It is 5:30 and I'm going to call this meeting to order with a roll call. >> Here >> Thomas >> here. >> Okay. I'd like to welcome the visitors and at this time we will have our public forum if anyone would like to address the board. on Iowa Media Network. We will move on to approval of the agenda. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the agenda. Any further discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Post sign. Agenda has been approved. Approve the minutes of the previous meeting. >> Motion to approve. Second >> motion and a second to approve the minutes. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> From the same sign, minutes have been approved. Old business. It appears that we have no old business. New business. Student representative. >> So, we have a treat for you. We actually have two student representative situations here. One, uh, I think Miss Abby is our our, uh, primary student representative. So, if you want to come on up and >> Okay, come on. I'm representing student council at the center high school. Um, there's a couple things happening in our school right now. Pancake day is a large coming up and there's very a lot of volunteers um for the inflatables and then just throughout Pancake Day and we also have a lot of contestants competing within Pancake Day which is really good for us. Um, and then the sports, football has a Friday, a game here on senior night, I think. And then volleyball has a home game Tuesday versus Davis County. Um, girls swim has a home meet on October 20th. And then, uh, girls tennis has just finished their season. Everything went well for them. Um, and then we still have cross country going on. And then CPE day was a FFA convention that they went to and it was just a career development event. They had 28 people go which is really good I think for them. Yeah. Um and then Upwardbound went on a trip trip to uh Centerville or Central College where they just got to talk to a bunch of people and businesses and colleges. Um and then we have homecoming which is a really big week and that's coming up next week. We have a bunch of dress up days, um, painting, dodgeball, you name it, we have it. It's a really good day for everyone and fun. And then the dance is that weekend. >> So, you're going to play on the powder puff team? >> I think I am. We'll see how it goes, though. >> I'm sorry. I have to root for the seniors this year. >> Try to cram a board into the car, but >> Oh, that's fun. Yeah. I don't know how >> sign up. >> That would make for a very short meeting. >> It would ministerial. >> Yeah, true. >> We don't want anybody seeing that. >> Any questions? >> Eddie, thank you very much. >> Thank you guys so much. Have a good rest of your night. >> You too. >> And then we have a couple gals from the FFA to present a little bit about some activities in their program and maybe an upcoming trip that we'll talk about next meeting. Good evening everyone. My name is Emry Hawkins and I'm the president of the Centerville FFA chapter. Um I'm Kimmy Johnson, the Centerville FFA vice president. Thank you for giving us a chance to speak with you tonight about something that means a lot to our chapter, the opportunity to attend the National FFA Convention. The NA National FFA Convention is the largest gathering of students in the entire country. More than 70,000 FFA members come together each year in Indianapolis to celebrate achievements, learn new skills, and get inspired for the future. For us, it's not just a trip. It's an opportunity and an experience that can truly change the direction of our lives. At the convention, students like us have the chance to attend leadership workshops, listen to the worldass speakers, and meet people from all across the United States who share the same passion for agriculture and leadership. There's also a massive career expo with hundreds of colleges and companies there to help us explore different opportunities for the future. For some of us, this may be the very first time we connect directly with college or career path that excites us. If we get the chance to attend, we'll grow in three major ways. As leaders, convention gives us workshops and experiences that push us outside our comfort zones. We learned skills like communication, teamwork, and how to set and reach big goals, which are skills that we can take back to our chapter, our classrooms, and our everyday lives. As students planning for the future, taking talking to colleges, trade schools, and companies at the career expo helps us see all the opportunities that are out there. Whether we want to be a farmer, a business person, a scientist, a teacher, convention shows us that agriculture connects to every career field. As members of this community, we want to come back and bring the motivation and ideas we learned to share with others. We return inspired, more confident, and ready to give back, not only adds to our FFA chapter, but also to our school and our community. I think the most powerful part about the national convention is that it makes you feel like you're part of something so much bigger than yourself. Sitting in an arena with thousands of FA members, all wearing the same blue jacket, you realize that you are a part of a nationwide network of young leaders. It's a reminder that hard work and dedication can open doors you never thought possible. By allowing us to go to the National Bet Convention, you're not just helping us take a trip. You're investing in our growth as leaders, in our career exploration, and in the future of Centerville students. You're telling us that you believe in us and the impact we can have, not just now, but for years to come. On behalf of our chapter, thank you for considering this opportunity. We're excited for the chance to represent our school, learn, and bring back experiences that will benefit everybody. >> Very good. >> Yeah. >> Well, I'd love to, but we can't. >> It'll be actually on the next meeting. Yeah. We got you covered. We got >> we'll have that opportunity to get them on their way and and doing good things. And >> is that something we do every year? >> Uh I think we have >> every other year. >> Every other year. >> So last year was not the year. >> Yes, >> it was the year. Correct. No, it was not the year. Okay. Last year. >> I think it's fantastic opportunity just to meet other people to go to those things and find out the different kind of fields there are. I never went to something like that a long time ago in school, but I went to something. It was called Junior Engineer and Scientist. It was in Colorado Springs. And I'll never forget that because of the things that I learned and of course I ended up doing science type stuff, but you you just you find out some so much more and you learn from other people, too. >> So, it fantastic opportunity for you guys. >> It's probably come back with a lot of really good ideas. When is it? >> Uh, it's in October 29th. 29th. And obviously we've got a really I'm very excited about our young energetic excited teacher for this program too. Casey being a Sun Centerville grad, she's definitely bringing in what our program needs and and a lot of positivity for our kids. I see a lot of a lot of buzz about the program when I go to high school. So it's exciting to to see this really taking off. >> And 70,000 people, you must be sleeping in tents or something. >> I don't think that we'd want to go to that. >> Oh. So how so how many people would typically go out of out of your class? >> Our chapter is taking 10 members. >> Okay. >> Very good. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you guys for having us. >> Come back. >> Good job. >> Great job guys. >> Thank you. See you. Have a good night. >> You too. >> Hey, I think we are ready for the director reports. Who's going first? >> Well, Mike, why don't you go first? >> Um, tomorrow is a long waited day. We're finally getting our two new buses. It feels like I ordered >> forever ago. Um, >> three years ago. >> I don't know. I don't >> feels like >> Yeah, it feels like it's been a long time. Um, there there's a few problems with one of them, which doesn't make me feel great, but they they got it worked out. um something that came up on its drive up from Tulsa when they're built to Marshall Town. Um so we're going to deliver those tomorrow. Just want to tell you guys thank you again for the support. Um when I started working here 9 years ago, we've literally had buses in the fleet that I rode on when I was a kid and I'd be 38 years old in two weeks. So we've definitely upgraded the fleet in the last five, six years. So much appreciated. Um, other than that, pretty good start to school. I mean, you have your, you know, few bumps along the road, but feel like our new software worked out good. Um, definitely saved me some time. I think it'll save me even more time as in the future as, you know, I learn how to use it a little more efficiently. Um, other than that, that's about all I got. You guys have any questions? I know just going through a couple times ago, you had a lot of people that took a course and now can be substitutes. Are you doing >> I wish I had a lot more, huh? >> Yeah, always. >> Okay. >> And do we have some buses scheduled for replacement this year? >> Um, >> well, >> I can't remember what the schedule is. >> I need to look at that schedule. You mean as far as go ahead and ordering for the next fiscal year? Yeah, I need to look at our long range plan, but I believe that there is. >> Well, one thing we've discussed, uh, Mike and I have, we found a company that will sell, you can't buy a new 12 passenger van as a school district in the state of Iowa or 15 passenger van, but you can buy a used one. There's a company based out of Kansas that's and and a couple other companies we found that are that have consistent 15 passenger vans. So, we've talked about, do we look at if our mileage is lining up with what our long range plan predicted and do we try to slip one of those in there at some point? So, we've got that because we have a lot of sports that we have trouble >> need to evaluate our needs, I think, at this point. >> Yeah. >> Um, >> the plan as far as where we're, you know, since co takes forever to get anything new. It's not really, you know, one salesman says it'll be 12 months now, but whether that's true or not, I don't see it getting better. could just stay about the same. So, um that'll be about I guess as good as I can answer that question. >> Okay. I will mentioned that uh I serve on the Centerville Community Betterment Board and our insurance company um I don't know that they actually forbid us, but they certainly frowned on 15 passenger vans. >> I appreciate that information. I'll check check with our insurance company and see where they see maybe you already have. >> I know this is kind of a growing trend in schools. A lot of them are getting >> a lot of districts have >> okay >> I'm not saying that >> but it's worth asking. >> It's worth asking but I know there's a lot of them out there. >> Okay. >> And you still have to add your >> No, not yet. >> Yeah. Correct. >> Yeah. You couldn't use that for a bus, >> right? >> Just for like a sports >> for an or something. >> Yeah. >> I think it's about a weekly call from Jared and Mike this week like, "Okay, who can drive? Who can drive this point?" >> Yeah. >> Just like that group. >> Then you can fit them in there and you can go and you're good to go. Any other questions? >> Thank you very much, sir. >> Yeah. >> Next new bus is fiscal year 26 on the long range plan. So, this would be fier 26, right? >> Okay. >> Yeah, we probably need to discuss >> pretty quick. We need to go ahead and order that, you know, right >> what we can do, but keep it rolling. Yeah. >> Huh. >> Well done. What's the fun for buses? >> Who's there? Uh that would be uh Cameron. >> Um just normal start of the year, my crazy part. I probably met with every staff member at least twice I feel like. Um but it's going good. Uh new access points seem to be working out pretty well. Had some nippy coverage that I've changed some stuff, reprogrammed and got that going. Servers are working on three now instead of a pile like we used to. So that was a big summer project I had wrapped up which feels really good. And then infinite campus just making sure I talk with all of our programs that me and Julie work with and we're finally got that smoothed out too. So we're really rolling just getting caught up on a few other things and started esports last week. I have a huge turnout for that. I got like 14 kids now this year which is awesome and >> I I have more coming almost every day being like, "Hey, I'm interested. I just can't this season. Can I join next season?" And I'm like, "Oh, for sure." So I think I've got kids lined up. I feel like I'm at 14 at least for every single season, which is awesome because I have kids that aren't interested in some games and want to play other ones more. So, I think it's a growing program. Things get going. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Any questions from K. >> Thank you, sir. >> Kate, >> um we started off the year with the new campus system. It's had a bit of a learning curve, but I think we're getting things work out and um seems to be doing pretty well. Um there might be changes in some of the kitchens. Um just minor upgrades how they're doing service making things flow a little better. We'll have some new equipment at the high school and tower for um put some of the food in for the meal services make it look a little bit more professional and easier for the kids >> like the pizza thing >> the display the pizza because there's always pizza as an option. And we kind of saw some other schools that had that and we got kind of jealous and worked with them and oh here's what you need. So >> So they're actually coming this week. So I imagine we'll be next week when that's our food service. Yeah. Otherwise, it's we have our triannual review this year. This is my first year with a review like that. It's extremely detailed and in depth. Um I attended a meeting for that uh with our state consultant last week. Um so that'll be a big part of my fall and winter. I had a question on, you know, on the summer food program. I guess maybe I should know this, but where did the funding for that come? >> That's a a program through the state. >> It is the state program, not a federal. >> I think the state actually um gets money from the feds and then they s they oversee it. I know they had they kept talking about some other program they had to sign up for, but not everybody was going to get it in the state, but that's not the one we had. >> So, the summer program, anybody, anybody 18 years old or younger is eligible to receive >> food. You don't have to sign up for it. You don't have to qualify. It doesn't matter if you make zero money or a million dollars. >> Okay? >> Um, anybody can participate in that. Um, >> and you felt is well needed too, correct? >> Yes, >> I think so too. >> Um, as far as uh regular school year meals, um, that's I mean, right now we have the regular free or reduced or paid depending on either income or if they're direct certified by the state. >> Thank you. Any other questions for Kate? >> Thank you. >> Um, quick update on the auditorium. Um, talked to them this morning. Um, the wipe down portion of this process. Um, should have been completed today. Uh, the painters were in earlier this morning and they should have that the painting finished up either today or tomorrow. Well, the remaining work includes the hepo vacuuming uh the seats and carpets. Um it's it's very promising. They've moved very quick on this and should be ready for next week. Um the Lake View band room has had a few delays as we all know. Um right now the estimated completion is end of October. Um, one of the small delays we've had recently, um, Michelle and I decided that it probably be beneficial if we had team services inspect their welds when they got to this point now that the decking and iron is up. Um, and I just got notification literally like 2 minutes ago that everything passed, so we're good to go. Um, there were a few extra mishaps where water got in where it wasn't supposed to. Um, but when you have a roof open like this, it's going to happen. But I've documented everything and first on site's been real good about it. They're going to replace damage and everything like that. But overall, the project's going very well. Just >> construction. >> It's just what happens. >> Any questions for all? Well, Julie would be his curriculum. Well, I'm sorry. Jared as athletic director. I'm sorry. >> Um I know we're get we're a busy few weeks here with uh pancake day. Uh this week we host tonight, tomorrow, uh Thursday, Friday, and then obviously with homecoming, we have stuff basically Sunday through Saturday. So, it'll be a full few weeks there. As Mike said, him and I talk about daily on how we're going to get things done and get people from point A to point B. Um, I've been driving to our different cross country meets. I just finished uh my 70 modules of videos and quizzes. Um, so now I just have to go to the in-person class to get my bus driver. So that'll be hopefully by the middle of October I'll be done with all that. Um, I just had to get through homecoming and everything before I could dedicate the time to go and and finish that up. So, um, I'll be able to help drive some of those out trips on a bus instead of like right now there's a lot of times we'll send three vehicles instead of a bus just because we don't have a bus driver. >> You've driven some decent distances I think in the last few weeks, haven't you yet? >> Yeah, we went like cross country went to Pleasantville and Central Decar and Wayne. So, it's it's good. season. >> Looks like I'll be going >> make a drive over to Fairfield probably sometime this week. >> Be good. >> All right. Any other questions for Mr. Jones? >> Thank you, sir. >> Julie. >> Okay. Um, so on the curriculum front, um, we've had a lot of great PD to start the year. Um it's always a great time to get together with our uh lead teachers there that um went through the process to be that in August and then um we had a great speaker Todd Whitaker nationally known um always excited to bring that into town and the and teachers um helped to do that as well. They are part of that TQ TQ committee. So it's exciting um to have somebody of that nature come to Centerville. Um and then on Friday we did our first teach to heal day. Um, I know that teachers, it was a lot of background and a lot of the why and they're looking for the what. And so hopefully in the next couple of sessions with her, our next one being in February, we're going to start getting some of that what for them. Um, and some certain strategies. So, it's just a process and I think it went really well. Um, because of the uh cleaning in the auditorium, we did hold it at the Bridge Church. Um they're always very gracious to host and um always make sure we have everything we need and um just a great place to have it um because it's a little bit smaller and more intimate so we could have some groups and things and it was just it was good for our staff. So um we had all of our staff there, all associates, all secretaries, um things like that. So it was a really great day. Um and really we had well attendance. So I'm excited about that. Uh preschool has started. We have a great bunch of three and four year olds that are always excited to be there. Um, one of my pictures, uh, it is Mr. Taylor dancing with them. So, had to definitely show you that one. Um, I'm not even I don't remember what they were doing, but he went right in and they were dancing. So, they love that. >> Sounded pretty sick. >> Yeah. >> So, um, talk about >> Yeah, it's paper hat day is always a big hit with our littles. um they think those big kids are just so awesome, which they are awesome, but they absolutely talk about it for days. So, um we appreciate that tradition. So, lots of great things happening. Um really excited for upcoming month. We have some more PD coming and um things happening that are really good things for our teachers. So, >> any questions? Thank you very much. That gets us down to principal report. >> Yeah, we always I always like to use Julie as a pivot point. >> Uh Brian, >> uh yeah, just got a few things on the on the board report that you guys saw. Probably the biggest is the um vending machine. Um if you didn't see that everybody come to a vending machine, we've already had like nine or 10 books already go out. So that's really cool. I don't always get to catch it, but I always catch it because afterwards they're very very excited to get a book. And we knew that last year when we did the the books for fun thing that there are some kids that got a lot every kid got at least one free book that we knew it would be a hit, but it it very much is a hit. Like a book is which which is cool, right? Because you think all the technology that kids have and it still is very cool for them to pick out books and take home. So, um that's great sharing that positivity. Um, the other thing that I put on there is the postcards that are being sent home and I'm hearing kids talk about, same thing as our lead awards. We're starting to put those on the wall again and it is cool. Um, if you come to school and just like kids are very interested to see like who's got it, my name's on there and I can't wait to get it. Um, we're hearing that as well with the the postcards. And what I like about that is I I did really encourage our staff to hey, but I did tell them I'm not going to please this. Like I understand that this week you're busy and next week you have to give two postcards. But I just we we know how that positivity can help our kids regardless who the kid is. And so they did something this week that's good. Let them know that they did something great this week. And what I like to see is because I'm not policing it, but I just kind of like I'm seeing a lot of great names that I'm like, "Oh yes, this is great to give this kid some positive feedback." And this kid, yes, they're always great. So give them some positive feedback. So, I do get to see that before I send them out to to the post. And, um, there's just been some really good and I think that'll pay dividends in, you know, March, you know, and when kids do struggle and there's stuff going on, it's, you know, building that building them up is a is a positive thing. So, um, still got the lead awards going and then, um, obviously the positive news home and then the the PBIS awards. So, seeing a lot of a lot of great things from our teachers to celebrate kids. Awesome. Any questions? >> Very good report. Thank you. >> Um I was gonna um take off on a little bit too of the positive going on, but I I'll tell you what, something came to my mind um this morning when I was thinking about our meeting tonight, but I thought probably we don't do a very good or I don't do a very good job of of accelerate of acknowledging and that is our nurses. I'll tell you what, um, when I look at the new, um, documentation that the state is expecting our nurses to do for the health plans, that is enormous. But, um, I just couldn't say enough good things about the work that Megan Dina has done in our building. And we had a young man come in on Thursday with probably one of the nastiest looking breaks I'd ever seen. And Megan was just calm, cool, collected. You know, this is what we do. D. and I I just thought um that's we are so fortunate to have a full-time nurse in our building. So, I just wanted to accelerate or accentuate the good news, good work that she does and share that as positive news in our building. Um the other thing, you don't have to look very far to see uh the shortage of teachers in the state of Iowa right now. And um I just couldn't tell you um how great all the teachers that we hired have been hitting the ground running as well as our senior teachers. We had a um tornado drill the other day and someone was struggling to find something in their in a folder as sub was and there was three teachers over there trying to help them out and show them that and um you know before school started our sixth grade teachers are over checking out the seventh and eighth grade teachers halls and rooms and it it's just been a good start to the year. Um we got a lot of great kids. I I I don't have to tell you that. I feel like that every year but um it's just been awesome. I shared with you that our seventh graders did not go on a field trip last year. So, we're making up for that. We're going to get them kicked off here and headed to Stow Heights. Um and um that's just an absolute phenomenal team building um ropes course I think our kids will love. Good opportunity. We take girls one day, boys another. Not to be sexist, but the whole thing is sometimes it's hands-on when we're trying to move teams and it's a little bit more comfortable in middle school for girls to be with girls and boys to be with boys. Um and uh Mike Moore offered to drive our bus. those days. We kind of scheduled that because I was trying to work with Mike Concade and Mike Moore was there and he said, "Pick a Monday and Tuesday and I can help you." So, we got that kind of taken care of, not to add to Mike Concade's burden, but >> make it easy today. >> Um, I'll tell you what, our expectation was the same as last year that we were asking teachers to contact three parents a week and share good news. Um, just to be real honest, um, a little bit of that has been a little rough that maybe parents weren't used to that. So they were like, "What are you calling me for while I'm at work?" And um I said to our teachers, "If that's the biggest complaint a parent has, we will be fine. We will figure this out." But um I had an experience last week when I called the dad and he said, "I'm not quite sure what to say, Mrs. Spilfield. I don't know that you've ever gotten to call me like this." And I said, "But I'll tell you what, your your young man has grown into a very respectful, responsible young man. And I hope you get ready because the phones are going to keep a ringing." You saw that, Mr. Taylor. We had a young man step between two um two peers who were kind of bumped into each other in the hall and then weren't sure they were going to be okay letting it walk away. And this young man stood in like just go. It's fine. Nobody meant to do anything. Totally created a peaceful situation. Could have been a little bit of a ruckus. So yeah, good stuff. Good stuff. But we're off to a good start there, too. If you see us, we're Mrs. Szer's done an amazing job jumping in and replacing Mrs. worn and we're uh screening kids down to identify starting our um reading supports for intervention work and our math supports. So that's what we're kind of putting in the computer tonight here. >> Terry loves to hear 67 by the way. >> Okay. I didn't even know about that. The teachers had to tell me about that. I didn't realize that. >> That's the middle school thing right now. >> Yeah. I didn't know that until they were like >> apparently a third grade thing. You're a second grade. >> This is all >> I did share with one of our fifth grade teachers this afternoon um a good project that each kid has to have six or seven minutes and they have to write a 67word essay on what 67 means. >> Yes, I saw that. And then they just share in groups of six or seven trying to trying to stop it cuz it might >> it doesn't my understanding it doesn't really have a meaning >> but it's just the thing they say cuz they find it really funny for some reason >> and so we we use that with our football boys and we use football team to get them going. >> So it's middle school and well I guess the high school kids >> I would hammer it. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, >> yes. >> Usually I'll do like random numbers. >> I'm like, yeah, that's the reaction I wanted. >> Thank you, Mrs. Scoffield. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Um, we're high school. >> Okay. And I'm just going to stand because I can't see Lisa. So, just in case I need to see Lisa. Um, and that that is a high school thing, too. And I'm oblivious to it. I'm like Terry. I was observing in a classroom and there was a com it was financial literacy and the comment was something about 10% of your earnings >> and some kid raised his hand and said or six or seven. And I didn't even get it right. I'm like >> okay. The teacher though because she was right on that. But anyway, it is it's all over the place. >> Um I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on some of the things in my report because as you heard from our young ladies that presented earlier to there's just a whole lot going on. In fact, sometimes at the high school I feel like there's so much going on. And I just wish it would all pause for a few weeks so we could do school. So, um, but we are we're doing school and kids are doing really well. Uh, we're off to a really good start. I I want to really brag on my building leadership team just a little bit because we um have really dug in and we had our first meeting and I didn't even have it on the agenda, but we continued after the meeting in terms of planning some professional development that we know needs to happen for our building. So, we're going to really do some focusing and we're using our Sammy score from last year and we're using um some other data that we're in the process of collecting like our fast data and of course Iowa assessment scores um and then some some just teacher input that we've collected along the way through some surveys and things. But we're really going to focus on student engagement which we know when kids are engaged their their chances of learning the material is much higher. um high quality instructional practice, which I think is something that we've probably just ventured away from in terms of some solidified practices that we think are really high quality that we should be seeing in each classroom. So, we're going to identify some of those and really try hard to implement those in each of our classrooms. And then just differentiation. I think uh our staff as a whole um yes, of course, we we teach our special education students just like we teach the the general education population, but just some maybe more specific ideas about how they can differentiate in their gened classrooms for some of these students that need a little extra support and extra staffing. And the truth is that's not just our special education students. A lot of times that's our students in general that might be pushed on this end and might need more staffing and support on the the other end. So, I'm really proud of our building leadership team for wanting to already push forward and identify those things that we want to put into place and and really work on in terms of professional development for our staff this year. Um, the rest of our stuff is really, I mean, homecoming, pancake day first, right? Homecoming, our football team's doing well. We've got volleyball teams playing well. I mean, kids, our kids are busy, you guys. Our kids are so busy. Um, and I wish homework was always at the top of their list. So, that seems to be the challenge and that's I don't think unique to Centerville. I don't think that's unique to this time of year. I think that's true for all of our kids. They're they're super busy and we want them to be involved and be busy, but we also want them to stay focused and make sure grades are up, too. So, that that tends to be our ongoing challenge, but we're working on it. >> Any questions? >> That gets us down to the Mystic School building. Okay, so this was kind of a weird one that came up last week. I got a got a message from Mike Craraver asking if we had any documentation on the district um choosing not to exercise our right of first refusal uh when the Mystic School Building had been sold to somebody the last time. Um and we have no documentation that it ever happened. So there was concern whether or not that had even been offered at that point. Um there I believe it sounds like there's a sale getting ready to go on from the current person who's converted it into a home. Um put some good effort into making it a nice looking home I guess. Um and wanting to sell it on to another person and the district has right of first refusal still by law with that. Um and they've requested if we would be willing to consider dropping a right of first refusal uh for this and and moving forward. I I don't anticipate a time where we'd want to purchase an old school building um as a school district. So, it seems like the logical thing to do if we would make the decision to approve that as a board, uh Mike would craft up a document. Uh and we'll have Danielle Hayfield verify that it it checks all the boxes for us before I give it to Mike to sign. But, uh I think it'd probably be wise to go ahead and and drop a right of first refusal on that building. >> What does that mean, first refusal? we could buy it back. >> My understanding is and and I had to ask Derek because he kind of works in this realm or maybe it was no it was Ed. I asked Ed Cox I talked to um if somebody go if they want to sell it and they have an offer we have the right I believe to say that >> match that offer. >> Oh okay. >> You see it a lot of times >> he has commercial. >> Yeah >> expensive roof I'll tell you that. Yeah, honestly, it's probably pretty good. There's a lot of square footage in those states. A lot of room for activities. >> I would assume that we have the same situation with the school in Cincinnati. >> You know, I was going to start looking into that and finding out if that's been dealt with or exercised or not as well. >> Um maybe. Yeah, >> if that's the case, we may want to >> just keep our >> Yeah. knock out two of at once. >> Yeah. Yeah. I' I'd have to ask um probably at the city office if they've got anything for us on that or we can look back through old minutes on that on those other buildings. But apparently on this one that was negotiated into it. But I just don't see a need to keep it as as a board here. >> No. >> And it sounds like it'll make a nice home for somebody who's going to live in our school district. So even better. >> Fill a favorite room with kids. I lots and lots of kids. There's >> a lot of room. >> Motion to approve to refuse. >> Motion to refuse. Motion to approve first right of refusal. >> How do you word that? Okay. >> And u >> remove all it. >> Yes. We don't want >> motion to vacate our >> We don't want it. How about a motion to vacate our right of first >> refusal by other people? >> Yeah, >> I think I'm trying to remember the details of where that was. So, I was I was teaching in the district, but I can't remember it. >> Yeah. And then it got turned into a home. The Cincy building, is that still owned by the >> city? Did all that work and now was going to sell it to somebody? Right. >> Yeah. >> Oh, no. >> It's kind of It's kind of a different type of >> Yeah, >> to say the least, but I we spent a lot of money on it. >> Looks nice. >> That's cool though. >> That is cool. >> We have a motion to vacate the first round of refusal for the rest school building. >> Second. >> We have a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Oppose. Same. Sign. >> Motion passes. First reading of board policies. Mr. Taylor's favorite thing. >> Yes, it is. Yeah. And so you have those in your packet. Um not a lot of super exciting things. There were a lot of um civil rights changes and bullying changes in the state legislature in the last year. kind of catching up to that. U this is actually a combination of two policy primers that came out. Um so that's why there's so many on this one, both related to the last legislative session. I um I'd shared with somebody before the meeting. Um the day that we sent this out to you, another policy framework came out. So we'll get some more first readings. It'll be really fun. um just kind of the the bullying report form doesn't necessarily require a specific uh attribute of a person to qualify. So that um that's maybe the biggest change to it, but it still is the same form for the most part other than that. Did anybody have anything that they saw that was of concern? >> Only thing I saw uh 503.09 09 student use of personal electronic devices. >> Yes, >> it just kind of trailed out there. The space designated by the classroom teacher student personal electronic devices in the in the possession of the district will be secured using the following methods. >> Oh, let me see what I did there. Let me just >> I apologize that is probably because I didn't catch a hole. Um, so using symbol most of the cross out and add in you see is assembly itself. So I must have missed that on that one. 50 you said 5039 right? >> Yes sir. >> 74 bring a mouse just to these. Okay. So that is at which part of the second paragraph that off the staff members may have established protocol. >> Maybe I'm on the wrong paragraph there. 5309 >> example R1. >> Oh, R1. Okay. Classroom teacher. >> Yeah. So, their backpacks unless otherwise instructed in the spaces. Okay. So, what that means is there are some teachers. So, and I can actually speak to this because um when I have to trade kids out at the end of the day, I go into my wife's room and uh so she's got this little shelf thing where when the kids come in, they can put they put their phone in there. Um so that then >> Okay. I'm just making sure cuz so then I just turn to the the teachers establishing their own. >> Yeah. Yeah. And so that bracket doesn't necessarily need to be there is my understanding on that one which I'll fix on on >> post because like almost yeah but I think one of the reasons as we kind of established administratively kind of how to work through that last year we did see that teachers have some different ways of doing that. Some have like a little not a bucket but like a little tote that you can put them in. Some have a shelf like that. Um, some say, "No, it just has to be in the backpack." Like, I I won't see it. Um, but that kind of gives a little bit of how are you going to enforce it in your room? What do you need to be able to see to enforce this? Um, which I think I'd probably be one that I'd want to place for them because it would be easier for me to me to address that. I think I'd be in that boat, but I'm kind of a rules kind of person. How's it working for you? Do you think >> it I mean it's actually going very well at the high school to be honest. I mean >> it's going really well. Uh better than last year even. I don't know if it's specific to the policy necessarily as it is specific to all of our staff being on board and doing the same thing. So it was maybe easier to send that message because it's law now and it's the choice is gone, right? But what we have in place is working much better than um I feel like it did last year. And I think even our students would tell you it's working pretty well. >> And I would say they do because I met my student advisor group last week and that's one thing they brought up was that this year they thought that the staff is like the policies are the same but they thought the staff together was enforcing them across the board. So they thought they were being implemented and communicated a lot better overall. Any other questions about >> there's one thing about that policy to know. Um so in 50309 not the R1 but the 09 um in practice and and the way that we've worked in the in the past and I did check with the attorney this is still acceptable. I would propose that we consider striking in the third paragraph. It's a one-s sentence paragraph there. It says instructional time is defined to mean periods of classroom instruction from the beginning of class bell until the end of class bell and then uh semicolon include lunch, recess and passing periods. So our current plan and our current work has not included that uh as instructional time in terms of uh cell phones. I did check with uh attorneyfield and she said that that was still within the scope of Governor Reynolds law. Um, so if it would be within the will of the board, I'd like to leave that unchecked because we don't have a problem with students coming off their phones during the classroom and I think that gives us the ability to remain as as free as we can while maintaining decorum in our classrooms. Um, would that be okay with the board to have that strength? I wanted to give you the state policy and then >> you're talking keep on stroke. >> Well, yeah, >> that was one of the spots that I'm like, why do they strike it in one place and put it in another place? That bothers me, too. But yeah, that one is is completely struck. But what I'm suggesting is in that third paragraph, it's just one sentence to strike everything after the um semicolon >> so that it won't include lunch, recess, but recess doesn't really apply. I mean, Um but that's the original sign, >> right? Yes. Yes, indeed. In fact, we do got some of that. We have some teachers that good job getting fresh air for some people out there. >> So that's that's good. I've seen a little bit of that going on. Um so motion, unless there's any other discussion, I would say motion to approve first reading. U striking the third paragraph on page 503.09 to remove everything assessment. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Post. Same sign. It has been approved. >> Thank you. >> Window graphics bid. >> We're not done with these yet. >> No, we'll do a second reading still. >> Oh, okay. I had a question on 507. >> Oh, yeah. Sorry. I'm sorry. >> That's all right. And on that one, they talked about the immun immunizations. >> Could you say what one that was? >> 507.1. And uh I guess the the part in green was I I kind of lost my phone here, but u people cannot have immunizations if there's a medical reason or a religious reason. And then they added something at the bottom that they have to some report they do that. >> Yeah. And that that's been the case. What changed with the law, the legislative session on immunizations is that now the district has to include uh additional communication um typically through your handbook and things like that and at registration about how to qualify for a vaccine exemption if you'd like to. >> Yeah. Only thing it's adding on is the district will include information related to the requirements as well as as exemption requirements. as you put more language in there later. >> Public health comes and goes through our our each building's immunization files with their nurse and then nurses send a letter to the parents and remind them that we have to have exemptions or we have to have immunizations or the kids can't be in school according to the state law. >> Right. And unless there's an exemption, >> right? And they and they and often times you just have to help them get paperwork to get it signed. >> Yep. That was the change that happened in the legislation on that. >> Did you? Yeah. Okay. >> Are we satisfied? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Then we will move on to approval of the window graphics. This is to finish up our uh external uh window safety coverings that have the cool graphics on them too um to continue to block out view from outside to the inside of the building while still allowing sunlight and allowing a view outside from inside the building. >> What windows are we talking about with this? >> Oh, there are some at high school, some at Lake View. I want to say there are some at Howard. Yeah, there's some at Howard. So, it's the classroom windows at Hower on the uh trying to think where those are those the inside of the U at >> um let's see the guidance office. So, oh this is a weird one. So, when you walk in the man trap at Howard, there's a window right there that leads right into the guidance office. It's just a clear open window. So, we got one for that because that's a a privacy concern. And if you got somebody in the man trap, having a view into a classroom is not good if they're not a safe person. Um, I think that's all the how ones that are on here. Does that sound right to you, Terry, on yours? >> Yeah, they're all just on the inside there. >> Let's look at what the high school ones are. Uh, entrance six, I think. Is is that your back entrance in the classroom wing? Does that sound right? >> All right. What is it? >> Entrance six at the high school. Was that your back entrance in the new wing? >> Uh, I don't know our entrances. I'm sorry. >> I I feel like that might be So, it's various entrances uh around the building that don't have uh that blocking. >> That's the one I >> door in the side. >> Yeah. Off the >> teacher there. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> So, I think we do have some classroom windows here. I'm trying to think what classroom would be. >> I think it' be that one where that garden. >> Uh Jenny, do you remember what classroom windows that is on there? >> What classroom window do we not have covered currently? >> You mean with the curtain or you mean Oh, no. Are we talking about on the west side of our new wing? >> That could be. >> Yes. Where >> the back side? That's what it is. You're right. So each of those classrooms has I mean an entire row of windows along there. >> So we believe if we if we've checked it all right after these go through there shouldn't be a window that can look into a place where students are that isn't covered with this. Um I want to say that third quote might be a couple p a couple over by the gym at Lake View I think. Um and again it's more entrances. Yeah, they they measured all of our entrance. >> The one the teachers were concerned about in that building is the um are the doors going into the hall, >> the big hall. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's one of these entrances here. >> We they measured all of them. The doors outside the gym, one's covered, but one's not on. I will tell you all together it's kind of pricey but Lisa and I did talk a little bit today to make sure we were good to to do this and you know for safety we figured this is one of those expenses that it probably accelerates a little spending on a ple than than what we had planned initially but not in a way that makes it dangerous for us to to pay bills or anything but just that we'll be a little tighter uh on some other things but it's good because it'll protect kids. When do they think they can? >> Usually once we approve, they get something scheduled pretty quick. Jerk, did they share anything with you? >> Uh, so if I if we approve tonight, I can reach out to them tomorrow uh and see if they can fit us in in the fall. They only have probably another three or four weeks left for the fall because after the temperature drops below I think it's 55, then they can't do it. So then we be pushed to the spring. But we'll be able to find out for sure tomorrow. And I would I would push some of those in my future spring anyways. >> Yeah. Oh, that's a good point. >> I I told them that when I I was like, "Hey, measure these, but we've got some construction, so let's not do the windows right now." >> Yeah. Jared's actually done a lot of the work with this company on this. And I I think he's gone around and toured a lot of places. >> So, what's the total total? I see all the statements. >> Yeah, I've had I had that like right >> some it was around that. Yeah. >> And then the other one was smaller I think. Right. >> Their uh I will say their work is really good. Don't love their uh invoices because it doesn't total. >> Um >> what's the one total but the other two did? Not quite as expensive when you have it separated out. >> Never thought about that. >> Well, these ones are separated out. I asked them to because I didn't know if we would do it all at once. So, I said, "Can you do entrances first and then windows?" Figuring we'd do one or the other potentially. >> That's good. >> It's It's pretty reasonable though. I know. >> I think it's 127. Motion to approve work. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second to approve the window graphics bid. >> Any further discussion? >> Wait, I'm sorry. Who seconded that? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Chronic absenteeism improvement update. >> All right. How do I put something up, Cameron? Um, I'll email you the Zoom link. Come on. Okay. Actually, if you wanted to, you could follow along in your in your board packet. It's the slides that are the attachment, and I can kind of communicate out for those playing along at home here. Uh, so we had uh here I had the the e director visit a couple weeks ago. Did find out uh emailed to our communications person. They still plan to post something. I was kind of feeling bummed that they didn't post about us, but uh uh they're still planning to get that out there. The reason they visited us, I think I shared at the last board meeting, is because we had a a major improvement in the area of chronic absenteeism as a district. And so she'd asked for us to kind of present some background on what we were doing that was uh giving us success with our students on this. Um so we kind of went into some of the nuts and bolts and then into the philosophy behind it. Um, so, um, we did talk a little bit about our attendance timeline, uh, fall of 2022. We had a SIAK meeting and, uh, that was kind of really in a way one of my first things I got to do coming in, uh, with our our families and and some of our people to try to figure out what it is we needed to improve on. And we looked at chronic absenteeism data and saw a big uptick in the state, the nation, and then in our district. So we identified that as a need area. Um that spring we actually identified uh or did some meetings on the IDA differentiated accountability. It's IDA DA. Um and one of our areas uh postsecary uh participation of our special needs students. as we kind of dug into that data, we saw that the students who weren't having that post-secary participation had an attendance issue in a lot of cases. So, we saw that data as a place where we really needed to focus on that. So, we started uh attendance teams the summer and fall of 2023. Uh the attendance teams each had done some of the modules from uh there's a program called attendance works uh that gives a lot of good feedback to schools on how to improve attendance in your school. And then, as you know, last year we had our our district um attendance uh director um and this year an attendance coordinator to kind of continue that work uh with our county attorney. Um we did all the work required with the Senate File 2435, which is the one with working with your county attorney and and the prosecution of truency and all that. But more importantly, and well before prosecution of truency, the parent engagement meetings, which I think we are very lucky in Centerville, um not everybody has the same experience that we've gotten to have. Ty Stewart, our county attorney, has been awesome to work with for the district. He's done such a good job of engaging with families and not making it about a punishment, not making it about you're bad and and I'm a prosecutor and I'm going to get you, but making it more like how can we come to the table and help this work out for your kid. Um, so really pleased that we've got such a good county attorney to work with there. Um we uh as you know we we built the district attendance wide director coordinator position job description to really kind of hit at those items of participating in the building um attendance team meetings analyzing the data having a close relationship with the county attorney um working on celebrating positive um in uh attendance items and just kind of building that communication um and overseeing the boring paperwork process. On top of that, um, our attendance teams meet at least once every two weeks in each building. Um, we have a couple buildings that do every week. Uh, and they tie their academic team in with their attendance team. I think a building that kind of separates them out a little bit. Uh, but I think that's even kind of shifting some. Uh, on that team is the principal, counselor, nurse, secretary. uh Jason Reed serves from the district role on that and then other pertinent personnel. So like if we've we've got a particularly challenging case with a family, it might be that we'd want to pull in a teacher that's worked closely with that family and has a strong relationship. So just depending on some of the specific cases, uh and what they'll do is they'll actually work off of a list of the students who have the highest absenteeism rate uh in the last given month or even overall for the year to date. Um and they'll kind of look at each of those individual cases of is there a family need. Sometimes you identify um you know a death in the family has caused you know number of kids to to have problems attending for for a month or two and just offering at that point the reason the counselor is there is to offer some support to those kids and that family and kind of help them through that process. Sometimes it's student needs. uh maybe identify that a kid is struggling socially with peers and that's a chance for us to kind of address that. Um, we do Jason's role is to make that connection. If we're talking about, you know, um, Katie Taylor at CHS, well, hey, we were at Howard the other day and we talked about Corey Taylor, so we should probably and Xander Taylor there, too. So, we should probably make some connection in the work that we're doing on multiple building teams. So, that's what he does for us. And that has been super helpful, I think, in a in a number of cases. Um, and again, we've got the nurse and involved too in case there's a health a chronic health problem there. Um, there are these little door hangers that uh the high school team started using last year and we're making for the rest of the buildings. Um, if they go on a home visit for attendance, but they don't meet somebody there, sometimes that'll happen. Uh, we really try and we talked to Director Snow about this. We really try not to look intimidating when we go. If a person shows up wearing a polo, carrying a clipboard, that can look like other agencies that come and visit homes sometimes. And I think there are some families for whom that can be challenging and and kind of scary. So, we try to look casual when we go uh on those home visits. Um but if we miss them, uh we leave this little door hanger that says, "Sorry we missed you. Please feel free to call us back at this number. We'd love to catch up with you." And I think Jenny, would you say you guys have seen some success with with those? >> Absolutely. I mean, I can think of at least four specific students right now just since the beginning of this school year. >> That's awesome. Yeah. >> And you know, we approach those meetings, these meetings, those visits, all from a helping mindset rather than a hey, if you don't do this, here's going to come this day. because it's really about what can we do to help you help your kid because there is nobody on earth who says I hope my kid doesn't go to school and do do the right thing. So we just we recognize they're giving us their most precious commodity when they send their kid to us and we want to help them help their kid to be engaged. Um we've used one thing you can be proud of as a board member some of the resources that our district has uh to help kids attend. Um, our transportation department, Mike and team are very open to helping get a vehicle prep so a team can go out and pick a kid up if if there's a problem. They they really work to make sure that's there. We have some student hygiene support that's actually being used in multiple buildings this year. We have washing machines in each building um because sometimes and and other districts dealing with this have found this. Sometimes I don't have any clean clothes and it's embarrassing. can be a barrier for a kid. So, we've got I think our nurses for the most part have have been the ones to really engage in in helping out with that, which is pretty awesome. There are showers in each of the buildings, too, uh that are used uh by some kids that that's a concern for them. Our nurses have worked with families. Uh we have great counseling support. So, the outside counseling services, our stronger connections grant that we got a couple years ago got us an additional counselor. Um, and the MTSS process that we have pretty strong in each building is about intervening for kids. So that I'm struggling in math isn't a reason not to go to school. I'm struggling in math is a reason to get a little more help with math. Um, so that's that's helped us. But we believe the most important thing and it comes all the way to this level. When we established goals as a board three years ago and then again just this summer was that or last spring, I forget. Well, recently, uh, one of the goals in each of those cases was that we want each of our students to have something to belong to. Um, and, uh, Jared had shared some statistics, I think maybe on his personal Facebook, but 80% of our kids at CHS were involved in that activity last year, which is a great number, and I believe we're on the path to increase that again this year. It was neat when the high school kids. So, Emory that talked to you today was one of the gals that uh helped at one of the people because I think Ander was the other person, wasn't he? Ander Russell. >> Um they took the director around to show the school to her and talk about why they thought kids were coming to school and they came to the exact same conclusion that this school really wants to see us involved. They really find it important that we do things that we're engaged. Um, I I thought that was really cool because when the director met with the administrators after that and we tried to hang back, we didn't want to color the the visit at all. We wanted them to tell her the truth of of what they felt the school was and they shared almost verbatim what we said about it's about making a culture where everybody gets to do something and and what they are into is valued. Um, so I think that goal that the board set really is is playing out well for high school kids. And there's some research that's connected to what the positive childhood experiences versus adverse childhood experiences, but uh um that I won't bore you with all that. I think that was good for the DE director, but probably a little bit much for a board meeting. But uh it really played out well. I'm very eager to see what the what they put for their blurb because I I'd imagine there'll be something about our students being involved and engaged. So very excited about that. So that's kind of what we presented to the DE director just in a nutshell for you guys to kind of have an idea of uh what we're saying we think has led to our positive growth. Jared, you know, you talked about that 80%. I remember Cameron talked about some of the kids that were in the esports were not in any anything else. >> I have very few kids that do other sports. >> So that some do that helped that percentage. Is there other things that help that percentage too? Yeah, I would say kind of the I don't want to call them out alliers, but the ones where we really see kids just focus on that one thing. Esports would be one. And Cameron does a really good job of taking those kids that aren't involved in choir band or some of our athletics and getting them in that room. And like you said, his numbers are up this year. Um, another one I think is probably trap shooting. You get some kids there in trap shooting that don't necessarily do some other things. Uh, we're hoping to get some kids in robotics this year. at Miss Mitchell is just relaunching that at the high school and they they've already got some numbers there. So, um there's just some of those extra little niche things that um draw those kids in and and I think you're seeing that this this fall if you look at our numbers. Our football numbers are up, our volleyball numbers are up, um >> esports up teams. >> Yeah. Yep. Cross country's up, esports up. Um, you know, we're we're honoring 40 seniors on Friday night for senior night. So, you know, we've definitely seen some growth. >> That's good. >> It is. It's fantastic. But I saw that. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> Starting at 620 cuz I asked AJ, I was like, "Hey, can you look at last year's and tell me how long it took?" And so he pulled it up and I was like, "Okay, we got double that." So, >> that's awesome though. And I think if you go back to some of the training we had as a district, you know, 20 25 years ago when it talked about the needs that kids have and that need for belonging, >> you know, if they're involved in something, then they're part of something bigger >> and that can't be. >> Yeah. >> And it's cool to hear that. >> We can all sit here and talk to one of the >> Are there any other activities that we don't offer. >> I mean, I won't say 100%. >> We we kind of monitor that at Howard, too. And I'll tell you what, another thing um that really is a big attraction for us is Lizzie Aaylor. She does an art club after school. That's not even I mean, she does that on her own goodwill. That's not even a school sponsored financial. And the same thing we had about 96% is um the group of kids that we had. And again, it's just because there's something out there for everybody. >> Yeah. Just >> Well, I think Mark and I's next thing that we we looked at is maybe archery is probably the next one that we'll try to have the next few years. Uh we tried to maybe do a sharing agreement with another district that already offered it for a year or so, but they weren't interested. So, we're kind of looking at things on our end to see what that might look like. >> Sure. >> That art sounds interesting. They have these art things at Tangleberries and things like that >> and my daughter and wife sometimes do that and you go there and you see all these people that mostly women like 30 women and you don't hear a peep. You don't hear a happen. It doesn't happen. It doesn't sound like that in our building. >> Yeah. >> You know, this >> there's some there's some real interest in it, too. >> Yeah. Good. >> Okay. Thank you for the update. That's very encouraging. U personnel business procedures. Straight up. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the personnel business procedures. Any questions or comments? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Same sign. Everything pass. Financial reports. Just if you guys approve. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second approve the financial reports. Any further discussion, questions? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Same sign. Superintendence report. What else could you say? >> Not much. It's pancake day week, which I've always since I've been involved with Centerville seen that as where we're officially underway for the school year. Like it finally feels normal by pancake day. Once you get through pancake day, that is. >> Our football team, holy cow, amazing stuff happening. Love to watch it. Some field goals this last week. Kind of interested in that. Um and our RNRs that we approved at the board this summer, the regulate and return coaches are off to a really nice start buildings too. We've got uh Bridget um Stickler at uh at uh Lake View and then we've got Tyler Bays at Howard and they're they're doing a good job with the work and >> Mrs. Baker is helping with that at Lake. >> So they're they're working off well off our training with that. So I'm really happy with that. Anything else? We are down to board member takeaway. Who'd like to go first? Um, this goes with what Jenny was saying in her report about the inservice and having been somebody that sat through 30 years of in service as a teacher, it's so refreshing to hear you say that, you know, we met this time and we went over the data and blah blah blah and then but next time we're going to take that data and we're going to make it work for us because I think that is a big missing piece of a lot of service for you. Yeah, we know. We know what the numbers are. We hear this every year. But to take it and do something with it, that's exciting. >> The what, not the why. >> Yes. Yes. >> Who's next? >> So, my daughter came to me this weekend and told me this story. I think there's people that were in this room that were involved, but uh after one of the football games last Last week, her sister got hung up on the curb and a couple staff members and their kids came and helped lift them up. The way I heard the story, picked the car up, moved it over so she could go ahead and go. I don't that might have been a little dramatic story, >> but I do like to see that we have people looking out for each other and things happen. That's nice. But you might know more >> makes a great story. I I enjoy, you know, hearing hearing from the students tonight and the excitement in the buildings and as well as, you know, reflecting on I'm appreciative of the fact that when we made that goal three years ago that it's it's happened. Um, we all know a lot of times these meetings aren't exactly where we would probably want to be on a Monday night to see something, but they all said, "We've got to do this and and we're getting there." That's awesome. I just thank you everybody. >> Well, I what I say is I just appreciate all the reports that you guys give and because I know it takes preparation and you you've had a busy day and then you come here, too. So, I appreciate how you prepare for that. I was also glad to hear about the shower and the in the washing machine. I thought that was just fantastic because we know kids want to fit in and it's very hard they don't fit in. And I'm also glad we kicked the field >> more than one. >> More than one. Yes. >> Well, my takeaway has to do with the uh everybody at that end of the room. Uh we have a group that is planning, looking ahead and uh looking at where we're at and still thinking there's there's more to go. And I want you to know that I I really really appreciate that each and every one of you does something very unique and every one of you is seems to be kid- centered that it's I've always said when I taught school, it's not about the subject, it's all about the kid. >> And if you can focus on the kid, the rest of it follows. It's uh it's very encouraging to work with you folks and I want to thank you very very much. >> Thank you. >> And I wish there was a score, you know, >> all these test scores, but >> that's >> not the stuff that counts. sometimes. >> Yeah. >> We're also glad that you're glad back. >> Well, thank you. >> Yeah. >> At this point, I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll make a motion to second. Motion to all in favor signify by saying I signed. We are