It wasn't until the people came in, like there were some people that looked really good on paper and they were, you know, it just wasn't a good fit. And then people came in and they started actually talking about their experience and we like we were like, okay, it's kind of parallel to it might not have be the exact same job description, but it's kind of parallel to to what they'd be doing. So, I don't know. I like that she's special education in this and it looks like she has a lot of the business side too computer science major. Would anyone like to add her to the list to invite for an interview? Raise your hand. Can you just say the list is right now? I'm not eliminating. So the three that you have so far are Gillson, Ganam and Thompson. Remaining is Flareity and LGO, Dwire and Lund.
Um and from that pool we have some of these students that have shown themselves to be exceptional. To perform at the Northern Region Music Festival, students must learn, rehearse, and perfect complicated musical piece and audition. Of those who audition, only the highest caliber young musicians are then selected to participate. These students have obviously dedicated a tremendous amount of time honing their skills and their selection to the Northern Region Music Festival is a testament to their hard work. They're among the best of the best and they should be very proud of themselves. So, I will introduce those that are here and then read the names of some others um that are not here with us tonight and I'll also let you know their instrument or the category in which they they were uh invited to the Northern Re region music festival. So, first um so we have um Christina Kapinsky who was uh auditioned and participated in the band for the flute.
Larry, just to just to to try to nudge that a little bit in in the direction too of incentives, is there a way that you see um this commission helping to I don't know um apply those those sort of standards or those definitions or connect connect those whether it's is is the suggestion that maybe electrification shouldn't be the standard or that you know how how could how might we parse that and sort of apply that to as an incentive structure? Um yeah, I I think that's that's a very good discussion to have. I mean the the reason we adopted zero emissions is because there's a a DOE document that defines exactly what zero emissions means. Okay. The reason we adopted passive house standards for efficiency is because there's a document that defines exactly what passive house means. Whereas if you say all electric, you know, that's kind of a fuzzy, you know, definition, right?
I was just on the phone last night with one of my colleagues from West Milford they're contemplating 4.7. Jersey City's 20% but that's just that's another story for another day. Um what is the reasoning behind that? What is the rule that they're allowed to do that? because I always thought it was 2% that we could go up to and nothing more than that. Yeah. So, this year seems to be an anomaly uh in public education. Everything that I'm hearing from Trenton is that districts are districts all across the state are facing uh serious budget issues and they are noticing that a large portion of that contribution missing is from the local fair share. So, yes, this is a one-time thing that came out to us. I believe Dr. repository said on like March 15th or something like that that the districts can go above the 2% to recoup any missing monies of their local fair share.
Thank you both because I don't think they make them like you guys anymore either if I'm being honest. Um, you know, just we're lucky to have you because you can fix things on site when we need it and we don't have to outsource that at the moment. So, we're very fortunate in that regard. Um, but I guess what I'm having trouble squaring and this might be a question for you is, you know, we have 80 $90,000 worth of project million dollars worth of projects ahead of us. We're voting on potentially socking away $7 million in a potential tax levy tonight. So, what does that look like year-over-year? And is it is it enough? Is it too much? Is it, you know, how does that square with what we're faced with tonight to decide? Well, it's the most you can get. Wow. True. Yeah. Um, so is it enough?
Um, I guess I'd be interested to see and I know again I have asked before um interested to see if there have been ever any instances where we have had employees who have had other difficulties or concerns and or not I'm not talking about asking them about what they're doing or how they're doing but specifically with our benefits packages and that we're supporting them as much as we can knowing that and I don't mean to put it this way knowing that there's really nothing that we can do except accept what we're kind of being dealt at this point. And I don't mean that in any negative way. I just I want the I want the for the sake of our um effort as a board. I definitely want to make sure that if there is anything that we are made aware of or they are made aware of or there's instances where there are concerns that I guess a we are trying to do something that needs to be or we're communicating with on what they need to do in order to be able to do that and that we give them enough understanding of how to navigate some of these things because I know some people may feel overwhelmed, especially if you're not familiar or aware or in tune.
Um and so that you can it can help you get a better audit rating which means you get a better interest rate on your audit. So this year um our audit's great. Uh last year we had a material finding um that was an issue with reconciling with the Navajo County School Superintendent's office that has been rectified. So that material audit finding was removed which is fabulous. So now we have no material audit findings. That means that um if you choose to go out for a bond our bond rating will be higher which is fabulous. Um the other kind the other types of findings that we have are USFR findings and that is essentially a checklist of about 180 questions. The auditors literally just go down the list of questions and it's either a yes or a no. There are no partials, there are no anything.
Though, information from our student data team again is that probably there will be a greater loss at elementary than at high school. That's important because the elementary weight is less than the high school weight. So there's another level of conservatism you asking about that's in this projection as well. So this is our year-over- year-over-year comparison of MO budget capacity. And we we've stripped out the budget balance carry forward. If you remember when we revised the budget last, we we shared that we're moving um we're moving money out of M and putting it into unrestricted capital to take advantage of any interest earnings that we could possibly get between now and June 30. Um that was messes around with your budget balance carry forward. So we just stripped out that and put it aside and we're just looking at the revenue control limit and those ongoing budget parameters that we know are going to occur.
any any additional things that were on the add-on list, uh those will come at, you know, a later date when we uh have a better understanding of where we are with the contingency to complete the project and to do it properly. Oh, okay. Uh I'm just trying to see is it broken down of the ones that was on that list that was $1.9 million, I believe. Is it broken down the ones that was extrapolated from that list? I can send that in. just try it as a separate so I can have a better a better line of sight on those items. Yeah, I can clear that up. Okay, if you don't mind. Okay. Definitely want the electrical work. You know, that pays my rent. You get a discount. You could. Yeah, I I'll take care of you. I'll try for you. All right. Okay. Go ahead, Jason.
Yep. Yeah. You know what backwards that spells? What does it spell? Bob. That's why you're the principal. Thank you very much. So again, we we're as you see that little thing next to there is pointing the other direction which means we are currently we're it moves very slowly but we are moving that back. So if we can hold them for 30 seconds here kind of like in a battle you want to establish your turf and don't give up your turf, right? And then you got to give ground maybe a little bit regroup and then Hunter just used his his ultimate which again if we can get them killed here we will this will end. He used his ultimate. He took out one guy. It was you got 10 seconds to get to that. Well, it'll if they're not push if they're close to the robot, it will still give them like overtime like earlier.
who we're currently discussing. So, if we're not going to eliminate people, we want to just discuss who we're going to interview. All right. The question is, do you want to add this person to the list to invite to I will allow raise your hand, please. Three. That is not a pass. Okay. We have a four. Uh, next is who? Tracy, please. Um, so if you're if you're going through the threes first, the next would be um Elizabeth Leo. Okay. Anybody have anything to say about [Music] three times where in her letter in the letter? Yeah. So, it makes me think was it one of her um No, it was her. And it makes me think she didn't research the Tracy. Do we know why her resume stops her experience in Eagle? Um she went on medical leave. All right. Misspellings, you said Beth. Oh, it's missing R.
[Applause] Congratulations. Now, here tonight, Luke Greenaw uh in the orchestra for the French horn. here tonight. Sophia Diazi in the band for the [Applause] flute. Juliet Greenlaw was in the band with the clarinet. Olivia Angel was in the treble choir. So, we have singers and band musicians that uh that participate here tonight. Hadley Tucker in the treble choir. [Applause] Adela Castillo is al also in the treble choir. Tess Hartley is in the treble choir and Stella Corwin is here tonight. All right, we congratulate our musicians on their participation and we'll invite you back after for a photograph. Well done. Thank you. Just so you know, the the four or five kids that were not here, we'll invite them to the CIS meeting and if they can't make the CIS meeting, we'll invite them to the Charter Brook meeting. So, they'll have a couple opportunities. All right.
So, um, so that's the reason we adopted those as as our objectives and goals, you know, and talking with developers about that, uh, because, you know, those they're very wellestablished, you know, standard definitions of of, you know, what it takes to be zero emissions patent house. So I think you know it's it's a worthy discussion to have among the you know the the energy commission as to whether or not those are something that's appropriate for you to provide incentives for. I think that's a good discussion. Yeah. And and maybe and maybe what you described right there is having having clarity in the definition so there isn't fuzziness is part of the incentive. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Okay. May I jump in quickly? Yep. Please go ahead. Okay. I I hope everybody else does too. I mean, just all hopefully all respect each other's uh when they're commenting, but uh just to keep things flowing.
So ours would be about 38.34%. I have one other question. Can I do that? Okay. Thank you. Um last year we raised it 4%. because of um our our lack of information in previous years on the value of raising the budget and raising the um the percentage. If we didn't do that last year and looking at all these tax cuts, the cuts in title one, title two, title um four, all the tax cuts that are looming over us. What is your like can you give us like a a ballpark synopsis of what this district would look like if we don't increase to 2% and with everything looming down on your neck right now. What are we going to look at? Um so that's roughly $5 million of last year's money. If we didn't go to 4% we went to zero. Um it would likely mirror that list that was on the thing.
No, it's not enough. Uh, like our our district probably needs, and our estimates, talking with professionals, this is not my guess, is about 80 to$100 million. And that's just based on what current referendums are going to cost approximately about each building. And when you think about what goes into those things, you're going to restore facade and envelopes. So, roof, um, windows, doors, entryways, uh, covered passageways, all those things. You're probably going to, uh, work on water retention. You'll also work on surface. So, your your per impermeable surfaces like your, uh, sidewalks, your curbing, your uh, parking lots. You'd also be working on all of your HVAC systems, and all of your mechanical systems. So when you go for a referendum, those are typically the things that are going to come back as priorities. The biggest issue that our district is facing is over the course of S2, these gentlemen and their department have had to now play catchup every single day.
And I know I only speak to that because I know for instance my parents on Medicare, Medicaid don't always know what where and how what to do and how to do it. So they end up running into issues where they mean to and end up paying out of pocket for something they didn't really need to unnecessary. And that still happens because even with tribal tribal members, you still have to go through a process that some people don't know in order to not have to pay those out of pocket prices. Um, so that would be, I guess, what I would ask the administration to maybe look into if that can be presented to the board. And I don't mean to poke at anything other than just making sure that we're aware. Um, Miss So, um, it's my understanding when we have open enrollment that there are time slots for the different um, departments.
So let's say they want to get a sample of our purchase orders and they want to check them to see if they were issued after we purchased something. If one of them out of like let's say the 10 or the 20, if one of them was issued after we purchased something, then we get a no. So there's no um there's no like leeway at all. So one wrong and you essentially failed. Um so we've done we did really good on that. We decreased our USFR findings um last year compared to the year before, which is what you want. You're probably never going to get a perfect audit. just an FYI because the way that it kind of works is that they kind of just keep going until they find something. Um so the two biggest places where we have audit findings and this is really traditional at most schools is in student um attendance and the reason why student attendance has so many audit findings is because there's so many moving parts in student attendance and there's so many rules and laws in student attendance.
And so we're just comparing that year-over-year. So you can see that based upon that in the current year, our revised number two indicates a $273.3 million roughly of our revenue control limit plus override plus Prop 123. And then our projection for next year would be $270.3, about a $3 million loss because we're accounting for that 1,300 ADM loss. Okay? even though we actually increased the base by 2%.
Sorry to interrupt. Um the the bleacher system here uh I see 2,000 home and 1,000 visitor. What is our capacity now or what what what it used to help me out with that? I think it was probably 12 on 12 on the home side maybe home 400. Okay. All right. So it is a substantial growth. Okay. You don't even got standing room only, too. Yeah. Did you say the 88,000 was a technology? Is that that middle 88,000 right there? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Doesn't how many Doesn't matter how many seats you have, Mr. Dr. Hall's going to stand on the sideline. So, that's right. He is should give him his own special spot. The end zone. Yeah. He kind of helped get this thing going get his own. Well, you know, we we we will have a a very large press box. So, I'm sure that and not not Dr.
So, we need to get them pushed off of that for that. Otherwise, see, they'll say that overtime if they get away from that. So, if we can get them finished off here right now, they've got their tank character. We can get him finished off. you know, and and you know, kind of the common myth about video games, you hear about like, oh, I talk about blood and guts and gore and all this, you know, and and maybe some of that is, but but I'm not seeing any of that here. You know, it's it's strategy. It's working together as a team. It's trying to get objects, blow up objects, trying to get through the the the the defensive line or the getting offense going in your way. So, you know, I I'm impressed. You know, people kind of sometimes, including me, have a misconception of what it's all about.