001What's that? All right. Welcome to the Smith Green Community Schools regular meeting of that's regular school board meeting of Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 at 6:30. If you please stand alsisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. By focusing on excellence in education and providing opportunities for all students to succeed, we strive to be the best small school in India. Please join me for a moment of meditation. >> Thank you. >> Yes. First, we'd like to have our student spotlight in this case. >> Okay. for our student spotlight. Uh this month, Cherabusco Junior Senior High School would like to spotlight two student leaders, senior Justin Debold and junior Reese Vendor. Reese is a member of our new era showquir and cheer team and she has taken on extra tasks with our squad this year.
002She's the first student we asked to use uh pilot using parent square to communicate with her team. She regularly posts weekly game day information and she has posted videos that include step-by-step moves and words to their cheers and chants as a way to teach new and younger squad members. Be also is a member of our student council and has supported Mrs. Egley and her peers and all of their school projects and activities. Since meeting her, Mrs. Hersh has been impressed with Reese's constant drive to bring activities, events, and ideas to her attention. In fact, it was Reese's well organized and thoughtful proposal that Mrs. Hers approved for our new senior parking spots which turned out phenomenal. I think Reese is an exceptional leader and asset to our building. We love what she is never afraid
003to ask questions or bring uh her new ideas to Mrs. Hersian opinions because she truly is proud to be an Eagle. Jessica is our student council president. And while we have acknowledged our student council as a whole on many occasions, it's important that we give Jessa an extra shout out because she works closely with Miss Egley and other adults in the building to constantly think of ways to engage our students. This year, it was Mrs. Cers's goal along with Miss Zley to develop a true leader for our students at events. just has stepped into that role, has brought different groups of students together to share ideas and show their support of our teams and programs. Even though uh the year is just getting started, Jessa has already proposed several ideas and made plans for events
004throughout the year. Just as humor and heart are appreciated by both adults and students because she's willing to go above and beyond to support everyone. Her busco pride is evident in all she does and our schools better because of her leadership and dedication. Both Reese and Jessa demonstrate great leadership in school spirit. Because of their efforts, our hope of creating and continuing a positive, welcoming and fun school culture is definitely happening. >> Well said. Congratulations. >> I can tell you it is so exciting. not only to go and watch games, but to see the amount of our student body in the stands supporting our our student athletes and for them to be as active as they are. And obviously that stems from your leadership. So, thank you very very much. Yes. >> We get a
005picture of you. You don't get all scat free. Thank you. Real quick, congratulations. Thank you for everything that you do. Congratulations. Now, you're more than welcome to stay, but I totally understand you got more hurt anybody's feelings. >> I think my mom got Thanks, guys. Yes. Uh once again, I'm glad to say that schools and partnering with a lot of our local businesses are sponsoring our staff spot again. So we have two this month. One for August is obviously starting here and then one for September. The first one is our very own Miss McKenzie Hart. She was nominated by several of her students and this is what they had to say. She is very nice. She is an awesome teacher with a kind and positive spirit. Miss Hart is the kindest, most sweetest person ever.
006And she is the sweetest teacher ever. We feel very honored that she has the opportunity to work with our kids and does an amazing job in the classroom. Thank her for all she does. Then for September, Mr. Paul Sage was nominated and again he was nominated by several students as well. And this is what they had to say about Coach S. He's pretty chill. He's a great teacher and teaches us a lot about health. Uh I've had him all throughout my middle school and high school years and I think he's a very good teacher. He is also very understanding of his students. And then one person said, "Always great people. Always greets people from the halls. Pretty cool guy." So again, we thank both those employees for all that they do for our students on
007a regular basis, not only in the classroom outside. We feel very next. Yes, I believe we have a special presentation. I ask Uh I ask our leaders uh who help um with our strategic plan together present to the board our strategic plan. You might off your phone. >> Oh, you're on double screen. If you go to the bottom, you should be able to minimize your screen like straight down the bottom of the thing. You should go like I believe you have a copy. First of all, what is a strategic plan? A school district strategic plan is a long-term road map that outlines a district vision, goals, and priorities for improving student outcomes, and overall district performance. It typically spans 3 to 5 years and serves as a guided document for decision making, resource allocation, and
008policy development. There are several key components of a school district's strategic plan. One is looking at mission uh mission and vision statements. We look at core values, strategic goals, action steps, a performance matrix, stockholder engagement, uh resource allocation, and implementation of timelines. Why is it important? The strategic plan helps align district efforts with student and community needs, provides a clear direction for educators, administrators, and stakeholders. It also ensures accountability through measurable outcomes and helps secure funding and resources for our priority initiatives for our strategic plan process. Uh the first thing is when we started looking Yeah, first we identified several priorities and priorities we we were just unfortunately kind of all over the place and we need to prioritize things. So we really wanted to look at that. Um the administrators then uh went through
009thanks to Mrs. We did a book study um and read the book the arrows and the gist of the arrows is just that usually when you have a very successful organization whether it's a school or any type of business, everybody's kind of aligned into common goals and strategies and how what we're going to do and address those. So that book kind of gave us the foundation as a leadership team of what we wanted to do and make sure things are aligned and are we aligned as a school corporation. Then we conducted conducted a climate audit in March of 20 of 25 and that was all all our stakeholders whether it's community members teachers students u parents you name it administrators cooks bus drivers the whole and to get kind of audit of how we are
010as a school organization and then we started the actual strategic plan uh meetings and the process in spring of 2025. For strategic planning, uh we had several committees and those committees consisted of elementary. One committee was junior high, high school. We had the other committee was all our department chairs and department heads. Then we had community uh committee in our community of our stakeholders, business leaders, parents, grandparents and so on. And then we had a student committee as well that were all involved in this process. Through this process then we came up with a new vision statement. The envision statement that we came up with that is we envision a future where excellence is achieved by staying true to our core values and empowering students to store into a world of opportunity. Mission statement we
011would like to change is by focusing on excellence in education and prior providing opportunities for all students to succeed. We strive to be the best small school in Indiana. Then we also came up with core values. These are the things that obviously this community feels very very strongly about and we're going to use these core values to help guide our decisions throughout. The first one is excellence. Second core value is holding people accountable. The third one is growth. leadership engagement and then most importantly student centered mindset. So if you looking through those those are our core values the eles of what we came up with. >> All right as a process of the strategic plan here we came up with pillars which are kind of the big buckets are our um four main focus areas.
012Uh so we have curriculum instruction, culture, communication and marketing and campus which includes finance and facilities. For our curriculum instruction pillar, our committee uh was myself, Heather Anderson, Shelley Gil, Amy Pedigrew, and Dave Buckman. And as a team, we solicited feedback. We looked at our climate survey and came up with three goals. So goal one is that by the end of this year we want to have an aligned and consistent um PK through 12 curriculum. Goal two was that we want to make sure that we are providing targeted professional development that goes alongside that aligned curriculum. And then goal three is we want to spend the next couple of years researching um MTSS and other systems that are designed to meet the the needs of our diverse learners. So um our students with special needs
013also our students who excel and need to be pushed and a little bit. So um those are our curriculum instructions >> under culture. committee was made up of Governor Shley Blick, Fleetwood, Sy. We came up with four uh goals under the culture area. Uh we want to create a supportive and transparent workplace culture that attracts, retains, and values staff. We're committed to the mission of Smith Green Community Schools. Our second goal is we want to create an engaged school community strengthened by meaningful traditions. active student involvement and student driven feedback. >> Our third goal um a positive and consistent approach to student discipline that produces office referrals and rewards positive behaviors. And our fourth goal was to is to implement and sustain student centered support systems that increase engagement, reduce apathy, and ensure that all
014students are motivated, connected, and equipped to succeed. Cool thing about our group is you already saw examples of it today with our students that were here. Um our staff that got spotlighted. We got the good group of being able to work with our kids to make sure our culture improves and keep our great teachers. So my group was myself, Melissa, Shamley, Shannon Flewood was helping with the drawing and designs. Phillips, Amy Deol, Amy Milikin. Uh we were focusing on communication and marketing. Our first goal, um after discussion, we decided that we communicate more than we ever have, but we don't necessarily streamline our communication. So, a lot of times people don't know exactly where do I go to get the necessary information. So, um first thing that we decided we're going to do is create
015a district communication plan. um that has already started to be put in place. Miss and Cory in my office sex have been communicating about what's getting communicated out between buildings whether we're doing it jointly or doing it separately and then from our offices communicating with our teachers to try to keep from redundant information going out because what we've found over the years is if uh people are getting inundated by too much information a lot of times they say I don't have time for it so once I don't have time for when I block it, I stop looking at it. We don't want to get to that point. The other thing that we discuss is we often rely on social media, which works great for a slip of the population. You know, the example I'll give
016is personal. I don't do the social media thing. My wife does do the social media thing. So, if you send something out on social media in our household, my wife would see it. I would not. And if we don't communicate about it, um the information can get lost. Our second goal is creating a marketing plan. The education world uh used to be where you live is where you went to school. That's not the case anymore. Um so we have to be able to promote ourselves and market ourselves the the great things that we have going on. So people from the outside become attracted to what we have to offer. We all know that a huge percentage of our student population is out of district students and at any point they can leave. So we have
017to do something to keep them attracted um to the school district. Third and final one is uh focused on creating partnerships. Um we often rely on our community to help support us but often I don't think that we necessarily support our community. Um there are few businesses in town that are continually providing things to the school but what are we giving back to them? So um the third goal is focused on how do we create those partnerships to make it that we're providing them with something of value and have provided us facility >> and I had campus finance and facilities. committee was myself delegated. Uh first goal was to prioritize financial resources and facility improvements to directly support student learning and long-term district sustainability. Goal two is to maintain strong financial stewardship that ensures transparency,
018efficiency, and community trust. And the third goal is to support employee retention and student growth through competitive compensation and upto-date technological infrastructure. I know these people a ton of time developing that very much appreciative of it. This to us is an ongoing effort. kind of one and done deal. Our plan is that we have the same group to you at least once a semester and give you an update on what we're doing to keep our questions on how often and how we initiate the uh review of this this within their committees. Uh they will be meeting on a semi-regular basis to discuss things. I know matter of fact there's something in front of you from the communications committee already but like I said we will meet on a regular basis probably leadership meetings once a
019month and then like I said our goal is to share And >> so there's a lot more layers to each of those goals, too. They each have their objectives, short-term and long-term objectives. So like for Jeff and I, we're already collecting data and making questions for our next objectives. So we've got marks throughout the year over the next really things we have to do and talk about. >> Those are the type of things that I would expect to be hearing about. more regular update type things from the strategic plan direction if this is moving often, right? We don't necessarily sort of a lot of times strategic plan because it is that three to five year plan. It's not something that we're going to be continually updating, but we always want to make sure that we're
020working to it and then all those secondary and tertiary plans are happening. what we talked about in meeting um was that the goals so all like he was saying all the goals have um timelines so some of them are the end of the year some of them are in three years what have you so what she really like brought forward was if we hit a goal we can take that kind of not necessarily like take it off but we can add or we can manipulate to reflect that but we also talked about having the leader of each group um hearing from one of them every semester so if we probably hearing from the next month is not but maybe the month after we hear from the communication group and then the month after that we
021can hear from the finance group and then just so that we the board is always informed of what's happening those processes which I thought that was that was >> I like the the leader Yeah. Yeah. Um she just really emphasized the um like you said, it's like we we don't necessarily change it as we go, revisiting it all the time so that we're getting those action plans in place to get us to the pillars. >> Any questions that celebrations. Anybody? >> We had a great PB day on Monday. Um, these days I know parents a lot of times question, you know, is it worth changing our schedule? Is it worth the inconvenience and role in uh giving the staff a PD day? And sometimes, you know, afterwards you look back and you think we didn't
022accomplish what we wanted to accomplish. But at least at the elementary level. I thought it was very beneficial. Um, we left it with people wanting more time to work together, which is exactly how you want it, you know. So, we were able to turn around this morning and do professional development um time before school today because we didn't have all staff meeting. So, we got 30 additional minutes and it's helped to move some of our initiatives forward doing with especially with our new reading curriculum. you know, anytime you bring a new curriculum in, it takes time to figure out how do I fit all this material into a 90 minute or 120 minute block. So, um, giving them the time to, uh, practice it and rehearse it for a few weeks and then give them
023that PD time to finally ask ask the, uh, um, ask one another and ask the publishing company, okay, how do we, how do we adapt this, where can we find this? It was very beneficial to get to get that in and I think we're off to a great start. >> We had a lot of things on our side too. We recognized it was 12 students uh from the college board based on their achievements uh which normally as a school were one or two a year. when it comes to college as far as that went. Um, our happy report that our auditorium lights and mics have been completed. We're all up and running. We're really excited to see how that's going to improve our performances and everything that we have going on in there. And we're
024really excited about that. I've yet to see it, but I've heard it's come out. Um, we had Park Sports Medicine came Um, this is something that we learned that it's not something that they do very often, but they were so impressed with our space and they were also as equally if not more impressed with our kids and they've had opportunities to interact with our kids that they came in and they created a video that really excited about. We had students interviewed. Um that video should be coming out soon in the next uh next few days. Actually, we're really excited about sharing that before homecoming and our momentum that's going with homecoming. Uh homecoming week next week. We got events every day. Um we have dress up days. I'm not sure how I feel like it.
025First dress up day is dress as a grandma or grandpa. I'm not sure exactly what that means anymore at my stage of life, but um Anyways, we got a lot of fun events. We're encouraging people uh to uh dress up. We've got community and business members in invited to join us as well. We're looking forward to that. Tons of alumni have been invited back and I think first reported that we have heard back from over 100 people or so, which is great response. We're still working on it. So, also kind of a great start and great feedback for our kids this year. Thank you. Uh I would also like to draw your attention to our new artwork being displayed by some of our elementary artist. It's always fun to see their creative pieces. Uh also
026would like to celebrate Mr. Yes. He organized a full scale hazardous training on August 30th. Uh I will let him a little bit about it, but I can tell you no personel or activity buses were hurt. >> That is actually Yeah. Um a huge thank you to our community first responders. We had close to 3540 um first responders in our building on a holiday weekend. Um they did 4 hours or two to three hours of uh inclass training and then we went out into the parking lot. We had a full scale simulation um going through how first responders would handle a situation where there was a bus crash with a hazardous material box truck. Um so our fire department, our first responders, our utility people, um the school all got to work through how that
027process would look. Um so that was a terrific opportunity. Then we got to come back inside. We got to present on our reunification plan and get feedback from the people that would be directly involved in that process. So that was extremely valuable as well. So it was an awesome opportunity and very thankful to all the people that came out. >> I can't thank Mr. enough for putting us together and always keeping our students safe and always very much appreciate. And then the last thing I have and I'm not sure if this is celebration or punishment uh but I was serve on the executive order of our region 8 educational service center. This will give our district a stronger voice at the table, but it's also nice to recognize that people are noticing the great things
028that are happening here. That's all we have. I think it was Erica put the professional development from Monday and it shows how many different sessions and how many different people were involved in the process. I mean it even included PD for our IAS and there's a lot of work involved in that leadership. I should jump in one more thing about donations. Um I'd like to draw your attention to two donations that we received. One was anonymous for $4,000 to the lunch fund here at Smith Schools. any others from chair legal fund $3463 to the junior. This is our public comment that nothing out of the ordinary on agenda. However, I would like to draw your attention to um uh proposed fundraisers. We have a couple of them. One is a chocolate chip cookie sales by
029the FFA team. Another one is saving more brought sale for junior class. And then the third one is the American Legion fish fry for our softball team. FFA one that's going on is it before the homecoming game today. Any other questions or concerns on the consent agenda? Yes, we just ask that you approve that personel agenda. We do have one employee requested FMA concerns on the personnel agenda. >> Motion to approve the personel agenda as presented. There is none. >> It would be nice for us. >> New business. We ask that you approve the 2025 strategic >> motion to approve the 2025 plan. Second. All those in >> favor. Next, we ask for your approval for staff conflict of interest forms. >> We'd have to do these individually. >> Um, well, yes, except for like
030Mr. Hart. It's not here. He couldn't vote on So I will motion to approve the conflict of interest for >> second to approve the conflict of interest. >> I'll second >> and then we need one more. I have a motion to approve the conflict of interest forms for 2526. >> Thank you. >> We have none, sir. strategic plan. This is our second public section. We will move on board member administration comments principles reports. >> We are getting ready for our first round of state tests. You may or may not be aware, but this year there are three separate tests that they take. One in the fall, one in the winter, and one in the spring. Um They have essentially told us the essential standards for each of the tests. So the first five to seven
031standards will be assessed on our first test and our test week will be not this coming week but the following week into the first week of October. We'll get our data reports back and then at that point we can remediate kids and then we can give them a retest if we choose to on those skills. Um and that same process in the winter and then in the spring um we'll have a culminating test that actually counts toward our state reporting site. So the first two um don't come to the state reporting site the final one does take those >> all grades >> no grades three four and five in my building through grade school so teachers a little stressed about it but they're doing a great job and I think If the reports turn out
032how uh the state is telling us they're going to turn out, I think it could be very helpful and us being able to meet individual students need. So, I'm kind of excited about that. We did pilot the test last year because I didn't want us to be blindsided this year. Um, a lot of school districts are kind of high stress, high anxiety right now because they don't know what it looks like. For us, we at least know what we're getting into because we took the test last year. The data they gave us last year So hopefully the data that we get this year is quality and something we can use. Um the other thing that I would like to talk about is a positive impact that our new staff has already made within the building.
033It's excited to see people that are new to the district that are immediately coming in and making an impact on culture, climate, students attitudes toward different activities and enrichment. I think our new staff is doing a great job and their mentors are also doing a great job. You know, we assign mentors to these people and you think, okay, is it worth our money? Well, I think um this year the staff that we have assigned is working very hard to make sure that these teachers are successful. So, I'm excited about what we have done before. >> Yeah. Sorry, I kind of screwed everything under celebration. We got a lot of celebrations, right? We are off to a great start on our side of the building. We also have new staff and some changes that have happened
034and I think it's also affected our culture differently. I was doing a little bit of number of research today and at this point last year we were looking at 39 discipline events and so far this year we're at nine. >> So to me there's a significant difference in our culture right now which Awesome. One of the reasons why we have a lot of celebrations. >> That's awesome. >> So, um, Mr. Johnson, you talked about in our updates, making sure that we're giving you updates specific to the strategic plan and I pulled this up and Troy's right. It is exciting to see how many different groups have PD tailored to them. Um, but you'll see the strategic plan in these PD days, too. So, I want to thank the board because I know like I said
035it is a strain on families sometimes when they have to adjust their schedules. But having these four built-in professional development days, we'll be able to do work with a strategic plan and move toward those and be able to invest. And you can see our strategic plan in these different um sessions. And then I just also real briefly I want to thank you guys for um we we hired a reading uh coach, instructional coach this year um interventionist. She's wearing a ton of different hats. Um but we for the first time I feel like are seeing the connection K12 of having this resource. Not only is she working with elementary teams weekly on their curriculum, but she's working with our stud teachers so our stud teachers know what's being taught in the classroom, she's working with
036them on how to peel that back and how to scaffold when we have um pull out groups. She's also working with the junior high teachers who are coming and saying we have some struggling readers. She's pulling them in. She's doing some diagnostic testing. It's just super exciting. So just want to say thank you for that and thank you to Dr. Wood for that. >> It is exciting. >> Couple things I'd like to share. One, we had we held our public hearing on collective bargaining with our teachers union earlier today. We anticipate starting negotiations after October 1st, which is our official count day. and hopefully all also I'd like to give just a quick update. I know Mr. Sham touched on some of these earlier but just a little quick update. The weight room wellness center
037has been completed although we are still waiting on some back cardio equipment. Some of that I believe is scheduled to come in yet this month the rest of it before the end of the year. The new wood shop and engineering and stem labs are done. Um, but again, some equipment is still being set up. The new lighting on the auditorium is complete. Uh, last Friday we had people get trained on it and use it. It's my understanding and it's phenomenal. Everybody seems to love it and there are already um programming for different events. Uh but more importantly all spaces are being back in use. And then of course uh as you know the maintenance Uh then the other thing I'd just like to bring to your attention, I'm requesting a special meeting on October 6,
0382025 to 6:30 for a hearing on the 2026 budget. Uh capital projects must replace that budget at a reg. 29 special executive session. >> Uh I'd like to congratulate uh Jessa and Ree. Uh obviously they are bringing tons of leadership um from the student level into our building and into just everybody that they interact with. And it's really exciting to see kids uh that are just that invested in in our system. It's just it just warms my heart to see kids uh at that level just so invested in really helping us as an organization to move forward. I love it. Absolutely love it. Uh to McKenzie and Paul, congratulations. I mean obviously it as we talked about it with our strategic plan and I love hearing that as well. We we all feel that we
039have a really good group of teachers, educators and leaders here and being able to see it and hear it from student level and other peers and whatnot about them is is awesome. It's it's wonderful. I really enjoy it. Um thank you to everybody involved in the strategic plan. I know that that has been a big undertaking. Uh it was something that we started years ago. We started talking about uh when I got on board earlier and uh it didn't necessarily come to fruition. Um and I know that it is it has been a big undertaking. But I think it'll be very beneficial for us as we continue to move forward and really allows us to have uh a document and and a piece of information to really keep us grounded with where we want to
040go. So I'm excited having that for our school system again having that idea. So thank you for everybody that invested lots and lots of time uh on that. Definitely want to say thank you to all of our donations that we received. You know, as we you know, every month um we're we're blessed with having community members and businesses donating to our school system and it really uh it allows us to do things that without we wouldn't be able to. Uh, and I specifically want to call out this gun. Um, everything that you've done over the last few years on the safety planning thing is so valuable and and I and it's one of those things that we obviously hope that we never need, use or whatever. So, I'm sure that it can be difficult, you
041know, to spend so much time uh and invest that time into something that you hope you never utilize. Um but I I I appreciate all that investment. Um especially when we hear things right from around the country uh devastating things knowing that that we are investing that amount of time and effort into being prepared. Uh I I really appreciate it. So I I just really wanted to reach out and say how much I appreciate your investment there. And a lot of the time and effort that he puts in is outside of the work days, >> which he would never tell you that. >> Yeah. >> But it's usually 3:30 to 5:30 that he's working on this. So it is very >> Thank you. >> That's all I have. >> Okay. Everything he said. >> So
042can we find some of those things for uh Paul say put it like on a dating site that the kids think he's cool. That was my only addition to that. No, but I also want to thank um new staff. My kids love their classroom teachers of course, but they can't talk stopping and Pearson. I mean, I don't know what they do in their classrooms, but my kids love them and everything they say. It seems so fun. And then I also have to say I have four um nieces and nephews that joined this year and the way they talk about bus like makes my heartful. They talk about the kids being nice. They talk about the teachers being um welcoming. They everything they say is a positive and it it's pretty awesome to hear that from
043from them. So and I think that all goes back to our staff for sure. >> Very well. Um I have two groups I'd like to recognize. college board kids that got recognized. That's very representation from a district our size. Uh also recognize the FFA team who kicked second in the country and the wildlife education program. Uh that's a great accomplishment for such a small school as well. So that was Kenna Alexander Wyatt over deer Sam Trenley and Elijah Smith took a trip to Tennessee and came back with some hardware. So I think that's fantastic that they went beyond the state level and placed at nationals. So congratulations to all of those. >> Um actually I love our our spotlights whether students or staff to me it's kind of highlight for board meetings even though they
044leave when we're done but it well it fills a room. Um but it's just nice to see what our kids are doing and hearing it. Um you know often we miss it. I don't have one in the high school. You don't hear a lot of that stuff. So, I always think it's just kind of that nice reality check to hear it. Um, and our teachers, our staff, you know, everybody, they are the key to what we're doing here. Um, and you know, I said false chill. Um, I wasn't put on my didn't blow my um but uh you know we we are very very blessed to have um unique very talented individuals in our school system and I think that shows all around. Um I also wanted to thank everyone that helped the strategic plan
045and not just helped make it but that helped moving it forward because doing something like that is one thing but executing it another. So to all of your hard work, everybody that was involved in that and that continues to work on it every day. Um, the reading curriculum, I've already heard about the changes. So, I know it's happening in the classroom because I got a whole update last night at dinner about the new reading curriculum. Um, I too know 12 students that were recognized for the college board. That's that's a big deal. It's a huge deal for a school our size. Um, you know, I love to hear that the lights are done. You know, you guys talk about strategic plan has been something talked about for years. So the lights, you know, and all
046of that. So the mics, I mean, everything. So I think, you know, just the positive direction everything heads is so great. The partnership we have with Park Sports Medicine, I think needs to be recognized as well. They've done so much for us in a short time. It was a year ago I think we switched to Park Sports Medicine and they've really stepped up and become a partner with us much like Troy was saying as opposed to just your sports medicine provider and moving on. So, I do appreciate all that they've done. Um, I love the dress up days for homecoming weeks. Um, to me that was part of that tradition that we used to have was always those dress up days. So, I love seeing those come back and they're wild and wacky and we're
047already planning those days. So, um, the fact that we've got alumni that are reporting in, that's awesome. Um, our work is phenomenal to have that. Beth, I too want to say thank you for the extra time, the work you're putting in. you know, Tre brought up your, you know, after your 330 job, but you're also working on weekends when you had the other stuff going on. So, we appreciate that extra time that you're not getting to spend with your family, but you're spending with this family. So, thank you for that. Um, congrats for being invited to the executive board for region 8. I think it does show all of us. Just an overall thank you to all of our administrative staff for your hard work, your dedication to our school because it shows. a really
048good show. So, thank you for that. >> So, with that start to close our next meeting is October 6th and that is a public hearing. With that, we will close the Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 regular board meeting of Smith Green Community Schools at 7:20. >> Okay. Anything.