001lean on some of you where I can't. So, uh, move on to number two. Roll call person sandal here. Vice chairperson shar members Anderson here Moore here. Zerland here. Bryant here. Eisenber. All right, move on to number three. Pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. Number five. Uh conflict of interest. Chuck four. get forward. Um, Ridge, what's that? Sorry. The moment of reflection and prayer. Oh, I'm so sorry. Um, number four, moment of reflection and prayer. Yes. Um, I'm going to read from Psalm 56:es 3 and 4. When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God whose word I praise, in God I trust. I shall not
002be afraid. What can flesh do to me? Thank you very much, Sally. We appreciate it. Um, nothing further. We'll move on to number five, conflict of interest. You all received a conflict of interest request from Mr. Sakura. for his wife being a teacher here at the school. We do. Sorry. I make a motion to approve the conflict of interest. We've got a motion and we've got a second to approve the conflict of interest for Chuck. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Um motion passes to approve a conflict of interest for Chuck. Thank you. Um number six, approve agenda. Motion to approve the agenda. Second. All right, we've got a motion. We've got a second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I couldn't hear that. Did we uh
003All did we get a motion? Yes. All right. And motion passes to approve agenda. Sorry, I cut out. Um with that, we'll go on to number seven. Approve consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve it. Second. All right. Motion and a second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes to approve consent agenda. Um, okay. On to number eight. This is going to be open forum. Do we have any tonight? Folks checking. All right. Signed in. Anybody here to talk? We do not. Bridge. Okay. All right. Um, on to number nine we go. It's going to be the FY24 audit presentation. All right, we have Lucas from ELO. He's one of our auditors that did our FY24 audit and has been with us for quite some time. So,
004I'll let you take over, Lucas. That sounds good. Yes, thank you. Uh, as Amy said, I'm Lucas Howard with ELOC CPAs and Adviserss. Uh, we performed the audit again this past year and uh, I guess I'll I will share my screen. Uh, well, actually I can't. Never mind. I'll just cover it. Uh, uh, and I think he has a packets there. You can follow along. Uh, and if you have any questions as I cover uh, the information, um, feel free to interject and ask it. So, um I'll start with we have what's called a governance letter and this highlights um you know any significant matters things like that and I guess we're pleased to report you know there was no uh unreasonable you know accounting policies or practices performed by the school during the year.
005Um we encountered no significant difficulties in dealing with management in performing and completing our audit. um we had no uh disagreements with management uh during the course of our audit as well. Uh and that's basically what that letter kind of highlights in a lot of legally terms. So uh I'll go ahead and move on to the actual uh financial statements themselves. I'll start with page one which is the independent auditors report on internal control over financial reporting and on compliance and other matters based on an audit of financial statements. Um I'm going to read just a couple of these different paragraphs here. Uh and again these will be pretty consistent with years past. Uh and so number one I guess over you'll see three different reports uh that I'll cover. This first one, you know,
006is in regards to internal control. Uh the second report is about uh you know, the the single audit and that covers the the financial the federal uh the federal uh financial assistance you guys received in the year and the audit that covers the compliance related to that. And the third one is actually over the the financial statements themselves. So we'll start with page one. We have audited in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in government auditing standards issued by the controller general of the United States. the financial statements of the governmental activities, the business type activities, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the Wall School District as of June 30, 2024, and for the year that ended,
007and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the school district's basic financial statements, and have issued a report thereon dated January 31, 2025. The report on internal control over financial reporting. In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements, we considered the school district's internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances for the purpose of expressing our opinions on the financial statements, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the school district's internal control. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the school district's internal control. Now, I'm going to jump to that that last paragraph there on page one. Um, our consideration of internal control was for the limited purpose described in
008the first paragraphs of this section and was not designed to identify all deficiencies internal control that might be material weaknesses or significant deficiencies and therefore material weaknesses or significant deficiencies may exist that have not been identified. We did identify certain deficiencies internal control described in the company's schedule of prior and current audit findings as items 20241 and 20242 to be material weaknesses. I'll touch on those later. Those are the are repeat findings from prior years. Uh not nothing to be alarmed on as they are uh standard uh findings that that are common uh among most the school districts in the state of South Dakota and it's primarily related to just the small staffing size of the schools. So, but I'll touch on that in a little little bit. Uh page two of that report again
009is just going to be uh similar language as last year. Nothing nothing to highlight there. So, I'm going to move on to page three. And this report then is over the compliance uh uh for the federal awards. Uh so, since you guys expended more than $750,000 of federal awards during the fiscal year, uh you're required to have what's called a single audit. And this is the report over that single audit. And uh uh uh and so we have a clean audit opinion over it, which is good. So, no findings and no non-compliance with how you spent the federal awards. But I'll I'll go ahead and read this opinion. Uh we have audited Wall School District of South Dakota's compliance with the types of compliance requirements described in the US Office of Management and Budget compliance
010supplement that could have a direct to material effect on each of the school districts major federal programs for the year ended June 30, 2024. The school district's major federal programs are identified in the summary of auditors results section of the company's schedule of current audit findings and questions costs. In our opinion, the Wall School District complied in all material respects with the types of compliance requirements referred to above that could have a direct to material effect on each of its major federal programs for the year ended June 30, 2024. So no uh no findings related to the spending of the the federal awards, which is good. I'll go on and continue to page six. So this is just the schedule of prior and current audit findings and question costs. Uh that that section one uh
011here just lists you know the type of auditor's report we issued which is unmodified and that's basically clean audit opinion which is good. That's the the kind of opinion uh that you'd that you'd want. Um and then we go ahead there and list the internal control reporting. Uh we did identify two material weaknesses and that that'd be the same as years past. uh and I'll touch on those here in a minute. Um down below there you'll see the federal awards section. Uh there was no uh uh mutual weaknesses identified or significant deficiencies related to the federal awards and then uh we also issued an unmodified opinion in relation to the the federal awards as well. So which is good and you can see that identification major program your impact aid is really the uh the
012significant uh major federal program of the school. And then right there it shows that you expended more than $750,000 of federal awards in the current [Music] year. All right, page seven. This just lists the prior audit findings uh 202301 and 202302. And again, those are just repeated again in the current year. Uh and then the current year just kind of has more uh uh description of of the cause uh and the effect of those findings. Again, it's not a indictment of management or anything like that. These are common, but it's good to be aware of. It's primarily related to the small size of the staffing, right? it it would probably be cost prohibitive, right, to add enough staff to adequately segregate all of the uh the bookkeeping or or financial uh recording duties. So page
013eight again at the bottom there you can see that section three uh there were no findings or question costs related to the federal awards programs that required to report which is good. All right, I'll move on to page 10. Here's kind of the the standard report kind of over the financial statements themselves. So the first report was over internal control. The second report was over the federal awards and now this is the the audit report over the financial statements. So I'll go ahead and start with our opinion. So we have audited the company financial statements of the governmental activities, the business type activities, each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information of the wall school district as of June 30, 2024 and for the year that ended and related notes to the financial statements
014which collectively comprise the school district's basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents. Our opinion the company financial statements referred to above present fairly in all material respects the respective financial position of the governmental activities business type activities each major fund and the aggate remaining fund information of wall school district as of June 30 2024 and the respective changes in financial position and where applicable cash flows for the year that ended in accordance to the county principles gen accepted United States of America. So essentially you have a clean out opinion. So which is good. I'll go ahead and move on to uh page 13. This is the start of the management discussion analysis section of the financials. Um and it really that financial highlight section does a good job of kind of highlighting
015uh uh the key uh information for the year. So, net assets increased by over 700,000 on the year, which is good. Total revenues increased by almost 13%. Up 590,000. That's just in the governmental funds. Uh, and revenues in the business funds increase about 2.8% or about $6,400. Um if you want to move to page 17 it kind of you can see uh uh the combined net position and comparing it to the prior year. As you can see total assets ended the year up by 1.4 4 million from the prior year and that so the ending assets totaled 17.78 million. A lot of that majority of that increase is actually in capital assets with the construction of the the new building. Total liabilities increased by 680,000 from the prior year and they totaled 1.3 million on
016the year. The school has a total net position of 15.8 million. At the bottom there again you can see that that increased net position which is essentially kind of your net income on the year of 700,000. All right, page 18. This just lists the the different uh revenue streams of the school district. Breaks it out by taxes. uh whether it's state state money or federal money, you had about 4.38 million revenues and down below there that that table below just shows the prior year breakout as well. Page 19 list the expenses and be similar just uh similar layout as with the prior year comparing down below expenses stayed pretty pretty level. So year over year. Now, if you'll move to page 20, there's the governmental and business type activities. Um, the statement of activities. So,
017this lists out essentially your income statement. It's a total revenue of 5.3 million, total expenses of 4.6 million, and that results in that net increase in net position of over 700,000 on the year. uh go to page 22, you'll see uh this lists out kind of your your capital assets and your long-term debt. Um and so your capital, you'll see the large investment during the year uh in the con for the construction project process on that building CTE. Uh and you can see that there in the table where over two million was invested in that during the year and the long-term debt breakdown down below there. Uh again the school overall has you know minimal amount of debt which is good solid overall. On page 24 uh is the statement of net position for the
018governmentwide. So kind of the total and again that was kind of highlighted previously in what I covered in the management discussion analysis. You see the total assets of 17.8 million uh total liabilities of 1.3 million and the net position of 15.8 million on the year. I'm not going to cover much more of the of that part of it. Um the notes to the financials begin on page 37. And again, uh, there really wasn't any significant changes in the year. Uh, you know, years past, I guess recently, there's been a lot of accounting standards changes. So, there has been notes added and, uh, and edited, but this year really was finally kind of more of a consistent year as far as, uh, the accounting standards go. There wasn't new imple newly implemented standards. So, which is
019nice. So, the the the notes really stayed pretty consistent from the prior year. Um, but if if you guys look through there and have any questions, uh, Amy, you feel free to give them to Amy. She can reach out and get a hold of me and I can help answer those. Um, if you want to jump all the way down to, uh, page uh 76. This is the we'll call it supplementary information, and this is the schedule of expenditures of federal awards. This just lists all the uh the federal awards the school received throughout the year. And this is the what what uh really caused the single audit. So since you expended more than $750,000 of federal awards, that's what drove the single audit requirement. And you'll see uh the school received 1.5 million of
020federal awards during the year. And the largest one you can see was that impact aid amount of 950,000 and that is how much was used. So we we didn't see that much. That's how much was used, correct? So, we use That's absolutely right. Yep. And and so the and that impact aid essentially uh uh helps replace um real estate uh or property tax revenues that are lost for the the federal lands around the school district or in the school district. So, I guess is there any questions for me? You have a increased audience tonight, Lucas. So, everybody was on the edge of their seats tonight. So, I bet I'm It's a riveting presentation. Yes. Might be the only one here that does. Do you guys have any questions from the board? Always a good job
021done. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. and his does an excellent job and I would love for them to come back next year or for FY25 too. So they're awesome to work with. So thanks. Oh, thank thank you all. You're more than welcome to, but you know, you absolutely do not have to. All right, I'll I'll probably take off. So thank you all again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, that's a wrap. any any discussion about the audit or anybody have any questions? Anything to say? If you guys want to um page 29 is where I like that's kind of where I frequent the most. This talks about our fund balances. He talks about our net position which has includes our assets and whatnot. So this this page really talks about our fund balances
022and where I go off of and when it's you see general it has us at a fund balance at the end of the year of about 5 million but that includes both general fund and capital outlay. So just keep that in mind when they do our audit they combine those two funds and that was before the two to three million for the CT complex was taken out. That was for physical year 20 last year. Right. Right. This was FY24s six. All right, because we did use so you'll see in capital outlay how the fund balance was at 1.5 in FY23 or the at the beginning of the year and then it went down to 331. We used a big chunk of capital outlay for the the CT. Okay. So if you want to if you
023have any questions you can ask me about that later too. All right. Well, I think we'll move on to number 10. Uh, student presentation and recognition. So, a couple things. Um, I do want to just make sure everybody realizes that we did send a team to state FFA conference in Brookings this last weekend. And we are also sending a student to the art wars this coming weekend where Tyler Hines will go and draw and do her thing right there. Um tonight our presentation is Lucy Moon. What I've asked Lucy to do. So, one thing here at Wall, we do quite a few of our students get really cool opportunities like attending meetings with their parents, going to Washington DC, different things. My belief is I would be um hindering our kids if I didn't give
024them some leeway in some of these opportunities they have to do with their parents. So, what I do expect of these kids is when they come back, they have to have taken notes. They have to write up summaries of where they've been and what they've done, and they have to provide um material to present to somebody or something. And so, Lucy told me that she would like to present to you a recent trip she took to Washington DC. and u make sure you share just a few of the details of the com of the meetings you had. Okay. Yeah. Um so I think everybody here knows me. I'm Lucy Moon. I'm a senior here. Um I have one in school class this year. So I'd like to thank the board first off for allowing us
025to be exempt from school to do this kind of stuff. And then my dual credits I now need to leave school for. And so I get to go do this kind of stuff and go paging. I've been a page for two years now. And so getting to go to this was a whole eye opener going from the state level to the federal level. So I was there for 5 days. I went with my parents, Scott and Mandy, and then my sister and Taylor McDonald. The first day we went, we got to see all the monuments. It was um cherry blossom festival. So like this is a picture from Arlington and all the trees looked like that. We got to see the Abraham Lincoln memorial, the Washington, and then that is the Korean memorial and we
026were able to find one moon. Out of all the memorials, we found one moon out of it. So that was why that picture was kind of cool. And then later that day, Later that day, we went to the Arlington Cemetery and it was crazy because we had we got on a hop on hop off off bus and they dropped us off at 4:00 and we had to be back on the bus at 4:30. So, we ran to watch the changing of the guards. We went and saw John JFK's um grave and Jackie Kennedy and then their two premature children's graves. And then that was it for day one. We just did a bunch of sightseeing. Day two, we did the same thing, but we went to museums. So this was Melania Trump's first inauguration gown.
027And then that was at the American History Museum. And then this was Muhammad Ali's um robe. I thought that was cool because in government this year we learned about Supreme Court stuff and we watched the Muhammad Ali case trial. And then we went to the National National Museum of the American Indian. And so this was like the first room you walk into and it has all of these labeled um labeled things from past times I guess. And then we also went to the uh US Holocaust Memorial Museum and I would recommend that to anyone who ever goes there because it's such a deep thing and something that we don't realize I think. And so I don't have any pictures of that cuz it's such a somber somber place and everybody is like very depressed. It
028just wasn't worth taking pictures. But it was a really good experience. And then in that corner is George Washington's uniform. So then on day three is when we finally got to go and do a bunch of speaking and stuff with our repres actually we didn't we talked to the embassies this day and then speakers from American Farm Bureau Federation. So that is who we went to represent was the Farm Bureau South Dakota Farm Bureau people and this is in the office. So this is they have a picture from each state and this is Dick Kirststead's farm ground over in Kraton. And then this is their big meeting room. We met with all sorts of people. We met with lobbyists for for a farm bureau. And then this was another really good thing that I thought
029was helpful was they called it the Pixar theory. And that's how they taught you to introduce yourself to your representatives, to whoever you're speaking to to make to be recommended or remembered, I guess. So that was day three. And then later that day, we went we spoke with the Mexican embassy ambassadors and then we also spoke to the Canadians. Both of these were we weren't going into it, we weren't really sure because of the tariffs that Trump had just proposed to them. And so talking to the Mexican, they described it as they were taking a lighter approach. They were looking at it as a threat from Trump to close down the borders and he would back off. And so they also talked about how they are South Dakota's second largest import and export trade. And
030so these are um the trades. We export 49.4 4 billion dollar worth of product and we import 30.2 billion. And then those are just some other facts about them. And then for later that day, we actually got to go to the Canadian embassy. And this was a whole different experience because we when we went in there, it was like we weren't in America anymore. We walked in there, we had to escort to the bathroom as go through full security checks and there was always someone right with you. They had security by the doors where we were in. It was crazy cuz you think of Canada and they're right across the border. But they were definitely a little bit different when they were talking about the tariffs and that kind of stuff because we haven't really
031had any of that happen before with them and they were taking it as an insult. And so you could tell with the two ambassadors we spoke with, it was definitely a sore subject to talk about. And so that kind of wrapped up our day three. Um the building was really cool. And then so day four was like the longest day I think I've ever lived there because we walked to the USDA building and there we got to visit with the AFIS which is animal and plant health inspection services. These guys were really interesting to talk to coming from a ranching background just because they are the ones who are setting like all our eid tags. They're the one who are mandating that kind of stuff. All of the vaccines, they make sure our vaccine banks
032are full for cattles, for our import, for anything. And then when we got there, we didn't realize that Aphus and FSIS are not the same thing. So Aphus is after everything's been brought into the United States and is how we deal with our products here in the States. FSIS is the Food Safety and Inspection Service and they're more on the borders. So they're the ones running all the inspections on the borders as soon as the products are coming into America. And then these pictures, this is just the building. And then this is my dad speaking because he was in charge of the meetings. delegates for each everyone we met with. So this was his and then that is for um that is like a big meeting room in the building and then the secretary of
033agricultur's office is in there and so that was that was the USDA and then after that we got to meet with Mike Grounds. um he was a lot more mellow than any of the other two representatives from South Dakota that we talked to. Um one thing I found interesting was that him and John Thun both have different opinions on CRP crop land and that kind of stuff and whether or not you can put it into those 10 year 20ear programs. His opinion is that you shouldn't be able to do it out. And so that was I got to take a picture with him. And then this is in one of the Senate committee rooms. And then after that, we went we sprinted down the halls of the cap to get to Jesse Johnson. We were
034actually coming around a corner and we met him at the corner and he's like, "Nope, we're going this way." So we turned around and followed him. And I don't know if you guys have ever met him, but he runs at our walk. So, he was also a good one to talk to. I actually got to talk to him because one of the big things that I've noticed this year is how anyone with a small business is not getting a PEL grant. And that to me is hard because I as our family isn't in financial debt or on the streets or anything, but also all of our assets are counting now. So they're putting that money in there even though we don't own the assets completely. The bank technically owns our assets. So I was questioning
035him about that and he was really fun to talk to. Was an amazing guy I thought. And then after that we got to meet with majority leader John. He was a very mellow guy, too. But also, you could tell he knew what he was talking about. You could tell he had a lot of things on his mind since he is so high up in the legislature right now. But he was super nice. He actually offered me an internship to come back and intern with him in the summer. So, that's something I'm kind of excited about. But, um, one of the big topics with all three of them was the new farm bill that's being processed. So, there hasn't been a farm bill that went through since 2000. And that bill was uh that bill was
036only billions of dollars. And this next one, they're trying to make trillions. So, that's a hu that was something we talked about constantly. And then this is just kind of a thank you slide to Farm Bureau because they're the ones who made this all possible. This is just a goofy picture in the elevator because you have the vice president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. You have R and the president of South Dakota Farm Bureau. And then you have Reed Jensen and he is our new vice president for Farm Bureau. And then this is Lil Mezand. He has been an amazing mentor to me, someone I look up to a lot because he for what he does and I've known him since I can remember. And then this is the whole group that went. That's
037it. Very well. Excellent job. Thank you very much. Great presentation. Did you tell them Lucy who's coming to speak at your graduation? Oh yeah. Yeah. Thanks. All right. Um, broke out there on me a little bit. Can you guys hear me? Good. Yep. Yep. All right. Uh, thank you again, Lucy. Very good presentation. We'll move on to number 11. Um, powerhouse analysis, discussion, and approval. So, I don't know if Terry or Tyrell, do you do you guys want to explain this or would you like like me to or how how would you like to do it? Up to you, Ra. You are ter. Okay, sounds good. Um, so we uh I guess a little backstory and this will kind of we'll talk about it now. We might not have to talk about it in the
038uh in the committee meeting or report as as much, but um we've got some things at the powerhouse right now that as it stands that they're in need of repair um have been for some time and um looking at looking at ways to find out what it would cost to bring that building up to our standards um versus potent potentially a new building down the road. And you know, we can't can't begin to have that discussion or deal with the issues we have if we don't have any idea what what it would cost to do. And so, um, we as a committee, we met with Brad Burns, uh, who works with Chamberlain Architects and Rapid City. Chamberlain Architects, they are on, from my understanding, retainer with Rapid City Schools, and they basically help them plan
039for expansion, plan for repair, so on and so forth. Um, so what we're asking for tonight, guys, it's it's not at all to approve any kind of project there at the powerhouse. Um, what we're looking to do is get your approval to bring them in to basically give them an idea of here's some of the things that we need to see out of this building and ways we can make the space more usable, make it more modern. Um, here's the here's the idea. Give us a rough estimate of what this would cost to do. Can I say something? Yes, please. Um, you guys, here's what I see happening constantly in a small town. We all have an opinion here, downtown, all over. And so often we find ourselves fighting over opinions instead of bringing in
040the data, bringing in the facts, bringing in the numbers. And I'm a big one that I want you guys to have all the information that we can to make the best decisions. instead of setting up areas to to disagree with based on just opinions. So that's kind of where I'm at with this kind of stuff. Like Bridge said, it's got nothing to do with whether we're going to do this work or not, but you got to have the facts before you start having the conversation. And Brad was going to bring in like um mechanical electrical engineers, like separate engineers. to look over the whole building and give us rough per square foot what it would take to revamp that to today's standards and give us some proposals. I think before I think we're meeting with
041him again in May. We're going to kind of give him a general idea on what we would like the structure to look like inside like what we need to use it for. And by the and then he would have it ready for us by the end of June. I believe they'd have a well or maybe our June meeting they'd have a idea on financially what it would cost to renovate that whole building. But that being said, if they go in there and look at the structure, the mechanical and electrical, and we see that the structure itself and the foundation itself is not in good shape, well then you're already starting at a bad bad place. That just answers that question. But this is going to be a 10 to say$10 to $20,000 cost to the
042school, but it gives us the no more he said, she said, what's best for this school district. It gives us some numbers to back up whatever argument you want to be on and give us true like a true idea on what it would cost. So, which I think we need to have. I mean, there's so much back and forth on it right now and there's zero foundation for any of it. So, I I And then the hope is possibly if we do go that route for some reason looks financially feasible, visiting with the city about partnering or somehow getting them tied in since they are the public does use it getting their money or hoping they can help financially do it too if that is the route we decide to go. So yeah, I think
043that sums it up pretty good. Um yeah, so that's I guess I think as a committee we would recommend a yes vote. Um but any discussion? We'd love to we'd love to discuss it right now. You guys, is this what you're approving tonight approving the full analysis? It's just the preparing to analyze. I don't have that last minute, but we don't have a dollar amount right now. So, how can you approve what you actually go back to the May meeting? Um, he'll have a dollar for us. He's going to go through and do a little bit of analysis beforehand and give us a rough dollar. So, he's actually have some work into it for free and give us a dollar figure at the May meeting to approve the what he's going to take for him
044to give us a number by June. I should have corrected that. Yeah. So, he's going to do some work for free for us to get an idea on it and then we'll have more of a solid number come. That is true. We won't be voting. It'll be the May meeting. He will have to vote on a he he'll actually have a proposal for us to vote on. So a proposal for an analysis. Not the final proposal building. Okay. Um no vote needed, Ridge. I don't believe until May. I guess you're probably right, Tyrell. And you are a man of the details. That's why we're lucky to have you. Um I missed that, I guess, somehow. So yeah, I apologize. Thank you, Tyrone. Um, I guess you can approve it, but you might be approving a
045$50,000 project. I'm just teasing, but no, it's not. But I guess if nothing else, this was a good this was a good conversation to have in front of all of you. And um, you know, this is something if you've got ideas or suggestions, I guess come talk to us. But this is this is the route we're going. So, um, at least the route to explore is what I should say. So, uh, if nothing else, we'll move on to we'll move on to number number 12. No other discussion there, guys. Are you good to move on? Good. Okay. All right. We're going to move on to number 12. And, um, this is school bus purchase and approval. Okay. Um there has been some discussion with a a larger bus. My opinion right now the two buses
046we have are not designed to travel the amount of miles that we put on for activities. The two buses we have are route buses where kids are on them for 30 to 40 minutes at a time where we are traveling 250 300 miles one way and we have no buses right now that can accommodate that. Um we're having to take two buses sometimes a bus with a suburban with a trailer. So then you're looking at further expenses on two bus drivers. Uh we did have a bus foreman bus sales brought us a 57 passenger. It is what they call an M2 chassis and that's what all these buses are coming out now. Surrounding schools in our area have gone to this. Um you know I visited with the coaches. We have a strong support tonight.
047Um, you know, I I believe this is the way to go, you know, and I've asked those that want or need. Well, we need it. That's why we want it because we need it. Uh, I've got some quotes. I got seven quotes from seven different coach sales or companies. Master's Transportation, uh, American Bus Line, Foreman, obviously, and these buses range anywhere from 330,000 to 47,000. The one that Foreman brought us is a 25 model, 57 passenger, and it's basically a lease return. Um, they don't have the exact miles on it till it actually comes right back to them. Travis Foreman told me somewhere around 15,000 miles on this bus when it comes back. Um, they did give me some prices on a brand new one. They have a 50 51 passenger that is at the
048factory. They just need to pick up. And they also have a brand new 25 model 57 passenger that will be done in sometime June or July delivery. Um, you know, and I've I've been in the car business over 20 years, did some juggling as far as numbers, and I believe the the 25 model, the used one for the price is the way to go. You know, any any car everybody realizes you drive it off the lot, you're going to live well, you know, you're going to lose a lot of money. let somebody else take the initial hit. It's still going to have warranty. We can put extended warranty on. Um, you know, I'm not going to drag this out, but the 2013 model we have, bus is a 31 passenger. The 2019 we have is
049a 47 passenger. None of them accommodate what we actually need to do. Now, I've talked to Lexa. You know, our football team, we got to take a Suburban with a trailer cuz we cannot get all the gear. Um, Dr. Chad, I know Joel is trying to accommodate. It does doesn't happen overnight to do double headers. You got to get other schools to agree dates with this particular bus. We can do the basketball double headers and get everybody on one bus. Um, Dr. Kim, the track team, the same situation. conference meet there could be a possibility of 50 or more kids going to these track meets. Okay, then here we go again. We take two buses or we take bus in a suburban which probably is not going to be enough if we take you know
050I mean basically comes down to the point we got to take two buses again. Um and that's you know coach is going to be willing to deal with this one bus thing if we go that direction. If we do they're going to have to I mean they're the ones that are wanting it, right? That's good. I mean, they're the ones that your question, Sally. Well, are we will we make it work if we get a bus of this stature? Are the coaches willing to make it work so that we can all go together instead of two vehicles? Right now, we make it really convenient. Sometimes we have a a vehicle that will talk can come back early or whatever and it wouldn't have to. your JB's going to have to sit and watch or your
051junior height's going to have to sit and watch or whatever. I see what you're saying. You see what I mean? Yeah, it's getting them there. Once they're there, if they don't want to sit and watch the next game, then they need to find a right home, but getting them there, I think, is, you know, and I think I think they should stay. I mean, I can't tell them to stay, but I think, you know, they should all need to stay and support the other teams. I think that just needs to be good understanding if we do spend the money on something like this especially too Sally and sorry guys I don't want to speak out of there's proper procedures so um just like thanks Rich um so what you're clarifying too Sally is like okay
052we have this 57 passenger bus and coach is like well I don't really want to ride on the bus with the kids so we're also going to take a Suburban like we would have to make sure that that doesn't Yeah. happen. Yeah. Um or we're going to take the water boys and the assistant coaches on the Suburban, which right now, like, not even to mention that our equipment, I would have to take a Suburban regardless. I know um people on the board probably realize that already, too. But just with our football team alone, not counting the equipment, like even this year, and we have a little bit lower numbers this year, the 47 passenger would not fit all of our football team to go to a game. We would have to take one even if
053we didn't have equipment. So, um, I would be completely fine with it. I can't speak for all the coaches. I think Terry brings up a good point. You're going to games and functions, no matter what that is, to to support your school and your community. So why are you leaving early anyways? Is is my thought. The one thing I got to keep in mind too is academic time. So when we pick a big bunch of kids, are we taking a lot of kids out of school to pay to make a bus pay for itself? We're doing that already anyways. Headers, huh? With our double headers, we're already doing that. we're scheduling these double headers. So, you're you're not doing it because you have a big boss. You're doing it because that's the way the schedule
054is. They're and they're trying to do that more at the junior high, too, where they want to walk junior high and varsity games together. So, it's not necessarily something that we would change the way we schedule our games because we got a big bus. It would be buying the big bus to facilitate the way the schedule is. Is it going to cause a problem between coaches? I think Sally asked this a little bit ago, but going forward, say middle school and high school and so we get this, you know, we fit all these kids, but then if you you're scheduling these things and doing these things, but then you have in the fall, who takes in the fall? Yeah. Who takes volleyball or decides? I mean, obviously the football team has a lot of equipment
055and scheduling would come into play there, too. But but if junior high football has a Saturday tournament, my question to you guys would be if we buy this bus, what are the other vehicles that we would still have? Do the other buses go away? I I was going to touch on that if I could, guys. Yeah, because the building committee had some more things we were talking about. Originally, this was brought up because our 2014 31 passenger bus was starting to have issues. So, we looked at another solution to replacing this bus and Chris brought in a 35 passenger kind of like this, a white bus, 35 passenger, single seats, AC, the whole 9 yards to replace a 31 passenger, which we thought was not a bad idea at the time before we had this
056other one brought to us. Those are running I'm going to bring prices. I'm numbers guy. A 35 passenger bus gas was a 130,000. 35 passenger diesel was a 240. whether or not it accommodates the bigger sizes, that's not that's an argument to be had because it can't, but it replaces the bus we do have. But then that being said on um going back to that between the gas and diesel, you don't know. But then you go to this 57 passenger bus to replace the 31 passenger bus which needs to be replaced the 340,000. That's the big jump. So we'd have two big buses, a 47 and 57. And whether that's overkill or not, I don't know. Like we would still keep the 47. Mhm. My my recommendation is we'd keep the 31 and sell the
05747. But the only reason this got brought up though was because the 31 was having issues, right? I I personally think the 30 passenger bus it should have been a 47 and have two 47 passenger buses right now sitting here today. So, I don't think the 30 passenger bus was ever necessarily adequate because that's a one of the reasons it doesn't get used a lot is because if you have even if you have exactly 31 kids going, you don't have room for the advisor then. So, you're locked into about 30 students that can go. So, even if it's just a single class going somewhere, if they have more than 30 students, you cannot use that 30 passenger bus. Now, the 35 passenger bus is slightly bigger, but you would still have the same issues where
058I think you would be better off to keep the 47 passenger bus because when you have your dual track meets where you have a conference, the junior high and the varsity are going, then you'd have two buses that you could put all of your junior high on this bus, all of your varsity on the other bus, things like that. I I mean, honestly, I think that that won't be an issue having two buses that are too big. Right now, we we haul teams that are smaller that could fit on that 30 passenger bus. We'll haul them on the big bus because the drivers like to drive that bus better and the other one's not as nice and things like that. But, hey, can I touch on that real quick? The drivers, the only I I
059like the the big bus is really nice, guys. It's like it's spot on. I'm a football guy. Perfect for football. big storage, but it is air bra. We have one individual on our payroll that has air brake combination and no one else could drive it. That's a big issue. That bus unless that one person can go, that bus can't be moved or if we get other if they have to go. Oh, we have two. Okay, my bad. We have two. So, it's air brake combination. That's the only there that that is one little hiccup in my opinion for that two about one of the things we talked about too was move into a gas bus and just trade more frequently. And so when we looked at that 35 passenger uh per 130,000 30,000 miles I
060thought to myself, well that's a good option. You get away from diesel and you don't worry about jelling up and we just trade more frequently. Um, you know, looking at this other 57 passenger, well, I don't know. That's that's I mean, we we touched on that at the very at least. I don't know. I think power-wise between a gas and a diesel, that would be something we'd have to ask the drivers. Diesel has more. It does, but that's what I mean. What's easier and more comfortable to drive, too, in that aspect. And are our enrollment numbers going up or down? Um, we've got a sixth grade class that's going to be seventh graders next year that's going to be topping at 3031. So, that's growing a little. I've got a couple more kids open. Um,
061our eighth grade class is increasing that I know of two, possibly three. Number three. Um, so if we're going to hover around the 30 number, sixth grade is large at fifth grade is pretty good size. So there's a few larger classes, right? We're going to probably our senior class with our kindergarten class, we're going to gain some com, you know, that we'll probably gain five to 10. So my question is, is there really value in keeping a smaller bus when having two larger buses just makes more sense? Take more advisers, you take more helpers, you take more coaches, you take more parents, whomever can go. my uh this will be the end of year eight. So I can and I was AD for a while. I can speak to like the up and down numbers
062of all our sports. Basketball you're looking at if you count girls and boys together you're looking at roughly 40 to 50 yearbyear. Football you're looking at an average of probably 30ish players. But then you got, you know, all your people and stuff too. We typically football will travel with about 45 um to 45 to 50 as well. So double headers in football are around that 50 number. Um track I think is if you count middle school and high school you're roughly 50. Um I'm sure it's probably a little higher than normal, but yeah. And that's so you're for all of those activities. Volleyball I can't speak to as much just because they're a little lower number. So they maybe won't need as many. I know they've been roughly 20. Um, but they do a lot
063of junior high with the v or with the high school. So if you do junior high and varsity together, then you're looking at close to 50 again. So roughly every sport you're looking at around 50 now. Yes. Does that fluctuate? I had years where we only had I think my lowest year of football was 24. My highest year was 37. So in those years it's like that 51 passengers actually going to push the limit. That's what I was wondering. Isn't 51 just a little bit too small when you get coaches close. Was there storage on that 51? That's the you can get storage. But then here's my opinion on the 51. Okay. All of a sudden we got oh gosh we got 55 kids today. Okay. Now we got to take a spurban again or
064we got to find room. We're at a 57. You know, the other thing to think about, I think, is that you you were mentioning like the smaller bus. We do have the two 14 passenger buses that we've added to our our transportation fleet. I guess if you have a small number of students, you those are available also. And I mean, if you have to take two of them, you're up to 28 kids, which is the same as that 30 passenger bus. But anybody can drive those. Anybody can drive those. We don't have to find a CDL driver. And we usually don't pay those drivers. to drive the wife until I guess the does the board have any questions for the building committee? We came out in committee without a recommendation because we were struggling with
065with a big gulp of replacing a small bus with a big bus mainly because it goes from 100 to 200 to 3 to 350 in price value. There's about a $150 $200,000 swing in price difference. And you saw Amy's email. She feels com she felt like the financials looking at the financial side we are comfortable to do it. She said it's affordable. And I you included the fund balances, the projected fund balances if we were to spend what we're projecting for this year, which we won't spend every penny that I budgeted. So, um, if anybody's wondering for trade in, we got off for 15. We're going to put it to bid. Hopefully, maybe get 20 to 25 out of that old one. And just so you know, guys, by you guys approving to purchase, we're
066not going to go and tell them we're going to buy this tomorrow. I still have to put it out for bid. So, I have to officially put it paper. we'll get the specs and you know we have to give other companies the option to try to get us a better deal and that only protects us too. So that it's not like tomorrow we're going to say we're buying this. This is also going to go on to FY25's budget. If you do decide to go this route so this won't happen until July would it be purchased which they said that was all right too. They would if we told them that they would be able to hold. Travis just said all they need is a yes and he will hold it for us. I do have
067a question and this is this is going to be petty and this is the mom side of them coming out because I know we have really great kids here but I also know the level of destruction they are capable of. And a concern of mine would be I have seen buses after double header sporting events they or yellow buses or things like that. I know, you know, freshman clean up and grade clean up, whatever. Are our coaches prepared to take care of these buses and to teach these kids how to take care of them also? And I think hope I'm going to take responsibility as a superintendent and supervisor of the AD and I'm going to get more involved with a lot of things that I think have been left to every little island of
068all the sports. What I've seen is we have got to get some consistency going around here. We've got a good start. I believe I believe this year we pulled some things in, but that's one of them because I've been on a lot of those buses with the same concern. I deal with it so often around here and it's really sad to me to watch our kids have it so good here. So good. And yet brand new things out in the hallways, graffiti, they're written on already and I'm pulling them in and having them scrub them down. And I just I I do struggle with we have to somehow help our kids overall understand that they have to take a hold of this too. Um cleaning up the city and there's people that don't think we
069should have to help clean up. just that there's an I want to teach from that attitude. So I will take responsibility to help with that part because it is a concern. Is there any reason I didn't I'm sorry if I missed it but did did we ever get pricing on a 51 passenger? We do have some on 51s. Can you share that with me, Terry? They're about This one, the couple of them I did get are about $35,000 difference. Cheaper. Then we're going to lose some of the storage compartment space. They're going to lose. Well, yeah. We're going to spend that much money. So, they're about Yeah. 295 298. Um, another some information I did get some of these bus companies is this M2 chassis. Freightlininer only makes so many of them a year. Right
070now, all the 26 models are already spoken for. So, if we wait and we do not do anything now, we will probably won't be able to get one next year. My understanding two years to get one. This 57 passenger coach bus for the 340. The only reason that it is that price is because it's a lease return, right? Like it's a deal. Yeah. No, it's the best route to go if we want to go 50. Basically, what it comes down to for it is if we want to go to the 57 and we want to vote on that, that 340 is a very good price. If we feel like that's too much money and we want to replace the 31 bus with a 35 passenger bus, we're looking at 100 200 2 210 130 for
071gas, 210 for diesel for 35 passenger. similar bus with all the same features. It's just not as big. It would have tensioning in the back, but not it doesn't go all the way through it and it wouldn't have storage. Um, so you'd still be driving a Suburban with a trailer. I mean, essentially, which would cost something like this versus the other ones? Yeah, I actually did talk to our insurance company. I mean, I understand I'm not person. So we're say which one are we would we replace with either the 35 or the 57? We would only replace one of them and we have to decide between those two. We were looking at replacing the 31 passenger bus our older 2014s. It was brought to our attention that it was having a lot of issues. It
072was just struggling and which it is. It's time to move it on. And that's when we came up to this and we were start looking at what options we have. We replace it with a similar size. We replace it with a bigger size. And that's where this is we're trying to decide that what direction the 35 or the 57 question you know something we have not talked about you guys I saw something outstanding today and that was probably about I don't know kids 35 there was a lot filled that music room all with their band instruments and they sounded phenomenal come Monday night but if we get to the point where we get those guys doing some things those instruments as well. I was thinking the same thing. You know, we're talking about just the
073sporting team. What about our music program? Our music program is exploding and that it's easier to drive somewhere with a football team than it is with the band because the band when they stack their stuff in there that eventually crashes down and drums are rolling around and so it's not a good system for hauling band equipment and they don't all play flutes. There going to be a lot of lot of large instruments and our music program is exploding. I mean, I got the comments of our last concert was the best one we've ever heard from that bus. Heck of a lot of storage. You could fit a lot of You could fit bodies. You can do a lot of frustrated with them. Thank you, Sally. We're on the Well, do we What do we think,
074guys? Oh, sorry. You're good. Is it putting the cart before the horse if I ask like is it all white? Do we Is it gonna get wrapped? Is it going to be Well, it would be free to have a little the block detail black letters. Um I mean immaterial cost to have like maybe a eagle head, but Terry I I could get a quote of a very good friend of mine. I've known for over 30 years has a vinyl graphic business in Peter. He's good enough for there's a trucking company in Scots block takes all their trucks in. They're the only ones that he lets gra and he's got a program on his computer that he could actually pull up that exact bus and put the graphics on just like we we'd see it just
075like it'd be when it was done. He's got that program to where we could get an estimate from him. Now, did when the bus came, where am I remembering that they said Chris, you might remember this. Is it better not to wrap it? Do you remember? You didn't say anything about that. Um because if you need to trade it in and when you say wrap, are you calling the whole thing or just just vinyl? Wrapping is actually the whole thing. We're just talking logo and name sticker on the side which looks it's a bigger sticker than just the black mailbox. A wrap is actually a decal. Wrap is actually like we wouldn't do that. Wrap. No, these would be the table decal. It's still going to have, you know, 515 school district. What I worry
076about obviously have that other than just a white it is from your question. I did have our insurance company price out. I just I mean we're not comparing apples to apples. was the the 2013 IC bus was 1,200 a year. This 57 passenger was 3,800 a year to can to ensure but we're not I mean we're talking is the bus they're not occup it's we're not but that's where I wanted to give you guys a number and another positive um on this bus had cameras all the way around it so when you're going down the road you have no blind spots if you're parking a parking lot you see 360. That was another positive for drivers, which if we do go this route, I'd really push Sally to find more bus drivers. The breaking air
077break too is not enough to for the school district in my opinion. I'd like you to push maybe some other guys to try that want to do it. We've already said we would help them, but there's some testing. Yeah, there's classes. They've got to go through some stuff and there's a couple classes other schools are struggling with it too. Bus drivers don't come out of this. I think the economic development was something bus drivers or no like class stuff class. Yeah, some kind of CDL deal. We got to have the people in order to I mean I've got the classes. So do we need a vote tonight on um we would need a vote to um so I could go out to or I could advertise for or advertise. You can always reject bids. But
078this just look as you get closer to it. Are we ready for it then? Yeah. Recommendation to the board to move forward. How does that work? This is the committee deal is a little new to me. Do we got to make a recommendation? Someone needs to make a go out. We have to make a recommendation because we took it out of the committee. So, we just need a motion um from the board to pursue um bids for a 57 passenger bus and bring the bids back to us to approve. I think make a motion to seek the bid 57 passenger bus bring back and I'll second. Now, do we make a motion to put our 2013 up bids? that is whatever this is under if it's under 50 it's under a certain price t you
079just get to do it no it has to be it um we have to go uh get is it two or three three if it's over $2500 we have to have people I think 2500 put the one we have up probably do at a later date I thought we're talking about the bid the motion to get the bid not the old with the new the new bus. Is this for the This is for the new bus. We had a question about the old bus today because we're not going to do anything with that until we know something here, right? So, don't worry about the 31 passenger. So, we got a motion. What's that? We actually did it right. We made a motion, second, and then we discussed. We're doing great. We finally discussed it. Okay.
080Um, all in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Same sign. All right. Motion passes to approve um going to bid for a 57 passenger bus. Thank you all for your input. Uh all right, guys. We'll move on to 13. Approve surplus items for disposal or sale. That was not included in your board packets that were emailed out. We did have um some last minute additions. So that is a new packet um in front of you. So there is some iPads that were um bought with Perkins funds and a DeWalt drill that is broken and it smokes. So sounds like a liability to sell smoking sessation. Make a motion to surplus the items for disposal or sale. I'll second. All right, we got a motion and a second. Any discussion? If none, all in favor
081say I. I. Oppose, same sign. Motion passes to approve approve surplus items for disposal or sale. On to number 14 we go. um approve 2025 and 2026 open enrollments. They sent they got we can't talk about I can't talk about that. Yeah, I thought they were for executive session. No, we could vote. Vote on them. Look at them and vote. We don't read them out. I don't think they were they received them ahead of time. So, there shouldn't be any discussion needed. And if there was, you'd have to request it before the meeting to get an open, right? I'll make a motion to approve the open enrollments. Second. Motion in a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. Those same sign. Motion passes to approve 2025 and 2026 open enrollments. Um, we're
082on to the funnest part of the night, committee reports. Um, yeah. Start out with budiations and insurance. Um, we need to Oh, did I want to talk about it, Rich? Do we need to talk about I'm sorry I broke out. I couldn't hear you there for a second, but we got it. All right. Fire away. And then we had our negotiations. It went well two weeks ago. Last week, right? Two week two weeks ago. 26 or something. I think it went well. Never done it before though, so I can't remember. Our new contract or we did we use our new contracts with our new So, we updated the negotiating agreement features. That is that a lot of the changes were legal. That's what I mean. The legal. So a lot of the ones it actually
083worked out well for me to be there because a lot of the changes were the ones we made in our policy and they were legal changes that our lawyer recommended. Tyra, we won't offer contracts to teachers. Yeah, I know what negotiating. It's the same thing in my opinion. Good, good, good. Was anybody anything to add? Um, I will be in contact with Ridge, Carolyn, and Miranda to set up a um, budget meeting because next month we will be approving our preliminary budget. So, sounds good. Yeah. Um, I I don't have anything else to add, I guess, unless anybody else does, I'll I'll move on to the buildings and grounds. Uh, Tyrell or Terry? Um, any of you can take it away from here. I mean, we've we've touched on at our last meeting, we had
084discussion about the powerhouse and we had discussion about the bus. Um, so we've touched on both of those tonight. We also had discussion we decided to move ahead with um the football bathrooms. We decided to put a um drain field. I believe it was completely decided. We're going to put a drain field in out there because every time we had a um anything out at the football track field, we had have it pumped. It was going to be about $800 every time we had it pumped. The cities broke down and over the course of a year we get paid for a drain field. So we're having a drain field installed for around $12,000 or 16,000. So in about one year we'll have that paid for. Instead of pumping it, it'll just drain. So and no,
085it is not a open-ended. So it's a sealed. It's not daylight. It's not daylighting. Okay. And then and then I don't know if this is super important, but I I talk about everything. We have a leaking roof in the egg room in our new building and that was going to be addressed by the construction company. That's all I know. And then also the and it was the only rain we had since it was done almost. So that's kind of depressing. But and also the R room. We're looking at moving the R room to the old egg room, egg teacher room because her room's too small. It's truly too small for the amount of kids she has. Then we might have to move a sink somehow. We're trying to work that out. Don't know. I've known
086no details on that, but that is the game plan. So yeah, I think you touched on everything, Tyrell. Yes. Thank you. Since Chris is here, just quickly, I know we just had rain. I was going to ask him, did we see any leaks today? No. Uh, Built Right Roofing came back like the day after our meeting. I think they were here and they patched up the roof. I haven't talked to the supervisor from RCS. He's coming back to do some painting stuff in one of the classrooms on Friday. He might have more information on what was actually wrong with the roof, but I think it's been repaired. It's not leaking anymore this morning. That's a good Thank you, Chris. Next meeting is May 6. And our next meeting is May 6. Yep, that would be
087correct. And we'll have more information via that after that meeting on the old school. So yeah, any other questions for us, guys? All right, none more. We'll move on to curriculum, instruction, and technology. We actually haven't met our last meeting, so have a meeting. Do we need to set one up to? And I don't know. Yeah, I can't that would be busy like to make a motion to get paid for committee meetings if they're on a different day than today. Well, I mean, let's schedule more. Well, it's like $20. It's 50 bucks, but you have the ability to raise your race. Do we need one before the end of the year? I would like to run by some. I think we should talk about our decision to get some computer pieces. Yes, I would like
088one before the end. actually before we do some budget. Um I know it seems so much you guys budget meeting the other 29th. What about the 29th? April whatever you guys April 29th bill what? Sorry. April 29th. Yep. Time. Whatever time you guys can get here. 4:35. [Music] Thank you. All right. Well, we'll move on if we don't have anything else there on curriculum and instruction. Uh move on to legislation, policy, and strategic planning. Moving right along. We are flying through policy. We wrapping that up in June. In June, we'll be we will be done in June for approval in June. July. Yep. And it's really coming together nicely. I think the contracts, the the last meeting was all about contracts, wasn't it? Yep. The negotiated agreements, just getting everything all lined out. It is
089very clean. It's very nice. So like all the contracts that you got in your board packets, they're matching the policies which will then match the handbooks and everything we were discovering. Not match. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be very And then our next goal Sally and I have is to start working on like um like just like our description of our job positions and like when somebody gets hired, we actually right now we hire somebody and if we forget, correct me if I'm wrong, we forget to tell them something during that time and we expect them to do it and the bus doesn't get cleaned because the coaches didn't know it need cleaned because we never told them it need cleaned. Our new contracts that we're going to be making up is going to have
090a majority of the list descriptions of what their job entails is our goal. What you were saying, right, for the most part, you call a contract matrix. What? Well, right. And so like basically in the contract it'll have something that says, you know, refer to the job description, which will then have the list of more details. It's a lot easier for the teachers because we have a negotiated agreement which lists a lot of things whereas like our um hourly staff or admin are in those. We don't have job descriptions that are within this decade. You know, a lot of other duties as a son. Yeah. Instead of expected and not being told, you can actually tell and be expected. Then it's not fair to expect something when someone's not told. Zena might not have been
091raised that way. So, we're hoping to get that streamlined streamline, but our policies themselves are not wrong. We have two groups left. Yep. The five and 6,000. And we have our handbooks. And you just moved our meeting to the 16. 16, right? Yep. Okay. All right. Um any anything else um on legislation, policy and strategic planning? If not, we'll go ahead and move on to career development, scholarship, and marketing. [Music]