001good even good evening Welcome to our third budget meeting I'm now going to turn over to our assistant do you want to say the Pledge oh theed please stand for the pledge iedge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all well good evening everybody and as Dr senak said here we are at our budget advisory committee meeting number three this evening so thank you all for coming and thank you those at home that are participating so tonight's agenda we got a few things to review um some of them you've seen before some are new and we're just going to go through some challenges the end of you know how we're dealing with this budget things
002that we're dealing with and things we have to incorporate into the process and of course we'll talk about what's on the ballot so if you miss a presentation you want to go back to one on our website all of our budget information which is the PowerPoint presentations that we do here the recordings of the meetings and as we get closer to the budget vote we'll be posting a lot of additional information that we required to post um are on our budget page so if you go from our main page from the Board of Ed page uh you'll see the budget information page and then in the budget information page we have both the current year that we're working on which is 25 26 which we've been talking about for a couple weeks and if you
003want to look back at last year's as a comparison that's up there too our timeline there you see right in the middle circled in green um budget meeting number three uh for folks that are on our committee that are not able to be here tonight if they prefer to come uh we do have another meeting next Tuesday at 1:30 uh and then after that the actual budget committee meeting part of the process is over but we still invite our budget advisory committee to come to the rest of the meetings on April 8th uh we will present another presentation and and request that the board adopt the budget and also on that night one of the required filings we're supposed to do with the budget process is the property tax report card uh so we'll ask
004the board to approve that so that I can then file it on the State Education website on May 13th is our budget hearing and most importantly May 20th is our budget vote so we hope you all go out and vote so you'll remember this from last time in our when we look at our expenditure budget there are three components the administrative and the capital we reviewed last month and tonight we're going to go into the program component and I'm not going to go in as deeply as I normally would uh because after me Mrs karuso is going to have a wonderful presentation which has a lot more detail and information about our program part of the budget so just to give you an idea you know this information for me is you know regular stuff
005I do this every day I know what all these things are but sometimes you look at something and what does that mean what what are items that are budgeted under these codes so this is the program component which is the largest part of our budget and it should be because that's why we're here we're here to educate kids so you'll see we have instruction general education special education summer instructional programs and under each one I put a little bit of information about what you'll see budgeted in those codes also under the program component library media Services instructional technology pupil Personnel Services and co-curricular services and again all of these codes include salaries um supplies contractual Services various things that go into supporting all these different types of services throughout our district Transportation employee benefits that
006covers all the benefits that our employees are eligible for their health their Dental um workers comp is covered under here Social Security which we are this the district are required to pay a portion toward all of our employees that's based on their salary unemployment Etc Debt Service and interfund transfers which in this case for the purposes of the program component refers to the uh transfer to the special Aid summer tuition fund uh we are required as a district to fund a portion of the summer program and the state funds the balance of it uh but we do have to transfer apart from our general fund you'll remember last month we in the capital portion we had the interfund transfer for the transfer to Capital which is when we transfer money from the general fund for
007the capital projects and that's included in that component so I just want to make that distinguishing uh set here so when we report the budget and you'll see this again this is right now we're still working on the budget we're still you know cutting back where we can we're reviewing Staffing for next year so this is kind of a work in progress and I did this because what we are required to report are the three components of our budget so you'll see right now the largest component of our budget and again like I said is it should always be the largest is the program and that's 79.6 2% the 99.3% is our ad and then 11.08% is our Capital which is all our facilities our you know faciliity staff um all the supplies and contracts
008so you'll see again the largest part is program and the other two are relatively similar in number I included this slide U my predecessor did this slide last year um to give you a breakdown of the some of the bigger areas of our budget so um instead of doing the three components this is broken looking down into the chunks of what's the largest thing so you'll see salary benefits those are things that are really out of our hands per se you know the contractual agreements we have with our staff Drive what comes you know into that part of the budget every year so you see that's almost 80% and compared to last year it was 79.9 6% equipment you see that little tiny red sliver there is 0.25% last year we were at 0.19% so
009very close in the number there as well our Contra Contract Services and supplies you can see there 11.97% last year were at 10.98 bosis 5.4 last year we were 5.13 Debt Service 2.85 last year was 3.01 and our interfund transfers same number both of your as [Music] 73 and I will update this when we finalize the budget I'll put this into next month's presentation when we present all of the final revenue and expenditure numbers just to give you an idea of where we land Mar what was last year's Bose SE five 5.19 uh 5.13 5.13 so some things when talking about the budget process and things we need for the upcoming school year um we've added some things into our budget and some of most of these here you'll see are in the program part
010of the budget except for the grounds keeper um we've added a foreign language teacher a psychologist for Old Mill Road a nurse that will float around the district and support our current nurses a groundskeeper we've also budgeted for a new Social Studies curriculum that we're reviewing right now and in hopes that we pick something uh that we can implement we put money into the budget to pay for that as well and a corrective reading program so now the fun part the challenge that we face with the budget um you've heard a lot of talk in the media uh about the state aid and the foundation Aid study that was done a couple of months ago um with covid we saw some increases um you know with grants and whatnot um in the last couple of
011years the state finally made districts whole with their Foundation Aid so we saw kind of a bump in Foundation Aid in the last couple years which is now leveled off um there's a lot of uncertainty with the new Administration that there's things being said in the media and people think one way or another what are the changes that are going to happen from the federal government government and how are those really going to impact us there's a lot of people saying a lot of things so there's a lot of uncertainty out there um Dr senak and I went to a lunch in on on uh breakfast on Friday um where they were talking about this and some of our assembly men were there and women and they said to us you know if there is
012a a halt in some of the federal funding and say like our title grants or our um IDE grants that the state does not have money to backfill those holes so you know there's a lot of talk we don't know what's going to happen and I don't want to panic but you know you have to kind of think in the back of your mind what will we do if something's not funded next year uh so we're keeping an eye on what's going on and hoping for the best um and again all of our covid monies are expended uh so we're glad CO's over uh but you know we would like them to keep giving us that money but unfortunately they won't so uh one of the things they did say with Foundation made in the
013current budget the minimum amount that was given to districts was 2% some of our assembly people are lobbying in you know with their colleagues when they put out the legislative budget to perhaps incl increase that to 4% uh which they said if they looked at all the districts that just got a 2% increase and bumped them to a 4% increase it would only cost the state on $18 million um so we're hoping that they do that because every penny every dollar that we can get from the state is less we will ask our taxpayers for so what's on the ballot so prop one which you'll see every year is our our school budget uh you'll also note this year that we have three members of our board uh up for election uh with three-year terms
014on the docket proposition two is the creation of a new capital reserve we talked about that last month uh where we've asked the board to approve and they did with last month's meeting to put on our ballot the uh creation of a new capital reserve and that is so we can start saving and planning for future projects looking at what the district needs are now and into the future and starting to save for that and the reason we use a capital reserve is because we don't want to incur Debt Service um and the expense if we did a an election outside of the regular election you know there's a lot of fees involved with getting the machines and advertising and whatnot um so what our thought process is is to try to save as we
015go through the years and plan at the same time prop three an expenditure from the capital reserve that was created in 2019 uh so this is on tonight's agenda for the board to review and approve uh we're requesting a $1.3 million withdrawal from the reserve to replace the roof at Camp Avenue School um it's you know all of our roofs are getting towards the end of life uh so we're trying to be proactive do it before something really bad happens um and making sure that the rofes are under a warranty uh so Camp Avenue would be our first and you know when we asked the board last month uh for prop two the other two Gres are in our minds as well so we will be that would be part of the future projects that
016we plan going forward and I'll answer any questions you may [Music] have the corrective reading program which grades does that include is it only K is it only primary K3 or is it okay is there any possibility that we could have a corrective for any for for General edged students as well especially our kids you know that you know didn't get the reading instruction during the covid years sure that's part of what our Benchmark um phonics and steps to advance program the steps to advance program in grades 2 to six really deals with those struggling readers um so we have that as uh you know a support um and then we're also going to be talking a little bit about examining our literacy programs in the upper grades as well okay great I'm excited about
017it too it's actually my my you know culminating reveal um so I'll rush through everything else to get to that stealing your thunder kate'll be much more all right I'll try I'll try [Laughter] all right good evening I may not have any surprises uh up my sleeve anymore but I am proud and honored to be here this evening to share what we've worked on in the areas of curriculum and instruction in the north mer School District during the 2425 school year thus far and as you'll see this evening planning for the upcoming school year is an ongoing process and does not happen overnight I would be remiss if I did not accept my gratitude to the team for the foundations and planning that they've put in place during the 23 24 school year to set
018North America up for success and Achieve our goals during the 2425 school year now let's take an in-depth look at the programs we supported this year and our plans for change in the years to come this past school year we continued to thrive in our efforts to support the academic and social emotional growth of our students as well as their mental health and wellness we will begin with an overview of our literacy initiatives we brought into our classrooms this year which in many cases support or extend the initiatives that we began during the 23 24 school year this year we continue to expand our resources and programs that furthered our commitment to the explicit instruction of foundational literacy skills in our classrooms we continued our recommitment to foundations in grades K to2 and new this
019year we brought level three foundations to third grade classrooms foundations is a research-based explicit Hands-On multi-sensory approach to teaching phonics and reading we continue to support our implementation of the hegr phic awareness program in all K to2 classrooms which began last year as well as heger bridge the gap in AIS that's used in the upper grades heg phic awareness is an instructional program designed to develop foundational pheic awareness skills in Young Learners it consists of daily structured lessons that focus on recogn in and manipulating individual sounds or phones in spoken language the program typically includes activities such as blending segmenting and manipulating sounds as well as rhyming and syllable segmentation exercises new this year we implemented Benchmark phonics in AIS grades K to2 Support classes and steps to advance in grades 2 to6 AIS Support
020classes Benchmark programs offer a structured literacy approach with an emphasis on explicit instruction of phonics vocabulary content knowledge language fluency and comprehension all of these programs directly support the New York State shift in literacy the P3 literacy initiative and The Swinging of the pendulum back to explicit instruction of foundational literacy skills we continued with our literacy committee this year made up of teachers from all grade levels including enl and special education teachers as well as all of our principles this year the committee was instrumental in putting out a literacy survey to the community analyzing the survey results and identifying actionable items to move forward with to further support our literacy instruction they continue to review our current literacy programs and curricula to identify strengths and see where our needs are one area that was identified
021was providing materials for explicit grammar instruction in the upper grades the committee reviewed several options and made a recommendation which was reviewed at each districtwide grade level articulation meeting and was finalized for implementation during the 2526 school year last summer our sixth grade teachers worked with Miss Trish dosi a consultant from literacy matters to develop a launching unit for writing as well as a new writing unit on realistic fiction this replaced the previous unit on personal narrative fifth grade teachers were so inspired by the work of the sixth grade teachers that they formed a collegial circle through North Merck teacher Center and began similar revisions to the fifth grade writing units during superintendent conference day in August Massi provided a two-hour professional development session to all K to 6 teachers on incorporating high impact practices
022in writing instruction new this past fall our K to2 teachers received decodable readers that our lit literacy committee researched and recommended during the 2324 school year to start the 2425 school year teachers received the kits which focus on building skills related to phonics and pheic awareness teachers received support at all at grade level articulation meetings to facilitate adding this tool to their toolkit and now on to science this past summer teachers from grades three to five served as curriculum writers and focused on science lessons they worked with science consultant Dr Emily Kang to write unit plan that embed National Geographic as well as well as other highlevel Interactive Science practices aligned to the Next Generation science standards with programs such as generation genius and mystery science which support the shifts and instruction and the fifth
023grade assessment which was new last year on superintendent's conference day this past August Dr Kang provided a 2-hour professional development session regarding the shifts and instruction and assessment in science sence to all K to6 teachers the session gave teachers practical handson experience with embedding science and engineering practices and crosscutting Concepts into their lessons teachers were tasked with planning lessons with the mindset that students are doing the sense making around a phenomenon formulating daily science instruction in this way best prepare students in grades 3 to six to participate in the required New York State investigations Circle of Life Light It Up cloud in a bottle what's in a bag and all mixed up we continue our instruction with our Savas program for math we also enhance our math instruction withl ISL is a digital tool that's
024aligned with the nwaa benchmarks in math and additionally first in math is a mathematics program funded by a New York state Grant designed design to strengthen students problem solving and fluency skills through engaging interactive digital activities it aligns with state standards and provides students with individualized practice while promoting math confidence and critical thinking the program supports teachers by offering data to track progress and areas for improvement encouraging both in class and atome participation for both support and enrichment our curriculum advisory committee continues to focus on social studies this year we discuss the social studies practices and framework at each grade level meeting and analyze the similarities between the New York State Next Generation Ela standards and the New York State social studies framework we're also piloting three social studies programs for possible adoption next school
025year pilot participants have engaged in professional development from their respective Publishers to encou to ensure that they're maximizing the experience of their students with the available resources we look forward to the recommendations from our teachers as we move forward with the next [Music] steps points of Pride as social emotional learning and mental health and wellness are always our main priority we continue the many programs we already have in place such as mindfulness clubs mindful ambassadors mindful mentors and the use of com boxes in all classrooms this year we continue to incorporate responsive classrooms in our school with training 30 additional teachers spanning grades 2 3 Library ANL music reading and special education responsive classrooms addresses both social emotional and academic competencies in our students it is an approach to teaching and learning that emphasizes creating
026a positive engaging and respectful classroom environment through morning meetings closing circles rules and logical consequen es interactive modeling positive teacher language and guided Discovery through these strategies students feel safe engaged and valued this year our principles also attended professional development to support our teachers and bring the message of responsive classroom to The Wider School Community additionally we held two mindfulness and wellness retreats one for students and families grades K to2 and one for those in grades 3 to six during these evening Retreats families engaged in mental health and wellness activities such as yoga Zumba painting and crafts we also continued our nights to connect program once a month encouraging families to connect with each other through family activities and disconnecting from homework and studying we had one just last night we absolutely love receiving all
027of the pictures from our families taking time out to spend time together on these nights in addition to the academic p Pilots we had social and emotional learning based Pilots running in each building this year as well omr and Camp Avenue focused on Mental Health and Wellness with Omar's Project Help and Camp Avenue's self-esteem workshop for girls which is planned for later this spring Omar's Project Help paired sixth grade Leaders with third graders where the sixth graders served in a mentoring capacity Project Help was such a success that it will be running in all three buildings this coming fall at HDM our Focus was Service as we know that service to the community is not only a point of Pride but makes us feel good when we make a difference in the world around us
028fayet piloted our paper recycling program reinforcing good decisions to be environmentally conscious our student council members at fayet are active leaders in this initiative which is already started in the other two schools my big reveal in in addition to continuing with responsive classrooms our literacy committee supporting the implementation of new grammar books turning our attention to literacy instruction in the upper grades for review and acting on the results of our social studies Pilots we have several brand new initiatives for the 25 26 school year we've seen that our students have a wider range of needs than ever before as a district North Merck is committed to supporting the whole child their academic social and emotional well-being to that end we're adding another school psychologist to our robust mental health Team to support kids and families
029in North Marica we are also thrilled to announce that we plan to introduce Spanish classes for all students in the 2526 school year we will adjust the we will adjust the schedule for Library specials in order to do this library is currently a full year special that students attend once in a six- day cycle instead of Library all year students will have Library one semester once in a Six-Day cycle and Spanish the other semester once in a six- day cycle it's important to note that while formal Library classes will be for one semester teachers can bring their classes to the library for book checkout and browsing throughout the entire year and to make learning Spanish even more engaging classes will be held in the library implementation will require that we connect language learning with cultural
030exploration and activities and most importantly research it's the best one you heard at that time right the third time the charm the potential for these initiatives is exciting and the leadership team is truly looking forward to the opport opportunity to support them but before we move on to the 2526 school year we would like to take a few moments to celebrate some highlights from this current school year thank you so much to all of the principles for their support and putting this together and to Dr talbet Who put her technology supervisor hat back on to make this video come to life [Music] what do you see I see chop looking at me chop CH what do you [Music] see happy Monday welcome back take a look over at the message as Mr Barton points at
031it we're going to read about what we're doing today in PE so starting at the top and if you look at the blue word that's highlighted we have the word ready because in the month of March we are working on showing that we are ready whether we're in PE class we in the classroom we're in the hallway we are ready when you're ready you are prepared [Music] [Applause] a lot of exciting things going on this year and planning for next year a lot of things are being enriched and enhanced and there's some new things as well so we're really looking forward to a new school year but we're really also looking forward to ending this school year on such a positive high note any questions about the curriculum and instruction in North Amica from Miss
032karuso that's [Laughter] covered it all all right so that concludes our third budget meeting of this school year and really looking forward to this spring and all of our wonderful events and we have a little bit of a break now our public Board of Education meeting begins at 7M thank you allk9 thank you e e e she is doing the Bingo wheel uh looking forward to getting that behind us and sending out the numbers to all 136 people's families who registered for a upk spot for next year our summer programs we've advertised our scope program we will will be advertising another program uh our uh summer wreck program through JCC um scope is in the morning at Old Mill for four weeks 8:30 to 12:30 and we will be offering JCC wck program from 12:30
033to 3 at Old Mill parents were asking for a full day for their children especially our working parents so more to come on that we also have our reading program here at f our extended school year our Theater Arts our music program our enl program so it looks like we'll have another vibrant summer here in North Merck parent teacher conferences will be held March 19th next week from 12: to 7 and don't forget about our International Day of happiness in all of our buildings and all of our schools on March 20th so lot going on looking forward to the spring tired just listening a lot of good things happening thank you Dr CC I have a motion to approve our routine approvals listed on the agenda 3A through 3C motion to approve by Will second
034by Tracy all in favor motion passes unanimously any public comments on agenda items only public comments agenda items only um I have a motion to pass um yes we have I'm sorry come on [Laughter] down noit no wait thank you I justed to and know y hold on what's I'm sorry just so we can hear it on the website but no one else can okay okay you got it uh I'm Ana rman I've been here a few times before um we are here today A lot of members from the community couldn't make it it's the time to open the fast and it's exactly like around this time so unfortunately they could not join um but I know that we are voting on the calendar today and uh we just wanted to know if on the
035proposed calendar uh that either other holiday is included um and you know just where we stand with that sure uh on this calendar it is not included um the board decided not to uh we talked about it at length um we are going to look to do a process who spoke with legal counsel who can speak to that but we're looking to put a process in place uh to create a policy um to deal with this exact issue about giving days off because there's a lot of uh holidays that are coming uh around that we need to uh consider um so the board wants to just we feel comfortable that we need to create a process because we did this a few years ago um and there really hasn't been a process in place so
036um we did speak with Council uh the board unanimously has uh discussed this and thought this was the best legal way to uh to proceed and to make sure that we have uh a policy that we follow going forward for any any uh additional days off that should be considered whether it's from the community or uh just anything going forward that any requests so I'm going to ask uh Council if you'd like to say a few words on that or did I say enough I said okay so thank you okay am I allowed to respond or I mean we're on my side sure sure I mean I just want to say you know we've been coming here for quite some time now I me my daughter is six years old uh now I started this
037before she was even born um so it's it's I know there's been other holidays that have been approved but I can tell you that there have been members in our community who have shown up since then I understand that either othera is now part of the uh you know coming into the school year but when we had originally petitioned for it it was one of the items that we were had petitioned for so it is a little frustrating I know that the high school has done it other elementary schools have done it um in this in this district and they found a made a way to make it work um so it is frustrating and you know it is a little upsetting um just because we feel like it took us so long to get
038to this point and it still feels like we have to keep coming back and now we hear that there has to be a procedure for it when didn't that wasn't the case before I just want to respond first of all there are other districts in uh in in the area that have not have voted similarly not to include it and we're not saying we're not going we're includ we're saying we're not going to include it next year um we want to build out a process and and have something uniform and standard going forward um so we're not saying we're never going to do it we're saying we're not on this calendar that we're voting on tonight it's not going to be included and I appreciate your comment thank you thank you there any other uh
039comments on public agenda um agenda items only public comments right I have a motion to approve 5 A through five I I listed on the agenda motion second by Steve all in favor a motion to appr uh approve 6A or personal action report by seconded by Cathy all in favor motion carries um a motion to approve 7A and 7 B by Mary second by Tracy all in favor motion carries report of our committee Mr yeah report okay at our March 5th Central High School Board of Education meeting uh we discussed the budget and the high school budget Levy will be an increase of 2.82% levying increase with a 3.30 budget to budget increase at this meeting we honored the bowling team and rifle teams and those are districtwide as they were both County Champions we
040had a report uh discussing Narcan training for all our seniors the Calhoun newspaper hoof beats and the Kennedy newspaper the cougar crier both won first place in a national school newspaper competition and also with districtwide club uh the students were producing anti-anxiety bags for children at the local hospitals and that's my report um our school community relations PTA Council PTA yes um just bear with me some of the some of the schools have so much going on it's going to be hard for me to talk fast and get through it all um Camp Avenue February 7th and 27th were Sports nights February 26th was the science fair the February 28th was the book fair um March 3rd the plan sale began um online only and it ends on April 1st March 7th was International night
041um all everything awesome upcoming events uh tomorrow night is the PTA meeting it's a zoom um Islander game tickets um the ticket sales close uh on I think it's Wednesday I think it's Wednesday tomorrow the ticket sales closed for The Islander game I need clarification here I'm sorry I don't have it I was at we were at District Council too and I um I missed this note but uh it says here Islander games tickets close on Wednesday um talent show which is May 9th the first rehearsal is April 2nd from 2:50 to 4:30 amazing athletes began on March 2nd chess club is going from April 2nd to June 4th uh drama club is also happening Spirit Weare ended on the 28th bowling was March 2nd um other fundraisers Danny's Chinese Kitchen um and March 19th
042um night of the parent teacher conference that's when I think The Islander game is and I think that the ticket sales I think it's tomorrow but check that out um fyed Prismatic magic visited uh fet on February 12 to celebrate Black History Month science fair judging is March 12th and the awards will be given at their PTA meeting on March 26th um International night was the seventh and they just they had a great night um on at International night it was their first one and it was fantastic um thank you to our 15 hcf families that hosted a table International happiness day is March 20th mad science will visit fet for an exciting Fire and Ice science assembly the New York Islanders are scheduled to visit fyat on April 11th for a pep rally the
043um the PTA installation dinner is already schedules for June 11th at 6: p.m. at lastrada pickle ball game club podcast Club chess club drama club and amazing athletes are all running smoothly our annual PL sale pre-order has begun and will run through April 4th plants will be available for pickup on May 8th the Scholastic Book Fair is set to come to fet on uh March 18th um and actually then the parents it's going to stay open uh for parent teacher conferences on the 19th so the parents can also buy books um and bingo night is scheduled for April 3rd the school supply sale is set to begin April 1st Ready set go is scheduled for April 24th and May 13th and as I said earlier the next PTA meeting is March 26th in person okay
044Old Mill Road um March 20th there's going to be lead you anniver uh assembly which is on happiness day lots of Happy happy activities happening on happiness day um also March 20th is the Shamrock dance from 6:00 to 815 in the omr gym and cafeteria fundraisers include um march yesterday March 10th and tomorrow at Super fry March 20th there's Olive oliv it floral floral shop March 28 good life fundraiser and uh $120 donation will be available for winners of the science fair um Mrs Duca also asked for decorations to be no donated for the science fair as well for anyone who can donate SEPTA Dave and Busters their big fundraiser is March 18th um it's by far SEPTA's biggest fundraiser ticket sales are a little slow this year um so they're talking about why that
045is but um it's it's a great fundraiser they have great Raffles so um even if you could send money with friends who are going if you can't go um because the the Raffles are their are where they make their money for their fundraiser um and uh April 24th they've invited a speaker to discuss children with anxiety issues children and parents um to discuss we've invited a speaker on April 24th to discuss children with anxiety issues with parents so sorry a lot to get out there so a lot of great things happening with the ptas and already planning fun day in June and the end of year dinners and all that good stuff so hard to believe the whole that sorry Carter you're up thanks thank you um so over the February break it was amazing
046how much work got done over the two days over the February break uh the Hall's getting uh waxed the amount of painting that got done small projects that maintenance was able to knock out uh again I want to thank my Crews for their uh their hard work and uh getting a lot done in a little bit of time uh we brought all this theater art stuff over to Brookside for Shrek Jr the musical which is going to be outstanding uh one of the um one of my crew one of the uh buildings and grounds guys is going to be on the set design again uh James Forte who was also a an Alum of the program so that's pretty cool um we've been doing a lot of work orders I mean there's nothing exciting really
047going on but just the work orders keep pouring in small things cabinets breaking uh locks breaking and uh the guys just they're on it they're they're they're done in a day and uh that's our work order system really uh emphasizes how much they do I mean we're up to like 600 something work orders uh in in uh you know less than a year so they come in they get done and and they get knocked out and my guys are just really the work they do is impressive um and all of or at least most of what Mrs Keane is saying uh all these events these great International night and sports night they all require setups and knockdowns just like tonight you know this is a big setup a big knockdown everything gets moved around and
048the guys are just knocking it out they really are every night there's a set up for music and then before gym starts it's knocked down so again kudos to my guys for just always keep you know they keep going they they're doing it for uh you know for the kids obviously and uh they're doing an amazing job any Communications yeah we received one communication it was responded to great thank you any unfinished business new business any public comments on anything and that note I'm going to ask for a motion toj nice see you you too you yes hopefully spring is coming