 I'd like to start by giving a little introduction of myself and Lee and how we got to where we are today. I think that's important kind of in the journey to give you a sense of what we're going into with experience. Then I'd like to do kind of a brief overview of the program. The night is really set up so that everyone here leaves having all of their questions answered. So anything that you're wondering about, I have thoughts about what I believe that you're most interested in hearing about. I'm going to cover those kind of what I would call a broad stroke. But you might want more detail on anything. Please ask anything, everything. Feel free to interrupt me and say can you talk a little more about that. But does that sound like an okay plan for tonight? Okay. Yeah, okay, awesome. So as Lee mentioned, I'm Jeff O'Hara. This is Lee Lamb here. We are the owners of Part 2. We also are very active at Part 2. So we're both coordinators of the program. We spend a lot of time with the kids. We spend a lot of time with the directors. We spend a lot of time with our leadership team. My background is Motelton, Vermont in 1997. I worked in the preschool as a specialist. I worked as a classroom teacher. I worked as a summer camp director. I worked as a classroom teacher for middle school. I worked as an assistant principal of principal. And this year is the very first year where my whole world revolves around Part 2. So this is all I do now. But all of those things are kind of really important pieces that have shaped how I created the program, why I created the program, and how our program works. Lee, in 2002, we started an after-school program in South Burlington called Schools Out. He was one of the very first directors I hired. He and I have been in touch and working together ever since then. And we've built a lot of after-school programs. We're now in Richmond, Sheldon, Willis, then Inesburg, what's that? Richmond, Huntington, Bolton. So that's important to know where we are. Only in so far is we have directors in each of those programs, obviously. We get together with the directors two times a week for three hours on each of those days to collaborate, to plan. It's Mondays and Thursdays, so we just met with everybody earlier. I can't tell you how powerful it is to have that team together to collaborate, to plan, to hear what other people are doing at other sites and incorporate that into what they're doing at their sites. The director that's going to be here next year is one of our directors that's currently on the staff. She's coming from Richmond. She's a Waterbury resident, and she's completely psyched to take this on. But I told Ryan and Libby and anyone that I've talked to about this school and this position that she is the best of the best. You're giving kind of the best record that we have, and I feel really great about that. A couple of the things that I want to touch on is our fee structure, what it covers, what it doesn't cover, and I think that it looks a lot different than what you're used to now. So I want to spend some time talking about that because I think that that's something that a lot of people are thinking about and wondering about. I've heard about the school calendar. The really basic black and white one where it kind of talks about the late start and the parent-teacher conferences. There's a bunch of weird dates in there. If you count up every week that there's some sort of school, whether it's a two-day week, a three-day week, anything like that, there's 40 weeks altogether in the school. When you receive your calendar, you're going to see 37 Monday circle. The way that we figured out our system is that we, every school district that we're in, when we were in one school district, it was super easy because then we could have one county. Now that we're in so many school districts, there's so many different schedules out there that we try to come up with a way that could be consistent across all of our schools. So what we've done is we've come up with a fee structure that works almost in whatever school we're in. So what we've done is we've broken down 88, if your summer daughter is in the program for five days a week, 88 dollars, and then we spread it out over 37 weeks. So then when there's that first week of school, where the kids are in school on Thursday and Friday, you won't get a fee processed on that first week. There's a week in January that you'll see that the Monday's that circle. You don't get charged that week. Does that make sense? Because there are some weeks that have three days of school where that Monday the circle, you will get charged the full rate of 88 dollars or whatever your schedule is for that day. So I wanted to see if that made sense and if there's any questions around that piece particularly. We are, I just want to say this and then I'll see if there's questions. Lake Starts are going to be free for Part 2 parents, Part 2 kids. So I think there's four Lake Starts in the year. We'll be open and offering program services for those Lake Starts that your kids can attend creative charge. We, the parent and teacher conference days, if I added anyone more. There's three parent and teacher conference days where there's not any school for your kids. There's not any school. We will offer a program at 7.30 to 5.30 that is also free of charge. So if your children attend Part 2, then they can, we would not have a separate sign so that we knew who was coming, but there wouldn't be a charge. Yes, question? Yeah. Only for kids that are considered for that day. Yeah, no, there'd be part time kids as well. So even if they don't normally go out and purchase anything? Yeah. Yeah. We would send out a sign up so that we knew who was coming. The nice part about full days is that even if somebody signs up and they don't come, we don't worry, once they're here with us, that's when we worry about them. If we get dropped off at 7.30, then we know that they're with us for the day. If somebody signs up and something else comes up, it's okay. We just like to have a really good idea of how many kids we expect so that we can have a right staff. The second piece that I want to talk about are vacation days. Vacation days are November 25th and 26th. If you see there's seven days that kids aren't in school days in December. We won't have probably three days, three or four days of vacation days that we were still trying to mail that down. February, there's seven days again. We will have vacation camps all those days. And in April, there's five days. We'll have vacation camps on those days. Vacation camps are a separate fee. You don't get charged your weekly tuition on those weeks. But if your kid wants to come, if your child wants to come, you can register for a one day and a Wednesday. And there's not a registration fee or anything like that. There's a set amount that we charge for that. On those days, that's when we really take advantage of being able to get out of the community through field trips. Depending on the time of year. I guess it doesn't depend on the time of year anymore. If you go ice skating, swimming, rock climbing, all of those things that your kids really love. Those are much easier to do during the school vacation days. Would you have all those days here at this student? Or would it be, you know, there's a couple of days here, a couple of days in the water, right? No, yeah. I'm not sure if everybody would have a good question. Will all the vacation days be here at this school? Yes. In terms of the middle school, I'm not sure. It depends on the numbers. So sometimes what we do is we offer up our elementary school for the handful of middle school kids that need a place to go. And then if there's five kids, if there's three kids, it doesn't really matter the number. We'll pay special attention to make sure that they have something that fits for them as well. But it'll all be in one place. Yes, yes, yes. That just brought up another point. I'd like to move around, and I also know the cameras there, so I shouldn't be driving you crazy. I think as we develop a program, the other thing that I want to make sure that everybody in this room hears, is that we don't have a cookie cutter off program. Part two is different in every single school that we're in. Ryan and I and Lee and the new director, we're all going to be sitting down together. We're going to be sending out grant surveys for all of you to say what type of program are you looking for, and then we create the program to best meet the needs of this community. So it's not anything like we're going to come in, we're going to do this program, we're going to hold to the words and the fits. That's not how we do things. That's never how we run things. Our business name is actually the after-school collaborative, and we do business past part two. But that collaborative approach has been with us since our inception. So that's something that we always have really here and here. But talking about middle school, we were constantly, and I mentioned that I was a middle school teacher and a principal for a specific reason. I feel like I know middle school and kids really well. We haven't been able to crack like what really draws middle schoolers in so that they have an amazing time after school. And I can't tell you how excited I am because I think we're finally getting really close. Part two is going to have three vehicles, two vans, and a mild car, which is the house of the pilot. But it's cool because it can fit seven people. The reason why I mentioned that is that we and I just went mountain biking with a group of kids, middle school kids on Friday. We had a cooking class that was off-site. The chef of the single couple in downtown Burlington came in into the cooking class. I got my daughter's, that's really an 11-year-old daughter. So now I'm like, oh my gosh, she needs something to do. And me and a parent, definitely, he's ways how we and I have done programming. And then he went to get Eric on Tuesday. So I was picking kids up from the school, taking them off-site, doing something really cool, bringing them back. And I can't tell you how excited they were. So we're going to be doing more of that. When I was sitting down with Olivia and Ryan, they were like, is that going to be an option? And I'll feel your too. And the answer is absolutely. I finally feel like it took me a while, but we actually, we have to create programming in the schools for the kids that's awesome and amazing. But there is something about getting out of the school that makes middle school kids really happy after school. So we're getting there. So even for the little guys, we're constantly looking for new ideas. This is a new community for us. I want to be really over front and honest. I had a parent send me a list of resources that are available in this community. I can't wait to get to know those places. But I give out my cell phone, my personal cell phone. You guys can call me anytime you want. My email. We really want to know what you think will make an amazing program. Things that we should do. And as I mentioned, we are going to be creating this program. Between now and the new school year. And then once the school year hits, we're going to continue to build it. And never stop. The building has always been. Yeah. That said, can you give us an idea of what you've done in other communities? And I'm a little bit confused because I'm here for a kindergarten kid. And we're talking about middle schoolers. So just... Yeah. I don't know if I should just get into the reading. If there's all the convenient things. So I think these are basic questions. Yeah. I love it. So there's going to be two different programs. There's going to be a program at middle school. And then there's going to be a program here at the elementary school. The one big piece here in terms of what we've done in other buildings and other facilities is that we don't have a maximum number. We try never to have a weakness. So we always want to create programs because if there's a need in the community, there's nothing worse than we thought, these kids have been on the way to us, my kid has been on the way to us, there's nothing worse than having to turn your own world upside down because you don't have a place for your son and daughter. So number one thing is that we told Brian and Olivia that there won't be a weakness. The only thing that ever gets in the way of not having all the kids in a role that we want to have in a role is space. And they've already been incredibly accommodating to say, we can figure space. Let's not let space get in the way. So one of the things that is really appreciated in the other room is the fact that we figure out how to incorporate our homeowners into our program. So in the elementary school, the Allen Park School is a little tiny kindergarten in your second grade school in Wilson. That program has 100 kids a day. Sheldon Community School has 100 kids a day. Wilson Central has 80 kids a day. So we have large programs. Richmond is pretty much the school. So when there was a cyclist from the committee, they came to Richmond because there's a K-4 building and a 5-8 building. They showed the same campus but they were able to see how we immigrated at the K-4 level and the 5-8 levels. Do you have a sense of what the numbers will be for this program in this school? We don't. We hear that there's a licensing capacity here of 69. I'm not sure if there are 69 on each day. But anything within the range of 0 or 150 will be available. The thing that we figured out is that we and I both started at the South Rollington Schools and we were told that 40 isn't a deal number for an after-school program. And we kind of held a shoot to that until there was people spending the night to register the night before. This is what hit it home for me. Someone was paid to wait in line for a family and they've been waiting 36 hours. And it's like if we truly believe that great after-school programs benefit children like we do, then how fair is it to have a process like that even to limit it at all? So that's when our mind shift changed. It was a little scary at first, but what we found is the more kids that we have enrolled and the more staff we have and the more different personality types we have, the more varied our program can be and the more choices kids can have. As opposed to the smaller programs, it's like, well, you can do this or you can do that today. Whereas the larger programs, there's 70 opportunities for kids again. And Lee and I both are in the camp of the larger program these years to manage. Now, where we've completely switched because of what you just said, is when there's a larger program, there's more options for kids. Kids are out here. There's more diversity with the staff. So when I say diversity, you'll have a couple of people that are really active that love to be in the gym. There's a couple incredibly tech-set people who love to do coding and robotics with the kids. And then you'll have a couple of people that are incredibly talented in the arts. So the bigger the program, the better. It sounds like in Montpelier, we're expecting big numbers. We're hoping to do that. So the state says that we have to be at a 1 to 13 staff to child ratio. We staff at 1 to 10, and often it's lower than that. So what happens is that, and that's the same for any program. When the program starts, we're at a 1 to 10, and then at 4 o'clock, 15 kids have gotten picked up. At 5 o'clock, 40 kids have gotten picked up. So the year number continually gets lower and lower as the day goes on. And our staff has been really good about, during this time, I have 10 kids in my group. This is what it looks like. And then when I have four kids in my group at the end of the day, this is what it looks like in it. There is power involved. I know I'm flying. The one piece that I'm also thinking about is, Lee mentioned something about all of the people waiting in line. And for whatever reason, what I thought about there is the idea. The other thing that we really value is making sure that all kids get into our program. Any conversations with Libby and Ryan, one thing that they also hold as a value is making sure that there's a number of kids that's turning away from having afterschool care. And we think that's super important. So I want to spend just two minutes talking about the process that we use for that. And then if anyone has really specific questions, you can ask in the forum so that people can hear because they might have similar questions or you can email me or you can catch me after. I can stay as long as people would like to talk. But if a family is in need of financial assistance, because we're analyzing the program, the state actually has an incredible subsidy program. So what we do is we do ask parents to go through the state subsidy paperwork first. It's for families that have a hard time feeling that we'd be happy to sit down in their school resources with people that can help throughout the paperwork as well. But we ask parents to fill that out because oftentimes parents don't believe that they're going to qualify. And then they qualify for either 10%, 25%, 100% and then fall in the way of like letting us know that this was a possibility. But if they apply and the state says, I'm sorry, you don't qualify, then we get the paperwork that says that we're sorry, they didn't qualify. And then we provide a scholarship. So we provide the scholarship based on the need. Oftentimes it's, we have a system in place right now that if somebody qualifies for 20%, and then doing the quick math and that leaves $70 on their bill as a cold pay, we'll pay the other, we'll pay 50% of that, so we'll cut it in half. That's kind of an easy broad statement to make. What you all have to know is that if that's still not doable, we will work with you. The other piece is that if somebody qualifies for the state subsidy and the state subsidy covers $72 on the ADA dollar bill, on the bottom it says you are responsible for a $16 cold pay. If you qualify for 100%, you don't qualify for anything. Like you obviously, the state is determined that you should be 100% subsidizing that when you are. So we don't ask for any money on top of that. But I don't mind if you spread that word, is that no one is going to get turned away for money, for needs, for any reason. And that's something that we and I have always held true to. And we told Brian, I'm living in the Interior Committee, talk with the building administrator, talk with parents. We know how fortunate we are to be able to do this for work, and that feels awesome that we get to help so many kids. So people have to know that our prices, our tuition is a little bit more than I know what you're used to, but also know that don't let that get in the way, if you're in need. What are our questions? My email is, it's kind of easy but I don't want to, because you know how somebody gives you directions and they say you can't mess it, and then you walk up, it's Jeff, my name is Jeff, and then it's Part 2 Kids. So it's Jeff at Part2Kids.com. Is that Jeff and the J? Jeff and the J, Lee, L-E-I-G-H, don't make fun of me. L-E-I-G-H at Part 2 Kids.com. It's number two. Question in the back, yeah? What is the pricing for less than five days a week, and also for days a week? There is, so we have everything from five days to one day, and then there is a sibling discount off the top of my head. I should know these, I think it's $88,000 and $78,000. But there are none. Yeah, it is online. Our website, one bad part about growing as fast as we have, is that I'm going to tell you that I do not like our website. It's filled with information that the one cheater that I gave to you, we do grow yet there. So that's the two to five, three to five year olds in school, we have a preschool, we do summer programming. So right now the fall registration just opens, so when you open our website, it has, like, click here for fall registration. We wanted parents to see that, but there's a little weakness that it's finding out more about Part 2, right, that if you click that, then it's going to have pre-school, early ed, summer, and after-school. Just click on after-school. We're making changes to our website, but it's functional now that it's not hanging out. Great question. I can tell you that I only talked to a few parents here, and everybody talks about how awesome the staff is here. That's not always the case in programs that we come in after. The process now is that Caitlin has agreed to be the director, so we have the director in place, because everybody is so high, and not even, if people even work, I don't know, they would go through the same process as anybody else. They would come in, they would sit down, and they would talk to our human resource director who does the first screening of all that and things, and then depending on the position, they would either talk to Caitlin next, or talk to me next, or Lee if it's a leadership position. Part two staff, we joke about it a little bit, but we don't have to advertise too much because of word of mouth and references and things like that. We have one person that, one of our employees has brought in at least seven or eight people of it. It's the friend with Tessa. What you need to know is that your recommendations, your, you know, like the checklist person is amazing. That means way more to me than how they might interview, or like that, the recommendations of parents means so much. And any recommendations that anybody in this room can give for staff that are here will mean so much to me, because those are the people that you want. And people always say like what separates part two from like your program from other programs, and I really do believe it's attention to detail. We want people who make connections with kids. We want people who make connections with adults. We want people who make connections with school employees. Those are the people that you are talking to me about. Those are the people that have either made a difference in your child's life or those are the people that when you walk in they know your name and they can tell you a little something about your child for that day. Those are the people that just have that something, something special about them. Those are the people you want. Yeah. Yeah. So that's one thing that we talked a little bit about. Up in Chinatown we are definitely, we pay higher rates than everybody else. And I'm hearing about the different rates and I want to know more about what people, so we're going to present kind of our ranges to people, but I'm hearing really high numbers that are surprising to me. So I'm interested. So a lot of directors pay starting teacher salaries, which is really competitive. Up in Chinatown and our assistant directors get paid between $16 and $92 an hour. Our counselors make $15 an hour, which is really competitive up there. And I'm hearing that the numbers could potentially be a lot higher down here, so I just want to know a little bit more about because I don't know how many hours that is for living things like that. Does that make sense? Yeah. So if we can match it, we will. I need to know more. Jeff. Yeah. When the committee looks at that, it's a good question. We can't blame from the archivists and they're comfortable. In terms of positions in the locker, whether you're talking about a director or a counselor, they're comfortable across the board. We know that. Well, then yes. No. We've gotten a lot of people that have come to us from other many learning programs because of our pay structure. And we offer great benefits, health insurance. Jeff. How consistent is your teaching staff on the regular basis? From the sound of the conversations you just had, it sounded to be like you don't have a lot of turnover. However, rotation through the programs, I ask because my little one, I'm sure everyone else has performed a bond and a relationship and it's really easier with the teacher that counselor is there every single day or most days. Is that your experience with these programs as well? Yeah. So I can give you both sides of it. So this past year, we had 12 directors, not a single one-on-one left, which is amazing because in after school, sometimes people look at it as after school as a stepping stone to teaching and things of that nature. This year, we have two directors leaving out of the 12, and we have a new site. We have three high-level positions that they're in. We have about 100 employees at Part 2, and there's definitely a segment that is trans. With our directors and our assistant directors, we ask for a full-year contract, a full-year commitment. Before we hire anyone, we have that verbal and written commitment. I can't think of a time that a director ever left in the middle of the year, so Lori is the person directly on the employee night. She's been with the program since its inception. So she's been with us for eight years now. Chris at Expert has been with us for five years. There's people that are on multiple years, most of them are between three and four years with us. So Caitlin, the person who's coming here, is absolutely phenomenal. There's a person that I think will be coming with her, and there's people like me and myself where after school isn't a stepping stone. It's a really amazing place to be, and it becomes your life. I think it's in the word life, but there are a lot of people in our organization that are like us, and that is where it is. So I'm here at one of those 11-year-old daughters. I'm someone who understands that they have a ton of energy, and they have a ton of attitude about what they're doing. No! And I promise her I would tell you guys that she loves the art classes, the spaces, the paint, all that stuff, and so I'm just hoping that I know that the offerings at elementary school, especially since the age range of four or four through the school of art, I'm just hoping that you guys can continue to have those, and she's crossing her same way, they're not going to land, and she wants to gain a great time. So I guess there's a lot of those things for kids to like, different. Awesome. Yeah, and I don't want to undersell all of our time and energy because 90% of our kids are kindergarten through fourth grade, but having the 11-year-old has really changed my thinking about what can we do different. So my brain is a little crazy that the hamster is running at full speed up there right now, and I said again thinking about what we could do differently for the middle school kids, so I appreciate you sharing that, and as things come up, the one thing that I'd really like to do with middle school kids is ask them what do you like, what do you want to do, what could make this program better, and they usually come up with amazing ideas. Oftentimes if it's mom or dad saying, hey, you'll probably like this, then you can be guaranteed that they're going to hate it. So it's just, like you said, it's where they are and like, you know, so, yeah. I'm going to be kindergarten, and I'm hearing large groups of kids after school and months of activities. Can you give examples of small scale things that can be done for kids who need to cycle them or might want a quiet experience? Yeah. So the very first thing that we and I realized when we started these pretty big programs is how do you get small? How do you have something so big that you haven't seen so small? So when I mentioned that every counselor or director has a group, they have a group because 10 seems really small and manageable and nice. And that's where space becomes critical. So you can have a space of 10, but if it's in a group of 50, that group of 10 really still seems like 50. So getting the kids out and doing smaller space, we kind of understand that some kids need to eat right away, some kids need to run outside like crazy right after school, we understand that some kids like to curl up in the book and have that down time. So in all of our programs we correct the kids up into groups and those groups I can anticipate us having probably 40 kids between the ages of K and 2 is kind of what I'm anticipating. And in those we're going to have pockets of similar interest that we're going to kind of figure out what are those interests and what what do each of the groups want and then pay their programs to best meet their needs. But we try to shrink the program because sorry, because I haven't even learned it all now at one time, she was fine and that's all I was thinking about at that point. So, yeah. A lot of our groups do pay special attention to the kindergarteners in the first few months. Richmond ran a kindergarten club. They called it the kids of heat right away together and the active kids are probably sleeping in their shoes and the other kids are still slung like a top and meeting their first-hour needs as kindergarteners and getting them into the program and adapting to the program that's just one way. Some programs have and how the program has their kindergarteners completely separate from almost the entire day just doing their own thing. So we definitely have the kids that are on our mind and in kindergarten parents are my favorite I truly even as a building principal that the kids would be like but I'm on! The other thing we need to know is safety. The safety of the kids is paramount as much as we like to have I can't tell you how intelligent we are in making sure that we have our group of 10 and we know the kids that the kids know us and for the kindergarten we will start to know how to create special things for the kindergarteners we will walk down to the classroom to get to the kindergarteners for at least the first two weeks until we know for sure that they know where to go how to get there so we will go down individually to get to the kids. So that's one last thing that you have to work on you'll have plenty of other things. Do you anticipate that you're going to have multi-aged classrooms or do you rate that by grade or by school? Because there's a lot of power in having kids with their same age peers and then there's a lot of power in having kids with older and younger students and in the gym often where you'll see a huge cross-section and you know the arts and crafts activities you'll see a cross-section of kids usually during activity time is where you'll see older older kids and younger kids but we can also, because there's two gyms because there's plenty of space we can also have an art activity that's just open for K2 today and a gym game that's only open for 3, 5 and have multiple activities but for the older kids we like it when the kids and the older kids are modeling and then we use that to our advantage of the older kids it's talking to them ahead of time hey we're going to be with 5 and 6 year olds today in the gym what is that? Are we throwing the ball as hard as we can? Are we protecting the little guys? Are we doing this? So it gives them a little responsibility like there's something bigger than just myself and that's probably the hardest thing to get a middle schooler to see is the world outside of themselves but without that opportunity if they're always with the same age peers those opportunities are less so there's going to be something that there's going to be cross-page activities but your kid your child is also going to be on one side or the other he or she will either tend to want to be with kids as or her age level or they're going to be in the other direction like I really like being with the older kids for whatever reason or the younger kids I don't know but there's again with bigger programs there's going to be tons of choice and unless we see something that tells us that your child probably would probably do better with or without whatever they're choosing then we're going to let them choose and we're going to help them out with their choices would we need to close you to still or anything better or would that need to be on that? good question so we stay out of that business so if the school closes we aren't closed if there's an early there's an emergency dismissal we aren't closed the school is open and there's a huge storm that's coming at 10 o'clock and they can make it to the end of the day we have never closed in those situations because our thought is that the kids are here they're safe if you as a parent want to communicate with us please send my child home or we will gladly do that but we also know that it's going to take you a long time to get home from work our staff is more or less okay they understand but there's been some there's been some loppers that have come in at two or three o'clock where we always stay open because the staff are there and the kids need a place so you're looking to accept any child who wants to attend or what about the ability to switch days if you're not in local time good question I know a little bit about the structure of the program that is here currently and it seems like there's a lot of flexibility in terms of I have a problem so we base our staffing on the number of kids so the less changes the better so for 90% of the families they pick a schedule they see it we were beginning to see as we got bigger if we had 10 families in each school that were constantly like every other we would switch in their ways it became really hard for us to manage again to make sure that we knew who we were expecting in our programs and to make sure that we weren't falling parents 15 to 17 were kids to try to figure out where the kids were so we made it harder for parents to change schedules a lot and it's not harder there's just a 30 or $30 change to be scheduled just because we want to limit that because it really comes down to a safety issue that it's always the staff get to know John and Sarah Monday, Thursday, Friday and then they don't see Johnny that they know right away but if this schedule is constantly changing it's just it becomes stressful but if your work schedule changes mid-year that's mostly what it's about my second question is for this year if one is that you just can't start taking is there should be a delay is there getting things out are you starting for a later for that week where there's nothing for parents well let me talk so the disappointing answer is we're not going to start earlier but I can give you hope for the future so we will start the first day of school that's Thursday this year Thursday this year in all of our other schools we aren't starting here in the summer because it's better for us to start in the fall it's just a smoother transition next summer we will have a program in our other areas that we have after school program and we run summer program the only day of the summer that we don't offer is in July every other day there's something that's offered to the parents so there's eight weeks of regular summer camp programming that happens in the school there's adventure camps where there's a lot of time to clean their spaces and things like that so we just go on day long trips and there's something called extreme adventure camps where it's kind of a highland going to crazy stuff but those are what we call the gap camp so those are the week after school because everybody has to kind of get things cleared out clean up reset for the summer program and then at the end of this world there's a little bit of a gap where there's not a program so we offer something all the time yeah another great question I schooled this in a school until 6 o'clock I understand your question about elementary that there will be a lot of switching at middle school like every sports season or a span something it's not right now but it's something that we're seeing more so we're having conversations so it may change for next year because of sports schedules and kind of what's going on in my head right now is more of enrichment type of schedule where kids can sign up for a 6 week session of this yeah so that kind of matches with the school sports schedule so maybe you and I can sit down and take a look at the calendar and see kind of what lines up and what doesn't we can pay online as well maybe register and pay online yeah so that's actually the only way to do that is online and using the credit card so we used to have it it saves a good charge to credit card fees but checks go really well so this was just a way to create a more efficient system for ourselves great question I always call it the magic button so our bookkeeper puts all the charges in when you go to register you'll see a number that is called for the year that I've broken down into 37 paid periods and the Mondays that I circled on that calendar she presses there's something out of the system but I always say she presses a button on Monday and that charges the account for that so it's heavy Monday for that so you can't choose to pre-pay for a month or do it that way so our bookkeeper can work individually with people if that works better for the year do you think it's all together in the middle school kids or will there be who's all together 95% of the time the kids will be separate because the campuses are close but not super close the opportunities like I would love to have first of all we're going to do reading buddies with the kids and things of that nature thinking about my own daughter that would kind of have to be incentive on this if you can help us out by doing this we can do this so it would be getting them to buy it most of our locations have really cool entrepreneurship programs for the oldest kids some of it is incentivized maybe they'll have an end of the year trip different points for different activities that they do each of our programs features some sort of leadership program and even if it's a K-2 program so our talent program is the kindergarten for second grade school and the second grade is sort of the leadership whoever is the oldest yeah so this looks like you're going to leave your growing pretty rapidly and from the county list it sounds like you're going to leave your Cambridge once again so I guess my question is do you expect to keep growing rapidly how is it going and are there any problems for the experience related to the program so that's an interesting question so Cambridge came on last year earlier this year but before that we showed a lot of those two years before Williston and Shelburne were four years before so after school has been slow but the place where we're growing faster is in the preschool and early on in the world which is also something that I would love to incorporate here so what we do in the early on in the world is that the school often has a function in preschool but it's only for 10 hours or 12 hours or a really small amount of time so what we do is we offer a supplemental program from 7.30 to 5.30 that the kids can imagine in and out of the preschool to our program and then back so that's where we've seen quite a bit of growth but when I think about it the growth is really just in numbers of kids coming to our programs so we have three early on programs we've had three early on programs for a long time our numbers are growing there we have a standalone preschool our numbers are growing there and our summer program is really taking off so it's not that we're adding new programs it's just adding more to kids and even though I say it's rapid it's been slow enough to manage so this is the only this is the only after school new site for this year do I anticipate that continuing? I don't know I really don't know we aren't out actively looking to record three or four or six we are but if something comes to what's really important to Lee and I is that we want to be seen as a resource and not a whole bar too soon we want to be wanted and it sounds really petty but we appreciate when communities appreciate what we do and that makes us feel really good about coming to that community so we don't really actively go out looking for other sites but if people invite us to put an offer to them maybe we like doing that this site holds a question for Lenny but in the letter which I'm excited to know she mentioned that middle school or maybe the district is getting an enrichment form here and I'm doing some of that other cool stuff I'm just wondering why I said that I've heard about this and I hear I think the guy's name Drew seems like he's really well liked so I'm definitely interested but did he want to add anything to that I'm sorry the enrichment coordinator the enrichment coordinator at the middle school so we brought the equipment coordinator to the district thank you to our lovely board and so I mean but you're actually tomorrow we're talking more in depth about that that position so that will be on board we are trying to figure out do we use part 2 for part 5 6 and really about providing engaging opportunities for part 5 6 because they need a little tighter community around them and then have Drew really take over for 7th through 12th grade and made that bridge to high school we're just talking about what's the best way to do this either way these guys are really talking to each other and saying how can we work together for the best programming for our adolescence because we know that matters I love this 5th, 6th is their favorite it is, they need different things they have different needs and different wants and so and I also know a lot of 5th graders and 6th graders who really are looking forward to enrichment activities so I have all faith and trust in these two gentlemen that they're going to really be thinking about that and how we can provide awesome opportunities as well and a little bit more structure and support around it more more brains around any one particular problem or idea or better and that's why we enjoy having all of the directors come together all the time because probably as smart as we are in our vision but together and with that large group I will hear from you I think looking forward I'm also aware of time I think that all of you probably have kids but the next thing that would happen is that for registered families we will obviously send out a welcome letter welcoming everybody in and then putting them in a welcome letter a meeting group so that your kids can come in meet the staff at that point and it will be closer to the beginning of the school year just because staff members if someone could come in to us next week but a lot happens in the summer so we tend to do most of our staff in the middle of all of this for the program we have a really good background for staff members so that would be the next step I'll give you all my cell phone number if you want to write it down and you can or put it in your own room and just quickly to call me I'd rather talk through ideas with everybody and give your thoughts than to be left wondering if I didn't mention something so my number is 825 1919 maybe more so 825 1919 I'm going to thank you all for all of your great questions that you've asked and I'm sure the guys would be able to say a few more minutes and privately or you want to talk to myself or Ryan you don't want to be able to say as well but thanks for having me tonight thanks everyone