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Jess, you would not. All right. If you want to move him forward, raise your hand. I like the resume. I didn't Google it. So, the resume was very, very strong. I I agree. It was a good resume. Is that one vote to move? All right. All right. Okay. That's everything. Yes. All right. And we have three that we don't want to. Can we like talk about We don't want to move anyone else forward. Who would you like to suggest? So, who because we only have three right now. Did we We've The only the person that I would consider and I was on the fence about it. I I initially voted for her and then Beth made a comment that made me think maybe not was done a flity because she has immense like training and professional experience. Um she was a town finance committee member I didn't see that the finance committee member.
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I'm pleased to name one of our CAS scholar leaders to Sarah Phoenix [Applause] and Well, that's great. I why don't we take a a photo op and we'll go over here to that wall with the board of education. We'll get some pictures. How's that? All right. Come on up. [Music] [Applause] I'm a little bit smaller. You need to move. Okay. What about if I go that way? Okay. All right. Everyone look here first and then parents can get their phone after take as many as you want. Congratulations. [Music] Thank you. Thanks for coming. Thank you very much. Very nice. Congratulations. She works hard. She does. That's quite an award. Okay. See you later. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Uh for the board members, um we had we had a great turnout for the uh continuous improvement plan as we walked uh Canton Middle School. We heard some great things that were going on there.
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That also goes with the building performance standard which I think is another thing that's in here that has come up a couple times not been maybe the um focal point of any one of our meetings but is another mechanism that would kind of build on the benchmarking ordinance. same thing. The city is in touch with that legal coalition and um I think really it comes down to the the city's legal team and Michigan specific laws and figuring that out. And so so the the upshot here is that um OSI and the city are are in touch with those um getting additional insight and interpretation of the legal landscape not only for the disincentives but also the benchmarking ordinance and performance standards that and the city's capacity to implement those both as sort of incentive disincentive structures as the case may be. Yeah. And specifically I would say like the the um the carbon pollution impact me and the performance standard the two key ones otherwise.
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20 It varies. It really depends on what the what the needs of the district are at that time. I know um as of June 30th, so last budget, we pulled out 7.92 million off the top of my head, uh to be used for this year's projects, which are the stadium renovation, the u locker room renovation, and at a few others. So, all said and done, all projects are near completion. But but also, Mr. Cha, just to just to clarify, some of those projects are planned, but capital reserve is also for those things. God forbid the roof uh flies off in a tornado and we have to replace a roof. So, that's our kind of emergency money, too, in addition to our long-term facility plans. Now, I remember you sent out an audit and it said, you know, if we lost x amount of funding, that was obviously prior to any any of all these happenings.
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We're just deciding yes or no. Yep. If the board decides to go forward and the stipulation is that that $7 million slide is something we want to pursue. As part of the final budget presentation, we should be outlining some sort of long-range plan. So year over year we can realize that $7 million to become 14 towards projects. Third year it'll be we will put 21 towards projects so on and so forth because again we have 80 to $100 million of estimated projects we need to to undertake. So the idea would be seven each year to to start chipping away at that. Sorry Miss Fox. No. So I don't know. I mean, Janice might be the only one that can can answer this in terms of timing, but to hear that large a number is needed for repairs. And to hear that there are things that were done in 1989, to me it sounds like they might have should have been addressed long before CO and S2.
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Not better coverage, but coverage that might help. Um, and I know supplemental services I think as well. Um, but granted this this what we've been able to review includes a really excellent in my view um, opportunity for employees to participate in if they so choose. I just wanted to make sure that those questions are asked and get a response and we go from there. So, I really appreciate all the time and effort that everyone puts into making sure we have the information and especially when we're asking the questions about looking at different options that it's actually provided. So, I really appreciate that. Um, there any other questions or comments?
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Next item on the agenda is item 3.2 and that's a recommendation to approve the early graduation for three high school students. U Mr. web. We don't have to have their names. I think we already have those, but have they met all the criteria? I do have two of the young men. What are Oh, here he is right here in front. If you had questions for James or Spencer, they would be happy to answer because they both like speaking in public and they'll probably sing a song or two if you ask.
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So any questions on this? So what happens if let's say we have a a thousand student loss next year and we award this 1% beginning January 1st and then the following year we have a greater than anticipated loss. do we take it away um at that point in time and you'll see when we get to the budget balancing thing but note that that we all in leadership team have been working really hard over the last couple of years to rightsize Gilbert public schools so that we have the right number of teachers and the right number of paras and the right number of administrators accounting for the student loss. So if that were to happen and we lost more um then we have to rightsize going into next year. We'd have to reduce more of that FTE. So to date um we haven't had to go through a reduction in force process.
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The exemption for seniors is only predicated on age. So a freeze, you could get a senior citizen exemption with a freeze that's predicated on income and age. But just a senior exemption is predicated on just age. I sincerely appreciate that. Yeah. Okay. Okay, I'm a senior and I that's why I know I I got calibrated. Okay, I went in there for a freeze. They said, uh, you make much more than our limit is. So, no freeze for me. They froze me in my that spot from talking. Okay. Okay. Uh, the next term I'd like to mention is a levy. That's the total amount of money a taxing district collects from uh property taxes. And then a tax rate is a is used to calculate bills based on the funding needs of local tax. So uh what determines your property taxes? Those are generally determined by two key factors.
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Well, we got to get to where that yellow diamond is, which is nearly all the way. Well, no, they the time will regenerate at the first diamond. Yeah, they'll give them more time, but the more time the time carries over, so the faster they get to that diamond, the better. Okay. Um, but yeah, we got to get there. Well, I think it's time for our guest analysis to give his opinion. Okay. What is he doing? Baker, what do you think? Is this pretty fun? Say, yeah, really loud. Yeah. Is this fun? Yeah. Yeah. Um, do you think they're doing a good job? Okay. Um, do you think we're going to win? There you go, Scott. Our expert analysis of what he sees there. Best analysis we've had yet. I know, right? Right. He knows more than I do. All right. So anyway, right now we're here.
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I did town finance committee. Do they have any qualifications to be on the town finance committee? They unless in New Hampshire though might be different. Yeah. No, that's what I'm asking. It's New Hampshire. So, do they like are they required like if you go to buy an insurance policy or ask where you want to invest your money, you got to go to a licensed qualified person. Does the finance committee like Aaron has to Aaron has a license to be a business finance director in Massachusetts public schools. Aaron is licensed to advise on budgets for the schools. Is a finance committee licensed to advise anyone on how to spend money? They're not required to. Individuals might be in their private life, but I don't know. Is there anything on here like So, she was on a finance committee, but is there anything on here that she's strong in finance?
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This was our second visit. Uh this was our spring visit if you will and Mr. Moore enlighten us in a lot of ways and so did Miss Samini uh who participated. We met with some students, but the board members that weren't there uh Mr. Moors agreed to uh to to give us the highlights of that meeting. So, thank you, Jeff. Of course. Uh, I appreciate everybody for being here tonight. Um, even Miss Smeia was like, "You're good. We'll see you." Um, I'm excited. Even the board member left. She will be back. Just kidding. But the student rest, they did. That's fine. Uh, I'm incredibly proud of what K Middle School has done over this this school year. Um, and this is an easy report to give. Uh, we laid out a plan in, uh, the fall and I'm able to report that we followed through on that plan and are seeing wonderful results as a as a, um, part of that dedication.
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Perfect. Yep. You got it. Uh yeah, just uh to finish up uh I really appreciate everybody uh inviting me and having uh you know me uh you know tell you about the the Wolfpack is I think this is a great conversation to have and uh I need to go feed my three grandkids right now. So I apologize for bowing out. So you know take care guys and I and guys and gals and I think that uh this is a good good effort. So thank you. Thank you. Any thanks to the Thanks for joining. All right. Yeah. Thank you. Bye. Thanks, Larry. Okay. Um, one thing I thought that we also might um, try to touch on is I know I I think there were some city administrator recommended incentives and it sounds like one that we we we already heard about that is being implemented is the hype bonus.
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Um, so I have a couple questions around that. one is um for the federal level and and uh Miss Bassford spoke to it a little bit. What does that mean for us? I know we have a lot of title one funded schools. So what is the amount of money that we would be in a deficit for? So if you guys look at that list that I put in the folders for you, this maroon and gray one of the federal grants and the state grants which aren't in question. Um so for the projected 420 2526 projected we are with title one title 2 title three title 4 IDA Perkins and 21st century we are slated to get $7.6 million. Um this is not including the late liquidation of $1 million that is already in limbo. Um so let me just throw in the state grants as well that totals about 15 million.
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And I'm curious in in prior boards or has this come up and and why are we where we are in such dire straits? Yeah. So, with the buildings, yeah, we can say that. Um, I'll I'll defer to Dr. Smith and Mr. Yates if they have more color to add, but many of the cuts we've seen throughout the S2 um process has has come on the backs of of Mr. Donahghue's team, Mr. Idell's team, and Mr. Peterson's team. Um, in addition to obviously foregoing things that we might we don't see in HVAC, right? We don't see a heat pump. So, those are cuts that we don't see that we're like, all right, we'll just wait till next year and next year has never come. I would also add to that that you know one of the things that Tom and Brian did highlight for us is that their teams really do a great job of keeping our our our equipment keeping it running right.
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Yes, President, I just want to thank Miss Jennifer Aragon for driving all the way here and and present in person um and answer the questions that we have and helping us through the process and navigating through the process. Thank you so much for your support. Absolutely. Thank you so much for bringing if that's it. Um Juan, I have a question. Yes, Miss Anarie. Go ahead. I have a question. The recommendation was to uh change dental plans. My question is what happens to those individuals who already have like extensive work um or co- recommendation to change the dental are you refering referring to the EDS plan. Yes. Yes. Because EDS is no longer in the market. So the plan will end in June 30th just like it would do every year. So even since with EDS there are no deductibles, there are no out-of- pocket maximums, but you would just um you would end up you can see if the provider is still within an EDS network, but if not those individuals will need to find a new provider.
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if you if you have any questions for them. The other one, um, as it stated in there, just trying to catch up with her her peer group, cohort group. She moved up here and is able to get back on track when she's supposed to graduate. Their peers. Yeah.
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We've had natural attrition um that allows us to to be able to just um reduce FTE without having to have anybody lose their their jobs that they didn't want to lose. So, um I think that's the best way to I think yeah, I think attrition would be it. And I think um where we're at in our district over time, you're going to see more people retiring because of where we grew uh years ago and and the kind of the boom in Gilbert public schools. Those folks are getting to that 25 30 year mark and they're retiring. And so it is easier to make that mark. When Bonnie comes in and we're budgeting, she's like, I I need I I'm going to need like 40 less teachers or 60 less teachers. And OTM looks at her and says, "Yep, we can we can probably get there." But that's more or less from resitations and retirements.
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The property EAB uh which represents your property share of total tax base and then the tax rate which is determined by the tax district school public service entities that fall within that particular tax code. How's your property's equalize assess value determined? Uh the township township assessor determines your property's market value based on property characteristics, recent sales of similar homes in the area, and a study of sales over the past three years. The assessed value is onethird of the market value determined by them. If the supervisor of assessment applies the equalization factor, the total assessed value is then multiplied by that factor. Then once you arrive at your equalized assessed value, any exemptions that you qualify for are then deducted from your assessed value. So an example of that would be if your home is worth $240,000 in market value, a third of that is $80,000 assessed before exemptions.
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We're and we're seeing Lifew Weaver. Yeah, we're seeing trying to find a way to get these guys down. Now, what what's lifew weaver? What what's uh the special talent life? So lifew weaver mostly heals, but he also can throw some thorns. He also has the ability to kind of throw up a tree that gets him higher into the area. Wow. So if someone's down low, he can kind of go up and or get one of his teammates up higher in the air. So it takes a while to learn all the intricacies of of each character, right? Absolutely. And know what what character will do well in each situation and working with your team and Yeah. Yep. All the characters are very different. So that definitely So really selection of your character is very important as you're deciding how you're going to work together as a team.
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