That we've relied upon this. Uh, >> I always wonder if you could have like a stacked um like some sort of stacked bar chart on the school choice that I'm just trying to think of how you layer in like you know if if um you know we get the override it's here but then if we don't we have to you know stack this much funding onto it that's part of our fixed budget. I don't know we need >> you got to pull it out somehow. I just want to I guess make a comment on on sort of some of this in terms of how we talk about stacking all that and and I will share that I have some concern um in terms of how how how well we can articulate why the use of one-time funds something you have to be careful with right we all understand it I think most people understand it like you have to use it once it's gone but I think when you're talking about something like an override there's there's There's going to be some people who say, "Well, the money's there >> this year.
Um both legislators, I checked with them just last week, they are still feeling confident that uh that both sides of the aisle are very much in in favor of some type of movement on ECS formula and um and they think they're going to get it. So um they are working with the government right now, but is Dr. Gman pointed out earlier, there's a $12 million uh tuition gap for CRE and CRE is is lobbying hard for that $12 million also. So hopefully there'll be some they feel confident there's going to be some type. >> Yeah. Well, they they go out of but they go out of session by uh the sixth of May. So probably with the next three or four weeks excess cost this year do we have a number tenative number and what do we budget that for next year? So that was just released and uh it's based on an estimate.
So what we did with the following year is we contracted with a company to make sure that our classes were covered. Our rate went from like a 61% coverage rate on a daily basis average to a 93% now. So 93% of our classes are covered which is an incredible thing. However, that's not free. Right? So we're looking at another million dollar increase there as well just to make sure all of our classes are covered um based on contractual agreements of people taking days off etc. Okay. So in a nutshell, those are four major budget numbers, okay, on a on an appropriations type of idea that this board and this administration are dealing with before we even sit down and talk, before we even know what the governor is going to do, before we even know where our aid package is. And nobody even knows what's happening with the federal grant monies yet.
And if not or if like not until we find more, then we probably don't need to decide on their next policies. So, I'm going to throw the floor to Jay or Katie. What are your um What are your thoughts on that? Well, I I feel like it would be ideal if we could add a teacher, which I'm still working on. Um but I think with having um Justin, I know he's late this evening cuz he's doing some support for Gateway. We at least have we do have a parent member. So, that that puts us at at least five. If we get a teacher or two, we could be at six or seven. And I think that sounds feasible. I can ask my behavior interventionist or um some of our teachers who have been on PBIS. I just didn't know if that would give like an I haven't offered cuz I thought that it might give like an outside voice to Montavista, but if we're if if that is actually helpful, I can at least throw it out to them.
Barry and myself. >> Okay. How are those parents chosen to sit on the committee? Um, we ask principles, do you have any parents that would be willing to serve on the curriculum committee? >> All right. Thank you. >> Yeah, >> Mr. Watson, just a follow-up question because uh, she prompted me to think about this. Did we send out like a peach jar flyer notice to all of our parents letting them know that this process was taking place so that they were aware to that they could look at the curriculums? I can't tell you that I did that, but I can also tell you that it wasn't necessarily done by principles on their own sites. Again, I from the district perspective, my requirement is to put it on the website per Arizona statute. Yeah, >> I'm I guess can I speak? Do you mind? >> No, not at all.
So, I can jump off stage, jump, which my normal, and then if I have the wings, I can jump again. >> Yeah. So, an extra jump. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. This seems to be pretty even. Let's see if Let's see if Aen can potentially take another stock. Does a down special. >> Yeah. And at 100%, what can you do at that percent? >> Yeah. Oh, tries to get right back down to the stage with a down air. >> Ooh. air dodges the Lucina's up smash, but he doesn't air dodge the uh forward smash or the forward tilt that was done previously. Unfortunately, this Lucina has taken out Scott's stock and Aiden's and all three of Aiden's stock. All three of Aiden's stock. So, let's see who the JV team is going to counterpick. >> My personal think or idea is they're going to go Tanner.
The head press. Um so, Tyler is across the nation. Um this particular program, school, ERP Pro, is not in Indiana yet, although I did just get word yesterday that Clark Pleasant did sign their board to approve. They are signing a contract with them. So, we will be the first two schools in Indiana to use this particular platform. Tyler is in Indiana with what they call a um new uh new world and his ERP pro program, but it's also geared more towards townships or a city type finance program. Um they still have the capabilities, but those that we did talk to, they love the system the way it is. And with the school ERP Pro that we were talking about, it is geared strictly for schools only, all school financing, um all school reporting. And um you can see there that I mean they're just the COG was very excited about it.
We'll worry about next year, next year," kind of thing. I think there's there's going to be a group of people that think that way. >> And I'm not saying we don't talk about it. I don't I'm not saying these aren't um important strategies that we've been implementing for a long time. Um I am worried about sort of getting too far into the this is what the future looks like. Like it has to be the right crowd, right? It has to be the right people that you're talking to. um that are willing to look at the long term. Um and I don't know how to to sort of separate that out when you're ultimately going to be putting information out to the community at large and people are going to take what they they take from it. >> Um but as I think about the substance of the dialogue we've been having for months now, years you could argue.
Um the percentage is 70.63 for us it appears because they don't give you that you're you have to be calculating it yourself. Um and that is lower than budgeted. >> That's for this year. >> For this year, right? um for next year, we don't know, but we did budget um pretty much the same amount um as we did um this year. Yeah. Just based on you know based on you know putting those students in the lineup doing the calculation against um stop loss etc. So yeah that's how we budgeted. budget in first on what we actually think is going to happen. We take an average of what we've been given over >> this year 72 for this year. >> Okay. Thank you. Thanks. >> 24. >> I'm good. Amy, I know this is like drinking from a flyer. Please, if you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask.
All right. The title monies 1 2 3 4. The title monies in this community have offset and I think we've done a pretty good job the past 2 years um trying to take all the salaries out of the budget lines for title because once you take away title money and it's tied to a salary, well now your tax levies got to cover that, right? So we did a pretty good job with that. Just trying to use title money for programs, equipment, uh you know, computers, anatomage tables for the kids. It's for the kids. That's what title money should go to, right? So, so we did a really good job um bobbing and weaving with that. However, we don't know what the federal government's going to do. My my guess right now from what I'm hearing is that they're going to take all the title grants and squeeze them together and just give you one one grant and that's what happened during the Reagan era.
I would prefer a slight imbalance in school representation that creates a better balance for role representation Okay. over not having a teacher. Okay. And I've, you know, I've I'm very fortunate like that I have a really good relationship with like Kelly and CEA. And so, you know, I've they've tried for us. Um they're just really struggling to find somebody who's willing to do it. Um one of the things I know about Montavista of all of our campuses, you're a lot of your team members are very kind of social justice oriented. So, this like is more up their alley than it might be for teachers at another school where that's not really something like you either have to be really into policy Yeah. >> or really into really into social justice or restorative practices or something for this to be um for this type of work to hold your attention.
What I'm what I'm a little bit um bothered with is I'm a board member sitting here and I would have liked to know that that was available to me as a parent at the school. I don't get on our district site often. I get on it for our our our board meetings and I get at when I know there's updates that I need to look at or our calendar, right? I go there often for our calendar. But had I known this was on our district website for me to look at, >> I would have definitely looked at it. Had I known it was at our school site, I would have looked at it. I didn't know and I should have known. Right. So that's where I'm I'm I'm a little bothered with it. >> Noted. And I appreciate the feedback honestly. And and President Coutree can speak to this.
>> Mhm. >> Nope. They're going Sebastian. >> Okay. Okay. Some camera action in here is proof. >> Oh, yeah. Look at him sitting in the hot seat, I tell you. >> Yeah. >> Mhm. >> All right. He's going to be selecting Lucas one more time. >> Once again, we got the Lucas. >> Yeah, once again, we do. >> All right, here we go. So, it's Lucina versus Lucas. Both of their names start with LU, which is kind of cool. >> It's pretty crazy. >> Mhm. I would say it's >> insane. >> Yeah. Yeah, that is pretty insane. Speaking of insane, Lucina just running right off the stage. Taking taking off those dogs. Yeah, as she should. Yeah, that's true. >> All righty. doesn't trying to trying to block out the Lucina with his projectiles, I would imagine, since to get all of her damage. He needs to keep at a she need she needs to keep at a specified distance, you know.
They even looked at it um they wanted to go to it also. They just can't right now but that is something that they are looking to switch to in the future. >> Any question? >> Do you know what the cost is for support year one? >> Um there is no cost for support. The support is included in that yearly fee. Okay. >> Within the contract. So um it will be they do have what they call a Tyler U also along with customer service that we can use. So in the system there are already tutorials. So say I need to know how to look something up, I can pull up a tutorial. It'll give me a line by line exactly how to do those things and give you that online training. >> So the yearly fee is 37,863. >> Correct. So year one we're looking at >> year one >> 64,000 basically >> year one would be continue just to pay for voice only.
>> Um and I think about the decisions that we're going to have to make as a school committee in terms of what budget we put forward. Um, I will just share with you that I my mind is more at making cuts that we think, you know, we we should make like if we've gotten to a point where uh population, student population has changed and we don't need as many teachers in the particular area because now we have 180 kindergarters instead of 200 kindergarteners and we can have a reasonable class size with one fewer teacher, two few, whatever those numbers are. those are just decisions we should be making anyway, right? Um, but if we're getting into decisions about things that impact, right? And I think we all I've been I've been listening just to see how this conversation went because it was something I was coming to this conversation and thinking about was impact, right?
>> Okay. Um, well, yeah, thank you for all this information. I'll throw a question out there on to what Jordan was saying earlier about the special ed. Um, I had the question about how do we forecast for out of district placements for special ed students? And so, what I was getting at was is the team looking at our current students and whether they believe there's going to be need in the next year or an out of district placement or are we just looking at who currently placed in the class >> both. So we're looking at kids that could possibly come back and then we're looking at kids that are currently there and then kids that are here that may be out. So we're looking at everything. So we'll judge. So I meet with once a month and all the meeting is is saying going to every almost every single kid that is receiving kind of district placement for kids that could possibly be at a district and then she gives me an update of where the kids are.
If you guys remember Ronald Reagan, that's what they did. Um which is good and bad. It's good because we get to use it on anything now, but it's bad because, you know, once you do this, you know, they don't give you the same amount. So, so that's going to offset some stuff, too. So, again, the the meeting be we're at the meeting before the big budget crunch. So, we want to talk about transparency. That's as transparent as I can lay it out for all of you. No one's fault up here on this deis. No one's fault in the, you know, it's it's life. It's happening. Okay? It's reality. All right? It's no one's fault in the past. who who these are whatever these reasons for these agreements or um healthc care needs it it happened for the reason why it happened so now we just have to settle it but again there's going to be some tough decisions um these are true and tried things there's not much wiggle room with these at all okay um so again I'm hoping that we get a nice bump again or I dare say it but I hope we definitely stay flat in aid cuz if we get any money taken away from us um then we're we're in a totally different ball game.
So, if you've got someone like that on your campus, Okay. unless, you know, unless Katie has some heartburn with it, I think that would be better than not having somebody. No, I didn't turn my camera on for that. It's just uh I'm starting a trial tomorrow and my second chair was in here and I had answered some questions. So, I'm sorry. I was like, "They're going to think I'm really interested in this when I turn the camera on." >> [laughter] >> It's all good. Um we were just discussing um moving forward with additional policies and you know, the fact that we feel like we need a few additional team members. Um we were able to get a parent cuz Justin Campbell's joined us. The only reason he's late this evening is he's doing some uh support work at Gateway. Um which, you know, like when he reached out, it's like, "Yeah, no, please support Gateway." Um but he's typically been pretty reliable and he's got a great lens and and great experience.
I think we get a little better each time we do it. This is my seventh goound and I think every time the board gives me a little bit of feedback and we make that adjustment the next time. So, I appreciate the feedback. >> Yeah, I think sometimes I I'm glad we follow the statutes. We make sure that we're doing everything right, but I think sometimes we need to go that extra step, especially to reach our community and our parents so that they're aware um that this is happening. I know when we went through this adoption procedure before, we had several board meetings even before that that 60-day window where they could come and look at it. So, we were talking about it way before we even had it on display. So, and I'll add we have, you know, parent square now that automatically sends us a million of these things every day, right?
>> Yeah, >> but he seems to be playing this match kind of close using a lot of his aerials to get up and personal. Yep. Gets right back to the stage with the rope snake. The rope snake is pretty good. I don't think he uses it as an attack that much, unfortunately. >> I don't think he does. >> Yeah, he definitely grabs with it and gets to the ledge with it. Uh, as for like the Z as it's referred to since you since you usually press the Z button in the air to activate it, >> what would be considered the V button in this game then? >> It would probably be the shoulder buttons. >> Okay. >> Since most people play with a GameCube controller, it's not the triggers, it's the bumpers. >> Okay. >> At least that's what I use for my grabs. >> Mhm.