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Good morning, Good morning, good
morning. Welcome WENK. Golovin's time now

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for our community connection, right John
kay one, the one you trust.

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We have Chuck McCauley, the Bartlesviille
Public Schools Superintendent and men. There's so

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much going on as we head into
Thanksgiving. Wow, where do you start?

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Yeah, that's a great question.
How about we start. Uh,

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let's start on the academic side.
Let's do that. Let's do that.

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Uh. The newest award that we
see some recognition for is from our regarding

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our AP program, which Advanced Placement
on most people are familiar with that.

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That's those are courses that our kids
take in high school, their college ready

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or college level courses. Uh.
They've actually been audited by the AP to

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ensure that curriculum is covered all the
college courses and at the end they take

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a test and if they pass that
test to get college credit. Well,

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uh, yeah, we've got those
numbers continue to increase. Uh, And

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so we received recognition from Advanced Placement
that we were considered a bronze level with

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access. That what that means is, uh, we had of our recent

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graduating class, we had forty eight
percent of our kids that had taken at

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least one AP class and then so
in other words, the percentage of kids

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that I've taken an AP class as
well as their performance on those tests,

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which put us in a category in
Oklahoma in terms of schools, you know,

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public high schools. That was I
believe five of us five schools in

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Oklahoma that received that qualification. I
think us Jenks, Edmund and Norman I

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think were the schools, and some
of us have multiple high schools. But

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so anyway, so I was pleased
to receive that recognition. That's a new

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recognition that the AP has started to
dole out, and so I'm glad that

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we were included in that group.
And our teachers put in a lot of

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work just to be able to offer
those courses. There's continual training that has

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to be done, and our counselors
do a good job of making sure our

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kids are enrolled in those classes.
Yes, because there's really a lot of

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benefit for kids, and that's what
the research will tell you just being enrolled.

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You know, if you're on the
college bound track, just being enrolled

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in one of those classes makes you
much higher, much more likely to graduate

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from college in four or five years, which obviously on that college side,

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that's what we're we are looking for. So as pleased to receive that and

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happy to share that information. Leadana
Chanceller talked about that a little bit during

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her Teaching and Learning update our Monday
school board meeting. We also took a

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little bit of time and recognized our
AG program, our FFA. You know,

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I know you guys have publicized that
for us, we really appreciate that,

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but they know it's a big deal. They received that National Premiere Chapter

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award last actually last week. I've
been two weeks ago now at their the

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National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. Yeah, and it's you know, once again,

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it's their fifth year of existence and
the program just continues to flourish.

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We have the three we now have
three FFA three AGG teachers at at Martlesville

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Schools. They all came to our
school board meeting on Monday along with more

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importantly, had some kids come,
which is always great to hear. That

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spotlights price. Man, it's really
cool. And we had a we had

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a four o f F A student
that's in college now that she actually came

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back and spoke as well, and
so it's pretty cool. So it's our

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community, something our community should be
proud of. I know, I'm making

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a point to visit all of our
schools every week. And I was over

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at Richard Kine Elementary Monday morning during
their morning assembly and Principal Kraus had had

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our FFA kids were there speaking to
them about, you know, the opportunities

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that they're going to have if they're
interested in that one as they get older.

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And so because it's a wide variety, it's not just you know,

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it's not just about animals. There's
a lot of leadership and public speaking skills,

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and so tickled about that. And
then of course kind of jumping over,

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you know, on the athletic side, and we're still playing football,

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which is fun. That's exactly right. Yeah, we're we'll be in the

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quarterfinals this week, playing over at
Edmund Deer Creek and there's gonna be a

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send off. So that's on Friday
at seven, and I know that if

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you don't make the trip, I
know K one TV, well we'll have

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that streaming and Evan and his crew
do a great job with that. There's

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gonna be a send off Friday afternoon
if people want to come out over at

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the high school at one o'clock.
So Friday, at one o'clock on the

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south side of the high school,
we'll have a little sendoff. We'll have

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the you know, uh cheer and
palm and band and and I'm sure we'll

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have Coach Wright, he's a man
a few words, but I'm sure we'll

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have a couple of things to say
as we send our kids over to Edmund

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Deer Creek. And this will be
our second year in a row. Would

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be to make it this far,
and and the really, the future is

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future really is bright for football.
I really appreciate all those kids and staff

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and parents hard work. So that's
that's an exciting thing. And I'll also

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mention last week we had some the
first round of the college signing day,

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and we had three kids that that
are signed with some Division one schools.

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A couple of swimmers, Gryffin Craig
and Emma House. Griffin's going to University

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of Missouri. You know, there's
limited opportunities for kids in swimming that people

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even offer that. So it's really
you know, there's no place in Division

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one to swim in Oklahoma or Kansas
and not too there's only three in the

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Big Twe so he's actually going to
over in Missouri, which is an SEC

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school, and so really proud of
Griffin for getting that scholarship over there.

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And then Emma House, we're swimming
up at the University of Kansas and we've

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had I think we've I think she's
our sixth or seventh swimmer since twenty nineteen

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that have gone up from Barnlesville to
swim at Kansas. So I just kind

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of called that Bartlesville High School North
affair, so MLB going up her sisters

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on the team at Kansas. And
then Zeb Henry Zeb graduated last year,

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signed with a junior college this year, but he just signed with Witchesta State

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for baseball. Yeah, I'm really
proud of Zeb. He's a great,

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great, great kid and he's going
to do great around his dad the other

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day, So really proud of those
kids and really look forward to following their

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progress in the future. And then
also kind of jumping back over on the

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academic side, our aviation program is
doing great. I know it's one to

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mention that. Actually High Tower and
Michael Harp, the principal, they just

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went to a national conference in Orlando
this past weekend and look forward to them

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bring back some some more good things
for our kids. That program continues to

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grow. I know they've had speakers
come in, We've had a lot of

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support folks that want to reach out
and give information to our kids. And

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really thankful for all that all that
support that's happened. And then just talking

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when we've kind of talked some about
the you know kind of the college college

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ready, and we will make sure
that we also providing some things for our

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kids on the career side. We
are in the process of working on adding

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a construction class at balls With High
School. You know, we're still working

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on that. In the seventies and
that was one of the best classes and

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it straightened out a lot of kids
that could have gone, well, we're

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it's it's a process, you know, it's a commitment and we're working on

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it. I just wanted to share
that and that's our goal would be.

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Ideally, we'd like to have a
program where kids are building a house.

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You know, we're building a house
a year. You know. Granger Matter,

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he's kind of our local historian in
our district and he came across that

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back in the fifties, they did
that in Bartlesville. There's a couple of

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houses here in town that our high
school kids had built. So anyway,

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so we're working on that. We're
totally get a first to kind of entry

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level Construction one class because where we
are is our our friends that try County

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Career Tech. They do a great
job with our know, they have lots

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of opportunities, great facilities, teachers. The only problem that we have is

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we have a lot of kids that
don't get in and so but they still

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have interest in that on that getting
some skills, getting ready to go to

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work, and we know here in
town, you know, we need we'd

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love to have more that skilled labor. And because if you don't have those

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folks here and available, it costs
you more money to bring labor in from

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outside. If you're coming in from
Tulsa Clahoma City at costsmore so anyway,

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so we kind of would like to
grow our own So we are moving forward.

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We wanted to get a Construction one
class started and kind of long term

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goal would be where we're doing some
building a house a year, and so

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we'll be talking to our community community
members about that because we're gonna need some

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help getting that off the ground.
Kind of similar like we did with ag

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and we've done with some of our
aviation as well. Also mentioned our internship

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program. We have over sixty seniors
and a couple of underclassmen too, where

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they spend a couple of hours a
day doing an internship here in town.

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So appreciate our community folks were taken. Most of those are unpaid. But

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if you have someone that's interested that
we have Anthony Tucker at the high school.

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If you'd like to have a high
school senior come in and spend some

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time in your business, please reach
out to him and let us know we'd

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like to get those kids placed.
They can either do it for a semester

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or for the entire year, and
typically it's two hours a day where they'll

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spend spend at that place of business. And then just a quick update on

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the job fair. We had a
job fair last week. Yeah, and

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our plan is to we're just gonna
offer those ones every semester. We had

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sixteen people show up. Obviously this
time of year, we're not necessarily we're

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looking more on the teaching end.
It's teachers for the next school year,

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but we always have a need for
you know, bus drivers, substitutes,

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teacher assistance, and we've did some
hiring right there on the spot for that.

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We'll have another job fair in the
spring. Typically it's early March.

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I think it's I'll make a guess
on the date, but it's early March,

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before spring break. But I just
wanted to share that if those are

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a great opportunity for people, whether
that's a support staff or if they are

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interested in teaching. Just to remind
people, we do have a lot of

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support for new teachers. You know, we have a new teacher academy that

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we started last year. Last year
we had forty two new teachers go through

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it. We retained thirty eight of
them this year. This year, we

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have even fewer teachers going through it
this year, so which is a good

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thing. They matter of fact,
they met this past week, so that's

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something. If people maybe are interested
in teaching, if they will come,

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they can learn more about the process. You know, sometimes people are maybe

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stay staying home with their children or
thinking about this may be a good fit

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for them in the future, even
if they're not ready right now, but

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they'd like to talk about the future. Would encourage them to come out.

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So encourage people to be looking for
more information about that, and then over

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on the construction side, you know, things continue to roll. Yeah,

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they really are. Go by Shawnee
by the High School, that act facility,

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it's on pace. We're going to
be in that in March. It's

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really looking great. And then our
work over at Wayside Elementary, that expansion

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is really coming along. We've got
some information on our website with some drone

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photos from that that we sent out
this past week. But our plan is

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to uh at Wayside, we'll have
that new build, you know, those

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those pre k and kindergarten pods along
with art and music rooms. Those are

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scheduled to be finished in March,
and then we'll get started on the renovation

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side of those spaces that we're moving
out to get ready for school in August.

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Yeah, so a lot going on. Yeah, you been love me

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when a plan comes together. Yeah, it's going great. So I appreciate

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you, appreciate you having me on
and we're looking forward to Thanksgiving next week.

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All right, Thank you very much. Chuck macauley with Bartols with Public

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Schools. Thank you