and the uh or the president and the vice president are not here. I'm going to call the meeting to order with a roll call. Burger >> here. >> Carter. >> He or Johnson >> here. >> Moore >> here. >> Thomas. So now I'm getting to call for an appointment for someone to serve as the >> chair of the meeting. >> Chair of the meeting. >> Second. Quick >> since there's a motion in a second. All in favor? >> Yeah. >> All right. I don't have any of this stuff in front of me, but uh going to welcome visitors. >> Thank you for coming. Everybody's supposed to be here. Um, we now open up our public forum if anyone has anything they'd like to discuss in front of the board. Seeing none, we'll move on. I would accept a motion to approve the agenda. >> I move. >> Second. >> Have a motion to second. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed. have a motion to approve the minutes of the previous minutes. >> You have your regular and your annual on there. >> I saw the previous minutes. >> I'm sorry. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Those opposed. These are approved. No old business. We'll move along to new business. Starting with our student representative. >> Hi guys. Um I don't have a whole lot to talk about. I um all of our fall sports have now volleyball. So, we're football, um, any fall sports, but now our basketball, wrestling, you name it, those sports are starting. Um, and then I just came from a student council state conference and we had 17 kids attend. It was just two days um, last night and then all today. And we kind of just went there and we went to breakout sessions and it just taught us leadership and how to improve our student council. Um, And then we are starting free tutoring services at the high school um this week. So anyone can go there that needs help uh with the school. Um and then our girls for dance team competed at state solos. Keny Bon um moved into top 10. So she is going to go perform again and see where she places with that. Um, and then FC, no. Oh my gosh. FFA, National Convention is this week. So, all of our students are going Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I'm totally not for sure what they do, but I'm sure it'll be fun. Um, and then we're having a blood drive uh from and the student council is running it. And it is November 13th. I think anyone's welcome to donate. doesn't matter. Um, and then us student council members are running a Halloween costume contest and that's tomorrow. So, anyone can dress up as they want. Just as school appropriate, but yeah, that's pretty much going on. >> Where's the blood drive? >> Um, it's in our band room. >> Yes. >> Thanks. >> How many times did you get scared of your bus drivers? He was good. He was a good guy. We got there and got back. >> No one died. >> Do you know that they >> um >> I get it. I know that they do their conferences and they're really big and they're really good and they have a lot of fun, but >> yeah, that's okay. >> That's all right. >> I was told that at one time. I just >> left me. >> All right. Any other questions? >> Thank you very much. >> Okay, we'll move on to item B, presentation and approval of FY24 audit. Yeah, >> we have a zoom in here >> to go over the audit for us. >> First question, can you actually hear me? >> Okay, I have to talk louder. That happens sometimes. >> Okay. Um, can I actually share the screen so you can actually see the audit? >> I think so. Yeah. Yep, that worked. >> Okay, that's much easier than me just trying to talk through something you can't see. As far as the audit report goes, we'll skip ahead to the actual auditor's opinion letter. You got the one that you want where we agree with the financials as they are presented. Um, there are technically other audit opinions, but those are almost never issued. Um they did change they did change the wording in it a little bit year to year on this letter. So it does not look the same year to year but the basis of it is we agree with the financials as they are presented. Um then you come into the management discussion analysis. This is more just discussion on the financial statements. It does compare fiscal year 24 to fiscal year 23. So you do get a few comparison tables in there but as far as those go it does present this is done at the full comparing all activities of the government including long-term debt and capital assets are shown in this report. Um this is not the normal financials you would probably see on a monthly basis. We'll skip ahead. Ex starting on exhibit C. This would be the balance sheet is what you would normally see out of your accounting software on a monthly basis. It is presented slightly differently, but the numbers are the same. You get both a balance sheet on exhibit C and then an income statement on exhibit E. This does combine some of the funds together. Um, capital projects would include both the save money as well as ple into one thing since they are spent for similar purposes. Management and student activity get combined is that into non- major since they are smaller funds just due to the nature of the funded. On exhibit G, this gets you to show what your actual enterprise funds, which for you would be the school nutrition and then the three-year-old preschool. The government accounting standards board has us show both a balance sheet and income statement and also a cash flow for those which is exhibits G, H, and I. Exhibit J and K would just be your scholarship fund. It's broken out separately since it's not available to pay the normal bills of the school. Then you get into notes to the financial statements. This presents basically just a lot more description behind various things that will provide detailed explanations of long-term debt, capital assets of your pension liability as well as other disclosures. If you want to discuss any of those, I'm more than happy to provide additional information. uh required supplementary information just as uh presents budget information as well as information on the other post-employment benefits and the pension liability of the district. These are required disclosures is then we get into just the smaller funds of the district management student activity and the sport trust. Those are just by the nature of the funds and what is available to them. They are smaller. Management fund can occasionally be presented separately if you are building up large cash balance in there for some purpose. Schedule three and four. The state has the statewide sales service news tax. You might also know it as secure vision for education. um local option sales tax. They keep changing the name as they tweak the program a little bit. They have that presented separately from the physical plant equipment levy. They like to have a few additional reports done on this on the sales tax money just to see what districts are doing with the funds. The next the next schedule here is just on your activity fund. It provides detail of the various accounts within the student activity fund is and what specific revenues and expenses are involved there. Same with your support trust and the scholarship since you guys actually have both of those. Schedule 8 is a comparison year-to-year going back for a 10-year period of the governmental activities. This would be your general fund. Basically, all of the funds except for the enterprise fund. It is not a perfect comparison yeartoear since the state does like to change how they have you classify various expenses, but it does provide a general overview. Up next, you get the schedule of expenditures of federal awards. This is actually required by the federal government. If you spend over $750,000 in federal funds, it just provides details about which programs you actually have and how much money you spent in that particular year. After this, you get into the internal control letters for both the governmental as well as the specific ones to the federal programs. Those ones primarily reference the various comments back in the audit report. Each year just lists which federal programs were your largest and most significant ones of what we had to test for that specific year. That determination is done based off of fairly lengthy steps you have to follow through and is outside the control of the district. As far as comments here, uh, segregation of duties looks like it did stick around for that year. We do review this comment on a yearly basis. And then the next one is just negative student lunch account balances. Um, the district does have significant negative accounts in the student in the student nutrition fund. Those should just be reviewed to see if they can be collected or if the district wishes to change its procedures going forward. As far as other comments here, uh we noted one instance of employees being reimbured as mileage rate differed from the what the board policy actually established and then business transactions. None of these appear to represent a conflict of interest, but they are still disclosed in the audit report on the basis that it's better to disclose them than to not. Certified enrollment. Uh we noted that the enrollment data is overstated by one student. This one seems to be getting harder for districts to do since the state has changed the various reporting requirements in the time in which they have to inform you. Um, it's if I would have to guess, I guess we'd probably see some form of this comment at probably 70 75% of the schools. The statewide sales tax, it just gets reported slightly different back here than what's actually in the financials themselves. the state just wants it broken out differently as part of their reporting that happens. And then we noted the instances of board policies that hadn't been reviewed in the past five years. Best procedure is to review those on a on a rotating basis and view them at least every five years. It appears that the district is working on catching up with those. Are there any other questions for me at this time? >> That one thing you mentioned about the the lunch, you know, we more than normal, but you know, if people owe money, how can you take care of that? >> Get blood out of the tournament. >> That's a very difficult situation. I know the state has put out some guidance. It's It's not unusual to see situations like that in schools, unfortunately. >> Thanks. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. At this time, I would entertain a motion to accept and approve the FY24 audit. Move >> a second. Motion second. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> All those against passes. Mike, would you like Continue. >> You're doing. >> All right, we're move on to item C, director's reports. >> Um, Eric, you want to go first? >> Yeah, mine's short and sweet. Um, we've been in the process, um, usually this time of year we start winterizing session stands. Um, getting equipment ready to move that bad white stuff. Um, I am in need of a few sub custodians. So, if you know anyone that's interested or just needs a little bit of persuasion, please send them my way. Um, I'm working on finishing up uh some projects and we're planning to start submitting those to you guys as they come together. >> Pretty much it. And what are you thinking on the substitutes that like day night and just kind of >> just days we can deal with it's evenings basically it'd be anywhere from we don't ask subsians to do a full eight hours. It's just anywhere from 2 to 4 mainly. It's getting the hot spots like bathrooms and trash in certain specific situations. >> Is that something when you're looking at people could that be something that could happen on the weekend as well or not? >> Yes. Yes. If it's on a Friday, sometimes my guys if they have to miss, if they're sick on a Friday or they need the day off or something, I'm like, "Hey, you can save a day if they're willing to come in Saturday and do your cleaning. That way, I don't have to find a sub or something like that." And that's a even for a sub. If they can't make it Friday night, they could come in Saturday and do that as well. One thing we're looking into is right now we've got some people that are internally full-time that will be willing to do it, but we're trying, unfortunately, that might mean overtime pay. So, we're trying first to recruit some new bodies and but if we can't, we may end up need to dip into that just a little bit to make sure it stays clean and taken care of. >> Anything else, Aaron? Um Kate, you want to go? >> Um lot right now. Um if you have a chance to stop by the high school, we do have the new kind displays there. Thanks, Aaron, to getting for getting them set up for us. Um, and another thing we've been looking at is the increase in breakfast, offering the ground dough, the second chance. It seems to be going over pretty well. >> Um, Cameron, >> um, no big projects going right now. I just got starting to put kids numbers in, trying to plan for some RFPs and what we're going to buy. can probably do switches, the main switches of the other schools, but that's just all, you know, 70%'s funded through ERA, but other than that, it's kind of the big stuff on my plate right now. >> Um, not much. Um, sent my three newest bus drivers in Hills last week, first time bus driving class. Mike remembers how fun of an evening that was. Uh, Jared got his license this last week. He's already taken a activity trip, got his feet wet a little bit. Um, something that was kind of cool is PTO had their trunk or treat last week and Renee McGran reached out to me asked him if she could use a bus. She did the magic school bus. So, that was kind of fun. Usually not a lot of fun and exciting things to record about transportation, but I thought that would be easy. We're kind of in a break on activities for a while, so maybe enjoy a few weeks of not so much craziness. But that's about it. >> Jared, your good pivot point to the principles for your director of course. >> Yeah, most of mine's in there. I think the only kind of oddball something maybe didn't make it in was our rest our new wrestling mat that you guys approved a while back came u last week. So, we got that kind of rolled out. Looks awesome. Decided to open that up this winter uh for our home dates. Uh on that front, as Mike said, I had missed a couple days ago to get my bus driver, but you know, I passed, so that's good. And I took my first trip and didn't hit anything. Now, all the kids are fine, so we're good there, too. Um, we went up to Ames for the student council conference. Uh, it's my second year going up to that. Uh, it's a great conference. Uh, as far as just statewide conference and they also in the spring hold district conferences. Uh the 2027 and DIS Southeast District Conference will actually be in Centerville because Julie's daughter Sophia is our district representative right now. So this year's will be in OSI in February and then next year will be here in Centerville which will be awesome. But it's just great to um see what all these different schools do and how they kind of engage their students, different ideas. I know the kids usually come back with lots of fun things that they want to try out, so it'll be good. Uh, moving on to item D, director principal reports. Julie, >> uh, don't have much to add. We, um, started our pumpkin study, which we do every year, but it's really a fun one for the kids and then they were able to go to Papos um to kind of help start that off and so the kids had a lot of fun with that. And then fire prevention week is always a big week for us. Um the kids really enjoy having the firefighters come and share with them. So we've had a lot of things happen in preschool and uh we've had some good PD days and looking forward to November's PD for my other side of my job. >> Yeah. Um just a just a highlight on there. I think the two that I will highlight is we did bring back the yearbook this year. Kate Larson as our yearbook sponsor and the kids did a really good job on that. Um we didn't know this first year how many there' be and I think like 60 or so were sold which is pretty good for the first year and then um we have some still left so we're going to have at conferences that people can still buy some really try to encourage that but it will help us judge for next year how many we want to buy because you got to buy them up front but um it turned out really well and the kids did a really good job so it's good to have that um going again and then having a sponsor for is the biggest thing um I want to shout out because I saw on yours too Robin Spurgeon who helps us set up our kindergarten I think I took the picture from maybe you did um but the picture on there um is our kindergarten students and our seniors and that went really well last year and everybody asked for it and Robin asked for her to do it again and it it's you know it takes a little coordination but it is really cool to see the scenario Thomas from the AEA uh spoke not just to Lake View but the associates throughout the district and just heard really good feedback did last year as Well, um, Julie Thomas really worked on, you know, behavior strategies, working with students that have behaviors, tough tough situations and and we really had good conversations. I know she's coming back several times. Um, but we heard good feedback that we and that's what we're really trying to do and Julie's, you know, pivotal pivotal on this is um having those Fridays being important for our associates. You know, this is a great district. Other districts I've worked at did not have um associates work. They just they off and if we're going to be paying them giving them good PD because that's what they always ask for. Like we need sometimes we have associates that come in with his parents. Sometimes we have people just love kids but they don't have any of that experience. So that's something they really desire and um we had good feedback. It was a good thing of all. >> I don't really have anything else in my report. Okay. Um, we got to the end of first quarter, so we've got a lot of freshmen figuring out that grades matter. So, we're doing a lot of pushing conversations with students that this is important at the high school level and they're earning those 40 48 credits. Um, staff has been fantastic. We've set up with some gear up funds. We've set up some tutoring that's going to start tomorrow. And, uh, four days out of the week, we've got different staff members that are offering to spend their time helping students tutor. and Robin Spurgeon's been instrumental in helping organize that and actually schedule that and um we've got phone calls home starting tomorrow to try to encourage families to support students that need that. So that's a new thing that uh we're really wanting and hoping to get up and running in a very successful manner so that we get kids passing courses that may be struggling a little bit right now. Um want to give a huge shout out to our staff. I didn't put this into my report, but I think in the last three weeks, we might have had two days of school where we haven't had to try to punt trying to cover courses and cover classes for for people who aren't there. And so, um, and I I don't mean to say people are gone. I I mean, people aren't gone because they are not coming to work. The problem is we don't have a substitute pool. U, but staff has been amazing. Uh we've we've multiple times sent emails out at 7:30 and asked for people to give up their prep time and cover and we have yet not had that happen. Not not on Friday, but every time staff is stepping up. They're going into classrooms that aren't their own, substituting for a period, giving up their prep period to do that and really working with kids to try to keep kids engaged in the academic pieces that are really important. So super super pleased with them. I really appreciate them all stepping up. So I want them to hear that. if you see them, please tell them that that's exactly what we need at this point. Otherwise, we have a lot of kids in study hall and that's really not helping us do academic things that we need to do. So, um our professional development at the high school, our building leadership team has been awesome. We working in three areas, engagement, differentiation, and high quality instructional practices. So, our building leadership team presented to our staff uh last Friday, super wellreceived. We're excited to continue that. So, that was a big success. really proud of them for that. And then I know it seems like forever ago, but homecoming was since we had a board meeting. So when I was putting this together, I was like, "Wow, homecoming seems like it was a really long time ago on pancake day as well." But you know what? Our kids um are in really high demand from August to like last week, I feel like. Right. So, um, that's a little bit of a strain, the stress, and that that that bothers me in my head some about we have so many kids out doing things, but reality is they're doing awesome things. I mean, they're they're going down to the football field and and making relationships with our our kindergarten students just on the importance of school. So, so awesome. We've got so many kids helping with packed. So, we've we've had kids that are out and about doing awesome things, but I do feel like maybe that's settled a little bit. So now we've got a better focus on what we need to do in the building academically and just sitting down. So >> any questions? >> I was at the uh I guess you'd call it the reception after homecoming and I thought the students did an excellent job there. >> Thank you. >> Things went really well. >> The folks that attended that were very always but still very impressed >> where our students handle that. >> Okay, moving on to item E. Approval of the second reading of board policy. >> Um we didn't have any changes in the first reading. Um these are just catching up with on those motion to approve. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, that would entertain. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> All those opposed. Moving on to it. This one's not exciting but required. Um, so we are fully up to date. These are the policies that we have to touch each year and look at and mark is reviewed each year. So they include uh long range need assessment which we'll be doing with our SCAK meeting yet this fall uh some more work with that parent family engagement uh used to be called title one engagement now they call their family engagement uh educational records uh who has access to those and how that works uh student directory information and uh recently added uh student library circulation records. Um, so just the policies related to those, no changes, just the annual putting them in front of you to to see that you've had them and to be able to turn into the state that we've put in front of the book. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> All those opposed. Moving on to item G, approval of at risk and dropout plans. >> So, our district has had an at risk and dropout plan for a long time and and it was kind of the plan that was in place and um I was at a super a statewide superintendent meeting recently where um somebody from the state said, "Hey, you know, we're going to review your atrisisk dropout prevention plans this year that are approved by your board every year." And about five people immediately put in the chat, wait, approved by the board every year? What are you talking about? Well, you you need to be approving this through your board every year. This is a point of emphasis for us this year. So, after talking to a variety of superintendents around the state, that was a surprise to everybody. So, we've jazzed it up. We've got a cool little uh template that Grant Wood ADA worked on with their superintendent that uh we stole from uh actually um oh gosh, I've lost his name. He was here as curriculum director. Rob >> Rob Bush. Thank you. Uh because we stole from Rob Bush uh because he goes there for his superintendent meeting and uh kind of put our information in there. Um just to kind of talk about what we do. Uh obviously I think our at risk and dropout prevention programming is a big deal to us as a district when you think about the the amount of poverty in our community. Uh but this just kind of hits all those items that the state wants to make sure that we're uh doing uh using the same methods kind of always used. We do have some early intervening services which is we pay for a small portion of our uh interventionists at Lake Field using losing at risk money. Uh we pay for transitional kindergarten and our reading core uh there. And then academic advising, some of our assistant principal pay is paid out of um at risk. some of our counseling staff pay, the regulate and return coaches, the student advisors, the alternative school teacher, and the alternative school associates um are covered using at risk and dropout prevention money. Um so we have those items in there. Just kind of the plan of how to use them and and how to try to serve kids. Julie and I uh will probably continue to review this now that we know it's a yearly thing and maybe we can make it even cooler looking for you by next year. But this one will meet the state's requirements. >> We approve it. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Moving on to item H. approval of weighted vote for director of district number two for the AEA board of directors. I'm going to be honest, I have no idea what the heck this is. So, actually we my first year we got in the mail a letter for this. Uh but somehow it got mixed into things and didn't we didn't end up getting to vote on it at our meeting. Um, and we were at IASB and that was a question because they somebody had mentioned the board of directors of the AA that you get to vote on and somebody was like, "Oh, well, we never voted on that." This year it came in by email, which is so much better. Um, because then Lisa can see it and and then it gets uh in front of the board quickly. You'll notice from the numbers that our vote probably doesn't do very much because it's weighted by enrollment. And the four districts in our area that vote for this director position are us, Davis County, Molton Udell, and Atamwa. Atla controls 60.8% of the vote. So, whoever Atmo votes for uh will be the representative, but there's only one candidate. What's her name again? >> Shelley Morgan. >> There we go. I was on the wrong attachment. So, my advice would be to vote for Shelley Morgan. >> I'm going to be honest. I'm not voting. I to me this should die. >> I I don't know her. I don't know what she stands for. >> I have no idea. >> And like I said, at the end of the day, our 17 something% doesn't add up a whole bunch. >> So, we could let it do that, too. >> I would entertain a motion. >> I would move to table this. There is a date on it though. >> Uh, looks like >> isn't there? >> There probably is. I think it's probably sooner to December 9th. >> Okay. >> Um, so you want to table it to the November meeting and see if we can get information on her. >> I'm I'm cool with whatever because obviously we didn't vote in the last one. Um, and it didn't uh didn't affect the outcome as you can tell from the percentages. Uh, >> did you make that motion? I'm sorry. I did make a motion to table. >> I'll second that. >> All right, we have a motion and second to table to our next regular meeting. >> Any other discussion? >> Another option you would have I mean obviously there's a motion to table but you could decide to abstain too. That would be an option too to November and see if you get any information on what you stand for. Help me with that. Who's going to get the information? How >> I'll I'll probably just email someone because I think the ones you nominated >> Yeah, I guess I would want more information because if it's not favorable, >> I want to vote. >> Yeah. You know, sometimes different boards, maybe people maybe they don't like public schools, >> maybe they don't like the AEA. So, I think they're going to be on the Aea board, correct? >> Yeah. I think we should find out something. >> Yeah, I don't think we've gotten anything about any stances or anything. >> Any further discussion? Do have a motion and a second to table this to the next regular meeting. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. All those me. >> All right, moving on to item I, approval of personnel business procedures. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed. Okay, moving on to financial reports. I'll second a motion and a second to approve financial reports. Any discussion? >> Seeing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> All those opposed. All right. Moving on now to superintendent report. >> Okay. So, I I'm going to keep mine pretty to the point of enrollment uh this time around because I I've emailed uh just kind of an update on our certified enrollment. The initial predictions were pretty far off uh for this year. Uh so we are down it's 55.6 I think is the what the number ended up. It's a point something. It's either 55.6 or 55.8. I wrote down minus 55. Uh which would be another 400,000 uh for this year. I did a little digging because it it really you know kind of irked me a little bit. It bothered me and I I went through to look at all of our students who were our students last year and aren't our students this year. And um that was some interesting data to look at. 56 students who were our students last year have now moved to another community in our state or out of the state. 32 in state, 24 out of state. >> Wow. >> 15 are homeschooled. Um, five are open and rolled to a virtual school, which is significantly less than I thought it had been. Um, 12 open and rolled out to a different district and two um are dropouts uh in that time, which does not mean we're going to give up on them. I think we've had plenty of conversations with kids that had dropped out one time to try to pull them back in. So, all that is to say, like I sometimes I take those numbers and I think, "Oh my gosh, what are we doing? We lost this many kids." But when you add in a larger senior class exiting, a very small kindergarten class coming in, which we're due to do the next few years, by the way, uh, and 56 kids moving out of our district. Really, what happened? Our open enrollment is basically dead even this year, open enrollment out, open enrollment in, we gained a tiny bit of ground, but we're talking a waiting of a kid, so not a full kid. Um, so it's not about open enrollment being the difference for us. It's about there actually being less children living in the bounds of our district is what that tells us. So I did a little um went back to my specialist class uh and I built a uh enrollment projection for the next seven years and we do have a few years ahead that could be kind of rough again still. Um when we did that projection and specialist and Julie would have done the same thing in that same class. uh you project a lot off of live births that are attributed to your county and we have a few pretty lean years coming up for live births. Um if anybody wants just to for fun uh I will tell you at least the the progression model that I used uh when I did this is the seventh year after I did it for my specialist using Burlington as the the model uh they went from 4,000 students down to a little over 3,000 students. Within that time, I was off by 60 kids and and vouchers hadn't come out yet. So, and vouchers hit them pretty hard. So, I I was within like a percent and a half or so. So, I think it's probably pretty real. And uh it it looks to say we're going to be around a thousand students uh seven years from now just from demographic changes in our community. So, I think we'll have to consistently watch for attrition uh as a way to to help make sure our system can afford what we have. So, I I will not be surprised to see an additional 40 to 50 student uh boss next year uh as a result of that. And that doesn't necessarily take into account the fact that this year was a larger number of moveouts than had been the case. What I do is I average the so like first grade going to second grade. I average that over a course of the previous seven years. So this year was a big jump. If we have a big jump again next year, that average will go up and it'll probably be a more dire uh prediction. So Lisa and I had talked about whether we'd want to maybe bring company to look at that with us. I think looking at live births, we're probably just better off to to be pretty frugal for now and and assume that we're going to get to that thousand range. Uh, which is scary considering the district was 1,600 kids when I taught here not that long ago. So, rural Iowa is changing, my friends. It's terrifying. So, with that doom and gloom, I should end with >> I have a couple questions. You mentioned the breakdown with your numbers in 56 have moved. What was the five? Five students. >> Five is open enrollment to virtual. >> Okay. And then you mentioned 15 have moved to the home school. >> Home school. Yeah. Some with a program, some not with a program. Yeah. Just not even necessarily an increase in those number of students for the district, but these were 15 individual children who were enrolled last year who aren't enrolled this year. >> Can you give me a 30,000? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> 35 whenever you have time. >> Yeah. I've got it all listed out here. It's pretty a smattering from all of them. Uh but I can I can give you that. I I've got all my >> count if >> in my in my functions in here, but >> uh it's districtwide. We surprisingly we had a lot moved to Texas was one that I saw a lot of. I don't know. >> Family with six kids. >> Well, and that may be it. I think Julie had mentioned there was a possibility of maybe some cousins going together or something. And >> um Christine's kids or Tina's kids moved back to Texas >> and she had more hair and then Jessica's kids moved to Texas. But I'll admit going through that data kind of made me feel a little bit less like, oh my gosh, what's happening? Where are all these kids going? And more realizing, you know, people are going, where there's jobs and opportunities for them and >> and doing the things they can. There there wasn't as much of that that we could have changed as I had thought we could have. >> So with your your superintendent group, >> how how is ours compared to Yeah. Everybody stay home for the most part again this year. Some are down big like we are. Um depends how lucky you were with your senior class last year. Um generally everybody's bringing in significantly smaller kindergarten classes. It's whether or not you graduated in a big senior class and we graduated a midsize senior class and then had all those moveouts. So yeah, they're all down. Um, I haven't gotten like set numbers from everybody yet because usually certified happens at the beginning of October, but you don't really know your final number until the end of October because they're kind of mashing out the last couple things. We meet the first week of November in Fairfield. So, I anticipate this is going to be a pretty big topic of conversation just from talking to the few that I know well enough that we call about once a week and like, "Oh my gosh, how did this go for you? It's looking pretty scary in our tier of I'd say >> so that move out number that that you gave that was more than the years before. >> Well, I and I feel like I should be careful because I've kind of worked off of feelings on what I thought I was signing a lot of and all that before, but again, it does feel like it's a larger number. So I I would need to >> and I'm not exactly sure how I would track that now because Infinite Campus is really good about listing the how they exited and showing me inactive students that way. So I need to figure out how to get that on some of those. But it's it's a larger number than the number of enrollment we lost. >> So if you think about it, that means that our new people moving in just didn't quite keep up with our people moving out. Uh, plus the senior kindergarten thing, which life births tell us we got a couple small kindergarten classes coming up, probably smaller next year than this year at least. So, that was depressing and I feel like I should end on a happy note. I'm sorry for that. But I I'd say the happy note is I think we had a really good administrative team meeting last week. we were kind of kind of working on some some things that we wanted to accomplish and uh had a really good meeting. Everybody's voice heard at the table and everything. So, I feel like you got a good team of principles that kind of guide your staffs and and students through what could be some rough times without good leadership. So, I feel good about that. Anything else for Mark? It's be a bummer. So, enrollment is I'm backing up to the numbers down 55.6 >> or I can't which one. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> What I don't have counted here is the new like anybody that moved in. That's what you're That's what you're seeing. >> That's where you're like more comparison. So that would be the difference that our moveins, you know, whatever's different between those would in theory be >> move. Thanks for your patience on that. >> No, I'm sorry. I communicated very well. >> I uh I played with numbers all Friday afternoon to look at this and then got really depressed and >> All right, we're going to move on to item nine, board me takeaways. All right. I don't know. I've really enjoyed my time and I've learned a lot and getting how things operate. Um really I it will help me the rest of my life with things and maybe I'll run for something like this again. I appreciate the things that have like random numbers right there. Know how to find those and do those. They have all that. And what it tells me at rural Iowa is it's not going to Well, since it's my last board meeting, too, I just It's been enjoyable, you know. Yeah, you learn a lot and there's a lot more to learn that I'm not going to learn that I'll keep up with. And I think it's really important to support our public school. I really I'm really kind of afraid of our public school system in this state. I think the tax on it are unfair and I think you and so I'm glad that we have a system here that I think is doing a good job. We have good people here. And uh so I just you know I I was actually somewhat involved in trying to recruit people on the board and trying to find people that I thought that would be good for it. I just think that I enjoyed the time I had here. Thanks. Uh the declining enrollment thing. I remember when we were used to talk about 10 per year. 50 just 55 sounds like the budget. the bottom fell out. Uh but in some of the other groups that I work with, it seems that uh many of them have a priority of attracting more people to and I just wonder I know we seem to deal with them once they get here and we do a pretty good job I think but what are we doing to help those other groups attract people? >> Yeah. But when you know what do we what do we do? I I know when people want to move to a community that have kids, they look at schools, they look at all the all the other amenities, you know, they leisure activities, but I just wonder if we're we're telling our story as well as >> I'd like to thank our outgoing board members. It's been fun getting to know you and wish you well and have to watch us on on the pitch. Um, I'd like to thank Mark. I don't know if everybody else knows this, but on Sundays we get these nice little emails. Brings us up to date on things and I know that he'd rather be watching football, but um, so >> not this season. >> So, you put a lot of time into that on your weekend, so that's greatly appreciated. And um we have an important election coming up with a lot of new seats on the school board. So make sure you do your homework and um know who you're voting for and and what they're about um because they have important decisions to make. >> Talk to all the people you know. >> Yeah. Thought I saved myself. >> I was doing crisscross. Tim Tom, thank you seriously very very much from a community member. Thank you for serving, you know, on the only board that you know, we don't get paid when, you know, this is you do it because you love it and you want to make an improvement. So, thank you very much for for doing what you did. Um, I'd like to say good job to Mark and Lisa and whoever else was involved in the um audit. So, great great audit. So, >> that's all I have. I would entertain a motion to >> adjourn. You know, it's your last. >> I have a motion in a second. And all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I meeting is