Yeah, if we added a fifth. And I I had both of those. How about this? Raise your hand if you want to add a fifth. I think All right. Okay. So, try just tried. Tracy, do we need to do an official vote on the four invitations? That would not be a bad idea. Yep. All right. Uh, I'm going to ask for a motion to invite the following four individuals who Tracy's going to read the names to come and interview for our intern superintendent position. You're uh you've got Susan Gillson, Albert Ganam, David Thompson, and Donna Flity. Second, any final conversation, discussion, questions? Yes. Okay. Um, resumes are one thing, people are the other. And so I think it's important not to eliminate people that we know that are effective at their position before we know we have without knowing the other candidates. Yeah. And uh I mean we I don't think anyone even saw Al's resume before we uh had him here.
Much of that work happening right here in this room. So, this was year one of that three-year plan, and we executed our stated goals for year one with the delegate. Um, we implemented a student support team to support student growth and uh in their areas of need. We gave IABS and FABS and STAR just because we've got a lot of acronyms in our industry. Those are diagnostic tools that help uh see where students are in their learning journey. We gave uh those data points as we have been for a few years. This year we really enhanced our understanding of what they mean for teaching and learning to help support every student. Um, as I mentioned, we adopted learning targets and success criteria as a common teaching strategy, and we taught students lessons proactively around executive functioning and organizational skills to help them uh excel. In the area of partnerships and community engagement, we continued our partnership with our wonderful small but mighty PTO.
Um I know that I've it's it's it's on its way out. Um so uh but that won't I would anticipate that it you know it's not going to be something that would have the specifics around you know numbers you know 30% versus 40% or you know how those criteria but it will set set more of a a vision of where we might want to be going in this next you know um 30 years in our community. So the next next piece would be part of part of code but I I will share that out with energy commission later so you guys can all take a look at it through the sort of this lens. Um and certainly uh I think feedback is welcome but um yeah I don't want to get the details on this wrong around where we're at right now. I'm going to jump in again.
That money went to air purifiers, Chromebooks, windows in every building except 16 in Woodro cuz those had been done previously out of just local monies. Um learning loss teaching programs, teacher salaries, counselor salaries, and special education common corner. um requirements, $37 million we had to spend in two years. A good problem. Excuse me. A good problem to have, right? That federal money came in handy at a time when we all needed it. So, you know, not be smurching the fact that we got $37 million. That was a good problem to have. We covered all grants. Um $37 million in two years. It's an impossible thing to do in nonpandemic related situations. Now we're dealing with everybody buying everything on this list that we are that I just listed off on top of worldwide supply chain issues on top of a workforce shortage. The government realized the DOE lobby the federal New Jersey DOE lobby the federal government and said we have too much money that our people can't spend because there aren't enough products out there for us to purchase.
But it's getting to a point when you buy one, you could be you might have to buy three or four at a time, you know, and there's lead times, you know, you just can't go out and pick it up in the store because most of them don't have it because it's commercial. But, you know, the infrastructure, we maintain it, we stay on top of it, we we do everything inhouse. There's nothing I don't think very little leaves this house except for major roofing jobs or major things like you know doing a Demy's in a monstrous building. There's a lot of equipment in there. So, but that's where we're at. And we're always looking to move forward, but at a lot of times over the years, there's never the money, you know, and we haven't had a bond now, I think, in what, 10 years, John.
But it would be very specific to if they're in network or out of network and all those things. And I don't think THC is part of any of those networks. But that's I would say Mr. Diaz or anyone else if we can look into that and maybe provide some information for teachers and hopefully get them situated. Yeah. cuz I have a few teachers who got turned away that they were not able to get their vaccinations for their children. Okay. I'm sorry to hear that. Thank you, Miss Bey. I guess President Mia. Yes, sir. Um question for Jennifer. I know we had the the Odarin. Um we have the vaccine uh clinic that comes for employees um during the year. Um, I wonder if that will also cover some of our employees children. Got it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, M. I'm sorry. I know.
There we go. You know, I guess there was a tragedy this last meet. A bus turned over on uh on the interstate and young man lost his hand in in the process of that happening. So, yeah. So, there there are there are hazards out there even for FBLA. So, we uh hope the best for you guys. Yes, thank you. Um yeah, so it was a bus from Kingman. Um and they were they had driven 5 hours and were 20 minutes away from Tucson and then uh an impaired driver hit their bus and they crashed into the median. Um thankfully there were no fatalities, but one teacher and three students were hospitalized. Um, so our our chapters were planning on, you know, sending a card over to Kingman, um, just to support them. And yeah, it was super sad what happened. Um, but we're grateful that no one was killed.
So we're putting out $1.5 million on the plus. And then finally, um, and I I shared with with the leadership team yesterday that it and we've achieved almost another half a million dollars of savings because of the decrease in Arizona State Retirement, which is good. So, we're putting all those in the plus column. So, this is our total budgetary increase need to include everything I just shared with you. So, again, we're starting at a deficit budget over budget of $3 million. total non-discretionary increases is 2.37. Remember that I am assuming that Prop 123 will be funded at least for next year. Um and then the English language learner and gifted teacher FTE additions 1.1 million, the pay increase recommendation 5.7 million about and then projected projected ongoing savings of just under 6 million. So our total budgetary deficit after all of this is about 6.14 million.
Then you see the prior year rate and the prior year tax and then um to the right of that you see the current year rate and the current year tax to provide you with a comparison as a taxpayer. In the section here on the right hand side, you'll see a breakdown of the assessed value. Here's the state equaliz factor equalization factor which is at one. And then here, no exemptions were applied in this example, but if they were, they would be deducted from the equalized value. Then that would give you that equalized value. Multiply your tax rate gives you the total tax amount due. which you can also see down here and uh by number eight and divided in half for the first and second installment. Um the bottom portion is the coupon payment portion um which just reinforces some of the information that we had above.
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We didn't have any candidates. You gave us his resume. We did. Come on. We had I know you're not happy right now, but stop piling on that. And he came highly recommended. So, so in that instance, we had two resumes, two people. We only had two people apply. So, we had two people apply. Yes. Yeah. We interviewed them both. There was two people. Yeah. Oh, you want to know? So, based on this resume, I'm sorry. Is there something going on there? I apologize. Just trying to clear my throat. I apologize. I was being rude. Thank you. So I think I joined this committee years ago. I ran because I saw issues. So where I think being a superintendent, I would not want that job. I think it is multifaceted and that's why I think a resume does not necessarily speak to someone's ability to be a superintendent and be our fit.
Um, we are welcomed community members in for community wellness day. That actually is a future tension that's happening on Thursday. So we have close to 30 sessions occurring that will involve community members whether they be parent volunteers uh local organizations and even some members of the community that we are acting like we're the theme of it is personal wellness through community wellness uh through acts of service we take care of ourselves by taking care of others so our schools will be filled on Thursday with those acts of service and acts of self-care uh through the is one of the ways that we're helping our students get back to the community. That's happening on Thursday. Um, we also continue to focus on communication with families in a world of so much information. We've tried to hone and enhance our weekly newsletter and our week at a glance in the area of financial sustainability and efficient operations where uh at least within our building, right, the part of the budget that I control, we are on target.
Um I I would encourage the commission and or OSI to contact um Rich Fine. Joe, I pretty sure you know who he is and he's been in contact with you. There are people in OSI on some of this stuff. um in terms of the the bonus or any kind of incentives and when they're when and and if they should be or if and when they should be applied, he's done quite a bit of energy modeling. Um it started actually with the Robertson Brothers development up um on Duvar and um I don't know if he's done it for multi-story buildings. These are mostly townhouse type buildings. Um, but he used three different models and I don't remember my recollection of the results are and this like I said ties back to this broader topic of do we even need incentives or is it really more education um that the first time the first one-time costs um upfront costs in other words construction costs are really not all that different because you eliminate if you do all electric because you eliminate the gas infrastructure and prices are coming down.
understanding that these products are essential and to deal with the learning loss and to deal with the the ventilation systems. So, we were given until March of 2026 to spend this money. Granted, we had all of this already mapped out pertaining to the windows specifically. It's encumbered, Mr. Shahada. That's why. Correct. So, we are done. We were just waiting on windows to be manufactured, which they all are. Uh the projects, as Dr. Robert said, are 70% complete. So, we're in a tight spot right now. And it's not as simple as well, you know, stop the project and don't pay these people because then, you know, we're we're on the hook for it. Then then we're going to get sued and, you know, Yeah. I mean, we could I mean, that that's an option, guys. That's but you know then we're going to be in a lawsuit and we're going to spend money to defend a lawsuit for a problem that we didn't create for doing something that we were allowed to do under the rules at the time on a project that is falls clearly under the guidelines of what the money was allowed to be used for.
The last bond was paid off in 10 years ago. Last bond was paid off in 2021. Yeah. Yeah. So, our debt service fell off in 2021. I'm unsure of when the last referendum was. Yeah. It was 2005. 2005. Yeah. But that's, you know, it's it you maintain the equipment, we stay on top of it, and we make sure that the children are safe, and we make sure that everybody's safe. So, it's important for the board to know about referendums, too. What um a lot of districts do is they if they have a active debt, right? a debt that they're currently paying off before that debt falls off the books and we realize a savings to the taxpayers. They can go out for a referendum ahead of time at a no cost or no tax increase to the taxpayers that the district can then receive new bond proceeds and then uh continue its facilities upgrades.
I was going to ask. Can you repeat what she responded? Um currently we do have a clinic that comes and vaccinates our staff. Um and they also offer the vaccines for students. Um but nevertheless there's a fee um involved uh based on the vaccines that are available. Um I the question if I understand it correctly for Miss um Miguel Lewis is if we can find a way that employees can get free vaccines for the children. But it sounds like regardless of if they go to two sarmacies or they come through our uh vaccines clinic uh that fee is still um present. The question is now uh to follow up which one is more affordable so they can be informed in making a better decision. And I think just additionally I think additionally Miss Me just mentioned that they would they would they would they could participate if they were participating in the program by paying for it.
Um, for this, we we had a super successful trip to our state competition in Tucson. Um, two freshmen, Audrey Woods and Cooper Flake, both made it to the final round. um which is super impressive considering that they're freshman and you know they're they com we competed against 2300 other students in the state at this competition and then we had three fourth place finishes um myself I placed fourth in client service and then two sophomores Berlin Witz and Candace Cabrera placed fourth in intro to social media strategies um and they are also first year FBA students as well so we're super um excited about that. So that would be the three of us going to nationals and that's in Anaheim from June 28th to July 3rd this summer. And um our funding um NAVA is providing $1,000 per student to help cover the cost of that trip.
So then your next question will be well how are you going to fund that right? How are you going to fund that finance team? How are you going to find that money? We don't find money. We just calculated. Well, how are you going to move the money around to make it work? Um, so, so pay increases, minimum wage increase funded by other funds, that's about $430,000. Uh, the classroom site fund contribution. I shared that um that we feel comfortable because our allocation went up by $50 per student, which amounted to what did you calculate, Jackie? In terms about $ 1.5 million increase. So both the both the um the new teachers the English language learner teachers as well as the gifted teachers will be 100% funded out of classroom site fund and then the pay increase for all those that are eligible for classroom site fund will be born by classroom site fund.
This is a great example of a tax bill provided by Will County Treasurer. Any questions? Yeah, I would love to own this home. $3,000 in taxes, right? thought about that when I put the So, why do property taxes change? Uh, the main drivers and changes in property taxes are the properties assessed value, uh, local government spending exemptions that apply to your property and the total assessed value across the tax area. Um, of which, you know, the district is really only responsible for the second one, the local government spending. That's what we factor out of our control. um resources.
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