And the first thing they mentioned was um that they hope we realize they hope people realize but I think they meant mostly board members that there's more to a student than just graduation. So I appreciate that that last slide um to tell that there's more there always more to the story than what you can say with data. But having said that, um, credit deficiency list decreased by 63%. That has to be good because it's credit deficiency and it decreased. But I hate to admit I don't know what a percent means, but I don't know what that means. Was that since when? Like question. So, uh, if you're going to ask me raw numbers, I can't give them to you because I didn't write them down, but I did do the math. Uh, and, um, I actually had it. No, I'm kidding. I didn't have to have it checked, but uh it was uh so we started um last year and um every quarter we have meetings with all of the cohorts to understand how things are going.
Um, uh, the only room that would be carpeted would be band band room just with the acoustics and all of that. Carpet just seemed like a better option, uh, a better option in there. Um, we've had some planning meetings, some communications uh with Blakeley to where they could tackle uh this work this summer. It'll all be completed this summer. Yep. Perfect. Awesome. Okay. Can I get a motion? Motion. Second. Have a motion and a second. Any further discussion?
Um so that money or that amount is set and uh we do have um that budget order at 9.1 million and the reason that there's been no payments to date is because of uh we received that money in June and December from property tax revenue and that's what goes to pay the debt service fund. So that's why you don't see any uh expenditures or revenue at that point and all of our billing is set up accordingly for the time that we receive those payments. If we look at the operations fund, uh again you can see the amount budgeted for the 11.6 6 million. And this also is funded by property taxes. And that's why if you look, uh that balance is is getting a little bit low because we haven't received our property tax payments yet. Uh so we anticipate maybe a little bit of that trickling in uh in May, but most of it will come in in June.
Unfortunately, yeah, he was going too fast. Yeah, the football moving fast. So, just, you know, he's so used to playing running back that stepped out of bounds to save some clock. So Hollist working it on that far side now. Dishes up to McGilligot. Meligot. It's pushed off by Oair loses footing for a second but gets it back. Anastasia to Miguel. Back to number 15 Mloud. Mloud spin move. Great pass in it. Richards, I think, disrupted it a little bit. Miguel's got it and he's going to Great save from Absis. Nice shot from [Applause] Miguel. Absis heaves it all the way down to an open Whitesman. Sam Whitesman dishes it off to Fowler. Fowler on that near side 20 legs to come out. Hatwood and Hart and Hart in it. Hart has it. Raiders know that they can probably kill a little clock right now. They got 620 on the on the timer.
In reviewing the runs, the drivers were able to consolidate many of the existing runs. This consolidation made it so that the majority of the runs could be handled by the eve sham drivers and only about a third needing to be outsourced. That is the reverse of what is happening now. As they looked over the runs, they found that the company you hired had runs with only three students or five students on the buses. Did you know that? And for each run, you paid for it. Please understand, once you seed control of your transportation to a private company, you are at their mercy and they will take advantage of the district at every opportunity that they can. By keeping operation under your control, you have total control and you will know what to budget and how to budget. Dr. Smith had shared with me that the reason for outsourcing was not only financial but operational.
When are they being ordered? Mr. Tonko, I'm going to advise you. Why don't you you you have a lot of connections. Call the state or or or the uh SDA. Ask them. It's a necessity. We need this. We don't have the money for it, but maybe they can fund it for us. I know when I was the board president, I believe I don't think Mr. Leo's here, is he? We got a boiler from the state. I think we got $285,000 to replace a boiler. So, Mr. Bronco, I would appreciate you checking that out, please. You know, Mr. Duridge, Mr. Garfield, you're at 10. All right. Thank you, Mr. Kaiser. Thank you. Much appreciated. [Applause] Anyone else? Okay. Chair, thank you. Um just wanted to just go over a few things that were brought up um with regard to Wilson and all the reading and whatnot.
Um, one of those was presented was the 95 million at a 15-year. Um and that one the average tax rate um over 100,000 assessed valuation for that 95 million would be about $24 for every 100,000 assessed valuation for the year. Um in comparison to the 127 million option would be about 32 um cents on $100,000 assessed valuation home. So about $8 difference um between a $95 million versus 127 million. Okay. I do want to bring up something and Mr. Scava, I hear you, but when I was attending the override committee meeting, there were recent things that have been brought to light like our elevators are starting to fail. We have some facilities with leaking roofs. You have bathrooms in repair, an HVAC system. The average is about 12 years. How many people live in Arizona and can go 12 15 years without replacing your HVAC?
Um so we did this hazardous study and we had some very unique findings. Um go to the next one. Um four of the criterias for hazardous study um is walking along a roadway, uh walking on a roadway, crossing a roadway or crossing railroad tracks. Those four um are considered hazardous safety um criteria. So, one of the some of the things that the engineer assessed according to ID do regulations is grade levels. Um, and then later in this report, I'll show you some of the findings and the charts on how they were uh assess points. Some of those criteria is the grade level, um their walking route to school, is it a safe route, is there hazardous along those routes, locations, the conditions, the width of those walkways when they're walking. All of those are considered um speed, traffic controls, are there safe traffic controls, and the volume of traffic, how many vehicles are passing in that area um within an hour.
And one of the things that they do um is is they put on that common sheet uh the last couple of pages are the numbers of students who are struggling for whatever reason. And so um with the core 40 it's easy to do the math. You've got to have 10 credits per year. They've got to be the right credits but you got to acrew 10 per year. So five per semester. And anybody who is not on pace. So if you don't meet that five per semester, 10 per year, you go on the credit deficient list because now there's something impeding your progress to graduation. And so, uh, if I look back at the very first time we had our quarterly meetings with the cohorts, um, and they put together those common sheets, I can see how many students were initially on there. And then I get I can see the over the course of last year and the course of this year, how many students have cycled on and cycled off and we're down 63% for the senior cohort.
Hearing none. All those in favor. Any opposed? That motion will carry. All right. We have a request to advertise notes of a public hearing for building projects. Yep. Yep. So, um, essentially what we have been doing is we've been managing, um, managing our debt service fund. Um, we've been able to, uh, tackle some capital project needs, uh, throughout the district. Um, and in doing so, we've, uh, left periods of time to where we, um, have left in the capacity to, uh, issue some more bonds to take care of some of those needs. Um there have been some changes with uh Senate Enrolled Act One um that sets kind of some new thresholds um and potentially add some additional steps. Um and so um we have the opportunity to to take a look at potentially getting started with this process. Um again, we're not selling anything anytime soon.
If people pay their property taxes early, some of that money tends to trickle in a little bit early. Um, but one of the things I wanted to point out on here with some of the new legislation uh that the legislature was talking about this year, one of the things that they're doing away with, if you look at the other taxes and that last uh acronym there, the LOI, uh that is one of the uh things that they're removing or or taking away from schools. And that's where that uh most of that 50,000 in the actual budget month column has come from because we haven't received our property taxes. We do get some of that LOIT income tax um early at different times. Um but that money um is probably going away and that accounts for just over $600,000 of money that goes into the operations funds that uh we may be losing uh based on the current projections of the state legislature.
Olsson. Quick pass to Sullivan. Great pass. Great shot and nice. And that is his hattick, folks. Oh yeah, that's right. He got fewer early in this one that away. So, hat-ticks on both sides of the field now. Raiders pushing themselves further into the lead. Yeah, you like to see that now bringing that lead back to three, which we haven't seen for quite some time. And that's when you see the coach smile a little bit. I see Dan Morris. You know, can't be too unhappy about a little lead like this late. No. Still a lot of time though. Gez gets it. Gez. Gez still has it. Gez to Olsen. Gez in in that I mean Olsson in that far side on the 20 the 15 passing it back to Fowler. Fowler looks like he's going to make a run now. Just gets open for a little bit.
The drivers have nothing to do with the operations of transportation. Any operational issues lie at the feet of your administration. I've heard from many drivers that when issues arise, the response is call Hillman rather than consult with the available drivers to pick up the slack. Each call costs more money, but it's done because it's just easier. By law, you must meet with the association and afford us the opportunity to make proposals that will save the drivers jobs and make transportation operation run more efficiently, which will also make it run more affordably. Dr. Smith has agreed to meet next week with a team that is comprised of association leadership and drivers. We are hopeful that the board representatives will be there as well. We ask the board to keep an open mind, review the budget again, and make contingencies to allow for the transportation operation to remain under your control.
Um so there's there the three-year timeline. The Wilson reading program is still prominent here. Um that's why one of the job descriptions you see there at 17.16 includes MTSS, a director MTSS. That's how expanded that program's been. I think the teachers will tell you that. Um it's a little bit different than it was when it first came about many years ago. Um we do have train to trainer here. Same thing still. So those things are still happening. Just want to make sure that um you know none of this is replacing anything that's been successful here that our teachers do with day in and day out. Uh what this is doing is enhancing some of the roles uh of individuals um that may be put in places or or um you know to support uh the staff, support the administration. etc. Um, so to go back with what Miss Peter said, these are not um, you know, again, these are not added positions.
We I I would love to see it less, but where we're at right now, I don't think it's even feasible. I asked for more with everything that we have going on. We have to maintain good schools or it's going to impact all of us. So, I hear what you're saying. I would love to see that, but I don't see any feasible way. Not when you have to repair elevators, roofs, HVACs, uh, buy land, and the school buses. Yeah, we did. Maybe they did it that way, but the way that they're looking at doing to phase in more purchasing so that we're not in this boat 15 years from now. So, um I I just want to say that, you know, I don't think any of I don't believe that any of us really love um you know, increasing taxes for anyone. Um but with that said, I'm I'm been like a broken record on this, but I really do think that it's irresponsible of us not to call for a bond election.
and then the width of the road or the railroad tracks if there's tracks that we're expecting them to cross and then length of those walkways. So when we talk about a hazardous study, the I do has a point system. If it is 12 points or more is considered hazardous. Um and so some of the criteria uh again those areas that I identified as factors that was considered for those points um those were some of those points that the considerations. Now what I want to point out here is as a board the board has the option to either add one or two points judgment points to any of those areas that we deem should be considered hazardous. When we do that, if you approve those areas as hazardous, there's a report that has to be submitted to the state to for the state to identify that that is hazardous based off of our findings.
So, so it's based on what it showed in the common sheet after the first quarter of last year when the cohort started. That is correct. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yeah. My question was actually pretty close to Mr. Nalen's to kind of add to that. One of the things that was shown to us was an actual common sheet. And so kind of something from us is is there a way that we could see the the up andcoming cohort common sheets uh whether it be annually or semester. Um I know you guys meet quartly, but sometimes those numbers are a little raw, but that's something that Mr. N and I were discussing with the core that we met with that they'd like us to see some of that stuff, give us a better perspective. They they thought it would be helpful for the board to periodically see a comment sheet with the names wiped out.
This just begins the legal process. we have have some conversations about potentially what we might tackle. Um and we're not looking to issue any earlier than 2026. Um which is where we left room um in in our debt service uh levy to do so. And so all this uh all we're seeking is uh just permission with uh permission to go forwards and advertise notice uh to begin that process. There'll be many other steps and conversations um along the way including showing you know individual impacts to taxpayers because you know uh with our current structure we've been managing to that debt service uh tax rate because we haven't wanted to add additional burdens uh to taxpayers. So uh that's what we are seeking approval of uh this evening. Okay. Can I get a motion? I move motion. Do I have a second? Second. A motion and a second.
So I just wanted to point that out um that that is something that that's definitely coming. Um, and this is also the time of year where we tend to need to do a transfer from the education fund to operations because those property taxes have not come in yet. And so we will be looking to do that um probably coming up here in May so that that u budget stays in the positive which is something that we've done uh or do every year and sometimes a couple times a year based on those expenditures out of the operations fund. Uh again, if you look at the uh box below the two bar graphs, you'll see that um the budget year, we're about a quarter of the way through the year. Uh we've only received the 3.65% of the revenue because we haven't received our property taxes yet.
Passes to Hart. Hart up to Hartnet. Hart it to Atwood. Atwood on the far side against Anastasia. They're bodying each other. He's going to pass it to Fowler. Fowler looking for the wraparound. As you've seen him done before, he's got some sweet inside work. Oh, good save from Kelly. Nice pass and nice shot. Yeah, Fowler like can come in with some backhand magic, you know, behind the back through the leg. Exactly. He He does over the head. Some tricks. Hard it. Oh, great save from Kelly. Oh, and a rebound. Oh. Oh, he got hit right where the sun don't shine. And it's going to be a little bit of an injury timeout. Let's hope that he's all right. You never like to see that one. No, that's uh that's brutal. You know what was tough, too? It was like there was a loose rebound on the ground.