 Thank you, Flora. You're looking very formal. Well, this is just like impression of your last It is in fact, I'm really only just making a cameo appearance And and it's a I'm just happy that Chris McVeigh isn't here because he would say I'm making a Cameron appearance So don't don't encourage him. Please. That's my advice to you Okay, we won't encourage him. We are gonna record a meeting. So I'm not sure he might just still get Yeah Okay, it's slower. I'll go ahead and start recording now. Okay. Yeah, it's exactly 6 30. Oh, here comes Jonas too. Welcome Erica too Lisa, thank you for being here too Recording in progress Thank you for taking time of your hey Jonas There's Erica. I don't know if that it's gonna come alive in your camera or join or Michael Well, welcome everybody. This is our informational meeting. We are it's gonna be very informal We thought that instead of going through the entire Presentation we're gonna take some time to just give you some very quick highlights But mostly just open it up for for questions because we assume if you're here you have received our report you've been a lot of you have been coming to our forums already and We presented on February 16 too. So we thought that it would be The time will be better spent with listening to your to your questions So with that I We're not gonna share the presentation unless I hear from any of the Community members that would like to see the presentation that we share on this esteem. I Don't see any hands up. I don't see Erica shaking her head. So we're safe if Erica says we're okay. We're good Scott has his hand up and I think he's just waving hello Go Go ahead Scott my internet is a little unstable Thank you very much. I mean When I was on the u32 board this meeting was always my favorite because hardly anybody ever showed up so it was just the the hard core Attendees and it was so late in the game. It didn't really matter Everybody had already made up their minds what to what to vote on anyway so we just had a lovely time together and I hope that you will be able to do the same this evening I just wanted before I excuse myself. I just wanted to extend thanks and appreciation to Comrades and fellow travelers Past and present who have made this such a rewarding experience for me and That of course includes present company But also absent company as well and I hope They will They will at least feel the vibes even if they don't get the message So anyway, thank you so much all of you Good luck. I'm sure the budget will pass. No worries. Take good care And I'll be on the other side of the fence from now on feel free to call on me Thank you Good luck with everything. Thank you so much. Bye. Thanks. Bye Okay, so hopefully my you can hear me again So let's let's open it up for questions and then we'll have some remarks from the board if if need it, but if I Don't know dev Michael Joan Erica Do you have any burning questions any questions from the report? Did you like the report? The report a report. Hi, can you hear me? This is Deborah. Yes. Hey, dad. Hi, Deb Philly and I just have a you know, I work on the town report and I Just have a general feeling like this school has so much more at stake in terms of the size of the budget And you know, it's just so much more massive compared to the town And yet it seems like there are whole things that the town devotes a couple of pages to at least that we don't see in the school report I'm wondering if maybe there's somewhere else that I should go look for them I mean like a like a capital plan for example that goes out 10 years or something and shows How much money you're putting into a capital budget every year and what you're saving it up for What kind of expenses you're expecting coming down the pike and that kind of thing It seems like we used to include those things when we were just reporting on the elementary school And it was part of our town report and now that it's been incorporated into the larger thing. Am I just missing it? Is it somewhere here and I'm just not seeing it So you're not missing it Deb. We did not put that on the on the report We didn't put the entire capital plan where that is one of our long-term goals and Chris is here with us I'm not gonna try to speak for him either But as a board you can be assured that that is a very important goal for us to be able to have a It was one it's one of our parameters to what we must do to keep our buildings up to code and to be able to maintain All of our facilities not just for maintaining them, but what is best for student outcomes. So how we use the space So we are hoping to present at our April and May meeting The status of that a of that of that work and with that I let it Chris say a little bit on it If you will like Chris don't feel that you're on the spot either, but since you're here Yeah, sure, um, you know, Suzanne and and Bill and I have been working on the five-year capital plan now for several weeks and You know short shortly after that Once we get that to where we think we need to have it we'll be working on a longer term 20 to 25-year plan So we'd like to you know present the the five-year here in the coming weeks, so Is that good Deb did that answer your question for now? Yeah, so When it does come out is it gonna come out in some way that those of us in the community are going to see it somehow Yes, we will put a link It's gonna be part of one of our board meetings to the board is gonna review it Hopefully by by may we're gonna review it both April and May the the leadership is gonna have a chance to see it first And then the board is gonna review it. So you yeah, we'll make sure and now that you brought up We'll make sure that we have it we in the past have had a link on the website to what what we do know Is what we have right now in capital for each as a whole and for each building But we don't have the five and the 25 year really Set in place yet, but you can be assured that there's a lot of work happening in right now in our in our buildings There's a summer plan for work that needs to be happening right now, but yes, you will you will get the information And can I ask you one more question along those kinds of lines is there someplace where you report with your fund balances? The funds balance that from which you can take money out and add it into your revenues I've noticed that you take some money out every year and put it into your revenues What's the amount of money you're taking it out of what is the fund balance itself? It if you look at a report dev And I'm gonna let Suzanne speak to that too because you can see it in different parts of the report I'm gonna grab my report right now, but Suzanne. Can you speak to that? Hi Deb. I can pull up that number from our annual report Are sorry our annual audit. It's not in the annual report So that's a an interesting point that you're making and we can certainly put it in there in the future But let me get that number off of the audit First I welcome everybody I want to apologize again for not being able to catch that sooner but let's I don't know take a minute to breath and let's go back to your question, Deb Yeah, but yeah, so actually it was dev Suzanne was looking for some information for you. Is Suzanne do you have that? I'm looking at the audit. That's where Suzanne said she was gonna look at it Or is that what you're looking for Suzanne? Yeah, okay a page 10. Is that where you're gonna send me? Well, I have a report that I had the number handy at so I'm not sure the the num the page number in the audit But two million five hundred twenty two thousand six hundred fifty nine dollars is the fund balance You get that that well, I guess I should write it down if I'm serious And we can also we have your email dev. I can also have it Yeah, Suzanne send it to you, but we could also Suzanne you want to put it send it to mark and we can put it on the chat Yeah The number again Suzanne just so I can chat jot it down two million five hundred twenty two thousand six hundred fifty nine dollars Mm-hmm, and that's after the amount that it was reserved when the FY 22 budget was approved by voters For the early retirement transfer So when I'm looking at the audit report, this would probably be the assigned line and the unassigned line Yeah, okay got it. I see it All right And then when it says total construction fund is that does that refer to the capital Reserve that you guys are talking about yes, it would yeah, okay, okay? Thank you Thank you deaf and thank you for all your work on the report to deaf Thanks Lore can I just ask that yeah, yeah go ahead. What's the meeting call to order is this not called to order? Yeah, the meeting. Sorry. Yeah, the meeting was called to order before. I think you came And sorry for what happened. So we'll call it to order again, but And yes, the meeting was called to order at 632 Thank you Okay, and and again Jonas you just came back and we just apologize for what happened Any other questions Michael or David Lawrence can you hear us I guess they can They can't hear us Michael are you there? Yes Okay, do you have any questions for your report? No, no, thank you. Okay. Thank you David you gotta use this opportunity to talk to us David. You've been visiting us but haven't said much Me David or were you asking for somebody else you David? Okay, what's the question? Do you have any questions? Did you receive the report? Do you have any questions for us? No, I'm good You're good. Okay Oh, can I ask another question? Yes, that's another question Okay At the beginning of the previous meeting that you convened You said something about did anybody want to raise their hand and ask for you to make a Presentation and nobody did so you didn't make a presentation. Is this Like a PowerPoint kind of thing that I could find online and just look at myself Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll send you the link we have. I just don't think it's worth it for tonight I'm happy to go through it. But it's that we there's a link right on our website and I as soon as we're done with this Dev I'm happy to send it to you. I have your email Here and you can also just go into our website right now and it's Link is right there. You can find it in two ways. You can find it in our agenda of February 16 or you can find the It in a PDF mode or you can find the link to the video of the presentation we did on the 16 Okay, thank you. Lisa, do you have another question? Stout No, sorry, sorry. No, it's okay. I'll take it down. It's a good time. Sorry Joanne from Worcester, do you have any questions for us? Hi, Joanne. Thank you for joining us No, I don't I've just never been able to attend any of the meetings due to you know time constraints And I was just happy to be able to do it by zoom just to see what's going on. Oh great. Oh great Thank you for joining us So I I think we could use this time. I don't know if all the board members received their report Would you did the report fit the reportee style that we were hoping for the did you guys all get your report? I I I did I admit I haven't looked too closely at it Because I already know what's in there mostly But I thought it was You know I'm trying to find the the right modifiers here It was sober. It was also celebratory. I thought it struck it it was right in the sweet spot between glossy and promotional and Newsprint town report Thank you Ben and his team and Jen and everybody. Yeah, everybody worked really hard on that. So yes I'm glad to hear that and Any other thoughts? I also don't want to keep us in a meeting if we don't need to be in a meeting What I wanted to make sure is that people were able to ask it to see him I just wanted to let everyone know I put the link to the budget presentation in the chat if they want to copy it right now Yeah, I've wanted to take it with the link in Yeah, the chat is disabled usually Suzanne so but I have it now so that I can I will I will Send it to Suzanne and if there's anybody else that wants to please raise your hand and Make sure to send it to you Okay, well the the purpose of this meeting is really to give information so and to answer questions So if there's no questions Unless any other board members feel differently We don't you know, we it's not a board meeting that we need quorum It's just really for for information for our community members So I want to give the opportunity again I know that I've already asked to especially John if you haven't been able to attend any other meeting I can also if if you send me an email I can send you a copy of the link Into the presentation that we made or we're also happy to talk a little bit more about you know web parameters we used or Any other question up there mark put the link for everybody now and that's the link to the presentation Did you get it there Deb too? I was just gonna go to the website. Oops. I don't know if you can hear me Yeah, I can hear you I can hear you so it's now in the chat so you can grab it from the chat, too Okay, I'm not a power user when it comes to zoom, but I'll try to figure it out Yeah, so just click on the chat little bubble below in the lower And the oh the lower part of your screen if you click on chat You will see the bubbles will come on there on your right side of your screen Yeah, I'm doing this on my phone. Oh, okay. It's okay. I'll send it to you when we're done. Don't worry about it Thank you. Okay Okay, since we have Lisa and Jen with us and Suzanne and Chris with us too and Gillian. I just wanted to thank you all again I hope you guys had the very well-deserved time off and thank you for all your work in getting us to this budget and Doesn't go notice all that you do for our kids so hopefully you have all the strength necessary to Finalize a year after this short very short vacation, but we really appreciate all you do and Yes, or can I just second that I mean This is the first year that Jen and Suzanne have sat in the roles that they are sitting in and I couldn't be more happy and more Proud of the way that they have represented us and worked for everyone over the course of the year It's been so impressive and awesome Suzanne. Thank you so much Yeah, it's made for a very positive budget season and The meetings leading into it have been very positive Go ahead John I Just want to thank all of you for all the hard work that you do because I know it's not easy and I know You know getting a appreciation and I just want to thank all of you for all you do because I think the schools are great Thank you I appreciate it. I hope people get their Career center ballots tomorrow as well because that was a little bit of a weird situation But hopefully I've reminded my son who now lives in Cabot that he has to ask for it and they're part of it So hopefully Yeah, Cabot Cabo learn a mail them to everybody Cabot even Even the career center. Yeah. Yeah, Chris Trumley as the yeah So they if they're small enough and they just made it a priority. So your son should have received it He probably just had looked at it. He knew he was turning them all in tomorrow. Yeah, so but it's but it's there Yeah, and for the Washington Central Writing candidate today. We received an email from Adam Rosen. It's the it's gonna run in as that written a write in I already gave my ballot in but he just needs 30 votes. So if any of you haven't voted yet Adam is Wanting to be the write-in candidate But yes, don't forget to vote for the career center to good point Lindy and with that I think I just Thank the community for coming to and taking the time I know it's just a few of you, but we really appreciate it you engaging with us and thank you to the board members that Took the time to come today and Have a good night everybody and again, I really want to apologize. It was out of our control, but we Be more careful in in the future Yeah, just just as soon as Scott left the meeting It was like they sent us a A little present But yeah, but let's good evening everybody Don't forget to vote that meeting have we'll see everybody on on Wednesday And enjoy the last few hours that you can take on on vacation and thanks again for all you do Thank you for what you do Thanks for Thank you for everybody explore