001good evening miss heather to open it's tuesday heavenly father in you we know there is no darkness at all give us your eternal light and we cannot see the way before us may we continue to put our trust in you we ask the stephen that you renew our spirits fill us with your peace and love we love you and we need you this day and every day in this world are so many things are going on we know that you can speak a word and you can calm the radiancy we ask that you speak peace and hope in this land with the wars and rumors of lord lord we know we have to continue to put all our trust in you this evening we give you praise and thanks for you alone are worth and
002in jesus name we pray and in jesus name we count it all done amen is there a motion to adopt the proposed agenda [Music] there's still a motion to adopt the consent agenda approving minutes from february 15. board meeting properly motioned by mr ranch second by necessary in the discussion hearing on all those in favor let me know by saying those posts and that's your name i want to thank you to everyone for coming out one thing dependency white said and the community at large this time we have recognition and celebration thanks dr smith members of the board um it's a very fun time when you have a chance to recognize somebody in your community and tonight we have the opportunity to recognize a very special lady in kershaw county mrs iris christine mccaskill estridge
003and she's accompanied by her son tonight ed mrs estrich was born on february 1st 1922. so although i wasn't a math major i do believe that makes her just over 100 years old she started school at the age of five and she graduated from bethune high school at the age of 16 and it is my understanding she graduated as the valedictorian of her class mrs estrich went on to college she came back she returned to our fine community where she served in several different areas but she came back as a school teacher and again i was informed that she was a two-time teacher of the year for us and she has been a very dedicated member of our community her church recently recognized her and they shared the recognition with me and there is a
004poem that they read on her behalf that they state that describes her and i thought you know it would be very fitting to to read that poem to you all tonight so again bear with me the poem goes like this there is a woman who always keeps her head up high her eyes sparkle like a bright star in the sky she has the stamina beauty and courage that one would admire even the love and happiness oneness inspires she is a woman that one can always count on and a woman that sees no wrong her beauty shines from the inside out it flows like a journey down a long route her smile shines beautifully like the sun rising over the horizon and her intelligence wisdom and hard work are not surprising she is genuinely caring woman
005who goes the extra mile to help one in need or broken-hearted and throughout all of her hard work no one ever sees her fall apart so tonight we want to recognize you mrs estrich as the oldest living graduate of bethune high school today as a matter of fact we were able to adorn our legacy room with watercolor paintings of every school in our district to include schools that have clothes and i am very proud to say that one of our employees and a kershaw county product charlie king is here tonight he painted this picture that we want to present to you and so if you could make your way to the back of the room we have a small little token of our appreciation and respect for you captain okay and you are queen tonight
006[Music] the staff and they're tired except for someone's working today you know all right thank you next time on our channel [Music] alanna wright was under high school student book education censorship the guidelines for public forum is on the screen i will read the first paragraph and the fourth paragraph there's a five minute time limit public is an opportunity for members of the public to share information with the board it is not a time for debate with or questions and answers for the board from the board this time for the board to receive him for another time for the board to respond but the form is the time to discuss issues not individuals other avenues exist for individual personnel complaints that's great hello uh thank you so much for letting me speak i am a
007soccer um my name is alana gray i'm a sophomore at the lugoff elgin high school sorry i'm very nervous once when i was in third grade i'd come through so much of the grade recommended section uh in our library that i decided i booked in the middle school section there said a book that would today be still one of my favorite series called aragon uh the dragon on its cover immediately piques my interest and so i presented my my findings my librarian she looked at me looked at the book her computer then back at me and said now it was too violent for someone as soon as i was and so i wasn't able to check it out until my parents sent me back with a letter while i was annoyed at the time i'm
008actually grateful for that experience because aragon was never at risk of fully being pulled off the shelf just restricted until a parent signed off on it out of all the forms of censorship in the us book censorship is the most widespread organizations like the american library association pull books for violence language and political messages this pulling books for their ideas is dangerous for our history and the development of our children one example was the book brought here on february 1st of this year the book is called woke a collection of poetry made with the intention of inspiring thought and action against inequality you all discussed the impact this book may have on our school-aged children that the book might encourage them to be sad or disrespectful and while the concern is understandable each poem inspires
009questions with ideas that gives the reader different perspectives on the life that they may not have experienced feeling empathy in our younger students for those that have experienced these ideas it gives them a way to feel like they're not alone a poem on page 19 exemplifies this i understand you are not alone wolf presents ideas that are uncomfortable for some people gender immigration privilege and prejudice but should be talked about regardless because of their impact on our society they should be allowed to be discussed through literature in homes and in classes each of these topics are important to a children's comprehension of the world the board members who spoke in support of keeping this book in the library both made an important point that poetry literature is meant to provoke thought regardless of the reader's
010opinions this book is only one of many throughout the us that threatens because of the ideas that it expresses by doing this freedom of thought is being repressed the spread of ideas is being restricted and just like the way ideas are restricted in places like russia china and iran the diary of a young girl is one of the books questioned for it being too depressing for children to read and well yes her diary is full of the horrors and fears of hiding in nazi germany it's also an important part of world history that burns into the landmarks still breathing today the berlin wall the remnants of auschwitz the countless graves both marked and unmarked when books are figuratively burned from our libraries the history goes along with them and suddenly the remnants of what happened
011are only scorched into the earth not in the minds of our future generations what will happen if these events are no longer taught in our schools with without literature describing the history of our world it will erode from memory just as our memorials erode from rain and wind children and adults alike deserve to know about what had happened i go as far to say that it is a necessity that they have learned about what has happened history builds empathy in our younger generations just as reading does it builds our understanding of what is happening around us and gives us predictions for change and problem solving in our present the purpose of education is to prepare our students for the future that means exposing us to events and ideas that aren't comfortable topics it means exposing
012us to the tragedies of the world because protecting us from the tragedies of the past means we cannot prepare ourselves for those of the future i'd like to direct you to something left on the signature of nearly every email i've received from my teachers here kershaw county school district's mission is to educate all students for success in our globally dynamic society you want to prepare us for the ideas presented around the world not just within our sphere of life banning books goes against your beliefs outlined in the kcsd student handbook where you say that you want us to have a rigorous and comprehensive education that maintains a community that is strengthened by respecting celebrating and utilizing its diversity so i ask you all to please prove it discuss what banning this book means and prove
013your mission your belief otherwise you're not only failing your students but you are failing our futures you are failing your futures thank you mr this is the point of order if you don't mind um as a board member you know we listen to the parents and community folks all the time to have a student come speak to us and have the courage to do that is amazing so i applaud you for just so you're informed that book is still on the shelves and was not removed next we have uh that's the thomas sibel faith community yandere good evening board members thank you so much for this opportunity to uh express some concerns and my sentiment i'm not here to take any pop shots of anyone about you putting the pressure on anyone i just want
014uh the board members or members rather to understand and know that there are many issues that are brought to me on a consistent basis uh many of them are dealing with bullying and many of them are dealing with fear and then i have been in certain forums where what is not going to be acceptable by members of our community as well as the board as especially as it relates to crt and things of that nature i'm told what is not going to be accepted but i want to know what's going to be accepted uh number one um crt has has been adopted uh and has resonated i know that you have an answer that no you can't answer on this evening but being in an affordable way i'm told we're not going to do this
015and then i look i look at how people how things are permeating in our society and how people are angry and how people are fearful and afraid and i i want to find a resolution how we can work together to discuss as a young lady i'm saying before me uh having having a forum where we're not evading taking the passive outlet of uh evading difficult questions and difficult conversations because this is one of the greatest communities i've been here now for 30 years i served in the military my children i raised them here they went to school here and one of the problems that i've seen is that people are fearful about what they don't know uh and so the approach that i want to take because i'm trying to unify uh you know as
016much as i can i've worked with several on several boards dealing with unity dealing with race dealing with disparities dealing with inequality dealing with injustice i work with the law enforcement all over the county and informs of having conversations and one of the greatest we have here is uh um mr brian mays which has grouped at the jackson teen center and they have conversations that would literally blow everybody's mind in this room uh across the board and my point of emphasis that i want to replace here but uh you know right at the brink of war and all these things our children have a lot of things that's on their heart and many parents and teachers are afraid to uh to bring those those like concerns to their principals and and oftentimes to the board
017because they that their fear okay i'm gonna close with this um i really have a lot to say but i don't know how preachers are saying man but i just want us to understand that this is a awesome opportune time an opportunity that we can take to discuss not just crt but race uh equality diversity uh and uh and inclusion uh look at the look at the acronym die diversity inclusion and equity so if we don't learn how to balance things properly guess what happens they counted eyes the vision of the county guys and people the teachers lose their momentum they lose their desire to teach that's why people are resigning and you you all are left in the delivery habits of recruiting people but what are we presenting at seattle what are we doing
018as a community and as a county to make sure that everything that that when you first came here uh that you were pushing that it continues even when you're not here or even when you move on because we're still gonna be left here as a community and we're gonna have to deal with all the issues that are still prevalent all right i'm gonna read this and then i'll be done this is uh a poem called uh marion uh williamson called our greatest fear it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us our deepest fears not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us we ask ourselves who am i to be brave gorgeous talented and fabulous
019actually who are you not to be you are a child of god you're playing small does not serve the world there's nothing enlightened about shrinking yourself so that the other people around you won't feel insecure we were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us it's not just in some of us it's in every one of us and as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people around us the permission to do the same as we liberate we are liberated rather from our own personal fears our presence automatically liberates others and i'll close with that because i know that the greatness of this county is going to be having conversation oftentimes it's going to be uncomfortable talking across the table from people that don't look like you act like
020you believe like you believe and have the openness as christians as believers to have those conversations and having having an openness of mine and giving people opportunity to be heard for the most part people just certainly want to be heard thank you thank you good evening everyone thank you for giving me this opportunity the mission of the concerned citizens is to foster community awareness to address concerns and issues that of fellow citizens and to improve relations by collaborating with others to bring about changes for a more diverse diverse and supportive place to live work and to play so today i'm bringing concerns from our community we're asking that the board please look into the district policies to ensure that they are consistently and implemented fairly for all we want you to particularly look at policy
021g b e b a the one that deals with staff dress code it's misleading and not clear when employees or community members have questions and concerns about district policies and procedures they deserve to be heard by the school board the superintendent and school administrators any employee of the school district and any member of the community should have the right and the opportunity to seek clarification or any issue or decision that has been made the right that right should occur without fear of intimidation retribution retaliation embarrassment or just the fear of being fired or rejected the district administration should be employed for having goals for more diversity and inclusion but however students teachers parents and community members have most recently experienced different treatments which have been publicly displayed as exclusion indifference in tolerance and intimidation and
022when the policies are not enforced to create and regulate the inclusion for all the consensus will result in unfair treatment and an unhealthy working environment also it is a concern of many members of the community that when a meeting is requested with the superintendent or building administrators we find it difficult to get that meeting scheduled or to receive a response or even a call back in a timely manner this is not an indication of good leadership you are elected to serve all of this county therefore you should have an open door policy where individuals and groups can feel free to address issues and seek answers without causing division among the community we need everybody to work together to make kershaw county school district one that we have envisioned it to be we will not accept
023being dismissed or silenced anymore as any other citizen in this community we simply have a desire to be heard because of all these incidents that i have mentioned there's still concerns about the residents of the superintendent people everywhere all over kershaw county has expressed that he pursued the superintendent resides outside the district how can he effectively interact and become we're not allowed to uh have anybody call out anybody specifically in public forum if you restrained from identifying or dressing personality issue okay yesterday we found something out that was really shocking to us and it's been a very disappointing situation but i've been in this district for 43 years i talk and communicate on a regular basis with students and teachers parents and the community concerning the education about our students many of whom i've had
024the pleasure to teach as as my students and as chair of the retired teachers association is our mission to be an advocate for teachers and to become mentors to them we are seeking we seek truth and we seek access to questions who are confronted on behalf of this community and on behalf of other educators we do not have an active group here in this county that represents ncea or any professional groups therefore many of the educators come to us some of them um many educators do not feel comfortable in sharing their issues and concerns and frankly i'm concerned about the future of education kershaw county there's going to be a great number of teachers and other personnel that's going to be leaving at the end of this year because they feel that they're not supporting
025about five seconds there are many things that's impacting our children in our community in our world the pandemic we have the time and circumstances we give everyone five minutes and we ask thank you that's all that we have signed up for public forum that brings us down to terrorist report we're going to start with the south carolina school board association i had conference opportunity to go to the south carolina school board association february 17th at hilton head which is south carolina this particular year they had some dynamic speakers um it was in the board packets for the boards you had an opportunity to read them i'm just going to highlight some of the main points um the first keynote speaker was kyle maynard and his presentation was entitled no excuses kyle was born with a
026rare condition known as the kingdom amputation that left him with his arm that ended at the elbows and legs that ended near his knees even though he was handicapped kyle was a star athlete and also an avid mountain climber so he his main focus is do not give excuses because you can do what you need to do the next session was take this job and love it um talk about burnout not just for board members i'm just going to share some of the major highlights from that because some of you this evening may be experiencing burnout a state of physical emotion exhaustion that involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity here are some questions i'm not going to read them all but it may pertain to you are you burning out
027have you become cynical or critical at work do you drag yourself to work and have trouble getting started have you become more irritable or impatient with co-workers and your customers and clients do you like the energy to be consistently productive do you find it hard to concentrate do you like satisfaction from your achievement have your sleep habits change are you troubled by unexplained headaches these were some of the things that that doctor uh really did in her presentation some of the call what why do people burn i know what you're talking about teachers and all over the place and people are leaving but some of the causes of burnout that we can address these issues the lack of proper resources repetitive tasks tight deadlines workplace changes and fewer opportunities to learn new skills in our
028next breakout session it concerns what happened down in orangeburg artsberry wickerson high school on august 18th 2021 and that was just three days um for the beginning of the new school year and the pope that stood up and stood up to me for me and he healed me was the secret of crisis management is not good versus bad it's preventing the bad from getting worse and active shooting there's anything you can do about it but the main thing that will stress independent workshop is preparation prepare the umbrella before it rains and be able to communicate you have to be right you have to reverse you gotta be credible you have to be empathetic you have to be transparent and most of all you have to show respect the next breakout session was the entire engagement
029of community strong superintendent board communication tips tricks and experiences to build public trust and respect for all stakeholders and sometimes let the good times grow when commute when does communication occur before board meetings during board meetings after board meetings all the time public forum again is not a statutory right but is part of our policy how do you communicate you communicate um through your book meetings in person emails media outlets the friendly ones and also the unfriendly ones school communication texting videos telephone calls social media facebook i'm happy to say that our district does all of those to communicate to the public what's going on not just the school it needs and the next keynote speak was dr brian marks it's called hidden biases of good people implications for individuals and organizations um one thing
030that i that i thought was really compelling and i i find it hard to believe in him i think about it maybe not so america's strongest negative bias is toward elderly people followed by obese people you would think it would be skin color and gender and all those things but he said that america's strongest negative bias is toward elderly people followed by obese people he left us with a quote i've got a quote but a statement are you a thermometer are you a thermostat which one are you a thermostat you can take the button in your home you can turn the temperature up you can turn it down when you take your temperature it is what it is i hope that this evening all of you will learn to become thermostats make a difference when
031you walk into a room not with negativity not with a whole lot of things just learn to be a thermostat and not a and the last section was on breakout sessions all of these um the 2020 legislative session on the way a lot of the things that i received in february um they're still fluid they're still changing they're dealt with some things that happened for our k-12 legislation um an amount of money all those things are changing even as i speak and the last thing was about student performances suitable pharmacists this year on virtual would even join a pandemic our students uh performances were totally fantastic they did a great job and they had to practice etc even doing a painting i'm glad i had an opportunity to go and to learn because that's part
032of what we do when we serve a community and and we serve children over a thousand students almost 16 000 employees it's very very important that we go to these conventions and see what's going on in other counties we're blessed to be here in kershaw county and i'm glad to have the opportunity to serve thank you i want to take a moment uh just to share briefly with the uh the board we have worked so dull sent me is to make sure that we provide the very best for all the children in kershaw county uh we strive to work in unity by no way or we say that we are uh perfect and we welcome comments we've always welcome comments and we as a board has agreed to disagree although it may not appear that
033we disagree properly but we do have our disagreement that's what makes a team uh better entitled i just want to use that moment to say thanks to his team thank you mr chair appreciate that um so i have a few things before we get into and really it's budget update but it's legislative update so if you want to come on up and i'll cover those real quickly but i just want to say publicly you know it was a very proud experience to go down to the capitol this is proctor's here i got a chance to speak to our teachers after a state board of education meeting and during that meeting lugof belgium high school and camden middle school were recognized as south carolina schools to watch and their redesignation also at the same time leslie
034stover middle school received its initial designation as a south carolina school to watch by the south carolina association of middle level educators so it was pretty incredible as the state board recognized three of our four middle schools and i will just say this publicly no pressure on mr dixon but i know that north central will be the fourth and we will be we are the first district in south carolina to have every one of our middle schools a part of that organization and we will be the first to have every one of them designated there are only correct me if i'm wrong marianne but i think they said 29 middle schools in the state of south carolina with that designation and we have three of them better yet blue belgian middle school was the very
035first national school to watch in south carolina so i just want to share that with the board um the another thing i want to just mention briefly the first ad hoc committee meeting on growth is tomorrow night at six o'clock as a reminder there are three of you that represent the school board that will be working with the county council representation as well to discuss growth and how we can address growth in our community working in parallel to that group will be a team consisting of our cfo our ceo and myself working with the county administrator and accounting planner so that we can map out where growth is going to occur we've asked mr hopkins to work with the ad-hoc committee as well because he has plotted some of some of these additions onto a
036scatter map for us so that we can take a look at that so we can make the best decisions moving forward just a little bit of an update i do have a lead on possible land in the west watery area i'm closer to elgin that may be of interest to us we're going to take a deeper look at it to see if it would meet the needs to accommodate growth in that area the final thing before we get into the legislative update is the state of district presentation i am working on that really kind of waiting on you know the legislative session to see where we are from a budget standpoint so we can kind of nail some of these things down and we present to the community you know on some of the finer
037pieces of what's going on in our school district but very positive now what you're about to hear i will caveat that is is a struggle so karen if you want to go ahead and hit the next slide you know it's you know been widely reported that in this current budget proviso that every single teacher in south carolina is going to receive uh four thousand dollar pay raise okay however here are the facts of that because that's not what they're budgeting for the facts are the budget increases to increase the current minimum teacher salary schedule from 36 000 to 40 000 already once you get to step four kershaw county is four thousand dollars above the state minimum salary schedule so when you look at the fiscal impact on what it would take for us to
038accomplish that it's going to be a significant shortfall in terms of what revenue we're going to receive from the school district so aaron do you want to walk through that yeah i'll just provide a little context so proviso 1.3 is the budget proviso that funds education and within that provided there is a amongst other things a state minimum salary schedule that we are required to pay at least that minimum amount to teachers also in there is the requirement that we have to provide a step increase to teachers um but this year they've also added a funding model so as we go through these slides some i think there's been a misconception that the funding that we're getting is associated with the four thousand dollar increase in their own salary schedule that is not the case
039they just happen to be in the same proviso and i will say this is the house budget as it was approved as today so it will go to the senate this way again we're only through the house process it will have to go through the senate they will go through conference so we're really just trying to get ahead of this message to keep you all informed as we go into the budget for next year um hopefully uh we will have a better um amount of information and more positive information we get through with what the senate is proposing as their budget for education but because of the way the numbers look we want to make sure that we are ahead of the message and that you all understand what it looks like based on the
040house version of the budget so as dr robins mentioned the fiscal impact so we have about 800 certified teachers that fall on that statement on salary schedule and so if we were to try to give a 4 000 increase to each of those teachers um that plus the fringe will be about 4.2 billion and that's just for that four thousand dollars per teacher um based on the house version of the budget we are going to get 1.9 million in new funding um so you can see that's about two point three million dollars short of a four thousand dollar increase for teachers because that proviso also requires legally that we give a step increase to our teachers the four thousand dollar raise plus the fringe plus the step is 4.8 million and again we will have
0411.9 million based on the house budget which puts us at 2.9 million short of being able to fund a 4 000 increase for our teachers so that's what those numbers look like for kershaw county in terms of if we try to get a four thousand dollar increase to each teacher aaron and dr i noticed that uh last week the greenville county school district came out and kind of really broke this down as it's misleading are you guys seeing that a lot of our neighboring districts are starting to speak out about this that hopes that the senate will then take it up and when they get back to conference we'll adjust this because you know 2.9 billion shortages is massive um so i just didn't know are you starting to hear from other districts yeah we
042are we're talking consistently and i'm trying to share you know that this is a you know it's not a factual model that's being presented um and to your point you know hoping that maybe they'll go back and rethink this model um we're going to talk through some things where you'll see they have somewhat made some things easier by streamlining the pots into you know one fund that still is incredibly short of what they fought for what they have really been celebrating that they would do for our teachers and i will say um the department of ed is pulling all cfos to try to get specifics on how short districts are going to be like you mentioned every district is facing the same issue that the message is different from the funding that districts are receiving
043and they feel the pressure that they want to be able to pay teachers the maximum amount obviously but that the funding doesn't align with what the message has been so far about about the increases that teachers would see so the department is pulling us ahead of the senate coming out with their budget in hopes that they will be able to make some changes and the numbers will be more favorable in that version of the budget on the next slide um in terms of the new funding model that i mentioned that is impervio 1.3 like dr robbins mentioned it is streamlining some of our funding so it's combining in our address and funds and some of our eia funding um which means that the district and the board would have more flexibility in the way that
044those funds are spent um the funding formula itself as i mentioned is detached from this notion of a four thousand dollar increase so it is based on a model of a statewide student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2 students to one teacher again this is not classroom size when they look at that student-to-teacher ratio they're not just taking into account classroom teachers they're taking into account all certified teachers in the district including interventionist reading coach etc as well as our librarians our guidance counselors any speech therapist occupational therapist physical therapist our psychologist so lots of staff that are not in a classroom so again that is how they came up with the amount of funding that our district will receive but it is not going to be reflective of an actual um classroom size but that is how
045they got to the to the 1.9 million dollars this funding model also assumes an average teacher salary of 52 604 that is a master's degree with 12 years of experience on the new house minimum salary schedule so that does include that four thousand dollar increase and then when they get to that student account again to get to the 11.2 students per teacher ratio it's based on this year's 45-day enrollment so there is not um an assumption of any projected enrollment increase so to the extent that our students um we have a higher account in our 135-day account or even next year that's not taken into account in the funding model um as well as not an assumption that we would need any new ftes in the district so again on the next slide that first
046bullet point just reiterates um there are positions again in that count to get the 11.2.1 eleven point two to one um teacher that are not even on the teacher's salary schedule which is a flaw in this funding model our librarians and our guidance counselors are not a 190-day schedule so their salary even at that twelve years so the master's degree would be higher than what the house has proposed in the budget because they're not 190-day contract and then our psychologists are not even on our teacher's salary schedule their salary schedule is higher than the teacher salary schedule so again that salary would not be appropriate for those positions so that's just one thing to point out with the funding formula it is also it also does not take into account that required step so there
047is no allotment for what it would cost for the step increase for teachers it does not consider anything for the non-certified staff so again as cost of living goes up there is no assumption of any increase for our non-teaching physicians it does not consider the inflation that we're seeing in our operational costs and we'll continue to see and then we know that next year the employer portion of insurance is slated to go up 18.1 which is substantial for our district there is a separate line item for that in the budget but it is unclear and we have not been able to get an answer as to how much of that our district will actually receive so we're not sure how much of the 18.1 percent increase we'll actually have to fund out of our educational
048funding as well so then the last slide just gives an example again this is not what we are proposing i just wanted to put together a scenario for you to have some idea of what the numbers look like um so if we were to give the steps zeros through three the increase that it would take to get to the new state minimum that would cost us about three hundred thousand dollars a cost of a set increase for all of our teachers is about eight hundred thousand dollars a cost of step increase for our non-teacher staff is about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars if we propose a two percent increase the teachers on top of their step to try to you know do something in terms of cost of living that's right at a million
049dollars and then if we hear that for our employees which the district has traditionally done that's another half a million dollars so if we were to do those steps for next year's budget that would be 2.95 million and again our increase from the house budget is slated to be 1.9 million that um budget does assume that the state only covers 75 of the cost so there is an assumption that our local dollars should pick up 25 of any incremental cost of the district but even at the 75 that's only about 2.2 million that the state would um should be funding and they're only funding 1.9 and then we would have to cover the other 700 000 in local revenue so again just to put a scenario together if this is what we came to and
050proposed based on the um house budget it would be about a million dollars short from the revenue that they are giving us that we would have to find um how we would close that down so and i know this isn't comfortable for you know a lot of people to talk about but there is a reason why we've worked really hard to build up our cash reserves and and i know um this voice and i have talked about this and she you can see look on her face already but we have to still compete and so if other districts around us take an aggressive approach we have to do the same as well and dig into our cash reserves to make sure that we can support increasing salaries you know consistently across the board so i
051just want you to be aware of that um it might be a year where instead of a surplus or even a balanced budget that we actually um exceed our expenditures versus our revenue so that we can accomplish this but we're going to try to put as many scenarios together for you all and we ought to have a better idea once the final budget's solidified right and so hopefully by finding the financing facilities committee meeting will have an idea of what the senate budget looks like and hopefully again this is just the house budget so we've got a ways to go before we get to our final budget so hopefully they hear the concerns of all school districts and that senate version is more favorable to school districts but we did want to get ahead of
052the message and just let you know what it looks like so far um so that you all are aware of what we're looking at just one thing soon since you're already meeting with the county you guys are in constant conversations with them about the increase of revenue from the county not from millage increase but by value increase and growth of the county to help kind of calculate what that if there is increase what that looks like that like offset this deficit yeah and we run historical so we know what that's looks like here every year it's a little higher this year because of reassessment so we know what that looks like and we do project that into our revenue usually it's not the 700 000 like you would assume we needed to cover that last
053scenario so we haven't seen that level of growth year over year but we do factor that in when we look at our revenue and we look at the historicals and consider the increase in the revenue any more questions thank you there's a motion to join the executive session to discuss resonates in retirement certified classified postman employment certified and classified personnel assignment and transfer of certified classified personnel properly motioned by a coach black and second by mr eric in discussion 39 we are into administration recommendation concerning employment matters second motioned by coach blackman's second round it's halloween discussion hearing nothing on all the favorites you know about it raising your left hand that's unanimous because they're emotional into the journey cultural crime [Music] thank you father for buying with us this evening and as we leave
054his heal but never for your divine presence may we take peace and joy and then we find it safe and everything is always will and we reach our destinations and it's in jesus name we pray amen