Um forget about the reasons why or why it happened or if it didn't happen or if it was supposed to happen 10 years ago. I mean, I'm I'm imploring everyone to work together on this to if you haven't driven by the morning and and seen that, um someone is going to get hurt and it's it's not about anything else except that's going to happen. Okay? So, and if you think it's not going to happen, then I would hate to have this conversation after it does happen. So, I am telling you and again it the the history of this has been very long time 2013 that area was given to the board um via resolution. The board never accepted the resolution. So, technically it's not their uh property, but they've been using that for I don't know at least five years, let's just say. I think it's way more than that.
And then moving on, you'll see our other what I call my our other um brother sister funds, the education fund and the operations fund here. Our main funds, the education fund was just like I indicated that's the main education at the school level. Operations is the overall operations of the district. So everything else that you don't think of that's directly aimed toward kids um in that school building such as this is the superintendent's office, the business office, this covers transportation, this covers capital projects, uh maintenance, custodial, all those types of things are paid out of the operations fund. So, the same thing um this mimics um the layout of the budget order and then the month actuals in yellow and the year-to- date in yellow. And then you'll see those pie charts. You'll notice that part pie chart looks a lot different than our education fund that was over 90 97% salaries and benefits.
Um, but at the end of the day, again, there was no communication. It was just something from the police saying, "We're going to start ticketing the area now. You can't park there anymore." Um, there wasn't even a lead in. There wasn't even any of that stuff. So, we could all talk about why it happened or how it's happening or what it's what the reason is, it's dangerous or whatever it is. But the reality is this. If we can just all sit down in a room and talk about it and hold that in obeyance until that so that all of our kids are safe, all of our drivers are safe. We had an issue the other day with a with a driver in the city, a young driver who we've all been young drivers, right? Hit the gas instead of the brake and hit a pedestrian.
This has everything in it. This has utilities, professional services, dues and fees. So, this has all kinds of things. So, that's why it's a lot more colorful than the other one. And then going down, you'll see um this one also shows our year-to- date summary. So, it shows what we started out for our cash balance for the year and then what our fund balance is. And this is one of those funds that you'll see start going negative. And that's where our cash balance, our cash flow from all of our funds for the whole district covers this until we receive that property tax money. So that's why that um cash balance in overall is very very important to have to help us through until we receive that property tax money from from the state. I would just because I've studied this for a long time. We weren't as in good health.
Okay, so these things happen when young young drivers are looking for parking and there's no parking. It's very dangerous. Okay. Um again, we need to sit down and have the communications. Uh you know, I agree um that it's not happening. I'm trying to I said it last meeting whether you like me or not, it's not about that. It's business and right now we're talking about the safety of kids. It's very important. So please please parents I implore you uh ask me questions about that or ask what's happening. We we have to make sure that um what's been working for a very long time continues to work so no one gets hurt and that's the only really only thing that to to say about that at this point. Um you know very very important that we continue to talk about that. Yes. a cause of concern.
I would say 1015 years ago when the property taxes were really delayed. Yes. At one point we had to do tax imp tax anticipation warrants because we did not have the funds to be able to cover that a long time ago. Exactly. Right. So, having a healthy cash balance in the education fund and some of our other funds really does help us ride some of that. Hopefully, we don't have and it saves us money so we don't have to borrow money with tax and participation warrants or from a local bank. I know um a lot of districts that that do not have a rainy day fund or a cash balance that they can utilize for that and it does cost them longer, you know, more in the long run because they have to borrow money and it costs to borrow money. So you'll see here um with our fund balance here, you'll see our outstanding purchase orders coming off and then our revised uh balance there.
The other thing is um this board I want to talk to this board about something that's on the agenda with regard to IT infrastructure. We just put it in the uh the budget. It's there. Um this is a very important thing. We've been here now I don't know I've been to many meetings here right so far almost a year's worth of meetings. We've had students get up here talking about the IT infrastructure. Uh we've had people in the audience that are that get up and talk about the IT infrastructure. Well, here we are. We have an easy vote. It's not cheap. We we were able to spread it over a five-year plan. The students have talked about it. The the Congress has talked about it. This should be unanimous vote. Should be unanimous vote tonight on this IT infrastructure. There should be no other reason about it.
And then last but not least, you'll see here um the next one down is our rainy day fund. So just a a reminder that our rainy day fund, we did not have um a new amount that was done through the 2025 budget. What you see here is the carried forward purchase orders that were from last year's budget. So, all of the other funds also do have that um where they have whatever the new budget was that was certified along with any carried forward purchase orders. To be able to um to carry forward a purchase order, you have to have the appropriation from the previous year along with the cash to support that to be able to carry those forward. So that's what you see here is that 420,000 and some change um that was carried forward from last year from last year's 1.5 million appropriation into this year um without any new appropriations.
It went through cooperative bids. It went through your own association. Okay. Um regardless of of how you do decide to vote, um this is something that is needed here. It's something that everybody talked about. Okay. Um, so that's my expert opinion uh with regard to that. I wanted to make it very clear here that that process was done perfectly. There was nothing wrong with it. Uh, this company has done it before. Again, it's a cooperative bid. Uh, and it's definitely something that was needed here. This is the same these are the same individuals that were here and made the fix when I first got here with regard to the active directory that the board uh permitted uh emergency funds to do that. and that's how the kids originally got on when I first got here. So, we need to continue this. It's it's again, this is something that everybody's been talking about.
So we'll continue to um utilize that and um we have approximately $280,000 left of of that appropriation and expenditures to um expend. And I believe that we'll expend that over the next several months and that will be um closed out then and then just have our regular cash balance for our rainy day that we don't know what will happen in the future with this legislative session. So it does have down there at the bottom line it says miscellaneous in encumbrance outstand that's where that is stored is the the that last miscellaneous incumbrances and outstanding POS is that the is that the the amount we have left to pay well that that has 307,000 in that we only have 280 of appropriation. So they'll be adjusting that because we will not be able to use utilize the full 307. What happens with that? Sometimes we're doing um in the middle of a purchase order and we haven't closed it yet, but we will have that balance to that 280 where that will end up being zero.
So, we shouldn't even have these um these dilemmas when we're talking about how we found money for it, how we did it the appropriate way. Uh and again, let's not let rhetoric get in in the middle of it um with regard to all that. So, um, moving forward, I think it's important that we all understand that as we continue to enhance the district and we do a lot of those things. Um, there are things that just were done differently or weren't done in the past and moving forward, this is where it has to be, um, you know, this is where it put put some place. I've been here now observing um, understanding what's happening. Uh, it's interesting. I'm doing this a long time. I've never had two um election cycles this close together. Uh regardless of what town it is, that that stuff gets a little dicey as you get closer.
Okay, but thank you for that that clarification. And I think that is it for the regular ones. And then we have our customary um comparisons that we do for you. And this is where we compare year-over-year per month. So then you can compare. Oh, the one that's highlighted there is February. So it shows February of 2019 all the way to February of 2025. So then you can see um the trends of those receipts, those expenditures and those cash balance um for that particular month over the last six years. So this is our education fund and you'll see how um uh that has remained stable and um has grown. And then we also have our operations fund here um attached for you. And that also shows the same thing for for the February highlighted there. And then we do this every single month for the education fund and the operations fund to show you those trends and um be able to look at those historical comparisons.
Um and it's okay. And hopefully all that will settle down when all this is over. Uh and we can really concentrate on on the kids uh like I've been doing uh with this board uh since I got here July 1. Everything that we put into play in this agenda right now is for this board to kind of just say, you know, this is our our, you know, our meeting together where we need these things to move forward. So, I appreciate the work that you've done in committees uh this month. I know it was a lot um but uh but again, progress. Thank you. The only thing I'd like to update the um the the staff and the students and also the community about is we are making excellent progress on the Frank M. Dawson Jr. Gymnasium. We have secured all the vendors. The first thing will be the painting has been started.
I didn't tell you I was going to do this. Okay. So, if we could back up one slide because um Ryan and I are having a when you point to it, when you look at the appropriation or the expenditures with the education fund, we have made some tremendous investments in salaries for our staff. Yes, we have. And I don't want this to go. If you look at January up there at the top board, what I want you to see is sometimes we get criticized because of our maybe lack thereof investment in our staff. What I want you to see because she told you 97% of this fund is in salaries, benefits, whatever. If you look at January of 19 to January of 25 to the expenditures over there, um we are making some significant investments. Yes. Um to our Do you want to talk to that just a little bit, Becky?
It's it's actually the vendor has been secured. It will be started. We are hoping the April break and we've also uh put on the board to approve the wall mural. Um in addition, we are very excited that the um athletic complex, we have the um batting tunnel that's going to be uh approved at this meeting and the back stop extension so that the balls will stop going over the fence hopefully with this new extra I think 10 foot extension. Um and that's going to be approved at this meeting. And then finally, um the last thing that was in the budget was to finance the to approve the finance company to get the ancillary lighting for the athletic complex. So once once the vote goes through for that, um that's part of the budget. And then we're going to go out. We have an a vendor that's again in the co-op for lighting.
Because I mean, we don't we have never just pointed it out like that, but I didn't want this to blow by without you look at the appropriations and the expenditures, it's pretty significant there. And that's a a good thing to point out when um every every time we have a legislative session that every two years is the main year for the money that then we find out what we are going to get as a school district for the next two years. So it's a two-year cycle. And when we did that, if you recall two years ago, um when the legislative session passed, we found out what kind of money we were going to get. we went into negotiations, bargaining, and we said, "Hey, we need we need to get um our teachers up to where they need to be." So, if you recall, we put a significant amount on the table utilizing cash balance and also our increase in the funding formula directly aimed toward um teachers in in that bargaining negotiation session.
I will be presenting that with the purchase order after this approval for the next meeting. and we're going to move forward on that as best we can. And all the other work orders, we are putting them in priority order um as we should. And the last thing is we will be getting a second round from the SDA for another million dollars in capital projects. And that is why I can say that the, you know, add to the line where you said the maintenance line had been trimmed. It's because we're getting this additional funding. And that should probably be coming between September and October. I'm filling out the paperwork now on all the projects that we're going to be looking forward to doing. So, thank you, dear Rich. Um, at this time, uh, any committee reports? I know we just heard there was extensive amount of them.
So, we are able to do a two-year agreement. we were able to shore up a lot of the um inconsistencies that we had um between um our different levels of our teachers based on their experiences. So, we were able to shore up that for instance, I'll give you an example. Say we had a teachers um that was bachelor's and 10. we might have had um bachelors in 10 x amount of dollars um on our hiring scale but then in our own staff we had variations of all different amounts that they made. So that's what we were able to do is put that money on the table and shore that up with all those um being able to make um similar to their cohort cohorts in that same experience level. spot on because when you look at that appropriation line there at the top, you know, when I read this, you know, when you submitted the the the attachments, I went, "Wow." You know, I I had not thought about looked at it in those terms.
So, any reports? Okay. So, all the reports thing. So, at this time, um, I'm looking for a motion to go into personnel 7.1 through 7.18. So, move Mr. President. Motion by Mr. Porino, seconded by Mr. Gaba Mitch Ro Mr. Minos I Mr. Focarino I Mr. Gaba I Dr. Pivar I Mr. Moleo I Mr. Keles I Mr. Ramos I motion carries all right motion to go into finance 9.1 through 9.14 so moved motion by Mr. Focal local Mr. Bos I Mr. Focarino abstain 9.1 9.2 9.3 I and the rest Mr. Gaba no 914 and I the rest Dr. Porchek hi Mr. Mr. Moleo. Hi, Mr. Keles. Hi, Mr. Ramos. I motion carries. Motion to go into education 11.1 through 11.25. Motion by Mr. Mleo. Second. Second by Mr. Kelesz. Discussion. I didn't hear what you said. Discussion. Uh discussion. Go ahead. Yeah. Um on motion I'm sorry, resolution 11.23.
But if you look at the significant investment we've made in our staff Exactly. over the last two, three years. Um I just wanted you to see that because so many times um we're being told at the state level that we're not making those investments and at Huntington it's just it's just the opposite of that. So you have data there that you can actually use to show that this is the investment that we have made um into our staff uh for this point. So I that's what I want to emphasize, Becky, because it's just with what we're going through with the legislative session. And a good example, if you don't mind, Cindy, going down, I don't know if the second page of that um that is really telling. If you go to December, if you go to the month of December, I think it's Yep. Right there.