001Where's our, oh, I can't do anything. She hasn't even known a joke. I know I know I will I'm going to make her I'm going to. He just paid you a compliment, but you can't you wouldn't even understand a compliment. Beaming is Township High School District 113 regular action meeting Tuesday January 24 2023 at 7pm. Roll call please. Mr. Struck here. Mr. Browsep here. Elliot Trimmer here. Mr. Heineman here. Mr. Newman here. Mr. Shapiro here. Mr. Bishby here, and if everyone else at the table could introduce themselves please. Tom Krieger, Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources. Michael Locke, Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum Instruction Assessment. Warren Warner, Director of Communications. Tiffany Rowe, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services. Brian Armour, Chief Operations Officer. Ali Mohanty, Assistant Superintendent, Finance. Catherine Anderson, Principal at Yearfield High School. Meera Ante, Director of Equity
002and Inclusion. Bruce Law, Superintendent. Okay, approval of the board meeting agenda. May have a motion to approve the agenda as listed. So moved. Second. Second. Any discussion? Roll call please. Mr. Browsep. Aye. Ms. Elliot Trimmer. Aye. Mr. Heineman. Aye. Ms. Newman. Aye. Mr. Shapiro. Yes please. Mr. Struck. Aye. Mr. Bishby. Aye. Motion carries. So we have a really fun part of our agenda now is we're going to do some recognition. We have embarked on a kind of a calendar to bring our supportive groups, the groups that support our students and our staff at District 113 and have invited them to come and share with us some of the wonderful things they do. Ramina has organized this. I don't know how she has pulled this off, but she has. Let me get her. It's a Radar
003O'Reilly skill. So my job is to also to set the tone, introduce the thanks, and be the timekeeper. So with that, it's our Deerfield Parent Network, right? And if you'll come up and it is yours. Thank you for coming and let you take it from here. Hi everyone. Thanks for having. Is your mic on? Yes. I think so. Well, thanks for having us. We appreciate it and we look forward to telling you about Deerfield Parent Network. I'm Wendy Moskovitz. I have a freshman in college and a sophomore at Deerfield High School. And I'm Becky Erdman. We're co-presidents of Deerfield Parent Network and I have a freshman in college and a sophomore at Deerfield High School and a seventh grader at Caruso Middle School. So I run the gamut. Wendy and I both started in Deerfield
004Parent Network when our freshmen in college were freshmen at Deerfield High School. And so we're here tonight to tell you a little more about Deerfield Parent Network and what we do with the DHS community and the community at large. Okay, so, oh, how do we move our little... They say Ron, please advance the slide. Let's see how that happened. Okay, what is Deerfield Parent Network? So we are a group of volunteers where we have a board and we meet and work in conjunction with districts 109, 106, and 113 to come up with topics that affect those communities and help bring in presentations to advise parents and empower parents about things that are important regarding their students. Some of our past programs, we have about eight to 10 a year and they range in all ages
005and grade levels. Some are grade specific and some are for the entire community. Some past programs at the beginning of the school year, we worked with district 109 administration, brought in the two middle school principals, a social worker from Caruso, experienced parents, held a panel with a moderator where we talked about tweens in the social scene. So things that impacted that tween age group and what social things were going on and ways to support your child at that age in all the social situations that go on in middle school. And we have a variety of programs that are coming up. Wendy's going to talk more about that, but we're always looking for new topics, relevant things in the community. And we've had the administration come to us before. We've had teachers or counselors at the
006schools. We work with the college counseling department at DHS. And then we've had our own board members and parents in the community reach out and say that there are issues or topics that they would like to see us bring in support for. Next slide, please. So as you can see up here, this is our schedule programming for this school year, which is rather large. And you can see it's kind of broken up into different categories. So we've got the high school categories of freshmen, sophomore, junior, senior programming that we bring to parents. And then we also have some programming we bring to middle school and then the community at large. We're trying to focus a little bit more on the elementary school. We feel like we haven't been able to provide them with as much.
007And so we're trying to brainstorm some new topics to bring to that age parent. And so as Becky was saying, we have specific age focus and then community at large. And one of the favorites always is for the freshmen parents is taking the fair out of finals. So for example, Katherine Anderson comes, she speaks to those freshmen parents who are probably just as nervous as their students are for finals and explains to them what that week looks like, gives them organizers, explains to them ways that they can better plan their time, talks about transportation, just to ease the fears. So parents love that one. Another great one that we actually have coming up in February is Teens in the Law, which is a community wide program that we bring in a police officer. We have
008a judge, a criminal defense attorney and one of the dean of students from the high school. And they talk about drugs, alcohol and the consequences that students could have not as not only the students, but that affect the families as well, especially if you provide or your host house. So that we spread out to the whole community, Deerfield Highland Park. We even try to advertise to other surrounding communities because that is really an important one. We also have one coming up, which we were really excited about because as Becky was saying, parents bring new ones to us. And parents said, you know, gambling is an issue at the high school and it's starting to trickle down to the middle school. So we did research, our board members work to find new speakers and Becky's going
009to talk about that program in a minute. And so we're excited about having a new program there. Prior to COVID, we brought in some national speakers. We had the author of Queen Bees and Wannabees, Rosalind Weisman. And those are always great presentations. We'd like to get back to seeing if we could do that. Those are big undertaking financially. So we tend to work, we do fundraising and donations and then we work with surrounding communities to see if we can partner up in order to buy someone in to speak. Okay, next slide. So this is kind of a flyer we use to publicize an upcoming program. And Principal Anderson and Principal Finn are great about putting these in their newsletters for us, promoting it with the parent community. We also put it out to the middle
010schools if it applies to them. We've even asked the Village of Deerfield, we're working on that, to publish it in their e-newsletter, like for this program they're supposed to do it this Friday, we'll see. But this was one, again, like Wendy mentioned, brought to our attention by some board members that there are some real problems with gambling in the middle school, even in the high school with sports betting apps. And parents may just be unaware of the danger and what their kids are getting into. And so we partnered with NACASA Behavioral Health. We got Elizabeth Thielen, she's coming in and she's going to do a presentation kind of based on what our needs are in our community, what we're seeing. She did a Zoom with our board members to talk about what she should discuss
011and then she'll come and do that presentation for us. So yeah, we're looking forward to that in a week. Next slide please. One of Deerfield Parent Network's largest undertakings is the Deerfield Prom After Party. This was started years ago after a student tragically died after a dance and parents really wanted a way to extend the fun in an organized, safe way. So from about midnight when the buses get back to about three in the morning at the SAC Center, we host a big party. DJs, food, raffles, all sorts of prizes and games. And we have about 98, 99% attendance. And it's a free event for seniors and their dates. And this is really unheard of. Not many communities do this and the kids really seem to enjoy it as well. So this is like I
012said, it's a big undertaking. This is done free of charge to all students and we work with the community. They help sponsor and give donations in order for us to put on this wonderful event. So we appreciate the community's help with that. Okay, next slide. Just finally, like we said, we're a non-for-profit. We run on strictly on donations and so we rely on the generosity of community sponsors, corporate sponsors, families in our community to provide free programming throughout the year and it's generally about 8 to 10 programs plus after prom. And we try to help out anytime we need to with whatever is asked of us, whether the administration comes to us or it's other parents in the community. And so that is your field parent network in a nutshell. Yeah. Thank you. I have
013a question. I'll jump in for my first comment. Thank you. Thank you and thank you. My three kids have all graduated after prom is the greatest thing that's ever created since sliced bread. You don't have to have the discussion of why you're not letting your child drive to a lake house at one o'clock in the morning. And what I think is such a great testament was it came out of a horrible tragedy. But how many other districts around us have been working so hard trying to do what we do and came so naturally because of an extraordinary group of volunteers. And I think it's an incredible thing for those of you who don't know. You don't have to go to prom to go to the after prom party. There are students that actually come to
014the after prom party because prom is too overstimulating them or something not comfortable. They don't want to deal with the date and they still come to the after. It is essentially the graduation party and it is a safe graduation party. And I don't think any of you who have never had a senior, there's that as a feeling that we are very blessed to have a group that does that. So as well as all those other programs. Right. But to me, thank you. So thank you all. And I know it's a Herculean effort all of these programs. And I think the gambling thing's a great addition this year. Of course, if you have any new topics, feel free to email us. I think it's also a great testament to DPN and the longevity of the organization
015and the fact that I know when I had kids in elementary through middle school, it just became the vernacular of putting the DPN with my friends and I events on our calendars. And are you going to the DPN event? You know, it just became a part of what we all did. And so that speaks to the caliber of programming that you consistently offer that there was never a question about whether or not it was going to be of value to my time at night, especially when you do have younger kids. Right. And that time at night is so valuable to you. You just knew that that was still worth your time to show up. So I think that speaks, you know, very speaks to the programming you guys do. So thank you. Good to take
016the fear out of finals three times now. It's always nice to have a refresher. I just have to jump in because I echo everything that you all have said, but I want to bring up one special thing. As you all know, we have within district 113 when students come through the schools, we might see a family for many years. And a couple of years ago, we noticed that, wow, we're like changing over the generations of families. And we noticed that we had many more new DHS families to DHS. And DPN jumped in when I asked like, hey, we need to do something for like the new to DHS families. And they put it on. We put it on even during COVID. So they've always been just a tremendous group of parents and volunteers to work
017with. And I think this just speaks to district 113. This is who we are. And we jumped in. They jumped in, parents, volunteers to support everyone. So thank you. Thank you. So you did say that your organization is run by the generosity of contributions. It's also run by the generosity of your time and your time for coming tonight to share that with us. So thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, so next up is the Deerfield High School Friends of the Arts. Hey, good evening. I'm Lori Gross, and I've lived in the district 17 years. My daughter is a junior and my son is a freshman. My daughter has been involved in music since probably she walked in the door at Wilmot Elementary, but she's been a choralier. She's in the choral program, and we
018just found out she's going to be a senior advisor next year for the choral advisory at DHS. Would you like to introduce yourself? Hi, I am Julie Simon. I have a junior and, excuse me, a sophomore in college. I got involved in Friends of the Arts with my daughter who was in the choral program, musicals, choraleers, theater advisory, you name it. She did it, and she's in college now and my son isn't as involved in the arts, but yet I'm still here. And I'm the new president. Julie's been around the block, and so we did rock, paper, scissors, and I got to do the talking, but she's going to answer all your questions. We'd like to first thank you for allowing us to come here and talk about what it is we do. I think
019the slide really says it all. And, you know, as we talk about being friends of the arts, we don't specify what arts those are. A lot of people think about the arts and they think immediately they think performing arts, but it's so much more than that. It's our graphics, it's our fashion design, it's our applied arts, not only our fine arts. It's DHS news and TV, woodworking, architecture, and we're really there to support all of this. And we have this culture, for those of you not familiar with DHS, called our halls. So our halls where a lot of our arts programs live, it's not just our hall, but it's this idea of the our hall culture and what it means to be in our hall. So we are very excited to tell you more about
020that. We'd like to talk about our kind of updated positioning as a parent organization, and some of the exciting new work we've the work we've been doing. Next slide please, Ron. She's been dying to say that. Before we move on, and I love technology because you can add a slide last minute, we are just two of the amazing members of our organization standing here. We have a full exec board, we have chairs, we have liaisons who communicate with all of our staff and faculty. And then we have just some other really very important people and I wanted to be sure that we just take a moment to recognize them at all. So, I don't know if they're listening but even if they're not here we really appreciate them because without them we're not as many
021friends. So, at the start of the school year we felt like we were maybe having a little bit of trouble with being understood as an organization, you know, what our friends, I mean, we all know what friends are but how does that really apply to what it is we do. So, we really didn't, it wasn't much of a stretch to look over at our friends in athletics and say, wow, you know, they're boosters, we are boosters of the arts. And so as we've been trying that on and it's really not much of a change in positioning and you know I'm a marketing person but but it really does give us a way to talk about it, and we really do we boost our faculty and staff we boost our students and we're working on boosting
022that community as well so we like speaking about this as you know being the boosters of all the arts. Okay, so I am not one to read my slides, but I did want to just put a sampling out there of all the different ways that we do our best to help. And we've kind of divided this into four major areas. So curricular we really focus on how can we extend the creativity that each and every one of our teachers and directors bring to the classroom and their respective studios. Operationally speaking, our goal is simply to support our geriatric and ailing facility. And you can see how we've done that here. In many different ways over the years. But we really also want to be sure that we're balancing is that direct student support and the
023community piece of it. So we're working some, some new things we're doing with some of the things that we've done all the time. So we've had need need based subsidies for lessons so voice lessons band lessons whatever it may be that that students take during the day, and We are the first ones to say how can we subsidize that child so that they experience what they have the same opportunity to experience what what everybody what all their peers do what we're looking at, at coming soon is is doing what many of our other net our other organizations do and that is being a provider of scholarships. So if a student is studying planning to study the arts post secondary, or they have a camp opportunity one of our coral members went to Berkeley music. Seminary
024in Boston this past summer. And if we can help support that that extended learning. We certainly want to want to see how we can do it. And then we recognize much like our friends and DPN said that we really need to be out in our community and and bring these folks in before they get to DHS. So, you know, we are working when when our band or orchestra and it does tend to be more with the performing arts but when when those students come to DHS to perform. You know we have middle school high school coral festivals orchestra festivals, whether or not it's a t shirt something as simple as a t shirt to really build that community what we're really building is our hall evangelists, and we're doing that before they even get to
025the high school. So that's what we do. We tend to, to donate or give back around 12 to $15,000 a year, we'd love to do more and that transitions me to our next slide. Oh, I said it. Sorry, next slide. So again, the generosity of our community really knows no bounds. We've got parents, we see grandparents, sending in donations, which is wonderful alumni, we've got some angels out there. We always sell yard signs is anybody seen Ben and dear field and Cedar seen our yard signs so I have a football yard sign I have a coral yard sign, and I have a badminton yard sign and we love our coral yard sign as much as we do our sports yard signs. We have an Amazon smile account, you know, Julie puts a ton of effort
026into our social media. So we're doing what we can new this year and if our friend in the sky can click on the shout out button. We'll see if technology really works. Just an example. It should play here in a minute but for Annie, we sold shout out so give a shout out to your favorite, your favorite crew member your favorite hit member your favorite director, and hopefully it should advance friend in the sky. There you go. So these were just some samples of our shout outs but what a great way to allow proud commute members of our community really show these students who have worked so hard that they how much they're really appreciated. Can we go back to the slide. So just a sampling of that. And then really what what's under exploration
027now so this is kind of TBD and we're just kind of teasing this up is our we're putting together a corporate sponsorship package, and we're also discussing whether or not we can do what other public spaces have done and that is to consider the idea of theater seat dedications, we are not here to do anything but but tee it up we have talked to to Brian. Yes, thank you very much. Oh hi Brian nice to meet you. So we have spoken with Brian we, we have, we have talked to the architects. We know that there's a formal process to gain board approval to do this, but we've seen it in other public spaces and we really think that it would help us fund all these great programs that we've just talked about so we will
028come back, but wanted to socialize that idea tonight. So we do as you can see we tend to raise about 15 to $18,000 a year. We are down about 50% on our donation our membership donation solicitation this year, that's, it's tough, so we're working really closely with the staff to do some forward planning. So we're really excited to be able to have Paul Hangels is our department the department chair and Joe Taylor, along with Kathy to support really asking the teachers, how they and want to be creative at the beginning of the year so that we can make and meet everybody's needs and still do the student facing things that we want to do as well. So, how can y'all help is, you know, that's why we're here too right now I'm just kidding so
029first of all thank you because the theater renovation support means everything to us. As we started with the arts is not, they don't all take place in the theater but theater is such a big part of it. Focus, we have no idea what that's going to mean to DHS. So what we've been to the way we've been talking about it is focuses everything we're taught here talking to you about tonight, everything that we do that, that the school That is what dear fields focuses on the arts. So the more that we, the more support we have for everything we do on a day to day basis. We'll see how that evolves next year we're excited to explore it. And then really you know I say what else can we do collectively for the arts and
030our community. You know, could, could we ask come to you and ask you to work with the village and DPS 109 and 112 or not 112 sorry wrong, wrong time but at least 109 and and you know cross market events, really get the word out to bring more of the community into our arts program. Anyone can come see any anyone can come in and you know take a look at what's going on in the arts. So how do we engage more, more of our community that way. Julie, would you like to add anything. I didn't get kicked once so I must have done okay. Thank you so much for having us this evening. Any questions. I have a brother that lives in our hallway. And I have a son that took a lot of the
031woodworking classes, and that just found a passion for that so I'm definitely and I'm member obviously friends of the arts, as well as having a soccer science so I to also have both sides. And I definitely appreciate the work that friends of the arts does to support the whole spectrum of folks that that need to, you know, continue to provide the program that we provide the teachers in the classroom, the, the extracurricular program that's put on, as well as the students so thank you very much for what you guys do. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thank you for having and and I at your meeting. Yes, that was a good dialogue that was really nice. And I guess one of the boxes is be from us would be a shout out to you guys for
032your. Thank you very much for that next time. The thing about being on the board is it's really an expensive volunteer job. All of those but thank you, Julie, you're welcome to stay to run our slides. We've got, we've got a whole long agenda with make a name. Thank you very much. Thank you for coming out tonight. Thank you. Thank you. To follow board reports, I'll start presence report. So, we'll start with an update on the, the bargaining team so the board and the DA bargaining teams met on January 17 on the teams reach consensus on the grievance procedure and continue to discuss proposals related to seniority reductions and force and recall. And in addition we discussed a work plan for the next several plan sessions. The next one is February 3 and we have
033a calendar for upcoming sessions. And we got that. Next, just announcement. The Highland Park City Council met last night about the permanent memorial for July 4, so they have a temporary there is a temporary memorial. Just on the other side of City Hall Park just a really nice job I walked through it it's they've done a really nice job with that. And now they are going to embark on the plans which will take some time. And they discussed that they've got expertise from the Department of Justice from other experts who talk about how to do this, sadly around the country where there is expertise out there about these things but getting a lot of input community input input from victims input from families. And so they're going through that process to plan for the permanent
034memorial. Oh, and just you saw we took the January 31 meeting off the counter that just didn't work with calendar so to be continued so January 31 is open. And that's all I had. I mean, diversity. Last week the diversity, equity and inclusion community met. The main topic was student engagement and data around student engagement and to briefly summarize, and I really wish I had a slide deck so I could ask Ron to advance to the next slide. But I don't. I'll just share. We talked about student engagement and data around student engagement and what it means for a student to be engaged and what we can see with our data, and what we can intuit from that, from that data. So that's what we think we might know what we know as as as
035educators in the community, and whether the data does or does not confirm that there will be a report coming to the to the board and spoiler alert, the data does confirm that the more involved, student is the better their grades are. With that said, now that we know that, what do we what do we do about it so next steps are okay we know that students that are more engaged in extracurriculars and spring clubs and sports will do better in school. We're not going to focus on the why that is, but we are going to focus and correct me if I'm wrong, not so much on the why is that true but more of the what do we now do about it because not all of our students are are as engaged. So we know
036the students that are and the ones that aren't as measured by participation in after school activities and sports. Now how do we ensure that all students have those opportunities. That was the main topic of conversation one of many at each of the committee meetings we have focused on a different topic to bring to the board. The next report to come to the board will be on the findings of that report that Mira has been working very very diligently on and just a huge shout out and thank you to all of you to get that together. It is no small feat to pull the data together analyze the data to help drive conclusions. Thank you. And I just wanted to say to those of you who just presented that there's a great, you know intersection right
037there with what you are offering and to thank you. And maybe there's a moment where we could be a part of helping the younger kids understand the opportunities, if we're not, you know, doing that I know we're doing that but we could enhance it to help capture some of the interests as they're entering in as freshmen. So please reach out, there's anything that I can do or my colleagues to help with that. Thank you. Going on your committee, Jody facilities. facilities committee. I do have a slide to speak off of but I can't advance it, because there's only one. Okay, we talked about the summer 2023 infrastructure projects bid results etc and the DHS auditorium improvements and bid results, we will be getting to those when we get as you all see those are both
038under our discussion items so there's no need to be redundant. Moving on. That's where I was going my next one is true north. Okay, so for those of you who do not know, I am our district's representative of the true north advisory leadership committee true north is formerly known as NSSE D. I asked Ken if I could kind of be more of a regular presenter on things with we're going on with true north because true north is best way I can describe it as a true north leadership committee representative I walk this incredibly tight tightrope that I've been elected by the people district 113 true north has 18 districts in it. And so it's always this fine tightrope of do we do I vote do I do things what's best for the true north community
039and the students there, or what's best for our whole district 113 community. Within that 113 community though we have many students that utilize true north programs. So, I may be bringing more things to you all before I vote on things because there's a lot of things that are going to need to be voted on in the next six months or so and I just want to make sure, as in everything with our board, no one voice is more powerful than another, but if I'm voting for us then I should be voting for what we all believe in not just what I believe in. So with that I'm going to be sending on to you all after tonight's meeting true north just did a whole thing. They went and had their governing board structure evaluated kind
040of did a reevaluation on how they work with it. I'm going to send you all on what is now their governing board, how the representative, how the representation works, etc. I just once again feel it's one of us is getting it all seven of us should be getting it. The two things to note is that within what you'll be getting is that there are 18 districts. We all have the same vote. It's 18 votes. We are the second large, I think we're the second largest district in those 18, and we have the same vote as a as bannock burn does. And so it's just something and I don't know how you could ever change it if you would want to change it but I think it's an important thing to note. So with that in
041the way the governing board works is that no vote is a valid vote if you do not have at least one of the high school districts voting on it and I think that that is a really important thing. Although there are only three high school districts they make sure that a vote, we have to vote, or it's not a valid vote you can't have the other 15 districts all vote without the three high school one of the three high school districts voting. Last thing with that, I'm also sending you on the continuous improvement implementation plan it's a nice little flow chart on how everything works at true north. So you get that, because they're really going through kind of a similar to what we have done in the past of an evaluation of their programs
042and evaluations of their facilities. Are they a program focused program, are they focused on programming or they focused on services and those are two very different things on how they're provided. Are they going to more focus on professional development, those kind of things so as I said I'm just going to keep bringing these to you because I think it's very important that our voices heard as a district on how we want to and since I'm the only one sitting at that table. I need to know what all of your voices are. There you go. Thank you for the thank you all of your work you do with that. Thank you, and I won't be doing it after April so someone else gets to be in that job, been doing it for six years. We'll see.
043Public comments for policy two dash 230 at each open school board meeting the Board of Education has a public comment period for a maximum of 30 minutes, and we're ready to listen and appreciate your comments, we recognize it takes time and work prepare three minutes or under statement. Public participation is not intended to be back and forth discussion between the public and the board. That's during the public participation may be sent via email and can be answered subsequent to the meeting. Is there any public comment or none. Seeing none, we'll move on to item seven administration reports superintendent. Thank you, Mr. Fishbane two things under my report there will be a formal ceremony board meeting in the future to be determined trying to work out with the person who's coming to do this to present
044a plaque to Kathy Anderson who is the Lake County High School So maybe I should have waited until the formal plaque came and all of that but just I just couldn't wait you know to to share the share the news. The other thing I want to mention my report in November, when we were reporting to the board on progress toward this year's goals I said this year is really setting up for the work that's that's coming as normal comes back into school districts and we can start working in a more traditional way with you know working on goals we've identified that we believe are going to support our students and all of our students and improve outcomes for all of our students and I said at that time what we'd like to work on is
045trying to establish goals looking out for five years. So we've been doing some some work since then and we have sent a survey to parents and also the parents of rising freshmen asking them some some questions and what we're trying to get at really is they think about their their children five years after they graduate what are the hopes that they have for their children five years on and so we are we're collecting information now from from parents we want to use that then to articulate goals that if this is where we're this is what we all aspire for when it comes to our students what we need to do in order to to get there but we think that the most important Excuse me aspect of this is finding out what parents really hope
046for when they when they think about their children after graduate and work toward those aspirations so that's coming that survey is out it closes on Friday. And Mark Brackett who's the director of the Yale Center for emotional intelligence is coming for Institute Day on February 21st. First, I know you're part of this today and then he's staying that evening for a parent night we're inviting parents from our elementary center districts and so this will be a 440 invitation that will be going out to parents we don't have the exact date and time yet still working working on that but I just wanted to mention that on February 21st. Dr bracket Professor bracket from Yale is going to be here to have a session for parents in the evening, which we will all miss, but it
047will be here on the 21st, because it coincides with Institute Day. That's it. Okay. Yes, these are the, this is the boy I should say that we received impressive since the last board meeting. All right, go on to discussion items the external audit for fiscal year ending 2022 Ali I will turn it over to you. Good evening so we have Nick Cavalieri who's our remote. He's our, he's partnered with our audit firm bigger Tilly, he's going to present any of the results are point from unique Are you there. Yes, I am. Can you hear me. Yes. Perfect. Perfect. Well, thank you for for allowing me to be here this evening to talk a little bit about the fiscal year of 2022 financial statement in single audit. We completed our audit, and we're able to issue
048our reports on the district's financial statements. They were dated October 31 of 2022. Get advanced to the next slide please. So the financial statement audit is fairly robust, we will render assurances over the district's annual comprehensive financial reports. Every school district in the state of Illinois is required to have a state Board of Education annual financial report audited the district expended over $750,000 of federal awards during the year. As a result of that there's a series of reports that need to be filed with the federal government. One of them is called a schedule of expenditures of federal awards commonly referred to as a CFUP. There's a state agency called the grant accountability and transparency unit. They have a document that they require to be audited called a consolidated year and financial reports. You know as
049I previously mentioned the district is subject to a single audit, which is a federal compliance audit we will look at certain major programs, the use of federal dollars to see if the district comply with the use of those funds, and if they had appropriate internal controls in place to ensure compliance. The district is a recipient of several awards from the Illinois Community College Board, and as a result of that, there is a compliance audit and financial statement audit over those grant dollars. And then lastly because the district is required to have an audit performed in accordance with governmental auditing standards we will issue a report on internal controls over financial reporting and other compliance related matters. Next slide. So that was a lot of things to talk about that we audit. Well what were the
050results of all of that work. So, the annual comprehensive financial reports, the district received an unmodified audit opinion from us. That's the highest level of assurance that you can receive from the external auditor that the financial statements were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles were free of material misstatement, then have any scope limitations on our ability to perform our audit procedures, all of our audit evidence supported that decision to render an unmodified audit opinion. We also rendered an unmodified audit opinion on the Illinois State Board annual financial report, the schedule of expenditures of federal awards, consolidated year end financial reports, and also the Illinois Community College Board information. Next slide please. I'm going to stop you there for a second, Nick. This is Ken. Thanks, good to hear you again. I suppose sort
051of see you. But that, that last slide. It's the, the clean opinion is just to remind everybody is a big deal. So, my thanks to Bruce Ali and the team this is important. You never want to be in an organization, the reason it's a big deal because there are organizations that don't get that. And that's not good for boards. So, I know we have it every year and we do well every year but it's worth emphasizing and expressing our recognition for. Go ahead, Nick. Thank you. So you know the annual comprehensive financial report is a fairly robust set of financial statements. It's upwards of 120 to 130 pages. It's a little bit daunting when you pick it up as a board member, the community member, you know, just in general there's there's a lot of
052pages in there. There's there's two pages that I always like to talk about when I come to speak on the audited financial results to the board. It's the income statement for the district's funds. So on page 17 and 18 if you were to have the the app for booklet in front of you I have the slide, I took a screenshot of it. This particular document will show you the results of the district's operations for the year so at the top you have the revenues that they came into the individual funds the funds are presented in column format. The expenditures are right in the middle. The third category or grouping is called an other financing source or in parentheses use that grouping is utilized for the accounting of transfers of funds between funds or for accounting
053for the proceeds related to the issuance of debt, and I'll get into that a little bit more. And then you'll see the overall change in the individual funds position during the year, the starting point fund balance and then the ending fund balance. So I'll provide a real high level summary of the results. So the general fund is the very first column, and what you'll see is that you know if you go about three quarters of the way down it'll say access or in parentheses deficiency of revenues over expenditures, and it's approximately $1.7 million. So what does that mean that means that you know from a standpoint of recognition of of revenues and expenditures on a gap basis that the general fund operated at a slight decrease during the year. But if I was able to
054draw your attention up to the revenue category, and about four lines off of the bottom where it says total revenues, you'll see a line that says unrealized gain and then parentheses loss on investments. Unrealized gain or loss on investments, the key word there is unrealized. So at the time that the financial statements were prepared, you know, as of June 30 of 2022. Several of the district's investments that they held on a market value were valued less than when they were initially purchased. I mean that is a testament to the market conditions that existed from the time that the investments were purchased and at the end of the fiscal year. So we can see that the valuation of that change in the market value was approximately a $1.6 million unrealized loss gap financial statements will require
055you to mark your investments to the market value, even though the district does not intend to, you know, sell their assets at a loss, they typically will hold them until maturity. So if you give consideration to the fact that there was a $1.6 million market value adjustment, and hold that in the same light as the change in fund balance position of a negative $1.7 million, the district for all intents and purposes operated within its resources for the year. I mean that that $1.7 million is really predominantly being driven by the $1.6 million unrealized loss that's required to be reported in the financial statements. Can I stop you for a second? I just want to clarify. So this is not an actual transaction. So we actually booked interest revenues on cash basis were about $300,000, but
056we have to report it because of the auditing standards, you know, this way, even though it's not a it's not a true loss. So what happens next year when the investments mature or this year, there will be a source of a similar amount. So it just gets a little confusing. You know, when we report numbers in CAFR, we have to report in weighing where we have to follow the gap and the auditing standards. Sorry. I'm glad you said that because of your personal investments if you had to show, had you sold it, had you sold it, what you would have. I mean, I know these accounting fictions are matter, somewhere but that what he said what Nick said the last was, I think the most important part. We know we were operating the district within
057our means. Page 17 if you were looking at this slide, you kind of see there's a page break there. And it says, you know, page 17. When I like to talk with boards is that those grouping of funds the general fund the operations and maintenance from the transportation fund, the retirement social security fund. Those are the funds that predominantly run the operations of the school district, how you're educating your students, how you're maintaining your facilities, how you're transporting students, and how you're covering your expenditures related to, you know, social security, Medicare and the IMF pension system. So, you know, when you look at this holistically you can see that all of the funds are operating within their resources for the most part. And in some instances, the operations and maintenance fund quite honestly is using
058those dollars to assist in the funding of facility work that's been identified by the board and placed and set aside in the capital projects fund. So if you're looking at the operations and maintenance fund next, you'll see that there's a transfer out of $5.1 million. And then there's a corresponding transfer in to the capital projects fund for $5.1 million. So those funds are being identified, moved over, and then utilized for the purposes of the plan and the capital projects fund. You know, the debt service fund is a fund that operates for the most part, you know, solely for the repayment of outstanding debt obligations. Outstanding debt obligations can be general obligation bonds, debt certificates, leases, and things of that nature. During the year, the district issued some debts. The proceeds of the debts were placed
059predominantly within the capital projects fund. You can see in that particular fund's category that there's a principal of bonds sold to $46.6 million, and then the premium on those bonds was deposited in the fund for $3.3 million. But you will also notice that there is a portion of that bond sale that's been placed directly into the debt service fund. That portion that's placed into the debt service fund is what they call capitalized interest. It's to be used for the costs of the bond issuance itself, and then I believe a partial on an interest payment or maybe one of the interest payments itself based on the timing when the issuance took place. So, you know, one of the things that we look at very closely when we audit, you know, the district's financial statements is whenever
060there's a bond issuance, are the proceeds placed appropriately in each individual fund based on the closing memo and, you know, other matters that we gain an understanding of through the course of the audit. So, you know, when I take a step back and I look at the district's financial position, it continues to trend healthily. We can continue to see that the district is identifying operational resources for future capital funding and has also injected some bond proceeds, which has had a significant increase in the capital projects fund balance at the end of the fiscal year from, you know, $1.9 million to about $52.4 million. Moving on to the next slide, please. Do I always like to pull out a piece of information and just share it with the board? There's so much in the financial statements
061that, you know, sometimes I get lucky and I grab something of interest, sometimes I get lucky and I find that there's something that you may not have understood as much, and I get to share some information. But this is a schedule that's in the district's financial statements, and it's a schedule that relates to the other post-employment benefits that the district offers its employees. Under a particular accounting standard, there is a requirement to have an actuarial valuation performed on post-employment benefits that you offer your employees. And the actuary will look at the plan offering, will look at the census information for everybody who works for the district, the group of the retirees that are receiving the benefit. They'll apply a series of assumptions regarding the current year costs and future trend rates. It's a very complicated
062transaction, and ultimately what it's trying to accomplish is to provide a reasonable estimate that says, what is the liability currently for providing that benefit to the employees? The benefit that's offered is, for the most part, within collectively bargained agreements and essentially is varying contributions by the board for health, dental, and life insurance at varying rates based on tenure and position and class for a certified, non-certified administrator. And ultimately, the actuary has determined that the ending liability for providing that benefit is approximately $10.1 million at the end of the year. So, you know, there's a great deal of information disclosed in the notes to the financial statements. If you have an interest in learning more about that, you can seek that information out in there as well. I would like to advance the slide, please. Just
063to stop there for a second. So thanks. I thought this was an important thing just to highlight. So thanks, Nick, for highlighting. And I talked to Ali and Bruce about it, too. So this is a liability on our books. This is a commitment that we've got to the retirees. And then in the CARF, and then help me, Ali, so in the CARF, so the expense that we, so we have an expense every year to continue to fund this liability. And it's, I've got it, you know, so it's pretty significant. Correct. So the expense is that the funds that we've already committed, this number is also looks at the eligibility of future retirees. That will potentially retire the years of experience. So this calculates that as well. And then, you know, it's like your total liability,
064including the current retirees as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, Nick. Right. It's looking at it. Right. And then they forecast out what that cost is after applying a series of assumptions. And then they'll discount it back to today's value. And, you know, under the current reporting standard, you know, this is essentially a liability that's, that's on your books, and it doesn't have a defined funding source. You know, some governmental agencies or entities have established trust funds, or they call them OPEB trusts, where they'll set aside assets and like an irrevocable trust, trust only for the purpose of funding that particular liability. It's not common in Illinois with school districts. I don't see any of my school district clients have an OPEB trust. I have one county government that I work with that has implemented
065something similar to that, or actually exactly that I should say. But, you know, so for the most part, this is the unfunded liability and kind of pay as you go. Right. So it's in the hundreds of thousands of dollars that we pay as we go. Can you answer a question? You said something about the OPEB were the only, what were you saying that you don't know any other districts that do the OPEB? Is that what you said? No, no. What I was trying to say is that in some instances, a government can fund the OPEB liability, where they'll identify a series of assets and place them in an irrevocable trust, like they call it an OPEB trust. And those assets are solely to be used to offset that liability. So if you think about how
066pension systems work, pension systems will have plan assets that are set aside only to be used for the pension expense itself. Yes. Many school districts will offer a post-employment benefit offering to their employees, varying levels of contribution. And there are certain parameters that you're bound by to offer. For instance, in Illinois, if you have employees that are in the Illinois municipal retirement pension system, the IMF pension system, you are required to allow them to stay in your health insurance plan until they reach the age of 65. But they have to, you know, pay their own full premium. In some instances, that can drive up the costs of your insurance plan collectively as a whole, because you have these employees or previously employed retired individuals staying on your plan that can be driving up the overall
067cost of your insurance system. So there's this concept of this implicit rate subsidy that gets calculated by the actuary. All school districts are subject to that, but you actually have a benefit subsidy that you provide to your employees in post-retirement that will fund a portion of their insurance costs, dental costs, and life insurance costs. So we have a fund where we contribute to that for the retirees for those costs. We make the contribution to the retiree health insurance plan in the 500,000 or 300 and some thousand dollar range. And there are, I got the car, 640 retired plan members. So it's a lot of people. And it's our liability. That goes up to like 700 and more. Yeah, there's 67 more, so then it becomes 707. Now that'll change as people move on. And if
068you say that's literally a whole nether. But that's our liability. We have to fund it. We've got the retiree component. All right, Nick. Thank you for that. I'll let you go on to the next slide. Thank you. Thank you. I pulled out another couple of pages from the act for, I like to point this out to the board because I think it kind of shows some of the progress of a previous decision that was made some years ago. Several years back, the board made a decision to provide an additional contribution to the, you know, the IMF pension system. And as a result, that contribution, that influx of dollars provided the pension plan assets, additional resources to invest, to generate future, you know, investment earnings, gains and things of that nature. I will say that, you
069know, many of the school districts that I work with this year have presented what they call a pension plan asset. And I'll explain what that means. So if you look at the 2022 column, you'll see that the line that's about, I don't know, probably three quarters of the way down, it says employers net pension liability. And then in parentheses asset, and it's $17.1 million with a negative value. And what that's essentially saying is that your pension liability, which is identified with the first double bold line at $88.3 million. It's got the parentheses and the A next to it. That is the liability that the actuary has determined based on your census and all the other assumptions that have been applied. So right now, the actuary says we believe that the pension system has an $88.3
070million liability. And then there's the value of the plan assets at the same date of the valuation. And if you scroll down to the next bolded double underline with the B in parentheses for $105.4 million. So I am ref has $105.4 million of plan assets held for the district's pension liabilities, and you have a liability that's calculated at 88.3, hence a plan asset of $17.1 million. So what does that mean? So that means that your pension plan for the I am ref piece is well funded. It allows for you to potentially have, you know, reduced percentage contribution rates for the amount on the plan itself. You know, you can see it's very from year to year, I will say it tends to go up and down sometimes with the economy. So when the market has
071a little bit of a hit that can go down when the market's doing well, it can go up because the valuations on the investments. I am ref is a lot of to invest in things that are more dynamic than schools. So they tend to get involved in the things that can be more fluctuate more with the market conditions. But you know, it is important to understand that, you know, you have a, you know, $17 million plan asset that's recorded on your financial statements. It is a good indicator of a well funded requirements to the pension system itself. Next slide, please. So, as I alluded to earlier in the presentation, not only do we perform a financial statement audit, but we perform a single audit, which is a federal compliance audit. And, you know, for many
072years, the district has been required to have a single audit. But for all of those years, you know, previously within the past couple of years, it's really been predominantly focused on the special education cluster, the idea program on the district is not outside of the pandemic, a heavy recipient of federal funds. In fiscal year 22, the district, you know, had approximately $4.2 million of expenditures that were funded with federal dollars. And as a result of that, we were required to audit three major programs, we audited the education stabilization fund program, commonly referred to as We audited the disaster grants, public assistance, presidentially declared disasters, that's the full name, also known as FEMA, of $1.3 million. And then there was also a new program that was out there called the Emergency Connectivity Fund, and it related
073to procuring connectivity devices for unmet needs for technology. And, you know, we conduct this audit, it's fairly complicated, there's a set of rules that we have to follow from a compliance supplement that gets published by the federal government. And we look at the underlying transactions and a lot of the underlying use of those dollars will also perform a series of tests over the controls in place to ensure compliance and then at the end we render opinions on the results of those audit procedures. We were able to render again an unmodified audit opinion on the compliance of the use of those dollars for the major programs, and we were also able to render an opinion on the internal control of our compliance that essentially says that we did not identify any material weaknesses in internal control.
074So a good clean audit on the federal awards. Next slide please. You know, when we when we conduct the audit for the financial statements we gain an understanding of the internal controls over the preparation of the financial statements. We'll walk through key control cycles. We perform our audit procedures. If at any point in time, we believe that we identify a risk that elevates to a level that's reportable. Predominantly the definition of a material weakness is that, you know, during the course of an employee's assigned duties that they would not be able to identify a material error in the financial statements, then we would report that to you. We did not report any material weaknesses to the board or during the course of our audit. So, good job on that front. Next slide please. And again,
075one of the other factors that we have to give consideration as a governmental audit is if we identify instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations that can have an impact on the financial statements, we would report those. We did not have any instances of non-compliance that were required to be reported under the governmental auditing standards. Next slide. Auditing standards require us to communicate if we had difficulties in performing our audit or disagreements with management regarding the application of accounting principles or estimates used. And I'm pleased to let the board know that we did not have any difficulties as related to those matters. Next slide. And that would conclude my presentation. I would be more than happy to take any questions from the board at this time. Nick, thank you. I'm looking around to see if
076there are questions. Thank you very much. Again, thanks to our team, Ali and the team. Yeah, I just want to add that the audit process starts in May and goes all the way until October. So, I do want to thank my team. Whitney, obviously, she's no longer with us. She left in September. And when she left, Josh came in right in just to ensure that our audit gets completed in time. He's our director of services, Josh Schuhm here. Thank you for coming. Josh and Steve did a really good job making sure that our audit gets filed in a timely fashion. And obviously, with this transition, we were also able to get assistance from our auditors of Baker-Tilley. Yes, Baker-Tilley has been a very good partner. So thank you. Thank you, Nick. Thank you. Thanks, Ali.
077Next item, Dearfield High School Auditorium Improvements Bid Results Early Awards. Is this like the Oscars? So I assume you're turning it over to me if that's okay. So this is, we're following this model of where we bring early bid packages for packages that we've identified that are long lead items in order to make a summer schedule. And so the next two items, 8B and 8C, we'll follow that. We have one presentation for both items. They're only one slide long. And so the first one is the auditorium, which we'll see that the auditorium is on budget. And I'll turn it over to Ryan and he'll give us a little bit more details. And the next one would be the infrastructure project, which is, you'll see there's a lot of cost savings on the infrastructure project. So
078we'll get into some details about that. But I do want to thank Ryan and thank Matt, because we have a really great team and they continue to find savings for us and find better ways to improve how we're building our details. And so we'll go through some of those details. And so Ryan, if you could just kind of quickly go through the first one and on the auditorium, please. Sure, absolutely. And thanks, Brian. On the Deerfield Auditorium project, we opened two bid packages, which are really related to the theatrical equipment and seating for that project. And as you can see, we're about as close to being exactly on budget as you can possibly get. We opened approximately $1.2 million in bids and we are roughly $1.2 million to the budget. So overall about $1,300 to
079the good on that. And that was a great result, we thought, on that particular project. But there's also a footnote at the bottom, you'll notice there was an alternate for additional scope that was included as part of what we bid out, but only a portion of that work is being bid as part of this package and the rest is being bid later. So that's why this footnote was put on there just so that it's very clear that we'll evaluate that alternate down the road after we know all of the bid results for that particular project. So that that alternate is something we would defer. At the end of the day, I do believe we'll recommend it, but we're going to defer approval to a later board meeting and we checked legal and this is all
080above board, it was publicly bid. And so we are exactly on budget for these first two items. We're not on budget or $1,390 under budget. I think one of the things that was great was during our facilities committee meeting that in terms of the other, you know, as we talk about the contingencies, etc, they are not based on anything that we are doing now. And that was an important thing for the facilities committee to know that we're not making a decision on one based on another. And so those things are very separate. I think another thing is to know that we have have an amazing group here that has been finding ways to save us money and finding ways to do things. It's been, as we looked at the last two years of everything coming
081back 40%, more than we thought it would be to be able to see that nice little number in parentheses is an extraordinary thing. And it really is because of Brian and his team. So I thank you all. And I thank everyone within all of our other groups to be between Pepper and FGMA and Carter and everyone. They have really worked at making sure we get the best possible product we can for our students. And I thank you all for that. Okay, so again, the same things apply to the infrastructure project. There is a bigger cost savings on this project, but that I do think requires some explanation. And again, this is to our team. So there was some details that our team found that we didn't necessarily have to build. So we pulled it back
082on the project a more efficient way to build the building. And so, you know, thank you for finding those things. And you can see that we'll realize that that cost savings here. So And how much is that cost savings, Brian? It's about $1 million, not accepting the alternate. So there's there's some asterisks on this, which again, this this alternate is a is a bigger alternate. And we will at the end of the day, we will recommend that for approval at a later date. But the ability to save us the million dollars gives us the ability to entertain those alternates. Yes. Correct. So just summarizing quickly, the numbers, we opened roughly $3.1 million worth of bids against a budget of approximately $4.1 million, which again equates to that million dollars of being under budget that Brian
083was talking about. I won't get into the fine details, but the two asterisks below that Brian was referring to, there's a portion of scope that we have after investigating the scope that we were bidding out, we determined that that scope wasn't necessary. So it's really, it wasn't that we're bad estimators, it's that we really didn't have to do that. And so that's what we're trying to do. So that's what we're trying to do. So that's what we're trying to do. We reduced the scope a little bit because there wasn't a need for it, which is a good portion of what that savings is. Okay, excellent work. Any other questions? Just want to point out that government's not typically known for this. Thanks, Stark. Yes, thanks. Thanks, Brian, because this is actually what happens when you
084have really good architects and someone like Brian who is in the details of this to make sure the scope is exactly right. And so, as I said, the government's not known for thinking a project is going to be this, and it comes to a million dollars because we keep working to figure out exactly the scope we need. So I should say thank you. That's amazing. Okay, we're good. All right, thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for coming. And I always thank you guys for coming. So thanks. Okay, item nine. Dear Phil high school auditorium improvements on the motion of the board to award contracts to trade contractors for the dear field high school auditorium improvements project. After due advertisement pursuant to the school code, or hereby finds that the following subcontractors are the lowest responsible
085bidders and accepts the proposals of and makes an award to the following contractors subject to the legal review of the district's council theatrical equipment I wise holdings LLC 1 million and $1,000,000 theater seating H to one group 212,934 may have a motion. So moved, and a second. Second, and any discussion. Since we just discussed it, we'll call please. Ms. Elliot Shriver. Hi, Mr. Heyneman. Hi. Hi. Yes, please. I motion carries. The summer 2023 infrastructure projects on the motion of the board to award the contract to the trade contractor for the 2023 summer infrastructure projects. After due advertisement pursuant to the school code board hereby finds that the following subcontractors the lowest responsible better and accepts the proposal of and makes an award to the following contractor subject to the legal review of the district's council
086roofing company $899,950. May have a motion. So moved. Second. Second. And any discussion. And again, a roll call please. Mr. Heyneman. Hi. Ms. Newman. Hi. Yes, please. Mr. Strzok. Hi. Mr. Braza. Hi. Ms. Elliot Shriver. Hi. Mr. Fish main I motion carries item C is recommended the Board of Education approve the agreements regarding receipt of developer subdivision contributions and indemnification as presented. May have a motion. So moved. Second. Second. And is there any discussion. Roll call please. Ms. Newman. Hi. Yes, please. Mr. Strzok. Hi. Mr. Braza. Hi. Ms. Elliot Shriver. Hi. Mr. Heyneman. Hi. Mr. Fish main I motion carries. Item D accept the external audit. It is recommended the Board of Education accept the annual audit for the year ending June 30 of 2022 as submitted by Baker Tilly virtual Krause LP Oakbrook, Illinois.
087May have a motion. So moved. Second. Second. Any discussion. And roll call please. Mr. Pira. Yes, please. Mr. Strzok. Hi. Mr. Braza. Hi. Ms. Elliot Shriver. Hi. Mr. Heyneman. Hi. Ms. Newman. Hi. Mr. Fish main I motion carries. Item E is recommended the Board of Education approve the intergovernmental agreement with the village of Deerfield and school district 109 regarding Deerfield town downtown village center tax increment financing district as presented. I have a motion. So moved. Second. Any discussion. Thank you Rick and Ali and our journeys. Roll call please. Mr. Strzok. Hi. Mr. Braza. Hi. Ms. Elliot Shriver. Hi. Mr. Heyneman. Hi. Ms. Newman. Hi. Mr. Pira. Yes, please. Mr. Fish main. Hi. Motion carries. Item F review of closed session minutes. It is recommended the Board of Education approve those closed session minutes that are
088to remain closed or opened from June 14, 2022 through November 29, 2022 as presented. Is there a motion. So moved. Second. Second. Any discussion. I just want to say one thing. The reason why we keep many of our closed minutes closed is because they are about student issues. It is not Dan and I were the people in charge of reviewing the ones this time, it is not meant to be keeping secrets from our community this that and the other. The only important is most of our closed session are either about personnel or about students, none of what should be open to the public unless it needs to be open to the public. It's about protecting people's privacy. It's not about not trying to be transparent. Actually, if they were open to the public, it would
089open us open to liability on a number of levels. But once again, it's also respect to people's privacy. Thank you for your explanation. Thank you guys for doing that work. And a roll call, please. Mr. Braza. Hi. Mr. Heidemann. Hi. Ms. Newman. Hi. Yes, please. Mr. Strzok. Hi. Motion carries. Next is the consent agenda. A Board member may pull any item for separate consideration. Does any Board member wish to pull an item off the consent agenda for separate consideration? Does the consent agenda be approved as listed? I have a motion. So moved. Second. Second. Dan, on the bills. I had a bill review this month and I pulled four checks for the backup documentation from Ali. They were in four different areas of spending, athletics, student activities, software and construction. And each of the bills
090was properly supported with backup documentation and the checks were properly issued. Very good. Thank you for doing that. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Ms. Elliot Schermer. Hi. Mr. Heidemann. Hi. Ms. Newman. Hi. Mr. Perra. Yes, please. Mr. Strzok. Hi. Mr. Braza. Hi. Motion carries. Item 11. Is there a motion to adjourn the meeting? Second. Second. Roll call, please. Mr. Heidemann. Hi. Ms. Newman. Hi. Mr. Perra. Yes, please. Mr. Strzok. Hi. Mr. Braza. Hi. Ms. Elliot Schermer. Hi. Mr. Perra. Hi. Motion carries.