001All this for a public hearing for the budget 2026 2027. >> Good evening. Tonight I'll present to you the public hearing for the 2026 2027 general budget. So, we'll start off. Um, one of the things that we consider is what the district will generate in local property tax revenue and we receive um quarterly assessment from the north county auditor's office and these are our final projections for 2627. I do want to point out that um we have the largest land mass in the district make up 40% of the county but we only make up about 8.25% of the total assessed value. And when I talk about the assessed value, I've got it broken down among the four districts. That would be the value of all the property within that district. That's your vehicles, your businesses,
002your homes, um any industry. So all the value of the property in that district. And then also want to point out um as you all know, act 388 um with act 388, if you own your own home, that is considered 4% property. and prop home owners do not pay operating school tax on their 4% property. So that's why we had to have differentiate between two values of a mill. We have an operating value of a meal that doesn't include that 4% property and then we have a debt service value of a meal that includes all of the property within the district. Um if you look at our value of a meal, let's just focus on the operating side because that's the budget that you all will be approving later this evening. If you look at
003our value It's about it generates for every meal it generates about $91,700. Um, and if you could look at that compared to what a meal generates in other districts, ours is a lot less. And like I said, that is due to that assessed value. Another factor that districts can consider is um a millage increase. And we receive a report every year from the office of revenue and fiscal affairs and they tell us what our consumer price index is and our population growth is. And districts can increase, you don't have to increase, but districts can increase their millage based on the two of those together. So this year the CPI was 2.63% the population growth was 49%. That yields a 3.12%. And then what you do is you apply that to our current operating millage um
004which was 231.8 and in doing so that calculation comes out to 7.2 mills. And so the same calculation applies to all districts um throughout the state. The CPI is the same for everybody but the population growth can change. So that's why your millage um increases can vary among the districts in the state. So with ours we had the 7.2 based on the But we also have millage that we did not levy last year when we uh passed our budget. So from the 2526 we have 7.7 mills remaining from that year. Uh state law does allow us to go what we call do a look back period and districts can go back and capture millage for up to three years. Um so we only have one year on the table but that's a total of 14.9
005mills that we could increase um if needed to do so. And what you'll see here tonight is at the end of the day, our recommended mill is a zero mill increase for 2627. Here's our Senate finance projections. You know, as we were going through the budget process, we had House Ways and Means Forever. Um those were based on the 45th day. Before you tonight are our Senate finance projections. Those are based on 135th day count. As you recall with the House Ways and projections. Whenever we compared our 2526 allocation to the House Ways and Means projections, it was a net increase of about $538,000. And you can see here with our Senate projections, we did see a slight change only because it's adjusted for the 135th day that it's about $589,000 net increase over our
006current year. And they made some changes to the state a classrooms formula this year. You can see some of the line items have rather large increases and some of them have decreases. And that's just the way they changed our funding formula. It's not that we received huge increases in those pots. You can see they kind of reduced. For example, your health insurance pot, you can see that went down 821,000, but yet our state aid to classrooms general fund increased a lot. So, it's just a matter of just shifting the money from different sources. If we look at our proposed revenue for next year, um, local taxes, based on the projections from the county auditor's office and a no millillage increase, we're looking to generate about 26.1 million in local tax revenue. Based on our Senate
007projections, our education funding through general fund and our EIA, um, 26.7 million and 5.2 million there. Um, our other state revenue, uh, Some of that is in retirey insurance. You have act 388 which is the um 4% property piece. You have act 388. That's our tier three funds. You also have tier one funds that makes up the majority of the 14.6 and other state revenue. And then under miscellius almost 1.4 million. Majority of that 1.1 million is made up in interest income and 250,000 is made up in indirect cost and the rest is just some miscellaneous revenue. So, we're looking at a total revenue budget next year of $74.2 million. And if you break it out and kind of look at how much comes from the state, if you of that 70 something million dollars
008we're proposing, 60% comes from state sources. Meaning that it is a direct allocation from the state. Districts do not have any say so on those allocations. And even though we're able, we've got 30% that we locally, but we have districts and school boards, we have minimum control of how much that can increase because of the uh formula, the CPI, and your population growth. Um, so you can see we have as you all are proven budgets and we're looking at budgets, you know, only 35% of that 70 something million is what we truly have control over. On the expense side, um, at the state level, the state approved a $2,000 increase to the minimum teacher salary schedule. And what that means is that they took the state minimum scale and on every sale they increased that
009by $2,000. And so, as you can see, our net increase was only 500 $580,000. And so when we run the numbers for a $2,000 increase, that cost us about $1.5 million. So in this budget, we are proposing a $1,000 increase per sale on our teacher salary schedule, which I'll show you in just a minute. We're also proposing a step increase for teachers. Our teacher scale goes to 28 years. So every year a teacher works, they gain a year of experience. And the maximum years of experience on our scale is the 28 years. So for our other employees, we are proposing a 2% cost of living increase and we're also proposing a step increase for all other employees. That scale goes to 24 years as opposed to the 28 years with teachers. And I think one
010of the biggest things that does help us save a little money this year is on our insurance. We are fortunate that the employee or nor the employer will see an increase in insurance costs this next year. So, this might be a little hard to see, but I wanted to show you the new proposed state minimum scale that is on the left. That is showing you a $2,000 increase to every sale on the state scale. And then on the right is the proposed school district scale with a $1,000 increase per sale. And what I did on this next one is took out several areas where we have lots of folks entering into profession. So like the bachelors and zero years of experience. I wanted to show what the state will be paying next year compared to
011what the school district will be paying. And then you can see the two examples in the masters. We have a lot of folks that fall into that category to show you the difference there. And then also wanted to show you at doctorate 15 years the difference there what we pay compared to the state and how far above we are at the state scale. On the expense side we have our property insurance and our workers comp insurance. Um unfortunately as as things rates change those continue to go up every year. So, we have to factor that into our budget for next year. We are proposing uh energy savings of about $25,000. Um, our energy budget is about $2.5 million. So, we think $25,000 is very doable and we'll be communicating with our staff more about what
012that'll look like next year. In substitute savings, we outsource our substitutes and currently that budget for next year is about $1.7 million. And we are proposing that we can save 250,000 in our substitute cost next year. We've been working very hard uh Miss Bolan has on a procedures and processes that we'll be putting in place that will um communicate with our staff on what that's going to look like. Our department budgets, we're proposing a 5% cut that equates to about 125,000. What we did here is we took our department budgets and backed out all of our fixed cost. In other words, our insurance energy cost, um, software renewals, those kind of things. Once you back out all your fixed costs, we took 5% cut to that. That's $125,000. Our IT software reallocation, that budget is
013about a million dollars. And so, we're going to reallocate 557,000, some change of the IT software. We're also proposing to use um our fund balance. Our fund balance is a little over $16 million and so we're proposing to use 223,000 of that very very very small percentage of a $16 million fund balance. Continue to maintain our elementary core ratio of 21 and a half to1. We also very early in the process started looking at our positions throughout the district. And so in this budget, we have absorbed four teaching assistants and two teachers that total a savings of $437,000. We also have reallocated two teacher FTEE. So instead of having to hire a teacher at schools, we were able to relocate two of those FTEEs. So that resulted in a savings of $200,000. And again, this
014does um not include operating millage increase. If you look at the breakdown here, salaries and fringe, if you take all that I just talked about, put all that together, total salaries and fringe is about $64.6 million. Our school allocations, a little over five, almost $560,000. Our department allocations are 6.7 million. That's after the 5% cut to those department allocations. Um, our SRO's, as you know, we have three SRO's that we still fund. All of our other SRO's are state funded. Um, so that's 220,000 that we'll budget for the three that we currently pay for. And then our other category, the majority of that is in our substitute cost. Um, 1.7 million minus once we back out the $250,000 in savings. We also have about $330,000 in some food service friend benefits. And then the rest
015of that really for our um offduty officers at events, officials, and those kind of things. And you can see our total expenses are 74.4 million. If we break that out, um you can see the majority of our budget about almost 87% of that is in our people. And I would say if you go look at districts around the state, that is a very that's probably the average percentage. I would say you look around the state, you know, it's 86 to 89%. So very comparable to others around us and throughout the state. And you can see the rest of it's made up really of just our school and department allocations. So at the end of the day, we're looking at revenues of 74.2 million, expenses of 74.4 million, and like I said earlier, utilizing $223,136 of
016fund balance to balance our budget. And Just want to kind of give you all a picture of what our history has looked like. You can see from 2020 to 21, we had 11.7 million in fund balance and how that has grown over the years. Um, what that represents is about 24% of our general fund expenditures. Um, this is one of the things that auditors report out every year um when they give an annual report of our finances. And so that consistency with our fund balance does uh say a lot about the school district particular when we go out to bar debt which we're getting ready to do. We have to go before the rating agencies. And that's one of the things the rating agencies look for is um the ups and downs in your reserves.
017And you can see ours has been very healthy and has increased over time. And that concludes uh the public hearing for tonight. Is anyone here for the public who wishes to speak? >> Seeing that there are none, um, do we have a motion to close this public hearing? >> Motion by Mich. >> All in favor say I. com. >> Sure. >> I would just like to say Amy Scott's not here and I know you normally say this to you slack, but we really do appreciate all the efforts that everybody involved and especially you have been into this because we've been working on it. I know y'all don't know all the background in this room more so than others. Um, but we beat this to death and we have our goal was not taxes from the
018school district perspective. That doesn't mean you might not get your taxes raised decisions from other people other than us. But considering um increasing the tax bills this past year, that was super important. I think we still been able to accomplish mostly everything that we were trying to accomplish and maybe not as much as we'd like but trying to keep up with the inflation and I just truly appreciate that we got a lot of great things going on in our district. questions, comments. >> I I just if I may >> um I just would like to say also that um from the administrative perspective um and the board perspective, we did this while holding classrooms at the center of everything we did. Um and that's not to take away from anybody who supports classrooms, but we
019knew at the end of the day the teaching and learning in our classrooms is the number one reason we exist. Um and so everything that we trimmed and looked at was to protect the classroom. So, I just want to preach thank the board and administration um for your hard work to make that reality happen. What else? Have a motion to already everybody approve? Say I >> second. Second. Everybody opposed. Nay. Motion carries. We are here. Call this meeting to order for the York School District One Board of Trustees for executive session. Is there a motion to go into executive session? >> Motion by Miss Johnson. Is there a second? >> Second. Second by Miss Shall. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. No. Motion carries. We're now going to executive session. session.
020>> I have a motion. >> Second. All those in favor say I. >> Oppos? No. Motion carries. Let the record reflect that there was no action taken during executive session. We will start the general meeting at 6:30. call this meeting to order for the York School District one general session. We will have the Reverend Mia Leon with the Park Point Village give us the invitation. Yeah, right there. Let us pray. >> Author of life, we give thanks for the blessings that you write for us every day. We thank you for all of the characters you've added to our story and for the many chapters that have brought us to this evening. Thank you for the adventures we find ourselves in and for the lessons we learn along the way. We pray especially for the children
021of York and their families. May their excitement for education never be bookmarked for another day. Help them to keep turning pages, asking questions, reading between the lines as they discover the gifts that you have given them. We give thanks for the teachers who care, inspire, and help students write new possibilities into their futures. We pray for the staff and administrators of York schools. May they continue to think creatively and thoroughly as they serve their schools, helping every student stay on the right course this evening. We also pray for the board members gathered in this room as they review agendas, budgets, policies, and plans. Grant them wisdom to discern the fine print and avoid any plot twists that nobody saw coming. Help them not to merely stay on the same page, but write a future worthy
022of the students they serve. When difficult decisions arrive, highlight the path to take. Give them courage to turn new chapters, patience when the story develops slowly, and vision to see beyond the next paragraph. And if this meeting runs long, remind us that every good story eventually finds its conclusion. Trusting in your story and grateful that your grace is always the final word, we pray. Amen. >> Thank you. Everyone, please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Let the record reflect that we do have a quorum. Um we do have confirmation of notice to the media. Is any media present here today? No media present. Um we do not
023have anyone signed up to speak for public forum. Is there a motion to for approval of consent agenda? Motion by second by have a second. All those in favor. >> All oppose. No. Motion carries. Next we have uh reports um which is information item from Miss Hagner and Mr. Okay. Good evening. Um, Mr. Chair, Dr. Brandon, members of the board, pleased to be in front of you tonight to offer the quarterly building program report. I'll be reporting on four projects this evening, and we'll start with uh the new middle school. Some of this information is going to be redundant from the last quarterly report, but I think it's important to include uh some renderings to because we're not quite at a place you drive by it. It just looks like a bunch of and dirt.
024So, they're making a lot of progress, but uh this is a elevation of the uh front site if you were standing on 161. And then we've got um an elevation of the front entrance with the uh brick and I mean with the block. We are approximately uh so almost all the slabs on the on the first floor have been poured. Uh the auditorium is the only thing that we have not poured. We're using that for access into uh the gym area. Uh that will be uh finished uh probably next week or two. Um we are pouring slab on deck but a lot of uh structural steel and concrete on the second floor. U you know this is a pretty aggressive schedule. We're 18 months on construction. Uh that was part of the um parameters in
025the bid package. So, um, we are we are moving forward and, uh, currently on schedule. Weather has been a little bit of an issue, but we've been, um, staying tight. The contractor's done a good job. Site's been clean, um, for the most part. Um, well, for we've addressed all the potential erosion issues. We've had some mud on 161. We've been vigilant about getting the contractor to uh, keep it clean. So, overall, the project is is going well. Um, this is the classroom wing uh to the right. Um, this was early last week when these photos were taken. Front entrance uh in the foreground. This is just a closeup. Uh, bus access from Houston Road has been uh graded and we are putting curb and gutter down. We still have all about 800 feet of Houston
026Road that we will be uh improving along with the turn lane on 161. I have a short video about 30 seconds. Um so I'll let it play. Um I'll try to kind of talk through some of the things, but it really gives you that bird eye view of of progress uh and grading. Um, you might think that front entrance is a little strange with the IND500 layout, but unfortunately, uh, SCO2 does require about 3,000 linear feet of access from the road to the drop off point. So, that is the reason why you see so much there. And that's all light duty asphalt. That's car and staff. And access off of Houston will be bus and service access. So you can see slabs are poured um except for area in the back. Uh we'll be placing
027that slab still grading in the athletic component in the back of the site. Uh we we're trying to kind of uh it was important to get the building pads ready and prepped before uh doing a start stop finish on fully grading and walking away. Um, and uh, so it's it's still a good bit of work to do. As we go around to the uh, right, I believe this will go around to the right, you see detention ponds. Um, certainly very important not to uh, cause erosion um, off our property, capture it there. It'll eventually be a permanent detention area for water quality. And uh, this will not have our offsite sewer, but it off the back and it leads it's about uh 3500 linear feet of uh if you recall this site did not have
028uh access to sewer utility so we're having to install that any questions about the credit score so the TSC this is a a a new project we're reporting if you'll remember this is being funded through savings that we've realized from uh the middle Um, you'll see the slide twice tonight. The first one is just identifying because I think it really needs to be seen as a a singular campus. Uh, we'll be addressing both the TSC as well as the early childhood. Uh, initially I'm going to kind of give you a brief update on the TSC. Um, so this is the existing floor plan. Um, it's it it's TSC, but it needs some TLC and And we're we're going to be uh uh converting what you see at the top into the bottom. And this is
029um last week that uh this most recent rendering. Um this program uh meets all the uh checks all the boxes that the um district needs in order to relocate programs from the York One Academy into this facility. Uh very aggressive schedule. Um our intentions are to develop two bid package. The first being a interior demolition package which will um remove all the finishes. U there's potentially some asbestous that we'll have to remove get rid of the lights and the some of the HVC and was two reasons why that's important. One is we've got an aggressive schedule and we need to get started as soon as we can. uh this we could get started prior to the documents being fully uh completed and also allow us to identify or minimize the unforeseen conditions that we we
030were not aware of prior to the demo. This is in the same manner. This is a elevation uh of what will be the front entrance. Currently the front entrance is is on the side road and this is the most uh this is a current rendering. Now, uh we've been presented several different uh renderings and and we challenge the architect to come back with uh something a little more contextual. Um and the intent will be the the design keys from this facility will be mimicked at the uh early childhood center so that you do get the full uh kind of campus feel for those uh those two facilities. They'll they'll They're meant to be together, which they should be. middle school is complete. So our plan is to uh move as quickly through the TSA have
031it finished uh next summer so that the the programs at early childhood can move into uh the TSC and then we we will have for access to um the early childhood to to begin the renovations. Just a quick reminder um mostly currently the access is is um I think that's is it Johnson Road? um I'm not sure uh between the fronts but they will be kind of flipped on campus primarily because the the uh student drop off access points and this is being designed for roughly 400 students uh for uh 4K that's a very large 4K facility and dropping off four-year-olds can be a challenge and so um uh that will be uh front of house. Now it does have some overhang area under roof. This is back. So this will be kind of part
032of the back of the house where it's hard to see but difference between This is the back of house. The driveway that's on the right. That's where the participants of the events would come and park. The spectators would be on the left side. The spect access will be on the right side. And this is that front entrance. So I said pay attention. So if you'll see all the way on the far right, that area that doesn't that's not been um I guess framed up. That's kind of one of the patio areas. And then from that second after the second column over would be the enclosed area. And then we've got a area starting to start. This is the best video. I hope it works. There it goes. So, it's about a minute long and full
033fly around 360 of the facility. So it does give you some um really understanding of the massive uh the mass of the facility. I mean it's like overd design you know arena has like a football field it's got to be it's got certain parameters you have to meet it um you can't shrink it um and still be within spec of certain events. That's the back of house driveway that I was describing. And if you recall, this is there's no public sewer on this site. So, this is a a septic system and it's a fairly large septic system, but costwise um it is uh a percentage small percentage of what bringing utilities sewer system out to that facility. And the big picture is there's 15 toilets. Uh and u they're designed differently than it would be
034in the house. And so but they're designed for if everybody flush the same the toilet same time every five minute kind of thing. So it's a it's got a lot of capacity. This is the back of the house. Uh we've got walls and then we'll have some punched openings that u that let daylight and air in. And this is the road front. We'll have signage on this uh facade this elevation and um there'll be an access area around it. And you'll have some runoff here too for the whatever events that are taking place inside. You can see the retaining wall inside in the slab. That's where the bleachers will go. It's designed for 1500 seats. Uh we're we're not installing all those sections, but they can be added the Everything's being sized for the full
035capacity once you get there. Then we're going around to the front. So, um we are scheduled for completion in around November of this year. Um projects going we had some issues um obtaining the the metal building. It was about a full month lead time on it and but the contractor is doing a good job with uh with making progress. Um there's two foundation areas right there where the mud is. That's where uh your front access will be. And I think that's just about it. Um, if there are any questions, I'll be more than happy to try to answer them. Any questions? >> All right. Thank you, Mr. >> And next up, we have human resources from Miss. >> Good evening. I have three action items for this evening. First action item is certified Resignations pending
036suitable replacement. >> Is there a motion to approve certified resignations as percentage pending suitable replacement? >> Motion by Miss Johnson. >> Second by Miss Shaw. All in favor? >> Say I oppose. No. >> Motion carries. >> All right. Our second action item is certified retirements. >> Is there a motion to approve certified retirements as presented? >> Motion to approve. Motion by Miss Shaw. >> Second by Miss Johnson. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. No. >> Motion carries. >> And our last action item is certified recommendations. >> Is there a motion to approve certified recommendations for the 2026 2027 school year? >> Move for adoption as presented. >> Motion by Miss Johnson. >> Second. >> A second by Miss Shaw. All in favor say I. I >> oppose. No. >> Motion carries.
037>> And just real quickly, just to give you kind of an update because I've been trying to let you be aware of how many positions we have open. Currently, we have about 14. Five certified, five classified, and about four other positions which include like a school nurse, um our assistant principal at the middle school, some of those positions. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss B. Now we'll move to Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning, Miss Alyssa Cox. And this is a discussion. Good evening. >> Evening. >> The South Carolina Department of Education is requiring school districts to develop a interd district policy. So your for your information tonight, I will be bringing you an overview of our interd district uh policy and what all that will encompass. So we think of interd
038district versus intrad district. The simplest way for us to think of it is interd district means external which means that students who live outside of York school district 1 u they will not be moving into the school district but they wish to enroll in our school district. When we think of intra district, uh we're talking about students who actually live here. They're enrolled in our school district. Uh and those are students who wish to go to a different school within our district. We've been doing that for for many years with a intra district policy especially particularly at our elementary schools. So our discussion or information tonight we're going to be focusing on interd district u and again we've outlined what that actually means um and so we'll be moving forward uh through that. So I
039want to highlight some uh key um keys to the policy um that's been uh that we've been looking at. Of course I do want to say that we don't have a model policy from the department of ed. We do have guidelines uh which there is a difference there. So uh there will be an open enrollment application window uh and during that time we will review capacity at each school uh including program capacity such as looking at Floyd DS Technology Center to ensure that uh we're meeting those guidelines and and regulations and not overfilling those courses. Certainly our special needs offerings and and courses there. We'll be taking a look at those as well uh before we would just accept students in for those. Student records will be reviewed uh which obviously is important to determine
040academic standing but also uh behavioral uh and if there any issues there uh then a transfer request could be denied if if we're not in good standing. Um transportation, it's important to note, will not be provided for our interd district um students. Uh and the family will be required to pay a tuition that's based upon uh the prior year's uh per pupil tax revenue, which is somewhere around $5,000 currently. Um and it's important to you know that there will be a monitoring and reporting process that will be required to uh uh provide to the state uh yearly. And lastly, this process is required to be done yearly for the um transfer process uh for students who want to attend um our district. So if we were to look at a scenario, I think it's always
041good to to to kind of play through it. a student that resides in we'll call it ABC school district that wishes to enroll in York Comprehensive High School. Of course, that's where our interd district policy would apply. Our um external policy, if you will, students may apply in a window. We would like for that window actually to be uh in January, which we have the leeway to open up. However, it has to open by February 1 and it has to be remained open for a minimum of 90 days. Um, of course, again, we'll review the application, make sure everybody's in everything is in good standing. If so, we will request transfer uh records. Uh, again, look at building capacity and course program capacity. Make sure that we are billing for the the transfer um fee.
042Again, participation will not be provided for this particular student who is wanting to come to us and they uh must remain in good standing and of course pay that tuition upfront. uh that is again a yearly process uh for anybody who wants to attend our district externally. So if we look at our timeline, which is important to note a couple of things here, uh particularly the deadline that we must submit our policy to the department of ed. Uh but June 29th, we'll review and submit our existing policy. That would be our intra district policy to the state. August 11th, we'll have our first reading of our interd district policy. Again, that is model guidelines based on model guidelines that we've been given. Um, August 25th, we'll have our second reading. And this is important to
043note that August 26 is our deadline to have this submitted to the Department of Ed. Um, and so again, that that uh has to be adopted and and presented. And so, pretty short window when you look at how quick summer goes. Uh again, as I stated earlier, we would like to be able to open up in January, which will allow us to close a little earlier, uh which would be in April, uh which will give us time to to make sure that we're doing what's right by our students that already reside in our district before we start accepting students who don't. Uh so, with that being said, I'll be happy to entertain any questions or facilitate any discussion if I can. >> How many shooters do we have that do this? very few. The time
044I've uh been in student services, which is going on two years, I know we've done one. >> Uh so it's not very many. >> I'll just highlight one one additional thing to thank you, Mr. Queen, and uh to Miss Cox who've been working on this. Um we just got these guidelines from the state in May. Um they gave us a short window as Mr. Queen said. Um, so the criteria he shows you tonight are all in the guidelines that are expected for every single school district. So we're not alone on this and we already had a policy. It just doesn't meet all those categories. And so this will um put it into policy um for for our school district. So that that is a pretty aggressive window. Um the second meeting in August won't be
045a work session. It'll need to be a called meeting so that we can have second and final reading. >> Do have one question. Yes, ma'am. >> The fee is it annual? >> Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. And again, it's based upon that prior year's uh tax revenue per >> Thank you. >> Good evening. I just have one action item for you all this evening and that is a motion to approve the first reading of policy JDC which is our AI policy presented to you in your packet. >> Is there a motion to approve the AI policy for first reading as presented? >> So move by Miss Johnson >> second. All in favor say I. >> All motion carries. >> Thank you so much. I move to assistant superintendent for finance and operations, Miss Amy Hack. >>
046Good evening. Tonight have before you second reading of the 2000 2026 2027 general fund budget. Um this is our second and final reading for our budget of $74,439,675 with understanding that no more than $223,136 of fund balance will be used to balance the budget. This also includes a no tax millage increase and I ask for your approval this evening. Is there a motion to approve the second and final reading of the 2026 2027 general fund budget in the amount of 74,439,675 with the understanding that no more than $223,136 of the fund balance will be used to balance the budget. The budget does not include a mill increase by second by Miss Johnson. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. No. And motion carries. And I will say as Miss Walter stated during
047the public hearing that we really appreciate you and your staff's work and Dr. Brandham's work on this budget. We knew we knew coming in that it was going to be tight and we had goals that we wanted to meet and what we wanted to do for our employees, keep the burden off the taxpayers as well. and we spent most of our I'm not going to call it a retreat, our our Saturday work session on this budget and uh >> and more and uh I think I think um it was fair to all appreciate your you and your staff's work. >> Thank you team effort. I appreciate y'all's pleasure. All right, next item uh is regarding our TSSE. As you heard from Mr. Britain tonight, uh that's a project that we're able to do that resulted
048in savings from the White Hill Middle School bid. And so that one is going to be fast and furious to get that complete. And so one of the first things we have to do is put out a um package for the interior demo for that building. And that will have to take place over the summer. And so we're asking for the authority as we put that bid out for us to have the administration to go ahead and approve that demo package um so that we can move forward because time is of the essence. So I ask for your approval this evening. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve district administration to award TSC construction interior and demolition package? I move that we approve the motion for the interior and also to to note that
049this is only part of the amendment. >> Have a motion on Miss Johnson. >> Second by Miss. All in favor say I. >> Oppose. No. Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Agar. Now, we will turn it over to superintendent, Dr. Brown. >> All right. Thank you. Um, so first item tonight is a subreient risk assessment. You might go, what in the world is that? Um, well, it deals with finance and audits and cost principles and federal awards. Um, and the state department of education looking at the integrity and well-being of our financial situation. looks at key personnel, fiscal compliance, performance, financial stability systems, um, and all the audits that we go through both on the state and federal level. Um, and once again, as in many, many, many years previous, um, this district
050received the highest score you can get, which is a 10, which is considered low risk. And that is because we have an incredible, um, person who leads that and also her entire staff, um, Miss Amy Hagner. Um, I will say having worked in in education South Carolina for 30 years, this is not something that just is easily given. It is earned. Um, and so I just want to give kudos to to Miss Hagner and her department. Um, as I said, um, this risk assessment is something that is multifaceted. It looks at all parts and is sometimes seeing the media um, use of public funds. Well, I can say that we are serving our taxpayers well um, and and doing well in our schools because We use every penny wisely. Um, and so that's something I'm
051very proud of. I want to share with the board tonight. >> And the only other thing I have for that, people say that we don't work in the summer, but that's not true. Um, just to give you some updates. So, tomorrow we're really excited. Um, we're going to be at Winth University, our executive team, all of our principles, assistant principles. We have a day of two days of leadership training, nuts and bolts. um to kind of reflect on our past year and plan for the next year. Um we then have quite a few folks from the district level and um from our schools going to the athletes CASSA conference um where we network with other administrators um and leaders across South Carolina. So it's a very um we also have two groups this year who
052are presenting um at the conference and I'm forgetting who they are. So I know one is Maddie Hughes. Where are you Maddie? Is Maddie? not here, but Maddiey's presenting along with the team and Megan >> and Jessica are presenting both of their presentations. And that's a big honor. Like um you see school districts who are leading the way. They're the ones who were chosen uh to present these conferences. So I'm very proud of of them number one for putting in um an application to be accepted and and it's a rigorous process to be accepted. So two of our schools and district staff are going to be recognized um as leaders in in amazing ways. And so I'm very proud of that and u very excited for them. As you know, July 4th is uh coming
053up as well. Um and we um the city of York will be hosting all kind of activities on the campus of York Middle School. Um so we're excited to be able to host that um in partnership with them. Um we also July 8th and 9th uh this district has had a tradition um of having an administrative retreat. We did not do that. We did it in the house last year. Um we are doing that this year through the professional learning committee conference where where we're able to send all of our schools and teams of teachers to Charlotte. It's actually here in Charlotte regionally. Um our operations teams, finance and others are going to be doing leadership and training and then we're going to converge. But that's July 8th and 9th. Um so that's an exciting
054opportunity for us. would also like to thank um Dean um he's put together a police training exercise with the sheriff's department city of York that'll be hosted at Cotton Belt on July 13th. So we're excited about that partnership and integrating those services and helping us become better at what we do when it comes to emergencies and crisis. Hope we never have to use it. Um believe it or not, July 21st and 23rd is our new employee orientation. teachers return on July 27th and our district convocation is on July 31st. August 3rd is our first day of school. So, the runway is short, but we're going to have fun. We have lots of training and opportunity. And as I say all the time, uh for school one, the best is still yet to come. And that,
055I believe, is all I have tonight. other than in your packet, you'll see the called or the regular meeting dates um for next year's board meetings. >> All right. Do we have any comments from the board members? I would just like to say thanks to all of our adited for next year, but enjoy your short I know he's listening. He's at the beach. I appreciate everybody's efforts. I know it's summer time and y'all are still having to work. So, everybody here, thank y'all a little extra for being here. We appreciate have a great summer. We'll see y'all, I guess, in August. >> I want to thank you guys as well. Had a great year and hope have another another great year next year. And let the record show, we finish this meeting in 45 minutes.
056That's a record. >> Do we have a motion or need for executive session? >> Seeing as we don't, is there a motion to adjourn? >> So move forjournot by M. Johnson, second by MA. All in favor say I. >> Oppos? No. We are now.