Okay. Improvements. Okay. But for for trash, we're we're good for now. Trash, we're good for now. Okay. Correct. You're talking about the the split. you're talking about. Yes. So, just out of just out of curiosity, so we did see like the number of bags decrease this last year, according to Britney. Um, so, um, yeah. Okay. It wasn't just the Claudia buying bags effect. Oh, Claudia, you weren't the only one. You weren't the only one. So, I mean it looks like the the additional flat fee did generate some funds and the additional bag fee did generate funds, right? I mean, we still Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. All right. I'm good. Okay. If I can get a motion to approve the solid waste disposal enterprise fund as presented. So moved and a second. All those in favor? I. Okay. No water. Um All right. So looking at not going to end on the best note but um prep everybody for that.
And that is something that we would definitely like to look into going forward. um with your other comments on park view and we can take a look at that layout. Um and what we're kind of seeing here if you're asking about the single point of entry for the campus itself for the students is that am I understanding that? I think what we're looking at here is having a a main point of entry when when school is not in session they'll go through the admin or in session during campus hours they'll go through the admin and they'll and that's our intent is to secure that. And that's why you see a secure kind of line of buildings there all lined up. And then the idea is is that there'd be one point of entry and we'd work with the district to figure out how that lays out best.
Um so again just looking at the revenue sources um going to see an increase in just a slight increase in the water user charges. Um we are budgeting for pretty pretty decent increase uh for irrigation charges. Um and then we're also planning on using um a decent amount of retained earnings this year. U this is in line with the plan that Britney had presented. So that's a total of 3.9 million which is almost a $600,000 increase. And the irrigation charge increase, is that because we're increasing our fees or we're getting tougher or more people are looking to do irrigation? Uh, more people. Okay. So, um, moving to the expenses. I mean, really the primary driver of the expenses line is the capital costs. specifically. You'll see that Britney's broken out that new debt authorization a 692,000 which is a $47,000 increase. Again, that's related to some of the stuff that we had talked about and that we have in the warrant.
But it'd be either either be on the side of the ad the admin and the NPR or the side where the NPR and the kindergarten is. There would be some sort of landscaping fencing, something there that um you know drives that direction for the students. But that's kind of what we're looking at for one single point of entry and kind of minimizing the options there um by pushing the buildings uh location closer together. Okay. just put it in your thinking cap and and continue to look at that because uh I I like the the open courtyard and stuff in in the middle in the working in of um the school's ability to um use the STEM characteristics of the area where that school sits. and um and have our our buildings represent the best we can do. I I like the pod concept on all three build all three sites that um makes sense and um yeah the single entry I I see the possibility of uh difficulties We will investigate further for sure.
So, like the ozone um and the the water main replacements, that's right there. 5 million question. We had a major typing it gets paid out of the budget. Oh, no. Yeah. You know, part of it it depends on, you know, if you're referring to High Street, right? Um I think I think there was you know some some overtime costs involved. So but they also went well into the day. So like the regular salaries um OT equipment you know obviously equipment costs. It was a long job. And then I think they had another one happen, you know, during the same period. They can stay busy. I'm curious about the um MWR entrance fee. So that is new. Yeah. So that's in line with the um with what we have to pay, you know, when we join the MWR for the supplemental connection. Okay. Um so it is it's no interest.
I think that's kind of why we want your feedback. I appreciate it. Um if we're, you know, that's our next iteration. Maybe we'll And the multi-purpose room on Park View. What's the increase in size? The one thing that I was struck with in being on those campuses and in this meeting is the multi-purpose room on at Park View is kind of small. The general uh program that we're looking at, you know, it's it's built off of your master plan program and what it looks like is the MPR is going to be about twice the size of what's existing out there for both Park View and Rosedale. Yeah, that's wonderful because that the MPR at Park View is um a little weak. They were tight spaces to hold the workshops. We managed well, but thank you. So, one thing I would invite you to do is just make sure that um you get input from I think it's Kim that took notes at the um the LCAP uh for elementary because the students had very um they had very particular views about safety on their campus.
So it's essentially amvertised over a per years and it's um It's for, I believe, 300,000 gallons a day. Average 300,000 gall. And why are we only seeing it now? Didn't we do that in 25 the supplemental? Yeah, but it didn't come in Well, actually, it was in there before, but we didn't get the invoice until Okay. And is that now an annual fee or That'll be an annual fee, I believe, for 20 years. Oh, okay. Whether we use it Correct. It was the connection charge. I wonder sometimes and I know this is a policy and I know know we you know made decisions is that if we're paying that entrance fee and we're having if we do find we're having water issues, do we want to review the determination as to what turns on our MWR connection? Again, not a discussion for tonight, but something I think we need to think about.
Chapman, Park View, and Rosedale all had really derine comments to to make. And so I um and one of the things that struck me about Park View was they actually talked about how um the park was, you know, that there are people in the park and, you know, there was some like they can appreciate the beauty of the park, but there they also felt like there was some safety issues with the park. And um repeatedly I heard in the meeting like the ability for people who uh may be outsiders to be able to see students and so that was something that uh just for consideration. Um you know it's it's it's interesting because Bidwell Park is a jewel of Chico. Um, but the students were were concerned that they don't want just anybody being able to peer on their campus. And so I I would invite you to to make sure that you get those comments um to see what they said.
If we're paying for a connection fee and we find we're having water issues, should we review what our policy is to turn that connection on? Yeah. No. No. So, there's like a water use charge as well. So, the 300,000 is the permit. So, what you're allowed correct to allow that to happen. But don't we have don't we have something like budgeted for if we need to use those fund those resources or not? Um I thought I saw something with there was like $3 million [Music] somewhere. I mean, is that under contracted services or I mean, I would think we would budget something for the fact that we may have to use it and then if we don't use it, it would come out as free cash or it would go down to um you know a a surplus at the end of the year or do we not do that?
Thank you. We'll make sure we uh look into that. I'll seek Kim's insight. Um we did hear some of those comments as well during our workshops. It was kind of a balance of both. Many people celebrated the park, others had those same concerns and we that's Part of the reason why we've kind of started to build like a border of buildings so that really it's the back of the buildings are facing the park and the spaces that are open to the park would be controlled spaces so that the students and people who are in the park, you know, we can control when they have access to view the park or to the park. Thank you. Um I just had a couple of quick comments and I will try and keep it brief. Um, one is that, um, I didn't see, and maybe there is someone on the input group.
Um I don't think we do that. Oh, okay. So if for some reason we do need to turn on that if we need to turn on that connection we would have to pull it from some we we don't have that in our budget. Correct. So like we would have to access earnings, you know, look at raising rates or you know make cuts. You know there's a number of different ways to the cities. Okay. because I don't know if we did that into in effect for this this coming fiscal year and their number has gone down. Their fiscal 24 actual is higher than what we budgeted. Is that because things that they've changed that they're not using as much water or could very well be. Okay, that's you know that's kind of the push and pull with some of the with the water rates. If you make it too high, people start conserving more and so you don't necessarily bring in right as much revenue.
Um, but it would be nice to hear from Sherwood at least in regards to the Chapman uh, redesign. I mean, it's a Chica Unified property, but it would be nice to just make sure that we're on the same page as far as what that's going to look like and how the construction will impact them as well. Um my second comment was just regarding um and I'm sure again that you guys are doing this uh thing about sightelines and uh the ease of uh campus supervision during recesses and minimizing um unsupervisable or less supervisable spaces. There are a couple in the design that I was like, "Oh, I could see if I was a kid, I would sneak to right there and get into trouble." Um just, you know, keeping that that angle in mind. So, thank you very much. I appreciate this work. Becca, you have anything?
So it you know it becomes almost an art. It is a science just to try to previous correct. So when just because it was my brain so we were talking about um I knew I saw somewhere where there was a $3 million expense for MWR. So it's that's that's in the sewer enterprise fund. Is that separate? So the sewer. So yeah, you'll see an NWR MWR fee for basically the process. Okay. That's what we Okay. Gets transported. So this MW fee and the water funds are the connection connection. Okay. Okay. I just wanted to kind of understand the difference. Correct. why over the years we've talked about what could we do about either creating our own wastewater treatment plant here in town. Um remember I remember my first year it was a conversation that we had and we had a great but I know that that also has its implications.
Gail? Okay, please. I have one more thing. I just wanted to say that I really appreciated all the design concepts and color psychologies for each site, but I especially I loved the terracotta like um bricks, the the subway tiles um that give that little sense of flow like for the ballet for folklore coat, you know, skirts. I thought that was awesome. And something just for the site to keep in mind is that even if like maybe um a mosaic or um or a mural doesn't happen right away. Just something for the site to keep in mind. Um is that um I know that CTA offers grants for like that sort of thing. We've had uh in in my school district uh teachers have written grants to to like uh create student murals uh out of mosaics. they've they've done some amazing things to to uh just beautify.
does, but at the same token. Okay. Any other questions regarding the water enterprise fund as presented? If not, I'd like if I can get a motion to approve the water enterprise fund as presented. So moved. All those in favor? I I Okay. Anything else? Review, Michael. Okay. Do we need to take a vote? No, we've already voted the full budget and all the and the separate funds. Okay. Any other votes that we need to take on the budget? Okay. Okay. Moving on from the budget. Now that we've approved that, we are going to vote. We're going to review the town meeting warrant and vote to close and post that. Uh, yep. So, moving on, Jen. Well, hey, last time you get to last time getting to present us the warrant. Um so this is our annual um a few of the top budget the articles are really related to the budget so rather quickly but so we always start um article one with reports and that's justations that might we want to talk to um the moderator to see if the comp comprehensive plan committee could do a like a five minute update as to where they are.
And so even if Chico Unifi doesn't have the money right away, parents uh through teachers um you know and students could could still um possibly do that. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Do we have any other uh questions for the team on this one? This is informational. I just want to say thank you very much. Julie, do you have more? I just wanted to mention one more thing. Um, if Dusty can help me get back to uh Chapman, there we go. Sorry. Okay. So, I believe on this site we're showing it. Are we showing a future building? We do. In the slide back, we did take a look at what You see a future building there. There was some consideration and concern of what would happen if this campus grew and there was more enrollment and that's what you see there and you can kind of see we know we could build it right now just plan for that future building and then it could potentially fit somewhere in that area.
It's one of those things where we voted those funds at town meeting and I mean I know we're looking to possibly present a a comprehensive plan by fall town meeting but would it make sense to see if we could present something thoughts check with check with the moderator and see what we can Okay, there's a meeting tomorrow night. There's a meeting tomorrow night so we can be pretty responsive so I can Okay, that'd be great. And then that way we can discuss it and then see Okay, thank you. Article two is the transfer the general stabilization fund which discussed transfer from bed stabilization. Then we'll go over the article four will be the fiscal year 26 budget. Article Article five is transferred to the oped trust and double. Article six is our normal general consent over um contract contracts, grants um if we had least max for all of which is the annual consent for CPC and that's really all their appropriations and then the payments for um the previously authorized bonds.
Yeah. So we do have a lot of uh development going on in that area with the Barber neighborhood. Um, we have checked with Rob, our friend Rob with King, and he's assured me that we're not going to get too many students, but just in case, at least conceptually, we wanted to have a a building, a future building, you know, placed on the campus in case we need to come back for growth at a later time. So, I just wanted to point that out, too. And um I wanted to thank um um Rebecca and Eileen for participating in the facilities committee meetings and attending these um group meetings with each school site and we hope that you'll continue to do so. Thank you. Thank you so much. Appreciate you guys. And thank you to all the administrators and community members who stayed for all this just in case.
projects. So, um Oak Street Fields Woods and that's what's current that will be within the undesated and they're actually for three new funding. So um articles so article eight is appropriation of $500,000 to create arborita um at the former uh site of Cadillac paint we previously discussed here. Article nine is $110,000 to digitize and preserve historic records and that will be done through office. is $60,000 additional funds for the um Ashlin dog park. So, we we went out to bid um we went out to bid and um the bids came in a little bit higher than anticipated. So to make sure that we have enough for contingency and to make sure that we have some of the requirements for the stand,000 to support that. Article 11 um is an acceptance of a state law that will allow us um to capture new growth through the end of a fiscal year and an older act of that accepting.
Appreciate you. I know it's late. And with that said, if anybody needs to leave at this point, um I am sure that the bid approval for Little Chico Creek TK will be fascinating, but if you have other places to be by all means, um Miss Kle, please. Thank you. So, um, we opened bids for Little Chico Creek transitional kindergarten and, um, light modernization of the campus on tax day. And, um, we had three responsive local biders, actually two local, and one from the Sacramento area. Uh, United Building Contractors came in at 5,150,000 even. Um, Slater and Sun came in at 5,248,000. So, very close $100,000 worth difference there. And then Bobo Construction out of Sacramento came in at 5,599 uh $616. Um because of the tight timeline, we didn't have these numbers available for the agenda because it just bid on the 15th. But we do want to move swiftly.