The 02/23/2026 Yeah. My senior. Wing Township Board of Education working session is called to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. Uh-huh. The pledge of 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. Thank you. This is O'Day Mark Hunt. Roll call, please. Absolutely. Fran Bowen? Present. Susan Graves? Edgard? Here. Karen Burke?
Present. Michael Morgan? Present. Armika Graham? Present. Ben Wakefield? I'm here. And I'm Sherry Day Markoff. We are all present. Thank you. Doctor Suggs, do we have anyone sign up for public comments this evening? We do not tonight. Thank you. Moving on to new business, school board policy first reading. Mister Fessler. Thank you, mister president. Members of the board, you may have noticed that there are less formal policies on here than you saw earlier you both earlier today, or, over the weekend. We had six. Two of them were financial related that were pretty dense and a lot of changes.
And, doctor Samuel wants to just take a little more time to look those over with our legal team that can understand why they're asking some of those changes. So, we just have four tonight for our first reading. I'm gonna take them in order as they are on the agenda, and we'll start with c seven fifty with medical means of students. This is a new policy. It's not a revision of any kind. This is a new policy, and our, recommended that we adopt this policy because of,
just what it says, the medical needs of students. And we are doing a lot of things that you'll find in here. But the first is right on that first page talking about emergency stop medications for overdose intervention drugs. We started that a couple of years ago, shocking, naloxone or the brand name is Narcan, in our offices, in our A And B machines with our coaches and our police officers. And so, that along with, heavy fence, are a bit of emergency meds that we
have a standing order from the state that we can can have. So, that's the first thing you'll see there that the, that our attorneys have recommended that we discuss. On the second page, we still have we have those emergency stop meds. Parents can still provide those. They can provide medicine with a, prevention slip for students to have those. Certain medications that students can can keep with them. On that third page, there's a lot added there, but, really, it just permits additional
medications, not just in a lot of stuff. So, again, for us to be able to keep some of those overdose meds, but we stay in Northern state that we get as an argument. That's what we have in our in our clinics and our. Wanna point out that Humiana still grants civil immunity and core administration with the manufactured guidelines. There are protections for our staff members who may administer. Narcan doesn't hurt person's not over this. So if it is person's not over this, they're suspected to and someone administers Narcan,
it doesn't hurt that person. The there's a point under the chronic disease that is ongoing. The board is not liable for civil damages. It's a result of a student self administration Put that there. And under the section of student concussion, sudden cardiac arrest, all of our extracurriculars have a an AED team that's available to them and for them to take to, our events, mostly for our athletic events. That's gonna be our trainers are gonna have those. But when the band goes, they require, they take one of those events.
Our nurses have a monthly checkbox, so that's how we know that they're they're working. I'm on the list for the line here, so I check the board when I'm reminded by and this is Jacob's our lead nurse. I check those to make sure it's active and working and that our pads are up to date, as well as our batteries. And so all of our co user train, and, I believe it's a Russian brake cleaner train to to use that BAB. Those are the major points. I want now are there any questions? I know it says on there that nurses are, you know, qualified to provide medication,
and anyone volunteers to take courses. About how many, you know, how how much backup do we have in each of the school nurse there? If it's talking about the administration of NARC and lot because we train all of our coaches, we train our nurses, our front office staff, administrators. We're all trained in that. Our nurses also go back up person that is trained through what's what's the for the diabetes, the health of our diabetics through yeah.
There's a diabetes action plan. So there's a backup person going to this nursing affair. And they have there's an online hearing that they or there are most schools that have two people, the same ish or part of this person. So schools use a pair of professional, we're backed up. So we have a pretty deep bench on this. Thank you. Any question about the, the cost of the emergency stock fence? Does the state that pay for the Narcan for us to check? Yeah. Narcan's free. Okay. How about albuterol or so many other ones? Sure. I don't know what's the cost of it.
Okay. Okay. And then the W10 keep it stocked, but here I suppose to have their own child too. So yeah. K. The others just check today to make sure we get those and Hendrix our partners at Hendrix, HRH because, I didn't have the Nice. Or we've come a long way in terms of I remember the days when we couldn't give kids anything like Tylenol. We couldn't give them anything. So that that this has really been a shift over the past couple of years
about, you know, what we can make available in case of emergency issues. I have one more question. Are there changes in our immunization, requirements? I know we're basing it on the state. Does the state department have all changed anything? Not yet. K. So we're waiting. We talked with HRH and then and we'll hear that. What do we need to change in terms of what we wanna get out to parents as soon as we can. The states said that they thought they would have to change them in February, so mid February's come and gone, and we don't have any of those changes in our our recommendations. Thank you. How often have we had to use some of these life saving?
I mean, do you know that? I know because we have to report that to the state. So we've administered Narcan once, and, we used the AED, two times. Both were athletic events. They were both on spectators. Any other questions about c seven fifty? You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep it in the same vein as doctor. We're trying to limit the the policies that we need and and keep them handed down, but this was one. I think it's good for us to have spelled out, who we need to stock
management for sure. K. Let's take a look at that 400. That 400 is our debt management policy. It's gonna have a partner policy we're gonna look at, f four twenty five. These are not required. However, we have them now. They're edited, and, they are they're not legally required. However, they are beneficial for upcoming and kinda rating calls we have for debt assurance. And and doctor Samuel says, SMP asks every time do we have a board of policy. So, we do we do have that.
The major changes in here are, great. A lot, somatic changing, policy to procedures, making sure doctor Samuel's title is correct. Think there was one area. It's on the next one that I wanna draw your attention to. The last part says, can be changed from time to time. You always have that ability of the board to ask to the about the policy and have it that it's made. So not any major changes here. Just naming the most assurance assurance compliance and changing the titles.
Any questions doctor Samuel can answer where you want it before? Alright. It's, the partner is f four twenty five and reserving policy. Wanna draw your attention to the reserved target paragraph that's at the bottom first page. So the because, like, a range, the goal is to maintain that balance of our rebate fund between 15 and 10,000,000. So the question is what happens if we have to go below that?
The board can offer a resolution to do that. Where the board can both suspend the policy. Of course, you would understand why we were needed to go below that while those are being purchased for, being that money being spent on. But you could do either of those things if we were to go below that 10,000,000. So that isn't a statute number. That's a range that was offered by our attorneys that I talked to doctor Samuel about. Felt comfortable with that was the way we keep. I don't know what we're doing now, but we keep most of the time anyway. So the there's a fair range in our policy.
Again, on page three, just taking out the part that policy modification because as the board can always revise the policy, bonds and aligns with the law. There are a couple other changes again on titles. Just making sure we can change operational costs. If there's an increase in our to increase in operational costs, our report can change or or that drops. Those are the major changes on you know, fourth one five. Any questions on the quote? And the last policy g four fifty, this, you'll see, has hardly any changes, and
that's because this policy is no longer mandatory however, I'm reporting an investigation or still mandatory. So we either have to have a policy or we have to have the wording in our employee and student. So this would mirror what was in there. In our school board policy, there are a good place to keep something like this instead of the work because it's an area that it would go to see what
we are doing as a district. So, only students and employees, parents' students would see the change, but this is also community. We we took this out, community wouldn't see those things because they'd be in the inbox for, students and for employees. So we'll keep an eye on any one of our accesses policy. Any questions? What's that? I know. I realized this. The original one was in 2016. Was that originally required for a gang activity? Yes, sir. It was required as recently the last time we revised, because I remember being unable
to answer our policy. So that's a new change. If you remember, we had to have whole task doors and we had to get a meeting here before I broke back at sixteen. And I was done on that part. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Board, I think we're gonna have, somewhat of a consolidation of items b and c. Doctor Suggs will walk us through that. Yeah. So, actually, doctor Samuel is gonna present, this presentation tonight. But, Gord, what I'd like for you to know is that this is a continuation, of the discussions recent past about enrollment.
Our study that was just shared in our last board meeting that shows the downward trend. So we wanna make sure that you're aware, of those numbers as that information is presented to us. We wanna make sure you have access to that data. And so we're gonna talk enrollment, and that also feeds really nicely into, our February 1 count date. If you know, we have two counts. One at the beginning of the school year. Is it October 1 now? And then our February 1 count.
So this is pretty critical data, as it relates to, you know, SCA one, how we calculate, what our budget will look like. More importantly, how we calculate count, into time as SEA one has, a pretty serious effect on how we budget the next six years. So Steve? Thank you, doctor Schulz, and thank you, mister president and members of the board. That was a great introduction. As you know, there was a lot of information in doctor Broomu's report.
We already had a lot of things on the agenda that night, so the best course of action we felt was give everyone a little bit of time to kinda digest that, circle back, knowing we'd also have this February 1, count date data available. As doctor Seuss alluded to, you know, SCA one presents some unprecedented challenges with regard to assessed valuation as as a byproduct are funds on the operations and debt side. Doctor Bruggsig's report really presents us with what are some pretty unprecedented declines in enrollment.
And those obviously also have a financial impact, but those those being on the educational side. So I know we're all ready for some precedent financial moves, but, until then, as doctor Stutz mentioned, our job is to make sure we're planning and that we have the right pieces in place to be able to make some projections and work through. So that's the goal this evening. I'd like to begin with just some of those main themes from doctor Bruckte's report. That negative replacement really as the main driver over the next, ten years is really
what she was pointing to. Our annual enrollment change for 2526 being a bit of an anomaly as far as just how many, students our enrollment did decline in that given year. Of course, birth rates that you know, Wayne Wayne Township is not the only district dealing with declining enrollment. It's, in fact, pretty common, across the state. My colleagues, I think the only disc only one district that I spoke with this fall had any sort of increase.
So it's it's definitely something that is, as as the data supports, related to some low birth rates across the state. And then, of course, the transfer enrollment based on, Indiana's public school choice, and students choosing MSD Wayne Township. So just a quick refresher. This was the base forecast, and that negative replacement is is easy to see here. Well, easy. The numbers are small, so it's not as easy as it should be. But you can see this kindergarten group at 950, and then you can see the
senior class at fourteen thirty six. And, again, next year, projecting right right around that same size for kindergarten. Don't have to be a math whiz to see that there's more students leaving MSD Wayne Township as graduates than there are entering as kindergarten students. So that's that that negative replacement. Now some of that is related to our achieved k 12 or, sorry, our achieved, seven through 12 school, and we know that our tenth I'm sorry.
Our twelfth grade students are always our our largest cohort in Achieve virtual education. So there's there's a little bit of play there with that as those are obviously virtual students. Many of them would not have been with us because they don't reside within the boundaries of Wayne Township. So kindergarten, you know, we wouldn't see that. But it gives us that perspective and kind of that reminder of negative replacement and how that works. Okay. Then the annual enrollment change with that anomaly here for 2526, that minus 626 students
is definitely more than we were tracking in our projections for this school year. We did have our enrollment trending down. We had a lot of conversations about that and how we should capture that in our financial projections. And based on the fact that we didn't see basically any increase from fall to spring last school year, we didn't feel it was prudent to start dialing that down at really drastic rates like this.
As you can see that that June and '26 would be the highest, the largest change, whether that is a decrease or an increase by by, really, at least a third, but in most years, two thirds to to more. So really unprecedented level of change in a year to year scenario there. And, of course, the the resident births that, doctor Brodvig laid out for us, this is, you know, some of that data where bringing in demographer is critical because they
have access to and an understanding of this type of data and, obviously, how that drives what is happening for us within our enrollment here, in MSD Way. And then last but not least, she did, hit on this, net enrollment impact from, public transfers in and out. We talked about how this is really great news, reflects really strong reputation that MSD Wayne township has across you know, Central Indiana and and, of course, how Achieve Virtual
Education across the state of Indiana plays a role in some of these numbers here being very positive for for MSD Wayne township. So that's kinda the data review. Wanna pause there and just I I know you've all seen this data, but any any reflections or questions before we move on and start to connect this to that February count date and then financial projections? Very good. So our February account date, you can see we went from October in 2025, 15,186
students, decrease of 199 down to 14,987. We round it up. It's really, I think, ninety eighty six point seven or something like that. But for our purposes, that is that is an easier number to kinda work off of here. So for context, on the right there, you see doctor Bradfitt's base forecast for 2627. She had that fifteen thousand one eighty four.
$1.86 is kinda where we began. She had us dialing back about 250 students and settling in that 2330. So the rest of the presentation really is focused on where we find the sweet spot and how we're projecting what's gonna happen. And so just as a a starter to that conversation, if we take it at face value, if we take that fifteen ninety eight seven and we subtract that 254,
you know, we would project, you know, obviously, a lower enrollment next fall than that fourteen nine thirty. Will that be reality? Nobody knows. These are these are for real projections that we certainly will lean into, but also really just have a responsibility to continue to monitor at the high level. So what happened within these numbers? Where did we see students no longer with us in February that were with us in October? A 126 of them were twelfth grade students.
So it's just a good reminder that, as doctor Brechtwig pointed out, sometimes you're a victim of your own success. And and talking with doctor Harvey as as his team certified our enrollment, we had a 125 early graduates, so they graduated a semester early. All in all, that's great news. Now financially, for the next six months, it's not as positive. But as you know, our goal is to get get these things to that finish line, so we certainly celebrate that.
The state of Indiana does provide some financial relief for early graduates, $1,491 per student, and that won't come until next year, when we get to that October count date. So there there's a financial impact there, but it, of course, is the celebration. So of that 199 student difference with a 125 being seniors, really, it's kind of onesie twosies here and there, five less at at this elementary, 10 more at another
one, to net out to that additional 74 students there. So where do we go from here? When we think about those cash flow projections, we we always try to be realistic but concerned because we're, you know, working to ensure that we obviously are always in good financial shape. We had, built in decline to 15,250 students in 2027, which we felt was honestly a pretty aggressive number.
We hadn't seen declines at that rate for for really, as you saw from from the previous slides in the last ten years for sure. But we've we've already beat that, and so there's a need to kind of go back and and realign there. Of course, we're we're doing that with those cash flow models. But But we also wanna be prudent. I think the next little box there talking about 2,000 students over ten years, at the end of that would be a $20,000,000 swing. Well, building that into a cash flow projection just paints some picture that, number one,
we don't know if that will be reality, and number two, we know we're gonna get these checkpoints twice a year, our enrollments in October and February to monitor those things. So, you know, really, I think that that piece, especially, is, number one, knowing that that's reality. But number two, we've been working hard with the SCA one commission. We have, right now, getting ready to implement those cost savings. We need to to obviously see that impact on our financial projections. And then as it indicates, just monitor that declining enrollment.
We were excited today. We kicked off our kindergarten enrollment and, you know, not that not that there's necessarily a magic bullet there, but, certainly, we wanna make sure that all the positive things happening in Wake Township are out there for families and try to get them in the door and get their students registered with us. The other piece then is just those kind of onetime events. We talked some about some of those with the board of finance. You know, the, occasionally, we do need some increased property tax collections related to late
payments and things like that. Grant dollars unspent and available versus overspent. Don't wanna give the impression that we are not always spending every last dollar. In fact, typically, we we overspend just a little bit to make sure that that never happens. As we see ourselves getting toward the end of the grant, though, if, for instance, a position that was in that grant hasn't been filled for nine months, there's some dollars that we then have. You know, we need to do an amendment to that grant so we can spend spend that money. At the end of twenty five is one of the pieces that gave us a
just a small cushion as well. Then, of course, over the last few years, we've talked about the unprecedented interest rate levels that we've been able to leverage due to our cash balance and, some presence of those interest rates. So we're we're careful to take those into account, but not lock them in as gospel for for revenue that that probably isn't likely to sustain itself over that six to ten year horizon. So what what do we need to be responsive to? Of course, we talked about being careful with with these pieces.
You know what? I just realized these snappy slides for an AI production doubled me up on it. So we've talked about all of this, but I'm happy to talk about it more. Yeah. I really like me too. But, also, there are some continued pieces that are recurring financial impact and, unfortunately, are not positive. We increased our the state should say increased the contribution we're responsible for for TRF. There's another if you add 3% to this, some districts have employees pay that 3%
when the board kicks up that contribution. So I'm capturing what what would typically be the board contribution because that's the way that the t r f four presents these numbers. But 6% increase here in '26, about $350,000 impact, that, you know, more money out the door. Of course, we're happy that us as educators and and all the staff working for us are gonna have the option and availability of a pension and an annuity when
they retire, But that is money out the door. In 2027, that goes up another whole percent, which is about 750 k additional, you know, recurring dollars that we need to contribute to TRF on behalf of our employees. The other piece is house bill twelve ten, which is not yet to the finish line, but in its current version would protect the debt fund, meaning that the new,
the new credits, the $300 credits that any homeowner, business owner, those are things specific to homeowners are are eligible for. Those are right now the way that law was written. That impact is split between our operations fund and our debt fund. When we were on our last ratings call with S and P, that starts to make them a little bit nervous. That makes their investors a little bit nervous. So ISPO, the superintendents association, everybody's been lobbying the the legislature to correct that.
What most of those lobbying efforts are focused on is fixing that for 2027 because, as you know, we are long past certifying our budget for 2026. We've done you know, that's the end of that process is October. And in its current form, that would hit us in 2026, though. And so what it means for us is there's about a 1,100,000 unfunded credit that right now sits on the debt side of that property tax collection and about 800
to 900,000 that sits on the operations fund side. So that means dollars that we will not collect as as an unfunded credit. House bill twelve ten is gonna shift all of that to operations because it's protecting the debt fund as the first money out the door to protect those investors and and that as investments into the future for people who are purchasing those bond on the open market, etcetera. So that as that shifts over, that becomes a liability conditional, you know, less revenue
in only the operations fund. For us, we have a cash balance in our our debt fund. And if you may remember, if we go back a couple iterations, two or three legislative cycles, part of the strategy in letting the second referendum expire was to take advantage of something called the protected taxes waiver, which really allowed us to transfer money from our our cash balance and debt to operations and give us that onetime infusion. In essence, SEA one kinda created that force.
We can no longer take advantage of that due to, subsequent changes in in state code, But that 1,100,000.0 getting us into debt was was really okay, at least in the short term. We we have that cash balance. We could weather that storm. We're much leaner on the operations fund side. And so that's another piece that we'll see how that one gets to the finish line, when that's gonna impact us, and then, of course, dig that into our cash flow projections and see what what will that look like as we move into the
future. Right now, the legislation, just to be clear, is is written so that that takes effect this year. And, really, we're lobbying for it to happen '27 so that we can care for that kind of insurance. So where we go from here? As we as we talked about a little bit on the previous slides. Number one, implement the cost savings measures that we've identified. Of course, adjust enrollment projections, but don't be draconian. You know, we're not building in. If if you doesn't take a lot of math to just say whatever that number
is in ten years, if you subtract 20,000,000, guess what? That's bad. It's not looking good now. So that that part of the projections, we're trying to be just be smart with it. We know what we're looking at. We know what the projections say. Now let's see what reality brings, brings us. So within that, I am happy to answer any questions that you have. But I I have a couple questions. Great information. Thank you. Good re good good report.
The 626 students, I'm assuming the 199, that's included in the six twenty six for the year. That's in addition. In addition. Yeah. Yeah. And then do we know for those six twenty six week, obviously, the one ninety nine, seven hundred twenty six were early graduates. Where did the others go? The four hundred and some more from last year. Do we know that information? Maybe So most of them this four seventy number is really the negative replacement number. So it was called 1,400 that that graduated or left us as seniors in that
approximately I think we're closer to a thousand now in our kindergarten cohort and then factor in just some other departures. So nothing big, like, not elementary school or not six point in the seventh grade or any It's really a slow burn. Is a slow burn. Yeah. It's on the run-in, but I don't have as many coming in and get more in the evening. And then all the other factors in terms of birth rates and, that are just hitting us all at once. Believe it or not, there are districts surrounding us pretty close by that that long
close to a thousand. That's too far. We're not too far apart. Yeah. Yeah. 06/26 plus 199. I haven't checked them a lot of my period of February, but Yeah. I think Right. Some similar ones. And then based on those numbers, you are able to not have to fill some teaching positions in the fall, price on the fall. Absolutely. Absolutely. I will tell you that in so it's 2011, maybe, maybe '12. We had a demographer Mhmm. Maybe even a little bit before then that said we would never go over 11
to 12,000 students in this district, and they were wildly wrong. So let's hope they're wildly wrong about it. That's just the prediction. Right? Describe as well. Some of them tonight. And there is a little bit of a rebound we saw that's happened, just not as significant. Like, it's something but you're right. There is this element. The other piece that we can't predict is the movement. Being an older district and, you know, how our community surrounding communities, families would choose what happens. It really creates a challenging narrative because when you look at declining enrollment, you think,
oh, you need less money. And so then to tell a story that, well, we're losing funding, you know, we need we need a bag, we need replacements. It's a really hard narrative to sell to people. It's like, well, you have less students spending less money. Right. Right. And so it that is just And it's just the complexity of that gets even more difficult. There there's a narrative out there that, okay, we have declining enrollment. In our case, 600 students, let's equate that to 18 teachers.
But but it's not linear. That is not linear. Yeah. It's not learned. Exactly. Spread across the net. But as you mentioned here, we're doctor Pierce is, you know, always bringing those projections and what that looks like, kind of warm body count, I believe. So yeah, but exactly right. It is not linear. It doesn't mean we can reduce a bus driver and eliminate 10 routes. It doesn't mean we can consolidate 15 classrooms or, you know, not need, you know, support with Right. 10 pairs. Those pieces, it's really a lot messier than that when we think about serving students
who are sitting in our classrooms. Right. How do we complete it together? We we were having a discussion today, Gavin, and, question was asked, well, how many kids are getting on our buses for the 10 miles of it? Of our 15 miles of students getting on our bus and stay there? So to say, you know, just eliminate transportation. Why is not that simple? As, you know, it's each community is unique, and specifically to Wayne, it's, you know, what do we need to do to service our students and our families? So it's all of those pieces that we're constantly monitoring and thinking through and trying
to find ways to make sure we're being, you know, conscientious with budget and considering lots of things. But those are the questions we get. You know, just eliminate that. Right? They want to inspire our clients. They'll they'll change their mind. You make me shudder. They you know, in a community where our our parents are some of them working two or three jobs That's right. To try to support their family and how they gotta figure out how to just how they gotta figure out how to get their kids to school.
Right. With limited sidewalks. Yeah. That's correct. But it can potentially if that was to never come back with those people, just gonna get a comparison with the interviews for lesser. That's about with that service. I got I got my new van on. Okay. So by the the average of the elementary schools, we used to like to keep around 800. Where are we? Our lowest enrollment, doctor Pierce, is six around 600. Yeah. Our highest is around 800.
We're probably more than average in about 07/25. Yeah. Those are. But still is a decent number of students in our elementary school. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When can you get rid of a cruel count right now that we're below 15? So that is, that's it. I'm trying I'm trying to look at the sunshine here. That is a looming question for for another another board meeting. So we we do we we are now certified under 15,000. So the GAAP reporting requirement no longer applies to us. It is it is something that is advantageous, though, with S and P.
And And so when we think about our bond rating, we think about the interest that we're paying, there's some calculation there that we haven't dug into yet as far as what what type of interest rate change that might that might generate to then determine what that would mean from a taxpayer perspective. Is it actually financially better to pay for the gap reporting today and save that money over the next twenty years when we think about what that might look like? So little bit of analysis left to do there, but I suspect that the answer
is going to be from a business office perspective and a, a volume of work perspective. The easy answer is let's let's move on from that. Financially, though, I don't think it's quite that simple. No. But good job remembering that. And I said, nice and And as we grow, you're gonna need And then we grow. That that's right. Let let me get our you know, there's at a minimum, we need to wait and see because Yeah. As you said, it's projections. Right. You know, what what reality brings. We certainly hope teachers have spoken 15 past that would be great. Great. Thank you, doctor Sang. Thank you.
Doctor Singh, do you have any board information, Steve? I have a a a few things. As mentioned earlier, in regard to enrollment, you know, today, and when we opened the doors, there was smiley faces waiting to come in. We have picture opportunities, for our class of 2,039. Oh. It's so sweet. It's so sweet. So we're excited about that. We wanna thank doctor Harvey and his team for really putting in the time and effort, to, create a space that's welcoming to our families, to miss Templeman's office for
helping us get the word out. If you haven't seen it, if there's just the cutest video with our kindergarten babies inviting our families to come in, and see what we have to offer as a support district. So that will go on all week. Friday, we'll end a little early. It'll be from seven to eleven, so that we can kinda see where our numbers take us. Now this is a special push for our younger, families, but any family that would come in would certainly, should get assistance.
And enrollment will continue at the enrollment centralized enrollment office after this week. So spread the word. Late start Mondays continue. Our our teachers and staff are, working really hard and, doctor Pierce shared some really great information about the things that teachers are grappling with and learning. I'm gonna get lots of pictures that I share with you from those experiences. So we're just really excited about how our staff are, taking advantage of that time.
And, really, that is value added to our community in terms of how we're able to better serve our students, and and so I wanted to make sure I recognize those efforts tonight. Our superintendents' art competition, amazing. I was absolutely being honest when I said my art never looked anything like what he is presenting tonight. And so it really is a nod to the work that our art teachers do with our students and how they really teach the technique and all of the different mediums that our kids are able to explore at such young ages.
It's just incredible. Proud that we continue that work, and recognize our students for their our our jazz band today. I got multiple pictures from colleagues who were down at the Statehouse and said your band is outstanding. And so I just wanted the board to know that our kids, again, are representing us well. And as we heard tonight, just create such beautiful music and and, and I was really proud to get those texts today. The legislative session will end this week.
There are some key, legislative items that we will, talk about in particular. I provided a presentation. I hope that was helpful to you last week. ISBA did a phenomenal job in trying to organize it in a way that it was digestible. We kinda understand what's coming forward here in the near future. But we will have a presentation, from attorney Justin Swanson on March 9, where he can answer all of your questions, give us an overview of of the legislative session.
So we'll look forward to that. And then finally, we have so many activities going on right now. I won't name them one by one, but lots of athletic competitions. Several of our elementaries will be having their musicals at high school. I believe this week at Garden City, and McClellan's gonna do two. They're all done. This week. Yeah. So that's that's exciting. So that's all I have for tonight. Thank you so much. Ward, anything else? I just I was down, for the ICEBA Steakhouse today and, listened to overall lawmakers
talk about some of the laws that aren't there. So nothing surprising to talk about. It seems to be a lot of disagreement about this new cell phone ban and what constitutes as as, putting your cell phone away. Does it book bad count? Does it not count? Does it no longer has to be secure? Right. So it was just interesting to hear them talk back and forth about what all this means and what it all is happening. But it it was good to be down there. And, I do look forward every Friday to get a phone call from doctor Suggs now. I I so I appreciate those phone calls and clip ins.
One tweak to the phone calls, it usually occurs while my kid is in an athletic practice. I always think something's going on. Yeah. Yeah. It took a minute to get you. It's too bad. I remember I don't put the kid in the district. I was like, it was not even about that going on. I have kids in it. We did make one tweet. You know, you should have gotten the transcript of of what was said in case someone was disconnected. Awesome. Thank you so much. It is very good. Thank you. K. Do you have a motion to adjourn? I move that we adjourn at 07:22PM.
I have. Motion added to second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? We're adjourned to 07:22. Thank you, Moe. Thank you.