It's um really a placeholder that needs to be reconciled quite often. And I'm going to speak about that a little bit later on when we talk about the 20 24 audit and where we stand and some of the variances there. But um when I um started about a year and a half ago, there was no reconciliation being done. And that reconciliation that happened happened at the end of the year and it was a large surprise to everybody. Um we have a much better process now. how we actually reconcile uh this number and I I'll share the reconciliation so you can see what it looks like on a weekly basis. Um our um health and dental are charged uh in two ways. One of them is through the accounts payable process where we have a purchase order put in um and then every week we uh have an EFT taken out of our bank account for the actual expenses because um as most of you remember we are uh self-insured.
Oh yeah. My dreams are bound. Growing slowing side by [Music] side with hearts of grace. Step by step we leave our trains building a future more than bricks in transition. My purpose found. Oh yeah. When dreams are bound growing, growing learning side by [Music] side, reach out, lend a hand. Together we rise, make a stand. Every smile, every brand new face, it starts with love in this space. In transition night, our purpose found. Oh yeah. In transition night, where dreams are [Music] bound by transition. [Music] So Jerry Powers, our administrative assistant at T99, used AI to create a song for us. We just gave her some words. It was really catchy. It is catchy. That was good. It is also helped with the slideshow. So I wanted to thank you for that. Thank you so much. What? What? Yeah. Crazy. Um, okay. So I'm going to talk about why we volunteer at T99.
And also excited to see all the other kids because we already know that there are current sophomores and juniors who have achieved this. We just don't award it till senior year. So, thank you. That's awesome. All right, we will now move on to um public comment. First up, um, Dick Terrell. Hello everyone. My name is Dick Terrell. I'm uh you know I live here in the school district. I have for 35 years. My kids went to Central 35 years ago when there were less kids in the whole school district than there are in the high school. And uh and I was recent I only retired six months ago from working for the school district for 17 years. And one of the biggest things that I see is uh there could be better uh involvement of the public, you know, in not in decision- making. That's your job.
Keep any comments to three minutes and avoid being repetitive if possible. May I ask the signin sheet now and I will begin calling names off of those? I don't think there was any. Would anyone else like to speak? If so, please state your name and address and sign in the sheet after you're done speaking. If anybody wants to speak, we can just write your name on a piece of paper and it doesn't have to be the official sheet. I don't want that to scare anybody off. Okay. Thank you for all participating in the hearing. We will not close the hearing reopen to the regular meeting. But first of all, we have to ask um I will go through those resolutions towards the end of the meeting. I think they were agenda. Can we approve them in the regular agenda? Yeah, we'll approve them under seven.
But I think what what's hard to capture in words is really kind of the perseverance and the dedication uh of this couple here and what they've had to go through to turn this place into what it is today. And it is just remarkable. I mean, if you had seen what this place looked like before and and some of you have, hey, Lynn, maybe you could give us a, you know, a few stories. Perfect. It's perfect. Yeah. I mean, Beth's sitting there going, "If these walls could talk," and I'm like, "Please don't." You know, there's no telling what's being said. But let me tell you, you've just really turned this space into your own. And but at the same time, you've respected the heritage and the history that is the Ashlin Fire Station built in what 1930 something, 1920 something. Um, and I just want to acknowledge everybody again who also played a role in getting the public safety building built because without that work being done, this place wouldn't have been vacated.
Jenna Holly with her first save. Good job by Jenna Holly. Quickly kicks the ball out to Kenna Marino who's got some speed and she's getting chased down the field. I believe that was good space. Yeah, nice ball. Nice save. Nice save. Nice save. Nice nice pass. And Angelen Trulio fires a shot in there, but Vander Vanderhof gets her uh first save of the night. Yeah, that was a terrific attack by the Spartans. They really worked the worked the ball well. That was a good shot. Nice save. I think this might be one of the things might have a tough time with in the past year is beating the ride on East Law Meadow. Yeah, you saw Mel kind of does a zone ride, gets the wall over to Henson. Penetration there. Wal Meadow on the board first. Wal Meadow up one- nothing with 845 to go in the in the first quarter.
This is something that that team's been working on for the better part of this year. No, that was great. I see. Yeah, we've got printed these off for us in the past. It is interesting to see how um individuals So has this book been highlighted at all in any of the classrooms? In any of our classrooms, it has not. So if the first half of US history is really done at 8. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Then but it's not the same textbook then. Um yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't think we answer though. I didn't really ask the question because I don't know what the question is. Yeah. Well, they you know, it it would it would it's an interesting scenario. We deal with this in grade six and grade seven with our world um studies uh curriculum as well where you're dividing um a topic in this case US history over different grades and it's made more challenging I guess by the fact that you insert grade nine in the middle.
So that reconciliation is now happening. It's being updated on a weekly basis and you'll see those numbers will be uh will be changing with the financials each month. Just pause right there in case anyone has any questions. Yeah, just the the balance that we have that you have. Um another uh if there are no other questions, you'll see that there is a number um Mike hang on a second. I'm sorry. from the bottom 1 $1.7 million in enrollment impact equipment and building repairs. Um that number you're also going to see change as we move forward. Some of the expense that's sitting in that overage is about $1 million and I'll bring that up again. Those were IT purchases uh purchased by our IT director. Um, and if you recall, we have a total of $7.7 million in our ARPA allocation. And the process to get that money back from the city is that we have to produce um quite a bit of paperwork, the requisition, the purchase order, the receipt, the proof of payment.
So, one of our main goals at T99 is to help our students learn how to give back to our community. Their communities do a lot for them. Um, and we want to instill in them that it's important to give back to their community and their community members. Um, it also provides our students with a lot of pride. The the work that they're doing, as you could see in the pictures, is very meaningful in many different ways, which they will talk about in a few moments. Um, and then one of our other goals at T99 is to connect families and our students with organizations that they can continue to volunteer at once they exit T99. So, because many of our life students are not going to be competitively employed, families are looking for places that they can continue to take their kids to that is meaningful um and that is also familiar to them.
But for input and for knowledge that uh uh it doesn't seem uh and I'm as guilty as the next guy. I haven't been to a school board meeting in 30 years. And uh but there are situations in the school district that need the public input. I guess I represent the number one biggest group in the school district of uh taxpayers with no kids in school and and as we've seen in the last couple years uh uh those people's input, you know, need to be uh uh uh addressed and you know maybe we have uh uh some good input to have. So, I hope there's better communication. Used to get quarterly or, you know, every so often you'd get something from the school district. Seems to have petered out four or five years ago where we didn't get uh the disadvantage of doing everything electronically is not everybody, you know, has uh they see their emails and the like.
Item seven. We can close the public hearing at any time. Uh we're going to close the meeting at 603. And now we're going to go to the regular meeting. Correct. Do a motion. Yes. I moved. Can I get a second? Second.
But again, this is your day. Um, and I just can't congratulate you enough. You folks are killing it. It's unbelievable. This place is alive constantly. I mean, I came in here on a dark, dreary Sunday afternoon thinking nobody was going to be here and it's packed. So, you know, you're killing it. Congratulations. You know, I know what it's like when you have a vision and you you're like hoping it all turns out the way that you envision. And it's so satisfying when it does. And anytime we we start talking about a new business opening in downtown, I have to talk about the story that's downtown Ashland. It's an amazing transformation that's happened in 10 years. Folks, remember what this was like 10 years ago. made it what it is today collectively as a community. It wasn't staff. It wasn't boards. It wasn't wasn't just the private sector.
Give the give the Lancers credit there. They had a nice save at that end and then it was a good good counterattack developed down the field there. Yeah, Lo's very very quick. Like I said before, East Lo has only beaten Law Meadow one time. That was last year. So they're one in 25. Steve scored 118 goals and have given up 439 goals in that time span. So Esome, needless to say, the last uh 18 years is been handed pretty pretty good by law. 43% of all ESO's alltime goals have come in the last six games against law. So it goes to show you the last three years how good the the Spartans team has been. Absolutely. And while I will say that is certainly not a that's not a terrific stat for the Spartans, I will com I will compliment you on the compilation of these stats.
Um, but yeah, you wouldn't want the same book per se because those students are reading at a grade eight level and then when they come to this course, they're now sophomores in high school. So, they've advanced in terms of their reading abilities. So, it really is just the dates, the year. Yep. The chronological kind of halfway point if you will roughly. I was just going to ask that that kind of the timeline or what um so in eighth grade they have US history. Freshman year they have modern world history. Okay. And then they pick up US history again. Correct. So I've never understood that. Why isn't US history all the way through for two years? Because I've had other social studies teachers say that to me. It's a little bit hard for the kids to leave US history, go to world history, come back. Yeah.
Um, and we send that to the city. The city then sends it to external council whose um job it is to review all the expenses and make sure that they're in accordance with spending and once they get get the green light they give it to the city and then the city can um give that money uh to us. So I have in the pipeline um 1.01 million in with the city. Um we're confident that everything that we've submitted has been accepted and that'll be coming probably in the next month. Um, so you'll you'll see that again. Hey, Mike, just let me interrupt. Last month, the balance that we showed was somewhere about a $9 million balance. Line item details. You'll see again, we're still working through getting many uh of the variances by by line item. So, as I said before, we're moving people between the general fund uh and the grants fund.
So, all of the places that we are going to highlight um does provide our students with that opportunity. And then it's also great because we spend so much time at T99 practicing our vocational skills, have an outlet, many outlets in the community to work on those skills, put them to the test, and then to be able to meet with students and say, "Here's what we're going to work on next." Um, and then some of the um the organizations that we are going to present in the presentation from the students. I'm sure that you all know about Meals on Wheels and the greenhouse. I wanted to share a little bit more about Sharing Connections and Project Cure. Sharing Connections is an organization in Downer's Grove that provides families who are in need with just any household item that you can think of when they need it.
and we used to we had enough money to uh send things out to people in the you know in the district if they wanted to be involved and that seemed to have kind of faded away and maybe there should be better communications. So, and I do understand that there's uh there's a big problem with building and the population, this kind of stuff, and it needs to be addressed. And I'm not one of the people that automatically vote no, you know, as soon as my kids graduated, but it's uh something to involve everybody in the community. So, hopefully um keep that in mind. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, Joshua Roach. How's it going? Sorry, my um child fell through, so that's why I have my kids with me. I just want to first off say thank you for stepping up. I know that elections are tough and all that and you guys get the brunt of everything.
Any discussion? Vote. Doug. Yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Amy, yes. Yes. Motion carries. It's closed. Um, now we're going to go to the regular agenda. Would like to call order. Any modifications to the agenda? There are none. Recognition of visitors and comments from the audience. Okay. And then we have a presentation. Okay.
It was all of us together making this town what we want it to be. And that's special. You're a part of something special. You're a part of a transformation. And you know what? Not everybody can say that. Not everybody can say that. Not every town can say that. So give yourselves a big round of applause as well. And John and Jamie, we wish you all the success, but most of all, thank you for making your story part of our story. And um we we love having community partners like you as businesses here in town. And um again, we wish you all the success in the world. Thank you. Thank you. This is amazing. On behalf of the Ashlin Business Association, allow us to welcome you to this vibrant and robust community that you are spearheading with this fabulous renovation. Uh on behalf of the Ashlin Business Association, please make sure you pay attention.
I see that you have you have brought your aame statistical research here. That's very impressive. LCAT hired a stat guy this year. So was that with what they were saving on my salary? They were able with your salary. We were able to get a stat guy. Okay. Patty Jordan with the ball up on top looking to make a move. She does a dodge, kicks around. They'll look to double her up at at times throughout the night. She goes around the corner, kicks a girl, goes in looking for somebody, kicks it ball over to M. Whitworth. Now it's M Whitler's turn. She goes through one. Nothing there. She kicks the ball over to McKnney. Keney does a dodge. Goes around the net. Gets the ball over Lucas. Lucas goes around. Nice. She turns around. Nice save by Vanderhof. Yeah, nice save. Who stuffs Whitler. Two nice saves by Vanderhoof.