So, this is what the operating levy the primary focus of the operating levy is is to make sure that we can do that uh cutting staff at the level that we've been cutting the last couple years and also make sure that we can maintain and keep programs that we're offering.

If people do not say yes to this question, if they just ignore it, uh nothing fill in blank is a no. So we telling everybody make sure you fill in yes for that third question. The third question is independent of our school.

when we look at cuts and having to do cuts, we always have to look at what's going to be the least impactful to the classroom because that's our responsibility as a school district.

Basically, it's 2% of being in the hole.

My biggest thing is where we're at is I know these are our controllables. If we can control this, we can control our destiny essentially.

I think to what's important in that analogy, which I really like, is, you know, when we're looking at reductions, we have to look potentially, right? If we're looking at potential reductions, we have to look too at what makes sense now and what makes sense 5 10 years from now. So a cut now could be brought back in another year or it's just you have to kind of factor in what helps now versus what helps in five years.

I think it's worthy of it before even having this conversation.

Trust future focus, right? and student achievement. So, if I had to pick three things that are like plain, simple, and easy, I know that's not everybody's answer, and everybody wants to do the survey, which I'm perfectly fine with doing it, sure. But hands down, sounds pretty good to me.

And the proposal that Rod put together is very similar to what I've experienced in other districts. And Prior Lake Savage is a special district. I know that. I'm not denying that. But efficiency is efficiency regardless of how you define it.

I would like to make a suggestion that we the whole purpose of having the three committees was for public engagement and person with accountability because we always had the ability for people to reply.

And I would say if that was the purpose of the committee in my experience, it's failing miserably. just simply because of the fact that the feedback I've received is that prior to this year where there was open dialogue and open discussion, the policy committee was pretty much a sit and get.

I cannot stress enough I don't care what opinions are MSBA makes it crystal clear school boards are responsible for policy period okay and so I you got two and a half weeks or two weeks, go back, look at all that information, make sure you you've educated yourself.

I think we've made big headways with our community on live streaming the meetings um there is no meeting that we don't have that there's not a hundred people viewing a meeting and so we I understand the changes happened during co I went back and got that history so thank you for sharing all that because it's all um exactly what um what my understanding of it is. Well, I I don't mind the informal setting. I think it's fine. I just think that if we're trying to be more transparent in one conversation and now we're going to close the meetings in another session and not live stream them. Like we're completely doing one thing out of one side of our mouth and another thing out of the other side of our mouth.

Relationships are are are key and all of them. I have never had anyone not suggest moving from the live streaming and just a more intimate study um more I shouldn't say intimate a more relaxed study session atmosphere.

I mean there's a ton of opinions one way or another you know it's just that as a group it's important that as a team focused in on what's going to help this group be the most effective and most efficient at moving forward. And that's, you know, and like I said earlier, not everything's on paper. Nothing's touched in stone. So if it if you try something, you don't like it, then try something else.

Um, if somebody says, "Why aren't they being live streamed anymore?" Because they don't need to be. They don't need to be. And we're not trying to hide anything. And if you want to listen to the recording, you can do that. If you want to attend, you can do that. We're not hiding anything. And I think there's there's there's two pieces to this that I think if we do move forward with this change that we need to really focus on. And that is one making sure that we're clear about why it is we're making this change. And two, just don't feed the bad information. Simple as that.