issues, right? So, just reminders, uh, the law conference is the next conference coming up for y'all and that's June 5th through 7th. Um, the leadership retreat is July 10th through 11th. Still on their website, they don't have a place, but we're anticipating Black Profit. Mhm. Um and then we always, you know, every year we give student achievement awards and it's for people in the community or teachers and staff that we think contribute [Music] to the success of our students and help the district a lot. And and the two ladies that are here today, Tony Kerr and Margaret Chavis, we would like to present a plaque to y'all. says excellence in student achievement award is from the Mexico school board association and our local school board. Um this is presented by the Mexico school board association

006operational local board of education in recognition of the astounding role played in improving student achievements for 2020. We do appreciate every yall want to come up and present and can you take picture? You're the Ryan today. Yeah. [Music] Thank you all. We appreciate our partnership. first. Got it. Okay. And then here [Music] again. Okay. Thank you guys. Appreciate you guys. Thank you very much. [Music] You know what? Too bad. Okay. the meeting. I don't want to be on the front page. Thank you guys. Thank you. Jesse, you should have been in the picture. You're everywhere with your mom. Item number six, consent agenda, approval of accounts payable and pre-roll liability transactions. Any questions on any of the checks? I don't have any. Okay. I will entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve accounts

007payable payroll liability transactions. We'll second that by Mr. Common seconded by Mrs. Esel. All in favor? All right. She say any opposed. Okay. Approval of budget adjustment requests. Yes, we have a few of them. Not here's one last. Yeah. The first one is a decrease bar and that's just trueing up our numbers with the state SCG. That's off our 48 120day counts. Um, the next one is an increase bar uh of $1,000 and it's an initial it says increase but it's an initial bar for the level up reading challenge. It's just the same budget code as something else. So that's why it has to shows an increase. The next one is another increased bar. Um, and this budget's rental income $14,490 for the year. Um, an increased bar. The next one is an increased bar

008for food service for $1,543. And this is to budget actual revenue. The next one's another food service adjustment for 52,652 and it's just to budget the fiscal year 25 revenue an increase. And then the next one again is food service and it's an increase bar for $12,185 and it's a different account code. It's same food service but different account codes so different bars. And then the next one and the last one is a increase to title one of $22,987 is the final award and carry over for the title money. Any questions on any of those? That's all approval. adjustment request. Make that motion to approve the budget adjustment request. Motion by Mrs. Esal, seconded by Mr. Clemen. All in favor? Any opposed? Okay, the motion carries. We'll move on to action action items. Discussion on

009approval. I'm sorry to interrupt. Yes, I'm sorry to interrupt, but also on there is the blanket bar approval for the end of the year. We're not there yet. It's in the action. Okay. I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The regular bar. It's in the action items. Okay. Sorry about that. No worries. That was discussion and approval of the speech language pathology. Mhm. So, our speech pathologist has um decided to go elsewhere this year or next year, but she's done a great job. We really hate to see her go. And we've had no local we've had no applications. So, we're going to have to go out for RFP to see what contract with one and we might have to do remote this year as well. I mean, we can't find one come in person. So, I just

010need an approval to submit. Right now we have it set up to be issued tomorrow the board approves it and to have any everything back by July 19 or June 19th so so we can act on it by 23rd I think is the day we're supposed to finalize it and pick some money. I'll make that motion to approve the SLP or RP. Yeah. Am I saying that right? Too many letters right there. I'll second. Motion by Mrs. Esel, seconded by Mr. Fman. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay, the motion carries. We'll move on to discussion and approval of policy. IKFB graduation exercises, right? This is a policy that takes effect now um just about for Native Americans. You know, they it allows them to wear their value to graduation ceremony. That is that policy.

011I'll make a motion to policy at KFB graduation exercises. And I'll second that motion. Motion by Mr. Plowman and seconded by Mrs. Esville. All in favor? I. Any opposed. Okay, that motion carries. We'll move on to discussion and approval of policy JK, student discipline. So, this goes along with the previous one. Um, just adds to the discipline policy that student cannot be punished for wearing for the private. I'll approve that. Approve the student. What is it? What are we? Sorry. Student discipline. Yeah. Policy. I'll approve it. Motion. I'll second. Motion by Mrs. Eskimo, seconded by Mr. All in favor. Any opposed? Motion carries. So, we will move on to discussion on approval of a temporary blanket bar. Right. It's that time of year where a lot of these bars have to be approved and gotten

012into ped before we can have another board meeting. So, this is we do this every year. It's just a temporary blanket bar and we bring every bar that we've done back to it July meeting. Okay. With all the bars that we've done and let you know about it. So, we have to have it in order. So, cleans up the fiscal year. Yeah. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve the operating or the blanket bar, temporary blanket bar. I'll second that motion. Motion by Mr. Plowman, seconded by Mrs. Eskimo. All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Move on to discussion and approval of the 2025 26 operating budget. Brian. Hello. Hi. Hey. Good evening. I'm going to share my screen. I think everyone has a print out, but just in case. Uh then there was

013one thing I kind of thought maybe I would share that I liked a little bit better uh than my presentation. So when we get there, I'll I'll switch to that. But um so good evening everyone, members of the board, Superintendent Lucas. Uh what we have here is our 2025 2026 budget. I will just kind of start off for those of you that have kind of been in our budget committee meetings. I know I probably started off more doom and gloom, but as I started getting through it, it wasn't as bad as I thought. So, I'll start with that so that everyone can uh at least be a little bit optimistic as we're going through this. But I will say it was a tough year, probably the hardest we've been in um the last five, six

014years. And I anticipate FY27 being even more challenging, but we can talk about that as we're going through this. And if anyone has any questions, just feel free to interrupt me. Everyone can see my screen, correct? I'll make it a little bit bigger. Yes sir. Okay. So good. It's too small. [Music] So just some highlights. Um and this is all related to the district. So we were able to balance the budget. This was in collaboration with the administration, staff, parents. I believe we had two maybe three budget committee meetings. uh and we were able to balance the budget for FY26 on anticipated revenues and about 2.77 million of cash carryover for FY26. Uh there were some mandatory increases as a result of the legislature. So all staff are receiving a 4% mand uh mandatory pay

015increase. And just to kind of clarify, so when I built this budget, I from Dr. Lucas all the way down. I budgeted a 4% increase just so we're all on the same page. I did uh there are some other increases that are being built into this. The teacher minimums have increased to uh 55,000 for a level one, 65 for a level two, and 75,000 for a level three. The unit value that was used to determine the SEG, that's our operating revenue, it did increase by about 3.78% to 6801 and 35 cents. That's compared to the current year of 65,53 and 75. Other things that I'll note is there was some significant increases to our insurance. So, health insurance did go up about 10%, dental about 4%, vision was pretty much flat, and then the risk

016insurance that the district pays to Nimsia, that's basically our annual insurance payment, uh, that went up about [Music] 14.21%. Um, I do have a little note on here that the state did add to our SEG a new English learner multiplier. It's, you know, without getting it's it's kind of like some things went down and some things came up, but I did want to include that because that was in the legislative session. Below I have some more just district specific items. So overall, our SEG actually decreased in FY26 compared to FY25 by about 2.7%. Um, and we'll go through that in a little bit more detail here in a bit. Part of the reason is the small or the school size adjustment. We lost about 12.43% in our funding compared to the prior year. Some of

017that is enrollment related. Uh we did have a decrease in our ancillary FTE and then I I talked about the NISA risk increase. Um some other things to note, some of this is the same as last year. All schools must meet 1,140 instructional hours. They do have multipliers for K12 and for K12 plus, but we do not participate in those. $15 minimum hourly rate for all school employees, $25,000 minimum salary for all instructional u assistance or educational assistance. And then the last thing that I'll note regarding the mandatory increases is the principal increases as these are by statute tied to a level three teacher salary. And because that level three teacher minimum has increased to 75,000, we now have new minimums for principles. Um just the top the the highest high school is now 123750,

018middle school 108750 and elementary 93,750. Here I just have a kind of a big picture summary. So overall, if you were to take every fund, uh the budget for the district is about 16,126,471. That includes uh projected revenue of about 10.9 million and then also projected cash carryover of 5.3 million. Keep in note that that 5.3 million cash carryover, that's all funds. That's going to be our capital outlay. That's our debt service. Uh our operating that's any fund that can carry cash is included in that number. SG decreased to by about 203,000 and there are different types of funding that we get and I kind of broke them into various categories. Here we have our general fund which I consider to be the things that we need to operate the school. So our operational fund

019or transportation I included the advalorum tax that we get from the county in that uh because that can be used for operations athletics and then food services. And so total operating revenue for our general fund was about 11 million. And then in addition to our operating funds, we also get special revenue funds. Those are going to be uh grants uh or anything like that. I included some funding that we get from the state in there, but for purposes of the budget, I try to only include funds that I can reliably count on us receiving year after year. Uh, and so those being title one, IDEAB B, uh, fresh fruit and vegetables, title two, title four, our rural lowincome school, CTE, preK, and Medicaid. and Medicaid I will kind of keep an eye on just because

020I keep hearing things that you know might get cut and might not. Um but total special revenue funds about 1.7 million. And then lastly our capital outlay funds and I did include the debt service here just for uh simplicity purposes but uh bond fund about 173,000 that might be lower. These are all kind of estimate like ending cash and I think the the anticipation or the plan is that maybe we'll go out for a bond sale in the fall. I did not budget for that in here. So if that happens, we'll do an increase bar when that happens. SB9715,000 and then of course our debt service of about 2.2 million. And then I did include the cash that's held by our student activity funds. So alto together that's where we get that 16.1 million. So

021here's a little pie chart to kind of show the breakout. You know almost 70% of our uh actual budget is consisting of our general fund, 11% of our special revenue, 19% for our capital and debt service and then just 1% for our activity funds. So that's the total budget. Now, I'm going to kind of go through just the revenue piece and then we'll go through the expenditure piece next. So, revenue, I have here just a list of the funds that I did include in the budget, which we kind of just went through. Um, some of these awards weren't available at the time that we put together the budget. And so, for those items, like I think idea B actually came out at the end of the day on Friday, I usually just budget next year

022what we got this year. And I think it actually probably went down a little bit now that we actually got the allocation. Is that right, Dr. Lucas? Yes, it went down to about $195. So, so about $14,000 difference. So, we'll have to adjust that. But usually when I don't have the award in front of me, I'll usually budget at least what we got in the current year. Um, and so here I just kind of have a just a comparison yeartoear. So FY25 being the current year, FY26 being the year that we're talking about for the budget and just kind of showing a comparison with any changes um between the two years transport a little bit. Yeah. How much did transportation go down? Was it about five or 7,000? 32,900. That one's weird because they don't

023share with us how they fund that or how they calculate that. And I wish they would, but uh it seems to be short at a lot of schools that I work with. Yeah. Program cost review. So, what this is, and at the very back of our packet, there's an appendix, and in that appendix, you'll see what's referred to as a 910 B5. That's the state's formula for calculating our operating revenue. And that's kind of the result of the legislative session. There's all these multipliers and factors and all these different things where you get funded X amount if you have this many kids instead and this many in kindergarten. That's all included in that 910B5. And so what I have here is just kind of a what we call a program cost review. Those of you

024that were in the budget committee have already seen this, but I like to show this because it breaks down our operating revenue by all those different lines that are included in that formula. And then we can really I just kind of look at it line by line and see where we added money or where we decreased in funding. And so on the far left in the actual section, that's our actual enrollment. um our 8120 day and for FY25 and then what we're projecting for FY26. Uh and so you can kind of see I'm sorry for FY it's almost like a year behind. So FY24 then our average 8120 day for FY25 is what they use as the input uh for next year. And so you can see the biggest things really, you know, we did

025have a decrease in enrollment of about 20.5 students in grades 1 through 12. That's really going to be the key theme as to why I feel like we've decreased in funding. Uh but the other thing that I'll say too is, you know, they didn't fund the increases that we talked about at the beginning of the presentation uh to start with. But on top of having those mandatory increases, we also had a decrease in enrollment. And so these are the things that at the beginning of my budget process were kind of leading me towards that stressful attitude. But as you'll see as we go on, the district was prepared for this program units is taking that membership and then multiplying it by whatever those factors are that the legislative session has put together. U some of

026them are bigger than others. Our TCI for example, it is a multiplier and so anytime you can m have a multiplier in your formula, it it it does translate into big dollar amounts. And in this instance, you can see it can also take away big dollar amounts. And so TCI, we actually lost about 80,000 79,290. And that can be from a handful of things such as maybe we lost a level three teacher that was being paid out of operational. But the way TCI works is that multiplier is higher the more level three or level two teachers you have in your operational fund. And so for those reasons, we try to pay for those individuals out of operations rather than having them paid for with the grant funds say such as title or in the past

027maybe er funds because then we're not able to get the the TCI multiplier that that they bring by being that high lensure level. Um and then at the bottom you can kind of see here the decrease. you know, I think 243,000 is what we're calculating as the difference between the prior year or I should say current year and next fiscal year. So, you know, not huge, but at the same time, when you take into account the mandatory increases, it does add up. See, now I'll move on to the expenditures. Uh so like I said before, we were able to balance the budget uh for FY26 expenditures. The way that we were able to do that is we did have to use about 1.5 million of our cash carryover. And so I am anticipating or estimating

028that we will finish this year FY25 June 30th with about 2.77 million in cash carryover in our operating fund. Um, the only thing I'll say on that is it is an estimate. So, when the audits completed in the fall, that's usually what we'll get our final cash, our audited cash. And then in the wintertime, about January, that's when you'll see us do those cash carryover bars. And really the purpose of those is to true that up from what I'm estimating of 2.7 to whatever the auditors say this is what you actually ended the year with. I'm also anticipating that we'll end the year with about 412,000 in our SB9 as cash carryover and 1.2 million in our debt service. I have on the bottom just kind of a pie chart to show the expenditures by

029function code and this is just for the operational fund and it does not include the cash carryover. So about 61% of our operational budget is being allocated to the classroom or I'm sorry instruction and 9% to the classroom. So about total 70% of our operational budget is being allocated to the classroom. 12% for administration, 6% for central services, and 12% for building and plant. The state does require that we do what they call like a zero budget. So we do have to budget not only all of our revenues, but also the cash that we're carrying over. And so that 2.7 million is fully budgeted for purposes of submitting this to the state. And in a future slide I'll show what I project us to end FY26 with as far as a cash balance. Here I

030have a bar chart just to kind of show year-to-year comparison. Uh FY25 to FY26. Again, this is by function code and this is for all funds. So, not just operational, you can kind of see the increases in instruction. We actually decreased on classroom support, little bit of an increase in administration, decrease in central services, little bit of an increase in building and plant, and then a little bit in this other category. Uh, but the majority of the increase taking place in the instruction [Music] side. And then drilling down a little bit further. So going past the function code and go into the object code. So this really is kind of like the type of expenditure that we're talking about. Uh here I have just the operational and so about 71% of our operational budget is

031being spent on compensation and benefits 23% on contract services and then 6% on supplies. And then down below, same thing uh showing a comparison current year to what we're budgeting for FY26. And this is the total budget. And you can see the increase in compensation and benefits, small decrease in contract services, and then a little bit of an increase in our supply budget. Continuing with the expenditures, personnel cost. Now, this one, you know, as I was talking to Dr. Lucas, as we're doing the budget, I might actually have a little bit more in here than what we're actually going to go into the next year with. I think I have maybe a vacancy or two that talking to Dr. Lucas, we might not need or or maybe have already filled. So, that's really going to

032maybe help with our cash balance if that is the case. But, I felt like for purposes of presenting the budget, at least they're in here now. Um, and if they are already filled or we don't need those vacancies, it's only going to help us. Uh, total FTEES is 84.82 and I kind of just broke it into various categories. So, I have our instructional about 35 teachers. Um, EAS I think is three. I know it kind of splits it, but these two categories at the top are really what is being put into the classroom and then just our administration below. So try to show a little bit of a breakdown by FT and position and then at the very bottom I have all of our stipens. Uh so athletics, you can see the total cost of

033our athletic stipens. Uh student facilitators, those are people that are maybe managing like the yearbook club or or whatever. and then our coordinators and then just other stipens. And then going into non-personnel, this is where I actually wanted to show something different, but I mean I'll look at this first and then I'll show you because I have a spreadsheet that's a little bit more detailed. Um, but I did want for purposes of the PowerPoint or the PDF to at least include the highle items. So ancillary about 226,000 other contract services about 973,000. Uh the biggest ones of that are of course are SF for the food service. Uh K12 accounting. Uh there's our auditing. There's there's various other contract services I think are transportation contractors are in there. And then down at the bottom is

034is really just kind of all of our utilities, um, property liability, insurance, maintenance and repair. And then non-personnel cost, again, continued supplies and materials, uh, instructional materials, software, board training, student travel, professional development, all of these items are included in the budget. And then I will pull up this the spreadsheet. I know this is probably really small on the screen, but it it's pretty much the same thing that we just looked at, but it's a little bit more detailed where I kind of have it my capital in reserve and just kind of wanted to show this because there is some more detail regarding the vendors that I have included in the budget and to give some background on how we do this. We kind of look historically over the past couple years and we can

035kind of identify reoccurring contracts with particular vendors or just services that we know that we're going to need and those are the ones that we typically try to build into the budget. So like as an example, I can see in student travel, you know, over the last three years, we average, you know, about 55,000. I might increase that a little bit just because everything keeps costing more and more. Um but we'll you know throughout the year if it's too much or if it's too little we'll have to do a budget adjustment request but we try to give us a little cushion on things like that uh by looking at historical expenditures. Um only thing I think just going to kind of scroll through this. So like air gas, you know, P&M, city of Lordsburg, you

036know, IT, phone services, um, advertising with the Herald, our audit, our law firm, our legal. Every year we have to pay for like an acu disclose regarding our bond funds, our ancillary, you know. So try to keep it as accurate as possible by looking at what I can identify. um having spent in the past. Duncan Unified School District. This is our out of state tuition. Uh it's kind of a wash. We pretty much just pay them what the state funds us for the students that they serve. That's about 362,000. And then the last thing I'll say, I guess, regarding this is that none of this is none of this is set in stone. and so we can adjust it throughout the year, but this is to get us that starting budget going into FY26. And

037then lastly, and this was really interesting to me, this last on our operational fund balance, it was just crazy to me how much this has increased over the past couple years. Um, I went all the way back to 2017 and I even had to like triple check. I pulled up every audit and I said, "Is this right?" Because it's, you know, this is just such an oddlooking graph. Um, and what I guess what I could attribute this to is the SER funds and I would attribute this also to the administration um identifying that those funds were going to go away. I think a lot of districts that I'm seeing maybe hired a little bit too crazy during those err fund years and now are in a position where they're overstaffed. I can say that Lawrenburg

038never did that. Um, and I think that that type of planning ultimately is what led to these large increases in our cash carryover over the past three years was really those ESSER funds um being strategically used to build up our cash carryover because I think in 2022 we were down to about 250,000 and so that I would attribute as to what's really our saving grace going into FY26. having that cash available to balance the FY26 budget. Like I said before, we had to use 1.5 million of this 2.7 to just do all the increases and everything that we needed to put into the budget. And we looked at the non-personnel, you can kind of see there's not a bunch of extra things in there. Um, so that, you know, was was very nice to have

039as I was doing the budget. But with that being said, you know, using 1.5 million of this 2.7, we just all need to be uh very diligent in monitoring the budget throughout FY26 because that's not a path of sustainability that we can continue to use that much cash every year. So, we'll be watching the budget this year. We'll hope that something changes in the legislative session or maybe our enrollment maybe stops decreasing, kind of flattens out, or maybe we get more kids. you know, there's all these unknowns that can happen, but Dr. Lucas and I have talked and and the board's aware. You know, I guess we'll just we'll just keep an eye on this month over month and make sure that we're prepared for FY27 because I would anticipate that being a challenging year,

040you know, if we go into that having to use more cash. But again, you know, this large cash carry open was very helpful in me balancing this budget. And then down below we have our 910 B5. This is the document where we discussed earlier. This is the actual state document that is provided to us for our operating revenues. And then lastly, our salary schedules. So increase the the base level for each one to the minimums and then ensure that every staff got 4% increases is what is being presented here. Um and with that that's our FY26 budget. Does anyone have any questions regarding anything? Uh anything I can elaborate on? I want to thank everyone for all of your hard work. And I was thinking about this before I presented, but it's working with districts

041like you guys that make this worth it for me. Uh I appreciate all of you guys and the team that we get to work with. You guys are awesome and so I really enjoy getting to work with you all and working with the district. Everyone's great and you're kind of like the reason why I do this as clients like you guys. So, thank you all. Sure. Thank you, Brian. [Music] Do we know how many students are in Duncan school? Is it the kids from Burton that go? Yeah, the kids from Burton. Is it about 80? I think is that what if I remember? I can I can pull it up real quick because we actually just sent it to the state. Um, what was it? No, 80. No, I guess I don't think there's any

042people. There's aboutund something. The hard part is if we, you know, because it is a lot of money that we pay to them, but if we didn't, it was it was about 70 students. We would have to bust them into the district, which would be the hard part. And assuming they even stayed, you know, versus driving to Duncan, I guess. Um, but yeah, 70 students. It's almost 500,000 in state money. Mhm. And that's that's what they report to you, Brian Duncan? Yeah. So the we have a contact there that gives us basically the equivalent of their like 40 80 120 day counts and then they basically invoice us whatever they count times our unit value. So if our unit value goes up then our bill goes up. If our bill if our unit value goes

043down our bill goes down. And last year, for example, I think we were invoiced 400 something thousand, but then the state only paid us 360. So, Dr. Lucas and the district at Duncan, we just kind of agreed that we're only going to pay you what we get funded for you guys. Um Oh, okay. Yeah. We're not going to send any extra. Yeah. Okay. questions. No. Thank you, Brian. We don't have any other questions. All right. If anything comes up, let me know. Like I said, we'll watch this throughout the year. There should be, I believe, one document that I will have Dr. Lucas get everyone's signature and send back to me. That's part of us uploading the budget. Our budget is due to this state on Thursday. And so I'll make sure we get this

044uploaded, all the signed documents uploaded. Marie's already started working on inputting our calendar. Um, so we should be good to go. Thank you. Thanks. I'll make a motion to approve the 2025 2026 operating budget. Second motion. Motion by Mr. comments seconded by Mrs. Esel. All in favor? Any opposed? Okay, the motion carries. We don't have anything for public forum, so the meeting is a good night. Thank you all. Have a good night. Thank y'all. Take care. Good night, y'all. You know,

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