Um so, that 94% is approximately 153 million. And then this shows the unrestricted expenditures and we also include the special ed contribution. Uh the reason we do that is because those green pie slices make up what we consider our staffing that we pay for out of the general fund. Our our special ed budget is largely staffing and so we include that contribution that comes from the general fund on unrestricted side into the restricted program. So, our total between those four green pie slices is approximately 89% of our budget. So, we're in the people business, so this is about on track with previous years. And then this category is our transfers in. So, we have our redevelopment agency pass-through that's used for our routine restricted maintenance account, otherwise known as maintenance operations. So, that we're estimating to be about 4.3 million. The developer fee admin support is about 28,000 and that's 3% of the fees that we estimate we're going to collect this year.
It's currently policy 4322, but there is a new 4322. So, this one just needs to be renumbered. That's the only change. >> 4322. >> Well, it's 5541 in your packet and I put them in sequential order. >> Okay. >> So, we're not talking about this >> 4322 is a a yeah, just a renumbering of ISBA policy. So it's 5541 in your packet. It's current policy 4322. It it just it doesn't change. It just gets reumbered. So um and then 6130. Um again, I think you're I struck out the first two lines on that. I want to make sure that is that is my recommendation to you because I think you're asking our building administrators to to make some judgment calls that would could incur liability. Um if they were the ones determining those things and I really am concerned about that. Um, when you read those, you're asking administrators to determine whether people are able or not able to pay things and whether or not things could impact health and safety.
Um so, and there are some other um training out there that we're looking into as well, some newer training um just for those students who are physically aggressive. um you have to handle those a little differently and we're looking at some other training um out there as well for that. And um but yes, that deescalation is what's important and we all know when a kid is um oversensitized and I will tell you right now, we are seeing more and more ASD and developmental delay. And I'm going to tell you right now because I truly believe this, it's because the iPads and phones that we're putting in front of these little kids. We're not having conversation. So, when all my special ed teachers over there are shaking their head because um we have students who are nonverbal. It's not they're cognitively very smart. They cannot talk, right?
Um it funds you know, the $300,000 deficit. Uh I don't want to spend a lot of time on the override cuz I I think it's important we talk a little bit about the the adjustment. I think that's what we're where we need to spend time on. Um So, no override, right? It It's the 3.25% increase. Um it maintains the current services in the short term, uh but we're deferring any structural issues. We're not able to fix the structural deficit that exists and that we're able to hopefully uh clean up with with the override. >> much less than we'd have been getting for the last several years to maintain our level services. >> Yeah. We're saying and I'll be clear, we're not really a level This is not a level service >> Right. um budget. It's It's certainly a restructured financial realignment budget. Like Like what we're presenting is really a realignment of of where we are.
So, uh, I'd be happy to answer any questions you have or at least try to answer the questions you have. >> Amber, good night. >> I have So, we used to have staggered starting and ending times. So, would that save us on transportation costs? uh where you could save transportation is if you extended the tier one time by uh by 20 minutes. All right. What that would mean is either starting the high school and middle school 20 minutes earlier >> or starting your elementary schools 20 minutes later or splitting the difference in 10 minutes each. Uh but the caveat is we never recommend changing school bell times for transportation. Transportation is a support service to the educational process. You change length of the school year. You change the length of the school day. You change bell schedules for educational purposes, not for transportation. >> Good to know.
Uh and typically what we did is we did a 5-year lease purchase on our buses. Uh annual payments in advance which meant that we would pay the first year upon delivery of the bus uh and then finance the other four years, so you're really financing only four of the five years. Um and uh it it made the most sense cuz we would start turning our buses over usually at 8 years old, 9 years old when they uh and they still had some residual value at that point uh for trade-in. Any additional questions? Yeah, superintendent. Um Richard talked about 10 passenger vans and maybe my assumption might be those might be like the Ford Transit vans, some type of scenario and that Um what's the availability of actually purchasing those? It's my understanding Amazon's buying all of them and they're pretty tough to do and and could you just talk about that?
Um I think we tried a calendar one year, but that it was too hard to do. Um so, if you if you get information about events for your schools, bring it to the board and then we can kind of coordinate together and as emails come in, we'll see, you know, how we can uh make sure that we have some attendance there. At least one or two people there would be nice. Um okay, our next meeting is going to be at Haestown, so remember to drive there and not here. Okay. Um there's That's all I have for tonight. So. Okay. Oh, now I'd like to open it up actually for the board to our discussions portion. Um so, does anybody have anything they would like to talk about? Uh spot I know that um a lot of us went reading. I went to three schools. I was at Moore Street, Shelter Rock, and Park Avenue, um which was really great.
Kind of just different pictures to to see different sites what was there. These pillars were all underneath the foundation. Um, believe it or not, that was actually a portable building and it was, for you guys that don't know, for everybody that doesn't know, that was one of the original uh boardrooms and the superintendent's office. Um, just pictures of of what it looks like from the street. Piles of rubble. More piles of rubble. And then that's pretty much the last pile of rubble, the last of it.
And then moving down to the contributions to restricted programs, our special ed we're estimating at about 27 million to be the contribution between unrestricted and restricted, which represents about 60% of our total special ed program. And then the routine restricted restricted maintenance account or a maintenance and operations, we're required by Ed Code to contribute 3% of our total general fund expenditures, so we're estimating that to be about 6.7 million. And then we have small contributions into the Prop 28 Arts and Music program. That's for elementary teachers that are above and beyond the allocation we're getting in that grant. And then also a small contribution into the PG&E electric vehicle bus infrastructure. That's to build new we have new chargers that we're building for our electric buses and PG&E is giving us a reimbursement, but it's only partial, so we're contributing some funds from the general fund.
I mean, I'm not a qualified one personal financial coach. So, to determine somebody's ability or inability to do something and I'm also not a health and safety official. So if I'm not comfortable doing that, I'm certainly not willing to ask our administrator, building level administrators to make their determinations either. So >> sense and how we whenever we just write off, >> we do write stuff off, we try to work with families to do collections, you know, or payment. >> Well, when it comes to the board, right, we vote on that whenever that happens. Y >> so the 4322 the habitual truent did >> did we not have a policy on that or was that just Indiana code on on >> we do have a pol it's it's all based on Indiana code >> right >> we do have a policy based off I guess but it's just changing >> so do we have to change whatever one is existing if 43.2 to you is >> so that they don't contradict each other.
And um I truly believe it's because we're putting a phone or an iPad or a TV in front of them and that's all they're doing. There's no conversation going on in the home. Um but we can't change that, right? Um, so we have to start looking at what proactive measures we can take to learn to teach them how to communicate because a lot of those students have big behaviors because they don't know how to communicate and so there are systems we put in place for that and it takes time. It takes time for them to learn that as well. >> Mrs. A, Mr. like what's what's um I guess what's changed over the years or things that you think about just man it wasn't that way my first year or it's this way or in terms of safety and security in school right like what do you think about >> I think for me I mean at the beginning of my career it was when someone said school safety I really thought of like physical security like is the building secure are we checking our visitors and things like that I think it's just way more complex Now, um I mean again, home life is so different.
Um it still is going to require us $450,000 of school choice to to fund operations. Um fees, I as I said already, the highest. Um we're still going to have eight teachers funded through school choice. Um of 709,000. Uh athletic fees will run that deficit. The one thing this is dependent on Well, there's two things, right? Can and is the town willing to support finding $1.4 million of additional revenue, whether it's through stabilization funds or some other revenue source um to allow us to get to 3.25%, right? That was the conversation last night. Is if we are to get here those other positions need to be you know, absorbed within our operations. Those 7. 4 positions. Um if not does this board look at it and say those 7.4 positions are critically important to the success of the actual public schools? So, Jim go back and put those into your revolving account for another year.
And I want to give a shout out. That 61% is because of Terry at central office who is looking at those special ed vans and calling everybody who and adding students to those vans. And that's really she's a wheeler and dealer. So I want to do a shout out to her. >> All right. Member what? >> Um I'm just curious. Do you recommend buying verse leasing for us is one of my questions. And your cost per day is that 365 days or is that when we are actually running these vehicles? >> Uh it's either for 180 days uh or 200 days or 220 days because the actual uh time that the vehicles are in operation transporting students. And I recommend lease purchasing. Uh the reason being is that uh over a period of time once you get to a a fleet that is 50% under warranty, you can level fund your capital cost going forward and it has less of a budget impact in the future.
And also um I I got what you said that you don't really change things for bussing as because it's a four-tier kind of talk about the two-tier thing, but um if you have any experience with districts doing three tiers, like with some many places will do three runs, if that was to happen, would there be a potential cost savings as well? Let me go back to the the first question first. Um you know, it it typically when you when you uh look at at at purchasing vehicles, uh uh the idea is uh to uh uh take the bumps out of the road in your budget from year to year. Uh and lease purchasing allows you to to do that. Uh with regard to a multi-tier systems, we we do those kinds of studies a lot. Uh people ask us, "Does it make sense to to go from a three-tier system to a two-tier system?" Uh uh in your case, uh if you went to a uh a three-tier system, you would end up having some of your elementary schools on a different tier than your than all of the elementaries.
Um one of my favorite uh things to do is go read to the students. So, um that happened over the last couple weeks and Shelter Rock had a science fair yesterday, which I went to as well, which was wonderful. Um so, um that's me. So, if anybody else has anything that happened over the last month because we haven't seen each other in a month, so then you'd like to share. I went to lots of schools. Um I'm sure you did, which is why you can't speak now. >> [laughter] >> Part of it, right? Um I think I went to probably five and did lots of reading. Ran into Cara at Moore Street. She had a nice little picture on the board. It was cute. Um but yeah, it was great. It was a great week. It's good. Uh I just want to personally thank uh Gambier High School band and the jazz band for attending the February 16th uh Dr.
Any questions? >> Thank you so much for the wonderful presentation. Is there any questions or comments from the board? >> A very quick question about the Majestic Way portables. Is a portables P1 and P2 relocation >> at Majestic. Is it an internal moment or moving out? >> I'm sorry. >> Is it an internal movement to uh at Majestic? That's >> Yeah. So, there's two existing portables that we acquired from the county. We paid a whole dollar a piece for these guys. And uh they're kind of oddly placed. >> So, we're going to kind of make it the design of put them all in a line like u like the Brookry portables. >> Okay. Okay. Good. Good. Thank you. >> Good. This is good. >> I really appreciate the new layout of the presentation. It's so much easier to understand and remember and organize our thoughts.
Thank you. Are there any questions? I'll go one more. I'm going to jump over for a couple slides really quickly. Can you hear me? Um so one of the other things that's really important is to always kind of look to the future. So I know for a lot of us right now we're certainly in the current year, but we're already planning for next year. So in front of you is our unrestricted multi-year projection. So like Shri said, the very first column there is where we're at as of today, which is a increase in fund balance of about 500,000. So when we look forward to the two out years 26-27 and 27-28 based on the information we know right now, it's essentially break even next year in 26-27 and then a small decrease in 27-28. So to get to these numbers, these are kind of the the assumptions.
>> Yeah. Yeah. It's current Yeah. Sorry. It's currently and that one becomes 4322. Again, just saying Iba 43 4323 will just be retired. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Sorry. All right. So, it replaces it, retires the old county. >> That's kind of interesting that uh to report to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. >> I've done it. I've done it 100 times in my career. Yep. Remove driving licenses. We used to those used to be shalls. Uh you shall remove their license. You notify the B&B and you also shall remove their work permit. Work permits no longer go through school districts. Um I mean, I used to approve those. Yeah, that just happened the last couple years. Um, now it's just between the employer and the kid. Um, but yeah, you you used to have to to get a work permit. Um, you used to have to go to school.
I would say, you know, from teaching kindergarten in those first years to kindergarteners that I see walk through our doors now, they're just so vastly different in so many ways. Um being a mom myself to a 5-year-old who is exposed and wants to see um the things that are that his friends come to school and talk about, roadblocks being one of those things, and he's five. And so, um, I just think again the things that they are exposed to and the things that we have to then be ready to respond to and not necessarily thinking that it would affect, you know, a 5-year-old who's in early kindergarten. Um, you're more thinking about the fifth and sixth graders probably when you're hearing those things and and up. And so, I think it's just very important that those conversations start young. Um and even just partnerships with families knowing um situational things for our students I think is very important.
And And as you know what that does is it decimates the revolving account in one year. It'll be gone. Yeah, and and in the previous slide you said you said, "Hey, and this has risk." >> Right. It doesn't have risk. It adds Adds to it. Sure. Sure. It So, just to be clear on what that means is we we've always had the risk. We've we've had the this different things that have happened over the years that have allowed us to kick the can, kick the can. This This is a scenario doesn't uh doesn't just have risk. It It brings risk. It brings risk. Unknown risk that is there's no avoiding it. There's no There's no savior at the end. There's nothing that's going to happen that to change the trajectory of it. It's it's pushing us we're really close to a very large cliff. Correct.