I see that. At least she didn't call us another I know there had the wrong town in there, too. She didn't call us Brooklyn, that's for sure. Yeah, she didn't proofread her letter, which is what? Um, yeah, I know that's Lisa's pet peeve. She's a great she's I really don't like that when when we're hiring we we the first impression of someone or the first introduction to someone is their resume. If there are misspellings after having reviewed it, gone through it, ask colleagues to review it, ask friends and family to review it. If there's misspelling of the town name or the company name that you're applying to work at, that doesn't in terms of selecting resumes, that doesn't sit with you. But does anyone want to move? Yeah, I mean she has she's been 10 years at at one place in one position which I think speaks volumes and you know two years at somewhere else and then eight years before that somewhere else and 10 years before that.
Um, sticking with music for a moment. Um, so we've talked about um our exceptional music program. Something that Canton is noted for is jazz. And so, I'm wondering if Abby Gen is is here tonight. So, could have you join me up here, please? So, while she comes up, our CMS jazz band has had plentiful opportunities to perform throughout the course of the year and uh blow people's minds with their with their talent. This is something that is unique to Canton. And one of the favorite things that students did this year from your own account was to perform in a huge a in a huge crowd of other middle school jazz bands in front of college level musicians and the faculty of Yukon's music department at the Yukon Jazz Festival this spring. Our entire band performed and received positive feedback during uh well they per they performed and then did breakout sessions and got some feedback in their specialty areas.
Um, a couple of things. Um, just to elaborate on what Larry said about zero emissions. I mean, one of the reasons that we also started looking into this is that, um, the 4M development southtown, they're there, it is natural gas connected. Um, but they're using natural gas um to power fuel cells and those fuel cells are then going to be basically providing um, the energy for um, this. And so that sort of, you know, woke us up to, hey, we we we don't want to say all electric and no natural gas connection if indeed you can still be zero emissions um through the kind of strategies that they're employing. Um second, I have a question for um Joe. Um, the home energy rebate, um, I was told just today actually that those only are available for existing buildings, not new construction. And I I'll I'll give you the context real quickly.
It would be a combination of programs and god forbid staff. But that's where you make unfortunately staff is the largest contributor to our budget. So that and programming a combination of the two. Obviously the recommendation would come from Dr. Robertsi to the board and we would do everything we possibly could to safeguard the staff. Um so that's where that combination would come from of $5 million. Thank you. President Dr. Danny. Um, yes. Little bit something different about the um the 11 million that we might be on the hook for. Um, I don't like that. No. Um, but is it possible that maybe we can, you know, in legislative committee maybe there could be something set up with the, you know, state. I know it's with federal, but maybe they could, you know, speak to people there and, you know what I mean? because this is money obviously that we were expecting and I understand what they're trying to say you know maybe they might say well the local fair share and all that I I understand but just to try because in the past you know you you've tried and was pretty successful and so you know maybe we can speak to the legislators maybe they could do something maybe you know just you know again since they did do something where for 10 years they funded so maybe in light of the econom economy and everything.
If you could let Brian talk a little bit about his maintenance staff and just how much that they're just chasing their tails on a daily basis. And I want to circle back to the referendum question. Thank you. Good evening everybody. How are you? So yeah, I have a staff um seven maintenance guys. Um you know, I've been uh with the district now 22 years, uh 15 as a supervisor and um our preventative maintenance in in my opinion is is second to none. Try to stay on a preventive maintenance so we can be very proactive. Um but over the past say five years now it's become reactive because the equipment fails more times than we can do preventive maintenance on it. And as Tom was talking about um with the units that we have our heat pumps um and the parts not being available anymore. What happens is um they have a replacement part which is great because the manufacturer recommends that replacement part.
There's different locations and they are um, allotted time to sit down and speak to representatives. they come out and they explain the whole process if they have any questions regarding the insurance. And I also want to say that a lot of school districts now cannot afford to pay 100% of insurance. So I feel like this is a part of attracting future employees because the insurance costs are high and they continue to increase and we're one of the only districts that still continue to pay 100% of the basic plans. But yes, they are allotted time um during open enrollment to have discussions with the experts because it is very very confusing especially for somebody that isn't familiar with that. Correct. Well, thank you. You're welcome. Sure. Please. Yes, he's on the mic. Just to continue on what Clementina said, yes, at open enrollment, we do try to make sure that they completely understand.
And like I explained just a few seconds ago, it's either yes or no. Either they're all perfect or if you got one wrong, then it's a no. And so things like if the withdrawal date on the piece of paper for the student withdrawing does not match the date in the computer, then that is a no. Um it doesn't really affect anything, but that's just the rule. So that's the rule. Um the other place that we have um or that in that people have audit findings, a lot of it audit findings is general fixed assets. And that's all of our items that are over $5,000. So every item this this DIS has to have a tag. And if the auditors go around and they say, "Oh, I want to see the tag for this." And there's no tag on it, it's a no. So everything has to be tagged and the tag that's on the item has to match what is in our financial software.
Any questions about that before I go on? Okay. So, classroom site fund, we did um we did uh request it requested of our leadership team that if they if they could just let us um wait until we have the classroom site fund allocation before we decided on any pay increases. Um, so we did just receive that um early last week and the result is that there is a u $50 per student increase in classroom site fund giving giving us more flexibility for pay increases especially for our teaching staff. And you can see this is kind of what you're talking about from a trend standpoint, right? Yeah. Just to to be able to show for a long period of time how we're doing. We like to share this particular graph because it just shows how classroom site fund is so sporadic or inconsistent over time. Every time you put more money onto salary, you're wondering, okay, what's going to happen next year with the classroom site fund because it's all based upon sales tax revenues.
Hall. I know he likes to be down by the action, but any other dignitaries that would like to come enjoy the game, you know, the weather conditions that will be a possibility in our long overdue press box. So, you don't have to worry about he has one of those radio voices that he can announce be the announcer. So there's no heat in this box. Great. That's what I No, everything's in there. The contingencies are good because you always have to have them in there. You always have to have those in there. But like I said, everything looks much better. Thank you. I'm glad you got some contingency and not using the contingency up to do non-contingency stuff, right? I I definitely wanted to resemble Creep Monique and show that we are who we are and not just a barebones plain old stadium field. Like I liked how you were talking about some of the decals and things of that nature versus somebody just coming saying, "Wait, where are we again?" Not.
Yep. It's definitely not one of those type of realistic military games. It's Yeah. So anyway, as Norwell just got they did end up getting to that point, but now they only have a minute and 10 left to get the rest of the way. So, and it's starting to snow. That's to our advantage. Yes. That visibility. That guy's got to be slipping right there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and you know, he's got to be cold. Absolutely. It's got to be to our advantage. Yep. Good thing. My grandson Baker over here, he's going crazy. Yes, he's making some great great artistic ability. He is. He's uh he's chewing on the colored pencils, but I'm sure he'll be all right. They got rid of lead long ago, didn't he? Easily digestible. Not a problem. So, is that what the the payload is right there? That's that old truck.
So there's longevity there which I appreciate. Again she has special education experience which I think and most of these except for the present one are outside of Massachusetts. Is that right? I think if I'm looking at correctly, I didn't write that down. Flity. Uh, no. Go. She's at East Bridgewater. So that's Massachusetts before that. No, East Bridgewwater is Mass. East Bridgewater, Mass. She's been there 10 years. Bridgewwater. She just She's in the general area and it's not a regional school. in White Hall, New York, and she got the deficit down. Sorry, she got the deficit down. Positive impact on the community in one of the letters of recommendation. Okay. Would anyone like to add LGO to the interview the interview list? I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Raise your hands. Two. Two. Awesome. So that means she's not passing. Not right now. Okay. With two more, Tracy, I think.
Our entire band received positive feedback and stood out in this crowd of otherwise talented musicians. But one Abby Gert was recognized for her exceptional talent and she received from the Yukon Jazz Festival for her performance on saxophone the Yukon Jazz Festival soloist recognition for her exceptional talent. Abby, congratulations. When the board was uh visiting with you last week at the continuous improvement plan, Abby gave us some insights to uh some of the things that she enjoyed most about being in the jazz band. That's great. Yep, you did. You just recently met with her. Um I've got some athletic accomplishments to highlight as well. So, looking back, are my wrestlers here tonight? Yes, they are. Craig, you going to come on up? All right. While they make their way up here, uh, I'm pleased to recognize some exceptional athletic accomplishments. So, CMS has a growing and relatively fledgling wrestling program.
Um, I'm a member of a nonprofit. We control seven lots. We're going to be building 24 to 26 units on those lots. They are going to be all electric um and they're going to have a improved envelope. They won't be passive house um but it's better than code. And um we talked about the home energy rebates this morning and the um director of the nonprofit uh had apparently contacted the city and at least was or at least was under the impression that they're only available for um existing buildings, not new construction. These are all um small um we're calling them county houses with ADUs. So they're not, you know, they fit within this um 1 to four unit kind of um definition. Do you know what that is, Joe? Is that is that true? I would have to check. My from my understanding it's it's been existing homes.
Maybe, you know, they can actually Dr. Danny, you're actually you're actually a step ahead because um last week after this came out, I was um reached out to by both of our assembly um people. And I also saw our assembly woman at the Boys and Girls Club uh gala. Yeah. Um last last week, uh she said her office is going to be contacting me to meet and I could just very simply make that a legislative committee meeting. What we expect to happen, although New Jersey legislature doesn't have anything to do with this, what we do expect to happen is that the New Jersey attorney general is going to bring suit on behalf of the districts affected by this along. And it's not just New Jersey, it's every state. Every state, our number is 85 million. Some states are a lot more, some states are less.
When that becomes obsolete, we now become a retrofit. So in order to retrofit something, my staff and I, we have to look and say, you know, is it safe? Is it going to be safe to retrofit that? because the manufacturer of the equipment, they're not going to support you doing a a retrofit like that. Now, the the manufacturer of the part, he's going to help you walk through it, but you know, sometimes it's just not feasible. A couple of the buildings, um, like Tom said, you know, 1989 equipment was installed. A quarter of the building is 1989. Uh that manufacturer went out probably 15 years ago. Um they were bought by McQuay. McQuay went out of business. They were bought by Dacon. Um now Dacon doesn't want to support McQuay anymore. So it becomes extremely difficult for us to find parts um that we're going to fa feel safe and comfortable um putting in on a daily basis.
We do have a claims advocate in our office as well. So, we make sure that the employees understand that they can reach out to this claims advocate at any time, especially if they're having like hospitalizations or surgeries or something like that, you know, when all the claims come in at once, you know, and you don't know what to do. we kind of advise them a little bit to hold off, you know, and and let those EOBS come in, your explanation of benefits come in. So then you can see what hits first because you don't want to pay the first one when that didn't apply to deductible and stuff. So we do are, you know, we do try to stress that at open enrollment so that they can get that assistance. And our claims advocate also tracks claim issues. So if claim issues come directly to her and we don't wear a know about it, she does send us a monthly report of like trends of you know so and so's having you know we see that the district's having problems with this vendor or issues of that.
If the tag on the item does not match what's in the financial software, it's a no. It's very precise and so general physical assets is a hard to kind of manage. Um but we're doing better. Uh Karina Knight does a fabulous job on her general fixed assets. And the reason um that they're so particular about them is they're big ticket items for school districts and they want to make sure that school districts are using taxpayers money wisely and not um like wrecking equipment or things like that. Um but we've gotten way better at our general fixed assets and uh Karina has done a fabulous job. Uh other than that, we didn't really have any um findings at all. Um we did a great job. We use um a audit firm called Heinfeld Meech. Um they're um the best uh auditing firm in the state. Um they're very hard um and they're very particular.
Um so that's kind of why we always share it. There's always risks associated with um using more and more of classroom site fund. So any questions on that? Okay, great. So, these are our operating cost increases and our savings. And this is where we talk about the recommended pay increase. So, um, we already had you approve our medical insurance premium increase, that $1.3 million. We included the potential loss of 123. That's still very much a legislative priority, trying to figure out how to handle Prop 123. Um I have some peers that are ignoring it and assuming it's going to be there and so they're not reducing their budget accordingly and I have others that are reducing their budget accordingly. So um what we thought is okay well let's put it here so you can see if we thought we were going to lose Prop 123 our total um our total budgetary increases would be about 4.6 million.
No, we have to be identifiable. Yes. And I appreciate that. And um I know it's uh been a while since we've had a design team meeting. I'm looking to schedule one of those next Tuesday on the 15th around the same time. So the 15th. You sure it's the 15th? I saw a different date. That is not due to Dr. She's not paying attention anyway. I don't know why I thought it was going. My apology on tax on tax day. Okay. All right. Um, so, uh, this slide there's really been no changes to the, uh, revenue sources. These numbers are consistent with what was in the presentation, uh, last month. Uh, the next slide here, since we have taken out the doors in the windows, um, I do want you to see the surplus deficit went from $1,000 to uh, slightly over $5.8 million. So that's how much money we had dedicated to the doors, exterior doors and windows.
Yep. That truck. And right now, we're we're in trouble. Oh, we're in trouble. We've got one point here. All we got Bob, which Bob Bob needs to do some damage from behind. Come on, Bob. Yep. We need Bob to finish. What about Bob? long time ago. Come on, Bob. Get your job done. We might be able to hold him here if we can just stop him here. 15 seconds. Yeah, we got close. Yeah, we got to get him finished off here. It's going to come down to the wire. The suspense. It's building. We got rid of their eight seconds. Seven. Hold them off. Keep that off. We got to keep that character. Rich, good job. Two. Come on. Hold on. Hold them. All right. So, we held them. So, now it's our turn to do the exact same thing. tonight. We got to get if we can finish it or get a little further than them, which could be impossible because they didn't have much more to go.