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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome

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you to this time now for our
community connection right here on K one.

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The one you trust and with is
today is Chuck McCauley, supertenit of Schools,

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Bartlesville Public Schools. So, mister
McCauley, let's see fifteen thousand dollars

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grant and a brand new basketball coach. What do you want to talk about

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first? It's a great it's a
great entry. Thanks, good morning,

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Tom, thanks for having me.
How about we start with the grant.

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How about well let's do that,
because that's going to go a long ways,

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it really is. And so really
what we're talking about is our Best

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Foundation donated fifteen thousand dollars to the
Public School Foundation and those funds will be

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used for a discount for our teachers
for daycare. And so that helps our

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district, helps our kids in two
ways. One, it helps us recruit

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teachers. We've had teachers that have
applied to come work for us now that

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surrounding areas so that they can receive
that discount at a high quality daycare like

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Trec County. We really appreciate our
friends over at Trie County, especially Joe

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Lane Bryant over there. And then
also from a retention standpoint, once we

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have our teachers in the classroom,
you know, if their families are expanding.

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You know, I've had just walk
in the halls like I do every

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week, I've had a few teachers
come up to me and say it's keeping

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them in the classroom, especially they've
had maybe their second child, and that's

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real money. You start talking about
a fifty percent discount on childcare. So

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yeah, so we're really excited about
that. We've got about fifteen of our

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current teachers are taking advantage of that. This year we had a twenty percent

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discount and this upcoming year we had
a fifty percent discount. So David Nickel

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and Aaron Tazavis came over and Stevie
Williams to our board meeting and Blair was

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able to introduce him on Monday,
so he has a fun way to start

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our board meeting. And we went
from that leading into we recognized our from

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our Bruins on the Run program,
from our teachers, our lead mentors.

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We have six elementary schools and we
have a teacher at every school that is

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that leads the mentors in our program. And we have over fifty mentors that

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are involved with our kids that running
program. You know, this fall they

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ran the wool Rock eight k.
They just finished up the k Life ten

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k, which is a six mile
run, just a couple of weekends ago.

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I know I participated, had a
great run. I visited. I

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had a young man, Tucker Sins
who's a fifth grader at Richard Caine Elementary.

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He ran with me the whole way
and about the last hundred yards left

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me in the dust just like you, just like you did at wool Rock.

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And had a great visit with him. But we recognized our mentors because

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we really appreciate them. Those teachers, you know, they work a full

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day and this is for no extra
money. They do this because they want

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to build relationships with kids and help
them set goals, run with them after

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school a couple of days a week. And then I thank them personally.

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I'm so thankful for them and appreciative
because they're just showing our kids, your

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kids can do hard things and this
is a good thing for them to be

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involved with, what a healthy thing
for them to be doing. And then

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yes, yeah, we introduced our
new basketball coach, Tom, which I

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know that's been a big buzz around
town and a big piece of that.

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Obviously, basketball in Bartlesville, going
back to the sixty six ers has been

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a big part of our community.
Uh, Tommy is a Tommy's Uh you

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know, he played here and was
part of probably the as good a run

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or the best run in high school
basketball and state history there when when he

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was playing, we played on a
couple of state championship teams for Steve Hesser.

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But you know, we have a
rich tradition here boys basketball team going

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back to college high school winning state
championship in the sixties and and uh so

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Tommy has you know, left here
when played college basketball. I think people

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know his story and then has been
coaching college ever since. And his parents

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are here, Tom and Judy Desam. They just had their sixty first wedding

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anniversary. By the way. Yeah, Tom volunteers reading for kids over Jane

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Phillips every month every Jane Phillipsilver Elementary
every Monday. Tommy was back in town

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Easter weekend, and you know he
was our number one target, and so

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it really came down to, you
know, if he was ready to get

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out of college coaching. He'd been
a head coach for twenty three years and

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had I think over four hundred and
seventy wins, so highly successful. His

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team went to the Elite eight this
year. He obviously could have continued to

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do that, but you know,
I was I was showing him around yesterday,

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which obviously he's from here and comes
back often. But we visited our

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middle schools and went to a couple
of elementaries and I had one of our

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principals stopped and asked him and said, look, hey, you know,

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coach, I hear once you are
bruin. Weren't you you know, weren't

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you a bruin here? And you
know, he stopped her quickly and said,

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I've always been a bruin. You
know, this is this place is

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important to him. Uh and so, and I think his age. You

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know a lot of folks in that
age group that are good friends with him,

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that are just really pillars in our
community. You know, think about

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Judge Russ Backlaw and there's several of
that claws that are in that age range.

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Their kids are in school now.
Chris Batchelder and Maria Guss. You

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know, those guys all went to
school with him and kind of are probably

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the two biggest cheerleaders for our town, and Jay and Jessica Butler. Jessica

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is involved in everything, and and
Craig was Miller a good friend of mine,

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and so just David Nickel from our
vest, the CEO, and so

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we were just all the folks that
known him his whole life. And he's

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coming back and it's really exciting,
really excited to get him back. And

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he's gonna start May first, so
he'll get going before the school year is

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up. And I think our community
is going to look forward to coming watching

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the Bruins play. And I know
he's going to work at it, and

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our kids are going to work hard, they're going to play hard, and

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there'll be something to be proud of. So I'm really glad to get him

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back. He's glad to be back. And then, you know, previously

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we'd mentioned we hired a new wrestling
coach, Brian Vashis, who I know.

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Yeah, So he came from out
of state, came from Colorado,

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and really we were just kind of
a blessing. I mean, he had

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My understanding is he's got a daughter
that's going down to a Rema, a

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Bible college now in Tulsa. Area. So he's kind of looking in this

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area and has a rich, rich
wrestling coaching background, which is the timing

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is perfect for our wrestling program.
Our numbers are the highest they've ever been

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at our younger ages, our middle
school. And so he's really and he's

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got a son that's gonna be a
freshman that's gonna be going to school here

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and wrestling for us. And he
has a great vision for the program and

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something that's different than what we've had, and he's gonna be heavily invested.

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So really look forward to and you
when to visit about these coaches and you

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know, our fine arts people and
our band directors. The reason I like

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to highlight them a little bit is
because our families. You talked about your

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own daughter, they're yeah, I
don only involved in school stuff, but

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they spend a lot of time with
these people, you know, and leadership

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matters. You know, it's important
to have high quality people, to have

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them a good experience, to really
be invested. And you know, those

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are a lot of memorable things,
a lot of you know, you learn

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life skills by having been practice at
seven am in the morning or fill in

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the blank about whatever activity it is. And so yeah, it's good to

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good to get those two because those
those impact a lot of families in our

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community, and so really excited about
getting them on board. I know Coach

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Bascist is also working on getting up
here hopefully next month, and so he'll

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be involved this summer for a wrestling
community as well, and really going to

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be a lot of fun. Really
going to be a lot of fun to

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see those uh see our kids.
There's a lot of buzz about that.

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You know, we've seen that in
some of our other activities, you know,

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with our football program and the youth
growing that numbers. It was funny.

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Tommy, coach the Song, was
talking yesterday. He's a classmate of

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David Airs, who David's is our
cross country track coach. Yes, and

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teaches in our STEM program. And
he was talking about David Air. He's

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like, does David is he does
he work? Is he an engineer?

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And then come over and coaches after
what does he do during I said,

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no, he teaches in our STEM
program and he's like, well that he

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was the smartest kid in our great
he's the smartest kid in our class.

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And so it doesn't surprise me.
But so anyway, it's just that that

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group, it's really going to be
a lot of fun. And because they're

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all about just all helping all of
our bruins, so it's gonna be a

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fun time. I should mention also
that tomorrow is our Bruin of the year.

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That's where we we we're gonna pick
our teacher of the year, our

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support staff for the year, or
substitute the year. It's really a lot

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of fun and we planned for that
to be and at the baseball field.

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Yeah, yep, over at Overdune
Stating in their rigged and field at the

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gates open at five o'clock. The
program will go from five thirty to seven.

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Hopefully the weather's going to hold off
for us, but for some reason

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it doesn't, we'll go over to
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But yeah, it's a lot of
fun. It's free event. There's food,

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just people see to come on out. You don't need to buy a

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ticket, just come on out and
cheer. It's coming out in cheer.

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It's really a fun it's really a
fun time. Ever since you switched it

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to the ballpark, it just took
on a whole new life. It sure

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has. And once we've manage We
used to have a separate event for our

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support staff. So now we're just
all together. That's exactly right, and

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we really it should be. We
have a good time. That's right because

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it takes all of us to pull
this school thing off for sure. And

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Tom, I know you guys reported. I just wanted to mention and thank

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Kevin Lynch in particular about on safety. You know, he kind of took

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it upon himself to making sure that
our resource officers had the you know,

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to be able to provide those ballistic
shields, hopefully something that they'll never need.

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But now all of our resource officers
have them. A lot of community

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donations, I believe it was around
twenty eight thousand dollars to pull that off

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for ourroros and they did a new
story this week, so we're just another

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thing to be proud of here in
our community. I want to mention our

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back on the activity side, we
also back to our board meeting, so

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we did our board spotlight and probably
another highlight. We sold. We sold

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some bonds and the big rationale for
that is to get ready for our Ranch

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Heights project. We are getting ready
to the same thing we're doing over a

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waystside that's going to finish up in
August. We're getting ready to do about

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the exact same project at Ranch Heights, so that was just getting our funding

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in place. We're going to open
bids up at the end of this month

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and hopefully approved the guaranteed maximum price
of first week in May, so that

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we'll get started this summer. That
Ranch Heights will be complete our plan in

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the August of twenty five, so
it just continues to go on. So

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that was kind of some highlights from
that board meeting. I wanted to mention

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over on the fine art side,
our state band contest our Kids in Band

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last Friday. They had a great
pad unbelievable year and the way that works

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if people aren't familiar, they have
the marching band season in the fall,

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which a lot of people when they
think of band, if they're not involved

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in it, that's what they think
of. There's a state contest for that.

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Our kids received ones which is the
highest you can receive at the marching

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contest. Last Friday they went to
the OSSA contest and they did two things.

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One, they play a piece of
music that they're prepared for that they

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received ones on, and then they
do it what they call sight reading,

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and that's where they come in,
give them some music. They don't know

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what's coming. They give them five
minutes to read it, and then they

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have to play it, and then
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Oh man, I'm as a musician. I'm not a musician. I can't

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So you can you can relate?
Yeah, yeah, that's a little high

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anxiety. Yeah, I know the
sponsors had high anxiety. I mean we

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had administrators there that were, you
know, which kids to be successful.

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They work so hard. But they
received ones on that as well. So

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that means that's called the sweepstakes,
getting ones all three of those and so

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really proud of Chris and Heather Caine, their staff. Those kids. Another

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great example of some things that kids
can be involved in that really helped them

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for their for their lives. And
then on the music side, also I'll

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mention that anything goes Spring Musical.
I know you guys are advertising that for

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us is coming up, uh here
at the end of April, and we'll

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do there'll be a Friday, Saturday
Sunday show. Really encourage people to come

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out and watch that. A ton
of kids that are involved a lot of

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fun you know your daughter's involved in
that. We have lots of kids,

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whether it's in terms of that or
in the show, or preparing for the

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show or preparing the set. A
lot of kids and really hope people will

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come out and support. Our community
always does, but they do. It's

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always to pack out. It's great
and so I'm always amazed, especially people

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that haven't been, because they always
come out there. It's so amazing how

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talented our kids are. It'll be
a good deal. Uh, you know,

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we're finishing up to school your tom
I was just looking at my calendar

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and the next time on the radio
it's gonna be after graduation. Well,

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which is nuts, but we're so
in the middle of a lot of a

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lot of testing going on, typical
state testing that will go on this month.

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I did want to mention at all
different levels, some national testing as

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well. Our Advanced Placement Program,
our AP test, that's where our high

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school mostly juniors and seniors that are
in college level class and they test at

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the end of the year to get
college credit. Last year we more than

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double the number of kids that were
rolling those classes. Last year, we

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had three hundred and six kids take
these tests. This year we're going to

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have right at four hundred, so
that number continues to expand on getting those

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kids ready for our pursue. Obviously, those kids are planning on going to

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college and that really helps prepare them
for that. Really thankful for our teachers

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hard work and preparing them because they
really push those kids hard to get them

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ready for those those exams and we've
gone through. That's part of how we

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use some of our federal funds as
we started two years ago paying for the

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tests because those tests costs money,
and so we pay for those tests for

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the kids to take, which really
is a great benefits those families and then

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over kind of on the college and
career side too. I just want to

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mention a couple of things. Our
AG facility for Facility y two, which

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is we have it, it's ours
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I've been going to a bi weekly
meeting now for a while and with

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my last one yesterday, Yeah,
it's really really exciting we did that.

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I want to mention Caleb Robenstein.
Caleb actually he's our facilities manager, he's

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our district rep for that for that
project and as well as all facility things

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Caleb's a well known name in town. He's got there's four Romstein brothers,

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so a lot of people are know
them in town and their children. But

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Caleb is a he's been with us
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He's been a couple of years,
and he previously had worked for Napole's

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Construction, was a project manager,
for example when we redid the renovated central

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added on the Freshman Academy. So
he understands that construction lingo and he truly

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holds some folks accountable, so he
knows what's going on and really does a

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good job of representing the district and
make sure our tax payers, our tax

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dollars are being used wisely. That
act facility we're most likely going to have

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once we're settled into it. In
September, we're going to have an open

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house event probably that and wayside probably
on this probably just something on a Sunday

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afternoon or people if they want to
come see that coming up. Really excited

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about that. I want to mention
just a couple of different new courses our

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STEM program. You know, our
aviation continues to expand were we've had additional

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course there that's kind of related to
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we went from last year having a
teacher working a half a day in aviation.

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This year she's full time, and
next year we're going to have need

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a full time plus because such interest
in aviation, which is great in our

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STEM program, we're adding some civil
engineering and green architecture courses for this upcoming

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year. I've talked to you before
about our construction class that we're going to

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get started this year. Yeah,
we have one hundred and nineteen kids enrolled

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in it for next year, and
so we're it's going to be a full

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time class. It's gonna be housed
at Bartlesville High School. We're kind of

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starting with carpenter, going to hit
all the trades. Doug Boudreau is one

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of our current teachers that's an engineer
background. He's going to be teaching the

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course, so really excited about having
him do that. He's the current teacher

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at Ranch Heights Elementary this year,
but we're going to move him over to

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the high School to teach the course. So I want to mention kind of

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some of those new exciting things that
we've got for next year. It's interesting,

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you know, I'm working at our
I'm doing a presentation tomorrow for some

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leaders across the state talking about college
and career opportunities and how to expand that.

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And I was looking at our enrollment
from the last few years and from

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five years ago, from twenty nineteen
so which is the year before the pandemic

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to now. We have over three
hundred more students than we did at that

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time. So it's really exciting.
I mean, that's why we see all

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this construction going on in these new
programs for our kids. It's really exciting

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to be able to invest in then. So just enrollment for next year.

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Folks that are are interested in enrolling
in the district for next year, that

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process starts online. People can help
you at the Education Service Center if they

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need any help, especially for our
little guys, if they're getting ready to

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start. That's really helps us staffing. We need to know. So if

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your kid's going to be four by
September one, we encourd them to get

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enrolled, we'll get in place.
So a lot going on. Finished up

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to school year strong and Tom,
I appreciate you, appreciate you having me

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again, and Jolway's great to have
you around. Jack. We'll call it

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