Raise your hand if you'd like to have her come in for interview. Yes. Okay. I see six. Uh, next garage has been correct. And okay, I don't know how to say the name. Kusta raise you if you want to keep an interview. One, two. I see two. Two. I see two. Okay. Next. Wouldn't the next be LGO? Yes. Lau. Sorry. Can you say the name again? LGO. Elizabeth Lgo. Oh, I was one, two, three. I see three. Okay. And then Lberg. See one, two. Okay. And then Ra. One, two, three. Okay. And Thompson. See one, three, four. Okay. All right. How many is that one? So, um, what you have then is two for Dwire, uh, you had three for Flareity, five for Ganon, six for Gillson, two for Castiga, three for LGO, two for Lindberg, three for Ricka, and four for Thompson. So um at this time your uh your top people are Ganam and Gillson with five and six respectively.
Additionally, uh students and families grew their home libraries and experienced the joints of shrubs through the ELA's department uh scholastic book fair. In social studies, sixth graders participated in their Greek history unit with the whole like Olympics presentation. Um they also had a successful readathon and the PTO raised $7,912 which will be primarily used to uh raise costs for field trips for each grade. Um congratulations to the CIS future problem solving team who competed at the state competition on Saturday. Uh one team finished in second place for their division which is the highest that they have in a lot. So congratulations to them. And then sixth grade uh eco ecoolologist participated in an outreach science program uh which was brought by Ron Brook Nature Center. And then last week the student council created kindness bags which they filled with essential care items that would be donated to families in the community.
But um it's my understanding that these codes don't don't address anything with regards to electrification. Isn't that correct? I see Joe Jo that's my that's my understanding as well. So, but yes. Yeah. Sorry. Thank you. That's a good good point. Just just so everybody um I had a couple of um points that um I'd like to throw in here. Hopefully we can just make this pretty freewheeling. Um and and I also want to get back to Joe too when he to sort of finish the update. Okay. Okay. Um well it's been mentioned a couple times uh that the you know the current developments are are all electric. It's my understanding um most of them are um but I know many of them are being done by local developers um that there's been a lot of outreach to. So for example, Robertson Brothers um I personally met with them two times and they've attended also these um both of these uh Wolfpack uh sessions that we attended.
Why does it matter that it's from the state? Because the the the funding process, the federal government gives the state money. We apply to the state to be reimbursed. This is June 2024. The projects started that summer. High school. You like your windows? Where's my high? Nobody. Nobody from the high school here. Nice windows, right? Almost done. 12 is done. Nine is done. 15 would have been done, but we found as best all taken care of. No worries. Right. So, the point is the projects are 70% complete. We've already spent $4 million expecting to be reimbursed. We reached out to the state in the fall. They said, "We don't have a process yet for reimbursement. Await further instructions." And that was not because they were anticipating anything. There wasn't even uh it was there was no election yet. There was no change in federal government.
We assign to it uh estimated expenditures, things for like required maintenance in the facilities in which the preschool program is run. So Rice Elementary School is a good example of that. We do build a budget into the preschool funding for uh Rice Elementary School for required maintenance. Should we encounter uh a certain system that might go down there, maybe a roof replacement or a mold remediation project in one of those classrooms or that can be assigned a portion towards the preschool there, which about 50% of the population there is preschool students, then we can use some of that funding towards those projects. So it does it it not only permanently reduces expenditures in the general fund, it also provides us with flexibility towards expenditures in the general fund or towards expenditures that we would otherwise have to pay for out of the general fund. Okay.
So right now it's a $1,600 deductible for a single and 3200 for a family for that banner network. Um, on a high deductible health plan, you pay for everything upfront until you meet that deductible and then after you've met the deductible, you go into co insurance until you're out of pocket maximum. Your Banner Value Gold is a PO plan. It's a $600 deductible within the Banner Etna network. And then the Etna network is a 750. Again, this plan gives you co-pays um for certain visits, your primary care specialist, urgent care, hospitalization, um ER, and those services. And the Banner Classic Silver is a $400 deductible and a $500 for the ETNA. So, getting into the changes that ASBAT has put into place for the new plan year. So up on top in the blue, you're going to see the new that's going to be the new plan for the 2026.
Then we're almost back to where we were pre-COVID. Just remember when you look at the testing data, they change the test all the time just like they change our chart of accounts. So, it's hard to compare data because they changed the test. And I believe the test in 2019 was a different test than we are taking today. But I we we are improving year-over-year after COVID. And that's a good sign. And I think I have two math slides in there. I do. All right. Here we go. Uh here's our ELA. And again, we're not quite back to where we were pre-COVID. Again, a different test. Um but we are increasing again. And that's I think to be in be um expected that we would be lower after COVID with kids learning at home and and everything that was happening during CO. Here's our science. Again, we are progressing.
That's always been the goal. Um, so this this has been a very credible report and so I'm actually very very proud of this result on the uh the classroom spending report. So um this does really give it does give a pretty good idea of how we're allocating out the dollars on a per school basis though it's very very different. Um but some of that data is available on the AFR. It would be great if we could have a a schedule a meeting. I'd love to meet with you and I'll go through what I what I know and then we can pull out what you think would be relevant that I think we can do in a timely way. Absolutely. And I 100% agree. I love looking at the fact that we're at 59.8% in instruction in the classroom because obviously right that's for the kids that's what's most important.
That's it. So I am always encouraging ideas to come up and move forward in some way, but I don't know if we have enough data to really justify implementing this as a policy. I mean, it could always be brought up in old business later on down the line. We can talk about it. Yeah. Down the line. So, okay. We have Mr. Okrazinski. I think he's up for two presentations. Short-term facility plan and uh the timely conversation of understanding your tax bill. Why was he so quiet when we was talking about that? Uh good evening, President Brown, members of the board of education, Dr. Coglin. I'm here uh excuse me uh to present an updated um plan for uh updated financials for our short-term facility plan. Um go ahead and dig into this. Um this is the slide actually the entire presentation is uh pretty familiar to you guys.
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Um if you wanted to you could move to eliminate everyone with two unless you wanted to um to discuss any of those who ones with two again. Sorry you have Yep. You have Let me just finish saying and I I was going to run through that next. You do have Thompson has four, Rick has three and Lego has three. The one as and Flity has three. The ones with two are Dwire, Kusta, and that's it. Clone and Lenberg, sorry. Lenberg, Kusta, and Dwire would be the ones eliminated. If you eliminated those with two, so typically we do majority vote. That would be four or more. There's sounds like there's four people with four or more. Uh, I think you have three who have four or more, Mr. Chair. You have Thompson with four, you have Gillson with six, and you have Ganon with five. Oh, Reek was only three.
That's great. You know, I I just want to say, you know, we never thank the PTOs enough, but that $7,000 that they raised is a is a is a great amount. It ensures that every child makes a field trip and we do the field trips and um that's just just wonderful what they do. So we want to thank them for all their hard work. So Lucas, last but not least, all right. So start with the high school. Uh recently, well, this is for the middle and high school, but okay. The district jazz band concert was March 26th where um both members of middle and high school jazz bands played individually and together and also collaborated with guest artist Evan Artson. It was great event. We love doing it every year. Jazz works for it. We love it every single event. It's uh everybody's favorite. Um, on Thursday the 10th, coming up uh very soon, the European trip to Italy and Spain will take place with, I think, around 15 students all flying over to learn about culture.
So um I so altogether I' I've interfaced with them four times on this issue. 4M um which is doing Southtown, you know, they're local people. They are really focused on environmental impacts of of the work that they're doing. I'm I wouldn't take it as a given that the multif family developers um that in the future might or have in the past done multif family developments are going to go full electric. So I that to me sounds a little bit optimistic. Um I just wanted to make that point. And then um I wanted to uh get a sense um Joe turning this back to you anyhow is um the the height bonus um I know that's been awarded a couple of times and I'm wondering if you can speak to what the minimum requirement was for the height bonus. Was it full electrification? Was it a package of other things?
There was just no process yet. And then this comes out on Monday the 31st. We didn't get a notification from the federal government. We didn't get a broadcast from the DOE. I found out, like everybody else did, a press release from the governor. And that press release says that we could be on the hook and probably will be on the hook for $11 million. For sure. For sure. 4 million we've already paid. So those two major things changed since March 13th. What does that mean? I don't know yet. We're going to talk about it tonight. But I will tell you this. If we have to come $11 million out of pocket, there won't be any other capital projects done in this district for the next several years. It will deplete um our our our capital reserves for projects we have planned. Um and it will put a significant debt uh significant dent in our budget.
I know you did that this year with Rice and that the the mold remediation or roof repair came. So we had a mold remediation project at Rice. So unanticipated, right? We would never know that that was going to happen. We encountered that in the summertime prior to receiving our acceptance with the grant or the funding, excuse me. Um, so had we not had the funding, that let's say $85,000 expense would have been charged to the general fund exclusively. But because we had the funding this year, we were able to charge it to the funding because it took place in preschool classrooms. Okay. Another question on preschool. for my own knowledge. Are you able to pay for some of the utilities? Because we talk about the utilities and the increase you anticipate. Do we use some of the preschool money for the utilities at Rice? We don't right now charge some of it towards utilities because we are charging uh a significant portion of it towards assigned expenditures like teacher salaries.
Current underneath is the current. So there is a $1,000 increase in the high deductible health plan. So it'll be $2,600 for a single and capped at $5,200 for a family. Co insurance remains the same at 20% after deductible. The maximum out of pocket has increased from 4500 to 7500 for a single and from 9,000 to 15,000 for a family. Primary care office visits stay the same. Again, on the high deductible, you need to meet the deductible before the co-ay applies. Specialists will go up $30 on all plans. So, from 30 to a 60. And then the urgent care on the high deductible. There is no plan changes on that um visit there. The value gold is going to be moved from $600 deductible to $900 and then $1,800 for a family. If you see the Etna network, it's going to go from $750 to $1,50.
Um, we're getting a little bit better each year. We're not back to our 43%. I do not believe that test ch Did that test change? Yes, Ryan's saying that test changed as well. So, again, when the test changes, in my experience, um, when the test changes, it's usually harder. The next iteration that comes out, every test is harder. Back when I first started teaching in the late 90s and Ames came out, it was so easy. And so it's just gotten progressively harder. All right. So here you can see where we are compared to um Snowflake and um and Xolo. I I'll say this about Snowflake. Even when I worked in St. John's, they were the school to beat. Like everybody wants to beat Snowflake. So uh that's the goal to beat Snowflake. Um you can see they're very well performing. Yeah. All right.
So I'm not saying I'm looking at this going, "Oh my gosh, what are we doing?" I'm just for me looking at it in a linear way like that will just kind of really help me wrap my head around exactly what's going on and then I can I can kind of move forward from there. you see a bigger story in the whole story. Yeah. Yeah. I do better working down and then moving smaller rather than trying to expand out. I guess that's kind of what I'm saying. And that's why I think going back to where we really probably 2015 where we didn't have an override and we didn't have bonds, you would really see the change. So that's kind of where I'd put it. Cool. Yes. Appreciate it. Thank you guys. Are there any other questions for our distinguished panel? Okay. Then uh let's move on to 3.02 fiscal year 2026 preliminary budget presentation with 2% pay increase recommendation as well as gifted and ELLL teacher FTE increases.
Um just got some updated information based on last month when I presented. So if you take a look here, uh this is just a reminder. Um we have uh contract balances remember remaining from our summer work of the summer 2024. Um those numbers haven't changed. Um what has changed is work projected to take place during the summer of 2025. If you remember on the previous presentation, we had uh replacing doors and exterior doors and windows at our elementary schools. As it was pointed out to me last month, the only projects that have been approved are the roofing project at Creed Elementary, the sportslex, and then also the addition and re uh the addition of classrooms at the middle school. So, I took out the door exterior doors and the windows at the elementary school to help give us a better picture of where we stand with the approved projects.
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