Social Services Board - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon, everyone. It's 04:00, so I'd like to call the meeting to order. Let me do. Okay. Can I get a motion for the adoption of the agenda?

I make a motion to adopt the agenda.

Second. Second. Then moved improperly second. Is there any discussion? Those in favor, say aye. Aye.

Aye. Okay.

Adoption of the minutes. You should have gotten a copy of

the minutes. Can I get

a motion for the adoption of the minutes? So moved. Second. Can I get a second? Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Say aye. Aye. Thank you. Any public comments? No. That's good. Okay. Personnel report. We'll ask director Hunt.

Good. Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to draw your attention to the personnel report in Would you like to introduce staff? Yes. Thank you. I totally normally do that. Thank you, guys. Before we introduce you to the personnel report, I'd like to introduce you to some of our new employees in the room. And what I'm going to do is have the manager who's actually working with them to introduce them or get them to introduce themselves. So we'll start with you, Tiffany. Sure.

I have two awesome people in the room, and I'm gonna let them introduce themselves.

Yes. And and remember, there's someone online for us. So on the phone. Okay.

I'm James McKnight. I'm a new CPS supervisor.

James McKnight, new CPS supervisor, David.

And you were in the Country 4?

I've worked in Madison, Transylvania. I've also worked Georgia defects.

Oh, okay. Mhmm. Glad to have you. Hi.

I'm Brianna Adams. I'm the new CPS investigative worker down at DSS.

Okay. What's your background?

I've got a mental health

and therapy background. I just moved out from Indiana. So I was doing therapy there, and now I'm here doing some social work. Welcome. Thank

you. And then we have Cindy Stacy. She is in the food and nutrition services department. I'll let her tell a little bit about her background.

I've been there for nine months as a team for the energy before I got hired for food and nutrition. That kinda mainly from managing restaurants and.

Big change for you. It is. It's a lot. Okay. So we're glad to have you all with us and hope you stay around a while.

And we also wanted you to get to know your board and these are the board members that assist us in a lot of the things that we do, a lot of our programs, supporting our programs. And they have been very, very awesome in all of that. So that's why we bring you in so that they can meet you, so that you can meet them. So anybody else have any questions for our new staff? Alright.

So as you know, was getting ready to go over the personnel report. You guys can certainly stay and listen for the rest of the meeting, or we you can either choose door number two. Door number 2 says that you can actually leave if you like. So you guys I'm gonna carry on, and you guys do whatever you'd like to do. Okay? It's totally up to you.

It was really good for me. Gotta figure this. You take care.

Awkward. It is. No problem. Alright. So if you guys will look at the personnel report, it's for for the programs that we have here. And you're gonna see the comp time and all those things on there based on the caseload. And if you have any questions about any numbers, please let us know and we can explain.

David, do you have any questions? No. Anyone? Have you had the chance to look at it and Did you need to explain a little bit more maybe for send me a you comfortable with it? I'm okay.

Yeah.

Good. Actually, it's just the ones where there's a significant difference.

Okay. So training and

clerical.

Okay. So these are the clerical positions are people who are like, say, Kayla, she's administrative officer. Every once in a while we have to have them working they have to work over to catch up or to get things done that need to be turned in. So and this is basically an overtime report, but we don't really do overtime, so it's a comp report. So that is why you see some that has more than others. So that's kind of sort of what you see there is anyone that's in administration on the clerical. And for training Tiffany, tell me about the training one.

I it, but I don't know who that is. I don't know.

It is a Don't call

the number. Don't call the name. Okay.

I won't call the name, but it is the person that travels for it's a I think the position is human services as assistant where they travel outside the county a lot.

The social work assistant? Yeah. Social work assistant. It has the has

Do you know what this is? Can you tell about the training piece? I do not know

what Twenty one point seventy five hours. The one that's twenty one point seventy No. Right. No. No. No. That ain't it. Oh. No. You wanna see my report?

Yes. Oh, yes.

The other side was the They

got the HCPEs under TriNet. Oh,

okay. I'm so glad you mentioned that because that they've got it listed as trainers. It probably should be trainers instead of training. That's that that that's what threw us. So, Kim, can we change that to trainers?

So thank you for looking

at that because these are human services planners and evaluators. And it says training. That's what kind of threw us. It should say either HSBETrainers. And these are Thank you. And because we had someone out, the other one had to do a

little bit more extra work. Mhmm.

Thank you. I'm so glad you

mentioned that. She was covered with CFTs too. We have a lot of after hours. After hour stuff. Mhmm. And so our CFT is child family team meetings with families that work after, you know, after five. The

clerical increase was the one I

was talking about earlier, the

executive assistant. Therefore, she do a lot.

Mhmm. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That due to, like, a new grant

coming down

or something different happening to where just one person

has that many? How much is someone under training? Under? I'm open.

So she is our social worker assistant. She is the one who takes our travels all over. So our other process of assistance, they are in the office. They're doing the paperwork. They're doing the criminal background checks and things like that. She is taking kids to doctor's appointments. She's doing business just five hours away. Okay. So that's why her who conquers more than theirs.

I was just curious if that was, like, start up for something. Just from, like, the big picture perspective when you get a

new funding stream or new program, how admin costs come into play and that doesn't always get accounted for. So that's why I was curious. So

Great questions though. Thank you.

Any other questions? And we'll move to the budget with this price.

If you have your financial report, you will see on page two your contribution from general fund for your administrative expenses is at 71.74%. This is 11.59% under budget. Then going to page four, your contribution from general fund for your programs is at 97.6%, which is 14.27% over budget. We should be at 83% right now. At the very last page on page 10, your total budget is at 73.78%, which is 9.55% under budget, and we're, you know, under budget.

The reason we are under budget is because we did a a budget amendment for foster care. So Paula added funds into foster care to make it not over budget. So if we didn't have that budget amendment pulling some funds out of the general fund, we would be over budget. We'll get to foster care in just a minute. But going back to page four no. Excuse me. Page five. Your lines that are over this month that were not over last month, you'll see on your report professional services other is highlighted. That was not over last month. That's just due to the invoice for our single auditor being paid.

You'll see in that line professional services other. We paid it actually it was paid last month and I didn't didn't say that, but it was a little over 30,000 I think, for our single audit. So that's a big expense in that professional services other line, and that's what's making that over as we paid that that invoice. Your board expense, just down, like, in the middle of the page is just a little bit over, and that's just due to your board salaries being paid quarterly instead of monthly. Your four d filing fees, which is your child support filing fees, is just a little bit over.

We should be at 83%. They're 84.84. That's just based on filing fees for the court, filing fees for child support. And then fuel on that line is at 84.33, and that's just 1% over budget just for fuel.

And I think that

was all that's over budget this month that wasn't over last month in your in your ministry. Yes, ma'am?

I think you talked about temporary salaries last month. Yeah. I did. Mhmm.

That temporary salaries line is over, you'll see, and the salaries overtime. That is over due to DSNAP. It's over due to our children where, you know, we sit with our children, DSNAP, and then our shelter expense, everything that was paid out for those is in that line. We didn't have any of that budgeted because, you know, of course, we didn't know a lien was coming. That's right.

So, you know, none of that was budgeted. So so that's why that's over. And, also, your contract workers, those salaries come out of those temporary salary line as well. And when we haven't had we've had a vacant position, then we use the contract workers to cover some of those vacant positions because we've got some retired folks that are contract with us and some workers that are prior, you know, prior employees that we're using for contract so we can hire full time. Any other questions on that page?

Is the the Medicute Transportation, is that a contract with transit?

Contract with transit and other other taxi providers. Mostly, it is transit. Yes. Going into page seven, the only thing that's over this month, you look at the foster care emergency placement line at the bottom of the page. That is just where our children are placed. We have this line for children that we don't have placement for. We have to do an emergency placement for them. We have to pay someone to take those children. So we get those funds. That's a 100% reimbursed.

So we've used 88% of those funds so far this year. That was not over budget last year. And then our disaster rental funds, I'm pretty sure miss Eckley will be speaking on those funds. We're pretty much out of those fund that funding for disaster rental, and that'll have to be done. We're we're over a little bit over over budget on that.

And that was just because they're they gave us some admin funds, and Paula hasn't added those funds into the budget amendment. So we won't be over budget. It shows a 102.56% spending, but we won't be over budget for the end of the year. Other than that, we're oh, and then I said going back to foster care, you'll see that Paula added where is foster care? On page seven, you know, we were way over budget, and then she's, added additional funds in for foster care.

So state foster care is at 82%. Kinship foster care is at 78%, and then 40 is at 82% which is right at on budget where we should be at this this time. So she added funds in in for those foster care lines. Any other questions? Anything else?

Any other questions? The ungodly bodies are coming in a whole lot more.

I was gonna say that's a.

How many did I say we had? So far we've had 17. We paid for cremation for 17 unclaimed bodies this year, so. And that's a yeah. That's higher than than normal.

Are are some of those homeless? We

don't always know, but sometimes we do know because one of the things that we try our best to do is make sure that there's no one out there who could actually pay. You know, it's definitely statute that we have to do this, but because we want to be as conservative as we can, we do try to go back, find out who this person belongs to. Have we tried everybody? Have we called everybody that we can call? So in doing that, sometimes we find out, you know, that that a particular person might have been by the time you start talking with some relatives. So but we don't always know.

Because I was just wondering if some of them are out of the county. I mean, they're not residents, really.

Oh, no. No. We we no. No. No. No. They're all residents. Trust.

We don't pay for we don't pay for people who Okay. Right. They go

to they go to the county of origin.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

So, therefore, we don't Okay.

I didn't know since, you know, we've gotten a lot of people in the county. So Mhmm.

If they're, you know, another county resident, then we charge that other county. Yep. We'll bill the other county for that Mhmm. For that creation. And then sometimes we might get a reimbursement back when someone has an estate that we didn't realize it. So, you know, we could get some funds back from that.

Okay. Okay. So Lot of responsibilities. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Pam.

You're welcome.

May I ask a question? And I'm sorry. It goes back to the personnel report. It's actually I'm wondering, like, you compare everything to the prior balance. Is there a way on the vacant positions to show us what the previous month it looked like so we

see a running comparison month to month?

Yeah. We can have that. Okay. Mhmm. Should do. Thank you. You okay with that, Kim? Mhmm. Thank you. We will do that for you.

Because without it, like, it's like, you know, unless you memorize the sheet, like, context. Mhmm. Yeah. Okay. Direct to hunt service report. Alrighty.

So in your booklets, the very next page is the service report. And and, basically, these are these are all of our programs that we're mandated to do that runs through DSS. And if you'll just look at them, you're going see a year comparison, but then you'll also see the month prior. And let us know if you have any questions.

Questions. What is the threshold under adult protective services for somebody like? New reports 21 substantiated zero. Like, what is the threshold for

it to be a substantiated report?

So for it to be substantiated is you have to prove that it was some type of abuse, neglect, or exploitation that has taken place for it to be substantiated and sent to SAE and Home Services. So that's And

when it is substantiated, what happens to the person?

So the person can still be in their home. They can still be in a facility, and we just go out. We offer services, ensure that we're getting them services that they need. If it's transporting them to the hospital, doctor appointment, if it's assisted with getting Social Security, anything, we're a resource to them to assist them with getting whatever they need. If it's looking for housing, you know, going to CVS and getting their medication. So once we start doing things like that in in home, we gotta, you know, move it to SA in home.

Do you ever have have situations where you're you can you determine if the person is not able to live at home by themselves?

In adult services? Yes, ma'am. Mhmm. And in some situation, when we have to do a order, it's called a protective services order. And it's just like with children. We would do the order, you know, take it to the courts, and they will leave us the guardian or put the person into our our care guardianship.

That's a good question. Just looking at the child protective services screen in, screen out. Like, 67 out of 67, you screened out 23.

I'm looking at April. So that mean we screened in 67, and out of those, we screened out 23. So that means we took a total of 90. Ninety ninety reports for the month of April.

Okay. And post security did go down some.

At the time this was printed. Yes, ma'am. At the time it was printed. Oh, we've been running close to taking some more custody, but we've been giving some gifts from the courts as well.

So mhmm. What

reason would you screen them out? False reports?

Well, if it doesn't meet the definition of abuse, neglect, or dependency, we can't we would screen it out. So say, for instance, someone called in and said, you know, a child got home from school and got off the bus and went in the house and we didn't see an adult. You know, we might just need more information. Yeah. But if it doesn't meet the definition of abuse, neglect, or dependency, we can't

accept it. Mhmm.

It has to be something where you you are identifying a caretaker has caused some type of, again, abuse abuse and aggression towards a child.

Okay. Any other questions regarding the service report? We'll let miss Dodd continue with

social work. So we are working. Excited for our workers and new workers and indeed bringing us in some applicants. So that has been really, really, really good. So things are going well.

Our adult services had a review last week, and they've done absolutely amazing on the review. They they scored fours in every department, which is great. They are servicing our people in adult services. And for children services, we are seeing families and meeting the need and trying to assist families as we go. And, of course, we cut the ribbon on our house, so we're excited about that and getting in and, you know, we you know, and sitting with our kids and using it as a visitation house for our families to be in the house. Children there, ma'am? We don't have them at the DSS house right now, but we we got one that we sit with one right now.

So will you have contract workers working with them or staying with them in the house?

Yes, ma'am. It'll be the same as it is now. We'll have contract workers that will assist with sitting with our youth. Mhmm. And daytime staff. Our staff has

to sit. Get ready to ask.

Yes, ma'am. Our day staff has to sit.

So do you need more contract workers? Yes, ma'am. And

we need people that wanna see it. You know, some I mean, I get it. People work, though. They have their full time job, but some of the contract workers have full time jobs too. So it's hard for them to see it all, you know, all night too because they gotta go to work the next day. So that is a struggle. That's a struggle right there on that part because we we're begging for workers to sit. Then it comes from being voluntold, and we hate to do that because we know people don't work all day.

But you don't advertise for contract workers, do you?

No, ma'am.

Just word-of-mouth? Yes, ma'am. And what age group would you have in the house?

We would never know. You would be just right. All ages. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. Zero to 18. I was about

to say you do take babies. Yes, ma'am. So that person would so would it be two people in the house?

Yes, ma'am. Always two. 247.

Yeah. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. Beautiful

house. Yes, ma'am. It is. Yes. That's a great accomplishment for Rutherford County.

Mhmm. Social services. It is. Yeah. Yeah.

And we're hoping that other counties across

Okay. You know, the house is fantastic. Mhmm. Mhmm.

Yeah. We're having agencies call us to ask us what we did. Mhmm. And we're sharing so that they can get back to you.

Okay. Miss Epley, economic services. Yes. Thank you.

There's a lot going on

in the economic services right now. There is new certification periods for children and family and children's Medicaid. The children that's zero through age six is receiving their certification periods through their sixth birthday. From six to 18, their certification periods are are changing from a one year certification period to a two year certification period. So that along with the straight through processing, which the state has started last year, give a slight decrease in the workload, and that is in preparation for the COVID waivers terminating on July 1.

Right. So that's been very helpful so far for the Medicaid workers. In f and s, we have the SUMBUX program coming on. That is the summer food program for the children who are at school. This is for children ages seven through 18.

If they're attending a school that's enrolled in the free or reduced lunch, which all of our county schools is in the CEP program, that means that if they're already receiving a benefit in food and nutrition services, receiving Medicaid with less than 185% federal poverty level income, they're receiving WorkFirst, foster care, and the McKinney Vento program or applied last year in July and August. They'll automatically be enrolled in the SUNDAX program. That'll be a $120 for the whole three months summer months. They get it one time. Did that change?

That was the same it was that it was last year. Yeah. It's a it's a $120. It will all be going on one brand new Sunbox card this time. If they have a card from last year, it won't go on that card.

Even families used to. Excuse me. If the families was receiving regular food stamps. He's

don't know.

We go on the regular card. The workforce program, there's a caseloads have decreased. So there's a lot of funds left over in that

TANF block grant. They're gonna

be using that those remaining funds to pay all of the children received on WorkFirst, a $500 supplement. And that's the children that's on WorkFirst already. You have to already have been on the program. There was a question asked about delayed funds. I think mister Garlock had contacted Kim Murray.

And that their funds was delayed at the day. Yeah. And that was due to the state not receiving the federal funds timely. Mhmm. The the cuts at the federal positions where they the employees weren't there to send the funds to the state, and that caused the delay for the funds paid to the state.

So the state could not release the funds to the clients for WorkFirst, and it also affected special assistance. Those funds was released for WorkFirst on May 10, and special assistance was released on May 9. We did have some clients report that they had automatic draft payments coming from their bank account depending on the funds that they normally would get, which caused them to have overdrafts. But, I mean, that's nothing that we can control. And getting the funds from the state to our citizens is nothing that we can control either.

Right. So that's the answer to that question that Mr. Godlock had asked. And and just just because we're taking minutes, I just wanna Godlock does follow the chain. He actually presented that question to me. Oh, okay. And and then she contacted you. So I'm sorry. No. No. That's okay. I just wanted to I wanted everybody to know mister Godlock follows the follows the chain.

Okay. I I'm surprised that things like that haven't happened more.

Because it happened with our adoption assistance. Mhmm. Families. They released their funds on May 8.

Mhmm. Okay. Are there other pots of

money that that's happening with right now?

I'm only aware of the ones for economic services. Not only for adoption assistance. The the food and nutrition services was not affected.

WorkFirst. WorkFirst is the

only thing.

Yeah. WorkFirst and SA was what was affected. For the energy program, we got a total of 950,529 in energy assistance. We have 20,000 left. We got a 116,000 in rental, and we've got 20,000.

I'm so

sorry. I'm so sorry. Can you, yeah, take a break? Take a break.

Yeah. Basically, almost a million dollars came down, and we've just about used all of those funds in our county. And, you know, these went to, like, the victims of the hurricane Mhmm. Of hurricane.

I heard her say, no. Don't.

I know. Don't even don't even get started. So that's that's what she was reporting.

But Yeah. Because Let that money come from. I think one time when she was talking about repairing air conditioning system unit and Yes. The cost of that so there was no limit.

Mm-mm. No. As as long as, you know, it was confirmed and and all of that, it it they produced a receipt, you know, and they told you know, then, yes. It's correct. As long as it was going to the victims

Right. Yeah.

Which I think is marvelous.

It does. It was. So many people slip through the cracks. Mhmm. I know.

I know. Or the or the rules are so stringent

Mhmm.

That not everyone gets help.

Right. So Right. I I think I

think this was good. It was.

People really took advantage in that. Yeah. They did.

Pam, do you want can you you add anything else to what she was mentioning? She was right there at the end. Yeah.

No. She got she got through it. Yeah.

She did it all. Yeah.

She had

disaster funds with $20,008.77 left and 25,000 or $20,008.77 was sent. So about the same. Mhmm. Yep. And then the rental funds are all exhausted. 160,000.

And I promise you that it does not take long for those $20,000 to go away. We we we may not even have it next month. When we come back, that's probably gonna be gone. Just according

to what the needs are, does it? Yeah. Okay. We got him.

Yeah. Yep. And we've, you know, we've gotten some questions about, hey. Y'all are happy to share.

From other counties.

Yeah. No. No. We we're gonna have to take care of our own. I'm sorry. We're gonna have to take care of our own. So I think it was we had maybe a $145 left on something. We we we actually shared that, but I we couldn't go any farther than that because we just wanna we have to make sure our citizens are taken care of.

I saw something. I think it was town of Spindale on the Facebook about funds to clean up private property. Some granted something funds to clean up private property.

You don't apply for that? Yeah. They want

an application for that. Yeah.

Pretty good. So we're getting funds here. Okay.

Are you guys getting I'm sorry. Go ahead. Any sort of information from the state about anticipated cuts in funding for food services?

Well, that's a big yes.

Yes, we are.

And what is their like, have they come up with some sort of formula for how they're going to do that yet? I'm guessing it's just probably using a similar formula than what they have now as far as

who gets what. But Well, the last thing

we received was the governor sent a letter stating that Please don't do this. Yes. Don't yeah. He did not

want the

funds to come to the state that

Actually, I'll

give you a copy of that letter. That's the last thing I've seen. You have anything else? And we got a we're

gonna have a call with the with Steve, our accounting manager, and the lead of the commissioners, which is Kevin Leonard, on the twenty second at 4PM. So it'll be Steve, Paul Roach, and myself, and whoever of the other team members may be on that call as well, and they'll be talking about some of that.

Especially with what's happening with USDA and the food pantries because we're seeing that Yeah. In a big way in the county. And so if that starts drastically reducing as well, like, we're going to have a big problem.

Yeah. We're we're

all in need already. Yeah.

So we'll see what

comes down. We just it's just yeah. We're hearing it, but we just don't know until it happens. Right. Right. So, you know we're all fighting because we know what it means for our citizens. And the children. And the elderly. Who who depend on this?

Well, we'll just think positive. Yes. Yes. We will. Okay.

Director's report.

Wanted to let you guys know that on next month, this is wonderful but it it'll be four counties with with me three of counties. I can't remember their names. I won't even call them out But we are meeting with some of the some of the legislators in Raleigh. And this will be next month, I believe, Kim, maybe on the eighteenth that we're gonna travel to Raleigh to meet with them, and we'll be talking about those things. We'll We'll be talking about things.

I'll take some data from Rutherford County, and we'll be talking about how we really need them to support these programs that are being threatened. That we know this is gonna make a huge impact on Rutherford County if they're not, especially Medicaid expansion, which has been so helpful here. We'll be talking about that. So we'll also be talking about foster homes and foster home recruitment. So we'll be talking about that as well.

So I'm excited to just be there with a mouthpiece. So I'm excited about that. The other thing that I wanted to let you know is that I was on this meeting with the it's Western Carolina it's Western North Carolina partnership. They came together a few years ago, and they basically make sure that foster parents are taken care of. They help with recruitment, back to school bashes.

And so I just get on the call when I can. And so we were on the call, Kim, whatever day that was. We were on the call, and I said, so I'd like to tell you guys that you know, about the house. And they adopted the house, the lighthouse. So we are going so they have a huge warehouse where they have all of the these these supplies stored, and they're just gonna allow us to go shopping.

So so we are excited about that. So we won't have to worry too much about because one of the things that when when a grantor gives you a grant, and I know you know this because you're such a grant person, but they're worried about sustainability. Right. How are you gonna be able to sustain? Are you gonna be able to make sure that, you know, it's gonna run on? So when they told us this, that was that let us know that we don't have to worry too much about the supplies that we're gonna need in the house. And Pam won't have to sit down and try to worry about what's what's where the money's gonna come from. Did you

did anybody get with the schools yet about the clothing? Mhmm. Okay. We're enjoying it.

Alright. I just wanna make sure.

Okay. Good.

Can you know what?

Do you have clothes in

the house now? So we

wouldn't just have clothes in standby? Okay.

Correct. I'm just curious because I I wanted to send something a a picture to Land's End to thank them, but I don't wanna take a picture of kid you know what

I mean? Like Yeah. To me, that's exploit feels, like, just icky. But I just

thought if you had, like, clothes hanging in

a closet where we could say that it's helping their

Yeah. They went and picked up clothes and took them to families.

Okay. Yes. Good. Mhmm.

Because because there's a lot. Yes. That's wonderful. That's wonderful. And yeah. And because we when Timothy says we took them to families, once we get involved with families, we try to front load those services. And if we see a need, we fulfill the need at that time.

And just to clarify, Lands' End donated $70,000 worth of branded clothing to United Way. And we worked it out with the schools and paid it to the schools because clearly who who is in a better position to

make sure that children get what

they need? Well, and you guys, and that was everything.

I just wanted to make sure you and Mosaic Hope. Yes.

Included in being able to

Well, if you need us to write a letter or anything like that that that kind of tells what we've done with some of close That

would be awesome. Yeah. I just wanna

So can you and Sarah get write a letter to United Way thanking them for the close? So would that help?

Yeah. I just wanna

thank Lands' End and tell them, like, this is what it's doing and thank you so great. Much. That's wonderful. And that's Our Baptist Association group of churches, we are partnering now with Mesoic House and each church was asked to give so much money and so I don't know if that's gonna be on a regular basis or what.

But yeah. Wonderful. Wonderful. Well, they're our partners Mhmm. For life. Yeah. But, yeah, they're our partners for life, really. So Great. We're all we're all connected with making sure that foster children are are taken care of. Good. Good. Anything else? I don't have anything else. Is there anything that I've missed or left out? Or Kim, can can you think of anything that I've left out or missed that the board can let you know? Mm-mm. You guys have any additional questions for us?

David, you've been mighty quiet. You have a question? No, ma'am. I'm good. My share for today. I have my quota.

And did you have any questions for us or anything that you would like to know more about?

I don't have any questions. This was very interesting to listen to. Good.

Thank you for inviting me. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. We did have one to stay, Dave. David, I know you can't see her, but Brianna Adams decided to stay, and she said it was a wonderful experience. Okay.

There's no other business? No announcements? Richard,

do you have anything?

I don't even know who he was back there.

He's always back there. He's always got our backs. Thank you, Richard, for coming. We appreciate you so much.

No other announcements. Nothing. So can I get a motion

to adjourn? Make a motion to adjourn. K.

I'm right. So moved and second, I guess. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you. Thanks for calling in, David. Meeting is adjourned.