>> Any discussion? All those in favor? I >> I. >> Motion carries. J4. Mr. Bogart. >> Thank you, President Micronis, governing board members, uh, Superintendent Streer, and guests. I'm here to to present on the fiscal year 2024 and 25 audit as discussed at our most recent study session. Um, per Arizona statute, governing boards must accept the audit and compliance questionnaire by a roll call vote. Um, Dr.
Um, but speaking on that, uh, when people would act inappropriately or immaturely, Miss Carter handled it beautifully. And I am, I think, the only student to have Miss Carter three years in a row for three different classes. And I think she was the absolute best choice for this type of job. She is able to handle connecting with her students uh in the best way possible and balance that with dealing with students who don't really want to connect with others and dealing with students who uh may want to act inappropriately or um kind of hold us a little behind schedule. Uh we did have some points where Miss Carter had to yell. Um but you know that's necessary with high schoolers. Um following Italy uh then we went to France, took a brief visit to Monaco, then Spain, and um our guides were amazing at their jobs.
It won't take very long to go through the business part of our meeting. You're welcome to stay, but we do understand you have other obligations. So, we'll pause for a couple minutes to let those that need to leave leave this evening. Thank you. Can we all start the show? >> All right, at this time, we will go ahead and reconvene our school board meeting and continue on with the business portion of our meeting. First item for the board to consider is our consent agenda, and items under the consent agenda are approval of minutes, financial fiscal information, extracurricular hirings, and donations. And if I can just take a moment to talk about the donations, we have two this evening. One for Bailey Elementary School receiving $179 from Costco Workplace Giving Campaign. So, thank you, Costco, for that generous donation to Bailey Elementary School. We also have nine family activity books on dealing with grief, and those books are donated to Lake Station Community Schools by Dignity Memorial and the National Alliance for Children's Grief.
Yeah, so I guess you can't really go just go through that. But, I didn't get the sense that it was a locked gate or anything. >> No, you can just walk through the parking lot. Um Um okay. Um screen Oh, sorry. No, we're on number six. Screen objectionable features from neighboring properties and roadways. So, um The project I don't think there's um obviously that there's no There's not a lot there to see. Right. Um I think that the big question that came up was the net and how visible is that, but um whether that's objectionable to anyone is a you know, um I didn't really mind it myself, but I don't know what other people's opinions are. Yeah, I think the net will be better to see than balls bouncing into the street. Yeah, like I said, I didn't see it as being a terrible thing to see a net.
Keep >> roll. 54 seconds left. I I don't think there's been any substitutions for either team as far as I could see so far. >> Job by Ashley with self draw. Ashley has been aggressive the last two games. She's taken leadership position very very seriously and taking that ball to the to the hole whenever she has to just to kind of get the offense moving cuz it gets stagnant. Sit around. Nice look [music] Peyton. Ashley was not quite on the right angle. >> she was looking for it at that point. 25 seconds left. I think they're probably going to be careful. 100 yards away. It's exactly what they don't want to happen from Holliston's perspective. Ashlyn's happy with it. Marceglia again. >> nice stop by the keeper again. She's going to gobble everything up today. She's great great goaltender. Now, and she's just going to hold it here.
Um I'm not particularly concerned about that. I view the child care center and I think you all do too because you've made it pretty clear to me uh as a an employee benefit and uh that it is worth it is worth us uh maintaining and retaining as a program. So, uh, I I adjusted this budget to cover those, uh, those two budgets that were in the red. How much did we have to cover? Uh, total between the two about, uh, 80,000. 80 to 85,000, I think, something like that. And as I said for the uh, for the teacherage, we will recoup that. Other than that, you can see uh you can see our changes in uh any of these lines. And um uh one of the things I would like to point out mostly for the public uh simply because school districts get a lot of bad press about administrative costs and uh so I really would like for you to look at the line um it's about the fifth or sixth line uh it's 2300 uh the one that has 2300 2400 2500 administration and those costs in that line.
Sher and I are welcoming any questions you may have that may have been prompted since the study session. >> Can I get a motion, please? >> I move the governing board accept the financial year 2024 and finan fiscal year 2025 audit reports and uniform systems of financial records compliance questionnaire. >> Can I get a second? >> Second.
They they told us that we were their biggest group ever and their I think they said most mature and easy to connect with group to the point where they ended up telling us that something that they never told another group and that they were actually a couple and um of course everyone went and um we even got to connect with them in beautiful ways to the point where uh I think almost everyone including myself has um kept in contact with both of our guides. And um a personal experience from that off the top of my head that really helped me feel like I was connecting and learning from this from this entire trip was when I was worried that my own um career passions wouldn't be taught because they're kind of niche. Um I really interested in politics as um someone like Susan would know.
And we really appreciate those books, those donations. Unfortunately, from time to time, our children experience the loss of a parent or grandparent or aunt or uncle, and that is a very difficult time, not only for the parents, but also for the child. So, having these activity books will be very helpful in helping our students learn how to deal with grief and get through that grief in appropriate ways. So, we appreciate that donation as well. Mr. President, I present the items that are under the consent agenda and request approval for the consent agenda items this evening. Hearing the recommendation. Mr. President, I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Motion and second.
They're usually black, so you can't see them very well. It's a black chain link. Yeah. Yeah. Um This one also talks about the lighting and what they They said they may potentially put them >> wired for They're wired for lighting, but not Yes, but they are not. Which is why I said that they would have to be screened from neighboring properties, but that's up to the board, but that would just be my recommendation because they can put on canisters that keeps the light directly to the site. Mhm. Mhm. And I thought I thought they talked about the possibilities of the lighting was just that, right? Like cuz the set closest to the street or would obviously be facing away from the street. >> Right. And then the other ones would be whatever a soccer field away is and facing down. I think we might want to put the thing about the lighting into a condition that if lighting is used, then it will the light spread will stay on the site.
And that'll do the first period, first quarter all done. 4 to 3, Ashlyn 4, Holliston 3. Not a bad game so far, not a lot of problems, just kind of back and forth. No, the the plays that you've seen have been good plays by both teams. There hasn't been a lot of gift goals, easy turnovers, things like that. So, it's been crisp and and well played. We have Lily Vitti with two goals in the first quarter, Maggie McGuinness with one, Ally Marceglia with one, Payton Tripp with two assists, and Ally Marceglia has an assist in addition to that goal. And then we've got two draw controls for Payton Tripp, one for Maggie McGuinness, and one for Ashley Forster. And Alana Duffy with two saves. Although, sometimes it's hard to tell whether whether it's a save or a a goal post or or what, but or miss shot even.
Um, in the actual budget, 24 uh 2300 is the governing board and the superintendent uh superintendent budget and it always looks outrageous. Um because that line that one line 2300s um includes the uh liability and property insurance costs that the district pays. So I mentioned a month or so ago that we pay about half a million dollars uh in liability and property insurance. And so it makes that look it makes that line look really crazy because it also includes my salary, Cass's salary, um, and the any expenses we have for you as a board. So for instance uh when you go to workshops and and those kinds of things which we encourage you to do and want you to do but the total on that line looks huge and it's mostly because of that insurance and and of course when um uh people are complaining or criticizing us for administrative expenses they don't particularly know that that's that that's one of those things.
Any questions? >> Can I get a roll call vote? >> Miss Mcronis? >> Yes. >> Miss Raymond? >> Yes. >> Mr. Alexander? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carlson? >> Yes. >> The motion carries. >> J5. Mr. Bogurt. >> Thank you, President Micronis, governing board members, superintendent, and guests. It's my honor to present to you the final revised budget for fiscal year 2026. There are minor changes in this revision from when you adopted it in February. Most of it is moving it to realized expenses um by moving some dollars from capital to M. Most of the budget thresholds remain approximately the same dimminimous in value. Um just as a highlevel note, tax rates were decreased this year over last year. We did have a budget of maintenance operations about 126 million 8 million in capital and about 17 million in federal and state grants. Uh we do also intend to spend about $13 million in classroom site fund this year uh if approved on the performance-based p uh pay later on in the agenda.
I met Susan at our uh Montgomery County legislative breakfast and she got to see I'm a little outspoken. Um, and I was worried that we wouldn't get to see any of uh indulgence in my personal passion. But then when I was alone with both of the guides, they did not even hesitate to uh help me open up about it. And they even shared their own uh experience with uh politics in their own countries. And it was just amazing and it made me feel really welcome and Uh my first experience being out of the nation was the absolute best I can ever think of for any type of trip I've ever had. And it's all because I did it with CHS and EF tours. And I think that's all I have to say. I'm sorry, I'm so nervous and I also I don't have a script.
Any discussion? Um yeah, I just want to take a moment to thank Dr. Kriplever and Ms. Pippa uh for accepting those family activity books. Um I'm part of Dignity Memorial uh with Chapel Lawn and Kuiper Funeral Homes and we were looking for ways to try and help uh children understand uh when they're going through such a difficult time what the grief process looks like and how to work through that. So, uh we try to donate a few of those books so they they could be at each school should a student need them. Um I know I hope nobody needs them, but um they could be a valuable resource should they, you know, should that arise. So, thank you so much for accepting those. I appreciate that so much that we can continue to try to help think help out in our community in any way we can.
Um but as far as screening objectionable features, I don't really think maybe there are any. I mean Is Is there a Is there a dumpster? No. There's no No dumpster. They have like an on-site trash receptacle, but they don't need a dumpster. It's not that. So it's more just like a garbage can kind of size. >> It is. Yeah, just like one of the hand ones. Um Um Yeah, I guess it's just that uh It that there are no objectionable objectionable features that need that require screening? I mean, not that I know of. I mean, I guess we can leave it in there that the board finds that any objectionable features will be properly screened. You know, in case there's something that didn't get highlighted in our discussion. All right, seven consideration shall be given to the impacts on the project and town services and infrastructure.
It's great to see her back, though. Yeah, absolutely. >> a a nervous time for the team to be out of goalie for the rest of the season, which isn't the end of the world where we are in the standings and what's happening in the season, but, you know, it's it's good to see her in good health and and getting back to the game cuz she loves it. Yeah. >> Very passionate player. Yeah, she was anxious to get out there. The team is anxious to have her back out there. Kendall Westerling was really anxious to have her back out there. I think Kendall was the most anxious of people. I mean, Kendall was uh you know, for someone who played a little bit of goalie in youth, we got the privilege to coach her and watch her play goalie. You know, she's She She tracks the ball, right?
So uh I do want to mention that um in the way it's presented here in this summary 23 24 and 2500 administration includes district administration uh principles assistant principles uh clerical staff in uh secretarial staff and business office staff. Uh, so a heck of a lot of salaries are are in this $2 million uh um in the in this $2 million, but half a million of that is insurance. And if if I can, I'll try to answer any other questions you might have.
With that, I'll stand for any questions you may have. >> Okay. Can I get a motion? I move the governing board adopt the 2025 2026 school district annual expenditure budget revision number two as presented. >> Can I get a second? >> Second.
So tell you what happened. But hi, I'm Naomi and I'm a junior from CHS. So basically the trip went really good. I love the whole experience. I love the students, all 77 students. That's crazy. the chaperons and I'm so grateful for the chaperon. So basically starting off with the trip was filling with so excitement led to some chaotic part if you guys might have known I was the only one that didn't have my luggage for two days in Italy because it was just so chaotic how Chicago and all that. But I loved how the teachers tried their Especially the day that I was felt really low, they I had a whole shopping spree in Italy. So, it was it was some good parts, some good um impact even though I had some negative impact. Um I was able to connect with so many students, especially people I didn't know.