Approval of destruction of the audio recordings. Can I have a motion, please? Make a motion to approve the destruction of the audio recordings of the closed se close session meetings from May 5th, 2023 to October 23rd, 2023. Second, I'm just going to say one thing. I I like over the years, anytime these have come up, you'll always hear me say no. It's because quite frankly, I uh I'm just somebody who doesn't like anything any any kind of public record destroyed. I'm not telling you how you should vote, but uh my last meeting I'll I throw it out there as to why I always vote this way. Dr. Maria, I Miss Venmouth. I Mr. Serrone. Hi, Miss Hamilton I Mr. Gatewood I Miss Johnson no Mr. Clogger. No. Five. Motion passes. 5 to 2. Action item 12.9 approval of release of close session minutes. And I have a motion, please.
Uh referendum fund is up a little bit. our health dental trust fund. As Jason was able to mention earlier, um we have added uh employees into the trust fund which increases our revenue with the premium amounts. Our expenses for the first quarter of this year are down slightly compared to last year. And then also we did have that premium increase for this year. So that has increased that fund balance. And then our debt service funds are right where we need them to be up slightly over last year. And then those payments will be made in June. And this is something you've seen several times over the last few years. Property tax rate history. Uh BCSC, as you can see, that third dot is in 2021. That goes up to a dollar. That was when the referendum took effect. And the board and uh Dr. Phillips over the last few years have worked very hard to make sure we've reduced that tax rate.
I make a motion to make available no closed session minutes at this time due to a determination that they require continued confidentiality. Second. Miss Venmouth. I. Miss Simon. I. Mr. Cerone. Hi, Mr. Poger. Hi, Mr. Gatewood. Hi, Dr. Mario. Hi, Miss Johnson. Hi. Motion passes 70. Action item 12.10, approval of resignation of licensed personnel. And I have a motion, please. Make a motion to approve the release and separation agreement with registered behavior technician Jacqueline Mendes. Second, Mr. Logger. Hi, Mr. Gatewood. Hi, Miss Venmouth. I Mr. Cerone. Hi, Miss Simon. Hi, Dr. Mario. I Miss Johnson. I. Motion passes 70. Action item 12.11, approval of personnel report. Can I have a motion, please? Make a motion to approve the personnel report as discussed and presented. Second. Dr. Maria, I. Mr. Clober. Hi, Miss Simleton. Hi, Mr. Cerrone. I Miss Johnson. Hi, Mr. Gatewood. I Miss Spen, I.
And as of this year, uh we're at 99.81 cents. Uh which is well below the state average. Um when it says location there, that's uh 10 school corporations near to us. AV is 10 corporations throughout the state with a similar AV size to us. And budget is 10 school corporations with similar size budgets. We are well under all of those um comparables.
And be glad to answer any questions you may have. and thank you for staying awake this late. What is the What is the total amount in reserves? It's kind of hard to calculate that. Total amount what? I'm sorry. The total amount in reserves. Last time we had a a table and it was a little bit easier to read what it was. It's kind of hard to determine what it is by the graph. about $23 million between the five funds. And the two there's two caveats I would I would encourage you to encourage encourage you to consider. Take out debt service because that's committed. It it doesn't it cannot grow greater than what limits that are put on it by the DLGF and include rainy day. And so there's 4.8 8 million in rainy day that I would add. Yeah, I think the past has been about 35 million or so roughly when you added them all up.
So that's where I was trying to hit with that. And then the other question, so this the way it was explained to me is the 9981 includes the referendum. Correct. Correct. What would it be without that? I will get back with you on that. 15 cents less. 15 cents. Thank you. Okay. 14 and change 14.9 or so 1480 some 148 but I will send you that number tomorrow morning that that that's good enough I just wanted to get it close I my my big thing is is I want people to understand that that is with the referendum and with it we're still way lower, which we've had a conversation about referendum and I have to tell you one of the first spreadsheets that Dr. Philip showed me that almost scared me away was his state tax comparison spreadsheet that has all the school districts across the state, all of their tax rates going back to 2004.
Something like that. Yeah. And it looks like that. That's what it looks like in the graph. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Martin. Good evening. I'll be brief with the Envision 2030 update this evening. Uh first of all, this slide you're familiar with. The only change on here is um Central Middle School, which is for your approval this evening. Uh the rest of the data on the screen is the same as it was last time.
I'm happy to answer any questions that you have, but it is the same as it was before. Central Middle School, um a small portion of our envision work. Central Middle School is uh Dr. Phillips 18 years old now, I think. Um hard to believe, but it is. Uh improvements to the media center. Cso has worked um extensively with Mr. Payne at central and his staff on making improvements to the media center. Um there's a uh maker space in the top lefthand corner of this a green room or green screen uh podcast and video recordings and such technology support space is at the top and on the right hand side is will be the wellness area. This is all upstairs at Central Middle School. Offices there for therapists. Um that again, similar to other buildings we have, they're just kind of everywhere in that building currently.
Igrad coach, a shared office, um SRO, and uh a conference room there. A few renderings of the space. Uh this is the circulation desk as you enter um as you enter the new the newly renovated space at Central Middle School. looking at the circulation desk. Those spaces I explained for the offices behind uh this would be in the northwest corner of the library looking back towards the entrance and uh this is uh just walking up a little bit further um looking at that same that same direction. So new furniture throughout, new flooring um and several improvements um to improve the circulation of both materials and students in that space. So for your approval tonight, um permission to award the bid for Central Middle School at $911,400 of Dunlap construction that would bring the total project cost. Go back a couple slides here. Uh you see that Central Middle School line, the budget at 1.9 and this would be in the total cost that project took 1.649400.
So, under budget allows us um some flexibility for some additional furniture changes at Central in the future. And then we're also seeking permission to approve the, as Mr. Center mentioned, the construction manager as constructor for Mount Healthy Elementary School. Brian is here from CORE. There's Brian. I was gonna say he made it the whole time that I looked and he wasn't there anymore. So, uh Brian is here from Core Construction. uh core is our recommendation for the um CMC for Mount Healthy. They're finishing some projects in GL greater Clark schools right now. Um they they have experience with open concept schools in Muny and um they are um their rates were competitive and we're we're they interviewed well with the team. We're excited to bring them into BCSC and help us there. There were in your in your board packet you'll see details on four biders um four submissions rather for the CMC and our recommendation is to move ahead with core construction for the Mount Healthy project.
Reminder of the upcoming dates we have um coming up in the next three weeks on the screen that are happy to answer any questions you may have. Mount healthy. Just real quick, I'm g say this. I'll think it's funny. Other people won't. Are we going to build the walls? Are we going to put walls up in the building so we can separate some of the classrooms so that the conversations don't go back and forth? We are. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh, next on the agenda is our public comments. I'm not going to go through my spiel because you've all heard it before and Mr. um Cole Bennett spoke earlier during public comments um as it was on our uh school safety appropriation. So, thank you Mr. Bennett for your comments earlier, but I have no one else on the sheet tonight. Okay. Request for approval.
Thank you, Mrs. W. I I just before sorry, just before you get started, I want to mention because we have a board member that is remote, all all votes will need to be um roll call. So, um so anyway, you'll hear me call everybody's name. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Wield. First, I have just on under old business a request for approval of the minutes of the March 31st regular school board meeting. Request approval for items 8A I move that we approve um item 8A minutes for the regular school board meeting from our last meeting. Second. Thank you, Mr. Nalen and Mr. Glick. Is there any conversations or comments on that? No. Okay. I will abstain from the vote. You'll hear me say that during the roll calls. I was not here on March 31st, last meeting. Okay. Okay. Um Mr. Schultz, do you approve the minutes from the March 31st meeting?
Yep. Okay. Uh, Mr. Glick. Yay. Mr. Nellen. Yay. Mr. Stenner. Yay. Mr. Major. Yeah. Miss Lloyd. Okay. And I will abstain. Miss Weldon abstains. Thank you very much. Under new business, there are a couple of notes. Um, first, well, I'll go through the items under new business. Um, supplemental contracts, field trips, leaves, fundraisers, and claims and payroll are the regular approval items with claims and payroll representing the tonight's docket for just over $2.9 million. the pre-runs from March, also just over $2.9 million. And then the payrolls for both April 4th and April 18th, uh, representing just over $7.4 million. The new approval um outside of the regular agenda items include the request to separate CSA Newekch as its own school for the district profile amendment. The secondary curricular material, secondary curricular science material was presented at the last board meeting. Elementary and secondary student handbooks.
The policy reorganization package for presented earlier. the additional appropriation for the school safety officers and additional school resource officer from the operating referendum fund and then the two envision 2030 projects that Dr. Boseman just presented items K and J Central Middle School and Mount Healthy. The important note is that we need to separate out item I because it's technically an adjustment to our total board approved budget. And so, uh, Mr. Schultz being remote cannot participate in that vote. So, we'll automatically need to pull that one out when we go through, um, through that. Actually, I had some questions on that one that due to the short time from Thursday to today. Didn't get a chance to ask and I was going to ask if we could table that one till the next meeting to get questions answered. The additional appropriation. Yeah. The the You'll need to make a motion and see if it gets approved.
Yep. So I will go ahead Mr. Scholes. Are we able to break out E and G from the general consent group here? What? Say the letters again. Uh E is in echo and G is in gamma. Logan, I think Nikki just told me we have to make a motion to do I. So, you might as well do a motion to move all three. We do. I don't think you have to motion to get a line item vote. No, you would. I'm just saying you would make a motion on what the vote is for, if you understand. No, I I mean I'm just asking under the traditional Roberts rule of order that ENG be pulled out as separate votes. So, can I make a motion that we approve agenda items 9 A through D, F, H, J, and K. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Jen and Mr.
Major. So, the motion is to approve items 9 A through D, F, H, J, and K. Uh, Miss Lloyd, I'll start with you. Your vote. Yay. Mr. Major. Yes. Mr. Stenner. I. Mr. Non. I. Mr. Glick. Hi. Mr. Schultz. I miss also approves 70. So, I would like to make a motion that we approve agenda item Oh, well, I was going to say nine I, but you want to hold that one. That we approve item 9 I um as presented. Thank you, Mr. Nell. Is there a second for 9 I? Second. Thank you, Miss Lloyd. I think the motion is to approve agenda item 9 I which was the additional appropriation for school security offices. We'll go roll call. Mr. Schultz, this is the one I had questions about. Okay. Questions? Yeah, I I do get to ask questions. Um so, uh there's going to be four security officers.
Is that still correct? Two per school. Correct. And that'll be an average salary of 39,000 for each. No, the appropriation is for 155. Yeah. So the appropriation is for So that's for half the August through December because then the board will consider in the fall a budget for 2026 that would include all the positions. Okay. [Music] Um, so did we clear up all the requirements that uh would allow a safety officer to carry a weapon on campuses? Do we have the policies and procedures all identified? I know that was something we had questions about before. Yeah, that that policy is within your policy um packets. I think was just approved. So everything is 100% complete in terms of policy. Yes. In terms of practice and procedure on our side, it that's still to be developed in some of those particulars, but in terms of policy, yes.
And have we identified the cost for I know we have cost here but do we have cost that includes total yearly salaries, benefits, insurance, annual training, sidearms, armory, supervisor, ammunition, range time and cost of evaluations for psychological, physical and performance. Do we know what that total yearly cost is? Yes. The estimate is that third line on the appropriation of equipment. All all included in the equipment. That's all included in equipment. Yeah. Not not every item that you asked about is on there. So a supervisor, for example, we already have uh people in place to supervise these folks. So there's not an additional cost, but um some of the equipment and training, it's all in that equipment cost. Yes. So the in the equipment it was what 40,000 I think it's insurance training the sidearms armory ammunition range time and cost of evaluations included in that among many other things.
Yes. Okay. The re the reason why I ask is there that was just a line item and just so everybody else knows there was no breakdown of what that was. So that's why I'm asking the questions. Um, so that helps too because I was curious about what each person's 10,000 if there was four and there'd be 10 grand a piece what the equipment was. So yeah, it's uh there's about 31 items on the list that we have that all that all rolled in anywhere from uh you know gear that they're going to wear to safes to Nazro training etc. is all listed on there. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate the breakdown. It helps me make a vote that I actually can understand. Absolutely. Okay. Are there any other questions or comments before we go to vote on item 9 I? Okay. I will start with Mr.