001Good afternoon everyone. It is the meeting of October 14, 2025. Motion of order. Good. The Bolde Valley School District resides on ancestral lands unjustly taken from the Ute people, the Anarapajoyen people below, and 48 other nations associated with this land who have called it home since time immemorial. We acknowledge the atrocities committed here, including the painful history of genocide, the forced assimilation to alienate indigenous inhabitants from their lands with the support of the United States government. The Bolder Valley School District is aware of the many indigenous peoples and dignified cultures that care for the land with strength and resilience. The Bolde Valley School District recognizes the stories of the land in Colorado and the survival of the many nations that have carried their oral traditions into the present. It is the responsibility of BBSD to
002educate our students so that we can celebrate and respect the wisdom and knowledge of indigenous peoples and actively unite to address injustices. By offering this recognition of the land, we affirm and honor the history, wisdom, oral traditions, and resilience of Indigenous peoples and acknowledge our responsibility to care for and cherish this land together. I remind you that the mission of the Bolder Valley School District is to create challenging, meaningful, and engaging learning opportunities for all children to thrive and be prepared for a life of success and civic engagement. members of the board. Uh, thank you for everyone who's able to join us this evening. Have a bunch of really cool things that have happened over the past few weeks. Couple weeks ago, teams from across the B school district came together at St. Toris high
003school for the unified flag football tournament. [Music] Good morning to the high school. [Music] So for anybody who's uh who's never been to one of our unified sporting events, Many thanks to Elementary. Allow me to use the Fer the Eagle costume and finally, members of the BBD community, this is the place where you belong. It's one week away, next Wednesday, we and five other people will be at the CU events center when you'll have the opportunity to see the directors and everything we have to offer. And remember, we have families being transported from Dafetosville, Berkeley, community members, and if you want to attend, you can do so by bus. And if you have friends, invite them too. You can find more information on our website from 5 to 8:30 next week. We are very excited
004next Wednesday, if I'm correct, from 5 to 8, but we will be open until 8:30. Ah, yes, if there are more people, that's the last thing I have to say for my comments. Board members, questions for Dr. Anderson. It looks like he was ready for game day. Yes. And then they had to go into their class and learn. It was exciting, a difficult day to be a teacher. Jason, we don't have public participation. Hey, your microphone is working. Can you hear me? Yes, you just have to get closer. As I was saying that, we don't have any public participation tonight, so we're going to continue with our next topic of council communication. Council, do you have anything you'd like to say? Yes, I just wanted to say that today's student was presenting and was thinking
005how nice and amazing it is to have such amazing people in our community, and I have some things that might interest the district. One of them, this one, old friends who work at CU Boulder, under safe communities and safe schools want to help schools, culture and climate. And I think that's an example of one of the resources we have that we can use. And yes, sometimes this really catches my attention and it's incredible how we have so many resources in the community that help us achieve work that is difficult. I also had a meeting with Steven Levet and he is working on a small high school model. He is very focused on using technology to free up more time so that students can focus on their learning and projects. similar to many things about the
006jobs and people who are doing such amazing things in our community and how we can take advantage of them. That's what I thought, that we, as a busy little city, don't have as much capacity as people think , but we have many people who strive and work hard to help us achieve things in our community. And yes, that's what I took away from two incredible meetings with people from our community. Ken just wanted to motivate everyone to vote. I believe they have all received their ballots. If you didn't receive it today, well, you'll receive it soon. And to remind you that the BBSD Council is already supporting LL and MM propositions that will help continue providing free food for students, which we hope they will continue to receive in the years to come. Please, everyone
007who is listening, I know you are interested in what is happening in the council, but please tell your friends, your family how important it is to vote and to make your voices heard and vote in strange years too. He was also going to remind people about the ballot and the need to vote. I'll spare you the words, members, um, I was able to join last week's meeting. Let's move forward. They have a rigid version of the data we looked at two weeks ago and are also emphasizing the data and the unification and improvement plan, because we are allocating funds to the strategic plan and making changes around the types of questions they will be asking their school accountability committees. It's working, we need to amplify it and have a different point of view. And I'm
008excited to see what feedback they have for us. It was a large meeting; they had time to go out in their subs, grading tasks, having conversations, and reviewing budgets; everyone came together. The data committee is excited about the dashboards they have to work with, and we're going to continue emphasizing that they have direct actions they can take to school committees, and I think this is going to be very, very good work in our committees. Anything else? So let's go to the informative article which is a legislative update. Dr. Anderson, I just have to say a couple of things. We are not affected by the federal government shutdown, but if anything changes, we will let you know. And finally, I shared the resolution around LL, MM, supporting those with all the Colorados. So hopefully their work
009as a council can include and support others. We have already determined that these are very important initiatives to support, I don't know, healthy breakfasts for everyone. The article is consent of 7.1 personal act approval deos September 235 of the FET regenerate the cancellation meeting of November 25 7.5 for food services, nutrition programs for the FDA. Is there anything you board members would like to bring up? That's what there isn't one of. We need a motion to move it. Council members Alex. I just want to mention that we are receiving federal funds that help us provide a healthy education for our students, and that the federal government is doing a great job with amazing things in our district. These funds are very valuable to everyone, including the school district and our students. Any other discussions, Council
010members? Seeing that there's nothing, Laura, you can take attendance. Yes, Chávez. Yes, yes, with Noa. Yes, Rp. Yes, Argent, yes. Her. Yes. The next item on the agenda is group consent. Ah, 9.1 CBA, CBC. Powers 9.2 to CBE policy super employment and evaluation 9.3 CF policy school building administration principals. Point four retirement from CFE politics, leadership and philosophy. Board members, do you want to bring anything up? Since there is no motion to approve, moved by Kidri, second in line, council members, discussion on this topic or these points. I just wanted to say that I'm really excited to have these new policies in place now that we're focusing on what this new council is going to be , starting in December. Great work to the staff and everyone who helped us. It seems there is no
011further discussion. Now you can take attendance in a group consent session. Yes, yes, conera, yes, Rp. Yes, yes. The next item on the agenda is the policy study. We have sponsors, the policy that KHB, what we are here for tonight, AHB, and we have spoken about this policy once before, and we have surveyed our neighboring districts so that we can share with the council and highlight the language for this afternoon's discussion and the versions of the red line. And as a reminder to board members, that was a point that came up during the meeting with the main idea that given the financial situation in the state of Colorado and in the district, and given that we already have a policy, there are things beyond policy, other opportunities that we as a school district could investigate
012and look at that could potentially create additional revenue. so that we can invest in the education of children here in BBD and how Katherine will guide them with political works in other neighboring districts that go even further . I want you to understand that the policy presentation is also a review with the council, what the next cases are that we are going to take on and what avenues the council would be interested in investing in, including a new policy that could potentially bring additional revenue to the district to invest in children's education. Sorry Katia to interrupt, but I wanted you to understand the context of the audience as well and why we're talking about community sponsorships. Katin returned to time. Thank you. Let me go back a little bit to the council's policy lately, reviewing
013the last one from 1988, and it includes a general philosophical policy statement that talks in general about where and when we can see sponsorships in our district. There are frameworks that help us identify the types of sponsorships and promoters that the council would be willing to promote, and that our council and policy establishes an advisory council to review that and if we have definitions in the policy that already exist, what a sponsorship means. And what you're going to see when we look at different policies in the district uses terms like sponsorship, an exclusive rights agreement, and other policies that really talk about additional revenue. That's the vocabulary we're looking at. The policy defines a sponsorship agreement, as it says here, where a company pays a prize or economic benefit to the district in exchange for
014recognition. And we have another different definition that says it provides exclusive rights to a company that pays a premium or provides economic benefit for an exchange of rights to be the sole supplier, the most competitive with good prices for things sold or bought by the district. And we see that the language is already there. We have this language about policies that talks about purchasing, procedures, and policies of the certain. Here you can see that we can now clean up a little more, which will help us inform potential sponsors and the public about the opportunities and clearly reflect the improvement policies. And lastly, the Council retains the authority to approve such agreements. The last review was in 1998, and since we're reviewing policies again when we do this, one of the first things I do is
015the Colorado Association of School Boards because it gives us a point of reference. Interestingly, there is no evidence of C in politics on this topic. I would love to talk to my friends there and understand this better, but it became clear to me that when we look at these neighbors, there were previously signs of this because you can see the residual language that is common around the different districts that typically comes out of this account. We can start with two of our closest neighbors, Srain and Puter. Brain. Their policy was last updated in 2015, and Puter updated ours in 2013. It's been over a decade since our board last reviewed the policy. I think the definitions here could be clarified a little more. Yes, there is a clear definition of what advertising is, but the
016policy of pure and continuous to really distinguish that schools can govern or have the say on promotions based on their school and a district can govern or decide on district-level matters. And St. Brain had some very interesting language that he wanted to use to draw the council's attention to this. This is the only place I saw it, where they specifically restrict the promotion of any agency within or outside of design that would directly or indirectly compete for district students or programs. I found it to be an interesting component of the policy that I didn't look at anywhere else. I believe another school district that came out in the news is currently pursuing sponsorship companies or our friends in Cherry Creek. They and all these policies are in chapter K in the same code, which makes
017it easier to find the policy. The AHB Council for CH, as revised in 2005, made this change in language to specifically refer to advertising and revenue promotion. It is the title of his policy and I left the first paragraph of Check's policy there because it seems to me that it establishes both things, his philosophy and some more general parameters of how it can be interpreted. For example, if you look at about half of the content, you can be sure that they are promoting positive values in the district and that it's not just traditional advertising; preferential advertising for checks are things that motivate students to achieve those high standards . in their conduct in Cherry Creek. And I also noticed that the Thomson district is very similar to Cherry Creek. I think I did upload the
018slide for Thomson. Thompson, I would also say, has a policy in effect and they have space on their website where they refer to their partners, not so much like St. or Creek who are actively soliciting advertising and sponsorship revenue. This language from 1999 repeats a lot of the same concepts and terms in connecting positive messages and those revenues and the use of those revenues to increase these programs within the district of sports, music and activities. Yes, we have some samples. Rice's team spends a lot of time, as you know, thinking about the centers as they exist and toward the future. These are some samples or examples of what is mainly seen in the districts of Colorado. These are some of the most elegant versions; gyms, stadiums, the places where they are most frequently seen are
019locations where you see many sponsorships, many logos, the trucks, the bases. Colorado also allows advertising outside of truck bases, but you cannot advertise inside the buses. These are some of the opportunities we see that different people are using. So, as we wrap up our presentation to the board members and get into the discussion, I have a few things and my research on how this might be different at BBD. I think it's interesting and there are different opportunities we can consider. First of all, I think the districts around us have taken a different position in terms of gyms and stadiums, and I think there are different opportunities we can take if we want to cover the costs of that, exchange that for bromos for opportunities to post. So if we have this very large stadium, with
020a very large screen, we can promote and broadcast different events, where children can be seen playing or different activities from the district. And the same can be done in gyms for screens for athletic events. It could be posted on buses. Uh, yes, I do think there is an opportunity there and there are organizations that are going to go into school districts and provide school assessments of their [Music] properties or high- value items. And this happens a lot on the west coast when I spent time there. If you went back to Cherry's ad, it's not like they're putting the university out there and saying, " Who wants this place?" I believe that in developing this policy, we can define the parameters and maximize the opportunity to publish and protect our students' environment at the same time
021. I don't want to over-commercialize this. I believe we can find a good balance, a good equilibrium, and we are ready to begin this in a more active way versus a more passive way, and talk to people to support our district and promote or publish their products and businesses in the coming months. As a year to a month, this Boger is going to be the episode of the Cinema Dan film festival. I think it will be an opportunity to use these funds to promote the education of our students, as we see fit. And I'm just outlining some ideas for discussion so that the council has a clear idea of which direction they want to take. Thank you for that. Who wants to start? Kry. I'm glad we're reviewing this, but at the same time I
022hate it. It's a sad commentary on how our society values education, that we have to go looking for sponsorships to help fund basic education for our children, but unfortunately we have to do it. And as proof that we should continue down this path, I like what Sa Brain is saying , that you can't compete with anything we're doing, and of course, we would have the language on what is appropriate and the council would make the final decisions, right? If a sponsor provides us with materials or funds, correct? money. Yes, I think that would be part of what we would want to decide, whether it's a review committee or if it goes to the council or something together. Yes, and I think it would be very good to have this framework so that nothing inappropriate comes
023out. and then council members. I want to make it clear that this is a risk-free proposition . If a company buys advertising for a center or advertising for something and something bad happens to that company, that's a risk. But in some ways, schools are taking those risks without us realizing it. Hm. There is no regulation when selling banderillas . Council members, something we need to monitor and be careful about is allowing this to continue happening because people rely on those sources of income and are thinking about opportunities beyond this. I believe this policy would not be well received. Yes, what we end up doing is taking away opportunities for schools in their clubs and not allowing them to put up posters or things like that, advertising on their fences. So, what we need to define
024is what the school is allowed to do, what the district decides, what percentage, how those dollars will be used, and how they will be redistributed to schools for additional resources. We've had this conversation to make sure that all sports— girls', boys', all around— have the resources they need to have equitable experiences. So this could be a great source of income depending on what we do, and maybe we can found new sports like Nels de Fle's team. This would be incredible, and I think there are many opportunities. Yes, I also believe that having more resources to support fun and creative things in our district is a good thing to create a policy that is smart and protects our interests and also advances what we want to do with children. Because yes, I am in favor of
025making things fun for them. I want to motivate and create access for more children. that perhaps they may not have had access to that before, and perhaps emphasize that children who might not typically participate in a certain activity will now be able to do so. That excites me. Now those funds go through these parent and teacher groups, these sports clubs, and I have three questions. One, how much money are we going to raise? Do we know that or not? So, what is the district already doing to be proactive? Um, how much money are you proposing? M, dollars. Yes, I do believe it's a little over a million dollars depending on what we're willing to publish. Yes, yes. The regulation is a bit loose. In some schools this may be the sports club, in others the
026band club. In other schools there is a parent-teacher association. It's a little different in each school. Sometimes the baseball team gets the baseball field, the softball group gets the baseball field, and so on. It all really depends, and I think we need to create a space so as not to disrupt that ecosystem, and what I think is to go beyond that in ways that generate new income to reinvest in things we want to reinvest in. So I think it's not so much at the local level, but at a higher level that we're looking at more than seven opportunity numbers and again given the direction is yes, the district says yes. We're going to continue with this. Let's see what's going on. They would bring someone in to assess the assets they have in their community.
027For example, the Rfield is a great benefit to the community and the placement of certain schools that are on one side of the road. It is professionals who would come and tell us how much this costs, and they, those people can go and find out who we can publish with or who could publish with us. There are many things we can do, but I think you're talking about more than a million dollars. Jen, I think you already answered some of my questions, Dr. Andreen. I'm curious to know how much that current policy is working. I was driving my kids to the dentist today in Sor and I saw the advertising on the Centaurus High School bus field and I thought maybe they have a better sense of how things are operating. Those are decisions made
028by Santaurus and its sports program. I said the school completely or the district has a decision in that and also in Crixer we just had a race there, the contractor from the neighborhood who is local, who is from the MTA, I do n't know if the district receives a benefit from that or if the schools do. I think before taking such a big step, talking about sponsorships of more than $1,000, screens in stadiums, buses, I want to understand how this policy is working in Paraquita already and if the live viewer sees something, if they don't want to interrupt that feeling of having local people sponsoring something, but also potentially, I don't know, they're posting along the side of the road what the different opportunities are. The schools decide. I know we did n't ask for
029this in this presentation, but at least for me, before making this decision, I think it's a giant step. Uh, and speaking of sponsorships and rights, I think I want to better understand what we 're saying. Current policy does not address publishing in schools. This is more about over-publishing at a higher level, rights, and more opportunities, and being more aggressive. So, if something else comes up, well, politics can dictate what we can do, and those things are in the hands of the schools, and for a long time they have done it locally. No, I don't know the level of consistency between one school and the other. I do n't know if schools understand the advertising value of poster board. I think we can provide guidance to schools on what these things should be , what types
030of income they can be receiving or what they can generate from this advertising. But that's currently at the school level. These are traditions that have been passed from club to club with very little knowledge. I think we are understanding a little more about the funds that are in these internal accounts within each sport. We've been talking about it already, but there's no council policy and no district policy about how those things should be, but they have n't been decided, especially in high schools. So, a couple of ideas. First, I don't see the need because the current regulation is not useful at all; it needs to be removed. I think it's very important to distinguish between— and I mentioned it a little— exclusive rights in the contract, which are very different from policies that talk about
031increasing revenue, and we want to make that very clear, that the policies are very clear in the contract. We need to pay close attention to that. I think only one district has something like this , a committee on what should be evaluated, and I think we should follow the majority, which has a review committee. Most districts have a council and the superintendent make the decisions, and I think this is more aligned with the different contracts we take on, as the policy goes to the council, not the committee first. But I think consistency, those changes are very important. I like the idea of increasing income; I like that it's general and doesn't confine us. Many of the other policies talk about spaces that aren't traditional, those curricular spaces or environments like kitchens where they can learn
032theater, different workshops, fun classes. Because when I talk to people in the community, and if they've ever gone to observe the fundraising committees, they say, "I really want to fix up this art lab or the woodworking shop or the kitchen, but there's no fundraising money." So we want to expand beyond band, orchestra, sports, and I think that 's the motivator. And also to Jason's point , I think it's important that neighboring districts, as Dr. said, still have their local decisions, and decisions can also be made at the district level. Where I do n't quite agree is that we need a policy at the policy level where someone tells us, "Okay, we're going to value hiring someone to help us find the right value." Getting a little bit out of the language of policy, I'm fine
033with a policy that has direction, that supports the ability for schools to have these opportunities to publish and have opportunities to connect, and gives us a place to figure out what the next best step is going to be, because if all of that is going to have a value, and if we hire staff, and if we hire someone from outside, they're going to take a percentage of the funds. But I like the direction. Where is this going? I like the direction, particularly Cherry's. Ah, Thomson's policy isn't as fantastic, but our policy right now reads like, "We don't want your money, we don't want your funds," but theirs says, "Yes, we recognize that..." You can help us improve our centers, create experiences for our students, and address these discussions about advertising language. I think that 's
034very exciting. That's what I think, Alinia. The thing that came up for me, well, some things, well, most have already been said, but can you tell me how other districts or neighborhoods have addressed families who want to have the right to nominate? Because it can come up here. We're talking about advertising, corporate marketing, but I want the policy to address whether it's just one family that wants to do it. I'm thinking, possibly, of large families involved in football who know each other well. Jorge and then Alex, thank you for all your work preparing the policies and giving us perspective on reading the policy. It doesn't prevent us from doing what we want, but the most important thing is the philosophical shift in the policy. We need to clean up the language to make a clearer
035statement and affect the most important things that impact the entire district. This is important because we do n't want to widen inequities. So we need to have a framework and a threshold that we can share because certain schools are going to have a lot of resources. And definitely There's a lot of potential here, and we need to update the language in a lot of the policy. I agree with almost everything you've said. Some things we need to consider and have a policy that supports what we want. I think one thing we should think about is things like Apex and cooperative sponsorships of that kind of thing. We can highlight partnerships with corporations where we want children to work, and then those companies can work more deeply with us. I want to make sure we're not
036hurting the ability to name things about ourselves. It's important to name an audience about a principal or a teacher. I don't want to sell all this out for money. One thing, when we talk about money affecting fun and great things in schools, I get a lot of emails from people who are anxious that we're going to take away their activity. We're not going to do that. What we're trying to do is give more resources for fun things and recognize that parents and teachers are raising the necessary funds for these activities, and we want to give more and give it in a way that allows us to advance our goals. So it's not a zero-sum game. So we're not going to take all the Funds to the head office so you don't have it. Kiri, my
037question is, are we talking about exclusive sponsorships to support sports, theater, or a benefit for the district in general, and if they are used for sports, other activities, that would free up money we are spending on those things for the general fund? The way I'm thinking, based on your discussion, the prioritization of this issue is that we need to see what the high-value assets are that fit within the policy set by the council. And you have been managing on a narrower path, with less opportunity. So, digital advertising will be a source of income, and one-time sponsorships of facilities and programs, depending on the contract. It could be an annual payment, a one-time payment. And improving the facilities with different mechanisms to increase advertising would be possible. You could have advertising on your website. I don't
038know if that's a step further. Many people have advertising on their websites. I don't know if there are districts that do it, I don't know what the rules are about this, but I repeat, if you hire people who are experts, they can tell us and I think that with Sundance, with this profile of the football program at the University of Colorado, there are a lot of people coming to our community, and the value of advertising has to increase. We can always see what's possible and then present to the council what meets the guidelines. Nicole, if you have a very rigid, lengthy process, people are going to spend their money elsewhere. Advertising has to be quick. I have this; this is my advertising budget. I'm going to try this. And I worry that the more difficult
039the process is, the more limitations we have on generating money, and at some point, it's not worth it . That's what I was thinking. We're going to start broadly; all the lessons we've learned can help us refine the process based on broad guidelines, and we can rewrite and rewrite until it's right because we do n't want a very difficult process. I was thinking, if I were to write a policy, I would write it very broadly, and when we learned more, we can refine it. The question I have is, are we going to hire someone Does it tell us what the opportunities are and then we write the policy? Or do we write the policy and then give it to someone to say, "That's enough about publicity," and then present it to the board? Because in
040a way, we're trying to imagine things we do n't understand. In our minds, what are the high-value assets? What would be beneficial for the board to have all the information before drafting a policy? Or do we want to draft the policy and then use it as a guide? I think it can work both ways, Alex. I think either way, I'd like to have more information to make an informed decision. I know Impact can pay for this because someone knows about publicity. It might be something we could do in parallel with someone else's money, another entity's money. I'm in favor of making the guide more principled and thinking that the details will be refined with the regulations. If we want to explore it, we need to get the information and start exploring. It's very easy to
041make the policy while we're at it, but I do want to have a policy that signals that we want to do something, if we want to do it, but also that there are... Limits. If you think, for example, about cell phone and technology policies in schools, I object to anything that puts an electronic device in front of a child during the day or school activities. I want children to be focused on other children when they're doing their activities, not on a screen. So, I'm sensitive to children's eye time. The last thing I want to do is add a distraction to a student's school day . I think that's against the law. Advertising to a captive audience. I have to check, but we ca n't send advertising to students. That's off the table. Certainly, Kiri, I
042like what Alex said about having a broad guideline and addressing it in the regulations, but what I wouldn't like is for us to spend a lot of time creating a policy and then realize that what we want to do requires changes to the policy. I think it would be easier to investigate what can be done first because we spend so much time reviewing policies, and if we could minimize that, it would be good. I like regulations because the policy doesn't have to be changed. It's added to the policy. I'm curious how long it would take to get the evaluation of the high-value good, and since we have many neighborhood districts that already have policies and are generating a lot of income improvements, we can make a quick call. Hello, Cherry Creek, Puder, Thompson. There's something
043we need to consider because the policies aren't significantly different, but they're more welcome. They haven't had major problems. So, if they haven't had problems, we can move the policy forward because it's a high-level policy. Anyway, council members, any other thoughts? Kathine has been taking notes. They've indicated yes with their heads here. Alex, I hear a lot of similar themes from us. I'd like to know what Rob and Kathle think as we wrap up this conversation. What do you guys do with everything we've said? Here are the important points for me. Number one, sit down with Kathle, look at the policy, think about whether it's the right touch that meets what we want. Make calls in the metro area to see what the other districts are doing . See if anyone He's done an assessment of
044high-value assets to see if there's anyone in the local market, and also to connect with my national networks to ask what they're doing in other major districts across the country, what you 're doing, what works, and to use some of these best practices and move forward, knowing what we have and our values. A parallel path is developing policy, and hopefully, these things will come together at the same time, and we'll have everything. I think that's excellent. Council members. That concludes our topics of study. We'll continue to receive requests for future topics. Hearing from none. Jason, Dr. Anderson, you mentioned Sundance. I don't want to plan activities around a big event, but it would be interesting, or good, in the near future to understand if there are plans in the district to maximize opportunities for students
045and the community. Obviously, there are a lot of talented people. What can we do? People who want to maximize, I think we should anticipate that, understand what's happening, use the opportunity to plan for the district, teachers, students, and classrooms. A review, we can do A review of Sundance, its impact, and the opportunities for Sundance. I had a conversation with the superintendent of Park City today. It was a good time. I think we can prioritize this. As Sundance moves from Park City to Boulder, which will happen in January, in the spring, we can give you an update on the opportunities, what we want to do in terms of programming for children, opportunities to partner with the city and Sundance, and what it will look like when we host movies within the facilities, and that will be
046the case. My question is, will long-time council members receive free admission? Possibly if you sign up as a substitute teacher and are working, well, we have n't had conversations about that with district staff, probably yes. One more thing, council members, I wanted to apologize. I won't be here in person for several meetings over the next six weeks because of my work and personal travel. But I will be here remotely. (This is the closing of the meeting.)