Uh, the governor's budget came out a few weeks ago. The governor has funded chapter 70 and $75 per student as minimum aid. Uh, we appear to be at or close to a minimum w aid situation. When I look at our chapter 70, uh this past year due to inflation and health insurance, uh the legislature brought that number up to $150 per student. It is unlikely that we will get that information before we have to finalize our budget, but part of our excess and deficiency at the moment includes those additional funds that came into the budget for this year. So, as we talk about utilizing a little bit of excess deficiency possibly down the road, those are funds that I would be comfortable with carrying over into using towards the budget as we think about that. Um, out of district tuition, Janelle and I will probably be having weekly conversations uh throughout the next uh month um talking about uh individual situations uh moveins, move outs.
>> We could discuss it at the next meeting if you want to. I think I was just thinking it was important to have one in play starting tomorrow morning. Um >> just just to have something here. >> Yeah, I agree. >> Okay. Um >> Okay, let's do it. >> A motion and a second. Okay. Um any further discussion? Mr. Mia, you still with us? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. Can we call a vote? >> Mr. Mahia? >> Yes. Mr. Mercedes, >> yes. >> Mr. Tarbox, >> yes. >> Miss Ferris, >> yes. >> Mr. Dler, >> yes. >> Mr. Jones, >> yes. >> Mr. Hayden, >> yes. Thank you. I think it's just important that we have something in play right now. Things are happening too fast. Thank you. Um, we're moving on to out of state travel, Mr. Lavoy. >> So, we have three.
Um right now uh we have again very conservative figures. Uh the figure I have in for circuit breaker is based on um another conservative estimate based on uh this past year. Uh Janelle and I will go through all of our all of the placements. Uh Janelle, we'll be doing um uh sort of a proforma uh review of circuit breaker to get a guess as to where we will be and how much money we will have. Uh we also do have some retained rolled funds that we have available in circuit breaker that we might utilize if uh if we feel like that's necessary. Um we have not utilized excess and deficiency for operations in this iteration. Um, as I talked about, we could use some excess deficiency. I'd like to see where our balances consistently roll to and where we're coming to this year. Uh, in terms of what we might be willing to, um, put forward for excess and deficiency.
Sure. >> Okay. I have two of them. You can read the third. >> Okay. Um actually just to your attention >> this is the third one was just added on to the agenda that I spoke about because the date registration ends is on the 16th that's hard um one security uh school security is requesting to travel out of state to crisis prevention institute in Nashville New Hampshire um total cost the district is 2 $349. Can I have a motion on that? >> Make a motion to approve.
You will also see that we are committing to some excess and deficiency for one-time costs. Um, and we'll talk about those a little later. Uh final health insurance figures um are are supposed to range from either from 2.9 to 14.4%. Um I did get an email today from our representative with Maya, our insurance provider, uh asking to talk about rates. I assume he is going to give us our rates. Um right now I have 15%. Uh the highest it will be is 14.4%. So, I'm hoping we're less than 14.4%. Otherwise, we're close. Um, but, uh, assuming we're somewhere in the middle, that would be savings. Maybe we'll be at 2.9%. Knock on wood. Who knows? Yeah. >> Um, fingers crossed. >> Uh, so the next few slides talk about um proposed investments in the district. This is using one-time funds um to uh make some investments in the betterment of the district largely or uh doing some things that we need to do.
>> Any discussion? >> Sher, can you call the vote? >> Mr. Jones, >> yes. >> Mr. Mia, >> Mr. Mercedes. >> Yes. >> Mr. Tar, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. >> Yes. Second one to approve one naves sec school security travel out of state to crisis prevention institute in Nashville, New Hampshire and to attend non crisis intervention training would be $2,345. >> Yeah. So that's the the mo that's the uh the mo that's recommended motion. >> I apologize. So, uh, >> next one is to, uh, wrestling coach Juan Mes, Alistister Ran, and Matt Dupo, plus six student athletes to travel out of state to Virginia Beach to attend high school national wrestling tournament. Total cost $3,230. Can we get a motion for that, please? Any further discussion, please? >> Oh, he's got >> Mr. Jones. >> Yes, >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mercedes. >> Yes.
Um and we'll move into that in a moment. So, um oops, sorry. Um these are I'm sorry. These are the investments that we just talked about. I apologize. I have other slides for investments for onetime costs. So these are exactly the ones we have them arranged by priority. We have three priority levels. Priority one, priority two, and priority three. Um I'll let you read those at your leisure. Um you will see P2, P2, and P3. On the second slide, I just consolidated priority 2 and priority three. Um these are not ranked in order. Um, if we do determine that there's funding available for these positions, uh, we would go back to the table with our administrative team and talk about what we would recommend to the school committee, uh, based on largely these priority levels um, and how much money is available. And Aaron, if I could just jump in.
>> Mr. Ty, >> yes. >> Miss Harris, >> yes. >> Mr. Hayden, >> yes. >> Mr. You want to tell us the third one in the future? >> Okay. So, we're looking for u three staff members who are part of our crisis team to attend a conference uh called uh the alliance uh the student data privacy consortium uh and unity convening and uh what they'll be going to conference for is uh or what it will support is uh and why we we feel like it's important to go to this conferences. They'll learn about protecting student information. We need to make sure we are keeping our students personal information private. This conference allows our staff to learn the best ways to protect student data while using modern technology in the classroom because it's also not only about their data but also technology that they use every day in the classroom and how that can be stolen.
So these P1, P2, P3, the priorities, I thought we're presenting, Mr. Scoop the first time, our budget, this is the work that this team has been doing, right? We've been meeting since I think even before the holidays and deciding what our priorities. Do they think they need all three of them? Yes. But they're being mindful of what we can also afford. Um so that's why they've narrowed it down to these are the top things they really feel they need those priority ones to be able to to for to have a high quality education next year schools. So this is the work that we've all done. It's just not Aaron and I presented this. It's everyone here. >> I apologize. Slide 16 is an extraneous slide that I meant to take out. So, uh, ignore it. I was cutting and pasting things and moving them around and that one got left in.
Uh working with technology companies, schools may use different software programs. By attending our staff can speak directly with the companies that make these programs, vendors. We can tell them that they must be honest and safe with our student data and find out how they how they actually keep our student data safe. Understanding the laws. There are many laws about data privacy and they can be confusing. This event helps our staff understand exactly how to follow these laws so our district stays compliant and responsible. Building safety in our schools. We want to make sure that the safety is built into the tools we use, not added later. Our teams will learn how to choose and set up technology that is safe from the very start and balancing learning and safety. We want to use data to help students learn better, but we must be careful. This conference teaches us how to improve learning without putting student privacy at risk.
Uh, so moving on to our capital budget. We are considering a number of one-time investments in our capital planning. So, it's not just sort of hard capital items, but it's one-time investments. Um, you will see some of these are fairly uh aggressive amounts. Um, one of the things to remember is, um, we will likely be over our cap for excess and deficiency. We will have a need to spend down some money, period, from our excess deficiency. Um, we have not spent money from school choice um for the past two years. So, we've taken money in and we've not spent money out as part of the budget. Um, that's largely due to some luck. Um, we've had a few things swing our way. This allowed us to not have to use school choice. Um, we did put school choice forward towards this budget. We may have to use a portion or all of that, but we do have a robust school choice account.
So, this particular conference and what will be learned keeps in line with where we're one of our initiatives in terms of uh security and safety. And this is one area that has become more and more uh critical and important in terms of technology and how companies are stealing student information uh through the through their software basically. And so this is one of the uh areas in which we need to learn more about. So that's why we would like to send uh uh people from our crisis team uh to this conference. >> Uh you it was a late You you should have gotten a >> You can take uh You can take this one. >> We didn't get it. It's in the email. >> Oh, yeah. It was emailed to you. >> Not here. >> No. >> Yeah. >> I was too. >> So, >> may I ask a question?
Um, and so we feel like it makes sense. Our auditor will very likely tell us that we should spend some of that down. Um, and our position is that we should probably invest in some things. We also have a big ask on the table and we have some investments we're asking the towns to make on our behalf by picking up some of these costs, these one-time or capital costs. Um we're hoping there's a little bit of olive branch extended in that that we are doing our work to try to better the district um with the funds we have >> and and Aaron just I know that that's David the funding we we really feel that we're we got a good handle in the budget right now, right? So when we first came into this as there's no secrets here as a district, we we're very close to a 112 budget, right?
>> Sure. put your mic up, please. >> Was that 10 minutes? >> So, uh, Brenda will be be leading the team that goes because she oversees uh this one of the initiatives around our crisis and particularly in student data privacy. So, it should be one of them that goes >> I mean because it's not shown. We haven't se we haven't selected. There'll be three members from the crisis team who she's one of the lead members on the crisis team and um oversees the uh some of >> this isn't this techn didn't you said tech technology >> it's part of techn yeah it's not it's not the technology itself but how to uh utilize uh how we should be uh learning about the impact technology can have in terms of people stealing student uh data Um, so we will offer it to one of our techn two we have two people in technology.
We were working very hard with Michelle Griffin, Department of Education, right, to really see exactly where our budget was at. That's one of the reasons why we were brought in here. Um but now we're feeling that we have a handle on this um and where our funding is. And so that's why we're presenting the budget this way to you guys now. >> Sure. So the very first item uh on capital is our debt for the honto. um looking at the the schedule. So this is the debt service payments that we will be need to be making this year. I think as you'll recall we had two years where it looked like um those were calculated incorrectly and provided to the towns. We corrected that in 2026 and we're continuing that correction going forward. Uh the Tahanto debt should be paid off. The first bond should be paid off in 2031.
We will offer the opportunity to one of them as well. So either Louis or Jason and see if they would attend to uh be one of the members that goes. >> It would be good to know who's going. >> Yeah, it would be >> because I mean what we want to see is what we saw tonight. >> Yeah. we want >> that all this information who's going is relevant to to the actual convention. Y >> the people that are going and then they they're going to bring >> the knowledge that they go and implemented here or >> yes >> or at least recommend the what they learn to be implemented >> utilized here. >> You know what I mean? So not having names >> at least. >> Yeah. >> This is not three cents. It's it's we need to know. >> You know what I mean?
So we're five years and the second should be in 2033. So a little bit longer but within five to seven years will be all ours for better or worse. >> Just the time to be looking at this. >> Okay. Sorry. >> So here's here's where we get into some of the heavy hitters. Um so these are the asks we're u making to school committee to first come from END and school choice. Uh as you know Tonto has had almost no capital investment in the past at least for the past two years. So this is an effort to try to help correct that through some of the excess deficiency that I believe we have. Um I know we have at least enough to to fund this. It's a matter of whether we'll have some to put into operations. We are awaiting and uh I know that um our excess and deficiency uh packet is with the individual who's looking at it right now.
Thank you. >> Okay. Do we have a motion? Can we get a motion on this one? >> Make a motion to approve. >> Second. Any further discussion? Um, you'll notify us, Mr. >> Yes. I'll let I'll notify you. >> Thank you. Sure. >> Miss Ferris. >> Yes. >> Miss Dla. I'm going to abstain because it's missing information. Thank you, >> Mr. McN. >> Yes, >> Mr. Jones. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mercedes. >> Yes. >> Mr. Priities. new business. We have none. >> Yeah. May May I add something to the Sure, >> please? I will I mean I just want to go back to the advisory board committee reports and I would like to get a a copy. I know we got it last year. >> We do. we all that they um all the recommendation for every shop. >> Yep. >> And not only that, I would like to see a um >> you know how they have a I want to see >> their request.
So when they get your packet, it just sits in line. It gets queued up. Uh and finally, they are reviewing our packet now. I'm hoping to have those numbers um uh by the end of the week um andor questions from them that I'll answer and we'll get that done. Um so uh to begin with student and staff technology devices have not been updated in uh I want to say three years. Uh so we have been sort of limping along in the Chromebooks. We have the the staff devices in some cases. uh Robin Peter to pay Paul sometimes. This will reinvest into the student and staff technology at Tanto. Uh I think as we've talked about um the IDF ele and elevator controls air conditioning unit uh needs to be replaced. Um that's uh essential if that goes. Um we have a lot of electronic components.
>> Not just the request, but afterwards I want to see a date of what happens. And I'm going to tell you why. Because what I noticed is this is going to be this is actually my seventh time listening to the advisory board and there was too many repeat for seven seven years where space is a problem. There's a almost all of them if not all the shops I mean there was 21 shops almost all of them have old out outdated equipment that needs to be replaced. Um that was a team. Um so replacement space which is what I've been listening to for seven years already. safety. You know, we you already addressed that and I know you um mentioned that the b the this in the budget committee there some of these things are already um part of it but I want to follow up because we should not be seeing this every year having the same issue for every shop.