So, uh we are going to be working with PMA uh to really come up with a strong uh investment strategy. Uh we feel that it's prudent to do so especially when our our cash balances are high at the beginning of the the fiscal year to try to earn a little bit more in interest which will ultimately um uh be of benefit to the taxpayers in this community is we're able to utilize that that income for other other areas in our budget. So just to clarify so these would be locked into like six month CDs instead of and then we'd have access to them the second half of the the fiscal year. Is that Yeah. So we we have yeah we have a variety of options we have there's three month there's six month uh really it's just uh dependent on our our cash balance at the time and our comfort level.
I don't know if we're going to be able to have it. We have an indoor track. It is 160 meters." Okay. And uh, so that's our space and that's the space that we get to work in. and they had and I I brought him up here because I really want to brag about just a can do attitude, right? Um, a lot of people said, "Oh, you know, we could have just, you know, you know, that's just this season will be one of the seasons that we just get through and it'll be okay." And that wasn't the case with with with my group of coaches, the boys track team and and and the girls track team. Uh, no complaints. They just went to work every day. And honestly, uh, they put their head down like you ask out of anybody and you ask out anybody in athletics.
Got it in there. There's a strike to Gorman. That's popped up over the by the third baseman who Oh, third baseman and pitcher both converge on it. First third baseman first pitcher comes away with it. Luckily, we didn't have a collision there. I didn't hear anybody calling for it the way they're supposed to, but pitcher uh came in and scooped that ball away on the pop fly. So, that's three outs. At the end of one, we're tied one to one. Great job by Ashlin to come back and put a run on the board. go to the top of the second inning. Het has a good size goodsized team. They have uh six, seven, seven kids deep on the bench. Ashley maybe has Three or four back out the pitch again. Of course. Leading off for Hocketton will be will be I have to read the coach's writing here.
Any discussion? All those in favor say all those opposed? Thank you. Consolidated cash is a handout that's in front of you. We have a revolving fund report which is in the packet and we have a budget report that is also in the packet.
But for me, I'm glad I didn't only do what my friends were doing. Take risks next year and join clubs so that you can be involved. It seems like those who wait until their senior year to start trying things always say, "Why didn't I do that sooner?" There truly is something for everyone. I challenge you to find the activities you enjoy regardless of what others do. Don't let the pressure to fit in prevent you from standing out can also apply to how you participate. There might be a lot of your friends taking the sport with you next fall. You will have all different experiences. Some of your teammates might play more than you do, but I believe that the activity and being a part of a team really needs to remain the priority as you go through high school. It's really fun getting to be on a team with all four grades.
So, you deserve to give yourself a big round of applause. eighth grade class of 2025. You know, families, the student staff, our focus and this year in AUSD was was pretty uh was direct and to the point. Make each day your masterpiece. And what is your why? We shared that as a staff at the start of the year and we shared that with our students. What is your why? Why do you come here every day? Why do you want to make a difference every single day here at the school and throughout the entire community? Your why should be this students. Pride, personal responsibility, and daily excellence. Enjoy the moment, every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month, all year should work to improve 1% every day for the next year. At the end of one year, that is tremendous growth.
It is my pleasure now to introduce our next speaker. Every year, the senior class votes on and selects a senior representative to speak on their behalf. And I am very proud to announce tonight's senior representative, Alyssa May Clark Tecare. Alyssa, come on up.
Continental hasn't just been a school to us. It's been like a second home. This is where we learned to read and write, where we solved our first math solution problems. where we learned to play instruments, played sports, and discovered the things we're passionate about. We've grown from curious little kids into confident young people. And every hallway, classroom, and playground here holds part of that journey. And the best part, we didn't grow alone. We grew together. We've seen each other through our awkward stages, group projects, school dances, field trips, and moments that made us laugh until we cry. We've celebrated wins and helped each other through challenges. Whether it was making it through a tough test or finally understanding a tricky math lesson, we had people around us who cared and cheered us on. Each of us are leaving here as our own person with our own strengths, voices, and dreams.
If you remember, we had that uh 4,500 um student ADM. That's what goes into the calculation first. The state then has several areas that they adjust the formula for various reasons that are again set in law. Um all of this is set in Arizona revised statutes and how the calculation occurs. Um so for the preschool uh we do get funded for special ed preschool. We get some additional weighted funding which is a 1.45. for K8 students you get a 1.15 and we don't have any high school students so we don't get that in our funding formula. What that does is do a it creates the calculation that then at the end uh they multiply that toward by the original number and we end up with 5,312 is our weighted count. Again that doesn't equal students. It's an average of those students. So, we had three students create two ADM.
Let Come on." Do they know the right side of the drumstick to hold? Okay, just checking. All right. In early April, Campovery High Indoor Percussion Ensemble won the Winterguard Arizona State Championship in the A classification at Millennium High School. Campo's indoor percussion ensemble has 30 members ranging in age from freshman to seniors. The group began rehearsing in December of 24 to put together this year's show, Constant State of Going Nowhere. Story of my life. The show explores the reality of a fast-paced life that is constantly moving, but questions whether they are really going anywhere. This year's ensemble uh ensemble of 30 students is instructed by Riley Smith. And I'm going to let these guys introduce themselves real quick. Say what grade you are and then Matt you can say a few words if that's okay. I'll start with you. Just pass it down. Okay. I'm a freshman.
The message is to don't let your precious effort and time spent go to waste because of a setback. Any progress at all is too valuable to run us to failure. As Amelia Hehart once said, "The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity." Let us all keep the persistence and courage it took to get us here to graduation throughout the rest of our lives. Keep pushing forward, class of 2025, because your hard work and those who support you will smooth the path to success, even in the face of adversity. Thank you to all and congratulations to the graduating class. [Applause] It is my honor and privilege to stand before you as one of your valadictorians. We are all gathered here today to celebrate the hard work of the graduating class of 2025. It has been a long four years for all of us.
But by simply getting to this point, you have already shown that you are able to take on the challenge of the wider world. So do not fear tomorrow because tomorrow can worry for itself. Focus on what you have accomplished, your passions, and especially those around you. Find peace knowing that you are living a life that is worth living, a life that is better without living in fear of what comes next, but instead looking forward to what you have yet to achieve. Thunderbird class of 2025, embrace the joy and live a real life. Thank you.
and for six years really you are intertwined in their lives when you see them from little 5-year-olds to as they're leaving you in fifth grade. So it's been a wild ride in education over these last 33 years and I've loved every moment of it. So thank you so much. [Applause] Oh my goodness. [Laughter] It's the board. It's the board. It's the board. I already took a photo with her. All right. Okay. Um, at this time to everybody who's here, we're going to take a brief five minute pause to our meeting. If people would like to, you know, hang out there there's some treats in the back. Uh, but we're giving you an opportunity to just take a break and then if you at this point would like to uh leave the meeting, feel free. If you'd like to stay and see the rest of the business for the board meeting, you're more than welcome to.
And then the assistant superintendent group um base salaries were already um approved by the board when the board approved those multi-year contracts. So that's why those individuals are not included in this group. Um we also included in the information to the board and community what the average increase for Mckenry County um school districts around us and that average is 4.02%. Um the overall impact um of these for the fiscal um 26 year is when we look at our $39.2 million budget for Next year, these raises would account for an increase of $83,936 over the previous year. All remaining non-UN employee groups account for an increase of about 155,000 over the previous year. And so therefore, um it is my recommendation to the board of education approve a pay increase of 3.55% for administrative and all other non-union positions for the 2526 school year.
Any discussion? Hearing none, if we could take a vote, please. Jason Jansik, yes. Ann Sanuchi, yes. Darling, yes. Mindy Hartman, yes. Katherine Potter, yes. Stacy Salt, yes. Julie Jetty, yes. Okay, next up, we have the election results. Results from the April 1st, 2025 school board member election. Dr. White, Good evening. Um so the Mckenry County clerk certified on April 22nd, 2025 after um canvasing the returns of the consolidated election um on April 1st, 2025. So he proclaimed that a total of 35,177 ballots were cast in Mckenry County. And he further certified that the following list of candidates each received the number of votes recorded for him or her for the office listed below. So those that um had the most votes and were elected were Mrs. Stacy Salt, Mrs. Julie Jetty, Mrs. Melinda Hartman, sorry, Mindy Hartman. I just read it off the paper and and Mrs.
Um I'm I'm fairly cautious because I always want to make sure that we have enough cash on hand to to meet our needs. Uh so PMA recognizes that and we're going to start easing into this uh and really trying to invest uh our extra resources to try to earn more for this community to squeeze like every dollar we can out of the cash that we have on hand essentially a couple thousand it would still be that's better than it just sitting in our bank account earning nothing. Correct. and we'll talk about in a couple minutes, but one of the reasons why we're amending this year's budget is because of the higher than expected interest amount uh that we have received. Now, that's not something that we should anticipate every year moving forward. Uh but it is definitely extra that helps alleviate some of the uh the burden on our taxpayers.
And so they didn't have a there was no jump pits. We broke the record, our own record for for uh triple jump this year. Uh we didn't have any exchange zones. Uh we couldn't we didn't have shot foot circles, discus circles, high jump pits, right? You name it. And while all those things are stacked against you, right? And that's a lot of adversity to overcome and and and it is a testament to the character of the men that are standing next to me as well as the student athletes that we work with. This two weeks ago, we went to the uh boys conference meet, we walked away as the Southland Athletic Conference Champions. And that to me is, you know, just an outstanding job, right? It is the second year in a row that we were named that we we earned the right of being conference champions.
Barrens, I apologize if I got your name wrong. Looks like Barrens. the customary throw down the second base by the catcher. Umpire cleans off the plate and we'll get the second inning underway here. First pitch just outside. There's a strike. One ball, one strike. And that ball's just outside, too. Now he's he's got the the height right. I was just going to get the left and right. That looked close, too. Three balls, one strike. These pitches are all right around right around the uh the strike zone. Sharply hit ball right into the gap. picked up by the shortstop. Fries to first. Gutsa get nice job. Good job over there. I think that was Gorman. The shorts stop. Good job. Got that ball up. Got it across just in time to get the runner out. Now we got one out. That ball's a little low. Looks like we have Verki up at bat for Hopkins.
Any questions on any of those? We have in finance we have the audit from 2022. It'sformational. I would like to a small part of it. It says, "In our opinion, the accompany schedule of expenditures of federal awards present presents fairly in all material aspects. The expeditures of federal awards to this to the school for the year ending June 30th, 2020 in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. We'll see you speak to this please. So that's just the fiscal year 22 single audit. So that's just an audit of our um major federal grant. Um there were two findings on the audit that we had previously corrected. Um one was for time and effort which we added a procedure to our um grants manual and then the other was for beginning balances which we created a procedure for and fixed that as well.