[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
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[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
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[30:49] for all.