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[0:00] Board meeting, Board of Education, John Taylor asked that I get the meeting going. So I'll call this meeting to order, and we'll start today with a prayer of thought. I need to be Christian, so we can then go to the region's hall with the shunholes.
[0:15] How
[0:18] do you have my father? We are so grateful to me as a school board and as a district
[0:22] and community members and we are thankful for all of this being done in the district
[0:29] to help our children succeed. We ask you to bless us with an inspiration today with open
[0:34] minds and to be willing to listen to each other so that we can do what's best for kids
[0:45] and we ask the state to bless the kids and the teachers and staff members in the administration
[0:53] and we say this to the name of Jesus Christ.
[0:56] Thank you.
[0:57] Thank you.
[0:58] Excuse me.
[1:02] Follow me in the political evidence.
[1:04] I'll be the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation
[1:12] and your guide, in the visible with liberty and justice for all.
[1:19] Thank
[1:22] you, Tiffany and Michelle.
[1:24] The next owner and Jenny is a training,
[1:26] although the meeting is acting next.
[1:28] I believe.
[1:29] Yeah.
[1:32] Okay, so I've provided some links there.
[1:35] One is to the Master Board Award information.
[1:39] I know several of you are familiar with that.
[1:42] Humans probably not being as new as you are.
[1:45] So this is a series of trainings that the UNESCO Board's Association puts out for board members to complete each year.
[1:59] And then, if enough board members complete enough of the training, along with Superintendent and I, then the district is awarded the Master Board of the Board, or each individual who completes those trainings gets a Master Board of the Board individually as well.
[2:15] and included in those is a training on Open-A-Public Meetings Act.
[2:21] We're required as a board to have Open-A-Public Meetings Act training annually,
[2:29] and that's in statute.
[2:31] So today's training will meet that requirement.
[2:36] However, the link to the actual USBA power program which provides the trainings
[2:43] is not working. It was not working last week. I don't know why, it's not, but it isn't.
[2:51] So the state auditor's office also has developed open public meetings training, and so we'll
[2:58] use that one for our training today. It's about between seven and eight minute video that
[3:03] we'll watch. And the state auditor's office actually puts out a lot of other trainings as well.
[3:09] You're welcome to go and look at that. There's a lot for new board members. A lot of
[3:13] school district specific. Some of it's more just general government official specific as well.
[3:22] So I've already got it up here. We're not going to worry about having all of you log in.
[3:27] This is just kind of as a welcome screen and a disclaimer that you'll do if you were to do this on your own.
[3:34] Yep, I need to share that.
[3:35] Thank you.
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[12:02] that video.
[12:07] I think we do a pretty good job.
[12:11] It's curious what
[12:11] it said that if someone presents a doctor, we always do, for those on our website, or
[12:16] how we need to explain that. When
[12:21] I get those, we'll try and put them in the agenda that
[12:26] goes online, you know, with the minutes of that.
[12:40] Historically, we've been building this
[12:43] on occasionally, if someone would like to do a public comment, somebody has something and
[12:49] they just bring it in and head into the board.
[12:52] We probably should go a little bit
[13:07] to the code here on public notices, that's really more
[13:10] for me and Monica as we make sure that those notices go out and you sign the trading bill.
[13:16] Ultimately, that is your responsibility and
[13:23] Monica does a great job of making sure that
[13:26] we are meeting all of those public military requirements.
[13:28] which everybody
[13:37] is required to provide citizens a reasonable opportunity to speak during
[13:41] a public hearing because
[13:47] it is a public hearing,
[13:57] this is not related to this question, but
[14:00] very regular meeting, you are allowed to limit the number of people who speak or the time
[14:07] that they speak, you know, about time that they speak that type of thing.
[14:10] Public hearings are more open in required to let anyone who is attending that meeting, you
[14:17] their time to a reasonable amount of time, but you have to allow as many people.
[14:25] Which of the following is not a justification for closing a meeting?
[14:35] We've done this separately.
[14:46] Well, these are things that have happened in the local meeting.
[14:48] That's true.
[14:48] Just we've deliberated a following.
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[15:00] The final action may not be taken on the new topic during that meeting. We don't
[15:09] do that as often or very often, but it is obviously louds.
[15:17] Majority of governing board members attend the same church and maybe in the same room at the same time. What should they do? Take turns sitting on not to skip.
[15:34] Have some governing body members find a different church, making sure you're not governing body members will not attend the same week by notice some public meeting, nothing that falls within the chance or social meetings.
[15:46] Which
[15:58] of the following is an example of when a public hearing is required, not being a budget, imposing a tax, increasing a fee, or all of the above?
[16:15] Congratulations, you are now training for the year and we'll do this again next year.
[16:27] Thanks.
[16:29] So, next session.
[16:31] We have Darren Bushman with five towns to
[16:37] make sure that Mike is on the police.
[16:39] So, it's got a great life.
[16:42] So, yeah, Darren Bushman, I've been with the five county association government for about a year
[16:48] and we think of it through pretty major restructuring and trying to write the ship at Phi Tami.
[16:56] I don't know how many of you are really aware of the creation of Phi Tami A or D,
[17:02] but it was founded in 1973 through the Inter-Blocal Agreement of which I heard that the school was
[17:10] was a participant in the creation of the Black County Association of Governments as well as the other five school districts.
[17:20] In the region, the five counties in the region and now we're up to 38 cities that are part of the AOG.
[17:35] We have a founding set of documents, they go back to 1973 and it really hasn't been much done in our by-laws' work on our creation
[17:47] and since then, the family documents, so the sale here has been on our work for quite a while.
[17:55] I don't know, how many years?
[17:57] Two.
[17:58] Two.
[17:59] Okay.
[18:00] Yeah, so hopefully she brings some of the content back from what we do.
[18:04] But my hand, if you allow, a little card like this should be everyone's goblin.
[18:12] And I'll need you one for the record as well.
[18:14] So, just to tell you a little bit about what we do, we have a community, an economic development
[18:21] function, and we do a lot of community planning assistance.
[18:26] We manage the CID, CDBG, we have a micro loan fund, we do a lot of natural resource planning,
[18:35] regional capital planning, we help with all of the general plans, some subdivision planning,
[18:41] that sort of thing. Smaller communities, larger communities, a lot of them, staff, we also run the transportation planning offices here in Ireland County, as well as Washington County.
[19:04] So we require all of your transportation billboards
[19:08] that will currently be working on the west side of Belgrade
[19:11] or Seer State to acquire a thoroughfare
[19:17] so that you can eventually be able to westside Belgrade.
[19:20] Seer State laying horizon for the RPO,
[19:23] and the MPO are somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 to 75 feet.
[19:26] So we do traffic-demand modeling or planning all the time, trying to incorporate work or
[19:32] stopping, trying to plan how many lanes of my 70 years need your money, sorry I've
[19:38] moved to New York City in New York City in New York County.
[19:42] We also do mobility management and transportation assistance.
[19:47] We actually have a guy that helps the public learn how to use your public transit
[19:52] of your cats as well as in St. George.
[19:56] We also have an organization which is a fairly large piece
[20:00] of what we do in the community support services organization.
[20:03] So we provide all of your residents the opportunity
[20:06] where they need for heat assistance,
[20:10] weatherization assistance, we do rapid re-housing,
[20:15] we do temporary needy family assistance,
[20:19] try to keep people out of the streets
[20:20] We can help them by paying some rents or we can help get them into a place by paying
[20:26] the pauses.
[20:27] First month, last month, we also manage a call over community service so that your citizens
[20:34] can take care of their court requirements right.
[20:38] And in the back of the sheet, we have a three-large aging organization and you can see there's
[20:46] a whole slew of things that we do in our aging department, but probably when you're probably
[20:52] most run into is our foster grant parent program, we'll cross over into schools with that.
[20:58] We also have a senior companion program and we do a fair amount work with aging people who
[21:09] who are raising grandchildren and keeping their grandchildren in school.
[21:13] That sort of thing, probably some of our biggest dollar-wise programs that we put out
[21:18] is the aging waiver and the alternative program needs to keep people aging people in their homes
[21:26] so that they don't end up in a care center.
[21:29] You know, we can keep something in their home for $1,000 a month or we can put them in a care center
[21:35] and then they lose their homes, they lose their assets,
[21:38] they lose any retirement they might have had, right?
[21:41] And so we see that a lot, so we do our best
[21:46] to really work that while terminates program
[21:48] to keep that from happening.
[21:50] So probably the biggest crossover that we have
[21:54] with the school district, honestly,
[21:55] is energy and our weatherization program
[21:58] to keep lights on, to keep people's home,
[22:01] and we teach home staff kids and almost all of those programs have a requirement that
[22:09] their children and kids maintain it all.
[22:11] I've wrote a lot of those programs, a war and it's a very, it's an age based requirement
[22:16] and right, extremely low income, high age.
[22:19] So that's where we have a fair amount of cross over.
[22:22] So that just gives you a little bit of a feel.
[22:25] There's another sheep and they hand it out to you.
[22:27] this is a new program.
[22:29] It's gone on about three years in the AOMG.
[22:33] This was created through the governor's Office of Planning and Budget.
[22:37] I have three staff members that work in this program.
[22:41] And basically what we do is for all of the small communities that you might have
[22:46] who don't have a city administrator,
[22:49] we are helping build capacity in those cities
[22:54] so that they can act like a city, state of all the law, do things appropriately, have another
[23:02] meeting that they're actually compliant with the law, and just a whole host of things we
[23:08] have with budgeting. We've been buried in Beaver Town here right now trying to help and manage
[23:14] a deal with the capacity that they're dealing with. So we're not always in that capacity, we're always
[23:21] there. If it comes out, we also do the regional emergency management plan that goes into place
[23:29] that makes all of your communities involved in the FEMA. If you ever have a disaster in
[23:34] Cedar City, it will fall back on you out with plans and a portion of you out of the plan because we did,
[23:40] and we made sure that everybody was included. That plan is underway right now, by the way, and
[23:46] school districts are invited to participate in that plan. So if you have been reached out to, I would encourage someone to participate in that plan and have your input on that plan.
[24:00] So, Darren, is that medications, action, risk assessment, medications, actions?
[24:09] I think that meeting is on the 25th.
[24:11] Correct.
[24:12] I just, I just, as you've solicit participation, I just wanted to talk about that.
[24:17] Thank you.
[24:17] I just have the date from you.
[24:19] So yeah, it is coming up.
[24:20] It's 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the 25th.
[24:23] Yep, and I think it would be, this is the first time that they've actually asked us
[24:28] school is going to include and one of the things that female is basically
[24:32] if you don't participate you're not part of the mitigation right or something
[24:37] you're talking about so I don't know how to encourage it. So one clarification I
[24:42] like to get. Step here, are you doing that as a board assignment? I am and I'll be there on
[24:48] on the 25th but others can be present. Just exactly the doubt. I mean we would like to
[24:55] is there, it looks like there's a virtual option that will be very secure, then you will definitely have at least one of us.
[25:04] I think the important thing to mention is that this is the final phase of the information and data collection.
[25:13] So that has happened and at this point then what we're looking at is an action plan.
[25:19] So this is a really great time to live in.
[25:23] Is there any other considerations?
[25:26] Yes, thank you, Steph.
[25:27] I appreciate that.
[25:29] So we are literally just a few days away from finalizing
[25:32] our annual plan and our annual report.
[25:36] And this will be the first time in about 12 years
[25:39] that they have used, published, and annual report.
[25:41] So we're building their plan and flying it at the same time.
[25:45] And so I shared some of these numbers
[25:47] with your business administrators who are tenant and meeting and we have prior, we've seen
[25:52] the little fluctuation as we've got a little bit better and get our data pulled out on
[25:57] all of our systems but try to put together this sheet for you to give you some idea of the
[26:03] value that the AOG brings to the area and I won't go through every one of them but as you can see
[26:10] there's a few of these here you know just the heat assistance along with us into iron counties
[26:14] almost 200,000. I think we found today in some of the over 200,000. And then when you look at the
[26:22] combined value of much of what we're doing, it's probably over a million dollars that will drop
[26:28] it back into the local economy through these programs and the end of the systems that's there.
[26:34] We also have service units that we calculate. We don't put a dollar or not to them, but this would be
[26:41] of our case workers and if we help someone with a bus pass or we help them manage transportation
[26:51] to inform something or whatever we call that service unit so as you can see there's 22,000
[26:58] service units that we delivered in that county last year. So there's a three significant amount
[27:06] work. We have 86 employees. A lot of work in them. I would be honest with you primarily
[27:13] and I heard from Washington County. I feel a bit of the numbers of the up to three counties
[27:16] because of their population. We get the line share. So one of the things that we're
[27:24] ahead of with this is when our documents, our family documents were created. The original
[27:30] documents basically said that the county would pay for the Association of
[27:36] Governments and then they would determine the appropriate government to share
[27:42] of the governments in the county. So the original plan was that cities and the
[27:51] school district would share the cost of the AMG and in 53 years that's not happened.
[27:58] But the counties have paid 100% of the cost of operating the AMG and what we've seen
[28:07] at least in the last five years is we've saw a budget in the AMG from a go from about
[28:14] 8 million dollars a year in total, 14 million dollars a year.
[28:18] But we have our local contribution is basically flat.
[28:22] So we find ourselves in a situation where our local contribution hasn't come kept up with the services that we're providing.
[28:31] Consequently, our ministry is not being covered as well as it should.
[28:36] And the AOG has now found itself in a situation where in the last year or last year we've had a borrow money from state bank of southern Utah three times to make payroll.
[28:49] And specifically with the government shutdown, the AOG has no reserves.
[28:56] We essentially are hand in hand all the time.
[29:00] And that government shutdown really has our own rate.
[29:04] And it was a fairly lengthy event.
[29:06] And so, one of the things that our board has asked is,
[29:11] we need to get to a point where the AOG has a sustainable trajectory
[29:17] or we lose this in our region.
[29:21] And so as we went back and looked at that,
[29:24] we're looking at a pretty sizable increase
[29:27] for the counties to contribute to the ALG.
[29:31] I'll just give you an example in Washington County.
[29:34] We're asking them to go from about $60,000 a year
[29:37] in contribution to $200,000 in contribution to the ALG.
[29:43] Our goal is to raise about $400,000, much at which we're going to be able to reserve
[29:51] that the AGP can fall back on it for any situation like we were with the government shutdown.
[29:58] So as part of that...
[30:02] We can't expect the five payers to continue to pick up 100% tab on this, and so what I'm presenting to you is a proposal that came from our order. It is a proposal and we're looking for feedback. But the proposal was that we would, counties would pick up 60% of the local contribution dollars. The cities would pick up 25% of the local contribution dollars.
[30:30] contribution dollars and we're asked it for the school district at 15% of the
[30:35] local contribution dollars and so through that we specifically talked about
[30:43] minimum amount of the school district should contribute and so the work
[30:49] around that $5,000 for district as a minimum amount that they would contribute and
[30:55] And then we looked at the pro-cap at a student enrollment.
[31:00] And these numbers are going to fluctuate a little bit
[31:02] because we have discussed that these numbers that I've got
[31:06] may be reflect some of your online students
[31:08] and some of your tape bills out, of course,
[31:11] because they're not living in your community
[31:12] and benefit from our services, right?
[31:15] So these aren't the following part numbers,
[31:19] chances are they're going to handle some.
[31:20] But the three districts are full of county beaver county,
[31:29] perfect beaver and cane, all fall under the minimum threshold of students
[31:34] and so they pay that $5,000.
[31:38] And then the two districts which would fall into some sort of a per capita enrollment
[31:43] would be iron and Washington County.
[31:47] And so, as we put together a financial long on this, what we're asking is that we dig at Iron County to play in the name of about $20 to $22,000 a year contribution to the AG.
[32:05] And we're hoping that that sets well with your ballot.
[32:10] I had asked him for money but at some point in time this organization either sustains itself or goes away.
[32:18] So that's where we are.
[32:20] I'm open to questions, thoughts, concerns.
[32:31] I've never heard this before till I said I should share.
[32:35] So how do people, like, if I needed to get my heating bill paid?
[32:40] Okay, I don't know why I find out about you.
[32:44] So we have an office on the north end of Cedar City down by the social security building.
[32:50] And out of that office, we administer all of those programs and I can't be.
[32:55] We also have our leatherization facility, which is out by airport.
[33:01] So we're pretty big in social media, putting out everything that we have to offer.
[33:06] We also have a pretty good network amongst all the social service providers in the area
[33:13] that refer to us, for people to us all the time, your food bank,
[33:17] refer to people to us all the time.
[33:19] We also, and one of the things I haven't said is, yeah, family support center,
[33:25] we also work hand in hand with your food bank.
[33:28] They actually provide some match for some grants that we can turn around
[33:33] and get them run cash and so we worked with a few banks across the area to try and help
[33:41] do that as well. So they do a lot of referrals as well.
[33:45] And you've mentioned Europe like 80 employees, yeah, by the age of 66 right now.
[33:49] And are any of those employees like, I guess are they responsible for kind of building the
[33:56] network and doing outreach and whatever it's trying to find people that you guys know?
[34:07] We had a great program, there was a great program that they came up with called Circles,
[34:13] and we were basically, Circles was a program to teach people how to get out of poverty,
[34:18] and so we were actually spending those programs up in the region.
[34:23] And then this year, Utah got zero Circles,
[34:27] like we didn't get it, nobody else in the state got it,
[34:31] so for whatever reason, the Utah was blacklist,
[34:34] but on circle's dishes, federal money,
[34:36] and then it was a great program,
[34:39] but it was awesome to do what you're talking about, right?
[34:41] It was awesome to do that in outreach,
[34:44] and we were literally working with your sheriff's department
[34:46] and the cohorts and all of these organizations,
[34:50] trying to get these people into the circle's program,
[34:52] so we could start teaching them how to resume,
[34:55] how to manage the money,
[34:56] you know, how to dress appropriately for a job interview and help them get into appropriate
[35:01] housing on those skills.
[35:04] I have a question.
[35:06] How do digital programs overlap with our local iron county programs, and what they should
[35:11] be up front?
[35:12] So, as I was saying, we work with a lot of them, right?
[35:15] And if we can do match sharing, we will do that.
[35:20] that all of our programs have to have some form of match.
[35:25] And so we'll usually find a logo nonprofit
[35:30] that can offer, say, in kind labor or something else
[35:34] to match and then we can turn around
[35:36] and use it from money back to them in some fashion, right?
[35:40] So we do that in a whole variety of programs.
[35:44] I don't know, the specific ones you're thinking of.
[35:47] I'm just curious, like, how are you funded?
[35:50] Are you, um, besides asking for money from these entities?
[35:55] How are you funded?
[35:56] And I'm just wondering, we're funding local things as well.
[35:59] That's why it's asking.
[36:00] No, that's a great question.
[36:02] Thank you.
[36:02] I probably shouldn't talk about that.
[36:03] Um, so we are not taxing it to be, right?
[36:07] We don't have the ability to tax.
[36:09] We're a creation of districts and the cities and the counties.
[36:13] If only the only revenue that we have from is that it comes from our entities that created this.
[36:22] Everything else is federal money.
[36:25] Right now we take about $160,000 of contributions across the entire region.
[36:31] How we turn it into $14 million.
[36:33] And then it comes either through state grants or it comes through federal grants.
[36:38] So we're 100% grant-funded other than that, 160 that.
[36:43] Okay, so by understanding correctly, the money that you receive you've used to write grants,
[36:48] so that you can bring more of that hand to the fact that it is.
[36:51] Correct.
[36:52] Yeah, and some of that covers our administrative one, right?
[36:56] Most of our programs are performance-based, so we perform, we submit, we get paid.
[37:03] And we're only getting paid for that portion of re-accomplish rates.
[37:06] So, almost all of our grants are performed in space after the fact, and so, we do have to
[37:13] follow a little bit of cash to tell me to pay, and that's what we really kind of
[37:16] sure with the federal shutdown plan, couldn't draw that amount.
[37:21] How was the kind of camp on Inter-X for grants?
[37:30] Oh, it's been a drop that percentage.
[37:32] Yeah, so we have been impacted, and we have been impacted on the amount of over and
[37:39] that we've been allowed on some grants.
[37:43] We have one grant, which is really interesting.
[37:46] It's a 10% maximum overhead, and it has to include
[37:50] fringe benefits, as well as administrative low-grants.
[37:55] I don't know about many of you guys, but I can't pay fringe
[37:58] and administrative low-grants, 10%.
[38:01] But that's what some of these federal grants have done.
[38:06] Unfortunately, we've had to let a few of them
[38:08] ago. I'm familiar with the Maya program, which is a computer now. People get a taxes file and get them pushed through. That was one of those where there was just not enough overhead.
[38:20] I'll allow a grant program to be seven percent. You can't pay health insurance, right? So we had to do everybody the first time and then you can pay a high C.A.
[38:32] And so it was just ridiculous and we wanted to just have to let that grant go.
[38:36] There are two programs that we last year that we did not think as an organization.
[38:46] And what about this? Have you ever done something like this before?
[38:51] And how do you do about that now?
[38:58] Not that I'm aware of.
[38:59] You know, he has a point that that's the way it was drafted, you know, back in the 80s or 70s, sorry.
[39:11] 22,000 dollars, you know, between 22,000 dollars. Is that going to kill our budget? No. That's one aid.
[39:18] I like to, I've started measuring things by year, year, year, year, and year, right, so that's 1A to that in a classroom, part time, you know, 3-year.
[39:31] That's all the thing.
[39:32] There is this issue of what part of money is appropriate spent on this.
[39:42] So we receive state funding, all of that money has a tag on it, so this is what you spend that money for.
[39:51] So it would only be local money that's generated through to be able to use force if you want this.
[40:02] So anyway, that's just something to consider as what's funding do we have access to,
[40:10] that would be appropriate to, you know, without meeting us in hot water with either the state
[40:18] of Utah or at base.
[40:22] I have a question of the other school districts.
[40:26] Do you have any other districts that have committed already to?
[40:29] I've gotten the similar push back slash conversation from all the districts so far is, it's probably not a number that's going to break their budget, but what part of money does it come from and where are they safe to spend it, right?
[40:48] And, you know, any entity in the state, any government entity is entitled to enter into an interlocal agreement, right?
[40:58] But then the question is the valid one that you're talking about, which is where is the funding come from to support that interlocal agreement.
[41:06] So, that's been a similar response that I've gotten so far.
[41:09] I
[41:14] guess part of it for me is, if we had another entity come to us and ask for money, like
[41:19] hand-craft services, something local like that, and they do a wonderful thing, is that
[41:25] something that we feel comfortable with contributing to our budget, because I think this is a great
[41:31] service and obviously he's saying they're taking this little amount of money and bringing
[41:35] this much back to our community. That's a good ROI, it seems like it would be a wise choice
[41:42] to help our partners here. However, I think we probably need to think through what will be our policies.
[41:49] I guess the only comment I have on is whether those entities are interlocally found contractually to you.
[42:01] right? So, I realized, probably, now we knew we were going to enter into a legal agreement
[42:09] to create this entity, but that is the case, right? So, that would be a question, right?
[42:16] In my mind, for other entities, not that you can't join into a legal agreement, but we are,
[42:22] we are a quasi-governmental agency. So, I guess if it was a not-for-profit, it's a little
[42:29] different scenario. I think it's encouraging my wrong. We entered into an
[42:36] inter-bomal agreement 53 years ago. We just have not been observant of that. And I
[42:42] think that's the challenge. And I believe the number in terms of the cost or
[42:51] services that you've rendered in the last six years is more than doubled. And I
[42:57] I think that's reflective of the kind, not simply the growth but the kind of growth that we've had in the last six years, and I think we're all sensitive to that.
[43:09] We've seen an influx of community members and demographic that is challenged, and I think that's one of the reasons why this has come now to the forefront and why it deserves such a serious discussion.
[43:25] because we did enter into an interlocal agreement 53 years ago. The school boards in the five counties were on board, and for whatever reason, we had a crystal ball, and it would be interesting to see what happened, but anyway.
[43:43] Yeah, no. What you said is exactly right. And, you know, I'm going to be straight up forward with you. We are the only
[43:55] A school district component, the other agencies across the state don't,
[44:06] this was created.
[44:09] The school district,
[44:11] you know, there's things that I think,
[44:28] I think,
[45:01] There are three full times in their contribution. They're like, hey, at some point, we yell in the cold world at the right. So, I'm wondering if you guys would be in the matter
[45:14] as soon as I took the committee and let them look at what this would look like and then report back. My question would be which committee would be best suited for this budget finance,
[45:37] I think the figuring out the legality of oscillating is for sure that one, so I mean, I think that's something that's talking to you now, as usual, since we've never been to it, I think I might be able to say that again.
[46:09] I'm just wondering if Mr. Bushman would be available to join in for a portion of that meeting by Zoom, tomorrow at one?
[46:22] Just in case you had any questions.
[46:24] And he said, this is a brand new topic for him.
[46:28] We have our students today tomorrow.
[46:31] Which should we end?
[46:35] That's fine.
[46:36] Yeah, I think we are.
[46:37] We are.
[46:38] We are.
[46:38] We are.
[46:38] We are.
[46:38] We are.
[46:39] We are.
[46:39] We are.
[46:39] We are.
[46:40] We are.
[46:41] We are.
[46:41] We are.
[46:42] We are.
[46:44] for any kind of conversation is, you don't call it a nation, or if you want to pay, if you
[46:50] don't pay, you pay, you do. I don't know how you want to look at it, right? But we, we
[46:59] then need to do one or two things. You know, I guess it's totally up to the school districts,
[47:05] but within the restructure, the
[47:18] more can we do for you.
[47:22] Superintendent Dalton, and he said this,
[47:27] if you were willing to work with me to see if we can get
[47:31] some CDPG money, and I said,
[47:34] they don't have
[47:38] to get in.
[47:46] They did a project,
[48:22] we always have,
[48:26] or we always have what the candidates are wanting to make.
[48:38] But that's certainly somewhat of a
[48:51] question.
[48:51] And I don't know, maybe that's the point for the committee,
[48:54] but in the agreement that was signed 53 years ago,
[48:58] is the funding mechanism spelled out there as charged with.
[49:04] It sounds like you're kind of trying to come up with your funding.
[49:08] It's not spelled out.
[49:10] Basically, the counties would pay for the association
[49:14] governments, and then they would determine the share by each unit
[49:21] of government entity within their accounting.
[49:24] And one of the things our committee has asked
[49:26] is like it kind of doesn't make a lot of sense to go through
[49:31] to tell me in the county to around that to build
[49:33] whoever else they would ask that they own cases for on that.
[49:37] We sort of didn't ensure enough that we can do that.
[49:39] We may not have been very mature in 1973,
[49:44] but we were a little kind of bi-mom in the number
[49:46] to make that modification and where we would,
[49:49] you know, build directly instead of running through
[49:54] and we've already passed a language or floated some language, I should say, to the steering
[50:02] committee on what that would look like to make those modifications.
[50:06] But again, this is a puzzle we're just throwing out, or you ever feedback at this point.
[50:11] So, I appreciate the time, I really do.
[50:14] Thank you.
[50:14] Thank you.
[50:16] Unfortunately, we are having a bit of a tech issue with livestream, so we're going to need
[50:21] We did take a matter of 5 to 10 minutes, where will they be glued to the system?
[50:28] All right, so we'll take a break.
[50:31] We can be 10 minutes.
[50:33] I'm glad to know I tried to log into my gym now.
[50:37] We'd lost her.
[50:39] These are my slides, please.