[0:08] Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me.

[0:25] I'm the one in the list, so I don't think you can trust me.

[0:33] Welcome everybody.

[0:36] Rightly, I've met people before.

[0:37] I'm Bell.

[0:38] And I see.

[0:39] The last meeting.

[0:41] Is yours in the data?

[0:42] I did.

[0:42] Yeah, I didn't see it up there.

[0:44] So, yeah.

[0:45] Yeah.

[0:46] Okay.

[0:47] So, do you want to go over the decoration book?

[0:51] We'll do that after we do the budget chair.

[0:54] Okay.

[0:54] All right, so we need to nominate the budget chair, but there's any of those of the others.

[1:06] No, I would do it,

[1:12] but I don't think that I can't guarantee I'll be here in person on the 26th meeting.

[1:16] There's a B on Zoom.

[1:25] So what's going to better take care of you if you could get through all of it tonight though, you wouldn't need to be here for 12 days.

[1:32] No pressure.

[1:33] That's great. I'll try to figure it out on my right hand.

[1:37] I'm going to be a chair online if you have that.

[1:38] I better be four or so.

[1:41] I'd be willing if nobody else wants to take it.

[1:43] So, for this is the point where we nominate somebody

[1:46] and throw one in the bus.

[1:48] Okay.

[1:48] So we learn the experience.

[1:50] I wouldn't get posed to that, but you know, Peter won.

[1:54] Well, I nominate James Addy for our chair.

[1:57] That's that thing.

[2:02] In the way you accept the nomination.

[2:05] Is there a motion in a second?

[2:08] Is there any discussion?

[2:09] Thank you.

[2:10] 20s already say what?

[2:11] All right.

[2:11] They understand.

[2:13] All right.

[2:14] All of us.

[2:15] Trent.

[2:16] We'll be starting to see.

[2:17] Oh, no.

[2:18] Oh,

[2:21] Taylor's chair.

[2:27] a little bit when you're out, so thank you for a while.

[2:32] I really, I'm good at it.

[2:35] You want to make that?

[2:38] I know why.

[2:39] You think you're sharing with him?

[2:41] I think you're sharing with him.

[2:47] You're done a great job.

[2:50] Oh, over there. Oh, here's Aaron. Welcome back to the table. Hey, he's a natural little

[2:57] there. I know snow.

[3:01] Not there. Hey.

[3:05] Yeah, I don't know.

[3:09] Maybe just, you know, the city kind of shrubs, but I don't know if there's like a,

[3:13] But I agree here, you have the idea, we can help you through it, too.

[3:19] Do you want to hold our, well, before we jump into the presentation of the budget part,

[3:27] let me first just take a moment and I think now would be a good time for all of our board

[3:32] and budget committee members to, I think it's time you send out and I'm going to talk about

[3:37] contracts have interest. And it would be a good time for anyone to declare whether they have

[3:46] any potential conflicts of interest, which in one of the budget, we approve a packing

[3:54] field. It's a more, it's more brawn-based, not specific to individuals, but it's always good

[4:04] to declare conflicts or potential conflicts ahead of time so if you have a spouse or a child or

[4:12] someone in your immediate family or household who works for the district or maybe does contracted

[4:18] work for the district it's always good to just put it out on the table and say that I have a

[4:24] potential conflict with my brother, he who works as a teacher just to get out of the open,

[4:35] but it doesn't mean at that point that you're not able to still build up on the budget if you

[4:40] feel like you can get through that impartially and it's not going to impact the decisions that you

[4:47] make and quite honestly the whole package anyway. It's like an individual through a voting on that

[4:51] I heard it's a contract, but you know,

[4:53] I'll be leaning to recuse yourself in the voting.

[4:56] But if anyone maybe wants to just start off,

[5:00] we've kind of worked our way around for anyone

[5:01] to feel that they may have a potential conflict,

[5:03] which is that if I have a file.

[5:05] I have a brother-in-law who I'm going to put in this test.

[5:10] As a teacher.

[5:13] I will declare a potential conflict of interest.

[5:15] My wife is a school bus driver,

[5:17] I'm a school transportation,

[5:18] and my son also works for transportation.

[5:21] I have a potential conflict witness. I have a son that teaches at 5th grade and I have the daughter and mom that also teaches at my school.

[5:34] No conflicts and no fun.

[5:41] My sister in law works for the school district as a bus driver which is not an asshole.

[5:46] Yeah, the full transcripts of my daughter and my sister works for the school district and my cousin's wife for school.

[5:53] They put the entire kitchen.

[5:57] I got to put the changes per so probably.

[6:03] And well, you can kind of see small town.

[6:06] That's why this exists. Now I show you all of all the stuff.

[6:09] There's some of those on this stuff that actually allow for this because if we couldn't vote,

[6:18] we might not even be able to do that together to legally do a vote.

[6:23] So, it's just a good way of protecting it and going on and taking it to the start.

[6:27] Okay, move on.

[6:31] There's some conversation about a declaration.

[6:33] You want to do that after me.

[6:34] I thought about this. I think that's actually what we did.

[6:39] That was it. Yeah.

[6:42] So we'll move on.

[6:45] So we'll have the presentation of the budget document.

[6:49] It's clear.

[6:52] So I'm going to start off with talking about the questions that were asked.

[7:00] And you all have at your spot, you were going to talk to me, said summary of questions

[7:07] asked.

[7:08] This is a summary of a question in the answers, if you want the detail, I have that as

[7:14] well.

[7:14] But you all received an email and you know.

[7:19] So I mean, thank you for those who asked questions, they were very interesting and very thoughtful.

[7:27] So the first question of set of questions kind of revolved around our 24 year and 24 audited financials.

[7:37] And in those audited financials, we did receive a cloud by the opinion that identified some weaknesses and efficiency deficiencies.

[7:46] efficiencies. And I do want to say that all the correct evactions that were suggested and

[7:51] they might have to don't leave it. They were approved by the Thor and also accepted by the

[7:56] state by the division. And then there's a question about a significant change in our net position

[8:03] in capital asset reduction. So these results had mostly due to change in accounting for some of our

[8:15] bonds in our debt, and it didn't affect the budget because these are on an

[8:23] adjustment financial statements not budget. You know, we don't budget for

[8:28] those things, we're about to be for expenditures during the year and on a new

[8:32] schedule in the year. So there's no direct impact on the post budget. And the

[8:38] question also, a great question about our risk to bond rating, grant eligibility,

[8:43] the federal funding insurance rate or state oversight based on these findings and there's no,

[8:49] we don't anticipate any impact on any of these items, bond ratings and borrowing. That is

[8:57] based mostly on our tax base, which we don't recall, debt balances, reserve local economy and state

[9:05] funding's development. The thing that we do control that affects our bond rating while reserve balances,

[9:12] And if you remember, we budgeted $2.5% and we planned to increase that over the years.

[9:19] What they're really looking for is $5.

[9:21] So we recognized that and are planning to increase that in the future.

[9:26] And with federal funding, the one item with that, that funding was immediately collected.

[9:32] And we wanted to fund it. So we should be done when we lose.

[9:36] The question was about our long-term debt obligations, and debt is not funny thing in governments

[9:44] and store districts, but we have had two zero bonds, general obligation bonds.

[9:52] They're funded through property taxes, so that's that that property tax that we have brewed

[9:59] as a budget can be helped to pay for that debt, both principal and interest, so it's not

[10:04] really affecting the budget that way. One of the bonds, the 2012 was paying off for

[10:10] year 25 and the next one goes till 2041, so he's doing that for one. To use that bond it's like

[10:19] a sinking fund, so we deposit $133,000, $133,000 annually as a CD and we're at the beginning of that,

[10:29] which is in 2030, all that's in there goes to pay that data. If there's any earnings on that,

[10:35] but we can also have our funding available. So we do budget for that. We will go to the end.

[10:44] Our pension bonds, those are the first bonds that we've talked about, and people aren't really

[10:49] going to get a bond, and then the proceeds are going over the first. They invested in any earnings off

[10:55] those that all that debt helps to reduce our first rate. We have two of those currently

[11:02] and one of them expires that will be paid off in December 28th. The second one will be

[11:08] paid off in 142. The most recent one we have a 49% interest rate on that data. We're looking

[11:19] we're looking for something under 10%

[11:22] when we may be looking at the future

[11:25] since we have my experience.

[11:28] And then our lease obligations,

[11:30] this is a gas leak, which is

[11:32] governmental, accepted

[11:34] accounting principles, 87.

[11:37] They changed that a few years ago

[11:38] about how we have to

[11:39] account for long-term uses.

[11:41] What we used to do is just

[11:43] expensive as we go, which is what our budget does,

[11:48] its purchases, we go, but for auditing purposes,

[11:51] we have to accumulate that and the entire lease payment,

[11:56] and then depreciate it over time, and it's what it is,

[12:01] but our budget only affects it in the opinions.

[12:04] And then the other two, the first pension liability

[12:06] and the OPEB health insurance liability,

[12:09] Those are all actuarial liabilities, that's a hard way to say that are done outside of the district.

[12:18] And we don't really control that.

[12:20] The first pension liability has to do with all kinds of calculations that first makes with their balances and unfunded liability and fall rates and all kinds of wonderful things.

[12:31] But we pay those behavioral contributions and that was changed yearly and we can see that they swing in 2021. Our liability share was $28.6 million in 2025 to $15.1.

[12:46] So the effects are audits, but it doesn't affect our budget.

[12:50] And the health insurance liability is also a factorial calculation.

[12:55] And it's what retires pulling from the first health insurance.

[13:01] And again, that's not true.

[13:03] We don't have anything to hold for that.

[13:06] And then for the 25 audit status, the audit has been completed in draft form.

[13:11] And this has been into the state, but it has not yet been finalized.

[13:14] And in that draft, we have no indications of any restableness or material weightlessness

[13:22] or significant efficiencies.

[13:25] So we'll be going to develop that.

[13:27] And then moving on to 2027.

[13:30] So our actual budget information, the question about fuel transportation cost and food and volatility

[13:36] with those.

[13:38] And with the transportation, some of the making factors for that is we are reimbursed for

[13:44] by the state, we're 70% of our transportation costs.

[13:48] So we're only getting 30% of whatever that is.

[13:52] So we're protected a little bit there.

[13:55] And we see our monitoring of our transportation efficiencies

[13:59] with our transportation supervisor.

[14:02] And we'll be watching those.

[14:04] And then we're used to fluctuations in field cost.

[14:08] Because we all get fill that we need both on cards.

[14:12] food service, that's mostly funded through state reimbursements. We do qualified for

[14:18] 20-year-old children and the food service funding is pretty much self-funding, so

[14:26] as food goes out, food reimbursement should go off as well.

[14:30] And then our reserve and

[14:32] contingency strategy, that's a big one. We do have thin reserves, budgeted, but we are monitoring

[14:40] our budget to actual month, but we have a new format that we're using and we have them.

[14:46] We're looking at that every month and we're also seeking additional revenue and we can reallocate

[14:55] or standing with me.

[14:58] The question about our F.

[15:00] Public spending coaching costs. So coaching staff levels for year in 26. We have a hundred more coaches and that's the same staffing model that we're budgeting for the for 27. So now changes in staffing there. And then the athletic expenditures for each year, you can see that we're expecting to spend 1770,000 this year and a little bit less next year. And even though coaching slackens have increased.

[15:29] which they do just like stabbing costs.

[15:32] We did ask the athletic director to look at discretionary funds

[15:37] and some of those were reduced.

[15:39] So in the athletic funds, it does include middle school athletics

[15:51] as well as high school.

[15:53] We keep our participation fees low so more students can participate.

[15:58] And the budget also includes for an athletic trainer and also safety monitoring the games

[16:06] which is the use following for me.

[16:11] And a question also came in about looking at athletics and how we evaluated and prioritized

[16:18] athletics compared to all of our other programs and we did follow the same process that we did

[16:24] for all programs and many of the school-based cuts were based on student enrollment and athletics

[16:32] is there are enrollment's down, but athletics number stays strong. And it our

[16:39] budgeted bills do compare with the district's size or not, but we understand we are just going to know.

[16:46] And but like with everything our cost of participation is what we want,

[16:50] of the linear, you can always make investments with the community.

[16:57] And then some questions about our new revenue sources.

[17:00] We do have $520,000 of new Medicaid funding,

[17:04] budget, industry, and general fund.

[17:06] And we believe that's actually a conservative number.

[17:10] But we are active in pursuing two new revenues of Medicaid.

[17:15] One is a max survey, which actually you're doing.

[17:17] I mean, it's normal.

[17:20] So, yeah, we'll get a little bit of a taste of what we're,

[17:24] what we'll be reimbursed for that.

[17:26] And then also medical ulcerings for university nights.

[17:29] So those are both new,

[17:31] revenue streams for us.

[17:34] And then we are also presuming other grants,

[17:38] a couple of major ones that are leading the health council

[17:42] and the organ health authority.

[17:44] and from my potential, new revenue from him is $570,000.

[17:51] We also continue to target local foundations

[17:54] and understand grants. For example, our civil school grant was in England

[17:58] and it's a three-year, so we can budget that for this year in the next two years.

[18:03] Unless the state falls apart, but we won't.

[18:07] Then there are kind of high risk areas that we continue to monitor

[18:11] or our special education costs, those costs depend on student means and we really don't know what those are until our students come in.

[18:20] We do have an incoming kindergarten class and we are expecting some surviving students that will come in from there.

[18:27] We are outside Place Nizongos, framed from 60,000 to 150 per student, depending on where they value it.

[18:36] We are making that developing internal programs to help keep some of our students in house.

[18:42] And that will reduce outside placements while still maintaining service to those students.

[18:49] And some other key concerns are maybe the dead first year or a from is facilities and infrastructure.

[18:57] our, you know, we have aging facilities. We've talked about maybe I'll work on a full

[19:03] sooner than later, maybe, but we have some old films and sites that we, there's. And

[19:11] we are currently assessing our facilities. Now, I was working on that along the time. And

[19:18] so I know the state came in that the insurance comes in and it does assessments as well. And

[19:25] And we are also looking to prioritize, prioritize,

[19:30] we plan on range facility.

[19:32] So those are the answers to those questions

[19:35] I got in advance.

[19:36] And there's even questions in the follow-up

[19:39] with clarification on those.

[19:41] Let me know.

[19:42] Hope you have additional questions.

[19:44] We can take those now and wait until we start getting

[19:46] a link to the link.

[19:49] I know you answered this, and I just

[19:51] want to make sure I understood correctly.

[19:53] When you talked about athletic expenditures,

[19:57] in comparison to prior years and mentioned that our enrollment is seriously down, but the number of students participating in athletics is not changed.

[20:08] Is that right? So we have a higher percentage of students than we used to have participating in athletics.

[20:14] No, that's interesting.

[20:16] I understand that we have a lot of boys following all this year, and they have a few.

[20:22] So that's the most important thing.

[20:24] We're also coaching.

[20:26] I should mention the coaching we can just volunteer on that one.

[20:30] And also girls fly football.

[20:33] Is it new this year?

[20:34] Yes.

[20:35] And coaching is also a volunteer.

[20:38] So yeah.

[20:40] Good question.

[20:47] Okay, so again, I think we're going to move into the rest of the budget on a full.

[20:55] So we'll start off by just reviewing the general fund user assumptions.

[21:01] And for some of you now, there's some specific questions for the little fund people to take

[21:05] us.

[21:06] And we move to the spectral writing and values, and then all the other funds, and then we'll

[21:12] answer any questions there.

[21:14] and then you're also in the way you're saying you're going to control it.

[21:18] We open for public employees in one minute.

[21:25] So in the general funds, just to review some of our assumptions

[21:29] were on the state's full fund, which is one of the two

[21:32] you hear findings versus in general funds.

[21:35] We've looked at it for just over 31 million from the state

[21:40] with an additional two hundred seven six thousand for

[21:43] our fantastic disability funding, which is a special education

[21:47] of the funds that we get in the state.

[21:50] And this is all based on the state that we're making

[21:54] that came out on March 6th, and we need the date

[21:58] that we have now, and that's not simple.

[22:00] So this all changed, but these are the assumptions we're using.

[22:04] It's that results in a rate of $11,600

[22:08] and $66 for students, which is a small

[22:13] increase from the third year. Property tax revenue is

[22:18] budgetary at 9.7 million. It's an increase of 4% of the

[22:27] assessment's valuation from 24 to 5 and a 95% collection rate.

[22:33] The 95% collection rate is based on the score of collections

[22:37] over the years and the 4% we normally were required to do

[22:43] We did 4% based on historical collections the last few years would actually collect

[22:49] more of that.

[22:52] The beginning fund balance of over $300,000 and it's an estimate based on where we are

[23:03] today and that may actually change by the time we get to actual summer school funding which

[23:09] which is new funding of 466,000, that's a set, that's a set, no, no, we thought we'd

[23:16] have to know what we're getting at. And then a special revenue grant, well, it's an open

[23:22] best, special revenue grant is estimated to get 16.2 million, which is only a little higher

[23:27] than our current year.

[23:32] And on reserves for our general fund, we've talked about 2.5% for

[23:38] next year and that includes contingency funds of $500,000, which we can transfer that to

[23:48] current operating expenses with more approval during the year. Unappropriated in the equivalent

[23:54] of $5,000 to $65,000, which cannot be used during the current year, but should be carried over to

[24:07] yourself a little bit of relaying. And expenditures in federal funds and expenditures in general,

[24:17] but it also has flow through to all of our special funds, personal costs, 4% of the contract,

[24:24] or classified administrative and confidential staff, 3.5% of the classified staff, minimum wage

[24:30] increase to 1555 and increase in unemployment cost and then increase in FTE almost to FTE.

[24:44] Non-personnel cost, we did increase the only discretionary funds. We increased

[24:50] by placement costs by women and outside placements. We talked about women's and the most women's

[24:56] or our liability insurance for estimating 12%,

[24:59] which I've been told is going to be 12%.

[25:02] And a 2% to 5% increase in utilities' yielding supplies.

[25:08] Our tarar store rates are based on our state's

[25:10] income fund calculation.

[25:12] And their rate this year is the same as our rate for student.

[25:17] And that rate will change, but our A&W changes,

[25:21] but that's true for us as well.

[25:22] A couple of new items and expenditures are evergreen online, which is an online school.

[25:30] It's not new.

[25:31] We've been paying for it, but we have a really classified bird is showing up in a budget,

[25:37] and we budgeted $160,000, which should cover what we asked for when the number of students

[25:42] be used here.

[25:44] And then the Athletics Transfer Fund, which Athletics Transferred, almost also when we are

[25:49] going to talk about that.

[25:52] So that's all the stuff that's happening in our legal funds,

[25:58] next year.

[26:01] So are there any questions on the general fund?

[26:07] Any question or answer time?

[26:11] What do you share with you?

[26:13] I'll put things on.

[26:16] We're taking questions.

[26:17] All right, Tom.

[26:21] I saw it in the early or walking, you know, human sexual sense. So anyways, now, now it's time for us to ask any questions we'll see with you.

[26:30] I don't need a general fund.

[26:35] No questions.

[26:36] since I had a good thing.

[26:39] Is the five, two to five percent increase in utilities

[26:42] as I can be in.

[26:49] I, I, I, I crossing our country.

[26:51] I think so on on that.

[26:57] Is that was set with conversations with Matt

[27:00] and also based on history that's usually what we do.

[27:05] And we have times when, you know,

[27:08] the economy was going weird and you know what we were doing and that's usually

[27:12] to say sometimes we've been doing the last but supplies I think we kept them around too

[27:19] but utilities I think you've got to buy because those are as a figure I understand water

[27:26] maybe water bills leave you going up in terms of the literature. You're welcome.

[27:37] I would just say to you on that fact, I also, there is definitely an awareness in the

[27:43] buildings now that the budget is a dollar matter, and so my hope, too, is that every light

[27:51] when we think about it, every, you know, this, that people are more conscious of it right

[27:55] now, too.

[27:56] So, you know, hopefully we can see some say, it's just that people are being blown up.

[28:00] But when we're watching it more closely, you know, maybe we don't bump it up in that extra degree, but a lot of things like that.

[28:08] You start with bad costs.

[28:14] Yeah, and just, you know, general fund, this is, this is the bulk of what we do.

[28:18] And then this has not been a fun easy budget to create because of the situation.

[28:22] and when you're talking less than FTP,

[28:27] that's fewer people, that's fewer programs.

[28:30] I mean, it was maybe from classes

[28:31] that fewer kids in them than previously.

[28:36] And so I also just want to acknowledge that.

[28:38] That, you know, I know we've had a lot of emphasis

[28:42] on discussions these past few months about this.

[28:45] I'm sure it's a board model.

[28:47] You guys have purpose and nauseam, bling, bling, bling.

[28:51] But to just, when in a school budget,

[28:55] there's all these other parts we're going to get into,

[28:56] which all, but the federal and the grants and the

[28:59] grants and the grants are layering things in this and that,

[29:00] but this is like the bread and butter of our funding and what we do.

[29:04] And so there are a lot of difficult decisions in this.

[29:08] So of trimming here and there, a lot of it,

[29:10] we looked at for building of whether we had some buildings

[29:15] have seen reductions in the number of scoots and of some

[29:18] happen. And so that played out to in staffing models. Some students have or some buildings

[29:24] have more student need in them. So we've had to play that scenario out to not just on

[29:29] wrong number of students, but looking at the number of students plus the needs and the buildings

[29:34] and how we can,

[29:39] you know, make reductions without completely getting rid of certain things to us.

[29:44] It is that, you know, and I think we're we're in a little bit of that messy middle part right now

[29:49] to try to figure out what all these work like moving forward but you know there has been I don't know how many months.

[30:00] Meeting of going through this and looking at it and looking at it and looking at it and looking at it to try

[30:10] and get it to a place where I don't want to say we go comfortable because we've got a number we have to meet and we've got to try and live within it. So it's been a lot of a lot of different decisions. But also, I guess there's also been a ton of work about going into building levels not just not just at this level here at the district, but even within the

[30:32] buildings and then principles and the department heads and everyone weighing in on their own

[30:38] departments how they can best help and also one of the things they need to protect.

[30:47] So you know I guess for attitude but I just want to acknowledge you that this this has been

[30:53] a challenge and this point did with number palace. It's not where we wanted to be

[30:59] hopefully we can start to use this and then build reserves and build some, so nobody

[31:05] back.

[31:08] As a board member, I want to say that we have been kept abreast of those changes, meeting

[31:15] out the meeting and people who have come to meetings, they know that, and I really appreciate

[31:20] that as the discourse has gone through those negotiations and as you have gone through

[31:25] them. You've kept us abreast of how you're thinking about it and what's going to be affected.

[31:31] You know, we've seen a long life. So it's not it's not really a sparse.

[31:38] And I mentioned I was at an event this weekend with some high school students and I said

[31:43] just kind of coily asked the question that their teachers are talking through. They were very informed

[31:47] about the necessary cuts and how the district was doing it. So it was really impressive, you know,

[31:53] This is a small group of students that we were with,

[31:56] but they knew what was going on,

[31:58] and they had been talked to in their classrooms

[31:59] at the building.

[32:04] Adding you to the questions on the general fund.

[32:09] As a chance.

[32:10] Give me more seconds.

[32:12] Now, we'll move on to review the special revenue funds.

[32:20] So special revenue funds are all the funds

[32:23] in the 200 funds, so 212.99.

[32:26] on. And I'm going to highlight a first that make up a larger amount of those funds. So, the

[32:34] first is the integrated values point. I do. It's re-budgeting just over 3.7 million. That includes

[32:41] student investment care, high school success, early indicator intervention, and consolidating

[32:47] in the target district and present funds.

[32:51] So these are not new and the amounts

[32:56] that we have budgeted are fairly certain.

[33:00] The one new one this year is kind of new.

[33:02] The municipality and the target district improvement.

[33:05] We're receiving $119,000 in that area.

[33:09] And that's specifically for immunoschool alkeny

[33:13] and one of our charter's child's way.

[33:17] So that's in our budget and then the early learning and community resources that's budget those funds are just over three million and they include preschool promise, which has black classroom and 16 staff members that little one is preschool.

[33:37] our early childhood equity fund, UCEDF, and the other smaller ones are located in Vento,

[33:45] our hips, which is the local kids' transition to school, studies primary care, and community care for nation.

[33:56] And the other large ones are our title funds at IDEA, which is the most human-born body of the bear,

[34:03] area that we are visiting.

[34:05] The queer building, I don't know why there are three.

[34:10] That is why you know that being there.

[34:11] I don't know why would I be here with the celebrity?

[34:17] I don't know who we are.

[34:18] I look at it and I look at it and I find this real nice.

[34:23] I think I make it the guy next to me.

[34:28] So if you would have been here, I don't know.

[34:29] Why is it bringing you 1,000-1,000-000 billion participants there And I look at it and I don't

[34:32] know what it means to come there.

[34:36] And we're budgeting $2 million in that fund,

[34:39] I think is going to be a solid stabbing.

[34:42] And I'm sober school, I'm not talking about that.

[34:44] You're running 466,000, and that's one of the many years.

[34:48] Technology got a transfer, 478,000.

[34:53] It's a reduction of almost 147,000 for prior years.

[34:59] Athletic funds transfer, seven for the general fund

[35:03] transfer 7,000 or 6,000, 3,000 bus care personnel. We reduced the fun transfer for basketball

[35:09] placement. We are not budgeting the volume less this year. The transport case for that,

[35:15] at least as we currently have, we do have at least one of these seven items this year. So that

[35:21] puts us in custody of the new bus in the following. And then the children's dental clinic of

[35:28] transfer of $30,000 prior to your transfers was zero.

[35:33] Recent transfers was zero due to any $5,000

[35:37] that we just kept rolling over.

[35:39] We did sell some of you cooking on there

[35:40] that helps support that as well.

[35:43] And those are the big things in our special funds.

[35:47] And again, any staffing cost-driven free cities

[35:50] would be the same as from the general fund

[35:52] and the same before,

[35:53] I was surprised who I'm referring to.

[35:56] It was about a few to five percent.

[36:01] Three of the questions.

[36:03] It's the only other,

[36:05] regarding the special revenue funds.

[36:09] One of the more confusing just because there's,

[36:12] so then the pockets of money.

[36:16] And it's also one of the ones I think that it's difficult

[36:21] because sometimes where there's reduction going on,

[36:24] Sometimes it's hard for people to understand like we're making all these school wide reductions yet why are we still doing this when that's not even like a main function in our school it's like well because we have a grant with one of these that's in its design especially for that.

[36:45] But, you know, also looking at this list, it's impressive to see if there's some vent, which is on the Phase 107, it kind of runs through all of them.

[36:55] Some of these, you know, some of the federal grants, some of the federal grants, there's some state grants that we just can't get, especially in here at that.

[37:02] But a lot of these aren't that way that it takes somebody to apply for it.

[37:08] but the vision through the work for it,

[37:11] through reporting on it,

[37:12] quarterly, monthly, annual, whatever that looks like,

[37:15] because it's made a lot of reporting

[37:16] with doing all of these.

[37:19] And so it worked to go, but to, you know,

[37:22] a lot of like that work that you all see,

[37:24] like this early, like the preschool promise is a little lie

[37:27] and some of these things that we have in this district

[37:30] that are great resources for families come

[37:33] because people have put out the work in time

[37:36] to apply to those grants.

[37:37] that pull in special revenue funds. And I know there's times where like we'll even ask

[37:42] to eat in these buttered cuts, we'll ask staff, people being on the staff, like pay,

[37:46] what are ideas that you have? Sometimes suggestions come in for things that sit in these buckets.

[37:52] Well, what if we were to cut this? So it fits like, well, but that's not part of the channel

[37:57] upon. So it doesn't, it doesn't help. But you know, that we've got a lot of great things in

[38:05] I mean, you know, like farm school, but any opportunity for our kitchen to be getting

[38:09] local produce such to be able to serve outside of local businesses and help out local,

[38:15] you know, just need opportunity for that stuff and back into our kitchen.

[38:21] We have that investment account. You work there, IDEA for special education and funding

[38:26] and

[38:29] woefully underfunded for what we need it to be,

[38:35] but huge support for us to be able to support

[38:38] our sweetest special needs.

[38:40] Hyal-1, early, you know, helps early literacy,

[38:43] early math, and technically it's geared more

[38:46] for, you know, communities for poverty

[38:48] because they say that then, you know,

[38:50] higher poverty tends to specifically show more need

[38:54] for leading remediation, things like that.

[38:57] So you have to have a school like Title I then, but we can add more literacy and math

[39:03] supports in the building. And, you know, a lot of great opportunities come through the grants,

[39:08] but I also some, yes, some of them we just get. But a lot of these people are out working to write

[39:14] them and get them and sustain them, keep them and that's a run key to kind of you to be adding with

[39:19] across the

[39:36] question. And then questions. Okay.

[39:43] We'll start to move on. A review of other funds.

[39:48] So the other funds I'm going to just kind of work together because there's still a lot of them on

[39:53] the 400 funds are a capital project funds. The two that are active right now on all of these are

[39:59] are our construction and excise tax projects.

[40:03] We get construction and excise tax from the city

[40:07] and that's based on new buildings

[40:12] or extension of the ad abroad or something like that.

[40:17] But the city is charging you the excise tax.

[40:19] We get some of that.

[40:22] And it sits in this fund and we use it as the unit.

[40:25] and then the capital plus fund, which is the name

[40:30] on that map uses generally here to link in

[40:33] that for those into the facilities.

[40:35] So if this project's around there,

[40:37] and for next year, we will be using

[40:42] some of that for inspecting excise tax,

[40:44] which helps offset lower fans value

[40:47] into our building values.

[40:49] So again, this budget for Mr. Bond was closely,

[40:54] and we were closer to doing that to make that happen.

[40:58] Because you know, it's much better than what they don't need.

[41:02] And then the 500 enterprise fund that is basically

[41:06] the pool, the hot topic these days.

[41:09] I mean, the many specials without people.

[41:13] So the pool budget does include an average increase

[41:16] in these at 13%.

[41:20] So we are raising those fees.

[41:21] We didn't raise them.

[41:22] This is, we've skipped a year raising them, so it's due to do that. And it also includes a $90,000

[41:30] transfer from the general fund into that, into the pool fund. And I understand that the city passed

[41:36] their budget percent, $5,000 to us, which is what is in our budget, and it's what we've done in the past.

[41:44] So we'll continue to work with the city, then the friends of the pool, and continuing

[41:51] on improving services and income, helping reduce expenses.

[41:59] There is a staffing change in the school budget and that is due to...

[42:05] We're going to revise our staffing structure for next year because we did have a retirement.

[42:11] So we're looking at that as well.

[42:15] And at this point, services as well.

[42:18] I mean the budget doesn't look at each service we provide at the full individually is overall.

[42:24] Here's the funding we have and would you all need services to funding,

[42:30] but we're not anticipating any major reductions in services at the full.

[42:36] And the other last kind of group of funds, both,

[42:40] is about our debt service funds with 300 funds.

[42:43] So we do have some debt that we talked about a little

[42:50] bit earlier.

[42:52] And then those funds are all held in another way.

[42:55] Right now, we have one general obligation bond,

[43:00] which was a bond we took to pay for a person.

[43:05] The Harrison construction and what's in the budget is basically the interest and principal payments that we know where they are because we get that schedule.

[43:15] And the QZAB bond is $133,000 we talked about earlier and then our current bond, which is the bonds that we have that help reduce our first rate.

[43:27] and the pianos on those were also on them.

[43:30] So all those are budgeted at them.

[43:35] And then the last group is our trust in me,

[43:37] the C-1s, the 7th and the 5th.

[43:39] We have one of the 7th and that bushinger in it's the,

[43:42] where we find 792, it's the building on the SBA camp.

[43:47] So our buildings have like sunshine, cloud,

[43:50] and staff at home, so our ASB accounts.

[43:53] And so those are accounted for in a separate fund and our ASP of notes.

[44:01] And that was part of the audit that we had for the hearing fund for our requested that we do that.

[44:09] The others refunds don't have a lot of activity in them, but they are budgeted to be a balanced, balanced fund.

[44:16] and we're going to explain what they asked me since once.

[44:22] Associated through the line.

[44:25] Thank you.

[44:31] Yeah, they asked me, shapes be fun

[44:33] from kind of interestingly from a district budget,

[44:36] because

[44:40] the baseball team brings in mine,

[44:46] which goes into their account,

[44:48] doing fundraising or whatever it's an example.

[44:50] And that's what they have to spend on some

[44:52] discretionary type items.

[44:54] We have to give them budgetary authority.

[45:00] But it's not like we're allocating money to ASB. We're just saying, you guys do have authority to spend money, but really it's only what they're bringing, what they have in their house. Kind of decided to speak to your own money. Yes. Well, it is. We're letting you spend the money. It is considered district money, so it does have to be accounted for in our books. And the non-ASB money, the other because they're in bank account,

[45:29] like accounts with our ID number, it's still kind of like our money, but it is, but it is. So that's

[45:35] what it has to be accounted for. They are financials.

[45:46] And in those three hundred is going back like

[45:48] the school lawns, the instruction lawns, and I don't have it up my head, but we're several years away,

[45:55] three years away from one of those reducing, not dropping off completely, but reducing a little bit,

[46:02] and Christina, going back to your question,

[46:04] one of the questions you asked about our ability

[46:07] to go out for future.

[46:10] That means when we do that in that three or so years,

[46:14] we need to have ourselves a reserve balance

[46:16] at that point.

[46:17] Yeah, when we're going out for if we were

[46:20] to ever go out and ask the voters to replace that piece.

[46:24] Obviously, that's not there yet,

[46:26] but we would then be fast-moving to make

[46:29] that we have reserves, and we can show the we're in good financial health and things like that

[46:33] that we're going to ask for voters and get that bomb ready. But I think that's a list of what

[46:39] three, three or four years, how, when, how we are timing would even make sense to ask.

[46:49] Really, that's fine.

[46:52] I can talk all night.

[46:54] Now this stuff here, this is actually more like 300 funds or

[47:02] Generally, a little more in the go-house of what's still your work song more so than me, but

[47:12] so that's the review of all the funds there.

[47:15] And if anybody has any questions on any of these, now that you find that,

[47:19] there's

[47:23] a little lot of things where people are, no questions, okay.

[47:31] So with that,

[47:32] But, the budget committee would like to ask the public if there's,

[47:39] in public.

[47:41] No.

[47:43] Anybody online?

[47:49] We have anybody online here.

[47:51] I want to sign a few.

[47:56] I don't have any signature.

[48:01] The questions that we didn't receive are the ones that we started.

[48:03] I'm going to be involved for that.

[48:06] Okay.

[48:07] For those other input, now we want to, there's time for a member input.

[48:12] Members of the lucky committee, they have anything to put.

[48:18] A lot of hard work.

[48:21] Thank you so much.

[48:22] One of the many things.

[48:24] The typical choice is being made.

[48:27] I made that.

[48:31] That's not answers.

[48:32] I think that's probably why there are questions now.

[48:33] And I would really appreciate the time that we've had.

[48:36] Thoughtful answers to the questions that help provide a lot of insight into how you guys made their decisions.

[48:42] And thank you.

[48:44] I think that's probably why there aren't questions now.

[48:48] Those were some of the roles.

[48:49] And I would really be.

[48:52] One as a new board member.

[48:54] And first time.

[48:55] like serving them from the venture community. I think what's most useful for me and for

[49:01] us is that just being kept abreast of it, up to date, aren't so that there wasn't any

[49:09] big surprises.

[49:14] I mean, it's a surprise, you know, I don't know. I particularly appreciate

[49:19] that now as we go through all of this detail that as cuts have been determined that you've made

[49:30] a great effort to protect the things that directly affect students, that that has been

[49:37] the first priority. And then I also really appreciate that somehow in this difficult year we are also

[49:44] of finding the space to build or reserve

[49:47] supposed to what they should be.

[49:49] That seems really responsive and correct approach.

[49:54] I admire it.

[49:55] Which I think became one of the difficult pieces

[49:59] and plans together.

[50:02] Because, yes, what I hope it to be more than two and a half,

[50:07] yeah, actually I was the original 10.

[50:09] I think some of all of these guys,

[50:11] they know when we've been running through these numbers,

[50:13] some of those first numbers were higher,

[50:15] but then as we started to look at,

[50:17] if you save an additional 500,000,

[50:19] that's 500,000 less we're spending on,

[50:23] which quite honestly was,

[50:25] that's people at that point,

[50:26] because we had cut every other dollar we could at that point.

[50:31] So now it's just, that would have meant more people

[50:34] and we get points where it was just like I,

[50:37] it's going to, I already feel like it's too deep,

[50:41] but it hit a point where it was way too deep and so we're like okay let's scale

[50:48] back the savings a little bit and let's not let's not go deeper than we need to on

[50:54] this knowing though that we have to keep doing like this we'd like to let the savings

[50:59] piece become non-goishful about these next few years we have to keep trying to

[51:02] sock away and build that back up to keeping things in balance as we move in the right

[51:10] direction. And I think always trying to keep you like scaling, you know, trying at this point

[51:18] to not eliminate something, because on the point you'll eliminate it, it's hard to then bring

[51:24] it back. But okay, how can we, somebody's program, how can we scale things, somebody's

[51:29] going to get down, or all these things, like you, to try and let's see if we can preserve it

[51:33] in hopes that if we can turn things around, or enrollment changes, or state funding changes,

[51:38] the next binding something that we can scale back up. Will some things need to be eliminated

[51:45] in the future? Maybe. But like our bottom like on this one too, it was like how do we scale down

[51:51] and not get rid of to be ready to adapt for, you know, because going into this year was actually

[52:00] simpler in regards to a second year of the same binding. There are some years and when we sit here

[52:07] next year, you never know at what point because the legislature always pulls

[52:12] education funding is like they're it's the it's what it used to make all the

[52:17] other deals and so we sit till the very end we don't even know how much we're

[52:22] gonna get when we're developing budget for next year so we'll be we'll be not

[52:29] only are there a ton of projections built into this next year will be even more

[52:36] about projection. You never know, maybe a month, but I've done this long enough and they

[52:40] always do it. So, but you know, I think we're in a spot to where we are watching things

[52:47] very closely. Like, do I think this is the best, this is the best budget. Where are we

[52:52] sitting right now? All next year though, we will be working on it. What can we do better?

[52:58] What do we have to adjust? And then when we sit here next year or two, I don't know.

[53:05] We'll

[53:05] the way that we'll be operating is from your voice.

[53:08] Even when this is signed and done, we're not done with it

[53:12] because it will be evolving and we can solve it.

[53:14] But I just hope that, well, I think we've

[53:16] already solved it in a spot where we can still work

[53:18] the adaptable, hopefully we're not doing any more.

[53:30] Siri, boring, boring, but Chris,

[53:34] yes, I think I want to really recognize

[53:38] the employees of the district that are so dedicated.

[53:45] And

[53:48] being a corporate guy and working

[53:51] in a bar-scale agriculture industrial capacity,

[53:59] I was just thinking what I was speaking

[54:02] and I thought, I bet your math saves us 100K a year.

[54:07] You think?

[54:08] You think?

[54:09] At a minimum.

[54:09] pediment, because I know the equipment, some of those brands,

[54:13] Google's self-distribute, of some of the controls that run these structures.

[54:21] And, you know, people like that, and I've known it for a long time.

[54:27] So, I, oh, the vastly sort of, he's a friend.

[54:31] But he's, he's like committed to finding out how we can, you know,

[54:40] save the money and he's successful, you know, and he's thinking about that stuff off the clock.

[54:51] And we have a lot of people in this industry who do that, who so worth less.

[54:57] Oh yeah, we had to contract Poucher, and I should say guys on this crew do too because

[55:06] man there's a bunch of them that are specialized in, you know, on HVAC, all that stuff, we had

[55:14] to contract all that out, free training, free training, yeah, and free training, they didn't

[55:22] falls. I mean, those guys, they, they do it. And the, it does. It saves a lot of the

[55:27] data now. The huge, yeah. And makes a response at two. You know, I'm a whole

[55:32] building. They're on it. There's not great for education. And they will come in

[55:38] at all hours to ensure that we can, you know, have a couple good foreign environment too.

[55:48] Anything else, Chris? All right. Anything else, Chris? No, no, I don't know what you're

[55:52] of it. But that's a good point because there's a lot of institutional knowledge that if we were

[55:58] happy to cut those staff people with those additional cuts that would be lost and let me be regained

[56:04] and they might have that knowledge that that could be, you know, better than that. And lots of

[56:10] talent. So I

[56:15] think the important thing is the thank you for all the work you did putting all this

[56:18] together is it was overwhelming when I when I got my book when I gave down and picked it up it's big

[56:24] and flood information. But I think the important big way is one, I think we all know we got the

[56:32] team to do it. People would experience in this kind of stuff, the history. It wasn't long ago

[56:39] that we sat here and then and learned about that. But this is happening all over the state. It

[56:43] just happened everywhere. This is not isolated to just look at the city. I mean, but yeah,

[56:48] there's not it's not isolated to South Main School just for me. It's happening all over. It's been

[56:52] happening for some time. I learned sitting on the floor here two, three years ago, looking in

[56:58] safe, looking at Albany, looking at what's happened. And here it is. It's my understanding,

[57:05] there's still dealing with stuff. So hopefully we get a guy down on the end of it and can recover

[57:12] just as quick as others do. It's sad to see positions cut. Today I delivered a piece of furniture to a

[57:21] I'll be careful, but I was able to go back to what Chris is saying with his dedicated staff.

[57:27] I know a lot of them in transportation that go above and beyond.

[57:31] But this was to a teacher who delivered a piece of furniture.

[57:33] And my my daughter was selling on marketplace.

[57:37] And this teacher has some changes coming.

[57:39] And my son and I delivered this piece of furniture.

[57:43] So that's probably a piece of furniture that they took my other pocket.

[57:46] to make that educational space a lot better than it was.

[57:54] Chris is right, there's dedicated group that hopefully we can see,

[57:59] we can recover and see those positions come battle.

[58:05] I think we've got to make team, all you got to do is open the paper,

[58:09] turn on the news, and you'll see that it's happening everywhere.

[58:15] Well,

[58:18] and then it's it's tough and times like this, to, to, to, to, I was trying to keep that positive work to, like, okay, just because you know plans that are bad doesn't mean we can't look to improve.

[58:34] And I mean, that's just still the mentality and what we're doing is even with fewer staff

[58:41] and the challenges and you know, parts go off the staff who have been let go and some

[58:46] who have had to transfer buildings because of it.

[58:48] I mean, it's like, it's a tough time, but it's like, okay, you know what, the kids of South

[58:54] Lane are here and they're going to keep coming and that's why we got into this and I'm glad

[59:01] they're going to keep coming. That's what we do. And we're going to keep continuing to use our

[59:06] absolute best to provide the best opportunities for them. Get prepared for life. Let them enjoy

[59:13] a little bit along the way. And then do all the pieces we can do to help them to success

[59:19] on life, which is why we got into this to start. I don't know why you did that.

[59:26] I think, I think, I love middle schoolers.

[59:30] I got a little bit of crazy in here.

[59:33] That's awesome.

[59:34] We talked about middle school years ago.

[59:36] There's a middle school here.

[59:38] Because this year we talked to a lot of time talking about.

[59:41] I've been paying attention to a computer of HTML.

[59:45] I think we, we align to ourselves.

[59:48] We all didn't agree that sometimes the tough times.

[59:51] We have a stronger outcome.

[59:53] and they'll get out, get out, come from tough times,

[59:56] tough times, make a strong one.

[59:58] So I'll open that.

[1:00:28] This is a lot of hope in this one. Yeah. Yeah.

[1:00:33] I've been paying attention and I just

[1:00:35] want to say thank you to everybody who's put all the hard work into this. I'm just echoing

[1:00:40] what everybody else has said. I know they're hard decisions and I know that the people who make

[1:00:45] these decisions have the children of South Lane school district at the center of what they're doing

[1:00:54] and I appreciate that and I'm glad it's not me that has to do it and I just want to say thank you

[1:01:03] all for all your hard work and I'm not sure where you saw me walk in today Dwayne nope the only place

[1:01:12] I went I mode curin and I went to territorial seed but I just want to thank you all for your

[1:01:27] hard work. Thank you. Yeah.

[1:01:35] There's no other member with input. We will move on to action, the budget

[1:01:42] for the action. So, um, that's here. We, um,

[1:01:51] have three things to do here. So, the first thing is,

[1:01:55] do you need a moment? Okay. We need it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think like I, I guess, well,

[1:02:01] If now would be the time of there's a motion to approve the proposed $2,620.7 budget

[1:02:09] appropriations.

[1:02:10] I move that we approve the proposed $2,620.7 budget appropriations as they're presented.

[1:02:17] They look first.

[1:02:18] From here and in a second.

[1:02:20] Okay.

[1:02:23] Thank you.

[1:02:25] So we have a first and a second and so all in favor, this will show a hand.

[1:02:32] than

[1:02:36] any of those.

[1:02:39] That's the top layer of this one.

[1:02:41] Okay, so now that's on that up.

[1:02:46] Suppose 2026, 2027 budget appropriations approved unanimously.

[1:02:52] So now would be the time we're looking for.

[1:02:55] A motion to approve the 2026, 2027 permanent problem patch rate.

[1:03:04] We have that year, everybody have that resolution 26.

[1:03:18] Would anybody like to make a motion to prove that grade?

[1:03:22] That's the permanent evaporator for $4.75 cents and change per thousand.

[1:03:31] Yep.

[1:03:32] I'll move to approve the infosition of the 26th, 27th permanent property tax rate subject to the limitation of measure five.

[1:03:40] I mean, now $4, $7, $53,000 for $2,000 of SESCIE for operation for consumers in the

[1:03:48] go.

[1:03:50] This is very first.

[1:03:52] Well, exactly.

[1:03:55] We have a second.

[1:03:57] Diane.

[1:04:00] All in favor of proving the 2026 to Trump and 2027 permanent problem in tax rates.

[1:04:06] to show a hands for the drive.

[1:04:12] And any opposed?

[1:04:16] So the budget committee will approve the 2026, 2027

[1:04:20] for the property tax rate, the announced.

[1:04:25] And now be the time for

[1:04:30] what you mean is looking for someone to make a motion to approve the

[1:04:35] 20...

[1:04:35] One of the clicks that property tax will have to be for the federal

[1:04:48] I move that we approved the imposition on the 2026, 2027 property tax levy for general obligation on a debt in the amount of $3 million, $470,000, which is excluded from the limitation of measure.

[1:05:14] Okay,

[1:05:19] we have a first and a second and we're looking for all in favor of approving the

[1:05:31] the position of 2026 to 2026.

[1:05:33] The property tax lady for general litigation brought it

[1:05:35] there and any of those none.

[1:05:41] So the budget committee has approved the position

[1:05:43] of the 2026, 2027 property tax lady for general litigation

[1:05:47] brought it was there and they're not

[1:05:48] afraid of going for $77,000.

[1:05:52] That's not the end of that.

[1:05:53] Look at that, that's not the end of that.

[1:05:57] And I was here now as well.

[1:05:59] Oh, yeah, easy to do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, is everybody ready to go?

[1:06:18] Nothing else?

[1:06:20] He's a good job.

[1:06:21] He needs a jerk.

[1:06:22] And he used to do it.

[1:06:22] And I...

[1:06:23] I'm a little...

[1:06:35] I'm a little...

[1:06:36] I'm a little...

[1:06:37] I'm a little...

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