001Uh, call to order at 7:32. Can we get a roll call, please? Dr. Lions here. Dr. Edel here. Miss Ferris Highland here. Dr. Chambers is not here. Dr. Torres here. Miss Takakei here. Um, Miss Lego here. And Mr. Martin is not here yet. He's not here, but he will be here. Thank you. Trusty Taiaki, can you read the mission statement, please? Yes. Our mission statement is nurturing each child, educating all students, and building world citizens. Thank you. Um, can I get a motion for approval of agenda? I move that the board of education approve the agenda of the June 23rd, 2025 regular meeting as presented. Second. Moved by trustee Taiki, second by trustee Torres. All in favor? I. All right. What else do I have to say? Anything else after that? Before that, you would
002say is any discussion? Oh, any discussion? Okay. I'm learning. I'm learning. We'll get you. All right. No discussion. All uh we said it passed. All right. Already happened. Motion for approval of minutes. I move the board of education approve the minutes for the following minutes as presented. One, June 9th, 2025 goal setting session. Two, June 9th, 2025 regular meeting. And three, June 9th, 2025 close session. Second. All right. Moved by Trusty Ferris Highland, second by Trustee Torres. Um, any discussion? All right. Move to a vote. All in favor? I I motion approved. Um I Any recognition? None tonight. None tonight. Any from any other trustees or uh superintendent? None. All right. We can move forward to our superintendent report. All right. Tonight I just have for you um a construction update and I hope we'll
003display it up on the screen here too and I hope you all notice the fence posts on your way in today. So mobilizing of this site began today. Yay. So yes, moving along. Um at the administration building, the water service pipe installation at the building is in place and coordinating connection to the water main tower is ongoing. Electrical underground conduit ruffin is complete in past inspection. Masonry block is complete at the steel platform. Grade preparation was completed and past inspection. Back fill vapor barrier and perimeter insulation. And the interior concrete floor slab has been um placed. So we have a few photos for you. So there's um underground electrical raceway. Now, these are um I want to give uh credit to Joe here for this these uh uh comments and pictures. He provided them for
004us today. Um this one again, this is all still over at the AD building. Um interior underlab preparation. Who knew this went under the concrete? There's our really exciting cement slab. We're talking spent at least not dirt anymore. Um it used to be dirt. Now we've moved on to cement. And you can see some of the steel um already there and the building starting to be formed. And then high school um tonight uh the board will take action on another set of um contract recommendations and preparation for summer 2025 work is ongoing. So coordinating the moving of some trees to preserve for future placement. Uh directional signage for the pedestrian entry has been procured. Uh meeting with was held with the state inspector to coordinate egress requirements for the start of school in August and
005fence installation began today. Uh contractors have started the process of material procurement as well. And then the last slide is just right now still a rendering of uh the high school front entrance edition. and I can answer questions or um Joe is here and he'll be even better if you have more specific questions um regarding any of our construction work or the items that are on the agenda tonight for action. Are we on on schedule and on budget on the tower? Those used to be the two big questions that I would just answer. Yes, on budget. On schedule. Great. Yes, we came in just um slightly under budget with our um uh the ad building. Great. Um but we know that there'll be some changes and stuff too, but uh yep, the original the ice
006cream machine we're going to get is later. Yeah, we don't broadcast that. Um but uh yeah. So, yep. On on schedule, on budget. Great. Yes. It's really nice to be able to see how much progress is made every time we get together. So exciting. It is. Yep. Now I'm going to have to go look outside. I wasn't even You'll see out. Yeah. I mean, they're just posts, but they're posts. They're very important posts. Yes. They're they uh symbolize movement forward. Yeah. Any other questions for Superintendent? All right. Is that all you have for us then? It is. Thank you. We will then move on to our consent agenda. Can I get a motion? I move to approve the consent agenda to include the following item. A, new hires. One, hiring of Rebecca Bishop, 1.0 FTE,
007health and physical education teacher at East Lancing High School at MAEP 10. Effective the start of 202526 school year. Two, hiring of Lisa Rodriguez, 1.0 FTE resource room teacher at Red Cedar Elementary at MAPEP 16, effective the start of the 2526 school year. And the hiring of Joshua Bears, 1.0 FTE sixth grade social studies teacher at McDonald Middle School at BA step 3 effective the start of the 2526 school year. Second. All right. Moved by uh Tristy Edel and second by uh Trusty Ferris Highland. Um there's no um discussion on our consent um agenda. So we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor? I I All right. And that was all eyes. So the uh motion has passed. So congratulations. And I believe we have all three here. Um and so it has been
008uh our custom to invite you up and uh to uh say a few words if you would like. Um you do not have to. It is not required but we would love to hear from you if you would like to come up and introduce yourselves. Um if not again congratulations. We are very excited to have you um be a part of the East Lancing family. Can you all hear me? Okay. Yes. Well, good evening. Uh my name is Becky Bishop and I just want to say thank you so much for this opportunity to be a health and physical education teacher for you. I've been teaching for a long time now and so I'm very excited to be here at your school. Uh I also assist in cross country so it's I just think a great
009t chance to match the relationship with coaching and also be in the classroom at the same time. So thank you. It is now your school and yes I know your school. My name is Joshua Bars. I'd just like to start off by thanking the board for your consideration and the job. Um, I'd like to thank Principal Martin for the recommendation. Um, I started my internship in East Lancing two years ago, so I've only ever taught in this district and I've really come to love this community through teaching here for two years and then coaching football and lacrosse for two years. I'm just really excited to continue my journey as an educator here and really grateful for this opportunity to teach in this wonderful community. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Um, thank you. I'm Lisa Rodriguez.
010I'm really excited about this opportunity. Um, I taught in Byron for 10 years. Familiar face. Um, in Waverly for six years. Um, and I'm really excited and looking forward to finishing my career here in East Lancing. You're welcome. Thank you. All right. And with that, you do not have Did you say something? Yeah, that's Oh, okay. Yeah. Um, you do not have to stay for the rest of this um awesome meeting, but uh you can take off and and go celebrate. Um thank you so much for coming today and welcome again. Thank you. Thank you. Say I'm catching. You are. You got this. No, I don't. I'm Chris is on his way. Yes, I saw that. and we'll be done. Way moving. Here we go. All right. Well, we are now at our public comment
011um part of the meeting and so I if we do have some. So, I'll read this and then u we'll get to our public comment. Um this is the opportunity to address the board. Speakers are to combine their remarks to five minutes. If a speaker requires more than five minutes after all other persons who have requested to speak during this part of the meeting have spoken, that speaker will be allowed additional time. Um the superintendent or other district staff may comment to clear up or avoid significant misunderstandings. And so with that, um we'll move to our um public comment that we have. And our first one we have is uh Molly Sputner. SP. Okay. Um, and this is on safety and academic performance at McDonald Middle School. Thank you. This is not accessible. Tell me.
012All right. So, thank you. Um, about a month has passed since the East Lancing Info article was published. Um, I was here very nervous and I'm nervous again, so bear with me. Um, on the violence and the fighting and um, perceived and stated unsafe conditions at the middle school. Um, at the that time I did request this board and administration to discuss these conditions and to come up with a plan to fix them. I haven't seen any communication or plans to do so yet. I hope that they're in the works. Um, I think it would be good for parents in the district to understand that they're that article was read, taken seriously, and I know that everyone in this room wants the best for our school system, but I think the community needs to hear
013it. I think we hear a lot about the new buildings. We hear a lot about the basketball championships. We want to hear about August 24th when we put our kids into that building. Jack, it's going to be a great day. It's going to be a great year. Okay? I don't want to hear anymore about the bathrooms being offlimits. Okay? I don't want I don't want my kid to come home and say, "Mom, I couldn't go to the bathroom because I was scared." And that is what is the lived experience for many of our uh neighborhood friends. I hear it directly from them. We have a catsitter. I kind of grilled him on it in a kind of a very robust way because I wanted to get to the bottom of it and he was very
014candid and he said, "No, I'm afraid to use the bathroom in my middle school. That's that's we we have to fix this." So, I I have a pit in my stomach about sending my kid to the to our middle school, which I attended. And there I mean, middle school is tough, right? Everyone knows that it's the the three toughest grades for your whole elementary, senior, middle school curriculum, but I think there's work to be done. I think we have a whole summer ahead of us where work can be done hopefully so that again parents can feel a little more comfortable. And so on top of this, um I want to highlight the experience we've had, not even in middle school yet, with the math program. It's been very uh opaque. There's this whole opt out
015of sixth grade advanced placement test that people in Glen Karen didn't find about find out about until a month before the test. I understand other elementary schools found out about it in September. It creates a lot of churn among the kids. There's confusion. I am personally confused as to why my kids should need to skip a grade level in math in order to access higher learning. I think that I think it's okay to have a little bit of differentiated learning in sixth grade. I think kids benefited benefit from it on all ends of the spectrum. I'm not trying to um put anyone ahead of anyone. But, you know, if you look at the Michigan school data, it shows very clearly that almost all of the fifth grade ELPS students who were advanced at the end
016of the elementary school year in 2022 were no longer advanced a year later. So, that's public data. That's Michigan school data. So, we have a problem with that transition into sixth grade math. And I I know we have the greatest teachers and we have great administrators and everyone has their heart in the right place, but there's something really strange about this. We're trying to get equity by having everyone be in the same sixth grade math. But then there's this back door that only some people who are typically professors or well-connected or had older kids know about that test. They have their kids study for it. the kids are talking about it, but no one really understands it. And it just creates confusion, chaos, and it honestly is actually quite inequitable because the people who are
017not as connected have no idea what this test is. So, I think that's I think those two things, three things, fighting, bathroom, and math. I think if we could get some focus on that this summer and come up with a plan the community can hear from and respond to, I think that would be really wonderful. We all support the schools. We all support everyone in this room and I think our kids deserve that. So, thank you for listening. Thank you very much. Um, our next u public comment is by Jessica Copy. We just gave you the weird last names. It's okay. See, and I and I'm one I I hate that I mispronounce them. So, how how would how do you say your last name? It's a it's a Finnish last name. Up. So, copy.
018Copy. Yeah, like but most people just say copy copy machine. And this is on sixth grade mathematic instruction and safety protocols. Thank you very much. Um, I'm taller than Molly, so this is accessible for me. Um, good evening all of you. Thanks for allowing for public comment this evening. Hi, Glenn. I see you back there, too. Um, I want to chat on similar topics that Molly just spoke about. I'm here tonight as a rising sixth grade parent. um as a third grade going into fourth grade parent and as a future Trojan parent with a three turning four-year-old. So um lots of kids coming through the district and um have had the opportunity to participate in lots of different things. So thank you for those opportunities over the past years as well. Um we've had fantastic
019experiences in East Lancing public schools with Principal Wear and now Principal Richardson at Glen Karen Elementary. Um, and it's a shame that Principal Martin's left because I also wanted to give thanks to Principal Martin and acknowledge um, how responsive and kind she has been with Vice Principal Atkinson as I've raised some of the concerns that I am raising to all of you now for the second time because I did email you earlier uh, this year about the concerns that I'm raising. Um, I heard back from Trustee Martin um, and I haven't heard from anybody else and I haven't seen a lot of fixes in place. So, I felt compelled to come to my first ever school ball meeting and speak on those things. Um, similar to what Molly just said, I'm not here with a
020criticism. Um, but I am here with a call for accountability from everybody in this room who steps up to serve our kids every day. Um, we thank and honor you all for the work that you do. And, um, that means that we need to step up for all students in East Lancing as you mentioned in the beginning when you read the district ethos. Um, and that includes my three kids and all of the other kids. Recently, I did have the opportunity to meet um with the administration at McDonald um to speak specifically about the safety concerns that had been lifted up through the East Lancing info article. I was disappointed and frankly fairly devastated to read that article knowing that come August I have to send my son into that building. Um I I did
021not go to school in this country and so some of the things that happen in American school buildings don't happen where I come from. So um I've never felt this way sending my child into Glen Karen either of them that are there so far. This is the first time I've had that experience of fear for sending one of my children into one of your buildings. But I am feeling that way now. Principal Martin was able to share some of the supports that are in place for students and also for staff um when violent, illegal, unacceptable behavior occurs as happened earlier this year and reported in the article. Um however, those supports have not been shared with the community broadly. I'm not asking for specific incidents to be measured, but for the community to understand how
022our students are kept safe and how our teachers and staff that we all love, support, and respect and entrust our children with each and every time we send them into the building would go a long way to rebuilding trust with all of the parents who send our children into your buildings. Um, I think it's also important to to take a pause and recognize for the rising six sixth graders specifically who these children are. They have had their inter their education interrupted right from the very beginning. Our kids were in kindergarten in 2020 when COVID hit. They have had interruptions that none of us could could understand their perspective or or imagine and have not sit on the same side of the desk that they have. They had one full year of online school. Then they
023had up to two years of the teachers wearing masks and them wearing masks and that barrier of learning from each other and from their teachers. They had constant disruptions. They had to miss one to two weeks of school every time they had a sniffle. And we have faithfully stuck to those things that the district has asked us to do to keep each other, our teachers, our staff and the other students safe. Despite all of this, our children are resilient. They are capable and they deserve the best from everybody sitting in this room. They deserve a school system that surrounds them with the support that they need to grow. And they deserve a school system who cares as much about their instruction and academic success as it does about varsity sports. We need to have an
024honest conversation about the math instruction that occurs between fifth grade and sixth grade going into elementary school. There is a significant decline in the proficiency and advanced rates of our students coming out of fifth grade and moving into sixth grade. that is available to see publicly in the NSTEP data between you can see the drop starts in about 2016 and continues on the decline for advanced and proficient students while the number of not proficient and partially proficient students continues to grow. It is not acceptable to only attend to struggling students. Our ethos says that we care and educate all students. And we owe our students who are going into sixth grade with advanced aptitude for math more differentiated instruction and better opportunities for success because the current system is not working. Without a change, we
025risk allowing our currently capable learners to fall behind simply because they are not being challenged early enough. And that's a loss for individual students, our school district, and the East Lancing community as a whole. This spring's sixth grade math placement, which has already been discussed by Molly, highlighted some of these problems. My school was given one month notice that this test was occurring on content that they had not been taught. The fifth grade students at the end of fifth grade are test tested on the end of sixth grade math that they have not yet learned. Students had a month notice to prepare for a test that took six weeks to grade and results pass fail were only released to parents when I prompted because the district did not stick to the dates that they agreed
026to. These processes frustrate our families and students alike and they discourage children who already show that they have aptitude to learn. We need proper systems and supports to identify students with strong aptitude and I believe we already have that with our current MSTEP and ASWeb processes. And we need differentiated and advanced instruction opportunities for children who show aptitude that starts in sixth grade, not only in eighth grade when it's often too late to rebuild the momentum we have lost over sixth and seventh grade. Putting 11year-olds in class with seventh graders is not an acceptable solution to this problem. And finally, our families deserve clearer communication around the safety protocols in our buildings. I mentioned earlier the recent news reports about student behavior at schools. It's particularly in McDonald Middle School. I have heard some of
027the supports that were in place directly from Principal Martin, which I appreciated, but that information needs to be shared with families. so that we feel safe to send our kids into the building. To be clear, because I know that this board has previously asked for I believe the five minutes is up. Uh do we have any other speakers? So by our apologies, she would be able to finish what she's saying. So go ahead. I'm sorry, Miss Copy. Thank you. I'm asking for two specific things. The first one is clearer communication of our general safety protocols to rebuild the trust with families in East Lancing who send our children into your buildings. And the second is for differentiated and advanced math instruction and curriculum available starting in sixth grade with a clear plan for engaging high
028aptitude students and stopping the current process for assessing math aptitude by administering a high stress test to students on content they have not yet been taught. I will close also by reminding us of our district's ethos. Nurturing each child, educating all students, and building world citizens. And all has to mean all, including advanced students who deserve the opportunity to keep on growing in our buildings. Thank you all for the work that you do for our kids. And thank you for the opportunity to speak. Thank you, Trusty Lions. Should I You can go ahead. Take the agenda. Sure. I apologize for my tardiness. Um, I was on a baseball field. Did you win? We won. We beat Mason. All right. We beat Mason. Um, in two extra innings. We had to go two overtime innings. Uh,
029so I believe that's our second public commenter. Am I right, Miss Lions? So, is there any other Does anybody else wish to make public comment before we move on to the next items on the agenda? All right, we'll close public comment. Thank you for being here. Uh the next item on the agenda is board discussion. Um nobody has reached out to me from the board about topics for discussion. Does anybody wish to make uh board discussion? All right. Well, we will uh we'll have an opportunity to uh I do I do think that there's something to be addressed with the middle school and staffing that Miss Copy brought up. I don't know if Miss Spooner brought that up too, but I wasn't here for that. But I know Trustee, I'm sorry, Superintendent Leo had mentioned
030that there's some new staffing for behavioral supports that um at the middle school that she was going to present on itself. I want to be clear, it was it's not necessarily behavioral supports. They're safety team members that we use here at the high school. So, and I know that principal Martin and um assist associate principal Atkinson do plan on providing communication before the year starts, but um they are on break now and have elected to do it in August as opposed to the end of the year um when uh as families are preparing to come back. Thank you. And I I have met with Mrs. Spooner and her husband and uh um happy to meet with anybody else who wants to talk further individually. I mean, Mrs. Martin is our first go-to on that. Um
031but if you uh need further information or want to talk, I'm also available and I I did that with Mrs. Spooner and her husband. Mhm. Yeah. It's I remember when the there was the ELI story and there were things that we could and couldn't say, but one of the things that we knew was happening was there was going to be these additional supports coming to the buildings, but that was going to be for the coming school year. So, I am excited to see that implemented and maybe we can say a few words at an upcoming meeting before the start of the year to put people's minds at ease. Um, all right. So, if there's no board discussion, we'll move on to our action items. Um, the first action items on the agenda are the 2425
032final budget revision. Uh, can I get a motion on the general fund? I move the board of education adopt the 202425 final budget revision resolution for the general fund as presented on pages five and six of the budget book. Second. It's moved by trustee Edel. Seconded by trustee Ferris Highland. All in favor of the motion as presented. Oh, actually maybe we should open up for discussion. Is there anything disc to discuss on this? All right. If there's no discussion, we'll move to a vote. All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. I. Any opposition? The motion carries unanimously. Food service fund. I move that the board of education adopt the 2024 25 final budget revision resolution for the food service fund as presented on page seven of the budget book. Second. Moved
033by Trusty Ferris Highland, seconded by Trusty Lions. Is there any discussion on the food service fund fund final budget revision? All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. I. Any opposition? The motion carries unanimously. The school activity fund. I move the board of education adopt the 2042 final budget revision resolution for the student school activity fund as presented on page eight of the budget book. Second. Move by Trusty Ferris. I'm sorry, Trusty Edsil. Uh, seconded by Trusty Torres. All in favor of the motion as presented, please say, Oh, I guess is there any discussion on the student activity fund? All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. I. I. Our motion carries unanimously. We have some bids for the high school edition. Can I get a motion? I move
034that the board of education award the following bids related to the high school edition as follows. Category one, commissioning proMec engineering for $8,500. Category 4, masonry shifer mason contractor, $582,000. Category 7, roofing, Great Lakes Systems, $249,80. Category 11, painting, Vor Brother painting, $39,900. Category 33, asphalt paving, Michigan paving and materials, $87,190 for a total of $966,670. How'd I do, Kath? Awesome. Thank you. It's your job from here on forward. We have a second. Second. Moved by Trusty Taiaki, seconded by Trusty Edel. Is there any discussion on this? I believe we have our contractor here. Any questions? All right. All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. I. I. Any opposition. The motion carries unanimously. Thank you for being here. Do we have any more any more bids coming up on this? I
035do have I have two more. One more that uh I still have to metal panels. Very good. Oh no, not the dreaded metal panels. Call up. Um, I noticed they're putting the fence post out. So, it seems like the start is near. It started today. It's been mobilized. We talked about it. Thank you. Yes. When I was when I was gone. Thanks. I'll have to take a look at that later after we get to the next part. You bet. Um, thanks Joel. The next item on the agenda is our superintendent evaluation. Uh, can I get a motion? I move the board of education meet in close session for discussion related to the superintendent's evaluation as permitted by section 8A of the Michigan Open Meetings Act. Second. Moved by Trusty Edel, seconded by Trusty Ferris Highland.
036All in favor of the motion as presented. Oh, it's a roll call vote. Call. So, it's a roll call vote. Mr. Martin, yes. Dr. Lions, yes. Dr. Udel, yes. Miss Ferris Highland, yes. Dr. Chambers, absent. Dr. Torres, yes. And Miss Taaki, yes. Thank you. So, we will go into close session for the um evaluation portion of the meeting. Believe we have our we have our student our facilitator here. [Music] That's [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Happy [Music] baby. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Just want to watch it. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Down down [Music] wash want wash down.
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040think you one of them was the I can send I can print off website. I'm going to bring us That would be awesome. I'll bring us back. I think we have policy in two weeks. So, uh, back in session at 9:44 p.m., um, we have just included our, uh, superintendent evaluation and, um, I would entertain a motion at this point, uh, before I make the comments to, uh, to approve the about the rating that we gave our super. I move that the board of education award superintendent Leo an effective rating for the superintendent evaluation. Second. Motion was made by trustee Edsil and seconded by trustee Ferris Highland. Um we have spent the last hour plus discussing this. Is there any discussion before we vote from board members? Well, I just want to comment that effective
041is now the highest rating. uh whereas highly effective was the highest rating in the past but the change in the law and the tools and all of that uh is uh her effective rating is equivalent to highly that's yeah that was on my notes as well uh we uh adopting the we're adopted a process of the state law uh which makes effective the highest ranking and uh superintendent Leo certainly didn't fall into the high the high range of effect um The board had a lot of productive things to say uh constructive uh feedback. Uh the board was really uh impressed by the superintendent's growth over the past few years in a number of areas. Uh some areas that came up multiple times were the superintendent's approachability, her uh her outgoingness in the community, being at
042different events and supporting the district both during the school day and outside of the school day. Uh we were pleased with the student growth metrics that we reviewed. Obviously, it's always a work in progress and it can change in a year, but feel like things are going in a really positive direction there. Uh, Superintendent Leo has taken tremendous to address the goals that we've come up with as a leadership team between the board and the administrators. and she was able to to document uh growth in the 25 plus goals that uh that we gave her uh to work toward. And it obviously was a huge effort on her part over the past uh couple of years and even before that. But also just to document all that for us to review it was an effort
043a heavy lift itself. We identified some areas where um we uh you know there we could see some growth in the coming years. Uh communication with all stakeholder groups, establishing certain protocols for communication with the board and again just making sure that the things that we feel good about today continue to be positive things. continue to see growth uh as we look because certainly hope that uh superintendent leak is a part of our district all the time. Everybody with that um I'll call the question. All in favor of the motion as presented please say I I any opposition motion carries unanimously. The next congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Um the next item on the agenda is uh committee reports academic and technology trusty waiting until um fall. Uh trusty fer facilities. We met last week. Um
044just a quick update. um for facilities. They're replacing domestic hot water heaters um this summer, as well as some water filter installations, lots of painting, um cleanups at the middle school and classrooms. Um I feel like Billy and his team are so proactive that they've done so much work that now they're just, you know, filling in over the summer. So that's great. Um per Nikki Norris, um the athletic review was, you know, they hosted a ton of stuff in the spring. Um, summer track and tennis court hours are 7 to 5:00 pm for the track. Tennis courts are open. Um, and they're hosting some football and youth track and tennis camps on site this summer. They're rebuilding the shotput track and um doing other little maintenance things, but other than that, it was a pretty
045pretty um quick meeting. And we're not going to meet again until September is committee trusty. No report. We meet in September. Government relations. No. We'll meet in the fall. Personel meeting. We had our evaluation today. Uh we will probably uh have a meeting not after the beginning of the next school year to kind of think through some of the changes in the law um and what uh what we need to do to apply and to make sure that we're next round of uh ofations but that's not we'll do that policy committee trust uh we will meet July 7th And this is the time of year where we have all of the policy updates from June to uh go through um Abby and I attended the uh virtual meeting on those updates. Not a whole lot
046of not Oh, we're not meeting until the fall. Okay. All right. Um, our next regularly scheduled meeting is July 14th, uh, 2025 here. We only have one meeting in July and I'll be in a couple Are there any other announcements before we conclude tonight? Thank you for being here. Thank you.