You know, we don't realize who's going to charter schools until maybe mid year or whatever we get. So, sometimes you project for something that the the uh state tells you what to project for and then all of a sudden they say, "Well, we thought three kids would come and there's 50 kids, so pay us." What? You know, so it's not projected, right? But if I boosted that lineup a million dollars, then everyone here would be like, "What do you mean? Why do you need a million dollars?" Right? Same thing with special ed lines. You have to project for special education students to move to town. How do you do that? It's impossible, right? If a family moves in and they have three special needs children, which obviously they need to be taken care of, right? They're they're part of our family. How are we going to cover that?
Our training will be done through the Allen County Sheriff's Department, their canine program, who uses the International Police Working Dog Association for their certifications. This dog will undergo a high level of scrutiny in order to be prepared to be in a school setting to ensure that it is a a safe a safe asset and a useful asset for for our school district. You want to go ahead? So, some capabilities that these dogs offer. Um, I do want to start by saying just based off of the initial initial plans with us just starting this program, our our dog our plan is to train the dog simply on narcotic detection and the infancy of the program, but it is something that you can expand upon at a later date as well. Um, you can always teach these dogs new things, new imprints, new abilities, but you can't take them away once they're there.
I'm not I'm not projecting for now. It's impossible, right? So, you give yourself a little bit of cushion, but how much cushion is a little bit? You don't know. Okay? And when you have better programs and and people get transportation like you do here for your kids, people want to move here. It's the way it goes. Okay. So, here are the general front appropriations. Now, moving forward, again, this is a slide that you can see later or tomorrow. Um, obviously, it's a lot of information. Okay. Next. Okay. Uh, different pie here with some charter school expenses, etc. Again, it's tough to see because it's so tight. I apologize, but you know, the board has it in front of them. Um, and again, the the town will can get it tonight or right after this. Your capital outlay, I'd like to see that a little bigger at some point because we we we should be expanding some some things here with regard to physical parts of of buildings and whatnot.
And as we're just beginning this program, we're starting here and we can build upon that. But eventually these drug dogs alongside of narcotic drugs couldn't can be trained to detect firearms. Um so in our our demonstration from officer Elwell and K9 Kota, um he took us to a wrestling room. He he hid ammunition, magazines from firearms in this wrestling room full of all kinds of equipment and his dog was able to very quickly, you know, locate to where those things were and identify any potential potential threats within that building. Um, and alongside that, these canines are very talented with tracking as well. So, you know, at the elementary level, you have students that have a desire to abscond at times, try to run, flee, leave the building because they're in a time of crisis or something they're dealing with. And these dogs can allow for us to, you know, more quickly and effectively locate the locate students if they were to to able to leave the building.
Here's that historical chart. So, in 2223, you had 8% for charter school increase. 2324 10%. 24 25 we had 13%. We're being told to project 2%. I think it's going to be 15%. That's 13% that we have to come up with now when we get that that number. It's like January 13%. At least, but that's what we're told to to budget at right now, right? So, we need kids to come back here, right? Don't go to the charter schools. Well, obviously it's a a parent choice. I get it. Okay. But then then we have the enrollment issues again, right? It's a catch 22. Okay? So, the charter school argument is interesting sometimes, but again, uh, and just for everyone's edification with during the re-registration, everybody said, "Oh, all these kids, they don't live in town and stuff like that." We've we've done as much as we can with, uh, with with finding kids that maybe do live in town or don't live in town, right?
Um, other benefits of this K9 program. So again, this is becoming significantly more more common. There is, you know, research to back these programs being successful in schools ranging all the way from middle, high school, and even college level programs. They've um implemented K9's on on college campuses as well for their safety. Um, one added benefit is deterrence. These these dogs are present. They're there. Students know they're there. students know not to bring these things into our buildings, these dangerous things, these threats to to themselves and other students into the building with the knowledge that that that K9 will be there. We'll be working and we'll sniff those things out if they're present. community building um as chief touched on that that instance is very very touching but even in our community as well you know I've seen our county's canines come in for for dare graduations for demonstrations for Red Ribbon Day and things like that and you can't you can't put words to the faces of kids when they get to to interact with these dogs and they get a chance to to see them work to see them in the building.
Um, so we continue to use that with a with a company that we now have. though. So now the uh we we come tonight to the to the um board with a 4.5% increase. Okay. So we were able to shave off conservatively 1%. Okay. 1% bring down to 4.5. This is what uh the taxes were raised last year. 4.5. This is where we're at to to continue to run all those things that we talked about. Using the $4.6 $6 million to cover some of those needs. We talked about hiring all those new teachers um that we need to stay in compliance, which is going to be an incredible thing here. We haven't seen that in 15 years. Okay? That takes the burden off of teachers, takes the burden off of supplies, takes does better for your kids in those classrooms with less kids. Okay? Uh it'll boost an extra almost an extra section in at least one or two areas in your elementary schools.
It's a It creates a positive environment and the building as a whole that that is more than just, you know, oh, they get to pet the dog. It just builds a positive a positive outlook for students as well when they get to see that and get to interact with the dog. And again, like I touched on slightly earlier, these canines are capable of a lot of things that I, as a as a human being, am not. Like I said, they can detect the odors of a litany of drugs, firearms, you know, the odors of students that have left the building. These are all things that I can't simply simply can't do. And it's a tool that, you know, with with access to allows us to to take another step in the direction of a a collaborative school safety effort. So, some deployments that you could see um with our school with a dog within the schools.
Okay? So, all good stuff. Here's where we cut some of that. Okay? Okay, we took about 10,000 out of travel expenses, general supplies about 72,000 mostly from superintendent's budget, uh some security budget that we didn't need some supplies. We were able to um recycle some of this stuff. Professional development, most of our professional development, if not all of our professional development is through title money, federal money, which we really have no clue what's going to happen with that, right? So, we're just kind of holding on real tight. I'm proud to say that none of our salaries are tied into federal money, which is actually an anomaly. Usually districts are paying salaries with federal money so we don't have to worry about that. Um purchase services and different things that we have there are a little heavy with 110 miscellaneous service about 9,000. So we took a percentage of each area in those account lines that you see.
So, security patrols, like I said, this is something that we do do with some regularity, but you know, mostly here at the high school, but I know there's also been at least one at at Crestview this year. It's the dog sweeping the lockers, right? You that's kind of probably the image you think of dog comes in, sniff the lockers, and identifies any lockers that might contain contain something that's not supposed to be here. um as so alongside that as I've touched on with the capabilities um animal assisted intervention alongside of a somebody who's dealing with individuals in crisis is proven on time and time again to be significantly more effective than just one-on-one human interaction. And um lastly, educational outreach. Um, as Chief mentioned, I've been teaching DARE for the last two and a half years, and you know, getting in there, interacting with students has been incredibly positive.
Um Aiden Lou we're we're we're thinking that not too many stu more students would stay so we have to pay aid. Aiden Lou is that if you have a child that goes out of district to a different school um you get a um I think it's like $1,000 or $1,100 to cover some of your expenses. uh if it's within certain mileage, stuff like that. Uh tuition reimbursement, salaries, etc. Energy. Now, our energy costs are going to go through the roof. They're supposed to be 20%. 20% increase. Uh we took a little bit off that to come up with that 357, which is one point. Okay, one point. Uh sorry, not one point, 1%. So, here's that tax analysis, okay, on the 4.8%. The bottom number is really interesting. I know some of you might might be a little bit like jumbled up a little bit here.
I've had a lot of, you know, great interactions, great relationships that I believe have proven to be beneficial to the students. Now that they are at the middle school, having started with them in fifth grade, they're now seventh graders in Riverview. Um, frequently having students come down seeking out, you know, an adult that they trust within a building. And this has been shown time and time again across the country to tear down walls, to make myself more approachable, to make the police more approachable. And I truly believe that in order to properly create a safe and positive environment within the school, um that takes everybody, that takes the community as a whole, and this will enhance that our our community connections within the building. Okay. And then just to touch on some some common questions, some things that have been brought to my attention as well as, you know, the attention of our our team at the police department.
You don't understand it. You just want to know what the meat and potatoes are. We're getting that in a second. But here's a really interesting number that I know is going to be really difficult and I'm sure we're going to get a lot of uh head shaking for this. All right. To try to explain this, the municipal budget and the schoolboard budget is severed in half, right? The municipal budget is January to December. The schoolboard budget is July to June 30th, right? Okay. So, when you're paying a schoolboard budget, you're actually paying half and half, right? It's weird, right? So, it's half of one year and half of another year. Okay. So, the tax levy increase for us is 4.5% on your average assessed home, which here is $285,000. That's not how much your home is worth when you go to sell it. Excuse me.
Um, this will look much different than what you probably imagine a police canine looking like. Um, they're typically Labrador retrievers, chocolate labs, black labs, dogs like that, friendly dogs, floppy ears with no intention to be an intimidating presence. Just the presence that they are there for the safety of the students and for the safeties of our school in general. They are not trained to be a aggressive dogs. They go through a high level of certification and scrutiny um in order to be certified to be within the schools. They're not trained in handler protection. So, this dog's ultimate goal will not be to keep me safe or to save me from anybody that comes at me. It'll be for to detect narcotics initially and then potentially the other capabilities I've touched on. And it will also not be trained in any sort of bite apprehension. And the goal is never to, you know, use the dog in an aggressive manner within the school district.
It's what it's assessed at. I am telling you this and it's not to say anything else, but this is, you know, how it how it's kind of laid out. If you look here, you see 4.7%. You're like, "Wait a second, that's a typo or whatever." It's not. You're going to feel the impact of 4.7% because the valuation in this town, in this city, is is lower. Okay? it has been lowered this this current year from what we're being told um by the tax officials. That means that this city is ready and ripe for a reassessment. Has nothing to do with the board and it's not the municipal council's fault. Has nothing to do with it. It's the way it goes. Okay, that's what your impact's going to feel like. And I hate to tell you that, but that's again these I didn't make these numbers up.
These dogs will undergo an extensive academy for the school typically, it sounds like, will probably run for the the length of the summer. So over the course of the summer, I will be training with the dog. Um, again, that will be through the Allen County Sheriff's Department and that will put the ideally make the dog ready for deployment at the start of next school year. Um, the dog will stay with me, live with me. I'll train with it frequently, you know, outside of school hours. Um, it'll be it'll be there with me, you know, it'll be at at the school every day. It'll be deployable. It'll be um just a basically an extension of myself. And can students pet the dog? The answer is yes. Um, the dog does is working, right? It is a police dog. So, there'll be times where it is not not to be pet.
Um so your assessed valuation, what your home value is assessed at. If a reassessment goes in and your value, your assessed value goes up, everybody's taxes are going to go up. So, just be prepared for that. Regardless if it's a 0% or whatever, it doesn't matter. It's sort of like if you say, "I'm not going to put in a um uh get a a permit to do my, you know, I don't want them to reassess my house." Well, now the town or the city every 10 years, I think it is, right? Has to go through a reassessment. I'm pretty sure you're close. And that shows it to me right there at 4.7 versus 4.5. So, that's why it's important that we continue to try to work together as one unit here so that you guys don't get hit on all different angles here because I don't know how um the city the city um tax plan is going to come out, but I I really think that that average home value is going to have to go up or or it's going to get really high um pretty soon.
It's working. It's smelling lockers for narcotics, you know, firearms, anything that it could be to be working towards actively. But outside of that, it is meant to be there, you know, for the students as well. It's meant to be able to be pet, to be sit there and cried to or talked to, anything like that that can further, you know, further benefit the students. So, with that, I'll turn it back over to to Chief Boxel. Thank you, Daniel. Um, this is the uh it's all fun, but this is the really fun part I'd like to talk about. Not that these guys aren't really good-looking, but if I could ask this team of guys to step back, my other team, if I could have you guys come forward, I'd like to introduce to you um a team of people that I brought here with me tonight from Bowen Health.
So, your monthly impact on the average house is going to be $18.50. Okay, $18.50, 50 which I guess we call kind of figure out what we spent $18.50 on. Uh that's what we're asking for. Here's your levy analysis over the last five years. I gave you historical context just so you just where you see the last slide is the most important slide. Okay? Because I want you to see where we're at. Very important. Not this slide, the one after or maybe two after. Not no. Go back. Go back. Go back. Go back. Thank you. Sorry, I'm waving my hand. 2122 postcoid you came out with 0%. Okay, board. Incredible job. We're just coming out of COVID. Nobody has any money. What are we doing? Let's tighten the belts, right? We got a lot of money. Got a lot of money. Got a lot of eserro money, which you had to use a couple years later to fill the holes from the zero.
With me this evening is Dr. Rob Ryan, the president and CEO. Also, Jay Bumgardner, the CFO. I have Lori Augustus, the executive director from our local office. I have Chris Dorman, the practice administrator. Also, Katie Shomo, director of community engagement, and our own local Dr. Tanner Bab, who's a member of the Bowen Health Board of Directors. So, much like I wanted to mention to you about the fundraising side of this this whole thing, um this whole vision of ours, you know, we launched this patrol dog program right before Christmas. And if you guys recall, um, we put some media releases out there that Mr. Seth Kimmel from Kimmel Financial Services, he was really quick to step up. And, uh, he come to us and he asked us, "Hey, what's the price of one of these dogs, the patrol dog side of things?" And we shot him the number and he immediately said, "I want to I want to purchase the dog for you guys." That really kicked off and started our fundraising efforts.