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Um life safety bonds. So the district has the ability to address 10-year life safety issues. Every 10 years the buildings in the district um go through a comprehensive assessment of the physical state of the buildings. Uh most recently we've had this completed at six of our eight buildings. all the buildings excluding Mooney Elementary and Creek Mooney High School. um if a item is identified or if something comes up an addend addendum can be made to that life safety survey if it's approved by the regional office of education and also ISBY uh that will allow the district to sell additional life safety bonds to address those specific issues and it that debt will not be subject to the debt service extension base but it will count against the debt limit. Um, in order to do this, a bond hearing is required and there must be issued evidence of the life safety approvals granted by ISBY, which would first go to the regional office of education in Will County.
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Um, and then like 80 to 90% of the state of Indiana, you know, we're in a declining enrollment situation. And so, um, you know, it last year, um, last school year, um, was the highest enrollment since CO since before CO here. Um, we're down from that, right? But that would be kind of hard to almost not expect that. Um, you know, um, we don't see any tons of new housing popping up in our district, right? Um, and so, uh, birth rates are lower than they, you know, they continue to decline. I have a big spreadsheet. I track birth rates in in the county. um and and try to project enrollment five years out. So if you're ever really really bored, um we consider out and we can look at birth rates in the county. Um you know, and so as we look at all three of those factors, I think, you know, one, we're going to have to reduce expenses.
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And to quote Al, you know, we are incredible district, but we could be even better, too. And I'm so excited with the staff that we have. Aaron in the finance seat, you know, Lisa now in in the curriculum, which again, I don't speak badly about any prior curriculum director, but these are staff members that are so passionate what they do that I trust them and I'm so excited about the direction our district is going. Again, we can do things better and we can, you know, looking at the strategic plan surveys. We can think on that and and do our own um the superintendent uh subcommittee will be looking at a self-evaluation once the protocols are cemented. So, we can can look at ourselves frankly and try to improve ourselves. So I just ask everyone to try to maintain respect even if you have anger. Everyone is going through something right now.
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Uh in the GL balance at the end of November was 3.5 million. In the MMDT account, the balance was 7.9 million. We had a net transfer of 2.75 from operations. The interest was a little over 32,000 and um the ending balance in MMDT was 10 mil almost 10.7 million and total operating cash balance was 14.2 million for November. >> Thank you. Can I get a motion to accept those minutes before we move to the next >> motion to accept? We got a second.
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Uh if everyone could just make sure you put on the calendar that on March 5th at 8:30 we'll have the board of education walkthrough at the high school. So we're at that time year where we're going to our second visits of of the high school. As I always say, and for our new board members, those are the most important meetings if you can attend because I get to talk about things. We could present things, but you're able to walk into the schools. And that's atypical of a board of education to be able to walk into the schools, a principal presenting, teachers presenting, and you go right into the classrooms. And I'm just not sure what you may see. It's live, and it's an action. And so I would encourage everyone to pencil in March 5th. And then of course we have our finance committee also meeting on March 10th.
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We do have pictures that we want to take. Board members, colleagues, Moving on to item 6.3, recognition of Isuza High School athletics chosen on Mont View first team all league. Mr. Fernandez, I turn it over to you. >> Thank you again to speak about the success of our first team Mont View League athletes. I would like to reintroduce our athletic director and coach of flag football, Mr. Albert Sanchez, and Savannah Ruer, our coach of the girls volleyball team. So, the Mountain View League uh first team recognition for several members of the flag football team demonstrate the strength of the Zuza flag football team. Although injuries got in the way of a deep CIF run this season, uh the AHS flag football team played at the highest level consistently against league and non-league opponents and usually found a way to win on offense or defense. >> Girls, I'm so sorry.
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So um that was good. Um I also want to thank we had 20ome members as part of the superintendent advisory committee and some are in the audience tonight who want to know and help and give their input into components like the bond and and give us information on how they feel about our school district. So, we have students, teachers, parents, staff members, a couple um administrators, and and some community members, including people with the town. We're really excited about that group to support Blige and and help us move forward on a lot of great things. And so, we can keep that vision of our district of being the great district that Blige deserves to be and that the community deserves. And we know how the district goes, so goes the community in small towns. So, we want the best school district around because we feel like that's beneficial for our community.
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>> Yeah, it's a full cache. It's a Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Assessed value. >> Market full cash value. Assessed value. >> Yeah. Because what we're finding, we're going to show you, it's pretty fascinating. Uh is the countyy's not picking up huge valuations. It has to do with this Proposition 117. So, our taxes are actually a little lower now since they passed this what they call Proposition 117 in 2016. >> That's a good thing. It just takes education. So, we got a great slide in here to show you that my colleague Randy did. That was amaz That's pretty pretty well done. Agree staff on that. Okay. Okay. So, moving on. Let's go through this. All right. Let's chat a little bit about the override. And uh let's go to the next page on the override. Let me go through this. As a reminder, state law allows school districts to increase their maintenance and operation budget by up to 15% of your revenue control limit.
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>> That that is the audited statement. Okay. >> So that's what the auditors will come in. >> Okay. >> And actually audit. So once 25 gets that audited and finalized. >> Okay. >> You'll see different pictures. >> So then where do they put this out there and like you know make it look >> deceiving, >> right? >> The last two are total junk. I can't >> and I think that's what when we talk to our auditors um to to them >> and then they have a totally different view on this on this report because they're actually auditing yearly finances. What are we doing? I will be doing it. They don't even >> No. >> Um >> they don't even look at this report. >> Just simple. It's not >> I think the term that he used was qualified information. >> It's it's not real time data because they're going back to an audited year versus the year before where they're here checking daily operations.
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>> Continuing question. Sorry, I was looking. >> So, so tell me what what are the district lines I'm seeing? So, we have the red, >> orange, and green. And then there's like the district lines as well. like uh if we look at 2526 for mathematics. So the very bottom one like there's the district line that goes a little into the orange and then into the green >> kind of portion. >> Yeah. So >> I you know what I find it interesting that it's kind of hovering that way but when you click on these they're interactive dashboards and it just allows you to click on it and then it generates the list of students. >> Okay. So that line's not really anything. It's it's the colors that >> correct. It's the colors. Yes. >> Yeah. The shaded portion behind is not relevant to >> Okay, perfect.
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All >> [applause] >> right. Could I have uh Mr. Pepper, Mrs. Hansen, come on down with the Chapperel Sharks. [applause] >> [clears throat] >> All right. Good evening, President Wade. Where did she go? Oh, President Wade. Sorry. Members of the board and cabinet and uh this awesome audience. I'm excited so many of you came out. I am Christine Hansen, proud principal of the Shark Tank. >> And I'm Terry Pepper, assistant principal. >> All right. So, first up, we have our certified staff points of pride, Miss Annarie Nicks. Come on up. [applause and cheering] All right. Mrs. Nicky consistently demonstrates strength in building positive collaborative relationships with families and general education teams, ensuring students receive the support they need to succeed both academically and socially. Her deep commitment to inclusive practices and her strong understanding of special education best practices guide her work each day. She actively pursues ongoing professional learning most notably through her participation in letters further elevating the quality of instruction and she that she provides to her students.
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I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> Board members, questions. >> No, >> I think it was page three. ADM, you said the words really fast. What is that? >> What is ADM? >> ADM is average daily membership. What is that? >> We are funded on ADM which is a a variation of enrollment. So the big difference between enrollment and ADM um is our preschool um our special needs preschool students and our kindergarten students are only funded at 0.5. So if we have 500 kindergarteners, we're only funded on 250 of them. So that's a difference between ADM and enrollment. ADM is also based on the first 100 days of instruction. So, if a student enrolls with us on day one and they stay to the end of the year, we'll get funded for the full 100 days. If they enroll with us on day 51 and stay for the rest of the year, we're only going to be funded for half an ADM because they've only been here for the the latter half of that first 100 days.
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Life safety improvements must be re uh must replace in, but some exceptions do apply uh for security and energy energy conservation improvements. So, um kind of have to have a one-on-one swap for that. we can't add new items when we're addressing life safety because the idea behind the life safety survey and those violations is that equipment is nearing the end of its useful life. Uh most funds through the sale must be used within 3 years of the bond sale date. And for any exterior improvements such as parking lots, playgrounds, things along those lines, a public hearing is required to um include those uh violations or work to be done in those exterior areas of the school. Um so we would have to hold a public hearing uh for those items as well. Okay. So, some typical life safety improvements as I previously stated, parking lots, paving, concrete, HVAC, mechanical equipment, the building envelopes, which include roof, windows, tuck pointing, and ceiling to increase energy efficiency, safety, security, intercoms underneath safety and security, uh camera upgrades can be included.
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Um it's just not a choice. Um we're we're fortunately and and I've jumped a seat completely now. Sorry, Josh. Um but you know, we are in a really strong stable financial position with the district. Um but in order to maintain that strong stable financial picture for the district um we are going to have to reduce expenses and so you know it that that's going to look like staffing it's going to look like programming it's going to look like some of the things that we buy equipment things like that and so um I I'll be putting out probably additional um information probably over the next month or so um to try to you know where where we can um look at expenses and things like that. Um you guys do have one just attachment in there in your agenda um under item C and that's just the LSA report.
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You don't know who's struggling with chronic pain or someone dying or um and so as as passionate we are and I'm guilty of it too. We have to try to maintain respect so we can all continue going in the same direction. >> Well said. Very nice. Can I add a little something to that? And I I think it's quite the theme that you're hearing, right? And and I really appreciate that our admin principles to the to write a me and I know superintendent is hearing this message loud and clear and that our future school committee members as well too are are listening to this theme that's you know resonating throughout our our our opening today. Let's not forget the reason why we're here every day. It's Avery. It's all the students that are not schools and sometimes we forget about that. Um, I I I'd like to start off by saying I've always said my job as superintendent has always been, and you've heard me say this multiple times, is to keep our children safe and to provide them a high quality education.
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Any discussion, please? >> Mr. Tox, >> yes. >> Miss Ferris, >> yes. >> Miss Dler, >> yes. >> Mr. Jones, >> yes. >> Mr. here. >> Yeah, >> Mr. Mercedes. >> Yes, >> Mr. Hayden. >> Yes. >> Um, Jerry, the second one, December 31st, I believe. Cash balance report uh for December. The account balance at the um end of November was 3.5 million. We had deposits for the month of 4.4 million. uh transfers in uh from MMDT of 1.25 million less the payroll and the AP warrant amounts as shown uh leaves us with a GL operating balance of 2,778. Um in the MMDT account we had uh close to 10.7 million to begin and then um a transfer out of that 1.25 25 to operations interest of 37 uh 37,700 leaves us with a GL balance of uh almost 9.5 million and a total operating cash balance of 12.2 million.
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And then exciting with the musical starts and this is the first time I've seen these dates March 12th to March 14th last or two weeks ago when I was walking by them. They asked me to act out a scene with them and that was pretty exciting. >> This was a Texas Chainsaw. >> No. It was it was fun to hang out with them at that. >> So what was your role? >> You got to tell the player. You can't they allowed to take video and share. Was it a safe? >> Okay. But it was just fun. What's that? >> What is the fun >> Mr. So, um it it was great and just to just to sit down and um act with those kids. It was pretty funny that day and then went to the basketball game right after that and then I came back and they were still there.
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Your team, are they here? >> Yeah, he's talking kidding here. Yes. Thank you. >> No, that's okay. Thank you. I'm proud of my team and these girls are extremely deserving of the honor. Uh we had the MVP and then four first team all leaders. So M's the only one that came tonight was able to make it. So thank you. >> Thank you. We have certificates for you. Um board member Vice Rodriguez Pñena. >> Yes. Um, Isuza Unified School District Certificate of Recognition is proudly to present Ashley Hernandez, presented in recognition of being named Mountain View League First Team All League for Girls Flag Football, an honor reserved for the league's elite performance selected by consensus of league coaches. This distinguished celebration consists of excellent exceptional skills and significant contri significant contributions to the team success. Recognizing the recipients as one of the region top competitors dated February 10th, 206 signed by superintendent Ortega and board president Sando Benas.
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And I I just want to thank the people for all coming in and volunteering their time and and giving us input on that. Um, in addition, we have some great things happening at each site. Um, Elliot Pah, I hope I'm saying her name right, Coach Kluff Eliia, um, won sectionals for girls wrestling and she will be heading to state next weekend. So, we have a representative from Blige in the girls state wrestling tournament we're pretty excited about. So, congratulations to her. Um, we also had a group of our football players and all of the adults said how impressed they were um join part of the football coaching interviews and so they were very impressed with how um how mature and thoughtful our students were with that. Also, we had an elementary school dance that I heard was quite the hit. And we got Mr. Robinson here.
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It's kind of a statutory formula. Again, local control. If you want to ask the voters for additional revenue for programs that are important to your community, local control, then your school board, this school board, and your voters can vote it in. So you can go up to 15%. We're going to show you the numbers in a moment. Authority for an M override requires voter approval like the bonds only at the November election each year, which is what we're working towards. Revenue to fund maintenance and oper operation override is levied annually as a secondary property tax similar to the bonds. Okay. M overrides may be authorized for up to seven years if approved with mandatory phasing in the final two years. So it fades a third if it a third and then a third I a third and two/3. So you got it for five years then you got to renew it.
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