001here to bring the Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 Elsagundo Unified School District regular board of education meeting to order at 6 pm. At this time, I would like to invite our Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Jason Johnson, to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Please stand over 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. Um there was no action uh taken in closed session and we are now opening the public communications hearing hearing period. And seeing none uh we will move on to special presentations starting with an update from uh our ESTA uh representatives who are here. You get double trouble today by the looks of it. Also, we apologize. Didn't realize this was a board
002member Tuesday and it's only summertime, so we are in shorts, so we have to look at our legs and I'm sorry about that ahead of time. With that being said, the one thing that we really do need to get out today is the fact that we want to recognize Tanya Nodar as being ESDA president for the past six years. I believe she put in a lot of hard work and dedication and she definitely carried the ESTA through a lot of difficult times at times some good times and so yeah, just want to recognize her as doing her hard due diligence uh throughout that process. So now you're stuck with me. So anyways, enjoy the rest of your evening. Thank you, Andrew. And now we have the introduction of the new Elsagundo Unified School District Director
003of Maintenance and Operations, Dr. Linds. Thank you, President Glenn. It is my pleasure to introduce our new director of maintenance and operations, Marne Harmon. I've had the pleasure of working with Marne in her current roles as payroll director as well as in her current role as uh accountant and HCM specialist um for many years. She also has an extensive background in leading a janitorial management company handling both large and small projects across the Philadelphia area. Marne brings with us um a commitment to excellence that we um are also committed to um having incredible facilities across our district and the respect of her colleagues. Um she has also been the CSEA vice president, a role she will be giving up as she assumes her new role for the last two years. Um it is with pleasure
004I introduce Marne Harmon. Thank you. Uh, good evening, President Glenn, members of the board, cabinet, superintendent, Dr. Johnson, El El Sagundo community, and Miss Tracy Adams. I'm incredibly honored and excited to step into the role of director of maintenance and operations. I want to sincerely thank you all for this opportunity and for the extremely extremely thorough and rigorous three round interview process. I just wanted to say at one point I wasn't sure if it was a job interview or survivor. like I just I wasn't sure. I thought I was getting lunch. I don't know. But anyway, um with all jokes aside, um I'm I'm truly grateful for this opportunity. Um it it showed a level of detail to me um that this district cares um not only about their people um choosing the right people
005and and I'm super grateful to be one of them. Um, with over 10 years of experience running my own commercial janitorial company and the last six years working right here in the district in payroll and accounting, I've come to deeply appreciate the culture, the people, and the pride that define Elsa Gundo. I'm excited to bring the same passion to maintaining safe, clean, and welcoming spaces for every student and staff member. So, thank you again. I'm grateful and can't wait to get started. I just want to say you've probably heard a lot of conversation about bathrooms. Yes. And yet you're still wanting this job. So, yay. This is good. So, no, I I having known you for all these years, too, that you've been here. I I appreciate that you made yourself available and survived the
006survivor trial. So, thank you and good luck. I appreciate it. Thank you. I'll chime in and say it's exciting because a you're excited. You're going to bring a joy to this role and I think that's really important. You have the connection with the district and the experience with having your own business and so we appreciate that you'll bring all of that with you to this role. So, thank you Marty. We're really glad to have you in this capacity. Um it's it has been great working with you with payroll. Um but uh I'm excited for this new position for you. Congratulations. Thank you. Thanks, Marne. Thank you. Congratulations. Appreciate it. U moving on to item 4 C, district goals. Dr. Jason Johnson, board president Glenn, members of the board, Tracy, thank you. Uh, this evening we
007are putting the third draft in front of the board for your convenience for tonight. I did email it uh right before the start of the meeting, so it's at the top of your inbox if you'd like to take a gander. There have not been substantive changes since the second draft except for those pieces of feedback that came from the board directly. Uh and the the most substantial one was reorganizing the measurements at the bottom of each to connect them with which objectives and goal areas um they directly correlated to. Um the other area uh of revision Tracy and I are still working on um which is to just to come up with like the right terminology language for cultural engagement based off of some of the feedback that we got. Uh we'll bring that revision
008to the board for the July meeting. will message it to the board well before then. Um, but that is the last pending change. Um, this is a much more brief presentation because I know we've seen a lot of district goal presentations. So, at this point in time, I'll take feedback from the board. [Music] I feel like I've looked at this a lot and I feel like we're we're honing in very nicely. So, um, yeah, I think that one little area just to sort out the wording. Yep. and I'll I'll be done messing with it. I'll just say that. Yeah. All good. And the you know, since the substantive revisions are are done, the district team is already in the process of breaking these down into action plans as well, too. So, I want to assure
009the board that nothing's being lost here as far as time goes, that we recognize by content. We're we're there and now we're just we're putting in word touches. Um, so I just want to share that. I think we're all very happy with it and look forward to finalizing it and moving on to the next stage which is bringing it to our constituents. Great. We'll send out a communication to the community once again just announcing like hey this is a recent draft the most recent draft. It's never too too late to send feedback. Um because I will say even if that doesn't end up in the language of the goals all the feedback that has been sent we're building that as part of our action plan and consideration. So every voice really does matter. Thank you.
010Item 4 D, special education update. Dr. Jack Plucken. Hi, good evening, Dr. Johnson, President Glenn, members of the board. Uh, my name is Jack Platkin. I'm the executive director of student support and um I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you tonight about special education in Elsagundo uh where we support all learners and where we truly believe that all means all. This is our agenda and uh some of the things that I will be talking about. There'll be lots of pictures of of cute kids to look at sprinkled in with maybe some less exciting information. But if we start with our why, why do we do what we do? Well, we start with our mandate. And our mandate in special education is that we need to provide access to all students learning and we need
011to make sure that all students gain educational benefit. That's the floor of what we do. And then I've just I've snipped our uh district goals from 2020 to 2024 because really what we aim to do is have all students wellprepared to have all students thrive and that's what we strive to do um in this district. That's the why. And this is really the how we do it. And when we think about the how, we think about a continuum of services that are available. So I'm going to walk you through what this continuum looks like. Um, so you kind of have a picture of what it looks like in Elsagundo schools. And we generally talk about a continuum from being least restrictive, which generally means the most time um with uh in general education to most
012restrictive, which would be the least time. So uh general education classroom, that would be the least restrictive. Consider a fifth grader. He has a speech and language impairment and he's mostly gotten through his articulation issues issues and the speech and language pathologist just pushes into the classroom, checks on him, checks in with the teacher and he's pretty good to go. That would be an example of a student who's almost entirely in general education. We move on to specialized pushin support. So consider an eighth grader. She has a specific learning disability for reading. So, she is in a collaborative language and literature uh class, which means that that is taught by the Jenna teacher, but there's a special education teacher in there as well. She has her eyes on that student as well as maybe a
013couple others, and she's supporting the learning in general. So, we have pushin at all levels, but that's just an example of what it looks like at the middle school. Then there's as we go down the continuum, specialized uh pull out support. So maybe think about an 11th grader and he has autism and his difficulty really is in language and English. So he actually is in a separate class for English at the high school where he gets his needs met. He's still in diploma track but he the big classrooms too much for English. That's his area of struggle. So he gets that specialized pull out support. As we go down the continuum then we get to our intensive pullout programs. So this is like what we think about bridge at uh elementary level. These tend to
014be students who have extensive support needs, who are supported by teachers with expens extensive support needs. So, think about maybe a second grader and he has an intellectual disability and he might spend half his day in the bridge classroom because that's what he needs in order to get to meet his IEP goals, in order to develop the skills that he needs to be meaningfully included throughout the rest of his day. Then the last category, we do have students that a very small handful of students that require a separate setting, meaning outside of our schools. So that's how the continuum works and that's what it looks like in our district. I just named off a bunch of eligibilities, but we think about what is the eligibility rate. How are we qualifying students in this district? You
015can see here that we're pretty well below and we've historically been well below um not just the state average, but also um our local districts. And that's what we that's where we want to be. That indicates that we have a robust system of multi-tered systems of support in place, tier one and two interventions. It suggests to me that we have well-trained school psychologists who know uh how to write legally defensible IEPs and how to qualify students. Um and that we have uh high quality interventions in place. When you look at eligibility by site, you see just a little bit variance and um you might notice a dip and a gain there. First of all, I'll talk to you about when we dove into those data what those mean. We see a lot of students when
016they get to like fourth and especially the end of fifth grade, they kind of start to graduate out of their IEP. And it's a proud moment for mom and dad because they've they've kind of, you know, remedied those skills. Sometimes it's kids with speech articulation disorders who by the time they get to fifth grade, the developmental it catches up and they kick in. So we see a little bit of a drop in middle school and then we see it tick back up a little bit in high school and more of those tend to be students who are qualifying as other health impairment or emotional disability and that is typically um related to things like generalized anxiety disorder, depression. And we start to see a little bit of a rise of that in the high school
017level which is why it's so critical that we have our wellness centers now at the high school at the middle school so that we can again provide these supports before we uh identify students. So how are we doing in terms of compliance in terms of what the state looks at? So the state has this desile system one being lowest 10 being the highest. So I just snipped some of um our our report from this year. You can see in areas like ELA and math proficiency, we're at 10. We're at the highest um level when we compared to other districts. A couple eights and nines in there that we'd like to see um pick up as well. That's not to say that our students with uh identified disabilities are performing at the same levels as students
018without disabilities on the CASP. They're not. Uh so it continues to be an area of focus. It's in uh schools, school site plans. it's addressed locally and it's something that we continue to address and um target. So I just mentioned achievement as one focus area but I'll highlight just some examples from uh four more uh going forward. So extensive need support programming uh thanks to Dr. Johnson on the board, we added another teacher at Richmond Street School so we can really concentrate resources for that bridge program at Richmond Street to support those our our youngest learners there who have the most extensive support needs and provide a really rich program that allows teachers to differentiate by grade level. I'm also mention uh parent engagement. Uh we developed a a parent uh developed our first special
019education parent advisory committee this year. It's still in the works. she's she's working on but we've been able to offer parent workshops. Um we did a couple presentations on alternate diploma and things like that. So um we're really working on parent engagement especially around extensive needs uh programming behavior. Again I'll thank the board and Dr. Johnson that we're able to scrap this agency's BCBA board certified behavior analyst service that we had and have our own person who's been phenomenal in building capacity and our staff and making a true difference on our campus. executive functioning. Uh we have a a partnership with the diagnostic center for the middle school next year. And we're hoping then to do sort of like a trainer of trainer models and then leak up to the high school. Executive functioning becomes
020particularly important and for some kids problematic as they get older in middle and high school and the responsibilities uh tick up. So that's something that we are looking into next year. And then inclusive practices. is this is at all sites but we do partner with outside agencies to come and look at how um for an outside an analysis of how we're being inclusive what we can do better how we can modify on the spot and uh how we can be more inclusive for all students. Those are our focus areas and you know that's these are the things that will help us get what I mentioned earlier from like what the floor is to a place where all of our students disability or knows disability or regardless of the disability can thrive in our schools and
021I am happy to take any questions that you may have. I don't really have any questions per se, but as someone that has had a child go through these amazing programs, just all of the opportunities that we are able to have for our district, for our students, and um see how much that they grow and thrive with um the continued support. So all of these added services that were just the um BCBA coming in and then also hearing the executive functioning for middle school. I just think it's I mean we're just doing great things for not only special education clearly but these kids are being able to be in environments where they feel that they're the same as everyone else which is such an important thing especially middle school and high school. So thank you
022for everything you're doing. Very much appreciative. Thank you very much. And I want to chime in about the executive functioning PD at ESMS. When you said that, I think in some way my heart just lit up. And the reason being is because it really is a gamecher in terms of leveling the playing field. Exe executive functioning skills and working with individuals to master them at their own level changes things. It helps you to function in the space. It helps you to share the world. And then when we think about our graduate profile and what we want out of our students in general, getting them out of our school system and into the world to be productive members of society, having them be coached and learn how to deal with executive functioning skills. Even having our
023teachers being trained on to pass that on to the students makes a huge difference because they will one day be in the workforce. And in the workforce, you will have to know how to manage yourself, your goals, your task, all of that. And that's exactly what it does. So that is an investment that's like sewing a seed today that will continue to grow that they will be able to harvest and really live off of for a very long time. Kudos for that. Thank you for those comments. All right, just quickly, I have said over the years how much I appreciate your focus on this and and you know, we talk about personalized learning everywhere and this is like the ultimate place to to level up wherever we can. And I just appreciate how you continually
024are trying to do the best for each student, whatever their needs are. And, you know, I appreciate also that Dr. Johnson comes in with this background as well to be another thought partner in this process. and and I just I'm excited for our students. They're they're really in in good hands here. Yeah, I appreciate you saying that and I'll just add to that and that we're really fortunate that we have this team of special educators who are incredible educators and who stick around. Like we don't have the turnover rate like um other districts are seeing and the vacancies and so I I credit our our special education teachers and staff. Yeah. And I and I feel like that is a big part of it, the stability that we can offer. And even though I I
025constantly feel like we're we're trying to find more people to add to the program, there's always more we could have, but I I so appreciate those that stay and and continue to have that foundation even if we have open doors for other opportunities. I feel like it's been we've been grateful for that. I always feel like I'm a teacher in the district level. Um, but having taught in the district, I know how much time and effort goes into helping our kids with special needs and we do a fantastic job. Um, and we have, you know, we're always willing to learn and go another step. I'm really excited about the executive functioning as well. That's going to be a a huge step in the middle school. Um, just everything that we can do. Like I see,
026you know, the aids, they're not just helping, they're helping everybody in the class. everybody benefits um by having them in the classroom. So, you know, it's nice to see that. Um but like every time I go to the flight school and I try to spend I try to get there once a month or so just to check in on those kids and just to see where they are now compared to where they were when I had them eight years ago. It's just incredible. And that's thanks to everyone that played a part in that and that's all of us and so I appreciate all that you do and all of that our staff does but our district does it right and I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. So um echoing the sentiments of my colleagues here
027um what I'd like to say is that you know in every organization it the the people are representative of who is at the top of the pyramid which is you and um I think your empathy shines through and it shines through our entire district because of that and I think we are absolutely so fortunate that you took on this role some time ago and that you stuck with it. So, thank you very much. Uh, thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to our consent agenda. I move to approve consent agenda items 5A through T. Second. Is there any discussion? I'm sorry. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, uh, all board members in favor, please say I. I. I. Passes. 5-0. Item 5A. Dr. Linds. I am uh thrilled to be announcing tonight and
028bringing to the board for approval three new members of the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee. We had a bit of turnover this year due to our initial members terming out. um two of them served three full terms on the COC um including being our our chair and vice chair the last um last two years. Um and then we had someone to get a job within the district which is always great. We like to bring great people into the district but because of um we cannot have employees on the COC um she had to leave as well. So, I'm happy to bring forward Yanka Dreskovic as our parent parent teacher organization representative, Randall Duncan, and Adar Pre as our um at at large community representatives. And I recommend approval of all three. I'll move approval. Second. Is
029there any discussion? Just thank you for stepping up to these three individuals and adding to our district in a positive way and looking at a lot of numbers to do it. We appreciate that. All board members in favor, please say I. I. I. Passes 5-0. Item B, Dr. Lind. So, this is consideration to approve the lease lease back contract with Air Masters Air Conditioning Inc. for the HVAC project at the performing arts center at Elsagundo High School. I recommend approval. I move for approval of action item 6B. Second. Is there any discussion? So excited to have air conditioning in the pack. All board members in favor, please say I. I. Passes 5. Uh item C, Dr. Lind. This item is a consideration of the proposal from PBK to um reconcile their design fees for the
030same project, the HVAC project at the performing arts center for Elskundo High School. I recommend approval. I'll move approval. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all board members in favor, please say I. I. I. passes 5-0. Going to table item 16. Uh item E, Dr. Lind. Um so this item is the approval of the resolution 15 for the change order number three with Artico Design Builders. This change order exceeds the 10% typically allowed by the county for a project in change orders due to three main areas. unforeseen conditions. We had a lot of unforeseen conditions underground um design changes and then DSA also had significant changes leading to delays and um an exceeding of the 10%. I recommend approval of the resolution which would allow us to finalize our change orders with our uh with Archo.
031I move approval of item uh 6E. I'll second. Is there any discussion? Yeah, I just want to tell our fellow board members, we have spent a lot of time on the facility advisory committee talking about some of these items and this this was one of them. So, I appreciate Dr. Lince and everybody involved knowing we have to do things like this special resolution when we get to a point where we're going beyond what we thought we would have to go and do. So, thank you for knowing all these intricate ins and outs that I don't know who made them up, but I'm glad we're following them. So, thank you. All board members in favor, please say I. I. I. Passes 5-0. Item F. Dr. Linds. At the last board meeting, Miss Janisak and I presented
032on the 202526 LCAP Mudget. This item is to approve the proposed budget for the 2526 fiscal year. I recommend approval. I move approval of item 6G. Oh, sorry. F. Sorry. Second. Any discussion? All board members in favor, please say I. I. I. Passes 50. Item 6G. Dr. Lind. As I just mentioned, Miss Janisk and I presented last meeting. Miss Janisc uh presented on the LCAP. We do recommend approval of the 2526 LCAP. Um I do want to add that there was significant community involvement in both presenting on the LCAP as well as um on the committee itself and thank the community for their their um their time. I move to approve action item 6G. Second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all board members in favor, please say I. I. I. Passes 5-0. Item 6H,
033Dr. Linds. As part of our local control funding formula or LCFF aortionment, we receive funds from um Prop 30. Uh those funds have to be designated on how we will spend them. They are not allowed to be expended for administrative salaries. This resolution outlines how those funds will be spent for the 2526 uh fiscal year and I recommend approval. I'll move approval. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all board members in favor, please say I. I. I. Passes 5-0. Item I, Dr. Lind, this one I would say Miss Val and I are as excited as you can get as HR business people. Uh this will take all of our workflow as well as our payroll systems and move them to an online portal which will increase both accuracy for employee payroll as well as efficiency and
034processing all of those forms. I recommend approval. I move approval of action item 6 I second. Is there any discussion? I'm guessing Marne wishes it was here when she was uh was payroll. That this is huge. The more you can do online and make this more streamlined, the better. All board members in favor, please say I. I. I. Passes 50. And item J. Dr. Lind, have you got any voice left? I'm going to talk a lot today. So this is consideration of the agreement with the Donovan Group. They are a professional communication and consulting firm that handles all of the district or sorry consults with the district on communication, social media as well as any um public relations. I recommend approval. I'll move approval. Second. Go ahead. Second. Any discussion? All board members in favor,
035please say I. I. Passes 5-0. Moving on to section seven uh 7A. Dr. Pluck. Yes. This item is in response to uh recent legislation that requires districts to screen students in K through two for reading difficulties. Multitudes was chosen by an ESUSD committee after an extensive process and I recommend approval. I move approval of action item 7A. Second. So any discussion? Uh so will this be done? So you're saying K to two K through two to all to all the students K students K through two during during school time I'm assuming. Yes. Okay. Just checking. All board members in favor please say I. I. Passes 5. And item B. Dr. Puckin. Yes. This is an annual item. The comprehensive school safety plans are developed with input from faculty, staff, school resource officers. Um, and it
036goes for your approval and I recommend approval. I move to approve action item 7B. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all board members in favor, please say I. I. I. passes 5. On to reports, we have theformational calendar and our next meeting. Oh, look at that. What? So, we're back here on July 8th and then I think we have a break for six weeks. A break. Yeah. You say that you're going to jinx it and we're gonna have a special meeting. Let's just let's just look at the calendar and look how empty it is. Potential break. All right. And uh the financial statements of the high school ASB are available for review. And we'll move on to announcements, correspondence, and reports. Starting with board member reports. Uh member Beechley. So this will be pretty quick. I'm
037kind of kind of gonna go backwards. Um, last Tuesday I had our last kind of of SoCal Rock board meeting of this this school year. Uh, where we kind of got to celebrate, you know, some of the great things that happened, said goodbye to Nancy Cobb, um, which was a little tough, but um, but great. And, um, Mike Bry actually came uh to the meeting and introduced himself. He will be sworn in on um, at our August meeting. Um but he did come to the meeting. Um we we had a very productive meeting, but we're still out well well earlier than we used to be. Um and then obviously the other things that have happened since last we met were the fifth grade promotions, the eighth grade promotion, and of course the the high school
038graduation. All which were amazing and wonderful. Congratulations to all those who are moving on. Um and just a happy and restful summer to all. So fast. Um I know mine is pretty fast, too. Um being a part of all of the promotions and graduations was an amazing thing. um getting to see students that you've known for a long time graduate high school and having Jax move on to middle school next year. Um it was all great things and congratulations to everyone and enjoy your summer. I have to say Heather and Meredith were absolutely correct. We had a very productive and busy week. I do want to thank our community partners for Arena who ensured that for that graduation every single solitary student receive some form of recognition and monetary consideration as they move on to
039the next phase of their lives. The rose ceremony still is my absolute favorite within that graduation. But um with that, a very wonderful week and glad summer is here. And that's it. All right. Yeah. So, beyond all the joy we had that week, I just want to say thank you again to all the staff and volunteers that work so hard to put those events together because you can see a lot of setup and a lot of breakdown and you know, plus our our student musicians that come and play on top of that. I mean, it's it's a lot of coming together to make these beautiful events. So, thank you to everyone who was behind the scenes making that such a wonderful occasion for each of our schools that celebrated. Um, other news, we had a
040lengthy facility advisory committee last week. I don't know if you're going to talk about that. I don't need to say more other than you saw a lot of things on the agenda. There's a lot there's a lot going on, but it's all, you know, important work that's slowly moving in the right direction. So, we we're glad. Um, outside of our bubble, I just want to call attention to the fact that other districts very nearby are experiencing great anxiety and strife related to ICE activities in their space. Um, I mean, and here's the thing. Beyond what you've heard and seen on the news about people just being, you know, grabbed off the street unwarranted, these districts are having students who won't even go to school, even if they're not targets or potential targets, because they're scared
041and they're falling behind in school work and they're missing meals and other services. And so, this is my empathy is is sort of spreading thin um in this time. But the reason I bring this up specifically is to say although we a lot of us feel helpless um LAXA is hosting a Zoom conversation tomorrow night to sort of meet the moment and the challenge that people are facing across the county. So I think you all might have gotten an email to join that if you want to. Um it's basically a time to share experiences um learn from others what some best practices are. look at the county support that's being offered. Um hear from some legislators about things that are moving forward. So, it's just an hour. If you want to log in, you should
042have that link. Um but if uh if not, I can share with you more later and how that goes. But um that's it for now. Thank you to everyone for all your work and I hope somewhere in all this we can find peace and quiet and some restorative time. So, thank you. So, I would like to use my time to thank the Elsagundo Herald. They are um just an amazing community partner and they really showed it in this week's edition where we have this beautiful picture of the high school graduation and two full pages of pictures, one at the second page and one on the back. and um they managed to get all the board members in their own special picture and our superintendent of course. So um I I know we all get these
043on our driveways every Thursday and some people don't open them. I always read mine and um it's just an amazing small town thing to have your own newspaper. And so in whatever way you can support the Herald, please do. Thank you. Thank you, President Glenn. Um I uh first would like to give a shout out to the PTA. Um you know, even though a lot of committees are signed up for, there are still some open committees. So, if you um are in the days of sunder of summer and you feel like you want to uh Thank you, board member Beechley. Um so, uh if you would like to volunteer, I would uh uh just really strongly encourage it. On the ed side, I want to give a shout out to the Ed Foundation staff. Um
044they do have a staff. It's very small and they do a lot with a little. Uh and by a lot, I mean $2 million. And by a little I mean it's a very little staff. Uh so just a shout out to them. Um Sasha and company on the staff side. Just a kudos that you know they're talk about doing a lot with a little uh the summer school teams. Uh and then also our our shared principles Sean Brandlin and Jake Bterbaugh. They're working. Summer school is in session right now. So just uh kudos to them for getting it off the ground. And you know we're rolling with a lot of great opportunities. And thank you to Ed for the enrichment opportunities. Uh on the graduation side, I'd like just to shout out to Lilia and
045Liam. Um they read all the names at graduation flawlessly. Uh and it just it was a great opportunity for me to get just another great tradition. The graduation at Elsagundo High School is uh smooth um efficient uh and also has just some really awesome traditions embedded within it. I second um what Daima says though that the Rose tradition through arena is to me the coolest thing I've seen in a graduation. And then I also want to give a shout out to students who are taking summer school. I I don't think it's easy to give up your summer. You mean like in order to go to school and we are the beneficiaries off of a lot of students who um accelerate enrich uh and then they come back to us uh stronger you mean like you
046know less of a summer slide. Uh we benefit from that. Um so I just am really grateful to the students who take their summer in order to uh learn and better themselves. Uh and then on the event side, I just really just, you know, I'm sending positive thoughts out in the world to be safe on Fourth of July. Um, you know, in case anyone doesn't know, yes, there are it is one of the most injuryprone holidays uh in our great country. Um, particularly among children. Um, so just, you know, exercise caution, be safe, do the right thing. And then finally, uh, just a kudos to compliment board colleagues. Um, this is actually the official completion of my first year as superintendent. So, I want to thank the board presidents, uh, both Frank and Meredith. Just
047when you're board president, you mean like there's just there's, you know, a more of a dayto-day. And so, I want to thank you both. First year as superintendent and then navigating with board presidents is always a little tricky and you guys have both been great. So, thank you for that. And thank you to the board of course as well. Um, so just very grateful for the completion of a successful first year. Um it's just been such a awesome, you know, click your heels experience. Um and looking forward to more years to come. Thank you. Thank you. And congratulations on one year. At this time at 6:41, it's my pleasure to adjourn our meeting.