Just No, I don't think we need to go to two. No, we already eliminated certain ones that we definitely would not hire to them. Well, we don't know them, but they're different on paper in person is what you're arguing. Well, they don't have the level like a middle school principal I feel because right maybe it's a star and like this is his line. No, I think there's certain things that happen that somebody doesn't come back from that lunge whatever that right I don't Yeah, that and like if you if you're so then there's if that's the case if we're not going to invite them all back then we have a motion on the table right now. Does anyone want to hear anything? I would like to amend a motion to add the Gulch to that pool of people given the longevity of her service in the districts and the recommend the content of some of the recommendations despite the misspelling of their own.
Uh the the staff of Ken Middle School deserves tremendous praise for the um hard work and dedication that they've put in to stay true to the plan as as was written and to make sure that we're doing the best possible work for each and every student. And one thing that uh so some things that they that we did to um develop those folks and take care of folks um one is we infused data work better than ever before into our stu through the work of our student support team giving teachers actionable data. We have more data than than ever before and we have a structure now to make sure that it is usable and translating into action for students um to help take care of folks when you're doing a lot of different things. I made sure that I was exceptionally focused or I tried I guess I would say I I aspired to be clearly focused with our professional development uh aligned and connected to our plan.
it will be kind of all across the city. Um, and you could potentially do something larger, you know, at a district or neighborhood scale or even even larger. So, um, and it does sound like Bryant is moving forward with that and, um, crossing our fingers their grant from the Department of Energy helping support that is is safe. Um, but I think that'll be our first real model on that and I know Joe is is working very hard on that. So, kudos to Joe. Mr. Murky. And so were you the question you were raising about the perceived operating cost has to do with the the cost of electricity versus versus the cost of gas. Yeah. that renters uh would then you know that that a uh you know this is just my recollection of what I what I heard in the past is that um some vendors or some developers have done all electric buildings elsewhere.
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Um, and then we try to look at each year what's going to be the most important piece of that report to get replaced if we're able to have some funding. Um, and over the past I don't know how many years, it's probably been seven years, there's not been uh the available funding to do these jobs. Now, if the funding was to go through, if we were able to, you know, get some of that money, like Tom said, we'll break that down even further to um the Deacy parking lot, the Rice parking lot, um the couple um pieces of roof that Rice needs, uh the Macy roof, and if there's leftover, you know, we can do start a heat pump project. Maybe it's a maybe it's a two-phase project at a building might be say, you know, a rice half the building project and then if funding becomes available next year, we can finish that building and move forward on the next project.
The negative budget balance for impact aid will not be adjusted to purposely reflect the district is tapping into the future budget reserves. We still have cash balance, but we're into in the negative as far as the budget. Uh overall 75.27% of the budget for all funds has been expended or and or encumbered leaving a budget balance of 24.73. And you can see that on the bottom of the page of the first page. Is that the first page? Yeah. And then um the average percentage for expenditures through March is 75%. And BSD has actually spent without incumbrances 49.62 of the budget not including the incumbrances.
Mr. Web. So the first part is the dual enrollment. We have, let me count them up, six teachers that currently are certified to be dual enrollment teachers with MPC. We're trying to get a seventh teacher, our construction trades program. He has everything that he needs to to be qualified. It's just paperwork on the college side. So, all those programs, the students get high school credit, they get also get college credit as well. So, it's great for our kids to be able to take those classes and then increase their it's it's basically a scholarship with this and also the talent program. They're getting a scholarship of not having to pay for these classes and getting the college credit or getting a head start. So, we're super grateful that we have so many teachers and and classes at the high school where kids do not have to leave to get that college credit and participate here on campus, which is doesn't happen at every school.
But note that the budget does include about um a half million dollars to account for that also. Opportunities there could be increases in student counts from projection which we did realize in the current year. Legislature could approve greater increases in funding. They have done that um the last six years. they have it come back with some significant increases and then costs could absolutely stabilize or decrease depending upon what happens in the world. So um this is just a reminder pay increase recommendation is action item number 7.02. So um and the presentation is also included on that action item. And then um Mr. Macintosh asked me to include this uh employee contract schedule. So, for support staff, the um the notice of appointments have not gone out yet. And so, on April 14th, those are going to be launched and with your approval, they will include the 2% pay increase.
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All right, that's a motion. Second. Yeah, it's now seconded. Okay, any discussion on the amendment? So if we if this amendment passes then we would be inviting we would uh be adding LGO to the list of four making five. Yes. Okay. And then we would still need to vote on that. Yes. Okay. Anyone would like to discuss that? All right. All in favor of the amendment? I I I hear three. Is there I hear three. Anyone against? I hear two. Okay. That I'm also against. So I'm sorry that motion does not pass. We still have the original motion of the four names on the table. Any final discussion? Okay. All in favor of this motion? I. Anyone against? Okay, that motion does pass. Tracy, I think we have our Excellent. Thank you. So what I'll plan on doing is I'll be contacting them tomorrow um to schedule um they did know the evening that you were planning on doing it.
Everything was connected to uh to the main points and main objectives of the year. My goal there was um for things not to feel like 30 different initiatives but merely steps working towards a common objective and one or two areas of focus. So I hope I accomplished that. We implemented a revised teacher evaluation system and within that uh teachers every CMS teacher had goals related to our adoption of learning targets. See there's the alignment and also our district uh our district focus of high expectations. And finally, um, our we supported staff collaboration to accomplish this demanding work. Um, using funds, using commissioners network resources to make sure that teachers had collaborative time, that they had access to consultants, that they had access to professional development, uh, to learn from and with each other to do the best work possible on behalf of our students. So, these are some of the priority steps that we did this year to, uh, put K Middle School in a better place and keep every student excelled.
They may have made a poor selection on their heat type of heat pump. Um they probably then had to go back to electric street um strip heat um when it got real cold. the utility bills were very very high and you know with social media these days people can even get on the University of Michigan website but also in social media and comment on developments and so some of these uh places got the reputation of being very very expensive and that got in the public domain and so they the developers were concerned that uh it was going to be the operating cost more so than the one-time construction costs that were the hurdle, but not if they make a tight envelope. Not if they make a tight envelope. Correct. And not if they make the right heat pump selection. And by the way, the city has a new program.
Blind in old age. I'll be less than five minutes, I promise. I have to pick up a kid. Good evening, K Commissioners, administration. I'm Dr. Valerie Cropen. I'm the K8 ELA supervisor here in Clifton. As a supervisor of the K8 English language arts department, I want to express my deepest gratitude for fully funding our district budget. Your continued support has allowed us to build and sustain programs that directly impact student growth, teacher development, and long-term academic success. Thanks to a fully funded budget, we've been able to maintain and expand highquality programming that meets the diverse needs of our learners. We've added vital positions such as reading specialists, basic skills instructors who work closely with our students to close learning gaps and provide individual support. We've also been able to deliver highquality embedded coaching to our teachers, ensuring that they are equipped with the tools, strategies, and professional learning needed to strengthen instruction and maximize student outcomes.
Um, we're never going to know exactly how much we're going to need um because the district's ever changing. Things are things are going, you know, wrong more and more each year. So, we can't say is 90 million going to be enough. We don't know if 90 million is going to be enough. We're not sure what that's going to be until we get started. And it's been so long since we had major projects happen that it's really we're unsure what the cost is going to be on a on a major heat pump project. So that's why we kind of made that report just to just to let everybody know what needs to be done. Once we decide how much funding we have, then we'll break it down to exactly what we can do with the money we have. Yes, sir. So for most of this work um that's proposed like in in the packet, for example, like the heat pumps, would any of that have to be outsourced or would that still be all um done within your organization?
Are there any questions? Questions the budget? I guess you still have coming in in regards to I mean because it's a little over half. You said it was 49 percentage of the budget spent but it's 57 on the or what what am I am I reading something? Oh, I'm sorry. I was reading the one below it. It's okay. The um one of the sites. One of the sites. Yeah. Good. But I was just wondering about that isn't um taken any encumbered at this time. So right now we do have incumbrances and as I stated before the um including encumbrances we have spent 75.27. Okay. So but they're incumbrances. So actual expenditures were at 49 points 62% without the incumbences. Okay. But we we're going to be wrapping up uh ramp ramping up right now with uh making payments, making sure that we pay everything that's outstanding and then we'll have the the incumbrance period to pay for things that are received by June 30th.
And so, so that's the dual enrollment side. The um talent side, we have quite a few of our students that participate in talent. Talent is our classroom that we have where we have a TV u professors in their various locations. We'll broadcast to our site here on campus. And then we have students throughout the day that will go to our classroom and then take those in-person classes with the instructors for for wherever they are. Um, and same thing the the kids no matter what class they're they're doing, they're getting the high school and college credit for that. So, a lot of great opportunities for the there's definitely more um options. If you look at the list, the talent classes, it's a big list. Um, we're hoping to to get um science included in that list. That's the one class that our kids that are are taking mostly our NAVIT kids, if they're taking those off-site classes, um they're missing a science to be able to get their associates degree.
All the administrator, professional staff, and um teacher contracts have already gone out. So, by May 2nd, we will update all those with an addendum to the contract showing their new salary for next year with a 2% pay increase. if you approve um the recommendation. And that's all that we have. I have one question. Does the 2% increase does that um does that include like the base salary for a teacher going into the public schools? So, that's a great question. So, um, we had a compensation study done, um, that, um, OTM participated with a lot of other of our neighboring school districts back four years ago. Uh, 2017, I think it was. It was It was No, it was it was 21 20 19 20. It was 20. It was 2020. It was 2020. Okay. Anyway, the recommendation from the consultant that was hired by this consortium of school districts said that every time you offer a pay increase, you should increase the base by half of it.
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How'd he get in there? So, game three. Game three. Yep. So, we got uh three out of five or we got best out of five. Yes. So, game three. Now, this is a push game mode called Esperansa. You and your espanol. Yeah, it took a few years. Senor Fisher Miller to uh give us the So, anyway, this is a um kind of a push map where it's a little different than the one before where you kind of meet in the middle. So if you you can see on there on your screen a little a little bit there's a robot in the middle between the red and the blue. Okay. So basically you're all going to meet in the middle and then the goal is to push the robot towards the other person's base. Okay. So and then it blows up. No. Then you win if you get it all the way.