001Opening remarks for me. All right, Dr. Dwire, like come on up and present your shiny Star Awards. Very good. Yes. So, I'm gonna uh highlight a few individuals tonight. Starting out with fifth grade student, Angela, followed by our Roosevelt social worker, Linda Marza, and then a former Roosevelt student who's now a high school senior, James. So, first I'll bring up Angela. Angela, you can come up to the table. I'm probably gonna make you blush and embarrass you a little bit, but you don't have to speak or anything. I'll take care of all that for us. Angela is a fifth grader at Roosevelt School. And throughout the school year, your teacher, Mr. Moahill, uh shared some great words uh in the narrative with me. So, I'm going to share that with everyone tonight. Angela has consistently
002stood out because of her kindness, strong friendships, and outstanding effort in class. Her warm and welcoming personality helped set a positive tone for our classroom and school culture. Angela loves helping others and is equally enthusiastic about learning from them. The quality of her work and the effort she puts forth are exceptional. Angela truly enjoys digging into a topic and strives for deep understanding. Whether she is tackling a challenging math problem, sharing a thoughtful reaction to a story, or exploring events in social studies. As Mr. Bobill writes, "It's incredibly rewarding to see Angela discussing ideas, sharing her thinking, and engaging others in the learning process." I'm very proud of Angela, and I have no doubt that Bright future ahead. Congratulations. We'll take pictures together at the very next. I'm gonna invite Linda Ma. Linda Ma is
003a school social worker at Roosevelt. I've been working her with her for many years and Linda um uh you bring a lot of value to something that's so important for Roosevelt and District 64 and that's the social emotional health of our students and our our school culture. Um I look to your dear colleague Jenny Chesn who you also al also share an office with. Um and I think she knows you extremely well. So Jenny writes for As long as I've known Linda, I've known her to be a great person of great thoughtfulness and patience. Linda is a true active listener who mastered uh the empathy of others while trying to achieve some common understanding among different people. Linda tends to naturally connect with others in every situation, gaining trust among parents and respect from her
004co-workers, colleagues, and connecting especially with her students. Linda is student centered, knowledgeable, and able to provide support for individual and systematic needs. Linda is easily the best social worker. Jenny Chzn says she's ever had the privilege to know and being office the past years even Jenny and social worker herself. Linda is the type of person who makes a positive impact on life and everyone touches. Linda is often referred to as a key support structure in our school. And with nearly 700 students, her impact is immeasurable. And I second all those words. Congratulations to Linda Merc. As a special bonus tonight, we'll also spotlight former Roosevelt student James. James come forward. James has been with uh started at Roosevelt in kindergarten and um I've been knowing him for for many many years and your family too
005and I'm so proud to have you join us here this evening. James started in scouting in kindergarten and first grade at Roosevelt School and continued in middle school and high school. and he recently achieved the life scout rank. This summer, James in spring, James contacted me about an Eagle Scout project. So, I asked around and we uh discovered that in our PE program, we have this wonderful experience with students all over the district in elementary school. They have a roller blading unit, but that's uh requires the district to purchase and maintain and store the roller blades for all the students to use. Well, those are the before picture uh pictures of these cabinets and you can see that they've been they've been worn down and they're probably close to 30 years old and they've been
006beat up along the way as they've been used by students many many times throughout the year. So, if you scroll down pictures, what James did is uh worked with a local wood shop and they designed customuilt designed and customuilt cabinets for our roller. I don't think we could even do this without uh having them customized in some way. And uh James partnered with this local wood shop and of course ourselves and the school district to uh tailor make these these cabinets and they are finished. Uh they were dropped off this fall and they're currently being used. They're at one school in the district. I know uh in March they'll come to Roosevelt School, but this year they're already being used by students throughout this district. And I think it's a wonderful partnership between our school
007and the community. I'm proud to be partnering with scouting and we greatly appreciate your efforts to support the PE program in a meaningful way for many years to come. These cabinets, as you can see, I think you can scroll down and we'll see the final product there. That's really neat. They're stamped on there. Troop one, established 1912. Roosevelt School is proud to host Troop One, which is the very first chapter in the state of Illinois for Boy Scouts. And um uh obviously you're you're part of a great legacy, James. I also learned this evening that his uh Eagle Scout project was so well done and is designed to make an impact for our community from for many years. It's been nominated this project for a national award uh for Eagle Scout projects uh for this
008year. So congratulations. I'm very excited about you and even more excited about your future and what what you will bring to communities. looking ahead. So, congratulations, James. Uh, what a wonderful project. Thank you. [applause] >> All right, we are going to join everybody in the back and take some pictures. Um this point in the meeting we welcome public comments. Each speaker is given three minutes to address the board comments made on any matter related to operation school. We ask refrain from making comments concerning individual students or staff members will not respond immediately to request information. Additionally the board cannot take formal action on non agenda items. Please contact further. Please support the microphone and state your name. Okay. My update will be brief tonight. I spoke this morning at the Cook County Commissioners meeting um
009and basically expressed our frustration along with n president and superintendent about the taxing situation that we're under right now. We've received about 60% of the distributions. Um, one thing I would say is that the county commissioners, our commissioner in particular, have been really gracious with their time, very transparent with the way the situation is being dealt with as much as they know. Um, it's been not that not not so much from uh treasur's office and the president's office and some of the other situations that we've had. So, we're we're asking to be better partners in this better communication on behalf of our taxpayers uh were one of a few districts um who have written and um and we all signed on to actually a letter this afternoon that's going again. Right now, the count is
010just over 127 million in across Cook County at all the school districts and that that dollar amount goes up every the township treasurer from um somewhere in I believe South Cook was there. He was basically saying his estimation is every week that we don't get 100% of the dollars into the coffers school district is about $30,000 for his district. So it's it's beyond frustrating at this point and so we're going to continue to at least just try to engage as best we can so we can try to rectify this. Um, so I wanted to update on that. The good news is because we did get some distributions, we didn't have to do the taxation warrants, so we were able to pull that out, which is great. We also had some really good news on the
011bond, great sale. Um, Brian Pho and I were on with Hennessy and Tammy about all of the, you know, back and forth on the day of the sale, which for us is not something that we do every day. So, it was pretty interesting. pretending like you were on Wall Street for just a hot second. Um, lot of language that you would have to look up. I would just Yeah. So, coupons and all of these things, but uh we've got really great help making sure that our dollars are taken care of and we save money from what we projected. Um, we saved money on the last bond sale. We saved even more money on this bond sale. So, that's really great. So essentially that'll have an impact on all of our taxpayers for the entire length
012of the time was going to be the referendum imper that's the overall piece. We begin our community evenings next Tuesday for strategic planning. Um we've we've seen I think four schools so far. We'll see Carpenter tomorrow just talking to the staff about some of the things I know we're having a community of the whole conversation today. Really excited about that. Um and the work that the team did to kind of put a good discussion together with a good workshop. Um we'll talk more about those make sure all you know what nights we actually have a draft slide deck that Chris put together fantastic that we'll use as a template for the ones moving forward. Um so that's that's been going great. I also just want to highlight Daniel Medina um one of our wonderful uh
013people in the technology department. He just presented at the brainstorm edtech conference. The session was called digital traps to catch hackers the moment they break into a network. You have to read it just like that. So um but I knew I do know that Matt and his department and Daniel in particular spent a lot of time with our cyber security work. Um actually during the bond sale when we were trying to get our rating they did ask questions about what we're doing with cyber security and we were able to say we actually have a great um great protection against you know our cyber security. So they're doing a lot of testing all the time with fishing emails and things like that. So D has been really wanted to highlight his work that um one one
014thing I just did want to mention that has come up really recently has been the lockers at field um are not great and Some of our students have had situations, especially younger students, first graders who've had uh when they put their finger in to pull the locker out, their fingers are small enough that they get stuck into this little part where I do want to comate that. But we've also expressed our frustration and unacceptable naturies impacted and trying to take care of that. There is a situation here where the company's either going to try to essentially put a new piece on there. We do not have those lockers only perspective about that we possibly can. was great today and it's not gonna this is this is a shortterm solution. So something needs to get fixed.
015Uh the company's gonna they've already heard from us but they're going to hear from us constantly about this because they're on the interactions. So um that's I just want to make sure everybody knows about that. Um and then any kind of safety situation that we have with our school we have protocols for a lot of different circumstances. team in particular does a great job trying to make sure that they can think through any type of obstacle that we might that we might reveal from a safety perspective in relationship to individual students or group students. Um Joel is constantly talking to our police department as part of the safety work and fire those types of things. I know Brian uh Mike Joel and I were in a conversation recently about some of some potential safety upgrades
016that you know looking at his department might be doing too but from the individual safety aspect of protocol to everything that we're doing in the buildings in our community. Um, and then we've got the exciting Edward Legislative Dinner at the Stevenson High School um coming up on January 26. So, if you'd like to join Matt and I for a wonderful night, you can. I believe the speaker is Brad Schneider. So, that's a it's a big um I've asked to DJ the event every year and they've told me no. So, we'll have a good time though regardless. Yeah. Oh yeah, [laughter] we'll have a good time there. And then over we will show you the locker situation next month. I will say this, the addition of is amazing. I was there again today and still tweaks
017and things that they're doing. We have still got the inspections, but for all intents and purposes, it is essentially complete and the rest of the school looks amazing. So it'll be great to show that off. They're all I move that the board adopt resolution number 1381 directing the assistant superintendent for business operations. Chief School Business Officer under the direct supervision of the superintendent to begin preparation of a tenative budget for the 2026 2027 fiscal year in accordance with board policy for 10 fiscal and business management and the Illinois school code 105 Illinois school code 5-17-1 Any questions or discussion? >> Yes. Jenkins. Yes. >> Um constructions for Carpenter and Franklin. Um definitely willing take any questions that you have. We did uh go through planning and zoning on Tuesday night. So right now Franklin the
018addition of Franklin is going to city council on next Tuesday night 20th which we're excited about. So there's still a lot of approvals and perminating that has to go through that but yeah so far everything's been good. Is there anything in particular that you guys wanted to mention in the biz or any questions? I move that the board approve the awarding of the contracts to the lowest responsible and responsive biders for the construction projects at Carpenter and Franklin not to exceed $16,197,9 Second question. >> George, >> Yes. Double day. >> Yes. Franken. Yes. Kemple. >> Our favorite topic. >> Transportation. >> So, unfortunately, go ahead and sit down, but I'll I'll see if I can do my >> [laughter] >> Um, Safeway approached us recently, our current busendor, and uh, basically said, "We're either going
019to walk or you have to pay us more money." Unfortunately, this is a situation that we're in. Many school districts are in this situation. Actually, I would say every school district that uses them. Actually, they got to the end of the year. This is an adjustment. This is an emergency contract. Um and we are out to bid. So we had a great >> Yeah, we had a pre meeting. >> Yeah, we had uh so the pre meeting is mandatory. So we had 11 different companies show up to that which I think last time there was four they had one. So a lot of interest one did inform me that they specialize more in special education transportation bidding but they appreciate the information but our bid opening is Tuesday actually. That's for a three-year contract starting
020next year. >> So, the memo doesn't have a total item. What is the total cost that this is costing us for the next for the rest of the school year? >> Yeah, I did cost it out. It's The total cost difference is estimated at 261,000 roughly for the rest of the school year. >> So this contract is going to replace our existing contract. It's an emergency contract. Is that correct? >> Yes. It's adjusting the rates for the remainder of this school year. And the only the only uh cause that they have included in here we have no option but they have told us that if we do not they will serve us with a notification of termination they no longer provide service with us. Um I did ask them you know how much time would
021we have and they didn't give me a firm answer. Um but and speaking with other districts typically that's been about 30 to find another company in 30 days it do everything like it's just between a place >> we did notific will provide service to the conclusion of this school which I wanted to secure because we are out to bid and I don't want um you know something to go ary in the last three months here after we agree to this. So they did supply that in writing to us as a part of this and then we did draft up a supplementary contract that we have that signature from them as well. >> So you're doing everything you can >> correct. >> What does the letter do that the contract doesn't do? is getting a letter
022from them saying that they'll guarantee >> we just want as much documentation as possible. >> Is there any ability to negotiate the the rates because I saw on one of the summary that they said they were losing $20,000 significantly more than $20,000 a month. >> Yeah, I think the company's in some financial distress in my understanding of the conversation as this is to for I mean this is not our first year with them. Um they did mention that they were downsizing their company significantly right now. Um I do know that some districts they didn't give this option. They just terminated their contracts as well. So yeah, I mean you know they were pretty firm in that that this is the number we had to agree to and if not they're I did reach out to
023other districts to see what the rates they got were and they were consistent. to give us the light at the end of the tunnel. What is the timeline to the bid process? >> It's a great question. Glad you asked it. We hope to award it actually at the next board meeting. So, um actually it kind of worked out with the timeline um with January 25 a full month to look at the bid. Um the way the bid is written, we have the opportunity to um award the bid not solely on price. We can take into consideration similar things. So, um we will look at everything as a whole process. the school year. >> That would probably be highly unlikely because one of the some of the research we did um well, first off, a lot
024of school districts haven't g to bid yet for next year because they're they usually do that like January, February, but we knew that a lot of districts would be going to bid this year, so we decided to go early. Um but they would need to secure the buses as the problem. buses. A lot of times they're taking on a district or they're losing a district, they have to take those buses and reallocate them to us next year. So typically that timeline goes and you would have to negotiate emergency rates for those. There's not a guarantee they would be less that are being proposed. Is there any legal recourse that we can explore for being put in this situation? I understandly have to agree to this, but this company is not going out of business. They're
025going to continue to stay in business and downsides that. So, according to our attorneys, if we were in a situation where they terminated service and we sued them, we are now at the mercy of the legal process, not the fact that we need buses tomorrow. tied up. According to their opinion, >> yeah, I understand a rock and a hard place, but after we agreed to the extension, we still go after them for the difference of the $240,000 because we had signed a contract based on I don't know. just sounds like it's an area where there's not a lot of mechanism for it's not really a market. I move that the board of education of community consolidates will district 64, Park Ridge, Niles, Illinois, adopt resolution number 1382 authorizing the emergency expenditure of funds and the
026approval of an amendment to the transportation services agreement with Safeway Transportation Services Corp as presented. Second question >> is actually While Joel and Alicia are getting set in motion for years around this time of year has given an update. So we're gonna pair that because As we continue to show everybody these are the four elements of the program where they started Thanks for having us. It's always interesting when we start talking about staffing for the school year, but it's the time of year where we need to start working on started obviously looking for administrative hires. We'll be posting looking replacing teachers certified staff starting to bring new staff forward as early as March. So part of that is talking to you about what we anticipate our enrollment for the 26 27 school year. We use
027a rollup model that we've used for about the last five years as the most accurate way to predict what our enrollment will be. Again the role of model is we simply take kids at a grade level across the entire district. So all the first graders at Franklin become second graders and so on and so forth. And what we're seeing is with this model the trend that has been for about the last three to five years continues where our enrollment is decreasing. We're looking at a decrease of 130 students across the district. What you see here, which is I think a very good example, is it's a decrease at every single school. Jefferson has its own kind of model. We always feel that. But when you look at this, what we're seeing is the kindergarten classes
028coming in around the district for the last several years have all been smaller than the numbers going out. And we're starting to see that really go not only through our elementary, but into our middle schools. And thus we're having the decrease across the entire district. So right now we're looking at a decrease of 130 students. When we have that many students leaving, what we predict uh would be a decrease of sections or home rooms. So we're looking at going down five homes across the district. That would be a second grade at Carpenter, second grade at Field, a first and third at Franklin, and sixth grade at Emerson. When we go down sections, the next logical thing is that equates to staff. So we need five less teachers. Typically we have to look at a reduction
029in force which is ripping teachers but because we're looking at 18 certified retirements which is one of the highest we've had in a long time. We don't anticipate having anybody. Now we do have some people on that we have to factor in. We're putting those pieces together. If for some reason we We work with our unions on that. We've obviously discussing that with you, but right now we're not anticipating anybody. We do as we start the registration that is currently underway for the 26 27 school year. We do have our eyes on bubble sections. Bubbles are within three students going over a class size guideline or going under. If we go over before July, we'll look at adding. If we go under, then we would look at getting rid of a section spreading At that
030grade level, we have six bubbles currently in the rollup model that would go over. The two that I most have my eye on are the third and fourth grade carpenter because they're one student away. Now, I would also say this, you could just as easily not get those kids in third and fourth grade, but you could also. So, we'll keep an eye on those. The other one is the second grade at field, which is two kids away from the bubble. But if we were to do that, we would update the where we were at and then we have a four that we are looking at potentially going down. Those always tend to be the least likely because we tend to have more historically but again the overall picture is a continuate further along. Um but
031once we finish enrollment we then move to staffing. So, as we kind of have a little bit of a paradox here, we have a general enrollment that is going down, but our student services department is going up in their demands and needs. So, what we have is we're looking at 4.7 FTE increase that we're asking for the board of education. Do you want me to go through that? >> Yeah, I'll go. You cut me off. Um this past year the board uh approved for our hope program which is currently at Lincoln. Um you approved previously which will go into effect at Carpenter the elementary which is teacher and social worker and rebranding of current classroom. So we'll have two elementary rooms and a social worker but it's only up to staff because of the rebranding
032of one classroom. Um, additionally, we have a significant increase in our needs for our SLC programs which are housed in Washington currently. Uh, we would be looking to increase that due to more students, an additional classroom in Washington, an additional classroom. So, that's 2.0. With that comes supports for those students with a speech language pathologist, an occupational therapist, which are two full-time teachers or staff members. And then we have adaptive special programs that we put in place for these classrooms where we really individualize and really set a program for arts, PE, and music that meets the needs of these students. That's not that's increasing fragments or sections at the buildings throughout the entire district. That would be an additional.7. So we get the additional 4.7 FT because of all the retirements that we're having. When
033teachers go out at the top of the salary schedule, we can replace them at the bottom of the salary schedule. That money will offset the cost. This is cost for those where we're at. >> I'm so impressed. I'm always proud of >> Thank you. I don't think your >> Alicia, do you want to talk about what's new next year? >> Sure. So, what's going to be what we're going to see as new um is the hope program um which is going to be housed at Carpenter. two sections right now as we're looking at um trying to keep those like the student ratio teacher ratio balanced um we're going to be splitting that maybe K1 and then the other one to five um so that's at least right now what we're looking at um obviously when
034we are like good fits for these programs um that requires the team to look at the different criteria that we have developed um to look and fit into that eligibility criteria and then be able to have meetings to make that recommend recommendations for families to be able to make that change for next year. So the biggest thing I think for Carpenter is that they're going to be having two sections of the program with two special ed teachers that are in that those positions as well as a social worker that is splitting their time between two. Now with regards to SLC, while SLC has been going in the district since 2020 of things we have seen and noted over time is the increased need of our students. And so as we have more kiddos coming in,
035especially when we're looking at our kiddos from early childhood, uh there's more kiddos that when we think about how we can best support them within the district, SLC is the way to do that special program where we take a structured teaching approach. Uh there there are so many at least at Jefferson right now that another class for next year as well. current needs in the district that we feel more appropriate and better suited for SLC to make that additional class. Now what started back in 2020 was that staffing model to support the program which has a lot of heavy support from the speech and language pathologist and so that's why we had the need for an increased SLP because you have speech services very heavily embedded in that program um to support social communication language
036in general um to know that there's a lot of regards to that devices being able to make sure that we're utilizing that for their school day and then the a need that's kind of going across the board um not only for SLC but because our functional life skills program will be officially happening at Franklin next year. We kind of jump started it this year unexpectedly because we found like this perfect teacher when we were looking to hire our special education teacher at Franklin. Um and that's something that actually even though next year is the first year of true implementation we already have the ball rolling but we do know that that um support for the bit of the speech pathologist will be allocated for that as well. Um because the kiddos that are in that
037program have a profile where they do need support for the speech and language services as well as the functional life program is going to be new next year. Then what I think when you see and look at the your um tool in front of you that has also Fields and Roosevelt on it as well. And so what we've already had at Fields and Roosevelt across all elementary schools in the district um is these um self-contained special class. what the change is for Roosevelt and field for next year is that we're marketing that specifically for kiddos that have academic um where they are academically. We can group them more together and be at the same level but they're more similar and they have that similar profile. So that's require support model that things like and their
038functional life require. So that's why you don't see that as that need for speech services with the um increase in just some classrooms due to the needs and while we're doing that um as we're updating facilities are we finding that we're going to be okay spacewise and build >> I think that's a great question I feel that It was really um getting to work with Brian and Mike this year has been amazing and so thank you to them. Um but what I feel really grateful for is that even when we were planning some of this previously in our facilities, we planned for a growth of like a need in our student population. So these were identified early and it was almost like for example there is another classroom that has been built and created for
039um a specialized program and have that need especially as we're looking at the number of students that are eligible forcum So I think we fingers crossed we were really anticipating like we'd railway one of those classrooms for next year we were not anticipating and so we will Thank goodness we had a more question for Joel. You mentioned in that study you give us a little >> I would say I'm not really looking at this. This year they're predicting 4,7 least likely most likely. So now I have looked at it somewhere along the line start. questions. Um, one, I think one of the things we talked about a couple of years ago was that having these programming or having these programs would allow to um have open up an option for students who have been placed
040to come back into the district. So I was just wondering whether we've seen that or not. Yes. So actually um we think about our program this year for able to transition back into the district in a very safe and predictable but also kids where they're at the environment in the district. And so this year we've had already progress that started with us at the beginning of the year anticipated which has been great. I look forward to next year with hope and available support because often time for students tends to be in kindergarten and first grade entrance into public school that transition and had previous option to support students needs are so I think we're seeing middle school next That can be a new question. Um, in this enment accounted for the I I actually believe
041that we've always the goal is the home school then that would be a slightly highered number that out in the serving school that are here but that number just so you know was very small right so I think is a good I move that the board of education of community consolidated school district 64 Parkidge Niles Illinois approve the 2026 2027 staffing plan as presented. Second motion second question. Yes. Yes. Yes. Day. >> Yes. >> Milligan. Yes. Yes. >> Committee reports. Thank you guys. Um the policy committee met last week. Um and it was so nice to have Press Plus. So I wanted to thank both Chris and Joel and especially Chris for working with um Press Plus to make that happen because I know that was pretty tedious task to get all of our policies
042into that system. But for the first time, what it does is if you look at them, you can see the exact changes versus having to compare them on two different things and find the changes. Um, and so for the most part, all of the changes really were very small language changes in the whole document that we're going to vote on in the consent agenda to as a first reading tonight. Um, but the three that we kind of wanted to um discuss or update for press 120 um was one was policy 410 fiscal and business management and this was recommended to remove transfers within funds from the last paragraph because it would allow transfers within funds without approval which is common practice. So right now our policy uh makes it like Alicia has two funds that
043she's working with and she could use money in one more than the other for a purchase. she would have to come to us for board approval to do that and wait to be able to make those decisions and move forward. Um, and this would allow that to no longer have to come before us for transfers. Um, the other is 4140 waiver of student fees. This just has to do with kindergarten. Um, it was recommended to eliminate details on kindergarten tuition because we're eliminating that. Um, we just discussed adding as applicable because right now that mid year. It doesn't make sense really for our current families who are paying possibly kindergarten fees and just if anything were to ever change in the future, then our policy protects us in of that. Then policy 7180, this is
044more of an FYI for us. It's not something that we're really voting on. It's something the district can update without our approval and it's just adding Alicia title N coordinator in the policy to reflect what's already happening. Another thing we discussed um was bus conduct and currently our policy gives the superintendent authority or we want to change it to give our superintendent authority to suspend bus privileges for more than 10 days without board approval. Right now they have to come to us for board approval. That doesn't make sense for the timeliness um that discipline incidents occur um and student safety happen. So we would recommend that Um, I'm not sure if that if the way we wrote it in the consent agenda is separate because we just have it as first reading of press 12.
045This really isn't part of press 12. So, I don't know if we need to add that as a first reading for the next board meeting. I just realized that um just so that I because I'm not sure the way it's listed if it covers this because this wasn't part of press. It's something that we decided to look at as a policy committee separately, right? Wasn't in the 120 version. >> Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't catch that in terms of the agenda to fix it earlier. Um, and then A3, this is just discussion. Um, and this is something I know the finance committee brought to our attention. um with just a policy on contracts that are not required to go out to bid and so um and kind of doing an RFP process and having some
046language around that. So the goal is that the policy language would actually be pretty vague and then the administrative procedure would be tighter. And so that's something um that admin gave us some draft language. They went to our attorneys to ask about different types of services and what would qualify and what wouldn't. um and they're working on kind of a schedule of when different things would make sense to go out to get a review for bid. And so we're hoping that we would have a draft to look at at the April policy committee meeting and be able to bring that to the next board meeting at that time. And then also um this was discussed by the finance committee and I think they're going to look at a little bit more before bringing it back
047to policy possibly which is just looking at a policy locking in the amount to commit monetarily to the capital maintenance fund to prevent the type of referendum needs we had recently and um the only other thing we already discussed which was our unfortunate increase in transportation costs. Chris took excellent minutes from us so it's very easy to report back. >> Thank you. >> I move that the board approve the consent agenda for January 15, 2026 as presented. >> Second mot. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. Jenkins. Yes. Day >> uh new business. >> A motion to adjourn the regular meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? Hi. >> Thank you everyone. Take a break and then call the