revenue. So, this is all part of our operating budget. Yes. Yep. There's $10,000 budgeted in revenue for rentals, telephone, other planet, which is includes this. Um, and what I will say is $6,300. It was less than 10 rentals over the entire course of the fiscal year. So, it's not a lot. We hosted a wedding once in It was an absolute circus over the course of two days back then, but since then we don't get a lot of wedding requests now. We could really make some money off of interesting choice. Move over available. have good seating. Yeah. Yeah. Good view. So, Jeff, what was your thought on adding the select activities just to give flexibility? I I I sit trying to think of an example of where I would have employed something like that. The Red Cross. The Red Cross was something that, you know, we don't we charge them for custodial use in the summer, but that's it.
So, uh, that's one of the highlights, but um, any questions or comments? No, there's no questions. The next item, which is approval of the Jedi, this is great news. Mr. uh, president, members of the board, uh, the Unified School District received grant approval from the county Jed in the amount of 25,000. Notice of disapproval was sent the date of the March board meeting and could not be added to the agenda. So JT requested a signed before March 18th and the district lawyer uh Mr. Hford approved the superintendent signing theou and the board retroactively approving the at board meeting. No board action necessary at this time. Miss Kay was played a very important role in us obtaining this grant. I know she's here right now. So I don't know if there's anything else she'd like to add. Uh anything mult that you can think of? Nothing.
But right in year two, that almost rebounded back to a costneutral. And by the time you got to year three, it was on average profitable per show. And in terms of number of tickets sold, that capacity hitting 60 to 75% that is an industry standard. That is meeting the goal. So when I see that, I see that it is a program that was starting to find its way and show success by year three. And I should also note the average ticket prices, they increased, they doubled from year one to year two, showing that the market could bear it. These are all very encouraging signs. So since we figured out the market is viable, we figured out that the program, the presenting model could work at the Vista and here in Surprise, it then came down to who's the best stakeholder to do it if the district is um no longer have a desire to take that on.
Being a part of this team feels like having a second family. The coaches are always fun to be around and make every practice worth going to. They make it a fun and positive environment to be in. I love going to practice, but we were unable to practice every day since we were considered just a sport. And I feel that making it a sport will help all the girls on the team grow and connect and just make each other better overall and better the community. Thank you. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak today. Callie [Music] Pel. So, good morning guys. I'm Cali Pernell. I'm a board member, but I want to take opportunity to talk about to talk about the flag football how and how it deserves to be recognized as an official sport. I know from personal experience that this is my first year as a club as flag football in the first year in general and this year in a short amount of time I seen how much energy, teamwork and dedication everyone brings to the field.
and we're going to give out some diapers to people that bring their babies in for vaccines. So, we're going to look at doing that as well. We're also exploring starting a a walking program where we um set up a time and give uh people a Fitbit and a bottle of water and set up a walking program. But that's just in the beginning planning stages. So, we hear we will be getting HFI money again next year, but it will be cut by onethird. So, this year we got 38,000. So I'm to use two acronyms I don't know. What is HFI? So it's Health First Indiana. Health First Indiana. And it is additional funds that we receive from the state of Indiana. That is direct answer to the state of Indiana. Now council does have something to do with it. they have to adopt it and they have to do appropriations and all that stuff like we do when we use you know state tax money but other than that I have the direct answer to the state of Indiana with everything that we do and every reporting that I do don't quote me on this from the report card um but I think it was we Indiana was number 37 for health in the US so um it's we're not real where we need to be So that's a big part of why Governor Hulcom did this.
It's It has to happen. So, I'm rooting for both. But, man, this is cool. Yes. Can only imagine the dynamic, the tension in that room right now cuz like the man, it's got to be so thick you can cut it with a knife. Yes. The man who's trying to eliminate you and take you out of your entire season is sitting right next to you and you're talking with him in between rounds as Barlo takes round five. He is up three to2. Hey, there's still smiles in the room. Looks like they're good teammates about it. Good sports. Either way, they've gone through this entire season, one of which is unfortunately about to end, but they have gone through it together. They're still going to remain friends after this, no matter the outcome. And they are not going down without a fight. Both of these guys are really putting it up there.
Uh it you had a guy tried to crash through the wall at the Holiday Inn in uh try crash crash in the wall right where your office was. He was trying to kill you with his car. I mean that's crazy. all over diapers because he was signed up for to receive EBT card benefits and and when he received his EBT card benefits, we told him that he no longer could get the free stuff at the shelter and he felt like he was being targeted and that he was going to send me a message by driving his car through my office. Therefore, you must die. Yeah. Right. You know, you're doing your job and he's he's stealing from the from the uh community and he wants to crash the car into your office and take care of business. That's ridiculous. Call me naive or just politically ignorant.
Like, we don't charge them when they do a blood drive at CHS in the middle of school day. We already have people there and they donate a significant amount of money back to scholarships for Chester High School kids. We're not charging them for that. Um, you know, If they were running a blood drive in the summer, yeah, we charge a custodial rate, but we don't charge a building use for that. You know, I can't really think of like the political stuff like I know both the Dems and the Republicans run stuff out of our buildings. They charge we charge pretty nominal rate for that. Yeah. Yeah. So like uh the most recent one I can remember is uh Congresswoman Hayes wanted to run um an area town hall and she charged the building use fee and the custodial rate. But I can't even really think of somebody that would fall under this eye that because this is pretty all-encompassing this list.
We I think we shared it last time. Okay. About the architectural drafting. Correct. Okay. Any questions on that? We'll go on to the next item which is approval of prek tuition increase for the 2526 school. Mr. President, members of the board, and remembering the discussion in the fall, we uh I believe uh the board had reminded us to come back at least April before the end of the year in May to share the data with you. So you can discuss the option if if there was a a need to do a tuition increase. So you have this with you in your uh in your uh in your uh attachments there. The governing board decided to increase pre-K tuition to 320 325 per month in October of 2024 for all future enrolled students. Uh the attached survey was sent to 32 individuals which included all current preK parents and potential prek parents.
Well, for us, after evaluating all the stakeholders at play, it quickly came down to the city of Surprise would be the best to be the presenter role. And by presenter, I mean they rent the facility like any other uh client of yours that would come in, but they would be the ones that would hold the artist contract, be responsible for selling the tickets, be responsible for day of event operations like concessions and parking and security as well as the fundraising and and covering the cost. The best role for the district is to go back to being that venue manager role and to being good stewards of academics and student education. All the rental programs would still stay with the district. That is key revenue that we don't think you should give up that you need that and uh and that you'd be still in charge of all the school activities.
All my life started when I was young my family has been putting me into many sports. I started playing basketball as coach Chris told me and let me tell you I sucked at it. Like I was so bad. So then as I was continuing on I started playing soccer and volleyball and many other sports but at the very end I decided to quit because it just wasn't my passion. Um, I don't mean to be putting someone out here, but Maddie Lisa, a junior in my high school, she showed me flag football and the poster signed up this summer as a club. Honestly, I thought it was something I thought that was something useless. It wasn't something I was really founding my passion for, but nonetheless, I tried to I tried and joined it. Black football was something new, was something new, and it changed my life permanently.
This started out as a co thing to help the schools during the co period. They they got the um school health leaison and then as co ended the grant changed and you said something about KPI. What's that? Key product indicators. So performance performance indicators. Sorry. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Well, we thank you. Yeah, that's a lot. Thank you so much. We have class again tomorrow. We're good. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.
Back and back. Two to three. Got that hole. He got the another quad clear. Barlo on match point. Jordan needs three rounds in a row to come back from this one. The heat is on. I bet Jordan can feel it in there. They're both moving really fast. Jordan coming explosing explosive out of the gate. He's done four T-pins so far, I believe. Five. Barlo coming back. Another one of his own. Barollo's got He needs a line block. He's got it. Another quad clear coming through from Bartolo. They're about on the same level on the screen. There's a quad. That's what he needed. A quad could have come through from Bartolo. There it is. He wanted to combo it for a little bit. Very closely contested round. He's got the hole open. Jordan setting up a T-spin. We're told that might have been a mis drop.
What I can't figure out on one hand you've got things like common sense and then you've got chaos on the other side. I don't understand what is motivating Mora Healey. God bless her. She's probably a nice woman. Okay. And the same with uh the same with um sorry with Michelle Woo. What is motivating them to keep these people here? They cost too much. They're causing problems. They don't assimilate into our culture. What do we do about this? And what is the reason? I don't understand what's driving these people. The reason why is this is a power play by the Biden administration and endorsed by the Healey administration to bring voters to keep their power position. Plain and simple. You you I saw it with my own eyes in the migrant shelters. First thing you would do is they would come in, you would sign them up for social security because they were here under asylum protection.
But just gives flexibility for us to be able, you know, if uh John Gisham tomorrow said, "Hey, I want to hold the book talk at Cheshure High. We'll let your students come for free." And I would say, "Oh, yeah, sure. Let's do that." out and it would be I wouldn't charge him for doing that or something, you know, but he hasn't called recently so or whatever. Well, actually I have one um you remember the art symposium that I went to? Yes. And that was one of their main complaints was Yeah. You space usage specifically if they could use the schools and I and I wasn't sure what group they would have fallen. So if that's you know but there are ways you know so if they were if they affiliated themselves with our park and wreck then they're group one and you don't have to worry about anything you know it's like there are ways where we try and work things out and we really kind of evaluate what is the benefit to our students first the community broader community second and how can makes work something work out.
15 of 32 parents responded and their responses are attached. So I'm just going to kind of go through what uh what I put together here. Um, would you prefer a full day program at a higher tuition rate or a half day program at a lower tuition rate rate? 10 answered full day and higher tuition. Two half day and lower tuition. And were these the ones who responded online the survey? Um, yeah. Well, I did this I did this on Friday. Two more I forgot to turn the survey off and two more did them during the weekend, but they're not covered under here because this is the one I did Friday. I had time to redo it. So this is what the survey were results were at 4:30 on Friday. You can see the next question. What tuition range do you think is reasonable for the prek program?
And then in terms of the foundation, they can still play a key role. they can play a key role in enhancing the fundraising capabilities to fund this program as the city creates a new division and to do programming enhancement. We also evaluated the facility just to make sure that it could sustain these operations and um overall let me just say that the venue is in very good shape. We were very impressed. Y'all have taken care of it very well. Beautiful facility. There are some things that need to be addressed. Some you could put on a nice to have list. Some are on a need to-do list. Some of that need to do is to replace the performance lighting system. Right now, it's incandescent and it's starting to fail and reach its end of life. And there really are no other systems being made in the incandescent.
Flack football isn't just a fun activity. It's fast-paced, strategic, and builds real athletic skills. It gave me the chance to be with people I would never have been with and I made a family my new family. Um I would take the opportunity to be a part of something new and advocating for women in history who have been silenced throughout their journey um throughout sports. Um I just want to thank everyone for being here and I really advocate for this being a sport later in the future. Thank you. Uh, Tegan Bwater. Good evening.
We don't have any discussion items. Approval of minutes March 17th, 2025. Can I get a motion to accept second. Yeah, they both did it. So, any discussion vote? Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Motion carries. Uh, action needed items. Uh, recommendation to approve the out of state field trip for Elementary School fifth grade class at Kentucky Kingdom in on May 16th, 2025. Can I get a mot to approve state field trip out of state field trip for fifth grade? Can I get a second? Second.
He's got to combo a little bit to try to get himself lower. Jordan, he wants it. Oh, that's a devastating mis. Oh man, that's really bad. Potential season ending misoprop. How do you recover from that? You just got to get those singles. And you got to hope that Barlo isn't in the position to punish. You've got to hope and pray. And it wasn't enough. Hey, he hung in there. Barollo and Jordan with a very impressive match. But in the end, Barlo is the one moving on with the 52 victory. Great play to both of those gentlemen. That was great to watch. But congratulations to Bartolo. Well, well done. We started the playoffs with seven. Today we went in with four. We're at two now. It's only going to get harder from here. Well, thank you for watching. We might as well shout out the sponsors real quick.