Um, and happy to answer any questions that you guys might have about that. So, and that's a lot. Sorry. >> Anybody got anything? >> Not at this time. All right.
Will he in his efficiency report look at the riders >> like Oh, good. >> Yes. Okay. >> In in routes >> because I know our buses a lot are in the afternoon very empty and they're full in the morning. And that's always that's always tough from a um I spent my career at secondary level basically. It's tough because you have to have the seats for those who are eligible to ride >> 100%. >> And because when it's sunny days out and kids want to ride their bike to school, I'm joking, ride with their friend. But on a winter day or when it's raining and their parents car breaks down and they they're eligible for a seat, you got to have that seat. Um, similarly the after school part, you all know this, but you run into the >> well there's nothing like >> I can say again I only can speak for middle school only my personal experience I've never filled anything out like I know my child stays after this day and this day but I've never been asked if I need a late bus.
claims that have been presented. Is there a motion to accept a second? >> I'll second. Uh any discussion on claims? All those in favor of approving the claims as presented signify by saying I. >> I oppose. Same signance. Motion carried. Legislative update. >> Um yeah, I I just want to mention that Janice and I are going up tomorrow um which is both ISTA teacher union day as well as schoolboard day. So, there'll be a lot of red, I'm guessing, red. Um, and uh trying to make appointments with our representatives so that we can talk about some education bills. So, if there's anybody who has something you want us to tell our representatives, let us know tonight and we'll make sure that there. Um, I've been I'm really not scrolling my phone for fun. I'm really trying to find out what happened at the legislature today because there were a lot of changes.
What we were hoping for was at least 75. Um so anything more than that I call it a win. That 117 is before fees. So once I get a final number after everything all the dust settles, I will update you with that. and grants, Jamie. >> Okay. Um, Title One, we received in the last couple weeks our final allocation, which unfortunately did see a reduction from what we had budgeted from. Um, it's down just over $1,700. Um, not a huge amount, but when it goes primarily to staffing, uh, that's a big hit for us. Um, anything overage, um, in those accounts, uh, goes back to our education fund. Um, so we're going to be doing some looking at that. um that comes from census data. It's super important that our families fill out their free and reduced applications. That information comes from there and also um that data also showed that fewer homes with school age children.
Next item on the agenda, new business. >> We need to approve the budget report. Sorry. Oh, we need to approve that. Sorry, that was so long. I just kind Sorry. >> Need a motion to approve the budget report. I move we approve the budget report. >> Second. >> Motion by Bryce, uh, seconded by Katie to approve the budget report. Any other discussion? If not, proceed to vote. All those in favor say I. I. >> Opposed. Motion passes 6. Now, new business >> 26 27 school calendar. >> Yep. So, you guys have the calendar. It was approved back in October. Um, the only reason I'm bringing it to you for consideration is just down here at the bottom. Um, and Carrie, I appreciate I don't know where you're at. There she is. Thank you for your comments and questions. I will answer a couple of them.
So there's nothing really official saying like there we know that we need x amount of seats because there's like 20 kids on student council and they all need a bus ride home. >> I wasn't referring to the club thing. We know that we know where you live. We know that if you ride home on the traditional yellow >> correct >> but I'm saying like on the after school but we don't have any >> there's nothing I filled out saying I need. I do think we're getting a little far away from the budget and finance. >> I believe they called, but we'll we'll check that. >> Okay, >> back on topic. Sorry. >> Yeah. And I think as silly computer, >> we need to get one of those really long pointers on a scale. You >> might want to wheels. >> Okay. Yep, >> we're back.
Um we are in the uh week eight of nine weeks that uh we'll have for the legislature which means the bills are I think actually the first bill I've seen that's education related but it's related to your thesis actually maybe is uh um Senate Bill 25 um is looks like it's ready to be passed on to the governor. So, um we're getting to the point where the next two weeks bills will finish their process. Um and that bill is one that will determine what the order of schoolboard candidates will be when they're on the ballot. So, um there has that is determined now in this bill to say it'll be the parties followed by independent followed by nonpartisan. So, um, the other bills are all like in that in between process and I know there were changes in the social media bill. It it was gone and now it's back.
So um that's why we have a reduction there and really that has gone down steadily over the last three four years. Um I mean just three years ago we were at 175,000 um and this year we're at 145 after that reduction. um our BISA grant um we are coming to the end of that in September of 26. That is our interventionist um position. Um that will end in May working on some amendments to get the most out of what fund funds are left. Um and then our title two we are going to be meeting um I believe next week Barry, myself and our principles to explore some PD opportunities um because we also have some amendments uh that we can make on that. Um there was an extension on FY23 where we have a little bit left over uh that we'll be able to move that in to get some more PD for our teachers.
Um, but I want to real quick the reason it's here, um, the 2526 calendar in two different places. Last Friday and actually today it says no school or makeup day. Um, I read that like steak or chicken. Somebody some people told me they read it like no steak or no chicken like and I was like, "Oh, see I didn't see it that way." So I changed the wording here to put no school parenthesis possible snow makeup day or whatever. Possible makeup day. So, uh, just clarifying because we have four of them next school year. So, um, that that was the reason, um, for me just bringing that back up. Just wanted to change that. Um, in regards to, you know, Carrie's questions. Um, I I would say a couple things. I think I I know baseball um, sectional is always Memorial Day weekend. As a as an assistant principal and principal, that was always fun for me.
>> And the record uh little thingy is still next to so we should be good. Um where was I? I think after the March 11th report, we'll be able to discuss this in more detail with better data. So getting back to the budget update, I suppose my question would involve looking at the calendar again to figure out um roughly because we originally had it that early February would be the publication of the proposed budget. So are we looking at that early March instead or or April? >> Um I'm going to talk to Aaron. Sorry, Aaron. I guess they make it >> on the website >> they say chief staff politely this morning and she was generally told me right about a month but that she'll have better fig dates >> uh soon and she was traveling when we spoke this morning in the area but we'll get me what the mayor's calendar is so we can kind of flush that through.
Uh, the cell phone bill looks like it's going to be bell to bell, right? Which means that um, currently this cell phone bill says you can't have a cell phone during instructional time and the new one will say you can't have it at all during the day. Um, and so each school I think then will be able to devise their own process on how they want to do that. >> I updated myself this morning. >> Okay, good. I was going to say and I heard that that you know and again you can decide to do a number of different things and how you want to do that. Um, but it is it is going to be a cost to um schools. So I'd like to see in addition to that that paid for some of that they do say that we can use the school safety to do that.
Um so we look forward to that and what we can do. I I'd like to make just a public comment here that one of the things I'm a huge proponent of is uh professional development led by our own teachers. Um our our teachers and our staff know the battles that we fight better than anybody else. Um, and so I'd like for our teachers to be more involved in that, uh, both in delivering it and planning it. Um, the principles haven't really heard me say much about that yet, but just like you found tonight, uh, with that presentation, I I I really feel like having them identify things they feel like they got to get better at and working together, um, the answers to the problems are in the room. They're not they're not out there. So, they're in the in the teachers classrooms. Okay. Then uh last thing I want to do real quickly is I want to go over some general financial prep for next year uh 2627 school year.
Um, trying because we're constantly moving ball games and changing stuff. Um it was it was sometimes a challenge depending on what teams were in your sectional. Um it well I shouldn't say sometimes it was always a challenge because everybody seems like they have graduations that weekend and so you're like well these two teams moved forward they both graduate on Sunday Saturday so we're going to play them Friday night. These two teams moved but they you know graduated on Friday so okay they're going to play. You know I mean it was a nightmare. We we always hosted sectionals at at a previous school district. So that is certainly a challenge. Um, I have no problem with, you know, sending stuff back out. We've already sent that once. Um, I I sent surveys to parents. I don't know if you got those. And just trying to feel, um, I know we asked kids kind of.
>> Okay. So what we're looking at is likely early March publication and then >> within the two week period or whatever the required period is our special meeting to approve the budget. Um let's see. >> Well that special meeting potentially we go to April. >> Oh yes April. >> So if you took the the blue February if you kind of see that blue February >> Yes. and just transpose it down. Yes. um almost I don't want to say um February jokingly could be March >> and if we were just pushing it back one month we would almost just say those are that's what's happening. So in March, we would potentially present, right? Maybe we would have a subcommittee meeting. >> We've always been early. Most districts, I mean, South is Mother's Day, May every year, right? >> Front of town. >> Um, and you just don't know what the feds or the state or anybody's doing anymore.
So, um that's I think that was added. Uh so that is a bill that we've been watching that is um Senate Bill 78. Um also the the bill that I've been watching the most and I think has um not consequential to us today but could be consequential to us later is um House Bill 1423. That is actually about the Indianapolis public schools and how their school boards are arranged. and they have said that what they're doing in this bill is a model for what they want to do in other school corporations. And that's not really in our opinion great for uh for small school corporations like ours. And what it would do is it would um take some of the operations, which is specifically buses and buildings, and put that take that away from the elected school board and give it to a board that is appointed 100% by the mayor of Indianapolis.
Um I want to be clear on this. I want everybody to hear me. None of these are recommendations. None of these are coming to you as though they're anything cast in stone. None of these are things that we have put sharpen pen to sharpen paper on yet. These are back of the envelope kinds of things that we've talked about. There are things that I've heard about that I wouldn't necessarily want to happen here, but I know that they have been talked about in other places. I want under no circumstances for anybody to leave here tonight thinking thinking we should do this. I do have some of those I think we should do, but I'm not prepared to tell you what those are until we know pen to paper. But I want to be abundant and clear that I want to start these conversations because as I know it will be made very soon and suddenly it'll be made.
I don't think the kids really cared. Uh, you know, whatever. They're like, I just give me my diploma. Like, whatever. Um, part of it I think too was um because of Memorial Day weekend having it on that Friday night so that way you had Saturdays for open houses and parties and all that stuff and Sunday after church you could have parties and stuff or whatever too. Um, so I I agree there's not like a perfect time and place. I think you could move it off Memorial Day weekend altogether and just say you're always going to have it the next weekend. the challenge. I mean, there's always a challenge with the calendar because um like I'm trying to think off top of my head, but um on this particular year, we end way early. That's why we do have the four built-in makeup days just to kind of stretch the year because otherwise we were going to get done really early.
But I think if we were to we being sub here I don't want to tell you what to do right but we guide you late February early March like even this week in March the week before the school committee if we were to come back we would have better figures for you some different things. >> Sure. >> Yeah. Um then we right you um was similar to that Monday or Tuesday of the week prior to our school committee could deem whether we're ready to go or like you just mentioned oh we just got numbers from the mayor not number but dates we're still really early tinker around for another month we'll bring it to the April meeting. Yeah. So, I'm thinking our next meeting does sound logical to be roughly a month from now, beginning of March to see. >> May I have your attention, please?
And he appoints all nine positions. And those can be a lot of business people and other things. And then that is taking decision making away from the elected school board and it is also giving additional property taxes to charter schools which are not currently getting them. So both of those things are huge changes and they're trying it out in IPS and they've said that it is a model for the future. So that is probably my number one bill to talk about tomorrow with our legislators. Sometimes you only get to you got to choose one or two and that's it. Um, so you kind of got to decide what is what is what's the hill you want to die on. So, um, that is one that we're just watching really carefully as are, uh, I know the Indiana Coalition for Public Education is, uh, really on top of it.
It'll be too late to do some of those things. and we literally had a rug pulled out from under us even though we thought it was coming. That stuff happened. So, let let me quick go through some stuff. So, uh why we need to plan ahead. So, the the first thing is declining enrollment. And you you can listen, you can look, it doesn't really matter. There's nothing on there, but basically the gist of the situation is that declining enrollment's taking place over 19 years and it's cost us $2.5 million over those 19 years in funding. Um that's a big deal. lo we've lost uh 154 students, 354 students. Sorry, I can't see my own writing. Um passage of Senate Bill One. So, keep in mind we lost 2.5 million in 19 years. We're about to lose just shy of a million in three. So, if people tell you that that isn't an issue, it's an issue because that is a big loss.