 Yeah, thank you, Ray. Sure. All right, we're recording. We're come to order. Let's, what have we got going, guys? Any change of agenda needed? Hearing none, Bruce, what do you got for us? OK, I got on the call with the secretary today. And plus, there's some local things that I wanted to share with everybody. One of the things is that we, I did get approval for the waiver of the days that we asked for in March. If you recall, we closed for the 16th, 17th, and 18th, which was not something that all the school districts did in March that I'm talking about. We closed after the weekend and never reopened. And many of the schools went back for the next three days. So I had to ask for those approval days. And I received them yesterday. I've kind of gotten feedback that there's concern that we could be asking for too many days. So I think what I'm saying to you is that instruction will end on the 12th for all the districts. And that includes Turnbridge. I'm going to try to get this. The secretary did just waive that one day that they had a heating problem, which I think was the 5th of November, where they had a heating problem. I'm going to try to get that done. But it looks like we can end instruction on the 12th. And that would be 172 days instead of 175. And that would allow them the district to have a couple PD days at the end. So Rochester and Stockbridge go. They would be 11. Excuse me, Bruce. Amy had a question. Yes, what about Rochester and Stockbridge? I've thought that we had gone an extra day earlier. It was about meeting day. I just said that when you had your hand up, that they would be ending on the 11th instead of the 12th. The 11th? Yeah. OK. So I've got to do the detail. And I don't think I'll have any problems with the one day for Tundridge. The problem is they waive those days, the three days, because it was related to COVID. And the Tundridge day isn't. So I'm just going to have to ask the secretary myself and see if they just do that. I don't think it'll be a problem, but I'm going to do it tomorrow. With them, but I wanted to get the other day to prove before I went back and got this one approved. So I haven't told the principal this yet. I will tell them tomorrow that I did get approval. So you guys are hearing it here first. As you know, all of you know, I think you know that Jamie's made a decision that we're going to have a summer program. I think the plan was from nine to three. But I don't know all the details, because they haven't been on those conversations. And there will be a food service done the way we've done it in the past, which is making them in one kitchen and delivering out to the site's curbside, I believe. But again, I haven't been involved in that as well. They're pretty confident with the 21C money that we may be able to pay for everything without a whole lot of extra money. But I don't know the details. So that would probably be a Tara question and a Jamie question. I haven't been involved at that at this point. Any questions on any of that? Tara, I think, is on the line, so she could answer anything. Are you there, Tara? Somewhere? Yeah, I think so. Anything to add to what I said? I know Jamie's not on. So if you've got anything. I wasn't listening, Bruce. I'm dealing with my kids. What did you say? Well, I was just going to say that I'm pretty confident that the 21C money will pay for the food this summer. Yes, it's going to continue to go through the one-planet program like it always has. There's no change in programming there. OK. All right. And the times on that was nine to three, I think. Tara? For the program? Yes. OK. All right, so let me go down through what the. Sorry, Bruce. This is Don. I just had another question about those waivers. So does that mean you're not going to be asking for those professional days? I'm not going to be asking for the snow days because they I could if you want me to continue to do that. I'm just afraid that if I do that, we're going to go down below 170 days. And when I call tomorrow, I'll ask and see if they're likely to approve more days and snow days because that's what you guys wanted me to do. Yeah. I get a sense that they may not be because we're being a little greedy. You know, that would be seven days for Cambridge and six days for everybody else. And that would take us down below 170 days. We can go below the state and state ceiling, right? No, they are allowing schools to do it. But that far below is the issue. And they're doing it for COVID related issues. So this isn't the snow days really or COVID related, although I do know that a couple of the districts have had snow days waved. So I will ask again, I can do it online now. So it's OK. And I think there's been so many requests. I'll probably call there and talk to the people. It's Emily Simmons that gave me the information. Find out if she thinks that likely we're going to be able to get these approved and I know they meet as a committee to do it. So thank you. Anybody else? Go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to caution, you know, teachers at this time are trying to figure out wrapping up the end of the year projects and the last days to get these reports and the last stuff together with the kids. And I don't know what day they were planning on, but I want us to just be cognizant of the fact that if we're trying to help them by reducing their amount of days, they might be already planning on needing those days to finish up these projects with the kid on, you know, the cognizant of that. I hear you, Amy, but I've heard nothing, but people want just this thing to end. They're really itchy. And I'm not talking about teacher days here. I'm talking about kid days. They'll have to work. I know at the end of the year, there's a lot of projects that are being finished off that, you know, we need to be conscious of that. We're only talking next Friday. And I know, you know. We're taking three more days away when they thought that they had the whole week to finish up. Many of the principals have said, let's just call it Friday, the 12th, and let it be. So I'm going to tell them, as far as I know, right now, it's the 12th, I will ask about the others. I feel like I have to ask about the others because I discussed that a week ago with all of you. And if you're telling me that you don't think that's necessary at this point, well, then I'll change directing, but it took so long for them to approve the three March days that we were out. I asked twice and it just, I don't know why, but it just took forever to get them to approve it. And I finally had to call, you know, and they told me- I think for our district next Friday is fine. Instead of, I think it's fine. Well, how do the rest of the year- I think that's when we're winding everything up anyway. Mm-hmm. I think you can't put a dead horse or it makes no reason to, and this is over, you know? Yeah, I know, I know, I know. I'm telling you, it's been quite a year, quite a year. Anybody else wanna- I'm happy to go with what the crowd does, but I think we'd be fine enough, but if we just left it at Friday, I don't have a real preference either way, but I think our graduations on Thursday and Friday, we're Tumbridge and Chelsea, so we're not finishing up until the end of the week anyway. Well, in a normal year, this would be a lot of field trips and outside activities and things like that anyway, so. Okay, thank you. Let me go on with the stuff that the secretary talked about today. It looks like there'll be an announcement tomorrow about opening restaurants for inside eating and service. It won't be outside any longer. That's what they're trying to do, and that announcement should come from the governor tomorrow. We got a little promo about it today. They also said that the rule that was put out there at the beginning of this COVID thing about keeping your employees employed will end. It will not be renewed after June 30th, so it will be back for districts and SUs to decide and boards to decide layoffs or whatever they're gonna do, and according to their local agreements, and that will not be renewed after July 1 or June 30th, which was interesting to hear that. Also, they were a lot of the special schools that special ed kids get sent to, like the new school in Mount Pilger and some of the other places have wanted to continue to be paid even though they were not delivering services and they were pressuring the AOE to basically continue to pay payroll because they needed to hold on to their staff. Originally, the secretary said that he was talking about doing that and paying, or asking school districts to pay for special ed kids, but they have no desire to do that. So in other words, they're not gonna pay for services that aren't delivered is what I'm trying to tell you. In a roundabout way, they are not gonna pay reimbursement for things that don't happen. And that's across the board, there will be no changes to it, and that's been really, really a problem on the minds of a lot of the special ed directors around the state. These kids aren't getting services because they're home but some of the, I think the prime offender or the prime people that were pushing it was Washington County Mental Health. They really, they have a large number of employees and many of those people haven't been able to service, especially in the areas of mental health, people that aren't face to face with them. So that, he said, we're not gonna pursue that anymore. That's a moot point now and we're not gonna be paying for services that are not being delivered. I talked to you a couple of weeks ago about Driver's Ed and about there was a initiative not to have the kids do the six hours for Driver's Ed and there was a huge lobby by the Driver's Ed teachers around the state to not let that happen. In other words, they need the road time and it looks like things have kind of shifted in Malpillia around this issue that they're not gonna be pursuing the waiver of the six hours any longer, they're gonna keep that, they will really worry about backlogs in lines of kids that can't get the road time done. The other issue around this is if they only have one student in a car with a teacher, it becomes a huge liability issue. Usually they have two, one in the back, one driving and the Driver's Ed teacher in the shotgun seat, I guess you would say. So there was some concern about having that third person in the car and how that might affect COVID or fear around COVID. They're not going to, there is a serious liability risk with only having two people in the car, one being the Driver's Ed teacher and one being the Driver. So I think they've pulled back on that and they are not gonna pursue the waiver of the six hours and they are going to try to accommodate having the third person in the car, that's a real struggle. Several of the superintendents are mentioned today, the secretary that they're really uncomfortable with. It closes a safety issue or a health safety issue, but it opens a liability and liability for the districts in having some kind of wall suits with that. So they're gonna pull back on trying to get the road time waived and allow it to stay in place. And they're looking at the idea of resumption of three people in the car again soon. The other thing I'll tell you, this is coming from the secretary, not coming from me. He was on a call this morning with all the other New England state school officers, which is all the secretaries and commissioners from the New England states. And I don't know whether this was just bragging or whether it was just what it was, but he feels like for months, about a month ahead of some of the other districts as far as some of the other states in New England about making decisions. We haven't had the huge number of cases that the other states have had. And he says, just the line of questioning was at a place where he felt he was a month ago and not where we currently are. So like I said, that could be just us patting ourselves in the back about how well it's gone, but if you consider even New Hampshire, I know they have a lot more cases than we've had in Vermont. So that's kind of on a side note. There really hasn't been any change in the SR funds, which are the $30 million. We believe, he believes that that seems to be heating up a little bit as it affects the Ed fund. We've had some fears that those monies wouldn't get to the districts that they'd stay in Malpillier and put back into the Ed fund. But, and that's the way it's gonna come to the districts, they can keep 10%, but there are more politicians in Malpillier talking about filling the holes for next year in the Ed fund and how we might be able to manipulate the money. I said, and so he, somebody asked him today, how would they do that? Well, you just wouldn't ever receive your entitlement. Instead of giving it to you and then asking for it back, they just never give it to you. So I don't know where that stands and probably that'll be a battle that'll go on for a while. We expect to see that SR funds July one and they have about a year shelf life. They've got to be spent. Everything, all the efforts of the AOE and the governor's office, legislature is all about opening up the economy right now. And they've also, they've got a round table that takes place on every Friday. It's been the school district or the SU's representatives, the department of health, the secretary of education and the governor's office are all working with other leaders trying to figure out how they can start to open the economy. And those happen every Friday. My group, the superintendent's group has sent a communication to that meeting with the things that we're concerned about that we think there are solutions for. All the superintendents in the state had a chance to edit the document and it went out about three or four days ago, very comprehensive, things on there that I never even thought of, but I did add some comments myself, but we all got a chance to edit it before it went out. Couple of things more. It looks like they've given up their fight to, I told you before that they were worried about the equitable outlay of the money, the Essar money, because a good portion of it was gonna go to independent schools and some of the public sector people, public school sector people didn't like that, were worried about that. And so they were pushing back on it, but it looks like the feds are not gonna budge. So they're not, they've probably given that up now. Also I mentioned the last time, maybe it wasn't here, but maybe it was on my principal's call that the state is going to be taking the lead on accumulating quantities of PPE, personal protection, masks, gloves, thermometers, shields, and all those kinds of things. So now he did say today that we were gonna have to supplement it. They weren't gonna do everything, but they were gonna do some group buys so they were able to have the quantities available for us, but that we shouldn't just rest on that, that we should still purchase some of our own stuff because they just don't, there's an awful lot of need and they don't know whether they can reach it. And it's not by the AOE, it's, this is the governor's office that's gonna work on this. The actual state government is gonna do it, not just one wing of it. So I'm sure they're buying for other agencies as well. So I'm running out of things. Pretty much that was it. There were a lot of questions about things that just aren't ready to be answered. They are very optimistic that we're gonna open next year right now. And that's what they're pushing for. They don't, he was more confident about that today than I've ever seen him be. And so that must be the feeling in Mount Pylir. And I think it has a lot to do with the fact that the numbers of tests have gone down, the numbers of cases have gone down, the numbers of deaths have gone down significantly. And they also talked about a strategy if there was an outbreak in a place and it's called boxing in, you might hear that term. There was an outbreak in Winooski not too long ago and they used that strategy. They did the tracing that they do. They try to trace back to find out who's been in contact with you. And that's part of what they'll do in any cases where there seemed to be an outbreak of COVID. They'll do this boxing in type of thing. Basically it's closing down everybody around you so that they can figure out where this came from and who's been in contact with it. So if you hear about boxing, you'll know that that's what it means because it's the first time I heard about it today. So does anybody have any questions? I may have missed something, I don't know but tried to take good notes. So there was a lot less information today than I've gotten in other times. And I think that's a sign of things are looking up at least we're learning to live with it, not, you know, we don't have all the answers but we're learning to live with it. Bruce, this is Lisa McCrory. I got late but I was, so you might have said this but what about the day camps? Are those taking place and if so how? Yeah, I turned this decision over to Jamie and I also turned the food service because it all happens after I'm gone, after June 30th. He made the decision, I believe, to have a limited one planet camp this summer 25, no more than 25 kids at a site, limited hours, nine to three, I believe is what it is. Food service will be delivered through the summer programs like it's been in the past but, but Lisa, I don't have huge details on this because I haven't been a part of the conversations. I'm trying to little by little give it to him and control the things that I still have to do but, you know, let him do what will be his watch. So that's what I know and I confirmed some of that with Tara a little while ago. That's what I know. Many, many, many of the districts around the state are not running summer programs, some of them are though and the secretary encouraged it today. I was surprised but he did and. So when would we hear about how those are gonna be run? Like what are the students, you know, just the layout and logistics? I've been having parents asking me what we're doing in the Rudd district and I'd love to be able to send them somewhere or give them an answer. Lisa, this is Tara. I know in some of the other districts the one planet directors have already reached out to the families and also receive notification from the principals that what the plans were for the summer program. What I do know is it's nine to three Monday through Friday or Monday through Thursday. Sorry, no programming on Friday. And that kids and parents need to wait in line to go in in the morning and they're gonna be doing staggering entrances. So they'll be doing health checks. So parents have to wait for the kiddos to pass the health checks before they can leave their kiddos there. And then the same thing at pickup, it'll be staggered pickup times. And then the goal ultimately is to provide the most outside time that they can. That's what I know so far. And if somebody wanted to, who would somebody call if they wanted? Cause I was talking to a parent who's got kids who theory would have heard about this. I just talked to her two days ago and she was not knowledgeable about this. So one plan, it's not reaching everybody. So how, how can people find out more? I would say that the best thing to do is, is email Carrie McDonald or Bill Bunce and Yor. Both of them have SU emails and they can be reached. And go right to the horse's mouth. Those are the two people that'll be running it. So if you can do that, then maybe Jamie would be the other person. Okay. So they're contacting information since they have W, that they have supermarket union emails would be on the WRVSU website. Yeah, you could just type in be, or I don't know, Tara, does he go by William or Bill Bunce and Yor? Okay. I'm sure my- Yeah, it'll pop up. I'm sure it'll pop up and Carrie McDonald is the other one. They'll be able to help you or send you to whatever director is going to be in charge for the site you're questioning about. He goes by Bill. He goes by Bill. So it's B. Bonsignor. Oh, Ray, just put it up in the chat. So that'll get it. This is a little bit of a rehearsal for the fall, the summer program. You know, it'll be different, but the fact that we're not gonna have kids back in buildings again is a little bit of a step in that direction. So- Yeah, we can learn from it. Yeah. Anyway, there's a bunch of stuff in the chat now that Ray put in there that you can go to in order to be able to get these questions answered. Again, I wish I could help you better, but I'm not involved in this one, so. I don't have anything else unless people have questions. First, before you go on, sorry. It does look like they have updated that very recently. It says June 2nd or June 1st, the OnePlanet Summer website. Okay. Any questions on anything? I guess I wonder if all of you still value this time, I'll keep doing it as long as, you know, we need to. I really kind of thought that the best thing I could do was to try to provide as much information to boards so that they could make decisions, and so that's what I've tried to do. I think it's a really good update, if you don't mind continuing to do it. I'll be happy to continue. Yeah, it's nice to know what's going on. We don't want to hear everything. Anybody else want to give me feedback? I think it's very important. Yeah, well sooner or later, probably Jamie needs to be me. Well, and I agree with that too. At some point we do need to start transitioning over because, you know, for the conversation tonight, we had to deal with going forward and we're looking for those answers as well, so. Well, I'm not having my hands involved in anything that's a huge burden, but I don't mean to say that like, I don't want to, it's just a kind of, I think it's important though. Passing of the torch, passing of the torch. But I would make it clear, if it hasn't been made clear that we very much appreciate these updates. I think especially once camp kicks in, I will be really curious to know how that's going on a week-by-week basis. I'm personally a little bit nervous by it, but just want to make sure, you know, the thing in Winooski, there were 36 cases today, 34 of them in Winooski. So, you know, like, so it doesn't take long for an outbreak to kind of develop. And so if we're going to experiment with this this summer, I would just, I would just want to keep a very close eye on it. I agree, some good feedback. I think it'll help us go forward into the school year and know where our limitations are. And I think it's very important. Anybody else's questions? Anything else that's on your mind that I might be able to deal with? I'd like to ask the negotiating team to stay on. Just staying on, or do we need to get onto another meeting? Well, Ray, do we need to get onto it just a bit later? Can we stay on this one? This was the only one meeting. Remember, there's other things on the agenda. Tonight, oh yeah. Well, all right. No, there's a little bit more to say, so there shouldn't be things to vote on on the agenda. This is just a- I put things to vote on and I told everybody last week that I was. So if you don't have a quorum, then I need you to schedule another meeting to approve the audit RFP and the fuel oil and propane RFPs. They're on the agenda. I don't have, I don't think we have a quorum. Well, maybe we do. Are we done? 15 on the call, but some of them are Ray and Karen, myself. Right. We have the board, we have the executive board. If we have the executive board, that constitutes a quorum for working. We have a quorum of the executive board. Okay. And we have Kathy. All the White River Union District representatives are here. Okay. There's two from our district. Okay. There's Carl here. Okay, Tara, do you want to- No, I think we're the only ones from your board. All right. So I am not on the executive board. So do I get there by default or- No. You are. No, I know. That's what I thought. No, no, no. You can take this from here. Can I just ask something? Can I ask one thing? Since this is for the future and it's the auditors, should that something be something Jamie's involved in? Are you asking me? I don't know. I'm asking in general how people feel. I mean, I'm not gonna- I thought that Jamie had done some research and had information. Maybe he's communicating that through Tara, but about the auditors and the firms that are available to us. Jamie did not communicate that with me and I already sent out my RFP back in May and got my bids yesterday. And I emailed this to all the boards earlier today. Right, it's very challenging for me to have an opportunity to look thoroughly at something when I am at work and I receive it at three o'clock in the afternoon. So I appreciate that it came earlier today, but I worked up until about 15 minutes before I came to this meeting. I want to review it now, Tara, can you review it for us? But I would also like to know if we have Jamie's input on it since it's in the future. I've had no communication with Jamie about the audit RFP. It was my understanding. It was sent out to people that supplied audits for our school systems. Doesn't hurt to listen to what the response is. Okay. Well, I saw the people really didn't want to do it. I would be interested in Tara's rundown. I took a very quick look. I was also working most of the day so I didn't take more than a cursory glance. Sharing my screen, let me know if you can see it. I do feel that the auditor is a very important thing as we are experienced that we've had this year. Agreed. I can't see it, Tara. I can. I can. I could if I had my glasses on. Put them on. I got it. I got it. I think I could make it. I'm surprised at the number of people that offered the services the last time we did this. There was only two, I believe. Yeah, I communicated with a couple other business managers to get some feedback on who I could reach out to so that we had a better pooling. Okay. So as you can see, I sent the audit RFP via email on May 19th with a request to have the bids back to me by June 3rd for opening. I opened them yesterday at one o'clock. Eight firms sent the packets via email. Two of them came back with a declination. JMM and both bits declined due to they don't conduct municipal audits. Sullivan and Powers declined due to their workload. And I did not receive a bid from Kittle, Brannigan and Sargent, Father Goodsie, Father Gale, Segal and Valley, and Clogic and Sanderson, and Tyler Sim St. Cyr did not also submit a bid. So the two bids that I received were from R.H.R. Smithing Company and A.M. Pleistian Company. And it was a three year RFP request for the current fiscal year next year and then the following year thereafter. Who do we currently use? We use R.H.R. Smithing Company. So the A.M. Pleistian that we have through working through where I work, a lot of my clients use them and they say they're phenomenal. I use them and they certainly are very responsive but that's just for personal. I'm not sure. Yeah, I don't know about school stuff but I do know for my customers, my business customers really like them. Carol, what are your thoughts about it? I have concerns about changing auditors. As I've expressed to you all before, I understand the frustrations that have occurred on all the levels across the supervisory union with the FY19 audits. And the reason I have concerns are the following. Hey, wait a minute, hold it, hold it. Shouldn't we go into non-public for this? Really the comments could hurt their business. Well, is there a motion? I mean, what did you say, Don? Is there a motion to do an executive session? Oh, second. And the reason, what would be the reason, Bro? Basically, it could be comments of that could, I'm struggling with the language. Of course now, isn't it? And I mean, it's people we employ. Yeah, it's one of our contractors and if there are, it could hurt their business, so. Okay. Well, if it falls into that category, that's appropriate then. So that's been moved in second and to go into executive session to discuss personal matters. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye, any opposed? All right, let's go into executive. Do you also want to table the fuel RFP too? For now until next week then? Let's do that. We'll get Jamie involved in both those topics this week. I'll have to ask the company if they can hold the bids out that long. For another week? Well, that's pretty hard to do with fuel oil companies. That's the problem. If fuel oil goes up, they're not going to retract their bids. What a folks' desires, do you want to look at the fuel? I can't hear you. They've got to expect that we're going to have board meetings and, I feel like fuel oil is much more cut and dried than, I don't have any concerns about the purveyors of fuel oil we've been getting, the way that I did about the audit process. I don't feel like it's the same sort of decision. True. Should we have a motion to accept the whichever bid you want us to accept? Tara, would you explain the fuel oil process please? Yes, I'll share my screen again so you can see it. Do we need to go into another executive session? No, I don't think so. I'm going to move so for this. All right. Let me know when you can see it. I can see it, but can you make a bigger example? So I approached the company that used to be used by our supervisory union, Competitive Energy Services, and this was also the company that was recommended by Jamie's current business manager, because this is who he uses for all of his fuel services for both his district and the town. So we provided the information of our schools, what they had for tanks and what they had for usage. Current providers are primarily dead river for fuel oil and Irving for the propane. And our propane usage is much lower because that's primarily for the kitchens and the stoves and the whatnot where the fuel oil is for our heating systems. So the first bid that we received from dead river, so this is a revised bid, was if the two of our buildings that have the 10,000 gallon tanks could take deliveries from tanker trucks, but the two buildings apparently don't have the ability to take tanker trucks. So that changed the pricing that they originally had given us. So dead river came in at the $1.45. Champlain Valley is $1.45.87. Irving was $1.46.10. And Rimes is $1.699. And that's for the year price. And then on the propane side of things, the two vendors that provided proposals was Rimes and Irving. Rimes is at $1.24.9 and Irving is $1.49.6. So one of the things that the gentleman from competitive had advised me of when it comes to propane, apparently gas companies own the tanks. So if you were to move companies, then they have to go in. The current company has to take out the tanks and new company has to go in and put in new tanks. So oftentimes when it comes to propane, there are as many individual companies that are willing to provide the propane bids if you don't have a substantial quantity of usages. So that was why we only got the two bids in his opinion as to the four bids that we got for the fuel oil. Tara. Irving also did reach out to him with a caveat that because they are our current supplier that they would honor the lowest bid. Tara, this is Amy. Just to clarify, this is SU-wide for all of our schools or is this- Yes, this would be buying in bulk so that we get a better rate for all of our schools. There are all 10 of our buildings, or seven or eight of our buildings, sorry, eight. Right. And I do believe some of our buildings do own their own propane tanks. So I understand what you're saying, but that would be something to look into to which buildings own and don't. Well, in my house, I mean, I know, I realize I'm residential as opposed to commercial, but that's what I thought too, because I have a big propane tank that's buried and I switched companies and they just contacted the other company and they didn't come and dig anything else. They just took ownership of it when the big deal. Now, it may very well be different for public thing, but... And I think it probably would depend on your tank size, Sarah, given that yours is buried. Mine are above ground tanks and while we switched, they came and took their tanks away. They brought new ones. Yeah. Tara, what do you suggest? My recommendation would be to go with Dead River and to continue through with Irving. And per bid requirements and bid statute, you're allowed to pick one of the lowest three bidders. So move. Yeah, I'll second. That was not a motion, Sarah, we have to have... I don't have the authority to move. Or maybe I can just use your words, can I? I would make a motion to move forward with the business manager's recommendation for propane fuel service vendor. That was Stacey Peters made the motion. Second. And gas too, right, or oil. And oil, yes, propane oil. I second it. Sarah, seconded it. Okay. Moving seconded to go with the business manager's recommendation on bulk purchasing for propane and furnace fuel. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Dawn says, aye. That's passed. Go ahead. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you, folks. Thank you, Tara. Anything else? Anything else tonight for the open session? Move to adjourn. Was that Sarah? Yep. I'll second. Kathy seconded. Moved and seconded during this meeting with the with the contract committee. Please stay on the line. OK. Aye. Bye. All right. Go ahead. Let's call the meeting to order for the negotiations committee. Is there a motion to go into executive session to discuss contract and language? I'll make a motion to go into executive session to discuss contract and language. Kathy, is there a second? I'll second. They see seconded. All in favor say aye. Let's go. Aye. Aye. Aye. Everybody's on mute. So we're in the.