001e e e good evening I would like to call the meeting to order on this lovely hopefully beginning of Spring day in Iowa even though now I've jinxed it so be prepared for an ice storm later this week thanks jny um I would like to welcome everyone to the school board of uh meeting for the board of education for Cedar Falls on this lovely March 10th 2025 we are going to start tonight's meeting with a public hearing on the 20256 2025 26 school year calendar I have in my possession an a an Affidavit of publication showing the notice of time and place of hearing for the 2025 2026 school year calendar this notice was published in the water loose Cedar Falls Courier on February 27th 2025 the board will now hold hearing and is there
002anyone in the audience who would like to provide comment on the School Board calendar the school year calendar for next year seeing no one I would like to go ahead and close the public hearing and we will move on with the meeting do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved and a second second all in favor say I I I I'll oppose nay we will count that as approved for tonight's meeting we now are to the point of the meeting where we invite public comment for those who have contacted us Andy do we have anyone who contacted for public comment tonight no we do not and as a reminder to anyone who would like to come to a meeting if you ever do wish to make public comment at a board
003meeting it does need to be um related to school board business and you do need to contact either typically it would be L stman our president um or Dr PTI ahead of time to make sure that you are able to be placed on the agenda we are now going to move into the communications portion of our agenda and we have a student board representative tonight James Pang is here to share with us all the exciting things happening in our district and high school James welcome to the meeting tonight thank you so much um yeah I'm James Pang I'm the student body vice president at C Falls High School and I'm filling in for Natalie tonight and um we got a lot of things done from the last meeting so uh first of all um our
004blood drive so uh we uh held a blood drive approximately two weeks ago and uh we had some great numbers so we had a 53 donors register uh we had 44 firsttime donors and we collected 4 42 units of blood and uh we impacted up to 126 lives so um yeah we have great numbers across the board there and I'm really happy to do that and then um in regard ards to uh last time I talked about um selling the uh flowers and monkeys for uh raising funds for a dance marathon and uh we have a number so uh $500 from those flowers and monkeys we were able to donate to dance marathon and that was uh fantastic um we're also doing GRE Across America at uh student Senate and uh this also involves the
005rest of the school too but essentially during the month of March uh we're having high school kids go to the elementary schools and uh reading in their classrooms so uh it was a great experience I did it at my home Elementary Hansen and I read to some preschoolers and it was just a you know nice and heartwarming time it's great to Great to read to them and um finally uh the three Onre basketball tournament um we are doing pretty good there we have some plans to get that uh flowing uh you know currently giving given that the Cedar Falls tigers are playing basketball right now we don't want to interrupt that but uh you know go Tigers but uh we're uh just gonna hold that off till uh basketball season's over and then from there
006hopefully we can get it running and then we plan to partner with a do better be better for that so uh the slogan I guess the plan slogan is that do better be better play better and uh the funds we get from spectating for that and uh playing in that will be uh put towards that scholarship which will help students in need and uh yeah I think that's about it um any questions what book did you read uh read a few books actually but the first one was uh obviously the the pigeon book don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and then the uh second one was uh Pete the cats Pete the cats Pete the Cat learns the Boogie or something like that um can't remember the exact name but yeah that was it
007and James real quick are you a senior this year as well I'm a junior you're a junior so maybe you know this you may not all my seniors today I work at you and I and they just all told me they're now counting down it's eight more weeks of the school year till they graduate have you started the countdown yet you know personally I haven't like realized like you know time has flown but uh you know a little bit because I mean I don't know I do I do enjoy you know being in school and uh partak in all the partaking in all the activities but then you know uh a little nice weather is you know I wouldn't mind it I'm guessing if your counterpart was here as president she would know the exact
008number of days left so y do we have any other questions for James if you need something to read next year if you do the read Across America thing uh the one called the book with no pict pictures is a good one book with no pictures I'll write that one down thank you thank you for being here tonight thank you and now we are moving to the district update with Janelle yeah good evening you're actually going to hear from James in my update as well since um we're actually going to highlight him in a second so first of all of course we're going to mention our men's basketball team this was when they won the Regional Championship last week and they played today down in De Moine and they won by a lot it was
009a super fun game to watch congratulations to the team and they will now play this Wednesday at 5:30 down in De Moine again against walkal Northwest and they're going to win that game so they're going to play the championship Friday so go Tigers definitely and then um Mr Pang if you'd like to come up and explain this I was asking him about it and he was answering my questions and I was like why don't you just talk about it a little bit he was um he won first place in this um the junior science and Humanity Symposium in Ames come on up and tell about uh thank you so uh I guess just for some background uh the junior Science High School SYM Symposium yeah it's a long name um it's basically just like a
010research competition so um you basically investigate a subject uh you submit a paper to them and then um they'll take the uh they'll rank them I guess and uh the top 15 will then do a compete in a in an oral competition where you orally present your research and then they will then uh judge it and um yeah uh I uh have had been doing some uh work at un and I over the summer so I submitted my results there to this uh program and then uh I presented in Ames two weeks ago Monday I think and uh yep uh went pretty well as you can see pretty happy with the results and uh yeah can you give us a brief overview of what your research was focused on yeah uh for sure uh my
011research was focused on um the official title is extracellular ATP on Mac te epithelial cell acting distribution and ESS oh yeah yeah to answer any of your question I mean that it's been so done but go ahead tell us more about it but uh essentially um it's focusing on ATP which is a you know you think of as like an energy molecule right get into the muscles provides uh uh phosphorilation whatever and that energizes but um it's also been known to act as um a signaler in the inflammatory process so it's basically just uh looking at how ATP acts as an inflammatory molecule really what are you are you already have plans for post High School uh I don't know we'll see how it goes but uh yeah um hopefully uh you know I'm still
012working on it so hopefully at Nationals I can present um some uh new findings but otherwise in that yeah excellent well I feel very inadequate now but yes yeah DC fantastic congratulations absolutely thank you for being my guest presenter thank you for per yes thank you so much um also wanted to mention uh this is a program that started at Pete Junior High this is a group of students and this is focused on some workplace learning skills so this is called tiger treats and this is a group of students and during tiger time they have their tiger treats cart and then they go around all the classrooms and sell treats then to the teachers and this is just shows them on their official opening day and the first dollar spent with tiger treats was by
013our own mayor Danny laic so was a really uh great experience continues to be for those students and you can see all the other um staff and support that have been able to make that happen so that was really exciting to see and also wanted to highlight this was an um program that happened at holes Junior High the students and staff they had during their PE classes and they also had a full school assembly assembly they did some wheelchair basketball so Jonah Becker and his family arranged that experience for the students and then I think Mr Jones a principal was even in on some of the basketball uh games that were played so it was a lot of fun for those students I also wanted to highlight our rocket club this was an engineer week
014they went out to John Deere and they did some some displays with the rocket club and then the FTC uh 6420 and 525 sport dogs were out there as well those students have also been competing the um rocket the rocket club will be competing in April at Nationals and then the robotics teams are competing in many of their regionals as well with coming up at you and I after spring break I believe is a regional correct cor yes yeah so I think that's the a big one that they're focused on right now in the class of 2038 should be thinking about kindergarten right now so if you have a student that'll be starting kindergarten in the fall those are the phone numbers we would like you to contact to let them know you have a
015student if you're not sure of what building you can call our Administration office at 553 3000 and we'll help you figure that out and again students need to be 5 years old on or before September 15th and then we'll also wanted to announce we have a a really exciting have Lyn Lions back she's a speaker and author she presented last year for us um in person this year she's doing a virtual live streamed event and she's focusing on how to navigate smartphones freakouts and friendships the big skills all kids and adults need so we're really excited about that we now have a Facebook event that you're able to find through the district Facebook page and has the link you need on that night that you would just use to click into the event so we'll
016of course have more information following as well and we have spring sports starting up I know our fishing team is having their me family meeting parent meeting tonight and they have opened up that to kids going into 3rd through 12th grade so they're really expanding but then of course all our track soccer golf all the other things happening as well but keep track of all that on the bound app and also on our social media any questions and we would encourage everyone to please um read our newsletter you can contact Janelle you can find us on social media as important as the work we do as a board is the success and work of our students is really what shows us on display it's great to have James here tonight to not only have him
017give the student board report but tell us about you know his success uh that's really where we see the proof of what we're doing and the work that we're doing so thank you James for being here that's super exciting and watch us on social media all right we will go ahead and move on um item F on the agenda tonight is to approve plans and specifications and set a public hearing for our 2025 summer Roofing projects we have Garrett Brown from ccg here tonight he is going to present on the annual summer roof projects these are a part of our 10-year pble plan so welcome Garrett thank you for having me as you mentioned I'm Garrett brown with confidence Consulting Group all righty perfect and I've been working with Christen denell to uh replace three
018roof sections at two different buildings uh Southdale Elementary and Orchard Hill Elementary uh we are adding a fourth section in there for an alternate because we do have a little bit of a budget so we're going to try to obviously use as much of that budzet for the replacement as possible uh the building and roof locations as I mentioned Southdale Elementary uh the items in red are going to be the base bid uh so those are the three sections B C and H uh they've reached their serviceable life and there is moisture saturated ation in all of the roof layers so it is ready to be replaced a uh it it is in that same category as well it's in the vicinity of B andc at Southdale so uh we're hoping that we can get
019a good number with that since it's a larger area we can able cut down construction cost on that section to meet that roof budget uh roof replacement design for the base bid at Southdale Elementary uh B and C uh we're taking that in ire system to the deck uh it is a concrete deck over there we're going to add tapered insulation so all the water slopes to the drains uh and then we're going to do a uh fully adhered EPDM Roof System uh that we'll get a 30-year warranty uh protected and a contractor we have a 5-year warranty as well Orchard Hill a little bit different uh we're going to do a full tear off there's not going to be tapered because it's already a little sloped roof there uh we're just going to same
020thing put insulation on with some EPDM membrane and then a 30-year warranty and then the alternate bid for section A over at Southdale again we're since that's a flat deck and it uh is in a sloped roof we are going to do a full tear off add tapered insulation uh new metal trim and accessories like the other sections and then a 30-year warranty for that one as well so four sections in all uh our base bid for uh Southdale section B with about 4,150 Square ft is 8,925 uh section c a little bit larger at about 86,000 section H at 1,550 and that'll be about 3,225 so the base bid will be right around 197 350 uh that's sitting right there at that 199 to $21 SQ foot Mark that's kind of what I've been
021seeing on what I've been taking out to bid to other districts so I'm hoping we can land right in that area as well and then the alternate bid uh is a little bit bigger section there next to B and C uh it's about 113,877 Square ft so all in all about 312,000 roughly uh hopefully we can stay right near there uh then we'll be able to get all the roof sections get another section added in that wasn't planned for and kind of take care of that one as well our timeline so tonight the 10th we're just presenting this and then March 14th we'll have the plans and specifications the notice to biders to go out things posted to the plan room website postings uh from there April 1st the notice of the public hearing uh
022April 3rd we will do a pre pre-bid meeting a lot of contractors have been showing up uh we had about nine the other day over in Carol IA so we're going to have a good amount of number of guys coming up and providing numbers for the project we'll have a public hearing on the 14th of April and then a bid opening on the 17th hopefully the contract on the 28th a pre-con meeting on the 21st of May and then in June we will start construction hopefully on June 1st and then be done by August 1st so that is our plan for The Replacements of the uh three sections with an additional of the four for the alternate there any questions I would just have a couple comments uh there's several layers to this this is
023all part of our preventative maintenance plan we know uh having solid roofs uh is really important over the 30-year life cycles that we typically have uh specifically this is a 10-year roof recycling plan that we have um Garrett and his team walks all of our roofs they're they're put into a timeline and a sequence of when they may need to be replaced what kind of shape they're in and that's part of our 10-year pel plan that we set aside dollars every year to ensure that we're doing and making the right decisions to have uh watertight seals in all of our buildings and and there are some other repairs that we do per periodically but this is part of that annual 30-year roof replacement planning document as well as our 10-year P plan where that's funded
024from so um again a proactive work to really plan with a lot of foresight as we look to the Future and uh you and and your team have really served us well to make sure that we're always proactive in this work if we have no other questions we will entertain a motion I move Cedar Falls Community School District Board of Education approve the proposed plans specifications proposed form of contract and set a public hearing date on April 14th 2025 at 5:30 p.m. for the 2025 summer Roofing tuck pointing projects do we have a second second all in favor say I I I I any opposed say nay we will pass the motion thank you for coming tonight Garrett thank you all right now we will move on to item G we are going to set
025a public hearing for a proposed tax notice denell is going to present to us tonight on the proposed tax notice and get us ready for the public hearing yeah absolutely so this is really just the first step as we talk about budget as we move into the certified budget um as you know in and just like last year um we have a new process in regards to a proposed tax notice so we need to have some conversations prior to our big presentation next meeting in April uh regarding our certified budget so as we move forward to the the next screen you'll note this is just a reminder of the change and the changes that did occur um last year house file 718 was passed and that made some changes to our uh certified budget some
026of those changes included um it previously was required to have the certification by April 15th we now have until April 30th and the reason for that is because of this additional public Hearing in which uh the districts are required to hold um also the County Auditors um you will receive in your mail um prior they have to send that out by March 20th it's a property tax notice this property tax notice um is required by all uh counties to be sent um one thing to note on this document it does reflect not only the district's uh property tax but it also uh indicates the estimated for the city and the county so this document has some estimates to it some assumptions to it um but it is not your final tax notification uh that's one
027thing to remember as you receive these documents and review those documents um the other thing is this year new uh they did make some changes in regards to the proposed ta notice uh previously districts had until March 15th to complete the required information so you'll not note on the next screen some of the assumptions that we make um so it's decreased our ability to make some of those assumptions meaning some of the items have not been set by the legislation to to inform the community what those to be more accurate with this particular document and then obviously like I I indicated that additional public hearing is required so now rather than one public hearing we now have two public hearings that are held during this uh certified budget process so as we go on to
028the next screen you'll note some of the assumptions as I indicated uh there are assumptions that need to be made to ensure that we can provide this document to the community in a timely manner based on the county audit aor requirements um some of those assumptions and some of them are um factual actual information that we are aware of um are taxable valuation did increase 5% that does not mean your assessed valuation went up 5% so um as we review that taxable valuation has many calculations including in it with exemptions with uh household credits all sorts of different things but we do know that the taxable valuation did increase supplemental state aid the supplemental state aid as you are aware or may not be aware um has not been set for this year uh there
029is a deadline uh based on legislation for February I believe February 13th if I'm correct on that date um and unfortunately that has not been set it appears to be uh currently in discussions um currently the governor and the Senate have set that at 2% or their recommendations the house is at 2.25% therefore again we don't have that exact assumptions as to know exactly what that will be on your property tax statement therefore the district had made the Assumption at 2% um as we moved forward so that is our particular assumption we also know the instructional support income Sur tax we know that is uh 1% this year um that is a 5year uh income sir tax that the board had passed um the income s tax revenues are based on the amount of state
030income tax paid by residents in the school district so we do know that it will be 1% um the cash Reserve Levy the SBC those are previously approved um um items in which such as our special ed deficit our limited English proficiency our enrollment in and out and then the English language Learners we do know that that will be set at the $400,000 to um cash reserves Associated to that we also do know that the management fund management fund we anticipate um a cost of about $1.9 million um that is due is very similar to last year at this time and that is due again to the uh fact that we have been notified of approximately 15 to 20% uh premium increase for next year uh that is not specific to Cedar Fall schools that
031is uh Nationwide based on the disasters that have occurred and the hard Market uh another item that impacts the management fund is the 1% wind in hail deductible that the district currently has um to give you an example and that is not only on uh the value of the building but it's also on the contents of the building so as an example our high school building value uh replacement value is estimated at $89 million therefore if we had a complete disaster uh with wind and hail based on a tornado or something like that a complete replacement deductible for the district would cost $890,000 um that's just one building in our district we have have multiple buildings as you are aware so that 1% does impact all of those buildings so we have to prepare for
032that as well and then we do have the natatorium that is being added on this year um once that's complete uh and those those kiddos and community members are available to um access that so we do are aware that there will be an increase in our management fund and then finally our debt service our debt Services Set uh that was graciously um approved by our community um that is specifically payments Associated to interest and principal for uh the uses of our new high school obviously the payment for our new high school of our $ 69.9 million Bond as well as then if you recall the uh construction of Aldrich and remodels of North Cedar and Orchard Hill so those are the assumptions some of them are exact some of them are um estimates um but
033as we move forward then we'll take a look at the property tax notice um this is half of the property tax notice uh each Community member will receive this property tax notice and this notice provides um what the current year tax dollar Levy is for 2025 it also provides you the budget year for fiscal 26 if there were no changes so let's say there are no changes in legislation everything stays at zero there's no growth um that would reflect what those property dollars levies dollars would be our uh fiscal 26 does reflect those assumptions that were made um based on our requirement by March 5th and you'll see that there was some growth or changes in our general fund and those other particular levies in which I've indicated for a difference from the prior year
034of approximately $775,000 as we move forward then this NE this next slide indicates the second portion or the bottom portion of the document in which you will see and you'll note our current Levy or tax levy tax levy rate is a little over $4.78 for fiscal 25 you'll note for fiscal 26 based on the assumptions that the district had made um based on our current standings um our property tax t uh tax rate is decreasing by approximately 25 so we an estimated about $14.53 um so as we've communicated to the community um in several years now we've indicated that the we have anticipation of our tax uh Levy rate to decrease um one of the things you'll note as well is um some assumptions that uh this notice or the legislation has indicated on this
035document one of those items is the assessed evaluation they are estimating or making assumptions that it will increase by 10% % valuation each year we all know that that has not occurred there's no 10% valuation so when we look at this document you'll see a difference of 100,000 compared to 110,000 so as we move to the next screen you'll note this breakdown and this I wanted to provide and this is that Assumption of the 10% increase you'll note from the back uh the roll back example this does not reflect Cedar Fall schools but just as an example an overall example if you had a currently at attend $100,000 actual assessed valuation the roll back percentage for 25 is a little over 46% with that you take that times at $100,000 the result is a taxable
036valuation of $6,350 the document in which you will be reviewing has an assumption of your new estimated valuation of $110,000 so there's an increase the roll back percentage did increase slightly and that's not set by the district that's set by the Department of Revenue um you'll note that it's uh 48 uh a little over 48% again so taxable value for fiscal 26 is $52,900 and the changes in that with the roll back as well as um the 100 the the 10% and you'll see that there is a difference based on that tax uh tax bill again this has no uh exemptions there's no other Levy authorities the Law changes haven't occurred and there's no adjustments to Aiden lovey so it does reflect a change though that reflection May or not may be accurate may or
037may not be accurate um specific to this tax uh not ification so um a lot of information that has been received a lot of information is being sent and provided to the community um again a lot of it is assumptions at the time in which we have the information and unfortunately a lot of it may change but we do anticipate our tax rate Levy rate to decrease for this fiscal year so as we follow up I think my last slide is just the timeline um again as I mentioned tonight we are required to set uh the public hearing um for that First Property Tax notice um that will be scheduled for April 14th for the first public hearing with then the large bre uh budget presentation on April 14th uh which will go through each
038of those levies each of those uses um uh um in regards to that it's one of the larger presentations each year and then we'll also have then that second budget hearing um on April 28th which then approving of the budget which then the filing the budget by April 30th um to ensure that we're consistent and required with by by state code so any questions that's a lot of information a lot of assumptions a lot of changes um but uh this is just the start of it so so I'm going to restate one of the things that denell said there the example that was just provided on the presentation is a Statewide example that is going to go out into the letters that go out to the taxpayers that is not what will happen in Cedar
039Falls but that's what's going to go out in the letter they assume there's going to be a 10% increase in valuations within that example that's not the case in CED or false they assume some other things and and they're using that as the lens for a Statewide example we know our Levy rate is going to decrease so the example does not allow us to customize that or the letter doesn't because it was a State Legislative enacted example to be able to be included in the letter so when you see those numbers they're they're not reflective of what will happen in or false and that's somewhat frustrating denell this might not be the time to but it is the tax related the current proposals they're talking about down there with property tax is this going to
040is it possible this will affect here or is this going to be something like what two years from now or maybe you know we can hold this till your update later yeah so it's a great question in the answer we don't know um because the first legislation with property tax um both in the house and the Senate are open for interpretation and discussion and they've both said the the sponsors of both those bills have said we want to have an ongoing Dialogue on what this looks like and how it impacts specifically cities um budget for school districts is unique and and it's all based on Authority uh not on home rule which is cities and counties so they have a lot more impact when it comes to what can be done and can't be done
041ours is pretty much set we have little flexibility um so we we just don't know yet any other questions I will entertain a motion I move that the Cedar Falls Community School District Board of Education approve April 14th 2025 at 5:30 p.m. at the city of Cedar Fall City Hall at 220 Clay Street Cedar Falls Iowa as the date and time to hold a public hearing for the 2025 2026 proposed tax notice is there a second second all in favor say I I oppose oppose say n the motion is passed we are now going to item G or item h on the uh agenda tonight it's going to be DaNell again she's going to present an approval and final acceptance for completion for new high school bid packages 0 n-5 and 097 yeah absolutely so
042we're getting much closer to completion of the high school I think after this evening uh we have two bid packages that remain open so we're getting closer so I appreciate all of you hanging in with me so um as we approve these as uh Jenny had indicated bid package 9-5 and 9-7 as we move forward we'll take a break a look at the breakdown specific to that you'll see again uh this is specific to point Dexter flooring in Indianola this was the flooring within the uh Within the new high school that contract was approved on December 21st of 2020 that original contract sum was a little over $976,000 there were some adjustments Associated to that um as of March 10th today uh we had $ 2,575 for total expenditures of $997,500 in uh the outside
043of the high school inside of the high school Associated to this uh you'll note that original contract sum was 637000 there were some change orders Associated to this particular contract and that was uh some changes that we made in preparation for the TPC and some other items Associated to that but you'll note uh 297,000 uh for a total contract sum of $935,000 move forward with the final retainage Associated to that based on Iowa Code um and again as I mentioned we have two more bid packages remaining for the high school is there any questions Associated um to these two particular bid packages tonight all right and we have a motion I mooved that the Cedar Falls Community School District Board of Education accept as complete the following bid packages for the construction of the new
044High School 271 West 27th Street for the following contractors and bid packages 9-5 and 9-7 all claims for materials furnished labor performed Andor Services provided for these contracts must be filed per Iowa code is there a second second all in favor say I I I oppose nay and I will be abstaining all right so we are moving on to it item I on the agenda that is the approval of the 2025 2026 school year calendar now that we have um had the public hearing Dr Petty yes so we've gone over the calendar now for several different meetings and uh as proposed we've gotten quite a bit of feedback uh made some tweaks and some changes within the calendar you can see it posted up there um again Iowa Code doesn't allow us to to start
045prior to August 23rd um so this has the August August 25th start date uh and then the corresponding dates uh throughout the the school calendar um I think the feedback on the changes that we made uh two meetings ago uh from feedback from from multiple different groups has been well received and I think we're in a really good spot with our school calendar for next school year all right I believe we have a motion to approve I move do we have questions first motion do we do we have any questions about the school year the one question I would have would be uh there's still legislation alive about potentially moving that start date um would that affect what we're doing right here maybe it depends on how significant of of changes are being made there's
046still two or three bills that uh are kind of alive after the first funnel week and I say kind of alive because if they're tied back into a budgetary um rationale reason then they they can't actually come back up even if they're they're still classified as as dead through the funnel week um usually we say no at this point just because we want people to plan and know when when the dates are uh the the impact that could come up would be the start date and and we would look at that just depending on how significant it is um if that does not happen within the next week or two we probably will say no we're going to go with with the calendar that's approved thank you for your question Jeff anyone else okay now
047we will go to the motion I move that the Cedar Falls Community School District Board of Education approve the 2025 2026 school year calendar as presented do I have a second second all in favor say I I I oppose oppose say name the motion has passed so we are on to the superintendent report yeah not a whole lot um we are in the middle of our um last week prior to spring break so there's also parent teacher conferences going on this week uh so it's going to be a really B busy week uh and then we will have off the the next week for spring break next board meeting is April 14th uh just as denell stated that will be our first public hearing for the the budget uh I'd be remiss without saying again
048with our budget with the tax Lev rate decrease uh it's a testament to Dell and her team the the business office for the work that they do uh there's a lot of work behind the scenes as far as forecasting uh looking out uh at Authority for the next 5 to S years what that may look like for impacts within our community what does it look like for assuring that there continues to be uh a foundational uh practice for planning accordingly with with the budget and um it's amazing work that they do so we thank them for that and that will certainly show as we go through the the final budget preparations to to hopefully approve that that Levy decrease so uh pass that um that is all I have do we have any questions comments
049or concerns from board members just a comment on this school calendar if if we would entertain changing it we would have to go back through the hearing again correct yes we would and that's where it gets so challenging because that becomes uh sometimes a six- week process to go through set a public hearing hold the public hearing approve the calendar and the changes and uh we we typically have parents once this is set that we'll start planning for uh into summer vacations when they might have you know uh Christmas breaks winter breaks and in spring breaks so it it becomes a challenge once it's set if and again my guess would be the priorities at the legislative level are not going to be school calendars in the next few weeks so this is probably going
050to be a two to three week uh time frame when those eyes come back to some of those bills so I would say more than likely the C is set and will be set it's just that little tiny sliver if if they make a dramatic change for when school start dates can occur uh we would probably look at that but again I don't anticipate that changing currently what we're doing due to the fact it wouldn't be until probably uh late May or early June when we could get everything done to to approve what the changes would be at the legislative level locally I would just like to say that I had an opportunity um this past week to meet with the collaborative teams at Pete um Pete and Holmes people were there it was fascinating
051to me and we are in extremely good hands um as a staff and students and they are outstanding staff people I just think we should be very proud of our people that are working in the school district the other thing is I also attended the SpongeBob the musical it was great great again kudos to the staff and students and community that were involved in that was so entertaining and really a wonderful production so just wanted to publicly acknowledge that it's another time to say we've got the best staff in the world so absolutely and I think on on the heels of bet saying that and Dr Petty you you congratulating DaNell and her team which I think we all would Echo we also want to thank you know you and the leadership team for the
052approach that we do take especially you know knowing the things that are happening in our district um the programs that we continue to see grow the quality of everything that we have in terms of both facilities and academics and staff that we are able to be very um fiscally prudent with our budget and continue to do those things does it's a testament to all of you as well so thank you so much all right if there is nothing else on the agenda tonight or no more questions I will entertain a motion to adjourn so moved yes sir a second second all in favor say I I oppose I we are adjourned thank you for watching tonight e