If everything's important, nothing's important.

MTSS in literacy and mathematics also includes advanced learning. It includes our students who are what we used to call gifted and talented and making sure that they get challenging instruction in the classroom and that when they are ready for more whether it's in a small group or individually we have those accelerated options for them.

The goal is to do it in a way that is very tied to the performance measures that the board has. So it's tied to outcomes, not just doing stuff.

But I I'm really appreciative that all these great ideas, you and others were able to say, 'Okay, we're really behind this. We think it's a good idea, but a lot of people are not agreeing with us. So, let's just put that aside.'

I think that this version of the strategic plan largely reflects a choice to um emphasize the importance of making sure that there is a um as best we can a high floor for student outcome and performance in Rochester public schools. And not to say that this won't be about meeting the needs of advanced learners, but I I think that there are there are choices reflected here in really prioritizing the needs of students that are struggling.

I also think that they're essential to improving our customer service. because until we write it down to see how to do it, we don't have something to evaluate against to see how well we're doing it. And I think it'll uncover sort of ways that we're serving our families and our students and our staff and it it will automatically, I think, lead to improvement in that piece.

Uh you do, as you know, have that authority to seek the voter referendum, however, and you did that obviously um in the past for building bonds. And so, of the operating ref of the referendum uh that you have available to you, of course, we have the first two. Uh we do not have the third we do not have a capital project referendum uh which we could use for technology as you know that uh was something that was put up a few years ago and uh was not passed.

We want to make sure that our general fund levy is as close to what we believe to be accurate as possible to avoid any real big increases or decrease adjustments, any big ups or downs in our levy.

The the overall amount is a a modest increase here of on the order of a million dollars on a hund00 million levy certification. Um but at the same time, one of the things in that 39-page report that's clear is that the the net tax capacity of our district um is increasing by low single digits each year. Um and so the you know it's reasonable I think for us to foresee that a typical household would not see an increase in their property taxes um at least this year due to the school district I should say.