I mean, what a I mean, so it's it's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. Yes. Well said, Michelle. In addition to that, I'm excited about girls flag football.

Well, it is scholarship season and so it is really wonderful to see so many folks with different affiliations to the district uh donating money to shore up all of those scholarship funds and it is uh really uh exciting to see all of these come in and know that they're going to benefit our graduating seniors.

So, um just a couple of questions. Um, I know we've had uh discussion about the um non-renewal resolutions and sort of the process for that at past meetings and I know you mentioned this is the the second uh annual resolution. Um, but I'm just wondering if you could just um spend a couple minutes just talking through sort of uh what that two-part process looks like.

And then between that resolution to this resolution, we still continue to look for efficiencies. So, we have met many times, looked at class size study or class sizes and determined that based on this resolution, we just yeah, we're going to cut in one FTE and we do not have a spot for this teacher.

I just want to note though that um uh I'm sure none of us uh look forward to uh this particular resolution every year. It's very difficult to lose people. Particularly the second resolution every year um is really um often uh um terminating contracts of uh really wonderful teachers.

I really appreciate this coming to us early um because this does give um the these individuals that are that are affected by what we need to do as a district to um to be efficient and thoughtful um but um giving them enough time to be able to um perhaps look at other employment.

Again, it's we're that I predict that this moves us into that fund balance policy in in a much more stable place for the district fiscally.

I think we I want to just mention to the general public that we're not just spending down that money to get below the cap. We have needs in the food service area of equipment um and and tables and chairs and things like that that need to be replaced.

Having an assigned balance allows us to be able to have money um to make those adjustments where it's not um as of a negative impact to the entire organization's um fund balance um um or abilities to cash flow.

So, if we had to use that 3.7, so if the state doesn't fix um compensatory aid and we um we don't get that $3.7 million back, um it'll put us between seven and 8% um in the first year.

I also just want to note however that that fund balance policy went through significant revision by this board and we did increase the um range of fund balance as well as made the changes to the assigned general fund that we discussed.

I think that that is a testament to the really great work that everybody is doing here.