So, I because some of you all know I taught math for 25 years and I usually like to take every slide with numbers, but Dr. Schulz is a CPA, so we have to like fight over who gets to share the numbers because we both love sharing the numbers. But, we, you know, we collaborate, we cooperate, and it's all good.
They do go to they don't just get trained here. They go out and they spend money on hotels and planes and cars or rentals and they they we our district spends money on them people out. And I wanted to Jason at this triple Y the last triple Y Brian presented and I was sitting in audience and I didn't know Brian was presenting and as much as I love my finance and all of that I still learn things and I still want to go to these sessions and Brian gave an excellent presentation that PowerPoint I was can you get it to the report electronically or maybe if I have a hard copy next meeting. >> Yeah, I can uh I can that'll be good for you guys to have. Okay. The financial presentation that Brian did back in November of last year. Okay. Well, good discussion and I do challenge you if you look at the go over this, you see anything you want to change or anything like that, shoot me an email.
It would be probably across the board. That is when we need the stabilization fund to be able to dig us out of the the the absolute worst literally worst case scenario we could ever imagine. So >> that's what it's truly for. So, I just want to just put that out there that there, you know, we are in we are even even if this doesn't pass and we come back to the voters for a 5 to6 million override in the following year, that's best case scenario. >> Yeah. >> Like that. So, like I just want to level set that this like we are not this isn't about us trying to get more out of anything. This is about us trying to make the best possible decisions for the community as a whole and make sure that we're financially solvent. I mean, there are towns that get into such despair that the state is like looking to take them over.
We're going to be down to bio and we're going to be down to um physics and we're going to be down to chemistry and more than likely we will have no AP science classes next year as well as no other electives. So, like I said, there's three of us. So we only have so many hours in the day to teach, you know, to to teach our students. And >> you mentioned a bubble. What's the bubble? You mentioned the bubble. >> Yeah, we have a population a population bubble coming up with eighth grade. So eighth grade has 90 uh give or take a few. So that is quite a bit above our usual 70 80 uh students. And so with scheduling and um leveling, right, as well as a cap on the number of students that we can have in our classes, we anticipate that we're going to have to have five um classes, five bio classes as well as bio A and bioB.
We want to thank you for for this opportunity to be able to share a little bit more and we'd be happy to answer any questions uh if you have any from the board.
I I do thank you for bringing it up and I thank you for sending that. And to be clear, I only went to Triple I this year. Go to anything else. >> Now, this year, this is a fiscal year. You got part last year and part this year. That was last year. Okay. >> Oh, wait. >> Trip tripy was last year. November. >> But in this fiscal year, >> in this fiscal year. >> Yeah. Only triple Y. >> Only triple Y. Well, you get my approval to go to a state session on something. Well, >> can I have a bull? No. >> All right. Sorry. Sorry. Uh, we prolonged that, but I think it was a good discussion. >> All right. >> So, >> that's old business, new business. Any new business? Oh, I forgot to mention doing board updates. I went to that basketball game.
So, you know, we just need to like we need to do the best for our community this year, but we have to we have to keep a mind to what could potentially happen down the road and just plan for that. So, sorry, >> Brandy. To that point, just as a reminder to everyone in the community, the school budget, about 10% of the total school budget is funded from federal and state grants and other outside funding, which is a significant portion of the recurring cost. So, when I look at all the one-time funds and and Jim's discussion and education on the one-time funds, like I worry about like depleting those and using those that we even have, never mind the stabilization, just the school ones. And that doesn't even take into account something breaks like the fire alarms broke this year. It was $600,000. Like you we're not going to not fix the fire alarm.
So that is seven approximately seven classes of biology, right? And so our biology teacher, you know, can teach five of those, which mean that two of them will come to Chris and then his chemistry uh will, you know, classes will come to me. So that will fill our schedules. >> So much bigger class coming up, different needs. >> So specific to science, does anybody have a question or want to make a comment? >> And let's be clear, AP classes are the gateway for our kids to get accepted to them colleges and universities, right? um that's sometimes the difference of kids getting accepted into the college and universities. Also for parents that students that score high in those AP exams, right? They have the ability to possibly go into college and not have to take that particular course depending on the college and university they go to.
>> Anyone have any questions? >> No, no questions, but but just just a comment. Um just to communicate how grateful we are for our our partnership with with with Citrus. Um a former Citrus College student myself. uh just just recognizing the the the impact and and just kind of like pathway to access to uh higher ed that that's made possible because of Citrus College and it's just absolutely unbelievable uh how that access is brought directly onto our uh school campuses. My daughter's in the dual uh enrollment program and so um just just grateful for um all the work that you're doing and and the work that we get to do together. And so just just want to say thank you for uh this presentation tonight. Um and and cheers to to many more years of continued partnership. >> Ramos. >> Yeah, I too want to just thank you Dr.
remember last meeting? I caught a little bit of it. That was the most exciting game I ever went to >> and we won. It was the girls. It was the girls and I probably caught a good half of it after leaving this meeting. And the most exciting thing was and I don't I really don't know all the ins and outs about this 67. The 67 >> I don't know. I don't think anybody. >> Oh my god. >> Don't answer. >> Well, they had 65 points and it was like so many seconds left AND IT WAS 67 67 and I'm right there with them. 67 67 because that was my birthday this year. Okay. And and they made 67. That's how the score ended. And they was hopping over the your sweat. They just won the state championship. But that was very exciting. So, all right.
So I just to your point it's I just as a reminder and to be on the record those funds are one-time funds that you should be using for those types of like worst case scenarios. If I if I may, we kind of talked a little bit about the messaging that we've been talking about this for a long time, right? [clears throat] So, so why now, right? And we've we've been talking about this, let's say, eight more eight or more years, right? And uh we seem to always pull something out and we seem to make it work. And just to give the community some some information on why and what what what happened in those years to make us uh do that. So there's uh chapter 70 funding is the state educational funding grant system, right? And we were being disproportionately hurt uh for many many years uh where a lot of our comparable districts were getting substantially more than us.
So there's a savings for parents as well too. But that's makes our kids competitive out there and getting into hopefully the high, you know, the the quality colleges and universities that we want our kids to get accepted into. >> Yeah. Because I mean we haven't run AP physics in a couple of years. Like AP physics is one of those. If you're going into engineering, right? Or you're going into one of the hard sciences. They want to see AP physics on your transcript and we don't have it. We haven't had it for a couple years. I don't see us having it for a couple more years. So, and of course, as we said earlier, AP bio is not offered this year, right? Will not be offered next year. We're kind of like hanging on by the thread with AP camp, but it's very, you know, possible that that could disappear next year's, you know, as well.
Schultz, Dr. Contrus, for taking the time to come and present to us. Um I'm a big advocate of community college. Um my son went to Citrus and I'm also part of the Citrus College Foundation on the board. So um be before I joined the board, I had very little knowledge of Citrus. So I I started going to meetings and did the tours and I was just blown away by um the campus in general all the all it has to offer um not only in preparation uh for for a four-year college for example for students but also the the locations there right the different trades which which are in in high need during these times. So, um, and thank you for the collaboration with with with our district. Um, and I hope that we can continue to to obviously collaborate, but also, um, showcase what what Citrus has has to offer and what we both Citrus and a and our our district can do together, right, for our students.
No other new business. The only last thing is if you guys saw there tonight was supposed to be special Olympics >> basketball game with police and fire and because of the weather they canled. So it's going to come out in April. So if you guys if they don't schedule it on a Tuesday if you've never been. >> It's a blast. >> Is it really? And then at halftime they'll put a big um bullseye out there and then you can buy for raffle and you know fundraising you can buy ducks and you throw them the guy person uh the closest to the center it's like a 50/50 but if you've never been it's fantastic >> and it was supposed to be tonight but if they reschedule it in April and you can make it try to make it it's really really great >> everybody >> I would I would love I would love I would love board members being participants in those events in manner.
And there's something called the uh student opportunity act uh that started to be implemented. And so we had three years uh FY20, FY23, and 24 where we got uh over $1.5 million additional funding in those years. So without that, we would have already been uh here talking about another override. Uh we also got uh the ARPA funds and the ESSER funds. Um so those helped us through those years as well uh with some of these costs that have been escalating uh at you know well beyond our our revenues particularly on the school side and these are the it's kind of an interesting term fixed costs or or I I call them non-discretionary costs the things that we have to pay for that are going up u you know 7 8% uh or you know we we talked about the out of district tuition uh just going up for the same number of students out of district 15 and a half% %.
So, for our community, all of our AP sciences would effectively disappear. >> The number one field out there right now for college and university, I was just reading this thing at Yukon is engineering, right? And if our kids are not taking these courses here, they're not going to get into the first choices of colleges and universities they want and especially if they want to go into the tech world or the engineering world. >> You you mentioned uh if we don't do this, it's going to affect offering a Python class. Can you talk more about that? >> Yeah, so right now um Jocelyn Sharpeter, she teaches our our middle school programming classes uh the kind of computer science classes, right? and but also this year she was able to offer um Python programming. So um I have for a number of years offered the computer science principal class, AP computer science principal class, another one of our APs.
Um, I think Citrus is a gem in our community. So, hopefully we continue to promote it um to to the rest of the community. Thank you, board member Ariani. Yes. Um I'm also one of those uh recipients that graduated from Citrus College. I think I graduated like three times because I couldn't make up my mind. >> I don't know. And I um that's where I started my teaching degree as well. >> And my my uh was it MSW before? Yeah. And my kids the same thing. I have three of them now. Uh two of them have graduated from Citrus and currently my my son is in the dual immersion program. So I I have benefited, my family has benefited. So I'm deeply grateful for the opportunity that ASUSA students have so close that have the opportunity to go for free and continue their education. Whether it's a certificate, like you said, to do hair, nails, what do you want to do?
See what you can do, Bill. >> All right. We do have a reason to go into close session >> for the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees and litigation when in action against affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court of administrative tribunal tribunal. Can I have a motion to go into close session for those reasons given? >> Moved by Bill. >> Second by Dr. Hall. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Salish. >> I. >> Dr. Hall. >> I. >> Miss Veneggas. >> I. >> Miss Wolf. >> I. >> Zit. Stumbris is an I. Mr. Gagos. >> I. I'm forgetting the city of >> Mr. Brown. >> I motion carried. We should be into close session. We would be in close session about 45 minutes and we would not take any action thereafter.
Um, so those are things and yes there is circuit breaker reimbursement but uh we have to eat those costs and then we get a certain portion based on funding uh a year in a rears. So we're always playing that game and so that's uh so why now? Uh it's those we we did have these things that had significant impacts positive impacts on our budgets uh in those years. But I can tell you that the chapter 70 funding now that the student opportunity act is fully implemented is leveling off. Uh we only have a 3% increase uh in FY26 and a 1.7 increase between 26 and 27 in chapter 70 funding. So it is uh leveling off uh but those costs still uh continue to rise at that at that rate. So um we might have sound like a broken record because we say this every year.