And with some growth, we think you could drop that a couple pennies if you want. So, we're thinking somewhere around 45 cents for budget year 2627. That's what voters are going to look at when they go into the voter booth because that'll be the fiscal year that we're in. Make sense? So, a lot of numbers here, but this is how we have to show it. We're going to show the additional 48 and then we're going to show in column 13 kind of what it ramps up. So we'll go 45 and then it looks like we're going to max out at somewhere around 69 cents. So call it roughly 20 cents higher than where you're at now. Not bad. Just kind of giving you my perspective working around the state. What else we see? So, I think this is a very reasonable financing plan at the moment on 30 million.
>> So am I able to ask the question? >> Yes, absolutely. So it's just so I'm understanding it's high risk because the auditor general does not want capital monies to be moved into ML interchangeably. It should not be >> correct. Even though we are given that opportunity and that option that you know when we create budgets now once once the adopted budget is done that's it. You can't move any more funds in between capital and so we have the proposed budget that we do in June where it'll have that money if we're moving that those funds between the two that'll be there and then if we keep it there for the adopted budget will be there. Once that's done it's done. It can't be. Good. >> All right. The next category is general operating fund reserves. So let's take a look at the data on that.
So we anticipate that this number goes up as well. I also wanted to point out how highly proficient has gone up year-over-year. I've got to give credit to the number of accelerated campuses that have fully embraced um an accelerated model of teaching. We're getting more kids um identified as gifted and accelerating their mathematical learning. And then our traditional campuses continue to be a gold standard in what we do with math instruction. >> Good evening. So, switching over to seventh and eighth or secondary. We're going to start with our seventh grade where we are seeing encouraging trends within our ELA. Passing rates have increased to just over 76% driven by growth of students performing in the proficient and highly proficient. And you'll notice that we're also seeing the uh percentage in minimally proficient and partially proficient decrease, which is exactly the trend you would like to see.
First, we have Miss Shelby Campazano. Come on up. [applause and cheering] Congratulations. Shelby is a dedicated and compassionate preschool para educator who consistently goes above and beyond to support her students and staff. She approaches even the most challenging that is true case loads with grace and flexibility and a positive attitude. Always willing to assist absolutely whenever possible. She is a collaborative team member who contributes to a safe inclusive environment and we could not do it without her. Congratulations Shelby. [applause] And who did you bring with you? >> Uh my husband, kids, and my friend. >> Congratulations. Thank you. >> All right. Our second um is Miss Haley Fontes. Come on up, Miss Haley. [applause and cheering] I like how you're running up here [snorts] with child. Congratulations. Haley exemplifies professionalism, open-mindedness, and a solutionsoriented approach in everything she does. As a member of our leadership team, she leads technology initiatives and champions our annual Veterans Day event with our Kohley Middle School, beginning her career here in HUSC preschools as a paraprofessional and now completing it as an incredible educator.
So, they're better now. That's my update. >> Yeah, they're they're better now. So, that's it. >> Thank you. Um, I was not able to attend either because I work on Thursday nights. Um, however, um, listening to all of you, I'm so glad you guys got that opportunity to go. I was able to attend the Maricopa Women in Government Day down at the Capitol that was hosted by, uh, Council Member Anamarie Noir and Representative Theresa Martinez, and that was so enlightening. Um, ASBA also, um, gives, uh, there's a report that you can sign up. It's free even though we're not members and you can get their take on some of these bills. There's been a lot of bills going through the Senate and the House um education committee um that directly even affect us as a governing board. Um so I highly recommend you guys if you want to know more information about that and I do believe we have a day at the Capitol coming up >> um which I planning on attending >> um which will be fun.
>> Yeah. I'm encouraged with the with the progress we're making and I couldn't imagine doing it, like you said, over a summer slam project. So, I'm glad we had the uh foresight to get it started last year with the demolition during the summer and then obviously being able to work on it during the school year. >> Yeah. And the cooperation with the middle school to make sure we haven't interrupted any part of their day is really, you know, really important. and we've that's happening. So, that's great. >> Yeah, Miss Kakona and her staff have been amazing. >> Great. Keep up the good work. We're coming to the finish line with all these big gun projects. So, let's keep it going. Great job. All right. If there's no other board days, I'm turn it over to you, Dr. Kenise, with your administrative updates. >> Thank you, Mr.
So it's been a we've been able to keep one extra bus off the road. um we're not putting miles on it and stuff. Um obviously we're still spending that same amount of fuel. I mean, right, we're instead of just this bus, we're running this one bus longer. Um but being a little more efficient with time, but also creating a little personnel flexibility, too. So, >> go ahead. Do they look at it every year once enrollment comes in? Do >> a sign of who's writing the bus, who's not? >> Yes. And and it's really I mean it's kind of a moving target in a lot of ways, not just >> um not just beginning year because you know if you if you if you go all the way down this road to pick up two kids and and they moved, >> we're not going all the way down that road anymore, you know, and so um you know it's a challenge.
Uh finally, KB is public complaints against school personnel. If you if anybody wants to complain about school personnel, I mean, I'll be the first one to lead the charge if you want to do it, but just do it correctly, right? do it in writing. We're not going to hear them if they're anonymously made and they need to be directed to the administration for review. Individual committee members again are not authorized to handle complaints independently. So communicating them or communicating unverified complaints, informal complaints to staff without following this process is also inappropriate and contrary to this policy. So, for example, if you tell a staff member they have many complaints from parents about a decision they made, >> that's just plain old mean and inappropriate and unprofessional, if it's even true. So, now that I've said that, most importantly, I want to make sure that our district employees are aware of these policies and are familiar with these policies because these policies exist for everyone's protection, right?
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There wasn't as much success. However, there will be they feel that there'll be some offset cost offset uh going forward and I'm going to use this as an example and maybe a dollar per student. What they're trying to do is drive down that that uh deficit that we we've incurred a little bit as a town. So, um we may see something along those lines. So, that was really the gist of the legislative session. It was uh very very interesting. The second thing I want I want to consider uh and I'm going to hand this on. I showed this to Mrs. Robin, I told this superintendent I was doing this with and he hates surprises, but um the uh the Rotary Club hang um anyways the Rotary Club with the interact club that's part of part of the high school. Um they are looking to reduce the amount of plastics.
>> Any opposed? >> Okay, motion carries. >> Uh, now we'll go on to the superintendent's budget. >> Okay, thank you. Um, so tonight is just a a quick recap. Um, I want to thank the board members for really wonderful conversations uh and the questions regarding the development of our budget um for fiscal year 24 uh 27. Um we met uh as a group and we had a budget workshop on February 5th where we presented the details of the budget in depth. Um the document is available um publicly for those who want to continue to to review that. Uh we then followed up with a question and answer session on February 9th uh where we entertained questions around um enrollment some of our um questions around our plans for next year. Um again those we have a video that's available as well as um documented Q&A.
What the good work >> board member Ramos. >> Yes. Uh, Ditto, what they said. Congratulations again and uh it's an honor to be on this board and uh have the opportunity and the privilege to uh recognize and honor you in in this achievement. Thank you >> board member Arianas. >> Um you rock. That's all I can say. And make sure that you add all of your experiences to your resume. You guys are doing a great job. Thank you for representing Asuza Unified. And I just want to say that every time I see, you know, we're we're actually giving our students certificates that I sit up here with pride because we live in the community. We you represent us, right? So when you go out there and you do your sport or you do your leadership, whatever the task at hand is, it it really, you know, gives us a sense of pride that you're out there really representing this district, this community.
He is our Century 21 after school tutoring bus driver. He helps in maintenance. He helps in athletics. Pretty much anything you need him to do, he's going to jump in and help. Um, that's pretty much all I got. >> Yeah, it's all >> I I can tell you that I I absolutely love Frank. He's a awesome person to be around. He is so helpful. He's willing to jump in and help wherever we need him. He did chains all year this year for for football with the chain gang. He's driven us on trips. I've I've been on his bus. The kids absolutely love him. He's delivering mail. Whatever he can do. I I can tell you right now, he absolutely loves Blue Ridge Unified School District. He loves working in our facilities. He's so easy to work with. Um he's just a tremendous person. So, love you, Frank.
Okay. >> Yes. Okay. Let me pause there for a moment and then I'm going to go pretty fast with a $40 million number and then a $50 million and shows you and show you how that how that works.
So, it's showing that we have a negative balance within MO of the 1.3 million. Now, for those of you that have been here with us for a while, remember eight nine months ago, we talked about how the state or how the county had moved $2 million out of M and into capital. This is the effects of that happening. But when we talk >> usually >> it's it's generally positive as as long as your fund O1 which is your M your fund 610 which is capital your fund 10 which is um prop money or I'm sorry that's your prop 301 money and fund 20 are all you know as long as all those together have a positive balance you have a positive balance. So, right right now, we have like almost $3 million sitting in our capital account. I'm still working with the county to figure out how they would like for us to move some of those funds actually over into the M, but with the county's antiquated system and it just they're not really good at being able to do that trans.
and it reflects stronger core instruction in math. While our passing rates are still an area of focus, we are seeing improvement year-over-year, which tells us that the instructional adjustments are beginning to move students in the right direction and math remains a targeted priority. As Mr. Mr. Burchcher mentioned, we know that our new curriculum and the work that we're doing with CUAS and our teaching and learning maps, um, there are a lot of action steps that go into the success that we're seeing and we believe that these trends, we know that these trends are going to continue in this positive direction. For our eighth grade, we saw a noticeable increase this year with passing rates rising to 51%. That's a significant gain from the prior year and important indicator of readiness for students as they transition to the high school curriculum. What's most encouraging from these gains are the students that we were able to move out of the lower performance bands.
Haley has also entrusted all three of her children with us in our ECDC centers. We are so proud of you. Congratulations. Thank you, Haley. [applause] So I'm proud to announce our volunteer recipient Nin Y if she could join us. [applause] >> Congratulations. >> So Nin consistently supports and extends a generous presence in our school community. She regularly volunteers in the classroom during centers, celebrations, and whenever extra support is needed. She goes above and beyond by not only supporting her own children, but by thoughtfully providing supplies and supports for teachers and pair professionals in both of her children's classrooms. Her kindness and generosity and willingness make her truly a valued partner, an important part of our school community. Thank you so much, N. [applause] And Nin, who have you brought with you today? >> My husband and my two sons. >> Congratulations. So, if we could have um uh Miss Turner and um uh Athena come on down.
Uh, and then, um, just lastly, I just want to, um, plug, we've got, um, we're coming up into the season of field trips. So, for anybody watching, uh, who wants to volunteer to be a chaperone, we do have our MUSD volunteer training. Uh, we have it once a month. And our next one is February 19th from 10:30 to 11:30. Just show up in the lobby and we'll get you all set up. And that's all I have. So, we'll move on to the work study. our fiscal year 2627 budget preview. Mr. Harmon, I still think we should do walkup songs. >> We'll save that. >> Simple man, maybe. >> That's the song. Simple. Okay. Threw me off. What am I doing? >> Good evening, President Coutree, members of the governing board, and Dr. Lman. The purpose of this presentation is to preview our early projections for the fiscical year 27 budget.
Brown. I just want to remind everybody in the community that our um district newsletter did go out. I do understand that there are probably some residents that may not have gotten it for maybe some delays in their their postal services. So, if you did not get this, please come to our district office. We have extra copies. It is actually packed full of a lot of really good things that are going on in the district. So, we're really proud. So, we want to make sure that everybody in the community is getting a chance to read all the good things that are going on. >> That was really good. There's a lot of information in there. >> Who's that guy at the bottom on that first? >> Yes, I'm sorry. That would be you. >> So, anyway, uh definitely take a look. We've got these at the district office as extras as well.
>> Yeah. Mr. Campbell's constantly looking at it and I, you know, I'll hear him call in Miss, "Hey, am I am I looking at that one right?" you know, that's, you know, like we could come back around. And so there's there's that constant uh in my mind, I know this is not how they do it, but in my mind it's like a giant map with push pins and they're pulling red yarn around corners, you know, whatever. But um but yeah, but then you know you but or you get a a family that moves in, right? And you used to never go that way and all, hey, we got a couple kiddos, you know, they just signed up, you know, enrolled in school, we didn't get them on the bus and so now you're going that way, right? And um and yeah, it's a moving target.