So, that's all Um well the last item uh is items for the next agenda. Um does anyone have any items for the next agenda which will be May um 2025? Commissioner Murski. So uh Joe mentioned earlier uh some actions that the city is taking with city properties. Um, I'm wondering if we can get um, it doesn't have to be an agenda item, but it could maybe be a report. It could be something that's also relatively brief and just verbal ver verbal is where does the city stand with the electrification of its buildings? Um, the energy council uh, or energy commission I should say looked at um, city properties maybe um, Carlen when was that seven or eight years ago? Um there was a consultant that came in and made suggestions. Um at that time um I think the boiler in the basement of city hall was something like 60 or so years old.
But I was under the impression that by removing the board of the education at a federal level that they're allowing states for control, which I'm assuming would be then the state if we wanted to pick up these additional programs of title one, etc. would do that or for these special needs um laws that are enacted in the federal level that they would do that. So that's my position of where I'm coming from. Yeah. I I think Mr. Kenova, I think what we were expecting if the Department of Education was eliminated at the federal level that some of the functions that they finance would just be moved to different departments. For example, Title One is the biggest one, right? The president was quoted as saying they were not going to touch Title One money. And this was a couple months ago, so things change. So even if the Department of Education was eliminated, maybe that was going to go to Treasury or some other department that would distribute the money.
What is your opinion on the budget going forward if we just do those two? Can you clarify your question? He's saying, "What do you think about the long-term uh viability of the budget if we only take about 11.8ish?" Right. We leave out slide two. Okay. Slide slide two. Could we go back to that slide so I understand? Yeah, it's it's slide eight, Mr. Case. It's the second money. Next one. Frederick. One more. One more. One more. This one. There it is. Yeah. I mean, it's hard for me to comment on that. You know, I feel like that's I just didn't know if you had an opinion or off top. No, I mean I I can give you an opinion on uh what I think financially, but this is a more educational side of things. M um I could certainly speak as a dad and say that um I think these things are needed for the children in school, but uh the one thing that sticks out to me from as a business administrator perspective is restoring fund balance to its uh you know uh 2% maximum strengthening our long-term fiscal health.
Any questions to item? Motion to approve. Motion by Miss Anamarie Stevens. Second. Second by Miss Sylvie Hends. Okay. Motion carries. Number two is discussion possible approval of the B USD benefits renewal CS. Mr. D, President Mia, members of the board, members of the community and team. Um, after the review and the presentation, we recommend to the Babok Unified School District to approve the benefits renewal as presented.
So, all right. Got to get this one. Got to get two in a row now. Now, because it's the best out of three on this, right? So, we got to get this. We're in do or die within the do or die. Yes, it is. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Yep. Um, let's get sponsor in there. Hey, how about that? The Moose Garage. Special thanks to the Moose as well. Check out the garage here in town on Main Street. It's a cafe game room music venue for the youth of Bluffton to hang out. And we really do appreciate them because, you know, sometimes our youth say, "Hey, there's nothing to do in Bluffton." Moose Garage does a good job. And then don't forget auction it. Do you have a favorite nonprofit you could use some awesome fundraising idea? Well, we got the answer for you.
And again, we just really want to get some rel to our family so they can start looking at this and making their plans. If we need don't like doing this, we need to make a revision on a calendar, we we certainly can do that. Um, that's what I sort of going to recommend for that good Friday if you want some more data information, but we at least want to get some families and get it on our website. Great. John, did you find any data from last year for those two two I feel like 17 to really speaks. Yeah. No, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. And and the amount of students that are out too, right? Again, certainly auction. That's why we put it out there. That'd be a business. Okay. Um if if whatever shapes out in negotiations, I I know the end of the year is not preferred, but if if it doesn't land on the 25th for that extra PD day, could we consider later on moving that up a day?
Um I don't know if um that has been replaced in the meantime. Um I don't know if it's on the uh capital improvement plan for being replaced. If how is it going to be replaced? Is it going to be geothermal? to PC's comments earlier. I think it would be really interesting to hear what the plans are, not just to pro just procure uh renewable clean renewable energy, but what about all the gas appliances, quote unquote, HVAC systems, etc. that we have at our various buildings and what's the the the plan for uh moving those um to electric options or put it this way zero emission options as Larry Schmidt would have said. So that's just that can be noted and you can talk about that as far as a future future agenda item. Thanks. That's all. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Commissioner Overpek, do we want to invite Shauna?
That was our expectation. HHS. Yeah. H um was that human and health services. Yeah. I don't know that the state was actually going to just be given those funds. Okay. One more question. I just want to be clear on this so people from the community can hear. We have how much money in cap reserve? Uh what is left in the bank is uh 12 a little over 12 million. Okay. And what is the cuts that we're projecting that we're going to receive from uh or get cut from the federal government? Uh 20 million. But I just want to make it clear that that 12 million is put into a special account for capital improvements raining day funds for fiscal I mean um facilities issues. Okay. couldn't supplement the This is I'm I'm thinking like that's in a bank. That's in an account. God forbid we get the 20 million cut and they come out with a rule that you're allowed to use cap reserve in this district.
Yeah. Could you explain that one just a little bit more so everybody because I know that's these are usually like Yeah. So, school districts in New Jersey are allowed to keep 2% of the prior year expenditures as sort of their uh what what's called fund balance. Think of it like a savings account, right? It's our kind of um oh no scenario account um that we can go into if we were to overexpend the budget for let's say uh unforeseen expenses that would happen during the course of the year are due to uh expenses being greater than anticipated in the 2324 year which we had audited. Uh we did not return any surplus or money to reserves. As a matter of fact, our fund balance was below 2%, the 2% standard. Um, and that's just kind of the the minimum. It is the maximum amount we're allowed to keep, but is also the minimum standard of the Department of Education as well.
Are there any questions to the item? A motion by Miss Sylvia Hendricks to approve the benefits renewal from CIS as presented. Is there a second? I'll second the motion. Yeah, Ben, I can't hear you. Anna Marie Stevens, how do you vote? Thank you. I will use the mic from now on. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Miss Anna. Uh, number three is discussion and possible approval of student data sharing agreement between the Barber Unified School District and Grand Canyon University. Miss Vas, President Media, members of the board, uh, this is one of the opportunities in an effort to connect students with opportunities. uh Grand Canyon uh University is asking uh with a parent approval to share some information um and the type of information that they are requesting um and I'm going to ask um Erin if you don't mind opening for uh transparency purposes on on the first page um the kind of information that they are requesting is a student's um first and last name, a student's mailing address, a student school um name, the grade level and average GPA for students that are meeting those requirements.
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Because that that you know, obviously there's no scams or anything. So that's time. Although not a PD day, it is time that the parents will have to take off to provide care. Do you mean start school on the Wednesday, the first in day? That that would be my preference also that and have the last day on a Monday. I'm nervous of that Tuesday holiday. I would that would be my goal, but I'm not going to hold him. How why wouldn't we want to leave the last day of school on a Thursday or Friday so that we're not bleeding over a weekend and just to have another day of school like one day? Yeah, we we we just really know we live in New England that we're probably going to have some snow days in there. So, we're so this year I so we're hoping that we don't have that many with our budget in plowing.
and maybe someone from Talman. I mean, I don't know. and and perhaps the city and and as well um you know it might part of what I part of what I was gaining from that conversation is there might be using the energy commission perhaps as a venue for for sort of discussing um some of these things as well and providing a forum also for um what might what might be done to help coordinate as well could be could be useful. Um, we we have an agenda meeting, I believe, next week. Um, and I think we will discuss and we might be able to follow up on that relatively quickly. Um, but I think that would be that would be a good um, one thing though is I'm not going to be here uh, next month. So, we'll add we'll add that and we'll we'll we'll add that to our uh agenda for the um agenda discussion.
How many buildings do we have? 24 fish. We have a freak storm. We have a freak storm and three of our roofs bu blow off. Ballpark estimate. How much does three roofs cost? Oh, depending on the building. Um, I would say on average 3 million. No, I'm I'm trying to make I'm trying to There's a reason why I'm going here. Anywhere between three to three and up. So, we have to save that money for rainy day. Absolutely. Period. That's why we have So, we can't touch that money for uh instruction, extracurricular, nothing. That is our rainy day fund for any kind of emergency. If we do have a sunny year and we have a little extra, we can do a project here or there. Correct. So we can't use that for salary. And Miss Bazford, you know, there's something that happens every year. I know because if it's going to happen, it's going to happen in Clifton.
So, if you're below 2%, they want to know why. Any other questions or comments from the board? I know the public needs to com or wants to comment. I just have a few more things so I'm completely clear. On slide number one, Dr. Smith, the steps we definitely want to take to restore these most important things. Um can you please explain about the last bullet since this was changed at the last minute restoring the team structure no six class in place of team time how does that sorry my question is the the halls does this mean there's going to be halls no halls what about independent study I need to understand this bullet sure so in first I would just say so this opport this is the proverbial moneybag falling out of the sky opportunity that we've used as a hypothetical at different points. Um, and it actually became a reality about a week ago.
Um they will be receiving a um um a letter um of um that they admitted into the university if they complete all of the the process. Um again this is uh with a parents approval to share some information. if the parent does not want the information to be shared. Um the the the main purpose is for students and our senior juniors and seniors for them to have multiple opportunities um and for them to decide where do you where do where do they want to end up going but it's opening paths and open opportunity for our students. Having said that, um we are recommending um that the governing board um approve entering into a personal um admission program and did a sharing agreement with the Grand Canyon University.
All right. All right. We have control. We're up 10% early here. Oh, what a throw by the Eli throwing the javelin, knocking out their one of their damage characters, Sombra. It's a great shot there. Well, can I help you out with called rubber match real quick? Yeah, absolutely. So, it that you know when it's tied one to one or two to it, it comes down to the last one, right? It originates from the 16th century game of lawn bowling where rubber meant tiebreaker. Okay, now we learned something. This is an educational shop cast. Absolutely. Yeah. We expect nothing less from the principal. Our fearless principle here to teach Scott here to teach what I do. Yep. And you do it well. Well, thank you, Scott. Back to you. We're up to 40. Up to 48%. Doing a great job here. Looks like we're normal guy.
Um but we we we figured as much that that's probably going to happen. Um but each if if you happen to look in the back page right we're being really the amount of days that each one of them have and the amount of each calendar each month um holding up to that 180 for students and 185 for teachers. Did we have one snow day this year or two? Um I think we just had one I think we just had one but we had a couple delays. Yep. which is always a fun decision. My first year as a superintendent, the last day of school was June 28th. It's bad calls that first year, so careful making the calls. Yeah, absolutely. June 28th. Yep. Um, any other questions on that? Okay. I mean, outside of those changes, nothing was significantly changed from the last version from last year or No, no, no.
Um Commission or Commissioner Coen Garcia. Yes, I am um wondering I really like this workshop format here today and maybe if we have more than one person who's going to be coming to speak like Shauna or whomever else if we can perhaps um structure the meeting like a like a panel discussion so that there's multiple speakers who we can all you know be interacting with asking questions It's just a suggestion. Mhm. It seems like it must be possible. Council member Malik, one one thing to add, I guess, possibly in the future at some point, and I think I actually this was the last point in my email to Commissioner Murky earlier, was um on the gas heating franchise agreement just to have some sort of presentation on it for the commission from um either OSI or the city attorney's office or both. Um, and you know, that would be kind of the the forum to answer questions like Mr.
June, right? We have a flood. We have a a bad snow a rainstorm. One of our schools suffer from those rainstorms all the time and it's always an issue there. So that can't be touched. Correct. Yes, ma'am. So we're looking at a deficit regardless of where we go, right? Yes. We started off last year in the right direction. That's all I'm saying. I got accused and former people being on this board got accused of not going in the right direction for years, which was not really our fault because we were advised that way. We were told. So, I'm asking everyone on this board, whoever sits on finance, whoever is in in involved in those conversations for years. Now is the time to speak up to tell us if we don't do this, how are we going to recover two years from now, three years from now, four years from now, because now we're seeing those effects from all the years that we did not fund this district.