001and student leaders from Mary Castle Elementary to lead us in our 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, students. Uh Dr. Blythe, would you like to introduce our students? >> Yes, good evening, Dr. Smith, President Norman, members of the board. We have Cartier Norman from second grade, Rachel Ashigari from fourth grade, and Preston Bookmyer is a sixth grader at Mary Castle. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Thank you, DR. SMITH. WELL DONE. AT THIS TIME, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MS. Carla Johnson so we can do our Above and [snorts] Beyond recognitions. Good evening, Madam President, Dr. Smith, and members of the board. This evening, we present
002our Above and Beyond to Steve Fishburn, Joseph White, and Wesley Van Brueni. If they could come up. Congratulations to Steve, Joseph, and Wesley, security officers at Lawrence Central High School for being selected to receive the Above and Beyond award. On December 3rd, 2025, security officer Steve, Joseph, and Wesley responded to a suspicious vehicle near I-465 and East 56th Street and found an expectant mother experiencing pregnancy complications and in labor. She had come to Lawrence Central High School because she knew it would be a safe place for her and her 5-year-old son. Our security EMT team assist assessed her condition and called an ambulance due to her complications. EMS transported the mother to the hospital while our team cared for her 5-year-old son until family members arrived. The mother provided an update and expressed her gratitude
003to Steve, Joseph, and Wesley for their support. She sent a letter to Franklin Bush, who was here this evening, and he sent it to us. Congratulations and thank you for all you do for going ABOVE AND BEYOND. >> [applause] [applause] [clears throat] >> WE'RE WE'RE VERY UNFORTUNATE TO have um great staff to do that, so thank you very much. Moving into our information items tonight, we have a full schedule. We will lead off with Dr. Nesbitt Blue Ribbon 2 updates. Great. Thank you, President Norman, members of the board, and Dr. Smith. Let's take a look at Blue Ribbon 2. Here's our overview. McKinsey uh got a lot of good design work going on right now as we narrow that in. Craig Academy continues move along, and then we're going to take some look at some
004pictures in our classroom additions as well. Uh our guaranteed energy savings, I'm happy to report that those those two lower right green ones are now fully functional. We just commissioned those over the weekend, and so the controls are good. And then Winding Ridge Elementary, we're going to do the controls this summer, but that chiller is installed. So we have just in time. Well, maybe not today, but uh by the end of the week, we'll need those chillers and uh we'll be able to cool those areas. Crestview Elementary, there's a look at the outside, and that's the uh music room actually we're seeing there. And then um yeah, that's just a a storage area and then the general hallway there. We're getting close to having the envelope sealed on Crestview. Forest Glen, there's a look from
005the outside and the inside. Also getting very close to sealing up the envelope on that building. And there's another look at the inside of across the classrooms and then just one general classroom there. Uh Mary Castle, we're pretty well wrapped up. We uh did a punch list on that recently, and we are ready to go in there. Doing a little bit of work here over uh spring break. Uh you can see just a few on the left there, a few little wires hanging there that we're wrapping some stuff up, but we're pretty well wrapped up there. Craig Academy, so this is a kind of neat spot. That that jig stairway there, that's where the old podium um uh elevated stage was in the PD room. So that's how that's going to come down, and then
006that will look into the gymnasium. And then uh upstairs, there is some work going on there. And then there on the right there, that's a lab area with drop-down uh electrical outlets in the middle and sinks in there. So really coming along there. So that takes us through Blue Ribbon 2. Happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, Dr. Nesbitt. Board, any questions or comments? I do have one. Ms. Yeah, Ms. Lawrence. Dr. Nesbitt, um I think we've said on the dais before, but just for a matter of public uh understanding, even though Mary Castle is nearly done, we don't have plans to have teachers move right now within this school year, correct? >> Correct. Could you explain why just so that if anybody is has questions about that? Sure. We We try
007not to move teachers more than one time during a move. Occasionally it might happen, but rarely. And so uh just the way it is right now with the portables are still intact, uh they aren't going to be moving directly to those classrooms. That would have caused two moves in a short period of time, so we'll uh just get that area ready for uh school next year. And our students appreciate that. Thank you. Yes, Ms. Dunn. I um first of all, just want to say we had a wonderful opportunity to visit Craig Academy last week to see um the construction. And while we were there, um we also had the privilege of um being escorted through the building by um Ms. Means, and it was just reminded of the first of all, the amazing leaders that
008we have in this district who are navigating running school at the same time of renovations. And I think about just we saw obviously the proud principal of um Lawrence Central. I know um Mr. Crawshaw also um went through all that as have all of our administrators in one way, shape, or form. And I just I don't know that we've expressed the gratitude to our building leaders for just the the wonderful partnership, but then also their flexibility and willingness to make sure that they're doing everything they can to keep school going without missing a beat. It truly is remarkable. And so thank you for leading that, and thank you to our school leaders. It truly is um it's pretty remarkable how that works. Not all schools do that. McKinsey is next. I'm just letting them know
009what's happening. >> Yeah, we we we did McKinsey one year. The last since 2015, we've done every building, and now we're going back. This is round two. That's Blue Ribbon phase two. Yeah. And in addition, 2016. Yes. Yeah, that was great. Um thank you again for the tour. It was really great to get in there. I hadn't been in there in several months, so to see the progress, to see the old administrator offices that are now bright, colorful classrooms, Yeah. >> that was really nice. >> And I just also, our partners are truly incredible. It was amazing. Ms. Means texted within 5 minutes, the project manager was there ready to support us in the tour. It's just really great partners as well that are doing wonderful work. Yep. Thank you. Any other questions or comments
010on Blue Ribbon phase two? Okay. We will move on to 3.2, the Summer Learning Academy update. Let me make sure I acknowledge the team here presenting. Mr. Kuznik, Dr. Haas Brown, Dr. Thorpe, Ms. LaPlant, and Ms. Niemeyer. Good evening, Madam President, Dr. Smith, members of the board. We are proud to once again bring to you our update for Summer Learning Academy 2026. We've offered this for many years. Sometimes it's had a different name, but for 2 years in a row now, we've called it Summer Learning Academy. So the shoot and um start for this evening, we're going to talk about some adjustments we've made both for budgetary and to be honest, calendar reasons. It's a unique year. Don't forget that our regular school year goes past Memorial Day this year. So we had to make
011a little bit of adjustment there, but our overall um calendars will be June 8th through the 25th. Again, Monday through Thursday. Um we talk about that being for our rising grades 1 through 8. So, when we talk about summer school, we usually refer to them as the grade they're going into for next school year. So, the rising grades 1 through 8 at all elementary and middle schools. At the high school, we'll continue once again to have some credit recovery options, as well as our online LTech option. LTech extends into July as well. Uh times at the elementary level will again be 8:00 to 2:00 uh with parent-paid aftercare available and 9:00 to 1:00 at the middle school. That's consistent with previous years. Transportation will be provided, breakfast and lunch provided at all those sites. LTech's
012the program itself, but LTech's the instance for Lawrence Township uh e-community. It's our online summer school option. Our instructional design for 1st and 2nd grade, again rising 1st and 2nd grade, will be ELA aligned to the science of reading and math. For 3rd and 4th grade, so that's our current 2nd and 3rd going into 3rd and 4th grade, it'll be tightly aligned to IREAD-3, especially for students who have not passed, including vocabulary and phonics, literature comprehension, and non-fiction comprehension, as well as some test-taking strategies. Uh and it will also be ILEARN aligned for math. It'll be ILEARN aligned in both math and ELA for grades 5 through 8. And all curriculum instruction will be in English, including at our dual language schools. And we'll offer both a pre and post assessments to measure how our
013students perform. Who will be invited to attend? Um in our elementary uh we will be inviting um students to attend. All 2nd and 3rd graders who do not pass IREAD will be required to attend. Um that's our current 2nd and 3rd grade. So, right now, since we've closed the IREAD window, we are talking with families now. Students who are below proficiency on iReady or who are 10 points or less above proficiency, so right on that line, will be encouraged to attend. Any exceptions to these two descriptors will be made at the principal's discretion. Year-round preschool continues, and so we will be happy to offer year-round preschool at all uh six of our preschool sites through June and July. And then for students who will be attending summer learning academy, do we do have aftercare options?
014Um we will offer aftercare for families Monday through Thursday, June 8th to the 25th, just like the summer learning academy. That cost for those four afternoons a week would be $50 a week. In June, there are only two Fridays in June where we will have summer learning academy, and that's not a holiday. So, June 12th and 26th, uh we will offer to families for $40 um a day, and those are only going to be at Amy Beverland and Skiles Test to help support those sites that have construction and renovation going on. And then once summer learning academy is over, we are happy to offer for families uh childcare from Monday, June 29th to Friday, July 24th from 7:00 to 5:00, and again that'll just be at Amy Beverland and Skiles Test for $175 a week.
015All right. So, at the high school level, we will offer um credit recovery from June 8th through the 25th for grades Students in grades 9 through 12, that's invitation for those students who um did not pass classes, just some credit deficiencies there to help them graduate and and get a handle on things before they move on to the next level. And then we're also going to offer LTech, which is a little bit longer. It ends in July, July 23rd, and that's for our students who want to get ahead of the game, earn um more credits before they start high school, um try some other things. That is open enrollment, and that is going to be primarily virtual and asynchronous. During the summer school time, we will be offering resource support, which will be provided at
016all grade levels, and the support will be aligned with classroom instruction as well as interventions. We will also be offering life skills programming, and those are for students who qualify based on student recommendation. At the elementary level, life skills programming will be at Beth Amy Beverland, Brook Park, and Oaklandon. And then we will have a secondary life skills program, which will be offered for grades 7 through 12 at Lawrence Central High School. The team will be supporting our school leaders as they choose their staff for this summer. Priority will be given at the elementary level, especially for teachers who have completed the 25 hours of the state-required literacy training. That's required by the DOE in terms of reimbursement, so that's very important to measure we have to do. Uh we'll have exceptional learner and multilingual
017learner staff at each building. Um we'll utilize classified staff as the need. [clears throat] Uh and we'll make sure we meet the minimum class size of 15 to 1. Again, that's another requirement by the DOE in terms of reimbursement. Uh we have a plethora of funding sources. Um that reimbursement that I mentioned from the state, we'll be using Title 1 and 2 grants, as well as Fed Part B, uh as well as our Lilly grant Phase 2, and of course the education fund. And we're happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, team. Board, I'm sure we have some questions. This is a lot of great information. Uh Ms. Dunn. So, I have a couple of questions. Um the first is with regards to I know um with IREAD, it is a requirement
018that students attend Well, that they have some sort of remediation. What um do we do for students who do not choose to attend summer school? So, we note to parents that if they do not meet that requirement, then they're um they there will be retention. So, we make that note. Did you have anything else, Mr. Goosby? So, it is mandated, but of course we're not going to drag them in and anything like that. So, we make sure that we um we're working already right now, starting today, on students who didn't pass IREAD. So, we don't wait until the summer. So, we've already started today but making sure that we're working with students who unfortunately didn't pass. We had successful Round 1, to be honest with you, but we want to make sure that we're working
019with our students. So, even ahead of summer school, we're making sure that we meet their grades. I just I know that it is so imperative that parents understand um that their children attend. So, that's more of just reiterating for anybody that may be listening or does look at our notes to make sure that they understand the critical nature of attending. Cuz I'm sure, as we know, research shows that if they do attend, that they have a much better likelihood of passing. So, it's very important. Um and then Ms. LePlant, CCDF um for um summer school or for summer programming, aftercare, we do accept that. Oh, yes. Yes, we accept CCDF and fill out provider forms for families to help them. So, that was yet another, just for the record, to make sure that folks know
020that if they cannot qual- if they do not qualify or able to pay for the $175, they can potentially use that. Um and then high school summer school is virtual, correct? Or is it in person? The first I know I understand that LTech is That's virtual. But for the high school programming, will be academic credit recovery, that is virtual, correct? No, that's in person. That's in person. Okay, it is in person. So, the top one that talks about the June 8th invitation only, that's in person. What time does that go from? Is it from 9:00 to 1:00? Is that the same time? It's 9:00 to 1:00 for the middle schools, but it really meets the need of the students. Those students don't don't have to come all 12 days for the whole time period. They
021might just have a little bit to work on. So, it's individualized per student. >> Okay, outstanding. Um and then this is yet another question that I know the answer to, but I think it's imperative that our stakeholders understand, like many other things that the state is reimbursing, they do not reimburse to the full amount that is required. Um and I don't need an exact number, but just um could you give us like a ballpark of what actually the state does reimburse in terms of percentage? Mr. Miles helped helped the team out. >> of our cost for summer school? Yes. Typically, it's uh right around 50%. Um that changes year to year. Um and they with the with the 3rd grade reading requirements that just passed, they now prioritize 2nd and 3rd grade costs. So, we're
022reimbursed Last year, we were reimbursed 100% for the those grade levels and then different percentages for the others. And total cost, just rough again. We're rough Roughly last year, we were um we got back roughly half a million dollars from the state. Okay. So, the district is encumbering about half a million with through those other funds. So, I just I think that's important for individuals to understand, especially as we know that we are getting a reduction in what we're receiving from them. So, thank you. What about Dr. Smith? And that number vacillates year to year. Depending on what the reimbursement is from the state, which we don't control. Okay. Mr. Miles made a very important point. The 3rd graders, it's required for them to be here. Okay, so we'll get full full reimbursement. We typically
023get pretty good reimbursement on the high school So, we'll see. We will definitely apply for reimbursement. And we are going to be offering our summer helpings as well. Dr. Harshbarger, will you come forward and just give a quick update on that, even though it's a little early, our summer food program? Yeah, we will be doing the summer servings. It will be at various sites that we used last year. So, I just I think it's so critical for our public to understand that not only are we bringing our children in for additional support, but we're also feeding them as well. All right. And we feed them at the schools. And then we'll also have the community-based program also. Yes, Ms. Lawrence. First, I know that this is a giant lift on the entire team. Um you
024guys have a monumental job like switching back and forth between all of you. I know all of you own different parts of the program. So, um thank you for the work that you're doing for our students. Um Ms. Plant, you heard us Sorry. Um I forget There's something about pre-retention. Is it recent? Sorry. It's a long metric. Um If an elementary if they do attend, does that mean that they are not retained? No, but we just emphasize that this is another opportunity for them to avoid retention. To avoid retention. Okay. And that messaging is really critical. And that's not something that we're deciding. No. No. >> Please explain that to your No, that is a state mandate for us. Um we If a student does not meet a good cause for exemption and does not
025pass by the third grade, we have no option but to retain. Based on the the mandate by Yes, the state says a mandate. If I may add to that, Madam Board Member, um I want to remind our third-grade families that we have up to three chances to test them on IREAD. So, we just did round one. Round two will occur in May. If they can come to summer school as mandated, they can have a third opportunity to take that IREAD test. So, there will be three chances to pass that test and move on to fourth grade. That's great to know. Thank you. Very powerful people. This board is the your professional educators, your principals. Meet with those families individually who are in jeopardy of that. So, if they're going to be retained, they're meeting with
026them in the meeting process. Okay. That's a requirement. We require that of all of our principals today. That's a great policy. Do you have a couple of additional questions? Um in the past, the we offered summer schooling that was not dedicated to students who were part Mhm. maybe just do as well as we hoped on standardized testing. Uh could one of you on that Could you mention maybe Dr. House Brown? Maybe this is a question for you, I think. Um it Could you explain the shift in rationale for the program because um I know many families have a I've availed myself of that to make sure our eight-year-old is actually engaged some in the day as well. So, can you explain why why the shift? The focus now on summer school is remediation. Um Before,
027we've had various models of summer learning. Um you might recall we used to have Jumpstart, which was a get-ahead. This is purely remediation at the elementary level. Any exceptions would be made through the principal. So, if a family has a question about whether or not they should have been invited, they can uh contact their principal directly and he or she can speak with them. Can we have some flexibility there to allow students to maybe who are struggling with reading, maybe who are on the cusp? Absolutely. Those Those conversations principals will be having with individual families, and if any family has a question, they should contact their principal immediately. Sure. And again, I'm not really sure which one of you to address this question to, but is there a a list of courses for the high
028school in which is not a remediation program, but instead a way for our students to uh maybe get ahead? I'm assuming that means like health, for example, cuz that's something the Lawrence household has yet to take, and we do want these babies to graduate, and that's a reason to So, is there a place where parents like me could go look and understand >> Yeah, there'll be communication that comes out from the high school usually around spring break, typically right after spring break. That's communication from the high school. They have a big old flyer they use every year and it's updated every year in terms of what courses are offered. And any course that we do we don't we offer a lot, but if there's any course that we don't offer, we do also give our
029students the option of Indiana Online Academy, but most of the courses we offer here in Lawrence Township. And thank you. That would be credits that they can use for graduation. >> Correct. Okay, great. My final question, I'm sorry that I have so many of these. Staffing, um obviously it could potentially be a a competitive situation where we have many of our teachers and staff who who might want to work the full calendar year. Uh how are we determining staffing and who is getting those opportunities? I'll take that question. We're already headed that direction. Thank you. I think you were just about to ask for clarification. Yep. Thank you. We've sent out an application to all of our certified staff to determine who is interested, and then staffing will be um selected based on student enrollment.
030So, once we know the students that are enrolled, that will determine the amount of staff members. Dr. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. Um other questions, Board? Dr. Mulholland. Thank you all so much for for walking us through the summer learning academy. Um just a question about the the supports that are provided um in the period after 2:00 p.m. So, I understand it runs from 8:00 to 2:00, and then there's the aftercare period of time. Are there additional um supports or, you know, strategies or interventions offered during that time, or is it primarily during the 8:00 to 2:00? The interventions will be 8:00 to 2:00 with that elongated time that allows for them to do tier one instruction and to do intervention support, and so 2:00 to 5:00 is primarily just child care. Okay, thank
031you. Okay, that sounds great. I love it. Thank you. Um Did you have a question, Ms. Paget? Oh, okay. Okay. Mine, I think, goes along with that slide that we're on currently. Um I noticed that they're going to offer Friday care for two of the Fridays. Um In the past, I think it was Was it all four Fridays? It was. So, um a couple of things. One, we're not starting summer learning academy until June 8th because of that Memorial Day difference, and so we have a shortened time. And then the Friday in between is Juneteenth, and so we won't have care on that day. Okay. Okay. Thank you for that. Any other questions regarding summer Okay. Well, thank you, team. This is always a great opportunity, and um you know, it helps our students a
032lot. So, we will move on now to 3.3, results of the RFP bids for the student devices. Mr. Harsha. Good evening, Madam President, Dr. Smith, and members of the board. Back in February, you might remember I came to you seeking approval to put out an RFP for student devices. Um there's a little timeline there that just kind of shows we did have a um we submitted the uh request, we received bids, uh opened those bids, and then spent some time evaluating the bids from the different vendors. Um and of course, this evening I will be bringing to you our recommendation. On the next slide, you can see we um do use a rubric for uh different point totals. Um of course, taking into consideration cost, but also making sure that the bids that are submitted
033meet our requirements for the devices, for warranty, um ease of getting parts and maintaining [snorts] the devices uh as they are being used by students and sometimes can take a beating. Um so, those are the results of our um evaluation, and so um later this evening I will be uh making a recommendation that we contract with Verticom for our touchscreen devices for grades two through five, and with the Repair Depot for our non-touch devices, which are used in grades six through 12. Thank you, Mr. Harsha. Board, any questions regarding Yes, Ms. Lawrence. I just have one point of clarification. Mr. Harsha, could you please talk about the federal funding uh discounts and why they're so critical as we go out to um to pursue these devices? And also, if you might talk about the equity
034component when we think about all of the students within Lawrence Township. We are a one-to-one uh school district, which is somewhat unique or maybe maybe unique um compared with other districts. So, I wonder if you could speak to both of those. Well, the To your first point, um I think what you're asking about is um different vendors that can provide us with discounted pricing. They might be members of um different um co-ops, different organizations that allow them to provide us with um some additional um discounted pricing since we are a school uh district, and so we always want to um leverage that. And again, when we put out those um RFPs, I think this one went out to 211 um different people that um you know, so we we know we're getting that out in
035front of people that can give us the most competitive bids. The second part is um something that we're proud of that we do offer all of our students um those devices. Um we have designed a uh refresh recycle plan where we uh refresh those devices at right now three different grade levels. So, students have those devices for three or four years, and then they get a refreshed one, um which is fantastic for our kids. What do we do with the computers that are no longer in service? That's a great question. In some cases, if we have uh a surplus, and we can actually um utilize some of our vendors out there do a buyback program um where they will um take those. Sometimes they are in bad shape, and they just have to be recycled.
036In many cases, we keep them, and we use them as loaners. So, a student brings in a device that needs repair, sometimes it might take some time to get that um that that part back in, and so now we can hand that student an older device that still works and they can use that to make sure teaching and learning continues until we're able to get their device repaired. Thank you, Ms. Lawrence. Board, any other questions on the devices? Ms. Dunn. My question about the recycling, which is fabulous. Um, but I did I curious because I do see obviously that they we gave total points and so we're looking at more than just the cost of the device. So, could you just explain a little bit about what more is included um in the purchase of
037these devices cuz I'm assuming there's there are other things other than just the device. >> Some of them are um well, we asked for a specific device um as you can see there and so some sometimes even though that's very um clearly stated, we do get um bids that are for different devices that maybe don't really meet our expectations. So, those would not um even really be considered. Um they different they also have different um warranties and length of warranties. So, um you know, we put in our expectation that it's at least a a 4-year warranty, um a 3-year warranty on the battery and some other specifications. Um that also can earn them points and then really um as I mentioned the the ease of maintenance, that is that is both the design of the
038device um as well as just the durability and and our availability to get pricing. I'll just give you an example. There are some um companies that might be able to come in at a really good price but their distribution center that would provide us parts is in Germany and that is not practical when we're trying to um get parts in regularly for kids so that they can be repaired. So, that one might not score as well for reasons such as that. Thank you. I know you all did a lot of work. This is not easy to go through all these. So, thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Board. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, Mr. Harsha. >> Information item 3.4, results of the RFP bids for mental health services. Ms. Niemeyer.
039Um good evening, Madam President, Dr. Smith, and members of the board. Tonight, I bring to you um the outcome of our school-based mental health provider RFP and interview process. We did interviews on March 6th and the interview committee convened um consisted of Dr. Emily Haws-Brown, Ms. Stephanie LaPlant, Ms. Shawn Bush, and Mr. Brett Crawsour. We felt that this interview committee encompass the district with everything from preschool through high school um as well as multiple multiple divisions. And as a reminder, this process is needed due to the Senate Enrolled Act 246 making this requirement that schools do have an MOU with licensed with a licensed mental health provider. Um based on the interview committee, we do have two recommendations. In fact, we'd like to recommend two providers to support the school school mental health initiative. Um
040first one, Jane Pauley, and we did divide out the schools, uh the ELCs, as well as their campus partners, Amy Beverland, Brook Park, Mary Castle, Winding Ridge, as well as the Diagnostic Day Treatment Program in LAA. The other recommendation we have is Adult & Child and we broke those schools down into Crestview, Forest Glen, Harrison Hill, Indian Creek, Oakland, and Skiles Test and Sunnyside, our two middle schools, Belzer and Fall Creek Valley, our two high schools, Lawrence Central and Lawrence North, as well as McKenzie. Um we did select specific schools for each provider and this was based on their presentation as well as their strengths, which we noted within the interview process. I can't stress to you enough that both of these exemplified the urgency and energy that we need in order to support our
041schools, family, and our community as a whole. One of the two areas we focused on as an interview committee was need. We have a great need of mental health support within our schools in breaking down those barriers and creating access for all of our families and we really felt that these two um vendors understood that ability to support all students and all families. The other piece that we focused on was capacity. We need to increase the number of licensed therapists and we really need to be focusing on decreasing wait time and wait lists as well as again allowing that greater access. As we reviewed over um the process, both of Jane Pauley and Adult & Child had competitive compensation, superb professional development not only for schools but for our families as well. Um also being
042certified community behavioral health clinics was a key piece for us as well as having strong crisis support. Any questions? Thank you, Ms. Niemeyer. Board, any questions? Ms. Hackett. >> You had mentioned that that we have a waiting list, which I would assume that we have a waiting list. Needs are great. Do we have any outside resources or partnerships that our schools um utilize for families that are on that waiting list? We do. We um we have different youth programs, some of our faith-based partners um we utilize. Um we've also been able to utilize other partners in that mental health field that we've been able to um send students to or at least make contacts with. So, yes, we do work through that um through that process. And at times, we um utilize therapists that we
043currently do have in different ways to help support at the different schools. Thank you. Other questions? Dr. Mulholland. Thank you so much. Um I I also just appreciate you touching on a a few important points on just increasing the capacity um of mental health providers because we do know that with that increase, we can make a positive impact in supporting mental health needs. And um where could you explain a little bit about how this works with the Jane Pauley Center and the Adult & Child because I know that these are centers in the community and so do the the practitioners come to the schools? Absolutely, yes. Um Jane Pauley and Adult & Child are both mental health providers. And what does that mean? Well, it offers a an a a variety and array of services
044for our families. One component is providing licensed therapists and life skills clinicians that come directly to our schools. So, that is just one component of all of their list of things that they do to help support our families. By having the therapists there in school, it's direct access with the students. Um they can work with them at times potentially during a time of crisis but also offering that therapy during the day, which does provide ease and access to a mental health therapist. Along with that, these um vendors have other options for families, whether that's seeing a psychiatrist, med management, um outside therapy. They do have different clinics and then it's also supporting the whole child, um allowing them to have access if they're needing potentially to see a pediatrician or, you know, a dentist or
045an optometrist, um just making sure that they are giving um options and opportunities for our families to again support the whole child. Yes, Ms. Lawrence. Yes, thank you. This is as everyone up here I think would agree this is very important work for our families and our community. How are students prioritized? Picking back picking backing off of what Ms. Hackett was asking. How do we determine if we have a wait list? How do we how do we determine you know, who gets services now versus who needs to be put on a wait list? Currently, we have our partnership with Gallahue. So, we do rely on our therapists to pri- prioritize what those needs are and at to to degree that crisis level. Um we do have some kids that are at a higher crisis level
046um than others. So, those are some of the pieces we do rely on our therapists to help us determine. And also, we have very good working relationships. So, it is at that building level where there could be conversations with administration needing depending on that need or support or what's happening in that moment. Certainly not easy decisions when we're dealing with mental health matters. Yes, absolutely. When we talk about Adult & Child, can you explain what that what that means? Adult versus child or we're not talking about staff here, we're talking about >> Correct, yes. Um well, one of the things to to note with um Adult & Child, that is the name of the the the organization. So, Oh, sorry. Yeah, I was misreading that email. I apologize. No, that's okay. Um but I am
047glad you brought that up because um one of the elements with Adult & Child, they are also going through um I'm going to be this is where like a reorganization process in terms of they are going to be coming under a national organization. So, actually by the end of June, they are going to become known as Centerstone. So, it still will be Adult & Child as I like to say but a different a different name. So, I hope that provides further clarification, too. Thank you. I I do have Yeah, I appreciate that. And one other quick question. Um when we So, I know that they're offering different modalities for our students that interact with therapists or or get the kind of services they need. Is virtual care or virtual therapies, are those offered as part
048of these services? >> That would be dependent upon that the need of the student and how that would work with that particular therapist. Okay, great. And the the final question I have is do we offer now or do we have plans to offer group therapy sessions maybe for students who have something like a death of a parent, people who have experienced violence? Absolutely. And that was one of the pieces I can't comment both Jane Pauley and adult and child talked about is the different ways of being able to offer different types of therapies, whether that's individual, whether that's group therapy, depending on the need. I know that would be hugely helpful for our students to find peers who have gone through similar similar circumstances. So, thank you. That's absolutely right. Ms. Dunn. Well, first of
049all, thank you. I know our partnership with Community Health Network Gallahue has been long-standing. So, this is definitely a bittersweet moment. I am very pleased. You know, adult and child obviously has been in our community for a lengthy period of time. So, a wonderful choice and then Jane Pauley obviously as well. My one question is going back to the fact that we have had this really strong fabulous partnership with Gallahue. How do we anticipate and obviously, you know, not going into the weeds, but transitioning and is there an opportunity for those folks that currently have built relationships? My own daughter included has built some really strong relationships with some fabulous Gallahue employees. So, I'm just wondering what that transition might look like. Part of our process is all vendors had to show how they were
050going to transition. Basically, us from the world of Gallahue Community Health Network into whoever our new vendor was going to be of which they both presented very strong strong examples of how things would be done. I know one of the key elements is really utilizing current staff and current therapists we do have and being able to have conversations with them and being able to have them apply, interview, and potentially come on into with the new companies. Wonderful. Thank >> be the ultimate goal. Excellent. That's which I know we had spoken about, but I wanted to make sure folks did know because I it's so important to the point that you were making. Our mental health, we know it's so difficult sometimes to have individuals who are children trust and to have those relationships that have
051been formed over period of time. It'd be wonderful to keep as many of those wonderful people as possible. Thank you, board. Any other questions? I do. I do. From my understanding of SB 246, which you have a lot of value towards this, but it's to have access to licensed therapists, counselors, and social social workers, if our partnership is ending with our current providers in June, will we have more access to counselors? So, will the ratio of students to counselors because again, we do have a waiting list. So, with this, are we able to have even more counselors or what does that look like? That is what the hope is. One of the things that we have to acknowledge, there is a shortage of therapists and we're all competing for those therapists and it's just not
052Lawrence Township, it's across schools in the state of Indiana. The one thing I can tell you is we were very pleased to see what their recruitment efforts were, what their compensation packages were, what those benefit packages were to help support and retain retain therapists and bring and bring more on and how we utilize therapists and life skills clinicians. So, our hope is is that we would see an improvement in that ratio of I would say that therapist and students. Yes, Ms. Lawrence. Yes, thank you, Ms. Pauley because it it made me think of one other piece. How mental health can be isolating and sometimes stigmatizing event for a family. How do we work to ensure privacy as well as individual autonomy for the children who are in those services? Absolutely. And that is that is
053just so key and so critical. One of the pieces that we have to realize is that these are our outside providers coming in that are held to, you know, FERPA and HIPAA laws. So, there is information that is not shared and not permitted to be shared because of the because of the subject what the child is going through. So, that is one reason why we have to make sure that we have the correct office space, that we have to make sure that on those pieces of confidentiality are taken very seriously. And we do have those follow-up conversations to make sure that there's not a breach of information. Please note that they also have their own computer system that they do use to log in to track that information that is separate from what we have
054here in the schools. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Ms. Niemeyer and thank you to the committee and everyone for your work. 3.5 Common School Loan update, Mr. Miles. Thank you, Madam President, Dr. Smith, members of the board. At this time of the year, we always bring to you it is our twice a year opportunity to apply for a Common School Loan. The spring loan is traditionally been one that's that's done every year by the state. We use this money to fund student devices. As Mr. Harshman was talking about earlier, those RFPs that we send out for devices for all of our kids, that is our number one place that we spend this money on. So, just recently, the state released that application window and later this evening, we'll ask your permission to apply for
055that loan as we've done in years past. Thank you, Mr. Miles. Board, any questions or comments? All right. We'll stay with Mr. Miles for 3.6 cancellation of outstanding checks. Thank you, Madam President. Again, a procedural item that we do at this time once a year and that is to cancel any checks that are need to be done as old outstanding checks more than two years old as of December 31st and the lists have been shared and really in light of the number and the volume of checks and transactions that that the department processes, it's really a pretty small number of checks and and those can happen over a variety of reasons. Maybe maybe they were reissued. It could have been a duplicate invoice. A number of reasons could cause cause those, but we clean those
056up every year and we'll be asking for your permission to to do so later this evening. Thank you. Ms. Lawrence. So, I believe that I've asked this every year on the dais. What is there a process by which someone could go back and and get this get the money that they are owed? How is that communicated to the Sure. Yeah. A lot of these have already been resolved through other processes such as maybe an invoice being again a duplicate invoice and we just need permission from the board to clean it up. And if not, this certainly we could always clean something up after the fact. This just cleans up our our checking accounts and and allows us to move forward clean books. So, if someone sees their name on that list, what do they do?
057>> if they see their name on that list and they think they're owed some money, they should reach out to our business department and we we will look into that. Yes. Thank you. Absolutely. Before before the two years is up. Any other questions, board? All right. Thank you, Mr. Miles. 3.7 request for the RFP of custodial services, Dr. Nesbit. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board, Dr. Smith. Yeah, in your board packet there, you have you'll see a request for proposal for custodial services. You'll see a couple of those tonight is we have contracted services and as those contracts come up for renewal in an effort to make sure we're getting the best bang for our buck in in these times of passing Senate Bill 1 that we really need to make sure we're
058getting as saving as much money as we can. We're putting those out for RFP to see what else is out there and and uh that's just the thing to do right now. So, happy to field any questions you might have. Thank you. Any questions, board? I just have a point of clarification. For anyone who doesn't understand how we staff our custodial services, Dr. Nesbit, could you just quickly explain what is covered here and why it was decided to outsource those services? Sure. We've outsourced for about four years now our custodial services. When we looked at again, when you look at budget, we were paying more than market value for custodial services. So, at that time, we we investigated it and we put an RFP and we were able to realize savings through contracting those services
059out. Thank you. Other questions, board? So, just to clarify on the timeline, after reading through that, this will be coming to us at our next monthly meeting. Correct? That's correct. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. 3.8 request for RFP for security services, Dr. Nesbit. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board, Dr. Smith. Second verse, same as the first. Yeah, so we're doing the same thing we did with custodial services with the security services and again, putting out for an RFP to see what what offers we might get, what proposals we might receive to see if we have any opportunity to save dollars to the district while not sacrificing any of the services we're getting. All right. Yes, I have a clarifying question. Unlike with our custodial services, security services currently are not being outsourced.
060Is that correct? We we are we are looking at outsourcing the same services. Most of that is in-house and that's the the gentleman who received the above and beyond recognition, but we do have some services. You might see their cars parked at the entrances to the high schools and you also see them as you enter large sporting events doing the metal detecting services for us. So that is in particular what we're looking at for this. >> Yes. So we would cuz I the reason I think it is important for that clarification. That's what I understood it to mean but I do think just seeing tonight the incredible work that folks are doing and I know that Lawrence Township is unique and that we hire a lot of officers who are right here at you know
061Post Road at our Lawrence Police Department and so having that connection in the community is such a beautiful thing. So I just want to make sure that folks understood that we would still continue to Yeah. Everything will be the same as it is now. Just perhaps it could be a different vendor supplying those those very particular services. And Mr. Parish does an outstanding job so just have to name what a great [clears throat] job he does over there. Dr. Mulholland, I feel like this is too detailed of a question but you can answer it later if we need to but do they the outside security they still very much dress in the Lawrence Township I mean Yeah. They're very much part of the Yeah and you might see that in our RFP package you know
062with the car news they are identifiable as a security vehicle. They need to be easily identifiable as a security personnel for us. Miss Lauren I actually very much on those lines Dr. Mulholland. How do we ensure because especially when we're talking about people who interact with our kids on a regular basis and obviously security is something that that our kids interact with regularly at metal detectors and with our middle and high schools etc. And our custodians I know are some of the favorite employees sometimes in schools. How do we ensure that those staffs who are being they're beholden to a different employer. How do we ensure that they still have the connective tissue with our district in order to create those types of relationships which really are critical to our our students learning environments. Well
063the the the staffing that they have you know we're fortunate that our contract and this is a benefit of contracting out services is if someone is not if their personality and they can't develop those relationships we can just tell that person we're contracted with we don't want that individual back at our campus. And we can also relate when we and we do when we really like an employee that this person's really good you might consider helping them you know with their compensation or what not or you know make sure they're that is reflected when they're evaluated in their their end. I actually and thank you for that but what I was actually getting at is do we let them come to sporting events? Do we encourage them to be part of the Lawrence Township community
064even though they don't necessarily report to us. Well yeah I think some of them I know I certainly see some of them at sporting events. You know it's it's you know it it's certainly something we aren't going to keep them from doing. They are required to have the same background checks Yes. Yeah just like with all of our construction workers anyone that tries to set foot on campus that's contracted even through a third party has to go through a safe vendor program or there's different programs we do but that's all in our contract language. They have to go through those same procedures make sure there's no criminal element in their background. Board any other questions? Okay. All right and then when I read the RFP just to clarify again time frame it looks like interviews
065are April 21st time timeline. Yeah so the same timeline we're prepared for the next board meeting to present to you a a a vendor that we it could be the same vendor could be a new vendor. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. So yeah both RFPs with the goal to come to us next month. Thank you Dr. Nesbit. >> 3.9 financial updates Mr. Miles. Thank you Madam President Dr. Schmidt members of the board. At this time we're bringing before you our February 2026 month end financials and the the year of 26 just seems to be humming right along so we are happy to report both ending balances are slightly ahead of where we were as far as projections for at the beginning of the year or prior going into the year. As you see the general fund
066both revenue and expenditures a little ahead of expectations meaning even on the expense side our expenses are a little more than what we projected but the revenue outpaced that and so leaving us in a good place there at the end of the month. Likewise the transportation fund again just as a reminder we we only get those those are local property tax dollars that go into our transportation funds so we get that twice a year so we run run expenses obviously every month and then reimburse when those monies come in and at this point of the year we are in a deficit as we always are but it is less than what we had projected so we are feel like we're in a good place with both funds. Thank you Mr. Miles board questions. Just a
067quick call out as someone who has managed budgets many times in my professional career I know how difficult it is to hit the budget exactly as you think it will be. You sometimes overspend you often times overspend and you sometimes even underspend so I just want to shout out the staff who work very hard and very diligently to ensure that we are as close to projected budget as possible. Thank you. Thank you Madam Board member it's a team effort. Thank you. Any other questions? Yeah. I do. I know that we lock in our gas rates for our bus fleet really on but I have a question concerning utilities. Do we have lock in rates for that or how does that work? We work that's a great question because that just seems to be in the
068news lately and and we are certainly seeing increases just just like everyone else so unfortunately yes we we do fall under that. I know sometimes the question comes up hey do we get certain discount because we're school district? No no we don't. Um we we would love to and if that comes through someday we would take it. But we do work with we we work with a third party that helps us with some of the pricing on those things from a utility standpoint particular on our natural gas side but unfortunately we're we're subject to the volatility of the market as well. Oh man I thought I'd ask. Thank you. Yes thank you. Good question good question. And then and that's also true of impacts from tariffs etc. for our building our and anything Mo- yes.
069The the one advantage absolutely your the answer to question is yes. Some of those contracts that that Dr. Nesbit was talking about earlier that's that's really a benefit of some of those outsourcing and and some of those other kinds of contracts. The fuel that we purchase for buses would fall in line with that but most things were were that comes back to your point earlier about mat- meeting those budgets. Even if they're from one of our contractors or working on one of our buildings you can expect to see some of those tax costs. Yes. Thank you board. Any other questions? All right thank you Mr. Miles. Board committee chair reports. Since this is a big week for the foundation we'll start with Dr. Mulholland. That's right it's a big week for the foundation because it's
070the gala week or gala however you like to say it and they are sold out so but people can still bid on auction items and you can donate to the event if you're not attending so it's going to be an exciting Friday and thinking of the Lawrence Township School Foundation group. Thank you. And I think it's a different location this year as well. That's right it's at the Biltwell. Lawrence Parks and Recreation Ms. Dunn. Well spring has sprung and or it's almost here. It's Indiana it's 72 degrees one day and flurries and 22 the next. However we are getting ready for our Spring Fest which is on March 28th at Community Park on at 9:15 so little Easter egg hunt and then we just uh mark your calendars in April we will have our health
071and wellness fair April 18th as well as the clean up day on April 27th it coincides with Earth Day and you can find all this and more if you go to the all the great happenings here in our city. Thank you Ms. Dunn. It'll be nice to have the parks busy again. Yes it will. All right. Policy Ms. Puckett. All right. The General Assembly finished the short session and several new laws affecting K-12 education were passed. A review of these actions reveal policy themes that will influence accountability operations governance and funding. That being said the policy we all the policy committee expects an updated policy package early April. That's it. Okay. We will look forward to that. Just a side note I did finally read all 465 of our board policies until we get the
072updates. So Yes. Very informative. All right. Thank you, board, for those updates. Now, we will move into our action items. 4.1, approval of the student devices bid. Mr. Harsha. Good evening again, Madam President, Dr. Smith, and members of the board. I would like to recommend that you approve Burkholder and the Repair Depot as vendors for our student devices as submitted. I'll entertain a motion for the approval of the student devices bid. So moved. Second. Properly moved, Ms. Puckett, and seconded, Ms. Lawrence. Before we go to a vote, any questions or comments? All right. All in favor of the approval of the devices, say I. I. I. Any opposed? All right. The eyes have it. 4.2, approval of the RFP bids for mental health services. Ms. Niemeyer. Madam President, Dr. Smith, members of the board, tonight
073I'm requesting approval for Jane Pauley and Adult & Child to be the school-based mental health providers as submitted. So moved. Second. Properly moved, Ms. Lawrence, and seconded, Ms. Puckett. Any other questions or comments on the mental health services? All right. All in favor, I. >> say I. Any opposed? All right. The eyes have it. The RFP bids for the mental health services have been approved. And Ms. Niemeyer, did you have some guests to introduce? Yes, I do. Very fortunate that we had both Jane Pauley as well as Adult & Child. And Jane Pauley, if you could please stand, I'll do names. We have Dr. Laura Yacoe, Dr. Reef Ghassan, James Melton, and Dr. Karen Hill. So, thank you. But they were all part of the RFP >> [applause] >> And I would also like to
074introduce Adult & Child. We have Kelly Esposito with us and Asia Bridgewater. And again, they were part of the RFP and interview process. >> [applause] >> Thank you very much. We look forward to working with you. 4.3, approval of the common school loan. Mr. Miles. Thank you, Madam President. At this time, I ask that the board approve the application for the common school fund loan as submitted. All entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Properly moved, Ms. Dunn, and seconded, Ms. Lawrence, for the approval of the common school loan. Any final questions or comments? All right. All in favor of the common school loan approval, say I. I. >> I. Any opposed? The eyes have it. Thank you, board. 4.4, approval of cancellation of outstanding checks. Mr. Miles. Thank you, Madam President. At this time, I
075recommend that the board approve the cancellation of outstanding checks as presented. I'll entertain a motion. So moved. Seconded. Properly moved, Ms. Dunn, and seconded, Dr. Mulholland. Any other questions or comments on the approval of the cancellation of outstanding checks? All right. All in favor, I. I. Any opposed? All right. The cancellation of the outstanding checks has been approved. 4.5, approval of request for RFP for custodial services. Dr. Nesbitt. Thank you, Madam President. At this time, we request your permission to publish the RFP as presented for custodial services. I'll entertain a motion for the approval. So moved. Second. Properly moved, Ms. Puckett, and seconded, Ms. Dunn. Any other questions or comments? All right. All in favor of the approval for the RFP for custodial services, say I. I. >> I. Any opposed? All right. The custodial
076services RFP has been approved. Now, we will move to 4.6, approval of the request for RFP for the security services. Dr. Nesbitt. Thank you again, Madam President. Again, request the board's approval to publish an RFP for security services. I'll entertain a motion for approval. So moved. Second. Properly moved, Ms. Dunn, and seconded, Ms. Puckett. Any other questions or comments? All right. All in favor of the approval for the RFP of security services, say I. I. >> I. Any opposed? All right. The RFP for security services is approved. Thank you, Dr. Nesbitt. 4.7, approval of board minutes. Dr. Mulholland. Thank you, Madam President. I present to the board for approval the monthly board minutes for February 23rd, 2026, and the executive session meeting minutes for February 27th, 2026. Okay. So moved. Second. Properly moved, Ms. Puckett,
077and seconded, Ms. Lawrence. Any final questions or comments on the previous board minutes? All right. All in favor of the approval of the board minutes from February 9th, or sorry, this one's off. From the previous month, say I. I. I. I. Any opposed? All right. The approval of the February board minutes has been approved. Thank you, board. Madam President, I move that we treat action items 4.8 through 4.14 as consent agenda. Okay. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Properly moved, Ms. Puckett, and seconded, Dr. Mulholland, to treat action item Yeah, action items 4.8 to 4.14 as consent agenda. All in favor, I. I. Any opposed? Okay. Second. Properly moved, Ms. Puckett, and seconded, Ms. Lawrence, for the approval of the consent agenda. All in favor, say I. I. >> I. Any opposed? All
078right. Action items 4.8 to 4.14 have been approved as consent agenda. Thank you, board. Moving to our administrator and board comments. Do we have a volunteer to go first? It's been a busy month, I know. I just wanted to um it is kind of tied to this since we have a lengthy agenda today, but it's something that I use that I find in this climate that we're in now is super helpful. Does anybody do brain dumps? I highly recommend a brain dump. Brain dump. It's basically when you take everything that's in your head and you just like write it out. It's not like journaling. It's like just a freelance, just get what's in here onto here. You write down everything that's on your mind, but there's a process. Circle what actually needs your attention now.
079Cross off what you don't need or don't need to carry for the day, and then focus only what's focus on what's important to you at that moment. The reason why I say that is there's so much going on, but I found that that's something that I use. And with mental health, as we've been talking about today, it's a tool that's in my toolbox that has been helping me out a lot. And I did a little research on it. When you write, your brain moves from amygdala, stress emotion, to prefrontal cortex, which helps your clarity, decision-making, and leadership. So, I just wanted to pass that along cuz I've been dumping a lot, and the dumps have felt great. >> [laughter] >> That's my comment. I will remember that. Thank you. >> [laughter] >> Ms. Lawrence. I
080just wanted to wish everyone a happy spring break. I know the Lawrence family will be availing ourselves of some time away with the family, which is going to be really welcome. Because of me being adult, I don't do enough dumping, but it will be very good to have that moment with the family, and I wish everyone everyone the same. Thank you. Well said. Ms. Dunn. I would like to wish everybody a happy Women's History Month. Also, Josh, congratulations on your honor. Much very well deserved. And thank you to Lawrence Township for acknowledging the fabulous women. I feel very fortunate to work among some of the brightest females that I know. So, happy Women's Day to us or Women's Month to us. Um And then also, you know, it's we have an opportunity to read just
081things that the superintendent is telling us that you all are doing. And so, I also I want to shout out another fantastic woman, Carla Johnson, who is currently doing what a lot of people don't realize, and that is HR is working in overdrive to find the best and brightest folks to fill the seats in the vacancies here in Lawrence Township. I know this is probably your busiest season, and so just want to express gratitude to you in the work that you were doing. I know that you're out and about across the state. So, thank you. And I know that you're finding the best and the brightest for our kids. And pray Sometimes in Puerto Rico. And if you ever need anybody to go with you there, you got a travel buddy. Just let me know.
082And prayerfully, there will be a lot of education graduates here coming up in May from all the universities. Yep. So, yeah. Dr. Mulholland. Speaking of which, I was excited to see the um Lawrence Township will be down at the universities including IU, so that's I hope that all goes well. Very good. Um everyone's shared some wonderful remarks. Um I share all the same sentiments. Just wanted to add um I enjoyed the sixth grade basketball championships on Friday night. Thank you to the Township for supporting that because, you know, a lot of schools some schools have sixth grade in their middle school, so it gives them that really competitive feel and uh they brought it. It was It was a really good game. Um and thank you to the coaches and all the parents. Also, I
083wanted to um we were able to attend the Bears unfortunate loss. So, now that um secondary basketball's over, um we did have some state champions though in VEX Robotics. So, congratulations to Fall Creek Valley and I'm going to I want to make sure I get it right, but I know it was uh Skiles Tess perhaps or yeah, I'll turn it over to Dr. Pasch Brown. Skiles Tess and Amy Beverlin were teammates in second place in the state and Forest Glenn third and all will be going to Worlds. Yes. So, yes, this is uh this is wonderful news, so we will be well represented at Worlds. And um my last comment is something near and dear to my heart. Uh March is Developmental Disabilities Month. Um we again, our schools do a fantastic job of serving
084all students and we want to say thank you. Um sometimes you're the extended family we don't have nearby. So, thank you for that. I will move on to Dr. Smith. I'll keep it simple. Madam President and board members, be prepared next month. The army is coming. We will celebrate Lawrence excellence with student recognitions at our next board meeting in April. It will be a packed house as we've done very very well in academics, performing arts, and as well as athletics. So, we will celebrate our students next month. I do remind you board that we will be busy on Thursday. We will do a school visit. We will be with the Globetrotters who just won a bunch of hardware. So, we'll be there Thursday morning visiting during our tour of Mary Castle Elementary. Yes. Thank you.
085We are looking forward to that. Enjoy our school visits. Our next monthly board meeting will be April 27th here at 6:30 sharp starting with the student recognitions and it will be a combined work session and board meeting as we have a lot going on. Um we'll be traveling as a board for the National School Board Association as well in early April. So, enjoy your spring break as well. I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Properly moved, Ms. Puckett, and seconded, Dr. Mulholland. Thank you, everyone. I have to go by Somebody said