[0:07] Good afternoon.

[0:10] It is now 5:00 and I'm calling this

[0:15] meeting to

[0:18] order. It is now 5:00 and I am calling

[0:21] this meeting to

[0:23] order. And I want to say thank you all

[0:26] for being here

[0:27] today. At this I will entertain a motion

[0:31] for the approval of the agenda.

[0:44] All in favor say I

[0:54] no at this time we will hear from Mr.

[0:58] Eric Bush the budget workshop session

[1:02] number one Mr. Bush. Thank you President

[1:05] Johnson and welcome more members to Dr.

[1:08] Sims. I'm going to let Dr. Sims, walk us

[1:10] through the first couple slides here,

[1:12] mission and vision and the priorities

[1:13] for this session. Thank you, Mr. Bush.

[1:16] And once again, good evening to

[1:17] everyone. Thank you for being here.

[1:22] As we begin our first budget work

[1:24] session, we want to always ground

[1:25] ourselves in the mission and vision that

[1:27] drives our work on a daily basis. We

[1:29] maximize student achievement and social

[1:32] emotional well-being by using the

[1:34] resources at our disposal human and

[1:36] otherwise building a sense of community

[1:38] for all of our students and learning

[1:40] environments that are safe and

[1:41] equitable. Further, we want to ensure

[1:43] the use of these resources such that

[1:45] they lead to empowered students in every

[1:47] way possible on their way to living

[1:50] meaningful adult lives. Our three goal

[1:53] areas of student achievement, staff

[1:55] effectiveness, and stakeholder

[1:56] engagement continue to guide our

[1:58] decisions daily, supported by guiding

[2:02] principles designed to promote our

[2:04] quality learner outcomes. We recognize

[2:06] the importance of investing in highly

[2:08] engaging and rigorous experiences that

[2:10] lead to enlightenment on the part of our

[2:12] students as they choose meaningful

[2:14] pathways to success, one or more of the

[2:16] four listed.

[2:19] Further, we know full well the

[2:21] importance of engaging our all

[2:22] stakeholders and strengthening the

[2:24] effectiveness of our staff in order to

[2:26] maximize student achievement. This is

[2:28] our map to more victory and a key

[2:31] component of our district's built for

[2:33] strategic

[2:37] plan. Today's presentation will provide

[2:39] an initial

[2:41] finan financial outlook to include

[2:44] calculations that impact the FY26

[2:46] budget.

[2:49] This budget process will include

[2:51] up-to-date information on enrollment

[2:53] projections, staffing allocations,

[2:55] salary and related data, operational

[2:57] costs, and other estimated revenue in

[3:00] order to provide a clear path for

[3:02] meaningful questions to better

[3:04] understand. As we engage, it will be

[3:06] important to walk away with

[3:07] understanding the impact of state

[3:08] mandates, inflation, and ongoing

[3:11] challenges with recruitment and

[3:13] retention on our decision making. The

[3:16] balance Increasing revenues and/or

[3:18] reducing expenditures continues to be a

[3:20] forefront topic as we strive to offer

[3:22] the most advantageous recommendations

[3:25] while maintaining a primary focus on the

[3:27] needs of our students.

[3:31] As shared before with you, our

[3:33] preliminary budget priorities account

[3:35] for the continued need to recruit and

[3:37] retain the best and brightest of our for

[3:39] our students, to account for the diverse

[3:42] literacy needs of our students, to

[3:44] strengthen overall attendance with an

[3:46] emphasis on shifting a narrative for

[3:48] chronically absent families, and to

[3:50] continue building strong leaders and

[3:52] teachers in all buildings using a strong

[3:54] coaching and feedback cycle for optimal

[3:56] educator performance. With that said, I

[3:59] will now turn it over to our chief

[4:00] financial officer, Eric Bush, to carry

[4:03] us through the remainder of this work

[4:04] session.

[4:07] Thank you, Dr.

[4:09] Sims. We have a a very thorough

[4:12] slideshow for you today that includes

[4:15] um outtakes from the governor's budget,

[4:18] some salary slides, and um and various

[4:20] other information that'll help us get

[4:22] through this work session. Some of it I

[4:24] will just go over lightly. Some of it

[4:25] I'm going to stop and go over in detail

[4:27] when we get to the numbers. Um the first

[4:29] slides here show the highlights from the

[4:31] governor's budget for

[4:32] FY26. These numbers represent uh the

[4:36] numbers for the state of Georgia, not

[4:38] just Bib County School

[4:45] District. The impacts from the the

[4:47] governor's budget that's that's going to

[4:49] directly impact us. Um the main ones are

[4:52] going to be dealing with the state

[4:53] health insurance benefit, teacher

[4:55] retirement, and the decrease from our

[4:57] equalization grant. The certified state

[4:59] health insurance has been in a phase in

[5:02] period that we've gone about for about

[5:04] three years. Um that would push the

[5:06] price of health insurance per employee

[5:08] up to 22,620.

[5:10] um that final state for the certified

[5:12] class cert certified staff it completes

[5:15] this year and it um it raises the cost

[5:19] for them $1,500 per person. Most of the

[5:22] state certified um health insurance is

[5:26] covered by QBE revenue. We do cover some

[5:30] uh staff that we are not funded for. The

[5:33] classified health insurance though

[5:35] although some of the positions are

[5:37] funded, most of those are are um paid

[5:40] for by the local tax base. That health

[5:43] insurance this year went up

[5:45] 5,700

[5:47] $5,970 per person alone. So that was a

[5:50] major um cost increase for us this year.

[5:54] Next, looking at this teacher retirement

[5:55] system increases that has gone up 5.4%

[5:59] from a

[6:01] 20.78% contribution rate to a

[6:04] 21.91% contribution rate. Um and then in

[6:08] next is the technology expenses. We are

[6:10] budgeting $3 million. As we move to our

[6:13] next set of devices for the onetoone

[6:16] program that was implemented in 2020,

[6:18] that's about five years old. We're

[6:20] looking to refresh those devices for our

[6:22] students at a cost of around $3 million

[6:25] per year for four

[6:26] years. Um and then you'll see this

[6:29] throughout the presentation as

[6:30] inflationary costs continue um to affect

[6:33] the district.

[6:36] some assumptions for preparing this

[6:38] year's budget is um we were able to

[6:42] increase QBE

[6:43] revenue

[6:46] by by looking at our FTE counts a little

[6:48] closer and and documenting every

[6:50] student's need as properly as we can

[6:53] that's yielded about a 2.1 million

[6:56] increase in QBE revenue the increases um

[7:00] that I mentioned earlier for the

[7:01] certified state health do pass through

[7:03] from the state that increases our

[7:04] revenue by $2.4 million. I'm not

[7:07] assuming any uh tax digest increases as

[7:11] of yet. Um but we are this says estimate

[7:15] a 3% increase but that should be 2% as

[7:17] you'll see in the slides moving

[7:20] forward. And then we will be um this all

[7:23] these situations maintain the mill rate

[7:24] of 14.674 674 mills. And as we mentioned

[7:29] earlier, the preliminary number suggests

[7:31] that we're going to lose $9.12 million

[7:33] in our equalization grant. That is um

[7:37] pretty much final, but it will not be

[7:38] completely final until the governor

[7:40] signs the

[7:43] budget. Next, to get started in our

[7:45] whole budget process after we know those

[7:47] assumptions is to start looking at our

[7:49] enrollment for this coming year. Our

[7:52] enrollment is holding very steady around

[7:55] 21,500. I'm showing 181 student increase

[7:59] from 2025, which is great. We're moving

[8:02] in the right direction, but it's still

[8:04] not a leaping bound. Um, so once we have

[8:07] enrollment projections by grade, um, we move into what's called staff and

[8:12] allocations.

[8:14] We base those staffing allocations off a

[8:16] formula you see here and a set of

[8:20] criteria depending on how many students

[8:22] are in each building and how many are

[8:24] allotted for each classroom and at each

[8:26] grade level. So I won't go into all the

[8:28] detail here but this is here for your um

[8:30] for your review.

[8:37] Once we apply all the enrollment data to

[8:40] those staffing allocations, we end up

[8:41] with these total staffing allocation

[8:44] sheets, which are the next three

[8:48] pages. Going through all the numbers

[8:50] this year, we are seeing that we need an

[8:52] additional 12.75 teachers for those of

[8:56] extra students. That is a combination

[8:59] like I talked about the FTE counts. We

[9:01] had increases in um EIP program and

[9:04] programs. So that does increase include

[9:07] some increases in those areas alone to

[9:09] support those

[9:15] programs. Next, we spend a lot of time

[9:17] determining operational requirements and

[9:19] requests from other um other departments

[9:21] around the district. We gather all of

[9:24] that information and start laying it out

[9:27] for the budget process.

[9:31] Um, as well as all the positions we

[9:33] mentioned, we're going to do a make sure

[9:35] we understand salary and benefit cost,

[9:37] too. And as you know, and and I talked

[9:40] about earlier, as health insurance

[9:41] increases, TRS increases, we got to

[9:44] calculate what that's going to cost the

[9:46] district. We also calculate the step

[9:48] increases in this scenario. So, if I'm

[9:51] on have 15 years of service and I'm

[9:54] going to 16 years of service, that's a

[9:56] step that's in our salary schedule.

[9:58] We'll calculate the people that are

[9:59] moving steps this year as

[10:02] well. Once that's all completed, we

[10:06] start to line item line item cost by

[10:09] school using these sheets right here.

[10:11] The next three or four pages will show

[10:14] by school uh enrollment projections, the

[10:18] capacity. It'll also show salary

[10:20] benefits, total salary benefits,

[10:23] operational costs, which leads us to

[10:25] total expenditures. On the far right,

[10:27] you'll see a column that says cost per

[10:29] student, which is averaging around

[10:32] $10,864 for elementary

[10:36] school. Comes down a little bit for

[10:38] middle and high school at around

[10:41] $9,400 per

[10:46] student. The next couple slides are all

[10:48] of our operational departments um and

[10:52] the salary benefits associated with

[10:54] those departments.

[10:59] This is how we develop our bottom line

[11:02] general fund budget salary benefits and

[11:10] operations which is around

[11:12] 289 million this

[11:17] year. Next, I was just going to go put a

[11:19] couple slides in here about our health

[11:20] insurance costs and what that's looked

[11:22] like over time. These unfund funded

[11:24] mandates from the state um have gone

[11:27] from

[11:28] $10,600,000 to $21.2 million since

[11:33] 2022, representing

[11:35] 99.47% increase in health insurance

[11:38] costs for the

[11:41] district. There's a small line right

[11:43] under that 21240 total that says 5.520.

[11:49] That is the increase for the 2026 year

[11:53] alone. Just to point that

[11:57] out. The next slide shows various other

[12:00] benefits that we have. Social Security,

[12:03] Medicare, teachers retirement, state

[12:05] health, unemployment, and workers

[12:07] compensation benefit increases this

[12:12] year. So once we know all of our

[12:15] expenditures, we're going to start

[12:16] looking at our revenue. This year we're

[12:18] budgeting um

[12:21] $265.1 million of revenue which is a net

[12:25] decrease of $3.7

[12:27] million. Um some things to note in here

[12:30] on the right side is just taking the

[12:33] differences from 2025 to

[12:36] 2026 are a one and a half increase in

[12:40] tax revenue.

[12:43] um investment earnings. I've decreased

[12:46] that just a hair because interest rates

[12:47] have been kind of volatile and moving

[12:49] down. Um and as we come out of these uh

[12:53] COVID years, we're going to have less

[12:55] cash to operate with. So those

[12:57] investment returns may be

[12:59] less. We do have an increase in indirect

[13:02] costs due to our additional grants that

[13:04] we're running right now. That includes

[13:06] um the regular grants are include of

[13:08] course our federal programs like title

[13:10] one after school

[13:13] program school food nutrition but we

[13:15] have some additional grants right now

[13:16] such as the EPA grant uh that will also

[13:20] give some indirect cost back to the

[13:23] district. I have a million dollars in

[13:25] here from the school speed zone cameras

[13:27] from the bacon bib county that has been

[13:30] mentioned um

[13:31] recently and we also have as you see the

[13:34] QBE changes that we've talked about

[13:36] previously $2.1 billion for increase in

[13:39] FTE revenue and then the reduction of

[13:42] equalization of $9.1 million.

[13:50] The next slide shows uh the change in

[13:52] equalization grant over time. We think

[13:54] this is important because of the

[13:55] volatility of this uh grant awarded from

[13:57] the state. Uh just in 2023, we received

[14:00] $4.4 million that increased to $23

[14:03] million in 2025 and now it's going back

[14:05] down to $14 million. It plays a vital

[14:08] role in supporting the district, but

[14:10] it's also a challenge when it's just um

[14:13] when it es and flows like it does.

[14:20] The next couple slides are um the

[14:23] general fund preliminary budget. This is

[14:25] assuming no salary increases and just

[14:27] items I talked about previously. Uh if

[14:30] we start with a beginning fund balance

[14:32] of

[14:33] 67

[14:34] million791 196 add in the revenues of

[14:38] 265 million

[14:40] um and then subtract off the salary and

[14:42] benefits which leaves us with a deficit

[14:46] or net deficit of $24.5 million

[14:50] um currently for the 2026 preliminary

[14:53] budget. That leaves us with a fund

[14:55] balance to expense ratio of 14.9% which

[14:58] is in the toleration of the state

[15:00] requirements. As a reminder, those are a

[15:03] minimum of 8% maximum of

[15:06] 15%. Um many districts exercise the

[15:09] right to go a little bit over that to be healthy. But if we were to follow

[15:14] this plan in FY26, we would land on

[15:16] about a 14.9% ratio there.

[15:24] The next couple of slides are the same

[15:26] information you saw on the previous

[15:27] slide except they give some scenarios

[15:29] that we wanted to do salary increases

[15:31] for all staff. So there's a 2% salary

[15:33] increase scenario, 3% 4%. And we just

[15:37] this is important to look at because you

[15:38] can see how that trends um for each

[15:41] option.

[15:49] I'm also providing a scenario of what a

[15:52] bill would do. One mill of taxes is

[15:54] worth $5.9 million. And this is a

[15:57] scenario for each of those salary

[15:59] increase options, but also adding one

[16:01] meal to all

[16:15] those. The next couple slides just give

[16:17] you

[16:17] more data to go off the same numbers we

[16:20] just saw. and it projects out those

[16:23] scenarios over the next five years from

[16:25] 2026 to 2030. Um the first slide I'm

[16:29] showing here is assuming no salary

[16:32] increases, no military increases. Um it

[16:36] starts with that $24.5 million deficit.

[16:39] And if we were just to increase

[16:42] inflation 1% for revenue and expenses

[16:45] going out to 2030,

[16:47] um the result is depicted here. your

[16:51] deficit would remain somewhat stable,

[16:54] but you can see your fund balance to

[16:55] expense

[16:56] ratio drops under 8% in the 2027

[17:07] year. The next slide adds in a 3% salary

[17:11] increase if that was an option this year

[17:14] and gives the results

[17:16] um for those numbers. So, you can see

[17:18] pretty quickly that FY26 comes down to a

[17:23] 13.2% fund balance to expense ratio and

[17:26] drops all the way to three in 2027 and

[17:29] then next after

[17:36] that next steps in these processes or

[17:39] what we're doing right now. We're going

[17:40] to have a couple board work sessions

[17:44] um share with you the concerns that we

[17:46] have.

[17:49] This page is is some concerns that are

[17:51] actually continuations from the previous

[17:53] year. So, we've been seeing this for a

[17:56] while. So, our district continues to

[17:58] fall behind certified and classified

[17:59] salary schedules. Um the update to that

[18:03] is we did make a a pretty nice salary

[18:06] change last year that addressed some of

[18:08] these issues. The um problem with that

[18:11] is what will the counties do in FY26

[18:13] that we're unable to do and how how far

[18:15] can we go um to keep pace with uh with

[18:19] our com competing counties. Uh the next

[18:22] is we've had um s classified salary

[18:25] studies for some years now. We still lag

[18:27] behind in that area. It would cost

[18:29] around $5 million compared to other

[18:32] comparatively sized districts uh to make

[18:34] us um competitive in that field. So that

[18:38] continues to be a challenge on the

[18:41] classified employee

[18:47] side. We've also had a history of

[18:49] rolling back the miller rate. Um it

[18:51] prevents us from receiving increased tax

[18:53] revenue and

[18:57] um because of the equalization grant

[18:58] this year has put us in kind of a a

[19:00] place with a larger deficit than than

[19:03] we're used to. Some of the solutions

[19:05] there are have been discussed this year.

[19:08] you know, is it the right time to

[19:09] consolidate? Will we need to look at

[19:12] reducing some programs? Um, even staff

[19:15] in some

[19:17] instances. Uh, the next is how will we

[19:19] fund the desired changes for our new

[19:21] strategic plan? Um, and the same answer

[19:24] is there. Do we you can only increase

[19:26] revenue or decrease expenses?

[19:28] And the last slide, the last bullet

[19:31] point here is, can we continue to

[19:32] operate small neighborhood schools with

[19:33] the increasing cost and the inability to

[19:35] hire and maintain quality staff of those

[19:37] schools? Uh, will the community

[19:39] understand the need to do this? Um, and

[19:43] that that is something that will be

[19:45] brought before you this Thursday as we

[19:48] work through that year-long process to

[19:49] study those

[19:52] options. I won't go through every one of

[19:55] these in detail, but the next several

[19:57] slides the 2024 comparison to the 2025

[20:01] um year that we're currently in and how

[20:03] the Bib County salaries increased based

[20:06] on the raises we we implemented in

[20:09] 2025. And you'll see the green bar on

[20:12] these goes from from a lower to a to a

[20:15] higher status as compared to the other

[20:17] districts which is a move in the right

[20:19] direction.

[20:22] We've detailed these out for M's um or

[20:24] bachelor's degree employees, master's

[20:27] degrees,

[20:29] doctorates. Um we've also looked at

[20:33] administrative salaries on one of the

[20:35] slides toward the back where we still

[20:38] are kind of in the mid-range for

[20:39] administrative salaries kind of the mid

[20:41] lower range on

[20:42] those. And when I say administrative

[20:44] salaries, we're talking about

[20:46] administrators in the classroom in

[20:48] school buildings. These are um

[20:49] principles and assistant

[20:58] principles. Excuse me. Next, we'll look

[21:00] at our mill rate history. Um as we move

[21:03] through the

[21:04] presentation, this is a slide showing

[21:06] all the way back from

[21:08] 2013 what the mill rate has done. It's

[21:11] steadily decreased. And not just that

[21:14] it's decreased. What kind of revenue

[21:16] have we lost or how much have we created

[21:19] through levy and taxes? Last year was

[21:22] the most marketable one other than 2016

[21:24] where we maintain the mill rate and that

[21:27] increased our revenue $4.5 million which

[21:30] was a 5.5%

[21:32] increase in tax levy.

[21:39] I've also included several slides uh

[21:41] that compare

[21:43] uh surrounding districts in the state on

[21:46] how their millage rates look. So on the

[21:49] far left you would see FTEES by QBE.

[21:52] This is the student counts per the FTE

[21:55] schedules that the state puts out for

[21:58] each of these districts. And it's

[22:00] comparing 2020 to 2025. I wanted to give

[22:02] a five-year comparison here. the tax

[22:04] digest um runs on a calendar year. So

[22:08] that's why it says 2019 to 2024 there.

[22:12] Still a five-year comparison of the same

[22:14] uh funding cycle for the

[22:20] schools. And I've highlighted Bev County

[22:22] in the bottom there just to give you an

[22:24] example of um the changes that have

[22:26] happened in comparison to our to our

[22:29] other counties.

[22:44] So that leads us to our our next steps

[22:46] in this process. Want to hear and and

[22:48] get your questions and feedback um in

[22:51] preparation for our work session number

[22:53] two and subsequent tenative adoption in

[22:56] June.

[22:59] And then following those meetings, um,

[23:02] pending tax digest information, we will

[23:04] go straight into the military

[23:06] discussions, um, as soon as that

[23:09] information is given to

[23:12] us. The calendar for the ne for that

[23:15] series of events is posted on the screen

[23:16] here and in the back of the handout. The

[23:19] next meeting will be May 5th followed by

[23:21] May

[23:22] 14th tentative

[23:25] adoption. And uh, that would give us

[23:27] time to advertise public and public

[23:29] hearings before the final adoption in

[23:31] June.

[23:34] That is the conclusion of my

[23:36] presentation today.

[23:39] Thank you, Mr. Bush. Board members, you

[23:42] heard the report. Did you have any

[23:44] questions for Mr. Bush? Concerns work

[23:46] session number one.

[23:54] Thank you, Mr. Presentation. And uh my

[23:57] question is has any

[24:01] uh projections been given uh as to how

[24:05] the governor's

[24:07] uh school choice initiative may impact

[24:12] what money we get. We haven't done any

[24:15] projections inside yet because we don't

[24:16] have any numbers to work on from yet.

[24:19] So, I don't know how many students have

[24:21] accepted it, where they're going, and

[24:22] how many we would lose. And until we get

[24:24] that data, we'll be on it when we get

[24:27] it. But it's It's not available yet.

[24:30] Yeah, that's why I was saying

[24:32] projections on it. Sometimes you can

[24:34] find out from the school uh that school

[24:38] would know what parents are thinking

[24:39] about doing that and try to you know

[24:42] find out how many students may be you

[24:44] know uh going somewhere else and how

[24:48] that would impact us. But you'll have no

[24:50] question. Okay. Yes sir.

[24:55] Are there other questions?

[25:01] Thank you for your presentation, Mr.

[25:02] Bush. And I kind of want to piggy back

[25:04] on Dr.

[25:06] Flynn. Um, do we have an

[25:09] idea as far as that same program, the

[25:12] school choice initiative as to how many

[25:15] positions in B County would be funded by

[25:18] that? Not how many parents are looking

[25:20] to move, but you know how much money the

[25:22] state's actually going to allocate to

[25:25] schools.

[25:32] I think the application process

[25:33] determines that there's 22,000 spots

[25:35] available. So as those are throughout

[25:38] the state, we get more information, but

[25:40] I'm not sure they do it how that's going

[25:42] to be done.

[25:44] Thank you. district.

[25:57] All right. Um, so Mr. Bush, what I'm

[25:59] hearing is some of the things are

[26:01] increasing our expenses are reduction

[26:03] 9.1 million in

[26:05] equalization and roughly about 5 million

[26:09] something for increased benefits for

[26:12] employees, health benefits. Is that

[26:14] about right? That's about 80. So TRS

[26:17] increase was 1.5 million 5.5

[26:21] for health insurance and then those are

[26:24] our mandated costs. Our step increases

[26:26] internally are right at a million dollar

[26:28] as well. So that's about $8 million. So

[26:30] 17 between those two is

[26:35] um one of the things I've been reading

[26:37] is there's concern about what federal

[26:39] funding may or may not be available for

[26:41] schools. Do we have any information

[26:42] about that? I do not.

[26:46] Is there a situation where we might have

[26:48] to look at a supplemental budget

[26:50] depending on what happens related to

[26:52] federal

[26:53] funding? We could get involved with that

[26:55] if we have contracts for those people

[26:56] already and that money was

[26:59] pulled during the mid year. It would

[27:02] leave us in a

[27:04] situation where we would have to have

[27:06] some kind of supplement or an amendment

[27:09] done for general funds to fix up.

[27:12] Generally, what programs we talked about

[27:14] that federal funds would like

[27:26] Yes. But generally speaking, I sort of

[27:29] thought Dr. Rogers might stand up at

[27:31] some

[27:36] point which is the

[27:39] largest as well and depending on the

[27:43] extent it could

[27:46] also include nutrition

[27:50] and our genet program is fedally funded

[27:53] too. And we also have those onetime

[27:55] grants that we've received from the

[27:56] mental health program to support se

[27:58] several staff there. The EPA grant is

[28:03] we've been awarded to give us um several

[28:05] electronic buses and get a program off

[28:07] the ground for that as well as a small

[28:10] the schoolbased health mental health

[28:12] clinics which are smaller grants to get

[28:14] those up and running. I don't think that

[28:16] would affect us too much but there's

[28:18] several of them that we accept.

[28:24] and federal money is about what 10% of

[28:26] our revenue or somewhere in that range.

[28:30] I think it's around

[28:33] 20.

[28:35] Um you could um turn to slide 25. I'm

[28:40] sorry.

[28:51] 25. Okay. And so it's the slide with the

[28:54] middle schools uh up at the top and it's

[28:59] middle school. The Georgia Department of

[29:02] Education base middle school size is 624

[29:04] students. That's the magic number for

[29:06] middle school.

[29:08] Yes. Like 450 is for elementary school.

[29:12] Okay. And it says those in red are under

[29:14] the base size. And I see two of them in

[29:16] red are Miller and A, but they're over

[29:19] 624.

[29:22] So I think that's just a color

[29:23] difference. Yeah, I think we just did

[29:25] that. Okay. All right. Well, I mean

[29:27] that's good. I'm glad they're not glad

[29:29] they're over the

[29:33] number. All right. I think that's all

[29:36] right.

[29:38] Okay. Any other questions?

[29:42] I do have I have a comment. As you're

[29:46] looking over here at the cost per

[29:47] student for each school,

[29:51] um please know that we don't spend

[29:55] [Music]

[29:56] 72,364 on 40 prek children. Um that's

[30:01] just prek money, right? Is that prek

[30:05] money? So we have um 40 slots that are

[30:08] funed through PB, but the rest of

[30:10] Northwood is funed.

[30:14] Oh yeah, those would be the kindergarten

[30:16] kids, right? That's correct. Yes,

[30:20] got that.

[30:23] We've always had trouble with that

[30:24] slide. Yeah, I

[30:31] know. Are there any other

[30:39] questions? I will entertain a motion

[30:43] [Music]

[30:49] for all.

Bibb Board of Education FY 2026 Budget Meeting - April 14, 2025

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