001pledge I pledge allegiance 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. Can I have a roll call? Melissa Ryan here. Joey Murphy here. Adrienne Chavez here. Amy Burke here. Patrick Oliphant here. Ron Petrie here. And arriving late is John Winters. He is at work. I have a motion that we go into closed session for the reasons stated on the agenda. Motion. Second. Amy Burke. Aye. Ron Petrie. Aye. Patrick Oliphant. Aye. Joey Murphy. Aye. Melissa Ryan. Aye. Adrienne Chavez. Aye. Motion passes we're gonna go in the other room so you can stay. I have a motion to move us back into open session. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay we are back
002in open session. Due to patience if there's no objection I'd like to let Sarah from district 843 the cooperative special education budget presentation she's been waiting to present so we're gonna go to 4d and allow welcome sir thank you I know you have the budgeted materials were presented or provided to you in your packets I'm not gonna read all the highlights to you but I will try to kind of hit the high points of the highlights for you so our overall our total expenditures are projected to be higher than the prior year by 1 million $146,338 or 8.1 percent most of that is due to bus lease and purchase costs we did experience a significant cost increase for our buses our health insurance also had premium increases and we also have an increased rate for
003the Illinois municipal retirement fund that we have to contribute to our employees or for our employees additional positions that were added this year to allow us some growth at Pioneer Grove the last couple of years we've kind of had to turn away students from our member districts not because we wanted to but merely because we didn't have enough classroom space for the students and all of the related service supports teachers paraprofessionals etc in this current classrooms that we had so actually in July myself and my book keeper and the secretary room that was next to my office we have relocated to another location so that those spaces can be used as classrooms this year so we do have two new classrooms opening up which will allow us to grow but then that also increases our
004budget because we had to hire a couple of additional teachers and a couple of additional paraprofessionals for those classrooms salaries are projected to increase seven hundred eighty four thousand twenty two dollars or eleven point five percent over the prior year again this is because of the additional classrooms the additional staff that we needed for that in addition we do have three collective bargaining agreements the first one is our teacher speech path agreement and then our second one is our psychologists and social worker union and then our third is our paraprofessional and nurse paraprofessional union the teachers speech best psych social workers contracts each allowed for five percent increases this next year and the paraprofessionals received a dollar fifty per hour increase additionally bus drivers and monitors received a dollar 25 per hour increase in their
005wages we have to do that to stay competitive so that we can staff those positions I'm pleased to say that we actually are staffed with drivers this year the best we've been staffed since pre-covid and so all routes are presently covered and then we are still looking for a couple of bus monitors but we're in much better shape than we've been in years past employee benefits are projected to increase four hundred forty thousand eight hundred ninety four dollars or eleven point five percent primarily due to the increase in the positions the increase in the employee PPO health insurance and the 12 to 13 percent increase in the employee HMO health insurance rates and again that I am RF rate went from seven point five five percent of wages to nine point eight nine percent of
006wages we don't control that cost the state tells us what it is purchase services are projected to decrease by twenty two thousand two fifty six or point six percent I actually think that's conservative we've been able to secure more direct hire staff and less agency staff this year so hopefully this will shake out a little bit better at the end the increase in the bus lease costs are significant as I mentioned but the increase is more than offset by decreases in construction renovation costs in workers compensation insurance rate decreases our workers compensation insurance premiums have decreased significantly from a few years ago we were in the assigned risk pool and we were paying over eight hundred thousand dollars in premiums and now we're I think in the three hundred fifty thousand dollar range so that
007helps offset those bus costs and the construction we had a new chiller installed two years ago or yeah and then a new boiler of this last summer so we are done with our big HVAC projects which is going to help us out to offset those bus lease costs the supply budget includes utility costs such as natural gas and electricity we all know where those rates are going it's not in the right direction for us so unfortunately that did increase what we're looking at for the budgeting for our utilities overall the capital outlay expenditures are budgeted to be a hundred ninety one thousand three hundred seventy four dollars lower in FY 26 as compared to last year and again that's because we've completed those larger projects local revenue is expected to increase 1.5 million three thirty
008four thousand five fifty eight or twelve point two percent this changes almost entirely in tuition revenue lines the state revenue is budgeted at three hundred and three thousand seven hundred twenty seven dollar decrease from the prior year we are expected to receive seven hundred sixty seven thousand six hundred twenty four dollars in evidence based funding but we don't ever budget that full amount when we're creating our budget we try to be conservative with that so if we have something come up we have some money to offset an unexpected expense federal revenue is expected to decrease by a hundred forty one thousand four hundred forty eight dollars in FY 26 compared to FY 25 and basically that's due to loss of ESSER funds that we were still expanding our two major instructional programs we have the
009Pioneer Growth Center and the self stellar programs that are located in Mokina we are we built a budget based on the similar number of students that we had last year but as I said we were expecting growth and we already are seeing it we're getting referrals from our member districts every day and so we think we're going to be increasing our total enrollments in both programs this year and then the more students that we have then the less we need to charge per student so I just want to remind you that any revenues that we collect if we do you know we have higher enrollments then we can adjust those and then we do do the reconciliation process at the end after we close out the year and after we've had our audit and every
010year since I've been the director we've been able to issue refunds so we give that money back to you we don't hold on to it tuition rates can change throughout the year that is another thing mr. Englert assists us with he tends to look at that in December to see have we had any significant changes either more students or less students we don't want anybody to get a surprise bill at the end because we didn't charge enough but we also don't want to keep you know securing more funds when we have adequate funds to cover what we need so he usually makes an adjustment around December or January there is a student activity fund that we are required to have within the budget but this has no effect on the tuition charges finally the projected
011June 30th fund balances for all funds are budgeted to be refunded to member districts as it was in prior years the projected amount of refunds is over six hundred and eighty thousand dollars the actual amount as I said we cannot determine that until after we close at our audit and then we have all the official numbers but that's he's usually pretty spot-on with the estimate just a reminder we are serving a small population of students we have approximately 70 students that will be at Pioneer Grove this year and approximately 30 in our self and stellar program and so you know when you're looking at a total enrollment of about a hundred students if you have the students come or go it can make significant changes especially to like the related service minutes hearing itinerants vision
012itinerants occupational therapy physical therapy you know a student that comes in and has a high need for vision services and then moves out that can really drastically affect what we have to charge to offset our costs so just being mindful that you know we're just a small district where those little shifts can really make a big impact on the budget those are just charts they kind of show where our funds are going where the revenue comes from again most of that's collected through tuition is our revenue our expenditures most of it is salary and benefits there are some purchase services those are mostly due to contracted staff that we were unable to secure through a direct application the within your packet you would have had a page entitled summary of projected revenue expenditure and changes
013in cash position for 2526 it does indicate our beginning cash fund balances for the education fund the operations and maintenance fund and the transportation fund the education fund being at two million four hundred seventy three thousand eight hundred ninety nine dollars the operations and maintenance being at eighty four thousand one forty three and transportation being at four hundred forty eight thousand sorry 962 my eyes just did a trick for me so a total of three million seven thousand dollars seven thousand four dollars I want to point out the second to the bottom row on that chart which is not the one that is on the screen currently it shows numbers in parentheses five hundred and seventy five thousand seven ninety nine for the ed fund the numbers in parentheses basically indicate where those refunds are
014coming from so refunds are coming from five hundred seventy five thousand seven hundred ninety nine dollars are coming from the education fund and a hundred twelve thousand seven hundred eighty eight dollars are coming from the transportation fund for a total of that estimated six hundred eighty eight thousand five hundred eighty seven refunds give or take once we do the audit that there might be some minor adjustments that sheet that is up on the screen there is your summit hill specific page for you it shows where you were in 2425 the actual costs and then it shows the projected payments to the cooperative for 2526 there are indications of you know whether you've had a decrease in student or increase in services or increase in a tuition rate it specifies kind of how the your changes
015appear between last year and this year for those different line items the main thing I would like for you to see the highlighted box the thirty nine thousand six fifty four sorry my eyes I should have brought my cheaters that is what we are projecting your budget numbers for eight forty three to increase however I'd like to point out the bottom line box on the left which is the estimated refund of the hundred and two thousand sixty four so kind of is where we're at are there any questions that I can answer for you with with the population growth is there is there we have plenty of room with our buildings over day 43 that we have so we with opening the couple classrooms we still have one more room that we could turn into
016a classroom if we if we need to but we also try to keep you know enough sensory spaces or spaces for a student to have like a be you know a place to relax if they're having you know stress and behavior we have an open area in the lower level that we use for a lot of the sensory but we do have a lot of staff and we've pretty much embedded them in the classrooms at this point like people don't really have offices there what we do have though eight pretty three does own the McKay Center building in new Linux presently 210 has been using that space for their bridges program so if we were to find that we reach a space issue that would be something that we consider or we also do reach
017out to our member districts to talk about what space they might have available to us which that's how my office and my bookkeeper and one of our payroll staff moved over to the Chelsea Intermediate School in Frankfurt our member districts have always been very gracious to share their space with us so I we we kind of have some plans that we could work with if should we need to expand I got a left field question so and probably shouldn't be on here but I didn't see anything as far as like like any kind of like fundraising like that maybe our community does or anything like that would is that something that you guys brainstorm so the PSO did do a fundraiser this year they're there I believe spearheading wanting to work on playground improvements or
018upgrades they're separate though from the district there they have their own bank account and so their fundraising efforts are there we have not done fundraising but you do bring up a point that I should probably mention the Illinois State Board of Education did approve separate public facilities to receive funds through a claim sort of like you have a transportation claim they set a rate for the students that are this is only applies to students that are at Pioneer Grove and it went into effect this year I just recently received the information as to what our rates were for the 24-25 school year so I did share the information with the superintendents and with your directors of special education about submitting their claim for a portion of what they've paid in tuition to be reimbursed by
019Illinois State Board of Education so we know what the their rate is but we also know that they prorate it and we don't know what that prorated amount is going to be at this time long story short that might be a source that does offset some of your costs for your students that attend Pioneer Grove and there's two rates there's one for students who have one-to-one individual aids and there's one for students who do not so it once you've paid two times your per cap so I know there wasn't an estimated amount then then you can submit your claim and they'll they're supposed to cover the rest of that but it gets prorated but we do we have not done fundraising at 843 like as a district my wheels are spinning so like what can
020we do to help what can we do is there anything that we can do you have any ideas or I don't know I don't know I can well I what I can tell you is I know that there is interest in this playground being you know getting some updates and adding some more equipment for students with wheelchairs and I have been working talking to some companies that do have matching grants and and so I feel like grants are probably the would be the next best opportunity for us we already do do the school maintenance project grant where you know you pay out or you can receive fifty thousand dollars as long as you're spending a thousand dollars and you get that approved so we did do an SM it's called an SMPG grant we did
021do that this last year and we use the funds for updating and upgrading our camera system inside and outside of Pioneer Grove adding a fence to the playground and then we are looking at using some of those funds along with the PSO funds to improve the playground but I'm open to ideas do you guys have a grant writer okay because there's there's a there's a lot of grants out there and I just wonder if you had a grant writer for other things you know so and to add on to that too I know like our the police department we have a company that we hire and they get so much money for as much money as they bring in or whatever so there's there's companies out there too that could help possibly for that too
022sure previous experiences or experiences here we do yeah so maybe get that information because it's not gonna be any extra cost to you guys they get they receive so much of the money that we use grant writer names Jill dare so we can connect and I can share that information with you sounds great thank you Joy told me to ask how many students do you transport she said we shot it's close it's close to 600 per day and it's door-to-door that is from their front door to whichever school facility they may be going to so that is every every student who qualifies for special transportation through their IEP within all of our member districts plus new Linux district 122 we provide them transportation to every one of those districts own buildings but as well to
023substantial list of separate private facilities that are Illinois State Board approved Wow thank you you're welcome thank you thank you Sarah thank you so much thanks for your time keep up the great work thank you so we will go back to for a freedom of information so we had two FOIA requests that were made this past month they are listed on our agenda and we saw those both Morris commercial requests both were fulfilled within the appropriate time frame for be public comments Lisa brace good evening my name is Lisa brace and I am a summit held parent and taxpayer and first I want to say thank you for everything that we're doing proactively in regards to transportation it's certainly helpful parents have already been able to submit any changes I know it takes a minute
024for those to get through and you have to prioritize things you know what is an urgent change and what is a we need to look at it later but we do appreciate that and I think the kids are looking forward to meeting their bus drivers and hopefully this will put parents at at ease a little more I know it hasn't been without its snafus but that is always to be expected it's it's a matter of normal snafus and last year I think we're on a much better track the other thing that's kind of come up is and I think this is mostly from what we're seeing in other districts but making sure that we're we're using good hiring practices that were trying to encourage employees who may have endorsements to apply for positions that they're
025qualified for and to make sure that if they're not applying find out why why aren't they willing to move up why don't they want to change maybe it's because we've made them so comfortable in their position they love want to move but I think people are always concerned that we are looking at internal candidates first that we are looking at people without bias that we're using some sort of rubric in our hiring practices to make sure that we're ticking all the boxes and that we're we're being fair and unbiased I think we're already doing a good job but I think people like that transparency to it's very helpful for them you know there was a lot of drama at a neighboring district we don't want to see that kind of drama here you know making
026sure that that we're doing thorough background checks through our own companies not allowing third-party companies to submit to make sure that we're getting good accurate checks on people before before they are hired in and then the other thing I wanted to talk about is something that's happening in districts across this nation and it's a misuse of artificial intelligence there have been some very concerning issues not in our district thank goodness but where other students are using AI to make an appropriate photos and post them on the internet of their classmates another more disturbing incident that actually affected one of someone who is close to me where the teacher had hidden cameras throughout his classroom and was taking pictures of his high school students and manipulating those into inappropriate images and posting them online so you
027know thankfully it hasn't happened here but we need to kind of start thinking about what policies can we put in place what actions can we do proactively to protect our students from this type of behavior you know we can't protect them from everything but we should at least be doing our due diligence and we should have policies in place that are strong and punitive when this type of action happens you know I think the nation as a whole is trying to chase this animal it's a beast that that we don't have laws for necessarily yet and we have to think about that can we can we utilize things like our new ssro to be able to inspect our our classrooms to make sure nobody is putting in unknown recording equipment or making sure that we're
028we're making sure none of that type of material is transfer transferring on our you know internal equipment what what can we do to protect ourselves and what policies can we put in place to outline the severity of those types of actions because believe me you know you don't want to hear that your loved one is has has had their image manipulated in this type of manner so those those were my thoughts this week you know I think we're making some positive directions as as a district and hopefully we can continue to move forward thank you thank you Lisa thank you very much thank you moving on to 4c letters and communication can be found at the back of your board book for ease and moving on to five action items 5a the consent agenda I
029am going to pull the first employee under 5a6 and I'm going to pull 5a14 based on feedback so the first employee under 5a6 and 5a14 so in this I'm asking for a motion that the board approves the items on the consent agenda for this meeting as presented including 5a1a the regular session minute meeting minutes of July 9 2025 5a2 approval of June Treasurer's cash report 5a3 approval of bills list of August 13 2025 5a4 approval of resignation of staff and non renewal of probationary staff George Daly effective August 5th Sarah Barnes effective July 31st 2025 Jason Swanson effective August 8 2025 Alyssa McDermott effective July 8 2025 Renee Reese effective July 14 2025 Deborah Foster effective May 30th 2025 and Petrovich effective July 23rd 2025 Kim Lamers effective August 4th 2025 Jason Swanson effect are
030repeated twice Shanice Griffin effective July 28 2025 Keith Seaton effective July 22nd 2025 Giovanni Gordon effective August 1st 2025 5a5 approval of family medical leave employee 3230 5a6 employment of staff Patricia King FMLA teacher at Summit Hill Junior High Megan Mastrella special education teacher tip at Summit Hill Junior High Kathleen welcome special education teacher tip at dr. Julian Roguez Christopher Perez point five music point five permanent sub at dr. Julian Roguez Alessandro Montes special education teacher resource at Summit Hill Junior High Jennifer Bendy building secretary at Indian Trail Susanna McKay paraprofessional at dr. Julian Roguez Deanna Betty paraprofessional at dr. Julian Roguez Danielle Grisham Bach paraprofessional at dr. Julian Roguez Diane Kludwick paraprofessional at Indian Trail Norris Yanes night custodian at Summit Hill Junior High School Joseph Horne night custodian at dr. Julian Roguez Fatima
031Muhammad Fonesca paraprofessional at dr. Julian Roguez 5a7 approval of memorandum of understanding string stipend 5a8 approval of ESP staffing and consulting LLC contract 5a9 approval of PDS staff agreement for services 5a10 approval of 2526 band and string orchestra handbooks 5a11 approval of learning ally 5a 12 approval of scholastic rise 5a 13 approval of intergovernmental agreement with public libraries 5a 15 approval of purchase from rival 530 LED strobe lights for our lock notification 5a 16 confirmation of existence hazardous transportation routes during the 2526 school year 5a 17 approval of the district 843 special education 2526 budget so moved second can I have a roll call please Melissa Ryan hi Joey Murphy hi Adrian Chavez hi John winter hi Patrick Oliphant hi Amy Burke I Ron Petrie I moving to the first employee and 5a6 do I
032read the name now math teacher at Summit Hill Junior High do I have a motion to approve the math teacher at Summit Hill Junior High motion so moved do I have a second second discussion do I have any discussion or questions at this point when I was looking through the board packet I realized how many years this particular teacher has been teaching and she's a veteran with a lot of experience and I just have a concern with the salary not the candidate we have a lot of experience at the junior highs math department and I think it's she's qualified she's you know if she's voted in tonight she'll do a great job but it's the salary Paul can you explain just a process okay go I'm sorry good Melissa I'll I want to follow up
033with joy just because I want to I do want to make it clear that I do agree that this the salary is high and that you know it just you know for me well I agree with that with the timing of the old teacher who resigns resignation when that came and then the hiring process and you know where we're at now with our timing that's a long it was originally a financial issue for me big time so again I agree with you but with the reduction in salary for the teacher who left along with them what we would be paying not so much a financial reason anymore for me it comes down to as we discussed timing and just feeling like there wasn't time to process the fact that we were hiring someone with so
034many years and at that salary so you know at this time because my priority is to get you know school you're going our students have their teacher I feel like you know that's important but I think in the future and Paul you can talk about this my goal would be that we as a board have you know more timely updates and information regarding our staffing so I was asking was Paul could you explain the process kind of how we go through the process of hiring within the district just so the so the public understands the process through before it gets to your desk of course so we start in our buildings the idea is to receive support for a candidate from each level in our school system so we invite teachers and building administrators to
035not only screen but interview candidates and their role and responsibility in that is to take a look at a variety of different really a variety of different things it could be experience on the team it could be maybe who's leaving next year who's teaching what sections what that PLC team needs as far as experience or leadership and so they weigh that out at the building level this is this is their endorsement of a candidate and who is potentially going to be their colleague so once they have settled on typically it's one candidate they put forward a candidate as a recommended candidate to the district office sometimes to depending on the depth of the candidate pool you could have a handful of candidates that are recommended over here and either I sit down with them personally
036or I tap John and less John and or Leslie if they're free to come in and that's where we have the conversation about methodology philosophy what we believe is a school district what our values are how hard we work in this district and then we cover a lot of the things that were mentioned in public comment this is also where we do the background checks and fingerprinting through Will County to ensure that the candidates that we're putting in front of our students are the best candidates in our pool and so in any hiring process if we look at one candidate sometimes there's an outlier it's like wow that's a that's a lot but when you look at it across all of the hires that are being recommended there's really a smattering so we have some
037that are right out of college we have some that have very little experience we have some that have master's degrees this particular candidate is the best candidate for the position and that was endorsed by our teachers and by our building administrator and then here at the district office and in this particular for this particular position we had three candidates that we looked at and we moved on from all three of those candidates for one reason or another those are candidates that we interviewed here at the district office and we went back into the pool and pulled in more candidates we really wanted to make sure that whomever we were adding to those teams over there because we reduced in other areas could carry like their weight their load over there and so with the three
038retirees that we had at Summit Hill junior high we replaced zero of those people so there were some shifting of sections and moving some people around internally to cover and in this candidate emerged as the one that was recommended to me and then I interviewed and then I can turn recommended to the board yeah and I think it's important to note that you know the educator that was leaving the salary was very competitive or very comparative close sorry very very close yeah sorry thank you for clarifying very close to what we you know are going to vote to I think it's worth noting I would only add that I totally agree with everything Melissa said so I don't want to be a dead horse but I agree exactly what Melissa said I agree it's the
039same thing we you don't mind it's not about the candidate or the experience it is about the timing and the process that it came to the board so we can do better in the future with that we're sure any other questions discussion comment okay so we have a motion in a second for the approval of employment and math and Summit Hill can I have a roll call let me get a comment I'd like I just want to say I really appreciate learning about the process and learning how this process went this year and I do look forward to kind of understanding the philosophy that's going into our future development and how we're gonna you know we as a community can shape what our our educational team can look like and participating in a way that
040is obviously respectful of everyone's positions and what have you and respecting the process that is in place now but I do want to say thank you no can I roll call Melissa Ryan I Ron Petrie I Patrick Oliphant I Amy Burke I joy Murphy no Adrian Chavez I John Winter I motion carries so we go back to 5a 14 the approval of upgrade to virtual server hardware and software we had heard about this at the last meeting from Brian you have information in your book about the last renewal and the details do I have a motion that the Board of Education approve a five-year hardware and software agreement with the scale computing from beer tech for a total of forty eight thousand three hundred five hundred where year one is twenty nine thousand nine hundred
041ninety seven and years two through five will be four thousand five hundred seventy seven so moved second just got any discussion or questions we've had a month to go over this in basic summary this was moving forward but not necessarily a necessity something that could wait a year this was this was this the software that's gonna help us track everything equipment right why is right something can you just address it really quick Brian is to thank you super quick right yeah so what we're talking about here is the server hardware that is running the foundational background of all of our infrastructure so we're not talking about we're talking about our infrastructure that is running like our DNS DACP our building automation systems paper cut which is our printing scanning printing management solutions so really like
042what runs the backbone of our network and that was the four instead of you doing one server we're gonna do four to protect us exactly so what we're doing instead of having one server we're doing it into for many yeah we're doing it as a three here would be in a cluster and then we're doing a new one over at Summit Hill to work on redundancy so if one failed here we still have two that would run versus if we stayed where we were here you have all your eggs in one basket so even though if we would buy brand new you could still lose that server and still go down so the cluster spreads the load out across all three so if you did lose one of those clusters you still had two that
043would carry the load and we were at the life expectancy of our current server how many our current server was bought prior to COVID so you know you're looking at somewhere between 2018 and 19 the last firmware that was on it was 2020 so we are in an eight year period I mean if you're looking in business world that is that server is valued at zero dollars right now so while functional absolutely it is you're kind of running on borrow time and so what I'm trying to do is you're absolutely right can we continue to do this one year I don't recommend it because the software that we're running on it is is changing and the support is poor on it and I just don't want to get caught in a situation where if something
044did happen now instead of a proactive approach we are a hundred percent reactive and it's gonna cost a district way more money than what I'm asking for right now could it could we be compromised too with like malware and stuff like that because of the old technology you're seeing it hasn't been the last time they updated the no I mean our system is closed on the inside right so I mean you'd have to have someone from the outside be able to infiltrate inside so I'm not necessarily worried about malware in that sense but I mean there are drivers that aren't being updated in the sense of that that way so we can have a crash that's the biggest concern I'm more worried about yes performance hardware right like I'm more worried about a hardware failure
045less of malware you're absolutely right what does that crash look like is it like down for like a day do we get service like coming out are we and what would go down like explain like if it did happen like what would it a lot of things did all the foundational usage phones internet I mean your daily operations of of your of your school so you know what we're talking about here is being proactive and replacing that because what is the cost of your daily operations so what's the cost of our business our business department not being able to do their job what's the cost of you know okay the the phone's not working what happens to all these different things that require us to have you know internet operations are being our doors open
046through the internet we do have a backup in the district and we have an off-site backup as we're act so we walked through this scenario last month where certain functions would be down but we wouldn't be in the black as a district because there is some functions that would continue base sure protections that we have is that accurate yes so our data is stored off-site right we do store our data at Summit Hill junior high as a like a co-location of on-site and then we do also back it up into the cloud which is considered what they call like an error gap so you can't have malware affect that if it if malware did get a if that malware did get in the district there is no way that it could affect us off-site so
047there is that protection there the the problem is is that that server is so specific because it has so much RAM that you this is just not something I have that I can go get off the shelf do you know what I mean right so it is something specific that is takes would take weeks to be able to get something or you're trying to rush somewhere else to try to be able to garnish maybe a barter from another district that would have something possibly that we could do in a crunch and again what I'm looking at is that I think we would spend a lot more money in time and overtime with a consultant to try to get something working so and then we still have to then buy new hardware do you know I
048mean right and this and this is all within your budget right brain projected this this was something that was already projected this is already something that Julie and I had talked about that this was going to be a capital project in our budget so you know instead of again working to instead of knowing where our budget was so instead of taking that $50,000 and spending it in this full fiscal year that's why realistically you're looking at 29 right now and then I can spread the balance over the next four years to pay the 50 out okay yeah so it's the best of both worlds right I mean we're getting we're getting a better way of managing our server and our hardware and still doing it over five years and being fiscally I think responsible for
049what we want to do it's well within our budget and our means but again it's one of those things where I don't want to be caught on the wrong side of a of an issue I don't I don't think any of our anybody in our district wants to be caught on the wrong side I mean even the copy machines go down for ten minutes and staff members go nuts so sure this sounds like it's a fiscal responsibility that you're kind of spreading it out it sounds like it's kind of a it's in our budget so to me it's kind of a no-brainer to get us moving in the right direction thank you for explaining it you know again sure and that just helps a lot no I appreciate you guys asking some further questions thanks
050thanks thank you especially to the community because you're always up here asking us for stuff so it's good to know it's always good to have that this is where you say thank you Brian and listen I always say thank you after you guys vote on me so I'm always very appreciative so oh yeah no no thank you help the community understand to all the votes and decisions that go behind everything you bring forward and everybody else brings forward so thank you yeah I mean if this is something I felt comfortable in saying we could stretch out believe me I would have done it but this is not something I feel comfortable in telling you to wait a year on so thank you can we have a roll call John winter I Patrick Oliphant I Ron
051Petrie I Adrian Chavez I Joey Murphy I Amy Burke I Melissa Ryan I hey motion passes we have no under 5b no old business 5c new business 5c one approval of premise started through Omnia it's funny everyone who was out there who could present on this just looked at me so I'll read it and then if there's questions we can have Julian Walt answer them since our time in the district we've engaged with numerous HVAC contractors some with limited longevity and mixed service outcomes and so and we are on page 100 so through Omnia the company premise star stood out among local HVAC providers they are located in Frankfurt and was formerly known as Southwest town mechanical and they have consolidated so premise star services are offered through Omnia contract 02-139 awarded via Lion National
052Corporation region 14 this contract allows the district to access pre-negotiated pricing and service terms while remaining in compliance with public procurement standards and so the service structure would be routine service work we work directly with premise star under the Omnia contract to obtain competitive rates for maintenance and service calls and in projects exceeding $10,000 when a service call leads to a project estimated to exceed 10,000 the district will follow all applicable procedures as outlined in board policy including competitive bidding or broad board approval as required so that's kind of the cliff notes version on it and then I'll turn it over to you guys well do you want to come up and just give a quick once over can you explain why you think this is the best choice why what I want to do
053is get a bank of hours we've been spending quite a few dollars with them because they're the only one said within eight hours will be out I've called multiple companies out and usually I get a no response because we're not a preferred vendor we're not local so they've been coming out really on a time's notice so what type of services were delayed due to what you just described well what's nice about this we'll have a bank of hours to go from so we'll be able to do services sometimes getting the three quotes is a little bit more difficult because with the lower purchasing amounts that we have to get the three quotes on makes it harder and then obviously when people are uncomfortable they're not the happiest so I want to be able to get
054somebody out here really quick that is very important especially when it comes to faculty and staff and learning environments for our children I don't have that many more questions on this actually I'm all right with this anyone else I defer to Patrick yeah no thank you and it's annual those are those type of questions I was asking her things for the public to understand that they don't see right we're talking about service contracts here so what makes them the better option compared to the competition and I think I mean also with the familiar the familiarity of the buildings makes it a lot easier so thank you thanks well yeah thank you for your work man so can I have a motion that the Board of Education approved the purchase does it proceed with engaging premise
055star for HVAC services under the Omnia contract 2-139 to provide consistent high-quality service and ensure procurement compliance motion so moved second can ever roll call yep Melissa Ryan I Patrick all time I Adrian Chavez I Amy Burke I joy Murphy I John winter I Ron Petrie I moving forward to 5c to approval of purchasing from quill through um yeah so this is very similar so similarly quill is a partner with this national purchasing cooperative under Omnia partners contracts contract are 230 304 and contract are 190 304 the district may purchase office and miscellaneous supplies and ensure procurement compliance and so when I see quill I always think a pallet of paper and so having pre-negotiated prices cuts down on a lot of run-around when our teachers need supplies and so these were recommended they come
056through waltz department but really recommended by Julie to ensure that we're in compliance with these procurement requirements I remember back years ago we went in together with the feeder districts and I think Lincoln way on supplies has that ever been a discussion or brought up at any of your meetings like kind of like um yeah like a buying group like instead of omnia if we went in on we'd buy bulk we'd buy more their hair your microphone oh so this they they do the the bidding compliance work for the districts and that's why a lot of school districts goes through omnia they get that advantage and that what were the other options aside from yeah cuz I don't know other was there other groups well I mean the other thing is you can go out
057separately but I'm saying is there other buying groups that maybe that or is omnia v1 like there are probably some more other cooperatives this is very popular with school districts because so they're very they're very familiar and they work with a lot of school districts so they're so they have a stronger buying power they probably have more vendor relationships and then they work with you like you know you the gentleman like even just like set up even some other you know team members so that they can go in and look at quotes so say perhaps you know like Leslie might see some office some nurse supplies that would fall under this category she could look under there and she could see that there may be cheaper than the other ones that she's finding and so
058it actually gives a lot of benefits because you also can get other quotes so also even like say technology they can go on there and see you know how much it is for toner and they could see the pricing there in comparison to others so there's a lot of huge benefits by working through the omnia partnership so we have a lot of these in food service industry as well so I'm kind of familiar with that but you know we have a field sales executive listed Danny right so what is like our petition when we work with omnia is it basically just self-service kind of like you just are searching out the product or whatever you need to look for and then you're getting that best price or is there any kind of personal touch from
059Danny or do we having engagement with their sales executive to find us maybe better deals or savings or is it just a marketplace really like how is it presented so like for specifically on this one you know the omnia independent vendor connected me with our quill person and then the quilt representative came in and connected us to those two contract numbers and so we get all these discount rates so not only do we then go in and buy it he went in and added extra discounts because he connected them to those contracts okay so it's a big savings opportunity and procurement compliance opportunity for the district I just want to make sure we make Danny work you know what I mean like like if he can find us some deals somewhere else or if he
060understands of any other kind of purchasing opportunities that that omnia is making available to other districts we just want to stay engaged with them you know what I mean like look so we you can educate us on that as well right so like different office supply companies would bid into omnia and then will want it okay and so then they communicate that to us yeah that's why we go in and we say office supplies on there and then will is the one that won the contract I see they did the bidding and so then when we get tied to the quilt contract we not only get the regular discounted prices but we get extra discounted prices going to those types of those contracts I thought next question is why do we choose omnia that's like
061I mean the district has selected it as a cooperative partner for a long time but a lot of school districts use them because it helps the school districts to have compliance with purchasing because they do the bidding for you for things like paper there's no other companies out there that do it too or there are probably other cooperatives as well they're very effective so have we ever thought about looking into other ones or we can but this is we can look at other ones as well okay and the contracts one year this contract well some of their contracts go longer so like we'll go we on the board had previously approved us working with omnia years ago and then they re-approved it previously in previous years to be a partner with them when we go
062on there we find the contract those contracts could be a bid for two to three years so I'm trying to see if it says it on here but yeah the contracts are are how they bid them out so anything you want to answer it Paul to help with maybe some other clarification or anything sure so what I'm seeing is that they are a brokerage you know they help with some of the paperwork and stuff like that that makes it a lot easier on our district and that's how we came across our HVAC people yeah is a cost-saving so I think the first thing that occurs is we have a need we've identified a need inside the district and so we will oftentimes have prices what does office max sell a pallet of paper for right
063and so you compare that to omnia and I think it's seventeen hundred dollars for a pallet of paper isn't that crazy but the negotiated price is already there and so when the sales executive connects us to the company directly if we can get any additional discounts and we then we take those and so what it does is when we're in need we know that we're getting a good price on something like a pallet of paper but there are other things that we go to other companies for but we typically check with omnia to see what the price is to see if it's competitive and if we can save money then we use use omnia but there are a couple of other companies that are out there that we had talked about in the past so
064to your to your point I know there's one flying here so to your point it it might be a good practice for us to just kind of poke around okay if we went with another company what would a pallet of paper cost and just to make sure that we're getting the deal that we think we are but essentially you're buying in the co-op you're buying the power is bigger and you're getting the best price any other questions all right so I will make the motion that the Board of Education approve the purchase office supplies and miscellaneous supplies from quill under the omnia partners that includes contracts are to 30304 and or are 190304 can I have a second second Melissa Ryan hi Joy Murphy hi Adrian Chavez hi John Winter hi Patrick Oliphant hi Amy
065Burke I Ron Petrie I motion carries moving on to 5c3 the tentative 2025 2026 district 161 budget presentation actually I would just like to say that our main lobby budget presentation happens in September so this is just a quick you know familiarity to talk about the tentative budget but we really do our hearing in September so basically we wanted to inform the board that the tentative budget dates will be on display from August 18th of 2025 until September 17th of 2025 and then a legal notice will be published in the South Town as well on August 18th for the and so the budget is basically there's a tentative budget up there as more information becomes available it gets more succinct and the biggest source of revenue in our budget is our tax levy and we're
066basically in the board packet I did kind of indicate that you can see a trend I PMA gave us a little bit of a chart and it shows that that the CPI is you know it has gone down and that's a major contributing factor to the source of revenue and in the levy so that we go through in December and we go ahead and approve that so basically one of the things that you'll notice on the tentative budget and I think that we talked about this a little bit last month when we go down and one of the things that I just like to bring to everyone's attention is the debt service fund basically on the debt service fund we're showing a change in the fund balance that's an excess of expenses over revenues and
067the main attributing factor to this is the fact that the big there is a beginning balance in the debt service fund from years of interest income that's in there with if this continues to be the board's pleasure not to have additional bonds issued and to pay them off in full what's going to happen is almost like you have a bank balance and you have a savings in it so what happens is now we're getting to the point if we project it out that we have an enough money the clerk will levy in another source of revenue but but by the end of January 20 27 we're going to have extra money left in the debt service fund and then we will talk about an option to utilize those extra funds but until we get to
068that point we're going to see that the debt service fund will show an excess of expenses over revenues attributable to the fact that there's a beginning balance and then at the end there will be a lump sum that will talk about you know how the board pleasure is to utilize that those funds and basically you could see one of our biggest costs is transportation keeps going up and I think that Sarah Rex road alluded to that every time we get their budget or our budgets we see the exponential effect of this transportation cost and it can't be minimized because it's just a reality and with that it's it's something that you you'll actually you'll see in there you'll just see that the trend just keeps on going up and that account so when we look
069to the levy we'll have to levy more into that fund because we have you know homeless transportation we have a lot of special ed transportation we we have regular transportation and it's very important to make sure our kids get to school safely and we basically have to accommodate the costs so so basically in summary our hearing is in September so I don't want to over talk at this point but I just wanted just to explain what our what our process is and that if you even look at the bottom where Kevin had scrolled down you know we're looking at and you know it's projecting in total an excess of expenses over revenue but that is because we're we are expecting an excess of expenses over revenue and the debt service fund and that's going to
070create that that concern but we'll get to the point in the next two years where that will help balance stocks we're not paying that six seven million dollars a year yes yes so we have some end in sight yes thank you and that's a savings to the taxpayers any other questions for Julie right now no I think next next month will be a lot more but this is good this is a great start thank you and this will be on display for per the school code starting Monday 30 days yeah for 30 days so moving that moves us into 5c for the establishment of the 2025 26 budget hearing so as you said that'll be for 30 days August 18th we recommended the board formally set the hearing date for September 17 2025 at 730
071so we start our meeting at 7 and then at 730 we'll go to the budget do I have a motion that we establish the budget hearing for the 2025 2026 budget to be conducted at 730 p.m. and September 17 2025 and we provide for a legal notice of the same so moved Ron Petrie I Amy Burke I Patrick John winter Adrian Chavez Joey Murphy Melissa Ryan okay so the district is pleased to be a recipient of the Association of School Business Officials enter international certificate of excellence in financial reporting for our FY 2024 annual comprehensive financial report ASBO international refers to the significant the certificate of excellence award as it signifies your district's outstanding achievement and financial reporting practices and receiving this award is an honor and continuous goal for the team and so kudos
072to Julie and her team for the reporting that they do not only do we have a perfect score 4.0 out of 4.0 this year and received the state's highest financial recognition but we also received this certificate great job excellent job Julie and Paul and everybody else no that will come to me when the report is not so rosy then it will be Paul but no I really appreciate everything that Julie does to keep us on track and so excitedly we have a slide for this we've been trying to show more slides during the presentation so audience members and people at home can see what we're talking about and kind of follow along with this so this one is going to be really really simple it is our theme for the 2025-26 school year and there
073are oodles of messages that are wrapped up in one 161 in fact I thought about this theme for last year last year we are not in the right space to do that we had consolidated buildings people have moved places and spaces and we're working with different teams but getting out into the schools and talking with the people who are employed here this is going to be the year where we talk about togetherness and so it's my pleasure to share an update on the start of the new school year and the enthusiasm surrounding our district wide theme of one 161 I promise already the shirts will look better this year for those of you who were not a fan of the lime green shirts this guiding focus reflects our shared commitment to fostering a positive climate
074a unified culture and a strong wellness practice for both our students and our staff the energy in our schools is already a testament to the dedication creativity and collaboration of our amazing team so what does this really mean it's rooted in the belief that every member of our district our staff our students our families our community partners is part of one connected and purpose-driven team our work this year will be guided by three key pillars the first is climate it's ensuring that our schools are welcoming that they're safe and supportive and short it's what you feel when you walk into one of our school places culture is the fostering and shared values its teamwork its mutual respect across classrooms offices and departments and this is what you expect of one of our schools so one
075is the feeling and one is the expectation and then lastly is wellness and I think this is what's going to support both of the first two points and that is supporting the mental emotional and physical well-being of both our students and staff so everyone can thrive in our system and find joy in the process of being educated so this year's launch will rely on the extraordinary commitment of our staff from the first day smiles in our classrooms to the behind-the-scenes efforts to make sure everything is just right the dedication to our students should be evident everywhere we go so we deeply value our staff and recognize the care and professionalism that they bring to work every day equally we're inspired by the curiosity excitement and resilience of our students so simply put we love our
076staff and we love our students so with one 161 is our compass we're entering what promises to be a year of growth innovation and connection our schools are energized our teams are unified and our commitment to providing a high quality education is stronger than ever the months ahead will bring opportunities for academic achievement personal growth and community engagement and we're confident that this school year will be another remarkable year for our district and starting with let me give you a brief update on American school bus I take no credit for this Kevin Perkins Mary Ellen Graff and some of our great people on staff have worked tirelessly to make sure that what happened last year is not repeated this year and part of that has to do with working with a new company we have
077all brand new buses we have all brand new cameras all brand new GPS's and today August 13th all the drivers showed up and yes there are a few familiar faces from our previous company who are now employed with American which was one of our goals they ran their they ran the routes and they met at the buildings to talk with our administrative teams about what the expectations were at each site so it's just a little bit different wherever they park wherever they let students off our seating charts gonna work all of that stuff it was a great impression that they made on us today and tomorrow American will run all the routes as close to scheduled times as possible so they are not going to have time to chat with families who might come out
078to see them at their stops you might get a wave and they're gonna continue because we're starting to mark time to ensure that the routes are being run the way that they should so there are a few asks especially after the start of the school year with transportation last year so everyone the PTSD you have to let that go that is over we've moved on please be patient the first several days of school is all the logistics of running routes picking up students communicating with families takes place in real time so now we have real people getting on real buses and all of that so this is to American school bus so it's an entirely different company who has been an absolute joy to work with thus far the second is please understand that students
079add or drop transportation needs late and that we hold changes until after Labor Day the reason we do this is to alleviate a constant barrage of communications coming from the district as we shift the time a minute or two minutes forward or backwards depending on if we have a late registration or someone who decides not to be a bus rider and so again please be patient as this unfolds but if you see something egregiously wrong like there is no stop in your neighborhood or the stop is actually scheduled to be on the other side of town please let us know because those things are trying to iron out but we will guarantee that it will be markedly better than last year and so that is my transportation update for today I've been waiting to give
080a positive transportation update for an extended period of time so that is the end of the superintendent's report thank you everyone very good on that note we're moving on to 7a joy do you have anything to share about a 43 each district has to vote and we voted to accept what she she's gives us a lot of detail and explains things I I really enjoy her meetings or 840 moving on to 7b the community outreach committee update I know our committee is anxiously waiting to set up our meetings for this year and awaiting some additional members that they wanted in May we had our last meeting all agendas and minutes are posted on the district website if you want to take a look some highlights include a current effort to add members to the committee
081being present at events especially the school year kickoffs and helping support other school and community organizations in their efforts actually a notification went out to current members for them to serve and be available at these upcoming back-to-school events so that you can find out what it's about you can see if you were maybe interested we are going to reopen the application process as well and then Adrian and I will go over the applications once we have a few more in so there's still a chance if you think you miss your chance please you think you'd be a good fit to pump up our district in our community please do so other exciting ideas that have been mentioned at meetings are best things like best buddy programs spotlighting local businesses which I know Adrian has tried
082to reach out to the community member that was you know looking into doing that and just to again kind of promote the committee so that people know what it's what its motives are what its role is and how to support that and engage in that anything I missed even if you don't think you'd be a good fit apply because everybody has something to contribute and I think there's a lot of potential in this committee and that I'm learning about and I'm kind of getting involved with a lot of really great personalities and great with people with great ideas and so I am loving kind of figuring out how to kind of wrangle all those ideas and work with work with the team and work with the committee but something that I'm very passionate about is
083definitely networking our community and reaching out to the parents and making sure everybody feels heard and this is a really great committee for that so please do they're gonna be more involved I think that was a resounding you know thought process for everybody there so we're we're excited that we got some great people willing to roll up their sleeves so please apply please join us you'll love it it's great I can't yeah 7c student board of education discussion and update we need to discuss where we're at in the process of seating our next student board members and what we want that to look like in the past we had a special meeting interview each candidate so this can be repeated or another process can be chosen at this time we just have one candidate so
084this may impact how we proceed I do know the feedback given was that we do want to put some parameters on their role mean the feedback that I've heard is that we want to set those parameters and kind of shape the role of what we think it looks like so that that's clear to the I know last year was the first year doing this it was very we had two very good members that were very active were great role models for that but we want to shape that and there was discussion of do we have to do we want a seventh and eighth graders so that one always steps up and one then can kind of mentor and you kind of have one constant for a couple years in a row to help the other
085member do we want to use the student council as one of the choices I know the former student representatives kind of we're not with that idea there is always an issue that you know how is student council representing the whole body and what students are serving in that position and to get different perspectives so maybe we want to utilize one person from student council and we have to talk about what we want to do and we have to do it in a timely fashion this is something that has to be resolved tonight or do we have I don't think necessarily not resolved tonight but a directive or direction so that we can finalize things by I would say by the next meeting we definitely yeah one right yeah I for one am a proponent of
086you know trying to include the student council just because it is an avenue you know this trial and error right but this is an avenue to try and emphasize the importance of civics to our to our students you know cooperative incorporated civics you know there's gonna be room to gain here and make adjustments but people to feel involved in a local government entity that's a concept that we can start to build amongst our student community and that just makes better citizens all around that's the goal we'll see how we can make it happen yeah but I also think there's a student that I'm applied already did she only one or he yeah I think they did it in a timely fashion they did the correct way they did they followed the process I feel obligated
087to that person I think it gives us a nice natural kind of progression of what this can look like and so we say okay you know we got the new applicant just like the last you know applicants and then we also wrote you know bring in the student council you know add some responsibility to that student council giving them some sort of agency as well in having to maybe participate and attend these I think if we outline also what we're kind of asking from them is to kind of give us some insight from the student body and what what they're feeling what they're hearing what their concerns are we can hear that something else that I kind of was thinking was thinking also is that we have to be also respectful of their students as
088well and and you know set some parameters let them get back home at a reasonable time I mean yeah I'm not gonna be home at a reasonable time but you know we can make sure that that they I'm cool with it I'll sleep in but but I think that if we set those kinds of parameters maybe ask for a report from them just to give us kind of insight from their age group as well as to maybe what trends are going on things like that we maybe we can ask a little bit more from them is what I'm thinking the goal is for them is to be eyes and ears inside the school right we have to watch to that it's necessarily like it's not popular culture or anything like that there it's we want
089their input to make educated decisions on behalf of the students yeah we want to give us feedback on how our decisions are impacted yeah great job setting a bar here you know I mean like with their input on the lunches and operations they brought real-world experience I would have wanted to deter anyone though who wanted to be a part of student council from that because then they feel like they're obligated to be part of this too is I mean would you be concerned that that might be an issue because I mean again if we only have one applicant you can make it an option if they don't if they don't want to then it's just I think that if they're on student council and they got the same letter or email if they wanted to
090do it they would have spoke up maybe this is just too much for them even though they're on student council that's what I'm saying I think as long as we make it optional not mandatory is our first step then to come up with are we writing a policy of what we want this to look like like are we creating dr. McDermott what direction do you think we should go at this I've got a question before you do that so how was the stuff how's the student council built out right now do they have a VP I don't know so they haven't been sitting yet so they wouldn't vote right but will they they'll have a no and then if so we have a new student council sponsor for this year so this might be an
091opportunity to do things a little bit differently than they had been done in the past so I take copious notes I know you guys all know that and no one can read them and so so we're looking at some taking ideas from everybody finalizing by the September meeting we have one applicant who has turned in within a timeline I had a letter of recommendation so we would talk with that candidate and then we would set a process an optional process for current student council members so that's going to be once school kind of gets gets going that if they're interested in being a board member we would also be willing to take someone from student council right and in preferably we would try to depending on our applicant have one seventh grader and one eighth
092grader so we kind of put a circle around all of that we'd have two spots we'd be pulling from student government we pull from someone who might be a leader in a different way so when we talk about agency and voice it would be a different kind of voice I have one more question to you Paul is I'm not sure what happened last year but did they get community service hours for what they did because to me I did not sign off on community service hours for them they should for NHS yes over NJS I don't know if those two people really needed more hours it doesn't matter it doesn't matter if they should deserve they're looking for the time they put in yeah because they are serving their community there I do I do
093agree with Adrian though I think that give it a give it a time limit just like you have community public comment give them their time to give the comment from the podium to us I think that it felt very crowded up here and then I didn't like at times when our employees were getting questions from them directly you know I didn't I didn't feel like that would be that's not it wasn't a good look and in some of our contractors too I just thought that wasn't a good look for students although they have great ideas and everything that would be some concerns they bring to us and then we would you know a farm that out I just don't know if employees should be answering to students that might be the parameters that the board
094has talked about so what that allows me to do is get moving on finding candidates and getting getting those potential candidates to the board as parameters are I do like the idea of having a description for them even for the candidates and applicants being clear as to what we're looking for so maybe do we want to set a deadline where everybody communicates to me what they envision and see and then I do a draft and send it and send it to everyone and then Paul can push it there Paul can push it out to everyone and then we can make adjustments and feedback so that we have that ready to go I just say yeah like a week or by next Friday even let's say like by next Friday next Friday sounds good so email
095your ideas of what you want in their role and then I have I have a little issue um John a little bit of what you said because we want them to feel free to speak like if if it is about transportation we that's the point of having them up here is to really hear them and for sure if we're gonna monitor what they say or they're gonna be nervous that maybe they're talking to somebody and they shouldn't be we may not get the feedback we're looking for or the purpose so they could say anything they want to us as a board I'm just saying like when our employees are coming up they shouldn't be addressing the employees or people that we're doing contracts with I just don't think I think we asked them what do
096you think yeah I mean it's just there's pros and cons to it I just told them why don't you for sure no they didn't do anything wrong because they were allowed to but I'm just saying I don't personally think it was a good look if one of our employees and there was one particular incident and I just felt like that person felt like they're getting grilled and they're an employee of the district and I just don't think it was a good look I don't think it was good I don't if I wouldn't want to be if I was in their shoes I wouldn't want to be an employee answering to a student and there was a few incidents there's a contract or two I do think they can definitely express themselves to us as a
097board and then we can we can address those questions directly to a Brian or Kevin or Paul or our contractor who's up here presenting I think that's how it should be done it should be fed to us and then we can ask those they can give us their questions we can ask so you're saying don't even have them sit up here I agree with that I kind of like them sit I'm not I don't care really I'd rather have them sit on the side but I'm not I'm not hung up on that part you know very much we had a really there's so many meetings they didn't say yeah but I do think like a time limit so they like agents to be respectful that they are not here till 10 o'clock or they feel
098obligated to you know they could certainly stay if they wanted to but I think it would be at least give them a chance to not feel like I got to stay here for a whole meeting but this is you can take a week and that's right and go through yeah all your thoughts and get them mean that I'll compile what everybody came up with and then we'll give feedback based on that perfect and try to solidify that and then approve that and the final application does that sound good are we finally at future meeting dates September 17 2025 at the marriage your administrative center at 7 p.m. as always we hope to see you there or online as a teacher who just went through a first day of full full day with students I am
099so glad to say can I have a motion for adjournment so moved second all in favor we are adjourned thank you very much thanks everybody