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Just pay a week later. Um, so we do expect that coming in in early July, um but no concerns related to making payroll in any way. So, we are self-certifying a positive second interim budget. We like to be in that that green green range. That means we will we will be able to meet our obligations both in the current year and the two out years. So, where do we go from here? Um, right now we're looking at enrollment um that's projected for next year, and we're adjusting staff accordingly. Um, our educational services team is getting feedback from community meetings. We're looking at our LCAP goals and what those priorities are. Um, as well as from a fiscal perspective, waiting for the governor's budget revision in May. He'll have more information related to the subcommittee meetings with the legislature on what are the priorities, as well as he will have all the tax revenue that comes in in April.
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>> So, feel free to send me any questions you guys have on those. So, what will we do with these on Monday with this? >> That's up to you guys. You can you can always have a first reading or this can count as your first reading. You can wave the first reading, adopt them. >> That is totally up to you guys. But you you have options. So, um I mean obviously this counts as a first reading. So, you don't have to wave a second reading. You could just adopt them on Monday if you want or you can have a reading and have another reading next month. So, if there's some in there that you know, and you don't have to do it all as one pack either, right? you can certainly adopt. You can separate if you if one you still have a concern or question about and we want to talk through that one a little more that's fine too.
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You know, somebody asked me about a year ago, do you ever bust anybody with cigarettes? I'm like, no, kids don't smoke cigarettes. They v they, >> you know, and I remember seeing kids with skull cans in their back pockets and stuff. We don't see that anymore. You know, when when he showed Dr. Cruz showed those pictures of vapes, they look like highlighters sometimes. You know, the ones that he showed today were new ones to me and I thought I had seen quite a few of them. They're coming up with new stuff all the time. That's the stuff that's changed is, you know, the vapes, the social media. Um, you know, sometimes I get calls parents and they want us to be the social media police. And it's frustrating for us too as a school. And my previous school, there were times that there were things posted online and it had the school name in it.
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I mean, nobody really wants to be in a position of telling somebody that they're losing a job. Um obviously, we will do some of this with attrition and retirements and all that or positions that weren't funded, but that impact, you know, that that cut in opportunities which I'm not saying the opportunities that are presented from our students today are the ones we're talking about, but people have to understand that the opportunities that are available to their students, right? Today for a bunch of us with seniors sitting here at the table, or to their students, their kids. That's a real thing. You know, and and if people only think about If that's what's at stake here. And and so when we talk about cutting of teacher, right? If you think about well, it's just one person out of 361, what's the big deal? You're really missing the the the part that underlies this whole thing, which is we're trying to manage a budget in a way that preserves opportunities for our kids.
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Uh and uh they have they have good reliability. This wasn't something that we asked you to look at in this study, but it is something that I know residents might be curious about. What's the deal with electric buses and the potential for that? I I know I hear you, Mel. I'm not necessarily asking this because I am gung-ho about the idea, but I I would be remiss if I didn't raise the question. um you know I I have seen in other larger more compact districts um that they can be really like they can be done well um and that they can be a useful useful tool and because sustainability is something that is important to the larger Greenfield community I feel like I must ask >> um so I'm just curious you know this wasn't something we asked you to factor in but what are your thoughts what have you seen >> we have uh we have three clients that are running electric buses uh and I've been with them over a number of years.
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Uh so, without state and federal aid for both the purchase of the buses and the purchase of the infrastructure needed to support the buses, uh it's it's almost cost prohibitive. Uh now, the state is releasing and the federal government is releasing uh $2 billion later this year nationally for the third round fourth round of electric bus acquisitions. Uh and it's a it's by priority school districts. The poorest economic districts are highest priority along with those that have uh uh uh tribal schools have a high priority. So, uh what I have also found is that the further north you go, uh the less reliable electric buses are uh with regard to battery life uh in on in during the day because of the you know, request for heaters and the time to heat them up and everything else. Uh we've done several studies where we've shown electric buses are not feasible at all uh and the district has put purchased a propane fleet and are very happy with propane buses.
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I'm not sure if we decide we're deciding to do a table this year. They always have a table. So and we do have very good attendance the last few years. So that's something we're looking forward to and it's an event that I do and thanks to the public schools so that we can rent that space to do it and it's just getting bigger. I hope you all attend. Thank you. Thank you. It is 12 sorry it's 10 to 1. At the Rogers Park Middle School cafeteria. Okay. Thank you. What was the date again? March 28th, a Saturday. We have 60 partners agencies from the community attending and host you know they have stuff out there for families. Thank you. Okay. And also we had our first professional development for the board. We had our financial PD. So thank you. Not to worry it's been recorded so hopefully we'll get the the recording and be able to pass it out to people who were not that day.
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The committee relies on the annual performance and financial audit conducted by Niger and Niger which discloses no instances of non-compliance with the terms of proposition 39 or measure U. The committee is pleased to report that the to the best of its acknowledge the Bargasa Una School District is in full compliance with responsibility described on in article 13A section 1 B3 of the California State Constitution. As you can see, our committee is there's six people in our committee. We have two open seats. We need a parent or PTA representative or someone that is a taxpayer organizer representative. So if you guys know anyone a parent that would like to volunteer or someone is there that's a taxpayer we need one more per you know one more person to join our team to continue to do what we need to do. And also as you can see we meet on a quarterly basis.
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So, um, we will use that to come back in June. The three of us will be come back in June, give you a last-minute update of the current year budget, as well as what we are projecting or estimating for 2026-2027.
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So future graduation dates um public comment last board meeting. So I I did take a dive into this. I appreciate Mr. Berling game's help. Um so I asked him to give me uh all the future IHSAA athletic dates. Um, and so gosh, turn it. >> Go to the wheel to the >> gear. The gear. Can you turn it? >> You can turn it counterclockwise at the bottom. >> Oh, thank you. >> He's a spreadsheet guy. >> Yeah, I'm a spreadsheet. >> I did this yesterday. >> So, >> I went and downloaded it. >> These are future dates. Um, so, um, and basically you're looking at baseball, softball, and boys and girls track. um and looking at where those fall in line with graduation dates um and what that might look like in the future. Um so as I was talking to Mr. Berlin game and then um just from my own recollections at the building level.
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And we when we would contact those social media sites, they refused to help us even though it had the school's name in it as the title of the page. And we we got no help from it. Those are things that are new to us that are very frustrating. I know it's frustrating for parents, it's frustrating for us. Um, Dr. Cruz mentioned the fusion center earlier and I don't know that anybody really caught on to that or does anybody even know what the fusion center is besides law enforcement? I didn't either until I was an assistant principal and we had a one of our SRO's contacted the fusion center. They are guys who are way beyond me in in uh what they can do with the internet and computers and all that. They are awesome to have. I didn't even know they were around until we had a social media bomb threat that they tracked down.
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And appropriately staffs them so that even though yeah, you're going to have a fifth grade teacher, maybe there's one less one. The impact of kids in that classroom is significant. What happens with with more kids in a class is, you know, less opportunity and less education. I just never I'm glad you used the word because it always triggers me when when I we we focus so much on number of positions without talking about that. And and just when I look at it, I don't see all impacts as the same, right? So For sure. Uh an impact that you know, I have a sophomore. The impact that he doesn't get a particular opportunity and the impact that that sped coordinator can have on a family night and day, right? So And those are the decisions that we've asked you to kind of balance with the state graders to find the places where the impact is the least and to recognize the ones where the impact is most significant positive.
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Uh quite frankly, the cost of an electric bus is two and a half times the cost of a diesel bus. Uh the only way it makes sense for a municipality or a school district to get into the electric bus is with state and federal aid. Uh they they would bust your transportation budget at $400,000 a piece. Uh the other is that the battery life uh on the buses are warrantied for seven to eight years uh even though the body may last 10 years. Uh and batteries have to be disposed of as hazardous waste. Uh and replacing the battery pack on a school bus is roughly uh almost half the cost of the bus. Uh so without state and federal aid uh for both the purchase of the buses uh and the purchase of the infrastructure needed to support the buses uh uh it's uh it's almost cost prohibitive.
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Uh they're an alternative, they're fundable under the EPA uh along with electric buses uh to the extent that you can get qualified to uh be eligible for those grants. Thank you. Welcome. Any other questions? Seeing none, I will Thank you for I have a question. Oh, sorry. I totally missed Jenny on there online. Jenny. Um And I'm going to stop sharing. >> Thank you. That was a great presentation. Thank you. Um I just wanted to know, do you feel that what we are charging the uh other districts has been appropriate as well? And has it, you know, increased year over year uh commensurate with other expenses? Uh we did not look particularly at what the revenue source was uh in the that went to the revolving account. Uh we just looked at the total revolving account. So, I I certainly can look at that and and uh forward an opinion to the uh to the superintendent.
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Yeah, go ahead. Just real quick I should probably should have put under the superintendent report, um, but our ROTC students just participated, they have been flying drones as part of competition. And it's a relatively new thing for us in our in what we're doing, and it's trying to promote all groups, and they just won, I have to go back and look at the name of the competition that they won, but they're they're off to a very big final competition in Virginia, um, and it's coming up quickly, so we're going to find a way to get them there, um, but we've got our our Air Force Junior our ROTC flying drones and winning competitions, so I'm just really proud of our kids because between the band and the cheerleaders and all of the um, you know, all of our clubs and sports and robotics, they're really, um, really rising to the top, and so it's just nice to see so many kids participating in that.
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Those are the days that we met in 2024 and 2025. We have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow that we'll have here uh tomorrow. And so this CBC as you again meets quarterly since its inception in 2015. I can't believe it's been that long. The primary presentation and discussion topic have been the detail construction completion plan and financial budget compliance. The district management has cooperated with the CBO CBOC in all respect and identify issues resolved or issue that need to be resolved. The assistant superintendent and B director or their representative have actively participated in our meetings. Thank you. Bond authorization $98 million. Total budget expenditure at the moment 38,836 and $637 bond and fund remaining at the moment when we did this audit 59,36163. I guess I should put my glasses to read easier, huh? >> Or I can look at the at the screen. I can see the numbers a little bit better.
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Any questions? Any public comment? All right. Would anyone like to make a motion at this time? I was looking for, um, our motion is to accept the report, correct, rather than approve it. So, I move to accept the report. Do we have a second? Okay. We have a motion, uh, by member Robinson and a second by member Leando.
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So inevitably starting the week of Memorial Day, you start getting into state tournaments for all those four sports, right? Um the only one that you have flexibility at the local level would be your sectionals and your track. Boys and girls track are always on weekdays. So they're unless you're going to move graduation to a Tuesday or a Thursday, that's really not a thing. So you really run into baseball and softball. Um at the regional, semi-state or state level, you have no say in when your game is going to be played or anything like that. So >> changing it or calling up the other school, >> right? Yeah. You're Hey, can we play at 2 instead of seven because we have graduation or whatever. But no, I mean, and so, um, the the concern is teams in sectionals and, you know, if graduation lined up with sectional games, things like that.
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And kids are very savvy. If you think that your kid doesn't know how to switch IP addresses or add VPNs to their computer, they do. They know how to do it. And those are things that, like I said, years ago, I didn't even know what that stuff was. I I can't I don't even know how to do a VPN. But the kids sure do. I guarantee you even our junior high kids know how to do it. And that that >> Mr. Sam had to help me come turn my computer on today. Not lying, am I saying? >> I'm here to help. >> But those are those are things that we we have to deal with now that we didn't used to have to deal with and that goes back to I said earlier about the training. So that that's why I like to go to those trainings because they're telling us new shapes of vapes or hey this is a new trend.
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And and that's my concern with this one in particular is Like I I get the director and and before even we would give an I had a conversation, I led with we've always said SEL is not a bolt-on. It's not a class just a class you teach. You You You It's It's woven into everything you do and we've we've done that. And so now that has some more, you know, it's organic into a lot of different people in their positions, but uh you know, so I struggled more with this one than some of the other ones that we that we put back, so. So do I. Um this will be a challenge. It was 3 years ago we added this position back into the budget. Right? Before that, we we had one less sped coordinator. Uh and so they worked cross buildings. Um it works better with one in each building.
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