001We're live. >> All right. Uh, the meeting will now come to order. Roll call. Mr. Propes >> here. >> Mrs. Brunette here. >> Mr. Cow here. >> Mr. Glad here. >> Mr. Hirs here. >> Miss Johnson here. >> And I am here. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance led by our fearless leader, Mr. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> If I do that right, I will never [laughter] >> Item two, the agenda was posted throughout the district according to schoolboard policy, published as a legal admirer telegram, and posted on the district web page. A meeting notice was sent to the connection for publication. Uh item three, looking for approval for
002the January 12th, 2026 agenda open and executive sessions for a motion and a second. I made a motion for the second. All those in favor, please say I. >> Anybody opposed? Motion passes. Uh the consent agenda. Uh item A, the December 8th, 2025 schoolboard meeting minutes and the November 19th November 19th is that special meeting >> uh the November 19th 25 special 2025 special meeting minutes. Any questions or discussion on that? Good there. >> I would like to make a change to my spelling the minutes of November 19th. Spell the name wrong. I did it. You're not seeing. >> All right. Got to be right. You know, people are going to be confused. [laughter] Do you have that, Mrs. >> I got it. Yeah, got it. >> All right. Item B, the treasurer's report. >>
003Okay. to the uh general account on December 31st 1st 2025 there was a balance of 3,52,661.31 in cash and investments receipts since the 1st of January not included in the December 31 balance are $48,65.35 and dispersements from tonight's January 12th board meeting total $152,498.79 9. The flexible spending account on December 31st, 2025, there was a balance of $28,345.92 cash investments. The health reimbursement account on December 31st, 2025, there was a balance of $2,436 in cash and investments. the debt service fund. On December 31st, 2025, there was a balance of $67,526 in cash and investments. Detailed report on fund balance is included in the financial statements. Thank you, sir. [clears throat] Uh item C, payment of invoices. I trust that everybody took a peek at that. If you had questions, you reached out to our business
004manager, Mr. Petrolter. I would, you know, I would like to say, and I should have asked you this 20 minutes ago when we were talking [laughter] about this. Um, you know, we were always talking about money and how we never have enough. [laughter] Um, and we're going to talk about that a little bit later today, but how much I certainly don't want to put anybody out and I'm not looking for it right now. Maybe we can look at this for February, but is there a way to find out what we spend annually in subscriptions like we had talked about. I mean, there was that one for $16,000 and then there's another one for $2,200 and then there's another one for 14. And that seems to be a monthly thing. So when we talk regarding what
005we're going to talk about later as far as budget and all this stuff and how how wonderful technology is, it's also extremely expensive. And I and I think it's some of those costs that I perhaps didn't think of previously, but now the more I ask you every month, what's this one for? What's the annual subscription for this? And it's the annual subscription for that. We're talking some significant money. Um, >> so yes, I don't have that off the top of my head, but we can certainly get that. >> I mean, I don't want any mail for you. >> No, we actually have to we have we're required to as part of the audit to track our annual subscriptions anyway. So, >> Oh, there you go. >> All right. Because ironically, it's not just us. It's
006all >> it just seems you know everything costs more money and then you you know the thing was you know I know during co I'm going on a little bit of a but during co it was we everybody wanted to go one to one technology and all the other stuff but the cost in order to maintain the one to one technology what was it $3,600 in cases today and uh you know I mean just because kids are kids and they can't take care of things and all of the other stuff. So, it's it's some of that >> and I don't think it's a number that we're necessarily going to do anything with other than be able to go. This is another one of things that I don't think we all look at. I certainly >>
007the cost of the hardware aka the computer itself is just just the beginning. There are plenty of other tools and they are important not only from a procedural standpoint for HR for student and parent uh accessibility but all the different programs that our students access across the grade levels is definitely part of that. So there are plenty of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of costs that are required from behind the scenes just to get this thing to go every day. Um because we don't pay them. We don't have opportunities to use them in our classrooms. We don't have the ability to communicate with our parents as easily as what we can and in terms or some of our parents be able to look and see how their kids are doing in classes doing all
008that stuff. So we're required to track it. It won't take as long to get that number. >> All right. Thank you. I'll come back. My soul was in shock. >> That's right. Item knee resignations uh employments retirements. Mr. >> We have one resignation. Allison Voit I fourth grade. Um, this is not in relation to anything that's going wrong. She needs to finish teaching. So, that is our one resignation or ready for employment. >> Yes, please. Uh, Emily Tippet, uh, fourth grade teacher. I is that replacement. Um, Emily has, I believe, 14 years experience as a as a teacher across various districts. Um, so she officially started and she did some shouting last week and today was probably your first official day if I remember correct. >> Yep, that's right. She took the helm today after
009spending some time with Ellison last week. Had a nice transition and she did everything today. >> Our our recommendation is to approve these this resignation of this hire and no internal transfers or retirements. >> Correct. >> All right. With all of that being said, I would like entertain a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. >> A motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Have a motion and a second. All those in favor in favor, please say I. >> Anybody opposed? Motion passes. Thank you very much. Item five, approval items. Open enrollment policy with space availability. Mr. >> Yep. This one's me. So, this is a annual process that we're required to do every January in preparation for our what would be our 2627 open enrollment window, which will be opening in the
010not too distant future. But this process um our administrative team and our special ed director, we go through and we project um enrollments and from the special edite case loads and kind of determine do we have room in the end for anybody to come join us open enrollment wise. Um Miss Neielson's here, our administrative team is here. But the short answer is is that the recommendation of our administrative team is that we do have open enrollment spaces for students that require general education services. Um but for students that require special education services um our programs are full with students that live within our district bounds. Um we gladly accept students if we had the room and space but our um that department I know a little bit about historically is usually always busy and we
011don't anticipate that changing next year. So the recommendation is to approve the open enrollment space availability which essentially there's room for general education but there would not be room for students with disabilities. Any questions for me or for our administrative team on that but this is the meeting that we have to get this done. >> Is that common max? Uh I don't think we've ever It's been years by 10 12 years since we didn't have a lack of business in the special education world in our district. >> So and every year we get plenty of of applications which probably speaks to our district as a whole and our special education department. Our requirements are to serve the students with disabilities that live within our bounds first and then if there is space we can open
012it up to students that live outside of our bounds. That isn't the case. [laughter] I feel like they talked about this last year, but what happens if somebody comes in and then they're needs to identify? >> You want to take that one, Miss Neielson? >> Sure. >> Um, so we never deny an evaluation um even if they live outside of our district bounds. Um, and then typically we, you know, we're I'm very open and honest about the process and then we let them finish out the year if they so choose. Um and um then they would have to if they would like an IEP though, they would have to go to their home district have that. Same thing if if we have a student that is on an IEP and then they move out of
013the district mid year, um that they would finish they would finish out the the year here and have their special education services provided here and then if they choose to leave, you know, it's it's a morally I have a really hard time with this because, you know, if the needs are there, I I want to provide them. But like Cody said, you know, we only have so many staff and we need to make sure that we're prioritizing the students that live here to provide them services they need. >> So if I understand that correctly, if a open enroll student comes in and in December of the year there is need for a potential intervention, IEP of some sort, you go through that. You'll go through that process, right? Because you just said that we would
014do that. But if services are needed, are we not providing those services or will we provide those services for the remainder of the year and then they have to go back to their home district? >> Yeah, thank you for asking. I'll clarify that because I probably wasn't clear, but yes, we'll do the evaluation. Um, but if they, you know, if they qualify for services in order to have that IEP implemented, then they would need to go to their home district, >> okay, >> to receive those services. Um, and and we've done that before where we know a student, you know, parents have moved, purchased a home somewhere else. We've evaluated, you know, identified what potential IEP would look like. Um, and, you know, it's a tough decision for families. Some families have chosen to, you
015know, implement the IED in the home district. Some have chosen to not and then stay for the remainder of the year and then, you know, make a decision over the summer as if they're going to start a new school or not. >> Okay. >> It doesn't happen that often. I don't know if they did employees in this season. >> It happens, but yeah, it's not one maybe two. >> Year. I have a question too. So I'm trying to understand kind of the u the assessment how we came up with this and my question is in the in the report that you provided this this month it says we had a total of 12 students move into our district and then we exited 16. >> Oh sure. >> So I'm trying to understand it seems like
016this is very dynamic. Okay. And and the numbers are always moving a little bit give and take. >> Yep. Um so how does that all play into our provided you know assessment for looking at for next year zero >> right so so what you're referring to there are I try to provide you guys with that monthly you know how many students year to date have moved into our district [clears throat] IEPs and how many have exited either because families have moved away or you know we've reevaluated them and they no longer meet criteria for services. Um, so, you know, projecting into the future for next year on the other report that I submitted with the zero space availability, >> it's um, you know, I'm kind of going off of the fact that, you know, this
017is year four for me and we've we've pretty much had, you know, consistent numbers in our department. Um, that's what I'm projecting. I mean, obviously I'm I can't say for sure those are the numbers that are going to be on everyone's case loads for next year, but it's kind of ballpark where they're going to be based on, you know, qualifications and students that have exited. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Yeah. The important point about if a student moves into our district that comes from district A, moves into our district, has an IEP, we're required to implement that IEP whether we have space or not. They are our resident now. That's important. So again um that is the case for every school district across the state. Obviously we follow that practice that student moves into local and
018they have an IP. >> Yeah. Thank you for that clarification. >> Any other questions? >> Well that discussion I'll move to make a motion to approve. I think we have to make a motion to approve probably that we do well either as it's written or that we do not take any open enrollment I or especially if there's no space for it doesn't matter. No, you can make the the um basically there's room for general education students, but special education is is full. >> I want to make a motion along those lines. Doesn't need to be too technically worded because [cough] are in front of you, but that's what we fall back on um in this process. It is an inexact science sometimes because we're looking, you know, six, eight months down the road, but we're
019required to do it at this point in time because of the open enrollment windows when that starts. >> There you go. So, >> okay. So, the motion is that the special education department does not have any spaces for open enrollment, but we do have spaces for general. >> Correct. >> I'll take a second. >> Second. All those in favor, please say I. Anybody opposed? Motion passes. And >> just just to be quick, it's just for the 2016. >> This is an annual. [clears throat] The space is open and special. We gladly open it up. >> Item six, administrative reports. Uh item A, communications received. Mr. Fel, looks like we're talking about social media. >> Yep. you guys have the I guess our social media report card. So it's you know the stat is a little
020bit you know a month behind but um in the November month window here we get a report in terms of our outreach from our social media folks [clears throat] handle this u so it's over 32,000 Facebook views in the month um we've got over almost [clears throat] 4,400 Facebook followers and roughly well 1150 uh Instagram followers. So we always try to use social media as a tool for good, share the positive things that are happening in the district as best as we can. So just an annual report um that there is a return on investment. It is a tool that we try to use to to get words out on all the good things that are happening in our in our buildings every day. Any questions regarding any of that? All right. Item B, verification
021of candidates in drawing of ballot order. Actually, Mr. Kelly, >> we did complete this process on Wednesday, January 7th at 9:00 a.m. Um, Mr. Prost, Andy Lind, and Nancy Lind were present and participated in a process. And we have four candidates that will be running for school board positions. And the ballot order was also completed. They will be Katherine Bernette, number one. Number two will be Dan Cowie. Number three, Shannon Grayson. And number four, Chris Sch. [clears throat] >> Sounds fantastic. Get out and vote on this. >> Another annual process there. Any questions from Keller? Otherwise, we'll move on to C. Nobody else has move on to C. Liability and property casualty insurance. Give us the good news. >> Oh, this is always good news. Great time of year. So, liability and property casualty insurance
022run on a calendar year again on that annual process. So, um similar story to what we hear. Um we're always looking for quotes for property insurance. We're having a rough time finding any other insurance company that actually will provide us a quote. Um main reason being is that there's not a lot of companies looking to get the public school insurance and the fact that we're a rural building takes a lot of the insurance companies off the table. So chub insurance the current carrier. Um of course they continue to increase the blanket coverage of all our buildings because the the cost to replace the buildings continue to rise and when they have that liability [clears throat] they tend to like to get more premium. Some of us deal with this here. Um the other one that's
023been a primary challenge of work is compensation. We do, you know, if there are any workplace accidents, we will meet kind of analyze what's going on. The the big issues that have happened are more just parts of doing business student related things, not necessarily a a lack of proactive planning um to try to avoid workplace injuries. Um, all in all, there's an increase of $49,571 from last year's total. So, that includes uh all of the different liability insurancees that we have to carry as part of the school district, general liability, cyber, auto, property, workman's comp, um, total premium insurance is just just over $398,000. Um it's just a report because u many of these insurancees we're required to carry for all the reasons that we know moving forward we always continue every year to annually
024see what we can do to try to bring this cost down it continues to rise. >> Did we uh have to make claims last year against either of these? Um there were some workers cop claims, no property claims, some minor auto things. You know, buses do tend to connect with the deer every once in a while. Um that' be the main one that we see. Yeah, nothing on the property [clears throat] end of things, but but cause that increase is they had to raise the blanket minimum to what they cover. So that's that's just under $100 million now is what the property insurance requires us to carry. I would say if a tornado came through here and wiped all three of our four of our buildings off the face of the earth, we're going to
025have a rough time replacing the floor for $100 million. We try to find a middle ground on that as best as we possibly can. Every school district does this. Every business does this. Um try to mitigate risk as best as you possibly can, but also You know, these are dollars that don't go directly to the classroom, but are part of doing business. Any questions I can answer on that? >> Thank you for that. Fantastic. [laughter] >> My favorite maintenance reports uh available. I assume you looked at that. Anybody have anything they want to talk about? Anything you want to highlight, Mr. Patrick? >> Oh, no. Oh, I mean, we're in the we're in the uh snow and ice removal end of things that the January month has been seasonably warm. Today would be one of
026those one of those months. So, that's great on the heating side of things, but we do get in the melt and thaw phase of stuff. So, our custodial staff do a great job of trying to stay on top of that as best as we possibly can. Um, other stuff is just kind of general maintenance things that we we do over the the course of the year. Nothing huge. Um, we still continue to work on the water heater here to get that going. We did have a a frozen pipe issue over that really cold snap in in December, if you remember. Um, that's thankfully all been repaired. We had some sinks in a kitchen area and then a bathroom that's attached to it that had had gotten cold and we avoided a major issue thankfully because
027our custodial staff do weekend checks. So, we're we're thankful for that. Um, the other big one too and this does take a team. I want to give our custodial staff kudos. We had our concert series at the elementary level is the best way to call it and it's a great show in both buildings. That doesn't just mean it's the northwestern custodial staff and the urban custodial staff. Our middle school custodial staff is involved, you know, chairs, um, high school staff is involved getting things like risers and all the fun stuff that you see. So, it does take a group. Our head custodians do an awesome job with that. So, I just want to give them kudos and thank them to for the behind thes scenes work um getting the stage set up for our kids
028to do all that we do, which is a special part of in my opinion what we do here at Northwestern. So, any questions on the maintenance report? >> Awesome. Thank you, sir. >> Um item E, donations again. >> There you go. Donations. So, uh, the popular volunteer fire department, Dorothy Bergstein, they donated a series of lots of different things winter related hats, glove sets, gloves, hats, snow boots to NES. We are definitely in that phase of things where the borrowing closet gets used quite a bit. So, we probably have no lack of need there. Um, Gary and Laurel Lejoy, they donated three $300 gift cards to NES and ES for families in need. Uh, Maryanne Amir donated three new blankets to students to use at NES. Jennifer Phelps donated five new sleds for the NES
029fifth grade. Sue Cody and Whispering Pines Church donated $200 in gift cards, $560 in cash, and four boxes of food for families who are in need. Um, Scott and Colleen Rubman donated boxes of food to supplement our backpack program at Northwestern Elementary School. Uh Karen Almondson um donated assorted suits and gently used clothes for Iron River. Courtney Mashlin donated gloves and gently new snow pants for Iron River. And Dan Renfro donated hat and mittens for NES or excuse me, NMS. And then Steven Gad donated $3,000 to the football activity account. So we certainly appreciate all our donors and are thankful to recognize them, help us do what we do every day. Is that his paycheck? >> What's that? That $3,000? >> Oh, that's actually his father. >> That's his dad. >> Yes. >> What is
030his name? >> Conor. Screw that. I saw that one. I know he's a football coach. Sorry about that. Thank you all for the >> Yeah, right. [laughter] That that is a lot of donations and it's nice to see that community stepped forward and helps where they can. And don't go over stepping cars back there too. They get used every day. >> All right. Item F, the WSB WSB correspondents and legislative report. Mrs. Brunette. >> All right. Your January update. The Wisconsin Assembly meets January 13th and will be reviewing many bills. Three bills surrounding school bus safety have been noticed for floor action as well as a bill to require school boards to adopt cardiac emergency response plans for cardiac emergencies on school grounds and at and at school athletic events. Um, President Trump has reauthorized
031the secure rural schools program for fiscal year 26 and that and provides back payments for fiscal years 24 and 25. The program was not reauthorized uh following fiscal year 2023. The secure rural secure rural schools program uh within is within the US forest service is providing critical funding to more than 4400 rural school district and 700 counties nationwide with large national forest within their boundaries. Really curious if we get any of that money. >> Um I'd have to look if we do it's a small >> Yes. Um all right. And then the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety had a public hearing on January 6th and the Capitol on AB-677 which would create a crime of grooming a child. On January 7th, the Senate Committee on University and Technical Colleges with the road
032and held a hearing in Kawaii at Waka County Technical College that featured bills that update the state's dual enrollment program regulations and structure um for the high school college dual enrollment program. Um and then they also alter the state's minority teacher loan program to apply broadly to all disadvantaged candidates which was happening in our legislation. >> Can you elaborate on the create a crime or grooming a child? Um yes it was related to um the sexual exploitation of children and how adults can groom them with different conversation topics. Yes. So they're looking to make that a crime. >> Yeah. >> The other thing is obviously >> Right. Right. I I read something about some legislation that was going to require every elementary grade that had like one hour a day of recess. Does anybody >>
033I saw that too. Where did I see that? >> It was I did see something about it in the [laughter] >> just wonder how serious that was. regular legislator. >> I don't think it's um the like final bill state like I think it's been in debate in one either assembly >> but when I read it I mean they had some pretty compelling reasons why >> yes there is legislation quoting out there there's lots of legislation related to education but these are the things that have >> Yep. >> kind of made it through to discussion. >> Yes, I think the dual enrollment program uh regulations and structure has a reform some of our college and the school kinds of stuff for for our high school students. >> Thank you for uh item G, the CISA 12
034report. Mr. P. >> Yes. Um we met on December 16th. Um we received a couple of updates. Several CISA staff including the administrator and directors have attended learning opportunities over the last couple of weeks focusing on inter such as strategic planning and professional learning. CC2 presented three different sessions at the Nashville AES conference in Colorado Springs. Sarah Nelson presented CISA University uh specifically professional learning um for Wisconsin CISAs. Uh Jen Lenine presented on special education teacher induction program and Amanda Papovich presented with the WIS explor team. Um Rebecca an oral report Rebecca Speltz presented an update on people services offered through CIA 12 including project the project aware contract. This is a five-year grant through DPI that pres pro provides support to districts in their building in building their mental health support systems. Currently in
035year three, one district in each CISA is able to participate in the particular program through the grant that does a deeper dive on a particular mental health related topic. Superior is the district participating in this. Three additional districts are doing continued work. Schwarmagan, Ashland, and Hurley, including assessment of their mental health systems. CISA provides training to all districts on specific topics and the people services network can provide additional consultation outlook. >> Thank you, sir. Uh item H reports from the Air River Elementary, Northwestern Elementary Schools, Northwestern Middle School, Northwestern High School, the athletic director and activities director, director of special education. Um I assume everybody saw those reports and went through them. [clears throat] We appreciate that. And our student representatives, back to uh you. [snorts] Okay, I'll go first. Um, under sports, um, the
036winter sports have kicked in and basketball. The boys and girls basketball game has begun. Basketball has begun. They have already had many games with the latest boys home game against Ashlin last Friday with the score being 78 to 44. [laughter] The last girls game was last Thursday at home against Hayward. the final score of 33 to 42. [laughter] Um, the next basketball team is today against Spooner. I don't know the score yet. [clears throat] >> Wrestling tie zero right now. [laughter] >> Um, okay. Boys and girls wrestling started with two people taking first um place last game and a few I think second places. I don't know the names on those ones though. Um the next uh game is this Thursday with the rest of girls and boys varsity. It starts at 5 in St.
037Croy Falls. Girls hockey. The Seabir girls hockey team has had a pretty good season so far. A few tough losses, but [clears throat] they just beat Rock Ridge 4 to three and Hayward in overtime 3-2 this past Saturday. The team has finally clicked to work cohesively on the ice together. dance has had practice non-stop at the dance competition that was in Cameron this past weekend and pop plays second while jazz plays firster plays second in her solo and Isabelle Star plays third in hers and I will be covering the club so there's kind of a bit so DECA just had their um district district competition this past Saturday u with many individuals placing and advancing to the state regional competition um it was very successful. We're um very proud of all these students participated. There
038was a lot of tough competition. Um before that, we had weekly weekly meetings to help prepare for those tests and role plays to make sure everyone felt confident. Um as for the music programs, they have also been very busy. Choir just had their winter concert and it went very well. Um the band also performed their winter concert and they had a good turnout. Um then we hosted the Java Jive concert at the high school where the jazz band, the vocal jazz performed in front of the students. Um it was very well um received by the student body and from what I heard many people enjoyed seeing what their peers have been working on during lunches or um outside of school. And then the small groups um the small group choirs went and visited the elementary
039schools and the middle schools before break to showcase what they've been working on and just sing Christmas carols um to bring some Christmas spirit. Um another thing in the music program is that musical has begun and we're going full speed. We've been meeting for the past three weeks working on music and lines and the musical this year is Mama Mia. Pretty exciting. That'll be on February 14th and 15th. Um along with the actors practicing set and tech have been working on making sure that everything is ready in time. [clears throat] FFA will have their halftime conference um in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. This is a leadership event with a vice president and president go to workshops with state officers to excel the chapter and prepare for competition season. [clears throat] FCCLA is prepping is prepping for
040their district competition on February 4th. A lot of students are preparing projects and creations to showcase at this event. Um they're also still selling socks as a fundraiser and a community service project. So for every two pairs of socks sold, a pair is donated to CASDA. Um which is basically like a shelter for women and children suffering like in domestic violence situations. FA has also been hard at work prepping for their their district competition. Um that'll be hosted on February 7th. National Honor Society will host the annual dodgeball game during snow week. Um, and they'll meet this week to discuss what nonprofit they would like to donate all the money to. Um, in December, we adopted a family for kin and went shopping. Um, this all national honor society. Uh, myself and Emily, the president
041and vice president recently met with Superior Telegram to discuss our service project this year. um which is a senior outreach program and it was a useful tool to get the word out to more community members. Um another thing we did is a large group of us went to the hospital and superior room and decorated and delivered trees room to room of patients that would be staying there over the holiday season. Um, our club has also been busy preparing projects for competition season in March as a regional competition and the student council has been meeting to plan the snow me snowball dance and other snowy activities such as the taunt show and court games. And before Christmas, they also did a gift drive um for kids in the community and it had a great outcome. And
042that is all I have for you guys. >> Thank you. That's a whole lot of stuff tomorrow. [laughter] Uh item I student staff community recognition Mr. [clears throat] Metro you guys have a connection or excuse me a link there. Um let me let Mr. Larby just double check this one. So Mr. Larby at Iron River Elementary School received a high rank from US News report. So Mr. Larby, do you want to expand? >> Yeah, so uh that's a report that comes out every year and um it's a big deal nationally. So that is uh another great honor for another elementary school. Um they're noted for high achievement across multiple years, but that recognition. So to be on their list is a great honor for our community, Mr. Mr. >> I would agree it's it's pretty
043good. But can you comment on the reading? >> What's that? >> Well, in the ranking factors, uh, so the ranking that goes into it, they look at I think I'd have to go back on the website because I looked at once. Um, I believe they look at what our student achievement is. They look at uh enrollment size and they look at demographics of the community. >> Okay. If you wonder what I saw was expectations. red. That's why >> Yeah. 65% of students were at or above the proficient level for math and then 35 at or above that level for reading. 35%. >> Yeah. So, it didn't jive with all the other reports that we've been seeing, I guess, is what I was trying to get at. >> Yeah. Uh, so they pull their own information
044out of it. Um, I believe it comes out of where our state assessments are. Um but I don't obviously know exactly what US News says. >> Yeah, it seemed to me the the data you provided before see more credible. Absolutely. Good. [laughter] This [clears throat] is quick one. Uh item seven, comments from the audience. Uh now that we have concluded the business of the board, we will end the live stream.