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So that was actually going to be my next point is that the new policy doesn't actually change anything in the current way that we do things and it doesn't change the threshold of how we notify and and in asking um Mr. Caldwell there is a very rare instance during school or in any you know form uh that would affect the students and staff. So it's just sort of this one notification piece that was not in our current policy. Um but now now we'll just notify everybody. That worked well. Um, okay. So, for policy 3120, which is the uh budget procedures and line item transfers update. So, this had also been on for a first read and in the SMG policy, the threshold was 1% and the question had come up that that was very high and we were all a little iffy about that. And so, after discussion with both SMG and Casey in the town, uh it was determined that we can just change it to reflect our current policy of $10,000.
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So, this report, the format you're looking at might look uh familiar to some of the other reports we brought. This is how uh reports that we run directly out of the system look. Um they're they're a little bit cumbersome, but I wanted to come right from the source. Um so, this is the 2023 uh surplus um in our Tyler Technologies uh system. you'll see that that bottom bottom number, the 7.9 um is the surplus that surplus number that we're familiar with. Um there are some pluses and and minuses uh definitely throughout here. Uh again, um which is no surprise now that we know what we know that a little bit of this was driven by uh salaries 738,000. I attribute that to um either open positions that that remained open or um positions that uh were vacated throughout the year. But the the main driver of this 7.9 um is really employee benefits.
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And we're going to jump right over to Dr. Freeman and his superintendent's report. Well, good evening everybody and welcome to our May board meeting. It is very exciting to see so many people in the audience and knowing that we have all these wonderful awards to give tonight makes it a really special night. At this time we'll start with our students of the month. I call forward Dr. S for Lamont and Lamont Annex. [Applause] Right. So good evening. Um, congratulations to Nathaniel Vargas. Nathaniel, you want to come up? Come on down, [Applause] Nathaniel. So, Nathaniel is Miss Sanchez class. Um, Nathaniel is a big brother to his little sister. Nathaniel enjoys exploring the learning centers, learning the alphabets and numbers, and singing songs. Um, his favorite hobby is building with wooden blocks and playing with puzzles. Congratulations, Nathaniel. Yay! [Applause] Nathaniel photo. Yay! Nathaniel. Another round of applause for Nathaniel.
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[Applause] Good morning. Congratulations, class of 2025. My name is Mrs. Jane Really, and I'm here to give out a scholarship in the memory of my husband. My husband, Randy, was a caring and hardworking person. He graduated in 1979 from Batesville High School and he participated in their school to work program when he was in high school. He worked through the grocery business and continued to work on into the retail business his entire life. He worked his way up through the business with the cashier stockperson to managing over six convenience stores and eventually owning his own convenience store. Randy also had a love for the outdoors. He loved hunting and fishing. And he eventually opened up R&J Bait and Tackle, which included servicing over 25 stores with bait and tackle. Even with his busy schedule, he found the time to coach softball and mentor young people in our community.
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Um, so I just wanted to to voice that possibility. I mean, I'd be willing if it was if we could put that sort of stipulation on it now to give them $1,000, too. I mean, if we can I mean, and then but it has to be for Ashley. I'd like to see I'd like to see there because did we ask them details about what happened with the first four because typically if someone has received a grant we then have to get a write up as to how they use those $4,000. Did we get that information from them? So it's really staffing this like um support support line and they do um like support groups. So they have group oh you know. So there's no but there's no data as to how many Ashlin residents So they don't they haven't collected like where people are calling from, you know, and that's that's interesting.
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So it will remain uh notification and approval by the board at $10,000. Um and so everything we've reviewed up to this meeting stays the same. There's no changes uh that had come up during the first read. So it's very straightforward. So then for 9211 which is the resignation removal of an officer. So the question had come up during the first read review from a board member. The our current polic says 2/3 majority for removal and the SNG policy says simple majority. The reason why it's simple majority is because it comes with cause. So there are parameters set with the SMG policy. So essentially with our um the way our current BPS bylaw is written, there's no um there doesn't have to be a sort of grounds. anyone can just bring it up and it takes a twothirds majority. With um the new policy, the SMG policy bylaw, there's parameters it gives um you have to state cause.
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Um employee benefits that that line which again labels incorrectly as social security. Um there is social security in there. There is health insurance. There is um long-term disability and life insurance is another account in there. Uh workers compensation um is an account in there um as well as unemployment insurance and um the dental benefit. Um so all combined th those numbers um lead to the 8.5 million surplus. Mike, what are some of the I I can't see it so unfortunately. I'm going to ask you mentioned salaries and health benefits. What are some of the other uh so for purchase professional services there is a favorable balance of 1.36 million. Um the next line down purchase property services relatively small negative 174,000. Uh and then other purchase services uh is a large negative uh 1.21 million. Uh supplies were very close to being on the money favorable 65,000.
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Okay. Congr congratulations to Rob Robbie Barharm. Robbie, are you here? Right here. Come here, Robbie. Way to go, Robbie. Okay. Robbie is in Miss Jorge's class in kindergarten. Yeah. Robbie's favorite uh school subject is art and gym. His favorite hobbies are coloring, video games, and writing. his brother's bike. When he grows up, he wants to be a YouTuber or an art teacher. Congratulations, Robbie. [Applause] Say hello in the mic, Robbie. Yes. Congratulations, Robbie. Hey, congratulations to Ashton Ren Bargain. Ashton Ashton's in first grade Woods class. Nathan, I mean Ashton has a sibling named Nathan. His cousin Tristan who he like who is like a brother to him. His favorite school subject is reading and art. His favorite hobbies are drawing, dancing, swimming, cross word puzzles, and his career plans is he'll like to be a pilot in the Air Force just like his mom pilot.
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Randy also cared for my father who had Alzheimer's for 5 years. He was always giving us time to help others and encouraging young people to do their best. Randy lost his battle with melanoma cancer on July 16th of 2020. Through the generous support of many friends and family, community members, we were able to establish the Randy Reley memorial scholarship fund. I also continue the bait and tackle business that Randy started to help fund the scholarships as well. We hope that the scholarships will help the recipients obtain some of the necess necessities needed to launch into a new adventure. The scholarships are open to seniors in area schools. No matter if they're going to college, going to a trade school, entering the military, or entering directly into the workforce. Sometimes you just need a little bit of help. This year, we are giving two scholarships, one here at Greensburg and one at Jacksonell in the amount of $200 each.
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I would think Well, anyway, um you know, I think we could, like I said, they they would have to collect that information. If we were to give them the money to to uh provide those services to Ashlin residents, if that's something that they're comfortable doing, then I'd feel comfortable giving the funds. But if that's something they're not comfortable doing, then so I think my a recommendation I would have is rather than give them more funds that we don't know if they can track is go back to them and say we support what you're doing, but we really want it to be focused toward Ashland. Is there a way for you to crack this as data so that you can support and say, "Yep, you've given us these funds and so many astron and and then see if it's doable and then decide whether or not we give them more funds." I think that's fair.
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There's sort of a process that goes into it and the committee is comfortable um switching to that process. So that's on tonight for um adoption. And then for a first read tonight, you're going to see the fundraising and activities uh fund policies. So for 3281 which is the fundraising policy uh fundraising activities policy and the 3452 which is student activity fund policy. Uh Casey looked at the policies that we have currently in more detail um at the request of the committee to just to make sure there was nothing overlapping, nothing we currently have that was going to contradict those policies. anything we had to update right away to make sure that there were no immediate um conflicts or you know anything that was going to be sort of negated and in examination of all of our current policies although some of them are from 1992 none of them will be affected by adopting these two policies um and we will get to like it's like monies in school and yeah it's simple things that don't actually need immediate attention and don't get nullified and and still need to be in place so we will get to those these two policies don't change anything that we currently have around the fundraising policies.
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Um enrollment impact and equipment uh was unfavorable 205 call that 206,000 and then we were favorable on the um dues fees and staff development. Um the other thing I wanted to point out um is that last line und designated um which you probably can't see right now. U we we've seen this in a couple of other um sets of financials. I think it was in the 2024 number as well. Um that uh that appears to me to be a a plug in the budget to get the total GL budget to equal what the um entitlement of 141 million was. I don't know that that's necessarily tied to anything. So, the vast majority of that negative $1.5 million budget entry uh remained as a negative budget balance. Um to me that that does not make um good financial sense. But nonetheless, that's where we are. Is so first let me ask this.
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Wow. Awesome. Congratulations, Ash. [Applause] Okay, at this time I'd like to call Miss Cahas up for our Lafayette students of the [Applause] month. Our second grade student of the month is Angelene Torres Roso. Yay. Angelina. Angelene is from Miss Emaresi's class. She has one sister. Her favorite school subject is art with Mrs. Ackley and she loves gymnastics. And when she grows up, she wants to be a teacher and teach gymnastics after school. Congratulations, Angeline. You ready? Another round of applause for Angeline. Our third grade student of the month is Jadielle Corno Dionio. Jadielle. Hey Jadielle. Jadielle is in Miss Wararez's class. He has three siblings. He's fa his favorite school subject is math. He likes to play soccer and football after school. And when he grows up, he wants to be a soccer player and an engineer. Congratulations, [Applause] Adio. Another round of applause for our Lafayette School students of the month.
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And this year's recipient from Greensburg is Cody Casease. [Music] Hello, my name is Jessica Barkard and I am the JAG instructor for Gradsburg High This year we had our first class of J recipients for the region 9 scholarship award for 200 each. And I would like to call those recipients to the stage. We have Y ball. We have Logan Dias Garcia Nyall Zamer. Emily Maria Canales Blake Pierce Kumato and Grayer. Thank [Music] [Applause] you. Hello I'm Mr. and I'm the uh head coach for the academic uh Super Bowl team and I am here to present the academic team scholarship to recipients Tam and Elliot W. Thank you. Morning graduates. It's my honor to be here with Russell Wilhoy uh to present the Russell the Nancy Wilhoy academic and leadership scholarship. Russell has been very active in our school district for many many years coaching softball and many years in our community coaching baseball went back to even when I was a kid coaching baseball and uh you know Russell has always been very committed to the youth in our community.
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Don't have a problem. Yep. We're okay with it, too. That works. Good. Good discussion. Thank you both for Yeah. I know this is a tough Thank you very much for all the time and effort. Yeah. and and it's like, you know, again, we want to be able to to help as many organizations as possible. It's just But we now are down to 70K. So, and um Susan, have we received all of our funds in for this round of BA numbers? We have a very little bit that Okay. We have a couple stragglers, but the majority of it we have. Okay. Stragglers. Okay. Good. Thank you, Susan. Okay. Any other discussion on this item? No. Okay. Again, Brandy and Yes, Brandy and Claudia, thank you for doing that. I know it's I know it's a lot um not on the agenda, but real quick, Joe and Claudia scholarship committee.
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It will simply um take the place of our current fundraising and our current student activity policy. One of the things that we are working on, Casey has worked on and that the committee has reviewed is the along with the student activities fund policy, there will be a student activities procedural manual. You've gotten a draft in your um uh board um packet tonight to review. So keep in mind that that think of it as a regulation. So we're approving the policy with that. Um but that will be building level. It will go out uh to make sure that it's consistent and it kind of lays out how you know everything will um work going forward. Um in 3281 it asks for a threshold. the committee felt like 25 and and Casey agreed that 2500 uh is a good threshold for approval. Um so that's when uh you are going to speak to the principles and administrators in your next meeting just to confirm they're comfortable with that level.
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I'd like to see a copy if that's okay. You know that I can have a hard copy. Sure that the other thing as you mentioned I'll bring it with you Teresa the the other thing you mentioned you gave an explanation for the first item salaries where you indicated a lot of it had to do with the infield positions what explanation can you give like for for salaries and some of the other items can you generalize as to how this came about? Um, what I'm getting at is it's good to have a schedule, but the schedule itself doesn't says one thing, but to me, it doesn't say how it occurred. What your your comment relative to the salaries made sense. So, I could say, okay, that I I could understand that. But what I'm getting at is should this document then be footnoted with some brief explanations as to the findings as to what created this uh this circus.
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And next up for Smallley School, we have Mrs. Winter. Congratulations to our fourth grade student of the month, Bethany [Applause] Salazar. Bethany comes to us from Mrs. Coker's class. She has one brother. Her favorite subject is science. She likes to play sports, mostly soccer, and she wants to be a policewoman when she grows up. [Applause] Congratulations to our fifth grade student of the month, Samuel Duk Galindo. Come on down, Sam. Samuel doesn't have any siblings. His favorite subject is math. His hobbies are to play tag with his friends and play soccer. And his career goals when he grows up, he wants to help his family with their farm. And he also would like to go to college. Congratulations. Another round of applause for Sam. And our sixth grade student of the month is Xavon [Applause] Wilson. Xavon is coming to us from Mr. Mel Serggo's class.
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He's also been he and his wife been very giving to our uh Greensburg Education Foundation and they wanted to present a scholarship to a senior teaching from Greensburg High School and it's my honor to be here with Russell to present $1,000 scholarship to Daniel Fissy. Continuing, we'll present some more scholarships here. Uh, beginning with the Strider Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $500 that will go to Ariana Hamilton. the Sarah Kinker scholarship for $500 go to Ella Kors. the Lillian Knox Education Scholarship for $500. Uh the Robert French Memorial Scholarship for $1,000, which is renewable, will go to Dan. [Applause] We got our business degree scholarship of $2,000 go to Jack McKenzie. We got our technical degree scholarship for $2,000. We go to Kesha course. [Music] You got a vocational degree scholarship for $2,000 goes to Brooklyn [Applause] Clark. Got an associate degree scholarship for $2,000 goes to Tiffany Raymond.
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Yes. We don't announce it until after graduation, but I just wanted to We'll be getting the uh information this week. Okay. Yeah. Wait, talk to Susan. And have you let Susan know who's attending class day on that Friday? Well, now now now that the election process is over, Joe's waiting to be elected. I'll be there. Good. He was worried. Everything was hing on last night. So, wonderful. Okay, moving on in our agenda. Discuss and vote on the acceptance of the surplus disposal procurement policy. We've read through this once. I think there might have been tweaks or not. I see there have been some edits there. There have been some edits. Um Okay. And I know a particular concern was um data sanitation methods. That's right. And so uh I believe you'll see that under section E um procedures and also the approved methods of sanitation and also who is authorized to carry out that uh that work.
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