to 12:00 p.m. at the middle school. Um so, we hope to have a great turnout again. And I did that I did include the flyer there too so folks can see that. Great. And I think we'll go ahead and hear from the superintendent before we do questions. Thank you. Um you have attached enrollment, which is pretty steady. Included in there, I also want to give you a quick update as to the repairs at Federal Street School, which are just about ending from our New Year's Day um water break up there. The contractors have just finished uh just about finished up. The teachers' rooms will be completed this week and next week we'll be putting furniture back and turning it over to the teachers next week. Uh room 101 is Mrs. Richardson. The floors are being finished tonight and buttoning up any loose ends Friday. Monday and Tuesday next week the contractors will bring everything up from the basement that's boxed up and move them and start reassembling them into the classroom.
Um so this is uh as mentioned this is a new policy that's being added to our existing policies. Um there was recently uh legislation that outlined what criteria can be used for remote attendance and just cause for a trustee during a board meeting. >> I move for approval. >> Second that. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> All right. It's been approved. Next up is board bylaw 9322. Agenda meeting materials. It is recommended the board review and approve board bylaw 9322 agenda meeting materials for a first reading. And again uh this is also just um updating um updating uh various language requirements for public comment for uh what needs to be made available to the public and in what order and time. all of those logistical features. I move for approval. >> Second it. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> All right.
So, every budget that has come forward in front of the board has had that already already placed into the budget knowing that that impact um so we can see what that impact is, right? That's the advantage of looking at that multi-year tool is to say, when the board made this decision, here's the financial impact. Um and as you you can see, we're essentially break even next year um with the assumptions that we know right now. So, I'm not I'm not concerned financially about moving them to a permanent funding stream. Thank you. Any public comment? Um I think that we heard earlier from student feedback how important that the counselors are in school levels. I know especially at the elementary level, um there's a lot of big emotions that come up that counselors are addressing on a daily basis. I think it's great that the district is showing um that it's important to move this group of employees into more permanent um probationary from probationary to a permanent >> Yeah, permanent track.
I mean, are we posting Have we posted it? >> We we did it live, right? >> Yeah, it's it's live stream. It's live stream and so it'll be with everything else. Okay. >> Yep. >> But you know all the people on the concerned citizen I didn't see too many of them there. >> Remember they were watching it live. >> Maybe they hopefully they were but they wanted to talk and we didn't get that opportunity but >> they had their option to do it. >> Yeah. I appreciate all of you being there and how you're coaching. >> We lost the nailbiter. >> Ah I was going to ask. I hope it at least was a dub. But >> so, but appreciate you guys. Appreciate all our administrators and directors being there last night. I appreciate all the community folks, county um folks, folks from law enforcement.
Um this was a position that we had talked about even a year ago that would eventually be phased out based on Not every kid in sixth and seventh grade is getting Spanish now. Right. Um There were different challenges that contributed to that decision. Um But, again, it's it it Again, it's just more of a um a narrative of those positions and just a brief uh if someone was asking Yeah. what it what it impacts. I I think, you know, this is the This is where the rubber meets the road in terms of the different um impacts the the models have on our revolving accounts, right? Uh Um that at the end of uh FY27 on a 2.25% we'd have about $4.7 million available to us with 430 of it being uh for school choice. Remember right now, you know, you're talking $1.1 million in addition to another 400 400,000 if if we had to support those other positions from the 325, right?
They might be driving around Greenfield on recycling day grabbing cardboard. Um please let them have it because we will use it this Saturday. That event is 10 a.m. to 12 pm at the middle school. Um, so we hope to have a great turnout again. And I did that I did include the flyer there, too, so folks can see that. >> Great. And I think we'll go ahead and hear from the superintendent before we do questions. >> Thank you. Um, you have attached enrollment, which is pretty steady included in there. I also want to give you a quick update as to the repairs at Federal Street School which are just about ending from our New Year's Day um water break up there. The contractors have just finished uh just about finished up. The teachers rooms will be completed this week and next week we'll be putting furniture back and turning it over to the teachers next week.
The basement, the work downstairs cuz it did go through three floor, you know, second floor, first floor, basement, uh will be a couple more week weeks worth of work there. And the hallways, we're fortunate enough to be able to replace these red hallways you may some of you might remember at Federal Street. We actually are going to wait though until April vacation to do that. Um they were able to work with us in terms of delaying that cuz it's all being covered right now. But that would be the light the least disruptive to everybody to be able to do that. And that way things will be complete for that. Also, um as you've heard from everybody, the three principals, I think they did a great job and I'm glad that they were able to come before you. You'll see three more the other three next month.
So, next up is um business services B1 second interim report for fiscal year 2526 certification of fiscal solveny. Thank you. And I'd like to invite uh Josh, our assistant superintendent of business services for his presentation. And after presentation, it is recommended the board approve the 2025 2026 second interim report and the district's positive certification of fiscal solveny. All right, so good evening everybody. I know there's been a lot of uh presentations. I promise there's only a couple more. Um but right now we'll get into the financials. Um so currently we're in March. We're completing the second interim. Um, we're pretty much done with this phase of the budget cycle. Um, so next things that are coming up is we'll be looking for the main revision. So the May revision will tell us what's going to go on for the 2627 school year. Um, and then creating the 2627 budget in LCAP and then bringing that back to the board to have it approved in June.
Yep. >> permanent track. Um I I think that that um shows great um belief in what the counselors are doing and providing for our kids and our kids are obviously benefiting directly from these connections and interactions that they're making with these counselors. Um on a personal note, I do know some of these counselors uh personally and I I'm just thrilled to be able to know that these counselors are going to be taken care of and that it's a long-term track that it's not something that we're losing funding for. Um so I just applaud the effort to move forward with this. Thank you. Really good point. All right. Would anyone like to make a motion at this time? I I will move um that we um make changes to fund um from a um basically from a Is it probationary or what is the Yeah, that So there's three three types of probationary.
I I I you know, I think those are they're they're good conversations to have. They're very worthwhile. I had a conversation with a parent and last night who said, "Man, I did not realize all of the different school safety things that you guys think about, not just the one or two I think about." You know what I mean? last night was unfortunate timely that you know there were tornadoes right and and you know um those things I mean I know again sad but um there were a couple fatalities in in you know northwest Indiana last night due to tornadoes and so um you know things like that that that we think about from a school standpoint. I know Matt was um Mr. Campbell was dealing with, you know, bus issues and flooding this morning and what roads can we get down and can we get our kids here safe and, you know, do we need to hurry up and just unload as soon?
Um and then, you know, the override is where you can see that we maintain a level of of balances that can help us in the long range in the long run. 1.8 million in school choice to help with those deferred maintenance issues, to help with when you have an alarm system break and it cost you $150,000 to fix, uh that we don't have the the capacity to go to the town and ask for capital at that point in time, that we have to get that done because, you know, the fire department says you can't open your your building unless it's you've got uh you know, safety concerns being met. Bless you. Bless you. So, some folks might say, "Hey, well, why aren't you spending more down on the on the school bus revolving?" And then I explained this last night is we're in a contract year coming up.
Uh room 101 is Mrs. Richardson. The floors are being finished tonight and buttoning up any loose ends Friday. Monday and Tuesday next week, the contractors will bring everything up from the basement that's boxed up and move them and start reassembling them into the classroom. The basement, the work downstairs because it did go through three floor, you know, second floor, first floor, basement. Uh will be a couple more weeks worth of work there. And the hallways, we're fortunate enough to be able to replace these red hallways. You may some of you might remember at Federal Street. We actually are going to wait though until April vacation to do that. Um they were able to work with us in terms of delaying that because it's all being covered right now. But that would be the like the least disruptive to everybody to be able to do that and that way things will be complete for that.
And that um and they did a nice job of inviting you. And if I haven't done it, but I think you actually have know that you know who how important you are. You can come whenever you want to all of our schools. I always tell people there's no secrets. Like you don't need a time. You can call or email that morning um cuz we should be doing our job, right? And doing all the right things that are going on. So I don't need a two-week notice for you to come through the door so I can put on a dog and pony show to doing it because our teachers aren't putting on dog and pony shows. They're teaching and they're working hard every day. So if you came through, you would see the great things that are happening. So please as everybody's mentioned, anytime you want to come through, I know that you know, we did have the quick facilities tour, but if you ever want to see instruction taking place in the day, feel free to call or make some arrangements with myself or anybody else and we'll get you in.
Um, so this is just a kind of refresher. So, I know that we went over this um back in was it December um during the first interim, but just want to keep in mind that districts are funded off of two basic models, right? So, we have our community funded, which is basically um school districts receive whatever is collected by the property taxes. Um there is a certain LCFF calculation that gives us a baseline of what districts should receive. If we collect more or if the district surrounding areas collect more than that baseline, they get to keep all the remaining dollars. So that is pretty much what a basic aid district funded is. So you can kind of see that the LCF funding is that little bucket. Property taxes is pouring in, but anything that goes above and beyond that little bucket, the local district gets to keep.
Prob zero just means that they're categorically funded, which doesn't um maintain certainty of the funding source, shifting it to a permanency. So just be shifting to a permanency uh track. Okay. I move that we shift to the permanent track. Yep. I I will second that um wholeheartedly. Great decision. Okay, we have um motion um by President Conklin and second by Vice President um Olsen.
I mean, just all those things. It's not the one or two that we, you know, tend to think about. Um, so again, I appreciate everybody that was there. Um, you know, I was happy to see we had folks from law enforcement, both city and county. One of our county commissioners were there. Um, Renee Crick was the is the director of Clinton County EMA. She was there. Um couple of our um central dispatchers were there uh last week. Um I don't know, we had a group of seven I think maybe um from EMA, EMS, central dispatch. They came and walked our buildings just to kind of get familiarity. Some of them had never been in our buildings. So if they were dispatching folks, whether it was ambulance or firefighters or police officers here to our buildings, they're like, I don't even know how to tell them how to get somewhere because I've never been in the building.
And we don't know what it's going to look like. I don't I'm a firm believer that whatever you bring in for revenue is what you should be spending for as an expense. Now, you have to go above and beyond that at times to make your your budget balance, but that's really good practice, you know, even in your home life. You know, don't spend 5,000 if you're only making 3,000, right? So, um so that's really what it looks like at the end of FY27. It where it's scary, folks, is FY28. And I don't show the um override here. I just show what it looks like in a 2.25 and a 3.25. Without the town stepping up to provide additional revenues for a 3.25% um it would be really challenging for us. Even with that, you can see at the end of FY 28, we would have a $38,000 deficit in school choice.
Also um as you've heard from everybody the three principles I think they did a great job and I'm glad that they were able to come before you. you'll see three more the other three next month and that and they did a nice job of inviting you and if I haven't done it but I think you actually have know that you know how important you are. You can come whenever you want to all of our schools. I always tell people there's no secrets that you don't need a time you can call or email that morning um because we should be doing our job right and doing all the right things that are going on. So, I don't need a two-eek notice for you to come through the door so I can put on a dog and pony show to doing it because our teachers aren't putting on dog and pony shows.
I just wanted to touch on school closings and delays. We've had quite a few this winter and and the weather Well, after yesterday, you would think it's over, right? And and who knows? Um 78° when we're driving home yesterday. Unbelievable, right? After uh getting up at 4:00 in the morning a lot of times and dealing with, you know, the DPW and I don't mean dealing in a bad way, working with DPW and the other Franklin County superintendents who are in text groups um and working with our director of facilities, Mike Boudreau. Uh none of these decisions are taken lightly. Obviously, when we have delays, um the reality of it is it's safety, right? Safety first. And we'll always say that um it's unfortunate. None None of us want school to keep progressing into, you know, as I into the summer in that sense cuz these days have to be made up.
LCFF funded is funded a little differently. um the property taxes that we receive from the surrounding areas. While we all know that it's super expensive to live here, um we don't collect enough to fill that baseline, right? And so basically the property taxes come in, they fill up what they can of that little bucket and then the state then comes in and then makes us whole, right? So you can see that the orange is the property taxes and the green is what's coming in that comes from the state. So that's basically a state aid. Um so this is the analysis of the enrollment. Not much has changed um from the first interim to the second interim. Um but you can see that we're still in declining enrollment and we are still projecting a decline in the 26 27 and the 2728 school years. So some of the budget assumptions that we have in this budget.