One of the first things that happened was as we told the public we're going to do a $5 million bond for planning and a $50 million bond for building and we combined them both because the timing worked out with interest rates to generate more opportunity and more savings for the district.

There's a new code that any additional space you add outside your footprint has to have enough storm proof area to house anyone who's going to be in that space. So both of those spaces have to have a storm shelter capable of holding anyone who's in that gym space, which is a big change and an expense, but that was covered in that.

We did a traffic study. We're working with the city of Minnotonka and our neighbors who understandably don't want people parking in their yards and in their front uh at arrival and dismissal and trying to figure out how do we get as many cars as possible off the road.

When that goes in, we'll be able to get all of our buses over there. And when the buses aren't there, we're going to have room for, you know, hundred more cars parking at that school.

We get to talk about Minnotonka on the national level. And I the exciting part for me is there's some amazing things here that are really aligned to where public education is going. And it it's really affirming for me. plus bringing resource to our students from across the country.

We're hosting a wellness event in May where school districts from across the country are going to come and learn about what we're doing for student mental health and we're all going to brainstorm about staff mental health and that you know that we're doing that just with our own time.

We have been capped and we've been advocating for the ability to ask our community if they want to support us more financially for our general fund funds. There's that language for what the board can levy and what the community can vote for has been capped since 2017.

That two and a half percent they're giving us year-over-year doesn't match the rise in cost of labor and and purchasing and utilities and things like our insurance was just approved at 11% increase. That 2 and a half% doesn't cover that.

I I would um be a strong advocate to reinstate the school safety zones and not having our students have to worry about being near an enforcement activity.

Our first question is does this have to happen right now because it has the potential to be very disruptive to our school building to all the students.