That's a direct result of the pay increase that you all approved. Well some of you actually all approved last spring. Um the other thing I wanted to point out was the unrestricted capital spend. So note that in 2024 it was about 21.8 million. Note that it's up to 41.6 million. This is directly related to the fact that our bond dollars are completely spent and we still have facilities that are in their 25th year that are now in need of capital uh renovation. So that's a direct result of the of the funding circumstance to date. Unfortunately, we have been able to um save enough unrestricted capital where we're able to meet those needs right at this point in time. And that's all that's all I have.
So I think it's no different, right? It's looking at a list and then that team will determine we want to pick this one up and continue or we can eliminate it. Okay. As long as everyone understands that. Daniel, who's No, I was just going to agreeing what she said. I feel like if we start out with a 50 tabled items next year, we're never going to be able to add anything new to it. So, I do I do agree like Lord said like this kind of could be a longer conversation. So, we can table a bunch of stuff now and then maybe set aside some time towards the end and eliminate from the tabled items. Would you be comfortable with that? And okay. Um I was just gonna I was just going to ask if there was why is there a reason why we don't just start with the finance options and just go one through 15 down the line.
If there are any questions, I'm very happy to answer them. Or Jackie or Lauren can help me out. Can you remind me why it was $11 million that was moved? Why not more? um mostly to make sure that we were not going to put ourselves into a situation where we um where we'd have to move it back. Um so it seemed like an appropriate um amount given the timing, but that's a good question. We could have moved more with uh if you could go back a slide please. the increase in unrestricted capital because of the um the need that our basically our our our facilities have to be up updated. Um can you do you know what some of them um what some of those needs are and how immediate they are? Sure. So, um, as an example, um, let's talk about the, uh, high school tracks.
Sure. Because I feel like that would I think it's just going to get really convoluted if we start jumping around and if people are against I think like when we talked outside in our caucus, we came to like a consensus among ourselves about what items that we really wanted to push for and support. So I think and I think that everyone probably feels similarly about their own items. I think we're on the same page, but let's make sure. So, we'll um who would like to be our reader? Could we have someone read the options? We'll start with the finance number one, and then we will just decide if we want to. Yes. Oh. Oh, perfect. So, you're going to put them up there for us. Okay. I appreciate that. Yep. I think he has it. Do you have it as a spreadsheet? Okay, let me read them.
So, there are three, um, high school tracks that are in great need of, um, being replaced because they present a potential safety issue for our um, track athletes. There's cracks and issues and they're going to be running on them. So, that became a very high priority. We I think we also recently approved the uh expenditure of about $2.3 million in parking lots. Um so that is just bringing down the parking lot asphalt down to to the ground or just doing an overlay. Those present safety risks to us as well. Uh where there are fall um fall risks for those that come to our schools. um ADA issues associated with our special education students that need to use wheelchairs, those type of things. And then finally, um a great deal of money has been spent on HVAC equipment. So, one of the things that that Albert and I have been targeting is to make sure that we are spending the money on keeping students safe, on keeping them dry, so we have to worry about roofs.
I'll be the reader. Okay, so we're on the finance options. Um, designate one Friday per month for mandatory staff PD without students. And that was over a million dollars. Katie We don't. Am I right in that there are zero dollars to fund any of these or no? Well, we have the um Yes. A little over 200,000 is left. But I thought that was addressing the question. Well, we have to determine that. Okay. Yes. Because you were saying that was something we voted on last year. So, it is something. No. No. Okay. So what happened is we gave the com Do you want to go ahead Dorothy? True and and not true. So the committee last year gave $200,000 and that's not even from the new budget that's from the old budget to compression. Compression gave it back. And so since it's suggestions in our purview still as part of the budget, but then they came uh the compression committee because I'm on that um came with recommendations after they gave the money back.
And the third thing is to make sure that they are comfortable, either warm or cold, depending upon the time of year. So those have been our priorities. Um and um so those are some of the examples that we've we've um made those decisions on. And so we've we've moved $20 million into unrestrict unrestricted capital to cover those expenses. Do we anticipate I know that a couple years ago we hired a group to come in and do an internal audit of all of our facilities. And according to them, we needed to spend, you know, 20 to $40 million a year every year in perpetuity to to maintain our facilities. Is is are are we going should we expect that we would continue to need to have this increased balance and unrestricted capital every year moving forward? That's a a tough question which is why we are talking with the leadership team on a regular basis as to what our priorities are.
So I guess technically we do still need to approve how it's spent because they spent time on that. Would it be would it be helpful if we just had a running count of how many remaining funds we have left? Sure. I think Joel's spreadsheet has that. We have Yeah, we have $247,511 currently because we approved a 2% raise and the $1 an hour raise for bus drivers which cost $46,000. So, do we can we just write like 247k on the board or something? Yep. And it's on your handout as well. Correct. Well, yeah, because those are part of this, right? No. Oh, well they should be consensus on that. So then can we on the list of finance options? Yeah, I guess it's not on the list of finance options. Oh, wait. No. Yeah, this is Yeah, Dorothy, it's on this list. I see psychologist facilities.
Um and so we have $5 million 5 million square feet of facility underfoot and um 30,000 students and all of our most of our facilities were built in the mid 90s and the early 2000s. So they're all at that 20 to 30 year life which means a lot of stuff are failing right now. So um obviously we can't expect to have available to us up to 30 or $40 million a year. We just have had savings that we were fortunate to have. Hopefully that can get us through the next couple of years. Um, but I can tell you that we had been spending about $25 million a year since 2018 on top of the normal unrestricted capital spend. Um, and so just to maintain our buildings, we're going to have to just be very careful with our prioritization as we move forward. Um, do we ever get an opportunity to kind of see a list or a chart of what the priorities are and where we're going to be spending the money coming up in the next year or two?
Yeah. So what we what we have left just to make sure everyone understands is the amount that's on the chart 247,511 and that's with the 2% raise. Okay. And the bus drivers sorry and we came to consensus on that. the other ones from the compression committee. We might come to consensus today and want those. Right. Could Could we add that? We can add it. When Joel can add it to his still trying to We will add that. All right. Yeah. 16 200 200 kind of that's where that right yeah we have 93,000 in the non-compression cost bucket and we have 150 thou4,000 in the compression cost bucket um although like Vanessa told us we can spend that compression money on whatever we want we just have a set of suggestions from the compression committee we don't and also the bus drivers thing that we approved is not addressing compression that's just a compensation issue even though it is the compression and compensation committee committee.
Just, you know, which schools, how much money per school for that HVAC system, so on and so forth. Yeah, that's a great question. Uh, so, um, Albert's team has fully updated asset planner now, which is the tool that, um, Mr. Thompson was talking about. that is our database for our facility condition. So we are totally updated to reflect all the work we've done um through about February 28th. So we're fully updated. Um and so that one we're now scrutinizing every line and every element to ensure that it's it's accurate. So it was done by an outside firm who doesn't have all the knowledge that Mr. Dutchover has. And so we actually took the the next five years and Albert and I are going through every line item to make sure is this a real need? And we're making decisions even such as well when do we have to totally bring the asphalt down to the ground versus when can we just do an overlay that'll give us another five or six years.
It's not just a compression committee, right? Even though we said the money should go to compression, but that's okay. Yeah, Katie. So, the ones that like it that would address the compression and would equal out the dollar amount would be number three, 9, 10, and 11. Is that right? Well, we're what we're talking about is the committee. There was there was a presentation um by Vanessa. She zoomed in. It's in the chat, Katie, if you Yeah. And she had different numbers. Yeah. The ones that are in blue are the ones that are I think there are four or five of them, Katie. Yeah, Katie. There's se there's several on our list that would address compression and only some of them are from the compression committee. Well, so what I'd like to do is just read the option. And I think some of these we can easily cross off because we can't afford them, but I I still think they need to have a voice.
So we're making those types of decisions as we go. Um the plan is I'm talking with the finance team. We're going to share with you uh next week when we do the final budget revision how we have spent our capital dollars in the current year, how we've encumbered or spent in the current year so you have an idea of the areas that we're spending it on. And then in addition, when we propose the budget, we will do a complete budget um um proposed budget for unrestricted capital so that you all have an idea of what those priorities are. And then finally, in uh August, I talked to Dr. Accord and we hope to do a work study just on our capital needs looking at the data that's in asset planner after we've gone through and cleaned it up so that we can give you a really really good um estimate and rationale as to why these next five years are our highest priorities.
So finance option number one, designate one Friday per month for mandatory staff PD without students. Um originally we were told that would cost 938,790, but today we were told it would be 1,135,936. Certainly we can't afford that. So cross that out. I don't uh do you want to table it? That's it. Um I don't know. I I would I'm just want to say this for the good of the order. terms of this, I really wonder how much of this could be modified or adjusted if we really brought it to the calendar committee because it was this year that we took out that Monday for professional development when we came back from fall break. And I know many people at my campus were like, "Oh my gosh, I wish we had that day." Um, so I'm wondering if that's something that could live with the calendar committee when they review that.
Thank you. You bet. Any other questions? I tried to ask questions that would get Jackie and Lauren involved, but Miss Betts handled everything. So, I'm just wondering what kind of questions we have to ask to get them involved. Well, the next time I will just go ahead and give it to one of them. Perfect. I mean, they're here. So, thank you very much, Miss Betts, Dr. McCord. Um, all right. Moving on to 8.02, 02 our teaching and learning academic spotlight. Dr. McCord. Thank you, Mr. President. Governing board members, I will turn it over to Mr. Ryan, assistant superintendent of teaching learning. He's going to introduce his folks and the topic for this evening. Very good. Thank you, President Thompson, Dr. McCord, governing board. Thank you so much. Uh it's that time of month we get to provide you some insight into the inner workings of our uh academic programs on campuses.
Um, because I know it was brought to calendar committee. I was on that. I think James was there with me and maybe somebody else. Um is that was one of the options was every Monday we came back from a break like the Friday before was a half day and then the Monday was a professional development but it caused us to go back to starting earlier in July and I know that wasn't necessarily a desired option. Um but it also didn't cost us any money because of the way that we were doing it. So, I just want to kind of put that out there as maybe that's something that the calendar committee could look at whenever they meet again. I don't know if it's next year or the year after. Um, but that would be an option that would meet the cost or that would meet the component of providing some of that professional development and it would be it wouldn't cost us a dime.
As you know, we're we're proud to offer a number of options to our families in Gilbert public schools. Uh among those options include traditional education at three of our elementary schools. Canyon Rim Elementary and Spectrum are both uh partial traditional campuses. Uh both traditional and conventional are offered on on those campuses. And then our fully traditional campus is nearly uh traditional. So um this evening uh the presentation is focused on math and focus which is the adopted math curriculum within our traditional programs and um this was adopted a few years back and as we have discussed we'd like to bring back information related to our curriculum adoptions and this is a piece of that this evening. So um Robert Burcher is here with us this evening. He is the elementary um director of curriculum instruction and assessment and uh with him is Crystal Ud Doll who is our elementary coordinator of mathematics.
I know. No, no, no. Because so to look at it to look at it because like the way that we adjust it will cost Okay. So, it it is it is a day without students, but it's a day that we pay people. So, there is a cost to it. Okay. Sorry, I miss I misspoke. I know that there are multiple other districts. So, maybe it wouldn't be once a month, but it could be once a quarter. Yeah. So, are you comfortable tableling it? Okay. Can we I'm just because I'm confused because we're doing thumbs up to table. Can we just read the option and thumbs down it? And if anything that's thumbs down is tabled. Is that Yeah. So, let's um do a thumbs up if we table it. When I table it, who knows how many tables we're going to end up. Wait, we just said the opposite.
Turn it over. Good evening. Um Mr. President uh Dr. McCord and uh governing board we appreciate your time this evening. Is Mr. Ryan was talking about we this is at Canyon Rim Neely and Spectrum and this represents about 8% of our school population for our elementary schools. Um this came about Sorry it's delayed. Nope. Go backwards to three. It worked once. Try throwing it against the wall. Right. I'm sure Mr. Macintosh can help. Where do you want? Right there. One. There it is. Okay, perfect. So, to give you a little bit of a a background, our traditional schools had Sax and Math um for a long time. Sax and Math was published in 1983. A lot has changed in mathematics since 1983, including multiple versions of the standards. Um, in 2023, we were notified by the publisher that Sachs and Math would no longer be available for purchase for schools or districts.
So, if you we reread the option to eliminate it, we thumbs it down. Once it's eliminated, it gets put on the table list. Okay. So, you want Okay. And I just want to make sure every do not want today is going to be tabled and then if we have time then we'll go back through those other committee at the beginning of next year cycle can do that work. Okay. But I really Yes. No, I agree. I agree. I do agree. Okay. I'll read it again. Designate one Friday per month for mandatory staff PD without students. Okay. Tabled. And Joel, you're taking. Okay. Um, number two, keep current tiers of longevity to increase amount by each tier by 20%. The number I did have changed today. Um, so let's go ahead and do a arrow. I'm looking at it. Okay. Um I'm assuming I'm just gonna say tabled because that's what we just decided.