As always, we are so incredibly grateful for the dedication that to the scholarship fund to our students needs um and for physical education. I I see some equipment there that I think is going to be very well used and very much appreciated so I what more can we say we're just we just were really grateful for all the support our students get.

I just want to thank you so much for the um conversation at our last board meeting about this um we had some questions sort of beforehand and you did a really great job of answering them so thank you for that um and I you know it's important we have to we do still have to um charge free fees for kids to be involved in things and also I know that we work really hard as a school to make sure that um no matter what kids can participate and I appreciate that and I think that this um just provides a little bit more support so that in 20 years we're not like coming and asking for a massive increase...

I appreciate the sensitivity to making sure that we are collecting some Revenue to help offset the cost of these programs but yet not making our fees a barrier to participation and I think you've done a nice job of finding that balance and I think it's appropriate as inflation happens to to do nominal increases and I do feel like these are nominal increases.

I just want to confirm since we don't have a copy of the agreement in um today's board book there haven't been any changes to the agreement since the April 9th version that was presented to us.

I just want to thank you for making sure that we had this uh the contract um extended out so um shortage of bus drivers and being able to um have uh make sure that our students had transportation to school I'm very very happy to see that this and it's one thing that I don't have to worry about and I really appreciate all the work that goes into this.

This is positive news it gets us in a much more stable position in the short term um but we're still we still just need to be cautious moving forward and um it doesn't mean that we necessarily have that level of fund balance um over you know the next the next several years so I think that's important.

I do want to point out though that we are in deficit spending the next year and that fund balance of 4.4 that we're seeing as of this coming June is going to be reduced significantly I think um during our work session um director henkins you mentioned a $3.6 million dip in those numbers extra expenditures because of the new contracts that we have signed so I want to make sure that although we're rejoicing now and we're thankful for your stewardship um that we still have challenges going forward and I just want the public to really understand that.

Added was goal pay for principles not for assistant principles just for principles and they would only for the second year of the contract they develop goal or goals with the superintendent at the start of the school year with quarterly if not more check-ins to make sure the goals are met one-time Market adjustment in both years of the contract and this would put the principal salaries um kind of middle of the bottom of the middle of the pact um with comparison districts.