all students will learn well become lifelong Learners and contribute positively to society like to welcome any visitors that we may have looks like we have several in the audience here uh and at this time we would be uh opening the public forum if anyone would like to speak you a roll oh excuse me roll call here Carter here he Johnson here Mo Thomas here whis now we'll have the uh public forum does look like we have anyone so now I'd like to approve the agenda second motion to approve the agenda all those in favor signify by saying I I saying sign motion carries next approve the minutes of the previous meeting I so move second I have a question real quick yes there's two different coaches on there that had one a contract for 75 days one for 45 days is that what we approved did I just miss that in the approval um yeah if it was in the minutes that would have been what was on package I can that's okay I just I want to make sure that's what we did I just couldn't remember doing that one for 75 typically the middle school is only Middle School 45 are they both Middle School well that's what I thought it said yes okay so I see it um five six seven and eight so that's our two so we have two staff members who are going to serve as co-head coaches for High School and Middle School uh cross country um and so we split in order to stay true to the contract instead of like creating a COO position we split the two head and assistance got it way okay I have no F question okay we have a motion to approve the minutes second all those in favor of approving minut signify by saying I I oppos time minutes have been approved old business approval of the baseball field sharing agreement okay so I I took this back to the attorney with Dickinson Law Firm to kind of address some of our concerns um you can see some of the red line uh it's in Blue uh in your document um just adding some of the things we did a lot of referencing to exhib a lot we did some referencing to exhibit a which is the maintenance agreement to tie the things that were in the maintenance agreement in into the 20 ad that we were kind of looking for in the last Mee I'm just looking around the room as I do that okay good it's got some people here um so you'll see when that's referenced that just means the maintenance agreement so it just ties each section into some of those we talked about he said he could put that language in separately but tying it to the exhibit a they were already wanting to use in their version made it a little quicker and cleaner for us um clarification on who will play where so junior high would would play on the the uh practice field that will receive some updates when the weather's better to get those updates we're looking at a slightly smaller piece of a more forgiving Turf in that area that has the bad Turf right now but they can't really do anything about it until the weather gets a little bit better to to mess with the ground on that um and he said he'd communicate with me as we go through that so we kind of know what the changes are and how that might impact our students uh freshman will play on the The Big Field so the freshman team would be considered a j team could beig field that I think my only other question I had with the changes and I think there was a lot there was a lot of clarification so I appreciate everybody will come in um and maybe it's just because I haven't U Been to ARG down there when it comes to staff responsible for cleaning up of press CL leers whatnot is that going to be something typically the coaches do or how that's been handled in the past we've typically had some small amount of responsibility to do a little clean up which is fine we should if we're it's our game um and it's not you know we don't I won't say that we leave it perfect by any means because they have custodial folks that come in but we do usually do a little clean up afterwards and and what do you call it where you take the thing over the field that I'm a football guy so we don't have to do all that much t no the like where you break it break it like break the field to make it look nice and everything so we usually have to do some of that at the end of the game to um but that doesn't seem to take a whole ton of time the part that we've had to do um and it's something that we probably want taken care of with our own field too so motion to approve second a motion in a second to approve the field sharing agreement any more discussion don't think there is so we would love to fix that t on Thee the end approve corre thank you sorry was that second Tom okay we got a motion to approve the baseball field sharing agreement all those in favor signify by saying I all right I oppose same sign no no two no and yes that correct didn't vot I V okay so I'll vote Yes so that makes it 4 to two is that correct okay motion carries uh new business we have our student representative here she come this Saturday I'm sorry my voice well this Saturday NHS is hosting a winter dance and uh last Thursday we H the first girls wrestling meet then spring play practices have started we have the Diary of an prank and Adventures anded last Monday in CLK and today five kids participated in Honor Choir last Saturday a large group speech got one ratings for all categories and mat Obama got his 100th win this past weekend that's all I Happ all right any questions normally I would but your voice is hurting so I will scare you from that thank you that's that's above beond the call so thank you any other questions thank you Miss Ary next one resolution tally approving the plan specifications form of contract and estimate total cost from the center School District 2025 how partial room replacement and setting the time date location for our hearing there on further authorizing the posting seing 2025 hour partial repl project that's hey I got I'm not making that I'm just going to say what he said in motion okay we have a motion Comm do we know what we're doing or we're just putting we do have a a bid from I'm sorry we do have a design based this this is insurance work that relle has done for us that we've actually had the design for quite some time um and this is just actually putting out to bid actually to get it done this summer and EMC is basically paying for all of this yes so this is whatever it is we're going to get insurance well they had some certain stipulations that we have to had to have in our design basically um so we got those into our design so they they pay for it okay um it has to be what is the term they use same materials or B materials or something like that so they kind of like or better yeah think uh I don't know if like or better I think it had to be as like material now there there's one section they said we could change the roof type if we wanted to um in which we are on one section of that roof we are changing it from a TPO to an EPDM which but is actually in our favor cuz the TPO type of roof is actually more expensive expensive than the EPDM the EPDM in my opinion lasts longer is easy easier to maintain um and then the entire roof section at Howard would be an EPDM roof which the only TPO part there is over uh the band so it's a smaller section smaller than it should be because it got cut back too much stop and Mr B you're happy with everything yes yes I mean I'm very happy I'm glad that hail happened when it did that's the we're basically getting an all new all new roof to a point except for the old gym which we we just replaced last summer um and it's not they're not stripping it all the way down to the decking insurance is paying for the top lare of EPDM and the top lare of insulation so they're stripping those two things off which is what would have been damaged from hail and then replacing that back which basically in turn gives us an aling roof really accelerated our Ro plan there that I can take one thing off of my long range plan by doing this so save some money okay I believe we have a motion second we have a second any further discussion okay I believe this is a roll call Vote berer Yes Carter yes Johnson yes yes thas yes yes motion carries uh next one is approval of the FFA fundraiser sounds like it's strawberry time yeah and you know this got uh left off the calendar we approved early on and we're just trying to follow board policy make sure we bring these up and it's also good because in your board packet and we talk about on the pitch uh for people about a strawberry fundraiser that people can support our F students with so free press for [Applause] that second motion under second any further discussion about the FFA fundraiser hearing none all those in favor of the FFA fundraiser please signify by saying I iose say sign motion carries uh approve the purchase of the weight room equipment so because this money is coming into us from other organizations a very big donation from the cville schools Foundation uh helped get us over the over the edge on this one get us to where we could get this big donation from the boosters um and they've collected some donations from some other organizations because it's all money coming into us and then were're spending it uh we felt it best to take it to the board to approve spending that money instead of using an activity fund may still be an activity fund we just wanted also more good PR getting weight room equipment I guess and those folks that help us make that happen how soon be here well um we were thinking we've got those two mini Spring Breaks we were thinking the second spring break they probably get here um assuming everything works out the way it's supposed to through the system not L motion to approve second thank you motion and a second to approve the purchase of the waight equipment any further discussion hearing none all in favor of the purchase of the waight equipment please signify by saying I I oppose saying sign motion Carri uh next one approval of the national criminal history record information procedures and Coles so this is a new set of policies that schools just have to have on record um Lisa actually uh did a lot of good work not actually Lisa always does a lot of great work Lisa did a lot of great work um she got the template from the from the I don't remember we got that from to be honest with you and then DCI DCI and then um kind of worked with some colleagues and found some good answers that that fit within our context it's just to talk about how we handle that criminal background check information how we guarantee the security of that information um and uh yeah so now we'll we'll have that policy we would have that policy to be in compliance with all those laws on protecting that information and doing the right thing which we're already doing so now documentation approve that since we have to I'll make a motion to approve second motion and a second to approve the national criminal history record information any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos saying sign motion carries approval of the summer project list aon's been getting a little less for ly so we got to really really help him out here you just found us what a good sleeper she is surprisingly you didn't know they have a baby now okay with these uh the first one on these summer projects is the one I get asked about a thousand times a day um is renovating the home football bleachers at the football field um one of those pages is an estimate that I had gotten from a a um partner that we use a lot um with this uh then the I think one of those pages I can't remember what order they in is a blueprint that he came up with how he he plans to to design this and how I told him that I wanted wanted this redone um up to code and to make it handicap accessible um and then I had G gotten you with help from camera and gotten a overview of what the bleachers look like now um with this update basically what will happen the aisles will be wider they will be putting handrails up the aisles um the platform the bottom platform will actually become wider because they will eliminate the very first row of bleachers it will be raised up and pushed back then add in five handicap slots into that second row which will then be the first row of bleachers um uh the east side of these bleachers we will take away the stairs but add a u ramp to make it handicap accessible um and then on the west side instead of the ramp going back towards the the stairs going back towards the north we will just extend those stairs down West um also the wood uh kick plates behind underneath the seats will be taken out and be aluminum will be put in um and then they will also all the iron underneath they will sand blast and repaint that as well um overall this project came in higher than we would have liked it so it's as of right now with this company it's 232,000 um which at that price we will have to do a public bidding process um so I'm working with Melle right now to get that process started um we're hoping to get this done this summer um trying to move that process on pretty quick are we going need her design that's what I was going to ask yes this was a rough estimate I came up with a company that we trust to know to show you what we I intend it to look like intend it to be um but then she will have to design it as well so we're not actually approving the expenditure tonight we're basically approving Ro yes just approving the project in a whole um I just provided the estimate so you have a ballpark the price range it could be at um go ahead what are you thinking I think you're think the same thing I just I I remember when we redid the field and we looked at doing this my recollection is when we got that estimate of cost it was going to be substantially more than this like 4 to 500,000 yeah that could be this is not replacing all aluminum I thought though that because we what we had to do to make it ADA Compliant was going to make it that price because we had to do certain things and that's why we had to back out of the back out of it at that time just because of the 8 compliance and the price of it all was that for the Press Box itself though no not for Press Box are you concerned that an architect design is going to bring it back up to that cost 100% okay will know that is to do and see and if it does then we look at our our uh long range plan and reassess uh I know this company um we've talked to somebody who's used this company to do some of this kind of work before though and I can't remember who that was but I feel like this is the one we talked about like since my first year isn't it I remember talking with Tim about this project because this is something Tim had started on getting estimates and talking about um before I had started and he had mentioned to me that one company he had gotten an estimate from was trying to upsell upsell him and was telling him that to be handicap accessible if we touch the bleachers then we have to touch the Press Box well no we're not touching the Press Box we're just touching the bleachers I do remember that part of the conversation and that if we touch the Press Box we have to add an elevator which shoot that price up but talking with this guy and I trust this guy with my life with his knowledge that that is not the case at all and I per code I guess couple I 100% agree this means to happen I support it but I I guess my recollection of it is that information came that you're just speaking of came from Michelle to us yeah okay and I think our hope and having this to where you say like yeah we're interested in the projects that we've got listed tonight is that he can start to Unleash the Beast and get with Melle and get it done and find that out because if we find out now that that's going to be the case then we still have time to take something that's in next year's uh five year or the year after and move that to this year and move this one back if we need to um but if we wait too long we we'll lose that ability so we're we're just kind of approving to move forward looking into I think what we're doing is we're going to move forward if we approve this as it's presented we're going to approve the fire system update and some are painting ler because those are under bid thresholds or under architect threshold I should say bid threshold but architect we can't approve the other on so it would be to approve those and then so I'm going to make a motion then I'm going to come back and make a second motion can can I add something to the discussion sure uh and I don't mean any disrespect to roelle but this gentleman that you've been talking to about the bleachers does he have an architect that he works with I don't know if he has an architect he works with no okay we don't have to use Rochelle we could get an estimate from her about what she thinks the design fee would be and then we could maybe look at someone else I think we' know pretty fast because I I'll set up a meeting with Michelle down at the bleachers themselves that be F and I think within within a couple weeks we'll know for sure I'll know for sure how far she's pushing well and I think yeah I think we need some more information of the but the part of the advantage of going with Rell is that they did all the design on the field anyway so there's there should be a lot of that work measurements are there and a lot of that stuff cuz we did look into it when we first they're not starting from scratch yeah okay that's that's a valid point so do we have that information from the football field we would have that information we would have the we would have the information when we initially looked into it I would assume they would have it or we would have it somewhere it got it got valued engineered really quickly right but sure Sur still somebody still has that so should probably some of the design time usually that's the case I'm going to make two motions so my first motion I'm going to make and we'll have to vote on these individually because you can't have two motions on the table at the same time is I move that we approve the fire system update and painting labor project for the summer projects as presented second okay we have a motion on a second to take care of the uh fire detection system and those other upgrades any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose say sign that motion carries Mr whis I'd also like to make a motion that the board approve basically U Mark and Aaron to move forward with getting more information and engage an architect for the design of the bleachers we read a motion I don't know but I'm just it's I think a motion is appropriate I mean I mean I make a motion that we we tentatively approve the home football bleacher Renovations project moving forward and engag in architect to see what we need to do in other words I want the board to say yes to the project but there's there's architecture that needs to be done and so unfortunately I'm trying to affirm and support the admin yeah I think we will we have to meet again with those bids though once we get them so so you could I because you have to do B right because we'll have to do the bid because it's over9 whatever it is I support Second motion to forward with more information we have a motion to look to move forward into procuring I make a motion to engage an architect to continue work on the home football wheach project got it that's your second any further discussion there none all those in favor signify by saying I oppos sign motion carries both next one approve the creation of a 4-day work 4-day week task force for the 26 27 school year so I I believe I've probably been about as open as I can be about my own personal feelings on on 40 week I'm I'm really not personally a big fan of it but I do feel that we have a number of families that have expressed um interest in that that I I think it's our responsibility to listen to our public and to to look into what our public thinks about these things and to to know what that looks like so what I'm proposing is that we adopt a traditional calend for next year in the next couple meetings uh I've already met with the calendar committee we've done some work to start getting that rolling um but that we spend a year um having a group and I've got kind of in the board packet here a general idea of what I'd like that group to look like so I'd like to have a couple board members uh if possible uh I'll I'll serve on it I've got a couple administrative reps um a variety of teachers some support staff a variety of parents from uh from the different LS and one or two community/ employer Representatives maybe somebody from P so we can talk about the impacts on our local um like child care for employees and what that what that looks like for people who are working in different jobs in our community um I I think that uh you know I I don't want to just recommend Things based on how I feel about it I want to make sure that I'm being responsive to what people are bringing to me um and being transparent uh in that process and I think to do this we can get some updates from this task force um I'd like to have them go out uh and interview some folks in some districts that are already doing a 4-day work week to see how it's impacted some of those things kind of the traditional concerns that come up our child care uh food insecurity does it have an impact on the academics of the school things of that nature so just really interviewing the people that are in that work and finding out how it's gone trying to dig through you know there's a lot of like Happy Shiny faces on these things sometimes it's all rose-colored glasses really trying to see what the reality is to see how the how the challenges were dealt with and what it did for a school district and giving our public at large the opportunity to share hopefully in a couple um Town Hall style events next fall uh to kind of share their feelings on this and see if the parents in our district are truly interested in this um not saying I'm advocating one way or the other just really giving us the opportunity to listen in and see what people have to say we've talked at this table a few times about how some people have shared that a 4day week uh has driven some open enrollment out um you know this kind of gives us the chance to see if if that's true when the I don't know rubber meets the road or whatever you have to say for that um you know is it is it truly that or is that a thing to say um and we can dig this out so looking at a handful of time these people go out do some interviewing do some uh town halls and and learn from our community a little bit so not committing to a 4day week not saying we're going to do a 4day week just saying we're going to we would dig up the information to find out if it is right for us or not like I guess where you spoke before maybe an email what I think it's important I have my own reservations about a 4 day week but I think it's important to to when doing this research look for like districts yeah not you know maybe our neor were ones that are a lot smaller um there's like size districts US economic I think again we all have our opinions on it and that's not the point of this but yeah I think we got to look into it I mean know I I'll be honest I had questions both ways um you know the comments I've heard are please don't ever do it I've heard some of that too I've heard some I think we we owe it to to everybody involved to to do this and I I like I like the structure of this and and not just you know jumping head first into it I guess I kind of think about the districts that have done this like size you know I'm sure you know the idea is to save money I'm sure but so generally the the financial because I think maybe early on when some small schools in some states started to do that maybe they said that anybody you talk to in our state that's changed over has said they really haven't realized any savings uh it was more staff recruitment it was uh parents that wanted to have three-day weekends with kids I try to stay away from my kids as much as I but uh it's saf yeah yeah it is but like the family time thing I don't think have a lot of time with family and um so the financial savings has been pretty minuscule you save a little bit on like bus transportation costs so fuel um for that last day but generally most of the districts have done enough with salaries that they're not cutting somebody's pay from the year before to that first year uh which I think would be the right thing to do in our case too we have enough time finding the right people we don't want to send anybody away because we cut 20% of somebody's pay in a year so we we plan to I would plan to recommend doing the same what is the state thought about this the legisl there was some grumbling um going into this session that there were some uh lawmakers who had some concerns about the 4 day week out there um I've yet to hear we're kind of in that phase uh Larry sigle said this at the budget worksh we were at today this is kind of that everybody puts out their crazy bills time of year where every individual con Congressman or Senator or whatever can put out their own personal bills and you see some weird off-the-wall things nothing's come out on that yet from anybody so I'm going to guess that means that the stomach for it isn't really there I also know there's some people really on the opposition side of taking away that local control too um you know a lot of people who are saying if we want schools to compete then we need to give them the tools to be able to compete and uh one of those is using a calendar that they feel meets their community's needs so I won't say that it never happened because Missouri did two studies on it uh fairly recently um and that's kind of the big study that people are referring to a lot now they've gotten a significant number of schools on 4N week in Missour in it kind of kind of spread from small schools out to bigger schools there and we're just at the beginning of that turning point right now in Iowa uh sadell adopted last year I think it was Cardinal adopted just a few years ago they're a little a little bit smaller than us but our conference school um you're starting to see more of the 2A 3A schools get into the game a little bit cinal not even the same socioeconomic classes yeah there's some differences there's some big differences and I think what we're going to have to do to find a a school that's similar to us for people to visit we're going to have to look at one school probably for size one school for socio economic status we're going to have to piece it together a little bit um there are so many differences between the iOS system and the Missouri system that I think it probably doesn't move us to look at much out of Missouri except for maybe some of the like daycare things and things of that nature but uh probably Iowa schools for the most part to look at if that helps I I hope that was the right answer to the question sorry no I think it's good to think i' make a motion to approve the creation of 4 day week task force for 2627 school year a second motion and a second any further discussion I just go out in on that and say that I would definitely volunteer to be one of the board directs on that thank you as well any other discussion D we have a motion to create the 4 day week task force all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos say sign motion carries thank you we are ready for the director reports who goes first well let's start with directors so Mike do you want to be the first one up can I just sit right here I'm looking at the back of this chair um Mar for tonight I think this is something I bring up every single time but I feel like I need to go in depth on this the situation with our how many drivers we have is currently probably the worst I've seen it in the last eight years um the one sub that I could call a sideline is a medical issue for an unknown amount of time um leaving just myself to be able to substitute drive with someone was gone which has been a lot this year um today I calculated I think is the 94th day of school I've had 73 absences um that's not including that's people being sick flex days breathing I mean variety of absences That's not including the 52 bus activities that we've had so far this year so not only maybe someone gone we also have to build those as well um I have some very dedicated drivers I'm not say I'm not saying that I don't I I have several that feel like they can't miss work because they feel that kids are at risk of not getting to school and that that's really the situation we're going to be in um it could happen tomorrow I mean I'm just being real with you guys um I want to be as transpar as I can transparent as I can about how serious this is getting I know we've had discussions and I mean we've advertised but to no avail um we have 10 routes per day I've trimmed these routes down to I mean they can't be combined we have to go as far as um you know 8 10 miles Southeast of X line all the way to South for so I mean we got a lot of ground to cover um the average age of my drivers is 61 years old many of them have elderly parents they have older spouses you know they have medical problem problems themselves they may need miss work um you know things could happen at any time um I myself have been driving almost every day and every night I know I have for the last three and a half weeks I don't mind driving it's not that I don't want to be in the bus but it's you know that means that I'm out on the road there's no one at the shop so we have an emergency you know I could be at South Fork and we could have a kid you know we could have something happen South back line I'm 50 minutes away we got kids sit along side of the road it's it's cold out luckily it hasn't snowed um that's just a few of my concerns um it's the only recommendation I have for you guys is I talked to other districts you know some are in the same situations as us some are significantly better the ones that are significantly better require other support staff employees to give certification and that that's trly what I need I need somebody that somebody several two or three people ideally four I mean 10 I mean as many as I can get but I need somebody that I can call and say hey I got to have you here I'm only one person I can one drive one bus at once so I don't want to get in this place where I have to call parents and say we can't get your kids to school today um we got the equipment to do it we just need to are you saying some districts are mandated county is but that's because they have the trainer in house so they can train them for free I you little schools out like I try not to use them and I wasn't asking for District's name I'm just more of they're mandating support staff to get bus drivers yeah they do I they don't have any problems and pop across to the bus barn get a training yeah and I'm I'm I'm not against being able to train anybody I'm I guess I just have to have somebody to train first I'm just thinking more of human resource side of mandated an employee to take that responsibility on that's where I was actually and Kevin I I can't speak to that all I know is they that's how they've solved it I'm not sure how they've done would it be worth putting something out to to our support staff and yeah and actually we have two coaches that just got their or they're getting their endorsement uh they just got their um officials but they're now going to get bus driving for next year too so that's another group we're working with um this was a topic of conversation not so much on the route side but trying to take the activities off the route folks a little bit um at the SEC superintendent meeting we all talked about uh who all is paying coaches drive time for driving events and that's something that I think we would be wise to do as soon as we get one or two trained um so generally the consensus was pay them for the drive time there not the sit time because they're on the clock as a coach during that time and the drive time back um so that is one one tool that we can use and I think we've got some interested in that uh somebody at the middle school I think wasn't it yeah okay there you go he's he's going to be licensed soon but I'm honestly Athletics at this point are in the back of my mind as far as that because we're just so close I mean I like I said it can be tomorrow we don't have enough guys to get bu they to school that's I need somebody to call and said hey I got to have some help today and ideally it's somebody that works in the district so let's just say one of our other employees is called upon to drive the bus would they be paid as a bus driver or would they just be paid sub they would have a separate contract how would that how would that compare what they're getting paid well for associates it could be a good jump up some yeah um but I'm I'm not trying to single out any group of people I'm just saying some option there are some districts and I I would be open to this effect I talked to a few for this for teachers if we could we could get to the point where we could do the pay to sub a period for somebody on their planning period for a teacher go drive if we needed to St that last period um so I think we're open to any Employment Group getting it and finding a solution to that and we've had some conversations with some individuals to try to encourage so um I think that's the trick we just have to be as proactive as we can be with that and um really stay on encouraging people what's the report time of the morning it it really depends on their Outcast anywhere from 6 to I mean this here probably be there about 5304 anywhere from there till 6:30 probably 6:30 is it the money the early report time that keeps recruitment I think it's the I think it's the fact that there aren't a lot of bodies I mean everybody's looking for workers I can't I don't know I can't Pino what it is three Associates I think right Brian you've got a couple a few associate spots you're looking forward to yeah I'm actually a decent Associates I I don't I can't speak for busting I thought it was busting is hard to isn't hard to get the certification I know that was but it was it for someone for someone that I I didn't have any any CDL um it was a pain in the butt I heard it's difficult it was it was I remember that and it's it's nothing it's what the state and the FED have done yeah yeah so um do you think it would have been different if you to do the week long Mason City versus I did the Mas City and that was for me that was the best option okay it it's only two days that's another the CH so this challenge like you talk about how long it took for you got to take off work again if it's someone that's in the district obviously we can work like Mark I think went over on a PD day and was able to do the training that he needed he didn't have to worry about going to his right job right and that that was the that was a tough thing for for me having a fulltime job is like where when to meet the city they don't give you you can't say hey I want to come this day they they say no you're coming this day and then to try to figure it out now there other are there's there's more programs that have popped the state now but um it that's the for you it worked best and the price is also considerably better right but like Mark already has a class ACL so his training is considerably less than what you had to go through y so that does help um do we pay pay for the training yes yeah yeah and that was that was we had to get that corrected we approved a board policy anday package long time ago well we approved how we're going to pay some fees and um kind of upfront some of the background checking so that people don't have to pay being reimbursed that we know some if we know some younger retirees you know that seems like all to try to work on them couple people that I know right now that our younger retirees and they might want to do it or at least I would be willing to ask them I think one right now I'll see yeah cuz they you know you got some retirees working right sure yeah I said average age of my gy is 61 years old so I'm thing they're not going to be around forever they're going to have medical issues 61 I just feel it's my responsibility to try to bring to life so you guys aren't bombarded some so another question is if you got a driver that comes in this is where I going comes in 6:00 in the morning and now they have an activity that's going to be at they're going to drive few hours away they're not going to get home till 10:00 then they're got to come back at 6 long that's a long day time what if you if you had more activity drivers would that help or do these drivers like to the extra trips that that's a touchy subject because my drivers I have several of them that like the extra money to do the activities the problem with that being someone has to drive their bus while they're gone cuz most of these leave before the their bus RS over so let's say you're a bus driver and you're going to Cardinal tonight for a basketball game and you're leaving at 3:00 well at 3:00 you're supposed to be driving your bus so somebody's got drive so would be me and if Brian's a bus driver and he's sick today or out of but to what you're saying if there were somebody who said I can can only drive afternoon that's where I'm going what if you have somebody says hey I'll do Subs just in the afternoon that's all I need I mean that not all I need that would make it 75% better okay cuz I'm just thinking how do you go out and do recruiting pitches like hey if you don't want to get up at at this point K they say I want to work one day a week I'm let work one week what I'm try to figure out is how do you get the message up if you say well everyone's situation is different and the worst part about bus driving time of day it's early in the morning in the middle of the day cuz quite frankly I got up at 5:00 in the morning for 40 years I'm kind of tired of that and so you know honestly it's it is I did that for 40 years and but the thought of doing a activity or an afternoon route that changes a little bit for somebody who those of us who are 61 or about to turn 61 that maybe you just want to do an afternoon it might be it might be a way to recruit people if we get if that's a need and that's a solution I think one of I guess cuz I tried to get people come on to and you know told them hey I enjoy it I have a great time doing it yeah I think one of the biggest to me when I talk to people about it one of the biggest obstacles is people don't that I talked to don't know really the procedure on how where to start how to do everything so I think I think as a district are you talking as far as getting trained or just so taking the test oh getting the license doing the medical doing then going and get the trainings and the online stuff and I think if there was if there was maybe a way if there and I could I'll get them through all that I I just need somebody to come to me and say I'm interested and I'll lock on to think I think they're just so confused that they don't even know where to stop right that's and I think and that's understandable because it's a lot as a district if we could maybe somehow streamline that and make it put it as a better package Mike I'd like to get with Jared who does a lot of great work with ca for our our Facebook and uh if the two of you pop together at CA kind of here's the steps you need to take here's you contact for that we can blast it on Facebook once a month that way and make sure we're encouraging I think that'd be proactive yeah I think I think it's just a matter of first off like when I it was scary right cuz I didn't know anything about it and I think that getting over that threshold for some of the people that were like hey yeah I thought about that but so they know the steps if somebody's had a CDL in the past that doesn't help you have to have the CDL yeah okay so the next only way that [Music] has I laugh so long ago yeah I left something laughs in so another question that is how hard is it to learn the rest cuz that's something I think about as a Subs like oh my gosh how do you learn the routes where kids get on kids get off honestly I had guys that you can hand a sheet of paper to and they they never have to ride on the route and they can just go do it like myself I've Liv Grand my whole life I know where everybody live I mean the kids where do you stop for each kid that's kind of what I'm thinking is I have I have turn by turn directions of everything and and stoping at this house number and stop with that yeah it' be a little like I said if you say Brian only lived here for 6 months and he doesn't know where you know that's the challenge of some people if they haven't lived around here it's CL for them so I think that's probably one of our challenges we need to figure out how to accommodate for people because we can't make this a place where only people who lived around here for a long time can do it well I mean we got a live television audience right now so just trying to bring up that if somebody's out there to do it there's afternoon routes available see not to get up in the morning there's turn by turn directions we'll walk you through the training process and we got sheets say stop at this house Absolutely I'll let anybody ride on a route as long as need to learn what I always have I never C the days I've heard districts they say you only go one time and then we feed you to the walls that's absolutely not going to turn anybody Lo something doing just for land I love every minute of bus driving seriously it is so much fun and really Mike has a Stig yeah there times I've gotten off a bus and was mad but n 90 times out I'd say 95 times out of 100 you're not yeah it's I I've enjoyed every trip I've taken you know I obviously only do the trips but it's oh so you're taking all the long all the activity no I when they can't do it if I'm available I'll it is but I just feel that it's you know I just want you guys to be aware you feel it's I feel like you need to know what the reality this and we're I don't want you to feel like we're the only ones cuz obviously we're not I C around the street from time to time and every Town's got in Missouri too so Mike correct me if I'm wrong but I was at a ball game earlier this year and the bus driver he' gotten a call I think maybe somebody had quit or not quit called in or done something and he was trying to get it into the schedule where he could dump kids at like Cardinal Drive over to another school drop a kid some wrestling kids off so he was making a big we've actually done that big but that that's the work ordinate it that way absolutely but I mean I I seen I didn't realize we were having to do things we did that t to transport middle school kids didn't we Mike yeah I mean it's and we didn't even take the whole team because we didn't have room for them there's a good example we're with like I said I'm not trying to we are but there's there's drivers going above and beyond oh yeah and somebody director probably getting sting there scratching his head like I do tring how can we do this with this amount of people one more question I have when someone is taking the training are they being paid yes that's why PID training means that cor yeah you did but what I'm saying is if we went some of our other employees whoever they might be until then we are going to pay you bus driver wages to go to the training and then when we call you we'll pay you bus D wages we've done quite a bit of that with individual employees and whenever before all this elt stuffs happened and we were able to train our own drivers yes they were paid but it was also a lot less training because a lot less training was required but they were still PID yeah so we've done blanket statements we've done individual conversations to this point and we're going to keep doing them trans I think it's it's important for people to know too that if we don't have the bus drivers you know number one first and foremost there's a possibility that we're not going to have people get their kids to school number two we may not get our Athletics and activities where they need to be and that's just the fact and we need people to sign up exactly you just said everything I worry about it is that Ian well we're required from whatever the certain mileage is to get kids to school and from from school back we do we do slightly we do better than that right now yeah we actually our board policy I think is is it two miles yeah we're we're we're more generous by a mile than state law I know so but what what if we say hey we can't have we can't do this route today what's Our obligation there I think the bigger trick is you if if it would continue long term we need to look at maybe taking our board policy to the state law and only transporting those the state law requires in order to cut I mean we have I have one route that's strictly in town in Centerville which you know po per boid policy we could just not transport those kids anymore which I don't want to do I think that'll hurt our absenteeism right well and not not only that is a lot of them live on the east side of Center where they have to cross a major highway with no crosswalk you get the school it's not safe but you know per our policy the people that are interested in bus driving and then they lose interest or don't want to do it what is their main reason can't say is it are they afraid of the kids being bad and stuff I can't say that I've had anybody come in that was interested and just not get somebody there pull through usually if you are lucky enough to get somebody they go can teachers drive a school bus yeah I mean once they're licensed yeah once they're licensed so they can pick up the kids Mike I have a friend who lives in a neighboring District his wife is a teacher she drives a bus every morning and every night they built a brand new house that's yeah I mean I I think we need to pull out all the stops here I mean whatever whatever idea you come up with let's try right here yeah I like I said I'm not I wasn't com here I was I just want you guys to be aware of the sity I'm not I'm not no I think you're it's and that's my reason for asking the question is what can we how can we better understand as a board and what can we do to come up the solutions like I didn't realize that you could use just some ACT Doom r r rers i see I didn't know that yeah so I I think you know that's part of the marketing you know what the advertis that actually Chang my mind a little bit yeah what's been done tonight maybe we can get an article in the pitch to have them come in since they're listening too have you talk to them superr set a bus up in the parking lot driver yeah seriously I I I think I think by it would have made me feel more comfortable going into the process if I could have gone down and hey I'm interested and we have you there people that can talk about the process you can actually see the bus you can get on the bus you know what's going on with it and like well I not that scary dri mean I used to drive D trucks and stuff but the school bus when I thinking about it I was like lot easier to drive when you thought yeah yeah so even like driving around the parking lot yeah but you know the dump d was EAS you toload oh [Laughter] yeah I think something like that you know at Lake you parking lot or whatever would be I think we could also reach out to the par organization they've got a lot of we need to get the word out that's good plan that's good let me know what do on it okay I'll say myself I I probably need to be proactive but not making excuses but when you're driving a bus every day and trying to do this and that and other you just focus on getting through the day and getting your job done that's that's really what it's been lately well that's not where we need you we need you with the top not down in in the bus like I said didn't tell to complain I just want everybody to be aware we're in desperation you need to bring us message so right guys thank you thanks will you follow up with us in the month yep sure will okay what dat is that is that be if you're not driv hope you can zoom up all right who's next let's have he go um let see it's some in your in the report I got the balance um we're still negative in that 40,800 um working on working with families to um set up payments work with them somehow to get those paid we have received some donations um um that we're very grateful um I got a call last week that we may receive another one comes the end of February um the emails system seems to be working people seem to be more regular with with staying on top of that um we're I've come across a couple options that may be uh something we can use through the state to um offer uh to our to our families um to help reduce some of the costs of the Food Service um so I'm working with our state um contact to see if those are feasible for us as soon as I know for sure if they will I'll let you know so how how far back to some of the step go um what I'm seeing is that a lot of it it goes back um probably a good 3 years um there's um and and I don't know the reason um but there's the accounts that are the most INB tend to go back two to three years or either they fell off um um are being reduced status um you know we had the the year that everybody received free meals regardless over Co um so it's just been hard to get them back on um and and when you know when get that far behind on stuff it's it's hard to make can you talk to the legislature see if they have any proposals that they could help us that's what our legislatures are for I have not been IED that I would do that there hasn't been anything substantial on that issue that's come out yet probably not but what kind of legislative solution are you looking for well some states give more free lunches some states everybody has a free lunch we're not going to do that in Iowa I'm sure of that but I'm sure there could be some kind of helps with people you know you have your your status where they get their free lunch they could raise that limit up a bit well I'm just thinking what Mr Taylor said about they get all the wacky bills in at this time of the year and if that one's not in there it's probably not going to happen this year those are well they still have time to get aack guidelines on the the amount of money so it's not just for it's not Iowa's guidelines for if you qualify it's Federal so the states that do because there are a few states that do free lunch for all students they chip in state money from the state we what did lar tell us today we're going to spend anywhere from 400,000 to 1.6 or four yeah 400,000 to 1.6 million of the state no that we were in millions and billions weren't we deficit spending this year as a state so uh I think it was millions and billions at that point um the the the column moves over a few when it's the state versus our local um so we're already kind of deficit spending this year they're deficit spending this year they have a tremendous amount of yeah is there is there yeah reserves reserves tremendous are are do you see any of those accounts for kids that are no longer with our district yes yes okay is there any recourse as far as uh party to recoup that money we we like I've been doing so far um contacting them to collect on it uh if we try that without any success then we can go to something small claims court uh collections um the districts I've talked with um uh balances that are less that are netive less than $1,000 is not usually financially worth going after those um I guess but but we can I guess I didn't know if there was a you know how we used the third party for the Medicare Medicaid stuff like that I didn't know if there's any third party for you know not that are super popular at least that you know secret but a lot of people are dealing with what Kate's talking about this is a pretty big topic among superintendents right now too um I think the co free meals really did that because katees right in a lot of districts people didn't remember to fill out you know if they weren't a person whose direct C they weren't remembering to fill out after the free meals were up and they were still just racking up that so so I guess I don't want this to sound the wrong way but like for kids that graduated right okay and I thought we had it to where all fees had to be paid in order to wa um we can't do that you can't do that told that's a good that but we can't wow okay you know can't for business we know the colle can be really difficult a lot of times people do not pay until they need credit then they decide to pay and so there's some that you'll get that way and some you and that only is effective if you are a company that's going to go after them for that debt right now the debt that's on their accounts now is not being reported to yeah it has you have to have some company do yeah do it for you and that's not pleasant for a kid I don't know well I don't think we want to report people credit the so unfortunately we do have a few people who Kate has Kate I think I might nominate for saood I don't know she's had some conversations with some people with some pretty high numbers who when she calls and says you know we can work out a payment plan we can she's like the nicest person dealing with people helping them out with it and a lot of times they dra all back well too bad I'm still going to keep racking up the de and there's nothing you can do about it um and we don't want to cut kids off we don't do that we don't tell them they can't eat we don't offer Alternatives which is the right thing to do um one of the things I'm looking into is and I haven't even talked had a chance to talk to Mark L about it um there's this very slight possibility that we could um offer reduced price qualification um a better benefit I'm still waiting to hear back from the state um she's dug into the deep dive on what we can do the state uh if you've heard of c i we both Mark and I have looked into that that's where everybody can receive free meals the problem with C is that it is based on Direct certification it is not based on the amount of people who apply for free r if they apply for it and and are granted for your reduced meals because of their income level that doesn't count for CDP so it's only those who are direct certified from the state and right now our numbers on Direct certification don't put us in a good spot to be able to offer that at this point so that's how years been in yeah your directt is high enough they they actually have a calculator on their website that we kind of played with a little bit to figure out where our direct Ser need to be and we're still just a ways off so from a financial standpoint how long can we continue I mean what do we what do we do I mean our fund actually still is a positive fund um so our our fund is in really good shape still and continues to to be in the in the black each year for Food Service um just our our paid number so I guess as soon as that paid number would eat up our fund which I think is a pretty darn large balance raise prices for the students that do p that was just a math St the the reimbursement for rate gets increases as well that would help that would help a lot yeah well folks it's it's kind of comes down to a real business decision here if you're not willing to have some sort of penalty for not paying your bill that you're going to eat it it's just that simple I can call them every week and tell them that they're negative but if nothing if there's no repercussions for them not paying and nobody wants to make it hard on the family you know we no but it it reaches a point where are we responsible to them or to the rest of the world is what it comes down to doesn't it and that threshold for a lot of districts as we've been told is about $1,000 that's why it becomes not nonsensical to to go after it the way that the only way you're really allowed to go after it but be honest with you my my experience of small claims cour is small results okay just because you get a judgment doesn't mean you're going to get money does not guarantee that at all that's fair okay so you can go you can jump through all those Hoops you want still doesn't mean you're going to get any money u i you either like I said you're either going to eat this or you're going to figure out some consequence for not paying so if you're not willing to explore consequence you're just going to eat it I think we have to think about how far we can feel comfortable no the alternative de isn't something you're really supposed to do anymore from the state standpoint what I don't know if you're not allowed to it's certainly discouraged it is very discouraging I guess you should child for something that they have no control over that you know that and no one wants to put that kid in that situation I was that kid once well you the kid not situation it's the parent right but by offering an alternative you know that's Fe theed for the not pay we're not going to do that we're not going to do that so how do you penalize the parent that seems to be a limited option too yeah I would say keep digging digging doing business unfortunately yeah kind of what it looks like yeah I mean we're definitely not the only District out there yeah so what we need isome we need the state feds to step in recognize how big of an issue this is nation wide and actually Dr so then the option is you raise the price of lunch then you're penalizing the people to pay it is but that's the way it is in business fund continues to raise so we continue to be in the black each year individually and we already have fund balance so right now we're not actually losing money it's just that we have on our books negative accounts that we hear about every audit um I think this needs to be something that we need to try to get with contacts ATB as well as C and try to get that on a stage that's actually going to have a little bit of influence I mean we here and talk about it all night long just like I can walk in my chair but it's not it's not going to get us anywhere it's fun to do well we say who's the next director uh let's see it would be Cameron i' got not much for you October uh Christmas break I replaced our Network stack so our core switch basically where our internet comes in and shoots out to all the other schools we brand new on that so that's really exciting to my world and just fix everything that breaks it comes to me and keep it up on all that just make sure they submit a ticket right send me an email tell me about eorts uh we're two and two right now for this season so we still have a shot of State for OverWatch 2 and numbers a little smaller than last season but that fluctuates all throughout the year so kids just do different sports and kind of get what they're not do hopefully next season which will start in about a month and a half I don't know if we're playing Mario Kart or valerant but with will ideally see a few more kids I've got like eight right now I'd like to see about 12 it's nice to have you know double digits in there and we just received an open enrollment in request for next year where Esports was one of the interesting areas for this child wow all walks Alik for there yeah good recruting yeah very good um I don't have a whole lot for you today just like Cameron stuff breaks I fix it but but on top of that um a little bit of a construction I mean we're about 99.5 6 7% there um never going to get to 100 but we'll get there eventually um recently I created a uh Google Sheets document and sent this out to every subcontractor that way everyone can stay on top of the issues that we still have um over the last several weeks I've uh walked around with bate several times um just getting upd on the uh remaining punch list items and just making sure that they are resolved um construction's kind of that's kind of where we're at right now with that they're just just a bunch of punch list items um a few things on that North Door still need to be resolved but we're getting there um buildings and grounds um over winter break at the preschool we started changing Outlets to Tamper resistant um and we'll continue this as time allows um today we actually um installed radon test kits at Lake View preschool and admin um the new uh State wall requires all educational facilities be tested for Radon every 5 years uh the high school and middle school will be tested next winter um and something new I came up within the last couple weeks um I'm in the early planning stages I'm going to do a few small renovation additions to the preschool kitchen is something I came up with that I saw that needs to be updated a little bit more um nothing too big nothing extravagant that actually needs to come to the board or anything just changing a few things out here and there just to make it make it better for that group preschool kind of gets forgotten about sometimes it does except for today so we're working on it we got I'm also working with the PTO they asked me to uh they're going to continue doing grants every year kind of like they did for this fence out here there's a couple of things that they sent to me um a couple of things I took off their list I'm like oh we can do that for you or this or that and um but one thing they want to raise funds for is a a shade structure out in the playground um so I'm working on getting estimates for that for them um because usually a school district that contacts those people gets a better deal than just a normal person does um the new playground I don't know if you noticed the new playground structures were just installed over the weekend um out there this late spring early summer we will reconstruct the wood chips out there and make it a little bit better um with adding in and tearing out old it kind of disturbs and wood chips a little bit better so we'll we'll pretty it up and make it look nice for next year that's about all I have um yeah most of my stuff within the report we are kind of we just changed semesters and our attendance kind of resets um I clarified with the county attorney families that we had referred if at the 10% threshold if they did not reach 15% they reset also if they've reached 15% we have a have to have a a family engagement meeting and those will continue for the rest of the year so um lu we didn't have a lot of those probably 6 eight in the district that reached 15% on um the referral number uh we did get thanks to Emily Co actually worked hard with power school and um people to State we got Panorama our data is right we can it's it's accurate now so we can kind of look at it I know Mr Taylor we have some questions we were talking a little bit it's really not an Apples to Apples kind of comparison on numbers we have to report to the state what they're looking at and then what we're looking at according to the new law because like the state doesn't see anything as exempt if you're gone you're just gone and that so that's the number we got to report where we're really focusing on kids that are gone without a good reason um like your medical excuses and you're being an activity things like that so we'll still look to uh clear that up a little bit um that little thing if you see any legislators I know this I know they're going to work on this law the certified mail piece like what a what a family reaches 10% or student reaches 10% we have to send a certified letter to them which is some expense and I've heard horror stories about what some districts are paying have paid first semester in mail bills and and the number of them that get returned unclaimed um I've heard several different times that they're going to clean that up so if you would if you know anybody you might want to mention that that is kind of a that's a kind of a burden on the school that probably shouldn't be there um I think just a regular letter phone call probably work would work just as well as a certified letter um one of the things you know my other job I do spend a lot of Saturdays or Thursday nights in other schools now um one thing I always look at is when they have their attendance they to post it and I will tell you we are we're pretty pretty typical with about everybody um of what our daily attendance on that chart that I showed you um so I think everybody's kind of battling the same and everybody seems to be doing same kind of stuff for it and then the last thing I have and I know Jared's not here but I would like to really give him a shout out that girls wrestling meet that we had Thursday night I've been to a lot of wrestling meets and he did some stuff that I'd never seen before that was really neat and I thought it was it was good for all the girls that really started out small had a couple teams say we want to get some matches and then more teams kept coming and we told him yeah so we ended up having a full-on tournament um we were really expecting and it ran well and you know he got all the girls to take a picture before um if you've ever been to a dual meet you know they announced the wrestlers head-to-head I've never seen anybody do it in a tournament and after I saw it I thought why don't we do this everywhere that was that was one of the neatest thing I've ever seen a tournament so that was that was really good on Jerry to do that that's all I have if you have any questions before we go to Julie who's kind of the transition from director to principal since she has a little bit of both um Jared's report is in the um board packet uh he talked about uh some uh a record in steals uh for Malai rice set in a game versus Davis County Adrian Howard scoring her 1,000th career uh point which is an amazing accomplishment um Addison tunnel set a girl single game record for steals in the game versus Knoxville and we've had two wrestlers who have reached their 100 career wins uh mat Jana and Brian Snider so lot of a lot of athletic success that he had to share with in his report this time around I do have a question on his report on the swimming it says the boys swimming wrapped up the regular season they'll compete in the districts then it goes on to say that we have a junior who's the sole representative CHS on the yeah that's right so does that mean that our swimming team that we're paying to coach for has one of our students and then the rest of the team is from other dists yep yep so we've talked a little bit actually Jared has done a lot of really good work and I feel like it's good he's not here cuz I had something in my report to give him kudos for so with Brad and I both saying good things about him I don't want to make his head H too big or anything so he did a lot of really good work to dig in with schools in the um in the state who have sharing agreements for swaying because it's there are not a lot of swim teams in the state school swim teams and uh found a model that's used actually a Tuma is one that's close that uses a model uh where schools pay in based on the percentage of the team that they have on the team so uh he's had some talks with some ads about that trying to make it where it's an equitable um cost uh we would probably still need to pay for the transportation but I guess that's what you get for getting to have the Jersey safe Center bille on it um just a a little bit uh tilted that direction but also we've talked about trying to recruit additional Centerville students for future years how that'd be important when when you think about our budget crunches that we've got you know we want to keep programs but we definitely want to keep programs that our kids are interested in so we're working to try to we're paying a head coach salary schedule for one student in other districts are over here and not financially contributing I not sure that's the smartest way to that's fair that's a good one yeah and and so we will continue to push on that if the board feels like that would be a good thing to to get out there and and recruit with and I think to speak to that talking about the idea of um I'm going to steal something from my report but it's okay I intend to work with um the Tomo radio group and uh go pitch on some advertising for the school highlighting the activities that we have that you don't necessarily get everywhere uh toed our own horn a little bit uh I've kind of always viewed the school district's advertising thing a little bit like I do politicians that like the mudsling and I uh and I just felt dirty about it but unfortunately everybody around us is advertising and doing like sponsored ads on Facebook and things like that so probably time that we get in the game and and and do our thing and and toot our horn on our awesome activities that we got for kids um so we have had many more athletes out for the swim team in the past I I mean we had a know well represented at one point is that would you say that Brad yeah I think we just lost undergraduation I think and just haven't had anybody fill in yeah well I think we've you know Jared's got a good he's had some great conversations with some coaches about how they can recruit kids into their into their program how we're going to be real proactive and trying to pull people in because when we talk about what we've decided as a board what's important having and activities is it gives them a connection to school right and sometimes your hesitant kids are kids that need you to say I need you in this program I need you to be involved in this and so he's he's really talking about those opportunities with with teams and we've had some people do a great job of of really making that happen uh we we had some boys come out for basketball that maybe had some challenges in the past um that uh were happy and and uh doing a good job in school because they wanted to they wanted to play and they wanted to impress their coach coach so um he's really pushing that approach um and I I think you know swimming is one we definitely want to see that happen for we have a senior next year so we'll get to get to have a senior night for our wonderful young man really great boy right he's amazing it's Kate's boy um so nice kid and hopefully we can get him some Centerville teammates to be on that team with them because you're right I mean at some point if we can't have a number of kids in it it's hard to justify the money yeah the other District yeah need to it would I don't even know yeah I'm going toe and say it would be really disappointed to learn that somebody open and rolled out to another district and then they came back here for swimming and they're not financially contributing to that and we've had I don't know if that's the case I we've had some requests this spring for other programs like that where somebody open and rolled out for specifically a 4day week um and wanted to come back and do activities with our our school um the last request we've gotten it wouldn't have even work to bring it to the board for the timelines for that sport um but there is currently a request for another Sport and I'm I'm not so sure just in conversations that it's wise for us to we're sending money out of the district for them to go to another district and I don't think we should be supplemented their activities without the district paying us something to provide that activity for that would that would help to know if that's kind of the general board consensus on that cuz then I would know what to do on that step but I mean it's it's that's fair and Equitable it is if they're going to accept our students out the money that flows with them then they should pay us for the activities if they're not to provide that feel pretty good to that I can work under that the whole open enrollment out then having back activities that's topic for another conversation because I think there's two two different conversation there I mean you have one just a program that they don't offer absolutely there need to be some buying but then let open roll out and want to come back yeah and swimming is kind of unique I mean I will say for swimming that if we can again you have to have a little skin in the game for your school and if we can't get the numbers St skin in the game for our school I couldn't even recommend it but typically most of those programs that are out there have some sharing with some some schools to make that happen but they usually will charge either a per student number so it's always going to be 150 bucks a kid or they'll charge a like that that model that I was talking about that Jared looked at that's kind of cool if we have 12 kids on the team well I'll say 10 to make it easy if we have 10 kids on the team and you have one kid on you're going to pay 10% of the cost so it's a fluctuating cost based on the size of the team and the number of students involved either models good because you can recoup some of that money back to to make it viable um but definitely something something going to keep on our our eye on as we go and not saying that I think there's any reason not to have a team next year by like I think we have to go into it with the idea there's there's a team and we're going to try to recruit and really push to do that we a senior and we've got and as a board we've always supported the the Athletics who want to who are changing districts and not penalizing the kid and I don't want to penalize a kid who wants to do an activity right but I think there's there's a cost sharing from a district yeah that needs to come back to us so so my comments are about cost sharing not about the kids themselves kind of a a a unique new situation with hope enrollment the state as what did I what did I hear from the governor's um Governor's condition of the state I think it was 90% of students in the state public school students in the state are open enrolled to a district other than the one that they would attend due to boundaries um I if it's eight and I'm wrong and somebody's playing around at home and playing alone at home and has that up I apologize might be 10 too I don't know something in that room so Amber white just reached out she subs for us at Howard and has a student there and you probably know that we worked closely together over years through PTO and that and she just said um she said she's not you know she's listening online whatever she said you know I had the state qualifier for the last two years we graduated three seniors last year next year she has three middle school kids coming up that will be on that high school team yeah pretty pretty dedicated kid she said I think a piece that would be beneficial is if people knew that the Alia School provided the transportation last season for the girls and the Alia booster club gave $1,000 to the program and the mavia booster club gave $1,000 for thank Amber for that information something we did that's she just said she's like I could share this yeah thanks for sharing that Amber no that money went probably to an a club account I'm going to guess so again that still doesn't recoup the call cost that we're talking about um so we still need to look at being fiscally responsible when we're talking about $400,000 in staff Cuts I think we have to acknowledge that our our general fund is different than our act than the boosters activity Club accounts you know that that's I appreciate her sending that information so who's next uh that would be Julie uh so I have the information there in my report I just um it's been a really awesome experience this last uh few weeks being part of the Sammy work at both how and middle or how middle school and at the high school um and just seeing the steps that have been taken this year already to create a better mtss um environment for our kids at those levels um it's something that is hard work and difficult and has been the works but just the progress that we've seen and just the time that we've um taken from the last time we did the Sammy at those buildings LS to now and and just uh the staff um conversations that we had and some things that we're ready to move on for um is is really exciting uh from a district perspective because we're all moving in the same direction and um really working towards making things better for kids um and that's all our toate goal so um the other thing is is uh the picture there of Ryan Wagner he's a first year teacher for us this year um really buys into the tww the writing Revolution that I talked about um and presented in front of his colleagues the other day so um we used his information at how as well so that's a really cool thing that a first year teacher wanted to do that was willing to put himself out there and was using the stuff um that we had presented so uh the the writing Revolution is going well um continuing to implement that in classrooms uh people that have done that across the state and Nation have seen a really impactful uh writing scores increase and things like that so we're excited to continue to see um how that goes uh lots of things happening and PD continuing to be planned and um getting each building what they need um is always a challenge but it's it's really cool to see the progress that is being made um preschool is going well thanks to Aaron for the new playground um the kids will be excited to be able to use it here soon um yeah just working away it's that time of year where you seem to have a l but really not so it's just really awesome to see the progress that's being made in the district this year already thank you ran all right um so I'll just hit a couple highlights for my report but my report's attached as well uh just want to highlight uh reading core numbers there got those from Susan Cole who does that reading core group just because of the way reading core Works they can only do the job for so long so we actually brought in um two additional people to the one we still had and they had shared these so I wanted to share that 97.8% of the kids that they work with mind me one of them had had exceeded their target so um the person that works with us and through Susan um was just super excited I saw the email was like you guys are doing a phenomenal job and um I did not have reading Corp in my previous District so this was new to me and Terry knows that they do wonderful work but just seeing the the amount of great work that they do um just want to make sure that was shared uh another just student achievement uh obviously our ultimate rule special education being that there is some gaps in student leing could be math could be Behavior could be reading uh we've had a lot of kids this year and I'm sure in the past as well but a lot of kids this year that um they they've met um and seeded and and met those gaps and and have graduated so to speak or have been able to get out of special education um in a certain area so just a lot of cele ation for that um that they you know they use numeracy project or theyve met their leading goals and so we've had a lot of those meeting really good meeting hey let's have a celebration it's a scary process too scary process for the parent scary process for the J teacher the kid special teacher hey what are we going to do so we're always coniss sense of hey we do a 45 day hour we want we don't want to leave the K with nothing so we're always making sure we think about that but it is a celebration to say that it doesn't matter if it takes two weeks or 12 years the ultimate goal is to fild them up with with the knowledge they need and then um graduate them out if we can uh and then looking at the programs and culture just wanted to update you do our lead Awards you guys probably see those on Facebook the kids take home their certificates um they also get post on the wall if you ever go to my building it's kind of cool thing to see I think um you will often see kids looking for their names or looking for kids to have names it's a pretty daily occurrence uh count of the other day we have over 240 certificates on that wall so at the end of the year we're going to get through everybody that they're all going to be there um so that'll be an exciting thing and and we see that a lot of times that kids are looking at that um had some good concerts if you got to see those we' got to see them virtually so we've had some good concerts with our wonderful staff um Susan Cole and Ally Brown always do a great job but I got to see it firsthand this year and they do a phenomenal job um my kids got to be in that as well and and then we had a fun time around Christmas so uh I was sick of hot chocolate by the end of that day uh but we served 500 cups of hot chocolate so we I think we were very tired of hot chocolate by the end uh but it was fun to do so had to S the kids and deliver that to them I will because Julie didn't mention so Julie I mentioned it for you um we got to do some PD and my staff was part of it uh catching kids Hearts um so uh Julie actually led us and we had um staff from all different buildings but I got to go as one of the administrators and I had two staff that went with me to De Mo uh to a two-day training on C kidsarts just to check out to see if there something we would possibly be interested in in the future um it's really a approach I I would call it approach um less of a curriculum and more of a I heard one District that uses it as like this is who we are this is this is how we hire people this is how we tell parents that we interact with people this is how we interact with kids and it was just a really good I got great feedback from my staff I think we we all did that this is something we could potentially look into in the future so um that was a great experience we just met last Friday with Mana Evans about letters and we're starting to because it's quite a process twoe process but we're starting to just hey let's F together and even if you haven't had a chance to really Implement anything yet let's just talk about how implement it and it was a full day meeting with all the staff from different grades and I thought it was pretty good day we had had great feedback um so that was really good uh Ethan grah so one of Jenny kidos at high school okay Ethan gr one of uh Jenny kids at the high school he's a high school sen senior he did our GaGa ball pit which is in the back of Lake you and um he did that through an eagle scout his Eagle Scout project he actually uh invited me his Eagle Scout um and I'm not a scout but oh Bor with you ceremony yeah um it was great to hear you know I've seen him out he always shakes my hands if I see him at hiy if I see him out playing in the band or just a just a great great kid but it was an awesome thing for him to do and then with some of the money that he gained he actually gave us a plaque that's hanging L you now too what is a GaGa ball yeah yeah so I'm not a GaGa ball pit expert like my son would be but it is a game it's similar in some ways I guess you would say between kickball and dogeball like that that would be like my explanation it's not very good so is there something inside or out it's well it could be inside but a lot of times it's outside in a that's where they play if you watch a video it is quite interesting page match kickball yeah so our our our teachers are are have a lesson playing for the kids and stuff to kind of go over with them but it is just supposed to be out there that they can play it so this the pickle ball oh like in it's and its popularity yes it is quite it is becoming quite popular yeah it's becoming quite popular and then the last couple things just highlighting some of our PTO things they took on the festival lights and got some great donations that will vot to our staff and our kids um it was also incredible to see they do a Giving Tree I think they've done this in the past um a new experience for me and that was something that was just believe everything was taken and just a way for teachers to get things for their classroom and then I also posted this on Facebook but this is a state of Iowa thing the state of Iowa decided to give these just right readers um it's a set of two different sets of books three different levels so like a high medium low to every first grer so we sent those all out to parents and just a I mean a great resource um for parents to have at home so that did come from the state so I will highlight something great that they've done and um just giving them um some reading that they can do at home so that was a good thing um I I I'm GNA taper off of Brian for just a minute I um shared with our Lake View staff I'll tell you what the work that is being done below us is only making our students stronger come into us we did the screener for our sixth seventh and eighth grade kids in fast bridge and I remember years back when Mary Dudley had left Lake and went to Howard and she would say to our teachers our title teachers like you guys I wish you could screen this the middle school kids because you're going to see it all coming together and um you know I'll tell you what we in the fall our seventh and eighth grade kids both classes we have 41 kids that were not where they needed to be and it was phonics and fluency so in winter you know we're like well we've been teaching now for 18 weeks in Winter we have 41 kids and so in the old days the old days we would be like well we'll just read more but that's not the way we do business in our district so now we screen Down Deeper I ran down today and bugged a couple of the title teachers and um you know she said we have kids who are learning seventh and eighth grade core content material that are testing at a first and second grade phonics level so it's not that they don't know how to read it's just that it's so much harder for them because they're still identifying letter sounds in that so what you know the good news is it's only in our seventh and eighth grade because of all the things we've done in the past our sixth graders have had those they've had the full-time interventions they've had the foundations in the class they they've had all that so just really excited about that that I feel like kind of down the road now we can see the impact that the work those guys are doing at Lake View and how impacting it is so so we're um gonna do one more screen again tomorrow cage and I and Jen Ben have been working on that today and um and we feel like we'll have those kids identified now and during that intervention time we're going to break them into groups and they are going to get a pretty intense bonic instruction for the next 18 weeks to see if we can't truly pack their bags better so that when they leave how they're better equipped there above us but um I I need to get an email to theay you staff because I said it to our staff I'm like guys if you can't look at this and see here's what who didn't have it here's who didn't have it here's who did like the data just outshined our sixth grade kids they were spoton because they've had three years of that process and you know it's just the age of where our kids were it's the co Gap and some of that so kudos to to what the staff is doing there at Lake View and and you probably saw my report all I could say is great things about the Middle School St St because you know we we um Mark filled in for me last week when I was out and I have a note on my desk that says you know build consensus and then there's a Bible verse about going the pace you should go which I tend to be somebody who goes too fast if somebody said we were going to address the grading practices at Howard this year and the rebuild an intervention program I think Mark would have been like Terry that's too much in the first year but you knew who brought it to me was the teachers when we were talking talking after the first quarter about the number of failing students the number of students not doing homework the number of students not retaking tests it just came out of a conversation and many of them were like we don't really believe in this it's just something we've been doing for you know five or six years and I'm like well then why are we doing it and they're like we thought you were like I'm like I don't even know what we're doing honestly because I haven't even had the training you've all had on standard based so we you know I shared that with you we really reviewed that and revitalized that our kids are on board our staff's on board I feel like our families are on board because they know that it's just in these 5 days I don't have to look back and remember for two units or two months or three quarter you know three three nwe periods here so I just couldn't say enough good things about the staff because honest to God that's where the power is coming if they weren't willing to do all that there is no way we would be doing what we're doing and um I shared in there with you my Guy stel Vander Lyon's um giving up some different time the way he's working things our special ed teachers I mean a special ed teacher said in a meeting not very long ago she's like I feel bad for my kids that get specially designed instruction during this time because she said who in this building do you think is going to teach them about slope and math as good as the math teacher and I'm like yeah I don't know she said that's why we got to make our schedules work so that my students with IEPs get intervention with the highest qualified math teacher in the building so here is my two special ed teachers who toally flip off their schedule this quarter so their kids can get specially design instruction and intervention in the classroom from their Math teachers so it's it's just really I know there's a lot of polyana in there the data I'm not loving the data we've got some attendance issues we've got some students who are failing some grades but we're also having conversations about you're not leaving not leaving us till you get it figured out but um I just can say enough few things about our staff and how hard they've worked to embrace the ntss work we've been doing like Julie said our our data showed that we we have um we have made some growth you know we still have room to go but but we've made some growth but the commitment and the mindset behind our staff is really coming to serve kids really well and I think our kids are going to start to feel that soon as their skill sets improve and they feel the confidence they get from that work okay so first of all my just oh yeah go ahead a question for Terry I'm sorry oh yeah no that's okay go ahead yeah Terry you made a comment and I saw it in your report you're not moving out of here till we get this figured out what does that mean for you well I'll tell you it's something that I didn't think I would ever say and Julie's probably I told Julie I wrote that in my report and I said it probably makes you nervous so what that means to me I'm just going to tell you um Mike Mike Moore was there the day this happened in our building um uh you know how the police department comes through and does our walkthroughs M so we had a situation where an officer that I didn't know very well at all was in the building one day for a situation that was pretty he observed was pretty difficult for a young person and he explained to the young person the way that I personally say who thought was really positive and then he shared that that student was emulating his life that this police officer had lived and so after the situation kind of got calmed down I just said to him hey do you mind sharing with the student and I his parent like how did how did things turn around for you in your life and he looked at us and he said I'll tell you what Bruce carpon said why would I send you to the high school when you haven't showed us that you are got what you need to be successful here as a middle school student with the amount of supports that we have here I I I can't keep doing this the behavior referrals the attendance referrals the lack of ownership in your own ability he's like this has to stop here and you need to show me that you can handle that before we say you're ready to go to the high school where there's less supports and more autonomy in seeking that so that really struck me like I I said it to Mike when he was there next time or whatever I'm like you never believe this but there's so much to be said about that and so I met with those kids that I'm concerned about their parents and we do a daily batterup cheet for many of our students and the whole thing is the number you put on there is the number you put into your day so if I'm on track I'm engag to my learning I'm doing my work that I should be scoring myself at least a two or a three and if you're not then we need to be talking about what is getting in the way of you doing that do you need more help do you need to connect more with the teacher and the curriculum you're in do your parents know that you're struggling this much that's a huge piece of our story you know middle school kids and I think parents start to think I'm giving you a little autonomy and then you get the report card and you're like whoa so so I really just met with those families there there's less than five and I just said I don't have enough data right now to tell me that your student could go to the next grade and be a competent learner and I don't have enough data to show that they've mastered enough School in the fact that you've missed a 40 some days of school or 30 some days of school and then we have battery up cards that are showing zeros and ones and we're not being successful in completing homework so just trying to really build the multi-tiered system of support I'm not the girl that believes in retention but I do believe that if we say that this is important then we better have some steps in the way that say here's how we're going to get it I I'll give you an example we talked with a sixth grader about taking sixth grade social studies next year and seventh grade social studies and that person said well I don't really have time I'm in choir and band yeah you are this year but this is what we are going to have to have to talk about next year because our expectation is that you meet the standards of every class and if not it's a little bit like your lunch program and not where does it stop and I I don't mean that mean but it comes back to I really think about our you know our job is to make sure that all kids live the mission I think that's a huge responsibility we have in the middle is to help make sure that we are taking these young kids pack in their bags so that they have the skills they need to go to the high school and work towards living that mission so it's hard doing still and accountability it is but I will tell you like what I wrote there you know what we have not had I don't feel like I've had one family that has said this is crazy and shut the door on us this year from Behavior to discipline to um drug use everybody has been willing to work with us and and sit down and talk with our teachers about bump in the road and levels of support so I didn't get to sit in on one meeting with per earlier in the year where I thought for sure maybe her and the parent had like pre-planned before they brought the kid in cuz like they both were on the same wavelength with that kid and it was obvious I'm not going to get to play my principal gets my parent here like she really does a good job of getting parents on the conversation with the kid and and helping build that accountability well I like I said I I just really feel like um I feel like the teachers are behind it because they know they have that support you know when when you call for things we're getting we've got levels to put in now you know in the past like I mean this just like the one teacher who said we really can't say that Terry because our band kids never have access and then we talked to Daniel and he's like I could let him go here as long as when it comes back to here they're back here and you know I just feel like we're really coming together as a team and talking about how to do it better utilizing our resources so that's all I meant but I didn't mean it negative at all I know it feels negative but I you know you know kids know they know if they're making it or not and we want them to leave knowing you can make it yes I it it was a little surprising way you know what I it brought it right to the Forefront I was home right on the money you were right on the money I just wanted to know and I I knew that you would but I just wanted you to tell how it going to happen I feel like we're getting closer to building that support system in the middle school so very good thank you very much yeah I'm sorry no that's okay okay so I I just realized that my report still says December 2024 the one you probably have I really did write it in January so I just actually I did it on the virtual day because we got a reminder from Sam and I thought I have all this time and clearly having more time does not help me write a better report CU I left out a few things too so um underneath student achievement um obviously we're we're well into semester 2 here we've got students in classes we've got teachers that are working hard with students in terms of uh moving things forward we do have a couple of credit recovery Tech courses that we're offering this semester something new um that we're trying to utilize people in a better way to help kids be more successful without getting near the end of the road and then having to try to to departmentalize those things and try to help kids um earn credits they need to be successful to graduate so uh there are some things a lot of things actually in play at the high school in terms of things that we're trying to make adjustments to and tweak um even compared to what we had first semester teachers have been great very flexible in their scheduling Robins spurg has been amazing in terms of putting that schedule together and really trying hard to work with kids and as we all know sometimes we get some kids that want to change often or think that they want to change for a reason that might not be a good enough reason um that we want to allow them to switch their schedule around so uh being in in the class with your buddy is it nearly as important as being in the right class at the right time to get the right instruction that you need so um doing a really good job of of really enforcing The Importance of Being in the right places with kids and um our our guidance office has really been instrumental with that so I really appreciate that um we do have some math coming up some planning with w sing from the AA just to take a look at our math department um believe it or not this is kind of spearheaded by Sharon Bryce who's retiring she really wants to ensure that we have things in place in the right way when she leaves for the the program to continue to head down the right path if not even develop and grow more in order to send kids out of our high school building with the right kind of math that they need no matter what they're going into whether that be post secondary education or the workforce or whatever that is so um going to work uh this week actually the Flynn to get that done the Sammy planning that Julie mentioned our BLT team is fantastic uh at the high school I really feel like got great people as a part of that team and we're uh our conversation was really rich and that meeting that Julie was talking about I was really impressed with the effort that our teachers uh are giving and the direction that they really do want to see the building go so um just in general if you asked me in August where I thought we would be at this point in the year um I can really proudly say in terms of what our staff has given forth and the efforts that we've given and and our students really falling into where we need them to fall into I am really proud of where we are in terms of culture and making adjustments to get into that new building and help things flow that it needed to flow so um I do feel like we're ready to to push forward and the building leadership team is on board for us to continue to move forward and and really take a look at some other pieces uh for our building as a whole so I'm excited about our professional development coming up here this next semester um programs in culture just a couple things to highlight there our Vu scholarship program that's being supported by gear up it's Unique in the the terms that it's it's going to give students an opportunity to see what an academic award letter might look like from multiple schools multiple postsecondary op options so it's sort of like applying for a scholar or applying to a college in reverse order so you might choose a college and then apply to that college to see what kind of money you might be awarded this does that in Reverse where every student will get um an opportunity to see what multiple schools would offer them uh in regards to their academics as a high school student so um I'm excited about that we're going to actually unveil that right before our career fair which is scheduled for March 19th if you don't have that on your schedule I highly encourage you to do so March 19th in our high school gymnasium um I can tell you right now without even have been here last year just in the talk that has gone around about planning this and and about the excitement that has gone into this career fair it's an awesome event so we've got the right people planning and really pushing that forward 7 over 70 uh local businesses and community members are partaking in providing the services for our kids that day in terms of the fair for things that they can indulge in and see um and really some good alignment with expectations for students in terms of um socializing appropriately with those businesses and community members and then really being purpose about what they're looking into and and how they're navigating that day so I'm excited for that career fair on the 19th um something I left out and I should have even put a picture in here because I had one um we have some new graphics at the high school so pop in a huge header along the the big wall that when you walk through the front door that that is to the West uh really brightens it up we had a lot of popular uh or positive comments from our students it's it's become a popular um piece to look at so we also put a big Indian head above the wrestling door so that room just has a lot of wide open spaces and a lot of gray paint so this was really good at dressing it up if you haven't had a chance to pop in please do so I know we have a board meeting scheduled there here coming up soon so you'll get a chance to see it if you don't get to pop in on your own time um our professional development uh that's been touched on in terms of writing Revolution I I think our teachers are are doing a good job with that I've been impressed our professional development at the high school level again teachers are having the right convers ations and really buckling down and trying to move forward with um obviously instructional practice but really the the culture and the programming in our building and we have teachers also attend the capturing kids Hearts training and really just want to work on making that an environment that kids want to be in and it is inviting and also supportive of what kids need to be successful um the last thing I'll touch on is just that Delany aers from P has come in and done some advertising across our lunchtime we actually have 12 students that have uh partnered with Pac now and are going to be a part of different boards that they have um and those students are going to attend those board meetings and get some Hands-On um involvement with what pack does in our community and and seeing what how they can maybe help benefit our community in the future we're good I appreciate the fact that our administrators seem to be looking ahead when our students are that the end is coming we're going to get them there yeah who's next uh that's probably me um first off sorry that the meeting today is not at L we had a game tonight so we'll look Bri and I have already looked at some of the board meetings and we'll get with Mike and we to get a meeting at like you this year still too um had a wonderful week last week um not that I want Terry to have to be out uh all the time but it was really fun to go to her building for a large portion of the week and and cover the building and get to be engaged with students uh like that really had a good time uh she's got a great staff there and also thanks uh to Jared covering the times that I couldn't cover to to be there so and Jenny for Lending Jared to that we had our first calendar committee meeting this morning uh and then went to ATA for our budget meeting to learn about all the hearings we need to do this print everything so that was a good time um uh Kudos I just wanted to say kudos to I'll say sam and Jared so Sam used to be Miss tich is now Zs who works in our front office here and then Jared Johnston um 90% of the 95% of the things you see on Facebook from the district this year which if you're a facebooker you probably notice that the the quantity and quality of Facebook post says really uptick except for the stuff Julie did last year was good but um they have put together a lot of a lot of material for us on there and really showcased a lot of our activity so you see all those celebrations for 100th wins thousandth points things like that um they've really put a big effort into that and uh I watched Jared do one that we're going to put out later in the week on all the activities we offer and um I'm really glad somebody else knows how to do that because I'm not artsy enough for that apparently so um just really cool thing and I'm really appreciative of having that um and that goes with that idea of advertising our school and what we do um so that's been a big topic of conversation with the with me with the admin team um kind of recently and and it's going to kind of be something that be build on uh figure out our best way to get the word out about what's going on it's great any questions I think we're ready for both take away no one more oh excuse me Personnel approve second motion and a second any discussion all those in favor of all the Personnel signify by saying [Applause] I I think we're ready now takeways I think we start Mr Johnson make it easy last well I I guess I'm and it's all right if other people say the same person what Mike said tonight just it just shows how important it is that these jobs we got to all of us got to work best people to do that and also you know Kate sh doesn't seem like much fun to me but I think we got to just do the best we can at that I think it's positive situation the best we can that but I appreciate the you know when you have that kind of frustration it doesn't seem like things are we got back couple things one I appreciate that a chimed in because that tells me that people are watching this and they're engaged so and and you know I was thinking there's so much that we don't know as board members that we need that kind of information so I I appreciate her and I appreciate you sharing that all that the other thing I would say is just want to thank the boosters and the foundation for contributing to the weight room as I thought about that through the meeting I looked in the room there are four people myself Mr Thomas L Mr M doing that were in here talking four years ago about the budget on the building when a previous superintendent and pass pass uh principal came in and says we're going to reuse all of our weight equipment we don't need a budget and we took that out of the budget four years ago and so for it to come up as a need last year like it did and having done through all the financial pain of the co price increase on that building um I really appreciate that the bo of foundation's financially kicked up to help us give with the hurdle because we were never planning on to replace it because four years ago we were told that we weren't and with that it is kind of amazing that um the number of Paces that have changed in this room in four years I I've just been a little bit mind bed by that tonight as I've got through this St um heard a lot of good things tonight I I want to thank Kate and Mike for bringing forth things that are challenges and give us a better understanding of the things that you do on a daily basis and I really appreciate that keep your Mr um no I think think going stuff I think the director report were terrific and gave us inside stuff that we don't normally get so thank you very much for that information um I do want to say that uh about a month or so ago I took a activities trip to another district and it was during the daytime hours and my my senses I I was almost sick to my stomach watching the security measures at the school that I was at it was pretty much non-existent so thank you to our staff at all levels for the security Majors that you guys do every day in the the watching over our students and staff because I was just sick watching this other District a little bit larger than ours but um I couldn't believe it so thank you thank you very much for the way you take security at our districts thank you very and then one more thing you know you mentioned the prek gets left behind a little bit uh we do the school resource officer thing and and a lot of times we forget about the prek not going to lie most of us because most of us are scared to death of the little so but I did go in there a couple weeks ago and if any of you get the chance to do the good morning dance um go ahead and do that can you no I cannot no I I I I'm still worn out from it so that's my Mr gter next time you get down there please let me go and I will live [Music] stream there might be a picture of video somewhere I'm sure there is no again echoing um you know what Tim said we love hearing the good but we also want to hear some of the challenges that's that's what we're here for we can't solve everything overnight but we also can't try to work together to fix something if we don't know what's there so um we do appreciate that um I don't know if my homeowners association would like it if you want to put a bus in that front drop it off you know with a big banner um and Terry I was I was a little taken back by by your your report as well I was like oh man we're putting some tee in this and then so like why' you ask that before I got to it because it was it's good to hear that um because you're not we're not just pushing them through we're we're we're there for the kids and that's that's fantastic um yeah I just love information a lot of good stuff going on at the schools uh the the banners in the high school are fantastic things are looking good president one more sh Shameless plug you can find me tomorrow uh Wednesday at Rotary Hospital conference from A and B you are all you can be do andiz guest as we celebrate our Howard and CHS students of the month yeah you can make it lunches on us there you go uh I do think this the bus driver problem is a is one we have to solve and our solution will have to be something that nobody else is doing okay because everybody else is doing the same thing we are and they're all getting the same results we got to come up with something that's really different and really works um and uh my last takeaway is the March 19th at the high school if you didn't go last year you better go this year because it is something to see it is really good few changes to this year they're adding some bues too I think there's I can't remember how many but there's more businesses in it and it the old gym was full back corre uh the other thing is uh we're also hoping to Showcase Centerville High School when other schools bring their students over so that's part of our bait and switch we're going to bait them in here and get them to [Laughter] switch we'll see where that goes uh I'm open to adj Motion in a second all those in