##VIDEO ID:https://www.facebook.com/schooldistrict51/videos/mcvsd51-boe-live-meeting-11222024/1570768600466145## Evening, everyone. Um we just have a little bit of a slight delay. So, I know we're, it's a little bit afterwards but we just wanted to make sure that we have just all the information together. So, I just want to let you know it'll be just a few more minutes and then we will get started. So, thank you all for your patience. Low test. There we go. Alright. Good evening everyone. Thank you for your patience. Um I will take full responsibility for the delay. I did not communicate to our team that we were hoping that some slides would be shared this evening. So, thank you for your patience. Um as we feel like those would be helpful. So, that is my fault for not communicating that. So, we will go ahead and call the meeting to order. Um and then Amy, do you want to do roll call? Sure. Mister Chavez. Here. Missus Evanson. Here. Missus Heitz. Here. Mister Jones. Here. Miss Lima. Here. Alright, do I have a motion to approve the agenda for this evening? Motion to approve the agenda. Second. Mister Chavez. Yes. Missus Evanson. Yes. Missus Heitz. Yes. Mister Jones. Yes. Miss Lima. Yes. Alright. Um so, this evening we're here to address the resolution to close Clifton Elementary and Scenic Elementary. I know when we left the meeting on Tuesday evening and I know thank you for many of you that stayed till the end. We know that not everybody could because you'll have jobs and had you to get kiddos in bed. I know many watched online as well. Um or if they didn't watch it Tuesday. I know many went back and watched the the full meeting. Um if you haven't had a chance to do that, I'd highly recommend that you do. Um So, we, before we have a motion for resolution, we do have Shannon here, our demographer in person, because there were a couple of outstanding questions the board had that evening that we wanted to get addressed. So, Shannon, if you're ready, if you could come up, we would like to look at some of those capacity. Um I think issues of receiving schools that were that we were left wondering about and thank you for helping accommodate the slides. I appreciate that. You're most welcome. So, would you like me to cycle through what I've collected so far? Yes. So, there there were some board questions that were referred to me. I also just spent two hours in the Redlands, okay? Thoroughly looking at everything. So, I've been inventorying developments there for 18 years. I have a pretty good feel for the general contracting environment. I've been in the referral loop for Redlands 360 for almost 7 years now. In direct communication with La Plata regarding their plans and absorption schedules. In contact with a lot of the other smaller general contractors in the area in order to monitor housing pace. Um for what it's worth I have overprojected Wingate and Scenic the last three years in a row. Because I continue to respond to forecasting from the building community that we're going to build houses there And we are not getting student growth from the neighborhood. We may be getting students from those homes. But in general the neighborhood continues to decline. So some of what I will show you talks a little bit about that area in general. Um Grand Junction shares with Montrose the feature of we have small contractors and a smaller general contracting environment. We don't have large national builders like Richmond Homes or Shea Homes or Lennar or other big builders that build three 00 homes a year in a subdivision. We build our homes in groups of five or six from one general contractor. So, that's very consistent with what we continue to see in the Redlands. So, for example, this afternoon there are twenty-four homes under construction in the Redlands. Single family detached, six town homes, and 2 duplexes. That's it. So, as far as that being an explosive growth situation, one that will reverse demographic trends in the overall housing stock. Something would have to change before we get to the point to where we're seeing a large scale reversal in the direction of student in that neighborhood. So, for example, we have had a consistent decline in kindergarten and first grade in all three of our elementary schools in that neighborhood. This year, Wingate had in kindergarten, 36 children, first grade, fifty-four, followed by sixty-three, 65, sixty-six, seventy-nine. So, as you know, those children move through the grades so that 36 student grade is moving into first and into second and into third and unless we have new housing coming in and adding more children to the mix. Nothing else is there to add children to those grade levels. So, my point in observing those is that all three of the schools in those primary grades, K1 and two were small and those were going to migrate in and the birth trajectory is downward and it's downward to the tune of the next 5 years, my expectation is we're going to see 15 to 20% fewer kinders, kindergarten children, by the end of the five-year period or the four-year period that we had birthday for. So, that thirty-six Even though I try to have hope that we're going to have a lot of children coming in through new housing that are going to keep that 36 or forty. The numbers say that that number is going to continue to go down into the upper twenties. So as we continue to have fewer babies born in those attendance areas in the Redlands that's going to influence those numbers downwards. The 60s and 70s that you see in fourth and fifth grade off the right side of that little array of numbers. Those children are going to off and they don't drop off. They move on to Redlands Middle School. So, those children are going to move on into the secondary schools but they're replaced by smaller grades every year. So, if we didn't have the Redlands 3sixty growth and growth from the other nine or ten small subdivisions ranging in size from eight to 25 or 30 units, we would really be in a serious downward trajectory in all of our elementary schools if we didn't have a little bit of growth coming back in. This afternoon, there were six single family detached units under construction in Redlands three sixty. There was one foundation pit that was in process. There are two models that are open. There are eight occupied units and there are three speculatively built homes that are for sale. The magnitude of that is such that it's not going to dramatically turn around This for next year because any home that's under construction right now would be sold this spring, occupied over the summer, and then if there are children in those homes, they would be in our schools this fall. So, if we were going to see a big bump, even next year, we would be looking for scrapers, water and sewer lines being installed, dozens and dozens of men in the field, building subdivision infrastructure, we would see foundation pits being built. So, the die for this coming school year is already cast. Meaning, we're not going to have any growth for the school year 2-five, 26 in the Redlands with 20 to 25 homes under construction now because it takes eight to 14 months to build a home. So, if we're in the home stretch, finishing those homes up and nothing is being started right now before the ground freezes. Um we're looking at a bumper crop of new housing for SY twenty-five twenty-six. So, I have historically depended upon Redlands 360 and other growth from small subdivisions to keep my numbers from dropping down very low but if everything just flows across, we would be thirty-six thirty-six thirty-six. We would have 36 children in every grade for a total of two hundred and sixteen at Wingate, which absorbs the majority of the growth from Redlands 360 under the boundary proposal that you're seeing. Because they are south of Highway 340 or Broadway. So what we're hoping is we've already planned that along with the Boundary Change component from Scenic there would continue to be room for Redlands three sixty. But what's coming in from kindergarten is also or from the birth data is suggesting that kindergarten enrollment will continue to dip. Even though I'm kind of hoping and praying that it's not but the demographic data for the birth count is coming in lower every year and we've already got a five-year trajectory that points down. Same thing would be happening at Scenic because we have small kinder small first. Here's the grade distribution for all three schools bundled together. So, Broadway is in blue, Scenic in red in the middle and Wingate is on green on the outside. So, you can see in grades three, four, and five, those children are going to matriculate into middle school and they're not going to be in elementary school any longer and the children that are in K1 and two will slide across in the three, four, and five and then, the children that are in age zero through four, we've had fewer of those every year for the past five years. So, that trajectory is also downward. So, without any growth in the community, not only are we going to flatbine straight across the board in all three schools but we're also going to have fewer kindergarten and first for another half generation as that five years of diminished birthday to roll in to kinder first and second. So, I would hope that Redlands 360 would bring us 100 or 150 children and that would certain be hopeful for the neighborhood but the viability of keeping three schools operational in the neighborhood and having that be adequate for us to have robust programs in every school. It's it's optimistic to assume that we would have enough for three schools. We we just and in my opinion we just don't have enough children to have three schools in the community. Um now if I had seen sixty homes under in Redlands 360 this afternoon. If between the last time I looked six weeks ago and now there were 60 foundation pits dug. I would have a different opinion. But we're just not seeing rapid advancement into the vacant land portion of Redlands three sixty. And furthermore there would have to be a shift in the way we build houses on the western slope. Not just in Grand Junction but also in Montrose. What we see in Mon is we have six contractors that build a dozen houses a year and I think that here we probably have ten contractors that build a dozen houses a year on average. Maybe a little less but the two communities are fairly matched in the amount of general contracting personnel and company and the amount of construction labor available And we would have to get to where we would have a big regional firm or a national how builder come in who has the wherewithal to build 60 homes in a year in one spot Um in order to really turn this around unfortunately. If we're going to continue on with 10 contractors who build between six and 10 homes a year. Our chances of turning around are enrollment decline because of new housing are going to continue to be limited. Now from a birth standpoint, the reason I continue to be comfortable that we can accommodate both Redlands three sixty and this a portion of the Scenic students in Wyndate is because our birth trajectories have been downward for the last 10 years in the three schools. So, this this jagged line on the top are all three schools. Broadway, and Wingate combined into a birth dynamic and we've gotten to where our sample set for births is so small that it's beginning to sputter. And when you start having high low, high low, high low, high low, that's a problem with the sample sizes getting so small that they're up one year and they're down the next. But the trend line through all of that volatility is that have generally come down. So we've come down from about one twenty to kind of a a trend line median of about 90 for 20 23. So, we've come down about 25%. And my expectation would be four years from now, will be down in those kinders about 25%. So, if we have 36 at Wingate this year. We would be down 36 so that would be nine fewer. So, the numbers or do you want to trust the numbers and I'm not all about the numbers. I'm sorry. It's an art and a science but we be down by another nine kids from thirty-6. So do the math. That puts us at 27 Kinder at Wingate. And then if you want to go back and look at where are we with Scenic? We're at thirty. If we're down 25% that would put us at twenty-three At Scenic and at Broadway we're at thirty2 and if we're down another 25% that would put us at twenty-four in Kinder at Broadway. So we wind up with three one schools and then those children start moving across the grade distribution from kinder to fifth and we wash through the whole school a new demographic where we just have one class per grade level. Now, again, that's just if you're going to do the math in a heartless way with your head down without looking up and watching what's happening around you, that's what the math says. Um now, I believe that our house construction in that area is strong. Majority of the homes being built are million-dollar homes. Our existing housing stock Um fifteen of it is over $600, 000 00085% of it is under $600thousand. So I go through and I look at I match every child to their house in the county assessors database. And then I use a Zillow multiplier of 1. 5 to get to a true assessed value for what our children's homes are worth in specific areas. And so I kind of look around and see where are we getting children and in all price ranges, we get kids. There's not really a huge penalty but with this higher price range being only 15% of the overall housing stock, it's the number of units that hurts us, not necessarily the yield that we get out of those homes. So, so to say that we do not get children out of high-value homes is inaccurate but in this particular neighborhood, we're getting very few children out of the new housing in general. So, I'm going over there and I I haven't gotten arrested yet but I'm kind of following people around and watching people's behaviors and I just don't see that many children and a lot of the folks that have moved into the newer housing. Um but. But I have gone up and I have coded everybody and shown where everybody lives and I am seeing that we have quite a few homes in the whole of the big hill includes Redlands 360 and The Ridge. We have 52 children on the on the bump right now. So, those homes weren't there. None of them were there 10 years ago. So, we are getting children out of those that new housing but it's just not enough to offset this demographic change and this birth rate thing is not just hurting us. It's hurting every district in the state of Colorado right now and when a Elizabeth Garner came over and warned us that her outlook for the future was 10 years of down enrollment. That was a reversal for the Colorado demographer's office because they had been looking at housing growth and in migration to the state and I'm out there going, excuse me, folks. Um we're over here in the school districts and we're seeing fewer and fewer kindergarten children every year and fewer babies being born. Can you help us understand what might be happening? And I think they're beginning to agree that we are going to be looking at fewer children in the state of Colorado and on the western slope and in district 51 during the next 10 years and it's going to affect all of our areas unfortunately. Uh again, just to just to kind of be in a similar state of mind as Doctor Hill was at your last meeting. I didn't get into this business to close schools either. You know, I've activated probably 200 schools in my career and this is the last eight years have been a wild ride for me as far as trying to help districts be as financially efficient as possible. Now, Redlands 360 is not everything in the Redlands. So, there are eighty 00 addresses in the Redlands according to 911 dispatch and there are another 300 more upon on top in the little Dolores Basin back behind the monument. So, a total of about 9000 homes. If Redlands 360 adds about 14 hundred 150 new homes, that would be an addition to the overall community of 13 to 18% or a midpoint of about 16% and half of that would be elementary or about eight percent. So the magnitudes if everything came in overnight at face value it would not completely knock our socks off. The other thing that I've seen after doing this for 42 years is once a community or a sub community like the Redlands gets up into that 85 percent built-out range and that's where we are in the Redlands. We're right at 85%. Sometimes, New housing can rank fall from the sky like rain and it won't affect the total number of kids in the district because every year new housing is maybe 1% of what's happening to the housing stock and the existing housing stock is 99% and you can have a a dynamic happening in the existing housing stock that will completely overshadow what happens from new homes. So for example in Douglas County this year we built 2700 homes and we've lost 900 or 1000 kids. So, at a certain point, those dynamics start to switch around and because of the partial resort nature of the Redlands subcommunity, that may result in quite a bit of the housing that is available there being snapped up by Empty Nesters and Seniors looking for that lifestyle. And they are competing with families that might want to buy the same home and so that may result in the Redlands having fewer children as time goes by. Even though Redlands 3 60 is more targeted toward families. The data from La Plata has told us that they expect 80% of their single family detached homes to be over $600, 000. And so we're looking at 75% of their town home product being over. Um what is considered in many areas to be a family threshold. So, their price points for single-family detached units even though what is on the ground now ranges in price from 650 to 850. In general, the overall price points for the rest of the housing in that development. Um ranges from 600 to 1. 4 and on up to 2 million. Now, with 18 or 20 homes on the ground now for calendar year 20 twenty-four. They have told me that they expect a 20 to 30 year buildout for that acreage up there. And given the general contracting environment that we have in town now. Um I would steer toward the higher end of that that that year range. And given the fact that I've been watching development the development for six or seven years now looking at phasing and now, we've got the first subdivision that has popped. I'm thinking that that is going to be a slow, steady impact on the district and it's not going to keep up with generational change. All three of the schools I've given them growth credit for various subdivisions in their forecast and they're still being offset by this generational change where we're seeing smaller families coming into the school district. Um if I take that eight percent and I think forward into the future and given some of the price points of Redland 360 and the pacing of it. we could see 1hundred anda 00 to 150 elementary students coming out of there and a similar number of middle and high school students. Um but I thought I don't think it's going to be six or 900. And I don't think it's going to be coming to us. Uh during the coming or the following generation. In a way where it's going to result in the need for you to change your thinking about school facilities in that area for the next 10 years at least. And until we get some sort of large scale general contracting capability in Mesa County. Um I I I think that you can find a certain amount of comfort in in that fact. Now, how big have these schools been Uh you can see that over their history, they have been rather large but these are all the schools that were listed in the consolidation recommendations and you can see that if we pick out Broadway, Broadway peaked at about 250 in 20 17. Oops, $259 in 2022. 261 this year. We did a boundary change in the Broadway. So, we went all the way out to the west end of the attendance area and we pulled in two more subdivisions. I I just want to jump in here too because I know you went back to 2012. I went back to 2002 and Wingate got up to 500 in oh eight and Broadway got up to three eighteen. Um back in oh six. So, I know your data just went back to twenty 12 but they've they've been even larger than this prior than that. Thank you. Um you can see Wingate up in the five hundreds. Uh big, modern, robust building. Um same footprint as four or five of the other buildings in the district. And then you can just look at the other schools affected there and see how big they've been in the past. Now, just to reiterate this, Some of these issues about how big is that that price point issue 75% of our children come from homes that their parents own. So, 25% of our children are in rental properties. Um but once we get up above 600thousand, that's about 1percent of the total housing stock. So, we start looking at that price point as a share of the Mesa County market getting smaller smaller and smaller over time. So, if Redlands 360 were $300, 000 homes, you know, three to 400. Uh that segment of our market is 27 or 28% of the total housing stock. So, you know, that issue is pretty pretty relevant. Um as far is, what percentage of our housing stock are these more expensive homes? Um and for Mesa County, it's a smaller percentage. Although, we've built a lot of it during the last 10 years in that area and we do have children in that area but not as much as we have had elsewhere in less expensive homes. So, those were some of the questions that I collected data and was prepared to respond to. I'd be delighted to answer any further questions. And I will stop now and defer to your questions. Be having questions I just want to make sure that I heard you correctly. Uh you said that 00 to 150 children. The time frame for them to be and our schools will be like 10 years. Maybe twenty but again with Redlands 360 putting probably eighteen or twenty built homes online during calendar twenty-four. You know, they're looking at a 30-year buildout. So, I'm thinking that we're going to decline a little bit every year from the incoming birth rate at a certain point we're going to stabilize. I'm starting to see some of my customers around the American West starting to stabilize. So, they're they're finally going to start hitting the bottom but because of the birth count and that downward trajectory, we know we've got another four years of kindergarten decline in front of us just because of the number of babies that are being born and if Redlands 360, only has six units under construction now. The other subdivisions probably have 15 other homes. That's about twenty. That's really not going to make much of a dent in our child population from new housing construction. So you could kind of assume that's going to be zero. But if they start grading and building and grading and building and they get some big construction labor operation in here. Um I could see that bigger number coming to pass but it's going to be up against that declining generational change dynamic every year and if we just wipe the big grades across the board, from this graphic here, that's going to be, you know, 120 out of Wingate right there. Just as those small grades fan across, and that would compensate for anything that gets built in Redlands three sixty. That's kind of a very broad statement but and and does it mean that new housing doesn't matter in the Redlands? Not necessarily but if you're just going to look at the numbers and who's loaded in the Kinder and first right now as they cycle across those bars above that 40 mark are going to all get clipped. And that would be what we would hope new housing would be bringing back in to the system. There's only a certain amount of that that can happen. Thank you. Well, and just to be fair because there are two other schools that are closing. So, or one that already has the the same trend was showing for and I know I sent this to the board. The same trend was showing for the schools that have been impacted by the Nisley closure and then also looking at the Clifton area like they're all trending downwards and the overall enrollment for the school. So, I would assume that's being impacted by the same issues that you shared here. I know you're focusing on the Redlands area but we're seeing declines across the entire community and so it's impacting enrollment at every school. I think one other question the other night that we could not get a hold of you on was just the School of Choice numbers I think of Scenic because I think there was a difference between I think thirty-three students and then maybe like fifty-2 so if we could get some clarity on that so there were let's say just for argument purposes there were roughly 15 children that were choice enrolled in the Scenic out of Broadway and 15 or 18 children that were choice enrolled into Scenic out of Wingate so the was, did I count those when I made the enrollment adjustment? And my answer to the question was, I took all of the kids that would be redistributed from Scenic back in the Broadway and Wingate at a hundred percent face value without reducing them a little bit and I put them back in and in every boundary change that I've ever gotten, if I get 85% compliance, I'm very happy. Um even in a neighborhood where I'm putting children back into almost adjacent attendance areas Families make choices for their children to choice enroll into a different school a little further away that might have a specialized curriculum or they'll make a choice to put their child in a charter school or they'll make a choice to put their child in a a church school or a private school but it's never a hundred percent. So, instead of dwelling on that idea and hurting anybody's feelings. I just said, the kids that are coming from those source areas in the form of the fifteen kids, they will wash into the children that will wash back out again and I thought it would just be close enough to a wash that it wouldn't be worth. Um showing you all the detailed accounting on a fifteen student calculation that's pretty iffy as far as that being 100% correct. It's never an exact science but I just thought that they would wash back into the numbers if I took the transfers at a hundred percent of of total. So, that's what I did there. So, I think that they're covered based on the fact that the children that are going to go from Scenic to Broadway are not going to be 100% of the total that live in Scenic and the children that would go from Scenic to Wingate are not going to be 100% of that total either. There's going to be probably an 85percent clients but 15% of those children are going to seek another option. Okay, thank you for that clarity. Um I think just in addition to kind of what you talked about, I actually spoke with with Jane Quimby with La Plata, a couple parents reached out to me and I ended up chatting with her. Yeah, I was actually a little surprised that I mean, she said there's 22 lots up in Canyon Rim which is the one that has more views and those are half-acre lots. Um the three lots that are already done, noone there has kids and then she says there's three to four more lots coming online and I think they're all pre-sold and none of those families have kids and those are all north of a million and she said everything they've sold in Redlands three sixty, only one has a loan on it which just means they all are cash buyers. Um not to say that people with kids can't pay cash but it's just it it changes the demographics a little bit. Easterhill though the filing where I think the more $600, 000 homes would be. She said that there's 51 lots there that have been sold to two builders and I think this is where the escalation has come from since the spring is that they are I think they're getting more lost online Um she said the townhomes which would be one bed, two bed, and three bedrooms. Um they're not even starting on I think until even considering twenty twenty-six. And so and then I did get clarity on the childcare center and she said it was just a consideration. Um that they would maybe look at it more closely in 2026 if they felt there was more families moving into the area but they might but they might not use that particular area for a childcare center. So, I think what you're saying lines up with what what she told me and I did ask her kind of what what, I mean, and it's hard. She's like, we hope families move in but we don't know. We're trying to build a product that would attract families but it's hard to know who will be buying those those properties. So, so anyways, that was some of the at least the nuts and bolts of the information I was able to garner from her. So, Lord, do you guys have any other questions for Shannon? I have one for Clint but Alright, Clint, I just have a quick question. Um I think we were just, I know you went back up and walked Wingate and Broadway. I think we just wanted to double check that we've obviously seen the have been higher in the past. Um you guys looked at those spaces up there and educational spaces. Um again, throughout both buildings. Mm hmm. We did. We walked through Wingate and through Broadway. Uh walk to the classrooms. Jen and her team checked out some spaces and did some numbers. Worked through the numbers and Jen can probably speak to some of this a little more clearly than I can but we we did look at some of the spaces and what rooms we would be able to utilize what our what classrooms or spaces we could possibly use when we work with the principal. We had talked about that as well and we feel comfortable that those spaces can be used and that we'll be able to get the numbers in there of students going to be moving into those spaces. From Scenic. You guys have any questions for Clint? One of the other questions that came up as well was parking at Broadway and pick up and drop off And so Eddie and his team and I think Andy went out and looked at the space and there's a nice open field in the back. It would take some some infrastructure improvements but we feel confident that we will be able to create a drop off space where we could stack vehicles in the back where the bus drop off is and create a space that would allow for students to and parents to pick up and drop off without impacting too much of the roadway there. Uh on top of that, there is already some the city's already working on doing some improvements to that area. We're working with the county and the city before any of this happened on some improvements that are going on there. So, we're continuing to having some conversations with them to maybe do some curb cuts out there to create some entrances into that that dirt field in the back. And when you guys are looking at that classroom capacity, we're not even considering putting modulars there, right? We're looking at where the build, the buildings that are there, because that's the last resort as far as. It is a last resort. Um, you know, we'll see what the numbers look like but right now, we feel comfortable that students will be able to fit into the buildings. Okay. Clint, if you can kind of touch on this for me. Uh we talked about traffic a little bit but what about the the Clifton area with the kids that with the parents that walk? I think we talked about buses and stuff, right? Yeah, there's a lot of information that we don't have in order to to to be clear on how those buses would work but it is possible to to look at some options for maybe creating a bus hub in Clifton and one of the things we want to do is try to create a neutral budget neutral option. Uh potentially the buses that would be at the receiving schools that are already making stops. Could we possibly use a bus for example that's going to Thunder Mountain, that's on the outskirts, out of the walk zone, and creating a stop at Clifton. That would be budget neutral. We wouldn't have to put another bus in place and do that for the rest of the schools. A lot of factors. We don't know how many students would be getting on that bus. So, if if we had a lot of students get on the bus, we couldn't do that. We would have to create another route but they are options. So, we're looking at that already. I've already talked to SDA about working on some options with that. Right and I think several of the students that walk to Clifton would not be in a busing zone. Would that be correct? Correct. Cuz obviously they're going to be further out. So, okay. Alright, any other questions? Okay. So, I'll just remind everybody that the board's going to take a vote and we're just asking for I mean, for our public comment rules, we just don't want any outbursts. Um We'll stick around afterwards if you want to talk to us. Um have any conversations and go from there. So, do have a motion They have a motion to approve a resolution to close. Clifton Elementary in Scenic Elementary School. Question to approve. Resolution s. Second. Any further discussion? I'll give you all a second. Seeing no further discussion, we can go ahead and move forward with the vote. Mister Chavez. Approved Mrs. Evanson. Yes. Missus Heitz. Yes. Mister Jones. Yes. Miss Lima. Yes. Resolution passes five to zero. Um I did have something I had prepared to want to be able to say in board members if you have anything. I'll share some final words but I'll wait for everybody to clear out so that those of you remaining can hear. Alright. So, Alright. So, tonight, we're here before you with heavy hearts and a deep sense of responsibility. The decision to close two beloved schools is not one that any of us on this board have taken lightly. And we know that the schools are more than just buildings and they are the heart of neighborhoods, places where generations have learned, grown, and formed lifelong memories which many of you shared with us on Tuesday. We know this decision impacts not only the students and staff in these walls but also families, alumni, and the broader community. Throughout this process, the board has been guided by the framework and priorities that our community tasked us to establish. These priorities include ensuring that every student in D51 has access to the resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive. Now and in the future. Sometimes this means making very difficult decisions for the greater good of the entire district. Closing school is never the preferred path but given the realities we face, be it declining enrollment, aging facilities, or limited funding, and declining birth rates. We must steward our resources in a way that serves all students district wide for years to come. I want to reassure you that this is not the end of the journey for the students, staff, and families impacted. The student or the superintendent and his team are committed to working closely with each school community to ensure a smoothest a smooth as a transition as possible. They are going to meet with the affected families they've already been doing this and staff to listen to concerns and work through solutions to provide tailored support. This includes helping our students and staff adjust to the new environments, honoring the legacy of these schools, and ensuring that noone feels left behind. To Students, staff, and families of these schools. We see you, we value, and we are here for you even if you don't feel that we are. This is not a goodbye to your spirit, your traditions, or your contributions to our district. It is an opportunity to carry the best parts of these schools in the new chapters and new communities. As we move forward, let us do so with grace and compassion knowing that this decision, while difficult, was made with the best interest of all 19, 000 students of our district student is in mind. We will honor the past and build stronger future for District fifty-one. We thank you for your patience and understanding and commitment to our students. Lord, did anybody else want to share anything? Alright, I have a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Alright. Thank you all for your time this evening.