001Mickey, are we good? Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and call the meeting to order. If you can all please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome to the meeting tonight. Thank you for coming. We will start with Dr. Seit's comments. Thank you, President Sigma. We're glad to see you. We almost have a packed house. I call that a packed house with you. >> We're glad you're here. Hopefully, we have some people um that are following online. Um hi, Mom and Dad. They're always following. So, hi mom and dad. >> We're so glad you're with us tonight. And I've got a lot of things to share.
002So, I'm going to get started. Welcome to tonight's board of education meeting. We're glad you've joined us. It's February. That means the SCSC is celebrating Black History Month. There are several school events, activities taking place throughout the district to ensure that Black History is being recognized and honored and we're excited about that all through the month. Mickey back there for us, our communications director, will be making sure that she gets all of those awesome events on our social media platforms. We continue to be in the middle of the winter season. Please be aware of the rise in respiratory viruses. As you can tell, I got a little frog on my throat tonight and the flu during this time. With that said, I want to stress the importance of everyone practicing healthy hygiene protocols and staying
003home when sick. Let's all do our part in helping keep everyone as healthy as possible the rest of the winter. We are also still in inclement weather season, which is my uh least favorite season of the year. Uh but that was supposed to be funny. You can laugh at that. But please know we have used our three built-in snow days and now we're on our five AMI days. We have emergency packets for K34 if we need them, but we are not going to need them. So, uh, we are looking forward to getting through this winter season. Speaking of inclement weather, our facilities team did a fantastic job digging us out of the big snowstorm we recently had. I want to thank our facilities team for all their hard work and dedication. And I also want
004to specifically thank the following people. Andrea Madison from Matson from Jefferson. Junella ah a How am I saying that? Augustine. >> Thank you. I can't say that. She's she Huh? No, I didn't. I butchered it. But Janella knows I love her. She's from Monroe. Russell Matthews from and Russy from Coverdale, Barbara Perkins from Null, and Russ Head for maintenance. And there the list goes on. of those specific ones. These people uh who go above and above and beyond in helping fill at schools uh where they're either short staffed because of job vacancy or someone sick. So they'll work their whole eight hours and call and say, "Where do you need me?" which is awesome. So thank you. Great job for keeping our schools looking great and safe. We can give them all a hand. Our
005whole facilities team our facil if we if our facilities team don't get the job done, we don't get back to school. And we We and we we had to get back. That was a lot of snow. We are excited now. It's an important staff hiring at the board that the board of education just approved in close session. Congratulations to Eric Shore. You can stand. Where's Eric? Let's give Eric a hand. Sad news for St. Charles West. Right. Chuck >> and Dr. Vogle. Everybody >> so close but so far away. >> Yeah. Eric has been serving as our activities director of St. Charles West. Does a great job. We're excited about Eric taking the reigns of Louiswis and Clark. He'll be taking the place of Martin Hanley who is retiring at the end of this year.
006We thank Martin for his years of uh service with the district. Congratulations to you, Eric. We know you're going to lead well and we're excited about you over there. And we are going to find a great new activities director. Right, Dr. Vocal. >> Dr. Lewis, that will be posted tomorrow. Correct. Got to get on it. As part of the nally organized protests taking place across the country, we have heard and seen some activism amongst our high school students. Any protest, events, walkouts are not school sanctioned or school sponsored and or or would be organized entirely by students. In the SCSD, one of our core goals is to help students develop their own voices and engage critically in the world around them. We respect our students desire to stand up for their beliefs. However, our primary
007response is to ensure that every student remains safe, counted, and for during this safe and accounted for for the school day. I'm not going to read all of this, but we did have a walk out today at St. Charles High, and I just want to uh commend the administrative staff, the the teaching staff, as well as students that did a great job through that process today. Winter sports activities season is in flat is in its last full month. We will definitely have another huge crowd at West as they host High four basketball games and tomorrow night is Franklin night. So, it's in honor of the legacy of Franklin School. It's the cornerstone of the city of St. Charles School District's history. It should be a great night of basketball and coming together as community. We
008hope to see you there. And we always say go Pirates and go Warriors. And Dr. Vocal is a big part of getting that all set up. Uh both teams are going to be wearing Franklin uniforms. Should be a wonderful night for the community. We're excited about that. We also told you had a lot tonight. We recently celebrated 100th day of school. That's a big deal in our elementary schools. Uh so that was so fun. Uh very proud of the hard work our teachers, staff, and students have put in so far. Let's keep going strong and obviously being allin. The negotiation season's upon us, isn't it? Look at our smiley friends over there. I do want to give a shout out to our three union groups, SCA, Cessna. We are very we we're having very productive
009conversations, meetings with all three groups as we're all in on making and keeping the SCS the best as possible for our staff to be their best for our students. We've had a great negotiations round with our uh our teaching staff. We're looking forward. We're going to meet with Jill tomorrow and then we'll follow up that with I think we meet next week and then we'll get into our transportation. But we thank you all for coming to the table and always working well as a team. Uh and we are a family and we always come up with some great solutions to the things that we're working on. So, thank you guys for all that you do with that. Uh mark your calendars. March 14th is the SCSDAC SCSD trivia night. It's the foundation trivia night. It's
010at the Boys and Girls Club. Doors open at 6. Trivia begins at 7. Mickey back in the back is going to make sure all that information gets out on our website and our social media outlets. And we do have a QR code to get your tables. So, let's make sure we come out and support our SCSD Foundation. As a reminder, our board of education seats are once up again for reelection and the candidacy window is closed, but we have four candidates for three open board seats in April. And then tonight, we have We're looking forward to hearing from as soon as I'm done a St. Charles West student speaker tonight. We also have the approval of our 2627 curriculum textbook adoptions, approval of our resolution to oppose changing the municipal election. Um, we also have
011federal programs program review, special education program review. Those are going to be the highlights of the evening. Correct. Nijra. Yes. Special. Yes. Presentation on SB3 from Mr. Shields and I'll be pitching in on that as well. the potential impact of SB3. We'll have some policy changes to approve hopefully and then our financial report. We're in the midst of a very productive 2526 school year. I want to encourage us all to continue to be safe, be respectful, responsible as we continue to be allin together as we move forward. Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you, Dr. Se. Moving on to item 3.04. There are no board communications, so we will move to audience comments. Um, all regular and special meetings of the board shall be open to the public since the board desires to be a good
012listener and be responsive to the community. Persons desiring to address the board may do so during the time so allotted on the agenda in according to established procedures. During the audience portion of each board meeting, patrons are invited by the president to speak for or against any proposal on the tenative agenda or on any other school concern. The individual is asked to identify him or herself, limit comments to a few minutes, and avoid discussing personalities. The president reserves the right to limit the number of presentations and or length of comments. At the discretion of the president, president, patrons may be recognized at other times during the board meeting. The board is very interested in audience comments. According to board policy, members cannot respond during the actual meeting. The board will listen to the comments and
013if necessary, additional followup will occur through district administrators. And it looks like we have one audience comment. Brendan Karns, you want to come up? Good evening, members of the board and central office in St. Charles community. My name is Brendan Karns. I'm the president of the St. Charles Education Association, the exclusive bargaining organization for certified employees and nurses. SCA has been busy since my last update, so we have a lot to get to. First, we'd like to recognize our members who won their building's teacher of the year award. Alexis Gorman at Harris, Laura Moley at Coverdale, Samantha Steed at Jefferson, Jordan Zakowski at Null, Caitlyn Drawmeer at Blackhurst, Kinsey Guell at Harden, Angie Southern at St. Charles High, Courtney Deweiler at St. Charles West, Justin Morgan at Lewis and Clark, and Brendan Karns at Success
014Campus. Congratulations to you all, and thank you for your stellar work in the classroom. We'd also like to recognize Lisa Bourjad from St. Charles West for her completing her national board certification. Recently wrapped up its negotiations with central office and the board of education and we are currently finalizing the language in the upcoming week. We are proud of what we accomplished as we came together and look forward to presenting about it. Thank you to our negotiations team led by co-vice president Kelly Peters. Members of our team were myself, Vice President Janet Guyger, treasurer Nicole Costello, Zoe Plameumber of Coverdale, Jessica Ross of St. Charles High, Marty Weinberg of Harden, Stephanie Lake and Nicole Besselman of St. Charles West, and Casey McKenna of St. Charles High. Our entire negotiations committee volunteered their time through multiple weekly
015meetings and independent work. If you see a member of the team, be sure to thank them. Last week, Harris special education teacher Jennifer Powers and I traveled to Jennifer City to speak with our local representatives, attend the general legislative session, and select hearings on education related bills. It was a highly successful day of discussing and learning about the issues facing our teachers here in St. Charles and across the state. We will be returning in April, and I would like to extend an invite to any member of central office or the board who would like to attend with us at Success Campus. Civics teacher Katie May and I are planning to bring our government students down there for a visit as well. Finally, had a chance to sit down with three of our four candidates vying
016for the board of education. I'm proud to endorse Karen O'Harn, Lorie Gibson, and Charlie Daniels for those seats. Regardless of outcome, our organization always seeks a positive and productive relationship with the board. Thank you. >> Thank you, Brendan. Next, we will move on to the high school student update, which is going to be from a student from St. Charles West. >> Good evening. My name is Cameron Branscom. I'm a junior at St. Charles West, also president of the Black Student Union. I'm here today to inform you all about the St. Charles West Black Student Union. Over the past few years, BSU has worked to build community and celebrate culture within our school. We've planned and executed schoolwide assemblies that highlight black excellence and educate the broader We've hosted in school events like our senior barbecue
017to honor graduating members and friends giving to create a welcoming environment where students feel connected and supported. More recently, we've been focusing on Franklin High School. Franklin High School was an all black school and the last class graduation was in 1955. Tomorrow night, we are hosting Franklin night at St. Charles West to celebrate the living alumni and the legacy created for both our school district and our city. In two varsity games. We'll be doing a special tribute to the Franklin School. Looking ahead, we want BSU to continue growing beyond just a club. Our goal is to expand membership and create more yearround programming, not just during Black History Month. We hope to build stronger partnerships with the other student organizations and create mentorship opportunities so underassmen feel empowered to step into leadership roles. Most importantly,
018we want to ensure that BSU continues to stand strong after you graduate, leaving behind a strong foundation for future students. >> Awesome. Thank you so much, Cameron. We appreciate you coming. >> We will take just a quick two, three minute break if anyone needs to leave the meeting at this time and we'll resume back in just a couple minutes. Okay, we will start back with the meeting. Um, we're going to start with item 4.01. For efficiency, the school board utilizes a consent agenda. Items placed on the consent agenda are routine in nature or are among the many decisions that the board has already determined are in Yeah. Yes. Yes. So, I'm reading it. Sorry. Uh, many decisions that the board has already determined are in the domain in the administration. So, is there a motion
019to approve or amend the agenda? Is there a second? All those in favor? I oppose. Okay. And what item are you? Okay. And then we will move on to item 5.01 which is the items removed from the consent agenda to have that discussion. So you had a question. >> Yeah. The question is for Jeremy because you know we're in these meetings once a month or we don't know what's going to happen in these meetings with the schools and that but um I I I know at the last one you had mentioned that we weren't really spending any extra money and that's what I just wanted to know. So, you're asking are we spending extra money from bond? Is that accurate? >> I think she uh said uh tried to explain that um at the last
020configuration meeting you had said something about >> Oh, I I hear you. I hear you. Yes, that was a comment that I did. Yeah. No, no, it's okay. I just wanted to make sure I understood before I went on a rambling act and uh wasted everyone's time. Um, so no, this which particular one or you want me to talk about both of them? >> The bleacher one. Okay. So, the bleacher one was a request from a parent who has a a student that uses a wheelchair and we do not have the ability right now for children in wheelchairs to sit with a student body in the bleacher section at St. Charles West. So, uh, that request was made. It's certainly reasonable. We can accommodate that request. So, that's why attempting to do that. In my
021uh discussions with that parent um understood that hey this isn't a quick turnaround. This will take us some time to figure out what we can even do to this section of bleachers to accommodate that. So uh that's what we're trying to do here is just add to that to make it wheelchair accessible. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Any other questions? Okay. So, I make a motion we approve the consent agenda. Is there a second? All those in favor? I opposed. Okay. And then we will I make a motion to approve item 4.06 under bids and contracts. I make a motion we approve specifically the bleachers that was pulled. Is there a second? All those in favor? I opposed. That passes. We will move on to item 6.01 which is our federal programs program. Dr.
022>> All right. Good evening everybody. Um I'm excited to uh introduce Mrs. Nidra or Miss Nidra Wolf. She is our federal programs coordinator and she will uh present our federal programs review to you. >> There we go. Can you hear me now? Okay. So, I'm just here to give you a brief summary of what St. Charles School District uses for Title One, two, and Title Three. So, I hope you enjoy our review. So, title one, part two, um part title one, part A, um we have five out of our six elementaryaries that uses um title one and we pay um salaries, benefits for those teachers and interventionists in those buildings if buildings um do decide to use interventions. I think four out of the five have title one teachers and then five of them in
023fact have interventions and this is to help with students that have trouble in math or reading um things of that nature. Our title one we have an allocation to help with our JJC um juvenile justice center and we help with students throughout the St. Charles um county for students that you know fall short a little bit and have a little trouble here and there. And so we do have money um for teachers to provide um uh lessons for them. Our title two is supporting our staff. So principles, teachers, professional de development and that's what we use our title two for. And title three is for our E families, migrant, immigrant families to help with language. I'm a little nervous. So, okay. So for title one in the 24 25 school year um we had I
024think I already said we had five schools that we used funds that had an economic deprivation greater than or equal to our district's average of 39%. And so those schools are Blackhurst, Coverdale, Lincoln, Monroe, and N. And we also have an allocation for our preschool teachers here. And we also pair professionals. And we primarily use those funds to help with salaries and benefits for our title one classrooms at our pre. So it just gives you a little rundown of what we use our funds for. fulltime uh title one teachers. Um you have nine title one parttime interventions. We also use some of those funds to help with materials and supplies for the buildings if needed. Um and then we also have an allocation for parents to come to our title one nights in our title
025one buildings. Um this is to help with parents come in to build a relationship not only with staff but to help parents of what their students are learning specifically for math and reading. Those are the areas that title one and we want to make sure our parents know and they can ask questions um with the principles and the teachers at the same time. Um the state also gives us an allocation for five nonpublic schools in our district area. Charles Barnado and St. Flet Catholic School and they use those funsum similar to what our students but it looks a little different in nonpublic. We can use those funds for tutoring um if students are falling short in math and science I mean math and reading um but we also can use title one for nonpublic for
026them to provide professional development if needed for their staff. So with title 1D we use we have two teachers we don't pay their salaries but we have two teachers that provide instruction and for last year we have 57 I think enrolled at the JJC during the 2425 year. Um we do sometimes the duplicate number is a little different but we just kind of want to give you an idea of like how many students actually are there males seven females aging ranging from the ages 13 to 18. We did have nine students earn high school credit while at JJC and then we had 27 students enroll back into their school after visiting the JC. So we spent almost $500 title one funds for assessments and academic materials. And there was a plan for summer school instruction,
027but it did not pan out. But that is on the docket for this summer. And I do think that we will have summer school this year. And I just wanted to add one quick thing. So the district um pays the salaries for the two full-time teachers that are there. That doesn't come from title funds. So the district covers the two full-time teachers that are at JJC. All right, on to title two. And this is title two. We provide professional development for administrators, for teachers. Um, and it just gives you a rundown of we almost had a 113 grand for totaling um that we use for our school, but also for our nonpublic schools as well. Um, it's this year, I mean last year, we sent several staff members to the PB conference. Um we also
028had one of our um curriculum coordinators attend the grassroots workshop where it's um a math workshop that helps one of our um she helps with develop curriculum, how to write the curriculum, how to run those meetings and bring good you know thoughts to how and what we need for curriculum, what we need for the students but not only for the students for what the teachers need as well. So it supports both. So that was But it's a big one. Um, we just took our middle school um to a strategies workshop. Just wanted to give you guys an idea of some of the things we do. That's not all. It's too much to put up there, but we do pride ourselves in making sure our teachers have great >> and then I'm just going to jump
029in for a quick second. So, title two, uh, as Ner said, is for professional development. Those are the funds. Um, we knew starting this year that we were going to get title one with with everything that's going on nationally and at the federal level. Title two were the funds that we did not think we were getting. Um, in fact, we were told at the beginning of the of the year that we weren't getting title two and title three funds. Those funds were ultimately released. So, we were able to uh spend the professional development money and then the money um title three that Ner will talk about here in a second for ELLL. How long those funds stay available to us, we don't know. But for this year, we did receive title two and title three,
030which we were very excited about. We were >> and we were nervous that we were gonna lose that money, but we got it. >> Yeah, because it does, it changes things. Um, and so, yes, we were excited to get that money. So, title three typically, we support our ELLL families, immigrant families. We do pay the salary of our parent liaison and she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Is is that correct Dr. Lewis? Some Portuguese. Okay. And she does help with enrollment. That's has been a big big job of hers. But she also supports our buildings with um red me uh red meetings. Our special ed department. She does help with it. Just depends on when she's available. So it's been really I work closely with um Susie Mills and she does a phenomenal job.
031But we also have other companies, International Language Center, International Language Scope um that helps us with interpretation and translation needs if needed. So, it's awesome to have it. So, we hope to get it again next year because it does help our district support those families and students. So, Um, that's basically what title funds we use. And so I just want to give you just a quick rundown of how we use those funds. Um, and if you have any questions as always, phone call away. Any questions? >> Thank you very much. Thank you. You don't have to be nervous. >> If there are no questions, I make a motion to approve the federal programs program review as presented. Is there a second? All those in favor? I oppose. That passes. We'll move on to item 6.02,
032which is our special education program. Okay, perfect. Okay. So, our team will pretty much do anything for kids, for students, for staff, but one thing they don't enjoy is public speaking. So, I told them that I would I would do this part. Um, but I will go through and introduce everyone that's here. I've got Sarah Sherwood and she is our assistant principal at the Early Childhood Center. Ann Westbrook. Um, I've got Val Cam High, Clarissa Byer, and Nicole McGawan. So, they are coordinators and principles of assistance. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Great team. >> Yes. Okay. Um, so what we're going over today is just our special education department. Um, we service students ages 3 to 21. Um, we provide a variety of services in the least restrictive environment to students who meet the
033three prongs of eligibility for special education. So at the two two years ago whenever um the program was reviewed previously, there were five goals that were identified. So what I'm going to go do is go through each goal and kind of tell you about where we started and where we are now. Um so the first goal was increasing student independence and improving instructional outcomes for all students in the least restrictive environment. Um so some of the data that was presented um is here so you can kind of see it over time. Um so incidence rate is the first thing there and that is the the percentage of students that we have that um are identified as special education students in our district. Um the state sits around 13 between 13 and 14 typically um percent.
034So you can see we are much higher than what the state is. So this has been a big goal of ours is to try to even ourselves out a little bit with the state. Um we hit a high in the 23 24 school year but as you can see we are um continuously decreasing that incidence rate. Um the squiggle mark in front of the 17.9. We just submitted our December one count which is what that number is based off of. Um and so it's not official of where we are yet but this is where we're looking to be. So we're on the right track and we're we're doing the right things. Um, we continue. One of the big things that we were noticing is at the secondary level, students in high school um were they
035were holding them on IEPs even though um they may not continue to need some of that specially designed instruction and it may not be having that adverse impact on education. Um so we're the teams are making great decisions and having good conversations around students um and about if dismissal is appropriate at that age. Um the next part is educational environment. So this is for K through 12. Um and you can see over the years um are in the students that are inside the regular education environment 80% or more of the time. So that's always the goal. That's the least restrictive environment um or the least amount percentage- wise on the continuum that students can be um we are p percentages is decreasing a little bit there. Um inside the regular education setting 40 to 79%
036of the time. We had a high year in 24 25 and then came back down a little bit um this year and then inside less than 40% of the time. So that's our most restrict restrictive settings. Um our number has increased. I do think that this has a lot to do with the increase of our um star and peak classrooms that are we've added three new classrooms this last year. Um so I think that has something to do with it as well, but this is always something we're keeping our eye on um because we want to um have you know the majority of our students in the restrictive environment if possible to continue with this goal. Um these are the MAP scores over the last three years. So this is looking at um ELA as
037a district versus the state and math as a district versus the state. So these are the um percentage of students in special education who scored proficient or advanced on the math test. Um so these are for all special education students in the district. Um and you can see that we are far exceeding the state. So that's fantastic. we just continue to get better. So as you go down that percentage is increasing um for math and for ELA. So um big gains there. Uh the next is looking at parent survey data. So every three years we're required to do what's called tiered monitoring. Um and during that process uh surveys are sent out to parents and we're looking at um they look at the total number of responses by parents. um how many parents are saying
038that they either agree or strongly agree with the questionnaire that's provided to them and then it's given to a percentage um and then we are compared to the state. Uh so 2122 was the last time before last year where surveys were sent out. Um we had a total response of 73 um parents and 50 of them either agreed or strongly agreed for 68.5% um which fell below the state. Uh last year we had 291 total responses on our survey and 226 of those were agree or strongly agree um which put us at 77.7% which is above the state. Um the I put a lot of thanks to the team and to the teachers um who continuously reached out to families. The case managers did a great job of reaching out to families and sending out
039the survey and having them complete this because we want their feedback. We want to how we're doing and so it's great to see the progress that we've made and we want to continue to raise that percentage. Um the second goal was about creating a more systematic way of evaluating, identifying, and serving students in district-wide programs. Um so there really is no great way to quantify this except just talking through the process that we use. So when we're looking at students, we're always determining their current level of functioning and the level of support that they're already being provided. um we look at the continuum of services and determine if we need to add additional services before ever moving into a program. So we always want to max out the services outside of a district-wide program if
040we can um because that is least restrictive. Um if a student has exhausted all of their service options um within the regular school setting and they need to look at a district-wide program um then we discussed that possibility and um that's done with the collaboration of administrators, coordinators, behavior coaches and the IEP team. So they're all heavily involved in that process um when determining where the location of their services will be provided. Um goal number three is about implementing specific methodology and curriculum in districtwide programs with fidelity through training and professional development for staff. Um so we have had an expansion of our AU program and we have ensured that teachers are given access to star and peak curriculum. So that's how we um separate the classrooms um based off of the curriculum that's being
041provided um because they're at different levels. So we want to meet the students needs um and they are implementing it consistently across the district. um training and one-on-one meetings with our behavior coaches have been consistently happening. Um and they all teachers have been provided all of that information. Um ULS is something that is used at the secondary level as well. Um our behavior classes have been using the AIM curriculum at the secondary level and we continue will continue to strengthen our understanding and implementation of that curriculum. Um goal number four was pretty cut and dry. Increase graduation rates for students with IEPs. Uh, and you can see that we had a dip year in the 23 24 school year, but last year we popped back up to 86.4%. So that's that is big progress in
042my eyes. So hopefully we can continue and get over that 90%. And then the last goal that was identified two years ago was expanding opportunities for students in the early childhood special education program to learn with typically developing peers. Um so from last year to this year another classroom integrated classroom was added. So these are classrooms with um essentially peer models. So special education students with general education students. So they have these peer models to help them um learn to learn um and and learn appropriate social skills and um you guys can kind of speak to it too if there's anything I'm missing. Uh so we are increasing those opportunities for students. Uh and then as far as uh the so you'll see the state education performance or APR that's again that um those reports
043that we get back from the state. Um so the first one is about special education students receiving services in regular early childhood setting. Um in 20 or 22 23 the district was at 29.2% and the state was at 25%. Um in 23 24 we were at 48.1% and the state was at 27% and then in 2425 we were at 52 and a half% and the state was at 29%. So we continue to I mean almost double what the state is doing. So that's fantastic. Um and for students that are receiving services in the special education setting. So you want that number to continue to drop. Um we were at 49% um compared to the state at 38% in 22 23. And then in 23 24 we hit below at 31.1% and then last year we
044were at 28%. So great growth there. Um talking just kind of giving updates in regards to early childhood special education in the early childhood center. Um since 2022 we have expanded from seven to 11 early childhood special education or went from seven to 11 teachers um increased from nine paras to 22 paras and increased enrollment from 96 to 125 students. So huge growth. Um early childhood outcome data we have 100% of students who entered the program substantially increased their rate of growth and 50% of students were functioning within age expectations by the time that they exited. So early childhood center is rocking it. They are doing great things with our kids. >> We are >> here is just kind of a list of some other updates that have been happening in special education over the
045last two years. And these are some changes that were made. Um we have increased in special education coordinators that support buildings directly. So we had a transition coordinator previously um and we've shifted that position to just be over high school. So we went from two to three. Um we've had intentional CPI training. So rather than training all staff, we train teams at buildings. Um because those are we want to train the people who are using it. Um because if you even if you get trained and you never use it, you get rusty and you don't remember all the skills. So we want to train those who need the training. Um, we've added an additional SLP specifically for AAC devices. Um, so that's that assisted technology. We have a lot of students um who have uh
046difficulties in language and so they rely on that AAC device and so having that speech language pathologist specifically for that has been instrumental. Um we have this year did facilitated IEP meeting training through key to ed um that the feedback from that from administrators was phenomenal. they really enjoyed that process. Um, so we're going to start implementing some of those things uh over the next couple years. Um, we had beginning of the year pair professional training. That was something that was brand new. So that was offered for all pair professionals within the district. We created a PAR handbook. We have a special education handbook. Um, we have a PLC that meets monthly now. Um, for just for our teachers who teach in STAR and peak classrooms, um, we have a quarterly um, speech language pathologist
047PLC. Um we have implemented IEP meeting agendas for every meeting. We've provided training for LEAs. Um for IEP meetings, we've added 20 paras since the end of last school year. Um we've had the additional three uh AU classrooms added. We've provided staff training on post-secary transition. Um we've changed the process for level transition IEP. So we have lots of transitions from um buildings to buildings. And so that takes a lot for the special education teachers to prepare the the next teachers that are going to be receiving students. So we've changed that process um to make it a little bit more seamless. We have a present level checklist. So helping the teachers when writing IEPs. Um we provide self-directed PAR PD videos that DESI approves. Um and then we've implemented the joint committee review for SPE
048referrals as well. Um, so we have created three recommendations for goals of things that we want to work on. Um, so as for those of you who have IEPs, they're written in nice smart goals IEP style format. Um, so by the end of the 2728 school year, um, St. Charles School District will decrease the amount of special education students in the less than 40% of the time placement from 15.66 to 10% or less. Um, we'd like to also, um, create procedures for onboarding of paras throughout the year, which includes continuous professional development opportunities as recognized by the completion of at least 10 hours of mid-service training per year. And then we'd also like to decrease our incident rate from 18.5 to 15.5% or less. >> That speaks to the MTSS work that we're doing in
049the district. >> Any questions? First of all, I'm really happy to see a lot of the things on this other uh updates and sped are the things that we talked about at the meeting. So, I I'm happy to see that those are in place. Um, excuse my ignorance, but I'm not real sure what star and peak curriculum is. And can you explain the advantages to that? Why we're >> so a lot the star peak curriculum focuses on um behavior adaptive functional skills while incorporating it with your standard content curriculum. Um it is it within line with like ABA style um teaching. So working with applied behavior um and it is specific for our kids. So it works on kind of a tier model. You find out specifically where that student is performing at and then
050you use the curriculum to guide you to work on specific skills to fill the gaps. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Teaching is hard, but sped is hard on steroids, and I just want to make sure our sped teams know how much I personally appreciate them as a sped teacher myself. >> Um, you guys are are rock stars. They are fantastic. We, our district has come so far, even just in the short time that I've been here, and it's so amazing to walk into the classrooms and see the teachers working tirelessly and going to IEP meetings and just how well they know their kids and the time and energy and effort that they put into to working with some of the u most challenging students, but also the most rewarding students. So, it's
051fantastic. >> I think highlights for me. I agree with that. Um, first of all, leadership matters. Ashley's done a great job of coming in and and the two highlights for me would be the three coordinators who we have in those roles and how they're set up to help our staff because our staff need support. They work their tales up, but they need and those three are right where they need to be and just do a great job in that those areas. I I just really feel that way. The other piece is um we've been talking years about not having enough And we're getting there. We're not there yet, but we're getting there. And that's awesome to see. Um, and we're getting good pairs. We just don't just get somebody in the classroom. We got to
052get good parents. >> And our the pairs that we have are so receptive to just continuing to learn and grow. And any professional development that we give them, they walk out of it and they're like, I want more. Give me more. And so I just the the tenacity that they have to continue to serve the students is just fantastic. And then one thing, you're right, it's on steroids. >> I've been in schools a long time. You go in some of these classrooms and you see the patience that these people have and our staff just working and there's one task and they're doing it over and over again. I can't last 30 seconds in there. I mean, it's amaz it's just amazing and our kids are awesome, but there's there teachers do a fantastic job. And
053quick plug for our um we are joining forces with Orchard Farm um to do a special Olympic style field day. There will be more information that's going to be coming out, but it will be like a track and field style and that's um April 23rd during the school day is what we're looking at. Rain out day will be April 30th. So if you guys could make it that would be fantastic. >> We're revving up the buses. We're wearing we're wearing our way jerseys. We're going to go beat our I mean we're going to go have a great time. Everybody wins. Everybody wins this one. >> We're not beatingual. >> We're not beating your farm this time. >> Correct. But >> yes, everybody next year maybe. Thank you all. >> Thank you, Ashley. >> Thank you
054so much, Ashley. And thank you to all of all of you that are here from the special ed department as well. I make a motion to approve the special education program review as presented. Is there a second? All those in favor? I oppose. That passes. Thank you, Ashley. And all of you ladies as well. Item 6.03 is the SB3 potential impact. Um I'm going to hand it over to Mr. Shields. >> All right. Thank you so much and thank you to Mer for uh requesting uh this to be brought forth uh this evening. So put this together uh for you all. Uh just want to reiterate this. This is potentially this is a projection. So, uh, that's how we have to treat it because, you know, I've tried to ask many people, what would you
055anticipate for us? So, it's not just our eyes only on these numbers and there's not really a good there's no one really that can give you a great feedback as to what what we have. So, I'll kind of explain uh how I came up with some of the numbers, but then also what it would mean for uh for our district as we go through it. Before we get into that, what is Senate Bill 3vious? Uh, Senate Bill 3, obviously you guys know, 2025 special session. Uh, love this. I don't love this story. Actually, I was in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, thinking I was going to have a great vacation and I got a phone call on Thursday morning uh at like 8:30 in the morning saying that this had happened, uh, this special session had happened. And
056uh it was a it was a crazy phone call to get because it was not on anyone's radar at any point in time uh for this to occur. So the reason I say that is it did catch a lot of people off guard. >> Mr. Shields, did I ruin your vacation? >> It was not you, Dr. You did not. I wish it would have been you because I like hearing your voice. >> Oh, thank you so much. >> You're welcome. >> Uh but it is a property tax freeze. It is a cap. 97 of the 114 counties in Missouri are required uh to have this on the ballot in some capacity. Uh and that's one of the constitutionality uh issues uh potentially with this that is being heard in the courts. So that's still to
057be decided. Um, and uh, you know, we don't have a timeline on when that's going to occur, but we know that it is on the ballot here in April for our county. And they did place it at a 0% uh, which is incredibly important for every one of us to understand, that means that 0% goes back to 2024 assessed valuation rates. Uh to give you context of what that means, um assessed valuation rates grow every year. As you can imagine, unless we hit a major recession or hit a recession, uh then potentially they could freeze or go down. Um this freezes not only the assessed valuation rate, but is it freezes our ability to gain any new revenue from residential values. Uh 2024 residential values were assessed at 900 million in our county or in
058our district boundaries. Uh this past year, 2025 is a reassessed year, it grew to 967 million. Uh so that's just the residential. Remember, it gets into the billions when you start adding in all the other property valuations. So what did that mean for us? That was like a 7% raise uh gain and assessed valuation. But remember, we can only go so far with that, and I'll get to that in a second. So, next slide for me, please. Uh, key dates, April 7th, that's where you'll cast a ballot if you desire to vote. And then the language is the most key piece uh to this ballot issue. And I'm not going to read that language to you because it's written like you would read a ballot and it's very awkward for me to read out loud.
059But it doesn't make a whole lot of of sense a lot of people other than when you read um uh where is it at here? A tax credit program. That sounds really good. It does sound really good and I think everyone will agree that sounds really good. So, uh we'll go in a little bit further on this as well because I've already highlighted some of those those things. Next slide, please. Uh who's covered, what's not. So, any primary residence in St. Charles County is covered on this. any residential value uh that is a primary residence not covered apartments, commercial, industrial, agricultural land and any utilities. Uh one of the striking things for us that is not included in this bond language that we'll have to be very much aware of if it were to pass
060is the bonded debt levy. So we know right now ours is set at 75 cents. It's been set at 75 cents for I don't I'm putting out a number here 15 years something like that. Probably a little bit longer than that. Uh, and we still have $60 million left that was voter approved that was going to be released in 27 and 29. Since that's not included in that bond language, we will have to watch that very closely because if we go out for another 30 million, we have to ensure that 75 cents can cover that debt payoff, that principal and interest payments uh, for that duration of that loan amount. And that would happen again in 2029. So that can be at risk. Uh, meaning we be able to pull out the full 30. I'm
061not saying we won't be able to, but we'll have to we'll have to really dig in and determine if that is feasible for us as a district on how it currently sits. So, it's not just the it's not just the lost annual revenue. It is also it can impact your your debt your debt service and for us if it were to pass it would impact as well. Next slide. Uh we currently have taxpayer protection. I know a lot of people are more than likely getting more and more accustomed to hearing the Hancock amendment. Uh but I'll show it to you. That's just a roll back provision. So I said we went from 900 to 967 million assessed valuation that grew even greater um uh for the total assessed valuation from 24 to 25. What the
062Hancock amendment does though, if that total rate increase was six or seven% um of that total, we don't get to six or seven. We roll back to the CPI. And the CPI this past year was 3.1. So, we could only grow that revenue 3.1%. And right now, based on the local tax dollars that we've received in December and January, we've gained about 2.1% so far uh this this uh school year. So, we have to 3.1 yet. We're hoping that we will, but we we will get another payment March 15th, April 15th, May 15th, and June 15th to finish out this year. Any questions so far? I know this is a lot. Sorry. The name of this now I'm hearing it's Prop RT. Very clever. You know, like propert >> and that are they changing it
063officially to that? That's my belief. Yes. >> Okay. So, on the ballot language, it's going to be Prop RT. >> I'm not that clever. I didn't catch that. So, >> actually, I just I just got it when she said it. >> I did. I Thank you. Thank you. I just got educated. Thank you. I had no >> It is a little snazzy. >> All right. Next slide, please. This is just to show what happens, how that Hancock amendment takes effect. You see, uh, the year and the total valuation. The asterric just means that's a reassessed valuation year. Uh, uh, school year. Uh, and then you see what happens to the the totals as that increases. Typically should go down. Uh, and you saw in this past year it was almost a 10-cent decrease uh due
064to that three 3.1% inflation uh that we're trying to target. So, uh, and again, that's what we a lot of times that's what we're basing our salaries and our and our benefits off of is what can we control with our local dollars through those gains. And, uh, right now we're sitting, like I said, we're sitting about 2.1, but that's because of the Hancock amendment. It doesn't allow us to gain that huge windfall that people believe that we might get from assessed valuations. All right. Impact on school revenues. Property tax revenue directly supports our classrooms, teachers, and support staff. uh revenue mix will shift then. So instead of uh uh looking at those assessed valuation gains, we're going to really be targeting and looking at I shouldn't say targeting, we're going to be looking at our
065commercial and our industrial classes to see what is occurring with those properties to make sure that we can project accordingly. U there's going to be a lot of pressure on our operating funds if it were to pass and there and I think what's makes us all very fear fearful is there's no guaranteed state back. So we do not know what will happen other than lost revenue at this point in time. There is no way to project and move forward uh at this particular and that's what that's why we're all so fearful about this. Uh so uh it is it is uh very concerning. Credits counted for levy couchs but do not generate cash. So we will still do levy calculations the credits because of the credits that will be offered but they don't generate cash.
066So, we'll still have to do those levy calculations just to know uh how that's going to work for those individual home homeowners that may be in may be purchasing at that particular point in time. So, the uh potential impact all I did on this was look at our residential values. So, if I went back to 2015 to 2025, our last two years 2024 and 2025 tax year were our lowest gains in in the decade. in that decade. So we are growing. We're starting to slow down just from an economic sense, from an evaluation gains, we are starting to slow down. 2024 was our smallest gain in that 10-year period by a long shot in a reassessment year. 2025 was also the smallest gain uh within that 10 10 year time frame. So you're seeing that
067tide turn away from that from that pandemic uh response to be going back to normaly. Uh if you look at 2025, we have done a total of Senate Bill 190. Senate Bill 190, that 377 now that we're seeing it is probably closer to 340. Uh so just to give you context there, again, these are projections, so we can be off a little bit. Um but if Senate Bill 3 were uh enacted, uh it would be a nearly a million dollar loss. So I said, you know, previously that we had we're only growing right now at about a 2.1% growth in revenue u when the CPI was 3.1 that includes that Senate Bill 190 money coming off of the books as well. So a total if that was total it'd be 1.3 million. 2026 tax year
068which is what we're currently sitting in. Um you're looking at that figure that's a nonassess or non-reassessed year. We would we would believe it would grow to about 1.5 in lost revenue for that for that year. And then you see that reassessment year. That's that's what we really really need to grow in order to give uh salary increases. And that's what we bank on uh to give salary increases. Uh you see that right there would be a potentially a $2.5 million hit and then the next year non assessed 2.7. Uh so I didn't give a cumulative number or anything like that for those four years, but you can see uh the damage that that bill would do uh to us as a school district if passed. Um I think it's also important for me to
069say I was pretty conservative, meaning my numbers are probably on the lower end. One thing I did not want to do was publicize numbers that were much greater or would come out to potentially be much greater uh or uh yeah much uh greater than they actually were and uh I feel like I would lose some public trust if I were to do that. So uh these are on as far as a conservative side for for the taxpayer and how they would review it. So those those are what we that that is what we'd be facing. So, how do you do a budget when you lose that much revenue? It's just I'm not going to pretend like I know because there is no handbook other than to uh um really dig in and see what cuts
070we could possibly make because it would force cuts to put I mean it's just matter of fact we have to say it would force cuts in some capacity. So, uh, district exposure, Francis House, Zoom, Walt, Winsville, they're all high single family exposure, res high residentials. Uh, city of St. Charles Orchard Farm, we have that mixed exposure. Uh, so be completely honest with you, we there's potential for uh growth around St. Charles. We would be celebrating all types of growth under this model, under this model that is nonresidential. I mean, we would really be put we would really want that under this this pass because as you guys know we have a ton of residential properties as it is. We're kind of landlocked. So we really want we would really like to see that. Um so
071districts with higher levies, those higher tax levies would see larger perh parcel credits and that just means they're paying more tax dollars per parcel than what nor uh others might pay. So that's all that means. Um and then outside of that I think that may have been the last slide here. Any questions? Oh, planning and implications. Yeah, one more slide here. Sorry. So, obviously we'd be looking at budget downside cases uh frequently and often we would have to review our debt service treatment and future ballot language, but also um beyond that ballot, the one that was has already been voted on and approved, we would have to monitor that extremely close. Uh the Hancock roll back interactions certainly be monitoring those. We'd have to we absolutely have to targeting higher reserves. I mean, there's just
072no way around it. We would have to because we've just lost the trend uh that we've been operating out of. Um so, as we said there, revenue losses of this magnitude creates a loss of services, student programs, extracurriculars, transportations, uh salaries and employee benefits, class sizes, staffing, just to name a few. Those are the areas that we would be looking at because you can't say, you know, we're going to increase our food service, you know, that just there's no money there, right? We have to look at the things that give us the greater the greatest impact while still giving the students the best education possible. So, uh not to put a damper on tonight, but it's a it's a very serious it's a very serious bill. And uh again, these are just projections uh the
073best that we could we could come up with. And uh uh certainly it's It would be of concern if it were to pass for the school district. >> And how much of our budget comes from property tax? >> I would you would typically we would say between 74 to 77%. It fluctuates depending on what state dollars are coming in. >> That's where the fluctuation occurs. >> I I want to >> 75 is a safe number. 75%. >> I want to thank you for this all together because I'll be honest, I I really have studied a lot of this and it's over my head. You know, it's very complicated, seemingly intentionally complicated. Um, I just want to remind people and the firefighters are are floating a sales tax in April to help cover some of this
074and they're also going to put forth a tax levy in the summer. So, you know, those are hard to pass >> in St. Charles County especially. But just know that when if this passes, there's a good likelihood that you're going to be asked to pay a regressive sales tax. We already have one of the highest sales taxes in the state. You know where that sends people to shop over to St. Louis County. You know where that's going to send people to get teaching jobs? Over to St. Louis County because they're not doing this. Our firefighters, our uh ambulance are they're all it's more attractive than across the river. So, just you know, I'm not I would never tell people how to vote, but just know what the consequences of this will be. They're huge. >>
075So, to that point, we are not in a position to talk about a vote, but we will make sure that we get this information as it moves forward. We will make sure we educate our community on it because we just need to make sure they know the the impact of it >> as we're I thought you want to add something. >> I I thought I was and then I lost it. >> I I have one more question. >> Could you explain a little more that that point about the higher levies per parcel credits? I don't I don't understand. >> Those with the higher tax levies that So those that have the higher levies for the residential property. So, you know, we paid 3.71 um without the the debt service. Um would if that was 4.5,
076they were more reliant on that. So, they have a greater economic impact to their budgets, all that. >> And again, St. Louis County isn't doing this at all. >> Correct. >> And that's, you know, they're across the river. >> That's who we're competing with. Well, again, SP3 came, just so everyone remembers, came out of a special session last spring after the session was over. It It's attached to trying to keep the royals and the chiefs and we've seen how that all and then kind of snuck in where and I'm just being factual and we'll be factual with everything. Um, but basically the the senators were able to to choose 0% 3% 5% or or not exempt and ours selected 0%. That's why we believe it's unconstitutional. It's a special bill. We're still have litigation going
077on. We'll update you all on that, but right now we're we're bracing for the fact that it's going to embrace it's going to be on the ballot, but we still have our litigation >> and it can pass and still be ru ruled on constitution really >> and then it'll be Yes. >> And it's and it's hard because when we have the senior we have the senior freeze or the senior cuts as well, we we don't we don't we don't we don't want to get out there and Tax cuts are bad. Everyone's tax cuts. We get that. But what does the services look like? And I will just remind everybody, the board knows this. Uh weekly I'm on a u statewide call with all superintendents through our mass organization that updates us on the legislative session.
078So I just want to um remind everybody that there is a legislative session going on. Um and weekly we get updates. I send that those updates to not only the board but also administration. Just keep in mind not only SB3 and SB3 is already through the system and it's on the ballot. But this year alone, we're facing a right to choose schools bill, state government takeover amisha, which is our activities association, property tax bill on new construction. And this is I'm just telling you what's coming down the pike. That this doesn't mean it's all going to pass, but these are the bills that are out there. >> Uh there's a gifted ed bill that would bring more testing to to our kids. There's a voucher program bill. There's a few of those. Uh there's a
079property tax bill on new construction. There's an A tof report card that we're learning more about as well. Um it will change a lot of our accreditation and different things could. Um and then charter schools lease or sale bill. There's an open enrollment at least twice on there. Two bills on open enrollment. Uh there's a change in date local election. We just talked about that tonight. Um and there's also tax freezes, other tax freezes and property tax reform. That's an there's an ominous bill with that as well. So you just you hear the themes and I'm just again just wanting to make sure people are aware of that. this is what we're we're um facing as we move forward. >> Not to, as you say, be a downer, but there's just a lot to it.
080>> No, but it's it's a reality. So, thank you. >> Just remember though that things can change. They changed very quickly this time. They can change very quickly again. >> Any other questions, comments? Okay. No vote on that. That was just for information, but thank you Mr. Shield and Dr. Sebrit for that. We will move on to item 7.01 which are policy updates. There are four policies here. Some um some of them aligning with the MSEP 6 and then rescending some regulations. Any questions or comments about any of the policy updates? If not, I make a motion we approve the four policy updates as presented. Is there a second? All those in favor? I opposed. That passes. We'll move on to item 7.02, which is bids. >> Apologies. I think I I lit you guys
081up this month. It's February. We're trying to get a bunch of summer work in. So, I did go back and look at February last year. I'm like, did I have this much? I didn't have this much, but we had a we had a decent chunk on there. So, very quickly, just to go through uh each one for you and any questions that you might have. Blackhurst has the same issue that Harden had two years ago, which has been a longstanding issue with their uh variable return system for their air conditioning and heating. Uh they used parts that are now defunct parts, no longer in service. They're bad. So, we're we're replacing all of the piping and the parts that feed those individual units inside the classroom with brace copper because we know that that's going
082to stand the test of time. Uh so that's what the Blackhurst job is. Uh is just going in pulling out ceiling tile replacing all the piping that feeds each one of those units in the classrooms. Uh the St. Charles West HBAC proposal uh we have several units on top of our gymnasiums uh that are leaking. If you guys remember that we had to seal them up so you can't even get in into the units right now. Sealed them up extremely tight, airtight uh so uh rain water cannot get in. Uh, and we've got brand new floors in there as well. So, we want to make sure that we protect those. So, those units are nearing, I think, 23, 24 years of age. So, we're wanting to replace those along with four the four boilers in
083that high school. We have four. We're operating two right now because two are out. So, two uh there's only two of those boilers that are that are heating the building right now. And uh we need all four of them to be operational. So, uh, we are replacing, uh, recommending a replacement of all four of those boilers as well. Fire alarm modernization districtwide, unless they have been replaced, like a Monroe, uh, or a Coverdale, uh, going through the district and replacing all of our fire alarm activation devices. Um, if you guys remember this past summer, this was on the books anyhow, but this past summer, St. Charles High tested us a little bit. We had people there. We had fire and electrical panel. Thankfully, people were there. Dr. Se was there and uh were able to
084call the fire department and uh and get that quickly addressed or else it would have been it would have been devastating devastating for us. >> It was really bad. We're walking down there. I'm like, what am I doing walking in here? You can't even breathe. You didn't even go in there. Why did I go? I don't know. >> Well, the fireman's come out come show it to me and I couldn't breathe. Okay, thank you. >> And then uh the last one is just a continuation of Harris and trying to replace uh windows, window sills. I liked it. Uh the mill work in the cabinetry, uh gutters and downspouts uh because all of that's original to the building. So, um anyhow, uh that's what Harris is. And then you'll see ECC on there. That's a That's
085a new building. But the four years I've been in this position, uh, every year I've heard from a few people, not maybe in this room, >> I'm just teasing. May more than two. Yeah, more than two. More than two. Uh, they do have a serious issue because they have so many start times and end times for their children and they have this really small area for people uh to say that they're want entering the building and then they're kind of stuck in this and they cannot hear. It becomes a safety concern for the parents and the students and the staff members that are inside that building. So, we're going to uh redo that and make it a more secure entrance, make it a larger entrance for our families and for our children uh so that
086they have uh so so it's a much better operational uh uh entrance. Um >> and if you and if you go over there, you'll see that it's very clear of what that looks like, especially when it's arrival and dismissal. It just and then a superintendent gets over there. He's a little louder with the kids and then it's really bad. >> And and we thought we had this addressed without using just using capital money. Uh but that turned out to be false hope. Uh you know, when we were ready to start the work last summer, uh they came back and were like, "Oh, we wanted you guys to do all this electrical work. We're not we're not touching that." So we went out wanted that put as an alternate with the Harris job and uh we're
087able to come back with some pretty good pricing on that. So, we're able to do that and give uh the staff at Early Childhood what they've been asking for for the past I don't know how long, but at least four years, right? >> Yes. >> All right. That's all four of those. >> I have a quick So, would all of these be over the summer? >> Yeah. All of this work would be over the summer. That's in addition to the null HVAC, the Harden HVAC. Remember those two? Those null was a big one. Harden had just a few rooms. And then the the four uh four roofing jobs as well. So it's a lot of work. >> And it'd be using bond money. >> Bond money. Yes, absolutely. >> And this will be pretty much
088exhaustive of our 30 of our 30 now. >> Um might just have a little bit here and there, but >> uh but it should exhaust it. So we'll be ready for 27. Um >> any issues quickly? Any other questions, comments? If not, I make a motion to approve the bids as presented. Is there a second? All those in favor? I opposed. That passes. We will move on to item 8.01, the district financial report. >> Uh yeah, there's not a whole lot to report, you know, December uh through J uh end of January. That's our seventh period. I mean, so uh everything's trending as we expect it to trend. Uh just as a reminder, we we have about 550 about $550,000 right now. Uh outstanding in insurance uh reimbursements. So that's not you don't see that
089reflected here. Uh purchase services look a little high. That's one of the reasons because we've had to do some things uh using insurance money, but we also had that N cleanup and the harden cleanup uh for that. So we're monitoring that purchase services just to make sure. We also know that some of our high needs uh fund our uh finances are are are trending a bit higher than they have in previous years. Uh which is not an indication of any wrongdoing or anything. It just means there's more specific needs for our children um at this in this particular year. Uh the salaries still trending as we expect uh due to HR's great work and uh building principles uh great work uh with the 100 100 pairs I think that we have now. uh that is
090that is a substantial cost increase to salaries that we didn't have the previous years because we weren't fully we weren't be uh filling those positions nearly as fast. So uh you think about 20 extra uh positions is is a substantial cost increase on that. So that's kind of bucking the trend that had been going on for four or five years. Um outside of that the the local dollars finally started coming in as we expected them to be and we're hoping that that continues. We continues to see those just small growth all the way through the end of June. And that should be it. >> Any questions or comments from the board? If not, I make a motion we approve the financial report as presented. Is there a second? All those in favor? I. That passes.
091I make a motion we adjourn the meeting. Is there a second? All those in favor? I. Meeting adjourned. Thank you all for coming.