001Okay, we are live. All right, just seen a motion to come out of executive session at 620. So moved. Second. Stephanie, all in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Just seen a motion to reconvene the public session at 620 as well. So moved. From Melissa, in a second from Jeff, all in favor? Aye. Motion carries. We will stand for the flag to the floor. 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. All right. So before we get into our agenda, we do have two public comment periods. The first one on item that the board will be voting on, the second one on any school business. Is there anyone that wish to address the board
002on something we're voting on tonight? Not seeing any. We will jump into our presentations. Or we can start with Mrs. Miranda. She's ready, or we can jump to one of the other ones. No, we started early, so no, no, no. Yeah, cool. Do you want me to play? No, I just want to start. So thank you for having me. Okay, I apologize. For this month's spotlight for the middle school, I really just wanted to showcase all the amazing things that happen in our classrooms and our building really on a daily basis. So I asked our teachers to invite me into their classrooms when they were doing, you know, something highly engaging and collaborative, and this video just kind of really showcases all of that. So enjoy. This might be a repeat at last. Every month
003I ask to share something positive at our academy, and I often struggle now because there's nothing positive to say, but there's so many positive things to say that, you know, everything that our teachers do and our students do just can't be captured or digitized in a little moment. So I'm really proud of everything that's happening at our schools. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you for that. And we'll go from a really fun presentation to the tech and finance guys coming up here. Oh, no, capital projects first. Yeah, sorry. So thank you for having us here tonight. Talk about potential capital improvement projects that we're looking to put on for the community to possibly vote on this May. We've shown the last few months where our current capital reserve levels are, the type of
004project in terms of total dollar amount we could do. We're not recommending that you would ever do the true maximum of that sort of project, dollar amount. We wanted to share at this point some of the scope of work in broken down by areas that we're seeing to show where these dollars can truly impact student safety, our building infrastructure and instructional experiences as well. We want to take a moment to go through that. So our objectives of a capital project would be to use our capital reserve funds to support building infrastructure, overall instructional environments and minimize future maintenance costs in the district. Also leveraging all the dollars available from New York State to maximize all the money that we have in reserves and make sure that there's no additional tax impact to the community and
005to ensure our future improvements go along with the improvements that we are currently doing and have done in the past in the district. A couple of other notes, capital reserve funds, the reserves that we have can only be used for capital projects. So that bank account for capital reserves can only be used for that. And much of the work that's outlined in the plan, including roofs, boilers, generators, need to be addressed at some point, regardless of a capital project or not. And those are things that we can replace on a predictable cycle. For instance, roofs typically last about 30 years. We know eventually if there's a roof that's 22, 23, 24 years old, it's going to need to be replaced. So doing that work through a capital project makes a lot of sense. To put
006it in perspective of your home, if you wanted to do a kitchen renovation and that renovation costs $50,000, or you got an estimate for $50,000, in the state we're going to come to you and say, well, we'll pay for 80% of it. So $40,000 is going to get taken care of by the state and $10,000 by you. Many of us would say that's a really good deal. Well, that's what capital improvement projects are to the district. It's a really good deal to the district because we're getting 80 cents back on every dollar that we spend. It makes financial sense because of the significant savings involved. And the thing is, the state is already investing this money across the entire state and other school districts. So it only makes sense that we do it here in
007North Carolina and continue to do it here in North Carolina because we're not only investing in our students, but we're also investing in the city, which is incredibly important for people that we want to, number one, stay in our city and go to our schools, but also attract more families to our district. Some of the areas focusing on the relevant previous presentations, the three scope driver areas that are broad buckets, safety and security, infrastructure, student instructional experiences, and what are the potential next steps going into March, April, May. We didn't wake up and decide, let's look at the project. These are pieces of work that many individuals spend their entire jobs all year long. And how are all of our departments, instructionally, behind the scenes infrastructure, connected together? And we wanted to showcase in case
008anyone was asking, how are we thinking of different scope drivers? What are the needs of the district now, five years from now, 20 years from now? All of what we call throughout this past year, the ancillary departments and how they all play into this. So we link them here in the event that anyone wanted to say, why are you thinking about these items and these things? We have a link here so anyone can go back in the community and look that we have them there. We really want to stress that we're focusing on the long term and short term needs. It's easy to get caught up in the day to day, but we can't lose sight of the long term. Like Dr. Jack was going to say, the roof, it's predictable. You know what's going
009to happen if you let that 30 year roof go on here, 35 or 36. You can't be surprised that it's leaking. But also it's something we all should realize going on to year 25, 26. We should start thinking about the roof, whether we want to do it or not. We know we should. Thank you for linking. That's really helpful. So we go on to some of our products. Dr. Jack, you want to do safety and security? For safety and security, the first will be replacing all of our classroom doors district wide. Many of our doors in our buildings are over 50 years old. The wood is nice, but some of the features like the windows and some of them are too large. Looking to replace the doors, not just with the door itself, but with
010swipes on the doors. So our teacher badges would actually get us into the classroom. So that is a security feature. And also when you do it that way, when we go into a building wide lockdown, all the doors will automatically lock through our systems that we already have in place. So from a safety perspective, the new classroom doors and the door swipes are very important. Also replacing all of our security cameras throughout the district. While we have a lot of cameras, number one, and many of them are okay with quality, but as time has gone on, most cameras now are in high definition quality. It's hard when you're investigating and things are very grainy or some of our outdoor cameras. You just can't see everything you would want to see. So replacing those cameras is
011essential for security as well. And then some of our PA speakers in our building, some are very old, not incredibly clear, can't be heard in all areas of the building. So another safety increase or potential would be replacing those speakers in those buildings. In the areas of building infrastructure, you'll see that all three of our elementary schools, and we've talked about historically making sure that regardless of which elementary school you attend at the K-3 level, that there's a quality experience instructionally, but also we're talking about our building plans and infrastructure. So you'll notice that we're adding the air conditioning in the cafeterias where the students eat. Part of that is having a reliable space, and you'll see that in all the building cafeterias. With New York State, with the heat mitigation, that was a recent
012policy that we passed when it was 86 degrees. You have to take certain actions. The reality is we need our buildings open for students and families. We need to reliably feed students. We know that happens in the building. Families need to make sure that their children have hair, and that's the best places in the building because they have to go to work. So having an alternative space that can address that heat mitigation, really important. But also the reality is air conditioning is extremely expensive, and there's limited times when it's really hot in Western New York as it's sounding broken single digits in a long time. Kitchen renovations at all three of the buildings where they prepare the meals. You'll see an action item later, or an informational item. We are serving over five times the
013number of breakfasts in our district compared to pre-COVID levels and four times the number of lunches compared to pre-COVID lunches. A lot of that is attributed to our cafeteria staff working really hard, CEP status, but that's amazing volume that we were producing 60,000 meals from the start of the year till December 31st before COVID. And this past year, we served 260,000 meals for the first four months of school. So it's incredible volume. Sidewalk repair at Drake and Ohio. Complete roof replacement at Ohio and Spruce. In the current project, we are redoing Drake. In the current project, we are redoing the sidewalks at Spruce, so we're really closing that gap, and then adding a second bus loop at Ohio Elementary. Is that the one that the traffic backs up into the neighborhood? We've heard that specifically,
014or at least I've heard that regarding North Conawanna Intermediate School at the BoCES Center because of all the students that attend that BoCES program. The challenges out of the 70 students that are at the BoCES Learning Center, 69 are from other districts with a lot of buses, and so we're taking over that space back because we have needs to utilize that space. Going into grades 4 through 12 in district facilities, adding, again, air conditioning at our cafeterias. HVAC replacement parts at the former BoCES North Conawanna Learning Center. Due to the age of that current system, there's only about a couple of years left where you can still buy those parts before you have to do a complete overhaul. Secure vestibule at that double door. Some parking lot repayment. At the middle school, high school, additionally,
015some parking lot repayments specifically around the Fine Arts Center and the entrance and the delivery receiving bays of the buildings, emergency generator replacements throughout the buildings, and some boiler replacements as well. And then finally, the transportation center. There is a bus parking expansion for two primary reasons. One, again, in this weather, how can we move the snow inside that secure entrance? It's really difficult to move it. And also, too, if we go back into August when NYSERDA and Wendell came with the electric busing, not that we are over the top looking for electric busing, but it is a very, very similar, slightly expanded footprint that if we were forced to do that 10, 12, 15 years from now, we've thought ahead of how are we going to address that in little chunks as well. So
016besides the safety and infrastructure changes, there will be also probably the most exciting part is the instructional experiences. So for the three K-3 buildings, Drake, Ohio, and Spruce, it would be art room and music room renovations at all three schools. So redoing those rooms and then finishing the gymnasium renovations. Currently, we're doing the floors in our capital project for the gyms, but finishing the rest of the gym with new wall panning and new things like the basketball hoops and things that are within the gym for our kids to use. Also creating a special education, fully inclusive playground at Ohio. We are currently working with Mason's Mission to work towards that if anyone's been to the Mason's Mission playground in Pendleton. It's a wonderful, inclusive space for really all students. So building that at Ohio for
017all of our kids as well would be a fantastic addition. At NTI, it's completing the pool renovation. So that would be the liner, the deck tile, the heater, the bleachers. It's doing everything within NTI for that pool. We were originally looking at a scope of doing just the liner as we've gotten in there and looked at some of the estimates and some of the other things that really need to be done if we're going to use that pool on a regular basis. It really is the entire space that needs to be utilized. We do believe it's important to have a pool NTI for our kids to learn how to swim, continue to grow. So also for our sports programs to grow at the high school level as well. It's best to start them at NTI.
018At the middle school and high school, finishing up the third floor renovations at the high school, most of our math classrooms, bathroom renovations on the third floor as well. And then an installation of a turf softball and baseball complex behind the high school as well. So really they're at all levels. There are things that all of our students will see in their classrooms, which we think is really one of the best parts about doing a capital project. When I get into the estimated cost by either grade level band or scope area, when I was putting this together and when we were talking as a team, we thought if I'm a parent of a K-3 student or maybe a pre-K student, what is my most immediate experience or middle school, NTI, high school? Or do I
019want to look at the project from an infrastructure standpoint or an instructional experience standpoint? Where are those dollars going out? So we provided the very solid estimates from Buffalo Construction throughout the first two phases of our current project. Buffalo Construction's estimates, it's actually come under when we bid it. So we feel pretty confident with these numbers in terms of the total dollar amount spent by either scope driver or by building area. These costs do include what it would be for professional services, so architectural, construction manager, fiscal advisor fees. It would also include all professional testing services, error monitoring, any sort of asbestos abatement, looking at that five-year annual asbestos plan. And there are reasonable allowances for construction contingencies and inflation. So essentially if you're going into an old space, just like your house, sometimes you're
020going to find something you wish you didn't find, but it's one of those. Well, we found it, we have to address it, we have to fix it, we have to repair it. So there are reasonable allowances for that as well in these estimates. So in terms of our next steps, you're looking to awards architectural, construction manager cost contracts and the upcoming board means approve a Seeker Resolution. And then we're working with our fiscal advisors to confirm the project referendum amount of 59.9 million and ensuring that the use of the reserves would be adequate enough to make the project completely tax neutral to the community. Again, these capital reserves, we cannot use them for anything else. We can't use them to pay insurance, salaries, benefits, electric bill. It's going to sit there if we don't use
021the money and that is just why the nature by definition of what a capital reserve is. Also, each building has certain construction dollars and what's known as incidental dollars. We've got to make sure that we're sticking within those limits. We firmly believe we are, but again, we just want confirmation from that. And hopefully by next month, we would want to be presenting with you, our construction manager and our architects, some of the anticipated design, bidding and most importantly and excitingly, construction timelines. We found within this current project, tremendous success of having projects submitted to the state at a certain time of year, early April, we received state approval back. We can bid in mid to late October where contractors are really hungry and competitive. We can take advantage of instructional breaks, some are to mitigate
022the impact of construction on students. So we understand that that is really important. We want to bring that to you. One question. What are the plans or ideas for the old fields that. As we look at the timeline, that turf project would be towards the end of the timeline. So some years down the road. But certainly, you know, as we have those fields, especially behind NTI, looking out, they can be used in other ways. Certainly, having just one baseball field behind the high schools, there would certainly be opportunities for the modified and JV teams to still utilize those fields. But then also look at other options for we have two different leagues within North Carolina that that play baseball, there could be interest there as well. So it would be something that we'll look into
023as we move forward. But having a space, I'm sure, because our springs are just, they're just not ideal for for sports like baseball because you do need to have a semi dry surface to play baseball and our fields tend to be pretty muddy and wet in the spring. Thank you. And then the sidewalks is that like the collaboration with the city that we have much bottom line I'm sure the engineers are. So, we, we have been working with the city for some other potential grant opportunities specifically some call it tap grant. We haven't received any formal acknowledgement of where that could be. But we do explore other avenues. Even with some of the inclusive playground pieces with Mason's mission. Their founder Jason, he's looking at other grants as well to help offset some of the
024costs so we do want to look at all opportunities again to try to be as physically as responsible as we can, but while doing the necessary work. Kind of align with Chloe. With all the old materials that are that are leaving and you're replacing with new materials and the project funding. Any insurance or any plans for using the like recycling make sure we have a neutral footprint landfill. And quick question. Can you spell out the secret process for those who may not be familiar because, and the numbers are huge. And just reiterating the fact that a lot of this is matching matching funds and it's not coming directly from taxpayers. So, working backwards on those so on the matching funds piece will receive approximately 80% the number of very tiny fluctuates, slightly up or slightly
025down every year we're talking hundreds of a percent. Essentially just having in your own dedicated more or less savings account or capital reserves. Do you have the money set aside to do that so of course we don't have the project amount right now, you would bond the difference by the end of the project, and that's over a 15 year period and the state gives you what's building a to make up the difference. So you'll see and some of our projects later on the revenue side, you'll see that the building a dollar amount went down that's because of 15 years ago we finished paying off a capital project. So all the debt goes down the state aid that corresponds with that goes down so you try to really get those to match with that dollar amount
026of 59.9 million that is the, the most we are legally obligated by the community to expand. It doesn't mean you, you always expand that dollar amount. There's a world where costs come down that you would lower it we know, actually, we, we try to be very conservative, the roofs at Ohio and spruce assume a full tear off. Well, if we don't have to do a full tear off we're not going to do a full tear off. And so there would be dollars and savings on that. The secret process really is worth the attorneys and they're looking at the environmental footprint and impact some of the secret is a lot simpler if you're simply just replacing in kind of versus if you're doing an expansion, or it gets very complicated you're doing this specifically a building
027expansion, but to say we're taking an old door off and putting on a new door from a secret lens is pretty easy to do. And then in terms of the environmental impact with recycling materials. We do work with Buffalo Construction to make sure that they go through all the process and it is pretty heavily regulated with the environmental aspect, especially when you're doing outdoor work as well. Thanks. I hope I answered the questions. You did. Yeah, I just thought some eyes when the number came up and just like we're going to ask everybody to vote on that. Well, it is a big number, it has been something that's the district has been working towards for many years, and we do have those bonds. And most importantly for our community members it's tax neutral, where it's
028not going to cause a levy increase. You may see in other school districts when there's a levy increase on it's over 15 year period, but it's unfavorable perceptions, we certainly understand that. Anyone else. All right, thank you. We've just wanted to give a technology infrastructure update this is a newer presentation we gave last February. And so, for many of you've seen these before it was linked last February. And not necessarily anything I will answer any questions of course that there's no new information and part of our commitment is sharing information in the same manner year after year so it's predictable, we know what's going on, and everyone have a general awareness. So, thank you to Mr. McCall for joining us. So, our objective of course is we always want to have the department infrastructure support
029our student outcomes, but doing so in a fiscally responsible manner. So, hopefully this is pretty quick and painless our goal here is just to present you some basic information. A lot of it is very similar to what we've seen before but understanding the basics of why we're replacing what we are and the lifecycle that we have, looking at it from Talking about, you know, where those anticipated expenses are because you want to split it up so there's a strategic plan for where you actually deploy things. And then ultimately we got some big challenges in the industry, looking out of what is in our way to do this quickly efficiently and cost and cost effective manner. All right, so a couple things here the rationale is pretty straightforward. Our goal is to ultimately replace our products
030at a cycle. I'll start with the bottom here and trying to evaluate a plan we have six buildings so it'd be nice if we can just say every six but as we know, some buildings are much smaller than like the high school so you can't just say the high school on the next year do great they're very different size buildings. So strategically trying to match everything together, maybe putting all the elementaries together and then tying in the next year with the high school makes it so it's approximately the same size every year so there's not major dips and waves in the actual placement cycle. If you look at the top here, obviously the cost to operate technology across the district. It is significant, but the technology is needed to prepare students for the real world.
031So it's very important that we do what we're doing. So we just want to review some of our recent expenditures it's going back multiple years since the last time some of these items were replaced. So when we look at our instructional boards and all of our districts now classrooms that was our clear touches. Those have a useful life of about 10 years, so you can see all of them have been replaced in a great spot computers give or take it's about five years. Most of them have been replaced some of the district office computers are certainly a little older, we replace some with middle school computers when we were updating the middle school computers this year to do as a stopgap. And then copiers in general have a useful life about five years that is
032one area that it is certainly they are a little older, and we'll be going into that as well. From a district wide point of view access points. Those are some people come a little hockey pucks that give you the Wi Fi. They're replaced about every five years either friendly eight years old we actually had intentions of trying to replace those last years, there is there was some federal litigation holding up a very unique funding mechanism that makes it very attractive to buy them through that mechanism. So we held out that was actually just approved in this past January about three weeks ago, so we're going as fast as we kind of try to replace those some inter district surface circuits we're currently at the industry standard. Some of our switches and cores. Those are some
033of them will be replaced within this e rate cycle this unique funding mechanism and phones was the big one that was a change that we're really excited to get done last year. In some ways, it's a telephone, it works. Some of our phones last year in the district were not some almost all of them were about 23 to 25 years old, which was a significant vulnerability because they're all basically many computers. And so now they're only two years old with the useful life of about 10 to 15 years in some ways, it's a bomb, it works until it doesn't. And when it doesn't they all don't. So, I didn't realize phones were a big deal when I started the job, but they are. So, Josh kind of spoke to this a little bit but we
034do have a resolve replenishment plan for replacing our devices because as you know technology ages out. But that's not a realistic option. So what we do is we have a cycle it's roughly a five year plan. So if you look here the boards are hopefully going to be a little bit longer. Obviously they're new to us new to kind of the world we shifted to the display you kind of see here as opposed to the projectors so we're anticipating much longer life out of them but some big projects we have coming up this year is the entire high school for computers, as well as copy machines so that's a large project in and of itself. And then next year as you see here computers is going to be a Drake Ohio spruce. So getting out
035and replacing every single thing there as well as the copy machines. All right, so, as you can see up here like what Josh alluded to with the rate funding, just so you guys do know that was not any fault to the district there was many many districts that were held with the rate. We had everything submitted it as we needed to. There was a lot of changes in the federal government and they kind of just paused on approving the rate. Very large projects, and what that's for is for things you don't see it's everything behind the walls all the wiring all of that important things that keep us running so access points are a big project we have coming up so we're replacing hundreds of those. Then we also are going to be looking at
036our battery backups in our closets to make sure that as you know certain parts of our city do experience some more challenging power than others so when that happens, our equipment isn't just wiped out we're able to sustain it. And then, obviously switches in core so again the things you don't see behind the wall, where everything plugs into those are going to be replaced this summer as well. And then phones hopefully not for a very long time, 2040. So we talked about some of our anticipate industry challenges, things that we're aware of some are a little bit more pressing of an emergency or an area of concern than others things that we also just keep an eye on. So, in the area of cyber security and data privacy we had an office of state Comptroller
037audit a couple years ago, where they come in and they decide to test an item it's not rhyme or reason why they're testing it but one of the areas they tested for us with cyber security to improve our systems and safeguards so air is happy to say the word implemented multifactor authentication where you have the similar to your banking apps multiple ways to log in and secure you're the individual, some people have three different ways to log in elimination of open Wi Fi networks and also elimination of USB devices, you know I think of USB devices like saving a word doc and plug into a different computer now it's a nice vehicle to gain access to your system so eliminating that possibility. There is some inconvenience with the security features but they're significant security features
038compared to the alternative what could go wrong. Okay, so a couple things obviously some big challenges we have coming up but it's not good better in different but artificial intelligence as we know, it's forced on us and everything we do. It does a lot of great things. There's a lot of value in it and we do have to prepare students for it, but we also know that there's risk and there's challenges with what it can do the damages for it. So evaluating what AI looks like in our footprint for our district is going to be very important as we prepare students but also protect ourselves. And then the big piece at the bottom. Obviously cost of everything has gone up significantly if you follow anything in the tech world in the last, like, three months
039of the price of some of the big shifts and everything that goes in our devices has gone up three or 400%. Something that may have cost $1,000 in November now cost $1,800 today. So it jumps very fast and there's no predictable predictability to it. And it's just important for us to make sure that we are ahead of that curve, as we plan because we need to order today for this coming summer so it's hard to always time that right so we're being strategic and making sure with Josh's help that that five 10 year plan. And we do take advantage of and notice when certain fixed prices like a state contract set to expire engine and 30 yet we might have wanted to buy something on July 1, but if you're saying it's going to cost
04040% more we're going to figure out a way to buy it on June 30 as of July 1. So it might just be a day in the real world, but it's a big difference in price when you talk about state contract pricing. So that's where we're going to be strategic and pivot where there's some common sense that says we should do that so it's not something we do all the time but it's something we're very mindful with that. Are there any questions. So for the computers that are being replaced. Are those desktops laptops do our teachers use which one. Certainly, so we are currently piloting right now, almost all of our teachers have desktops. They also in addition to desktops have an individual iPad as well. So, and essentially there's a device in the room
041and device in their hand. We are piloting with some of our instructional staff members right now, a laptop with a docking station to say, could we buy a docking station, which is considerably cheaper we're talking about $100. And then, if they need another docking station, rather than buying two devices and two desktops, there's an area where they could take their laptop and plug again. There are some natural areas though where you still probably need desktops things like our graphic arts of our technology courses of a library computer lab where it's fixed there are some areas where it is helpful. So, I would say like administrative offices or clerical offices where you're not maybe moving as much makes more sense to have a desktop but we are looking at that as an idea of from the
042school responsibility on. Could you then possibly phase out that second device so we are piloting that right now the instructors to get their feedback. That is very new. Thank you. Yeah, I'm curious about. Matt you were talking about AI. And just the way that you like phrase that at the end. Are you thinking about. Are you talking about like how it'll be used in classrooms or are you talking about like, like, tools for that like, I don't know. Yes, I guess I'm asking like where your head is at when you think when you're going to have a lot more time to talk and the whole thing but part of it is, I think, it's really important. Sorry. There's no one there. Part of it is making sure students are prepared to handle AI. Yeah, so
043not just okay I have a test let me cheat on the test among how to get the right answer but knowing the resource is a valuable tool for them for the right reasons. And it's always very simple to use it as a resource like the game of like oh no we're going to have a calculator in your pocket. Now we all have them right. So it's preparing our students to use it in the right way, but also making sure our staff are equipped to instruct with it around it near it. Okay, because it's with us every day, whether we like it or not it's on everything we do. So how do we as a district have a plan for what do we do with AI, because it's here. Okay, I think that answers my question
044of like, of trying to figure out where are you going to work with teachers or until they make sure that they're prepared to talk about it. Okay, absolutely. Okay, cool. Thank you. All right, thank you guys. All right, so that does it for our presentations we will jump into our revenues. Yes, sorry. I was so excited. Most exciting presentation. All right, here we go. So we want to present thank you again one last time. Our revenue budget, we talked about the program continuation and program enhanced budget in January that was on the expense side. So this is an equation we are looking at the other side of the equation on the revenue side. There have been some historical challenges. I would always the word frustrations on the state's commitment to keeping up with education, versus
045what we all know in our hearts is expenses are going to go up naturally, one, 2%, I would love for stadium to keep up with us. So, we always want to use our resources to support student outcomes, as much as we can to make sure that an outcome. This year is similar to next year as five years from now is 15 years from now. So we want to showcase first some of our expense reduction efforts that we've done just taking a little bit of it and then focus specifically on our revenue budget and some of our next steps. So, and our program continuation expense budgets reduction efforts. We wanted to highlight where we've been in the past or the last several years just to get an idea of the blue graph here represents our revenues.
046So they've been going up slightly, but you see the red bar graphs. Those are expenses going up much faster than the blue graph. The checkered is essentially the or the cobit grants came in. If those grants didn't exist, what would our general fund expenditures what would they have been to put on that program that we put out. So you can see that we started off with almost a seven and a half million dollar difference between revenues and expenditures in 2021, and how just as short two years later. That gap went to two and a half million dollar difference. So, last year, Dr Jack, I did a lot of forecasting and highlighting that this was an unsustainable trend and we're seeing that across the region and some of the chatter with other business officials. In many
047ways, I feel lucky that we were aware of it a year prior, just looking at some of these trends. So we look at some of our expense reduction efforts from where we presented last January and doing that work over winter break since then we've had some of our contracts settle. So we've had some reductions down due to settle contracts versus projections. Those associated and corresponding fixed benefits. We reduce some of our equipment line, our supplies and contractual. There was some of those contractual services. We've been able to shift to both seas through some new opportunities to try to generate additional state aid the following year. And then the last one is a further look at transportation. In January, we had indicated and forecasted we were projecting our transportation expense going down two hundred and fifty
048thousand dollars due to the department's efforts in hiring, recruiting and retaining drivers in attendance. Since then, we've had two more of our third party contract bills come in and we're going to project an additional decrease of fifty thousand dollars on top of that. So our transportation contract expense we're projecting is going down three hundred thousand. Does that include, is that even with us attempting to like reduce those mileage for walkers? Thank you. Yes, which they're still looking at. Yes. Excited for the next one. Not today. But yes, we want to fill up all the seats on buses with students and get them to school. So there are significant savings and better, much better service when we use our staff or our drivers, our drivers that live in our community for our kids. Not that the
049third parties do a bad job, but it's just a different level of investment. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that those savings included that. Yes. So breaking out the net program changes, the increase on salaries is approximately one point nine million dollars. Last month we had employee benefits combined for nine hundred and sixty nine thousand. We really wanted to break out specifically the health insurance piece. This is projecting approximately a five to six percent increase throughout the region. Many are saying ten and some districts on the list serve yesterday were going fifteen to nineteen percent. So our self funded plan is doing very well, relatively speaking to the market in the region. Instructional supports that we went into greater detail last month is up four hundred and forty six thousand. A lot of those
050are the mandated costs. Charter school tuitions, health and welfare services for other districts. The five year building condition survey things we don't have mandated insurance for just ensuring our facilities at the same rate we are today and yesterday. That is included in that. Our BOCES support services, that is still an estimate. We just had participation. We have not received the rate yet from Orleans Niagara BOCES. We generally try to be a little bit more conservative in that line and we anticipate it's going to go down a little bit. And then our debt service when we talked earlier, our debt service on the expense side and the revenue side is going down about one point three million dollars because we pay off projects. Therefore, the state's saying you have nothing. We're not going to give you
051aid on something you paid off. So we look at this, the new working budget on the expense side is approximately eighty five point six million dollars. We look at the revenue specifically, we want to give a historical breakout of where we were on revenues in key areas. So, and some of those is New York state aid. Some of those owes is our local tax levy and some of those are in the areas of other revenues. Last year we did a hard look in this area right here, the yellow and the gray, where we reduce the appropriate fund balance to what was legally allowed by New York state that four percent. That was one point two five million dollars. So that's going to shift the percents as well. And then we talked about some of the
052other revenues, things like interest earnings. We took a more realistic revenue projection rather than an aspirational revenue projection. But you will see that from some of this New York state aid is not going to be keeping up with what we're talking about in the next couple of slides. So we are comparing budget to budget, not necessarily like realized budget or vice versa. We always want to compare an apples to apples when you talk from year over year. So our state foundation aid was up about three hundred thousand. Well, actually, areas that are starred have been adjusted. That's what I really want to focus on. I'm sorry. We received some of our governor's budget runs on where the aids will be. We revised the aids up based on where we're trending for the current year. The
053areas of policies and transportation is known as an expense based aid. That means you spend a dollar, you get some back the next year. So we take a hard look at where those areas are. So we raise those projections up about three hundred thousand on the next slide. Mr. Haskell. Thank you. Some of the key areas of the state aid. So our state foundation aid was up one percent due to the fact that the state considers us what's called a safe, harmless district due to our enrollment decline. So all the safe, harmless districts in New York state received just a one percent increase in state aid. Both these aid, which is one of the known as expense based aid, was up one hundred ninety two thousand dollars, which in theory sounds great. But some of
054the mandated services that we must participate in went up in order to get that aid. So there is it's not always as great as it looks. Our high cost special education aid. This is the cost due to CSE outcomes. Of course, we're going to educate our students with CSE recommendations. But the state says some they recognize some students that the cost to educate is very high. And so you receive some additional aid beyond a set dollar amount for North Carolina. That dollar amount has gone up approximately three percent. But not all the districts experience a similar percent increase. That's an arbitrary amount set by the state. Our transportation aid went down last year. At this time, we were indicating that we bought in the twenty twenty one school year twenty five buses and we were
055projecting those get aided out every five years. That the fact that those twenty five buses are no longer producing aid next year was equal into about two hundred seventy thousand dollars of aid gone up. Our building aid with previous capital projects being paid off and something called categorically that software and textbook as a minor increase due to enrollment. Rather than naming just, hey, this amount went up, this amount went up or a decrease for that. We wanted to give the specific reasons why just to make sure everyone was informed by that. The next big piece in terms of the revenue budget is your tax cap calculations and the tax cap essentially was designed to keep up with the pace of inflation in theory. And many of the figures that we used last year get flipped
056and go into the formula the following year. So you'll see where those figures are coded, where there's the twenty five, twenty six year last year we were presenting. They were on the bottom. So in some of these figures right now that you see on the bottom, if this was the tax cap, we would accept those like your figures would go up top. The growth factor and the CPI allowed inflation numbers. Those are given to us by the state. So everything in blue you see, we don't have a choice on what those numbers are going to be when we talk about the formula. Some of the numbers in red, those are areas where we have some choices. Pilots, those are more or less given to us. There is some changes at times with pilots due to
057challenges with assessment. So we monitor those very closely and a complicated formula is called the tax levy exclusion. That's when a district where it invests in some of the larger capital purchases like buses. Some of those figures might change out as well. So currently our tax cap that we're projecting, it's not firm yet. We haven't submitted this to the comptroller's office is approximately two point by one percent, which would potentially allow for a levy increase of about seven hundred ninety one thousand at that rate. There's still some soft moving pieces that we wanted to give what that number figure would look like. So when you compare forecasted other revenues for those that were watching this last year, this left column was completely blank. It just said other revenues. And that relates to me wasn't transparent
058enough in how we want to present this information. So we broke it out. You'll see there's several areas that the revenue projections went up. We just want to highlight some of the work and the causes for that, because it's not just we're pulling it out of thin air. Later tonight, you're going to have vote on or an informational item thirteen point one. We received our smart schools bond act that was submitted almost three years ago. We finally got some of our state reimbursement on that about three point three million dollars receiving that essential reimbursement back is going to drive interest earnings up. So we wanted to recognize that in terms of inter-fund transfer, that is from our food service program that is being recognized on thirteen point three. That is due to those participation increase
059when we talked about how lunches are five times compared to before and breakfast as well. There is some calculations behind the scenes. So in food services running well, that figure would go up, vice versa. And finally, last month we highlighted our Medicaid reimbursement. We talked about the internal audit work and how we reduced our outstanding consents for some of those special education services. We've closed that gap by seventy five percent of outstanding consents. So with that, we're forecasting our Medicaid reimbursements up a hundred thousand dollars due to the hard work of that department. And we're still working through the consents and the ripple effect on that because it's a two to three month lag. So that number may still be adjusted out. We wanted to really highlight and explain why we're doing that. So we're
060not just simply saying, oh, it's going up because we said it's going up. In terms of where we are with our reserves and appropriated fund balance, these were the reserves we had indicated that we were going to use last year if we needed to close the budget. That's not necessarily we are going to use these reserves. It was if we needed to. And a lot of these reserves are based on the expenses you realize in certain areas. At this point, it's too preliminary to be saying we should be using certain reserves. So those are weighted till the end. So you're going to see a decrease there, but it's because it's the process we wait to use those at the end. If the state were to give us a large pot of money, we wouldn't use
061our reserves. Those are our safety. So we look on the revenue side based on where the state has given us and where we forecast some of our expenses. We're looking a little bit over 82 million dollars into our working revenue budget. So how does that look compared to some of the previous years? You can see some of those figures are similar. The part I really wanted to highlight on the chart to the right is the fact that the state aid increases on just your foundation aid does not mirror the expectation the state has of schools in the community to fund education. And they're not providing foundation aid that's equivalent to what they're saying the tax cap is, which is supposed to be inflation. Every year we're receiving 0% and this year 1%. So in some
062respect, they're telling schools, hey, your tax cap is supposed to be keeping up with inflation. Yet they're not nearing that commitment as well. So working budget and some of our next steps, we're currently projecting approximately about a 3.6 million dollar deficit at this point. This point though does not include any retirements for teachers or positional adjustments. It does not include any of the potential additional revenue adjustments up. It does not include any of the reserves in which we might be able to utilize. We were also at the legislative breakfast this past weekend and it was made clear that the current executive budget is a four and that they're all but making promises it's going up. I certainly hope so because I think all save harmless districts operating on 1% is going to be really tight.
063So it seems like a big number. But last year, if you recall reading this number, it was approximately 6.8 million dollars to the life where our retirements were. So some of our next steps going forward, we're going to continue to identify those non mandated expenses, prioritize the programming based on student enrollment, their programmatic needs, and then determine the impacts. One of the larger ones, it's not reflected because we're talking just simply the general fund budget is the governor has made a big expansion on the kindergarten U.P.K. pre-kindergarten budget and the grant. And we need to really work through what is that impact that is a very favorable and positive impact for the district students getting all students into U.P.K. and then also potentially financially as well. Of course, the goal is getting all kids into
064U.P.K. So in terms of the some of the next steps going forward on March 4th, present the BOCES budget with the expense projection of BOCES budget. We do try to be conservative and hopefully come down with that. Recognize some of the budget impacts on staff retirements. This budget does not assume anyone's retiring. And we know that we're voting on some of some very successful careers tonight. Presentation of the academic program and our core classes. Where should the tax cap fall? Gather some initial reflective thoughts. A couple weeks after that, finalize BOCES expenses. By that point, we should have our expenses from Orleans, Niagara BOCES. Are there any positional staff adjustments? And then presenting the full academic program, which is really a lot of our secondary and high school in particular programs. And then by March
06525th, hopefully adopt the budget. There's a lot of information there. Do we have some questions? All right. Thank you. I think he's done now. Perfect. All right. So we will finally jump into our agenda here. I jumped again a little. And we will go to 8.1. It's recommended the Board of Education approves the agenda order as presented. Are there any additions, deletions, or changes? All right. Now hear me just in a motion. Chloe in a second. From Jeff. All in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. We'll jump down to 9.23. It's recommended the Board of Education approves the consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent of schools. Just in a motion. From Stephanie in a second. All in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. We'll go to our personnel agenda. 10.1. It's recommended the Board
066of Education approves the personnel agenda order as presented. Are there any additions, deletions, or changes? Now hear me just in a motion. From Stephanie in a second. From Jeff. All in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. We will go down to 11.23. It's recommended the Board of Education approves all personnel items and section 11 as presented. Just in a motion. From Jeff in a second. All in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. All right. We did want to call out all of our retirees that Dr. Janisse just talked about. So all these folks have at least 20 years of service with the district. So I will read through these and then we'll take them as a single vote. So for the purpose of retirement, we recognize Christine Bellas from a position as a music teacher
067with her retirement effective June 30th, 2026. Christine has been a music teacher in the district since September of 1995. Next we have a recommendation for the letter of resignation for the purpose of retirement from Mr. Dean Bellas, also a music teacher, effective the end of business June 30th, 2026. Dean has been an employee of the district since September of 1995. Next we have, it's recommended the Board of Education approves the letter of resignation for the purpose of retirement from Paul Orange Jr. from his position as a music teacher at the end of business on June 30th, 2026. Paul has been a district employee since September of 1994. Next we have for the purpose of retirement, Vincent Capilupo as a position of a social studies teacher effective end of business on June 30th, 2026. Vincent has
068been an employee of the district since September of 1997. And last but not least, we have for the purpose of retirement, Mrs. Zellner from her position as a math teacher effective at the end of business on June 30th, 2026. She has been an employee of the district since January of 1995. So one, we want to wish them all a happy retirement and thank them for all their years of service in North Carolina. And I know Mr. Orange is in the back, so thank you very much. And we will make it official at 12.6. It's recommended the Board of Education approves all retirement items in Section 12 as presented. I will make the motion, just need a second. Second. From Chloe, all in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. All right, and then we'll hop into
069some extra things in 13.1. So we have mentioned earlier with some of the interest earnings and why some of those revenues were going up in some of our projections. This was an outstanding item on the external audit. Our Smart Schools Bond Act, that was a lot of our technological infrastructure designs and approved late 2018. Didn't really finish until 2021. Foga threw some wrenches in there, but the state has a very long approval pathway with lots and lots of questions and they only meet two or three times a year. So they'll ask you questions, they'll talk to you in six months. So we did receive that payment and we're really excited that the state approved that and closed that project out. So we wanted to give an update due to it being on the external audit
070as an outstanding receivable. Next, we have a fixed asset disposal. This was an area from our internal audit. As an area just to highlight and really for best practice, is there a piece of equipment that is no longer serving its useful life and therefore we should either try to sell it for some sort of revenue, recycle for scrap metal. At this point, there are no items in our buildings, but part of the internal audit is that we would be making a recommendation twice a year just to give an update. So that's just sticking to with fidelity the internal audit. And then the last one was our food service participation program rates. We just wanted to highlight the work that's being done in our food service program. So the first column in 2018 2019 school year,
071that was our pre covid amount of meals served from September 1st through December 31st at all six sites, whether it's a breakfast or lunch. The next column represents post covid, but without the community eligibility provision where all students have a free breakfast or lunch daily, regardless of income. So we can see a slight increase in that area. And then when we get to the next couple of years in the 2024 25 school year and then the 2526 school year specifically with the K3 breakfast in the classroom, we've seen an absolute explosion in some of the meals served where at this time. We looked at this at the end of December, five, six years ago, we were serving 60,000 meals to our students at this point in the school year. We served 256,000 meals, which is
072a lot. So we wanted to highlight that work. The fact that our students are eating healthy, nutritious food is one of their stable sources of food for some and then also the budgetary impact on that as well. But most importantly, that's wonderful that we wanted to show that. So because it was such a large difference, we wanted to highlight the work that that department was doing. All right. Thank you. All right. So last up on our agenda is acknowledgement of public attendance. For anyone that wishes to speak to the board, we just ask that you state your name and address for the record. Keep your comments to five minutes and the time period will not exceed 45 minutes. Do I sit? Sit, stay in whatever you're comfortable with. Standing. Okay. State name, address. Yep. That's
073Hillary Row 757 Pioneer Drive. So I just want to say good evening. Thank you for letting us speak. I wanted to thank you guys for your support of the music program here in North Carolina. As a parent of two children in the music program, both with chorus and band. They've been in the music program basically since they started school, and it's made a huge difference in who they are as people and how they perform as students. We've seen them grow into wonderful humans with the help of our music program here in North Honda. Every concert we attend has a packed stage, full audience. So much so that parking and finding a good seat are hard to come by. And it's great to see so many people wanting to see our children perform. Our community loves
074music and we're invested in its growth and seeing our children perform and progress. NT has had so many children audition and qualify for all county and NISPA, which is the New York State School Music Association. And it's a testament to our programs and the teachers involved in getting them there from kindergarten all the way up through high school. It's so important to have the full support of the school board and the district. And I know that enrollment is not where it was 20 years ago, but the enrollment in the music department seems to have grown exponentially. I know when my daughter was at NTI, they had to split the band up into two separate groups because there's so many children interested in it, which was a change from when my son was there. Last year,
075North Tana Wanda was granted the distinction of one of the best communities for music education from NAMM, which is the National Association of Music Merchants. And we just want to see the support continue and see the interest in the arts continue to grow. I just want to thank you guys again for supporting students in our musical education and our students. And it means the world to all of us parents and adults in their lives. Thanks very much. Thank you. Macy Gable, 227 South Creek Drive. Thank you. I'm a senior at North Tana Wanda High School and was lucky enough to be one of the 24 students from across New York State selected for the 2025 All-State Vocal Jazz Ensemble. I'm here tonight to thank the Board of Education and the NTE School Administration for supporting
076the wonderful music program that helps me get to this point and for funding my trip to the NISMA conference in December. I've been very lucky to work with such fantastic teachers at NTHS who inspire and encourage my love for music and who have given me the skill set and knowledge to pursue a career in musical theater. During my time at conference, I've made countless valuable memories and I have no doubt that I could sit here and talk about it all day. But one of my favorite memories of the experience was definitely when our conductor, jazz artist Alison Crockett, told us all to stop thinking and feel the music. She said that we have already proven ourselves worthy of being there and that now is the time to let go, lean into the emotions of our
077music, let that take the lead and have fun. As soon as she said that, I watched the whole energy of her group completely shift. Then we went from just singing the music to meeting it. I remember when he looked around in that room and seeing everyone dancing and expressing themselves through the music, I saw so much joy. It was really a gift to be able to exist in a room full of people who find as much joy in music and performing as I do. And that experience is one that I will carry with me continuously throughout my life. I cannot thank you enough for giving that to me and my friends that are also here tonight. I am one of three students that were selected from Nortanawanda, which is a big amount. We were probably
078about a third of the group, I would say. There are 24 students. So it was a big deal. So thank you guys for letting us do that. Thank you. Congratulations. My name is Mason Griego, I'm a student at NTHS and this past year I auditioned for the NISMA Conference All-State Vocal Jazz Choir. It's a highly select group of the top 24 jazz vocalists in the state. And this year I was selected as one of six bass vocalists. And very luckily I received this honor as a junior, which is uncommon. And I wanted to start off by thanking you all for paying for me to have this wonderful experience and say that it was the most rewarding learning experience I have ever had. The opportunity to work with the wonderful conductor, Ms. Alison Crockett, and to
079work with the other 23 talented students who are quite literally the best of the best. And this includes my two classmates. Though me and my peers have put in many hours of hard work, we could not have done it without any of our wonderful teachers and music education program. Music is why I want to come to school every day. And that is thanks to our teachers, my peers, our administration and music program as a whole at NTHS. Thank you. Thank you. You're Marissa. Marissa Garantino, 822 Minerva Drive. Thank you. I am also a current senior at NTHS. And I was also one of the 24 students selected from around New York State for the NISMA All-State Conference All-State Vocal Jazz Ensemble. It was an incredible opportunity where I got to meet so many new friends,
080learn from an amazing conductor, Alison Crockett, and create memories that will last with me forever. Our conductor, as you've heard, was amazing and she taught us so much, so many things that I will be able to carry with me through the rest of my life. I am forever grateful for that. And then following up on that, we are going to go to Albany in March for Joe Sugar Day, where we'll perform for the New York State Legislature, which is a great and very honorable opportunity. And I want to thank you guys greatly for funding this experience. And not only that, but a tremendous thanks to supplying me and my friends with a beautiful music program that has not only pushed me to have opportunities like these, but have greatly impacted my everyday life. I have
081a safe place where I can go to every day and do what I love, and I'm blessed with teachers who have helped to guide me and help me grow into an amazing musician and person. And through this guidance has led me to want to pursue music in my future and go to college and make a career out of it. And I am forever grateful and inspired by this time in my life. I just want to thank you guys so much again for giving me these opportunities. Thank you. I am a senior at the high school. I don't know where I would be if it wasn't for the music department. It was a tough time during COVID, we didn't know what was happening. And the fact that it's grown to where it has grown is just
082something none of us could have ever imagined. Right now we're in the middle of all kinds of festivals, which is across Niagara County. In the ensemble, there is a select few individuals, select four, like NISMA, which is Niagara County. In the senior high band, we have out of 60 people, we have 20 students selected, which is a third of the band. Same for the junior high band, 20 out of 60 also. And we've had over 20 people, 20 students, selected for the NISMA area all state, which is band and chorus along the four counties of Western New York. I can only hope as I graduate that the music department can only expand and grow to give the youth of NT the same, if not better, experience that I had in NT. And I really appreciate
083everything that everyone has done for the music department to grow. Thank you. Anyone else that would like to address the board? All right. Thank you very much. So we will go to closing comments. And I guess we'll follow up, we have some great students speak, so I'll go to Mr. Chenier, our student board member. Well, I always like to take this time to highlight all the amazing things that are going on inside our schools. As you already hear the amazing success of our music department and from our middle school presentation, the film festival. So congrats to all the winners and all those selected for all those events. Last Tuesday, the high school hosted one of their blood drives. And I'd like to thank all these students and high school staff that have donated. We have,
084thanks to your donations, we have saved about 60 lives around Western New York. So we are greatly thankful for that. Today, various members of Student Council were able to visit Connect Life and take the opportunity to learn more about what happens after the donation. So seeing it get processed, transported to those who need it most. And also close everything up. I'd like to thank the board for the continued support on various field trips, specifically January, Quebec City was held. And I had the opportunity to go on that great time. And I'd like to thank you for your continued support on all our adventures like that. Thanks, sir. First off, congratulations to the retirements. It's a lot of dedicated years of services and well-earned retirement. And then otherwise, it's really want to highlight the value of
085the capital, the outlooks of the projects on that. The longer you wait on a lot of these things, the higher the cost goes up. So having such a detailed plan, knowing when you're going to use it and using the reserve money, it's a very valuable thing. It's really all I have right now. Thanks. So thanks to the young people for your leadership and for coming forward and sharing your experience with us. So it helps us to understand how the district is supporting you. Thanks to Dr. Janice and Dr. Dracuzzi for sharing the behind the scenes work that you're doing helps to promote opportunities for young people. And like Jeff said, congratulations to the faculty who have earned their retirement. I appreciate you. All of it is very impressive. So thank you very much. I want
086to thank the middle school for coming today. I want to thank the food services since that is a huge increase. And I certainly did not know that until tonight. And I think that's I think that's it's impressive. It's a it's a huge increase. Congrats to everybody in our music program. Not just those that went to NISMA, although you certainly had a great experience. And I remember that from my days in music. But but I think you're right. Our entire music program deserves recognition. And then I also want to thank Josh. It is easy to forget that you haven't been in the job very long. So thank you. I just want to say congratulations to our two ten years that we voted on tonight. The five retirements. We hope that everybody does well, doesn't get too
087bored. I do want to say thank you to the music people that came and spoke because it does. It shows me as I have a child in the middle school who plays saxophone. Just what we're going to eventually get into. So I appreciate that. Yeah. And I'll tack on to what everyone said, but it's also very brave to come to, you know, formally things like this and share your voice. And we so value it. So thank you to all to everyone that spoke, especially the students. We really appreciate that. And I'll track back a little bit to the food service numbers we saw as well. Like Stephanie mentioned, but I got the opportunity to join a wellness and district. There's a wellness committee, if you weren't aware, for the district. Josh does a really wonderful
088job with that. And they're doing such great things. I feel like to really move the needle forward on food service. I always like to say I worked in nutrition for a long time and I like to say it's not nutrition unless it's eaten. Right. So to have kids come into school, getting food in their bellies, that affects how they behave in school, how they feel, how they can shine. So it's it's more than just the increase in the number that's super meaningful to my heart. And they also have a lot of really fun things up ahead for the school year, which I won't get into and I'll let it be the surprise that it is. But just keep stay tuned because we're also going to make sure we promote those things to the public. So
089thank you. Thank you, Josh. A few things I want to echo what Chloe said. Congratulations to Mr. Juergens and Mrs. Schultz for their tenure appointments tonight. Congratulations to our retirees, Mrs. Mrs. Valles, Mr. Valles, Mr. Orange for being here today as well. Mr. Capilupo and Mrs. Zellner. Thank you to our students. Thank you to Mrs. Rowe for talking tonight to Macy, Mason, Marissa and Jason. Thank you for advocating for our wonderful music program. Also, thank you to Chris Chenier, who advocated for some intramural opportunities in our schools. And we had some appointments tonight to some staff appointments to do those intramurals in our school. Thank you to Stephanie and Matt for attending our legislative breakfast over the weekend. We had opportunities to meet with Senator Orr, some of them in Conrad, some of them in
090Mornello. And just just so they could hear what we really need as a school district. So thank you for all the work that you do. We really appreciate it. Thank you. And I won't go on too long here. We've gone long enough tonight. But thank you. Congratulations to our retirees. Super excited for them. And to our music students, I was one of you many, many, many, many, many years ago. I was in your seats. It made me who I am today, got me involved in community. Probably why I'm sitting here today. So I'm super excited for you guys. I know it's a lot of excitement for your senior year. So congratulations and well done. Keep it and stay involved for sure. So with no more further business to come for the Board of Education, just
091seeing a motion to adjourn at 740. I'm moved. From Stephanie and I'll second that. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Thank you, everyone. And if anyone's got any sheets that they need signed, come on up and any of us can sign them. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Please sit down. I can sign up for you. Yeah. Thank you. Sure. There you go. Thanks. So the last one was eight minutes. Thanks.