001Okay. Can I get a motion to public? I oppose. We are back in public session. Let's go to the next item on the agenda, our public comments. I'm guessing people want to speak, so let me just call the ground rules. Again, uh board of education encourages public participation on school related matters and board meetings. Appreciate your interest involvement in our school district. In order to accommodate all members of the public who wish to speak during the public comment period, board ask that the following procedures be followed. Persons wishing to address the board shall state their name and or organization. Presentation should be as brief as possible. Maximum time allowed is generally three minutes will be granted to speaker. All speakers are to conduct themselves in a civil manner. Board could not permit public discussion involving
002individual district personnel or students. We'd like your feedback, but we cannot permit employee matters to be discussed in public sessions either positive or negative. uh persons wish to discuss matters involving district personnel should present their comments and or concerns to the board statement. Um you can submit those through Jane our board clerk. Uh the board generally does not address specific questions respond to specific concerns from about public at the meeting versus with specific questions should address their questions. Mrs. Fox schools president shall be responsible for the orderly conduct of the meeting and shall rule on matters such matters as the time be allowed for public discussion and the appropriateness for the subject being presented. President shall have the right to discontinue any make public comments that violate this policy. Would anyone from the public like
003uh speak to after I read that? Somebody better. Good evening. My name is Sarah Shatra. Currently, I am a third grade general education teacher at Petrova Elementary and a building representative for the Sarin Lake Teachers Association. I'm here this evening to share some words from my colleague and friend Lisa Parent, AIS teacher at Petrova Elementary. Here's what she asked me to read. Thank you for this opportunity to share my thoughts. Being born and raised in this beautiful mountain town, Sarin Lake has always and will have my heart. Pardon me. has and always will have my heart and be a huge part of me. I truly loved my childhood and know who I am because of the community and the people who live here. After graduating from Sunni Potam, I left and moved to Colorado for
0045 years and Vermont for eight. No matter where else I lived, no place compared to home and the people who live here, especially my family. After coming across the ferry as often as we could and debating for years if we should move our family back to Sarin Lake last July my husband and I made the decision to move home to raise our two babies with the same quality upbringing that we had. This school year I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work in my previous elementary school doing what I love teaching students. Every day I was in awe of how hard staff and administration worked to make every child feel seen and loved even in the toughest moments. I was reminded how lucky I was to have this experience growing up and I
005was thankful I can give back to our community in the same way. Unfortunately, due to budget cuts and unsettling times in education, even though I'm certified in three areas, my position was eliminated for next year. As heart-wrenching as this outcome is, I'm thankful for the opportunity to have worked at Petrova this year, and I'm hopeful this is not the end of my journey at Sarin Lake School District. Sarin Lake will always have my heart, and I look forward to the time when I'm able to give back again to the students the way my teachers did. Thank you for your time. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. Good evening board members. My name is Janelle Bennett. I'm a member of the Sarin Lake Teachers Association Executive Committee. I am here this evening to read a letter to
006the board of education written by a teaching faculty member titled Imagine. Imagine you are an alumni of Sarinac Lake Central School District. After attending Boseies for kindergarten, Petrova Elementary School, Bloomingdale, Sarinac Lake Middle School, and Sarinac Lake High School, you are one of the few students who was a part of every building in the district. Imagine you never remember feeling like a number during your school career. In fact, you have core memories of teachers who helped you to become the person you are. In high school, your 11th grade ELA teacher pushed you into AP English after you got a 99 on the regents. Your math teacher tutored you and treated you like an equal, even though you didn't feel as though you were due to a learning disability. Your OAS teacher helped you to find
007your voice. Your resource room teacher helped you to understand that the supports you were receiving would help you with all aspects of your life. Imagine those teachers are why you became a teacher. Imagine a teaching job in the only home you have opens up. Imagine you are hired for this position you applied for and your dreams have come true. You begin to change lives. You see monumental academic and life improvements in yourself and your students. Imagine you continue to stay in touch with the students throughout their lives and thrive on their successes because they are not just a number. Imagine you love the community you are in and the school community that you are a product of. Your picture still hangs in the high school from previous photography classes. Imagine proudly displaying your red letter
008award, your high school diploma, and graduation tassel in your classroom. Imagine proudly boasting that you were the president of your senior class and you were voted most school spirit as your superlative. Imagine you create a successful sports program for local children and adults. You finally find housing locally partially because your reputation as a Sarinac Lake school district teacher. You win the NBC5 school superstar award after being nominated by parents. Imagine in the end after 13 years as a student who has never felt like a number due to the outstanding support from educational staff, you become a part of that staff and then are cut due to budget issues and you have officially just become a number after all. Thank you for your time. Anyone else? Uh, good evening everyone. My name is Karen Beimis and
009I currently serve as the co-president of the Sarinac Lake Teachers Association. I teach sixth grade ELA and I am a parent of two boys in the district. On behalf of the SLTA, I want to express our sincere gratitude for your ongoing dedication and service to the students, families, and staff within the district. I am addressing you this evening to discuss the anticipated staffing reductions that will impact our association members and the quality of the educational experiences we can provide for our students. A net reduction of nine SLTA positions, which is 5.73% of our membership, is anticipated due to two retirements, one resignation, and six potential layoffs in the proposed budget, partially offset by three anticipated TA placements. With potentially only three SLTA positions left unfunded, we respectfully request that you seriously consider fully funding these
010crucial remaining positions in the 202526 budget. While we acknowledge the ongoing financial challenges faced by the district and appreciate your dedication to fiscal responsibility, these salaries can be preserved by utilizing a percentage of unassigned reserve funding, anticipated state grants, and anticipated federal funding. When a teacher or TA leaves our district, we lose more than just a number. These professionals are the heart of our classrooms, shaping our students and enriching our school community. They dedicate their time to coaching our sports team, leading our clubs, managing our weight room, and frequently step in to support administrators by filling various needs. Losing even one member diminishes the quality of education and weakens our district's foundation. Beyond our school campus, these professionals are deeply invested in Sarin Lake. They work diligently to become homeowners. They raise their families and
011enroll their children in our district. They dine in our local restaurants and shop in our downtown stores. They support youth sporting events, plays, and performances. And they even march in our parades. If declining enrollment is the primary driver for the reduction in teaching staff, it seems logical there would be a corresponding potential for reduced administrative needs as well. Including Superintendent Fox, our district employs eight total administrators across four buildings. During my early years in the district, enrollment was higher with fewer administrators. In fact, my principal, while at Lake Clear, effectively shared responsibilities between Lake Clear and Bloomingdale School floating between buildings. To align with our projected budget, we ask that you explore potential efficiencies like this example provided in the district's administrative structure. In closing, we implore you to reconsider the situation of the three
012remaining SLTA members who currently lack alternative placement. The declining enrollment trend, which forces budget cuts and teaching position reductions, threatens educational quality. This in turn discourages families from moving to our community community, jeopardizing its future. To break this negative feedback loop, we must prioritize maintaining educator positions, even when faced with financial pressures. Investing in our teachers is the key to sustaining a highquality educational environment that will not only best serve our current students, but also attract more families, ultimately stabilizing our budget and fostering long-term growth for this incredible, decidedly different place we call home. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. U my name is Ellen Yaoy. I'm a retired teaching assistant and a member of Sarin Lake teachers association and also at one time I was on the budget advisory committee that the board used
013to have in the early 2010s. U the budget advisory committee was implemented around the time New York State implementated implemented the tax cap and the gap elimination adjustment. We acted in an advisory role and would make recommendations of areas the district could save money. The committee consisted of all stakeholder groups which consisted of community members, union representatives, board members, superintendent and business manager. We would meet monthly going over different parts of the budget with the hopes of fresh eyes and different perspectives would find ways to keep cost down. Considering the financial constraints facing the district, I believe it might be a prudent and beneficial step to reinstate the budget advisory committee. Such a committee would allow for increased transparency and collaborative decision-making, ultimately enabling us to make the best possible decisions for our students, our
014dedicated staff, and the Sarin Lake Central School District as a whole. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Thank you. Next agenda item is the uh financial report. So, there are several um budget transfers this time as we move things around to cover the costs of um additional substitutes this time of year and a few um just for like athletics and a few minor things. But there are two that are over the $10,000 limit. uh one specifically is to cover substitute teachers and teaching assistance for payroll at the high school and the other other one is to cover a repair to the in flooror lift the bus garage. We're moving it from equipment purchase to a repair budget line. Um so I would ask for a resolution 095. Okay. Resolution 095 2024
015approving the current budgetary transport as presented by the school business executive. Motion please. Second. Any discussion? Those in favor? I oppose. Resolution is approved. Thank you. Um and the budget status report, the transfers and the weekly warrants are saved on the share drive. Um just like every every week. The next item I have is our fiscal reserve plan. It's the same um sorry it's page four. It's the same handout I had at our last meeting. I just wanted to highlight the actual plans that we have and then ask for the resolutions be forward. I will point out that the 2025 2026 plan specifically for the capital reserve fund and the transportation um and maintenance equipment reserve is the current plan assuming the propositions that we have on the table are both approved to continue these
016reserve funds. Um and so we don't have a plan to withdraw any funds from any of our reserves except for the transportation um for those buses that are also so I don't know how detailed if you want to just dive right into questions resolution Yeah, we can do that. So, resolution 096 reserve 256 district motion second. Any discussion? No discussion. Ellen Yazi asked a good question at the end of our last meeting about what happens if the reserve plans are not approved again. Um we reached out I'm going to get this wrong who answered our question for us. So, I reached out to our financial advisors and um our attorney who wrote the propositions and uh basically if the resolutions or I'm sorry, the propositions are not approved, those funds remain where they are and
017then we would have to they would just sit until we voted again next year to continue using them for that purpose because that's the purpose that they've been assigned. capital reserve funds and the transportation. So we would not be able to add to them, but we wouldn't be able to shift them. Reserves are unallocated. So it would just it would just we could use it for we could use it for what its original intention was in that year in between the well we we would have to yeah we' be able to use what's already in those funds with voter approval right and those and voter approval is strictly limited for every single one of those funds or Sorry, the intention of every one of those funds. We can't just move money between funds, right? Correct.
018Things those funds are approved by the voters for specific things, right? Sorry, that's okay. I'll get it. I think we got to that is correct. Yes. Okay. Any more discussion? Those in favor? Any opposed? The resolution is approved. So the next um resolution on the agenda is for hearing seven to approve the school budget in the amount of the 38,100,000. There have been um no changes since our last discussion. Can I get a motion on 0974 second discussion? One question. Go ahead. I have a question. So, we have a total amount here, but we just talked about the reserve. This money don't get shipped around. So, we did some tonight, right? That's correct. So, the board is approving a total budget amount. We always share the details and share the the line items with the
019public, but sometimes they do shift around. Okay. So, we basically approved the total pie money, correct? And you get to sp um any federal money we did not is never in the budget and we made sure that any um anybody who would have been paid under a federal grant is in the budget. So, nobody's at risk of changes should that money not, you know, come our way. What happens when the money does come our way? Will we be able bonus? As we started talking with forecast number one, our goal was to drop back down to what we did for many years, which was to use the unappropriate unappropriated fund balance around a million dollars because that we see as pretty sustainable as the as we move forward. Um Dale was not a plant, but you
020heard Dale say what we've been talking about. Some of these increases, this is a multi-year increase. And so we need to make sure that what we're using for our fund balance leaves us fund balance for next year and the year after and the year after. Um because we're we're going to be we're going to be looking at shortfalls at least for the next few years. Um, unless something who knew we'd be where we are today a year ago. So, who knows where we will be in a year, but we still have to plan out for what it looks like it's going to be in the future. Correct. Not. Correct. Correct. So, um, we increased the fund balance appropriation. We had originally talked about using about 1.1 million. We moved it up to using 1.5 million
021with the idea that if we received federal funds, we would actually to be able to not use that much of the fund balance. We just shift some of the corrupt salaries or what appropriate expenses to the federal and correct save those funds. And looking at the budget right down at the line 38, there's the Boseies. It's not it's not nothing. Correct. We made a lot of cuts in our Bose service this year. Yeah. Also, this health insurance number is bigger even than the first iterations, right? Just by a little bit. 700,000. Yes. We wandered through the salaries multiple times to make sure that the numbers that we have in front of you are accurate. We also had some changes in staffing from what we originally thought to what it looks like we're going to have.
022So the the change was minimal, but it just adjusts to who's actually in the plan. We will have some administrator retirey retiring and administrators retiring soon next year. So okay, so from a long-term projection, we'll be able to work those savings in as well. Correct. Okay. Anything else? I think I said this last time to you all when we were talking about this, but it's it's frustrating to have to react to these structural issues. I'm I'm sensitive to everything the teachers have said. As a former union member myself, I get it. Um, as somebody who moved here uh seven years ago because we wanted to live in this community, um, I am endlessly frustrated by the declining enrollment problem. And I want to say to this community like there's only so much we have control
023over at the school. And I think this community needs to have a serious conversation over whether we are an affordable and inclusive community or whether we are an unaffordable and exclusive community. And I think that that is a conversation that is bigger than the school. And I find us myself reacting to those long larger structural trends that are super super frustrating. Um none of it is made easier by the federal uncertainty that we're all swimming in right now. So I just want to say that we hear you. I hear you. Anyone else? Okay. All those in favor? Any opposed? All the resolutions approved. So the final resolution that I have takes both of those previous two um documents into consideration and puts them into our property tax report card that we have to report to
024the state. Um it's the same report card that we have every year just updated with this budget that you just approved with the um on the very last page you can see the funding there for the two buses and transportation proposition of our expected use. So I'm asking for that to be approved and I will get it submitted to the state. So resolution number 098 2024 will be the 25.6 Six property tax court second. All in favor? I opposed. Resolution is approved. Thank you. Thank you, Nikki. So, the uh next item on the agenda is the capital project update. So, our EPC work is uh picking up steam again. Started last week. working on interior lighting starting at putting in these switches to dimable lights and all energy efficient lighting. Uh the field right now
025we are working on the APA application requirements. It's a meeting tomorrow with Tim Bart and the APA talk about the lights. The lights are taller than the allowable uh height and so there's some work that needs to be done to look at um the effects of that. So, we're starting tomorrow to work on that. We're moving along on both. We would really like a drive, but not all the way, right? 60 foot. I think it's a 40 foot max. Yeah, I I know. I should have just turned that way. Yeah, that's where we are. Okay. Item B 2526 calendar change. So with the change in the dates for our winter carnival simply changes the Friday off and then we had 3601 days in the calendar and our 12 month contractable CSEA is a 360 work
026day. So the day that was given back to them, it is the day after Christmas, the 26th of December. Let's get on and then we'll ask questions. So that's resolution 099 2024 approving the amended 256 Central School District calendar. A motion second. Joe discussion. I just I have a question on the number of school days because I noticed on this year's calendar that we have regency exam week but then now there's those two other days and those are non student only in the high school the high school correct how does that work with our it seems like the regions is kind of spreading it it is and the number of how does that affect our number of days it it does not um for the state because region days count. So for the high school
027it does not affect our our our required number of days. Okay. We still have to meet never an easy answer. We still are required to meet the the 900 or the 990 hours of instruction and our region stay. We are gifted by the state 6.5 hours. Okay. But it does count as the school day in the 180 count. Okay. It just seems like we're picking more and more actual teaching days. Not week but yes you will notice next year however they are starting regences a little later in that week normally regions run a two full week and there's really needs they did they did get back that Monday and Tuesday yes what will be interesting is if we ever reach the point that they're heading towards which is not having those tests that would change
028the way we do our operations appointment. They're still going to offer them. The question will be how many students will be taking them and will it require? I can answer that. Max, you take the test. You don't have to. No, I would not take it. Good man. Well, we will deal with that when it when we get to that. I'm I'm happy to see that the changes that is making. Okay. Uh all those in favor I I any opposed? Resolution is approved. Item C under old business is the DOE expenditure discussion. Gina put together a list of our expenditures starting uh looking. Oh, this is all the same. No more. Yep. So the top is 2025. Okay. And that's the same budget code. So got and then this is a different budget code 2025. Right.
029Okay. Gotcha. Yeah. So we actually technically don't really have quote a budget to draw on. Um, but these come out of mother code. So, uh, we talked about our retreat last meeting a little bit and this comes in handy. I just want you at your convenience to kind of go over this and review uh, things that uh, are costing out based on what we asked for. And uh that way at some point in the future we're going to have to talk about um what we can do in some small part on our end to um reduce what our spending is. Even though it's it's virtually nil, it still is spending. So some of these are pretty big items that we have to we have to have. Yeah. There's control over policy maintenance policy maintenance membership.
030That's a big one. Yeah. No doubt. No doubt. But it's usually eye opening for new board members to see that we spend this kind of money because it just gets done for you, you know, like the memberships and stuff like that and but there's real cost associated with it. So, go ahead. I'm not I'm not good at math, so maybe someone can help me. But like if I if I take the amount that that annualized here down at the bottom which is like 20 grand and I put it against that 38 mil that we just collected for that's like again someone can check like 0.5% of the budget. Does that sound about right? Yeah. I think it just acknowledge that it doesn't Well, no. What I'm saying though is is like it I think there
031is an extent though that we want our board to be going to some of these things and we want as a district to spend money as board members to go and educate and go down to DC and to do those things too, right? So, I don't think my attention back to just be aware of what we actually spend. Sure. Not trying to be contrarian. just just also putting on public record that I understand that we spend money and we're trying to be careful about what kind of money we spend, but relative to the bigger picture, I would hope that the constituents would be supportive that as board members do invest in our education and growth so that we're able to provide better boarding. Yeah. And some of that, I guess, is all I'm saying. Especially
032the travel is Tori. I mean, we've been to all al um is there's not a lot of representation of small rural districts at the state level. And so, yeah. So, I would just second that. I think it's important that we advocate for ourselves in those spaces. So, I didn't but it is good it is good to be aware of what these things costs and I didn't realize our NIPA membership was that much. It's worth it. Yeah. I apologize, Mark. Wasn't trying to be like I said, you know, contrarian or anything. just agreeing um offering a different perspective on it. I think with the NIS I think actually seeing what the NISBA membership is is remembering that they're a resource like I I've called them more than once on questions and sometimes a person that happens
033to answer the phone can answer that question and other times I've gotten a call back an hour later from a policy attorney and they're like that's already you know I always I asked what does this cost no you call us anytime with policy that's service in this service and that's something I you know they always say make sure you know remind your board don't hesitate to call if you have questions or even if it's something odd I can't believe the special the specialties they have some of it I'll say what I can do some of the general stuff though I know when I've had especially with like policy and the legal and like how does this work or how does that work? They've been really great and we're already paying for it. Yeah, it's good.
034But but this like when we advocate on NISA's behalf, he's going down to Washington, NISBA doesn't pay for anything like we're we're helping them by being boots on the ground. We're subsidizing them more. They're helping us because I I have tried for three years to get uh appointments with some of these people and they get us the appointments. Basically, we're not advocating for NISBO, we're advocating for us. When I was in Washington and when I've been in Albany, I'm sitting right there going, a family in our district came to me, a middle class family that was over um you know, the triple numbers and this is the situation. So when I know when I'm there, I'm advocating for our kids. They're helping me get there. They made the appointments. They told us where to go.
035They gave us all kinds of stuff. But it's I mean I'm there for our kids. Yes. For the whole state, but when it comes right down to boots on the ground, I worry about our kids. Especially when I'm in a room with nine other board members and those nine other board members come from cities and I'm the only one there from a rural community. I'm definitely advocating for our kids. So I I do think we get our money's worth there. I agree. Anyone else? This is helpful. Thank you. Okay, moving on to reports. First report, I want to just acknowledge we were in the newspaper uh for uh creating healthy schools and communities program through the healthy heart network really was Pino um head for our district and they did activity cards, created activity cards
036for both the elementarymentaries. So, their options for healthy options for birthday celebrations and other celebratory events. It was a nice write up and it was very nice thing that they did that they were going to be well used. Um, testing, I I'm sure that Brian and Katie will talk a little about that maybe. No, I know what Amy's going to talk about tonight, so she's not going to talk about testing, but testing went exceedingly well. Uh, both days ELA testing. Um uh that is a complete lie. I was like waiting for my kids computer glitches not of our making um at the state level. I want to thank all the staff who were giving the test. The kids that were taking the test and a lot of stop and go both days. They promised us
037yesterday afternoon. it was all fixed today. You just go for it. And um that promise was not fulfilled, but I believe we did. We have a few students who are left to finish up because of the late start, but otherwise uh we're going to be going to be done with ELA and our fingers are crossed that they're going to fix their glitches before math time. So, um, you know, I talk about mean March all the time and it's turned into mean April because we've been together since January 5th, 6th, whatever day we came back without a break. And, um, we love each other, but you live in your house in this crappy weather this spring and we're all tired of each other. So, um, I hope everybody enjoys the break, even if their break is
038a break at home. Enjoy enjoy your time out and about the weather. It's going to be nice or we're going to at least pretend it's nice and get out, enjoy the the walking trail and some time outside and I look forward to seeing everybody back after the break. We're really counting down at that point 10 weeks. That's it. Thank you, Diane. Uh with our admin team, uh Amy, um list is short. We have Wow. thrown under the bus. It's okay. I can take it. Uh we had a wonderful successful um annual middle school dance called Under the Stars on Friday, April 4th. Uh the event was a wonderful celebration of our inclusive community and our school spirit. Out of our 279 students, 187 attended, making a strong turnout of over 67%. We did have some
039competition with the first night of the Minecraft movie. That's where we lost some kids. But our students enjoyed music, dancing, some refreshments. Uh it was filled with positive energy, excellent student behavior, high engagement, and a strong sense of camaraderie amongst our students. I'd like to thank Mrs. Carol and Mrs. Mali, our student council, and all of our chaperones who made the night memorable and safe for our students. Look forward to continuing this important tradition in years to come. There's talk of doing too next year, so hold on to your hats. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. I thought it was going to be long. No, no, that's it. It was a short one. Yeah, that's uh yes, state testing was an adventure, but what a great lesson in flexibility. Um and the kids really did well with
040all of the changes in the staff. So, I thank them. When we return from break, we'll have science and then we'll have math uh the week after. Tomorrow is our Bloomingdale monthly family movie night and Friday is our spring fling day with schoolwide activities. So, we're excited about that. Thanks, Kenny. Brian, I have two words on this uh sticky note. That's all I'm going to say about testing. More gray for sure. Um yeah, we won't get into it anymore. Um the only other thing I have is uh we had three members from the Rotary Club attend our Friday morning meeting uh last week um where they handed out a book to every student K through five. Um kids are always excited and this year we did it a little bit different. We actually handed the
041kids their books as they left the auditorium. So their hands were out and we're shuffling as fast as we can. Um but it was it was great. They've done that for many many years. Um, they did it again this year and it's just a a really nice thing they do for our students. That's all I have. Thank you, Brian. Suzanne, I attended the Essex County mental health summit uh today and the morning was really focused on um well obviously student mental health, but a lot of like the smartphone and how that's impacted our students past 10 years. and Jonathan hate's book on the anxious generation and uh they mentioned that um New York state legislation is probably is very likely to put a bell-to-bell ban on cell phones for students sometime in August or September
042um this coming August September and we shared you different districts shared what their policies were and I was happy to share that we seem to be ahead of the game with our no cell phone policy and I know you know, the different buildings have seen some positive impacts on our students for those who do have cell phones like Milan High School. Um, so they did ask about how we did it. We are in year two now. Um, and it was just felt good to say we're doing it. Rip the band-aid off. Just get it done. Don't worry about the what ifs. It's you're going to be fine. Um, so we were one of two school districts that were there that have implemented that so far. Bruce, we have nothing to report. We're leaving that mantis
043shoulders today. Erica, we had a $20,000 Monday in the community school world. So, we were awarded a $10,000 generous axe from the Aderondac Foundation to support Saturday's and our farmers market initiative. We received Yes. We received uh $7,500 from the New York State Parks to support uh 34 days of swim lessons from Bloomingdale School to Lake Holy Beach every single day. So, kids are in the water. And we received a $2,500 yay, we love you. Here's a gift to support your students in any way you see fit from a not local community member, but must have some ties some way. It was a fairy godmother moment. So, uh, it was a great Monday to be in community school. Thank you, Melissa. Nothing tonight. Max got it for us. Uh, last Friday, a naturalization ceremony was
044held here at the high school, which I think 18 people became citizens and we had two name changes. Also, our choir and our band performed at that event. Max, were you at that? Yes. How was it? It was very It was It was cool. The write up on the paper sound. It was It was a good experience and it was really well attended, right? Yeah. I'm so I had to travel. I was really bummed to miss that. It sounded amazing. Cool. We also recently had the SATs, which I heard went relatively well. Fingers crossed. Currently we have our green week sponsored by Greentorm which uh each day we have a different theme that people dress up for. Anything else to say about that? Uh coming up we have the Environ at the Vic on May
0451st and we have the Nisma Solo Festival on the weekend that we come back from spring break the after the first week of school. I think it's May 2nd and third. That's all I have. Thank you, Max. Mike, report just same point on the budget. Zach, no sir. Nothing to report. Joe, just said there's a DEI meeting tomorrow. Nancy, well, I went to the naturalization ceremony. I'll just say I thought it was wonderful and it was a not only was it kind of a moving experience to have 18 individuals gain their citizenship. Um, it was wonderful to see all the high school students there witnessing a great civics lesson and yeah, I thought it was a really nice event. Um, thank you for whatever it took to schedule it here and to invite or you
046know, I think they asked to come. The the federal judge asked to come here, which is kind of neat that he wanted to come here. He saw us as a welcoming community. Uh, and and then whatever it took to be able to host it was just wonderful thing. And if I also went to the ceremony and I thought uh was very well received. Um, for me the most powerful moment was the pride and joy on our new citizens when when they were sworn in. It was absolutely amazing. I think Max said it best. It's really cool. So, I'm glad we did it. Okay. Uh, I need a motion to adjurnn. All in favor? Any oppos? Stay back. Ask a question.