All right. Good evening. This is a public meeting of the board of education and Clark public schools adequate notice that this meeting has been given in accordance PL 1975 chapter 431 and there special notice was made in conformance with section 13 of the act. We get a motion to return to public miss
followed by Miss Aonus. In favor I if we can all uh rise for the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God
indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So at this time we'll take a roll call please. Mr. Selonis here. Mr. Bamingo here. Mr. Breedy here. Miss Harrison. Miss Guerrero
here. Miss Sikman here. Mr. May present. Mr. Mr. Smorl here and Mr. Dunerson here. Have eight board members of our quorum. Thank you. Um so at this time uh we just want to take a moment tonight to honor and
reflect on Tom Lewis. For those that don't know or are aware we lost Mr. Lewis on August 15th. He was a dear friend and a fellow board member uh of the Clark Board of Education. And I'm sorry I'm reading this. It's just I got to get through it. While words often feel in inadequate at
moments like this, I hope just to share a small reflection on the impact Tom had on me and the rest of the board. Tom was more than just a fellow board member. He was a friend, a colleague, a mentor, and truly a pillar of this board in the community. He always brought energy,
sometimes more energy than we expect to handle, but uh he was always but it was always in the best way his energy. He paired that energy with kindness, integrity, and a genuine spirit of generosity. Wherever Tom went, he left his mark.
Tom exemplified dedication and excellence, not only to the students of Clark, but to Raw and throughout the county. He poured his heart into every role he took on. He approached each challenge not with a desire for personal recognition, but with unwavering
commitment to the community. If Tom was involved, you knew Tom was all in. He gave his full attention, his full effort, his full heart to every project he was involved. And that was Tom's gift. He was abil his ability to
make people feel seen, supported, valued. He wants nothing more than to leave others better off than when he first met them. Whether it was a word of encouragement, a practical solution, a shirt, a sweatshirt, but just his presence, Tom found ways to lift people
up. What made Tom so special wasn't what he did, but how he lived. Through his example, he reminded us that relationships matter, that kindness matters, and that the true measure of well of a well-lived life is not found in titles or accolades, but in the love
and respect of others. Tom embodied that truth every day. As we reflect on Tom and his life, let's carry forward the lessons he left us. To show up fully, to give generously of ourselves, and to treat each day as an opportunity to make a difference through his though his his
absence is deeply felt, his his his influence remains alive in our work, our friendship, and in better versions of ourselves that he inspired us to become. Tom will be deeply missed but never forgotten. His legacy is wed into this
board into this community and the countless lives touched. At this time pass over Mr. Grande reflect on Mr. Lewis as well. Thank you Mr. Don Christina. I keep using the word that Mr. Lewis was a cornerstone not only of our Clark schools community, our larger Clark
community and throughout the county. Mr. Lewis was always giving of his time. He would make himself available literally on a 24 24/7 basis. Any one of us. I'm honored to consider him a very dear
friend. He made me a better person and a better educator. Taught me many lessons and lessons that I'll take with me throughout the rest of my life. He also left us with so many good stories and so many fun sayings that
we're using. I've been using even since he's passed. His love for our students was beyond compare. If a student was in need or his or her family, he would seek the resources to
help them and never wanted recognition. On holidays, he'd ask call the school counseling office and get me some families in need. And he'd get shopper gift cards and want him dropped off without recognition. That's the type of
man we're talking about. And his love for Clark, he loved Clark and he was always challenging each and every one of us to make Clark better. And I use the word challenge because we never wanted to let Mr. Lewis down. I know he's up in heaven and he's
watching over every one of us and he's continuing to guide us. Mr. Lewis, you will be missed, but we know we're going to see you again. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Yes. My comments are going to be very brief and I'm going to read because I'm
going to get very emotional and I do not have um waterproof mascara. I'm sorry. Uh first, Mr. Tom Lewis was a good husband and a wonderful father and friend to his two sons, David and Tommy.
He was a colleague in the Roy public schools with me and he was on our board of education with us for 20 years. Yet most importantly, he became a dear friend. As a colleague in Roy, after a long
boring administrative meeting, I always enjoyed hearing his interpretation of what the meeting was all about with a very comical twist. Tommy knew how to make people laugh with his great sense of humor.
Mr. Lewis was a friend to many. He was always being helpful, especially with those less fortunate. And I know I'm being redundant, but this was Tommy. Whether it was making donations, helping students with scholarships,
getting them into college, or just getting them to graduate Roway High School through his leadership at the ACE. Tom eagerly was willing to lend a helping
hand, as he did with me when I was running into a few problems. Mr. Tom Lewis, excuse me, told you Mr. Tom Lewis will be sorely missed by me and so many others whose lives he touched and he touched thousands of
lives. He'll always have a place in my heart and his words will always stay with me. I know Tom is probably listening to us, his hand on his cheek and his head just
moving from side to side. Tommy, I love you. rest in peace. Thank you so much. Yes. So, I'm not going to read mine. I'm going to try to speak from my heart. Um, I actually first met Tom in 1977 when I
was a senior in high school and Tom I played basketball here at Johnson. Tom was coaching at Rawway. Um, but we really became uh started to build a relationship probably some 20 years ago. And when I came on to the board, our our
relationship became so much closer. I considered Tom one of my best friends. Um I I either talked to Tom or see or saw Tom five to six days a week. Um he was a big part of my life. Um he has
done so much for me and my family which is just consistent with the type of person he is. Um Tom had Tom had a great passion for for people. Um those that were underprivileged. He was always
looking to do more. Um he had a great passion for for the kids in the Clark school district. um in terms of not not you know Tom was a athletic director in Railway so he loved sports but he had a great passion for academics as well and
wanted to see the Clark students do well be successful. He had the type of personality that he could come in and he could lift a room. Um he was a great entertainer. Uh he was a great motivator
and uh as as Lorraine said, you know, he could tell you stories and and you just die laughing at the things that he was going to tell you, but he just had a he just had such a big heart. Um one of his latest initiatives was he he was the
visionary for the resurrection of our preschool program. And I think Tom would be very proud of us um today to see where this is and what we've accomplished. And uh we just kicked off the program the last few days and it's
been enormously successful. Um so I think I think he's looking down right now with great pride. Tom was the last guy that ever wanted recognition. He was never an eye guy. He would rather stay under the radar behind the scenes, but
would do so much for so many. Um, he had a big voice and a big presence in this board. Nothing happened on this board without Tom's blessing, so to speak. Um, if you wanted to get something done, you had to get Tom on
your side first and foremost. That's that's just the way he was. Um, as Lorraine said, he he's he's got, you know, it's going to enormous shoes to fill. No one's ever going to be able to fill his shoes. Um, I'm going to miss him terribly. Um, as I said, uh, he's
touched so many of our lives. He's done so much for so many people. And uh even though he spent 51 years in Railway, he 52 years in Railway, he was he had become a cornerstone here in Clark in
the Clark School District as a board of education member and also with all the other things and contributions he made to the district, whether it was gifts to recognize scholars or things that he did for different teachers. um that's who he
was and and and he was, you know, if anybody's sitting in heaven, he is because he's done so much for so many. So, God bless him. Thank you. So, yesterday I talked with my wife and
I told her that I was going to speak here tonight about my good friend Tom. Actually, my best friend, Mr. Tom, and she said, "Hey, just curious like how long have you known him? I know you met him in high school. And I said, "Well, let me think about that for a
minute." And as coincidences happen, the first day of school for me in 10th grade, which was where he was, was September 3rd, 1975, Roy High School. 50 years to the day that she asked me when did I meet him. Not knowing when I had
met him, I did the math on it and realized that that was the first day of school. It was on a Wednesday. the two days coincided 50 years later were both Wednesdays and I thought and I only remembered because I always knew the first day of school was the Wednesday after Labor
Day. I said that's really an incredible thing. So I thought about those 50 years that I've known as I said my best friend but Tom had hundreds of best friends but I I had the best friend when I called this car
because he related with certain things about certain people and he saw qualities and he as he would say I'm going to put this person under the lamp and I'm going to figure out what they're at what they're about and if he liked you he would draw you in and he would keep you there for as long as you would
study. I mean for me it was 50 years but he had 50 years of other students that he was doing the same thing for. He was a mentor. For me it was the loss of my father. He was like a father figure. And for the same 50 years he was like a
mentor for the staff at Rawway. And the attributes speak for themselves when you see when people today talk about Tom Lewis, people that had retired 30 years ago were at his funeral service. He was
that kind of a draw. He had that much passion for so many people and the friendships he developed over that 50-year period that I knew him. 52 for him in the schools. But more importantly, more than anything was his love of his family and Karen, Tom and
Dave. And he would always bring them into conversations when we would speak and what he could do for his own family and how sometimes he felt selfish because he didn't give them the time that he might have been taking from them to do the things that he had passion for in the schools. But he was the type of
individual that continued to work and make make things work for all facets in his life. family, staff, students, and friends. It's an incredible task. And I think part of that was his upbringing. Grew up in Newark, New Jersey, tough
conditions, didn't have a lot of money, and was forced to work jobs overnight and still go to school the next day. It's an incredible an incredible person that comes around once in somebody's lifetime. And I'm blessed to have been here for that moment.
Um, I want to relate uh what Ed had said about um these these Christmas gifts and uh I have a good friend that's known Tom for probably longer than I've known him and that's Pete Cole who's in the audience tonight. And and Peter uh also a ROA guy
like I was as was Tom and uh that story that Ed touched on didn't just start here in Clark. That that story started 50 years ago when Tom would go out and get donations for gift baskets and he would go to the railway administrators and he would say, "Give me a list of the
the people in need in this town. I want to make sure that they do something. Find out who these kids are and but don't tell anybody. We're just going to take care of them." And the Sunday before Christmas, he would make it a point to take these baskets and go out
late at night knocking on doors in in uh some of the areas of town that you wouldn't want to go knock on doors at night now. But it was really a nice a nice gesture and it hit home for him, but he didn't want recognition for it.
One night, Sunday before Christmas, Pete related the story to me that he came back to the bar, Pete owned the tavern in Raleway, still does. And uh they were all sitting in there late at night, few few people that were with Tom, and all
of a sudden he gets the idea, you know what? This has really been bothering me that I went out and I gave these, he says, you have no idea how much need these people are in. And then he got the idea, I'm going to go to Shopright and buy gift cards. I'm going back.
It was late. People had jobs to go to the next day. Some people had been up all day. Don't worry, I'll take care of it myself. And he went out with these gift cards late at night and made sure that these families had enough money for Christmas. And that's who he was. He
didn't look for recognition on that the next day. He didn't come to anybody to say, "Hey, look what I did." We found out about this way after the fact when some of the parents and some of the kids came back. Hey, did you hear what Mr. Lewis did and they would tell you the story, but he wasn't looking for the recognition. That's who he was.
And it it comes back to another story where um I talked with uh his good friend Kevin Tenpenney. He's also here tonight. And this was a really a really emotional story for a lot of people. But
uh Tom had a a student in his program at the Ace High School who had difficulties. He came from a troubled family and um he looks for any kind of structure that he could get. And Tom always made it a point when he brought
his bagels in the morning for Kevin and himself, he goes, "Get three." He goes, "We got to get one for uh you know, and I won't mention his name, but we're going to get one for the for the other student." They said he he would come in the room and in some cases some people
will offer you something and out of respect, you think, well, they really just being nice to say, "No, no, thank you." But Tom was the type guy was, "Hey, get in here." He goes, "Open that refrigerator. Knock down a glass of orange juice. Have a bagel. Put put your
butt down in that chair right now." He made the kid feel like he was really something, like he had like he wanted him to be there and he did. And he would give him a reason to stay. He'd give him a reason to come to this ACE program, a reason to come to school every day.
That's who he was. Well, at the uh cemetery, all of a sudden, they see somebody walking up right prior to the funeral service. Lo and behold, that student
made it all the way from Rowway to pay his final respects. So, Tom, he meant a lot to a lot of people. I'm just going to I'm going to close it out with something that um George
Bernard Shaw quoted. It's called a splendid torch. And when I first heard this some 50 years ago, Tom was actually in the audience and it struck home to me because he commented on he thought how beautiful it was. He's talking about
somebody in administration who was being honored at the time of Veterans Field in Raleigh. And I've always saved this. I think it's so appropriate. So I'm going to I'm going to read that right now. This is from George Bernard Shaw. It's
called the Splenda torch. And this, as I read it, anybody that knew Tom, if you just picture this, I think you'll understand where it comes from. This is the the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by
yourself as a mighty one. the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little cloud of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I
die. For the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle for me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I have got
to hold on for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. That's that's Tom Lewis. May he rest in peace. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mer.
Um, I came on the Gar I'm the Garwood representative and I came on the board in 2007, knowing only Miss Wonus from our my previous stint on the Garwood Board of Education. So, I didn't really know what I was coming into when I I came here. I
didn't know the people at the time. Tom was the president of the board and he welcomed me and made sure that I got introduced to all of the board members at the time and over time he realized that I was kind of a rules person. Um,
you know, if the law says this then you follow the law and I would bring up things and he'd say to me, you know, it's a good thing you're on the board because you're going to keep us on the straight and narrow. And he was he welcomed me. It wasn't just I I was just like this straight person from Garwood.
He really did believe in the unity of Clark and Garwood students. He would always ask me what's happening in Garwood, you know, how's the new superintendent? What are you doing? What are the issues? He was always concerned about going beyond the town of Clark.
And like I said, including me, was always professional and and I always he always made me feel like I was truly part of the and am part of the Clark Board of Education. And for that, for all of these years, I am truly grateful
and will always be thankful to him and to his welcoming me and Garwood into the system of of Clark and the ALJ school system. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. So, it's been an honor to
me on this board. Um, spending time with him outside of the board as well, but uh his passion, it's it's unbelievable. Um, but we had the honor of listening to him at our
graduation this year and it it is it's just his passion. He loves Clark. I know he worked in Rawway for a long time, but he loved this school district. He loved these kids, staff,
admins, everyone. He was uh he's going to be truly missed. Thank you. Okay. So, I'm sorry. So, just one one other thing I'd like to mention. We as a board obviously um we're going to be looking
to honor Tom in an appropriate way. So, we as a board are working through that right now um in terms of exactly what that's going to be. So, um just want to keep you guys informed that uh that there will be something to commemorate
um Tom's contributions to this school district and people that he worked with um and to recognize him for for those contributions. So, uh we're just we're working through that as a board. So, more to come on that at some point in time.
Thank you, Mr. If there's nothing else at this time, I would just like just take a a moment of silence in memory. Thank you. Okay, so um moving on. Um we're going to
get on to the meeting. If we get a motion for approval from last month followed by Miss Ferrero. I make a motion. Oh, I already got a motion. I'm sorry. Uh, any questions or comments? If not, Paul, please.
Yes. Mr. B. M. Guerrero. Yes, yes, Mr. May. Yes, Mr. Small. Yes, Mr. Dr. Smith. Yes. Motion carry. Thank you. So, at this time, I'm going to open the
floor to the public for agenda items only. So, if there's something on the agenda that you'd like to come up and discuss, now would be your time. Come up, state your name, your address. For non-aggenda items, we need to end the meeting. So, seeing none on that, we'll move on to personnel items 1 through 24.
A motion Mr. Small 55. Mrs. Sorry by Mrs. Hickman. Any questions or comments? Roll call, please. Mr. Colonus. Yes. Mr. President, yes. Mr. Abstain 1 through three,
7 through 17, 21, 22. Yes. On the rest. Thank you, Mr. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Smurl. Yes. And Mr. D. Yes. Mr. Car. We'll move on to curriculum. We have items 25 and 26 motion. Miss Aonus followed by Mr. May.
Any questions or comments? A roll call, please. Mr. Aonis, yes. Mr. B, Pennsylvania. Yes. M. Guerrero. Yes. On 25 abstain on 26. Mr. Hickman. Yes. Mr. May.
Yes. Mr. SM. Yes. And Mr. Duncan? Yes. Mr. Carrie? Thank you. On policy, we have only item 27. Can I get a motion? Sickman, followed by 28. Oh, we have 27. 27 28 27. Oh, I'm sorry.
27 and 28. Can I get a motion? Miss Aonus, followed by Mr. Bay. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, roll call, please. Miss Aonus. Yes. Mr. Psylvania. Yes. Miss Guerrero. Yes. Miss, yes. Mr. May, yes. Mr. Swirl.
Yes. And Mr. Dish, yes. Mr. Carrie. All right. So, board governance, we have 29 car. I see Mr. Bzanga. M. Barero. Any questions or comments on those? Roll call, please. M. Yes. Mr. M.
Yes. M. Guerrero. Yes. M. Sickman. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Sarl. Yes. And Mr. Doug. Yes. Mr. Perry. And then finally, we have finance 3240. I have a motion. Mr. tomorrow followed by Malonus. Any questions or comments on
those? Seeing none, roll call, please. Malonus. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Abstain on 37. Yes. On the rest. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Sorl. Yes. And Mr. D. Yes. Commission Harry.
At this time, I'll hand it over to Mr. Grandandy for the report. Good evening and thank you, Mr. On this evening's agenda, we're approving the retirement of Mrs. Dan Bon Cororso a lunch recess aid at the Henley school after 26 years of good service to our district. We wish Mrs. Bonorso the
very best unlock in her next uh life steps. Teachers returned this past Thursday and I had the pleasure of meeting with them and so did their principles. They had their department and grade level meetings and time in their classrooms. Last Friday was our LL
training and teaching strategy school training for preschool. This past Tuesday was intervention training and student behavioral training. Our new certificated staff orientation and our administrator's opening meetings took place towards the end of this past August. Our first day for students was
yesterday, Wednesday, September the 3rd. We're thrilled to report that we have smooth openings, including our new preschool. Thank you to the board for their support and best of luck to our teachers, staff, and administrators in the year ahead. Next week begins our tour back to school
nights beginning with the preschool for four settings on Monday, September the 8th. Arthur L Johnson High School on Tuesday, September the 9th, Frankie Henley School, Wednesday, September the 10th. Carl Hump Thursday, September 11th, and following Monday, Valley Road
School, September the 15th. All of these events will be at 7 p.m. We're looking forward to seeing our parents to a great year ahead. Our bond referendum vote will be on Tuesday, September the 16th, and we would like everyone in the community to come out and vote. There's
approximately $35 million in needed projects, for example, roofs for all of our four schools and our elementary expansion with the growth of the population in Clark. This bond referendum would unlock $9
million in state aid. And therefore, our local share for these needed projects that we need to get done one way or another would be only 26 million. Still a large nut, but much smaller than obviously the 35 million. This rent referendum would result in no additional
school tax burden for our rent for our residents. This lack of an increase in taxes is because our referendum from 20 years ago would will be falling off this June. And this successful referendum would in essence replace that referendum. And the
analogy I give the old math teacher and me coming out is it's almost as if you had a mortgage on your house and that mortgage was dropping off and you were taking, let's say, a new mortgage for a shore house to have the payments pick up
immediately after the old mortgage dropped off and for an identical price. So there's not going to be any fluctuation in the tax bills due to this referendum. And again, just please remember to vote on Tuesday, September the 16th. And lastly, our access for
ELLL's or English language learners testing. The results are on the district website under the curriculum, technology, and assessment page. And we're thrilled to report that nearly 80% of our students scored at a level three, which is developing out of a scale of six, the
three or above. Thank you and have a good evening. Thank you, Mr. Randy. Uh, at this time, we'll do the report of the committees. Is that one? Yes. Uh first of all, I'd like to welcome back all of the administrators, the staff, the assistants, and most of
all our students. And we're looking forward to another successful school year. So, welcome back everybody. Hope you had a nice summer, relaxing summer because now it's time to get to work. So, uh, with that being said, as, uh,
chair of the technology and, um, curriculum committee, I'd just like to, uh, go over a couple of things that we did approve tonight in regard to curricula. Um, there are 26 curricula areas that were developed or revised
during the summer. They were written according to the New Jersey student learning standards in each of the curricula and content areas for each grade level. The purpose of this is being to help prepare all of our
students for post secondary success. The curricula areas that were addressed are as follows. The preschool courses, the tools of the mind, elementary, um we have develop and revise the English language
arts curriculum in grades three, four, and five. In the middle school, we addressed the science curriculum in grade six, social studies in grade seven, and the art curriculum in grade 8.
at the high school level um 16 semester courses were revised and four full-year courses were revised. So all 26 curricula areas were written by teachers who are certified and have expertise in
their particular subject area. So again we're all set to ready uh we're all set and ready to begin a new school year and um we're working towards excellence. So, thank you. Thank you, Moses. Any other report of
committees? Any unfinished or new business discussed? I would just like to remind board members that the Union County School Board uh meeting, the first meeting of this school year is October the 8th. It will be held um at the Westwood in
person. It can all pe board members can also attend it uh as a virtual meeting. and that the topic is going to be artificial intelligence and it's going to be a panel discussion um with students high school students uh and one
of the students on the panel will be from ALJ. So I'm hoping that people can come either in person or hybrid u for either in person or hybrid you need to register on the New Jersey school board uh website. So, well, as you know, I won't be there
because I have my Union County Educational Service Commission meeting. So, sorry about that. Thank you, Mr. Bur. Any other unfinished or new business? So, seeing none, we will open the floor to the public. If you'd like to discuss anything that was not on the agenda, now
would be a good time to come up. Put your name, your address, the record. Now would be the time. Mr. D, you can come right over here in the right in the corner here. Right here.
I think that's good. Right. Get it? Yes. Uh, yeah. You want to? Uh, as usual, I'm I'm going to speak against uh Governor Murphy's law, which says uh actually it was an executive order, I believe, that says
you have to teach LGBTQ um information to the students and you have to talk, you have have to have classes on abortion also. And as as I said last month last last
month, uh the same the Maryland people have the same problem in their state. And uh they had a case go to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court said that you have to give an option to these students
to your students uh to take these classes on LGBTQ and on abortion because that has because it might be violating a parental religious uh beliefs. And besides uh saying they have to have
an option, you have to actually have a curriculum and have it put it out in public so the parents can see what it is. Now I ask you uh that that was but that was the Supreme Court of the United States for the whole country and that
that's what they were saying the Constitution says. So, are you going to obey the constitution and go along with this and have a and actually have a curriculum for these classes that they have to take which might violate the
parental religious beliefs? Will you have this uh made to the public? Yes, you will. So, yeah, I think and Mr. Brand, please correct me if I'm wrong, but in the past, Mr. agent, we've told you that we were full
transparent with the parents. So, the parents are aware of our curriculum. Well, how are they aware? I can't find it on the I look on the um on uh on your website and I don't see anything about curriculum. How how am I
students in the class in the school now? I did in the past, but are you going where where is this available? So, Mr. Driggy, if you go to clarkschools.org, work. There is a departments tab and then a curriculum instruction and assessment tab. And under on that page, all of our
curriculum guides are organized by grade level and they're available for What about uh specifying as far as as far as as far as pre um Governor Murphy's LGBTQ um information classes that you have to give and the abortion
classes you have to give, are they going to be separate so they can be seen? So those standards are primarily in the health and phys class curriculums. Each August, a letter goes out district-wide to parents explaining this fact and that those
curriculums are available for review on the website. It gives the link and parents have the have the option to opt out of any lessons that they feel are inappropriate for their children. And in addition to that, the curriculums as they are, as we've stated numerous
times, the curriculums are written to be in alignment with our community's values and the utmost respect that we have for parents being the primary um having the primary responsibility of their children's education. And does it
specify the LGBTQ and abortion part like yes those that that'll be that'll be on there where um where those topics are covered are clearly indicated in the curriculums. Okay. And I'd also like to say uh as you know a couple of days ago they had that
Minnesota killing uh school shooting in which two uh two young pe two young second graders or something were killed and that person was uh was a trans student. He he changed his name from uh
Robert to Robin. And uh and there was another one in the past by Audrey Hale also. And if you if you have if you believe that that has nothing to do with uh the shootings. Thank you, Mr. D. Your mind has to be changed.
Thank you. Please. Yep. Please come out and state your name and your address for the record. Three minutes for comment. Hi, my name is Niha Marvania. I live at 9 Terry Lane. Um, and my question was, um, first of all, I think that, uh, the improvements and things in the
referendum sound incredible. Um, if for some reason they don't pass, what will the board prioritize in terms of like the improvements that will be made? So, we don't have an answer for that. Um, are our obviously, let's see how the
vote goes. And, um, I guess the way I would answer, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. It's a bridge we may not have to cross. So, um that's kind of where we are right now. We have not we have not looked at the uh various project initiatives and
prioritized those. We have a sense what we think is important, but we as a group will talk through that. We'll get guidance from um construction companies, project managers to help us um if we have to make those types of decisions. Got it. Okay.
Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other questions or comments from the public non-aggenda items? Right. So, seeing none, we'll close that portion of this portion of the meeting out. So, can I get a motion to adjurnn?
M. All in favor? I thank you.