People would understand if there's limits where they're coming from, >> right? That we try not to have people saying for instance racist things. We would >> um >> this could be very simple if we wrote and discussed as a town a policy that we agreed to, right? And I think the public does understand every meeting can't have public comment, right? That that isn't what we're asking. We're asking that it's defined in a process and the and the process is followed. And quite honestly, I think everyone knows the error should always be on let's hear from the public. >> Oh, I absolutely that's such a great statement and I remember talking to a previous moderator who always said to me uh that I wanted to heir on the side of democracy. And I think we have a tendency in this town to heir on the side of not democracy, efficiency should >> um yeah and people but the excuse would be efficiency and I will not buy that.
The first link you put all of your data into, your demographic data, and the second one you can upload as a PDF, your resume, your transcripts, etc. So rather than students having to do this multiple times for every single application, it merged them together and made it super simple for students to apply to more than one. So we went from between seven and 800 and I think we had 130 students apply individually to over,00 applications this year. I still haven't figured out how many students that meant but tremendous increase in the number of scholarship applications out there. >> That's awesome to see. That was quite a hurdle as I recall just it constantly entering the same information over and over. So I I know where that came up a bunch. So thank you for doing that. That's excellent. >> Scott Conway, you did a great job.
>> Has anyone do you have you ever seen pictures of the flooding that you're talking about? >> Yes. >> Can we get those pictures? >> Yes. >> Because I think that would be helpful. >> Yeah. And I would say there's um >> that's the entrance of there are some locker rooms entrance like >> Oh god, they probably stairs. Do they fly? Yes. The stairs right next to it, >> right? >> Yeah. >> Did the locker room flood when it when I when I park? No. That's good. >> It's like where Rebecca Daddy's parking spot always was. You could park your car and if it like really pours rain, you'd be getting out into a puddle this this deep, >> but it doesn't get into the >> It's got enough of a lip there basically. Yeah. Oh, wow. >> The sewers used to back up, but not the uh >> the Norton sewers back up too.
So, we did increase the maintenance and repair budget by a little bit. Um, you know, Rich will typically get something, you know, 88 8 $900,000, you know, depending on the year and and and what we know is coming up due for repairs. So, we we gave a little bit extra to his budget last year because we anticipated that this was going to be a a project that we'd be taking on. So, it all worked out. All right. Okay. So, now I want to move on. I'm sorry. There was another hand up. Was it Louisa? Did you have your hand up? >> It was me, but Wanita beat me to it. I had the exact same question she did about the asbestous. >> Oh, okay. Great. >> Yeah. >> I'll report back if I hear anything. >> Okay. So, BOE meeting plan and logistics. Uh, so just quick timeline.
He's kind of talked about um you know districts adequacy and how they factor things out and how so many things are hurting um you know local school districts and things of that nature and how he thinks some things could change. So I won't read it over to you but I thought it was really interesting. I just saw it the other day. Um so I'm going to send that. So again everything's outlaid here. Um I'm not happy um it doesn't make me feel happy that other districts are in the same boat. I know they are. It still doesn't help because this is >> personal to me. Um but I it is what it is and um that's just where we stand. I did have a fat finger moment. This is supposed to be um a four instead of a five. So it's 22,324,250. So I mean my fat finger couldn't have been somewhere else.
We know how many we have today. We know how many of them will be placed out of district September one, but we don't know how many of them we'll be able to bring back. We're always trying to bring students back into district, less restrictive environment, but we don't know how many are going to move in in the beginning of the year between September to June. We have to account for that in our budget as well. All of those things are required costs. They all exceed as a percentage are greater. They're all greater than our ability to increase our tax levy at 2%. We also have challenges on the revenue side. So, not only do we face extraordinary expenditure pressure, but we have challenges just trying to keep pace on the revenues, keep pace revenues to revenues, not even revenues to expenditures. Those challenges are our state funding.
On behalf of the coaching staff in Andrew High School, thank you, Dino, for everything you have given this sport. There you go. All right, on to Jade. Um, Jade Hart. Yay, Jade. Um, so tonight we're recognizing something special. Jade Hardy. She secured a fifth place finish at the IHSA state tournament at 110 pounds. This makes her a twotime state placer just as a sophomore. Last year she stood on the podium finishing third at a hundred. This year she came back, battled through one of the toughest brackets in the state and proved again she belongs among the best. But what makes Jade different isn't just the medals. It's the consistency, the toughness, and the love of the sport and the way she shows up every single day ready to work. In just two seasons, Jade has built a 85 and14 record. And that includes we've been to national tournaments, we've been to Iron Man, um, state tournaments.
you know, let's measure what is our priority and let's connect that to our TAG grant and find a way because everybody contributes. So, let's find a way that we can capture that in there. Also, with the evaluation plan, the evaluation plan has changed. Last year, they took out language from the law that doesn't make us have to have the same categories and the same structure that we've had. So, we're looking at that as well. How can we have a system there that lines up with what we are doing and what we feel is important here and stuff. So, it's trying to work smarter and not harder in a sense to where everything fits together in pieces and that way the work that we have doesn't feel disjointed. It doesn't feel like, well, I've got this going on over here and I've got this going on over here.
Stalbalm, we're confident that you're going to do great things joining and leading the team that we have. So I'm excited about that. I'm excited about the future and Dr. Long's not going to go too far away, he tells us. So he'll stay in an advisory capacity hopefully as we need him. But I'm I'm really looking forward to you joining and leading the team. So So welcome. Yeah, I I would echo that as well, Dr. Stalbomb. I think it's going to be great to have you here. Um, we had, as one of my friends would say, an embarrassment of riches in terms of the quality of the people that we got to talk to. So, um, you should be very proud of the fact that that you're here, but it's just going to be great to work with you and looking forward to it. And we have something in common.
And so when we about that um and how do we measure that and how do we look at that? It's well it's number of electives that are available. Um it's the number of students that are earning high school credit before nth grade and it's in the enrollment uh in our advanced math arts classes. So we can clearly um follow those numbers year to year um as well. So and then of course we about the dedicated uh MPSS and win time. Um there's ways that we can stay on track of that as well. Um you know, tier one and tier two entry and exit rates, we can monitor through that. Um progress monitoring, our growth rates through our data, uh the frequency and duration of the targeted interventions that we're providing to our students. And really, uh, we currently have, um, student support teams or SST, if you've heard of that.
I'm sorry. >> I mean efficiency that is just you know you can be somewhat efficient so it doesn't take two weeks but um people people being told the comment is ending a town meeting when they're still sitting in their chairs. I mean, wouldn't wouldn't the >> Well, and the legislators should get we're the legislative body. We should get to get up and speak again. If you made a point that I agree or don't, it's okay. I do think some of those >> um I I feel like the time limit has helped some people feel like it goes better whether it does or not. And I I applaud again you up the time limit. That seems something people can live with, right? >> You did a citizen speech. Yeah. >> So I I'm I read some other towns are looking in and doing those things. So that as a limit that we agree on >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. From personal experience using the the common app. It was a Google form that had kind of like three step or three or four steps to it where first you would kind of pick the scholarship you were applying to. Then you would upload your demographic information. But having it all in one spot and then I think having it as a PDF upload and having the demographic information, the PDF was created for you. So you filled out the form and then you got it back. So you didn't have to really do anything. It made my life a whole lot easier. And I applied to a whole bunch of scholarships, so it really it's a timesaver and it it made the whole thing not only less stressful, but just easier in general. >> Thank you, Connor. We'll see you back here in April. >> Um, next item is we do have a school partnership award.
>> That was a That was an annual thing. Yes, >> it was an annual thing down in that locker room. >> Fun times. >> Yes. >> Um, okay. So, yeah, I think the uh with regard to the parking lot, I agree with you, Mark, on that. I think it's uh what I heard from a number of people was it was >> south parking lot is fine. >> Yeah, it's anything. Exactly. Is it adding parking spaces? do you really need to repave because parking lots and driveways don't >> they're not typically urgent expenses >> to repave. Um uh >> to that point too um as part of the description, I know there was a request in general when referendums are out that the price tag be the description be more like you know terms that the typical citizen can understand and also the cost implication on taxes.
Uh, this is next Wednesday. The site's meeting starts at 6. Uh we'll be doing about a 30 minute business meeting in the gym. Uh there's a few different action items I want to talk about with the rental fund and just give some more general updates on some other projects that we're doing. Um and then we're going to do about a 20-minut tour of Haztown. Uh it'll be principal Ellen Palino, Rich Jalbert, myself, I believe Sean Hanley is going to be there from the city. Um and we may even have a few other uh folks from the facilities team just to provide color and shape to everything that you're seeing. Um, so you can you can kind of see what's you know what's behind uh the school and and how it's working to serve uh the needs of the kids. And that'll give us about 10 minutes to take a little water break, go to the bathroom, whatever, and then uh come back into the gym for the 7 o'clock BOE meeting >> question.
But so this is just all of um this is all required in this massive resolution. We have to approve that we are going to have our public hearing on May 7th, 2026 at 7 p.m. Um we have to say we have to put in travel expenses. Now most of our travel expenses you'll see um the amount is you know 30ome thousand that all comes pretty much from title 2 grant. Um so that is good. that's still in the budget and it looks like a high number for professional development for our staff and in service days, but all of that is being paid for through the federal grant. Um, we have the enrollment adjustment in the amount of $264,180. They had an additional I think 10 or 20 students that we were allowed to use an adjustment for. Then the health cost adjustment um which said if you're between the amount of 2% which is your tax levy cap all the way up to 31% if you had increases between there that's how much they allow you to increase your budget by obviously like I said we had a 16% and a 10% um so we definitely had more than 2% increase and then the rest is bank cap um which again is money that we were permitted to use we hadn't used it's going to be lost um the county also said at our um annual efficiency review that there's a huge push in the state coming for regionalization again.
So, the state aid this year increased 6%. That's year-over-year. However, we were capped at 6%. The state had to reduce us $7 million based on their own calculation just to give us a 6% increase. We were due for $7 million more. Last year, we were due for $1.3 million more than the state provided us. That's $8.3 million that this district is due from the state of New Jersey based on their own calculation for over the last two fiscal years. We absorbed 100% of the S2 reductions. So during S2 in the seven-year long implementation, this state or excuse me, this district accumulated 38 million in losses. We absorbed every dollar of that, 100% on the way down. And now we're being capped arbitrarily on the way up when we're due for more. One-time sources of revenue. So those two scenarios, a reduction of state aid and the S2 implementation forced this district to have to walk off a fiscal cliff by balancing their budget with one-time sources of revenue like the shift dividend.
Um, and every one of those wins reflects her discipline, coachability, and her belief in the process. She competes with confidence, leads by examples, and is raising the standard for what D230 girls wrestling look looks like. And the scary part is she's just getting started cuz she's a sophomore. Um, so Jade, we're very proud of you. We believe in you and we can't wait to see what is next. So congrats. And here's your thing. Thank you. Congratulations to Brady from Samberg, Nadem who's graduating, Dino from Andrew, as well as Jade returning next year as well. Congratulations to all our wrestlers. Hello, me again. Uh, happy to recognize uh, an outstanding Samberg senior uh, for earning what is probably the highest honor that a student athlete in the state of Illinois can earn. Megan Donald was named to the IHSA Allstate academic team. So, round of APPLAUSE FOR MEGAN.
It's like just coming back and making sure everything's connected. So, hopefully in the near future I'll have a more concrete plan to give you with that. But I did want you to know that's what we're busy doing right now is doing that work. So I'm excited about it. I think it's good work. >> So 29 a year before you know it. >> Who kind of was working through this? >> So this was our career coaching grant that we have through ready schools. And so they're they had two people come from their career coaching team was here and then our career coaching team was here today. We didn't have all of our members present but I was here. Melissa Lotus, um, Tinley Lester, and Dina Linger were in on this one today. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> That is all I have right now.
I taught at Greenwood for three years. Okay. Uh, some announcements. Our next meeting is April 16th, executive session at 6 PM and uh the board meeting following at 7. Any other comments from the board? >> Nothing from me tonight. >> No. >> Okay. So, seeing there is none, meeting's over. >> I move to adjourn. >> If you must. >> I don't know. >> Do you second? I don't know. Yeah, I second.
And, um, really this process, it's kind of like what Dr. Simmers was just saying. We've had MTSS for for a while. It's just tightening these things. And so things like our student support team process and all those things are going to be more targeted and and better monitored relating to those targets. So, >> is there a slide on on class sizes later? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Then I'll I'll hold my question. Yeah. Because you said some classes. >> Well, we talk a little bit about the win class sizes. I know. >> Um but it's >> it's difficult always to predict class sizes in advance of taking the totality of the number of students in the building and then the number of teachers, the number of sections. It's very there there's there's probably nothing was more complicated in the educational system than a schedule. Yeah. It's very it's very complicated.