good evening welcome to a meeting of mountain Sight board of education in accordance with State Sunshine Law and state regulations adequate notice of this meeting was provided by mailing a notice of time date location and instructions for accessing the meeting to the Union County local source and the
Westfield leader filing the same with the beral clerk posting the notice at the main access door of the Mountainside Board of Education building and on the Mountainside Board of Education website these meetings are reserved for board deliberation and for review of items contained within the agenda the board
reserves a right to vote on action items the board welcomes the participation of interested individuals we encourage questions about specific School practices incidents or events to be brought directly to school administration public comment will be permitted at the beginning of the
meeting for agenda item only each participant is asked to give his or her name and address prior to making a statement in addition time will be allotted at the end of the meeting for public comment on any item speakers shall limit their comments to 3
minutes roll call please Phil Dylan here Michael Goodwin here danao here Jordan hman here Viviano here candano here Carmine ven here at this time I would like a motion to go into executive session it's
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all session not section we're going okay can I please have a motion to approve our minutes from our January 21st meeting so move any comments or questions roll call please Bill Dylan
yes Mike Goodwin yes danro yes Jordan yes Vivan yes candano yes car Den yes we do not have any correspondents at this time I would like to open up the floor for public participation on
any agenda items that we will be voting for tonight seeing none we're moving on I do not have a a president's report now we're moving on to our superintendent all right thank you very much so in the agenda for this evening to approve is
our ssds which is our student safety data system reporting period one you may recall that we report out on this twice a year so this reporting period covers September 1 to December 31st and every district is required to
submit a report based on any incidents you may have had for student safety so hibs um any issues of uh incidents that might lead to removal so any in school suspensions out of school suspensions things of that sort as well as programs
and trainings that we do as a district that goes from where we have annual board training on the HIV process to parent information to staff training all of those and activities that we also do so those programs might be things like you've seen here at Deerfield start with
hello week or the caring Cubs activities that we have at Beachwood so that is the report that is on for this evening um for your approval we did have uh five incidents that um were addressed at
Deerfield we had a alleged hivs does not necessarily identify whether they are founded or not these are reports that we had from September through December 31st 8 at Deerfield two at Beachwood um we had nine different trainings in both
buildings and programs we had 15 here at Deerfield and 10 at Beachwood um and again some of those even included um with the bringing in of speakers that we have for our students and staff or the character strong activi that we have
going on um as well as districtwide we had a number of those as well so that's the report that's on for your agenda tonight updates across the district we have um it's been busy we had Spirit
night two weeks ago we have had our eighth grade versus cops game that went very very nicely and very well everybody had a good time with that um we have the school is very very busy right now getting ready for our Middle School
Musical which will be coming in just a couple of weeks so we have that going on tomorrow evening we have our presentation with Mikey Fallon so all of our community members and parents are welcome to join us it will be right here
in the media center and we will be prepared to overflow into the gym if we are lucky enough to have a really great turnout um as well as there'll be two uh assemblies going on on for students tomorrow in addition over the past month we've had some other things going on
I've had conversations with our local imagine group so imagine does grief counseling and supporting of families and Mountainside has been chosen as a district to Pilot their grief education
program so the state of New Jersey is requiring grief education at for all students from grades 8 through 12 so sometime in between 8th grade and 12th grade in a district so for us it's 8th grade students do need to have um
education on how to support how to manage grief and what that looks like and so I've been working with imagine for over a year now on this because they quickly very nicely recognize that educators are not the experts here and
educators are great at importing and utilizing but that is just not necessarily their Forte and so imagine and other grief support programs around the state got together and they created a pilot uh program it is a very short
program it's about two to three lessons long but it they've created the full lesson plan so it will have all resources it will have all the information they will be providing free training for all staff that would do the pilot so it's a two-hour training
program that they would provide at their location um and then the staff would have all the resources and all the materials for free to implement this within um 8th grade health curriculum and health programs and so we have
accepted to be one of their pilots I'm excited to see what this would look like um and then they will take the advice and tweak it and hone it before um this mandate goes into requirement next year so really nice opportunity for us and I just really appreciate this the
partnership for understanding what education needs in order to really Provide support to students um we also our speaking with um Mrs Chrisi and I have been speaking
regarding the looking at middle school math because we are aware that Berkeley Heights is changing their eighth grade approach to math for next year and they will still have some algebra one but it will no longer be Algebra 1 for all they
are opening up some sections of 8th grade math as well as algebra 1 so I have tasked Mrs Chris AI to really dive into our data we know that we have Al students very strong in Algebra 1 we had
70% of our kids meet or exceed in the njsla ex testing for algebra one um one of the pieces of information that came back through her conversation at Berkeley Heights was that there was concern about how students performed on
The Next Level geometry when they needed to test for that and so what we're looking for now is okay that's Global I want to know our kids so she is going to be looking to gather that data for the past couple of years of how did our students perform at the geometry level
and what might that look like for us moving forward to our next year for eighth grade math or moving forward do we look at a section do we need to make any adjustments but we don't want anything to be knee-jerk we want our children to arrive at the best capacity for themselves we do know that Pathways
will still exist for all of our students so they're not collapsing any Pathways at this moment up there but we want to just make sure that we have our students set for where their needs are so Mrs chrisa foi is looking into that more she will be meeting um she and I will be
meeting with our curriculum committee prior to our next board meeting and then we'll have more information to share out to the rest of the board about this um so that's some of the things that are also going on from the academic level we are finishing up our midyear
benchmarking so all of our administrators and teams are starting to do their data Dives in the mid to identify growth to identify areas that they may need to look at um and we also have been very very pleased our new
reading specialist who has joined us Mrs Blanco is really jumping in with both feet she is very involved right now with um looking at putting out ideas for read Across America day she had a really cute idea of having adults read parts of a
book for National read aloud day and so Mrs vering videotaped that and we were able to share that with the Beachwood community so really excited to have that position back and some of the programming and opportunities that are coming from it as well as the direct
direct work with kids so we've been busy thank you any questions or comments just just a question on um Berkeley Heights looking at eth grade what's the Genesis of that why would they go back
to change toward an eighth grade math and and and maybe take some of the kids out of out so I I don't want to speak totally to it because I don't have all that data from Mrs chrisa foi yet I'll definitely have more of that to give to you at our March meeting um because that's part of what she was reaching out
to them I know that some of it had to do with with uh test scores and looking at the longer pathway for their students and where they felt they might have had some skill deficits but specifics to it I don't want to speak to until I have a little bit more information on
it what time is the Mikey Fallon thing tomorrow 7 o'clock it's seven okay and is that is it the same presentation that he's doing in the schools or is it is that tailored to it's tailored to adults yep it's specific to the adult population that are coming thank
you okay let's move on thank you Mrs Walling our ba so the budget the first draft of the budget is done um I should say the expenditure side of the budget is done the um waiting on state aid um we expect to get that next week um
Governor's message is Tuesday so he has to release the numbers within 48 hours so we usually get it literally 48 hours after um if state aid stays the same then we anticipate that we will have a budget at cap without any major
reductions um if state aid gets cut then we're going to have to reassess and see where we're at um so right now the next board meeting is March 11th um we will have all detailed the finance committee will meet before that um we will have
detailed information for the board and ask you to adopt the tenative budget that night um which will then send to the county and then the final budget will be adopted in the end of April so this budget process so far has been a much easier one than last year um for
several reasons that certainly the separate proposal passing last year helped us um increased our tax base um and we've also had some Savings in transportation this year which helped us in next year's budget um assuming some
of those savings are going to continue which we have no reason not to think um and then we did have some kind of Lucky things in tuition with students that were graduating um so for all the right now we're in a very good spot we're just
hoping that next year I mean next week the information coming out of Trenton doesn't throw wrench in our plans but we don't expect that to happen does that mean we're anticipating enrollment tropic uh in tuition no no uh tuition for at a
district okay we have a student graduating any comments or questions okay let's move on to a Berkeley highday report yeah so we had um one meeting since the last time we met uh on January 27th um good news from
the Berkeley Heights Board of Education uh we now have our President and Vice President in place um so that's good news um we didn't get to committees yet um we're working
through um strategically what committees should continue which ones should go away how do we appoint um but work starts to go on so um some emergency ad hoc committees were established at the last meeting they include uh
Mountainside which is good for us uh to specifically address hopefully the ongoing relationship the expiring s receive relationship um uh there is a committee on the referendum more on that in a second um Committee just work through uh the budget similar to what
we're doing here um infrastructure at Governor Livingston and CMS if you're following anything on social media or even their meetings um they've had some uh heating concerns and fire panel concerns right um so just the
infrastructure overall and to address some of those ongoing issues and uh some contract negotiations which were time sensitive right so those emergency ad hoc committees are in place um with assigned members until we can work through what the long-term yearly
permanent committees will be um some highlights at the meeting um the spring coaches were approved um there was a lot of talk around the referendum like I said before so we approved the architect work that will be done for the
referendum um some of their pre-bond work and a demographic study as well um so uh if anybody's interested I believe we're going to have a referendum uh meeting a special Board of end meeting on the referendum next week uh once
those uh details become public I will share with anybody here who wants to learn about uh all the uh possible changes that are coming within uh brookly Heights um and then maybe we could post to our website um just for anybody else to get who wants to to learn um the the one thing that I always
love about uh Berkeley Heights which hopefully maybe at some point we could do here is the uh the student update so they have two students that come and speak and share their minds and usually it's um things like oh our sports teams are doing awesome and they had Super Saturday and and Friday but the one
thing that I I really wanted to uh call out was um the student this time was very courageous and and and approached the board and said look uh we've got some serious issues going on here at bardette that g governor lion so she specifically uh reached out around the heating issues right and and um not only
the heating issues and them not knowing what they're going to face when they come into the building every day but the lack of communication right uh you know these are now young adults and um sometimes the emails and the communications go out to the parents but they don't make their way down to the
students U maybe their schedule's cross overnight and and whatnot right so um I always like to hear what's what's fresh on their mind um and I thought that was a great part um if you'd like to go back and and see any of that their their their meetings are our meetings are all
on um YouTube and you could uh you know just see all the great things that are going on so that's it for me thank you any questions or comments okay you said the the referendum conversation will be next
week there should be a special oneoff uh referendum to get some details from the bond person the architect some of the lawyers to just start Pro laying the groundwork um I haven't seen the
agenda um I know that there was some work done last year where or in previous years where they have a list of ideas where they can address um at least in my uh short term there um that hasn't been solidified um so just brainstorming I
think at this point what what have we done in the past what's still top of the list got it um got it all that thank you okay let's move on can I please have a motion to approve under Administration items one through five second any comments or
questions roll call please Bill Dylan yes Mike Goodwin yes Dana yes Jordan hman yes Vivian poo yes Tano yes carine Benn yes may please have motion to approve under budget and finance items 1
through eight so second any comments or questions I had two quick ones um the on number six our bus rate are we flat same same spring season okay um any the Lacrosse Club
that's interesting cool and great um do we any sense of participation or we need to approve it and then sign up opens up and that's how we'll know if there's yes and this is done as a private so this is is um Mr Gormley does this as a private
program okay and so he then pays us under priority 6 right on our building use fees right um that's where he lands with that but all of his programs have been very nicely received by the parent community at Beachwood that's great to
see absolutely and between that and he's also running the after school one that's part of our stipend list right which is also very very well received and he does it where it's split up into multiple sessions throughout the year so it's not if you get in in September you're there
through the whole year he does it as more section so that more students have the opportunity to participate got it it's great to see I'm just gonna as always it seems like as always say thanks to the watsford aming in this case 1600 bucks for yep and that's going to one the video editing editing Club
here at Deerfield yep that is run by Mrs Diane and she uh had requested that that funding so I think that's really do a nice job for the kids to get their hands on and and be able to do the editing themselves which is very neat
great pleas Bill Dylan yes Mike Goodwin yes Dana cetro yes Jordan Heyman yes Vivian poopo yes cesano yes carine Venice yes I please have a motion to approve under Personnel items 1 through
S second any comments or questions I would just like to acknowledge that um very disappointed say see Mrs eert leaving but completely understand that she wants to be home with her family um two out of
three of my kids had her she was an outstanding teacher that my kids had her for Peak and they also had her for kindergarten and just she was a phenomenal phenomenal teacher and she will absolutely be messed
and she and I had a lovely conversation this was not an easy decision for her she really sees mountain side as a family for her um and I you know very much assured her that when she is ready to to rejoin the world of Education she will be an absolute blessing to any
District absolutely bless and uh as you saw in her her letter to all of you she hopes that this is just a temporary goodbye so very much uhing wishing her the best of love family absolutely Miss I agree with you um roll call
please Bill Dylan yes Mike Goodwin yes Dana to see patro I believe I have to yes but I have to abstain for number six since I'm on the volunteer list for the flight okay that May Chang my answer hold on Jordan Hyman yes Vivian poopo yes
candano yes armman ven please have a motion to approve on the curriculum item um one so second any questions or comments roll call please Bill Dyan yes
Mike Goodwin yes Danny C patro yes Jordan Heyman yes Vivian poo yes candano yes Carmine ven yes can I please have a motion to approve under policy items one and two so
move second any questions or comments roll call please Bill Dylan yes Mike Goodwin yes Dana c patro yes Jordan Heyman yes Vivian poopo yes Candace
shano yes carine yes moving on to Old business do we have any old business any new business I have one comment um I attended a meeting of the Y County School boards and I just want to
compliment Mrs swalling because they had someone from the state go over Hib what you could do what you can't do and he covered basically the same things that she has so congratulations
good you could teach a course next time I've got one VI for new business yes um just going to read this uh so would like to make a motion that Mountainside Board of Education advertised a request for proposals RFP for a feasibility study pursuant to njsa
18a 3813 to explore the possibility of severing the sended relationship for its high school students and entering into such a relationship with another District I'll make the motion that's my motion yes oh yeah I'm sorry I can read it again if you want
I'll second it okay then roll call please Bill Dylan you any questions or comment comments or not oh my goodness sorry questions or comments you see you overwhelmed me the only comment I'll make and we can open up is is um this is in part off the back of of our most recent committee
conversation uh and and obviously informed by further conversation with the board any other questions or comments well this is also leading our our contract is expiring in two years
one two 27 right that's right all right roll call please Dyan yes Mike Goodwin yes Dana C Jordan Hyman yes Vivian poo yes candano yes Carmine ven yes okay any committee reports oh wait I have new
business okay the U Mountainside PTO will be hosting their annual Fall fundraiser fall spring fundraiser going forward now Fall Festival spring fundraiser um it is a night on Broadway this theme Broadway is
the theme it is March 26 7th at the Hilton Garden in in Springfield 6:00 the doors open dinner will be served at 8 and the finale will be at 11: there's Tricky Tray live and Silent auctions all no Taco Truck no Taco Truck
guys no Taco that'll be at the fall no dress code we're good no but it's Broadway themed so if you want to get little want to get a little flashyy get a little flashy if you want it's okay all right let's move on committee
reports I just as noted so I'm just checking the date the send receive uh committee we met on fed 4 um just heard the the primary outcome of that conversationally but we also covered just some of the historical around uh around the the last time we were in
similar shoes and uh some of the history there and um obviously discuss some things that led to led to tonight's motion uh negotiations committee had a meeting um our first meeting with the mea a couple weeks ago um we at that
time just kind of introduced ourselves and um then um within the time we met to now we exchanged proposals um the negotiations committee the board's committee met today before our executive
committee to review the um proposal by the sent by the mountain side mea and we have a meeting with them next week to discuss the proposals okay thank you anyone else I
can uh just say that we met as a finance buildings and grounds committee um I sent I think everyone notes but um yeah the two big topics were uh discussing the fields uh potentially uage uh usage
of uh the Beachwood field um as well as we discuss the girls and boys locker room room at Deerfield and some potential for a need um for uh some some work to be done uh especially in the
bathrooms of the deer field locker room sounds good thank you anyone else okay at this time I would like to open up the floor for public participation on any items that you would like to discuss please come up to this Podium state your name
address hello everyone uh my name is Casey laass I live at 301 Cherry Hill Road I've been a resident of Mountainside since 2021 uh my wife has been a longtime resident of Mountainside since the early 1990s she is the reason why I'm here in
this town and part of the community um she's been a great advocate for Mountainside since the early days of the two of us uh being together um and have had family members that have been part of communities uh and committees like this before in the past um my question
tonight is in regards to um full day pre uh it's my understanding that in years past this is something that has happened um up until Co recently or around that time period um and with more and more families entering the community uh especially peers of mine this has been a
topic of conversation and just wondering uh there's been inquiries before in the past and told that this is not necessarily on a road map for the new year and so just had inquiries around why there the change um and if there was any foresight in the future of this
being an attractive option for parents in the community who have both parents in many cases that are working uh obviously looking for opportunities for uh you know our children to be nurtured and to learn on a regular basis and we've been nothing but thrilled with the
community here in Mountainside and the education that our kids are receiving uh we would just love the opportunity to have that even more so um so thank you for your consideration sure like answer y I will I was gonna say I was gonna move because you're behind the poster and I don't like
staring at that thank you so much for bringing it up um this is absolutely something that has been brought not only from Community but from board members as well we did have full day preschool prior to covid and then what has happened since then are a couple of
things number one space availability at Beachwood is extremely limited and therefore classroom space um when preschool is not State mandated at this time is a little it's difficult to identify this classroom space so we do
have that as a piece of it the other piece that plays into this is the cost because of the fact that preschool again not being a required program really the cost of it should be borne by the
community and not um not the parent not the board and and the taxpayers and so what we find is when we start to look at that we have because our staff is under our contract what their rate is of pay and
what that looks like when it trickles down to a per student cost does become very very different than say A Private Preschool and what that might look like um and you know knowing that uh this might have been a conversation tonight
um because I was aware that this was being discussed I did take a quick look at our current programming So based on today's factors and rates um and for your knowledge and for the boards if I were to utilize our current Staffing who right now has our preschool program
which is a morning and an afternoon the staff we have a full-time teacher which has benefits we have four part-time Paras and their costs um in addition we have materials we have everything so
overall at today's cost is about 152,000 to run a full day program so when you go full day rather than two half days you start to limit the number of students that you could accept into that program because you do
have a limit to the numbers so if we were looking at that truthfully to be self- sustaining you would have to guarantee a minimum of 11 students in that classroom and that cost per year
would be up around almost $14,000 a year 13,858 is where I was at when I compared that to other local ones nobody was above who's looking next year to run full day the most expensive that we had
at least in our comparison chart because every year when we run preschool we do a comparison chart to local ones to see what's available um the highest other one locally was around $1,000 so that is a significant cost
differential um in order to maintain that at it as a um as I said a a per student and the reason for I I look at 11 at this moment is not that the class only has 11 we can go up to about 15 or so
reasonably um is the fact that we also have to guarantee seats for some of our students of need so if we have students who are identified a special education they are required to have a free public education and so we've averaged anywhere from about six to eight students of need
on an annual basis so we typically hold about four seats because you also can have students who age into a program throughout the year they come out of early intervention and you have to have slots available for them so just to kind
of give you a sense um I think that it is not a never it is a matter of really being able to figure out how to sustain it because that is the biggest issue we have with space availability if you are going to bring back full day you want to be able to sustain it you don't want to
bring it back for one year you really want to have that long-term Vision as you're talking about and at this exact moment we literally have one classroom at Beachwood that is one year it's available one year it's not and when
it's not available it's or when it technically might have been considered available it's not sitting empty it's being utilized by staff who during covid we had them multiply stacked up in the media center so it's being utilized by our
occupational therapist by our counselors by our bcba we have our aim teacher in there so we have rotating but I think that you know when you look long term for the whole district and we've chatted about you know spacing availability
which is part of why when we talk to our buildings and grounds and we talk to our architect we are going to have them come out and do a uh a a a facilities um report and that also came out of our strategic plan so we know
that longterm the district really needs to take a look at what is our needs what are our needs going to be and if we are ever looking to do a referendum or something larger to build on then absolutely one of my recommendations to you would be to to Really look at
enhancing your preschool uh space to really be able to hit that Universe of students J how many students do you have an AM program versus PM program currently for next year I want to say we are at and we're still in the process of
registration so I want to say one is at 14 and one is at 12 so we are all we're we're between 25 and 30 students total what's the highest number of students you can have in a preschool classroom so
by if we were part of the state grants it's 15 per student per class so I guess I failed and we've talked about this before I guess I'm other than space I don't see why it couldn't go back to the way it was preo if it's just
space I get it but the cost I mean both those classes were packed and we even had to do a lottery to get students to get in so but your your what you were charging parents was nowhere close to $144,000 a year no but I'm saying if you
had two two full day programs MH we I mean what's the difference from then to now other than space I we still had two full dat programs you how many classes running two right now we have one classroom with a morning and an afternoon we had two you had two but
again what I'm tell what I'm sharing with you is prior to that what you were charging parents was much much lower it was not a self- sustaining program and that is absolutely not and I'll be honest your half day program right now is not self is very close to not being
self- sustaining but if you were to expand it based upon our current budget based upon our current um you know constraints that we have from a budgetary standpoint my recommendation would be that you are creating it so it is completely self-
sustaining and therefore you're looking at where you would have to have as a minimum and where you would have to have what you would be bringing in I don't have off the top of my head but I want to say it was around 7,000 for your full day program when they had it last time but again don't quote me on that one I'd
have to go back and take a better look at it which I I do agree absolutely absolutely and again I'm not I am not saying that it's not I think that there's a number of pieces and so that's why I'm saying to you as is from my from my seat to this I don't think it's a
never I think that you want to be able to look at how to build it how how to sustain it how to make it pay for itself at this time and therefore also be able to guarantee that space you know again this year we happen to have a a a grade
level that has almost a hundred students in it so therefore we have many more classroom spaces that are needed and not having regular extra space at Beachwood it does become difficult to do this on a year toe you want to really be able to
create a plan that will take you into the future and keep it sustainable yeah and we can't rely on that the class variability is a that's a constant variability is the constant so you never know that's can't I do think that if we do a facilities study and it
can be done I would love to see it come I agre come back if we had it before I mean this is something that should be yeah a great pram both of our kids were in for two years y fantastic they were ready for kindergarten it was such a
wonderful program and I would you know the the price well yeah the price back then it was I did gas when you say said 14,000 because that was not what it was but that's for 11 kids you're going to get more than 11 students however I just think if there's a way we could could go back fulltime I would be completely
support support so one question why the almost the double the cost in a because when it was Prior it was not selfs staining it was very heavily uh supported I guess through taxpayer
funds and and and the reality is when you are looking at it especially if you are in a situation where you know we were in a situation this past year where we actually had to make cuts and we had to go out for a second proposal because we could not budget within that
2% all of the things that we needed to under State mandate and all of those programs so my recommendation to the board if they were to look to do this would strongly be to make it a self- sustaining program you want to open with that expectation that it is paying for
itself and therefore not impacting having what could potentially be an impact on other educational programs I think at that cost it's certainly something for for people to consider with two little ones in private daycare right
now I think you'd be surprising the amount of people opportunity to pay $3,000 in change to be involved in part ofs Community having older siblings is part of the school and for convenience
and for convenience purposes of course um and getting a great education yeah I think that you get a great education in the peak program I thought and that's a fair point to wish everywh has gone up so I mean it's it's significant I can
imagine um I just think that there is a demand for it in town right now um I have family members that have moved back into mountain side that grew up in here as inlaws who have small children who are
delaying and postponing expanding their family because of the cost of job so when you think of that that delay that's going into schools if the question is only in having 15 people Max and having
account for people who are phasing into the program that need to be covered I can understand I I don't think there' be much of a problem reaching 15 people in in town right now from just amongst peers with kids in schools right corre I know that it's been taken in
consideration I know that this is not something that's been lost over I think you'd be you mayed thank you I appreciate it glad that up you know because a lot of us have kids that are older out of Beachwood not you know long my kids are long out of Beachwood but you know so I
think that's great hearing from your perspective from the younger side of families where the kids haven't even started school or just about to enter the school so I think that's great and I appreciate you bring that to us definitely I'll just say for us guys it still comes down to where's the money
gonna go right there's there's it's going to be 2% and it's going to be divied up um it's cont ious decision as to whether you subsidize it or you don't you want to be 100% self- sustained I mean those are um certainly things that we're going to do at the the the finance
and the pre-budget stuff but come come with those ideas and feed it to to Mike and the rest of the committee as to what what things like this you want to consider um there's no easy there's no easy way it doesn't come without cutting something else or reducing something else but you know I
think that's where we're here to help drive that Vision drive those priorities um um and I know it this one goes back and forth sometimes there's an appetite for it sometimes there's not and I you know Mike we've been talking about this for a while um so and in will
there ever be a perfect time the the attendance fluctuates it's been that way since all of us have kids here like which class is Big which one's small so that's variable and we've dealt with that for many years in the past um the money's tight I get it um so we just have to make those
decisions I've been beating this drum for a while Janet knows that um I have two k two children that have been through the peak program so I know how valuable it is I was sad to see it go from a full day to a half day um having lived through that
with my two children um and I agree with Bill completely if we as a board decide to prioritize this obviously facility study and things need to be done but if this becomes a priority and something that we want to see we have the ability to make those tough choices to to make
it happen I will say my oldest is almost 19 she was full day too but a lot of the Allure in that year 2011 or whatever it was the cost it was so much cheaper than going private around here um obviously that Gap is now gone or certainly so you
that's interesting that that's something for us to really think about because we're probably going to price some people out we'll never hear about those people but you're going to price some people out at at 14 Grand I'm guessing thank you okay any other questions comments anyone else wants to come up to the
podium got thought definitely going to have a question question badge badge no question no badge I read it in the bylaws at this point we do have to go into a second executive so can I please have a motion to go into second exe
moved any questions comments um we will not be returning correct so we will be going home I don't think we need to return no action will be taking thank you thank you have a great evening thank you for coming out in the
cold I up my life