I call this meeting to order. Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of
the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all. Let the record show that board members, Brent Tucker, Larry DeMoss,
and Jimmy Durnal are present. Visitors comments, or the visitors,
If not, we'll go to the mustang moment, Dr. Sanders. I invite Mr. Ackerman to come up. I almost gave
you another title, Dr. Ackerman. I want to read your pieces. No, it's too late now. I'm not going back
for that now. I am really excited to come before you today to introduce three incredible young ladies.
All three of them are seniors at Edgewood. They applied for the Lilly Endowment Scholarship
I admit I'm a little bit better because I don't think Edgewood has been as strong of a candidate the
past few years as I feel like we should have been with some candidates. But to have three out of five
in one year is absolutely incredible. So first I'm going to introduce Healy, who is actually the winner
of the scholarship. So Healy Patel, come on up. And Bella Carson and Ellie Vagitas. These really are
three incredible young ladies. I actually have a little bit of a connection to Ellie. Her mom was in
my first fifth grade class many years ago, and I'm not surprised that her daughter is here because she
was an incredible young lady as well. So what are you looking at Mr. Her mom. Yeah. So
Again, I introduce Ellie, Bella, and Haley. Well, I just want to say that Edgewood is a really good
community. I wouldn't have gotten the Lilly Scholarship if it weren't for Edgewood, and neither would
they. But it's a really good community. I love staying at Edgewood. I'm glad I came here for my high
school career. What's next?
What's next? Next is IU. Yeah, I committed to IU. Where do you guys come in? I'm going to IU Indianapolis
where I'll be swimming as well. I want to go to University of Evansville. So I will also throw in that
Ellie, our first swimmer since 2009, competed in the state championship swimming. 100 fly and 50 free.
won both and you have to win the sectional to get to the state. Yeah. That touring pretty cool.
Congratulations. I joined talk to each and every one of them. But what's cool about these girls is obviously
they're high academic students, right? But they're also very, very active.
And I don't know how they do it because Bella is like, she's probably here on campus more than I am.
You know, we've got a swimmer who competes at the state level and is a Lilly scholarship finalist.
And Haley, you know, she's,
She runs our coffee shop. Yeah, I'm all over Bloomington. I'm usually running my dad's errands around.
She also helps her dad quite a bit runs. Yeah, yeah. Very proud of all three of them. We are.
Thank you. Now we're going to accept the announcement of the approval of attendance for January 6, 2026
organizational meeting.
For January the 20th, 2026, a finance meeting. For January 20th, 2026, a regular board meeting. Financial
Treasurer's Report for January 2026 and claims are as follows. Gross wages on January the 2nd, 2026,
$729,179.28. Gross wages and mini payroll on January the 3rd, 2026, $15,587.47.
Gross wages on January the 16th, 2026, $744,890.20. Gross wages on January the 30th, 2026 for $820,653.31
for a total in that area of $2,310,310.24. For vouchers and claims and prepays, one January 1st, 2026
to January 31st, 2026 is $4,000,000.
$540,345.70 for claims and regular vouchers of February the 17th, 2026 is $381,593.65 for a total in
that area, $4,921,939, I'm sorry, $4,921,930.35 for a grand total of $7 million,
$232,249.59. And we go now to C with personnel resignations, retirements, personnel appoints.
This is D. E is out of state overnight field trips. Dr. Sanders. Yes, we have a couple really important
people here tonight to talk about the field trips.
Now you proved last month the show choir trip to Fairfield, but that has changed a little. Kyra, can
you come up and explain the difference? So with show choir competitions, we don't always get our schedule
way in advance as much as we would like. So last Monday,
I got an email from Fairfield with the schedule on it. It's about a three hour drive in a school bus,
and we would have had to leave the school by 3 a.m. to make the time that they wanted us there by. For
the high school, we would leave at 4 a.m. at the junior high. The high school would have to leave at
3. So rather than get the kids up in the middle of the night, we would like to do an overnight stay
in a hotel the night before.
so that they can get up early that morning and be at their best to compete. Okay, any questions for
Kyra? Saturday, we don't know yet. So Saturday for the junior high, we're going to be done in the early
afternoon and be able to leave probably around 3 p.m. The high school, it would just depend on if they
make the night show at Fairfield.
If they do make the night show, those awards are scheduled currently at 11.45 p.m. on Saturday. But
I can at least speak for- That's a three hour drive, right? And it's about a three hour drive on a school
bus, yeah. So for me, we're gonna be home before dinner on Saturday for middle school. Okay. So you
got chaperones for the night? Yes. Good. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, and we've gotten hotel rates and all that,
and we have a list of chaperones for
those students as well. Okay. Very good. Ms. Kim, I had a couple calls about when they're going to be
later than normal, like if they're going to be home like an hour later, you guys are communicating to
parents, right? Oh yes, yeah. Okay. Yeah, because I know some of them, and that's partially, I know
their kids can text them too to let them know they're coming in later. Yeah, we always post whenever
we're able to, we'll send out messages to parents.
about when we're getting home, when there's delays. Okay, so you got a group text that you can send
out? Oh yeah, yeah. We have several methods of communication that we use. Yeah, because I know with
junior high kids, especially, they have to wait, their parents have to take them home. Yes, yeah. And
luckily we aren't, we don't partake in the night show at the middle school level because it's not something
that's offered. So we're home well before the midnight and late, late hours of the night that the high
school can be with their finals shows. Okay.
So the downside for the high school kids is that they're leaving at 3 in the morning to go home. That's
a tough night for the dad. And we have hotel rooms also reserved for bus drivers.
We have a EHS Spain trip for Spring Break 2027. Brittany. Hello. So yes, I am back again. I'm Brittany
Clay. Proposing another trip through ACIS. We have traveled with them five times before.
But this year, or for next year, I would like to propose another trip back to Spain, we did Costa Rica,
most recently in 2024. But all of our trips previously were to Spain.
a trip off, but I wanna go back to Spain, to Madrid and Valencia and Barcelona. One big pull is that,
well, it's not officially done yet, but the Sagrada Familia, which is going to be the largest cathedral
in the world, the tallest cathedral in the world, it is still currently being built, yes. They predicted
that it would be done by 2026, so I was hoping to give it another year and then go see.
But I think with COVID and a few other situations, they're not done. They're probably not gonna be done
until 2030 something. But I would like to go back and see it. And I would like the students to be able
to experience a trip to Spain. So I try to do a trip within everybody's four years of high school. So
approximately every three years, we'll get every student the opportunity to go.
And if you noticed on the date, it says the 15th to the 22nd, that was the original date that I had
looked at, which would include missing a school day. It would be a Monday to a Monday. But she said,
I talked to the travel agent person, and she said that she could waive, it was a weekend, there was
a surcharge for a weekend travel, but she said she would waive that for us. So if we wanna travel Saturday
to Saturday, we can, and it won't affect with any school days.
Yeah, yeah. And Julie Byers will go with me. Yeah, so we're hoping to have at least 12 students because
with every six students, we have one chaperone go for sure. But the trip is also open to any other adults,
chaperones, parents, guardians as well. Perfect. Yeah. Thank you. Okay, thank you.
We have F, we have donations, we have 10 $100 donations from the local Tri Kappa group to the high school,
junior high, intermediate and primary school and early childhood school. Do we have a motion to approve
the consent agenda? Thank you, sir. All those in favor say aye. Durnal, if you could give me a chance to
I invite Mr. Rensler up to the podium to make a couple of introductions. Thank you guys. I wanted to
introduce a couple of new members to the EJHS staff. They were approved last month, weren't able to
make it to that meeting for various reasons, probably because I notified them too late.
But our two new teachers, Cecilia Venegas is going to be teaching eighth grade English language arts
for us. An IU grad from East Chicago, Indiana was actually a student teacher for us last spring and
has come back to actually teach in the exact same classroom. So I want to welcome her aboard. And Stephanie
McNeely has spent a little time down in Lawrence County and then over at MCC.
She has a kiddo at IU right now, and then a fourth and a fifth grader who hopefully will be joining
us next year. But just wanted to welcome them. Stephanie's actually our inclusion, sixth grade inclusion
teacher, because Noah, Noah Dixon decided to take a different job. So we were able to fill that position
with somebody great. So just wanted to take time to introduce them. Thank you. Welcome aboard. You're
still here, good.
Chicago. Because that's a local name. Well, they're bagging us and we've had to do. Okay. Interesting.
Welcome. Did you happen to see another familiar name on the agenda? Steve. Well, yeah, I grudgingly
voted for him.
That's it. That's it. Yep. All right. Number seven, consideration of revisions of wellness policy. First
reading, Dr. Sanders. Yes, it says action item, but it's actually seven and eight are both informational
items. And Vicki Coffey wanted us to consider two policy revisions. The first one is policy.
8510 it's the wellness policy and Vicki and the champs committee are both recommending these revisions
in order to make our policy more current with national health standards. So I will bring this back to
you in March for a vote for approval.
Okay, thank you. Consideration for Revisionary Food Service Policy 8500, Dr. Sanders. Yes. Once again,
on the recommendation of Vicki Coffee, and this is to reflect our practice here at RBB in terms of we
don't let students go hungry, so we don't allow lunch charges. Students will be provided with a complimentary
meal, which would be a choice of
PBJ sandwich, grilled cheese, or a sub sandwich. And all these, the three meals include all five components
of the MyPlate program. And so this is really just to reflect our current practice. And once again,
I'll bring it back to you in March for approval. Thank you, Dr. Sanders.
And number nine is in removed from the agenda. Number 10 is considerated to approve agreement with Harold
Fish Incorporated. We're going to table that. Is there a motion? I move to table the agreement.
Thank you. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Number 11 consideration to approve agreement
of Lancer Associates for the basketball softball artificial turf.
and sanitary sewer improvements. Dr. Sanders? Yes. So the next two items are to approve agreements with
our architect firm, Lancer. And one of them, actually number 11, is for the design of our baseball softball
turf project and related sanitary sewer improvements.
And the overall cost budget for that project is $23,483,673. That's the budget. So hopefully, we're
hoping the bids will come in less than that. The fee for this particular agreement is $1,526,400. So
I recommend your approval.
I move approval of the grant of Lancer for the baseball, softball, artificial turf and sanitary sewer
improvements. Is there a second? Yes. Quick question. That's the number 11 is not the $23 million. Correct.
Oh, that's the two points. That's two, 2.7. Correct. The number 11 for this. Yeah. The budget for that one.
You did 23 million first. Yeah, that's the 23 million is the overall budget of the whole project. That's
for number 12, correct? You're right. Right, number 11 was a smaller number. Yes, I got two, maybe two
and a half million. I got these mixed up, you're right. But you did second, right? So for the softball
turf project, the overall,
budget is $2,540,000. And the fee for the agreement with Lancer is $177,800. So we take these individuals,
Christine, or together? At this point, we've got all the information in, so if there's no objection,
you can take them together. Can you amend your motion to that? Yeah, I'll second to approve.
I have number 11, number 12 under one motion. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Number 13,
consideration to approve Edgewood Early Childhood Center Handbook for 26, 2026 and 2027. Heather, do
you want to say anything? I've just been making those updates now that we typically make at the end
of the year to align with our enrollment process so that parents have all of that updated
Usually we bring these handbooks together with the upcoming meetings we're having with parents, prospective
parents. We wanted to get this done earlier. It was last night. Good turnout? Yeah. Good. Good. I'll
move approval of the updates for the handbook for the early childhood center. I second it.
Any discussion? Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it. All those in favor indicate by saying aye. Aye.
Number 14, business manager report. Paul. Good evening to everyone. Tonight I gave you cash flows for
three years.
If you look at 2026, we're just now starting that. So we have January's numbers in there. And it was
typical of what we expected. What made January a little bit unusual was the three paydays in January.
So that bloats those numbers a little bit in payroll and benefits.
Typically, when I look at the beginning of the year, I don't get too excited until I've got two or three
months under my belt. Then we get some numbers that we can really get more accurate with in predicting
the rest of the nine months in the remaining year. So that's what you're going to see in 2026. And again,
I encourage you to keep an eye on your beginning balance in January and your ending balance in December.
That's what this is all about. This is knowing what's coming before it gets here. Okay, so then because
of that loss of revenue in 2026 and knowing we need to have at some point a discussion about 2027 and
2028 because of what the legislature has done to you.
You've heard me say you're gonna lose 900,000 to a million dollars in your operations fund. That's not
chicken feet. We're really gonna have to prepare for that two or three years down the road. So I've
attached 2027 education and operations to this and 2028. As close as we can get at this point, we know
these numbers are not 100% accurate.
But they're ballparkish, and they will change every month as numbers change each month and tie in to,
February we'll have some say about what the beginning balance is and ending balance, and on through
2026. So I'm not gonna talk anything about those two years tonight. I want you to take this, bring it
back when we do talk, whether it's in a regular meeting or it's a work session,
We're going to have to meet and talk about it at some point in time. And this is what you start with,
these three years. I'll probably bring 2029. But it's going to be an interesting debate. Can I ask you
a question, Paul? Sure. So just simple math. Over the next three years, Peter, the cash balance, we're
stealing about $1 million over the next three years. $1 million, $1.2 million.
at the end of 2028 with the current appropriations, we're gonna be a mess. Okay, unless something changes.
And that doesn't even count the town reorganization, because that could be another half a million dollars
on top of it. I was interested in what's happening here with your city and the county, and I saw that
number. And so that's not in here, okay?
So we're gonna, that's what we need to talk about, stuff like that. So we're blessed to have a cash
balance from some good, making good decisions, but some things are being taken out of our hands now.
Yes. Okay. Yeah, we're gonna have to decide what that number is you can live with and how do we keep
it. Right. You know, that's the big trick. Yeah. Do you have a way to make those little parentheses
go away? Negative number? Okay.
All I want is a plus, not a negative. Yeah. Yeah, it would be nice. Yeah, we can do that. Right. Yeah,
right on. She's up here. High five. This is my moral support. Yeah, OK. And so next month, she's going
to do this, and I'm going to be standing behind her. Right on. OK. All right.
Thank you, sir. Yeah, I did have another quick question, maybe Ms. Tate can help us with. On the register
that I put out, just wanna see where we're at with our special ed situation. So we had a voucher amount
of $66,000, is that for a month? How does that work? I know we have a couple of private placements.
Yeah, the voucher, we get an invoice from the different
vendors, the places, the facilities, basically, that the students are staying at. So on the voucher
that you are looking at, that was from those facilities and what our cost was. Yeah, so that was one
student, one location. How many for the year or for the month? That was for that month. For the month?
Yeah. So what's our grand total for per year? Are we working on reimbursements? Yes. So we just submitted
We had to get approval from them to be able to submit reimbursement. So we finally took a very long
time, but we finally got the approval from that. We've been spending the money because we had to, but
now we were able to submit the reimbursement. It was approved. The money is on its way to us. I think,
I can't remember what the total is. It's 400 or 500,000 coming back towards our accounts right now.
How much is it per student?
I mean, give me a ballpark number total. I know we have two students. Right. So one student at one facility,
the contract, it's $877,254.81. We have a down payment. It's a minimum. And Noah can explain that more
to you of $30,621.63.
And then, so that leaves us with $846,633.18 remaining that we'll have to pay, but we will get reimbursed
from. So that's just one student for the entire, like from- For the whole year. For the whole year.
What about student number two?
So student number two is the facility cost and the contract is $232,646. The down payment is the same
as the other student. It's the minimum. So it's $30,621.63. So that leaves us owing $202.24.37, but
that is all reimbursable money. So we'll have to pay the $202,000, but we'll be reimbursed for that as well.
So we have to have the cash balance. That's over a million dollars for two kids. We have a half cash
balance to pay it up front. And if we don't, what do we do, Paul? Yeah, I mean, and that's for, I guess
my concern was, and I'm all about helping our students, but 877 for one placement, Noah, and the other
one's 232. Why is there such a disparity? Is it the amount of care or the? That's a monster number for one kid.
Yeah, it's the amount of care that is different. The one for JRC, for Judge Rudenberg Center, that one
student has more significant needs for what they have to do. So are you talking about considering for
why they wouldn't have possibly been placed in another facility? Yeah, I mean, I just, I don't know
how schools can do this. Right. I mean, if you were like a voucher school or something, they wouldn't
have that cash balance unless they borrowed it.
Well, and that's kind of the, that's kind of the very nice thing with the seek reimbursement that we
get in the sense of if we didn't have it, then we would be paying. I mean, without reimbursement, like
for the JRC $877,000, but very thankfully the state does give us the allowance to where we're just paying
a minimum and then the rest gets reimbursed. So they just calculate for that minimum we were talking
about too, for that 30,000.
621.63 cents. That one's just a state one. They take it from, it's just the minimum per IEP. So in theory,
and I know what you mean too about at this point, it's just the process of, I think I submitted the
paperwork for it per their guidance in early fall, like August, September. It's just a longer process
for what they take from when that's submitted to,
Now, so that is kind of where we've been paying the front end for it. But then now we're starting to
see the money come in and that should be pretty steady. I think they are out of pocket once reimbursement
is right around 30,000 each. Is that correct? That's out of our pocket out of the schools corporations
pocket the 30,000. Yeah, is that about what it's going to be? That's what we've already paid it and
that's already been taken out of our amount. So at this point they were just reimbursing us for the
full amount that we
Do we always get, I mean, I know we haven't done this every year since I've been on the board, but we
do get reimbursed. Is there a guarantee we're gonna get reimbursed? And that's by the state or the federal
government? State. So the state's paying $877,000 to place one student. Okay. Yeah, and again, the whole
idea of it just with us,
being the ones that provide faith for free, appropriate public education. Since they're there, I mean,
the needs of these students would not be appropriate within them here at school. So we have to look
at other options for them, other places that they're at for their needs. And that's again, where it's,
if it didn't have a program like this, it would fall on us to still pay for that lunch sum of money.
But again,
In some ways it's nice again where the calculation for that minimum of the 30,621, that's just across
the state. I would be much more worried if it was like percentage based off of the entire money. So
like if you had one that was like 800,000 and then they're saying we're gonna take say 20%, that's the
minimum, that would be a lot more worrisome to me. But at least if we do have the higher end one, it's
still regardless of,
If we were paying, say, you know, $32,000, $40,000, $50,000 for a student to be at residential, which,
I mean, we wouldn't find costs for that anyways, we would still be paying that flat fee. So in some
ways, it's nice, even if it is to that point where it's on the higher end up there, we still
get reimbursement for the rest. We just pay that minimum fee, and that comes back to us.
Chairman of the Education Committee of the House today, when I was at the State House, they actually
addressed this and they said there's nothing they're going to do this session, but they definitely,
it's on their radar for next year and both the Republican chair and the Democratic minority leader on
the Education Committee are aware that this is a lot of money that is coming out across the state.
Right, and we're just one school corporation. Yeah, exactly. This was great, a lot of school corporations.
Oh yeah. They wouldn't have the cash balance to do it. And it gives a whole new meaning to rainy day.
Yeah, right. I didn't know if there was a way to get, without spending a ton of your time, the difference
is 877,000 versus 232, how much more services can be provided for that
Extra 700, that number seems, that's a lot of money. I don't know how or where that comes from. I don't
know if you could have a breakdown. Was that from this Rotenberg, Rotenberg Education Center,
Judge Rotenberg? That's where that 877's at? Yeah, we can provide. I don't know what I mean. Oh, we
might see that. Oh yeah, not tonight. Yeah. Okay. I can get that to you. Yeah, because I'm just thinking
if there's 10 kids there, that's over $9 million a year.
You can get a lot of services. All right, thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Sister Supervisor Fort will pass on that. Yeah, this is the mayor. It is headed to Fort Wayne
tonight. They were doing a presentation tomorrow for ROI. That area is getting ready to go through the
same process we went through with ROI.
and they asked for a school corporation that would come and do a good job in their presentation, and
they mentioned Edgewood, so Jennifer's on her way to Fort Wayne, and she'll do an awesome job tomorrow.
I'm not surprised. And now we have superintendent's report, Dr. Sanders. Yes, I just wanted to share
a really fun experience I had last night. My wife and I drove over to Columbus, Indiana,
and got to see our gymnastics team compete against East Columbus High School. And so proud of them.
Now, East Columbus is a school, a high school that's twice our size, and yet we had double the number
of gymnasts. And we also won the, I don't know, what do you call a gymnastic, a meet?
And then our girls, I guess it was the best they've ever done, so I may have to go more often. You know,
I watched the coaches last night. Hannah Dodds is our corporation nurse and she's a gymnastics coach.
And while I was watching the girls, I was watching Hannah and David Woodamore as assistant on there.
And David Woodamore is just like, he's everywhere.
participates in a lot of different ways. When I look at these people, they're passionate about kids.
They're taken away from their own family, their evenings, many evenings, for the sake of building these
young people up. I hope someday we can have a place where our gymnastics team can compete on campus.
Right now,
We don't have the equipment nor the space, but that's a goal I think that we have for down the road.
Gymnastics, at least for Edgewood, continues to grow, and I'd like to see them be able to compete on
our own campus. And we have March coming up here pretty soon. We have some important events coming up
with that. Preschool enrollment will open up. We'll have, towards the end of the month,
We'll have a K-5 kindergarten welcome week. And so we want to make sure that this information
gets communicated out to the community so that we can get young people signed up for preschool
and kindergarten. And then last, I just wanted to share the latest enrollment numbers. As you know,
we have two ADM counts two times during the year.
that we do an official count of number of students. And so I always like to give you those numbers back
to fall 2018. And I just picked that because that's when I started. It just seems like a good time to
start. And it shows our numbers K through 12 from really fall of 2018 until present time. And if you
look at the,
The graph below, you'll see, I think that's pretty cool, given the circumstances across the state with
so many school corporations declining enrollment. But if you look in spring 2019 compared to spring
2026, you'll see that we grew over 100 students during that time. And I think that's pretty significant.
for us to be really proud of. And I think it's just an indication of our community, a growing community,
indication of the quality of education that we're providing here at Edgewood, our facilities, our programs.
And hopefully, we'll continue to see this slow steady great.
We don't want this sort of growth. It'd be a good problem to have, but a growth that's overwhelming.
But right now, our demographic studies that we've had are right on target of showing a slow steady growth.
And so that's my report for tonight. Thank you, Dr. Smith. That's won me over for those two demographic
studies I thought were way off. Right. I just in my mind, I see all these houses going up around Ellesville
and I think, well,
That's going to bring a bunch of kids in there, but it just doesn't. RBBEA comments. Ty.
Good evening, everyone. I just wanted to speak briefly. We're coming up on the end of the legislative
session here on February 26th. And there's a lot of bills that we don't have a ton of control or agency
over. But one of the things we were talking about at the high school meeting on
Monday was state bill 78, which is potentially banning wireless devices in the classroom, which would
fundamentally restructure throughout the entire day, which would really restructure the way that we're
doing things. And the message that we were given on that was basically there's nothing to do on that
until it passes, but if it does,
we're gonna really have to come up with a plan and address that, and this is from the ISTA legislative
update from February 13th, so a few days ago, and so I know these things are quickly changing, but another
bill that has come up is, and I'm just gonna read it from President Jennifer Smith-McGrath's update,
Says a new and problematic issue has arisen under state Bill 76, a large and far-reaching immigration
bill that now impacts both K-12 schools and higher education institutions among other entities. The
bill requires schools, universities, courts, jails, and any other governmental bodies to comply fully
with immigration customs and enforcement or face a $10,000 fine.
Further, the bill includes university police, also hospital police, and relevant to us, school resource
officers as agents of immigration enforcement. ISTA and multiple coalition partners have been sounding
the alarm on SP76, along with many other community groups. The bill passed 60 to 28 on a third reading
in the House Thursday. It now heads back to the Senate. So, again, this is not something that is
happening currently, but it is something that could be happening soon. And I just wanted to make sure
that I said something today. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Board members comments, Mr. Tucker. Thanks for
when it came out this evening. I am going to defer to Mr. DeMoss to kind of tie into what Mr. McGinnis
mentioned, because he was at the state house today. If you've got any additional information to share.
It's going into you. School board association had their legislative date today. And so there were education
committee members that addressed us and we discussed that as well as some of the other legislation.
You're right, it's of a concern, although there was some, I guess, moderation
in terms of what the actual impact would be because a lot of the information that is already available
and you would not be required to share any information that's otherwise forbidden like HIPAA or FERPA
information couldn't be compelled without a judicial warrant. I felt a little bit better after hearing
that discussion.
It appears that most of the legislation that we've been watching is probably going to pass in one form
or another. The wireless device thing, I think there's still some will room on how that's going to end
up hitting the road, what it's going to look like in the classroom. But I think something's going to
definitely happen. I think it's pretty much a done deal. But yeah, it's coming down to the end.
I know a couple of bills are certainly going to die and a couple of others that probably will be gutted
before they, before they're signed, so anyway. Yeah, but also congratulations to the girls that appeared
this evening. That was really exciting. And also thanks to Tri Kappa for their generosity as they've
been doing for generations and it's amazing.
Thank you. I just reiterate what Mr. Tucker said. So glad to see the administrators here. It's just
amazing the job you're doing. The more I understand your job, that was my goal to be a teacher and a
coach and a principal at some point in time, but I'm not sure I can put all the hours in you guys put
in, but we really appreciate it. Debbie and Paul, we're gonna be leaning on you quite heavily here to
guide us through
to guide us through this up and down time we're coming. So it's really interesting. The town's going
through the same thing. We're trying to fend off reduction in force and it's just, it's been tough.
So if there's nothing else, this meeting is adjourned.