Music I'm going to go to the beach. Are we ready? Okay, go. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Today is Monday, October 50, 2009, and this is the regular meeting of the City of Fairfax School Board. We will start with a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We have no changes to the agenda and the only other announcement is Board Member Toby Sorensen is out of the area. Her mother had a stroke yesterday and she went to spend some time with her. The other item under our opening is a presentation of certificates from the Virginia School Board's Association. All of our city school board members are members of the Virginia Board's of Education and our, excuse me, Virginia School Board's Association. And in addition to being a group of school board members from across the state who work to improve education for all youngsters. The Virginia School Board's Association offers training opportunities for all board members across the state. It includes meetings such as our annual convention in November. It offers the Governor's Conference which is held in July. It offers regional workshops. And throughout the year, our school board members have attended many of these functions. This evening I have an opportunity to present certificates and pins to our board members. We have three board members who received awards of achievement and those three board members are Elisa Lueck, Julie Knight and Toby Sorenson, Elisa. Congratulations. Julie. And Mr. Butcherm, John Butcherm and myself did receive awards of excellence and I'd like to say congratulations to John. Thank you very much. The next item is citizen participation. And Mr. O'Dell, are you interested in addressing the board this evening? Yes, Your Honor. Not quite your honor, but thank you for coming, Mr. O'Dell. Thank you, please. Gereo, O'Dell. I urge you to lobby the Fairfax County Board of Education, which you simply allow to control the curriculum of our city schools to alter not just their perverse sex education program, which were most promised to you, but their government or civic instructional program, which fosters the notion that the U.S. Constitution is a quote living and breathing document, unquote, that is supposed to be frequently altered in order to undermine the biblical principles upon which our country was founded as a Christian nation. Students with a sound foundation in the formation of the American system of government know the major differences between today's Republican and Democratic parties. The Republican Party is the one that upholds the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. The party that protects the right to life, liberty and property, whereas the Democratic Party has openly become the party of abortion, euthanasia, assistive suicide, debauchery, escape, gay pride parades, and same-sex marriage. It is Republicans who advocate the personal freedom, ability, and responsibility instead of a collective dependence upon the government to take care of everyone and all his needs and wants. But what are we seeking coming out of Washington? The socialist agenda of a serial liar named Barack Obama, who's seeking to destroy our American way of life and replace it with socialism. Finally, we are seeing the backlash, and we can expect that to erupt this November next month in the easy re-election of the Republican control in Virginia and New Jersey. The governorships are expected to easily come back to where they belong. The head of the Republican ticket in Virginia is as strong a field of contenders as one could wish for. Bob McDonald for governor, he's currently the Attorney General Bill Bowling for Lieutenant Governor. He's currently in that role. Ken Kuchinelli, state Senator is running for Attorney General. Mr. Kuchinelli is a very distinguished attorney. One of the most notable cases he brought is one under the freedom of association clause of the First Amendment, which when it clears the US Supreme Court eventually will require that to vote in a primary, you must be a member of that party. There will be no more crossing over. John McCain is obviously undoubtedly at least in tears because he will no longer be able to steal the primary by having radical liberals across the state lines and bus loads to New Hampshire for their primary has happened last time we had a president. That's all the election. Thank you, Mr. Adele. The next item is represented to student representatives report Jonathan Erle. Mr. Erle. Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Do you have a report on Jonathan Early, Mr. Early? Thank you, Mrs. Miller. On Wednesday, October 14th, all 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students will take the PSAT test from 7th, 20 to 11 a.m. At the completion of the test, all students will be dismissed at 11 with buses leaving at 11, 15. There will be no classes for seniors on Wednesday, October 14th. Summer Residential Governor School offers the state's most able students academically and artistically challenging programs beyond those offered in their homeschools. There will be an informational meeting for all interested juniors on Wednesday, October 7th at 215 in the multi-purpose room. What will you children be doing on the teacher work day on election day while you're at the polls? Bring them to Fairfax High School's fourth-by-annual one-day drama camp from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for an exciting day of theater activities. Acting improv games make up costs to more taught by Wendy Knight, Fairfax High School's theater director, and her enthusiastic and experienced high school counselors. The $40 cost supports their two musical productions this year, senior college scholarships, and the students' future expenses. This is their website for a registration format, www.fxplayers.org. This past week Fairfax High School had their annual homecoming week, which turned out to be a success. All week, students came to school in pajamas, crazy hair-duse, wacky tacky clothes, and dressed up as twins with friends. The pep rally and the tailgate were the places to be on Friday, and the week ended on a high note with the home-camon dance, with this year's theme being rain-linger-rubbles, the greatest dance on earth. The home football games in October for the Fairfax rubbles on October 9th versus Stonebridge and on October 23rd versus McLean. On September 26th, the Fairfax Marching Rebels competed at the Hurnin Show case of Bans and received first place in their class. Their next competition will be at Oakton High School on Saturday, October 16th. Come on out and support the Marching Rebels. And finally, 255 days in the total graduation of the class of 2010. Okay, thank you, Mr. Early. You got questions for Jonathan? I'm sure real quickly. Next to games, home game is this Friday in the ways in the following one? Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. Thank you. Thank you. All righty, great. Anything else right now from Mr. Rowley? Okay. We'll move on to an update of the Governor's fiscal year 2010 budget. This is Monday. Thank you. As I think many of you know, the Governor has announced that there will be a shortfall in the state of Virginia in FY 10 of approximately just over 1.35 billion in FY 10. And while the governor is trying to protect K-12 education from cuts, there will certainly be some impact. In fact, we're already seen in the city that sales tax is declining and our budget director, Mr. Lehade, has reported to me that already in September a 7% decrease in the amount that the city got in sales tax this September from last. So the city will be revising its revenue estimates for state aid. We've also learned that the wine tax that has traditionally been shared with the schools is not being shared with the schools in FY 10. Lastly, and what will not impact us this year, but it's likely to next year is the governor's decision to use some of the earmarked stimulus funding that was to be used to stabilize education for stabilization and education, FY 11, that the governor will have to the state government will have to use some of those funds to cover shortfalls this year. So the impact will be even greater next year. We would not anticipate having as much stimulus money for stabilization. Next year, FY 11, as we had this year. I've included in your folders, your notebooks rather, some detail. And truthfully, the most important thing for us to look at is the bottom line. There are a lot of categories that we receive funding in from the state, in base decayed, in lottery funding, and of course, then sales tax. You can see already that the sales tax is dropping. You can see what we actually got last year and now what it's being projected that will get over $100,000 drop in sales taxes now being projected. Some of the other categories remain the same. So the bottom line is that you can see that the grand total at the second page that the numbers are close, still lower but close. Be aware, however, that under Virginia preschool initiative, we don't participate in that ultimately. So the funding that's listed there, the $120,000, we don't ultimately get. So the way that we're looking at it now is we expect to get under $7 million in state aid this year. And depending on what sale, how sales tax it finally arrives. It could be less than just under $7 million. It could be considerably less than $7 million. We had on the next page. Mrs. Monday, could you tell us what we budgeted? We budgeted $6.7 million as our revenue estimate total. So that's still less than what the state's projecting us. And that's a good thing because the bottom line really is the bottom line with all different funds they come from. Doesn't really ultimately matter because this offsets the cost of our tuition and then all the funding goes into the correct categories in Fairfax County. But we do expect that we will, I mean clearly we're going to lose revenue from the state this year. We estimated low, we hope our estimate remains a good estimate, but again, Mr. LeHeight and I are continuing to stay in communication and we will follow this as it unfolds during the year. And then obviously work together to come up with a good estimate for FY 11. Okay, thank you. Can I comment on FY 11 briefly just certainly bring you up to date? The outlook for FY 11 is not good. Fairfax County met with the Board of Supervisors last week and reviewed its physical forecast for FY 11. Fairfax County has identified a projected deficit in its budget of 176 million in a budget that assumes that the county transfer will remain level and there will be a loss of 28.3 million in state and stimulus funds in FY 11. And this- Did you repeat that number 28.3 million in state and stimulus funding. And they're also not budgeting for any salary adjustments in FY 11 at this time. I'm going to just share with you a list that the county made public last week and some of you may have already heard comments about. There was some coverage of this in the press. The county has announced that the following are at risk in FY 2011 based on this projected deficit. Needs based staffing, that is any staffing that goes beyond the basic formula for special needs in schools. They're looking at implementing new student fees, stopping all summer school, further increases in overall class size, discontinuing full-day kindergarten, and that wouldn't just be in the school, obviously, discontinuing it in all schools. Eliminating elementary school foreign language, cutting all of the school-based technology specialist positions, and then the last one is listed on this at risk is closed schools. And truthfully, I don't know what that's referring to. But the words are obvious. I assume there could be some consolidation of programs. But that is one of the things that they would be thinking about as they approach this budget season. Obviously, there's some things there that would have a direct impact on our schools. And for that reason I would like to encourage the community to engage in the community dialogues that Fairfax County has scheduled. This is the best way at this point for community members to give input to the decision makers in the county about the school budget. Those that are most convenient to our schools are on Saturday, October 24th at 10 o'clock and the center of regional library. And Thursday, October 29th from 7 to 9 pm at Woodson High School. You can also go to the Fairfax County website and there's a place under their budget information where you can go online and provide comments on the FY 11 budget. We'll send out a message tomorrow to our email community about the projected deficit in Fairfax County, the programs that they are now publicly saying are at risk and information about the community dialogues and encourage our community to participate in this process. Thank you. Okay, thank you. This is Monday questions. Questions ready? This Monday I have a question on page two of the Department of Ed report. Under projected fiscal year 2010. It says adjusted ADM and then it has a $15 million figure here. Well, I guess it's page two of two. It has a $15 million, $72,000 figure. What does that figure mean? Versus the $7 million. I mean, it talks about fiscal year 2010 local share. That means that the locality has to at least spend $15 million in order to get the $7 million. Exactly. OK. All right. Well, it's not good. Thank you for the report though. We appreciate you keeping on top of what's going on. Do you know when the next time do you know how a perfect County School Board if your perfect County School Board and the Board of Supervisors have established a committee to look at possible cost savings through consolidation functions. Have you heard anything about how that committee is working? I received some documents from Fairfax County at the end of last week and I haven't reviewed them yet, but it will. And a good number of them were about their consolidation efforts and what they've already accomplished. So I'll certainly review that and share that with any board member that's interested, but that is obviously an area where they're looking for some economies. Okay. If you could just include that in the Friday update or an email later in the week that would be good. That gives us some idea. Right. Since we may have folks in the community who are going to ask us questions about what's going on there. Okay. The next item is the five year capital improvements for the grant, again, Mrs. Monday. We reviewed, excuse me, we reviewed this recommendation that was some detail last month. We're making a very, I think, limited recommendation for funding this year of $72,600 to address the more immediate needs. One is to do concrete, be paving repair actually at Daniel's run, where we've identified that problem on the bus loop and we feel like to get that done early. Before we go with address the other issues, and subsequent years would be a good use of funds. And also to address the switching issue at Providence Elementary School to have our switching devices at Providence in line with energy savings that we want to support in the county and in the city. So those two items are all we are asking for funding for this year again for a total of $72,600. We are moving other needs forward. I still have not gotten detailed from Fairfax County on the issues that we talked about last time. The field house lights at Fairfax, Stucco repair and replacement at Fairfax. And we're going to work within the city on the lights on Rebel Run, and hopefully have a plan for that, maybe not within this five year mark, but over the five to 10 year time frame, when we know we have to address some major needs in the schools. But at this point, the most pressing needs are identified there, the paving at Daniel's run and the air conditioning switches at Providence. Thank you. Mrs. Munde, question. Okay. At the next item is public hearing on the Capitol Improvements Program. Mrs. Pierce is anyone signed up? Mr. Gerry O'Down. Mr. O'Downe. Mr. O'Downe. Mr. O'Downe. Since Mrs. Mundy was kind enough to dig up the spreadsheet for me, and since I noticed it's the same as was used last month, except that there's been a slight direction. The one that I call to your attention, $100 air. I've risen and come to this mic for the sole purpose of making the weighty announcement that I am gratified at knowing that sometimes you'll actually listen to what we say. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. O'Jell. Is there anyone else who wishes to address the board? There being no one else the public hearing is closed. We'll move on to action items. The first item is approval of September 14, 2009 minutes. Those minutes have been distributed and the board will entertain a motion for adoption. For approval. Mrs. Lueck? I move that the City of Fairfax School Board approve the minutes of the September 14, 2009 regular school board meeting as printed and distributed. Is there a second? Second. It was moved by Ms. Luke and seconded by Mr. Butchram, the City of Fairfax School Board approved the minutes of the September 14th, 2009 regular school board meeting as printed and distributed additions or corrections. They're being done all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Motion is approved. The next item is the five-year capital improvements program. We've discussed this several times. Comments or questions or before we move into approval. I know. Okay. I'm motion to approve. Madam Chair. Mr. Batchem. I'm with City of Fairfax School Board of Proof, the FY 2011 Capital Improvement Program, CIP, as printed and distributed. Is there a second? Second. It was moved by Mr. Batchem and seconded by Mrs. Knight, that the City of Fairfax School Board approved the fiscal year 2011 capital improvement program as printed and distributed. Questions or modifications? There being none, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Members opposed, new members or opposed? The motion passed unanimously. The next item is approval of the revised six-year plan. I'm going to ask I think Mrs. Mundey made a few suggestions based on our earlier conversations. I'm going to turn this over to Mrs. Mundey to point out where the modifications have been made and then ask the board if they have any questions. Mrs. Mundey? This is Monday. After our work session in September and discussion of our communications plan, we did revise on page six, Object of Seven City Priority Five, to include the changes that were approved that night, but also to include the items that did not remain, that should remain there as had previously been discussed. So those revisions have been made. Okay, thank you, Mrs. Monde. Questions for Mrs. Monde? Madam Chair. Yes, Mr. Pachin. Just have a quick question. On the page 6 on Object 7, see priority number 5, 7.4, where it has involved parents early in the decision making process, pertaining a long range plans for city schools. One or if it would be appropriate to go ahead and amend that to read, involve parents and city residents early in the decision making process. Are there any objections? No. There being none so when it and city residents. And city residents. OK. Anything else? Can I also point out that Mr. Butcherton was kind enough to point out an error on page 3. The board approved six priorities for S.Y. 2009. We just hadn't adjusted the date from 2008. So we'll make that revision as well. Okay, so that's going to be changed to. S.Y.2009. Okay, a school year, not this school year. Okay, there. Alrighty. Can I make a suggestion? Certainly. And follow up to John's suggestion that perhaps we just keep the wording involved city residents early in the decision making process since the parents are residents of the city as well not all for this well we do have county residents county we have parents of the county students who are in our school, so they would not, their parents would not be city residents. Okay. And we, if they come forward with suggestions in the past, we've always been glad to include this. We don't ask where people live. Okay. Okay. Okay. Anything else? Okay. If there are no further questions, the Chair will entertain a motion. Madam Chair, I move that the City of Fairfax School Board approve the revised six-year plan as an indistributed and amended this evening. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Knight is there second. Okay. Mrs. Knight moved and Ms. Lewick seconded the city of Fairfax School Board approved the revised signature plan as printed and distributed along with the modifications or amendments all in favor of signify by saying aye. Aye. The Chair votes aye, members opposed. No members opposed. The motion is unanimous. And if those changes could be made to this document and emailed out with the Friday update, that would work well. Okay, moving on to the next item, which is superintendent matters. Mrs. Monday. I sent you an email last week giving you some items that I will be speaking about tonight. None of them are lengthy items, but I do have three items to talk about. The first is the Providence Concession Stand and Storage Shed. And questions by a member represented from the little league. Let us have a meeting with representatives from Parks and Rec, Little League, and FPYC, and the schools represented by myself and Mrs. Miller. At that meeting, thank you, Mrs. Miller, for having little league files from my 70s to access. So that she could bring in the original documentation that reflected what our city charter and our own bylaws state, which is that when facilities are amended on our grounds or the grounds are improved or enhanced in any way, we own what's on our grounds. We don't give up the property, inspired by the fact that this particular structure was paid for by users, not by the school board. So when the little league wanted to know who the owners are, is the school board. However, we want to make it very clear that we don't want to create an unnecessary impediment to people who want to do good things for our schools and for our students and to improve our property for recreation. That's not the issue here. The issue is just making sure that there's clarity and a process set up so that when users do come in and want to do something that involves our property, they know the process. And we agreed at the end of that meeting to keep it very simple. First of all, should we be approached by a user, we would go, first this is again, is referring to our property that is maintained by parks and rec and is generally used for recreation, but it is school board property. That this would all go through parks and rec initially. That we would want to hear from them that this is a good idea. This is something that they would support because they would have to hear from them that this is a good idea, this is something that they would support because they would have to maintain it. And also it is coherent with their planning, that it is something that they would agree with and be willing to support. When that happens and it would of course in this case, I think there's a general agreement that it would be great to have that facility usable again. There's some structural problems with it and to make it a usable. Usable as a concession stand would be good for all users. Then the Parks and Rec will come to us to seek our permission and more than that, and that was one of the major tenants of the original agreement to make certain that the school program is the first priority of anything that happens on our grounds and that the school staff is aware of what's happening on its grounds. From something as simple as making certain that the school staff would be aware if there's going to be construction in the back of their property, they need to know that. And again, I think everyone has some common sense would say, of course, that's a reasonable expectation. But by setting up a more clear process and just having all the people now who are in these positions since the 70s, aware of what the agreement was and how we proceed from here, I do expect that we will get something from Parks and Rec in the next four to six weeks about this structure. And I'm quite certain that you will support it because I think it would be a good thing for our community to have that building and better repair. That's the first one, province. Well near middle school, last week a grant was submitted to the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund with support from the living classrooms of the National Capital Region, partnered with Lands and Waters, who provides Jeanette Stewart, who we all know from Daniel's run, provides leadership, and in conjunction with the linear staff. I did write a letter in support of the on behalf of this board for this grant application and pledged $25,000 of linear remaining construction funds to supplement the $50,000 grant. We should know by the end of this calendar year whether we've been given the grant. I spoke with the people from the living classrooms of the National Capital Region who put the grant together and who work through these kinds of things with lots of different organizations. And I was told that the strong support from the linear teachers and the commitment of the linear teachers to make this truly a classroom, a learning environment. Plus, she was very impressed with our endorsement and our willingness to help fund this and to make this again, to invest in this kind of a classroom project. She felt very optimistic that we would receive the grant. So we have to keep our fingers crossed that that will happen at linear. I just like to read very briefly from this grant application because I think it gives you an idea of what's being planned there. The linear courtyard setting provides a safe place for students to explore the natural world by creating four distinct ecosystems within the courtyard. Students will be able to learn about each area first hand instead of through the pages of a textbook. With faculty, staff, students, and the community's health, help all turf grass will be removed from the courtyard and replaced with a bog, a forested, unkerstory with an extended canopy, a meadow and two sponge gardens. The courtyard will be an example of base scoping for all who visited and provide an education in how to use native plants to restore, lost habitat, and help improve the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay. Each ecosystem will have an educational sign explaining important features and its connection to the watershed overall. I think this is a very positive project. There's a lot of excitement about this at linear and I'm very pleased that with the construction funds remaining we can contribute to this project beginning at linear. Before you move on, I'd like to point out that through the construction funds that Mrs. Monday was working with the land scapers to spend an equal amount of money to use hard-scaping and to do plantings and whatever within the courtyard. So that money was already planned, we were planning on spending that and we're simply going to use it for a different function. And quite frankly I think what the living classroom will be a far better use of that space than in putting in a patio or some type of plants that need to be maintained on a monthly basis during the growing season. So I'm really excited about this project and I think it will be a really nice opportunity for our youngsters. Thank you. That was absolutely accurate. If you've been in the courtyard at linear, it really is not usable at all at this point. There's just not being used. And it's good space that should be used. And so economically, we thought about using as part of our finishing up the construction there, hard-scaping, and at least putting some picnic tables or something out there that could create some usable space. But we were very lucky before we went ahead with that plan, the faculty at Linear had begun to work on this grant. And I think, again, the money is much better used to support a living classroom. So we're very pleased with that. So we're very pleased with that. Finally, let me bring you up today on Fairfax High School. The work at the stadium was delayed as you obviously know if you've been by there. There was some issues with Dominion Electric this summer that had to be resolved. And so we didn't get started as soon as we had hoped to. But it is progressing nicely now. I try to get by there most days and it is progressing nicely. I was disappointed that it wasn't completed for homecoming. That was our next big due date and we passed that one by. But now we're hoping at least to have the opening, the entrance way, if not all of the work within the stadium done by the final game. But I think whether we get done by in this season or not, I feel very confident that these improvements will be appreciated by the community, the design of the stadium entrance, as well as the structural improvements to the existing press box, really make our sports complex look as good as the rest of the campus. What I believe had previously been an eye-sauron at campus now will be a source of pride for students in the community. And then the goals of accessibility and safety will be met. There has been ongoing concern with staff about the traffic patterns and accessibility on the home side of the bleachers. We have taken steps to address those issues. And I think obviously this will even be more important than the approved, improved appearance of the stadium and the grounds and the campus. But I think all of it will be something that we can take some pride in. We will have to delay landscaping probably until the spring because this work won't be done in to well into November, probably in total. We will have to delay landscape and probably until the spring, because this work won't be done in to well into November, probably in total. But we should be able to have fencing installed before the spring and new fencing installed. And that will be another improvement. I think again, if you look at the condition of the original fencing around the property, it will certainly not only be an improvement in terms of appearance, but we're adding an additional gate at the request of the fire department. And I think again the entire property will be improved. On another Fairfax high school issue, I have authorized the use of approximately $29,000 in the Fairfax high school construction contingency fund to convert a space that was expected to be a communications room but was not needed for that purpose. In the design it was to be a communications room to serve largely the music wing. What was determined was that that location was not suitable because cables were and meant that the cable would have to be too long to meet specifications. So we actually had to create another closet closer to the wing where we were having technology problems and we did that last year before we closed out Fairfax. So that problem was taking care of but then it rendered us a large area, a room that was usable, but not usable as a classroom. The ventilation system was created to be a communications room, which meant that it was to be exceptionally cold. There's no wiring for classroom use of technology and other kinds of things that a classroom would need. The flooring is not compatible with what's in other classrooms in the school. So Fairfax County Schools will make this conversion, what they're estimating now is approximately $29,000 to do this and to bring that up to a usable standard. I think you know that we added teachers, three teachers at Fairfax this year, so the need is imminent. But more important than the fluctuation of enrollment is that we have a space that's good space. And it's an unusable space right now. It can't be used as a classroom. So I think at this point, with the money that we have remaining in the Fairfax County, excuse me, Fairfax High School construction bond. I think it's a good use of those funds. Great. And the location of this of this com room that will become a classroom is right near the front of the building isn't it? Yes it is. Yes. Great. I think Miss Sorenson might have said something to the board about this room last year. She proctored standardized testing and she said it was freezing in the room because it was originally designed to be a calm room and I don't even think it has the ceiling. So it'll be great that we're using all this base that we can. Okay, anything else Ms. Munde? No, thank you very much. All right. We will move on to matters for board members and we'll start with Mr. Bredtern. Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to wish all the best for Philippine and her mother as she hopefully gets better and rejoins us soon. I want to congratulate the band for their victory last week at, as it earned, and I believe it was, and the festival there. And the congratulations to our National Samo finalists. That's all I have. Okay, thank you, Mr. Batchem, Ms. Luke. Two things I just want to say that it's so exciting to see the new school year off to a great start. We seem to be rolling through things really well and it's particularly gratifying to hear those school buses every morning and see the little kids walking out to the bus stop. So just a special thanks to administrators, staff, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, teachers, everyone at the county and city level who helped to give our children such an outstanding education every day. And second, just to shout out to parents of Providence Elementary, I would really encourage you to check out the website and Mr. Crasblog in particular. It gives a really neat glimpse into the happenings of Providence on a weekly basis and is a really creative approach to communication with our community. Okay, thank you Ms. Louiscutt. Ms. Knight. Thank you. The Fairfax Community Coalition has kicked off the new year and I attended the meeting I guess last week or two weeks ago now. And they're planning for a community parent education workshop, community awareness workshop on cyber safety in early November. So be watching that they'll be getting the word out of that throughout the coming month. And when is that gonna be again early? Well, 10th of November five, I hesitate to date because we're firming that up. Okay. All right. Anything else, Mr. McNeil? No, thank you. Okay, thank you. Mr. McNeil? No, thank you. Okay, thank you. Mr. Early? Well, from hearing from Miss Swarinson being out of town because of her fur appearance being sick, I just wanted to say that my thoughts and prayers are out there and that hope I hope the best happens with their family and I also want to thank all the people that were involved with the homecoming plan and stuff because I think this year's homecoming was one of the better ones that we've had. And that, and also, say, that the school year has been going off, has started well. And I hope that the rest of the school year goes as well as it started. That's it. Okay, great. Thank you. All those seniors. Thank you, John. I have just a couple of quick things. The first is our for my congratulations again to the Fairfax High School Band for their great showing at the Herndon event and I also offer my thanks to student government for their leadership in the homecoming activities. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend, but I've heard some really great things and I know the student government put a lot of time and effort into it. I did send late this afternoon, I did send to school board members dates when our PTAs will be meeting. Fairfax High School PTA will meet on October the 19th. That is the night of our October work session. They will meet at 7 p.m. in the Career Center on October the 14th. When your PTA board meets, I believe in their library, on Providence Elementary on October the 19th at 9 a.m. in the morning, they will meet. And right now, the next date that Daniel's run, PTA meets, that is a general meeting will be at 6 p.m. on December the 10th. If board members will agree, I can contact the various PTAs and indicate that board members would be stopping by if you're in agreement, I can take care of that and get back to you. I'll do that tomorrow. Mrs. Monday, go over the dates for the county budget outreach meetings. I think it's going to be more important than ever that families become involved in the budget. Many of the proposed cuts come from the elementary program, certainly Fles all day kindergarten. And in the other program dealing with student ratios, those are all directly impact our elementary school staffing. So as we talk to people in the community, we should make people aware of what the issues are so that they can think about what's most important to them and to their children and to let the decision makers know what their priorities are. The other thing that I have, I also, Mrs. Sorenson and I met as a subcommittee to talk about outreach and Mrs. Sorenson did send a copy of a plan that we could follow when we meet with different groups and discuss what the board is doing. We also compiled a list of groups that we could contact so that we could talk about specifically, the first thing I think is important to talk about our communication plan and how we will be communicating with the public in the future. And so I did, I printed out the email that I sent. But if board members would take some time to look at this, add, subtract, we did some chatting back and forth and thought some of the groups that we put on here perhaps really might not be appropriate, but we added like some of the service clubs that I mean maybe the Elks and the Moose Club and the Lions Club are may not interest to be interested in hearing what we have to say because of the membership makeup. But we wanted to make sure that we put in a broad range of groups to give board members something to sort of think about and to stimulate your thoughts. So anything that we can, any kind of time to feedback that we get, I think we'll spend a little bit of time talking about this at our October 19th meeting and then we can sort of firm some things up and get emails or letters out to different groups and see if we can get some conversation going on in the community. So we look forward to hearing back from you on that. The last thing I have to offer really has to do with people who are really interested in government and how government works. I happen to notice over the weekend that C-SPAN is doing a week-long program on the Supreme Court. It's not just on the justices but it's a little bit about the history of the Supreme Court and how the Supreme Court works. And I watched the first series last night and it was fascinating and I would hope that maybe our youngsters who are taking government as 12th graders might be interested in reviewing that. It's on C-SPAN and it comes on at nine o'clock every night this week. So that's might be interested in that. If there are no other matters to come before the board, this meeting is adjourned. Okay.