second attempt by sparks it's up and it's in and then that makes that 11. pierce dyer got a hand on that ball by that durian inbounded here we go bolus crosses over gets by sparks and jurian is going to be wide open dishes it out to stokes instead though here goes ertl for the three-point shot and he is fouled and there will be a chance for a four-point play very rare play here in the game of basketball but we'll see if he can come through and get four points here for the wildcats and take the lead [Music] it's up and fails to fails to take the lead here six minutes 30 seconds left tied up at 28. cummer's swinging the ball to dyer dyer attempts to go down low but it's blocked and there's a travel by dyer as he got too ahead of himself and took a quick step that the official could cause a travel ball getting inbounded by durian to erdl and the wildcats will be swinging the ball very well here [Music] not much penetration by the wildcats here in the second half uh they've gotten their only points off the outside shot here no they definitely are playing quite a bit more passive uh with the three-point line just go around and uh you know maybe they saw conor's little slowing down the game and that got on the pirates nerves and oh here goes the wide open lane for bolas as he drives in and makes it [Applause] there's a kick by durian dyer will inbound the ball for the pirates comer in the back court gets the ball dyer dishes it into the lane sparks gets fouled hard and goes down on his elbow gets right back up though with the help of bolos and stanley and that will be stoke's third foul sparks hoping to tie this game up with us free throws first one up and it's in sparks second attempt coming up it's up and it's just off target uh the score is 30 29 wildcats lead with just over five minutes left in this third quarter sparks gets the ball tipped bolos passes the ball to stacy and there's a double dribble from stacy that's a that's a turnover you can't afford in this kind of game just kind of a lazy mishap there pirates hoping to get something working here uh they need it they need it desperately as they were cooking and bacon here and there's an alley-oop from cummer to sparks that was just some great chemistry by uh comer and sparks being showed right there that is and there's another wide open player left open by the pirates you know i'm pretty sure he shot four of those i'm pretty sure he has not hit one yet and the ball is batted away by stacy as cummer was trying to drive into lane for two [Music] [Applause] dyer will inbound the bald sparks right under the basket sparks up and just misses it and stacy will get the rebound stanley comes bats the ball out of bounds good hustle by stanley there to try to regain the pirates possession 31-30 pirates lead with four minutes and 25 seconds left in the third quarter now we're seeing this game flip-flopping off a lot here and i'm sure that's due to the wildcats here as they're taking another outside shot and that's in and there's another lead switch [Applause] durian for three pirates looking for an answer here as cummer drives to lane has it wide open easy laying for cummer knotted up at 33 with just under four minutes left in the quarter there's a lob pass to ertl ertl driving in but walter's there to stop him and they're saying walters was getting a little too personal with him and they call foul bolos to durian jury into stacy and here we go walters will jump onto the ball side here ertl drives doesn't have the pull-up ready bolos has the pull-up ready though and he misses from outside the arc sparks barreling into the lane gets the and-one for the pirates good drive we see there by sparks is that was all effort and all hustle he was making that basket if it was the last thing he was gonna do yeah that's his 16th on the night so far so after that uh second quarter just seems like he's really been uh i think he's he's been on fire since kicked it in gear absolutely uh and that that free throw the three-point play for sparks is good so the pirates will take the 36-33 lead with 3 minutes and 30 seconds left ertl bringing the ball up for the wildcats and the ball is oh almost thrown out of bounds by the wildcats there they regained possession by a nice athletic play by ertl durian driving spins dishes it out to bolos bolo's going for the drive and the pull up off mark and that ball will be batted into the hands of comer and here goes walters the and one for the pirates no he calls it on the floor now i'm no expert but i believe walters was in the in the form of shooting there [Music] no response from jalen oh my fault yeah uh i agree yeah it was a close call for sure stanley up and in for two [Music] and here we go shot off the mark for the wildcats that is stringer 13 or 14 rather there's a travel by sparts not happy with it the pirates have a five-point lead here 38 33.
you know that's as reported you know by the new england school development council who we use and who we pay as a service provider to provide those enrollment projections for next year if you look though at the places where enrollment is changing in the pre-k through six grades our enrollment is going up by a total of 85 students while seventh and eighth grade decreases by 45 and 9 through 12 decreases by 58 but because pre-k through six does increase by a total of of 85 students projected we did include in this budget the need for two elementary teachers um and in doing so that keeps our class size consistent with you know where you know our educators and our community believes that we should be around 18 students per class in the elementary grade so you could see on the screen here that we would go from 17.8 this year to 18.3 so we're going up a little bit by adding those two teachers but you know certainly within a reasonable range for our school district this is important we did not include any covert 19 pandemic related costs in the budget that was presented by the superintendent and that we're going through tonight so what we did and i'll show you it in a minute we did prepare what we're calling a supplemental budget for covert related expenses for next year and that that totals 1.13 million dollars the reason we're presenting it as a contingency is based on a couple of things first of all we can't predict the future so we're not sure what where we'll be with the pandemic next year but what this contingency budget assumes you know month by month over the course of the year where are we going to see potential expenditures and it's in the area of ppe and sanitizing and tents and the things that we've encountered expenses for you know in this current year as well as as part of last year and the second reason we're presenting it as a contingency is we don't know if there will be continued federal and state grants to offset the pandemic-related costs of educating our students so the board will need to to weigh in on you know certainly the numbers in that contingency budget and decide you know how to how to transmit it to the town council and because we finish our budget process relatively early will be done by february you know the council by the time they receive and review the budget they'll have two additional months of time and they may have some further insight you know from the state and federal authorities if there will be any funding that's coming to offset pandemic-related costs okay so again we've got no cost related to the pandemic in the budget that we presented the the big news this year as the board members are aware is we need to increase the funding to our medical benefits account and i will go through quite a bit of detail on this this evening and answer any questions but we need 1.87 million dollars which represents just about half of the requested budget increase to increase funding for medical benefits accounts also important to know and the board members because you haven't seen the december claims yet you will at the thursday night board meeting but our reserve fund for medical benefits has dropped from 2.8 million when we started this year down to 970 000 so the month of december we saw claims of just a little uh more than one million dollars again unfortunately and so the reason that that reserve dropped as much as it as it did is it's twofold you know first because we had a strong reserve fund going into you know this current year we intentionally budgeted a contribution rate that was below the expected claims so we budgeted 725 000 claims are expected to be 800 000 so we would have expected that we would drop about 75 000 per month eating into some of that reserve we started the year with unfortunately instead of our expected claims coming in at 800 000 they've been coming in at 1.1 million dollars the first six months of the year so you know we've essentially uh used about 1.8 million dollars of our reserves that's how we get to 970 000 so again we'll go through that in some more detail but we'll need a significant increase to fund medical benefit accounts and that's reflected in the budget the next two items are relatively brief the good news is special education enrollment and costs are consistent with 20 20 21 as as we budgeted it so tuition out placement and um pupil services expenditures for consulting and related services for special education student needs are flat to last year and we've only budgeted a modest increase in instructional assistant hours and salaries so that's that's some good news that those costs are expected to be flat and then we did have a modest increase in operations and maintenance which we'll go through on the evening of the 26th so those are the assumptions i i wanted to show you this and then we could pause and see if there's any questions so far but this is the supplemental request for covert related expenses for next year and although i'm showing you here quarter by quarter i do have this broken out by month i just rolled it up into the quarters because it's easier to see so you could see on the left side here these are the expense expense categories that we have additional substitutes to cover for teachers and instructional assistants who are who are out you know continuing unemployment claims which are higher than we've seen in previous years due to the pandemic bus monitors isolation room monitors you could see the categories here the the typical things that we've been seeing and spending you know funds on throughout the year so all rolled up we're looking at about three hundred thousand dollars per quarter a little bit more as we start the new year you know to bulk and buy up for the needs for the school year and it does drop off so it's one million one thirty three eight hundred is is what we believe to be a good supplemental request uh assuming that the pandemic continues as it is today we don't know that that's going to be the case but that's why we're calling it you know supplemental request and then what we don't know is any cost savings that we would earn for example if we have reduced transportation because we're not running field trips again or we don't have as many sports charters and then the second potential offset is any federal and state grant funding that we that we do receive so i will just switch back and stop presenting my screen here for a moment okay um okay so i guess we'll we'll take a few questions um tim go for it are you ready uh yeah sorry i was uh first point what page was that about on where we were because i was following on the screen not on my not in my book uh what page were we on the 1.1 million yeah let's see it's not in the book tim oh no it's not in the book but it's not it's the powerpoint it's the powerpoint that i sent earlier oh okay okay we don't have it um yeah so then i guess um with regard to the unemployment i'm just curious have we has the cheshire cps laid anyone off no no but we're we've seen quite a few and we're still getting unemployment claims a lot of that are from substitutes that were eligible unemployment during the early part of the pandemic right so our substitutes were not engaged but they were eligible for unemployment and so i'm assuming that we may continue to see that occur that's why we budgeted it that way okay so there's some sort of like long term or sort of continuing arrangement you say substitute and i always think of like the daily one time the one day substitute that's a per diem did they get unemployment yes they were eligible under the uh under the pandemic exceptions that were made for unemployment um and even if people have have reduced ours they can file for and receive unemployment right now okay okay i was um and then uh with regard to uh the birth sort of in relation to next year's kindergarten but also a bigger picture on this i'm just curious do you have the 20 20 birth numbers yet don't have the 20 20 birth numbers i know that um jeff was gonna double check on that but i i don't believe we have them i'm not sure they're they're available yet okay and uh i think this is the last one the bus monitors are we using bus monitors right now no we've stopped at what i did in that covert supplemental budget for next year is we just put bus monitors in for the first couple of months of school just to get us through and make sure that you know people uh and students are wearing their masks and we're following whatever guidelines are in place at the time so no it's a contingency i understand it completely i'm just trying to understand if some of these things are actually happening right now right now we have no bus monitors we haven't since um i think the third week in september um and we've reduced the number of isolation room monitors you know down from seven to three and we may reduce that um we may eliminate that altogether actually at the end of this month because we're just not seeing the the demand parents when they get a report that you know their child may be sick at school have been very prompt in coming to pick up their students and the goal with the isolation room monitors was that they would need to stay with any children until the parents could come and pick them up so yeah i mean things are working pretty smoothly right now okay all right thank you okay kathryn go ahead okay i only had one question um the continuation of furniture and equipment storage goes up from eighteen nine in the first three quarters to forty four six what yeah what's going on there so the we're budgeting 6300 a month for storage but we're assuming when we hit next june we have to take all the furniture out of storage and have the mover put it back into the school okay all right great question but of course that's the answer okay thank you faith go ahead um thanks tony vin um of our 85 new students coming in um do we know how many our special ed students um do not know that i certainly don't have that information offhand and i'm not sure that we probably could could figure what some of the pre-k's that are in our system now would move into kindergarten but how many total special ed you know i can check but i don't have that you're not worried about a us um you know we have a fabulous special ed program it attracts families who need the services and and so you're saying that special ed costs are pretty much holding consistent with 20 20 20 21.
any questions all right so for the safe safe school for all plan components um this is a two billion dollar one-time in-person learning grant this is not funds that would just automatically be submit sent to schools each school district that is interested is required to apply this would augment resources for schools to offer in-person instruction current approximate per ada amount is 450 dollars as a base and this is based off of your total projected ada less independent study um for azusa if we were to apply for february first take into consideration the current projected amount of 450 per ada with our 2021 ada of 7318.44 that would equate to 3.2 million dollars now if we were to wait and apply in march which is an option we would receive 378 projected per ada and that will take us to an earnings of 2.78 in addition to this each district could receive up to 7 hundred not on top of the 450 to 378 but in total and the increase is based on our per pupil unduplicated ada percentage any questions here right so the funding for in person so the goal the learning i'm sorry the in-person learning grant can be used for purposes natasha i'm sorry can we go back to the previous slide yes sir just so i'm clear on this one is there a reason so so i see that uh february 1st there's four there's 450 and 375 if we do march first is there a reason why we would aim for march 1st as opposed to february 1st uh one and then two is this only based on students that we have on campus and in person no so i'm going to start with the your latter question and work my way back so this is for our total population so right now our ada is 73181.44 now we are still funded off of our 1918 ada so it's not a projected this is the ada will be funded off of though the grant is only for tk2 up to tk6 will be funded off of our district y ada but the funds are used for that population of students that we bring on um one reason that it might be a challenge there's criteria that i'm going to discuss later that we must meet in order to meet the february 1st deadline and then if for districts that are not able to meet that deadline the second offering that the state is currently proposing is a march 1st but if you do not meet one of those two deadlines you miss out on this funding at this time okay and can i just ask you a question you said that um it's minus independent study right that's what i heard you say mm-hmm so so this is our number said you were not included yes ma'am in here thank you all right any other questions all right thank you so here this is what the funding can be used on it could be used to enhance and expanding covet testing purchase personnel ppe improve ventilation systems such as air quality or air purifiers teaching and classify staff salaries for those providing support to the tk2 in-person instruction up to take six as well as social and mental health support services provided in conjunction with in-person instruction any questions here all right so to qualify a district must submit their coven 19 safety plan to the county office of education who in turn will submit it to cde for approval and is cde who will actually notify the district of their award and if they were approved we must submit along with this application uh mou that's either that's ratified with all of our bargain units which will be aea and csa for us as well as our districts must return to in-person instruction once we have a seven-day county average of less than 25 per 100 000 of positive cases in addition to this we're required to also have a board meeting to approve the authorization of us having to submit this application and would that also include a face since we have adult school well it wouldn't require i'm sorry i didn't mean to cut you off miss yolanda um it um it's not that it doesn't quite um include afe it's just that the population of students that will come on are not taught by a face so we wouldn't need the mou for those two bargaining units so so the adult school is not included just right just a tk2 up to tk six okay thank you you got it any other questions yeah just just for context so that this costs for us to return um when the seven day county average is uh 25 per hundred thousand um what are we ish now i do not have that number any of my colleagues have our current i think we're over 70 000 per i mean 70 over 1 000 i thought was our last number for our county but i don't have that definitive number the last the last good evening uh everyone on last week the number was at 77 positive per 100 000 for los angeles county and it's also important to note that there is um important or significant to apply because even if we apply and our numbers never get to that point we still are allowed to keep those funds and we have until december 31st to spend those funds so that can be extended school year that could be summer that could be additional enrichment programs for next school year there's other options but it still has to be spent to that population of students all right so the safety and mitigation so testing the administration will support testing for all students including weekly testing and communities with high rates and this is covet testing all staff and students will be required to wear a mask surgical masks are recommended and we have those to provide as well um contract tracing would be would have to continue and vaccinations school staff will be prioritized in the distribution of vaccinations starting the spring of 2021 any questions right oh yes ma'am yes um do we know if these vaccines will be given at the district or would they be given at their medical provider that information has not been outlined at this time we will still be waiting for receive guidance from cde on how that would be done okay thank you you're welcome all right so oversight the cde is going to establish a safe school for all to provide schools with hands-on support to develop and implement the kobe um safety plan um transparency um this will now be a part of the state dashboard so this is where they will be outlining funds that were received and basically do a measurement of our outcomes how did this improve or how did our students benefit from receiving these funds any questions right so additionally in the governor's proposal there's also a grant for extended learning time and academic and intervention grants and i apologize this is additional 4.6 billion dollars of one-time grants that will be used to address learning laws right now there's no guideline on how to apply for this right now the only guideline that we receive and it's a rough draft i just want to state that that is not finalized but the ref draft was for the safe for schools but both of the grants that's on the table um still have to be voted on and approved by legislation which will take place in march any questions is your minor question yes um before we go into these other types of grants i know you said that um if we apply for the grant um and if we never meet the uh the transmission rate or the case rate uh threshold to return to in-person money we're still able to keep the funds and that the funds must be expanded by december 31st 2021 right correct and so when uh if let's say we apply feb first and are approved what's the timeline for receiving the funds so right now we wouldn't know then to march until after legislation signs off on everything but in if we apply in february and our numbers are below the 25 per 100 000 then we have to open by february 16th right now that's the only guideline that we have but as far as when the funds will be released they have not outlined that out but i know we would the only thing they have told us is that the funds will come directly from the county office i'm sorry did you say that that would happen in march after this is approved by legislation so we would submit we could submit an application by fed one but it would we would not receive funds any earlier than march correct yes ma'am okay and do these funds come in a lump sum or do they just come through the year that has not been outlined at this time typically we get two apportionments um but sometimes we have received one-time funds and one allocation thank you oh you're welcome so another item that is in our proposal which is a nice hefty one for our district is the cost of living so we know last year was the first year when the cost of living adjustment first was on the table then we had made revised then they took it away then they came back with a ringer we're gonna have a negative cola we were thankful when the governor signed the budget and he took away the negative deficit factor and just held us harmless and just made it zero but right now in this current proposal the governor is recommending to have a um compound cola where he's going to give the cola that we're supposed to receive in 2021 and add that to the cola that was originally projected in 2122 giving us a cola projected cola of 3.84 for the 21-22 school year any questions here right so here i want to talk about the cola so governor newsome released this um again this is all a proposal this can all change but this is right now saying because the state has surplus funding funding he wants to heavily fund or heavily add additional funding to education we do have wiggle room so i'm going to go over this in detail department of finance is one entity that the state utilizes to come up with their projected cola for school districts we have school services who also gives us a more conservative recommendation of the cola for this presentation i am using department of finance cola because that is what was presented to us on friday but i would personally encourage us to make the recommendation or ask if we adopt our budget utilizing school services um cola because that is more conservative as you can see here department of finance projected funded cola for 2122 is 3.84 school services they're in agreement 3.84 but where we start seeing that difference which can mean a difference of millions of dollars in some years 22 22 23 department of finance projection is 2.98 where a school service projection is 1.28 when you go to 2324 department of finance is projecting a 3.5 percent cola whereas school services is projecting a 1.61 it's important to note that our cola is base is added to our base um whenever the state gives us a cola is added to the base funding for lcff and that's for our base and grade spin adjustment for this year normally they would say hey we're going to give you the cola and we're going to also tie it to special education or your specialized services this year they have a specific increased cola for our base funding and for our specialized services like special ed they're only giving us a 1.5 percent projected cola and again these are all projections my preference will be school services but i wanted to present the information that was presented to us on friday any questions so let's talk about our enrollment right now we realized a drop of 364 students from 1920 to 21 22.
man five minutes and 20 seconds of just straight swimming kicking your feet moving your arms man oh man do each of these swimmers heaven with a time of as it approaches the board here we shall see it's still not up on the board yet but once it goes up i will make sure to relay the time to you we're coming up on 5 55 here and hope is on her last leg there in lane five panthers and lane four this year and it looks like that's exactly what she will get and i'm sure her coach is very pleased with the efforts in that race for all of the participants from here that 5 37 16 was her time that'd be a fast 500 yard freestyle with a 32.02 i will pass it back over to josh here i gotta rest my arms here for a minute thank you to malachi for taking over the camera so far lane seven in the lead it's mason curry for columbus east 500 free followed by noah mcfaul of jennings county still and then in lane number six dominating this race so far mason curry one minute and 46 seconds into it he makes the turn jennings county event so far the 500 free for the boys ellie profit won the first of these two 500 yard freestyles mason curry giving some encouragement from one of the coaches in columbus east three olympians in the pool h2 olympians to be precise curry nickel and siano it's down number 15.
ertl goes off the screen here goes bolos driving in kicks it out to 44. there goes ertl for another three point attempt but it is off mark [Applause] and when you're shooting howard is shooting tonight you got to keep shooting them and there's a foul uh by stokes and camera will go to the line for two yeah absolutely uh erdl with having majority of the uh freaking county's points he's just got to keep shooting those and i hope they go in yeah i agree i mean if you're on fire like that i mean why not keep shooting them absolutely here comes garrett erdl in for franklin county comer's first attempt was good from the line see a second one here up and in not one to usually miss free throws and he shows that right now 40 33 pirates lead two minutes left here in the third quarter ball being swung around by the wildcats we haven't seen the ball gone go too low here by the wildcats it's been all around the perimeter tonight they've relied on that outside shot very much tonight and ertl just appears he was he was thinking he was going to draw contact there and went up too powerful a little break in the action here as the ball's just being held there and there's a switch and walters oh stringer almost bats the ball away from ertl and he stumbles getting out to the three-point line and there's another rebound by garrett ertle another shot by ertl but misses it and stanley just gets mauled in the face and they call a travel [Applause] not sure what went on down there but it appears stanley got elbowed in the face and they call to travel yeah uh like we say we're not down on the court but from up here definitely definitely a tough call yeah and coach meyer does not appear happy whatsoever so no not at all comer cuts off the drive by bolos stringer with the rebound for the pirates who will bring it up for the pirates pass it to sparks and there's a push on garrett turtle that's an off the ball foul something you can't afford this late into a close game 50 seconds left here in the third quarter pirates have a seven point lead 40-33 and looks like they're gonna waste some clock here uh coach meyer will be give sparks a word down here probably telling them that he wants him to have the final shot here if you put it in his hands it's almost a guarantee that it's going to go in no pressure being applied here by the wildcats i'm assuming here once the clock hits 10 seconds something something's gonna happen yeah and there's a drive by cummer dishes it out to stringer stringer to walters walters shot fake drives in two point attempt up bounces around just off target yeah with the end of that uh third quarter we have cummer with 14.
um so you're you're confident even though we have 85 new elementary specialist com special ed students 85 new students coming in that it is not going to place we're not going to have so many special ed students that's going to place a burden on or an excess cost on the special program that we're not anticipating do you see what i'm saying i i do and so let me just break it out so if it's a it's a special ed student that you know can be um can receive services within our school district and we do have students that migrate in and then students that graduate out right so there's always a flow right so any students that stay within our classrooms and in our school buildings uh those we don't expect that they will cause any un undo high costs it's students that are moving in that are outplaced and those could be a hundred thousand dollars or more so as of right now we're not anticipating you know more than we have and and we have somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 outplay students so we expect that to be flat next year obviously you know we adjust if it goes up or down as we need to during the budget year but for now it it looks like we are going to be flat to this year okay all right and um with regard to the supplemental budget forgive me for asking a really simple question but so this will have to be approved by town council um and we just hold it in reserve i mean it is how is this going to be incorporated as we go along that's a great question so i talked to sean kimball at the uh obviously you know sean's out town manager about how to do this and he because the same issue will exist for the town department um so you know although the council hasn't started you know and sean i don't believe has started working on his his budget yet because he's his isn't due until march um sean did talk generally about setting up some type of special revenue fund to accommodate the board of ed and the town potential expenses related to covet so yeah i i don't know exactly how this would be approved ultimately you know by the town council you know i think the the best thing to do would be for the board to to evaluate the recommendations you know i'll certainly have further discussions with jeff and the town manager as to how this gets transmitted and potentially incorporated but ultimately it is the town council's decision how this would work you know the the reason that we separated it out is it's a lot easier to keep this separate than folding all these costs into the recommended budget and then having to strip them out you know so again it's an it's a pandemic so we're kind of making yeah making up some some new rules here or at least trying to you know be intelligent about you know how we look at these expenses because it is real it's very uncertain as to what it's going to be next year yeah if i could ask just one more um so just in you maybe you said you're going to spend a lot of time on the on the benefits but i mean even if we had proved approved that eight hundred thousand dollars as opposed to the seven twenty 7 30 last year we would have been hammered still i mean we're you know 20 40 or you know 30 whatever um 25 more was going to deplete our fund and is the 1.1 to hear that it came through again in december is that our new normal i you know we were going on five years of data and suddenly we're we're hit with 1.1 per month consistently month after month i i'm worried that there's something happening that that we have to be aware of that that we may never go back to that five-year average well i'll answer it this way the projection we received and i did just get an update yesterday from usi uh when we don't need to budget 1.1 million per month next year you know they're showing us a renewal of about 900 000 a month which is where we're budgeting and we we do see this in fact you know in the presentation um you know towards the tail end of this evening i'll show you because i looked back and it's actually in your budget book if we look back to 2004 there's actually a cycle to this you know we go through a few years where we're not increasing out our budget for medical benefits we're not increasing those contributions because we are using the reserve and then we get a really bad claim here like we're not only having this year but the tail end of of last year was was relatively high claims as well so you get that bad budget year while you're trying to work down the reserve you've built up and we wind up having a request like we have this year where you know we need a 20 increase so i hope it's not our new normal the rolling 12 month average which is what our broker uses to to determine uh future budget for claims is not showing 1.1 million it's about 900 000 a month so that's where we need to increase our budget to some of this is um you know hoping for the best as always you know and again i know we talked about this the last couple of board of ed meetings these are not you know these are not covert related expenses that we've been incurring it's just one of those bad claim years where it's a lot of different things some high claims some high claims that aren't quite at the level of stop-loss reimbursement um and plus what's built into our budget is increased premiums for stop-loss because you'll see that later this evening you know we you know the the insurance companies don't like when they pay you more than you've paid them in premiums so they tend to adjust up the premiums right okay thanks okay vincent quick question done on the supplemental uh chairman gripper that's okay i have a question yes go ahead um so by the time the board of ed has to adopt the budget by february 15th we'll have some guidance um on what if any some type of reserve account would look like for code expenses um and how that would operate right you know how to board available to draw from it likewise tom council and is the goal to send over two motions to the town one for an overall operating budget and another one for the supplemental code account i mean that would be my that would be you know my thought i only say that because it's been 10 years i think since we looked at a reserve account to capture uh ticket sales remember that back in yes 2011 and there was all kinds of um hurdles to set that up and you know who has access to it i i don't know it's gonna be that complicated for a covet account or if the town council come back and says you know maybe create a special account in your operating budget just for that line item to manage it that way it'd be good to know what that is so we have time to review that and discuss it as a board and agree to it before the 15th so i mean i'll certainly have some more discussion with the town manager about it and then at some point you know i think it is a discussion with the council in advance of us you know or the board approving a budget okay just curious yeah andrew you're up next yeah my question was got it was related to the covet contingency account um just how that was going to work up i think we just talked that through hopefully i just think it's super important to keep that separate and however the town's able to do that especially when it comes to reimbursement um for cover-related costs have you heard anything tony from other districts or vinnie rather from other districts about how they're accounting for are we in line with the costs you know oh what the cost themselves across and with how they're documenting and what they're planning for their because i'm sure everybody else is going through budget season now too and it's kind of a wild card yeah the business managers i you know i i talked to they kind of liked what the way we were doing it so but i haven't heard of anybody you know with any other you know way to do it so it is early in budget season so i'm not sure but i'll reach out to the uh to our cosmo list server and see what people are doing for their covert expenses for next year and then you mentioned we we hire or we use somebody to that does enrollment projections for the beginning of the school year who was that new england school development council so if you look in the budget book in that enrollment section you'll see that there's um there's their report it's there's a they do a letter of analysis and the enrollment projections and we've been using them for years i know you know as serving on the school modernization committee we hired milan and mcbroom to do you know a more detailed you know school by school enrollment study for the next 10 years so nasdaq does the same thing you know for us every year not as thorough most of nasdaq's work is based on you know birth rates and statistical trends okay is that where the 85 students is coming from yes okay but they don't have the birth numbers yet for 2020.
based of our analysis using the trend analysis we're projecting that we will have a decline of 327 students and and then 22 23 176 and based on our trend we're projecting um and 23 24 we'll be back in the 300 levels and this is the input we will be utilizing the 6909 as our baseline projected enrollment for our adopted budget at this time any questions here yeah yes i have a question can go back please yes may come so is this is this just based on our current trends or um is this did we actually maybe we probably can answer this but did we ever hire a demographer to look at our long-term population trends yes we currently have an agreement with decision insight who analyzes our boundaries as well as our birth rates um and do historical analysis and we started utilizing them i think the first time was this fiscal year or at the end of last fiscal year so this is this is coming from them they think we're going to continue to decrease out the foreseeable future this is my calculation off the trend analysis um but using decision insight we have a a difference of 31.
this much like a track meet that has both the sprint and distances uh this is definitely a long distance event for both teams and there's the bell and definitely respect the skills that it takes for the uh the quick events like the are very important up in that total coming up to the end of his race followed by noah mcfaul of jennings county definitely did a great job of picking up the pace towards the end there mcfaul did judah nickel getting close to finishing his race followed closely by gus judah nickel finishing his 500 freestyle there as the announcer just said if you're wearing a mask make some noise definitely appreciate everyone's everyone's commitment to keeping everyone safe and healthy the announcer just said make even louder noise if you don't like wearing a mask and as i'm sure you can agree it's it's not fun but it is necessary to do everything we can to stop the spread look at this beautiful camera work from malachi zooming in on gus schiano finishing up his 500 yard freestyle and gus finishes uh i apologize if your experience deceased leading so far uh go guys six 109.75 this will be the boys um let's cut your hands together is we've got a winner for this event welcome back malachi park's back on the mic here sorry guys we want to give a big apology we were having some internet connection issues here hopefully josh got that all figured out here for the last event here this is the girls 400 yard freestyle relay once again it was all going good up until the very end with our internet connection as it looks like the olympians and the panthers are next to neck in four and five let's see who's going to be able to pull it out here as they flip it's going to be close to the first leg here caroline has a lead but brown is looking to take the lead away from caroline here finish first in the first leg neck to neck there as you can see on your screen and they are up and diving in we also want to say lag in your stream that is part of the connection issues right now but as you can see marin winneke is pulled away big time for the olympians the two seniors did a great job to start off for the olympians as they are flipping back and going back one more time and also a huge shout out to lane eight they're doing a fantastic job so far keeping up and not quitting here also elaine seven as well looks like marin is heading back she sees some daylights ahead of her and her partner in crime will be josie and she dives in we are underway with joe josie having our flip sands goes back the other way and more for the panthers she started off strong hope she has a lot left in the tank to try to catch kavanaugh and the olympians relay team elaine them in that's what happens when you move really fast and most of the time you have fast feet that goes for pretty much anything running beans are heading back the other way they're going to put their anchor leg in profit to see if she can swim and seal the deal here tonight as this meat went by really really fast tonight as these seniors are taking in the back in the water looks like she's gonna have a down on back can she finish strong here tonight at columbus east high school as she flips and just has to go back and that will be all she wrote for this girl's 400 yard freestyle relay looks like brown reagan brown will finish out for the panthers and we have in lane six for the olympians is great's house and and lane seven is and there we have it great house finishes here can mckenna finish strong here 405 flats second place was at 4 15 90 let's most importantly cheer on mckenna piakowski and nicole fernandez here as they have a down and back here who's going to be able to finish it out here as the energy is picking up big time here got nothing left in the tank can they give it their all to finish this race here tonight mckenna looks like she is going to finish the race and a fantastic drop for her on senior night and a great job by nicole as well so there we have it the final event here for panthers and lane four starting off for the olympians is mason curry for the olympians in line five and lanes for the panthers once again we are truly sorry for the internet connection here we started off with great connection and solely caught up with this so just bear with us here and once again we want to thank you guys for being able to tune in tonight to this final home swim meets for the olympians a bit here for the panthers let's see if he can get and catch up curry they are already heading back the other way gustiano lane six curry and lane five jonathan jones and lane three this is the final event tonight i'm sure these participants are giving it their all here as curry will pass it off to branson young here and for the panthers is levi marsh and coming in for the olympians in lane six is jesse isaacs a freshman and branson young is doing a great job here he's been in quite a bit events as well same with mason curry as branson flips and we'll have a down on back here and levi marsh for genius county has a down and back as well looks like jesse will have a down and back once he completes his cycle there as you can see that's something i truly love is it doesn't matter which place you're in your coach is always going to be there to cheer you up and that's exactly what each of these teams do here tonight i've seen it every race and it just it's awesome to see here so as branson young will pass it off to brady beyer and for the panthers will be danny hoffman and it looks like jesse will have to go back and he will pass it off to sam with it as buyer will have a down on back here we're down to two more people here excuse me one more person here coming up to the anchor leg in lane five chad kelly looks like sam wooditz is trying to do what he can to keep his team in contention for the second place but it looks like the panthers are just maybe a tad bit too far here as danny hoffman excuse me noah mcfaul jumps into the water for the panthers as chad kelly will have the rest of his way here and a back and they will be your first place winners coming up on 3 20 here their time on the heat sheet was a 328-86 will not beat that time but a fantastic race for the boys 400-yard freestyle relay in lane five curry young buyer and kelly and jumping in for the olympians lane six it is perkins a sophomore and rounding out here for the panthers is no mcfaul coming up on 3 52.
sparks was 16 stanley with six uh walters with two and then we have gary in with uh six uh stacy with three stokes with two uh ertl with 17 sorry and then 44 with three um i've noticed that whichever way you look at it that second a second quarter i don't know if you agree with this sam but that second quarter what kind of cooled down the pirates and kind of what shrunk the lead or either that or uh the wildcats that's when they heat it up whichever way you look at it but it just seems like the second quarter was kind of the downfall for the pirates you know i'd say it was a combination of both the wildcats kind of heated up and the pirates didn't have their defense they were ready to stop them um you know the pirates didn't have to apply that much pressure there in the first quarter and then the wildcats kind of came out and got on fire and the parts weren't sure how to answer and i'm sure that's something coach meyer talked about with him in the locker room was how to apply the pressure and be safe with how they play absolutely because it seems like ever since the second half the pirates have been tied on their defense and just been efficient with the ball again yeah and we haven't we've only seen two fouls from the pirates in the second half here that that shows you that they're playing tight defense but they're playing it effectively and efficiently here we go ball and bounded uh cummer there uh passes to stringer then walters got it sparks to stringer down low to walters here we go lots of ball movement here by the pirates there goes a drive-by sparks that's almost a guarantee it's going to go in uh they're going to call that on the floor he wasn't going up i don't believe so yeah that's a number that's another one of those close close calls down but it seems like he's got a one of one yeah he's gonna go to the line anyway because uh we're in the bonus uh the wildcats already have seven fouls first one rattles around the rim and goes in for sparks second attempt for sparks up splash some full court pressure applied here by the pirates not too tightly but enough to enough to make the other team a little scared and here we go ball getting swung around by the wildcats and you have to think they're going to get something moving here pretty quickly they're down they're down nine so you would think they're going to dribble drive and try to get in there or they may play their game tonight which is the three-point shot and that ball is going to be knocked out of bounds or rather it was off hurdle so the pirates will gain possession of the ball yeah the wildcats are gonna have to figure out something out with the way that the pirates are playing yeah i mean the pirates are playing very strongly right now swinging the ball well playing defense effectively they're not taking a shot unless they're almost 90 sure they're gonna make it there's a three-point attempt by cummer that'll be short but stanley will be there for the rebound and he gets fouled he'll go up for two shots here uh wildcats fans are not happy with that call neither is their coach [Music] 42-33 pirates lead with six minutes and 36.
no okay because that's that'll be several years out anyway so exactly right so the birth you know the incoming kindergarten is based on birth rates from five years ago good all right thank you you're welcome and i guess the other thing that i should uh mention is and we got this from from my lorna mcbroom part of the reason we're seeing you know 85 new students this year part of the reason is that you know milan and broome determined that we there's two factors one we did have a bit of an increase in birth rates five years ago for those students that would be coming into kindergarten and number two because of their pandemic parents held back their kindergarten students last year because they didn't want to send them to school during the pandemic so there's those two factors that are helping to bump up you know to the enrollment projections and that's you know not even mentioning that you know during the pandemic there with more people working at home there's this migration out of the cities into you know suburban communities like ours so you know that might be another factor as well and you had your hand up yeah thank you um then if i could take you back to please the medical benefits reserves so you you mentioned an average monthly 900 000 somewhere around there um but we'll be budgeting for slightly more than that because we need we're building our reserves back up or can you explain that yeah i'll i'll explain it and then i'm going to show you the detail you know when we look to that section um i can wait i can wait then yeah well i mean let me give you this quick answer you know the 900 000 does not serve to rebuild our reserve that's not what's being requested here i mean certainly that's something that we can discuss if we wanted to increase the budget request but just hold that thought for now the 900 000 just gets us even claims contributions so we don't dip into reserve or have to do any any other dramatic things next year thank you that answers my question okay um looks like tim you have a question thanks adam uh this is probably a question from marlene uh so the kids who are getting held back there's a good chunk a good number of kids who are getting help back out of kindergarten do you have any idea right now do you expect those kids would go in decay some of them would go into first i'm just curious would they all start in kindergarten as far as you're concerned or would tim do you mean the the kids who the parents have held them out this year is that what you mean yeah so it depends on their their age and their abilities we'd be having some conversations about where those kids would be placed okay you haven't had any of those conversations yet i mean first not yet because we're just going to be doing our kindergarten registration in february okay all right thank you sure and um i will ask one question before we move on um so the uh enrollment projection of 85 is that um primarily in the kindergarten class or is that spread out amongst several grades and uh and i'm assuming and where would you anticipate you you added uh two teacher positions there where would you anticipate that those teachers would be utilized okay so let me start with with this answer because it's a little bit um it's gonna affect different grades and different schools and and um you know this i am looking at this it's in the certified staffing section of the budget book on page three so chapman there is no change in the number of teachers too little again because of of the way the enrollment projections were doolittle would actually go down by two teachers next year highland would go up by two teachers norton would go up by one teacher and darcy which houses the kindergarten for doolittle goes up by one teacher so the net of the pluses and minuses is two additional teachers needed next year so the ones that are going up are highland norton darcy coming down as doolittle and chapman has no change so this is based on the projections obviously as you know parents enrolled as students um and then we moved the students that you know finishing first grade up to second grade second to third vice versa you know we'll you know potentially need to make adjustments like we do every year so um this is not unusual that you know you see projections that cause fluctuations in each of each of the schools and what the ultimate outcome will be you know we'll know as we roll into you know probably by may june we'll have a much better idea but the you know certainly based on the number of students coming in and keeping the class sizes to 18 you do need to increase by two in the elementary grades thank you are there any other questions right well uh finn if you wouldn't mind uh moving on to the next section thank you okay i'll be glad to trying to get oh here we go getting there okay right now you should see the covert 19 supplemental request and me up to the right yes yes yeah excellent i love when technology works okay so i'm not going to spend a lot of time um on the next couple of slides but obviously the board members know that you know we have a lot of mandates you know it's just a function of you know what we do you know as a school district here in connecticut um some are some are funded by the state some are not funded at all and some are partially funded i did want to just point out the what you're seeing pop up on the screen here so there's there are a couple of things that will impact 21 22.
so my number is 31 students less than the number that they have for seven years out or for next year for next year okay um i i mean i'm fine with this right now i just want us to be mindful like um to think that it's set in stone so far out um because that's that's all big decrease okay all right and this is to give us a graphic picture of what our enrollment to ada looks like um so in 1819 we were at 8 000 students our average ada was 7 700.
as you can see he is kicking and swimming away here and they finish with a time of it's not up there yet but a strong finish there by the panthers their time was 359.85 and for the olympians in lane 5 was 334.82 so now all we have is perkins for the olympians let's see if he can have a strong finish here rylan perkins he has to just head back the other way and this race will be over he is chugging along here to be able to finish out the race and here we have it folks it is complete great job by all of these relates watching at home so as we are waiting to score here so we will await the final team scores to relay to you guys and we just want to say thank you to all of you guys tuning in tonight and thank you for sticking with us through all the connection issues and lag we have had here tonight so once we get the scores in we will relay those to you guys so you guys won't be left hanging here come in here and compete here this evening boys and girls so fantastic job by each team here tonight and most importantly the olympians finishing strong in their last home meet of this season i'm sure these seniors will miss every part of what the season holds for them hopefully some of them can go on to the next level and swim as well and continue to do what they love so much get in the water and swim away once again we want to say a big thank you to our sponsors columbus auto group and forced construction we cannot you
seconds left here stanley first attempt up rattles in and out second attempt for stanley up a little lighter there on the shot but still rattles around and can't find the net ertle with the ball hands it off to bolos bolo's looking to do something with it uh dishes it to ertl erdelstein rather disciplined with the ball here the ball gets down low to bolos bolo's barreling his way down there and gets the and one cummer didn't stay straight up he tried to go down on him and that's what's going to draw you the foul there yeah and i'm pretty sure that is actually bolo's first two points of the game attempt up and it's in and here comes garrett ertle into the game for number 44.
the first is connecticut state uh raising the minimum wage to 15 per hour by june of 2023 so what we accounted for in this budget year 2122 is that the minimum wage went up to 12 per hour on september 1st of this of 2020 and then it's going up to 13 an hour effective august 1 of 21. um and where that had direct impact was on the rate that we pay our teacher substitutes and our ia substitutes because even though they are paid a flat rate um that flat rate based on the number of hours they work cannot be below minimum wage so you know we did have to increase the substitute rate of pay as we started this year to account you know essentially for a 13 an hour minimum wage as of august 1st and then you can see here in july the minimum wage goes up to um 14 per hour that's july of 22.
now we're going to fast forward to 21.22 we're projecting the 6909 enrollment with the projected ada of 6632 2122 will be the first physical year that we will go back to actually taking true attendance where our funding in the next physical year will actually be funded off of our actual attendance during the 20 um 22-23 school year the only thing i'll throw in here is just um you know continuing to keep in front of us the need to be mindful of this so these these are projections but because we have these projections um which they may actualize or not as as you know we get to them but uh it's important though that we that we don't find ourselves surprised and we make decisions based on the you know the data that we have and so how so so what adjustments are we are we going to be making uh you know even though we're held harmless this year and and you know with with with covet and whatnot but what adjustments are we going to be making so that we don't have to realize a cliff all at you know all that one time how how can we be wise and so um i just want to make sure that i already know it is but i just want to say it out loud to make sure that that stays in front of us yes i think um always no matter what our funding position our financial position is we should always be um working to align our enrollment to our staffing every year so that way we we're not teeter-tottering we're out of balance okay so here is prop 98 so we all know that prop 98 is where we get our base funding um that's been in place for many many years um what this is showing that we are projected with all of the money the grants i would have to say because beyond the cola everything that the state is adding to the budget is primarily a grant we are projected that prop 98 will be at 85.8 billion dollars but what's important that i would like just to emphasize that six months ago when we were getting our budget updates we were actually looking that that we were going to have to realize that our prop 98 funding was going to be in the 15 16 16 17 fiscal year funding and that's 69 billion versus 71 billion and right now this projected has taken us all the way up to 85 billion in the middle of a pandemic six months in so it's like you it makes you for me it makes me think like okay is this going to materialize or is this right now wishful thinking the state wants to give us this money is there a possibility we're gonna be back at the table thing like oh my god we have a deficit factor all those are possible possibilities that we may have to realize but right now what the governor is committed to in his proposal is that prop 98 funding will be up to 85.8 billion dollars any questions so how does this all play for azusa so we know for lcsf the base funding we know we're going to get the projected the projection that we're going to receive right now is 3.8 um four percent cola what does that look like that means our base grade span for tk3 is going to go from 7 700 to 7 7 900.
uh 42-36 pirates lead six minutes left in the uh game ball picked off by durian as cummer left that one a little low and here's a three-point attempt by ertle that'll be in and the wildcats are back into this game [Applause] this is what we saw before halftime the wildcats whittled their way back into the game rather quickly and the pirates had no answer for it until after halftime so let's hope that the pirates can remain with this lead and run away with it yeah it just seems like once the wildcats start catching wind pirates get a little fluttered and they don't know what to do with it yeah exactly and i'm sure that's why coach meyer called the timeout here one to slow the momentum from the wildcats and two to give the pirates a little coaching lesson on what they need to do better uh i think this is a full timeout taken by the pirates coach stacey meyer down there yeah i believe it is um and you know it's only a three-point game now but for how quickly this game's been played it doesn't feel like we should be towards the end of it no definitely it's definitely flown by here we go stanley will inbound the ball to sparks in the backcourt sparks to dire sparks flashing up down to walters quick ball movement by the pirates and that'll retain their five-point lead jurian brings up the ball hanging behind the 10-second line wildcats coach calls a play for him let's see they're going to set this up here they're going to try to run it and get some points out of it uh it appears nothing really happened there just a bunch of dribble driving and oh durian just barely picks us or keeps his foot down wildcats kind of flustered here not sure what to do with the ball pirates with some great defense they're staying on them tight and there's the double team by the pirates and they get the ball picked away sparks with the ball passes it to stanley stanley goes up with it and slaps the backboard and apparently he got a little bit of stanley too so he'll go the line for two two attempts 44 39 pirates lead with four minutes and 30 seconds left in the game first attempt bounces around and goes in second attempt up for stanley finds the finds the net the same way the last one did rattling around with that stanley has eight points on the night here we go bolos with the ball guarded tightly by dyer and there's a switch off by the pirates and uh that's something the pirates are good at is switching off on defense um i know with this program that's something they preach is on their defense they want to make sure that when there is a screen or a handoff the person that is being given the ball is being tightly guarded just a bunch of perimeter dribbling and passing going on not much penetration here if the wildcats want to get anything they need to get down below that free throw line and there it is there's the drive and the dish out that's their specialty walters with the rebound gives it to sparts pirates up the court quickly pass to dyer dyer with a little pull-up action no good by dyer just off mark here we go ertl charging into the lane spin sparks with the block but falls back into ertl's hands and down to jurian and that's what the wildcats did good that possession they found the open man yeah absolutely just uh but their passive way of playing the sec uh with the second half it just seems like it's kind of starting to finally starting to work out for baldish down to stanley from comer comer shot fake dribbles in back out to dire pirates swinging the ball very quickly now skip pass to stanley stanley gets it down low to sparks but the ball is batted away sparks can't quite control the pass there um it is 46 41 pirates with just under three minutes left in the game ertl trying to find his way around cummer and he does so as the lead is cut to three and i'm sure the pirates will try to probably slow this game down quite a bit um the momentum is on the wildcats side right now [Applause] pirate's swinging the ball quite well sparks flashes up to the free throw line powers his way through there and gets the two points for the pirates and the timeouts called by the wildcats here full time out uh so we have a minute to talk here woods what do you think the pirates need to keep control of in this game to remain on top um their their defense since the start of the second half has been uh quite quite a bit better than around the first and second quarter so i think if they just stay on top of that then they will do just just fine yeah and i also think if they can maybe slow the pace of the game down and maybe quite a bit actually i think they can slow the wildcats down that's what they're getting their baskets off of right now is that dribble drive and pass out or that dribble drive and we lose a man down low and they go up quickly with the shot so i think if the pirates can contain everyone on defense and not break down i think they'll be fine yeah absolutely and with a score recap we have for our pirates we have uh cummer with 14 sparks with 20. stanley with eight walters with four uh and then with our wildcats we have jerian with uh six stacy with three bolos with three stokes with two uh erdell with 22 and 44 with three and the wildcats will inbound the ball that's jury into ertl i'm assuming the wildcats are going to speed up the pace of play here at least try to and there's a three-point attempt by bolos no good pirates with the rebound stanley goes down and that's going to be a travel [Applause] it appears he got knocked down from the back but the officials didn't see it yeah that's the second time that's happened to him and he doesn't seem very happy about it either no oh the pirates leave herdle wide open that's not a good thing to do here in this close of a game no not at all that was just defensive breakdown by our pirates and here we go the pirates looking to get something one thing they need to do is not panic and play the game they've been playing all day that's what's got him the lead that's what's retained in the lead and they remain doing it there stanley is found down low for the two-point basket 50 to 46 with one minute and 30 seconds left in the game and with that stanley is breaking double digits with ted wildcats swing the ball around quite efficiently here uh jurian goes down and they call the foul on the floor i believe that's on stanley and that will be his third foul bolos will unbound the ball for the wildcats looking to find the open man and there's a timeout called by the wildcats [Music] full timeout once again [Music] upcoming events here on the gtv channel we have friday night we'll be filming the boys game against brownstown that'll be that'll prove to be a good matchup for the pirates i'm sure um that'll be a six o'clock or we'll be on air about 7 30 i'm sure jv will start about six o'clock so yeah should be a good one um if the pirates want to win this game they need to contain the wildcats outside of the ark that's where the pirates are getting beat on right now absolutely they need to slow down ertl brant ertl for sure with he has 25 over half of their points this game uh it's just somebody they just haven't been able to stop him yet yeah and it's it's proved to be kind of kind of tough for the pirates to stop him as they've left him open quite a few times and he proves to hit that open three ball being inbounded by bolos down low [Applause] and there's jurian with the ball as stacy slides out of bounds there's a foul called on dyer apparently he cannot contain his body there 50 to 46 one minute and 10 seconds left in the half or a quarter that'll push the pirates up to six fouls on the game one more and they're in the bonus jurian drives around dire and there's a foul another foul called on dyer that'll be his third foul and jurian will go to the line [Music] jurying up with this first one off target not quite enough power put into that one this late in the game those free throws are very important as that's the difference between a two or three point game or even a four point game if you can't put this one in and he puts that one in and it will be a three-point game pirates lead 50-47 one minute and five seconds left in the game yeah and that's his seventh point uh seventh and i'm sure if the if the pirates don't score very quickly here the wildcats are going to put some pressure and maybe even foul here and there's the ball taken away by ertl ertl will drive down low and a blocking foul called on cummer i'm no expert but i think his feet were planted yeah no this crowd is not a big fan of these rest tonight with quite a few uh controversial calls and the only thing pirate fans can do right now is hope this guy misses him and erdl makes the first one and if you're a wildcat fan you've got to be proud of them tonight they've put every every inch of effort they can into this game their coach has to be proud of her tonight too he's come up and shown out yeah with that one with 27.
and then the last increase 11 months later would get us to 15 per hour 91 20 23. the other you know relatively new requirement is i believe the board members know that we have to do two hours of sexual harassment training for all employees um you know this was based on an act that was passed by the state legislator and and took effect in 2019 however it was the start date was pushed out because of the pandemic to february 9th so it's just a couple of weeks away you know we are on track to have our employees trained following you know this this mandate we are doing that through safe schools which is our you know online video based training platform um and then covert 19 has you know increased and added some specific requirements around the pandemic some we talked about already such as bus monitors and isolation room monitors but we've been able to pull back on on some of those expenses you know the requirements for social distancing and um intraday cleaning sanitizing and disinfecting all items that you know we're continuing to do this year and as we discussed earlier we anticipate potentially having to do it next year as well so mandates you know are something that are integral to what we do as a school system but i did want to you know point this out as i do to the board members every year ben can i just ask a quick question on that sure um so there are there are two mandates in there i had questions about um firstly was the the written assessment for um for gifted students um is that something that you have to do for every student or is it just a a parent is requesting an assessment how how does that work is that we'll have to defer this to tomorrowland or mr or dr sullin because that's beyond my um i believe what that is referring to is an assessment that we do administer to all of our third grade and sixth grade students or at least we we have administered that for years in the district it is one piece of the puzzle in which another piece of data that we have on our our kids and it has been used in the past to help determine eligibility for academically gifted program okay um and then secondly was the um the the um uh do you have this the slide if you could go back uh i'm sorry is it this was it the newer one adam yeah the graduation requirement the bat mastery base based assessment i know that had been discussed in uh curriculum for geez well a couple years now i think um and so when does that take effect and i noticed that uh on your uh wish list uh uh i think was on just wishlist was um some sort of coordinator for that uh too i guess to kind of put everything together for that assessment um if there were no coordinator um how do you plan on managing this new uh assessment and is it just for the i'm guessing it does it begin with the senior class this year or is it being phased in it's being phased in um we've been working and with other districts to see how they are doing it as well it's sort of along the lines of our senior project that's happening now we it will be a challenge to get that coordinated but we're looking at a number of different options maureen reed and dr gad have been spearheading that as well as working with the ilt team so yes that's something that's not required for this year's senior class but will be coming down the pike okay so um staffing isn't necessarily needed for this budget year but it's more of a plan for perhaps 2022.
for grades four through six we're going to receive eight thousand one hundred eighteen dollars per ada for grades seven through eight we will now receive once you add in the projected cola eight thousand three hundred and fifty nine dollars per ada and for grades nine through twelve we will now receive nine thousand six hundred and eighty seven dollars per ada any questions here now what do those numbers mean that is going to equate for just us if this cola was materialized based on being held harmless for our ada our base ltf funding will be 62.7 million dollars for the 21 22 school year any questions here all right and so now if we go to the grade spin adjustment um in the lcff um formula we receive a great adjustment for tk3 as well as grades 9 through 12.
he's been a uh hoss for this wildcat yes he has 50 to 49 pirates lead 44 seconds left and there's a foul by the wildcats they foul stanley here hopefully stanley can put these both in um stanley will have two attempts here as we are in the double bonus first one up again stanley being fuego right now with these free throws stanley second one up off mark not fuego on that one no fuego and here we go this could be your last possession of the game the wildcats drive bolos in and the two points those were huge dew points for uh the wildcats they needed that one and here we go the pirates are going to hold the ball to get the last second shot off [Applause] this is going to be an exciting game either way it goes sparks drives up no good wildcats with a rebound and this game will go to overtime [Applause] you know the pirates here uh they kind of let the wildcats sneak right into this game again um and we've got four minutes put on the clock here and the pirates are going to try to do their best to come out on top of this game [Music] and here we go the game is getting ready to get underway again and this is our first ot hopefully the last ot four minutes put up on the clock as per usual [Music] we'll get another tip off here come here against stokes the ball's up and tip to dire the pirates win the tip off sparks to comer i'm sure the pirates are going to slow down the pace of play quite a bit here in this overtime quarter dyer passes up to three as that's not what the pirates need right now they need a dribble drive and a layup or something of the sort passing the ball around quite efficiently right now though let's hope they can get that ball inbounded low and they do as sparks almost jams on somebody but gets his rebound misses gets his rebound again and gets fouled sparks at the line for uh two free-throw attempts here first one up and it's in second attempt up no good 52-51 lead just over three minutes left in ot [Music] and there's the ball dished down oh sparks goes up with it and the pirates take a three-point lead yeah very costly error there for the wildcats yes it it indeed was 54-51 pirates lead three minutes left in the ot and there's an offensive called on the wildcats a turn of events here if you're a pirates fan got to be pretty exciting yeah absolutely the wildcats are they're just kind of shooting themselves in the foot right now they just two back-to-back turnovers that they can't really afford no not in not in this kind of game right here pirates swinging it around around the perimeter that is and the ball being quickly dished around this is the quickest i've seen the pirates move the ball all day and there's a foul oh sparks will get two shots regardless yeah because of the bonus the double bonus sparks first attempt it's up and it's no good let's see if sparks can uh drain this next attempt here second attempt up and it's in and fuego with sparco wildcats looking for something to get something going here and there's a corner three by bolo sits up and in and the wildcats are finding an answer for every pirate basket tonight [Applause] 55-54 pirates with just over two minutes left in ot there's a basket by sparks and it is 57-54 now it just kind of seems like sparks wants to take this uh game into his own hands as you can tell he's put up i think pretty sure about seven points in this ot alone yeah he's he's quite the player when when he's putting in all all the work he can and there's a three by jurian and he misses it not really a shot you want to see being taken here in a game like this no not at all it just kind of seems like he wanted to throw that up i think he wanted to tie the game here there's a foul on durian he gets into cummer's personal space a little too much there comer will go to the line for two first attempt up and nothing but net second attempt just off the mark 58-54 pirates lead one minute 20 seconds left ball off marked by bolos there and i'm assuming the wildcats are gonna are gonna try to foul here once the ball gets into someone's hands that they like and there's the foul just under a minute left in the game comer will go to the line for two again first attempt up and it's in second attempt up and it's good and fuego wildcats charging down the court durian dishes it out to lee durian finds the open lane dishes down to bolos bolos goes up blocked by cummer but they call the foul while we have a break let's just shout out scott moore and the gtv crew for letting us commentate over this and uh bringing you the action live yeah it's pretty epic first attempt by bolos is up and in 60 pirates lead you know bolo's as he started late uh in the game he's been an impact during this overtime hasn't he yeah he sure has and there's a timeout called by the wildcats um that will be a full i believe yeah i got a score recap i got uh cummer with 17 uh sparks with um a lot 26 i'm sorry i had to count that stanley with 11 walters with four and then i have garion with um seven cherry in with seven i'm sorry uh stacy with three bullets with ten uh ertl with also a lot i wanna say 28 and that 44 with three and i do i do know i have a few points missing for both teams so uh those may not be 100 accurate unofficial you may say there's that word big words all right we should be getting underway here as the refs are coming out to give the timeout warnings the ball will fall into the pirates hands here full court pressure being put on by the wildcats cummer will bank right go to the ball no quick foul yet trying to force the turnover let's hope the pirates can just put the ball in play or you know and play i'm in in the basket but you know they got to be careful who's fouling too because ertl that's his fourth and if he goes out with him being such a huge factor in the game you would think that i'd have somebody else following him yeah i'd agree there and especially i wouldn't foul cummer i mean yeah camera has been proven to hit his fruit though so i know up and in second attempt up off target and that's the third time in a row he's missed a second free-throw attempt ertl passes it to jurian durian drives down low finds the basket timeout called by the wildcats you got to think they're happy with that basket that's something they needed for a bit now yes it was and maybe the pirates can go down here and get a dagger pirates up three against our wildcats it's been a totally different game since the second half with the fourth quarter or the yeah the fourth quarter uh the wildcats slimming the lead down bringing us back into overtime and coach meyer is really reliant on his starters right now as he hadn't he hadn't subbed for a while a long while actually um i can't remember the last time he subbed might have been pretty early in the fourth quarter so yeah no he's just gonna put put the ball in the hands of people he relies on the most and it seems like it started as alright yeah exactly we have pretty much anybody on the court right now that can do about anything they want to so that's a good thing to have on a team like this yeah absolutely [Laughter] [Music] pressure being applied by the wildcats for full court cummer jets down to the end of the court walters has the ball and there's a foul by stacy on comer and they got to be careful there because i saw ertl going in for the foul if he gets one more he's tired out yeah exactly so we they just have to watch you uh who they're fouling and who they're fouling with but again they fought cummer which has been pretty good on his free throws tonight so and well we just missed that uh stacy he has fouled out that's lucas stacy their power forward come here up bounces around and finds the net for the first free-throw attempt yeah that's 19 on the night second attempt up and there's the dagger for the game and that is 15.
yes okay thank you so i did want to highlight the revenue which is you know there is a section in our budget book for revenue but i did want to just focus on this for a couple of minutes um so the way we budget revenue and you could see the largest portion of revenue that we budget you know consistent this year with previous years is educational cost sharing this 9.3 million dollars which is essentially the funding that the state provides for education here in cheshire just remember that 9.3 million dollars because in the next slide i'll just show you the significance of the amount that we receive in cheshire as a derby district we are among the highest in terms of what we receive special education excess cost whenever we have a student that we need to place out of district and the cost of that student's educational needs exceeds four and a half times our average per pupil expenditure of roughly 75 thousand dollars the state reimburses us for that so we we budget for that expected revenue birth to three is three hundred sixty thousand dollars the birth to three program uh is fully funded by the state actually um so whatever we spend the state reimburses us just about dollar for dollar it's it's one of the few programs that the state does fund dollar for dollar special ed excess cost as an example the state has been funding only about 70 percent of their obligation you know certainly for the last you know couple of decades so um that's not the case with birth to three and then you see that there are some you know other smaller revenue items 140 000 is for our preschool smart start program and you'll see that we receive some revenue for adult ed and and we budget revenue for rental fees the important thing that i wanted to say is is two things this 10.3 million dollars we budget that that revenue is budgeted for the town you know we do not receive that directly to offset costs but we budget it because we're budgeting the gross amount the town's expected to receive that revenue and this revenue is important because without it as you could see along the bottom of this slide that if you um take the average cheshire taxpayer who has one home and two cars assessed at 223 000 if we didn't receive that revenue based on the school's budget their taxes would be 829 higher per year i won't you know on this slide i just show you how i i calculated that math um so the revenue that we receive is obviously important and the bulk of it comes in the form of educational cost sharing what i was referring to a moment ago is these are all the schools in district reference group b that are similar to cheshire socioeconomically dergby um was is determined by the state and you could see here some of the names you know they range from south windsor cheshire farmington avon madison newtown you know greenwich what you see at the top of these bars is this is the average per pupil cost and dr solon you know referred to this in his presentation and i know the board members have seen this before but cheshire's average per pupil cost is seventeen thousand seventy five dollars so you could see being on the left we are on the low end of the per pupil cost because we're very efficient here in cheshire even though we provide an excellent education and and our test scores are reflective of the student achievement we have we do that in a very value-oriented way on top of that what i wanted to highlight are these green portions of each of these bars because these essentially what this represents is how much educational cost sharing grants each of these districts receive so you could see that south windsor granby cheshire west hartford which was a is a much bigger district actually you know we have the highest amount of um revenue received from educational cost-sharing grant you'll see some communities like madison greenwich fairfield theirs is near zero you know less than you know um a hundred thousand dollars in in each of those districts so the educational cost-sharing grant that we received from the state is very important to us so even though cheshire ranks fourth lowest on per-pupil expenditures in dirt b if you look at the next chart what this does is it shows if you took the per pupil cost and then subtracted from that the per-pupil educational car sharing grant we receive cheshire drops to third lowest so if you do the net you know cheshire's average per pupil cost if you subtract it out the educational cost-sharing monies we receive is about fourteen thousand dollars per student and you could see the middle of the pack here is avon farmington there at seventeen thousand and greenwich is up at twenty three thousand dollars per student again greenwich receiving near zero in terms of educational cost sharing so this definitely helps you know the education services that we provide in cheshire you know we rely on that that revenue from the state and the last point that i'll make is that part of the reason that our educational cost sharing grant is as high as it is is because included in our town's population is the prisoner population in in the correctional facility here in town and so you have you know roughly 1500 residents with no income so that brings down the um wealth of the community as determined by the state and that leads to a higher educational car sharing grant for us so that's good news it's the the other good news is that the grant for next year doesn't seem to be changing although the caveat here is you know the state is going to be entering its biennial budget process you know in the upcoming legislative session the state we know you know did report recently that they expect to have a surplus of about 70 million dollars for you know the fiscal year so hopefully that spells good news and and we continue to receive educational cost sharing at the current rate next year it's something that's always threatened you know when the biennial budgets are done unfortunately okay so now we're going to hold on uh faith had a question okay thanks uh you are muted faith i promise i'll be quiet after this until well to the next one but okay so um i understand dergs i understand they are a creation of the state do we ever look at an analysis of um what the cost per pupil is in surrounding towns because someone who has a job in hartford is not going to live in greenwich uh you know they're going to move they're going to look around us i'm just curious how we compare with with school districts around us also i mean if we looked at wallingford and and meredith even over into district 13 down you know they're um hampden you know closer communities i and again i i don't know if those numbers exist but um that's the reality of of our geographic area there has to be some kind of geographic comparison we have um i can share that the state you know the education excuse me the per-pupil expenditures is provided by the state so they use a consistent formula we know that the state average is about two thousand dollars higher than cheshire and the surrounding communities you know i would say other than than meridian are in the same range as us possibly higher but we could share those those um you know those details just um again i we're we're in the thick of this so at some point you know going down the road if you could if you could do that thank you okay okay so now we're going to you know start hitting the uh the budget recommendation this is what dr solon presented you know current this year's budget is 74.59 million the recommendation from the superintendent is to increase that to 78.4 million it's an increase as you could see of 3.9 million and it's a 5.22 increase um i did want to just touch on this um pretty briefly what is not included in our budget and what you're seeing on this particular slide and the next slide is these are the work these are the new program requests that we received from across the district um and you'll see that there's over on the left there's categories new equipment replacement equipment there's an other there and you could see the school that it's attributed to or where the request came from um you know things like you know a couple of new teacher desks and file cabinets and teacher chairs and the replacement equipment you know we did not incorporate those requests into the budget there just was no room to do so because um primarily because we have such a large increase needed to fund medical benefits we we pushed those requests off and did not include them in the budget you know however you know we do revisit those items you know throughout the year and we'll do so next year you know if we have room to make those expenditures we will you know there's a request here for you know a new 10 passenger van to replace you know the one of the vehicles that's used for student transportation um you'll see that there's some digital microscopes that were requested for cheshire high school so these are the items that didn't make it in the in the budget and just anecdotally i will tell you that um dr solon reported that earlier this week the cheshire education foundation is providing funding for these digital microscopes so you know we we thank them for the um you know for donating the cost for those digital microscopes and then just moving on to the to the next slide you'll see that we have some staffing requests and some technology software requests these are all items that all totaled were about 490 000 um couldn't could not afford them in this year's budget uh we'll keep them as potential items that we'll we'll have to prioritize and make expenditures against at some point in the future but we we could not accommodate these within the budget request this year and then this list dr sullen presented last thursday this was his you know what if or his wish list if he did have you know funding this is is dr solon's prioritized list again he reviewed this um a couple of uh a few nights ago and i'm not gonna you know bore you with doing that again but there are certainly needs that can be addressed and this is part of the budget process that you have to make the decision as to what you can and cannot do as part of the superintendent's recommendation this year okay so let's look at this year's total budget request again these these numbers at the top are what i just reviewed there's 5.22 percent salaries and employee benefits are the first two categories 80.2 percent of our budget is for salaries and benefits and then you could see that support services which is where we budget student transportation which is about three million dollars a year is nine percent of our budget uh instructional expense which includes a portion of special education specifically outplaced tuition for those students that we cannot provide services in district and then maintenance and operations which includes utilities is just under four million dollars it's about five percent of our budget um and then if we take it a step further 95 of the budget is what is being identified as fixed costs you know not fixed costs in in the traditional accounting sense but more costs that were contractually obligated to and so salaries of 49 million to 50 that's what's budgeted that's 62 percent if you add benefits which is 13 million now the cumulative total of salaries plus benefits is about 80.2 percent of our budget and then if you add in transportation plus fuel and insurance related to transportation it's actually four million dollars that gets us to eighty-five percent of the budget um special ed tuition and consulting services gets us to 89 utilities heat and energy contract payments gets us to 91.8 percent and then it finally if you had facilities cleaning maintenance supplies and repairs that's 95 of our budget which you know are items that either we have to provide because they're mandated its salaries and benefits for our staff or it's the types of items that we need to keep our buildings running including you know utilities heat and uh facilities maintenance so what does that leave that leaves five percent of the budget and so five percent of the budget are for much smaller categories and you know this shows you the same approach where if you take the budget request and then you accumulate it here's where you get five percent of the budget and you can see these are much smaller line items instructional supply 463 000 textbooks and software for the district 450 000.