001Executive session. Second. All those in favor? Thank you. Okay. Madam Chair, I'd like to make a motion to amend the agenda to include a taxable bond to modify item 10B. It should be it should read 2025 2026 Skaggo GO bond taxable bond and tan resolutions. Second motion. Okay. All those in favor. So we'll be amending is 11 actually 11. Yes. It is 11 11 B. That's correct. Yeah. 10. All right. All right. So, all those in favor of the agenda, approve the agenda. All those in favor? I amendment. Okay. with the amend with 11 B being amended. Okay. All [Music] right. Now, we have one public comment and I need to read the board chair statement first. The public participation section of the schoolboard meeting is designed to hear comments from the public, but is
002limited to 30 minutes so that normal business can be conducted. During this portion of the meeting, board members will listen to concerns and comments, but will not answer questions or debate issues. Each participant will be limited to five minutes and will refrain from making personal complaints about school personnel or board members. Tonight we have Stacy West that would like to talk to us about discrimination on certain students. Miss West. Yes. I'm here on behalf um of my granddaughter. um she has special needs and she's been currently enrolled in Ruby School. We have reached out to the school district multiple times. No one has yet to reach back. Um the school goes to the fifth grade, but yet the district decided it's best to move her from going to the third grade to move her to
003a different school that she's not familiar with. We don't feel comfortable. We do not feel safe with the other school. We'd like to keep her at root and I understand that like everybody's busy and all this and that, but somebody in here could have took the time though to reach back to the parents or to the grandparents. Nobody. We made multiple trips to the district and come down here. Also, we've also called, we left messages and everything else and no one has called back. There's a lot of funding going on. Y'all get y'all get paid good. But why not? If it was your child, you'd want what's best for your child. Thank you. We'll have someone direct. What's the child name? Check on them. What's the child name? What's the child's name? Marty. Last name
004Carol. Carol. Will you check on that? Thank you. We'll have someone check on that. All right. Now, we'll have a moment of silence and then we'll do our pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Music] Thank you. I'd just like to welcome our SRO Jordan, Jacqueline with the link, administrators, principles that are here now that schools out and area citizens board members, you've been given the minutes from May 12th, 14th, and 16th prior to the meeting. If I hear no objections, they will be approved by consent. And now we have a special recognition and Miss Blackwell from the Mackie area will do the recognize the Mackie baseball team. We'll come
005with you, Miss Blackwell. I'm going to shift this so I can talk to everybody. All right. Good evening, everybody. Um, my name's Kaylee, like Miss Burch said. Um, welcome to the school board tonight. If I could have, um, Josh Tiller come up with me. I think he's got some words he's going to say first. Um, and Miss Young, if you'll come with us, too. Just some background on Coach Josh real quick while he's making his way. He is our 1A coach of the year um, for us this year. So, and he's only been with us for three years. So, he's been our coach for three years now and he's already got a state title under his name. So, we're appreciative of that and all your hard work. And I think Miss Young is two years
006and this is her first state as a principal. So, looking good for the future here. Um, I'm going to turn over to Josh. He's going to introduce the the kids and then I'll follow back up after. Um, good evening ladies and gentlemen of the board. Um, thank you for the invitation and the recognition uh that you given us tonight. It's truly an honor for us to be here. Um, I'm going to give a little brief recap of our season uh and a little bit about of our program. Um, we finished the season with a 28 and six record. Um, including regular season wins against teams in every classification. We had seven wins against 2A schools, one win against a 3A school, uh one win against a 4A school, and one against a 5A school. Um
007finished our playoff run with a 9 and2 record. Um during our playoff run, we had six wins against teams that ended up being ranked in the top five in the state of uh class A. Uh we had three players recognized as players of the year. Um, senior Aiden Hughes was named class 1A co-player of the year by Diamond Prospects. Junior Hayden Griggs was named class 1A pitcher of the year by Diamond Prospects. Senior Landon Tedar was named region 2 co-play of the year by the South Carolina Baseball Coaches Association. Uh, we're really proud of those guys. Uh, we graduated six seniors who will be greatly missed for their leadership on and off the field. Um, at these time at this time I'll call them up by name and soon as you get your name y'all
008come up. Uh, the seniors will be Aiden Hughes, Landon Tedar, Cohen Reed, Colton Wallace, Evan Norris, and Tyreek Wright. Remaining players are Hayden Griggs, JJ Melton, Hunter Griggs, Campbell Bird, Manning Tolson, Chris Stone, Payton Brigman, Cooper Rollins, Lucas King, Hara McLuren, Skyler Freeman, Cam Stone, and Zayn Borg. Our coaching staff this year um included Jason RH, Taylor Kton, Jordan Mendoza, JL Sha, and Matt Izzy. Uh one of the biggest things that I'm proud of with our coaching staff, five members of our coaching staff are former alumni and baseball players at Mackie High School. Those five of us played ball there and they graduated from Mackie. So, we're super proud of that. Um, the last thing I want to touch on is the amount of support we received from our community um, and our alumni program.
009Financially, we couldn't make it if it weren't for those two groups. Um, community members, local businesses, and the support from our alumni really go a long way with us. Um, and that's on top of our fan base being one of the best fan bases in the state. So, thank y'all. [Applause] Um, thank you, Coach Josh. Just to echo off of him, we are extremely proud to be an alumni to introduce you today. I was honored to be able to do that for you all. Um, thank you to the parents, the fans, the town of Mack, the concession stand workers, and anybody else I missed on your support for these boys. And on behalf of the Chesville County School Board, we appreciate all you did. And we congratulations you again. I hope to be here next
010year doing it one more time. Thank you'all. Coach, where are the three players? You call that three play? Only one of them is here. Okay, that's all right. after saying yeah he he was named a co yeah congratulations young man very proud of y'all guys next year we'll see you again right put that kind of pressure on if y'all want to go home you're more than welcome to go home you can leave now if you'd like or you can stay matter [Laughter] [Applause] Congratulations. All righty. Mr. Casy, financial report. [Music] Madam Chair, Dr. Hail, members of the board. Good evening. Good evening. I try to not take offense the fact everybody always wants to leave right before I Well, prior to this evening, you all received a copy of the financial review for the month
011of April. Any questions on that review? Any questions? No. All right. Uh this evening we present for your consideration re resolutions for our annual SKGO general obligation bonds tax anticipation note and a taxable bond that will be used to pay premiums on our taxable 2015 AIPRB bond. Uh Mr. Bob Damron from our financial adviser Compass Municipal is here this evening to go through some of the details on those bonds and field any questions that you might have. And also avail available for questions is our bond attorney, Miss Franny with Ber for Thank you, Kevin. It's good to be with you all tonight. Uh we have three issues in front of you that are very similar to what you pass every year. Uh the tax anticipation note is simply a cash flow tool that allows to
012make sure that uh there's adequate funds in the district to pay before the taxes start coming in. And you know the taxes don't start coming in until November, December, January, February. And sometime and the light bills and the teachers won't be paid before that happens. So you have a cash flow tool such as a TAND that just gives you a little extra cash. It's paid off by March the 1 of each year or as soon as those taxes come in. uh and just gives some assurance to the district and to the client staff uh that there will be adequate dollars there to make sure that the operation of the school district continue on uh without any blips or anything that happens and occasionally you don't need these at all but uh it does happen from
013time to time taxes come in a little bit slower maybe the tax bills didn't get out quite as fast as they should or that sometimes the state is a little slow in their reimbursement so a tan provides that uh flexibility for the district and security for the district. Uh there's two bond issues that are on the agenda tonight. One is the annual SKGO general obligation bond. Uh this is t sold on a tax exempt basis. Uh and it is uh publicly bid. Uh that is used to help make payments on uh one of your installment purchase revenue bonds that you've uh had on the books for years. Uh, and then the balance of it is in new capital money that's available to the school district each year to operate and provide various capital needs that
014you have, many of which were approved in the referendum for the sales tax referendum last year. Uh, we will size that bond exactly so that it doesn't inc uh increase taxes in any shape, form or fashion. We maintain a budget reserve, a balance reserve in the debt service fund that the treasurer holds to make sure that happens. So there will be no tax increase in regard to either of these two bond issues that if you adopt them tonight, um we think that it will be approximately 7.4 million of net new capital money that's being generated from the sales tax uh that's coming in, but we'll finalize that number after the county sends us the numbers as of 6:30 for the collections for the year. And so we look at all those numbers, work with Kevin
015and and his staff to make sure that again they're sized properly so that there's no increase in the taxes. So a lot of that money is already collected. You can't get to it unless you actually issue the debt. So this is your way of being able to issue the bonds and have access to that 7.4. If for some reason the collections are greater than what we anticipated that they would be, then there may be a little bit extra money available above the 7.4. So there's a not to exceed number in the resolution that allows us go up to that number. But again, uh with our assurance is that we work with the county to make sure there's no tax increase. The other uh taxable bond is a payment on the original installment purchase revenue bond
016that was issued probably for 2006. Uh it was a this portion was taxable in nature. So to make the payment on that bond uh we have to go ahead and issue it as a taxable bond. It'll be issued uh with your approval in June and it'll be paid off in March. So the actual time you're paying interest is very very very small amount. Uh but it is a way of making the payments on that. It's kind of part of what you all have been doing for a number of years. Uh so there's not really any new items other than the dollar figures are a little bit different than normal. I'll be glad to answer any questions that you might have. Any questions? You can explain the legal document. Good evening. It's always great to be
017with y'all. I think coming in. He said, "Oh, y'all are here." I said, "Yes, that time of year means summer is here. We get to come visit with y'all." Um, as both Kevin and Bob mentioned, you've got three resolutions uh for your consideration tonight. They are substantially identical to the resolutions you've seen in each of the last several years. And I'd be glad to answer any questions y'all might have questions, folks. All right. Thank y'all. Thank you. All right. Thank you'all both for that information. So, uh, now I get we will recommend for approval each one of those three resolutions. Okay. I entertain a motion to approve the 2526 GO bond. So, move 10 resolution. We do it all at one time. You want to do all three of them at one time. Is that
018good with you? That's fine. And the 8%. Is that right? Yeah. I move. Okay. Second. Second. All those in favor? Okay. All right. All right. Uh, also this evening, we're going to recommend for your approval the 2526 general fund budget. This will constitute the second reading of the budget. I need a motion to approve the budget. So, I'm I'm gonna run through just a few. Thank you. Uh we did have I mentioned this at our last reading the changes to proviso 1.3 that's our state 80 classrooms proviso. Uh there was a proposal in place to change the charter school virtual student waitings from 65 to.35 which would have generated about an $18 million swing between charter school revenue and traditional revenue. Uh there was a compromise made during conference committee that actually took that to
0190.5 rather than down all the way to 0.35. So, we're going to get less than that. We haven't gotten the exact uh the exact projections yet what that's going to generate. Uh but it's going to I'm assuming it's going to be in in the neighborhood of about $100,000 when you add in a couple other fluctuations between the last meeting and this meeting to those projections. Uh it did keep the language in there that requires that in-depth analysis of the funding formula during this fall. Uh we actually have received a fiscal impact request from uh Mr. Frank Rainwater uh who's who's in charge of all those fiscal impacts for the for the legislature. So we're optimistic that we're going to see some some movement in that area and we can actually make some some substantive changes
020and and fix some of that inequitability this year. Uh this slide you've seen several times. These are just the new mandated expenditures for this year pushed down from the state. We have the increase to the teacher salary schedules. That's a $1,500 increase across the board, plus our annual step for teachers, 4.6% increase to employer health costs, and then that 2% increase to the state minimum bus salary schedules. We also are looking at pay increases for nine non-teers. There' be a step increase for all employees. And then this is the only thing in here that I believe is different from the last presentation. This cost of living adjustment which is 1% is now going to include all non-teer schedules which does include administration. Last the last presentation that was excluding administration and that that's that's a
021change of about $50,000 to the general fund. We had the $25,000 increase to the art program that was that was in there uh last time and then that's just that same incre 4.6% increase in employer health costs. So as we look at the revenue increases uh this is based on our final projections this is out of conference committee that state lump sum proviso 1.3 that's up to 1.636 636. Our tier three hold harmless stayed the same at 4 point or $462,000. That same increase in county tax projection at $750,000. We had those other state increases uh of about 407790 and then that millage increase of three mills for $294,000 bringing our total bound our budgeted general fund revenue to 78,219,85. the expenditure budget. Like I said, this is uh very very similar to the last
022time you guys saw it. Uh that same uh same numbers. The only thing that has changed there is that 1% cost of living increase including the administration went from 100,000 to 150,000 which brings our uh total proposed expenditure budget to 78,752,776. our fund balance usage has decreased uh based on that increase in revenue. So we are now looking at a fund balance usage to balance the budget of $533,691. And as we look at that over time, that brings our estimated general fund balance at June 30th of next year, so the end of next year to $9,785,477. Question two. Yes, sir. uh the the $533,000 uh that does not include the original position that you asked for at the beginning, does it? No, sir. Are you talking about from the work session? Yeah. So, what three?
023It was three of them. So, we had the the bus monitors, the behavioral specialists, and the additional school psychologist. free. So that's nothing is included into that. No, sir. Uh all right. Now, let me ask you this. Um because I'm I'm somewhat concerned about the bus monitor, sir. Um and I know that originally you all asked for 40 and I I I didn't think that was going to to really go through, but but um I'm just wondering if we have a reduced number um maybe a hyphal um that we can get started with bus monitors to put on there for those bus drivers, especially those those uh routes that we are having issues with. Um what will a hyper mill what kind of money we talking about with a hyper mill on a $100,000 house?
024On a $100,000 house, uh half a mill is going to look like about $3 for the year. And that's that's only if you own it. That's only if you do not live in the house. If it's an owner occupied house for $100,000, you're not going to pay anything in school operational tax. So that's $3. Yes, sir. So a $100,000 house and a $20,000 car cost me what? $100,000 house. So if you have uh let's just say h you're saying half a mill. Yeah. Uh for $100,000 house, if you don't live in that house, if it's not your your primary residence, that'd be $3. And a $20,000 car be about 60 for the year. So $3.60. How much will a hyper How many How many monitors will a hyper male get us? A half mill would
025probably get you somewhere in the neighborhood of seven to eight. Seven to eight monitors. Seven to eight. All right. what what what I'm what I'm pushing towards or what I'm leaning toward. I do know that in the Pasel and Jefferson area uh that we well first of all we have monitors on all of our special education buses and I do know in the Pasel and Jefferson area that they have a couple of substitute monitors in case some of those main monitors can't get there and they use those substitute monitors sometime on some of those trouble routes uh whenever they have a problem there. And if we get seven or eight monitors and kind of spread them out over the county and let the transportation folks make that decision as to what what route they need
026to be on, that can kind of help us, especially by next year, to come back and give us a report to let us know how things are working. Uh um and and and so we got to move forward because we're having some major issues. Since our last board meeting, uh, I got a call, um, that in our area, they was actually playing football on the bus route, you know, throwing the football while while children um uh uh on the bus and and playing football on the bus. Now, that's a big distraction to the uh to the bus driver. And I don't want this school district to run into the same situation that we had with special education not having monitors on there and we have a bus accident and be in for a suit or
027something. I I just don't want that to happen because it had happened before uh with our special education uh issue. So all of my questions and all of my comments is leading towards asking this board to consider at least a hyph to towards next year budget so that we can uh at least have a few monitors out there and we can get a report back the following year as to how it is doing. Just that's my suggestion and that's my comment. So, do you know how many I mean zero tolerance is on the bus as well as the classroom or in any school. Do they bus drivers take these children off or write them up or I think I'll have to defer that question to Dr. King. I think might be able to answer that
028question better. Um and it actually behavior happens. So depending on where they are, depending on how many days they're off the bus, in some cases riding the bus is a privilege and all the buses have video cameras. Correct. So technically they are monitored or could be we could review film as a district to administer additional punishments. Correct. That is reactive versus I understand. But at the same time with a monitors, if they're sitting up front and something happens in the back, they're going to be reactive too to an event. So they're not really going to stop it and because it's already started. I I would surely hope that we don't get a bus monitor and put him on the front row. Yeah. But he need to really be in the back where he can see
029the whole thing. Yeah. And then the other thing is with the cameras that have been brought to our attention is that um whenever they go down some of these roads that's a little tough and bumpy that camera bounce around and in fact I've heard doors pop open. I mean the little camera door pop open and you can help me out if y'all have heard the same thing. But sometime when they look at those cameras they don't do nothing but see the top of the bus because of how how it's moving around in that box. Uh so I had asked that we have somebody from the transportation department here to kind of give us an update but the little information that I can find out is that uh we really need monitors on this bus. I'm
030not hearing this just from new bus drivers. I'm hearing this from seasonal bus drivers that have been driving for a while. Would would that monitor have the ability to to write them up? I mean, as far as disciplinary, would it have to still come through the bus, the actual driver? Thank you. How many in light of that, Madam Chair? How many we talking about getting all bus monitors like across the board? No monitors at all. No, we still we have monitors now on special ed buses, but how many hours a week are we talking about? these bus monitors would work. It' be what? Whatever our average you have an average 2 hours a day to three hours a day. Is that morning and afternoon? Yes, ma'am. How long are they on the bus in the
031morning? They kind of vary. two hours. Some of them are because I'm just wondering if they would get into the point where we'd have to pay benefits for them. I I'll interject there. I would I would say that the the majority of those that would end up becoming monitors and those that are monitored right now are those that are dy employed similar to our bus drivers right now. So they they're they're employed in our schools, teachers, aids, whatever, cafeteria. So we most of them are already getting benefits as it stands right now. Are we having Mr. Brown? Are we having issues with the cameras bouncing up and down? I know our roads in county pretty rough. We have a we have an issue. If we have to, we can use capital fun that they need
032fixing. So, Madam Chairman, I I I move that um we uh add a hyphen meal uh for bus monitors, let the transportation department figure out where they are most needed along with this budget, and accept this fund balance uh budget as it is with a half a mill increase. If I can get a sec. So, is that three and a half mills? That would be three and a half. Wait a minute. That'll be what now? You got three already in there. There's You already got three in there. You got your three meals already in there. Yes, that's three mill. That would be three and a half. Yes, sir. I just asked I just asked that question. Uh I thought that three meals cover the psychologist and the behavioral scientist. No, no, no. Those those were
033those were additional expenditure pieces, but the three mills have have remained in their entire Okay. The expenditures will take care. So that would take care of that. The three mills would No, the three mill won't take care of the bus. The three mills the three mills uh are built into the numbers that you're looking at right now with that $533,000 fund balance usage. If we added that additional expenditure of the bus monitors, that would increase that that usage unless we added additional half a mill of revenue which would net it out to that same number. And what number would you if we throw out eight bus monitors? What what number is that going to look like? You said less than 50,000. Is that correct? Yes. It it would be approximately half a mill. What we're
034looking at a mill is about approximately $98,000 in revenue. So call it 100. That's going to be approximately 50 uh approximately $50,000 that we would add on the expenditure and the revenue side. So that would net zero. Okay. We had a um motion and a second. Ain't a good question. For the past few years, this budget comes before us and whether it's a meal or not, we're having to go back to the fund balance to balance it correctly. My my concern is this. I mean, I understand no nobody really wants to see a tax increase, but I'm looking at each year that we are looking at this year is it's over half a million with a proposed 3 mill increase. In the previous years when we didn't even do a mill increase, we were still
035looking at somewhere about 900,000 almost a million to balance. my my concerns and and this is uh I was at a meeting last week and a school district is upside down at 6.7 million just to balance the budget because they neglected the fact of looking at you know and when you don't have a fund balance to even balance a budget. We're headed down that same path and and every year we're we're looking at balancing this budget by going back and our fund balance is healthy right now to some degree, but the path we're on right now, we can't keep we can't keep doing it. Are you confident that those numbers that are coming off this year, is that pretty close? I mean, we're going we're we're looking at that fund balance usage for 2425. as
036it looks right now, our our tax revenue looks like it may be up a little bit. Uh it's going to be after the end of June before we'll be able to really tie that number down. When you're looking at I know that 1.7 1.689 million seems like a big number on on this page, but when you're looking at it in the the gr the scheme of an entire 80 millionish dollar budget, you know, we're talking about, you know, less than 2%. So, we really have to get to the end of that year to know exactly where we'd fall within that number. uh it but last year we like like we said we lost or I said we used about half a million dollars of fund balance and with no substantive changes to the revenue and
037the expenditures other than the increases that the state mandated last year it's looking like it's going to be at least that but to play devil's advocate what you just said if we look at it as a percentage against what our actual fund balance is that's a a large number it is oh yes to I would say if we covered that with millage this year we'd have to go up about six mills. Which number now? The 53 533. Yes, that would be a six additional. So that would be nine. And with the new formula next year with the um charter schools, how much is that going to cut us? Well, the new formula, it's been in place since 2022 2023 school year. Um, and it's it's becoming worse as as time goes on. Just that's just
038the math of the formula and the inequity that's built into it. Uh, so there is honestly not a way in the world that anybody could stand up here and tell you exactly what's going to happen next year. It's going to depend on a a number of factors, including the total revenue that the state's going to hand out. The larger that is, the more bandaid it puts on the situation. This year it just happened to get really bad because the revenue has been so low versus prior years that this formula has been in place and it's been six years since we raised millage. 2019 was the last time. So we need to consider that too. My my thinking is is the state keeps saying y'all take care of this. We going we going to raise this
039and we going to give you less. I mean it becomes a point that we have to make a decision on what do we do uh each time we bring a budget. I mean I' I've seen this budget go from 40 something million to almost 80 million and of course we have minimized millage very well. But when we start getting to the point of we've got to uh sacrifice safety and I see the busers as as a as a safety precaution. When we start cutting safety for the sake of trying to balance budget, I think we really need to think about those decisions real hard. We've been through this before with millillage, right? We had when the state cut us so bad, we had to raise millage several years ago. You're right. But we've had a
040good run of not and we're going to have to this this particular situation is is less it's less about the state cutting anything and less about the charter school issue. Although that is a huge issue. The issue that is presenting us as this new funding formula that in the way it's designed funds school districts at a percentage of what it's actually going to cost to implement these statemandated changes. if they say, "Hey, we we think this is going to cost a million dollars for you to implement. We're going to give you 80 or 80% of that. We're gonna give you $800,000." So, it's like if the state is telling us, hey, you are going to have to come up with this other $200,000 somehow. And that's that's just the system that they've put in place
041at this point. And when they've uh increased teacher salaries as much as they have over the last several years, nearly $10,000, and that makes up 80 something% of our budget, that that budget climbs fast. Absolutely. I would like golf, please. Including the meal and a half added to that. Okay. The bus monitors plus how many bus monitors did we That would that would a half a mill worth of bus monitors would be somewhere between seven and eight. What was that now? A if we added the half a mill as Mr. Sweeney asked for about the bus monitors that would fund approximately seven to eight bus monitors. We could throw seven on there for conservatives. Let's go with seven and see how that works. If it's becomes effective because it depends on who you put on
042the bus how effective it's going to be. Okay. And in that motion, was that another half a mill? So, it's three and a half mills. Yeah, that's what we said. That's what I'm to cover that. That's That's my motion. Okay. And we had a second from Second, Dr. Coleman. All those in favor say I. I. All those nay. Nay. Okay, that's three Naz, four. Okay, there and we don't have Dr. Chapman here. So, that's um how many how many eyes did we get? Because four four we got one. So, we we got a tie. Yep. It fail. You want to try another motion? I make a motion without a tax increase. I don't care. Do I have a second? A second. All those in favor? I got to ask for a show of hand. Madam
043G, that's for just want to make you aware the wheel could run off again next year and we'll have to dip further into the fund balance. Okay. So that motion fail to pass. It failed. It been four to four. Same thing. So we don't have a budget. We don't have a budget. So you So can we move? You can try again. Tomorrow. Can we move this to tomorrow and put it on the agenda for tomorrow since we have these special meeting? I move agenda tomorrow. Well, we don't know. We might have another board member here. Typically, you're going to have to you're going to have to have 15 days notice posted on a newspaper. Oh, that's right. How would that take us to that June 30th date that we get this budget passed? That would
044take us past the June 30th date. That's what I was thought. And we know what that means. We have to have a special meeting. We can do it by zone. Okay. What if we were to make a let's I mean do that motion as it sits, add the bus monitors to it, and leave it at three mills and not three and a half. I just it doesn't make any physical sense to continue to kick this down the road and think that we're never going to increase taxes and we're going to be fine because you can look at the numbers on it. It's it's it just doesn't make sense. People don't want to talk about tax increases, but it so I'll make a motion that that we do a 3 mil increase and we uh add
045the bus monitors at what would be the equivalent of half a mill. So call it a 2 and a half mil and a half for a bus, however you want to call it, but a total of 3 mil increase. And we'll try it again. I second. So all right, discussion. So your motion is 2 and a half mil towards the budget and half of that meal will go towards the bus model. Yeah. And a half a mill to for a ton of three. Makes sense. Okay. Have a discussion on that. Mr. Casky about two months ago I asked you to itemize and did you get that itemized that 1.6 million this money went to? So the 1.6 6 million is it's it's not truly itemizable. Uh that 1.6 million is essentially just our difference between
046revenues and expenditures. So because it's a general fund number, uh that's everything from teachers in the classrooms, aids, supplies, purchase services, travel, everything that goes into that general fund. And you could truly assign that 1.68 million to any any $1.6 6 million of that 80 million and it would be accurate. There's nothing that is specifically identified based on that overage because there's the first dollar is no less important than the last dollar if that makes sense. So you knocked it down from 1.6 million you now you knocked it down to 800 and something I'm sorry now you passed in the 1.6 is not up there. So you asking now for the the drop it down from the 1.6. Is that right? The 1.6 was last year. Okay. That's used to bounce. Um okay. We had
04724 24 certified teachers. Uh just say we had 24 this year and that's going to be around 1.5 million. Where's that money? Where's that money from last year that went into this year? Where did that money go? I would like for you to answer that. I'm I'm I don't know that I'm following your question. Okay. We had uncertified. We had 24 certified teacher jobs that were vacant. Vacants. Yes, sir. Just say a average of $660,000. That's an average. Say 24. That would be almost $1.5 million. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Okay. Where did that money go when we last from the year before that it come back in? We're going to have that money to come back in this year. I I want to itemize where this taxpayers money is going and I want to
048itemize to see where this taxpayers money in Chesterfield County is going. Yes, sir. So, the when we're talking about vacancy savings like that, um the these positions are not totally vacant. These are positions that are being filled by a substitute. They're being filled by a contract teacher. Specifically, we have a lot of contract teachers in the district. And when you employ contract teachers, they're going to cost more than employing a regular teacher. So those vacancy savings get eaten up really, really quickly, specifically just filling the classrooms that are vacant. So it's not like we we're just we're not educating the kids that were in those classrooms. We have to provide some sort of service to them even though there is not a teacher hired for the district to be in that classroom. I understand that,
049but it's not a certified teacher's pay. So it would be lower. It It is a certified teacher. It's just not our certified teacher. These are these are contract teachers that don't work for Chester County School District. They work for a contracting company and they're actually charging more for that service because they're going out. They're finding they're they're identifying teachers and they're putting them in our classroom. I'd like to see where the uh where the money went. I'd like to see that itemized one come back in. That's what I'd like to see. Okay. And Mr. Casy, the tax and the millillage, I know you said it goes on the second home, cars, small businesses get hit with that as well pretty hard andor now a lot of big businesses get tax breaks via the county. They
050would be with a feed and loo agreement. Yeah, they would probably be exempt to this millage increase which anyone that had a fee and loo agreement would be bound to that agreement rather than property tax value property tax. So basically that small business owner is going to be the one catching the brunt of it. They may not have been those those small businesses are going to be assessed at 6% just like anybody who would own a uh on a house that is not something they live in in the county. uh any any non-owner occupied property or business real property 6% six and you have to have to get a fee you've got to have the threshold is 2.5 million so larger industries are going to have that plus the state is cutting taxes this year
051too personal taxes [Music] So you had a motion to accept the budget with two and a half meals, right? Correct. Two and a half meals and then doing the additional half mill to fund the uh bus monitor positions. So and we had a motion and a second. Second. Okay, we've had discussion. Any more discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those nay. Nay. We got a full four tile. Okay. Madame chairperson, if I'm in order, I u suggest that we give a 15-day notices and come back at a later date and make a decision on this on this motion when we can have full board. Mr. Casy, in 15 days, do you think you will have more information from the state? This is the this is largely the all the information that
052we'll have from the state. That's that's their final projection. This is this is it. This this is it. Um the the 15 days is not necessarily 15 days from today either. It's 15 days from whenever the newspaper can post in another another posting. So it would be uh this Thursday when we got it to the link and it would run in the following Wednesday's paper. So it'll be 15 days from the 15 days from the time it ran in the paper. Yes, sir. So if we put it I thought if we could put it on the internet and I mean on our social media uh radio and what have you that we could do it two weeks from today. I wish that was the case. That's not the case. The state regulation very clear that
053it must be a newspaper general circulation. It's a very old law. It needs to be changed but that is the law. Yeah. So that'd be the 27th, which is a Friday of Jan. So we're looking at 26th of the 27th. Do you count Thursday as a day, first day? I think there's some gray area there. So it could be the 26th. That would be day 15. Okay. This should be in the paper this Thursday. attitude. I mean the attitude is here now. It it would run it would run next next Wednesday. The usually that deadline is to get get them done by this week. Oh, okay. Can't stop the press, huh? So, you'd have to go 15 days from next Thursday or this next Wednesday. Next Wednesday the link is what we had posted in
054last time. The link runs on Wednesday. Oh wow. July 3rd. Has to be done. We can get every day. We could do a continuing resolution. Uh it's not something that we would typically recommend doing, but it is something that is possible. So that we could do a continuing resolution to put us after that day who have to come in and approve us to essentially operate for three days only. resolution budget. Sorry, current budget. We would operate on our current budget for those three days, but it is a a procedural thing that we would have to get done in the meantime, which would probably mean another board meeting. [Music] Okay. Motion. Motion to operate. Can Can I just say one? I got this. Go ahead. My sentiment is this right here and I I will repeat.
055Nobody on this board really wants to raise taxes and that's not what we really want to do. But I'm looking back if if we bring a budget to this chair or to this board each year, had we been doing like a one mill increase over the years, we wouldn't be in this situation. And so we find ourselves having to do what we talking about doing. It's like a real pinch for the lack of better words. I mean, you can't be naive. You got to you got to have a school budget. And the state has already said, you know, we we we're putting pressure on grassroots and and local government uh to determine when we mandate uh teacher uh step increases and salaries. I mean, we can say all day long what we don't want to
056do, but that's just the world we living in. And I I wish each one of y'all was at this I was at a board meeting in another county last week. They dismissed at 11 o'clock $6.7 million deficit in the budget. All because nobody want to talk about what we got to do. I concur. Nobody wants a tax increase with you a thousand%. Nobody does. But my question is with we've never really had the explosion that we're having in the western end either for a tax base coming in either that we kind of need to in my opinion sit back and let's look at it and see what it does generate for us. I don't think we can wait on that. Well, you know, you may be right. I mean, I get your point. That's a
057good point and that is great news. But the budget is poor and again I say you know this is something that you know it's it's tough for everybody. Uh but as simple as it may sound that's the reality we our meal isn't that large compared to other counties. We're 98,000 a mill. Darlington County is over 300 or around 300,000 per meal. Per meal. Yeah. So, it's $3 Mhm. increase on a $100,000 house. That's for half. Half of $6 on $100,000 on a nine on a rocky by now. On a nine on rock. Exactly. And and that would be a point that I would bring up as far as the growth in that Pageland area. The majority of that growth is owner occupied property that we're not collecting tax operational tax and it's going to be
05810 to 15 years before they're built out. Yes. Plus, they are not selling right now as quickly as the developers were hoping. [Music] I got one question. How many of those positions I keep going back to that are we funding all of those positions that we brought up that I mentioned? Yes, sir. That's included in this. Yes, sir. What are Tell everybody again what the bulk of those positions are holding. How many certified school teachers do we have in the ESRE position? Teachers in classrooms we we certified position none. We have we have no certified teachers in the classrooms in the ES positions. About half of them are in the IT department and they're related to the onetoone uh one to one initiative providing IT service support and then the other half are instructional uh
059interventions in our schools. So they go around they pull. How much money were we talking about there? Uh that would be approximately under a million dollar. It was under a million. I believe it was in the 800,000 range. I don't have the number right. We would still get taxes on those homes. Correct. We would get no operational taxes. No, not on four, not if they own the home that they live in. That 4% owner occupied tax bracket. We collect no no operational millage. We collect that service millage, but not operations. The only thing those new homes would offer then to us is is property tax on vehicles and whatever. Uh and then additional sales tax, but that that also can be used for operations. That's that's specifically for those specific to those projects that we
060approved earlier this year. If someone bought a home that they did not have taxed as their their residence, if it was a second home, then we would collect on that house. But most of them are going to apply for that 4% on rate person. I I say that we go ahead and schedule another meeting. I don't think we'll be going to change too many minds here. All right. So we'll schedule it in first part of July. We'll have to schedule some We'll have to schedule another meeting to pass a continuing resolution unless we want to do that tonight, which I don't I don't have a continuing resolution documentation prepared. Uh but that is something that we could potentially vote on. I wish uh Miss Franny was still here. She she may be able to answer
061that question for us. So, if we vote for a continued resolution tonight, that will give you the authority to go ahead and have that done and submit the paperwork so that we can operate until our next board meeting in July. I can't answer that question for 100%, but if that is the case, then that's what I'll do. If not, then we'll have we'll be have to do any. So, that I don't think taking the vote would be unadvisable. I'd just like to say that This year it's three mills. It's been six years since we've raised any millillage. Next year with what's going on, unless the legislature changes it, we may be looking at 10 mills next year. Yep. And like I say, it's been six years. If we had raised it two mills every year,
062it would we'd be 12 mills and we would ahead, but we're not. Sir, Madam Chairman, I move that we give the CFO authority to go ahead and do a continued resolution so that we can have another meeting uh pay uh so that we can address this budget. I have a second. Second. All those in favor? All those nay. Okay. Thank you. All right. Personnel. Dr. Hazard. This should be quicker, huh? Yes. All I need is a yes from every. All right. Dr. Hill, Madam Chair, members of the board, at this time I would like to recommend the following exhibits for your approval. A through G. Second. All those in favor? Good night. Madam Stubs, curriculum report. Good evening, Madame Chair, Dr. Hail, members of the board. Um, just wanted to highlight a couple of areas
063out of the curriculum report. Uh, the first is adult education. Uh, summer classes are being held right now during the month of June at Palata Learning Center and at Central High School. Uh, graduation for adult ed will be this week um, Thursday at six o'clock right here at Palmeta Learning Center. So, hope to see all of you here. Miss ask a question. Yes. So you had five people in adult ed. Is that two GEDs and three? Those were during the month of May. Okay. Yes. How many are in the class or have been in the class this semester? Maybe. I think I would I think the last I heard maybe about 15. I could be wrong. Um and I would I can get back to you about that. um CTE program um had our um
064completer uh um banquet for Central High School with 100 students um and also at Shal High School with 95. Um the other schools had their CTE um banquetss earlier in April. Um summer program got it off started off with a bang. Um uh the program started on the 28th and will continue through the rest of June. Um we got approximately a hundred students in the district um that are participating in the summer reading camp and those are our third graders and our our students as well. Let me ask you a question right now. We don't have a number yet of the third graders that need assistance that did not pass the test. We're not there yet. You don't have those results yet. Uh yes, we do. We have some preliminary results. Um I think it
065was about 40 that 40 students um that had to attend summer reading camp um based on the score with SC Ready. Um and then these students will get a second chance to take um I Ready, which is our formative assessment. And if they score 489, then they will not um be retained in third grade. 40 students through all of our third grades. Yes, that's pretty good. We we we were ecstatic and we were very very happy with our results. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Okay. We were very excited about that because they had changed the remember they had changed the criteria. Um and so um we were excited about that number. Well, that's that's a plug to our faculty and staff. Yes, they work very hard. Um the summer alpha um is going on now. It
066began last week and so that is at Chesterville Ruby Middle and then on Thursday as well. There will be a program um at noon and students will highlight um all of the activities that that that took place during those two weeks. So again, would love for y'all to come to that. Um, third grade teacher at Shaw Intermediate, U. Miss Mallalerie McKenzie was recognized as the Chesterfield County Rookie Teacher of the Year. Um, and then Miss Laura Love Lace was recognized as the teacher of the year. Um, she's a science teacher at at Mack High. Um, and then the retirement banquet was on Thursday, May 15th at the Falmeta Learning Center. um highlight from graduation, Chesfield County students were offered um in excess of $8 million in scholarships and awards. And so that is great news
067for our students. Um with our testing and accountability, we had an additional um 28 students that qualified for gifted and talented. And so those students will um be served next year in the fall. Um at the end of your packet, you can see the um um invitation for the adult ed graduation that I spoke about earlier. Are there any questions? Don't have any questions about your curriculum report and thank you for keeping us update updated during the school year. Uh but I do have one thing I'd like for you to look into. Okay. Uh and we talked about it earlier. Uh but the AB honor roll Mhm. where where students have to make all A's and all B's to be on honor road. So you got maybe three students that's I mean you got several
068students that make all B's but they don't honor roll and you got one that make three A's and one C and they don't get recognized uh and they have a high average really. So, I just like for us to review that. If it's if that's a state requirement, then we probably need to be talking to state educators uh who who makes that decision. Okay. A state official rather. But, uh that brought to my attention and I just wanted to for us to look into it. Okay. I'll get that information for you. Um and we did work to make sure that our um beta club or beta um qualifications were aligned districtwide. Um, so that was something we worked on this past year because it did differ from school to school. Um, but I will check
069on that as well for you. But thank you. Okay. Thanks. Do we have two courses? I'm sorry. Yes. I'm sorry. Um, yes. We're requesting local board approval for our um advanced placement composition um and language as well as sociology. Um, so move second. Do I have a second? All right. All those in favor? I. All right. Is that just said M be high? I read that. U What about the other high schools? Well, we can use it for the other high school. Right now, Mattby High School that they were the high school that requested those two schools. Um but I think once we get it approved, we can use it at the other high schools as well. Thank you. They were to need these courses. All right. Now I'm gonna turn it over to Dr.
070Hail for superintendent report. Thank you, Madam Chair. At this time, I'd like to call our chief of student services and administration, Dr. Maro King, up to present the second reading and request approval of the revised board policy ADF. Thank you, Dr. King. Yes, ma'am. Good evening, Dr. Hail, Madam Chair, and members of the board. Good evening, sir. At this time, I would like to present uh the revised board policy ADF pertaining to school wellness for the recommended second reading and approval of this policy is for the protection of staff and students and for compliance with the law. I entertain a motion. So move. All right. All those in favor? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And uh we have uh one holiday coming up Junth which is on June 19th. So that's all I have. Madam
071Chair, that's it. That's it. Okay. All right. We have a a special meeting tomorrow at the district office at 5:00. Don't forget about that. So our next one interviews um July when our next we'll have a special meeting third whatever is that 15 days or what can Stretch it to the second. The second's 15 days Tuesday. All right. July 2nd. All right. Then our next regular board meeting is August the 11th at Palmeta Learning Center at 5:30. And then the law conference is August 23rd 24th in Charleston. Anybody else needs to sign up? Is it too late? Miss Okay. All right. If there's nothing else, I need a motion. Second to adjourn. All those in favor?