We can do what's right. We can still pass a bond, but we don't have to make it where we're just going to ask for everything we want. We're going to we're going to ask for a number that makes it work for us, makes it works for the taxpayers." And there's a like next agenda item is kind of coexists in this is, you know, can can we honestly say let's do something that helps everyone. Nobody gets exactly what they want, but we move the needle in a positive way. And if if if you ask me, the the number I that we should go for is less than 100. Thank you for your comments. Um I was present at all of the um bond meetings for the last um year and a half or so, maybe minus one or two. And in those conversations, it it's never been a tax decrease.
One of that is a hazardous route uh study which is required in order for us to make sure that the uh the kids that we are transporting are actually eligible to be transported. And uh with that, we got the report back and we would like to share the outcome of that report with you. I'm going to turn it over to a director of transportation, uh Miss Lean Mosley to take it away. Thank you, Miss Ocomami. Um thank you board for your leadership and support with our hazardous study because it was definitely needed for our district. Um I will ask go to slide two. I'm actually gonna ask Teresa if you come up here for this presentation. Teresa was very connected as well to this presentation. So, she was the clicker. Yeah, Raphael has a cler. All right. Thank you, R. [Laughter] So, I will go ahead and get started as we're waiting for that.
And so trying to get them across the finish line uh is critical and having parents uh support helps tremendously. Next slide. This is important. This was important to me to express this that um we we talk about the cohorts being put together in order to help students as many students as possible and sometimes uh students don't graduate. Uh it's the harsh reality of what we do. Uh but this story was touching to me because um again we're in the final weeks and there's a lot of work to do. But this is a student, this is a student that we know is not going to graduate, but we have put into place some supports. Um, and this student now, uh, again has a plan for what happens when they leave high school. They're leaving with a certificate of of of value that, um, will enable them to go out and start participating in the the work well work world ASAP.
I know we've got interventionists who are pulling kids and doing small group testing. We have um just I think about I never taught in a testing grade level. second grade was wonderful because it was before I had to do all of that um as far as like an iLearn level test but um I am sure that there's a lot of stress of making sure you're doing everything by the book in the correct order and and not having any mistakes there. So um beyond having to teach the kids and get them to the place that they are at this point and then having them prepare to take the test and then executing everything um to our our staff across the board in the buildings. I know the secretaries have had to be the administrative assistants have had to be so careful on not sending people down to the rooms when testing is happening.
Okay. All right. Can I get a motion to approve? Motion. Motion have a second. Second. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? That motion will carry. All right. I have a request for the 202526 Chartwells renewal. Yep. So, this is just an annual uh thing. Remember, it's four one-year renewals and it's time to renew for uh 2026. Um you can see uh in your packet. Uh there's a slight uh increase uh based on the allowable increase contract for uh next year for the management fee for meal as well as a yearly fixed administrative fee. This is what uh school lunch fund uh pays for. We've sent all the documents um to DOE nutrition. Um they bless the renewal. All that's left in order to move forward is to for the board to approve the agreement for next school year will finalize.
That's our anticipated revenue uh based off of the budget order that we submitted. And um if you look at the bottom of that column with the expenditures, you'll notice that those expenditures uh exceed that $40 million. And that's because just a reminder, any carryover POS from the previous year that we had uh purchased but not yet received, those items hadn't been paid. So we were able to carry those POS over and that uh because they were encumbered. Um so that's just a quick synopsis of that. You can see that basically from the state basic grant which is our ADM uh money we get about uh $3.3 million a month. Uh year to date is just over $10 million. And if you look at the pie chart at the top, uh if you look at that for salary and benefits, you'll notice that uh almost uh just over 96% of that budget in the education fund goes to teacher salaries and benefits.
Oh, ran out of room to shoot. Great defense though from Anastasia. This is Sullivan to Atwood. Atwood. Little spin move there. Atwood trying to come in on the off hand. Oh, gets cross checked and a flag is up. Yeah, that was pretty obvious. That's uh George Ellis probably going to the box on that one. Oh, definitely without like you said, cross check. Yeah, just not, you know, if you're husting, you can't be too happy about that taking a call. Well, it wasn't necessary, unfortunately. It was coach comes over and talks to him. Yeah. It was just uh the check the check just you don't you don't lead with your stick really. Yeah, just a little too much in the back, too. Coach isn't that mad, huh? No, because I mean, you like the like the aggression physicality. Yeah, just you want it to be clean.
[Music] Abby Jordan up on the draw. She gets the ball up. Ball's knocked away. Po ends up with the ball. EA being super aggressive. This game could go down on record as being one of the longest games there is. It's almost like a Red Sox baseball game is aired and throw by West Springfield and East Lmetto ends up with it. Kylie Marino slowly, smartly, but slowly getting the ball back onto the field as Ky Oh, what a little move by Kylie Marino as Kylie Marino gets the ball up the field. Goes by one, goes by another one. Kylie Marino gets the ball back to Mac Whitw. M Whitler splits a couple girls and she gets taken down. Looks like Lewis knock Whitward down. M Whitward through one, two, three girls and she gets the ball over the restraining line over to Mckne. McKne. Ball bounces around.
It's already baked in. Uh I know what to do better with my money, sir, than you do. It's not my s my money works better in my savings account and my own no account. Uh money and spending does not equal results. If we haven't learned that, we've got a bigger issue. Uh I read your summary online, your student report, uh speaks highly. It it doesn't say anything about deficient, inadequate, below adequacy. As a matter of fact, it says right here, "Students in the ETSD have wonderful education opportunities and do well on district state assessments." Um, then we're given a PowerPoint presentation to how terrible we are because we're not providing a thorough and efficient education. And why? It's because the state standard says we're not spending enough money below adequacy average. Uh, does that mean we're going to lower this the the salaries of our teachers to be average?
Because people are asking me these questions. So, I post it on Facebook. I have nothing against anyone's religion, any church, any gathering. I just want to make sure that I answer the residents of Garfield correctly. If I put anything in that post that's incorrect, I apologize. I thought I vetted the information properly and I put it out there to answer the residents that were calling me. And if you don't think so, if you doubt what I'm saying, I could show you at least two dozen emails, two dozen texts, and probably 30 phone calls that I received. So, I just want to the church, that's my message to you. Nothing against anyone that worships the Lord. Nothing. I just want to make sure it's being done right because people are questioning me. That's it. All right, let's get into the board of ed stuff now. Okay.
It would always have been a tax increase. I don't believe that that would be truthful truthful election statement um that we're decreasing taxes. Is that correct? Madame President, um that for the bond that is correct. This would be an additional tax no matter what amount. That is correct. That's a correct. So even if it was under 10000,000, it would still be a tax increase. Correct. Okay. Um and with regards to the new high school, so yes, this bond is for the land. Um but my understanding is that once we had secured the land, it would be potent there would be potential for us to get a school based on um you know the average daily membership at our district as a whole that we would probably qualify at some point down the road for school facilities to kick in and help us. Madam President, that that's correct.
Um, part of our hazardous study, like Raphael said, one of the things that we're tasked with is ensuring that we Thank you. um, in the transportation department is running more efficiently, um, providing great customer service as well as financial stability. Um, so some the hazardous study was very important when we looked at that. Um some of the topics we'll talk about is writership eligibility. Um our kids connection and daycare program as well as the hazardous study findings that we had from that study and then our future communication plan eligibility for riders. Um our riders are eligible for service if they live more than one mile and a half away from their home school. Um if there's an area that is considered hazardous, they are considered a rider if they're less than that mile and a half. Also, if they have an IEP, um they are eligible for transportation and it doesn't uh go by that mile and a half requirement as well as any students that is Mckenni Vento um population provided that they go by article 29 of the school code means that they follow the same regulations as a regular student.
So, she's hopeful uh about her future. And again, we want to graduate as many students as possible and we that's what we're built to do and that's what we try to do on a daily basis, but we also support those uh that we know may not.
So this is really across the board a full effort. Um so thank you to everyone um including obviously the students who are doing their very best uh last week and this week hopefully as they get testing wrapped up. Thank you Mason. I don't carry Thank you.
Okay. Can I get a motion? Do I have a second? Second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor. Any opposed? That motion will carry and we have one statement understandably. All right. Have a request for a 2027 spring break trip to Peru. Yeah. So this is very very early in the process but um just like with the other trips through uh EF tours um they like to plan well ahead because uh you know they do cost some cost some money and so allows families to budget fund raise or save for them and so we approached about a 2027 trip uh to Peru. um they've submitted all the required uh documents itinerary um and I'll fulfill all the guidelines and before um they can move forwards with having anformational meeting uh with families to one to see if there's even enough interest um to uh to move forwards um would require board approval.
And the purpose of the education fund is just what it says. It's for the education of our students in Huntington County. And you can see that uh we have dedicated that money to go to uh teachers and staff and their benefits to provide the best education possible for for our students. Um and you'll also notice that uh with our revenue of just over 10 uh.2 million uh year to date, uh we have only uh spent about 9.4. Um so we're doing very well there and being fiscally responsible. So, that added about $825,000 to our cash balance uh because of uh the stewardship of those finances and and making sure that we're spending that money appropriately. And then I'll call your attention to uh the bar graphs uh on the bottom right side there and the the column just underneath there. So, year to date uh there's been about 25% of the school days or the school year uh so far.
TS working the ball around. Good. Oh, Fowler with a nice fake pass to hard. They tried to do what they did to us. Yeah. Wow. Fowler hitting another post here today. So that's three posts at least for the Raiders. Yeah, Fowler a big- time Raider sniper for the last few years. And Hard comes in and absolutely rockets one low right side. That shows that he can be a Raider sniper too, folks. Yeah, nice goal beaten. Very nice goal. Surprised Kelly didn't stick his leg out on that one, but I mean instantly uh take advantage of the power play. Yeah. See, so that's why you don't want to take a penalty there. Not that it wouldn't have happened anyway, but happens that quick though. Mhm. So back to the centering dot and back to a twogoal lead. Yep. 8 to6 back to Elsao on camera. Yep.
That's Kasich. Kasich picks it up. Kasich still has it. Takes the ball into the net looking for somebody. Nobody's there. She gets the ball back around the net. She gets the ball over to Mckne. McKne getting met by her. Mov blows by her. She turns around. She has one-on-one with the goalie. And another save by Davis. Davis fires the ball up to Finn. You saw Mel being super aggressive again. And that should be a green card for Angelina Trullio because they're not giving him space. I like I thought it was a clean play. I thought the girls started running, but what do I know? They asked for their space. Little discrepancy. Green card means you can stay out on the field. Now she takes a step. Finn with a spin move as there's another whistle. Finn with the ball surrounded by Esau Meadow girls. Gets the ball over to Chapman.
Are are we going to eliminate programs to be average? Are we going to not teach English and math to lower our proficiency to average? Are we going to let our buildings fall to disrepair just so that we're average with the rest of the world? Um, I think we need to flip the script. We need to show that good governance can provide a good education. Um, your responsible budget, you have nice facilities. I read that we're the fourth leanest budget of a district our size, and I think there's 76. I might be wrong with that. We shouldn't be looking to go to 50. We should be looking to go to number one. In business, if you can do something and provide a quality some a project for something less, that's awesome. That's highly looked after. This is a business. You're a board. You have an executive committee.
Uh real real uh short and sweet. Student of the month. I'd like to congratulate the young lady Rebecca. Just keep reaching for the stars. Your accomplishments are tremendous. I'd like to congratulate Mr. Alan Foggarino on becoming the master board member for getting recognized for that. It's an accomplishment that I believe Mr. Taco said has never happened in our district before and is very rare to happen in the state. I want to recognize you and congratulate you, Mr. I also want to congratulate all those athletes that performed at the Special Olympics. Um, I heard the teachers that were there. Mr. Topco was there. It was cold cuz I remember seeing pictures on Facebook and uh you know your your actions and your uh competition was noticed by everyone and I'm very proud of you and every if you're still here I'd like to congratulate all of them.