Basically building relationships with students and school staff, help maintain a safe school environment, respond to criminal or legal matters occurring at school, provide education about laws and law enforcement, serve as a connection between the school and police department, and assist with school safety planning, drills, and identifying security vulnerabilities.

As a longtime administrator, probably the single biggest frustration I had with our school resource officers wasn't anything about them. It was just the work that they got assigned um on occasion and and there was an eb and flow to this over the time that I was a school administrator. But sometimes, you know, if there was a big party on Friday night, the SRO would spend most of Monday and even into Tuesday teasing apart who did what and what happened. And yet, it was something that happened out in the community.

So, as school official, we definitely appreciate our relationship with SRO's and our local law enforcement, but just so the public understands too, when something does happen and law enforcement is investigating, we really run two investigations. The school runs one and law enforcement runs another and they run parallel. So, what we do, um, school officers will never meet out discipline. That is only something that school officials would ever do. However, we don't also do any sort of criminal anything. That's not our role either.

As soon as we say what the cost is, um, you know, it might be $20, $30, they say, then we're done. We we don't need it. So, I just want to let you know that that's still an hour's worth of work or what have you, 45 minutes worth of work for us to tell them what it to find out what the cost is. Aside from even we're not even calculating into that the response of the initial email email received according to whatever here's the response back we always have to put in the statute that it aligns to I mean then they say well we don't want it because we don't want to spend the money so you can see the frustration with that process and so I just say that so you have a clear understanding because as we talk about those resolutions putting forward to MSBA that one I I fully fully back 100%.

So this month we received over $12,600 in donations from our community. And of course, just want to say thank you for your generosity once again. every month. It just it's mind-boggling how much uh support we have and and we definitely appreciate that support.