Hello Bloomington Public Schoolscommunity. My name is Matt Dymoke,and I'm our school board chair. And I'm Eric Melbye, your superintendent. And we'd like to share a few highlightsfrom the October 27th School Board meeting. So at the October meeting,our student school board representatives shared some great updatesthat we're here to share with you today. First off, Kennedy soccer superstarMarlon Seahorn Jr. was named Mr. Minnesota Soccer and finishes his career as the all-time Kennedy leadingscorer in school history. Really incredible. Amazing. And the National Honor Society at Kennedyalso inducted its largest class ever this year. They’ve gotten right to work with service projects and fundraisersand really showing that Eagle excellence. It's really great. So cool. On the Jefferson side of things,the marching band held their popular,always popular indoor concert. The Jefferson Theatre Company hostedtheir annual haunted house. Had a great turnoutfor a weekend performance of Twelfth Night and are starting rehearsalsfor their winter show, which is going to be Charlieand the Chocolate Factory. Our students are just amazing. There are a lot of cool things going on rightnow. So cool. At the board meeting in October,we heard a discussion around a new e-sportsclub happening at Kennedy. So, a new organization for studentswho are into video gaming to really come togetherand do e-sports together. So I'm super excited to see what this new activity looks likeand how we can help engage a new group of students. Yeah, it's exciting stuff. And then we also did some budget workat the school board meeting. So budget adjustments for the upcoming next two school years were approvedin the amount of $5 million each year. The district had previously anticipatedhaving to make some larger adjustments. Due to ongoing, slightly declining enrollmentand state and federal funding challenges. However, preliminary results,from our annual financial audit and other projections have allowed usto adjust those numbers down a little bit, which is good news. And our hope is that by identifying those lower than anticipatedreduction numbers now, early, for two years, our leaders have time to workwith those stable numbers and come up with recommendationsthat we can use. And we hope to reduce some communityanxiety about what that number, quoteunquote, is going to be every year. So we're hopeful that that's helpful. Yeah, it's never easy for usto go through budget reductions. But I'm glad that we have a solid plan toto really move through the next two years for sure. And help provide some of that context. And of course,more to come on that work. So it was a it was a good October, and we're really excited about the workthat we get to continue to do in November. So we'll be right back hereat the end of the month to share another update with you. We look forward to seeing you next month.