You say Thompson Thompson. Yep. Gilson. Can we talk about um I really really liked um I mean maybe I'm wrong. Dwire. Have you have you looked at when they started their interim position and when it's through? They started their interim position on 125 and is through 627. Yeah. So there was some red flags with like two years early, one year early. Well, I don't know. They're flags. I don't know what color they are. So, I guess I've read the news article. I mean, I guess I So, you don't want to talk about because that's Oxbridge, right? I mean, I can I can Oxbridge is actually one of the districts that I cover. and actually address the fact that I mean Oxbridge had to appoint an interim superintendent in January because their um their full-time superintendent needed to step down and they necessarily so that the her assuming that that position in January is um not a mark what I would argue is that a mark against her.
Uh, any any questions for the student reps? I just have a comment. one of the memorable moments from the jazz concert which was particularly a good concert. Um Lucas and Evan I forget his last name had a little back and forth which was really pretty spectacular. So very impressive job. You know I it dawns on me that Juliana and Maggie have just two meetings left. So um I think Mr. Bishop, we're we're going to have to start that interview process for uh replacements. So, actually, I'm I'm I'm thrilled that you brought that up. I had a meeting with uh Dr. Kidwell and um uh Erica as well to be able to talk about the process. Information is out. We're currently uh interested in any current 10th grade students who might want to throw their ring in, their hat into the ring for the process, and they're they'll be preparing for the interview process late April, early May.
Um so just noting like this is very helpful for that specific reason. We've, you know, similar to what you all have been doing with some of your developer um um meetings there. We've been having some of those too, as well as with the different financers in the space, with different investors in the space and all that kind of stuff. Really trying to um you know, figure out what it is that makes uh you know, what are the barriers? Why are people not doing this? And if there are those barriers in place, what are the things that they need to um to overcome them to make this mainstream? um and and where we can find it. You know, probably unsurprisingly, one of the big takeaways we've heard is well, it costs more. You got to just give a bunch of money to it. Um which, you know, um is certainly a strategy and it's a thing we, you know, we can look into, but you know, fully acknowledging to do all of this work is a lot of money and it's not necessarily, you know, a thing that we have endless amounts of sitting around.
It was because of the we we raised taxes the last two years we went up. We were 15th two years ago. Our extracurricular costs, something I know has the ability to change kids lives. Speaking from the heart, speaking personally, 34th out of 96 districts. Again, we're in the we're in the the bottom third compared to other districts. What does that mean to me? That means we have been good stewards of the public's money. And if I said we were in the 50th percentile, I think people would say that's good. We're below that. We're much below that in some significant categories. So, I'm really going to turn it over to Amed now. But before I do that, will you speak from there? Yeah. Come on up. Come on up and join me. I'll stand by you. I'll hold your hand. I want to say something very clear.
Additionally, as a result of these deliberations, we should be providing guidance to Mr. Yates and the business office as to how to build the budget. There are three slides that were presented today. A slide that restores cuts that were previously proposed, a slide that has additional additions to um the general fund, and then a slide for the capital reserves. We should be giving direction to the business office which of those slides we are interested in pursuing if we are voting yes. Okay. And because the budget sorry the the budget has to get built before our final v budget vote that takes weeks that takes months. Um and the business office needs that direction as a result of today's meeting and our final budget vote next meeting. Correct. Can we get into the infrastructure capital reserve conversation? Um, I'm not even really sure what my question is other than I know half of the money that we're going after potentially is going to infrastructure capital reserve projects.
Any questions? Stop right here for a minute. That's all I have to take. Okay, I'll take that and I'll move on. So, here's your current rates. So, these are the high deductible value gold, classic silver rates side by side and then the renewal rates um side by side for the 4.7% increase. This is what your current contribution looks like. The district contributes 100% towards the high deductible health plan and and the value gold plan and then the scroll up and then you'll see the classic silver has a $31 monthly fee. The contribution is going to that we recommend would be staying the same. So 100% for the 2600. So $52.50 covers the employee cost which will run down through all tiers. The value gold will remain covered at 100% where 573 continues down through the entire um tiers. And then taking that 573 putting it towards the classic silver increases the buy up option to $32.
They can hire all kinds of um classified staff to do aid jobs or whatever. But if you have a school district like Alpine who only has 53 kids, those teachers do a lot of extra jobs because they just don't have the money um to fund classified positions. They are approximately the same size as us. That's why they're on that list. Yeah. But surely they just to get by. They have teachers doing curriculum work and that puts you in a different category, too. Correct. Any further questions? Yeah. I'm just curious. Who's the poor soul that has to decide what part of what teachers time goes to what category of money? Is that you? How fun. Yeah. Mary and I. Yes. And then I have to, as the principles can attest, I'm like texting them late at night on the weekends. What does this person do exactly?
So, the best estimate from our technology data team is that we would be somewhere over 1,200 student loss. So, we're going to be a little bit extra conservative, not knowing what's going to happen during the summer. So note that with that the decrease of 1,300 ADM results in a decrease of 1576 in our weighted students. Blake, did you have a quick question? It looked like you went for your microphone. Yeah, quick quick question. So I I thought I had seen numbers that the current enrollment was like 30,800 something. What's what's the discrepancy between that number and this number? So we are talking about average daily membership which is that 100th day average daily membership and what you're seeing is enrollment which is a body count. So that at a point in time this is how many bodies are in those seats but some of those enrollies might not generate even one ADM because they came in after the 100th day.
So that's a year that's a year ahead, right? The small areas. Yeah, the small area we get started. That's great. All right. Yeah. So good. Okay. And then um as I noted uh as I mentioned the summer of 2026 the only approved project at that point the squirlex in the high school would be done and then we would finish the uh classroom additions at the middle school. So that does change the financials and if you just bear with me as we go through the project um it's going to look a lot more favorable now that we took the door the exterior doors and the windows out. Um these slides are also familiar. Uh the one big change, well not big change, but I did uh up the contingency to 10% um for the roofing project at Creed Elementary. Um and then I removed the exterior doors and windows from the other elementary schools.
So, normal's got three minutes and 5 seconds to get to that first diamond, which they're almost halfway there, or they are halfway there. Okay. And then if they don't get to that first diamond in two minutes and 59 seconds, then their turn would end and that's how far they would have gotten. Okay. All right. All right. So, uh, and then do we, uh, are we trying to defend that then? Yeah, we're trying to stop them from moving that that All right. that robot payload, which right now we haven't had a whole lot of success doing, but once you can get them stopped, So, right now we're we took out one of their DPS characters. We took out another we got rid of their tank. So, Aiden knocked out their their tank character there. So, if we can get if we can get them wiped out here, get them starting over would be really helpful.
I think that's a fair statement. I mean she was assistance from 2021. Yeah, I did see that. Yeah, I I really liked her. I don't know. Who who are the threes Tracy please? Uh the threes are uh flarity Lego and would anyone like to discuss adding? So first of all have we decided that we haven't even decided. All I did was ask a majority. Is that what everybody feels is good? So I feel like I mean the add to it the twos are the least supported. So, I think it would be great to discuss them and eliminate them. The easiest ones to try to eliminate because more people have issues. It would sound to me like only getting two votes would just eliminate. But I feel like if we discuss them, people might change their votes. Because I mean, I don't know. So then we should just It's just hard because there was 11 people to look into.
Okay. recommendations are due tomorrow actually. Oh, that's great. Thank you. So, so the best recommendations that come from our student reps because you know what it takes what we have to do. So, uh anyone that you can coers and then of course your last meeting that's where we shower you with gifts and all sorts of accolades and so that'll be great. So, okay, thank you for those reports. All right, let's move on to the business manager report. Mrs. Robbins, thank you. Good evening. This this evening we're reporting on financial results for the period ending March 31st. Um the overall forecast as of March 31st is unfavorable 310,000 um $17 which is better than the previous month by roughly $24,000. General education is forecasted to be favorable 203,000 which is $147,000 better than the previous month. Now, that favorable change is a result of finalizing plan spending for the remaining of the year through purchase order submissions.
Um but, you know, we we're looking at this. we're seeing what are some of the different things out there whether that be financial, technical, f, you know, helping with financing, whatever. Um, so actively going through this right now and actively trying to find other solutions and so like having this conversation right here is going to be incredibly helpful for that. Um, just noting, you know, unfortunately the way that the timing has worked out the, uh, some of the staff members who are working that are, um, one's at a conference, one is just out for the week. Um, so they weren't able to join us tonight. Uh but I will certainly be you know they will be having the recording of this meeting and as we have follow-up conversations they will be included in that as well. Um the only other thing I want to note is um we do have our you know our our home energy rebates does not apply for the most part for what we're talking about here.
And I want everybody to hear me. When we get to the slide that says 0%. You're going to see that if we do 0% it has the potential to impact staffing. Okay? I just want you to know it is absolutely the last possible thing I will cut in this district are people. People make a school district not supplies. Relationships with kids make a school district not supplies. So even if we do a zero, which is not going to be my recommendation, I will do everything in my power to make sure this does not impact staff. And there are there are couple ways to do that. One of them is just simply through attrition. And that means not rehiring people who retired or leave. Now that's a problem, right? But if we are at zero, I will do everything I can to not impact our current staff.
Um, I know a lot is needed. Um, I guess the big question, the main question is $7 million needed to achieve what it is the district wants to achieve for first and foremost safety for our kids and just, you know, long range planning for what has to get done in the ideal time frame that it has to get done in. So, I'm not I guess I mean I know our experts are here. So I guess the question is you know in your perspective you know is it a dire situation like is it is it this is something that we need to do now? Terry can I Yeah. So we're going to just introduce Tom Donahghue our certified educational facilities manager and we have Brian Peterson here as well our maintenance for person. Um and you we asked them to come tonight for the board and for the public to answer some of the questions that the board might have regarding our infrastructure.
So that's a dollar increase going forward. And then our seiz recommendations again as currently forecasting always future expenses based on future claims pharmacy costs. This is going to help keep the trust and the district at whole for future years on the renewals. We're well within trend which is again 8 to 14% is where we're running in trend. According to CAS your plans are competitive with what we're seeing out in the marketplace. That is kind of showed us by taking a look at the trust even though the trust is rates were increasingly high even outside in per outside of a trust we would have seen those same increases um and higher out-of- pocket maximums that we are seeing on those type of things. So, we recommend renewing your existing plans at the 4.7% increase.
So, I have just one question on salaries. Say for like a teacher teaches full-time and then they coach, they have another they get stipens. Are those stipens included in to that? No. No. Okay. All of those every stipen is a separate num is a separate code in our chart of accounts and the reason for that is that the auditor general wants to be able to compare base salary and not all these extra things. So we actually attract some teachers here with the stipens to to supplement their base salary. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Anything else? We'll move to the consent agenda. Board members, are there any items in the board in the consent agenda which are items 2.1 to 2.5 that you'd like to take out independently and vote on for or have questions of right now? I would love to either ask questions or take out 2.5 in order to get some more information on the fundraisers.
Does that help you? Yes. Okay. Great. Does I I it seems like in the past when we've estimated our ADM loss that we've overshot by a more substantial margin than just a hundred students. I think it was two years ago we anticipated well maybe it was last year we anticipated 800 and we we budgeted for 1,200. Am I is that right? Um let's see. Two years ago when we went into the 2024 school year, we actually estimated a 400 student loss and we actually lost 550. Okay. Um the reason why we didn't have a budget reduction is because we had increased in increases in weighted students. So we had more special education that counteracted the loss of students. So when we went and built the budget for the current year, we estimated a 1,200 student loss to be on the conservative side and we lost about 950 at the 40th day, but today we're over a thousand.
Also removed from Tala Elementary. Then when I came to the middle school, um I did up the contingency for the middle school project of 7 and a half which I previously presented to 10%. And then you guys can see the work on uh summer 2025 that's been shifted over to the left where previously it was off and uh aligned with summer college. Just a quick question Jason the the stuff at the middle school is going to take you know that middle area I think they're taking out and put classrooms on top. Yes sir. So do they know when do you know when just a idea if you don't know I I understand because it's off the cusp question but how long will that take do they know will the time frame of May to August be enough? No, actually what we're planning on doing is we uh they plan on doing the demon demolition work over Christmas breaking and securing it and then they will work through you know through the year um you know a lot of students are there have it all safe and secure and principal Chrisos knows all that and so be aware that's good okay because I know that's going to be an undertaking trying to take all that out put the classrooms on top of each other there okay yeah so Jason and and I really commend you and I think Bill was working on this too behind the scenes that that was one of the things I was going to suggest that is it possible to delay some of these big gun jobs with the roofs and the windows and something like that that's not really a safety issue it's more of a efficiency and also bill I know the PMS and the money set aides for PM is dear to your heart I and I'm with you on that too but I would definitely like a priority PMS that we can really say this is how much we want to spend and if it's only $800,000 this coming up year whatever we because you know we're running look like we're going to have a projected deficit over the next couple years right from your presentation the last time around.
Okay, we're switching to Jaden. He's one of our healers who's coming back into the action here. Just checking, Scott. Any comments yet on my jokes? Uh, I don't see any. But right now, this is too this is this is an time. Yeah, we'll come back to that. This is a serious matter. So, right now they are just short of the payload is as you see that little what that right there. Okay. Now, what's that what's that dome there? Is that it's right? Yeah, that's protected. So, that tank that tank character right there that's jumping all over the screen. He throws that little that little dome and inside of that dome can't really be hurt. So, okay. So, you need to get inside the dome with him to damage him or So, who we got fighting right here? This is the Reaper character again. He's got to get real close to do any damage.