And then the switch upgrade that needs to happen for the security cameras and audio enhancement comes in at just um just under $27,000 for an estimated cost of $620,000. $620,513. district will also continue to replace its antiquated Smartboard technology with uh classroom displays um for whole group instruction. Um this year we will be looking at uh roughly 34 displays for Deer Path as well as 22 uh displays at Three Oaks. Now, if you'll remember last year, Three Oaks got 12 uh displays. Um and that is why they are 12 less than um than Deer Path with the same school footprint. Uh as far as reselling our fleet, um these are this is a rough list of the iPads that we have available to sell as well as the um the way that Second Life Mac, the company we sell these to, grades our uh device fleet that we send to them.
We haven't started to do it. Uh the town is going to hire an event coord or we call it like a main street coordinator. We're not going to call it an event coordinator because we want them to work with the businesses and again we want to be collaborative with the businesses. So we plan to hire someone probably in the next couple of months and they'll kind of start scheduling next year because we really don't think we can schedule anything till probably next year at this point. And again, we want the community to have first access to it. So the school has events and the town has events and the chamber has events and Rotary has events, we want them to have the first choice to it. We don't want everyone else trying to take up the space and and and not be able to have it for the community.
We're down to three. Two of those are actually used for professional development with our staff, which is absolutely crucial um as we go through this. The third one for the elementary school students is for that parent teacher conference uh to give them an opportunity to have that o and and we feel like um the attendance rate for that was close to 99% this past year just over 97 um percent this year. Therefore I I believe to me that signals that our parents feel like that's really absolutely crucial time as well uh in communicating with their teachers. Um So, Mr. V, that's those are the reasons why we've tried to cut those back as as much as we could. Um, and still we we need that day both first and second semester with our staffs to cover some of the um essential items that need to be in place.
So what what metrics I know there's no way to measure you know how much you prevent but do you have a metric where you can say the schools that we've implemented our plans to are things have gone down I mean do you have any kind of metric where you can >> well really the best data is your own data that you collect >> as long as you're consistent in your data to see where the trends are you can't you know you good policy for a school district's not based on what somebody else somewhere else in a region or around the state did in terms of addressing a specific issue. It's what's your data show that you're what's what are the trends and what type of behaviors have you seen an uptick in? Certainly, you can look around at what other others are doing. But really the issue is what are the data trends within your within your own district as far as measuring prevention.
And then this weekend is the art show K through 5 will be at 11:00 awards at the Putin County Museum. And then on Sunday at 2:00 will be for 6 through 12. And the artwork is being currently hung and it is wonderful. So I encourage anybody who is around and wants to come out to the museum to please please do some great artwork. >> All right to our last point to >> a second. >> Second. >> Any discussions? All those in favor? I >> adjourn. Thanks for your attendance. Thank you. I am. So
So, we're only at 86% for our revenue coming in and 11.2% 2% going out. Um, which is pretty typical for a January out of the operations fund. And so overall, that's it's looking really healthy for January considering it's a three pay month. Moving on to the rainy day fund, there is no activity whatsoever. We do not even have a budget allocation for this. Bless you. Um, and so our cash balance with that is staying strong and steady at 3.9 million. Moving on to the expenditure reports for the education fund. Um at the very top with January um you can see there where we're ending that that month for January at 14.5 and it is going down. We have to be very careful from the previous year um in January of 25. That's something we just really have to be cautious of of those expenditures and I believe we are.
>> I I agree. I'm a big bingo proponent, but we'll see. >> Thank you for that. And I think pickle ball will be opening again soon this spring. Yes, pickle ball definitely is happening at home. >> Oh, wow. Okay, ready. Great. Thank you for that report. Moving finally to foundation. Dr. Mahaland. >> Thank you, Madam President. I'm happy to share uh we briefly talked about it, but the Lawrence Township School Foundation Celebration Gala will be this March 20th. Um and the theme is Once Upon a Time, and this is LTSF's largest fundraiser of the year. and it really brings the community together to support uh my favorite three E enriching educational experiences uh for students and staff. And um it will take place at the BuiltWell Event Center. So that's a little bit different but there is free parking which is nice. And be ready for a royal feast, delightful treats and whimsical entertainment.
And so the recommendation is to continue offering those two medical plans with no design changes to those plans. However, there are IRS guidelines and regulation changes that are occurring. So, the deductibles you do see there do continue to unfortunately go up. So, we see that the HSA plan is going to increase an additional $100 for individual, an additional $200 on those with a family plan um to meet those calendar or the calendar deductibles per IRS guidelines. So, we will be implementing that change. So, the overall increased renewal rate, it is an increase from last year's 3.6%. We are now seeing a 9.6% 6% increase for this coming fiscal year. Um that is definitely an increase. We're hearing national trend across the board. Some are usually in the double digits. So um it is trending at an increased percentage for this coming year. So we work as stated with an actuarial to determine what our estimated costs will be for the coming year.
>> Okay. >> Right. Any other questions for Travis? >> It's an action item to approve those later on this evening. >> Thanks Travis. >> You're welcome. Wait, sorry, one last question. So, we're approving everything later this evening or are we approving we're approving the things that you're still waiting on the >> So, we're we're approving the the nine out of those 11 uh >> so like the steel work and stuff that you're still and the >> steel work and and demolition >> demolition. Oh, later. Okay. So, tonight we're just voting on >> as well as the amendment, right? Because we we had the amendment uh about last Thursday late in the day. We didn't have enough time to get that turned around. >> Okay. >> Uh so we'll have the amendment uh as well for uh for South to be submitted to Iowa. Got it.
>> Does anybody have any questions on Hoya or the minute >> there's a nice quantity I suppose there was that >> I would like to thank the foyer team of the district for the work that they do because uh it's grown um >> and we have to engage our attorney a lot. Yeah. So, I do appreciate everyone's work. >> Yeah. >> And I think Heather, right? >> Yes. >> One of the many others. The other Heather M. >> Okay. >> Missy. >> I. >> Dr. Pock. >> I >> Dr. Martin. >> I >> Mr. Cerrone. >> I >> Miss Wenmouth. >> Hi, >> Dr. Mario. I >> motion motion passes 6 going on to 10.1 discussion regarding resolution to transfer the old Trober school property to the village of Asiggo. >> So [clears throat] board as you've seen here outlined is essentially a next step in our process.
So, uh, that was awesome from the PTO. Um, so I am going to say my congratulations to Arya Salt for winning the Three Oak spelling be uh, fifth grade at 3. She is the winner and she's going to represent Three Oak School in District 26, March 18th. if you guys are free at 3:30 at Bernotus in Crystal Lake. Um I know she will have some supporters from Three Oaks there. Um so with that, congratulations. Uh Nicholas was second and her study partner Aid and Aiden was third and they did phenomenal. The spelling be is way more scary than a basketball game. That is for sure. I was I Googled a lot of words. It's crazy. Um, so also with that, I want to say thanks to Miss Papalist because she took my daughter in mid year and helped her fly um from a crazy situation and she's really uh nurtured my daughter and made her such a success and I love that.
uh they gave us an estimated max potential value of the fleet that we're selling uh back as just under $41,000. So, a summary of all the purchases this year um uh is uh shown here just under $992,000. Uh this is higher than you would normally see because of the audio enhancement features which uh last year came as part of the referendum uh building enhancements uh for um Briergate Oaknull and Three Oaks. This year we're bringing it as part of the technology plan.
>> Again, apologies if I missed it. Is there where will the parking be? In front or to the side? >> Yeah, on both sides. So there's parking on the west side of the building and there's parking on the east side of the building as well. Do you do you envision anything in front of this building? >> There is some street parking on the front. And again, it's a little difficult. I'm sorry I didn't bring like the whole East and Grey development, but Josh, if you can go back to um probably just the aerial that showed the front. Yeah, that one. So, what Eastern Gray will be. So, if if you see these areas here, there'll be buildings here that like are on the street. There'll also be buildings here along the street. The same thing here. There'll be buildings right here and there'll be buildings here.
>> Um, one question about it. uh not not of my concern so much, but is Easter the Monday following Easter ever come up in other school calendars that that you guys are that you're aware of? Okay. That's something that I've just, you know, families getting together on Easter is. Oh, sure. Would be nice to be off tomorrow type of thing. Follow. So, it turns into a 4 day weekend basically with a Good Friday. Um, I'm bringing that up with also I I don't know where sometimes I I feel like we could sit here for 12 meetings, but this is one conversation that if you're going to get attention from the parents and anyone in the community, it's one that they care the most about. So, I do think it's good to have this and appreciate you the opportunity to to go back and forth. I like my thoughts were the same as Miss Ba.
Thank you. It's when you talk too much, you know, you need water. Thank you. But I want you to get all the questions answered. >> The you know the the question is how do you measure what you prevent, >> right? >> Know that the number one the number one way we find out about weapons, plots, and kids that are going to cause harm to themselves and others is when a kid comes forward and tells an adult that they trust. >> How do you put data on a relationship and connectedness with kids to get them to come forward? How do you track what you prevented? I know that you're uh the police officers were talking from EPD today. One of the officers talking about tracking data with the number of contacts that he has with kids and trying to put some type of numbers to to the contacts that you have.
I know there's been a lot of questions about adding different positions, things like that. We're being very cautious of those and making sure that we're doing it within the best interest for the students as well as maintaining a healthy cash balance to be able to provide for all of our um staff and community. For the um operations fund, you'll see for January 26 cash balance is 1.7 million. Um and again, that is low um compared to the previous year. there were some expenditures that were spent from the previous year in there and that is kind of is going to reflect that. Also, as you mentioned, we did not transfer the full allocation or the full transfer amount. So, that may have reflected a little differently at that point, but I feel like it's still safe at this point with where we're at.
I took that from their website. Um it'll be again Friday, March 20th at 6:30 at the BuiltWell. And I encourage everyone here to consider attending or helping spread the word. Um proceeds from this event will directly fuel the foundation's work and mission um of powering student success. Thank you for that update. Less than a month away. All right. Thank you for the updates board on the committees. Now we will move to our action items. 4.1 approval of board minutes. Dr. Maholland. >> Okay. So, I present to the board for approval the board minutes for January 30th, 2026. Board minutes um also for January 30, 2026 for finance and then the board minutes for a uh February 9th, 2026. >> Do we have a motion? Okay. Properly moved, Miss Dunn. Do we have a second? Second. >> Properly moved, Miss Dunn. Seconded, Miss Pucket. Any other comments about the board minutes.
um they look at historical claims, they look at the demographics, the composition of the various um employees that are on the plans to determine what our estimated and projection claims will be for the coming fiscal year. So based on that, the overall cost for next year is estimated about 19.3 million, which is a 1.7% increase or 9.6% increase for the coming year. We do expect that 1.3 million of rebates is going to help offset a portion of those expenses. Um but overall that is still the on the increase for the coming year. So how does that break down? Here's the breakdown in the various plans. So we have the PO buyup as well as the HSA base. And for your consideration and context, you have um how many employees are enrolled in those plans. You see the majority are in the HSA plan. We offer four various tiers.
Thanks. >> And we already checked with Isby on is there anything additional? We don't have to have any uh public hearings. We don't have to have anything because the money is already in in the fund. So we're not asking for additional revenue stream. >> We're just really asking permission to spend money the money that's there. >> Okay. Thanks. >> All right. Any other questions? All right. Uh, the next item for the night is up as a proposed action item. After we go through the discussion, the board can determine whether they want to take action tonight or move it to March. Administratively, we're comfortable with either way. Um, so, uh, we received two, uh, sets of feedback, one from staff, one from families. Uh I've provided the board and I've put in the public agenda an overview, a more in-depth overview than what I'm presenting uh tonight.
Um this is uh just one step of many along this procure in considering the the intergovernmental agreement with the village and we've invited Stuart uh Whit Law to speak to it. Thank you for joining us this evening. >> Sure. Thank you for having me. Um, historically the property at 61 Franklin Street was Trober Junior High School, but in 2007 and 2008 we built new Trober down on Colchester Drive. Old Traber then became known as the District 308 center and for a period of time housed the Kendall County Special Education Cooperative for its educational program for its students. Once the Kendall County Educational uh cooperative moved out, it was then the home for the school district's transitional students for those 18 to 22 year old [clears throat] students who are eligible. From that point forward, there's been a number of efforts to sell Old Trober or the District 308 both to private parties through a competitive bid process, nonprofits through a competitive bid process, other governmental agencies, and we just never were able to get it over the hump.