I would like to call to order the December 9th regular board meeting of the Mountains View School Board. Good evening and welcome. First item of business is 1.2, adoption of the agenda. I would entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Um agenda has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I any opposed? Motion carries. Next item is 2.1 um student representative reports. Um tonight uh we have advised um the students um to not come due to the weather. Um so um we will um look for getting their updates from Irondale and Mountains high schools um at the January meeting. Um agenda item 2.2 announcements. Um and we'll start with the gifts. Shauna, would you uh mind reading? Yes, absolutely. So, there were 10 gifts for schools and programs received this period for a total of $11,25944. And there were 105 gifts received for the Ralph Raider food shelf this period for a total of 177,25846. Um, I just want to say an extra special thank you to the 105 people who um donated to the food shelf. I know um food uh uncertainty is real uh right now and with the holidays and everything going on, I just really appreciate our community stepping up um and giving to the food shelf. So, it is recommended that the board accept these gifts and extend our thanks to the donors. Great. Thank you, Shauna. Upcoming meetings. Our next work session will be on Thursday, January 8th of 2026 at 5:00 pm and the next regular meeting of the school board will be on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 um at 700 p.m. Both here at the district center. Um at this time, we'll move on to agenda item 2.3, superintendence report. Thank you, Diane. I just just one thing and it and it's really uh piggybacking on what Shondaanda just said with the the food shelf. Um for those in the public, I I just had to highlight this. Uh our food show for the last month reporting a record number of donations. They received more than 41,000 pounds of food in November. Now just for comparison, this same time last year 19,493 pounds. So more than doubled uh the amount of food they received in that same time frame. So yes, just a huge thank you to the community. I know many of our schools, many of our student groups, even district staff ran food drives during that time and uh food insecurity is a real thing. I know the families that are able to access these [clears throat] resources are just so appreciative. So thank you so much to our our school, our staff, our students, everybody for community for these donations. They are really making a difference and it's greatly appreciated. Great. Thank you. Um we will now move on to item 3.0 approval of the consent agenda. I would entertain a motion. So moved. Second. The consent agenda has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh, next we will welcome up um Paula Steele, director of finance for item 4.1 um certify final property tax levy. Welcome Paula. Thank you. Good evening. Every December, the school board must complete school boards must complete the annual levy limitation certification process to certify the final 2026 property tax levy. We are here today to take the final required step in the levy certification process. The purpose of this resolution is to certify the final 2025 payable 2026 property tax levy. Once approved, the C this certification will be forwarded to Ramsey County to process the final property tax statements which will be mailed in March of 2026. This revenue will be collected in 2026 and will fund the district's operations for the 2627 school year. The recommended final levy amount is 72,955,5736, which is 8.6 million more than the 2025 taxes. The primary drivers of this change are a 10 million increase resulting from the voter approved capital project levy that was passed in November and a 1.4 million decrease in the LTFM debt uh LTFM debt service. The district has fully complied with all the required steps for the tax certification. This includes the successful completion of the truth and taxation hearing today held today, December 9th, 2025 at 6 p.m. Given the successful pro process and the critical need to fund the operational plan for the 2627 school year, we move to the final recommendation. administration officially recommends that the school board adopt the attached resolution to set the final property tax levy in 2025 collectible in 2026 at 72,9557 955,5736. Do you have any comments? Just a thank you to Paul and her team. Um, you know, this is an annual certification process, but as the board knows, and we've talked with the public, uh, our budget uh, process is cyclical. Every year we go through this. So, we were in front of you before with a preliminary levy. We're coming back for the final levy. All of this information is used uh, through even the legislature, what the legislature will do coming up this spring before you set the final uh, budget uh, going into next year in in June. So, thank you, Paula. all the work with you and your team that goes into this. Kudos. Great work. Thank you. Great. Thank you much. All right. Um so the um we would entertain a motion uh to approve the attached resolution. So moved. Second. The motion has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you Paula. Um we will now move on to item 5.1 uh 202425 comprehensive achievement and civic readiness and achievement and integration report. That is a mouthful. Um we would like to welcome Angie Peshel, executive director of curriculum and instruction, Heidi Sari, director of curriculum and instruction and Mary Stab, director of research assessment and evaluation. Welcome. Thank you. Great to be here with you tonight. So tonight we are here to present our annual report highlighting the comprehensive achievement and civic readiness report and the achievement integration report. So Minnesota legislation mandates that districts develop a comprehensive strategic plan to support and improve teaching and learning. It needs to be aligned with the world's best workforce. Uh last year we were here reporting out to you on the world's best workforce. We're doing a similar report, but the name was changed during the 2024 legislative session. Um, and it's now the comprehensive achievement and civic readiness. So, there are five components. So, tonight what we'll do is we'll share with you our goals in each of these components. Uh, Mary will share the goal and our progress towards that and then Heidi and I will share with you the strategies that we have in place. A reminder that this is a report for last year and what we were doing last year. We will also be talking a little bit about some strategies we have in place this year based on that that data that we've had for some time. So the first goal that we're reporting on is all students are ready for school or meet school readiness. This measurement is is um something that is taken with our early childhood program. So we look at the percentage of students in um age four in that early child program who meet or exceed the kindergarten readiness of accomplished for the social emotional domain as measured by a uh my teaching strategies assessment. Now this assessment is an observation protocol where teachers set up situations and measure these benchmarks for social and emotional learning. Can the students regulate their emotions and behaviors? Do they establish and sustain positive relationships? And do they participate cooperatively and constructively in group situations? Our goal this year was to increase from 74% in the accomplished from spring of 2020 2024 to 76% in the spring of 2025. The graphic on the screen shows that we met that goal at 76%. And not only did we meet that goal, but you will notice that 305 of our four grade age four students were in the accomplished which was greater than previous years. So some of the strategies we used to accomplish that goal or accomplish meeting that goal, we continued to increase the effort to complete the early childhood screening. The reason behind that is that um it ensures necessary supports are in place when children um come to school and they're needed. Teachers are part of a leadership team within our early childhood um learning areas and they use the expertise of our teacher leaders to make instructional and behavioral decisions. We continued to use the observation-based assessment that Mary mentioned which helps teachers and parents and administrators focus on what really matters for um a student's success. And then we also increased literacy professional learning for our early childhood teachers. Last year they participated in letters for early childhood as um part of the read act last year as well. Our second goal area is all students graduate. In the Mountains View public school system, we use a metric we call graduating according to plan rate. This is a combination of the percent of students who graduate in exactly four years plus the percent of those who continue according to their personalized plan. Our goal is that mound schools will increase this graduation according to plan GR rate for all students from 96.7% for the class of 2023 to 97% for the class of 2024. As you can see, we met that goal for all students. In addition, for all class of 2024 subgroups, no subgroup would be less than 90%. This year we have one subgroup that is less than uh 90% that was students receiving English learner services. The final total was 87.7% but I'd like to report that this was up 2% from the previous year. So some of the strategies that we used in our system last year to help accomplish this goal. uh deans continue their work in supporting students with their four-year planning to ensure that they are ready for college, career, or whatever comes after their high school um experience. Last year, we selected school links as a tool to support that process that deans go through with uh students. As Mary mentioned, we were short on the multilingual um category for graduation by a couple percent. However, we have enhanced support for multilingual learners. Some of the ways we've done this, we've added additional uh new resources to our system that teachers felt supported our um multilingual learners in accessing uh English content. And um as we look at that four-year graduation rate, while the state increased 1.1% for ML graduation rates, Mounds View public schools actually had an increase of 6%. Um and Mary also mentioned that our uh continuing graduation rate did increase by 2%. So, we do believe some of those strategies are working and we are continuing them this year as well. We've also provided um some more guidance to sites on instructional models to support our multilingual learners success, including creating schedules that could accommodate their needs and their um increase their likelihood for success. And then we continue to monitor our students and provide academic interventions as needed. Our next goal is all students career and college ready by graduation. The metric that we use for this is the ACT. We feel that students that are successful with the ACT will be both successful in their future careers, world of work, and be college ready. Our goal for the ACT is for the percentage of students in the graduating class of Moundsby Public Schools to meet three or four of the college readiness benchmarks. The ACT covers four subject areas: English, math, reading, and science. And it is our goal that each student will meet three or four of the benchmarks attributed to those subject areas. The goal was to increase from 49% with the class of 2024 to 51% with the class of 2025. You will notice in the graphic that we met this goal of 51%. This dis district meant 51% and the Minnesota was at 39%. We've also included the results for the overall composite of of our ACT for the class of 2023, 24, and 25. The composite is an average of all four subject areas put together. And then the metric is based on the last ACT test students in that class took. We like to point out that as the nation continues to decrease from 19.5 in 2023 to 19.4 4 and Minnesota shows a change from 20.8 to 20.6. Our own district results show the opposite effect growing from 21.9 to 22.2. Lots of strategies we could name in this, but we wanted to highlight the um expanded post-secary support we have in our early college centers. They're growing and offering more intentional support for students in their post-secary planning. We've got um targeted career engagement as well. We're using the career interest survey that we give students um and using that data to connect students with relevant guest speakers and opportunities such as internships so that students can explore specific fields that they might be interested postsecary. Last year we also worked to select a new career planning software to replace a tool that we had been using for a long time called Navian was not quite as robust as we needed it to be to meet some of these goals that we have. So we selected school links to replace that. And so this year we're working on an imple implementation plan around that. It focuses on our seniors. We know that they're going to be leaving us soon to pursue those post-secondary goals that they have. And so we're doing some training um on that tool and they're in there um working on their college apps and um some of those career surveys as well. So, in in regards to all students career and college ready by graduation, we'd also like to report tonight on uh goals that are aligned to our achievement and integration plan. Our goal one um it deals with the rigorous courses that we off in our offer in our early college high schools. As you know, we have a menu of opportunities for students to receive college credit while they're in high school. These include taking classes associated with the NOA Ramsey Community College, college in the school, advanced placement courses, uh rigorous courses offered at 916, articulated courses offered through our career and technical education program, PSO and KLP testing as well. Previously, our achievement and integration goal has centered around student participation in all of these programs where we looked at a student's four year um four years of work in our high school and and found out their access to participate in any one of these rigorous opportunities. Our goal was to have the participation in our rigorous courses to be proportional to the student population. As we worked with MDE, they asked us not to to choose a goal that um asked us to improve rather than stay the same because as you know, our participation has been very proportional with 95 to 97% of our students having access to at least one of these rigorous courses. The goal that we decided on together was to decrease the racial disparities in the group of courses that we see the most discrepant and that would have been the advanced placement courses. So over this multi-year goal, our goal is to decrease the disparity that we saw at 8% to 3%. The results in the table show that for the class of 2024, if we look at the proportionality of the class compared to the proportionality of the students participating in AP courses, we are slightly less um than 8% at 6% but approaching the 3% of our goal. So, we are excited to report as we look at this goal that we've had a record high student participation with the highest percentage of proficient scores on the AP exam. However, as Mary stated, we have not yet succeeded in closing the achievement gap. As a whole, as Mary mentioned, our students access to rigorous courses is proportional. Those proportionality is largely driven by the participation in the ARCC and the articulated courses. So, as we um analyze that and think about that, we know that our deans and our teachers are working very closely with students to ensure that their course selections are preparing them for what their post-secary goals are. And in many cases, the ARCC college courses are often preferred because the college credit is awarded based on overall performance, unlike our AP exams, which require a single test score in order to get that college credit. So the ultimate purpose of setting and tracking these goals is to drive improvement and identifying areas. So that's why we're looking specifically at AP for these demographics, but we did want to highlight that we do have multiple indicators to gauge success in this goal area. So we will continue to work on that and we know that we've got some successes that we didn't want to um that we wanted to highlight as well. The next goal area is all racial and economic achievement gaps are closed. Again, this is a goal that we also align to our achievement achievement and integration plan. Specifically, goal two, it says that the percentage of Hispanic and black students proficient in all state math accountability tests, which include both our MCA and our alternate assessments, will increase from 23.6% in 2022 to 35% in 2026. As you hear, this is a multi-year goal. Our our indicator for last year showed that we had dipped slightly from 2024 to 27.6, but we do feel confident that we are on our way to meeting that that overall goal. Some of the reasons we believe that we're um in process of making that goal for uh the 35% is because of the work that we've been doing, it sometimes takes a little bit of time for some of the things we've been implementing to show up in our test scores. So, we've got some new resources at our middle school level um that are showing some great gains for those students. So, we're excited about those. And we are also offering some in in addition to support for our elementary and middle schools um to really build their conceptual understanding of math. And that is helping them for those more advanced classes that they'll take at the high school level. Strategies for the 2526 school year. We wanted to h uh just give you a sneak peek at that too because we do have new pathway and integration of new standards to be implemented in 2627 for mathematics. And these standards have a heavier focus on data science which will allow for a more relevant application of math skills which is the ultimate goal of mathematics right for our nth grade students specifically. And then as students progress through the system we'll have options for students um in grade 11 that will be based on their postsecary plan. So you'll hear more about that next sure when we're here presenting to you, but just wanted to um preview that as one of those strategies as well. The comprehensive achievement and career readiness um included a new goal area for this past year that was all students are prepared to be lifelong learners. As we reflected on what a lifelong learner is, we we we came up with the ide the definition of it being someone who continues to pursue knowledge and skills throughout their life. Some characteristics of a lifelong learner could be self-aware, curious, self-motivated, resilient, goal orientated, reflective, and adaptable. You've heard specifically about a new tool that we have now engaged with our um high school students called school links. Our work has begun with implementing the plan with grade 12, but we have put into play appropriate activities at every grade level. In grade nine, students will explore career interests, become self-aware and curious. In grade 10, that career exploration will continue. Grade 11, college v vid v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v visits as well as workbased learning will be part of the activities they will be participate in. And finally at grade 12 that planning for postsecary goal development being goal oriented, reflective but also adaptive as they head on to their post-secary plans. If this is a new goal, we don't have our progress but we'll have that for you next year where we'll have participation um of students in each of those grade levels. Equitable access to excellent and diverse educators aligns with our achievement in integration plan goal number three. In this goal, we state that the percentage of Mountains View public school teachers of color will increase from 4.9% in 2022 to 6% in 2026 with the outcome that the percentage of teachers of colors would continue to approach the percentage of students of color. This again is a multi-year goal. As we uh reflected on the goal in 2122 we were at 4.9% percent. This this year with this year's group of educators we are at 5.9%. So initially about.1% away from that overall goal of 6% in 2026. So as we work to diversify our um educators within our system. We have two a two-prong approach. where are working with students that are currently within our system who are interested in education and then we also have um some pathways for um adults that are in our system that don't currently have teaching degrees maybe working as paras that are interested in pursuing an alternative uh pathway. So, our current program, the grow your own uh program for our students, we have two teachers who are former grow your own students that are current working in the district. One elementary teacher at Bair and then we also have a um high school uh teacher at Irondale um an English teacher over there. We have one candidate who just finished up her student teaching um on December 5th. So, she'll be ready for a position in Mel as early as January 2026. three of our grow your own candidates, so these are um alum of our system um are in their sophomore year of college and we have another one in their freshman year. So, we'll be continuing to support them and stay in contact with them um as they pursue that. The way we get students in, one way that we get students into that is through a club called Educators Rising and we have that at both Mountain View and Irondale. We have 28 students that are currently in that and um as part of that we uh give them information about what it means to be an educator and we also take them on college visits. Visited the University of Wisconsin at River Falls on October 31st and they were at Hamlin University on December 4th. In addition, as I mentioned, we support adults in our system who are interested in pursuing an alternative pathway to earning a teaching license. That's through Teach Minnesota. We had three people who started that program in 2324. um no one last year but two new people from this year and we do have a school talk article from the fall of 2023 that highlights this program that we're continuing to support. So that concludes our annual report um uh for this year and we're happy to take any comments questions that you might have. It was a lot. It was and we got to hear so much of it at the work session. So that was great information. Um, I think one of the things that I always find interesting is that we as a district track um, graduation rates beyond what a lot of people think, right? They think once you're you finished your fourth year in one of our high schools, that's that's where we um, stop tracking graduation. And it's it's great to hear those numbers. Um, especially I know students who receive special services are have access to those services um, in in our district um, well beyond that 18 year old birthday. It's great to hear to see that tracking and see that students aren't just um left after after um you know that that June date um when we might expect them to graduate, but we know that students come from different backgrounds and circumstances and appreciate all the work that all those educators do to help our students succeed and meet those goals. Any other comments or questions? Just thank you. It's a lot of work together. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Uh next up is uh item 6.1 um updates, Association of Metropolitan School Districts. Uh Jim, I believe you guys met um last Friday. Yes, we did. And um we had a couple presentations. One from uh a gentleman named Josiah Latant and he runs the Minnesota P20 Ed Partnership. What does that mean? there uh there's a task force there's a group taking a look at PSO uh college in the school school to work and uh AMSD is participating that process lending um suggestions and things like that that hopefully will maybe improve state policy in this area and um I think I had a nice chat with him and um one thing I'm very proud of is we do so many things well but our school to work our college and the schools are really really ahead of most folks folks and you know when you look at the um cost savings and the access to education that our parents get and the kids get in this district it's really fantastic. So that was good. We chatted about cell phone policy which is something we'll probably have to revisit in the next year or two but uh Stillwater gave a really nice presentation on cell phone policy. uh they ended up in a little bit different place but I do appreciate the state legislature didn't mandate what our policy had to be that we actually you know MJU is a little different than Still Water Still Water Still Water is a little different than Spring Lake Park and so um that we had the opportunity to govern ourselves at the local level. So um that's um that's what's going on with AMSD. Thank you Jim and Shauna. What about Northeast Metro 916? I'm not sure if you've had another meeting. We have not had another meeting since our uh last Monsu school board meeting. So 916 board will meet tomorrow night and I will have a meeting for this group or a update for this group in January. Great. Thank you. All right. Um now we have item 6.2 schoolboard member reports or updates. Well, I would like to start out by uh just acknowledging that we actually have two schoolboard members who um are finishing their term. We actually said goodbye to Yolanda McGee last month. She was unable to be at this meeting tonight. But tonight we have the opportunity to thank um chair and board member Diane Gashin who's been on the Monsu School Board for eight years. And um I know I have been greatly impacted by your leadership and um just like we heard during our comments to the board earlier from one of our constituents, Brian Stw, I met you as a volunteer in the district before I met you in our schoolboard service. and um I knew then uh the dedication that you had to our system, our staff, our students, and wanting to just continually make an impact. And so I'm extremely grateful for your eight years of service um to the board and for your last two years as chair and leading um this group in this room as well. and we appreciate um we know the time it takes, the focus it takes, um the attention and the care and I think everyone on our board has definitely felt that as well as um so many staff and students um across the district. So, we're very grateful for you. We're going to miss you terribly. Um but we uh we're grateful for your service and know that whatever's next will be uh hopefully enriching as well. Thank you. I appreciate that. Diane and I go way back uh eight years to our very first uh campaign together. Um and it's just crazy to think about all the things we've been through in the last eight years. Um it's been a lot. It's been a real lot. It's been a lot. Um, and so I just want to say thank you for your leadership during crazy times, things that we never could have imagined uh would happen. So, thank you for just your your steady partnership and your uh just leading us um and keeping us on task and uh really appreciate your friendship and your um dedication to this board and have fun. [laughter] Thank you, Shauna. That's right. Now you can vacation when you want to, not around school board meetings like the rest of us. So Diane, thank you for your hard work. Thank you for your leadership. The chair job is a hard job. I don't know if folks realize this. They're kind of our leaison with district staff and things like that. And as we seem to be up here always a pretty affable, agreeable group. I got to tell you in private we aren't. And [laughter] uh Diane has had to referee a lot of that. So uh God bless you and thank you for all your leadership. you know, as I've always said, I'll quote my friend Sandra Westerman, things just don't happen by accident, and your hard work has really uh made a difference in the district. So, you know, we've gone through everything from crazy elections to COVID to uh a whole lot of things the last eight years. So, um thank you. Thank you, Jim. And I wanted to say something very similar to what Jim said. Some some uh folks in the public might think we are just all of one mind. Uh but that is not how it happens. [laughter] Um at work sessions and beyond. Um and Diane, your ability to uh and and leadership through through conflict, real challenging conflict um uh has been remarkable and you've um maintained a level of professionalism and demanded it in the kindest of ways with all of us as well. uh respectful um conversations always um and it has been intentional and the reason that our school board um is as strong um as it is and our district then it all it all falls from there and also of course Christie your leadership um but the the chair position probably requires two to three times maybe more um uh as much time and commitment as any of the other uh positions on this school board. Um and it's more thankless [laughter] [gasps] and uh and it doesn't get paid anymore [laughter] or very little more. So um you know it really is a a service of the heart and so thank you for your last eight years. You will be missed um and you know have so much fun. Thank you. I appreciate on your Tuesday and Thursday nights, [laughter] all the extra time. Yeah. I I just want to say thank you. I think your colleagues did a great job for the public of explaining the amount of time, energy, effort that goes into the work of being an officer um as as part of a board and serving the public. But something that that wasn't said that I I want to make sure is said tonight as you've done this work. One of the things, excuse me, [clears throat] I'm losing my voice. The that has always come through is your deep care for the students, the parents, and the staff of this community. I mean, as we've done the work that is required of a board, as you've worked with your colleagues, as you've led, you've never lost sight of just that deep caring for we we wanted and need to do what's right by the kids and the parents in in this community. So, that's just always come through and I've always appreciated that. Will always appreciate that about you and the service you've given to the district. Thank you. Yeah, we we will miss you. Yeah, thank you. Um well, thank you so much for all the kind words. Um I appreciate them very much. Um when I reflect back, um earlier this year, I had made the decision not to rerun, um seek re-election in November. Um you know, I thought long and hard about it. Um you know, it was a bittersweet decision. Um but both of my children are out of the district and I felt like, okay, this this is the time, like eight years. Um our daughter just turned 21 last week and um I started volunteering in the district when she was in kindergarten. Um a a friend um colleague Brian Stroo um who spoke at comments to the board. We used to do the book fairs together um at Bair Elementary and uh we had two book fairs a year and if there was something that I was going to do that I was passionate about it was kids and reading and making sure that they had a book in their hand. And so that's why I was very passionate. Um, as Heidi mentioned, we met um on the the facilities task force and things just kind of came from there and uh John Tinula, a former board member, approached me at a Bair uh PTA meeting. He's like, I think you should consider running for school board. And I was like, I don't know. I don't know if I can do that job. And then it like piqued my curiosity and I started talking to um current board members, Superintendent Lennox. I talked to staff in the various um schools um and and friends and I was just like I just don't know if I can do that role and they're like yes yes yes give it a try and then like Janna said going back eight years I mean we ran ran together and went through a kind of an interesting campaign that year but um yeah and then um you know I've had the pleasure of serving with many talented people like Alyssa and Jim and others uh Amy Jones um Sandra Westerman, um Yolanda, um and others, Mary Joe Sager, and it's just been a wonderful experience. So, um I will miss you all. Um believe it or not, um I will find other things to occupy my time on Thursdays during work sessions and Tuesday board meetings, but um I just truly appreciate everyone being so kind, um and so welcoming. Um uh Chris, you are an amazing leader. um you do an amazing job with this district and um to your executive cabinet. Um you are so lucky. We are so lucky as a district. Um I know Colin isn't here tonight, but um we have a really really talented group that helps and leads this district. So, thank you to all of you um that have answered my silly questions at times. Um um so appreciate you just giving that little grace. Um, and Sarah, thank you for helping with um, keeping us all in line. Um, making sure that, you know, I had my materials or printing things last minute. Um, scheduling time, you know, for us to meet with the various people. Um, but I I do um I do want to thank my family. Um, they have sacrificed things as well. Um, there were things that I missed, but um, you know, my commitment was here. um and I wanted to make sure that I was here um representing um the district and so forth. So um again, thank you all. Um so appreciate you um everyone and um I wish you nothing um but the best of luck and Mark and Tasha um who are new board members that will be getting sworn in January. Um good luck to you. Um I hope you enjoy the work as much as I did. So thank you. Here's a small token of our appreciation because we can't purchase what would be really be an equitable [laughter] token of our appreciation. But thank you very much. And I actually do have one more uh school board member update. Oh, well perfect. Let's let's I have to lead with the really fun thing. Yeah, I have two after you. So go ahead. Well, mine is just an imitation and it might be yours, too. Friday afternoon, Irondale High School uh seniors to seniors concert. And who you don't have to have gray hair to attend, not although I am welcome in the front row. Um but the seniors to seniors concert for those who don't know uh it's the kind of top band, orchestra, and choir um at Irondale who perform. They have um they bring in bus loads of seniors from senior um community living across um our area and also obviously parents and community members and grandparents and everybody else are welcome. So caroling starts in the lobby at noon. Uh the concert starts at 12:30. It is an hour hour and a half concert. So make sure you eat something ahead of time. So you know there's that will be great. I'm sorry I took one of yours. You did take one of mine. Uh the other one I was just going to mention is that we are uh in the process of filling a vacant board seat and those applications are open until noon on Friday. So if anyone uh out in the public is interested in uh serving on our board, the application materials and process can be found on our uh website, but again those are due by noon on Friday. Jim, Alyssa, any updates? No, you're good. Wonderful. Well, thank you everyone. If there's nothing else to come to um before the board, we are adjourned. [applause]