001I could have grabbed it. Next time I'll grab it for you. Perfect. I'd like to Is this working? I'm not hearing nothing. Anybody hear me? No. What? All right. I'm going to I'm going to call this uh August 19th, 2025 regular board meeting to order. This is a meeting of the board of education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is a time for public comment during the meeting as indicated in the agenda. Would everybody please rise for the pledge of allegiance? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the standy for all. Mr. Chambers, would you call roll, please? Mr. Nichols here. Miss Parkerst here. Mr. Prickard here. Mr. Miss Smeer here. Mr. West
002here. Thank you. First up is um uh approval of the minutes from the special meeting on July the 9th and the special meeting on July the 30th. I would entertain a motion, please. Uh so moved. Thank you. Anybody else? I'll second. Thank you. Any questions or comments from anybody on those minutes from those two special meetings? Hearing none. Mr. Chambers. M. Parker. I. Miss Smeer. I. Mr. Nichols. I. M. Prickard. I. Mr. West. Yes. Thank you. Uh, any additions, removals, or modifications to the agenda? Anybody? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. All right. Thank you. I'll second. Thank you, Mr. Chambers. Miss Perford. Hi, Mr. Nichols. Hi, Miss Parker. Hi, Miss Smeer. Hi, Mr. West. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Sable. Uh, your communications, please. Yeah. I'd like to start by welcoming back
003all of our students and staff uh to the 2526 school year. uh had the opportunity to go around and visit most of our buildings throughout the day today uh in between other meetings. Uh I want to thank our coat team and Dr. Quallock. I know they were out and about all day as well. Uh we greeted students uh uh split up the buildings and greeted the students as they entered this morning. Uh very positive start to the school year. It amazes me how smoothly things go uh in the buildings. I really do not miss a heartbeat uh coming off the summer break. Uh I was uh especially at all in awe at uh Northrup uh where I got to see their dismissal and being a former high school guy uh we just release the uh
004students at the end of the day and they go home. Uh the amount of organization and effort though that goes into making sure elementary students get in the right car on the right bus are headed the correct pathway home is really impressive. And then to see that staff do it on day one uh flawlessly uh was uh even more impressive. But that's just one small example of how uh smoothly and great things moved throughout the course of the day. talked to many students uh who were excited to be back in school uh and excited for the new school year. Uh our theme for this school year um is based off of the old board game, the game of life, uh every bee has a story. The reason why we've selected that theme throughout the school
005year uh is because we're going to be highlighting the work that happens with our students uh by our students as well as with our staff throughout the course of the school year. Uh we'll be uh presenting them uh a on a game piece where they'll tell their story. So this year is about stories of deeper learning, of transformation, of development uh and of growth. Um, I'd like also like to publicly thank our board of education for your attendance at our staff's opening day. Uh, I think in my nearly 10 years in the district, uh, that's the first time we've had the entire board uh, attend opening day. And I know that's a challenge for board members. Some people may not realize, but you all have full-time jobs and uh, other activities that you participate in.
006So to be able to take the time aside uh from other things that you're engaged in and to show up on opening day really meant a lot and I had staff members uh express that uh to me. So very positive start uh as we roll into the 2526 school year this year. Of course, we wouldn't go a year without uh trying to continue to advance ourselves as a school district in what we do uh to educate students and work with our community. Uh so we are engaging in our strategic planning process. Uh in June uh our central office team presented on our previous strategic plan where we were at in terms of meeting those goals. We have already started the new strategic planning process for the next 3 to 5 years. Uh that process started
007over the summer uh with all of our administrators in the district uh participating uh in a half-day workshop for them to discuss our future plans and goals, put some of that to paper. Uh we also in August or late July uh worked with uh all of you at our board retreat and spent uh several hours doing the same kind of work analyzing our strengths, our weaknesses, directions where we would like to see the district go. We will be rolling that strategic planning process out uh to our general community, our parents, uh our staff, as well as our students uh in the coming weeks. Uh Amy Busby has worked on uh setting dates uh where we're going to uh run focus groups and pull people in in order to provide us uh with small group uh
008verbal feedback um on directions for us to head in our next strategic plan. Most of those will be occurring throughout September. uh we wanted to wait till we got through the Labor Day weekend uh and people were really back engaged in the fall uh and in school uh to provide that feedback. Um in addition to the focus groups uh there's also going to be uh a district survey which we're in the process of working on putting together. Um, and we're also going to be reaching out to uh dignitaries or important people in our community uh for individual feedback uh including Mayor Hanwell um because we want to make sure our community leaders uh are engaged in the direction that we're heading with our school district. There's going to be communications going out uh in the
009coming weeks uh with dates and invitations. So, I ask that people look for those uh in their emails on social media and all other places that you receive information from Madina City Schools. Next, I'd like to invite Rhino Colop. He has the privilege of fulfilling legal requirements and presenting to the board uh food service and child nutrition updates each year. Craig, uh we've had so many technical issues. Craig set me up with here with an extra battery and we're good to go, Craig. So, thank you. Um, yeah, I get the opportunity to go through uh the 2425 school year numbers. This is just a review of uh what we accomplished last year. This is uh Angie Sers is the uh head of food service. So, this this is her data that I share with the
010board every year. Um, the food service staff, we have 47 staff members. They're cafeteria managers, cashiers, cooks, servers, secretaries, and supervisors. And they they range from two and a half hour a day uh line serving positions to the full eight hour a day positions for the uh supervisors and uh the secretary uh for the department. And there's the annual wages and benefits. The interesting thing about our food service program is this is a self-supporting department. So that means their funds is what pays their salaries, their wages, and all their um services they provide. But the way they do that is through the cafeteria sales, the federal and state reimbursement, the USDA programs, and then their special events, the catering and and special interest things that they do. So this is kind of just a quick
011breakdown of that information. uh the lunch, breakfast, uh sales. These are the numbers that I have to provide for you each year so you know what the uh cafeteria sales uh is doing. And uh it we broke it down further with the lunches and then the breakfast. And this information is on the website as well so you can digest it more at your own time. I'm just kind of going through it quickly for you. Um these are the federal and state reimbursements that we get and you can see the different uh categories and then the planned assistance levels. This is the free and reduced lunches. Um that's where that dollar figure figures into uh what the district takes in from the government for those those uh services. So this is uh the regulations and guidelines
012that we follow as a school district. We do the USDA nutrition regulations. um the national school lunch and school breakfast programs. We follow the breakfast meal pattern requirements which are next and the smart snacks for the schools uh those guidelines and that's uh as Amy Smooyer knows as a room mom that came into play a couple years back and uh really changed how we do uh classroom snacks. But um and again this is something you can digest at your your leisure. It's on the the school website. This is a school breakfast programs and it just goes through all the categories and and how many uh servings of each individual item are needed. Uh the school lunch program then as well. And uh these are the guidelines that we we adhere to to serve school lunches.
013And then these are the smart snack guidelines. They're also on there. Room moms need to know this for providing snacks for classrooms. And uh this is from Angie. Thank you for your support. So thank you very much. Uh any other questions about food service? Just a comment. I have sometimes had the opportunity to eat the food from our uh staff and it is really good. Um, and I talk to people around the community and I tell them what we have and that it's self-supporting and they're very surprised, but the food is phenomenal that our staff u makes for our kids and the the rare occasions that we as adults get to try it. So, I had it in my in the back of my mind that you were going to comment on that. So, I
014appreciate that. Yes, I did. Because uh they do a lot of our lunchons when we have meetings, they provide the the lunches for us. So, it is a nice service that they provide and they do all their they they have helped the band so much or me because I've been in charge of the uh commissary type things and selling all the food. So, they have been a humongous help to the band when we have occasions and I'm sure they have many other things that they help with and I know they're busy almost every weekend at least at the high school. So, um, I'm just grateful for them and I'll pass that along because the crew is appreciative of that. So, thank you. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. And I I just want to
015add uh and I say this every year, but it's really impressive what our food service program does to be self-sufficient in the districts I've worked in. This is the first one I've worked in where they are truly self-sufficient and not subsidized through the general fund. Um, and they do it by running a lean machine. Um, I know the board just approved an increase to uh the lunch prices. That's the first time in three or four years uh that we've done that, which is impressive with what we've seen with increased food costs in the country. Uh, next up we have Dr. Qualik uh with the calendar committee. Uh we have some proposed changes to this school year's calendar that are result of the negotiated agreement that is on the agenda this evening. Thank you, Mr. Sable.
016Um I just wanted to let the public know and mostly our parents know the reason I'm rebringing back the next two years of calendars to the board is we're going to be adding three additional early release days to the calendar um for the upcoming school year. Those will be September 25th, October 9th, and January 15th. And we're adding those because in our negotiations, if the board is to approve uh the contract, we're adding some additional professional development time. So, we'll be a able to work with staff during those times. Uh the calendar committee was really conscientious about trying to place those dates during times that would be the most convenient for parents. Um, so they we tried to combine those with a day off the next day or some other things. So we tried our
017best to do that. Um, so on the agenda for you guys are the 2526 and 2627 calendars. And then I also wanted to just let everyone know that um, I met with the districts in the county last month and then we're going to meet again in October to look at the next three years because we always try to provide parents three years in advance. But in doing so, that's why sometimes we have to do this, which is bring you a change. Uh because we're trying to provide parents things so far in advance, sometimes there are changes. Any questions? Perfect. Thank you. Uh OSBA conference, I wanted to bring to to the board's attention that the OSBA conference uh has been moved back a week or two from its usual dates. Um, I'm not sure why
018they needed to make this adjustment, but it does impact our calendar. Uh, it now coincides with our November board meeting. Um, so we are going to need to change the date of the November meeting. We don't need to decide that tonight, but I wanted to make you and the public aware that that would be happening. Um, in the initial conversations that I've had with Lisa as well as Andrew and Amy is moving it up a week and doing it a week earlier. Uh, and the reason for that is I believe the following week after OSBA is Thanksgiving week. Um, so not an ideal time to have a board meeting. We will handle that as we have in the past where Lisa will send out uh a little survey regarding a couple potential dates. Uh it
019doesn't necessarily need to be on Tuesday. Um uh but I I'm sure we'll look at that Tuesday just to keep a rhythm. Um and then once we get feedback from the board, we'll send out what the actual date will be. In regards to the OSBA conference, um I just wanted to mention that uh we will definitely have two new board members uh heading into January. Uh and we'll miss uh Joe and Becky. Uh but when we book for the OSBA and we know there will be some change on the board, we always make sure that we have the option available for whoever the newly elected board members are to participate uh in the OSBA uh this November as they'll be fairly recently elected. And last but not least, I'd like to invite our our central
020office team up to share updates uh regarding uh the committees. And Tina, let's start with you. All right. Good evening everybody. Uh last Monday we met with the board curriculum committee uh which we have had the same um members on our committee for the last uh I would say probably four years. It's a great committee. They're very um committed to our um our work and it's so nice to have them come back every year. So things that we discussed, we went over our instructional goals for the year. Um, we set those goals at our district leadership team meeting earlier in the month and that is a group of around 70 teachers and administrators. We get together and we talk about uh where we're going as as a district and we continue to work on our
021deeper learning initiative. Another thing that we shared with the board curriculum committee was our MCS career framework. And that is a website that we put together um to let our parents know how we're preparing kids at every level, elementary, middle, and high school for um careers. So, that will be coming soon. It's in draft form. Uh we wanted our board curriculum committees um opinions on that and then once it's all settled, we'll have it online for everyone to see. Thank you. And next we'll have Ryan back up with facilities. I know he and his department's had really busy summer. Uh we have and uh we had a facility meeting last month, but I'm going to uh do an audible here and take advantage of the time tonight to go through some of the summer donations
022we've had from our some of our local uh families, communities, and uh of course our organizations. We have uh Ken, don't get upset, but I have Ken Dorsik Dorsick here this evening from the boosters and they play a big part in our donations. So, I just want to go through and show you a couple of things that were done this summer and these are community donations. So, um this was memorial before this project started. This is the front. Uh you can see the uh the paint and the the stuckco work was falling off the front of this stadium. It was reworked with block uh the brick work. The building was tuckointed and then primed and painted. It was everything was done very very well. The the the groups of uh you'll see the names and
023the the donations that were made on here. This was done very very well. So, we're very pleased with uh the community involvement and what they were able to accomplish here at Memorial. This is now the back of the stadium from the first shot. Um hopefully this gives the kids a sense of pride when they come to play and come to the stadium to watch games. So, we're super excited about this project. We have others, too. But uh this is the list of donations that went into uh Memorial Stadium totaling $137,000. So um this project would not have happened without the the support of the community. The field and the turf renovation as part of that was a was a big sum of that and that came from MSA soccer. So, I want to make sure
024that that I acknowledge them. And Ohio temporary heating uh employees did all the pressure washing and prepping for painting. So, that that's another group uh that it's important to highlight their activity in this. Um and there's a list of donations that you'll see in the the donations. This is uh MBA did u it's the same facility uh homestead renovation. So, they did $10,000 worth of material into this field to get it ready for they use it for their summer ball. So, we're happy to partnership with people, community members, and organizations that use our facilities and also help uh maintain those. So, the other part of this is at Homestead, House Bill 47 requires uh youth sports to have AEDs on site. So, we're providing the electricity. They provided the box and the AED. And these
025are heated boxes, so they'll be out um all winter. I think when you have a sign up that indicates AED, it has to be there. So, uh this will be there. Uh that was Homestead. This is Blake Elementary. They use a a baseball field at Blake as well. And this is again these are the the partnerships that are great because we don't the school district does not use that baseball facility. So MBA youth baseball association takes that on and does the maintenance to that field in the summer. So this is a kind of a little joint project. They provided the AED, we provide electricity for it. So um good partnership and then they maintain that field for their sports. This is one at uh Canavan and this is from Madina youth grid iron football. So
026the flag football they use the Canavan facility which works out real nice because we also run cross country there and it allows us to have shared access to uh the AED that they've provided. We provide the electricity. Again, this is uh Canavan and there'll be another one at the rec center. It is not complete at this time. So, uh I don't have that in the show. So, those are the projects. There is another project of donation that's on. It hasn't been completed, but it's for the digital signage above the old uh concession stand at the high school for football games. um you'll of course be able to use that for rugby, lacrosse, any other sport that plays on Duke Stadium. So, um that's another donation that you'll see tonight to approve, but uh I just
027wanted to share take my time to share those projects with you and uh our appreciation for our joint projects that we have with the different organizations. So, thank you. I have questions and comments. So, does Jean go first? Okay. the um the ball field on uh Union on Union Street. Yes. What are what are we doing with that? So, the the other baseball field um we don't use that for high school baseball at all. So, we're going to convert it into a soccer uh we're going to grow grass and they're going to use it for soccer for specialty so they don't wear out goals, goal mouse. They're going to use it for corner kicks and specialty play setups. So, they're using that particular field once we get the uh grass planted there. We'll eventually take
028down the back stops and they'll use the dugouts for uh soccer storage. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Sorry for taking off so quick. Oh, no worries. Awesome. That is amazing. And I'm I know the board is very appreciative to everyone who donated their time and talents and treasures because that really truly is amazing. I want to make sure I know you said turf. I think we talk gr we mean grass though, correct? Yeah. Yeah. I want to make sure there's no confusion. It is it is grass. Uh they did a uh the the turf renovation they call it because it's grass is uh they they first arrated it and then we put down uh I think it was 180 tons of sand over top and it levels it and then uh allows the grass to grow
029through and it be it creates a softer surface. So, it's a uh it's a pretty intense process that they go through to do that with some very specialized equipment. Well, we are we are very grateful that that really is a fantastic amazing project. Uh I was actually at a um grant writing workshop earlier today as well and someone was trying to look for grants for AEDs um because they are expensive. They're I think about $1,200 a piece. Yeah. And the setup that we're using is about $2,500 for the case that we the uh the heated case that we put them in is another $1,000. And yeah, then you're about $1,500 for those. So, yes, we're very very grateful. Thank you. Let's call it natural turf. Natural turf. That's good. All right. Now I'm running. Thank
030you. Thank you. And Dr. Wallik with the policy committee. Oh, that's fine. I'll do that when I do. I'll be quick. We have uh one set of policies on the agenda for today. Uh House Bill 322 has redefined uh unfortunate that we even have to have this, but the definition of grooming. And so we wanted to update our policies to include that. Um, and then in doing our due diligence in registration this summer, we realized that one of our forms um is one we use sometimes, but not the one we use most often. So, it's our residency affidavit form. So, if a family uh doesn't have a lease or a purchase agreement and they're doubled up with someone, we use a residency affidavit. And the form in board docs is not the one we use
031most often. So that's the second form in here is just making sure we're consistent and the board adopts the form we're using the most often. So uh policy committee will be meeting again. Uh we just got our next packet so it'll take me some time to go through that but it's probably um one of our busiest and most diligent um grammatical committees. So I appreciate again we'll miss Becky tremendously. She's very good at editing. She was one of those students probably then when you got she would edit your essays for you and you'd really appreciate it. So I do really appreciate her work on that. And Dave, you're welcome to do finance or do it during your section. Okay. The finance committee met July 17th, I believe. uh we went through the uh figures that
032I'm going to give you for June. Uh went through those very quickly and then we spoke about legislation that was affecting uh school districts both those that were passed and those that were vetoed by the governor. So, it was an interesting round of uh conversation from not only uh presenting the legislation in the vetos, but from the finance committee questioning about what was going to happen if those vetos uh came back and were overridden um as one was after after uh we were discussing. So, um our next meeting is in September and uh I believe it's September 18th. Any questions on that? Thank you. Now I'm going to talk here. Thank you. Um let's go to our our June numbers here. Thank you, Craig. Uh what we have we started the fiscal year uh let's
033go here. We started the fiscal year. This was July 1st of 2024 with your $33 million. We collected $107 million in revenues and $99 million of expenditures since that time. And then uh so we had an ending balance of nearly $40 million. Uh however, this uh number includes um our incumbrances at the end of the year. So, what you have to look at, and I'm going to be pointing to that number later on because that's very important, too. One of those um vetos that the governor did that may be overridden. So, let's go on to our revenues. Our revenues for the year, $107 million. Uh this is a, as you see, it's a higher number than we anticipated. The whole sole reason for that was we made transfers at the end of the year out
034of the emergency fund and out of the substitute levy uh to the general fund. Um so that increases the it's it's an it's a paper increase to our revenues but also when we get to the expenditures you'll see the paper increase to our expenditures. Our real property we we collected $61 million. This is 17% above last year. The reason for that, as we all know, is the uh emergency levy was passed in November. We collected from January to June. Our state foundation, $18 million. This is 3.2% above last year at that time. Uh it also includes that that uh 400,000 in casino revenue. Now, we get to our expenditures. our expenditures. Uh we had a total of $99 million in expenditures and this is $ 107% above anticipated. Again, this refers to the transfers at
035the end of the year that we did. We have to account for transfers going out and monies coming in with the transfers. So that's why we're at 107%. Um we get to our personal services, you'll see it's at $54 million. This is only 1.2% 2% above the year before and 1.6% below the year before that. And if you recall last year in 2425, we reduced because of redistricting. And uh so we had numbers in of staff members that left the district through retirements and everything else. Um, so we are uh we are running below where we were last year for our personnel. Now our benefits reflect this even more because our benefits are down 3.7% compared to the year before. Um, now that is going to change this year because we had a June 12
036and a half 18% increase. 18. Yeah, that's what I thought. We had an 18% increase that started this July in benefits. So, that's going to really affect us. And then our other expenditures, we had uh $14 million in other expenditures. This is down 5.7%. Now, our investments, I I want to touch on our investments. We had a very very very good year in investments. Part of that is because rates were up. uh rates were up above where they were last year at this time. Hence the reason that we're nearly or over half a million dollars more uh investment income than we had the year before. However, and this refers back to what I was talking about with the ending balance, if the legislators override the governor and put a 40% cap on our ending balances,
037we will never hit this $2 million mark again, no matter what, because we will have we will then be have our uh revenues from the county through property taxes lowered by the commissioners. So that's that's the one point I want to make here. Again, $2.2 million. This offset taxes for the upcoming year by $2.2 million. And that's roughly 14th about 1/4 of the total taxes that we took in with the emergency levy. uh get to our uh true days cash. Our true days cash, you could see we ended higher than we did last year. Uh we ended lower than we did the year before. So if you remember the year before, we were looking at a uh levy to keep us in um in ourstead here because of rising um expenditures. So the levy came
038through. the levy came through and we first started seeing the monies in February and the monies are coming through June. Now this coming year when we get to July you'll see July is much larger than the previous July. Then finally I want to go through this is what I was talking about and you've guys you've all seen this before because it was on one of our presentations before to you. This refers directly to our ending balance. The top line is a a u cash flow for a normal levy cycle. So starting in 24 we were at just above $30 million. 25 we start collecting the money. 26 we're still collecting even more money. And the reason is we only collect six months by the end of 25. 26 we have a full year's worth of
039collections. Here you can see 26 and 27 are about level off. And then we start as as inflation grows and as more expenditures grow, you see that our ending balance declines. Now, if the legislators go through with what they want to do here, and they have two years to do it, if they go through and override what the governor uh vetoed, we could see a drop in the first year of the over of being overridden by nearly uh $14 million, which is what the emergency levy was. So, we could see that drop, and you could see it in the red. Um, and you could see that we are basically below where we were when the levy was first enacted. So, that's why it's so important to talk to the legislators about not going and overriding
040our um emergency levy, not going and overriding the governor's veto. And of course, where can you find our financial information? It's on our website. all our documents going back to 2014 on our website. I know that Miss Busby is uh going through a website change right now and uh we are going to be archiving those uh those documents from 2014 to 2018. And so if you are want to look for those, you would have to give me a call and we could pull them up for you. Anything 201 819 and above will still be on our website. Thank you. Okay. Now, if you could change that to July. Okay. Here we are in July. July, we start with $41 million. That is the cash. That is not the cash minus the incumbrance. So, that's our
041starting figure. $41 million in cash. We had received $32 million in revenues so far and you'll see that most of that's coming from real property tax and we've only gone through $6.8 million in expenditures. So our ending balance right now seems high. It's $62 million, but that will wear off as we go through the fiscal year. Go to our revenues, $32 million. You see 30 million of that $32 million is real property taxes. State foundation $1.4 million. It's 2.2% above last year at this time. And go to our expenditures. I know I'm going fast, but you've seen this all. I just want you to know the numbers here. Uh our total expenditure is $6.8 million. Uh this is 7% above uh uh what we I'm sorry, 7% of where our five-year forecast is looking at.
042So you could see we're very low with uh our expenditures at this point. Personnel services, $3.5 million. This is 13.1% below last year. And I wanted to make uh a note about this that um this is due to the reductions that occurred last year. They did not occur in July, did not occur until August started. So you at the end of August is when you'd start seeing reductions, but the first payment for our uh most of our staff was uh either August 1st or I believe it was August 30th last year was the first payment for our teachers. So you may not see a reduction on there until we get to September. So uh our benefits are up. You see 11.1% and again this refers to where our uh benefit premiums have gone and our
043other purchase services are up and this is up amongst all our categories. So we're up 72%. A large part of that was our capital projects. So uh last year at this time our capital projects were in the negative. We had rebates that came in for some reason with our capital projects. So, we were I believe we were negative2,000 negative $200 at that time and now we actually have a positive in capital projects of uh it's either 16 or or 20 million or $20,000, sorry. Get to our investments. Right now, we're up over last year in our investments. We are up by $12,000. We have a total of $174,000 uh that we've earned so far this year. get to our forecasted funds. Now, you'll notice something different on this, and this was pointed out by my
044one of the members of the finance committee. In last year's, you'll see that it runs from lowest to highest. and everything else on my financials except for the two days cash and the investment income run from lowest to highest. So we changed that around so everything will run from highest to lowest. uh if you look on my financials that are uh on the uh on board docks with so everything in July will run from the uh the current year to the low lowest year. Um so yeah he was he was getting the transposition he's he can't understand the transposition because two of the graphs were running lowest to highest two of the graphs were running from highest to lowest. So we're making all four graphs run from highest to lowest. So um again pointing out
045here with 2026 you'll see we are above where we were last year. We're above where we were two years ago with and the major portion of that is because of the emergency levy that was passed in November. Any questions? Mr. Chambers. Um when you mentioned the casino revenue that was up a little bit y um does that include now the sports betting and online betting as well or is that separate? Actually we do not receive anything from the sports betting at all. No that is school districts are excluded from that. But if you also want to know anything about the sports betting no one's received any money from that. the state has been holding on to the money because they said there was um no uh I believe it was no uh distribution method in
046the legis not the legislation in the ballot language that went through for that. So so maybe we could um ask them to fund public schools with it. It's they they brought b brought in they brought in a lot of money and they've been reporting it and it's a lot of money. Yes, they have. How much? H how much? I don't remember, but I can look it up and let you know. It's a lot. Yeah, it's in the billions. Of course it is. Yes. So, all right. Thank you. No problem. Any other questions on the finance? Okay. I have to do just like Ryan had to do a presentation for um the nutrition, I have to do a presentation for our annual commercial paper uh requirement. So, and thank you again to the board for approving
047the use of commercial paper as a tool for investment purposes. Uh, last year the district purchased seven items uh seven pieces of commercial paper totaling $3,50,000. We sold eight items uh totaling $4,10,000 and we had an income of $143,859. Um, the investments that we had last year were from Bank of America, National Bank, uh, RBC, Salvation Army, and Toyota Motor Credit. Our sales were for City Bank, National Bank of Canada, RBC, TDUSA, and Toyota Moh Motor Credit. And, um, I believe it was around 3.578 was the average interest earnings. So, any questions on that? Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chambers. We are at that uh board communication times. Uh who wants who has some communications and would like to go first? All right, Mrs. P, Miss Pritchard, you can go first. Okay. Um
048last night I was at Blake for meet the teacher night. Um a lot of people coming. Um we did have a few uh runners however and these were younger children of um students that were going to be enrolled. Uh somehow Mrs. lab just moved away from the door. So, I was in charge of runners and one young lady who was about two or three gave me the dirtiest look I've ever think I've gotten because I wouldn't let her go out the door to go to the Kona ice truck until her parents came. But, it's either that or she decided she never wanted to go to school there. I'm not really sure, but um we did stop her in time before she hit the door. So anyways, um but it was a good turnout and it
049was a good mix and I think everybody nobody left crying so I thought that was a good sign. Um I attended the volleyball preview for the county on August 8th and I like to thank all the coach volleyball coaches for setting that up. Um everybody got to play a game plus more. Um this past Saturday Dr. Qualic and I did the all world athletic activities. Um I went to see the girls JB volleyball team play Hoover. They lost a great match 26 to 24 the first the first game. Then I attended the team the tennis team's double turn uh tourney. Um and our girls tennis team has 60 players on it and they all get to play not in that tournament but they all get to play during the course of the season. Then I
050finished off Saturday by watching the boys varsity soccer team and then the girls varsity so um soccer team. Uh the boys lost unfortunately, but they've been have some injuries and the girls varsity won being um Brookxville Bees, which is always hard when they just say the Bees and you're really not sure who they're referring to. Um, I also took some pictures of the senior parking places and if people haven't had a chance to see them, there's some really terrific artwork down there. I personally like the Field of Dreams one the best. Um, because who doesn't like Kevin Cosner really? Um, and I would like to congratulate um the freshman golfer Trent RLE and breaking the 18hole um scoring record by shooting a 68 at Greyhawk. first match of the year he tied the record. The
051second one or his fourth one he broke it. So that's bodess well for the golf team. And then also um we had some passings of some uh longtime people who worked here. Margaret Cumins who was a member of the Hall of Fame and was um elementary uh coordinator for a long time and taught at Canavan. Linda Robinson who also taught at Canavan. uh Mary Reed who was a Shindleholtz lifelong resident was a high school custodian and just recently um longtime counselor and JB basketball coach Rich Story and uh Scott Sorl who was a baseball coach and his history teacher at the high school all passed away recently. And that's all I have. Thank you, Mr. Nichols. thought you were going to uh Becky. Um unlike uh un unlike uh Jean here, I did see some
052people leaving crying from the uh Fen meet the teachers night. Um just a handful of kids that were told no, they can't get candy from the city schools foundation table. Um so I had a different experience. Um but it was good. Uh parents were definitely excited. You know, I would ask them, "All right, are you excited to be back?" And the parents are like, "Yes." The kids weren't too happy. Um but I think everybody had a good time um for the most part as long as they got candy. And then um just attending the meeting the incoming staff uh breakfast. That's always a good time. Um, I think I ended up showing late, showing up later than I normally do because I usually try to hit up all the tables and say hi to everybody
053before the um, building representatives end up doing the introductions for new incoming staff at the buildings. Uh I only got to one table this year, so I definitely failed uh compared to other years, but um still got to talk to some people coming in um across a couple different schools that were excited teachers, pair of professionals. Uh maybe I want to Yeah, I'm not going to guess on the third one. Um and then uh in in the same fashion as that um I didn't show up late for the opening day for the teachers that Aaron had mentioned in his that he thanked everybody for coming. Um but I did wake up 10 minutes before I was supposed to be here. So that was a mad dash to get here. Um luckily there was coffee so
054I could have about three or four cups of that as quick as possible. Um, besides that, I mean, my little guy's back in school. He's, uh, tired. He's cranky, and he's going to bed early. And that's about it. Thank you, Mr. Nichols. So, which one of you two wants to go next? All right. Um, you had the retreat that all of us came to, uh, it was based here. great information. Um our uh we were treated to some information in regards to how uh the board can do well and um how we can work together. It was and how to think outside the box I believe. So that was really great. Um and I appreciate you guys doing that and hosting that. uh facilities committee we went to uh there were a lot of things
055that happened over the summer. What he just went over was just the tip of the iceberg of all the things that happened in the um whole Madina City Schools district. It just blows my mind all the things that they do over the summer. Uh and then the opening day, I am so glad I was able to attend that. It was great. They had I I loved we had the game of life that uh Aaron was the MC host. What would you call that? Um so it was great in that regards. Some of the teachers uh played in it and then they had some students. One was going into I believe it was Claget a high school and an elementary school uh kid and they were so great up on stage. So uh it just was
056entertaining. The other thing, of course, I got to plug the band. The band started it out, uh, the marching band, and they were amazing and had some of the teachers. I took a video of it and I was just looking at the band while I was taking the video, but watching back, the teachers were really getting into the song. So, it was wonderful. And I know a lot of them commented saying that it was great to see them up on stage as well. They may not have been excited for the 8 a.m. start though. I will definitely note that especially because they had their band picnic the night before. Uh but otherwise it was a great intro, great stories. Um Aaron shared a great story from his trip to Puerto Rico this summer. uh very
057intriguing and just how your life does matter, how your life does play into everybody else's lives. So, uh it this theme will be very good. So, thank you so much. Thank you, Mrs. Smooyer. Mrs. Parkhurst, we all have a story to tell, right? What's yours? That's right. So, welcome back. I wanted to welcome everybody back. Um, Mr. Sable, I appreciate you giving the principles the evening off from our meeting. I'm sure they've had a after last night and today a very long day. So, um, maybe we can keep this tonight's meeting on the shorter side as well. Uh, there have been some great articles in the Cleveland plane dealer lately about property taxes and how they have evolved over time. Um, how funding has shifted at the state level. I encourage everyone to check those
058out and I don't know if there's a way that maybe we can link them to our website or something. We can talk about that maybe offline. Um but there there's just been um this past week there's been two um because there's been a push to eliminate for some people to get a ballot initiative to eliminate property taxes which would not only affect our public schools but would affect our cities and municipalities and townships as well. So, uh, they've done some stories about how the sh our property taxes have shifted, how businesses have are what they pay is going down versus what residents and agricultural um, I'm sorry, agricultural property is going up and taking on more of that burden. So, I'm I just think it's interesting and informative for everybody to check that out and
059see how that will affect not only the schools, but their communities at large. I did want to congratulate Mr. Sable on his selection to the Ohio School Leadership Institute. So, we are proud to have you as our superintendent. We are honored that you are going to accept that invitation. Um, you and your administrators have been advocating heavily for our district at the state level and for public schools overall and I think that's important. Um, and we do appreciate We know that's a lot of time away just spent down in Columbus, but we do appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Um, I'll try to be brief, but uh, I've been quite busy over the last month or so. Um, two out of the last three weekends, I spent time at the farmers market with
060our school tent. uh spent pretty much the whole time there and talked to a lot of um um people that were coming back to school, kids that were coming back to school. Their parents would stop by and talked to quite a few uh parents that were from out of our district uh but had questions and would ask, you know, like, well, what is there for my student? And I would say, there is something for everybody in Madina City Schools. If you like the arts, we've got the arts. If you like sports, we got sports. If we've got academics, we got academics. And so, um, that was really, um, good. Um, uh, the new employee breakfast, uh, I did attend. I was late because I had the time wrong. But I did get to see the
061second twothirds or the two the last twothirds and then also talk to a few people um before they took off on their magic bus ride around the um district to visit various facilities. Um also was there on Friday for the welcome back opening day. Um, that's always a good time. Aaron, you made a very good Bob Barker. And Amy, um, you were quite the good, uh, Johnny Olsen was Bob Barker's announcer from years ago. So, you two played up your roles very well. Um, Amy, I think you could get a job as an announcer for a game show host. You did quite well. Um, I like the game of life um, theme. It's relevant. It's timely. Um, I think it's u a good theme for our year and it'll be interesting to see what each
062of our students has for a piece, how they fit into it. Uh, also I stuck around for the AI presentation that you had for the staff. um although I don't work in education, we are involved in AI and I saw a lot of uh similarities and briefly talked to um the presenter and AI is not a pania for everything. It is a tool. You just have to know how to use it and where it should be used and where it shouldn't be used. So um also uh I was at weight last night. Um, I walked around the building and I poked my head into most of the classrooms uh at weight and just said hello and introduced myself to as many staff as I could and parents. Parents were obviously um pre-engaged with getting their
063children um to their rooms and get them set up. There was an awful lot of excitement in that in that building. There was a lot of uh kiddos that were excited to move up a grade and some of them were coming back to visit their teachers that they um had last year or there was a couple that showed up that were middle schoolers that just wanted to see their uh elementary school teacher again. Um, and I would like to I am sure this that this occurred in all of our buildings on opening day, but our administrators do a phenomenal job um getting the buildings ready and they are busy all summer long. Um, when I see one and I interact with them, I usually over the summer ask them, "Have you taken any vacation?" No,
064not yet. Most of the time they're not taking vacation because they're working getting ready for the school year. It is a huge job. And uh finally, just to add on to the food service, I did poke my head into the cafeteria wait. And um uh the the lady that worked there was kind of surprised that I walked in, but um they were excited and I think the meal for today was chicken nuggets and she's like, "The kids will be happy. Chicken nuggets on the first day." So smiley fries. And smiley fries. Yeah, sure. So, um, but, um, she was excited and, you know, I paid compliments to, uh, her and, you know, just the food service staff at how good it is and how well our food service people do. So, uh, and that's about
065all I have. So, first up, action items. Uh, treasurers action items, Mr. Chambers. Huh? Oh, I'm sorry. Public comment. I blew path. Do we have any uh No, no one wants to uh chat. So, we will move on to treasures action items. Mr. Chambers. Thank you, sir. If it serves the board, it is recommended Board of Education approved the June 25 and July 25 treasures financial reports. And item number two is supplemental to temporary appropriations. It's recommended Board of Education approved the following supplementals to the 2526 temporary appropriations. If you look at the appropriations, uh these are um comparing them to the June temporary appropriations that were passed by the board. Uh you will see that uh we've had a decrease in the general fund. Uh the reason for this decrease is the county auditors
066are still u providing monies into the both the emergency fund and the substitute levy fund. So we have to account for those in the emergency and substitute levy fund which is the 016. Uh you also have uh increases with the um with the title grants. These are carryover monies from last year and also uh the new monies that we just got. I believe it was on the I want to say the last day that I was here before vacation the 8th or something like that. eth or nth of uh of August. Uh we just got the new monies for the title grants. So those are the big increases. Um and the rest are are slight increases. Your 08s, your 300's and um so just wanted to talk about those. I would entertain a motion for
067treasures action items, the treasurer financial reports and supplemental to permanent. I'll make a motion to approve. Thank you. I'll second. Thank you very much. Uh, any questions or comments for Mr. Chambers? Anybody? Hearing? None. Mr. Chambers. Miss Pritchard. Hi, Mr. I'm sorry. Mr. Nichols. Hi. Wrong one here. Miss Parker. I. Missy. I. Mr. West. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Sable. your action items, please. Uh, first is donations. It is recommended that the board of education accept the following donations to Madina City Schools. And usually I highlight a few, but uh, Mr. Cole did an outstanding job of going through those. Number two is a transportation resolution uh, which uh, I have to present to the board annually. It is recommended that the board of education approve the transportation resolution which deems students from non-public schools and
068students living outside the non-public school attendance area as ineligible for transportation for the 2025 2026 school year. Number three, it is recommended that the board of education approve the affiliation agreement between the University of Akran and Madina City School District for partnership for clinical and field experience placement. Uh this is allowing us to partner with Akran for training teachers uh for bringing student teachers into the district. Number six is service agreements. It is recommended that the board of education approve the following service agreements. Uh the first two are through uh pupil services. Uh the first one is for uh counseling services and therapy services uh for students at Evolve Academy. I do want to remind uh the board that Evolve Academy is self-sufficient. Uh so they function off of uh tuition uh that they receive
069when they accept students. Uh the second is a contract with the Educational Service Center uh of uh Northeast Ohio. I keep wanting to call it Kyogre County because that's what it's been for most of my career. Um and this is to contract a school psychologist. Uh school psychologists have been a challenge uh to find uh not just for Dina City Schools but for all school districts. Uh there's uh currently a shortage. It's part of the overall educator shortage. So, this is going to provide us additional services that are needed to uh meet our students needs. And then the last three for St. uh Francis. I'm not going to go through all these, but these are pass through funds. We are the fiscal agent uh for St. Francis. So, our board of education has to approve
070uh their expenditure of funds. Seven as presented by Dr. Quallic. It is recommended that the board of education approve the revised district calendars for the 2526 and 2627 school years. We have one field trip on the agenda. It's recommended that the board of education approve the following overnight field trip in compliance with policy 2340. Um and that is for our girls soccer team to uh go to Penn State. And number nine is personnel. It is recommended that the board of education approve the following personnel recommendations pending completion of all required paperwork uh per uh the human resources office. Um several things I want to point out on here. Uh the all board approved certified staff are eligible to provide home instruction tutoring to Madina City School District students at the rate of $30 an hour.
071So this is a recommended increase and that all aboard approved current uh certificated substitutes are eligible to work with students for home instruction tutor positions as approved by the director of pupil services. Um also it is recommended that the board of education approve the updated certificated substitute pay rates effective August 15, 2025. Um, and then, uh, the last one on here, it is recommended that the board of education approve pay rate increases to the following junior varsity and varsity event worker positions on the attached athletic and performing arts center worker rate sheet effective August 1st, 25. All of these increases that I uh, just recommended are moderate increases uh, and they've needed to occur for some time. uh especially I want to point out the substitute uh increases. Uh this puts us uh in in
072line uh with substitute rates uh across the county. Uh it's something an increase that needed to be recommended for a while, but we held off on uh because of the financial and levy situation in the district. uh we are hopeful uh that this is not going to be a fix but will be a help uh with the substitute shortage uh that we face uh in our in our buildings and again that's also a challenge for for all school districts. Also want to point out the recommendation for contract adjustments. It is recommended that the board of education approve the following administrator administrative contract salary adjustments effective July 1st, for the superintendent's administrative assistant and the director uh of community relations. Uh these uh uh contract adjustments are uh again to put these positions in line uh
073with similar positions in surrounding districts. Thank you, Mr. Sable. I will uh entertain a motion for superintendent action items H 1 through nine. I'll make a motion for the superintendent action items uh H. I will second that. Thank you. Uh any questions or comments from anybody? Mr. Sable, I appreciate the adjustments that were made. we do need to stay competitive within the county. So, I think that's good that we were able to do that. Uh, I did have a question regarding um the service agreements where we act as the fiscal agent pass through. It's not just though that the board needs to approve. There is some cost that goes that is involved um in being the fiscal agent for those. Correct. That we or maybe that's a better question for Mr. Chambers. We don't get
074any. Yeah, it probably is more of a Mr. Chambers's question, but yeah, there's we do not receive anything, but we are the fiscal agents. Um, well, I I should take that back. For auxiliary purposes, we receive a 4% stipen from the state for their any amount that they uh have, but we do not um we are not charging them for that. the state is charging them for that and then reimbursing the district because we do have time involved in administering that. That was my point. There's people's time involved. Yes, we well you could see that we're acting upon it here. Uh we have secretaries that act upon it on both the um the financial end, the payroll end. Uh so yes, we throughout the year we have services that we provide uh for as the
075fiscal agent. So, thank you. Any other questions or comments? I just want to comment that I am glad that we are increasing the substitute rate. Um, having substituted in the past, I know that it was not competitive. So, to other schools, um, I still stayed within Madina because my kids were here, but in all honesty, it needed to be raised. So, I appreciate that you guys looked at that. anything over here. I will say that in my discussions and talking with various administrators over the two weekends at the um farmers market and then when I've interacted with them, they all have tell me that they're out substituting in their buildings um quite frequently. So hopefully this is a little bit that'll help reduce that workload and let them be doing what they're supposed to be
076doing administrating their building. So thank you. Anything else from anybody? Uh Mr. Chambers, when you're ready. Yes. Mr. Nichols. I. Miss. I. Miss Parkerst. I. Miss Perkid. I. Mr. West. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Sable. Action item I. That's you, right? It is. Um, Madina City School Psychologist Association negotiated agreement. It is recommended that the board of education approved the collective bargaining agreement with the Madina City School Psychologists Association effective July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. I'll entertain a motion for the Manina City Schools Psychologist Association negotiated agreement. So moved. Thank you. Second. Thank you very much. Any questions or comments from anybody? I'll just I'll just say I want to thank our psychologists um for working with um the board and the administration to come to an agreement so we can move forward for
077the next couple years. So appreciate that very much. And that's all I've got. Mr. Chambers, when you're ready. Miss Prickard, I. Mr. Nichols, hi. Miss Parker, I. Miss Miller, I Mr. West. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Sable. Madina. Action item J. Madina City Teachers Association negotiated agreement. It is recommended that the board of education approve the collective bargaining agreement with the Madina City Teachers Association effective July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. I would entertain a motion to accept the MCTA negotiated agreement. I'll make a motion to approve the MCTA uh agreement. Thank you very much. I'll second. Thank you. Uh any questions or comments from anybody? My only comment is um I'm sorry that the teachers um association wasn't willing to make some changes in health care um to bring the cost down be because
078it really affects everyone across the district especially the support staff and 18% is quite a hike. That's my only concern. Anything else from anybody hearing? None. Mr. Chambers, when you're ready, I Miss Perkard. Miss Parker. Yeah. Miss Parker. I Mr. Nichols. I Miss Smarter. I Mr. West. Yes. Thank you. Uh uh Mr. Mr. Sable Action item K uh administrator compensation. It is recommended that the board of education of the Madina City School District approve a 3.5% salary increase for all district administrators excluding the superintendent, treasurer, director of community relations and superintendent administrative assistant effective July 1st, 2025. Um I I do want to point out that the reason why the uh director of community relations as well as uh super administrative assistant are on here is because of the contract adjustment already provides an increase.
079I'll make a motion to approve that action item. Thank you very much. Any questions or comments from anybody? Yeah, I I want to make a couple comments and they've all heard it. Um I just think that we have given every um group a 3% raise and I think we need to be consistent. Both the treasurer and superintendent took 3% raises and I don't think one group should get more than another group. I don't doubt that the administrators work very hard. I've seen that. But I just think for fairness, I also think having just passed a levy and we promised the public um fiscal responsibility, even though a half percent doesn't seem like a lot, it is. Especially to those on a fixed income and they're probably wondering where we're going to come up with some
080of that money. Um, and there is a a perception in the community that a we have too many administrators and b they're overpaid. Now, that's their perception. And I've had many discussions with people and tried to show them that. But this is just one more thing that they're going to hold against us the next time a levy comes up. So, I just wish you would I I value every employee in this district the same. Uh the support staff, the psychologists, the teachers, the administrators, and I just think we need to all everybody should get the same raise at this point. Thank you. Anyone else? I just wanted to um point out that unfortunately in the past the administrators have taken less than our bargaining um contracts have. Um especially when we've been in areas of
081fiscal concern um so I see this as a way to make up to them for what has happened in the past. Um ideally be great if everybody could get the same percentage but that has not happened. Um as well as our administrators do not have steps whereas our three bargaining units there are step increases within those contracts. Um uh Miss Pritchard to your point about um community uh perception I think it's incumbent upon us as a board. I know you said you've tried to share communicate with them. Um we do not have um we're not overly staffed with administrators. Um, we've compared ourselves to other districts and we have less administrators per student than many of our surrounding districts as well. So, I'm happy if there's anyone in the community that has questions about that
082to reach out and we can have a conversation. I can show them the data on that. Thank you. Anybody else? Joe? Yes. I'd like to go to um Sure. I am in agreement with Miss Pritchard. I like to, you know, I agree that our administrative staff really does a great job. Um, we have been kind of negotiating back and forth on this and I'm kind of sticking to the 3% should be just an overall. Yes, apparently those above have a comment on that too. Um, however, there's a storm going on. If you guys can't hear it, I'm sure you can. But um you know the the administrative staff does do a great job. I just do believe that it should be a 3% across the board. Um I know it's been explained to me that
083the steps in the um teacher contracts are not the same as the administrative contracts. But truly again the perception of the public they don't understand that. They don't understand steps. I did not understand steps until this past year. And um it's it's very intriguing and um they do get some steps but not until later on in their um like 20 year step. I I just kind of I want to stay with the 3% across the board. Not that I don't appreciate the administrative team at all and they do do a good job, but I'm I'm kind of sta sticking with exactly what she said. The everybody that I had talked to that have come up to me state that our administrators are overpaid um and a 3% is going to be a good increase for
084them just as well. Last thing I just would encourage all of us when people come up to us and they are more than welcome I encourage people to state their opinion but it's incumbent upon us to share the actual facts with them and share the data. We've received lots of information about how our teachers and our administrators salaries compare with other districts within the county and with other districts our size and it is our responsibility to share that correct information and then they can make the um decision for themselves. But we we can't just say well that's their perception so we're going to do this. We have to use information and data to make our decisions and we it's incumbent upon us to take information from the community to to the administrators and back and
085forth. That is our job to work as that conduit. Joe, anything? No, I'm good. I think I think everybody's made great points on whatever side they're on, so I'm just going to let that lie. All right. I'll just I'll just add um you know for the the public you can look at I believe it's the state cup report that has it shows um salaries number of students and it's pretty stark when you look at the districts even around us where our administrators lie. Um also you can look at the I believe it's called the state checkbook which lists every public employee in the state of Ohio. So you can look this stuff up. It's real easy. It takes like five minutes in Google. Um for me and Mr. West to confirm that cup report you
086mentioned. Thank you for for mentioning that. That is on the Department of Education's website. Yep. Um and then you know for me uh in the last I think two years we've lost I think three administrators to go to other districts and you'll always have that but for me I want to retain the talent. you know, if we train them and we, you know, they start out as a teacher and they become an associate or whatever, I want to keep them. I want to keep them here in the district. And I know we'll always have that turnover into other districts, but I think this is just a small thing that we can do, but that's all I have. So, is there anything else from anybody? I would just say that you have to remember Madina is
087a stepping stone as Wayne County is a stepping stone for Madina. Madina is a stepping stone for Kyhoga County. You It's really not fair to compare Madina to Kyhoga County because as soon as you cross that border, their salaries jump 10 to $15,000. And you might want to compare us to Solen, which does not have near the amount of administrators that we have. And I I'm not saying that we're overstaffed because I don't think we are, but you have to be careful with comparisons. You um especially when you head into Kyahoga County and if I was u an an assistant principal here and I got a job offer at Independence, yeah, I'd go there. You're only going to probably have 400 kids in your whole school. So, I mean, that is that is a person
088that's trying to go there to maybe go to a bigger school. So, we're not losing people because of our low pay. It's because, you know, they want to move on in and they see that the people that they would have to beat out within the district aren't leaving anytime soon. So, I just think have to be careful of those comparisons. I I have no doubt that we will still lose people, but if we can retain even a few of them, I think that's better for our district. So, that's just my opinion. Anything else from anybody? This side. This side. Mr. Chambers, when you're ready. Sure. Yes. Miss Parker. I. Mr. Nichols. I. Miss. Pritchard. No. Miss. Smear. No. Mr. Roast. Yes. Thank you. All right. Next up, uh we will be having an executive session
089to consider the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, or compensation of a public employee or official. Discussion with the board's legal counsel of disputes involving the board that the subject is of pending or imminent court action. preparation for conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment. I would entertain a motion to move to executive session. I'll make a motion. Thank you. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Thank you. Um we will not be moving. We will not have any taking any action uh when we leave executive session. Mr. Chambers. Yes. Miss Parker. I. Miss Sme, hi. Mr. Nichols, hi. Miss Perkard, hi. Mr. West, yes. Thank you. That's it everybody. Have a nice evening if you are here visiting. Yeah. And don't get too
090wet.