So if they had done, we don't do it that way now. It's now on top of whatever we publish as the base. So at the time the base salary was $1,450 less. Actually, it was less, you know, 1450 less. So I put it as a negative there simply because the rest of the whole the rest of the table shows what teachers are getting on top of the base salary. Uh so you notice in in uh that the total they got not counting the 1450 uh the the the points and the performance pay uh was 2770. Um classroom site fund allows the district uh that law allows the district to pay for positions teaching positions in the district which help us reduce class size in our district. Those funds have been used since the beginning of classroom site fund um for specials teachers because if we lose specials, if we don't have periods in the day when kids can go to art, music, library, PE, then that means that um to have decent class sizes, more of this money would have to go or more of M would have to go into that.
So, and more of this money. So in that year, nine positions were paid out of classroom site fund. The amount of money that we receive each year is set by uh it's set by AD school finance, but it's based on information that they get uh from the other part of the Arizona govern because it's based on sales tax. Arizona sales tax. Okay? And they tell us, I learned a week ago what our amount per student will be for classroom site fund for next year. It will go up $50 per student uh from what it was this year. Okay. I don't know what it was that year. It might have been pretty low. I have no idea. Okay. Um Okay. So then in 2021, uh the base was 375. Well, and you can see in 1920 in the middle of the year, we raised the base.
So everybody got another bump in in salary. Okay. in 2021. Um we started with that same base and then in the middle of the year we we moved it up. Um and um so the 1450 was still part of whatever that number is. Um $1,000 for the points. And if you're wondering what the points are, um those are activities that teachers participate in um that are not uh paid other paid things. So some of our teachers are on paid committees. Sometimes we have we decide we need a committee and it's not a paid committee. They can get points and uh there was uh in up to 10 points at $100 per point. Maybe they excuse me. One of the things they can do is come to board meetings. They can get a point for coming to board meetings. they can get a point for uh they can get more than one point up to a certain number to be the um on um the um uh TAT team uh which is the review for uh student achievement to consider for special education.
So there's a whole list of things they can get a point for um uh serving at back to school not back to school night um spring fling or the Halloween whatever it is school activities. Okay. So they can get up to 10 points which at that time was up to $1,000. And then the performance pay had was is always tied in one way or another to evaluations. So you see that year they got $3,422. Um 22 2122 uh same thing. Um oh in 20 uh 2021 we had eight teachers paid out of classroom site fund. uh in 2122 and 2223 we had fewer teachers but that's because we put as many teachers as we could over into our ESSER funds paid for those out of grants um so that we could feed more money back into our teachers pockets. Okay. Um and then uh starting in 2223 we made sure that the uh the the base pay was on top of whatever our salary schedule said it, you know, it wasn't absorbed into that.
And so we started with the same salary schedule, but there's that 1,500 separate and then we raised that one in the middle of the year. And you can see how that progresses to the current year. Um but you can also see the points stayed the same until this year. This is the first year that they can get $200 per point. And um and then performance pay, you can see what happened with performance pay. It increased each year. It did not go down. Um uh last year we had eight positions scheduled to be paid out of classroom fund, a classroom site fund. Uh we only filled seven of them. Uh, so the money that we did not spend on a teacher from there went back into what went back to teachers. I bring that I bring that fund down as close to zero as I can get it each year because it's intended to go to teachers.
Um, uh, I don't let it go in the red. U, but I usually get down to about 25,000. That that's all that we carry over from from year to year with that. Uh this year I'm estimating um um conservatively estimating that performance pay will be around 5,000, but you can see we've already gone up to 2,000 on base pay and 2,000 in points. Uh so it comes out to around 9,000. So it's a not that much different than last year. Okay. Um the next column over I just noted some uh some extra pay, special pay that teachers have had. Um uh in 2021 there was the $2,000 uh from ESSER funds for um risk um because they work during COVID. Okay. Okay. Uh and then for two years in a row uh we had $2,500 out of Esther funds uh for a signing incent a signing incentive and they had to stay the whole year to get that.
Okay. Uh, and then for 23 and 24, 23 24 in the current year, I just put the number 500 in there just to mark the spot. Last year is the first year that we did longevity pay. Uh, and so we have some folks uh who've been here uh more than five years who get $500. Uh, some folks who've been here more than 10 who get a,000. Folks who've been here more than 15 who get 1500 on top. um you know it varies from person to person but I put the 500 in there just to to spark our memory. On the right hand side, you can see what happened uh along the way for our classified positions. And several of those changed in the middle of the year because uh because of the minimum wage uh changes in the middle of the year and I finally got a little smarter and and said let's anticipate what the middle of the year thing is going to be and try to hit it at the beginning of the year rather than uh make a change in the middle of the year.
So, um, and then where you see a new column 8 over on the right, uh, that started in December, it actually started in October of, uh, 2223 was when we, uh, ended our contract with ABM and set up our own, uh, facilities department. uh and to get qualified, experienced people who could do HVAC, plumbing, uh construction work, we needed to we needed to boost that base salary so we could compete with the real world a little bit. Uh the reality is that's probably only about half of the starting pay for uh for people in those trades. Um but we managed to get some pretty pretty good people in those spots. So, um, uh, this was just a a quick summary, but I wanted you all to be aware of it in case anybody any staff say to you anything, you know, well, we haven't had payraises.
Yes, you have. Okay. Uh, that classroom site fund has been going down. No, it isn't going down. It will change a bit next year because I have said to the committee uh that we are going to fund 10 positions out of classroom site fund for next year so that we can hold our regular class sizes where they are which is a maximum of well depends on the grade level. So we have we have a number set for kindergarten which is 18 to 20. Uh oh you're going to test my memory here. First grade I think is 2122. Second grade I think is 22 23. Uh third grade 23 24. Fourth grade 23 24. Um middle school and junior high um are at like 25 to 27. Um and uh and and for next year our projections are that every single regular classroom in the district except for first grade and second grade at sunrise will be within or below those numbers.
uh those two grade levels, the number of kids that we anticipate in those uh first first grade and second grade uh will be at 25 instead of 22 23. Um uh and then we'll see what it really what it really ends up being. But um uh I have to tell you as a teacher to to think about being a a second or third grade teacher and having only 20, you know, 23 or 24 kids uh is ideal. to have 25 26 in fifth or sixth grade is ideal. Um and um uh so I'm I have to tell you that I'm not real um concerned when somebody complains about our class sizes because um um we've asked around in you know our neighboring schools and they're higher. They're higher. So, um, and sometimes, you know, people out there in the real world go, "Well, what's the difference between 24 and 26?" Okay.
Well, it's two bodies, but it depends on the grade level. Okay. Um, we remember Jen Jen taught kindergarten and we had times when the district was growing so fast that we had 27 kids in kindergarten. I will tell you, you get more than 22 5-year-olds in a room, it's hurting cats, you know. It is. Uh, I mean, it's all you can do to keep them keep I don't I'm not I'm not even sure we can say keep them in order because it's not true. Um, and there have been times in the past when classes at junior high have been 30. Okay. Um, is that impossible? No. Um, but the best learning doesn't happen at 30. But there have been times when it's been a little bigger than that. It's been higher than that. And so we're we're certainly below. We're certainly below. And that doesn't mean that we don't have an occasional classroom at the junior high that has 30 because it depends on the schedule for that period.
U but that's very rare. It's very rare. So u we've got pretty good stuff going on. Okay. I would say so. Okay. My last big area for you is funding um updates. Um Jan Jen has been working hard um uh because the window opened April 1 and she has to have all the grant applications in before May 1st. So she's been burning it up across the hall. Okay. Um and uh so um she's managed to include in within our grants uh the salaries for all of our instructional coaches and our new MOI coach out of grant funding. Okay. So that's the instructional coaches, the um uh tech tech coach, um not the achievement coach. No, achievement coach I'm doing out of sped money. Okay. Uh but all of those other positions now, she hasn't funded them all at 100% out of grants. She's funded them as high as she can out of grants.
Funded all of them at the highest percentage she can. And here's why. Uh, we did talk about this when we talked about budget, but it was such a it was such a small point. You may not recall. If we take any position that is currently funded by a grant and remove it from the grant completely, we can never put it back. If we pay for a position out of M funds, okay? If we pay for a position out of M funds, we can never put it back in a grant because that's called supplanting. Okay. It means that you're trying to purchase with grant funds which are supposed to be extra supplemental on top of everything else money. It means that you know you if you take a position you were paying out of this budget over here and try to put it back, it's supplanting something that you required out of here.
However, I'm just going to use these numbers because I don't know what number she's using. But let's say that all of these coach positions that the grant is paying 80% of the salary and benefits. I'll build the other 20% into M. If extra money comes, we'll move them over there. Okay? But it means then that we can keep those positions in those grants and the percentages can go up and down within that. Okay. So, um, uh, so that's when we talked about braiding our funds when we talked when we did our workshop. That's what we're talking about is how to maximize all of the funding streams to get us all the people we need into these positions. Okay. Um, and so that's pretty exciting because at first we we weren't sure that was going to work, but it it it worked out. She did a great job with that.
questions about that piece about the grants. That approved already grants. No, because she hasn't submitted them yet. Oh, okay. But it's the way we've done it for a long time and so neither one of us has any fear that it will be approved. Not approved. Yeah. That it won't be approved. We we are sure that it will be. I mean, we don't see it. And and um and the other reason for her doing it this way is if we can bump up if we come back in July and uh we see that our budget will hold enough to raise the all of the salary schedules, you know, raise the salary schedule. She still has wiggle room to raise those salaries because anytime we raise the salary schedule for people paid out of M, we we do the same thing for anybody paid out of grants.
So she left herself some wiggle room there uh to you know to include those uh to include uh any raises. Okay. Um okay. Then uh out of the grants we also pay for a lot of our computer programs to supplement instruction. And um uh so if you recall, we talked about if uh if grant funding was uh cut in any way um that we would try to keep people and we might cut things. Okay. So uh Jen's been building into the various grants uh purchase of the programs that we use all the time. And uh so today uh she shared with me that entire that entire thing. It'sund It's just short of $118,000 uh for licenses for the various programs we use across the district. Okay. Um she's currently got in her budget 79.8% of that. I will build the rest of it into our capital outlay because that's where it goes.
Um and uh and then if additional grant funds come in, we will move some of that expense over to those grants. So right now we're filling in with uh with M or I mean in this case with capital. Um the thing that's holding us up a little bit, not holding us up, but that we think is waiting in the wings. One of the grants that's called rural or lowinccome uh right now is on hold. out of all those grants, that's the one that's on hold. And um uh so that's part of the reason that we that we're having to do the 20 roughly 20% thing. Um uh so we anticipate that that will move over. Okay. Um and then the other piece is uh related prof professional development. We just talked about having the new benchmark assessments. We have to train our people to use that and how to do all of those things that the wonderful things that we'll do.
Um and I will do that out of uh out of M. Okay. Um Okay. M and capital budgets. Uh next month I will bring to you uh the final revision for the current budget and I will bring you the proposed budget for next fiscal year. Our budgets are in good shape. we're in good shape. Um and uh so that's the piece for you to think about. We're in really good shape. Um there will be some adjustments to the current budget. Our remember last month when I uh when I reported to you as part of the plan for next year that we will not have the four pay the two forpay uh preschools. Okay, that program did not grow and develop as we expected it to. uh and the enrollment was considerably lower than we expected, but we weren't going to shut the program down in the middle of the year.
Um and we've uh we've lost some money on that. So, I'll have to absorb some of that back into the budget. Uh right now, it doesn't look like it's a huge amount. Um I'm estimating about $25,000. Um the child care center um uh is uh operating um in the red right now and that's part that's primarily due to the fact that many of our employees children qualified last year for um high assistance from the federal federal child care bills that expired and the Arizona child care uh system which changed its its its base and so several of our employees whose children were in the child care, they could no longer afford to have their kids in our childare. We have re really reasonable rates. Mo many of those children ended up being in family child care because the families couldn't afford the other child care either.
So um uh so uh that's part of that. I don't anticipate that being huge either. Um I anticipate that being around 20,000. Um, and then, um, I can't I I don't have it nailed down, but we probably will have, uh, some food service, uh, some food service to cover, uh, for two reasons. One, increased cost of of food and materials. We have the contract with Chartwells. It's a guaranteed contract. They pay us back money um, uh, on that. uh but increase in food costs uh is hurting them. And the second thing is we did not have 21st century program this year. So we've not done afterchool snacks this year. And after school snacks historically bring in between 200 and $300,000. Yeah. So that's a significant that's a significant drop in that. We learned last week that we can do uh since our school days are longer than a typical school day uh that we can offer snacks in the afternoon to our kids.