001All right, everybody ready? Yeah. River School Corporation School Board of Trustees to order. Roll call. President Duckworth, we have a full board present. Thank you. As is a custom, uh first of all, we want to welcome you all. Appreciate you being here, but as is the custom, I'd ask you to stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Again, thank you for being here as we do the public business for our schools. Uh next, we have good news from Jason Littenberg. Jason, good evening. Thank you so much, President Duckworth, Superintendent Hoover, members of the board. Lots of good news
002here to share with you this evening. One that I'll lift this recently, we had the early learning art show. This was uh really highly attended, not just from families of our youngest artist, but a lot of other people as well were able to take advantage of this. It was downtown here at SEMO. It really was a great event um showcasing the creativity of our youngest students. And I will say, while we're talking about this, shout out to all of our art students district-wide. I know most of you have been to these through the years, but all of our attendance districts have um art shows. Uh you always get to see the artwork here in the board room and out in the lobby, but it's always a great way to showcase the artwork as it advances
003from elementary students up to really just incredible artwork by our high school students. So, just shout out to all of our EVSC artists, including those in early learning. Um all aboard Titanic the musical, as it says, is setting sail this summer. Uh you've heard us talking about it as part of the new summer musical company for EVSC. This is really going well. Lots of excitement around this, but tickets are now on sale. So, we've posted that. We'll keep posting that to remind people that they can come and see uh these terrific actors and then all of course of the behind-the-scenes crew and the orchestra performing June 11th through June 14th. So, we're definitely looking forward to that. Want to lift this. You've heard us talk about this before. Our Academy of Science and Medicine uh
004senior research projects. These are college-level research projects. Um their presentations uh the formality of those when they go through all of the research. This isn't just students working on this for a week. They've been spending months on this, those uh students that are enrolled in our ASM program. Um and they're working with community partners in healthcare. Uh they have mentors that are part of this. And when they actually do the presentation, I happen to be fortunate enough to attend some of those this year. We actually had lots of media coverage around this as well because they're presenting not just to their classmates, to their teachers, to their mentors in healthcare that have been working with them, but also their families are attend uh in attendance, which that was really exciting uh to see. Even grandparents
005there to see these students presenting. Uh but definitely setting them up for a successful future at the college level when they're able to do this. So, kudos to everyone involved. Lots of work goes into that. Lights are on for uh Bosse Bulldog baseball. I know several of you got to be at the dedication for that. So, nice group picture and a great way to support these high school athletes so that they'll be able to play under the lights. So, lots of excitement as well around this and thanks to those of you that were able to be there for that and I know Dr. Hoover is proud to have on her alumni t-shirt in that picture as well from Ball State. So, and I know several of you are Ball State alumni as well. So, great
006evening for that. We did a what's happening with Hoover episode posted on Thursday and this feature our spring athletics. You're going to hear more about spring athletics in just a little bit, but it's always great to hear from our student athletes just how much being a part of that team matters to them and so in this episode we were able to represent and hear students talking about each one of our spring sports. And spring sports definitely a special time in the school year when the weather turns nice. So, great way to feature them and again you'll hear more about spring sports in just a bit during the district spotlight. And the good news will continue I'm sure, but for tonight that is it President Duckworth. Thank you very much. A lot of good things going
007on at EVSC. Appreciate it. Next we have public comment. Mr. Showers. President Duckworth, we have two speakers tonight, both veterans of public comment and the order in which they were given to me. First up, Lori Young. Good evening President Duckworth, trustees and Dr. Hoover. I'd like to take a moment to share a few updates from the Evansville Teachers Association. First, we did finalize our ETA working calendar for you for next school year. I did provide that for you, so hopefully you'll be able to see a copy of that. And then I also wanted to share with you that ETA intentionally kicked off our teacher appreciation week last Thursday. We celebrated all of our members who are retiring, our members who had 20 years of service, and we had a full house. So, it was wonderful.
008It was great. We got to eat eat and talk and converse and solve all the world's problems. We did it all. We did it all. And I also wanted to say thank you again for allowing ETA to be here and to share this information with you. Thank you. Next we have Larry Samples. Tonight I want to make a few comments about the Career and Tech Center. Back on April 15th, our Kiwanis Club combined with the Career and Tech staff to present Kiwanis awards. I'm always impressed when I go out there the number of programs that are offered, also the number of students from area that are they're out there participating. The board member Ragland was there that day. Also, we gave awards There are some career programs at the schools. Central High School has a
009Academy of Science and Medicine. New Tech has Entrepreneurial Academy, and North High School has a Aerospace Academy. So, and that There were 19 there. We picked the student in each program and gave them a Kiwanis award. Then the Career Southern Indiana Career and Tech, they have 22 programs there. From Advanced Manufacturing, Culinary Arts, Cyber Security, 22 Quite a variety. And I was amazed at the students who come from outside the area. All programs that are open to students in Vanderburgh County, students in Posey County, Gibson County, Warrick County. Some [snorts] of the winners that day we had a winner from Castle, North Posey, Wood Memorial, Gibson Southern, Boonville, Princeton, Castle, Mater Dei, Gibson Southern, Mount Vernon. All students attending from outside the area, but made available by EVSC. And the qualities of awards are like
01015 criteria. Some of them are attitude, perseverance, interest, sense of humor. I'm always amazed at that. And I'm not quite sure how that fits in. The sense of humor counts. Uh But the quote at the end, 10 most powerful two-letter words, if it is to be, it is up to me. The career technology center is going on up there. Thank you, Larry. That would be all, President Duckworth. Next, we will move to consent items, Dr. Hoover. Good evening, President Duckworth and the Board of School Trustees. We have six consent items for your consideration tonight. They are 3.01, of the minutes of the 26th session and regular board meeting. Consideration of the allowance of payments, invoices, net payroll, payroll obligation for a total allowance of payments of $32,651,650.36. 3.03, consideration to approve the addendum with Voice
011Cloud Services. 3.04, consideration to approve the renewal of the Microsoft licensing agreement through Secure Tech. 3.05, consideration to approve the renewal agreement with Franklin Covey. 3.06, consideration to approve the amendment to the agreement with the Evansville Otters. These consent items are presented for your approval. Move approval. Second. We have a motion and a second regarding the six consent items. Are there any questions or comments? >> [snorts] >> Hearing none, all those in favor do so signify by saying I. Those opposed, motion carries. Next we move to personnel recommendations with Michelle Williams. She's hurrying up to the mic. Good evening President Duckworth, school board members. Tonight's personnel recommendations include the following: retirements, resignations, terminations, regular appointments, position reassignment, resignations from extra duty appointments to extra duty, reassignment of extra duty, reassignment of administrative appointments, transfer, after
012school appointments, summer appointments, and consideration of the administrative appointment of Hiya Haywood, head girls basketball coach at Harrison High School. These recommendations are presented for your approval. Move for approval. Second. We have a motion and a second regarding the personnel recommendations. Are there any questions or comments? Question. In retirements, do we have have I said about the average number? We have a larger number, smaller number? >> the average over the last three or so years. Um used to be considerably higher, but we have seen a smaller amount for about the last three or four years. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor do so signify by saying I. Those opposed, that carries. That carries. Thank you. Thank you. Michelle. Next we will go to the district spotlight with Dr.
013Hoover. Yeah, so tonight for district spotlight, we have our director of athletics, Joe Herman. Joe is here to talk to us about our athletic program and specifically we're in spring sports. So happy to have Joe for an update. Thank you. President Duckworth, school board, and Dr. Hoover. To today we want to talk a little bit about EVSC athletics and specifically academics in athletics. As you can see we have 20 sports offered for each high school varsity sports, over 1,800 student athletes, 100 plus varsity teams, and over 250 coaches. Right now in the spring we have nine sports going on, baseball, softball, boys track, girls track, boys golf, girls tennis, lacrosse boys and girls, and boys volleyball. Why athletics matter? Well, we know we want to get our kids involved, right? Because when kids are involved
014in athletics, they're going to have higher graduation rates, better attendance, and a higher GPA. Those are the three things we we focus on with with athletics. Studies show that those three things are going to improve for our kids involved in athletics. Some of the things we're doing right now at most of our schools, if not all of our schools, and you'll see them listed, grade checks and eligibility monitoring. So, every 2 weeks our ADs are going to send out grade checks to the coaches so they can look at their kids' grades, monitor those, see who needs to improve, who needs to do better, who's doing well, um who can be congratulated on their good grades, things like that. We have our enrichment study tables that's going on during the school day. Sometimes we have lay
015coaches that aren't in the school, so they're going to have study tables before practice um to help help with these kids, their study habits, their grades, make sure they're getting in enough time uh because athletics obviously is already going to take a lot of their time, right? So, they're going to need some time to do some studying as well, and maybe get help from some of their friends, some of the coaches, things like that. Our coaches are really here to push them along, right? To help them succeed. Uh they're going to set goals for academic all-city. They're going to set some, you know, some kids are going to struggle just to pass. Well, our coaches are there to help them, right? Some kids have higher goals. They want to get a 4.0. Our coaches are
016going to be there to to help hold them accountable, push them along, and do anything possible to uh help them along the path to get their academics in. Uh Attendance we obviously knows is probably one of the number one factors in academic success, right? If you're not in class, you can't achieve your goals. So, our coaches are there to push, you know, attendance also. If you're not there in in class, you can't play either. So, obviously our coaches uh selfishly even they're going to push the attendance as a priority. And then lastly, we want to recognize these students, right? I mean, academic All-City, academic All-State, those are just as important as as getting All-State on the football field or on the basketball court. So, we want to praise those kids as much as possible and
017show them how much we support them. Uh last winter we had 158 athletes receive academic All-City. What that means is they received a varsity letter and their GPA was 3.5 or higher. So, 53% of our varsity kids that participated in winter sports had a 3.5 or higher and received a varsity letter. I think that's pretty good, but we can do better, right? We and we can always strive to do better and we're going to push to do better and we want that number greater than 53%. So, that's something our coaches and our ADs and administrators are going to keep working on. Um looking ahead, some more commitments. We want to expand on our academic support resources. So, we want to make sure every kid has that opportunity to get better in academics, to have those
018resources to get better, not just athletically on the court, right? We want to we want to support them academically, too. Some of that goes back to our administrators, our ADs training our coaches, what they can look for, what they can do to help our kids, right? Because we need every athletic director coaching up our coaches. Some of our coaches are late coaches and and maybe it's their first year and and they may not realize the importance they have with these kids. So, as administrators, we have to coach up these these coaches to look for these things with these kids so that they can continue their academic success. And again, I want to touch on celebrating that scholar athlete. We have to put emphasis on academics as much as we do on our athletic accomplishments. Every
019kid has a choice, right? And and sometimes [laughter] as kids, we don't always, you know, I was a kid once. You guys were all kids once. We don't always look at the the big picture. We look at right in what's right in front of us. We want to make easy choices. It is It's not easy to make that difficult choice to put in that extra time every day. Every kid could study a little bit harder. Every kid kid could make sure he goes to school every single day, right? Doesn't miss any classes. Those are choices every kid can make. And our coaches and and administrators are there to hopefully help push those kids along the way that they can achieve that success. And that and that's what we're looking for. Also, just wanted to make
020mention of our new EVSC website, evscschools.com, looks amazing. If you haven't checked it out yet. Uh it's something really has a lot of information on it, not only with athletics, but everything with our schools. Anyone have any questions? >> Well, I want to first of all commend you for all the different areas that you have covered here, everything from study tables to uh you know, making it a student athlete again. I think our colleges are really getting away with that with NIL, and I know there's been some discussion about moving that into high school. And I'm going to tell you what, I would not propose that at all. I think that changes the game too much. I think these these students ought to be students and then athletes. And I think the part that was
021missing from that report that I'd like to see more of is the fact that we have a code of conduct in our schools and I think that those things should be discussed with the teachers, I'm uh sorry, with the students, the student athletes, and with the parents. And I think if everybody understands that if you get up and do this and that, you're going to sit out a game, then they don't have any complaint about it. I just think that we need to hold them accountable because we have younger athletes, younger students in middle school, high school looking at what they do. And [clears throat] if they see them get along with something, they think they can do it. And I think we really have to tighten that down and make sure that the whole
022student, the whole student athlete is is protected and that we make sure that we instruct them accordingly. Thanks, Tony. Yes. Comment and a couple questions. I appreciate you tying the athlete uh not only how athletic they are, but also, you know, the educational side of it. Uh But I I do also believe that you learn a lot, leadership, accountability, how to deal with maybe a failure or a success. And my question is I think not everybody can be make varsity, if you will. Are we really reaching and investing in the feeder? Because they can learn a lot of those leadership skills and all that. They may not have the athletic ability to make varsity, but boy, we can teach them a lot along the way. Where are we with each one of the high schools
023having a very strong feeder system in place? I think it's very important, like you said, like first off, success is going to come from our feeders, right? But with that, I think the number one goal for a lot of these coaches should be developing relationships. And that needs to start at an early age. These these coaches need to have relationships with the fifth graders, the sixth graders, the seventh graders for several reasons. One, we want them to come to our schools, right? And we want these coaches to have those relationships. And I think the other reason is coaches are going to have to hold kids accountable, right? And And that's not always easy, but when you have that relationship with a kid, it makes it a little bit easier to hold them accountable cuz they
024have that trust in you also. And so, I think it does start at a at an early age, and we do need to get our coaches involved more in these you know, these uh feeder schools, whether it's elementary school, middle school, and building those relationships before they actually get to the high school. And I noticed lacrosse was in there. So, is that still club or is that varsity yet? And if it's still club >> the girls lacrosse is actually an emerging sport with the IHSA. Boys is still a club. Okay. Do Do you project So, the girls It hasn't grown quite like they thought it would. >> Okay. But uh so, I mean, it's it'll stay as an emerging sport. At some point, the IHSA is going to have to make a decision whether it's
0252 years from now or 3 years from now what they want to do with it. You know, Chris, it's funny you brought that up because I asked Paul Nardi, right, commissioner, the same question. You know what he told me? The the number one sport that was growing that he thought would be sanctioned next for for here. And so, I think we need to uh look at that as well. And that is coming, yeah. Uh the other thing is that one thing we didn't mention that we have gone over we go over about every meeting is our athletic facilities. And I think we are through Steve Sheller's help and and our administration and our superintendent is supportive of making sure that our student athletes have quality facilities to play at. I mean, if you look at
026Enloe and Harrison and North and Rights and all the things that have been done to these facilities to keep them upgraded. Uh the money that taxpayers are putting into them so that these kids have quality places to play and uh where families can view the games and everything. I think it's just amazing. A lot of times that gets pushed aside and taken for granted, but it's it's a big part of what our facilities department does. So, we want to accommodate uh thank Steve and and the corporation for everything they do because if you go to Bossier, it's a different Bossier High School than you know, when I was on the track, they were Sanders. Okay. And uh and uh so, now they're with tennis courts and just a a little bit of everything that we
027are investing in. I think students, we want them to [snorts] be student athletes, and we want them to have good facilities to to do their skills, and so, thank you for >> I have a Well, I have a question. Um is is there a point person at each school to um guide like navigate the student through the, you know, the collegiate process or NCAA if they're Yeah, and a lot of times that's >> have the talent or is Is it Um you said I know you talked about the coaches, but you know, I just wanted is is it >> Yeah, a lot of times that's going to fall with the with the really with the AD and the counselors um and keeping them up on the rules with what, you know, what the kid needs
028to do, the clearing house, you know, everybody if they do want to play in college, they're going to have to register through the clearing house, and and um obviously it it tells you what you need, but the counselors are also there to help out with the clearing house part. Those athletic directors spend a lot of time at those schools. I mean, everything from all the events, and and we rightfully so have have given them assistance to give them a little bit of a break, but um there's just a lot to do in that position, and a lot of students depend on them, so I just wondered if there was like, you know, a list of those, you know, they still I guess they still send the letters to the high schools or to the coaches
029or is it coach and parents or like if >> like a intent to sign? >> recruiting that broker Yeah. Yeah, a lot of times that will go through the It actually goes through the high school athletic office and then it usually the coach will collect those and get those to the kids [clears throat] on on recruitment letters, things like that. Thank you. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate your report. Um Thank you, Dr. Hoover for having that highlight on spring sports. That moves us into action items and uh we start with Rick Cameron. Consideration to approve the redraft of policy 6660, transportation by private vehicle. Good evening, President Duckworth, members of the board, Dr. Hoover. At last uh board meeting, we presented for your information a redraft of policy 6660, which established a comprehen- comprehensive framework governing
030the use of personal vehicles for corporation business. And tonight, we are recommending the approval of that redrafted policy. I'm happy to answer any questions that you have. Move approval. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? 6.01 passes. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have uh 6.02, consideration to approve [snorts] parent pay rates for pre-K, Tony Hamilton. Good evening, Tony. Good evening, President Duckworth, members of the board, and Dr. Hoover. Tonight, we're back again. The Office of Early Learning recommends establishing parent pay rates for the EVSC pre-K program. A review of regional providers was conducted to ensure the proposed rates are competitive and aligned with the local market. Establishing these rates supports program planning and enrollment. Specific
031program sites will be finalized in the near future. Move. Second. We have a motion and a second. questions or comments? I have a comment and and a question. I just appreciate um how diligent you've been looking, you know, looking at the rates and with the understanding that it's difficult for parents even an extra $10 um a week, but um my daughter works at an early learning center and they have risen their rates so very high that parents are withdrawing their students. So um we understand that we that, you know, prices go up on a lot of things that we've seen we're seeing at the gas pump, the grocery store. So I really appreciate that. And then I guess my question is um as you're looking, you know, ahead I think we asked in a previous
032meeting if you thought there might be some additional um rate hikes in the near future, but could you remind me just because I've slept since then? Yeah, we can't guarantee um anything, but just like with the week here, we take all of that into consideration and any decision we make will be thoroughly thought through and investigated before we make that decision. The rate that we have that we're proposing is aligned it aligns with week here. So we don't want parents to be paying more than our employees will be paying. Okay. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor do so signify by saying I. I. Those opposed? That carries. Thank you. 6.04 public hearing on additional appropriation for the 2026 I'm sorry, I jumped ahead. 6.03 consideration to [snorts] approve the agreement
033with Kinder Education. Tammy, I'm sorry I didn't mean to jump over you there. No problem. Good evening President Duckworth, Dr. Hoover and members of the board. The Office of Schools and Instructional Core recommends the approval of an agreement with Paper Education for their grow high their grow high impact tutoring program. And this agreement provides access to the Paper platform from May 5th through June the 26th to support our third-grade students in preparation for I read. Teachers will also have access to the platform for monitoring student progress, reporting, and administrative oversight. The total cost of this is $55,500 and would be funded through our Title 1 grant. Happy to answer any questions. So, motion and a second. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? It
034passes. Thank you, Tammy. Thank you. Next, we have the public hearing on additional appropriation for the 2026 general obligation bonds. Dr. Underwood, Good evening, President Duckworth, and members of the board, and Dr. Hoover. At this time, I will open the public to the additional appropriation related to the 2026 general obligation bonds. These bond proceeds are designated for safety and security upgrades across the district. Notice of the hearing was properly published and posted in accordance with statutory requirements. At this time, turn the meeting over to Mr. Shields. Thank you, Dr. Underwood. The annual law provides that members of our general public may be heard on the expenditure of those bond proceeds. If any member of the public would like to be heard before the board votes, please approach the microphone, identify yourself, and allow us your
035comments. Once again, is there any member of the public who would like to be heard on the proposed expenditure from the 2026 general obligation bonds? There being no member of the public having come forward, the hearing will be adjourned. Thank you, Dr. Underwood. Mr. Shultz. Uh so, at this time, I am recommending approval of the additional appropriation resolution associated with the 2026 general obligation bonds. I'll move. Second. We have a motion and a second on the floor regarding the 2026 general obligation bonds. Are there any questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. >> Aye. Opposed? It passes. Dr. Underwood, we're going right back to you for consideration to approve the additional appropriation resolution. Okay. All right, this time we're here on the final bond resolution. Finally, at this time,
036I'm recommending approval of the final bond resolution, which authorizes the issuance of the bonds and establishes the final terms and conditions following this prior approval of the preliminary resolutions in March. Moved to approve, and I just want to clarify. We've five 6.05 was the vote, right? Then we would say, "Okay, so I'll I'll prove 6.06." Uh I'll make a motion. Second. Okay, I want to make sure we're clear. We're voting on the resolution, is that correct? >> [cough and clears throat] >> 6.06, the final bond resolution. We have a motion and a second. Any further comments or questions? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? It passes. All right, we're going to move now to information item 7.01, uh facility study and long-range planning initiative. This must be a big
037one because Dr. Underwood has asked for help from Steve Shultz. >> [laughter] >> Good evening, President Duckworth, members of the board, and Dr. Hoover. Consideration to approve the proposal to engage Gibraltar Designs to conduct a district-wide facility assessment and feasibility study. The study will evaluate the building conditions, infrastructure needs, and long-term capital priorities. And it will include stakeholder input, enrollment, and capacity analysis, and planning options with associated cost estimates. The total proposed cost is $175,000 to be funded from the debt services fund. Any questions or comments? Like the annual review Do we do this annually? I'm just >> No. No, this is more of a total district uh study to look at capital needs at our buildings. Uh I think it's good to get an outside group to be able to look at long-term planning
038so we can plan on budgeting and what projects that they feel like need to be addressed. Thank you. Do you use this information to help develop your 3-year plan? Absolutely. Yeah, it it'll be very helpful for long-term planning. Yeah. And that that is done each year. They can stay or you can move their priorities. Correct. We can always reference back to that. It'll be great for the planning for the future for long-term. Right. Okay, great. Any other questions or comments? All right, the next information item is the property tax base and revenue analysis, Dr. Underwood. Thank you again, Superintendent members of the board and Dr. Hoover. This item I'm bringing to you as a proposed engagement with policy analytics to conduct a detailed analysis of our property tax base and long-term revenue outlook. This will
039help us better understand our assessed value trends, circuit breaker impacts, and our overall capacity to support future capital investments. Happy to answer any questions about this study, and it will be funded out of the debt service fund. So, I don't necessarily have a question but a comment. I think this may be one of the most important studies we've looked at in a long time. >> Yeah. Cuz people I hear people they don't understand that circuit breaker. They don't understand how the property taxes and we're only getting this circuit breaker. I think this is going to be critical for us to really understand what that means to us. It's really going to benefit the corporation for a number of reasons. One, if you remember the budget presentation this past summer, our circuit breaker loss historically for
040the past 5-6 years has been in the $9 million range. The estimate uh this past summer was as much as 17 million. So, that really uh forces school districts to make decisions uh when looking at their finances. It will also help us uh with this comprehensive plan that Mr. Shellers is looking at uh to build a a not only a facilities plan but a strategy to fund that plan over the next few years. Uh and then finally uh um as you uh are made aware, Senate Enrolled Act 1 really changed uh the funding structure for school districts and property taxing units in the state of Indiana. That will allow us to get a real understanding of what kind of an impact that will have for EVSC. So, uh it's it's a study that is is
041needed and we will make good use of the information gathered. Yeah. Well, Carl, I I really believe that once this study is complete, I think we need to share it with our state legislators because I want them to understand the impact, you know, of what either 9 or 17 million makes to our programs and our personnel and all those things that, you know, we have to do to to put the right product out there for our students. And so, let's work together on that and let's try to give them some idea about what happens here in the south. You know, it may not be that way in Indianapolis, it may not be that way in New York, but this is the impact it's going to make here. Definitely give us the ammunition that we need.
042Thank you very much. Any other questions for takes us to continuing business. Dr. Hoover, you may go. I'll start. So, at this time of year we start to start with the celebrations. So, tomorrow I will have the opportunity to present the state of our schools to the Rotary. I'm looking forward to kind of the highlight reel of the year and the work that has gone on this year. On Wednesday, we will have our sixth annual EBC signing day at the old National Events Plaza starting at 10:30. We'll be recognizing 130 students who intend to enter the workforce or the military after graduation. So, it's an important day and a reminder that everyone's next step is different and so we are happy to celebrate those students. And finally, I'd like to recognize Vice President Moore. As
043you might remember, she was recently named a woman of empowerment by the Junior League and the ceremony officially honoring her was April 22nd and so we are proud and grateful. I'm really proud of you. >> [applause] >> Any other comments or questions from the board? Thank you. Thank you very much. program had been rescheduled numerous times. And also, I just want to say um congratulations to the retirees that are are exiting, if you will. There were a couple of teachers on there that were true highlights for my children. And so, a special shout out to those. It's kind of a sweet moment when you see that, you know, you think of your little ones, with their names on their backpacks and lunch boxes and all the good things way back in the day now. Um,
044and meeting those teachers, and how friendly they were, and how caring they were. And even, you know, when my kids' father had passed away, and just how they the teachers on there literally became a village. And so, I just want to literally not only shout those out, but really shout out all the other educators that are retiring from a very much needed system of continuous work uh that is truly near and dear to my heart. So, thank you very much, and uh congratulations and God's blessings to you in your next season. Absolutely. Okay, anything else? I'd like to recognize the artwork. It's from Stringtown Elementary. If you get a chance, uh check that out before you leave. And I don't know, do we have students here tonight? So, we ask you to come to the
045microphone and tell us your name. Hi, good evening. My name is Fallon Wilson, and I'm a sophomore at Castle High School, and I'm a student at the Academy of Science and Medicine. Awesome. Thank you for being here. We'll give you some extra credit. And >> [laughter] >> maybe maybe a little bigger stethoscope someday. Any other uh business to come before the board? Have a motion to adjourn? I'll second it.