I just had a picture that I visited bleachers. I don't have our little portable one out there. I don't know. But, um, just kind of showing the facility. We got really small bleachers over here. As a football coach, I'm not kind of jumping off here. It's kind of embarrassing when your visual fans come over there. They're sitting in lawn chairs on your long jump runway and the side of your track because there's nowhere else for them to sit. So, here's the aerial view from Google Earth of the High Jump runway. And it's not real clear, but you can see the black lines showing the cracks from Google Earth. Currently, this is what we use uh the layout for our high jumps so that we have two match with the high school, middle school, both there. And here it is when it's all set up from a different angle.
So, does anybody have any questions? Um, we normally wear blue to graduation. Yeah, it was not something that like was surface, but I'm really looking for an orange dress. I'm not even looking dress. I have Well, I guess blue and orange, but just so you know, because Marsha told me the first year that she was upset that I didn't wear blue. Yes, these are the important decisions of our board. No, no, it just is what it is. So, I guess you could wear green if you want, but I know I just I make a motion that orange. No, I don't want to wear orange. Can I answer anything else for you guys about the about any of the things in the report or high lane or I will do my best. I have that day I have two graduations to go to. Great graduation at Frank.
We serve, you know, we have five different agencies that impact our schools. So, when we look at, you know, that equitable piece, right, we want to be able to offer many of these things to all of our kids. Um, but I and and we've had those conversations about bringing all of our agencies together to see how we can be much more cohesive as a group, but as they said, they serve the mo the majority or a large portion um of our of our group. Well, we're counting on it and we appreciate the leadership to get there because I think it's an important change for all of our areas. So, let's let's make it happen. Um, with that, I think I want to I want to thank you all for your time this evening and uh I know we've got a I'm sure we'll be able to contact for further questions.
Um we're going to be moving to a twostep verification for at least the teachers. That way nobody can access their their stuff on computers as well. We'll be changing all the emails how we have them now changing to a different format for that next year. I make a little bit easier when students lose their password and so forth so on it will be a little bit harder. Um they move on down. We use parent square right now for notifications. So like twohour delays um and just pushing out emergency information and everything. Well, luckily when we were going through um all of our stuff with our new website, yes, it does. Um they have a program called MXR E through Final C. It does the same thing and more than what is switching over to MXR and we'll have that done probably within the next 30 days or so.
Um but we have we are at 28.7% in our operation spending. So we're doing really well. Um, and we had some bigger ticket items um that we asked you to consider tonight um that are somewhat routine, but all have been appropriated for counted for and dec. Yes. I'll have to fix that. I can tell you what. But um 48,000 um has been spent in our appropriation is 139,000. So we're well below Yeah. All right. Uh now we will move forward to the corporation. Okay. Well um Josh really um led the way in terms of the meeting that he talked about in his report. Um, but I want to thank him for organizing a really professionally wellthoughtout table talk. Um, just basically we're talking through a really unfortunate situation. We don't like to think about school safety issues. We like to think about active shooters. Um, but I can say more frequent are natural disasters or um, I think we've been a part of a bomb threat situation where we had to evacuate the school building.
Any other fun conversations about the legislative update? On that note, I'll move on to E4 June and July 2025 schoolboard meeting locations. Okay, we have one more meeting in here uh coming up in two weeks. And since this building is going to be shut down in the month of June and most of July, we are moving the June and July school board meetingswork sessions um to the Crestview Middle School Library. And so um that's where the board meetings and work sessions will be in June and July is at Crestview. Um we had a meeting out there the other morning. Um we're confident that we can host those out there. Now, we won't have two different camera angles and we won't have all that. We'll have a standard camera setting up out back, but we'll meet all the requirements and just for three meetings. Um, we are going to meet at Crestview and we'll be back here hopefully forever again.
We're trying. So, everything's we just house the student money. We just keep it here, but we don't spend it. You know, I agree with the cap. I mean, I it's I don't like I for me it's eye opening that $134,000 is just sitting out there in assets. I understand that there are activities going on like the prom and stuff like that that you're going to spend money on. $134,000 is a lot of money. Um I'm sure the prom is probably $20,000 for whatever reason. It is, but it's all it's some of it's old money. Some of it's just money that's sitting there. So, I feel like we need to do I'm I applaud Aaron for trying to get this cleaned up. And I think we need to do kind of go through and make sure that things are being spent where they're supposed to be.
Any opposed? All right. Motion. Who made Excuse me. Who made the motion? Oneita. Oneita did. Okay. And it was seconded by Al. All right. Well, that brings us to the conclusion of this meeting. That might be the fastest policy meeting I think we've ever had. Uh, good job, Kate. Yeah, it was a team effort. I certainly appreciate everybody's participation this evening. Uh, when folks show up and they're prepared and and ready to move, uh, it does make things go much smoother and I appreciate that. All right. Uh, we'll look for a motion to adjourn at 7:04 p.m. We make that motion. Thank you, Al. May I have a second, please? Second. Thank you, Michelle. All those in favor, please say
So, here's the current condition. I just kind of started with with the smaller cracks and worked my way up. You can't really see the chunks that are falling off in the pictures. Um, if you've ever ran on asphalt and try to run on asphalt with spikes, you're not going to get any traction. So, it's really hard for a kid to practice high jump in spikes when they can't practice in spikes versus jumping in spikes. It's just not safe for them to do that. I have made, again, I didn't buy them. I made some boxes and I made a ramp box cuz they're really expensive with rubber on it where if we're going to jump jump it's 8 in tall. We raise the bar up 8 in and we run and we jump off that ramped box so that we can actually jump on something that's not going to hopefully slide.
This will be a fun one. This the class of 25 is a phenomenal class as you saw tonight. Every student who spoke tonight was a senior and they're well spoken and they they have a a great interest in the school district. I class 25 because they didn't have to come and they still chose to come. This is a great class. This is a great class. Yep. They did. They did a fantastic job. Absolutely. All right. Good. All right. Item 6D is financial reports. Madam President, members of the board, staff administration, ladies and gentlemen, just a summary of the financial condition of our main main funds at the school district at this point. Our main operating fund which we used for a lot of salary, a lot of benefits, a lot of purchase services, utilities, etc. 19.3 million on that uh that budget at this point, the end of April, which is the 30th expenditures 15.8 8 million revenues follow those expenditures pretty closely.
All right. Thank you all. Moving on to public comment. Uh Ursula, we do have a public comment tonight. Um, on behalf of the board of education, I would like to thank the public for attending tonight's meeting. We value the feedback we received from our members of the public and encourage everyone to take an active interest in their public school system. Individuals interested in speaking to the board this evening are asked to have completed a comment card and presented it to the secretary to the board. When the secretary calls your name, I ask you that you come to the microphone, state your name for the public record, and provide your feedback. Please note the comments are limited to five minutes per person. The board does not participate in discussion during public comment. Comment should address the board of education as a whole and not be directed to an individual board member, audience, or staff member.
Um we'll be getting rid of All right. Anything for us, Vicki? Um, yes. I have one thing that um next month we hope to bring before the board the opportunity for employees to do a payroll deduction for Maryland's Village. Okay, cool. Good deal. Um, I think for those of you who weren't here at the last meeting, Paul, originally we thought we were going to spend $40 to $50,000 on the new phones because the phones were in bad shape. Um, as far as the system itself and what's it going to cost us by the time we're all done? Less than $2,000. Good job, Paul. The phone bill down from what we're paying now by down below. Beautiful. It's awesome. I did see Paul drive a new truck. Hey, that's all right. It's all right. All right. Um I did have something with Ross. Okay. Yeah. Um he had a couple things he wanted to mention tonight.
Um, those conversations are so important. So, I want to thank Josh for um being our school safety officer for the corporation and for organizing that. Um but I also want to specifically thank Chief Mullen with the deli police, Sheriff Lig, the sheriff's department, Mike Fincher, Dan Doulan, Chief of Fire. Um really just finding out I think the most beneficial part of that whole conversation was finding out how we each communicate with one another so that we're all using the same kind of language and understanding their protocols versus our protocols. Um it was so beneficial and again not something we like to think about but um want to highlight to the community that it is something we think about and we reflect on and we review our practices um you know as those things occur and it's something that's front of mind on a regular basis so that we're always improving where we find issues and needs.
Uh, back here in the cafeteria at the Huntington North High School after that, but just putting that out there for the community. Uh, and I would want to send along special thanks to Mr. Sumpter who's sitting back at the room and his IT group that is back there helping us get these meetings online. Uh the amount of work that they do to make it look as smooth as it can be is is a yman's job having had done that a long time ago. So again, thank you. I don't know we give you guys any praise anytime soon, but again, thank you for everything you do to help make sure that the public gets to see the meetings uh as they go through. Hearing that, we are to F1 and adjournment. Do I hear a motion to adjurnn? Thank you, Deb. Second. Second. Thank you, Matt.
And yeah, again, the AP stuff. Yeah, I totally get it. That's expensive. But, you know, that stuff isn't just kind of sitting there idle. Like parents are paying the dues to your point and then the money's kind of going in this black. Well, no problem. I mean, you see what these classes were left with. They were left with like $200. At one point, they had $30,000. They dwindle it down. Like it it sounds alarming. I totally understand that. But I for this looks totally normal to me. Yeah. So if you if you think about like each class if you think about each class has $15,000. Yeah. So that would be, you know, $60,000. And then and then you have, you know, yearbook has $15,000. Now we have $75,000. So your $134,000 all of a sudden is not that much money, right? Because it's there really are buckets of money that have that they're going to be used and prom is very expensive.
The kids not going to fall and slip. So the large cracks and it's sized for the two pits. So here's just some more pictures that I get into and you can start to see the cracks. Some of them are big enough that my fingers fit in them. Some of them my hand fits inside the cracks. So, what I proposed was like a lot of tracks um is going all the way across with this being rubberized. Um when Tim engineered the guy last year that did the sprinkler system, he had already communicated with them as far as disconnecting these sprinkler lines here if this would ever happen. so that it was planned out in the future as far as cost and saving money and aspects some of the sprinkler systems that were already there. So what we use our long jump runways for considering that we only have is for a rubber surface and a dirt track.
Uh the revenues the district brings in are about 11 million state and equalization about 7 and a half eight million local property tax. Our operating fund is at this point then we hope we can increase that with an amendment tonight for our final budget for a slight increase of around 300,000 for some free lunch money. The state is now paying us based on our free lunch ratio that was 155,000 increase for this year and another proposition 151,000 that's under budget that we look at. So we want to anticipate hopefully tonight taking that budget up from 19.3 to 19.6 last year budget ending was just over now for a few different reasons. Capital budget slightly down from last year at million60. We've really worked with staff to deliver everything we need as far as capital that pays for licenses for software textbooks pays for capital items.
Followup to your questions or concerns may be addressed by administration through the contact information provided on the comment card. Thank you. Michelle Trager. Hi Michelle Tger, parent of four. Please do not start my time yet. Um, I wasn't here last week, so I want to thank Jennifer, Latana, Eugene, and Jared um, for your years of service to the board and to the district. I want to welcome Dr. Martin, Dr. Pollock, Miss Robinson, and Miss C. I want to say congrats to our new board officers. I want to say thank you to our student ambassadors because this is a huge commitment and it's a lot of energy for us to concentrate. I can't imagine the energy it is for you guys after everything you're involved in and you bring um you just articulate so well some of the concerns from the student perspective. So, thank you.
Uh, basically just wanted to make sure you knew that Mark Dulan's schedule has us he has us on the schedule to start this this summer and be done with it before the school year starts. So, um, he has a meeting scheduled this week to replace the bathroom fixtures at the middle school. We talked about this locker rooms and the annex buildings. Um, he's going to meet with whoever it is. I think it's what? Is it Lewis? Lewis is that his name? Um, as He's got a meeting with a fencing company to price the remaining fence replacement at the complex. Um he's he writes in he's continuing to try to keep up with mowing and trimming, but he's been short-handed because he and Gary both I think have driven they end up driving about every day. um whether it's a vocational route or special ed route or something, they're driving something every day, which cuts into the amount of time they get to do what they're actually hired to do.
So thank you to that uh whole process. Last week was teacher appreciation week and I want to take time to thank the amazing teachers and staff at Deli Community School Corporation. They go above and beyond um every day and what they do and make a difference in students lives. Um, I want to thank the administration at each building and the PTO's that provided snacks and fun activities and think something every day for the teachers to just show um how much we appreciate them. It's one week and that's really not enough, but um I just wanted to make sure that we publicly acknowledge that we so appreciate our teachers. And then lastly, um we have lots of exciting events coming up for seniors. So, um we'll talk about some of those dates here in a minute, but I do want to take a moment to thank um Mrs.