001Let's go ahead Sherry and start the meeting like states. Thank you. Yes. Roll call. I would like a motion to approve the agenda. So I'll second it. Thank you. Discussion. So, what I'd like to point out here tonight is u couple of things. The agenda goes where we do a brief session even with the sole purpose of completing superintendent. So, that's probably the only thing on here that stands out. Jerry, anything else from the standpoint that I'm missing? Okay. So with that are any more discussion? Okay. So there's no more discussion about our approved agenda. All in favor 100%. Okay. Recognition and welcome visitors. There's no one is making public comments tonight that I'm aware of. Sherry. Okay. Well, it looks like we're down to student recognition. Jerry. Okay. This this is Aurora and she
002is here. And she works hard and is willing to help anytime that I ask her for help. And sometimes I don't even have to ask. She jumps right in and helps out wherever she's needed. and is always very polite to everyone. It's been wonderful to have her in class. All right. So, you are being recognized as student of the month. Congratulations. Anna will always around taking pictures. Yeah. We need to have Yeah, we get the whole family. Thank you. We're gonna make it a thing and a half. Come on in. Her father should be in there. We're so funny. One, two, three. Perfect. Awesome. Can we get one of the board as well? One second. Get a picture with with the whole school board. I have been directed. I'll stay with you, Pam. Yeah, you
003and I. Do you want to take this one? Excellent. Thank you. We'll do it again. Yeah, we're fast. I'm fast forward. Okay, I think we're done. All right. So, I'm going to um read what Mr. Olsen said about Leon. So, Leon, will you come on up here? Leighton, let's see. Leighton and her brother Garrett have been with us since they were Well, they were they were little. What How old were you when you guys moved to San Diego? Were you in second grade, first grade? Okay. So, a few years ago they moved to San Diego. We were so excited when they came back this year. um back up here because we love this family and these wonderful kids so very much. So this is what Mr. Olsen says. Um this is the short acknowledgement of
004late Leon Lee being the student of the month for the fifth grade class. I want to take a moment to recognize Leighton and the incredible contributions she she brings to the fifth grade class. Each month focuses on character strong words for the month and Leighton truly embodies these values. Respect, responsibility, gratitude, empathy, and perseverance. Leighton, thank you for being a shining example of what it means to lead with character. Your actions inspire others, and because of you, our class, our school, and community are stronger and better. Thank you, Leighton, for being such an outstanding role model. Oh wow. And if the school board doesn't know Haley is a graduate of radio wonderful Okay, we're pictures. So, you got to stay put for just a minute here. Okay. They they like this so that when you
005become rich and famous, they can say they knew you. She's wearing shorts when it's 32 degrees outside. I don't like Good job. Congratulations. Well done. Like well done. Okay. So [Music] student a special time of the meeting. Okay. So looks like announcement shared. Um I guess the fifth is still the vote house on the 17th. No school president no school. and then okay on the 19th and the next board. Okay. So I'd like a motion to approve the consent agenda. Yeah. Discussion. So questions. Go ahead. Uh what is our plan for the Molly? Oh, it says resignation of Molly Baker and that's passed and so she's gone. Yes. Longterm. So longterm. Okay, cool. That was all that was my only question. So then the GDA donation. Yeah. Nice. So now the supplemental contract is complete.
006related to country. Um no this so to run um part of title one is to have parent interactions and opportunities and um so having a reading night is one of the expectations that's part of that and to get people to do those extra work. Okay. Any more discussion on the consent agenda? If not call for a vote. All in favor? I excuse me. Who made the motion? I was closing the door. I didn't get who who moved to Paul was the first. De was second. Okay. Thank you. Let me know if I don't. Oh, you're fine. I was just closing the door. So, all right. So, we're down to superintendent Jerry. Um, so you have the document in front of you. So um at our last meeting the retreat we had a discussion about sing
007around certain policies that the state was asking us uh to institute. But what happened um and Sherry was astute to find the um documentation from OSPI that those um federal court made a decision and they vacated the decisions that were uh made um by former president. And so that meant those policies that they were asking us to adopt are no longer accurate or legal. And so um it refers back to previous um policies and so um they plan to give us some more updates on current policies. So um things are kind of returning to so we might have to review um go over those policies again but the ones that were um we discussed are no longer the line don't know what needed to be along what line civil rights. Okay. Were the did the
008policies drive you crazy or did that implement implementation document drive you crazy? Um mostly the the expect the um procedures. Okay. But it really that's kind of irrelevant because the court threw it all out and we'll have to a new look at it. So now they can discriminate legally, right? No, it's not about that really. Um so Apollo um I met with them today and um the started looking at you know we've made a long ways through that and and it's appearing that the contingency fund will be able to cover um cost of a new control system. So, in the original program, it was just the HVAC, but it's looking like um there there's going to be enough money there to upgrade and update all the control systems for all of our HVAC work. And
009so, that's a very fortunate thing because that that system was very kind of long and too antiquated. And so, um I was very thankful for that. And it also it appears that there's a good chance that there will be enough funds there to um pay for the trees that we need to remove. That that one's going a little um slower. Um going to kind of wait till we get through all the control systems and then and see what money they have left. But it seems likely that both of those will be able to be covered. Um for sure the control systems um highly likely the trees as well. So that those that won't have to come out of our and the control systems control all the HIC. Yeah. Right. So right now our system is
010very old and it's on a laptop down in the basement and the new system would be updated and upgraded to modern uh standards and it would be web- based and um so that Tony or I um or Hannah whoever they have access can log into the systems and control our HVAC systems computer. Yeah, because the exciting part about that is that it was going to go out eventually anyway, probably sooner rather than later. And so to be able to have that would be great. And the funds are available because the work that they did came in. Yeah. Came in slightly under the Well, there's two portions. There's cost savings and then there's um uh contingencies. Okay. So um so um I believe the cost savings we're using for the well so not only we'll cover
011that but we'll also be able to cover this. Wow. Yeah. I'm very grateful for that. So before you leave this when you talk about the tree removal is there a guideline that you're following as far as the perimeter that you're trying to establish from the trees. Is there something or is it is it like I just feel like we need to move the trees one way. He identified a number of trees. Who's he? Um Dave Mlan the insurance guy. No, he's the superintendent of the project. He's not even he's the boss of the superintendent of the project who was here and he said these things are really problematic around. It's not on the whole property. It's the ones he he was looking at primarily from from the control equipment basis as opposed to a fire.
012Right. Okay. It's all about Okay. I miss I misunderstood. Yeah. Okay. That's a great deal. What you just described to us is a great deal. Yeah. They're taking good care of us. I must admit I'm pleased. I was worried when it started as you well knew, but I'm certainly pleased with the end result. Yeah. So, so far we're we're not [Music] done. So, um I thought you guys should know this. I've gotten a lot of comments from various people around various parts of the state about my uh presence on King Five News. Um, I attended a a hearing u OSBI was having on um on 20 minute lunch uh rule they were going to create and and and require kids um us to institute. Um and I me and almost 100 other superintendent and district
013directors of various kind showed up um with a whole lot of anxiety around that. Not because we have trouble with kids having 20 minutes for lunch. Um, and which is how it looked in the news. Like we had trouble with kids having the whole 20 minutes for lunch. And that was like they were dumbfounded that we would be against that. But the the rule as that they wanted to institute was that that 20 minutes would start when the last student um finished getting their hot lunch. And so what that really did is it created this 30 minutes and it or more depending on the lines and whatever and and um the the the one mother who report talked and the um the food service people were like that's not enough time for that last kid
014to have lunch. And I don't disagree with them at all. But one of the things that they they didn't understand was the the struggle around that extra time and how it creates a a problem for us with management of students because um students are all over the board in terms of how quickly they eat their lunch and um and our ability to some of them have a cold lunch and so they've been sitting there for 30 minutes or more. um and others um are they won't finish their food then no matter how long you give them right and so there's this wide spectrum of student needs and my opinion to suggest them is just let us make a decision let us men ourselves and you don't need the lunchroom ourselves and um because it's you
015know it's not in our interest to have kids go hungry right um and I just they They they um quoted me largely because I essentially summarized in a brief statement what all of the superintendents were saying is just leave us alone and let us run the school. Right? So that's why they they used me. Um, but a lot of it got the minutia of the proposal got kind of left out and so there was some talk and talk radio and different news channels and so my my face was the face of that issue. Um, and I think the the Mason County Journal is doing something too. They they actually talked to me and asked me about it. So some school districts um you have um schools that were built for two or 300 and they
016have four or 500 in the and so they would be hugely impacted because their their lunchrooms are not built for the number of students they have and the superintendent of Edmond school district um spoke and she said this is going to cost us half a million dollars because they're going to have to expand supervision and extra staff and Sometimes they have lunches already that start at 10:30 and finish at 1 so that they have time to get them all scheduled during during the day. And so um I don't know if they heard us. Um but anyway, they certainly heard me because I was on the news and I wanted you to know about that in case anybody spoke to you about that on. Yeah. And and um and the other thing that nobody clued into
017and I didn't until just kind of afterwards is that part of the problem they have is they created by um instituting a rule a year or two ago where they said we had to have recess before lunch. And so what would happen when I was supervising lunches more closely for many years is that kids would come in and they would eat and the slow kids or the kids that were playing or not eating, we let them sit there and finish their lunch and then go out to recess, right? Or and so um that has changed when they had us do recess first, right? So because because of the sequencing. So they they created a problem um and then they're trying to create a new problem in order to solve the problem they created. So um
018anyway, that's the all the details on the controversy. People ask uh people ask I'm okay with kids having a 20 minute lunch. Um but the details of it got lost. So anyway, um my last item is thank you for all that you do for the for us. you volunteer your own time freely. Um and um you care about the kids and school and that's obvious and so um there's a couple of note cards there from from others and uh one from me as well because I appreciate all you do to make very special by the way this this third year very special. Thank a little something. Okay. Any more words for Jerry? If not for Santa, you're next. All right. Um, so just some events since the last board meeting. Um, the Wizard of Oz.
019I know some of you were able to make it. Uh, it was amazing. so proud of the kids and once again, Miss Shannon um inspires our kids to perform in ways that I've never seen as any school. And then how small we are and and yet what she's able to inspire these kids to do. So just getting up there is already challenging but then they're up there in character. They're participating. They're active. They're engaged. Um do do you see the growth over that? Two couple months to get to where you start to where you end from September till January time. And um one of the so you know both my girls went when they were here they did shows with Miss Shannon um every year and they loved it. Um, but to see these kids
020who didn't want to do theater, and some of them are eighth graders, and I would get phone calls, I got phone calls in September or August from parents saying, "Please, please encourage so and so to do theater. This is their last chance that they're in eighth grade, and they'll never have another chance like Great Beast Theater." So, um, out of the three parents who requested it, I got two kids that I convinced to join. They were begrudging it at first, and they were so excited. Um, one of them was the scarecrow and he was fantastic. They just were so great and um, I'm so proud of them. So, there's huge growth from the beginning until the end of just they get so into their character. They get excited um, and they love performing and they
021all work so hard. So, there's two Saturdays that they commit to as well where they help paint the sets and um, help organize costumes and set everything up. So the show from start to finish with volunteers, but is still led by the kids. The kids design everything that you saw painted. We have a lot of adult volunteers from help build it and paint it, but the kids design it. So they on small pieces of paper draw out how they want the sets to go and then they turn those into triangles and that's the design that you know put on the those big panels. So Dave Miller factor in. Yes, Pam and David Miller are huge in um in helping us run these programs. Um Pam does everything from stage management, assistant director team, helping with
022costumes. Um Stephanie Dy is a parent who helped her and her mom and grandmother helped sewing costumes this year donating so many. So I mean they just put in so much time. It's really amazing. Um, so we're we're incredibly grateful, but also just so excited to see them perform. They were so excited. They just they felt so good about it. It was a nice It was taking for myself. I went Saturday and it was wonderful. It's a packed house, too. Yeah. Friday and I immediately texted all the board members and said, "You better get um Sam, can I make a comment? Absolutely. The job that the kids did, this is my perspective, they were able to do because they were loved through the process. They felt safe. They felt trusted. They felt empowered. Uh they
023felt well trained and it showed up in the performances of the children. Just amazing. So true. I love all the artwork that correlated with it too. from like the kindergarten to the like that was really cool to see on the back wall the scarecrows and the rainbows and that that was really neat. It's amazing because and Lori uh I remember one of the first big productions that she did was Beauty and the Beast and she had the kids melt um or they were doing that um kind of that clear glue and they were doing it on these panels and so when she would fold them off and then she was able to put them on the windows they look like stained glass. So we had everything filled with things that look like stained glass for
024the, you know, for Beauty and the Beast, like it's this castle. She just, she's everything around that. She's amazing. We're so grateful for her. The lines that they had to memorize and they nailed them. It was just amazing. My wife and I went home and we watched the 1939 version of it again. We were watching the scenes and and looking at what the kids did. It just covered a lot of ground about that story. It took me a day to get off to see the wizard out of my head. I kept telling it's it's the um I'll be honest, it's the joy of my year. I mean, I love the Christmas programs. I love all the different things that we do, but the middle schoolers and middle schoolers are an interesting bunch. That's a it's
025a strange age to be in and it's so hard to oftentimes pull them out of their shell and get them to express themselves and and participate in things and the way that they participate in that what they pull off and how involved they are engaged. Um it's the joy of my show. So was the cast heavily weighted with eighth graders um this year? I no I wouldn't say he I'd say probably a third that was eighth graders. Okay. There were a lot of sixth graders who joined theater this year. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Um, so the salmon eggs are in. You maybe noticed on your way in, we have a new salmon tank this year. Miss Breeze, um, Miss Goddard and Tony and Jamie have been huge in getting cleaned the new filter, the new
026systems, and the salmon center. Um, the salmon are are hatched, but they have their little yolk sacks attached to them. They're all along the bottom and they're huddled together. So super tiny. Um, this feeds, I think it's 130 eggs. Yeah, there and they all seem to be doing really well this year. So, um the rock city you can bring your fishing pole next time. So, and again I asked your cos tums they are shinook good correct. Yeah. Um yeah, the visit the the kids the salmon center has coordinated visits and those are scheduled and so they'll be coming um they already came and you know they teach the kids all about it and then the fourth grade will be releasing the salmon in I think in midappril to Zaylor. Will they go? Yeah. Yep. Okay.
027Um the Martin Luther King Jr. assembly was yesterday put on by our ASB and it was meaningful and I think you probably saw as we came through the hall um the hands um those we've been doing for years but every year it's done in a different way by every class. So they they um draw out their hands and then they cut that out and then they write their dreams in their hands. I have a dream and that the class comes up with um a couple of dreams that they want read aloud to the whole school and which they do in the assembly. So that's a really meaningful um assembly that our ASC puts together and it's it's really going well. Um middle school electives started today. We kicked out the end of the semester because
028we had the water issue day where we had to close school. So we we pushed out. So yesterday was the last day of first semester. Today was the first day of second semester. And so electives started and our electives this semester are art by Miss Shannon, um coding robotics with Mr. Trimble broadcast media still with um Miss Pitchoff and then student mentors um in the elementary classrooms. So they come and work with students for reading and math and sports. Um girls basketball started yesterday and we have 18 girls who have signed up for it which is great because um we've had uh sometimes some a reduction in amount of of girls signing up for sports just because of um outside activities that they're involved in. And um I'm really happy because 18, you know, JD,
029varsity, 10 girls, that would be bare minimum. And it's now we've got a lot of extras um to support two teams. So that's really good. Um with semester ending yesterday, report cards are being worked on right now. They'll be sent home the first week of February. We are doing it a little bit different this year. Instead of mailing every single family the report cards, um, we are attaching them Skyward, attaching them an email and sending the paper copies home in an envelope that's sealed with information to the parents going out in the one um on one call phone um the Skyward messenger, multiple things saying your child's report card is in your backpack today. Um, we found that, um, the cost of stamps and postage has gone up so significantly and the amount of material
030that we put into our report cards. A lot of other school districts have just moved to posting them um, in email and online. We like the personal component of being able to have the paper copies, but we are sending them home with the students instead of mail to see if this is a good to go for in the future. Um, so that's that's our plan with that. um and it will save hundreds of dollars. Um so that I think that'll be really good. Last Thursday, the 16th of January, um we took the fourth graders to the Washington Center for the Arts um and they performed with um multiple fourth grade classes in the region and with the Olympia Symphony um to perform multiple pieces like O to Joy with Beethoven um and it was a
031really special time. So, um, Wes is actually on the board with the, um, Olympia Symphony and, uh, I've been telling them, hey, this is a great thing. You know, great view has small fourth grade. You should get them involved. Well, normally the fourth graders start getting involved. They bring the recorders up and everything in um, September. And so they have these months practice where we didn't get our recorders until the 1st of December. And then it was because they were trying to get their numbers ranged. It was first thing for us. Um the first time we participated, our kids were so awesome. They played the recorders with this amazing Olympia Symphony um the orchestra up there. It was phenomenal and they played the recorders beautifully with hundreds of other fourth graders. Um reading the music
032up on the screen with the conductor. Um it was a really wonderful experience. So I went with Miss Shannon and Miss God, the fourth grade teacher. And next year we are signed up. we'll get three quarters in September and they will start practicing early and um they are so excited now that it's going to be I think we're going to be a part of this tradition um that started off in Carnegie Hall and it happens now across the country in different um uh like centers for arts where fourth graders get to participate in this unique experience. So video that we do and we do have a little clip. Um I'm just going to email it out. I think that would be best. I just I have like a five-second clip and and some pictures and
033things like that from it. From Ode to Joy. And I mean recorders are an intense sound. There's a definite quality to the recorders. Um which can be a little intense at first, but there's hundreds of them playing Ojo to joy. But they were in key. I mean, for the most part, they were playing their notes really well. So it was really special. um upcoming things uh on you know I know you saw it in the agenda but on February 19th we have a professional development day our certificated staff will be working on the new one screens um with a a trainer from the ESD um a whole bunch of different suggestions ideas and how to make those tools more effective and efficient as with any new tool we use it there's a learning curve and
034um there's you know updates and all these different things. And you know, I know that there's frustrations with teachers. There's also excitement and they're discovering new things with it, but there hasn't been a lot of time. And so, there will be a lot of time on that day to really work um on their one screens with the trainer um and focusing on how they can incorporate curriculum more effectively through the program and more interactively like our character strong curriculum, um our funders program, um different things like that. So, that's going to be great. Our par educators are coming in for a half day on the 19th and we're working with them on um students who have so working with paras students who have disabilities um roles and responsibilities of paras um just really supporting them
035in the students that they're working with um helping them set appropriate boundaries with students you know that they work with so closely um and just making sure that they feel like okay when this is exhausting and you know here's a boundary that I can put up and I can call for help here and I need to take a break here. Just making sure that they take care of themselves too because it's a hard job. Um it's a really challenging job and so we want to make sure that they know um what their role is and how we can support them. Um speaking of Character Strong, we are starting our first character strong assembly next week on Friday the 31st in the afternoon. Um it's going to be focused on the month of January which is
036perseverance and then moving into a focus on the month of February which is honesty and we are really excited about those um we're going to do it every month character strongness believe that just really encourages the kids focus and celebrates them and um highlights where we go with this program and why these words are so important. And then last but not least, um, and show our appreciation, we used to do something with the school board, um, in the long ago time that I always say the prior to the pandemic, the before time, the long long ago, um, we would invite schoolboard members to come into our classrooms as thank you for what you do, um, to see us, what's happening with our kids. So many teachers were like, I want them to come on in
037my classroom, but I don't have a specific example yet because it's the end of the semester and I'm trying to get my schedule arranged. So next month there will be some more options as well, but for right now I do have a sign up on some cool things that are coming up in the next week. And so I'll leave that up here at the table and if you want to sign up for one of these sessions sessions um these class lessons um we have fourth grade doing um landforms. They're working in their steam program with landforms. of actually building landforms and that's going to be on the Wednesday and Friday of next week in the morning from 9:50 until about 10 to 1 10:30. Uh third grade is in their steam class is making papier-mâché
038planets um as they work on the solar system. And so that's actually Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday um different times of the mornings. And then um fourth grade um PE Miss Pierce thought that you might want to see a PE class. Um and fourth grade time just works out well because where it's at in the morning. So uh so she she put that on there too. If none of these work for you at the February meeting, I will also have more teachers who kind of have things um more planned out with with some of their activities. And so you'll be able to do that as well. And um Miss um Pinch just took her uh seventh grade class to the capital because they're working on Washington State history. And so she does some really neat activities
039um with Washington state history that once she kind of gets some of those um locked in for second semester, she'll have some ideas for you as well. I'll leave that right over here. And that's all. So thank you very much for what you do. We appreciate you very very much and you can come and see our teachers at work. I'm very excited that uh we're invited back into the classroom again. And uh I got an insidevitation when I was at to play on Friday night. Oh, wow. Cool. All right. Thank you. Good. Would you not be slipping through jail? Okay, we're saving that $200 stamps. Stamps because Andre is going to talk about that as a good move. How to spend it. Okay, looks like you're up. I am. So, you guys should have two
040documents in front of you, similar to what you've seen in the past. Budget status report. gonna show you the fund balances for our five different funds. General fund, ASV, capital projects, transportation, that's fun. Not huge difference from last month. Um the biggest difference that you'll see on this page if you compare to last month is our enrollment. So we did gain five students this month. Of course, our enrollment is actually quite a bit over what was budgeted. budget for having 210 students and we're up to 227 and I think has some on more students that are showing up this month. So that's exciting. Um, we'll have to keep an eye on some of these classes because they're getting bigger. Like, doesn't that hurt us too in a way? No, it's such a Okay. Does teacher
041bargaining agreement has a has a class limit on it? Yeah. Make it up to some of these students without offering them some sort of compensation. Yes, they can choose. We're there. were there in a couple, but um when you get just a couple students over that number, it's not enough additional revenue to pay for a whole new teacher or establish a whole new classroom. So, it's kind of a fine a fine line, but it's exciting to have that many students coming back to us. Um on the second page of there is the information for you, the transportation information. I'm kind of skipping to the bottom first because it's the same information you had last month. And I have a ask out that I'm hoping to have in my inbox tomorrow, the next day on the
042last quotes that we need for school buses. And then we'll decide which company to go through to purchase a school bus. But we will plan to purchase one school bus this year. So as soon as we have that information, we'll make that choice. You don't get to go for a ride along. You don't get to go see what what it offers and what kind of seats. So, the kind of neat thing about this the school bus sales people, they definitely want to sell you a school bus and they will do anything they can to make that happen. They will bring a bus out to us where they'll take our drivers or drivers where they can go see a brand new bus. And we're talking to them about doing that right now so the bus drivers
043can look at different styles of buses and decide what's important to them and sit in one and see what it looks like to what they drive currently. New technology too compared to what we have. Yeah. So, directed to at Cherry too is is that I'm always I'm always interested in the bus utilization. We're buying a bus for 40 kids just a number and we're refilling it to So, do we have a good handle on the bus that we need based upon? Yeah. be getting the standard large bus. Yeah, because you can you can use a big bus with a few kids, but use a little bus with a whole bunch of kids. So, that's just the best value that's like you don't really save anything functional. There is a lot of interesting resources available on
044OSKI's website about transportation that I was looking into just to familiarize myself with our school district. So they compare you can do a comparison of each school district and they compare um 10 above and 10 below. So a total of 20 or 21 districts and they rank you how you relate to those considered your peers for size and geography. And we're actually rated very good on efficiency. of the number of students that we carry and the cost per student. I was pleasantly surprised to see what our cost per student was compared to the other two districts that I know well and then looking at where we lined up. It's really interesting that we're actually doing really well, which you hear sometimes talking about our school bus drivers because our buses are crowded. So, we are
045using, you know, maximizing what we have and not adding to bus that would drop that number down. you you've thought through you there's and I guess this is not a comparison apple to apple but you many times you see the m transit busy bus with poor people if you're if you're looking at that so other issues so um something um maybe more correct about legislative but there Senator Bronn has a proposal out to allow school districts to use transportation funds for transportation uh options that aren't the standard bus. Um and the reason that's valuable is because the um one bus drivers are hard to find. And so sometimes school districts are scrambling andor contracting with organizations to provide transportation for Mckin Vento kids because of the CDO. Yes. Right. Um, and so, um, it got
046some traction last year and this year, uh, maybe it'll make through. There's some real advantages to that. Um, and, um, so, you know, to give you an example, at Starbucks, we bought a a Suburban. Um, we couldn't use transportation money, but I had saved up enough money to buy one. And at first they thought it was kind of frivolous, but then soon as I left, they were using it every single day because they only had um one bus driver and they had two routes. I mean, there were only a few kids on that other route, but it allowed them to to um make sure kids every kid got to school and it gave them some flexibility um for um with another form of transportation. And so um that could come up. Um, we wouldn't jump
047into that right away, but it would be something in the future years consider creating some other options. Any other So, in other words, we're we're still holding up the 9 to 14% budget of expenditures. 77%. we have set aside the 9% I notic but as long as that enroll number is above that budget number so the other the exciting thing I skipped to go to transportation to come back to the exciting thing the January portion and enrollment so the portion of that money that we get from the state from September through December is based on our budgeted enrollment. So, we've been getting paid all year based on having 210 students. And this month in January, the state does a calculation and recalculates all of that based on our actual enrollment. So, the aortionment that we
048get at the end of this month and every month until the end of the year will be based on our real enrollment numbers. We'll be getting more money than we have. 227. Can we get back pay for that? They calculate it over the whole year. So what the state does that every month they do a calculation and they calculate kind of a total dollar amount. So we get X number of dollars based on Y number of students and they recalculate it every month and then percentages that you see at the top of this page. I don't this has been on every report before but you'll see where it says 985. I would normally hide that. It doesn't have a heading telling you what it is, but that is a percentage of our total aortionment of
049money that we get. So, they just dole out a portion of it each month and then calculate how much they've already given us compared to how much we're owed and give us that percentage of interest. It'll change a little bit. Every month enrollment could change. 30 months the total could change a little bit but a nutshell is as long as we continue to have the level of kids that we have now we will get one the other caveat I'll say typically in the spring so I'm never too excited until June it's exciting that we're containing this on this page we're going to give Sometimes you get confused with acronyms but this CTE FTE reporting average that's not that is the same that's the that's current tech that's that one class with the five kids that
050how many kids are we can count at the beginning of the year there was three and it went up to four and I think second semester it's like five or six now but the8 FTE that you When we take a whole student, like one student, and we break up their classes, their middle school classes, 18% of them sit in that one class. The rest of it, if they're a one point, the other classes might be math class. That's what they're four kids. And there's there's over 20 kids in that class, but a lot of them or there's like I think there's 19, but a lot of them are sixth graders. And sixth graders don't count. Oh, I was wondering that they count even though you're not a junior high. [Music] Thank you for I looked
051at that. Okay. Thank you. We do get a little additional funding um for our CTE program. We haven't received any of that for the first part of the year because we didn't budget to have any kids in CT when we did the budget last week. But now that we really do have kids in CT, the additional funds show we have one certified teacher, right? We'll add more for now. That's the goal. We have 227 FTEES. That's a good kind of problem to have. Yeah. One of and one of the things that came up in our outline was we're going to talk about this in Jerry's video is an audio presentation white school. One of our discussions at our at our offite. So anxious to see how that pulls together because it supports what you're doing.
052Nice job. question. Um, no. How is the uh the McDonald's for uh the do we get how much funds and all that? Do you know? I don't know yet. Last time it took like several weeks. There were so many people there. We need it. I know. They they got I think it's $1,100 and some dollars. I don't know. Really? That's fantastic. So, we're going to move on here. Andrew, thank you. Okay. Where do we stand here? What's going on next? We're down here now in new new business. So what we're going to do here is actually two [Music] minutes that tonight and my my goal is that we can maybe collectively give enough comments back filling this out and then I will go ahead and put together okay final yeah good concession. So, anything more
053that we need to talk about there? And then um the operating agreement. So, in our packet to signature, I think Tom, you've got is our new operating agreement. I believe everyone signed [Music] except we'll have to catch up west. So, another product of our offsite Okay. So, unless there's anything more that needs to be done here, we talked about action the sign of a operating agreement and we'll do the major evaluation in the meeting executive session. So, I think we action. Okay. Item 13. Let explain update Thomas. Okay. Uh, do you guys have in your possession this packet of information? Are you going to stay through this exciting portion because we have one extra here that you can look at if you'd like. Thank you for reminding me. This is a lot of information. a
054whole lot. And the uh actually I want you to look at this single page first. If you look at the bottom of that single page, it says the current legislative session started January 13. Today's one second. Uh we're talking six days if you throw out the weekends. But what I know and and it would be good for you to know is that because they have weekends doesn't mean that our people who represent us in the 35th district just go home on Friday night and and cruise because uh it's mayhem and it's uh deal making and it's uh trying to get good things done etc etc. It's a 105day session this year on the oddnumbered years and I think it's a 60-day session on the even numbered years. Uh so somewhere around April 30th they'll draw
055it to a close. So, uh, I don't I don't have a lot of information that I can report on what's transpired so far, but I can tell you with certainty that the wrangling and the, uh, emphasis and and deal making is going strong in Olympia. And I I can also tell you that the uh new governor has made some very interesting statements about how he wants the legislature to look at what's going to happen in this next year and the next couple of years. And he has identified that and I'm paraphrasing what he has said. we can't keep growing the budget and spending money without being able to support what we're doing. And he implied that some of the money that has been spent in the past year in various departments, they're going to need
056to look real hard at what they absolutely have to have because there may be there may be some trimming down or some slimming down. And um and and that's a real important thing for the legislature to hear because if you've been watching, let's say for the last 10 years, uh each year the budget gets bigger, bigger, bigger, and bigger. And and I'm I'm not saying that there aren't needs each year that require more money to be spent. U but what inevitably happens behind that is how are we going to raise taxes to fund those uh programs. You can you can make a a wise surmise that there are um lots of people in Olympia and around Olivia who have ideas about how the money is to be spent. And I'm not talking about the legislators.
057I'm talking about special interest groups. And uh uh there's a word for people that that do that in the state of Washington and they probably do it in Mason County and they absolutely do it in in the national budget concerns and there's a lot of pressure from those people and special interest groups to make sure that their needs are taken care of which really makes it difficult difficult for us as schools to have our voices heard and to have enough representation in Olympia basically basically to say that the constitution says you are required to fully fund education and how long ago was there decision 10 years 10 years Yeah. And uh and it finally came out and a whole bunch of money was allocated and it got spread out and and utilized and and here
058we are that several years later and we're still trying to to get levies to take care of our responsibilities at school districts on the local level. And you know, we talked about it last year, we talked about it the year before. Education gets short changed. So there's a lot of voices in Olympia buying for or fighting for dollars and we have the opportunity to be an advocacy group so that the legislators down there uh hear how important it is and why it's important. So the first couple of pages just talk about advocacy in general and it talks about the Washington State School Directors Association and our advocacy and when I say our we are members of WASDA helps us in significant ways important ways and and they're doing the same thing for all the other
059districts. in the state. We're a small district. There's clearly a difference in small districts and large districts from the standpoint of large districts have always had sway and they still have sway. Uh fortunately in the last couple of years there's been some leveling in the playing field which we've talked about last year. I want you to look at the uh this page that has a picture of the capital building. It's the tenants for effective advocacy, curiosity, competence, confidence and commitment. We need to get to know the legislative activity as best we can and in doing so then we can be more effective in advocating And we actually do have the ability to be effective in our advocacy. And I think this year we probably have the best chance as a school board at three view
060to make a commitment to do something. And we'll talk about that some more in the way of advocacy. If you flip over the next full page, it talks about what is advocacy. I like the second bullet point. It says it includes activities and publications to influence public policy laws and budgets. And then the bottom bullet point is use fact relationships, media and messaging to educate government officials and the public. Well, one of the easiest things we can think of when we do talk about that is we have three representatives, two reps and a senator in our 35th district. the next page. But we can go beyond that because we do have the ability to weigh in on all kinds of bills as they work their way through the the legislature. Uh we can provide testimony.
061The next page talks about that. We can meet with our legislators. We've had them come here over the last couple of years and talk to us. We can write an op-ed. We can present at a public meeting. And I'm going to stop right there. I want Jerry to talk about what he and some other folks did uh just recently. Um we I um signed in to the legislative ed committee and um uh indicated my support for um legislation they'll be looking at tomorrow. Um it really evolves around funding and what we call the big three, the transportation, the special ed. And so I got on your side mark that I need four that support that legislation and put my name in the grass for and I did it for each of the pieces of legislation.
062And so I tried um I can forward you the directions so that if you wish to do that you can please. Um I tried to do it on my own and it was confusing but I got some directions from the ESP and was able to to make it happen. So I did it Nikki did it, Cindy uh did and Hannah did as well. So I'll forward that to you first thing in the morning. good so that you have that um if you are so inclined to do that um do it right away um because I think this um the hearing is tomorrow after then is it when we give our name and address we somehow indicate that we are board members there I didn't see a place for that basically how I what I did
063I ended up signing in more as my residence where I date. Okay. Um, so and I actually did that because to make sure because I know our our guys are pretty in tune with us and supporting with us, but I wanted to make sure my legislators knew that we were supporting that. So, um, and is it mostly check box like you? Yes, it was a check. Okay. And I did each one at a time, each each bill. So, I couldn't do them all. Click, click, click. Sure. For each one. So, um, and that's kind of um a simple way of saying you support. You could sign up to testify if you wish. Um, or you could write emails or more involved. Um, but it's it's a good way of simply taking, you know, 20 minutes
064of your time and saying that we want make sure you know we're here and we want you to support. one of the ways that that uh we can support our legislators in our district. The information is on this single page that you have uh when you go on the the website for the legislature for our district, you don't get the they don't give the legislator's email address. They give you the opportunity to sign in with your name and address and by based on your address that's going to identify you. It's either going to be Travis or Dan or Drew Mchuan. And there are phone numbers on the list here and those these come off of the website for the legislators. This is a a office phone number. It's not their cell phone. It's not bringing
065their house and that's good. I like the fact that they can be protected from too much harassment that way. The other thing you can do is you can send something through the mail and I I put the address there for the Washington legislators. Uh and to send an email, there's a website link right there. You can go to that and when you get on the the legis wall ledge website, it'll guide you to that same email there. you enter your personal information and then it guides you to the right person. So, I'm part of the was the ledge committee and I tune in to their their weekly uh Zoom meetings. And one of the things that was uh brought up in the last one was you've got legislators that are really helping you, especially in
066your district, and they deserve a thank you. which is why I put down there, send that email or write a card, drop it in the mail to that address, uh, a card of encouragement, a card of gratitude or thanks, a card of support or an email of support and guidance for any particular bill or agenda for or against. Uh we're very fortunate in this district. The guys that we have are very pro school. They're they're connected to us. They realize that we're not just a lost child out here in the suburbs of Mason County. Uh we have a lot of time and they're going to be putting a lot of time and effort into it. So, uh, Jerry mentioned the big three. Transportation, special ed. Special ed is number one, transportation is number two in
067MSOC. And that's a very important one is it it we don't have enough of that which forces the circumstance where we get put in a binding that if we don't pass a levy we don't have the money to accomplish that. I'm going to skip over here couple of pages. A lot of it is how Wasp goes about their advocacy. I like it. There's good education in here of how a bill becomes a law in our state and why we advocate for those uh bills to get passed. Uh we talked last month briefly about the fact that we must have the opportunity during this period, January, February, March um to go down to the capital, one of us, two of us, three of us, four of us, and uh go visit our legislators or maybe go
068sit in on a committee on something that's really important to us. And I will give more information as we move along. And I like the idea of some of us going down there to the session. It's an educational thing to do and it's going to be really important to watch the interaction. If you would like to listen in on the the Tuesday was the ledge sessions, I'll send you the link to that and you can sign into it and and listen. It's very educational and they have a lot of of uh guests that come and help out on those weekly callins. You have any questions about anything I've said so far? I want you to turn to the page that's near the end. It says what we know 25 2025 legislative session. We're just going
069to look at those four blocks there. To move the needle on any funding issue, we will need everyone to advocate regularly. Bill pre-filing has commenced. More are on the way. Governor Governor's proposed budget is unlikely to have significant impact over the final budget. And lastly, we will be asked to weigh in on proposed revenue. It's really disheartening and disappointing and we've talked about this in the past to watch the uh funding that comes down the pike and gets approved for education. U shared that with us last time he was here shared that with us the time before that when he was here. I think the important thing for us is to not get disillusioned or get down on what transpires during the session, but to help our legislators and and what they may guide us
070to do and where to put emphasis. And Jerry can also help on that because Jerry's involved in his association that's teamed up with uh Wazda and one of the other there's one the third group that's part of that and they're the ones that put their collective minds together and made the decision on we're going to focus really on these big three. Remember we gave 10 recommendations and we wanted to see money spent and emphasis put and we can review those 10 because there will be bills that will uh that will advocate or look for those or need advocacy to look for those. But these three groups was and the other group u their I think their combined effort will have better impact this year than we've had in the past when we've had three separate
071entities advocating. The other is the principal association. Well, I'm glad that our principal wasn't here when I couldn't remember the name of the association. What what was interesting I was encountered in many people I I'll remain nameless. In fact, that person's aggressive behavior toward me was why is why is Washington in the top 20 for cost per student being the highest cost per student, right? In other words, like in in the country, it looks like we're like 13th, but one one one day at the top, which is was in Washington DC was over $32,000 per student. Below was Idaho and Wyoming down at $6 to $8,000 by student. We were 195. And what's interesting, it seems to me, and I don't necessarily understand all of it. We certainly understand the impact of special ed. We
072certainly understand when we have to run levies to cover things like the transportation and then of course the young stocks which were really were really uh not much we could do about but there still needs to be in my mind more transparency about what goes I think Tracy used to have and and this might be something we pull out. She used to have a a pie chart that showed the breakdown number of costs of our cost and what you know the percentages and whatnot. I'd like to get a copy of that again so I have my hip pocket to basically talk more intelligently able to do. But there's still that I think we're still going to need to basically make sure that we all are prepared for those conversations because there's not a lot of
073room here. Yeah. One thing you didn't point out is our insurance how it went up and I saw on the news the other day like Seattle they're went up 60%. So that's a lot of the budget there. And then just the on on the the issues that come up with running a school, you know, the roof leaking or you know, something just happening with with the systems that that could totally bankrupt a school. It it's interesting because if you I even heard Ferguson say the state doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. Yes. Correct. and and and so when you hear that in school it's it's throughout the whole budget. Yeah. So when you hear that it's like okay it's like what hand what what are the handles that we have? I
074mean it's like you don't spend how you say money is you don't spend on something but my sense is here we're spending money on the things that we need to put the money into at the end of the day to give these students the quality education that they deserve when you look at what happens Friday and Saturday here that was that was outside of the normal I mean that didn't occur by virtue of budget that occurred by by just tenacious behavior. There's a lot of people that worked on this that that either volunteered or didn't get it sent and they run those some they did but there were a lot. So, in other words, yeah, I I'm pontificating if someone stopped it. But I think that that's that transparency around this is costing me. I
075would I would have been a terrible advocate against the school had I not been on this sure to understand. I mean there's lots of people that are relying on this trusting us that we're watching what's going on. Anyhow, we have three things really going for us. The school is really wellrun and the coordination between staff and the administration, the principal and the superintendent just really managing well, that's to our benefit. You look at these districts that you've heard about that are in trouble. Moses Lake over there was $10 million wrong in their budgeting and and calculating of things. Uh Seattle was off the charts. Well, they're hemorrhaging children too. They can't keep them in school period. So that's an issue too with funding this students not enrolled. That question is not there. The second thing
076is our community really supports us and we have consistently brought levies before our community and pass the levies. That's very important. Um and the third thing is in my mind is the support we get from our elected representatives here and the quality of the staff program. So Andrea and when we have a full-time equivalent if their attendance is 80% is that full-time equivalent deducted they're enrolled. So okay so enrollment isn't really doesn't have a function in revenue generated attend enrollment does attend enrollment does but I remember to ask I asked that okay all right so in other words but if we have them like Jose being if we get them through the door we can do something we got to get them okay that's that's where the movement comes in Okay. All right. Thank you.
077I don't have anything else right now. I exceeded my time. Thank you. So, if do you have a view if we were to in that go to Olympia? Do you have some some is there is there an opt optimal time to go there to to be present during some phase of Yeah, it's going to be when our legislator is involved in decision making in his committee. We have that as it relates to schools and funding etc etc. And the other is when during the process of when the bill is being considered slash hammered over, fought for, etc., etc., and the bills that are important to us. So, we can zero in on those bills when they're being dealt with. And Jerry was advocating because this one has a a hearing tomorrow. Um, and that and
078the other is when our legislators, if we go down there, when any of our three legislators are doing the the hard work, we show up there, we will imprint on them. We will encourage them and they will feel supported. They'll know that they're doing what their constituents want. Okay. Any others? Thank you. Nice job, Tom. taking us through this this packet for the law was is good stuff. It was pretty well condensed. Okay, we're to the point on the agenda. We're down here in policies. This is our first reading um discussion. So, I read through this policy meeting today and one of the things that stood out here was a comment and that 3210 is That's a really dicey jumped [Music] out statement that was made when it came to a harassment examples of important
079discrimination. You're not on the student. Yes. I'm looking at I'm looking at students 5,000. Yeah. 5,000 student. I just I personel personnel the action non-discrimination and action. What I found statement that was made in there could be prohibiting an employee from using the resting consistent of his or her gender identity. when we we would have this discussion about gender friendly student and that we had assigned a bathroom that was a gender neutral and that but that person didn't didn't have to fall over didn't have to use that bathroom and then and there what we had is that if they chose to go to to go to the restroom and it that we had to go to to make sure that that bathroom was was vacated. Would that same thing would we have do that same
080thing here? If it was if it was we have individual bathrooms that are locked in place. So it's really not a nonissue. This is specifically around personnel and it's a nonissue. Okay. Because it's the individual lots of days. That was kind of the thing that jumped out at me and said, "Wow, do do we have this? We have this policy now, don't we?" But last updated like 2024, I thought it was interesting about the military, whether you're a veteran or active military, as if you could be discriminated against because of that. I just thought it was interesting that yeah that's so pervasively included surprised because they don't my only guess is that that has to do with that that's what I can think of because I thought what otherwise I think it's advantageous to monetary
081just one thing I wanted to bring up um on under new business and action items. Um it's an approval item for the school board um operating agreement. So it usually somebody motions to approve it and then everybody signs it after it's approved to adopt that adopt. That's we all signed it on Google. I think she's right to mot interesting because we confusion there was we did we talked through this extensively during and so we we actually Okay. So are you advocating then that we would go back then and do it that's how we always did it in the past that it was an I think an action item that it was approved and then everybody's agreed and but finishes policy first reading people back. Thank you. Okay. So, as I that was the one that
082CH 510 just jumped out the complexity around that um personal use and transportation um I didn't see anything transportation other than [Music] what's here parent. Yeah. And the parent guardian understood that bus stop beyond the national walking group may receive reimbursement for private transportation at the state mileage reimbursement right that ever I'm not sure we doing it here. I have a student at my other school that um they live kind of on a back road and on gravel and um it's a little bit rough so we don't feel comfortable spending that a bus up there so we pay them to some sort of Yep. mileage. It happens. It happens often at larger districts with a large special education population where those families don't choose. Good. I'm trying to understand the term infant. Is that an
083age? Is there an age group associated with that in that policy? [Music] Is that right then? Just a student in your mom. You can bring your kid. We can't. Okay. Okay. Good. Good. Also know on the school was to [Music] ask you're allowed to this policy to include. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Eighth graders, I hope we never have that. Oh. Oh, like a car seat on a bus. That just they have black belts, right? No. Um there are some buses. Um it creates its own separate problems when you have that. Um and so um we were looking at having we had conversations about having some rows of seat belts but um it's a whole kind of different kind of logistical problem than that and to make sure that that student stays buckled too I would imagine.
084Okay. Any more around? [Music] Okay. Okay. So, Sher brought up a good point. So, let's let's go back around to item item 12. Section B approved the 2025 2526 operating 24 and here's 24. Okay. So I'd like a motion to approve the 20 19 2042 25 school board operating agreement. So second okay discussion. Okay. So we went through this u quite thoroughly. Bring you on a green. Did we make one? We did we made a typo just a couple a word and then change. Okay. So went through it then gone through. Okay. Um let's return. So we we got the documents. So, I'm going to No more discussion. We call for a vote. All in favor? I I 100%. Okay. Thank you, Sher. Okay. Well, we're down to the policies. Here's your agenda item board
085meeting. Met your data presentation. Now, this is basic type stuff. our all of our internal testing. Okay. And then crisis response training for staff and students in March. Okay. All right. Anything else there agenda items, Tom, that you think that Well, you're you had your discussion in there anyway. So, anything you can think of. Okay. But we're down to item number 16, which is uh board superintendent reflections and comments. Tom, we'll start with you. Uh I don't know. I was so impressed and had such a good time like the the play last Friday night. It was fun to listen to him reflect on gave us a chance to talk about it a little bit. Andre, I'm really glad you're here on board. And I've mentioned to you guys before that uh based on what happened
086in the last couple of legislative sessions where education got in my opinion mistreated from a funding standpoint. And I said at that point, I want to fight. I want to fight and do whatever we can from an advocacy and inform standoint. That's why I'm the on the school board because we have to we're not going to take it laying down. And if they don't do it this year, it won't be because we didn't be in the battle with it. That's it. Thanks, Andrea. Um, I am excited to go in the classroom. I can't wait to go look and sign up. Um, I'm honored to be invited in there, too. I think that's another great seat. And um thank you home for the advocacy for the lot. I it kind of opened my eyes and also
087realizing that it's we can't be on autopilot for this and I that's the main reason I'm here is I don't want to be on autopilot anymore and I don't want to see our children suffer. So to thank you um I too enjoyed the play. It was great. Um, I liked having the kids here today. It was fun. Um, Avery, thank you. You seem to be just like sliding right in. Just become one of the gang. That's perfect. Thank you. I appreciate that. Terry, thank you very much. I appreciate that. It's nice to be back actually. Thank you. Appreciate it. Um, Tom, thank you very much. because I think I've been intimidated about how to just get into the process. So now that if you get now that I have a couple of addresses to go
088and if you send us something, I can do it. It just getting there. They make it so hard. They make it really hard. I just know how to navigate the system. And so I really appreciate this a lot. I think that's wonderful. Um and I need to say that we had that off-site meeting and I came out of that excited. I just felt real positive about everything we talked about. It just felt like a a good session and I think it brought an energy to us that we needed. So thank you again report Jerry. I too u Andrew thanks appreciate it and u I too thanks for continuing to open our eyes and I think back about when Travis was here last summer and just how emotionally connected he was to funding especially we fully
089appreciated and I and I guess Deb you brought brought up something I want to reiterate a little bit more is on our offset we get a strength, weaknesses and opportunities and threats. And I I really hope that when we get a chance to to get that out in front of us because I think some really valid points came there about why we are the way we are. I think it still sticks in my mind and audio presentation by the kids, why it's going to do good, whatever you want to call it. and uh and I think there was some eye openers there about our strength and some weaknesses and some opportunities for us and and the constant threats. So anyhow that's where I stand and the Wizard of Oz was a lot of fun. Okay,
090Jerry, I would you just appreciate Tom's um advocacy and your willingness to step into the legislative advocacy because I think there probably was a time when you could just kind of coast and probably be fine. Um the um it seems perilous and surprisingly so. [Music] um the the funding for schools. Um there's a lot of reasons. I can't seem to explain I don't can't explain them all. I just know where we're at. Current status is we're we're we've made decisions years ago that have helped us be okay right now. um uh but um if they can't come through with some some more answers in years to come, it's going to continue to erode our stability. And so um and um we um will just be absorbed if we can't do that, right? So we are
091our um for us it's even more important. And so as a school superintendent, I talk to them, they're like, they expect me to say, "Give me more money." Uh, but school board, you guys are elected officials just like them, and you have an insight into what the issues are in our financial situations. And so I think you're well positioned to have have a voice perhaps even greater than mine in the process. Thank you for your willingness to step into that. Were we allowed? Let me back up. When we were working to to get the uh um levy passed, we weren't really allowed to do anything on school property because we weren't allowed to affect voting in the school. But can the school website have like this address saying if you want to encourage your representatives
092to vote for education, here are some ways you could do that. content or is that you you can um we could make information available to engage in the process. Yes. Yeah, that can be done. I mean we can't champion one way or another and as from our website can't use school funds and resources for that but we can make information available to the community about their contact information. The challenge with that is it's a it's a moving target. Yeah. Right. Do you mind the other guys who don't want to? Well, yes, there's that through and but also um it changes hour by hour what's happening there. Okay. And um it was a real eye opener for me on the transition kindergarten legislation that I was highly involved in trying to advocate for uh or against.
093But by the time they made all the changes and shifts to it at the end, I was like, "Oh, wait. Now I'm for it." Right? And so you have to watch it really carefully. And so my thanks. Okay, I'm looking at the agenda. We've gotten through. So we've completed this portion of the meeting and we're now ready to go to objective session item number 17. I'm going to say that we're going to go in here. I'm assuming we can go right into the session, right? That's good. Okay, let's let's go ahead and and uh take uh we're back at uh 6:45 and u sure I'm going to say that we're going to probably get in this thing. Okay. At about 710 I think we will probably So that's what 20 minutes. Yeah. And you don't
094have you don't have I will tell you guys um if any of you have trouble doing the process that Jerry described on the legislative website about like showing your support I did also it's really easy I forget what entity sent us if you call me Good. She's brilliant.