Tracy said the interviews are going to be an hour to an hour and a half. That's a lot of time, and it's a lot of time to ask someone to take out of their schedule. So, I just want to make sure that we're not focused on a number or like if if you feel really strongly and you feel like someone was overlooked and would be a great fit for our district, I think that's what we should be focusing on because that's what we want and need, not a specific number. Um, I do understand that more people gives you, you know, more ideas, but I just if if anyone can argue for why one of these people would be a great fit for Erland Boilston, I'm I'm willing to listen. I just haven't been convinced that of that personally. What if you feel really strongly about someone?
We've promoted the CMS way. uh I came into the school where where the CMS way was already written and it is it remains the cornerstone of what we do and our school climate team is rooted in making sure that the CMS way of responsibility, kindness and respect is infused throughout the building and as I mentioned we've restructured teams uh both in terms of academic teams but also operational teams to make sure that we are best supporting students promoting engagement and uh enhancing their performance. In the goal area of embracing equity, we have numerous and ever growing for such a small school, right? Not just a a you know comparatively small school district, but the smallest school in the small district. The number of student organizations and student leaders leadership opportunities that we have to me is astounding. Um easily, it is easy to say that most staff members are involved in hosting something that promotes student engagement and leadership uh and equity in our building.
In other words, maybe people can use right, you know, divert their geothermal under um Ann Arbor property or roads and things like that more easily. I have no idea. But I I can comment on the first um the the heat pumps are there's what are called clo closed climate heat climate heat pumps CCHPs and those those function at the temperatures that we would experience here. Um and of course there this is on you know there's sort of a gradation just like anything else and uh the performance of the heat pump is obviously largely dependent on the performance of the envelope. So, if we think back to the presentation that um Tim McDonald gave us a couple years ago, he first started out talking about per um passive house. That's why Larry's mentioning this. And then when you have passive house, then you don't have to worry so much about the the performance um or the type of of uh air source heat pump that you're using or even the capacity of the ger geothermal system.
Wish wish list cut out of it. The wish list was never in the budget. Yeah, that was so so this 20 million is assuming we take a 2% increase. This 2 20 million down. Yep. So the budget that you guys approved for preliminary purposes on March 13th assumed a 2% tax increase. bringing the budget to 300 some odd million dollars. Um all of this are guesstimates that we have to make according to the feds and to the state comes out to about a little under $20 million for the 11 that were on the hook for these windows and the 7.6 that could possibly go away in the blink of an eye. So Mr. Kenov is asking does this include that 2%. So in short it does. So% So if we do not go to 2% 23 million it's 23 million. Correct. Thank you. Okay. As as you know I'd like to get to public recognition by 8:00 PM if the board is willing to.
Um but this is a bird in the hand. So, I had a quick question here for uh Mr. Donghue, Mr. Peterson. First of all, thank you for coming tonight answering our questions and also for all your work you do for the schools. I mean, I uh you can't find a matching piece to a furniture set from 1989, let alone find parts for whatever level of complication of equipment that I'm sure you guys are dealing with. So, um, have you guys come up with, um, a set of categories as far as, uh, the biggest need items? So, have you guys set a list of priorities as far as what needs work the most and what needs work the least? I don't know if and you know Yeah, you showed you showed you the you know where it's at and what we really need to start and that's the list of priorities is the first is probably roofs and uh uh some heat pumps, roofs, uh just stuff that really affects everybody's life.
Any questions? [Music] Please. Yes. So the original lease and the renewal leases have always been proposed to us and for $1 for the lease for land. So then once they rewrite the lease, we will see if they go in that direction for the future. And again, it's for 25 years once we we do get it approved. Is your mic on as well, Miss Hendricks? Um I'm having people um letting me know that they can't hear you. So I just want to make sure that your microphone is on. Okay. Thank you. Uh I don't have questions. I know we Okay. I guess when we get the the information surveyor, we'll go with that. And then I did ask to have some conversation with the board regarding that um in executive session. So well other than that if there's anything else Mr. Anything else?
We just wonder if you guys are totally uh crazy or what you getting there. No, I have uh I think I know all three of you and I congratulate you and we're excited that you're part of this new direction. not in a new direction, but completely new change in administration in all of the the different schools and a new superintendent. So, we're off on a good path, running start. So, so can we have a motion then to accept the contracts as presented to us in item 3.4? Have a motion from Michael, second from Margaret. All in favor say I. I. I. That also is unanimous. Item 3.4 Four, recommendation to approve three 3.5. That's right. A recommendation to approve the memorandum for understanding of Kinder Camp with the United Way of Northern Arizona. We do this every year, right? We we do. We've done it effectively and the the ladies in charge of this have done an exceptional job and it's a good head start for these youngsters.
Any questions on that? So, we are balanced with this proposal. So risks and opportunities again I've already shared the legislature is not done. The aggregate expenditure limit is still looming not for the current year. What has been the practice is as the governor before the governor signs the budget she um requests that the legislature already waves the aggate expenditure limit for this for the current year. So that was done last um last session for the 2025 year. So, we don't have to worry about any cuts looming in the current year, but it's still out there for next year. There hasn't been a permanent fix. Um, we could lose, as you asked, um, Mr. Thompson, we could lose more than 1,300 students. The legislature might not adopt the governor's budget, and so we might see some additional reductions. Um, Proposition 123, I already shared about that.
In this video, here's what we'll cover. What determines your property taxes, how your property's assessed value is determined, common terms on your tax bill, how your tax rate is calculated, how your tax bill is determined, and why property taxes change. To begin, what determines your property taxes? Your property tax bill is based on two key factors. Your property's equaliz assessed value or EAV. This represents your property's share of the total tax base. The tax rate. This is determined by the funding needs of local taxing districts such as schools, municipalities, and other public services. Next, we'll cover how your property's assessed value is determined. Your township assessor determines your property's market value based on your property's characteristics, recent sales of similar homes in your area, and a study of sales over the past 3 years. To find your assessed value, the assessor takes onethird of your market value, then subtracts any exemptions you qualify for.
Well done. So, the play of the game is another Norwell play. This is the one probably talked about earlier where he froze the whole area. Oh, yeah. Yep. He froze everyone and then he threw up the Yep. He threw that up to block the healers and took everyone out. But it doesn't matter. You know what? Sometimes you got to let it go. Yep. You You get frozen and then you may just have to let it go. You going to sing that for us? Let it go. Let it go. Well, you know, one time I I had to decide between a music career and and a principal. And and sometimes I wonder if I made the right choice. After hearing that, I don't think you did. Thank you. Thank you. That was great. Yeah. Principal of the year, all those accolades, you would have won. But no, Grammys.
I'm very open to changing my mind. I just feel like you don't know a per you. It's so hard to tell by looking at someone on paper like some of these people. I mean, I'll be honest, the first person I picked on paper and then I started like doing research and trying to figure things out, I'm like, "Oh my god, no. That's the worst one possible." So, I just feel like sometimes when you sit down and you talk to people So, let me let me ask you this. So, we've been we've been at this for 40 minutes. Do you want to just scrap it all and invite all 11 to come back and take a day? Do it. I mean, I do. I want to do that. No, but yeah. Well, that's what you're That's what you're arguing. Sure, I'll do that. You want to do that?
So the student leadership organization promote kindness and student voice. Our learning this year for staff has uh focused on high expectations teaching practices. The idea that when a student comes to you, one of the most equitable things you can do is get their mind on the learning task and the stated objective. This is what's going to move you forward and give you those skills and opportunities. And so uh we're focused on the strategies that help make sure that every student is engaged in that way. And we've got members of K Middle School that are um leaders and members of the school of the district's equity team and they are members on our school climate team to make sure that there's constant alignment between the work of the district and what's happening in the building. And finally, in the area of workforce development, um we we did a lot.
So, um it's not technology is not the issue. the of course the clo climate close cold climate heat pumps are more expensive just as we might expect um but that that's not a problem in geothermal I think is is something we should definitely do um obviously it's it's difficult in in a lot of areas where you've got you know down where you're downtown where you have limited uh geothermal field unless you're putting it under the building and geothermal is still quite expensive because of the well drilling So, district geothermal would be great where you can spread those costs over a district. Um, and some of that then ties back maybe even to a gas franchise or a future grant gas franchise. If I can just build off of that, I'll flag think the sustainable energy utility is a great place for geothermal potential because um it's an optin.
Let's cut to public recognition. We can get back to this after we have a lot of people here this evening. So um we are going to hold you to the time limits very strictly this evening. This portion of the meeting is open to the citizens of Clifton for the purpose of addressing any subject matter pertinent to andor directly related to the operation of the Clifton Public School District. Residents are requested to sign the register provided for this purpose and to state their names, addresses, and subject matter. Comments are limited to five minutes per person. Issues raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board. All comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate. The board asked that members of the public be courteous and mindful the rights of other individuals when speaking.
Uh what else? Parking lots. You know, the parking lots are really getting rough. So, you know, we have a list of priorities that that we're looking to move forward with uh that the $7 million if we did get any part of that, we we look at bringing equipment in, have it in house. Something goes wrong, we replace the unit. Something goes wrong here, we fix that. Something goes wrong, we fix that. We have the stuff on hand. It's not a fix all at, you know, it'll get stuff done, but it's not a fixall. is the capital projects list that you provide. I know it's alphabetized by school. Yes. But is it fair to say it's cate it's enlisted in order of priority? Yeah. And and because so so yeah I'm sorry. So you know we put together um the package for you to look at the the report to look at to show each building and pretty much um like when the equipment was installed, how old things are.
I do not have any additional information other than we are presenting this Saturday and Sunday um in sales for sales community and top community uh and give them um and answer any questions that they may have. Okay, that's it. President we'll move on. Number five this evening is our public schooling board financial report. Good evening, President Buendia, governing board members, superintendent Diaz, peers, community, everyone. I hope you had an opportunity to review the financial report through March 31st. It's looking really, really good. The areas highlighted in yellow have negative budget balances. There is a negative budget balance for grant fund 265 and updates will be made accordingly to update the budget and move expenditures to ensure the district stays within the approved budgets. There's a negative uh budget balance for fund 346 which is esser and that is due to a prior year adjustment to ensure we are in balance with the county records and that will drop off next school year.
So, I would ask for the board's approval for this important program. It's a good thing. All right. So, any questions, comments about not? We have a motion then to accept item 3.5 for the Kinder Camp with United Way of Northern Arizona. I have a motion from Bridget. Second from Sylviana. All in favor say I. I. That also is unanimous. Okay. Item 3.6 recommendation to approve the intergovernmental agreement the IG for dual enrollment with Talon courses and credit exhibits for the school year 256. Dr. Wright, do you want to explain that also? or Lauren, would you like to explain that? We've had I'll say before Mr. Webb has his part, we've done this very effectively for the last I think about eight years. It's an opportunity for our students to get college credit. Nordland biner college and uh Mr. Webb will have the details, but I would say that we've this has been a very effective program for our kids.
It does expire June 30 of 2025. Inflationary increase to the base could be less. statute says that class that um the base shall be increased by the lesser of inflation or 2%. So if inflation comes in at 1.8 or something like that then the the base increase would only be 1 point potentially only 1.8 depending upon what the legislature decides. And then u minimum wage increases more than projected um right now um at a 2 and a half% minimum wage increase. We actually will not have to um increase our wages January, but we did um put in about 300,000 I think as a precaution um in that budget balancing to make sure that we did have available funds if we did have to put in a minimum wage increase. And then uh just with all of the information regarding tariffs and the fear that prices are going to skyrocket, there might be some unexpected large inflationary increases as well.
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