Sorry. If that's the case, then let's talk discuss each one individually. We're not going to stand by what we just voted. I mean, I'm happy I'm happy to go with those three if people want to just go with those three, leave the discussion, and then start with the ones who had threes, sort of work our way back to come up with what how many do we want to interview? Three, four, five? No more than four. No more than four. Probably people are different than their resumes, so I'm there making that decision. So, how many do we want to hear? Four. Five. Five. Five. Okay. Okay. How long is an interview? Um, generally interviews are between an hour and an hour and 15 minutes. We'll be doing this on uh Tuesday. And you're doing it on Tuesday. And what you had said in the time anyway was that you were scheduled for starting at 5.
So, we're hoping that that's all finished and that these numbers um are will be pretty firm. Um special education is forecasted to be unfavorable, $513,000, which is 122,000 worse than the previous month. We had um some changes to tuition from um other towns and an excess cost adjustment which makes up that difference. Um but those unfavorable changes were offset by a favorable change in operations of about 26,000. Um all of the the items that make up all those differences can be found um line by line are not financial statements which are posted online. Are those posted? Yeah, Thank you, Mr. Mr. Bush will have comments on that from the finance committee today. But thank you for that report. So with that report, uh we need a motion to accept the financials of March 31st, 2025. I have a motion, please. Thank you, Peggy. Second. Thank you, Jordan.
Um you know as we talk about existing multifamily like smaller 1 to four units can access those rebates uh at the moment. That's the way it was set up. um you know primarily looking at you know that sized building for both homeowners and for you know some of the smaller multi-unit um in that capacity. Uh but we are you know as we're considering you know what the what the stream of the rebates look like going forward considering if that is something that makes sense as we look at the commercial side of things. Um acknowledging this is not a huge bucket. I mean it is a you know a a big number um in the terms of you know the past year is 1.9 million um but you know as you start thinking about what goes into a commercial building what goes into a you know large scale building either a new one or existing building you know how do you think about where that money goes you know for instance you could very much spend that 1.9 all that 1 million $ 1.9 million on one project um and then no one else in the entire community gets access to those rebates.
Thank you. Good evening, guys. Uh it's pretty hard to follow Dr. Roberty. He's definitely a showsman. Uh but I'm just going to go over some of the the math parts. So I just want to explain to the public and the board uh the difference between a one and a 2%. So, if the board decides to increase taxes 2% this year, we can maintain all programs and services. As Dr. Roberts stated earlier, with a 1% increase, we would have to cut about $1.5 million, which could come from programs, staff, and anything else that the board they were given a list, and you guys will see it uh shortly. Opting for a 0% tax increase, we would be trying to find $3 million somewhere in the budget just to try to maintain and not disrupt the children. So you guys are going to see two lists. One is can't touch.
Yeah, Mr. Yates, before we we hand it over, I know that the question was about the $7 million. Mr. Petot, just from a overall perspective, our current analysis says that from a capital expenditures and a capital projects perspective, we anticipate between 80 and $100 million of of projects that need to be undertaken as a board of education to get our buildings up to snuff. Gotcha. Thank you. Yep. Yeah, we are really in need of replacing our equipment. The equipment and everything that's in the buildings is 25 to 35 years old and they're failing at a great rate and it's time that we have to move forward with looking to replace the equipment that we have. It's uh it's a bad situation and you can't get parts anymore. the equipment. You can't go and buy a part for it. You have to go to an aftermarket or something like that.
Any questions on medical questions? Miss Marie, any questions? Okay. No. So with so with Delta Dentl, Delta Dentl issued a rate pass. So we're good on a rate pass until 6:30 of 2026. So we recommend um renewing with Delta Dentl. A reminder, the Delta Dentl is a PO plan. So you have your in network and then you also have a premier and out of network that you can use with an annual maximum of $1,000. The deductibles apply to your basic and major services. Um orthodontia is covered at a 50% with a lifetime maximum of $1,000. the DHMO dental as we said that EDS is leaving the market. So we went out to Ben there was a beam dental and a true assure dental that kind of worked like EDS on a copay basis. They declined to quote um TDI EMI Health are two other plan options that will run similar to um the EDS plan.
Why don't we take out 2.5? That's regarding fundraisers. Yep. We'll we'll take that out and vote on it independently. So, can I have a motion to vote to accept the consent agenda from items 2.1 to 2.4? So, move. I have a motion. I have a second. Second from Michael. All in favor say I. I. All right. Let's uh vote on 2.5. Dr. Wright, do you want to explain this or Lauren, would you like to take take on 2.5? Mr. Web, I'd love to. High school principal who knows everything. Yes, sir. Mr. Gineal. uh just on the on the talent show. I mean, is that like going to be like a real talent show or is it kind of like a yellow jacket type or That one is actually going to be scrapped. The sophomore class was going to try and put this on and they don't have a planning in place, so they're going to put that off to next year.
So funny things been happening over the last few years where we seem to be losing ADM as we go from 40th day to 100th day. that's been new since I've been here, though that's the standard that happens usually in school districts. So, yes, um we did overshoot it um uh in the current year and then we were able to come back with a $2 million increase in budget capacity. So, yeah, it's a question mark, you know, I mean, what is the best bogey? Um we we just don't know what we don't know at this point in time and things are fluctuating. planning for the worst and hoping for the best and we've been outperforming our projections which is good but the last two years the last two years but it's it's I would rather over project and then receive some of that money back than to have to give money back if I underp project it I guess so I guess my question is if we're if projections say 1,200 and we're estimating 1300 is that conservative enough.
So anywhere we can capture some money, some revenues and all of these unexpected things that may be coming forward from a federal point of view, we we can be looking at some dire. So when we talked I, you know, we had met prior, but Jason and his team did a good job. So we originally with Ken figured two million in the debt, two million in uh going to the fund and then two million for prevented maintenance, but they've done a great job. Okay. Narrowing that 2 million down to a number which then put more money into our operating which is which is good. So that's what we were talking about is and Jason and his team seem done a good job just coming up with pulling that out because I think Kennedy put that on the long term like three years down the road or four years with the windows and doors and I go listen our payback is the middle school and the sport like the making sure that is done exactly the way we want it.
So, as you can see, he just took out one of their healers and he's got another healer there. Is that Lazy Soul? Yes, that is So, that's Hunter right now playing that we're watching. Maybe that could be called the Reaper. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe bring in a black cave. Yep. You dress up for him for Halloween. Yeah. So, right now we're seeing a character called Lifew Weaver out of Kinder. So, his ability is to heal. Okay. And right now, they just did a great play out of their their character. He their character froze everyone kind of in place and then put up a wall, a ice wall. So, our character couldn't heal, which meant our guys were kind of out there down there and frozen and they kind of wiped the wiped us right there. So, okay. So, they achieved their goal. So, they got to the first checkpoint, but again, they've got to get all the way to the yellow diamond.
So, you want to do all five on the same day? I don't think we should do five. I think we should do three of them. I have reservations cutting it down to that number. I know five hours of interviews seems at the at minimum very daunting, but I think we should do five. People are different than their resumes and I think narrowing the pool by half is is enough at this stage. Is this possible if we start discussing our goal is four or five, maybe that fifth one will kind of drop off once we start discussing. Yeah, it seems kind of arbitrary just to say, you know, like I feel like we should base it on like people. Well, the first basis was the struggle that Tracy suggested. We have a ranking now. We have uh five, a four, sorry, a five and two fours.
I have a first and a second. Any discussion on the financials? Any questions for Mrs. Robbins? hearing none. All those in favor? I opposed. That's 80. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for that. All right. So, I I think we move into Russell. [Music] Russ. Wow. Okay, just making sure we All right, thank you. All right, so we're actually at the highlight of the meeting. Uh now that the comedy relief is over, we can go right into the thing that's uh most important, which is the thing that uh really makes being a board member special is uh honoring our students. And tonight, Mr. Moore is here for us to celebrate some of the middle school students. So, Mr. Moore. All right. Good evening. Hi, everybody. Thank you for coming out tonight. This is a wonderful evening, right, because we get to celebrate our students. Um, as you've heard through a couple of other items, a lot of great work is happening at Ken Middle School.
Um, similarly, if you're only offering a couple thousand dollars, um, is that enough to do anything? I know we've seen some stuff around, you know, um, I think I think it was in what Larry had, um, or maybe it was someone else, but offering like some help to, you know, do those pre-development meetings with DTE for instance. Um, and so just noting that this is a thing we are looking at. And so while we're talking about um, you know, some of some of the stuff, we are thinking about how we could potentially use rebates in that manner. um just needing to ensure that it's done in an effective way uh cuz we don't want to just you know put money out there that either gets so gobbled up no one can access it or at such a small amount that it's kind of like why would I change what I'm doing for set amount.
These are legally obligated contractual agreements that we have a duty and essential to provide under the state of New Jerseyy's constitution. And then there's ancillary support programs. They're not legally required, but they are crucial to our student success. So here you will see the district's budget is $300 million. These are all of the things we have a legal obligation to pay. salary, benefits, tuitions, charter school, grants, repayment of debt, transportation, special ed, legal services, an auditor, postage is not legally required, but is 100% necessary, record storage that's mandated by law, and insurance. So, out of that $300 million here, 294 million of it we can't touch. The budget continues. These are the ancillary support programs. These are things that are crucial to student success but are not 100% necessary. It continues. So ancillary support is about $5 million. Out of the total of the can't touch and the ancillary support, it comes out to just under $300 million, which means our discretionary spending is 04% of our budget.
And there there's no guarantee. Uh when the system was installed, I was here and it was brought up that we did all water source heat pumps because it was cutting edge. You know, we we did it. And if you look at our record, there's never been a day that I've been here for 30 years that schools been closed because of any malfunction. We take care of the equipment the best we can, but unfortunately the age of the equipment is at a point. It's no different than your home. Uh your air conditioner at home, if it's 30 years old, you could turn it on tomorrow and it's going to quit. You It's, you know, there's nothing guaranteeing that it's going to run. So, our goal is to try and start getting back to where we need to be. And unfortunately, we've never had the funding to to do that.
Um they do have a few more providers than you will find with EDS. There is a Summit Care option. This option offered dis additional discounts based on certain specialists versus the pinnacle was more of a copay based. Um we recommended with the majority district um is going with the summit care plus. It did have an increased premium. However, um when the members in the district looked around that there were some additional services that offered more zero co-pays. Um, so a little bit better better coverage in within the plan. So that would be our recommendation for the Summit Care Plus. And then VSSP is your vision is in a rate guarantee until June of 2026. No plan changes. We recommend renewing with BSP. You do have a $10 eye exam. Every 12 months materials covered. That is your lenses and your frames covered at a $25 copay.
Well, that made that easy. Which is good because they weren't ready for it. Good plan. Any other questions? No sales pitch or anything. So, we're good to go. All right. So, can we have a motion to vote on item 2.5? I'll move I have a motion from Michael. Second. Second from Margaret. All in favor say I. I. Thank you. Those were unanimous. Okay. So, item 3.1. This is a presentation of and well, we've had a presentation. This is different. Another one. This is another presentation. But for this presentation, we do have to vote on it. It will require a roll call. So, Kimberly, if you give us our presentation, then we'll vote on it. So, a roll call vote just means that you will have to audibly say yay or nay. Um, while Aander's pulling my PowerPoint up, um, uh, this came about, um, like five or six years ago.
So, um I have the conversation over and over again with the student accounting team. Um and I asked that very question. Uh and they do believe that that's a good estimate. But let's just say, you know, we screwed up and we had 1,400 instead. um we still are blessed right now that we have a ample amount of um budget balance carry forward that would help us close that gap in the event that would happen. So yeah, it's a it's kind of like filling out your W4 and for your taxes. How much do you want taken out and then do you want to pay at the end or do you want to get money back? Great analys. [Laughter] All right. So based upon that um we're going to go through the budget capacity the M budget capacity projection. So the the governor's budget she's recommended a 2% increase to the base um as well as the transportation support.
This is something we can again pro project down the road and we will in a future facility. But they did a great job, Jason and his team, pulling that, looking at it, and then coming up with a better preventive maintenance that was more realistic to be able to fund. And that was exactly what you, you know, this is great. This is great. This is, uh, dear to my heart. So, uh, it was, it was because I was always like, where could the revenue come from? and how not totally eliminated these big guns jobs and and projects that we need to do with the roofs and the doors and all of that, but do we have to do it like right now? Okay. Do we have to do it like right now? Because they were not like, you know, if they life safeties, if we capture some of this with the life safeties, we got to do that.
So, they're still going. So, they're still going. We're still defending. We're still defending. So, they got I see Aiden there doing some some talking there probably to his team. You know what I like about what I'm watching here, Scott, is I'm watching all the different screens we got here, which I'm counting. I think if if I'm I'm counting correctly. We have 47 screens in here that we're trying to watch. So, feels like it. Yeah. So, you know, just give us a little a little break. Those watch. We're trying to keep track of 47 screens. But anyway, what I'm kind of seeing is like I'm getting all excited. I'd be yelling, jumping up and down like our people are very calm. Yeah. They're either standing or sitting and staying composed, staying within themselves. You got to keep your emotions in check. Absolutely. I mean, yeah, I'd be I'd be screaming and probably wouldn't be really good at this cuz I wouldn't be in control of my emotions and I'd probably take a lunge at the at the TV.