001for a small invocation and the pledge of allegiance. Heavenly Father, it's with gratitude that we thank you for bringing us safely together tonight. As we make decisions for our district and our community, we seek wisdom. We seek we seek discernment and we want courageous vision to benefit our community. and on top and the on the bottom and all and encompassing all around it. We want love and compassion to lead the way. Amen. >> 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. You have before you the minutes for the July meeting. Are there any additions or corrections to those minutes? Hearing none, the chairman is requesting a motion to uh
002approve the minutes as presented. >> I make a motion to approve the minutes as presented. >> Thank you, sir. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, sir. Any discussion? Hearing none, the minutes for the July meeting 2025 are approved. You also have before you the agenda. And again, I'll ask, are there any additions or corrections to the agenda? Hearing none, the chair asked for a motion to approve the agenda as it is presented. I make a motion to approve the agenda for tonight as presented. >> So moved. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, ma'am. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. Motion carries. We have this evening u individuals that have signed up for public input and I would like to recognize those individuals at this time.
003Now, prior to the um presentation, it I'm required by law to read the final first and full statement that's before me. Public input should be in the form of suggestions, informations, or comments pertaining to programs, schools, or the school district based upon legal advice of our council. Comment should not be made either complimentary or critical naming any student or school employee, administrator or board member as these matters are personal matters that require executive session. The speaker is the speaker's comments will be uh received as board information. Are you ready to present your >> Yes. Miss >> Yes. Please do come to the podium. We're pleased to have you. >> Thank you. >> Um my twins have made the volleyball uh the JV volleyball team. >> Okay. >> And they were scheduled for practice last Thursday
004to they've been practicing at the high school. Right. >> And we got notification that they canled practice Thursday and that starting today practice would be held at the middle school which is fine. However, the middle school gym is not The blinds aren't painted for a volleyball court. There is not a appropriate um net. There's no uh what are they called? >> Padding on the so-called net that's brought in there with buckets, >> right? >> And that is not to me that is not catering to the JV team. that you're not they're not being done right. Um they've always practiced to my knowledge at the high school along with the varsity team where they've practiced from 3:30 to 5 and varsity came in at 4:30 to 6. Um, so I wanted to reach out and let
005you know that there are some JB parents who are not happy about that. >> And I'm not sure who told who that they couldn't come over here and practice, but they are they should be allowed or given the right the right accommodations for the gym. >> Absolutely. >> So that is my concern. heart. I appreciate you bringing that to our attention and as so stated, we will accept that those those statements as information. Are there any other sources of public input? Hearing none, I will defer to Dr. Crockett to present the heart of a hornet. >> Great. Thank you. It's good good to see everybody here and welcome and uh thanks thanks for being here. Uh we're off to off to a wonderful start, but one of the highlights I'd like to kind of showcase
006is some some wonderful things we got going on in our uh in our district. And and first of all, I want to see if we can get in in with our uh part of the Hornet Award, which is going to be >> our first one is going to be Miss Robin Crawford, which is our district teacher of the year. And so, uh Robin does a an incredible job for us. Uh the best way to sum it up is is her strength is her heart. She she loves these kids and gives um a maximum energy into making sure that the needs of our students in fact the needs of uh a lot of our students that need extra support are met. And so I'm extremely extremely proud of her. And so tonight uh we celebrate our
007district teacher of the year, Miss Robin Crawford. And so I'd love for her to come on up. We have a couple things for her. We have a plaque. We have two plaques. One will go outside her door. One that she's going to be able to take take home. And there's also a teacher of the year check that we also uh will will give to uh our our winners for each year. And so Robin, come on up. It's great to see you. We're so proud. [Applause] So very proud. >> Absolutely. And I'm absolutely thrilled. I had the privilege to teach Robin. Now to have you as a colleague and a friend. It is with deep deep gladness I present this to you and thank you for everything you've invested in our students. Love you. [Applause] So,
008um with me tonight I have my husband and two boys um Lee Bryant and Josiah. Um many of you know I taught several years in Honey Path before you guys so graciously welcomed me back home and I'm so thankful to be here. Um I didn't ever think I would really want to teach in my hometown. I thought I, you know, really enjoyed not working at home. Um, but it's been such a blessing to be back home to be able to love and serve the children right here, um, in this school where I grew up and where I love my, uh, learned my love for teaching and learning as well. So, um, thank y'all so much for welcoming back me back home and this is such an honor. I promise to represent as well. >> Absolutely.
009We know you will. Thank you very, very much. Yeah. Well done. [Applause] Uh, next I'd like to at this time if we could uh we had we had an incredible end of the year- especially with our baseball team. uh we could not be able to to get our guys on the agenda, our baseball team for for June and for July. Obviously for summer breaks, but in our walking some some of my uh favorites right here. It's great to great to see them and and uh some of them I haven't seen in a little while since they since they've graduated, but we called in uh our our baseball team, our district three uh champions upper state, our runners runners up. And what a great ride that they had. And so obviously very very deserving of of
010um a standing ovation or our heart of the hornet award. I think the the best thing that I can describe them the best way I wanted to try to describe them is is um they're successful. They were successful on the field and I know I know they're going to be successful in life with those same skills that they had demonstrated on the baseball diamond since I can remember them just barely being able to walk watching them grow up and it was uh an incredible season and we're so proud of the the leadership they have and and best is yet to come for these young men u for the successes that they'll have in life and so wanted to recognize them tonight um for our our part of the Hornet award as well. One more great
011photo. That's all right. Come on up. Right up here, guys. Squeeze in. center. >> All right, here we go. Good job. Thanks, [Applause] And >> I would like to also as as they're leaving, I mean, they're a great group of guys. Just just stellar stellar. I appreciate uh Coach Wooten, Ricky Madden that just um really and truly um give of themselves to be able to to to do what they do. So we couldn't couldn't do it without them. Super super proud of them and what a great season was. Looking forward to another great season this year for sure. So uh with that, that's those are our two heart awards uh for tonight and that was that was a special. So thanks for letting us do that. >> Absolutely, sir. And we'll continue to defer to
012you Dr. Crockett to share with us your superintendent update. >> Sure. Absolutely. >> We are off to a great start of the school year and I want to try to bring to your attention some important things that are coming up and so for uh the on September the 12th at 10 a.m. we're going to have our Hall of Fame event. And so have some wonderful inductees and want to make sure that you're uh aware of that date. You can put that on your calendar and you're more than welcome to come. we'd love to uh love to have you join us and it's open to the public as well and so we're just trying to push push that out there and so that's a a really exciting time of year and I appreciate the wear schools
013hall of fame committee um it's not a district function it's a form of a community committee um that that I I'm able to to be a part of and help facilitate uh who who kind of oversees this program. They do a great job and they love our school and uh and school district and and um this is a very exciting time for all of us. I want to let you know that on uh Wednesday is a big day for us and we have some of our students that are going to be taking some advanced courses and so uh Wednesday morning it's starting. So we have uh 27 of our students that are be taking duo credit on Landers campus >> and so that's uh fantastic. Excited to see them uh do great things there. We
014have 14 at at Piedmont Technical College and we have 11 that are traveling to the the career uh technology center in in Greenwood. And so um we think it's a priority to make sure that all of our students have an opportunity. It's not students that just have a a car uh that are able to go or can afford the gas money to be able to to to be able to take these classes. This is for everyone. And as a district, I'm thankful for our board um to to invest in providing transportation to Piedmont Tech to provide transportation to to Lander. So these students and some of them are first first generation college kids. Never no one in their family's ever been been on a college campus before and they're taking these uh dual credit courses
015and and having success and saying, you know what, I can do this. I can do this. And so uh we're excited just I put just a few of these um uh majors that we have going uh taking place especially at the um technology center we have auto mechanics we have uh construction we have construction science I believe it's a cosmetology culinary project lead the way which is intro to engineering and youth apprenticeship we have one youth apprenticeship that's in auto mechanics right now and uh doing doing a wonderful job and we're we're we're thankful uh for these these opportunities that that um and basically these these universities and technical colleges are saying look we we have a track record of success um we're going to anything that we can provide you and your students um
016you're you're able to take advantage of it and boy do we ever uh we have we may have uh situations where we may only have one student taken like in a biology 111 and that course would never make here on this campus but we're able to take that one student and put them in that one class in that one section and give them the opportunity to take the classes that that are aligned with their individual career aspirations and that's something that we are very very proud of um that we can tailor our curriculum to to each one of our students uh career interests. Uh we had a wonderful time uh this past past week with our coffee and conversation uh with our community. I appreciate everyone that was that was in attendance. It was just
017a a very informal um uh a kind of setting where I kind of shared what our district goals were, what are some things that we were working on, trying to share everything for how how schools get funded to to to uh to all all to really pressing issues that our districts are are facing and solutions that we have in mind. And so I really appreciate that rich dialogue that was back and forth. Um, and so thank uh so here's just a couple photos of of the event. We did put put out a survey afterwards asking our our uh community what their thoughts were of the event and all was very very positive and also shared some great feedback on on um on goals or interests that they may have or even suggestions that they may
018have. So it was it was great. So we we appreciated um everyone who was in attendance there. Uh last week, last Thursday, I participated at PM Techch with the unveiling of the new uh technology um innovation center um and with the capital with the capital penny sales tax initiatives that was what was there. So it was me and the the other uh two Greenwood superintendent uh did the unveiling of that rendering of that building and we're excited to it's a beautiful open uh concept that's there. Lots of work still yet to be done, but we're so very excited about this and and being able to have our kids uh learning in cutting edge environments with cutting edge technology. And so uh that was that was uh that's a a work of love there. And I
019appreciate the the work of Pedmont Tech and and um helping us with those resources and and the logistics with with that unveiling. It was great. Uh we want I want to let you know that we are continuing our partnership with um Save the Children as far as our afterchool program and as long and our summer programming as well. And so we do have that um somewhere close I see Miss Robin. Miss I also see Miss Carl. Hey Miss Carl, good to see you. Yeah absolutely. What um and we usually are serving close to 40 to 50. Is that correct? For after school >> in the after school program we serve 60 the summer. >> Yeah. How about that? Yeah. How about that? And so 60 of our our primary school students are able to take
020advantage of that afterchool enrichment and and uh the reinforcement that they they may need for themselves and u uh in their studies. And so we're thankful for this this continued partnership and and especially the workers. Um it's easy to just have a program, but we need quality people to be able to to run it and and uh Carl Owens does a jam up job and and her crew that run that. And it's that time of year, Friday night, 7 7:30 it starts and we can't wait. It's our it's our kickoff and and they're starting to develop a little bit of electricity on our campus and we're starting to feel it and we know it's game week and uh and and it you you can just see it on the faces of our students and our
021players and and our coaches and our coaches too. And uh we're we're thrilled u to to see how much work was put into into our games, our safety protocols. I'm not going to go too too much because coach Dodson's going to come up come up next, but lots of work have been uh put into the logistics of even just having a football game. Um and so, uh we appreciate all the work of our our the safety crews, um Miss Ty leadership, and and our athletic director, Coach Dodson. And so this was just another one of those guys uh a photo of those those those gentlemen on the on the football field and and they're they're excited and we're we're we're very very proud of them. Okay, with that that'll be the superintendent's update. If there's
022any questions about the things that were presented, I'll be glad to answer any questions you have. >> Thank you, sir. The chair will now recognize the wear high school ad. How y'all doing today? Everybody good? >> Is it hot? >> Yes. >> Thank you, coach. pass around. Um, I'll try and go quickly and briefly trying to get an update. So, I'm going to close out 2425 because I know I came in and talked right before we got out of school. Kind of rehash a little bit. You know, we talked about no ejections, the all the varsity teams made the playoffs, all that. Well, there's something that the high school league does called a car cup, and they do it for each classification, 5 A, 4 A, 3 A, 2 A, and 1A. and they give
023you points based off of like different things. Academics, uh, playoffs, many how many games you play in the playoffs, how many you win in the playoffs, uh, if you have ejections, uh, by sport or all year, which we didn't have one in any sport. So, you acrew these points and we ended up with like 200 and I forget the exact number. I sent an email out earlier in the year about it. It was 260, 270, something like that. But we finished 11th in uh 1A in the Carile points and that's the that's the highest we've been in Carile points in in 15 or more years. U previous three or four years it's been like 35th 38. So the athletic programs are are working and coming along. Uh kind of looking into more about earning Carlile
024points. I I didn't realize some of it and some of it's got to be things that I've got to do that's better. Like our kids do a lot of uh of uh community service already. Like uh they help pass out meals, they clean up, they do things. From my point, I've got to document it and take pictures. And I'm just, you know, I'm not that I've got to be better for our kids. But I'm not that guy that's a social media. Hey, look at us. Look at me. You know, I'm not that I I just, you know, we just work, put our head down, and go to work and just, you know, look at our result. But to help us get these points, if we'll do do these things and document them, we get even
025more points. And we're already doing these things, is just putting it in a form and sending it in. And they also do a thing called a captain's course. And third, this past Thursday in this very room, we had nine kids that sat on that board with the South Carolina High School League and did a 1 hour 15 minute, I think, Zoom meeting, and they had speakers and they come in and we acrew points that way. They do one for the fall, for the winter, and the spring, and we get points. If we'll do all this and we crack the top 10, they'll send a big banner for us to put in the gym about us being a a gold star athletic program in the state. Not many people get that. I think they gave out
026four banners last year because not many people were doing the captain's courses and all that. So, we're jumping in that trying to get, you know, just well-rounded athlete. They talk about academics. So, they talk about things we already pushed, but it's just getting uh notification and from the high school league that hey, where Scholes is doing this and we're documenting it. Uh summer prep uh talking about football, thanks to the board. You know, y'all y'all uh graciously allowed us to go to North Carolina this year for our uh 77 thing. Last the year before we went to Georgia. While we were up there, we we were gone two and a half days. We visited App State, visited their football facilities, and got a tour of their facilities. Uh from App State. The next day, we
027went to Lenor Ryan and uh uh visited their uh their premier D2 program. Uh they're a third round football team every year in D2, but their basketball team is a semi-final team every year. So, we walk through the gym. Uh, Lenor Ron in my 24 years is probably the best tour I've ever been on in my life. They took us in every building. We went through the athletic buildings. We went to study hall buildings. We went to the lunchroom. We went to the chemistry labs. We went to the English lab. We went all over the school. They took us everywhere. We went to all the statues and they told us about who they were, what it meant. They may have studied about these people. I mean, it was that was probably the best tour they
028ever been on. And the kids were talking about already wanting to go back to Lenor because how much they just felt like that they cared about them because we were there an hour and 45 minutes. So, you know, they went over the top with the guys. Uh we did eight other things in Greenville, Travelers Rest, Berea, uh Rock Hill, Chester area this summer football-wise. Our other sports are working too. uh every sport, volleyball, softball, uh baseball, basketball, they were all lifting and doing something team oriented this summer. And I know in the three years I've been here, that's the first time I've seen it. And from what I understand, I think it's been a while since we've had it going. I mean, we had a we had a signin sheet for the wait room. It
029was hopping from about 10:00 in the morning to about 8:00 at night with people coming in and going out. So, the kids are starting to figure out a work ethic and what you need. Um, I don't know if any of y'all came last night, but we had the Fields of Faith last night. Uh, Jaden Johnson presented a thing through the FCA and, uh, it was student le. Students did everything. Uh, Miss Sarah Cruz was the guest speaker. I think uh when they did the final headcount there was 134 people attended with players. So we had football there had uh cross country uh cheerleaders and volleyball were uh represented there. Uh before I left out, the kids and uh Miss Sarah Cruz and then other people that had donated had already come to me about wanting
030to find a date to do uh Christ for Christ for the winter. So they're already wanting to go into that and plan for another fields of faith for the spring. So, uh, kind of talking about the leadership things that that's kids we've got doing this that's organized this and doing this. And, uh, on Thursdays, our numbers have been big in FCA, too, uh, the last we've only had two, but they've been more in there than they've been in the past couple years. So, I'm proud of kids for that. They're getting a they're they're having a vested interest in what's going on. Um, fall sports are underway like Doc Doc said earlier. Friday we kick off against Blackburg. Uh, 7:30. It'll be the first athletic event of the year. Uh, Monday the 25th will be the
031first home volleyball game and our JVN varsity play Friday against Whitmire. And then C team plays next Thursday the 28th at Dixie in a jamboree against Thoral. And then that Saturday cross country opens up with the big eye opener at Milican Park in Spartanberg and there's people from all over the country come to it. So whether we're ready or not, it's here and we're wide open and pretty much like football season brings on. We had them two weeks of that cool weather and now all of a sudden it's back middle of summer again. So, you know, we're we're following our rules, trying to do what we're supposed to, get in, get out, and hopefully we'll see everybody come Friday. Um, we're looking ahead for 25 26 to be an even better year than 2425. Um,
032anything in there? Anybody got any questions for me? Tried to go as quickly as I could. I think I got in under eight. >> Well done. >> It looks wonderful, coach. Thanks for all you're doing. >> Oh, yes, ma'am. Yes. M. >> Any questions? >> Thanks, Jeff. >> Thank tab one. We'll begin to move into action items. And you'll find the first set of policies that are presented to you. policy JLCBAJLCBA-R are individual health care plans. Mr. CL, >> thank you. >> Oh, wait a minute. I Oh my goodness. How could I How could I skip over my field trip? >> I'm so sorry. I went one out of order. Um you have a field trip request from Miss Alli Kmac FCA. The application and u follow supporting materials are present. Are there any questions
033that you might have after reading this information? Thank you for all you do. The chair is asking a motion to approve this field trip that's presented. The dates of departure, October 28th through Saturday the 11th. >> Make a motion to approve the field trip for the FFA. >> Thank you, sir. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Discussion. None. All those in favor say I. >> I. Motion carries. Nothing personal. I adore you. I'll move to the second um I'll just trip right over my mistake and I'll go to policy updates uh JLCDA and dash JLCDA-R individual health uh care plans. And Miss McClan, thank you if you would address those with us. >> Um it's actually not anything new. We've done these for years. Um, I'm not sure if everybody knows what
034a health care plan is, but it's a it's a plan of care that's designed specifically for stu an individual student. It addresses their health concerns, monitoring what the nurses have to do as far as taking care of the um students during the school day or at school sponsored functions. And we write um health care plans for students that have um special healthcare needs such as um asthma, uh seizures, um diabetes, anything that requires monitoring or medication at at school. >> And so those are um the student is assessed and with the doctor's orders, we write healthcare plans. >> Super. >> Um I have just one question. Okay. Are teachers made aware of those healthare plans? That's great. >> Yes, we um we may not give them an actual copy of the healthcare plan, but each
035teacher is notified of what the individual students plan is. >> Are there any questions for what we have, Miss McClan? >> Certainly something we support. This is being presented to you and I for as a first reading and the chair is requesting a motion to approve these two documents for a first reading. I make a motion to approve the two policies presented tonight. >> Thank you, sir. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, ma'am. Any discussion? >> Is this only Is this for each student regardless or is this just for students that have known histories? >> No. >> Okay. >> Um with doctor's orders. >> Daughter. Okay. All right. So, it's it's >> it's specific >> specific to Right. That's that's an excellent question. up just just for um to quantify it.
036We currently have about 45. >> Okay. >> And uh we even uh tried to do something >> uh to be a little more inclusive. We we sent draft policies, these two policies that you've read to those individuals, 45 family, emailed it to them, asked if there was any feedback uh on these policies before we presented them to you tonight. So >> they look good. This is this one separate. >> Oh, we're both together. Do you want do you want to talk about the seizure too? That's a little newer. >> I'm sorry. There's a new there's state law went into effect in June. Um, we've always had seizures have been integrated into our healthcare plans, but the state decided to go take on the nation a nationwide thing where now there's an actual seizure safe policy.
037And as a school district, we've always um like I said, written healthc care plans. We've trained our um first responders on medication. But this with this policy, we now train everyone in the school. Everyone has um takes a seizure safe course that um can is done virtually through with us being available and there's any questions. the individual teachers that teach the students are still informed that um they have a student, but everybody is trained on recognizing and uh seizures and so that that way that's a new part of the healthcare plan. >> I think it's an excellent thing and I think everyone that touches a student or in the room with them at any time u it's just mandatory. >> We have to be careful because of you know HIPPA. >> Absolutely. But we um
038you know we we want everybody to be able to recognize a seizure or be able to treat and then those individuals that we deem as first responders are actually trained on the administration of the medication if the nurse is not available. >> Sure. Glad we have you. You've heard the explanation the presentation of both policies both the individual health care plans and the seizure safe schools and we've had discussion. All those in favor is say I. >> The second. >> We got I made a motion. I don't know if anybody >> Thanks. Sorry. >> That's okay. I'm sorry I jumped in. >> All those in favor say I. >> Motion carries. Thank you. Now we move to the uh annual appointments under tab four. And I know all of you have had an opportunity to
039look at these. So I'll begin by the chair requesting a motion to continue our legal representation with Mr. David Duff. >> I'll make a motion to approve Dave Duff as our legal council for the 2526 school year. >> Thank you, sir. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, sir. Any discussion? I just want to ask is this something that this comes up each year? >> Every year. >> So it's on an annual. >> Yeah. >> Okay. That's not I just >> That's a really good question. >> Each August. >> Okay. >> Hearing no further discussion. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. the district accounting uh auditing firm who's been with us for many many years >> 25 years plus uh and that is uh Martin and Smith
040and I the chair is asking a motion to continue to solicit their services for the 2026 academic year. I'll make a motion to approve uh Martin Smith and Company for auditing purposes for our district. >> Thank you, sir. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Rodney. Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. The next two topics will require an individual um agreement for participation. Is there a board member that's willing to serve on the energy safety team? I'll be glad to do that. I know it conflicts with work schedules and things. >> Thank you. >> Certainly, sir. And we also need a representative for the Russell Techn Technology Center advisory board. It's a great group of people. >> I'll serve I'll serve on that.
041>> That'd be great, Rodney. and you'll know all those people. Now, I need guess we need to go back and do we approve those or are they by appointment? >> Uh, by appointment. I don't think that's >> I think we're good. The last part of our um meeting is always about finances, but I think that um Dr. Crockett, I think you have some good news to share with us pertaining to the awning. >> Uh, yes. Yes, ma'am. Uh we uh Friday Friday afternoon, actually Friday morning at 10 10:15, our sealed bids came in. I know in our past um board meeting, it was approval to be able to proceed up to 150,000. I do believe that the award uh was our uh bid that did come in was at 126 and so it came in
042a little bit under budget. So we're very thankful for that. And uh we do intend to uh post a notice of intent to award. So uh trying to follow through all the procurement steps that we need to do if there's an appeal process, all all those things. So uh we're we're adhering to our our procurement policies. But very very positive and um thankful for all the people who are interested in that project and and Trevor Pulley really for overseeing the site visits and and all of that too. So, it's good good news. Good news. Good news for sure. >> You'll find again the in your board material, the general fund budget, you're if you'll take notice, this is really looking at the June 1st through June 30th year. That's why you see a lot of
043zeros there. So, not to worry. Um, but that's where we start. And really this sheet zooms in on uh column one which shows you the estimated um budget for the 2526 year and at best sometimes that's what a budget is but we have great confidence and we're in very good financial um shape. Uh I have great worry for many colleagues across the state that are suffering under some incredibly heavy burdens and uh we thank you for all you've done sir. Keep us there. You also have in your packet the um activity fund which looks very good. Are there any questions you might have when you look at this general fund? Now, if you're uh I want to also say and I have not been asked recently, but I certainly was at the beginning of last
044year. How do I know it's on the general fund is it's on our web page. It is so transparent and if you anyone speaks to you and they don't know how to get to it, um we can certainly show them. It's a couple of clicks, but everything you're seeing here is online and this is every expenditure. So, you sometimes if you things you'll think, well, where can I go and look it up? It's right there. And so, with that being said, the any I think it's very important to look at and just familiarize yourself with uh the activity fund is in concurrent with that which was deposited. It looked great and um I certainly had no questions when I read it concerning the lunchroom or any of Miss Man's um purchases or acquisitions. Does anyone
045have anything that came to their attention that they'd like to discuss or point out? Hearing none, then we will move on. Dr. uh Crockett, do you have anything under finance? >> No, ma'am. That was that was it. Just get started. So yeah, just start starting the year. So um uh not not nothing out of the ordinary right now. >> Um the only I'd like to make one statement concerning finances with our accounting firm and I think you and I have a we've had a lot of discussions over figures. Um and I think we're incredibly fortunate to have a company that goes they tear it apart. They don't just skim over anything. There are no there are no hidden anything and that there's no secrets. And I think sometimes people think there's um there's secrets, but
046there aren't. There there are black and white. And um I hope when you speak to them that you'll extend to them our deepest appreciation for the the hard work and the revelations of this budget. >> Sure. Absolutely. I mean I mean uh and and Miss Wells and her team do do an outstanding job. I think the The part of the audit is it's it's just work. It's a lot of work. And so knowing that an audit's coming, it's there's a lot of work that's involved with it, but it's something that we we welcome >> because uh I know our community needs that confidence that that uh things are being run well. And so we do welcome the audit. It does take work, but we do welcome them. Um and uh it is it is a
047sense of confidence when they're through and saying, "Hey, look, everything's the way it should be." that uh does provide that relief to not only us but also to our public which which they deserve for sure. >> Miss Wells, we couldn't do it without you. Did not mean to demean that position at all. Um I appreciate it very very much. Hearing no further. Is there any further input from the group before we call for an adjournment? Hearing none. All those in favor of adjourning signify by raising your right hand and saying I. >> I. We are ajourned. Thank you. as it was