00124 regular board meeting of the Fenton Community High School District 100 board to order may I have a roll call figuroa here Goodridge here hay kovak Lewis here rinsky here Rego here we have a Corum please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance The Pledge of Allegiance the FL of the United States of America to the for stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all s please read our Fenton Mission beliefs and bikes and weight statements Fenton Mission Fenton mission statement cultivates successful passionate empowered Learners through rigor relevance in relationships Fenton belief statement successful passionate empowered Learners Thrive when we provide a safe caring and welcoming environment diversity equity and inclusion unify our community school and home collaborate as one we Champion Innovative teaching and engaged learning with state-of-the-art facilities we
002Infuse social emotional learning in academics and culture we prepare students to fulfill their civic responsibility we immerse students in authentic life experiences the Bison way students and adults at Fenton High School create a safe caring empathetic environment where we believe in each other respect diversity communicate openly grow together and hold each other to high expectations to become the leaders and innovators of the future we will now open the public hearing for the 2024 tax levy Bruce will you please present the details okay thank you very much um we are here to here we go taxt public hearing prender to property tax levy um so a couple of these slides uh just to for warn you you've seen him before but um and that's there's a reason for that and that is there hasn't really been
003any change since the October tenative Levy was approved by the board to put on uh uh publication so just to run through these the 2024 Levy every year school districts are allowed uh through the property tax uh limitation law in Illinois or pels we've refer to it as to increase property tax Le tax levy by up to the amount of the Consumer Price Index which is the CPI inflation or 5% whichever number is lower uh as you all know and have heard the CPI for the 2024 Lev is 3 3.4% and in addition to that uh the C to the CPI increase the district can capture any new property that comes on the tax rols so in 2024 the proposed tax levy of 31 mil 79419 and those are the tax cap funds that represents
004a 5.4% increase or 1,629 419 uh and that does include a buffer to ensure that the district captures all new property growth and we are aware of two uh tiffs that are coming on the tax rols um one is not all that valuable but the other one is so uh that's included in that 32 million along with other estimated uh growth uh Pro provided to us by the Addison uh assessor's office uh we also Levy for Debt Service as as you are all aware the Page County Clerk automatically extends that amount of taxes required to meet the payment schedule for each debt issue for The Debt Service fund and in 2024 that uh amount will be $738,000 again pel will limit the actual Levy extension so that's uh does its function and and that's in
005place for those reasons uh because we are over 5% a hearing is required which is what this is right now of course um and then as I mentioned the levy request is unchanged from the recommendation presented at the October 23rd board meeting so the adoption calendar uh o October 23rd we know what we did there we uh approved it uh to put on display uh we did do that and approved the hearing date which is tonight the truth and Taxation notice was published in the paper and we'll show you that uh in a few slides here uh on November 10th and that's prescribed at 7 to 14 days before the levy hearing happened so that's it falls within those dates um and then tonight at the November board meeting uh we are having the public
006hearing and and we're recommending adoption of the 24 property tax levy uh to be filed with the compage county clerk and just to give you some insight you've seen this slide before the CPI history um the yellow bar there near the bottom to 3.4% that's what uh the 2024 Levy were legally entitled to uh through pel legislation and those taxes would be paid for the 25 uh fiscal year in 2025 uh uh the 11-year average is at 2.38% and then prior to those 25% um you can see it was at 1.6% um so it was pretty pretty low at that time so the last couple of years we've been fortunate to have a little bit more uh growth in our Levy and then our eavs um the top one there is estimated and again that's
007from the Addison assessor's office the 2024 1 billion 647 95629 96 and that's uh a 7% estimated change uh and then below that prior to those years uh from 23 down are all what the final tax extension rate report was uh and what the eav was at uh during those times so last year we had a good year we had uh another uh Tiff come on the roll so that 8.1% was uh uh a good uh increase um and quite a bit more double than the previous year yes sir just a quick question I just trying to understand this a little better the reason reason you get these increases at 8.1 and 7 just because the tips are coming off is that it um well yeah that would be part of the the total value
008of the property up up until it's once it comes on the tax rules it would be included in there yes okay all right um and then just a depiction you've seen this before but the uh extension is in blue versus the levy so the levy is what uh is typically higher we've levied higher than what our extension is just because we don't know what new property is going to be exactly so as you can see all throughout those years uh the blue line is slightly less than the orange bar um but it just shows you the pel legislation in action and how that protects the taxpayer with that legislation and then the this is the 2020 3 and 2024 proposed tax levy and the 23 is the final tax extension so we've got the funds
009on the left side U the final tax rate um for the uh operating funds and then the tax extension for 20123 uh if you look all the way down at the bottom the third column from the left that 30, 16681 that is the actual extension for our CA funds for last year and that's what we build the next year's Levy the 202 before Levy is built off of that um so that uh 5.4% brings you to that 31 milon 79419 and that's that $1.6 million change uh we probably believe it'll be something less than that um but we're not certain so that's why we do what we do with that um and then we have projected rates there uh the column all the way over uh second from the left column uh the projected rate
010based on that eavi showed on the previous screen um so the rate is projected to go down slightly 1. 19291 all the way there on the bottom under 2024 projected rate um and we ended with a 1. n583 uh for the Capp funds and then of course this is The Debt Service fund um what that looks like so that's uh the actual extension was at 753 131 uh the rate was 053 before uh the propos levy and this is right off the debt service schedule that of the payments $738,000 that's down slightly 2 just over 2% so when you factor in um The Debt Service uh extension and the uh cap levies it brings it to a 5.21% uh change uh in from the 2023 extension so the total Levy would be that 32 mil
011528 419 under the 2024 proposed Levy yes sir I ask something else yeah there's the there's a calculation that you get because of the the CPI and some other stuff that becomes your limit but as I continue to learn a little bit more about this you get a you can get a bump in that because of because of uh Debt Service they let you have another they apply like a loss factor to it I think it's 1% is what they apply yeah and they automatically apply that the county we don't do that they do that no okay so all right that's fine thanks okay so that is the end of it uh we will ask the board to act on resolutions later this evening to formally adopt the levy and then we of course would
012file that with theage County Clerk it's due the last Tuesday of uh December December we're well ahead of that um so we will file that with the clerk I typically personally drive there have it stamped to make sure they they receive it so um that's the plan this year and uh that's our our timeline any questions on the levy that's one of Bruce's favorite things to do is a drive to the county building I do like that actually are there any questions or not are there any questions or claric ation needed at this time from our audience in [Music] attendance no we will now close the public hearing for the 2024 tax lbel thank you everyone uh next item is recognitions Sam you well it's hard to follow you very much we have a few
013few recognitions tonight uh we're going to start off with Kate Ward and Joselyn Wade all right Joselyn and assistant coaches if you come on up all right this is a big one okay last year jaselyn Wade established herself as one of the best CrossCountry runners in all of Illinois and this year was no different Fenton hosted the upstate 8 conference meet on October 19th and Joselyn took second place setting a new record for being the seventh fastest female to ever run the course and the fastest Fenton female of all time wow Joselyn then qualified for the ihsa cross country state finals after taking second place out of 140 Runners at the November 2nd sectional meet where she finished a head of several Runners from high-profile schools at the November 9th state finals in Poria Jocelyn
014finished 16th Place out of 243 Runners everyone in the top 25 are considered All State Runners Joselyn also finished 16th last year in in state but her time this year was 18 seconds faster a fent and girls cross country Runner has earned the Allstate Runner designation only two times in our school history and both instances are jelyn best of all best of all is she's a junior so we're fortunate to have her passion and dedication for one more year um coach Kack couldn't be with us tonight but we have her assistant coaches Gizelle Garcia and Alexa Flores who are gonna speak even more highly of her than I could good evening everybody my name's uh jaelle Garcia I am coach Alexa Flores I've had the pleasure of coaching Joselyn now for a second year in
015a row um like Mrs Ward stated she is the most incredible athlete I've ever seen come through fence in high school she works hard she's chained all these different records and aside from being such an incredible athlete she is also just the most kind and genuine person that I could ever know that have came has come through Fenson so it has been a true honor coaching her these last two years and I am so excited that I have her for one more so I have I feel a lot of su more success coming her way and we're excited to see what she does us um sure um I just want to thank my coaches because they really push me and they they encourage me and my team um who has been the most supportive team
016ever and it really makes a difference in every competition and yeah should we take pictures over there family if you want to join us please maybe in the second term right yeah maybe yeah I get my card see where she's at conratulations here we go congratulations [Laughter] a future Runner summer camp this year all right there we go all right here we go one two third picture one more here [Music] I'm just kidding [Music] job congratulations [Music] congratulations okay now the next one is to celebrate national school board members day this was November the 15th we are very appreciative to all of our board members and us small token of our appreciation you could see is a little a bun cake so please enjoy feel free to trade if you want a different flavor or
017whatever you want to do but uh all seriousness this is a great group of board members everyone here has uh the best interest of the students in the community at heart and um it's been great for me to to get to know everyone more intimately here over time and I can say that it's a great group to work with you your leadership through a variety of of experiences has been strong and your commitment is strong and uh I know our school Community appreciates that so thank you very much thank you for putting your your trust in me and our administrative team here to lead and uh our future is bright as as you continue in your roles so thank you very much all right so uh we'd also like to uh say thank you to
018Sam uh so on behalf of the Fenton administrative team we'd like to say thank you to Dr Benson for all of his efforts in his role as interm superintendent uh Dr Benson assumed the role of interm superintendent during a very challenging time and through his guidance and Leadership we have worked with our faculty and staff to provide a positive educational experience for our students we appreciate his commitment to the students and staff profession and we wish him continued success in his role thank you Dr Brunson thank you oh got we got a present for you oh I was wondering I mean I I got I got half a Coke here got a Coke and this so thank you thank you sir all right I I'll open it oh my goodness look at that there's something
019else y right try not to lose them all in the same round thank you very much oh that's nice thank you appreciate it Cameron do we have any public comments tonight no we do not our next item is informational Sam oh I'm sorry I looking at my gift okay you guys can't distract me with this stuff all right Financial projections we're going to go through here uh in in a little bit then we're also going to go through the uh can we go back a slide please okay thank you so Financial projections Bruce Martin's going to do that then we're going to go through the Illinois school report card data Kate will lead us through that uh the stem wi update um and also foas and then we do have an other category here in
020a little bit so Bruce will turn it over to you with financial projections that's the end of the presentation that was really short did you enjoy that yeah Sam said to go fast yeah your best presentation agree here we go okay uh this might look a little familiar we looked at this earlier this evening but uh I'll go through it again um uh we'll start with the historical summary of our financial projections um you see the revenue versus expenses and how they've trended since 2016 through 2024 and you see the uptick there in 21 22 23 uh really that was attributed to our cppt is what we talked about earlier and and how that uh dramatically dropped um this this year that we're in now and it's expected to level out uh at that lower
021level going forward so um that's kind of what what it's uh done uh since uh 2016 uh how our uh expenses and revenues have fared um our Capital Investments I think some of you may or all of you may be remember uh we had some construction back in 2015 16 the front entryway the front offices um we did some classrooms uh that was the last major project we did was was back in those days and uh it was just finishing up uh the year I came on board so that was uh exciting to be here and experiencing some of that uh although it's near the end so um and then we haven't done a lot in between those years up until 2023 and 2024 as we know um we've done the water mitigation project which
022the board approved and was uh greatly needed and then we also are of course are doing the stem addition um that is well underway right now um and we did uh sell uh the capital expenses are 24 uh million for this year uh budgeted uh or I'm sorry between 2018 and 2024 that's what we spent uh we have spent about 8.3 million uh towards the storm water mitigation project um and then we did sell $32 million uh 32.4 million in debt certificates uh last fiscal year to fund the stem wi addition our historical fund balances um you can see they have been building over the last few years uh they dropped slightly in 2024 um just the the the primary fund balance and then our cap capital reserve fund balance of course put us over
023that 60 million Mark with the addition of the debt certificate so that's why that spiked up in 2024 and the forecast just based on where we think we're going uh based on the information we have uh as of today uh CPI growth we know we just talked about that 3.4% uh we are projecting a 2 and a half% thereafter uh in the assumptions for the tax through the end of this projection through 2028 th corporate personal property replacement taxes is uh decreasing by $925,000 in 2025 the state uh made an error there with an overpayment so they are reducing our payments going forward us and most of the other districts in the state who've received cppt uh and we are projecting it to be flat thereafter uh interest earnings we are expecting to drop we're
024already seeing some drops in interest rates already um and that being a combination of the lower interest rates and less reserves to invest uh we expect that to drop as well um and then eser money this is just a a timing issue it's a a carryover of just a receipts that'll uh we received in this year uh of that $39,000 um state and federal Grant uh revenues will increase in 25 as reimbursable expenses um and then our state and federal Grant revenues are projected to be relatively flat in uh fy2 so the major expense assumptions um we do have three labor agreements um with our teaching staff our support staff and our custodial uh grounds uh maintenance staff um salaries are projected to increase that 5.75 in uh this year and then 4.8% thereafter um
025we do anticipate some decrease if the trends of the drop uh decline enrollment continue to happen and that's built into the projection uh employee benefits are projected to increase 7.8% this year and 6% thereafter um you know we obviously will adjust that as we get more information available uh and it becomes available to us uh purchase services are projected to increase 4,25 primarily due to special ed Transportation uh bus leases and software licensing um the district will uh spend the remain debt certificates and you know there is a timing issue there so the debt certificates have to be spent within a 3-year period might be a little bit longer than that but there is a defined period that you can spend the funds down with so uh obviously you know the the bulk of that
026will be spent with the stem project uh happening um and then The Debt Service uh payment that will come out of operating funds of that 2.45 million we've already uh made uh a partial payment in July uh we'll have another payment in in January of this year um and then that'll continue thereafter through the end of the schedule uh out of District tuition uh which increased uh from 2023 to 2024 it was a big bump of a million dollars uh based on increased needs and transportation costs um and out placements um and then uh it did level off this year but is expected to grow uh about $100,000 annually thereafter um all non- Capal expenses are projected to increase uh 3% annually during the projection period so what does that look like uh historical and
027projected revenues versus expenses um so the Bold line there the zero uh we are below that uh in this year we have a modest deficit as you know um and then our budgeted modest deficit and then going forward uh there are projected deficits through the end of this uh projection period now that's if we change nothing based on what we know today so that's the reason why we do these projections of course is to inform the board so we can be ahead of it make decisions um and plan accordingly so that's kind of what it looks like based if we if we do nothing different and if these things carry out the way uh the projections are showing the assumptions are showing but um we of course would take action uh to prevent us you
028know not having any reserves uh prior to that even happen happening um so the projected fund balances um so that we we're still in in relatively good shape and TI as our fund balances go six months Reserve through the end of this projection period we want to maintain that closely uh we we will continue to monitor that I'm sure my successor will be on top of that as well um but that is kind of what is looking like it is more of on on a downward Trend um between the revenues uh pretty much not growing as quickly as the expens so the future facing the district some of the issues we're dealing with Statewide headwinds uh the real estate tax R is projected to cut in half so we you know the past two years
029we had 5% this year 3.4% which is still relatively decent um but we're we know it's trending this year at around 2.5 now uh and that's what we are expecting it to be well under 3% for this year for the 2025 Levy um cppt will decline uh as we mentioned earlier over 60% for the illinoid Department of of Revenue uh interest earnings are expected to decline as Federal Reserve lowers rates uh and expenses are tied to labor intensive areas of the budget so Transportation special ed are rising well above historical growth levels um our uh labor agreements though are tied to the CPI so that's a good thing um there are other increases for things but um that is you know was intentional and deliberate and and the union certainly all agreed to that as
030well um future budgets um this seems obvious but we'll state it anyhow must support growth in newly agreed upon collective bargaining agreements and annual debt payments on debt certificates so the expected growth uh expenditure growth period over this projection is 4.6% and the revenues are at 1.6% uh which is a you know a variance there that is not what you want to see but that's kind of where we're uh looking at right now as of today based on the information we have here uh that you're seeing and I think that's and of presentation any questions I know you had some earlier but okay okay okay next we have the Illinois school report card report I have to follow Bruce again I know this should have reversed it all right yeah so the Illinois school report
031card so this um every year it is released at the end of October um for every school and just as a reminder um you've seen this every year but it's it's the little house right where uh we have the overall index score so basically there are eight different indicators that each school is measured against um and you can see those eight indicators in the different colors so each school is measured in each of those areas and then on the bottom you can see that each of those eight areas are weighted a little bit differently so for example the graduation rate for high schools is weighted at 50% the state values that most and um you can see that accordingly so that's how it comes up with what your overall score is and I'll remind you
032how that's calculated so um just so you know we are commendable once again which is what we have been in the past uh there are four different designations uh exemplary is the top then commendable uh then there's targeted support and comprehens comprehensive support below commendable so we're in that second tier what it means to be commendable is that we're not in the top 10% of all schools but none of our targets uh targeted student groups which you can see below um are performing at or below 5% of other schools um and our graduation rate must be higher than 67% which is ours is well above that um and again this is just uh the formula as far as how did they get that rating um and the eight different areas and what their weights are
033so once again this year uh this is what our score looks like we're 64.9 four is our index score what we have up in the top right corner is where we were last year so we did have a drop um which we don't want to see but I think one of the things that as we really dug into this data as an administrative team um and started to look at some of it we know that we faced some significant challenges last year that I think certainly played into this but one of the things that we we also have some spots of really good news where I think what we can see is that wherever we're pointing our arrows at at things that we're trying to improve we are seeing that growth there were some things
034last year that were out of our control um our biggest drop was in our Ela proficiency and math proficiency which we'll talk about in our SAT scores those drops weren't dramatic and they actually were in line with what is happening throughout the state but that's kind of where that that drop came from um but overall it's pretty similar to where we were last year so these are a couple of charts where you can see our different subgroups or they call them targeted groups and where we fall compared to all the other high schools in Illinois right so Fenton our index score was 64.9 to be exemplary we would need to be above that 91 so we're not super close to that but the other the good news is that the the group that lower than
035us com comprehensive and targeted that's a 9.34 so we're not close to that all right so we're um you know solidly in the commendable range this is breaking down our targeted groups so this is where our lowincome students fall compared to the rest of the state so similar to our overall and again you can see that dropped a little bit from last year last year's scores up in the top right again here are white students are Hispanic and Latino our English Learners maybe could we just highlight I think that actually was an one of these was no the English our English that was actually an improvement so our two two of our um the subgroups that we've really been focusing on English language Learners that we did see an improvement there compared to the previous
036year and the same with our students with disabilities so those are two areas where we did see our index score with those students did increase so that's positive um and this last one is our former English language Learners so those are students who have we say they don't they no longer qualify for um El Services because they've passed the access test or they've um achieve proficiency so our students who are former El's do well against other students in the state so here are some of the other graphs now these are harder to read um but the most important part is the Fenton averages are in orange in the gray that's comparing it with the state average that's in bold so a couple of trends that I'll point out to you is obviously when you look
037at this 5year projection our enrollment has gone down right that's a trend that we knew was happening it's continuing to happen um but I think what else stands out are the percentage of English language Learners compared to the state right that has dramatically risen and we know we've seen that Trend since 1718 was 10.8% and now we're at 26.8% which is well above the state average um and the same is true not quite as dramatic but the same is true of low income that you know we are outpacing what the state average is so again those are those are not new projections but we're we're continuing on those Trends um so here's some of the academic progress and what I was alluding to before El it's actually interesting our El exit rate so we actually
038went from 1.9% passing to 2.7 but this year the state is redacting anything that's lower than 10 um so Wooddale and Blackhawk both were redacted also but we know in the background that we actually did see an increase in the number it was a small increase but an increase in our number of students exiting so it's kind of a shame that we don't actually get to have that on our report card but it's just a decision the state made here you can see the small decrease in our Ela and our math Proficiency in the SAT um so slight decreases again it's not you can see that both of them decreased on the state level um there's different reasons for this obviously it's different cohorts of kids and things like that we're still well below the
039state average so we have a lot of work to do but I think one of the things that as we reflecting is important to keep in mind is we were really nervous at the time that we weren't even going to get State Testing pulled off at that time because that was right in the middle of a lot of our e-learning in March and April um and so you know I I maybe kids weren't in the best frame of mind at that point um for testing and things like that so that's a possibility that contributed to it too but obviously there's still a lot of work to do one of the things we do want to highlight is our science proficiency is still has been traditionally and is still um above the state average so that's
040great to see that we're continuing with those Trends it's obviously a different test than the SAT but we have strong results there here's where I think what what I was alluding to where we're really pointing our arrows one of the things that we've been really working on is some targeted intervention for our freshmen we know that when the freshmen come in the the faster that we can intervene and get them on track long term we're going to see our results go up um for their success is most important but just overall so you can see our nineth grade on track increased pretty dramatically in a year this is just one cohort of students again but again well above the state average and we put in some specific interventions like our academic math literacy course um
041which is an additional period with a math and English teacher in there for our students that are the most at risk as freshmen and we think that that's really paying dividends for us so we're anxious to see this continue um and and hope that it does we you but we think those targeted interventions are working and then you can also see our graduation rates are trending still above the state average which is great in all areas yeah six six sixe grad grades can you explain that quickly yeah we have some students that take six years to graduate yeah so and most of those special you know students with very special circumstances it's a very small number of students just check in yep yep and every school has that it's pretty rare but it it's there
042um so attendance continues to be something that schools across the nations are struggling with it's still true at fent and that was something that we were really focusing last year and I can show you some data that we were looking at um we are really putting a lot of resources into that this year we have an attendance interventionist I think many of you hopefully have noticed some of the message a lot of the messaging that's going out this year really focusing on helping parents to be partners with us and understanding this this is an area we have some work to do um continued work to do I think one of the highlights is The Chronic treny rate did drop which that means students who were unexcused right so at least if students are absent one
043of the things is that we're really working with parents to like make sure that that it's for a good reason so that that's one highlight there ju just to show you what I was talking about last year um because we were focusing on attendance last year so if you look we have the month on the left so August September October and then our attendance rate for each month on the right and really what our goal was last year was to keep our attendance rate above that 86.9% right that's that was what we wanted to see higher so we were doing pretty well a little bit of a dip in November November is always a little bit tricky with all the different holidays that go on so that's natural I I think where you can really
044see where we went off track was when we got to April May March April right like that was and that was a really tumultuous time so I think um despite that you know our attendance rates while they're not Stellar they really didn't drop off as much as many of us were expecting so um I think that's positive news and we're already making some gains in that this year so we're real hopeful that that'll be improving next year um and then finally just as some this one's real hard to read but this is some demographic trends that we can see from the feeder school so Fenton's in the orange Blackhawk um District 2 is in green and then Wooddale district 7 is in blue so I think the biggest Trends again that we can see comes
045with El right that that has been trending for us going up and we can see from our feeder districts that is only going to continue into the future um we have done a lot of professional learning with our teachers around um you know how to have the best strategies for all students um but particularly targeting our English language Learners to make sure that they have the scaffolds that they need to have the most rigorous coursework and have the opportunities to be in not only get improve um their English language but make sure that they have the rigor in all of the areas that they're learning science math the electives um and that's something that we're going to continue to see for the foreseeable future that was a lot of information really quickly does anybody have
046any questions thank you away yes I guess I stated last year I'll State again the uh it's nice to see the improvements there um I guess I would be more interested in in the progression of how students improve from 9th through 12th which will be a more accurate account as far as how we're performing yeah than the report car you know and one of the things that's happening this year that we actually haven't talked too much about is um the state this year is switching from sat to act which there's a whole bunch of political reasons behind that and you know but I think one of the things that we're hopeful is that maybe Act is going to help us have a better metric where we can actually see student growth from year to year
047um and because I think you're right like you can look at these but every cohort of students has a different story so that longitudinal data for each cohort is really where you could hopefully see more of the growth yeah you're right okay we have the uh stem wi and budget update Mitch you mind coming up for that Mitch from gilbane good evening again uh stem wi update uh work is uh proceeding along out there the last uh month has primarily been focused on the erection of the uh steel structure as you can see from the uh the two different panoramics one from uh June of this year right after groundbreaking to uh end of uh October uh you'll see in these uh these next couple sides of photos of the work that was done over
048the past month uh primarily consisting of uh finishing up the remaining masry work at the North End of the building uh some of the utility uh extensions from the existing building into the uh New Edition as well as uh start of the uh steel structure erection uh uh kind of continuing uh started started in the South moved our way to the north uh erecting both the second floor and the roof at the same time and uh finishing uh with the uh erection of the full structure uh as of uh this evening uh concrete roof dech has been poured out and uh are looking forward to the uh second floor uh deck being poured uh as well as a slab onr deck being poured in the next week uh Roofing uh and enclosure scheduled to start
049uh shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday the budget associated with the stem is uh trending on budget uh currently uh forecasting uh 30 million uh 250,000 uh roughly as our is our current budget for the project against the uh $32 million Bond sale uh that was levied for for this project is there another side after that nope any any questions regarding the the stem project or the the budget for the project so basically we're on on budget and on time that is correct thank you thanks Mitch appreciate it okay we got a new slide here free of Information Act Jose yes um foas this past month oh EXC me we had two foas this past month and both have been resolved and tonight we also we do have something under other I'm going to ask Rick
050cck to come forward with some information hi good evening um as you know we started the Fenton foundation in 2022 thanks to a j his donor named Bill Curran from the class of 1956 uh he wanted to honor his brother Patrick Curran who went missing an action during the Vietnam war um for many many years we've had a monument up uh by the health office uh that's been very well visited by members of the community I'm sorry to report uh Mr Bill Kernan passed away on Thursday at the age of 86 I attended his memorial service on Monday and paid our respects on behalf of in high school uh Mr Curran was an incredibly selfless person who made significant contributions to the Sciences to his families and then to his Alma moer us that in
051high school he donated $60,000 towards this scholarship for his brother um and he's the main reason why we finally got this Foundation off the ground and moving and now we have three scholarships running through that Foundation because he helped us Forge the path of how to do it and how to maintain it uh as I said Bill curan graduated from Fenton High School in 1956 while in college he enlisted in the Marine Corps he served three and a half years he later worked in a light bulb manufacturing industry including the production of light bulbs that are in airplanes today uh he later owned a prominent business that specialized in electromagnetic shielding including the production of items that are used in modern MRI machines and technology that is in Embassy Security Systems so we're saddened by
052his loss but we're also incredibly humbled that we get to continue the mission that he set forth in developing the Future Leaders of this world through higher education he was a firm believer in being a lifelong learner thank you re appreciate that our next item is uh Senate genda May I have a motion we approve the consented the consent agenda list second roll call figurov yes Rego yes rinsky yes Goodridge obain Lewis yes motion passed may I have a motion that the Board of Education adopts the following 2024 tax Levy resolutions and certificate as presented first resolution authorized and final aggregate tax levy for the year 2024 resolution authorizing and directing certain special purpose tax levies for the year 2024 certificate of compliance with truth and Taxation law a motion second who's taking the second
053Leo Le any discussion no roll call figuro yes Rego yes rinsky yes Goodridge Yes Lewis yes motion passed may I have a motion the Board of Education approves the report on shared services or Outsourcing for the fiscal year ending June 30th 2024 so moved second any discussion this is some part of the regulation you have to do this yeah it's it's incl we have to take separate action on it and it's also included in our annual financial report um but it's a got to do yes you want just a brief description of it Bruce yeah it it really is uh it's required as I said part of the AFR but it uh the report is in uh to show any and all attempts to improve fiscal efficiency through shared services or Outsourcing of services I
054remember this from last year yeah it's every year so yes roll call figara yes yes Rego yes rinsky yes good Lewis yes motion pass may I have a motion that the Board of Education authorize District administration to apply for the school maintenance grant for the above Nam project so move second any discussion roll call figuro yes REO yes rinsky yes Goodridge Yes Lewis yes motion passed does anyone have any committee reports uh Benson Feld Foundation has uh rescheduled their meeting twice we are now meeting on uh December 5th 2024 at 6:00 p.m. I think I'll be able to attend I think as mentioned we had a finance facility meeting earlier the fin Financial projections that were just discussed were went over an update on the water mitigation and budget and also the same with the
055stem Wing um summer 2025 interior Renovations were discussed and also the school maintenance project Grant there's uh no update on the policy committee although we anticipate policy committee meeting next month um and as we have our president Carrie Lewis will be the iasb delegate at uh this week's triple conference uh also there will be a lend meeting uh at this year's triple a conference where Juliet regel the vice president and I plan and on attending that next meeting and I also attended a nedc operational board meeting where the focus was on Lincoln Academy and some of the successes those kids have had thank you triple I conference is just stated will take place on this Friday November 22nd Saturday November 23rd and commencing on Sunday November 24th just a quick reminder the van leaves 7:00
056a.m. on Friday November the 22nd to our board members sotion change no maybe 7:05 maybe 7:05 you're messing with reeds uh we'll pick you up Reed can we change it at six even I'm going to have to didn't expect that next board meeting will be Wednesday December 18 2024 at 700 p.m. with a tenative policy committee meeting at 6:00 p.m. prior to the regular board meeting no closed session no closed session so may I have a motion and the second to adjourn all in favor say a thank you all and good night last