001Good evening. I would like to call this special meeting of the Board of Education to order. The next meeting of the board of education is on Wednesday, March 11th at 700 p.m. Um, I'll start out with the chairperson's repo report. Um, good evening. The board of education's fiscal 27 budget was formally submitted to the board of finance last night at the board of finance meeting. We look forward to collaborating with the board of finance to provide any additional information needed during this next stage of the budget process. The board of finance public hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 10th, and the board of finance will vote on the board of education operating in capital budgets on Tuesday, April 7th. Tonight, we will begin the important work of discussing the framework and process for the
002development of the district's next five-year strategic plan from 2026 to 2031. We look forward to working with the administration to develop strategic plan goals for our district that will guide and shape our district's educational focus, priorities, and programming for the next five years. Thank you. We'll move on to public comment. >> We have no members of the public. >> Okay. Superintendent Report. Dr. Burns. >> Good evening and thank you for joining us for the March 4th Board of Education meeting. Last night, Miss Nelson presented the fiscal year 27 board of education budget to the board of finance. It was an excellent presentation, and I appreciate the positive feedback that was received from the members of the board of finance. Again, I'd like to thank our board of education for trusting the new budget process that
003I proposed last fall. It is clear to me that the changes that were made were very positive. I'd also like to recognize my colleagues here at the table and my administrative colleagues in the district for their excellent work in developing the fiscal year 27 budget. Congratulations to the Henley Chess team for their third place finish earlier this month in the National Educational Chess Association tournament. Middle Sex Middle School Quiz Bowl students continued their winning streak in Washington DC this weekend with a perfect 10-0 for the A team and 8-2 for both the B and C teams. The next competition is at Middle Sex Middle School on March 28th and a national competition in Orlando at the end of May. So, good luck to the quiz bowl students and congratulations to Darian High School seniors Katherine
004Massie, Maya Pajara, and Neagal for being selected as candidates for United States Presidential Scholars Program. Finally, congratulations to the 39 Darian High School DECA members that qualified at the Connecticut DECA competition over the weekend to attend and compete in the international DECA competition in Atlanta, Georgia in April. And lastly, um it has been an incredibly challenging winter for our custodial and facility staff. They've managed snow, ice, bitter cold along with a salt shortage. That's a fairly new development. And I just want to publicly thank our custodians and our facility staff for all of their efforts um regardless of my terrible calls with weather this season. So I just again want to say thank you to the uh custodians and facility staff. And that concludes my report for this evening. >> Thank you. We'll move on
005to student representative reports. >> Yeah, we are well into the third quarter uh since we last met with you all. Uh we only actually have a month left uh since the start of end of January I believe. Uh our girls hockey won FCX earlier this week. Uh and right now as we speak uh our boys hockey team is playing against New Kanan uh at the Shu at Sacred Heart University uh playing for their FCA title right now. So hoping for a big win there, but we'll see. >> Thank you. >> Hi. I don't have much to add, but um spring sports are starting later this month. There's also young composers coming up um in late March, early April and we're all excited for the PLC on Friday. >> Thank you very much. Uh we'll move
006on to presentation and discussion on strategic plan process for next fiveyear strategic plan. Dr. Burn, >> thank you. So, so I'd like to just take a short trip back in um a time machine to the fall when um if you recall back in I I think it was in October uh we did a presentation and suggested a very different kind of process for the budget development. Um this is that same kind of conversation. So there is not yet a new strategic plan developed. This is an idea of how we can really locally develop a strategic plan. It's a framework for a process that we believe um will be helpful will help us to get to a strategic plan that is based on the needs of the school district and our core mission as a school
007district which is educating our children and preparing them for success beyond Darianne. And so different from previous strategic plans, there's no intention to bring in an outside consultant to facilitate the process. What we'll walk you through tonight is a concept of streamlining the strategic plan itself into four key areas that we believe really sit well with the core mission of the school district. Um, and it will be a full look at where we are with everything we do. Looking at the current strategic plan and all that has been accomplished and really identifying in a simple manner with lots of board feedback and community feedback a way to make sure that the plan we develop is reflective of what we desire as a community in moving forward as a school system. So there have been lots
008of things that have come up in the course of conversations this year about looking at different things. This will require us revisiting everything that we do. It will require us revisiting our vision, our mission, the vision of the graduate to make sure that all of those things are comprehensive and reflective of what we're trying to accomplish as a school system. So uh Dr. Dr. Fedigan and I are going to present a bit together tonight. And so as we think about um our existing vision, mission, and the vision of the graduate, those are ideas and concepts that were developed. Um I I believe it was around the same time as the last strategic plan. And as you do uh enter into a new strategic planning process, you look at all of those pieces and think about
009did we meet the targets that we were intending to in the last strategic plan? What were the strengths? What were the things that went well? What were the areas that um we missed on and how can we improve and how can this new strategic plan help us to become better, stronger as a system. So if you think about the budget process and as we were working on the planning, we thought it was really important um in looking back at the budget process, we identified these 10 operating standards that applied across all areas of our budget that we developed and that we presented to the community. And quite frankly, in in reflecting and thinking about our next steps as a school district in terms of our strategic plan, this made so much sense to us that
010these operating standards should be the same operating standards that we are moving forward with and using as our guide as we develop this new strategic plan. And just in thinking about what the point is, you know, we want to make sure that we have an aligned system, that it reflects what we're we're our community wants in the system, that there are clear goals, that there are measurable outcomes, and that we identify very clearly the framework that's going to make sure that we're aligning our resources and identifying those performance indicators so that we can determine whether or not we're being successful. in what we do. Um, it's a plan that just like you have with the previous plan, we're monitoring it regularly. We should be adjusting it when we need to and we should be making
011changes that are aligned with what we're trying to accomplish as a system. So um just in terms of concept and framework um the previous strategic plan you'll see on the left hand side and what we believe is important that must be included are goal areas key focus areas um priorities and action steps and key performance indicators. And as we think about that, um, to me, as we analyze the existing strategic plan and we think about those operating standards and what we are, what our our purpose as a school system is, we've identified four key areas that we are proposing are the structure of the work that we build out of this. So the notion that we are strengthening teaching and learning for student growth and well-being. We are focused on retention, recruitment and advancement of
012our staff. We are enhancing community engagement and communication and that we are ensuring that strategic fiscal planning and operational efficiency exists within our system and every goal that we set and every action item action item that we identify should be directly connected to these four key areas. >> Thank you Dr. B. So as Dr. B mentioned um the first thing that we need to do is really reflect have a look back at the um original strategic plan for 2021 to 2026. And as indicated, there are four main goal areas now that we are striving for. And what we've tried to do here on this graphic is show how the existing seven goals are translated into those four new goals. And what you'll notice really is the integration of some goals that we feel like should
013be connected more clearly. So the goal around the vision of the graduate really needs to be about strengthening teaching and learning and thinking about wellness of our students. We also need to think about the vision of the graduate. We think about retention, recruitment, and advancement because we want to make sure that we have our educators demonstrating those same competencies and we want to make sure that we're having cohesion as a staff. The third the third is pretty obvious as well enhancing community engagement and communication and the connection that you would have to vision of the graduate there and the same with fiscal planning and operational efficiency if we look back to those operating standards. So the other goal that we really tried to integrate into these um four consolidated goal areas is the goal around
014technology. So when you think about it, we want to think about how we're using technology as a tool for teaching and learning, not as a replacement for. And there are major shifts that happen. Technology changes quickly. We need to keep pace with that. Of course, we need to be thinking about technologies and there were even some existing action steps in the current strategic plan around um for example, how are we using technology to create efficiencies for staff so that we can really be focusing on the work. The same thing with regard to community engagement. when we think about how we use technology and this has been one of the focus areas of Dr. Burn to communicate really directly and clearly with the staff. We're also thinking about for example Edge Planet and using that as
015a platform to be really transparent around the curriculum um items and we're thinking again about the data dashboard and how we can be more transparent with sharing with parents um and families their children's progress in the school system. And of course, you know, we're thinking about technology as a big part of our budget process and financial um operational efficiency. >> I I would like to just interject because I think one of one of the key ideas behind what we're focused on here in this process is that it seems to me in years of looking at strategic plans that they become far more complicated and they lose sight of what they should be. they become more complicated. They they separate things that should not be separated where things that are naturally integrated within a system and
016and I'm not sure why that happens, but I think it overly complicates what school districts are trying to do and sometime causes school districts to lose focus. So to me, the simplification, the clarity of what we're doing will make it an effective strategic plan to help us meet the needs of our kids. And I also think it's important that because it's come up at the table here, we need to go back and look at the vision, the mission, the vision of the graduate. Are there things that are missing? And I know that one comment that has come up multiple times is where does student outcomes come into that? And that's got to be a part of this process. As we begin it, we need to look at those areas and make sure that they are
017reflective of where we are as a system and our beliefs as a community. >> Sorry. >> Absolutely. No, absolutely. So really the intent is greater clarity um and greater focus and thinking about having fewer goals and greater impact. Um, and as Dr. Burn mentioned, the key focus areas will still be a part of the plan moving forward. Having very clean and clear action steps to guide the work and then thinking about the metrics to think about how we're measuring our progress as we move along. We'll all be part of it. We also wanted to talk you through an actual revision process and Dr. Burn mentioned before, similar to how there was some shift in the budget process, we want to make sure that we're really socializing the work as we go and getting feedback and
018input from different stakeholder groups um in our school system and in the community at large. The the thing that we do actually we're starting already um with cabinet drafting the strategic plan. We've made the shift from the seven goals to the four and cabinet really thinking about those four goals and what might be some action steps. Look, taking a look back at the current strategic plan and thinking about our progress toward those those goals and where we um see things that we've done well and where we see that there's continued growth that we need to strive for. We're also going to be of course gathering input from teachers, curriculum leaders, administrators, the CDSP, of course, our PTOs in the schools, and absolutely, of course, you all at the table. What we'll do is we'll we'll
019take that feedback and synthesize it. We will clarify. We'll find out what's clear in the um goals that we're setting and the action steps, what's not clear, maybe what's missing, are there things that we should defer? And then ultimately the board would approve the plan and that will drive the school improvement plans and department improvement plans. So we're striving for that coherence. We're really making sure that we're all focusing on those same goals. It'll be a collaborative and disciplined effort. It will also, I think, be a launch for our retreat in the summer and it will certainly be a launch for our retreat with administrators in the summer when we gather um in August. So a timeline for the work is, as I just indicated, this is just an actual visual for it. So what
020we're doing is really also trying to backwards map where do we want to be for the start of the new school year for implementation? Where do we want to be for our July board discussion? Where do we need to be as we wrap up this school year and plan back to now? All right. And some guiding questions. We want to make sure that the focus groups that we hold um with the different stakeholders are really driven by uh you know the kinds of information that we believe will help us really draft a strategic plan that will be robust and that will really be impactful and help us focus the work. We also want to make sure that the strategic plan reflects the values of the school system and the vision that the district has um
021for our student learning outcomes and thinking about the feasibility. A lot of times, I think I would also add to Dr. Burn's earlier comments, uh, strategic plans can tend to be really lofty and something that's sitting on a shelf and not necessarily referenced and progress monitored. So, what we want to do is make sure that there's focus and feasibility so that our progress monitoring can inform our work as we go because a lot should and could happen over that fiveyear period. It's a long walk between 26 and 31. Um and of course then thinking about in three to five years and asking some of those questions. What do we think at the board table? What does our staff think? What do parents think would really be some great measures of success? What would we expect
022to see and hear um at the conclusion of that plan? I think Dr. Burns some comments around our next steps. >> So obviously our next steps number one is to hear some feedback from the board on this uh proposed process uh is for us to actually get down to work. It's to get the plan drafted, go through our process of getting feedback, um, bring it back to the board for feedback, then revise again, bring it back to the board for approval, and then really socialize it, get it out to the community, align our school and departmental plans, and implement the priorities. And as we go, it's monitor it regularly as the board has done and the administration has done with the current strategic plan and make adjustments as possible. So that being said, love to
023hear question, comments, thoughts. Um >> um thank you. Thank you for the um >> sorry, thank you for the presentation. Um I just have a couple quick points of feedback and thank you for clarifying the the process and how this would work. I one first question that I have is um what is the approximate timing of when the board would receive some kind of a preliminary proposed draft that we and I'm assuming that the board would give that first kind of review and input at the board table prior to getting the community input. Is that correct? So March, April, we'd be bringing to the board. Yep. >> So the board would get this first and then it would be socialized with the different community groups. Yes. >> Afterward. Okay. So we would have a chance
024to give input as a board. >> Okay. Joanna, >> um I was wondering if you could tell us what the stakeholder feedback um will look like. Is it just focus groups? Is there anything else? You know, you listed the groups that you plan to uh talk to, but what is it going to look like for them? So, in our conversations, the focus groups, we thought, you know, we heard a lot of positives about the focus groups that were held with the superintendent search and how that reached a broad range of folks um across stakeholder groups in the community. And we think that could be a very helpful way of doing it. >> And would you run that or would you bring in someone to run that? >> No, I I I honestly believe that the
025best way to develop a strategic plan is internally. So, we figure out who would do that. Um, it could be the two of us. It could be folks from intern inside our system. We we do not need to bring someone in to to do that piece. >> Other comments um in that >> in the stakeholders are we um one there's two group one and a half groups to me that maybe we should also ask is input from students. >> Yeah. >> As well as alumni. We could definitely build those in. >> Other questions? John, >> just excuse me. In terms of feedback, I think you mentioned the the um um the focus groups were very very helpful in the past um past processes that we did. Um when you really want to hear from parents,
026the best way to do that is to hear directly from parents versus going through intermediaries or kind of other organizations. So, and the more direct feedback we get, the better. >> Great. >> I think I it would it be safe to say when you're saying the superintendent search where we had parent, we had basically focus groups that anyone could sign up to attend >> and they went to different schools. So, you would not need to sign up for these. We would schedule them out uh at the schools through the PTO's and and get information to the communities because people read the information that comes from the PTO's, >> right? and and enlist them to help us recruit uh parents to join >> which I think is John's point. So that would be the direct opportunity
027for parents to give input and feedback. >> Great. Thank you. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Uh my struggle is I'm trying to wrap my head around. So we have the vision of a graduate and that's kind of our product. That's what we're trying to build. And the strategic plan is for the the administration, the teachers, the the whole district, the system to produce that project. >> So the strategic plan and am I understanding this correctly is more for the the uh mission essential tasks that the district must accomplish in order to produce the graduate that we have laid out. This is what we want a graduate to look like. >> You are 100% correct. So our goals as a system, the operational goals that we develop should be coming right out of the strategic plan.
028So the task the exactly what you're saying the mission critical task that should be coming from the strategic plan >> because I think that that bifurcation kind of helps. We're not talking right now about the vision of the graduate what what we want our product to the capabilities we want our students to graduate with what they want we want them to to gra look like. This is the infrastructure to support them. >> Yes. And and I love the idea of including students and alumni because they can tell us are are we on the right path. I was in this area when I got to college or >> it's like the vehicle for our work. >> Dennis, >> so to to Bill's point, um what I'm struggling with is what is the right process to do
029this? So to the way I would think you'd want to do this is first to revise or or review or the the vision of the graduate mission and then that becomes your lighthouse and then you build your infrastructure from there. And I don't see that on this plan. I see we developing a plan and then we may revise the >> No, no, no. It's as I I maybe I wasn't clear enough. It's the first step is for us to look at the mission, the vision, the vision of the graduate to be sure that um we are on the right path. >> Okay. Sorry, maybe I missed that >> because I know that one of the the key point it's come up at the table multiple times >> with the vision of the graduate is are
030student outcomes missing from the vision of the gra I think you've said it Greg said a number of folks have said that and we have said that that we have to have a conversation about that and and reflect upon that >> and so yes that's step one >> okay but I I agree with that thank you Dennis that's that's a good way to Yeah. >> So, so the timing again still for that then would be >> Yeah. I think listen, it's a very aggressive timetable, but we've been pretty good about achieving things when we give ourselves an aggressive timetable, but you know, obviously this is a proposal, so it could shift um a little bit. We're also a week later presenting this than we originally intended because of weather. So, you know, we we'll certainly
031keep you posted. If we think it's going to take a little longer, um, we'll bring that back to the board as well. >> Okay. And and the intent then again looking at the vision, mission, and vision and graduate, I'm assuming then you're saying that you would come forward with a proposal that we would then have a discussion about and review. Correct. Okay. >> All right. Are there other questions? >> Katie? Um, I don't want to be too granular, but considering that it is um, a quick timeline um, with potentially a lot of input together. Um, I just wanted to ask to Dennis's excellent point about um, the students. That's easy. We have them, but the alumni um, will we be doing more than just focus groups? Alumni could be very tricky. >> Alumni, we're going
032to have to work on our plan for how we do that. Okay. And we'll work with the counseling department because they often keep track of kids. >> Great. >> And or graduates. And then just furthering on to that too, thinking about um how we are commu community- based schools and some of our conversations also about reasons that certain students might leave the district or not join the district. I wonder if we might open it up broadly to the community as well so that um there's just a chance for people to weigh in in a survey or something whether they're empty nesters, whether they have preschool kids um just to gather that kind of intel about what they think makes a successful school, why they would or wouldn't want to send their kids. >> Have to
033think about how we could accomplish that. That that could be a significant challenge, but I won't rule it out. Okay, >> we'll we'll think about how we can expand that. >> Thank you. >> Other questions or board feedback? I I do have one question just as we develop this and I I think you're it's a good thing to have something that's more simple um and high level but then the question is if this really is driving everything that we are doing ultimately um how do we you know in say year two some new circumstance comes up or something really drastically changes that we believe we probably should be taking some actions on what would be the intent then of how we could kind of monitor. >> So that that's built into the process is that
034one of the things we said is regular monitoring and adjustments as necessary because you it cannot be flat, right? The that's what that's where strategic plans in schools die is they get created, they get put into these giant binders and then they sit on a shelf and it's so complex and they're 150 pages long. But we need to be simple and clear in what our tasks are that are measurable. I mean that that's ultimately where we need to be. >> Okay. >> Needs to be about continuous improvement. Right. Correct. Thinking about continuous improvement cycles. And I think in addition to plans sitting on shelves, another >> um certain death for strategic plans is when there isn't alignment in the other types of plans like school improvement plans and thinking about department improvement plans. So we
035have to think about all areas of the work and aligning back to that. >> Okay. And then on the no the KPI subject um when would that process happen and how would that work? Would that be after it's developed and then the administration proposes various metrics or ways that we would plan to measure? >> I think they're actually in the development process. We should be able to identify some of those. >> Okay. And then is the ongoing process then say quarterly or whenever we would be reviewing how we're doing or what's your plan for that? >> My feeling is quarterly is a little too frequent um you know because there's so when you think about the flow of a school year it it's not a whole lot of time. >> I would think a twice
036a year update um and reflection would be helpful >> and and then would that also have some kind of measures to kind of say here's how we're doing and show the progress. Okay, great. Are there other board questions? >> Yes. >> Yeah. While we're going down this KPI part, I guess, um is there any thought of have is it is the KPI just a check mark of yes, we've accomplished this or no, we haven't or will there be like a stretch goal of what what is what is average look like and what does excellence look like? What does >> I don't know the answer yet because we haven't developed them, but I would imagine that there would be a range of KPIs that we'd look at. >> Okay, perfect. >> Great. Um, other board questions.
037Okay, no questions. Thank you for this uh process and we'll look forward to getting the update >> and we we will get to work. >> Thank you. Um we are moving on now to uh the first reading and discussion of the board master agenda for February 26 through August 2026. Dr. Burn. >> So um through lots of conversation at this table over the last six months. Um there have been ideas of presentations that the board was interested in hearing. We've mentioned some of them at the table. So what we're really looking at um is laying out a bunch of different pres u presentations. So uh in March on the 24th we have the elementary schools update presentation that we've talked about at the table and the board seemed very receptive to doing the different level
038presentations. I will say that there are a few things in here that may move like I am not sure we will be ready on March 24th for the um library collection development policy. We are still working on that in the policy committee. But in terms of the presentations, I do think um we'll be ready with the elementary schools update looking in April. Um the uh draft educational specifications for Middle Sex Middle School and the Middle Sex Middle School update on May 12th. the special education update um on May 26th and the cadence of some of these items came from what's been done in the past, the school calendar conversations. Um then some policies that we anticipate being updated on June 9th, the superintendent award recipients, the Barbara Harrington fund awards, um the internship presentation, and
039then further action on the 2728 school district calendar. On June 23rd, I talked about um me delivering a presentation and end of year review and a review of the district goals and a reflection on the district goals and then looking we'll be right back at the master agenda for August to February. July 27th is the board retreat. Um I the reason that July 28th is blank because I believe that we may have some strategic plan discussions to have at that night but um we weren't there yet. Um and then knowing where August typically is the recap presentation that was very wellreceived this year um that would enable us to share as an administrative team of the work that's occurred uh in the school district over the summer months. Can I um just so we skipped
040over March 11th? So that's the K through three literacy update. >> I'm sorry. I >> still >> March 11th is the K3 literacy update. >> Okay. >> We were just working on that today. >> And then the board retreat, correct? On the 17th. I I do have a question on the retreat, the July 27th. Typically in the past, we had kind of collapsed the retreat with the July board meeting. Okay. >> So that we just have one kind of session where we also have that agenda. I believe just for people's time I think that yeah that's easy enough to do. >> Well I mean or for several years the retreat has just been a very long meeting that sort of was a catchall for all the things that we hadn't caught up on >> just
041once. >> Yeah. budgets change. >> I thought we did it last year and the last the year before that too, but okay. >> So, >> there there's certainly a way to do it effectively where you can have a robust good strong retreat that isn't a long meeting which we definitely all discussed that day. Um, and then convening a meeting at that time to do the pieces that we need to do. So, >> okay, >> there certainly to me it it certain because if >> if we're doing >> if much of the focus is on the strategic plan that's a part of the retreat as well. So, >> okay. >> To me, I think it's it makes sense and is easy enough for us to modify. >> All right. We can it depends on the agenda
042and how much we need to cover. So, um Okay. Are there other are there questions on the master agenda? >> Yes, Joanna. Um, so as we've worked on governance and gotten out of the weeds, um, but there might still be things on the old master agenda that were maybe too in the weeds, but now we'll touch on the on a bigger like so if I want to learn about teameing, can I request ahead of time before the middle school presentation that teameing is included in that presentation or whatever? Okay, >> just it would be helpful if you could send that soon so that we can give that guidance to the middle school team. >> Thank you, Katie. Um, I also wanted to ask about um about how we might think about and track future committee
043work and if there might be potential for a master agenda for committees. Um, I know that a lot of times it can feel a bit surprising as to like what the topic is for the month and can also be a little challenging sometimes to get something on an agenda. So, um, it might be nice if we were able to do a bit of planning for topics that we would like to see occur within the next year. >> I I think that would be a terrific topic that is part of the board retreat committees as a whole. So that's >> committee planning committee >> except it doesn't happen until next school year. >> Um >> I mean like we wouldn't be able to implement anything. So you know >> well when we think about the number
044of committee meetings left in this school year for I I mean I we could try and figure out how to do that. Um >> well perhaps in the perhaps in the meantime we could just as as a board agree that if there are burning topics on our minds that we'll share them with each other to try to get them on the remaining agendas and then we'll formalize the process at the retreat. >> I think that would be great. >> Great. Other board comments okay thank you um thanks for the master agenda and thank you for your feedback. Um, >> and we'll make those modifications based on that. >> Great. Okay. And we'll move on to consent agenda. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda, Dennis? Seconded by Joanna. Um, I'm just going
045to read through the consent agenda. Um, we have the approval of minutes, acceptance of contemplated gift for middle school quizful buzzers, and the personnel report. Is there discussion on uh anyone want to discussion? Anything on the consent agenda? Dennis, >> just one point is on the personnel report is Heather Shay who was a former board of ed member and I think an integral part of the back office staff is retiring and just want to thank her for the years of service that she's dedicated to the Darian public schools. >> Thank you. And I would also like to congratulate the Middle Sex Middle School Quiz Bowl team on their ongoing uh feats and uh upcoming competitions and um thank you for the gift of the quiz bowl buzzers. Are there other comments or discussion on the
046consent agenda? Okay, seeing none, all in favor of approving the consent agenda. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, Dave. >> I was just going to second Dennis's comments. Thank you. >> Thank you. All in favor of approving the consent agenda. That is unanimous. May I have a motion to adjour? Oh, I'm sorry. We have public comment next. Is there any >> members of the public? >> No members. >> Followup action item. Oh, and the follow-up action items would be to add um potentially or to for board members to give any feedback on subcommittee topic items that they might be interested in and then we can discuss that at the upcoming board retreat with the intent of starting to discuss some kind of a master agenda for subcommittees. Thank you. Uh may I have a motion to
047adjourn this meeting? >> Joanna seconded by Dennis. All in favor?