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All right. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to April 8th meeting of the North Port. I don't

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want to look as well. North Port, East North Port. Port of Education meeting. Thank you

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for coming to our meeting, whether you're live or in virtual.

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First thing, of course, is our

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virtual that's Trustee Lakopli and Trustee Lachorin. They are in virtual length. The emergency

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exits are behind you and behind me. And looks like there's no minutes, but we do have our

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accomplishments of staff and students. I'm going to turn it over to the superintendent.

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Thank you, President of the days and good evening, everybody. Welcome and thank you for taking

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time to come out tonight or who are watching online. Thank you for taking the time to participate virtually.

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I just want to go and introduce the student of the month for physical education

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and help them just a second. And again this is something that the Northport Rotary sponsors for

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students every year and I really want to thank the Rotary for their continued support of the district

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and particularly of our students and you know obviously everybody's been

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impacted by COVID and you know the arrangement and usually there's a lunch

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and there's a presentation and they had an opportunity to ask questions of

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Hunter and Hannah and it was just a really nice, it was just a great gathering

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yesterday and I'm really excited for you to learn more about them tonight and Mr.

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Dan Twano was here to do that but you know the Rotary is a very service-oriented

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organization and as you may know and yesterday they were talking about a new

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opportunity for Rotary members to get involved to help deliver meals to you know

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to veterans who are struggling, and during the meeting they were going around the room

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asking to volunteer, and I was sitting at the table where Hunter and Hanna were, and

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they kind of looked at each other because we come to find out that they're friends, and

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they said, you want to do it, and they said, yeah, so as they were going around the room,

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and they said, all right, who wants to take a month to deliver meals, they raised their

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hand. So it just is really, you know, it was a proud moment for me. Their parents were there

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and it just speaks to the, you know, the kind of people that they are that, you know,

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here they are, they're in a group in a room full of adults to honor them, but yet here they are,

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they're already finding a way to give back and I just found that to be extraordinary. So

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without further ado, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Dan Plano.

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Good

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evening, I'd like to thank the Board of Education President of the Daines and all

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the Board of Education trustees along with Superintendent Banser to have this opportunity

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to honor these wonderful and amazing student athletes.

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And in the next few minutes we'll have an opportunity to actually visualize all their wonderful

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accomplishments.

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But before we do that, I just want to mention we have Hunter Warner Shelley, Howard Health

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and sports and medicine, the student of the month,

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and Hannah Moraski is our physical education student of the month,

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and they're here this evening, and we're going to start the evening off

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with honoring and watching a beautiful video for Hannah Moraski.

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It is with great honor that we present Hannah Moraski

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as Rotary's student of the month for physical education.

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Hannah's like having another teacher in the classroom.

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She's an extension of our teachers.

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She's positive, she's energetic, she's always willing to help any student in need.

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Well, as a physical education student, Hannah is a very motivated student.

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She's a very helpful student, she's very willing to help her peers.

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Anytime, you know, we're looking to move teams or we have to do something that

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somebody else might not want to do, she's willing to help.

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In addition to her great contributions and physical education,

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She's a very dedicated student athlete. Hanna recently was captain of our

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Coley Championship Girls Basketball team, but this was a very unique and

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challenging season. Playing basketball throughout the pandemic and Hanna was

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the glue that kept these kids together and kept them moving forward.

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Winning this award has been truly an honor. I've been playing sports since I was

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able to walk and being able to have this award truly shows that my hard work

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test paid off. And Northport High School and their athletic department has

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always been like a family to me. Hannah was the captain of this year's team.

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Three-year starter on the three-year player on the team. The most important thing

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about her though is just what's brought to our team. As a senior girls are allowed

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to like their own captain and the unanimous choice.

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It respected they

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show from her and then the respect that I showed her is also hard to meet is amazing.

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What stands out about Hannah is her attitude and it's just a positive attitude.

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She takes the same attitude from athletics and rolls it over to Fizzid in terms of her

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drive and her willingness to you know to do what needs to be done basically.

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a great kid always does what she has to do responsible beyond believe just a great

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young lady.

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My teacher, Mr. Cordo, is one of my really close teachers and he always

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tries to make sure every kid is always involved and feels comfortable in gym

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class. Playing volleyball is probably one of the best activities we do in gym

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because everybody gets to play and be a part of a new sport, even if they don't play volleyball.

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And I'm planning to study biomedical sciences on the pre-med track.

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I've always wanted to help people. It's always been one of the things I wanted to do.

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Once again, Hannah, congratulations.

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I'd like to have Hannah, come on up, and receive a certificate from Board of Education, President Mr. Bidings, and Mr. Bidings.

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next is with great honor that we watch the video presentation speech during Hunter Gwana Shelly, our Rotary Student of the Month for Health and Sports Medicine.

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It's an honor that we're presenting the Rotary Student of the Month for Health and Sports Medicine to Hunter Gwana Shelly.

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Hunter is a very dedicated and active student in Mrs. Gwana Sports Medicine's classes.

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What separates Hunter from his peers was the topic that he decided to pursue for his

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IB extended essay.

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And that was sports specialization and the impact it has on student athletes both physically

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and mentally.

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And I think what was unique about him his sophomore or his junior year was that he was involved

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with the CPR AED Awareness program that I do here.

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Last year we decided to expand it to the fifth grade and so I took a group of students

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down to the 5th grade. His end-classes and we taught them hands-on in CPR and AED.

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And Hunter was one of the first ones to volunteer to go. And not only was he phenomenal,

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but you know just watching him work with the kids, they responded to him well.

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He was articulate, he was patient, and just his energy was contagious.

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I'm very excited to see this award because I have done a lot of work in the health department,

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especially mental health.

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It's been a very big factor in my life and that's why I wrote about it in my extended essay.

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As an athlete myself, mental health is very important and a lot of the time it kind of

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just gets shoved under the carpet and, you know, you're not really allowed to show your

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emotional side in sports, so to finally be able to talk about this in an essay and to go

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through it and help and really experience it and learn, it was really like an outlet to

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my voice out there and talk about the factors besides physical injuries

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that happen to athletes. From the very first moment that he walked into

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class he just had a personality that was larger than life. Hello, very nice,

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very kind, very sweet. I'm sure there was a huge smile underneath the mask and it

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was just nice to have that kind of personality walk into your classroom on the

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first day and just be ready to learn. He's an added soccer player

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very committed and just being able to take the knowledge that he learned in

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IB in sports science and being able to relate it to his own you know abilities

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and his own fears and you know goals for the future was just inspiring and I

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just think that he's been able to take the concepts that he's learned in sports

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medicine related to the real world and now he's using that to excel and to you

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know take a look at what he wants to do in the future.

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I plan on going into pre-med biology in college on a course to study anesthesiology to become

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an anesthesiologist and that's really where my goal is right now because I want to work

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in a medical field really bad.

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I've always wanted to help people and you know going back to health, I've always wanted

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to be in the health sciences, in the health field.

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So being a doctor is one of my largest goals.

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Once again, we congratulate Hunter on this exceptional honor.

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Please congratulate him to once again.

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Again, congratulations to Hunter and Hannah,

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and we were talking yesterday.

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They both aspired to the doctors in the medical field

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and Hunter, as he said,

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wants to be an anesthesiologist,

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and Hannah had talked about wanting to be an orthopedic surgeon,

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so they could potentially work together someday.

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But again, congratulations to both of you.

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I haven't been able to get a motion to.

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I'm good.

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I'd like to make a motion to reorder the agenda.

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I need a second.

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Go ahead.

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So moving 10 and 11 at last seven.

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Any discussion?

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Any discussion from Trustee Lawsman and Trustee Lakopi?

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No.

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The

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proposal is a favor of moving.

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I have a 10 and I have a 11.

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I had a set of all those of them.

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I was hoping I didn't hear it.

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Are you voting the A or A on moving 10 and 11?

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Item 7.

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Yes.

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Trustee Larkin?

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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You're going to have a separate of the 10.

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I need a motion, please.

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Vice President?

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in? Yeah. I'm moving all of them. I'll second that.

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First, we have it's a par.

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First thing I'd like to say is we have a few people required. Yes.

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So we have a

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Ruth Quinn who's been a teacher area for 19 years and nine months who's retrying as

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Thank you, 30 years. We have to read that. Oh boy. That's the only thing we can actually work on.

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So, we have 10.03, so we have a amendment of resolution action 10.06 school closure advisory

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test for adopted at the January 21, 2021 public meeting of the Board of Education, whereas

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at the public meeting of the Board of Education held on January 21, 2021, the Board of Education

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adopted a resolution appointing a school closure advisory test for and whereas the resolution

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also set forth at the School Closure Advisory Test Board, which file an educational impact statement

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with the Board of Education on a report April 8, 2021, and whereas the Board of Education desires

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to amend the resolution regarding the School Closure Advisory Test Board that was adopted at the

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January 21, 2021, public meeting of the Board of Education for the purpose of extending the time

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by which the school closure advisory test was must file the educational impact statement

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with the Board of Education from April 8, 2021 to April 13, 2021. Now, therefore, be resolved

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as the resolution regarding the school closure advisory test was that was adopted at the January

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20th public meeting of the Board of Education is amended to the extent to the extent that the

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educational impact payment shall be filed with the Board of Education on

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April 13, 2021. So that is also part of the 10th. Thank you, Beth, for your

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relevant work. Any other comments?

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Here, I know those will favor. Trustee

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Loss here, and Trustee Locopli? Aye. Thank you very much, Beth.

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As unanimously, I need a motion for item 11.

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I'll make the motion to move all of the 11.

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Thank you all second.

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Oh, there you are.

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Mr. Howard on

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the transfer of funds, I think it's 11.25,

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oh no I'm sorry it's 11.24.

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So there seems to be a transfer of funds for the consultant of the operation and maintenance

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of the plan.

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It looks like there was a transfer of $40,800.

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Can you explain that, please?

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Those are for fees for environmental services.

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We budget for them the general funds

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and the expenses come out of the BoC's code.

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Superiority will transfer funds from the general funds

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into the BoC's code to cover the expenses.

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I understand that, but I'm saying we budgeted $7K

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but we only spent 40, I'm not glad we spent less

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but just why did we spend less?

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It's real continued to draw down comments.

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So this is, as needed, so in every time we do sampling, testing, things like that, it

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comes out of, this is for like, you know, broader or various other environmental testing

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agencies when we do our water testing, any sort of testings we require to do.

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So, we're not done with the year just yet, so we have any specialist testing, if we want

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to drill into a wall, we'll be contracting and the costs come out of both of these and

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we transfer funds into both of these to cover.

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Thank you.

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All those in favor of 11.

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Trustee Lachner and Trustee Locopli?

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Aye.

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Aye.

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As you know, I believe that brings us back to item 7.

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Mr. President, before you move to 7, I would like to take a moment to have Mr. Vapin and

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Dr. Vapin.

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I'll just give an update about the Tuesdays.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Just an update on the task force meeting on Tuesday.

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As always, we began the meeting with reviewing questions and feedback that are given each

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week anonymously from the task force.

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We also reviewed the educational impact statement and the components of that and what the

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task force has been seeing on a regular basis for some meeting minutes and the presentations

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that will be included in there along with the background and overview and that will the final

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will be coming out shortly for them to see. We also have presentation and we're asking the

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task force asked for Mr. Howard to return to explain a little bit more about the budget and about

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the savings that he did along with explaining about transportation and the three buildings WJV

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Dickinson and Delrose explaining about those buildings and the possible uses of the

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buildings should there be a closure.

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The task force also requested that we have the middle school, first of all prior to

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the meeting, we get two tours.

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We get a tour of Northport Middle School and each Northport Middle School, where the task

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great questions would be along with some of the other shared spaces like the music and

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technology and lunchrooms and things like that.

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They also had some other questions for the printables and one of the things that they really

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wanted to know more about, which they are continuing to plan, is the arrival and dismissal for

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this greater making sure that we plan that carefully.

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There was also time for the breakout sessions and for, again, those questions and answers

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for Mr. Howard and his two principals of the middle school.

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And then in terms of next steps, first I should say thank you to the board for agreeing

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to allow us some a little bit of extra time with the committee.

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So we plan to meet on Monday night or 12th with the committee for an additional meeting

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than what was previously scheduled to look at the finalized version of the educational impact

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statement. The draft of the impact statement has been posted to the website fairly recently,

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within the last say two hours, I would say. So it is out there for folks to kind of take a look at

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and get a good sense of the work that's been done by this committee. The committee is a group of,

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you know, 24 people and they work very hard six two-hour meetings with a lot of communication

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back and forth between the meetings.

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So we are deeply grateful to all the folks on the committee for their work, their time,

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their energy, especially during a challenging time.

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Some of our meetings for face-to-face, not as many as we had hoped and many of our meetings

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are through Zoom.

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So we want to thank them.

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So our next steps we're going to meet with the committee on Monday night to review the finalized

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version of the educational impact statement and we hope to present that statement, as you just mentioned, in your motion to the Board of Education on Tuesday, April 13th.

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Thank you. So thank you Dr. Bosnack and Mr. Blachem. Again, just to reiterate, the EIS,

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the draft EIS has been posted to the website. There's a meeting on the 12th of the committee,

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and there's an opportunity for anybody to watch that meeting, and then there'll be a subsequent

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meeting of Board of Education on April 13th to receive an education management statement.

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And then on April 27th, there will be a hearing regarding the school closure and the reorganization

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plan.

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And then on April 29th, there is a vote regarding that process.

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Thank you.

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Question?

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I think we just comment.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Oh, thank you.

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I was able to watch Tuesday night meeting.

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It was long.

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So thank you all for you guys, your hard work and your volunteer hearing.

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So definitely didn't end it none.

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Definitely went on, but I appreciate all the feedback

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and collaboration that was happening there.

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I just have two questions.

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I know that you guys had the opportunity

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to some parents to tour or committee members

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to tour the middle schools, going forward

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and I'm sure you're probably going to be tackling this.

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But do we have a sense of where we're placing?

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I believe we've seen a bit of a mess.

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We're fifth graders, we're thinking you're going to be

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Is there something concrete in that area like a floor plan that's available?

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Yes, I can respond to that.

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So at one of the meetings, the principals did present with a floor plan of their buildings,

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of where the fiscal, the plans for the fifth grade classrooms would be.

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And the goal was really to insulate those fifth graders as much as possible,

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yet, you know, welcome them to the building.

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So those diagrams are actually part of the presentation

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that also are posted on the website.

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But people did ask about some of the folks on the committee

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who came to do the tours, had the maps with them

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as they toured around the building to kind of get a sense of

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where they were in the building at that time.

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And just to lastly, I wanted to follow up on the modules

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or it's like waiting for some feedback, right,

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on the age, you know, where and share them,

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and how we're going to be using them,

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if we are using them.

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Yes, I will be reporting that tomorrow

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with some information from the architect.

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Okay, great.

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Well, thanks.

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Thanks for that.

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So, I'll bring it back

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to you.

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Yes, we're, we're, yeah.

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So we know that before we get into the public comment

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regarding the budget proposal and the committee of the hall and wanted to just take some time and

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just talk through the budget. And I know I found a little bit like a broken record, but I think it's

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really important for everybody just to understand that, you know, what grounds us in our decision-making

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is the mission, the vision, and the core beliefs, and particularly that first core belief that our

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students are first priority to move through this process.

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You know, we're going to talk about a lot of numbers and plans and, you know, funding

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levels but, again, that all translates back to, you know, making sure that we have

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a high quality program for our students and our community.

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Again, we've been working through the budget process.

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We started back in January.

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We are now in April and time certainly applies.

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after this meeting, after the budget is adopted,

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there'll be a hearing on the finalized budget,

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and then on May 18th, there'll be a budget vote.

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So I just want to take a minute,

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and as I've been reflecting on the last five meetings

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or so, and really, as we talk about planning,

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what goes into this budget, and at the core of this,

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as I said in terms of our Mr. Statement,

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It is really to maintain the diversity and excellence of our educational program, for our students,

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for our staff.

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You know, we pride ourselves on having a robust and diverse opportunity for our students.

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And that is at the core of this whole budgeting process.

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But what's involved?

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What are the considerations that are part of this process?

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Well, certainly, we know, and I'll show a side, you know, all these things you'll see

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here, we're going to talk in more detail and go through the presentation, but we know

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that we're facing an enrollment decline. And since over the last 10 years, our enrollment

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has declined by 25 percent, that's over 1,600 students. So that's one thing that we've been

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dealing with. Another thing that we've been dealing with, obviously, is the life of

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and we know that that is here and so that is factored into this equation as well.

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We know that we're talking very earnestly about our reorganization program and enhancements to our program as well.

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We know that for years we've been dealing with a tax-loving limit and that is still part of our reality.

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We know that, you know, we're in the middle of the pandemic, right?

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Or I'm not sure if we're in the middle of the beginning of the end.

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I'm not quite sure, but we're in it.

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Hopefully, I think, we're moving towards somewhere towards the end of it.

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We know that we have to continue to consider our buildings and our grounds and our maintenance

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and our capital needs.

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We also know that we have to continue to have stable use of our fund balance.

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We know that we received, I'm going to say, unprecedented state aid, not only did we,

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but just in the last late Tuesday nights, really Wednesday morning, we woke up and started to

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to really analyze what the new state age numbers meant.

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And I know that there was information reported in the news day. And, you know, what's the translation of that? And then, you know, our mandated cost increases, you know, there are, there are continuing costs that are, are right, you know, certainly are benefits teacher timing system, you know, employee retirement system, healthcare, those things are factors that we all have to consider.

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But we do those things, and I bring it back to the middle again, is that we're working

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to build a program and a budget that supports our desire to maintain a diverse and robust

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program for our students.

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So again, all of these things are going to be and have been discussed, but we're going

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to be bringing them up again tonight.

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Again, just to keep considerations, I know it's worth considering again, but in this budget

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It supports permission and vision of the district.

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We maintain all of our instructional programs

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and related opportunities for students.

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And what does that mean?

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All of our co-curricular or extracurricular or athletics,

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all of our programming remains intact for this budget.

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It includes a commitment to social emotional learning

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and instructional enhancements and transitions

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for our students from building the building

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and grade level to grade level.

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It maintains our commitment to low-class size, particularly at the elementary level.

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It factors in the district reorganization, which is strategically aligned with a retirement

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incentive to minimize excessing of staff and includes contingency funding for potential

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pandemic response.

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As I said, you know, we've been moving through this, if we compare where we were a year ago,

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we were all at home a year ago.

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and, you know, the whole budget process got pushed into June.

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So we've made projects.

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But where are we going to be, you know, in the next, you know, four to six to eight months?

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And we also know that we have capital, capital project needs.

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And we talked a lot in the past about who?

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So this budget accounts for all of those things.

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Again, I had shown this slide, I think, at the last meeting

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and we are looking at, from this year to next year,

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a reduction of about 175 students across the district.

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And Mr. Howard, if you go to the next slide,

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some of the trustees had asked about our enrollment history.

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And so I just wanted to enumerate that,

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if we go back to 2011, 2012,

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we have reduced the number of students

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by 1,600 students, and that is a 25% reduction over 10 years.

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So again, this plan, you know, there was a significant reduction in staffing and we went through

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the budget process. We are looking at a reduction of over 34 staff and instructional level

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to administrative staff members and support staff of about 25 positions. And again, if you

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over to the right to kind of equalize these, you know, you're talking somewhere between, you know,

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So five and a half to six percent of each of those units,

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whether reduction of over six percent of our staff,

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again, as we have been planning

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the reorganization of the district.

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So our budget progression, when we started this,

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we presented a roll over budget.

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So we basically took the budget and said,

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okay, we're just gonna take everything

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And, you know, the budget to budget increase as a rollover was a little bit over 4 percent of 179.7 million.

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And since we've been working through this process, we have, you know, shown a reduction of over $6.8 million.

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dollars and you know the budget to budget increase if we didn't have the COVID contingency

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and we didn't plan for some capital projects like you know necessary projects like

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loose the budget would have been 172.8 million dollars which is just a you know almost zero

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but less than 1% but again as we talk about contingency plans and or an opportunity to start

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to work on the next phase of our capital projects because you know you know I know talk to people

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and we talked about the you know the $39 million bond issue that we had and we made great

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improvements with that. But even when we passed that bond, we knew that we weren't tackling

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the entire $80 million of the projects that were there. And we know that we have to continue

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to maintain our buildings. And so that 1.857 million is one, gives us an opportunity to,

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you know,

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such that we need to make some adjustments to the plan that we're presenting. Going forward

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through the 2021-22 school year, but it also gives us an option to start to plan to make

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some capital improvements.

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And again, this is just another depiction. We started out at the

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roll over, we indicated a budget of $176 million and that had to do with just the retirement

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incentive and that's if we replaced everybody and we have landed at a place of $174 million,

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$104,748, which is a 1.13% budget to budget increase.

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And again, you can see that it includes, you know, savings from retirement, not replacing

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certain positions, you know, due to efficiencies, but also, you know, as a result of the reorganization

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plan and also accounts for pandemic contingencies.

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So, again, as we talk about, you know, we've seen

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some significant reductions, if you look at the salary line, you know, that's not a typical salary line

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that you see in a typical budget year, usually that number is, you know, certainly an increase.

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But again, due to the planning that you've been involved in, we have seen a reduction,

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but I do want to point out that we have seen a significant increase, a $1.89 million increase in employee benefits,

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as well as $1.9 million in a fund transfer,

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and that's where when we talk about the pandemic contingency

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or the money for the rules,

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and I know what happens, that's where that money is.

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So those are two significant increases

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as we look at the budget lines on a very high level.

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So I'm going to, we want to talk a little bit about the revenue

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side of where is the money coming from to pay

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for this proposed budget, and at this time, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Owl.

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Thank you, Mr. Vanger.

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So on this slide, we're just bringing us back to last budget meeting where our revenues

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are March 25th, and just showing the proposals, and just highlighting the significant changes

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from March 25th to April 8th.

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So on the March 25th tax levy, the levy increases 1.31%, just shy of $2 million.

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dollars. And the state aid numbers were based off of the executive proposal, fully recognizing

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the executive proposal, and that was an increase of just shy of 1% $157,000. And the total was

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equal to the revenues were equal to the budget, and there was 174,704,748 in total revenues.

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Now the change to April 8 was significant in that the state aid numbers were in a, we can argue

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state is pretty historic. The amount of state aid increases at typically aren't two districts,

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they're not of high need. So we applied at the superintendent's direction the full increase

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of the state aid and we'll discuss that further in the next slide and that number is an increase

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in total from budget to budget of 986,237 which is a 6.19% increase in state aid from budget to budget.

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the tax level was reduced by the exact amount of the increase to a .75% budget to budget increase.

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So on the stage slide, this is where the most significant change happened.

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And it really happened yesterday, the information being unpackaged.

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We were not aware of any of these significance of this.

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This aid you knew that there was discussion about the state

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desiring to raise more revenues via taxes

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and utilize some of the federal stimulus to push forward

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some programs that were in the state's priority list.

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And typically when that happens for education,

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the funding is usually directed to districts of need

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in a greater level.

455
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,120
So we were aware that there was a push for additional funds,

456
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,340
but we were not aware of the significance

457
00:39:50,340 --> 00:39:52,980
or the amount that Northport would be receiving.

458
00:39:52,980 --> 00:40:00,980
So in this case the state increased the foundation aid for the district from in their proposal

459
00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:09,980
964,488 from year over year and just want to emphasize the significance of it is that foundation aid is probably

460
00:40:09,980 --> 00:40:17,300
the best aid to get an increase in. It's a reoccurring aid. It's not an expense driven aid. So a lot of our eighth categories

461
00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:21,000
who spend money get a percentage of the back. So if you don't spend as much, you don't get as much spending back

462
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,920
and that's the very variable.

463
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,540
Foundation 8 is really a base that grows off of each year

464
00:40:26,540 --> 00:40:29,660
with the exception of after the financial crisis of 2008.

465
00:40:30,220 --> 00:40:32,680
There was a gap elimination which cut all districts

466
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,340
across the state to cover the state gap.

467
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,060
So with the exception of financial crises,

468
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:39,860
the foundation 8 is something that grows

469
00:40:40,270 --> 00:40:42,040
and it's very significant for school districts

470
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:43,240
because it's reoccurred.

471
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:47,780
That number went up from the state proposal 10.72%.

472
00:40:47,780 --> 00:40:49,320
Furthermore, in the legislation,

473
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:56,720
They have a three-year commitment to fully fund foundation aid, which would be a multi-million dollar increase the next two years after this.

474
00:40:57,460 --> 00:40:59,860
So in the legislation, there is a commitment to do it.

475
00:41:00,260 --> 00:41:04,460
I just want to re-emphasize that a commitment is not definitive until the money is received.

476
00:41:04,740 --> 00:41:10,160
So the state has made changes to two financial conditions in the past and have made changes to commitments.

477
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:15,760
But there is in the law a commitment to fully fund within the next two budget years.

478
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,740
This is year one, and then there'll be, it's actually a third year, so this is year one

479
00:41:19,740 --> 00:41:22,320
we're in, and then two years subsequent that will be fully funded.

480
00:41:23,060 --> 00:41:28,800
In addition to that, another very notable change is the UPK, which is the Universal Pre-Kindergarten

481
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:29,180
Program.

482
00:41:30,140 --> 00:41:34,400
And the district received $69,000 in the past, and that was a fixed number.

483
00:41:35,060 --> 00:41:37,100
It did not change based on the need of students.

484
00:41:37,220 --> 00:41:39,620
It didn't change due inflation and cost program increases.

485
00:41:39,860 --> 00:41:44,320
Every year, we were able to, we had to reduce the amount of students that could participate

486
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,820
in our half-day pre-paid program because the funding remained constant, but the provider's

487
00:41:48,820 --> 00:41:53,520
costs were increasing. As a result, we had to increase the cost for pupil and we had

488
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:59,000
to reduce the amount of students that can purchase and participate. The state allocated additional

489
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:04,100
funds, but they did as they doubled the half-day allocation as if it was a full-day allocation

490
00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:09,300
numerically, and then they applied a rate of all the assumed four-year-olds that were not

491
00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:15,340
receiving universal pre-tech. So in a sense that there are almost or theoretically fully funding

492
00:42:16,020 --> 00:42:21,400
every single student that we have potentially to be able to participate in universal pre-tech.

493
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:26,500
So that is a significant change, but I wanted to note is that this is not a general fund

494
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:30,960
revenue. The state is reporting this on our runs and sharing it with the public as a general

495
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:37,100
fund revenue. This is a special aid fund revenue and it is an expense and revenue neutral

496
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:43,140
categories. So every dollar we get is has to be spent. So it's spent on universal

497
00:42:43,140 --> 00:42:48,280
pre-k purposes. So we cannot use the 600,000 dollars to cover budget deficits to

498
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:52,440
reduce the tax level. These are used specifically for pre-kindergarten purposes.

499
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:57,940
So it's a little misleading that shows up in our 17.56 million. So as you see on

500
00:42:57,940 --> 00:43:04,020
the bottom it shows the 17.56 million and it shows the 15.3 million in the

501
00:43:04,020 --> 00:43:06,600
in prior year for an increase of $2.2 million.

502
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,200
I stated this before at a previous meeting

503
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,340
is that that difference is not actually accurate

504
00:43:12,340 --> 00:43:13,960
to the difference in what we budget.

505
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,200
So the state told us last year that we were gonna get

506
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,060
$60 million, just over $60 million

507
00:43:19,060 --> 00:43:20,760
when we were in our budget planning process

508
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:21,860
at this point in year.

509
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,280
We budgeted at the very bottom, $15.9 million.

510
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,200
We actually reduced the budget

511
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,320
and not insisting all the money to be received.

512
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,420
The state is actually paying us closer

513
00:43:32,420 --> 00:43:37,560
to the 15.2 number. So we are actually not receiving all the money we budgeted. So there

514
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:41,420
is a number that's showing an increase of what the state is saying is going to give

515
00:43:41,420 --> 00:43:46,320
us more than this current year, but what we actually budgeted is approximately just

516
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:52,760
shy of $60 million. So we can increase our budget by $986,000 and that's fully realizing

517
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:57,700
what the state is telling us that we will get. That's a 6.2% increase. It's still very significant.

518
00:43:57,700 --> 00:44:02,160
What that is, including, and not including, is not including universal pre-K money.

519
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:07,440
Those money are excluded from the general fund aid categories, and furthermore,

520
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:12,460
there are two federal aid packages that the district is eligible for.

521
00:44:12,740 --> 00:44:15,300
In total, it is approximately $1.8 million.

522
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,240
The two aid categories have different expiration dates.

523
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,540
One is September of 2023.

524
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,120
The other is September of 2024.

525
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:30,140
more. Both of them have restrictions and provisions in them. One of them has more language to

526
00:44:30,140 --> 00:44:35,780
allow for supplanting of resources. The other one has more language requiring supplement

527
00:44:35,780 --> 00:44:39,980
of resources. And just give a little background of what supplementing and supplanting is from

528
00:44:39,980 --> 00:44:46,560
a school district financing perspective, is that supplanting of resources is where you can

529
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:52,800
use existing expenditures of the district and you see funds or federal funds to pay for

530
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:53,900
or existing expenditures.

531
00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:57,440
So that would reduce impact on the taxpayers in the burden.

532
00:44:58,380 --> 00:44:59,980
So supplementing is-

533
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:28,480
As you cannot use existing expenditures that you have, you have to create a new expense that you did not have before, with usually specific purposes attached to them. And they're funding to support those new purchases purposes. So in this case, there's specific language that school districts must use the funds at a minimum threshold in order to cover gaps that were created due to disruptions in education, due to the pandemic. And it requires the district to spend money in a certain speed,

534
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,960
or you can't spend more than 60% of it in one fiscal year,

535
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,820
and if it's spending, I believe it's just over 16%

536
00:45:34,820 --> 00:45:35,900
at a minimum each year.

537
00:45:36,140 --> 00:45:38,340
So there are rules and restrictions to the money,

538
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,100
and they are not to be extended as a general fund.

539
00:45:41,220 --> 00:45:43,860
These are also special aid fund revenues,

540
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,520
and the expenses will also come as a special aid fund.

541
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,100
So they do not factor in to the general fund budget,

542
00:45:49,340 --> 00:45:51,520
and these will not be money to be received

543
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:52,780
to offset any sort of taxes

544
00:45:52,780 --> 00:45:54,380
or any sort of fund bounce realization.

545
00:45:54,460 --> 00:45:56,700
These are separate apart from the general fund.

546
00:45:59,490 --> 00:46:06,170
So just recapping from our fund balance conversation from last meeting is that in the last two

547
00:46:06,170 --> 00:46:09,970
columns on the far right to bring attention to that is our fund balance projection is

548
00:46:09,970 --> 00:46:11,110
remaining constant.

549
00:46:11,730 --> 00:46:17,350
And some questions came up after the meeting of more specifically of, you know, where did

550
00:46:17,350 --> 00:46:20,990
the LIFA money come from and then just want to, where did the LIFA money go and just want

551
00:46:20,990 --> 00:46:26,890
to illustrate, you know, visually where the LIFA money came for the first year of the LIFA

552
00:46:26,890 --> 00:46:27,790
settlement payment.

553
00:46:27,790 --> 00:46:37,290
So, in the 2020-21 school year for you currently, and we already received, as of March, a $2.5 million payment from LIBA.

554
00:46:38,010 --> 00:46:43,750
That payment is being recognized in the miscellaneous revenue category, and that was not budgeted for.

555
00:46:44,150 --> 00:46:50,930
So, that's $2.3 million is what was budgeted, and our actuals are going to be higher than what was budgeted.

556
00:46:50,930 --> 00:46:52,370
so it's an unanticipated revenue,

557
00:46:52,870 --> 00:46:54,890
which has a positive effect on the school district,

558
00:46:55,290 --> 00:46:57,130
because the assigned fund balance,

559
00:46:57,350 --> 00:47:00,410
the error that's above it to sell is higher,

560
00:47:01,110 --> 00:47:02,670
that was how much we were gonna use

561
00:47:03,020 --> 00:47:05,770
of our fund balance to cover the shortfall

562
00:47:05,770 --> 00:47:07,350
and deficit within the school budget.

563
00:47:07,810 --> 00:47:09,710
So because we've had a $2.5 million

564
00:47:10,530 --> 00:47:13,350
unanticipated revenue, the need or the amount

565
00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:15,690
of fund balance that we would utilize

566
00:47:15,690 --> 00:47:18,470
for the school year is diminished by that amount.

567
00:47:18,470 --> 00:47:22,790
So it is very helpful and I'll show another side, another illustration of that.

568
00:47:23,310 --> 00:47:27,530
And then in the future years, where that $2 million is being applied, so as you can see in

569
00:47:27,530 --> 00:47:30,950
the budget proposal, the Missilean's revenue is up almost $2 million.

570
00:47:31,550 --> 00:47:38,250
Within that proposal, that $4.2 or $4.3 million number includes a $2 million revenue being

571
00:47:38,250 --> 00:47:41,550
recognized as part of a life of payment to the district.

572
00:47:43,780 --> 00:47:48,200
And this is just showing that first slide that I showed before with the fund balances and

573
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,600
and showing pretty much the level of fund balance between the last two years, this is showing

574
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:58,460
if we did or did not have that $2.5 million of fund balance from the life settlement.

575
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:04,340
So in the middle category is with the life settlement payment and that's where we're able

576
00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:11,960
to maintain a constant, you know, approximately 22 million, 100,000 and as a result we were able

577
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:18,080
to fully fund our unassigned fund balance, which is that $6.9 million at the bottom.

578
00:48:19,380 --> 00:48:19,900
And that's the number.

579
00:48:20,260 --> 00:48:26,520
You hear people reference often as a 4% number, and by law, we cannot fund more than 4% of

580
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,560
the ensuing years budget in unassigned fund balance.

581
00:48:29,700 --> 00:48:34,800
It is the most flexible fund balance and can be utilized most liberally.

582
00:48:35,340 --> 00:48:41,100
The other category that we were able to increase was the retirement contribution.

583
00:48:41,100 --> 00:48:46,420
So we fully maximize the assigned fund balance, and we're able to apply $700,000 to the

584
00:48:46,420 --> 00:48:52,820
retirement reserves, which is the ERS and TRS reserves, you know, to cover potential

585
00:48:52,820 --> 00:48:56,680
with spikes or increases in retirement contributions in the future.

586
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:58,820
So that's totaled $2.5 million.

587
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:05,680
So without $2.5 million in life of payments, our fund balance would have dropped by $2.5

588
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:07,800
million to $19.6 million.

589
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:20,400
So just wanted to show the positive impact of the 2.5 million dollars from LIFA, even though it was not budgeted for, it had a very positive effect in our plan changes at the fiscal year end.

590
00:49:22,020 --> 00:49:29,900
Here, just wanted to just illustrate the impacts of fund balance and the utilization of the sunflower, a signed fund balance.

591
00:49:29,900 --> 00:49:34,620
So, last year we increased how much we assigned in fund balance in order to reduce the levy.

592
00:49:35,060 --> 00:49:39,080
And that was one of the major ways that we were able to achieve a zero-tax levy.

593
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,300
And as we stated last year, that's not sustainable.

594
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:48,560
So, the goal was to not continue to use $4.3 million or $4.4 million in fund balance.

595
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,040
It was to bring that back to normal historic levels.

596
00:49:51,620 --> 00:49:55,220
So, in this budget, we were budgeting at $2.3 million in assigned fund balance.

597
00:49:55,220 --> 00:50:01,040
But I just want to illustrate the changes or the impacts of as you shift more and more

598
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:06,080
or less money in that assigned fund balance, how to impact your unassigned fund balance and

599
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:10,880
your ability to achieve a 4% maximum in your unassigned fund balance.

600
00:50:11,100 --> 00:50:18,520
So last year actual unassigned fund balance was 3.33% so we were under utilizing, we were

601
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:22,580
underfunded in our fund balance and we were almost underfunded to the level where we start

602
00:50:22,580 --> 00:50:27,340
receiving fiscal stress score points, which are negatives, from the controller's office.

603
00:50:27,700 --> 00:50:32,040
So around 3% you start getting negative points and the lower you get you start getting

604
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:32,640
a lot of points.

605
00:50:32,940 --> 00:50:37,820
So, fiscal stress is the biggest category, is your fund balance and reserves.

606
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,920
That has one of the largest factors in as well as any deficit spending.

607
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:47,980
So, we would get significant weighted points against us if we drop significantly below the

608
00:50:47,980 --> 00:50:49,280
3.3%.

609
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:56,760
As far as scenario A goes, this shows as the budget was proposed a $2.3 million assigned fund balance.

610
00:50:57,020 --> 00:51:04,920
We're able to fully fund the unassigned fund balance to almost $7 million, which is 4% of our planned budget for next year.

611
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:11,780
And then far right category is assuming we're going to take $2 million and apply to reduce the levied for next school year,

612
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:16,620
it would now reduce the amount of money we've had for unassigned fund balance.

613
00:51:16,620 --> 00:51:23,340
And it would not fully fund our 4% to the max, we would drop it to 2.86, and we would

614
00:51:23,340 --> 00:51:27,380
be likely to have physical stress core points against us, but the total fund bounce remains

615
00:51:27,380 --> 00:51:27,780
constant.

616
00:51:28,060 --> 00:51:32,860
So there is no difference in terms of total fund bounce, but as you apply more fund bounce

617
00:51:32,860 --> 00:51:37,820
to the next year's budget, you have less money unassigned available, and presumably that

618
00:51:37,820 --> 00:51:41,060
money will be spent in that year's budget, and it will not be available in the future year.

619
00:51:41,060 --> 00:51:47,560
So this is a visual representation of that concept and we showed it last year when we were

620
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:53,300
describing the impacts of the district applying more fund balance and how that would

621
00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:58,320
deplete the district's fund balance over time because as you start using four million

622
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:02,760
and five million, your fund balance would be fully exhausted within two years.

623
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:09,140
So we identified that there was a significant problem by having millions of dollars in fund

624
00:52:09,140 --> 00:52:15,120
being used to cover the budget shortfall and that there was a need to stabilize that action.

625
00:52:15,740 --> 00:52:20,560
So in this plan, we described that having in the 2021-22 school year,

626
00:52:21,740 --> 00:52:27,380
a decisions or financial changes that would restabilize the school district. So that would be either

627
00:52:27,380 --> 00:52:32,460
additional revenues through piercing the cap. It would be through budget cuts and consolidation of

628
00:52:32,460 --> 00:52:39,120
buildings or combination of the two, but it was a definitive point of that we cannot

629
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:44,380
continue status quo and using reserves or fund balance to balance budget polls.

630
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:52,880
This is a summary of the past six years or including the six years of tax levies.

631
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:58,120
As you can see, every year the district has been below tax-ledding limit.

632
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:04,220
This year it is less than half of the tax level limit and it is below the average of the

633
00:53:04,220 --> 00:53:06,120
past six years as well.

634
00:53:07,660 --> 00:53:16,480
The tax levy at .75 is a $54.94 increase to the average homeowner will say $55 and

635
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,600
that's approximately a half-gallon dollar home.

636
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:24,860
And we illustrated this last meeting and just want to update it since the numbers have

637
00:53:24,860 --> 00:53:25,520
been updated.

638
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:31,020
And just also just take a little time to just explain a point that is very important to explain.

639
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:39,020
So this is the glide path that has been shared at the time that the district was working on the

640
00:53:39,020 --> 00:53:47,060
LIFA negotiations and illustrating the impact the taxpayers planned over the glide path time period.

641
00:53:47,060 --> 00:53:53,280
It's just, you know, a factual representation of the districts and the town taxes in

642
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:53,600
the blue.

643
00:53:54,320 --> 00:54:03,680
A green illustration for LIFA's impact, so as LIFA pays less in taxes, the remaining

644
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:08,860
homeowners will pay more in property taxes and then in the red or orange that is the combination

645
00:54:08,860 --> 00:54:16,520
of the school slash town tax increase plus the shift from LIFA to the resident or property

646
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:25,140
owners tax base. So as you can see, the numbers increased over time. In the first two years,

647
00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:31,120
we've already changed this whole scenario. So in blue, year one, it's slated to the $100 increase

648
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:36,180
in school district taxes and town. I don't know if we won't speak for the town, but the school district

649
00:54:36,180 --> 00:54:42,240
component was a zero dollar increase. It was a zero levy increase in year one. Year two, if we

650
00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:48,940
continued doing the 2% increases as was planned in the planning of this reply back, it would

651
00:54:48,940 --> 00:54:54,900
have been $188 increase. We already didn't do the first 180. Now the second 180 is planned

652
00:54:54,900 --> 00:55:01,400
to be in this budget $55 increase. So all these numbers are actually wrong moving forward because

653
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:08,220
the compounding effect of it, as well as the fact that the $486 total increase in year one was

654
00:55:08,220 --> 00:55:14,420
not 46, it was 288 or approximately that number. And this year's 515 total impact is not

655
00:55:14,420 --> 00:55:18,920
going to be 515. It's significantly diminished by the school district reducing the amount

656
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:25,460
in its levy than it was planned for. What I do want to caution is that it is very beneficial,

657
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:30,060
it is very helpful, and it is part of the planning process in district health group board

658
00:55:30,060 --> 00:55:36,240
is structural changes in contracts, aligning a lot of retirement incentives, school closures

659
00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:43,920
in order to accomplish reduced costs and savings to taxpayer, is that the increase grows significantly

660
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:50,960
over the latter years of this phase. And by design, it is a delayed and it's a growth

661
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:56,920
larger in later years. So the cost and or the effect that I just wanted to just caution everyone on,

662
00:55:57,140 --> 00:56:04,940
especially for members is that repeated zero levies make it more challenging to balance the budget

663
00:56:04,940 --> 00:56:08,060
with revenue in later years.

664
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,020
And we just want to be careful of a scenario

665
00:56:11,020 --> 00:56:14,880
where our community is in the time of the life of life

666
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:16,440
path where they're being most impacted.

667
00:56:17,100 --> 00:56:20,120
You know, the 400 to $500 increases to the life of,

668
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:25,900
at the same time, we aren't able to maintain a lower levy

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00:56:25,900 --> 00:56:29,000
in those years because we had significantly low levy's

670
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:29,960
in the first few years.

671
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:33,300
And we did not properly fund capital projects.

672
00:56:33,300 --> 00:56:39,280
we do not properly fund, you know, or bills upon the revenues in the first few years,

673
00:56:39,700 --> 00:56:44,520
the latter years will then need to be significantly higher, as well as we won't have potential

674
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:50,580
class size reductions as we fully realize our reduction in enrollment because as our cohorts

675
00:56:50,580 --> 00:56:54,120
advance through the high school, then we no longer have the ability to reduce class size

676
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:55,000
without cutting programs.

677
00:56:55,220 --> 00:57:01,920
So it really is setting up for later in the sky path financial decisions that require program

678
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:06,480
cut in order to reduce the lead. And we don't want to have a three, four hundred

679
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,820
hour increase on top of a five hundred hour increase that life was also

680
00:57:09,820 --> 00:57:14,480
imposing the power and the tax shift. So that is that is part of the long-term

681
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:18,000
fiscal planning. And that's one of the things you want to caution is that as much

682
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:23,940
as in year one and two, it is impactful. We really need to take a lot of focused

683
00:57:23,940 --> 00:57:28,440
attention on the latter years because those years are very significant on

684
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:33,800
their own with LIFA. We want to be mindful not to add significant burden in those years on top of

685
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:39,300
that. So just bring attention to this slide. We are, you're doing a fantastic job in mitigating

686
00:57:39,300 --> 00:57:44,920
the cost and it's part of the long-term plan that led into this. But we also need to be mindful of

687
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:51,200
the led years of this LIFA and how to properly manage that increase and mitigate those costs as well.

688
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:59,420
This is showing a historic trend of the district tax levy and the reductions or the amounts

689
00:57:59,420 --> 00:58:04,860
under the tax level so since the tax cap law has been enacted the district has historically

690
00:58:04,860 --> 00:58:10,920
been not only below the tax level but significantly below the tax level and many years over a million

691
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:16,080
dollars below the tax level each year and that is not something that is typical of school

692
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:23,400
district's only tax cap law, every year about 300 districts of the 700 in your state go

693
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:28,940
to the actual levy limit to the penny. So, you know, over about a third or so of districts

694
00:58:28,940 --> 00:58:34,320
are taxing the maximum every single year and, you know, very few peers to cap or chart

695
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:39,080
peers to cap yearly. But that's something that, you know, districts typically end up doing

696
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:44,820
is the tax limit. Here in Northport we have been very mindful of the tax levy limit and

697
00:58:44,820 --> 00:58:46,560
We have not, here's the tax limit

698
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,420
and we have not even taxed to the level limit in history.

699
00:58:49,820 --> 00:58:53,800
So I just wanted to point out the significant actions

700
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:58,200
of the school district and being mindful of levy increases.

701
00:58:58,900 --> 00:59:01,600
And the historic levy increase was 1.49%

702
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:05,220
so less than 1.5% has been the average increase

703
00:59:05,740 --> 00:59:06,680
throughout the time period.

704
00:59:08,820 --> 00:59:12,640
So just kind of bringing back to the planning

705
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:14,940
in this budget process and the feedback

706
00:59:14,940 --> 00:59:20,800
that we have been hearing, you know, in terms of the need and desire to have in-person

707
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:26,100
instruction, need and desire to have information and know what next year will look like definitively.

708
00:59:27,100 --> 00:59:30,760
And all those factors, and it really did weigh into this budget process.

709
00:59:30,980 --> 00:59:34,580
And in this budget process, all those thoughts and considerations from the committee share

710
00:59:34,580 --> 00:59:39,400
back to Superintendent myself and other members of the Cabinet, we incorporate these budgets.

711
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:43,540
We wanted to make sure that we have flexibility to have in-person learning instruction.

712
00:59:43,540 --> 00:59:50,220
and we also want to have understand that there are many variables in terms of how we operate

713
00:59:50,220 --> 00:59:55,420
in COVID next year, and as we see it, we're all looking for some certainty in uncertain

714
00:59:55,420 --> 00:59:59,420
world, and we can't predict, but we can prepare.

715
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,440
So there's three possible outcomes when we're planning this budget, and the first outcome is the virus guidance requires remain the same as they are now. And in personal instruction, you know, can be maintained or agreeable. We have everything in place to be able to maintain the program. Within our budget, we have the additional PPE to continue next year, the disinfectant cleaning supplies, everything is in our budget. Nothing is needed. Actually, we have the barriers. We really can run our program as we are today moving forward.

716
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:35,000
need to current guidelines if they do not change. If the virus violence change, because

717
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:39,340
of variant changes, it's even more transmissible, it impacts children at a greater rate than

718
01:00:39,340 --> 01:00:44,700
it currently does, any of those factors change, then it may change the health guides to us.

719
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:50,000
They say that where we're operating under these conditions of distancing, social distancing

720
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:54,900
rules, there may be new social distancing rules. In that case, we may have to modify how

721
01:00:54,900 --> 01:00:57,720
we operate and use our buildings, so we may have to increase spacing.

722
01:00:58,780 --> 01:01:03,540
So underneath that, we have all the equipment in place, but we have funding within the

723
01:01:03,540 --> 01:01:06,380
budget to be able to pivot and allow buildings to reopen.

724
01:01:06,740 --> 01:01:12,000
So item two, potential, we have the buildings to cover those items within the budget.

725
01:01:13,140 --> 01:01:18,300
Option three or potential three is that the transmission and strength and strain becomes

726
01:01:18,300 --> 01:01:24,280
significantly more transmissible, maybe more harmful, and there may be orders from the state

727
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,440
or local health officials that schools cannot operate.

728
01:01:27,020 --> 01:01:29,300
And then we potentially in a remote setting in that case.

729
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,060
So there's three potential outcomes

730
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:33,760
and we are sitting in the first outcome right now.

731
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:35,240
We're hoping for that or better.

732
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:36,280
There is no pandemic.

733
01:01:36,780 --> 01:01:39,880
But we have plans in place for all three potential outcomes

734
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:41,560
and we have funding within the budget

735
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,440
to be able to maintain our program,

736
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:45,380
even if there are some changes

737
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:48,360
and that we might require more social distancing.

738
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:49,720
So as the guidelines change,

739
01:01:50,340 --> 01:01:52,140
we have plans and continues to be able to pivot

740
01:01:52,140 --> 01:01:54,580
and make changes as necessary.

741
01:01:56,870 --> 01:01:58,670
So as far as planning for capital projects,

742
01:01:58,750 --> 01:02:01,310
this ties into that COVID contingency,

743
01:02:01,570 --> 01:02:03,950
is that there is a need on its own

744
01:02:04,450 --> 01:02:07,230
for planning and funding capital projects.

745
01:02:07,810 --> 01:02:09,930
So, reminder to everyone that last year,

746
01:02:10,010 --> 01:02:11,210
March, our project came in,

747
01:02:11,850 --> 01:02:14,390
it presented a building condition survey

748
01:02:14,390 --> 01:02:17,270
and presented a five-year plan of projects

749
01:02:17,270 --> 01:02:19,510
that have been identified that should be completed

750
01:02:19,510 --> 01:02:20,430
over the next five years.

751
01:02:20,430 --> 01:02:24,710
And that plan included costs or items that totaled over $86 million.

752
01:02:25,630 --> 01:02:29,550
So when we were looking at those plans, we looked at the types of plans that were in there.

753
01:02:30,230 --> 01:02:33,610
And we prioritized plans that really made the most sense to accomplish.

754
01:02:34,250 --> 01:02:36,450
And those are the roof replacement and HVAC reconstruction.

755
01:02:37,030 --> 01:02:42,450
So those two areas are areas that we highlighted as an important part of items because whatever

756
01:02:42,450 --> 01:02:47,130
you're putting inside of the building is secondary to being able to protect your building and

757
01:02:47,130 --> 01:02:49,530
and being able to properly heat, ventilate,

758
01:02:49,710 --> 01:02:52,110
your building, and having good quality,

759
01:02:52,690 --> 01:02:56,010
building itself for its occupants is equally important.

760
01:02:56,150 --> 01:02:57,530
So we prioritize those two areas,

761
01:02:58,590 --> 01:03:03,090
and doing so alone, $38 million is for root replacements.

762
01:03:03,710 --> 01:03:07,230
So in this budget, we're budgeting a total of $2.4 million,

763
01:03:07,390 --> 01:03:10,570
almost $2.5 million for root replacements

764
01:03:10,990 --> 01:03:14,310
and HVAC upgrades district-wide.

765
01:03:14,310 --> 01:03:20,870
Just for reference, an elementary roof costs across the $2.5 million, so that's the ability

766
01:03:20,870 --> 01:03:25,090
or magnitude of this funding and what it can accomplish, but it's very challenging to

767
01:03:25,090 --> 01:03:31,830
accomplish 10 school district buildings with funding within five years of funding for

768
01:03:31,830 --> 01:03:37,490
one roof a year, and the middle schools and high schools require more funding, $9, $12 million

769
01:03:37,490 --> 01:03:38,250
for those groups.

770
01:03:38,510 --> 01:03:43,790
So this is obviously not doing all the capital work that we need to do, but this is accomplishing

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01:03:43,790 --> 01:03:50,610
and taking real efforts and making real impactful funding and budgeting towards accomplishing

772
01:03:50,610 --> 01:03:51,370
capital projects.

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01:03:51,550 --> 01:03:55,930
Now, capital projects do not need to be funded only from the funding method that we're

774
01:03:55,930 --> 01:03:57,730
talking about as the Interfund Transfer to Capital.

775
01:03:58,150 --> 01:04:02,030
They can also be done through issuing debt like we did recently for the $40 million bond.

776
01:04:02,790 --> 01:04:06,990
We could potentially drop for a new bond or we can use capital reserves.

777
01:04:07,790 --> 01:04:11,370
So capital reserves are generated when you have year-end surplus.

778
01:04:11,370 --> 01:04:16,330
us that urine surface can be applied to various reserves and a cap of reserve is one of them.

779
01:04:16,550 --> 01:04:22,010
So in this budget, we recommend utilizing general fund appropriations to cover those costs,

780
01:04:22,550 --> 01:04:28,390
but in the event that COVID guidance changes and it would impact our abilities to have students

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01:04:28,390 --> 01:04:29,010
in person.

782
01:04:29,610 --> 01:04:34,470
And we need those funds in order to change our program in our plan in order to have students

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01:04:34,470 --> 01:04:34,990
in person.

784
01:04:35,390 --> 01:04:40,690
Those funds will be made available to allow for our educational model to run in the

785
01:04:40,690 --> 01:04:44,010
that we most want in desire is the in-person model.

786
01:04:45,070 --> 01:04:47,630
So, this is the reorganization analysis.

787
01:04:47,970 --> 01:04:50,770
So, this was a presentation that was actually made

788
01:04:50,770 --> 01:04:53,670
to the school code and task force.

789
01:04:54,350 --> 01:04:55,870
And it felt was pretty helpful

790
01:04:55,870 --> 01:04:59,030
because it illustrated the impact and the benefit

791
01:04:59,030 --> 01:05:00,950
of the reorganization plan.

792
01:05:01,610 --> 01:05:04,610
So, on the left side, that is the prior year school budget

793
01:05:04,610 --> 01:05:05,890
with a year that we're in right now.

794
01:05:06,430 --> 01:05:08,290
And it's a little over 172 million.

795
01:05:08,290 --> 01:05:18,010
this is our just a little shy of 173 million, 177 or so, the the Rollover budget was at 179.

796
01:05:18,570 --> 01:05:21,310
So as you can see, there's a significant increase within a Rollover budget.

797
01:05:21,430 --> 01:05:35,170
And that is the existing staff contractual obligations so increasing their salaries based on the contract, increasing benefits based on the projected health insurance, the retirement system increases, the Medicare Part B increases.

798
01:05:35,170 --> 01:05:43,190
is so all those costs were just rolled over. That is one set of none. Moving forward to the budget

799
01:05:43,190 --> 01:05:50,470
with the school closures, but without enhancements, which is the second to the right, that light blue

800
01:05:51,930 --> 01:05:59,550
part of the bar graph represents the cost of the budget without COVID contingency. As you can see,

801
01:05:59,550 --> 01:06:05,550
the budget is relatively flat over a prior year, and that's because the district was able

802
01:06:05,550 --> 01:06:11,770
to realize savings through retirement incentives as well as staff reductions as part of the staffing

803
01:06:11,770 --> 01:06:17,130
as well as utility reductions and other various reductions as part of the re-rearization plan.

804
01:06:17,730 --> 01:06:24,710
On the far right column shows the budget itself, the incremental increase due to COVID contingency,

805
01:06:24,710 --> 01:06:27,730
and the approximate $280, $4,000 in enhancements,

806
01:06:27,970 --> 01:06:32,870
which includes fifth grade for language, STEM for fifth grade,

807
01:06:33,510 --> 01:06:37,130
and elementary enrichment for all.

808
01:06:37,890 --> 01:06:39,070
So those are the enhancements,

809
01:06:39,210 --> 01:06:40,910
and those enhancements are just important to note,

810
01:06:41,330 --> 01:06:43,590
they're only able to be accomplished for that low cost

811
01:06:44,750 --> 01:06:47,350
because we have four elementary buildings

812
01:06:47,350 --> 01:06:49,290
and two middle schools and fifth grades in that.

813
01:06:49,790 --> 01:06:52,190
So the enhancements are very minimal

814
01:06:52,190 --> 01:07:00,130
in terms of the cost of the budget, but they are cost effective due to the structure of the program and the building layout.

815
01:07:01,750 --> 01:07:08,310
So in the budget, and as far as the proposition we're recommending having a capital reserve established,

816
01:07:08,590 --> 01:07:14,150
and just kind of give a background of what capital reserves are, is capital reserves require voter authorization to establish.

817
01:07:14,730 --> 01:07:16,930
They require voter authorization to extend.

818
01:07:16,930 --> 01:07:23,130
They have a 10 year funding limit and the maximum funding limit and the amount can be funded

819
01:07:23,130 --> 01:07:26,610
per year is set by the voters as part of our proposition.

820
01:07:27,210 --> 01:07:33,230
We have two existing capital reserves, the 2012 capital reserve, which has a funding maximum

821
01:07:33,230 --> 01:07:37,590
of $12 million and can have $1.5 million funded in it per year.

822
01:07:38,230 --> 01:07:46,270
We have a 2018 capital reserve which has a funding maximum of $20 million and a funding

823
01:07:46,270 --> 01:07:55,130
limit of $2 million per year. The recommendation is to create a 2021 capital reserve and set forward

824
01:07:55,550 --> 01:08:03,550
the voters on May 18th and have a $20 million maximum funding limit with a $2 million yearly

825
01:08:03,550 --> 01:08:13,110
funding threshold. And what that would do is replace the expiring capital reserve so that we maintain

826
01:08:13,110 --> 01:08:15,550
two capital reserves at all times.

827
01:08:18,630 --> 01:08:20,790
And then in addition to that there is a

828
01:08:20,790 --> 01:08:26,970
potential transportation proposition and how transportation mileage change

829
01:08:26,970 --> 01:08:31,990
propositions work is that they can be added to the ballot by a resident in the

830
01:08:31,990 --> 01:08:36,870
form of a petition and seeking the necessary votes to show up on the ballot and

831
01:08:37,570 --> 01:08:41,110
they also can, a transportation proposition can happen via a board

832
01:08:41,110 --> 01:08:47,470
resolution. The voters themselves, they determine by majority vote whether the proposition passes

833
01:08:47,470 --> 01:08:52,570
or fails. This is not a board action, it's not administrative action. The voters themselves

834
01:08:52,570 --> 01:08:57,210
decide if the mileage would go up or down, whether more seems to be eligible for translational

835
01:08:57,210 --> 01:09:02,090
or less students are eligible for translation and there's cost involved with changes to transportation

836
01:09:02,090 --> 01:09:08,610
typically. So the voters would be authorized in that very change. The district strictly must adhere

837
01:09:08,610 --> 01:09:13,770
to those motor mileage limitations that are set forward by the voters. There's no real

838
01:09:13,770 --> 01:09:21,090
exceptions except for mandated transportation in the IEPs or forrests or transportation

839
01:09:21,730 --> 01:09:27,370
to an approved child safety zone. So the deadline for this transportation proposition is

840
01:09:27,370 --> 01:09:32,390
three days prior to the budget vote and the Board of Education has to have sufficient time to build

841
01:09:32,390 --> 01:09:38,190
to present information to the public and include it on the ballot. So this information was also shared

842
01:09:38,190 --> 01:09:43,430
with the task force and I just want to share with the Board of Education and the community as well.

843
01:09:44,590 --> 01:09:53,990
So this is an analysis of transportation and trying to, you know, utilize and improve utilization

844
01:09:54,550 --> 01:10:00,450
of our existing buses. So just doing a little transportation 101 and explain how school

845
01:10:00,450 --> 01:10:06,710
different transportation works. So many of our runs are contracted runs and we pay a contractor

846
01:10:06,710 --> 01:10:09,890
in hourly rate or number of hours per day.

847
01:10:10,790 --> 01:10:13,350
So we typically use a four hour contract

848
01:10:13,350 --> 01:10:17,210
and our buses travel, our same buses,

849
01:10:17,650 --> 01:10:20,650
drop off and pick up within a three-tier system.

850
01:10:21,290 --> 01:10:23,010
And what I mean by a three-tier system

851
01:10:23,010 --> 01:10:24,650
is that we have building bell times

852
01:10:24,650 --> 01:10:27,750
that start at different times they're staggered intentionally.

853
01:10:28,270 --> 01:10:31,310
So we can use our existing bus capacity to pick up

854
01:10:31,310 --> 01:10:34,510
and drop off students between all three tiers.

855
01:10:34,510 --> 01:10:38,790
So we have a high school tier, which includes music buses as well.

856
01:10:39,270 --> 01:10:43,550
We have a middle school tier, which includes Norwood, so we have one elementary on the middle

857
01:10:43,550 --> 01:10:48,530
school tier in order to balance out and level load some of our elementary tiers, which were

858
01:10:48,530 --> 01:10:49,130
more costly.

859
01:10:49,770 --> 01:10:54,410
And then we have our elementary tier, which has five elementary schools, training regional and

860
01:10:54,410 --> 01:10:56,010
high school tech buses.

861
01:10:56,590 --> 01:11:01,630
So on the bottom is the amount of buses, large buses that are required for each tier.

862
01:11:01,630 --> 01:11:07,190
So 23, and this is based on our last fiscal year, that was a normal fiscal year, COVID year,

863
01:11:07,530 --> 01:11:08,790
transportation is different.

864
01:11:09,350 --> 01:11:16,350
So in 2019-20, we had 23 high school buses, 24 middle school buses, and 34 elementary buses.

865
01:11:16,990 --> 01:11:21,070
So the 34 elementary buses creates what's called a critical tier.

866
01:11:21,690 --> 01:11:24,450
So the critical tier is what you have to build your capacity to.

867
01:11:24,870 --> 01:11:30,370
So we have to hire 34 buses at four hours, whether we need to use them all four hours.

868
01:11:30,970 --> 01:11:36,110
because transportation contracts will not accept the contract for just one building for one hour.

869
01:11:36,570 --> 01:11:40,630
It's not within their contract and will not accept that or there was just four hours for the one hour.

870
01:11:41,310 --> 01:11:44,210
So what we have here is a underutilized capacity.

871
01:11:44,710 --> 01:11:51,070
We have 10 to 11 buses that are underutilized at the high school tier and the middle school tier on these are current configuration.

872
01:11:52,030 --> 01:11:59,370
So moving forward to scenario A, this is based on a school closure and moving northward

873
01:11:59,370 --> 01:12:05,710
Norwood to the elementary tier, so we have four elementary schools being

874
01:12:05,710 --> 01:12:09,650
transport the same time, four on the same exact Bell schedule and maintain three

875
01:12:09,650 --> 01:12:15,030
tiers. So we still have the same 34 critical tier and we have now high school

876
01:12:15,030 --> 01:12:19,010
and middle school at 24, which now we are continuing under utilization and

877
01:12:19,010 --> 01:12:23,910
transportation capacity. Under scenario B, this is changing our mileage

878
01:12:23,910 --> 01:12:28,630
limitations to allow more students to be eligible for transportation. So under this

879
01:12:28,630 --> 01:12:35,990
scenario, if mileage limitations were changed to 0.75 miles from grades 1 to 8, we would

880
01:12:35,990 --> 01:12:44,670
have a need for, sorry, 9 through 12 high school, 1 mile, we would still have the same 34

881
01:12:44,670 --> 01:12:49,850
critical tier, but now our high school buses will need 33 buses for that time period and

882
01:12:49,850 --> 01:12:55,390
a middle school buses will need 31 buses that time period, but we're having over 300 more

883
01:12:55,390 --> 01:12:59,930
high school students that are eligible for transportation. Obviously, there's obviously benefits to our

884
01:12:59,930 --> 01:13:04,190
community at no additional cost. If that's the case based on the school closure, there's no

885
01:13:04,190 --> 01:13:09,310
additional cost. The benefit of transportation, it reduces the congestion. If folks seek advantage

886
01:13:09,310 --> 01:13:15,530
of transportation at the high school during the drop off and pick up time periods. Also, the East

887
01:13:15,530 --> 01:13:23,270
Northport middle school will have approximately 130 more students that are eligible and the

888
01:13:23,270 --> 01:13:26,870
or criminal school will have approximately 60 more students that are eligible.

889
01:13:27,090 --> 01:13:31,170
So there is a benefit to this transportation proposition.

890
01:13:31,870 --> 01:13:35,390
It would be under consideration for the Board of Education and I understand this

891
01:13:35,390 --> 01:13:41,890
community member is working on petitions to be able to make a change in terms of a proposition on

892
01:13:41,890 --> 01:13:47,530
the balance. So there's just, you know, just wanted to explain this concept to the Board of Education

893
01:13:47,530 --> 01:13:54,130
community. The no-cost aspect is based on buildings being closed and there will be approximately

894
01:13:54,130 --> 01:14:00,710
just roughening it. I have the exact number of about $350,000 increase if the school district

895
01:14:00,710 --> 01:14:06,310
did not close buildings to do this plan. So, you know, obviously the propositions may be put

896
01:14:06,310 --> 01:14:11,250
forward that and there may or may not be a school closure so there may be potential cost increase,

897
01:14:11,250 --> 01:14:19,870
or either way, just illustrating the purpose of utilizing or improving the utilization of

898
01:14:19,870 --> 01:14:24,190
our transportation department to better serve our students and communities with limited

899
01:14:24,190 --> 01:14:24,890
or no costs.

900
01:14:26,410 --> 01:14:32,430
So just summarizing the budget in its entirety, just bring it back full circle, is that this

901
01:14:32,430 --> 01:14:37,150
budget supports admission and vision and district and really prioritizing students and the programs

902
01:14:37,150 --> 01:14:44,710
and the wide variety of programs, the quality of education, the low class sizes that we really

903
01:14:44,710 --> 01:14:49,290
appreciate as a school community, it maintains all the structural programs and opportunities,

904
01:14:49,890 --> 01:14:54,150
has a real commitment to social emotional learning, has structural enhancements.

905
01:14:54,750 --> 01:14:59,830
As I said, it maintains low class sizes of the district, it factors in

906
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,940
The reorganization and strategically aligned retirement incentive. As mentioned before, there was a plan to have this retirement incentive at this point at the same time that there was a reorganization. So I have a lease impact to staff because we really do value in terms of recruiting employees is that people need to know that you're looking out for them. They feel secure in their position and that you value is our staff and our teachers. And that the timing and the play.

907
01:15:29,940 --> 01:15:35,320
This was really humane in the sense that when we did our presentation on personnel, there

908
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:38,520
was very few or if not no need for accessing.

909
01:15:39,060 --> 01:15:43,800
We had significant retirements, and it really balanced out with the staffing reductions

910
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:44,920
during that time period.

911
01:15:45,060 --> 01:15:51,260
So even though we reduced significantly in terms of our FTEs, the accessing will be kept

912
01:15:51,260 --> 01:15:52,900
to a pretty significant minimum.

913
01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:58,740
In addition to that, it restabilizes our fund balance and reserve levels, so we're less

914
01:15:58,740 --> 01:16:05,060
dependent fund balance and it also plans for the future and then it has a

915
01:16:05,060 --> 01:16:10,720
contingency funding for the pandemic as well as capital projects so if it's not

916
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:15,380
needed for the pandemic it can accomplish some of our roof replacements that are

917
01:16:15,380 --> 01:16:20,480
part of the five-year plan as identified by the architect. I just wanted to

918
01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:22,060
I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Benzer.

919
01:16:22,900 --> 01:16:24,020
Thank you, Mr. Howard.

920
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:29,600
And again, starting tonight with the budget development.

921
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,760
Obviously, we are working our way down this page.

922
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:35,840
Again, we're including this presentation.

923
01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:39,280
We'll have an opportunity for the public comment.

924
01:16:39,500 --> 01:16:42,280
And then the Board of Education will go into the Committee of the Hall.

925
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:45,180
On May 6th, we'll have the hearing on the finalized budget.

926
01:16:45,380 --> 01:16:48,280
And then May 18th is the budget vote.

927
01:16:57,540 --> 01:17:00,940
I guess I was thinking that during the committee of the whole of those questions, could

928
01:17:00,940 --> 01:17:01,120
we?

929
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:02,380
Okay.

930
01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:07,540
So that means we've had the public comment.

931
01:17:08,900 --> 01:17:10,500
So I do have a few cards up here.

932
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:12,240
Sorry, wait a minute.

933
01:17:14,670 --> 01:17:16,050
First card, I have it from Iris.

934
01:17:38,950 --> 01:17:39,670
Good evening.

935
01:17:40,030 --> 01:17:40,430
Can you hear me?

936
01:17:41,010 --> 01:17:41,230
Yes.

937
01:17:52,400 --> 01:18:01,080
I am here tonight in person to avoid my opposition to the closures of Belrose Avenue and Dickinson

938
01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:04,440
Avenue schools. These are the two schools that my children attend.

939
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:08,600
I have three children in the district, twins who are in fourth grade,

940
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:13,540
one-to-one at Belrose, one at Dickinson, and I have a second grader at Belrose Avenue.

941
01:18:13,540 --> 01:18:19,320
So unfortunately, these closures have affected my family between the two schools significantly.

942
01:18:21,870 --> 01:18:27,730
While I'm here as a parent, a concerned parent, taxpayer, I'd also like to state that professionally,

943
01:18:28,170 --> 01:18:32,270
I'm a public relations professional, I have practiced as professionally for 20 years,

944
01:18:32,690 --> 01:18:38,670
and I'm also a professor of the public relations at Hofstra University.

945
01:18:39,470 --> 01:18:46,430
I speak to my students often about the importance of relating to constituent relating to public

946
01:18:46,430 --> 01:18:52,910
identifying audiences and being mindful and communicating properly.

947
01:18:53,930 --> 01:19:00,710
It's become very evident to me over the course of this school year that the leadership of

948
01:19:00,710 --> 01:19:07,370
the district has not truly properly responded to its constituent and I don't mean meeting

949
01:19:07,370 --> 01:19:11,150
such as this email or other reports or tasks committees.

950
01:19:11,810 --> 01:19:14,550
I'm talking about the regular everyday communication

951
01:19:14,930 --> 01:19:17,110
that is really concerning.

952
01:19:17,850 --> 01:19:20,750
Phone calls on answers, emails with no replies.

953
01:19:22,150 --> 01:19:25,090
Responding in in-person and virtual meetings

954
01:19:25,510 --> 01:19:28,150
with three words only at the end of presentation.

955
01:19:28,670 --> 01:19:29,690
Thank you and next.

956
01:19:30,990 --> 01:19:33,670
But proper communication is also about message.

957
01:19:34,890 --> 01:19:39,390
And for the better part of the school year, the school closure message has been maintained

958
01:19:39,810 --> 01:19:46,250
of a 20% reduction in student A of state A rather, a decrease in of enrollment, a trend

959
01:19:46,250 --> 01:19:47,990
which I've heard time and again.

960
01:19:48,730 --> 01:19:53,250
And the fact that moving forward with the school closure plan, COVID is not really a concern.

961
01:19:53,490 --> 01:19:56,590
We need to plan ahead and assume that COVID will all be fine.

962
01:19:56,590 --> 01:19:57,670
And

963
01:20:00,710 --> 01:20:08,310
it's a very difficult message to have to think about and communicate to my own children.

964
01:20:09,910 --> 01:20:17,810
I want to mention that I have, you know, in terms of message, the only message that has really been communicated,

965
01:20:17,810 --> 01:20:24,350
and it's been very frustrating, is that through the future study, through the board decision in December,

966
01:20:24,350 --> 01:20:29,170
and subsequent plans that have focused solely on the closure of dollars in Dickinson,

967
01:20:29,970 --> 01:20:34,270
the answers to why dollars and why Dickinson have not been answered.

968
01:20:35,690 --> 01:20:42,650
And they've got on answered many times like the emails and phone calls that I and so many others have placed.

969
01:20:43,570 --> 01:20:52,930
And the lack of response has made the challenges of parenting through these transitions in a pandemic nearly impossible.

970
01:20:53,630 --> 01:20:59,010
I want to share a story with you about my son who was a fourth grader and a special

971
01:20:59,010 --> 01:21:03,810
student at Dickinson and the impact of not having proper information and what it can

972
01:21:03,810 --> 01:21:05,350
do to a child like that.

973
01:21:06,050 --> 01:21:13,050
During one of the recent half days of school, my son had a very difficult time getting

974
01:21:13,050 --> 01:21:18,250
on his back because in his mind he thought that I was picking him up from school because

975
01:21:18,250 --> 01:21:24,150
it was a half day. The district of the school called me and I said no, he was definitely

976
01:21:24,150 --> 01:21:29,010
taking the bus home. I communicated that like any parent would to make sure he understood

977
01:21:29,010 --> 01:21:34,170
what his plan was. But in his mind, he was so fixated that he was going to be picked up

978
01:21:34,170 --> 01:21:39,210
by his mother and he did not want to go on that bus. I had a follow-up conversation with

979
01:21:39,210 --> 01:21:44,010
his teacher who was very sympathetic and helpful through the ordeal to get him on. That is

980
01:21:44,010 --> 01:21:49,610
to one example of what it is to parent a child with special needs and to be able to prepare

981
01:21:49,610 --> 01:21:50,570
them for one day.

982
01:21:51,050 --> 01:21:56,010
How am I supposed to prepare him and my two typical children want to have no information

983
01:21:56,010 --> 01:21:56,690
and no answers?

984
01:21:57,650 --> 01:22:01,830
On April 29th, when you'll make your decision, that is the same day that I will have my

985
01:22:01,830 --> 01:22:04,410
CSC meeting for my son's plans for next year.

986
01:22:04,910 --> 01:22:09,830
I'm meeting a fully expectileee with no answer as to where he's going to be because there

987
01:22:09,830 --> 01:22:13,190
has been no communication about what is going to happen with his program.

988
01:22:13,730 --> 01:22:20,890
I've communicated on step-the-meetings, I've asked that my children stay together and my fourth graders because they have been separated long enough.

989
01:22:21,550 --> 01:22:26,290
And I am fearful that they are not going to be those wishes that I have will not be granted.

990
01:22:26,930 --> 01:22:29,850
And much like the phone calls and emails, I will not get a response.

991
01:22:30,590 --> 01:22:32,630
I thank you for the opportunity to speak to you tonight.

992
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:43,420
I know you're not going to like what I've said, but thank you.

993
01:22:46,750 --> 01:22:47,490
Christine Aquaman.

994
01:22:47,490 --> 01:22:48,470
Between

995
01:23:02,610 --> 01:23:04,330
the comments, should you tap them please?

996
01:23:04,650 --> 01:23:05,190
Is North Worth?

997
01:23:06,050 --> 01:23:06,930
Good evening.

998
01:23:07,790 --> 01:23:11,730
As the subject's vote creeps closer, I still have three major questions.

999
01:23:12,570 --> 01:23:16,030
One, approximately how much would it cost each household?

1000
01:23:16,390 --> 01:23:18,410
Is both Dickinson and Belrose were to stay open?

1001
01:23:19,210 --> 01:23:23,270
Is it $300 that was proposed at the past meeting accurate?

1002
01:23:24,210 --> 01:23:31,530
Two, is there another drafted budget that accounts for all tools being open in addition to the proposed budget that we have seen?

1003
01:23:32,230 --> 01:23:36,610
The number three, is there a way for the community to vote on the school closure?

1004
01:23:37,230 --> 01:23:41,570
I pose these questions in especially the last one, after speaking with my fellow community

1005
01:23:41,570 --> 01:23:46,030
members, not just from the rules, and the consensus is that the community doesn't want

1006
01:23:46,030 --> 01:23:49,170
to close to elementary schools, resulting in fifth grade relocation.

1007
01:23:50,030 --> 01:23:54,550
If the community votes to keep the schools open and occur the cause, how could the board

1008
01:23:54,550 --> 01:23:57,510
ignore, disregard, or push aside the wishes of the community?

1009
01:23:58,310 --> 01:24:03,170
I do not think the board can grasp the amount of community members that is against these

1010
01:24:03,170 --> 01:24:03,630
closures.

1011
01:24:04,190 --> 01:24:08,650
We have to have an open, honest discussion with accurate numbers as to what each household

1012
01:24:08,650 --> 01:24:13,630
increased with they, and it should be done so without scared tactics, threats of cutting

1013
01:24:13,630 --> 01:24:15,370
programs and funding to our children.

1014
01:24:16,090 --> 01:24:20,130
We need to factor in the state aid, and now that we know where we have an increase in state

1015
01:24:20,130 --> 01:24:22,750
aid, closing these two schools should be off the table.

1016
01:24:23,410 --> 01:24:23,970
Thank you.

1017
01:24:26,170 --> 01:24:30,830
I am going to say a couple things, and again, this is just my personal opinion, Ms.

1018
01:24:31,010 --> 01:24:31,110
Tav.

1019
01:24:31,770 --> 01:24:37,850
I've always said that the school district went out to try to do a better job in PR, you

1020
01:24:37,850 --> 01:24:39,730
know, I own my own business, my wife owns her business.

1021
01:24:40,450 --> 01:24:42,370
It's part of the job, going out with you.

1022
01:24:43,230 --> 01:24:44,810
Personally, I may agree with you on the PR.

1023
01:24:44,810 --> 01:24:54,830
So I'm going to answer Ms. Carmen's question by her turn right about the public voting directly

1024
01:24:55,450 --> 01:25:01,550
whether we've closed to schools or not, as far as I know that is not part of the law

1025
01:25:01,550 --> 01:25:02,590
or part of the process.

1026
01:25:03,990 --> 01:25:09,230
You collectively, people in here and people in the district have voted for the seven trustees

1027
01:25:10,410 --> 01:25:12,210
that are part of the Board of F.

1028
01:25:12,210 --> 01:25:25,170
We have had a very long process determining whether or not to close two schools or one, two, or the more corners, but that's been a very long process in many years.

1029
01:25:26,150 --> 01:25:36,250
And we've come to today, which we're not making a decision today just to make that clear for voting, well, not even voting on a budget, we're proposing a budget and then the public votes on that budget.

1030
01:25:37,190 --> 01:25:46,460
And as you've heard, August 13th and the 29th, that's when the decision on the educational

1031
01:25:46,460 --> 01:25:51,440
impact and the closure of the two schools is officially made.

1032
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:53,020
What's that?

1033
01:25:53,940 --> 01:25:54,660
Do I say that?

1034
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:55,220
No.

1035
01:25:55,920 --> 01:25:56,180
Sorry.

1036
01:25:56,380 --> 01:25:56,600
April.

1037
01:25:58,440 --> 01:26:07,680
So, so it's hard to answer that question, but there is no direct vote by the public.

1038
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:13,560
you get the vote in the sense to make your opinions know of course as you get today through

1039
01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:22,840
seven trustees, we hear from directly from people come here, we read the emails, we talk

1040
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:28,280
to the public when we're out and about, to the grocery stores or whatever, people call

1041
01:26:28,280 --> 01:26:33,480
me a little time, so I'm not sure if that's answering a question, but there is no direct

1042
01:26:33,480 --> 01:26:40,160
So that brings us, I believe, to people who are remote, right?

1043
01:26:42,010 --> 01:26:43,330
Mr. Libby, we

1044
01:26:48,700 --> 01:26:49,140
have come back.

1045
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:53,520
And then we have Maria and Chris Angelo.

1046
01:27:06,100 --> 01:27:07,100
Other, they're there.

1047
01:27:08,220 --> 01:27:11,580
Miss Maria and Chris Angelo, if you're there, can you please unmute yourself?

1048
01:27:12,600 --> 01:27:14,500
Yes, I'm here, Maria Angelo.

1049
01:27:15,240 --> 01:27:16,840
19 Loretland, East Northport.

1050
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:18,080
Can you hear me?

1051
01:27:18,920 --> 01:27:19,780
Yes, Karen, thank you.

1052
01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:22,080
Okay, I just have a question regarding.

1053
01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:25,720
I believe it's the April 27th of 29th meeting.

1054
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:27,820
Is that going to be like a public forum

1055
01:27:27,820 --> 01:27:29,400
where we can actually ask questions

1056
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:31,100
and receive answers back

1057
01:27:31,100 --> 01:27:33,360
and then rebut the questions and the answers

1058
01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:35,460
or is it just going to be like this again

1059
01:27:35,460 --> 01:27:37,220
where we're allowed to ask questions

1060
01:27:37,220 --> 01:27:39,660
and we usually don't get a response back.

1061
01:27:42,060 --> 01:27:44,340
So the 27th is the hearing

1062
01:27:44,340 --> 01:27:46,480
and that is the opportunity for the board

1063
01:27:46,480 --> 01:27:47,520
that's here from the public.

1064
01:27:49,420 --> 01:27:50,740
So there would be public comment.

1065
01:27:50,740 --> 01:27:57,300
it would be public comment but are we allowed to respond to what you say or tell

1066
01:27:57,300 --> 01:28:01,260
us you know it's sort of like a like a like a town hall meeting is it going to

1067
01:28:01,260 --> 01:28:07,000
be something like that or we're able to speak back if we need to well our

1068
01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:11,940
public meetings are not you know just a decent analogy but we we are we don't

1069
01:28:11,940 --> 01:28:17,520
well we typically don't hold our meetings in a town hall type format is there a

1070
01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:27,660
Is there a possibility we can call a town hall meeting so we can have more open conversation between the board and us and the public?

1071
01:28:27,980 --> 01:28:47,300
There's always possibilities, I like to say, but the meetings have, our meetings are very, are set in the policy on how they are run, whether the special meetings are tetra, certainly the board collectively can always modify that to whatever.

1072
01:28:47,300 --> 01:28:51,660
and the call of town hall not doesn't really matter how you call it, but that would be

1073
01:28:51,660 --> 01:28:59,000
up to the Board of Acts collectively, but as we speak as of today, it's a public hearing

1074
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:05,760
where we take questions like today. The Board considers the presentation we discuss,

1075
01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:11,000
and we ask questions reading the Board, of course, and we get questions and comments from

1076
01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:16,820
the community, but it's not a, at least it's a third. It's not a town hall meeting and that

1077
01:29:16,820 --> 01:29:19,040
that would be a decision. And, again, I'm not

1078
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:21,740
sure if it's possible, but, you know, it's certainly

1079
01:29:21,740 --> 01:29:24,900
something to consider, um, whether or not be.

1080
01:29:25,780 --> 01:29:28,340
You're not sure it's possible or can we find out?

1081
01:29:29,800 --> 01:29:32,240
Well, we can certainly find out that we can certainly do.

1082
01:29:32,420 --> 01:29:34,080
Yes. All right. Thank you.

1083
01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:36,320
And I'm not sure anything whether we could do that again.

1084
01:29:36,460 --> 01:29:38,740
That's up to the board. Of course, I don't, I don't,

1085
01:29:39,020 --> 01:29:41,180
obviously, you'd have to find out, but I think there's,

1086
01:29:41,220 --> 01:29:43,760
there's probably a lot of people in the community would,

1087
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:53,220
that would prefer or would like an open conversation to go back and forth to for us to all to express what we need to express. That's all.

1088
01:29:53,900 --> 01:29:54,880
That's a fair point.

1089
01:29:55,620 --> 01:29:56,660
Thank you.

1090
01:29:56,660 --> 01:29:57,540
Mr. Chairman.

1091
01:29:58,240 --> 01:29:59,580
Mr. Timings of Health.

1092
01:30:01,390 --> 01:30:13,510
Oh, wait, can I, I'm sorry, I'm going to give these people a Zoom. There's one more. I request so. Not there. And did Mr. Libby come back?

1093
01:30:18,340 --> 01:30:22,360
So that brings us standing. I thought I saw it.

1094
01:30:29,040 --> 01:30:40,060
Hi, good evening, chemical health from Northport. I just want to, you know, make sure I understand.

1095
01:30:40,060 --> 01:30:51,840
the infusion of money that's coming in to the school district this year, at the end of the year, or next year, or next year.

1096
01:30:52,380 --> 01:31:06,380
So the $2.5 million wide-half infusion from LIFA, then there are $2.2 million in state aid, 49 teachers retiring plus other reductions in district personnel.

1097
01:31:06,380 --> 01:31:15,080
Now, decreasing enrollment, and I believe the number with the $5.2 million in savings

1098
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:17,780
on this school is closed last year.

1099
01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:27,400
And, you know, totaling all of that up and understanding the object explanation of

1100
01:31:27,400 --> 01:31:35,460
the, you know, where the $2.5 million is going to be allocated from the LIFA infusion

1101
01:31:35,460 --> 01:31:46,780
and the trajectory using the unifying fund balance, understanding all of that and the

1102
01:31:46,780 --> 01:31:55,980
robust programs that we have, I really still do not understand why there is a budget to

1103
01:31:55,980 --> 01:32:03,560
budget increase, why we have to increase the budget. I just don't understand that.

1104
01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:21,200
I think that, you know, we've not had, we've not been over the cap for the last many, many years, you know, before, before Rob, you were here, before, you know, when Dr. McDermott was here, we never, you know, went over the cap once the cap was in place.

1105
01:32:25,590 --> 01:32:33,890
The contingency funding for potential pandemic response, you know, that was in the summary,

1106
01:32:34,590 --> 01:32:40,850
you know, to the second speaker that spoke about, you know, in the first speaker also,

1107
01:32:40,990 --> 01:32:48,590
the community asked for a cause, the UTN asked for a cause, and it wasn't granted.

1108
01:32:48,590 --> 01:32:59,310
I think it was the board and the superintendent, you had it in your mind that these two schools were closing and no matter what anyone said, it wasn't going to happen.

1109
01:32:59,910 --> 01:33:10,550
And so to that speaker who just spoke virtually, there is no townfall, there is no listening to the community in my opinion.

1110
01:33:11,570 --> 01:33:15,610
And the decision has been made before we get here.

1111
01:33:15,610 --> 01:33:26,030
And the decision is the decision that's been in my experience in the last 15 years of being involved in these types of situations.

1112
01:33:27,050 --> 01:33:38,870
I think it's irresponsible to raise the budget. I really do believe it's irresponsible for all of you to raise the budget not with the community close to schools.

1113
01:33:39,470 --> 01:33:41,990
Why do we have to close to schools? Why couldn't we close one?

1114
01:33:41,990 --> 01:33:49,950
And why are we keeping money in the bank in case we have to respond to the pandemic and open a school back up?

1115
01:33:50,130 --> 01:33:52,270
That just doesn't make fiscal sense.

1116
01:33:53,130 --> 01:34:00,130
You know, rearranging the routes for transportation and then having to rearrange it all back just doesn't make sense.

1117
01:34:00,810 --> 01:34:09,110
On the back of students with disabilities, it is irresponsible to shuffle these kids around

1118
01:34:09,110 --> 01:34:13,650
to have them shuffled around potentially again in September.

1119
01:34:14,510 --> 01:34:18,570
And, you know, I know three quarters of you don't like me.

1120
01:34:18,810 --> 01:34:19,990
I've been here a long time.

1121
01:34:20,110 --> 01:34:21,950
I haven't been to these meetings in a long time.

1122
01:34:22,490 --> 01:34:27,050
But I couldn't stay away because I am so frustrated

1123
01:34:27,050 --> 01:34:29,970
with the lack of accountability,

1124
01:34:30,430 --> 01:34:33,610
the lack of assertiveness that this board,

1125
01:34:34,230 --> 01:34:37,770
the lack of holding the superintendent to task

1126
01:34:37,770 --> 01:34:44,170
and making decisions on the half of those who voted for you.

1127
01:34:45,170 --> 01:34:47,170
I'm really, I'm very, very frustrated.

1128
01:34:49,390 --> 01:34:50,510
Five seconds left.

1129
01:34:56,820 --> 01:35:04,020
Reserve that you are planning for, you know, this budget vote for next year.

1130
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:06,320
Why does it have to be so robust?

1131
01:35:06,600 --> 01:35:12,620
Why do we have to put $2 million into reserve and then plan on increasing it $2 million every year?

1132
01:35:12,620 --> 01:35:21,440
doesn't make sense. People have lost their job. People are struggling and the school districts

1133
01:35:21,440 --> 01:35:31,700
are sitting pretty and funding reserves. As someone said to me today, I would rather have that

1134
01:35:31,700 --> 01:35:36,180
money in my pocket, not in your pocket. Thank you.

1135
01:35:38,580 --> 01:35:42,940
I can only say that I do not believe anybody in this board has any animus towards humans

1136
01:35:42,940 --> 01:35:46,320
and so far, and I apologize if you really believe that is true.

1137
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:51,560
Certainly people are allowed to have a different opinion, I'm sure you would agree with that.

1138
01:35:52,180 --> 01:35:56,900
So just because we may not agree with your opinion that you spoke with today does not mean

1139
01:35:56,900 --> 01:36:01,780
that any sort of animus towards you is just, so I just want to make that clear.

1140
01:36:18,010 --> 01:36:24,150
I would like to touch on what some of the other speakers have said tonight, I have been

1141
01:36:24,150 --> 01:36:31,110
updating and I have been following the finances and I said years ago, enrollment declining,

1142
01:36:31,270 --> 01:36:32,530
are we looking at closing buildings.

1143
01:36:32,530 --> 01:36:37,550
So I understand that the concept and the need to do that, but because of everything,

1144
01:36:38,170 --> 01:36:42,150
everybody's been through this year, and we don't know if September will be normal,

1145
01:36:42,630 --> 01:36:44,970
of course, definitely would have been a good idea.

1146
01:36:45,650 --> 01:36:51,790
And yes, you know, we are concerned about putting away $2 million into this reserve fund.

1147
01:36:52,270 --> 01:36:55,150
I think that's kind of how we got ourselves in trouble in the first place

1148
01:36:55,150 --> 01:36:59,250
when we were letting our building's deteriorate and staffing money away and reserves

1149
01:36:59,250 --> 01:37:01,770
and we got to what it is by the state control office.

1150
01:37:02,270 --> 01:37:03,950
I don't want to see us go down that path again.

1151
01:37:05,230 --> 01:37:07,990
A simple question, I think I asked these two meetings

1152
01:37:07,990 --> 01:37:11,210
though of the 5.2 million we saved last year

1153
01:37:11,210 --> 01:37:13,190
because our buildings were physically closed.

1154
01:37:13,690 --> 01:37:15,910
There was 4.5 million that were shifted

1155
01:37:15,910 --> 01:37:17,910
to cover the repairs at Ocean Avenue,

1156
01:37:18,550 --> 01:37:20,870
for which there is a pending insurance claim.

1157
01:37:21,250 --> 01:37:24,790
Has that claim been resolved or denied yet?

1158
01:37:25,770 --> 01:37:26,910
No, it's still pending.

1159
01:37:27,170 --> 01:37:27,890
Still pending, all right.

1160
01:37:27,890 --> 01:37:34,070
So it's still pending and I would like to know if somewhat we look at where that money

1161
01:37:34,070 --> 01:37:35,070
would be going.

1162
01:37:35,310 --> 01:37:39,870
It's potentially, I'm not sure exactly what the term or how much we're asking on the insurance

1163
01:37:39,870 --> 01:37:46,550
claim, but potentially up to $4.5 million, which is a pretty hefty amount, will come back

1164
01:37:46,550 --> 01:37:47,010
for it.

1165
01:37:48,050 --> 01:37:54,750
I also spoke about this and I know we don't know the savings from this school year yet, but

1166
01:37:54,750 --> 01:38:00,030
I'm going to say there will be some savings because of the way we've operated, I mean we have six schools

1167
01:38:00,790 --> 01:38:03,250
Six grades that's 36 grades I

1168
01:38:03,250 --> 01:38:08,070
If we didn't have when you start eating up and each one may seem like nothing, but it's going to add up

1169
01:38:08,070 --> 01:38:15,190
To money that we did not have to spend so I would like to know where and how that will be accounted for and

1170
01:38:15,190 --> 01:38:16,490
again, I add

1171
01:38:17,130 --> 01:38:21,290
And clearly closing the two buildings with a little controversial and up to me air

1172
01:38:21,290 --> 01:38:29,030
But if you're going to go ahead with the plan you've had all along and close those two buildings for next school year, where is some type of revenue?

1173
01:38:29,430 --> 01:38:37,770
We're looking at a transportation hub. We're paying to store our buses, to pay the store our buses at least thought and have

1174
01:38:37,770 --> 01:38:44,470
two empty buildings that are not producing any revenue and not being used, you know, is ludicrous and building a

1175
01:38:44,470 --> 01:38:47,350
transportation hub on top of it at this point,

1176
01:38:47,390 --> 01:38:50,290
while displacing students and families.

1177
01:38:51,030 --> 01:38:54,670
And I tried to follow the slide on the bus thing.

1178
01:38:55,390 --> 01:38:56,750
I personally know at the distance

1179
01:38:56,750 --> 01:38:58,670
and family distance, and it's historically

1180
01:38:58,670 --> 01:39:01,390
about 85% workers, because it's literally

1181
01:39:01,390 --> 01:39:03,770
a neighborhood school with houses all around it.

1182
01:39:04,410 --> 01:39:06,670
So anybody from that neighborhood that's

1183
01:39:06,670 --> 01:39:08,130
going to go to Austin is obviously

1184
01:39:08,130 --> 01:39:09,610
going to end up on a bus.

1185
01:39:11,010 --> 01:39:13,410
I hope that's being taken into consideration

1186
01:39:13,410 --> 01:39:17,570
as you can save money, but you're sending money on the bus thing.

1187
01:39:18,190 --> 01:39:22,450
And I also noted in previous meetings, it seems like we're budgeting too much money

1188
01:39:22,450 --> 01:39:24,910
for maintaining two buildings that won't be used.

1189
01:39:25,530 --> 01:39:30,610
And you have to catch up the heat because she's in half damage, but it keeps the heat on 50.

1190
01:39:31,070 --> 01:39:36,910
It's not like having students where you have to keep it on 70, 75, I would imagine.

1191
01:39:37,530 --> 01:39:42,390
You keep it low, you protect any areas that you think might need more insulation

1192
01:39:43,830 --> 01:39:49,290
So it seems like we're still budgeting too much personnel and too much the maintenance

1193
01:39:49,290 --> 01:39:53,110
of buildings that will really not be in use.

1194
01:39:54,050 --> 01:40:00,530
So to me, it seems like millions of dollars that seem to be in the wrong place here.

1195
01:40:01,210 --> 01:40:05,090
And I think that that really needs to be addressed because the community is paying attention.

1196
01:40:05,590 --> 01:40:06,110
Thank you.

1197
01:40:21,820 --> 01:40:27,480
So I've missed a lot of budget meetings this year due to work compromises, so I just have

1198
01:40:27,480 --> 01:40:27,980
a question.

1199
01:40:28,780 --> 01:40:35,380
Our budget last year was $172,750,000 and $759, correct?

1200
01:40:35,380 --> 01:40:36,320
I

1201
01:40:39,900 --> 01:40:47,580
see the exchange is served to last year for $97,536,161.67.

1202
01:40:49,560 --> 01:40:53,260
So, where is that $75,000 difference in the budget?

1203
01:40:56,420 --> 01:40:58,820
So, expenses to date as the report was printed.

1204
01:40:59,680 --> 01:41:01,160
So, it's not end of your expenses.

1205
01:41:01,380 --> 01:41:02,860
June 30th, those expenses will be yours.

1206
01:41:03,880 --> 01:41:04,380
Okay.

1207
01:41:04,880 --> 01:41:09,540
So, how would we find an accounting of that missing $75,000,000 from last year's expenses?

1208
01:41:09,540 --> 01:41:14,600
It's this current year expenses that we're in right now, so the year is not done yet.

1209
01:41:15,600 --> 01:41:16,080
Okay.

1210
01:41:16,740 --> 01:41:19,860
Do we have a projected outlook for the rest of the year?

1211
01:41:21,970 --> 01:41:25,210
We do have projections and that's part of the fund balance analysis we said.

1212
01:41:25,850 --> 01:41:30,410
So there's the revenue side and expense side, those two together, we're looking at a neutral

1213
01:41:30,410 --> 01:41:31,310
year for the year.

1214
01:41:31,530 --> 01:41:35,410
So we're looking at being basically equal on expenses revenues.

1215
01:41:35,410 --> 01:41:42,410
So, there was no money left over from last but your budget is what you're saying.

1216
01:41:42,830 --> 01:41:50,010
Even though many of these columns, state, we had zero and we had $190,000 budgeted.

1217
01:41:52,820 --> 01:41:57,800
Again, that those, you're referencing a can payment, I believe $189,000,000 is a tax

1218
01:41:57,800 --> 01:41:58,600
and security payment.

1219
01:41:59,180 --> 01:42:04,760
When the tax and security note is due in June, we pay the interest when the note is due.

1220
01:42:04,760 --> 01:42:09,400
So there's zero expenses until the notice A and then we pay the interest on that bill.

1221
01:42:09,820 --> 01:42:10,300
Okay.

1222
01:42:10,600 --> 01:42:14,760
And what about all the other expenses that were so much lower because the school is for close?

1223
01:42:18,540 --> 01:42:22,120
I don't know if you're confusing the current fiscal year or the prior fiscal year.

1224
01:42:22,200 --> 01:42:26,420
I'm looking at 2021 expenditures.

1225
01:42:26,640 --> 01:42:29,380
And that's the year we're in now.

1226
01:42:30,040 --> 01:42:33,240
So we're still spending money.

1227
01:42:33,240 --> 01:42:38,220
I understand that if they're projected outlook for the rest of the year is what I'm asking.

1228
01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:46,860
So there are appropriation status reports that are given to the board and there are many

1229
01:42:46,860 --> 01:42:53,660
public and as the year goes on, those appropriation status reports are updating.

1230
01:42:54,780 --> 01:42:55,680
Okay, thank you.

1231
01:42:57,750 --> 01:42:58,030
Thank you.

1232
01:43:07,630 --> 01:43:12,390
We're on the website.

1233
01:43:14,910 --> 01:43:16,230
We're on the website.

1234
01:43:16,770 --> 01:43:18,810
Yeah, very new.

1235
01:43:19,130 --> 01:43:20,590
And in 11.

1236
01:43:21,830 --> 01:43:23,330
Part of part of board.

1237
01:43:23,530 --> 01:43:25,450
So what you needed like when you

1238
01:43:25,450 --> 01:43:27,170
reconcile a huge board meeting that's

1239
01:43:27,170 --> 01:43:27,790
I'm sorry about those.

1240
01:43:28,010 --> 01:43:29,750
Okay, I see that.

1241
01:43:29,790 --> 01:43:30,250
Okay, I apologize.

1242
01:43:30,250 --> 01:43:31,790
I don't know what you were talking about.

1243
01:43:34,230 --> 01:43:39,150
So I just wanted to ask about, again,

1244
01:43:39,430 --> 01:43:42,310
I wanted to piggyback a time instead

1245
01:43:42,310 --> 01:43:44,170
about funding reserves and taxing us,

1246
01:43:45,010 --> 01:43:47,450
especially when we're supposed to get a life of tax

1247
01:43:47,450 --> 01:43:53,650
to increase clothing building with everybody retiring

1248
01:43:53,650 --> 01:43:55,650
because they gave them a really great incentive.

1249
01:43:55,650 --> 01:44:01,590
This is, it's almost, it can't be justified and it's almost shocking.

1250
01:44:01,950 --> 01:44:08,390
I honestly can't put how I feel into words that you guys would present a budget this

1251
01:44:08,390 --> 01:44:09,290
high.

1252
01:44:10,070 --> 01:44:14,910
If you look at it, you were saying that it would be, our last budget was about $172 million.

1253
01:44:15,910 --> 01:44:18,510
If we hadn't closed buildings, it would be at $1.80.

1254
01:44:19,450 --> 01:44:19,790
What?

1255
01:44:20,350 --> 01:44:23,450
I've had it meaning before we've never increased that much.

1256
01:44:23,450 --> 01:44:31,770
We have low enrollment, we're getting a slightly increased, we're getting a few state A and you're claiming we would be at 180.

1257
01:44:32,210 --> 01:44:40,470
I think that means we're presenting and I think it's sort of confusing our community and taking advantage of their connectivity.

1258
01:44:41,890 --> 01:44:44,430
So I'm shocked that you guys are doing that.

1259
01:44:45,070 --> 01:44:48,370
I also want to reference the boom truck and that, you know,

1260
01:44:48,570 --> 01:44:50,110
the expectation hub.

1261
01:44:50,390 --> 01:44:51,270
Is that still happening?

1262
01:44:51,610 --> 01:44:54,170
The last time you guys spoke about it was when you presented it.

1263
01:44:54,770 --> 01:44:55,970
Where is it in the budget?

1264
01:44:56,590 --> 01:44:57,150
Is it happening?

1265
01:44:57,470 --> 01:44:59,870
The increases that you spoke about during building days.

1266
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:03,760
Security, again, I'd like a status on that.

1267
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:31,420
And then I don't know if it was last week or the week before, we talked about if the budget failed, you would have to make draconian measures. So dramatic. I asked you, did you make draconian matters? Did you make draconian choices and decisions when you created this budget? When you look to save the community any money, what measures did you take? Because I'm not sure.

1268
01:45:31,420 --> 01:45:35,480
that I see any savings, even at the creation of your budget.

1269
01:45:36,640 --> 01:45:40,420
I know you're saying you dropped it down from 174 to 172.

1270
01:45:41,500 --> 01:45:42,580
That's not business.

1271
01:45:42,880 --> 01:45:45,060
It's crazy that you think that this is okay.

1272
01:45:48,210 --> 01:45:49,290
And that's what I have to say.

1273
01:45:49,590 --> 01:45:50,030
See what it's like.

1274
01:46:18,120 --> 01:46:19,040
I'll get it wrong, everyone.

1275
01:46:21,400 --> 01:46:21,700
I've been called.

1276
01:46:27,160 --> 01:46:29,740
Mariah Hewer, 23 Carlisle Drive.

1277
01:46:30,960 --> 01:46:31,660
It's okay.

1278
01:46:31,920 --> 01:46:33,260
Nobody can help with my name correctly.

1279
01:46:34,180 --> 01:46:35,480
Just don't ask me this thing.

1280
01:46:37,550 --> 01:46:38,030
So,

1281
01:46:40,150 --> 01:46:45,610
Mr. Howard, I would like to thank you and your team for the hard work and the dedication

1282
01:46:45,610 --> 01:46:51,450
that you have shown our district in creating the budget that you have created.

1283
01:46:51,910 --> 01:46:53,630
Not everybody agrees with it.

1284
01:46:53,870 --> 01:46:58,390
That's okay, but you guys have been working really hard and you can tell that you've been

1285
01:46:58,390 --> 01:47:03,250
doing the best that you can to come up with something that was for our district.

1286
01:47:03,250 --> 01:47:03,810
I

1287
01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:13,420
have been looking through the budget and I was curious if you could point out where the

1288
01:47:13,420 --> 01:47:22,280
middle school counselor for the fifth grade is if we are to go to the closure of the two

1289
01:47:22,280 --> 01:47:23,140
elementary schools.

1290
01:47:26,370 --> 01:47:27,770
I don't know if there's a line item.

1291
01:47:28,650 --> 01:47:31,410
I forgot what the codes are for the schools.

1292
01:47:31,530 --> 01:47:32,350
I used to know that.

1293
01:47:33,410 --> 01:47:36,830
And I didn't know I was giving through and I didn't see anything on that.

1294
01:47:36,830 --> 01:47:44,190
I mean, you can short circuit it. My real question is whether or not there's going to be an individual

1295
01:47:45,250 --> 01:47:54,070
counselor for each best grade in each middle school or if it's going to be as it was proposed previously to be a

1296
01:47:54,070 --> 01:47:54,970
half-time position.

1297
01:47:57,870 --> 01:47:58,870
Did you have any other questions?

1298
01:47:59,870 --> 01:48:01,490
I have a comment.

1299
01:48:03,390 --> 01:48:05,190
So do you want me to thank my comment?

1300
01:48:07,450 --> 01:48:11,530
Before we came here to Northport, we were in a different district.

1301
01:48:11,970 --> 01:48:19,490
My children were in the elementary school in that district, and the board and superintendent

1302
01:48:19,490 --> 01:48:30,770
voted to do the peer-to-tax, levitate, and they needed a super-majority vote, and we worked

1303
01:48:30,770 --> 01:48:36,150
tirelessly to try to get that. A lot of the school was supportive of that, the school community,

1304
01:48:36,350 --> 01:48:41,550
but the general community was not supportive of it, and we wound up not being able to make our

1305
01:48:41,550 --> 01:48:43,170
60% supermajority vote.

1306
01:48:45,570 --> 01:48:53,330
And as a result, the entire music program was lost. My daughter was about

1307
01:48:53,330 --> 01:48:59,210
to enter fourth grade. She was been playing an instrument, and that whole experience was gone.

1308
01:49:00,270 --> 01:49:07,670
They focused on sports, so the lacrosse team was still there, and that was in full force.

1309
01:49:08,030 --> 01:49:14,290
And very well funded, not only by the school, but also by the parents, but there was no

1310
01:49:14,290 --> 01:49:17,570
option for anyone who wanted to do music.

1311
01:49:17,950 --> 01:49:22,110
And we also lost a portion of the elementary language.

1312
01:49:22,330 --> 01:49:25,150
They had started language and elementary at that time.

1313
01:49:25,710 --> 01:49:26,870
But we lost it.

1314
01:49:27,910 --> 01:49:34,190
It doesn't seem like a big deal but in a district like Northport to lose something like music

1315
01:49:34,190 --> 01:49:38,810
as we've kind of experienced this past year with COVID is devastating.

1316
01:49:39,290 --> 01:49:45,470
It's devastating to the students that are already in the programs that are looking to go

1317
01:49:45,470 --> 01:49:51,970
to college with those programs, devastating to kids who are delayed a year so that their success

1318
01:49:51,970 --> 01:49:56,570
in the future is limited in music where they might otherwise be involved in that.

1319
01:49:57,010 --> 01:50:01,150
There are real losses that happen when we don't pass the budget.

1320
01:50:02,110 --> 01:50:09,770
I know the community is very concerned about the increase in the budget.

1321
01:50:10,390 --> 01:50:17,450
Unfortunately, in order to continue forward as Mr. Howard explained earlier,

1322
01:50:17,450 --> 01:50:24,730
We need to make sure that we don't keep our budget at zero percent increase every year because then we're never going to have any money in the future.

1323
01:50:26,910 --> 01:50:36,670
I would just like to balance what's been said here tonight with the fact that if a budget doesn't pass, it can be very detrimental for a district.

1324
01:50:37,950 --> 01:50:39,370
And that was my comment.

1325
01:50:39,370 --> 01:50:48,990
So in terms of the position, we know that that's something that is discussed here during the staffing phase.

1326
01:50:49,510 --> 01:50:55,490
You know that some feedback from the task force, you know, they have expressed the same.

1327
01:50:55,710 --> 01:51:01,490
So that's part of what we're discussing tonight, you know, where we can find the funds for that, for that other position.

1328
01:51:08,790 --> 01:51:17,390
So that means that brings us to our agenda where we're going to take a motion to go into

1329
01:51:17,390 --> 01:51:20,990
committee of a whole and I'll actually make that motion to go to committee of the whole.

1330
01:51:21,270 --> 01:51:22,410
Thank you.

1331
01:51:22,770 --> 01:51:23,450
All those in favor?

1332
01:51:25,410 --> 01:51:27,190
Trustee Lachorne and Trustee McCullough, please.

1333
01:51:32,070 --> 01:51:38,190
Okay, so that means we get to debate or discuss with the board to let you, is anybody

1334
01:51:38,190 --> 01:51:39,610
who would like to get in touch with slide, please?

1335
01:51:40,090 --> 01:51:46,890
I'm just, I'm going to, I'll just, before I, you know, before I think we collectively go

1336
01:51:48,730 --> 01:51:53,350
to the typical one-by-line budget stuff, I'm going to just ask some questions generally

1337
01:51:53,970 --> 01:52:01,790
presentation, right? And kind of just the sense of a couple of things that we talked about during the presentation.

1338
01:52:02,210 --> 01:52:11,550
Rob, when do we become aware of the final state aid runs that show this increase through R.A.

1339
01:52:12,550 --> 01:52:15,310
They came in late Tuesday night,

1340
01:52:17,600 --> 01:52:22,700
you know, around nine o'clock, something like that. And then it's really,

1341
01:52:23,440 --> 01:52:30,480
You know, we took yesterday to sort of decipher, you know, what it means, and actually, you know,

1342
01:52:30,540 --> 01:52:31,800
there's still some of that going on.

1343
01:52:32,260 --> 01:52:34,080
You know, foundation eight is pretty straightforward.

1344
01:52:34,680 --> 01:52:36,770
You know, it's pretty much discretionary.

1345
01:52:37,400 --> 01:52:42,960
But as, you know, as to how it laid out, something like the U.P.K., which is included, you know,

1346
01:52:43,080 --> 01:52:47,740
when, you know, including, say, a new day, but it has a very, very specific purpose.

1347
01:52:49,480 --> 01:52:54,740
and, you know, has to stay in that very specific lane and can't be used for other purposes.

1348
01:52:55,600 --> 01:53:02,800
So it really just takes some understanding of exactly what's in there and what its purpose is

1349
01:53:02,800 --> 01:53:05,320
and how it can be utilized.

1350
01:53:06,180 --> 01:53:10,020
So we kind of get a Tuesday night.

1351
01:53:10,700 --> 01:53:12,600
We're digging into it yesterday, right?

1352
01:53:12,600 --> 01:53:13,120
in the day, right?

1353
01:53:13,540 --> 01:53:13,640
Yeah.

1354
01:53:14,280 --> 01:53:18,840
The New Day article comes out yesterday, one day, right?

1355
01:53:20,420 --> 01:53:22,000
Let's just say this, right?

1356
01:53:22,380 --> 01:53:22,440
Yeah.

1357
01:53:23,440 --> 01:53:27,220
Did we know that we were getting this additional state

1358
01:53:27,220 --> 01:53:28,540
age before Tuesday night?

1359
01:53:28,800 --> 01:53:32,420
So the issue with something like that is this, right?

1360
01:53:32,600 --> 01:53:36,180
So in a general year, there's the governor's run,

1361
01:53:36,680 --> 01:53:41,280
and then we know that as you go through the process of the state

1362
01:53:41,280 --> 01:53:46,560
goes through their process of putting their budget together, we have come to just going

1363
01:53:46,560 --> 01:53:51,240
to use the word we in school districts have become conditioned to expecting that there's

1364
01:53:51,240 --> 01:53:59,680
going to be more money given. But that's not a natural level, right? So it could be that

1365
01:53:59,680 --> 01:54:06,620
they're going to say, well, there's $2 billion for school funds. And it might mean for one

1366
01:54:06,620 --> 01:54:12,620
district that they're going to get $4 million based on the criteria that the budget and

1367
01:54:12,620 --> 01:54:20,800
the funding is created. For another district they may get very little bit of money. So there's

1368
01:54:20,800 --> 01:54:27,240
always a macro discussion going on, right? But until you get that actual state aid run and you have

1369
01:54:27,240 --> 01:54:33,660
a chance to digest it, you don't really know the end of that district by district. But this is this

1370
01:54:33,660 --> 01:54:40,860
to use your term and another one of this to highlight these abnormal, I think, in the memo

1371
01:54:40,860 --> 01:54:46,660
he sent out last night, and I think he said unprecedented, we did not know that we were

1372
01:54:46,660 --> 01:54:52,430
getting this kind of a budget to worry, right?

1373
01:54:52,750 --> 01:54:52,910
No.

1374
01:54:53,170 --> 01:54:58,730
What you're speaking of is what we have a sense of because we've been through school budgets

1375
01:54:58,730 --> 01:55:03,270
here over here, over here, and the governor released his run which is what we base all our

1376
01:55:03,270 --> 01:55:10,790
initial projections on, right, and subsequent to that the legislators get their hands on it and there's a

1377
01:55:10,790 --> 01:55:19,970
negotiation and then almost always inquiries, right? Yes, that's been the trend many years. But it in this is beyond that general

1378
01:55:19,970 --> 01:55:28,330
expectation that we would see an increase because every single year that's the way that it goes, we didn't know we were

1379
01:55:28,330 --> 01:55:35,010
getting this kind of increase. Right. So how would you know? No, it's not okay.

1380
01:55:35,550 --> 01:55:40,950
Did many districts on Long Island and throughout New York see similar kinds of

1381
01:55:40,950 --> 01:55:48,730
increases? Some saw significantly more, some saw less. I mean I think everybody saw

1382
01:55:48,730 --> 01:55:57,370
more than what they had expected but but it really very very gone again as I

1383
01:55:57,370 --> 01:56:02,390
I said the criteria that we use to apply the funds district by district.

1384
01:56:02,970 --> 01:56:03,050
Okay.

1385
01:56:03,510 --> 01:56:08,570
So it's a, uh, nobody knows what's coming out of all this when they do this.

1386
01:56:08,730 --> 01:56:08,810
Right.

1387
01:56:09,230 --> 01:56:12,470
Sometimes we expect it typically our increase is pretty nominal.

1388
01:56:12,870 --> 01:56:16,510
Usually not very much, but it's always a little bit more speaking.

1389
01:56:16,790 --> 01:56:18,950
There's only some discussion about what we're going to do with it,

1390
01:56:18,990 --> 01:56:22,270
but it usually is not an astronomical figure.

1391
01:56:23,010 --> 01:56:27,050
Um, I think everybody's reaction to it here.

1392
01:56:27,050 --> 01:56:30,110
and other districts around the state could in new days,

1393
01:56:30,350 --> 01:56:34,530
pretty surprising, and I think it is certainly on purpose at it.

1394
01:56:38,500 --> 01:56:44,140
So, you know, to speak to the A because the information

1395
01:56:44,140 --> 01:56:50,280
that's out there can be so wildly misconstrued and misused.

1396
01:56:51,180 --> 01:56:53,640
The amount of money that's in this aid component

1397
01:56:53,640 --> 01:57:02,000
that represents unfettered $8, but we can infuse into our regular general fund budget.

1398
01:57:02,160 --> 01:57:07,260
If you use as we wish, it's $986,000, all right?

1399
01:57:09,990 --> 01:57:13,350
So, you're talking about the aid and the discretionary fund?

1400
01:57:13,590 --> 01:57:16,630
The money that we can use in our regular budget as we wish.

1401
01:57:16,830 --> 01:57:25,170
As Mr. Howard said, foundation is very discretionary and it's also, you know,

1402
01:57:25,170 --> 01:57:28,150
It's also the most desired

1403
01:57:31,380 --> 01:57:36,240
area, funding, because, again, it does provide the most discretion,

1404
01:57:36,480 --> 01:57:40,300
whereas a lot of the other aids that are out there are expense-based aids.

1405
01:57:40,620 --> 01:57:47,420
So whatever much we use, the prior year, is an indicator of how much we might get the next year.

1406
01:57:48,100 --> 01:57:51,240
So there's always that pension.

1407
01:57:51,400 --> 01:57:57,800
Where foundation aid is basically, here's a, that with no conditions.

1408
01:57:57,800 --> 01:58:01,040
So that amount of money is up on the screen right now, right?

1409
01:58:01,480 --> 01:58:04,120
$986,000 to $137,000, right?

1410
01:58:05,960 --> 01:58:10,860
Correct, so just to kind of reframe from the news day conversation where our public is

1411
01:58:10,860 --> 01:58:15,580
made aware of, that's the middle line where it says total, that shows a $2.2 million increase.

1412
01:58:15,740 --> 01:58:18,080
That's per what the governor stated and news days reported.

1413
01:58:18,680 --> 01:58:23,020
But as I stated, universal pre-K is not a general fund expense or revenue.

1414
01:58:23,320 --> 01:58:27,500
That money is pulled aside, so the new money from UPK is not part of that equation.

1415
01:58:27,500 --> 01:58:34,300
So the actual dollars is $16.9 million and we budgeted $15.9 million last year.

1416
01:58:34,520 --> 01:58:41,740
So the budget to budget increase the school district is recognizing is $986, $986,000, $23,000,

1417
01:58:41,740 --> 01:58:44,240
increased not a $2.2 million increase.

1418
01:58:44,640 --> 01:58:48,260
There was a 6.2% of state aid increase which is very significant.

1419
01:58:48,700 --> 01:58:51,320
It is not a 14.7% increase of state aid.

1420
01:58:51,320 --> 01:58:59,640
Correct. So we have this $9.6,000 roughly, right, that we get this here. The additional

1421
01:58:59,640 --> 01:59:05,340
money is to the UPK program and that certainly benefits our community by being able to

1422
01:59:05,340 --> 01:59:11,200
expand the UPK offering here, but it does a little, it's nothing, correct me if I'm wrong,

1423
01:59:11,480 --> 01:59:17,540
who are annual general fund budget to operate the school district, right? So we get this, the

1424
01:59:17,540 --> 01:59:20,040
The real bump is roughly $986,000.

1425
01:59:21,080 --> 01:59:23,960
What do we do this year with that money?

1426
01:59:26,320 --> 01:59:28,360
We applied all of it to reducing the tax revenue.

1427
01:59:28,780 --> 01:59:30,800
Okay, so we took that entire increase

1428
01:59:31,720 --> 01:59:35,020
to state a $987,000 roughly,

1429
01:59:35,520 --> 01:59:37,220
and we turned it to our taxpayers

1430
01:59:37,220 --> 01:59:39,860
in the form of a lower tax revenue.

1431
01:59:40,180 --> 01:59:40,340
Correct?

1432
01:59:42,640 --> 01:59:42,800
Correct.

1433
01:59:47,390 --> 01:59:52,230
That's the representation of 1.31 down to 0.75, right?

1434
01:59:55,780 --> 01:59:57,380
0.75, it's going to be the level.

1435
02:00:01,280 --> 02:00:24,400
Yeah, so again, if you look at this slide here, right, we had the levy on March 25th. We were projecting at that time on 1.31% levy. And then you can see if you drop down to April 8th and you look at the green, the dollar change from 1.955 to 1.26.

1436
02:00:25,120 --> 02:00:33,260
And again, we applied the state A, well, the state A as a revenue has all been applied

1437
02:00:33,260 --> 02:00:35,580
and it reduced the level.

1438
02:00:36,320 --> 02:00:40,600
Right, so can you go to 22, Mr. Allen?

1439
02:00:41,960 --> 02:00:44,120
The LIPA projections,

1440
02:00:48,100 --> 02:00:48,620
thank you.

1441
02:00:49,440 --> 02:00:56,860
So this is the original graph is what we were projecting when we were trying to project

1442
02:00:56,860 --> 02:01:03,180
that what we thought our increases were going to be based on the best analysis that we

1443
02:01:03,180 --> 02:01:08,020
could get out of working with the town of Huntington to produce these projections.

1444
02:01:08,200 --> 02:01:17,020
This one prior to the life of settlement, and this is what we projected in June 1.

1445
02:01:17,120 --> 02:01:20,460
We were able to pull together a zero budget, right?

1446
02:01:21,140 --> 02:01:28,500
We had two, based on all of the planning that we've done to produce this particular budget,

1447
02:01:29,180 --> 02:01:35,560
and the complete application of the additional state aid that we received in the eternity

1448
02:01:35,560 --> 02:01:41,100
tax pay in the form of a lower tax level, we get to a $55,000, correct?

1449
02:01:44,200 --> 02:01:50,460
Can you go to slide 4?

1450
02:01:56,630 --> 02:01:58,190
Which one is that I don't have numbers?

1451
02:01:59,130 --> 02:02:01,070
It's early in the presentation.

1452
02:02:01,550 --> 02:02:05,630
It's basically a series like that right there.

1453
02:02:06,510 --> 02:02:12,250
So, this looks like a slide that's just a visual aid

1454
02:02:12,250 --> 02:02:14,090
and it just shows a bunch of pictures on it

1455
02:02:14,090 --> 02:02:24,560
But the reality of what this slide is, is the story of this entire budget here, right?

1456
02:02:24,700 --> 02:02:31,040
And this is not just a budget visual way, the budget such crash that here has so many complicated

1457
02:02:31,040 --> 02:02:38,360
factors that have been in the work in this district, some of them for a decade, right?

1458
02:02:38,360 --> 02:02:48,300
And this budget represents a long-term plan to come together in a particular year to fuse

1459
02:02:48,300 --> 02:02:56,430
the life of settlement and the impacts from that with a plan that has been strategically

1460
02:02:56,430 --> 02:03:03,050
worked on for years to get ready to do what we need to do in the form of reorganizing this

1461
02:03:04,390 --> 02:03:12,710
That relates to what's on the screen that speaks to the environment and center, how would you do a fun balance?

1462
02:03:14,630 --> 02:03:17,910
The reorganization, like in all of these things.

1463
02:03:18,510 --> 02:03:25,790
So I appreciate the slide on visually, but it really does lay out how much is coming together in this particular budget.

1464
02:03:29,670 --> 02:03:32,910
So, you know, one thing that I would agree with Mr. Bedan on,

1465
02:03:37,500 --> 02:03:41,980
by a lot of things, is a need

1466
02:03:41,980 --> 02:03:42,820
for better PR.

1467
02:03:46,750 --> 02:03:54,530
But the PR that I think we need to do better right, is explaining how much is in this particular

1468
02:03:54,530 --> 02:04:01,050
year's budget, how much is that stake here, how much strategic planning has gone on for

1469
02:04:01,050 --> 02:04:08,990
years to turn all of these really complex factors that had the potential, any one of them by

1470
02:04:08,990 --> 02:04:13,530
them served to cause catastrophic damage to this community through schools and taxes,

1471
02:04:14,170 --> 02:04:15,350
to take all of this.

1472
02:04:16,150 --> 02:04:22,790
And with planning, knowing all this stuff was coming, to produce a budget that delivered

1473
02:04:22,790 --> 02:04:29,190
a zero last year and a $55 increase this year, while delivering the enhancements that we're

1474
02:04:29,190 --> 02:04:37,130
hear about in the coming hearing as part of this reorganization is exceptional.

1475
02:04:38,130 --> 02:04:42,410
It is staggering to me the kind of misinformation that is out there and to anybody who could

1476
02:04:42,410 --> 02:04:48,250
look at this and the kind of budget that we're looking at and the levy that we're

1477
02:04:48,250 --> 02:04:54,290
producing with the extraordinary efficiencies that we're going to begin to see and all of

1478
02:04:54,290 --> 02:05:00,610
enhancements that anybody can look at, yes, right, and have an ultimate deal.

1479
02:05:02,520 --> 02:05:08,180
Whether it's commentary here, or out in Facebook, or in a newspaper, or anywhere else,

1480
02:05:11,610 --> 02:05:12,130
proud of

1481
02:05:12,130 --> 02:05:17,290
this budget, and proud of the planning that has gone on in this district for years to produce

1482
02:05:17,290 --> 02:05:23,690
something like this, with all the doom that we, and the real projections that we had over

1483
02:05:23,690 --> 02:05:27,870
life are that we didn't produce a budget that looked anything like that. We've been able to pull that off.

1484
02:05:28,770 --> 02:05:31,790
Mr. Howard, honestly, thank you for the presentation tonight.

1485
02:05:31,970 --> 02:05:32,950
I am always smarter.

1486
02:05:34,050 --> 02:05:36,270
After hearing from you on any given night.

1487
02:05:39,210 --> 02:05:39,390
Yeah.

1488
02:05:41,590 --> 02:05:46,310
Trustee Buscarino said before that the budget is not typically that there's been experience.

1489
02:05:46,510 --> 02:05:49,310
But I am about as excited about this budget as I have ever been,

1490
02:05:49,430 --> 02:05:56,370
because I know what could have gone on in these years with this budget in this community in these schools.

1491
02:05:58,700 --> 02:06:06,120
The last thing I'm going to say is slide 24, if you don't mind, speak to the COVID contingency.

1492
02:06:12,760 --> 02:06:15,480
So $1

1493
02:06:19,120 --> 02:06:21,900
.9 million roughly is what this is, right?

1494
02:06:23,000 --> 02:06:26,560
This is what we're budgeting as a COVID contingency.

1495
02:06:26,840 --> 02:06:34,640
Should we need to re-execute on mass lockdown, remote, distancing of 60 again, and so on and

1496
02:06:34,640 --> 02:06:35,180
so forth?

1497
02:06:35,180 --> 02:06:42,220
So my impression just generally being here and on the ground knowing through the

1498
02:06:42,220 --> 02:06:47,480
gestation is that I'm going in a different direction than that, right?

1499
02:06:48,080 --> 02:06:51,840
CDC has previously said that the three-foot space was okay.

1500
02:06:53,440 --> 02:06:57,340
They suggested it would be okay to eliminate the plexiglass shields.

1501
02:06:57,520 --> 02:06:59,340
I'm sure there'll be more discussion about that.

1502
02:07:01,080 --> 02:07:06,200
But as of yesterday, there was an interview with the new CDC Director on ABC News,

1503
02:07:08,390 --> 02:07:09,250
who went

1504
02:07:09,250 --> 02:07:14,610
further to say that she expected nation schools for kids to be back in classrooms by the

1505
02:07:14,610 --> 02:07:14,910
fall.

1506
02:07:15,650 --> 02:07:20,130
We should anticipate by September that schools should be full-fledged in person.

1507
02:07:20,930 --> 02:07:25,110
With all of our children in classrooms, teachers, students, and their parents should be prepared

1508
02:07:25,110 --> 02:07:29,650
to say goodbye to remote learning regardless of whether their children have vaccinated or

1509
02:07:29,650 --> 02:07:35,610
not, and she went on to speak to even the variance that we're seeing, and the concern over

1510
02:07:35,610 --> 02:07:40,250
the variance, and that they have tremendous tolerance for all three vaccines that are currently

1511
02:07:40,250 --> 02:07:46,030
being used here, are believed to work effectively against those vaccines. That's our current

1512
02:07:46,030 --> 02:07:50,050
speed we see directly. We are adjusting expectations and

1513
02:07:52,220 --> 02:07:54,520
hoping to get and keep schools back

1514
02:07:54,520 --> 02:07:59,800
to normal. So in my opinion, I think it's important for us, and I think it's something we have to

1515
02:07:59,800 --> 02:08:06,370
do because what we don't know we don't know right but I think it's becoming increasingly

1516
02:08:07,170 --> 02:08:11,690
a sound judgment that we're going back and forth.

1517
02:08:14,670 --> 02:08:18,070
I have some budget asks when we get

1518
02:08:18,070 --> 02:08:21,950
into that I hope that really wasn't a presentation I'll give it up and I'll go back to my questions

1519
02:08:21,950 --> 02:08:23,550
later. Thank you. Thank you.

1520
02:08:23,850 --> 02:08:24,590
Vice President Newman.

1521
02:08:24,870 --> 02:08:26,650
Do you have questions?

1522
02:08:27,450 --> 02:08:31,890
I have some budget asks on two specific things but I really wanted to hammer out the

1523
02:08:31,890 --> 02:08:32,510
presentation.

1524
02:08:32,670 --> 02:08:33,930
Does anybody have any general stuff?

1525
02:08:35,350 --> 02:08:39,450
Do you think it's better for a man if we ask our presentation questions and then we get

1526
02:08:39,450 --> 02:08:39,970
into the budget?

1527
02:08:40,150 --> 02:08:41,090
Is that a better process?

1528
02:08:41,410 --> 02:08:45,510
Because I have a one or two budget presentation questions as well.

1529
02:08:45,770 --> 02:08:45,830
Sure.

1530
02:08:47,030 --> 02:08:47,450
Go ahead.

1531
02:08:47,610 --> 02:08:47,870
What are you?

1532
02:08:48,730 --> 02:08:50,350
Well, I defer to.

1533
02:08:51,410 --> 02:08:55,490
Well, I'll take the presentation first and then I guess we'll do the budget.

1534
02:08:55,730 --> 02:08:57,330
So if I present the new one, all right.

1535
02:08:57,470 --> 02:08:57,650
Thank you.

1536
02:08:58,590 --> 02:08:58,690
Thank you.

1537
02:09:03,370 --> 02:09:03,890
I

1538
02:09:06,800 --> 02:09:11,380
just am wondering and the presentation question, but it's also perhaps a good question.

1539
02:09:11,520 --> 02:09:18,440
I know we were, you were discussing these mild changes and that the board can do it or

1540
02:09:18,440 --> 02:09:20,540
that is a member of the community, that's attempting to do it.

1541
02:09:21,200 --> 02:09:27,300
One room is, do you want to have a conversation about the difference between kindergarten

1542
02:09:44,680 --> 02:09:54,100
I'm just wondering if we're going to do that, we may want to look at making elementary schools

1543
02:09:54,100 --> 02:09:55,440
that we were saying rather than having them

1544
02:09:55,440 --> 02:09:56,200
in your garden would be different.

1545
02:09:57,040 --> 02:09:58,980
So I just think that that should be something

1546
02:09:58,980 --> 02:09:59,900
we should be thinking about.

1547
02:10:00,600 --> 02:10:03,700
And that's, you know, finding out what that was all about,

1548
02:10:04,100 --> 02:10:06,240
to just change it, so it's all the same.

1549
02:10:07,480 --> 02:10:10,980
Additionally, the UPCK, you know, you're gonna round too long

1550
02:10:10,980 --> 02:10:12,980
when you can say things like this,

1551
02:10:13,040 --> 02:10:14,520
but when UPCK just became a thing,

1552
02:10:15,340 --> 02:10:18,480
I sat on a committee that made the protocol

1553
02:10:18,480 --> 02:10:21,100
for how we handled the UPCK money that we could see

1554
02:10:21,560 --> 02:10:26,780
and the $69,000 that might get involved in what we get to do in order to use that here,

1555
02:10:26,820 --> 02:10:30,400
so I am delighted that finally that definitely comes.

1556
02:10:30,940 --> 02:10:35,260
We had to use a lottery and integrate it with the specialist program that we have, and

1557
02:10:35,260 --> 02:10:39,520
I think it's the only fee, and it serves a real purpose here, so I'm glad to see that this

1558
02:10:39,520 --> 02:10:45,720
is going up, and I think I agree with what we're all talking about to talk about the

1559
02:10:45,720 --> 02:10:50,700
relationship because, no matter how we stay this is confusing, and people have to remember

1560
02:10:50,700 --> 02:10:57,700
than that 78 to 82% of every budget is postponed now, and all of our contracts, all of that,

1561
02:10:59,140 --> 02:11:04,000
start, get about a 2% raise every year, so if you think about that for a moment, and

1562
02:11:04,000 --> 02:11:08,260
then you add the benefits where we know this year, even though we have 70 less employees,

1563
02:11:09,700 --> 02:11:11,960
we still went up in those areas.

1564
02:11:12,720 --> 02:11:18,120
So having a zero budget, not the same as what you would do to budget in your home, so while

1565
02:11:18,120 --> 02:11:22,420
I appreciate, last year we were able to take the money that we could spend and use that

1566
02:11:22,420 --> 02:11:23,300
to give a zero.

1567
02:11:23,980 --> 02:11:27,440
This year, that's not the case and I thought that you made a very good presentation

1568
02:11:27,440 --> 02:11:33,220
to show, you know, we reserved your funding by understanding, so if we get to the end of

1569
02:11:33,220 --> 02:11:36,620
the year and there aren't, there is no understanding, there is no money put into reserve.

1570
02:11:37,480 --> 02:11:41,880
And looking at your sign phone down, once in your unassigned, those are your savings account.

1571
02:11:42,460 --> 02:11:46,460
And the sign phone down is lowering the levy and that's keeping that model.

1572
02:11:47,000 --> 02:11:51,660
We have talked about the heavy mass because it used to be higher, and not that someone

1573
02:11:51,660 --> 02:11:55,520
mentioned something about the audit, but that part was provided to be bought that down,

1574
02:11:55,640 --> 02:11:59,640
because those things are completely, we pull one's red in effect for the others, and I think

1575
02:11:59,640 --> 02:12:04,980
the problem is it is complicated, and supervised lies over, like, you know, sometimes, I hear

1576
02:12:04,980 --> 02:12:11,620
child over our future, you know, because it's confusing, and I think we need to explain

1577
02:12:11,620 --> 02:12:19,060
is better so the community understands that nobody comes here and says let's not you know my goal

1578
02:12:19,060 --> 02:12:25,740
every time I'm here I want the most opportunities for kids I don't want to waste money and I want

1579
02:12:25,740 --> 02:12:30,860
it to be the best possible price because I understand my family was directly affected by all the

1580
02:12:30,860 --> 02:12:36,180
management of one-third of their salamah has been making one-third of what it makes since COVID started

1581
02:12:36,180 --> 02:12:40,780
so I'm not missing saying my family has been impacted financially I understand what it's like to not

1582
02:12:40,780 --> 02:12:45,960
to make choices and I think goodness, I don't have three kids in college like I would have

1583
02:12:45,960 --> 02:12:51,000
another time in my life. But we have to be able to make sure we're talking about

1584
02:12:52,080 --> 02:12:56,380
facts and issues and real things and understanding that if every employee is getting a 2%

1585
02:12:56,380 --> 02:13:02,460
and 3% every year, how could it possibly stay the same? And then you have other factors that aren't

1586
02:13:02,460 --> 02:13:09,180
in there. We are losing your money and doing the fact of it. And I just hope that we can maybe do

1587
02:13:09,180 --> 02:13:14,440
a better job of explaining something very complicated so that we can help the community

1588
02:13:14,440 --> 02:13:19,160
understand what we're trying to do. And I want to thank you as well as I feel. I always

1589
02:13:19,160 --> 02:13:24,380
feel like I learn something every time that you explain it, but I also appreciate that

1590
02:13:24,380 --> 02:13:25,200
it is more complicated.

1591
02:13:29,320 --> 02:13:33,040
Trusty, anybody else on the budget presentation?

1592
02:13:45,560 --> 02:13:46,140
Trusty, let's

1593
02:13:46,140 --> 02:13:52,920
and really just commend you on the strategic planning.

1594
02:13:54,480 --> 02:13:59,120
You know, the savings that we might be seeing,

1595
02:14:02,210 --> 02:14:04,890
it's important for the public to realize that a lot of,

1596
02:14:05,090 --> 02:14:09,210
some of those savings were realized in portion last year

1597
02:14:09,210 --> 02:14:14,470
because we knew we had this plan in place.

1598
02:14:15,230 --> 02:14:27,570
So to be able to put a zero present budget for last year and and you know bring everything together this year, I think it's very commendable. Thank you.

1599
02:14:27,750 --> 02:14:28,810
Trustee LeCouple.

1600
02:14:28,810 --> 02:14:28,910
I'm sorry.

1601
02:14:29,790 --> 02:14:31,210
I have to ask

1602
02:14:35,020 --> 02:14:36,720
the comments on the presentation.

1603
02:14:37,560 --> 02:14:42,920
And the soundness of the of the plan and itself, you know, given all the factors.

1604
02:14:42,940 --> 02:14:48,340
I certainly can attest to how complicated it is this year to, you know, frame a budget.

1605
02:14:50,760 --> 02:14:53,500
From their fact that what we're trying to do in my own school district.

1606
02:14:54,220 --> 02:14:56,300
But I just have a couple of questions.

1607
02:14:57,220 --> 02:14:59,780
with the U.P.K. lines that are the 67.

1608
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:28,320
$1,000 that has been allocated. Did we expand that? And do we have a UPK program or do we contract that? So we currently have a UPK program, but we have contracted out to two vendors. So they provide the APK services to the district. Yes. Okay. So with the allocation that we are that has been targeted for us now.

1609
02:15:29,880 --> 02:15:38,860
that would be outsourced to a vendor. I'm assuming that is the current plan, but obviously

1610
02:15:38,860 --> 02:15:43,580
we have to review the guidance and the language and the requirements of it, but the original

1611
02:15:43,580 --> 02:15:47,280
plan is to enhance and increase the amount of offerings within those programs.

1612
02:15:47,840 --> 02:15:51,800
Okay, great, great. Now, my other question has to do with the rescue money.

1613
02:15:58,300 --> 02:15:58,300
Now, we have

1614
02:15:59,940 --> 02:16:04,840
Maybe it would be helpful for me if you would explain the board and the community.

1615
02:16:05,260 --> 02:16:07,260
Why are we staying away from that?

1616
02:16:07,520 --> 02:16:13,720
Because obviously there's going to be expenses that we have in the current budget that could go into that pool of restrooms.

1617
02:16:15,540 --> 02:16:20,120
Which could contribute to lowering the tax revenue even more.

1618
02:16:21,260 --> 02:16:22,200
And the question is.

1619
02:16:22,200 --> 02:16:23,920
a little bit.

1620
02:16:26,520 --> 02:16:30,600
Please put a lot of trusty look hopefully could you speak up a little bit.

1621
02:16:30,860 --> 02:16:36,480
I know I'm never in a little trouble. I could repeat it if you want. You want to know

1622
02:16:36,480 --> 02:16:43,240
with the rescue package money the $1.7 million in district of receiving why we're not allocating

1623
02:16:43,240 --> 02:16:48,000
some of those funds towards this year's budget and reducing the impact of the taxpayers in the

1624
02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:48,340
let it.

1625
02:16:49,720 --> 02:16:50,160
Yeah.

1626
02:16:50,280 --> 02:16:56,860
And essentially, what would be the risk of doing it, and why is it more wise now to do it?

1627
02:16:57,500 --> 02:16:57,800
Yeah.

1628
02:16:57,880 --> 02:16:59,620
And why is it wise not to utilize it?

1629
02:16:59,840 --> 02:17:04,860
So, as I've stated before, these funds are not part of the general fund.

1630
02:17:05,240 --> 02:17:07,120
They're not going to be recognized as revenue in the general fund.

1631
02:17:07,540 --> 02:17:09,520
And the expenses are not part of the general fund.

1632
02:17:09,640 --> 02:17:11,060
They're part of the special aid fund.

1633
02:17:11,780 --> 02:17:17,620
So, yes, there is a potential to move expenses from the general fund into the special aid fund.

1634
02:17:17,620 --> 02:17:20,300
and by effect, reducing the budget itself

1635
02:17:20,300 --> 02:17:22,300
for those actions and those activities.

1636
02:17:22,900 --> 02:17:26,420
The challenge is that they have not released the formal guidance

1637
02:17:26,420 --> 02:17:28,340
to know what those purposes and expenses

1638
02:17:28,340 --> 02:17:29,800
and the eligible purposes are for.

1639
02:17:30,380 --> 02:17:32,700
So we have identified likely scenarios,

1640
02:17:33,240 --> 02:17:36,460
ones that are more definitive, for example, summer programs

1641
02:17:36,460 --> 02:17:38,640
and within our programs we have plans

1642
02:17:38,640 --> 02:17:40,740
for summer education programs.

1643
02:17:41,560 --> 02:17:44,060
So those are expenses that we may be more likely

1644
02:17:44,060 --> 02:17:50,400
to be confident that the grant language will cover those expenses, but literally the information

1645
02:17:50,400 --> 02:17:54,080
is being presented at the same time or after the budget process.

1646
02:17:54,420 --> 02:18:02,160
So we don't want to run to the negative potential of putting expenses out of the general fund

1647
02:18:02,160 --> 02:18:03,880
expecting for the grant to pay for.

1648
02:18:04,220 --> 02:18:04,940
And they're ineligible.

1649
02:18:05,440 --> 02:18:08,560
And if they're valuable enough for us to provide for our students, we don't want to create

1650
02:18:08,560 --> 02:18:13,200
a scenario where we cut a valuable program because the grant was not able to accommodate

1651
02:18:13,200 --> 02:18:18,820
that. So we wanted to be cautious of that until information is more apparent. It is not a one-year

1652
02:18:18,820 --> 02:18:24,820
grant, but during this conversation, discussions, we may be able to identify a few expenses that

1653
02:18:24,820 --> 02:18:27,160
may be able to be moved to the grant during that process.

1654
02:18:30,420 --> 02:18:32,240
So will we make that adjustment?

1655
02:18:33,920 --> 02:18:37,480
That will just build our fund balance within the expense area of the budget then.

1656
02:18:38,880 --> 02:18:43,320
It will reduce the expense side of the budget, and then there could be decision on how to balance

1657
02:18:44,460 --> 02:18:46,320
Okay, great. Thank you.

1658
02:18:47,360 --> 02:18:51,080
Okay, so I bring it to me and I certainly usually have a different point of view.

1659
02:18:51,720 --> 02:18:53,400
So, you know, I do agree.

1660
02:18:53,840 --> 02:18:56,960
Sorry, can I just clarify one thing for me because I'm reading this for more?

1661
02:18:57,000 --> 02:18:58,280
Just a little fun.

1662
02:18:59,520 --> 02:19:04,400
Just to piggyback on kind of what Larry was just talking about in regards to the money.

1663
02:19:04,980 --> 02:19:10,820
When it says that the funds do not have to be extended in one year in the plan for using these funds

1664
02:19:10,820 --> 02:19:14,340
that we posted to our website by July 1st this summer.

1665
02:19:15,020 --> 02:19:17,420
I mean, with these kids all coming back,

1666
02:19:17,840 --> 02:19:20,160
how can we possibly know where we're going

1667
02:19:20,160 --> 02:19:21,560
to be needing these funds?

1668
02:19:22,320 --> 02:19:24,540
And is there an extension of that time theory

1669
02:19:24,540 --> 02:19:27,500
that we could put our funds in a certain area

1670
02:19:27,500 --> 02:19:29,360
and be like, we don't need this, it kids me this.

1671
02:19:29,960 --> 02:19:31,420
I feel like they're kind of strapping us

1672
02:19:31,420 --> 02:19:34,820
by this July 1st, what's the situation with that?

1673
02:19:35,060 --> 02:19:38,300
So these are timelines that are established in the laws

1674
02:19:38,300 --> 02:19:42,220
and I've been attending training sessions and, you know, while building the budget of

1675
02:19:42,220 --> 02:19:43,300
presentations at the same time.

1676
02:19:43,420 --> 02:19:44,300
So this is brand information.

1677
02:19:44,600 --> 02:19:45,720
All I'm packaging it.

1678
02:19:45,860 --> 02:19:52,260
But in the language, as it's currently understood, it's a July 1st state, you have to post

1679
02:19:52,260 --> 02:19:52,740
the website.

1680
02:19:52,740 --> 02:19:57,040
There's a 30-day review period for public comment, and I believe the idea is for the public

1681
02:19:57,040 --> 02:19:59,820
feels to provide information prior to being enacted.

1682
02:20:00,260 --> 02:20:05,000
Now, there may be a rolling date throughout the year that you can do that process, but in order

1683
02:20:05,000 --> 02:20:09,300
to spend the funds they set to July 1st and I'm assuming that's for the next school year or this

1684
02:20:09,300 --> 02:20:13,880
coming school year. So allow the public comment to happen as officials as traditionally as possible.

1685
02:20:14,480 --> 02:20:19,140
But I would envision since the funds are open for a number of years that there could be multiple

1686
02:20:19,140 --> 02:20:23,760
windows throughout that three-year period. But, you know, I really, I can't say definitively that's

1687
02:20:23,760 --> 02:20:28,540
exactly I've heard of. I'm using applying logic to what I read so far. Okay, thank you.

1688
02:20:31,160 --> 02:20:35,940
Mr. Howard, the thing that you put out, you can mention some of the programs, but the thing that you put

1689
02:20:35,940 --> 02:20:43,340
would ask for more specific summer programs targeting any learning that has occurred

1690
02:20:43,340 --> 02:20:46,200
with students as a result of all these pandemics, right?

1691
02:20:46,800 --> 02:20:46,900
Correct.

1692
02:20:47,400 --> 02:20:49,800
So, that's a much more targeted kind of a thing.

1693
02:20:49,940 --> 02:20:54,780
I think it's great that we're getting some funding that might serve our students.

1694
02:20:55,140 --> 02:20:58,860
I think it's great that it may not have to all be used in one year that we may be able

1695
02:20:58,860 --> 02:21:06,060
to bump forward to trustee Buscarino's point, we may not know exactly what we all need and

1696
02:21:06,060 --> 02:21:08,800
And what the kids all need until they kind of get in and begin moving.

1697
02:21:09,220 --> 02:21:13,940
So the fact that, you know, we may be able to program forward with some of it to kind

1698
02:21:13,940 --> 02:21:18,500
of close that gap because I think we're not going to know, you know, if there may be

1699
02:21:18,500 --> 02:21:23,020
a gap with some kids that exhibit for a year or more, right?

1700
02:21:23,620 --> 02:21:25,800
And so, you know, I just think it's important.

1701
02:21:26,600 --> 02:21:31,600
It's potentially a large pool of money, but it's a pool of money that's going to come

1702
02:21:31,600 --> 02:21:36,780
with a lot of caveats and very specific usage parameters, right?

1703
02:21:37,720 --> 02:21:38,080
Express.

1704
02:21:38,420 --> 02:21:39,020
Thank you.

1705
02:21:40,850 --> 02:21:45,570
So as I was saying, so I do print, look at this from a different viewpoint.

1706
02:21:45,990 --> 02:21:51,470
So I know you don't mean to be misleading and I'm not accusing you of the same, but to

1707
02:21:51,470 --> 02:21:52,890
me, it's always about the bottom line.

1708
02:21:53,290 --> 02:22:00,650
At the end of the day, at least as of right now, until the word decides, the administration

1709
02:22:00,650 --> 02:22:10,910
is proposing a almost a $2 million increase in the $1.9 million increase in the expenditure

1710
02:22:10,910 --> 02:22:12,230
side of the budget.

1711
02:22:13,890 --> 02:22:15,330
1.9 million.

1712
02:22:15,470 --> 02:22:15,590
Okay.

1713
02:22:16,310 --> 02:22:16,910
Yeah.

1714
02:22:17,430 --> 02:22:18,770
So that's 1.13.

1715
02:22:19,290 --> 02:22:25,430
So I certainly understand the public's frustration with that when you hear that possibly

1716
02:22:25,430 --> 02:22:29,830
looking for those two schools, et cetera, and I do agree, and I know that's somewhat

1717
02:22:29,830 --> 02:22:37,930
that, you know, would sound is going up, that kind of explains why some of that, why it's

1718
02:22:37,930 --> 02:22:47,350
difficult to have a 0% budget to budget increase. Although I do disagree that having a 0%

1719
02:22:47,350 --> 02:22:56,850
a desperate event, that never made sense to me. So, because, and then, you know, I do go through the line by line and I always try to find

1720
02:22:59,050 --> 02:23:05,430
and saving and where we find it a little difficult, quite honestly, but the bottom line is this,

1721
02:23:05,770 --> 02:23:11,370
you know, it seems to mean my question is the employee benefits that's going up on what's 1.9 mil.

1722
02:23:12,270 --> 02:23:13,530
That's good to be honest with you.

1723
02:23:14,390 --> 02:23:19,310
So there's the biggest drive in the factors of that is in our Medicare part B.

1724
02:23:19,990 --> 02:23:24,830
So our historic trend of in the past few years we have been under budgeting and over-expanding those codes

1725
02:23:24,830 --> 02:23:29,330
of requiring budget transfers to cover, and that's strictly due to the rate of the Medicare

1726
02:23:29,330 --> 02:23:34,430
parking reimbursement in the amount of folks that are eligible over 65. So as our population

1727
02:23:34,430 --> 02:23:40,470
grows greater over 65, and those parking reimbursement rates increase, we've seen increases greater

1728
02:23:40,470 --> 02:23:44,190
than what we've been increasing budgetary hours. So there's about a half million dollar increase

1729
02:23:44,190 --> 02:23:49,210
in Medicare Part B reimbursement which were required to do by law. The other part is there was

1730
02:23:49,210 --> 02:23:54,470
about $4 to $500,000 increase in health insurance as a part of the retirement incentive. Now

1731
02:23:54,470 --> 02:23:59,570
Now, the salary savings significantly outweigh those savings, but that factors in and offset

1732
02:23:59,570 --> 02:24:01,630
into the health insurance code.

1733
02:24:02,130 --> 02:24:06,170
In addition, there's just a traditional health insurance increase year-over-year as well

1734
02:24:06,170 --> 02:24:06,490
in there.

1735
02:24:07,190 --> 02:24:12,990
And then the TRS increase, which is not significant, less than 1%, but it's still, there's

1736
02:24:12,990 --> 02:24:17,750
an ITTRS increase, and there's a greater ERS increase than the TRS increase.

1737
02:24:18,050 --> 02:24:19,670
So that's what's going into that point, you know.

1738
02:24:21,230 --> 02:24:26,250
It's part of the benefits category of that 1.9 million dollar increase.

1739
02:24:26,930 --> 02:24:30,410
Almost a million it's spoken for between Medicare, Part B, and the retirement center.

1740
02:24:30,930 --> 02:24:36,230
And the remaining million is between the TRS, ERS, and then the normal traditional health

1741
02:24:36,230 --> 02:24:38,030
insurance rate increases year over year.

1742
02:24:39,010 --> 02:24:47,370
But it's certainly discretionary, in a sense, that the interfund transfer is going from 1.4

1743
02:24:47,790 --> 02:24:51,110
to 3.3, that is up the border, of course.

1744
02:24:51,470 --> 02:24:52,410
That's a change, correct?

1745
02:24:52,890 --> 02:24:53,090
Correct.

1746
02:24:54,610 --> 02:24:57,670
And that's a discretionary board decision, correct?

1747
02:24:57,770 --> 02:24:58,090
I'm not sure.

1748
02:24:58,090 --> 02:25:00,070
No, man, also with the equipment going up

1749
02:25:00,070 --> 02:25:01,870
for about, you know, it's a lot of a lot of money,

1750
02:25:01,950 --> 02:25:04,810
but for me, every dollar counts, 113, that's correct.

1751
02:25:05,650 --> 02:25:05,770
Correct.

1752
02:25:09,310 --> 02:25:10,790
And, what was my other point here?

1753
02:25:11,170 --> 02:25:13,190
Of course, it may come up later, you know.

1754
02:25:13,470 --> 02:25:16,190
It's always been said that, and it's absolutely true

1755
02:25:16,190 --> 02:25:24,610
that the salaries and benefits of that we pay are one of our employees in here cover about

1756
02:25:24,610 --> 02:25:30,150
10 percent. You know, the question always comes, you know, should we hire, I'm sure we're

1757
02:25:30,150 --> 02:25:35,670
going to hear later, hire another counselor, a teacher, but we can serve and do that, but

1758
02:25:35,670 --> 02:25:44,650
remember that comes with a course. I've always said that having four or at least for a

1759
02:25:44,650 --> 02:25:50,410
But if you look at the population, to me, there's no reason to have 4 APs in the high school.

1760
02:25:50,830 --> 02:25:57,690
Considering, I mean, we're sore, we have 1,000 students left over 10 years or so to have

1761
02:25:57,690 --> 02:26:05,250
the same number of system principles, to me, just not, you know, not sustainable.

1762
02:26:07,630 --> 02:26:12,550
The other thing I do want to point out is in your life itself.

1763
02:26:18,950 --> 02:26:26,190
So regardless of what we're doing, I do just want to point out the life

1764
02:26:26,190 --> 02:26:32,770
portion is pretty big, correct? It's pretty fixed with the exception that there

1765
02:26:32,770 --> 02:26:36,850
is a calculation of the receiver technology or the assessor does every year.

1766
02:26:37,350 --> 02:26:41,850
It's like flying scale by a thousand flights. It's a flight variability, correct? It's

1767
02:26:41,850 --> 02:26:46,530
pretty fixed, but it's quite different. There's a flight, you know. But basically

1768
02:26:46,530 --> 02:26:49,110
that is the way to be.

1769
02:26:53,550 --> 02:26:57,190
If there was all I had to say, I was on that one. Any other

1770
02:26:57,190 --> 02:26:59,990
things before we go to anything next

1771
02:27:03,130 --> 02:27:04,070
part, trust me.

1772
02:27:08,230 --> 02:27:15,670
So I have two things for this year's

1773
02:27:15,670 --> 02:27:23,130
budget, both of which I spoke about earlier in the normal part of our budget routine.

1774
02:27:23,130 --> 02:27:31,150
I think one of them is something I asked about early on in one of the budgets, but it's

1775
02:27:31,150 --> 02:27:41,050
also something that has come up in the advisory committee that we're running right now.

1776
02:27:41,170 --> 02:27:45,630
And that is the additional half-counts for the middle school level.

1777
02:27:45,870 --> 02:27:52,260
I understand when we spoke about this last meeting, there was some content and given the amount

1778
02:27:52,260 --> 02:27:56,020
resources that we have up there, right? And now there's the

1779
02:27:56,020 --> 02:27:59,740
psychiatry, but it's a technology that's going to be able to

1780
02:27:59,740 --> 02:28:03,940
switch off and we've seen like we have a lot of coverage. And I

1781
02:28:03,940 --> 02:28:11,280
would sort of accept an acquiesce if over some degree of time,

1782
02:28:12,300 --> 02:28:16,440
once we got running in those middle schools, and there was a sense

1783
02:28:16,440 --> 02:28:20,540
that there was a good hand on the kids that had gone through

1784
02:28:22,140 --> 02:28:30,560
that's something that should certainly, as all of the service personnel should be revaluated

1785
02:28:30,560 --> 02:28:35,760
to see if we don't need it somewhere else or if we don't need it at all.

1786
02:28:36,420 --> 02:28:39,020
But I think one of the things that we

1787
02:28:41,420 --> 02:28:44,260
have a responsibility to be doing is to be making sure

1788
02:28:44,260 --> 02:28:47,320
that we don't

1789
02:28:49,530 --> 02:28:54,950
inadvertently strip some resources away without even realizing what the actual

1790
02:28:54,950 --> 02:28:59,450
media is going to be. So one of my asses is to the addition of that health counselor.

1791
02:29:01,490 --> 02:29:03,290
So I'll address that one first.

1792
02:29:08,170 --> 02:29:10,590
An addition to a health counselor? Yes.

1793
02:29:18,150 --> 02:29:20,570
How's that a whole

1794
02:29:20,570 --> 02:29:21,790
the school equal in one.

1795
02:29:23,510 --> 02:29:23,610
Okay.

1796
02:29:24,090 --> 02:29:29,430
So, in other words, what we had proposed that we had talked about was that there would be

1797
02:29:30,470 --> 02:29:32,010
a counselor moving.

1798
02:29:32,530 --> 02:29:36,750
This was the initial proposal that a counselor, one counselor, would be moving up with the

1799
02:29:36,750 --> 02:29:40,870
fifth graders after the time would be spent at one middle school and the other would

1800
02:29:40,870 --> 02:29:42,510
have to be spent at the other.

1801
02:29:42,850 --> 02:29:48,130
And we had some discussion about that and, you know, and then using the psychologist kind of

1802
02:29:48,130 --> 02:29:51,930
all that we on the day when we, you know, covered up.

1803
02:29:52,350 --> 02:29:56,030
Since then, subsequently to that, there's a conversation here.

1804
02:29:56,590 --> 02:29:59,630
Because I know we'll be back from the task force.

1805
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:29,560
And you know from Dr. Boshnack and Mr. McLaughlin is that idea of having a full-time councilor or the fifth greet so that for every grade level, there is a councilor at the middle school. And so that's certainly something, and Mr. Sheward talked about it tonight as well. So, you know, I understand I hear, you know, that there's, you know, we want to make sure that there's, you know, opportunity for students to, you know,

1806
02:30:29,560 --> 02:30:34,840
to be embraced. We certainly know that, you know, we talk about those social

1807
02:30:34,840 --> 02:30:40,460
emotional needs coming out of this whole situation that we find ourselves, you know,

1808
02:30:40,520 --> 02:30:45,680
that there is, you know, there is some justification for that. So, you know, in the

1809
02:30:45,680 --> 02:30:50,840
budget, there are a number of contingency positions, right? And we could look at

1810
02:30:52,400 --> 02:30:56,060
using one of those contingencies for that position.

1811
02:31:17,440 --> 02:31:20,380
So you feel

1812
02:31:22,490 --> 02:31:27,590
that a half like a part time counselor would spend half their time at North

1813
02:31:27,590 --> 02:31:29,710
report middle and then half their time at East North

1814
02:31:29,710 --> 02:31:30,010
Fort.

1815
02:31:30,310 --> 02:31:31,250
Is that what you're thinking?

1816
02:31:31,630 --> 02:31:34,430
Well, that was the meeting when we talked about staffing.

1817
02:31:34,610 --> 02:31:34,670
Right.

1818
02:31:34,910 --> 02:31:37,050
Two weeks ago, that was the initial proposal.

1819
02:31:37,750 --> 02:31:37,870
Right.

1820
02:31:38,070 --> 02:31:43,690
And that we would kind of when one counselor was at the state

1821
02:31:43,690 --> 02:31:46,830
east, when the psychologist would be assigned to North

1822
02:31:46,830 --> 02:31:47,190
Fort Middle.

1823
02:31:47,530 --> 02:31:47,670
Yeah.

1824
02:31:47,770 --> 02:31:49,870
The only thing is that with the psychologist is because I

1825
02:31:49,870 --> 02:31:52,810
know they are extremely overworked in between testing

1826
02:31:52,810 --> 02:31:56,410
and taking care of CSCs or regardless of any issues.

1827
02:31:56,410 --> 02:31:59,290
is really the availability, I think, would be limited.

1828
02:31:59,570 --> 02:32:02,230
I would fully advocate for a full-time counselor

1829
02:32:02,230 --> 02:32:04,750
at each building, because don't forget,

1830
02:32:04,850 --> 02:32:07,110
when they're in fifth grade, there's a lot of things

1831
02:32:07,110 --> 02:32:08,850
that happen out on the plate around the Houston,

1832
02:32:09,110 --> 02:32:10,750
just because they're gonna be in a different building

1833
02:32:10,750 --> 02:32:14,010
possibly, those issues are gonna also come up

1834
02:32:14,010 --> 02:32:17,410
and you can't really wait for the part-time counselor.

1835
02:32:17,590 --> 02:32:19,270
So I would see really important.

1836
02:32:19,670 --> 02:32:22,470
And it's been expressed by even me watching

1837
02:32:22,470 --> 02:32:29,730
on Tuesday night, you know, from multiple reasons that it is really important that we make sure we make that happen.

1838
02:32:29,990 --> 02:32:30,110
Sure.

1839
02:32:32,370 --> 02:32:36,050
I totally agree with that on so many levels.

1840
02:32:36,490 --> 02:32:43,210
And you know, I mean, we know that we can't anticipate what our students might need in September.

1841
02:32:43,210 --> 02:32:47,870
But one thing we can anticipate is they're going to need more SEL support.

1842
02:32:48,590 --> 02:32:50,890
And so I would totally agree with that.

1843
02:32:50,890 --> 02:32:57,230
And I would make it more of a either social worker counselor because we know our psychologists

1844
02:32:57,230 --> 02:33:00,010
are just overwhelmed with IETs.

1845
02:33:02,450 --> 02:33:08,470
Again, you know, in my breakout group at the end of future studies, and I won't say

1846
02:33:08,470 --> 02:33:14,550
who, but you know, I heard that the cancer, you know, again, looking at the population

1847
02:33:15,010 --> 02:33:20,630
that they had served, again, 10 years ago, and I don't know exact numbers, but you know,

1848
02:33:20,630 --> 02:33:22,730
of per capita per a counselor,

1849
02:33:23,470 --> 02:33:26,310
they were handling the many more students 10 years

1850
02:33:26,310 --> 02:33:27,210
ago than they are now.

1851
02:33:27,970 --> 02:33:31,190
I don't, I'm not against necessarily increasing

1852
02:33:31,890 --> 02:33:34,830
the counselor to a full time in each

1853
02:33:35,990 --> 02:33:39,990
minister, but I would make, I would certainly,

1854
02:33:41,010 --> 02:33:43,750
I'm not, I'm not in favor of increasing the budget

1855
02:33:43,750 --> 02:33:48,070
if you're gonna substitute a contingency or some other,

1856
02:33:48,070 --> 02:33:51,990
or somebody has a reduction to make it revenue neutral,

1857
02:33:52,290 --> 02:33:54,570
I'm all for it, but I would not certainly be

1858
02:33:54,570 --> 02:33:58,730
for any other budget increase.

1859
02:33:59,970 --> 02:34:00,590
Rock, guys.

1860
02:34:00,870 --> 02:34:01,230
Just

1861
02:34:07,980 --> 02:34:09,860
tonight, there may be some other places,

1862
02:34:10,080 --> 02:34:13,220
but again, what I'm saying is that there's

1863
02:34:13,220 --> 02:34:15,100
one of the contingency positions.

1864
02:34:15,620 --> 02:34:16,560
Trustee McDonald, please.

1865
02:34:17,220 --> 02:34:19,540
So, and again, I'm just asking,

1866
02:34:20,320 --> 02:34:23,540
are you intending to have fifth graders

1867
02:34:23,540 --> 02:34:24,920
have guided councils.

1868
02:34:26,840 --> 02:34:28,160
That's what we're proposing.

1869
02:34:28,680 --> 02:34:30,240
I mean, a council is calling it a fifth grade.

1870
02:34:30,740 --> 02:34:33,820
Right, but I guess what I was concerned with is,

1871
02:34:34,220 --> 02:34:38,160
I do need support, but I wouldn't want a relationship

1872
02:34:38,160 --> 02:34:39,940
to be established as a fifth grader,

1873
02:34:40,200 --> 02:34:42,060
and then they become a sixth grader,

1874
02:34:42,220 --> 02:34:44,240
and that person is not the fifth person.

1875
02:34:44,680 --> 02:34:47,000
So I don't know if a better model is to have,

1876
02:34:47,800 --> 02:34:50,280
however you scope it out, a guidance council,

1877
02:34:50,320 --> 02:34:52,580
but some of it stays with the kids

1878
02:34:52,580 --> 02:34:56,580
because I think that has a moody relationship is such an important piece.

1879
02:34:57,440 --> 02:35:03,540
Yeah, and there's two, there's really two ways that, you know, that the counseling offices can be,

1880
02:35:05,200 --> 02:35:08,500
you know, I don't know if you staff, but how they are assigned.

1881
02:35:08,660 --> 02:35:12,100
So some may be assigned by, you know, to be assigned by alphabet,

1882
02:35:12,740 --> 02:35:15,800
and so that you kind of keep that same alphabet all over the place.

1883
02:35:17,000 --> 02:35:21,540
Or, you know, the fifth grade counselor moved with, you know,

1884
02:35:21,540 --> 02:35:32,520
You can have that. You know, I think, I think, however, it's really possible to mind if it's to go. But for me, and I'm speaking as a parent, and I know that was a model in the middle school.

1885
02:35:32,640 --> 02:35:42,600
They don't go. So with my first child, they got introduced to their go to person. And that, my counselor had my last name after.

1886
02:35:43,600 --> 02:35:50,860
So everyone of my kids, I had a relationship with that. It was really, I thought that was a really helpful thing for the counselor.

1887
02:35:50,860 --> 02:35:53,440
for my family to have that kind of relationship

1888
02:35:53,880 --> 02:35:55,840
because it gave them a specific go-to person.

1889
02:35:56,020 --> 02:35:58,300
So personally, I like something like that,

1890
02:35:58,440 --> 02:36:00,000
where if it's not, they're just getting

1891
02:36:00,000 --> 02:36:01,060
to know somebody is it great

1892
02:36:01,060 --> 02:36:02,440
and then they go to someone else,

1893
02:36:02,520 --> 02:36:07,000
but I like the, the agency, if you will, for students

1894
02:36:07,000 --> 02:36:08,780
because I think that's very helpful

1895
02:36:08,780 --> 02:36:12,880
for both the professional and the students

1896
02:36:12,880 --> 02:36:14,140
to have that kind of continuity.

1897
02:36:14,460 --> 02:36:16,140
So however you're crafting that,

1898
02:36:16,720 --> 02:36:18,360
I think that we should remind you of that.

1899
02:36:18,600 --> 02:36:19,360
I think that's a really good thing.

1900
02:36:19,360 --> 02:36:22,280
Yeah, and now there's something would be often good for those about.

1901
02:36:25,260 --> 02:36:32,620
Okay, so it sounds like what you're saying is you have the budget prepared in such a way that you can accommodate our requirements based on the budget you presented.

1902
02:36:33,480 --> 02:36:38,520
Can you know the request has been at one point out and there are again, we have some things in position.

1903
02:36:39,400 --> 02:36:46,480
You know, and I know we're going to go through the process, but, but yes, there is, you know, there is an opportunity for that to be pointed.

1904
02:36:57,040 --> 02:37:04,800
So, Rob, what's the, uh, for pupil, uh, ST, uh, count per, uh, STE of the, of the guidance

1905
02:37:04,800 --> 02:37:17,860
Councillors you know what the case load what's that their case load in effect yeah so so it's

1906
02:37:17,860 --> 02:37:27,540
generally it's at the middle school is generally you know one per class so just found out we have

1907
02:37:29,500 --> 02:37:33,460
So once at 225 kids, once at 3200.

1908
02:37:35,620 --> 02:37:36,340
Just

1909
02:37:43,980 --> 02:37:54,140
looking at the current numbers, so if you look at East, there's 190 students in 6th grade, 188 and 7th and 201 and 8th.

1910
02:37:54,140 --> 02:38:01,340
Northport has 152, 173 and 207. So there's a range there between about one.

1911
02:38:02,200 --> 02:38:04,080
175, 173, 200.

1912
02:38:04,680 --> 02:38:04,740
Yep.

1913
02:38:05,580 --> 02:38:06,100
Very soon.

1914
02:38:07,200 --> 02:38:10,960
So Rob, I'm assuming that you would consider that ratio acceptable.

1915
02:38:11,740 --> 02:38:14,040
Actually pretty desirable. All things being able.

1916
02:38:15,340 --> 02:38:20,640
Yes. You know, if you look at the, uh, asher guidelines, you know, the,

1917
02:38:20,640 --> 02:38:25,440
it's sort of the, you know, the national school. Yeah, it's below it, right?

1918
02:38:26,160 --> 02:38:30,580
Now, they, they, you know, their guideline is about 250.

1919
02:38:30,580 --> 02:38:31,060
Yeah.

1920
02:38:31,240 --> 02:38:32,980
So we're well below that.

1921
02:38:33,180 --> 02:38:39,600
So the additional Councillor, is that included in the 1-75 word that would be an additional

1922
02:38:39,600 --> 02:38:41,300
Councillor, which would bring it lower?

1923
02:38:42,440 --> 02:38:49,540
It would, it would, entering the middle school will be for new students, you know, they would

1924
02:38:49,540 --> 02:38:51,400
be coming in with the fifth grader's patient.

1925
02:38:51,560 --> 02:38:52,340
All right, got it.

1926
02:38:52,820 --> 02:38:59,620
So with the fifth graders, are we assuming like a middle level, are we going to drop or extend

1927
02:38:59,620 --> 02:39:03,340
a middle-level education to fifth grade now? I'm just curious.

1928
02:39:04,760 --> 02:39:10,500
The original plan in terms of the role of the council was to keep it an elementary focus which is

1929
02:39:10,500 --> 02:39:16,020
push in, proactive support, pushed into the classroom, working on character education, social and emotional learning.

1930
02:39:16,940 --> 02:39:23,320
You know, certainly would adapt and adjust based off of the recommendations but that was the current

1931
02:39:24,480 --> 02:39:29,700
plan and process that myself and Ms. Dancewanna, I've spoken about, just ahead, the current

1932
02:39:29,700 --> 02:39:34,140
fourth grade has 355 students, so if you look at that, it's split across the two middle

1933
02:39:34,140 --> 02:39:34,540
schools.

1934
02:39:35,060 --> 02:39:38,620
It's kind of staying in that same ratio as well, the fifth grade income.

1935
02:39:39,720 --> 02:39:45,920
So Rob, in terms of the additional counsel, would that be a function of the change, or is

1936
02:39:45,920 --> 02:39:51,560
it because of the, in other words, the change of the configuration or COVID?

1937
02:39:54,320 --> 02:39:59,960
Well, mainly because of the change of the configuration, but certainly knowing, you know,

1938
02:40:00,240 --> 02:40:06,000
when we kind of looked at it initially, we said, well, you know, what about doing a half

1939
02:40:06,000 --> 02:40:06,640
and a half?

1940
02:40:06,940 --> 02:40:15,080
And you know, we've had a good discussion throughout this process and, you know, considering the

1941
02:40:15,080 --> 02:40:19,660
move, considering the feedback from the committee, you know, the feedback from the board.

1942
02:40:20,460 --> 02:40:23,960
and COVID as well. So, you know, it was a number of factors.

1943
02:40:24,700 --> 02:40:25,320
Right. Right.

1944
02:40:26,560 --> 02:40:31,700
Well, Paul and all, if I were to weigh in on this, I would support it,

1945
02:40:31,820 --> 02:40:37,400
but I do agree with Mr. Bedan's that it should stay without a change in the overall budget.

1946
02:40:38,500 --> 02:40:38,720
Sure.

1947
02:40:41,280 --> 02:40:41,720
So,

1948
02:40:46,080 --> 02:40:50,060
and so my other thing is also something that I spoke about at

1949
02:40:53,060 --> 02:40:54,080
one of the prior meetings.

1950
02:40:54,080 --> 02:41:03,240
and that was the adjustment to the art teacher from a .75 to a 1.0 with the elementary

1951
02:41:03,240 --> 02:41:14,600
buildings. My reasoning for this really goes back to the discussion that we had about

1952
02:41:14,600 --> 02:41:22,800
the initial need to go through the reorganization and I think it was worried that spoke at length

1953
02:41:22,800 --> 02:41:27,160
about the fact that we sort of occupy this place where we have a social contract,

1954
02:41:27,160 --> 02:41:32,920
not just for our students, but for all of the residents in the district who are tax payers here.

1955
02:41:34,080 --> 02:41:42,480
And we had some discussion at that point about how many of our, how many taxpayers we have,

1956
02:41:42,640 --> 02:41:45,860
how many of them are sick, they come, how many of them don't have kids in the school district,

1957
02:41:45,920 --> 02:41:51,900
and it's always a much larger number than those they do. And so, you know, I find myself in this

1958
02:41:51,900 --> 02:41:56,660
space where you know normally agree with us to be games that we don't and I

1959
02:41:56,660 --> 02:42:02,360
really had I don't remember having done that we don't typically add stuff into

1960
02:42:02,360 --> 02:42:07,500
this component of the budget but in this particular year as much as this move

1961
02:42:07,500 --> 02:42:14,980
represents an attempt to enhance a lot of program but also to trustee McCopley's

1962
02:42:14,980 --> 02:42:18,780
prior point we expect the social contract that we have with all of our tax

1963
02:42:18,780 --> 02:42:23,000
There's, you know, we also have a social contract for the students with it.

1964
02:42:24,000 --> 02:42:31,040
And so, you know, under the concept and promise that we've put out to the community that,

1965
02:42:32,160 --> 02:42:38,620
while we know that closing some schools is difficult, right, for many, out of that,

1966
02:42:38,860 --> 02:42:44,020
we'll come a great deal of enhancements, lots of different ways that we can potentially improve the program,

1967
02:42:44,940 --> 02:42:46,700
and an expansion of lots of things.

1968
02:42:46,900 --> 02:42:48,080
And I think we've heard a lot of that

1969
02:42:49,180 --> 02:42:52,400
from artists to tenants who are moderating that committee.

1970
02:42:53,220 --> 02:42:54,800
And a lot of those enhancements,

1971
02:42:55,500 --> 02:42:57,760
most of them have come out of discussions

1972
02:42:57,760 --> 02:42:59,140
that have happened in that committee.

1973
02:42:59,180 --> 02:43:05,160
And I think that this particular thing takes me back

1974
02:43:05,160 --> 02:43:07,000
to what the school district used to have,

1975
02:43:07,120 --> 02:43:09,960
which was in-house, a full-time-in-house art teacher,

1976
02:43:10,400 --> 02:43:13,680
and how that person can create

1977
02:43:13,680 --> 02:43:18,740
a more enriched environment for the new elementary environments that we're creating that are

1978
02:43:18,740 --> 02:43:19,760
capable for.

1979
02:43:20,260 --> 02:43:25,840
So one of the things I had asked at last, meaning when I raised this, was there a way

1980
02:43:25,840 --> 02:43:31,080
that we could kind of come up in the concept of what they might do with that extra 0.25

1981
02:43:31,080 --> 02:43:32,360
to fill out their data.

1982
02:43:33,360 --> 02:43:38,740
So I don't know if you had anything that we could have chew on in the context of that discussion

1983
02:43:38,740 --> 02:43:38,980
or?

1984
02:43:38,980 --> 02:43:42,420
Yeah, so Dr. Bosch and I can speak to it.

1985
02:43:42,880 --> 02:43:48,240
When we established that number, we looked at the number of sections overall, you know,

1986
02:43:48,340 --> 02:43:50,580
that we anticipated each of the elementary schools.

1987
02:43:51,340 --> 02:43:55,160
And that's, you know, and that's how we arrived at that point 75.

1988
02:43:56,220 --> 02:43:59,300
But I understand there was some questions.

1989
02:43:59,560 --> 02:44:02,620
Is that point 75 of each of the elementary?

1990
02:44:03,440 --> 02:44:03,920
Yes.

1991
02:44:03,920 --> 02:44:11,120
Yes, the teacher wouldn't be a three-quarter teacher, you know, they would pick up, they

1992
02:44:11,120 --> 02:44:13,380
would have to travel, you know, to make them a one-point out.

1993
02:44:14,000 --> 02:44:20,200
But, again, if you look at the anticipated sections, you know, on any time you do that,

1994
02:44:20,360 --> 02:44:25,220
I mean, there are some trade-offs, and again, it does, you know, you lose a little bit of

1995
02:44:25,220 --> 02:44:25,960
travel time.

1996
02:44:27,440 --> 02:44:32,960
You, you know, there's some restrictions then, and the principals do a great job of scheduling

1997
02:44:32,960 --> 02:44:39,900
But it does inhibit that a little bit and have, because the art teachers at the All-Mainty

1998
02:44:39,900 --> 02:44:41,400
School, you know, they're a special, right?

1999
02:44:41,480 --> 02:44:45,580
So there's PE, you know, there's art, there's music, library.

2000
02:44:46,060 --> 02:44:53,440
And so when you, when a particular, some, special, special areas, they only have this person,

2001
02:44:53,780 --> 02:44:57,060
you know, in the afternoon, because they're in the morning, they're at this school.

2002
02:44:57,060 --> 02:44:59,520
So, you just have to consider that when you're-

2003
02:45:00,500 --> 02:45:29,720
And again, our principle has done it, but it does cause some restrictions. So if I do the math correctly, there's three art teachers total. There would be, there would be three art teachers, but of course, of course. My recollection was that there was, if it's a .75, that you're also going to lose, you know, on that remaining say quarter, you're also going to, like we said, this travel.

2004
02:45:29,720 --> 02:45:33,740
and there's other scheduling laws that kind of burns up some of that anyway.

2005
02:45:37,180 --> 02:45:42,000
Yeah, what's the mathematical calculation for travel time?

2006
02:45:42,380 --> 02:45:43,860
What that's my point is that?

2007
02:45:44,080 --> 02:45:45,180
The point one.

2008
02:45:45,760 --> 02:45:46,480
The point one.

2009
02:45:48,040 --> 02:45:49,780
You lose your moving.

2010
02:45:50,140 --> 02:45:54,420
You just burn it up almost half of the quarter and travel time anyway.

2011
02:46:00,820 --> 02:46:07,120
There's a few advantages, you know, one's just being the parent having someone who's

2012
02:46:07,120 --> 02:46:14,360
there and able to, part of the standards too and the art standards is showcasing student

2013
02:46:14,360 --> 02:46:19,480
work and, you know, the display, the things that they can do, that's the obvious with that.

2014
02:46:19,480 --> 02:46:24,960
And there's also the ability to be able to go into classrooms and collaborate with other

2015
02:46:24,960 --> 02:46:31,360
teachers in which social studies, for example, even math, the ELA, and being able to do those

2016
02:46:31,360 --> 02:46:34,820
types of projects, which our teachers would be very eager to do.

2017
02:46:35,540 --> 02:46:42,060
And the other factor that is definitely a struggle sometimes, especially for those schools that

2018
02:46:42,060 --> 02:46:47,240
are really trying to piece of teachers to create a schedule.

2019
02:46:47,240 --> 02:46:52,560
And so, when you're able to have a little bit of flexibility to do schedule, especially

2020
02:46:52,560 --> 02:46:57,780
when we're adding, if we add, you know, having the stem fall, the enrichment for all,

2021
02:46:58,120 --> 02:47:03,200
it does provide us a little bit more flexibility with making this all happen and trying to maximize

2022
02:47:03,200 --> 02:47:05,740
that time so students aren't missing things.

2023
02:47:06,240 --> 02:47:08,600
So that does provide you with that flexibility.

2024
02:47:08,960 --> 02:47:09,940
So those are some advantages.

2025
02:47:10,380 --> 02:47:16,120
I know that the integrating art and education can really enhance learning for students, especially

2026
02:47:16,120 --> 02:47:22,680
students who learn in different ways. It's a great way to really maximize that and it

2027
02:47:22,680 --> 02:47:26,120
would be a great enhancement, but I just have to be able to do that.

2028
02:47:28,060 --> 02:47:29,560
Justin, would you like to go on?

2029
02:47:29,560 --> 02:47:36,700
Yes, so I guess I'm, you know, looking at fairness. So, music, you have one way to teach

2030
02:47:36,700 --> 02:47:41,740
your reach, building, you have one, so the other specials are not divided like that, is

2031
02:47:41,740 --> 02:47:46,020
the assignment the same, because I know years ago when this happened, we had, you know,

2032
02:47:46,020 --> 02:47:50,840
point, what is a full-time position because I think it's important that we look at that

2033
02:47:50,840 --> 02:47:57,700
and I'm also wondering how ART is going to deliver to 503 with the intention to use that

2034
02:47:58,240 --> 02:48:05,600
0.25 to deliver ART to because I'm assuming the current ART teacher wouldn't have room

2035
02:48:05,600 --> 02:48:10,100
and there's a little school to provide ART once a week to 503 class.

2036
02:48:10,740 --> 02:48:12,180
So how is that going to be accomplished?

2037
02:48:13,100 --> 02:48:17,420
So, I can answer the second question first and then we'll go back to the music and remind

2038
02:48:17,420 --> 02:48:18,900
me if I forget you're asking about music.

2039
02:48:19,800 --> 02:48:26,680
So, what makes it a little bit difficult when you have teachers traveling between buildings

2040
02:48:26,680 --> 02:48:31,780
that are on different time schedules is not only do you lose that type 0.1 for two schools

2041
02:48:31,780 --> 02:48:35,960
that are on the same schedule and they're only teaching periods and the teachers get up

2042
02:48:35,960 --> 02:48:36,580
and up and launch.

2043
02:48:36,720 --> 02:48:40,780
There's known time, like one of those six teaching periods has to be traveled time.

2044
02:48:40,780 --> 02:48:43,600
So that's what we talked about across the elementary.

2045
02:48:44,500 --> 02:48:51,600
It's very difficult to try to match up a special, like, in a fifth grade, where once

2046
02:48:52,120 --> 02:48:58,200
a week to have, you know, or once a week with the middle school schedule, that is typically

2047
02:48:58,200 --> 02:49:01,920
either 10 weeks every day or every other day, there are different configurations depending

2048
02:49:01,920 --> 02:49:03,380
on the course and the grade.

2049
02:49:04,000 --> 02:49:08,540
So it is very challenging for the middle school to do that.

2050
02:49:08,540 --> 02:49:13,600
what we've proposed and Dr. Boshnacken in her work with the committee, they've proposed

2051
02:49:13,600 --> 02:49:18,600
to create a fifth grade schedule and make it look more like just in terms of timing

2052
02:49:18,600 --> 02:49:23,340
and when the rotations are, make the fifth grade schedule match the middle school in all

2053
02:49:23,340 --> 02:49:28,500
of the special areas so we can share staff vertically so, say, a physical education teacher

2054
02:49:28,500 --> 02:49:32,640
can teach fifth grade or sixth grade or seventh or eighth and we want to do that with music

2055
02:49:32,640 --> 02:49:34,120
and art folks as well.

2056
02:49:34,640 --> 02:49:40,340
So the plan really would be if we were going to stay with three teachers across the elementary

2057
02:49:40,340 --> 02:49:47,320
and art, they would really be truly, you know, across the elementary buildings, not

2058
02:49:47,320 --> 02:49:49,860
very difficult to make them go, have them go to the middle school.

2059
02:49:50,260 --> 02:49:52,700
Middle school, high school is very easy to move them.

2060
02:49:52,800 --> 02:49:53,960
They still need travel time.

2061
02:49:54,080 --> 02:49:57,760
The bell schedules don't match up perfectly, but they're a nine period, nine school day.

2062
02:49:58,040 --> 02:50:03,900
So we have additional time for our teachers to travel without impinging on certainly the contractual

2063
02:50:03,900 --> 02:50:05,740
obligation of a launch or a prep.

2064
02:50:06,460 --> 02:50:08,960
With regard to music, it is a little bit different.

2065
02:50:09,120 --> 02:50:12,560
Classroom music and classroom art, you know, as a special

2066
02:50:12,560 --> 02:50:14,480
or as a class is exactly the same.

2067
02:50:14,780 --> 02:50:17,500
You know, that's the same dosage for every grade level.

2068
02:50:17,880 --> 02:50:20,840
But with regard to music, we have music teachers who are also

2069
02:50:20,840 --> 02:50:23,900
working in delivering lessons and teaching ensembles.

2070
02:50:24,340 --> 02:50:27,140
So there's a little bit more flexibility in terms of the numbers

2071
02:50:27,140 --> 02:50:32,080
of music teachers in the buildings and the consistency

2072
02:50:32,080 --> 02:50:35,440
of those folks being there to deliver the instruction.

2073
02:50:36,680 --> 02:50:38,600
You know, we knew that the question would be,

2074
02:50:38,800 --> 02:50:41,720
well, what about FISED, what about, what about our,

2075
02:50:42,260 --> 02:50:45,900
you know, the answer is, I think I might have said it

2076
02:50:45,900 --> 02:50:48,180
previously, a lot of times it's very challenging to,

2077
02:50:48,660 --> 02:50:50,040
unless you could do something interdisciplinary

2078
02:50:50,040 --> 02:50:52,000
and I have a push in like Dr. Bach's,

2079
02:50:52,000 --> 02:50:53,760
Bach's, Bach's, was mentioning with regard to our,

2080
02:50:54,160 --> 02:50:55,460
I would be really difficult to do that

2081
02:50:55,460 --> 02:50:57,640
with a physical education teacher, you know,

2082
02:50:57,920 --> 02:51:00,400
if, you know, if a FISED teacher or the schedule calls

2083
02:51:00,400 --> 02:51:05,840
for, you know, three-quarters of the teachers say a .75 that would cover all the classes.

2084
02:51:06,140 --> 02:51:11,040
The other .25, I'm not sure whether the physed teacher would, how you could push them

2085
02:51:11,040 --> 02:51:17,760
into an L.A. or math or, but within our teachers it's, you know, interdisciplinary projects

2086
02:51:17,760 --> 02:51:19,380
and there's certainly a connection.

2087
02:51:20,080 --> 02:51:21,180
So it's a little bit different.

2088
02:51:21,320 --> 02:51:25,600
I think music, we have a little bit more flexibility because we have more music staff going because

2089
02:51:25,600 --> 02:51:31,120
of the ensembles and because of the, you know, the individual lessons in orchestra band and

2090
02:51:31,120 --> 02:51:40,160
and right. So if we were to decide to put a music teacher in each elementary school they're

2091
02:51:40,160 --> 02:51:47,120
assignments, their time assignment would be the same. So in others, we wouldn't be paying a full-time

2092
02:51:47,120 --> 02:51:53,260
salary with three quarters of a job. We could even put their schedule so comparable to what we

2093
02:51:53,260 --> 02:51:55,080
we expect the full time cell.

2094
02:51:55,700 --> 02:51:57,800
Yeah, you know, we would block that out

2095
02:51:57,800 --> 02:52:00,000
so that, you know, there were expectations.

2096
02:52:00,240 --> 02:52:01,040
It would be a new assignment,

2097
02:52:01,040 --> 02:52:02,700
a little bit different than what we've done in the past.

2098
02:52:02,840 --> 02:52:05,440
So there'd be an expectation, whatever that would be,

2099
02:52:05,520 --> 02:52:06,820
we would work together with the teachers,

2100
02:52:06,820 --> 02:52:08,280
and the teachers have great ideas.

2101
02:52:08,600 --> 02:52:08,680
Right.

2102
02:52:09,100 --> 02:52:10,460
You know, how can they, you know,

2103
02:52:10,540 --> 02:52:12,460
what do they think about utilizing that time?

2104
02:52:13,080 --> 02:52:14,620
So we would set up a schedule

2105
02:52:14,620 --> 02:52:18,560
and have, you know, the push-in be part of their schedule as well.

2106
02:52:18,560 --> 02:52:22,760
And the two bands are really being able to do that without new tasks.

2107
02:52:22,980 --> 02:52:25,160
And by the way, we have to say thank you very much for that.

2108
02:52:25,500 --> 02:52:31,380
Well, again, I mean, you know, we have to see how this goes and, you know, there are some

2109
02:52:31,380 --> 02:52:33,660
other key things in the C position that are still there.

2110
02:52:33,900 --> 02:52:40,660
So, you know, that's a possibility, but also, you can see, you know, how this discussion goes.

2111
02:52:42,160 --> 02:52:42,960
Thank you.

2112
02:52:44,700 --> 02:52:48,900
I just need to ask a clarifying question.

2113
02:52:49,100 --> 02:52:55,400
When you talk about horizontal instruction, isn't it a different certification elementary

2114
02:52:55,400 --> 02:52:56,440
in middle school?

2115
02:52:56,580 --> 02:52:57,520
That's a great question.

2116
02:52:57,720 --> 02:52:59,940
So certification in art is a K-12.

2117
02:53:00,260 --> 02:53:02,520
It's also K-12 in physical education.

2118
02:53:03,740 --> 02:53:11,500
In music certification is K-12, but specialty might be with advanced teachers' preparation

2119
02:53:11,500 --> 02:53:15,240
should might be banned rather than overstroke or something like that, but they're K-12

2120
02:53:15,240 --> 02:53:15,740
earthquake.

2121
02:53:16,360 --> 02:53:22,480
And in the past, when I first moved to the district, we did have full-time art teachers

2122
02:53:22,480 --> 02:53:23,940
in the elementary school.

2123
02:53:24,300 --> 02:53:27,840
That was a decision made by this board in the past.

2124
02:53:28,420 --> 02:53:28,980
Yeah, I do.

2125
02:53:29,380 --> 02:53:29,800
Cup that.

2126
02:53:32,420 --> 02:53:39,180
That's one of the casualties, if you will, declining enrollment and keeping it built at the

2127
02:53:44,620 --> 02:53:49,720
I don't think so. I was here. So that's the section that they were teaching more

2128
02:53:49,720 --> 02:53:55,140
less than one of my kids. And it was a hard work for me to make. That's why this decision

2129
02:53:55,140 --> 02:53:58,540
is made to have in trouble because there's nobody wants teachers to travel. You have less kids.

2130
02:54:00,180 --> 02:54:05,520
It's about the numbers of sections that you have in the school. So you have 30 sections which

2131
02:54:05,520 --> 02:54:05,900
which is a lot.

2132
02:54:06,100 --> 02:54:11,860
But if you have 26 sections, then a teacher is almost full for, you know, with six a day.

2133
02:54:12,600 --> 02:54:17,260
As the sections got, you know, the declining enrollment cost fewer sections.

2134
02:54:18,020 --> 02:54:22,540
And so if they were to say they were 18 sections in a building, that was the discussion back

2135
02:54:22,540 --> 02:54:22,800
then.

2136
02:54:23,040 --> 02:54:24,040
So, where are we?

2137
02:54:24,320 --> 02:54:31,080
And the thought of utilizing that time with a full-time teacher in a different way was not

2138
02:54:31,080 --> 02:54:32,680
really part of the discussion at that time.

2139
02:54:32,680 --> 02:54:34,680
So the resolution was having people travel.

2140
02:54:35,700 --> 02:54:38,060
And that was, I mean, if they truly were working

2141
02:54:38,860 --> 02:54:44,340
or they had to say half of their sessions in this instance

2142
02:54:44,340 --> 02:54:46,700
because we've automated the counts

2143
02:54:46,700 --> 02:54:49,060
and we're creating these four new kinds of ecosystems

2144
02:54:49,060 --> 02:54:52,400
and elementary schools, you know, there are 0.75.

2145
02:54:53,080 --> 02:54:58,420
We would lose, you know, a third of the remaining quarter

2146
02:54:59,100 --> 02:54:59,900
to travel.

2147
02:55:00,980 --> 02:55:06,940
and that leaves the other two-thirds or less probably only

2148
02:55:06,940 --> 02:55:10,680
usable 90% of that as the scheduling level rise.

2149
02:55:11,340 --> 02:55:14,820
So I just think it's something that we probably

2150
02:55:14,820 --> 02:55:16,120
own entry program.

2151
02:55:17,740 --> 02:55:19,280
I appreciate everybody's discussion.

2152
02:55:21,180 --> 02:55:22,200
I'm sorry to hand out this part.

2153
02:55:22,860 --> 02:55:24,440
I appreciate everybody's discussion.

2154
02:55:25,420 --> 02:55:27,000
Well, we have two remaining.

2155
02:55:27,460 --> 02:55:30,400
Trustee Locke and Trustee Locke, hopefully anything on the art teacher?

2156
02:55:30,400 --> 02:55:31,340
on

2157
02:55:33,900 --> 02:55:34,300
the table.

2158
02:55:36,500 --> 02:55:41,220
Yeah, I'm good and I'm just assuming that that's what our our professionals are

2159
02:55:41,220 --> 02:55:47,420
recommending. I'll be fine with that. And I also would like to see within the existing budget.

2160
02:55:48,980 --> 02:55:55,400
Right, so I have a clarifying question maybe this is the hour. I mean, I think it's a good idea,

2161
02:55:55,600 --> 02:56:02,080
but of course, I'd like to keep with the budget. But right now, we budgeted for three

2162
02:56:02,080 --> 02:56:07,000
These are teachers in for the elementary, Zekra, correct, we budgeted for three elementary

2163
02:56:07,000 --> 02:56:07,500
teachers.

2164
02:56:08,400 --> 02:56:08,620
Okay.

2165
02:56:09,220 --> 02:56:15,000
And I understand we are purchasing in a sense of 0.1, but I think if we're going to add

2166
02:56:15,000 --> 02:56:18,620
this 0.25, it really makes it for four teachers obviously, right?

2167
02:56:19,660 --> 02:56:24,780
It would be an increase of one art teacher, which would make roundout that each building will

2168
02:56:24,780 --> 02:56:26,720
have a full-time art teacher devoted to each building.

2169
02:56:26,720 --> 02:56:32,460
Right, and how much would it cost to hire one part teacher?

2170
02:56:33,980 --> 02:56:38,480
A master step three, our teacher is about $68,000 at benefits.

2171
02:56:39,080 --> 02:56:41,360
You're about $90,000 with salaries and benefits.

2172
02:56:42,100 --> 02:56:44,300
We have six contingency positions in the budget.

2173
02:56:45,040 --> 02:56:47,700
No, no, no, no. We have six contingency positions at budget.

2174
02:56:48,380 --> 02:56:50,780
I want to make clear it's not like we're finding money.

2175
02:56:51,080 --> 02:56:54,240
We intentionally increase contingency because we have so much variability this year.

2176
02:56:54,240 --> 02:57:00,040
We wanted funds for the task force to make recommendations as well as we want to have funds available for variances

2177
02:57:00,040 --> 02:57:03,780
So as students move between buildings it may break sections and increase staffing

2178
02:57:03,780 --> 02:57:07,560
So we do have some contingencies that we can hold on to for those reasons

2179
02:57:07,560 --> 02:57:12,060
But there are some contingencies due to task or some poor recommendations. So

2180
02:57:12,060 --> 02:57:18,140
Rounding the process was used to tell me it was about a hundred thousand you know hire a teacher correct give it that

2181
02:57:18,140 --> 02:57:22,300
Yes, that's the easy math way. The easy math is a hundred thousand. Most people like you

2182
02:57:22,300 --> 02:57:26,500
So 100,000 give a text for one teacher.

2183
02:57:27,360 --> 02:57:30,160
So I'm not too sure if it equals to, you know, the point one

2184
02:57:30,160 --> 02:57:30,720
for traveling.

2185
02:57:31,200 --> 02:57:35,180
I mean, it's not merely a, you know, people talking that it's only

2186
02:57:35,180 --> 02:57:37,860
at any point, whatever, because of the travel.

2187
02:57:38,080 --> 02:57:40,280
So I don't know if the math really worked out that way.

2188
02:57:40,940 --> 02:57:46,780
But having said all that, I'd be okay with the adding a full-time

2189
02:57:46,780 --> 02:57:49,980
art teacher provided we don't increase the overall point.

2190
02:57:52,180 --> 02:57:57,520
Typically, I think our budget, we have discontinuity costs and what you're saying is you put

2191
02:57:57,520 --> 02:57:58,400
6 in this one.

2192
02:57:58,820 --> 02:58:03,060
In anticipation of having accessibility based on the task force, I think that's going

2193
02:58:03,060 --> 02:58:03,100
to be something.

2194
02:58:03,100 --> 02:58:04,520
That's more for grandations as well.

2195
02:58:04,600 --> 02:58:04,920
Absolutely.

2196
02:58:05,460 --> 02:58:06,380
I'm very interested.

2197
02:58:06,980 --> 02:58:07,140
Okay.

2198
02:58:07,600 --> 02:58:08,060
That's good to know.

2199
02:58:08,240 --> 02:58:08,540
Thank you.

2200
02:58:09,220 --> 02:58:11,540
Any other comments on the trustees on the budget?

2201
02:58:14,600 --> 02:58:15,220
Just to give me.

2202
02:58:15,540 --> 02:58:16,800
I mean, my question was like.

2203
02:58:17,080 --> 02:58:17,660
Oh, it's fine.

2204
02:58:17,860 --> 02:58:22,640
I just had a question about the UPK, you know, the universal pre-K.

2205
02:58:23,640 --> 02:58:30,380
How many students do we typically turn away because of so lack of funding that we've had?

2206
02:58:31,800 --> 02:58:37,360
Because what would be like, might be anywhere between 20 and 30 students?

2207
02:58:37,940 --> 02:58:43,720
Okay, so we could obviously with this new funding, obviously, can't be used for anything else.

2208
02:58:43,720 --> 02:58:54,360
We could obviously increase the program substantially and actually have money left over

2209
02:58:54,360 --> 02:58:57,680
that we wouldn't even spend because the demand wouldn't be there.

2210
02:58:58,560 --> 02:58:59,080
Potentially.

2211
02:58:59,440 --> 02:59:06,320
I don't know how many community members may not apply for it, thinking it's only 20, you

2212
02:59:06,320 --> 02:59:13,580
know 20 states, so it might be that more would apply knowing that we do have a lot more

2213
02:59:13,580 --> 02:59:20,060
available, you know, the majority of people. Can you explain the process or what somebody

2214
02:59:20,060 --> 02:59:26,220
goes through and how? Sure. There's an application process, which is going on right now.

2215
02:59:27,080 --> 02:59:32,520
And so individuals have to meet the criteria, obviously being a resident, having a quarrel.

2216
02:59:33,100 --> 02:59:40,020
And then what happens is we literally draw the name from those applications and notify

2217
02:59:40,020 --> 02:59:51,520
individual and then we have our local child care preschool that they have a choice where

2218
02:59:51,520 --> 02:59:57,520
they want to attend and so then we actually make those payments through the grants on

2219
02:59:57,520 --> 02:59:59,920
a regular basis that the parents are only

2220
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:28,000
Honorable or transporting their children? So is there any way that we could with this increase in funding? Increase the program. You know, right now we contracted out to two different vendors. Is there any consideration? I know that we just got these numbers the other night. But was there any consideration or talk about increasing the program to capture more students? I don't know whether the program.

2221
03:00:28,000 --> 03:00:31,000
and you know, you know, for the registration is underway.

2222
03:00:31,240 --> 03:00:33,200
I don't know whether that went out in the little language.

2223
03:00:34,460 --> 03:00:38,100
You know, is there any, was there any talk about maybe anything before?

2224
03:00:38,140 --> 03:00:41,380
I think absolutely that we want to, you know, reach back out,

2225
03:00:41,380 --> 03:00:46,080
because again, it's a process and the lack of funding that,

2226
03:00:46,180 --> 03:00:49,080
you know, that we've had in a prior years has discouraged

2227
03:00:49,080 --> 03:00:51,120
on people we certainly want to make them aware.

2228
03:00:51,740 --> 03:00:54,140
And the other thing is, correct me if I'm wrong about the process.

2229
03:00:54,140 --> 03:01:00,800
So this process, this application process, the financial need is not a consideration, correct?

2230
03:01:01,700 --> 03:01:07,840
So it's strictly lottery, whereas now with this funding, you know, it can cover anybody,

2231
03:01:08,300 --> 03:01:11,160
you know, any family that has a four-year-old.

2232
03:01:11,480 --> 03:01:17,180
So we will be definitely, you know, again, once we get more information about it,

2233
03:01:17,380 --> 03:01:21,040
and make sure that we're, you know, cross-conceiving dotting on it,

2234
03:01:21,040 --> 03:01:25,440
certainly will be reaching out to the community and saying, hey, you know, we have this for you.

2235
03:01:25,440 --> 03:01:29,120
Does it have to be a one-year use, but only one-year aid?

2236
03:01:29,460 --> 03:01:34,720
So this is the recent information that's providing everything with this caveat that was shared with me

2237
03:01:34,720 --> 03:01:41,420
is that the aid is tied in their belief to federal funds that had expansion of pre-tay to its

2238
03:01:41,420 --> 03:01:48,280
estate. So there is a fear or concern or there's a warning that these funds may not be reoccurring,

2239
03:01:48,280 --> 03:01:53,720
But that is not definitive and they just warned us on that that might be a potential to keep your eyes open to that

2240
03:01:53,720 --> 03:02:00,860
So we obviously want to don't want to expand a program where it must be and then cut so utilizing our agencies

2241
03:02:00,860 --> 03:02:05,220
It's a very good model that we're currently doing and in the language it states

2242
03:02:05,220 --> 03:02:12,260
The funding is based on a full-day pre-kit doubles your funding so by logic we're assuming that they're

2243
03:02:12,840 --> 03:02:18,780
They only fund a full day pre-k, so we may have higher enrollment with a full day pre-k.

2244
03:02:18,920 --> 03:02:22,480
We're not sure if people may be more interested in a full day and half it wasn't sufficient

2245
03:02:22,480 --> 03:02:22,840
for them.

2246
03:02:23,140 --> 03:02:24,780
We may have less enrollment for the full day.

2247
03:02:25,000 --> 03:02:29,060
So there's a lot of variables, but Dr. Bosch and I were literally texting within minutes

2248
03:02:29,060 --> 03:02:29,680
of it coming out.

2249
03:02:30,000 --> 03:02:30,980
And that was one of our topics.

2250
03:02:31,240 --> 03:02:35,900
We've had a phone call already about it, and we were seeking about this very issue with

2251
03:02:35,900 --> 03:02:37,800
how many kids we have that are left out.

2252
03:02:38,580 --> 03:02:40,180
We may have more kids that we need.

2253
03:02:40,340 --> 03:02:41,220
We don't want to lose the funding.

2254
03:02:41,220 --> 03:02:44,180
because typically if you don't spend the funds often they reduce your funding

2255
03:02:44,180 --> 03:02:49,800
allocation. So we're saying after the lottery can we go out and do some you know work to your

2256
03:02:49,800 --> 03:02:53,080
door to door. So you know put the liars out mailings because the liars still happens.

2257
03:02:53,820 --> 03:02:57,920
The lottery may mean everyone wins and if everyone wins we might let go but you don't want to have

2258
03:02:57,920 --> 03:03:01,700
folks that weren't aware of their opportunity. So we want to do a lot of you know

2259
03:03:01,700 --> 03:03:05,520
outreach to our community to let them know this opportunity but this is all brand new.

2260
03:03:05,760 --> 03:03:09,400
So we both told each other we're going to get this week to figure out more information in facts

2261
03:03:09,400 --> 03:03:12,380
and then we're going to do that work, you know, when we get that information.

2262
03:03:12,900 --> 03:03:13,260
Excellent.

2263
03:03:13,920 --> 03:03:13,980
Great.

2264
03:03:14,300 --> 03:03:16,580
And then I'm going to try to take just to finish that part.

2265
03:03:16,960 --> 03:03:19,260
How do we teach the preschools that we contract out?

2266
03:03:19,400 --> 03:03:20,980
We used to do the only two that we're using?

2267
03:03:21,560 --> 03:03:24,620
Yes, so there's an RFP process about the Washington Speed to that, really.

2268
03:03:25,420 --> 03:03:26,720
There's actually three.

2269
03:03:26,980 --> 03:03:30,040
We were projecting that two before this information came out.

2270
03:03:30,660 --> 03:03:36,320
There are more requirements as far as our working in collaboration and monitoring curriculum,

2271
03:03:36,580 --> 03:03:38,820
assessments and making visitation.

2272
03:03:40,520 --> 03:03:45,940
So one of the things we were looking to do is streamline that because it is, you know,

2273
03:03:46,080 --> 03:03:51,100
the process for working in partnership has increased over these last several years

2274
03:03:51,800 --> 03:03:53,960
and what the state requires us to do.

2275
03:03:54,720 --> 03:04:00,120
So that is definitely something we're going to obviously, you know, if we do get a number

2276
03:04:00,120 --> 03:04:05,800
of students that and families that are interested in that amount that we have, we would have to

2277
03:04:05,800 --> 03:04:09,100
I look to more partnerships.

2278
03:04:10,720 --> 03:04:12,880
Yeah, my recollection is that it was a

2279
03:04:13,700 --> 03:04:16,440
significantly larger task to go through it.

2280
03:04:16,880 --> 03:04:17,620
And I believe in the beginning,

2281
03:04:17,620 --> 03:04:19,200
it was additionally, it was income driven,

2282
03:04:19,780 --> 03:04:22,260
but there was an income requirement in order to be

2283
03:04:22,260 --> 03:04:23,980
so it's great to hear that that's not the key point.

2284
03:04:27,120 --> 03:04:29,240
So anyone who can turn the air conditioning off?

2285
03:04:31,500 --> 03:04:31,900
It's like a computer.

2286
03:04:32,120 --> 03:04:32,840
I don't know what to do with it.

2287
03:04:32,840 --> 03:04:33,800
It's like a computer.

2288
03:04:34,000 --> 03:04:35,460
I don't know what to do with it.

2289
03:04:35,460 --> 03:04:36,060
I don't know what to do with it.

2290
03:04:36,160 --> 03:04:36,540
I'm sorry.

2291
03:04:36,540 --> 03:04:38,700
I'm sorry, I'm okay, so I just want to ask you a question.

2292
03:04:40,460 --> 03:04:43,990
I just want to ask one other question for summer school,

2293
03:04:44,250 --> 03:04:49,590
which is obviously, you know, increased dramatically by, you know, 41%

2294
03:04:49,590 --> 03:04:52,610
and last year, obviously for all the right reasons.

2295
03:04:53,390 --> 03:04:58,730
So I just wanted to know the type of all the instructional models that I'm sure

2296
03:04:58,730 --> 03:05:05,430
will be in place for summer school are there supports in place to catch students

2297
03:05:05,430 --> 03:05:14,630
for helping with navigating through social emotional issues that our students might need.

2298
03:05:14,910 --> 03:05:23,690
That extra support for in this 41.7% for the just programming.

2299
03:05:24,450 --> 03:05:30,250
So that for summer school has really been, you know, has really been about programming.

2300
03:05:31,410 --> 03:05:42,230
Is there any room for us to have more support, more counselors involved in our summer school

2301
03:05:42,230 --> 03:05:44,790
program, or social worker?

2302
03:05:45,850 --> 03:05:51,490
Well, one of the things that we can, and we have to really consider that, you know,

2303
03:05:51,610 --> 03:05:56,970
one of the difficulties with that is our, you know, some of our students, the way that

2304
03:05:56,970 --> 03:06:02,330
we're looking at the program, some of them may be coming on campus, some may do it virtually.

2305
03:06:04,050 --> 03:06:09,470
It's really establishing those connections and those routines for those types of interactions

2306
03:06:09,470 --> 03:06:17,650
to happen. It's certainly something you can explore. Knowing that now we have some more funding,

2307
03:06:18,330 --> 03:06:20,390
that could be something that we could look into.

2308
03:06:23,060 --> 03:06:29,100
All right, and then I did have a question about the social work services in regular school

2309
03:06:29,100 --> 03:06:36,020
as I did lines 2, 8, 2, 5, it's decreasing and is that due to a vacancy?

2310
03:06:36,580 --> 03:06:43,440
I wasn't sure, I have it in my notes as a vacancy, but it looks like it's decreasing from last year.

2311
03:06:44,700 --> 03:06:50,360
Yes, there is a vacancy in there, so it is the reduction due to a more highly compensated

2312
03:06:50,360 --> 03:06:53,500
in an employee being replaced by a master step three place hole.

2313
03:06:53,500 --> 03:06:55,000
So it's not a reduction in FPD?

2314
03:06:55,240 --> 03:06:56,280
It's not a reduction.

2315
03:06:56,500 --> 03:07:03,960
Would we consider, you know, because we are saving a certain percentage?

2316
03:07:03,960 --> 03:07:15,040
Would we consider it supplementing the social work in the regular school social work services

2317
03:07:15,040 --> 03:07:15,580
overall?

2318
03:07:15,880 --> 03:07:17,900
So you're suggesting adding a social worker?

2319
03:07:17,900 --> 03:07:24,920
Well, if we're saving, right, you know, which we obviously are, if we're saving, it looks like almost

2320
03:07:24,920 --> 03:07:34,950
$50,000, would there be any consideration of hiring the part-time social worker that with that state?

2321
03:07:37,170 --> 03:07:37,850
Sure.

2322
03:07:38,330 --> 03:07:42,510
The savings have been realized within the budget.

2323
03:07:42,530 --> 03:07:48,730
So just from a budgetary perspective that has already been captured in the budget.

2324
03:07:48,730 --> 03:07:52,270
And again, we've been talking about contingencies and positions.

2325
03:07:53,470 --> 03:08:00,090
Mr. Badanak, we want to talk about our social work, but we have added, we recently added

2326
03:08:00,090 --> 03:08:07,370
a social worker position, Ms. Coleman and that position.

2327
03:08:08,330 --> 03:08:16,410
So, we have looked at that and addressed a need from a couple of years ago, but certainly

2328
03:08:16,410 --> 03:08:19,850
or something that can be stressed?

2329
03:08:21,750 --> 03:08:25,150
Currently we have seven social workers.

2330
03:08:25,410 --> 03:08:27,110
We have two in each middle school.

2331
03:08:32,400 --> 03:08:34,480
So we have two in the high school.

2332
03:08:34,620 --> 03:08:37,820
We have the Drug and Alcohol, the SCL, which is this Coleman.

2333
03:08:38,600 --> 03:08:44,460
We also have one in each middle school as well as a social worker

2334
03:08:44,460 --> 03:08:45,700
over in the Port Academy.

2335
03:08:47,260 --> 03:08:48,980
That's our current social worker.

2336
03:08:51,600 --> 03:08:53,100
And they're also kind

2337
03:09:02,540 --> 03:09:07,680
of ducked hell off of what trusty MacNaughton said about the transportation.

2338
03:09:08,420 --> 03:09:17,280
And what Mr. Howard was saying, I'm sorry, so sorry, Mr. Howard was saying about reconfiguring

2339
03:09:17,280 --> 03:09:22,600
our transportation and the critical math, I forget the slide it was for the buses.

2340
03:09:23,440 --> 03:09:30,060
And would we be able to come up with some sort of forecast that if we were to provide universal

2341
03:09:30,060 --> 03:09:36,720
busing, would that make more or better uses of our bus time or not?

2342
03:09:38,260 --> 03:09:42,480
So yeah, we can do various analysis, our transportation software allows for that.

2343
03:09:42,880 --> 03:09:46,020
Just off the top of my head, the universal bus will come with a significant cost.

2344
03:09:47,480 --> 03:09:52,220
The kindergarten change may or may not have a positive impact and we'll definitely look

2345
03:09:52,220 --> 03:09:52,540
at that.

2346
03:09:52,900 --> 03:09:56,760
Just anecdotally in top of my head is that being the elementary is the critical tier and

2347
03:09:56,760 --> 03:10:00,520
we were bringing up the other buildings closer to that 34 buses.

2348
03:10:00,980 --> 03:10:05,380
Having less students eligible in the elementary might drop the critical tear down to 33 or 32,

2349
03:10:05,820 --> 03:10:08,560
which makes the high school and the middle school might become the critical tear.

2350
03:10:09,080 --> 03:10:10,800
So we might lose some of that potential savings.

2351
03:10:11,040 --> 03:10:15,900
So if it gets, we can only cut one bus at the beneficial, we cut more than one bus than it

2352
03:10:15,900 --> 03:10:16,080
hurts.

2353
03:10:16,300 --> 03:10:21,000
So we can just see the financial impact of it and we'll see from the kindergarten perspective what

2354
03:10:21,000 --> 03:10:21,220
they change.

2355
03:10:21,220 --> 03:10:25,320
But universal busing will likely be significantly costly.

2356
03:10:25,720 --> 03:10:30,900
And we might want to modify our bell times to be able to reduce those costs, which would be a large structural change.

2357
03:10:31,440 --> 03:10:34,120
But that's something we can look into at the board in some time.

2358
03:10:34,420 --> 03:10:35,880
I don't

2359
03:10:39,780 --> 03:10:42,100
know if it's something we could do legal if we have to have a proposition.

2360
03:10:42,720 --> 03:10:44,880
Are parents allowed to pop that?

2361
03:10:45,240 --> 03:10:48,220
So just make believe I still have kids in the high school.

2362
03:10:48,520 --> 03:10:51,960
If I just say, hey, I don't want the bus to come down, my blog can't go up.

2363
03:10:52,300 --> 03:10:53,120
And I'll lock down.

2364
03:10:53,220 --> 03:10:54,680
I'll take all the risk for it.

2365
03:10:58,920 --> 03:11:05,920
So a parent always has a right for the child not to ride the bus, but the parent has the right to always change that decision.

2366
03:11:06,380 --> 03:11:22,320
So, or building transportation is challenging to, if that is non-binding, to reduce the capacity of transportation because a child may not ride the bus, if that decision is changed, it will require us to now add capacity at that point in time.

2367
03:11:22,320 --> 03:11:24,160
So I'm saying, can I put it, can I be fine?

2368
03:11:24,360 --> 03:11:27,160
Can I have parents say, hey, I'm not all the right,

2369
03:11:27,280 --> 03:11:29,020
I'll write whatever contact you want.

2370
03:11:29,600 --> 03:11:33,520
My kid, I'll take care of my child getting to school.

2371
03:11:33,880 --> 03:11:35,280
I'm not going to take the bus for the whole year.

2372
03:11:35,420 --> 03:11:37,720
Is that something that a school district can do?

2373
03:11:38,400 --> 03:11:41,180
We can ask our position by board policy or whatever.

2374
03:11:41,840 --> 03:11:43,740
We can ask legal if that is a possibility

2375
03:11:43,740 --> 03:11:46,560
as my understanding that the right of transportation

2376
03:11:46,560 --> 03:11:49,060
is set forth by the propositional of the voters

2377
03:11:49,060 --> 03:11:53,980
and that a parent has that right and all kinds based on the voter proposition,

2378
03:11:54,480 --> 03:12:00,620
but we can ask if that could be some sort of contract with the parent if they choose not to have transportation.

2379
03:12:01,200 --> 03:12:04,620
At that point, we would then not schedule that capacity for a bus.

2380
03:12:05,200 --> 03:12:08,820
I think it's important to note that when we plan bus routes,

2381
03:12:10,720 --> 03:12:17,080
we plan based on experience based on the data that we have in past years.

2382
03:12:17,080 --> 03:12:24,320
We need to plan at a capacity that is greater than we know that is going to fill those buses.

2383
03:12:24,880 --> 03:12:26,080
That's correct, especially the high school.

2384
03:12:26,440 --> 03:12:29,480
So high school buses have 70 to 80 kids to get rid of it.

2385
03:12:29,680 --> 03:12:31,660
There's only 44 people to seek faster.

2386
03:12:32,320 --> 03:12:35,860
Our high schools really never ride the bus or rarely ride the bus.

2387
03:12:35,980 --> 03:12:37,060
We have buses very rarely.

2388
03:12:37,340 --> 03:12:45,640
So we do factor in for cost reasons to be more cost-effective, but I'm curious if parents are

2389
03:12:45,640 --> 03:12:46,120
hopping out.

2390
03:12:46,120 --> 03:12:52,120
We might already have factored in a lot of savings or efficiencies through what Ms. Vanis is mentioning over

2391
03:12:52,880 --> 03:12:57,700
Loading the actual on paper ridership, then the actual actual ridership

2392
03:12:58,300 --> 03:13:01,780
Thank you. Do you have more questions? I just had one last question

2393
03:13:03,700 --> 03:13:05,440
So I just wanted to

2394
03:13:06,660 --> 03:13:12,420
You know when we're looking at the operation of plan overall there's an overall increase of 4.7

2395
03:13:15,460 --> 03:13:21,800
I just have a hard time with that number knowing that overall we're closing two buildings.

2396
03:13:22,940 --> 03:13:27,580
So I understand that we still have to maintain the buildings and, you know, that's important.

2397
03:13:28,260 --> 03:13:34,720
But I just, I guess it's hard for me to reconcile the operation as a plan going off by 4.75%

2398
03:13:35,380 --> 03:13:40,180
and we're not utilizing two of the buildings overall.

2399
03:13:40,180 --> 03:13:47,360
Sure, a large portion of that increase is due to the $168,000 of COVID related expenditures.

2400
03:13:47,680 --> 03:13:52,400
So we have two replacement cycles for every one of our HIPAA filtration systems.

2401
03:13:52,990 --> 03:13:58,940
We have additional replacement PPE throughout the year, we have hand sanitizer replacements.

2402
03:13:59,180 --> 03:14:05,620
So we have a majority of that increase is due to the COVID costs of operating next

2403
03:14:06,480 --> 03:14:11,280
So that's not part of the $1.9 million as a contingent.

2404
03:14:11,380 --> 03:14:14,420
Yes, the $1.9 million is covering the staffing costs.

2405
03:14:14,800 --> 03:14:17,820
For example, the building principal, security, the greeders,

2406
03:14:18,380 --> 03:14:21,280
clerical staff, all the staff that the buildings were being closed

2407
03:14:21,280 --> 03:14:22,780
to be turned back on basically.

2408
03:14:23,420 --> 03:14:27,440
But we do have funds on the budget for the PPE needs,

2409
03:14:27,780 --> 03:14:28,960
separate and apart from that.

2410
03:14:29,600 --> 03:14:32,500
Okay, so then my next question does kill on this.

2411
03:14:32,700 --> 03:14:34,200
It's not really a budget question,

2412
03:14:34,200 --> 03:14:41,340
but more of, you know, for COVID, if we could get an idea of Superintendent Banser about

2413
03:14:41,340 --> 03:14:50,040
the community spread versus the spread in schools, you know, maybe for, because I know the CDC has

2414
03:14:50,040 --> 03:14:57,200
changed guidelines, but we don't operate on the CDC guidelines. And I know that in our district,

2415
03:14:57,200 --> 03:14:59,560
There are cases in the high school that's floating.

2416
03:15:00,970 --> 03:15:15,770
So they just great, just to get an idea for the contingency for COVID, you know, for next year, if the numbers reflect anything this year. And that's it. I think trust you, the cochlea, you had some questions.

2417
03:15:22,120 --> 03:15:22,360
Larry,

2418
03:15:48,660 --> 03:15:52,100
We're not currently paying for any services for Gotham, but it's currently.

2419
03:15:53,140 --> 03:15:54,380
They're done, I said this year.

2420
03:15:57,000 --> 03:15:59,340
You know who one of the tax payers is one, that's a one.

2421
03:16:02,580 --> 03:16:09,360
In fact, there's basically on cost, but there's no monthly retainer.

2422
03:16:09,360 --> 03:16:09,560
Thank you.

2423
03:16:12,120 --> 03:16:14,380
Larry, you will back from.

2424
03:16:15,080 --> 03:16:15,940
Yeah, I had a good drink.

2425
03:16:17,780 --> 03:16:19,640
Trustee Locoplia, what would you like that?

2426
03:16:21,670 --> 03:16:23,010
What's the, what's the question?

2427
03:16:23,330 --> 03:16:23,910
I didn't hear you.

2428
03:16:24,610 --> 03:16:28,550
Oh, do you have any questions?

2429
03:16:28,970 --> 03:16:29,830
No, I do not.

2430
03:16:31,230 --> 03:16:33,730
All right, Trustee Locoplia.

2431
03:16:37,690 --> 03:16:37,990
Any

2432
03:16:40,320 --> 03:16:43,880
other suggestions on the budget?

2433
03:16:43,880 --> 03:16:47,280
It has a standard addition to subtraction, it's common.

2434
03:16:55,440 --> 03:16:58,400
So that, so from what I understand,

2435
03:16:58,640 --> 03:17:00,320
just to wrap it up before we go out of it for me,

2436
03:17:00,420 --> 03:17:02,200
ho, we had a couple suggestions.

2437
03:17:03,200 --> 03:17:08,320
One was to have a full-time fifth grade counselor

2438
03:17:08,840 --> 03:17:11,540
for both East North Port and North Port Middle School,

2439
03:17:12,560 --> 03:17:17,640
but it's gonna be, that would be from the contingency

2440
03:17:18,140 --> 03:17:22,860
and also to have four full-time art teachers again from the

2441
03:17:22,860 --> 03:17:28,100
contingency so that the budget is still remaining at 1.7.4.7.4.7.4.8.

2442
03:17:28,200 --> 03:17:28,560
Is that right?

2443
03:17:28,800 --> 03:17:29,460
Is that right?

2444
03:17:30,380 --> 03:17:30,860
Right.

2445
03:17:31,200 --> 03:17:31,620
Thank you.

2446
03:17:32,080 --> 03:17:33,120
Just double check it.

2447
03:17:33,400 --> 03:17:36,460
So now we go out of the committee of all and we need a motion.

2448
03:17:36,460 --> 03:17:38,280
I believe to go into a special meeting.

2449
03:17:38,500 --> 03:17:38,660
Is that right?

2450
03:17:39,200 --> 03:17:40,280
The speaker?

2451
03:17:41,740 --> 03:17:42,540
That's us here.

2452
03:17:50,760 --> 03:17:51,240
Thanks.

2453
03:17:52,220 --> 03:17:57,880
So I have a motion for the new to approve the secret resolution.

2454
03:17:58,180 --> 03:17:59,220
We don't have to read it, correct?

2455
03:18:00,740 --> 03:18:01,340
I'll second that.

2456
03:18:02,980 --> 03:18:04,560
Any discussion on secret?

2457
03:18:07,650 --> 03:18:10,610
Trustee Lockerner with Coakley on item 8?

2458
03:18:11,170 --> 03:18:12,110
They're voting yes.

2459
03:18:12,930 --> 03:18:13,930
They're voting yes already.

2460
03:18:14,290 --> 03:18:15,410
They thought you were calling.

2461
03:18:15,890 --> 03:18:17,610
All right, all those in favor?

2462
03:18:18,970 --> 03:18:19,230
Hi.

2463
03:18:19,670 --> 03:18:19,770
Hi.

2464
03:18:19,770 --> 03:18:20,350
So

2465
03:18:23,170 --> 03:18:30,730
now we have item nine, which I do know we do have to read. So I'll, oh, we need a motion first to

2466
03:18:33,450 --> 03:18:36,810
prove both nine and one and nine or two.

2467
03:18:38,870 --> 03:18:42,830
I'll second that and we have to read that right.

2468
03:18:45,770 --> 03:18:46,830
Well, you have to read number one.

2469
03:18:47,230 --> 03:18:57,230
The result of the Board of Education shall be presented qualified voters of the Northport East Northport Union Free School District at a special meeting.

2470
03:18:57,230 --> 03:19:00,290
to be held on May 18th, 2021.

2471
03:19:00,870 --> 03:19:03,510
The following proposition as proposition number one,

2472
03:19:04,210 --> 03:19:06,190
resolve at the annual school district budget

2473
03:19:06,190 --> 03:19:09,110
for the 2021-2022 school year

2474
03:19:09,110 --> 03:19:13,830
in the amount of 174,000, I'm sorry,

2475
03:19:14,030 --> 03:19:18,670
174 million, sorry, 700, 4000, 748,000,

2476
03:19:19,650 --> 03:19:23,630
and the necessary taxes, therefore, be approved.

2477
03:19:24,570 --> 03:19:26,390
But we don't have to be number two, right?

2478
03:19:26,390 --> 03:19:30,370
that was previously posted.

2479
03:19:31,610 --> 03:19:36,150
So we already talked about it, but any other questions on 9.01 and 9.02.

2480
03:19:38,960 --> 03:19:40,220
Hearing none, all those in favor?

2481
03:19:41,520 --> 03:19:41,700
Aye.

2482
03:19:42,060 --> 03:19:42,700
Thank you.

2483
03:19:43,660 --> 03:19:45,480
Two with two eyes on their passes.

2484
03:19:45,640 --> 03:19:46,220
No, please.

2485
03:19:47,060 --> 03:19:49,460
I'm going to make a motion to extend the meeting.

2486
03:19:49,880 --> 03:19:49,980
It

2487
03:19:52,060 --> 03:19:52,700
has to be done.

2488
03:19:53,380 --> 03:19:56,140
I mean, the second, all those in favor to extend?

2489
03:19:57,020 --> 03:19:57,320
Aye.

2490
03:19:58,220 --> 03:19:58,340
Aye.

2491
03:19:58,340 --> 03:20:02,180
We already did 10, we already did 11.

2492
03:20:15,080 --> 03:20:16,380
That's very information-only.

2493
03:20:19,140 --> 03:20:21,540
So, new business, we have the upcoming meetings

2494
03:20:21,540 --> 03:20:22,560
and there are plenty of them.

2495
03:20:22,960 --> 03:20:26,960
So, we have April 13th meeting for the board

2496
03:20:26,960 --> 03:20:28,780
to receive the educational impact statement

2497
03:20:28,780 --> 03:20:31,820
from the School of Closure Advisory Task Force.

2498
03:20:31,980 --> 03:20:32,500
That would be here.

2499
03:20:33,300 --> 03:20:35,460
And then April 27th, special meetings about

2500
03:20:35,460 --> 03:20:37,460
embossed administrative budget and transfer

2501
03:20:37,460 --> 03:20:41,240
and the public hearings on the educational impact statement.

2502
03:20:41,240 --> 03:20:45,700
April 29th is a special meeting to render a determination on the proposed

2503
03:20:45,700 --> 03:20:53,300
school building closing. May 9th is a public hearing and a finalized budget. May 18th

2504
03:20:53,300 --> 03:20:59,580
is the vote on the budget vote and the election of trustees and May 18th is a special

2505
03:20:59,580 --> 03:21:04,180
meeting to step voting in terms. I make a motion to adjourn. I need a second.

2506
03:21:05,140 --> 03:21:06,580
A lot of people put out for it.

2507
03:21:06,740 --> 03:21:07,460
All those in favor.

2508
03:21:08,000 --> 03:21:08,200
Hi.

2509
03:21:08,760 --> 03:21:09,160
Hi.

2510
03:21:09,600 --> 03:21:11,220
On a pleasant evening, everybody.

2511
03:21:11,480 --> 03:21:11,940
It's very weekend.