Okay. So this week it's exciting to be in Clayton. Every week is exciting to be in Clayton but this week in particular you will have noticed an enhanced level of school spirit occurring from our family center, elementary school, middle school and high school and one of the things that's been really neat to see I would say over the past five years my time here is how much school spirit community feel and how much of it has increased throughout our district. Quick example I was at Weydown middle school today and they were having their pep assembly in preparation for homecoming which is this Saturday and the band, the high school band was there, the cheerleading group was there and what I noticed was I remember five years ago we had three cheerleaders and now we're up to 17. Wow. That's a whole other engagement that our students are having and participating in so that's again just one small example but tomorrow morning starting at 6 a.m. Fox 2 prep zone is going to be at Clayton High School so we're hoping even though there's no school for students we're hoping that gym is going to be filled with students and we're going to highlight all the activities and just get excited for homecoming and that's a great segue for Saturday.

That's a whole other engagement that our students are having and participating in so that's again just one small example but tomorrow morning starting at 6 a.m. Fox 2 prep zone is going to be at Clayton High School so we're hoping even though there's no school for students we're hoping that gym is going to be filled with students and we're going to highlight all the activities and just get excited for homecoming and that's a great segue for Saturday. I hope the community shows up for the parade that starts at 11 o'clock football game against U City at noon and then we're going to have the alumni barbecue that we have every year and we have a huge alumni turnout and support that comes to our games so again thank you for participating and I'm looking forward to Saturday so hope to see everyone there. Switching, transitioning off to the next part and the second part I want to talk about is our long range facilities master plan. The work continues to happen. We're making strong progress in this area. On September 10th I believe yes. On September 10th we had our first community engagement forum. We had a good crowd, a good amount of people that came in. We had our design team. They went over and they shared the early preliminary design work for our elementary schools.

We had our design team. They went over and they shared the early preliminary design work for our elementary schools. Our Clayton High School, the academic area that we're trying to look to enhance as well as athletics and activities in terms of what does early concepts look like? So we shared that. Then we had some time at tabletops conversation and we got some initial feedback from the community from that so we have two more community engagements coming up, one in October, one in November and I hope to see a lot more individuals come to those and if you happen to miss that we do try and update our website and give all the information that we shared that night there as well so we did the community engagement forum. In addition what we're starting new and we're going to be uploading all the information on the website, sharing it on social, sharing it via email and we're going to be launching our community survey. We're going to begin our building tours. Elementary schools is one of our priority areas so we're going to open our buildings to the community to come and see firsthand some of the challenges that we face at our elementary buildings so more information to come for the building tours. That should happen this month which is October or I guess next month which is October and then tomorrow we're launching our community survey. The survey remember we'll have a telephone component so there will be randomized calls that will be made.

That should happen this month which is October or I guess next month which is October and then tomorrow we're launching our community survey. The survey remember we'll have a telephone component so there will be randomized calls that will be made. If you get a phone call from that please answer and please do respond to the community survey. If you don't happen to get a phone call you also have an opportunity to give us feedback on this important work that's happening online so we'll have the survey that launches tomorrow. It's going to be open for two weeks and the feedback that we get from that also is additional data for us to decide where we're moving, which direction we're moving forward with our priorities so it's important information that we really ask our community to please participate so again if you can't be there in person we've got information out there for you to find and we will share it with you. Please engage with us with our survey and or telephone survey as well and again we'll use that information and then as a last reminder community engagements happening in October and November so that gets to our presentations for today. So we'll have a presentation for tonight. Our design team is here. They're going to give us a presentation and update on all of the early design work that's been happening.

Our design team is here. They're going to give us a presentation and update on all of the early design work that's been happening. Please know this is preliminary work preliminary designs but a lot of work has already happened to get to this stage so we'll share that and that'll be a presentation the first one for the night and then the second presentation for the night is Dr. Solberger and Mrs. Turner will be here and they're going to talk to us about our partnership agreement with special school district so packed agenda today and now I'm going to hand it over to Nina our student board rep. On Wednesday September 10th a select group of 45 seventh grade students from Rydow Middle School got the opportunity to see Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speak at Wash U which is the picture you see up here. Right now the seventh graders are learning about politics and government so the opportunity to see what Justice Sotomayor had to say was pretty incredible for them. Not only did they get to hear about her experience as a lawyer and judge but they also got the chance to get a hard copy of her book signed. This is a great chance for students to hear about a career in law and justice from a professional. Additionally here's another update. Last week I met with Clayton High School's principals advisory club.