001all right all right and uh welcome everyone once again and Mr Walston will you be making the presentation or this becoming I will sir I will and I I just want to share uh with the committee uh what I am sharing is a is a 51-page um quick overview of the story just to make sure we I don't want to take up every minute of our time um so I'll go through it very quickly and ask if we can hold the question to the end I think you're going to find the majority of the slides you've already seen um and then leave time for the end just to kind of for any clarifying questions you might have um and so what I'm about to share again there are 51 pages in a book um Mike
002and John do you remember how many pages of the entire book when it's com being completed book I don't because we're thinking appendix too yeah I think it's giving you about 175 when it's all a bunch bundled up together okay and Grace just put something in the chat all right and so again there are 51 slides in this I will go to them rather quickly and there are a couple of slides in which we've made some additions and I'll make sure to stop to talk about those and so our table of contents um in which we will have pages on the side here for the book and certainly you've seen the great pictures of everyone Cabinet member slide the overall proposed budget of 150 million these pictures we've updated with our kids in Danbury public
003schools so all of the pictures you will see is Danbury public schools so the 64.4 percent budget request 9 million in the total of 150 million dollars and our vision and mission statement Equity statement and the two slides side by side portrait of The Graduate you saw this it was a little bit different layout before our book will read from left to right so as you see this portion of the graduate and then the three descriptors and then you'll see the next two on the other side our strategic plan and this is kind of year one of the supplementation there were six pillars of the plan and you can see them here and then the overview just really just talking about our demographics and here's our profile of course this is as of the date
004we made the book twelve thousand two hundred students 13 Elementary three middle one high school and here's our enrollment and then here's a breakdown of who those students are and this is a picture of Danbury High School's cafeteria for folks to get a feeling of what it's like to walk in that building during cafeteria time the unfunded mandates we spoke to this one before but I'm it's it's mentioned here intentionally um the right to read legislation uh which is certainly monies if we did not have to implement this legislation um we could be using these monies on Staffing right now um if we did not have to go from 21 credits to 25 credits um there's 25 additional teachers we would not have to hire right now but these are mandates that we have to
005implement um and so you just wanted to also share that reality because it certainly have an impact on our general fund budget coveted social emotional impact and so we've hired quite a bit of Staff members uh whether it's Deans whether it's social workers guidance counselors during the pandemic the wheel that you see to the left is the adoption of our social emotional platform that we look to implement here in the district but we we've continued and I know I've talked to the board about chronic absenteeism chronic absenteeism is at any point when kids are missing school so that includes suspensions that includes attendance and we are finding you know our chronic absenteeism numbers close to 24 percent which is up from about seven percent pre-pandemic I'm sorry it was around seven percent pre-pandemic so our
006challenges have just been multiplied um by three or four almost four um post pandemic now and here's that chronic absence number and a little definition of The Chronic absenteeism and certainly the board um feels the impact of this in our expulsion hearings um the expulsions really is just um a slice of what the real issue is around suspensions and then those kids are missing um instructional time which plays a role in chronic absenteeism for us and so this is our teacher of the year from last year and we had this in here prior to our ask as she speaks to um speaks to make making sure we resource teachers to help meet the needs of kids um as part of her speech uh maybe we thought it'll be a nice touch to also showcase her
007and our budget drivers and of course the wonderful day that we had with our teachers of the Year all the way across and I think the committee will recall this slide as our budget drivers we did change that back to budget drivers instead of program needs and so the big one of course is the salaries and benefits contractual obligations um I know everyone on this call has heard this already and then of course the big other pigment is a 2.6 million in enrollment increases and then here's the breakdown the 5 million for salaries 200 2.6 for enrollment I know John and Mike have walked the committee in the board through energy increases technology but this SO2 shortfall um John can you just uh quickly talk about that shortfall number uh I can't so if you
008remember we uh we chronicled it a little bit in one of the uh answers to board questions I think that came up the first time uh the finance committee met um it's uh primarily teachers at Danbury High School um that we uh want to move over uh into the uh general fund and you uh you heard principal Donovan talk about how important that was if you recall um when he spoke about uh asking for several years for more teachers and finally getting them uh these were the teachers he was talking about he was we were able to provide them with the with the Esser Grant thanks John and then the salaries benefits break down and so you may recall from John's previous uh presentation um the 79.7 million this year is 83.4 million next year
009so the same Staffing for this year is a 4.6 increase just based on contractual obligations the same is also true of benefits 4.4 increase in total we're talking five million dollars between this year's budget and next year's budget for the same Staffing and here's the enrollment growth we've been talking about and this is a table you'll see the bigger numbers um are found in the 6 through 12 lines and so year today 27 a little over 27 and a half for Middle School where it goes up to 2 800 28 plus 123.24 the high school you'll see I'm close to a little over close to 3 700 right now 37.50 projected next year over 3 800 and 24.25 and kind of flatlining at 3 800 3850 and 25 26 when the new building is expected
010to open and again the committee Might Recall this slide where it's so the actual number is the 11 843 so that's in the grade 12 110. um and then the our projected meaning the projected from the demographer was 12 189. but by October but the adjusted for January 1 was actually twelve thousand two hundred and eighty nine and so then from there we did a plus 100 projection for 24 25 and 25 26. and so you'll see our anticipated growth over the next couple of years going from 12 200 right now uh we're anticipating at least 200 more students by 25.26. and again that's starting from here and then looking at the number that is up here a multilingual Learners we have the highest percentage of multi-language Learners in the state of Connecticut the highest
011in the state of Connecticut and that growth is like no other District in the state of Connecticut and so you'll see where we are where we've been with in 1920 um at the start of the pandemic um 3331 projected by next year you can see where over a thousand students just in this one category um of 4415. currently we are at um a 65 to 1 ratio an optimal staff student ratio was 45 to 1 and our numbers are growing we have again we have a thousand additional students so to get to 45 one would be a challenge to maintain a 65 to 1 is really our request is trying to do is just maintain that number 45 to 1 again is the is optimal ratio students with disabilities growth nonetheless not certainly not as
012significant as my multi-language learners but you'll see where we are now 2223 with an expected uh 30 plus additional specialized students next year and that is including Pre-K and so um last year we were not able to get all of the staff for Danbury High School that is that is not a new trend um here in Danbury but but it does come at a cost it comes at a cost when trying to make retained staff it comes at a cost when you hear that our staff is coming in and saying that they're overworked but just to give you an idea of what that looks like and then there's also a financial um reality as well and So understaffing currently requires teachers to teach 57 classes outside of their contractual obligations and this is just at
013the high school and so everyone in this call May typically have five classes the majority of our teachers at the high school teach five classes but because we are under staffed at the school we may call upon teachers to teach a sixth class that's the equivalent of five and a half additional teachers or this number four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars and then we broke down the enrollment increases in terms of our requests um so you can kind of you kind of you've had the background or the backup if you will why we have we need the ESL and bilingual staff and that's why we have eight ftes here this special ed special ed Staffing eight ftes um most of those being needed in in pre-K three staff additional staff for Middle School the 13
014and a half for the high school to address the growth at that level you might recall Dan Donovan principal dominant coming in and speaking to the board in the cabinet that evening and then of course to say The Advocates I know this has been well chronicled we had talked about one additional one at each Middle School to reflect the requests on the board last year and then two additional at the high school to reflect the ongoing growth at that school and that's how we got to the 2.6 million and then this is the um the enrollment increases by Staffing area and so just breaking it down a little bit more um one bilingual staff would be needed at Pembroke one at Broadview to address the bilingual growth there um the same is true for so
015there's a bilingual Portuguese but then there's also a bilingual status needed and so that's why those two positions are being requested at the same time a Heritage Spanish teacher was needed at Rogers Park and then we have a Portuguese and Spanish full-time non-teaching classroom support um and that's for uh four staff members and that means power professional power professional support um and then on a special ed special education side we have the preschool teacher um here at the top the five special ed teachers across the district and then into one physical therapist and then one speech speech and language person to get to the age and then uh to round out the requests we have the three middle schools Staffing that are needed at the middle schools to address the growth there the high school
016on the 0.5 we can talk about this later if you like I know there was some questions at the board meeting as well I know that customer was on the call she could speak to this the 0.5 that is needed in a spring going into the following year core class instructions six ftes for the high school um three full-time counselors to line us up is also lined us up perfectly for the launch of the academy um and then for elective class teachers um and this this gets us to the 13 and a half ftes and then you'll see The Advocates broken out one for each middle school and then two for the high score energies and you energy and utilities um John walked us through this um I think a couple of times now certainly
017in finance but also with the regular board meeting anticipating some significant increases in Heating and natural gas 30 and 44 respectively including electricity and propane um astronomical gains and projections in those areas and then we have the gasoline John can you just reiterate one more time how we landed on these numbers and um just kind of the rationale behind the projections yeah well um each one really is different although they they look like they might move similarly when we put them all together as energies and utilities um but they are very much the market forces that drive each one are very different uh from uh not only just supply and demand but um in some cases uh international events affect what what happens particularly with um oil price per barrel of oil and you're hearing
018a lot lately about natural gas so we're seeing it um big increases there electricity has been well publicized in the news with eversource it hits us just like uh everywhere else and propane uh was uh we had been uh taking advantage uh if I can of a lock-in in price that uh chick Volpe uh City purchasing director had put in place that lasted um two or three years it was a long time uh it expired in June and the prices um are much higher since then so each one looked at individually and um together and you see the results here thank you thanks John the technology replacement cycle um I know we had presented out on this and given that we're losing the grants we were doing well with the grants to get us kind
019of LA to get us to be able to launch our one-to-one um for our district was great we certainly had enough Grant support to get that going but now to maintain it uh we are projecting a a million dollar cost to make that happen um and you will see the Chromebooks and licenses uh for I'm sorry Mike can you explain this to 25 2 500 a year for five years that cycle right so um currently we're anticipating about needing 12 500 uh Chromebooks um that's accounts for our total enrollment plus a number for droppage uh breakage you know spilling things on them so on so forth so uh 12 500 books to be replaced over five years that's 2500 a year so every year we'll take the oldest 2500 take them out of circulation and
020put in a new 2500 and then every five years the entire uh load will turn over okay and can you walk the committee through the copy or replacement and where we are now and yep so uh copier yeah very similar logic um copiers are a little bit more robust um obviously they just plug into the wall kids aren't carrying them around and sticking them in bags and stuff so um and they're a little bit more mechanical um and they also don't have a lot of the Safety and Security issues that we have with the Chromebooks so the Chromebooks for example if they don't have they're not able to run the latest operating system then they won't get a security update which could uh leaves you know a child exposed so um the copy replacement every
021six years currently we have I think 112 copiers throughout the district we're adding a few more into account for the Career Academy um so we're expecting that to be a 120 copiers total so that's 20 a year over six years okay thanks Mike in equipment and services it's just a breakdown we'll have some subsequent Pages what kind of break down what this means for transportation um Etc and so Transportation I know John had here but it's really the cost of having a district in place and so for our public school buses we're talking about a 7.2 percent increase uh from this year to next year our non-pubs we are responsible for their transportation as well we have a three to three three point five percent increase there and then our special education busing transportation and
022this is really reflective of not only the enrollment growth but IEP needs as well and we're looking at a 10.7 percent increase there and buildings and maintenance improvements a lot of these improvements are are a result of enrollment growth and so you'll see room dividers um you'll see things like meteor Center pit fill in um and so this classroom partitions are addressing growth at our schools to make sure they have more realistic spaces for classroom instruction and then there are some other things just for general maintenance um you know new auto scrubbers to make sure quite frankly it's it's a works well investment because without the auto scrubbers in the buildings it just means folks have to work more and work more overtime so it's it's it's it's a wise investment quite frankly um new
023flooring in some of our schools you'll see that for KSI and KSP um Etc cost saving strategies and we had talked about initially our request was 13.4 million and we wanted to make sure we can find every efficiency possible to pull that number back and these this next slide helps to walk us through that and so an opportunity to renegotiate some of our service contracts possibly prepay some service contracts I.E Transportation pre-purchase goods and services with remaining 2023 funds and so this could be anything and I think we talked to that we we did we talked to the board about this already with approval from the board we can switch some accounts to pay some things early hopefully at a savings and so we will be reaching out to those companies in those service providers
024and then last but not least an opportunity to utilize one-time Reserve to close that remaining Gap so one-time meaning whether that's um if we have something that needs to be paid down this year but it's not reoccurring for next year we'll use the reserves for that we'll we'll look to go to the reserves for to pay the pay down on those things looking ahead um at the Career Academy of course I got a request to update my computer do that tomorrow looking ahead Danbury Career Academy um and so year one the estimated costs we would need 55 teachers uh to work with our high school students at the card is site for the middle school for 365 middle school students we would need 59 ftes this is not all teachers but this is a combination
025of teachers certified and non-certified staff at 5.4 million and then Transportation costs for an additional 27 New buses brings us to the 12.5 million that you've been hearing about and then the fiscal reality and let me make this a little bigger um and and this is really just summarizing some of the things that we've already mentioned and that is enrollment gains consists of increased numbers in special education um and with our multi-language Learners here Staffing costs have increased as a result of negotiations uh with for our staff which frankly is all regionally competitive another budget driver certainly is our shift to one-to-one devices and this has to continue to be maintained now as we move forward um inflation John has already talked about when talking about utilities and energy costs and then the big one
026of course that we're all aware of and that is the 12.5 million it's going to cost to open up this new building for high school and middle school students in 25 26. so the cliff which we have certainly talked about a number of different ways with the board and with the city let me reduce this now if I can there we go okay and so if we can look at the left hand side Esther 3 S2 cares act we refer to cares act as so one oftentimes Alliance is our big grant that rely on for Staffing and support staff in our schools title one we use similarly our idea Grant is a grant for our students with disabilities and then other Grant Revenue um you know that's kind of pulling together the remaining grants and
027then the city funding is of course from the city of Danbury and so I just want to walk you through this on going from left to right and so 3 of course um and really the point we want to make is Essa 3 we received um the sizeable Grant from essa3 which was supposed to provide support for kids mostly for acceleration and for social emotional support um S2 similarly but also for um we had we when we received SC2 we had received kind of instructions similarly not only for acceleration but also to address any covert covert um um strategies that we need mitigation strategies and so you know we purchased we purchased um over five hundred thousand dollars worth of furniture to address you know as a mitigation strategy to spread kids out uh we
028hired additional teachers to make sure uh we went from a seven period schedule to a period schedule to make sure we can spread as many kids out of Danbury High School as possible um however at the same time while we were implementing those mitigating strategies uh we were also dealing with increasing roaming growth and so that enrollment growth quite frankly is that Lifeboat analogy that we talked about with the board in in previous presentations where we we had a Lifeboat in these SC2 so1 SO2 and S3 served this purpose in that regard but that wasn't his initial purpose for us it helped to make sure that we can continue to meet the needs of our growing population but those funds are expiring and so you'll see in um 22-23 the cares Act is no longer
029around you'll see in 2324 Esther 2 expires this summer actually it expires in September of 2023 and and then you will see in 2425 all three um relief grants will have expired and we will be left with making some really tough decisions because unlike some of our other districts that did not have enrollment growth it's a little easier to lose those positions we did experience enrollment growth we did not get the funding to support that enrollment growth and now that growth is previously funded by these three big grants is now gone and so Alliance you will see um we the projected the projected growth in the line going from left to right currently at 19.9 million dollars next year anticipating 20 close to 22 million um 24 25 projected 24 24 million 25 26 it
030projected almost 26 million and so as we share those numbers and certainly it's the same a title we certainly continue to expect increases but it's it's not meeting um the respected need and so you'll see at the bottom I'm going to bring your attention to where it says city funding and so city funding right now is at 141 million and this is our budget our need is 223 million to help address all of our needs across the district that would mean in 2324 we would need 150 million as we maxed if you go to 2425 now with those expiring funds leaving us our ass now jumps from 150 million to a projected 172 million next year again without those relief monies we see our need going from 172 million and now by the way this
031is the time when the academy comes in that now numbers are jumping up to 187 million dollar budget with the city and so I I can tell you last year when I made my presentations um and we were kind of making our presentations across across the city um we imploring the city to make an investment because we knew this day was coming and and frankly didn't think it would be realistic that we can get 172 million dollar budget and 187 million dollar budget but without a significant investment in the city in the um in the in the in the city in the in the school budget we're pushing ourselves in the corner where we need something this sizable so this is what we're facing right now in 24 25 um you know we we've used
032the term kicking the can down the road and so literally you'll see the 11.4 million dollars in 23.24. um this is the we have one more school year left um and 24 25 and 25 26 um we we have a lot of challenges ahead of us um and so trying to find out where those monies are coming from um is something we're all going to have to um put our heads together to try to figure out the Danbury Curie Academy I know we've talked about and the Staffing that's going to be needed to open up that building I know we just had the ground breaking yesterday we have some pictures to memorialize that but once again we will need 12 and a half million dollars just to staff that building that's the 25 26 school
033year um it's an estimated 10 to 15 increase we're going to need moving forward after that and so the cost just continue to just compound um and without some type of sizable investment now on the challenges are just going to be insurmountable in 24 25 and 25 26. so I will end there then there um the subsequent Pages the pages that make up the next hundred slides or um Teresa and Al or essentially your book um and Miss Cooper the book that you have at home that hard copy Blue Book um we took that book and now that is in this presentation it's all one big book um so nothing is separate the story is in front of the line items and then the live items come after this q a page that's here we
034of course we will take the Q a q a page out of um the book when we go to submit it so I will stop sharing now and I'll be happy to jump back into any pages that you might have any questions on Teresa will we be getting all this tomorrow yes yes thank you um to to um oh my gosh um Cara is going to um update the packet I think we have 24 hours to update the packet so the blue book that the board received will be replaced with the book t-h-e book The Only book that will be the same book that the city of Danbury receives meaning the council and it will be the same book that the board has and I I will make sure next year assuming you will have
035me uh make sure that the board receives a book in draft um by the last meeting in January probably a workshop um I think prematurely I handed you I think I handed you that book too early this year um and so I I had a book in circulation in which we never typically hand the book out in circulation knowing that we still have to make some modifications um but I it was important to me that we had a book that told the story so we didn't have slides here in a book here it's all going to be one um and so I'm hoping it will engage our readers and engage our Council um collectively so that they're putting pulling it all together as they go through the slides and the in the book in the
036presentation I'm sorry no I'm sorry I've talked enough we certainly thank you for you for your efforts in giving us the numbers to look at and we've gone through them and we do understand stand your needs I see uh luis's hand up Louisa Britton are you uh on Deck thank you thanks Al um just a quick question or a couple questions the need that you have the number uh the total number um which includes the 150 million ask from the city is that your is that our number just to you know keep our doors open and make sure that we reach all of our our benchmarks that we need as far as Staffing and all of that stuff or is there you know a wish list that was also folded into that number um so
037to Teresa I'll I'll answer to you in this way um because I know this question is coming so I appreciate the question so I I think it really depends on what the taxpayers in this city want for our children right and so my team we put together a budget that reflects what we feel and know are the needs of our kids and so if if we are happy with our kids as they where they are right now um and that means High numbers of chronic absenteeism high low numbers of proficiency across the board meaning kids not at grade level um if that means we're happy with kids growing at rates with frankly I think an upward trajectory but I cannot tell you we're going to maintain that upward trajectory if we lose the resources that
038help support that trajectory and so if if we're happy with not having resources like they have in Stanford like they have in Norwalk like they have in um like they have in other districts that look like ours and I can't think of the one that starts with the m right now Kara what's what's what's Mark's Meriden um the these districts have coaches these districts have people pressing on printables which we who we call Chiefs um these districts have people um folks who ESL teachers who can help support our multi-language Learners without those things I can't even tell you we will continue to experience the success that we have right now Louisa um and and by the way and again I I think the the board has gotten the taste of what the differences in our
039school's post pandemic experiencing what's happening with our expulsions it it's it's a different school system right now it's a different school system post pandemic and in this in this budget doesn't even have all the guidance counselors and social workers that we need right now um and so that that's my long way of saying this this ask what we have right now is what we feel like we need now if you tell me we're going to lose millions of dollars we're not going to come close then I'm telling you we're going to lose the support that this system needs to keep the upward trajectory that we've experienced perfect thank you and uh I'm sorry I have one more question um that number that you're projecting once the academy opens the that 12 million that's strictly Staffing
040that doesn't include operational um numbers am I correct that is correct Louisa um okay yes yes okay so 12 million is really is just Staffing so we have no idea what it's actually going to cost to operate the buildings right like energy and utilities cost not even calculated in that number right now okay Teresa thank you um thanks Lisa from one of the last presentations John mentioned taking the sr2 funds to replace some of those copiers so is this budget phase two of that proposed copy replacement John you want to clarify that piece because I I thought we said we were going to do something else with two but the the unfilled positions money from the general fund we were going to try to address the copy of Peace um because of the need for
041the the Mandate for the reading program uh we think it's better to use the uh remaining yes or two money for the uh the K5 reading program and as you saw and as Dr selig mentioned uh we're gonna start The copier replacement program year one will be um actually uh this year with the some of the unfilled positions that's the one I mentioned would be coming back to you with the transfer of four in the beginning of your presentation I had a little blip in my audio okay you did I understand correctly uh we bumping up to three Chiefs of schools rather than two or is the number two I'm sorry so that's that's so funny because that came up um in my office today so um it it should say chief of Schools administration
042and just to clarify so John's position Mike's position and Kim Kim Tom's position their Chiefs so those are the three Chiefs that's in the general budget John is the chief of Finance Mike is chief of operations Kim is chief of HR not true which McCall yeah right there's the roach and Morocco right yeah right those two were paid out of Title One okay yeah thank you thank you Terry I see your hand's still up uh is that the high tool or you just get to put it down I can't help it I have questions I'm sorry um I understand that we're going to get are the state is going to offer grants for the reading program will we be applying for those for that Grant to support the new program no it's dumping it if
043I may um so I have reached out to the state about that because in all of the uh webinars and the meetings that we've gone to we keep hearing about this um but there has been nothing tangible we haven't seen an application yet it's been a little bit elusive as to how to apply for it who who's eligible um you know as part of a strat our strategy with with making our decision this year instead of requesting to delay was a we have Esser funds available now and which we won't have down the road but B um hoping to for Danbury to be kind of first in line for any funding um to kind of get a jump on anything because those those pot Strat pretty quickly but I am actively trying to understand how
044to apply for it I have reached out to um our technical technical support provider along with some of the Commissioners um department heads to to get information but there's very little right now they are in a little bit of a twisted State I hate to say it that way but they're trying very hard to deal with the reading legislation mandate themselves as they they too did not quite have the same level of Manpower that that's needed to kind of support districts uh in the moment but uh I'm anticipating that will come eventually things have been coming very slowly but we're on top of it thank you you're welcome thank you any other questions questions closing statements sir well one Mr rooster I just want um to acknowledge the sign behind me AIS um I I
045am at AIS this evening and I've been invited over to read to kids this evening so I'm that's why I wear my favorite tie uh so I'm I'm excited okay absolutely um but but but but thank you and I I appreciate your patience with us as we were trying to get this information in this update um I I feel a little bit better about where we are I feel a lot better about where we are right now in terms of the story um it was important to us to make sure the story was kind of folded in with the line items so it's just kind of one big story if you will um and I you know I'm looking forward to the day hopefully soon I know we will be at City Hall and speaking
046to the education committee um and I I think it's really our opportunity to just reiterate um the needs um and Luis I appreciate the question Louise was asking because um I anticipate we'll get a similar question from the council that evening well what if you don't get this much uh what does that mean um and I think we need to be prepared with that with that answer for you um and then also for the city of Danbury so we will be working on those answers for you over the next couple of months leading up to April and May when these decisions are made thank you sir no thank you Mr Russo John Eddie comments good thank you all right thank you ladies and gentlemen uh any closing remarks Mr walson or shall we adjourn I'm
047I'm fine Mr Rose said thank you I really appreciate um everyone making time for us tonight and um and accepting um the invitation to meet one more time before the board meeting tomorrow I really appreciate it all right let's just say I I think the presentation uh tonight going forward if it goes down to City Hall is a great presentation uh very clear and that's because most of us have sit through this at least three times and more and really understand it and I think you're much more clear uh the only thing that that really we need to sort of think about and focus on when all those asset funds and we get to that cliff and how that's going to really affect us in the next two years we're going down we're asking for
048100 million okay our budget request is nine million we don't know how close the city is going to bring us to that but I think whatever we asked it's just enough to barely keep our doors open and I think once the citizens of Dan bear really understand it and really I don't think anyone unless their specialty is to do budget really understand what that really means and we can talk about all the things and Mr Donovan did a beautiful explanation of what he needs to get kids through the high school and uh I think if we keep working together and hope that the city can look at what we need and maybe work with us a little bit more and give us a little bit additional funding and I don't expect that will happen but
049you know it doesn't hurt us to ask but uh I'm very pleased with the presentation and I just hope everything goes well uh do you know the exact date that you're meeting with the education Committee of the city we don't have a date yet um I know John and Citywide PTO last night just went through um the month of John what month was that again April last week of April oh okay well we don't have an exact date yet miss Cooper okay okay thank you thank you and thanks again Mr Russo for tonight looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow uh all right wish you all good evening and let's adjournitz 5 51 p.m ah Terry Terry I see your hand up dear God emotion emotion to adjourn oh I seconded that okay thank you all
050for participating Sir Mr Wilson thank you very much for for again another closer look and again it's a little bit different than we've had before yes but we know who we are we know what we need and I appreciate you all your your cabinet and your Chiefs of schools John [Laughter] to all I wish