001I now call the June 18th, 2025 meeting of the Wallingford Swathmore School Board to order. In opening, as you are willing and able, please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. Miss Mosley, would you please take attended roll call? Mrs. Delay here. Dr. Grande here. Mr. Henry here. Mrs. Hullberg. Mr. Miller here. Mrs. Wattman here. Mrs. Blitzet here. Mrs. Williams here. Miss Wakowski Smith here. Eight voting members present. Thank you. Moving on to superintendent report and Dr. Justin. Thank you so much, Mr. Henry. Uh really a pleasure to be with you here tonight to provide my update for you. And I just want to model uh for all the board members the way that I'm leaning into my microphone. Uh we heard some feedback after our last meeting that it was a little
002hard sometimes for the public to hear and I know that uh AJ and his team have really worked on this and they've made sure that the microphones are fully working but something that will help and if board members could just remember hold that microphone closer to you as we uh present tonight because we we are really committed to making sure I know each and every one of you wants the public to hear the the deliberation that goes on here together. So thank you to to AJ and uh thank you to uh committee members who reached out to us after the last meeting. So I am uh continuing to work to implement my entry plan and it has been an outstanding seven weeks that I've been here in Wallingford Sworthmore and it's really given me this
003opportunity to get to know the community um as best as you can in seven weeks and it's just uh with genuine gratitude uh that I express my appreciation for all that I've learned about this amazing school district and this community. So a a major emphasis from my first 100 days is to get to know the people, the systems, the culture and traditions of the district. And so I launched an entry plan, a 100-day entry plan that included four major components. First, just document review. Um what can I learn by looking at what's on paper? Also looking at data, so data review as well. The third part of what I've done in these first 100 days is to conduct what are called entry interviews. just sitting down with individuals and groups to hear about their experiences
004and to learn and uh think about what they can tell me about what I need to know about this amazing place and then finally observations uh being in classrooms being in events just to see what what it's all about what does it look like for our students who I know we all care so deeply about and so uh to date uh particularly um as we look at kind of unpacking each of those uh before I started uh the this position I asked the administrative team here just gave me a list of documentation of the systems that we have in place and so that was informative and helpful also data presentation so that's how I kind of got inside the documentation and the data side of it um for the entry interviews I reached out to
005really strategically to many different groups uh for example all of the homeschool associations and the PTO's all of our board members every cabinet member our principles and um really importantly the students and so particularly at the high school I focused on student groups that I could get to. Uh school was ending so it's been certainly a challenge but I I really appreciated getting to 10 student groups and it was a real range. I didn't want to just speak with one type of student with one viewpoint of experience of Strath Haven. I wanted to meet with a wide variety of students and I appreciate this board's push to make sure that I was listening to the voices of students who have were from communities that have been most historically marginalized and um so sitting down with
006the students really helped me kind of formulate an even better sense of what it means uh to to experience our education system here and what we should do about it. And as a quick funny anecdote, um, as I sit in these meetings and I'm listening and the student meetings were all small group afterwards, a couple of the students said to me, "How is it that you can type and look at us at the same time?" And it just showed the difference in education, right? Because when I was in high school, I took a touch typing class and our students take things like CAD and computer engineering, right? And so it was uh one of those moments where you realize how far education has come and it's really what we want to have happen for our
007students. Um I also held open office hours at each of the schools. So two to three hours um just sitting and listening to teachers and that was really illuminating and it came a little later um here in June. Uh, and it gave me a chance to kind of start to probe some of what I was hearing and to go a little deeper in the conversations about um about this great place and to hear both their uh concerns and as well as the the things that they hold most dear about this district and want to make want to maintain and want to keep in place. And across the board in every one of these discussions, I always started with what are the strengths? What are the assets? Sometimes I framed it as what do you cherish
008the most about this community that you never want us to lose sight of? I don't want to be the new guy who comes in and takes away the things that make us true to who we are. And a lot of what I heard about was an appreciation for the involvement of our families that families new to the district, families who've been here for generations all have their eyes on one thing and that's amazing for their students. Uh and it was just really encouraging to hear that one after another. Um, also a deep appreciation for the arts and music. And uh I can sit here today and feel like I've almost been at almost because I think being there we'll we'll be seeing it and experiencing it. But being at a Friday night football game uh
009and hearing the band come over the bridge was recounted to me by person after person such that I it's almost like a memory of my own right now uh because of how often it came up and how proud people are. And really this belief that, you know, with u with Wallingford in particular not really having a downtown, how much the schools serve as a community hub and those Friday night games as well as our plays as well as our arts events are so important for the lifeblood of this community defining who we are. And I just really appreciated that that sense of um of strength of our families, the strength of traditions um and the strength of the belonging and identity that comes with all of that that I think is so important. So what
010have I been doing with all this information? Been collecting a lot. Um I took what I heard and I categorized it relative to the five pathways in our strategic plan because like I said in May, I embrace the strategic plan that this district uh developed. And I think it's important that again as the new person in this role that I'm not wanting to disrupt that. I want to make sure we implement it well. I know the community involvement that went into developing that plan and I want to make sure that we stay true to that. And so as I'm hearing about different things and you know what are some aspects of the strategic plan that still need to be put in place or where are there sort of building blocks that we also want to
011make sure we we don't overlook. Um I started making a list. I think I'm just categorizing everything well into the five pathways and my list right now stands deep breath at about 65 potential priorities. We cannot take on 65 priorities all at once. So the work that I've done, you know, throughout these weeks now is to think about how do we narrow it down? And I really appreciate the work of this cabinet who are here with me tonight and our principles uh to to offer their input and to offer their voices. I've shown them this list and worked with them on how can we narrow it down. I also appreciate the input I've received from board members in that process as well. So we do we are arriving at a more you know sort of
012concise hopefully focused list of what can we do in my year one that will really be the kind of important steps that we can continue to build on the future. And I would say publicly right now they fit into two categories. Let's just, you know, put all of this into two categories. First, instructional improvements and then second, operational improvements. And when I think about the instructional improvements, here are the key things that I want to see us working on. First, just improving professional development, the key asset we have in their future. And we want to just continue to bring up the best. I heard over and over again what amazing educators we have and how much we can support them further, right, to just continue to grow their practice uh through providing high quality professional
013development. And then just our use of data. Um how can we make sure we're seeing the reality of all of our students by looking more closely at their results, not just on academic results, but also on social and measure, emotional and behavioral health. um so that we can really uh better understand what is helping our students and what do we need to work to further improve. Um and then the the third uh thing related to instructional improvement is just implementing our new instructional material. So much work was put into the adoption of arts and letters for example at the elementary level uh for this upcoming school year. We just need to make good on that promise and implement it well. And I know our team is really excited about doing that. In fact, just last
014week on Friday, we had an optional session for our teachers to come and learn more about what will be available to them in the fall and what they can even get started with this summer. And again, it was optional and I am so proud of our teachers that in the high school library, it was packed. Uh I can't I can't imagine there was a teacher who didn't come. Our teachers came. They wanted to get this information. They're thirsty for it. And so how can our cabinet, our principles and our teachers all work together to successfully implement new instructional materials? Uh that will be so important. And then the final area within instructional improvements is just expanding our wellness, social, emotional, and behavioral health supports. And I put it in that same category. Instruction relates to
015both the academic instruction as well as the social, mental health, and behavioral health supports we're providing our students. And so really all through the out though all throughout that though we're really focusing on inclusion and belonging and equity uh to make sure that that just shines through in all of the work we're doing and I'm uh really excited about the the sort of strength of this team and focusing on uh on making sure this is embedded work uh that we do and that we stand proud around. Um then around operational improvements, uh we are excited tonight for the board to consider a vote on launching a capital plan. And that's another thing, another area where it's a promise we want to make good on and think about the type of um ways in which the
016learning environment can contribute to improved outcomes for students, improved learning experiences. And then uh continuing to develop our budget framework. Um also in the category of operational improvements, expanding our communication efforts, um and also improving our human resources function because again we're not in a factory making widgets. We have people all we have is people and so human resources, how we support our teachers, how we're bringing in new teachers, um how we're attracting talent, maintaining talent will really matter about the quality and services we can provide for our students. So, I just want to stress what a joy it has been to join this community and to embark on this journey with all of you. Uh, and while I just listed the improvements we will work on together next year, I just want to stress
017again what an amazing foundation of excellence in public education that we are building on here together. Uh this is a special place uh with a unique sense of excellence of of equity of student centerness and inclusivity that you frankly don't find commonly in other places. And just seven weeks into this job I want you to know that I hold those qualities here. Uh this is very important to me that uh see the strengths that we have and work to address where we can continue to make improvements for our students. So, I'm excited about what the next year will bring us and I look forward to continuing to update this board and the community along the way. Few other updates because we don't have a student with us this month and there's some important student events
018that have happened. So, I do apologize, Mr. Henry. Uh, I do need to report on some great things that our students have accomplished. And I just want to start with our ultimate frisbee team. um our ultimate frisbee team, our both our boys team and the Sugex team qualified for the national championships. Not they had already done accomplished mightily in the state championships. In fact, um leading up to the national championships, the Shugx defended our Shux team defended the USA ultimate Pennsylvania state championship and our boys finished third overall. Uh the boys team finished in fifth place in nationals. Fifth place in nationals. Uh and the Shugx team finished in 14th place just missing the opportunity to move on to the quarterfinals. So um we look for other ways that we'll celebrate our players and coaches
019because this just happened last weekend and we're so proud of them. Um, in addition, the girls varsity lacrosse team unfortunately lost uh to the Villa Maria Hurricanes 12 to8 in the state uh division 2A final uh on a rainy day at state college on Saturday, but they concluded their season as the state runnerup and a a really remarkable achievement for any team. We're so proud of that girl of our girls lacrosse team. In addition, our highQ team visited the Pennsylvania State Capital to to celebrate their national championships. Uh, and our representative, uh, Lauren Krueger was there, Lean Krueger, sorry, was there to receive them and to celebrate them as well. Um, a couple other quick updates just what's happening this summer. The WSSD summer music program uh will run from uh will run until July
02010th and on July 10th at 6:30 there'll be a performance at Strath High School. In addition, while we sit here uh in this library, our high school students, some of our high school students are off on an incredible three-week adventure to Germany. Uh so after an 8-hour layover in Dublin, they'll head to Berlin, then off to uh explore other sites in Germany, and they'll spend two weeks living with host families uh fully fully immersing themselves in German culture. And then uh over the teachers, we'll be welcoming our over the summer, we'll be welcoming our new teachers uh on August 13th and 14th, and we can't wait to have our students back on August 25th because it is a little dreary here without them already. Uh final reminder that uh we do obser we have office
021hours uh summer hours we have summer hours uh during the summer uh here in our school district and so our offices are closed because of the extended days that our team works Monday through Thursday. So offices will be closed on Fridays uh for the summer and we're also closed uh for the holidays coming up tomorrow and on July 4th. So thank you. That is my report. Thank you Dr. Johnson. Great uh great summary. Thank you very much. Thank you for recognizing all the amazing stuff our students are doing. Uh we move now to board announcements in the board mech and executive session prior to this meeting that this meeting and I want to thank the board for showing up extra early this week. We had a lot of stuff on board. Uh now we move
022on to audience recognition and this is in response to items for action on the agenda. Yeah. Oh, we do need Sorry, that was uh we do have under the superintendent report. No, you're ready to do. We're going to move to the final budget report presented by Miss Mos. My apologies. That's fine. Uh, good evening everyone. Uh good evening everyone. My name is Dana Mosley. I am the business administrator for the district. Uh today I will be presenting the final 2025 20226 general fund budget displayed here in the agenda for today. Um I will start the presentation by doing a recap of the proposed budget that was presented at the May 14th finance committee meeting as well as the May 19th board um meeting. I would encourage all stakeholders to watch the recordings of both meetings
023on the district's YouTube. After giving a recap, I will uh discuss what budgetary changes have happened since May 19th, as well as an updated of the total final expenditures, the total final revenues with an updated recommended final tax increase and the recommended use of some of the district's committed fund balances. So just to recap of the proposed budget on from May 19th we discussed um including in that budget the district hired a new superintendent amended senior cabinet contracts settled act 93's compensation plan as well as WCSBA's employee compensation plan. Also included in this budget at the time were um projected costs for Teamsters uh exempt and confidential employee compensation plan. We did not have tenative agreements at that time. So, we just had budgeted amounts uh reflected. Um also included confirmed employee benefit changes. Paser's
024contribution rate for the state of PA increased 34% from 33.9%. Our the district's medical rates increased 5.76% and the dental rates increased 6.28%. Uh just to put that in perspective, if we were to take a snapshot of all existing employees at the time, that still would have been about a $600,000 cost increase just with those um increases. Next, some of the new positions that were added to the budget. I just want to remind the public that any personnel positions that have been discussed or mentioned in any finance committee meeting reflected the total cost of the district. Um at the April finance committee meetings where we really outlined all of the new positions that were being added. Uh just a reminder as a rule of thumb uh for school district business you should calculate about 63%
025of the benefit cost of what the salary cost is. Um and that includes of course the capers rate you see there uh the employer taxes as well as you uh budgeted for u family medical plan and we also talked about at the April finance committee meeting depending on the compensation plan where we budget those vacancies. So for our teachers, it's master step five. For support staff, it's uh step four of their appropriate salary range. Uh for act 93, it's uh year five of the um of their their appropriate um classification. And just to highlight these are positions that we separated the positions as a new positions where required new funding and then uh positions that were external that were becoming internal positions. Um highlighted here are the two uh administrative positions that are being added
026to supervisor of instructional technology. Uh the purpose of that position is to provide guidance and direct direction to faculty, staff and students by developing integrating technology to support the curriculum across various content areas. Um, so again, this position will help use all of the different applications, platforms, online curriculum that we use to provide that support to students and teachers. And then the procurement position, um, this is kind of an extension of a position that was the district used to have a purchasing person. I'm not sure why that position was eliminated. However, procurement is, uh, an expansion or prerequisite, as you will, of purchasing. Um, currently the district does not frequently practice competitive bidding. So implementing this position is to ensure um if we're following that procurement process to ensure the district is receiving the best
027services, equipment, products for the best possible price. And the goal of this position is to actually help reduce district cost. And then by doing that, reducing existing costs, the district will be in ability to reallocate those dollars for another purpose. Um and then we talked about external to internal position. So specifically a middle school and high school athletic trainer. uh we were able to reallocate all of the professional dollars for that service. So the net cost to add these two positions to the district was about $25,000. Uh two behavioral health counselors. Again, we were able to reallocate all the professional service dollars for that service. The net cost to the district was about $40,000 and then added two non-certified nurses. We were able to reallocate some professional service dollars. Um and the net cost to
028the district was about 80,000. However, the need for our nurses increased due to uh student IEPs and requests and things like that. So that's why all of those dollars were not reallocated um for that service. We also just discussed the continuation of positions with the TOSAs. Um originally in the um budget I think maybe around March or April when we were talking about um finalizing the budget we had three TOSIs. This budget does include six. Um, I just want to remind the public that when district first presented this amount of toasts for this 2425 school year, it was presented for the public and for the board repeatedly as a one-year offering. Um, so again, it was the original um understanding that those funds were going to be reallocated. So again, just wanted to remind the
029public that it wasn't that we're trying to do away with it. That what the every public meeting um discussion was this was a one-year offering. However, the current leadership team is focusing on a long-term model of support as Dr. Johnson just mentioned for the teachers um that the toes will shift to more of an instructional coach model which is basically like a teacher for the teacher. Um he talked about that in significant detail at the May finance committee meeting. So again I just remind the public that the opportunity to view some of the recordings in more detail. Uh next we talked about operational expend expenditure changes. Um there was a major reduction in the aotment for education service agreements. In this year's budget, there was 1.7 million allocated for education service agreements with about 1.4
030actually already committed. Um and those are the agreements that our board approved. So this is the district's obligated to pay whatever those costs are. Uh for this upcoming year, we have about 1.2 million for ESAs and about a little bit over a million is already committed. So again, that extra buffer is we know that the board does approve ESAs throughout the year. Um, so we want to make sure you have that those funds available for those those added expenditures. Um, we also removed the plan budgetary transfer to capital. I'll explain that a little bit more into the presentation. And then there was a reduction in our charter tuition. We had several students graduate and a couple actually return to the district. So you'll see that reflected in our budget. And then lastly, we talked about
031analyzing the fiscal baseline. Um, 2425 was used as our baseline year as we try to move forward with this multi-year budget cycle. um that included correcting a lot of expenditure codes in 2324. I'm considered it was very hard to try to project what costs would be because expenditures may not have been charged to the correct area. So to give an example, if that budget line was 300,000 but maybe 200,000 should have been charged there. It's not a fair analysis of what the district is actually spending in that area. So a lot of 2324 was just correcting those codes. Uh we also conducted at the time of the the proposed budget two cost analysis. one in January, one in April. And then we also talked about as the district's thinking about this 10-year capital plan, any
032excess funds from the current fiscal year being added to the debt service fund. Uh that was one of the committed fund balances the board approved in January. Um and that's why, as I mentioned earlier, removal of planned capital instead of moving any funds planning capital transfer at the end of every year to move those access funds to that capital uh fund. And what that would actually do is help offset the millage increase. is necessary to fund the capital plan. So here were the proposed expenditures. Uh just to highlight there it was a total of5,187,26752. We also talked about the taxable assessed value at at the proposed budget meeting. Um just to give a highlight of this as a reminder, school district does not determine assessed value of property type. So that's residential, commercial or tax
033exempt. The county does that. Um if you look specifically here in 2425, the district's total assessed value being this is the assessed value that actually tax is going to be charged upon was a little less than $2.6 billion. Um that actually dropped about $5.7 million. Um that can happen if properties become tax exempt if you know someone appeals the value of their property. Um if you recall in 2020 the county did a countywide reassessment. They usually do that every 20 to 25 years. Um, but again, like I said, the district doesn't determine that value. But to put in perspective and why this is important, the total assessed value of the district is basically the value of 1 mill. So if you take the millage rates of the district and multiply that times 2.6, that's how
034you generally come up with our total taxable uh local revenue. Um, but again, I wanted to mention this, but because the total tax excess value for the district decreased, that mean if the district was not to raise taxes or change the millet millage rates at all, we would still generate about 175,000 less um because our tax assess value drops off. To think about that to to make it comparable, think about it as inflation, like the value of a dollar. So as as that as that value of that dollar drop, you don't get to spend the same amount every year. So that's kind of the same thing with our with our tax dollars. Um so at the time the proposed tax increase was a 2.79% tax increase with the millillage for another providence and R Valley
035being 30.9 and for Rutled and Swathmore being 31.1595 529. My apologies. So now we're going to talk specifically about what has changed since May 19th. Um first and foremost, there's the settlement of of the four remaining compensation plans for the salary, supervised employees, uh confidential employees, teens, and non-certified nurse. All of those are on the agenda to be board approved today. Um I really want to commend um all of the administrative staff, especially uh human resources department for all of their their joint work and and getting those compensation plans settled. um not just from a logistical perspective, but the amount of work necessary. But from a fiscal standpoint, um to settle six compensation plans in one year is a lot. Um just to give you an example, that's kind of like if you had five
036different credit cards, charge something, and then the next month all of the minimum due payments came due. Like that's a huge jump in your obl in your fiscal obligation. So we did strategically stra uh stagger all the renewal compensation plans. Going forward, the district will have one bargaining uh group and one non-bargaining group renewing every year. Um right now we don't have any uh compensation plans due to renew until 2028. But we also stagger those compensation plans would be fiscally compatible. So your largest non-bargaining with your smallest uh non-bargaining employee group. So again, from a cost perspective, um you're not having those same jumps at the same time. Uh next, human resource confirmed all of our personnel. also provided a confir confirmation of each person's fiscal year salary or their hourly rates. I provided a
037list of all new hires far as replacing any retirees or recognitions. Again, I do want to commend uh human resources. A lot of the um retirees and recognition received for this year have already been filled. Um the benefit of that is like I said any vacancies put that budgeted amount in. Um, however, by having those positions filled now, we were actually able to put the confirm numbers, confirm information in the the cost difference, reallocate some of those dollars. So, um, like I said, again, want to thank human resources for that, as well as confirm the list of all of our existing vacancies. So, to make sure we have all of the correct number of physicians included in our budget. Uh, next is our insurance renewals. We did receive those on June uh June 5th. Um,
038the total premium is about a little less than 670,000. That's about a $54,000 increase. And then just wanted to uh mention specifically the insurance premiums that did increase was our property inland and marine. Um the company actually did about a 7 to 10% rate increase across their entire book of business for PA. However, WSSD came in on the lower end around 7% uh due to the district's clean property loss history. Our workers comp um insurance premium increased about $22,000 which is almost 16% from last year. That's due to almost a 5% increase in estimated payroll. Uh the district had three claims in 2022 2023 that totaled almost $550,000. Um as well as an increase in our experience modification factor and that's just basically um if your as a company if you were to file file
039a workers comp claim it would come in more of the higher end than normal. Um so again that rate was was reflected. And lastly, there was an increase of about $20,000 to our umbrella excess policy. Um, again, historically, the cost for this liability insurance used to be very cheap. So, for about $1 million worth of coverage, it only cost about $1,000 worth of premium. So, to put that in perspective, I can get $50 million worth of liability for $50,000. Um, over the last couple years with added exposure and higher losses, like company's actually experiencing losses. Um, the market shifted and the price has increased significantly. So to put that in perspective, if the district was to have kept the same amount of liability we had this year, it would have cost an additional $80,000, which
040is another staff person. Um, so we did work with our insurance carrier to identify the appropriate appropriate amount of coverage for the district. Um, for that for about $5 million less, there still was about a $35,000 increase for the district. And then lastly, we conducted a third cost analysis and revenue analysis through May 30th. So we looked at again I have 11 out of 12 months of actual data for revenue collected and expenditures and then we made some small adjustments. So the overall net increase since the proposed budget that was presented in May 19th is $165,342.93. Again you see most of that cost reflected in the salary and benefits as you settled for employee compensation plan since then with actual numbers. Um there was a net increase in our 500 line here. That's where those
041insurance renewals are. And you see a few minor um like I said reductions. Like I said with that cost analysis, we did have a few um expenditures that were duplicates. So we were able to go back through and and subtract those. So like I said, the total the net increase from the proposed budget was $165,342.93. And then this is just the final budget in comparison to the this year's the 2024 2025 budget. just go through each object line. So, of course, there's a two about $2.6 million increase in salaries. You're again, just to give some detail, year two of your teacher salary and also the settlement of six employee compensation plans and the addition of 19 total positions that were added to the budget. Um, you have about a 1.9 increase in benefits and again
042that's the natural increase from salaries and the new positions as well as that 5.76% increase in medical cost. Uh we have a reduction of about $155,000 at our professional service line. Again, that's due to moving some of those contract positions from external to internal. As well as the benefit of multi-year contracts, we were able to decelerate some of those increased costs. Um again, prior to the district used to renew a lot of contract annually, we've actually extended some of those contracts every three, four, five years. And for some of those contracts, there's no increase if we lock in that price. Uh there's a small increase of about 20,000 for purchased property services. That cost actually we had to increase the repair line for our transportation department. Um there's about a $222,000 decrease in the 500s,
043which is your purchase property services. Again, that's a result at that charter um tuition we talked about. We had a lot more students graduate and some uh students actually come back. And then there's about a $228,000 increase in supplies, but I'm going to talk about that in in correlation with the property line. Um, again, those two lines combined, there was actually a reduction of about $300,000. This was something we also analyzed. Again, we looked at the district's capitalization policy. Um, there were a lot of things that were being charged to the 700s, but based off the district cap capitalization policy, anything that costs less than $5,000 by itself is treated as a regular supply. So again, you see there's about a $600,000 reduction for our um a I'm sorry, about a $527,000 reduction for property.
044So if you look at the fact that our supply cost actually went up from about 228,000, like I said, that was actually about a net $300,000 savings there. Uh next for the 800 lines, there's about a $600,000 decrease. Again, that's due to, like I mentioned earlier, those ESAs obligations. Um, I say we had about a five over $500,000 reduction at that line. And then lastly, the $400,000 line here was the plan transfer to capital. As I said, going forward, it will be the recommendation of administration that any access funds at the end of every year to add to that debt service committed fund balance to help offset the millage necessary to fund the capital plan. I also just want to mention if you look specifically our budget final expenditures for next year, it's 105,352,61045. I
045wanted to draw your attention to all of the items highlighted in red. Um because if you look at that, that was about $1.9 million that we actually were able to reallocate within the budget. So when we talk about being fiscally responsible and the importance of you know thinking in the future and and being like I said being proactive if we like if we plan better financially we can use those same existing dollars to serve a different purpose uh going forward. So now we're going to go over to updated revenues. Like I said um based off of the changes that happened since May um the administration is recommending a little higher of a tax increase like the original proposal was 2.79. Uh the final proposal is 2.85. Um and again with that additional uh revenue analysis,
046the only revenues that change was the current taxes as well as the linquin taxes. Again, this is one of the revenue sources we've talked about in great detail. It's one of your most volatile, but the change it's based on the taxes that haven't been paid. Um I do apologize about that. Um the district actually had a 99.6% collection rate this year, which is really good. We also pledged for a 98% collection rate. So again, historically for the last four years, the districts averaged about 1.2 in delinquent taxes. However, this year we budgeted for 850 because of that trend of collection. Um we're on we're on par to pass that, but again, it's still trending uh downward. So we budgeted less than we did last year, but this is still an increase from the proposed budget
047as we received about 345,000 um in delinquent tax revenue from the county uh last month. So our total uh projected local revenues is 80,6736,144 uh and like I said that includes a 2.85% tax increase. So at that 2.85 Nether Providence and Rose Valley Miller rates will be 30.9182 and Rutled and Swathmore will be 31.1711. Just again remind public that Rutled and Swathmore have a higher mill rate due to DCCCC's operational cost. And again just also want to remind the public that the budget for this year and the proposed tax increase for for next year are in in in um relative to the index are the two lowest tax increases for this district in the past decade. And then again, just wanted to show the our tax increase um as it relates to other Delo school
048districts. For some of these districts, this was their proposed budgets. But again, just wanted to put that in context for um for our community. If you look at a lot of our school district uh the other school districts, again, we have one of the most, if not the most, unique tax uh makeup in in the Commonwealth because of our lack of commercial property. And then our projected state revenues increased slightly. Um as I highlighted the two line items where there was an increase and again this is the state share of social security and um peasers retirement. The state reimbursed us for half that cost. So again because our personnel costs actually increased with the settlement of those contracts. Naturally both of these revenue sources increased as well. So the projected state revenues are $22,637,191.51. And
049then there were no changes to our federal revenue. We budgeted the same allocation for our consolidated grants that we received this year. And then there were we will be drawing down on the medical access funding that the district has. Um again uh Dr. Johnson also has talked in detail about um implementing a pilot um medical access uh program which will be an additional revenue source for the district. And then lastly again the administration's recommendation for the committed fund balances. So, just want to remind the public there's two different buckets of money here. You have an unassigned fund balance, which is basically like your savings account. School districts, depending on your budget side, are allowed to have up to a certain percentage. Um, our budget is over 19 million. Any district that have the budget over
05019 million is allowed to have up to 8% in their unassigned fund balance. So, again, the recommendation to use these committed fund balances has no indication of our unassigned fund balance. The district does have four different committed fund balances. Two that were established in January as a result of the fiscal 24 audit. We have self-insurance, retirement, millage, and debt service. It is the recommendation of administration to utilize $500,000 from our self- insurance committed fund balance uh to address the the medical increase that 5.76%. And then also utilize a little over a million dollars in the village. Again, just to remind the public, in January, the board set aside $1.5 million for this purpose to help offset or mitigate tax increases. So, we're using those funds there. So, it would be a combination of a little
051less than 1.6 from committed fund balances, which would leave the district with about 2.9. Um, again, reflected here is uh to be determined for the debt service, but again, this the board did approve a little less than $500,000 in January. And just to reiterate what I mentioned earlier, any access funds going forward, it will be the recommendation to add those funds to that debt service bucket. So it'll help offset the the like I said the mill is required to fund that capital plan um that the board will be reviewing. And then just to finalize all of our lo local, state, and uh federal revenues with the committed fund balance gives us a balanced budget of 105,352 $352,61045. It's been a lot of numbers and that's it. Thank you, Mosley. We appreciate that. Okay, now back
052there before we move on. Is there any questions? Okay, moving on to board announcements. The board did meet in executive session prior to this board meeting. Uh now moving on to audience recognition and response to items for action on the agenda. Uh this is the time on the agenda where we give an opportunity for public comment for items on the agenda. We will have a time later for topics not on the agenda. As a reminder, public comment is a time for district residents and taxpayers to speak to the board about an issue that is before the board may become full board. is a time for us to listen and hear perspective and experiences from our community. While we can't answer questions directly, there's always an opportunity to follow after the we want to give as
053many people as an opportunity to speak possible. So, continue to follow our threeminut time limit. Uh we'll give you a heads up when you have one minute remaining. Uh once we hit the three minute time limit, I'll ask you to try to wrap up your final final segments. Uh is there anyone who would like to speak tonight about a topic on the agenda this evening? And I remind you when you go up to me as wrote is doing already. She's done more. Please give us your name and the street on which you live in our district. Uh Ro, you're up. So go for it. Hi Roa O'Donnell and I live on Miguel and Swathmore. Thank you for the presentation. Um that was very helpful. I have a lot of concerns as you all know because
054I've been coming to these meetings um about the budget. Um, I don't understand why we need 16 new positions. I did a calculation. If we're paying those people the minimum of $45,000 a year, which I can guarantee you that many of them are making more than that with their salary and benefits, we are paying more than $1 million extra dollars a year into the budget. My son who graduated in 2015, his class was the largest graduating class that Strath he's been has ever seen. So why are you guys okaying 16 new positions for a smaller class load? I don't think that is very fiscally responsible. I understand that there sometimes is a need for one or two new positions to deal with an issue, but this is 16 new positions and I honestly think I'm
055angry when I look at that and I think it's very fiscally irresponsible. I don't think that any of you has done the numbers or looked back on what kind of teachers and what kind of staff numbers that we had for more children. The numbers that we are talking about raising our taxes right now seem like small numbers when you're talking about them in yearbyear. But if you are talking about raising the taxes this amount from now until 2022, which is what was proposed in the finance committee meeting, you will raise my taxes around $6,000. Currently, we own a what is considered to be a one-bedroom, oneb house in Swathmore, and we pay about $9,000 in taxes a year. So that will make my taxes on my one-bedroom, oneb $15,000. So people who have six bedrooms
056and five bathrooms, they're going to pay like 30,000, 40,000, 50,000, and even 60,000 if you continue this way. This has to be rethought. Thank you. Is there anybody else here would like to speak? No. No. No. Don't worry. Don't don't rush. You know, I'm not starting. Don't worry, you know how it work. Dave Sarat, I live on Morris Lane in in another Providence. I have um three questions related to three different items under the finance portion of the meeting. And while I understand you don't answer questions back and forth from this podium to you folks, I was hoping that you'd write down my comments and maybe during the time that you're about to discuss these particular items, maybe those those comments that I've make may be addressed at that time. So anyway, um one thing
057I'm a little confused back in 20 22 23 I thought we were or I thought we did reclassify a bunch of things in the budget so everything was basically where it needed to be for years apparently it wasn't. I struggled with that and I was a board member eons ago and we had to fix that again and item 11D the approval of budget transfers. I was kind of surprised to see that we are transferring $241 approximately $241,000 from account X to account Y. And I'm kind of just curious why that's still going. That was number one. Number two was relative to the the budget. Um, I'm just concerned about the expenses and how they're calculated. Um, total expenses for this year's budget was 102,4375045. I forget what the number was year to date. Last month
058in May um we spent 82 million746582 leaving us a balance of almost 16 19700,000. Um I guess my questions are this. Will we spend that remaining $19.7 million in June? I know a lot of stuff happens in June like debt service, but I'm curious, are we going to spend almost 20 million bucks in this last month? Um, do we project any of any of the unspent money to be transferred to the reserves? And it kind of got answered, but and then is there an estimate of any unspent money that may move to the reserves? I would think we would have a pretty good handle on what that might be. I know we don't like to give educated guesses out loud because people run with it, but it's June 18th. There's only 12 days left of
059the school year. We should have a rough estimate at least. And then lastly, relative to the capital plan, my favorite subject, um, based on the information I've provided administration in the FE last few days via email, um, I hope that this I'm I'm begging that this item on the agenda be tabled at this time. We need to compare this capital plan, this capital plan to the original plan that we were working on for the deferred maintenance. I forgot what the plan was called. Well, we prioritized to do things year one, year two, year three. So, if we can speak to that when it comes to the capital plan. Thank you. Thanks, Dave. Or actually, I'm asking to table that. Gotcha. Thank you. Thank you. And remember just your name and what street we want. Lar
060Moretti Fess Lane in Wallingford, PA. Um and I'm here um representing the potential host family for the international exchange student which is on the agenda. Just wanted to um say thank you for considering it. Um we're really excited about potentially hosting this young woman from Spain. Um we know her dad. He was an exchange student 30 plus years ago with my husband um not living with him but they were friends and we've maintained a relationship with this family and they are looking for the same opportunity for their daughter and we are really excited about hopefully hosting her come January of next year. So I just wanted to represent potential host family. Thank you. Well thank you for coming to the meeting so appreciate that. Good evening. Uh, Alfred Rico, Rogers Avenue, Sworthmore. Um, Dr. Johnson,
061welcome. Um, my oldest or my youngest graduated several years ago, but I didn't have an opportunity to go to the graduation this year. Well done, sir. Thank you. uh on behalf of local wreck organizations, we look forward to working with you because you're a big part of what we do to support the children of this district. With respect to the budget, thank you. That was a thankless task trying to explain all of that. Um one suggestion question, has your because I noticed you said that the assessed value had gone down within the district. have the models you've run accounted for the 30 plus new condos uh in Swathmore which should be going to sale and they're supposed to be finishing by the end of this year. So hopefully that will bring that that number back
062up and help out. So thank you very much. Thanks. Is there anybody else uh for items on the agenda at this? Seeing none, going to move on to the minutes of the May 19th, 2025, do I have a motion for approval of the May 19th, 2025 minutes? Motion for approval. Some move. Mr. Miller, do I have a second? Second. I think I heard Mr. Wet first. Thank you. Um any discussion on the minutes? Discussion. Okay. Please take a roll call. Mrs. Delay. Hi. Dr. Grande. Hi. Mr. Miller. Hi. Mrs. Watman. Hi. Mrs. Witet. Hi. Mrs. Williams. I Mr. Kowsky Smith. Hi. Mr. Henry. Hi. Motion passes 8 to zero. Thank you, Miss. Moving on now to uh board committee reports. I'll remind everyone here and watching at home the uh educational affairs committee, the facilities
063and finance committee and the policy committee meetings are all on our district YouTube channel and uh they are all updated. It was facilities and finance committee just last week. You heard Miss Mosley talk about where we actually got into quite a bit. I encourage anyone interested to watch them. So I'll move on to the wellness advisory committee and uh Mrs. Ble or Dr. Okay. And now I move on to the Delaware County Community College leazison and Mr. Miller. We received their uh monthly report earlier today. Thank you. That'll be attached. Uh moving on to the Delaware County Intermediate Unit. That's made uh summertime. So uh moving on to the Delaware County School Board's Legislative Council and Mrs. W. Just a couple of quick updates um from the meeting on June 4th. Um on the federal
064side, federal judge halted the executive order that was aimed at dismantling the department of education and restated the 1300 employees off um education matters that are in the one big beautiful bill act um are partially related to higher education. Um, it does create a $5 billion in payroll tax credits for scholarships and related expenses at K to2 private schools. Um, and as we know that's still making its way through consideration in Congress. Uh, state updates, the House and Senate are back in session as of the 2nd and they'll be in from Monday through Wednesdays for all of June. um because the budget deadline is approaching which of course is essential to funding all of the assumptions that we've built into our budget from paid revenues. Uh let's see the there are a number of bills
065um and information on bills that we today's meeting there are a few that um have made their way and are under consideration by the chamber at this point. So they've made it for both sides. Um some publicly funded scholarships for students in low performing districts, students in non-public schools. Um instruction instruction, Holocaust genocide, human rights violations, making them mandatory and mandatory universal screenings to free and adoption of evidence-based curricula. And then a whole slew of things that are relating to teacher certifications. um in order to help address uh the the teacher shortage there. Again, there's some newly um introduced things that are pending committee action and uh we'll see if they can even move anywhere. So, that's pretty much it today. Good. Thank you, Mr. Walker. Uh now we're moving on to uh personnel. We
066have 29 items for action of personnel. I'm sorry, Mary Joe. I'm sorry that is that is just rude on my part. I apologize. We'd have the Pennsylvania School Board Association and Mrs. Smith. Thank you. Um uh with uh the June 30th budget deadline, just as Miss Walkman mentioned, uh PSVA is uh working hard uh to lobby our uh state legislators to make sure that there is funding in that budget for special education, school infrastructure, safety, and mental health services. If you have not reached out to your state legislators, they're in session and it is still time. uh to get to reach them prior to the budget vote. Um AI teachers are transitioning away now to uh quest from question and answer assignments and straightforward essays in favor of projects and this is a way to
067teach students how to use AI and how to make it uh part of their problem solving when uh doing work in school. Um funding schools. The Pennsylvania currently just sued the US Department of Agriculture last week uh saying that the agency had illegally cut off funding to it through a program designed to distribute more than $1 billion in aid to states to purchase food from farms or schools for schools, child care centers, and food banks. So, uh right now, uh we'll keep you posted on if that funding can return farms to school launches. um addressing a teacher shortage. Again, Miss Wman said that uh there are now $8 million in grants to expand apprenticeship programs to address the teacher shortage. So that that is all from Mr. Josie Smith. We'd also like to just take
068a chance um an opportunity to extend our um congratulations for the award that you received from the PSBA for your honor role for years of service. We just know how much that matters uh to the students here and the work of PSBA across the state. Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah, Mary Joe, that's Thank you for that and congratulations from all of us on the board as well. Uh welld deserving by the way. You have been a heck of a proponent for our kids for a very long time and you continue to be yourself. Uh so thank you for your service. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry, I'll back up. 29 items for action personnel. Uh I'll ask the board to consider items A through CC and I'll ask for a
069U motion for that and then we will do we will vote on items E G I KK and MM individually. They're they are the individual contracts. So I just want to make that clear. No, I cannot repeat that. Barely got that one out. So, uh, do I have a motion to approve items A through CC? Thank you, Mr. Williams. I have a second. Thank you, Mr. Lman. Thank you. Are there any items on uh on items A through CC that the board would like to separate from the rest? Okay, seeing none, I want discussion. Uh, I'll start with uh Mr. Don't rush. Don't rush. We'll be in fence. Bear with me everybody. There's quite a few here. Okay, we have resignations in retirements. We have appointments. We have leave of absence, changes of position, changes
070of salary status, letter of recommendation payments, changes of salary status, non-margaining points, uh 2025 2026 conference requests, 2025 extended school year program, 2024 2025 spring athletic postseason supplementals, 2024 2025 activity supplementals, summer curriculum work, AP physics one teacher, Summer curriculum work. Math teachers, grades 9 through 12. Summer curriculum work, elementary art teachers. Summer curriculum work satra high school instruction intervention. Summer curriculum work. Business English grade 12 summer curriculum work grade six summer curriculum work. Strath middle school ELA summer curriculum work. Strath a middle school math summer curriculum work. French teachers grades 6 through 12. Summer curriculum work AP seminar teachers. Someone with the word curriculum there on purpose. Summer curriculum work additional curriculum. Elementary summer curriculum work family and consumer science teachers. Summer curriculum work artificial intelligence at SHHS. Summer curriculum work electronic devices at
071Strath High School. Summer curriculum work school climate at Strath High School for new teachers. Summer curriculum work act 94 committee scan techch Inc. and some sorry some crypto mac scan techch inc and summer are hiring authorization but now is when I should there's uh any discussion after reading all those is there any any discussion on this m please I I am very thankful for the dedication of our teachers who are spending this much time in their craft in their career career in the dedication of our students to prepare uh for exciting instruction uh in the following year. So the number of uh courses that teachers are p uh are participating in is is really uh very large and I think that it's just a credit to the quality of teachers that we to have. So
072I I really I want to note that and thank them. Thank thank you for that. That was Mr. That's well said. There any other discussion or comments? Is it all right? Just a quick comment. Um I think it's really exciting to the topic of artificial intelligence on our agenda and the beginning of hope and here. Anybody else in the Okay. Uh Mosen, we take a roll call vote on items A through C. Mr. Dole. Hi, Dr. Grande. Hi, Mr. Miller. Hi, Mrs. Wman. Hi, Mrs. Woodet. Hi, M. Williams. Hi, Mr. Wowski Smith. Hi, Mr. Henry. I motion passes 8 to zero. Thank you. Moving on to uh letter E, the Teamsters bus drivers collecting baring agreement. Do I have a motion to approve? What's that? Thank you. Do a second. Second, Mr. Williams. Thank you.
073Um the team search bus drivers collect the bargain agreement is attached. Uh do we have any discussion with switch? I'll start with you. I'll just well I just want to say thank you to everyone involved in uh getting the collector bar agreement done. A lot of work I know on both sides. So I appreciate all the work that everyone put into it. Uh Mr. Rosie, would you please take a walk over vote for item E? Mrs. Delay, I Dr. Grande, hi. Mr. Miller, hi. Mrs. Watman, hi. Mrs. Witet, I Mrs. Williams, I Mr. McCarthy Smith, I Mr. Henry, I. Motion passes 8 to zero. Thank you. Moving on to uh item GG under personel personnel teamsters plus a collective bargaining agreement. Do I have a motion to approve item GG? Second move, Mr. Miller. Thank
074you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Lockman. Uh, any discussion on item GG, Teamsters, Bus A toy Department. Okay. Uh, Mosen, you take a walk over. Mrs. Dole. Hi, Mr. Grande. Hi, Mr. Miller. Hi, Mrs. Watman. Hi, Mrs. Blitz. Hi, Miss Mrs. Williams. Hi, Mr. Wson. Smith. Hi, Mr. Henry. Hi. Motion passes 8 to zero. Thank you. Now, moving on to letter I. I of the personnel compensation plan for confidential employees. Do I have a motion to approve letter I? I I submit. So, thank you. Do I have a second? Still late. Thank you very much. Any discussion on letter I I? All right. Uh, Miss Mosley, would you please take a roll call? Mrs. Delay, hi. Dr. Grande. Hi, Mr. Miller. Hi, Mrs. Wman. Hi, Mrs. Witet. Hi, Mrs. Williams. Hi,
075Mr. Okowki Smith. Hi, Mr. Henry. I motion passes 8 to zero. Okay, thank you. Moving on to letter K under personnel compensation plan for salary supervisory employees. Do I have a motion to approve? Mr. W. Thank you. Have a second. This is council Smith. Thank you. Do I have any discussion? Letter K. Uh, if you please take a roll call. Mrs. Dele, hi. Dr. Grande. Hi. Mr. Miller. Hi. Mrs. Blackman. Hi. Mrs. Woodet. Hi. Mrs. Williams. Hi, Mr. Kelsey Smith. Hi, Mr. Henry. I motion passes 8 to zero. All right. Thank you. Moving on to letter MM under personnel compensation plan for non-certified nurses. Do I have a motion to approve letter MM? Thank you. Do I have a second? Uh Miss Woodet. Thank you. Uh any discussion on letter MM on personnel? Okay. Mosie,
076would you please take a roll call? Mrs. Delay. I. Dr. Grande. Hi, Mr. Miller. Hi, Mrs. Widman. Hi, Mrs. Blitzet. Hi, Mrs. Williams. I Mr. Wy Smith. Hi, Mr. Henry. Hi. Motion passes 8 to zero. Thank you. Thank you for everybody for sticking with me through that. So, and thanks to everyone on the work of all of those contracts. Uh, moving on now to policy. We have one item for action and policy and one administrative regulations for review for approval. Uh the uh letter A policies for second reading are attached. Do I have a motion to approve letter A policies for second reading? So move. Thank you. I have a second. Thank you. Um discussion for letter A policies for second reading. Members have no bill. Uh Miss Mosy, would you please take a walk
077over? Mrs. Dole. Hi, Dr. Grande. Hi, Mr. Miller. Hi, Mrs. Wattman. Hi, Miss Woodet. Hi, Williams. I Mr. W Smith, I Mr. Henry, I. Motion passes 8 to zero. Thank you. Moving on to curriculum. We have 13 items for action under curriculum. Are there any of those 13 items on the list that anyone on the board would like to separate from the rest? Okay, we have uhou with MCIU to access Montgomery virtual program. We have e signature resolution form. Goodart Wilcox health and PD resources addendum to the NWA contract. Noodle Tools contract, Branica online contract, Mystery Science Learning A through Z Raz Kids, Wilson Funhub, Wilson Foundations Level Two, the 95% Group, International Exchange Student, Exchange and International Field Trips. That's That's all 13. Do uh do I have a motion to approve? So move.
078Thank you. Do I have a second? Secondman, thank you. Do I have any discussion? Go ahead, please. Actually, just a real quick point of clarification for those who may not be aware, but the regarding items and exchange of international field trips, students occur, uh these are not at cost to the district. That's an excellent clarification. Thank you. Uh any other comments on these? Okay, seeing none, Missing, could you please take a roll call? Mrs. Dole, I Dr. Grande, hi. Mr. Miller, hi. Mrs. Watman, hi. Mrs. Woodet, hi. Mrs. Williams, I missowski Smith. Hi, Mr. Henry. Hi. Motion passes 8 to zero. Thank you. Now, moving on to student services. We have seven items for approval in student services. Is there any on the list the board would like to separate from the rest? Okay. See
079none. We have educational service agreements as listed. Homebound instruction international exchange. Wait a minute. I'll start again. Students are educational service agreements and homebound instruction. Ballerin Wagner SLPY Elementary speech pathology LLC bill company make the distinction Stephanie T. Walsh consultant. That is all of them. Uh, do I have a motion to approve items A through G under student services? Do I have a second? Thank you, Mr. Williams. Any discussion on those items? Okay. Seeing none, none. Uh, Miss Mos. Mrs. Delay. I Dr. Grande. Hi. Mr. Miller. Hi. Mrs. Watman. Hi. M. Woodet. Hi, M. Williams. I Miss Wowsky Smith. I Mr. Henry I. Motion passes eight to zero. Thank you. Moving on to finance and facilities. We have 21 items for approval under in finance. Are there any items on this list? Anyone on the
080board would like to separate from the rest? Seeing none, we have bills paid to vendors May 1st through May 31st, 2025. We have financial statements May 1st through May 31st, 2025. The treasures report May 1st through May 31, 2025. The approval of the budget transfers, bank deposiitories, burrow of swath tax collector, 2025 2026 final general fund operating budget, receipt of donations, Singer Equipment Company, Eagle Wireless, Bardbark Pest Control Services, Performance Sports Turf Management, AF Damon, JMC, the Capital Plan as attached Rico paper cut Seesaw screencastify CDW go guardian you power school messenger secure file all of them do I have a motion to approve those items under finance and facility Mr. Henry, before you get that motion, you did actually miss one, which is I did. It's listed on the agenda as being po. It's
081not. It's really to resolve a tax assessment appeal. It's item K. I skipped over it might have been a problem for the purposes of uh following Robert's rules. What you recommend the best way to get that back in there? It is already in. It's on the agenda. You're simply reading through them. So, I just wanted to clarify actually is part of the Thank you. items that are being asked that you're asking for a motion to and it's letter K uh on our agenda. Thank you. Uh, do I have a motion to approve all those items under finance and facily? Thank you. Do I have a second? Second Miller. Thank you. Uh, discussion. I'll start with Dr. Granny. Um, just a a few comments a couple of the items in this section. Um, first uh thank
082you, Miss Mosley, for walking the board through uh and the public through the budget. Uh, again, uh much appreciated. I think you've done a lot of hard work to find savings in the budget and at the same time I do want to point out that there are a lot of investments in that budget and curriculum implementation um direct classroom supports and bringing some contracted positions back into the district. Um so I just want to point out um how some of these resources are being deployed I think over the next uh fiscal year. Um, I also think that there's some important steps being taken uh to plan for the future while mitigating uh as much as possible the impact on the taxpayer. So, I do think that the administration has put a lot of work into
083trying to come up with a balanced approach that again makes appropriate investments in in education and really try to uh mitigate to the extent possible the impact on the taxpayer. We all know and we've talked about some of the unique challenges um in this district uh with our tax base so dependent on uh a residential tax base that is very unique uh across the Commonwealth. So it's important to try to do all we can to mitigate that impact. I also want to make a a few quick comments about the capital plan and importantly talk about what we're voting on today, what it is and what it isn't. Um the c the capital plan is really just a roadmap uh for the district and that roadmap is really focused on two factors. It's sequencing and it's
084a broad sense of the scope of what projects are important to take on over the next 10 years. And that scope is really what we know today as of June 2025. What the critical needs are that we project over the next 10 years. And it's really important to have this 10-year time horizon to do appropriate fiscal planning, but then also to make sure that we are addressing the needs of the district and not continuing to defer them uh far into the future. But I do want to point out the capital plan. Each and every project that is in there would still go through an intense design process and at that moment a careful assessment of the scope, what's needed based on all the information available at the time. The plan itself will need to be
085continually updated as new information becomes available. So, for example, construction costs uh are likely to change, borrowing costs are likely to change. We just updated our enrollment projections, but not to continue to do that um every few years. And so, it's important to recognize that a capital plan is really a living breathing document that we continue to update over time. We don't, you know, authorize something today and assume that everything in there is exactly as what we do over this 10-year time horizon. So, um, what we're voting on tonight is not to greenlight any particular uh, project at this time. It's really to authorize the administration to take the initial steps with the first project, which I think we all agreed is a huge priority, which is the high school. um so that the administration
086can begin to solicit proposals from project management firms um to support that project. But again, there's no decision being made here today about the exact scope of of what we will do at the high school, the design of what we will ultimately undertake. Uh it's also important to note that the administration will work with that project management team to take what I think is a lot of information that has been discussed in our facilities committee meetings and our finance committee meetings to turn what is currently some PowerPoint presentations that reflect our capital plan into a uh concise document um to be made available easily understood by the public that again we can continually update. And so I do want to point out for the public that on the WSSD homepage there is a button at
087the top for capital plan. So if you're ever looking for a lot of the documents that are being discussed that is the place to find them. All the presentations uh are in there. So um you know this is this capital plan is long overdue. It's been a it was a priority that was outlined in the strategic planning process. Uh when I think some of us first joined the board quite some time ago, there was a lot of year-to-year decision- making being made about capital projects that was more based on urgency u rather than trying to project far in the future and doing appropriate planning. And so um this is long overdue and I'm happy to see it come through. Thank you. Since it's still on, I might as well I I um Dr. Grande, I
088really want to thank you for your ship us um to this point as you um not many years ago. I think at this point um we were in that position. Um it was something that we talked about then roadap of tal and your support of finance um mostly support level what it is and what it not but forward without having a guiding document like that. Um, I would like I wanted as to why I'm support um they're hiring and so um clarify the two nurses the two nurses and middle schoolers Those are conditions we have but have contracted out and we are right under so that is pretty much um in terms of the remaining one that we have we have two sixth grade teachers um I have a Dr. M told us that's the
089only part at the kind of thing that's his current sixth rate class the largest ever um so there's two new sixth grade teachers there's a sixth grade teacher at west there's a science teacher at the high school there are two teachers and there's a middle school those are people that have direct touches on our kids uh that I guess would be a better phrase, but uh you know that I um the only three positions that don't have direct coordinator and then of course the support and the support and we are local for those two. So I personally thank you down so much. Yeah, I I was going to say the same sort of a you know just sort of address these new positions. Um because I think you know some of what was stated may
090be a bit misleading. You know there's been a lot of discussion about these positions. Um I actually think moving from external to internal will be at a cost savings for the district. I mean I don't know that it's a wash off. I think sometimes saves us money to bring um uh you know agreed about the procurement coordinator. I would also say as well you know we've got three positions here to support our teachers. we're going to be implementing u a brand new curriculum K to 5 um and I think it's very important that we support our teachers through that um and that is something that um you know not every year do you walk upon a kid to advise curriculum so um I just wanted to say that I also wanted to clarify that approving
091this capital plan does not would not this does not preclude us addressing the current maintenance and I think you mentioned that Dr. Brown that you know that is still very much a focus of you know this board and our district. So I wanted to clarify that as well. And then lastly I wanted to thank the individuals who donated. There were two donations and and then just Patrick congrats on your Eagle Scout work you know becoming an Eagle Scout. So that's it for so uh Mosley thanks very much for the presentation. you're a kind of a just the facts presenter which I appreciate but I want to put a little context on that and give you some accolade on that. uh in my now second this will now be my second budget that I passed as
092a uh member of this board and I've had the luxury to be able to give a tax increase below the act one index and that's because of the financial controls that you put into place multi-year contract budgeting the expense codes while boring uh are extraordinarily important for you to create baseline budgets that allow you to not only have some budgetary control but have reallocation. And one of the things that I pointed out in the facilities and finance committee meeting, one of the number one drivers of any organization was people. And if you look back at the charts, we have about a $4.5 million increase in salary and benefits over the course of next year's budget. But the total budget only goes up by $2.9 million. Um so the number one driver isn't even the total
093amount that the budget goes up because of the financial controls and the reallocation and we've talked about the physicians being thoughtful about that being thoughtful about the procurement coordinator and again with the capital plan I encourage people to watch the facilities and finance committee meetings it did not come out of nowhere it's been two years of discussion um and like like I said there as well people could be so careful that they do nothing and with no uh action forward that would be what we would be in danger of. So by putting it in a road map and allowing Dr. Johnson to work with his team to move us forward in a capital planning prudent way can't wait to vote yes. Thank you Mr. Miller Smith. All right. Um I just wanted to to echo
094uh Mr. Ble I want to thank our Eagle Scout uh local Eagle Scout who's donating the project doing the project middle school that's great for him. Uh also uh I want to thank the NPTO who is donating a significant amount of money for sunsh all that work. So thank you for that. Also thank you to uh Dr. Granny for for kind of laying out what what we've been doing and kind of making it very clear and easy to understand what a C capital plan is and is not. I wholeheartedly support it. Like Mr. Miller said, we have been talking about this for a very long time. Been a lot of thoughtful work in there. It's long overdue. We have a project timeline uh in there that everyone can see uh and allows us voting for
095it allows us to keep moving forward planning the future so that we don't get stagnant. So I will happy to support I'm also happy to support uh our hires because I think our students should support our students which is the end of the day what we're here for. So is there any further discussion on all righty um Missing you please take a walk I Dr. Grande I Mr. Miller. Hi, Mr. Wman. Hi, Mr. Woodette. Hi, Mrs. Williams. Hi, Mrs. Smith. Hi, Mr. Henry. Hi. Motion passes 8 to zero. Thank you. Moving on to other, we have one item for action under other which is the 2025 2026 Delaware County Technical Schools budget as uh attached. Uh do I have a motion to approve letter A under it? Thank you. I have a second. Second, Walkman.
096Thank you. Um discussion. Okay. Seeing none, uh Miss Mosley, would you please take a roll call vote? Mrs. Dole, I. Dr. Grande, hi. Mr. Miller, hi. Mrs. Wattman, hi. Mrs. Woodet, hi. Mrs. Williams, I Mr. C Smith, I Mr. Henry, I. Motion passes 8 to zero. Thank you. Uh now moving on to audience recognition on items not on the agenda tonight. Uh again I won't go through it again. Please state your name, street you live in in our district and remember to stick to a threem minute time. Is there anybody here would like to speak to items not? Please sir, hello members of the board. So Johnson, welcome by the way and general public. Um I'm Dean Dennis Emerald Lane Media Ta. Uh, I'm back again, of course. And where else would I be at
097this school year's end? At the, uh, last board meeting of the school year. Um, for a recap for people who may not know why I'm here, about five months ago, Alex, fourth grader, um, at the school, was um, assaulted by a school district employee, a bus aid. Um, was basically column, forcibly uh, pushed to another seat. Um he came home frightened, concerned and asked, "Is this right?" I told him that I would address it. I informed Paul. Paul was informed. Um Slo was informed. The uh director of transportation, Babbot, um and Scalin, they're all informed. Initially met with denial, uh and then met with it would be handled internally. Pretty much just move along, nothing to worry about. but no accountability and no apology. So I presented myself to the board multiple times making multiple
098intreaties to address this but everything has gone on deaf ears. So yes of course I'm back I'm back again to address the issue hopefully asking wanting the board to make things right. I'm here on Alex's behalf and his dignity. I'm seeking from the board an apology on behalf of the perpetrator of this assault and the perpetuators of this nonsense. This is just wrong. This needs to take place. He needs we all need this accountability and this apology to move forward. focus on things that are more important. But this restoration is key is key to the integrity of the system, of the school board, of the school district. It's important to continue to have faith in how the system and process works. And thirdly, it's important for his dignity. So, I come before the board tonight
099seeking an apology and accountability to resolve this matter once for all to move on. And that's all I want. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Okay, moving on to Is there anybody else here that Sure. Okay, moving on to old businesses. Any new business? Nope. Okay. Uh just before we end, uh I just wanted to uh a couple comments just ended the school year and I wanted to thank uh the district staff and the teachers um and the classroom aids, the bus drivers, the safety security aids, nurses, sport staff, food service staff, maintenance custodial staff, the principles, vice principles, and all the administrators, many of whom are sitting over there off camera. Uh and hope I didn't leave anybody out, for all your hard work and support of our students this year. Uh I want to
100personally thank Dr. Scandlin uh for helping us make this last school year so successful. I also want to welcome again Dr. Justin. We're thrilled to have him. Um I also want to thank all the community members, some who were here and left, but some are once here. So that's great. But all the community members and parents and caregivers uh who came to all of our meetings throughout the year. Um we have a lot of people we see a lot and then we have people we see occasionally. We have a lot of people coming to discuss uh the cell phone policy throughout the year and I really appreciate all of their participation. It is invaluable. Uh we need as much participation from our community members and caregivers as possible. And finally, I want to thank uh
101my fellow board members that are all sitting here for your excellent work and countless hours uh spending meetings and executive sessions and committee uh meetings and responding to emails and and talking to constituents and answering phone calls and even more meetings. Uh but this job is very rewarding. It is, but it can be demanding. Uh but you really uh stepped up this year worked we worked as a as a team. I was proud to be part of it uh when we worked hiring a new superintendent was a really uh inspiring uh work that you did. Uh you worked as a team and never lost sight of what is most important with our students and I say this every year at the end of this school year. It is an honor to sit with this team.
102So everyone have a fun summer, have a safe summer and I'll see you back here in August meeting.