001Well, it is now 7 o' and we do have a forum present. So, if you would remove your cover and pray with me as we begin tonight, please. Holy divine. Father God, we thank you for all that you blessed us with here on this earth. And we thank you for all that you do for us each and every day. Father God, we uh pray that you be with us now as we look after matters of this school. Help us to keep the kids' best interest at heart and all that we do. Dear God, we pray that you help us to make wise decisions. Watch after us and keep us. And Father God, forgive us because we fall short of your glory with our sins. In Christ we pray. Amen. All right, we will move to
002the cardinal spotlight next on our list. Cardinal spotlight this month. The the new board new board. The current board wanted to uh acknowledge the prior board or or old board, not not new and old, but Mr. P will present the plaques to those in attendance. First one we'd like to thank for your service is Tom Barry. [Applause] Tim Dus, Burton Sander, Jim Limeberger, John Williamson, [Applause] Bubba Bots, Alan Cole, [Applause] Billy Joe Digby, David Digby, Shireen Digby, Roy Gil, Larry Don, Notiger, Joe Ramish appreciate y'all and all the work that you've done over the years. We'll now have the uh public forum. We have one sign up for the public forum. Thank you all for your services. All right. Um we have one signed up. Individuals who wish to participate during the portion of the
003meeting designated for public comment shall sign up between 8:00 a.m. and 3 p.m. on the board meeting date as specified in the board's procedures on public comment and shall indicate the agenda item or topic on which they wish to address the board. The speaker will be given up to five minutes to address the board. Under the Texas Open Meetings Act, the board is not permitted to discuss or act upon any issues that are not posted on the agenda for the meeting. Unlawful or disruptive conduct, including interrupting scheduled speakers, speaking out of turn or interfering with the rights of others, will not be tolerated. Each participant is legally responsible for the content and consequences of his or her own statements. Lexi Greenwood. Good evening everyone. My name is Lexi Greenwood. I am a current senior here
004at Hermley ISD. This previous year, I enrolled in 10 dual credit courses, five each semester at Western Texas College. For the fall term, I earned a 3.5 out of 4.0 GPA and was awarded Deans List. For this previous spring term, I earned a 4.0 out of 4.0 GPA and was awarded president's list. On top of that, I've maintained a 3.9 out of 4.0 GPA in my high school classes. This past week has been complex, emotional, and damaging for us all. However, my purpose speaking tonight is to enlighten each of you on the emotional distress and burden I have been put through regarding saludiatorans. Monday, May 12th. Monday was our senior skip day. Therefore, I was not at school. At 3:45 p.m., I received an email from Casey Schaefer titled rankings. And here's a screenshot of
005that email. After receiving this email, I immediately called my mom and told her the exciting news. We planned on having a celebration dinner and told our immediate family. We decided it would be best if we let the school announce it publicly before telling anyone else. Right after I looked into Midwestern State University scholarships to see if they offered anything for high school saludiatorans. Their website stated that high school saludiatorans would be offered $2,000 a year, which I would divide into $1,000 a semester. Here is a screenshot of Midwestern State University's website. To receive my bachelor's, I would be I would accumulate a total of $8,000. My masters would accumulate a total of $12,000. This scholarship would reduce the cost of my tuition significantly and the financial burden of my parents. Tuesday, May 13th, at 9:00
006a.m. to 9:50 a.m., my senior class had a meeting in Coach Lopez's room. I never told anyone about the news I received to this point. The class meeting was about graduation rose, roses, senior lockin, senior prank, and graduation practice. The teachers who were in there were coach Lopez, Miss Smith, the art teacher, Coach Gibson, Miss Gibson, and Mr. Marman. Coach Gibson wrote on the board each row for seating, the top two being Val Victorian Saludiatoran, and the rest numbered 1 through 14. Coach Gibson asked Mr. Marman if he knew who Val Victorian Saluditor were, and Marman said yes. Coach Gibson then asked if he would tell us, and Mr. Marman stood silent. Miss Smith Mint then spoke up and said, "I know who it is. I can say it. And Marman agreed for her, too.
007Miss Smith then said, "I heard it was Mia and Lexi." Gibson looked at Mr. Marman for approval and he nodded. Coach Gibson then wrote Mia's and my name on the whiteboard. Here's a screenshot of that, too. After this, a comment was made by a student saying, "I want to get too comfortable. The grades are going to change." I won't point out names, but has been discussed to some board members already. This comment was not made directly to my face, but was circumstantial and out loud for other students to hear. After our past meeting and this comment was made, I felt burdened. I was ignored and surrounded by whispers throughout the rest of the morning. I texted my mom stating, "I don't even feel welcome at school anymore. I was getting along with everyone, but then
008I got saludiatoran and it went downhill." There's those messages between me and my mom. They are redacted text messages because they're in uh not appropriate. Reason Haley had texted me asking if I was okay. And my response to both of them was I am happy for myself, but now it feels like I took that away from her rather than and I earned it. You know, I'm proud of myself, don't get me wrong, but it sucks at the same time. And here are those messages between me and Ree and then me and Katie. Throughout the rest of the day, I kept wondering if this honor was going to be taken away from me. During lunch, I talked to Miss Anderson and she told me there are certain policies and laws that should change the grades, but
009only under certain circumstances, which we were not aware of. I then talked to Mr. Mayorman after lunch. He told me there is a chance the grades will change because of a policy that has not been in place and the school lawyer will decide the best course of action. He informed me that we will now we will know what choice will be made by tomorrow, Wednesday or Thursday, Wednesday, May 14th. I had spent all morning waiting for the news. Around noon, I went to ask Miss Schaefer if anything had been known. She informed me grades were still being calculated and she was having to go back two years to change the dual credit grades. She apologized for her mistake, admitted she was wrong, and told me we should know by tomorrow. Thursday, May 15th, at 11:55
010a.m., I received a text from my family group chat, a photo of the Snyder newspaper at Walmart. On the front page, there was Iris Val Victorian Saludiatoran and Hermley's Mia and Lexi announced publicly for the city of Snider. Um, here's a screenshot of that message. The date it was released, seen at the top, stated Wednesday, May 14th, 2025. And here is that newspaper. During 8th period, a little after 2:50 p.m., Maryman called me to his office. I sat down and he called my mom and explained to us after going back four years to change the dual credit grades, I was moved back to third. Furthermore, he explained that grades have been calculated this way since December of this school year at the insistence of Mr. Ellerby, but these changes still need to be made to
011previous school years. He said that him and Miss Schaefer had known there could be a chance of this happening since Monday, but did not wait to release any information. He explained that co-oliatoran had been discussed in an option to be given to me besides that there was besides that there was nothing else that could be done. However, to me, it was never about the title or the graduation speech. It was about the $12,000 scholarship I would have received, but it was taken away from me. I was emotionally distraught. The beginning of the week was exciting. I was happy and proud of my perseverance in dual credit courses. Then, as the week went on, I became depressed, anxious, and stressed at school after receiving hasty remarks, feeling burdened by my accomplishment, and being informed this honor
012was being taken away from me. After school, I went to Walmart to pick up a few things and grab a newspaper. People had recognized me from the newspaper and congratulated me. Other family and friends had texted me and congratulated me as well. I was embarrassed and upset to just tell them thank you knowing the situation I have been through. In April, I received an application for a summer internship at Cogdale Memorial Hospital. This internship would give me insight into radiology and prepare me for the radiology program at Midwestern State University. The deadline to turn the application in was Thursday, May 15th. I had completed the application and finished the essay. However, I was waiting to see if I was honored as saludiatoran to include in my resume to increase my chances of being accepted. However,
013after hearing the news on Thursday, I went to turn in my application, apologizing for doing so on the last day and briefly explained the situation, which has not only taken away a significant scholarship, but also put me in the last 30 applicants for the internship instead of the first 30, decreasing my chances of being accepted. This past week has been emotionally distressing for me. I felt anxious going to school, surrounded by whispering and being ignored, feeling that such a high honor is a burden and not an accomplishment, and knowing that my hard work paid off only for it to be taken away. I do not stand up here disregarding other students or families involved in the situation. For I know I'm not the only victim. In fact, after submitting my formal request this morning to
014speak in the public forum at tonight's meeting, Mr. Ellerby came to speak with me and attempted to address my concerns, but he does not have the power to do so. I also understand that speaking tonight may not change anything or benefit me. However, I do stand up here to defend myself and explain the situation I have been put through because of a mistake that has been made for the past 9 years which was suddenly fixed nine days before graduation after final grades were released and I was announced as saludiatoran. I ask the parents in this room today, how would you feel if your senior was going through the situation that I am in? How would you want them to remember their last days of high school and walking across that graduation stage? I asked the
015faculty, "What do you want your students to remember about Hermley ISD after graduating? And what impact do you want on your students when they leave the school?" In all, my faith and maturity has brought has brought to light a positive side of this situation that no other senior who may not be able to handle this burden and emotional distress will go through what I have. Thank you for your time. [Music] Thank you. Superintendence report enrollment attendance comparing this time this year to this time last year. We are same exact enrollment up about 1.5%. We are down one student from this time last month and our enrollment or our attendance percentage is higher. Uh next page budget report you'll see May 25 compared to May 24. uh bottom right hand corner of each you'll see the
016overall percentage we're at for the budget 86.94 currently 88.63 63 last year. June board meeting date third week in June looks to be June 19th or June 16th. Sorry. June 16th. Is everyone okay with June 16th? 7 p.m. All right. Mr. The only other was the last day of school. Is that something? Yes. We need to cover that. So, we have the option to do steak and chicken, some sides, and some desserts. Shri ran some quick numbers, and we'd be looking at about $300 worth of food to feed the the staff. Chicken and steak, potatoes, and salad, and bread. Did not include any desserts. 23rd Friday. Friday Friday. Oh, okay. Yeah. And since it's since it's no school, then all the teachers can eat all at once rather than in split shifts, which is a
017whole lot easier when you're the one. Yes. Oh, yeah. Why don't I get off? But I'll pitch in. Sounds great. So about $50 a piece roughly. That sets well with everybody. We'll start cooking before it'll be ready to eat. Yeah. And if you're able to attend, just let you with us. So, anything else, Mr. Heat? No, sir. Okay. Principal's report. Okay. Okay. So, we have junior high graduation Thursday at 7. High school graduation is Friday at 7. Awards ceremony is 9:00 a.m. Thursday. Y'all don't have to come to that. You certainly can. We do all the kids that all the kids getting awards. Um, and then kindergarten graduation is Wednesday at 9:00. You don't have to come to that. You certainly can and be on stage and shake hands. Awards is awards is Thursday at
0189 and that is first grade through 12th grade awards. Okay. Kindergarten graduation is Wednesday. Is that when the senior senior walk? Yes. uh transfer letters. We've done all of our meetings. We will send those out Friday. Um overall, our enrollment is going to go up about 10 kids. Um just kids that we can fit one here, fit two here. Um not making classes outrageously big. Um classes you may have 15. We may add one or two of those. So um I think we have five that we are revoking transfer. No, six seven that we're revoking on or they're not returning next year. So overall our enrollment will be I want to guess about 260ish. Um, EOCC star scores will be will be released this Friday. So, we'll start telling those high school kids um the
019next week. So, then we can come for summer school and retest in June. Third through eighth grade star scores are released May 30th. That is all for the principal report. Yes. So, staffing, we are fully staffed right now. Um the Guzman's, you know, we hired Caitlyn Guzman to do third through fifth reading. We hired Jacob Guzman to do high school science and Sat I interviewed a teacher Friday. Um she signed a contract Saturday. Daley Andrews, um she will be our first grade math teach our first grade teacher. Um she used to be an egg science teacher when I was teaching. Uh I hired her to be a kindergarten teacher when I was at Snyder. Did a very good job. now she's the intermediate and the counselor there and said she wants to go back to
020the classroom. So she's worked for me before and I thought it'd be a very good fit. So we went ahead and gathered her up and got her sign the contract. So she's fully certified counselor certified EC through6 ESL. So she's the first she will be first. Yes ma'am. Yes ma'am. She will have to take maternity leave. She'll get to start the year and then she'll have to do maternity leave. I'll talk to Miss Williamson. She's going to step in for that time and fill in for those weeks. So, I thought it was a good move to get Bailey to come over and be a card. Is this public? Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Okay, never mind. We know she's leaving, but I don't know if she knows their place there. Well, okay. That's that
021was what I was getting at. So, okay. You have any questions about the the brown envelope, please ask me. Yes. Ask him direct quietly. Okay, that's all for the principal. All right. Athletic report. Do we have a representative? I've got the athletic report. Um, baseball. We're district champions. Um, they lost to Westbrook in the B district round. We had our first junior high softball game last week. Lost to Aspermont 18 to five. I think the projection for next year softball is to have around 27 to 30 girls. So, good problem to have, but needs lots of lots of jerseys and softball team regional champions beat uh Bordon County last week. They will play Jonesboro starting uh Wednesday at Tarlton and then Saturday at Weatherford. That's the state semi-finals. Um if they win, they'll play for
022the state championship in Austin on May 31st. At the end of that, they will take a week off and then start summer workouts. And that's all for athletic report operations report. Um, excuse me. The carport is being um built for the suburbans currently. Um, and then we got a water leak out front. If you guys didn't see the orange cones, um, it's on the irrigation side. So, we'll hopefully get that addressed within the next week or so. We've been kind of getting things gathered up to get the summer workers. Um we got a couple kids that going up this summer. Kind of getting some of the things lined out for them to to do. And then um it's just been mowing and cleaning and really trying to prep for the summer stuff. So gathering up
023material stuff to go along with operations. the foundation rescended the uh motion to purchase the house just because of the extent of how much it was going to cost to fix it up. Is the foundation originally uh opted to purchase the um I don't I don't know the address, but it's house down the road for 45,000 and then they anticipated 10,000 to fix it up, but our our estimates are coming in at around 60,000 to fix it. Um So, we just didn't think it was a good expense right now. So, um we're just hing brakes on the house. Any other on operations? So, that carport just going to be built for the suburbans? Yes, sir. I mean I mean it's not going to have any doors or anything. Just No, sir. It's just going to
024be kind of like the um like the bus barn. It's just uh only 12t tall cuz we took those bays whenever we closed in for the shop. So, we're kind of gaining those spots back currently. Well, what I was looking at, you know, everything comes out of the west and that thing's pretty high and then suburban being parked right there to it. It's really not going to help it. Everything comes out of the west. It's pretty tall. Suburbans. Now, if you park a bus, might be pretty good, but suburban be like parking here and coming out of the west storms. That's just me saying I think when they get done with the the construction of it, it'll be it's not I mean it's going to be 12 foot tall, but it's also going to have
025a three foot band around it too. Um Richard Munoz out of Lraine Big Boys Construction. Anything else on operation? All right. Next is to consider take possible action on the approval of the Board minutes from April the 21st regular board meeting. I'll second it. Have a motion and a second on the floor to approve the minutes as written. Any further discussion? All in favor? 70. Next will be the bills. Consider and take no wrong page. Consider and take possible action on the approval of the payment of bills and the investment report. Uh there was one did separate transactions. Got the tractor and got implements which is a blade front end loader. So there two separate 7 $7500 purchases. I'll make a motion to approve it. We have a motion and a second to approve the
026bills as presented. Is there any further discussion? All in favor? And it was through the maintenance note. Just Yes, it was through the maintenance note. Did you? All in favor? 70. Okay. Now, consider and take possible action on the purchase of the new transit. Yeah. So, there's two quotes in there. One of them says, actually, there's four. Um, two of them. Uh, we got Aero Ford out of Abling quoted us and then Wilson Motors. Um, the one for Wilson Motors may say Witchto Falls, but I think that's where he's possibly getting it from or trading for it from. Um, it's for a mid roof or a low roof. I think the low roof would be a little bit more adequable for our I mean, they're both carry the same capacity. It's just not as tall.
027So maybe the staff that drives it won't feel maybe so intimidated with being such a larger vehicle. And I think the lowest one for the low roof would be Wilson Motors. The cheapest quot the one that Yeah, that one that has the window sticker. The cheap one. Yeah. 53 something. Yeah, they're brand new. 15. 15 passenger. They make 12 passengers, but uh with the 15 passenger, this one, if we do go somewhere that's only taking eight kids or 12 kids and they're going to be gone longer, we can easily remove the back seats for additional storage. So, they wouldn't have to pull a trailer. But they will be able to pull each other if they're taking 15 and they're going to be gone and need extra space. We ever get the other suburban with that
028new motor in it? Yes, sir. Yeah, we've been running that. Yeah, it's actually already ready for an old change. So, um I guess the board needs to know how much we got for the uh the bus. It was 71 something almost 72. So what we had intended to do is take this difference and apply it towards a new egg truck or maintenance truck. So we have a motion and a second to purchase transit van from Wilson Motors for 54535. Is there any further discussion? All in favor 71. All right. Next item is uh consider and take possible action to temporarily modify provisions of board policy CH local related to superintendent purchasing authority to temporarily increase superintendent purchasing authority to blank in order to purchase a school truck. Uh superintendent purchasing authority currently is $10,000 and
029we had looked at different truck options. I think we wanted to stay in the ballpark of around 25,000 but we considered moving that a truck to use for maintenance because it's a lot of truck and and buy like a you know quad cap 1500 low mileage for tag. We don't have any Jerry's got some estimates and bids, but they can't hold those for as long as it takes to have the meeting is so they got a new act pick up or a used maintenance back. Well, I to me for her to drive that truck. That truck she's got is too much. I mean, agreed. Too much power to it. Yeah, that's way too much truck for a district size period. I mean, it's just it's a it's a one ton pickup, single axle, one ton,
030um 3500 and it 4x4 8 foot bed. I mean, it's a lot of truck and then you put the gooseeneck on it and she's got to go, you know, it's a lot of truck. Um, of course, if you rotated it down to maintenance quarter ton, this would y'all would just set this up. I don't know. a half ton pulling a goo down. We would still use I mean we'd still use the one tone to pull a load like that. So kind of where we ran into was we talked about trading in the current a pickup for a new one. They're only going to give us about $25,000 for it. Um so $25,000 just keep it is kind of what our thought was. use it as maintenance and then purchase a new a pickup 3/4 ton
031gas four-door obviously um for four-wheel drive. But those are running the cheapest one we got was like 57 $58,000. And so that's pretty much you're going to have to add whatever the insurance company or insurance money is 25,000. You're going to have to add another 30 to that just to even purchase a new maintenance pickup. um or or I mean a new act pickup or you keep the current act pick up for now in the current situation, let it keep doing what it's doing for another year or two. Um and then we just find something with whatever money we have for maintenance, which maintenance, it don't matter if it's a half ton pickup, whatever. It's just really run back and forth to town, get supplies, whatever. Or if we got a bus program, we need
032to go take parts to it or whatever. Um but thing is, you can't go down to the dealership and say, "Hey, hold this used pickup for me. I'll get a board meeting next month because if somebody comes in tomorrow and says I got the money, they're they're selling it versus they can hold the new one because if they sell that new one, they can go they can get another new one just like it. So, um that's kind of where we came up with this of allowing Mr. Ellerby to at least if we find something you guys set an amount or whatever, then we can go find something. It'll be a little easier that way. So, buy the maintenance back. Buy the maintenance back. Okay. if that's what y'all that's what we talked about doing because
033we're only going to get 25 for the current pickup and that's the most we get for it. Some of them were coming in at 235 24 but the most we got was 25. So how many miles that it's got right at 100,000 we just had we just replaced three injectors in it this past school year. So Thoughts, discussion 30,000. I mean, I think we could find a good We can look. We may have to go way off, but we find something, I'm sure. We're not asking for a Cadillac. We're just trying to really find something to, like I said, run back and forth to town. Something at least we can rely on if we do need to go. Yeah. But she broke down in Houston. We got to go, you know, get her. At least
034we need to be able to trust what we're taking to go get her. And you're looking for a 3/4 ton? No, we're just looking for maintenance. We're just a half ton pickup. Yeah, just a half ton pickup for maintenance to use like said to run. kind of part fetch or tools in or whatever. Something reliable. Yeah. Was that in a form of a motion? I will make that. Okay. 30,000. Yeah. Make a motion to give Mr. E 30,000 authority to purchase. So, we have a a motion and a second for purchasing the $30,000 school pickup max. 30,000 max. Any further discussion? All in favor? Thank you guys. That'll help the maintenance department quite a bit. We did that little Polaris. That was safety. Put a trailer on it. Go. It'll pull whatever you put behind
035it. I drove it one day to Alups for lunch and it was kind of chilly and I'll say that again. All right. Consider and take possible action to approve an independent design representative. Uh we we talked to Mr. Gable a couple weeks ago. We couldn't get him to agree to terms. Um so it's back to the drawing board. Uh what what the board's asking for is something kind of unique in the sense that you need a design build firm to do everything, but you need a design representative to be legal. Um so a lot of a lot of large companies, they don't want to mess with just providing a small service. Um this this company here, um this is an independent design rep. Um, and the letter the letter is attached there. And they would
036they would charge $5,000 for the following um bond support. And it's it's they've worked with this company before, but it's also the only one that would meet the needs of what they've been asked to do. Because a consulting service versus a full bond project is a big difference in money and a lot of those a lot of the big businesses don't want to just provide a consulting service. They want the 3% of the bond. But if it's still the intent for a November 25 bond, this needs to take off pretty quickly. Do we need to discuss the other issues that have come up since we put this on the agenda taxes and stuff? I think it's I think it's very necessary. So, um there is a current court case that's being heard right now on
037uh wind tower evaluations and how wind companies depreciate their assets. The outcome of that particular court case could mean less money for wind turbons that they have to pay out in taxes, which means less money for us on the bottom line. What we don't know is how that would affect our interest in syncing account or our interest in syncing tax rate. So dependent upon how that particular court case goes, we could be shining like a star or we could be dull like a piece of coal. U besides that, there is another electrical related project that is set to uh be put in Scurry County. So we hear through the grapevine. There's nothing in writing that we've seen yet, but we have heard that there will be a solar project. They have not contacted us. We
038don't know who to contact to talk with them um regarding that. So, don't know if that would mean a possibility of a tax abatement for them for a period of years similar possibly to maybe what we did with the wind towers. Having said all that, do we want to spend $5,000 for an independent design rep not knowing how the rest of all this is going to pan out? In other words, not knowing what's going to happen with those two main issues could have a huge impact on our budget for next year. It may be that we want to pump the brakes on the uh on the bond and prop property property value. decreased about 20%. And that that there's a lot of fluctuation in that. It could come back higher than it was, but what
039what what that does for a bond is basically means you have to pass a higher rate to get the same value. So there's a lot of lot of kind of complex issues with trying to pass a bond right now. If we don't pass a bond, We're going to fix the water le kind of like the roof in the playground. Mr. Marman met put a million dollar roof on there. I know. But how long did it take? 13 years. 14 years. Mr. Turf guys on the playground. You want to tell tell them about turf? talked about. Yeah. So, they they came and tested it with the drop test and they were going to plug it in and get some specific numbers, but I guess when they put that in, they said that it's not the locking
040pads. So, there's a gap between each section. And you go out there and look and you can see about every four foot there's a line that has a little gap in it. So, that's what's I think pulling that turf away too. So, everyone gets some numbers on it as far as safety. And they say that turf is not even with the padding is not meant to prevent broken arms. It's to prevent head injuries. So, they were dropping it around where the playground is and they were going to get some numbers and send to us as far as data. So, they do it kind of like they do football field. Yes. Same. Do it from so high, catch it, reads it, video it. So what do we need to do on this independent design? If if
041if the plan is not to go out for bond in November, there's no no need for action on this. immediately. I mean, if if it if that is the case, it needs to happen pretty quickly. would we be in a better knowledge place to delay that bond procession till May of next year instead of November of of this year? we'll know exactly where our property values are. Um the trending in our in our values is just it's almost unpredictable. It was it went up 25% higher than they first anticipated. But uh May would give you a kind of better better idea be more clear on where where we stand financially. So we can we can call in May. Well, we've got some we got a lot of things that we've got to do ahead of
042time from that. You know, we'll need to we'll need to do the design rep. We'll have to get the the group together that we want to use for the project, define the project, figure out how much that's going to be moneywise, figure out what that's going to do to our tax rate and um what it looks like on payout schedule before we call for that bond election. Because anything in that entire process could completely knock a bond election out of out of whack. And I know that a lot of folks automatically think that any bond by the school, by the county, by whomever is going to automatically raise taxes. And that's not always the case. It's not going to raise much more than it is right now. You have to raise it a little bit
043if you pass, but you just have to tell people that it'll it will raise your taxes, but it shouldn't raise it. No, because we already got ins 12 12 So if we put a bond out there for the people, their taxes aren't going to be raised anymore. So when will we have this bond paid off should be pretty soon? What did I tell you? 29. Okay. 29. We just paid off the 2010 bond and then I looked it up for her the other day. I couldn't remember. Is it August or is it May? I think it's August. How much the bond? We had we were paying off two bonds this year. We haven't even made sometimes easier just to go find the paper copy and the electronic copy. I wanted to say it was 808
044combined number that sticks in my head. That's the number like I That's the number that's sticking in my head. I do sleep each night. So Jake from Jake from Government Capital, the you know our financial advisor, it'll probably about 15 more minutes. They're they're running the Snider bond campaign. He's coming back through. He said he'd be here in about 10 or 15 minutes if there's more questions to ask him specifically. He's from Fox. Okay. Okay. Um, in March we paid to pay off the final of the 2010 bond. In February, we paid 272. That was our payment on our 2017 refinanced bond. And we will pay another 287 in August. But now the payments jump. That's what she was talking about. Um I don't know why they scheduled payments, but it they're smaller jumps than
045they were when we refinance. That kind of helps smooth out that curve. So in February of 2026, that jumps from 272,000 to 518,000. It's a big jump. In 27 it's 56,000 for that February payment and then it starts going slowly back down. 489 and 471 are the last two. All right. So getting back to our agenda items. consider and take possible action to approve an independent design rep. No action taken. No. Okay. 15. 15 minutes and then we'll go come when we come back in here. We'll go into executive session afterwards. Good with that. So, we will take a intermission break for 15 minutes. That puts us at 8:05. Yes. Okay. It is now 10:22 p.m. and we are reconvening an open session of this minute out of the closed session. Having exhausted the uh
046agenda for the night, the only other item left on the agenda is to adjourn. I'll make a motion. Second it. Who was the second? Bridget. Motion has been made and seconded to adjourn the meeting. Is there further discussion? All in favor? Seven.