because we know the future welfare of our children and the vibrancy of our communities depends upon we have to teach our children where it's a public trust and we take that very seriously in this state our teachers just like your teachers who are very strong educators they work very hard to support our children and our school boards are communities demonstrate their commitment at the school needs every year we can't change that what happens to us outsiders schools what we can't change is how we respond to that we know that even with high levels of investment many of us find that our communities are struggling to provide for the children in the way desired as a populace is dropped and we certainly are children it's becoming harder to support our budgets and support our vision of education for our children many children and future generations of children is high quality so that they can go on with your communities and posterity i think communities all across the state beginning to ask whether they might be able to provide better for all of their children if the we are tremendously hard by the decision of your board to love huntington board member to vote on the pre k through four version of the budget we hear that the show good faith in a genuine commitment to a partnership moving forward and we really appreciate the spirit with which work my way through the warning you would take the actions and make judgments for where we go from here the warning is a guide i do need a couple things to check on first of all the same for for every town although temari seem to have their quirks we have gone order one article two is to adopt robert i will say truthfully that i'm not one to take taxpayers money by i am suggesting a compensation a fifteen dollars per meeting to cover mileage here the work around the quote having been on the finance committee for a number of years i appreciate the motion but that's a lot of money and we're talking about twelve thousand dollars which may not seem a lot considering the size of the budget but every dollar matters i mean the suggestion of a some amount for mileage might be more appropriate but seven hundred fifty though i appreciate the motion is really i think more that we didn't seek this office for money at least i  i agree i don't think there's any need for compensation although i appreciate the sentiment we could always do cookies or chocolate yeah i agree i mean that's what i would think before i don't think there's a do i don't think we need a flat fee but i do i do support there being some compensation for mileage fifteen dollars commuting would probably cover that i've been on both board for seven years and all of those years i've declined that money because i don't need it to cover mileage but i would hate for transportation costs to be a barrier to a potential board member so i i would like at some point for the sport to consider making that an option your comments or questions on the motion before you was on the floor we also we also consulted also dealt with the article because it came from the article so that there's not too many always to shape a motion that's on the floor issue it would be my ruling that in fact we have not yet started to discuss the next mission and therefore if a motion was still you don't under article four it would be consider could be this would satisfy the requirements of the annual meeting and for the budget information a meeting typically ye the meeting anywhere between february one in june fifteenth and then have an additional meeting budget information meeting so the annual meeting could be anywhere from february one to  fifteen but the time we have right now would be that i'm suggesting is during school vacation and the you know the participation in the people that come is relatively the same so kevin campbell underhill idea here i'd just say you know historically from our district we have our school district annual meeting on monday night before tom meeting that seems to have worked well so i would suggest that annual meeting i mean sometimes the number of members and staff outnumber the audience so i'm liking a time when there is going to be the likelihood of greater participation notes or orders payable as needed payout such funds received when orders by or upon the authority of the board of school directors process both on the positive and on the negative side and we couldn't have done the work on the voluntary merger planning committee without those voices out there in the community and i think i think on behalf of all the members up here as well those on the committee we just want to say thank you out there and we also want to remind you that was still going to be seeking your voice as we move forward up here your voice is going to be very important your thoughts and your comments as well so please continue to share those with us but at this time i just want to say thank you to the many of you that are here tonight as well those who are not we appreciate all your hard work and time so thank you on saturday and we'll figure that out