The overall budget deficit has been reduced from $7 million in the preliminary general fund budget to $2.8 million in this, the final proposed budget, a 60% reduction.

for the first time in what seven years or more, our expenditures are below our revenues and that's very significant and that's something to be proud of.

However, when you look at it, we still have a $2.8 million deficit. So we have some work to do and hopefully as we go through the next year that will be in the back of everybody's mind who wants to go out with new ideas, new projects and whatever.

for the last two years that I was on the board, I asked for full funding and did not get it. And I had three individuals that opposed me routinely on that, even though we consistently asked for full funding. And I voted as a protest this year.

Last year, we have some new board members. Last year, there was no set plan... We made significant improvements this year and that's why we're going through.

That's a pretty poor use of taxpayer funds to pay a lawyer who's essentially taking positions against the school district. So, we're paying somebody to take position against this and the outcome is not great.

In discussing this case with our legal team, we would have been on the hook had this gone through due process for approximately $170,000. And so by offering a settlement of $55,000, we considered that a win.

I don't truly believe that we are knowingly doing harm to a child. I think when I open up paperwork, what I see is errors that are could seem minute to people reading the document, but when you're looking at it from a legal lens are much larger.

The life of a high school administrator is very complex... and one of the issues that we've identified is that we have to clear the deck. We have to find ways to that allow our administrators in an administrative capacity to get into classrooms and observe teaching and learning, observe assessment practices.

I'm reading the job. It says this is a two-year assignment... it's a new position. We were reviewed that we have a $2.8 billion deficit. Where is this person who was going to be added to the administrative staff in the bureaucracy? Where is this person coming from to do this new position?

the improvement in the academic performance of our students in Centennial over the past few years has been great to see... but you know to doing better isn't necessarily good enough given where we were. And I don't know that there is such thing as, you know, quote good enough when it comes to the quality of education that we're offering our kids.

So, we're we're approving it now, but it already happened. Um, does that make sense? I mean, my question is they already did they already pay to use the facility or?

We give them a discount based on our board policy, our district policy depending on the number of in district students that live within the district that are using the say the pool or the track or whatever we we have a set 25% reduction or 50% reduction depending on the percentage of in district students.

I just want to understand like you know if if as an example they're using it chemicals I know where I live the chemicals for our pools have gone up dramatically. So the question is if they're using the pool I mean yes you give them a discount but also are you taking into account any of the increase in costs in terms of running the pool?