001Okay. [Music] Did you move on my my thing, right? Mhm. Okay. Okay. That's ready to rock and roll. Let's do it. All right, let's roll. I'd like to call to order tonight's Before County School Board meeting for July 10th, 2025. Miss Johnson, if you will, please take roll call. Mr. Mhill here. Mr. Daniels here. Mrs. Pedroan. Mr. Es Mr. Sill. Mr. Hullbrook here. Dr. Hub here. Ms. Excuse me, Mrs. Pervis. Here. Mr. Chairman, you have a quorum. Thank you, Miss Johnson. I apologize. I should have notified you. Mr. Esill did let me know that he would not be here tonight. All right. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? So moved. Have a motion by Mr. Daniels. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Miss Pervvis. Any discussion? All those
002in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right. Agenda is approved. All right. If you will please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. Will you please join me for a moment of silence? Thank you. All right. Uh staff reports 2.01, superintendent report. Mr. Depair, good evening and welcome to summer. um at least somewhere for a little while for especially for those sitting to my right. Uh we'll be back in session in the next month or so. But I'd like to um start tonight by uh discussing some of the changes that are taking place uh in the division. Um first of all
003identify three new elementary principles and several uh central office leadership positions. And also just to follow up, uh the executives and the principles have been really uh busy over the last two to three weeks uh with approximately seven assistant principal positions because once you start moving people, you it's a dominoes and and so we've been um very diligent in going through many resumeumés and many interviews. And so I'd like to start by uh just announcing those publicly and I know they've already to some extent been announced in our school division. But there are three new elementary principles. One at Huleston Elementary. Uh that will be Miss Lisa Wilson who is coming to to us from an AP position at Goodview Elementary. Uh New London Academy new principal Dr. Jennifer Klene comes to us from an
004AP position at Liberty High School. and Thomas Jefferson uh has a new principal, Dr. Kelly Baldwin, who was principal of Dunar Middle in Lynchburg City. There's also three um positions that are have been filled in the central office and support staff and that is Sarah Yoast, coordinator of data and planning was an AP at Liberty Middle School. Jessica Shenko is coordinator of secondary counseling and testing and she comes from a lead counselor's position and we're excited to have a new supervisor of transportation in Jeffrey Lee. Um this week uh the administrators have been busy. Uh we've had our second phase of administrative training. Um and so this week the coverage was pretty much into the instructional side. We had one in June 8th and 9th and it was into the operational side. And so this
005week the administrators spent two full days at um CVCC in Bedford discussing programming, instruction, sped uh support, student services and an overall discussion of academic expectations of 2526 school year. Um this is uh again the second phase of complimentary to our first which was more operational campus safety, security, technology and school policies that relate to clinics. Um I'd also again like to thank CVCC for allowing us to come in and take over their property for those two days. Uh it's always wellreceived when and we get a fresh location and um great discussions. I'd also like to thank uh the departments under student services uh with Mr. Tucker and also Dr. Trosper in instruction. They did a phenomenal job of preparing our principles and administrators on the changes that are happening in Virginia. Um the rest
006of what I'd like to talk about is really coming out of summer and moving into the new school season. new teacher and staff orientation. We'll see about right now about 150 new employees coming into Bedford County. And this takes place on August 4th and 5th, Monday and Tuesday with a two-day orientation and introduction. Um, teacher work week or preparation week for the 2526 school year is planned for Wednesday, August 6 through Tuesday, August 12th on each school's campus. Parents are encouraged to attend during that week uh second phase of that week and end this kickoff with an open house on their campuses August 11th from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. This is a great opportunity for parents and uh to be able to meet their new administrators and also to meet their teachers and we
007look forward to seeing you and spending quality time with you on that day. First day of school is Wednesday, August 13th and you'll hear this again next month in a meeting. Um, we're excited to welcome our administrator, staff, faculty, and most importantly, our students back on that particular day. I would send this reminder out to students and parents who use the bus transportation that you make sure that you confirm your bus routes. Make sure that you confirm your locations of pickup and drop off. And if you choose to drop off and pick up, as happens with any new school year, uh, the first several days are pretty hectic. So, make sure that you understand all of your drop off and pickup times. Um, I'd like to encourage all of us um to welcome the new
008staff as they as we get on campus, but also um just really look forward to a great year. We anticipate that we will have some strong scores on so and we're excited about where we're going. Reminder, and I don't think a lot of people know this, so I'm going to say it every single time I get the chance to open my mouth. Last year we scored out um previous year at 36th in the state. I think that's overwhelming and I think it's something that we should spend a little more time um talking about. But 36th in the state of 131 school divisions that is a great accomplishment and I would give a lot of that credit to those individual groups in the central office the executive team who is constantly uh tweaking what we have
009to do for the state. And as I go county to county and and division division over time and go to division meetings um with other superintendent, they often will ask the question h what are you doing to get to this level? And so um it's one of the discussions that I would like to continue to have with divisions is how we can work together as divisions to not only learn what they do better, but also what we do better. And so I'm very proud of what has been accomplished this year and I think that um we have great opportunity to continue that this year. Open house until 7. Oh yes. Well, that's even better. Open house runs till 7. Oh, okay. Um so it's 12 to 7. So that gives parents the time to get
010there after work. Um that concludes my report. Uh again, welcome to everyone. We're getting close to the new start of the school year and looking ex excitedly for that. Um can't wait to have students back on our campuses and um that thank you very much. Sure. 2.02 end of year financials. Mr. Haggler. Yes. Good. Good evening. Um met with the finance committee earlier this week to review um several things. One of those is the end of year financials. This is a preliminary report uh pre- audit. So there may be some numbers that change by the uh once the audit's done uh and any correcting entries that need to be done. But uh this is a first glimpse of how we ended the year and all of our funds in the operating fund. We'll kind of
011start there. You can see that in our revenues. Uh we came in about a little over a million dollars under budget there. So pretty strong year. Um most of that due to some federal funds that were overbudgeted uh in CAR's Act that uh we didn't have any more money left there. and in the state drop off due to some enrollment and also sales tax. So, a little bit over a million dollars under budget off $125 million budget. So, pretty close on that. Um on the next page, we have the expenditures. And on the expenditures, a little bit more explanation is needed. Um $2.9 million under budget on the expenditure side. So, we did fairly well there. But with the expenditure side, you have to remember that we we budgeted in all the money for allin.
012Uh the state's already given us that money two years ago. Uh that has to be expended by the end of next year. So any of those funds that have not been spent were budgeted in last year, but we didn't spend them all. So we have about 1.7 million uh yet to spend on that that will carry over to next year. So I have to deduct that 1.7 million off of that 2.9 million under expenditure budget. So when you put all that together, coming in under budget on the revenues, under budget on the expenditures, and accounting for the all-end, my ending balance I'm projecting for the operating fund is about $108,000. So off$125 million, $108,000 remaining. Um can't call it closer than that. And so um as uh Mr. Hill was saying, do I have sleepless
013nights in the month of May and June? I do. But um we're putting as much as the money to work in the schools as we can with very little reserves. So very pleased that we ended the year so strong there. I'll be happy to answer questions on the operating fund there. The next few pages have a little bit more details and then we'll go to some of the other funds on the back page. But any questions on the expenditures or revenues on the operating funds? Okay, we'll go over to the other funds now. Um, in board docs, it's the last page on the financial report, the nutrition fund. Um, some of the board members remember from last year, we ran a deficit last year, um, near over a million dollars on that fund. And so,
014we gave that a lot of attention this year. Uh, brief the finance committee on some of those, and we've been watching that fund and the, um, the expenditures and revenues in there. U,, we're projecting about a $392,000 loss this year. Um, I think that's going to be a little bit better once we get done with some uh final bank reconciliations and journal entries we have to do, but I'm projecting about $350,000 loss. Uh, we'll continue to keep an eye on this um as it's supposed to be a self-funded type of program, but um the inflation over the last three or four years have really hit us hard and we're doing everything we can to mitigate that and get it back to where we're breaking even on this. Uh we will be reducing some staff members
015next year uh which will help um um overcome some of this and there will be an increase in some meal prices for next year which we brief the finance committee on. So uh this is one that uh is given us concern but the finance committee is keeping an eye on eye on that. We'll be given a more detailed school by school profit and loss uh at our next meeting. Uh so that's the nutrition fund. I'll pause on each one of these and see if there's any questions that you might have. Yes, ma'am. I know that there's been some some um legislation coming down from the federal government about dyes and stuff and putting that has has this budget is this a reflection of changing those things and the budget's built based on um our our
016most current and what we're trying to get accomplished. We do have reserves. So, if like we had we operated at a loss, but we had built up reserves in previous years where we could absorb that. Um there's several different things coming down with legislation. One is on the dies and so the manufacturers are going to have to retool uh to meet those um requirements and that may be an increase in prices there. Um don't know if tariffs or anything else are going to have but we have to adjust to the expenditures and what things are costing um constantly. I will say that I don't believe the state and the federal government recognizes uh the increase in cost that they're cost that they're giving to us. And so I look at that as an unfunded mandate.
017We're absorbing cost with no more revenue. And so that's hard and that's why it's difficult right now. Another one I briefed the committee on is that I believe the state of Virginia passed that they're trying to get rid of styrofoam. Well, we we serve a lot of our meals with styrofoam plates, so we don't have a dishwasher. The alternative is going to more of a paper or cardboard based uh plate, which is probably three times the cost of styrofoam. So once again, a laws passed. We have to adjust to it. No one's recognizing the increase in cost on that. So that's why we're we're constantly looking through that. But yes, ma'am, uh we'll be watching that and that may impact our bottom line on our expenditures as those vendors may have to increase their cost.
018We're not sure if that's going to happen yet or not. Yeah, Randy, let me just make a comment. You know, we never want to see a loss. $300,000 is is still a big number, but I want to compliment you and your team. Last year it was a million dollar loss. you've got it down to 392,000 with some additional changes that are taking place. Um, again, loss is never good. Uh, but we're moving in the right direction. I just want to say thank you to you and your team for addressing that. So, and in addressing this, we're looking at our cost, but we're also looking at what we're serving, making things more appealing if we can. There's been some thing changes done. We're trying different things at different schools, especially at the high schools where um
019we can drive up the revenues. So, that's the goal. uh increase revenues and and watch our costs. So, um I think the finance committee is optimistic and so am I on this next year and we're going to watch what's happening especially with this fund next year, but it is one that we're a little bit more concerned about. The next uh fund is the textbook fund. Uh this is where we build up funds for major adoptions and also spending uh reoccurring costs for workbooks. um projected um bounce there after backing out a reserve for the math adoption we just did. We have not paid for those. That'll be paid in July. So about $1.4 million for that math adoption. Ending balance projected $861,000. Uh during the budget process, I do project out five years to make
020sure we have enough money for all the adoptions that are coming up. So this fund's in good shape. Even it's even though it's at 861, it'll build back up for our next adoption, I think, in two years. Um, is our next adoption, sorry, is that for history next year? Is it next year? Um, I'd have to look I'll look that up and check here in a minute. Um, it might be history that's the next one. And so, we are going to need to add to this but this balance. Uh, there'll be money coming in next year for this to build that back up. We put local and state money in here. So that will this is what we have to carry over and then there will be an additional I think we're putting I think
021600,000 locally in here and there's almost 900,000 coming in from the state next year. So that will build back up to allow us to do that adoption. Yeah. Maintenance reserve fund um the facility committee and um works through this. I think at the last board meeting which I wasn't here at there was a presentation done on all the projects we're doing this summer. Our maintenance crew is very busy. Um it's quite hot out there, but we're getting a lot accomplished. Um I'm just going to talk to the the bounds here when we have um at our August meeting, we'll have an update from the facility committee, talk to M um Matt Hullbrook uh before we came in and they will brief you on how did all the projects go this summer. Uh making sure that
022we met the deadline to come in on school. So we'll give you a detailed report on everything that we got done this summer. Um, but on financial standpoint, ending balance that we're carrying over is about 9.1 million. I will say almost all that and in and some above that is going to be dedicated towards the Liberty High School and Stant River High School HVAC renovations. Each one of those could be 5 to 6 million each. We'll have additional money going in there next year on top of this that will help pay for those, but those are the next two projects. those are already being worked up by our engineers and we'll put those out for bid in the fall and we'll report to the facility committee on those and they'll look over those bid results.
023So, a lot of that money is already committed for those two projects next year. So, we're in good shape there. We do have money coming into the account for the next few years until reversion ends and then we'll have to address the issue going forward beyond that. But we have the money for the next two or three years to do the projects we have on our CIP. And the last fund is the selfinssured health fund. Um like the nutrition fund, this is one that's been concerning. Um the previous year our reserves went down by 2 million and this last year they went down by another 2.2 million. So uh two years ago I had about six over $6 million in reserves. The ending balance at the end of this past year was 2 6 million.
024Uh we did go up our health insurance rates by 10% next year. That will pump in another million dollars in premiums into this account. Um I'm hoping that these um these costs can come down. Typically, you have a bad year. Uh what really hits your account every five, six, seven years. We've had two bad years in a row. So, I'm hoping for a better year next year. Um but once again, inflation and other things have really hit us hard. I think um the inflation and some of the pharmaceuticals have really hit it hard. So, uh finance committee has uh we've we're talking about different ideas to mitigate uh look at different options and so we'll continue to keep our eye on this. Um long-term um we'll have to continue to go up on our premiums
025um if these uh costs continue to come in like this. Um with our self-insured fund, we do have a stop-loss that if a claim goes over a certain amount that we get reinsurance from. Uh we had a bad year where we got no stop-loss reimbursements. So all the claims were under that um which is $275,000. So no claims went over $275. So we had to pay for all those. So this is another one like the nutrition fund we're keeping a close eye on and we're looking for everything that we can do to mitigate that and make sure we keep the reserves that we need. But watching 4 million flow out over two years has been concerning. Be happy to answer any questions you might on that fund. Okay. All right. Thank you. Um, we'll go
026to number 6.01, approval of policy updates presented at the June 12th, 2025 board meeting. Mr. Pair Intergovernmental Affairs Committee met on June 5th, 2025 to review proposed revisions to the following policies for approval. First is CLA, reporting acts of violence and substance abuse. Next, FG, Retirement of Facilities. GBR, Voluntary Retirement Savings Program. IKF, the Virginia Assessment Program and Graduation Requirements. JC, School Attendance Areas, JC, School Admission, JM, Restraint and Seclusion of Students, LBD, Home Instruction, and LC Charter Schools. Motion to approve the policies as presented at the June 12th, 2025 board meeting. Move. Second. Second by Mr. Daniels. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Policies are approved. All right. Do I have a motion to go into close session? Mr. Chair, I make a motion that pursuant to
027code of Virginia 2.2-3711A1 for the discussion, consideration, or interviews of prospective candidates for employment, assignment, appointment, promotion, performance, demotion, salaries, disciplining, or resignation of specific employees of Bedford County Public Schools. I have a motion by Mr. Daniels. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Miss Pervvis. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? We're now in close session. Power recognition. Yep. Josh stage walk right up. All right. Do I have a motion to come out of close session? So moved. Have a motion by Mr. Daniels. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Hullbrook. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed. All right. We are out of close session. Miss Johnson, if you will certify. Whereas the Bedford County School Board has
028convened a closed meeting on this date pursuant to an affirmative recorded vote in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and where section 2.2-3712D of the code of Virginia required a certification by this school board that such closed meeting was conducted in conformity with Virginia law. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Bever County School Board hereby certifies that to the best of each member's knowledge, only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements by Virginia law were discussed in the closed meeting to which the certification applies, and only such public business matters as were identified in the motion convening the closed meeting were heard, discussed, or considered. Yes. All right. Uh we will go to recognitions. Mr. Chair, vice chair, Mr. Please come forward on the stage to greet
029our [Music] All right. Thank you to everyone for joining us tonight to celebrate these wonderful students and staff for their accomplishments recently. Befford Bedford County definitely has showed off in the last of the last school year. We're going to start off with the Central Virginia Regional Middle School Science Fair. It was held earlier in May at Heritage High School. There were 86 middle school students that presented their projects representing Amherst, Appamatics, Bedford, Campbell Counties, as well as Lynchburg City. While Bedford County had multiple winners, we have one here to celebrate this evening. This outstanding achievement reflects your hard work, curiosity, and a strong passion for science. So, please join me in congratulating Mr. Jace Carter from Stanton River Middle School for placing second in the physics category. [Applause] Congratulations. All right. Next are our PTA
030reflection winners. We have both state and national winners here tonight. The 2024 2025 PTA reflections contest was accepting imperfections. This contest asks students to create and submit original works of art in the areas of dance choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography, and visual arts. Students are evaluated on the creativity, technique, and interpretation for their artworks at the county, state, and national levels, earning medals, scholarships, and certificates of excellence. Again, while BCS had many winners at all levels, a few are here to celebrate this evening. Students, I will call your name and describe your amazing achievement. Once you've walked on stage and been congratulated, please stand and wait for a group picture with all of you. We're going to start with Benjamin Messer from Liberty High School, who took home the state title of outstanding
031interpretation in film category. We also have Jasmine Diaz from Stanton River High School who won the award for excellence for accessible arts at the state level. You can go ahead and go. Go ahead and go. And our last student to be rec recognized is Everett Graham, Liberty High School, who won the award of excellence at the national level after winning the outstanding interpretation at state level in photography. And I also want to recognize Miss Stella Osborne who took the time to organize all of these wonderful um entries and put on a great um now I can't even think of what it's called. Awards ceremony. That's what she did. Thank you. All right. Next up, we have the team who enters the room with a bang of a drum. That is. Earlier this year, the JF
032indoor percussion team made championship level noise by taking home the gold at the AIA championship. Their rhythm was unstoppable and beats were unbeatable. So, way to go to the students and staff from Force Middle School as well as JF High School who participated in this incredible accomplishment. There are way too many of them to name. So, team [Applause] All right, we're going to come from Congratulations. Thank you so much. Has been pushed off the stage. [Music] All right, we are staying in the forest zone for the rest of the evening. Next up, we're celebrating Forest Middle School's Odyssey of the Mind team for thinking their way straight to first place at the Virginia State Tournament this year. With wild creativity and problem solving skills, you outwitted and out imagined the competition. Way to turn brain
033power into a blue ribbon. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Last but not least, we have a familiar face here tonight. We have the Forest Middle School drone zone team. This team is made up of students from Forest Middle School, Jefferson Forest High School, and TJ Elementary School. They recently competed at the RECC Foundation Aerial Drone Competition and earned skills champion. The skills pilot individually scored the highest points of any middle or high schooler in the nation. The elementary school's teams were the only elementary school to qualify in the entire region. The team was chosen as an alliance partner for the playoffs and Miss Watson was awarded coach of the year. The high school ranked number five overall for skills and number three for coding. So, please join me in welcoming the skills pilot Bennett Lichfield and
034Miss Watson, coach of the year. [Applause] Thank you. Congratulations. [Applause] Mr. Chairman, this concludes student staff and recognition. No, thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. I'll edit it. I'll send it to you. Thank you. Public comment portion of tonight's agenda is limited to 40 minutes. Speakers are asked to state their name and voting district. The school board is here to listen to your comments, but will not engage or respond to speakers during this 40-minute period. Please remember that this is a public meeting and that we expect all speakers to refrain from any foul, profane, abusive, or hateful language during their comments or anytime while in attendance during this meeting. We also ask that speakers keep their remarks objective and about the school in nature. Please keep all comments limited to matters related to the public
035schools and any comments that are harassing or amount to a personal attack against any identifiable individual, whether board member or staff or student or having the potential to cause unnecessary delay or disruption to this meeting are prohibited. This is a public meeting for public matters. If a speaker is not present when their name is called, we will proceed with the next name on the list. An individual who has not signed up to speak may not substitute for that time slot. Individuals will have four minutes to address the board. An alarm will sound when an individual has 30 seconds remaining and a second alarm will sound when the allotted four minutes have expired. When the second alarm sounds, please discontinue speaking and allow the next person in line to come to the podium. Should you be
036unable to finish your comments, please send or give them to Miss Johnson and she will give them to board members. Please do not adjust the microphone at the podium as it has been positioned for optimum audio quality. Uh, first name is Kelly Harmony. Hello, I'm Kelly Harmony and I reside in District 6. Thank you all for serving on the Beford County School Board. Um, I know what your job is. I actually sat in that seat at one time. So, thank you for what you do because I know it can be a thankless job. Um, I am, as I stated, Kelly Harmony. I am the program director for Lifewise Academy for Bedford County. Lifewise is a release time religious instruction program. It has been around since 2018 and this is made possible by a Supreme Court
037ruling in 1952 with three stipulations. This program must be conducted off school premises, privately funded and parent permitted. We plan to launch this program in October with Liberty Middle School being the first program. Students would attend this program once a week during lunch or their elective block. the children students would be busted um to Bedrock Bedford which is on Main Street across from Bellis. Um we are going to start enrollment soon. Um this is a program that is covered in your current policies. Um so we just appreciate your attention to this matter. Um just wanted to bring forward our plans and appreciate your support. Thank you. There are no other slots filled at this time. Is there anyone who's present that would like to speak? All right. Seeing none, I will close out public comment.
038All right. Uh, do I have a motion for the approval of the consent agenda? Have a motion by Mr. Daniels. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Hullbrook. Any discussion? All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? All right. The consent agenda is approved. Um, Miss Johnson, I have a um process question. So, the board needs to go back into close session. So, do I need to do that after matters from the board or can we do it now if I have a motion? Have a motion. You can do it at any time. Um, do you have the code that you need for Yes, it will be the same code as you can do it at any time. You don't have to wait until after uh matters
039from the board. You could do it before if you would like. Do I have a motion to go into close session? Mr. Chair, pursuant to code of Virginia 2.2-37118 uh1 for the discussion. We go into close session for the discussion, consideration or interviews of prospective candidates for employment, assignment, appointment, promotion, performance, demotion, salaries, disciplining, or resignation of specific employees of Bedford County Public Schools. So I have a motion by Mr. Daniels. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Hullbrook. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? We are back in close session. That's not good. Were you hanging upside down? Cut traction. All right. Do I have a motion to come out of close session? So moved. So we have a motion by Mr. Daniels. Do I have
040a second? Second. Second by Mr. Hullbrook. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right. We are out of close session. Miss Johnson, if you will certify. We're at the Bedford County School Board has convened a closed meeting on this date pursuant to an affirmative recorded vote in in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. And where section 2.2-3712D 2-3712D of the code of Virginia requires a certification by this school board that such close meeting was conducted in conformity with Virginia law. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Beer County School Board hereby certifies that to the best of each member's knowledge. Only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements by Virginia law were discussed in the closed meeting to which this certification
041applies. And only such public business matters as were identified in the motion convening the closed meeting were heard, discussed, or considered. Yes. All right. Uh next up is committee reports. Uh Mr. or Dr. Hubach, we'll start it with you. Uh we did not meet as a curriculum committee in the month of July yet. So, well, we skipped June's meeting and we'll meet on July 22nd. Well, we haven't met for Gov School or STEM Academy since the last time either. So, did you want to give some updates on what's going on with Gov School um as far as per personnel and the process of what you're trying to drive? Um, so the gov school chairman, could could we have all board members make sure they speak into the microphone? Just not picking up on the streaming,
042please. The gov school is um we were we found out that Dr. Smith will be retiring next after next year. So the gov school is um the school the gov school board. Um, we're putting together a process to um to find a new superintendent or I guess it's called the the clerk or director. Um, and so that meeting for that will be August 6th when we will discuss what the processes will be. And then um because Dr. Smith is the math teacher there as well as the director. We would have to either hire somebody who is a math person to take all of his classes as well or if they're a science person then there would have to be some shuffling going on. So um so yeah so that's that's the the gist of that.
043Mr. James, uh, IGA has not met. Um, I think we will be setting um, we will be setting a schedule hopefully tonight to to come up with the next um, IGA meeting uh, here pretty soon. Uh, we have not had a facility or PPE meeting since the last meeting or maybe even before that. As Randy said, we're going to have one in August, an update on everything and then uh, I don't believe C the CTE has met either. Okay. Any school? Okay. All right. Good deal. Um and then uh as far as the finance committee, uh we did meet this past Tuesday. Um we had a really good meeting. Uh some of the topics we talked about was of course the end of year finance, um financial analysis. Um we're looking at nutrition. Uh as
044we talked about tonight, we've got a $300,000 deficit. um you know which again it's improvement over the million dollars from last year but there are still some opportunities where uh we had some good discussion with our nutrition manager and uh we're seeing some really positive changes. Um we talked about the nutrition prices um which um are going up this year um you know again with a quarter right okay I didn't have to look Mr. Daniels, help me. Uh so that'll be going up for breakfast and lunch uh a quarter u for our students. Um we talked about the health insurance uh consultant and looking at that and just really going through options uh as health insurance continues to rise. Um you know, are there other partnerships that we should be looking at? um you know,
045what are our options as far as partnering with other uh divisions uh and uh being able to control pricing uh for for us as a school system, but also for our employees and uh you know, some of the topics that we, you know, looked at was possibly, you know, tiering uh what we're charging our employees based on uh salary. So, we'll uh more to come on that as we continue to to look into um the health insurance. Um Mr. Haggler is uh working to get us a solar analysis. We've got two schools where we have solar. Uh really interested in is that paying off? Um was it a benefit? You know, are we um you know, really trying to compare? Like for example, Good View's got the solar panels. uh are we paying less at
046good view versus what we are paying at TJ and it's the same size school uh sister sister sister sister sister sister sister building so trying to do an analysis of how does that u pay off um let's see here um next meeting is August 19th uh and so we'll do our next finance meeting uh on August 19th So, all right. Uh, comments and concerns from school board members. Kathleen, we'll start with you. Any comments? No. Okay. Mr. Hullbrook. No, sir. Mr. Daniels, I'm good. Good. Miss Ferbus, Dr. Hub, pressing. All right. I don't have anything either. All right. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? So move. Before you do that, can I make my adjustment? Uh, yes, sir. I didn't I I was kind of going off of the cuff here and and going
047through the the training of the last two months and I would be remiss if I mentioned some department heads and I didn't mention others and because they all put in a ton of work but even when you go back to the June you can you talk about Paul um Nzigan who has done an incredible job and just trying to bring security and school campus safety together. Kelly Thomas and the clinic and nurses um and Kelly Jennings on sped. Um you know, you've heard me say this before, these individuals, um have put so much time into making sure that we put the best product out there for our kids and our school campuses. So, I just I want to applaud them for what they've done in their leadership. Thank you. Uh Mr. Hullbrook, do I still
048have a motion to adjurnn? Yes, sir. All right. So, I have a motion by Mr. Hullbrook. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Daniels. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right. We are adjourned.