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I don't It doesn't say that, but she is very strong in special education. Yeah, I like that. I think that's very important for our district. I think we need to interview more than three people. I feel strongly about that. Does anyone want to add Donna? Donna, sorry. And Rich came. Donna Flareity. Does anyone want to move Donna Flareity to the invitation to interview list? I do. Three. Four. Okay, that's four. So, that gives us four to invite for an interview. It does. Does anyone feel strongly about another candidate? was someone that was Googled. No, that was someone and I'm fine with that. What did we decide about Lego? No. Could you list the ones that we have? You decided that um Clarity Gil Gillson Gan and Thompson. I know what we talked about Cutler. I know what we talked about uh Thompson were taking, but why did we say no on LGO?
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Staff is working incredibly hard. As you can see, we have incredible students that are doing wonderful things. And so, I'm here able to report on just a year of what I see as great successes, um, operational improvements, um, great learning, great teaching. and I anticipate being able to see you in the fall and see those outcomes on the upcoming state assessments, right? We take those mainly in the first two weeks of May. So, I can't uh you exactly predict that for you yet, but um great things are happening. You saw them in classrooms and I'll give you the highlights of the plan that we wrote and um what some of the major action steps were this uh this past year. So, first we are um celebrating our growth and taking uh continued steps forward on our our path to even further improvement. I focused this year, we focused this year on revising some team structures to make sure we're addressing climate, culture, attendance, and operations.
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Um, and I was just going to ask um, also these are creating new project definitions and classifications. Um, city exempting from city citizen participation requirements, enabling site plan approval, waving site plan permit fees, early project planning support, things like that. Um, I think that was that was one question I think that I had in terms of awareness about those. if they're being implemented um either by different agencies within the city or otherwise. Um and just thought I'd ask about that if anyone had any insight into that as well. I chime in on that quickly. Um I I think when the height bonus um if it's considered reconsidered as a part of the comprehensive plan um I would encourage uh those who look into this to think about the 30% why 30 why not 25 why not some other number um and also what what are the criteria um and when might they be phased out?
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So between those two, the state and the federal, we received $23 million. Obviously, things happen overnight in the federal government and in the blink of an eye, all that money can be gone. So in my mind, we're planning worst case scenario. We're thinking that $7.6 million is gone. Uh because we can wake up tomorrow and be having this conversation and the $1 million I'm already wiping that off is gone until the the DOE tells me otherwise. So, right now there is I'm game planning for a $20 million deficit. Don't know how I'm going to make it happen, but that's that's our reality right now. Mr. Shad, I I don't feel like I explained it well enough. Um, and if you could please explain for me. I had I had some heard some people commenting on this on the money being taken away and and the the the people who were um you know pro you know cut cut the waste out of federal government and that's a very good thing.
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So um why some of this hasn't been tackled before is I think a lack of priority maybe but also that they've done such an excellent job so it's kind of a credit to them. Um but maybe they could shed some light on that a little bit. Yeah, moving forward, you know, 89 20 years and then that's 25 years. Now we're 30 years. We have done some upgrades in some of them areas. at Rice. They still have some equipment that's 1989, but they have an inside section that's all been upgraded in 206, but they're now at 25 years. So, you know, it's a situation where uh you look at moving forward replacing what you can. We're replacing heat pumps in this building now. Uh we're doing it inhouse, but we can't do the whole district. Uh we go out for whatever grant we can get. We just got a grant for the last three years to do boilers.
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Okay. Your question, Miss Stevens, was specific to if if employees are currently in that plan and have Yeah. Go ahead. I'm sorry. If they have to move to a different provider. Okay. Right. So, that's what they would need to consider come June 30th. come June 30th finding fingers crossed that that may be that provider still covered under the TDA plan. Okay. So then their services would just keep going forward just under the new plan with those co-pays based on that disc based on the services schedule. If not they would have to find a new provider to carry on those. So you could ask that provider that you have established that dental with to take your records with you because those establishments that were EDS only will probably be closing up as well. Okay. So it probably my recommendation and that's what we will probably tell your employees at open enrollment is to ask them for your dental records so you can take them to a new employee.
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Any questions with these two young men? Why? Yeah. Why? Why would you want to leave this great experience so early? So, I know the staff that would have them next year sad just because they're the kind of students that everyone loves having them in the classroom, part of the programs. Um, but they do have worthy reasons for why they wanting to graduate early and I support them in their reasons and I know that they're going to do very well in their future plans. Yeah. Yeah. Great students. Yeah. Great young men there.
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And so, uh, this happens every single year. And, um, OTM just kind of cringes when Bonnie comes in saying, "Here's my number." Because OTM at the same time is saying, "We want the biggest pay increase we can get." We all are saying that. And so, um, you know, it it it ends up being that number and and if we're if we do better than what we project, then we try to give as much of that back to our employees as we can. So, thank you. Okay. Okay. So, the budgetary savings, so decrease of personnel due to fewer students. So, in order to to achieve that $4 million savings, um, we need to reduce 44 FTE. And I looked at Missy and Sean and Joyce yesterday and said, "So, do I got it?" They said, "Yes." Okay, terrific. And then, uh, vacancy turnover savings. So, because our I think I shared with you that for many of the years in which we've recalculated the average teacher salary, we've seen that it has gone down.
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And if you have a homestead exemption, that would take your EAV down from $80,000 to $72,000 and your tax rate will be applied to that EA for you individually. When it comes to t calculating the tax bill, each property falls within a tax code area which includes various tax districts. As we mentioned before, that's school district, municipalities, and other uh taxing bodies. Each school, each local tax district determines the levy amount in dollars according to how much they need to operate. So when we prepare our levy, that's a flat amount. Uh you know, we levy for either CPI or max 5% which we did this year. Tax rate is determining by using the uh formula below. Take the total amount of the taxing district need. You divide that by the total assessed value. And that's how you compute your tax rate. Uh the tax bill is then determined by multiplying the EAB by the tax rate.
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Absolutely. Okay. There's also a bit of a rock paper scissors in some of this where you know there's a lot of counters. So if this they're playing this, you can play that and give yourself a little bit better chance. Okay. In theory. Now, rock, paper, scissors. I like that. Yep. So there's the mines from our That's the ultimate the blue mines from our character up there. So if anyone runs into that, the blue mines. The blue mines. Yep. The mines. Yep. So if anyone from Norwell runs into those blue mines, um it's going to send them back to the beginning cuz they Okay. So we want to say go to the blue mines. Yes. Go to the blue mines. Blue mines has a special treat for everyone. Yep. Grab the blue mine. Yep. It's like the candy. Yeah, I think I'll fall for it. I don't.
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Because she did not get left. Yeah. So, she's got special education re was one of the recommendations. Um she was 10 years at one place, eight years in another, 10 years before that. She got the deficit down. Some one of the recommendations said positive impact on community. And then what? Dwire is the other one. I I really like Dwire. I know she doesn't have a lot of experience. I think is the one that spelled Berlin incorrectly in her letter. I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure that I think I don't really know if I want to pronounce Bald correctly and let us but neither could Aaron but he's got it now or Aaron just a few finance committee meetings in Maryland and thank you to serve anyone strongly about adding a fifth invitation add so I mean essentially it's between Dwire and LGO. Yeah, if we added a fifth.
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We focused on curricular standards alignment and um infusing a few high lever teaching strategies throughout the school. Uh you could ask any teacher in Canton Middle School. know that our focus for the year instructionally was learning targets and success criteria. Um you've been able to see those and see our improvement with them over the course of the year and it is my firm belief and the data bears out that it is having a positive influence on teaching and learning in the classroom. Um so to align our action steps with the board goals first looking at the area of student growth and achievement um we executed year one of our commissioners network plan. So, as you know, last year we were in a planning year. We wrote a three-year plan for improvement in in comm in collaboration with the community, with students, and most importantly with the staff.
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Um, so it seems to me all those those are important questions related to that. As far as I know, um, the 30% height bonus was recently granted on a project. I can't remember what it is like on Forest or Church or something like that. Um, so as far as I know, that's um, relatively recent. That was in the last it was sometime this year, I think. Um, so I see uh, Council Member Briggs has her hand up, so she can maybe address some of this. I'll turn it over to her. Yeah, I just wanted to speak um to the spec you just mentioned the comprehensive plan and perhaps things shifting in there. I just wanted to set the expectations of what that plan what might be in the plan versus subst sub subsequent code. Certainly I would expect this sustainability is is going to be something the plan um draft plan is first draft is I think dude be released uh tomorrow.
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We should cut waste. But the proponents of taking this $85 million away, their main argument was well this was CO money. CO was over several years ago. I don't think I I don't think I did as good a job explaining why um we had an extension to use that money. So, just to diffuse that argument that this was about COVID and it should have been spent, you know, two years ago, three years ago, can you do maybe explain better than I did? Yeah. So, um if you guys look at the other sheet that I gave you, uh let me just pull it up here for you. uh of the one that starts off with. I want to clarify if you look at that sheet on the back, the Excel that I printed out for you, we got three grants in the span of 2 years, let's say, totaling $37 million.
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We replaced inhouse eight boilers inhouse at no cost, very little cost to us. We just did parking lot lights uh through public service with public service as supplying the the the better price. We put 150 parking lot lights in for $150 and we installed them in house. That could have been well over $40 $50,000 if it was outsourced. We're we try to stay ahead as much as we can, but every year, you know, as well as everybody else that the budgeting don't allow you to do major projects. You know, uh the project that we're doing in this building right now would have been a 8 million10 million job. you know, we're doing it for onetenth of that. So, you know, if you look at the what the infrastructure is, we've maintained it to a point where we got everything we got out of it. And we are have been moving forward with replacing units as we go, they go bad, you buy a unit and replace it.
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Okay. Thank you. Was that it, Miss Stevens? Yes. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Oh, quick miss. Since we're on the subject, I was wondering if there was some way of figuring out where our teachers who are here if their kids can get vaccinated here on the nation because right now our their kids cannot get vaccinated. It's only for tribal members. We can follow up on that. I think the way that Miss Miss uh Hendrickx had kind of indicated it may just be that they have to go through a certain process and actually provide all of their information as opposed to a tribal member who would just who already has record there shows up they go through most likely access or if not the patient referred care which is what also pays for our services if we're not I would and don't quote me but I I would assume that that person will go apply as pat pat patient registration and provide all their information so that they can provide services to them.
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So, any questions or comments anybody like to make? Does anybody want to call these young men up and grill them? Why? Looks like you're off the hook. I don't have any question. It was tempting, but All right. So, here all this time. What's that? They sat here all this time. They sat here the whole time. For this to work, you have to stay to the end of the meeting or does it get signed and then you have to hug your mom and your dad. I'm just kidding. All right. So, item 3.2 to recommendation to approve the early graduation for the three three students as as presented. I have a motion. Have a motion from Siliana. A second. Second from Michael. All in favor say I. I. All right. That passed unanimously. Item 3.3 recommendation to approve out of state travel for FBLA. Uh Bridget, would you like to come in or would you like to have these folks, young men, young women, whoever?
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the average teacher value has gone down from what we projected from taking the average and increasing it by 2% or 3%. So what that says is that we're calculating the value of the pay increase based upon teachers that are here today and many of those teachers are not returning next year because they're retiring. And so there is a vacancy savings or a turnover savings where we might be replacing some of those teachers but maybe at a$10,000 or $15,000 per year savings because newer teachers are not making the same as our more experienced teachers. So we've seen a growth in our budget balance carry forward the last couple of years. And so in speaking with Lauren and with Jackie, we believe that there's probably $1.5 million of that what we consider onetime money that really is ongoing because it really represents the vacancy savings associated with teachers um turning over overtime.
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And I have a slide here. Uh the next slide I have an example. I reached out to the will county treasur's office and they were kind enough to present provide this to us. So on the left hand side you see a key and then on the right hand side you see the sample tax bill. Um there's a contact information for Will Countyy's treasurer's office. Um, in the upper right hand corner is your PIN number, also referred to as your property index or property identification number, I'm sorry. Any important information, if you have back taxes sold or anything like that, you'll find that below your PIN number. Um, mailing address of where the bill is mailed to, that's number four. And what I'd like to turn your attention to is the se uh section five and section six because this is the most important part. So in this particular example, we have tax code 3043 and then in tax code 3043, you see all the taxing district that make up 3043.
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But we're totally wiping him out here. So, okay. All right. Got one guy left. This is their tank. Their Oh, that's a big dude. Yep. That big dude. He's got to be tough to kill, right? He is. He is not easy to kill. Look at that. But he's about if we can get him down sooner. He's a big ugly dude. Yep. And now he's down. He's a big ugly dude who's been taken out. So, wow. All right. We should be able to move the the truck a decent amount here before he gets back. So, we haven't gotten to our second uh checkpoint yet. Nope, we've not. We're moving pretty quickly here with it. It's okay. We got We got about two minutes left. Yeah, this is a tough part that we held Norwall at for a while. This this curve right here is a tough spot to move.
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